Authorities arrested a 37-year-old man in connection with a February act of vandalism against a statue of former President Abraham Lincoln. Police discovered the Lincoln statue in a Boise, Idaho, public park, smeared with feces, paint, and more. What are the details? According to the Idaho Statesman, police arrested Terry Wilson on Tuesday night after
Rejoice America! Chrissy Teigen’s reign of terror on Twitter has finally come to end and the internet is a better place for it. Former model and TV personality Chrissy Teigen announced March 24 “it’s time for me to say goodbye.” After a 10 year-long Twitter presence, she has decided to remove herself from the platform
Addressing the situation on our southern border. Such at least was the editorial position of Life magazine in September 1946 as the editors contemplated the fate of the many hundreds of thousands of displaced persons, mostly Jews and other Eastern Europeans, stuck in de facto concentration camps on the continent. More than a year earlier,
The Biden administration’s reported decision to hold America’s defense budget flat for the next fiscal year is concerning, Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, says. Ernst served in the U.S. military for more than 23 years before becoming a senator. Today, as a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Ernst is committed to promoting policies that
Mystery UFOs reportedly hovered over US Navy destroyers off the California coast back in July 2019 according to newly released information. The USS Kidd reported “unwhite light identified hovering over the ship’s flight deck” according to the ship log entries. The NY Post reported: Mysterious flying objects repeatedly harassed three US warships off the coast
In 2018, the Trump administration adopted a rule that limited eligibility for asylum to those who enter the United States at a port of entry. A district court blocked the rule from taking effect, and a Ninth Circuit panel affirmed the district court. In an order yesterday in East Bay Sanctuary Covenant v. Biden, the
Diners wearing protective masks wait outside an Olive Garden restaurant in Thornton, Colorado, on Friday, March 19, 2021. Chet Strange | Bloomberg | Getty Images Darden Restaurants on Thursday reported quarterly earnings that topped analysts’ expectations as customers visited Olive Garden and its other chains more than expected. The company is forecasting that its fiscal fourth-quarter results
Britney Spears has officially asked a judge to permanently end her father’s control over her finances and personal life. The singer, 39, has been subject to a court-ordered conservatorship since 2008 after suffering two mental breakdowns. This means her father Jamie Spears, 68, has been in charge of all her financial and personal affairs ever
The liberal Daily Beast website posted an article with the shocking title “How This Voting Rights Bill Could Turn the Next Election Into a Clusterf*ck.” Jessica Huseman reports that despite the media hype about a “landmark national expansion of voting rights,” it will be a disaster in 2022 if passed. It’s likely you’ve heard virtually
Mandate This Well, I finally got out of town for what seemed like the first time in 147 years. I have been assured that it was only thirteen months since I was last away but being stir crazy does strange things to the mind. I headed off to Michigan, where I have a LOT of
I suppose we really couldn’t go an entire week without another scandal involving New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. So if you’re craving a fix for your Cuomo badness withdrawal symptoms, here you go. It’s being reported that last spring, during the beginning of the pandemic, the Governor dispatched officials and law enforcement to ensure that
Thousands of migrants have reportedly used social media apps Facebook and WhatsApp to organize caravans and groups headed to illegally cross the U.S.-Mexico border. The migrants started joining Facebook and WhatsApp groups in the months following President Joe Biden victory over former President Donald Trump in the presidential election, according to Reuters. “Remember, Trump leaves
John Fund says the former FDA commissioner (and current AEI colleague of mine, not that I’ve seen him in more than a year) “was among the most aggressive advocates of school closures last March” but started backtracking in September and has now done a complete 180. That wasn’t how I remembered it, and some Googling
Researchers in Mexico have debuted a nose mask for people to wear in place of a full mask while consuming food or talking while around others, which they say reduces the risk of infection of COVID-19. What are the details? CBS News posted a video showing the masks being worn by a man and woman
Late-night TV host Steven Colbert took a swing at Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.), suggesting that in addition to addressing mass shooting tragedies, Congress should take a look at drunk driving-related casualties “too.” On Wednesday’s episode of “Louder with Crowder,” Steven Crowder responded to Colbert’s “ignorance of gun laws” that was on display when Colbert made
The famous children’s show Sesame Street is determined to talk about race whether we like it or not. Their latest terrible example is the introduction of two African-American Muppets to “educate children about race.” On March 23, the educational series introduced two new Muppets in an online video. As part of the series “ABCs of
For decades Americans have been told, “The immigration system is broken.” This claim is supported by presence of many millions of “undocumented immigrants” residing and working in the United States in violation of our immigration laws. Those laws were enacted to protect public health, national security, public safety, and the jobs and wages of Americans.
Lawmakers listened to ominous references to the South’s Jim Crow era and Maoist China as the Senate held its first hearing on Democrats’ legislation to nationalize elections while eliminating voter ID and most other state election safeguards. “This bill has rightly been called the Corrupt Politicians Act because it is designed to keep corrupt politicians
Another week, another Andrew Cuomo scandal. It is now coming to light that Andrew Cuomo’s family got special treatment on COVID testing early in the pandemic, including his brother Chris Cuomo the CNN host. This was unfolding as Andrew Cuomo’s policies were killing the members of other families by putting COVID patients into nursing homes.
Jack Phillips speaks at a press conference outside the Supreme Court after oral arguments in Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, December 5, 2017. (Aaron P. Bernstein/Reuters) They want to break him to send a message. But the Masterpiece Cakeshop owner is standing his ground. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE J ack Phillips, owner of Masterpiece
A healthcare worker prepares to inject an AstraZeneca coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine. Eloisa Lopez AstraZeneca issued updated Phase 3 trial data for its Covid-19 vaccine on Wednesday after facing criticism earlier this week over a preliminary report. The company now says its vaccine is 76% effective in protecting against symptomatic cases of virus. A release
A senior state official has become the first openly transgender person to be confirmed by the US Senate. Rachel Levine, the former Pennsylvania Health Secretary, has been approved as the Biden administration’s assistant secretary of health. The vote on Wednesday went 52-48 in her favour, as two Republican senators, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Susan
This week, a white man shot to death eight people in Atlanta-area spas, six of them Asian American. According to Atlanta police, the man said he was targeting brothels and blamed the women for his alleged sex addiction. The gunman stated that he had visited two of the spas before and had planned to drive
There’s an interesting pattern emerging from my investigative work into the family court system in Missouri: institutionalized discrimination against Americans with disabilities. (You can read about the investigation here.) The main plot is that court professionals and experts are alleged to be diagnosing one parent or the other with mental disorders in order to take
Prince Harry is on a roll. In the course of two days, two announcements have been made of new employment opportunities for the Duke of Sussex. A Silicon Valley startup has hired Harry as its chief impact officer. The second announcement comes from the Aspen Institute where he’ll be joining a six-month commission aimed at
The Pentagon confirmed Wednesday that it had accepted a request by the Department of Homeland Security to house illegal alien children as the crisis at the border continues. “Today, the Department of Defense approved a request for assistance from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to temporarily house unaccompanied migrant children at a
Pro-life signs outside the Supreme Court in June 2014. (Jim Bourg/Reuters) Over in First Things, John Finnis made the case that abortion is unconstitutional. You should read it. He rests his case on the 14th Amendment, particularly its first section. He argues, persuasively in my view, that if the original public meaning of “persons” was
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that state governments can restrict people from openly carrying guns in public, effectively ending a person’s right to bear arms outside of their home. The court issued an en banc opinion in the case of Young vs. Hawaii over a lawsuit by a Hawaiian resident who argued
A massive cargo ship got wedged in the Suez Canal and halted all traffic in one of the busiest and most important shipping lanes in the world. The Ever Given is one of the largest shipping container ships in the world, capable of transporting 20,000 containers at one time, and it’s stuck about 94 miles
Earlier this month, CNN Prime Time host Chris “Fredo” Cuomo told his viewers couldn’t talk about his brother, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s (D) nursing home deaths and sexual harassment scandals on ethical grounds because he’s family. But it’s difficult to see how that ban on Cuomo chatter could hold after a Wednesday bombshell report from