Christian actor Kevin Sorbo said that Facebook deleted his page despite his having more than 500,000 followers, and the company didn’t respond to a request for an explanation for the action. Sorbo tweeted about the incident on Friday. “BREAKING: Facebook has deleted my official account with over 500,000 followers I have created a new page,
Amidst the almost wall-to-wall coverage of the second Trump impeachment trial, there were more than a few unrelated news stories to talk about, including new nursing home bombshells involving Governor Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) and then the suspension of White House Deputy Press Secretary TJ Ducklo for sexist and threatening attacks against Politico’s Tara Palmeri. And
Lawyers for former President Donald Trump gave a significantly shorter presentation Friday in his defense than the Democrats’ House impeachment managers did the previous two days in acting as prosecutors. Day Four of Trump’s second Senate impeachment trial began around noon and Trump’s legal team yielded the balance of its 16 hours of allotted time
Members of the US Capitol Police have issued a vote of no confidence in their acting chief and other top leadership. The rank and file officers passed votes of no confidence in acting Chief Yoganada Pittman, two assistant chiefs, three deputy chiefs and a captain in the Capitol building division. The vote began on Thursday
House lead impeachment manager Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) begins the managers’ opening argument in the impeachment trial of former president Donald Trump on the floor of the Senate chamber on Capitol Hill, February 10, 2021. (U.S. Senate TV/Handout via Reuters) As many as ten Republican senators may vote to convict former President Trump at the
A lab technician uses a single channel pipette dropper to test material during Covid-19 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test processing at a laboratory in the Dunkeld suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa, on Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2021. Waldo Swiegers | Bloomberg | Getty Images Preliminary reports from South Africa show people who have recovered from Covid-19
Donald Trump’s impeachment trial is an “unjust, unconstitutional witch-hunt”, politically motivated and “divorced from fact”, the hearing has been told. The former president’s lawyer, Michael van der Veen, opened day four of the Senate trial with a blistering attack, claiming the proceedings did nothing to unify a divided America. Mr Trump is charged with “incitement
National Public Radio has a serious, red-hot loathing of Fox News. The latest demonstration was the February 5 episode of the very tilted weekly show On The Media, produced by WNYC-FM in New York and airing on more than 400 public radio stations across America. The episode was boldly titled “Slaying the Fox Monster.” We
The House impeachment managers had no problem blaming President Trump for the “armed, angry mob” that engaged in a “deadly” riot at the Capitol Building on January 6th. Among the dead that day was a woman shot in the neck by a Capitol Police officer while she tried to break in through a broken window.
Back in December, Deputy DA Jon Hatami was one of the first to publicly criticize his new boss, DA George Gascon. Now Hatami is filing a lawsuit against Gascon for defamation and racial discrimination: Deputy District Attorney Jon Hatami, a Santa Clarita resident, alleged both Gascón and his spokesman, Max Szabo, published defamatory language about
From the beginning of history, religion has played a central role in the history of humanity. Religion has countless aspects, including rituals, ethics, social norms, and emotional impacts. Throughout the millennia, religion has not been easy to Define. George Rutler has built a career out of trying to interpret sacred texts for their followers. Father
Outside a “vocational skills education center” in Dabancheng, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, China, September 4, 2018 (Thomas Peter/Reuters) The Economist’s argument against describing the Chinese Communist Party’s mass atrocities as genocide demonstrates a superficial understanding of this crime, motivated, at least in part, by a desire to preserve engagement with a regime that should be
The Biden administration said that they intended to shutter the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba by the end of the president’s term. White House press secretary Jen Psaki confirmed the intended closure during the media briefing on Friday. “That certainly is our goal and our intention,” said Psaki when asked about the closing
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s political troubles intensified Friday, as he faced the fallout from the latest bombshell in the widening nursing home scandal that has engulfed his administration: an admission from one of his top lieutenants that his office withheld information from the New York legislature because they were afraid that former President Donald
Republicans pounce! That phrase has become such a laughably familiar refrain that it has even made it into the Urban Dictionary which provides this accurate definition of the term: Republicans pounce! A headline in a newspaper or other article that describes Republicans (or other right-leaning individuals) attacking a Democrat (or other left-leaning individual) when that Democrat
We know a lot more on February 12 than on January 6. First, it is clear that the assault on the Capitol has become the most damaging event of Donald Trump’s political career. Combined with forfeiting the Senate in the January run-off elections, the lethal storming of the federal legislature by Trump’s most unscrupulous and
A U.N. expert is shining a spotlight on those who dare oppose the world body’s ubiquitous LGBT agenda, singling out “actors” who resist the promotion of “gender ideology.” A new inquiry from the independent expert on sexual orientation and gender identity, based in Geneva, solicits information on these actors and their “strategies” with the objective of showcasing
Joe Biden wants to keep Americans locked down, wearing masks and living in fear forever. White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki on Friday conceded that the Biden Administration has no current goal on when to reopen high schools. The CDC Director has already stated that there is data to suggest schools can reopen safely. But
Today on The Editors, Rich, Charlie, and Michael discuss the Democrats’ impeachment case, the Lincoln Project’s collapse, and the firing of Gina Carano. Listen below, or subscribe to this show on iTunes, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, TuneIn, or Spotify. Your browser does not support the HTML5 Audio element. Members of the National Review editorial and operational teams
McDonald’s Chicken Sandwich Source: McDonald’s McDonald’s is looking to win the chicken sandwich wars with lower prices, while Restaurant Brands International’s Burger King is still figuring out its strategy, according to a Credit Suisse report. In August of 2019, Burger King’s sister chain Popeyes kicked off the chicken sandwich wars with the launch of its
A nine-year-old black girl pepper sprayed by police begged “please don’t do this to me” and “it’s burning my eyes” as she waited handcuffed in the back seat of a police car for 16 minutes, according to new police bodycam footage. Officials in Rochester, New York, suspended the officers involved following the 29 January incident
Last night Don Lemon doubled down on his hateful rhetoric about Trump voters and anyone who aligns themselves with the Republican party. After maliciously smearing millions of Americans of being on the same side as the KKK and Nazis, Lemon falsely claimed Thursday night that Republicans “condoned what happened at the Capitol” and were the same
Her majesty Hillary Clinton, perhaps still bitter about some election or something, is working overtime to demonize the entire Republican Party. This week, she claimed that if the Senate fails to convict and remove former President Donald Trump in his second impeachment trial, it will only be because Senate Republicans are also guilty of the crime
“This is an incident of Nikki Haley breaking with Nikki Haley,” said House Dem James Clyburn about the quotes from Haley that are circulating this morning. “Just two or three weeks ago she was admonishing us to ‘leave the man alone,’ now she’s saying we shouldn’t have followed him.” But that’s not true. Clyburn has
Summary: President Joe Biden will receive his daily briefing, meet with State and local leaders, have lunch with the vice president, attend an economic briefing with the Secretary of the Treasury then travel to Camp David. President Biden’s Itinerary for 2/12/21: All Times EST 9:30 AM Receive daily briefing – Oval Office 11:14 AM Meet
(Andrew Kelly/Reuters) According to new reporting from the Daily Caller, the Small Business Administration (SBA) has been sitting on emails exchanged with Planned Parenthood officials about COVID-relief loans that the abortion provider illegally obtained last spring. The emails were released in response to a Freedom of Information Act request and were heavily redacted, but one
New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet walked back on Thursday a controversial statement of policy he and the newspaper’s managing editor made last week signifying the paper does “not tolerate racist language regardless of intent.” “In our zeal to make a powerful statement about our workplace culture, we ham-handedly said something you rightfully saw
The FBI is reportedly investigating allegations of sexual misconduct made against longtime establishment Republican operative and Lincoln Project co-founder John Weaver. Two individuals who spoke to reporter Yashar Ali said they were contacted by FBI agents who made inquiries regarding whether Weaver ever touched them inappropriately or requested sexually explicit material from them when they
The “woke” meltdown at the New York Times continues apace. Bret Stephens, one of the few right-leaning columnists at the paper, is the latest victim of “cancellation,” or at least his latest column was. As first reported by NBC’s Dylan Byers, Stephens’ latest column was rejected by higher-ups at the paper. In it, Stephens excoriated
Rep. French Hill, R-Ark., recently wrote an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal on House Democrats’ efforts to require the International Monetary Fund to issue special drawing rights to all member countries. What is the agenda and goal here? “All the Third World countries that [China has] loaned money to over the last 10 years