Cade Costales mobilizes students to protest Washington state K-12 mask mandate. (via Twitter@XJCasper) The mask wars have been heating up in school districts across the country in recent weeks, notably in purple Virginia, where Governor Youngkin’s administration has been battling defiant school districts over his recent executive order making masks optional. Even in reliable blue
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Columbia Sportswear‘s strong fourth-quarter profitability was helped by consumers starting their holiday shopping earlier than years past, CEO Tim Boyle told CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Friday. Shares of the outdoor-focused apparel maker jumped 5% Friday, after the company a day earlier reported a 64% year-over-year jump in net income in Q4 and issued robust full-year guidance. “In
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Charity collection site GoFundMe has stopped taking donations for the Canadian Freedom Convoy truckers and what they plan to do with $9 million in donations will make your blood boil. First, because Canadian authorities informed GoFundMe that the Canadian Freedom Convoy was engaging in “an occupation” the charity site removed the fundraiser. “Following a review
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1. Pakistan’s first “Servant of God” saved others in church bombing 2. Facebook’s meta complicity in the Rohingya genocide Facebook, the meta communications platform of our time, is facing twin legal actions for its instrumental role in accelerating racial violence and genocide against the Rohingya Muslim minority in Myanmar over the past decade. Filings in
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GoFundMe announced on Friday that it has yanked the “Freedom Convoy 2022” fundraiser from its crowdfunding platform. Trucks and other vehicles have been engaged in the blockading of streets in Ottawa, Canada, according to Reuters. During a press conference earlier this week, Tamara Lich, who had been named as an “Organizer” on the fundraiser, called
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China’s egregious human rights abuses have been widely discussed recently in light of the 2022 Winter Olympics, but during an appearance on ESPN, J.A. Adande indicated that the U.S. is not well positioned to decry China’s record. Adande, who is the director of sports journalism at Northwestern University’s Medill School, asked, “who are we to
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Jose Espinoza, 27, receives a Covid vaccine at a COVID-19 vaccination clinic in Los Angeles, Calif., August 17, 2021. (Lucy Nicholson/Reuters) Adrian Vermeule, a law professor at Harvard University, wants to use the power of the federal government to make you take a coronavirus vaccine. He argues as much in a recent New York Times
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The US employment market started the year in a much healthier state than expected, despite Omicron disruption hitting consumer-facing businesses. America added 467,000 jobs in January – about three times the 150,000 level expected by economists – according to the US bureau of labour statistics. The dollar rose and Wall Street stocks were subdued as
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A person wearing personal-protective equipment walks inside Beijing Capital International Airport ahead of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, China, January 31, 2022. (Phil Noble/Reuters) If you’re a bit nauseated at the idea of the media, sporting world, and corporate sponsors spending the next few weeks drooling over China, you have plenty of company
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Critics are calling out a former COVID policy adviser to President Joe Biden after he recently claimed on national TV that children are “likely” to get a “serious” case of COVID-19 if they do not get vaccinated against the virus. What did he say? Dr. Zeke Emanuel, who formerly served in the Obama administration and
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Inflation makes governments rabid. They lash out for scapegoats to blame for policymakers’ failures. Having failed to convince the American people that greedy meatpackers and grocery stores are causing inflation in everything from used cars to houses to gasoline, the administration and Congress are now going after Americans who use cryptocurrencies with tools that could
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Store with a “No Mask, No Entry” sign on door in Queens, N.Y., December 29, 2021. (Lindsey Nicholson/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) Some would argue (I wouldn’t, but I think Charlie Cooke would, as would many on the Left) that although 9/11 was a catastrophic event that required a serious response, we nevertheless went
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Only Don Lemon can turn a light-hearted moment of political unity during the National Prayer Breakfast into a controversy, which is exactly what he did. During his speech at Thursday morning’s National Prayer Breakfast, President Joe Biden addressed Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and told him he is a “man of honor.” It was
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