Posts on Saturday, May 2, 2020
At least 20 potential suitors are looking at buying all or part of McClatchy—the bankrupt owner of the Miami Herald, the Kansas City Star and the Sacramento Bee—and a federal judge wants the company back in court Monday to explain how it plans to run the sale. The newspaper giant’s largest secured creditors, Chatham Asset Management and Brigade Capital Management, submitted a so-called stalking horse bid in mid-April said to be “well in excess” of $300 million.(Snip) McClatchy, which filed for Chapter 11 in mid-February, said in court proceeding that it wants to make a sale relatively quickly
Frozen margaritas are one thing — but frozen beer is bad for business, according to Heineken, which claims it lost more than 15,000 cases of brew to frigid temps when a shipping company mishandled them.
The suds were shipped to the United States from Amsterdam last year, were offloaded in the Port of Newark, and then sent to Satellite Logistics Group in the Chicago suburbs, according to a lawsuit filed last month.
But Satellite Logistics allegedly failed to immediately put the 11 shipping containers of brew in a climate-controlled facility, leaving it in below-zero temperatures for several days, Heineken charges in Manhattan Federal Court papers.
A federal judge ruled Friday in favor of the United States Soccer Federation, dismissing a claim it violated the Equal Pay Act by allegedly discriminating against female athletes. District Judge R. Gary Klausner granted in part a motion for summary judgment sought by the U.S. Soccer Federation, siding with its lawyers in a dispute involving athlete pay.(Snip) “In sum, Defendant has offered evidence in support of its Motion for Summary Judgement that the WNT has been paid more on both a cumulative and an average per-game basis than the MNT over the class period,” he ruled from U.S. District Court
Gutfeld catches slip in Biden’s response:
‘Biden was doing great in that interview
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‘Biden was doing great in that interview
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Fox News’ Greg Gutfeld thought former Vice President Joe Biden may have slipped up in his comments about sexual assault allegations against him. The co-host of “The Five” weighed in along with his colleagues on an interview by the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee in which he publicly addressed the accusation against him for the first time. (Video) Biden was grilled by MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” co-host Mika Brzezinski on Friday about the allegations made by former Senate staffer Tara Reade. The 77-year-old former vice president maintained that he has nothing to hide, that Reade’s claims are untrue,
Sweden's gamble on coronavirus herd
immunity couldn't work in the US —
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immunity couldn't work in the US —
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In Sweden, bars and restaurants are open to the public, you can go get a haircut, and primary school is in session. The coronavirus has arrived, but life goes on. The country has taken a lighter-than-most approach to social distancing for COVID-19, relying on people to monitor themselves for symptoms, stay home when ill, practice good handwashing, and avoid crowds. You see very few masks on people's faces in current photos from Stockholm and other Swedish cities. It's a strategy that hasn't been employed in neighboring Finland or Norway, and it's one that some Swedish parents (keeping their kids out of school) as well as doctors and scientists t
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Friday updated their coronavirus tracking numbers, leading to confusion on social media about two websites within the organization that show vastly different death tolls. The CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) website for the coronavirus lists the total deaths from COVID-19 – the disease caused by the virus – as 37,308 in the United States. That’s a much lower number than what has been reported in the media or by other coronavirus trackers. For example, the Johns Hopkins University coronavirus tracker, lists the number of COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. at 65,645. Even more confusing, a separate CDC website –
President Donald Trump mocked anti-Trump pundit Nicolle Wallace on Saturday, calling her a “third rate lapdog.” “She was thrown off The View like a dog, Zero T.V. Personas,” Trump wrote on Twitter. “Now Wallace is a 3rd rate lapdog for Fake News MSDNC (Concast). Doesn’t have what it takes!”Trump reacted to a video of Wallace accusing Republicans of running a “smear campaign” against Joe Biden after former Senate staffer Tara Reade accused him of a sexual assault.(Tweets) Wallace worked for former President George W. Bush’s White House and continued on as Republican establishment strategist. She also joined Sen. John McCain’s 2008 campaign
Four B-1B bombers and about 200 airmen from Texas arrived in Guam on Friday to conduct training and operations with allies and partners, the Air Force said. The Lancers and airmen flew in from the 9th Bomb Squadron, 7th Bomb Wing, at Dyess Air Force Base, Texas, the service said in a statement Friday. They were deployed to support Pacific Air Forces in training allies and partners and to reinforce the “rules-based international order” in the Indo-Pacific region through strategic deterrence missions, the statement said. The Air Force did not disclose the length of the deployment. Three of the bombers flew directly to Andersen Air Force Base on Guam,
Former President George W. Bush published a rare public message on Saturday in the form of a three-minute video speech, during which he urges the public to come together, united as Americans, in the face of the coronavirus. “This is a challenging and solemn time in the life of our nation and world,” said the former president. “A remorseless, invisible enemy threatens the elderly and vulnerable among us — a disease that can quickly take breath and life.” While the phrase “invisible enemy” precedes the coronavirus crisis, President Donald Trump notably branded the coronavirus as “the invisible enemy,”
A new Democratic-aligned political action committee advised by retired Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the former head of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, is planning to deploy technology originally developed to counter Islamic State propaganda in service of a domestic political goal - to combat online efforts to promote President Donald Trump's handling of the coronavirus pandemic. The group, Defeat Disinfo, will use artificial intelligence and network analysis to map discussion of the president's claims on social media. It will seek to intervene by identifying the most popular counter-narratives and boosting them through a network of more than 3.4 million influencers across the country - in some cases paying users
Exclusive: ‘It’s More Show Than Go’:
Dallas Mavericks Owner Mark Cuban
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Dallas Mavericks Owner Mark Cuban
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Billionaire investor and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban joined the Daily Caller’s Stephanie Hamill to discuss the first phase of the reopening of Texas, his role on the White House advisory group on how to reopen the economy, China, and more.As for the reopening of Texas, Cuban shared his concerns and the issues he thinks businesses will come across as they begin to open their doors. “There are so many unanswered questions, you know the easiest example is you want to go into a clothing store, try something on, if you decide you don’t like it, do you put it back on the shelf?” Cuban asked.
Nineteen-year-old Kendrick Johnson never came home from Lowndes High School in Valdosta, Georgia on January 10, 2013. His parents notified the local sheriff, and an investigation at the school the following morning led to the tragic discovery of Johnson’s body face down in the middle of a rolled-up wrestling mat inside one of the school’s two gyms. Investigators believed that Johnson had been reaching inside the mat to retrieve one of his tennis shoes and accidentally fell inside and became trapped.
Lead investigator Lt. Stryde Jones said, “We never had credible evidence that indicated this was anything more than an accident.”
His face showing the strains of office, President Trump has obviously been on the job in the coronavirus pandemic.
Apparently the voters have noticed, and Fox News reports that Trump is rising with voters:
President Trump’s job approval soared 6 points in the last two weeks, according to the latest Gallup poll.
The new survey found 49 percent approve of the president’s job in office and 47 percent disapprove, a personal best with Gallup for Trump. Two weeks ago, 43 percent approved of the president’s job, according to the pollster.
This frustrated Michigan pilot gives a literal flying you-know-what about his governor’s lock-down order. Ed Frederick, 45, spent about an hour charting a path over Grand Rapids that spelled out this message for Gov. Gretchen Whitmer: “F U,” with an arrow pointing directly over the governor’s mansion. Frederick said he was inspired to hop in a propeller plane Friday morning after Whitmer announced an extension of the state’s emergency lockdown order through May 28.
Several states reopened at least partially on Friday May 1st after the six-week-long Fauci lockdown. (Photo) But Democrat-led Oregon is not one of them.Oregon, a state with 4.14 million residents did not reopen on Friday.
In fact, the liberal state is not reopening anytime soon. Far Left Oregon Governor Kate Brown is extending the state’s lockdown until July 6th! Two More Months!(Tweet) Oregon is ranked 40th in US coronavirus deaths. 40TH! The state has had 104 deaths and ranks next to South Dakota, a state that NEVER shut down!
WASHINGTON — Tara Reade, the former Senate staffer who alleges Joe Biden sexually assaulted her 27 years ago, says she filed a limited report with a congressional personnel office that did not explicitly accuse him of sexual assault or harassment. “I remember talking about him wanting me to serve drinks because he liked my legs and thought I was pretty and it made me uncomfortable,” Reade said in an interview Friday with The Associated Press. “I know that I was too scared to write about the sexual assault.” Reade said she described her issues with Biden but “the main word
The Covid-19 pandemic has revealed more clearly than ever before the nature and relentlessness of the ruling Chinese Communist Party’s ambition to place itself at the center of global power and influence. What once was an opaque policy, articulated by Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping, of “hide your strength, bide your time,” has now morphed into the transparent, if still unstated, approach by President Xi Jinping of “seizing the Covid-19 moment” – before it closes. (snip) With China’s likely emergence now as the first major world economy to end lockdowns and regain growth, Covid-19 now offers a once-in-a-century chance to accelerate the geopolitical shift in Beijing’s favor
New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan has stood by his recent dealings with President Trump in the face of criticism from Catholic Democrats, insisting Catholics believe in dialogue and engagement. “Now the left wing is snotty about the fact that I was part of a conference call with Catholic leaders, and I just say, ‘Look, are we in the sacred enterprise of accompaniment and engagement and dialogue, or are we not?” he asked in an online Facebook interview with Jesuit Father Matt Malone,(snip). “When you do it, you risk criticism on both sides. When you don’t do it, well, then what do you do? You become Amish,” he said.
Earlier this week, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer postponed lawmakers’ return to Washington DC, citing concerns about coronavirus transmission. Congress should stay out of Washington DC a lot longer. Even until next year.The primary reason isn’t because they, like health-care workers or truckers or grocery store employees or pastors, might catch coronavirus doing their jobs. The primary reason is that when they “do something,” Congress usually hurts the country far worse than if they just took naps in the closet or played cards all day, like my husband’s coworkers at a union-run former workplace.
It’s all in the wrist — at least when it comes to figuring out what happened to the suddenly undead Kim Jong Un of North Korea. State media released footage Saturday of the portly 38-year-old dictator riding an electric cart around the Sunchon Phosphatic Fertilizer factory with a new, mysterious mark on his wrist, NK News reported. Information about the video and the mark on Kim’s wrist was very limited. A US medical professional told NK News that the small mark might signal a recent cardiovascular procedure, possibly a right, radial artery puncture.
In his decades of beekeeping, Ted McFall had never seen anything like it.
As he pulled his truck up to check on a group of hives near Custer, Washington, in November, he could spot from the window a mess of bee carcasses on the ground. As he looked closer, he saw a pile of dead members of the colony in front of a hive and more carnage inside — thousands and thousands of bees with their heads torn from their bodies and no sign of a culprit.
Joe Biden Claims ‘600,000 Dead’ from
Coronavirus, Accuses Trump of Not
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Coronavirus, Accuses Trump of Not
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Joe Biden’s mental blunders during a Friday MSNBC appearance were overshadowed by his denial of Tara Reade’s sexual assault claims, but they continue to underscore his apparent cognitive decline.Biden twice told Morning Joe that 600,000 Americans have died from the coronavirus. (Tweet/Video) “Over 600,000 dead, many of them who are those workers, those nurses, doctors, some of them,” he said. A hot mic picked up a gasp from one of the hosts, but he continued, “Because they have put themselves in the position to save other people’s lives, protect the rest of society.” “And we talk about that number like 600-plus thousand people,”
South Carolina deputies say a woman has died after a run-in with an alligator. About 5p today, deputies responded to pond near Salt Cedar Ln, Kiawah Island, for report of alligator encounter w/ a woman. The woman has died. A deputy fatally shot and retrieved the gator. @SCDNR & coroner also responded. Incident is still under investigation.
The Charleston County Sheriff’s Office said deputies responded to a pond on Kiawah Island around 5:00 p.m. for a report of an alligator encounter with a woman.
“The woman has died,” the sheriff’s office tweeted.
A deputy shot the alligator dead and retrieved the body.
David S. Boe, a beloved professor of organ and the ninth dean of Oberlin Conservatory, died April 28 at Glenbrook Hospital near his home in Chicago from complications due to COVID-19. He was 84. Boe enjoyed an Oberlin career that spanned an incredible 46 years, from 1962 to 2008. Deeply passionate about his teaching, he also excelled as an administrator, first as associate dean beginning in 1974 and eventually as dean of the conservatory from 1976 to 1990, in addition to interim periods in that role before and after.
Billions of dollars are at stake as insurance companies clash with business owners across the country over covering losses caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, including lost income from the economic shutdown. Insurers have been rejecting a flood of the business interruption claims from restaurants, bars, casinos, child care centers and others shuttered by government orders, and the businesses are retaliating with a wave of lawsuits.(Snip) Business owners say they have paid into their insurance plans for years, but now, when a public health disaster hits their businesses, they are not able to reap any return. “It’s just too much money involved
Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos warned the company’s stockholders that Amazon may incur a second-quarter operating loss as it spends at least $4 billion from April through June on its coronavirus pandemic response, including some $300 million to develop its own testing capabilities. (snip) Olsavsky said the majority of the $4 billion in second-quarter spending is related to wage increases — the company has boosted hourly wage floors by $2 through mid-May and increased overtime pay — and productivity losses. The company is also continuing to spend more on personal protective equipment and enhanced facility cleaning
The Chinese government is mocking US efforts to combat the COVID-19 pandemic in a new video that stars the Statue of Liberty made of Legos. A video titled “Once Upon a Virus” was posted this week to the official Twitter accounts of both the Chinese embassy in France and the state-run China Daily newspaper. The animated short depicts what the Chinese describe as the US’ botched response to fighting the coronavirus. The video shows a Chinese warrior from 2,000 years ago, also made of Legos, and the Statue of Liberty arguing about the deadly infection — with a Scott Joplin-esque piano rag
The controversial facial recognition company Clearview AI is in negotiations with several unnamed federal agencies and three US states to provide contact tracing services during the COVID-19 pandemic. Company founder and CEO Hoan Ton-That confirmed the negotiations were ongoing but declined to specify which agencies or states are considering the company's services.(Snip) Clearview has provided access to its facial recognition software to more than 2,220 different government and law enforcement agencies around the country, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the New York Police Department, the US Secret Service, the Drug Enforcement Agency and more. It pulls photos and personal data from
The hypocrisy of Democrats, and their media allies, is on prominent display in their handling of sexual assault allegation against Joe Biden versus their treatment of Brett Kavanaugh. Another example of the hypocrisy relates to the demand, or lack thereof, for documents related to the official government work of the two men.
Until they switched at the last minute to Christine Blasey Ford’s allegation, Democrats’ main message and procedural complaint against Kavanaugh was that they needed to review millions of public records from his time of service in the executive branch. It was the basis for their theatrics in the first round of nomination hearings in the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Had the Department of Justice (DOJ) released the newly disclosed documents related to Gen. Michael Flynn three years ago, instead of fired FBI director James Comey improperly leaking his “memos” on President Trump, there definitely would have been a special counsel — only it would have been investigating the FBI for gross abuse of power, not the Trump administration.
The new documents are in effect the “smoking gun” proving that a cabal at the FBI acted above the law and with extreme political bias, targeting people for prosecution rather than investigating crimes.
DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz found 17 violations of policy
American universities once attracted students from around the world. Prestige places like Harvard and Caltech did so, but it also happened at good state schools like the University of Illinois, University of Texas and even my own alma mater, the University of Colorado.
The scientific education was second to none. Even outside of science, a broad-based humanities program thrived. As an engineering student at CU, my required curriculum included two full years of “Great Books” where we studied Socrates, Homer, Virgil, Chaucer and Milton.
But then some interrelated things happened.
Presumed Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden finally addressed Tara Reade’s allegations of sexual assault against him on Friday’s edition of MSNBC’s Morning Joe. The former vice president denied the allegations, but also refused to unseal the records from his tenure in the Senate, during which Reade’s alleged assault occurred.Biden’s rhetoric on the issue has evolved from “believe all women” who come forward with allegations, to writing off Reade’s claims as false without giving his former aide a real chance to tell her story. President Trump’s re-election campaign exposed this blatant double standard
Dr. Victor Davis Hanson is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, a military historian and a professor emeritus of classics at California State University, Fresno. He has written two articles relevant to today’s society. Last October he published, “Members of Previous Generations Now Seem Like Giants,” and he recently wrote, “Is America a Roaring Giant or Crying Baby?”In the first article, Hanson starts with some observations and questions regarding the greatness of previous generations compared with today’s Americans. He asks:
College students, kicked off campus by the coronavirus, have a new extracurricular activity: litigation. U.S. undergraduates have sued more than 50 schools, demanding partial tuition, room-and-board and fee refunds after they shut down. To justify annual prices that can top $70,000 a year, colleges have long advertised their on-campus experience, including close contact with professors and peers who will become a lifelong network. Now, millions of students are instead studying online. Many of the suits are seeking compensation for the difference in value between the virtual and in-person experience. Plaintiffs include Grainger Rickenbaker, a freshman majoring in real estate management
Another accuser has come forth to claim presumptive Democrat presidential nominee Joe Biden, now 77, sexually harassed her in 2008 by complimenting for being “very well endowed” for a 14-year-old child.The accuser, Eva Murry, now 26, is reportedly the niece of former Republican Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell, who ran in 2010 for the seat vacated by Biden after he became vice president to then-President Barack Obama.In an interview with Dan Abrams’ Law & Crime, a site whose reporting tends to boast a very liberal, anti-Trump bias, Murry said that when she was in middle school, she used to attend political/campaign events with her aunt. During one of those events,
Subway closure 'outright disaster'
for the homeless who have few
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for the homeless who have few
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Homeless New Yorkers will face an even more threatening and dangerous situation when the city shuts down the subway system from 1 a.m. to 5 a.m., according to advocates. The shutdown was announced by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio in a joint press conference on Thursday. Cuomo said closing the subway for those hours would allow the cars to be sanitized every 24 hours during the novel coronavirus pandemic. De Blasio said that it would also benefit any homeless people who ride the subway during that time. "If you're not going back and forth all
Gov. Ron DeSantis Shames Media,
Outbreak Models’ Doomsday Predictions:
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Outbreak Models’ Doomsday Predictions:
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As Florida prepares to ease a month-long shutdown, Gov. Ron DeSantis delivered a scathing rebuttal of apocalyptic predictions for his state that were breathlessly hyped by the news media and proven wrong during the coronavirus crisis.The governor showed slides of media stories warning that Florida would quickly run out of hospital beds while predicting the state would be the “next New York” or even a disastrous “uber Italy.”Instead, the state with one of the most vulnerable populations due to age is faring well among the big states that were hit and is nowhere close to New York’s unfortunate predicament.Watch the presentation here:
Holding the economy hostage
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Elie Mystal of the Nation does not want to go back to work without "somebody to come take my children. A school bus. A babysitter. A freaking traveling circus. It doesn’t really matter. My economy cannot reopen, life cannot return to normal for me, until fully functional child care comes back on line."
That is very telling.
He does not care who takes care of his children -- a freaking traveling circus will do --
(Snip)Here is how affordable child care worked in the Surber household in the 1990s. I worked first shift, my wife worked second.That is what the Child Care Fairy gives a parent, a partner.
The Rebel Alliance is pushing back against the insufferable and silly rules of the little blue dictators hiding amid their governor mansions. Yes comrades, the pesky red subversives have taken to the street and realized ‘hey wait, there are more of us, than them’… (Photo)“Have Tar, Need Feathers” – If the COVID Compliance Ministry tries to stop the uprisings, there could be trouble. As a result, some of the little Blue Dictators are retreating to their safe space:
CALIFORNIA – […] Reports on Friday estimated that there were more than 500 people who turned out in Huntington Beach to protest after Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) closed Orange County beaches in response
Former U.S. Senator Chris Dodd, who is linked to corporate bailouts, lobbying for Hollywood, and alleged sexual assault of a waitress at a restaurant, is among seven individuals appointed to Joe Biden’s Vice Presidential selection task force.
Dodd, the 75-year-old from Connecticut, will be joined by Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester, D-Del., and former Biden counsel Cynthia Hogan. Three other appointees will work specifically on vetting chosen candidates; Bob Bauer, husband to former Obama Communications Director Anita Dunn, Obama homeland security advisor Lisa Monaco, and law professor Dana Remus.
Like A Buzzard, Hillary Clinton Hovers
Over Biden, Looking to Take His Spot
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Over Biden, Looking to Take His Spot
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Former Vice President Joe Biden's MSNBC interview this morning on his sexual assault allegations was brutal. It wasn't neutralized. It's yet another story that the Biden campaign has hanging around its neck, with the other being the Ukraine corruption story. Biden won't unseal his Senate records from the University of Delaware, which only adds more to the allegation that he penetrated Tara Reade with his fingers when he was a U.S. Senator; Reade was one of his aides. This incident occurred in 1993.
Right now, we're seeing an explicit double-standard that is not shocking to anyone who has followed the antics of the liberal media.
Friday morning, Joe Biden sat down for an interview with Mika Brzezinski on MSNBC’s Morning Joe. Mika asked some hard-hitting questions about Tara Reade’s allegation that Biden sexually assaulted her in 1993.
Biden looked unusually alert and tracked fairly well for most of the interview until he got tired and confused (at the 14-minute mark). More disturbing than that, though, were the misrepresentations and elisions that made it appear as if he were answering the questions when, in fact, he wasn’t. Most surprisingly, Biden insisted that it would be better for him if nobody could see his records before the election.
Nineteen-year-old Kendrick Johnson never came home from Lowndes High School in Valdosta, Georgia on January 10, 2013. His parents notified the local sheriff, and an investigation at the school the following morning led to the tragic discovery of Johnson’s body face down in the middle of a rolled-up wrestling mat inside one of the school’s two gyms (snip) Not only did the DoJ target dedicated public servants and their children, these DOJ thugs knew they would be causing irreparable harm and unnecessary pain to innocent victims, using the full weight and power of the federal government as they tried to bully false confessions to nonexistent crimes.
Kayleigh McEnany took the podium for the first time as the White House Press Secretary Friday and pledged never to lie to the media.She got asked point-blank at the first formal briefing in 417 days at a time of tense relations between reporters and the Trump White House whether she would always tell the truth. 'I will never lie to you, you have my word on that,' she responded.The telegenic former Trump campaign spokeswoman fielded a series of questions on topics ranging from the coronavirus pandemic to her own plans for communicating with the press and the American people.
During a Twitter Q&A on Friday, Attorney General William Barr stated that “it’s time to start rolling back” some of the restrictions enacted to combat the coronavirus and that “in the appropriate case, we would consider taking action.”Barr said, “The government, unquestionably, has the right, when it’s facing an immediate, catastrophic danger to public safety to impose reasonable and temporary restrictions. But the Bill of Rights doesn’t go away during a crisis like this. But what it does do is it requires that the government justify any restrictions as truly necessary and ensure that there are not other ways of addressing the government’s interests that are less burdensome
Harvard University admitted Friday that Jeffrey Epstein had his own office and phone line at the university and also made several visits there even after he was convicted in 2008 of soliciting sex from minors.
According to a new report from the university, Epstein, the disgraced financier who killed himself in jail last year while awaiting sex crimes charges, visited Harvard more than 40 times after his 2008 conviction and unveiled deep ties between him and the university, with which he had no official affiliation.
University President Lawrence Bacow said in a letter to the Harvard community that Harvard accepted $9.1 million from Epstein
Natural gas is withstanding the coronavirus-fueled economic crash in a way that its closely associated relative, oil, isn’t.
Oil prices have reached record lows, with the U.S. benchmark oil price briefly dropping below zero last month after trading at around $60 per barrel at the start of 2020.
The U.S. natural gas price, meanwhile, is stable, staying below $2 per million British thermal units, or MMBtu, a historically low level it has been hovering at for a while due to a glut produced from the shale boom.
Oil producers are shutting in their wells, prompting tens of thousands of layoffs, because the pace of the price collapse was so sudden,
The worst day of my childhood was in 1995 when my father lost his job. He worked close by as a cook in a local restaurant, just a mile or two from our modest home in Cranston, Rhode Island. I recall what it felt like when he broke the news: I felt my legs start to go under me. I still see him walking up the small hill that led to our home: his head down, his spirit crushed. I still see the look on his face, a man whose purpose had been taken away. My mother cried. We had to sell our house.
The day of the finals in the powered exoskeleton race at Cybathlon 2016 opened on a less-than-promising note.
Mark Daniel, a 26-year-old former welder who’d been paralyzed from the waist down in a car accident at 18, was rushing down a ramp at the venue when his wheelchair caught on a post. He took a hard tumble out of his chair and onto the pavement. This alarmed his teammates, a group of six engineers and technicians from the Florida Institute for Human & Machine Cognition. They’d been working 12-hour days for months, designing, assembling, and refining the robotic exoskeleton suit
A few years back I or someone else (but I think it was me) coined the term “crockumentary” specifically to describe Michael Moore. He doesn’t produce documentaries. He creates crockumentaries. They’re stories he skillfully pieces together to create crocks full of…stuff…to serve his political agenda. They also make the socialist-leaning fellow a lot of money he uses to buy himself big houses and buy status that gets him heard by Democrats.
Because even the most socialist Democrats love money. They love making it, and they love taking it from you even more.
This is all Moore has done, from Roger & Me forward. Remember when he portrayed Saddam Hussein’s Baghdad, Iraq,
I’ll get into this at more length later, but there’s a problem with Joe Biden’s naming Chris Dodd to run his vice-presidential search beyond the obvious waitress-sandwich stuff.
The Democrats talk a pretty good “diversity” game, but think about what that really looks like in a party where the bosses are rich and white and the voters are less affluent and less white. Joe Biden, an eternal party hack and white-guy visitor from the age of black-and-white television, pledges to name a woman to the VP spot. Okay — which woman? The woman recommended to him by Chris Dodd, eternal party hack and white-guy visitor from the age of black-and-white television.
Twitter Account “Room Rater” Judges
TV Journalists’ Home Decor.
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TV Journalists’ Home Decor.
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The coronavirus shutdown has forced news commentators to broadcast from their homes, allowing us to get a peek at their decorating choices. And to nobody’s great surprise, some TV personalities have better taste than others. That’s the premise behind the Twitter account Room Rater (@ratemyskyperoom), which has racked up 120,000 followers in just a few weeks simply by tweeting TV-news images of people at home and assigning a rating to whatever decor is visible, based on anything from plants to art to lighting to bookshelves.
Meryl Streep drinking straight from a scotch bottle was meme-worthy, but Room Rater gave her 3/10 for empty shelves.
Former Vice President Joe Biden, the Democrats’ presumptive nominee for president, has forcefully denied allegations of sexual harassment and assault made against him by Tara Reade, a former staff assistant in his Senate office.
“They aren’t true,” Mr. Biden said in a statement on Friday. “This never happened.”
Ms. Reade’s accusations, which have been percolating for several weeks, are grave and graphic. She charges that, in the spring of 1993, Mr. Biden cornered her in a deserted hallway of the Capitol complex, pinned her against a wall, reached under her skirt and penetrated her with his fingers.
Tara Reade’s charge of rape against Biden has, in the immortal words of Henry Kissinger, “the odious smell of truth” about it. Sniff this:
Biden is going to the gym. Apparently he doesn’t keep his work-out gear in his locker. And apparently he has forgotten to bring his gear with him to the gym. So he calls his office to have it brought to him — because that is what Senate staffers are paid by the taxpayers to do, right? Who does he call to set this smelly business in motion? Isn’t that one of the questions an investigation would have to pursue?
Whether Biden did what he’s been accused of is unclear. Whether Democratic politicians are gross hypocrites about allegations of sexual assault is not. The bill for the Kavanaugh fiasco has come due. Truth be told, that’s half the reason Republicans have taken such an interest in the Tara Reade allegation. It’s not just that what she alleges is awful, although it is. It’s that Biden and his party are now being forced to eat every last bit of the expedient #BelieveAllWomen cynicism they dished out during Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing.
President Trump’s job approval soared 6 points in the last two weeks, according to the latest Gallup poll.
The new survey found 49 percent approve of the president’s job in office and 47 percent disapprove, a personal best with Gallup for Trump. Two weeks ago, 43 percent approved of the president’s job, according to the pollster.
Trump also had a 49 percent approval rating in mid-March, according to Gallup, before his rating took a 6-point plunge in the first half of April.
A research dossier compiled by the so-called "Five Eyes" intelligence alliance states that China intentionally hid or destroyed evidence of the coronavirus outbreak, leading to the loss of tens of thousands of lives around the world
The 15-page document from the intelligence agencies of the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Australia and New Zealand, was obtained by Australia's Saturday Telegraph newspaper and states that China's secrecy amounted to an “assault on international transparency." The dossier touches on themes that have been discussed in media reports about the outbreak of the virus, including an initial denial by China that the virus could be transmitted between humans, the silencing or "disappearing"
The FBI has disgraced itself
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When I was an 8-year-old boy, I idolized and was inspired by the FBI. I wrote a letter to the director of the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover. I described my aspiration to be an FBI agent, to fight crime with him, to help him bring justice to the United States of America. A short time later, I received a short reply, signed (I have no doubt) by Director Hoover himself, in which he encouraged me to follow my ideals, to diligently study and to prepare myself, inspired for a life as an honorable American.
Justin Amash like Gary Johnson?
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Back in 2016, many of us thought Gary Johnson would take votes from Donald Trump because he had been a successful GOP governor from New Mexico. In fact, a good friend of mine was so frustrated with the Trump nomination that he started working for the Johnson campaign.
He did get 3.4% of the popular vote, but did it matter? Did he hurt both sides? It's not clear, frankly. My experience with Liberterians is that they find both parties appalling and can't vote for either one.
Representative Justin Amash is exploring a run for president, and once again, we are talking about the impact on now-president Trump.