Posts on Monday, August 2, 2021
A fourth police officer who clashed with Capitol rioters on January 6 has killed himself. Kyle DeFreytag, 26, died on July 10. He had responded to the Capitol insurrection on January 6th and had worked the later shift on that day. DeFreytag had been positioned outside the Capitol. DeFreytag had been a Metropolitan Police Department officer for five years, according to his obituary. 'I am writing to share tragic news that Officer Kyle DeFreytag of the 5th District was found deceased last evening,' Chief Robert J. Contee III wrote in a message to the department in mid-July.(Snip)The announcement of his death on Monday came just hours
Former President Donald Trump will hold his next campaign-style rally in Alabama later this month, his political organization announced Monday.
Trump will travel to Cullman, located about halfway between Birmingham and Huntsville on Interstate 65, to deliver remarks on Aug. 21, according to Save America. The rally will take place on the same day the state Republican Party holds its summer meeting, also in Cullman.
The 45th president won Alabama by more than 25 percentage points in both the 2016 and 2020 elections. However, while Trump traveled to the Yellowhammer State in 2019 to take in the college football showdown between Alabama and LSU,
Two weeks of media-manufactured “delta variant panic” brought me to the realization that, at least for me and mine, the coronavirus pandemic is over.
The Trump Vaccine works like gangbusters, works exactly as advertised, and all the lying and dissembling injected into the fabricated hysteria over “breakthrough” cases only reinforces the following: If you’re vaccinated, life can return to normal. No more masks. No more social distancing. No more capacity limits. No more fear of one another, including those who’ve chosen not to get vaccinated.
Look at these numbers…
More than 163 million Americans are fully vaccinated.
Of those 163 million, only 6,239 have been hospitalized with the China Flu.
After an increase in COVID-19 transmission in the San Francisco Bay area, local health officials announced Monday that seven counties in the region would revert to a mask mandate for indoor public settings that takes effect for everyone after midnight, regardless of vaccination status.
“The order, announced at a joint news conference, goes into effect at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday,” and “affects more than 7 million residents,” according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
The outlet reported, “Health officers for seven of the nine counties in the region – Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Sonoma –and the city of Berkeley
Ahead of Louisiana expecting its worst day of COVID-19 hospitalizations yet, Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards will be bringing the state back under a mask mandate until at least September 1.
During a Monday afternoon press conference, Edwards, a Democratic governor in a deep red state, told reporters that the situation in the state is the worst it’s ever been.
“This is bad. And it’s not this bad anywhere else in the country today,” Edwards said. “This is having an adverse impact on people’s lives today. And the least we can do is put a mask on. It is not an onerous burden.”
Joe Manchin Hosts Weekend Houseboat
Gathering, Attendees Include Now-
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Several senators attended an event on Sen. Joe Manchin’s (D-WV) houseboat over the weekend, and one of the attendees, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), announced Monday he tested positive for coronavirus.In addition to Manchin and Graham, senators who were present at the gathering included Sens. John Thune (R-SD), Chris Coons (D-DE), Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV), Jacky Rosen (D-NV), Maria Cantwell (D-WA), and Mark Kelly (D-AZ), according to multiple reports.A spokeswoman for Manchin’s office told Breitbart News, “Senator Manchin is fully vaccinated
Science: Olympic Medical and Science
Official Says “Everyone Agrees” That
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International Olympic Committee (IOC) Medical and Science Director Dr. Richard Budgett recently made some eyebrow raising comments when he claimed that “everyone agrees” that trans women are real women.The comment came during a press conference on Friday when Budgett was praising male-turned-female New Zealand trans weightlifter Laurel Hubbard for their “courage and tenacity.”“To put it in a nutshell, the IOC had a scientific consensus back in 2015,” Budgett explained as he came up with an excuse for the IOC’s decision to let a man compete with women. “There are no IOC rules or regulations
Former President Barack Obama is creating a “nightmare” by trying to get nearly 700 people to his 60th birthday bash in Martha’s Vineyard, a source told The Post Monday — as news of the lavish party drew fire amid a national surge of the COVID Delta variant and new restrictions. George Clooney, Steven Spielberg and Oprah Winfrey are among the 475 guests expected to attend alongside about 200 hired hands. “Democrats are imposing unscientific mask mandates while contemplating more lockdowns. Meanwhile, President Obama is hosting over 500 elites at his Marthas Vineyard mansion.
Fox News has fired its business analyst Andrew Napolitano after a male producer accused him of sexually harassing him.John Fawcett, who works on the Kudlow show hosted by Larry Kudlow on Fox Business Network, is suing the network claiming he was sexually harassed by Napolitano who he claims stroked his arm and made suggestive comments while they were on an elevator together.Fawcett also claims in his lawsuit, filed in state Supreme Court in Manhattan, that 'sexual harassment, sex discrimination, and racial discrimination are still tolerated at Fox.'
St. Petersburg police say they have identified a suspect in the Saturday shooting of a woman who was killed in her car as she held her baby and another child sat in the back seat, police said. St. Petersburg police said a warrant was issued for Benjamin Robert Williams, 38, aka “Bambi.”
Joana Peca, 27, was shot and killed about 5:30 p.m. Saturday near the Woodlawn Memorial Gardens cemetery in St. Petersburg near the corner of 60th Street South and 1st Avenue South.(Snip)Williams and Peca were involved in a romantic relationship and shared a baby. Williams shot Peca in the face multiple times
The heartbreaking commercials are almost impossible to ignore: Sarah McLachlan singing to images of suffering animals and making an urgent appeal for donations to the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, or ASPCA. After those iconic commercials debuted more than a decade ago, the ASPCA's revenues tripled — going from $85 million in 2007 to nearly $280 million in 2019 — making the ASPCA one of the nation's leading animal welfare charities. With over 1,000 employees, the ASPCA's mission is to rescue, protect and care for animals in need through a wide range of activities like animal relocation, advocacy
Steadily increasing gun sales across the country as the COVID-19 pandemic lingered and then reignited in recent weeks amid the spread of the new Delta variant continue to cause sustained shortages of ammunition, which is impacting new gun owners, law enforcement agencies, and firearms instructors.
Gun sales, especially for first-time buyers, soared as the pandemic stretched for months last year but also as riots and criminal violence rose dramatically as well, all of which placed strains on U.S. ammunition makers who struggled to keep up.
Sales appeared to surge again after Joe Biden won the presidency and gun-control-pushing Democrats took over Congress, putting ammo makers even further behind.
During a congressional hearing on voting rights, U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) got a Texas Democrat to acknowledge that adults need a government-issued photo ID to operate in day-to-day life.
State Rep. Senfronia Thompson is one of a large group of Texas Democrats who fled to Washington, D.C., on private jets, thereby creating an absence of a procedurally necessary quorum in the lower chamber, to prevent the GOP-majority legislature from passing an election reform measure. The bill has already passed the Texas senate.
Under Mace’s rapid fire questioning — which was necessitated because of the five-minute limitation under prevailing House Oversight Committee rules —
How determined is the Biden administration to let illegal aliens in?
Well, according to the latest report from Breitbart, determined enough to put in overtime to defy a judicial order.
Here's the report: (Snip) It's a strange thing, seeing the federal government defy a judicial order in order to benefit foreign nationals illegally present in the country. They claim it's a "mistake," but that doesn't hold water — according to Robert Law at the Center for Immigration Studies, they actually put in overtime on the weekend, something they rarely do, all to get those nine cases through.
The White House defended on Monday Barack Obama's upcoming 500-person 60th birthday party despite the rise in Delta variant and breakthrough cases – and after announcing President Joe Biden will not attend.'I would note first that former President Obama has been a huge advocate of individuals getting vaccinated,' White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki dodged when asked about her former boss' planned event.Obama is holding a party at his Martha's Vineyard mansion with a guest list of 500 as he rings in his 60s. The former president has come under fire for his plans despite a nationwide rise in COVID cases.
A Black man who said a group of White men assaulted him and threatened to "get a noose" at a southern Indiana lake is facing criminal charges more than a year after the confrontation that earlier led to charges against two of the alleged attackers.
Vauhxx Booker, a local civil rights activist and member of the Monroe County Human Rights Commission, was charged with misdemeanor trespass and felony battery for his involvement in last year’s Fourth of July incident at Lake Monroe, according to court documents filed Friday by a special prosecutor in the case.
Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) announced Monday afternoon that he tested positive for COVID-19 and started experiencing symptoms Saturday. Graham, who has been vaccinated with the mRNA vaccine regiment, said that he was told about his positive test by the House physician. “I started having flu-like symptoms Saturday night and went to the doctor this morning,” said the GOP senator. “I feel like I have a sinus infection and at present time I have mild symptoms. I will be quarantining for ten days,” said Graham. Graham also said he was glad to have been vaccinated, “because without vaccination I am certain I would not feel as well as I do.
A Texas rancher lamented the thousands of dollars in damage to his property caused by illegal immigrants and admitted residents in his county don’t feel safe anymore.Brent Smith told Fox News host Steve Doocy that he and his Kinney County neighbors can’t enjoy their own backyards due to safety fears as President Joe Biden’s immigration policies have led to a migrant “invasion” in the Texas locality.“We’ve had a lot of property damage. Our county’s basically at the epicenter of an invasion, in my view,” Smith told “Fox & Friends” on Monday.
Citing damage and loss of property fencing and “extra personnel costs,” the Kinney County attorney noted that some ranchers have
A third police officer who responded to the January 6th Capitol Riot has died from an apparent suicide, the Metro Police reported. The officer’s death was reported to the Guardian’s Hugo Lowell on Monday.(Tweet) “New: DC Metro Police say a third officer who responded to the Jan. 6 Capitol attack has died by suicide,” Lowell reported. The Metro Police also provided a name.(Tweet) “MPD Officer Gunther Hashida, a veteran of the force who joined in May 2003 and assigned to the Emergency Response Team within the Special Ops Division, was found deceased at home on July 29, the dept says,” he continued.The officer’s death is the third reported suicide
Thousands of Spirit Airlines passengers have been stranded in airports for hours after the budget carrier canceled 30 percent of its scheduled flights nationwide. On Monday, the Florida-based airline canceled over 200 flights throughout the US, in addition to 165 canceled flights on Sunday, according to flight-tracking service FlightAware.com. Travelers took to social media to share vent their frustrations from airports in cities such as San Juan, Miami, Orlando and Fort Lauderdale while they waited for updates from the airline. Photos and videos showed the travelers seated on the ground as they complained of being hot and hungry in packed terminals.
Conservatives are celebrating Team USA's 1-0 loss to rival Canada in the semifinal round of the women's Olympic soccer tournament—an upset critics say resulted from American players' focus on social activism. 'Little Ms. Purple Hair and her team of woke warriors fell flat on their faces,' read an article on former Trump aid Wayne Dupree's website, referencing team captain Megan Rapinoe. 'The US Women's Soccer Team went WOKE and now they lost to Canada,' best-selling author and self-described security expert Brigitte Gabriel tweeted. 'That's what happens when you put political propaganda before sport and hard work.'
With 3.6 million Americans at risk of being evicted as soon as Monday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi repeated her call to the Biden administration to immediately renew the now-lapsed eviction moratorium on Monday after House Democrats over the weekend failed to pass legislation via unanimous consent to extend it to Oct. 18. (Snip) As Pelosi says she now awaits a new response from the administration, the White House said last week that it can't unilaterally extend the moratorium because of a Supreme Court ruling in late June when Justice Brett Kavanaugh, writing for the 5-4 majority, said he would block
America’s public-health bureaucrats, chiefly the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, are insisting on masking kids and granting baseless alibis to teachers unions that would delay or defer schools reopening for another year, if they could get away with it.
This, even as fresh evidence mounts that kids aren’t at risk from COVID-19 and aren’t spreaders — and that school closures do them grave harm.
A study out of the UK released last week proved — once again — what we’ve known for more than a year: Kids transmit the coronavirus at a much lower rate than do adults.
Some surveillance cameras weren’t working at a popular Atlanta park where a woman and her dog were killed in a “gruesome” attack, according to a report.
A security camera near the entrance of Piedmont Park in the city’s Midtown neighborhood caught the last known photo of Katherine Janness, 40, walking her beloved Bowie before the pair were found stabbed early Wednesday morning. But other surveillance cams in the area, including one facing the park’s entrance, weren’t working at the time, relatives of the woman’s girlfriend told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.(Snip)Janness’ stabbing, which Atlanta police Deputy Chief Charles Hampton has described as “gruesome,”
The heart of Maricopa County’s elections is a system called VRAS, the Voter Registration Access System. It provides critical election functions, like real-time access to voter registration data, ballot and voting info, polling maps, candidate financial reports, ballot preparation, and polling location management, agreements, and so on. It includes a database to generate reports like the bilingual pollworker report. Or create lists of early voter information, or military voter information. It supplies the data needed by Runbeck Election Services to print the hundreds of different ballots for precincts. Runbeck also packs, distributes, and tracks all the ballots while updating VRAS.
New York, NY – Authorities are looking for three women and a man who brutally beat a handicapped 61-year-old woman with a cookpot on a Harlem sidewalk on July 20 (video below). The attack occurred after some sort of verbal disagreement at about 8 p.m. on July 20 at the corner of Eighth Avenue and West 151st Street, WNBC reported. The attack was captured by nearby surveillance videos and showed a 61-year-old woman using a walker who appeared to be arguing with a woman in a yellow shirt. The video showed the younger woman suddenly pushed the older woman up against a construction railing
Longtime soap opera actor Jay Pickett has “passed away suddenly” while filming a movie in Idaho. Pickett, 60, was on the “Treasure Valley” set when he died Friday, director Travis Mills said Sunday in a statement online. “Everyone present tried as hard as they could to keep him alive,” Mills wrote. “Our hearts are broken and we grieve for his family who are so devastated by this shocking tragedy.” A cause of death has not been released, but Mills said it “appears to have been a heart attack.”
His co-star, Jim Heffel, said Pickett “died sitting on a horse ready to rope a steer.”
Two 18-year-old Namibian runners threw track and field's contentious testosterone issue back into the Olympic spotlight Monday when they blazed into the women's 200-metre final in Tokyo just weeks after being barred from the 400-metre race.
One of them, Christine Mboma, broke the world under-20 record twice in the space of about eight hours at the Olympic Stadium on the way to the 200 final.
Retired Army intelligence captain, elections data expert, and former baseball analyst Seth Keshel released his final national fraud numbers over the weekend.
Seth Keshel examined the final vote counts in all 50 states compared to the estimated numbers based on changing state dynamics and trends to come up with his estimated voter fraud in each state.
Boy or girl? If it was up to the American Medical Association (AMA), not even parents would know.
Once again revealing the organization’s highly politicized motives, the AMA said sex should be removed as a legal designation on birth certificates.
“Designating sex on birth certificates as male or female, and making that information available on the public portion, perpetuates a view that sex designation is permanent and fails to recognize the medical spectrum of gender identity. This type of categorization system also risks stifling an individual’s self-expression and self-identification and contributes to marginalization and minoritization,” said AMA Board Chair-Elect Sandra Adamson Fryhofer, M.D.
Last June Portland’s Mayor Ted Wheeler, who is also the police commissioner, decided to put an end to the Gun Violence Reduction Team (GVRT) as part of an effort to reimagine policing. The $6 million that would have gone to the team was redirected ” toward communities of color.” Even at the time the assistant chief of police warned their could be serious consequences.According to Assistant Police Chief Andy Shearer, who oversees the team, the GVRT tracks all shootings in the city (homicides, suicides, robberies, domestic violence, etc.)…
“There’s been cities in the recent past, two in California that I’m thinking of, that both had to reduce their staffing sizes
“Nightmare On Elm Street”: Biden Staffers
Reportedly Sick Of Biden, Hammering Him
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Reportedly Sick Of Biden, Hammering Him
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According to a new report from Human Events Senior Editor Jack Posobiec, President Joe Biden’s staffers are referring to him as “the nightmare on elm street.”
“After today’s press conference senior Biden staffers were referring to him as “The Nightmare on Elm Street” per WH official,” Posobiec tweeted. (Tweet) The news comes after Monmouth University came out with a devastating poll for Joe Biden.According to the poll that was released on Thursday, President Joe Biden’s approval rating has plunged 20 points since he first took office on January.Back in January when Biden took office, his net approval rating sat at +24 however just six months later,
Austin—A video captured on an American Airlines flight from New Orleans to Austin shows a fist fight that broke out between passengers on Sunday.
A passenger on the flight sent KXAN video of what happened, and said two were arrested shortly after the incident. Austin Police has not confirmed that, but KXAN will update this story when we hear back.(Snip)The passenger went on to say the incident began “over a seat that couldn’t unrecline.”
An airport spokeswoman deferred to Austin Police and American Airlines.
The Federal Aviation Administration reported an increase in incidents when passengers have disrupted flights due to violent behavior at the start
Fox has been the home of Family Guy for 19 seasons now, but if creator Seth MacFarlane has his way, that could change soon. MacFarlane took to Twitter on Sunday to voice his displeasure with host Tucker Carlson and speak out about the way politics has soured his relationship with the network.
Article IV of the Constitution addresses the obligations of the federal government to the state governments that were being asked to surrender aspects of their sovereignty to form our new Union.
“The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government,” reads Article IV, “and shall protect each of them against Invasion.”
Late in the War of 1812, U.S. forces held Fort McHenry in Baltimore Harbor through a nightlong attack but failed to stop an invading British army at Bladensburg, which marched on to Washington (Snip)
To repel a British invasion and the capture of New Orleans, and a blockading of the Mississippi, Maj. Gen. Andrew Jackson
Hunter Biden smoked crack with late D.C. Mayor Marion Barry, he revealed to a friend in a recorded call obtained by DailyMail.com.
Hunter, 51, told his friend that he would regularly smoke with Barry in the restroom of a Georgetown bar while he was an undergraduate there.
The stunning admission in the call, which was saved on Hunter’s abandoned laptop, contradicts the president’s son’s claim in his memoir that his arrest as a teenager scared him off drugs until after college.
Remember Alexander Vindman? He’s the guy who thought he got to dictate what foreign policy was and not the President. He disagreed with what was said in a phone call between President Donald Trump and the Ukrainian president. What he should have done was resign, if he disagreed. Instead, he went all resistance and tried to do in Trump. But ultimately, that gambit failed — like so many other gambits to get Trump failed. But Vindman is still trying to sell himself as somehow an important person. It’s really rather sad, how desperate he is for relevance.
A wanted Brooklyn sex attacker was arrested at a storage facility where he’d been staying after using his victim’s credit card there, police said Monday.
Adrian Quarless, 37, was nabbed Friday morning at the CubeSmart Self Storage on Caton Place near Prospect Park and was charged with sex abuse, robbery and grand larceny. He is being held on $50,000 bail. In the attack, he allegedly confronted a 25-year-old woman around 1 a.m. on July 25 as she was walking up the stairs to enter her building at N. 10th and Roebling streets in Greenpoint.
The suspect flung her down the stairs, police said, then grabbed
Creative Sunnyside Teen Makes
Prom Dress out of Duct Tape,
Wins $10,000 Duck Brand
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Prom Dress out of Duct Tape,
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One creative Sunnyside 17-year-old rolled out an eye-catching colorful folkloric-inspired dress for prom this year—made entirely out of duct tape.
The festive endeavor by Larissa Leon showcased her heritage, portraying the beauty of Chiapas couture, and won the $10,000 Grand Prize in the “Stuck at Prom” scholarship contest held by Duck Brand.
“I wanted to make something more meaningful than just a dress,” Larissa told The Epoch Times. “I wanted the dress to represent a part of me. I wanted to showcase the beauty of my culture.”
South Dakota Republican Governor Kristi Noem faced backlash over the weekend after she essentially told residents of her state that if they did not want to be mandated by their employer to take a vaccine, they could find another job in the state. “Workers whose employers are mandating a vaccine for continued employment have the power to say no,” Noem wrote on Twitter. “Our robust economy and job market gives them the option to find a new employer that values personal choice and responsibility, and doesn’t force mandates on their employees.”
President Biden’s $1.2 trillion infrastructure package is set to be a boon for the wife of Sen. Joe Manchin III, a West Virginia Democrat and key swing vote for the White House’s agenda. Mr. Biden’s legislation, as written, greatly expands funding for the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC). The federal agency, which is responsible for promoting economic development in the 13 states that make up Appalachia, is led by Mr. Manchin’s wife, Gayle.
According to language included within the infrastructure bill, which was released Sunday night, the ARC is set to receive an additional billion dollars over the next four years. The new funding is set to increase
A blaze at a massive Tesla battery site in Australia that started three days ago was brought under control on Monday, firefighters said. Emergency services were first called to the Victoria Big Battery project — built by French renewable energy firm Neoen using Tesla batteries — on Friday morning. A 13-tonne lithium battery inside a shipping container had caught fire at the site near Geelong, about an hour’s drive from Australia’s second city Melbourne, the Country Fire Service (CFA) said.“There was one battery pack on fire to start with, but it did spread to a second pack
A hardhat-wearing “intellectual” took the Biden administration to task over the recurrence of masking mandates as well as its insistence that all federal workers either take the COVID-19 vaccine or be subjected to weekly testing hassles.But in a short video posted to Twitter, the “Hardhat Intellectual” saved his biggest criticism for Americans who, in his view, continue to sheepishly accept endless COVID mandates and restrictions.Warning: Strong language (Tweet/Video) “Lotta madness is happening today, right?” he says to begin the video which was posted late last week.After noting he had a busy day and was covered in the grime of his work, the man said during his drive home
If you read this paper with any degree of frequency, you’ve likely seen my name at some point. Most Wednesdays my column appears under the “Opinion” section, because, well, that’s where columns appear. They aren’t news — they’re opinions about the news. That’s an important distinction; one most people with a shred of common sense and a marginal understanding of the First Amendment can comprehend. Regardless of whether they agree with that opinion or not, they understand the difference between point of view and matter of fact. They usually also understand that the humans writing columns for a small-town newspaper CORRECTIONS*
In one of the most outrageous instances of internet censorship, YouTube has suppressed Australian news giant SkyNews for a week, based on its reports about hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin.
The London Telegraph has the first report here:
Sky News Australia has been banned for a week from uploading videos to Youtube after it was accused of spreading misinformation about the coronavirus pandemic.
The Sky News Australia channel on YouTube received a "strike" over "numerous" video clips, including "content that denies the existence of Covid-19," the video platform said.
TOKYO — Laurel Hubbard, a transgender weightlifter from New Zealand, was knocked out of the women’s 87+ kilogram competition early after failing on all three of her attempts.
Hubbard failed on her first attempt to get 120kg above her head, bailing out early. On her second attempt at 125kg, she was able to get the weight up and pumped her fist after in satisfaction, however judges ruled it a “no lift.”
She returned quickly for another attempt at 125kg only to fail to stand up with the weight above her head. Hubbard was the only one of the 13 finalists to not complete at least one lift.
Washington—The Biden administration on Monday expanded its efforts to evacuate at-risk Afghan citizens from Afghanistan as Taliban violence increases ahead there of the U.S. military pullout at the end of the month.
The State Department said it is widening the scope of Afghans eligible for refugee status in the United States to include current and former employees of U.S.-based news organizations, U.S.-based aid and development agencies and other relief groups that receive U.S. funding. Current and former employees of the U.S. government and the NATO military operation who don’t meet the criteria for a dedicated program for such workers are also covered.
Facebook blocked the Illinois Association of Chiefs' request to promote its Officer of the Year post that honored a cop who was stabbed multiple times in the head and neck during a domestic incident before fatally shooting the suspect. The stab wounds damaged East Peoria Police Officer Jeffrey Bieber's nerves and hit an artery, 'causing the officer to bleed profusely' and fall to his back during the February 2 incident, police said. He tried to use his Taser but it was unsuccessful, and the suspect - identified as Joshua Crites, 19 - was on top of him. Bieber shot Crites and ultimately
The ridiculous mask kabuki that Lame Duck Dictator Nancy Pelosi is attempting to impose upon the Party of Freedom is the perfect opportunity for the GOP to demonstrate that it is not a flock of hapless, wriggling invertebrates. A little spine shown right about now would go a long way, not only to winning back Congress in 2022 by an even bigger margin than currently anticipated but to fixing the institution that power-mad harridan has grievously damaged. It might mean accepting that Republicans will be booted from the House for a bit, but who cares? We have zero input anyway. Make a stand. Here you go, GOP. Here’s your
Kathy Griffin is revealing that she has lung cancer. The comedian, 60, took to social media to share the news Monday, adding that she has never smoked. “I’ve got to tell you guys something. I have cancer. I’m about to go into surgery to have half of my left lung removed,” Griffin wrote. “Yes, I have lung cancer even though I’ve never smoked!” She added that her cancer, which is "contained to my left lung," is in Stage 1 and her doctors are "very optimistic." "Hopefully no chemo or radiation after this and I should have normal function with my
There was a COVID death spike last week. Run for your lives! Put your masks back on—and be afraid. That was the narrative the liberal media peddled last week because without Trump around no one watches anything they report. We’ve reached peak hysteria over the Delta variant, which isn’t more lethal, nor does it make you sicker. The reports from an internal CDC memo that suggests otherwise should be ignored; it was rejected by peer review. Another knife to this narrative of Delta doom is the death toll. You were made to think that there was a 300 percent increase in deaths. There’s a reason why the media focuses
Tokyo - Jade Carey traveled the world for a spot in the Olympics. Germany. Qatar. Azerbaijan. Australia. (Snip) Carey earned a spot in Tokyo by taking advantage of what turned out to be a one-time-only offer by the International Gymnastics Federation. The sport’s governing body made a provision for the 2020 Games that allowed athletes to lock up an individual nominative spot if they racked up enough points at World Cup events.
So the Careys spent 16 months flying to different continents, piling up podiums on vault and floor exercise along the way. They formally accepted the spot on the eve of the U.S. Olympic Trials, even though they knew it
Narrative Collapse
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Humans are natural storytellers. Much of our daily discourse is the telling of the mundane tales that constitute our lives. Those stories usually support in some way our shared beliefs. The story you tell about the two obese people raiding the buffet is not about the facts, but the shared beliefs regarding moderation and dignity. Your story signals information about you, and the receiver signals back.
The U.S. Women's National Soccer Team quest for Olympic gold ended Monday when it lost 1-0 to Canada in the semifinal.
Canada's Jessie Fleming scored a penalty kick in the 75th minutes to reach the country's first Olympic soccer final, guaranteeing at least a silver medal. The U.S. will have to settle for the chance to win bronze in a third-place play-off on Thursday. [snip] "Not our best game, not our best tournament," star midfielder Megan Rapinoe said after the game. "It's a bitter one to swallow, obviously we don't want to lose to Canada.
Just 36% Of Independents Think The
Jan. 6 Commission Is A Genuine
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Jan. 6 Commission Is A Genuine
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Democrats advertised the Jan. 6 commission as an effort to ”investigate and report on the facts and causes relating to the January 6, 2021, domestic terrorist attack.” But in today’s highly charged partisan world, few believe that this is the commission’s genuine concern, according to the latest I&I/TIPP Poll.
The poll, which was taken after the first day of the commission’s hearings, asked a straightforward question: “How likely is it that the Jan. 6 commission will make a genuine effort to uncover the truth?”
Fauci and Pelosi both believe
that calling a virus a ‘pandemic’
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that calling a virus a ‘pandemic’
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Forget about the Constitution and the God-given rights it affirms, at least according to St. Anthony Fauci and Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Over the weekend, they announced that due to the less lethal but more contagious Delta Variant of COVID-19, those rights mean nothing. Hysterical fear has always been the wannbe tyrant’s best friend. Appearing on ABC TV’s This Week, responding to a set-up question by substitute host Jonathan Karl that positioned Republican governors as villains standing on the way of mask and vaccine mandates, the highest-paid bureaucrat in the federal government averred that “the spread of infection” impacts everyone
CDC Director: ‘We Can Stop This
In Its Tracks’ if Everyone Wears
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In Its Tracks’ if Everyone Wears
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Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), said in an interview with Healthline published Friday that the country can stop the Chinese coronavirus “in its tracks” if everyone wears a mask until more are vaccinated.
Healthline asked the CDC director if she agrees with former CDC director Tom Frieden’s estimation that “we could get to 200,000 new cases a day.”
Parents know something is wrong. It’s why they are showing up in droves at school-board meetings across the nation. They are sending a message. They don’t want their children taught that the true founding of America came in 1619, or that America is a systemically racist place, or that most Americans are oppressors. They don’t want their children taught lies. And they are right. Sometimes, these lies go by the name “critical race theory,” a pet project of the left that began, as many bad ideas do, in the academy and has spread in recent years across corporate America and into school curricula. Sometimes the lies are called “anti-racism.”
Jonathan Capehart's Sunday show on MSNBC devoted a segment today to slamming Fox News for its coverage of the January 6th Capitol breach. And NBC contributor Dean Obeidallah slimed Fox News as Al Jazeera and analogized Donald Trump to the greatest mass-murdering terrorist in US history.When columnist Miami Herald columnist Leonard Pitts asked what people would sacrifice, Capehart responded by claiming that Fox News and Republicans on Capitol Hill "have sacrificed their soul." A bit later, Capehart, somewhat out of left field, blurted out that "whiteness is a helluva drug."But capping all the inane commentary was Dean Obeidallah. He said that Fox News is "the Al Jazeera of America
Incompetence + Arrogance = Woke
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We know the nature of mass hysterias in history, and how they can overwhelm and paralyze what seem to be stable societies. We know the roots and origins of the cult of wokeness. And we know, too, how such insanity—from the Salem witch trials to Jacobinism to McCarthyism—can spread, despite alienating most of the population, through fear and the threat of personal ruin or worse. These are the dark sides of the tulip, hula-hoop, and pet-rock fads, the mass obsessions so suited to past affluent Western societies. But does wokeism serve another purpose as well? Specifically, does it either hide preexisting incompetence or fuel it?
Fox News senior meteorologist Janice Dean claims she is being trolled by political commentator Matthew Dowd after she called for an investigation into COVID-19 nursing home deaths in New York State - which include the deaths of her in-laws.Dean also posted a quote from herself that read: 'Every one of Cuomo's victims deserves to be heard. But thousands of them aren't with us anymore.'It led to political analyst Dowd to respond: 'Now that Texas has surpassed New York in COVID deaths I am awaiting for Ms Dean to hold GOP governor Abbott accountable.'
Former President Barack Obama has come under fire for his plans to host nearly 500 people at his Martha's Vineyard mansion for his 60th birthday, despite a nationwide rise in COVID cases.The former president is set to turn 60 on August 4, and is said to be planning a large soiree at his 7,000-square-foot mansion in the Edgarton section of Martha's Vineyard next weekend.An official familiar with the plans told Axios that there are now 475 confirmed guests for the party - including Oprah Winfrey, George Clooney and Steven Spielberg - with more than 200 staff members.
In just five months, California may well be the first state in America that effectively bans any pork products. This is because, back in 2018, voters approved an animal welfare proposition setting out space requirements standards for those who breed pigs, egg-laying chickens, and veal calves. While chicken farmers and veal producers across America have mostly met those standards, it seems the hog farmers have had a harder time. This is an interesting story because it touches upon the laws of unintended consequences and the effect a state like California has on the rest of America.
We are a year and half into the world’s nightmare of COVID-19, also known as the Chinese coronavirus, based on where this demon virus originated and spread from, either intentionally or inadvertently. (snip) Do the vaccines work or not? Depending on the day and pronouncement, it is hard to know. First, the COVID “vaccines” are not true vaccines based on the definitions of vaccine. Rather than the “vaccine” containing attenuated virus, it is a strand of messenger RNA, based on genetic code provided by China and serving as the basis for these novel “vaccines” which cause the body to create spike protein which in turn supposedly generates an immune response
Sen. Joe Manchin, the independent-minded Democrat from Trump-loving West Virginia, continues to play the spoiler to liberals who want him acquiesce to changing the filibuster so Democrats can pass a bill federalizing elections.
Manchin on Sunday ruled out anew supporting a change to the filibuster to allow a vote on the elections legislation.
"I can't imagine a carve-out," he told CNN, adding that it was time to stop diminishing the parliamentary tactic that requires 60 votes to vote on passing most legislation.
“Stars — they’re just like us!” Us Weekly has been insisting for nearly 20 years in its popular feature.
But the truth is, when a glittering Hollywood actor descends from Mount Olympus to mingle with us normals, it’s an unbearably strenuous experience for them that they cannot shut up about.
A-listers desperately need you to know that they are about as much like us as a pile of diamonds on a private beach in Fiji is.
Matt Damon is the latest offender, taking on the part of a plaid-loving Oklahoma oil rig worker in the new movie “Stillwater,” out Friday. When it premiered this month at the Cannes Film ,
After a little more than six months in her current role, potential 2024 presidential candidate Kamala Harris has become one of the least popular vice presidents since the 1970’s.
The Telegraph reported over the weekend that “two recent polls both showed 46 percent of Americans approved of Harris, with 47 percent and 48 percent disapproving.”
According to Gallup, the Telegraph noted, 42.1 percent approved of former Vice President Mike Pence’s performance at the same point in his term while 41.9 percent disapproved.
“The previous vice president — Biden — had an approval rating above 50 percent after six months. Before that Dick Cheney, and Al Gore, were in the 60s
If the United States Senate votes this week on the bipartisan so-called “infrastructure” bill, it would be humanly impossible for any U.S. senator to read it before voting on it.
The text of a draft of the bill, obtained exclusively by Breitbart News from U.S. Senate sources not authorized to leak it, shows the plan is 2,701 pages long.
The text, which Breitbart News is publishing here so the public can see what Congress is doing in secret, shows the plan is far more sprawling and expansive than GOP senators, who backed advancing it without text even existing, led their constituents to believe. Sources familiar
Dick Morris: Delta Variant Bad for Biden’s
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During an interview that aired Sunday on New York WABC 770 AM radio’s “The Cats Roundtable,” former Bill Clinton adviser Dick Morris weighed in President Joe Biden’s polling numbers.
After noting to host John Catsimatidis that Biden’s approval ratings are “dropping precipitously,” Morris placed the blame at the feet of the coronavirus’ Delta variant, which has case numbers rising across the country. He argued Biden ran as a single-issue candidate on COVID and is failing at it.
“It’s becoming very clear that Biden‘s ratings are in serious trouble,” Morris outlined. “According to Gallup, between May and July, he dropped six points
Something interesting has happened on the Wuhan virus front over the past few days. The Biden bunch have changed their tune about media coverage. Once the media were loyal little catchfarts and stenographers pushing whatever narrative the Biden White House wanted to put out between sessions of Biden eating boogers. Somehow they became part of the problem, being needlessly alarmist about the Wuhan virus.
A couple of days ago, the New York Times ran this story, C.D.C. Internal Report Calls Delta Variant as Contagious as Chickenpox.
The Delta variant is much more contagious, more likely to break through protections afforded by the vaccines and may cause more severe disease
WASHINGTON — After much delay, senators unveiled a nearly $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure package Sunday night, wrapping up days of painstaking work on the inches-thick bill and launching what is certain to be a lengthy debate over President Joe Biden’s big priority.The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act clocked in at some 2,700 pages, and senators could begin amending it soon. Despite the hurry-up-and-wait during a rare weekend session, the final product was not intended to stray from the broad outline senators had negotiated for weeks with the White House.Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said a final vote could be held “in a matter of days.”
Over the weekend, the American public finally learned that the vaccinated were being forced to wear masks again because of a massive outlier in Massachusetts where vaccinated people at a beach gathering had a high viral load in their nasal pharynx. And when press on the data during an appearance on CBS’s Face the Nation on Sunday, Dr. Anthony Fauci claimed that viral load meant the vaccinated were spreading it at the same rate as the unvaccinated. But Fauci would be later proven wrong by a high-ranking Israeli public health official and a former FDA commissioner.
CBS moderator John Dickerson began by asking Fauci what new understanding
A group of about 40 housing and homeless advocates marched to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's San Francisco mansion on Saturday to hang an 'eviction notice' on her door, demanding she reconvene Congress to pass legislation extending the eviction moratorium.The moratorium expired at midnight on Saturday, and the House Speaker was unable to garner enough support to pass a resolution extending it before Congress adjourned for summer break.She has instead demanded that the Centers for Disease Control, which initially started the moratorium extend it, despite a Supreme Court ruling