Month: April 2020

A sign thanking health care workers near an emergency triage tent at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, Wash., March 29, 2020. (Jason Redmond/Reuters) If we hope to get through this crisis, we must start by bridging the political divides to which we are all far too attached. American civil society long ago lost any illusion
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President Trump recently fired Intel Community IG Michael Atkinson and he’s reportedly gearing up to fire several more Deep State IGs in one fell swoop. The IGs Trump is looking to fire were appointed by Barack Obama or beforehand. “President Trump wants his own people in those positions now.” Breaking: Trump is firing 7 IGs
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Voters wait in a line, which continued a few blocks south of the polling location, to vote in the presidential primary election while wearing masks and practicing social distancing at Riverside High School in Milwaukee, Wisc., April 7, 2020. (Mike De Sisti/Milwaukee Journal Sentinel/USA TODAY NETWORK via Reuters) A waffling governor and an intransigent legislature
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World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus attends a news conference on the coronavirus in Geneva, Switzerland, February 24, 2020. (Denis Balibouse/Reuters) Since its inception 112 years ago almost to the day, the World Health Organization (WHO)  has been credited with the eradication of smallpox and the near eradication of other devastating illnesses, including leprosy
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First-ballot Hall-of-Fame PR clusterfark. He overreacted to an officer going outside the chain of command in an extraordinary situation by firing him summarily, then overreacted again by giving a pissy speech to the crew that idolized that officer, then overreacted again by not immediately apologizing until his boss pressured him into doing so. To make
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Actress Alyssa Milano speaks at a protest outside the White House, July 17, 2018. (Mary F. Calvert/Reuters) Only some women are to be believed, when it’s politically convenient. It’s one thing to adopt a poorly formed set of principles and foist them on others at every opportunity. It’s another to apply those principles unflinchingly to
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Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot (Kamil Krzaczynski/Reuters) Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot issued an executive order Tuesday to ensure that illegal immigrants and refugees in the city are able to access the city’s coronavirus relief benefits. “This order is more than just an official decree, it is a statement of our values as a city and as
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Voter Fred Hoffman fills out his ballot during the primary election in Ottawa, Ill., March 17, 2020. The polling station was relocated from a nearby nursing home to a former supermarket due to concerns over the outbreak of COVID-19 coronavirus. (Daniel Acker/Reuters) The United States is the beacon of democracy around the world. Let’s show
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We’re Pretending THIS Guy Isn’t a Creeper? One extraordinarily positive by-product of the coronavirus lockdown is the fact that Der Bidengaffer and Grandpa Stalin have suspended their debates and campaigns, sparing us all from dreary election nonsense. There has been one significant bit of news that has been mostly ignored by the mainstream media: a
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Single-use plastic bags are a miracle of modern technology. Cheap, light, convenient, and ubiquitous, they provide an elegant solution to a problem. If you recycle them, as most people do, and put your rubbish in them, that creates a net reduction in carbon emissions compared with buying the heavier, thicker … Read More
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President Donald Trump addresses the daily coronavirus task force briefing at the White House, April 4, 2020. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) President Trump and Democratic presidential frontrunner Joe Biden spoke over the phone about the federal response to the coronavirus pandemic hours after criticizing each other earlier on Monday. “Vice President Biden and President Trump had a
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Boris Johnson, leader of Britain’s Conservative Party, leaves a private reception in central London, England, July 23, 2019. (Toby Melville/Reuters) British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who announced ten days ago that he tested positive for the coronavirus, was moved Monday to the intensive care unit of a London hospital after his symptoms worsened. The prime
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Despite arguing just days earlier that the media should continue to cover the daily White House press briefings from the Coronavirus Task Force, on Monday, MSNBC’s Morning Joe co-host Mika Brzezinski dramatically flipped her position, wailing that the events were “a complete waste of time” that “literally have no value.” “And so we’re looking at
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