Month: May 2020

Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden speaks in Des Moines, Iowa, August 10, 2019. (Scott Morgan/Reuters) Biden is pledging not to raise taxes on anyone making less than $400,000 a year. As I note in my Bloomberg Opinion column, Democratic proposals to increase income taxes keep getting narrower in scope. In 1993,
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Comedian and TV host Jimmy Fallon has issued an apology for performing in blackface during a “Saturday Night Live” skit that aired in 2000. During the skit in question, Fallon portrays fellow comedian Chris Rock, who is black. What are the details? The 20-year-old clip of Fallon in blackface resurfaced on the internet this week
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President Donald Trump lashed out at Twitter after the popular social media platform began to fact-check his tweets for the first time ever on Tuesday. The president warned that he would not allow Twitter to interfere with the election, which he equated with the fact-checking. “@Twitter is now interfering in the 2020 Presidential Election,” the
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Writing and making public one’s opinions guarantees people will respond. Writers, performers and every human likely desire his or her thoughts, and even their life, to matter to others. The alternative is to become hermits. Like other opinion writers I get my share of positive and negative letters, but during the Trump administration the level
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Twitter has been censoring and deleting conservative tweets and accounts for years now — ever since President Donald Trump won the election in 2016. In February Twitter even censored The Gateway Pundit account. On night of first 2020 caucus ⁦@Twitter⁩ decides to censor our account!! Thanks to a reader we have proof! Dear ⁦@realDonaldTrump⁩ ⁦@TeamTrump⁩
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You knew this was bound to happen. People have been social distancing amid the coronavirus for over two months — then the weather gets a tad warmer, and then what’s left of an otherwise frigid spring sets natural attraction in motion. In this case it was a woman getting more than a little peck on
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As American politicians double down on locking down our lives, not only are European countries moving away from lockdowns, but some of their political leaders are engaging in a blame game over who thought of such a maniacal idea to begin with. The Danish Jyllands-Posten newspaper reported on Friday that contrary to the assertion of
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A liberal dark money operation pushing “fake news” to hurt President Donald Trump in the 2020 election is pulling out all the stops. OpenSecrets revealed that “political operations are pouring millions of ‘dark money’ dollars into ads and digital content masquerading as news coverage to influence the 2020 election.” One of those operations is dubbed
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After users highlighted YouTube’s automatic censorship of certain phrases critical of the Chinese Communist Party, the tech company admitted the issue was real but said it was an accident, according to the Verge. What’s the issue? YouTube’s automatic comment moderation filters were deleting some Chinese phrases that are derogatory toward the CCP, regardless of the
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Authorities arrested a Boston man after he reportedly threw a flaming American flag onto the roof of a police vehicle, according to WBZ-TV. The suspect also reportedly spit at an officer who arrived on the scene. What are the details? Authorities arrested Daniel Lucey, 40, in the area of Boston Common amid Memorial Day commemorations
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A COVID-19 vaccine developed by Oxford University has generated significant interest. Both the United States and the United Kingdom have ordered large numbers of doses in anticipation of successful human trials. The development cycle for this particular vaccine was shortened because it has already been tested in primates with good results. President Trump announced Operation
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Salena Zito makes the case that President Trump’s promotion of American manufacturing will aid his reelection. But in the course of making that point, she generalizes too much: Trump’s brashness and unorthodox dealings also made members of his own party and the Washington political class cringe and recoil to their enclaves. But it made people
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On Sunday, Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R-Ark.) defended his decision against issuing a stay-at-home order to slow the spread of the Wuhan coronavirus, noting that projections and modeling have lost credibility and pointing out the economic devastation of the lockdowns in other states. While Arkansas is experiencing a second spike in COVID-19 cases, the governor noted
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Identity of Saudi embassy official had been hidden for years from the public; reaction from 9/11 family member of Brett Eagleson. #FoxNews #Tucker Subscribe to Fox News! https://bit.ly/2vBUvAS Watch more Fox News Video: http://video.foxnews.com Watch Fox News Channel Live: http://www.foxnewsgo.com/ FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news service delivering breaking news as well
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The Chinese aircraft carrier Liaoning takes part in drills in the western Pacific, April 2018. (Stringer/Reuters) Parallels between China’s current global rise and our own history may help us avoid complacency. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE A s the COVID-19 crisis has unfolded, it has opened our eyes to China’s rapidly expanding role in the international order
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I don’t begrudge him leisure time after spending two months (mostly) inside. Other Americans are stir crazy and shaking off cabin fever by enjoying the holiday weekend outdoors as the first wave of the outbreak recedes. He’s entitled to a break too. But he begrudged Obama his golf outings — a lot. Not just on
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Georgia Congressman joins ‘Fox and Friends Weekend.’ Subscribe to Fox News! https://bit.ly/2vBUvAS Watch more Fox News Video: http://video.foxnews.com Watch Fox News Channel Live: http://www.foxnewsgo.com/ FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news service delivering breaking news as well as political and business news. The number one network in cable, FNC has been the most-watched
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