Former Vice President Joe Biden speaks at an event in Wilmington, Del., March 12, 2020. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) Staffers for Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden announced that they have donated to a group that pays bail fees in Minneapolis as riots over the death of George Floyd consume the city. At least 13 Biden campaign staffers
Month: June 2020
Louisville Police Chief Steve Conrad, who was already under fire for his department’s handling of the investigation into the shooting of Breonna Taylor, was relieved of duty today by Louisville mayor Greg Fischer, less than one month before he was scheduled to retire. The final straw for Conrad appears to have been the revelation that,
Two officers were struck by a vehicle as a group of law enforcement officials were responding to protests over the death of George Floyd in Buffalo, New York. Startling video of the heinous incident was caught on video and circulated widely on social media on Monday. The officers can be seen running to get away
On May 29, Hulu premiered its second season of Ramy, a show about a Muslim-American man living in New Jersey. While the first season tried to showcase the complexities of an Egyptian-American immigrant family, the second season went full raging leftist, calling the U.S. army “the world’s most corrupt army” and the United States a
I don’t know about you, but I’m looking for signs of genuine leadership at the state and local level. Someone who will step up and stare down the criminals eyeball to eyeball, make arrests, clean up the streets, and protect lives and property. America needs leaders. But America is being torn apart. Of course, it
A 7-11 store located at 201 N. 17th St. in St. Louis was looted and set ablaze by peaceful protesters Monday night who then lay down in the street to prevent firetrucks from reaching the store to put out the fire. The protesters also pushed trash cans into the street to block the firetrucks. Looting
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo holds his daily briefing at New York Medical College in Valhalla, N.Y., May 7, 2020. (Mike Segar/Reuters) New York governor Andrew Cuomo and New York City mayor Bill de Blasio announced Monday that New York City would implement a mandatory curfew and increase its police presence to 800 officers in
The Swiss Parliament Building in Bern, Switzerland (Denis Balibouse/Reuters) Switzerland is generally a well-run place, with a healthy respect both for the preservation of capital and for the way that its referendums help ensure that Swiss democracy is genuinely bottom-up as well as top-down. But, judging by this Financial Times report, these two qualities may
Not me. Dennis Rodman hasn’t entered my thoughts at all as many of us continue to try to find some sanity during some insane times. Until today. Today I read a piece about Rodman’s thoughts on the rioting and looting going on under the guise of protests over the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
Joe Biden speaks during a campaign stop at Tougaloo College in Tougaloo, Miss., March 8, 2020. (Brendan McDermid/Reuters) As Dan McLaughlin writes, Joe Biden has no idea how guns work. Today the candidate suggested that cops who are rushed by “unarmed person” with “a knife or something” should be trained to “shoot them in the leg
The sheriff of Polk County, Florida, issued a stern warning to anyone who might consider using the George Floyd protests for cover to attack residents on Monday night, telling criminals outright that the citizens of Polk County are well armed and will “be in their homes tonight with their guns loaded.” What are the details?
David Morehouse, the president and CEO of the Pittsburgh Penguins hockey team, is being hailed a hero after being credited with stepping in to help save a local news cameraman after the victim was attacked during a George Floyd protest that turned violent. What are the details? KDKA-AM cameraman Ian Smith was beaten, thrown to
CW’s Roswell, New Mexico took a week off following its claim that people walk through the doors of ICE facilities and die. Unfortunately, it’s back to tell us pretty much the same thing as we’re reminded how terrible ICE officers are. As if 2020 hasn’t been bad enough for us earthlings. The June 1 episode
There were loud calls for President Trump to speak out on the riots that have riven dozens of American cities in the country for days, since George Floyd died in Minneapolis police custody. On Monday he delivered. Instead of tweeting or speaking through his White House spokeswoman about the Floyd’s death and the riots as
The Barr Justice Department dropped its case against General Mike Flynn last month after bombshell documents were released that proved Flynn was framed by Comey’s FBI. Advertisement – story continues below But the Clinton-appointed Judge Emmet Sullivan made a shocking, political move to delay justice for General Mike Flynn. Judge Sullivan extended the case by
President Donald Trump delivers a statement in the Rose Garden at the White House on the ongoing protests in the wake of the death of George Floyd, June 1, 2020. (Tom Brenner/Reuters) President Trump promised that he “will fight to protect” the nation in an address from the Rose Garden Monday night as protestors clashed
According to President Trump and his most ardent supporters, he is a “disruptor” here to shake up established Washington ways. Nevertheless, in announcing that he will “designate” Antifa, the far-left radical movement, as a terrorist organization, he is pulling a page from the Swamp’s playbook. It is … Read More
According to President Trump and his most ardent supporters, he is a “disruptor” here to shake up established Washington ways. Nevertheless, in announcing that he will “designate” Antifa, the far-left radical movement, as a terrorist organization, he is pulling a page from the Swamp’s playbook. It is … Read More
Social media users have been reporting mysterious piles of bricks in cities across the country in recent days, stoking speculation that the stashes are being planted to encourage violence amid the countrywide protests over George Floyd’s death. On Sunday, police confirmed the existence of such piles in Kansas City, urging residents to notify police if
The media has been trying to discredit BlazeTV’s Elijah Schaffer after he recorded a disturbing video of a man being brutally beaten and stoned almost to death by rioters Saturday evening in Dallas. Elijah joined Glenn Beck on the radio program Monday to set the record straight. “The very dishonest far-left media is working tirelessly
Appearing as a guest on Sunday’s AM Joy, MSNBC weekend host Ali Velshi again rationalized the actions of rioters as he got an a soap box and preached about “institutional, socioeconomic injustice and racism” against the black population being the motivation for riots in Minneapolis and other cities. His commentary elicited an “amen” from liberal
The family of George Floyd commissioned an autopsy and released its results today. It’s top finding contradicts the autopsy done by Hennepin County last week, reports the StarTribune. Attorneys representing George Floyd’s family released findings of their own autopsy that say he was asphyxiated while Minneapolis police officers knelt on his back and neck, pinning
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Why do they keep doing it? Decade after decade, generation after generation, progressives keep making the same, elemental mistake: They downplay, excuse, and in extreme cases even encourage urban rioters. We’ve been down this road before, and it’s a straight stretch of highway with no twists whatsoever. It … Read More
Rep. John Lewis was one of the leaders of the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s. He helped organize the March on Washington with Dr. King. He was beaten byAlabama police after a peaceful march across the Edmund Pettus bridge. Unfortunately, Lewis is suffering from pancreatic cancer, but in the wake of the death of
President Donald Trump responds to a question during a news briefing at the White House in Washington, D.C., April 6, 2020. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) There is a time for careful nuance, and then there is a time for the foghorn. Violent, racially charged disorder in our nation’s cities, and the involvement of Antifa, evokes memories of
The Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., January 21, 2020. (Will Dunham/Reuters) From the beginning of California’s COVID-19 shutdown in March, religious institutions were excluded from the state’s definition of “essential businesses,” including the South Bay United Pentecostal Church in Chula Vista, Calif. The church spent most of May in court fighting Governor Gavin Newsom’s imposition
A protester who was causing damage to a city block was escorted to police lines by other protesters during a demonstration in Washington, D.C., over the weekend. The video, captured and posted to Twitter by local news reporter Safvan Allahverdi on Sunday, shows a masked protester dressed in all black appearing to hammer and chisel
A majority of the images broadcast from the weekend’s protests and riots range from discouraging to terrifying, as people take to the streets in response to the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers as well as the Louisville Metropolitan Police killing of Breonna Taylor. In the midst of the chaos,
“With the powers vested in me by the liberal media, I am pleased this morning to declare Tou Thao a white man.” Joe Scarborough might as well have said that on today’s Morning Joe. Expressing his outrage that the police officers who, in addition to Derek Chauvin, were on the scene when George Floyd died,