Salman Rushdie during an interview with Reuters in 2012. (Paul Hackett/Reuters) His new essay collection vies for attention through studied insults of sacred cows. Even all these years after Salman Rushdie dominated headlines following the fatwa declared against him for his alleged anti-Islam blasphemy in the 1988 novel The Satanic Verses, the name still evokes
Month: June 2021
The alleged aunt of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez threw a wrench in the New York Democrat’s narrative about Puerto Rico, telling a reporter recently that former President Donald Trump is, in fact, not to blame for troubles on the island. What is the background? After recently visiting her grandmother in Puerto Rico, Ocasio-Cortez posted a photo
On Thursday, both MRC Research Director Rich Noyes and liberal CNN host Brian Stelter appeared on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal. Though they were on at different times, both Noyes and callers hammered the partisan hackery over at CNN. Pat from Texas called in to give Stelter a piece of her mind: “I think CNN is so
(Natural News) A social media “influencer” hired by the White House has been caught trying to bribe hospital systems into procuring fake positive reviews about Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19) “vaccines” in order to encourage more uptake. Eben Vorster, a “digital relational organizer” at Main Street One, reportedly sent a private message to one institution offering a
The ABC journalist who broke the infamous story about the 2016 tarmac meeting between Bill Clinton and then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch has been found dead in his apartment. The body of Christopher Sign, 45, was found in his Birmingham, Alabama apartment on Saturday morning around 8 a.m. His death is being investigated as a suicide,
(Evgeniia Ozerkina/iStock/Getty Images Plus) It would be a mistake for Congress to spend trillions of dollars more even if there were some compelling reason to do so — and there isn’t. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE T he debate playing out in Washington, D.C., over the Democrats’ much-desired “infrastructure” package is taking place at such a ridiculous
Asheville, the western North Carolina city known as “The Portland of the South,” officially approved a multi-million dollar reparations plan this week. Last June, the Asheville City Council unanimously approved a resolution to address slavery and racial discrimination by distributing reparations to black residents. The plan does not “mandate direct payments,” but instead directs the
A group comprised of the original 10 chapters of Black Lives Matter and some newer chapters have called for the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation to provide “financial transparency” and “internal accountability.” The splinter BLM group is gaining momentum following the mutiny from the parent Black Lives Matter organization after the father of Michael
In an aggrieved follow-up to his controversial piece from Marathon County, Wisconsin, which he painted as a hotbed of bigotry, New York Times reporter Reid Epstein garnered a “Times Insider” Page 2 story, “When a Local Rift Grows Wider.” Epstein’s initial May 21 piece, based on a fight over a proposed declaration that Marathon was “a
Amuse Me, Eurotrash Oval Office occupier Joe Biden’s trip to Cornhole, England or something has given the sputtering leftist rump kissers in the mainstream media a chance to fall back on one of their favorite idiotic narratives: the world loves our presidents when they’re Democrats, and hates them when they’re Republican. Democrats are all Euro-fetishists,
A Thick-billed longspur (formerly known as a McCown’s longspur) in Colorado. (kahj19/Getty Images) Those who think bird names reinforce prejudice have gone stork raven mad. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE C ancel culture is at it again, and this time, they’re coming after . . . birds? Look out, Bachman’s sparrow. Because you were named after a
An Arizona lawmaker fired back at Attorney General Merrick Garland Friday after the nation’s top lawyer announced plans to scrutinize post-election audits. What is the DOJ doing? Garland announced Friday several new initiatives under his leadership, including: Doubling the staff at the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division Scrutinizing laws that Republicans say protect election integrity, but
Suicide attempts by teen girls spiked during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Among the adolescent girls aged 12-17 years, the average weekly visits to the emergency department for suspected suicide attempts from February 2021 to March 2021 was 50.6% higher than the same period
When he’s not guest hosting MSNBC’s The Cross Connection, Jason Johnson is a politics and journalism professor at Morgan State University, which does not inspire confidence in the next generation of journalists as he warned on Saturday of “catastrophic implications” of the Supreme Court’s 6-3 conservative balance and condemned Sen. Mitch McConnell for not allowing President Biden
On March 21, 2020, President Donald Trump tweeted out a plea to the CDC and FDA to allow doctors to treat COVID-19 patients with hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) and azithromycin (AZT). Both are cheap and effective medications that the medical community had decades of experience using for various illnesses. Recently, another study demonstrated increased survival rates when
Two Pennsylvania lawmakers are pushing for a voter identification constitutional amendment in Pennsylvania. Just The News reported: Two Pennsylvania lawmakers declared Friday that state residents should decide the stringency of the state’s voter identification law through a constitutional amendment. The push comes after Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf said he’d never support strengthening existing voter I.D.
SEIU members and supporters take part in a protest march at Los Angeles International Airport in 2012. (Gus Ruelas/Reuters) Their dominance is far from over, and there is still work to do. But a brighter future is now visible. Anybody with eyeballs is pretty thrilled to read the news out of California: One of the
Police clear the U.S. Capitol with tear gas in Washington, D.C. January 6, 2021. (Stephanie Keith/Reuters) The rioters will be punished appropriately, but not punished as if they were terrorists who were trying to overthrow the United States government. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE T he office of the United States attorney for the District of Columbia
A prominent Texas news outlet refused to publish the police-provided description of a suspect believed to be responsible for a mass shooting in Austin, Texas, over concerns that doing so would be “perpetuating stereotypes.” What is the background? Police in Austin, the capital of the Lone Star State, announced 14 people were injured after at
Former “Saturday Night Live” star Jon Lovitz chewed out cancel culture, and explained that comedians like himself will purposely push the boundaries when they’re told not to say something deemed offensive. The comedic actor also compared cancel culture to McCarthyism in a recent interview with Page Six. When asked about cancel culture in the United
So, out comes the claim that Hunter Biden is allegedly prone to using a racial slur. To wit, the “N-word.” Here’s the accusation from the UK Daily Mail: EXCLUSIVE: Hunter Biden addressed his white lawyer as ‘n***a’ multiple times, used phrases like ‘true dat n***a’ and bantered ‘I only love you because you’re black,’ in shocking
“Have you noticed that they are now admitting I was right about everything they lied about before the election?” Trump asked in a statement released Saturday. Now, I’m not sure who “they” are and whether “they” are actually now admitting Trump was “right” when they previously did not, but there is a lot of truth
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President Ronald Reagan delivers his Berlin Wall speech, June 12, 1987. (National Archives) The president’s message of Western resolve in the face of Soviet communism is applicable to today’s threat from China. In 2021 the United States is emerging from four traumas: a pandemic; a recession associated with the pandemic; social divisions laid bare by
Ibram X. Kendi on CBS This Morning in 2019. (CBS This Morning/via YouTube) So are we doing the thing where we are pretending that curriculum, instruction, and materials can’t be determined by school boards and state legislatures and should be left to radical education consultants who are hired by bureaucrats? What is popularly known as
Hamas, the Gaza-based terrorist organization that controls the Gaza Strip, released a statement Friday thanking Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) for “defending justice and the rights of the oppressed.” What did Omar say? The Minnesota Democrat found herself in hot water this week after she lumped together the United States, Israel, Afghanistan, Hamas, and the Taliban
A political candidate in Washington once threatened to blow up a school bus full of children, and when the students attempted to flee the potentially deadly situation she called the kids “white cowards,” according to court documents. Ubax Gardheere is running for the King County Council in the Seattle area. Gardheere is the director of
Buddy Brown became a country music star on his own terms, but it wasn’t by choice. The singer behind “Rowdy Side” and the viral smash “We Gotta Be Less White” went to Nashville to pursue his music dreams. That’s what the rule book says, and he eagerly followed the blueprint … until the industry held up
After previously reaching vaccination goals already reached under Trump, Joe Biden set the ambitious target of 70 percent of U.S. adults being vaccinated by Independence Day. It appears we’re “unlikely” to meet that goal. “The pace of new vaccinations in the U.S. has dropped to about 500,000 people per day – down from a high
(Spc. Cody Black/Reuters) 2008—In Boumediene v. Bush, the Supreme Court, by a vote of 5 to 4, rules that aliens detained as enemy combatants at Guantanamo have a constitutional habeas right to challenge the basis of their detention in the course of an ongoing war. In so doing, the majority invalidates the statutory scheme that
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