Month: June 2021

An Arkansas police officer is dead after a suspect struck him with his vehicle and dragged him during a traffic stop, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported. What are the details? Pea Ridge Police Officer Kevin Apple, a 23-year law enforcement veteran, stopped a vehicle Saturday morning after having received a call to be on the lookout
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I cannot say that this comes as a great surprise. Via the Wall Street Journal: The number of unemployment-benefit recipients is falling at a faster rate in Missouri and 21 other states canceling enhanced and extended payments this month, suggesting that ending the aid could push more people to take jobs. Federal pandemic aid bills
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Fox News host Chris Wallace confronted a Republican lawmaker Sunday over whether Republicans — not Democrats — are responsible for defunding the police. Interestingly, Wallace’s line of questioning followed an interview with a White House official who made that exact accusation: that Republicans should be blamed for defunding law enforcement. What happened? During an interview
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Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) speaks before signing legislation passed by the House during an enrollment ceremony to memorialize the people killed in the Pulse Nightclub shooting in 2016 in Orlando, Fla, on Capitol Hill, June 16, 2021. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) There’s lots of agreement in Washington these days that Congress is broken. But
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A Washington man led local authorities on a chase and ended up jumping from a 50-foot cliff to avoid being captured, according to reports. Police, however, were still able to arrest the suspect and take him into custody on several related charges. What are the details? Deputies from the Yakima County Sheriff’s Office received an
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(Natural News) The engineered spike proteins from SARS-CoV-2 can be STOPPED by a common “weed” that is exterminated from lawns every year. A German university study found that the common dandelion (Taraxacum officinale) can block spike proteins from binding to the ACE2 cell surface receptors in human lung and kidney cells. The water-based dandelion extract,
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Katie Hobbs/Twitter  Arizona lawmakers voted Thursday to strip power from controversial Secretary of State Katies Hobbs. The measure was inserted into major budget legislation last week. Yahoo News reported: The Republican-controlled state Legislature in Arizona voted Thursday to revoke the Democratic secretary of state’s legal authority in election-related lawsuits, handing that power instead to the
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A customer and employee wear masks at a Walmart store in North Brunswick, N.J., July 20, 2020. (Eduardo Munoz/Reuters) Three tiers: essential, inessential, and expendable Over a year ago, seeing the immediate effect that quarantines, shutdowns, and lockdown policies were having on Western democracies, I put out my futile prayer: “Let’s Never Get Used to
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Former President Donald Trump took the stage at his first rally since leaving the White House on Saturday in Wellington, Ohio. In front of thousands of supporters, Trump took aim at “woke” military generals, President Joe Biden’s immigration policies, and critical race theory. “The Biden administration issued new rules pushing twisted critical race theory …
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) told Americans who are worried about skyrocketing violent crime rates to calm down, and their concerns about the surging violence is just “hysteria.” In Ocasio-Cortez’s backyard of New York City, shooting incidents spiked 73% in May compared to the same time in 2020, and in June are up 107% compared to
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The National Archives Rotunda, the place where America’s founding documents are prominently displayed in Washington, D.C., is yet another example of “systemic racism,” according to a new report. Amid racial unrest last summer, Archivist of the United States David S. Ferrier established a racism task force at the National Archives and Records Administration. To little
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The highest court in Texas has ruled that Facebook can be held liable for sex trafficking that is conducted on its social network. The court ruling against the tech giant arrives after sex trafficking teenage victims allege they were targeted on Facebook. Facebook’s legal team argued that the social network was protected against liability due
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Former Attorney General William Barr spoke out against former President Donald Trump in an interview that was published on Sunday, calling Trump’s claims of election fraud “bulls**t.” What is the background? After Trump lost to Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election and alleged he lost because of voter fraud, Barr authorized the Justice Department
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On Friday’s edition of The 11th Hour on MSNBC, host Brian Williams seemed to suggest that Fox News be banned from military bases because Tucker Carlson responded to Gen. Mark Milley’s recent defense of Critical Race Theory by declaring ”He’s not just a pig. He’s stupid.” Later, Williams tried to tie concerns about CRT in the military to Vladimir Putin. Addressing
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As more Americans get vaccinated and as COVID-19 cases and deaths decline, it’s hard to believe that there are still people talking about “vaccine passports” as though they are something we might actually need. “The Biden administration shouldn’t be so squeamish about vaccine verification,” Leana Wen, a public health professor at George Washington University and
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