Month: December 2021

A postal worker makes a delivery at a store in Gallup, N.M., December 7, 2021. (Shannon Stapleton/Reuters) What Biden and other officials are doing is like sticking a 15 mph sign on the highway. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE O n the highways in South Florida, the speed limit is generally 55 mph. I don’t know why,
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Image from “Computer Literacy: Clearing Your Browser History and Other Survival Techniques” ( UMMAMuseum/Screengrab via YouTube) Our culture’s moral values have degraded, and the art we produce is indicative of that. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE I n February 2019, I had recently been admitted to the University of Michigan and was taking a campus tour for
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A Black Lives Matter leader suggested that a Fox News host enjoys “white privilege,” so her opinion on New York City Mayor-elect Eric Adams’ remedies for spiking violent crime in the city is irrelevant. Last month, Adams vowed to bring back NYPD’s plainclothes unit that was disbanded in June 2020 under the de Blasio administration.
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It’s been well established that kids are overwhelmingly unaffected by COVID-19. School-age children have a COVID recovery rate of 99.997%—better than their mortality risk from the seasonal flu. And that’s unvaccinated children, too. In fact, unvaccinated children are safer from COVID than even vaccinated adults of any age. “…in assessing an individual’s risk of dying from
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Workers attend the opening ceremony for the “Belt and Road” RCEP Line at the port in Qingdao, China, January 19, 2021. (Zhang Jingang/VCG via Getty Images) The nation’s admission 20 years ago into the WTO was a grave mistake. Congress can begin to rectify this error by immediately terminating Beijing’s special trade status. NRPLUS MEMBER
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A teen girl brutally attacked her opponent during a basketball game last month in Southern California. The assailant’s mother has been charged in the sucker-punch attack for allegedly telling her daughter to hit the other girl. The attacker’s father – who is a former NBA player – apologized for the barbaric assault. During the tournament
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Amazing. MSNBC’s Brian Williams departed his show, The 11th Hour, Thursday night for the last time, as noted here by NewsBusters own Curtis Houck. Included in the farewell was a smear of conservatives – after insisting he was, as Curtis notes, “not a liberal or a conservative,” but “an institutionalist” fearful of “the darkness…has spread”
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President Joe Biden visits the FEMA headquarters as Hurricane Ida makes landfall over Louisiana, in Washington, D.C., August 29, 2021. (Tom Brenner/Reuters) President Biden directed federal agencies to send resources to areas hardest-hit by a series of tornadoes and storms in the South and Midwest, the White House announced on Saturday. “The President has directed
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A tractor-trailer carrying central American migrants bound for the United States border crashed in southern Mexico on Thursday, killing 55 of the migrants who were packed into the trailer and wounding another 100, according to the Associated Press. The crash occurred in Tuxtle Gutierrez in southern Mexico, near the Guatemalan border. Most of the migrants
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Former Chicago police superintendent Eddie Johnson is speaking out about the Jussie Smollett case, and although he insists that his department continued to treat Smollett as a victim until the evidence that his alleged attack was staged became overwhelming, he personally suspected something was amiss immediately when he learned that Smollett still had possession of
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Anybody paying attention laughs at the lefty media lie that Critical Race Theory isn’t in public schools. But what if CRT is in public school teachers? Turns out, whether progressive politics are part of the curriculum or not, some 500 U.S. school districts make it part of their hiring practices, using “cultural competency” questions to
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The Liberal Patriot Substack newsletter can often be an informative read. Instead of woke culture wars, these Democrats promote classical liberal values like pluralism, freedom, and pragmatism. One editor is Ruy Teixeira, who in 2004 wrote The Emerging Democratic Majority, which argued that demographic changes point to perpetual victories for his party. But 17 years ago, Democrats
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Latino leaders and immigration reform supporters gather at the University of Colorado to launch “My Country, My Vote,” a 12-month voter registration campaign to mobilize Colorado’s Latino, immigrant and allied voters, October 28, 2015. (Evan Semon/Reuters) It turns out that Republicans could persuade Hispanic voters with the Republican message. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE A s Rich
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Emergency crews respond to a collapsed Amazon warehouse after a tornado passed through Edwardsville, Illinois, December 2021. (Chris Phillips/Maverick Media Group via Reuters) Dozens of people are feared dead after tornadoes and storms crisscrossed multiple states in the Midwest and southern U.S. on Friday. The roof of a candle factory in Mayfield, Ky., collapsed with
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2002—In its fourth ruling in the eleven-year-long saga of litigation (DeRolph v. State) over Ohio’s school-funding system, the Ohio supreme court observes that some six years earlier—when it first ruled that Ohio’s existing system of financing its public-school system somehow violates the state constitution’s declaration that the General Assembly “make such provisions, by taxation or
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Kentucky law enforcement officials have charged a man with sex trafficking after he allegedly sold his juvenile daughter to another man for $8,000. Officials were made aware of the alleged crime after the girl gave birth to a baby boy in March. Investigators said that 34-year-old Diego Alonzo-Perez of Beaver Dam, Kentucky, sold his daughter
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Kyle Rittenhouse’s Instagram account was disabled again just days after his social media accounts were reinstated. Rittenhouse was acquitted of all criminal charges against him. “Hey @instgram why did you disable my account again?!” Rittenhouse asked on Twitter. He added that he “did nothing wrong” and posted screenshots of his seemingly disabled account. His account
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White House officials rejected news that President Joe Biden will pressure Ukraine to cede territory to Russian-backed separatists in order to deter President Vladimir Putin from pushing forward with a large-scale invasion. In a 90-minute phone call aimed at briefing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on his Tuesday discussion with Putin, a readout showed Biden explaining
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LGBTQ advocates were outraged over a statement from the Catholic diocese in Michigan saying that gay and transgender people could only receive communion if they have “repented.” The guidance from the Diocese of Marquette was posted to social media on Wednesday, but was issued originally in March. The statement said that people with gender dysphoria
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