A top immigration official warned this week that the impending flood of migrants coming to the United States will outnumber any migrant wave over the last 20 years. President Joe Biden promised to reverse much of his predecessor’s immigration policies, and he has made good on many of those promises thus far. For example, Biden
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Democratic Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (Ariz.) was sharply criticized by Democrats on Friday for voting against a proposal to include a minimum wage hike in the latest coronavirus-related economic relief package. Sinema was one of eight Senate Democrats who opposed the effort. In response to critics, Sinema used Democrats’ own standards against them. What did critics
Well, well, well. Talk about a coverup. Recall this story, as headlined in BizPacReview? Pelosi appoints Swalwell to Homeland Security Committee again, despite recent Chinese spy scandal The story begins thusly, with bold print supplied for emphasis: “House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has reappointed her California Democratic colleague, Rep. Eric Swalwell, to the Homeland Security Committee despite revelations
The Senate has passed a coronavirus relief bill that will cost $1.9 billion. The party-line vote was 50-49. Republican Senator Dan Sullivan of Alaska had to rush home to attend the funeral of his father-in-law. His absence meant that Vice President Kamala Harris did not have to cast her tie-breaking vote as president pro tempore.
Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, one of the high court’s liberal justices, was forced to revise a recent dissenting court opinion that he wrote because he omitted “respect.” What is the background? The Supreme Court issued a 7-2 ruling in U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service v. Sierra Club on Thursday, determining that the Environmental Protection
May 25 will mark one year since George Floyd died in the custody of Minneapolis Police Department officers. The trial of Derek Chauvin, who was charged with the murder of Floyd, is scheduled to begin later this month. March 13 will be the anniversary of the death of Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old who was shot
On Monday’s New Day program on CNN, as the show discussed and showed sympathy for one of its guests who recently received racist hate mail online, there was a conspicuous absence of detail about who sent the offensive mail and even what political issue it involved. Toward the end of a segment that included Washington Post
Pope Francis went to Iraq today and met with Iraq’s principal Shi’ite leader, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, and, according to the Associated Press, “delivered a powerful message of peaceful coexistence Saturday, urging Muslims in the war-weary Arab nation to embrace Iraq’s long-beleaguered Christian minority during an historic meeting in the holy city of Najaf.” That’s
Liberals who were hoping that Democrat Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona might vote in support of a minimum wage hike were disappointed and many angrily turned to social media to register their outrage. The openly bisexual senator is also a moderate Democrat on many issues owing to the demographics of the state she represents. On
The United States government is reportedly investigating Facebook for racially discriminatory hiring and promotion practices. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the government agency tasked with protecting the civil rights of employees, is leading the investigation, Reuters reported. What are the details? Lawyers representing Facebook operations manager Oscar Veneszee and three others who were denied jobs
PolitiFact isn’t the only “fact checker” that abandons the facts to embrace the Church of Gender Fluidity. On Thursday, CNN’s went after Sen. Rand Paul for referring to the removal of a penis as “genital mutilation.” There’s also breast amputation, but CNN “fact checker” Aaron Millman put the scary snip-snip aside for politically correct descriptions
More than two dozen GOP lawmakers sent a letter to President Joe Biden urging him to re-declare a national emergency at the border. One of Biden’s first acts as president was to rescind the two-year-old national emergency at the border. What makes that move incomprehensibly stupid are the warnings the incoming president received from all
School district officials in Texas removed a lesson meant to teach students the rules of “chivalry” after parents expressed their outrage over the rules imposed on girls. The assignment was given to students of a Shallowater ISD high school classroom near Lubbock. The story went viral when a copy of the lesson was posted on
A Missouri pastor has taken a leave of absence from his church amid backlash after he went viral for a sermon where he made controversial comments telling married women how to keep up their looks, warning that otherwise their husbands might stray. Stewart-Allen Clark told the wives of his congregation that he doesn’t expect them
Problematic pile ons have become such a popular pastime that Turner Classic Movies (TCM) is joining the fray by highlighting offensive content in its own movies. As The Wrap reported on Wednesday, TCM “aims to shed modern light on the history and shortcomings of 14 different classic Hollywood films” in vignettes airing on Thursday nights
If this story about a Baltimore teen whose mother thought he would graduate this June only to learn he would have to repeat all four years of high school doesn’t make you a school choice advocate, nothing will. When President Trump spoke at Mount Rushmore, he said that school choice is the civil rights issue
The New York legislature officially passed a bill revoking Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s (D) emergency powers on Friday, sending it to his desk for a signature. What are the details? CNN reported that all Democrats in both chambers voted for the measure, but all Republican members rejected it arguing that it “does not go far enough
Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers appeared to take a swipe at California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) over the pandemic lockdown on Thursday. Rodgers was being interviewed via Instagram video on the Zenith Watches account when he mentioned what he was doing to help businesses damaged by the lockdown. “I’m recently engaged, so I’ve been
CBS’s Magnum P.I. reboot teased viewers in Friday night’s episode, “The Long Way Home,” by making it seem like they might follow in the footsteps of their fellow cop drama Blue Bloods and depict the unfair treatment police and their loved ones are facing in today’s anti-cop culture. But sadly, they not only dropped the
California Governor Gavin Newsom has completely changed his response to COVID—again—this time leveraging opening the state for all Californians on the backs of low-income Latinos living in the areas with the highest rates of the illness. In the name of “equity,” Newsom announced Thursday that 40% of all the state’s available vaccines will go to
Three professors at the University of South Alabama were placed on leave after students began a petition to have them fired over “casual racism” displayed in a photograph from Halloween in 2014. University of South Alabama president Tony Waldrop said on Friday that there would be an independent investigation into the photograph that has since
Dr. Seuss Enterprises’ decision to stop publishing six of the late author’s books over concerns of racism appears to have paid off. Amid the controversy over their action, Dr. Seuss books absolutely dominated Amazon’s top 20 bestsellers list on Friday. What are the details? On Tuesday, the business in charge of the beloved author’s estate
CNN might want to consider rebranding itself. Suggested new name: “The Pro-Biden Miracle Network.” The suggestion arises because twice this week, the network has broken out the m-word on behalf of pro-Biden causes. On Wednesday, we caught New Day co-host John Berman hailing as a “miracle” President Biden’s claim that by May, there’d be enough
A judge has ordered a new runoff election for Ward 1 alderman in Aberdeen, Mississippi, after evidence of fraud and criminal activity. In a 64-page order, Judge Jeff Weill ruled that of the 84 mail-in absentee ballots cast in the June runoff election, 66 of them, or 78 percent, were not valid and should never
Kari Lake, who has been an anchor with Phoenix’s Fox 10 for 22 years, recently went viral for a video she posted explaining her decision to leave the news media behind. “In the last few years, I haven’t felt proud to be a member of the media. I’m sure there are other journalists out there
The Electric Reliability Council of Texas fired its CEO, Bill Magness, on Wednesday, and a spokesperson says the ousted leader will not accept the roughly $800,000 severance pay due to him as part of his contract. What are the details? The Texas Tribune reported that ERCOT’s board of directors terminated Magness “without cause,” and his
On Friday, CNN’s Brianna Keilar and her Republican-loathing colleague, Brian Stelter, took turns bashing their competitor, Fox News Channel, for the crime of allowing the expression of conservative thought. Abandoning even the pretense of being objective journalists, the two left-wing hosts condemned Fox executives and hosts for actually pledging to practice adversarial journalism and hold the new administration
On Wednesday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 1, the “For the People Act,” a sweeping election bill that would gut election integrity measures like state voter ID laws. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) supports the vast majority of H.R. 1’s attacks on election integrity, but even this leftist organization had to object
No media outlet has been more dogged in its attempt to keep New York Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo accountable during his myriad scandals over the last year than the New York Post. With every stage of Cuomo’s nursing home COVID death scandal — from the governor’s order to send COVID-positive patients into nursing homes to
MSNBC host Joy Reid is facing heavy criticism after saying conservatives would gladly exchange tax cuts to be able to freely use the N-word. What are the details? In a Thursday tweet, Reid wrote, “I’ll say it again: people on the right would trade all the tax cuts for the ability to openly say the
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