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Here’s a multiple choice question for you: “Is it fair to describe the modern GOP as ‘neo-fascist’ or ‘proto-fascist’ or, to quote Joe Biden on the MAGA movement, ‘semi-fascist?’” That’s what fill-in host Mehdi Hasan asked on the December 31 edition of MSNBC’s Velshi, as he wailed that Republicans becoming the majority in the House
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Recently, there has been a lot of controversy over folks who eschew the traditional “Merry Christmas” greeting for blander, more inclusive holiday wishes. However, a medical practice in England recently came under fire for a different reason: instead of sending out a text wishing all their patients a “very merry Christmas,” they accidentally sent out
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World Boxing Council president Mauricio Sulaiman has indicated that the WBC plans to develop a program in which transgender fighters compete against opponents who share the same biological sex — he is adamant that biological men should never fight against biological women. “In boxing, a man fighting a woman must never be accepted regardless of
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MSNBC commentator Katty Kay criticized her own children on air Thursday, condemning them for skipping additional COVID-19 vaccine booster shots. Speaking with Dr. Zeke Emanuel as a guest host on “Morning Joe,” Kay admitted that she was “shocked and appalled” when her children, ages 22 and 16, informed her they would not be getting any
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Since Title 42 went into effect on March, 2020, Univision has aired countless reports condemning the ‘illegal and racist’ Trump-era policy, see here and here. Yet now that SCOTUS temporarily halted its termination – scheduled for December 21st by the Biden Administration –anchor Elyangélica González, from the network’s morning news edition, needed an immigration lawyer
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The PBS-branded “American icon” Ken Burns appeared on Wednesday’s Today on NBC to plug his latest book of photographs, Our America: A Photographic History. This 5.75-pound coffee-table book will set you back $75 ($65 at Amazon). At Amazon, you can find the PBS logo hawking several Ken Burns products — pretty slick for “non-commercial” TV. 
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A leaked text message exchange from Democratic Rep. Katie Porter of California appeared to show her firing a staffer over their COVID-19 diagnosis that led to the congresswoman getting infected. Porter’s office denied the allegations and said that the staffer had previously agreed to leaving the office before the incident. “Why did you not follow
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After more than two dozen Republican lawmakers voted in favor of passing a massive omnibus spending package earlier this month, the GOP posted a tweet on Wednesday asserting that “Republicans believe in limited government.” Twenty-seven GOP lawmakers, including 18 senators and nine House Republicans, voted in favor of passing the around $1.7 trillion monstrosity that
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If you got a laptop, a new smartphone, a new electric vehicle or pretty much anything fitted with a rechargeable lithium ion battery for Christmas this year, there’s a bit of bad news on batteries the legacy media have been keeping from you. A Harvard professor upended the left’s obsessive anti-fossil fuel, all-electric pipe dream
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A former employee of a Houston Smoothie King allegedly became so enraged at losing her job that she assaulted her manager, forced the woman to withdraw money from a bank across the street, and then robbed her and the store as well. The manager, whose name was redacted in the affidavit, claimed that she first
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The recent news out of Buffalo, New York, has been grim. A horrendous snowstorm has already claimed dozens of lives, including a 22-year-old woman who was found dead in her car. However, amid all of the gloom is a ray of hope. One married couple in Buffalo has just become a family of three, thanks
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Home Depot co-founder Bernie Marcus, 93, warned that the popularity of “socialism” in the United States had destroyed the nation’s work ethic, threatening the future of capitalism, the Financial Times reported Wednesday. Marcus, who launched Home Depot with co-founder Arthur Blank, told the Financial Times that the home improvement company became a successful empire because
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National Public Radio television critic Eric Deggans issued a left-wing-tinged, year-end lament on the state of the media: “Six ways media took a big step backward in 2022.” Deggans was particularly obsessed with Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter, but spared some sadness for (former) CNN media reporter Brian Stelter and (former) lefty late-night host Samantha Bee.
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I do. I suffer terribly, or so I’m told. All because of my phobia of acknowledging my deep-seated fatphobia. You might, too, if you’re willing to recognize the health risks attendant with obesity. They include diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, stroke, sleep apnea, liver or kidney disease, osteoarthritis, pregnancy complications, and even certain cancers.
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President Joe Biden vowed in January 2021 to “listen to the science,” especially to the kind that would ultimately make sense of COVID-19. Scientific studies have since revealed the adverse impact that masks have on toddlers, particularly on their communication skills; the relative unlikelihood of children becoming severely ill from the virus; and the potential
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Stanford University put out a new list of words it considers to be “harmful language.” The 13-page “Elimination of Harmful Language Initiative” includes words like “immigrant,” which should be replaced by “person who has immigrated.” It advises against saying “walk-in hours” in favor of “open hours” to avoid discriminating against and hurting the feeling of
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On Friday’s Amanpour & Co., fill-in host Sara Sidner devoted a segment to promoting the agenda of a gun control advocate and made no serious effort to challenge her liberal guest’s claims. In the pre-recorded interview with Dr. Joseph Safran which aired on PBS and CNN International, Sidner promoted such misinformation as claiming that mass
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