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After Cook County Judge James Linn told Jussie Smollett he’d be starting 150 days in jail right then and there Thursday night for staging a hate crime against himself in 2019 and lying to police about the hoax, Smollett turned more than a few heads with a bizarre soliloquy of sorts. ‘I am not suicidal!’
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New York Times Miami bureau chief Patricia Mazzei took another rhetorical bat to Florida’s new surgeon general Dr. Joseph Ladapo for rejecting overbearing Covid restrictions and regulations, in Tuesday’s edition: “Against C.D.C. Advice, Florida to Advise Against Covid Vaccines for Healthy Children.” Two weeks ago she unloaded on Ladapo, an appointee of Governor Ron DeSantis
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The social media giant Meta will permit Facebook and Instagram users in certain nations to advocate violence toward Russian troops as it pertains to the invasion of Ukraine, according to internal emails, Reuters has reported. Russia has been wreaking death and destruction in Ukraine since invading the sovereign nation last month. “As a result of
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Tom Bevan at Real Clear Politics shared on Twitter a local horror story from the Chicago area. His fifth-grader came home from school with a vocabulary assignment in Science class. The words included “transgender,” cisgender,” “non-binary,” and “consent.” The last word carries the most irony. Because the educational elite in this country isn’t interested in
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A federal judge said in an emergency hearing Thursday that employees of a state-funded shelter meant to help female victims of sex trafficking were revictimizing them. An employee of The Refuge Ranch in Bastrop, Texas, was accused of selling inappropriate photographs of the two children. That money was allegedly used to buy illegal drugs and
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The U.S. Senate passed a massive $1.5 trillion spending package on Thursday, sending it to President Biden even as Americans suffer under the financial strain caused by skyrocketing inflation. The package passed in a bipartisan 68 to 31 vote. It will fund the government for the rest of the fiscal year, which runs through the
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Prosecutors will drop murder charges against an unlicensed security guard who shot and killed a protester at a “Patriot Rally” in Denver, Colorado. Matthew Robert Dolloff was charged with second degree murder after he killed with 49-year-old Lee Keltner. The Oct. 2020 shooting was caught on video from the rally. Dolloff’s attorney Doug Richards said
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Nebraska state Sen. Megan Hunt (D) declared in a Thursday tweet that gun ownership is not a right given by God, but a right bestowed by America’s “slave-owning, misogynistic” founders. “Owning a gun isn’t a ‘God-given right.’ It’s a slave-owning, misogynistic founding father-given right. I’m not against 2a, but be real – the Constitution was
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As inflation soars to another forty-year high of 7.9 percent year over year, CBS Evening News called an audible and avoided President Joe Biden ludicrously blaming Russia’s invasion of Ukraine for the runaway inflation numbers. And instead of focusing on the inflation numbers, CBS Evening News gawked on skyrocketing rental costs. “There is some bad news to
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A severed human head was discovered in the home of an 83-year-old killer who had previously been convicted of taking the lives of two women. Harvey Marcelin was arrested on March 4, and charged with concealment of a human corpse. The NYPD informed WNYW that they expect there to be more charges. Marcelin – who
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The U.S. believes that two recent North Korean missile tests featured a new intercontinental ballistic missile system that was initially revealed during a parade in 2020, according to a statement from Pentagon press secretary John Kirby. “The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) conducted two ballistic missile tests on February 26 and March 4, 2022
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Oh, for the good old days of the Soviet Union. America’s foreign policy and goals were clear then: containment and opposition to communist expansion. Nuclear weapons were a deterrent, but neither side believed the other would use them. Russian President Vladimir Putin has changed the game by threatening to use nukes should the U.S. directly confront his
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Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Matthew Rosenberg described internal divisions at the New York Times between some of his “reasonable” colleagues and younger, more ideologically leftist employees in a new video released by Project Veritas Wednesday. The video is part two of a series featuring Rosenberg, a national security correspondent for the paper. In the first part
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Disney capitulated to the social media outrage mob over a controversial bill protecting the rights of Florida parents. But Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) did not falter. What is the background? Disney faced manufactured backlash this week for not speaking out against Florida HB 1557, the Parental Rights in Education Bill. As TheBlaze reported, former
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The Biden administration appeared to put out conflicting messages on gas prices when U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm begged oil companies to increase production in order to ease the price at the pump. The statement came after several administration members denied that increasing domestic production was possible or that it would have any effect on
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As Americans face rapidly surging fuel prices, a coalition of groups is calling for President Biden to use the Defense Production Act to push a transition to green energy. They are also calling for the president to reject calls to ramp up America’s fossil fuel production. Sierra Club, Greenpeace USA, Islamic Society of North America,
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