Something shocking happened on NPR on Friday. NPR Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep interviewed a pro-life activist in Texas, Rebecca Parma of Texas Right to Life. It was less shocking that it was hostile throughout. He tossed questions like “Wasn’t your strategy actually to stop abortions in a way that is unconstitutional at the moment?”
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The Wall Street Journal predicted that the September jobs report would show an increase of 500,000 jobs. Other economists also guessed that the nation was starting to put its problems with the supply chains behind us and employers would begin hiring people in earnest. But what the economists didn’t figure into their calculation was the
Martha Sepúlveda, a 51-year-old Colombian woman suffering from ALS, plans to become the first individual in that country without a terminal prognosis to die via legally permitted euthanasia, according to The Washington Post. Until this year the nation had just permitted euthanasia for individuals with a life expectancy of half a year or less, according
The Texas law that prohibits conducting abortions after a fetal heartbeat has been detected will go back into effect thanks to the issuance of a temporary stay by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The move came after U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman on Wednesday granted a temporary restraining order against the law. Pitman,
On Wednesday morning, CNN again tried to blame crime in liberal states on the laws of more pro-gun states as co-host Jim Sciutto recalled complaints in New York about guns being transferred from Southern states. Discussing a new CDC report documenting the surge in homicides, the CNN host did at least acknowledge that the morale of
Despite polling slightly better than her boss, Kamala Harris is historically unpopular for a vice president, and it seems that her allies think she’s been set up to fail by Joe Biden because of the “trash” assignments she’s been given—namely the border crisis and election reform. “Her portfolio is trash,” Bakari Sellers, a friend of
The Department of Justice announced on Friday that there would be no civil rights charges against the police officer who shot Jacob Blake, an incident taken up by Black Lives Matter activists. Kenosha Police Officer Rusten Sheskey shot Blake seven times as he resisted officers’ commands during a domestic disturbance call on Aug. 23, 2020.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky issued a scathing statement lambasting Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) and saying he would no longer help them in future budget deals. McConnell expressed his anger and frustration after Schumer attacked Republicans on Thursday after a deal was reached to raise the debt ceiling by $480 billion
A new Quinnipiac poll showed Joe Biden’s approval rating at a dismal 38 percent. Naturally, the networks responded to this bad news by either ignoring it or mentioning it for ten seconds. CBS and NBC gave it a few seconds on morning shows, while ABC and PBS skipped over it. ABC did find time for
It’s been nearly a month since Joe Biden announced a vaccine mandate that covers private companies of 100 or more people. Many cheered, and many were outraged. Since then, experts have weighed in on the legality of such a mandate. Republican leaders nationwide have vowed to challenge it, but so far nothing has happened. And
North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson (R) is defending language he used in a church message describing homosexuality and transgenderism as “filth” as state Democrats express outrage at his comments and at least one lawmaker has called for him to resign. The lieutenant governor told WRAL-TV on Friday he is “unashamed” of language he used
The Biden administration refused a request from former President Donald Trump to claim executive privilege over documents being sought by the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol. White House counsel Dana Remus said in a letter Friday to Archivist of the United States David Ferriero that they would not seek to
So, it turns out that Karina Ruiz, the Latina dreamer who filmed herself accosting senator Krysten Sinema (D-Nevada) aboard an airplane about her stance on immigration reform, is an immigrant rights leader, as per a Telemundo News report about nationwide protests calling for an immigration reform with a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants. In previous reports
Happy Friday everyone! The sun finally came back out in New York and it is a beautiful autumn day. Plans for the afternoon include a pumpkin patch with a pumpkin-spiced latte, wearing a pumpkin-colored knitted hat and some plaid and leather. People in Florida might be free to breathe and gainfully employed without the threat
Video shows a California doctor being escorted out of the UCLA Medical Plaza in the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles. The UCLA anesthesiologist is vehemently against vaccine mandates and proclaims that he is “willing to lose everything” to defend his position against mandatory vaccinations for COVID-19. Dr. Christopher Rake — an anesthesiologist with UCLA Health
President Joe Biden on Thursday falsely claimed that individuals vaccinated against COVID-19 “cannot spread” the virus to others. What are the details? The president was speaking in Elk Grove, Illinois, touting his administration’s implementation of vaccine mandates for federal workers and active-duty military and push to mandate large businesses when he made the questionable remarks.
The woke left has reached peak absurdity. Yesterday, I noted that NBC got the vapors because Dave Chappelle spoke sense on his new Netflix special, “The Closer.” Today, Variety has more on the fallout of Chappelle saying “Gender matters.” Jacklyn Moore, who was a writer and showrunner on Netflix’s Dear White People, is angry, and vows not to
Nearly 200,000 COVID-19 rapid antigen test kits are being recalled over concerns of reporting false positives, according to ABC News. What are the details? Australian-based test manufacturer Ellume is recalling the at-home test kits out of concerns over abnormally high rates of false positives. Ellume was the first FDA-authorized company to sell COVID-19 testing kits
Who needs jails? Those are reserved for people like you and me who don’t cooperate with COVID fascism. The culture of leniency on violent crime even in red states has gotten so bad that a high-profile school shooter in Tarrant County, Texas, was released the very next day on just $75,000 bail. Since the FBI
On Thursday, The Washington Free Beacon reported that Google and it’s subsidiary YouTube, starting in November, would end monetization of any content that engages in supposed “climate change denial.” The tech giant announced it would not tolerate anything that went against “well-established scientific consensus around the existence and causes of climate change.” As Free Beacon’s
Vice President Kamala Harris offended the Jewish community after she falied to push back against a student who characterized Israel’s actions against Palestinians as “ethnic genocide.” CNN reported that the Vice President’s office is in damage control mode, putting out a statement that Harris had been “unwavering in her commitment to Israel.” In this clip,
The U.S. is saddled with trillions of dollars in national debt but Uncle Sam will likely get the green light to keep spending because the federal government is on track to increase the debt limit. The measure approved by the Senate on Thursday would increase the statutory debt limit by a whopping $480 billion, a
At the blog Legal Insurrection, Stacey Matthews (aka Sister Toldjah) picked on PolitiFact for its incredibly lame Twitter criticism of Sen. Charles Grassley at a Wednesday Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on H.R. 4, which Democrats call the “John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act.” In his usual Jimmy Stewart way, Grassley told leftist Assistant Attorney General Kristen
The New York Times issued a lengthy correction after numerous mistakes in an article about coronvirus vaccinations for children, including the egregious exaggeration of coronavirus hospitalizations among U.S. children. The article by Apoorva Mandavilli documented how the U.S. is forging ahead on full vaccination for children while other countries are experimenting with just one shot
Twitter says that it is testing out prompts on Android and iOS to warn people if a conversation they are about to join on the social media platform could become “heated or intense.” “Ever want to know the vibe of a conversation before you join in? We’re testing prompts on Android and iOS that give
Nearly two months ago, the world watched with shock and horror as the most botched military withdrawal in U.S. history took place. Much of network television has since ignored it, including CBS news. But CBS’s unique sitcom United States of Al tackled the Afghanistan debacle head-on this week. United States of Al is about Riley
Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo recently tweeted that he believes parents should determine what their kids are taught at school, but Nikole Hannah-Jones pushed back, noting that parents are not the only people who fund public schools. She also claimed that Pompeo loathes having “an informed citizenry in a multiracial democracy.” “Believe it or
Celebrity entrepreneur Barbara Corcoran apologized for what some called a “fat-shaming” joke against Whoopi Goldberg during a live broadcast of “The View.” Corcoran and the other hosts of “The Shark Tank” were on the show talking about pants when she fired off a jab noting the relative sizes of her pants with those of Goldberg.
On Wednesday, Quinnipiac put out a brand new survey that revealed that President Biden had grown even more unpopular as issues that used to hold him up crumbled beneath his feet. But instead of telling their viewers of Biden’s unpopularity, as they would with former President Trump, the broadcast networks’ largely ignored them. Two of
The House Intelligence Committee chair became a liberal icon and villain to conservatives during the first impeachment probe of then-President Donald Trump, although Schiff claims in the book that, early in his presidency, Trump praised the man who later became his nemesis. “You know, you do a good job,” Trump reportedly told Schiff in the Oval