San Francisco, Calif., March 20, 2020 (Shannon Stapleton/Reuters) California’s population dropped in 2020 for the first time in the state’s recorded history. The Golden State lost 182,083 people in 2020, according to data from the state Department of Finance. State officials attributed the decline to a combination of COVID-19 deaths, a decreasing birth rate, and a
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U.S. Border Patrol agent Kostas Papadopoulos has been hospitalized for weeks with COVID-19. Papadopoulos contracted COVID after being sent to the border on March 1st to help deal with Biden’s Border Crisis. Fox News reported: A Maine man and U.S. Border Patrol agent who was assigned to work along the southern border in Texas earlier
Then-vice president Joe Biden shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping inside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, December 4, 2013. (Lintao Zhang/Reuters Pool) Joe Biden’s assessment of China, May 1, 2019: China is going to eat our lunch? Come on, man. They can’t even figure out how to deal with the fact
California is losing population for the first time in the 171 years it has been a state. It turns out many people don’t like the extremely high cost of living, high taxes, and strict COVID policies. This is all happening as Governor Newsom is facing a recall election. The Associated Press reports: TRENDING: BREAKING… AZ
Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks during the release of the “2020 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices” at the State Department in Washington, D.C., March 30, 2021. (Mandel Ngan/Pool via Reuters) China is making the most of its month-long U.N. Security Council presidency, using the mostly ceremonial role to advance the Chinese Communist Party’s
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt signed a bill banning the teaching of critical race theory in the state’s schools on Friday. Stitt announced the signing of the bill in a video statement posted to social media. My statement on HB 1775. pic.twitter.com/2EgMh7A7xZ — Governor Kevin Stitt (@GovStitt) May 7, 2021 TRENDING: BREAKING… AZ Audit Director Ken
Former first lady Michelle Obama told Gayle King on Friday’s episode of “CBS This Morning” that Black Lives Matter is “taking to the streets because they have to.” Obama also claimed that she is afraid every time her daughters get into a vehicle. Following the conviction of Minneapolis Police officer Derek Chauvin over the death
(Pixabay) A high school teacher in Fairbanks, Alaska has been placed on administrative leave for telling students that George Floyd would still be alive today if he had complied with police. In 15-minute YouTube video posted last week, a teacher referred to as “Ms. Gardner” hosted a virtual lecture with students about several recent high-profile
A completely unhinged leftist harassed a pregnant woman in line at a grocery store for not wearing a mask. The same thug mocked her for being pregnant and thought it would be a good idea to publish this on social media. Advertisement – story continues below She’s pregnant & minding her own business pic.twitter.com/66ArMSmLsI —
(Clodagh Kilcoyne/Reuters) The firing of a tenured professor at Linfield University in Oregon without a hearing has sparked a controversy involving allegations of anti-Semitism, racism, and claims that sexual harassment allegations against members of the Board of Trustees were not properly handled. Daniel Pollack-Pelzner, a tenured professor of English and Shakespeare scholar, was fired from
CNN’s Brian Stelter is already struggling with his network’s sagging ratings but things just got even worse for him. He recently went on vacation and his ratings went up while he was gone. That’s not supposed to happen. FOX News reports: TRENDING: “Why Are You Working So Hard to Shut the Audit Down? What Are
Then-president Donald Trump delivers a statement in the Grand Foyer at the White House in Washington, D.C., January 8, 2020. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) It’s the best strategy for identifying leaders and a platform that can unite the entire potential Republican electorate. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE T he Republican Party has — this is not news — a
Popular Republican Representative Jim Jordan (R-OH) told FOX News on Wednesday that the votes are there to get rid of Liz Cheney from GOP House leadership. She should have been removed months ago but Kevin McCarthy was too weak to remove her as the third-ranked Republican in the House of Representatives. Maybe Kevin McCarthy will
(Pixabay) Robert VerBruggen makes a strong case against Biden’s child-care proposal, and I agree with all of it except for one aside. While the proposal stacks the deck against families with “stay-at-home” parents (who are mostly mothers), he writes that other existing policies are unfair in the opposite direction: “In some ways the status quo
Twitter has banned an account for former President Donald Trump’s new website less than one day after it was created. The account was for Trump’s website that is functioning, essentially, as his own personal Twitter feed. The website and accompanying Twitter account launched on Tuesday and the social media platform banned it by Wednesday night.
Zhang Jun, China’s Ambassador to the United Nations speaks at a Security Council meeting at United Nations Headquarters in New York, N.Y., March 10, 2020. (Carlo Allegri/Reuters) China’s presidency of the Security Council this month will tell us much about its ambitions to reshape the international order. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE A t the start of
Marine Le Pen, leader of the French conservative opposition party Rassemblement National, has come out in support of the 20 French generals who signed an open letter warning of “civil war” in France. Le Pen is currently polling in first place in France for presidential elections to be held in 2022. This week, Le Pen
Dr. Anthony Fauci testifies at the House Select Subcommittee on the coronavirus pandemic on Capitol Hill, April 15, 2021. (Susan Walsh/Pool via Reuters) It is time for everybody to embrace their liberation from COVID-19 prison. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE I n the film The Shawshank Redemption, an elderly character named Brooks gets released after 50 years
The chairman of the Lamar County Democrats in Texas used a racial slur against Republican Senator Tim Scott last week, prompting calls for his resignation. Surprisingly, he resigned from his position and even apologized. FOX News reported: Texas Democratic official resigns after calling Tim Scott an ‘oreo’ TRENDING: BREAKING REPORT: Biden DOJ to Interfere with
(Getty Images) The American Families Plan effectively bribes parents to use professional child care. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE T hey don’t call ’em the “mommy wars” for nothing. For couples with young kids, work and child care can be incredibly fraught topics. There are no perfect options, just trade-offs that different couples, with different values and
The Kansas Legislature has voted to override the veto of Democrat Governor Laura Kelly on some election-related reform bills — which reports said were meant to plug the issues raised during the 2020 election. Kelly vetoed the said bills last month claiming that the legislation was “designed to disenfranchise Kansans,” according to a report by
Texas State Capitol in Austin. (CrackerClips/Getty Images) The Texas senate has approved in a 18–13 vote a bill to allow Texans to carry handguns without a license. House Bill 1927 would eliminate the requirement for Texas citizens to acquire a permit to carry handguns if they’re not prohibited by state or federal law from owning
A beloved New Jersey police officer has been fired after two decades on the job for calling Black Lives Matter “terrorists” in a post on social media. Officer Sara Erwin, a Hopewell Township police officer, was fired on Friday after an investigation by the Mercer County Prosecutor’s office and the police office. A second officer,
A young man tests a Sig Sauer rifle during the annual National Rifle Association (NRA) convention in Dallas, Texas, May 5, 2018. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters) There are reasons to be skeptical of an effort to do away with Texas’s requirement of a permit to carry firearms in public. The state of Texas is considering a “constitutional
Mark Zuckerberg catching some sun in Hawaii After censoring his supporters for years, Far-left Facebook banned Trump on January 7, 2021, based on a lie. Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook banned President Trump based on the lie that his inflammatory rhetoric encouraged an insurrection on January 6. This was later proven false. Facebook doesn’t care. It’s
(kieferpix/Getty Images) The U.S. fertility rate fell to a record low in 2020, according to data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday. The total fertility rate, or the number of babies a woman is projected to have during her lifetime, fell to 1.64 in 2020, the lowest since tracking began
You may remember the veteran biker group known as Rolling Thunder. They have since changed their name to Rolling to Remember. They were planning to ride into Washington, DC on Memorial Day and end their ride at the Pentagon, as they have done for years. The Biden administration has decided to deny their permit this
Senator Josh Hawley (R., Mo.,) during Attorney General nominee Merrick Garland’s confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Washington, D.C., February 22, 2021 (Demetrius Freeman/Reuters) Senator Josh Hawley (R., Mo.) on Tuesday defended his fist pump to protesters outside of the Capitol on January 6, calling it a “slur” to conflate peaceful demonstrators with the
I entered on duty with the CIA in September 1985. I spent a year in the Career Trainee Program and then, in September 1986, took up my work as the lone Honduran analyst in the Central American Branch. That was a hot position that put me in the frontline of one of the top foreign
(Thinkstock) Critics of a Texas bill that blocks “action civics” (mandatory political protesting for course credit) and Critical Race Theory (attacks on “whiteness,” “Euro-Centrism,” etc.) are off the mark. Their complaints are outlined in an article for the Dallas Morning News that does little to explain the powerful arguments in favor of the bill (HB