156 years ago today Abraham Lincoln’s body lied in state after his assassination.The Republican president was murdered by a Democrat actor while at the theater. Over 25,000 Americans lined up to pay their respects to Abraham Lincoln.They said old and young, rich and poor, all sexes and colors lined up to honor Abraham Lincoln.And aide
Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf (Mark Makela/Reuters) Keystone State citizens will have a chance to vote on ballot initiatives that would restrain Governor Wolf’s executive authority. In Pennsylvania, the business community is challenging Democratic governor Tom Wolf’s executive overreach amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Pennsylvanians’ year-long calls for lawmakers to limit Wolf’s emergency powers have resulted in
People walk past Soviet-era statues, mostly of Vladimir Lenin, in Aksu, Kazakhstan, February 21, 2018. (Shamil Zhumatov/Reuters) Scenes from an almost-debate NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE P rofessor Richard Wolff of UMass–Amherst seems to be a courteous man, so I will put this question as courteously as I can: Rounded off to the nearest 100 million, how
A Minnesota National Guard neighborhood security team says it was attacked early Sunday morning. Two guard members were injured from a drive-by shooting in Minneapolis, according to the Minnesota National Guard. A neighborhood security team comprised of Minnesota National Guardsmen and Minneapolis Police Department officers were reportedly fired on around 4:19 a.m. on Sunday near
Authorities in Ontario, the most populated Canadian province, recently enacted pandemic-related restrictions that are so strict that not even law enforcement agencies are willing to enforce them. Now, they’re already being rolled back. What happened? Ontario Premier Doug Ford announced new extreme public health restrictions that tightened existing restrictions and enacted new, even stricter COVID
On Friday’s NBC Nightly News, they focused on recent political violence against the Capitol Police, but they were obviously more interesting in tagging the “far right” for recent violence, and not the “far left.” When the April 2 Capitol cop killing came up, the assailant Noah Green was not named, and his love for Louis Farrakhan
Whodunit Time We had some technical glitches while recording with Jesse Kelly so that interview is postponed for a few days. I wasn’t sure where to go with this episode so I decided to talk about books. Every time I do, I get great recommendations from you fine people. I’ve been reading more murder mysteries
I was amused by the absurd by the faux shock expressed in headlines last week, which trumpeted the U.S. Intelligence Community backflip on its previous claim that Russia was paying the Taliban bounties to whack U.S. military personnel. Sure, it reminded me of Gilda Radner’s quirky Saturday night live character, Emily Litella, whose trademark was
A barber shop in Encinitas, Calif., closed as new stay-at-home orders begin in Southern California during the coronavirus outbreak, December 7, 2020. (Mike Blake/Reuters) For most of the last year, we have been inundated with stories in the media about the utter horror of COVID-19. Those stories have engendered in a great many Americans the
There is a video going viral on social media this weekend of an armed robbery that thankfully goes horribly wrong for the criminal. In the failed robbery video, the aggressor goes from tough guy to a crying baby running back to his mommy in eight seconds flat. The video was uploaded to Reddit on Friday
A reporter is being skewered for visiting the home of a Utah paramedic who donated $10 to the legal defense fund of Kyle Rittenhouse. The fire department where the paramedic works has launched an investigation following the report on the private citizen’s donation. There was a data breach at GiveSendGo, the self-described “fastest-growing Christian crowdfunding
The insanity of American culture right now, be it ever-increasing wokeness or the censoring of thoughts, has repeatedly caused Bill Maher to sound like someone conservatives could have a conversation with. The liberal host on Friday night closed his show by accusing the liberal media of overreacting to the conservatives and Donald Trump’s handling of the pandemic,
It’s hard to follow politics and not get angry on a regular basis. It’s quite maddening to see all the progress made over the past four years being destroyed so quickly by Joe Biden… the guy who said he’d be a uniter, not a left-wing zealot. So, to help get me through these unfortunate times,
Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D., Calif.) during a national day of action to protest the Trump administration’s “Zero Tolerance” policy in Los Angeles, Calif., June 30, 2018. (Monica Almeida/Reuters) Representative Maxine Waters (D., Calif.) told demonstrators to “stay in the street” and become “more confrontational” if former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin is acquitted of killing
Grocery store chain Kroger announced that it was shutting down five stores in Southern California after cities approved ordinances requiring retailers to pay a “hero pay.” Kroger closed two stores in Long Beach on Saturday: a Ralphs and Food 4 Less in Long Beach, California. Kroger, which is the largest supermarket chain in the U.S.
A Chicago prosecutor was suspended on Friday after he allegedly “failed to fully present the facts” regarding the death of 13-year-old Adam Toledo. What is the background? In the early morning hours on March 29, Chicago police officers responded to the Little Village neighborhood after reports of shots fired. Officers encountered Toledo and then-21-year-old Ruben
For months, NewsBusters has been documenting the disturbing tailspin of CNN Prime Time host Chris Cuomo as he descended into darker and darker levels of violent thought and fantasies. On Friday, he took things to his darkest level yet as he went on an unhinged screed about how “white people’s kids” need to be killed
The New York Times, like the rest of the establishment media, seems to have adopted a policy of making Islam look as good as possible whenever possible, no matter what incidences of jihad violence and Sharia oppression have to be whitewashed in the process. And so it was no surprise when the Times on Thursday
Freshman Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) said Sunday that she plans to introduce a resolution calling on Congress to expel sixteen-term Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) over incendiary remarks Waters made at an anti-police protest in Brooklyn City, Minnesota late Saturday night. Waters was recorded on video demanding a guilty verdict from the jury in the
Dan Sundstrom of Ten Mile Brewing in Brewmance. (Brocklamation Films) We may not have invented beer, but over the past 40 years relentless American ingenuity built a wonderful new industry. In a bitterly divided land, the great uniter is staring us squarely in the face: craft beer. From faithful Christians to revolutionary socialists, from beardy
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and his wife Casey at a Trump campaign rally in Sanford, Fla., October 12, 2020. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) Florida governor Ron DeSantis warned corporations against trying to “genuflect” to “wokeness” in comments on Fox News’s Sunday Morning Futures. When asked what he thought about Major League Baseball’s decision to move the All-Star Game
Police bodycam video shows a man throwing a liquid at an NYPD cop during a traffic stop in Brooklyn, New York. The New York Police Department also claimed the suspect hurled a Molotov cocktail at police officers during the tense confrontation on Saturday morning. Law enforcement officials say that NYPD officers pulled over Lionel Virgile
Many states across the United States have rescinded their pandemic-related mandate requiring residents to wear face masks because the COVID-19 vaccines have proven to be highly effective in combatting the virus. But Oregon may go the complete opposite direction. What are the details? A top Oregon health official is considering a “permanent rule,” according to
NewsBusters was the first on the scene Wednesday night to report how CNN was covering up an incident where one of their crews in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota was battered and chased off by a violent Black Lives Matter mob. Four days went by before Reliable Sources host Brian Stelter mentioned the incident on-air for the
There’s been lots of talk about “herd immunity” again, and, as usual, once it’s filtered through the galaxy brains in the major media, it has been more confusing than useful. So, let’s talk about what “herd immunity” means and how it affects the reality of the COVID-19 epidemic. To start with, let’s get a little
CNN host Chris Cuomo says that there won’t be police reform or gun control until “your kids start getting killed. White people’s kids start getting killed.” Cuomo’s solution is not something that should be put out in the universe given how Black Lives Matter militants have repeatedly claimed that they want to achieve their goals
(aijohn784/iStock/Getty Images) New research suggests it might be wise to cut back on prosecuting petty crimes. But we shouldn’t overinterpret the findings. Every year, something like 13 million misdemeanor charges are filed in the United States. These charges, ranging from traffic violations to serious assaults, may be less flashy than felonies, but they are the
AR-15 rifles for sale at the Guntoberfest gun show in Oaks, Penn., October 6, 2017 (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) The former FedEx employee who fatally shot eight workers at a company facility in Indianapolis on Thursday legally purchased two semiautomatic rifles months after police confiscated his shotgun, the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department said on Saturday. The Bureau
CNN anchor Chris Cuomo declared Friday the gun reform and police reform that Democrats desperately want will happen only when “white people’s kids start getting killed.” What did Cuomo say? Speaking on his CNN show “Cuomo Prime Time,” Cuomo vented frustration over a string of recent mass shootings and officer-involved shootings that have gripped the
Three people were killed and two others were injured early Sunday morning from a shooting in Kenosha, Wisconsin. The shooting happened at around 12:42 a.m. at the Somers House Tavern in Kenosha, where three people were pronounced dead at the scene. The two victims with gunshot wounds were taken to local hospitals with serious injuries.