News of the Week for Feb. 21st<\/sup>, 2021<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Did Andrew Cuomo violate federal criminal law?<\/a> Cuomo continues<\/a> Guinea Declares Ebola Epidemic, Reporting First Deaths Since 2016 Outbreak<\/a> U.S. Officials Standing By Possibility Coronavirus Was Result Of A Lab Leak<\/a> Good News: CVS and Walgreens Have Put 5.9 Million Coronavirus-Vaccine Shots in Nursing Homes<\/a> Confirmed: The Vaccines Mitigate Transmission<\/a> Yes, China Caused This Pandemic<\/a> The Evidence Is Mounting That the Pandemic Started before December 2019<\/a> New coronavirus cases plummet in U.S. and the UK<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Myth That the US Leads the World in Mass Shootings<\/a> Here Comes The Democrats’ Push For A National Gun Registry<\/a> Hot Tip: Don’t Try To Shoot Up A Shooting Range<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Green Energy Useless during Cold Snaps<\/a> Fascist means, green ends<\/a> Why Texas Has Gone Dark<\/a> Republicans Planning to Target Democrats Over Biden’s Job-Killing Keystone XL Policy<\/a> Massive Winter Storm Frosts Texas Wind Turbines, Causing Blackouts and Higher Energy Prices<\/a> John Kerry’s Ego Demands a Private Jet<\/a> Windmill Politics<\/a> “No Faking It On This One”: Noted Private-Jet Aficionado Gives The World Nine Years To Avoid Global-Warming Catastrophe<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n California Insurance Commissioner Orders Health Insurance to Pay for Minors’ Transgender Mastectomies<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n On Biden’s new clothes<\/a> U.S. Navy “Inclusion And Diversity” Report Includes Pledge To “Advocate For And Acknowledge” All “Intersectional Identities”<\/a> The U.S. Marine Corps: The Next Submarine Hunters?<\/a> Chinese fighters buzz Taiwan’s air zone as it appoints new defence minister<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n This guy thought Tessica Brown’s Gorilla Glue story was a hoax, so he created a “Gorilla Glue challenge” and ended up in the ER after gluing a Solo cup to his face<\/a> Ad sought “non Asian” applicants for tech job in California. Company blames mixup<\/a> Support Growing For 9-11 Style Commission To Investigate January 6 Riot<\/a> House Dems hire ex-gang member to top campaign post<\/a> Big Tech’s Unlikely Next Battleground: North Dakota<\/a> New skin patch promises comprehensive health monitoring<\/a> Activists Outline Their Plan to Push Black Lives Matter in Classroom<\/a> Report recommends NASA accelerate space nuclear propulsion development<\/a> San Francisco School Board Kept A Person Off Their Parent Advisory Committee Because He’s A White Male<\/a> Deceptively Titled ‘Equality Act’ Would Be Giant Step to Destroying Religious Freedom<\/a> The Backlash to Biden’s Transgender Agenda Is Already Brewing<\/a> Illinois Moves To Permanently End All Cash Bail<\/a> “Culturally responsive” \u2014 or indoctrinated?<\/a> Caveat Donor: GOP Election-Contest Funder Files Suit For $2.5 Million Refund<\/a> Reporters to Parents Frustrated at Ongoing School Closures: Republicans Are Weaponizing You<\/a> Remember Bean Dad? Child Protective Services Was Called to Check on His Daughter<\/a> “Undocumented Noncitizen” Is Officially Here<\/a> Bill Gates’s Plan to Destroy Animal Agriculture<\/a> Politico: Democrats Worry Suburbs Could Return To The GOP Fold If Schools Remain Closed<\/a> Rush Limbaugh, conservative talk radio pioneer, dead at 70<\/a> Portland’s So ‘Woke’ That Even the Snow Plows Bow to ‘Equity’<\/a> NYC school in uproar over ‘Whiteness’ literature developed by Northwestern University prof<\/a> Judicial Watch Suing on Behalf of HS Coach Allegedly Removed for Objecting to Critical Race Training<\/a> Who’s In Control? Harris, Not Biden, Calling Foreign Heads of State<\/a> Men Become First Throuple To Have Three Dads Legally Put On Child’s Birth Certificate<\/a> High School Sends “8 White Identities” Outline To Parents<\/a> FBI, U.S. attorney in Brooklyn probing Cuomo administration on nursing homes<\/a> McConnell’s Plan To Deal With Trump: Ignore Him<\/a> Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Behind “Anti-Racist” Math Push<\/a> List of Statues Chicago Looks to Remove Includes the Usual Suspects… and the President of America’s First Abolitionist Society<\/a> Stanford prof: “Dungeons & Dragons” is racist<\/a> Megyn Kelly Shares a Horrifying Episode of Critical Race Theory in Schools<\/a> Bad Education<\/a> Los Angeles Schools Vote To Cut Police, Divert Funds To “Awareness”<\/a> Are People Falling in Love With Their Peloton Instructors?<\/a> Columbia professors want Biden to appoint a “Secretary of Racial Justice”<\/a> States Fight Back on Transgender Sports<\/a> California School Board Caught On Hot Mic: Parents “Want Their Babysitters Back”<\/a> Top political donor sentenced to 12 years in prison for illegal campaign contributions<\/a> Orange County DA Seeks To Take Child Murder Case Back From LA County And Progressive DA Gascon<\/a> Report: Andrew Cuomo under federal investigation<\/a> Incredible new images shared by Perseverance rover after Mars landing<\/a> Nearly 180 Democrats Support Forming a Slavery Reparations Commission<\/a> White, Asian American students face discrimination in college admissions at these major universities, study finds<\/a> Justice Department Won’t Oppose Arizona Election Reform Before Supreme Court Hears Case<\/a> Sen. Manchin opposes Neera Tanden as Biden’s budget chief, imperiling nomination<\/a> Biden’s Executive Order on Gender Discrimination Has Muddied Waters on Title IX. Challenges Could Clear That Up.<\/a> Smith College Whistleblower Jodi Shaw Resigns Over “Racially Hostile Environment” Created By Critical Race Training<\/a> Woke Teachers Now Trying to Cancel William Shakespeare<\/a> The Election Anomalies That Weren’t<\/a> Ron DeSantis Enters the Voting-Reform Fight<\/a> Trump-McConnell Feud Dividing Big GOP Donors<\/a> U. Kansas Cutting Humanities Department, As Wokeness Destroys Academia From Within<\/a> “Arrest This Assembly”: DoJ Charges Nine Oath Keepers With Conspiracy In Capitol Riot<\/a> Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions<\/a> White People Aren’t Human<\/a> A Few Professors Remain Who Resist the Politicization of Higher Education<\/a> Cornell Offers a Racially Segregated Rock Climbing Course, Then Scrubs Its Website to Hide Their Racism<\/a> WSU hosts BLM activist who tells students police should be defunded, wants GOP forced ‘into non-existence’<\/a> Report: Coca-Cola Forcing Employees To Take Online Course To Learn “To Be Less White”<\/a> White teachers: Stop “privileging” Western “ways of knowing” when teaching black history<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Universal Basic Income Could Be Coming for Kids<\/a> Maryland To Become First State To Tax Online Ads Sold By Facebook And Google<\/a> Authoritarianism Creeps into the Financial Markets<\/a> Manchin says he’ll oppose Tanden nomination<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Antarctic sponges discovered under the ice shelf perplex scientists<\/a> “House N*****” \u2013 Head Of Race Trust And University Advisor Racially Abuses Black Conservative Commentator<\/a> UN Report: Iran Uses Electric Shocks on Gay Children<\/a> Scotland’s New Blasphemy Law<\/a> “Glaring gap” in addressing anti-Indigenous and anti-Black racism in RCMP’s new ‘cultural humility’ course, experts say<\/a> Bankrupted by Socialism, Venezuela Cedes Control of Companies<\/a> UK civil servant sues over black female colleague getting $72K higher salary<\/a> Ford plans for all cars sold in Europe to be electric by 2030<\/a> Facebook blocks Australian users and publishers from viewing or sharing news<\/a> Germany Defies Biden on Nord Stream 2 Pipeline, Offers Russia “Deeper” Energy Cooperation<\/a> China Locks Down Blogging, Including Taiwan. Approved Topics Only<\/a> Facebook Bans Australian Users From Reading Or Sharing News<\/a> DR Congo’s mysterious metal monolith destroyed by mob<\/a> Report: Vatican not mentioned in China’s new rules on bishop appointments<\/a> UK Court Essentially Shuts Down Uber, Lyft<\/a> Canada To Follow Australia’s Lead In Charging Facebook For Links<\/a> <\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Newsboy.jpg\" "\\"News")
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\nMelissa DeRosa, an aide to Governor Andrew Cuomo, has admitted that, in an attempt to cover up evidence that might put Cuomo’s administration in trouble with the Department of Justice, the administration withheld the true New York toll of nursing home deaths due to the Wuhan coronavirus. She reportedly told New York Democrats that “we froze” out of fear that the true numbers would “be used against us” by federal prosecutors.<\/p>\n
\nI took a whack at Governor Cuomo last week in “Blame it on the Donald.” An update is warranted. At another of his press conferences yesterday he dispersed the blame for his own shoddy performance across an incredibly broad landscape.<\/p>\n
\nOther countries in West Africa are on high alert.<\/p>\n
\nThe team of scientists who just returned from a WHO-sponsored trip to China have apparently concluded the lab lead hypothesis is very unlikely. But NBC News reports that the Biden administration is not backing away from the theory, at least not yet. The reason? Intelligence officials have seen non-public material that indicates China attempted to cover up the virus early on.<\/p>\n
\nThe good news is that bit by bit, day by day, that stack of millions of distributed but not-yet-administered coronavirus-vaccine doses gets a little smaller. At the beginning of the month, it was around 20 million; yesterday morning, it was 17.2 million by the New York Times\u2019 numbers, and this morning, it is down to 16.6 million. (Unfortunately, on the Bloomberg chart, it inched up a little, from 15.4 million to 15.54 million.)<\/p>\n
\nAn odd alliance has developed over the last few months between those reticent to ever return to normal life and skeptics of the coronavirus vaccines. Both have been unjustifiably confident that the vaccines would do little to stop transmission of the disease from one person to another. It was never an idea that made much sense, but it nevertheless gained traction with both those who would keep schools closed \u2014 such as Ron Klain, Jen Psaki, Joe Biden, and their patrons in the teachers\u2019 unions \u2014 and those who have sought to undermine the benefits of the vaccines more generally, such as former New York Times reporter Alex Berenson.<\/p>\n
\nEverybody knows this, but you’re not supposed to say it<\/p>\n
\nThe Wall Street Journal offers an eye-opening update on the investigation into the origins of COVID-19<\/p>\n
\nThe number of new coronavirus cases is in steep decline, both in the U.S. and the UK. Here at home, the number of new reported cases per day is below 100,000 \u2014 down from almost three times that many early in the year. The daily number of new cases is about what it was in mid-to-late October, before the weather got cold. <\/p>\n<\/a>Gun Rights<\/h1>\n
\nTo understand the misleading narrative, we must look to the era of narrative-driven journalism and the politicization of society, both of which subjugate truth to ideology and politics. <\/p>\n
\nAdd this to the list of things you never heard Joe Biden (or any of the Democrats, really) talk about during the 2020 election campaign but is now suddenly a hot topic with the election safely behind them. Democratic congresswoman Shelia Jackson Lee of Texas has introduced a bill that would create a sweeping national gun registry, along with a slew of limitations on gun rights. It would also impose massive fees and expensive, mandatory “gun insurance” on gun owners. A national gun registry has been a wishlist item among liberals for a very long time, and the sponsor has introduced similar measures before, but now, with her party holding control of both chambers and the White House, Lee seems to feel she has a chance.<\/p>\n
\nBy all accounts, yesterday was just another Saturday at the Jefferson Gun Outlet and Shooting Range in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana. In the front of the building, customers were browsing the available firearms. Around back, people were engaged in training and target practice in the facility’s shooting range. Then somebody walked into the store and opened fire, killing two people. What happened next should have been easily predictable. The initial shooter who initiated the attack did not fare well, to say the least. <\/p>\n<\/a>Hide the Decline<\/h1>\n
Environment &
\n“Green Energy”<\/h2>\n
\nMuch of the Midwest and Mountain states are seeing subzero temperatures and blizzard conditions as the polar vortex sweeps through. As far south as Dallas, the temperatures dipped into the 20s. In parts of Minnesota, temperatures dipped to near their lowest levels in a century. In Texas, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram is warning of “rolling blackouts” due to extreme cold.<\/p>\n
\nStakeholder capitalism and climate corporatism<\/p>\n
\nMuch of Texas is experiencing rolling blackouts, as utilities are unable to keep power flowing. Why are these blackouts happening? <\/p>\n
\n“House Democrats are going to pay the price for their job-killing, anti-energy agenda”<\/p>\n
\nHelicopter deicing, relying on fossil fuels, and “ice throws” suggest “wind energy” isn’t as safe or as green as promised.<\/p>\n
\n“Only choice” is a powerful phrase. It’s a moral statement, really. If it’s the only choice, then to choose anything else would be wrong and condemnable, foolhardy and inexcusable. Perhaps that’s why a recently resurfaced clip of former Democratic nominee for president, former secretary of state, and now climate envoy for the Biden administration John Kerry has received some renewed attention.<\/p>\n
\nFunny how the debate about the Texas blackouts is turning into a predictable culture-war issue. The New York Times offers this hectoring headline: “No, Wind Farms Aren’t the Main Cause of the Texas Blackouts,” over a piece by Dionne Searcey. Of course they aren’t the main cause \u2014 as Searcey notes, they make up only about 7 percent of the power mix this time of year. But renewables, mostly wind, make up a disproportionate share of the downed capacity, about 40 percent of it \u2014 18 gigawatts of the 45 gigawatts taken offline \u2014 according to the left-leaning Texas Tribune, relying on figures from the state electricity-grid manager.<\/p>\n
\nHow does private-jet-setter John Kerry get to the nine-year deadline he gives Ben Tracy to avoid global warming disaster? Simple, the Biden administration\u2019s climate-change “czar” tells the CBS reporter. He heard a scientist mention a twelve-year deadline three years ago, so quod erat demonstrandum<\/p>\n<\/a>Obamacare<\/h1>\n
Government in Healthcare<\/h2>\n
\nI missed this when it happened in December, but it is worth noticing now. California’s Insurance Commissioner has decided that health-insurance companies must pay for the removal of the healthy breasts of biological minor girls with gender dysphoria, just as they would if the surgery was required for cancer or a serious injury.<\/p>\n<\/a>War & Terror<\/h1>\n
\nReuters relates the news from Secretary of State Antony Blinken: “U.S.’s Blinken: ‘The path to diplomacy is open right now’ with Iran.” I infer that talks with the mullahs are underway in some form. Whether or not that is the case, the Biden administration is embarrassingly eager to make nice with the genocidal madmen running the Iranian regime. <\/p>\n
\nA new report from the U.S. Navy on inclusion and diversity includes a pledge for members of a new task force to “advocate for and acknowledge all lived experiences and intersectional identities of every Sailor in the Navy.”<\/p>\n
\nThe Marine Corps is also experimenting with ways in which it could hunt enemy submarines.<\/p>\n
\nTaiwan’s air force scrambled on Friday after eight Chinese fighter aircraft flew into the southwestern part of its air defence zone in another display of stepped-up military activity around the democratic island.<\/p>\n<\/a>National<\/h1>\n
\nGorilla Glue was forced to release this information to the public after Tessica Brown used the adhesive as hairspray, and quickly became the laughing stock of the internet. Well, that didn’t stop rapper Len Martin. He thought the Tessica Brown Gorilla Glue hairspray story was a hoax, and that she was exaggerating the hold of the popular glue. So what did he do? Well he just went ahead and started the Gorilla Glue Challenge as if, somehow, that was a good idea\u2026<\/p>\n
\nA woman checking online job listings in California couldn\u2019t believe it when she read one calling for “non Asian” applicants.<\/p>\n
\nYou have to give the Democrats some credit for being consistent if nothing else. Having failed twice in their attempts to impeach Donald Trump, party leaders are continuing to push for the formation of a commission, similar to the one that investigated the September 11th, 2001 terror attacks, tasked with conducting a sweeping investigation into the January 6th riot on Capitol Hill and the former president\u2019s involvement in it. While their motives probably seem obvious to everyone, this looks like a case of needing to be careful what you wish for. Gathering all of this information may prove useful in both prosecuting the offenders and preventing a similar debacle in the future. But it could also further weaken their claims that Donald Trump was the ringleader. <\/p>\n
\nThe House Democrats’ campaign arm has hired an ex-gangster-turned-high-profile criminal justice advocate for a top leadership position, The Post has learned.<\/p>\n
\nLast month, a lobbyist approached Kyle Davison, a North Dakota state senator, with an unusual proposal: a law to stop Apple and Google from forcing companies in the state to hand over a share of their app sales.<\/p>\n
\nScientists have developed a new skin patch that can provide all-in-one health monitoring capabilities<\/p>\n
\nCorporations, nonprofit institutions, the media, and countless individual Americans have expressed support of the Black Lives Matter movement, funneling millions of dollars into organizations that purport to carry out its cause.<\/p>\n
\nNASA needs to pursue “aggressive” development of space nuclear propulsion technologies if the agency wants to use them for human missions to Mars in the next two decades, a report by a National Academies committee concluded.<\/p>\n
\nThe San Francisco School Board has been in the news a lot recently. First it was controversy over the decision to rename 44 schools in the district. Then it was the decision to get rid of selective admissions at their best performing high school on the grounds that meritocracy is racist.<\/p>\n
\nIt’s baaccckkk! That horrendously mislabeled Equality Act from 2019 has re-appeared but this time there are Democratic majorities in both chambers of Congress and a Democrat in the Oval Office.<\/p>\n
\nPresident Joe Biden promised to be a president “for all Americans,” even for those who did not vote for him. Yet in his first few days in office, Biden signed divisive executive orders championing the nebulous concept of gender identity over biological sex. Biden’s new orders threaten to upend science and fairness in many segments of American society, including women’s sports, women’s private spaces, the military, and medicine. Republicans in at least 13 states are fighting back.<\/p>\n
\nThe “bail reform” movement in Illinois isn’t going away any time soon. If anything, it’s only picking up steam. The efforts by Democrats to empty the jails received a big boost recently with the passage of a new bill designed to fully and permanently eliminate cash bail. Named the “Pretrial Fairness Act,” the Governor is expected to sign it into law. The new law would remove all cash bonds for suspects awaiting trial. That doesn’t mean that nobody would be locked up, as we’ll see in a moment, but the jails are certainly going to be considerably emptier when this goes into effect two years from now. <\/p>\n
\nOf course, teachers need to be culturally responsive, writes Lindsey L. Jensen, a former Illinois “teacher of the year,” in Education Post. Tomorrow a legislative committee will vote on the Illinois State Department of Education’s proposed Culturally Responsive Teaching and Learning Standards (CRTL). It’s controversial, she admits.<\/p>\n
\nDonate in haste, repent at leisure, but this donation requires a massive amount of repentance. Fred Eshelman shelled out $2.5 million to fund investigations into vote fraud after the November election, and claims he was repeatedly given assurances that True the Vote was on the cusp of proving the kind of massive fraud that would reverse the election results. <\/p>\n
\nAmericans parents are growing increasingly frustrated that schools across the country remain closed for in-person learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. In many places, public schools in particular appear prepared to maintain virtual-only learning with no end in sight. Here in Virginia, one public-school district proposed to reopen next month for two days a week by hiring monitors to watch students take virtual lessons in a classroom while their teachers remain at home.<\/p>\n
\n“They were just doing their jobs.”<\/p>\n
\nI’m sure people have used that phrase over the years as a parody of where immigration euphemisms were headed, and now, thanks to the Biden administration, it has officially arrived.<\/p>\n
\nThe hyper elite intend to seize control of our economy and remake it in an anti-global warming\/pandemic-preventing image. Thus, the Davos Crowd is pushing the “\u201cGreat Reset” and Anthony Fauci wants to “remake the infrastructures of human existence.”<\/p>\n
\nAccording to this Politico story published today, Democrats and Republicans are in agreement on something. The Biden administration is hoping to hold on to the gains Democrats made in the suburbs during the 2020 election but that’s obviously dependent on returning some sense of normal life to these areas before the next election. Meanwhile, Republicans recognize that Democrats are failing to push for progress in at least one significant area that impacts suburban voters, reopening schools.<\/p>\n
\nLimbaugh’s death, following Stage IV lung cancer diagnosis, announced by family<\/p>\n
\nI’d love to tell you that Portland, Ore., has a great explanation for why it factors the issue of “equity” into its decisions about which roads to plow during the city’s spate of snow and ice storms.<\/p>\n
\nA New York City principal distributed literature promoting ideas like “White voyeurism.”<\/p>\n
\n“seeks damages against the superintendent, high school principal, and high school athletic director for retaliating against Flynn for exercising his First Amendment rights”<\/p>\n
\nStrange, all of this.<\/p>\n
\nA throuple have made legal history after a court allowed three dads to be named on their children’s birth certificates.<\/p>\n
\nI saw this floating around on Twitter and my first thought was that it must be fake. But then I came across a NY Post story about it and, incredibly, this may be real.<\/p>\n
\nInvestigation is in its early stages; no allegations of wrongdoing have been made<\/p>\n
\nEr \u2026 yeah, this should work out well. Ask sixteen other Republicans how it worked out for them in 2015-16, for instance. If we know nothing else, we know Donald Trump has a lot in common with Alex Forrest in Fatal Attraction. He will not be ignored, Mitch.<\/p>\n
\nLiberal education collective claims asking students to show work is racist<\/p>\n
\nThe powers that be in Chicago have determined that the city is far too cluttered with statues, monuments, plaques, and even gravestones. So they formed a commission \u2014 the Chicago Monuments Project \u2014 that will determine which historical figures are worthy of being honored and which should be consigned to the dustbin of history. There are 41 historical markers on the chopping block which is a very good start to altering the past, but so much still needs to be done.<\/p>\n
\nA Stanford University professor argued that Dungeons & Dragons has undertones of racism. He gave Wired and the Los Angeles Times a look into his upcoming “ethnography” of Dungeons & Dragons players.<\/p>\n
\nOn Wednesday, Megyn Kelly appeared on Glenn Beck’s show with The Blaze. She shed light on a horrifying story of institutional bias against conservatives at a private Catholic school in the Midwest.<\/p>\n
\nIn a Philadelphia elementary school, teachers are putting a premium on radicalism, not reading.<\/p>\n
\nThe Los Angeles Unified School District wants all of the people in the Black Lives Matter and “abolish the police” movements to know that they\u2019ve heard your voices and they are listening. That’s why this week the LAUSD voted to slash tens of millions of dollars from the L.A. Schools Police Department and eliminate more than 100 officers from its ranks. Rather than paying for law enforcement, the funds will be diverted to programs to better assist Black students, including the Black Student Achievement Plan. During a virtual school board hearing, the board got an earful from some parents who wanted to know who would be responsible for ensuring the safety of the students in the event of a crisis. Not to worry, parents. They had an answer to that question as well. <\/p>\n
\nTwitter thirst would suggest yes. But the phenomenon’s happening for all the right reasons.<\/p>\n
\nBlack professor skeptical of the idea<\/p>\n
\nBills in at least 20 states are pushing back on President Biden’s attack on women’s sports.<\/p>\n
\nOakley is a town in California about midway between San Francisco and Sacramento. Yesterday members of the Oakley Unified Elementary School District Board of Trustees gathered on a zoom call to prepare for a public meeting. They clearly didn\u2019t realize that parents had already logged on to the meeting and could hear what they were saying. Unfortunately for them, one parent decided to record the meeting as it happened and uploaded video of it to YouTube.<\/p>\n
\nA top political donor on Thursday was sentenced to 12 years in prison after allegedly providing illegal campaign contributions to President Biden and Sen. Lindsay Graham (R-S.C.).<\/p>\n
\nLA County DA George Gascon continues to anger the families of crime victims and his own deputy DA’s with his insistence on dropping all sentencing enhancements against violent criminals. Now one such case is turning into a fight between LA County and neighboring Orange County.<\/p>\n
\nThe other day, I suggested that Andrew Cuomo and\/or members of his staff may have violated up to three federal criminal statutes in connection with a Justice Department request for information about nursing home deaths from the Wuhan coronavirus in New York. Now comes word that the FBI and the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York have opened an investigation into Cuomo’s handling of nursing homes and nursing home death data.<\/p>\n
\nAfter safely landing on the surface of Mars Thursday, NASA’s Perseverance rover has sent back a never-before-seen view: what it looks like to land on Mars.<\/p>\n
\nPresident Joe Biden has expressed support for establishing a 13-member commission to “study and consider a national apology and proposal for reparations for the institution of slavery,” and nearly 180 Democrats are behind the proposal as well.<\/p>\n
\nResearch from the Center for Equal opportunity has revealed disparities in the percentage of White and Asian Americans students accepted to colleges and universities.<\/p>\n
\nOn the cusp of Supreme Court arguments about Arizona’s ban on the controversial practice of ballot harvesting, President Joe Biden’s Justice Department pulled a surprise maneuver\u2014inaction.<\/p>\n
\nThe Democrat’s opposition is a significant blow to her prospects of confirmation to head the Office of Management and Budget<\/p>\n
\nA month ago on Jan. 20, a newly minted President Joe Biden\u2014who had remarked on Twitter during his presidential campaign, “Let’s be clear: Transgender equality is the civil rights issue of our time”\u2014issued a lightning-fast executive order on the subject.<\/p>\n
\nBeing told that any disagreement or feelings of discomfort somehow upholds ‘white supremacy’ is not just morally wrong. It is psychologically abusive\u2026. [T]he college is so deeply committed to this toxic ideology that the only way for me to escape the racially hostile climate is to resign.”<\/p>\n
\n“Shakespeare was a tool used to ‘civilize’ Black and brown people in England’s empire”<\/p>\n
\nEvery time I’ve seen an eye-popping claim about election fishiness that’s supposed to make me think that Biden didn’t really win, a small amount of inquiry has debunked it. So it is again today.<\/p>\n
\nThe epilogue to the 2020 election guaranteed that there will be a lot of political energy in 2021 devoted to reforms to how Americans vote, and how those votes are counted. Unsurprisingly, Republicans and Democrats have dramatically different visions of what needs reforming, as well as where. Democrats are pressing for changes at the federal level to strip states of control of elections, while Republican-run states are looking to make changes at the state level, while reducing the discretion and control of localities. Georgia, at the epicenter of the 2020 battle, is pressing forward now with state-level revisions (such as banning no-excuses absentee voting) following a “Report of the Election Confidence Task Force” by the state Republican party.<\/p>\n
\nThe feud that’s erupted between Donald Trump and Senator Mitch McConnell has intensified the rift between Trump’s base of supporters and the GOP establishment.<\/p>\n
\n“It also will eliminate degrees in Humanities and Visual Art Education.”<\/p>\n
\nJust a few weeks after the Capitol riot nearly derailed the election process, the Department of Justice has begun putting together its first serious case of conspiracy. An indictment dropped yesterday charging nine “Oath Keepers” of conspiring to interfere with an official proceeding, among other charges. Prosecutors and the grand jury did not return any explicit charges of sedition, but the indictment itself makes it plain that they will argue that as motive<\/p>\n
\nWine deliveries, secular wedding celebrants, and Italian torture.<\/p>\n
\nHow anti-racism adopted the Nation of Islam’s racist theology.<\/p>\n
\nDemands for “woke” policies are sweeping through American higher education, including science. Staddon won\u2019t bend to the pressures. When Duke’s president declared last year that the university had to become “antiracist” in order to salve the supposed pain felt by African Americans, Staddon had this rejoinder: “Your reassurance is fine as an expression of empathy. I daresay you feel better, and possibly your African American audience does as well. But feelings differ: Unless the discussion can be moved from feelings to facts, no harmony is possible. Empathy, guilt, and good intentions are a dodgy basis for sweeping resolutions.”<\/p>\n
\nCornell University is very woke. They’re so woke that they offered a rock climbing course for BIPOC students only. BIPOC, for those of you unwoke, stands for black, Indigenous, and people of color \u2014 a catchall for everyone oppressed by white people.<\/p>\n
\nA BLM activist told a group of students at Washington State University that police funding should be reallocated to housing programs and social work.<\/p>\n
\nCoke responds to backlash: “Our Better Together global learning curriculum is part of a learning plan to help build an inclusive workplace”<\/p>\n
\nThere’s nothing quite like white progressive educators who lecture their peers on the “proper” way to teach something.<\/p>\n<\/a>Economy & Taxes<\/h1>\n
\nTax-credit proposals would send almost every parent $250 or more a month<\/p>\n
\nWith a pair of votes, Maryland can now claim to be a pioneer: it’s the first place in the country that will impose a tax on the sale of online ads.<\/p>\n
\nIf a business wants to operate under “green” rules (or Marxist rules, or whatever sort), it is free to do so \u2014 and suffer the consequences. Investors may choose to put their money into such businesses if they want to take the risk. Or maybe the inventor prefers to put his money into an index fund that has announced its commitment to invest only in firms that have certain operating frameworks, such as minimizing carbon emissions. Again, no problem, as long as the investor knows ahead of time where the index fund will or will not put his money.<\/p>\n
\nSen. Joe Manchin has announced his opposition to Joe Biden\u2019s choice of Neera Tanden to lead the White House Office of Management and Budget. Manchin cited her personal attacks on lawmakers.<\/p>\n<\/a>International<\/h1>\n
\nThe accidental discovery of strange life forms on a boulder beneath the ice shelves of the Antarctic has confounded scientists.<\/p>\n
\nAysha Khanom, an Associate Professional & Academic Advisor at Leeds Beckett University and founder of The Race Trust, has labelled political commentator Calvin Robinson a “house n*****” and labelled him “a mascot of white supremacy”.<\/p>\n
\nU.N. official: Iran subjects children to “electric shocks and the administration of hormones and strong psychoactive medications.”<\/p>\n
\nThe Scottish government\u2019s proposed “Hate Crime and Public Order Bill,” first introduced in April 2020, was so overreaching that it managed to inspire the creation of the \u201cFree to Disagree\u201d grassroots campaign, uniting even the Catholic Church and the National Secular Society in opposition. The Scottish National Party (SNP) led government sneaked a maximum seven-year prison sentence for “stirring up hatred”” into a bill repealing a 200-year-old dormant blasphemy law. Such a law would have a chilling effect on free speech and expression, since, as the Scottish Police Federation explained, it would force officers to “police what people think or feel.”<\/p>\n
\nA mandatory online training course called “Cultural Awareness and Humility” that was rolled out last fall for all RCMP members and touted by the commissioner as an example of the force’s efforts to modernize misses the mark on many levels, according to experts who have reviewed the program for the Star.<\/p>\n
\nAs nation starves, investors join with public food companies. New managers expected to hand over part of production, profits<\/p>\n
\nA senior civil servant is suing the British government for sex and race discrimination because a black female colleague is paid $72,000 a year more than he, according to reports.<\/p>\n
\nUS firm to spend $1bn converting plant in Cologne to become its first electric vehicle facility in Europe<\/p>\n
\nCompany says it has made decision “with a heavy heart” in response to proposed media bargaining code<\/p>\n
\n“Russia’s vessel Fortuna has resumed laying pipes for the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline in Danish waters, the project consortium said on Saturday.”<\/p>\n
\nSo how are things going in China and Taiwan these days? Swimmingly, if you only get your news from social media. To look at the blogs and microblogging sites where people discuss political or military news, everything is coming up roses. Of course, that’s because the Chinese Communist Party has further cracked down on any and all forms of online dissent. Under the recently announced rules, nobody is being allowed to comment on any of these matters unless they have a government-approved credential to do so. I doubt you’ll need to strain your imagination very much to figure out who will be getting those credentials and what sorts of opinions they will be sharing. <\/p>\n
\nHere’s something you don\u2019t see every day. One of the world’s leading social media companies just cut off news from an entire nation. At first glance it sounds like Facebook run amok but after looking at it I’m not so sure the company doesn’t have a point. Here’s what’s going on. Australia is considering a law aimed at forcing Google and Facebook to pay Australian news sites for stories.<\/p>\n
\nA metal structure that mysteriously appeared on a roundabout in the Democratic Republic of Congo has been destroyed over fears about its origins.<\/p>\n
\nAccording to new rules which will reportedly take effect on May 1, China’s state-run Catholic Church and bishops’ conference will select, approve, and ordain episcopal candidates\u2014with no mention of the Vatican’s involvement in the process.<\/p>\n
\nSeveral blue states here in America, including California and New York, have been engaged in a war against Uber, Lyft and the rest of the gig economy for a few years now. Across the pond in the UK, the same thing has been happening, but the government there has been far more effective. Using the same strategy and tactics that California has been trying to apply, the Brits have seemingly put the last nail in Uber’s coffin. The U.K. Supreme Court ruled today that drivers must be regarded as employees instead of private contractors and are entitled to all the normal benefits that hourly or salaried employees receive. This decision effectively breaks Uber’s business model, so the company will most likely shrink vastly if they don’t disappear from the British market entirely.<\/p>\n
\nAfter blocking links to all news content in Australia, Facebook has reportedly “friended” the country again by coming back to the negotiating table, at least according to Prime Minister Scott Morrison. That doesn’t mean that Mark Zuckerberg has dropped his objections to Austrailia’s pending legislation that would force the social media giant to pay for links to Australian news content, however. Neither side seems to be backing down at this point. Australia may not be in this battle alone, though. We’re learning this weekend that Canada is drafting a similar measure and basically daring Facebook to impose a blackout on them as well. <\/p>\n<\/a>Opinion<\/h1>\n