US to Withdraw Visas for Foreign Students If Classes Moved Fully Online
7th July 2020
That’s going to chap some buns.
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7th July 2020
That’s going to chap some buns.
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7th July 2020
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7th July 2020
Straight outa 1988. Ah, those were the days….
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7th July 2020
Harvard will be teaching solely on-line this fall (with some students in residence), yet charging full tuition rates. Many commentators are thus suggesting this supplies evidence for the signaling theory of education.
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7th July 2020
The swine!
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7th July 2020
Jennifer Rubin at the Washington Post calls out three governors (all Republicans, natch) who acted so dastardly during the pandemic. Oh, and Trump, too, of course.
Funny, no mention of Andrew Cuomo, who killed all of those old people, and Gavin Newsome, who destroyed California’s economy. I guess Democrats don’t count.
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7th July 2020
Not just ‘rich’, not just ‘super-rich’, but MEGA-RICH! So if you’re one of the merely rich, you can forget about it.
(Journalism 101: It’s never ‘the right’ but always ‘the ultra-right’; it’s never ‘the rich’ but always ‘the mega-rich’.)
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7th July 2020
Let’s hope to God it works better than their cars.
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7th July 2020
Well, I’m glad that’s settled.
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6th July 2020
The Guardian: “Stop making sense: why it’s time to get emotional about climate change”
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #415
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6th July 2020
How Lincoln Project anti-Trump Republicans got into his head NBC. They just followed the psychic mind-readers at NBC.
Trump delivers divisive July 4th speech and downplays pandemic CBS ‘News’. Divisive!
‘We’ve got to do something’: Republican rebels come together to take on Trump The Guardian.
Senator Duckworth and Most of the Press Are Lying about Trump’s Speech
Trump at Mount Rushmore (WSJ edition)
Axl Rose Shares His ‘Disdain’ For Trump Administration After Feud With Surgeon General
Brian Stelter Hates Trump So Much He Claims He Needs a ‘Translator’ (That’s Fox News) Well, he’s right about part of it.
LinkedIn Co-Founder Reid Hoffman Exploring Anti-Trump Boycott
Even Twitter Calls Out NeverTrump ‘Lincoln Project’ for Misinfo
Disgraced Brian Williams Wonders When GOP Will Finally Break From Trump?
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6th July 2020
Chinese Firm Updates Records To Remove Hunter Biden From Its Board, But He Still Owns 10% Of The Company
Cancel Culture CBS Hammers ‘Bloody’ Redskins Name, Skips Native American Approval
Chicago Mayor Cites COVID-19 For City’s Escalating Murder Rate Yeah, right. Black Lives Matter had nothing to do with it.
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6th July 2020
‘It’s Over’: Atlanta Mayor Says Protesters Should Clear Out After 8-Year-Old Girl Shot And Killed
Sports Blogger Demands Erasing ‘Star Spangled Banner’ in Favor of Black National Anthem
PBS Facebook Report Blurs Candace Owens with Extremists Who Killed a Black Cop
What Black Lives Matter Says About White People
‘There’s not enough black girls in grassroots football and the England senior squad is not representative’ Because nothing says ‘England’ like black women playing football.
2 Killed, 8 Reportedly Wounded In Suspected Gang Shooting At South Carolina Nightclub
Hundreds Of “Justice” Protesters Return To Armed Couple’s Home In St.Louis
‘The Unbearable Whiteness of Jane Austin’: WashPost Book Reviewer Appeases Cancel Mob
Here’s How Many People Were Shot In NYC Over July 4th Weekend
“You’ve Shot & Killed A Baby!” Atlanta Mayor Decries Black-On-Black Violence During BLM March
Colin Kaepernick Mocks Independence Day, Calls July 4th ‘White Supremacist’ ‘Celebration’
Statue Of Black Abolitionist Frederick Douglass Torn Down, Dragged To Nearby River I guess he wasn’t black enough.
Formula One Drivers Take Knee, Wear ‘End Racism’ Shirts At Season Opener In Austria Because Austria is such an oppressive place for black people, I suppose.
In 2020, Words Are ‘Violence,’ Arson Is Not
Oracle sued by a shareholder who alleges its lack of progress in diversity amounts to ‘dishonesty’ It’s YOUR fault that more black people aren’t computer science graduates!
New York City Suffers Highest Number Of June Shootings In Over 20 Years
6 Children Shot And Killed Over 4th Of July Weekend
Utah State Football Player Ty Shaw Suspended For Allegedly Sending Racist Messages
‘They Say Black Lives Matter. You Killed Your Own’: Father Of 8-Year-Old Shot And Killed Speaks Out Against Violent Protesters
“Racist” College Researcher Ousted After Sharing Study Showing No Racial Bias In Police Shootings
Police Searching For Suspects Who Defaced Black Lives Matter Street Mural In California Which ‘mural’ defaced a public street.
Kaepernick, Disney Enter Production Deal to Tell Social Injustice Stories Joining together to create explicit racist propaganda. Walt would be so proud.
Meghan Markle Says We Need To Be ‘Uncomfortable Right Now’ To Assure ‘Equality’ During Chat About Racism Another Halfrican puts her two cents in.
Whole Foods Dress Code: Black Lives Matter Masks Not Permitted
Portland Police See 240 Percent Yearly Increase in July Shootings
Dad Killed In Bronx While Holding Daughter’s Hand In Broad Daylight
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6th July 2020
The New York Times hates American capitalism, and nothing makes that clearer than its Sunday print newspaper.
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6th July 2020
Margaret Sanger’s baby has changed its political orientation but not it’s basic program.
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6th July 2020
Ex-Reddit CEO Claims She Knew About Ghislaine Maxwell “Supplying Underage Girls For Sex” In 2011 – Then Locks Twitter Account Tyler Durden Mon, 07/06/2020 – 16:44
Former Reddit CEO Ellen K. Pao admitted in a Sunday night tweet that she knew about Jeffrey Epstein ‘madam’ Ghislaine Maxwell procuring underage girls as far back as 2011.
And she didn’t tell anybody?
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6th July 2020
n a rare unanimous decision for the US Supreme Court, on Monday the nine Justices ruled unanimously that states can require presidential electors to back their states’ popular vote winner in the Electoral College. The ruling arose out of a case from Washington state, essentially gives states the right to outlaw so-called “faithless electors” who cast their votes for people other than those chosen by their voters.
Of course, that wasn’t the system the Founders set up, but hey, nobody cares about that any more.
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6th July 2020
Within the past few years, the US Food and Drug Administration has approved Farydak for treating multiple myeloma, Avycaz for abdominal infections, Vraylar for schizophrenia, Idelvion for hemophilia, Luzu for athlete’s foot and Byvalson for high blood pressure.
Saying these names aloud, some may hear a strange and lovely music, while others may imagine aliens arriving from distant planets. Similarly, naming a drug is a complicated process.
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5th July 2020
Virginia state officials order large American flag taken down amid July 4 protest fears
Here’s the WORST Moments from MSNBC’s America-Hating, Anti-Founders Mt. Rushmore Coverage
Baltimore Mayor Defends Vandals Who Toppled Christopher Columbus Statue On July 4th
Sen. Tammy Duckworth: ‘We Should Listen To The Argument’ For Removing George Washington Statues
Michigan Passes Controversial Bill To Microchip Humans Voluntarily “To Protect Their Privacy”
China Suppression Of Uighurs Meets U.N. Definition Of Genocide, Report Says
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5th July 2020
Denmark’s Little Mermaid statue vandalized with ‘racist fish’ graffiti
Black Lives Matter Protesters Filmed Dancing On American Flag In Washington, DC
Calling Racism a Public Health Crisis Can Kill Black People
Black Lives Matter Runs Amok In DC On Independence Day
Colin Kaepernick Calls July 4th ‘Celebration Of White Supremacy’
Columbus Statue Toppled by Baltimore Protesters
Armed Protesters March Through Georgia Confederate Memorial Park
Facebook Groups Pivot to Attacks on Black Lives Matter
Farrakhan: Fauci, Gates Foundation ‘Want to Depopulate the Earth’ The world has far too many insane black people with power.
“We’re In Your House. Let’s Go.” – Black Armed Protesters Challenge White Militia At Confederate Monument This will not end well.
“Don’t Let Them Vaccinate You”: Farrakhan Warns Africans That Dr. Fauci Is Trying To Kill Them
Racist Elk? Rioters Destroy Historic 120-Year-Old Fountain In Portland – LaCorte News
Eight year-old girl shot to death in Atlanta
67 Shot, 13 Fatally, Over Fourth of July Weekend In Chicago: Police Most of the victims in Chicago shootings are black.
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5th July 2020
Claim: Global Warming Could Stress Tropical Plants Quick! To the therapists, Batman!
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5th July 2020
Trump doubles down on divisive messaging in speech to honor Independence Day CNN. Divisive!
Biden builds lead as Trump goes from trailing to flailing Politico. Flailing!
The 28 most outrageous lines from Donald Trump’s Mount Rushmore speech CNN. Outrageous!
‘It’s a constant barrage of hate’: how Trump sparks heated clashes in Florida’s retirement resort The Guardian. Constant! Barrage! Hate!
Trump’s push to amplify racism unnerves Republicans who have long enabled him Washington Post.
Miffed White Male: CNN’s Tendentious Trump Coverage
Happy July 4th From NY Times: ‘President Trump Delivered a Dark and Divisive Speech’
WashPost Distorts Trump’s Mount Rushmore Speech as Screed Defending ‘White Domination’ As they do….
Science! CNN Medical Analyst Calls Trump a ‘Cult Leader Who is Jumping Off the Cliff’
NY Times HATE: Trump July 4th Speech: ‘Exploits Race…to Stoke Fear’ in Whites
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5th July 2020
I thought I had seen it all when it comes to politicizing George Floyd’s death at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer, but this is a new and particularly contemptible one: Floyd’s death was Israel’s fault. That is, according to the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), the body to which, unfortunately, my own congregation belongs.
The ELCA is a relentlessly left-wing organization that survives because few Lutherans pay any attention to it. But this is hard to ignore. The context is a letter by the ELCA opposing Israel’s annexation plan….
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5th July 2020
Two bullet-ridden bodies lay sprawled on bloodstained concrete steps. Alongside, relatives of the victims are wailing and collapse to the ground. In another part of the city, a gang of youths use spray paint to disable security cameras before robbing a corner store. Later, video footage captures police officers sitting helplessly in their patrol car as a baying crowd hurls glass bottles at them.
This is lawless New York – a city that was once America’s glittering crown jewel but which risks descending into mob rule.
Murder figures have skyrocketed and a combination of the coronavirus pandemic, Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests and weak political leadership is in danger of achieving what Osama Bin Laden never could: bringing the Big Apple to its knees.
The scenes described above took place last weekend. Chioke Thompson, 23, and his friend Stephanie Perkins, 39, had been gunned down on the steps of Chioke’s Brooklyn home. His schoolteacher mum Sophia wept as she said: ‘Even as he died, he was trying to shield her with his body. It makes no sense. Neither of them did anything wrong.’
With the gunman still on the loose and their families insisting neither victim had any links to drugs or gangs, the pair appear to be the latest grim statistics in a crimewave sweeping the city.
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5th July 2020
bestselling children’s author has been sacked after expressing support for fellow writer J. K. Rowling in the bitter row over transgender rights.
In the latest example of ‘cancel culture’, novelist Gillian Philip was last week jettisoned from her role writing titles for a major publishing company.
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4th July 2020
Minnesota Asks Trump to Declare ‘Major Disaster’ Over Massive Riots Damage Major Disaster = Major Federal Bailout Money.
Protesters Slash Tires, Block Roads At Mount Rushmore Ahead Of Trump’s Fourth Of July Event Because nothing says Peace, Freedom, and Justice like interfering with other people’s lives and property.
Police attacked with bricks and bottles at illegal party in west London
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4th July 2020
Trump disregards public health warnings for speech at Mt. Rushmore The swine! (CNN)
Trump’s Mount Rushmore fireworks show is a Fourth of July attack on Indigenous people (NBC)
Trump abuses our national parks, and he’s doing it again at Mount Rushmore (The Guardian, a British newspaper, which makes the reference to ‘our national parks’ somewhat silly)
FLASHBACK: CNN Wondered If Trump’s July Fourth Rally Would ‘Foam’ With ‘Violence?’ Yes, but it was all caused by proglodytes.
New York Times Ripped For Describing Trump’s Mt. Rushmore Speech As ‘Dark And Divisive’
Joy Reid Show Combines Ignorance of American History with Death Wish for Donald Trump Not really news, but a useful reminder.
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4th July 2020
An 8-Year-Old Boy Was Killed In A Mall Shooting In Alabama
At Least Four Hospitalized After Shooting At Mall In Hoover, Alabama
Cop Who Stopped Elijah McClain Fired over Chokehold Photos
CNN Reporter Bashes Mount Rushmore as ‘Monument of Two Slave Owners’
EEOC Complaint Alleges Facebook Biased Against Black Workers
Colleges Rescinding Admissions Offers as Racist Social Media Posts Emerge
Black Conservatives: Tina Fey Should Be Held to Her Own Cancel-Culture Standard
Leo Terrell: ‘Embarrassed To Be A Democrat’ After DNC Plays ‘Race Card’ With Mount Rushmore
Farrakhan Accuses Fauci And Bill Gates Of Plotting To ‘Depopulate The Earth’ With Coronavirus Vaccine There are far too many insane black people in positions of power.
Little Mermaid’ Statue in Copenhagen Branded ‘Racist Fish’
Colin Kaepernick Condemns July 4th As ‘Celebration Of White Supremacy’
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4th July 2020
Weaknesses of solar and wind, Myths and Questions that require an answer
Claim: 60% of Fish Can’t Cope with Worst Case Global Warming
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4th July 2020
A newly released audio recording suggests Iran’s highest authorities allowed commercial airliners to fly in and out of Tehran during the period of intense military activity when Flight 752 was shot down — because closing the airspace would have given away the regime’s plan to strike U.S. military bases in Iraq.
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4th July 2020
The earlier career of a healthy Biden illustrates that he was not especially sharp even when in control of most of his faculties. We recall the former sane/nutty Biden of Neal Kinnock plagiarism, his “put y’all in chains” demagoguery, the studied racism of Biden’s riffs about a “clean” and well-spoken Obama, and the sane/insane Corn Pop stories. All are the trademark of a once fool Joe Biden, who was at least alert when compared with his current catalepsy. If Donald Trump can be ungrammatical, Biden is agrammatical — he simply streams together half-thoughts without syntax and then abandons the sentence entirely.
If Trump repeats vocabulary, Biden increasingly searches for words, any noun, whatever its irrelevance to the point he is making. Biden seems to suffer dyscognitive seizures, in which for moments he has no idea what he is doing or saying or where he is — a tragic, nearly epileptic condition. In scary episodes, the pale, scaly, and frozen visage of Biden appears almost reptilian, like a lizard freezing and remaining stationary as it struggles to process signals of perceived danger.
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4th July 2020
They make terrible people, period. (Seriously: Who doesn’t know this?)
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4th July 2020
That’s a great message for a Presidential candidate: America Sucks!
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4th July 2020
Very well; let them die. I, for one, will not mourne for those who expire of self-inflicted wounds.
I and mine will be safe, and that’s all I care about.
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4th July 2020
On Friday night’s PBS NewsHour, David Brooks gaffed. He called the Lincoln Project of ex-McCain advisers the “Jefferson Project.” He claimed they are conservatives, Trump is merely an anti-leftist.
“Republicans for Biden” is very exciting for all the leftists at PBS, who take conservative money and make Democrat propaganda. David Brooks is precisely this kind of fraudulent pseudoconservative supporting Biden each week.
Anti-leftist is enough for me; I don’t care about conservative.
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4th July 2020
Freeberg does a deep dive.
A third of a century into arguing with them on the Internet, I’m still struggling to figure out what the true difference is between liberals vs. normal people who think competently.
A lot of it has to do with feelings. When we grown-ups make a decision feeling a certain way, we are troubled by the possibility that deciding it at another time, with the facts remaining the same, in a different mood we might make a different call. This inspires reflection: Would we be wrong then, or are we wrong now? To a liberal, that proclivity toward emotional reasoning is a feature and not a bug. It seems like they live in a world in which all feelings have to be expressed, and making decisions about things is just another way of expressing them.
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4th July 2020
Once upon a time in America, we had nice things.
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4th July 2020
One of the biggest events in recent American history to be almost completely memoryholed is what happened to white ethnic urban neighborhoods due to racial integration in the second half of the 20th Century. Tens of millions of living Americans have first hand memories of these enormous events, but nobody wants to hear from them. This is particularly peculiar, since many of the children and grandchildren of the victims are bright people, some with jobs in the media.
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3rd July 2020
Trump Believes That He Is Losing Because He Hasn’t Been Racist Enough New York magazine.
Democrat Congressional Candidate: Report Trump Supporters!
Newsweek Columnists: Trump Could Lose Election, Remain President I guess that’s what they would do.
DNC-TV: CNN Doesn’t Air Trump Economic Briefing, Attacks Jobs Numbers
CNN Executive’s Snarky Tweet to Trump Raises Bias Questions Uh, those questions were answered years ago….
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3rd July 2020
At the Core of the Climate Crisis The New Yorker.
Open Democracy: “Why don’t we take climate change seriously? Racism is the answer”
Arctic’s ‘Hottest Day’? Not So Fast
Hot Summer Epic Fail: New Climate Models Exaggerate Midwest Warming by 6X
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3rd July 2020
FedEx Asks The Washington Redskins To Change Their Team Name
Left-Wing CHOP Zone Responsible For 525% Spike In Seattle Crime
Ex-European Council Head Says He’s ‘Praying’ for Biden Win
California Gov. Newsom Bans Singing In Churches
Liberal Freeform Drama: Women Are Oppressed Victims of America’s Capitalist & Patriarchal System
Twitter Ditches “Offensive” Non-Inclusive Terms Such As “Whitelist”, “Man Hours” And “He, Him, His”
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3rd July 2020
White couple arrested after gun pulled on black family Things are getting tense.
A 911 call, a racial slur, a refusal to cash a check. This is what it’s like for some Black bank customers They forgot to mention the drive-by shooting, the looted bodega, and the torched restaurant.
The NFL plans to play the Black national anthem before Week 1 games I’ll bet you didn’t know that there was a ‘black national anthem’, did you? Sounds to me as if they don’t consider themselves part of this nation.
As Trump Preps Visit, NY Times Suddenly Discovers Mt. Rushmore Is Racist
“Give Me Money Or We’ll Break Windows”
REPORT: The NBA Will Put ‘Black Lives Matter’ On The Court When Games Resume At Disney
Virginia Independent Calls Newly-Elected Black Republican A ‘Token’
Redskins Change Name To ‘Lizard People’ To Better Represent Population Of Washington, D.C. Babylon Bee.
“The American Government Still Owes A Debt”: Reparations Bill Gaining Steam In House
Denmark’s Famous ‘Little Mermaid’ Statue Vandalized Again, Deemed Racist
‘He Don’t Speak For Me’: Herschel Walker Criticizes ‘Black Lives Matter’
A Wisconsin Cop Shot An Alleged Knife-Wielding Black Man. His Family Says It Was ‘Because He Was Black’ But of course they would say that.
CNN on Gate-Breaking St. Louis Crowd: ‘Was This Protest Threatening Anyone?’ Boy, that’s a head-scratcher.
Video Game Developer ‘Ends Racism’ By Erasing “OK” Hand Gesture From Call Of Duty You can’t make this shit up.
Resharing videos of violence against Black people can spark more trauma Popular ‘Science’.
Scientists move to strip offensive names from journals, prizes, and more Let the witch-hunt begin!
PEP8: Requiring English Is White Supremacy Because everybody who speaks English is white. Obviously.
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3rd July 2020
The father of a 19-year-old killed in Seattle’s “Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone” (CHAZ) said he received a call from President Donald Trump regarding his son’s death, but not from Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan.
In an interview, Wednesday, Horace Lorenzo Anderson Sr., spoke about the murder of his son and said that Trump reached out after hearing the news. Lorenzo mentioned that Durkan, who allowed for the Autonomous Zone to stay up for weeks, had not yet called him.
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3rd July 2020
If ever there were a left-wing partisan, it would be Rosa Brooks. Her leftist resume includes serving as special counsel in George Soros’s foundation. She also held two different jobs in the Obama administration. And as I chronicled back in 2006, she was a virulent hater of then-President George W. Bush, analogizing him to Hitler, and enumerating the various ways in which she hated everything he did and stood for.
So it is nothing short of a fraud upon the public when Brooks and her comrades try to pass off as “non-partisan” a “project” she has devised whose clear aim is to stampede voters into handing Joe Biden a landslide victory.
Brooks’s so-called Transition Integrity Project has war-gamed four different election scenarios. In three of them, President Trump illicitly schemes to hold onto power. The only scenario guaranteeing “integrity” in the transition, and avoiding a “constitutional breakdown,” is the one in which Biden scores such a smashing win in both the popular vote and the Electoral College that Trump is helpless to overturn it.
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3rd July 2020
Democratic Sen. Tammy Duckworth of Illinois announced on Thursday that she is blocking Senate confirmation of 1,123 senior US Armed Forces promotions until she receives assurances that the promotion of Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, a key witness in President Donald Trump’s impeachment inquiry, won’t be blocked.
Duckworth, a combat veteran who serves on the Senate Armed Services Committee, is seeking written confirmation from Defense Secretary Mark Esper that he has not and will not stop Vindman, a decorated veteran, from being promoted to the rank of Colonel.
Duckworth’s power play, which her office described as “unprecedented in modern history,” takes advantage of unanimous consent procedures in the Senate that are used to efficiently conduct Senate business. Typically, a large batch of non-controversial military promotions, like the ones Duckworth is holding up, would be passed all at once with just a few words exchanged on the floor between Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and whoever is the presiding officer.
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3rd July 2020
Palestinian Rams a Checkpoint: Death, Lies and Videotape
3 Killed During Suspected Terror Attack In Downtown Glasgow
Three Killed in Stabbing Attack in Scottish City of Glasgow
Hamas Says Planned Israeli Annexation A “Declaration Of War” While IDF Vows ‘We’re Ready’ Which war would that be? The one Hamas has been fighting for the last twenty years?
UK Police Charge Suspect with Murder of 3 in Reading Park
Malign Foreign Influences in Dutch Mosques
Satellite Images Suggest Massive Iran ‘Mystery’ Explosion Was At Secret Missile Site
3 Killed As Separatist Group Attacks Karachi Stock Exchange
Reading stabbings suspect ‘shouted Allahu Akbar’ moments before killing three, court hears
Report: Terrorist Groups Recruiting ‘Jihadi Soldiers’ to Spread COVID-19
Syria’s nightmare is far from over
13 Dead After Mysterious Explosion In Northern Tehran
Russian Anti-Terror Chief: Jihadis Are Intentionally Spreading Coronavirus
Journalist Daniel Pearl’s Murderer to Be Freed This Week
Terror at a Paris Shopping Center
Orthodox Patriarch Warns Against Turning Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia Into Mosque
Hamas Takes Opportunistic View of Potential Annexation
Largest Amphetamine Bust In The World Nets 15 Tons Of Pills Reportedly Made By ISIS
Video Shows Moment Turkish Airstrike Hits Kurdish Village
Italian police seize over $1 billion of ‘ISIS-made’ Captagon amphetamines
Al Qaeda Issues A Propaganda Message To Incite More Violence In America
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