Новости за 13.02.2020

The U.S. House on Thursday took at a shot at time travel, with a simple majority adoption of a resolution that would go back in time and remove a long-passed deadline for states to approve the Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. It was House Joint Resolution 79 that Democrats, and a handful of…

(CNBC) Mike Bloomberg has been paying a handful of social media influencers to post satirical memes about him for his Democratic presidential bid. The billionaire former mayor of New York was recently the subject of several memes uploaded to photo-sharing app Instagram. Each of the posts claim to be sponsored by him. One Instagram account,…

(CNBC) Researchers from MIT say that washing your hands at the airport could help curb a pandemic by up to 69% — and that includes flu-like illnesses such as coronavirus. Coronavirus, which was renamed COVID-19 on Tuesday, is believed to be spread through respiratory droplets that are expelled by coughing and sneezing. Experts and the…

(CBS NEWS) The publisher of the Miami Herald, The Kansas City Star and dozens of other newspapers across the nation has filed for bankruptcy protection. McClatchy Co.'s 30 newsrooms, including The Charlotte Observer and The Star-Telegram in Fort Worth, will continue to operate as the publisher reorganizes under Chapter 11. McClatchy's origins date to 1857…

(CALIFORNIA GLOBE) Under a bill proposed late last week, California would make it mandatory for all qualified and registered voters to cast a ballot for every election in their area. Assembly Bill 2070, authored by Assemblyman Marc Levine (D-Greenbrae), also states that ballots themselves wouldn’t have to be filled in. The wording of the bill…

(PALESTINIAN MEDIA WATCH) In response to the UN’s release of its list of blacklisted Israeli companies that have businesses across the Green Line, Palestinian Media Watch is releasing this report “Palestinians prefer to work for Israeli employers” – based on previous PMW releases. The report shows that according to Palestinian workers, Palestinian lawyers, and the…

A Wisconsin teacher has been placed on leave for tweeting that Rush Limbaugh "should have to suffer" and die a "painful" death after the conservative radio host announced he has been diagnosed with advanced-stage lung cancer. "Limbaugh absolutely should have to suffer from cancer. it's awesome that he's dying, and hopefully it is as quick…

[Editor's note: This story originally was published by the Daily Caller News Foundation.] By Chris White Daily Caller News Foundation Oil production on federal lands topped 1 billion barrels in 2019, marking a 29% increase from the Obama administration, Department of the Interior officials announced Tuesday. Technological advancements over the last decade in hydraulic fracturing…

As Democratic lawmakers in Virginia chip away at commonwealth residents' firearms rights, one bill in a Southern state seeks to undo the damage and form a pro-Second Amendment bulwark across the south. Mississippi House Bill 753, sponsored by seven Republicans in the state Legislature, was introduced Monday. The bill aims to establish an interstate compact…

[Editor's note: This story originally was published by the Daily Caller News Foundation.] By Mary Margaret Olohan Daily Caller News Foundation State Democrats stormed out of the Virginia House chamber Tuesday after a black pastor condemned abortion and gay marriage through prayer. Rev. Robert M. Grant Jr. of The Father’s Way Church in Warrenton, Virginia,…

A certain death has come to those who cannot find a spot of warmth in their heart for the well-meaning teenage rebel. We're not talking full-on James Dean, "Hey Johnny, what are you rebelling against?"/"What have you got?"-style rebellion. (Not that there isn't something to be said for that sort, in small doses.) We're talking…

(DAILY CITIZEN) -- Robert Just remembers the day a group of police officers came to the boarding school where he was living – a home for troubled youth. He was 8 years old. The police put on a show to entertain the children and make them laugh. It’s years later, but Just never forgot those…

A lawsuit has been filed on behalf of several girls who compete in high-school track events in Connecticut to give them back their sport – and remove from the trophy platforms boys who have a physical advantage in the events. "Girls deserve to compete on a level playing field," charged Christiana Holcomb, a lawyer for…

There's a reason why Democrats hate President Trump so much, warns former U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo. It's because he threatens their ultimate agenda of "transforming" America, as Barack Obama had promised. It all revolves around immigration, the former congressman explained in an exclusive interview with the Gateway Pundit. The report explains that Tancredo, who…

A Jewish-American woman is suing the Harvard Club of New York City and a Harvard University professor for assault after she rose to ask a question following a presentation by a pro-Palestinian lecturer. The Harvard Club not only forced Vanesa Levine, 28, to leave the February 2019 event, but later rescinded her membership, she says.…

So, the question is: How long does this stay up? It's not just rhetorical. A YouTube sketch comedy group that's had one of its videos on gender issues banned in the past has produced a new video on the phenomenon of parents who let their children decide their own gender. And you can pretty much…

In an predictable turn of events, prominent health and wellness accessory developer Fitbit, Inc. has unofficially been chosen as the latest subject of the LGBT community's collective scorn. The organization is under fire this week on social media for, of all things, a supposed lack of gender "inclusivity" within the software for its popular fitness…

Following the chaos surrounding last week's Iowa caucus and the subsequent infighting among Democrats over the party's direction, longtime Democratic strategist James Carville engaged in a rant on MSNBC Feb. 4 that wound up going viral. Carville's beef, as it were, is largely with the overt nature of the party's gravitation toward the left and…

Had Pete Buttigieg and Liz Warren merely acknowledged what would have been the 25th birthday of Trayvon Martin, one could give them a pass. Instead, both ignored George Zimmerman's personal history, his acquittal in the shooting death of Martin, and the explosive revelations in Joel Gilbert's new documentary and book of the same name, "The…

The topic of the hedonist yet sexually deprived West characterized by loneliness and depression run as themes in the books of Michel Houellebecq, France's greatest living author. He shocked Europe with books such as "The Elementary Particles," "Whatever," "Platform" and "The Map and the Territory," which can only be described as incendiary. It is literature…