Новости за 22.05.2020

(DAILY SIGNAL) A conservative free-market group hopes to convince Amazon, the world’s largest retailer, not to rely on the Southern Poverty Law Center as a gatekeeper for its philanthropic giving. The scandal-plagued SPLC, a left-wing advocacy organization, routinely labels mainstream center-right organizations as “hate groups” on a list that includes actual hate groups such as…

(THE HILL) Michigan will ask President Trump to stay out of “enclosed facilities” in the state if he refuses to wear a mask during his Thursday visit to a Ford plant in Ypsilanti, says state Attorney General Dana Nessel (D). “Obviously here in Michigan we’ve been particularly hard-hit by the COVID-19," Nessel said Thursday on…

(FOX NEWS) South Carolina election ballots reportedly ended up in Maryland this week, after mail-in voting for the Palmetto State’s June 9 primary has already begun, according to local news reports. South Carolina election officials may cut ties with the company they used, Minnesota printer SeaChange, over the mix-up after about 20 Charleston County absentee…

Hackers funded by Iran's terror-sponsoring regime plan to target the 2020 U.S. election to "undermine" President Trump, whose re-election would be their "nightmare," reports Just the News. A senior U.S. intelligence official told JTN that Iran "seeks to undermine U.S. democratic institutions, the current U.S. president, and to divide the country in advance of the…

(FOX NEWS) -- More than 4,300 recovering coronavirus patients were sent to New York’s already vulnerable nursing homes under a controversial state directive that was ultimately scrapped amid criticisms it was accelerating the nation’s deadliest outbreaks, according to a count by The Associated Press. AP compiled its own tally to find out how many COVID-19…

(WASHINGTON EXAMINER) -- Doctors in Northern California say they have seen more deaths from suicide than they’ve seen from the coronavirus during the pandemic. “The numbers are unprecedented,” Dr. Mike deBoisblanc of John Muir Medical Center in Walnut Creek, California, told ABC 7 News about the increase of suicide deaths adding that he’s seen a…

(WASHINGTON EXAMINER) -- A Pakistan International Airlines flight carrying 99 passengers and eight crew members crashed in Karachi, Pakistan, killing everyone aboard, according to the city's mayor. The passenger jet went down in a residential area, and images of fire and destruction at the scene were posted to social media. Imran Khan, the prime minister…

(WASHINGTON EXAMINER) -- A Democratic senator is under fire by his Republican colleagues for attacking a federal appeals court judge. Sheldon Whitehouse, a senator and former attorney general for Rhode Island, criticized Judge Neomi Rao after a three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit gave the judge overseeing the case…

In a recent Washington Post column warning Americans to "prepare for the possibility of Trump rejecting election results" – one of media's favorite projections – Brian Klaas asks a question: "If he loses, would it be more surprising if Trump graciously accepts defeat and congratulates his opponent or if he claimed to be the victim…

Actress Lori Loughlin has pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges in connection with her effort to get her two daughters into college through fraud. Loughlin and her husband, fashion designer Mossimo Giannulli, sought to get their children into the University of Southern California as athletic recruits, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for…

Polls being touted by the establishment media are telling us the presidential race is all but over, and that presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden is destined to sit in the Oval Office. According to a Quinnipiac poll released Wednesday, President Donald Trump had better be ready to pack it up and head to Mar-a-Lago for…

Why was the entire country not locked down during major pandemics of 1968/69, 1957, 1949-1952 or even the Spanish Flu of 1918? That's a question many are asking some two months into the unprecedented mass quarantine of the healthy in response to the novel coronavirus pandemic. Whatever the answer, wrote Jeffrey A. Tucker, editorial director…

A study of local jails across America shows jail populations have been reduced at a shocking rate. The Prison Policy Initiative -- a nonprofit group that aims to "expose the broader harm of mass criminalization" -- released its findings May 14, detailing how much jail populations have shrunk since the start of the pandemic. Since…

Many in government create memos to cover their, or their boss', backside against accusations of error or wrongdoing. Thus President Barack Obama's National Security Adviser Susan Rice – directed, she says, by Obama's White House counsel Neil Eggleston – on President Donald Trump's Jan. 20, 2017, inauguration day, emailed a memo "memorializing" a Jan. 5…

By Walter E. Block, Ph.D. Want some penicillin? How's about a shot of insulin for the likes of you? Can you go to the store and buy some? Well, yes – but first you have to get permission from one of your betters, a physician. In this era of COVID-19, it is even more important…

The makers of an upcoming documentary about Norma McCorvey claim they captured on camera the "Jane Roe" of the 1973 Roe v. Wade confessing on her deathbed that her turn to the pro-life movement was an "act." "I'm a good actor," she said in the FX channel movie, according to its promoters. Many prominent pro-life…

Ideas about liberty have evolved, thankfully. Egas Moniz, a Portuguese neurologist, received a Nobel Prize for performing lobotomies on his vulnerable, unconsenting psychiatric patients, or victims. Today, he has the contempt of decent mental-health practitioners. (If he doesn't, they're not decent.) The same fate may await attorney Alan Dershowitz's status as a constitutional scholar for…

Let's face it, my friend, we're in troubled waters. You know it, we all do, and we're looking for some kind, any kind of safe ways out. This coronavirus is so demonic, so contagious, so deadly that we've been forced to practically shut down our economy and our way of life, in ways that are…

Seattle's notorious problem with homelessness has been exacerbated in recent years by failed policies, and now some City Council members have proposed a new measure that essentially would remove public safety concerns as a reason to clean up a homeless encampment. The proposal would allow unauthorized encampments throughout the entire city, including on private property,…

Talk-radio host Rush Limbaugh on Wednesday warned that voting Democrat in today's America is "voting for your economic death." "Look at the Obama economy for eight years. You know, Obama's out there talking about how incompetent Trump is. For crying out loud, Obama rewrote the book on presidential incompetence. And all you need to do…