Новости за 17.07.2020

The FBI had a confidential informant inside the White House as President Trump began his term in January 2017, indicate newly published emails between former bureau lead investigator Peter Strzok and lawyer Lisa Page. The emails obtained by Judicial Watch show Strzok, Page and top bureau officials in the days prior to and following Trump's…

During a week in which coronavirus reporting errors have left little doubt that the number of deaths being attributed to COVID-19 can be disputed, a man killed in a traffic accident was considered to have officially died from the virus, according to a report. WOFL-TV reported Thursday that two individuals in their twenties had died…

Graphic displays of violence and destruction have emerged from the Black Lives Matter protests, and one of the most egregious is the brutal attack Thursday on police officers in Brooklyn, including NYPD Chief of Department Terence Monahan. Now, one of the two suspects, 25-year-old Quran Campbell, has been released without bail, angering Monahan. Campbell, Monahan…

"Mostly peaceful." Those are the two words we've heard ad nauseam from the media and politicians about the Black Lives Matter protests that have swept the nation in the wake of George Floyd's May 25 death after a police officer knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes during an arrest. By the way, that…

Republicans have announced they are scaling back their presidential nominating convention because of coronavirus outbreaks across Florida, but they still expect thousands to be on hand. The Democrats' convention in Milwaukee will be mostly virtual. Breitbart reports that after moving from Charlotte, North Carolina, to Jacksonville, Florida, because of crowd restrictions, Republicans now are scaling…

A prominent blogger and author, Mike Cernovich, says the hack Wednesday of Twitter accounts belonging to Joe Biden, Barack Obama and others exposed the company's censorship. The hack briefly revealed images of a panel in the company's administrative section, he said, that lists "Bounced," "Inactive" and "Protected" categories as well as a "Compromised" and "Trends…

Chicago already has among the nation's strictest gun-control laws in response to the perpetual violence in the city's West Side and South Side minority neighborhoods. But Mayor Lori Lightfoot contends the way to handle the recent increase in shootings and deaths is even more gun control. On Wednesday she was reacting to President Trump's warning…

"We should start calling them not the Democratic Party but the Donner Party," says Cincinnati talk radio's Gary Jeff Walker. This oldest political party in the world, Walker says, is like the ill-fated Oregon Trail pioneers who took a disastrous shortcut, got trapped by winter snows and to survive turned to cannibalism. "Democrats," he says,…

They're unwilling to defend true dissidents, but Beltway lite libertarians and Con Inkers are forever genuflecting to privileged legacy journalists, who can afford to voluntarily leave their rich gigs in "protest" of cancel culture. The right hasn't shut up about the New Yorker's Andrew Sullivan, who is far less banal than the New York Times'…

Joe Biden's campaign chairman, Cedric Richmond, thinks supporters of President Trump have a lot in common with supporters of David Duke, the former member of the Ku Klux Klan who was elected to the Louisiana legislature. There are "secret" Trump voters, he said, who are embarrassed to let it be known that they support the…

White people are "bloodsuckers" and "barbaric devils," Nikole Hannah-Jones, the reporter behind the New York Times' "1619 Project," once wrote in a letter to the editor. She confirmed Wednesday that in 1995, when she was 19, she wrote the letter to Notre Dame's student newspaper The Observer, including a caveat that she does not "hate"…

Is the U.S., preoccupied with a pandemic and a depression that medical crisis created, prepared for a collision with China over Beijing's claims to the rocks, reefs and resources of the South China Sea? For that is what Mike Pompeo appeared to threaten this week. "The world will not allow Beijing to treat the South…

The COVID-19 lockdown has its benefits: a chapter a day of the unabridged version of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's "The Gulag Archipelago," a study in fear and redefined "normal" values, among many other lessons. Lately I've seen face coverings stenciled with "I can't breathe." The beauty of the statement is its dual meaning. It can be a…

On March 25, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo made one of deadliest mistakes of the coronavirus crisis, signing an executive order forcing nursing homes in his state to accept patients who tested positive for coronavirus. Around 4,800 New Yorkers died from COVID-19 in those nursing homes from March to May – approximately 25% of all…