Новости за 07.08.2020

Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler got roasted Friday for insisting Joe Biden didn't say what he said. Biden, in a video interview Thursday with Yahoo News, essentially said the black community lacks diversity of thought. "Unlike the African American community, with notable exceptions, the Latino community is an incredibly diverse community with incredibly different attitudes…

If you don't need to be behind bars right now, you probably shouldn't be. Jails and prisons are breeding grounds for COVID-19 -- and while, under normal circumstances, punitive measures would be perfectly reasonable for someone who doesn't represent any danger to the community, in this case they're not the ones who need to stay…

Chuck Ross Daily Caller News Foundation In June 2016, a month that is key to the origin story of the Steele dossier, the primary source for that salacious document met with an official in the Russian ministry of energy and a journalist friend in Russia, The Daily Caller News Foundation has learned. Igor Danchenko, a…

(THE HILL) An Arizona teacher is facing a $2,000 fine from a school district after quitting his job over health concerns amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Tavious Peterkin was set to teach his first year at Dysart Unified School District in Arizona this month. Peterkin has been an educator for 15 years, and he was…

(ASSOCIATED PRESS) Some Black Lives Matter protesters in Salt Lake City could face up to life in prison if they’re convicted of splashing red paint and smashing windows during a protest, a potential punishment that stands out among demonstrators arrested around the country and one that critics say doesn’t fit the alleged crime. The felony…

(CNN) People are getting sick and even dying after swallowing hand sanitizer, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday. Four died and others have suffered impaired vision or seizures, the CDC says. Hand sanitizer is everywhere and is useful for cleaning the hands during the coronavirus pandemic. But it's not safe to…

(SCHENECTADY TIMES-UNION) The explosion of a food processor being tested for the manufacturing of guacamole killed a well-known businessman and left two others injured Wednesday morning, officials said. The man, who authorities identified as Joseph Kapp, 67, died after being taken to Ellis Hospital after the blast that happened shortly after 7 a.m. at Innovative…

(NBC NEWS) Former first lady Michelle Obama says racial inequality amid the challenges of the coronavirus pandemic has left her feeling that she has "some form of low-grade depression." "Not just because of the quarantine, but because of the racial strife, and just seeing this administration, watching the hypocrisy of it, day in and day…

(DAILY SIGNAL) The more than 84,000 mail-in ballots that were disqualified in the June 23 primary in New York—where two congressional nominations were just decided this week—underscore prospective problems posed by the universal mail-in voting being called for by liberal politicians for the November elections in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The massive problems with…

(ZERO HEDGE) Thus far an official ongoing investigation by Lebanese authorities into the cause of Tuesday's Beirut port blast, now considered the largest non-military munitions explosion in history, has dubbed it severe "negligence". It's now well known that over 2,500 tons of ammonium nitrate, an ultra-combustible chemical compound utilized in fertilizers and production of explosives,…

(DAILY CALLER) – Sen. Kamala Harris of California and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York are teaming up on a proposal requiring lawmakers who introduce climate bills to consider the impact such legislation will have on black people and poor communities. The two Democrats introduced the Climate Equity Act Thursday that would, if passed, require…

(FRONT PAGE MAG) – "What I saw was he was the kind of person that wants people to worship him. He needs to be worshiped and I don't do that." That was Malik Obama in an August 1 interview with the New York Post. Obama, 62, was promoting his new book, "Big Bad Brother from…

[Editor's note: This story originally was published by Real Clear Energy.] By Oliver McPherson-Smith Real Clear Energy The year 2020 has been one of upheaval and change, but the American love for the outdoors has remained constant. Unsurprisingly, climate change and protecting the environment are two key issues in this year’s election cycle. To pitch his vision…

[Editor's note: This story originally was published by Real Clear Politics.] By Mark Hemingway & Susan Crabtree Real Clear Politics An internal government report issued by the Office of Personnel Management has uncovered a decade of gross lapses in common personnel vetting practices that are raising serious security concerns at the taxpayer-funded U.S. broadcasting agency,…

An appeals court will hear arguments concerning the impartiality of the trial judge who is extending the case against former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn after the Justice Department filed a motion to dropped the charges. The judge, Emmet Sullivan, requested the hearing of the full panel of the Washington, D.C., Circuit Court of Appeals…

Two Dunkin' Donuts workers have been dismissed for refusing to serve an off-duty Iowa policeman who was not in uniform. He was wearing a "Thin Blue Line" cap. DailyMail.com reported Sgt. Paul Parizek of the Des Moines Police Department had been a steady customer at the chain's East 14th Street location. Even before he could…

The Twitter employee who announced Wednesday that the account of President Trump's campaign team had been suspended is Democratic Sen. Kamala Harris' former press secretary. Tim Murtaugh, director of communications for the Trump 2020 campaign, noted spokesman Nick Pacilio's employment history after Twitter suspended the account because his tweet of a video clip of a…

The "systemic racism" refrain is a meaningless abstraction. Operationalize the nebulous abstraction that is "systemic racism," or get out of my face! To concretize a variable, it must be cast in empirical, measurable terms, the opaque "racism" abstraction being one variable (to use statistical nomenclature). Until you have meticulously applied research methodology to statistically operationalize…

Leftist radicals have done far more in 2020 than loot stores and tear down statues to destroy capitalism and, in Orwellian fashion, re-write American history. They also ferociously attack traditional religion, aiming to replace it with their own pagan Marxist pseudo-religion. Statues of Jesus and Mary have been beheaded. In Portland, leftists created a bonfire…