Новости за 26.08.2020

(WASHINGTON EXAMINER) -- First lady Melania Trump delivered the keynote address at the Republican National Convention from the Rose Garden on Tuesday night, offering a softer touch than her polarizing husband as he seeks a second term and acknowledging the impact the coronavirus has had on the country. "My husband's administration will not stop fighting…

(WASHINGTON EXAMINER) -- Kenosha police received a call near midnight informing them of multiple gunshot victims. There were two deaths, and one person was transported to the hospital with "serious, but non-life-threatening injuries," the department said in an early Wednesday morning press release. Information about the victims has not been released. The city police department…

A convicted felon was brought to tears when President Donald Trump granted him a full pardon in a video that aired Tuesday during the second night of the Republican National Convention. Jon Ponder, a born-again Christian and founder of the nonprofit group Hope for Prisoners, appeared in the broadcast alongside former FBI agent Richard Beasley,…

[Editor's note: This story originally was published by Real Clear Politics.] By Susan Crabtree Real Clear Politics The odds were stacked against Donald Trump and Republicans and their seemingly star-crossed convention. In the last two months the venue was changed twice as coronavirus cases spiked in the Sun Belt after an earlier flattening. Midsummer brought…

[Editor's note: This story originally was published by Real Clear Policy.] By James Broughel Real Clear Policy COVID-19 is forcing rethinking in a lot of areas. Work, dating, and entertainment have all been upended by the coronavirus. In government, once-trusted federal agencies like the CDC and FDA have lost clout due to their poor handling…

A new report from the Senate Finance Committee warns that the nation is being ripped off by various conservation easement schemes. Unless the schemes are halted,  according to the panel chaired by Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa,  they could undermine the nation's self-reporting tax system and "sow pessimism among all Americans about the fairness of our…

More than a dozen Congress members are demanding that Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos explain how his AmazonSmile program decides which charities can participate. AmazonSmile allows customers to donate 0.5% of certain purchases to "eligible non-profit organizations." The problem, writes Rep. Doug Collins, R-Ga., and 14 colleagues, is that the program "relies on information from the…

If you get COVID-19, you don't want to be admitted to a hospital, warns a research paper published by the American Journal of Medicine. In fact, therapy at home or out-patient treatment could prevent thousands of hospitalizations and deaths, article by Peter McCullough, M.D., a cardiologist at Baylor, and 18 other researchers who mostly are…

Former CIA Director John Brennan apparently is now a witness against fired FBI Director James Comey in the Justice Department's criminal investigation of the Obama administration's probe of Trump-Russia collusion, according to former U.S. Attorney Joseph diGenova. Brennan has been interviewed by U.S. Attorney John Durham's team at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, and, according…

  A court has unsealed video testimony of Planned Parenthood executives describing how to modify abortion procedures to produce more usable fetal tissues and organs that can be sold for profit. The Federalist reported the videos show the executives confirming under oath what they previously admitted to undercover reporter David Daleiden of the Center for…

A congressional staffer has gone to Twitter with a demand for the "complete destruction of white men." The tweet later was deleted, perhaps because the staffer's boss is a "white man." Here's the comment from Abhi Agarwal and a reaction to it: This is the kind of demented language that passes for normal among the…

In my sunrise commentary of Aug. 24, I explained why I believe Donald Trump will win by a margin so huge that all the cheating planned by the Democrats will turn out to be wasted energy. Cheating only works in close races (because there's only so many dead people from whom the cheaters can harvest…

A California Superior Court judge denied Los Angeles County on Tuesday renewed application for a temporary restraining order to prevent Pastor John MacArthur and his Grace Community Church from gathering for worship. The county, insisting large gatherings are coronavirus "super-spreader" events, has asked the court to enforce a public health order the church has defied…

As so much despair has gripped our nation during this difficult time, I decided to go into our nation's most distressed communities with a message of hope and truth. I have been working on policy issues dealing with race and poverty through my organization, UrbanCURE, for 25 years. We purchased billboard space in hard-hit cities…

Here we go again: Manufacture. Rinse. Repeat. Everyone knows the cycle. Everyone knows it ends with false and incomplete narratives eventually being debunked by actual facts. Everyone knows that the racial myth-makers and political opportunists end up with fame, wealth and glory – but never any criminal punishments or moral accountability. Everyone knows, yet on…