Two police officers allegedly paid a visit to the home of a podcaster in California because of a threat that was posted on Twitter against Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.). However, the podcaster didn't make the threat toward AOC. Instead, it was reportedly another Twitter user who replied to the podcaster's original tweet where he benignly said the Democratic representative was "incredibly underwhelming" in an interview.
Wednesday, April 14, 2021
Capitol Police investigate podcaster for AOC Twitter threat - TheBlaze
Capitol Police investigate podcaster for AOC Twitter threat - TheBlaze:
Hate Crime Hoax: Outrageously Racist Graffiti Sparked Days Of Protests. A Black Student Wrote Them. | The Daily Wire
Hate Crime Hoax: Outrageously Racist Graffiti Sparked Days Of Protests. A Black Student Wrote Them. | The Daily Wire
- The absurdity of the messages should have been the first hint that these were not written by someone who genuinely believed them.
"Graffiti messages that included phrases like “white power” and “let’s kill all N*****s on campus” and that sparked days of protest at Albion College in Michigan were actually written by a black student, MLive reported.
...Discovery of the messages prompted days of protests from students, who boycotted classes in the name of racial justice.
...This incident is merely the latest in a long list of examples where claims of racism – or sexism – on campus have turned out to be hoaxes...Read all.
The GOP Needs to Understand That the Corporations Are Its Enemy by Kurt Schlichter
The GOP Needs to Understand That the Corporations Are Its Enemy by Kurt Schlichter
- Old habits die hard, and now it’s time for the GOP’s habitual support of big business to die, and to die hard.
"Look around – the corporations have deci
ded it’s a great time to use their power against us.
ded it’s a great time to use their power against us.
There used to be a kind of gentleman’s agreement – they stay out of our business and we stay out of theirs.
But they broke that agreement. 
They decided to go all in.
And it’s no coincidence that the political positions they have taken conform exactly to those of the Democrat Party.
So, the hell with them.
...So, today, they have intervened in favor of our enemies, but they expect us to sit back and pretend it’s 1987.
Why did they go with the liberal establishment?
Because that’s who the multinational bigwigs are, and always have been.
It’s always about class, and the class these robber barons circulated within looks down on regular Americans.
Hence the current virtue signaling, where you have airlines and shaving cream companies telling us we’re racist.
It’s all about the execs making sure everyone knows whose side they are on, so the message to their brethren and sisteren and otherkin is, “Hey, we’re not like those people. Not at all.”
But what’s hilarious is how they still expect us to go to bat for them against the left, just like before.
It doesn’t work that way...Read all.
Los Angeles Times says mispronouncing names is casual racism - TheBlaze
Los Angeles Times says mispronouncing names is casual racism - TheBlaze:
The Los Angeles Times attempted to stir the proverbial pot this week by publishing an article titled: "The casual racism of mispronouncing an Asian person's name." The motivation for the article stemmed from an incident at the L.A. theater community's Ovation Awards, where presenters accidentally mispronounced the name of an Asian-American nominee and mistakenly displayed a photo of the wrong actor.
A 75-Year-Old Warning about Those Who Say ‘Listen to the Science’
A 75-Year-Old Warning about Those Who Say ‘Listen to the Science’
"On his first day as president, Joe Biden, flanked by a portrait of Ben Franklin, called on the federal government to “advance environmental justice” and “be guided by the best science.”
- When people say “follow the science,” often what they’re really saying is “follow our plan.”
In many ways, Biden’s words came as no surprise.
Throughout the 2020 campaign and after, Biden had often repeated the phrases “listen to the science” and “I believe in science,” presumably to contrast himself with his opponent.
...The economist Ludwig von Mises once observed the problem with using scientific claims to shape the modern world.
He suggested that in many cases people invoke science simply to tell people what they must do.
“The planners pretend that their plans are scientific and that there cannot be disagreement with regard to them among well-intentioned and decent people,” Mises wrote in his 1947 essay “Planned Chaos.”...Read all.
History for April 14
Arnold (Joseph) Toynbee 1889 - Historian, author
- 1775 - The first abolitionist society in U.S. was organized in Philadelphia with Ben Franklin as president.
- 1828 - The first edition of Noah Webster's dictionary was published under the name "American Dictionary of the English Language."
- 1865 - U.S. President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in Ford's Theater by John Wilkes Booth. He actually died early the next morning.
- 1902 - James Cash (J.C.) Penney opened his first retail store in Kemmerer, WY. It was called the Golden Rule Store.
- 1912 - The Atlantic passenger liner Titanic, on its maiden voyage hit an iceberg and began to sink. 1,517 people lost their lives and more than 700 survived.
- 1925 - WGN became the first radio station to broadcast a regular season major league baseball game. The Cubs beat the Pirates 8-2.
- 1946 - The civil war between Communists and nationalist resumed in China.
- 1981 - America's first space shuttle, Columbia, returned to Earth after a three-day test flight. The shuttle orbited the Earth 36 times during the mission.
- 1988 - In New York, real estate tycoons Harry and Leona Helmsley were indicted for income tax evasion.
Tuesday, April 13, 2021
Poll: 62% Say Election Integrity Laws Do Not Discriminate
Poll: 62% Say Election Integrity Laws Do Not Discriminate:
A majority of likely voters, including a majority of black voters, do not believe voter identification laws discriminate, a Rasmussen Reports survey released Tuesday found.
Prominent leftists across the board — from President Biden to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) — have described basic election integrity measures, such as the recent law signed in Georgia, as forms of suppression. Schumer went as far as deeming state election integrity efforts “one of the greatest threats we have to modern democracy in America.”
Georgetown Students Support Voting Reform Proposal, Then Find Out It's Georgia's Law
Georgetown Students Support Voting Reform Proposal, Then Find Out It's Georgia's Law:
Students at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. expressed support for voting reform when asked what they thought about specific measures taken to ensure election integrity — then they found out the reforms are from Georgia’s new voting law.
Campus Reform reporter Addison Smith read parts of the new voting law to Georgetown students to get their reaction to it — before telling them that the legislation is from Georgia.
Top Whitmer aide takes spring break trip to Florida - TheBlaze
Top Whitmer aide takes spring break trip to Florida - TheBlaze:
A top aide of Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer took a spring break trip to Florida with family. Only days earlier, the Democratic governor of Michigan warned her constituents about travel because of concerns of spreading COVID-19. Tricia Foster, Whitmer's chief operating officer, posted photos on Facebook of her family vacationing in Siesta Key, a popular beach tourist destination on the Gulf of Mexico about an hour south of Tampa.
How Will the Pentagon Define 'Extremism'?
How Will the Pentagon Define 'Extremism'?
"Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is determined to root out “extremism” from the ranks of the military. He has just concluded a 60-day series of “listening sessions” dealing with the question of how he should go about the task of cleansing the armed forces of bad thoughts and is now ready to begin implementing programs and policies to that end.
But Austin has a huge problem.
He has to be able to define “extremism” in such a way as to safeguard our constitutional liberties while rooting out the skinheads, the Klan members, the gangbangers, and violent revolutionaries that make up a small but significant fraction of the armed forces.
- What is “extremism”?
- What is “extremist ideology”?
- Who can be considered “an extremist”?
- Is there any definition of “extremism” that isn’t subjective?
- What criteria will be used to determine who is “extreme”?
- Anti-abortion?
- Anti-gay marriage?
- Devout Christianity?
USMC ‘Extremism’ Training Follows the SPLC Playbook to Demonize Conservatives...Read all!
List: Georgia among 'easiest' states to vote in, better than Delaware and New York | Washington Examiner
List: Georgia among 'easiest' states to vote in, better than Delaware and New York | Washington Examiner
"A new nonpartisan evaluation of 2022 election laws has named Georgia as one of the easiest states to vote early in, a repudiation of attacks from baseball, corporate America, and others that criticized new state reforms under pressure from liberals, including President Joe Biden.
While critics have called recent reforms in the state “racist” and an effort to limit minority voting, the Center for Election Innovation and Research found that Georgia is among the 36 states with the easiest rules.
The center put Georgia in the “green” category, which it explained are states that offer “all-mail or no-excuse absentee and in-person early voting.”
...Asked if it included the Georgia changes, David Becker, the former Pew Research Center executive who founded the Center for Election Innovation and Research, told Secrets, “Yes, it does...Read all.
Border 'Spiraling Out of Control,' Say U.S. Reps
Border 'Spiraling Out of Control,' Say U.S. Reps:
During a brief post-tour press conference, the overall message delivered by the delegation — they were on the border to listen primarily, and to look for solutions to the problems along the border. Congressman Gonzales stated the need for President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris to visit and experience what they have seen and heard from the law enforcement personnel participating in the discussion.
Congressman Gonzales’ remarked, “When you have folks that are career law enforcement with over 35 years of experience that are seeing spikes they have never seen before, and you hear that over and over, things are spiraling out of control at a record pace, that’s the biggest takeaway.”
An outlier or are variants coming for us all??-----South African variant may evade protection from Pfizer vaccine, Israeli study says
South African variant may evade protection from Pfizer vaccine, Israeli study says
JERUSALEM, April 10 (Reuters) - The coronavirus variant discovered in South Africa may evade the protection provided by Pfizer/BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine to some extent, a real-world data study in Israel found, though its prevalence in the country is very low and the research has not been peer reviewed.
The study, released on Saturday, compared almost 400 people who had tested positive for COVID-19, 14 days or more after they received one or two doses of the vaccine, against the same number of unvaccinated patients with the disease...Read all.
Why Biden Is Breaking America
Why Biden Is Breaking America
"How long has it been since January 20?
A bit under three months. Frankly, it feels like a lifetime, when it comes to all the things that Joe Biden has been able to screw up in such a short period of time.
- ...Biden created a crisis at the border after President Donald Trump had fixed it through almost sheer force of will, despite Democrats trying to check him at every turn...It’s also costing us $60 million a week...
- Goodwin also said Biden seems set on undoing the the Arab-Israeli alliance, noting Biden restored hundreds of millions of dollars in annual subsidies to the Palestinians that Trump canceled.
- Then there’s the Senate filibuster and the Democrats’ desire to pack the Supreme Court. Goodwin recalls how Biden has previously defended the filibuster that he now calls “Jim Crow.”...Read all.
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