Mayor takes over police dept., fires city manager who vowed 'due process' for officer in death of Daunte Wright - TheBlaze

Mayor takes over police dept., fires city manager who vowed 'due process' for officer in death of Daunte Wright - TheBlaze: 

The mayor and city council of Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, have made some major changes a day after Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old black man, was fatally shot by a police officer during a traffic stop Sunday afternoon.

Mayor Mike Elliott announced Monday evening he has commandeered the city's police department thanks to the city council. The council also voted to fire City Manager Curt Boganey — who promised Monday that the officer involved in the shooting would be given "due process."

Portland riot leads to Antifa setting fire to ICE building - TheBlaze

Portland riot leads to Antifa setting fire to ICE building - TheBlaze: 

The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in Portland was vandalized and set on fire late Saturday night. Videos show federal agents reacting by firing crowd control munitions at the crowd of black bloc rioters in Oregon's most populated city. Shortly before midnight, nearly 100 black bloc demonstrators gathered at the ICE building in Portland for a planned protest, according to independent journalist Grace Morgan.

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NCAA Will No Longer Allow Championships to Be Held in States That Protect Female Athletes by Leah Barkoukis

NCAA Will No Longer Allow Championships to Be Held in States That Protect Female Athletes by Leah Barkoukis

"The NCAA announced Monday that it “unequivocally” supports transgender student-athletes and will no longer allow championship events to be held in states that protect female athletes. 

The Board of Governors cited its commitment to “values of inclusion and fair competition.”

“The NCAA has a long-standing policy that provides a more inclusive path for transgender participation in college sports,” the statement said. 

...The statement further noted that when determining where championships should be held, "only locations where hosts can commit to providing an environment that is safe, healthy and free of discrimination should be selected." 

In other words, states that have sought to protect women and girls, allowing them to compete on a level playing field, will be barred from hosting the events...Read all.

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Harry Reid warns Democrats against packing Supreme Court with liberal justices: 'Be very, very careful' - TheBlaze

Harry Reid warns Democrats against packing Supreme Court with liberal justices: 'Be very, very careful' - TheBlaze: 

Former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has a warning for Democrats eager to pack the Supreme Court with ideologically liberal justices. Reid's comments came one day after President Joe Biden signed an executive order forming a commission to study expanding the Supreme Court.

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Lunch video-----World War Xi: Inside China's cold war with the West

"Political leaders in Australia have warned there is a credible threat that tensions with China could lead to a deadly war.

The world has been crippled by coronavirus which was first identified in Wuhan and sent countries into a grinding, economic halt.

As America attempts to beat COVID-19 for good, and spends trillions supporting its citizens, the next threat is growing in the background – China.

In this special report, Sky News explores the terrifying threat of conflict with China, democracy’s attempt to hinder the communist titan and the worries over the capacity of President Joe Biden to prevent Beijing from achieving its plan for world leadership and the takeover of Taiwan."

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Capitol Police investigate podcaster for AOC Twitter threat - TheBlaze

Capitol Police investigate podcaster for AOC Twitter threat - TheBlaze: 

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.

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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.

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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. 

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.

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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’

• When people say “follow the science,” often what they’re really saying is “follow our plan.”

"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.”

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.

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History for April 14

History for April 14 - On-This-Day.com

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.

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.