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Elizabeth Warren dropped out of the 2020 presidential race March 5, and in that instant one could feel a great disturbance in the feminist force, as if a million voices cried out in terror that once again a woman was unfairly blocked out of her shot. Medium’s Jessica Valenti, a radical feminist with a history of blaming the world’s problems on the patriarchy, let out a loud lamentation about the Senator from Massachusetts’s untimely fate, arguing that her lack of success in the race was the fault of “America’s sexism.” Oh this should be good. Valenti had apparently staked her...

Suddenly, “sanctuary cities” are a problem worthy of front-page coverage in The New York Times — but only if they are pro-life places opposed to abortion clinics. Reporter Dionne Searcey made Wednesday’s front page with her report keyed to a city council meeting in Texas: "‘Sanctuary Cities’ for Unborn Reflect a Nation’s Rising Walls”: No one was trying to build an abortion clinic in the Texas community of Lindale, population 6,000. But they wanted to keep it that way. Persuaded by a shaggy-haired pastor in a backward baseball cap, a dozen other Texas communities already had passed measures prohibiting abortion...

The Justice Department and Homeland Security, along with government counterparts from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom, announced today the publication of Voluntary Principles to Counter Online Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse.  Developed in consultation with several leading technology companies, the 11 voluntary principles outline measures that companies in the technology industry can choose to implement to protect the children who use their platforms from sexual abuse online and to make their platforms more difficult for child sex offenders to exploit.“Today marks a historic event,” said U.S. Attorney General William P. Barr. “For the first time, the...

A Columbia, Missouri, man was sentenced to 236 months in prison in federal court today for his role in making preparations to launch a terrorist attack with persons he believed were members of the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), but who were actually undercover law enforcement employees, announced Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers and U.S. Attorney Timothy A. Garrison for the Western District of Missouri.   Robert Lorenzo Hester Jr., 28, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Greg Kays to 236 months in federal prison without parole. The court also sentenced Hester to a...

Hollywood knows how to come up with ticket-selling doomsday scenarios and their imagined outcome of the coronavirus is no less devastating than the events of Independence Day. Well, actually, they’re worse, because this time our own president is supposedly helping along the end of the world. Hollywood’s most unhinged denizens channeled their fears about the potential global plague onto the Trump administration, deciding to forego thinking up some solutions and instead taking to Twitter to say that, with Trump and Pence involved, we’re all going to die. Of course, who better than the incomparable Rosie O’Donnell to provide some choice...

A Las Vegas resident was sentenced to 65 months in prison today for his role in a stolen identity tax fraud, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Nicholas A. Trutanich for the District of Nevada.According to court documents and statements made in court, Josiah Ntekume engaged in a scheme to file false tax returns using stolen identities in order to obtain tax refunds. Coconspirators provided Ntekume with names, addresses, dates of birth, and social security numbers, and Ntekume used these stolen identities to establish prepaid debit card...

The always trendy social engineers over at TeenVogue are raising awareness for the pro-choice cause this week, urging young people to get more hysterical about abortion than they currently are. The hard-left kids fashion mag ran a poll on young voters to find out what issues concern them most about the upcoming election. The good news for TeenVogue is that the poll found that most young folks are pro choice, while the bad news is that abortion isn’t a priority issue for them. Say it ain’t so, guys, especially when abortion is so under threat right now. The publication reported,...

A U.S. Immigration Judge in Memphis, Tennessee, has issued a removal order against a German citizen and Tennessee resident, on the basis of his service in Nazi Germany in 1945 as an armed guard of concentration camp prisoners in the Neuengamme Concentration Camp system (Neuengamme).After a two-day trial, U.S. Immigration Judge Rebecca L. Holt issued an opinion finding Friedrich Karl Berger removable under the 1978 Holtzman Amendment to the Immigration and Nationality Act because his “willing service as an armed guard of prisoners at a concentration camp where persecution took place” constituted assistance in Nazi-sponsored persecution.  The court found...

Like a number of states, concealed pistol license holders in Michigan are exempted from the requirement to undergo a NICS background check every time they purchase a new firearm. That’s because permit holders have already undergone an extensive background check and fingerprinting in order to be issued a permit in the first place. Michigan has had that exemption from the ATF since 2006, but yesterday the ATF rescinded it. Why? Because recreational marijuana is now legal in the state. Voters approved legalization in 2018 and retail sales started December 1, 2019. While buying and using weed may not be a...

In the spring of 1976, it looked like that year’s flu was the real thing. Spoiler alert: it wasn’t, and rushed response led to a medical debacle that hasn’t gone away. “Some of the American public’s hesitance to embrace vaccines — the flu vaccine in particular — can be attributed to the long-lasting effects of a failed 1976 campaign to mass-vaccinate the public against a strain of the swine flu virus,” writes Rebecca Kreston for Discover. “This government-led campaign was widely viewed as a debacle and put an irreparable dent in future public health initiative, as well as negatively influenced...

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Thursday that an "element of misogyny" undermines female presidential candidates following Sen. Elizabeth Warren's (D-Mass.) withdrawal from the 2020 race. "I so wish that we had a woman president of the United States, and we came so close to doing that," Pelosi said at her weekly news conference. "I do think there's a certain element of misogyny." "Every time I get introduced as the most powerful woman, I almost cry, because I wish that were not true," she added. The first female Speaker said she believes that some of the sexist bias that women face...

The Parental Oversight of Public Libraries Act, sponsored by state Sen. Paul Bailey and state Rep. Andy Holt, would establish a five-member review board for each public library to determine “whether any sexual material provided to the public by the public library is age-inappropriate sexual material.” Voters would elect the members. The board would hold public hearings, during which time “members of the community may present concerns to the board,” according to the bill’s text. The bill is HB 2721 in the House and SB2896 in the Senate. Holt said it would provide local control on controversial issues. “There haven’t...

On March 8, 2015, the President issued Executive Order 13692, declaring a national emergency with respect to the situation in Venezuela based on the Government of Venezuela’s erosion of human rights guarantees; persecution of political opponents; curtailment of press freedoms; use of violence and human rights violations and abuses in response to antigovernment protests; and arbitrary arrest and detention of antigovernment protestors, as well as the exacerbating presence of significant government corruption. On August 24, 2017, I issued Executive Order 13808 to take additional steps, with respect to the national emergency declared in Executive Order 13692, to address serious abuses...

Bloomie establishes his own super-pac that will also take donations. He puts in 600 million dollars with 100 million going to Bidden and 500 million going to key House and Senate races where his millions can swing an election. Bidden is going to lose anyway but if Bloomie is smart he can make the Seante Democrat and keep The House Democrat. This way he can really play the spoiler for Trump and Trump's future judicial nominations including the Supreme Court. Just my thoughts after Bloomie's amazing win in Samoa. PLUS you better believe Bloomie is waiting in the wings in...

An American Airlines flight from Chicago to Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport was forced to make an emergency landing Tuesday when an unidentified passenger tried to open an exit door. Multiple passengers, including two from North Texas, helped to subdue the man and prevent him from endangering the lives of everyone else on board AA Flight 2300. “Everyone who could get to the guy got to the guy to subdue him,” said DJ Mitchell, a BNSF Railways employee from the Dallas area, who was among those who held the man on the ground until the flight was able to divert and...

Both San Francisco Public Defender Mano Raju and District Attorney Chesa Boudin on Thursday condemned the recent arrest of a man by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents outside of the Hall of Justice.

One man was stuck in possibly the last place anyone would have wanted to be with a storm approaching: 375 feet above the ground in a crane. Thankfully, although it was a little too close for comfort, the tornado was far enough away to not do any damage to the crane Nash was in, and he made it through just fine.

Hillary Clinton claims she is the 'the most investigated innocent person in America' in a new Hulu documentary about her life. The former Democratic Presidential candidate even went so far as to say she felt like she's been persecuted in an offhand remark while cameras were rolling. ... Others who were interviewed for the project provide more insight, like the New York Times chief White House correspondent, Peter Baker, who says that Hillary is blinded by her belief that she is a 'righteous' person. ... The series also features a number of revealing anecdotes about the 2016 campaign. During a...

Trump is on now but Brett Baier and Martha Macallum are doing a total hit job. How the heck can they each ask a question about Schumer attacking the Supreme Court - and turn it into anti Trump questions? And the first question from a "Trump supporter" was asking Trump to be more civil. Gee, Democrats don't get questioned this way

Adding another arrow to her quiver of crazy, radical feminist commentator and occasional New York Times columnist Jill Filipovic took to social media to disparage most of the remaining Democratic presidential field. No, not because they embody some of the worst values in human history, but because each of their skin tones is white and they each (except for one) have male genitalia. Your team was supposed to be the woke one, Jill. What on earth happened? Joking aside, Filipovic shared her racist and sexist opinion to Twitter on Monday, March 2, following the news that another one of the...