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Anarchy continues its reign in New York City where even certifiable nuts brandishing lethal weapons are let out of jail without bail every day of the week.As soon as I was out of his range of fire, I called the police, who arrested him. They seized his crossbow—loaded with a quarrel, or bolt—and also a machete. He was charged with menacing with a deadly weapon, a class A misdemeanor that could result in up to a year in jail. He was RoR’d (released on his own recognizance) immediately.And if you are a violent peaceful BLM-Antifa looter/rioter protester there’s no reason...

Holland, was told to close by governor’s order, like many did at the height of Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s (D) executive order spree. But Hackney reopened last summer and faced orders to close by state agents. She repeatedly refused and was ordered to turn herself in Thursday. When she ignored that demand, Hackney was arrested early Friday and taken to a Lansing jail, some 100 miles away from Holland. Hackney, an immigrant who fled communist Poland as a teenager, was arrested Friday on a misdemeanor contempt of court charge. She was denied bond and remains in an Ingham County jail. Meshawn...

@nickgillespie skewers the latest #CovidReliefBill and how upper-middle-class giveaways like this harken back to Bush's Medicare Part D expansion. We should NOT be subsidizing people who are completely capable of covering these expenses on their own. Video...

I hate to say I told you so. But I told you so. I'm one of the few brave souls in the American media who warned and advised from day one (back in early March 2020) not to lock down the American people or the economy. I argued the following: -- That lockdowns wouldn't stop COVID-19, because you can't stop a virus. -- That there was never a reason to lock down everyone. Anyone relatively young or healthy never had a reason to fear death from COVID. The survival rate has been reported at 99%, especially for anyone relatively healthy...

Explanation: This popular group leaps into the early evening sky around the March equinox and the northern hemisphere spring. Famous as the Leo Triplet, the three magnificent galaxies found in the prominent constellation Leo gather here in one astronomical field of view. Crowd pleasers when imaged with even modest telescopes, they can be introduced individually as NGC 3628 (right), M66 (upper left), and M65 (bottom). All three are large spiral galaxies but tend to look dissimilar, because their galactic disks are tilted at different angles to our line of sight. NGC 3628, also known as the Hamburger Galaxy, is temptingly...

I don’t revel in the misery of others, as a general rule, but every once in a while I do enjoy watching some leftist, or group of them, get a big dose of their own medicine. When 70 employees of the lie factory HuffPo were laid off by their new owners at Buzzfeed, I felt bad for the individuals, none of whom I know. But in a broader sense, I couldn’t care less. And if I’m being completely honest, I laughed a little. I wasn’t laughing at the people who lost their jobs. They weren’t real people in my mental...

Who’s really running the show? Just imagine the following scenario: President Joe spends an evening – actually, more like an afternoon -- watching old classic films, one of which, perhaps, is a Cold War-era action movie about a Russian invasion. When not dozing off he thoroughly enjoys the film. He has his early-bird supper and shuffles off to bed. Later that night, about 3:00 am, Joe wakes up and locks himself in the bathroom with the nuclear football. Jill suddenly wakes up and tries to check on Joe, but the bathroom door is locked. While she calls his name and...

If President Biden makes good on a recent White House promise that he'll field questions from a roomful of reporters for the first time this coming Thursday, he will be doing so on his 65th day since taking office. Saturday marked the 60th consecutive day the nation’s 46th president did not do a news conference with the White House press corps. That stretch has been marked by several near-misses of interactions with the media: On March 3, for example, Biden appeared ready to handle some questions from reporters during a virtual news conference with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, but the...

Paul Cassell, a former U.S. District Court and law professor at the University of Utah’s S.J. Quinney College of Law, dubbed this the “Minneapolis Effect,” in research that he conducted on the phenomenon. “Specifically, law enforcement agencies have been forced to divert resources from normal policing to patrolling demonstrations,” Cassell wrote. “And even as the anti-police protests have abated, police officers have scaled back on proactive or officer-initiated law enforcement, such as street stops and other forms of policing designed to prevent firearms crimes.” In his research, Cassell estimated that due to this shift in policy and in the effort...

Oppressed societies do not automatically rebel. Perhaps contrary to intuition, oppressed populations have a tendency to keep their heads down. Despite their misery, they continue their increasingly dismal lives, until something shocks them into action. The United States did not automatically rebel against the tyranny of King George. As the Declaration of Independence tells us, "all experience has shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable[.]" And suffer the colonists did, for many years, complaining and protesting. The Boston Massacre occurred in 1770, and the Tea Party in 1773, but not until 1776 did the rebellion...

Shortly before Christmas last year, Susan Rice and Jake Sullivan, two top advisers to President-elect Joe Biden, sat for an interview with EFE, a Spanish wire service, to issue a stark warning to migrants considering journeying north to the nation’s southern border: Don’t come now — but help is on the way. The next day, Biden was similarly pointed, saying his administration — while eager to roll back Donald Trump’s immigration policies — first needed to implement “guardrails” to avoid winding up with “2 million people on our border.” Less than a month later, the new president began tearing down...

Richard Grenell, a former acting director of national intelligence turned potential Republican candidate for governor of California, gleefully seized on an error by Google on Saturday, promising “a plethora of executive orders” after the search giant listed him as “President of the United States since 2021”. Biden 'doing fine' after stumbling once, twice, thrice on steps of Air Force One Read more The former Trump aide also took a low shot at the actual president, Joe Biden, tweeting: “I will run up the stairs without tripping.” Biden stumbled dramatically on Friday, as he climbed the stairs to Air Force One....

As Obama’s national profile began to rise in 2007, the media characterized anyone who supported him as “racist.” When Trump’s national profile began to rise in 2015, the media characterized him as a White supremacist and indicated that his followers must be too. As of January 7, 2021, though, that suggestion was deemed too mild. This year, every White person, unless he or she makes complete obeisance to the racist “anti-racism” movement, is presumptively a “White supremacist.” Because “White supremacists” are, by definition evil, this media mania is potentially painting a target on the back of every White person in...

March 21 2021 St. Mary's Cathedral and Basilica, seat of the Syro-Malabar diocese in Kochi, Kerala. Lectionary 35First readingJeremiah 31:31-34 ©I will write my Law in their heartsSee, the days are coming – it is the Lord who speaks – when I will make a new covenant with the House of Israel (and the House of Judah), but not a covenant like the one I made with their ancestors on the day I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt. They broke that covenant of mine, so I had to show them who...

The Talk Shows March 21st, 2021 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Anchored by Chris Wallass: Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas; Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.); Selling digital artwork for record $69 million: Artist Mike “Beeple” Winkelmann. Panel: Guy Benson; Catherine Lucey, the Wall Street Journal; Charles Lane. MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Hosted by Chuck U. Toad: Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas; Sen. Raphael Warlock (D-Ga.); Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.). Panel: Julia Ainsley, justice and national security reporter at NBC News; Eddie Glaude Jr., Professor of African American Studies at Princeton...

AJ Pritchard's girlfriend Abbie Quinnen has suffered third-degree burns after a wine bottle exploded and set fire to her hair and clothing. The professional dancer, 23, was filming a video with her Strictly star beau, 26, when the accident happened on January 19 and was driven to Ealing Hospital in London by his brother Curtis, reports The Sun On Sunday. Since the awful incident, Abbie has needed three skin grafts and made 20 hospital visits with AJ caring for her as she recovers at home inbetween appointments.

Canceled four years ago by a president who considered global warming a hoax, climate crisis information has returned to the website of the US government’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as part of Joe Biden’s promise to “bring science back”. The revival of a page dedicated to the climate emergency reverses Donald Trump’s order in 2017 to drop all references to it from government websites, and prioritises the Biden administration’s pledge to “organize and deploy the full capacity of its agencies to combat the climate crisis”. In a statement, Michael Regan, confirmed by the US Senate last week as the federal...

Customs and Border Protection is considering a plan to release migrants who crossed the border illegally without first giving them a court date to reappear. The news comes as Biden officials are blaming the former Trump administration for the border crisis and the number of unaccompanied minors now in custody has swelled to 15,000. A senior CBP source told Fox News that Border Patrol agents in the Rio Grande Valley Sector are considering releasing migrants into the United States without an official Notice to Appear, a process that normally takes hours for each individual or family.

In the case of Tah v. Global Witness Publishing, Inc., which emerged from the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, nobody but the parties involved cared about the issues in the case. It became noteworthy, though, because Judge Laurence Silberman used the dissent, not just to disagree with the majority’s ruling, but also to warn against the danger of a national media that is completely allied with the party controlling all of Washington D.C. However, I find the case even more exciting because it attacks the notion of Supreme Court infallibility. The majority in the...

A senior Teen Vogue staffer who expressed concern about the racist tweets posted by the magazine's now-departed editor used the N-word in her own tweets. Christine Davitt, a senior social media manager at Teen Vogue, wrote two tweets in 2009 to a friend identifying him as a 'ni--a,' and another in 2010 using the word 'ni--a', Fox News reported. The friend to whom the comments were addressed appears to be white. Davitt said in multiple tweets that she is of Irish and Filipino descent.