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A massive fight broke out at Miami International Airport in Florida, leading to one arrest, authorities said. Video of the incident, shared on Twitter by documentary film director Billy Corben, shows two small fights in a waiting area. Witnesses can be heard telling the individuals to stop fighting and airport employees can be heard calling for security. A bystander can be seen ushering a group of individuals attacking one victim away, while the other altercation is broken up by a security officer, who repeatedly tells one of the individuals beating up the other victim to calm down.

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) said Thursday she will ease coronavirus restrictions on the state when enough residents submit to receiving a vaccine. Whitmer tied personal freedom to vaccine benchmarks as she was given her second dose of the Pfizer vaccine.

It’s hard to believe that five years ago, the Drudge Report was a major player in conservative media. Since whatever happened to Matt Drudge happened, the site has been a cesspool of mainstream media propaganda and leftist talking points.Many patriots turned to social media to fill the void with many prominent conservatives posting links to important stories regularly. That’s dead as well as far too many topics are forbidden on Twitter and Facebook. There are social media alternatives that may come around, but so far Gab, Parler, and similar freer speech social sites have not been able to reach a...

contumelious adjective con·​tu·​me·​li·​ous | \ ˌkän-tü-ˈmē-lē-əs , -tyü-ˈmē-, -chə-ˈmē- \ Definition of contumelious : insolently abusive and humiliating abusive, invective, opprobrious, scurrile (or scurril), scurrilous, truculent, vitriolic, vituperative, vituperatory Examples of contumelious in a Sentence a well-reasoned thesis that merited more than just a scornful, contumelious response First Known Use of contumelious 15th century, in the meaning defined above

In his first 100 days, Joe Biden has redefined what it means to run a progressive presidency. To those paying attention, his radicalism was clear from the start.In a primary full of socialists, President Joe Biden clinched the Democratic nomination and rode his way to the White House on the appearance of a supposed moderate, a pragmatist who promised an American “return to normalcy” in a 21st-century digital version of the early front-porch campaigns.To those paying attention, however, Biden’s radicalism was clear from the start, with normal nowhere in sight. He ran on a platform cloaked in centrism only by...

Feeling outgunned, outnumbered, overpowered, smothered, and censored? Many people who oppose Covid lockdowns and all their associated restrictions feel this way. It’s hard not to. You can hardly post on social media without triggering warnings, corrections, and sometimes outright blocks. Bans are part of the mix too, the complete deplatforming of people merely because they want their freedoms back.... We never thought we would see these days but here we are. Meanwhile, the mainstream media continues to push restrictions – mask mandates and vaccine passports – just as it has for the past 14 months. The technology of intimidation is...

I think the new mRNA COVID vaccines could be a wonderful breakthrough — maybe a whole new way of treating disease. Researchers are talking about the technology possibly being used for immunizing against malaria and curing viral cancers. After all, some of the best new medical advances have come in times of duress.I just don't yet know that it is the best thing for me for now. I'm in the right age group. I nevertheless want to wait a year, see what happens in the longer term to those who got vaccinated, and then make an informed decision. I think...

A 23-year-old Minnesota man has been sentenced to four years in prison. He’s also been ordered to pay $12 million in restitution for his role in setting a police precinct ablaze during last year’s George Floyd riots. Last May, Dylan Shakespeare Robinson trampled over a fence at the precinct. Then he lit a Molotov cocktail that was thrown by someone else into Minneapolis’s third precinct. He was just one of the people who rioted and committed arson during last year’s Black Lives Matter riots.

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On this date in 1731 the English madam Elizabeth Needham stood in the pillory at Park Place, St. James’s, London. It wasn’t a death sentence de jure … but it became one de facto. “Mother Needham” kept one of London’s most renowned brothels, far more exclusive than the dives of Covent Garden, and she made herself famous enough in the 1710s and 1720s to rate a place in the burgeoning print culture: Alexander Pope makes sly reference to her in The Dunciad, and as Hogarth seems to have modeled the titular courtesan of his Harlot’s Progress plates upon her. In...

I was last in San Francisco about three years ago. Back then, the City was already degrading. In the years since then, with help from COVID, the Bay Area has degraded even further. This is what leftism does not communities. The San Francisco Bay Area is meant to be a jewel-like place sitting on the blue-green Bay, surrounded by natural beauty and crowned by a city once renowned for its natural and architectural beauty. I know those because I grew up in the City and spent most of my life living in or near it. There are few things more...

Amy Donofrio stands in front of Robert E. Lee High School in Jacksonville, Fla. She was suspended from teaching duties after she refused to take down a Black Lives Matter flag from outside her classroom. Robert E. Lee High School in Jacksonville, Fla., was segregated — whites only — until the 1971-1972 school year. Its school colors are blue and gray, the colors of the Confederacy, and its sports teams are called the Generals.

The Florida Legislature passed a sweeping election bill Thursday night that would make significant changes to mail voting in the state after a record number of Floridians voted by mail in the 2020 election. Governor Ron DeSantis said on Fox News Thursday night that he plans to sign S.B. 90. If he does, Florida would become the latest state to overhaul its election system in the wake of the 2020 election.

Government sometimes needs help. It can’t do everything… and it most certainly can’t do everything well. What we learned of late is that some Americans have stepped up and use their resources and expertise to help the government function more effectively. An example of this is Michael Bloomberg’s efforts to fund “Special Assistant Attorneys Generals” in actual Attorneys Generals’ offices in half a dozen large cities across the country. These SAAGs focus specifically on climate change and act as liaisons between AG leadership, NGOs, and other interested parties. The goal is to step up and move the issue of climate...

They know it is wrong. You have told them it is wrong. But our kids do it anyway, don’t they? Of course, we know once caught, they promise they will never do it again. Ever. They promise they get it, but you walk away from the conversation thinking, “They don’t get it.” That was the feeling one got from the state of California after hearing oral arguments this week in two significant First Amendment cases before the United States Supreme Court: Americans for Prosperity Foundation v. Bonta and Thomas More Law Center v. Bonta. The cases challenge California’s effort to...

Biden’s 100-Day Humiliation Americans are being told this is no longer our home. We are guests now, and it is we who must assimilate to an increasingly foreign, hostile land.There have been few surprises in Biden’s first 100 days. He is not the moderate, beneficent “uniter” portrayed by his campaign and the “news,” but a hyperpartisan, gaslighting tyrant—the puppet of social engineers who are now radically transforming the country. Biden, in ways unlike any president before him, is ignoring the rule of law and the obligations that bind a government to its citizens. He treats foreign nationals with solicitude while...

The case, New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Corlett, represents the first time in more than a decade that the high court will hear a Second Amendment case.On Monday, the Supreme Court agreed to hear an appeal by two petitioners challenging New York’s denial of their applications for concealed-carry firearm licenses. The case, New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Corlett, represents the first time in more than a decade that the high court will hear a Second Amendment case. Here’s your lawsplainer for the case—and Second Amendment jurisprudence.The Second Amendment provides: “A well regulated...

Two separate fights broke out an Chicago’s O’Hare Airport on Thursday. It is unclear what started the fights. Several people were seen on the ground punching each other as bystanders shouted at them. “Get off of her!” a bystander shouted as he jumped in to break up the fight.

“Suburbia will be no longer as we know it,” President Donald Trump warned on the campaign trail. He told voters that Biden wanted to get rid of single-family zoning, laws which require that only typical suburbia homes may be built in residential areas, which he warned would bring “who knows into your suburbs, so your communities will be unsafe and your housing values will go down.” Now, it seems, Joe Biden is proving him correct. In a White House issued ‘fact sheet’ for Biden’s radical infrastructure bill, he “calls on Congress to enact an innovative, new competitive grant program that...

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the White House chief medical adviser on the novel coronavirus, recently updated the timeline on when we might see the end of the coronavirus pandemic, and we may know more soon.