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On Tuesday’s broadcast of CBS’ “Late Show,” CNN Chief Media Correspondent and host Brian Stelter said CNN covered the scandal around New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) “just the same we would any other story.” And “Ultimately, isn’t that what matters?” Stelter acknowledged that CNN telling Chris Cuomo he couldn’t cover his brother once Gov. Cuomo got into trouble after letting Chris Cuomo interview his brother earlier is “an odd conflict. But I don’t think if we open the journalism ethics book, there’s no page for this. … This was definitely awkward for CNN, though.”

More than 700,000 people are flooding the South Dakota badlands this week for what will surely be the COVID-19 superspreader event of the year, the 81st annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally. We can hope the majority of attendees are vaccinated. But last year’s rally took place in blatant defiance of recommended health and safety protocols, resulting in hundreds (and likely thousands) of infections nationwide. “Screw Covid. I went to Sturgis,” read T-shirts sold at the event. With the delta variant already raging, the consequences of this year’s event could be horrific.

The Biden administration said OPEC+'s decision to gradually ease production cuts is "simply not enough" during a "critical moment in the global recovery..." The White House is also calling on U.S. regulators to scrutinize prices at the pump.

Law schools in the U.S. used to be run by no-nonsense individuals who, whatever their personal politics, thought that their institutions existed to teach students about the law, not to engage in advocacy or speculation. That began to change in the 1980s, as some younger law professors started to push into previously forbidden terrain, introducing blatantly ideological material, and getting away with it. As law professor Charles Rounds put it in this 2010 Martin Center article, the legal curriculum started to fill up with courses that were “bad sociology, not law.” At Columbia, president Lee Bollinger (a former law dean),...

From Friday's decision in Soukaneh v. Andrzejewski, written by Judge Janet Bond Arterton (D. Conn.): At approximately 8:34 pm on November 12, 2018, Plaintiff was operating a Kia Sorento LX in the vicinity of Hillside Avenue and Pine Street in Waterbury, Connecticut. Plaintiff had stopped his vehicle with the engine running in an attempt to unfreeze his iPhone GPS, which was located in a holder mounted to the dashboard. The dark and high-crime area where Plaintiff stopped his vehicle was well-known for prostitution, drug transactions, and other criminal activity.As Plaintiff was attempting to fix his phone, Defendant approached his vehicle,...

Health officials in Austin issued an emergency alert over the weekend that the COVID-19 situation in the city was “severely worsening” and has reached a “critical” point. The “Warn Central Texas” alert system was designed for use during a disaster, which health officials say the city is experiencing. The alert was distributed on Saturday by text, phone calls and email to residents in Austin and nearby areas of Travis County. “Our hospitals are severely stressed and there is little we can do to alleviate their burden with the surging cases,” Austin-Travis County Health Authority’s Desmar Walkes said in a statement....

Stoicism is the wisdom of madness and cynicism the madness of wisdom. - Bergen EvansIn an age of cynicism it pays to be very skeptical. Sure, it’s possible that Ross and Rachel are getting together in real life. It’s possible that Jennifer Aniston and David Schwimmer reignited their chemistry following the Friends reunion movie (now streaming on HBO). Friends 1994 above, 2021 below. All but Mathew Perry seem to have aged well – drugs will do that to you. Cosmetic surgery will take care of everything else.It’s possible that Jen and David are real-life lobsters.Season 2 episode 14 "The One...

VIDEOEven though Chuck Todd's MSNBC colleagues have now claimed that Andrew Cuomo no longer has any friends, they were wrong. It turns out that the one true friend of Cuomo is Chuck Todd himself as you can see yearning for the return of his beloved Andrew to political office again.

America, it turns out, loves the police and, as a result, rejects liberal calls in Washington to defund law enforcement. By a lopsided 2-1 margin, likely voters in a new Rasmussen Reports survey disagreed with anti-police sentiments aired by “Squad” member Rep. Cori Bush, who said last week that “defunding the police has to happen. We need to defund the police and put that money into social safety nets.” Some 63% disagreed and 31% agreed with the defunding call, said Rasmussen. And by a 57%-33% margin, voters also agree that “new Democrats in Washington attack and degrade all law enforcement...

Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out, you dictatorial son of a bitch.You have been at war with your state's residents since the day you swore in, and the only downside of your departure is that it comes a decade too late. You have destroyed one of the greatest states in the nation, and presided over and been the cause of some of New York's darkest days.You don't love anybody but yourself, and you have served nothing but your own self-interest.You leave our state more divided, embittered and impoverished than it has ever been....

The annual cost-of-living-adjustment (COLA) for social security payments and military retirement annuities is based upon the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W). The CPI-W increased by 0.5 percent in July 2021 compared to June 2021’s figure. The CPI-W figure for July 2021 of 267.789 is 5.67 percent higher than the average CPI-W for the third quarter of 2020, which was 253.412 (1982-84 = 100). The annual COLA is computed by comparing the change in the CPI-W from year to year, based on the average of the third-quarter months of July, August and September. So this...

The Prince NAPOLEON left Washington this afternoon. He was accompanied by the French Minister, and will go only as far as Philadelphia to-night. On Monday he will resume his journey and go old New-York and Albany to Niagara Falls. Owing to the intense heat, the Prince will not go further west than the Falls. The heat to-day has been frightful. The thermometer at the Coast Survey Office reached 112° in the shade, and 125° in the sun.

What’s the Italian word for the German word schaenfreude? I think maybe the word I’m looking for is “Cuomo”? Certainly we’re entitled to some heavy alfredo sauce schadenfreude for Andrew, a first class Weltverderber (“world worsener”) if there ever was one. All day today I’ve been smacking my lips in anticipation of what the New York Post would come up with, and I was not disappointed!

Torri Huske is an 18 year-old swimmer from Arlington, Virginia. At this year’s Summer Olympic Games, she finished fourth in the 100-meter butterfly final, just one one-hundredth of a second behind Emma McKeon of Australia. Huske came back to win a silver medal in the 4×100-meter medley relay, along with Regan Smith, Lydia Jacoby, and Abbey Weitzeil. Huske graduated from high school this year and will soon be headed to Stanford. She’s likely to be a major force at the next Olympics in three years. Huske is a patriot with even more reason than most to love America. According to...

AUSTIN, Texas — House Speaker Dade Phelan late Tuesday signed 52 arrest warrants for Democrats who left the state for Washington D.C. in July and have yet to return to the House chamber for the second special legislative session of the year. The warrants came after Texas House Republicans voted to direct state law enforcement to track down and compel the attendance of absent Democrats by a vote of 80-12, the second time such a vote has been taken during this quorum-bust. The warrants, first reported by the Dallas Morning News, will be delivered to the House Sergeant-at-arms Wednesday morning,...

From his first day in office, Joe Biden committed to putting freedom pioneer Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill, and some time around 2028, it might happen. In her perilous role as a scout and spy for the U.S. Army during the Civil War, and as an abolitionist and humanitarian, she earned it. She risked re-enslavement at least 19 times in helping others to escape. Tubman would replace Andrew Jackson, a favorite target of those who rail against his slave ownership – perhaps totaling up to 150 people – while ignoring the context. Nearly everyone in Jackson’s environment was racist...

The bipartisan infrastructure legislation moving through Congress could end up on President Biden’s desk before we know it. The $1 trillion bill has reportedly cleared major hurdles in the Senate and will soon land before the House of Representatives. The president would almost certainly sign the bill, which has his support, and its bipartisan passage would represent a political victory for the Biden administration. At least, at first.The promised long-term economic benefits from the sweeping $1 trillion expenditure will likely never materialize, according to a new Ivy League analysis. This runs directly against the president’s promises that it would create...

A couple of weeks ago (July 29) I had a post titled “A Little Arithmetic: The Cost Of A Solar-Powered Grid Without Fossil Fuel Back-up.” In that post I did some simple calculations based on California’s current electricity usage and output from its existing solar generating facilities to figure out how much they would need in the way of solar panels and batteries to get through a low-output stretch in the winter without any fossil fuel assistance. Since for solar energy the “low-output stretch” is essentially everything from September 21 to March 21, I calculated that they would need roughly...

The Taliban has stunned even some seasoned military and national security officials in the U.S. government with the speed of its conquests over the past week, sources with direct knowledge of the developments tell Axios. Why it matters: President Biden isn't budging — resolved to get out by Aug. 31, no matter what — people briefed on his thinking say. He may not see much of a pause between his total withdrawal from Afghanistan and the country's total collapse into a bloody civil war.

President Joe Biden was filmed seemingly ignoring the direction of a Secret Service agent tried to direct him to a path leading to the White House. In Biden's latest bizarre gaffe, the president was filmed returning to the White House after spending time in Wilmington, Delaware when the agent points for him to follow the sidewalk path into the White House. Instead, Biden is seen following the agent up the lawn and through the garden into the presidential estate. The video has left shocked critics of the 78 year-old president once again surmising whether Biden is suffering the effects of...