Crackpots

The Associated Press reports: A proposal in North Dakota to shield schools and teachers from lawsuits arising from posting the Ten Commandments in classrooms is unconstitutional and would spur costly and unwinnable legal fights, attorneys and education officials told state lawmakers Wednesday. Despite the cautionary advice, the House Judiciary Committee gave the legislation an 11-3 “do-pass” recommendation, hoping that a …

So this actually happened in real life: Senator Ted Cruz joined a delegation of fellow Republican members of Congress by visiting immigration facilities at the Southern US border. The media-friendly tour is designed to bring attention to the situation at the border, and score some political hit points against President Joe Biden. Cruz took it a step further but posting …

Axios reports: Former CDC Director Robert Redfield told CNN on Friday that he believes the coronavirus “escaped” from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, and that it was spreading as early as September or October of 2019 — though he stressed that it was his “opinion.” It’s a stunning assertion by the man who led the U.S. government’s public health agency …

From the YouTube description: Well-known conspiracy theorist and far-right radio show host Alex Jones visited Yale on Monday to film a video about senior society Skull and Bones. Jones believes that Bones was founded by the CIA and is responsible for the Great Recession. He got into arguments with several students about his views. As you’ll see, the students heckled …

Mediaite reports: “If Joe Biden tries to nuke the filibuster in order to cram down gun control in complete contravention to the constitution of the United States … good luck!” Shapiro exclaimed before claiming that citizens of Texas, Alabama, Tennessee, and Florida will resort to violence if the federal government intervenes with their gun rights. “You wanna exacerbate conflict to …

Deadline Hollywood reports: Monica Levinson, producer of Borat: Subsequent Moviefilm, said the film’s infamous Rudy Giuliani scene was even more harrowing for the filmmakers after the former mayor left the hotel room. The film features a scene in which Giuliani goes to the hotel bedroom with Maria Bakalova after an interview, appearing to expect sexual relations. Giuliani has denied that’s …

Houston’s ABC News affiliate reports: While a takedown to the floor wasn’t necessary, police body camera video of a maskless woman being arrested for the second time in six days showed her in the middle of a recitation of her “rights” inside an Office Depot store in Texas City. However, much like her previous arrest at a Bank of America …

“Biden, not only do I think is a terrible president in these last few months, it’s just terrible for talk radio. I think Biden is a disaster for the country and his ideas are an atrocity. “But he’s boring. He’s just boring. It’s going to be a challenge. It is. It’s going to be a challenge. I’ll tell you that …

Houston’s ABC News affiliate reports: A woman accused of resisting a Galveston police officer earlier this month after being asked to leave a bank over her refusal to wear a face mask has been arrested again. Terry Lynn Wright, 65, was taken into custody Wednesday by Texas City police at an Office Depot, just six days after her arrest on …

Mediaite reports: MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell said that former Trump impeachment lawyer Alan Dershowitz had joined his legal team to take on Dominion Voting Systems. “It’s a big announcement this morning. I’ve got a team of lawyers, we’re going after Dominion… for free speech,” Lindell said Monday morning on Steve Bannon’s WarRoom Pandemic podcast. “Alan Dershowitz told me that this …

The Washington Post reports: Facebook is conducting a vast behind-the-scenes study of doubts expressed by U.S. users about vaccines, a major project that attempts to probe and teach software to identify the medical attitudes of millions of Americans, according to documents obtained by The Washington Post. The research is a large-scale attempt to understand the spread of ideas that contribute …

Houston’s ABC News reports: Just a day after Texas rolled back COVID-19 restrictions, including those mandating face coverings in public, a woman’s arrest has emerged stemming from her refusal to wear a mask. Body camera footage released by Galveston police shows officers confronting the woman inside a Bank of America branch on Central City Boulevard. With the woman giving pushback, …

Omaha’s NBC News affiliate reports: Gov. Pete Ricketts and others opposed to legalizing medical marijuana in Nebraska held a news conference in the Capitol rotunda just ahead of a Unicameral hearing on the matter. The issue is in front of Nebraska lawmakers for a fifth consecutive year months after losing ballot approval in the 11th hour last fall following a …

The Daily Beast reports: On Lindell’s “Vocl” social media platform, users will be free to claim that a supercomputer stole the election from Donald Trump, or that vaccines are a tool of the devil. Any new social media network faces serious challenges. But Vocl must grapple with a daunting problem before it even launches: a website called “Vocal,” spelled with …

Hemant Mehta reports at The Friendly Atheist: Having nothing better to do than make kids dumber, Arkansas State Rep. Mary Bentley, a Republican, has filed a bill (HB 1701) that would allow public school science teachers to “teach creationism as a theory of how the earth came to exist.” It’s a short bill that defies (or completely ignores) the Supreme …

Media Matters has the transcript: Joe Biden stands there, like a mannequin dummy, and talks about how he’s going to make sure that all Americans are taken care of. Maybe even by the end of May. And there’s enough suckers out there who are going to believe it because the media pushed their narrative and it spreads like poison and …

Business Insider reports: MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell on Wednesday disclosed new details about a social-media site that he planned to launch in the next three weeks. In an interview with Insider, Lindell said he would call the site Vocl, and he described it as a cross between Twitter and YouTube. “It’s not like anything you’ve ever seen,” he said Wednesday. …

“It should be a choice. It’s freedom. Having these two classes of citizens. Basically the ones who have taken the vaccine and then the supposed bad people that haven’t taken the vaccine. I would be among that classification of citizens. “Myself, probably you, and many others, we feel healthy enough to trust our own immune systems to survive COVID. I …

Media Matters has the transcript: Meanwhile, in China, where the coronavirus originated, a top adviser to the Chinese government declared that the country was experiencing a very different kind of threat, a more profound threat. The problem he said, was a national masculinity crisis. Chinese boys, quote, have been spoiled by housewives and female teachers, and they were becoming as …

CNBC reports: Piers Morgan is leaving ITV’s “Good Morning Britain” morning show after facing backlash for comments he made about Meghan Markle on Monday. The news comes shortly after U.K. broadcasting regulator Ofcom said it was investigating Morgan after more than 41,000 people complained. “Following discussions with ITV, Piers Morgan has decided now is the time to leave Good Morning …