Monthly Archives: March 2021

Trump Calls On Fox To Cancel “Pompous Fool” Rove

The Hill reports: Former President Trump Thursday evening fired back at longtime Republican strategist Karl Rove, who in an opinion piece this week criticized Trump’s address at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) as ringing “hollow” among his supporters. Trump in a statement called Rove a “pompous fool with bad advice” and a Republican in name only, or RINO. “Karl …

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Kentucky GOP Bill Criminalizes Insulting Police Officers

CBS News reports: Senate Bill 211 mandates up to three months’ imprisonment for a person who “accosts, insults, taunts, or challenges a law enforcement officer with offensive or derisive words,” or makes “gestures or other physical contact that would have a direct tendency to provoke a violent response from the perspective of a reasonable and prudent person.” A person convicted …

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Dem Colorado Gov. Jared Polis Gets Engaged [VIDEO]

The Colorado Sun reports: First Gentleman Marlon Reis was feeling crummy the day it happened. His condition was deteriorating after battling a coronavirus infection for more than a week. His oxygen saturation levels had dropped to a concerning level. A doctor told him it was time to go to the hospital. “I was getting my things ready. My daughter was …

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MT Gov: Biden “Degrades Himself” By Name-Calling

Fox News reports: Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte said President Biden “degraded” himself, following comments he made comparing red-state governors to Neanderthal’s. Gianforte explained that hospitalizations are down and Montana is “open for business” during an appearance on “Fox & Friends,” asserting that a “one-size fits all” approach to coronavirus mandates “doesn’t make sense” for the needs of every state. “For …

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Trump Appointee Spent Millions Investigating Staff

NPR reports: Last summer, an appointee of former President Donald Trump was irate because he could not simply fire top executives who had warned him that some of his plans might be illegal. Michael Pack, who was CEO of the U.S. Agency for Global Media that oversees Voice of America, in August suspended those top executives. He also immediately ordered …

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FL Covidiots Rally For Arrested Gym Owner [VIDEO]

Miami’s NBC News affiliate reports: A South Florida gym owner is facing jail time for violating a county ordinance over the summer that required gyms and businesses to mandate masks in their premises. Mike Carnevale, the owner of Fitness 1440 in Plantation, was arrested three times over the summer and appeared before a judge Thursday. He is facing several charges …

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McCarthy Seeks Biden Meeting On “Border Crisis”

Axios reports: House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) has requested a meeting with President Biden to discuss the rising numbers of unaccompanied migrant children at the U.S.-Mexico border, in a letter sent on Friday. Biden is facing criticism from the right and the left as agency actions and media reports reveal spiking numbers of migrant children overwhelming parts of the …

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Police Reports Catalogue Covidiot Abuses At Disney

The Orlando Sentinel reports: At Disney World, visitors are required to have their temperatures checked and they must wear masks at the four theme parks, hotels and Disney Springs. Many have praised Disney for putting strict rules in place and devoting employees to enforce them during the COVID-19 pandemic that has killed more than 31,000 Floridians. But Orange County Sheriff’s …

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Twitter Tests “Undo Send” Feature For Paying Users

Reuters reports: Twitter Inc is testing an “undo send” function that would give users a short time to withdraw a tweet before it is posted, the company confirmed on Friday. App researcher Jane Manchun Wong, who discovers unannounced social media features by looking at the sites’ code, tweeted an animation showing a tweet with a spelling error where an ‘undo’ …

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Jason Miller: “Joe Biden Is The Legitimate President”

Mediaite reports: Jason Miller, a senior adviser to former President Donald Trump, joined me on this week’s episode of The Interview podcast. We spoke on Thursday afternoon, a few days after CPAC, where Trump was the headline act. Trump delivered a lengthy speech on Sunday to close out the conference, the first of his post-presidency. Trump also made clear he …

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Dem Rep Compiles Posts By Insurrectionist GOP Reps

CNN reports: Democratic Rep. Zoe Lofgren has quietly posted a nearly 2,000-page report documenting social media posts by her Republican colleagues who voted against certifying results of the presidential election on January 6. The information compiled isn’t secret, but the report is another sign of the deep distrust that has settled into the US Capitol in the weeks since the …

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TX Gov Backs Bill To Outlaw Bannings By Social Media

Dallas’s NBC News affiliate reports: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and State Sen. Bryan Hughes (R-Mineola) are set to discuss a bill that aims to “help prohibit social media companies from censoring Texans based on the viewpoints they express,” the governor’s office says. According to the Texas Legislature, Senate Bill 12 would give Texans a way to get back online if …

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Insurers Hit Pharma Douche With Class Action Lawsuit

The New York Post reports: Pharma Bro Martin Shkreli was slapped with a class action lawsuit Thursday from health insurers who claim he engaged in a scheme to create a pharmaceutical monopoly that allowed him to raise the price of an HIV drug by more than 4,000 percent. In the Manhattan federal court suit, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of …

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Princeton Group Votes To Rescind Honor For Cruz

The Daily Princetonian reports: On Thursday, March 4, the American Whig-Cliosophic Society (Whig-Clio) voted to rescind its highest honor, the James Madison Award for Distinguished Public Service (JMA), from Sen. Ted Cruz ’92 (R-Texas). Following a 90 minute assembly, where speeches were given for and against rescinding, 37 people voted in favor of rescinding, 32 voted not to rescind, and …

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WSJ Editorial Board Suggests Trump Get “Counseling”

From the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal: Former Presidents and Vice Presidents have told us how psychologically difficult the early months of lost political power can be. We can therefore empathize if former President Trump is frustrated these days, and perhaps that explains his attack on us Thursday over his role in the GOP’s loss of the Senate. …

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Swalwell Sues Trump, Junior, Brooks, Giuliani Over Riot

CNN reports: Former House impeachment manager Eric Swalwell has sued former President Donald Trump, his son Donald Trump Jr., Rudy Giuliani and Republican Rep. Mo Brooks in a second major lawsuit seeking to hold Trump and his allies accountable for inciting the insurrection at the US Capitol on January 6. The new lawsuit filed on Friday by Swalwell follows a …

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Texas Power Operator Overcharged $16B During Storm

The Texas Tribune reports: The Electric Reliability Council of Texas made a $16 billion error in pricing during the week of the winter storm that caused power outages across the state, according to a filing by its market monitor. Potomac Economics, the independent market monitor for the Public Utility Commission of Texas, which oversees ERCOT, wrote in a letter to …

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Fox News Meteorologist: Cuomo “Needs To Go To Jail”

Mediaite reports: Fox News meteorologist Janice Dean reacted with understandable fury to a new report that New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s team willfully mislead the public over Covid-19 deaths in nursing homes last year. “He needs to go to jail,” Dean exclaimed, adding, “no ifs, ands, or buts!” Dean has been among the earliest and most vocal critics of Governor …

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Pope Francis Visits Iraq Under Massive Security [VIDEO]

NPR reports: Pope Francis has touched down in Iraq for the first-ever papal visit to the predominantly Muslim country, beginning a four-day visit in Baghdad, where yellow and white Vatican flags and likenesses of the pontiff flutter above hastily weeded traffic circles. Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi welcomed Francis at Baghdad International Airport. He was greeted with fanfare as he stepped …

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Amid Record Deaths, Bolsonaro Says “Stop Whining”

Reuters reports: After two straight days of record COVID-19 deaths in Brazil, President Jair Bolsonaro on Thursday told Brazilians to stop “whining” and move on, in his latest remarks attacking distancing measures and downplaying the gravity of the pandemic. Brazil has the world’s second-highest death toll over the past year, after the United States. While the U.S. outbreak is ebbing, …

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