Crackpots

“We have drifted further and further. We were pushed farther and farther into a surveillance police state. I don’t know if we should applaud for police state. But you know what? I’ll take applause no matter where I get it. “The idea that this is a free country, that this president, in some way has any right to that office? …

NBC News reports: The Florida measles outbreak is expanding. On Friday, health officials in Broward County confirmed a seventh case of the virus, a child under age 5. The patient is the youngest so far to be infected in the outbreak, and the first to be identified outside of Manatee Bay Elementary School in Weston, near Fort Lauderdale. It’s unknown …

The Christian Post reports: Kirk Cameron has some thoughts on what it really means to “turn the other cheek.” The actor said intolerance, at least when it comes to evil and tyranny, is, in fact, a “very essential Christian virtue,” one which, he added, America’s founding fathers espoused. In a Feb. 21 appearance on the “Timcast IRL” podcast with Tim …

Florida Politics reports: Elon Musk’s free speech advocacy and use of Starlink satellites to help hurricane victims in Florida mean he should receive the Nobel Peace Prize, according to Florida Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis. Patronis wrote to the Sweden-based Nobel Foundation on Friday to throw his support behind Musk’s nomination, which Norwegian lawmaker Marius Nilsen floated earlier in the …

Newsweek reports: With the likes of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones joining in, social media users shared content said to depict the boycott’s impact in action, with a photo of empty supermarket shelves allegedly taken at a grocery store in New York. A post on X, by user @Freight_Bandit, on February 21, 2024, viewed 1.4 million times, stated: “I’m at a …

The Washington Post reports: Children’s Health Defense, an anti-vaccine group founded by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., received $23.5 million in contributions, grants and other revenue in 2022 alone — eight times what it collected the year before the pandemic began — allowing it to expand its state-based lobbying operations to cover half the country. Another influential anti-vaccine group, Informed Consent …

The Daily Beast reports: While measles cases are popping up across the country, nowhere has been hit as hard as Manatee Bay Elementary School in Weston, just west of Fort Lauderdale. There, a single case reported Thursday spiraled into a half-dozen infected students by Tuesday evening. John J. Sullivan, a spokesperson for Broward County Public Schools, said the school underwent …

Media Matters reports: During a recent interview on the program of self-proclaimed “prophet” and QAnon conspiracy theorist Johnny Enlow, Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Tom Parker indicated that he is a proponent of the “Seven Mountain Mandate,” a theological approach that calls on Christians to impose fundamentalist values on all aspects of American life. Enlow is a pro-Trump “prophet” and …

Newsweek reports: Author Scott Adams has vowed to stop doing business in New York, following the ruling that banned Donald Trump from running a company in the state for three years. Adams announced on X, formerly known as Twitter, that he was “canceling all NYC business trips until the Trump property seizure is reversed. Also no new business with NY …

The Christian Post reports: Rapper Kanye West is facing backlash after he called himself “the new Jesus” in his new album “Vultures 1,” which includes a song called “Carnival” that is reportedly filled with obscene language and sexual violence. “They served us the porn since the day we was born / Anybody pissed off, gotta make ’em drink the urine,” …

Former GOP Rep. Ron Paul writes: President Biden is just as, if not more, guilty of posing an “existential threat” to the Constitution as those he smears as “extremists.” For example, President Biden and members of his administration have waged a campaign to undermine the First Amendment by “encouraging” companies to suppress the expression of “unapproved” views online. It is …

Florida Politics reports: A Miami-Dade County woman is running a GoFundMe page to help former President Donald Trump cover a $355 million civil court judgment. Elena Cardone, an Aventura resident, launched the page Friday to assist Trump in facing an “unprecedented and unfair treatment by certain judicial elements in New York.” By 3 p.m. Sunday, the page recorded 6,300 donations …

Politico reports: Longshot Democratic presidential contender Dean Phillips announced that he would lay off a significant portion of his campaign staff but said he would remain in the race. “I found it almost impossible to raise enough to do this campaign the way I want. And today, sadly, I had to announce layoffs to a lot of my staff members,” …

The Daily Beast reports: Three years after her stint performing as a pink bear on The Masked Singer, Sarah Palin showed up on Wednesday night’s episode of We Are Family. The Fox game show, hosted by Anthony Anderson and his mom, features non-famous relatives of celebrities performing solo, then duetting with their secret famous family member on stage. Palin’s big …

“As we’re seeing a crackdown on Catholic churches in Nicaragua, back here at home the left has declared open season on people of faith as well. In the culture war, last night Americans witnessed what some are dubbing the Satanic Super Bowl, including this moment where someone called Ice Spice who was hanging out with leftist icon Taylor Swift made …

The Daily Beast reports: Elon Musk has encouraged U.S. voters to ask their representatives to oppose further military funding for Ukraine, claiming that there is “no way in hell” that Russia will lose the war and that further support to Kyiv will only prolong a futile conflict. The billionaire shared his views while speaking to GOP Senators Ron Johnson, Mike …

NBC News reports: The super PAC supporting Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s independent bid for president debuted an ad during the Super Bowl on Sunday night. American Values 2024 released a 30-second ad that was a remake of a 1960 campaign spot — with the same jingle and motif — for his uncle former President John F. Kennedy. The super PAC …

The Daily Mail reports: Disgraced doctor Andrew Wakefield [photo] – whose fake anti-vax data has been blamed for the current measles epidemic – has set his sights on discrediting the mumps vaccine. The 67-year-old, who fled to the US after being struck off in the UK for fraudulently connecting the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine to autism, is seeking …

“If race and gender are your basis for selecting someone for a job, and the identity of your party is tied to that temple of identity politics, then they will risk looking hypocritical if they sideline her [Kamala Harris] after they sideline Biden. “And I do think Michelle Obama offers them a convenient path out of that problem, somebody who …

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