Crackpots

Courthouse News reports: An attorney representing former Alabama judge Roy Moore was AWOL from a Thursday morning court hearing on his effort to disqualify the federal judge presiding over Moore’s $95 million defamation suit against Sacha Baron Cohen. Larry Klayman, a conservative legal gadfly and founder of Freedom Watch, filed the motion last week to disqualify U.S. District Judge John …

The Insider reports: MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell is holding an in-person rally in South Dakota on Monday to promote “Frank,” the website he billed as a social-media site but is so far a one-way platform where Lindell circulates baseless allegations of voter fraud. The event, titled “Frank Rally,” will take place at the Corn Palace in the town of Mitchell. …

Vanity Fair reports: Judicial Watch announces that it has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for “records of communication between Secret Service officials assigned to the White House regarding the Biden family dogs.” The suit was filed after the Secret Service, which Judicial Watch apparently thinks has nothing better to do, “failed to process records in …

“Most of the cars don’t really have wheels, per se. Most cars fly in Heaven, but there’s all different ways you transport. “There’s bubbles you can step into and they float you there. There’s amusement parks, there’s rodeos, there’s sports arenas where every game is played as worship to Jesus Christ because Jesus gets all the points. “There’s some people’s …

Dakota News Now reports: MyPillow CEO and conservative commentator Mike Lindell is planning to launch his new social media platform at a rally at the Corn Palace in Mitchell. The announcement was made on the “Bannon War Room” podcast, which is hosted by Steve Bannon. Dakota News Now spoke with Corn Palace Director Doug Greenway, who confirmed the event is …

Michael Brown writes for Charisma News: The apostle Paul summed up the possibilities and the problems associated with prophecy in a few short verses, writing, “Do not quench the Spirit. Do not despise prophecies. Examine all things. Firmly hold onto what is good” (1 Thess. 5:19-21). So, on the one hand, prophetic ministry should be encouraged, not suppressed. On the …

Deadline Hollywood reports: On Thursday’s episode of his Spotify podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience, Joe Rogan clarified controversial remarks he made, regarding vaccination against Covid-19, which Dr. Anthony Fauci took to task. “There’s some legitimate science behind [these vaccines],” he told his guest, comedian Andrew Santino. “This is the thing about this whole thing, people being upset at me: I’m …

The Hartford Courant reports: Gov. Ned Lamont Wednesday signed legislation that would end Connecticut’s religious exemption for mandatory school vaccinations beginning in the 2022 school year. “When it comes to the safety of our children, we need to take an abundance of caution,” Lamont said, in a written statement. “This legislation is needed to protect our kids against serious illnesses …

The New York Times reports: A private school in the fashionable Design District of Miami sent its faculty and staff a letter last week about getting vaccinated against Covid-19. But unlike institutions that have encouraged and even facilitated vaccination for teachers, the school, Centner Academy, did the opposite: One of its co-founders, Leila Centner, informed employees “with a very heavy …

Media Matters has the transcript: RACHEL CAMPOS-DUFFY (CO-HOST): I’ll tell you what will happen in the end, you’ll get what you have in Latin America where unless you’re rich and you can afford private security, I mean that is how, when you defund the police, look at Latin America, those are police forces that aren’t properly funded. And in some …

“The risks of the vaccines are less than the risk of the disease, particularly if you are over 40 and overweight. When Biden goes on the computer screen on a Zoom call, and wears a mask, he is making a mockery of the science and this is dissuading people who are skeptical anyway. “So if you want to convince people …

“Every idiotic thing that the Biden administration has done in the first 100 days, you begin to realize — whether it’s threatening everybody who believes in the Second Amendment or it’s attacking everybody who believes in right to life or it is attacking people of traditional values who are appalled that this administration would fly the gay flag at American …

The New York Times reports: Almost half a year after the election Mr. Trump lost, the promised audit has become a snipe hunt for skulduggery that has spanned a court battle, death threats and calls to arrest the elected leadership of Maricopa County, which includes Phoenix. The head of Cyber Ninjas, the Florida-based firm that Republican senators hired to oversee …

“It sounds like a big challenge, because if we take all of the carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere, what are trees going to turn into oxygen? “That’s the Biden administration’s climate czar John Kerry, speaking at the White House’s climate summit, virtually. “Those comments came after the administration announced that it would seek a 50 to 52% reduction in …

From Ben Shapiro’s Daily Wire: A group of black faith leaders in Georgia are targeting Home Depot — which has its headquarters in the state — and calling for a boycott of the company because it refuses to publicly criticize Georgia’s new voting law. The threat to boycott has prompted blowback online, including from prominent attorney Harmeet Dhillon, Fox News …

The Hill reports: My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell will appear on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” next week, the late night host announced on the show Wednesday. “Hey Siri, set a reminder,” Kimmel quipped, “Next Wednesday night, we will be visited in studio by the My Pillow man himself, Mike Lindell.” After announcing the interview, Kimmel played a clip of Lindell talking …

The Independent reports: Musician Ted Nugent has tested positive for coronavirus months after he said that the virus was “not a real pandemic”. In his Christmas message shared on social media in December, Nugent called the worldwide crisis a “scammy pandemic” and said that people who wore masks were “sheep”. On Monday (19 April), Nugent revealed on Facebook Live that …

NBC News reports: The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal from Pennsylvania Republicans who said the secretary of state had no authority to extend the deadline for receiving mail-in ballots in the 2020 general election. The justices have consistently declined to take up any of the post-election challenges from the state. The case rejected Monday involved a lawsuit filed …

From the right wing outlet Newsbusters: For four years, the liberal media led the Left’s fierce resistance to the Trump administration, slamming the President night after night after night. Now, a new study by the Media Research Center finds the broadcast evening newscasts have executed a full flip-flop, as they aid and abet liberal President Joe Biden’s administration with mostly …

Vanity Fair reports: Person of Interest and The Passion of the Christ star Jim Caviezel gave a check-in with a rally of COVID-deniers and QAnon lunatics in Tulsa this weekend. The “Health and Freedom Conference,” at which lawyer-provocateur Lin Wood led the assembled to furious applause by miming a Q in the air, was graced by Caviezel, one of the …