Month: April 2021

Facebook And Instagram Block Users From Sharing NY Post Report On BLM Co-Founder’s Multi Million Dollar Property Purchases

Facebook and Instagram are censoring users from sharing a New York Post report regarding the luxury homes purchased by Black Lives Matter Co-founder, Patrisse Khan-Cullors, in predominantly white neighborhoods. The article was published on April 10 and states that Cullors had purchased “four high-end homes for $3.2 million” in the United States since 2016. She had also looked…


The Abiding Shame of ‘Packing’ the Supreme Court

Commentary In 2005, then-Sen. Joe Biden (D-Del.) delivered a Senate floor speech about President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s doomed 1937 plan to “pack” the U.S. Supreme Court. FDR’s plan would have permitted him to add six justices, immediately securing a pro-New Deal judicial majority. But “in an act of great courage, Roosevelt’s own party stood up…


Bezos Lays Out Amazon’s Strategic Shift, Defends Work Practices After Failed Union Bid

Amazon founder and world’s richest man, Jeff Bezos, told shareholders in his final letter as chief executive that the company needs to “do a better job” for its employees, while signaling a strategic shift in Amazon’s priorities and pushing back against criticism of its work practices. Bezos said in the letter that Amazon is expanding…


Biden Spy Chief Sees ‘Indications’ of Efforts by Chinese Regime to Influence WHO on COVID-19 Probe

The U.S. director of national intelligence (DNI) said this week that the intelligence community has seen “indications” that Beijing is attempting to influence the World Health Organization’s (WHO) investigation into the origins of COVID-19. Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines made the remarks during a Senate Select Committee on Intelligence hearing on the topic of…


Biden’s Fabled Bipartisanship

Commentary I haven’t seen much humor in life during the past year or so, but one thing that has been uproariously hilarious lately is the orchestrated media narrative that President Joe Biden is bipartisan and conciliatory. Please give me a moment to catch my breath. I think it was Karl Rove who recently observed that…


Biden Administration: Officials Have ‘Low to Moderate Confidence’ in Russian Bounties Intelligence

U.S. intelligence officials only have “low to moderate confidence” in reports that Russia offered bounties to the Taliban for the killing of American troops, an official revealed on Thursday. “The United States intelligence community assesses, with low to moderate confidence, that Russian intelligence officers sought to encourage Taliban attacks against U.S. and coalition personnel in…


Blood Clots Occur With Pfizer and Moderna Vaccine at Similar Rate to AstraZeneca’s: Study

A rare type of blood clot occurs at a similar post-vaccination rate among those who get Pfizer or Moderna shots and people who receive the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, according to a newly published study. Researchers found that four in a million patients experienced cerebral venous thrombosis (CVT) after getting a shot produced by Pfizer or Moderna,…


Freedom of Thought

Commentary The elegant woman with the beautiful 10-year-old looked forlorn. “She’d probably love it, and Lord knows, it’s been … complicated at school since COVID, but we’re too much alike!” She shook her head. We were casually chatting about homeschooling—my favorite topic—outside a restaurant, while waiting dutifully for our take-out orders under a COVID-blamed, unconstitutional…


Closing Arguments Set for Monday in Trial of Former Officer Chauvin

Prosecutors and the defense will deliver closing arguments in the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin on Monday, after Chauvin’s lawyer Eric Nelson rested his case on Thursday. Chavin, facing second-degree murder and other charges in the 2020 death of George Floyd, declined to take the stand at the Hennepin County Courthouse. After…


As Adverse Reactions Grow, China’s Vaccine Diplomacy Should Raise International Alarm

China has been touting the success of its COVID-19 vaccines at home and abroad, luring a number of countries into purchasing Sinovac and Sinopharm, two front-runner Chinese vaccines. Moreover, whenever a foreign sale is made, Chinese authorities immediately cite it as proof of popularity and effectiveness in the propaganda it uses inside China. Such propaganda…