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July 15, 2020
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Beyond defunding the police: Democrats condone crime . . . Democrats are moving a step beyond national debate over defunding the police, questioning whether crime is a bad thing at all. During the past month, three leading Democrats have all issued statements blessing criminal acts. When asked this week about the rise in homicides in New York City, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez seemed to justify crime, saying people were facing a
level of “economic desperation” that had not been seen since the recession. As some Seattle residents illegally seized several city blocks in June and christened the area the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, the Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan did not initially intervene. Instead, Durkan said CHAZ was “patriotic” and that it could turn into “a summer of love.”
In early July, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was asked about the destruction of statues nationwide when a reporter pressed her on one such toppling in Baltimore. “Shouldn’t that be done by a commission or the City Council, not a mob in the middle of the night throwing it into the harbor?” the reporter asked. "People will do what they
do,” Pelosi said. Washington Examiner
Moderna vaccine works and shown to be safe in trial . . . Moderna Inc’s experimental vaccine for COVID-19 showed it was safe and provoked immune responses in all 45 healthy volunteers in an ongoing early-stage study, U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday. Volunteers who got two doses of the vaccine had high levels of virus-killing antibodies that exceeded the average levels seen in people who had recovered from COVID-19. No
study volunteers experienced a serious side effect, but more than half reported mild or moderate reactions such as fatigue, headache, chills, muscle aches or pain at the injection site. Reuters
FDA expands list of deadly hand sanitizers . . . The US Food and Drug Administration is warning Americans to stop using certain hand sanitizers because they may be toxic. Regulators expanded their list of potentially dangerous hand sanitizers to 59, manufactured by 13 companies. Last month, the FDA cautioned that nine products manufactured by Mexico-based Eskbiochem SA de CV and contain varying amounts of methanol. It now warns
against hand sanitizers made companies including AAA Cosmetica, 4E Global, and DDI Multinacional. Daily Mail
At least 31 percent of children tested in Florida are positive for Covid-19 . . . Nearly one-third of every person under 18 years old tested for the coronavirus in Florida are positive for the virus. Palm Beach County’s health department director, Dr. Alina Alonso, warned county commissioners Tuesday about the potential long-term health consequences for children who catch COVID-19. She said the virus could cause lifelong damage
even for children with mild illnesses. “They are seeing there is damage to the lungs in these asymptomatic children. ... We don’t know how that is going to manifest a year from now or two years from now,” Alonso said, according to the Sun-Sentinel. “Is that child going to have chronic pulmonary problems or not?” Fox News
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Sessions loses bid for GOP Senate nominations in Alabama . . . Jeff Sessions spent his final days on the campaign trail reiterating his support for President Trump’s agenda, reminding voters of his efforts to curb illegal immigration while attorney general and emphasizing how, as a senator, he had endorsed Mr. Trump’s presidential campaign at a time when few others in Washington would. But in the end, it wasn’t
enough. And in truth, after Mr. Trump endorsed Mr. Sessions’s opponent, it probably never was. On Tuesday, Mr. Sessions fell far short in the Alabama Senate Republican runoff election to Tommy Tuberville, a former Auburn University football coach whose platform was largely a blanket promise to support the president at all times. New York Times
Trump says police kill white people too . . . President Donald Trump dismissed the notion that black Americans are being killed by police in disproportionate numbers Tuesday, telling CBS News’ Catherine Herridge that police kill white Americans too. “Let’s talk about George Floyd,” Herridge began. “You said George Floyd’s death was a terrible thing. Why are African Americans still dying at the hands of law enforcement in
this country?” “And so are white people,” Trump responded. “So are white people. What a terrible question to ask. So are white people — more white people, by the way, more white people.” Herridge also asked Trump about his disdain for movements against Confederate monuments and symbols, which he argued are freedom of speech issues.
“All I say is freedom of speech. It’s very simple. My attitude is freedom of speech. Very strong views on the Confederate flag. With me, it’s freedom of speech. Very simple. Like it, don’t like it, it’s freedom of speech.” Daily Caller
New Do: Trump goes gray
Voters reject Trump insistence that schools reopen . . . A majority of voters oppose the Trump administration's demand that K-12 schools and day care centers be fully opened for in-person instruction during the coming academic year, according to a POLITICO/Morning Consult poll. In addition, a decisive 65
percent of voters rejected President Donald Trump's threat to cut federal funding for schools that don't reopen, agreeing instead that schools need resources for continued virtual learning or other types of instruction. Only 22 percent said schools should have their federal money reduced if they don’t fully reopen. Politico
I thought Trump wanted to leave coronavirus decisions up to the states?
Biden team demands Trump reimburse taxpayers for Rose Garden political rant . . . Joe Biden's aides want President Trump to pay back taxpayers for campaigning from the White House's Rose Garden. Biden spokeswoman Kate Bedingfield said Trump's speech Tuesday sounded more like a politician who sees "his
re-election slipping away" than that of a president. "The American taxpayer should be reimbursed for the abuse of funds this spectacle represented," Bedingfield wrote in a statement. Washington Examiner
Ruth Bader Ginsburg recovering from infection . . . Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg plans to take part in the court’s arguments by phone while she is resting in the hospital Wednesday. She was hospitalized Tuesday for an infection caused by a gallstone. The court says she underwent non-surgical treatment for acute cholecystitis, a benign gallbladder condition. She is expected to leave the hospital in a day or two. 9&10 News
Ivanka Trump back Goya . . . Ivanka Trump drew swift criticism on social media late Tuesday when she posted a picture of herself holding a can of Goya black beans. “If it’s Goya, it has to be good,” she posted. She included the Spanish translation, “Si es Goya, tiene que ser Bueno.” The famous food company, which specializes in Latin cuisine and recipes, found itself at the center of the country’s ongoing “cancel culture” movement
when Bob Unanue, its president, refused to back down after he praised President Trump last week. Fox News
Thank God there's one corporate chief out there who doesn't back down to the mob. I'm buying my can of beans today.
Video || AOC: How do you pass a far-left agenda? Elect Biden president . . . Democrats who try to convince themselves that Joe Biden will not be beholden to the leftists in his party are fooling themselves. He is too personally weak to stand up to them. He will be surrounded by them in his administration. And he needs them to pass legislation. They are going to own him, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez knows it. And remember, Biden is a
liberal: His views are not that far off of those of Bernie Sanders et al. White House Dossier
Former Trump doctor wins GOP nomination in Texas . . . President Donald Trump’s former White House physician won the Republican nomination for a U.S. House seat in Texas on Tuesday. Ronny Jackson, a retired Navy rear admiral, defeated agriculture advocate Josh Winegarner in a primary runoff in the deeply red Texas Panhandle. Jackson will face Gus Trujillo, who won Tuesday’s Democratic nomination for the 13th congressional district in
Texas, in the November general election. New York Post
Kanye stops running for president . . . Kanye West has reportedly decided to call it quits on his run in the 2020 Presidential election, less than two weeks after he first marked his entrance into the race.
According to the Intelligencer, West hired campaign staff who were
looking into getting his name listed as a third-party candidate in Florida and several other states, but the team has now reportedly been told the bid is off. Daily Mail
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Trump punishes China for oppression of Hong Kong . . . President Trump Tuesday moved to punish China for its crackdown on Hong Kong, denying privileges to the capitalist enclave that help China make money off of it and sanctioning Chinese leaders.
According to the Washington Examiner: President Trump has signed legislation imposing sanctions on senior Chinese officials as punishment for imposing restrictive national security laws on Hong Kong. He said he had signed an executive order ending the former British colony’s special trade status under which
it received preferential treatment from the United States. White House Dossier
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Electric car buyers in Europe can now get one for free . . . Car buyers in Europe can now get their hands on a brand-new electric vehicle for less than the typical cost of a mobile-phone contract. Thanks to newly generous subsidies, some are even free. Shoppers have swarmed virtual showrooms in Germany and France -- the region’s two largest passenger-car markets -- after their national governments
boosted electric-vehicle incentives to stimulate demand. Their purchase subsidies are now among the most favorable in the world, according to BloombergNEF. Bloomberg
Yeah, well, nothing is for free. They're paying for it with taxes that are being used for this stuff instead of on their own defense. We foot that bill for them.
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Consumer appetite for cars and homes bolsters economy . . . Consumers have continued spending on big-ticket items such as vehicles and homes during the coronavirus pandemic, helping support the U.S. economy as it battles a surge in cases and renewed business shutdowns. Historically low interest rates are luring in auto and home buyers, many of whom have higher incomes and firmer job security than low-wage,
service-sector workers hardest-hit during the recession, economists and industry experts say. Wall Street Journal
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Non-lefty editor Bari Weiss quits the New York Times . . . Bari Weiss, a New York Times op-ed editor whose sin was not being a lockstep left-winger, has delivered a scathing indictment of the paper’s out-of-control liberal culture--in the form of a resignation letter. Weiss says some colleagues have privately complained to her of a “new McCarthyism” at the Times. Weiss says she’s been “the subject of constant bullying
by colleagues who disagree with my views. They have called me a Nazi and a racist; I have learned to brush off comments about how I’m ‘writing about the Jews again.’ Several colleagues perceived to be friendly with me were badgered by coworkers. Fox News
American population to peak at 364 million in 42 years and then shrink . . . The US population will grow until 2062, then shrink - alongside 182 other countries around the world - to 336 million by 2100, a new study predicts. Women are having fewer children as more widespread gender equality allows them to pursue educations, and careers and improved access to contraception - shifts that delay the age at which women start to have children and
the limiting the number of kids they ultimately give birth to. Daily Mail
Murderer put to death in first federal execution in 17 years . . . A self-proclaimed White supremacist who tortured and killed an Arkansas family – including an 8-year-old girl – was executed Tuesday morning in Indiana. Daniel Lewis Lee, 47, was injected with a lethal dose of pentobarbital at 8:07 a.m., just hours after the Supreme Court greenlit the first federal execution to take place since 2003. Fox News
Veterans Affairs nurse pleads guilty to murdering seven . . . A former nursing assistant at a Veterans Affairs facility in West Virginia admitted in federal court Tuesday that she injected elderly patients with lethal doses of insulin, killing seven of them. Reta Mays was present in the courtroom and verbally acknowledged that she was pleading guilty to eight felonies: seven counts of second-degree murder related to the deaths of seven
veterans and one count of assault with intent to commit murder. CNN
Decapitated and dismembered body of tech millionaire found in NYC . . . The decapitated and dismembered body of a self-made millionaire has been found in his luxury Manhattan apartment by his heartbroken sister, and cops are now hunting for a professional killer who cut up the 33-year-old's corpse with an electric saw after following him into his apartment from the elevator. The victim has been identified as Fahim Saleh, a millionaire tech
entrepreneur who moved into his $2.25 million Lower East Side apartment late last year. Daily Mail
Sounds like someone wanted to make sure.
Ghislaine Maxwell cried as bail denied . . . Ghislaine Maxwell cried as she was ordered held without bail Tuesday — with a Manhattan judge ruling the accused sex abuser “poses substantial actual risk of flight” after she purposely hid from authorities. The 58-year-old British socialite and pal of late convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein wiped tears from her left eye several times, using the back of her left index finger, as federal Judge Alison
Nathan refused to free her from the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn until her trial next year. New York Post
Astronomers discover huge galactic wall behind Milky Way . . . Scientists have discovered a celestial structure made of galaxies more than 1.4 billion light-years long and 600 million light-years deep in the skies over the South Pole,
according to a report. The South Pole Wall, as it has been dubbed, is situated along the southern border of the cosmos from the perspective of Earth, and consists of thousands of galaxies, hydrogen gas, dust and dark matter. It's also one of the largest known structures in the universe. Fox News
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Burger King using cows that fart less . . . Burger King announced Tuesday that it is offering burgers with beef sourced from cows that produced less methane through belching and breaking wind. Burger King teamed up with environmental scientists to develop a less noxious diet for cows. Initial studies have shown promise as the company has added lemongrass to the animals’ feed, which allegedly reduces the cows’ methane emissions by
up to 33%. “At Burger King, we believe that delicious, affordable and convenient meals can also be sustainable,” the company said. “If the whole industry, from farmers, meat suppliers and other brands join us we can increase scale and collectively help reduce methane emissions that affect climate change.” New York Daily News
Meantime, McDonald's has countered with a program to get their employees to stop farting.
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