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Michael Jordan mostly kept himself out of controversy at the height of his fame with the Chicago Bulls during the 1990s but it was a comment about selling sneakers that drew the most ire. Jordan’s comment, “Republicans buy sneakers too,” resurfaced Sunday night in an episode of ESPN’s “The Last Dance” documentary. Jordan admitted that the remark, which was made during the 1990 U.S. Senate race in North Carolina between Democrat challenger Harvey Gantt and incumbent Republican Jesse Helms was "said in jest.”

What do the people Eisenhower warned us about in his Military/Industrial Complex speech, expect to get out of deceiving us, that they don't already have? This is not advocacy, this is a question, that one of our members has the answer to: Why is it so important that they get us to believe lies? What do they expect to get out of it, that they can't get if we at least understand the broader outlines of the true strategic picture that they control anyway? Nikolai Yezhov (right) oversaw the executions of more than half a million Soviet citizens during the...

GUATEMALA CITY - Migrants returning from the United States were once considered heroes in Guatemala, where the money they send back to their hometowns is a mainstay of the economy. But since the coronavirus pandemic hit, migrants in town after town have been mistreated, run off or threatened by neighbors who fear they will bring the virus back with them from the United States. Vanessa Díaz said her mother heard rumors that neighbors were organizing to keep her from reaching her home in the northern province of Petén after she was deported back to Guatemala on a flight from the...

In a transparent ploy to shift the focus from a doddering Joe Biden now beset with a serious allegation of sexual assault, Joe Scarborough did his best today to suggest that President Trump was not mentally "well," should "get checked out, take a rest," and "let Mike Pence run things." [snip] Said Scarborough: "Mr. President, I ask that you get checked out. I ask that you take a rest. I ask that you take care of yourself. Maybe let Mike Pence run things for the next week. You’re not well."Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

Nancy Pelosi is not interested with finding the origins of the Wuhan virus that is decimating the US economy and has killed 60,000 elderly and sickly Americans.Instead, Pelosi wants to spend her resources on another hoax investigation of President Donald Trump.The woman is pure evil.Via Breitbart.com. Rep. Guy Reschenthaler (R-PA) told Breitbart News this weekend that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi would rather investigate President Donald Trump again than focus on the actual origins of the Chinese coronavirus and U.S. tax dollars that went to the Wuhan Institute of Virology from which intelligence officials increasingly believe the virus leaked.Appearing on Breitbart News Saturday on...

Monday of the Fourth Week of Easter John 10:11-18 Friends, in today’s Gospel Jesus declares: "I am the good shepherd, and I know mine and mine know me." He specifies that he knows intimately those whom he will gather—and that they know him. A good shepherd will be able to recognize clearly which sheep are of his flock, and the sheep themselves will be able to distinguish the voice of their shepherd from the array of voices and sounds that surround them. What is it that leads people to accept Jesus Christ? What is it that appeals to them when...

Unfortunately for Democrats, new evidence seems to suggest the Biden electability argument might be severely flawed. Not only is Biden facing immense pressure from an army of angry Bernie acolytes over a sexual assault claim, but recent polling also suggests support for Biden among young voters – a key demographic for Democrats – might be much weaker than anyone realized. According to an extensive survey by the Institute of Politics at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government released in late April, only 34 percent of Americans aged 18 to 29 say they have a favorable view of the former vice...

A “zombie satellite” orbiting earth since 1967 when it was launched by the U.S. military, has been discovered by a radio enthusiast. NPR reports that the discovery was made by amateur radio operator Scott Tilley, who lives in British Columbia, Canada. “Well folks, here's what appears to be a new ZOMBIE SAT!” Tilley tweeted on March 24. Satellite LES-5, he explained, is in a “GEO [Geosynchronous Equatorial Orbit] graveyard orbit.” Tilley also noted subsequent passes by LES-5. Graveyard orbit -- where old satellites go to die -- is about 22,400 miles above the earth, according to NASA, which notes that...

A Louisiana real estate firm is giving away a free house for anyone willing to relocate it - the only catch is that it's haunted. Sylvia McLain, the co-owner of McLain Investments, posted pictures of the house, located in Lafayette, Louisiana, on Facebook in March, saying it was up for grabs, gratis, to anyone who was willing to pick up the house and move it off the property. She wrote that the 'iconic home' was built in the late 1920s to early 1930s and that it had been unoccupied for the last six months, but was 'vacated due to development,'...

Miami Dolphins Hall of Fame coach Don Shula died on Monday morning at the age of 90, the franchise confirmed in a release on Twitter. “Don Shula was the patriarch of the Miami Dolphins for 50 years,” the Dolphins said in their release. “He brought the winning edge to our franchise and put the Dolphins and the city of Miami in the national sports scene. Our deepest thoughts and prayers go out to Mary Anne along with his children Dave, Donna, Sharon, Anne and Mike.” Shula was one of the most notable coaches in NFL history, posting a career record...

BEIJING - An internal Chinese report warns that Beijing faces a rising wave of hostility in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak that could tip relations with the United States into confrontation, people familiar with the paper told Reuters. The report, presented early last month by the Ministry of State Security to top Beijing leaders including President Xi Jinping, concluded that global anti-China sentiment is at its highest since the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown, the sources said. As a result, Beijing faces a wave of anti-China sentiment led by the United States in the aftermath of the pandemic and needs...

The Chicago Bears reportedly declined the fifth-year option for quarterback Mitchell Trubisky, the second overall pick of the 2017 draft, according to NFL Network’s Tom Pelissero.

A nationalist tabloid controlled by the Chinese Communist Party has dismissed claims by the Trump administration that the novel coronavirus originated from a laboratory, as the war of words over the pandemic escalates between Washington and Beijing. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Sunday in an interview with ABC that there was "enormous evidence" Covid-19 originated in a laboratory in the Chinese city of Wuhan, where the outbreak was first detected last December. He did not provide details to support the claim. Responding to Pompeo's comments, China's state owned Global Times newspaper said in an editorial Monday that the...

Tara Reade, a former staffer for Senator Joe Biden has come forward with a credible story of rape by the senator, and the Democrat Party, including every Democrat member of the Senate has refused to support her demand for a hearing. This is the same party that until this accusation surfaced had rallied around the slogan “Believe All Women,” and gone to the wall to destroy the reputation and career of Judge Brett Kavanaugh on the basis of the flimsiest accusations of sexual assault when he was a teenager 37 years previously. To understand the depths of hypocrisy and bad...

We now know that it was Dr. Tony Fauci  and Dr. Deborah Birx who persuaded President Trump to kill the economy and force Americans into a lockdown… And we also know they did this based on wildly inaccurate models and predictions. Back in March the two doctors went into the Oval Office and urged President Trump to lock down the economy or 2.2 million Americans would die. Of course, their original mortality predictions were 33 times what has occurred and yet they have not altered their lock down recommendations to date. In interviews to date the two doctors have been given softball questions.  Their...

California police at an anti-lockdown protest in Sacramento, California stood down after a Marine veteran challenged their integrity for enforcing unconstitutional orders. https://youtu.be/DTqipTcwxyA 

Life will never return to normal until we have The Vaccine. So say the experts, with Tony Fauci leading the charge. (That fact alone should give anyone pause.) There are multiple problems with respect to a coronavirus vaccine. (Full disclosure: I’m not an anti-vaxxer). First, coronaviruses have been around for a long time, yet we’ve never been able to develop a vaccine for any of them. Why should this go ‘round be any different? So, when we hear Fauci be confident we’ll have a vaccine (and by early next year, no less), I have to wonder. Then, there are...

The chilling words contained in the newly released handwritten notes of William Priestap, the assistant director of the FBI Counterintelligence Division at the time of the FBI's January 24, 2017 interview with former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, confirm the worst suspicions of Flynn’s defense team. Flynn’s lead defense attorney Sidney Powell believes with good reason that the retired three-star general was set up for a perjury trap by senior officials at the FBI. The handwritten notes and other released FBI documents provide her with more ammunition for the defense team’s motion to dismiss the case against Flynn. The motion...

A Word From the Editor – Parody In yesterdays’ “afternoon” edition of the Bad News Journal, Jordon Westcoat a BNJ Contributor wrote what was supposed to be a parody, but missed its mark. “Parody”: A literary or artistic work that imitates the characteristic style of an author or a work for comic effect or ridicule. The “Bad News” is that the far left is unwilling to have a dialogue, and unfortunately some of our conservative patriots become enraged by the mere mention of the world “Trumpians” that they missed the point, which was the far left’s warped ideology. In a...

President Trump stepped up criticism of China, part of an international backlash over the outbreak. President Trump accused the Chinese government of making a “horrible mistake” in its coronavirus response and of then orchestrating a cover-up that allowed the pathogen to spread around the world. “My opinion is they made a mistake. They tried to cover it, they tried to put it out. It’s like a fire,” Mr. Trump said on Sunday night during a virtual town hall on Fox News. “You know, it’s really like trying to put out a fire. They couldn’t put out the fire.” China did...