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On April 21st the Washington Post savaged Georgia governor Brian Kemp’s decision to begin opening his state after locking down for weeks. “Georgia leads the race to become America’s No. 1 Death Destination,” sneered the headline. The author, liberal pundit Dana Milbank, actually found the possibility of Georgians dying to be hilarious, suggesting that, “as a promotion, Georgia could offer ventilators to the first 100 hotel guests to register.” Milbank, who is obviously still getting paid while millions are out of work, sees his job as pushing the mainstream narrative that we must remain in fear and never question what...

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) announced Monday evening that his panel will vote June 4 on a subpoena authorization to review documents and communications and solicit testimony from an array of senior Obama-era officials, including former FBI Director James Comey. Graham announced in a press release that the subpoena vote will take place as part of his panel’s investigation into “FISA abuse” and the FBI probe “Crossfire Hurricane,” which investigated contacts between Trump advisers and Russian officials during the 2016 presidential election. The subpoenas will cover “documents, communications and testimony from witnesses” including Comey, former FBI deputy director...

Sharyl: Camps largely divided along political lines. Many right-leaning media figures sided with hydroxychloroquine while the left-leaning press backed remdesivir. Each accusing the other of ignoring real science. Dr. William O’Neill: I've never seen science politicized in 40 years of practice. Sharyl: Cardiologist Dr. William O’Neill is a medical director at the Henry Ford Health System in Detroit, Michigan where they’re studying both remdesivir and hydroxychloroquine. Some people in the media are treating hydroxychloroquine as if it's something that's being pitched by charlatans, it's dangerous, and that's been debunked and discredited. What do you make of that? Dr. O’Neill: I...

José Rodrigo 'Chino Ántrax' Arechiga Gamboa was found executed with his sister, Ada Jimena Arechiga Gamboa, and her husband, Juan García Espinoza Two of the bodies were located Saturday morning inside a BMW SUV and the third was lying next to it on a road in the Culiacán municipality of Arroyo Seco Chino Ántrax was reported missing May 9 by a probation officer who visited a California home where he was staying after he was released from jail March 3 The 40-year-old co-founded Los Ántrax, a hit squad tied to Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán's old Sinaloa Cartel Chino Ántrax was...

The Treasury Department said Monday that it is starting to deliver nearly 4 million coronavirus relief payments to taxpayers via prepaid debit card, rather than by paper check. The announcement comes after Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin had indicated that the department planned to get some people their payments by sending them debit cards, in an effort to help get people their payments faster. "Prepaid debit cards are secure, easy to use, and allow us to deliver Americans their money quickly,” Mnuchin said in a news release Monday. “Recipients can immediately activate and use the cards safely.” Legislation President Trump signed...

Five years ago Sunday nine died and 18 were injured after a shootout erupted between rival motorcycle groups at Twin Peaks restaurant in Waco. The shootout was the deadliest and most high-profile event in the Waco area since the Waco siege of the Branch Davidian compound in 1993. The bikers said the agenda at the regional meeting of the Texas Confederation of Clubs and Independents (COC&I), a statewide biker group coalition based in Tyler, involved political issues regarding the rights of motorcyclists. But trouble was brewing between the Bandidos and the Cossacks. Eighteen Waco police officers and four state troopers...

Orozco was arrested last week for “DUI-drugs and driving the wrong way on the road,” according to a post on the Salinas Police Department’s Facebook page. But amid the coronavirus pandemic, California has effectively guaranteed the freedom of most who commit a misdemeanor and lower-level felonies, setting cash bail at $0 in order to keep the number of people behind bars low to stop the spread of the virus. . . . “Not more than 10 minutes later Orozco forced a female out of her car in the parking lot of Natividad Medical Center. The female refused to give up...

The man accused of stabbing an 80-year-old woman to death on Saturday was out on bond at the time of the murder. Bond for Randy Lewis, 38, was waived back on April 30 for a charge of assaulting a public servant from two years ago. A charging document stated he struck someone who was transferring him to the county jail. Court records indicate he was found temporarily incompetent after a mental exam in October 2019 and was committed to a mental facility. In March, his stay was extended by a judge for 60 days after a request from the head...

It comes after a resident launched an effort to open a community garden. The City of Falcon Heights has imposed a temporary ban on front yard vegetable planting after efforts by a local resident to create a community vegetable garden for the summer. Quentin Nguyen was shocked last week when a letter arrived advising him that the city council had passed a temporary ordinance prohibiting vegetable gardens from being placed in front yards of residential homes. Nguyen had launched his effort to create a community vegetable garden on the front yard of his family home in April, creating a GoFundMe...

California’s governor and San Francisco’s mayor worked together to act early in confronting the COVID threat. For Andrew Cuomo and Bill de Blasio, it was a different story, and 27,000 New Yorkers have died so far. By March 14, London Breed, the mayor of San Francisco, had seen enough. For weeks, she and her health officials had looked at data showing the evolving threat of COVID-19. In response, she’d issued a series of orders limiting the size of public gatherings, each one feeling more arbitrary than the last. She’d been persuaded that her city’s considerable and highly regarded health care...

@RandPaulPaging Dr. Fauci: scientific evidence shows mortality rate for coronavirus approximates the annual flu for people under 60 #freeourpeople #openeconomynow Horowitz: One chart exposes the lie behind universal lockdowns - Conservative Review

[Catholic Caucus] Children make First Communion in Ireland — but from home Wha—?Details from RTE: A group of children have made their First Holy Communion virtually today – from the comfort of their own homes.Ten students from three different primary schools in Lusk, north Co Dublin – Hedgestown, Corduff and Educate Together – took part in a special video link-up with local parish priest Fr George Begley officiating via webcam.Catholic Communion ceremonies had to be cancelled nationwide due to the coronavirus pandemic restrictions.Jane O’Kelly was among the parents whose children enjoyed the online ceremony. “My daughter Laoise made her First Holy...

Responding to reports of crowded patios around Ohio, Gov. Mike DeWine said Monday the state is “marshaling all the resources at our disposal” to assemble law-enforcement and health officials to ensure bars and restaurants are following the state’s social-distancing rules. The governor, speaking at his regular coronavirus briefing, said the state is assembling "a large contingent of law enforcement and health officials from across state agencies and from our local communities” to conduct compliance checks and refer offenders for prosecution...“If we’re going to bring the economy back, people have to feel safe when they go out,” he said. “They have...

Racing fans hoping to see the green flag waved at the first-ever NASCAR doubleheader at Pocono Raceway next month may get the chance yet. But it depends heavily on whether Monroe County ,where the track is located, has moved into the “yellow” phase of Gov. Tom Wolf’s color-coded, three-tiered reopening plan by then. Pa. Gov. Tom Wolf was asked a question about the conditions that must be met for the races scheduled from June 25 to 28 to take place during a televised news conference on Monday. And he gave an encouraging response for NASCAR fans. “If Monroe County goes...

. . .After Implementing the “Massachusetts Model” Monday, May 18, 2020 - Governor, Office of the Chicago - Building on a robust, statewide effort to ensure Illinois can safely reopen, Governor Pritzker announced the Illinois Contact Tracing Collaborative, a locally-driven approach to scale up contact tracing in Illinois. "With Illinois' daily availability of testing among the best in the nation, we want to grow our voluntary contact tracing so we can further control and reduce the rate of spread of COVID-19 and stop outbreaks in their tracks," said Governor JB Pritzker. The state is immediately engaging two local health departments...

If normal radical liberals in Big Tech weren’t bad enough, Twitch has named a transgender streamer who self-identifies as a deer to be on the platform’s “Safety Advisory Council.” ... In one, Loehr wore antlers while broadcasting and explained: “In my spare time, I go out to my yard, and I, and I prance around. And I eat grass.” While explaining this, Loehr mimed eating grass and described how “it helps me feel, like, in tune with my deer-self.” . . . Loehr claimed the cause of the harassment is merely because "I am different and twitch has platformed me.”...

House Democrats told the Supreme Court on Monday that they are again in the midst of an "ongoing presidential impeachment investigation" as part of their "weighty constitutional responsibility" – and, the Democrats argued, redacted grand-jury material from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s now-completed Russia probe must be turned over as a result. Top Democrats have repeatedly suggested since President Trump was acquitted on two articles of impeachment in February that they might initiate new impeachment proceedings. In their brief with the Supreme Court, which seeks testimony, exhibits and transcripts, the Democrats promised that leaks won't be a problem, owing to their...

“That was stunning.” Fox News’ Neil Cavuto was so shocked by President Donald Trump announcing he’s taking hydroxychloroquine that he took a few minutes to explicitly warn viewers about the risks of taking it. At one point the president asked “what have you got to lose,” but as Cavuto said, “A number of studies, those certainly vulnerable in the population have one thing to lose, their lives. A VA study showed that among a population of veterans in a hospital receiving this treatment, those with vulnerable conditions, respiratory conditions, heart elements, they died.” Cavuto read from a number of other...

The National Pulse can reveal that major Western news outlets have been participating in a Chinese Communist Party-run ‘Global Media Summit’ for years, lending the legitimacy of their outlets to CCP propaganda. The organization behind the summit was recently listed as a “foreign agent” by the U.S. government... ...CGTN has existed as a foreign propaganda outlet since 1997, while its parent company CCTV has been around since the 1970s. Even YouTube, owned by Google, demarcates CGTN clips with a disclaimer that reads: “CGTN is funded in whole or in part by the Chinese government”. But that didn’t stop Western media...

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