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Archive for July, 2021
Did Tucker Carlson deserve this?
“When a local fly fishing guide spotted … Tucker Carlson at a sporting goods store in Livingston, Montana, he did not waste time. ‘You are the worst human being known to mankind. I want you to know that,’ Dan Bailey can be heard telling the Fox News host in a video posted to [...]
July 22nd, 2021 - 11:27 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
Overturn Roe v. Wade? You can ask.
“Mississippi’s attorney general urged the Supreme Court in a Thursday brief to overrule Roe v. Wade next term when the justices review Mississippi’s ban on virtually all abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy,” The Hill reported on July 22, 2021. “Calling the court’s precedent[...]
July 22nd, 2021 - 1:25 pm § in Politics
Pelosi is 110% right about the Jan. 6 inquiry
She won’t let Reps. Jim Jordan (R-OH) and Jim Banks (R-IN) participate, and she shouldn’t. GOP House leader Kevin McCarthy (R-TX) doesn’t like it. Most other Republicans don’t like it, either. You don’t expect them to. “This is deadly serious,” Pelosi said. “This [...]
July 22nd, 2021 - 1:47 am § in Jews, Law and Courts
Synagogue gunman gets life without parole
In April 2019, a 20-year-old sociopath strolled into a San Diego-area synagogue with an AR-15 and opened fire, killing a 60-year-old woman and wounding the rabbi and two others, including an 8-year-old girl. Two years later, John T. Earnest, 22, told a California judge he did it because he believed [...]
July 21st, 2021 - 7:58 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
This Capitol rioter threatened to kill his family if they squealed on him
Guy Reffitt (photo), 48, of Wylie, Texas, is likely in big trouble. A member of the Three Percenters, a violent anti-government group, he messaged two other Capitol rioters that he was setting up a “security business” to get police weaponry. He showed up for the Capitol riot in militia[...]
July 21st, 2021 - 2:30 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
Tears as Capitol rioter heads for prison
No crocodile tears, these. “The first person sentenced to hard time for … the January 6 Capitol riot was seen saying an emotional farewell to his girlfriend … after he admitted his guilt in court,” the U.K.-based tabloid Daily Mail reported on Wednesday, July 21, 2021. “[...]
“I’m sorry, it’s too late”
“I’m admitting young healthy people to the hospital with very serious COVID infections. One of the last things they do before they’re intubated is beg me for the vaccine. I hold their hand and tell them that I’m sorry, but it’s too late,” an Alabama doctor wrote o[...]
Federal judge blocks new Arkansas anti-trans law
Earlier this month, the GOP-dominated Arkansas legislature overrode the GOP governor’s veto of a bill that bans gender-confirming medical treatments for trans youths. A federal judge blocked that law on Wednesday, July 21, 2021, pending an ACLU lawsuit to strike it down as a violation of those[...]
Soccer: Sweden crushes U.S. women in 1st Tokyo game
Swedish women played like a team hunting podium gold, while defending World Cup champs U.S. women “played like world-class chumps” in opening play at the Tokyo Olympics, Huffington Post reported on July 21, 2021 (read story here). NBC Sports said the U.S. team “will probably have t[...]