Rachael Rollins, a Biden-appointed U.S. attorney, resigned “after wide-ranging investigations by two federal watchdog agencies found she sought to use her position to influence a local election and lied to investigators,” ABC News reported on Friday, May 19, 2023 (read story here). Rolli[...]
Archive for May, 2023
May 19th, 2023 - 10:20 pm § in Biden, Law and Courts
Federal prosecutor resigns after lying about election meddling
May 19th, 2023 - 9:30 pm § in Humor
Ladies, this is why there’s a shortage of men (video)
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May 19th, 2023 - 6:42 pm § in News Media, Politics
Tale of migrants displacing homeless veterans is a hoax
A viral tale was born when the New York Post published an article (here) on May 12, 2023, claiming that “nearly two dozen struggling homeless veterans have been booted from upstate hotels to make room for migrants.” The Post’s source was Sharon Toney-Finch, CEO of the Yerik Israel [...]
May 18th, 2023 - 3:18 pm § in Politics, Republicans
Ashli Babbitt’s mother is a nutcase
Losing a child is heartbreaking, and grieving parents don’t hurt less if their child was a criminal. Ashli Babbitt was committing a felony when she attacked the final thin line of police defending members of Congress sheltering a few feet away. Subsequent investigations exonerated the cop who [...]
Can any Republican win in 2024?
President Biden, who’s running for re-election, looks vulnerable. He has low approval ratings, many voters question his age, even many Democrats are leery of Kamala Harris succeeding him, and he could face an election-year recession. But you can’t ignore voters’ other choice, and t[...]
Nikki Haley would bypass courts in subway choking case
Nikki Haley, who’s running for president, announced on Fox News that New York’s governor should pardon the white man who choked a mentally-ill black subway rider to death (see story here). The case is complicated, and certainly not as simple as its component of white-on-black violence wo[...]
Ex-NFL player sent death threat to Democratic congressman
The tweet sent to Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) was plain enough: And it was sent “in the clear,” i.e., under the author’s real name. It didn’t take long for Swalwell to find out his special fan was Bruce Miller, a former NFL player (see his bio here). Miller, a big guy with bulg[...]
May 17th, 2023 - 10:19 pm § in Politics, Republicans
Ex-Trump aide scoffs at debt ceiling deadline
Mick Mulvaney, who served as OMB chief and then White House chief of staff under Trump, doesn’t believe the drop-dead date to raise the debt ceiling and prevent default is June 1, despite Treasury Secretary Yellen’s warnings, The Hill reported on Wednesday, May 17, 2023 (read story here). He thi[...]
Not racist, just mentally lazy?
His Wikipedia biography, at the moment, says: “Jeffrey C. McNeely is a racist Republican member of the North Carolina House of Representatives who has represented the 84th district (including parts of Iredell County) since 2019.” It appears to have been modified by a member of th[...]
Why there’s a teacher shortage
Sarah Bonner taught middle school students in Heyworth, Illinois for 20 years. Like any good teacher, she encouraged her students to read. She celebrated books, and held “Reading Mondays” in her classroom. But when she held up a popular book titled “This Book Is Gay” (read de[...]