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Aug 23 2020
News
Slate of proposed bills could change policing in California
It’s been three months since the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis sparked nationwide protests against police brutality and calls for sweeping criminal justice reform.
In many states, residents are still waiting for new laws and policies to be enacted. In California, lawmakers have until Aug. 31 to consider more than a dozen bills aimed at reducing, overseeing and disciplining the
NBC News (Online)
Apr 08 2021
News
Biden announces slate of gun control actions, claims 'public health crisis'
President Biden on Thursday announced a set of executive actions and legislative proposals on gun control, saying that gun violence is "a public health crisis" and the administration's actions do not contravene Second Amendment rights.
The administration aims to "confront not just the gun crisis but what is actually a public health crisis," Biden said in his remarks in the Rose Garden
Fox News (Online News)
Jan 23 2020
News
In 'Smog-istan', not all Pakistanis are created equal
Lahore, Pakistan - Walking through the streets of Lahore's old city, once home to Mughal royalty but now overtaken by a maze of ramshackle shops and commercial buildings built seemingly on top of one another, you can see a thin layer of translucent brown air hang just above street level.
"We have been getting sore throats, colds and fevers," says Khurram Shehzad, 35, a salesman at a
Al Jazeera
Sep 09 2020
Analysis
Nets Skip Outrage at Disney for Thanking China Concentration Camp Bosses
While the broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) were stoking fear of any coronavirus vaccine produced under Trump’s presidency, they blacked out the nationwide outrage at ABC-owner Disney for giving a “special thanks” to the operators of China’s Uighur concentration camps in the credits of their new movie Mulan. It was a missed opportunity for their competitors at CBS and NBC.
The
NewsBusters
Aug 16 2014
News
When The Media Treats White Suspects And Killers Better Than Black Victims
On the afternoon of Aug. 9, a police officer fatally shot an unarmed, black teenager, Michael Brown, in Ferguson, Missouri. Details remain in dispute. Eyewitnesses have said that Brown was compliant with police and was shot while he had his hands up. Police maintain that the 18-year-old had assaulted an officer and was reaching for the officer's gun. One thing clear, however, is that Brown's
HuffPost
Jan 22 2020
News
'Caught Lying Again': Report Calls Out Schiff For Mischaracterizing Parnas Evidence
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) appears to have “mischaracterized” a piece of evidence used in the Democrats’ impeachment investigation, Politico reports.
The problematic evidence stems from a letter the House Intelligence chairman sent to House Judiciary Committee Jerry Nadler (D-NY) last week.
“In one section of the letter, Schiff claims that Parnas ‘continued to try to arrange a
Townhall
Sep 12 2020
Opinion
The NFL's racial justice efforts fall far short
The National Football League's efforts to recognize the enormity of this generational opportunity for racial justice, punctuated by a massive "We Believe Black Lives Matter" sign in Kansas City as the Chiefs hosted the Houston Texans in the season opener, still falls short of what this moment requires.
This year's Black Lives Matter protests in the wake of the killings of George Floyd
CNN (Opinion)
Feb 26 2020
News
Court upholds Texas’ winner-take-all system of electoral votes for president
Texas’ winner-take-all system of allocating electoral votes for president is constitutional, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday.
The League of United Latin American Citizens and a group of voters filed suit in 2018 to strike down the winner-take-all distribution as a violation of the one-person, one-vote standard that renders millions of Democratic ballots meaningless in the race
Austin American-Statesman
Jul 29 2020
Opinion
Barr eats Nadler's lunch during testimony
He came, he saw, he ate their lunch. Bill Barr, denied a meal break, feasted instead on a gaggle of Democratic amateurs.
Another congressional hearing, another Dem disaster. They planned a public hanging of the attorney general and spent weeks constructing their scaffold. He is corrupt, a liar, a toady, they and their media handmaidens assured us, and the House Judiciary Committee will
Michael Goodwin
Sep 09 2020
Opinion
Black Lives Matter has terrorist and communist inspirations, but liberal media doesn’t care
Reporter Lara Logan made an important point Tuesday morning on Fox & Friends First, saying it’s long past time to expose the “powerful political entities” behind antifa and other violent-protest activists.
The establishment media have largely ignored the radical, communist, and even domestic terrorist roots of antifa, Black Lives Matter, and some of the other violent protesters.
Washington Examiner