Joel B. Pollak - Page 196

Major League Baseball came out in defense of players who knelt during the national anthem on Monday evening, taking on critics and tweeting in support of the Black Lives Matter movement.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom denied a New York Times report last weekend that claimed he was required to thank President Donald Trump publicly in exchange for coronavirus aid for the State of California. “Not true,” Newsom said.

The Associated Press (AP) announced Monday that while it would capitalize the word “black” when referring to black people, it would not capitalize the word “white” when referring to white people, because of “systemic inequalities.”

Former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley said Sunday that Joe Biden would reverse all of the progress achieved by President Donald Trump in the Middle East by reverting to the failed policies of the Obama administration.

The late Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) is being remembered by President Donald Trump the way he ought to be remembered — namely, for his heroic leadership in the civil rights movement. That is how he should be remembered — not for his recent politics.

Michael Goodwin of the New York Post published an extensive investigative article on Sunday claiming that the family that owns the New York Times is descended from slaveowners.

Roger Stone appeared to mutter, “I don’t really feel like arguing with this Negro,” during an interview on Saturday evening on the Mr. Mo’Kelly Show on KFI AM 640 in Los Angeles.

Fact check – CLAIM: Joe Biden doesn’t want to defund the police, just redirect police funding to other uses. VERDICT: Mostly false. They mean the same thing.

The Senate Judiciary Committee released a declassified document Friday that shows former FBI agent Peter Strzok knew that a February 2017 article in the New York Times suggesting Russia “collusion” was false in almost every respect.

U.S. Attorney John Lausch, Jr. announced Friday that the federal government had discovered that electric utility ComEd had been paying bribes and providing favors to Illinois House Speaker Mike Madigan, the state’s Democratic kingpin.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) is shaping the policies of former Vice President Joe Biden as he continues to shift to the left, according to a speculative report by the Axios.com political news website.

Trump supporters have lived through a real tyranny: an anti-democratic effort to prevent Trump from governing, and to oust him from office.

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot referred to White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany as a “Karen” on Thursday afternoon, using a term that some consider a racial slur against white women.

The USA Today newspaper has appended an “editor’s note” to an op-ed by White House trade adviser Peter Navarro criticizing coronavirus adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci, a controversial practice that critics have said amounts to censorship of debate.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is pushing for a repeal of the state and local tax (SALT) deduction cap in the next round of coronavirus relief — giving a tax cut to the wealthiest 1% of taxpayers, especially in “blue” states.

The Washington Post fact-checker has attempted to defend Vice President Joe Biden from charges that he wants to “defund the police” by explaining that spending less money on the police does not actually mean “defunding” them.

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA), the nation’s oldest pro-Israel organization, has set up a special antisemitism hotline for Jewish staffers at the New York Times and other outlets who are victims of antisemitism from their colleagues.

Charlamagne tha God, the host of The Breakfast Club on New York’s Power 105.1 FM, said Wednesday that ViacomCBS’s decision to fire entertainer Nick Cannon for antisemitic and anti-white statements proved that “Jewish people … have the power.”

The National Museum of African American History and Culture, part of the U.S. government-run Smithsonian Institution, includes a web page about “whiteness” in America that defines it to include individualism, science, and hard work.

Controversy is raging in Orange County, California, after the county’s school board voted overwhelmingly this week to reopen schools — but the county’s Democratic congressional delegation criticized the decision, and schools were uncertain.

Fact check: CLAIM: CBS – “Black Americans are more likely to die at the hands of law enforcement than White people.” VERDICT: Unclear.

Former Vice President Joe Biden promised a “second great railroad revolution” as part of his climate change pitch on Tuesday in Wilmington, Delaware.

Former Vice President Joe Biden will introduce a plan Tuesday to tackle climate change that borrows the central element of the Green New Deal of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) — and simply adds an extra five years to achieve it.

Bari Weiss, a New York Times opinion editor who prided herself on her centrist views and openness to argument, has resigned from the paper, posting a scathing resignation letter on her personal website accusing the Times of intolerance.

Former Vice President Joe Biden used a quote made famous by the late Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong in an online fundraiser.

The 2020 Democratic Party presidential primary was to be defined by debate over a set of unabashedly socialist policies.

Former Vice President Joe Biden told a select group of reporters on Monday that he is confident that he will win the election and that America is ready for “systemic” and “institutional” changes that will transform the country.

Former Vice President Joe Biden is proposing that the federal government spend $7 trillion in new outlays — three times what former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton proposed in new spending in her unsuccessful bid for president in 2016.

Donald Trump is a disruptive president, but in the service of the Burkean conservatism that Never Trumpers once purported to uphold.

Democrats believe the top priority of a Joe Biden administration in 2021 would be passing amnesty for millions of illegal aliens in the country, according to a new report in The Hill.

Democrats are so confident of their prospects in the 2020 elections that they are predicting a “tsunami” at the polls that will not only sweep President Donald Trump from the Oval Office, but sweep Democrats into full control of Congress.

The Trump administration has rejected a request by Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) for millions of dollars in federal aid to repair damage to buildings and infrastructure destroyed in riots that followed the killing of George Floyd on Memorial Day.

Conservative African American economist Thomas Sowell says that the term “systemic racism,” which is central to the Black Lives Matter movement, has “no meaning.”

Opponents of President Donald Trump are planning to target his supporters, both in politics and in the media, after the election, according to a glowing account of the “Never Trump” faction of Republicans that appeared in Saturday’s Washington Post.

Roughly one hundred members of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) protested Saturday in front of their headquarters in downtown Los Angeles on Saturday, urging residents and elected leaders to “defend the police.”

NBC and MSNBC science contributor Dr. Joseph Fair documented his battle with coronavirus, which he fought in the hospital.