Headlines across America are proclaiming the Tuesday elections as a major setback for President Joe Biden. Even Gayle King of left-leaning CBS called election night “a major victory for Republicans,” and CNN’s Democratic political commentator, Van Jones, declared it a “five-alarm fire” for Democrats. While the election results have focused …
Read More »‘Delta has changed everything’: Oregon governor to deploy 1,500 National Guard troops to assist swamped hospitals
“To support our hospitals overstretched by patients during the Delta surge, I’m deploying 500 Oregon National Guard members, initially, to hospitals across the state,” Brown announced on Friday, adding that, eventually, “Up to 1,500 Guard members will be available to support our hospital workers as needed.” The first 500 troops …
Read More »‘My whole life changed’: Boxing icon Mike Tyson credits magic mushrooms with bringing him back from the brink of suicide
Tyson, 54, who has become an respected podcaster and marijuana magnate in his latter career, returned to the ring last November for an exhibition fight against fellow ring veteran Roy Jones in what was seen as the culmination of Tyson’s career renaissance. The Brooklyn-born slugger credits, in part at least, his …
Read More »Debate over the Israel-Palestine issue has changed forever, but here’s why the fabled ‘two-state solution’ is no solution at all
After more than a week of fighting and hundreds dead, mostly Palestinians, Israel and the militant group Hamas agreed on Thursday to a ceasefire. Even though this is cause for celebration since it will mean an immediate end to hostilities, it hardly means an end to the conflict. But much …
Read More »‘What changed?’ Conservatives suspicious after California Gov. Newsom eases lockdown following Biden inauguration
Newsom announced the decision on Monday, a day after an official in his administration sent a letter to restaurant owners revealing the plan. All counties in the state will return to a tier-based system of restrictions, with outdoor dining and indoor salons allowed to reopen in ‘purple’ tier areas. Newsom’s …
Read More »‘Passwords changed’: Congressman Crenshaw suggests his Twitter was HACKED after reporter shames him for following escort
On Thursday, a Daily Dot and Mediaite political reporter Zachary Petrizzo tweeted out that Crenshaw is “currently following an escort on Twitter who charges $1,500 per hour,” along with screenshots of the lingerie-clad blonde. Petrizzo’s tweet was quickly seized upon by Democrat activists, who have previously gone after Crenshaw with …
Read More »Trump’s enduring legacy will be the fact he’s changed the Republican Party forever
President Donald Trump may have just two months left in office before Joe Biden takes over, but his impact on the Republican Party is likely to go down in history as the most significant and lasting aspect of his legacy. The Republican Party has been hard-pressed for years to adapt …
Read More »Biden administration will find it hard to integrate itself in a world changed by Trump
If the press reports are true, it appears that much of the world joined the roughly 50 percent of Americans who celebrated the news that Joe Biden had passed the Electoral College threshold of the 270 votes needed to become president-elect. While America struggles to find a path where Biden …
Read More »France does a volte-face on free speech in the wake of a teacher’s beheading, but the law needs to be changed to reflect this
The murder and decapitation of a school teacher in the Paris suburb of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine earlier this month for showing his class caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed – the same images cited by jihadists when, in January 2015, they killed journalists working at Charlie Hebdo, the satirical magazine that initially published …
Read More »In the ranking of the Russian regions on quality of life has not changed neither the leaders nor outsiders
Moscow, St. Petersburg and the Moscow region is expected topped the rating of Russian regions on quality of life. According to research by RIA Novosti, a change in the top three are planned in the coming years. All this is due to “infrastructure, economy and development potential”. In the first …
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