A very worthy story!-----Why conservatives think journalism is rigged against them | The College Fix

Why conservatives think journalism is rigged against them | The College Fix

"....The embarrassment was so thorough that the paper eventually stopped sending me letters-to-the-editor to edit but kept paying me for editing that page. 

I didn’t protest because we were nearing the end of the year anyway, and the point had been made.

But perhaps not well enough made.

...Once a year, the student council picked the editor of the paper, and the school’s vice president of something-or-other had a veto.

I went up for editor of the paper for the next year...

If you guessed that I lost out to the copy editor who had penned the counterpoint article and, at the very least, done a terrible job on the edits of the point article, well then you win something special. 

You are also probably a conservative...Read all.

Seriously? These people are nuts!

 

Never say America is not a GREAT country. Never!-----A Soldier's Last Walk: Honor Walk for Jordy Soesbe

"On May 20, 2019, Staff Sgt. Jordy James Soesbe gave his organs for donation after suffering a devastating stroke.

His fellow soldiers held an honor walk for him as hospital staff and Jordy's friends and family accompanied him to surgery."

#1 This day 1964-----Mary Wells - My Guy

City-cide-----Minneapolis Spirals Downward | Power Line

Minneapolis Spirals Downward | Power Line

"When Americans think of failed cities, places like Portland, Seattle, Detroit and Baltimore come to mind. 

But Minneapolis is, at a minimum, flirting with a similar status. 

The problem is out-of-control crime. 

Last Saturday night, six people were shot in Minneapolis, including a nine-year-old girl. Alpha News has the straight story:

A nine-year-old Minneapolis girl is in the hospital after she was struck by gunfire over the weekend, making her the second child to be shot in the city in under a month.  The girl was shot in the head while she played with friends on a trampoline around 8:30 p.m. Saturday...

...Far-left City Council President Lisa Bender attended the Mayor and Police Chief’s press conference and found it puzzling. Incredibly, she still thinks the problem that needs to be addressed in Minneapolis is “police violence”:

Minneapolis is in desperate trouble, and there is no sign that the people now running the city have any ability to solve the city’s problems...Read all.

Priorities!

 

Rand Paul Takes Victory Lap Over Arch-Nemesis Anthony Fauci - Louder With Crowder

Rand Paul Takes Victory Lap Over Arch-Nemesis Anthony Fauci - Louder With Crowder: 

Rand Paul has been smacking around Anthony Fauci's smug little face for months. To the dismay of everyone in the media with a velvet painting of Fauci that they surround with candles and pray to five times a day. Rand Paul would challenge Anthony Fauci to back up what he says with data. The infallible Pope Tony would accuse Rand of "theatrics." The media would say, "Yeah, what Fauci said!" So when the sciencey Fauci admitted in so many words that he masks up just for show, Senator Paul had a little somethin' somethin' to say about it.

Hiding records. Losing records. STONEWALLING the TRUTH!-----Michigan Cannot Determine Whether Some COVID-19 Deaths Originated at Nursing Homes

Michigan Cannot Determine Whether Some COVID-19 Deaths Originated at Nursing Homes

• Charlie LeDuff settles FOIA lawsuit against the state health department
  

MIDLAND, Mich. — Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Charlie LeDuff, represented by the Mackinac Center Legal Foundation, has reached a settlement agreement with the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services after it failed to provide public records as required by law. 
After noticing that state data was showing a growing number of deaths reported from reviews of vital records, LeDuff submitted a Freedom of Information Act request asking for the ages of those who had died, the date of death, when each death was added to the state total and whether any of those deaths were the results of contracting COVID-19 at a long-term care facility. 

MDHHS failed to produce the records in response to the request, so LeDuff contacted the Mackinac Center to represent him in a FOIA lawsuit...Read all.

AM Fruitcake

 

History for May 22

History for May 22 - On-This-Day.com

T. Boone Pickens 1928 - Oil tycoon

• 1849 - Abraham Lincoln received a patent for the floating dry dock.
• 1872 - The Amnesty Act restored civil rights to Southerners.
• 1892 - Dr. Washington Sheffield invented the toothpaste tube.
• 1939 - Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini signed a military alliance between Germany and Italy known as the "Pact of Steel."
• 1947 - The Truman Doctrine was enacted by the U.S. Congress to appropriate military and economic aid Turkey and Greece.
• 1967 - "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" premiered on PBS.
• 1977 - Janet Guthrie set the fastest time of the second weekend of qualifying, becoming the first woman to earn a starting spot in the Indianapolis 500 since its inception in 1911.
• 1992 - Johnny Carson hosted NBC's "Tonight Show" for the last time. He had been host for 30 years.

Latino reporter cancels interview with Chicago mayor after she declares she will talk to only 'black or brown journalists' - TheBlaze

Latino reporter cancels interview with Chicago mayor after she declares she will talk to only 'black or brown journalists' - TheBlaze: 

The fallout among the general public was pretty strident, with many commenters wondering just how the media would react if a white mayor did something similar to minority members of the media. One high-profile Latino journalist in the Windy City took serious issue with the mayor's new discriminatory policy and told her staff to cancel his upcoming interview with Lightfoot when they informed him the mayor would not be lifting her racial conditions.

Kid Who Lit Up School Board Over Masks Joins Tucker Carlson - Louder With Crowder

Kid Who Lit Up School Board Over Masks Joins Tucker Carlson - Louder With Crowder: 

Faith in humanity was restored Tuesday by this viral video of a ten-year-old telling the school board and his teachers where to stick their masks. We now know this lil' patriot's name: John Provenzano. To be clear, since Facebook's "fact" checkers don't feel opposing viewpoints should be seen or heard, ten-year-old John is NOT a scientist. Nothing in this post is meant to imply we should make decisions based on the opinion of a kid. We're not leftists listening to Greta Thunberg. Provenzano is still awesome though. It's no surprise that this junior Tucker Carlson went on the senior's show to share his story.

National media finally looking at our moron-gov?-----James Freeman--Passenger Appears to Survive Unregulated Flight - WSJ

Passenger Appears to Survive Unregulated Flight - WSJ
"Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D., Mich.) has taken a back seat to no one in regulating the daily lives of citizens during the era of Covid-19. 

She’s even trying to make some emergency workplace rules permanent in the Wolverine State. 

But for her own life, it seems Gov. Whitmer is not exactly a fanatic about following rules when she’s in the passenger seat.

Recently this column noted Ms. Whitmer’s decision to ignore her own warnings against out-of-state travel. 

Now there are more questions about her mode of transportation. Paul Egan reports for the Detroit Free Press from Lansing...
...There’s also more news on Ms. Whitmer’s rejection of her own government’s travel advisory. 

It’s not just an issue of deciding to fly to Florida—which she has singled out as a travel risk—but also her government’s guidance on what to do in the event of such travel.

• Rod Meloni and Natasha Dado of NBC affiliate WDIV report that a few weeks before her trip, Michigan’s health department leased guidance saying, “get tested with a PCR viral test one to three days before you travel.” The WDIV report continues:
• Then upon your return to Michigan the guidelines read, “Get tested again with a viral test three to five days after your trip and stay home and self-quarantine for a full seven days after travel, even if your test is negative.”
• “If you don’t get tested, stay home and self-quarantine for 10 days after travel,” the guidelines continued.

Yet [three days after her return]... Local 4 News cameras rolled as the governor bypassed the self quarantine and attended a vaccination press conference at Ford Field...
Local 4 News asked the governor’s office why she did not follow her own health department’s guidance and the response was it wasn’t an executive order and she followed all orders...Read all

The way we were-----The TRAGIC Execution Of Sophie Scholl - The White Rose

"During the Second World War and also in Germany in the 1930s, there were numerous groups within the country that opposed Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime. Resistance to the Nazis and Hitler usually was put down rather brutally with those in opposition being sent to concentration camps, or even worse being put to death. One particular group 'The White Rose' lives on today in the memory for being a student group which featured two siblings who died for their beliefs.

Sophie Scholl at the age of 21 would be tragically executed using the guillotine at Stadelheim Prison in Munich. She had been part of the White Rose and had been caught alongside her brother distributing leaflets across Munich University which told people to rise up and defy the Nazis and Hitler. This was an incredibly serious thing, and many of those who practised acts of resistance like this would be sentenced to death for treason. Sophie had been an active part of the White Rose and their spreading of anti-Hitler propaganda, but she was caught.

A pro-Hitler janitor had caught Hans and Sophie Scholl throwing leaflets from a balcony at the University, and for this the Gestapo were called and the siblings arrested. They were placed on trial in a sham-trial, and then sentenced to death for treason. A day after this sentence they were executed, and Sophie's execution was performed using the guillotine by Johann Reichhart. It took a matter of seconds for the young girls life to be taken away. 

Today she is remembered as an incredible and courageous young woman, who defied the tyranny of evil. 

So join us today as we look at 'The TRAGIC Execution of Sophie Scholl - The White Rose.' "

15 Worst Business Decisions Ever

VACCINATIONS SPARK COVID VARIANTS

Instapundit--VACCINATIONS SPARK COVID VARIANTS

"That’s what French virologist and Nobel Prize winner Luc Montaignier contends, as reported by LifeSiteNews’ Celeste McGovern. 

This report from the same publication also has me wondering.  

Now I am really confused. 

But surely the CDC can clear this up, right? Right???--Posted by Mark Tapscott"

AND JUST LIKE THAT, RUSSIANS AREN’T THE BAD GUYS ANYMORE:

Instapundit--AND JUST LIKE THAT, RUSSIANS AREN’T THE BAD GUYS ANYMORE:

"Can’t make this up: Sec. of State Blinken “calls for cooperation with Russia to make world ‘safer.’”

Similarly, Ted Cruz notes, “[B]asically what Joe Biden has decided is 

• pipelines in America, bad. 
• Jobs in America, bad. 
• Pipelines in Russia, good. 
• Jobs in Russia, good. 

And this is exactly backward. It is asinine. And four months into it, Joe Biden is crawling in bed with Putin and Russia and the enemies of America. It doesn’t make any sense.”

Flashback: So is it fair to ask if Biden is on the payroll of Putin? As Walter Russell Mead wrote in 2017:

If Trump were the Manchurian candidate that people keep wanting to believe that he is, here are some of the things he’d be doing:

Limiting fracking as much as he possibly could
Blocking oil and gas pipelines
Opening negotiations for major nuclear arms reductions
Cutting U.S. military spending
Trying to tamp down tensions with Russia’s ally Iran.

“Yep,” Glenn added in late 2019. “You know who did do these things? Obama. You know who supports these things now? Democrats.”

Related: Peddlers of Russiagate Won’t Take Truth for an Answer.

* Yes, I know I spelled President Ron Klain incorrectly.--Posted by Ed Driscoll"

Biden Wants to Surveil Soldier Social Media Pages - Louder With Crowder

Biden Wants to Surveil Soldier Social Media Pages - Louder With Crowder: 

The Democrats who control Joe Biden have been chirping about a "domestic war on terror" since January 6 and even before that while ignoring all the domestic violence their side was committing all throughout 2020. Leftists claim their concern is "extremism," then declare any opinion they disagree with to be "extreme." Unfortunately for them (yet good for Americans), the Bill of Rights makes it difficult for them to surveil anyone they determine to be a "domestic threat." So they use private companies to get around pesky First Amendment issues. This now, according to reports, includes our military. That's right. The Biden administration is concerned that our armed service members maybe a little too "extreme" and wants to monitor what they say on social media.

From the web---How we got the politicians we got!---Free Ice Cream

Free Ice Cream

• A simple lesson how socialism weaves its way into the fabric of a free society
• When free people come to accept it's okay to live off the spoils of others, they don't care if new promises can't be paid for. They just want them and they want them now even at their own peril. - Webmaster

"The presidential election was heating up and some of the children showed an interest. 

I decided we would have an election for a class president. 

We would choose our nominees. 

They would make a campaign speech and the class would vote.

To simplify the process, candidates were nominated by other class Members. 

We discussed what kinds of characteristics these students should have. 

We got many nominations and from those, Jamie and Olivia were picked to run for the top spot.

The class had done a great job in their selections. 

Both candidates were good kids. 

I thought Jamie might have an advantage because he got lots

of parental support. 

I had never seen Olivia's mother. 

• The day arrived when they were to make their speeches Jamie went first. He had specific ideas about how to make our class a better place. He ended by promising to do his very best. Everyone applauded.
• He sat down and Olivia came to the podium. Her speech was concise. She said, "If you will vote for me, I will give you ice cream." She sat down. The class went wild. "Yes! Yes! We want ice cream." She surely would say more. She did not have to. A discussion followed. How did she plan to pay for the ice cream? She wasn't sure. Would her parents buy it or would the class pay for it? She didn't know. The class really didn't care. All they were thinking about was ice cream. Jamie was forgotten. 

Olivia won by a land slide.

Every time most politicians open their mouths, they offer ice cream, and fifty percent of America reacts like nine-year-olds. 

They want ice cream. 

The other fifty percent know they're going to have to feed the cow."

Every statue MUST be torn down! That's the plan...right?-----Deadline Detroit | Lapointe: In Wake of Scandal, Bo Schembechler's Statue on Michigan's Campus Must Go

Deadline Detroit | Lapointe: In Wake of Scandal, Bo Schembechler's Statue on Michigan's Campus Must Go

"...None of this rescinds all the victories in their stadiums and the good works they accomplished off the field.

But both turned out to be idols with feet of clay. 

Like the statue of Joe, the one of Bo must also go...Read all!

Noon-toon

 

Law student faces possible expulsion for daring to say women have vaginas and that men are physically stronger - TheBlaze

Law student faces possible expulsion for daring to say women have vaginas and that men are physically stronger - TheBlaze: 

Lisa Keogh, a 29-year-old student at Abertay University in Scotland, is reportedly facing discipline from the school for telling her classmates that a woman must have a vagina — citing generally understood biology that females are born with female genitals — and that men are stronger than women and "the difference in physical strength of men versus women is a fact."

"...anyone who opposes the US...."

 

And Trump is banned from Twitter and the rest of the web?-----Ad for room rental in Portland Antifa ‘whorehouse’ goes viral

Ad for room rental in Portland Antifa ‘whorehouse’ goes viral
"An online advertisement for a room opening in an Antifa housing collective and unregulated prostitution facility in Portland has gone viral after being met by a barrage of ridicule by social media users.
An online advertisement for a room opening in an Antifa housing collective and

unregulated prostitution facility in Portland has gone viral after being met by a barrage of ridicule by social media users.
An advertisement for Creature’s Co-Op was posted on Facebook seeking a “secret roommate” to reside in an eight feet by eight feet corner of a living room built out of recycled doors and a shower curtain for $302 a month, including other charges. 

Screenshots from the advertisement were posted on Twitter last week, prompting thousands of retweets and comments ridiculing the advert’s stringent and bizarre rules...Read all!

Bidenomics

 

It's ALL about votes and political power!-----BUSTED: Biden Admin Caught Secretly Flying Illegal Migrant Children Into Key Red State

BUSTED: Biden Admin Caught Secretly Flying Illegal Migrant Children Into Key Red State

"...Not only was the current border crush anticipated by the regime, but the plan was always to ‘catch and release’ migrants, especially children, into the interior — say, in Republican states — where they will grow into good little Marxists after being propagandized in government schools, and then vote Democrat for the remainder of their lives.

That’s what’s happening now: Millions are on the way because they, too, know that most will get to stay in America. Somewhere.

Like Tennesee, for instance.

The Daily Mail reports that the regime has been busted distributing migrant children into Tennessee without notifying the state or its congressional contingent:

Several videos obtained by WRCB-TV Channel 3 show a handful of planes carrying minor migrants arriving at Chattanooga’s Wilson Air Center during overnight hours...Read all.

#1 This day 1970-----The Guess Who - No Sugar Tonight / New Mother Nature (Audio)

Should republicans send their children and money to institutions that loathe them?-----Can a Republican Be a College President? | Power Line

Can a Republican Be a College President? | Power Line

"...But, can a Republican be a president of a major university or university system outside the South?
Mark Kennedy’s experience at the University of Colorado suggests that it may not be in the cards. Kennedy served several terms as a Congressman from Minnesota before teaching at George Washington U. and then becoming President of the University of North Dakota. 

From there, he became President of the University of Colorado in 2019. 

His hiring was greeted with howls of execration from student leftists who subjected him to a bizarre on-stage inquisition at the beginning of his tenure. 

That tenure has now come to an end.

...insufficient wokeness is a firing offense in today’s academia. 

The Federalist reports:

University of Colorado President Mark Kennedy announced earlier this month he would step down after a brief two years on the job culminating in turbulence from student and faculty protest of a president insufficiently leftist for their tastes...

That is a polite way of saying that Democrats have now taken over the Board of Regents. 

They can’t abide a Republican university president...Read all!

Wimp-amerikans

 

Far-left Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot granting interviews only to 'black or brown journalists,' local TV news reporters say - TheBlaze

Far-left Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot granting interviews only to 'black or brown journalists,' local TV news reporters say - TheBlaze: 

Far-left Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot is granting one-on-one interviews only to "black or brown journalists," a number of local TV news reporters said on social media Tuesday.

What are the details?

Mary Ann Ahern — a political reporter for NBC affiliate WMAQ-TV in Chicago — tweeted that Lightfoot's spokeswoman said the mayor "is granting 1 on 1 interviews — only to Black or Brown journalists."