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Joe Biden says ‘poor kids’ are ‘just as talented as white kids’ (Des Moines Register)
Speaking in Iowa on Thursday night, former Vice President Joe Biden said “poor kids” are “just as talented as white kids,” before correcting himself.
Biden was addressing the Iowa Asian and Latino Coalition, which has been meeting with Democratic presidential candidates as it prepares to make an endorsement next week. [Read More]
IT’S AN INVASION! … OF MORONIC ARGUMENTS (Ann Coulter)
BREAKING NEWS: MASS SHOOTING IN DAYTON, OHIO, LAST SATURDAY NIGHT. (This may not be news to you, but I watch MSNBC, so I didn’t find out about the Dayton massacre until yesterday.)
There were two horrifying mass shootings recently, but our media are fixated on only one — the one in El Paso, Texas — because the shooter, Patrick Crusius, issued a “manifesto” that contained some of the same arguments made by Trump about illegal immigration. [Read More]
Former Vice President Joe Biden on Thursday got into a heated confrontation with a reporter from the right-wing news outlet Breitbart after Biden gave a speech accusing President Trump of inspiring deadly hate crimes by embracing white nationalist extremism.
Video from the scene shows Breitbart’s Joel Pollak confronting Biden at the Iowa State Fair and accusing him of ignoring Trump’s condemnation of white supremacists. [Read More]
IT’S AN INVASION! … OF MORONIC ARGUMENTS (Ann Coulter)
BREAKING NEWS: MASS SHOOTING IN DAYTON, OHIO, LAST SATURDAY NIGHT. (This may not be news to you, but I watch MSNBC, so I didn’t find out about the Dayton massacre until yesterday.)
There were two horrifying mass shootings recently, but our media are fixated on only one — the one in El Paso, Texas — because the shooter, Patrick Crusius, issued a “manifesto” that contained some of the same arguments made by Trump about illegal immigration. [Read More]
A woman who has long claimed disgraced money man Jeffrey Epstein forced her to have sex with powerful men named two prominent Democratic politicians – former Sen. George Mitchell and ex-New Mexico governor and Clinton cabinet official Bill Richardson – in documents unsealed Friday by federal prosecutors in New York. [Read More]
NBC’s Universal Pictures plans to release ‘The Hunt’ despite backlash (FOX News)
NBC Universal still plans to release the controversial movie “The Hunt” as scheduled on September 27 despite significant backlash over the film that depicts privileged vacationers hunting “deplorables” for sport.
“There are no plans to not release the movie. No plans to move the release,” a studio source told Fox News. [Read More]
IT’S AN INVASION! … OF MORONIC ARGUMENTS (NYT)
FERGUSON, Mo. — Five years to the day after the death of Michael Brown Jr., who was fatally shot by a Ferguson police officer, Michael Brown Sr. called Friday for a new investigation of his son’s death.
Mr. Brown Sr. asked the prosecuting attorney to reopen the case at a news conference on Friday morning. Both state and federal prosecutors declined to charge Darren Wilson, the police officer, who resigned after the shooting. [Read More]
9 People On The Ethics Of Having Kids In An Era Of Climate Crisis (The Huffington Post)
In an interview with British Vogue, published last week, Prince Harry suggested that he was thinking of having a maximum of two children because of his climate concerns.
He’s not the first high-profile figure to link reproduction to the climate crisis. In a July interview with Elle, Miley Cyrus said, “We’re getting handed a piece-of-shit planet, and I refuse to hand that down to my child. Until I feel like my kid would live on an earth with fish in the water, I’m not bringing in another person to deal with that. ” Her interviewer responded, “I feel like that’s what all millennials are dealing with right now.” [Read More]
A Florida man caused some worry when he walked into a Port St. Lucie Walmart and asked the clerk about a gun to kill people with.
Phil Attey, an anti-gun activist, admitted to WPTV the remark was in poor taste, but he was trying to make an anti-gun statement because he saw someone who looked like a white nationalist purchase a gun. [Read More]
