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Wuhan Announces Drastic Changes to Its Wet Markets
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/bethbaumann/2020/05/20/wuhan-announces-drastic-changes-to-its-wet-markets-n2569199
– people from eating wild animals, part of a larger effort to get farmers to quit breeding exotic animals for human consumption, CBS NewsPolitical leaders in Wuhan also banned almost all hunting of wild animals within city limits. … City officials said the local administration would take part in the wider national scheme to buy wild animal breeders out.…
Kellyanne Conway Lights Up Biden's Sexist VP Search
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/reaganmccarthy/2020/05/20/kell…anne-conway-lights-up-bidens-gender-based-vp-search-n2569163
– Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Kamala Harris (D-CA), former National Security Advisor Susan Rice, Michigan Gov. … Conway compared Biden’s gender-based criteria to the behavior of a coed “at the end of a frat party,” on Fox News' America's Newsroom … SteveGuest) May 20, 2020As Conway points out, these contenders all have various skeletons in their closets from their tenure in the political
Media Censors and Torts of Outrage
https://townhall.com/columnists/williammarshall/2020/05/20/media-censors-and-torts-of-outrage-n2569175
– A remarkable lawsuit was recently filed against Fox News by an organization called WASHLITE, which makes the amazing claim that Fox … Stunningly, WASHLITE argued in its response to Fox News’ motion to dismiss its lawsuit that private cable news channels do not enjoy … their representative trade associations, the NCTA and RCFP, siding with Fox News in the lawsuit.…
How Intensely Does the Leftwing Media Hate Trump?
https://townhall.com/columnists/michaelbrown/2020/05/20/how-intensely-does-the-leftwing-media-hate-trump-n2569106
– The caller, named Rob, from Tampa, Florida, said he had previously worked at an NBC News affiliate up north. … As for the political leanings of the media, Nate Silver wrote in 2017 that, “As of 2013, only 7 percent of [journalists] identified … Concentrated heavily along the coasts, the bubble is both geographic and political.…
Systemic Racism Can't Be Cherry-Picked
https://townhall.com/columnists/loydpettegrew/2020/06/08/systemic-racism-cant-be-cherrypicked-n2570206
– When systemic is used as a modifier with terms like racism, it means institutional--on a grand scale that is omnipresent in political … Similarly, in a 2018 National Board of Economic Research paper by Roland Fryer, Jr., “An Empirical Analysis of Racial Differences in … It is difficult to assess accurately, but we know who is selling it to us--the academy, news reporters and politicians.…
Liberal Reporter Goes on a Tear Against the Coddled Left-Wingers Whose Meltdowns Are Killing the Media Industry
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2020/06/08/liberal-r…ar-against-the-coddled-left-wingers-whose-meltdowns-n2570204
– The good news is that the George Floyd rioting is starting to die down in some parts of the country. … , Inquirer.com, to reshape themselves as the digital age transformed the news business. … The entire period since 2016 has been a nonstop wave of moral panic and national psychosis.…
Liberal Mayors, Racial Politics, and Fake News
https://townhall.com/columnists/johncgoodman/2020/06/06/liberal-mayors-racial-politics-and-fake-news-n2570121
– Because they preside over a political system in which special interests deliver votes to politicians who do them favors. … Now let’s turn to the news media. If you read the editorial pages of the New York Times, you would never learn any of this. … been in nursing homes and assisted living facilities and writes: "You might think that those 40,000-plus deaths would be a major national
Expert Advice: It Looks Like the 180-Degree Turn on COVID Lockdowns Just Became a Huge In-Kind Contribution to Trump's Re-election
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2020/06/05/liberal-r…its-fine-to-go-out-and-protest-amid-covid-outbreak-n2570127
– Some were grounded in good news. … The overreach seen in some states is horrific but hardly a shock given the political leadership at the helm. … The liberal media keeps up the doom and gloom news, which tanks the markets.…
Violent Rioting, as in the 1960s, Hurts the Most Disadvantaged
https://townhall.com/columnists/michaelbarone/2020/06/05/vio…ioting-as-in-the-1960s-hurts-the-most-disadvantaged-n2570074
– The short-term political effects are harder to gauge. … He may be in trouble if voters come to agree that, as Fox News' Tucker Carlson put it in his Monday monologue, no one in authority … urban riots, violence outside the Chicago Democratic National Convention -- the most awful election year in American history.…
Listen Instead of Ranting
https://townhall.com/columnists/jackiegingrichcushman/2020/06/04/listen-instead-of-ranting-n2570019
– .; looting during the riots; and the deployment of the National Guard, State Guard and others to instill order. … Our political polarization has helped inspire extreme reactions. … When we are ranting at one another from our own separate corners, our own news sources and our own social media clusters, we cannot…
Columnist to De Blasio and Cuomo: Your Actions on Protests Prove the COVID Lockdown Is Over
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2020/06/03/columnist…cuomo-your-actions-prove-the-covid-lockdown-is-over-n2569913
– I'm not a fan of kneeling during the national anthem, and scenes of white people kneeling as a broad apology for historic and ongoing … Daily News columnist Robert George has seen enough, writing that the lockdown is effectively "over," and calling on Gov. … And what will they think of political and media figures who lectured them harshly about complying with stay-at-home and distancing…
It’s Not 1968 the Dems Want, It’s 1932
https://townhall.com/columnists/paulcurry/2020/06/03/its-not-1968-the-dems-want-its-1932-n2569979
– This election year we have seen the creation of a political and social environment disturbingly similar to that of 1932. … They have taken a global tragedy and maximized it for political gain. … The have taken a national outrage and the fallout therefrom and attempted to capitalize on it.…
Report: WHO Officials Complained Privately as Leaders Publicly Praised China's 'Transparency,' Downplayed Virus
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2020/06/03/ap-who-of…ly-praised-chinas-transparency-and-downplayed-virus-n2569901
– It's hard to keep track of all the news that's been happening, due to sheer volume -- but within just the last few days, President … as imposing new sanctions on Chinese government officials responsible for the unlawful and totalitarian crackdown on civil and political … And while some of America's political response has been idiotic, some stronger steps have been taken in a bipartisan fashion.…
U.S. State Department Shackles Target Maduro's Venezuela Kleptocrats
https://townhall.com/columnists/austinbay/2020/06/03/us-stat…tment-shackles-target-maduros-venezuela-kleptocrats-n2569956
– Guaido was the president of Venezuela's National Assembly when it was still a democratically elected forum. … But here is the deep news. … The goal of these political and economic shackles: to reduce the reward for obeying Maduro's noxious regime.…
The Burden of Race and Rage
https://townhall.com/columnists/starparker/2020/06/03/the-burden-of-race-and-rage-n2569918
– No sane American -- of any political persuasion -- is not appalled at the horrible death of George Floyd at the hands of a policeman … In an announcement from my organization, UrbanCURE, that called for a national "Pastoral Prayer for America," I note: "George Floyd … Renewal and Education and author of the new book "Necessary Noise: How Donald Trump Inflames the Culture War and Why This is Good News
Domestic Terrorism? Watch as a Buffalo Rioter Uses an SUV to Run Down Police Officers
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2020/06/01/a-car-just-ran-over-a-bunch-of-cops-in-buffalo-n2569878
– The attack occurred on Bailey Avenue by the E District police station (via Buffalo News): Just happened: a protest in a car run over … The thing is that what sparked this whole national crisis was not a partisan issue. … Everyone across the political spectrum was outraged by the death of George Floyd at the hands of the Minneapolis Police.…
Commentary: Shame on Anyone Who Justifies Rioting as 'Just' Property Damage
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2020/06/01/shame-on…nyone-who-justifies-rioting-as-just-property-damage-n2569770
– As millions of Americans of all races and political ideologies express righteous anger over what happened in Minneapolis (and Louisville … Patrick Underwood of Pinole, according to a family member.Read more: https://t.co/qHDechu2nK pic.twitter.com/Orzzgl1W4X — KRON4 News … Here's part of New York Times columnist Ross Douthat's latest piece:  The political history of both the 1960s and the 2010s suggests…
Minnesota Gov Is About to Eat His Words on Who Is Really Causing Chaos in the Minneapolis Riots
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2020/05/31/well-it-l…point-about-the-minneapolis-riots-just-got-shredded-n2569758
– Where is the National Guard? … Basically everything Minnesota political leaders, who have already proven incompetent with their response, said this morning was false … In doing so, they create fake news. It’s an election year.…
One Gutsy Grocery Chain Rejects Political Protest Apparel for Employees, For Now
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/elliebufkin/2020/06/17/one-gut…ain-rejects-political-protest-apparel-for-employees-n2570819
– "They also said they don’t want to be apart of political views," the teenager said of Publix the management who sent him home. … "#Black Lives Matter is not political. The movement is all about Equality." … While sending an employee home for breaking uniform code wouldn't ever make the national news under normal circumstances, the power…
And Now Joe Biden's 'Very Fine People' Moment About Confederates Has Been Unearthed
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2020/06/17/canceled…led-confederate-heritage-group-an-organization-made-n2570794
– Again, if the Left didn’t make a big deal about canceling people, running amok with political correctness, and overall being hypocrites … Someone get the pitchforks ready (via Fox News): Joe Biden called the United Daughters Of The Confederacy "an organization made up … If OSU coach Mike Gundy can be dragged for wearing a One America News t-shirt, then these remarks should disqualify him from office…
Polls: Americans Are an Unhappy Bunch Right Now
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2020/06/17/polls-americans-are-an-unhappy-group-right-now-n2570739
– pandemic (which is getting scary again in certain places, although certain trajectories are fairly stable for now, and some good news … This data comes on the heels of Gallup's data showing national pride reaching a low ebb among the American people: American pride … From a political standpoint, it stands to reason that an incumbent leader presiding over all of this might find himself in a tenuous…
Hiding COVID-19's Origins
https://townhall.com/columnists/betsymccaughey/2020/06/17/hiding-covid19s-origins-n2570771
– We need scientists to be scientists, not political censors. … ABC News' medical correspondents claimed that "virologists around the globe have fiercely debunked" the theory. … Francis Collins, head of the National Institutes of Health, and scientists writing a critique in the journal Nature Medicine argue…
COVID-19 Is Symptomatic of China’s Indifference to Human Rights. It’s Time to Take the Country to Task.
https://townhall.com/columnists/timothyhead/2020/06/15/covid…o-human-rights-its-time-to-take-the-country-to-task-n2570672
– Fear, China’s political weapon of choice, has been used to stifle those who could have helped stop the spread of the virus. … This is hardly news to pro-life activists. … COVID-19 is not the first ugly threat to emerge from China – but if we work together, on a national and international level, we can…
Sen. Tim Scott: These Are the Three Police Reforms We Need
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/bethbaumann/2020/06/14/sen-tim…lains-the-3-things-he-wants-to-see-in-police-reform-n2570613
– Tim Scott (R) has been at the forefront of calling for and leading police reforms that both political parties can agree upon. … local level, House has been talking about doing it on the state level, the president's executive order talks about doing it on a nationalNEWS: On law enforcement agency reporting, @SenatorTimScott tells @margbrennan “we need a hundred percent as it relates to serious…
Rolling Stone Editor's Key Observation About the George Floyd Unrest Will Probably Infuriate the Left
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2020/06/13/rolling-stone-editor-the-american-left-has-lost-its-mind-n2570592
– as to why they should be outraged besides the ongoing war cry of "orange man…bad" (via Matt Taibbi): On the other side of the political … Like, if a white man takes my life tonight, it's going to be national news, but if a black man takes my life, it might not even be … The media appears to be a place where there can be no debate, where its writers work in fear, and the political correctness enforcers…
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