Month: August 2020

[ad_1] Senator John F. Kennedy delivers his acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention in the Los Angeles Coliseum on July 15, 1960. (San Jose News / Wikimedia Commons) Impromptus today leads with convention talk — and continues with a range of issues, including populists, Russia, and names. An Impromptus last week led with convention
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[ad_1] Posted by: R. Mitchell in Featured News, Syndicated Posts, Trump Administration, White House Watch August 24, 2020 President Donald Trump speaks to a crowd Monday about the Farmers to Families Food Box Program. The event, in Mills River, North Carolina, is scheduled to start at 3:15 p.m. EDT. Content created by Conservative Daily News and
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[ad_1] The Charlotte Convention Center is set for 2020 RNC delegates to gather in Charlotte, N.C., August 24, 2020. (Travis Dove/Reuters) On the menu today: The coming week promises four nights of pure, concentrated President Trump at the 2020 Republican National Convention; the GOP heads into 2020 with no formal platform, and sorting out whether
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[ad_1] I don’t know why they went through a song-and-dance here about the pandemic limiting their ability to confer and draft a proper party platform. “Whatever Trump wants to do” is a perfectly accurate statement of what the party’s base thinks the GOP agenda should be. It is *not*, perhaps, an accurate statement of what
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[ad_1] It happened again. This time, Twitter undermined the president for expressing concern over voter fraud.  President Donald Trump wrote an August 23 tweet criticizing “Mail Drop Boxes” as a “voter security disaster.” Twitter responded by placing an interstitial, or filter, over Trump’s tweet. The interstitial declared that Trump’s post expressing concern over potential voter
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[ad_1] Independent reporters who were livestreaming the riot in Kenosha, Wisconsin, risked their lives to save a church from burning after arsonists targeted a car dealership next door. The Bradford Community Church, which was at risk of burning to the ground, is on the National Register of Historic Places. A perfect summary of the chaos
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[ad_1] A livestreamer filming the violence and destruction in Kenosha, Wisconsin, urged the arsonists and looters to “go raid some white businesses.” The streamer was upset that they were burning a car dealership, not because they were destroying a business, but because the business had a Black Lives Matter sign nearby. See the sign? lmao
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[ad_1] This week is a test for those in the television news business: Are they still trying to deliver “news,” which means letting their audience actually witness important events for themselves (albeit with analysis and commentary from the networks)? Or are they in the “we’ll-only-show-what-liberals-want-us-to-show” business? Last week, CNN and MSNBC let their audiences see
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[ad_1] Portland Black Lives Matter rioters have lit the city’s North Precinct Police Station on fire. As massive violence, arson and looting was taking place in Kenosha, Wisconsin, another riot was also declared in Portland. Following an arson attack on the police precinct, rioters were heard celebrating the fire. Portland Police try desperately to extinguish
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[ad_1] President Donald J. Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, walk together to their expanded bilateral meeting, Tuesday, June 12, 2018, at the Capella Hotel in Singapore. (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead) North Korean tyran Kim Jong Un is reportedly in a coma.The leader’s sister is set to take control of
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[ad_1] In 1948 Americans had a similar choice and they rejected the staid, nostalgia path. The United States would normally be entering the most heated three months of the presidential campaign season right now. Lingering fear of the coronavirus, however, combined with overwrought safety precautions, have people debating whether or not there will even be
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[ad_1] Showtime’s The Chi came to an end after three seasons with August 23’s episode, “A Couple, Two, Three.” A remaining storyline was whether Kiesha (Birgundi Baker) was going to have an abortion following a kidnapping and rape. In the penultimate episode, Kiesha was initially set on having an abortion. But then, Kiesha’s mother, Nina
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[ad_1] Watching ABC’s interviews with Joe Biden and Kamala Harris Sunday night was an exercise in whiplash. World News Tonight anchor David Muir pivoted between asking the pair the expected anti-Trump questions to asking them surprisingly critical questions (for ABC) from both the right and left on the two candidates’ policies and controversial statements. However, that
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[ad_1] Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden is campaigning as a moderate, and the media worked overtime to present his running mate, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), not as a far-left lawmaker, but as a moderate that a plurality of Americans could support. But according to former President Barack Obama, Biden is “not that different” from socialist
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