Should Police Chokeholds Be Banned Nationwide?

Ever since 1983 when the Supreme Court legalized the chokehold as a legitimate restraining technique by police, it has drawn controversy. The reason is simple: unless performed by someone who is well trained, it can kill. Even using a chokehold short of death, the results for the suspect can be debilitating as there may be “short-term memory loss, hemorrhage and harm to the retina, concussions from falling when unconscious, stroke, seizures, permanent brain damage, and coma.” The knee on the head and neck of George Floyd led directly to his death. Another high-profile death from…

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How much prison time will Lori Loughlin and her husband serve?

Actress Lori Loughlin and husband Mossimo Giannulli are both headed to prison under the terms of the plea agreement they are expected to take with federal prosecutors for their connection to a widespread college admission scandal. Under the terms of their agreement, the former “Full House” star and her fashion designer husband are each expected to do less than six months in prison for admitting to paying $500,000 and passing off their two daughters as crew recruits to get them admitted to the University of Southern California. In the separate plea deals, which need to be signed off on by a…

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Meat Shortages Leave Wendy’s Diners Asking, ‘Where’s the Beef?’

With meat shortages roiling the U.S., some Wendy’s Co. restaurants have taken burgers — their hallmark item — off the menu. Customers have taken to Twitter to complain they couldn’t order burgers from the restaurant, which touts its beef as fresh and never frozen in its marketing. A check on Wendy’s app showed that only chicken items were available for takeout or delivery orders from at least some of its stores in California. The situation has prompted a number of customers to ask “Where’s the beef?” on social media, invoking…

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Social Distancing Isn’t a Religion

Forgive Jacksonville, Fla., for it has sinned. The largest city in Florida partly reopened its beaches, and it became something of a national scandal. CNN ran a disapproving segment, and the hashtag #FloridaMorons trended on Twitter. As the CNN report put it: “The scene at Jacksonville Beach wasn’t one of caution in the middle of a worldwide pandemic. Crowds cheered and flooded the beach when police took the barriers down. People were seen swimming, biking, surfing, running and fishing.” None of these activities has been shown to be a vector for…

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CDC Could Reverse Its Policy on Wearing Masks in Public

As the numbers of COVID-19 cases continue to increase dramatically, the CDC is now thinking about issuing a guidance saying that anyone who ventures out in public should be wearing some kind of mask. According to recent reports, the agency is weighing recommendations to advise people to shield their faces with cloth coverings rather than surgical or N95 masks, which are now nearly impossible to come by. No final decision has been made on the potential recommendation, however, an official said it could help “flatten the curve” of the outbreak…

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White House Proposes Massive Coronavirus Stimulus

Call it a kind of coronavirus vaccine for the economy! The Trump administration is considering a third coronavirus spending package worth hundreds of billions of dollars even as the Senate works to move along the more modest second relief bill that focuses on leave for workers and expedited testing for the disease officially known as COVID-19. The White House is specifically pushing for an $850 billion stimulus, largely in the form of tax relief measures. Roughly $500 billion of this would be tied to a payroll tax cut, while $250…

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Giuliani – Bolton Is a ‘Lier’ or a ‘Backstabber’

Donald Trump’s controversial personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani has said that former NSA, John Bolton, is either a “liar” or a “backstabber.” Of course, the former NYC mayor was referring to the leaks from the manuscript of Bolton’s soon to be published book which indicate that the president tied aid to Ukraine to his request that the country announce investigations of the Bidens. In an interview on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures,” Giuliani – who Bolton claims was in the room when Trump made those very requests – said “He went…

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GOP Senators Want Parts of “Misleading” FISA Report Declassified

Two prominent Republican Senators are appealing to Attorney General William Barr, to declassify certain parts of IG Michael Horowitz’s report on the Russia investigation, without which they say the report is “misleading” to the public regarding the IG’s findings. A classified letter sent to Barr asks that he declassify four footnotes in the report to create a more transparent picture of what transpired during the FBI’s inquiry, dubbed Crossfire Hurricane. “We have reviewed the findings of the Office of the Inspector General with regard to the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane investigation,…

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New Jersey Gleefully Awards Drivers Licenses to Illegal Aliens

The Garden State is one step closer to becoming a third world enclave, rivaling Los Angeles and San Francisco, thanks to progressive Governor Phil Murphy who will sign a bill into law allowing Illegal aliens to acquire drivers’ licenses, which in reality translates into a backdoor to the voting booth, despite what despicable Democratic lawmakers in Trenton claim. Murphy a big supporter of sanctuary cities has repeatedly asked the Democratically controlled legislator to push the bill through, after it was approved in the New Jersey Assembly and Senate during the…

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Living the Reality of BIG Brother

There was a popular song in the 1980s by a band named “Rockwell,” with a chorus that went: I always feel like somebody’s watching me And I have no privacy (ooh ooh) I always feel like somebody’s watching me Tell me is it just a dream? Well, I can tell them, and you, that no, it is not a dream – someone is watching you, to the tune of one billion spy cameras in use worldwide. According to a recent surveillance industry market report, one billion surveillance cameras will be…

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