Month: January 2021

Like most Americans, I was absolutely horrified by the violence that I watched at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday.  But I had a difficult time trying to understand what I was witnessing.  Trump supporters are almost always extremely peaceful, but many of those that were storming the Capitol were being very violent.  That didn’t make …

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One of the people seen in the U.S. Capitol Wednesday afternoon after angry mobs stormed the building lost his job at a Maryland-based communications company. Angry mobs of President Donald Trump’s supporters, incited by the president, breached the Capitol building, halting the electoral vote count and forcing lawmakers to move into a secured location. Four people died. One of …

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What will you be doing this weekend?

A group of lawmakers in Delaware want a special committee to investigate how the state’s Department of Correction has handled the COVID-19 pandemic. State legislators will introduce a resolution to create the committee and have it make recommendations regarding prison healthcare. A separate bill is aimed at allowing some prisoners early release. Delaware’s prisons have …

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A good majority of my friends have already left Twitter and Facebook and I too a considering the same move to Parler. The censorship and punishment for simply voicing your/our opinions is out of control. It’s a mind game. Between the mainstream media constantly lying and NOT following their own protocol by being fair and …

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Child labor in parts of Asia fuels the palm oil industry and the corporate products that depend on it — including some varieties of Girl Scout Cookies, according to the Associated Press. The massive $65 billion sector relies on palm oil plantations in countries like Malaysia and Indonesia, where entire families often work backbreaking 12-hour days for minimal …

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President-elect Joe Biden is expected to pick Kristen Clarke, a civil rights lawyer, as Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice, which is expected to be a prioritized role in the Biden administration. Clarke, the current President of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and a former prosecutor with the …

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An 88-year-old Harlem landlord could soon be homeless because his tenants have refused to pay their rents for months, citing the coronavirus pandemic as an excuse. The tenants cannot be evicted because New York state’s liberal lawmakers have barred small-property owners from evicting deadbeat tenants. Exacerbating the situation is a new law passed by New York state that blocks residential …

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The rate of migrants arriving at the US-Mexico border has skyrocketed in the months since President-elect Joe Biden’s 2020 victory, the outgoing Border Patrol chief warned. Speaking during a call with reporters Tuesday, acting Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Mark Morgan cautioned that arrivals at the US-Mexico border were hitting new highs in the wake of Biden’s …

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