Month: May 2021

BERLIN – The Berlin Town Council on Monday agreed to give town employees a 1.5% salary increase and restore cell phone and vehicle allowances despite Mayor Zack Tyndall’s objections. When presented with Tyndall’s budget Monday, the council voted unanimously to amend the mayor’s proposed budget to include a 1.5% cost-of-living-adjustment and restore phone and vehicle …

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Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill on Monday that seeks to punish social media platforms that remove “conservative ideas” from their sites, though it is not clear if it would pass constitutional muster because it might violate the First Amendment. The new law will enable the state to fine large social media companies …

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On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Ingraham Angle,” Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI) stated that the intelligence community’s 2020 assessment that COVID-19 originated naturally and not from a lab leak “is the biggest intel. failure since 9/11, and it needs to be investigated.” Gallagher said, “We cannot rely on the W.H.O., which has been …

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Media mogul Byron Allen is suing McDonald’s for racial discrimination and is seeking $10 billion in damages. Allen Media Group divisions Entertainment Studios Networks, Inc. — parent owner of theGrio — and Weather Group, LLC filed a lawsuit on Thursday, accusing McDonald’s of racial discrimination. The filing alleges that McDonald’s discriminated against Allen’s media entities by refusing contracts and …

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In March, Governor Greg Abbott announced that Texas would open for business 100 percent without a statewide mask mandate. The pro-lockdown “experts” were shocked. If a state as big as Texas joined Florida and succeeded in thumbing its nose at “the science” – which told us that for the first time in history healthy people should …

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Former Senate candidate and presidential hopeful Beto O’Rourke (D) is reportedly considering making another bid for elected office. The Associated Press reported on Monday that O’Rourke has “not ruled out challenging Republican Gov. Greg Abbott in 2022 but has taken no formal steps toward a campaign, like calling donors or recruiting staff,” citing a top aide to O’Rourke. If …

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House Republicans unanimously voted against Pelosi’s $60 million payback to the USCP. GOP senators should do the same. The body of U.S. Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick wasn’t even cold before his employer leveraged his untimely death to stoke more outrage about the events in the nation’s capital on January 6. “At approximately 9:30 p.m. …

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A new poll finds that a majority of Republicans believe that former President Donald Trump is the “true president.” A new Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Monday asked respondents to answer the question, “Who do you think the true President is right now?” Fifty-three percent of Republicans said Trump is, while 47% said President Joe Biden is the “true president.” …

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The congressional push to remove Confederate names from Pentagon properties, including storied Army posts, could eventually affect hundreds of items and facilities, the chair of the Naming Commission said Friday. Michelle Howard, a retired Navy admiral who heads the commission, told reporters her group began its work in March, with an interim report due to Congress in …

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Former GOP Sen. John Warner from Virginia, who served in Congress for five terms and played a central role in shaping military affairs legislation, has died. He was 94. The Washington Post reported Wednesday that Warner’s Chief of Staff Carter Cornick announced the former senator’s death, and longtime chief of staff Susan A. Magill told The Associated Press that the former …

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