WASHINGTON - Tuesday, Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden tapped US Senate Kamala Harris (D-CA) to be his vice-presidential running mate in November 2020.
That pick may be much more important than previous elections because most voters think it’s likely Biden's pick will be president within the next four years if Biden is elected in November.
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WHEATON - Chicago's weekend lootings and 6th CD Congressman Sean Casten's silence on the matter provoked a response from Republican challenger Jeanne Ives.
“The choice we have in 2020 is clear: Law and Order or Mob Rule. Sean Casten has been silent on the violence and looting in Chicago, in Naperville, and in his own hometown, Downers Grove," Ives said in a statement issued. "He has been silent on the corruption in Illinois Government. He can’t defend any of it. And he won’t do anything to change any of it."
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – Tuesday, the Illinois Department of Natural Resources (IDNR) announced the cancellation of World Shooting and Recreational Complex (WSRC) shooting and field trial events scheduled for September and October due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
“Projected attendance for some of our upcoming events could violate social distancing and crowd size requirements included in Governor Pritzker’s Restore Illinois plan,” said Colleen Callahan, director, IDNR. “While cancelling these events was an extremely difficult and painful decision, as the pandemic continues and cases increase in southern Illinois, we know it was the right decision and the best way to protect the health and safety of attendees, volunteers and staff. We look forward to working with the hosting organizations to accommodate these events when we move to the other side of this crisis.”
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CHICAGO - As of today, Illinois business owners have an additional task: enforcing a rule Governor JB Pritzker asked the Joint Committee of Administrative Rules set in place Tuesday. If the businesses do not enforce the mask rules, they could face up to $2500 in fines or time in prison.
Business groups such as the Technology & Manufacturing Association and the Illinois Food Retailers Association pleaded with the six Democrats and the six Republicans on the committee to reject Pritzker's mandate.
Six Republicans supported State Rep. Steve Reick's (R-Woodstock) motion to suspend Pritzker's rule. Five Democrats opposed Reick's motion. Eight votes were needed to cancel Pritzker's mandate - thus, the rule is in effect.
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By Randy Rossi -
Well folks the hard data is in and the facts prove that Sweden made the right decision not to shut down its economy and not kick its children out of school unlike the rest of the world which did those shut downs and caused massive damage to its people. You are probably shocked by this because Sweden’s success has not been reported in the vast majority of the news.
Let me provide you some hard facts that will stun you. Sweden made the decisions not to shut down its economy and not to kick its kids out of school and instead focused on isolating vulnerable older retired people. The result has been that Sweden has less COVID 19 deaths per 100,000 people than Belgium, the UK, Spain, and Italy which did shut down their economies and kick their kids out of school. Shouldn’t that be headline news? On top of that, while Sweden’s economy has only seen a 8.6% drop, the EU has seen a 11.9% drop, Spain has seen a 18.5% drop, France a 13.8% drop, and Italy a 12.4% drop because they shut down their economies. Shouldn’t that be headline news? On top of that, those countries that shut down their economies and kicked their kids out of school have seen massive increases in depression which has increased deaths by suicide, drug overdoses, and domestic violence. Sweden has not. The majority of Swedes support their country’s decision not to shut down their economy and their schools.
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By Nancy Thorner -
As drug makers race to develop a vaccine against the coronavirus, several legal questions are emerging. Could the U.S. government require people to get it? Could people who refuse to roll up their sleeves get banned from stores or lose their jobs?
According to Dov Fox, a law professor and the director of the Center for Health Law Policy and Bioethics at the University of San Diego, the short answer is "yes."
Fox noted authorities in the United States have never attempted to jail people for refusing to vaccinate, but other countries like France have adopted the aggressive tactic.
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CHICAGO - Widespread looting this past early Monday morning was simply "reparation," a Chicago Black Lives Matter organizer shouted at a rally outside a South Loop police station.
“I don’t care if somebody decides to loot a Gucci’s or a Macy’s or a Nike because that makes sure that that person eats. That makes sure that that person has clothes,” Black Lives Matter activist Ariel Atkins said, local media reported.
“That’s a reparation,” she said. “Anything they want to take, take it because these businesses have insurance.”
But not just Gucci's, Macy's, Nike or Tesla were damaged and looted Monday morning. So was the Ronald McDonald House near the Lurie Children's Hospital, where 30 families were staying with their seriously-ill children.
The families were frightened and very concerned as to whether the looters would endanger them, a staff member told local news. The Ronald McDonald House posted on Facebook Tuesday:
Asserting that cancel culture has put freedom of expression in crisis, a statement initially signed by 45 prominent individuals from universities, think tanks, and other organizations asserts that expressing “ideas we find offensive is not an act of ‘violence.’”
Called the Philadelphia Statement, the 845-word document says in part:
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Watching a child grow is seeing carbon dioxide in action. Plants turn CO2 into the food we eat to live and grow on. “You can’t live on air” is a common saying but that is just what we do; we live on air and water.
Few people appreciate this amazing fact, that CO2 in the air is the global food supply. Our meat, fruit and veggies, also our candy and ice cream, milk and wine, are built almost entirely from carbon dioxide and water. Everything we eat and drink.
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The more than 84,000 mail-in ballots that were disqualified in the June 23 primary in New York—where two congressional nominations were just decided this week—underscore prospective problems posed by the universal mail-in voting being called for by liberal politicians for the November elections in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The massive problems with the primary in New York’s 12th Congressional District raise alarms over the prospects for a debacle on a multistate level, not only in the presidential election, but in Senate and House races, governorships, and other elected offices as well.
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CHICAGO - Governor JB Pritzker wants Illinois business owners to face Class A Misdemeanor charges if they do not enforce COVID mask-wearing on their premises.
In order for this to take place, the governor has directed the Illinois Department of Public Health to refile an emergency rule. That rule must pass the General Assembly's Joint Committee on Administrative Rules (JCAR), which meets Tuesday this week.
A Class A Misdemeanor could lead to up to 364 days in jail and/or a fine of up to $2500.
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CHICAGO - Monday morning, the Illinois Republican Party continued its call for Governor Pritzker to stop defending House Speaker Mike Madigan, who is reportedly being investigated by the Feds.
They pointed to a Chicago Tribune editorial that recalled how Republicans called for the resignation of their party's then-serving Governor George Ryan when he was under investigation in the late 1990s.
The IL GOP press release:
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WHEATON - Jerry Evans runs a music school in Wheaton, ran for Congress in the 2020 GOP primaries and pushes a vibrant social media presence.
Last week he posted an interview with Abby Johnson, a pro-life activist that worked for Planned Parenthood for eight years. In the interview, Johnson and Evans talk about her story, the Pro-Life movement, and how women can find healing after an abortion.
CHICAGO - Hundreds of looters ravaged high-end stores on Chicago's Magnificent Mile early Monday morning - and Chicago Police were overwhelmed with reports of burglaries.
At the same time, 40 were shot and four killed in other parts of the city over the weekend as the city's violence reaches new levels.
Videos documenting the chaos as looters raided stores offering $750 Salvadore Ferragamo sandals and dealerships offering Teslas. The violence spread to Rush Street, Oak Street and Loop shopping districts - allegedly via social media.
Social media videos show the looting that spread throughout Chicago way into the wee hours of Monday ...
Check out shocking first-hand looting videos on CWBChicago.com
In an interview published Thursday, NPR host Lulu Garcia-Navarro asked Biden if he would stop Cubans from being deported if he became president. Biden replied, “And by the way, what you all know, but most people don’t know, unlike the African American community, with notable exceptions, the Latino community is an incredibly diverse community, with incredibly different attitudes about different things.”
“You go to Florida, you find a very different attitude about immigration in certain places than you do when you’re in Arizona,” he continued. “So it’s a very different, very diverse community.”
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By Hank Beckman -
Control.
Merriam—Webster lists it as a noun that is “an act or instance of controlling...power or authority to guide or manage.”
That apparently unquenchable thirst to be obeyed and tell everyone how to run their lives is really how one should understand the Democrats' freak show recently in the House Judiciary Committee hearings.
Asking Attorney General Bill Barr questions, then constantly interrupting him with the “I’m reclaiming my time,” nonsense, wild-eyed warnings by one congresswoman that she was losing her temper and brow-beating him as if he were not a witness to a formal congressional hearing but an actual suspect in a police station being interrogated pretty much sums up the Democrat's approach.
Gerald Nadler even went so far as to try to deny Barr a five-minute break toward the end of the hearings, prompting Barr to respond sarcastically that he was a “real class act.”
But don’t let their like high school bully act distract you from the main point here. Their behavior during the hearing reveals the essential truth about so many modern-day liberals—the desire for total control. And what could be more controlling than not allowing a person to speak?
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Paul Vallone, a Democratic New York City councilman, says he nearly died of COVID-19 earlier this year, but hydroxychloroquine saved his life.
Paul Vallone wasn’t the only one who became a believer in the anti-malaria drug’s effectiveness in treating COVID. His brother Peter, a former city councilman who currently serves as a civil court judge in Queens, couldn’t deny the drug worked after seeing how it helped his brother.
In April, Democrat State Rep. Karen Whitsett from Detroit, Mich., credited the drug and President Trump with saving her life. Other coronavirus patients have reported dramatic recoveries after taking the drug.
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One of the largest studies in the world on coronavirus in schools, carried out in 100 institutions in the UK, will confirm that “there is very little evidence that the virus is transmitted” there, according to a leading scientist.
Professor Russell Viner, president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health and a member of the government advisory group Sage, said: “A new study that has been done in UK schools confirms there is very little evidence that the virus is transmitted in schools.
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CLAY COUNTY - Governor JB Pritzker was ordered to appear before a Clay County judge next Friday at 1:00 PM to explain why he "should not be held in indirect civil contempt." Failure to appear in court may result in warrant for arrest, the order says.
State Rep. Darren Bailey (R-Xenia) complained to the Clay County judge that Governor Pritzker is ignoring the court's previous order and is exercising emergency powers concerning the COVID crisis extending beyond state law's 30-day provision for such powers.
Bailey posted the order and the following comment Friday afternoon:
By Nancy Thorner -
Ballot harvesting is the practice of allowing political operatives and others to collect voters’ ballots and turn them in en masse to polling stations.
Legalizing nationwide ballot harvesting is one battle under a larger umbrella of overall mail-in balloting.
Conservatives argue that mailing ballots to every single American is inviting rampant fraud. A Pew Research Center study shows roughly 24 million voter registrations are no longer valid. According to Judicial Watch, there are 462 counties in America where voter registrations outnumber the amount of people who actually live in that county. Many of those jurisdictions are in key battleground states.
As President Trump wrote on Twitter on April 20, 2020: "GET RID OF BALLOT HARVESTING, IT IS RAMPANT WITH FRAUD, THE USA MUST HAVE VOTER I.D., THE ONLY WAY TO GET AN HONEST COUNT!"
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