Patrons of a restaurant in British Columbia, Canada united to shout down a pair of city health inspectors trying to close the business for allegedly violating COVID-19 guidelines.
The footage, captured on Saturday, shows a woman who runs the Corduroy restaurant in Vancouver holding a small child while telling the inspectors they are “trespassing on her private property.”
Despite being asked to leave, one of the health inspectors tells the woman “I disagree” about the claim of trespassing.
At this point, nearly every person in the restaurant starts loudly chanting, “Get out! Get out!” at the masked emissaries of the state.
When the health inspectors leave due to the chanting, patrons of the establishment go wild with applause.
Corduroy restaurant continues to stay open against the “closure order” mandated by the local government.
#BREAKING: Corduroy restaurant in #Kitsilano has been hit with a "closure order" — but it's still open with diners still inside.
Rev. Raphael Warnock, a Democratic U.S. senator from Georgia and pastor of Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church, has removed a controversial Easter tweet stating that even non-Christians can save themselves by doing good.
“The meaning of Easter is more transcendent than the resurrection of Jesus Christ,” Warnock wrote on Twitter Easter Sunday. “Whether you are Christian or not, through a commitment to helping others we are able to save ourselves.”
After backlash, the tweet was removed from Warnock’s social media page.
The tweet caused some to accuse the 51-year-old reverend who won a Senate runoff election in January and propel Democrats to the Senate majority of heresy.
“Warnock deleted his heretical tweet,” President Donald Trump’s former lawyer Jenna Ellis responded by tweeting. “He should delete Reverend in front of his name too.”
In an earlier tweet, Ellis said that Warnock’s tweet was “false gospel and heresy.”
“We cannot save ourselves,” she wrote. “The absolute truth and only meaning of Easter that matters is the literal, physical resurrection of Jesus Christ, and we must accept Him as Lord and Savior.”
Ellis challenged Warnock to “read Romans.”
MSNBC host Joy Reid came to Warnock’s defense in response to Ellis’ tweets.
“I am not backtracking a bit. … I firmly believe everything I said was true.”
“It was based on thousands of pages of affidavits, expert reports, mathematical analysis that cannot be challenged, statistical work that cannot be challenged—I mean the data does not lie. And there was in fact massive widespread fraud through this election. And Donald Trump should be president right now. In fact, if the law were applied correctly, he is,” said Powell.
“I’m not backing up one inch.”
“Georgia itself just admitted that 400,000 ballots can’t properly be accounted for.”
The CNN host declares that 2,000 years of church teaching on sexual dignity, morality and about God is wrong
ANALYSIS/OPINION:
Last Monday, CNN host Don Lemon strutted onto the world’s stage to declare with ex-cathedra confidence that Christian orthodoxy and its 2,000 years of church teaching on sexual dignity, sexual morality and about God himself is wrong.
“I think that the Catholic Church and many other churches really need to reexamine themselves,” said Mr. Lemon, “[Their teaching] is not what God is about. God is not about hindering people or even judging people.”
With all due respect to Mr. Lemon’s superior theological training and ecclesiastical wisdom, it might be wise to consider what the actual teachings of the church are before we toss them on the ash heap of Mr. Lemon’s call for “reexamination.”
Here’s just a smattering of some of what the church has taught for two millennia concerning “hindering people,” “judging people,” and even more importantly, “what God is all about.”
The Apostle Peter defined Jesus Christ as both “God and Savior.”
Saint Paul told us that Jesus is “the image of the invisible God.”
Mike Huckabee has been accused by many of fueling anti-Asian hatred with a tweet that mocks identity politics, saying the former governor now identifies as Chinese to get free stuff.
“I’ve decided to ‘identify’ as Chinese. Coke will like me, Delta will agree with my ‘values’ and I’ll probably get shoes from Nike & tickets to @MLB games. Ain’t America great?” Huckabee, the former governor of Arkansas and now a long-running television host, tweeted over the weekend.
I’ve decided to “identify” as Chinese. Coke will like me, Delta will agree with my “values” and I’ll probably get shoes from Nike & tickets to @MLB games. Ain’t America great?
— Gov. Mike Huckabee (@GovMikeHuckabee) April 3, 2021
Huckabee’s tweet appears to be a hit at identity politics connecting two separate issues that have gotten the attention of major corporations. Coke, Delta, and Major League Baseball have also protested Georgia’s controversial new voting law, with the MLB even moving their much-anticipated All Star Game out of Atlanta in light of the new measure passing.
Democrats have slammed the new law, which adds an identification requirement for absentee ballots and limits certain aspects of voting, like ballot drop boxes, as discriminatory, but Republicans have defended it as necessary to ensure election integrity.
TAIPEI, Taiwan—The Chinese communist regime is accelerating its plans to invade Taiwan, an expert warns, as Beijing ratchets up military maneuvers against the island.
Twenty Chinese military aircraft—including four nuclear-capable H-6K bombers, 10 J-16 fighter jets, two Y-8 anti-submarine warfare aircraft, and a KJ-500 airborne early warning and control aircraft—entered Taiwan’s air defense identification zone (ADIZ) on March 26, according to Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense. It was the largest incursion ever reported by the ministry.
Taiwan’s ADIZ, located adjacent to the island’s territorial airspace, is an area where incoming planes must identify themselves to the island’s air traffic controller.
The incursion caps off a significant increase in hostility by Beijing against Taiwan since 2020. Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen, re-elected last January, has taken a hard line against threats posed by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), while the island has deepened its cooperation with the United States—prompting the regime to escalate its warmongering towards the island.
As with the pushing of anti-Bush forgeries, CBS News continues to push partisan propaganda at the expense of the truth.
Rather than cover actual scandals involving Democrat governors and their botched responses to COVID, CBS’ “60 Minutes” tried to invent a scandal involving Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ distribution of vaccines.
To push the false narrative and protect its favored governors, “60 Minutes” refused to interview people who disputed its false narrative, selectively edited video to hide facts, and omitted data that debunked its thesis and accurately describe Florida’s success.
It’s not that “60 Minutes” couldn’t have reported on real scandals involving governors and COVID, if it wanted to. New York’s Democrat Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a media darling despite his many failures, sent COVID patients into long-term care facilities full of vulnerable people, and then covered it up.
California’s Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom has imposed draconian lockdown measures that have crushed his state’s economy, its schools, and the entire population of the state. He’s currently facing a recall attempt from citizens livid at his handling.
President Biden on Monday defended his push to raise corporate taxes to pay for higher infrastructure spending, while Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen made the case for a global minimum tax that would prevent U.S. companies from moving overseas to avoid higher taxes at home.
The president, returning to Washington from a weekend at Camp David, told reporters he’s “not at all” worried that a higher tax rate will drive companies out of the U.S.
“There’s no evidence of that,” Mr. Biden said. “You’re talking about companies in the Fortune 500 that haven’t paid a single penny in tax for three years. Come on man.”
Ms. Yellen said Monday called for global coordination on an international tax rate that would apply to multinational corporations regardless of where their headquarters are located. She said such a global tax could halt the “thirty-year race to the bottom” in which countries have competed against each other by lowering their corporate tax rates, as the U.S. did under President Trump.
“Competitiveness is about more than how U.S.-headquartered companies fare against other companies in global merger and acquisition bids,” Ms. Yellen told the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. “It is about making sure that governments have stable tax systems that raise sufficient revenue to invest in essential public goods and respond to crises, and that all citizens fairly share the burden of financing government.”
With more than half of school districts across the country still in remote or hybrid mode, your children won’t see the new money, but they’ll be the ones who pay.
The combined spending of Biden’s proposal, if approved, would be more than seven times the Department of Education’s typical annual budget.
Federal infrastructure bailouts are unnecessary for addressing school building maintenance issues, which are not the result of a lack of education funding.
The plan also includes an additional $100 billion to expand broadband, $48 billion for workforce training, and $12 billion for community college infrastructure.
With more than half of school districts across the country still in remote or hybrid mode, your children won’t see the new money, but they’ll be the ones who pay for it. And not only would this package pass enormous debt onto the next generation, it is also replete with problems.
For starters, school infrastructure spending is not the role of the federal government, especially one with a $28 trillion national debt. It is the responsibility of districts—not Washington—to construct and maintain schools.
President Joe Biden’s proposed school infrastructure spending spree will hand mountains of debt to the very students now attending these schools.
This proposal’s breathtakingly high costs would come on top of unprecedented federal spending for schools that was doled out through three COVID-19 spending packages last year. When you add together the taxpayer dollars that Congress appropriated for education since March 2020, it comes out to a staggering $282 billion.
Add to this an additional $260 billion from the education portion of Biden’s infrastructure proposal for a total of more than half a trillion dollars in new school spending—all within a 12-month period.
This year, the total Department of Education budget for K-12 and higher education is $72 billion. That means the combined spending of Biden’s proposal, if approved, would be more than seven times the Department of Education’s typical annual budget.
And this is just the beginning. The administration has signaled that a second package—again, supposedly for “infrastructure”—slated for mid-April will include universal preschool, paid family leave, and “free” community college.
