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April 2019

Posted by Tyler Hummel on April 09, 2019 5 Comments
Post contains some plot spoilers: I can't begin to tell you what it actually is that writer/director S. Craig Zahler believes in politically. According to the interviews he's done to promote his newest movie, Dragged Across Concrete, he doesn't care what people think of his movies. He's making movies about bad people and he wants to depict them in their entirety without putting a message behind it. That's a brave notion in the current year.

Posted by Kemberlee Kaye on April 09, 2019 10 Comments
The party of diversity is currently enamored with two old white guys and the hubris of it all is delicious. Two old white guys are steadily outpacing their younger, far more progressive political competition. Creepy Uncle Joe, who has yet to formally declare candidacy, has a commanding lead, followed the Wild Haired Socialist, Bernie Sanders.

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 09, 2019 2 Comments
We previously covered the policy implemented by Airbnb last November to ban listings from Jewish settlements in Judea and Samaria (the "West Bank"). That amounted to a de facto Jewish boycott because Jews are forbidden under Palestinian Authority law and practice from buying homes outside the settlements, and Palestinians could be killed for selling or renting to a Jew.

Posted by Leslie Eastman on April 09, 2019 8 Comments
At Legal Insurrection, not only do you get hard-hitting legal analysis of current events, you also are exposed to the cutting edge of emerging disease news! Readers may recall that in November, 2016, I reported that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) indicated that the first cases of a drug-resistant and potentially fatal fungal infection known as Candida auris was recorded in the United States. In 2019, doctors diagnosed hundreds of people with it, hitting New York area the hardest.

Posted by Mary Chastain on April 09, 2019 13 Comments
Attorney General William Barr began his testimony this morning in front of the House appropriations committee to discuss the Justice Department's budget and priorities, but Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report has come up. Barr told the members he asked Mueller if he wanted to review the four page summary, but declined. He also promised a redacted version within a week.

Posted by Kemberlee Kaye on April 09, 2019 2 Comments
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Posted by Kemberlee Kaye on April 08, 2019 52 Comments
The serious contemplation on the virtues of socialism (SPOILER: there are none) invading broad culture speaks to rampant ignorance and a populace completely spoiled by modernity. Individuals who have lived elsewhere, suffered under actual tyranny, or who have a basic understanding of varying systems of government understand that socialism is a scourge and a system ripe for abuse by an inefficient bureaucracy.

Posted by Stacey Matthews on April 08, 2019 28 Comments
It wasn't enough that #TheResistance shouted DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen out of a private DC restaurant in the summer of 2018. It wasn't enough that they made it personal by converging on her home, yelling chants and playing audio clips of immigrant children allegedly being separated from their families at the border. Now, as Nielsen prepares to make her exit from the Trump administration, a group comprised of some familiar high-profile Resistance faces have taken it a step further by urging a hiring boycott. And not just against Nielsen, but against any Trump officials involved in the so-called "child separation" immigration policy.

Posted by David Gerstman on April 08, 2019 19 Comments
With election day on Tuesday, April 9, in Israel, will Benjamin Netanyahu win his fourth consecutive bid (and fifth overall) to become Israel's prime ministe Or will he be displaced by a ticket headed by Benny Gantz, two other former chiefs of staff, and former journalist Yair Lapid? Lori Lowenthal Marcus provides a synopsis of the parties and process. Haviv Rettig Gur has a more comprehensive overview at Mosaic.
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