“ “We need a voice against racism, we need many voices against racism and against brutality. And we need to stand up and say that black lives matter.” ” That’s Sen. Mitt Romney on Sunday, as he joined a group of around 1,000 Christians marching in Washington and was asked …
Read More »Key Words: Knicks owner James Dolan on George Floyd silence — ‘We are not any more qualified than anyone else to offer our opinion on social matters.’
The New York Knicks, a basketball franchise with mostly black players in a city that’s about 25% African-American, has been one of only two NBA teams silent over the killing of George Floyd. A leaked email explains why, according to an ESPN report. “ “We at Madison Square Garden stand …
Read More »Key Words: ‘We do not know exactly what happens when you voluntarily shut down a substantial portion of your society’ Buffett says
“ ‘We do not know exactly what happens when you voluntarily shut down a substantial portion of your society.’ ” That’s Warren Buffett, Chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, on Saturday offering his first public statements since the coronavirus pandemic ravaged the stock market and economy, putting a record number of people—some …
Read More »‘We will not have a vaccine by next winter.’ Like the 1918 Spanish flu, CDC says second wave of coronavirus could be worse. So what happens next?
America is staring down a widespread COVID-19 testing shortage with no vaccine in sight. So what happens when coronavirus makes its unceremonious return? Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for more than three decades, said Wednesday, “We will have coronavirus in the fall. I …
Read More »Dispatches from a Pandemic: ‘We are now experiencing the aftershock’: As Italy’s death toll exceeds 10,000, Italians wait for the coronavirus surge to finally peak
Emanuele Cremaschi/Getty Images A mural dedicated to all Italian medical workers depicting a nurse cradling Italy and reading ‘To All Of You… Thank You!’, on a wall of Papa Giovanni XXIII Hospital in Bergamo, Italy. Bergamo is the epicenter of Italy’s hardest-hit region, Lombardy. The Italian government continues to enforce …
Read More »‘We feel entitled to artificially inseminate a cow and steal her baby.’ Joaquin Phoenix’s Oscar speech will be welcomed by America’s growing army of vegans
Dairy milk got a bad reception at Sunday’s Academy Awards. Joaquin Phoenix took aim at dairy farming in his Oscars speech for Best Actor in a Leading Role for “Joker.” “We go into the natural world and we plunder it for its resources. We feel entitled to artificially inseminate a …
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