California’s three-year COVID health emergency will finally end next month. Never mind, the CDC’s own mask requirements dropped last year, two months before the midterm elections. For most of the state’s 40 million residents, that means no more mask and vaccine requirements, including at healthcare facilities. Most — but not all. As Hot Air reports: San Francisco’s Health Officer Susan Philip knows better, and she has issued an order that makes it a crime to enter any of 15 types of facilities, including healthcare facilities, prisons, long-term care facilities, or 12 other similar institutions without a “well-fitted face mask.” A…
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Patrick Houck
Patrick Houck is an avid political enthusiast based out of the Washington, D.C. metro area. His expertise is in campaigns and the use of targeted messaging to persuade voters. When not combing through the latest news, you can find him enjoying the company of family and friends or pursuing his love of photography.
A popular former Republican governor will not be running for president in 2024. Larry Hogan, who served two terms as the chief executive for the state of Maryland, announced his decision Sunday. It follows comments he made that indicated he would pass on a run if he felt it would inadvertently help former President Donald Trump. https://twitter.com/GovLarryHogan/status/1632378210016022528 Per Fox News: “I did give it serious consideration, and I talked to people everywhere, and I talked to my family, and it was a tough decision, but I’ve decided that I will not be a candidate for the Republican nomination for president,” Hogan told…
Russian forces are closer to encircling Bakhmut than ever before. The latest developments from the ruined city include the destruction of a bridge used to ferry supplies to beleaguered Ukrainian troops. Yet Russian advances have been measured in meters and thousands of irrevocable losses. According to the best estimates, the Russian Army has suffered over 1,000 casualties some days — losses magnified by poor training and limited access to adequate medical care. https://twitter.com/Roberto05246129/status/1632083560021606400 The trail of death and destruction leaves the status of a possible victory by the Kremlin, whether apparent or pyrrhic, open to debate. Regardless, Ukraine’s survival remains…
A BuzzFeed News article has a novel take on diversity in art. It involves science fiction, a genre that has played a significant role in shaping minds, from the sinister portrayal of Darth Vader’s Galactic Empire, an amalgamation of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, to the negative influences of socialism that influenced Frank Herbert’s epic novel “Dune.” Despite its disproportionate cultural impact, BuzzFeed thinks science fiction needs an overhaul. One that involves characters of all shapes and sizes. https://twitter.com/demontage2000/status/1630063087717081088?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1630063087717081088%7Ctwgr%5E17bda6793f0f7acb83fef918ef65fecf31aac760%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fhotair.com%2Fdavid-strom%2F2023%2F02%2F28%2Fwhat-our-culture-needs-right-now-fat-black-sci-fi-characters-n533841 Per Hot Air: Needless to say, that particular fat Black character doesn’t look capable of climbing two flights of stairs,…
One of Hollywood’s best-known and talented character actors is dead. Tom Sizemore lived an intense and troubled life, marred by addiction and legal issues. It was arguably matched only by his exploits on the silver screen. Despite having roles that rarely qualified as top billing, he left an indelible impact on the audience. WARNING: EXPLICIT LANGUAGE https://youtu.be/JHwXdI5CIVA https://youtu.be/1zvgrhn9el4 Sizemore, 61, died after a brain aneurysm from a stroke two weeks ago. He had remained in a coma during that time. Sizemore’s more famous roles also included “Black Hawk Down” and “Natural Born Killers.” Yahoo! Entertainment further reports: The Detroit native…
Disney’s latest iteration of “Peter Pan” will surely be its most inclusive yet. In an attempt to evade charges of cultural insensitivity, certain characters will be depicted in a new light in this latest remaking. To that end, the children-centric mass media empire hired a team of cultural consultants to find problematic stereotypes in the 112-year-old book and deal with them accordingly. The actress who plays Tiger Lily, Peter Pan’s loyal friend and the daughter of Neverland’s Indian chief, revealed the painstaking steps the studio took in a recent interview. The Daily Wire reports: Alyssa Wapanatâhk, who is of Cree…
The Australian military is in the beginning stages of testing a potential weapon that could transform the battlefields of tomorrow. Capitalizing on recent breakthroughs in artificial intelligence, Aussie soldiers are testing commands on robot dogs using only brain signals. https://youtu.be/hs8hjdoSKNQ The New York Post has more on the development, ripped straight from the pages of a science fiction novel: Called a brain robotic interface, the state-of-the-art artificial intelligence — through a high-tech biosensor headset — analyzes brainwave readings and feeds them from a person’s visual cortex into the advanced “robodog,” Newsflash reported. “The whole process is not difficult to master.…
Speaking to right-wing radio host Hugh Hewitt yesterday, former U.S. attorney and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie revealed his thoughts about the legal threats confronting former President Donald Trump. According to Christie, Trump’s legal team won’t be able to dismiss the Georgia inquiry into alleged election meddling despite the bizarre media tour by the grand jury foreperson. “I think she did a lot of damage to the case,” Christie acknowledge to Hewitt, before saying that his perception of the Georgia case being weak makes it hard to imagine Trump would be indicted. WATCH: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHSVb89g0Tg Fulton County DA Fani Willis began…
The Justice Department has announced that police officers injured or otherwise affected by the U.S. Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021, can sue former President Donald Trump for the violent actions taken by some of his supporters. In a court filing with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, Lawyers for the Justice Department dismissed claims by Trump that he’s protected by presidential immunity for giving a speech that told supporters to proceed to the U.S. Capitol. Which many of his followers did. Presidents typically receive absolute immunity when executing their official duties. As The Washington Times…
The mayor of an East Coast liberal stronghold has resigned effective immediately following his arrest today on a litany of charges over one of the most heinous crimes imaginable: Child pornography. The Hill has more: In a news release, the Prince George’s County Police Department (PGPD) said that the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children notified it that a social media account operating in the county possessed and distributed suspected child pornography. PGPD investigators said that the social media account belonged to Mayor Patrick Wojahn. Authorities conducted a search warrant at Wojhan’s residence last month, where they recovered multiple…