Red State,
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Nick Arama
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Pro-abortion protesters were harassing pro-life people trying to protect Old St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City.
We reported on some of this on Saturday, when someone who goes by the name “Crackhead Barney” play-acted having an abortion in front of the church and yelled, “I’m killing the babies” and “God killed his son, why can’t I?” As pro-life people prayed the Rosary, she conducted a vile display while the pro-abortion people screamed obscene things at the pro-life people. The radical leftists didn’t seem to see anything wrong with what they were doing, as they cursed out the people who were praying.
But they lost it later,
National Public Radio,
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David Folkenflik
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The New York Times is looking to add to its list of 132 Pulitzer Prizes — by far the most of any news organization — when the 2022 recipients for journalism are announced on Monday.
Yet the war in Ukraine has renewed questions of whether the Times should return a Pulitzer awarded 90 years ago for work by Walter Duranty, its charismatic chief correspondent in the Soviet Union.
"He is the personification of evil in journalism," says Oksana Piaseckyj, a Ukrainian-American activist who came to the U.S. as a child refugee in 1950. She is among the advocates for the return of the award. "We think he was like
New York Post,
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Erin Keller
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Sold!
A famous Andy Warhol silkscreen of Marilyn Monroe sold for $170 million at a Christie’s charity auction Monday night. The piece was expected to make made history as the most expensive piece of American art ever sold but fell just short.
Pablo Picasso’s 1955 painting “Les Femmes d’Alger (Version ‘O’)” holds that record and was sold for $179.4 million in 2015.
The auction house estimated Warhol’s 1964 painting at $200 million before the event.
The identity of the winning bidder was not immediately revealed. All proceeds from Lot 36A will go to the Thomas and Doris Ammann Foundation Zurich,
Power Line,
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John Hinderaker
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5/9/2022 9:10:34 PM
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We briefly noted here the agricultural apocalypse occurring in Sri Lanka:
[W]here are the environmentalists in all this? They are doing their best to reduce agricultural output. In Sri Lanka, the government mandated organic farming, with the result that yields declined catastrophically, prices skyrocketed, and, no doubt, many died.
The London Times had a more detailed account last month, headlined: “How Sri Lanka’s shift to organic farming left it in the manure.”
What turned Sri Lanka’s economic situation from difficult to catastrophic was the decision by the Rajapaksa government to implement a nationwide ban on synthetic fertiliser
Associated Press,
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Hillel Italie
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New York - Midge Decter, a leading neoconservative writer and commentator who in blunt and tenacious style helped lead the right’s attack in the culture wars as she opposed the rise of feminism, affirmative action and the gay rights movement, has died at age 94.
Decter, the wife of retired Commentary editor and fellow neoconservative Norman Podhoretz, died Monday at her home in Manhattan. Daughter Naomi Decter said her health had been failing, but did not cite a specific cause of death.
Like her husband, Midge Decter was a onetime Democrat repelled in the ’60s and after by what she called “heedless and mindless leftist politics and intellectual and artistic nihilism.”
Hot Air,
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Ed Morrissey
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5/9/2022 1:15:18 PM
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Several days late, several dollars short, but at least no one’s gotten killed — yet. After the leak of the draft opinion in Dobbs almost exactly a week ago, Jen Psaki and Joe Biden had numerous opportunities to warn people against mob rule targeting Supreme Court justices. They repeatedly refused to address the threats aimed at the court, especially the five justices, and the doxxing by the activist group Ruth Sent Us that exposed their home addresses.
Today, with Justice Samuel Alito rumored to have been relocated for his family’s safety, Psaki finally offered up this lame tweet: It’s a little late for that, as The Hill notes:
Dozens
Red State,
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Bonchie
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Have you heard? Former Secretary of Defense Mark Esper has a new book coming out, and the focus is once again on the bad orange man.
Alright, you probably haven’t heard because who cares, right? These books are all a dime a dozen, they all say the same stuff, and most of the big “scandals” they “reveal” turn out to be nothing. That looks to be the case again with Esper’s tell-all offering, which is being heavily promoted by the media.
One of the major “gotchas” the press is running with is a claim by Esper that Trump once asked about bombing the drug cartels. Wait, am I supposed to be upset
Hot Air,
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Ed Morrissey
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Over the last few days, observers wondered how Vladimir Putin would use Russia’s May 9 Victory Day observance to escalate the war in Ukraine. Annex the Donbas? Declare total war and full mobilization? Launch a new offensive in the north to take out Kyiv?
Or just whine? That appears to be Putin’s choice, as he oversaw a muted celebration and vented the same rationalizations he’s used since 2014:
President Vladimir V. Putin used his Victory Day speech on Monday to try to channel Russian pride in defeating Nazi Germany into support for this year’s invasion of Ukraine. But contrary to some expectations
Red State,
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Bonchie
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Is Kathy Barnette’s momentum in Pennsylvania real? A new poll of the state’s GOP Senate primary suggests it is.
Barnette, who is essentially in a three-person race with Dr. Mehmet Oz and David McCormick, gained notoriety recently after she turned in a viral debate performance. Some of her noteworthy moments included calling both Oz and McCormick out for being associated with the World Economic Forum, perhaps the most disturbing globalist organization on the planet. She also hit Oz on his long history of holding pro-abortion views. At the time of the debate, Barnette was within striking distance
BBC News,
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Paul Kirby
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Despite rumours he would make a major announcement his speech stuck largely to defending Russia's invasion.
He tied the war in Ukraine to victory in 1945, blaming the West and Nato for rejecting security demands.
Almost 10 weeks into the invasion, civilian casualties continue to mount. Some 60 civilians are feared dead in the eastern town of Bilohorivka, after a Russian attack on a school where people were trying to escape bombardment.
Flanked by military top brass, Russia's leader spoke of Ukrainians as fascists, repeating his false claim that the democratic government in Kyiv was run by neo-Nazis.
Guardian [U.K.],
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Alexei Levinson
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A month after Putin’s “special operation” in Ukraine began, the Levada Centre, a non-governmental polling organisation, carried out a survey to gauge public attitudes towards the conflict. The results were awaited with some trepidation. Some thought they would show public dissatisfaction with the leadership and that the president’s ratings would fall. Others demurred.
There were precedents. After Russia’s short war with Georgia in 2008, Vladimir Putin’s approval rating shot up to 88%. In 2014, after the annexation of Crimea, the same thing happened: the proportion of people who said they approved of his leadership once again rose to the same figure.
Hindustan Times (India),
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Sohini Goswami
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Elon Musk on Monday shared a fresh tweet where he spoke about dying under mysterious circumstances.
Known for his controversial and sometimes erratic tweets that usually triggered a buzz on the Internet, the Tesla CEO who recently bought Twitter, wrote on the microblogging site, “If I die under mysterious circumstances, it’s been nice knowin ya.” The billionaire also shared a post that he said was the Roscosmos director Dmitry Olegovich Rogozin's statement given to the Russian media. The Roscosmos head, a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, hit out at the new Twitter owner and seemingly issued Musk a threat for providing the Ukrainian troops with military communication equipment