Ammon Bundy Arrested after Refusing to Wear Mask in Court

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. . .Ammon Bundy was arrested in Idaho on Monday after he refused to wear a mask in court, thus preventing him from entering and making him a no-show for his own trial, officials said.

Ammon Bundy was due in a Boise courtroom at 8:15 a.m. for the beginning of his trial on misdemeanor trespassing and resisting arrest charges stemming from an August incident at the Idaho Statehouse.

For nearly a year now, the Idaho Supreme Court has required masks for entry into any courthouses in the state.

“Mr. Bundy today refused to wear a mask to come into the courthouse and thus was not granted admission,” Steven Hippler, administrative judge for the Fourth Judicial District, told NBC News.

And when he didn’t get inside the Ada County Courthouse, Magistrate Judge David Manweile issued a warrant for Bundy’s arrest. (Read more from “Ammon Bundy Arrested after Refusing to Wear Mask in Court” HERE)

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Archaeologists Announce Discovery of More Dead Sea Scrolls

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Israeli archaeologists on Tuesday announced the discovery of dozens of Dead Sea Scroll fragments bearing a biblical text found in a desert cave and believed hidden during a Jewish revolt against Rome nearly 1,900 years ago.

The fragments of parchment bear lines of Greek text from the books of Zechariah and Nahum and have been dated around the first century based on the writing style, according to the Israel Antiquities Authority. They are the first new scrolls found in archaeological excavations in the desert south of Jerusalem in 60 years.

The Dead Sea Scrolls, a collection of Jewish texts found in desert caves in the West Bank near Qumran in the 1940s and 1950s, date from the third century B.C. to the first century A.D. They include the earliest known copies of biblical texts and documents outlining the beliefs of a little understood Jewish sect. (Read more from “Archaeologists Announce Discovery of More Dead Sea Scrolls” HERE)

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Biden Administration Misses Its Own Deadline for Mask Standards

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The Biden administration missed its self-imposed deadline to issue temporary mask standards for workplaces as the Occupational Safety and Health Administration tries to determine whether an emergency order is needed to protect workers from the coronavirus, according to a report.

President Biden in an executive order on Jan. 21 directed the government “consider whether any emergency temporary standards on COVID-19, including with respect to masks in the workplace, are necessary, and if such standards are determined to be necessary, issue them by March 15, 2021.”

But no standard was issued Monday, Fox News reported.

White House press secretary Jen Psaki acknowledged that the administration has blown the deadline, but she said OSHA has yet to make a determination as she responded to a question about whether the regulation would harm businesses already struggling to survive. (Read more from “Biden Administration Misses Its Own Deadline for Mask Standards” HERE)

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ACLU Presses Supreme Court To End Men-Only Draft

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The American Civil Liberties Union is asking the Supreme Court to declare the Military Selective Service Act unconstitutional on the basis of sex, opening the door for Congress to include women in the draft or abolish selective service outright.

The ACLU claims that a men-only draft amounts to unlawful sex discrimination. The MSSA requires all men between the ages of 18 and 25 to register with the Selective Service System in case a national conscription is reinstated.

The Biden Justice Department will now decide whether to defend the sex-based draft before the High Court. The Justice Department almost always defends federal laws in court, unless no reasonable argument can be made in their favor.

The Trump administration defended the statute in lower courts. It’s unclear if the Biden administration will do so. President Joe Biden recently applauded the idea of a more gender-inclusive military, noting that the army now produces flight suits for pregnant women. (Read more from “ACLU Presses Supreme Court To End Men-Only Draft” HERE)

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U.S. Clinic Gave Out Empty COVID Shots

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A Virginia vaccine clinic mistakenly gave out what they believed were COVID-19 shots to patients — but were actually empty syringes.

The mishap occurred when a worker incorrectly assumed that another colleague had filled the syringes before the appointments Monday at a Kroger clinic in Midlothian, news station WRIC reported.

“Less than 10” people got an empty shot instead of the vaccine, a Kroger spokesperson told the outlet.

The grocery store chain, which has administered more than 830,00 shots across the country, apologized for the mistake.

“We apologize for this oversight and the inconvenience caused for these customers,” the company said in a statement. (Read more from “U.S. Clinic Gave Out Empty COVID Shots” HERE)

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New Bill Would Let People Vote up to Two Weeks after Election Day

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The Democratic Party is attempting to make Election Day into “election season” with the radical “For The People Act of 2021” sponsored by Rep. John P. Sarbanes, D-Md. The bill passed in the House on March 3 at a vote of 220 to 210.

As noted by Federalist Executive Editor Joy Pullmann, the Democratic-sponsored elections bill H.R. 1 would “require states to wait ten days after election day” to accept ballots. Page 199 of the legislation states:

Nothing in this subsection shall be construed to prohibit a State from having a law that allows for counting of ballots in an election for Federal office that are received through the mail after the date that is 10 days after the date of the election.

As long as ballots are postmarked by Election Day, H.R. 1 would effectively mandate that all states accept absentee ballots within that 10-day window. But the bill takes it a step further, noting that election officials would be restricted from verifying voter identification and eligibility. H.R. 1 would ban all state voter ID laws and has an ambiguous provision criminalizing an individual from “hindering, interfering, or preventing” an individual from voting or registering. (Read more from “New Bill Would Let People Vote up to Two Weeks after Election Day” HERE)

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Liberal Icons: America Now on a Path To ‘Totalitarianism’

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Citing government seizure of power and censorship during the coronavirus pandemic, well-known liberal figures Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Naomi Wolf warned in a recent video-podcast discussion that America is on “a path to totalitarianism.” . . .

In their discussion on Kennedy’s “Truth” podcast, the son of the late liberal icon said he sees himself and Wolf as “kindred spirits” who are perplexed about why fellow liberals can’t see what is happening now in America.

He noted that liberal scholars grew up reading the great dystopian writers of the 20th century, including Orwell and Huxley, who “predicted exactly what we are going through now.”

“It just felt like we were all on the same page, and it is very, very strange to me, almost inexplicable, how all these people who have been friends of mine for life, and people I have admired, and people whose writings I read, have acquiesced to something that clearly is a path to totalitarianism,” he told Wolf in the podcast, which was published March 8.

Kennedy added that fascism is another term for it, noting Wolf pointed out in her recent interview with Fox News’ Tucker Carlson that Mussolini complained that fascism should be called corporatism, the merger of state and corporate power. (Read more from “Liberal Icons: America Now on a Path To ‘Totalitarianism'” HERE)

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California Cut This Restaurant’s Power, So the Owner Brought a Generator to Continue Business

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A Los Angeles County court authorized the City of Burbank to disconnect electricity powering a restaurant that refused to shut down in compliance with extreme pandemic-related restrictions.

Tinhorn Flats refused to abide by a temporary restraining order issued March 8 that required the restaurant to remain closed because the restaurant violated COVID-19 restrictions, KTTV-TV reported. . .

Despite having no power, the restaurant has continued operations undeterred.

“The owner says they will continue to stay open and are currently using a generator as a power source,” KTTV reported.

Indeed, the restaurant said in a Facebook post on Sunday, “We are open and we will NOT comply.” (Read more from “California Cut This Restaurant’s Power, So the Owner Brought a Generator to Continue Business” HERE)

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State Giving Immunity To Drivers Who Accidentally Hit Violent Rioters

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The Oklahoma House passed a bill Wednesday that extends punishments for rioters and grants immunity to drivers who injure or kill someone while fleeing a riot, USA Today reported.

House Bill 1674, introduced by Republican state Rep. Kevin West, would allow prosecutors to charge rioters with a misdemeanor for interfering with traffic and endangering drivers. If passed, motor vehicle operators would not face criminal or civil charges for hitting a rioter if they were fleeing for safety or exercised “due care” at the time of the injury or death.

The bill defines a rioter as anyone committing violence or robbery during the protest, according to the Courthouse News Service. Rioters can face a criminal charge and imprisonment.

“If any murder, maiming, robbery, rape or arson was committed in the course of such a riot, such person is punishable in the same manner as a principal in such crime,” the bill text says. “Such person shall, upon conviction, be guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment.” . . .

“The driver was severely chastised for trying to hurt the protesters and he even faced the possibility of criminal charges for his actions in attempting to erase the protesters,” West said, according to the Courthouse News Service. “This measure would clarify a motorist’s rights in a similar situation going forward.” (Read more from “State Giving Immunity To Drivers Who Accidentally Hit Violent Rioters” HERE)

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Mainstream Media Misquoted Trump in Notorious Election Fraud Phone Call with Georgia Investigator

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The Wall Street Journal first published audio last week of the roughly six-minute call on Dec. 23 between Trump and Frances Watson, the chief investigator of the Georgia Secretary of State’s office, in which Trump urged her to look for fraud in mail-in ballots in Fulton County, where much of Atlanta is located.

Indeed, Trump can be heard telling Watson, who was in the middle of conducting an audit of voting results in Cobb County, that he won the 2020 election and that she would be “praised” when the “right answer comes out.” He also insisted “something bad happened.”

In response to Trump, the investigator said: “I can assure you that our team and the [Georgia Bureau of Investigation], that we are only interested in the truth and finding the information that is based on the facts.”

However, the audio shows that early reports in January about that call, based on anonymous sourcing, misquoted Trump. In those reports, Trump was quoted as urging Watson to “find the fraud,” and if she did so, the investigator would be a “national hero.”

Outlets such as CNN published these quotes, corroborating what was first reported by the Washington Post. While CNN’s version, reliant on a single anonymous source, remains unchanged, the Washington Post stuck a long correction note to the top of its report[.] (Read more from “Mainstream Media Misquoted Trump in Notorious Election Fraud Phone Call with Georgia Investigator” HERE)

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