Psaki Dodges Question On COVID Originating In Lab

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On Thursday, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki dodged a question from a reporter about whether the White House had seen any circumstantial evidence that COVID-19 did not originate in a Chinese lab. “Has the White House seen any circumstantial evidence that it did not originate in a lab?” a reporter asked Psaki. “Well, I think, first, I would caution you against disproving a negative there — which is never the responsible approach, in our view, when it come — when it comes to getting to the bottom of the root causes of a pandemic that has killed hundreds of

Psaki On Inflation: But Airline Tickets Are Cheaper

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White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki addressed the soaring rate of inflation caused by President Biden’s policy to pay people to stay unemployed, insisting “we take inflation very seriously.” “It is — as we looked and dug into the data — and we talked about this a little bit last week; some of this data is kind of fascinating, I’ll say — but is that, the economy is turning back on,” Psaki said. “We take inflation very seriously.  Our Secretary of Treasury, obviously, the Federal Reserve is in — responsible for monitoring it.” [adsanity_group num_ads=”1″ align=”aligncenter” num_columns=”1″ group_ids=”2381″/] “But there

Joe Caught Plagiarizing Reagan: Caught Playing His Old Game Again

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Ya can’t make this stuff up. In 1987, when I was a young Reagan White House political director and Senator Joe Biden was running his first campaign for president – I caught him plagiarizing. In brief, Biden had been caught stealing lines from the. British Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock. Biden’s rival for the Democratic nomination was Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis, caught on to what Biden was doing and put together a devastating tape comparing the two. [adsanity_group num_ads=”1″ align=”aligncenter” num_columns=”1″ group_ids=”2381″/] Incredibly, Biden tried to cast this as an accident. But I knew better. I myself had watched him

Google Docs Changes Auto-Correct To More ‘Inclusive’ Language

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Google Docs will now make more “inclusive” suggestions and edits in its autocorrect and predictive algorithm, changing words like ‘mailman’ to ‘mail carrier’ or ‘chairman’ to ‘chairperson.’ “The announcement was made during the virtually-held Google I/O developer conference on Tuesday,” the Daily Mail reported. “The new update will also suggest ways to avoid passive voice or offensive language.” Google’s plan to avoid offensive language by impelling its users to deindividualize others by attempting to blindly censor the specification of their gender identity might seem contradictory, and it also comes just a few years after Google removed gendered pronouns from its

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