Ralph Reed, the former director of the Christian Coalition, told Fox's Sean Hannity that he supports the torture interrogation techniques used on terrorism detainees. "We're talking about 20 to 40 seconds that they were underwater, we're talking about three detainees only out of the 250 most hardened, and we're talking about the fact that medical personnel were on hand to make sure that there was no physical or bodily harm," said Reed.
This video is from Fox's Hannity, broadcast Apr. 22, 2009.
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On Wednesday, former Vice President Mike Pence broke his post-election silence to attack H.R. 1, the Democratic-backed election reform and anti-corruption bill, to stir up the same baseless election conspiracies that he and his former boss peddled leading up to the 2020 election and all the way up to the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection that nearly cost him his life.
In an op-ed in the Daily Signal, a blog for the conservative Heritage Foundation, Pence accused Democrats of sweeping "valid concerns and reforms" about election security aside to "push forward a brazen attempt to nationalize elections in blatant disregard of the U.S. Constitution."
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) reopened Texas this week "100 percent," he announced. But now the Republican is blaming immigrants for the high cases of COVID-19 in the state.
Texas is experiencing a spike in cases similar to the one they experienced last summer.
Documents obtained from the United States Department of Agriculture by the consumer advocacy group Public Citizen and published Wednesday reveal how leading players in the meatpacking industry—one of the hardest-hit by the coronavirus pandemic—fought the minimal efforts imposed by the Trump administration to prevent the spread of Covid-19 in meat processing plants last spring.
As Public Citizen put it, "these docs are utterly damning."
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