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B.J. Thomas, Grammy-winning singer of 'Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head,' dies at 78
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 3 Comments • 5 years ago
“He absorbed a wide range of influences, from Hank Williams' traditional country to the soul of Jackie Wilson and Little Richard.”
LOS ANGELES — B.J. Thomas, the Grammy Hall of Fame inductee and award-winning country singer behind hits like "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on my Head" and "Hooked on a Feeling," has died. He was 78. Representatives confirmed that Thomas died today at his home in Arlington, Texas on May 29 due to...
American Indians in the 45th Infantry Division
By: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 17 Comments • 4 Likes • 5 years ago
Since its inception, Native Americans from the tribes of Oklahoma have served in the National Guard with pride and honor. During World War I, Colonel A. W. Bloor, commander of the 142nd Infantry, 36th Division, tested and deployed a code, using the Choctaw language in place of regular military...
AOC says she's in therapy due to 'trauma' of Capitol riot
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 92 Comments • 2 Likes • 5 years ago
New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said she's in therapy following the "trauma" she incurred from being inside the Capitol complex during the Jan. 6 riot. Latinos as another reason she has sought counseling. “Yeah. Oh yeah. I’m doing therapy, but also, I’ve just slowed down," she told...
Byron York's Daily Memo: A disaster entirely of Biden’s making
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 7 Comments • 3 Likes • 5 years ago
A DISASTER ENTIRELY OF BIDEN'S MAKING.new report says "More than 12,500 Ecuadoreans were encountered in March, up from 3,568 in January," the New York Times reports. "Nearly 4,000 Brazilians and more than 3,500 Venezuelans were intercepted, up from just 300 and 284, respectively, in January....
Rick Santorum's 'Native American culture' crack was racist. But here's why he thought it was OK.
Via: 1stwarrior • Op/Ed • 17 Comments • 2 Likes • 5 years ago • LOCKED
“Indigenous people's contributions have been erased from the stories white men tell about this land because acknowledging their genocide is...”
Rick Santorum, a former senator from Pennsylvania, spewed what has become his trademark nastiness Friday when he said during a speech that there was "nothing here" before white people stumbled on what they later renamed "America." "We came here and created a blank slate," he said to a room of...
AOC among most ineffective lawmakers in Congress, according to study
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 178 Comments • 5 years ago • LOCKED
“Among all Democratic lawmakers, AOC was ranked 230th out of 2040 Congressional Democrats in terms of effectiveness.”
A study has found that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a Democratic member of Congress from New York City and a young face in the party, has not been an effective politician in the legislature, based on a survey from the nonpartisan Center for Effective Lawmaking. Ocasio- Cortez, popularly known...
Justice Department working with tribes on missing persons
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 7 Comments • 2 Likes • 5 years ago
“The Justice Department has finalized its first plan to help address the problem of missing and murdered Native people on one of the largest...”
Jermain Charlo vanished in June 2018. The Confederated Salish and Kootenai tribal member hasn’t been seen since. Valenda Morigeau, Charlo’s aunt, reported her missing to the Missoula Police Department in the days after her disappearance. But Morigeau said the detective initially assigned to the...
The Border-Crisis Deniers
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 46 Comments • 1 Like • 5 years ago
“The defenses of Biden’s performance at the border are tendentious or dishonest.”
It should be perfectly obvious what’s happening at the border, but the Biden administration and journalistic allies are denying it all the same. Homeland Security secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has been leading the way with a haze of misrepresentations. On Sunday, he said that Title 42, the...
Majority of Americans disapprove of Biden's immigration and gun violence policies: Poll
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 25 Comments • 5 Likes • 5 years ago
A new poll shows a majority of Americans disapprove of President Biden’s handling of the surge of migrants at the U.S. border. Fifty-seven percent of Americans disapprove of Biden’s approach to the border crisis, according to the latest ABC News/Ipos poll. Broken down by partisan affiliation,...