Major League Baseball renewed a licensing contract earlier this week with a Chinese media company that has targeted an NBA executive over his support human rights and democracy activists in Hong Kong.
The deal, which MLB signed with Tencent on Wednesday, has taken on new significance after the league’s decision Friday to pull its All Star game out of Atlanta over a Georgia state voting law opposed by Democrats.
The Arkansas Senate voted to permanently block the state's governor from ever imposing another mask mandate. The bill now moves to the state's House of Representatives. The measure was approved by the Senate on Wednesday, one day after Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson allowed the statewide mask mandate to expire after it was initially put in place in July 2020. Hutchinson said it was unlikely he'd reimpose the mandate, but he did not rule it out. To make sure a government-mandated mask edict can never be imposed again, the Senate voted 20-9 to ban all mandatory face-covering requirements, citing the undue burden they place on the public.
If you haven't heard, there are more than 18,000 unaccompanied minors in U.S. custody at the Mexican-U.S. border because of the open-door policy of the Biden administration, with an expectation of 1,000,000 more migrants to cross in 2021. That number, 18,000, is four times the amount of the Trump administration. According to Reuters, the increase is on pace to be the highest in 20 years. In a previous column titled, "Cartels are the biggest winners when kids cross the southern border," I explained how these young precious souls (especially girls) face perilous life-threatening dilemmas south of the border en route to America. Why? Cartels and other smugglers control and capitalize every aspect of those migrating, extorting finances from their families, trafficking them to sexual predators, and even using them as drug mules into the U.S. and worse. Many are sold into slavery and even killed to extract body parts to sell on black-market organ commerce.