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In Harry Potter, Albus Dumbledore told the students of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry that “It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.” Many are learning the truth of that line written by famed author JK Rowling as self-described progressives burn her books or ban them from shelves because she personally holds an opposing view of gender. Much like the boycott movement of Chick-Fil-A over comments by its CEO, people are seeking to punish Rowling through attacks on her literature. We previously discussed the...

Why progressives are so eager to dismantle the Constitution. The death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has occasioned the usual displays of progressive hypocrisy and flexible standards of decorum, not to mention the Dems’ scorched-earth tactics of vilification. But the Senate Republicans can’t go wobbly at this critical moment. Donald Trump must nominate a replacement, and the Senate must confirm him or her, thus ensuring that even if Joe Biden somehow gets elected, the Supreme Court will have a 6-3 majority of youngish originalists on the court as a bulwark against the progressive project to dismantle the Constitution...

On Tuesday November 17, two weeks after election day, Penguin Random House will release  A Promised Land, the first of two volumes by former president Barack Obama. As he explains, the 768-page book will provide “an honest accounting” of his presidential campaign and thoughts on “how we can heal the divisions in our country going forward and make our democracy work for everybody.” And so on, as if the author was some kind of president for life.  Wary readers might take a cue from C.S. Lewis, who when a new book came out preferred to read an old one....

LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers won Game 2 of their Western Conference Finals showdown against the Denver Nuggets on Sunday night. Following the game, James sent a clear message to his critics.

The Attorney General in the US Virgin Islands has subpoenaed his flight logs Spanning from 1998 until his death last year, the logs show his passengers Many famous people have previously been revealed to have flown with him Jeffrey Epstein's flight logs on his aircraft, including his 'Lolita Express' jet, have been subpoenaed, sparking fear among the rich and famous who partied with the pedophile. The Attorney General in the US Virgin Islands, where the billionaire had a home and is said to have carried out many of his horrific crimes, has demanded to see the logs which document the...

Leftists vow to burn America, but what’s their plan for after that? Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died at 87, and many Leftists are avidly calling for violence to prevent President Trump from naming, and the Senate from confirming, her successor. The Left’s political and cultural hegemony are more threatened now than they’ve ever been before, and some Leftists are saying openly that they’re ready to burn the country down to regain and secure their power. But they haven’t  and the Senate from confirming They’re ready to burn the country down to preserve their political hegemony; but no one seems to have thought through this civil war business. If they...

He says that they are a security threat. If so, it is time to show the world the evidence. President Trump’s plan to severely restrict the popular WeChat and TikTok apps could be viewed as a tit-for-tat for China’s yearslong prohibition of American services like Facebook and Google. But I’d like to think we’re better than that. The president has cited security concerns in his quest to force the sale of the U.S. operations of TikTok to an American firm, setting off a bidding war that reached its nadir when he called for a fee to be paid to the...

The academy was once known for its manifold benefits to America. Great scientific and medical discoveries, sustained theories of economics and management, social psychological insights and a deeper understanding of classical texts are but a few. Its new perpetual genuflection to diversity, equity and inclusion and propagation of neo-Marxism across academic areas aren’t among them. As Heather Mac Donald has argued, the academy now advocates and produces stifling intellectual conformity, becoming the ideological seedbed for our summer violence and elite justifications Dinesh D'Souza says that thanks to the academy, “Socialism in America today has turned black against white, female against...

...Today we can report that ActBlue doesn’t even require a CVV Code for credit card payments of as little as $5 to their site.Are most of Biden’s campaign contributions illegal? Biden claims to have hauled in millions last month. Were these contributions made legally? Biden’s contribution site raises suspicions. Biden’s page does not require the cardholder to enter his CVV. The CVV reduces the incidents of fraud. The lack of a CVV code input field permits fraud to take place. A simple program could run tens of thousands of cards numbers with $50 donations through his site. Foreigners could easily...

VIDEO The most remarkable part of Joe Biden's speech in Philadelphia on Sunday about Ruth Bader Ginsburg isn't the part that most people are now talking about. As you can see, the most remarkable part of the speech came at the beginning which makes it surprising he made it to the end.

On May 3, 2020, without warning or public comment, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio began dumping into luxury hotels near a Upper West Side residential neighborhood what would ultimately become a 730-man army of broken, derelict, homeless adult men in various stages of disintegration and crisis. On July 27, the mayor sent the most aggressive of these men—283 in total—to the Lucerne Hotel for quarter.In response to Covid-19, the mayor moved the men from downtown homeless shelters, where they had access to critical social services, to the hotels, where services are illusory. The Department of Homeless Services...

Swing district. Democrat Elaine Lauria won by 2.3 percentage points in 2018. Trump won the district by 3.4% in 2016. We've got our designated pretty-boy in Scott Taylor. 40 y/o Navy Seal. With Trump on the ticket we can and should win. Good looks count-I've said it before- and I'm just saying it will help in 2022 if he wins. 13th in a series.

Grace Community Church Pastor John MacArthur took an insouciant attitude toward threats of jail time over his church’s decision to hold indoor services amid ongoing COVID-19 lockdowns, saying he’ll simply open a “jail ministry” should he find himself behind bars. In an interview with Fox News' Laura Ingraham on Tuesday, MacArthur revealed that he recently received a letter threatening up to six months in jail if he continues holding indoor worship services at his church in Sun Valley, California. “Of course, my biblical hero apart from the Lord Jesus Christ is the Apostle Paul,” MacArthur said. “And when he went...

Just a reminder that today is the last day of summer, which represents the deadline that Attorney General William Barr set for the American public to finally see the bearing of some fruit from the John Durham investigation into Spygate and Obamagate. Barr has been non-committal about whether that fruit would come in the form of a report, or in spectacle of the unsealing of indictments and arrests of some of the players. Obviously, Mr. Durham is not going to produce a report today or anytime soon. Any such report would have been leaked by now to the New York...

Broadcast media does not run the country, but it does set the parameters of what it is possible for Governments to do. It is at least in part responsible for some of the mistakes that have been made in the past few months. The British economy shrank by just over 20% in the second quarter of this year. This is just a number to most of us. Because of furlough we haven’t really felt the economic shock. Lockdown has been one long holiday for many of us without any noticeable decline in our living standards. What’s not to like? But...

MOSCOW: More than a month after becoming the first country to approve a coronavirus vaccine, Russia has yet to administer it to a large population outside a clinical trial, health officials and outside experts say. The approval, which came with much fanfare, occurred before Russia had tested the vaccine in late-stage trials for possible side effects and for its disease-fighting ability. It was seen as a political gesture by President Vladimir Putin to assert victory in the global race for a vaccine. It is not clear whether the slow start to the vaccination campaign is a result of limited production...

John Robertson, was an FBI Agent who investigated crimes against children. This is how he stumbled upon Hillary Clinton’s emails. -------snip------ John was assigned to the Anthony Weiner case, a top Democrat married to Hillary Clinton adviser Huma Abedin. During his investigation of Weiner’s computer John discovered thousands of Hillary Clinton emails and blew the whistle on the Comey-McCabe and Strzok cover-up of evidence. Yesterday the Washington Examiner reported:

MADISON — Eric Oertle, owner of Computer Adventure, a sales and service store in Kenosha, Wisconsin’s Uptown district, will have to start all over. Last month, Black Lives Matter rioters destroyed the business Oertle, 71, and his wife, Pat, spent more than 30 years building. For now, the business is boarded up, but the Oertles are in no hurry to rebuild and reopen, as much as they would like to. They’re worried the rioters, the looters, the criminals will come back.

The People’s Liberation Army Air Force of China released a video showing a nuclear-capable H-6 bomber carrying out a simulated attack “on what appears to be Andersen Air Force Base on the U.S. Pacific island of Guam,” Reuters reports. The video was released on their Weibo account. The Chinese air force’s two minute and 15 second video, set to solemn, dramatic music like a trailer for a Hollywood movie, shows H-6 bombers taking off from a desert base. The video is called “The god of war H-6K goes on the attack!”Halfway through, a pilot presses a button and looses off...

Every time he speaks in public, Joe Biden tells lies about Donald Trump. Biden claims that Trump called military casualties, laid to rest in France, ‘suckers’ and ‘losers,’ based on the flimsy Atlantic article. Why the lie? Our Armed Forces support the President. John Bolton, who was onsite at the time, and is no friend of Trump’s, said the claim is “simply false.” The Lie the Left Won’t Let Die    It’s been more than three years since the protests in Charlottesville, Virginia that turned violent. Since then, the Left's media machine has perpetuated the "Big Lie" about what President Trump...