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It’s hard to miss the Gadsden Flag these days. Although it sprung back into popular American consciousness when the Tea Party first got its legs, this is a flag with a long and storied history. In fact, the flag is older than the United States itself. Back in 1751, Benjamin Franklin designed and published America’s first political cartoon. Called “Join Or Die,” it featured a generic snake cut into 13 parts. The imagery was clear: join together or be destroyed by British power. But why a snake? Around this time, Great Britain was sending criminals over to the colonies. Franklin...

I don’t know what former President Trump’s future may hold or what his political aspirations may be. But I do know this: I will not be focused on his every move. I will not be looking to him to revamp the Republican Party or save America. And while it is possible he will do much good for both his party and the nation in the days ahead, I suggest that we take our focus off Donald Trump. It is time to move on. Again, I’m neither discounting nor inviting another Trump run in 2024. Instead, my emphasis is on the...

The left wants President Trump to be convicted of… something. Anything. They’re desperate to place the blame for everything bad that has happened under his watch and everything that will happen under Joe Biden’s watch. If that were the whole story, Donald Trump would have plenty of incentive to reengage in the sharing of information regarding massive voter fraud in the 2020 election.But that’s not the whole story. It gets worse. Many on the right are pushing for him to move on and focus on the midterm and 2024 elections. They want him to either fade into the shadows or...

The NAACP and Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, on Tuesday sued former President Donald Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and two right-wing extremist groups, alleging they conspired to incite the deadly Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. The lawsuit, which is expected to be joined by other Democratic lawmakers, cites the 1871 Ku Klux Klan Act in accusing the defendants of conspiring to prevent Congress from confirming the election of Joe Biden as president. That law was passed 15 years after the end of the Civil War in response to violence by...

Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., and the NAACP filed a civil lawsuit Tuesday against former President Donald Trump and Rudy Giuliani, accusing them of conspiring with two extremist groups to block the presidential vote count by storming the U.S. Capitol. The lawsuit, the first over the Capitol riot to name Trump, said the attack was "the intended and foreseeable culmination of a carefully coordinated campaign to interfere with the legal process required to confirm the tally of votes cast in the Electoral College." Jason Miller, a current Trump adviser, said in response, "President Trump did not plan, produce or organize the...

New York, NY – The 145th Annual Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show presented by Purina Pro Plan ® will be held at Lyndhurst, a property of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, in Tarrytown, New York on Saturday, June 12 and Sunday, June 13, 2021, with live coverage across FOX Sports networks. Due to the ever-changing government restrictions during the pandemic a move to a springtime, outdoor dog show was necessary to uphold Westminster’s strong commitment to the health and safety of everyone who attends our show.

Newly reelected Rep. Claudia Tenney's (R-NY) request that her son be allowed to attend her swearing-in ceremony was denied by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif). "All I wanted was for him to be allowed a seat in the gallery that overlooks the floor of the House," Tenney said. Pelosi claimed that "allowing this person into the Capitol wasn't worth the risk. Her son is a Marine and a graduate of the US Naval Academy. As we all know, about half of the members of our armed forces are likely supporters of Trump. In this particular case, we know that her...

Four million of my fellow Texans have struggled without electricity over the past few days, braving bitterly sub-zero temperatures which accompanied a monstrous, historic winter storm. Homes throughout The Lone Star State were plunged into darkness as the Texas’ overloaded power grid led to “rolling” blackouts…some lasting 19 hours or more. Schools and businesses closed. Grocery stores in San Antonio and Austin were shut due to dwindling supplies. In short, you can understand why our governor Greg Abbott declared a state of emergency in all 254 counties in Texas. As ever-hyperbolic TV weathercasters waved their arms wildly like windmills, actual...

Former President Donald Trump, his son Donald Trump Jr., and members of his administration dominate Republican support for 2024, according to a poll released Tuesday.

Tuesday, White House chief medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci declined to comment on New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s (D) mishandling of the coronavirus in his state. Cuomo has caught flack from both Democrats and Republicans for his executive order to move patients sick with COVID-19 to nursing homes — putting them close to those more vulnerable to the virus’ effects — and the ensuing cover-up.

Attorney Michael van der Veen has revealed he has armed guards at his home and has sent his children to a secretive location amid credible death threats following Donald Trump's acquittal. Van der Veen spoke to Rob Schmitt on Newsmax TV about the increasing concerns for his family's safety following the victory against Trump's impeachment.

Stocks rose Tuesday, extending last week's gains as traders returned from a long holiday weekend in the U.S. The Dow, S&P 500 and Nasdaq came off session highs after reaching record levels shortly after market open. U.S. stocks tracked gains in European equities, after UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he was "hopeful" the country's stringent lockdown restrictions could be eased in the coming weeks as the vaccine rollout continues and new daily infections fall further. Other risk assets also performed strongly. Bitcoin prices spiked to a fresh record high of more than $50,000, extending a meteoric rally after the...

The government will also instruct heritage charities, museums and art galleries to stop ‘airbrushing’ history at the behest of the woke mob.. A pair of new government initiatives will see universities in the UK fined if colleges or student bodies attempt to shut down free speech on campuses, and heritage bodies sanctioned if they use funds to advance partisan political movements. The Sunday Telegraph reported that the university measure is to be announced this week by the Education secretary Gavin Williamson, who has previously railed against the rise of ‘wokism’ and leftist cancel culture. The report notes that “Colleges or...

When a white, liberal, anti-law enforcement, anti-propriety neo-Leninist who eschews modernity tells you that all white people are racists, we should believe him, because he's speaking specifically of his kind … and who knows their kind better than well, their kind? Which brings me to Black History Month. For white Luciferian leftists, Black History Month isn't about accomplishment and the embracing of modernity. It's about a month-long jeremiad of accusations, defeatism, Kunta Kinte, white man bad, conservative white man really bad and America responsible for slavery. These progeny of Satan are godless life forms that make a great show of...

Joe Biden’s administration has declared a bold new “war on terror,” one focused not on conventional terror targets like ISIS or al-Qaida, but instead on homegrown “violent extremists” within the U.S. However, this new crusade is not aimed at known, ultra-violent anarchist/Marxist revolutionary groups like Antifa and Black Lives Matter, which spent much of 2020 rioting, burning, vandalizing, looting, assaulting and killing throughout America’s major cities. Instead, the new war on terror is focused squarely on the millions of American citizens who enthusiastically supported Donald Trump’s re-election, attended his rallies, exercise their constitutional rights, believe the election was rife with...

China has been quietly exploring the economic damage it could inflict to US and European companies - including defense contractors - if they were to impose export 'restrictions' on 17 rare-earth materials, according to a report in the Financial Times.Notably, the US government relies on these rare earths for the manufacture of F-35 jets and other sophisticated weaponry, which use them for critical components such as electrical power systems and magnets."The government wants to know if the US may have trouble making F-35 fighter jets if China imposes an export ban," said one Chinese government adviser who spoke on condition...

As political scientists, pundits, and historians try to make sense of the November 2020 election, a marriage divide in the electorate has emerged. Married Americans were appreciably more likely to vote for Trump than those who were either unmarried and cohabiting or single. As reported last week in TAC, Peyton Roth and W. Bradford Wilcox recently found that marriage was one of the strongest predictors of Republican voting in 2020. But such a discovery does not mean that married Americans are solely extreme Trump supporters, are ideologically monolithic, or have negative Trumpian views about the nation’s future whatsoever.

My daughter’s friend was recently alarmed when she was told that her two-year-old must wear a mask in preschool. Her little girl already struggles to make herself understood, and her mother worries that the mask will make it harder for her daughter to be understood and that she will have trouble telling what her masked peers and teachers are saying. Now that the face mask has become the essential accoutrement of our lives, the COVID pandemic has laid bare our fundamental need to see whole faces. Could it be that babies and young children, who must learn the meaning of...

In late January, President Joe Biden issued a statement committing his administration to restore the public’s trust by “[making] evidence-based decisions guided by the best available science and data,” without bias from political preferences. Sounds like a great idea, and in an age of constant misinformation and confusion, likely to be well-received on both sides of the aisle.But what if the scientific evidence itself is flawed? Take, for example, Biden’s plan to double the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour. Some of the “science” on the issue says raising the minimum wage will profoundly benefit the economy and average...

NORTH Korea attempted to HACK into pharma giant Pfizer in a bid to steal details of the Covid vaccine, it has been claimed. South Korea's state intelligence agency was quoted by lawmakers today stating that Kim Jong-un's government attempted to hack the servers of the US drug manufacturer. Seoul's National Intelligence Service "briefed us that North Korea tried to obtain technology involving the Covid vaccine and treatment by using cyberwarfare to hack into Pfizer", MP Ha Tae-keung said after a hearing behind closed doors. The impoverished North has been under self-imposed isolation since closing its border's last January to protect...