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Today’s blacklisters obsess over the injustice of others so much that they can’t see their own. Hey,” the bartender says of C3PO and R2D2. “We don’t serve their kind here.” Forty-four years later, the Palpatines of the Star Wars empire say the same thing to rebels. Disney wimps fired Gina Carano over social media for an opinion she expressed on social media. When did we reach the point where the latter rather than the former became unacceptable? The former MMA fighter starring in The Mandalorian noted on social media that before the Nazis rounded up the Jews they incited ordinary...

Gov. Cuomo continues to insist that nursing home–related charges against him are a "conspiracy theory." Cuomo is referring to suggestions that thousands of seniors may have died as a result of his actions and that he and others working under him undercounted and covered up those deaths. Liberals now use the phrase "conspiracy theory" to respond to any sort of criticism. But what exactly does Gov. Cuomo mean by "conspiracy theory"? What is the "theory," and who are the "conspirators"? Is it a "theory" to say the governor ordered nursing home patients with COVID-19 into nursing homes, where they might...

Here comes the demand for “rest reparations,” after "hundreds of years of sleep deprivation" that was due to systemic racism. They're serious, too. Teen Vogue magazine recently published an article by two writers who are calling for “rest reparations” in addition to the regular, old, garden-variety reparations for African Americans, which advocates have been advocating for years. Navild Acosta and Fannie Sosa contend that, on average, Black lives are shorter than white ones because Black people experience “generational fatigue” due solely to the fact that they are, in fact, Black. The two allege that “the American dream is a sleepless...

How to get the Covid -19 vaccination in Ohio Received my Covid 19 vaccination yesterday. It was a lot of work to get but we wanted to see the grand kids so I wanted it as soon as possible. It was a learning experience and I wanted to pass along a couple of points. First there are two types of signup processes que and schedule. The que process you fill out your information and they will contact you when a vaccine can be scheduled. It is offered by the Cleveland Clinic, Discount Drug mart University Hospital. One of the hospitals...

Viewers were left hooked by dark real-life BBC drama The Serpent, but it seems the twisting storyline wasn't the only thing that grabbed the attention of fans. The eight-part drama, which earlier this week became iPlayer's most watched show, has sparked a huge interest in 1970's style clothing - with some items gaining an 158 per cent increase in searches on eBay UK. The show tells the story of serial killer Charles Sobhraj who drugged and killed at least a dozen people on the Hippie Trail in Asia in the 1970s, with the help of his besotted lover and accomplice...

China has released a video which reportedly shows its border clash with Indian troops last June after Beijing admitted that four of its soldiers were killed in the fatal high-mountain fight. The footage, aired by Beijing's state broadcaster CCTV, is said to capture the bloody hand-to-hand combat between Chinese and Indian forces at the Galwan River valley, which also resulted in the deaths of 20 Indian servicemen. The official channel claimed the clip showed an Indian army 'several times the size of the Chinese side' launching a violent revenge attack after a Chinese commander had tried to solve the two...

How would your family, and a hundred thousand other families, like to be stuck in your cars for days at minus 16 degrees? The death toll would be huge. It almost happened in New England in 1989. And in Texas this week. I was part of the 1989 Freeze and have some hopefully interesting insights. In 1989, the weather just before Christmas was terrible. Cold temperature records were set from Texas to New England. That year, I was responsible for a midcontinent gas gathering system that normally produced about 500 million cubic feet (MMCFD) of natural gas a day. That...

Just how much does Mitch McConnell despise President Trump and his MAGA movement? While playing coy for weeks about his intentions before finally voting to acquit the president in an impeachment trial more preposterous than last year's farce, he immediately took to the Senate floor to lay the blame for the events of January 6 entirely at the president's feet. McConnell not only accused President Trump of being personally liable for any potential crimes committed that day by others (in effect, teeing up civil lawsuits for monetary damages directly against the president), but also suggested that private citizen Trump could...

Most people believe there is only one “truth” and it is supported by facts. Biden said Democrats, “Choose truth over facts.” But he is neither the sharpest tool on the tree nor the brightest bulb in the shed. Or was it a Freudian slip? The left believes they can prescribe the “truth,” by proscribing facts. In controlling what is the “truth,” they seek to define the present and establish the nation’s “true” history in order to use this history to dictate our future. It used to be the “big lie,” emphatically told often enough to become “truth.” In this age...

"#RestinPiss" was actually a trending hashtag in America in recent days. Radio talk-show host Rush Limbaugh had died of cancer, and people were celebrating. Because of his own very public past of celebrating the deaths of those he disapproved of or disliked, it was declared justified. Some posts imagined with glee his entrance into hell. Do we really wish that upon a human being? I suspect some of the people tweeting such things don't actually give a lot of thought to the reality of hell and our role in adding to the sins that get people there. We are all...

Harry and Meghan were cast out as working royals last night. Buckingham Palace announced in a dramatic statement that they had been stripped of their remaining roles following their move to California. Pointedly, it said they could not continue with 'the responsibilities and duties that come with a life of public service'. Minutes later, the apparently furious Sussexes issued a stinging rebuke to the Queen, insisting they would still 'live a life of service' outside the royal fold. They added: 'Service is universal.'

There’s no way to improve upon many of the eulogies to Rush penned by his fans and friends, especially the one by Mark Steyn. Instead, I’ll mention an item that will strike many as trivial and irrelevant. Decades before the terms “deplorables,” “Deep-State” and “Fake News Media” entered common conservative usage, Rush Limbaugh was already championing the former against the two latter--and at a time such a position brought him no audience advantage whatsoever. To wit:Rush Limbaugh proudly stood shoulder to shoulder with Elian Gonzalez’s “deplorable” Miami family (and “deplorable” Cuban-Americans in general) when most Americans (and even many conservatives)...

George F. Will once said that without William F. Buckley there would have been no National Review; without National Review, no Goldwater; without Goldwater, no Reagan; and without Reagan, no fall of the Berlin Wall. Ergo, William F. Buckley ushered in the collapse of the Soviet Union. Today we might draw a direct line from Rush Limbaugh, to Donald Trump, and from Donald Trump to the remaking of the conservative movement, and from the remaking of the conservative movement to... we’ll have to see. What will their legacy be? We would like to hope it will include free speech.Limbaugh credited...

Philadelphia is a busy urban nucleus. February 17th was no exception. Famous musician John Legend and Senator Elizabeth Warren held a $1,000 a person fundraiser for Billionaire George Soros backed Philadelphia District Attorney, Larry Krasner. Just prior to these famous folks and their deep-pocketed socialist friends celebrating a murderous political figure, 8 people were shot in broad daylight in a busy Philadelphia intersection leaving one man in critical condition.This is nothing new in Krasner’s Philadelphia. Just last year more than 2,400 people were shot in Philly, breaking recent records, and since 2015, 8,500 shootings have left people wounded or killed...

Insisting on factual accuracy does not make one an apologist for the protesters. False reporting is never justified, especially to inflate threat and fear levels. What took place at the Capitol on January 6 was undoubtedly a politically motivated riot. As such, it should not be controversial to regard it as a dangerous episode. Any time force or violence is introduced into what ought to be the peaceful resolution of political conflicts, it should be lamented and condemned. But none of that justifies lying about what happened that day, especially by the news media. Condemning that riot does not allow,...

There were only two dozen of them. They held their phones up to the windows of the coach to film from inside their first moments in a new country. The smiling and waving said it all. They represented the most dramatic, the most visible illustration yet, of Joe Biden's wholesale rejection of Donald Trump's immigration policy. The group was picked from the tens of thousands forced by the Trump administration to wait in Mexico while their asylum applications to the US were processed. The "Remain in Mexico" policy was just one of many controversial Trump border measures. But, in the...

Andrew Weissmann, the lead prosecutor for former special counsel Robert Mueller, said Thursday on MSNBC’s “The Last Word” that Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance recently hiring ex-prosecutor Mark Pomerantz to help him investigate former President Donald Trump means “things are heating up.”

With talent on loan from God. Cynics may think it coincidence that God chose Ash Wednesday to call that loan. He has taken his good and noble servant home. That great voice on the right has now gone silent. It cannot be replaced. Like Ronald Reagan, Rush Limbaugh was a long time coming. He will be a long time gone. Tens of millions have a huge hole in our hearts today. We remember specific segments of shows, what he said and where we were when we heard them. Our emptiness is multiplied as we now confront the prospect of a...

Left-wing documentary filmmaker Michael Moore bashed Texas — the state currently in the grips of a deadly crisis, with millions without power and water due to a devastating winter storm — as “stupid” and concluded that “dumbing down is what Texas is all about.” The Fahrenheit 11/9 director kicked off his latest podcast episode, titled “Idiot Wind,” by bashing the late Rush Limbaugh, accusing him of brainwashing people and encouraging both ignorance and stupidity. Moore used his disdain for the conservative media legend as a transition for a lengthy anti-Texas rant, insulting residents of the state and repeatedly calling them...

The disgraced Lincoln Project has just hired Lincoln Project donors to investigate the Lincoln Project. That sounds like a joke. Well, it is, but it’s a joke that happens to be true, and one that perfectly encapsulates just how rotted, corrupt, and dangerous American institutions have become. Here it all is… Two lead attorneys at Paul Hastings, an international law firm retained by the Lincoln Project to probe misconduct allegations internally, have donated to the organization before.