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He simply acknowledged a fact A strange characteristic of progressive cancel culture is that, quite often, those targeted by outrage mobs are not especially conservative. Rather, they are liberals who buck the trend of uniformity by expressing an opinion that doesn't fall completely in line with the progressive orthodoxy. Such is the case with Jesse Singal, a freelance journalist whose work has been featured in left-of-center publications such as New York Magazine and The Atlantic. In recent years, Singal has faced numerous and visceral attacks on his character and reputation from a cacophony of liberal, pro-transgender voices. His crime: Daring...

It’s just the flu, bro. https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3943379/posts Fauci wants to vaccinate babies with the coronavirus vaccine. - https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3943387/posts Fauci warns a fourth surge in cases could undermine progress. - https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/03/18/nation/heated-exchange-senator-paul-accuses-dr-fauci-wearing-masks-after-being-vaccinated-show/ Rand Paul says Fauci wears two masks as a type of “theater”. - Fauci is an idiot. He only thinks about the Coronavirus. This is sort of like a politician saying they are going to let the generals in the field make the decisions. Nonsense! Immunologists need political guidance just like generals need to get their strategy from the top. Every expert is an idiot, without an elected politician to put...

The political class, the big players in the entertainment industry and the media are all engaged in a massive, collaborative effort to destroy America. And they're doing it with sex and lies.First, the sex.Last September, I wrote a critique of those in the media defending “Cuties,” an award-winning film on Netflix that featured prepubescent girls twerking in tight, revealing costumes. The defense, we were told, was that this film was intended to start a “conversation” about the “sexualization” of girls in contemporary society. Criticism of the film was hypocritical and specious, the argument went, because adult women -- like Cardi...

Before the pandemic, Circus Harmony in St. Louis performed about 700 shows a year, mostly in an indoor ring in the City Museum, a civic institution that can perhaps best (though still inaccurately) be described as an interactive art installation. The fact that the Circus Harmony performers are between eight and 18 years old does not diminish their amazing feats in the slightest. They turn backflips across the ring. They contort themselves into impossible positions. They do stunts on unicycles. They walk across high wires. They juggle balls and clubs. They hang by their toes from aerial silks and rings....

Fred Wellman, whose previous workplace was described as 'definition of a toxic work environment,' tasked with getting 'house in order' at scandal-plagued PAC In January, the political consultant Fred Wellman parachuted in to save the scandal-plagued Lincoln Project, taking over as executive director. He had filed for bankruptcy just five months earlier, citing hundreds of thousands of dollars in unpaid liabilities, according to records reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon. A longtime associate of Lincoln Project cofounder Steve Schmidt, Wellman joined the Lincoln Project in July 2020 as a senior adviser for veterans affairs and was promoted to executive director...

...Arguably the most interesting part of today’s proceedings happened in the last seven minutes or so before the court recessed for the day. That’s when the prosecution complained about some informal conduct by the defense counsel, only to find itself scolded by Judge Cahill, who then fairly stormed out of the court room. I’ll come back to that in just a moment, along with video of the event. As a brief summary of the substantive parts of the day, however, the afternoon saw four prospective jurors subject to voir dire. The first of the afternoon’s prospective jurors, #90, was rather...

resident Joe Biden's handlers are still shielding him from full-blown news conferences with reporters, but they let him talk directly with Chinese President and Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping? Ye gods! What were they thinking, letting Biden talk to Xi Jinping? Xi Jinping wants to eat our lunch, the president said after talking to the communist leader in February. "If we don't get moving, they are going to eat our lunch," Biden said. Yet a couple of years ago, Biden insisted that China would never be able to eat our lunch. "China is going to eat our lunch? Come...

March 19 (UPI) -- Amazon Prime Video became the exclusive provider of Thursday Night Football in one of several new broadcast deals announced by the NFL. Sources told CNBC, the New York Times and the New York Post that the 11-year media rights agreement -- announced Thursday -- is worth more than $100 billion. The contract starts in 2023 and runs through 2033. The NFL also signed deals with CBS, ESPN/ABC and Fox. CBS, Fox and NBC each will televise three upcoming Super Bowls as part of the agreement. ESPN/ABC will televise the Super Bowl in 2026 and 2030. "These...

The Feds attempt to take over the states' tax policies. Hidden away in the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, the horribly misnamed “COVID relief” giveaway law signed by President Biden, is a curious provision that prohibits states from using any of the federal funds allocated to provide tax reductions to individuals or businesses. This provision, according to the New York Times, was slipped into the legislation at the last minute. It reads, in pertinent part, “A State or territory shall not use the funds provided… to either directly or indirectly offset a reduction in the net tax revenue of...

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy is being sued by one of the nation's only black-owned investment firms, which alleges he has failed to address years of racist proprietary theft that began before Murphy took office. Murphy is named in an amended lawsuit filed by Blueprint Capital Advisers that levels broad charges of "blatant, aggressive, and unapologetic racist abuse" from New Jersey state government. Blueprint Capital claims that New Jersey "fraudulently misappropriated a proprietary investment program BCA had developed" and delivered it to another investment firm, BlackRock Alternative Advisers. The suit alleges that Blueprint developed an investment model it called "FAIR...

Bruce Starr spotted the problem right away: The hydrogen-powered cars General Motors was showing off on the Oregon Capitol grounds wouldn’t need gas. And if they didn’t need gas, drivers wouldn’t be paying gas taxes that fund the state’s roads. It was 2001, and the problem seemed urgent. GM predicted the cars would be on the market in a few years. Starr, then a Republican state representative, created a task force to figure out the future of transportation funding. “There’s no asphalt fairy out there that sprinkles asphalt in the night on our roadways,” he said recently. Widespread production of...

In the last week, we watched Joe Biden box check the loony feminist faction of his party. Why, the military is stepping up, droned Biden in a televised appearance. Flight suits will better accommodate pregnant female air personnel. Newer hairstyles will be permitted, lest hipper gal soldiers decide to leave the military in a snit. Nothing frivolous here. Meanwhile, woke Pentagon desk jockeys (doubtless, Obama’s handpicked finest) slammed Tucker Carlson for daring to be intrepidly unwoke. Carlson wondered about the absurdity of pregnant warrior pilots and hairdos when the U.S. faces a growing menace from unfree China. Because there’s nothing...

My question to the federal government in these troubled times is simple: who stands for me? The Congress doesn't, the president and his administration don't, and the Supreme Court doesn't. The FBI, DOJ, CIA, and Armed Forces don't! Who represents me? The Constitution and the Bill of Rights are under constant assault by the current congressional leadership. Some may suggest that many in our current government do not give a wit about the rights and protections afforded to the American people by our founding documents. This great Republic was founded on the principle of the consent of the governed. Millions...

Ok, so, it’s a crisis, right? – The completely inept dog and pony show artist Jen Psaki admitted that the Biden/Harris-created crisis at the border with Mexico is indeed a crisis at her daily media lapdog training session on Thursday. Panicked, she then walked it all back, saying she meant to use the word “challenges” instead: Those Democrat-funded and created “challenges” include border detention facilities – that stood near-empty six months ago when we had a real President in office – now so overcrowded that the administration has now sent thousands of “juvenile” aliens – many of whom appear to...

On Thursday’s “CNN Tonight,” host Don Lemon said that if he was fully vaccinated, he’s not going to get rid of his mask “Because I care about other people. I care about something more than myself” such as people who have chosen not to get vaccinated, and asked, “Why don’t you be a patriot, why don’t you just be a decent human being and stop trying to be so negative and get Dr. Fauci or Joe Biden?” And stated that “Biden is doing a fantastic job when it comes to the pandemic. He’s saying all the right things. He’s doing...

Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem Psalm 7Psalm 7[a] A shiggaion[b] of David, which he sang to the Lord concerning Cush, a Benjamite. 1 Lord my God, I take refuge in you; save and deliver me from all who pursue me, 2 or they will tear me apart like a lion and rip me to pieces with no one to rescue me. 3 Lord my God, if I have done this and there is guilt on my hands— 4 if I have repaid my ally with evil or without cause have robbed my foe— 5 then let my enemy pursue...

The simple fact of the matter is that our nation will never return to anythings resembling a normal state so long as Anthony Fauci continues to be regarded as a credible “expert” by our brainwashed public. This, of course, is why the Democrats and their media toadies remain so desperate to continue propping him up and pretending that anything he has said has any basis in science or data. In Fauci’s vision of America, we will all be wearing masks forever, long after any threat from COVID has disappeared. Because this is all an exercise in control at this point,...

If history is any guide (and it should be) we have very little time left to pull ourselves out of this cultural tailspin. This cancel culture phenomenon that’s been foisted upon us is a manifestation of true evil, of both intent and results. I have no doubt that, if it’s allowed to continue unchecked, we will be headed for a fate as bad as that of other once-great cultures in history. As soon as freedom and creativity are snuffed out, a culture rapidly begins the process of decay. One example is ancient Babylon, once the most advanced city in civilization....

At the 2012 Republican National Convention, Mitt Romney was a few minutes behind schedule to take the podium and accept the nomination for president. In the long walk from his private room through the corridor and behind the stage, the genteel Mitt kept whispering “Excuse me” as he wiggled his way through well-wishers or just bystanders. The uber-polite Mitt just wouldn’t move any faster, along with his equally polite security. And Donald Trump? At a European Union conference with all the heads of state from those countries big and small it was picture time as presidents and prime ministers jousted...

he ill-tempered talks in Anchorage involved Secretary of State Antony Blinken and National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan on the US side, facing off with China's most senior foreign policy official, Yang Jiechi, and foreign minister Wang Yi. In a blunt opening statement before the talks in private, Mr Blinken said the US would "discuss our deep concerns with actions by China, including in Xinjiang, Hong Kong, Taiwan, cyber attacks on the United States, economic coercion of our allies". "Each of these actions threaten the rules-based order that maintains global stability," he said. In response, Mr Yang accused Washington of using...