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There have been four modern revolutions of consequence: America (1775), France (1789), Russia (1917), and China (1949). Only one led to freedom. The Left is intent on making it zero. We have been witnesses to the gradual suicide of our culture, self-government, and freedom, which is happening at an accelerated rate.Ideas have consequences. Our western culture and popular worldview has been influenced by reductionists, materialists, and relativists like Friedrich Nietzsche, Bertrand Russell, Sigmund Freud, Karl Marx, Antonio Gramsci and Charles Darwin. Their ideas bore within themselves the seeds of their own destruction but not without cost to countless millions. The...

After a city council vote Wednesday, Atlantic City will repaint the Black Lives Matter tribute which confused drivers on the street. Atlantic City Mayor Marty Small said the 2020 Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard street mural honoring Black Lives Matter would be repainted smaller, due to driver confusion caused by its massive yellow lettering. “It was an oversight on our part, and when we realized it, we fixed it,” Small said Thursday. During the Wednesday night meeting, Acting Police Chief James Sarkos told the council the mural violated state Department of Transportation regulations, forcing them to close the street to...

The left knows this too and, through the artifice of forced “anti-racist” training, it is deliberately driving a wedge between Americans. Friendship and affection have to be given freely. You can’t force someone to like you, just as you can’t be forced to like another person or even a group of people. Any attempt at this type of coercion will likely produce the opposite result. Progressives want to use the power of government to codify favoritism and then manufacture kinship. That’s hardly a recipe for success. Nevertheless, they seem determined to force the issue until the country is so polarized...

The Talk Shows March 28th, 2021 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Anchored by Chris Wallass: White House Press Secretary Jen Pissaki; Sen. Linda Graham (R-S.C.); Fan cutouts for NCAA Final Four: Taylor Gaussoin and Joe DiPietro, Perk Social. Panel: Josh Holmes; Shannon Bream; Harold Ford Jr. MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Hosted by Chuck U. Toad: Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.); Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.); Rep. Judy Chu (D-Monterey Park). Panel: Peter Baker, the New York Times; Al Cardenas; Heather McGhee; Vicky Nguyen. FACE THE NATION (CBS): Margaret Brennan anchors: Dr. Anthony Fauci,...

If you’re counting on Joe Manchin to save the Republic… – Well, you might want to think again. For all his bluster and fake media coverage about being some sort of “moderate” Democrat, West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin has always been nothing but a reliable, down-the-line leftwinger who operates in what I like to call the Lloyd Bentsen mode of being a senator. You might remember Lloyd Bentsen, the long-time Texas senator who ran for the vice presidency in 1988 as Michael Dukakis’s running mate. During his 22 years in the senate from 1971 through 1993, Bentsen was the quintessential...

he University of Oxford is considering scrapping sheet music for being 'too colonial' after staff raised concerns about the 'complicity in white supremacy' in music curriculums. Professors are set to reform their music courses to move away from the classic repertoire, which includes the likes of Beethoven and Mozart, in the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement. University staff have argued that the current curriculum focuses on 'white European music from the slave period', according to The Telegraph.

So ironic for a guy who is literally old enough to have memories of the stone age to accuse others of thinking like Neanderthals. This downward trend in Texas and other red states who either never had mask mandates or whose governors have recently rescinded them is horrible news for Democrats, of course, which is why you see them out there still issuing dire warnings and attempting to shame anyone who follows the Governor’s latest advice. Democrats are communists at heart, and as communists they want control over everyone’s life. Nothing in their lifetimes has provided them with the means...

The Maine Republican Party on Saturday rejected a motion that would have censured Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) over her vote to convict former President Donald Trump on an incitement of insurrection charge. The party voted 19-41 on the motion. “Party leadership considers this matter settled now and the team is moving on to preparing to win elections in 2022,” Jason Savage, the Maine GOP’s executive director, told CNN. Collins in a statement said the decision “is a testament to the Party’s ‘big tent’ philosophy that respects different views but unites around core principles.” “Our party has been most successful when...

Palm Sunday from last year is here.Today we will study Palm Sunday from four perspectives:1.The reason why Jesus entered Jerusalem. 2. Fulfillment of the Old Testament prophecy.3. The politics surrounding His visit.4. Why were the crowds so welcoming to Jesus on Palm Sunday but turned against him five days later?Let’s begin with the basics for “unchurched” readers because last year I wrote, “Growing up, I thought Palm Sunday was about glorifying palm trees.” (Not joking.)But instead, Palm Sunday commemorates when Jesus entered Jerusalem to celebrate Passover, and the crowd welcomed him by waving palm fronds. Pilgrims from throughout the land...

Saturday Night Live finally took a shot at President Joe Biden 67 days after his inauguration with jokes about Kamala Harris running the border situation response, his press conference cheat sheets and his Air Force One tumble. During the Weekend Update with Colin Jost and Michael Che, Jost said: 'This week kind of felt like Biden on those stairs,' referring to the moment Biden fell up the stairs to Air Force One. 'You thought it had to get better but it repeatedly got worse.'

On Saturday's The Cross Connection, deputy White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre called her superior Jen Psaki "my partner in truth."Jen Psaki, truth-teller? The woman most famous for "circling back" rather than giving straight answers to tough questions? Psaki, who can't honestly explain why reporters have only been allowed to see a Potemkin Village on the border, instead of the facilities where children are being kept in inhumane conditions? Who twists herself into rhetorical pretzels trying to explain why Biden was for the filibuster before he was against it? Who claimed ignorance of the $3.5 million payment to Hunter Biden...

The Queen has been deluged with hundreds of letters of support and encouragement in the wake of the Meghan and Harry interview, The Mail on Sunday has learned. Every day, sacks full of post are delivered to Windsor Castle where the Queen has been in lockdown with the Duke of Edinburgh since his release from hospital. The cards, gifts and letters are said to be a source of great comfort to the Monarch after the Duke and Duchess of Sussex accused the Royal Family of racism.

This is not America’s first brush with cancel culture, but we can bring it to a better, quicker end if we show courage now rather than hoping it burns itself out. In 1692, a group of hysterical teenage girls in Salem, Massachusetts, began denouncing girls from rival families as witches. Accusations of witchcraft soon multiplied and spread throughout the town; some of the accused were as young as four years old. Ultimately, 200 people were tried, and dozens executed, for fictitious crimes. The court did not require evidence, as the accusations themselves were considered proof of guilt. There are obvious...

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Texas COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations continue to see a downward trend more than two weeks after the state scrapped its mask mandate and allowed businesses to reopen at full capacity. On Saturday, Texas' seven-day COVID positivity rate reached an all-time low of 5.27 per cent, while hospitalizations fell to their lowest level since October, according to the latest state data. The state recorded 2,292 new coronavirus cases, about 500 fewer on average from last week, and 107 new deaths.

Democrat hopes for show trials a la Stalin's Great Purge are beginning to fade. Two weeks ago, I wrote of the Department of Justice’s overreach respecting some of the hundreds of January 6 defendants. On Friday the D.C. Circuit clipped the department’s wings. I expect more such losses as time goes on and the Department must actually present evidence in contested trials. The ploy of keeping in D.C. jails without bail some of the protestors who engaged in no specific violent acts at the Capitol until their cases can be heard was very obviously designed to compel them to plea...

The 2020 election was very controversial for the state of Georgia as many questions were raised about the integrity of the vote. There were concerns about a multitude of issues such as the possibility that ballots were scanned multiple times to questions about mysterious suitcases of votes being counted after GOP observers were no longer present. Absentee and mail-in ballots were also counted despite the lack of voter identification requirements. Due to concerns about the COVID-19 pandemic, 1.3 million voters in Georgia mailed in absentee ballots in the 2020 election. With the changes and confusion, there was a long delay...

Recent figures indicate cases are rising among secondary school pupils in England Independent SAGE – a group of scientists publishing advice for the UK government – has warned about rising cases of covid-19 among children in England, since the reopening of schools on 8 March. The latest results from a random swab testing survey by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show that coronavirus infection levels among children aged 11 to 16 have risen slightly in England, with 0.43 per cent of secondary school age children testing positive in the week ending 20 March compared to 0.31 per cent the...

Many, if not most, first year law students taking a course in property law are taught the now famous case of International News Service v. Associated Press. In that case, the court had to determine if the Associated Press had a legal property right to “hot news” that INS was taking off their early bulletins (this pre-dates the era of internet news) and selling it in other time zones as news they had procured themselves. The court determined that the AP had at least a quasi-property right to the news it obtained and had legal recourse against a company trying...

An injustice against our military and veterans' communities is being prepared in the halls of Congress at the same time the men and women of the National Guard stand post outside the Capitol building to protect lawmakers from an unexplained threat. Senator Chuck Schumer is demanding the President forgive up to $50,000 of student debt for some 43 million Americans who borrowed for college beyond their means. More than nine million Americans have defaulted on their education loans, and an estimated one-third of those who borrowed federal money for college never completed their course of study. President Biden is willing...