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When I was told that actor John Cena “begged” for forgiveness from the “Chinese people” (though he was clearly begging the Chinese Communist Party, owners of Hollywood) for calling Taiwan a country, I assumed it was exaggerated. I figured he said he was sorry and moved on. Nope, he begged. In Chinese. In a public video. If he had fallen to his knees in front of Xi Jinping and wept while kissing the Chinese leader’s feet, it would not have been any more humiliating than the video he recorded. https://twitter.com/i/status/1396910262494457856 Translated: “Hi China, I’m John Cena. I’m in the middle...

The hypocrisy of the Left in the US is boundless. The likes of Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (AOC) epitomize it. This New York Congresswoman has shamelessly called Israel an “apartheid state.” She didn’t call the Hamas terrorist regime in Gaza, which is “Judenrein,” (any Jew found in Gaza would be murdered) or Saudi Arabia, and Jordan, who do not allow Jews to live in its territories, apartheid states. They actually deserve that title. Conversely, Israel is an open democracy with a free press, the rule-of-law, and where human and civil rights are observed. Israel brought Black African Jews from Ethiopia, to...

Lead signer for the popular band Skillet and outspoken Christian rocker John Cooper blasted critical race theory (CRT) in a recent interview with Fox News. Not one to shy away from biblical truths and what he is learning, Cooper said in the interview that the “woke ideology” of CRT has seeped into the American church.

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz is asking Minnesotans, and all Americans, to observe a moment of silence at 1:00 p.m. Central Time today in honor of George Floyd who was allegedly murdered by Minneapolis police on year ago. George, apparently under the influence of drugs and coming off several convictions, died after being detained by police when he refused to enter a police car. One officer, who will go unnamed, placed his knee on Floyd's neck resulting in a murder charge against the officer. So the story goes. So, as police are being defunded in Minneapolis, and the crime rate climbs,...

The possibility of a leak from a virus lab in Wuhan being responsible for the coronavirus pandemic was a mainstream theory on the virus’s origins when it was first advanced. The media was quoting their sources in U.S. intelligence that were looking into that angle. But after the tainted WHO origins team finished their “investigation” and announced that not only was there no sign the disease leaked from a Wuhan lab but that the team would no longer continue to investigate the lab-leak theory, the media began a campaign to silence those who wanted to write or talk about it....

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki declared Monday that evidence pointing to a Chinese lab leak causing the coronavirus pandemic does not constitute “enough data and information to jump to a conclusion,” and indicated that the US will not conduct its own investigation. When Psaki was asked by Fox News reporter Peter Doocy if the White House will throw its weight behind a US led investigation into the origin of the outbreak, she responded “I think you’re misunderstanding how this process actually works.” “With 589,920 dead Americans at what point does President Biden say we don’t want to wait for...

In an interview last year, Mr. Freeman argued that the austere cuts enacted at his newspapers reflected a more realistic understanding of the industry’s direction and better positioned Alden-owned publishers for the pandemic’s downswing. “We were prepared for a real step down in terms of a recession because we were honest about what was needed in the future,” he said. “Numbers don’t lie.” The newspaper industry’s numbers looked bleak even before the pandemic. Annual advertising revenue dropped 70%, or $34 billion, between 2005 and 2018, according to estimates by the Pew Research Center. More than 1,800 newspapers closed between 2004...

What is becoming known as the Hamas Caucus in the U.S. Congress, especially in the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives, is made up of a growing number of leftist progressives who hate the Jewish state of Israel. The members of the Hamas Caucus believe that Israel is an apartheid oppressor, not a country under relentless attack for simply wanting to remain the one and only Jewish state in the world. They believe that when terrorists fire rockets at Israeli civilian population centers with abandon, the Israeli military must not fight back to defend Israel’s residents. This is the perverted thinking of...

And as usual, it will be the Israelis who pay for that routine with their blood. For more than 70 years the West with some few exceptions has mischaracterized and mishandled the Arab world’s aggression against Israel. The latest barrage of riots and rockets is drawing the same old diplomatic song-and-dance routine that camouflages the Western nations’ despicable moral equivalence of aggressor and victim, and its callous concern for their own interests even if it means empowering terrorist murderers and endangering the only liberal-democratic state in the Middle East. The latest example of Hamas’ indiscriminate terrorist violence, and Israel’s robust...

Highlighted by computer scientist Paul Graham on Twitter, the changes appear in a Vox article originally published on March 4th, 2020. The article – “The Conspiracy Theories About the Origins of the Coronavirus, Debunked” – was revised on March 12th, 2021 in an effort to backtrack the piece’s adamant opposition to the possibility of COVID-19 leaking from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie called out President Biden on Monday for allowing Canada to receive COVID-19 vaccines from the U.S. while at the same time barring fully vaccinated Americans from crossing the northern border. Christie blasted the president in a tweet posted Monday, saying more losing the upper hand coming from the Biden administration’s foreign policy and vaccine messaging with Canada. "More weakness from Biden foreign policy and mixed messages on vaccines," Christie, a potential 2024 presidential candidate, wrote on Twitter. "Canada continues to ask for US help with vaccines but refuses to allow for fully vaccinated Americans...

If you were to ask anyone at random, what is the most dangerous threat to our country, he'd likely say China, Russia, or Iran, because those countries are, or soon will be, a military threat to our nation. Some might say a polluted environment is our greatest enemy, while others might say the increase in rioting and looting from coast to coast. It's highly unlikely that many people will say the greatest threat comes from the drug cartels that destroy the lives of tens of thousands of Americans each year. Deaths from illicit drug use can be differentiated in several...

Please join me for my Wild Wednesday Webcast this week at 9:00 EST, "The Birth of Texas." It's free, but please register at the link above. Typically my webcasts go 45 min, then I open it up for Q&A on anything, including politics and current events. Recent webcasts have been "Why the North Won the Civil War," "The JFK Assassination in History," "UFOs in History," and "The Age of Napoleon." If you miss it, all webcasts are archived, but accessing the archives requires a VIP subscription (which also gives you SIX of my U.S. History curriculum video lessons, including the...

A parent, with the help of an attorney, is demanding that the school board in Palm Beach County, Fla., remove links to Black Lives Matter material on the school district’s website because the organization’s stated claim of “structural racism” is “antithetical to those of the district and the student body.” In recent weeks, parents around the country have been pushing back on their local school boards after they adopted controversial “critical race theory” curriculum and language. That includes Palm Beach County, where last week parents showed up to a meeting expressing anger and frustration at the school board’s adoption of...

Problems for New Mexico Democrat Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham have largely flown under the radar as leader of a state overlooked by the legacy press corps.Searchlight New Mexico, an independent investigative non-profit organization, broke the news last week that Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s office supported using the encrypted messaging app Signal to conceal communications among staff.The potential violation of the New Mexico Public Records Act came to light after the New Mexico Children, Youth and Families Department, which is overseen by the governor, fired two senior employees who raised concerns over the app’s use.“Department leadership then set many of those...

An employee of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Kansas City Division has been arrested after being indicted for allegedly taking numerous national security documents from the federal agency and storing them – sometimes for years – in her home. The Department of Justice has identified the worker as Kendra Kingsbury, 48, of Dodge City, Kansas. She was named in a two-count indictment from a federal grand jury that was issued under seal, and released when Kingsbury was arrested. "As an intelligence analyst for the FBI, the defendant was entrusted with access to sensitive government materials," said Assistant Attorney General John...

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The greatest cover band in history just released You're the Inspiration, another Chicago classic. A few years ago, Russian musician Leonid Vorobiev put together a group of friends to record a song by his favorite band, Chicago. The video exploded on youtube and Leonid and Friends has become a phenomenon. Three albums and several US tours later, they are still putting out great music.

A series of mass shootings over the weekend left at least 11 people dead and another 69 injured. There were at least 12 mass shootings between Friday night and Sunday, according to CNN reporting and an analysis of data from the Gun Violence Archive (GVA), local media and police reports. The shootings took place across eight states -- Illinois, New Jersey, Ohio, Indiana, South Carolina, Virginia, Texas and Minnesota.