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The elites' responses to the pandemic have destroyed countless careers, bank accounts and businesses. The mandates and lockdowns have destroyed many lives and have spawned loneliness, hopelessness, depression, and even madness in millions more. The pandemic — and governments' reaction to it — has caused us to lose our sanity, our humanity, and even our ability to distinguish between the sacred and the profane. Mask mandate apostates and vaccine mandate infidels are being mocked, abused, and threatened. They are having their livelihoods taken from them along with basic freedoms. We are replacing a religion founded on love and the promise...

It is increasingly obvious that modern Americans universities, which are less institutions of unfettered intellectual pursuit than they are "madrasas of wokeness," to borrow from the Independent Women's Forum's Inez Feltscher Stepman, are unsalvageable in most present manifestations. Though there are notable exceptions, many American universities are actually worse than unsalvageable. On-campus debauchery spoils matriculants' lingering senses of virtue and propriety, and woke classroom indoctrination and divisive intersectional poison vitiates the mutually interdependent bonds of citizenry without which no people can cohere. As Arthur Milikh soberly concluded in a 2020 National Affairs essay, "Preventing Suicide by Higher Education": "Universities that...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Protesters held a sit-in Thursday at the Interior Department building in downtown Washington and clashed with police as they challenged fossil fuel projects and called for the declaration of a climate emergency. Multiple arrests were reported. An Interior Department spokeswoman said a group of protesters rushed the lobby, injuring at least one security officer who was taken to a nearby hospital. Police and protesters clashed outside the building, and officers used Tasers against several unarmed protesters,...

When leftists are doing it to demand “climate justice. During the Kavanaugh hearings, hundreds of hysterical leftist activists stormed the Capitol and even managed to break into the Senate chamber. They were arrested and that was the end of it. On January 6, crowds of pro-Trump people, along with undoubted provocateurs and, almost certainly, FBI agents, entered the Capitol. Once in, they wandered around reverently and left—except for Ashli Babbitt, whom a Capitol Police Officer killed in cold blood. January 6 was called an “insurrection,” and Biden’s DOJ is using it as an excuse to hold political prisoners and terrorize...

Washington (CNN)US Central Command, which oversaw the US evacuation from Afghanistan, disputed an Air Force account of an attempted hijacking of a commercial flight from Kabul international airport during the final weeks of the evacuation from the country. In a statement to CNN on Thursday afternoon, a spokeswoman for Central Command said they are "unaware" of an attempted hijacking.... ...The Air Force account which detailed an attempted hijacking of a commercial airliner was published Tuesday on the Air Force's website and was written by Lt. Col. Kristen Duncan, a public affairs officer for the 23rd Wing... .In describing the frenetic...

FDR, patron saint of the welfare state: "If anything happens in politics, you can bet is was planned that way." With the advent of the Wuhan virus in early 2020, the country has been severely disrupted, metaphorically turned upside down. We've gone from ubiquitous mask wearing to locking down the economy to the release of untested vaccines to now harsh vaccine mandates. And all though this torturous process, freedoms that were once taken for granted in the U.S. have been steadily chipped away. We've even witnessed the 2020 presidential election being stolen. by increasing mail-in voting, extended time for voting,...

A group of anti-Trump Republicans has announced they will endorse a group of centrist Democrats living in swing districts in the 2022 midterm elections. The Renew America Movement (RAM) was founded by moderate Republicans after the insurrection that took place at the Capitol building on Jan. 6 after numerous false claims of election fraud made by former President Trump. The group is headed by former Gov. Christine Todd Whitman, R- NJ, and former Gov. Bill Weld, R- Mass, who both agree supporting moderate Democrats is vital to protecting democracy. “There is an urgent effort by Republicans and former Republicans to...

Examining the grand tapestry of American history doesn’t fit the left’s narrative. First and foremost, here’s a “shout out,” a “tip of the hat.” and a “thumbs up” to Stephen B. Young, who wrote Refutation of the 1619 Project is right there in the creation of the Continental Congress for American Thinker. It has been good to see my fellow Americans and historical scholars challenge the validity of “The 1619 Project,” doing everything from 1776 Unites to the newly released book, Debunking the 1619 Project by Mary Grabar, Ph.D. (Prof. Grabar also wrote Debunking Howard Zinn.) We need to make...

People with breakthrough COVID-19 cases might not spread the coronavirus as much as we think, as new research suggests transmission risk is low among breakthrough cases.... Ross Kedl, an immunologist at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, told NPR that the virus that comes from a vaccinated person will look different than one from an unvaccinated person. Vaccinated people often have antibodies from the vaccine. These antibodies “should be coating that virus with antibody and therefore helping prevent excessive downstream transmission,” Kedl told NPR. In fact, Kedl said most vaccinated people appear to be infected by unvaccinated people, at...

One of the Republican Party’s biggest donors is working to defeat Arkansas Sen. John Boozman in next year’s GOP primary. Dick Uihlein, a prominent conservative megadonor, is giving $1 million to a newly formed super PAC aligned with Republican Jake Bequette, according to a person familiar with the contribution. Bequette is an Iraq war veteran and retired NFL player who is challenging Boozman. Uihlein, an Illinois shipping and supply company executive, has a long history of giving to anti-establishment causes. Earlier this year, he cut a $2.5 million check to a super PAC bolstering Missouri Senate hopeful Eric Greitens, a...

It turns out that Americans have a better grasp of the facts about COVID and the vaccine than Biden does. Joe Biden is losing his patience with us. He’s a caring dictator and would never force us to do anything he didn’t believe was in our best interest. So, when millions of Americans refuse his benevolence, well, that ticks him off a little. He’s promised that soon he’s going to be really mad and we had better watch out. “I don’t quite get this,” quoth he. He’s offering us salvation but we choose not to accept it. How could we...

If we sat in a boardroom and tried to decide the kind of story that the liberal media is the most hostile to covering -- hostile to the point of wishing it had never existed -- it may be this: Teenage boy describing himself as "gender-fluid" accused of raping a girl in a high school bathroom. This is a story that any liberal media outlet would want to spike, censor, ignore, squelch and bury six feet underground. It's a vivid illustration of what liberals consider a false stereotype. They assume automatically, ideologically, this could never happen -- that a sexual...

For those who have been following politics for a while, you might have remembered something about $600 and IRS reporting from a decade ago when Obamacare was passed. Within the 2010 Obamacare mess, “It was added that payments for goods more than $600 in a 12 month period needed to be reported as well as services. Obamacare further provided that, beginning in 2012, payments to non-tax-exempt corporations—which had previously been exempt from the reporting requirement—would be subject to information reporting.” (link) The 2010 tax law was actually enacted, briefly, and was scheduled to take effect in the 2012 tax year....

One of the great senators of the modern era was William Roth, by whose vision and persistence the Roth IRA was established in 1997, giving average Americans, especially those without a pension, the opportunity to build their financial independence without fear of rising tax rates. The Roth could be funded either with after-tax dollars or by converting money from a conventional IRA. The original law said that: (1) the taxpayer could invest in a wider range of investments than with other tax-advantaged plans, (2) both the growth of and withdrawal from the account would be tax-free and (3) upon death,...

In an era of rampant misinformation, propaganda, and biased opinion in politics and society, you may have at least once asked yourself - what is the truth and how do I go about determining truth to save my sanity? As long back as I can remember, I was always obsessed with the truth. In my personal, childish, opinion, either something was true or it was a lie and this is the absolute attitude that many children and some adults have before they realize that absolute truths seem few and far between and lies and half truths are quite numerous. Many...

One of the three men was allegedly able to secure the victim’s keys, but upon entering the car, he realized the vehicle had a manual transmission, which stopped the alleged carjackers dead in their tracks, the sheriff’s office said. Gym goers began to exit the building and assist the victim, helping to end the robbery, but the three men hopped in their own vehicle and allegedly fled the scene. Deputies were alerted that the alleged suspects’ vehicle was a white Acura with Mississippi plates, the sherrif’s office says. Sgt. R.K. Pinkard observed the vehicle on Garrisonville Road, close to I-95,...

Many conservatives have talked recently about the need for a “national divorce” due to irreconcilable differences with the progressive left. We should be clear about what we’re talking about, though, when we suggest the prospect of a “national divorce.” We are talking about secession. And secession, in America, is anything but a civil or amicable process, and it’s useless to imagine it would be otherwise. It’s only truly been attempted once, after all, and it led to the bloodiest war in our history. Certainly, there are practical differences between secession and civil war. But in America, these are distinctions without...

After Attorney General Merrick Garland sicced the FBI on unruly parents protesting Critical Race Theory (CRT) at school board meetings, it came to light that Garland had a dog in the fight. That dog is son-in-law Xan Tanner, co-founder of Panorama Education, a leading distributor of CRT materials. Among the materials Panorama has recommended for educators is an essay by terrorist emeritus and Obama pal Bill Ayers. Titled "I Shall Create! Teaching Toward Freedom," Ayers's essay is the first in a 2019 collection by left-wing activist Lisa Delpit. If nothing else, Ayers has been consistent. He has been pumping out...

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Harith Iskander is often labeled as Malaysia's king of comedy but it seemed like many netizens did not see the comedic side of a recent post on his personal Facebook account. In fact, it ruffled up a few feathers as the topic on hand was one that had the potential to get quite polarising – personal parenting style. On Tuesday (Oct 12) evening, Harith revealed that the 'incident' was between his wife, Jezamine Lim, and their eldest son. The 9-year-old boy is cooped up at home and attends school via a virtual platform. On Oct 11, Harith received a call...