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Cancel culture is everywhere. A celebrity might be canceled over a tweet made decades ago. A picture of a politician at a party might trigger a demand for his resignation. Using the wrong pronoun can get a person fired, sued, even arrested. The hardest hit are universities, where the love of learning has been replaced by an obsession for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). The diversity on display may be slavish conformity to progressive thinking and values, and there is certainly no inclusion for anyone who questions progressivism, but no matter. The individuals devoting themselves to DEI are different colors...

"Alta was alive and breathed on her own for 90 minutes after her breathing tube was removed," -- Rabbi Elisha Greenbaum said, stating the key fact as clearly as can be. The United Kingdom wanted 2-year-old Alta Fixsler dead. The powers-that-be may not have put it that baldly, but they decided to end her life. A severely disabled Hasidic girl, Fixsler's parents wanted to bring her to Israel. There were offers from U.S. and Israeli hospitals to try experimental treatments. But the medical establishment and the judiciary decided they knew best. "According to Jewish law, everyone has the right to...

For perspective, let's imagine a hypothetical Republican politican we'll call "Joe" who mixed his bank accounts with a wastrel son of his we'll call "Hunter..." Most of the media, along with other Democrats, are campaigning to give the IRS huge amounts of additional money for their budget so that they can pretend to pay for the two huge slush funds they are peddling for the tax agency. They want banks to report the receipts and disbursements on any bank accounts where the annual deposit amount is more than $10,000. Catherine Rampell of the Washington Post says that Republicans are only...

"The biggest defeat in our nation's history!" bellowed Air Force Chief of Staff General Curtis LeMay while whacking his fist on his desk upon learning the details of the deal President Kennedy cut with Khrushchev regarding the missiles. Aaw come on, Humberto!' Some amigos retort. 'Gen. LeMay was a serious war-monger and NUTCASE!—the model for Gen. Ripper in Dr Strangelove! Are you saying we shoulda started a worldwide nuclear war with tens of millions incinerated to liberate a two-bit Caribbean island of barely 7 million people?!'Nothing of the sort. In fact, the choice at the time was never between nuclear...

"Normal" is the last word you would use to describe her appearance at a podium yesterday in New York City. The Vice President of the United States spoke yesterday at the brand-new Northeast Bronx YMCA, promoting the so-called infrastructure bill that actually would transform the economy into dependence on unreliable “green” power and the populace into unsustainable financial dependence on borrowed money from the US Treasury. But forget about the substance, bad as it is, and focus on her behavior at the podium, which was, frankly, bizarre enough to suggest something is deeply wrong. Watch her arms in this clip....

Just like that, the DoJ is now in the snowflake protection business. Merrick Garland is taking political weaponization of the DoJ to a whole new level. It started with the National Association of School Boards (NASB) asking the DoJ for protection against protesting parents. You know, those parents who have objections to making gender fluid racists out of their children. They should know that what schools choose to teach their kids is none of their business -- just ask Terry McAuliffe. Luckily, the NASB’s union backers have been paying for influence for many years. Now they’re cashing in their chits...

Washington, D.C. has more leaks than a Viking River Cruise with a hull fashioned out of Swiss cheese. To his chagrin, our 45th President Donald J. Trump discovered that…starkly and early-on. But every U.S. President in the past century came to realize—some sooner, some later—that weasels within the Executive Branch or within our permanent Washington “establishment” exist for little more than to leak secrets to favorable media.The Bay of Pigs failure under JFK..the Pentagon Papers in the Vietnam era…leaks within the Nixon White House during Watergate…the Benghazi tragedy presided over by Hillary “What difference at this point does it make”...

The subject of vaccine hesitancy is all over the news. Government agencies and Big Pharma stew and fret over how to address it and demolish it. The WHO has declared it one of the top threats to global health. But there is another type of hesitancy that is of paramount importance to the health and well-being of our nation, and it is election fraud investigation hesitancy. It is particularly a problem that plagues Republican legislators and establishment party members. What part of "election security" do they not understand? The legacy media spout the notion that the 2020 election was the...

The term "wokeness" implies speaking out on perceived injustices and sometimes in opposition to social norms. Recently, more corporate CEOs have positioned their companies as advocates of political and social causes. This has backfired for several CEOs. An NPR/PBS poll found that a majority of Americans oppose companies using their public role to influence political, cultural, or social change. There are likely similar views among shareholders, customers, employees, and suppliers. Nike ditched its Betsy Ross flag sneakers at the behest of a former professional athlete, who wears socks depicting police as pigs. The resulting publicity revealed that Nike relies on...

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Understanding of the Covid pandemic is impeded when essential facts about it are kept from the public and too many violations against common sense are committed by government and corporate officials intent on “ensuring safety.” Essential facts regarding this pandemic are being overlooked or missed entirely. Much of what has fallen off the radar should be common knowledge but isn’t, thanks to a mainstream media that will not report what is missing from the accounts, not because they aren’t relevant but because they don’t fit “the official narrative.” Before getting into what may be gleaned about the Covid pandemic, despite...

China expressed outrage Friday at comments by President Joe Biden, blasting his assertions that the U.S. would defend Taiwan in the case of a Chinese invasion, despite swift White House denials of any policy change. Speaking at a CNN town hall event Thursday, Biden said in response to the question, "Are you saying that the United States would come to Taiwan's defense if China attacked?" with "Yes, we have a commitment to do that." The statement, though seemingly benign, appeared to refute long-standing but tenuous agreements between Washington and Beijing that have ultimately limited U.S. support for Taiwan to helping...

In his weekly press briefing Wednesday, U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville answered a question about the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. “I want to know what we knew,” Tuberville said. “Hopefully, they get Nancy Pelosi and put her on the stand and ask her, ‘Did you know? Were you warned by the FBI?’ Because you, Nancy Pelosi, are in charge of the Capitol. You’re in charge of the security of the Capitol. We never hear anything like that.” Tuberville said the House panel investigating Jan. 6 is partisan and invalid. “The first thing I...

Although Virginia has been a politically blue state for years, this year's election has the Democrats' governor facing a serious challenge. One of the reasons is that many Virginia parents are outraged by the "woke" propaganda their children are being subjected to in the public schools -- and the governor has sided with the education bureaucrats and the teachers union. Very few politicians in any state dare to go against the teachers unions, which have millions of votes and millions of dollars in campaign contributions. This is one battle in a much bigger war, and the stakes are far higher...

Now that I am seven episodes in, I feel confident saying that “Impeachment: American Crime Story,” airing Tuesday evenings on FX, is the fairest and arguably the best real-life political drama Hollywood has ever produced. What mystifies me is that no one on the Right appears to be talking about it. The third in the “American Crime Story” series, this 10-part drama faithfully tracks the perjury and obstruction of justice scandal that very nearly ended the Bill Clinton presidency. While the first two in the series -- “The People vs. O.J. Simpson” and “Versace” -- dealt candidly with the issues...

In a rare move, federal labor officials have threatened to take over three states’ workplace safety programs because they failed to adopt emergency COVID-19 rules to protect healthcare workers. That admonition, labor advocates say, also serves as a thinly veiled warning that resisting the forthcoming federal vaccine mandate for most healthcare workers and employees at large companies likewise could cost states their regulatory power over workplace safety. “This is definitely an effort to send a message that [the Occupational Safety and Health Administration] is going to take any defiance of the next standard very seriously,” said Jordan Barab, who served...

While testifying under oath at the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing last May, Dr. Anthony Fauci, world's most trusted expert on viral diseases, categorically denied that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) had ever funded "gain-of-function" research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China. This was in spite of the fact that Fauci is a big supporter of gain of function research "because the knowledge we could obtain is well worth the risk of setting off a pandemic that could kill millions of people." This week the NIH confirmed that funds it provided to Peter Daszak...

A U.S. Marine veteran appeared on Fox News Friday to relay his account of how he stopped armed robbers from knocking off a convenience store, but wandered way off topic at the conclusion of the segment by declaring that Jeffrey Epstein didn’t commit suicide. James Kilcer was at a Chevron convenience store in Yuma, Arizona early Thursday morning when two robbers entered. One of them pointed a gun toward Kilcer and the store clerk and that’s about as far as they got before the vet disarmed him with his bare hands. A third suspect was on the scene but the...

A bipartisan letter demands answers from the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and President Biden's chief medical adviser. The White Coat Waste Project, the nonprofit organization that first pointed out that U.S. taxpayers were being used to fund the controversial Wuhan Institute of Virology, have now turned their sights on Anthony Fauci on another animal-testing-related matter – infecting dozens of beagles with disease-causing parasites in order to test an experimental drug on them. House members, most of whom are Republicans, want Fauci to explain himself in response to allegations brought on by the White Coat...

REvil, the ransomware group that hacked the U.S. Colonial Pipeline this past May, was itself hacked and shut down by a multinational cyber operation, according to Reuters. The Russia-based organization was reportedly hacked using the same technique that they had used to bring down the pipeline. Officials from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) worked alongside investigative arms from multiple other countries,,,