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Anyone under 30 today has no idea what it was like to live in America during the Cold War. That includes the reflexive tendency of liberals and leftists to insist repeatedly that we really shouldn't lecture the authoritarians in the Soviet Union or China for gross abuses of human rights because the United States isn't much different. Back in 1989, the year the Berlin Wall fell, USA Today founder Al Neuharth was lecturing, "There is little more logic to Lithuania being permitted to unilaterally and unlawfully declare its independence from the USSR than there would be for Texas to secede...

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday waved off former President Trump’s preferred nickname for the Kentucky Republican — "Old Crow" — saying, “It’s my favorite bourbon.” “Aren’t we using Old Crow as my moniker now? It was Henry Clay’s favorite bourbon,” McConnell said to a member of his staff during an interview with the Washington Examiner. He was referring to a spirit distilled by Beam Suntory of the same name. Trump has frequently derided McConnell as "Old Crow Mitch" in statements issued through his Save America PAC. The former president expressed his frustration when the Senate GOP leader worked...

Amid weeks of the courageous trucker-led Freedom Convoy protest in Canada, many expected its liberal politicians to compromise by now on their vaccine mandates for travel. But mandatory vaccination gives officials so much power that they are unwilling to let go of it. Vaccine mandates give liberals control over travel, employment, freedom of speech, and even our schoolchildren. Already there are laws in Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. that authorize controversial Covid vaccination of schoolchildren without parental consent, or even informing parents that injections were done on their children. The District of Columbia’s Minor Consent for Vaccinations Amendment Act of 2020...

The Democrat's latest tactic is to accuse Republicans who dare secure the ballot box against illegal votes of engaging in voter suppression. Most conservatives are well aware of the Democrat’s Alinsky tactic of accusing Republicans of whatever criminal, immoral, or unethical activities they themselves are engaged in. When Joe Biden was caught pressuring Ukraine to fire the state prosecutor who threatened to expose the Biden family protection racket, they impeached Trump for asking about it, accusing Trump of blackmail. After declaring for four years that Trump was an “illegitimate president” due to Russia collusion lies that she herself concocted, Hillary...

The Go Fund Me Crisis, it’s not what you think. Go Fund Me decided against giving $9 million in donations to the Canadian trucker convoy. In this video you’ll learn why Go Fund Me was right and is protecting Canadians by withholding funds from the truckers.Link to Video

I love Delta Airlines. It is my true hometown airline and I fly it regularly. If any passenger were to act in a way that endangers the flight, the crew, or other passengers, that person should be held accountable by Delta and by federal law if circumstances warrant. But, please, let’s not create another “No Fly” list. Currently, the FBI maintains a classified “terror watchlist” containing the names and information for thousands of individuals the government believes pose a potential terror threat. There is the TSA’s “No-Fly List” that determines who is allowed to board a commercial airplane. The agency...

Pawlowski was scheduled to appear at the trucker blockage in Alberta before being arrested for ‘mischief’ by undercover police. CALGARY, Alberta – Canadian pastor Artur Pawlowski was arrested yet again at his home in Calgary this morning before he was scheduled to appear at a peaceful Freedom Trucker protest. Rebel News reported that an undercover SWAT team arrested the Christian preacher after staking out his home in a van, according to Pawlowski’s son, Nathaniel. ... Pawlowski was planning to perform a church service at the trucker blockage in Milk River, Alberta. In a live video of the preacher’s arrest, a...

Joe Rogan must be stopped. This is the consensus from all of the wisest and most compassionate voices in our society. According to the White House, Spotify should not merely lead off Rogan's COVID-19-centric episodes with a content warning; according to press secretary Jen Psaki, "our view is that it is a positive step, but that there is more that can be done." According to CNN's Brian Stelter, host of the ironically named "Reliable Sources": "He is now apologizing. And we're going to find out if that's enough for Spotify, the company that has an exclusive distribution deal with him."...

A bystander filmed while two officers pulled over Gerry Charlebois, 78, for beeping his horn. 'What did he do wrong?' the bystander asked. 'None of your f****** concern, man,' one officer responded. Officers went back and forth with onlookers and Charlebois. Eventually an officer in a blue surgical mask grabbed Charlebois and tried to restrain him, bringing the vaccinated great-grandfather down to his knees in the middle of the street before handcuffing him against his van.

On Monday afternoon, MSNBC anchor Katy Tur feared a protest by Canadian truckers against government COVID regulations was tantamount to a “national insurrection.” She then brought on a Canadian journalist who detailed the threats posed by the demonstrators: Plinko, pizza ovens, saunas, and hot tubs. “The mayor of Ottawa has declared a state of emergency as truckers protest Canada’s COVID vaccine requirements. Thousands of truckers have virtually shutdown the city, with Canadian officials calling the situation a, quote, ‘nationwide insurrection,’” Tur warned at the top of the segment. However, she then admitted: “The protests, which have been going on for...

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When GoFundMe shut down funding Friday for the truckers' Freedom Convoy, it didn't just clobber Canadian rig drivers; it dealt a blow to the rights of Americans. Silicon Valley executives are trying to limit the causes Americans support, favoring leftists and canceling conservatives. We Americans have a constitutionally protected right to donate money to whatever causes we choose, the Supreme Court ruled in Buckley v. Valeo. Money funds political activity, and limiting where we can donate is like gagging our speech. Canadian truckers launched a convoy to Ottawa last month to protest Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's vaccine mandate on all...

Former New York Times editorial page editor James Bennet took the witness stand in the trial for Sarah Palin's lawsuit against the paper, telling the court he thought he had apologized to Palin for an editorial that erroneously linked her to the deadly 2011 shooting that injured former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. "Did you ever apologize to Governor Palin?" her attorney, Shane Vogt asked Bennet. "My hope is that as a consequence of this process now I have," Bennet said. Palin sued the Times and Bennet for falsely linking a map that her political action committee put out to the 2011...

With all the attention directed to resident Joe Biden's commitment to nominate a Black woman to replace retiring Associate Justice Stephen Breyer on the Supreme Court, sadly lost is what we expect from our court and what we expect from our nation. If we have detached from what our nation supposedly is about, what idea could we possibly have about what its top judiciary body is supposed to be about? But this is what is happening. The American ideal that a just society is a free society is disappearing into the wind. And replacing it is the progressive idea that...

Several provinces are peeling back the vaccine mandates and health restrictions that are at the heart of a polarizing debate across this country over what it will mean to live with COVID-19. Alberta, Saskatchewan and Quebec all unveiled plans Tuesday to curb the measures that have become the focal point of an exhausted public after nearly two years of the global health crisis. In the West, governments are moving quickly. Alberta announced it would lift vaccine passport requirements by the end of Tuesday night, part of a multi-stage approach to eliminating the majority of restrictions in the province. The news...

Companies tell us they support justice. "Believe in something, even if it means sacrificing everything," says former 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick in a Nike ad. "Speak for the people who may not be able to be heard," says the NBA. "Corporate PR hogwash," says journalist Melissa Chen in my new video. "Hogwash," she says, because the NBA clearly does not want its employees to criticize injustice -- if that injustice is in China. Daryl Morey, general manager of the Houston Rockets, tweeted, "Fight for freedom, stand with Hong Kong." Good for him. China crushed freedom in Hong Kong. But China...

A vast infernal spirit overshadows our land. In its deepening darkness, madness, wickedness, and evil run rampant throughout our land. We see males as females, females as males, and humans identifying as Zi, Zer, and other such nonsense. There is breakdown of society: thievery of every kind including inflation; terror and murder in the streets, systemic lying, grotesque debauchery and porn, rampant human sacrifice (euthanasia, abortion for any reason), and cannibalization of aborted baby tissue and parts.

Set your DVR for a real treat being shown on Turner Classic Movies (TCM) at 8:45 AM Eastern Standard Time. The 1949 RKO film The Woman in Pier 13 (originally titled I Married a Communist) dates from the period derisively called “The Red Scare” by people who pretend that communism’s threat was never anything serious, and that those who tried to alert us to it were paranoid nutjobs. As virtually every American Thinker reader already knows, the left did a brilliant job in turning Senator Joseph McCarthy into a demon, aided by his alcoholism and tendency to overstate his charges....

Black History Month was first an idea in the mind of Carter Woodson, the child of freed slaves. It was officially recognized by President Gerald Ford, a Republican, in 1976, some one hundred fourteen years after another Republican, Abraham Lincoln, issued the emancipation proclamation. The Democrat Party has a long history of dividing the country along racial lines. In the recent past, Democrats made election-year promises to improve the African American’s life but soon forgot the promises after they received their votes. Today, African Americans and other people of color are recognizing that the Democrat’s mouths and hearts are often...

[Biden's handlers] reacted to proposed legislation in Florida that critics say could hurt students in public schools who are lesbian, gay.... Florida’s proposed Parental Rights in Education bill, better known as the so-called “Don’t Say Gay” law, aims to ban talking about gender identity or sexual orientation at schools. After the Florida Senate’s education committee voted 6-3 to move the law forward to the appropriations committee, The White House released a statement...