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VIDEOParents spoke truth to woke school board power during the July 8, 2021 meeting of the Haverford Township School Board in Pennsylvania. The snarky school board reactions made it obvious that they did NOT like what they were hearing. The parents were quite forceful in their opposition to the woke policies being imposed upon their children. Perhaps we heard from some future school board members at that meeting.

On my desk is a framed political cartoon with the caption: “Burning the American Flag is a form of free speech? Try burning a rainbow flag and see if that too is considered a form of free speech?” You could replace “rainbow flag” with “BLM flag,” or even “Antifa flag.” The cartoon lances the recent rise in free-speech hypocrisy that promptly abandons the First Amendment and drums up hysterical charges of “hate speech” when certain sacred cows du jour are so much as mildly criticized. In the Left’s campaign to “fundamentally transform” America and rid it of soi-disant racism, homophobia,...

In recent years, our nation’s most treasured sporting events have become consumed by players, leagues, and corporations abusing their platforms to advocate left-wing political causes—but when it comes to athletics, just as in foreign relations, politics has historically stopped at the waters’ edge. As the world gears up for this summer’s Olympic Games in Tokyo, however, there are signs that the left’s insufferable wokeness is already destroying yet another once-great institution—the unifying patriotism and extraordinary excellence of Team USA. Hammer thrower Gwen Berry turned her back to the flag as the National Anthem played while she was on the medal...

More than three-quarters of Americans still feel there’s at least some risk from the COVID-19 pandemic in attending July Fourth celebrations — with four in 10 believing the threat is moderate to high, according to a new poll. Some 77 percent of respondents in an Axios-Ipsos poll ranked the celebrations as posing at least a small risk, with less than a quarter — 23 percent — maintaining there was no risk at all.

A task force surely composed of college graduates (aka Marxists) has attacked America’s Founders, ideas, and architecture. The National Archives and Records Administration (“NARA”), unofficially founded along with America but officially founded in 1934, exists to preserve historic American records and document government activities. Sadly, it’s currently staffed with hardcore Marxists who hate America, both its history and its current configuration. That is the only conclusion one can draw from an NARA task force report saying that NARA, is structurally racist, from the reverence shown for those who created this nation to the architecture of the classical NARA building. Here’s...

It’s time to “reimagine the Rotunda”. That is the conclusion reached in a report released by the National Archives’ task force on racism. The National Archives Rotunda is an example of structural racism and the Founding Fathers are portrayed too positively. Who knew that the Rotunda is in need of safe spaces and trigger warnings? The Rotunda of the National Archives displays the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the Declaration of Independence. The National Archives holds permanent records created by the U.S. Congress, U.S. Supreme Court, Federal District Courts in the District of Columbia, and Select Federal Agencies. It...

After claiming to be “personally” offended over accusations the drag queen-loving U.S. military is woke, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Army Gen. Mark Milley said, “I want to understand white rage, and I’m white.” Oh, okay, because that’s not woke at all. This happened during congressional testimony on Wednesday. Then he added this bone-chilling explanation: “What is it that caused thousands of people to assault this building and try to overturn the Constitution of the United States of America?” The implication being it was “white rage.” Okay, just for starters, only an idiot would see skin color as...

Finally Some StonesSenator Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) and Rep. Crenshaw (R-Texas) have launched a whisteblower site to combat wokeism in the military, and it’s not a moment too soon.As reported earlier the woke crowd is moving in on the military. Former Space Force Commander Lt. Col. Matthew Lohmeier was fired for speaking out against Marxism and the racism that is critical race theory (CRT).“There were videos being sent out to every base, service member”, Lohmeier explained to Hannity. “that we were asked to watch in preparation for our extremism down days and discussions on race in which we were taught that...

Since the death of George Floyd in police custody one year ago, more than 127 episodes of various television shows have promoted "systemic racism," Black Lives Matter or defunding the police. Among them are CBS' "FBI: Most Wanted and NCIS: Los Angeles," NBC's "Chicago PD" and "Superstore," and CW’s "Black Lightning," noted comedian and columnist Kevin Downey Jr. in a column for PJ Media. In a homage to Breonna Taylor, an espisode of "Black Lightning" featured a no-knock raid in which a black woman was killed. "Did the episode mention the real-life Breonna allowed her ex-boyfriend to use her address...

If there’s a topic the woke like talking about most, it’s themselves. This is not unusual for people obsessed with their own well-being, status, and influence over others. Which pretty much sums up the mindset of most of the woke. A culture based on such values easily tips over into narcissistic exhibitionism -- the obsessive desire to parade one’s self before others: nothing could be more important than satisfying the craving for attention, approval, and adulation. This activity has now been elevated into entertainment masquerading as documentary. I don’t wish to denigrate the suffering of those who experience mental health...

Critical Race Theory is currently getting a ton of attention on the national and international stage, which is long overdue, but there are also many misconceptions about it. Here are five questions that many people are asking about Critical Race Theory along with straight answers, explanations, and a raft of proofs from the Critical Race Theory literature itself. My hope is that people will be able to use these proofs to show people that Critical Race Theory is every bit as bad as its critics contend. Since these proofs run rather long in some cases, here are the questions and...

The top prosecutor in Loudoun County, Virginia, has participated in the Facebook group whose members infamously created a list of parents who disagreed with school system policies with the intention to “hack,” “infiltrate,” and “expose” them, according to new screenshots. Since The Daily Wire exposed the group March 16, triggering national outrage, members of the “Anti-Racist Parents of Loudoun County” have doubled down and now appear to be gathering information about the children of at least one adult. “Anyone else with the racist TikTok’s from you know who’s kids please PM me. Especially more with the N-word. TYIA,” group administrator...

<p>If wokeness should continue and “win,” by now we all know where it will end up. After all, this is not a prairie-fire, peasants-with-pitchforks, spontaneous bottom-up revolution.</p><p>The woke Left seeks a top-down erasure of America, engineered by the likes of LeBron James from his $40 million estate talking revolution to Oprah at her $90 million castle, as Mark Zuckerberg throws in $500 million here, and his colleagues $400 million there, and as the top executives of Coke, Target, and Delta Airlines believe their $17 million-a-year salaries make them experts on the crimes of non-diversity, exclusion, and inequity. Anytime revolutionaries at the outset of their enterprises seek exemption from the consequences of their own ideology, we know their plans will end badly for everyone else.</p>

I’ve said it many times before, but nearly every week some leftist makes me say it again: when it comes to stupid or crazy, there is no “bottom” for the left to hit. Honestly, they keep getting crazier in all the old ways while finding new and creatives ways to bring insanity to the world. The sad thing is, while we all laugh at each of these new insanities, eventually they become some semblance of normal. Ultimately, the joke is on us. The latest example is something called “birthing persons,” or “black birthing persons” if you’re one of the racist...

A Tennessee CEO was fired after he was accused of harassing a teenage boy for wearing a dress to his prom. Former VisuWell executive Sam Johnson, 46, was filmed telling the boy he looked like an 'idiot' at the prom near Nashville on Saturday. He has denied the allegations, despite being caught on camera making the remarks. The boy, Dalton Stevens, 18, told NBC News he wore the dress as a statement to prove that 'clothing is really gender-less' and 'that it has no meaning', in an interview on Monday. The Franklin high school senior told the broadcaster he was...

MSNBC anchor Joy Reid on Wednesday’s “The ReidOut” accused former president Donald Trump of inciting “violent white extremism” and likened it to the way Osama Bin Laden did with the Islamic terrorist organization al-Qaeda.

In a shockingly transparent power play, major corporations now enforce leftist political positions in a craven ploy to placate Democrats, woke employees, and the public. Most Americans don’t realize using private companies for government goals is a pillar of Fascism. Social media titans Twitter and Facebook enforce woke speech codes while deploying kill lists on anti-liberals. Now, massive corporations like Levis, Coca-Cola and MLB join the widening purge against the GOP and conservatives. Where will it all end? In absolute tyranny – if left unchecked. So conservatives must fight back now or certainly lose America to fascist socialism as liberal...

The head of New York City's Black Lives Matter chapter is calling for an independent investigation into the organization's finances after it was revealed a co-founder snapped up a $1.4 million home in a ritzy Los Angeles neighborhood. Patrisse Cullors, 37, who is a co-founder of BLM and self-professed 'trained Marxist', recently purchased a plush property in Topanga Canyon complete with a separate guest house and an expansive back yard. In Topanga Canyon, 88 per cent of residents are white and just 1.8 per cent are black, according to the census.

Paris's deputy mayor has prompted fury by calling to ban white people from discussions of racism. Left-wing deputy mayor Audrey Pulvar, 49, said white people should 'be asked to keep quiet and be silent spectators' during discussions around racism attended by black and ethnic minority people. She explained: 'People who suffer discrimination for the same reasons and in the same way feel the need to meet among themselves to discuss it.'

You have to be pretty stupid to opine publicly about the race/ethnicity of a mass shooter before his race/ethnicity is known. You have to be very stupid to base such an opinion on the obviously false claim that mass shooters are “always” of a particular race/ethnicity. And you have to be world-class stupid to risk your professional career on such an assertion. But that’s what Hemal Jhaveri, then the “diversity and inclusion editor at USA Today Sports,” did following last week’s mass shooting in Colorado. She tweeted, “It’s always an angry white man [who does this]. Always.” Unfortunately for Jhaveri’s...