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Representative Val Hoyle (D-OR) said on Monday on CNN’s “News Central” that Democratic lawmakers will not vote to fund the government if Republicans are advancing President Donald Trump’s agenda, which “undermines the American people.” Host John Berman said, “What can you do about this? There are some raising the possibility of shutting down the government in March, when some of these funding bills come up for a vote. Do you think Democrats should stand in the way?” …

When you look at the breadth of President-elect Donald Trump’s victory, it’s impossible to pin Democratic losses on just one or two things. This is not a situation where the outcome would have been different if President Biden had done X or Vice President Kamala Harris had done Y. In fact, had both Biden and Harris done everything “right,” Trump likely still would have won. The culprit for the Democratic Party’s sweeping losses is bigger than any one particular candidate. In 2016, I left the Republican Party and became a Democrat. In many ways, I feel as if the GOP...

On Tuesday’s broadcast of NPR’s “Morning Edition,” Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who appeared in his personal capacity, responded to 2024 Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris abandoning multiple positions from her previous presidential run like her support for Medicare for all and a ban on fracking by saying that “your time in government and just the evolution of the situation around you means it makes sense to continue developing your policies.” And there’s been a lot of “change and dynamism…not just in the administration, but just in the world around us right now.” Co-host Steve Inskeep asked, [relevant exchange...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden's conduct behind closed doors, in the Oval Office, on Air Force One and in meetings around the world is described in the same dual way by those who regularly see him in action. He is often sharp and focused. But he also has moments, particularly later in the evening, when his thoughts seem jumbled and he trails off mid-sentence or seems confused. Sometimes he doesn't grasp the finer points of details. He occasionally forgets people's names, stares blankly and moves slowly around the room.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s conduct behind closed doors, in the Oval Office, on Air Force One and in meetings around the world is described in the same dual way by those who regularly see him in action. He is often sharp and focused. But he also has moments, particularly later in the evening, when his thoughts seem jumbled and he trails off mid-sentence or seems confused. Sometimes he doesn’t grasp the finer points of details. He occasionally forgets people’s names, stares blankly and moves slowly around the room.

On Saturday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The Weekend,” Biden 2024 Principal Deputy Campaign Manager Quentin Fulks stated that President Joe Biden will not accept violence or antisemitism and “believes in what these protesters are saying and he is working to bring peace to the Middle East and bring the situation to a close.” Fulks said, “[W]hen it comes to this issue, I think it’s important to call out that the President has said, as you said, that he believes in the right for peaceful protest, but that political violence, antisemitism [are] not going to be accepted. The other piece here is...

Wanting to hire “fewer white men” for a job is not discrimination, a tribunal has ruled. Chris Palmer was turned down from an £80,000 post at a financial services company, who instead opted to hire a woman, after he was told at his job interview the company wanted to hire fewer white men. At an employment tribunal, the candidate said his failure to get the position as head of HR was based on his ethnicity and gender following the remark from Michael Jones, the managing director. However the panel dismissed his claims – ruling it was not “indicative of an...

Outgoing National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director Dr. Anthony Fauci said Tuesday on MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports” that society was becoming anti-science because “untruths” are being normalized through social media. Mitchell said, “With the rise of disinformation and misinformation, are we developing an anti-science animus in society?” Fauci said, “The answer is yes. The short answer to your question.

From branding parents speaking out against critical race theory and sexual ideology in schools as terrorists to the Mar-a-Lago raid, Attorney General Merrick Garland’s radicalized Justice Department transforms pre-election political opposition into national security threats. The infamous DOJ letter on schools was sent out a month before the gubernatorial election in Virginia, where the National School Board Association, not to mention much of the D.C. establishment, is based. Much as Garland’s DOJ operatives feared, the school protests helped elect Gov. Glenn Younkin and nearly toppled New Jersey’s Democrat governor in the bargain. The Mar-a-Lago raid was carefully timed around the...

Targets dissidents who dispute country’s history or criticize ruling Communists. China’s Communist government has launched a new app that encourages citizens to report dissidents for expressing “mistaken opinions” on the Internet. The new platform will target anyone who criticizes the dictatorship’s ruling CCP, disputes the official version of the country’s history or engages in “misinformation.” The new website and app was proudly unveiled by China’s Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), with authorities calling on users to play an “active role” in helping to identify “malicious people distorting facts and confusing” others. “For a while now, some people with ulterior motives…have...

I just did a quick search on the term "doublethink" and it turns out that, for some surprising reason, George Orwell's "1984" is a best seller again. I seem to recall that in the book, it said that the purpose of doublethink was that if a person held two conflicting thoughts or beliefs, that it rendered the person unable to make a decision or take an action on that topic because of the simultaneous contradicting information. It was purposeful to keep the population mentally docile and to prevent rebellion. Yet, when I looked up the term and read several articles...

We are living with a new kind of regime that didn’t exist in Orwell’s time. It combines hard nationalism—the diversion of frustration and cynicism into xenophobia and hatred—with soft distraction and confusion: a blend of Orwell and Huxley, cruelty and entertainment. The state of mind that the Party enforces through terror in 1984, where truth becomes so unstable that it ceases to exist, we now induce in ourselves. Totalitarian propaganda unifies control over all information, until reality is what the Party says it is—the goal of Newspeak is to impoverish language so that politically incorrect thoughts are no longer possible....

This is the life of a lie. Three weeks ago, a caravan of Hondurans began walking nearly 2,000 miles to the United States. Their ranks grew as they inched north and, along with them, falsehoods grew, too. But one stands out: a conspiracy theory that liberal billionaire George Soros, a Jewish immigrant, is paying the migrants to make the journey – or even orchestrating it. Members of Congress and the president’s son both repeated it. Conservative celebrities, too. It also may have resonated in darker places. Cesar Sayoc, the man charged with mailing pipe bombs to Soros and other prominent...

I have a question for liberals: if you think that euthanasia for medical patients is “painless,” then why do you say that lethal injections for convicted murderers is “painful”? For as long as I can remember, liberals have supported legalization of euthanasia for consenting adult medical patients. As a libertarian, I agree with liberals on this issue.Also for as long as I can remember, liberals have been opposed to the death penalty. As a libertarian, I also agree with liberals on this issue.However, unlike liberals, I believe that euthanasia for medical patients and lethal injections for convicted murderers, have an...

Whoever coined the phrase, “The devil you know is better than the one you don’t,” OBVIOUSLY never met Hillary Clinton. There is a reason she is called Hitlery not only in private, but often in print as well at times. There is no situation on earth that the Devil we know with Hitlery, is EVER better than ANYONE, let alone Donald Trump. How many people has Trump killed again? Oh yes, zero. First of all, there's her never-ending killing spree of her political opposition. On August 6th, when I wrote, Clinton Adds +5 to Body Count in 6 Weeks, a...

Anyone questioning the sustainability and rightness of The New Normal is immediately attacked by the mainstream-media defenders of the crumbling status quo. Not only is everything that broke in 2008 fixed, everything's going great globally, and anyone who dares question this narrative in a tin-foil hat conspiracy nut or simply an annoyingly doom-and-gloomer who recalcitrantly refuses to accept the positive glories of official statistics: low unemployment, rising valuations of stock market Unicorns, etc. But the New Normal is anything but normal; all the readings of artificial life-support and manipulation are off the charts. If the New Normal were indeed a...

I think Chairman Obama's big problem with communicating with us Proles is that we do not speak the same language. We speak English and he speaks a language called Progressivakian. Progressivakian is similiar to English, it uses the same alphabet and same grammar, but without a skilled translator, it sounds like utter crap. Luckily for you, True Believer, I just happen to speak Progressivakian. I don't know where I learned it, but if anyone knows a good exorcist, please drop me a line. I'm scared. This is evil knowledge and I fear for my soul. Below, is a translation of...

Progressive Liberals are all about Contradiction. They hate the Constitution as demonstrated by their recent hue and cry when the Republicans of the 112th Congress proposed to read it before the start of their term. Ironically, the same elected Progressive Liberals who complain about the reading of the Constitution are sworn to uphold the Constitution. So why are they using the tragic assassination attempt on Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Gifford as cover to violate the 1st and 2nd amendments by legislating against free speech and the right to bear arms. Democrats say their recent attack against freedom of speech and the...

Youtube link to VideoGeorge Orwell defined doublethink as “the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.When it comes to war, spending, and more, President Barack Obama’s 2010 State of the Union address showed that doublethink is alive and well in Washington, D.C.Approximately two minutes. Written and produced by Paul Feine.For downloadable versions of all videos, go to Reason.tv. For automatic notifications when new content goes online, subscribe to Reason.tv’s YouTube channel.

Liberals are obsessed with contradiction. I’m convinced that in order to be a Liberal one must possess the ability to suspend reality and replace it with some polar opposite to the truth, a flight over Bosnia or a Third Way if you will, which is a political philosophy that President Clinton was a disciple of. That is not what Barack Hussein Obama is doing [Obama is not attempting a Third Way Obama is tearing down the old way] and E.J. Dionne has got it all wrong in his article Obama and the limits of mastery.