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In this wide-ranging conversation, host Jack Fowler sits down with Dr. Elizabeth Spalding to confront the forgotten truths of communism’s deadly legacy. From Hollywood’s willful blindness to the rise of socialism at home, Spalding explains why communism and socialism share the same DNA—and why freedom still needs defending.

“Star Trek: Starfleet Academy,” a new series set in the “Star Trek” universe, is getting review-bombed online after debuting its first two episodes Thursday night, with some anti-”woke” critics targeting the show, including Trump advisor Stephen Miller. The first two episodes of “Star Trek: Starfleet Academy” premiered Thursday night on Paramount+, while the first episode is also streaming for free on YouTube. The teen-focused show stars Holly Hunter as the chancellor of the titular “Starfleet Academy,” set centuries in the future but roughly around the time of the later seasons of “Star Trek: Discovery.” Despite decent critic reviews and a...

"When it comes down to it, my life belongs to me," says Timothy Sandefur, author of the new book, You Don't Own Me.Many popular movies make a constructive point: If you work hard enough and push through tough times, you can achieve your dreams. In The Pursuit of Happyness, a struggling father tells his son, "Don't let anyone tell you, you can't do something." The movie is a true story about a man who overcomes homelessness and gets his dream job. In Rocky Balboa, Rocky says, "It's not about how hard you hit. It's about how hard you can get...

Left-wing Hollywood celebrities wasted no time demanding the impeachment of President Donald Trump after he ordered the military operation the lead to the capture of Venezuela’s socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores, on what U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi called charges of Narco-Terrorism Conspiracy, Cocaine Importation Conspiracy, Possession of Machineguns and Destructive Devices, and Conspiracy to Possess Machineguns and Destructive Devices against the United States.”

Hollywood actor union Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) is plotting to go on strike next year over the possible acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery by streaming giant Netflix, a report says. Sources are telling reporters that SAG-AFTRA is currently “building a war room” in opposition to the merger — fearing that allowing the streamer to take over a film studio will be a disaster for actors and filmmakers, according to the New York Post. “They believe that it’s bad for their members and it’s bad for consumers. A strike is not off the table if...

Like autumn leaves falling from Hollywood’s once-evergreen trees, a familiar cycle is returning to American entertainment. For years, the industry insisted its experimental season would last forever, that audiences would adapt to whatever programming executives deemed necessary for our moral improvement. But nature, like the marketplace, has its own immutable laws. The entertainment industry has been quietly recalibrating its priorities lately, though you wouldn’t know it from the panicked press releases flooding out of activist organizations. Television networks and streaming services, those great barometers of American cultural preferences, are making decisions based on an almost forgotten metric: what viewers actually...

Kiss rocker Gene Simmons called out Jewish Hollywood celebrities pushing “incendiary” anti-Israel propaganda. “They don’t understand, they’re just idiots,” the “I Love It Loud” singer said. “Hey guys, my name is Haim, born in Haifa,” Simmons said in Hebrew, before switching to English, adding, “I’m one of you guys, so don’t worry about all the Jewish morons who are running around saying all kinds of incendiary things. They don’t understand, they’re just idiots.” “If they spent a day with you, and saw — well, imagine this, you live in Beverly Hills and 35,000 rockets come in that week from Pasadena,...

Leonardo DiCaprio's One Battle After Another has sparked backlash from conservative audiences despite being the most critically acclaimed film of the year. The sprawling 162-minute thriller, directed by 11-time Oscar nominee Paul Thomas Anderson, has wowed mainstream critics and won praise from the likes of Steven Spielberg and Taylor Swift. But despite the film's many accolades, One Battle After Another has struggled to recoup its rumored $175 million budget at the box office so far. The movie's progressive plot has also been blasted as 'woke' by conservative viewers, who accuse it of being 'pro-Antifa' for having a group of left-wing...

“Cancel Netflix for the health of your kids,” Musk wrote on Oct. 1, quoting another user’s meme depicting Netflix’s “transgender woke agenda” as a Trojan horse entering a fortress labeled “your kids.” Musk’s anti-Netflix effort kicked off on Tuesday. Musk posted “This is not ok” in quoting the right-wing activist account Libs of TikTok’s surfacing of a clip of Netflix’s “Dead End: Paranormal Park” in which the protagonist says he is transgender. “Dead End Paranormal Park, a show on Netflix, is pushing pro-transgender on CHILDREN. This show is advertised for 7-YEAR-OLDS,” Libs of TikTok said, referring to Netflix’s TV-Y7 rating,...

There's a Mormon character in one of ABC's new fall series. And viewers will learn this when they see him wearing nothing but his temple garments. That's just one of the reasons that members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints may not be particularly pleased with that character in the pilot of "Quantico," which is scheduled to premiere on Sunday, Sept. 27, at 9 p.m. on ABC/Ch. 4. The series is about a bunch of new recruits who arrive at the FBI training base in Quantico, Va., for training.

The Office’s Rainn Wilson had the perfect take on the Charlie Kirk assassination. The actor roundly rejected claims that we should be celebrating the death of someone with whom we disagree politically. It’s so wrong-headed, speaking to actor Mark Ruffalo. He mentioned that he talked to some “liberal friends” who were less than compassionate. “Guys, no,” said Wilson. “No, we cannot think or talk that way.” Granted, it’s nothing special. All one must do is not act like an a**hole, but the Left cannot contain their bloodlust in the wake of the murder of the Turning Point USA founder. The...

Jimmy Kimmel's sidekick Guillermo Rodriguez was seen dodging questions as he and other staff fled the studio after ABC 'indefinitely' suspended the late night talk show on Wednesday. The veteran host's Jimmy Kimmel Live! will be removed from the network for the foreseeable future, over his divisive comments regarding the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

Actor Michael Keaton spoke out about the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, a rare move in a Hollywood culture where most celebrities have remained silent. The 74-year-old “Beetlejuice” actor made his opinions known at the Investigative Reporters and Editors’ 50th anniversary gala on Monday night, per Variety. “Before we start to get into the meat of this thing, I’m going to take a minute to say that, regardless of how I probably — not probably — have disagreed with many things he said, Charlie Kirk leaves behind two kids and a wife,” Keaton said during his speech. “You gotta...

Another day, another public execution. The talking heads on television and Twitter tell us not to worry too much: America is still strong. They repeat this sentiment after every waking nightmare. These horrific events are not the norm, they say. They’re just the actions of a few people on the “fringe.” But what is the American “fringe”? The “fringe” tried to incinerate the country in 2020. The “fringe” tore down statues of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. The “fringe” control the universities and has spent years indoctrinating kids with discriminatory dogmas. The “fringe” created the policies that let violent, mentally...

Whoopi Goldberg isn’t planning on leaving The View anytime soon. In a new interview, the longtime co-host of the daytime talk show made it clear she has no intentions of retiring — and her reasoning was refreshingly candid. “I’ve gotta keep paying those bills, baby!” Goldberg, 69, told Entertainment Tonight on September 9. When asked if she’s considered “slowing down,” Goldberg admitted she has, but quickly added, “Who can afford to do that?” “If you don’t marry well, you’ve got to keep working,” the EGOT winner quipped

Charlie Sheen is done censoring his truth. The former “Two and a Half Men” star, 60, revealed he’s had sex with men, which began when he started smoking crack. “I flipped the menu over,” Sheen reveals in his upcoming Netflix documentary, “aka Charlie Sheen,” out on Sept. 10, about his same-sex bedroom experience. The actor revealed he’s done hiding his sexual encounters with men. Sheen revealed that his first encounter happened while he was using heavy narcotics, like crack, and he struggled to come to terms with his actions. These days, he’s owning it.

Emerald Fennell's upcoming Wuthering Heights adaptation has been called 'aggressively provocative' and will feature a BDSM-inspired sex scene. The upcoming adaptation of Emily Bronte's classic novel sees Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi portray doomed lovers Catherine and Heathcliff. But those expecting a faithful adaptation of the beloved work may be in for a rude awakening as Fennell's upcoming film is said to lean into the 'stylised depravity' she has become known for after directing Saltburn.

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About 250 Hollywood stars joined with Planned Parenthood last week in a full-page New York Times ad that called for continued taxpayer funding of the abortion industry giant. “I’m for Planned Parenthood,” proclaims the ad. The celebrities, among them singers Stevie Nicks, Sheryl Crow, and Cyndi Lauper, and actor George Lopez, cite three reasons for their support, including because they’re for “freedom” and for “health care.” Their third reason echoes Planned Parenthood’s common deceitful claim that they support getting “the government” out of decisions about abortion. In reality, Planned Parenthood and its allies are, in this very ad, pushing for...

Sacramento-area Assemblymember Maggy Krell forced Assembly lawmakers to consider her sex-trafficking bill on the floor last week. It blew up into the biggest controversy Sacramento has seen in a while. Assembly Democrats confronted a floor maneuver to force a vote on Krell’s bill to treat all solicitations of Californians under age 18 the same, as a way to battle sex trafficking. Democrats amended the bill over Krell’s objections.