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For the first time since 2010, an American man has made to the Australian Open quarterfinals. The aptly named Tennys Sandgren is the last American standing in the men’s singles division, an achievement that is ever-so-slightly tainted by the fact that he’s probably a huge Trump supporter — and not the craven “Trump is terrible but I voted for him anyway because I am a Republican” kind, but the out-and-proud MAGA hat-wearing, “Pizzagate is real” kind. At a post-match press conference on Monday, a reporter asked Sandgren about his Twitter account, where he’s retweeted and engaged in conversation with prominent...

The precedent-setting first one to have her decades long career of acting and activism cast aside and replaced by the “IRRELEVANT description, she showed up Wikipedia for what it really is: a clearing house for the progressive-left. The same day you tell the truth about what a disaster a Hillary Clinton presidency would have been, your entire career as an actress and activist will go down as “IRRELEVANT” on your Wikipedia entry. Up for the whole world to see for 17 minutes, this was the Wikipedia bio for Susan Sarandon before it was edited out under the ready editing excuse...

In the days following Donald Trump’s surprise election win, progressive Columbia University humanities professor Mark Lilla published a thought-provoking, viral essay that took direct aim at identity politics: In recent years American liberalism has slipped into a kind of moral panic about racial, gender and sexual identity that has distorted liberalism’s message and prevented it from becoming a unifying force capable of governing. Lilla’s essay became a book that has sparked debate, withering reviews, and general disdain across wide swathes of the political and academic Left. Yet as I read the attacks on Lilla, I was struck by the extent...

About a year ago I made one of the more risky decisions of my life – one that I knew could hurt my career as an actress. I decided to come out of the conservative closet and admit to my peers that I was a conservative in Hollywood. Yes, hard as it is for some to believe, not everyone in the entertainment industry on the Left Coast is a left-winger. An acquaintance had asked me to write for a right-of-center political magazine. I realized I would be outing myself by doing it, but I ended up writing a few dozen...

federal judge on Wednesday ordered the removal of the Mount Soledad cross from property owned by the city of San Diego within 90 days or he will fine the city $5,000 a day. “It is now time, and perhaps long overdue, for this court to enforce its initial permanent injunction forbidding the presence of the Mount Soledad cross on city property,” said U.S. District Judge Gordon Thompson. Thompson first found the presence of the cross on city property unconstitutional in 1991 because it violated the separation of church and state. Since then, his order, and the issue of the cross,...

It appears that more and more notable people are defecting from the liberal left. To put it more appropriately; the ideology of the liberal left has changed so radically in the last generation that many notable people have opted to stop rationalizing and apologizing for it. Note: I am taking great care to explain that the liberal left has become a symbol for boorish intolerance, not all Democrats in general. I find it irksome when all political patriots describe the opposing party in terms that only apply to the most rabid partisans on the fringe. Not all Democrats march with...