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You could be forgiven for believing that the California senator got himself handcuffed on purpose. After “sitting U.S. senator” Alex Padilla barged into Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem’s press conference and got himself forcibly (and rightly) tossed out of the room and handcuffed, leftists across America (again!) want us to be aghast at the Trump administration. It almost seems as though the whole episode was planned! Knowing Democrats as we do, almost certainly it was a planned stunt, done solely for political theatrics. Democrats across the U.S. are desperate to sway the electorate in their favor, so I’m not surprised...

The company allegedly required managers to reward employees “on the basis of their skin color alone and contrary to documented performance.” Many believe that masculine industries, such as military and defense, are naturally immune to left-wing race and gender ideologies. This is mostly a myth. These institutions are organized according to prestige and profit—and when those signals point to “woke,” industry leaders have dutifully followed. Take America’s largest defense contractor, Lockheed Martin. As we have previously reported, after the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement, Lockheed adopted radical DEI policies and, in one instance, required white men in leadership...

The National Guard was called in to California to protect law enforcement officers who are executing legitimate operations from the feral mobs. Had the previous president fulfilled his constitutional duty, as he promised he would when he took the oath of office, the spasm of violence over illegal immigrant arrests would have never happened, and President Donald Trump would have never had to make that call. The scenes in Los Angeles are disturbing. An assortment of thugs, screeching harridans, and nothing-else-to-do troublemakers have been blocking and physically confronting officers, hurling bricks and rocks at them, setting fire to private property,...

The masked man on the motorcycle, the one who waved a Mexican flag in front of a torched car as Los Angeles police stood by, will soon be famous. His identity remains unknown, his image iconic – but for all the wrong reasons. Republicans will replay the clip again and again in campaign ads ahead of the midterms. “This lawlessness is exactly what Americans rejected in 2024,” said Michael Whatley, chairman of the Republican National Committee. “While Democrats sow chaos, Republicans stand as the party of law and order.” President Trump is delivering on his campaign promise to crack down...

We're still grappling with the aftermath of journalism's profound failure during Covid and the George Floyd protests. The lies reporters told five years ago continue to haunt them - and all of us. What’s really happening in Los Angeles right now? What’s happening on the ground? How bad are these immigration protests/riots? I don’t know. And neither do you. The legacy media insists the protests are minor and the National Guard’s deployment is unnecessary. The New York Times complains of “the false impression that the entire city was engulfed in violence, when the clashes were limited to only a small...

Democrats have a long history of inciting violence. Examples abound, from starting the Civil War, to forming the KKK, to violently resisting school integration, to the Michael Brown and George Floyd riots, to the current anti-ICE riots in Los Angeles. Democrat-run cities are typically the most dangerous, poorly run environs in the U.S., and when you push the oppressor/victim narrative across the media landscape, violence gets put on the menu. Their rhetoric ramped up during Trump 45's administration when Democrat politicians and celebrities openly called for violence against President Trump and Republicans, even while accusing Republicans of being aggressors. And...

With money and bodies, American leftists are backing the Second Mexican American War, the one we thought was settled in 1848. Courts have enjoined Donald Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport Tren de Aragua bad guys. Venezuela opened its prisons and let those really awful excuses for humans out to wreak havoc in the United States. Trump identified a “predatory incursion” that one judge was sufficiently sapient to see. But the others are oh so offended that these “American fathers” are being sent back to their home countries. Kilmar Abrego Garcia is afraid that a rival gang...

Democrat LaMonica McIver Indicted over Storming of ICE Detention Center, Faces 17 Years in Federal Prison 449 Ras Baraka, mayor of Newark, right, and Representative LaMonica McIver, a Democrat from NeYuki Iwamura/Bloomberg/DHS John Binder10 Jun 20251,480 3:06 A federal grand jury has issued a three-count federal indictment against Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-NJ) after she was reportedly caught on camera storming an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center in Newark, New Jersey, last month. On Tuesday, a federal grand jury in Newark returned an indictment against McIver, charging her with forcibly impeding and interfering with ICE agents while they were...

Protesters gather ahead of a protest march in Dover on the south-east coast of England, on April 27, 2025. Do you have concerns about mass migration? Are you worried that a lack of integration is causing damage to society? Would you ever describe yourself as a “cultural nationalist?” According to Prevent, the British government’s official counter-extremism scheme, this makes you a potential terror threat. The Telegraph reported last week that an online training “refresher course” on Prevent’s site lists “cultural nationalism” as one belief that could see an individual referred for “de-radicalisation” training. It defines this as the conviction that...

The default strategy of constantly defaming whites as racists is meant to dehumanize whites and render them morally unqualified to coexist in society. The Knockout Game. Polar Bear Hunting. White Girl Bleed a Lot. Flash Mobbing. There is an entire urban lexicon that describes a nationwide subculture that celebrates anti-white violence, even if progressives dismiss it all as a phony moral panic. The principal architects of The Great Hate (blue media, academia, Hollywood, government-aligned NGOs) are armchair assassins using the joystick of propaganda to incite the suggestible and the psychotic to anarchy. Both the advocates and practitioners of violence all...

Here’s an article you might find interesting from Science magazine on June 2. The headline is “National Academies, staggering from Trump cuts, on brink of dramatic downsizing.” Science magazine is one of those formerly-prestigious “peer-reviewed” journals where for many decades you just had to get your research published in order to become someone in a scientific field. Somewhere along the way, Science turned from scientific inquiry to orthodoxy enforcement. The National Academy of Sciences (“NAS,” and along with two fellow Academies of Engineering and Medicine sometimes called “NASEM”), meanwhile, is a federally-chartered but supposedly private entity set up to give...

There’s an old joke line that says, “Don’t confuse me with facts.” It’s also a leftist line of argument. I used to try to argue with a leftist about politics, but whenever I’d bring in facts to counter his theories, he’d storm out, furious that I was polluting the discussion with how the world actually works. Greta Thunberg is a leftist down to the marrow of her bones, so she, too, refuses to have her ideological purity tainted by the facts. That’s why, when Israel attempted to show her and her fellow “selfie” yacht comrades footage of the October 7...

Democrats wondering why their party’s approval rating is in the tank – and why their coalition of voters is disintegrating around them – need look no further than the response to the riots that have rocked Los Angeles in recent days. Since the violence began on Friday, the country has witnessed a redux of the gaslighting campaign that accompanied the Black Lives Matter riots of 2020. Even as images of masked individuals waving Mexican flags in front of burning cars flooded social media, the legacy press and Democrat politicians described chaos as “demonstrations” and the arsonists as “anti-ICE protesters.” In...

Last Tuesday Florida’s Board of Governors rejected Dr. Santa Ono for president of its flagship school, the University of Florida (UF). This came just one week after UF’s Board of Trustees (BOT) unanimously approved Ono. In what is typically a procedural process, it marked the first time in the 22 years since the Board of Governors was established that it had rejected a candidate in this fashion. It was a blow for not only Ono, but also UF’s BOT. How did Ono nearly get approved as UF’s next president? The short answer is the almost childish simplicity of UF’s BOT,...

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. --Isaac Asimov. There can no longer be a shred of doubt that the Democrats, or, the left, loves and uses violence as a tactic in its war against America. They hate Trump and his supporters precisely because they love their country and the traditional values on which this nation was founded. Is there a person on the planet who does not realize that all the protests against ICE deportations are organized, and the participants recruited and paid? Soros’s billions pay for all manner of these violent leftist actions, dating from Ferguson, where...

Major media is acting hand in glove with Hamas to broadcast fake Gaza atrocity stories and enflame antisemitism. Immediately following the Hamas atrocities in Israel on October 7, key media outlets played a significant role in fomenting antisemitism, bruiting blood libels against Israel and those who support her. Last week, the same week Jews were firebombed in Boulder, Colorado, some publications seem to have by design or bias aided Hamas, a designated terrorist organization. Background There is no “genocide” in Gaza. “Gaza genocide” is a lie, and the people spreading that lie are partially responsible for the crimes these three...

Wikipedia, the world’s go-to site for information that professes to take a neutral point of view, is coming under fire for alleged anti-Israel bias in the sources it favors and content it delivers to millions of readers. The criticism is coming from several quarters, including a bipartisan group of 23 members of Congress who, in an April letter, expressed “deep concern regarding antisemitism” found in the online encyclopedia. The entries routinely highlight the work of anti-Zionist scholars and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), according to a review by RealClearInvestigations, while dismissing the views of Israel’s defenders. Amnesty International, which casts Israel as...

Everything is a cover-up. Nothing you hear is true. At least if it comes out of the mouths of Democrats and their mainstream media sycophants … or flows from their pens or keyboards. Turns out the Biden administration and the CDC knew the COVID-19 vaccines were dangerous but covered up that knowledge rather than properly inform the public. Big shock? Not to most of us. It also turns out the Biden administration knew cancer-causing chemicals were released into the local environment after the train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio. And it turns out again that they covered that little bit...

Amid mounting public backlash over men competing in women’s sports and adults engaging in perverse sexualized acts in front of children, many corporations are reportedly pumping the brakes on their support for “Pride Month” events this year. But AARP – despite purporting to be a nonpartisan organization – is still going full steam ahead on its Pride Month messaging, continuing a years-long pattern of embracing far-left gender ideology. An article published on AARP’s website on May 30 titled “Pride Month 2025: Making Connections Through Community” makes clear that AARP has no intention of backing down from its full-throated endorsement of...

The Trump administration has taken steps to free police and fire departments from the Biden administration’s onerous consent decrees. The Trump administration has dropped the Biden administration’s push for onerous consent decrees on police and fire departments. These legal settlements micromanaged police operations and mandated DEI-based hiring and promotion practices. “These radical requirements seem disconnected from how police departments actually work,” said Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon on Friday. “They tie officers’ hands and make communities less safe.” The proposed consent decrees required departments to change how they tested prospective hires, increasing the share of black and...