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We thought President Donald Trump was merely another Hitler. But, no, he’s also another Mao and another Stalin. Next he’ll be on his way to becoming Beelzebub himself, unless the climate fanatics can finally get a hold of themselves. In one of the more maniacal rants we have seen, Rep. Sean Casten, an Illinois Democrat, swore before hundreds of millions that the administration’s dropping of the Obama-era Environmental Protection Agency’s carbon dioxide endangerment finding is an act of mass murder. Seems to be a lot to put on an administrative order that reverses the EPA’s ability to regulate CO2, which...

The self-appointed liberal thought police have loaded their proverbial guns and aimed them at Sydney Sweeney since 2022. What offense did Sweeney commit in 2022? She posted pictures of her mother's 60th birthday, and some 'fans' claimed that individuals wearing MAGA-style hats and "Blue Lives Matter" tops were in the background. The rodeo theme of the party must have also irked liberals, because it is perceived as anachronistic and rural. Soon, Sweeney was linked to the 'far right' and the choicest epithets related to bigotry were conferred upon her. The liberal mob wanted Sweeney to issue a groveling apology and...

Nations that denounce their own cultures, traditions, histories, and religions are not nations for long. A spate of massive anti-illegal-immigration protests has broken out across the United Kingdom. Indeed, one might say that the kingdom is increasingly united about one thing: Britain belongs to the British. Waving Union Jack flags and carrying “Britain First” signs, thousands of protesters walk down city streets sporting patriotic clothing and repeating patriotic cheers. A stranger who knew no better might mistake the mass euphoria for a post-war victory parade celebrating the prospect of peace. Americans have seen these kinds of festive gatherings before. In...

Former president Barack Obama exudes an air of superiority and self-assurance that inspires those to whom he’s speaking to believe everything he says is true. He has spent twenty years leveraging his soaring rhetoric to deceive the easily duped. That’s why it’s no surprise that we are now learning that the former president has tried to harm political opponents by saying one thing publicly and doing the exact opposite in private. Since 2004, America has received warnings from Barack Obama about threats he believes Americans should watch out for, including issues related to democracy, the rise of authoritarianism, free speech,...

The ostensible high priests of journalism should be able to detect the difference between passable coverage and epic, historic failure. Letter to Bill Grueskin, former Dean of the Columbia Journalism School, on his recent article in the Columbia Journalism Review.Mr. Grueskin, Regarding your August 1 article, “Knowing: Still Only Half the Battle,” which lauds Charlie Savage of the New York Times for having “dissected and eviscerated” Director of Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s claims about corruption of intelligence in the Trump-Russia investigation: You praised Savage’s article, “New Reports on Russian Interference Don’t Show What Trump Says They Do,” as an example of...

When we think of corruption, the first thoughts usually are of bribery or other forms of obtaining favors from politicians or officeholders. Think Senator Robert Menendez or the ‘foundations’ of former presidents or public officials. Those are the blatant forms, which are all too common with today’s politicians, some just do a better job of hiding it than others, while some seem to not be required to hide it. When we look at the Democrat Party of today, can anyone honestly say that they have not been corrupted? In years past, they stood for something; the members of the Party...

We are living through an era of professional gaslighting so refined it could qualify for a Ph.D. in psychological warfare. The latest example? After years of establishment indifference, we are now being told -- loudly, breathlessly -- that Jeffrey Epstein’s legacy of elite depravity is the national scandal of the hour. Apparently, six years after his death, this is now urgent. That Donald Trump crossed paths with Epstein is supposed to be more damning than the years Epstein was welcomed by the Clinton inner circle, the Gates orbit, and the upper crust of academia, finance, and intelligence. Let me offer...

With the second Trump term, reestablishing the rule of law is underway, but its universal realization is uncertain. Federal anti-discrimination law is clear enough, but hasn’t been enforced, or has been bizarrely interpreted to not only allow men pretending to be women to participate in women’s sports, but to suggest that was the intention of those writing such laws. Other laws have been warped not only to allow the surgical mutilation of gender confused children, but to force taxpayers to pay for the procedures and to entirely abrogate parent’s rights to direct the upbringing of their children. Kamala Harris ran...

Reams have been written about the latest revelations in the Russian collusion hoax that so hamstrung President Trump’s first term. I will summarize below the most important revelations. It’s clear the Administration is taking its time to reveal the investigation’s conclusions for maximum impact -- an impact that I, like Scott Adams, believe will result in arrests of a number of people who pulled off this fraud. But first I want to discuss something which has not received the kind of attention it deserves -- the death of the legal consequences for disparate outcomes and credentialism. The Death of Disparate...

RAFAH, GAZA STRIP—Every day this week, hundreds of U.N. trucks stacked with pallets of humanitarian aid have exited Israeli-patrolled routes and rumbled into population centers across the Gaza Strip, where Israel has implemented daily pauses in military activity. Many of the trucks, though traveling under enhanced Israeli protections introduced on Sunday, have not reached U.N. warehouses, according to Gazans on the ground. Once the trucks have arrived in the population centers, armed Hamas militants have hijacked the cargo, the Gazans said, and what aid has arrived at the warehouses has disappeared into a patronage system controlled by the Palestinian terrorist...

Rebukes by the Supreme Court and DC appellate court are not stopping Boasberg's quest to punish the Trump administration for alleged contempt. Now he's the target of complaints of misconduct. Jeb Boasberg is not giving up. Undeterred by recent smackdowns by the Supreme Court and the D.C. appellate court, Boasberg, the Obama-appointed chief judge of the D.C. district court, is preparing to mete out some sort of punishment against the Trump administration for allegedly defying one of his court orders back in March. During a hearing last week in the ACLU’s lawsuit related to the Alien Enemies Act, President Trump’s...

“The truth is stranger than fiction” (as attributed to Mark Twain)Conspiracy theorists have long thought that Seth Rich’s death was an assassination facilitated by the Deep State — a Machiavellian hit by the Deep State to cover for its operation known as Russian Collusion because Rich could expose it as false from the beginning. It was an actual “Spy vs. Spy” episode, straight out of Mad Magazine — except our side went full Stasi against the American people. There were the DOJ, FBI, CIA, ODNI, and others in the Intelligence Community (I.C.), except NSA director Adm. Mike Rogers (See more)....

The long-classified annex from the Durham report tells us what Nancy was really up to. This May 16, 2016 quote from Nancy Pelosi has haunted me: “Donald Trump is not going to be President of the United States. Take it to the bank, I guarantee it.” All these years, I’ve wondered, how could she be so certain? This wasn’t just the usual campaign hyperbole. Her phrasing was simple noun-verb construction, nakedly declarative, and absolutely certain. She left herself absolutely no wiggle-room for later, just in case. Seasoned politicians don’t do that sort of thing typically and Nancy Pelosi is most...

The Democrats who demanded mask mandates now demand mask-free mandates.... On the July 23, 2025 edition of the Fox News show, Greg Gutfeld, in speaking of the CBP agent that was shot in the face by an illegal alien, Gutfeld said, “And you know Tyrus, when this story came out about this agent getting shot, the media wouldn’t say he [the shooter] is an illegal suspect. They wouldn’t say anything about him. Said an agent was shot on a rock in Central Park.” In response, Tyrus said, I have a problem with this, and maybe this is just… I don’t...

The Democrat outrage about Sydney Sweeney and its problems with keeping male voters are two sides of the same coin. The party hates men, manliness, and normal heterosexuality. I kind of knew about Sydney Sweeney before yesterday, because I’d heard that her breasts were real and spectacular. I definitely knew about the Democrats’ problem attracting young men to the party. While Democrats won young men in the 18-29 age group by around ten points in 2020, just five years later, the Washington Post reported that around 53% of young men in that age cohort now lean Republican. Leftists have all...

The split screen of the media features Goebbelsian lies about the Jewish State directly sourced from Hamas, a Muslim Brotherhood terrorist group originally started with backing from the Nazis, and complaints that a jeans ad from American Eagle, a Jewish company, is really Nazi propaganda. The manufactured controversy over the American Eagle ads is the kind of academic cultural wokeness that the Left had been trying to get away from, but obviously couldn’t leave behind, and the endless reprocessing of it in media thinkpieces is also a hypocritical way of showcasing the same ads that the media condemns. The whole...

As the right-wing populist AfD surges in the polls, parts of the Left appear to be going off the rocker. Jette NietzardAs we already reported, Jette Nietzard, national spokesperson of the Green Youth Party, has hinted at the possibility of armed resistance if Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) manages to enter government after the 2029 federal elections. Her statements, made in a podcast by the public broadcaster RBB and repeated in an interview with the weekly Freitag, have sparked outrage due to their political and social implications. “Will that resistance be intellectual or perhaps armed?” Nietzard asked during the ‘Freitag Salon’event...

Six years ago, I described Donald Trump as “our first Jewish President” because his enemies subjected him to the types of attacks that antisemites reserve for Jews. The case grows stronger with each passing year. The attacks against Trump – constant lies, exaggerated hysterics, lawfare, betrayals from within, cultural defamation, the hopes for his suffering, the murder attempts, etc. – are far too familiar from history’s war against the Jews. To choose only last week’s antisemitic salvo, a Turkish state-run news agency published a grim, pieta-like photo of a healthy mother holding a frail, emaciated child as proof that Israel...

What led Obama to allegedly organize a takedown of the Trump presidency? Back in 2016, I remember reading an analysis that President Obama's two terms had left the Democrats in bad shape. In other words, he started in 2009 with huge majorities and left town with the GOP in charge of the U.S. Senate and House. It was probably not what Obama planned, but it happened that way. So the question is: What led Obama to allegedly organize a takedown of the Trump presidency? Was he hurt or was his ego crushed? I like this analysis from Martin Gurri: He...

Fighter-writer Brandon Smith published a great piece last week entitled “Lefties, Illegals and Minorities Are Finally Experiencing ‘Consequence Culture.’” In that essay, Smith reminds readers of the psychological war that raged four years ago. We weren’t allowed to question the 2020 election’s mail-in ballot fraud or the statistically improbable results that dragged Biden’s dementia-addled brain back into the White House. Public health authorities were conspiring with social media platforms to censor anyone who doubted the efficacy of the pharmaceutical industry’s magical elixirs conveniently redefined as “vaccines.” The “woke” movement was aggressively shoveling its special brand of “trans” and child-grooming excrement...