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Ken Burns and PBS want to teach us the history of the American Revolution. That’s objectively laudable, but from the opening seconds of his new six-part, 12-hour-long series on the Revolution, Burns is off to a truly ludicrous start. Why do I say that? Because instead of beginning with the events that led to the break with Britain in 1775, Burns (after an anodyne quote from Thomas Paine) opens with an Indian diatribe about land.That is not surprising. Lest there be any question as to what Burns intends for us to learn about the American Revolution, Burns stated in an...

In its efforts to find every anti-Trump story line it can, the PBS News Hour is touting members of the military who are seeking outside legal advice about whether the missions assigned by the Trump administration are legally justified, starting with the drug-boat bombings. Brett T. at Twitchy cracked: "It seems as though PBS got a press release from 'The Orders Project,' an outfit run by a former Army lawyer. We're sure it's nonpartisan." It's part of the National Institute of Military Justice, founded in 2020 to question the legality of military matters through pro bono legal consultations. Is it...

The American Revolution is shrouded in myth. But the war that created the United States was much more than the oft-told tales of the founding fathers. It was a bloody, gritty affair, a tragic civil war and a global conflict as much as it was a war for independence.

A top executive at PBS was arrested and booked on drug charges after he was pulled over by law enforcement officials in Arkansas. Michael Hibblen, director of public affairs at Arkansas PBS, was arrested after Pulaski County deputies allegedly found methamphetamine in his car during a traffic stop earlier this week, authorities said. Deputies pulled Hibblen over around 9 p.m. on Monday on Interstate 40 westbound after clocking him at 80 mph in a 60 mph zone, according to an arrest report obtained by KATV-TV. The longtime journalist told deputies he was heading home after dropping off a friend at...

Some of Christianne Amanpour echo chamber and her own sick propaganda since genocidal "Palestinian" Islamic-terror regime Hamas Oct 7 atrocities.Christiane Amanpour's coverage since the barbaric October 7, 2023, [beginning as it was happening], "Palestine" Hamas atrocities—where the genocidal Islamist terror regime slaughtered 1,200 innocent Israelis, including babies and Holocaust survivors, and took 251 hostages, and the declared aim to murder as many as possible —has devolved into a toxic echo chamber of her own twisted, anti-Israel propaganda. Far from objective journalism, her program has become a platform for laundering Hamas's blood libels, moral equivocation, and outright distortions that shield the...

There could be as many as 104.1 million people who back domestic terrorism in the U.S. Most of America believes politically motivated violence is a problem in America, and there remains an alarming 30% who believe "Americans may need to resort to violence to get the country back on course," according to the latest NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll. That 30% includes 11% who "strongly agree" Americans must resort to violence to force their political agenda, and 19% "agree." With 347 million people in the U.S., 30% equates to 104.1 million supportive of domestic terror, including potentially more than 38 million who...

Every so often the media rolls its sleeves up and tries to once again get us all to eat gross, filthy bugs instead of delicious, healthy, clean meat. CBS ran this segment over the weekend arguing we should eat bugs because soybean farming is bad for the planet or something 🥴 Sadly, 2025 is no exception, with NPR once again making a bid to have us eat literal larva: In markets in the capital Kinshasa, tubs full of writhing white maggots line the alleyways, and women traders fry caterpillars, spiced with chili, over charcoal fires. "The more you eat caterpillars,...

A statue of President Trump holding hands with Jeffrey Epstein appeared briefly on D.C.'s National Mall this week, only to be removed after less than a day. The bronze-painted installation, titled Best Friends Forever, depicts the two men smiling at each other, each with an arm and leg raised as if in mid-frolic. "In Honor of Friendship Month, we celebrate the long-lasting bond between President Donald J. Trump and his 'closest friend,' Jeffrey Epstein," reads the plaque, emblazoned with hands making a heart shape. September is widely recognized as friendship month. Trump has repeatedly downplayed his relationship with Epstein, the...

The ‘House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party’ was in session when a Code Pink activist disrupted it by holding up a sign reading, “China Is Not Our Enemy.” “The United States needs collaboration, not competition, with China,” she insisted. Collaboration was the correct term. While most people stopped paying attention to Code Pink in the aftermath of the Iraq War, the leftist anti-war group never went away, but beyond the backing for Venezuela, Iran and the other usual terror states, it’s become a vocal defender of China. The level of collaboration between Code Pink and China is unusual...

PBS NewsHour, September 15, 2025 Issue #1Nick Schifrin: "But that is highly unlikely, suggesting little chance for a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas, especially after Israel's strikes last Tuesday in Qatar, targeting Hamas' chief negotiators in the country that had been the mediators." To call Hamas leaders in Qatar "negotiators" is misleading and paints a false picture. These are not diplomats seeking peace but the very masterminds behind the horrific October 7th massacre. The men Israel targeted are not peacekeepers—they are terrorist leaders and have long been residing in Qatar, which has repeatedly played host to Hamas figures, offering...

Over thirty people across the country have been fired, put on leave, investigated or faced calls to resign because of social media posts criticizing Charlie Kirk or expressing schadenfreude about the conservative influencer's assassination earlier this week, according to an analysis by NPR. And more may be to come:

PBS informed 34 staffers Thursday they were being laid off as part of a broader downsizing effort that's resulted in 100 jobs being cut in recent months. The cuts were triggered in part by the Trump administration’s rescission package, which slashed over $1 billion in federal funding for public broadcasting. "Due to the loss of federal funding, PBS eliminated close to 100 positions over the last several months, including 34 valued PBS staff members notified yesterday their employment is ending. In this unprecedented moment, we remain focused on what matters most: ensuring our member stations can deliver quality content and...

The world's leading authority on food insecurity has confirmed a famine in Gaza. In a report published Friday, the United Nations-backed group of experts finds that over half a million people parts of north Gaza are at risk of dying from starvation, and hundreds of thousands more people face catastrophic shortages as the famine spreads to other areas. "As this Famine is entirely man-made, it can be halted and reversed. The time for debate and hesitation has passed, starvation is present and is rapidly spreading," the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, or IPC, report says. The images of skeletal children...

Major liberal philanthropies are pledging $50 million to keep NPR and PBS member stations afloat after President Donald Trump pulled $1.1 billion in funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the primary source of federal support for NPR and PBS, according to a Monday report. "The Knight Foundation is committing $10 million to the fund, which aims to disburse the money before the end of the year," the New York Times reported. "Together with Knight, the Ford Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, the Schmidt Family Foundation, Pivotal Ventures and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation have already committed nearly $27 million for...

CNN is a seemingly endless fount of dumb ideas. Yesterday, we caught a CNN correspondent recommending that if Anas Al-Sharif was a Hamas terrorist, instead of killing him, the IDF should have asked Al Jazeera to fire him! Today, it was CNN contributor and former NPR host Lulu Garcia-Navarro's turn. Criticizing Trump's use of federal agents to supplement DC police, Garcia-Navarro said the real solution to "girl brawls" is to have "better social media policies and better money for schools."So, limit teens to 15 minutes a day on TikTok, perhaps? Yup, that'll bring girl brawls and other crime by the...

intelligence report on the election that he had just recently received. The majority of this interview was spent discussing Russia's election interference to help Trump. We now know that Obama had just received a report informing him that did not happen. 2. It was extremely obvious throughout the entire interview that Obama was lying and that he knew the significance of what he was doing. 3. Obama finished the interview, left and returned to talk about a new "Intelligence Assessment" that would be dropping before Trump's inauguration. He was priming the media to be on the look out for the...

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced this week that six additional states had been granted waivers allowing them to prohibit Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits from being used on certain processed foods and drinks. Kennedy joined U.S. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary and Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins on Monday as Rollins signed the six new waivers, which allow the states to amend what the food assistance benefits -- colloquially referred to as food stamps -- can be used for at the grocery store.

For more than half a century, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) claimed to be a guardian of public trust, a neutral steward of the people’s airwaves.Established by Congress in 1967 with a clear mandate to stay nonpolitical and not support any political party, it was supposed to serve as an impartial vehicle for news and educational programming.But that ideal — while noble — died long ago.The CPB’s failure to uphold its mission has been obvious for decades.By the 1990s, it was already clear to many on the right that something had gone awry.House Speaker Newt Gingrich and other Republicans...

Economic dunce-in-chief Paul Krugman knows as much about intellectual consistency as he does about the meaning of “transitory” inflation. His proverbial brain aneurysm to that effect was put on full display during the August 5 edition of PBS’s Amanpour & Company, which also airs on CNN International. Krugman went on a sanctimonious rant against President Donald Trump over his suggestion that the Bureau of Labor Statistics was rigging jobs numbers under former Biden-appointed commissioner Erika McEntarfer, of which FEC records indicate was a Democrat donor. “This is Banana Republic stuff. This is -- I wrote about it, I called it...

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced today that it will be laying off its staff and shutting down. CPB is the organization that provides funding to PBS and NPR and now that funding is gone.For nearly 60 years, CPB has carried out its Congressional mission to build and sustain a trusted public media system that informs, educates, and serves communities across the country. Through partnerships with local stations and producers, CPB has supported educational content, locally relevant journalism, emergency communications, cultural programming, and essential services for Americans in every community.“Despite the extraordinary efforts of millions of Americans who called,...