Three retired generals say there’s a real chance of another assault on democracy… and the armed forces should be wargaming it. But doesn’t the military have its own extremism problems? One of the generals, Paul Eaton, joins Mehdi to discuss.
By LEAH WILLINGHAM CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Gov. Jim Justice has a message for singer and actress Bette Midler, who called West Virginians “poor, illiterate and strung out” in a tweet after Sen. Joe Manchin refused to support President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better Act. The 70-year-old Republican […]
Briahna Joy Gray and Robby Soave react to Truth Social’s content restrictions.
By Andrew Sullivan There is a better way to defeat left indoctrination than banning books. One of the more familiar experiences on Twitter is being called a grifter, a person who issues takes entirely geared toward more clicks, readers, dollars or followers. It’s an exhausted slur, but, to […]
It is very difficult to get honest or accurate information on this topic because it is such an emotionally-charged and ideologically-driven issue with incentives for misrepresentation existing in a range of contexts. But the Pew Research Center has a very solid reputation for engaging in empirically-driven research. I […]
It’s hilarious how after decades of conservatives bashing “activist judges” liberals are now the SCOTUS haters. By Caroline Downey National Review Joy Behar, co-host of the show The View, compared the Supreme Court to a “dictatorial branch of government” because of the unique appointment process and lifetime tenure […]
By Pat Buchanan, The American Conservative Before he appeared at his first solo news conference of 2022, President Joe Biden knew he had a communications problem he had to deal with. Namely, how to get off the defensive. How to avoid spending his time with the White House […]
I’ve long been predicting the eventual “diversification of the right” which seems to have accelerated during the Trump era. By Neil J. Young The Week On Monday, a U.S. District Judge sentenced Brandon Straka, a conservative influencer and #MAGA social media star, for participating in and encouraging the […]
By Amanda Prestigiacomo Daily Wire Since a ban on numerous firearms took effect in May 2020, Canadians have only turned in 160 to the government — a stunningly tiny number, considering the original government estimation of there to be some 90,000 to 105,000 outlawed firearms in Canada. “Only 160 […]
I can’t say I much care if the bourgeois bohemians are running scared of lumpen crime. The US elites wanted the domestic United States to be a Third World country and they’re going to get it. By Georgett Roberts and Gabrielle Fonrouge Open fires burning on the street. […]
–Eric Trump and Alex Jones invoked their 5th Amendment rights hundreds of times during recent testimony to the January 6 committee, a jarring contrast to Donald Trump saying that only guilty
He said, “I’m against censorship, but when it’s matter of life or death…” That’s the biggest fallacy, most proponents of censorship use this fallacy to eliminate opposition. You are either for censorship or you are not, that’s it.
Katie Halper, Batya Ungar-Sargon, and Robby Soave discuss one of President Biden’s controversial federal judicial nominees
Team Rising debates the influence of Big Tech in stopping the spread of online disinformation.
Krystal and Saagar offer their view on the controversy between Spotify and Neil Young after the rock legend gave the company an ultimatum between his music and Joe Rogan’s podcast
Batya Ungar-Sargon considers how progressives misinterpret class war issues as being part of the culture war.
Trump: “we do a little trolling, it’s called we do a little trolling.” Also Trump: “NOOOOOOOOOO! YOU CAN’T TROLL ME ON MY OWN PLATFORM!!!1!”
By Matt Taibbi As the latest anti-Substack campaign shows, more and more people are forgetting why free speech works. Earlier this week, in the latest in a series of scolding campaigns, a Britain-based group called the Center for Countering Digital Hate gave a sneak peek at a research […]
It may be in the deep purple zones that the crackup is the messiest. By TIM SULLIVAN, Associated Press BENSON, Minn. (AP) — The newspaper hit the front porches of the wind-scarred prairie town on a Thursday afternoon: Coronavirus numbers were spiking in the farming communities of western […]
By Chrissie Marie, Newsbreak A British university slapped George Orwell’s novel 1984 with a trigger warning following concerned some students might find it “offensive and upsetting.” The novel examine the how the role of truth and facts in a society can be manipulated under a dictatorship. The school […]
By Jacob Mchangama, the executive director of Justitia, a Copenhagen-based think tank focusing on human rights. Europe’s well-intentioned bans on Holocaust denial have spawned a flurry of imitations — many with sinister consequences. READ MORE
By Alan Feuer New York Times Stewart Rhodes, the leader of the Oath Keepers militia charged with seditious conspiracy in connection with the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6 last year, was denied bail on Wednesday by a federal judge in Texas who said he was a […]
Kim Iversen explains why some Truckers are protesting the Trudeau administration’s newly implemented cross-border vaccine mandate.
Apparently, Spotify ditched Neil instead. Batya Ungar-Sargon and Robby Soave react to Neil Young’s efforts to push The Joe Rogan Experience off of Spotify.
I thought it was funny when Trump did it, still funny when Biden does it.
Batya Ungar-Sargon is part of the anti-woke left, which is good, but like a lot of anti-woke leftists she seems to be embracing “law and order liberalism” at the same time. So we’re stuck with a context between the woke but pig-hating left and the anti-woke but pig-loving […]
It’s time for a Megyn Kelly Show substantive debate and discussion today – this time on guns in America. Megyn Kelly is joined by Stephen Gutowski, founder of The Reload (a gun rights website), and Mike Spies, senior editor at The Trace (a gun control site), to discuss […]
By Peter Weber, The Week President Biden, after getting a question Monday evening from Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy on whether inflation is bad politically, shot back a sarcastic response and muttered under his breath, “What a stupid son of a bitch.” In case it wasn’t […]
I can’t say I am much impressed with this latest trend in “law and order liberalism” that has emerged lately. In case these folks hadn’t noticed, we’ve had a pandemic and related economic recession and lockdowns for two years now. Not to mention the Third Worldization of the […]
The Democraps are back to being the hawkish imperialist party they were prior to the post-Vietnam era. Not that they ever really changed but for a few decades they at least lip-synced it. By Richard Hanania Why the culture war is global and there will be no insurgency […]
By Ed West In The End of History, Francis Fukuyama wrote about how the fall of East Germany was brought about by a curiously familiar emotion – anger towards the hypocritical lifestyle of the leadership. ‘The Honecker regime in East Germany was critically weakened by a series of […]
By Don Via Jr. Free Thought Project In June of 2020, the World Economic Forum launched an initiative known as The Great Reset—an agenda seeking centralization of power over the planet’s resources in reaction to the COVID-19 pandemic to reshape the direction of humanity under the guise of economic […]
By Victor Davis Hanson, Independent Institute Wokeism’s natural logic is to destroy the lives of people of both genders, of all races, and—if need be—of those of every age, all to leverage an otherwise unworkable ideological agenda. Wokeism has been described by its critics as the omnipresent use […]
By Damon Linker, The Week The risk and roots of our nonstop panic and alarm. Have you heard the news about the imminent end of American democracy? The president of the United States has been talking about it — how the country has embraced Jim Crow 2.0 and […]
–A grand jury in Georgia has been approved to hear evidence regarding possible criminality by Donald Trump in his attempts to coerce Georgia officials into giving him the 2020 Georgia election, despite Joe Biden having received more votes
Krystal and Saagar comment on the media’s reaction to Bari Weiss’s declaration that covid is over and the restrictions need to end now that we have the vaccine
In a way, Newt is responsible for what happened that day, most toxic political figure in US politics in recent decades. Perhaps he is the one who needs to be jailed, nobody would miss him anyway.
Briahna Joy Gray and Robby Soave weigh in on the liberal and conservative divide between expectations for how the future of the pandemic should be handled.
Jen Pan speaks with Ted Boettner of the Ohio River Valley Institute about the importance of unions for creating a basis of solidarity for progressive politics in places like West Virginia, how Democrats have abandoned working class voters in the state, and the importance of factoring in the […]
It’ll be good for amplifying news and political content but some people who would have piled aboard will now be absent
America right now is like that tail-end of a marriage that both parties know is already over. The fighting, bickering, blaming, and all the bad stuff. The old center, the status quo is failing and neither side is happy with it anymore. You simply have half the people […]
By Paul Gottfried, American Mind The Left’s support for civil liberties has always been contingent on its own relative strength or weakness. In a thoughtful commentary on “The New Normal and the Assault on Reason,” Glenn Ellmers makes this historical observation: For several centuries, at least since John […]
By Peter R. Quiñones This will be short but it’s a simple way to look at the political culture in the United States (and probably most of Europe as well). If I told you a common tactic of the Left is to demonize any opinion to the Right […]
By Caitlin Johnstone How many journalists are capable of doing what Julian Assange did to expose the criminality of the powerful? Not many. How many are both capable and willing? Fewer still. How many of those are now willing after seeing what’s being done to Assange? Even fewer. […]
This is an interesting article about a contemporary moral panic. Underage sex is one of America’s latest hysterias. Nowadays, we’ve got not only the Pizzagate/QAnon “pedophile under every bed” hysteria, but there is increasingly an effort to equate sexual relations between adults and postpubescent minors with pedophilia. An […]
By Peter Van Buren, The American Conservative Hard questions about January 6 are being left unanswered because they might disturb the Democratic narrative. Let’s ask some. Hard questions about January 6 are being left unanswered because they might disturb the Democratic narrative. So let’s ask some. Like the […]
–Donald Trump is interviewed by Fox News propagandist Sean Hannity and it ends up being possibly Trump’s worst interview in history, touching on COVID, Ukraine, his dementia test, and much more
Bold of Candace Owens to assume Homelessness is the new slavery of 2022 when the judicial system in the prison pipeline still exist
I feel like I’m in an alternate universe knowing that people actually care about how m&m’s look.
Briahna Joy Gray and Robby Soave discuss returning ‘back to normal.’
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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