The ACLU’s Hypocrisy On Vax Mandates Will HURT Civil Liberties & Empower Covid TYRANT
Robby Soave criticizes the ACLU’s stance on COVID-19 vaccine mandates.
Fake Populist Tucker Carlson RAGES Over ‘Unappealing’ M&Ms, Ignores Real Issues
Briahna Joy Gray explains why Tucker Carlson’s outrage over the M&Ms makeover scandal is a faux-populist red herring.
The Democrats Dismissive Attitude Towards Average Americans Will Cost Them Big Time
Americans: “So what does the admin plan to do to solve inflation, crime, the border surge, supply chain disruptions, and COVID?” Psaki: “😄😄😄 LOL Don’t worry about it. Just chill the F out, have a drink, and do some kick-boxing LMAO 😂😂😂”
Understanding the Divide Between Social Justice Advocates and the Left-Leaning “Anti-Woke” Community
The more pervasive totalitarian humanism has become, the more there has been a pushback, not only from the right but from the left. Hence, the emergence of opposition to totalitarian humanism on the Left. The development of a “left-wing anti-totalitarian humanism” is what I have been hoping would […]
The Left’s Split: “Woke” and “Anti-Woke”
By Jeff Salzman In this episode, I discuss a terrific essay I stumbled upon that brings an integral sensibility to a new cultural emergent: the differentiation of the political left into “woke” and “anti-woke” ideologies.. Cultural evolution proceeds through a process of 1) differentiating and 2) integrating. […]
The Shifting Nexus of the US Culture War
Recent research by Pew shows that the perspective depicted in the meme below (so-called “faith and flag conservatives”) only represents about 10% of the US population. Most of the US right-wing nowadays are business conservatives, pro-labor populists, and socially moderate to liberal center-right or quasi-libertarian types. One thing […]
‘Downhill,’ ‘divisive’: Americans sour on nation’s direction in new NBC News poll
By Mark Murray, NBC News WASHINGTON — Overwhelming majorities of Americans believe the country is headed in the wrong direction, that their household income is falling behind the cost of living, that political polarization will only continue and that there’s a real threat to democracy and majority rule. […]
Library security guard is viciously attacked by pit bull after approaching passed-out owner to administer Narcan
By Christina Coulter Dailymail A security guard at the San Francisco Main Library was attacked by a pit bull as he tried to administer Narcan to its unresponsive owner on Sunday The dog ‘wouldn’t let [security guards] near the man, and pulled one guard down to the ground […]
Today’s “Wayward Puritans” of the Academic “Elect”
By Aleksey Bashtavenko Academic Composition The American mentality is unabashedly elitist. Indeed, mediocrity is anathema to the American way of life. Much of the Americans’ ire toward communism has nothing to do with its tyranny, but with their animus toward equality. John Steinback had it right: Americans see […]
Transparency is good, but it won’t end the CRT debate
By Samuel Goldman The Week The next battle in the war on “critical race theory” is here. Bills recently introduced in Congress and several states would require public schools to make information about their curriculum and classroom practices available to the public. The proposals represent a shift in strategy […]
Brazen Drug Dealing & Fentanyl Use Witnessed At Official But Illegal San Francisco Homeless “Linkage Center”
I don’t generally agree with Michael Shellenberger on these issues (although he is interesting in his advocacy of nuclear power), but his ongoing reporting on the conflict between bourgie-normie liberal-yuppie-gentrifiers and the woke Left in the Bay Area is unintentionally hilarious. His writing reminds me of the 1970s […]
The deep state is no conspiracy theory
By Gilbert T. Sewall Spectator World In 1958, Aldous Huxley foresaw a congestion of power able to shape and defy popular will. “Under the relentless thrust of accelerating over-population and increasing over-organization, and by means of ever more effective methods of mind-manipulation, the democracies will change their nature,” […]
‘Unseemly’: NPR Refuses to Correct Story After Supreme Court Deems It False
By Zachary Stieber, Epoch Times National Public Radio (NPR) is refusing to correct a story that was challenged by a trio of Supreme Court justices, triggering a flood of criticism. Citing anonymous sources, reporter Nina Totenberg said Chief Justice John Roberts “asked the other justices to mask up,” […]
What Crime Surge?
LA Progressive Sacramento News & Review, one of the last supposedly “lefty” publications in the region just published an article (A winter of worry: Sacramento’s violent crime rate in January puts a chill on the community) decrying a recent “crime surge”–a constant worry among conservatives. Among other things, […]
Impact of Gun Control Laws Visible in Virginia Protests
By Ford Fischer and Matt Taibbi With the evolution of gun control policy in the state of Virginia, the character of gun protests have changed, as Ford Fischer shows. In a creative and provocative piece of video journalism from TK partners News2Share, Ford Fischer compares three years of […]
San Francisco Government Is Secretly And Illegally Operating An Illicit Drug Use Site
There is a book that is now getting a lot of attention in neocon circles called “San Fran-sicko” by a moderate progressive named Michael Schellenberger that is lambasting the supposed libertarian excesses of large city governments like San Francisco, LA, Seattle, Portland, etc. It’s basically a “liberal” version […]
Why An Expert In Political Violence Is Worried About Civil War In The U.S.
In the wake of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, academics and journalists have taken the possibility of future political violence in America increasingly serious. In her new book “How Civil Wars Start And How To Stop Them,” Barbara F. Walter writes, “We are now closer […]
Why Wokeism Is A Religion
By Michael Shellenberger Introducing the Taxonomy of Woke Religion Over the last year, a growing number of progressives and liberals have pointed to police killings of unarmed black men, rising carbon emissions and extreme weather events, and the killing of trans people as proof that the United States […]
The Role of Progressive Prosecutors in Promoting Meaningful Criminal Justice
USC Gould School of Law hosted Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner in discussion with Prof. Jody Armour Oct. 29, 2019.
Taking on Progressive Prosecutors
The main problem I see with these critics is that much of their objection to “progressive prosecutors” seems rooted in their disdain for the non-prosecution of “quality of life” offenses, i.e. things that conflict with bourgeois aesthetics, lifestyle, or class interests. That may not be the whole story […]
Progressive prosecutors work to reform criminal justice system from within
St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner and Boston’s District Attorney Rachael Rollins two of a wave of prosecutors who are focusing on ending mass incarceration and addressing racial disparities.
Moderates still don’t understand why conservatives voted for Trump
By Samuel Goldman, The Week It’s not just ‘wokeness’ and social media. It’s order, fairness, and basic governance. What’s wrong with conservatives? The question has dominated prestige media since Donald Trump emerged as the frontrunner for the Republican nomination in 2016, and especially since his campaign of election […]
The fantasy of a Trump-slaying Republican
By Damon Linker, The Week Why no one will stand up to Trump in the 2024 GOP primary. I have no idea if Donald Trump will actually run for president again in 2024. No one does. He could be feigning an intention to mount a campaign in order […]
They’re Not Going To Leave Us Alone
By Peter R. Quiñones I hope that you understand, or are at least beginning to, that the radical Left is not going to stop. Many people have pointed out that their belief in equity for all, which really means the destruction of the status quo and the lifting […]
Consider The Possibility That This Is Already The Dystopia You Fear
By Caitlin Johnstone Consider the possibility that the Orwellian dystopia you fear is already here and has been in place for many years, you just haven’t noticed because you’re still allowed to watch Netflix or buy a gun or say whatever you want to say within a small […]
Waukesha Massacre Undermined the Charlottesville Myth
By Pedro Gonzalez Chronicles The sound of screams replaced the music as a red Ford Escape slammed into the crowd, killing six people and wounding more than 60 in Waukesha, Wisconsin, on Nov. 21. Amid the bloodbath that evening were dead and dying victims as old as 81 […]
Fundamentalism on the Left
By John M. Vella Chronicles Minds Wide Shut: How the New Fundamentalisms Divide Us by Gary Saul Morson and Morton Schapiro Princeton University Press 336 pp., $29.95 Fundamentalism has long been considered a religious phenomenon, a narrowmindedness that only afflicts Bible-thumping extremists. Yet fundamentalist thinking is everywhere today, […]
Equality’s Third Wave
However much some folks may be inclined to make fun of this, I suspect it is the key to ending Wokeism. Just let everyone identify as whatever they want to identify as. By Zbigniew Janowski Chronicles Equality is undergoing a new renaissance in which all identities are fluid […]
Stop Calling These People ‘Conservative’
By Paul Gottfried, Chronicles Two years ago, Gracy Olmstead, a journalist who writes on farming and farming communities, partnered with Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI) to compose a list of those whom she and the Institute view as “conservatives.” Of the now deceased figures who appear on Olmstead’s list, […]
Thomas Friedman Roars Back to Form
By Matt Taibbi “Two amputee British actors, sitting in a tree, something, something, C-O-W!” Plus, a contest with prizes! Esteemed Yale professor Samuel Moyn tweeted this yesterday, cruelly tagging me and forcing a look at New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman’s latest: Samuel Moyn 🔭 @samuelmoyn Count of […]
Companies Left To Their OWN Decision On Vax Mandate. Damned If They Do & If They Don’t
Kim Iversen details the state of workplace vaccine mandates, now that the Biden administration’s influence is gone.
Tomi Lahren Says Dems Are Pro-Violent Crime
The murder rate has also gone up in red states like Texas. it’s gone up across the board. The US society is a breeding ground for antisocial behavior and antisocial people tend to have antisocial children because they abuse them, neglect them, etc so it is not easy […]
Liberal Media PUSHED Debunked SCOTUS Mask Story. Sotomayor, Roberts, & Gorsuch DENY
Robby Soave breaks down the rumors surrounding supposed infighting between Supreme Court Justices over mask-wearing.
How Progressives Ruined San Francisco: Michael Shellenberger
The author of the new book “San Fransicko,” says the homelessness crisis is an addiction and mental health crisis enabled by policies that permit open-air drug scenes on public property and prevent police from enforcing laws Full text and links: https://reason.com/video/2022/01/19/h… —————— Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/ReasonTV?sub_… […]
The New White Flight
By Michael Brendan Dougherty National Review The white upper middle class is deranging American politics. We should have seen it coming. In 2010, America’s last famous novelist, Jonathan Franzen, launched on the reading public Freedom, his tale of a striving family headed by Walter and Patty Berglund. They […]
Legalizing Prostitution: Does it Increase or Decrease Sex Trafficking?
This is a pretty nuanced discussion of this issue. By Ronald Weitzer, Global Policy This is part of a forthcoming Global Policy e-book on modern slavery. Contributions from leading experts highlighting practical and theoretical issues surrounding the persistence of slavery, human trafficking and forced labour are being serialised here over the coming months. Ronald […]
The Tide Is Turning on Gun Control
By Cody J. Wisniewski, The American Conservative Contrary to popular misconceptions, the Second Amendment did not create a right to keep and bear arms. Rather, the Second Amendment acknowledges and seeks to protect the People’s natural right to self-defense and the tools required for the exercise of that right, which […]
The LARPs That the LARPers Are Making Into a Reality
The two sides in the Red/Blue conflict make greatly exaggerated claims about each other. For instance, I don’t see Trump as a “fascist” or even a “conservative.” I see him more as a Nixon-like figure, an instinctive Rockefeller Republican who uses populism to appeal to the conventional working […]
Exclusive: Trump pollster identifies top 7 issue groups within GOP
Happily, neocons are the smallest group. By Alayna Treene, author of Sneak Peek The post-Trump Republican Party cares most about issues in seven key categories, with most prioritizing economic issues like job creation and limited government, according to a new survey conducted by former President Trump’s chief 2016 and […]
January 6: The Unasked Question
By William S. Lind, Traditional Right This column is not another retrospective on the Capitol Hill riot of January 6, 2021. rather it is a retrospective on the recent retrospective of the original event. What we saw in that retrospective is what anyone who understands the system would […]
‘If Donald Trump is not dead or in jail, he will run for president’ | Lincoln Project’s Rick Wilson
‘The threat of violence is a powerful political tool.’ Ines Pohl, DW’s Washington bureau chief, spoke with Rick Wilson, co-founder of the Lincoln Project, about the political future of the United States, the consequences of the Capital riot a year ago, and the dangers of the fractionalized country. […]
The Corruption Isn’t New, But It’s More Blatant
By Peter R. Quiñones You don’t have to be a political junkie to know that Illinois, and especially Chicago politics, is not only corrupt, but it’s actually a job requirement of anyone seeking office. As of 2013, four of the previous seven Illinois governors had gone to prison […]
Ashli Babbitt Pleaded With Police to Call for Backup Moments Before She Was Shot and Killed
By Joseph M. Hanneman, Epoch Times ust moments before she was shot and killed, Ashli Babbitt confronted the police officers guarding the doors to the Speaker’s Lobby at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, blasting them for allowing rioters to smash the windows and not calling for […]
Don Lemon SLAMS Unvaxxed As “Idiots,” Laura Ingraham MOCKS Gen. Milley Over COVID Diagnosis
Team Rising reacts to Don Lemon’s controversial comments about the unvaccinated.
Crenshaw MELTS DOWN When Confronted On Jesus Comments
Krystal and Saagar respond to Texas Rep. Dan Crenshaw’s angry response to a constituent who pressed him on comments he made about Jesus on a podcast that contrast from previous stances
Crowder Says MLK Supported Violence
So what if he did? I bet Crowder doesn’t mention all the awful things about George Washington and Abraham Lincoln on presidents day
Dr. Vinay Prasad: What McCullough, Malone Get RIGHT & WRONG
Krystal and Saagar are joined by medical professor & researcher Dr. Vinay Prasad to break down what Dr. Peter McCullough and Dr. Malone got right & wrong about covid vaccines on Joe Rogan’s show
Why Black & Latino Democrats Are Standing Up To White Progressives On Crime, Drugs, & Homelessness
This article is interesting because it foreshadows what mainstream political debate is going to look like in the future, at least in heavily populated areas. Today’s moderates are tomorrow’s conservatives. Today’s far-left are tomorrow’s liberals. Over time, today’s conservatives (e.g. FOX fans) are going to be increasingly small […]
Insurrection Narrative Completely DEBUNKED By Ray Epps Fiasco
We keep claiming FBI over and over, completely missing that Ray could be a CIA asset operating domestically in violation of their charter.
The CIA Left vs. the CIA Right? The Culture War as Blowback
I’ve been looking further into the role of the CIA in postwar US politics. It seems that much of the New Right and New Left that emerged in the postwar period were controlled opposition movements created by the intelligence services, although in collusion with different internal factions. It […]
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