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Nexus X HumectressBy Damon Linker, The Week It didn’t take long following the shocking events of Jan. 6 for journalists to begin referring to what transpired on Capitol Hill that afternoon as an “insurrection.” Some on the right dissented from the term, insisting it was merely a popular protest against […]
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave weigh in on the Senate debt ceiling vote, as well as Pfizer’s efforts to earn FDA approval for their antiviral Covid treatment.
By Samuel Goldman The Week It’s getting worse. While the basic storyline holds true, new information revealed by the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot deepens our understanding of the final weeks of the Trump presidency. In its report recommending contempt of Congress charges against Chief of […]
Krystal and Saagar look at how Sarah Silverman responded to the backlash she received after calling out Joy Reid’s misleading coverage on her primetime MSNBC show
We’ve said it before when Chinese officials warn the public about something, it means that the problem can no longer be contained. After the Chinese government released the economic data for the third quarter of 2021, the official Chinese media warned the public to be careful about the […]
By Michael Lind, Tablet The iconoclastic gestures of the woke left bear an alarming resemblance to the excesses of the French Revolution. I spent the first third of my career among conservatives and the next two-thirds among progressives. At first, I thought both parties were equally cynical and […]
This is what I thought would happen in response to “defund the police.” I suspected there would be a decrease in policing in predominantly lower-income urban areas, followed by rising crime rates (which are fueled by pandemic and economic conditions as well), followed by renewed calls for law […]
By Andrew Curry, Science Stories of Sparta aside, analysis questions idea that infirm infants were abandoned to die. In his biography Life of Lycurgus, written around 100 C.E., Greek philosopher Plutarch recounted how the ancient Spartans submitted newborns to a council of elders for inspection. “Fit and strong” […]
By Harrison Abbott Newsweek Prominent streamer Hasan Piker has been banned from Twitch, after reportedly violating the platform’s code of conduct. If you are not familiar with Piker — alternatively known by his username HasanAbi — he is a left-wing commentator and former journalist for both The Young […]
By Shane Trotter, Quillette When people lose the connection between their actions and their consequences, they lose their hold on reality and the further this goes the more it looks like madness. ~Robert Greene A recent study conducted at the Naval Academy showed that students learn less from […]
Back in the late eighties/early nineties, all these bands constantly championed freedom of speech, free expression and hated the idea of censorship. It was all about freedom and ‘f**k you to the man. That attitude suited them when they were considered ‘fringe’ back in the day. The conservatives […]
By Kyle Lawson, Staten Island Advance, N.Y. A provocative Instagram video from 2019 shows Staten Island House of Representatives candidate Brittany Ramos DeBarros stripping and twerking at a 2019 anti-war, pro-veteran event. The video depicts DeBarros, a Democratic Socialist and former Army officer, at one point pulling off […]
By Phillip Magness & Graham Walker, Independent Institute This Lighthouse Briefing video features Independent Institute Executive Director Dr. Graham H. Walker and Independent Research Fellow Dr. Phillip W. Magness discussing Dr. Magness’s article, “Case for Mask Mandate Rests on Bad Data,” including the politicization of science, the folly […]
By Graham Walker and Christopher Coyne, Independent Institute “Infectious Diseases and Government Growth,” by Christopher J. Coyne, Nathan P. Goodman, and Abigail Deveraux (The Independent Review, Spring 2021) In early 2020, COVID-19 emerged from China. In response, and at the urging of the World Health Organization (WHO), governments […]
By Mary L. G. Theroux and Graham H. Walker, Independent Institute In response to 400 known cases and 5 deaths from coronavirus in the San Francisco Bay Area, on March 16th Bay Area city and county governments panicked and overreacted by ordering a “Shelter in Place” mandate that […]
By AMY FORLITI, Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin pleaded guilty Wednesday to federal charges of violating George Floyd’s civil rights, averting a trial but likely extending the time he is already spending behind bars on a state conviction. Chauvin, who […]
Whatever the relationship between the policies of these “progressive prosecutors” and crime rates, it needs to be pointed out that the present surge in crime rates began during the same period as the pandemic and its related social and economic effects. Whatever one’s positions on criminal justice or […]
Tom Woods Show Anne Hendershott, a professor of sociology at the University of Steubenville, discusses the academic and cultural efforts to normalize pedophilia. LISTEN HERE
These kinds of lawsuits are essentially a means of getting around the First Amendment. Government cannot legally ban political organizations, so they simply try to sue them into oblivion instead. By Andy Sullivan Washington DC WASHINGTON, Dec 14 (Reuters) – The city of Washington, D.C., sued right-wing groups […]
If you’re looking to verify a claim, you ought to research and check supporting statistics. In this video, Andrew shares twenty reasons why the USA is no longer the number one country in the world.
For quite some time, we’ve been saying that governments will be looking for more ways to take away your passport(s) and freedom. In this video, Andrew shares just another example of it.
By Dani Alexis Ryskamp The Atlantic The most famous dysfunctional family of 1990s television enjoyed, by today’s standards, an almost dreamily secure existence. The most famous dysfunctional family of 1990s television enjoyed, by today’s standards, an almost dreamily secure existence that now seems out of reach for all […]
By Bernadette Hogan, Reuven Fenton and Bruce Golding New York Post County officials statewide opposed to Gov. Kathy Hochul’s mask mandate called it “silly,” “misguided” and “unenforceable” on Tuesday — with one rejecting it as “Gestapo tactics” and another saying “we’re not going to become the mask police.” […]
By Kenneth Garger New York Post A Putnam County police officer was arrested Tuesday for allegedly providing protection to a Queens-based sex trafficking ring in exchange for sexual favors, prosecutors said. Wayne Peiffer, a Village of Brewster police officer, was among six suspects indicted in Brooklyn federal court […]
People are usually either annoying or forgettable. Hillary Clinton manages to pull off both at once.
Imagine needing a coup to save yourself from Sleepy Joe…
By Monique Beals, The Hill A Pew Research Center poll published Tuesday indicates that the number of people in the U.S. who describe themselves as religiously unaffiliated increased by 6 points in the last five years and 10 points in the last decade. When asked about their religious identity, […]
The latest neocon front project. By Josh Hammer, Newsweek In the 2016 Republican Party presidential primary, decades of dissonance between the party’s aggrieved grassroots and its blinkered elite spilled out into the open. For years, the chasm widened between the GOP’s heartland base, the river valley-dwelling “Somewheres” from […]
Kyle Strickland, Deputy Director, Race and Democracy at the Roosevelt Institute joins The Realignment to build upon last week’s episode with John McWhorter.
By Caroline Mimbs Nyce The Atlantic “He’s got to condemn this shit ASAP,” Donald Trump Jr. purportedly texted about his father to then–Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, as rioters smashed their way into the U.S. Capitol building on January 6, 2020. But in the months that followed, Republicans […]
Anarchist News from Libertarian Labyrinth Embracing Anarchy — Becoming Anarchists, Constructing Anarchisms Introduction: We become anarchists by embracing and internalizing anarchy. We express that internalized anarchy by constructing anarchisms. I take this to be a kind of general formula, describing the relations between three key concepts — anarchy, […]
Anarchist News Mutual aid has been in the spotlight recently in light of the current crisis, but what exactly does it mean? And what makes it a powerful form of anarchist praxis unique from charity and volunteering? Well, ‘mutual aid’ is essentially the very radical notion that co-operation, rather […]
Father Steven Allen(Orthodox Truth) Recently, while in Serbia to visit family, I had the pleasure of giving two lectures to an association of young people dedicated to Orthodoxy, monarchism, and Serbian patriotism. As are we here in the States, they also are facing the prospect of persecution by […]
Anarchist News What are the consequences of becoming an anarchist earlier in life vs. later? Which of these options better describes your path? How can diverse entryways influence new forms of anarchy? Motivations for wanting to rebel can differ with age. A younger person might seek to escape […]
By Bryan Caplan, EconoLib A few weeks ago, Robin Hanson posed a lunchtime challenge: What is the difference between Left and Right? The point of the question, of course, is not to explain how every self-styled leftist differs from every self-styled rightist. The point is to identify unifying […]
Lots of pundits have lots of thoughts and feelings about how to fix the Democrats’ messaging problems. A recent Jacobin study charted one path forward, “Shorism” offers another. This week, Briahna Joy Gray spoke to Professor Ian Haney López, Earl Warren Professor of Public Law at UC Berkeley, […]
Don’t forget that the UAE has a lot of foreign workers who do all the hard work in very harsh conditions. Universal income should be a thing if automation becomes a threat for more basic jobs. Citizen’s dividends for using the natural resources of a country sounds like […]
To be clear: not because he actually gives a damn about Palestinians, Israelis, or human rights…but because it made his fragile ego look bad. A narcissist is as a narcissist does.
Eric Levitz, New York Mag/Intelligency In a recent column for The American Conservative, Helen Andrews argues that Reconstruction — that brief slice of the 19th century during which Black Southerners enjoyed extensive political rights under the aegis of Northern Republicans — was “objectively bad.” Further, she insists that […]
Prof Wolff explains all the ways the U.S. and China depend on one another for production, finance and economic access. This is one of the major differences between the Cold War politics between the U.S. and Soviet Union and what is happening today.
By Scott Schieman The Conversation A record share of American workers are quitting their jobs, thanks in part to a strong economy and a labor shortage. Does that mean Americans are unhappy with where they work? The answer would seem to be yes, according to many economists and […]
IFLScience.Com New Zealand has announced plans to make it legally impossible for the next generation of adults to purchase tobacco products as part of a drive to create a smoke-free country by 2025. Expected to come into force next year, the new legislation will see the legal smoking age […]
By Brendan O’Neill, Spiked Mandatory vaccination spells the violent end of European liberalism. Europe is on a precipice. It has marched, blindly, towards something very much resembling tyranny. Austria will shortly criminalise those who refuse the Covid vaccine. Germany looks set to follow. Ursula von der Leyen, president […]
By Dean Kuipers, The Nation What will it take for an emerging patchwork of co-ops, food hubs, and farming collectives to challenge Big Ag? Starting any farm is a crapshoot, but Reginaldo and Amy Haslett-Marroquin went the hard way right from the start. In the fall of 2020, […]
By Molly Crabapple, The Nation The 45 days of fierce protest, shrewd organizing, and ferocious solidarity that ended the debt nightmare that had engulfed the taxi industry. On September 19, a group of cab drivers organized by the New York Taxi Workers Alliance rolled up to the corner of […]
By Lesley Wroughton Washington Post CAPE TOWN, South Africa — Omicron appears to cause less severe illness than earlier variants of the coronavirus but is more resistant to the two-dose Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine widely used in South Africa, according to a major private study of the variant. The study […]
By Sarah Kaplan Washington Post The ice shelf was cracking up. Surveys showed warm ocean water eroding its underbelly. Satellite imagery revealed long, parallel fissures in the frozen expanse, like scratches from some clawed monster. One fracture grew so big, so fast, scientists took to calling it “the […]
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By Brigid Kennedy The Week The Jan. 6 House select committee made waves Monday night after revealing a slew of text messages sent to former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows during the Capitol riot, urging him to convince then-President Donald Trump to denounce the attack. Everyone […]
By Joel Mathis The Week The decline of American Christianity is continuing apace. The Pew Research Center reports today that the number of self-identified Christians has declined by 12 percentage points since 2012, while religious “nones” have grown by 10 points during that time. (Other surveys have shown […]
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