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Nexus X HumectressBy Dominick Mastrangelo The Hill Kyle Rittenhouse, the teenager who was acquitted of murder last week after shooting and killing two people in Kenosha, Wis., during civil unrest there last year, said he supports the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement. “I’m not a racist person. I support the BLM movement,” […]
Police say they have a person of interest in custody after a fast-moving SUV broke through a barricade at a holiday parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin, killing at least five and injuring more than 40 people.
By Grayson Quay The Week President Biden assured key donors and allies at a fundraising event last month that he plans to run for a second presidential term in 2024, the Washington Post reports. If elected, he would be 82 years old on Inauguration Day, shattering the record […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Something happened on May 25th, 2020, when George Floyd’s heart stopped, something revolutionary. As the whole country watched helplessly while a clearly psychotic police officer murdered a bound and incapacitated human being before a captive audience on a […]
By Helen Davidson, The Guardian The disappearance of the Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai has dominated international news in recent days, but inside China there is barely a whisper. Peng – the former doubles World No 1 – has not been heard from in more than two weeks, […]
Tulsi is now working the Republican angle hard. Maybe she can be our Hindu Eva Peron someday. Krystal and Saagar compare comments made by Tulsi Gabbard on Fox News about Biden’s Build Back Better legislation compared to her Presidential campaign stump speech a couple years ago. Fast forward […]
Yang is right on the mark when he says the Democrats are really two parties in one.
By Marjorie Cohn, Truthout The testimony has concluded in the Georgia murder trial of the three white men who targeted Ahmaud Arbery because he was Black and then killed him. Evidence presented at trial transported us back to the days of the infamous slave patrols. Gregory McMichael, his son […]
A former university instructor talks about his experience so far with quitting the classroom to teach independently on the internet. Jackson Crawford, Ph.D.: Sharing real expertise in Norse language and myth with people hungry to learn, free of both ivory tower elitism and the agendas of self-appointed gurus. […]
By Denise Sawyer, Jay O’Brien VERO BEACH, Fla. (CBS12) — Jurors found Andrew Coffee IV not guilty on charges of felony murder and attempted murder of a law enforcement officer, on Friday, determining he acted in self-defense when firing at deputies during a SWAT raid in 2017. When […]
By Mane Kara-Yakoubian Research published in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology has revealed that hatred toward collective entities, such as institutions or groups – but not individuals – can bolster meaning in life. “I think that any casual observer of human nature recognizes that many prominent cultural […]
I generally share Greenwald’s take on the Rittenhouse case. He was an idiot, but not legally guilty.
Caleb Maupin is a widely acclaimed speaker, writer, journalist, and political analyst. He has traveled extensively in the Middle East and in Latin America. He was involved with the Occupy Wall Street movement from its early planning stages, and has been involved many struggles for social justice. He […]
By Chantal Da Silva and Associated Press Police opened fire on anti-lockdown protesters in the Dutch city of Rotterdam Friday ahead of demonstrations in several European cities against new Covid restrictions. Mayor Ahmed Aboutaleb told reporters about police officers “felt it necessary to draw their weapons to defend themselves” more […]
“Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
By Joe Lancaster Reason Despite a tragic on-set death, there is no need to involve police officers in still more aspects of people’s lives. In October, a tragedy occurred on the set of Rust, a Western film in production in New Mexico, when star Alec Baldwin discharged a […]
*Kyle Rittenhouse: at the very least guilty of reckless endangerment despite plausibly acting in self-defense* We know from studies that the presence of armed individuals in protests, strikes, riots etc increases the chances of violence tremendously. This is true currently and historically. And we know that the presence […]
By Richard Hanania American Affairs Journal REVIEW ESSAY Woke, Inc.: Inside Corporate America’s Social Justice Scam by Vivek Ramaswamy Center Street, 2021, 368 pages In our political culture, there is no issue quite like wokeness. The conversation it provokes tends to be about everything and nothing at the […]
By Richard Hanania Those opposed to the social revolution need to understand how we got here, and present an alternative vision. In American Affairs, I review Woke, Inc., by Vivek Ramaswamy. I find him an interesting and compelling figure, but I think that his critique of wokeness and […]
Virtually everyone’s opinion on this case is based on their tribal affiliations not the facts of the case. You can almost predict what any individual might say based on what you already know about them, or what their stated affiliations are. By Jamala Rogers, LA Progressive In a […]
By Mary Hanbury, Yahoo News A California city is asking retirees, stay-at-home parents, and students to fill empty jobs for 6 months, according to a report. This is a temporary solution to help ease the labor shortage. Businesses across the US are struggling to find workers. A city […]
By Olivia Nuzzi Intelligencer Stephanie Grisham saw the pickup outside and yelped, “That’s Larry!” She grabbed a small package and raced out her front door, down the steps of the porch, through the gate of the white picket fence, and leaned halfway into the truck via the passenger […]
By W. James Antle III, The Week The week ahead of President Biden’s 79th birthday — Saturday, Nov. 20 — there was a considerable amount of drama involving Vice President Kamala Harris. The two are not unrelated. Biden is the oldest person to ever serve as president. He will turn […]
By Ryan Cooper The Week On Friday morning, Democrats passed their Build Back Better agenda through the House. Only hours before their triumphant celebrations, however, reporter Reid Epstein had published a bombshell New York Times article about how Wisconsin Republicans are preparing to set up permanent one-party rule and very possibly […]
By Samuel Goldman, The Week Is Donald Trump a continuation of the postwar conservative movement — or its executioner? A year after his electoral defeat, scholars, journalists, and pundits continue to debate the former president’s place in a lineage that extends back to Ronald Reagan, Barry Goldwater, and […]
By Grayson Quay The Week While many anti-racist and police reform activists saw the Kyle Rittenhouse verdict as a defeat for their cause, courts have delivered the movement two victories this week that received far less media attention. Eric DeValkenaere, a former Kansas City police detective who fatally […]
By Grayson Quay The Week Dutch police shot and wounded at least two people Friday night during anti-lockdown riots in Rotterdam, the BBC reported. The protests led to seven injuries and at least 20 arrests. Police used water cannons and lethal force in response to what a police […]
The Week Staff During the debate over spending bills, Democrats proposed raising taxes on the wealthy. Do the rich pay a fair share? Here’s everything you need to know: What do the wealthy pay? Generally, a much lower percentage of their incomes than the middle class. A White […]
By Grayson Quay Protestors reacting to Kyle Rittenhouse’s exoneration broke windows and threw rocks at police officers in Portland, Oregon, Friday night, the New York Post reported. Local law enforcement said they had expected some upheaval in response to a not-guilty verdict. The Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office declared […]
A discussion of the relationship between the far-right and class politics from a far-left “anti-fascist” perspective. Some of this I agree with, and some of it I don’t, but my actual perspective on “anti-fascism” is that fascism is an archaic ideology that actually has very little influence in […]
I’m not a Libertarian Party member, so I don’t get any say in what they do. But, apparently, what is going on in the party is a “culture war” showdown between something called the Mises Caucus (apparently, “paleolibertarian” types with views like those of the Mises Institute) and […]
By Damon Linker, The Week Americans are fond of calling the United States the greatest country in the world. But that doesn’t mean the sentiment is universally shared. Critics point to various measures that raise doubts about the judgment: high rates of childhood poverty, sky-high levels of gun […]
By Brigid Kennedy, The Week The son of newly-exonerated Khalil Islam, who was wrongfully convicted in the 1965 assasination of Malcolm X, explained Thursday that while he’s happy a judge cleared his late father’s name, sadness nevertheless lingers. “It almost sounds casual to me that he’s been exonerated,” […]
By Brigid Kennedy, The Week Two men convicted of assasinating Malcolm X were exonerated Thursday afternoon, after a renewed investigation uncovered evidence that proved the men “were not involved with the killing and that “authorities withheld some of what they knew,” The Associated Press reports. The news comes […]
By Andrew Sullivan The Weekly Dish How do we fight back against left extremism if the alternative is worse? I was a different person in the time before I realized that the only way to stop the far-Left was through radical use of state power to reorganize nearly […]
By Andrew Sullivan, The Weekly Dish The architect of the Leave campaign has a rare podcast discussion with me. How to introduce Dominic Cummings? I’d say he has a decent claim to be one of the most influential figures in modern European history, whatever you think of him. […]
By Matt Taibbi and Matt Orfalea Kyle Rittenhouse was found not guilty on all six charges today, already causing a great exploding of heads in the pundit-o-sphere. Unrest wouldn’t be surprising. How could it be otherwise? Colleagues in national media spent over a year telling the country the […]
By Kali Holloway, The Nation Conservatives are rebranding an inclusive, honest accounting of American history as inherently anti-white. For more than a year now, conservatives have been waging war against the misdefined conception of critical race theory that they themselves created. The right-wing campaign against so-called CRT largely […]
This is suspicious. Normally, doctors are hesitant to do colonoscopies on patients his age because of the increased risk factors involved. I wonder if that was the real reason he was in the hospital. By ZEKE MILLER, Associated Press BETHESDA, Md. (AP) — President Joe Biden briefly transferred […]
By Mike Gleason, Money Metals Exchange Precious metals markets pulled back a bit this week as the U.S. dollar strengthened versus foreign currencies. In other markets, the rising dollar index put downward pressure on crude oil and gasoline futures this week. Consumers who have been experiencing pain at […]
Telos Telos Zoom Symposium Saturday, November 20, 2021 4 pm to 6 pm U.S. Eastern time In order to attend, you must register in advance for this meeting: https://uci.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwtdOuqpjgvHdYmcpmVrYGEtS281tfiY2vD After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. About the Symposium Trapped between […]
By Jack Phillips, Epoch Times Kyle Rittenhouse’s defense attorney Mark Richards said that his client, defense lawyers, and prosecutors have faced numerous death threats during the homicide trial. After a jury acquitted Rittenhouse, 18, of all charges brought against him, Richards told reporters after the verdict that “everybody […]
As we awaited the verdict in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial, Batya Ungar-Sargon and I discussed the argument in her book Bad News that wokeness serves the economic interests of wealthy liberals. Listen Here.
A Wisconsin jury has found Kyle Rittenhouse not guilty in the homicide trial of the Illinois teenager who shot and killed two men and wounded a third at a protest last year.
By Clare Hymes, CBS News A jury on Friday found Kyle Rittenhouse not guilty on all charges in the shootings of three men in Kenosha, Wisconsin. The jury who acquitted the teen was made up of seven women and five men. They had been deliberating since Tuesday morning […]
If this is the best that the Democrats can do, then the idiotic “national conservatism” stuff may actually have a chance. Team Rising reacts to reporting that Pete Buttigieg and Kamala Harris are frontrunners to lead the Democratic party after President Joe Biden leaves office.
Reporter at The Daily Poster, Julia Rock, discusses Big Pharma’s big ‘Build Back Better’ benefits and shocking new numbers on opioid deaths.
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave weigh in on the resignation of Kamala Harris’ communications director, Ashley Etienne.
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave react to The Food and Drug Administration authorizing booster doses of both Pfizer-BioNTech’s and Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccines for all adults over the age of 18.
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave break down the CBO score on Biden’s Build Back Better agenda.
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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