2023-02-05 06:54
The first results of the survey of Florida state colleges’ budgets for their critical race theory (CRT) and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives were provided to the publ… Read More
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2023-02-05 06:47
The Chinese foreign ministry issued a statement Saturday in response to the U.S. blowing its “weather” balloon to smithereens off the shores of North Carolina Saturday, claiming… Read More
2023-02-02 19:51
Communism begins from the outset with atheism. Communism, as fully developed naturalism, equals humanism.
Karl Marx, Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts.[1]
Our Constitution was made… Read More
2023-02-02 04:29
ForwardSenator Strom Thurmond
When I was first elected to the United States Senate in 1954, the United States and democratic Western governments were locked in a bitter, and sometimes dea… Read More
2023-01-31 04:49
Have you noticed the rhetoric, “At least we have the House to stop some of Biden’s crazy plans!” The GOP’s keyword is “STOP.” Have you noticed that the De… Read More
2023-01-31 04:46
With a small majority finding a way forward in picking a House Speaker who can unite the party has become a frustrating challenge. The sides seemed locked into their positions as roll call a… Read More
2023-01-31 04:43
It’s my firm belief that the number of Americans holding racist views is small, whether white, black, or Hispanic. At this point in our history, the vast majority of Americans try to l… Read More
2023-01-31 04:18
Last week, former President Donald J. Trump posted on Truth Social: “FIRST COME THE TANKS, THEN COME THE NUKES. Get this crazy war ended, NOW. So easy to do.”
Love him or hate… Read More
2023-01-31 04:08
On Friday, the 168 members of the Republican National Committee (RNC) re-elected Ronna Romney McDaniel as the party’s chair. This will be her fourth term as RNC Chair, the longest tenu… Read More
2023-01-31 04:07
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) just can’t stop putting himself out there in the news. As Julio highlighted last week, the embattled congressman took to TikTok to vent about how Speaker Kevin… Read More
2023-01-31 03:38
Over the past week, House Democratic leadership has been openly feuding with four freshman congresswomen of color: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Rep. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan… Read More
2023-01-29 04:37
In the wake of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s (R-Calif) promise to remove Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Eric Swalwell (D-Calif), and Adam Schiff (D-Calif) from their committees are blaming… Read More
2023-01-29 04:25
Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh gave his thoughts on the incoming freshman, saying that he is “optimistic” about the future of the Supreme Court.
Kavanaugh said that the… Read More
2023-01-29 04:13
It shouldn’t be a shock anymore that Democrats are quick to compare any incident involving an African American person and police officers to “white supremacy.”
So it was… Read More
2023-01-25 04:39
Russian officials have recently made statements threatening to reclaim Alaska, which the U.S. bought from Russia in 1867, but it’s possible President Vladimir Putin isn’t interes… Read More
2023-01-25 04:28
As more and more classified documents are discovered in President Biden’s Wilmington home, it turns out more than just Biden and former President Trump took sensitive materials from th… Read More
2023-01-25 03:13
There are very few things conservatives, liberals and leftists agree on. But if they are irreligious, they all agree that religious Americans are more irrational than irreligious Americans… Read More
2023-01-25 03:07
his article has been updated to include reactions from Reps. Adam Schiff (D-CA), Eric Swalwell (D-CA), and Ilhan Omar (D-MN).
On Tuesday night, just as he has promised for months he would… Read More
2023-01-23 06:10
Everybody knows about the Middle Eastern monotheistic religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. But few people know there is another religion that originated in the Middle East whose ad… Read More
2023-01-23 05:17
One Piece is celebrated for its vibrance and humor, which makes the moments it gets dark all the more shocking. From physical to psychological abuse, these dark elements are not subtle and m… Read More
2023-01-23 05:15
I’ve been keeping an eye on the manga sales now for a fair few years and been making a general note of it. The sales pretty much exploded with the Whitebeard War arc, the popularity of… Read More
2023-01-21 04:46
New York City is amongst some of the top crime-ridden places in the U.S., thanks to soft-on-crime policies and Democrat-run leaders.
A new law is forcing prosecutors to release susp… Read More
2023-01-21 04:21
Jan. 22, 2023 marks the 50th anniversary of when Roe v. Wade became the law of the land and legalized abortion in all 50 states. This year, however, is different. Last summer, the Supre… Read More
2023-01-21 04:18
On the 50th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, nearly 90 House Republicans introduced legislation to put an end to the Democrat’s radical pro-abortion agenda.
Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-GA… Read More
2023-01-21 04:16
As the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) sets its sights on the United States, federal and state lawmakers are taking proactive steps to combat this threat. How so? By banning CCP-affiliated ind… Read More
2023-01-17 02:39
The left likes to use its support for murdering unborn babies as evidence the right discriminates against women, but stepping back and looking at the big picture, it’s clear the left&r&hell…Read More
2023-01-17 02:27
Last week, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) introduced a bill that was so absurd it had people asking if it was real. As evidenced by its page on congress.gov, and also given the kind of membe… Read More
2023-01-17 02:14
This is a poll of Republican-leaning voters, I’ll underscore right out of the gate, not of the broader electorate. The question posed is whether these voters would prefer to see… Read More
2023-01-17 02:11
ideo games keep levelling up. The graphics become more realistic and fantastical by the day, the gameplay grows smoother and the storylines have become so good at pulling at heartstrings tha… Read More
2023-01-17 02:10
Groom, who was once enrolled at Bowie State University, left college when his first daughter was born. That daughter now has a college diploma. Groom still does not. But he had gained experi… Read More
2023-01-16 06:18
New York is the second worst state for business in the entire country, behind only California.
New York is one of the highest taxed states.
It has the second highest debt of all states… Read More
2023-01-14 05:31
Screeching Weasel Got it Right: ‘California Sucks’
California is not the political model for Biden/Harris admin to follow
By Katy Grimes, January 22, 2021 10:21 am
Calif… Read More
2023-01-11 20:54
Ever since Congress came back into session, much of the focus in Republican circles has centered on whether Kevin McCarthy and other top party officials should remain in their leadership pos… Read More
2023-01-11 20:50
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador thanked President Joe Biden for not building any more border wall between the countries during the trilateral press conference in… Read More
2023-01-11 20:48
The Mexican drug cartels are killing off our friends and family members with fentanyl manufactured in superlabs south of the border and smuggled into the U.S., but President Joe Biden couldn… Read More
2023-01-11 20:46
I have been repeatedly told, as I’m sure you have, that Donald Trump “was the worst President the United States has ever had.” Except for his “racism,” “N… Read More
2023-01-11 05:52
According to the Gallup and Bentley University poll, 75% of those who identify as Democrats believe companies “should take a public stance on current events,” while just 40% of i… Read More
2023-01-09 04:55
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre claimed on Friday the Biden administration are the ones who are victims of the border crisis because they inherited a broken border from the Tr… Read More
2023-01-09 02:07
Thousands of opponents of socialist convicted felon President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva stormed his offices and the headquarters of the Congress and Supreme Federal Tribunal (STF) of… Read More
2023-01-05 18:18
Australia’s ABC network is taking heat for broadcasting a woke “LGBTQ” themed coverage of New Year’s Eve.
The network had drag queens performing as well as a… Read More
2023-01-05 18:17
Stephen Gutowski at The Reload, one of the rare honest voices in firearms-related journalism, published some bombshell revelations two weeks ago. What was uncovered, in my opinion, is the bi… Read More
2023-01-05 18:16
Starting this month, children under 12 years old in New York state will no longer face arrest or prosecution for most crimes.
Previously, children in the state between the ages of s… Read More
2023-01-05 18:15
Especially when you see the country you love following the same path so many other nations have trod into bankruptcy, depravity, and vulnerability. And America today is a classic case of dec… Read More
2023-01-05 18:14
Chicago saw nearly 600 homicides in 2022, five times higher that New York City and 2.5 times higher than Los Angeles.
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D-Ill) have repe… Read More
2022-12-29 03:22
Doescher: A new law to protect elections in Georgia was recently passed. It will do several things to ensure elections are safe and secure. The left predictably went nuts.
James Quincey:… Read More
2022-12-28 05:59
It should come as no surprise to Utahns or anyone who identifies as conservative that Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) did not vote along party lines when it came to the $1.7 trillion spending bill… Read More
2022-12-28 05:47
Republican Senator Rand Paul is out with his annual Festivus report, detailing how much taxpayer money the federal government wasted throughout the year.
“This year, I am… Read More
2022-12-28 05:38
Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis is taking on the teachers unions by asking the legislature to eliminate automatic union dues reductions from educator paychecks.
“Repu… Read More
2022-12-28 05:34
China is certainly one of the most totalitarian countries in the world, and such is what endears it to Western Leftists. Yet, even China hasn’t gone as extreme as American libera… Read More
2022-12-28 05:29
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that Title 42 will stay for a little while longer following a lengthy legal battle after the Biden administration attempted to remove the public health order… Read More
2022-12-26 06:07
2022-12-22 05:30
A video from early November that just surfaced this week provides new evidence that President Joe Biden and his administration have, yet again, failed at a key foreign policy objective &mdas&hell…Read More
2022-12-21 03:14
Outgoing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is bragging about the 4,155 page, $1.7 trillion omnibus bill she plans to pass this week…with help from Republicans.
B) Pelosi: This packa… Read More
2022-12-21 03:03
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre insisted during Monday’s briefing that while the Biden administration will be lifting Title 42 starting Wednesday, it does not mean the s… Read More
2022-12-21 02:45
The U.S. Supreme Court issued a stay on a lower court’s ruling to keep Title 42 in place right before it was supposed to be lifted on Wednesday. The Biden administration has until 5 p… Read More
2022-12-21 02:23
Only liberals cared about this week, so it didn’t get much traction—but the House Select Committee on January 6 voted on some criminal referrals for former President Donald Trump… Read More
2022-12-16 05:40
Chinese dictator Xi Jinping lost face when his communist regime, confronting mass and violent protests in major cities, backed off on its totalitarian “zero-tolerance” COVID-19 l… Read More
2022-12-16 05:28
According to the avalanche of posts by reporters Matt Taibbi and Bari Weiss, and writer Michael Shellenberger, to whom new Twitter owner and CEO Elon Musk provided access to internal communi… Read More
2022-12-16 05:17
Minnesota seems to have a regional variation of what the Australians call “tall poppy syndrome,” in which those who seem to be getting a little too big for their britches must be… Read More
2022-12-16 04:53
Jantelagen started with Dr Martin Luther. He started a new branch of Christianity: Lutheranism. A LUTHERAN SOCIETY Lutheranism was a reaction against Medieval Catholicism, where the emphasi… Read More
2022-12-16 04:33
Before the midterm November elections, Sam Bankman-Fried was a left-wing billionaire heartthrob.He properly grew up on the Stanford campus, where his parents were well-known left-wing activi… Read More
2022-12-14 00:36
The Border Patrol Union has decided to pick a fight with the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) and, in the process, set themselves ablaze. Either they haven’t read the… Read More
2022-12-14 00:32
Over the weekend Twitter CEO Elon Musk called for the prosecution of Dr. Anthony Fauci while making a play on the left’s demands for preferred pronoun recognition.
My pronouns… Read More
2022-12-14 00:25
It’s today’s rotten reality of minimal justice online. It’s the out-of-control, mass-victimization of Americans via cybercrime, attacks, harassment, and fentanyl-death… Read More
2022-12-14 00:20
Spending is out of control in Washington right now. With Republicans and Democrats fighting over where to increase federal spending, it is important that the opposite happen, and discretiona… Read More
2022-12-14 00:09
It turns out that non-binary Biden nuke official Sam Brinton carries more baggage than the Biden administration can handle.
35-year-old drag queen Samuel Otis Brinton, who is facing a pai… Read More
2022-12-11 01:27
The following quote is one of the most piercing I have ever read, all the more so because it was written in 1787, almost 250 years ago (by a Scottish historian, Sir Alexander Fraser Tytler):… Read More
2022-12-07 03:33
Advocates of physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia often frame their position as driven by compassion and dignity. As the broad-strokes argument goes, people with terrible terminal illne… Read More
2022-12-07 03:30
Heritage Action is sounding the alarm over a reported bipartisan amnesty plan circulating on Capitol Hill and warning the scheme will make the current border crisis even worse.
&ldq&hell…Read More
2022-12-07 03:24
It has barely been three days since Elon Musk sent the press industry into a shame spiral by releasing a series of documents exposing a rigged moderating system inside Twitter. There ha… Read More
2022-12-07 03:23
The midterm elections are over, save for the Senate runoff in Georgia. The progressive socialist leftists of the Democrat party, meaning all of them, realized that they had to shift the conv… Read More
2022-12-07 03:22
We are living in an unprecedented era, where the left has now mastered voter disenfranchisement and suppression, largely by controlling the legal system where statutory violations and crimes… Read More
2022-11-30 06:11
According to an industry analyst, Mario Kart 9 is currently in “active development”, will have a new racing twist, and could be teased this year.
The speculation surrounding t… Read More
2022-11-30 05:35
Videogames are heading for a U.S. sales decline in 2022, but a looming recession and new releases could turbocharge a rebound in 2023, according to one analyst.
Stifel analyst Drew Crum s… Read More
2022-11-30 05:35
For a while we’d though the Nintendo Switch Pro rumors has withered on the vine, but a leaked Nvidia DLSS source code has what looks like reference to a new Switch. And this could be t… Read More
2022-11-30 05:33
The global video game market will shrink in 2022, according to a new industry analysis that blames multiple factors.
Why it matters: If correct, it’ll prove that gaming, which… Read More
2022-11-29 20:07
After the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade leaked on May 3rd, news reports blamed abortion-related violence over the summer on pro-life supporters.
“[W]e… Read More
2022-11-29 19:27
Lord Acton’s dictum is well-known: “Power tends to corrupt, absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Another way of saying that is “power is intoxicating.” It is di… Read More
2022-11-29 19:25
“The idea we still allow semi-automatic weapons to be purchased is sick,” President Biden claimed on Thanksgiving Day. “It has no socially redeeming value. Zero. None. Not… Read More
2022-11-29 19:22
There’s a new front being opened in the fight to keep harmful ESG standards from being forced on American companies by powerful holding entities such as BlackRock, Vanguard, and State… Read More
2022-11-23 01:32
The United States obsesses over whether biological men can compete in women’s sports as transgender females.
Crime is spiking at levels not seen in 40 years. But some consider it ra… Read More
2022-11-23 01:28
Who or what was responsible for the Republican nationwide collapse in the midterms? After all, pundits, politicos, and pollsters all predicted a “red tsunami.”Moreover, the avera… Read More
2022-11-23 01:26
Attorney General Merrick Garland has just announced the appointment of special counsel Jack Smith.
But Smith’s team will not look into the Biden family quid pro quo syndicate nor it… Read More
2022-11-19 04:49
A reader worries that Sony has become too complacent with the early success of the PS5 and details several ways it’s losing ground to Xbox.
This month’s State of Play was the… Read More
2022-11-19 04:46
There are many reasons why rock and roll is the best genre of music. For one, rock and roll is a very versatile genre that can encompass a wide range of styles and influences. This means tha… Read More
2022-11-15 02:19
In Martin Scorsese’s Oscar winning film The Departed, the Irish mafia infiltrate the Boston State Police, and the Police infiltrate the Irish Mafia. Toward the end of the movie, t… Read More
2022-11-15 02:17
Does anyone here remember the good ole ‘ days when you went with your parents to vote? You stood there and watched them cast their ballot, and get a receipt, and before you went to bed… Read More
2022-11-14 06:05
“When you wake up tomorrow, we will be in the majority, and Nancy Pelosi will be in the minority.”
It’s been three mornings since Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy… Read More
2022-11-10 06:18
Remember President Joe Biden’s Disinformation Governance Board? It was so ridiculed that the administration quickly scaled it back and then shut it down. But beware, Biden is resorting… Read More
2022-11-10 05:40
If you woke up this morning wondering why the expected red wave of Republican victories had turned out to be but a ripple, you’re not alone. Many pundits expected that the Biden admini… Read More
2022-11-05 01:47
Entering 2022, the world looks more dangerous than it has at any time since the late 1980s. Real conflicts of interest in Eastern Europe and the East China Sea have set the table f… Read More
2022-11-05 01:07
The Democratic Party are talking about Democratic Centralism, not democracy.
The Democratic Party put the statue here in Seattle.Don’t Vote for the Democratic Party. Vote Republi… Read More
2022-11-04 17:22
II was in communism in my childhood. In Boy Scouts, they had Axel honneth and Jurgen Habermas in boy scouts. I wasn’t a Missouri Lutheran, I was in the ELCA my entire life with woman p… Read More
2022-11-03 04:36
Harvard University has a Kennedy School of Government whose primary intent is to prepare people for some aspect of public (government) service. I suspect everybody who attends that school ha… Read More
2022-11-03 04:28
The Democratic Party is, historically, in trouble in the midterm elections next week. Not only does the party in power nearly always lose seats in the midterms, but usually not even a popula… Read More
2022-11-03 04:21
Next Tuesday, voters, please remember that Democrats will never run out of excuses for criminals. They drone on about “racism,” “root causes,” “poverty,”… Read More
2022-11-01 04:38
The Biden Administration’s Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is being sued by an ethics watchdog for reportedly withholding key information on the baby formula shortage.
Accordin… Read More
2022-11-01 04:17
Paul Pelosi’s bizarre battle with a hammer-wielding, tighty-whitey bedecked foe, boasting a tawdry history befitting any ANTIFA clown, provides yet another insight into the degeneracy… Read More
2022-10-29 03:50
At this point, it would save everyone time if Democrats could simply point to a policy agenda item that isn’t going to save democracy — if such a thing exists.
If Republicans… Read More
2022-10-29 03:49
All eyes are on the House and Senate as we hurtle toward Election Day. But if the past two years have shown us anything, state races are just as crucial because of the impact they have on Am… Read More
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