U.S. President Joe Biden and German Chancellor Angela Merkel attend a joint news conference in the East Room at the White House, July 15, 2021. (Tom Brenner/Reuters) The proposed agreement will only intensify Ukrainian, Polish, and congressional fears of appeasement. As the Russia-backed Nord Stream 2 natural-gas pipeline nears completion, likely by next month, the

Kevin mentioned the outrageous allegation that Texas has banned teaching about the KKK. I delved more into this controversy in the thread below, including pointing to the provision in the state education standards that explicitly says students are expected to “explain how Jim Crow laws and the Ku Klux Klan created obstacles to civil rights

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Ed Markey lead a news conference to reintroduce the Green New Deal at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., April 20, 2021. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) Tariffs — is there anything they can’t do? Other than what they are supposed to do, that is. Congressional Democrats propose to enact a series of

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) speaks about the formation of a select committee to investigate the January 6 Capitol riot a news conference in Washington, D.C., July 1, 2021. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) House minority leader Kevin McCarthy has selected the five Republicans to sit on the select committee investigating the Capitol riot that is scheduled

1.  Uyghur survivor of China’s detention camps testifies to their brutality This system of rape was commonplace, as the police “were always taking girls out of the cells like this” and “did whatever they wanted.”  “Sometimes they brought some of the women back near the point of death,” she said. “Some of the women disappeared.” 

Former President Donald Trump speaks to his supporters during a rally in Sarasota, Fla., July 3, 2021. (Octavio Jones/Reuters) In an interview with Vanity Fair published on Monday, former President Trump slammed Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) for defending the filibuster during his presidency, when Republicans held a slight majority in both houses

U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy remarks on COVID-19 misinformation during a news conference at the White House, Washington, D.C., July 15, 2021 (Tom Brenner/Reuters) Surgeon General Vivek Murthy on Sunday urged social media companies to confront and snuff out the COVID misinformation “wildfire” circulating on their platforms. “This is about the health of Americans and

(VasilyevD/iStock/Getty Images Plus) Leftists are always looking for those little “gotcha” studies to prove that Marx was right — that workers are underpaid. Writing for AIER, Swedish economist Joakim Book relates the story of a study in Iceland that has been cited as evidence for the proposition that workers are just as productive if they

Outside Wi Spa in Los Angeles, July 17, 2021 (Screen grab via YouTube) Dueling protests erupted in front of a Los Angeles spa Saturday over the establishment’s transgender access policy. The demonstration was sparked by a video that was posted earlier this month, in which a customer complained to the Wi Spa workers after they

(zkolra/Getty Images) The election is over, but the stakes are still quite high. Courtney Britt, the candidate who incumbent College Republican National Committee Chairman Chandler Thornton hoped would succeed him, triumphed today over Judah Waxelbaum. Only about 60 percent of CRNC affiliates cast ballots, though: A consequence of the maneuvering detailed earlier this week by

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., May 25, 2021. (Erin Scott/Reuters) In a special, undercover report for Dox Media — in no way a legally acceptable reference to Vox — I, Luther Abel (he/them/her), went further than any progressive to date into the

(Sergey Tinyakov/Getty Images) There the New England Journal of Medicine goes pushing woke agendas again. This time, the extremely politically progressive medical journal has published an article urging that medical students be taught that left-wing social-justice engagement should be among their professional duties. From “Physicians as Activists”:  This question [the social justice role of the

Anthony Bourdain at the 2015 Creative Arts Emmy Awards in Los Angeles, Calif. (Danny Moloshok/Reuters) A new documentary about Anthony Bourdain is going to come out. And the New Yorker reports that the filmmakers used artificial intelligence to re-create Bourdain’s voice and used it to simulate Bourdain reading his own emails. There is a moment

President Joe Biden smiles after signing executive orders strengthening access to affordable healthcare at the White House in Washington, D.C., January 28, 2021. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) I got a letter in the mail this week from the IRS. You probably did too, and if you are like me, you were probably a little freaked out by

Emigres in the Little Havana neighborhood react as they gather following reports of protests in Cuba against its deteriorating economy, in Miami, Fla., July 13, 2021. (Maria Alejandra Cardona/Reuters) How the Biden administration can help true patriots keep the flame of resistance alive. What sparked the massive, angry protests that spread across Cuba like wildfire

An activist flies a Black Lives Matter flag during a news conference outside the Minnesota State Capitol in St. Paul, Minn., on May 24, 2021. (Nicholas Pfosi/Reuters) There is a Black Lives Matter movement and slogan, and then there is the Black Lives Matter organization — specifically, as Jim Geraghty details, the BLM Global Network Foundation, which is part

President Joe Biden at the White House in Washington, D.C., February 10, 2021 (Carlos Barria/Reuters) “Free speech is not an absolute human right,” Helle Thorning-Schmidt, a member of Facebook’s Oversight Board and former prime minister of Denmark, told Politico today. “It has to be balanced with other human rights.” We hear similar arguments all the time

A worker at Chinese vaccine maker Sinovac Biotech, developing an experimental coronavirus vaccine, during a government-organized media tour in Beijing, China, September 24, 2020. (Thomas Peter/Reuters) On the menu today: The U.S. intelligence community’s investigation of the COVID-19 pandemic’s origins will have long-term consequences for the world, including future scientific research; a tariff proposal that

Outside a “vocational skills education center” in Dabancheng, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, China, September 4, 2018 (Thomas Peter/Reuters) The Senate passed a bill to curtail imports from Xinjiang Province in China on Wednesday evening, following reports of China’s mass internment and sterilization of Uyghurs and other minorities in the region. The Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention

Democrat Senator Carol Alvarado speaks to the media alongside other members of the Texas State Senate and Texas House of Representatives following a meeting with Vice President Kamala Harris at the White House in Washington D.C., June 16, 2021. (Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters) Texas Democrats who fled the state in order to block a GOP voting bill

European Union flags flutter outside the European Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, March 24, 2021. (Yves Herman/Reuters) The European Union unveiled an ambitious program Wednesday to transform the region’s economy to combat climate change, eliminating dependence on fossil fuel, jumpstarting development and adoption of alternative energies, and imposing the world’s first import tax proportionate to

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) speaks to the media on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., June 22, 2021. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) If there was ever any doubt about whether Republicans should abandon the ridiculous charade of the allegedly bipartisan infrastructure bill, Tuesday night’s news should obliterate it. Senate Democrats have announced that in addition

Governor Ron DeSantis (R., Fla.) (Ryan Mills) Miami — Florida governor Ron DeSantis urged federal leaders to re-establish internet in Cuba as communist leaders on the island nation continue to crack down on protests that have erupted there. Speaking Tuesday afternoon at a roundtable of Florida political leaders and activists in the Cuban exile community,

Representative Liz Cheney (R., Wyo.) listens to a reporter’s question at the Capitol in Washington, D.C., July 1, 2021. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) Republican Representative Liz Cheney, who voted after the Capitol riot to impeach former President Donald Trump, set a second straight fundraising record, raking in $1.88 million in the second quarter. The fundraising figures, which

Former president Donald Trump speaks to media at his golf club in Bedminster, N.J., July 7, 2021. (Eduardo Munoz/Reuters) The latest gathering was a missed opportunity. The Conservative Political Action Conference meet-up known as “America UnCanceled” wrapped up over the weekend with notables such as Kristi Noem, Glenn Beck, and Donald Trump delivering fiery speeches.

(33ft/Getty Images) In a last ditch effort, Democrats in the Texas state legislature walked out of a special session to prevent a number of key Republican-sponsored bills from advancing. At least 58 Democratic state lawmakers left Texas and flew to Washington, D.C. to rally support for federal legislation, NBC News reported. Most of the fleeing

South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem speaks at the North Carolina GOP convention in Greenville, North Carolina, June 5, 2021. (Jonathan Drake/Reuters) At the CPAC summit in Dallas, South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem accused fellow Republican governors of whitewashing their COVID records, claiming that some are “rewriting history” and pretending that they never curtailed freedoms and shut

Then-President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally for Republican senators David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler, ahead of their January runoff elections in Valdosta, Ga., December 5, 2020. (File photo: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) Former President Trump was the headline speaker for the Conservative Political Action Conference in Dallas, delivering a defiant speech to end the weekend.

A pro-life campaigner holds up a model of a 12-week-old embryo during a protest outside the Marie Stopes clinic in Belfast, Northern Ireland, October 18, 2012. (Cathal McNaughton/Reuters) Vermont already has established an absolute statutory right to abortion through the ninth month, and deprives embryos and fetuses of any rights — whether or not in

A NYPD officer seen through the bullet hole of a bodega window, where according to local media reports five men were shot on a Brooklyn street corner during a violent weekend of shootings across New York City, June 1, 2021. (Shannon Stapleton/Reuters) The crime boom and progressives’ generally unserious response to it have been political