Hot Takes Leave Me Cold Simone Biles was all the rage — quite literally — with much of conservative Twitter this week, and I use that as a launching point (gymnastics pun intended) about Twitter, hot takes, and constipation. via GIPHY There is a lot of self-examination in this video–I hope you will enjoy my
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When celebrities weigh in on politics, the result is usually vapid virtue-signaling and surface-level liberal talking points. But pop star Camila Cabello just offered an exception to this rule with her stirring and personal denunciation of the socialist tyranny in Cuba. The Biden-supporting singer posted an Instagram live story responding to the protests in Cuba against the
(Nicola Patterson/Getty Images) There are many who contend that higher education should just focus on occupational studies and get rid of “elitist” liberal arts courses that merely support “whiteness.” But there is another view, that the liberal arts should have a central place in higher education and are not at all “elitist.” A recent book
Bill Maher was back with another Real Time episode on HBO Friday night, and once again he went after cancel culture, this time at the Olympics. He started with the news that the director of the opening ceremonies was fired hours before the show for making a Holocaust joke in 1998. “Young people have to stop flattering themselves
As a New York resident, I have to live with the shame of being in a deep blue state with a governor who sent thousands of elderly citizens to their deaths during the pandemic and is currently facing multiple allegations of sexual misconduct. He’ll probably survive both scandals—at least, that’s how it’s looking now. I
BROWNSVILLE, Texas — U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers at the Gateway International Bridge intercepted a load of alleged cocaine, hidden within a 2013 Mercedes. “Our officers remain vigilant to keep our borders secure using valuable experience and the available enforcement tools which led to this important narcotics seizure,” said Port Director Tater Ortiz,
A commuter receives a COVID-19 vaccination at Grand Central Station Terminal train station in New York City, May 12, 2021. (Carlo Allegri/Reuters) As mentioned in today’s Morning Jolt, President Biden began yesterday’s announcement by pointing to New Castle County in Delaware and Lehigh County in Pennsylvania and calling them places where, “you wouldn’t have to
Ya gotta love it. Here was the May 13, 2021 headline on MSNBC: Biden: ‘Get vaccinated or wear a mask until you do President Joe Biden said if you are fully vaccinated you no longer need to wear a mask, after the CDC updated guidance. Biden urged Americans to get vaccinated and be respectful of
Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar rarely agrees on anything with GOP Senator Lindsey Graham. But Cuellar, whose Texas district is being swamped with illegal alien crossings, is joining with Graham to push Joe Biden to name former Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson to ramrod the administration’s efforts to control the influx of illegals at the southern
The Department of Justice dropped its investigation last week into New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo over his March 2020 order forcing nursing homes to accept COVID-19 patients that resulted in the deaths of thousands of elderly residents. Cuomo currently faces several other probes, including a criminal investigation by the FBI and the U.S. attorney’s office
A lone bird walks past the quiet Circular Quay train station during a lockdown to curb the spread of a coronavirus in Sydney, Australia, July 28, 2021. (Loren Elliott/Reuters) So, there’s a philosophy for dealing with the pandemic called “COVID Zero.” The idea being that a much more aggressive approach to lockdowns can extinguish the
Canada’s Liberal government has introduced legislation aimed at targeting harmful content online. If passed, the digital safety commissioner would oversee the censorship of child pornography, pro-terrorism content, hate speech, and other harmful posts the commissioner deems harmful on social media platforms. The legislation makes no distinction between child pornography and “hate speech.” It also includes
As promised, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed an executive order on Friday ensuring that parents, and not education bureaucrats, would be the ones to determine whether their children need to mask up when school resumes. DeSantis had declared at an event earlier in the day: “I want to empower parents to make the best decisions
The Australian government will deploy several hundred soldiers to Sydney to begin enforcing COVID-19 lockdowns Monday following a rise in delta variant infections. The troops were requested by New South Wales Police Commissioner Mick Fuller on Thursday to assist in enforcing COVID-19 lockdowns, Fuller announced in a statement. Since June, an outbreak of the delta
National Review founder William F. Buckley Jr. (National Review) Entries are due tonight, July 31, at ll:59 p.m. ET. “The recently published book, God and Man at Yale,” McGeorge Bundy thundered in the pages of The Atlantic, “written by William F. Buckley, Jr., a 1950 graduate of Yale University, is a savage attack on that
As we live more and more of life online, deplatforming is coming for your wallet next. One either allows wrongthink to persevere, as an extremist, or confronts wrongthink, as an anti-extremist. There is no in-between safe space of “not extremist.” The claim of “not extremist” neutrality is a mask for extremism. That’s a very slight
CNN medical analyst Dr. Leana Wen had a short and stormy tenure at top of Planned Parenthood, but CNN avoids mentioning it like the plague. They are not alone. Wen is now selling a new memoir called Lifelines: A Doctor’s Journey in the Fight for Public Health, and the book information on Amazon doesn’t include it.
Hey, everyone! I’m back from a well-deserved vacation with my family. We stuffed the kids into a pickup truck with all our bikes strapped on the back and drove all the way to Wisconsin from New York. The ride was not fun, and the children held a meeting after we got home and demanded that
In Biden’s America, if I want to remain healthy I have to get vaccinated and wear a mask. The disease I’m told I must protect myself against is 99.7 percent survivable at the worst, but I’m told I must fear it, and if I don’t fear it enough, Joey will put me in jail. I’ve
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer attend a bipartisan meeting with Iraq’s Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., July 28, 2021. (Elizabeth Frantz/Reuters) As Yuval Levin reported a month ago, the “top priority” of Senate Republicans pushing for a bipartisan infrastructure bill is that it
Anjem Choudary’s Facebook and Twitter accounts were permanently shut down after just five days of use. Twitter said his account was suspended for “violating the rules” of the organization’s policies on violence and hate. Described as a “hate preacher,” Choudary was convicted of inviting support for ISIS five years ago and served half of his
Simone Biles’ withdrawal from the Toyko Olympics gymnastics competition shocked the world. Biles is the undisputed greatest ever in her sport. The Texan champion accomplishes moves that no one else would ever dare, and became so proficient and so dominant that the International Olympic Committee effectively punished her for it by refusing to score her
A Hong Kong pro-democracy protestor was sentenced to nine years in prison in the first prosecution under the country’s new national security law, the Associated Press reported. Tong Ying-ki was convicted Tuesday on charges of inciting secession and terrorism for reportedly driving his motorcycle into a group of police officers with a flag donning the
A healthcare worker prepares the Moderna coronavirus vaccine at a vaccination center in El Paso, Texas, May 6, 2021. (Jose Luis Gonzalez/Reuters) According to the CDC, 90 percent of Americans over the age of 65 have received one dose of the COVID vaccine, and 80 percent are fully vaccinated. That’s not quite as good as
It’s not easy being Diane Lockhart in Season Five of Paramount+’s (formerly CBS All-Access) The Good Fight. The liberal feminist lawyer, a name partner in a well-established black Chicago law firm, is conflicted because of major attacks of white liberal guilt. She is struggling with two questions – should she step aside as a white
LANGUAGE WARNING BECAUSE… You know how I am. We know I can get a bit salty behind the paywall but I really went all out when I started talking about Anthony Fauci, who is rumored to be a physician. That guy kinda gets on my nerves. These days I have no interest in reining it
Beginning in March of last year, the most recent count of Covid deaths involving Minnesota minors stands at three. Broken down by group, one child was between the ages of 0-4 and two others were between the ages 5-9. Not a single child between the ages of 10-18 has been recorded to have died from
Bettina Love during a TEDx talk in 2014 (TEDx Talks/via YouTube) If you care about the battle over critical race theory (CRT) in the schools, you need to know about Bettina Love. The Biden administration recently got caught promoting a guidebook from her group, the Abolitionist Teaching Network (ATN). The booklet asks teachers to “disrupt
When the Pulitzer Prize Board announced in June that no one would receive its annual award for excellence in editorial cartooning, many political artists were outraged. The decision seemingly made no sense, especially since so many cartoonists thought they produced great work throughout a hectic year. The finalists themselves felt insulted. Ruben Bolling, one of
When it seemed like only a few of his colleagues were still outraged at the Biden administration’s decision to bring back indoor masking for much of the country (compared to the uproar on Tuesday), Fox News’s Peter Doocy sparred Thursday afternoon with White House Principal Deputy Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre and President Biden over the