An embarrassingly fulsome tribute to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer movement on Tuesday extended the New York Times’ outsized attention to a minority group that defines itself based on sexuality: “They Came to Slay: L.G.B.T.Q. Trailblazers,” composed of interviews with five “L.G.B.T.Q. people of color.” Leftist L.G.B.T.Q. advocacy has long infiltrated the paper’s cultural

On Monday, California’s attorney general forbade state-funded travel to five more states, citing an “unprecedented wave of bigotry and discrimination” against people who identify as LGBT. The new policy sent a rebuke to conservative Republicans who have moved to protect fairness in women’s sports and to protect children from experimental transgender “treatments” that arguably constitute

If the drinking water from the Flint River in Michigan looked dirty, or smelled bad, the disaster could probably have been avoided. No one would have drunk the poisonous liquid, and roughly a dozen people who died from Legionnaires Disease from doing just that would still be alive today. Lead contamination, especially of children, would

Today’s Capital Note includes a discussion about the rise in home prices — bubble or not and so on. It was written last night, and one of the things I wrote in that long-vanished era was this: [T]here may be some signs of sticker shock. The New York Times (from a week or so ago): “Sales of homes in

What is California? It seems like such an easy question with an obvious answer, but it isn’t, really—not any more. Nominally, California is the 31st and largest (by population; Alaska and Texas exceed its area) state, home to sunny beaches, magnificent mountains, chic wineries, Hollywood and Silicon Valley, and the next president of the United

While ABC was busy covering up a Democratic city council defunding the Oakland Police Department in California, and CBS and NBC refused to highlight the ridiculousness of the White House’s latest efforts to gaslight America, Fox News spoke the truth on Tuesday by fact-checking which party was out there defunding police departments and adding to

BEER ME! My daughter was just in town for a whirlwind five days and, as I think I mentioned in the Morning Briefing, it was the first time she’s visited Tucson since she’s been old enough to drink. She was here about three weeks shy of her 21st birthday a couple of years ago, then

House Democrats proposed a new spending bill that would cut funding to immigration enforcement agencies and rescind funds allocated to the border wall. The bill, which makes appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), allocates $14.1 billion in net funding to Customs and Border Protection (CBP), $927 million less than the previous year’s budget,

1. An explosion inside a Catholic church in the Democratic Republic of Congo has left at least two people “seriously injured,” according to the parish priest. https://t.co/cPnhBcLAzD — Catholic News Agency (@cnalive) June 28, 2021 2. Surfside Mayor Charles Burkett shares the story of a young girl praying near the site of the building collapse.

Conservative lawmakers appeared ready and willing for a fight to protect free speech from Big Tech’s tyrannical grip at an event hosted to feature solutions. The Ethics & Public Policy Center held a Big Tech Symposium that allowed politicians, experts and attorneys to discuss issues like Section 230 and antitrust, along with possible solutions. Several

Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism released a report from a survey of 92,000 people worldwide, which found that among those in the U.S., just 29 percent trust the news media the majority of the time. Finland got the best marks from its people with 65 percent saying they trust their media most of

LAREDO, Texas—U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Office of Field Operations (OFO) officers seized heroin in one enforcement action that totaled over $1.3 million in street value. “Drug smugglers will go to extreme lengths to ensure their illegal contraband avoids detection,” said Port Director Alberto Flores, Laredo Port of Entry. “Fortunately, our frontline officers employ

Kathryn Garcia, Democratic candidate for New York City mayor, speaks during a campaign appearance in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, N.Y., May 11, 2021. (Brendan McDermid/Reuters) New York City’s new ranked-choice voting system (RCV) is looking like it may deliver the mayoralty to Kathryn Garcia, even though the morning after the Democratic primary she was

CNN reporter Donie O’Sullivan went to the Trump rally over the weekend to interview and spotlight the people who think Trump didn’t lose. But on Tuesday’s New Day, they isolated one man who claimed that President Trump would “come back before the middle of August.” Asked by O’Sullivan “what if it doesn’t happen?”, the man

“The Biden administration is spying on us,” Tucker Carlson said on his Fox News program Monday night. “We have confirmed that.” According to Tucker, two whistleblowers in the National Security Agency (NSA) have been reading his text messages regarding a story on the January 6 Capitol riot. This is a serious allegation, and yet easy

A.F. Branco coffee table book “Keep America Laughing (at the left)” ORDER HERE Donations/Tips accepted and appreciated – $1.00 –  $5.00 –  $25.00 – $50.00 – $100 –  it all helps to fund this website and keep the cartoons coming. Also Venmo @AFBranco – THANK YOU! NBC and the world seem to have no problem embracing the China Olympics though

An angle I meant to include in this morning’s “Tuesday” newsletter: The modern pro-abortion view is to biology what geocentrism was to cosmology. If all you had to go on was the evidence of your own eyes, of course you’d think that the earth is at the center of the universe and that the sun

The Cruelty is the Point: The Past, Present, and Future of Trump’s America  by Adam Serwer (One World: 2021), 384. Adam Serwer’s “The Cruelty Is the Point” is the most toxic piece of journalism of the Trump era. After the shocking election of 2016, the liberal establishment showed glimmers of willingness to ask hard questions

In a shocking allegation during Monday’s show, Fox News host Tucker Carlson told viewers that a whistleblower from the National Security Agency had reached out to warn him that the agency had him and his team under surveillance. And understandably, Carlson was non-plus by the apparent revelation, declaring: “Spying on opposition journalists is incompatible with

Former Biden advisor Andy Slavitt really wants you to think there are only two choices: Get the COVID-19 vaccine or don’t. And if you don’t, COVID-19 will come for you: Way to tell about a tenth of the story, Andy. The FDA has placed a warning about myocarditis and pericarditis following the second mRNA vaccination.

Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar called Monday for a pathway to citizenship for “all undocumented people.” Omar tweeted her support to end the undocumented status for all illegal immigrants in the U.S. “We must create a pathway to citizenship for all undocumented people living here,” Omar said. “Immigrants get the job done.” Omar had a

Pope Francis in Camerino, Italy, June 16, 2019 (Remo Casilli/Reuters) As Michael Brendan Dougherty ably noted on the Corner a bit earlier, the New York Times opinion page has published its latest piece attempting to make it appear as if pro-life Catholics don’t understand their own religion. Prominent historian Garry Wills has been studying the Catholic

There’s something about ballot-integrity laws that send liberal journalists off a cliff of panic. On Sunday’s Meet the Press, PBS White House reporter Yamiche Alcindor claimed Republicans were causing an “existential crisis” on voting in America, when turnout in 2020 was historically large. She claimed Republicans want to squash all votes that aren’t Republican votes. Where

A couple of days again I noticed something interesting. As I’ve previously mentioned, my son loves Star Wars and is really into building Star Wars Lego sets. As much as I have my issues with both Lego and Disney (which owns Lucasfilm), we still watch the content and build the Lego sets in my house.

Commentators criticized a California professor after he tweeted on Saturday posts that called Joseph Stalin a “successful revolutionary” and “great listener.” Self-identified communist Asatar Bair, an economics professor at Riverside City College, made multiple Twitter posts where he called for more nuance when discussing Stalin’s rule in the former U.S.S.R. Bair said he does not

(Illustration: Florence Lo/Reuters) Last year’s furor over TikTok, the popular social-media app owned by China’s ByteDance, has subsided. Although TikTok faced threats from President Trump, litigation halted the administration’s implementation of executive orders that would ban the app. Then, earlier this month, President Biden repealed those orders and said he would instead develop a broader

On Sunday’s Reliable Sources, CNN host Brian Stelter began with a poisonous rant on how Sean Hannity goes on poisonous rants. In other words, Stelter argued Hannity is too angry for television, while being every bit as angry. As usual, Stelter insisted Hannity attacking reporters as “stalkers” is authoritarian, in a rant in which he denounced

I can only imagine what happened behind the scenes on Thursday after Joe Biden’s bizarre behavior during a White House press conference. On three different occasions, apropos of nothing, Biden leaned into the microphone and whispered to reporters. When asked about additional relief for families, Biden whispered toward PBS reporter Yamiche Alcindor: “I got them

The Federal Reserve System has come under fire in the last few months for extending itself into areas outside its Congressional “dual mandate” of stabilizing prices and maximizing employment. There are two areas where the Fed is being accused of overreaching. The first area is economic equality. For example, the Federal Reserve Bank of New

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) speaks before signing legislation passed by the House during an enrollment ceremony to memorialize the people killed in the Pulse Nightclub shooting in 2016 in Orlando, Fla, on Capitol Hill, June 16, 2021. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) There’s lots of agreement in Washington these days that Congress is broken. But