Pixar Animation Studios, a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Studios, has released a casting call seeking someone to portray a “14-year-old transgender female” in an upcoming cartoon. The studio is seeking someone who can “authentically portray” the character. “Pixar is casting a youth voice-over role for an upcoming animated project. The character, Jess, is a
And thank God it is not an oncoming train. I need to write about something positive today as everyone knows we have been on a long and stressful streak of bad events to chronicle. This long and dark Pandemic looks like it is losing its grip on us and there are signs we may be
urbazon | E+ | Getty Images You may want to reconsider any plans to travel abroad. That’s the recommendation from the U.S. State Department, which updated its Travel Advisories list this week warning Americans against foreign travel to include about 80% of countries worldwide. Calling the risks the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic poses to travelers as
Joe Biden has formally recognised the killing of an estimated 1.5 million Armenians by the Ottoman Empire in the early 20th century as genocide. The US president used the term after decades of his predecessors avoiding it for fear of alienating Turkey. Recognising the killings – which occurred between 1915 and 1923 – was a
USA Today Washington Bureau chief Susan Page has recently released a biography of Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her book tour took her to The Late Show with Stephen Colbert early Thursday morning where she fawned over Pelosi’s alleged political skills. The idea of Pelosi being some kind of political genius actually came up when Colbert asked about the left-wing
Well, I’ve been MIA for a week. Sorry about that. I was traveling to St. Louis to get on the ground and continue my investigative work, which has been consuming my life. It was a productive trip but I got very little done for my regularly scheduled programming. But I’m back now and it’s time
Kate O’Beirne in Ephesus. Today’s the fourth anniversary of the death of Kate O’Beirne, dear friend and mentor to a number of us at National Review. She was former Washington editor and then National Review Institute president. I first met her when I was an intern at the Heritage Foundation. (Our first conversation may have
Fox Sports commentator Marcellus Wiley tore into NBA superstar LeBron James this week over his social media posts related to the police shooting death of 16-year-old Ma’Khia Bryant, which ignited new controversy this week over how media report officer-involved shooting deaths. What is the background? James incited a tsunami of backlash on Wednesday when he
The mayor of Portland extended a state of emergency for the city through this weekend in an attempt to curtail potential violence and defacement of property. The state of emergency, which gives Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler (D) power to declare a curfew and close public facilities, was first declared on Tuesday, the day of the
Hollywood has taught us a painful lesson in recent years. No amount of fame, fortune, prestige or power is enough to inoculate you against the woke mob. We’ve seen powerhouse figures like Scarlett Johansson, Stephen King, Matt Groening and Halle Berry all buckle when pressured by woke activists. Now, it’s Chuck Lorre’s turn. Lorre lacks the name recognition of the
In her Advanced Placement government and politics class, a high school student named Anna was assigned to read a New York Times commentary that called the U.S. Constitution “imbecilic.” Many of her peers agreed with this conclusion based on the author’s argument that the Constitution is too difficult to amend. So, Anna approached her teacher
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon at a conference in Washington, D.C., April 9, 2019 (Jeenah Moon/Reuters) The week of April 19: ESG, proposed capital-gains-tax increases, and much, much more. JPMorgan Chase’s Chairman and CEO, Jamie Dimon, has spent the last year or so positioning the bank at the center of the increasingly ascendant notion of
Democrats want to pack the U.S> Supreme Court, but it turns out a growing majority of Americans think it’s a bad idea. There is even a new and growing bipartisan movement that wants to amend the U.S. Constitution to keep the court at just nine justices. Once again, the Democrats are out of step with
Summary: President Joe Biden will fly home for the weekend on Saturday. President Biden’s Itinerary for 4/24/21: All Times EDT No public events White House Briefing Schedule Keep an Eye on the President at Our President’s Schedule Page. We are providing former President Donald Trump’s schedule to compare and contrast the leadership and work style
Dr. Scott Gottlieb told CNBC on Friday he believes the United States may struggle to reach “true herd immunity” to Covid, suggesting coronavirus infections will be around in the years ahead. However, the former commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration stressed that new cases alone should not be the metric receiving the most focus
Transgender girls have been banned from playing on female sports teams by a Republican governor in the US. Alabama‘s Kay Ivey signed legislation restricting transgender students from participating in K-12 sports – those that take place during primary and secondary education. The move will see Alabama become the latest conservative state to take such action
Joe Scarborough got into a bit of a faux argument with CBS’s Stephen Colbert and wife and fellow MSNBC Morning Joe host Mika Brzezinski on The Late Show early Friday morning over whether the GOP is a fascist party or simply following a fascist leader. Beyond these artificial differences, all could at least agree that the GOP is populated with morons.
This week, I was in St. Louis chasing down the investigation into the family court system and doing in-depth interviews with the families affected by the corruption. This is a job that the St. Louis media will not do. When hundreds of victims come forward with the same stories of extortion, coercion, intimidation, and losing
Old St. Patrick’s Cathedral in NYC (KJL) The first reading at Mass today was the conversion of St. Paul. They just happened to need a reader at the Basilica of Saint Patrick’s Old Cathedral where I was in lower Manhattan, and goodness, what a gift. To be able to read those awesome words in such
A pair of professors from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology say indoor social distancing guidelines are unnecessary and not based on science, after finding that it makes virtually no difference whether folks are 6 or 60 feet apart when it comes to the spread of COVID-19. What are the details? MIT professors Martin Bazant and
A hospital in Houston, TX will suspend or fire hospital workers who refuse to take the COVID-19 vaccine on or by June 7. In this clip, Pat Gray explained a new mandatory policy implemented at Houston Methodist Hospital requiring all hospital workers to be vaccinated by the set deadline or face dismissal. Currently, the hospital
Marvel’s The Falcon and the Winter Soldier has been a mixed bag of action sequences and blatant political messages. The Disney+ series ended things with a bang by making one last racial jab at audiences and Captain America fans. The April 23 finale “One World, One People” finally sees Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie) aka The
There’s no political question as consistently in vogue among a certain class of conservative intellectuals as “Why aren’t Hispanics more conservative?” The perennial springs up every election cycle. In 2012, after the painful defeat of Mitt Romney, the accepted wisdom was that Hispanics needed to be pursued through moderation on immigration. “If Hispanic Americans perceive
Whether their leaders realize or admit it or not, American colleges and universities are on the verge of a crisis. And it’s a crisis, by and large, of their own making. The National Association of Scholars last month published a report by Neetu Arnold, “Priced Out: What College Costs America,” which finds, among other things,
The idea of an “America First Caucus” in the House has been shelved. Henry Olsen says good riddance to it. In the course of his denunciation, he draws attention to a statement that was supposed to accompany the group’s founding, which includes the line, “An important distinction between post-1965 immigrants and previous waves of settlers
This is just barbaric!California officials were filmed forcing mentally handicapped patients to get the COVID-19 vaccination.The patients were filmed screaming and crying so the officials held them down so they could get their COVID shot. This was all part of the “Operation Homebound” program initiated by Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva. The program is
I reported on Wednesday that the US Postal Service is monitoring Americans’ social media activity for no apparent reason. After that story, I immediately filed a FOIA request for documents and communications covering the funding, purpose and actions of the iCOP project. Today, I received acceptance of my FOIA, the request to expedite, and the
Summertime in the United States could return to a pre-Covid-19 normal if 75% to 80% of the U.S. population is vaccinated, Dr. Peter Hotez said Friday. “We can vaccinate our way out of this epidemic if all the adults and adolescents get vaccinated by summer. We can have an extraordinary quality of life, with going
A US medical panel has recommended resuming use of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine. The advice came from advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The vaccine was paused by the CDC and US Food and Drug Administration last week after eight “serious” cases of rare blood clots associated with
On Thursday’s New Day show, CNN provided a forum to purported “anti-racist” scholar and Boston University Professor Ibram X. Kendi to complain about recent violent police actions. He even suggested that the white cop who saved the life of a black teenage girl in Ohio by shooting another girl who was about to stab her might