Senate Budget Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders (D., Vt.) attends a hearing to discuss President Biden’s budget request for FY 2022, at the Capitol in Washington, D.C., June 8, 2021. (Greg Nash/Reuters) I have already written against the congealing left-wing conventional wisdom which suggests that, if Democrats don’t get everything they want, then democracy itself has
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The United States military plans to drop the hammer on Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller, the Marine officer who criticized top military commanders for the role they played in the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan. What are the details? The Marine Corps revealed last week that Scheller has been formally charged with six violations of the Uniform
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Facebook is allegedly using a debunked fact-check from the Associated Press to censor posts for criticizing critical race theory. “The reason the DOJ/FBI are starting to target “angry parents at school board meetings” as domestic terrorists is because school boards and town councils are folding under the pressure of the public,” Ian Smith, fitness enthusiast
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Hundreds of thousands of US troops are still not fully vaccinated against Covid as the Pentagon’s deadline looms. There are different vaccination deadlines across the different services – The Navy and Marine Corps both share a November 28 deadline. The Air Force’s deadline for vaccination is November 2 and the Army’s deadline is December 15.
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(jaflippo/Getty Images) 2008—By a vote of 4 to 3—with the decisive vote provided by a lower-court judge who, as a result of two curious recusals, was sitting in for the chief justice—the Connecticut supreme court, in Kerrigan v. Commissioner of Public Health, invents a right to same-sex marriage under the state constitution.
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In this article SAVE A Spirit Airlines aircraft takes off at Orlando International Airport. Paul Hennessy | SOPA Images | LightRocket | Getty Images Spirit Airlines‘ CEO Ted Christie on Friday told staff to get inoculated against Covid-19 ahead of forthcoming federal vaccine mandates for large companies. President Joe Biden last month said the government
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Attendees at the Black Voices for Trump Coalition rollout event in Atlanta, Ga., November 8, 2019. (Elijah Nouvelage/Reuters) Albert Eisenberg’s recent RealClearPolitics piece on Republican outreach strategies in black communities contains some admirable in-person reporting, based largely on Eisenberg’s focus-group conversations with a dozen “swing” black voters in suburban Philadelphia. But the article — titled
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Dave Chappelle has been embroiled in controversy this week because of comments deemed to be “transphobic” in his latest comedy special. The legendary stand-up comedian mocked cancel culture, fired back at the critics who attacked him, and blasted the mainstream media that wrote hit pieces on him. Chappelle performed a stand-up comedy show at the
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Steven Hill, a former policy director at the Center for Humane Technology, is suggesting that Facebook issue use “permits.” Hill detailed his thoughts in an op-ed for Project Syndicate.  “Digital operating permits,” Hill said, would “address big tech’s monopoly problem” and “protect users.” His reasoning includes a prediction that limiting content to 1,000 people would
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Under a patina of impartiality, fact-checkers have long engaged in a uniquely dishonest genre of journalism, claiming mastery over truth and facts when, most often, they are merely editorializing on highly debatable contentions.  Here, The Associated Press, once the most reliable straight-news source in the nation, claims that a viral tweet from critical race theory
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Lev Radin | LightRocket | Getty Images An emergency landing at LaGuardia Airport triggered a significant response from fire and police units Saturday afternoon. The Federal Aviation Administration confirmed Republic Airlines Flight 4817 landed safely at the Queens airport around 3 p.m. following a “security incident.” All passengers made it safely off the plane, the
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I remember when Merrick Garland was nominated by Barack Obama to be on the Supreme Court. Like Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor before him, we were assured that Obama had nominated a moderate to the Supreme Court. The Washington Post claimed he had “a reputation as being ideologically moderate.” Of course, many liberal networks joined in
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The plan — which will eliminate the high-stakes gifted admissions test and phase out separate advanced classes altogether — will largely fall to the next mayor to implement, since de Blasio has only months left in City Hall. The new program nevertheless drew sharp criticism from outraged parents who said it would limit high-achievers’ access
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According to a report from RealClearInvestigations, Special Counsel John Durham has shifted the focus of his investigation into the origins of the Russiagate conspiracy to Pentagon cybersecurity contractors who may have misused their government security clearances to provide Democratic operatives with damaging (albeit false) information about former president Donald Trump. Last month, Durham indicted former
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A senior police officer in Australia is being investigated after she sensationally resigned from the Victoria Police force during a live interview. The cop, who said her law enforcement employment was “the best job” she ever had, revealed that a “vast majority” of her former officers don’t believe in and don’t want to enforce the
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The late web mogul Andrew Breitbart once said that politics is upstream from culture. And boy couldn’t that be anymore true in this day and age, with movies, music, and TV shows force-feeding things like debauchery and left-wing lectures to the point that they don’t even care whether or not they alienate anybody outside the
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