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New Trump Video: Ron DeSantis Hasn't Done Anything Special in Florida, Where Charlie Crist Did a Good Job
In an interview with Maria Bartiromo on Sunday, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis literally laughed off a question about his recent travel schedule, which has been fueling speculation that he's grearing up for a 2024 presidential run. DeSantis is promoting his new book, which notably outsold similar offerings from Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump in its first post-publication week. The… → Read More
The Mexican President Threatened Election Interference. Will We Do Anything About It?
In case you missed it over the weekend, Mexico's president vowed to meddle against Republicans in upcoming US elections, prompted by GOP calls for more aggressive action against drug cartels. In a brazen screed, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador ("AMLO") ripped into Republicans and issued a threat that if they don't stop saying things he doesn't like, he will lead an "information campaign" to ensure… → Read More
Palestinian Terrorists on Latest Israeli 'Massacre:' Yeah, Those Killed Were Our Jihadist Fighters
Violence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict continues to boil over, as reprisal attacks escalate, back and forth. We covered the so-called Jenin 'massacre' a few weeks ago, highlighting the anti-Israel lies and deceptions in which leftists and 'anti-Zionists' so often engage on such matters. Since our last analysis, there have been new developments, including a successful raid carried out by… → Read More
This Story About Rep. Cori Bush and Her Bodyguard Is Absolutely Bonkers
And no, it's not the bodyguard Congresswoman Bush just recently married, which is a real thing that happened. Yes, the queen of 'Defund the Police' is personally protected by a phalanx of armed security guards, one of whom she fell in love with. I'd say Mazel Tov, but who knows how she and some of her fellow Squadsters might feel about that particular phrase? The other bodyguard I'm referring to… → Read More
Does Gavin Newsom Have Anything Better to Do?
California Governor Gavin Newsom is a culture war aggressor and a culture war obsessive. The man seems to spend much of his time attacking red states and Republican governors over things happening outside of California. Perhaps it's understandable that Newsom feels compelled spend so much of his time scouring headlines for 'outrages' elsewhere, rather than focusing on his own state, because the… → Read More
New Documents: It Looks Like Fauci Has Even More Explaining to Do
Over the course of the pandemic, my estimation of Dr. Anthony Fauci steadily deteriorated, especially has he leaned into his celebrity status, arrogantly dismissing detractors and cynically framing criticisms of him as attacks on Science Itself. He's also been proven inconsistent and wrong on a number of fronts -- including effectively running interference for the Chinese Communist Party -- to… → Read More
Don't Look Now, But More and More Potential 2024 GOP Presidential Candidates Are Declining to Run
One of the political dynamics I get asked about frequently is whether the presidential sweepstakes in 2023 and 2024 will mirror what happened in 2015 and 2016. Two cycles ago, Donald Trump took the GOP nominating process by storm, garnering intense interest and passionate support, albeit not from a majority of Republican voters. Indeed, at the end of the process, Trump only attracted around 45… → Read More
'Progress' Watch: Accused Mass Shooter Released Without Bail in Seattle
Apparently, a lot of voters will need to learn even more painful lessons about the outcomes of "progressive" policies before they change their voting patterns. Or maybe they'll just never change their voting patterns, and simply accept all the harm and failure as a painful badge of honor. Tribal loyalty above all. Seattle seems to be one of the most hopeless cesspools, despite a Republican… → Read More
Trump Launches Leftist Attack Against DeSantis
We've been following the emerging alliance among the Democratic Party, Donald Trump, the news media, and leftist groups like the Lincoln Project -- all of whom have shared goals, at least for the moment: Namely, beating back Ron DeSantis' potential presidential ambitions, and ensuring Trump is the Republican nominee in 2024. They have different reasons for preferring the latter scenario, of… → Read More
CNN Embarrasses Themselves on Biden's Illegal Student Loan Scheme
Yesterday, the US Supreme Court heard oral arguments over the Biden administration's student loan "forgiveness" bailout scheme, which critics argue is flatly illegal. The New York Times described the contours of the case by noting that it deals with "the legality of one of the most ambitious and expensive executive actions in the nation’s history: the Biden administration’s plan to wipe out more… → Read More
Partisan 'Experts' Can't Stop Destroying Whatever Credibility They Have Left
A follow-up to yesterday's post, the themes of which I've been thinking about quite a lot in the last few weeks, for obvious reasons. In short, as I've been saying frequently, our elite societal arbiters of 'truth' are too often proven wrong by subsequent events and evidence -- raising questions about whether they're incapable of accounting for blindspots, or worse, just attempting to impose… → Read More
Surprise: More Right-Wing 'Conspiracies' and 'Misinformation' Being Confirmed by Factual Evidence
Let's begin with the important point that dangerous misinformation and conspiracy theories are, in fact, real problems that seem to be gaining momentum in American politics. The Left flatters itself by pretending this phenomenon is, more or less, the sole or overwhelming province of the Right, all while indulging or embracing their own falsehoods. But these things do exist, on both sides, and… → Read More
Fact Check: Team Biden's Bogus Attacks and Misleading Excuses in East Palestine Can't Survive Scrutiny
Nearly three weeks after the toxic train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, the Biden administration's Transportation Secretary finally deigned to show up -- doing so only after facing days of political criticism and pressure. The president still hasn't shown his face in the impacted community, though his predecessor has, greeting residents and treating first responders to McDonald's. Sec. Pete… → Read More
Team DeSantis to NBC: No Access for Any of You Until This Egregious Error Is Corrected
Earlier this week, NBC's Andrea Mitchell – last heard from scolding one of her own colleagues for using the term "pro-life" – used the opportunity of a kid gloves interview with Vice President Kamala Harris to launch factually false, racial, partisan attacks against Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. In a blatantly incorrect editorial remark, Mitchell "asked" Harris, "What does Gov. Ron DeSantis not… → Read More
Left vs. Further Left: The War Raging Inside the New York Times
Over recent years, with the rise of a young and woke generation of activist journalists, we've seen a number of ugly internal fights play out inside the New York Times. The publication that considers itself America's newspaper of record has succumbed to pressure campaigns from this on several occasions, resulting in the unjust firing of one of the paper's top science reporters, as well as the… → Read More
DeSantis: It Sure Looks Like Leftists Are Removing Books From Classrooms, Then Trying to Blame Me
He's probably right, you know, and it would be very on-brand. The teachers unions exist for the purpose of electing Democrats and self-enrichment, nothing else, so naturally they'd lie to try to a damage a politician whose leadership poses a clear and present danger to their selfish, anti-children, anti-science racket. Look at what he's doing in Florida already; there's no doubt they want to… → Read More
Flashback: Remember When Biden Pushed Sunsetting Programs, Spending Freezes, and Entitlement Changes?
The debt ceiling battle is mostly on the back burner for now, as the real deadline remains several months away. The White House, meanwhile, seems intent on constantly rehashing the 'debate' over whether changes to entitlement programs are off the table -- which the president seemed to acknowledge as settled during the State of the Union Address. Biden's team clearly believes there's political… → Read More
Reversal: College Board Now Attacking Florida, DeSantis in Controversial AP Course Flap
Earlier this month, we wrote about the College Board's apparent reversal on its proposed African-American History Advanced Placement course. The state of Florida had rejected the curriculum in its initial form, evidently citing highly political components of the syllabus' fourth and final unit. The organization offered a few clarifications, abandoned some of the most problematic elements, and… → Read More
Revolution Eats Its Own: How a Left-Wing Black Professor Got Trapped in 'Anti-Racist Hell'
So far this month, we've already written two piece about disturbing 'woke' excesses. One involved pro-criminal "social justice" and "equity"-minded policies resulting in the murder of a woman of color in Portland. If you think that's an uncharitable exaggeration, read the original story, or my summary of it, and judge for yourself. Relatedly, the Los Angeles Times just wrote about Portland's… → Read More
Report: Whistleblower Exposes 'Permanent Harm' Being Inflicted at Pediatric 'Gender Affirming' Clinics
The Free Press has published a lengthy essay by a self-described queer woman -- who is married to a transgender man, and who says her political views are to the left of Bernie Sanders -- blowing the whistle on what is occurring inside 'pediatric gender clinics' across the country. She worked at one such facility for years, where she grew increasingly uncomfortable over what she witnessed… → Read More