Articles

February 9, 2021
These Black Lives Didn’t Matter

In 2020, every major institution in the United States — including social-media platforms, sports leagues, universities, Hollywood, and major corporations — pledged their allegiance to the “Black Lives Matter” movement.

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February 9, 2021
Supreme Court Stands Up for Worship

Gavin Newsom’s bad 2021 got worse late last week when the U.S. Supreme Court, in South Bay United Pentecostal Church v. Newsom, issued emergency relief suspending California’s months-long ban on indoor religious services for violating the First Amendment.

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February 9, 2021
Deal on Impeachment Trial

Senate leadership announced on Monday that they have reached a deal on the framework for former President Trump’s impeachment trial, which will start on Tuesday.

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February 8, 2021
Pelosi Docked ,000 From Reps. Louie Gohmert and Andrew Clyde

‘Metal detectors outside of the House would not have stopped the violence we saw last week – it’s just another political stunt,’ Boebert said.

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February 8, 2021
Fracturing of the American Ideal

The idea of the self-constituting citizen, endowed with rights and constrained by law, has been indispensable to the forging of a stable democratic political system in America.

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February 8, 2021
If We Don’t Get It, Burn It Down

BLM and Antifa protesters marched through the streets of Washington, DC, on Saturday night chanting “burn it down.”

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February 8, 2021
Snowplow Test

Oh, heck no. The Trumpites next door to our pandemic getaway, who seem as devoted to the ex-president as you can get without being Q fans, just plowed our driveway without being asked and did a great job. How am I going to resist demands for unity in the face of this act of aggressive niceness?

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February 5, 2021
American Girl’s Doll Includes Lesbian Storyline

American Girl has released its “2021 Girl of the Year”, and this is the first doll to include an LGBTQ element.

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February 5, 2021
American Girl's Doll Includes Lesbian Storyline

American Girl has released its “2021 Girl of the Year”, and this is the first doll to include an LGBTQ element.

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February 4, 2021
Reagan’s Fight for American Renewal, Revisited

Forty years ago, on January 20, 1981, Ronald Reagan was sworn in for the first time as president of the United States. He faced turmoil at home and abroad: His Democratic predecessor, Jimmy Carter, had presided over the worst recession since the Great Depression, staggering rates of inflation and unemployment, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the Iran hostage crisis, and…

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February 4, 2021
QAnon Takeover Fantasy

There’s a big push right now among corporate media, Democrats, and NeverTrumpers to establish a narrative that the Republican Party is being torn apart in a bitter civil war between its establishment wing and its supposed QAnon wing. It’s about as true as your garden-variety QAnon conspiracy theory.

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