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Over the years, I have asked many Israeli officials about ‘operations’ ranging from individual hits to strikes against nuclear reactors. In every case, the response was the same: silence — and a smile. The duration and size of each was entirely dependent on the ego of the person I was asking.

 

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“Imagine you work at a chemical research part of a base. Its location is secret. But you have a smart car. Through other espionage activities, I found out you work there. I hack your phone or your car’s online account,” Keatron Evans said. “I track your location as you go to work every day. Now I know the specific GPS location of your work facility. It goes downhill quickly from there.”

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French tacos are tacos like chicken fingers are fingers. Which is to say, they are not tacos at all. First of all, through some mistranslation or misapprehension of its Mexican namesake, the French tacos is always plural, even when there’s only one, pronounced with a voiced “S.” Technically, the French tacos is a sandwich: a flour tortilla, slathered with condiments, piled with meat (usually halal) and other things (usually French fries), doused in cheese sauce, folded into a rectangular packet, and then toasted on a grill. “In short, a rather successful marriage between panini, kebab, and burrito,” according to the municipal newsletter of Vaulx-en-Velin, a suburb of Lyon in which the French tacos may or may not have been born.

Surely there is a Geneva Convention regarding Crimes Against Food.

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In theory, the difference between mob rule and liberal democracy is that the former operates outside of authority, while the latter is limited by a set of principles. The former is operating in the moment while the latter is deliberative. Instead of just doing what feels right in the moment, like exacting revenge, liberal democracy has processes and limits, forcing people to think about what they are doing before they act. It is majority rule slowed to a crawl by the ideals of western liberalism.

The problem is that liberal democracy is an industrial age political philosophy that is unsuited for the technological age. Fifty years ago, information flowed primarily by words on a page, carried around by men. Television and radio sped up the flow of information, but the information still got into those networks by foot. Before it could be on television, someone had to go out to the scene, make video, carry it back to the studio and then edit it. It was still a slow world.

Today, information flows at the speed of light. A conspiracy theory can be hatched and promoted to millions on-line in a matter of minutes. As the old expression goes, a lie is around the world before the truth is out of bed. It is why the race hoax has become a phenomenon of this age. By the time the truth of the incident has been revealed, we are onto the third or fourth race hoax. These stories collectively build up in the system to the point where they cumulatively become a truth of their own.

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On a sweltering day in July 2018, German police pulled over a scarlet Ford S-Max hire car that was traveling at speed towards Austria. The driver, Assadollah Assadi, the third secretary to the Iranian embassy in Vienna, was arrested at gunpoint and taken into custody.

Although unusual, there was a good reason for detaining the diplomat: Assadi had used his immunity to smuggle a bomb on a commercial airliner from Tehran to Austria, intending to carry out what would have been one of Europe’s worst atrocities in recent years.

Once in Vienna, he had handed the device — codenamed the ‘Playstation’ — to two married Belgian-Iranian agents, Amir Saadouni and Nasimeh Naami, and instructed them to blow up an anti-regime event in Paris, which was to be attended by dignitaries including Rudy Giuliani and former environment secretary Theresa Villiers

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Cash-hungry union executives forged an Oregon worker’s signature in order to deduct money from her paychecks, according to a new lawsuit.

The suit, filed in late March, accuses a local chapter of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) of forging Staci Trees’s signature on a membership card authorizing the continued withholding of union dues from Trees’s paycheck. The Oregon woman is turning to the courts to intervene and curtail labor union influence.

My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

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Researchers interested in nuclear power’s capacity to help transition the world’s energy supply toward carbon neutrality suggested extracting uranium from a source other than raw ore, opting instead to use a new hydrogel capable of effectively “straining” uranium from seawater, according to a recent study published in the journal Nature Sustainability.

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“If you looked up ‘bipartisan’ in the dictionary, I think it would say support from Republicans and Democrats,” Senior Biden Adviser Anita Dunn told the Washington Post on Monday. “It doesn’t say the Republicans have to be in Congress.”

Indeed, they could be on the payroll of the New York Times.

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The left’s Orwellian redefining of words took a dangerous step Monday as all three of the broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) started to refer to the riots of Brooklyn Center, Minnesota as “protests,” effectively dropping the “mostly peaceful” label they were mocked for using in the summer of 2020. All of this followed an apparently accidental shooting where a police officer seemingly went to use her Taser but discharged her duty pistol instead.

The first showing of the media’s dangerous rebranding of riots came earlier in the day when an activist journalist screamed at Brooklyn Center Police Chief Tim Gannon, saying “there was no riot” as he described how his officers were attacked with projectiles. “The officers that were putting themselves in harm’s way were being pelted with frozen cans of pop, they were being pelted with concrete blocks,” he told the press.

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Riots and protests broke out across the city of Minneapolis on Sunday following the police shooting of 20-year-old Daunte Wright. Several local businesses have been “completely destroyed” by looters, according to the Star Tribune, and police were forced to use tear gas to disperse protesters who were throwing rocks at law enforcement.

When police chief Tim Gannon described the unrest as a “riot” during a press conference on Monday, several reporters responded that “there was no riot.”

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The “revolving door” has been around for hundreds of years.

I’m not talking about the literal one used to enter a fancy hotel – that came later – but rather, the migration of workers from the private sector to public sector and back, for the purpose of using government-made connections to serve personal financial interests. This migration traditionally happens en masse during presidential transitions, as public servants from each party trade places.

Scientists Warn 4°C World Would Unleash ‘Unimaginable Amounts of Water’ as Ice Shelves Collapse (EcoWatch) Except that they never do.

France declares ‘calamité agricole’ after record cold

A campaign to make environmental destruction an international crime

Mann, Rudd, Turnbull: Climate Denying Murdoch Media is a Threat to Democracy

Media Never Holds Climate Alarmists Accountable for Dire Predictions

White supremacists still on the march (The Hill)

Distinguished pol of the week: One Republican opposes cruelty (Washington Post)

Anti-Defamation League CEO: Fox needs to rethink its entire primetime lineup (CNN)

Fox News’ Tucker Carlson, White Supremacist Manifestos ‘Eerily’ Similar, ‘Daily Show’ Mash-Up Suggests (Newsweek)

Florida hit-run kills NY federal judge, suspect claimed to be ‘Harry Potter’: police

The Racial Reckoning Gets Weirder

Hilarious! Leftist SPLC President Claims She Supports Efforts to Agree on ‘Truth’

Hate Crime? Los Angeles Times Sees ‘Casual Racism’ In Mispronouncing Asian Name

On MSNBC, Roland Martin Trashes ‘Gutless’ Black Republican ‘Cowards’

Back Off! Arizona Governor Warns NFL Not To Mess With His State’s Election Bills, Super Bowl

Nadine Strossen and Hannah Wolfman-Jones Rebut Accusations Against Stallman

Nearly 40% of Marines decline COVID-19 vaccine, prompting some Democrats to urge Biden to set mandate for military And Democrats are all about making things mandatory.

CA teacher caught berating students in leaked Zoom over push for in-person learning, ‘Come at me’

Michigan vs. Texas on COVID-19

German Government Pitches Plan To Reimpose Harsh Lockdown Measures

French Police Tell Airbnb To Report Customers Who Violate Lockdown Rules

Another COVID Myth Dies The Death

NHS Covid-19 app update blocked for breaking Apple and Google’s rules

Chilly Weather Doesn’t Dampen UK Joy at Lockdown Easing

Pubs, Gyms Reopen As England Eases COVID Lockdowns

China’s ‘Failure’ To Share Info About Virus Led To ‘Much More Egregious Results’

Anti COVID Riot In Montreal

Stimulus And COVID-19 Attitudes Reflect Poor Math Skills

‘It’s Still Not OK’: Fauci Warns Vaccinated Americans Not To Dine Indoors

Pope Announces Vaccine Selfies Can Now Be Turned In To Spring A Relative Out Of Purgatory  Babylon Bee.

CDC Tells Michigan To Lock Down Again Instead Of Sending Them More Vaccines

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When we look out on the world scene and how the Biden Administration is positioning itself, everyone should keep in mind the summary statement of former Defense Secretary and CIA director Robert Gates (no one’s idea of a partisan firebrand, as he’s been serving presidents of both parties since the Carter Administration): Joe Biden, Gates said, “has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades.”

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Fantastical elements of the ‘cyberattack’ on Iran do nothing but delay the inevitable: a bomb is still coming — just not quite yet.

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Take whatever action you consider appropriate.

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A California city erected a chain-link fence on Saturday around a local restaurant that refuses to obey COVID-19 restrictions, according to reports.

Tinhorn Flats Saloon & Grill in Burbank was barricaded off from the public to prevent the owners from operating after a court ordered the electricity to be shut off, according to NBC Los Angeles.

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Mitchell L. Beckloff issued a preliminary injunction Friday which allowed the city to prevent the restaurant from opening without a county health permit and a city conditional use permit, the Los Angeles Times reported.

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Many of whom are Persons of Color. What are the odds?

It is oftentimes hard to tell the difference between YouTube conspiracy theory channels and the alleged journalists in the liberal media. On Sunday morning’s The Sunday Show with Jonathan Capehart, host Jonathan Capehart brought on FiveThirtyEight.com senior political editor Perry Bacon Jr. to spin wild conspiracy theories about the Republican Party. Bacon went on a rant where he declared that the Republican Party “is pretty organized and actually has some policies which are basically, how do we maintain the existing racial and economic status quo?”

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With so much focus on the App Store at the moment, Apple’s leading argument is that its App Store review policies offer security and safety for users. However, unscrupulous apps continue to slip through the net and rake in millions from Apple customers before being caught.

One of the biggest drivers of these scams is the use of fake reviews to prop up apps that otherwise wouldn’t get a second look. A common pattern for such an App Store scam is to make a very simple app targeting popular search keywords, attach aggressive subscription pricing to it, and make it rise high in search results by faking hundreds of 5-star App Store reviews …

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The Guardian has seen extensive internal documentation showing how Facebook handled more than 30 cases across 25 countries of politically manipulative behavior that was proactively detected by company staff.

The investigation shows how Facebook has allowed major abuses of its platform in poor, small and non-western countries in order to prioritize addressing abuses that attract media attention or affect the US and other wealthy countries. The company acted quickly to address political manipulation affecting countries such as the US, Taiwan, South Korea and Poland, while moving slowly or not at all on cases in Afghanistan, Iraq, Mongolia, Mexico, and much of Latin America.

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The rapidly growing trend of veganism is likely to become another major contributor to hidden hunger in the developed world. According to the Vegan Society, the number of people switching to a vegan diet in the UK has risen more than fourfold in the last decade. A study commissioned by the Vegetarian Resource Group revealed that nearly 5% of the US population are vegetarian and about half of these are vegan.

John Hinderaker at PowerLine.

The Trump campaign filed lawsuits in several jurisdictions, arguing that last-minute changes to voting procedures by Democratic Secretaries of State loyal to the Biden campaign were illegal. Those cases are now wending their way through the courts. In Michigan, Trump won a victory at the trial court level last month, when a state court judge held that the Secretary’s “guidance” on counting of unverified mail-in ballots was issued in violation of Michigan’s Administrative Procedure Act. In other words, the Secretary of State needed to follow the statutorialy-required legal process, not just issue an order to help her party by encouraging cheating.

Glenn Greenwald.

That Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) is a pedophile, a sex trafficker, and an abuser of women who forces them to prostitute themselves and use drugs with him is a widespread assumption in many media and political circles. That is true despite the rather significant fact that not only has he never been charged with (let alone convicted of) such crimes, but also no evidence has been publicly presented that any of it is true. He has also vehemently denied all of it. All or some of these accusations very well may be true and, one day — perhaps imminently — there will be ample publicly available evidence demonstrating this.

In Witch-Hunt Culture, all you need is an accusation.

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The family of a 20-year-old Minnesota man told a crowd that he was shot by police Sunday before getting back into his car and driving away, then crashing the vehicle several blocks away. The family of Daunte Wright said he was later pronounced dead.

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According to a statement from Brooklyn Center Police, officers stopped an individual shortly before 2 p.m. Sunday after determining the driver had an outstanding warrant. Police said when they tried to arrest the driver, the driver reentered the vehicle and drove away. An officer fired at the vehicle, striking the driver. Police said the vehicle traveled several blocks before striking another vehicle.

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Public mourners included Wright’s family and friends who gathered, wept and consoled each other alongside protesters who carried “Black Lives Matter” flags, jumped atop police cars, confronted officers and walked peacefully in columns with their hands held up. On one street, written in multi-colored chalk: “Justice for Duante Wright.”

MSNBC Regular Frightened That ‘Ignorant’ Chauvin Jury Could Fail to Convict

‘Putin-style democracy’: how Republicans gerrymander the map  (The Guardian) As if Democrats don’t do the same thing … when they can. (Plus vote fraud.)

Why Racist Hulk Hogan Hasn’t Earned Our Forgiveness The Daily Beast refuses to grant absolution.

CNN Slimes Republicans: ‘War on Voting,’ ‘Pandemic of Apartheid’

On Stallman

‘White Supremacist!’ CNNers Melt Down Over Tucker’s Immigration Comments

NY Times Insults ‘Far Right’ GOP, Whines Gov. DeSantis ‘Weaponized’ 60 Minutes Hit

Detroit’s Black Wealth Tax

BLM Founder Cashes In Some of the oppressed are more equal than others.

Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous Socialists

6th Victim Dies From Shooting by Ex-NFL Player

US CEOs Poised to Join Black Peers in Voting Rights Push

Princeton routs rest of Ivy League in diversity sweepstakes

Over 1 Million Brits Are Reportedly Suffering From “Long COVID”

South African variant can break through Pfizer vaccine, Israeli study says

Covid Madness: People Fleeing a Volcanic Eruption Can’t Board the Rescue Vessels Until Vaccinated

China Admits Its Covid Vaccines Aren’t Any Good

How to speak to someone who’s hesitant to get vaccinated  CNN tells you how to support the Narrative.

The Fear and Fantasy of COVID-19 Vaccination

REPORT: Nearly 40% Of Marines Opted Out Of The COVID-19 Vaccine  What do they know that you don’t?

Thousands of Low-Level Inmates Released in Pandemic Could Be Headed Back to Prison

“Horror On St Vincent” – Only Vaccinated Evacuees Able To Flee Amid Fears Of Next Big Volcanic Eruption  Since most of the inhabitants of St. Vincent are Persons of Color, I assume that this policy is RAAAAAAACIST.

Small Business Closures Soar Back Near Pandemic Peak As “Financial Hopelessness” Builds

‘Where Are Tucker And Sean Hannity?’: Brian Stelter Complains About Fox News’ Lack Of Vaccine Selfies

Biden Spends 4 Times More to House Illegal Aliens Than on Troops

Joe Biden: America’s Biggest Gun Salesman

‘They Sit There And Plot Constantly’: Former Intelligence Officer Says Terrorists Exploit Biden’s ‘Weak’ Border Policies  My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

‘Why Mislead Folks?’ Wallace Grills Secretary Buttigieg on Infrastructure Lies

Third of Antarctic ice shelves ‘will collapse amid 4C global heating’  Betcha it doesn’t.

Warm Water Under The ‘Doomsday Glacier’ Threatens to Melt It Faster Than We Predicted  Which ‘we’ is that? Many ‘we’ (Paul Erlich, AlGore, Michael Mann) predicted that it would already have happened by 2021.

Canada’s Green Shift Could Displace Three-Quarters Of Oil Workers

How we fool ourselves. Part II: Scientific consensus building

More on Sea-Watch 4 and its Antifa Flag

Is “racism” a public health threat?

China Launches Hotline for Netizens to Report ‘Illegal’ History Comments  We have always been at war with Eastasia.

On pay and wealth, damaging race inequalities prevail (The Guardian) An assertion for which neither evidence nor argument is presented. ‘We say it, so it must be true!’

ABC, NBC Back Biden’s Orwellian Rebranding of Social Programs as ‘Infrastructure’

Celebrating a Century of Communism

Maryland Becomes First State To Repeal ‘Police Bill Of Rights’ After Overriding GOP Governor’s Veto

David “Camera” Hogg Abandons Liberal Pillow Business After Two Months

Nevada GOP Censures Elections Official Who Defended Results

“Far Left Antifa Extremists” Set Fire To Portland ICE Building 

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For years, Austin has attracted far-flung newcomers with its food and music scenes, along with low taxes and cost of living. The city grew 30% from 2010 to 2019, making it the fastest-growing major metro area in the country. It was adding about 170 people per day by the end of that period, according to the latest census count. So while rapid growth is nothing new for the city, the population shift associated with Covid-19 has intensified the struggle to, as the motto goes, “Keep Austin Weird.” Even Congrove—a software engineer who moved from Florida seven years ago—is most concerned about how the new wave of tech workers is affecting his adopted city’s culture. Lately, he’s seen more T-shirts bearing startup logos than band names. New condos have sprouted up where quirky bungalows once stood. And the commute time to his downtown office has tripled.

Turning it into California on the Brazos.

Hating California is a tradition in Texas, but Austin’s growing pains aren’t all California’s fault. According to the Austin Chamber, more than half of newcomers from 2014 to 2018 came from other parts of the state, followed by just 8% from California and 3% from New York. The majority of people who moved to Austin during the pandemic came from other parts of Texas, according to USPS data. The city is also home to the University of Texas at Austin, which attracts tens of thousands of students, who may be more inclined to stick around after graduation because the city is thriving.

Austin is one of the Democrat-run municipalities into which all of the Blue pus in Texas drains. The good news is that those of us who live outside of the city cores don’t have to put up with them.

John Hinderaker at PowerLine.

David Horowitz has published a new book titled The Enemy Within: How a Totalitarian Movement Is Destroying America. What follows is an excerpt from David’s book, published with his permission.

Steven Hayward at PowerLine.

First up, the New York Times—a former newspaper, as Andrew Klavan likes to remind us—has run an “explainer” about the growing universe of potential personal pronouns. The first expansion took us up to something like 60 or so, but now we have moved on to “neopronouns” (seriously), which takes us way beyond “nonbinary” pronouns to a domain that appears infinitely expandable, as this chart suggests….

Alan Dershowitz to Newsmax TV: Dems Stack Court Packing Commission

Biden ‘Environmental Justice’ Appointees Equate Energy Production, Fossil Fuels With Racism

Nation Braces For Most Peaceful Protests Yet  Babylon Bee.

Georgetown’s Cultural Revolution

Multiple New York Times Staff Previously Worked For CCP-Controlled Media  Which is another way of saying that they still do….

Gov. Whitmer Calls For Remote Learning, Two Week Pause On Indoor Dining And Youth Sports

Here’s Why The Lab Leak Theory Shouldn’t Be Dismissed

Newsom Neutered Again – Supreme Court Blocks California’s Restrictions On In-home Religious Gatherings

Government’s Global Response To COVID Has Absolutely Decimated The Middle Class  Including literacy, apparently.

Texas Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Salon Owner

McDonald’s To Close Hundreds Of Walmart Locations

High Court Halts Calif. Virus Rules Limiting Home Worship

Pilot Offers Free Ride After Family Kicked Off Flight Over Face Mask

Is Race Discrimination Legal, Or Not?

Liberalism’s Zero-Sum Racial Spoils System

BLM Founder Branded “Fraud” After Buying Million-Dollar Home In Mostly-White LA Enclave  Hey, just trying to integrate the neighborhood….

TV Reporter Buries Inconvenient Fact that ‘Hate Crime’ She Is Covering Is a Hoax

‘Equality’ and the Criminal

Vox: Black Lives Matter Protests Have Killed an Order of Magnitude More People Than They Have Saved

Canada To Censor “Hurtful” Comments About Politicians, Implement Internet Kill-Switch

Tucker Carlson Endorses White Supremacist Theory by Name  (New York Magazine) Jonathan Chait.

ADL calls on Fox News to fire Tucker Carlson over racist comments about ‘replacement’ theory (CNN) Brian Stelter.

White supremacists plan nationwide rallies on April 11 (The Hill)

White Supremacist Propaganda Appears in California Cities as They Brace for White Lives Matter Rally (Newsweek)

Georgia daycare is accused of racism after image shows white children eating before black children (Daily Mirror)

This Week in Campus Insanity Vol. 39

Proud Boys and other far-right groups raise millions via Christian funding site

CNN Lets Liberal Guest Trash Joe Manchin, Link to Future Shootings

NYT: Why Doesn’t the WSJ Become More Like Teen Vogue?

First-Ever Observations From Under Antarctica’s ‘Doomsday Glacier’ Are Bad News

A Mass Extinction Event Is on The Horizon if Marine Life Keeps Fleeing The Equator

Greta Thunberg Threatens to Boycott the Glasgow COP26 Climate Conference  OH NOES!

Clean energy? The world’s demand for copper could be catastrophic for communities and environments  It’s always something.

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Students at one Seattle elementary school are getting an unexpected lesson in sharing, as district officials are refusing assistance from the city to remove a homeless encampment on school grounds until all of the vagrants are placed in shelters, according to KOMO.

Students returned to campus for in-person classes earlier this month.

Hey, what could go wrong?

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Ed Bastian makes $17 million a year as chief executive officer of Delta Airlines, Georgia’s largest employer.

Bastian just blasted Georgia’s new voting law. He thinks it is racist to require the same sort of ID to vote that Delta requires for its passengers to check-in.

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Here are two interesting examples of how the New York Times covers mass murderers when they aren’t dread white males.

A third of Antarctic ice shelf risks collapse as our planet warms (CNN) Note that they aren’t predicting collapse any more, just handwaving about ‘risk’.

Third of Antarctic ice shelves ‘will collapse amid 4C global heating’ (The Guardian) I’ll give you $5 if that ever happens.

‘Green Fraud’ and the Climate Lockdown

Climate Change Will Undermine World Stability, ‘Exacerbate’ Security Risks, US Intelligence Agencies Say

‘Help Me Hate White People’: Entry in Bestselling Prayer Book Stokes Controversy

‘The System for Wealth Building Is Designed to Build White Wealth’ (New York Magazine)

She yelled an anti-Asian slur at a man on the street, police said. He was an undercover NYPD officer.

White Supremacy Is the Root of All Race-Related Violence in the US  Steve Sailer does the Big Reveal.

WaPo: Never Mind the NFL Cornerback’s Mass Shooting of Whites, Think About the Marginalized Instead

Race-Based Tax Bills

‘Do You Practice What You Preach?’: Al Sharpton Admonishes ‘Latte Liberals’ Who Support BLM  Of course they don’t.

CNN raises eyebrows after warning of ‘racist’ fonts that ‘communicate Asianness’  I’ll bet you didn’t know that a font could be racist, did you?

Scarborough & Co. Slam GOP as ‘Party of No,’ ‘Grievance’ and ‘Darkness and Doom’

‘Tiger Mom’ Amy Chua says Yale punishing her over false student allegations

Anti-war activist visited by police after posting embarrassing AOC video

GOP Rep. Kinzinger Calls For Matt Gaetz’s Resignation  The RINO speaks.

Anne Frank’s Stepsister Claims Trump ‘Obviously Admired Hitler,’ ‘Copied Him With His Anti-Semitism’

Critics Call ‘Gutfeld!’ ‘Nasty’, ‘Not Funny.’ Do They Not Watch Colbert or Samantha Bee?

Spotify continues to remove Joe Rogan episodes