The Academy Awards show was this week and outside of the bugmen on YouTube, there was not much interest in the program. They claim it drew 19.69 million viewers, but they also claim that it is a five-year high, even though the number they claimed last year was slightly higher.
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Justice Amy Coney Barrett Ignites Anger on the Right After Latest of Many Rulings Against Trump
The Supreme Court’s closely divided decision this week to reject the Trump administration’s freeze on foreign aid unleashed a torrent of vitriol from the president’s supporters largely aimed at a single justice — Amy Coney Barrett. On podcasts and social media, conservative allies of…
Missouri Attorney General Bailey Demands DOJ Investigate if Biden’s Cognitive Decline Allowed Staffers to Make Decisions Without His Knowledge
Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey asked the Justice Department to investigate whether White House staffers exploited Joe Biden’s cognitive decline and issued far-left orders at the end of his presidency without his knowledge. “I am demanding the DOJ investigate whether President Biden’s cognitive decline allowed unelected staff to push…
Elon Musk’s Suggestion Box
I’m getting a little impatient waiting for Elon Musk to get to the two behemoths of government waste, fraud and abuse, so I’m dropping these in the suggestion box: Please hurry up and zero-out the CIA and TSA. I attribute the continued existence of these pestilences to Hollywood movies,…
France, Germany and Poland Are Competing For Leadership of Post-Conflict Europe
The interplay between them, Russia, and the US will determine the continent’s future security architecture. French President Macron’s declaration on Wednesday that he’s flirting with extending his country’s nuclear umbrella over other continental allies shows that he’s throwing down the gauntlet to Germany and Poland for leadership of post-conflict Europe.
Understanding Trump’s Foreign Policy – and Where It Might Lead
Donald Trump declared a triumphalist vision and a golden age for the United States this week. Yet, had it been an autopsy, the Democratic side of the chamber presented like a giant deflated left lung with just a touch of pink. Trump has known for many years that the United…
Just as Planned — Syria Erupts Into Worst Bloodshed Since Assad’s Fall
Any lingering delusions that Syria could emerge from its Western-imposed, regime-change victimhood and enter an era of peace and stability were obliterated on Thursday, as 48 people were killed in battles between supporters of the deposed Bashar al Assad government and the country’s new radical Islamist regime. As all-out civil war…
The Death Rattle of ‘The Resistance’
The Democratic ‘revolt’ against Trump’s Congress speech was next-level cringe. Remember when the phrase ‘the Resistance’ would conjure up visions of sexy French youths in berets battling actual Nazis? Now all it brings to mind is ageing dullards in pink suits holding up signs saying ‘This is not normal’…
The Big Lebowski
There cannot be a more perfect example of mass gaslighting than the 1998 Coen brothers’ film The Big Lebowski. By inverting sloth, fecklessness, penury, and alcoholism into admirable qualities—essentially making it cool to be a loser—this film offers up the Jewish ideal for a gentile in the character of…
The ACB Illusion is Officially Dead
Four years ago, when conservatives were celebrating Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination to the Supreme Court, we weren’t cheering. We were warning. The GOP establishment had lined up behind her, touting her as the second coming of Justice Scalia (who, yes, she did clerk for), but we saw through it.