Back in the spring of 2020, Minneapolis became ground zero for a national firestorm. George Floyd, a 46-year-old man with a troubled past, ended up dead during an arrest gone wrong—or so the story went. The ex-cop at the center of it all, Derek Chauvin, knelt on Floyd’s back…
“[The current FBI] was competent at cracking the case; [Christopher Wray’s] was competent at corruption and obstructing it.” —Mike Benz Do you have any idea what tapestry of corruption and crime is attached to the little thread of the J6 / DNC / RNC pipe bomber suspect arrested yesterday…
Leftist CNN anchor Jake Tapper was blasted online as “an NPC programmed to lie” after he falsely identified the accused D.C. pipe-bomber Brian Cole Jr. as “a white man.” “Brian Cole Jr., a 30-year-old white man from the D.C. suburbs, is charged with transporting an explosive device in interstate commerce and…
Starmer’s current chief of staff, Morgan McSweeney, served as the head of a machine that targeted media outlets on the left and right, foreshadowing the UK’s crackdown on dissent. From our vantage point looking across the pond at the United Kingdom, it truly does seem like the country decided…
Russia wouldn’t just lose tens of billions of dollars’ worth of yearly revenue if the US’ plans succeed, but tensions with Turkiye might become unmanageable if the complex energy interdependence that tied them together till now is broken, which could destabilize the South Caucasus and Central Asia. Zelensky announced last…
Its critics may be hypocrites, but the Trump administration has created a massive mess for itself with its Venezuelan boat-bombings. This time, it’s not fake news. Donald Trump, War Secretary Pete Hegseth, Admiral Frank Mitchell Bradley, and soldiers involved with the September 2nd boat-bombing operation that allegedly involved firing…
Politics suffers from a confusion of language. Ezra Pound would point us back to the teachings of Confucius on “the rectification of names”—call things what they are, use accurate terminology. If you don’t, communication is not possible. The terms right and left are at least a hundred years out of date in politics.
Everyone talks about this place [Washington DC] being a dadgum swamp. It’s not a swamp. A swamp is something cool, God created. It filters water, animal life flourishes around it. This is a sewer. It’s created by man. And it needs to stop. –Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) Sincerity is,…
Although the media are not typically interested in helping Republicans win elections, they seem awfully concerned that Donald Trump’s immigration raids in Charlotte, North Carolina, could hurt the GOP’s electoral prospects. The New York Times reports, for example, that the raids “brought one of the Trump…
A few months ago, I wrote an article on art and the right for The Metropolitan Review. The gist of it was that thinking about art in terms of “right” and “left” and, therefore, trying to be creative in accordance with specific political criteria is a…
