The televised spectacle of the January 6th hearings will not restore democracy or halt the rise of the far right. The hearings are a desperate ploy by a doomed political class.
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A recent article discussed how criminals of a certain type are being given carte blanche by progressive (read corrupt) district attorneys in states controlled by Democrats to terrorise the public. Here, we will look at people being punished excessively for trivial or even for imaginary crimes. As usual, the main culprits are Democrats. One of […]
John & Nisha Whitehead at the Rutherford Institute “Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness have given way to permanent crisis management: to policing the planet and fighting preventative wars of ideological containment, usually on terrain chosen by, and favorable to, our enemies. Limited government and constitutional accountability have been shouldered aside by the kind …
This seemed a good idea to help disseminate. And here is the source research from John R. Lott of the Crime Prevention Research Center, the abstract has this to say, verbatim: Date Written: August 11, 2020 Abstract The U.S. is well below the world average in terms of the number of mass public shootings, and […]
Such is the bipartisan consensus in Washington on Venezuela that carrying out wars, regime-change operations, terrorist attacks and assasination attempts against an elected foreign head of state have been ignored.
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Biden has reversed Donald Trump’s withdrawal of US forces from Somalia and will redeploy Special Operations Forces. It is just the latest move in a long history of destructive US-UK meddling in the Horn of Africa. Almost as soon as the administration of President Joseph Biden announced a redeployment of US Special Operations Forces to Somalia on May 16, the Western media began to spin the intervention. As the BBC framed it, Biden’s deployment would “support the fight against militant […]
Produced by Dinesh D’Souza, the documentary begins with an obvious gaff by Joe Biden and a quote from Ronald Reagan. The most secure election in American history is what has been parroted constantly since the result was declared. It certainly was for the people who arranged it so. Some Republicans were taken in, including William […]
It is hard to destroy your own cause and feel righteous while doing so, yet the American left has done it. After more than two centuries at the vanguard of the struggle for freedom, the American left, broadly defined, executed a volte face and embraced anti-working-class policies marketed as purely technical public health measures. For two years the left has championed policies of surveillance and exclusion in the form of: punitive vaccine mandates, invasive vaccine passports, socially destructive lockdowns, and […]
If you’re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing. — Malcolm X (December 13, 1964 at the Audubon Ballroom, New York City) A Shameful Petition A shameful “petition” has been issued, under the auspices of PEN-International and Human Rights […]
Depuis l'arrivée de Biden au pouvoir aux Etats-Unis, la situation en Ukraine a dégénéré. Il y a deux ans, le président Trump avertissait le monde de la malhonnêteté avec laquelle Joe Biden cherchait à faire stopper une enquête sur les affaires louches de son fils en Ukraine.
