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Public domain Thomas Cole's The Course of Empire: Destruction “Are Republicans losing the culture wars?” left-wing Politico asked recently. A better question is, though: Are we, as Americans, losing the war for our civilization?Moreover, how do we define “winning”? If a party triumphs politically by promising to rain down toxins upon us that most people mistake for manna from Heaven,...

AP Images Glenn Greenwald As they did during the 2020 election, neoconservative malcontents who used to run the GOP are supporting Democrat Kamala Harris for president.The latest from the leftist movement, which took over the GOP during the Reagan years but reached the peak of power during President George W. Bush’s administration, comes from some 200 Republicans you’ve never heard...

DustyPixel/iStock/Getty Images Plus In yet another sign that Democrats want to flood the country with illegal aliens in the hope they’ll become Democratic voters, the California Senate approved a measure to bribe them — brazenly.Yesterday, the Senate passed a bill that would permit illegals to apply for a program that would hand them $150,000, no strings attached, to buy a...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr./X When Robert F. Kennedy Jr. withdrew from this year’s presidential election and endorsed Donald Trump for president, he vowed to remove his name from swing-state ballots. At least two of those all-important swing states, Wisconsin and Michigan, have denied his request.In Michigan, Kennedy is listed as the candidate of the Natural Law Party, which nominated him...

AP Images In yet another embarrassing moment for the pro-Harris leftist media, Politico laughably suggested that Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris has had nothing to do with the Biden administration’s failed, openly anti-American policies since 2021.The website claimed that Senator J.D. Vance of Ohio, the GOP vice-presidential nominee, “tried” to link Harris with Biden, as if Harris weren’t the vice...

Donald Trump added two familiar names, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard, to his quite small transition team. The two cradle Democrats and former presidential candidates endorsed Trump in recent days. They represent a disaffected but not tiny section of the political spectrum of not very ideological people who likely lean left on many issues but regard the Democratic...

AP Images Mark Zuckerberg In a letter to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Representative Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), Meta Platforms Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted that the Biden-Harris administration was behind Facebook censorship, stating the social-media company was “repeatedly pressured” to censor information related to Covid-19.Zuckerberg continued, stating the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) warned Facebook that the New York Post...

AP Images Mark Zuckerberg In his newsmaking letter to U.S. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, Facebook chieftain Mark Zuckerberg did more than admit that the Biden administration pressured the social-media platform to censor what the leftist officials called “misinformation.”He did more than admit Facebook was wrong to demote to the New York Post’s scoop about Hunter Biden’s laptop.Those who...

AP Images Greg Abbott On Monday, Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced that the Lone Star State has removed more than 1.1 million ineligible voters from the state’s voter rolls. It’s part of a crackdown on election integrity spurred by the signing of Senate Bill 1 in 2021.Senate Bill 1 was the main reason that dozens of Democrats left the state...

Syldavia/iStock/Getty Images Plus Republican vice-presidential candidate Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) said that Donald Trump, if elected president, would not support a national abortion ban and would veto such legislation if it reached his desk. Speaking on NBC’s Meet the Press on Saturday, Vance stated that he can “absolutely commit” that Trump would not impose such a ban, adding that the...

AP Images Even Democrats on Capitol Hill fear Vice President Kamala Harris’ plan to fight price gouging. Several of the lawmakers told Politico that Congress won’t pass the plan because it’s too radical. Even a Washington Post columnist denounced it. That’s because it does, indeed, smack of “socialist price controls,” as GOP rival and former President Donald Trump says. And...

RapidEye/iStock/Getty Images Plus One of the saddest things about the ongoing climate hoax is how it is affecting the mental health of citizens, particularly children. After decades of doom and gloom prophecies, many individuals are reaching the conclusion that the world would be better off with fewer emitters of carbon dioxide, which is one of the greenhouse gases alarmists claim...

John Whitehead What you smell is the stench of a dying republic. Our dying republic. We are trapped in a political matrix intended to sustain the illusion that we are citizens of a constitutional republic. In reality, we are caught somewhere between a kleptocracy (a government ruled by thieves) and a kakistocracy (a government run by unprincipled career politicians, corporations...

inhauscreative/iStock/Getty Images Plus The “Left hates the Constitution and constitutionalism,” I wrote in 2018. And there’s a simple reason for this: “The Constitution is a conservative document.” Contrary to what most think, “conservative” above only means that the document serves to maintain a status quo. It limits the change the government can effect, and the Constitution itself is difficult to...

P_Wei/iStock/Getty Images Plus A new group called “Keep 9 Amendment” has been formed in an effort to propose an amendment to the U.S. Constitution to ban left-wing attempts to increase the number of justices on the U.S. Supreme Court. Disenchantment among the Left over some recent rulings from the Supreme Court, such as the Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade,...

AP Images Blase Cupich delivering invocation at 2024 DNC Cardinal Blase Cupich, who delivered the invocation at this week’s Democratic National Convention (DNC), is under fire from traditional Catholics. In dish-watery remarks about “human dignity and liberty” and “our failures to root out ongoing injustices in our national life,” inside a convention celebrating abortions and vasectomies, Cupich failed to once...

AP Images Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. announced he is suspending his presidential campaign in swing states, and is supporting former President Donald Trump. Kennedy’s announcement comes after his presidential campaign faced ballot access attacks through lawsuits in multiple states, allegedly coordinated by the Democratic National Committee (DNC). Kennedy stated he would suspend his campaign in swing...

AP Images Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. suspended his presidential campaign today and endorsed former President Donald Trump. The former Democrat supports Trump because the Democratic Party has betrayed its ideals, Kennedy said, while Trump opposes neoconservative foreign adventurism, vowed to stop the war in Ukraine, and agreed with Kennedy on important public-health matters. ...

Politics In Chicago, the Blob Rules The same faces and same policies dominated foreign policy discussion at the DNC. “American politics has an occasion to match every mood: ceremony, circus, farce, melodrama, tragedy. Nothing rolls them together more opulently than a presidential convention.” So wrote the historian Arthur Schlesinger in 1965. Times have changed.  Sure, there were elements of the...

Stefanie Spear/X During an appearance with Tom Bilyeu on the Impact Theory podcast, presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s running mate, Nicole Shanahan, spoke about attacks the Democratic National Committee (DNC) has coordinated against the Kennedy-Shanahan campaign. Rumor: Kennedy in Talks With Harris Campaign Bilyeu asked Shanahan about rumors Kennedy was in talks with both Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign...