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John Whitehead He says, “You’re not going to be a dictator, are you?” I said: “No, no, no, other than day one. We’re closing the border, and we’re drilling, drilling, drilling. After that, I’m not a dictator.”—Donald Trump to Sean Hannity on being asked if he would abuse power after being re-elected Once a dictator, always a dictator. Power-hungry, lawless...

photka/iStock/Getty Images Plus With the 2024 election on the horizon and the political climate tense, more millennials and Generation Z Americans are anticipating worst-case scenarios and preparing accordingly.  According to a survey by Finder.com earlier this year, young Americans are prepping more than their older counterparts, with 39 percent of American millennials and 40 percent of Gen Zers saying they...

AP Images Vladimir Putin Russian President Vladimir Putin has declared that he will seek reelection. Should he emerge victorious — and no one seriously doubts that he will — it will be his fifth term as head of state.  Putin made his revelations at a ceremony where he awarded “Hero of Russia” medals to servicemen who had participated in the...

AP Images Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez On Tuesday, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) (D-N.Y.) opined that not allowing biological males who "identify" as females to compete in athletic competitions against females is not only transphobic, but potentially racist against black women. The far-left congresswoman made the remarks during a House hearing on potential changes to Title IX. While questioning transgender and women's activist...

DC_Colombia/iStock/Getty Images Plus The central-European country of Slovenia is refunding all fines issued under its former Covid-19 “mitigation” policies and expunging the records of offenders. According to the Slovenia Times: Between March 2020 and the end of May 2022 more than 62,000 infraction proceedings were launched under legislation that was subsequently ruled unconstitutional and the fines issued totaled €5.7 million,...

txking/iStock/Getty Images Plus A contributor to Vice.com has been sentenced to federal prison to seven-and-a-half years for possessing and distributing child-rape porn and attempting to arrange the rape of a nine-year-old boy. Judge Paul A. Engelmayer of the federal Southern District of New York also sentenced sex fiend Efrem Zelony-Mindell to five years of supervised release. Zelony-Mindell was a big-shot...

A powerful United Nations agency has unveiled a plan to regulate social media and online communication while cracking down on what it describes as “false information” and “conspiracy theories,” sparking alarm among free-speech advocates and top U.S. lawmakers. In its 59-page report released this month, the U.N. Educational, Cultural, and Scientific Organization (UNESCO) outlined a series of “concrete measures which must be...

AP Images Derek Chauvin Days after the U.S. Supreme Court denied former cop Derek Chauvin’s appeal of “murdering” career criminal and drug addict George Floyd on August 25, 2020, an unidentified assailant tried to stab Chauvin to death in prison. Prison officials have released the bare minimum of details, and have yet to confirm that Chauvin was indeed the victim. ...

JuSun/iStock/Getty Images Plus “There should be more mandates, there really should be.” So said Dr. Anthony Fauci in July 2021 while speaking to CNN host Jake Tapper. It wouldn’t be the last time, either, Joe Biden’s Covid point man would advise that Americans be compelled to take the then-new and largely untested coronavirus “vaccines.” This had an effect, too: More...

BigNazik/iStock/Getty Images Plus Some Poles aren’t happy with the favorable treatment their government is giving Ukraine, and are making their voices heard. An ongoing border blockade by Polish truckers, in which thousands of truckers have reportedly been stuck in cold weather for days, is impeding the delivery of military and humanitarian goods to Ukraine, according to Russia Today (RT). The...

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (AP Images) As The New American suggested on Tuesday, Politico’s attacks on newly minted House Speaker Mike Johnson have served only to sully its own reputation. Other members of the fourth estate haven’t learned their lesson. And Bobby Jindal, former governor of Louisiana, writing at Newsweek the next day, thinks such attacks “can only...

Luis Miguel Can Florida buck the current political trends and remain a bastion of conservatism? On the heels of the elections on Tuesday, the pro-abortion movement feels invigorated, confident that it has a path to nationwide victory via implementation of the kind of strategy it used to great effect in Ohio — spend lots of money to get a misleading...

cokada/iStock/Getty Images Plus Federal agencies are vastly underreporting spending to the government’s official spending-information website — when they are reporting it at all — according to a Tuesday Government Accountability Office (GAO) report. As part of its responsibilities to track federal spending under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, the GAO examined whether federal agencies, as required...

AP Images Joe Biden is in trouble.  While the Republican primary is chronologically far from over, Donald Trump’s current 50-point lead is so commanding that it is virtually a foregone conclusion, barring a drastic turn of fortune, that the 2024 general election will be a rematch between Biden and Trump. On first thought, one might think winning would be a...

Salena Zito JOHNSTOWN, Pennsylvania — Two months ago, 30,000 truckers at Yellow lost their jobs when one of the nation’s oldest and largest trucking companies filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Last week, Convoy, the digital freight broker that was supposed to reinvent the wheel and disrupt the trucking industry in a positive way, also abruptly shuttered its doors. These...

Tempura/iStock/Getty Images Plus Which killed more patients: ventilators, or the Covid-19 virus? Tesla CEO and social media mogul Elon Musk seems to blame the former. In a recent episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience,” he suggested that the ventilators were far more damaging to people’s lungs. During their conversation, Rogan mentioned, “Well, 80 percent of people they put on ventilators...

John Whitehead There is something terribly wrong with this country, isn’t there? Cruelty and injustice, intolerance and oppression. And where once you had the freedom to object, to think and speak as you saw fit, you now have censors and systems of surveillance coercing your conformity and soliciting your submission. How did this happen? Who’s to blame?— V for Vendetta...

John Stossel Remember when Sen. Rand Paul accused Dr. Anthony Fauci of funding China’s Wuhan virus lab? Fauci replied, “Sen. Paul, you do not know what you’re talking about.” The media loved it. Vanity Fair smirked, “Fauci Once Again Forced to Basically Call Rand Paul a Sniveling Moron.” But now the magazine has changed its tune, admitting, “In Major Shift,...

SeventyFour/iStock/Getty Images Plus How would it go over if people said that white kids could only be instructed by white guides and educators and then fired non-white employees on that basis? What would be the reaction if the justification was, “Well, white kids just can’t relate to non-white staff?” This hasn’t happened, of course — but the reverse has. A...

DarisuzPa/iStock/Getty Images Plus Poland’s ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party was ahead in a national election, but fell short of a majority, final official results revealed on October 17. The official results from 100 percent of voting districts disclosed that PiS gained 35.38 percent of votes; the opposition and pro-EU Civic Coalition (KO) won 30.70 percent; the center-right Third Way...