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    Cancel Culture Is Helping Marxists Achieve Their Revolution in the West Without the Bloodshed
    Cancel culture is sometimes mistaken as the central problem in the life of the West. This happens, I have noticed, more among our U.K. cousins than stateside. Cancel culture, however, is merely a tool, the enforcement mechanism with which the woke left retains the cultural territory it has conquered. The central problem facing citizens of…
    Mike Gonzalez
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    Hollywood Face-Slaps Conservatives
    Goodness! What a night. During the live broadcast of the Academy Awards, actor Will Smith walked up to the stage and face-slapped comedian Chris Rock. When Smith returned to his seat, he unleashed a profanity-laced tirade—muted by the show’s producer—at Rock. What did Rock do to warrant the attack? He told a joke about Smith’s…
    Larry Elder
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    A New Way to Fight Woke Corporations
    This week, the Walt Disney Co., which has approximately 200,000 employees spanning the globe, decided to radically reshape its politics in response to a tiny contingent of radical activists. According to The Wall Street Journal, Disney CEO Bob Chapek had steadfastly refused to embroil his company in the politics of the various states and countries…
    Ben Shapiro
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    Amazon Bails Out of Downtown Seattle Due to Violent Crime Surge, Dodges Consequence of Woke Policies
    Amazon is getting out of Dodge. Well, more accurately, Seattle. The massive, mostly online retailer announced recently that it’s relocating 1,800 employees out of a downtown Seattle location due to a huge uptick in violent crime. “Given recent incidents near 3rd (Ave) and Pine (St), we’re providing employees currently at that location with alternative office…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    No One Elected Woke CEOs
    Woke corporate CEOs seem to think they know better than voters what’s best for the country. These titans are throwing their companies’ clout and cash behind activists pushing gender-fluidity lessons for kindergarteners and other extreme political causes. Expect this corporate activism to backfire. Corporations should be serving their customers, not trying to override the democratic…
    Betsy McCaughey
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    When ‘Emperors’ Preach Woke Investments, Much Can Go Wrong for Rest of Us
    The misappropriation of the economic freedom of millions of mom-and-pop investors by BlackRock Inc. CEO Larry Fink has unintended consequences. “We have a new bunch of emperors, and they’re the people who vote the shares in the index funds,” Charlie Munger, business partner of philanthropist Warren Buffett and a big proponent of index fund investing,…
    Patrick Tyrrell
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    6 Examples of Woke Pork Projects in Omnibus Spending Bill
    When congressional leaders rolled out the 2,700-page, $1.5 trillion omnibus spending bill this week, they made sure to lard it up with plenty of pork. Such so-called earmarks were banned by conservatives a decade ago after high-profile cases of corruption were exposed, sending members of Congress and lobbyists to prison, and after clear examples of…
    Matthew Dickerson
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    Seattle Talk Show Host Explains How Radical Leftists Ruined Pacific Northwest
    The streets of Seattle are filled with drug needles, homeless tents, and violent political agitators. What used to be a city known for its Space Needle and Nirvana has now become one of a series of case studies for the consequences of leftist rule over America’s cities. Jason Rantz, a Seattle-area radio host, has seen…
    Douglas Blair
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    Bank Account Deplatforming Is Cancel Culture’s New Weapon
    Canada’s Trudeau administration said it will punish the truckers who participated in the anti-vaccine mandate “Freedom Convoy” by freezing their bank accounts. Although the United States government isn’t yet sanctioning this practice here, bank deplatforming against those who oppose leftists is becoming more and more frequent, nonetheless. On Feb. 14, Canadian Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia…
    Annelise Butler
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    ‘Be Courageous, Speak Out’: Ex-NBC Sportscaster Tafoya Assails Cancel Culture
    Former NBC sportscaster Michele Tafoya spoke out strongly against cancel culture on Friday in remarks at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando, Florida.  Tafoya, who retired from NBC’s “Sunday Night Football” after this year’s Super Bowl, said she wanted to add her voice to a world that needs more courage to speak out without…
    Maggie Hroncich
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    Hijacking Christianity: Why ‘Wokeness Is Anti-Gospel’
    At the start of the Cold War, a young Foreign Service officer named George Kennan wrote a lengthy description of the mindset of the Soviet leadership to explain their “uncooperative behavior.” His insights eventually became famous as “The Long Telegram,” and it was critical to helping American leadership understand the worldview that drove the Soviets,…
    Katharine Gorka
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    Florida Gov. DeSantis Says ‘No Substitute for Courage’ in Fight Against Woke Institutions
    This will be the year that America “fought back” against wokeness and authoritarianism, in the words of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. In a speech, which he delivered Thursday at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Florida, DeSantis explained how he has helped transform Florida into a bastion of freedom against growing authoritarianism. He also explained…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    The Woke American Medical Association
    The American Medical Association now tells doctors: Use woke language. It’s issued a 54-page guide telling doctors things like, don’t say “equality”; say “equity.” Don’t say “minority”; say “historically marginalized.” Much of the AMA’s advisory sounds like Marxism: “Expose … property rights … Individualism is problematic … Corporations … limit prospects for good health ……
    John Stossel
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    Even in San Francisco, Voters Fed Up With Woke Incompetence
    San Francisco residents voted to recall three members of the city’s school board on Tuesday—School Board President Gabriela López, Vice President Faauuga Moliga, and Commissioner Alison Collins. The recall effort began in January 2021 after the school board voted to rename 44 schools in the area that honored various American historical figures, such as Abraham Lincoln and…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    Hollywood’s Shameful Love Affair With China
    Throughout our ongoing struggles with China, one key battle appears to have already been won by our adversary: the battle for arts and entertainment. Boasting a population of over 1.4 billion people, many of whom have the financial means to pay for and consume a wide variety of forms of entertainment, their market share for…
    Armstrong Williams
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    Appeals to ‘Cancel Culture’ Have Limits
    The metastasis of the woke ideology, which seeps through our moribund body politic like a cancer, has shocked the conscience of many who still cling to the idea of America as a liberal bastion. One of the woke ideology’s more prevalent symptoms, the phenomenon known as “cancel culture,” has perhaps been disproportionately effective in radicalizing…
    Josh Hammer
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    The Cancel Culture Double Standard
    Whoopi Goldberg, suspended for two weeks by ABC for her comments about the Holocaust, had an opinion. She, like many people these days, is unable to properly contextualize history or see it outside her own contemporary leftist worldview. But Goldberg is a talk show host with no power. No one is really “hurt” by her…
    David Harsanyi
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    NBC Sitcom ‘American Auto’ Mocks Woke Advertising Panic
    In our new era of woke corporations, one obvious manifestation of their fear-based behavior arrives in TV advertising. They struggle to hit all the “right” notes to avoid controversy. NBC is airing a new big-business sitcom called “American Auto,” and on Jan. 25, it skewered all sides as the fictional auto company tortured itself about…
    Tim Graham
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    Lights! Camera! Leftism! How Hollywood Went Woke
    It’s no secret nowadays that Hollywood stars and directors slant left. But Hollywood wasn’t always so woke. Years ago, actors would star in movies celebrating America. So how did we get here? Christian Toto has the answer. Toto is founder of the conservative entertainment site HollywoodInToto.com as well as author of the new book “Virtue…
    Douglas Blair
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    Wake-up Calls Loud Enough Even for America’s Most Woke Mayors
    On June 11, 2020, during the occupation of Seattle’s Capitol Hill by a fashionably diverse crew of BLM radicals, Antifa goons, stoned baristas, and well-intentioned soccer moms, Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan proclaimed that the arson, assault, battery, theft, and vandalism that defined the season might well be Seattle’s “Summer of Love.” On June 28, socialist…
    Greg Karraker
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