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A mob of pro-Palestine students at a Queens high school who screamed for retribution against a Jewish teacher with the gall to attend a pro-Israel rally is another warning siren that America is devolving quickly into chaos reminiscent of the French Revolution. The response so far to this disturbing incident from New York City Mayor…
The Spanish-language network Univision interviewed former President Donald Trump this month and allowed him to respond to questions without interruption or personal attacks. It was like every interview the legacy media have conducted with President Joe Biden or Hillary Clinton. So, of course, leftist Latino groups, terrified this shift reflects the changing political views of Univision’s audience, are throwing a…
Intuit—a company best known for its QuickBooks financial management software for businesses—earlier this year announced a cessation of services for firearms dealers, along with manufacturers of firearms or firearms components. The latest attempt at woke corporate activity resulted in another embarrassing about-face, demonstrating left-wing social policies do not reflect American values and undermine the business…
Machiavelli observes in “The Prince” that politics presents challenges akin to those physicians sometimes face: “ … in the beginning of the illness it is easy to cure and difficult to recognize, but in the progress of time, when it has not been recognized and treated in the beginning, it becomes easy to recognize and…
I arrived at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor on Thursday, Nov. 16, to deliver a speech on Israel’s war with Hamas in Gaza. The talk’s blunt title, selected by the local Young Americans for Freedom chapter, reflected my own unambiguous approach to the conflict: “Israel’s Righteous Fight Against Jihadism.” Given the nature of…
President Joe Biden’s recent second meeting with Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping failed before it even began. Long before Biden patted the communist dictator on the back Nov. 15 and ushered him into suburban San Francisco’s Filoli estate, his administration’s commitment to “zombie engagement” with China ensured a victory for Xi and the CCP….
For the first time in a millennium, Europe no longer plays a critical role in promoting Western civilization nor in world history at large. Ostensibly it should. Some 750 million people live on the European subcontinent. Europe still remains the most popular tourist spot on earth. Its hallowed architecture, art, infrastructure, and natural beauty still…
More than seven weeks out from the Iranian-sponsored Hamas terrorist attacks on Israel, new TIPP polling reveals how the American people are responding to the attacks, as well as to the ensuing war in Gaza and spreading protests here at home. While—as with most polling—gender, ethnicity, and political affiliation appear to drive some responses, perhaps…
Xi Van Fleet, who lived under the bloody communist rule of Chinese leader Mao Zedong, says the goal of her new book “is to lay out the parallels of the two Cultural Revolutions that I experienced—[the one] 50 years ago and the one I experience with millions of Americans right now, the woke revolution.” “And…
Rioters with the "Stop Cop City" movement in Atlanta face domestic terrorism and racketeering charges for repeated attempts to stop the lawful construction of a police and firefighter training facility, including the use of Molotov cocktails to harm police officers and damage construction equipment. The newly revealed journal of Manuel Esteban Páez Terán, an agitator…
Editor’s note: This rule, finalized on April 30, 2024, will go into effect on July 1, 2024. Transgender orthodoxy may soon become a litmus test for parenthood, according to the logic of a new policy working its way through the Department of Health and Human Services under President Joe Biden. A new rule in HHS’…
Just in time for the holiday season, Bidenomics has managed to deliver the costliest Thanksgiving in American history. What is perhaps the quintessential American holiday is now another reminder that the nation is in a cost-of-living crisis where even food is taxing families’ budgets. This is the direct result of the leftist ideology that constantly pushes for…
In Argentina—a country where 1 out of every 4 people work for the state and more than half of the population receives some form of government welfare—14 million of its citizens have just voted for less government. They voted to slash the state. A true free-market reformer, Javier Milei is the first libertarian president in…
Elite Western institutions have not only failed to pass on our history and traditions, in many cases, they have intentionally tried to tear them down. The result is generations of Americans entirely untethered from their past. At best, they know much that isn’t so. That’s the theme of my new podcast, “History Reconsidered,” which I…
Elon Musk is going “thermonuclear.” No, this has nothing to do with SpaceX or any of his other wild technology projects—but it’s how Musk described the lawsuit he was filing against Media Matters for America this week. The lawsuit is in response to a Media Matters report last week that X, the Musk-owned social media platform formerly known…
Nothing about America is sacred to some people anymore. Even Thanksgiving is under attack. A group called Truthsgiving recently hosted a night of “truth-telling, music, and laughter celebrating indigenous culture and history.” Not that this is new, of course—claims that Thanksgiving, “glorifies colonialism, slavery, and even epidemics” have been made before. It’s tempting to simply…
Thanksgiving is meant to be devoted to thankfulness for family and the many other blessings in each of our lives. But, as most American families sit down to a Thanksgiving meal on Thursday, they will also be met with a specter looming over their financial life—namely, Bidenomics. Rising consumer prices, falling real incomes, a slowing…
So, Javier Milei is extremely scary. That’s what the legacy media have decided: The newly elected libertarian conservative leader of Argentina is absolutely frightening. Axios calls him a “far-right libertarian who’s been compared to Trump.” The New York Times writes, “Argentina Braces Itself for Its New ‘Anarcho-Capitalist’ President,” and called the election Argentina’s “Donald Trump…
No film from Angel Studios makes it to the big screen without the approval of the Angel Guild. Over 21 films a week are submitted to the Angel Guild, “and then the guild goes through those and they’re picking their favorites and they’re greenlighting them and then Angel Studios can only pick from the list…
Since the founding of the United Nations nearly eight decades ago, the United States has been the largest financier of the organization. Yet few grasp exactly how much U.S. contributions outstrip those of other nations, and fewer still seem to appreciate America’s generosity, least of all the U.N. and the other member states. Last year…