Politics

Protesters demonstrating against the death of George Floyd, a handcuffed black man who pleaded for air as a white police officer pressed his knee on his neck, targeted Confederate monuments in multiple cities. As tense protests swelled across the country Saturday into Sunday morning, monuments in Virginia, the Carolinas and Mississippi were defaced. The presence of Confederate monuments across the ...

Twitter’s decision this week to append a disclaimer to President Trump’s tweets about the risks of mail-in ballot fraud should be enough, at long last, for us to dispense with the fiction that Twitter is nothing more than a neutral platform. It’s not, it never has been, and it’s time to stop pretending otherwise. Set aside the relative merits of ...

Our civil liberties are under attack in the United States right now so it’s important to understand just how high the stakes are. Knowledge is power and everyone can understand the democratic principles that underpin our great nation. How much do you know about your legal rights as a U.S. citizen? Let’s find out. If you were offered a million ...

During her weekly briefing, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said because voting in the United States was “under assault” from the coronavirus, it must be protected with nationwide vote-by-mail so no one is “forced” to go to a polling place and risk their health. Pelosi said, “Voting is under assault both from a systemic nationwide campaign of voter suppression and ...

A spokesperson for the Joe Biden presidential campaign responded to the public furor surrounding the revelations about the unmasking of Michael Flynn, and then implied that racism was the cause for the alarm. Biden faced intense criticism on Wednesday when it was revealed that he was included in the group of Obama era officials that called for the unmasking of ...

The new White House standard for reopening the economy in various states is rigged to severely prolong the economic strangulation under the current lockdowns. The criterion has been defined as a 14-day period of declining volume in new cases or a 14-day period of declining rates of positivity of those tested. Testing is ramping up in every state, which if the ...

Is he or isn’t he? Some reports say North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un is in a “vegetative state.” Others say he’s in a coma. And now a new report says he’s just fine. Top South Korea government officials said Monday that despite all the speculation, Kim is “alive and well.” “Our government position is firm,” Moon Chung-in, the top ...

Generally, when a buyer is defrauded of services, the demand for the goods diminishes. As more emerges of what colleges and universities across this country are not doing, the demand will dry up unless there are drastic changes. The American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA) has published a report titled “What Will They Learn?”  It is a survey of ...

What’s the price of a good socialist these days? A wilted rose, dog-eared copy of Das Kapital, and a glass of Château Margaux 1848? Or is it just a dais and eleven and a half minutes of speaking time at a major party’s televised debate? Senator Bernie Sanders has endorsed former vice president Joe Biden, effectively bringing a close to ...

It’s as if the Deep State and the New World Order think We the People are utter morons. Lock us inside so we can’t see what’s going on in the outside world. Too bad for them it isn’t working. Keen observers are on to their evil plot to take over the world. First, the World Health Organization (WHO) ordered hospitals ...