Online video of right-wing students from Covington, Kentucky appearing to mock a Native American protester went viral, prompting outrage that later turned out to have been at least somewhat unjustified. Social media is a natural conduit for what the Chinese call “human flesh hunting,” Internet vigilantism that goes awry, The solution, of course, is to wait for all the facts to come out. But who has time for that?
The Supreme Court has approved of President Donald Trump’s order banning transgender people from the military—a profession in which people are paid to kill and maim people who mean them no harm.
All day long the citizens of an anxious nation are checking this and that. Maybe it’s time to give up hope.
In the most recent but not likely to be the last case of deplatforming, InfoWars and Alex Jones have been removed from Roku following complaints from viewers. It’s their legal right to do so but censorship is worrisome because it usually falls harder on the Left than the Right.
Kamala Harris is positioning herself as a progressive prosecutor, whatever that is. But the former California attorney general’s record reveals that she’s actually tougher on innocent people than she is on crime, and that she’s never meant a reform she didn’t hate.
If you’re running for the Democratic presidential nomination, you have to sound like a progressive to get primary voters on your side and govern and vote like a right-winger so the centrist establishment will tolerate you.
78% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck. The United States isn’t a superpower. It is, as President Trump would say, a “shithole country.”
Donald Trump is keeping his campaign promise to build a border wall between the US and Mexico, even shutting down the government. Imagine if the Democrats were as aggressive.
A standoff over a border wall between Congressional Democrats and Republicans has led to a government shutdown of various agencies. Surely Americans who are denied services shouldn’t have to pay their full taxes.
It’s only been a few months since Saudi Arabia’s insane crown prince ordered the gruesome murder and dismemberment of a Washington-based journalist in the kingdom’s consulate in Istanbul. Now it’s time to go visit!
