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PODCAST | Time To Derail The Ideologues

Listen now | If you look at the “infrastructure bill” that was passed by the Biden Administration – to the tune of trillions – you would think that our infrastructure would be solid. But the derailment in Pennsylvania proves it's not...not by

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PODCAST | Do Aliens Race-Bait?

Listen now (26 min) | Before we get to this morning’s segment on The Captain's America: Third Watch with Matt Bruce, I want to comment on the lead story over at UndergroundUSA.com today. It has to do with fascism and regulation. It’s titled, Fasc

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Fascism Facilitated By Regulation

The system was supposed to be pretty simple, so much so that even a moderately educated person could understand it. The Legislative Branch was supposed to craft and pass laws – codified by either the president’s signature or a veto override, the Execu

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PODCAST | Lies, Damn Lies & Joe Biden

Listen now (28 min) | Before we get to this morning's segment of The Captain's America: Third Watch with Matt Bruce, I need to make a comment about the State of the Union Address and Joe Biden's performance, specifically the response that t

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PODCAST | Up, Up & Away In Out Fifth-Generation Warfare Balloon

Listen now (46 min) | Before we get to this morning's edition of Talkback with Chuck Wilder, I wanted to talk a little bit about the decision – or indecision, I guess – of President Biden in not wanting to ban TikTok from the United States. This

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PODCAST | Is It Time To Question The Legitimacy Of The Federal Government?

Listen now (26 min) | Before we get into this morning’s segment on The Captain's America: Third Watch with Matt Bruce, I wanted to give a shout-out to people who are subscribing over at UndergroundUSA.com, especially the ones who are subscribing an

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PODCAST | 99 Luftballons…BAM! Never Mind

Listen now (27 min) | Before we get into today's segment on The Captain's America: Third Watch with Matt Bruce, I’d like to comment on the fact that we did – finally, after the balloon transverse the entirety of the United States – we fina

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PODCAST | Trump’s Unnecessary Flirtation With Disaster

Listen now (29 min) | Before we get into this morning's segment on The Captain's America: Third Watch with Matt Bruce, I'd like to comment on Donald Trump's statement attacking Ron DeSantis. Matt and I talked about this in the segment

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VIDEO | Pfizer Executive: ‘Mutate’ COVID to Continue Profiting Off Vaccines

Once again, the people over at Project Veritas have exposed the Swamp confederacy for what it is: a desperately greedy, soulless group of power-hungry profiteers who not only want to control you but who are quite alright with rolling the dice on the futur

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PODCAST | The Open Secrets Of The Biden Administration

Listen now (27 min) | Before we get into this morning's segment on The Captain's America: Third Watch with Matt Bruce, I’d like to send my condolences to everybody who is affected by the mass shooting in California. I do want to point out that

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VIDEO | Our Birthright Can Only Be Protected Symbiotically

Watch now (7 min) | Our nation is divided. That is, perhaps, the understatement of the millennium, young as it is. From race relations to the economic divide to every disjointed political identity the manipulators of the narrative have conceived, if the p

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PODCAST | The Stand-Off: The Debt Ceiling Debacle & Who’s Really Responsible

Listen now (26 min) | Before I get to this morning’s episode with Matt Bruce on The Captain's America: Third Watch, on which we talk about the upcoming debt ceiling standoff, among other things, I want to tease a few things that are coming up. One

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PODCAST | The Blame Game Or The Klain Game?

Listen now (51 min) | Before we get to today's segment on TalkBack with Chuck Wilder, I want to talk a little bit more about who's culpable for the top secret documents being in Joe Biden's garage…and his personal office…and every other

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PODCAST | Is The Dream Still Alive?

Listen now (23 min) | Before we get to this morning segment on The Captain's America: Third Watch with Matt Bruce, I’d like to acknowledge Martin Luther King Jr. Day. It's important that we start circling back – and I hate to use that term b

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PODCAST | Surviving Both Biden & The COVID Vaccination Campaign

Listen now (28 min) | Before we get into the current segment of The Captain's America: Third Watch with Matt Bruce, I'd like to play something for you that I got from a good friend of mine, Cameron. I find what is said in this opinion segment (f

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PODCAST | And You Thought FOX News Was On Your Side…

Listen now (47 min) | Before we get into this episode of Talkback with Chuck Wilder – in which I get into the Right’s ineptitude when it comes to messaging and conveying a cohesive and coherent narrative, I'd like to take issue with a podcast I h

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PODCAST | And Biden’s Border Visit Accomplished…

Listen now (27 min) | Before we hit this morning's episode of The Captain's America: Third Watch with Matt Bruce – broadcast on the Salem and Genesis Communications Networks, I'd like to acknowledge that Joe Biden actually visited somewhe

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PODCAST | A New Congress. A New Speaker…But How Free Are We?

Listen now (29 min) | Before we get into yesterday morning’s segment on The Captain's America: Third Watch with Matt Bruce, I’d like to acknowledge that US Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), is the new Speaker of the House…after 15 votes. That’s the

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The GOP: Both Young & Old Fail At Messaging

The House of Representatives leadership election failed to elect a Speaker of the House on the first ballot for the first time in one hundred years. US Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), the presumptive “next in line,” failed to reach the necessary 218 votes

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PODCAST | If The FBI & DoJ Had Been Doing Their Jobs...

Listen now (28 min) | Before we get to this morning’s segment on The Captain's America: Third Watch with Matt Bruce, I'd like to take a moment to talk about the attacks on New York City Police Department personnel on New Year's Eve into N

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PODCAST | Okay, Let's Try This Again...

Listen now (28 min) | Before we get to Friday's segment on The Captain's America: Third Watch in which we talk about the federal GOP, Joe Biden, Southwest Airlines, and a variety of other incredulous and disturbing things, I wanted to take a mom

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Canceling History Doesn’t Erase It Or Change It

Having just finished yet another Christmas holiday it goes without saying that as we went about our festivities, a large part of those festivities; those celebrations and remembrances, were recollections of the past and people who have gone before us. Whi

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PODCAST | The Opportunistic Aggression Of The Political Class

Listen now (48 min) | Before we get to this morning's segment on TalkBack with Chuck Wilder where we discuss “The Government Cares About Your Health? Not By A Long Shot,” I want to take a second to talk about the referrals - the criminal charge r

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PODCAST | Congress & BigPharma: Picking Your Pocket When You Aren’t Looking

Listen now (28 min) | Before we get to this morning's segment on The Captain's America: Third Watch with Matt Bruce, in which we discuss, at length, the featured article over at UndergroundUSA.com today titled, “The Government Cares About Your

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The Government Cares About Your Health? Not By A Long Shot!

Ronald Reagan was famous for saying that the scariest words that any American could hear were these: “We’re from the government and we’re here to help you.” Anyone who questions the truth of this statement is either oblivious to reality of mentall

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PODCAST | Shoot Ourselves In The Foot? No Problem For The House GOP

Listen now (47 min) | Before I get into our discussion about, “Leftist Activists Prove Points After Being Attacked By Fringe Left Thugs,” I want to give a quick shout-out to the people listening in the countries where you're not supposed to be ab

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PODCAST | As One Country Mourns Another Seeks to Reaffirm Its Control Over Government

As the people of Japan mourn the assassination of their former Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, the people of the United States stand with them in prayer for their loss. And at the same time, a movement is growing in a very potent way; a movement that seeks to

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PODCAST | How Long Will We Allow Pelosi's Crew To Blatantly Lie To The People?

In the aftermath of the US Supreme Court's decision to return the purview of the issue of abortion to the states where it has always belonged, Nancy Pelosi, Joe Biden, AOC, and perennial reprobate Maxine Waters all took to the microphones to whip the

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The Left Is Using The Issues Of Guns & Abortion To Manipulate The People

With the recent US Supreme Court decisions on abortion and gun rights, the political opportunists and agendized media are doing everything they can to play on the emotions of the people. Both disingenuous (or constitutionally illiterate) politicians and s

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PODCAST | Do You Remember All The Times The Left Screamed 'Constitutional Crisis'?

With the US Supreme Court ruling in favor of the US Constitution and, specifically, the sanctity of the 2nd Amendment, it is a good time for the US Constitution. But the fascist Left is apoplectic that the SCOTUS would dare to have fidelity to the US Cons

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PODCAST | The Globalists Use of Climate Change As The New Chaos Creator

Ever since the 1967 Report from Iron Mountain, which outlined a transition from managed wars to climate change as the vehicle of choice for political transformation, the Progressives (read: fascists) in the United States have continuously hit the climate

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PODCAST | Janet Yellen & The Rest Of The Biden Administration Unqualified

If you have been following the short tenure of Janet Yellen as US Treasury Secretary you will have already noticed that she hasn't been correct in any of the predictions or statements she has issued. From inflation being "transitory" to crypto being

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PODCAST | The Manmade Climate Change Narrative & The Globalization Agenda

I feel it’s important to share a portion of a decades-long, ongoing conversation I am engaged in with a dear friend who has worked for the European Union Commission at the highest levels, serving as an analyst on various critical issues. He continues to

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PODCAST | Adam Schiff's Problem With Sensationalism & The Truth

US Representative Adam Schiff (D-CA), has a problem with the truth. Over the last six years, specifically, he has consistently made claims that he has "evidence" of this and a "smoking gun" for that, and each time the agendized and disingenuous mainstream

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Why Our Self-Imposed High Gas Prices Are A Direct Threat To The People

Today the national average for gasoline hit $5 per gallon, translating to $65–$80 a fill-up for the average car. If you still need to be convinced that the pain you are feeling at the gas pump isn’t self-inflicted, courtesy of the Green Movement and t

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PODCAST | The Disingenuous Manufactured Media Circus With Ringmaster Pelosi

You know that Nancy Pelosi and the fascist-Left Democrats have nothing to run on in the Midterm Elections when they have to beg a news network to sensationalize a manufactured media circus in what was the January 6th mini-series-esque sitcom broadcast on

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The Sacramento Shooting Is a Product of Society Not the Gun Industry

In the ongoing promotion of the false narrative that inanimate objects are the reason for deadly violence, the usual suspects on the Left and far-Left are once again calling for more unconstitutional restrictions to be placed on law-abiding citizens.

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Where the Hell Are the Men?

After a long and storied career, I would like to say that I have amassed a fortune. But not yet. However, I have faced 300-foot flame lengths as a firefighter, been asked to remove suspected anthrax f...

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Why is Modern Art so Bad? | PragerU

For two millennia, great artists set the standard for beauty. Now those standards are gone. Modern art is a competition between the ugly and the twisted; the…

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The War We Must Fight › American Greatness

“And what is most repugnant to me in America is not the extreme freedom that reigns there, it is the lack of a guarantee against tyranny.” “I have found genuine…

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The Dark, Destructive, Murderous Psychological Forces of Cancel Culture

The cancel culture we are living in should itself be canceled. That must be obvious to most people, given the way in which it stifles the free expression of ideas, but I think there’s more happening t...

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A New Year Will Not Bring Relief - American Greatness

It is hard not to be happy about the end of 2020. Many people have said it has been the worst year ever, both personally and for the country. How could the next…

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There Is No Such Thing as Systemic Racism Only Systemic Envy

There is no such thing as "systemic racism," especially not in the United States and Canada today. Systemic envy drives a dangerous revolt.

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Jonathan Sacks - The Good Society

Jonathan Sacks – The Good Society Moses, having set out the prologue and preamble to the covenant and its broad guiding principles, now turns to the details, which occupy the greater part of the book of Devarim, from chapter 12 to chapter 26. But be

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David Smick, Barry Levinson: How to end America's politics of hate

Evidence suggests that a feeling of economic humiliation, which manifests as fear and a politics devoid of empathy, is at the core of our divisions.

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‘Hey, whatever makes you feel safe under that bandana’: Bethany Mandel takes the mask-mob APART in thread

The mask debate continues.

Politics | Leftists Are Insane

Welcome To Your New World Order: A Rundown Of Woke Insanity

As the nation continues to spiral under its 21st century cultural revolution, here's a running list of the ongoing insanity.

Business & Finance | Business

Farewell, workplace burnout: will coronavirus slow the manic pace of our modern lives?

Here’s hoping the pandemic forces a rethink of our obsession with work and the culture of busyness

Politics | Op-Ed

Welcome Back to History America

Welcome back to history, America, it was wondering where you were. The coronavirus pandemic has upended most everything we assumed about the future, including the assumption that the Drudge Report would forever be a grounded center-right news aggregator.

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Coronavirus: Panic or Pandemic? | PragerU

You can't expect to live a full life without assuming some risk. There's a spectrum between precaution and panic, and if isn't well-calibrated you can miss out on the best things life has to offer. March is fundraising month for PragerU. Help keep our vid

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Period Activists Say Men Should Have to Pay for Toilet Paper

In a bizarre stunt, period activists claim men should have to pay for toilet paper in public restrooms to demonstrate the supposed need for "menstrual equality" and rights to free tampons, or something.

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Prager: We Go From Hysteria to Hysteria

We go from hysteria to hysteria. And even that's not quite accurate. We now endure multiple hysterias at once. The latest, of course, is COVID-19, better

Politics | Op-Ed

The Abuse of Men Has to Stop

Men have been left out in the cold too long.

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The Narcissism and Grandiosity of Celebrities | Psychology Today

Here is a thought: Entertain us at the movies and in concert halls, and leave the science for scientists.

Politics | Op-Ed

What Good Is Cheaper Stuff If It Comes At The Expense Of Community?

Should we be so eager to destroy communities for cheap consumer goods? Perhaps a little less efficiency in capital allocation wouldn't be so bad, after all.

Politics | Gender Insanity

Washington Post asks that you not make jokes about gender pronouns when people tell you theirs

By jokes, they mean putting in your bio that your preferred pronoun is "your majesty."

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How the Loss of the Landline Is Changing Family Life

The shared phone was a space of spontaneous connection for the entire household.

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Are Eye Exams A Great American Scam?

Why is it so difficult to get a new pair of glasses or contacts in this country? It’s easier pretty much everywhere else.

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Prager: Does the Left Hate America?

Whenever leftists are charged with not loving or even with hating America, they respond angrily, labeling the question absurd, mean-spirited and an example of right-wing McCarthyism. But there can be little doubt that the left has no love for America, jus

Politics | Leftist Lies

4 Feminist Lies That Are Making Women Miserable

Too many women map out their lives with work at the center and eventually wish they hadn’t. Women say they wish someone had told them this sooner.

Politics | Woke Insanity

Hispanic People Overwhelmingly Reject the White Liberal Term 'Latinx'

According to a new poll, Hispanic Americans overwhelmingly reject the "Latinx" label imposed by white liberals intent on altering language and crafting "politically correct" words.

Politics | Op-Ed

HAMMER: Remember Those Who Told Us Gay Marriage Would Not Lead To Polyamory? They Were Wrong.

“Slippery slope theory is a form of logical fallacy.” – Knaves and fools   The concerted social push is now unequivocally on to normalize non-monogamous, polyamorous relationships. Just yesterday, CBS News ran a rather disturbing story en

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The Derangement Syndromes of Our Time – American Greatness

In the absence of religion, patriotism, and traditions of family and community, people have found new ideologies to absorb their passions.

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The War on Common Sense – American Greatness

When Thomas Paine appealed to “common sense” to make the case for American independence, it probably never crossed his mind that there would ever be a need to make the case for common sense itself, at least not in America. But common-sense thinking has fa

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It now costs $350,000 a year to live a middle-class lifestyle in a big city—here’s a sad breakdown of why

You can certainly live on less, but it won't be easy if your goal is to raise a family in a big city, save for your children's education, save for your own home and save for retirement (so you can actually retire at a reasonable age).

Politics | Woke Insanity

WATCH: Students Sign Petition To Ban ‘Oppressive’ White Stick Figure In ‘Walk’ Signals | Daily Wire

In Campus Reform's latest video, Campus Correspondent Ethan Cai asks students at George Washington University if they'd be willing to sign a petition calling for banning the iconic white stick figure in "walk" signals because they are "oppressive." Most o

Entertainment | Entertainment

Choose Your Alliances: Tarantino Latest Victim of Woke Police

Choose Your Alliances: Tarantino Latest Victim of Woke Police

Politics | Leftist Lies

Gallup: Americans Still Greatly Overestimate U.S. Gay Population, And Here Are Some Possible Reasons Why | Daily Wire

A new Gallup study released Thursday found that Americans continue to overestimate the percentage of the population that identifies as gay or lesbian, and they do so at a rate of about five times

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Finding America at a Back-Roads Gas Station – American Greatness

DICKERSON, Md.—Everything happens for a reason.

At least that's what people tell you when your plans go south.

Driving from Pittsburgh to Washington, D.C., recently, I did as I nearly always do: I clicked the "avoid highways" option on Google Maps and c

Politics | Op-Ed

Leftism Makes People Meaner: Reflections on the Torture of Paul Manafort | News and Politics

The sadistic treatment of Paul Manafort illustrates something I have believed since I attended graduate school in the 1970s and saw the behavior of left-wing students: Leftism makes people meaner. There are kind and mean conservatives and kind and mean li

Politics | Op-Ed

The Conventional Wisdom About Millennial Suffering Is A Myth

Despite a sense of unearned victimhood, millennials haven't had it harder than those who came before them. In most ways, the opposite is true.

Business & Finance | Business

Café that charged a ‘man tax’ and gave women priority seating is going out of business | Fox News

A lesbian-owned, vegan coffee shop in Brunswick, Australia, that made international headlines in 2017 for charging a voluntary 18 percent “man tax” will close its doors for good Sunday after less than two years in business.

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How To Combat Our Culture’s Rampant Self-Supremacy Problem

The terms self-supremacy and self-supremacist capture the intent and the ultimate agenda of power elites. Self-supremacists are control freaks.

Miscellaneous | Interesting Stuff

The Infinite Scroll: Life under the unbreakable lure of the screen.

“Phoning it in” means to do something with very little effort or enthusiasm. The idiom seems oddly prescient now, given that it dates back to a time before the internet.

Politics | Politics

Thoughts from a hipster coffee shop… - Alpha News

My generation is becoming the largest voting bloc in the country. We have an opportunity to continue to propel us forward with the gifts capitalism and democracy has given us. The other option is that we can fall into the trap of entitlement and relapse into restrictive socialist destitution. The choice doesn’t seem too hard, does it?

Politics | Leftists Are Insane

Houston Public Library Apologizes For Allowing Sex Offender To Read To Kids During ‘Drag Queen Story Time’

'We deeply regret this oversight'

Politics | Leftist Lies

Studies: Women Earn Less Not Because Of Sexism, But Because Of Kids

The research overwhelmingly suggests the sexes' earnings gap is mostly not caused by sexism. It’s largely that women do different work.

Politics | Politics

Of 27 Deadliest Mass Shooters, 26 of Them Were Fatherless | RealClearPolitics

Of 27 Deadliest Mass Shooters, 26 of Them Were Fatherless | RealClearPolitics

Politics | Op-Ed

Andrew Sullivan: The Abyss of Hate Versus Hate

After the Covington debacle, it is clearer than ever: Liberal democracy is being dismantled before our eyes — by all of us.

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The New, New Anti-Semitism | National Review

Old stereotypes resurface among today’s woke progressives.

Politics | Woke Insanity

Britain's 'First Transgender Family' Now Transitioning Their 5-Year-Old Son To Female

A family dubbed Britain’s "first transgender family" has announced that they are encouraging the gender transition of their five-year-old son, Jayden. According to the family, Jayden, a biological male, likes dresses and hates "everything about being a

Politics | Woke Insanity

PETA Strikes Again: Stop Using 'Anti-Animal Language'

On Tuesday, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) issued a tweet calling for human beings to stop using “anti-animal language” and using “speciesism” in conversations. PETA demanded some changes to everyday language, including:

Politics | POLITICS

America’s Cold Civil War

I fear America may be leaving the world of normal politics and entering the dangerous world of regime politics—a politics in which our political loyalties diverge more and more, as they did in the 1850s, between two contrary visions of the country.&hell

News | The News

HATE CRIME: White Journalist Dies 6 Months After Brutal Attack

The media usually rush to defend those who can be claimed as one of their own, just look at the coverage of Saudi nationalist Jamal Khashoggi.

Politics | Op-Ed

DNA Doesn’t Define Who We Really Are | National Review

Should we cast aside our family heritage because of a pie chart on a DNA test?

Politics | Leftists Are Insane

Female Cyclist Who Lost To Transgender 'Woman' Speaks Out: 'NOT Fair' | Daily Wire

On Sunday, biologically male cyclist Rachel McKinnon, competing against biological females, unsurprisingly took home a gold medal at Sunday's UCI Masters Track Cycling World Champions

Politics | Woke Insanity

This New Study About The Unpopularity Of Political Correctness Will Shock You | Daily Wire

On Wednesday, Yascha Mounk, lecturer on government at Harvard University, wrote a fascinating piece for The Atlantic regarding a new study from Stephen Hawkins, Daniel Y

History | History

Americans Have Almost Entirely Forgotten Their History

History blindness, and a lack of basic civic knowledge, is unhealthy for a free country. Today, we are too busy tearing down our history than learning from it. That needs to change.

Miscellaneous | Interesting Links

A Journey to the Moral Center of "Bro"

I've been thinking about Brad a lot lately, ever since I watched the Netflix hit rom-com, To All The Boys I've Loved Before, based on the book of the same name by Jenny Han. I felt I needed to know: Why do I care so much? Why now? Why this bro?

Politics | Interesting Links

Is Islam a Religion of Peace?

Is Islam a religion of peace? Is it compatible with Western liberalism? Or does Islam need a reformation, just as Christianity had the Protestant Reformation...

Miscellaneous | Interesting Links

Online Museum Is Preserving 'Endangered' Sounds for Future Generations | Mental Floss

Test your knowledge with amazing and interesting facts, trivia, quizzes, and brain teaser games on MentalFloss.com.

Politics | Gender Insanity

Is Transgender The New Anorexia? New Study Suggests So

A blockbuster study suggests that in some cases transgender is a 'social contagion,' a maladaptive coping technique spread by peer groups and the Internet.

Miscellaneous | Other Stuff!

The New Old Age | The Walrus

Longevity is now our reality. Are we ready for it?

Politics | Op-Ed

Dennis Prager: Explaining the Left: Part II

The governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo, did Americans a favor last week.

Miscellaneous | Other Interesting Stories

7 awkward situations people didn't have to worry about 30 years ago

Awkward moments are a given if you're a human being who works, dates, and has friends. But some of the most awkward situations possible have to do with digital technology and would have been unimaginable to previous generations.

Politics | Gender Insanity

WATCH THE IDIOCY: BBC Reverses Boy And Girl's Names And Clothes To Test Adults For 'Gender-Stereotyping'

The BBC , in an attempt to take gender confusion to the next level, issued a video with the hashtag #NoMore Boys&Girls, in which a little girl toddler was dressed in boy's clothes and given a boy’s name, while a little boy toddler was clothed i

Politics | Gender Insanity

Why 'Gender Neutral Parenting' Is Child Abuse

NBC reports on a parenting trend with a name as stupid as the thing itself: "theybies." This is the designation certain upper-class, white, liberal parents have given to their childr

Politics | Woke Insanity

Pedophiles Believe They Should Be A Part Of The LGBT Community

'Minor Attracted Persons'

Politics | Gender Insanity

The non-science of transgender analysis

We could prove it but we don't feel like it

Politics | Media Watch

Media Outlets Attack Sen. Marco Rubio For Saying It's Bad To Use The 'F-Word'

Several outlets are attacking Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) for noting on Twitter that it's bad to use the “f word” and accusing Rubio of being insensitive in the wake of the Capital Gazette shooting.

News | The News

Gallup: Satisfaction With U.S. Direction Reaches 12-Year High

Americans' satisfaction with the way things are going in the country has reached a 12-year high of 38%, one point above last month's satisfaction rate.

News | The News

Pew: Most Americans Can't Tell Fact From Opinion | National Review

The research found that "Republicans and Democrats were more likely to classify both factual and opinion statements as factual when they appealed most to their side."

Politics | POLITICS

Ben Shapiro: We need fathers to teach manliness | Opinion

Deprived of purpose, too many men turn to empty substitutes for true manliness: a macho culture that prizes sexual conquest or physical strength.

Politics | Politics

What Critics Don't Understand About Gun Culture

I carry a weapon—and it’s tied me closer to my community.

Science & Technology | Tech

‘Human Uber’ Lets a Surrogate Socialize For You

Lean into the hermit lifestyle by having a surrogate do the socializing for you.

Miscellaneous | Other Stuff

Whatever Happened to Generation X?

As they head into middle age, the “slacker” generation of Philadelphians — sandwiched between the never-say-die boomers and the all-about-us millennials — is feeling overlooked, overworked and overwhelmed. But their chill, pragmatic approach to li

Miscellaneous | Other Kinds of Whatnot

Generation X had the luxury of being rebel slackers, but Millennials have to be total squares

You know Generation X. The ones who skateboarded through high school with flannel shirts and angry music during a period of economic stability. The ones who criticized the establishment while…

Miscellaneous | Interesting Links!

What's the Truth About the First Thanksgiving?

Should Americans celebrate Thanksgiving as a day of gratitude? Or should they mourn it as a day of guilt? Michael Medved, author of The American Miracle, shares the fascinating story of the first Thanksgiving.

Politics | The Hall of Idiots

Can My Children Be Friends With White People? - The New York Times

The rise of Donald Trump has broken bonds on all sides. But for people of color the stakes are different.

Miscellaneous | Other Interesting Stories

How We Killed Expertise - POLITICO Magazine

Average Americans have never much liked eggheads. That’s not a bad thing in itself: Americans are a skeptical but level-headed people

Miscellaneous | OTHER STUFF

Paying the price for breakdown of the country's bourgeois culture

These basic cultural precepts could be followed by people of all backgrounds and abilities, especially when backed up by almost universal endorsement.

Politics | Politics

Why Lee Should Go, and Washington Should Stay - NYTimes.com

Nashville — I grew up on Missionary Ridge, a Civil War battlefield overlooking Chattanooga, Tenn. In my childhood we could still find minie balls from the battle in which a young Union soldier, Arthur MacArthur, the father of Douglas, received the Medal of Honor.

Miscellaneous | Interesting Stuff

Hear the Interviews that Helped Build the Dictionary of American Regional English | Mental Floss

Test your knowledge with amazing and interesting facts, trivia, quizzes, and brain teaser games on MentalFloss.com.

Politics | The Hall of Idiots

Why Professional Cuddling Is Booming Under Trump - Rolling Stone

In the wake of Donald Trump's election, people struggled to figure out how to cope – and some found the answer was as simple as human touch.

Miscellaneous | Other Stuff

Generation X needs to save America from millennials

Though one of its own sits yet again in the White House, the baby-boom generation, 78 million strong, is finally preparing to depart the scene. Theirs is a 40-year legacy of war, debt and cultural …

Miscellaneous | Other Stuff

The average American has only one close friend — here's how we got to this point

Stanford psychologist Emma Seppala says Americans are experiencing a crisis of loneliness, and it's partly a result of our desire for independence.

Miscellaneous | Interesting Links

At a Luxury Complex in India, the Maids and the Madams Go to War

A dispute between a maid and her employer led to a full-blown riot, an unusual boiling over of resentment between rich and poor in India.

Miscellaneous | Other Interesting Stories

America can't agree on how to deal with online harassment, if at all

If you're an American who's been harassed online, you're likely surrounded by others who've gone through the same thing.

Miscellaneous | Interesting Links

The Ken Doll Reboot: Beefy, Cornrowed, and Pan-Racial | GQ

For decades, Barbie’s boy achieved icon status by being a basic, buff, blue-eyed bro. No longer! Caity Weaver has an exclusive glimpse into Mattel’s new take on the all-American male.

Miscellaneous | Interesting Links

A Sociology of the Smartphone

Smartphones have altered the texture of everyday life, digesting many longstanding spaces and rituals, and transforming others beyond recognition.

Politics | Politics

It feels like America is descending into chaos | New York Post

I turned 7 in 1968, and though my memories are necessarily fuzzy, I can still sum up a queasy sense of the chaos that pervaded the year as it streamed out of...

Miscellaneous | Interesting Links

The lost world of 9/10: The Sept. 11 attacks and the end of American innocence

The day before the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, was the last day of American innocence.

Miscellaneous | Other Kinds of Whatnot

The Unsexy Truth About Millennials: They’re Poor - The Daily Beast

If you’re wondering why millennials don’t have much sex, and don’t buy cars, forget social theorizing: the harsh truth lies in their near-empty wallets.

News | News

Americans over 30 are more miserable than they’ve ever been - MarketWatch

“Adults over 30 are less happy than their predecessors,” concludes a study published online Thursday in the journal Social Psychology and Personality Science, which examined happiness data from more than 50,000 adults, gleaned from the General Social Survey, carried out by NORC at the University of Chicago, a nonpartisan, independent research organization, which has collected information about American adults since 1972.

Politics | Op-Ed

Cecil the Lion -- Human Rights Matter Too | National Review Online

The uproar over the killing of a lion named Cecil in Zimbabwe by an American dentist, Dr. Walter Palmer, is further proof that secular society inevitably produces moral confusion.

Politics | Woke Insanity

People Who Identify as Vampires Shouldn't Be Judged, Study Says | National Review Online

Stop being so judgmental! Sociology researchers are now insisting that we as a society start accepting people who choose to “identify as real vampires” — so that they can be open about the fact that they’re vampires without having to worry about facing discrimination.

Politics | Op-Ed

Sorry, Everyone, America Isn’t That Racist

It’s called “proof by example,” and it happens all the time. We take one event and point to it as evidence of a trend or, even worse, a universal fact—a dog attacked my child, therefore all dogs are vicious and should be put down. Despite its popularity,

Politics | Op-Ed

The Formal End to Judeo-Christian America - Dennis Prager

The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling on the redefinition of marriage seals the end of America as the Founders envisioned it. From well before 1776 until the second half of the 20th century, the moral values of the United States were rooted in the Bible a

History | History

10 Already Obsolete Things Included in the 5000-Year Westinghouse Time Capsule | Mental Floss

The site of the 1939 World’s Fair is home to a time capsule that was put in the ground in 1938 and is due to be unearthed and opened in the year 6939. The “Immortal Well” that houses the capsule is located in the Westinghouse Pavilion of the fairgrounds in Queens, New York, and remains untouched to this day.

News | In The News

The Problem With the Backlash to the Game of Thrones Rape Scene

Awareness should not turn into obsessive hyper-vigilance. Those incensed by the fictional rape of Sansa Stark on Game of Thrones Sunday night include not only critics and ordinary viewers speaking out in social media, but at least one national politician.

Entertainment | Television/Film/Books

Matthew Weiner’s MAD MEN and the double audience | YDS: The Clare Spark Blog

(Spoilers ahead). In all my years of watching television, I have never been so flummoxed as I was by the final season of Matthew Weiner’s Mad Men that purports to trace the ups and downs of its primary characters in a small NYC advertising agency, “St

Politics | Op-Ed

America's Decay Is Speeding Up - Dennis Prager

As one who loves America — not only because I am American, but even more so because I know (not believe, know) that the American experiment in forming a decent society has been the most successful in history — I write the following words in sadness...

Visual Arts | Photography

Photographer Creates Grids Showing How People on City Streets Look the Same

Fashion street photographers usually look for styles that are one of a kind. Hans Eijkelboom doesn't. For over twenty years, the Dutch 'anti-sartorial' pho

Politics | Op-Ed

We Have a Moral Divide, Not a Racial One - Dennis Prager

As we await protests and riots scheduled for Ferguson, Missouri, and elsewhere if a grand jury in Missouri does not indict the white officer who shot and killed Michael Brown, a black teenager, a little moral clarity is called for. For decades now, we hav

Miscellaneous | Interesting Links

5 Beloved Traditions Invented to Make You Buy Stuff | Mental Floss

Here's how some popular traditions came about, including diamond engagement rings and the ubiquitous green-bean casserole.

Politics | Op-Ed

Andrew Klavan: The Newest Threat on College Campuses: Microaggression | Truth Revolt

In which our brave and compassionate host takes a look at some real-life examples of microaggression and the deep harm such assaults can really do.  TRANSCRIPT:  OUR MICRO-AGGRESSIVE UNIVERSITIES I’m Andrew Klavan and this is the Revolting Truth. Wel

Miscellaneous | Other Interesting Stories

The many reasons millennials are shunning cars

And why we shouldn't dismiss the trend as a mere byproduct of the bad economy.

Miscellaneous | Other Interesting Stories

Tom and Jerry racist? Of course. Warning on Amazon and iTunes is appropriate.

Is that cartoon cat racist? Amazon Prime and iTunes now feature a warning to Tom and Jerry cartoons from the 1940s and 1950s that they “may depict ethnic and racial prejudices that were once commonplace in American society.”