NewsBusters deputy managing editor Nick “Night Train” Fondacaro and I began our week of guest hosting the NewsBusters podcast by highlighting the downfall of Kremlin-funded RT and why no one should be shedding tears.  Since 2005, RT (formerly known as Russia Today) has spent years using hot-button issues ranging from Occupy Wall Street to the

As Ukrainians valiantly fight to defend their nation against a Russian invasion, a Quinnipiac University national poll of U.S. adults asked people whether they would fight or flee if they faced that situation — the poll found that while a whopping 68% Republicans said they would remain and fight, just 40% of Democrats said they

Russia has told Ukraine that it is prepared to end military activity if Ukraine satisfies several conditions, a Kremlin spokesperson said, according to Reuters. “And they were told that all this can be stopped in a moment,” Dmitry Peskov said, according to the outlet. “We really are finishing the demilitarisation of Ukraine. We will finish

On Monday night’s The ReidOut on MSNBC, host Joy Reid used the last segment of her prime-time show to exploit the war in Ukraine in order to play racial politics. Reid claimed that the reason the United States and the rest of the world care so much about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is that their population is ”white and largely

The disgraced former governor of New York told a black church on Sunday that he and his brother were both victims of “cancel culture.” Andrew Cuomo made the comments during a speech at the God’s Battalion of Prayer Church, a black church in Brooklyn, according to the New York Times. Cuomo is said to have

Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo announced that the state’s health department will recommend against having healthy kids receive COVID-19 vaccination. During a roundtable event on Monday, Ladapo said that the Florida Department of Health will become the “first state to officially recommend against the COVID-19 vaccines for healthy children.” [embedded content] The Curtain Close

As gas prices continue to skyrocket to astronomical levels around the country on Monday, ABC’s World News Tonight completely ignored the story. Although both CBS Evening News and NBC Nightly News covered the pain American consumers are feeling at the pump, they promoted the Biden administration’s ineffective solutions to the problem. ABC’s World News Tonight

Presidentish Joe Biden kowtowed to Chinese Communist strongman Xi Jinping again, this time on the eve of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. On Feb. 23, Assistant Attorney General Matthew Olsen of the Justice Department’s National Security Division announced that Justice would terminate its CCP counter-espionage program, the China Initiative, according to a Newsweek report by Ben

The White House on Sunday outright rejected the possibility of increasing domestic oil production to combat the ongoing energy crisis. At the time of this reporting, crude oil prices have risen as high as $130 per barrel. What are the details? White House press secretary Jen Psaki on Sunday argued against the idea of increasing

Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota was outraged at a report saying President Joe Biden, also a Democrat, is considering asking Saudi Arabia to pump more oil as gas prices skyrocket at home. Axios reported that Biden may make a trip to Saudi Arabia in spring to ask for increased gas production as energy prices

The New York Times again reliably rides to the defense of overbearing federal government agencies. Reporter Glenn Thrush on Saturday defended the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms in “A.T.F., Agency Crucial to Biden’s Gun Plan, Struggles to Push for Reform.” He picked on the bureau’s acting director for being civil at a gun

Imagine my surprise when I was on Twitter on Monday afternoon and saw that Al Franken was trending. Word is that he’s plotting a political comeback. This wasn’t so surprising; he’s been hinting at a possible return to politics for some time now, but what was really surprising is how many on the left are

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) warned Sunday that establishing a no-fly zone over Ukraine would trigger World War III. What is a NFZ? A no-fly zone, otherwise known as an air-exclusion zone, is an order banning aircraft over a certain area. In war, such aerial demilitarized zones are intended to prohibit military aircraft from engaging in

Early estimates that abortions in Texas fell by as much as 60% because of the state’s fetal heartbeat law may have been greatly exaggerated, according to two studies, since most women seeking abortions either traveled out of state or ordered abortifacients online. The studies suggest that abortions fell by a figure closer to 10% —

Well, now they tell you. The network morning shows on Monday all admitted that ramping up oil production in the wake of the war in Ukraine will “take some time.” But there was no mention of the Biden administration’s war on energy independence. And NBC’s Today mentioned buying an electric car instead to save money

Never before have drugs as safe as hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin been deliberately demonized to the point that pharmacies refused to fill prescriptions. So countless Americans who were desperate for COVID treatment turned to Indian vendors for relief. Now, I’m getting numerous complaints from podcast listeners that they are having their packages confiscated by customs and

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk says he will travel to a high-radiation location to “eat locally grown food on TV” after calling for a massive increase of nuclear energy production in Europe, Insider reported Monday. What are the details? Musk on Sunday called for European nations to increase their output of nuclear power in

When a president’s poll numbers are tanking, as the most recent Washington Post/ABC News poll shows they are for President Biden — 37 percent approval — he needed to do something spectacular, even radical, to keep him from sinking further. Unfortunately for Biden and his party, he did nothing that is likely to stem his free fall.

Senior American officials traveled to Venezuela to try and drive a wedge between Venezuela and its longtime ally Russia. The New York Times reported that this trip is the highest-level visit to Venezuela by American officials since 2019. In 2019, the United States broke off diplomatic relations with the socialist government of Nicolas Maduro due

Japan announced this past week that it would accept Ukrainian refugees displaced by the Russian invasion of Ukraine and will send bulletproof vests to Kiev. Historically, Japan has resisted taking in refugees and has maintained a pacifistic approach to foreign conflicts since the end of World War II. The Washington Post reported that Japan decided

Visa and Mastercard have both suspended operations in Russia as tensions escalated in the war with Ukraine. The effort was aimed at cracking down on Russia in a way that encouraged an end to the war. “Visa will work with its clients and partners within Russia to cease all Visa transactions over the coming days,”

Republican Senator from Texas Ted Cruz has introduced a bill to restore American energy independence as the global energy sector experiences ongoing difficulties in the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Fox Business reported that Cruz announced the “Energy Freedom Act” in a Friday press release that he also used to criticize President Joe

The wife of WNBA star and Russian captive Brittney Griner says that she and Griner’s team are tirelessly working to get the basketball star home after the celebrated Olympian was detained at a Russian airport at least three weeks ago for reportedly having a cannabis-filled vape pen on her person. The longer Griner spends incarcerated

New York Times’ theatre critic Laura Collins-Hughes’ reviews from London’s West End have sadly devolved into anxious screeds about COVID and masks, those cloth talismans of liberal moral superiority that she flaunts like a Trump fan would wear a MAGA hat. Admittedly she had bad luck in London in September 2021 upon her return to reviewing

China is expected to increase spending on its defense budget in 2022. The Global Times, a tabloid newspaper owned and operated by the Chinese Communist Party, said, “Ahead of China’s announcement of its defense budget for 2022, analysts and observers predict that the country will likely continue to steadily increase its military expenditure, at a

Fast food giants McDonald’s and PepsiCo are facing calls to cut business ties with Russia in response to the invasion of Ukraine. Insider reported that Thomas DiNapoli, the New York state comptroller, urged American companies to rethink their preexisting business relationships with Russia because they face “significant and growing legal, compliance, operational, human rights and

On Sunday’s Meet the Press on NBC, political director Chuck Todd regretted the fact that during his State of the Union address, President Joe Biden didn’t make the connection between the war in Ukraine and the fight for voting rights in the United States.  After complaining about Biden’s State of the Union speech not getting the

Do you ever just sit and think about what’s going on in the world right now and wonder why things are playing out the way they are? Donald Trump insists that Russia wouldn’t have invaded Ukraine if he had still been president. Most Americans agree, and Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy even blames Biden for the

Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Sunday that NATO member nations are allowed to send fighter jets to Ukraine as the United States and its allies continue to provide assistance to Ukraine in the midst of the ongoing Russian invasion. Blinken said on CBS’ “Face the Nation,” on Sunday, that NATO allies sending fight

While speaking to members of the Ukrainian community in Canada on Friday, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spoke of “slippage” in democracies across the globe, saying that nations have been embracing “slightly more authoritarian leaders.” Trudeau said that, “we see a bit of a slippage in our democracies,” with nations “turning towards slightly more authoritarian