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MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell or Planned Parenthood’s Andrea Mitchell? It’s hard to tell sometimes. On her Friday show on MSNBC, Andrea Mitchell welcomed California Rep. Jackie Speier to discuss the House passing a bill that would prohibit any restrictions on abortion. Speaking in a solemn tone the host declared that pro-lifers, especially men, just don’t get it
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What a week for phony media narratives. In the aftermath of the botched Afghanistan withdrawal, I had a glimmer of hope that the media had suddenly released that they could act like journalists and not Democratic Party activists. Sadly, however, their brief dalliance with semi-objective journalism was short-lived. This week alone, there were three huge
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Pulse-pounding video shows the moment that a shootout erupted between police officers and three armed men in Orlando, Florida. “Two officers in clothing marked ‘Police’ happened to pull through an intersection where 3 armed males were on bicycles,” the Orlando Police Department said of the incident on Tuesday afternoon. “The officers were not looking for
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YouTube is reportedly angling for channels with hunting and fishing videos in its latest censorship hunt. Several YouTubers with channels focused on hunting and fishing said that sporting channels are being randomly demonetized with vague allegations such as “animal cruelty,” according to Reclaim The Net. The YouTubers reportedly stated the platform has not clearly explained
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A new scientific discovery in modern-day Tall el-Hammam is being touted as potential evidence of God’s destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah as described in the Bible. What are the details? In a research paper published in Nature magazine this week, titled, “A Tunguska sized airburst destroyed Tall el-Hammam a Middle Bronze Age city in the
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Al Sharpton attempted to deliver a press conference regarding the border migrant encampment Thursday afternoon in Del Rio, Texas. However, Texans sternly heckled Sharpton and ruined his presser. Sharpton toured the encampment of migrants, mostly from Haiti, along the Del Rio International Bridge at the U.S. southern border on Thursday. Sharpton called the encampment “heartbreaking,”
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Famous conservative commentator John Stossel reportedly filed suit against Facebook for placing fact-check labels on his videos.  Stossel declared via Twitter that “Facebook and ‘fact checking’ activists at a group called Climate Feedback claimed I pushed misleading information – but I never made the claim they said I did! Even after pointing it out to
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Susan Glasser says it’s not too early for Democrats to start panicking about Presidentish Joe Biden in this week’s The New Yorker magazine. And she’s not alone among the lefty BosWash chattering class. For anyone paying attention to the semi-official mouthpieces of official Washington this week, it’s been impossible not to notice that the Establishment
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Authorities have arrested a black former Emory University employee after he was accused of writing the N-word and drawing swastikas on the exterior of the university’s autism center in August. The university in Atlanta, Georgia, is said to have repeatedly dodged questions about the former employee’s race in the weeks following the incident. What are
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Apple has banned Fortnite, a popular video game among teens, from its app store. Fortnite was banned after it launched its own in-app payment system, bypassing Apple’s system. Apple charges a whopping 30% commission on in-app purchases, a hefty price for apps that operate in the app store. While a judge ruled in September that
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The very best — or at least the very longest — VIP Gold Live Chat in the entire Salem digital media empire returns this week at the same Bat-time, same Bat-channel. So join Stephen Kruiser, Your Friendly Neighborhood VodkaPundit (me!), and a brand-new/super-secret victim guest for our patented Seat of Uncomfortable Ecstasy. Pour yourself a
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A federal court in Wyoming issued an arrest warrant for the fiancé of Gabby Petito over alleged fraudulent use of her debit card after her death, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The FBI made the announcement on Thursday as law enforcement officials continued their massive manhunt for Brian Laundrie in a swampy natural
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The U.S. special envoy to Haiti resigned over what he called “inhumane” deportations of Haitian migrants and accused the Biden administration of ignoring his suggestions. Daniel Foote blasted the administration in his resignation letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken, which was first obtained by PBS Newshour. “I will not be associated with the United
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A hip ”Christian pastor” offers a parable about “opium dick,” a pop star who “listens to God” offers sex to high schoolers as an academic prize, and a pretentious teen gives philosophical justifications for prostitution in FX on Hulu’s latest episode of The Premise. The convoluted new episode of the anthology series, ‘The Ballad of Jesse Wheeler,’
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Rep. Ted Deutch of Florida passionately pushed back on Thursday after fellow Democrat Rep. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan described the nation of Israel as an apartheid state when she spoke in opposition to a measure to provide $1 billion in funding for Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system. “We cannot ta— be talking only about
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Taliban figure Mullah Nooruddin Turabi told the Associated Press during an interview that executions and hand amputations will return under the group’s rule in Afghanistan. “Cutting off of hands is very necessary for security,” Turabi said, stating that it had a deterrent impact, according to the outlet, which also reported that he said the Cabinet
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More school districts have moved to mandate COVID-19 vaccinations for students ages 12 and older. Oakland Unified School District issued a press release announcing that at a Wednesday Board of Education meeting the directors voted 5-1, with one abstention, in support of a vaccine mandate for students 12 and above. The mandate will not take
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The House select committee tasked with investigating the Jan. 6 rioting at the U.S. Capitol issued subpoenas to former aides to former President Donald Trump. The subpoenas were issued Thursday to Mark Meadows, former White House chief of staff, Steve Bannon, former Trump advisor, Dan Scavino, a former communications director, and Kashyap Patel, former Defense
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The Biden presidency is perhaps the most consequential “We told you so!” moment in American political history. Biden supporters said his many years of experience and willingness to compromise made him the right guy for the job after the norm-crushing presidency of Donald Trump. Joe Biden, they said, would restore our alliances with other nations,
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One might argue — in these days of perpetual outrage — that the squeaky wheel indeed gets the grease. Well, as long as it’s the right kind of wheel. What happened? Seems a speaker linked to gay conversion therapy was part of a Christian conference held at Worcester College in the United Kingdom earlier this
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