A day after not one reporter called on during Wednesday’s White House press briefing brought up newly-released e-mails from Dr. Tony Fauci, three reporters stepped up on Thursday’s episode to ask Press Secretary Jen Psaki about the damning e-mails from the early days of the coronavirus pandemic and, on a related note, investigating the origins
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The annus horribilis of 2020 has seamlessly transformed into the annus horribilis of 2021 for conservatives. Sure, COVID-19 lockdowns seem permanently on their way out, thanks in no small part to former President Donald Trump’s vaccine production in Operation Warp Speed. Yet Democratic control of the White House, the House of Representatives, and the U.S.
Three police officers were “pummeled” Tuesday by a “mob” that “kicked” and “choked” them in Newark, New Jersey, NJ.com reported. The incident reportedly occurred during an arrest attempt, the outlet said. What are the details? Newark Public Safety Director Brian O’Hara told NJ.com that two city officers and a detective from the Essex County Prosecutor’s
Mark Cuban’s Dallas Mavericks stopped playing the national anthem before their NBA home games in February, in what is believed to be the first professional sports team to ban “The Star-Spangled Banner” before games. Texas Republicans were dismayed that the Mavericks wouldn’t play the national anthem before their games, so they hit back at Cuban
This is probably obvious advice by now, but no one, and we mean NO ONE, should be modeling their parenting skills off of Hollywood celebrities. As part of their “Pride Month” edition, People Magazine interviewed bisexual Brooklyn Nine-Nine actress Stephanie Beatriz about her heterosexual marriage and being pregnant. And, as it seems to be all
Putting together Wednesday’s Insanity Wrap was such a painful experience — you’ll see why at this handy link — that I’m afraid I’m going to have to go out and drink my lunch before I get back to writing today’s VIP column. So instead of a witty introduction to Thursday’s live chat with Bryan Preston,
Journalist Andy Ngo said he was recently chased and beaten in the streets of Portland while he was covering protests in Portland, Oregon. “No journalist in America should ever face violence for doing his or her job,” Ngo said in a statement released on Wednesday night. “Yet on Friday, May 28, Antifa tried to kill
Far-left Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau could barely contain his excitement as he described the “amazing feeling” of receiving his COVID-19 vaccine shot during an interview with ET Canada earlier this week. “You know, it’s amazing, because we were talking about how important it was for everyone to get vaccinated and what a big deal
Chris Pratt is one of the few current Hollywood megastars that actually shows gratitude for America and the sacrifices that brave men throughout history have made in order to preserve it. He also recognizes the lack of gratitude shown towards these heroes for their ultimate sacrifice and recently used social media to remind people that
When the Soviets put the first artificial satellite, Sputnik, into orbit, it rattled America right to our foundations — and our response to the Soviet challenge was as devastating over the long run as it was swift. We face a similar challenge from Communist China today, and our response has been less than “Meh.” Before
On a recent episode of “The Rubin Report,” BlazeTV host host Dave Rubin shared the results from a Pew survey that shows over 50% of white, liberal women under the age of 30 reported that a doctor or other healthcare professional had diagnosed them with a mental health condition. Why are liberal white women reporting
President Joe Biden bitterly disappointed some activists after he neglected to mention slavery reparations in a major speech he gave this week on racial violence in America and steps his administration is taking to reduce racial inequities. Biden also privately downplayed expectations on advancing reparations for slavery for black Americans through Congress, according to a
CNN senior political analyst and self-proclaimed “reality checker” John Avlon joined CNN Newsroom hosts Jim Sciutto and Poppy Harlow on Tuesday to allege that democracy is in great peril because Republicans are terrible and the election laws they are trying to pass in places like Texas are similar to literal race massacres. Speaking of H.R. 1 and
California has gone to hell. Homelessness and violence have spiked. Civil liberties and businesses have been destroyed in the name of “COVID safety.” Children have been brainwashed with racist critical race theory. And yet, Democrats want to use California as the test model for the entire country. Your state and your town are next. They
The crisis at the border continues to worsen, with the U.S. Border Patrol recently releasing some shocking statistics that illuminate just how bad the situation has become. But Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) is doing everything he can to prevent any additional unlawful crossings into the Lone Star State. Abbott joined Glenn Beck on the
On Tuesday night’s episode of The Last Word, MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell spent the first segment of his show marking the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa, Oklahoma race riots by claiming Republicans do not believe all Americans are created equal. The left-wing shill opened by saying: “President Biden described what he called a truly unprecedented
Katie Hill, the California Democrat who resigned from Congress over leaked nonconsensual nude photos, was ordered to pay over $200,000 in legal fees to the Daily Mail and two conservative journalists she sued. Hill has claimed that she was the victim of a right wing conspiracy to oust her from Congress. She resigned in 2019
Conservative venture capitalists are investing in Rumble, a new video platform designed to be an alternative to YouTube. The website has recently reached an agreement with venture capitalists Peter Thiel and J.D. Vance to invest in the service and grow its reach and expand into live-streaming. Many on the right have complained that YouTube used
On Wednesday night, NewsNation fill-in host and former Fox News correspondent Leland Vittert did what few national news outlets have done in subjecting the NIH’s Dr. Tony Fauci to a challenging interview. In this case, he focused on this week’s dump of thousands of Fauci e-mails from the early days of the coronavirus pandemic that
It’s been a month since Donald Trump launched his blog, “From the Desk of Donald J. Trump” and the blog is already no longer. The blog—if you can even call it that—has been removed from the site completely. The blog was reportedly part of a strategy to get around his permanent bans from social media.
A group of amateur sleuths on the internet is being credited for much of the work that forced mainstream scientists and the media to acknowledge the possibility of the lab leak theory after months of skepticism and ridicule. The group dubbed itself DRASTIC, an acronym for Decentralized Radical Autonomous Search Team Investigating COVID-19. “Without the
Liberal news outlet Vox News got lambasted on social media over a headline proclaiming that they were mystified about the rise of anti-Semitic attacks during the latest war between Israel and Hamas. The tweet of the Vox article from Zach Beauchamp read, “Violent anti-Semitism spiked in America during the Israel-Hamas war. And we don’t know
Thanks to the use of the Freedom of Information Act, on Wednesday, the American people now had access to Dr. Anthony Fauci’s e-mails and revelations that he knew the National Institutes of Health may have funded gain-of-function research for coronaviruses, that COVID-19 may have come from a lab, and that masks didn’t work. And in
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House Republicans have begun the first congressional inquiry into the Department of Health and Human Services’ apparent failure to review research grants of American taxpayer dollars that funded the bat coronavirus research at a lab in Wuhan, China. House Judiciary Committee ranking member Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and Wisconsin Republican Rep. Mike Gallagher on Wednesday
Iran’s largest warship, the Kharg, sank after catching fire in the early hours Wednesday morning, Sky News reported. According to the Associated Press, the 679-foot ship sank despite firefighters’ valiant efforts to contain the blaze. Iran’s largest navy warship has sunk in the Gulf of Oman after catching fire https://t.co/eIVeUufWYQ — Sky News (@Sky News)1622646444.0
Free speech online is an issue that should concern everyone, regardless of political persuasion. To combat the issue, several executives have started an organization to stand up against Big Tech censorship. The First and Fourteenth Institute (FAFI) claimed to advocate for free speech online, despite the different political leanings of its founders, including one blatant
It’s hard to believe, but we’re going on six months of the Joe Biden presidency. Depending on how you look at it, the time has either flown by or felt like an utter eternity. Put me down for the latter camp. I had low expectations of Slow Joe going in. Politics interested me since I
A video posted on social media by a black father and his young daughter dismissing critical race theory and encouraging others to respect one another regardless of their race has garnered more than 1 million views online. The viral video, first posted by Kory Yeshua on his TikTok channel, has drawn viral interest for its
UFC star Colby Covington hit out at “piece of crap” NBA heavyweight LeBron James during a recent podcast interview with Steve Bannon, eviscerating the Los Angeles Lakers star for his hypocrisy. What are the details? During an interview on “Bannon’s War Room,” Covington said that he refuses to be silenced when it comes to speaking