In December 2018 South African lawmakers passed a proposal to change the country’s constitution to make land grabs legal. The government voted in agreement to take land from white farmers without compensation. This same plan turned South Africa’s neighbor Zimbabwe from a state of plenty to a starving failed state. The parliament sang before voting
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(Pixabay) Challenges to the liberal order can be met with wide-ranging policy reforms. In a fortuitous one-two punch, David Brooks and Francis Fukuyama last week published pieces examining challenges to the liberal order. Writing in The Atlantic, Brooks looked at declining levels of social trust and the potential for a shift in ethos from a
On Saturday Joe Biden held a small rally with about 12-20 people in Erie, Pennsylvania, including staff. Here’s a screenshot from the Saturday rally. During his speech AP reporter Carolyn Castor took this photo of the former Vice President. Advertisement – story continues below The photos posted in the Boston Globe for a short time
Joe Biden’s refusal to answer the straightforward question of whether he would, if elected, knuckle under to the daft court-packing scheme demanded by the progressive wing of his party is the Biden style in toto: dishonest, cowardly, and self-serving. His rationale — Gosh, people might criticize me for either … Read More
According to Axios there is growing speculation that Joe Biden is looking at “Killer” Andrew Cuomo as his Attorney General. Or as a backup he’s looking at crazy Stacey Abrams who has been playing pretend governor since she got shellacked in 2018. “Buzz grows around New York Governor Andrew Cuomo as Joe Biden’s attorney general
Joe Biden’s refusal to answer the straightforward question of whether he would, if elected, knuckle under to the daft court-packing scheme demanded by the progressive wing of his party is the Biden style in toto: dishonest, cowardly, and self-serving. His rationale — Gosh, people might criticize me for either … Read More
Young Madison Cawthorn is a rising star in the Republican Party.The 25-year-old gave an amazing speech at the RNC where he stood up from his wheelchair in support of his country and the US Constitution. On Saturday morning Madison Cawthorn’s home was vandalized by the violent left. Cawthorn posted several photos of the local destruction
Downtown Denver skyline, 2017 (Rick Wilking/Reuters) One person was shot and killed in Denver on Saturday after opposing rallies between far-right and far-left groups turned violent, police said. A local news station’s private security guard was in custody Saturday evening in connection with the shooting of a man who was a part of a pro-police
Joe Biden on Saturday evening told reporters he was going to accept the outcome of the 2020 election “without any questions.” Earlier on Saturday Biden told supporters at a stop in Erie, Pennsylvania, “The only way we lose this is by the chicanery going on with regard to polling places.” Biden later clarified his comments
Former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden depart after a pre-inauguration church service in Washington, D.C., January 18, 2009. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) Hunter Biden’s former business parter will face sentencing in a fraud case after a federal appeals court on Wednesday reinstated his conviction. Devon Archer, a longtime business associate of Joe Biden’s son, was
Shepard Smith caused a media stir earlier this year when he abruptly resigned from his show on the FOX News network. FOX News viewers didn’t mind much. Shep was one of the most liberal hosts on the channel. Now he has launched a new show on CNBC, but so far it doesn’t look like the
Judge Amy Coney Barrett attends a meeting with Senator Kevin Cramer (R., N.D.) on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., October 1, 2020. (Erin Scott/Reuters) Many modest pro-life laws are more popular than Senate Democrats themselves. President Trump’s nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court has pro-abortion Senate Democrats in a real quandary. Late
Greta Thunberg endorsed Joe Biden for president on Saturday. The 17-year-old Swedish climate change student posted her endorsement on Twitter. Thunberg followed with a retweet of a progressive activist who said the left would force Biden to ban fracking and enact the Green New Deal if wins the November election. Greta Thunberg’s latest campaign, Face
(nirat/Getty Images) Cameron Hilditch, inspired by the Times Higher Education‘s World University Rankings for 2021, writes that conservatives should show more gratitude and less scorn for America’s elite higher education institutions. Having just graduated from No. 19 on the list, I agree with his larger point, but dissent from parts of his argument. Advertisement “There
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has stated that voters do not deserve to know whether he will pack the Supreme Court if he wins the election in November. On Friday, Biden was asked by 13 Action News Anchor Ross DiMattei if voters deserve to know if he plans to pack the court, a question that
Sen. Mike Lee (R., Utah) asks questions of James Comey before the Senate Judiciary Committee in Washington, D.C., September 30, 2020. (Ken Cedeno/Reuters) Senator Mike Lee tweeted, “Democracy isn’t the objective; liberty, peace, and [prosperity] are. We want the human condition to flourish. Rank democracy can thwart that.” Oren Cass responded, “Likewise, free markets aren’t
On Thursday President Trump told Sean Hannity that polling numbers from Ohio and Iowa show a strong Trump lead. The president is pulling ads out of the states and is not planning any rallies in the two battleground states. Trump campaign spokeswoman Samantha Zager added, “President Trump and his campaign are extremely confident about our chances
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo speaks at a daily briefing at North Shore University Hospital during the coronavirus outbreak in Manhasset, N.Y., May 6, 2020. (Brendan McDermid/Reuters) Not Dead Yet and other disability rights organizations have filed a class action lawsuit against New York governor Andrew Cuomo alleging illegal discrimination in a plan formulated by
Officer Joseph Mensah was not charged with murder in the death of Alvin Cole after the district attorney reviewed all evidence from dashcams and interviews. The dashcam footage revealed that Cole refused to cooperate with the police while brandishing an illegally acquired firearm. John Chisholm, Milwaukee County District Attorney said, “What took some time on
Nearly 50,000 incorrect absentee ballots were sent out in Franklin County, Ohio, according to elections officials. An unknown person reportedly “accidentally” changed the setting on a device that puts the absentee ballots into envelopes, causing 50,000 incorrect ballots to be sent out. President Trump responded to the news: “Out of control. A Rigged Election!” Breaking
Dr. Anthony Fauci testifies during a Senate Committee Hearing in Washington, D.C., September 23, 2020. (Graeme Jennings/Reuters) Dr. Anthony Fauci on Friday called the White House’s ceremony for Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett a “super-spreader event” for the coronavirus after the president and a number of attendees tested positive for the virus in its aftermath.
Guest post by Lawrence Sellin Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Chinese Communist Party supported by some Western scientists and a politically-motivated media have desperately tried to convince the world that the COVID-19 virus originated as a bat beta-coronavirus which underwent a natural mutation process and was then acquired by humans after exposure
John Lydon, punk icon front man of the Sex Pistols and Public Image Ltd., told the BBC in an interview that aired Thursday he is voting for President Trump in November’s presidential election, saying the Democrats have destroyed his home state of California. Lydon immigrated from the United Kingdom years ago and became a U.S.
Well, I’m really tempting fate with this one, aren’t I? Kamala Harris, who is likely to be the vice president of the United States come this January, will enter the 2028 (or perhaps even the 2024) Democratic primary as a, if not the, frontrunner. After all, many thought her one in 2020, and four to
Former Acting DNI and Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell was locked out of Twitter on Thursday. Ric Grenell tweeted a warning about voter fraud. So Twitter locked him out. Grenell shared an image of ballots sent to him by a friend living in California, who says they were addressed to his parents — who he
NYPD officers speak with Ultra-Orthodox Jews in the Borough Park neighborhood of Brooklyn, N.Y., October 7, 2020. (Yuki Iwamura/Reuters) Two religious groups filed suit against the state of New York on Thursday to protest new restrictions on worship in coronavirus clusters in parts of New York. While New York has seen low coronavirus spread throughout
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) announced she will be holding a press conference Friday morning with Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) to announce legislation to create a 25th Amendment Congressional commission. The 25th Amendment authorizes such a committee to be formed by Congress to study whether to remove the President, in this case President
NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE T oday, Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell said: “I haven’t actually been to the White House since August the 6th. Because my impression was that their approach to how to handle this is different from mine and what I suggested that we do in the Senate, which is to wear a mask
Rioters in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, are now smashing windows at homes. It is unclear why they decided to smash the windows of people’s homes, a clear escalation from what we have seen in previous riots. The homes they targeted did not even appear to have any political signs. At least one of the rioters is armed
NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE T he left’s favorite idea for reforming Obamacare is a government-sponsored plan — a “public option” — that would compete against private insurers. Lawmakers introduced several public option bills earlier this year, and presidential candidate Joe Biden has embraced the concept. Proponents claim that government-sponsored plans will charge lower premiums than private