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By John Whitehead Twenty years ago, a newspaper headline asked the question, “What’s the difference between a politician and a psychopath?” The answer, then and now, remains the same: None. In my opinion, there is no difference between psychopaths and politicians. Nor is there much of a difference between the havoc wreaked on innocent lives by uncaring, unfeeling, selfish, irresponsible, parasitic criminals and elected officials who lie to their constituents, trade political favors for ca...

AP Photo/Mark Lennihan It’s very rare in this day and age to come across a “straight news” reporter – especially one who writes for a national outlet – who does not ultimately end up revealing their liberal bias in some way. We see it on a daily basis with the cast of characters at media outlets like CNN and MSNBC, where being rabidly liberal and “woke” appears to be a non-negotiable requirement for landing a reporting job. Some journalists are more discreet about their biases, on...

Why Fox News Has Mostly Ignored Carlson’s NSA ‘Surveillance’ Complaints Tucker Carlsons week-old claim that the National Security Agency is illegally "monitoring" his "electronic communications and is planning to leak them in an attempt to take this show off the air" finally made it to another Fox program when he gave an interview to Fox Business Maria Bartiromo on Wednesday. The Fox stars incendiary allegation last Monday night had brought widespread news coverage, a rar...

feed to stay on top of the news. Although 53 percent say it is never or rarely acceptable to perform Blackface, the figures show that 32 percent of Democrats believe Blackface is always or sometimes OK. Sixty-three percent of Republicans are OK with Blackface, compared to 32 percent of Democrats.  White respondents are 39 percent OK with Blackface, and the second largest ethnic group to think Blackface is OK is Latinos, at 26 percent. Nineteen percent of Black respondents thought Blackface...

Yesterday in Seattle a May Day, anti-capitalism protest turned violent. A number of police officers were injured, one hit by a Molotov cocktail. Some protesters were arrested, but nothing will really happen to them. In California and Indiana, protests included young children. Now protesting can be a good thing, think Boston Tea Party. But its how you do it. Certainly some voting for Donald Trump are protesting, but they are using the ballot. Some on the far left, however, want to destroy, not p...

If you have issues with Sidney Powell and wild claims about the 2020 Presidential election, you should be similarly concerned about Neera Tanden.

AP Photo/Frank Franklin II We reported earlier on Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Instagram Live chat from last night where she made some pretty astonishing claims about what she says happened to her during the Capitol riots last month. The second-term Congresswoman otherwise known as AOC went on for some 90 minutes alleging, among other things, that she didn’t have a good feeling about the Capitol police officer who came to her office to urge her and her staff to go to another building fur...

Companies that will cancel innocent 1-6 congresspeople The lying media is still claiming Trump “whipped the mob into a frenzy” on January 6th despite the fact that the riot was preplanned. There was nothing in Trump’s speech that would encourage a riot. Even his rants about the corrupt election couldn’t come close to some of the things said by Pelosi, Schumer, Waters, and many others, especially in the media. The media has also conflated the rioters and their actions with Republicans in...

Lincoln Project Teams Up With Billionaires, Left-Wing Activists to Punish GOP, Elect More Democrats Andrew Stiles • January 12, 2021 4:05 pm SHARE The Lincoln Project, a left-wing super PAC founded by minor internet celebrities, wants to remind its rich liberal donors that Donald Trumps defeat in the 2020 election doesnt mean they should stop giving money to the Lincoln Project. Last year, the super PAC spent almost $12 million in an effort to unseat seven incumbent GOP senators, going 0 for ...

AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File Throughout the weekend numerous multinational corporations have announced the suspension of political contributions either in total or to Republicans who voted to object to certification of Electoral College votes. Among the least surprising is Marriott International, which has been a China apologist since the beginning of the Wuhan flu pandemic. According to Business Insider, a Marriott spokesperson said in an email: “We have taken the destructive events at t...