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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 campaign contributions, turn a blind eye to the wishes of the electorate, cheat taxpayers out of hard-...

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, only occasionally giving glimpses of them on social media, while others are out in the open and unasha...

Why Fox News Has Mostly Ignored Carlson’s NSA ‘Surveillance’ Complaints Tucker Carlson's 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 star's incendiary allegation last Monday night had brought widespread news coverage, a rare denial from the NSA, and demands for investigations from congressional Republicans, including H...

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 is OK, making them the least tolerant of the historically racist practice. According to Think Progr...

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 it's 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 protest. The subversives in Seattle were organized and planned their mayhem. But again, the local sy...