Defending Capitalism: Part I

Posted on June 16, 2021 by Dan Mitchell – for The Center for Freedom and Prosperity I was a big fan of (and occasional guest on) John Stossel’s TV show, and I’m now a big fan of his videos (see here, here, here, here, here, here, and here). So it was an honor to appear in his latest video about “Capitalism Myths.” It’s a two-part series. […]

Defending Captialism: Part II

Posted on June 22, 2021 by Dan Mitchell In the first video, we discussed three myths about free enterprise. Myth #1 – Capitalists get rich by ‘taking’ money from others. Myth #2 – The rich getting richer, and the poor getting poorer. Myth #3 – Monopolies destroyed the free market. Here are the final four myths. […]

Capitalism Makes Us Better Off

John Stossel | Posted: Jun 23, 2021 12:01 AM – for Townhall.com Last week, I debunked three myths about capitalism. Here are four more: Myth No. 4: Capitalism creates unsafe workspaces. “Greedy capitalists” will risk workers’ lives to increase production if government, through agencies such as the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, or OSHA, doesn’t […]

LPD: Women arrested after stealing $1,400 worth of items from Menards

By 10/11 NOW Published: Jun. 23, 2021 at 11:23 AM UTC|Updated: 27 minutes ago LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) – Two women are facing shoplifting charges stemming from incidents throughout the last year. The Lincoln Police Department arrested 30-year-old Morgan Newsom and 40-year-old Alisha Wilson. On January 31, were dispatched to Menards off N 27th Street for […]

If America Is So Racist, Why Are There So Many Race Hoaxes?

By Dennis Prager – July 20, 2020 – 7 min read – on Creators.com My cmnt: I have another post on this site about race hoaxes and hate crime laws. The Left in this country and the world does not really care about poverty, equality, the environment nor race. Yet they use these hot-bottom issues to […]

Bill Maher Says College Is A Scam Just Like Scientology

By Michael Haskoor @Tweetskoor Jun 5, 2021 at 11:26am – for Decider.com My cmnt: Maher is right again. College, especially in the liberal arts, is a waste of money and time. The list of worthless degrees grows longer every year. The dumbing down of college is the natural result of full-ride scholarships for athletes who would not be […]

Bill Maher Blasts Young Progressives: ‘The Problem Is That Your Ideas Are Stupid’

By KYLE SMITH – April 26, 2021 – for National Review On HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher Friday night, Maher showed once again that he is the only late-night comic who is willing to say things his liberal audience probably doesn’t want to hear. In the course of lavishing praise on President Biden, whom he described as […]

‘White Lie’ professor Jessica Krug exposes the fallacy of identity politics

The most shocking thing about the Jessica Krug scandal is that people are shocked by it.

Jessica Krug, Rachel Dolezal and America’s white women who want to be Black

Identities are tricky. They can be assigned to us — and sometimes we assert them. They are socially constructed, but they’re not entirely fictive.

Rachel Dolezal: ‘I’m not going to stoop and apologize and grovel’

Two years ago, she was a respected black rights activist and teacher. Then she was exposed as a white woman who had deceived almost everyone she knew. Why did she do it? By Decca Aitkenhead Sat 25 Feb 2017 04.00 EST – for The Guardian Rachel Dolezal: ‘I began to see the world through black […]

Rachel Dolezal, who posed as black, ‘vindicated’ by Black Lives Matter movement

By Jon Levine – July 4, 2020 – for The New York Post She still sees herself as black — and yearns to play a role in the push for racial equality. But Rachel Dolezal, the white woman who claimed to be African-American in 2015, sparking a national scandal, shrugs off the years of shaming that […]

Roadwork ahead: Joe Biden’s electric vehicle future heading for huge potholes

By Haris Alic June 2, 2021 – for News Daylight My cmnt: All right enough of this nonsense. Electric cars are NOT the future. In typical democrat, Lib-think they kick a problem down the road and consider it solved. The first problem is electricity generation. Libs hate both coal and natural gas and nuclear powered […]

Liberal vs. Leftist

What’s the difference between a liberal and a leftist? By Dennis Prager for Prager U on Facebook This question stumps most people because they think liberal and left are essentially the same. But they’re not. In fact, liberalism and leftism have almost nothing in common. But the left has appropriated the word “liberal” so effectively […]

Photo essay: Biden voters protest and riot in Lincoln

My cmnt: Propagandized, guilty, white college educated young women believe everything fed to them by the MSM and the democratic party in the bubble they live in. They will never protest actual violence against black people in this country perpetrated by abortion and black-on-black riots, crime, shootings and murder in democrat-run cities with the strictest […]

A costly night of violence, vandalism and chaos tops $10 million in damages

My cmnt: I’ve been to dozens of completely peaceful Pro-Life protests (except for the counter protesters using bullhorns to yell in our faces) in Lincoln over the decades. We clean up after ourselves, are compliant with police orders, march prayerfully and quietly, have permits, and most of us are Republicans. My cmnt: During the ‘summer […]

Lincoln mauled: One night of crime, more than $10 million in damage

By Peter Salter Jun 3, 2020 Updated Mar 26, 2021 – for The Lincoln Journal Star The glass-fronted office building near 14th and H streets should be busier this week, filled with some of the 20 staffers of the Nebraska Association of County Officials. They should be there tweaking software for county assessors, fielding questions from far-flung […]

Warrant out for Lincoln man accused of smashing windows while dressed as Deadpool during riots

By Lori Pilger Nov 20, 2020 Updated Dec 31, 2020 – for the Lincoln Journal Star A warrant has gone out for the arrest of a 25-year-old Lincoln man, wanted in connection to nearly $17,000 in damage to windows along Lincoln Mall early May 31. Police say the destruction was caught on video, the man […]

Revisiting Lincoln racial justice demonstrations, riots 6 months later

Lincoln Journal Star Dec 7, 2020 Updated Apr 20, 2021 Shot fired amid the criminal chaos of May 30, 2020 nearly hits Lincoln officer Lori Pilger Dec 2, 2020 Updated Feb 24, 2021 My cmnt: I will keep this brief as I’ve posted much about this already on this site. The original sin of the […]

LPD: AR rifle found with teens during traffic stop, driver arrested

By 10/11 NOW Published: May. 27, 2021 at 10:02 AM UTC|Updated: 3 hours ago LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) – A Lincoln woman was arrested on a weapons charge and child abuse during a traffic stop with six teenagers inside her vehicle, according to the Lincoln Police Department. LPD said an SUV, which frequented a home under […]

47 shot, 9 killed amid bloody weekend in Mayor Lightfoot’s Chicago

By David Aaro | Fox News – May 24, 2021 – for Fox News online At least nine people have been killed and dozens more injured in shootings across Chicago this past weekend, police confirmed. In all, 36 separate shooting incidents unfolded across the city from Friday evening through Sunday, police said, adding that 47 people were shot, of […]

Whatever happened to the White Athlete?

By S.L. PRICE – Dec 8, 1997 – Sports Illustrated archives What do you do for a living?” Each time Kevin Little hears the question, he suffers a small crisis. He would love to say straight out, “I run fast. I am a sprinter.” But Little is tired of facing disbelief, tired of the skeptical […]

The NFL’s Racial Divide

Teams don’t consciously build rosters based on race, it just ends up that way BY JASON REID AND JANE MCMANUS for The Undefeated It really seems ludicrous coming from Christian McCaffrey, one of college football’s most decorated players over the last two seasons. Yet there he was at the NFL combine last month, explaining he hasn’t gotten his due. “A […]

Is it in the Genes?

STUDIES HAVE FOUND PHYSICAL DIFFERENCES THAT MIGHT HELP EXPLAIN WHY BLACKS OUTPERFORM WHITES IN CERTAIN SPORTS–BUT SCIENTISTS ARE WARY OF JUMPING TO CONCLUSIONS By S.L. PRICE – Dec 8, 1997 – Sports Illustrated archives The best athletes on the planet are black. Stop the conversationright there and few will argue the point. It’s always the […]

Caleb Kennedy ousted from ‘American Idol’ following controversial social media post

By By George Costantino for Good Morning America ABC – May 13, 2021 My cmnt: Here we have the Cancel Culture rearing its ugly head once again. This 16 year old boy posted a 3 second video when he was TWELVE. He is not even doing what the MSM and hysterical, hypocritical loony left are accusing […]

Video shows wild beatdown at Little Caesars in Georgia

By Joshua Rhett Miller and Sam Raskin – May 18, 2021 – for The New York Post The savage beatdown of a woman in a Little Caesars in Georgia was caught on video — showing the suspect dragging the victim out of the pizza shop by her hair and a toddler jumping in to stop the fight. The […]

Michelle Malkin: Get Up Off Your Knees

Michelle Malkin – 06/02/2020 – for V Dare Dear law-abiding Americans: You have done nothing wrong. Being white is not a crime. Being a Trump voter is not a crime. Being a police officer sworn to “protect and serve” every day is not a crime. Being a non-white police officer proud to uphold and enforce law and order is not a crime. […]

Transgender Golfer Sets Sights on Competing in LPGA

By PENNY STARR 17 May 2021 – for Breitbart news Hailey Davidson is being touted as a transgender woman who could be the first to play professional golf with the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) after winning a mini-tour competing against biological women. Hope for playing on the pro circuit were boosted after the United […]

Not So Woke: NFL Brain Injury Lawsuit Claims Black Men Have Lower Cognitive Skills than White Men

By WARNER TODD HUSTON – 17 May 2021 – for Breitbart.news Critics of the National Football League claim that black players are unfairly excluded in receiving payouts from the $1 billion brain injury settlement fund because the league has weighted the scoring system it uses to determine who gets how much of the settlement. The […]

MINNEAPOLIS VS. THE EVIDENCE

April 7, 2021 by Ann Coulter Apparently, no one is watching the trial of Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer on trial for the murder of George Floyd. Otherwise, the media couldn’t get away with their spectacular lying to the public about how the prosecution is killing it. It’s quite the opposite. In fact, in […]

White Liberals Tell Black Lies About Civil Rights

February 13, 2013 by Ann Coulter My cmnt: The so-called “Southern Strategy” (i.e., the racist whites of the democratic party were allegedly turned into Republicans by President Ronald Reagan) is debunked here and in her book Mugged. The democratic party has ALWAYS been the home of slavery and racism (now continued by democrat-run ghettos in all […]

‘My Mom Said You Guys Have To Let Me Play,’ Defiant Colin Kaepernick Tells Kids Playing Flag Football At Park

December 3rd, 2019 – BabylonBee.com My cmnt: I’ve taken the liberty of making this funnier than the original Bee post. RIVERDALE, GA—Shortly after his workout video plan failed, free agent Colin Kaepernick took a walk around town to clear his mind. Luckily, Kaepernick stumbled upon a pickup game of flag football some kids were playing […]

Obama and Me: How I Knew Obama Was a Bad Guy Before Anyone Else

Wayne Allyn Root|Posted: May 17, 2020 12:01 AM – for Townhall.com I’ve been writing about “Obama the bad guy” for many years. I was the first to name former President Barack Obama the head of the Obama crime family. I coined the phrase “Obamagate” to describe his reign of crimes against candidate and then President […]

Billie Eilish’s Jarring New Vogue Cover Is A Window Into Gen Z’s Struggle With Sex

Billie Eilish resonates with her generation because she reflects it, giving the girls of Generation Z an aesthetic balm for the sting of influencer-era pressures and feminist confusion. By Emily Jashinsky MAY 4, 2021 – for The Federalist Click this link to watch a fascinating interview with the author of: Irreversible Damage: The transgender craze seducing our […]

At Least 26 Shot Mother’s Day Weekend in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s Chicago

By AWR HAWKINS – 10 May 2021 – for Breitbart.news My cmnt: I have posted several of these columns on this website previously. We are trying to draw public attention to the blatant, disgusting hypocrisy of the Left by showcasing a corrupt, democrat-run (for about 100 years) city that cares not at all that blacks […]

A Plan To End Police Shootings

April 28, 2021 by Ann Coulter My cmnt: When I was growing up in the 50s & 60s most of my peers and of course our parents had a lot of respect for the local police. Policemen, there were no policewomen then, were usually tall, big men whose very present commanded respect. An officer lived […]

Oscars Viewers Drop 58% to Record-Low

Blamed on ‘Incessant, Insufferable Woke, Depressing Lecturing’ By Craig Bannister | April 27, 2021 | 10:33am EDT | for CNSnews.com Sunday’s Academy Awards broadcast lost 13.75 million viewers, plunging 58%, compared to the previous year, and former Fox News Host Megyn Kelly attributes it to Hollywood’s ubiquitous determination to preach liberal doctrine, rather than entertain. On Sunday, […]

Law Enforcement Group Responds to ‘Extreme Controversy’ Following Cop’s Viral Video Mocking LeBron James

By DYLAN GWINN 28 Apr 2021 – for Breitbart.news The officer posted the video on TikTok after James tweeted and then deleted a picture of an officer present at the Ma’Khia Bryant shooting with the all-caps message “YOU’RE NEXT #ACCOUNTABILITY,” but later deleted it. In response, Bellevue Marshal’s Office Deputy Nate Silvester posted a video pretending to […]

Her Name Is Linda Stoltzfoos: White Amish Teen Walking Home From Church Raped And Murdered By Black Man

By Paul Kersey – 04/28/2021 – for Vdare.com Remember—America is a society dominated by white privilege, white supremacy, implicit bias, systemic racism, and structural inequality. If all this were true, we’d know Linda Stoltzfoos, an 18-year-old white Amish female, was kidnapped, raped, and murdered by a black male as she was simply trying to walk […]

British Supreme Court Judge Condemns Covid ‘Control Freaks’ Regulating Christmas

By JACK MONTGOMERY 22 Nov 2020 – for Breitbart.news My cmnt: This is from last year but remains current. The democrats, like all dictators, Leftists and communists, strive for absolute control over our lives. “Public safety” is always the excuse – at first. Then it keeps progressing until the progressives have complete control of the […]

BLM Co-Founders’ Million Dollar Housing Binge Underscores The Marxist Movement’s Hypocritical Power Grab

BLM Leader Patrisse Khan-Cullors, who claimed in 2015 she and her colleagues are “trained Marxists,” is evidently no practicing Marxist herself. By Gabe Kaminsky – APRIL 17, 2021 – for The Federalist My cmnt: This is to be expected. Liberal hypocrisy is a redundancy. Socialist/Communist Bernie Sanders has gotten wealthy while spending his whole life in the […]

Health Care Is Not a Right

The single-payer con. by Sally C. Pipes – Fall 2020 – for The Claremont Review of Books Conventional wisdom holds that the progressive dream of Medicare for All died—or at least was deferred—when Joe Biden secured the Democratic presidential nomination. Many supposed the former vice president would be more moderate on health care than the […]

Karl Marx’s Shameful Life Repudiates His Evil Ideology

The man who pretended to speak for the oppressed participated in oppression of the poor and his own family. It’s yet another repudiation of his work on its anniversary. By Casey Chalk NOVEMBER 30, 2020 – for The Federalist This month marks the anniversary of the first congress of the Communist League in London (1847), when Karl Marx and […]

Wisconsin Supreme Court Rules Governor Exceeded His Authority With Mask Mandate, Extended Lockdowns

MARCH 31, 2021 By Jordan Davidson – for The Federalist My cmnt: The point here is the contrast between judges or justices who rule according to the law and statutes or whether they, independent of the law, rule according to their own desires or wishes. The former is aptly called the rule of law and is at […]

Income Percentiles by State

Income Per State Table for Selected Percentiles for 2015 Income Percentile 10% 25% 50% 75% 90% 99% Alabama $8,425.00 $20,000.00 $35,054.00 $58,376.00 $94,000.00 $274,075.00 Alaska $11,072.00 $23,320.00 $43,080.00 $73,005.00 $115,557.00 $252,030.00 Arizona $6,505.00 $18,808.00 $34,150.00 $60,000.00 $92,584.00 $324,181.00 Arkansas $10,002.00 $19,456.00 $33,325.00 $54,424.00 $88,083.00 $217,924.00 California $8,500.00 $19,629.00 $37,010.00 $70,097.00 $120,020.00 $321,050.00 Colorado $10,108.00 $24,450.00 […]

Derek Chauvin, Human Sacrifice

By Ann Coulter | Posted: Mar 31, 2021 4:57 PM – for Townhall.com In modern America, we periodically offer up white men as human sacrifices to the PC gods. Among our benefactions: Jake Gardner, Kyle Rittenhouse, Darren Wilson, the Duke lacrosse players, University of Virginia fraternity members, Stacey Koon and Mark Fuhrman. The rest of […]

The George Floyd Narrative

Cal Thomas | Posted: Apr 01, 2021 12:01 AM – for Townhall.com My cmnt: please click here to read the transcript of the entire police camera recording. George Floyd was NOT murdered by Officer Chauvin, he died of a self-inflicted drug overdose and from general poor health including heart disease. Officer Chauvin followed police procedure […]

Hungary Cuts Taxpayer Funding To Inane Gender Studies Departments

There is an intra-academic war to control the academy, and the reason is simple: control of institutions like media and academia is essential for a social revolution. By Sumantra Maitr OCTOBER 18, 2018 – for The Federalist “Gender studies challenge existing structures that are perceived as natural and enduring, and in doing so, they directly challenge the […]

Chinese Police Detain Churchgoers When Raiding Their Home Church

Rebecca Downs | Posted: Mar 20, 2021 5:50 PM – for Townhall.com My cmnt: It is hard to understand living in a country that demands the State be worshipped as god. I worked with a Chinese immigrant who told me that she had had no religious education whatsoever. I asked her what the Chinese teach […]

Trip to Vietnam Reconfirmed My Hatred of Communism

by Dennis Prager – Feb 02, 2010 – for Townhall.com Ten years ago, I wrote a column reflecting on my reactions to visiting Vietnam. Given the lack of revulsion to, and even flirtation with, communism (or its more mildly named version, socialism) among many young Americans, it is worth revisiting. It was difficult to control […]

Number 7: Former NY Journalist Accuses Andrew Cuomo of Sexual Harassment

JOSHUA CAPLAN – 12 Mar 2021 – for Breitbart.news Jessica Bakeman, a journalist formerly stationed at the New York State Capitol, has come forward as the seventh woman to level allegations of sexual harassment against embattled New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D). Bakeman broke her silence about Cuomo in an essay published in The New Yorker on […]

The Cancellation Of Dr. Seuss Should Disturb You, Because You’re Next

America is entering its very own Mao-like Cultural Revolution. The iconoclasm of the left’s culture war isn’t a side effect, it’s the point. By John Daniel Davidson – MARCH 3, 2021 – for The Federalist Dr. Seuss has been cancelled. Some of his work has been deemed racist, and we can’t have that. On Tuesday, the entity […]