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Former Fox News host Bill O’Reilly called out the decline of corporate media and outlets Thursday on a podcast, highlighting how a show like “The View” might have to be taken over by the network’s owner. Over the years, a majority of the hosts of “The View” — Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin, Sara … Read more
Pennsylvania’s sometimes here, sometimes not US Senator, John Fetterman, has had a fascinating journey. His inability or refusal to wear a suit in the US Senate prompted the leadership to soften the dress code so he could show up in sweatshorts and hoodies. I’m a big fan of the look, but even the US Senate … Read more
It should go without saying that asking generals and other Pentagon bureaucrats about defense spending is like asking your barber if you need a haircut. They are hardly disinterested observers. So, it’s not surprising at all that the usual pentagon uniformed technocrats, after failing their audit for the seventh time in a row, remain unrepentant. … Read more
You’d better watch out—you’d better not pout—you’d better not cry—‘cos I’m telling you why: this Christmas, it’s the Surveillance State that’s making a list and checking it twice, and it won’t matter whether you’ve been bad or good. You’ll be on this list whether you like it or not. Mass surveillance is the Deep State’s version of … Read more
I was reading the latest from a fellow Grok contributor, John Klar, about food. He has a great Substack I both recommend and follow here. The question is whether the USDAs new food guidelines – they are revamping them again – are going to make us fatter and sicker or heathier. It has often been argued that past “food … Read more
To “beg one’s pardon” is a polite and formal way of asking for forgiveness or apologizing for something. It’s often used when someone wants to express regret or acknowledge that they may have done something wrong, whether intentionally or unintentionally, you know like “Oops, I may have left an ounce of cocaine at your house … Read more
New Hampshire this year slipped ahead of Texas to claim the No. 6 spot on a national index of state tax competitiveness published by the Tax Foundation. Formerly the Business Tax Climate Index, the newly redesigned 2025 State Tax Competitiveness Index combines the Tax Foundation’s indexes for corporate, individual income, sales, property, and unemployment insurance … Read more
A Tennessee law banning the drugging and surgical mutilation of children (doing business as gender-affirming care) has gotten a lot of support from the other side during oral arguments. The lawyers representing the side trying to get the law tossed out didn’t arrive at the Big School prepared to answer the hard questions. The ones … Read more
On Saturday night, Donald Trump announced he intends to appoint Kash Patel as director of the FBI. The news sparked an immediate frenzy from establishment figures across media and politics. Legal and national security “experts” were deployed to the Sunday morning news shows to characterize the move as evidence that Trump intends to politicize the FBI and use it as a weapon against … Read more
Pete Hegseth, former weekend host of Fox and Friends on FOX News, is still Donald Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Defense. Hegseth has been under incredible scrutiny from the moment he was named. Criticism ranged from being too young to not having a high enough rank (Major) to the mockery of his current job at … Read more
Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has been making a lot of noise about all the federal employees it plans to fire. The DOGE people have framed total federal employment as something of a proxy for the total size of the federal government. Cutting the federal workforce is all well and good, but … Read more
The Biden family has been embroiled in scandals and foreign entanglements since at least 2014 — the first year of Hunter Biden’s pardon. Hunter Biden’s latest charges include tax fraud and felony gun violations. He pleaded guilty in September to three felonies and six misdemeanors after failing to pay over $1.4 million in taxes from 2016 to … Read more
A court case that began during Donald Trump’s first stint as the Commander in Chief has resulted in a favorable ruling just as he prepares for round two. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled unanimously that the federal government retains the authority to deport foreign nationals in the U.S. illegally, even over the … Read more
Another Blessed Thanksgiving Day; one in which we people always fare better than those helpless turkeys! As mentioned in a previous piece, prior to our special American holiday, fake news outlets echoed about how to cope with certain family members that would come to dine. Just more from their ‘negative influencing’ gig that keeps the … Read more
Joe Biden was already going to go down in history as the worst president in our history. Now, he will also go down as the most corrupt and disingenuous president who cared more about protecting his corrupt family empire than the American people. For nearly a year, Joe Biden and his inept mouthpiece, Karine Jean-Pierre, … Read more
President-elect Donald Trump recently joked with House Republicans and said: “I suspect I won’t be running again, unless you do something. Unless you say, ‘He’s so good, we have to just figure it out.’” Rep. Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.), who served as lead counsel for one of Trump’s impeachments, fretted: “It’s the same thing now [about a third … Read more
Kash Patel, being nominated for Director of the FBI, is the latest addition to the A-Team, Dream Team, America’s Team, or whatever you choose to call the staff that Donald Trump has assembled to go into battle with him. It indeed will be a battle to accomplish the job of dismantling the Washington Machine built … Read more
The ever-hostile Sunny Hostin, race pimp and obscenely wealthy victim got some interesting news the other day. A deep dive into her ancestry uncovered an inconvenient truth. She is descended from Spanish Colonialists who owned slaves. Her ancestors were colonial invaders, and they kept black Africans as slaves. Feel free to cough up some of … Read more
The interim between a US presidential election and the swearing in of a new Administration has for most of our history been a non-eventful period where the outgoing Administration winds down operations and the incoming Administration ramps up new personnel before the inauguration. The 20th Amendment to our Constitution was enacted in 1933 to reduce … Read more
It is the nature of human beings to wonder about things in the past. Take the Nazis for example. Who were these people who so blindly followed Adolf Hitler into not just the chaos and destruction of a continent-wide war but the murder of millions of Jews, Gypsies, and others? How is it that they … Read more