The constant stories of drug gangs, murders of innocents, rising homeless camps that were cleared recently, and teachers molesting students.
What haven’t we seen going down in the Seattle area?
The crime rate is going higher, streets are more dangerous (even in nicer neighborhoods), judges still release prolific offenders back onto the streets, and the public’s concerns are not addressed...
The 2024 election was indeed a victory, but it was also a reprieve.
Is freedom retreating, or is freedom advancing? Just a few weeks ago, I would have said that it is retreating. But something is changing, and America — though bruised and battered — is leading the way back.
When everything went wrong for us during the past four years — when we felt like freedom was on the brink — what did we do? We didn’t scream at the waves like a group of liberal women in New York City did. We didn’t take to Instagram and post videos of ourselves bawling and distraught. We went to work. We went to God. And we remembered who we are.
1823 - The poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas" by Clement C. Moore (" 'Twas the night before Christmas...") was published.
1888 - Following a quarrel with Paul Gauguin, Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh cut off part of his own earlobe.
1913 - The Federal Reserve Bill was signed into law by U.S. President Woodrow Wilson. The act established 12 Federal Reserve Banks.
1941 - During World War II, American forces on Wake Island surrendered to the Japanese.
1947 - John Bardeen, Walter H. Brattain and William Shockley invented the transistor.
1948 - Former Japanese premier Hideki Tojo and six other Japanese war leaders were executed in Tokyo. They had been found guilty of crimes against humanity.
1968 - The crew of the U.S. Navy ship, Pueblo, was released by North Korea. The Captain of the Pueblo, Commander Lloyd M. Bucher, and 82 of his crew were held for 11 months after the ship was seized by North Korea because of suspected spying by the Americans.
1970 - In New York, the topping out ceremony for original One World Trade Center (North Tower) took place. The South Tower's ceremony took place on July 19, 1971.
After years of denial, the establishment media is finally coming clean about President Joe Biden’s profound cognitive decline.
An exposé published in the Wall Street Journal on Thursday revealed how those around the president colluded to hide the octogenarian’s deteriorating condition from the public.
The publication outlined how this cover up began in the early days of the 2020 presidential campaign and continues today.
It’s a common criticism in anti-Trump circles. But it raises a question. Where were these people in 2017, 2018, and after? If one wants to discuss the prospect of a new director unleashing the FBI on enemies, shouldn’t he grapple with the reality of years of bureau leadership unleashing the FBI on enemies?
During the Trump years, FBI directors and other top law enforcement and intelligence officials did the following: 1) Opened investigations on presidential candidates. 2) Deployed undercover agents and confidential sources to spy on a candidate’s advisers. 3) Hired a campaign opposition researcher under the guise of intelligence gathering. 4) Presented false opposition research to a court as a basis for wiretapping a candidate’s adviser. 5) Used false opposition research to brief the president of the United States. 6) Ambushed the president-elect with false opposition research. 7) Sought to include false opposition research in intelligence community products. 8) Ambushed the national security adviser with wiretap information on the pretense of a Logan Act violation. 9) Misled/stonewalled Congress on the investigation of the president. 10) Misled the president about the investigation targeting him...
...When I wrote about Rhodes’ ambitious program to sell the Iran deal, I advanced the term “echo chambers” to describe the process by which the White House and its wider penumbra of think tanks and NGOs generated an entirely new class of experts who credentialed each other on social media in order to advance assertions that would formerly have been seen as marginal or not credible, thereby overwhelming the efforts of traditional subject-area gatekeepers and reporters to keep government spokespeople honest.
In constructing these echo chambers, the White House created feedback loops that could be gamed out in advance by clever White House aides, thereby influencing and controlling the perceptions of reporters, editors and congressional staffers, and the elusive currents of “public opinion” they attempted to follow.
If you saw how the game worked from the inside, you understood that the new common wisdom was not a true “reflection” of what anyone in particular necessarily believed, but rather the deliberate creation of a small class of operatives who used new technologies to create and control larger narratives that they messaged to target audiences on digital platforms, and which often presented themselves to their targets as their own naturally occurring thoughts and feelings, which they would then share with people like themselves...
The Federalist noted it months ago had documented how Cheney suppressed evidence "that Trump pressed Democrats to accept 10,000 National Guard troops ahead of Jan. 6, 2021."
Ohio teacher Vivian Geraghty received a $450,000 settlement to drop her two-year-old First Amendment lawsuit against the Jackson Local School District for forcing her to resign shortly after Geraghty expressed "reservations" about participation in the "social transition" of gender-confused students...
It's not clear whether lawyers will be granted the same leeway when arguing cases for their clients or the state, even when gender identity itself is key to the litigation.
A California judge ordered a prosecutor to refer to Tremaine Carroll with female pronouns in the male inmate's upcoming felony trial for rape and "dissuading a witness" while housed at the Central California Women's Facility...
Republicans chalk up another victory in state legislatures.
Republicans in Minnesota are celebrating after a judge disqualified a Democratic politician over residency issues and handed control of the state House of Representatives to the GOP.
Those words, from Disney’s new Snow White actress Rachel Zegler, came shortly after half of the country, roughly 77 million Americans, voted for Donald Trump. Only a few weeks ago, Kamala Harris and her supporters were rallying the country to choose “love over hate.”
Now, the “joy” is gone.
Tis the season of the liberal hate-fest.
As Washington prepares for the inauguration, we are seeing a return to rage...
In my recent book, I discussed how addictive rage is. People do not like to admit it, but they like being angry. Sometimes, people can choose madness as a release from reality. It offers a righteous license to slip from the bounds of civility and decency. It allows people to harass Republicans in restaurants or to scream profanities outside of their homes...
She was “missing”—no one knew where she was, which was made more conspicuous apparently with the mountain of missed votes.
Calls to her office went straight to voicemail.
When Congress was barreling toward a total shutdown this week, which has been averted, Dallas Express wanted to know how Congresswoman Granger would vote on the continuing resolution.
They found her office locked, with no staff in sight.
Now, we know where she has been for weeks: an assisted living facility that specializes in those living with dementia:
San Francisco threw out its wokester mayor, London Breed, in favor of a more moderate alternative, and before that, its literally-Chavista district attorney, Chesa Boudin, raised by Bill Ayers, whose only interest was in prosecuting the police.
But the damage remains, and not just in the city's abundant bums on the street doing drugs. This is what it's come to:
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...When I wrote about Rhodes’ ambitious program to sell the Iran deal, I advanced the term “echo chambers” to describe the process by which the White House and its wider penumbra of think tanks and NGOs generated an entirely new class of experts who credentialed each other on social media in order to advance assertions that would formerly have been seen as marginal or not credible, thereby overwhelming the efforts of traditional subject-area gatekeepers and reporters to keep government spokespeople honest.
Those words, from Disney’s new Snow White actress Rachel Zegler, came shortly after half of the country, roughly 77 million Americans, voted for Donald Trump.
