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For the third straight day last week, the Chicago Teachers Union canceled classes, choosing to return to virtual learning and citing dangers from the Omicron variant as their excuse. To many, this is seen as nothing more than a teachers’ strike and power grab executed by a union that historically supports Democrat politicians. Democrats send federal aid to the union, and the union then uses it…

Hypocrisy and lies from politicians are so rampant in Washington that hardly anyone pays them much attention anymore. Perhaps that is why our cynicism about so many things political deepens and distrust of our institutions is pervasive. A co-conspirator in all of this is Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), who has set the middle of the month as his target for changing the filibuster…

Tara Henley had had enough. A longtime producer for the Canadian Broadcasting Company, Henley abruptly resigned, writing of her reasons over there at Substack. In her piece she said this: “For months now, I’ve been getting complaints about the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, where I’ve worked as a TV and radio producer, and occasional on-air columnist, for much of the past decade....To work…

Media outlets, particularly during the pandemic, propagate fear to boost ratings. It’s a variation of the local TV news story, “Coming up next … what’s in your fridge could kill you.” Dr. Drew Pinsky noticed this disturbing trend, too, except he’s not amused. The doctor, co-host of The Adam and Dr. Drew Show, told listeners about a fresh media trend now that COVID-19 deaths could be…

This week saw the one year anniversary of a violent mob attacking Congress. On the night of the ugly riot, Alec Baldwin, who later in the year would shoot and kill a filmmaker on the set of a movie, viciously tweeted, “Put Ted Cruz in the stocks and throw rotten fruit and buckets of horse piss at him. Then ride him on a rail. Then tar and feather him. And film it. For Netflix.” 

Former Democrat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid just died. New Hampshire Democrat Sen. Jeanne Shaheen's website said: “Harry Reid was a statesman.” Rep. Joe Morelle, D-N.Y., tweeted: “America has lost a true statesman with the passing of Harry Reid.” Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., tweeted: “Saddened to learn of the passing of Harry Reid -- a statesman, a gentleman and a Democratic institution.” “…

Independents are now America's largest group of voters. After George Bush's presidency, fewer people called themselves Republicans. After Obama's, fewer called themselves Democrats.  How will these independents vote?  Andrew Yang hopes they'll vote for him.  In my latest video, the former Democrat explains why he's started a new party, the Forward Party. 

To borrow from the late President Gerald Ford, the state of the media as 2022 opens is not good. Add all of this up - the insistence on fact free left-wing narratives, the intolerance for dissent and more and quite clearly something is seriously amiss in the American media.

The hard-left sites assault 'fresh' football drama that downplays Christianity. Faith-based movies are hardly catnip for modern movie critics, and the filmmakers in question are partly to blame. That’s starting to change. Solid Christian fare like Risen, The Chosen, I Can Only Imagine and now American Underdog reveal the growth in this maturing genre. Tell…

Call it the liberal media’s Scrooge-style  “bah humbug” of a year - and a few years before that. Take a Google and find headline after headline like these from the recent past up until now: The Columbia Journalism Review - 2018: "Most Americans say they have lost trust in the media."

Upcoming 'Snow White' will be woke ... and the next James Bond, too? Hollywood knows how to send a message, but it sure can be slow reading them.

On Oct. 30, 2020, just days before the presidential election, Joe Biden tweeted, “I'm not going to shut down the country. I'm not going to shut down the economy. I'm going to shut down the virus.” This was a lie. It was a lie because nobody can shut down the virus. Government does not have the power to end disease, as a general matter. When it comes to a wildly transmissible…

When people criticize Dr. Anthony Fauci, he says: “They’re really criticizing science. Because I represent science.” Pretty arrogant. I assume Fauci is a top-notch scientist. My brother worked with him at the National Institutes of Health and respected him. But power tends to corrupt, and Fauci has been given a lot of power. His department directed tax dollars to the Wuhan Institute of…

He is alive! Norman Podhoretz is alive, and he agreed to an interview with The Wall Street Journal's very perceptive Barton Swaim this weekend. He says that many of his peers are now deceased but not him, and he certainly did not sound deceased. Bill Buckley and Irving Kristol have given up the ghost, and American political commentary is the poorer for their passing, but Norman is…