Musk Tells EU Censors: ‘Free Speech Is the Bedrock of Democracy’

X owner Elon Musk took a strong stand against censorship during an interview with a German political candidate. Here’s what she told him about the dystopian reality of free speech in the European Union (EU). 

Tom Olohan
January 10th, 2025 5:17 PM

Erickson Lambasts Lefty Media as ‘Concubines’ Over Wildfires Coverage

On Friday morning in his Substack, our friend Erick Erickson wrote that the national media’s Trump-focused and Democratic-defensive coverage of the California wildfires has led him to believe “[i]t’s time to let the press hit rock bottom” and even had him “starting to wish ill on the American press” even though “[t]he country needs it” and the powerful deserve to be held to account.

Curtis Houck
January 10th, 2025 5:07 PM

The View Argues Over Meta Rules and Farah Griffin Defends Free Speech

On Wednesday morning’s segment of The View, following Meta’s announcement concerning its change in fact checking, hosts were up in arms and ready to argue. What started out as a conversation regarding the necessity of fact checking soon cascaded into the classic argument for free speech. Surprisingly Alyssa Farah Griffin, often noted as the table’s often-wavering conservative, stepped up to…

Mary Clare Waldron
January 10th, 2025 4:45 PM

Levin: Justices Barrett and Roberts ‘Were Played,’ Validating ‘Corrupt Process’ of Trump Case

Two Republican-nominated Supreme Court justices were duped by liberal hype into setting a disastrous precedent on Thursday when they sided with the three liberals refusing to approve a stay on Friday’s scheduled sentencing of President-Elect Donald Trump, conservative commentator and Constitutional Scholar Mark Levin says.
Craig Bannister
January 10th, 2025 4:23 PM

A Progressive Hellscape

“February was the wettest month in downtown Los Angeles since 1998. With over 12 inches of rain drenching the city, it was the fourth-wettest February -- and the seventh-wettest month overall -- in the city’s nearly 150-year recorded history,” said Judson Jones’ report on Los Angeles’ weather on March 2, 2024, in The New York Times. Just under a year later, Los Angeles is on fire and…

Erick Erickson
January 10th, 2025 4:10 PM

LA Anchor Fact Checked by Own Reporter on Lack of Fire Fighter Water

In a dramatic moment on FOX 11's Good Day LA, anchor Melvin Robert denied claims of a water shortage affecting firefighters during the Los Angeles wildfires, only to be contradicted by his colleague on-site, Gigi Graciette. This mishap, which spotlighted media bias and spin, led to a stir on social media, where viewers mocked Robert's failed attempt to dismiss former mayoral candidate Rick…

P.J. Gladnick
January 10th, 2025 3:16 PM

He’s Right: Elon Musk SLAMS the Media as George Soros’s ‘Lapdogs’

X owner Elon Musk has put the propaganda powerhouse that America’s most notorious billionaire George Soros runs on full blast, and he is right to do so.

Joseph Vazquez
January 10th, 2025 2:25 PM

Donald Trump’s Worldwide Election

Winning the 2024 election was only the beginning — the Trump effect is now sweeping the globe. From Canada to the U.K. and continental Europe, left-liberal governments are tottering while right-leaning voters, especially young men, gravitate toward populist politics and take inspiration from Donald Trump’s success in America. It’s almost as if Trump himself were on the ballot in other advanced…

Daniel McCarthy
January 10th, 2025 2:24 PM

Censors Lose Again: Mann Ordered To Pay National Review Over $500K

It was a bad week for those on the left who try to censor their opponents. First, Meta announced it would ditch the fact-checkers who think they are entitled to be the final arbiters of truth and censor anyone who dissents. Now, the media’s favorite professor of climate alarmism, Michael Mann, has been forced to pay nearly $600,000 in legal fees to National Review after a frivolous lawsuit…

Alex Christy
January 10th, 2025 2:08 PM

Assemblyman Tells Gov. Newsom: Don’t ‘Trump-Proof’ California, ‘FIREPROOF’ It

As fires continued to ravage Los Angeles on Thursday, California’s legislature began a special legislative session Governor Gavin Newsom ordered to “Trump-proof” the state from President-Elect Donald Trump – but, one assembly member is asking Newsom to “fireproof” California, instead.
Craig Bannister
January 10th, 2025 12:06 PM
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Scarborough Claims Soviets Blame Carter and Mika's Dad for End of USSR

In a fit of world-class revisionism, Morning Joe credits Jimmy Carter, more than Ronald Reagan, for the fall of the Soviet Union, and analogizes Carter to Abraham Lincoln.

Mark Finkelstein
January 10th, 2025 11:16 AM

Judge Merchan Sentences Trump to ‘Unconditional Discharge’ of Penalties

As expected, New York Judge Juan Merchan sentenced President-elect Donald Trump to “unconditional discharge” of any penalty for his so-called “hush money” conviction on Friday.
Craig Bannister
January 10th, 2025 10:51 AM

Meyers, Lydic Push Climate Alarmism, Attack Trump Amid Wildfires

NBC’s Seth Meyers and Comedy Central’s Desi Lydic both attacked President-elect Donald Trump on their respective Thursday editions of Late Night and The Daily Show for politicizing the Los Angeles wildfires with his attacks on President Joe Biden and Gov. Gavin Newsom. Both argued such attacks were not only unseemly but factually wrong; however, both blamed climate change for…

Alex Christy
January 10th, 2025 10:00 AM

MSNBC Host, Michael Mann Blame 'Addiction to Fossil Fuels' for LA Fire

As the Los Angeles-area wildfires continue to burn, the leftist media have found almost every possible way to explain what caused them, while ignoring the obvious facts. On Wednesday’s The 11th Hour, MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle brought in University of Pennsylvania professor and longtime climate alarmist Dr. Michael Mann to hypothesize about the fires as a direct effect of climate change…

Michael Wnek
January 10th, 2025 9:47 AM