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This story connects the pieces with what was going on at Black Lives Matter as its leaders went Hollywood and began transitioning the organization to some sort of influencer Instagram hub for “creators of joy”.   Last year I wrote an article, BLM Goes Hollywood that covered the connections between the leadership and the entertainment industry.…

Senate Republicans mishandled the Ketanji Brown Jackson hearings in the familiar way that politicians do. There were too many efforts by individual politicians to play to their social media audiences. And the hearings went ahead without the full release or availability of materials on her caseload.  While some conservatives opposed making the hearings about her work…

Once again the Left, the Taliban, and China are on the same page.  Chinese leader Xi Jinping issued strong backing for Afghanistan at a regional conference Thursday, while making no mention of human rights abuses by the country’s Taliban leaders. China’s foreign minister, meanwhile, led calls for the U.S. to unfreeze Afghan assets held abroad…

This shouldn’t be hard. The first two of the Islamic terror attacks on Israel were claimed by ISIS. I can understand that Biden doesn’t want to condemn Hamas or the PLO, which he continues to support and fund, but ISIS. Come on, man. “President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. spoke today with Prime Minister Naftali Bennett…

Progworld, a sphere that now includes much of the media, is celebrating a vote that created Amazon’s first union. And you would have to be a prog to think that will last.  Amazon’s empire is increasingly built on outsourcing, its products and sellers to China, and its massive domestic delivery services to subcontractors. The only…

I’m not a big fan of the current prime minister, but I have to say that unlike the United States this is not a “right-wing” political sentiment.  During a wave of previous attacks, politicians who are not on the right including, famously, Mayor Nir Barkat of Jerusalem, made similar statements. “What is expected of you,…

The media keeps talking about an “attack on democracy”. America is a Republic, but here’s what a real attack on democracy looks like. It’s a calculated effort to manipulate the system in order to suborn the ability of voters to choose their elected officials by making their votes irrelevant for partisan purposes. Here it is…