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Some Kenosha residents are rethinking their support for Democrats amid the rioting and violence that has erupted in the city.

House Republicans called for House Democrat Leadership to mmediately remove Ilhan Omar from the Foreign Affairs Committee.

Democrats want to create another George Floyd moment

In a letter, five former members of President Obama’s circle of Iran advisers said a pending accord to stem Iran’s nuclear program might “fall short” of administration standards.

Here’s a cool thing. When you’re sick, or allergic, or something flies up your nose, and you spasm and expel mucus, it’s polite for anyone around you, including complete strangers, to call attention to it. In English-speaking countries they say “Bless you,” in most of Europe they say “Health.” In almost every culture, the polite response is “Thank you.” As in “Thank you for calling attention to my embarrassing bodily function.” As in “Thank you for making me thank you while I’m probably still dealing with how something inside me is now outside me.” As in, “Thank you for alerting me that for the next three months, I’ll be having impromptu two-line conversations with strangers, because my body thinks flowers want to kill it.”

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Monday blasted President Trump’s push for a citizenship question on the 2020 census as an effort to “Make America White Again” — claiming, “it&…

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi confused reporters during her weekly press briefing Thursday; launching into an incoherent rant about the President’s taxes, courts, and working families. “He’s there for America’s working families… In terms of the… I can’t even believe they would say the tax returns… He’s been completely strong and tough minded on […]

The Alabama TV anchor previously indicated that he has been receiving a lot of death threats ever since he broke the story. The latter sparked allegations in 2016 that...

The Senate on votes against a motion to proceed on a $48 billion aid package aimed at restaurants and other businesses still hurting due to COVID-19.

Zandria Robinson still has a job at the taxpayer-funded University of Memphis.

By Todd Starnes/Twitter A Baltimore elementary school will allow students and teachers to protest "acts of patriotic symbolism" including the Pledge of Allegiance.  A parent sent me a copy of a letter written by the principal at Roland Park Elementary and Middle School. The lette

Standing up for Israel at the UN may lose former Miss Iraq Sarah Idan her citizenship. Idan, who has...

So get this straight – based on the recommendation of doctors Fauci and Birx the US shut down the entire economy based on 9,000 American deaths to the China coronavirus.  We were first to report that the Director General of the WHO on March 3, 2020 a set off the panic with his highly flawed…

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., apologized on Monday after he used the word “retarded” in reference to developmentally disabled children during a podcast interview.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - In its first big win since the inauguration in 2021, the Biden Administration announced that the Disinformation Governance Board has narrowly outlasted failed subscription program CNN+.Citing the first bit of positive news for the White House, Disinformation Board head Nina Jankowicz announced her resignation, saying she was excited ...

Craig Biddle, editor of The Objective Standard, delivered this talk November 12, 2012, at Liberty On the Rocks, Flatirons. It is based on Biddle's essay, "Ay...

Much has been said about the politicization of the personal. Politics is no longer about Washington D.C. It’s about the movies you watch, the brands you buy, who your friends are and where you live. Everything from your choice of shoes to the car you drive is political. And if it isn’t political to you, it is very political to the college student next door or the political activist running for city council. But the politicization of the personal is the flip side of the personalization of the political. The intrusion of politics into the pettiest and most personal aspects of human life is a manifestation of the same trend that has personalized politics so thoroughly that even the biggest issues are reduced to the pettiest common denominators of personal animosity. The personal is political because the political is personal. Millennials and their younger siblings lead the trend. Their politics is so personal that it doesn’t exist apart from their emotions. When campus leftists shout about their pain as an argument, it’s because there is no distance between their emotions, their sense of entitlement and their politics. They literally can’t even… because there is no ability to reason abstractly. Objectivity is a construct of dead white men. Feelings matter. Facts don’t. But that is a generation that grew up on the internet. Existing in social media spaces is a very different assertion of identity than the one that humanity was used to for thousands of years. The Darwinian struggle to form an identity in a space of total free speech produced the most illiberal generation in over a century. The only way to win an argument online was through humiliation, victimhood or censorship. The SJW/Alt-Right paradigm of millennial political margins rests on that. Social media quickly soured cyber-narcissism into cyber-bullying. Politics became cyber-bullying by another means. And the politics never ran very deep. Beneath the passion were layers of irony or deconstructionism which recognized that everything except the crybully’s needs were unreal. Nothing was real, but the anger and the pain. Politics was an illusion. Personal entitlement was all that’s real. As the internet dominated politics, millennial politics became our politics. The medium had become the message. And the message was emotional. In the abstractions of the internet, abstract ideas don’t do nearly as well as raw emotion wrapped around lowest common denominator talking points. Abstract ideas made way for emotional keening. “Hands up, don’t shoot” and “I can’t breathe” were louder and more resonant than any number of statistics about rising crime rates and police shootings. No amount of pro-Israel hasbara has ever matched a photo of a Muslim child splattered with red paint. From Puerto Rico to Muslim migrants to transgender bathrooms, each leftist argument is reducible to “people will die” or its precondition, “vulnerable groups are being made to feel unsafe.” Panic, fear, outrage and anger dominate the national discourse. Each president is the latest incarnation of Hitler. Opposition is resistance. The politicization of the personal injects these national panics into the individual while the personalization of the political projects individual fears into national politics. Think about the Hillary supporters screaming at Trump’s inauguration. Is that the politicization of the personal or the personalization of the political? When upper middle class white people claim that they fear for their lives under Trump, is it one or the other? Or is it a toxic cocktail of both, with personal emotions bleeding into national politics, and then national politics stirring personal anxieties in a feedback loop? Either way the erosion of the distinction between ideas and emotions, between feelings and politics is the dominant trend of the day. And when there is no wall between politics and emotions, it’s impossible to discuss ideas. The only thing left to do is express anger., Politics favors negative emotions, not positive ones. And when there is also no wall between the personal and the political, political disagreement becomes a threat to personal identity. And violence swiftly follows. Classical liberalism is based on ideas. The American system requires that we discuss and debate. When a society can no longer discuss ideas, it becomes illiberal and totalitarian. When discussion becomes impossible, then politics becomes based around stratagems of compulsion. And compulsion eventually meets its match. Meanwhile the system is discredited. And there is no exit strategy. The Founders welcomed the people to participate in politics even as they sought to limit the politicization of personal life. The abstractions that they set up, such as the Electoral College, were meant to build walls between the personal and the political. The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were documents of ideas. And the Founders hoped to disprove the European monarchists who sneered at republican government as anarchy and mob rule. But when politics is purely personal, then the individual loses his freedom and the society loses its organizational principles. The layers of abstraction between our views and our emotions vanish. Politics becomes all Id. All political discourse becomes reducible to anger and pain. Pain justifies anger. And frustrated anger is experienced as pain. Political victimhood and anger have made campuses hellish places. Workplaces are next, as Google’s firing of James Damore revealed. The tantrums masquerade as civil rights causes, but unlike actual civil rights, no concession or accomplishment is enough. Instead acceding to a tantrum worsens it because its cause is internal, not external, and surrendering to it only increases the scope for the personalization of the political. That same phenomenon has destroyed campuses. And if it isn’t stopped, it can destroy a civilization. Civilizations exist because their members control their impulses. When their impulses control them, civilizations fall. Follow Daniel Greenfield’s blog Sultan Knish.

How do you explain the ingratitude of Ilhan Omar and thousands like her who hate not the culture that threw them into the misery of a refugee camp, but the culture that rescued them? Among those who become dependent on...

Police said protesters put public safety at risk.

Lunden Roberts was listed on the payroll of Hunter Biden's consulting firm when she was pregnant with their daughter.

Donald Trump described how his country is facing the issues of "socialism" and "communism" in a surprise address to CPAC Hungary

After my 85th birthday last week, I looked back over my life and was surprised to discover in how many different ways I had been lucky, in addition to some other ways in which I was unlucky.

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The Trump administration is preparing a new rule requiring refugees to seek asylum in the country through which they transited, dramatically limiting their ability to do so at the U.S. border with Mexico.

"If you vote for Joe, who is really going to be in power?" Donald Trump Jr. asks in his new book, "Liberal Privilege: Joe Biden and the Democrats’ Defense of the Indefensible."