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US diplomats in Venezuela have been seen heading for Caracas airport amid a political power struggle between President Nicolas Maduro and an opposition leader who has declared himself interim leader.

The demonstrators and rioters are going to remake the cities in their own image. And it’s going to be disastrous for those cities.

There are QAnon theorists? Some people have WAAAAAY too much free time on their hands.

Clinical trials are ongoing, but promotion of ivermectin as a Covid-19 treatment has generated controversy. . Read more at straitstimes.com.

Now Warner and the Committee are dropping the hammer.

Much of the media spotlight has been on the “alt-right.” But the “alt-left” provides a mirror image distortion: the same loathing of Clinton, rejection of “identity politics,” and itch for a reckoning.

Two men were shot ? one fatally ? during a party at a St. Paul house early Saturday, police said. Calls poured into 911 about 3:30 a.m., reporting multiple people shot in the 400 block …

A retired St. Louis police captain was found dead in the early hours of Tuesday morning outside of a looted pawn shop, local media reported.

Fortunately that white guy was the great Louie Anderson. Eddie Murphy and Arsenio Hall were guests on the March 1st episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live! to discuss their new movie, Coming to America 2. The new film is a sequel to the 30-year old classic, Coming to America, originally starring Murphy an

White House press secretary Jen Psaki praised Spotify Tuesday for adding disclaimers to podcast episodes that discuss COVID-19 — before adding “there’s more that can be done.”

It’s game-on between the top two super PACs backing former President Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, in 2024 battle for the Republican presidential nomination

Rep. Nancy Pelosi's, D-Calif., attack on the press this weekend has provoked little outrage from reporters, which is curious considering the industry's near-obsession with anti-media messages coming from the White House. The House minority leader accused the press of acting as an accomplice in Russia's reported undermining of the 2016 presidential election. This is no small accusation. I do think, with all due respect in the world for the press, that the press could have done a better job [highlighting Russia's alleged meddling in the election], Pelosi told CNN's Jake Tapper. Russian hackers broke into the private email accounts of Democratic National Committee staffers and Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman, John Podesta. The hacking group WikiLeaks published the electronic communications in installments during the presidential election, which were then covered by the nation's largest newsrooms.

DENVER -- Colorado's Senate has passed a bill to have the state award its presidential electoral votes to the winner of the national popular vote. SB-19 passed on party lines Tuesday in the Senate. Democratic Sen. Mike Foote's bill would have Colorado join 11 states and the District of Columbia in what's called the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact.

TRENTON, N.J. – Governor Phil Murphy didn’t bat an eye this week defending the hypocrisy of allowing massive George Floyd protests throughout New Jersey after criminally charging citizens for violating (or merely protesting) his closure of non-essential businesses. In fact? Read More

COVID-19 should have been a common enemy that united all Americans; instead, we politicized a virus, just…

Robinson argued before the 27-5 vote to expel her that she had been unfairly judged by the white-majority chamber calling it a “procedural lynching.”

The U.S. is now officially a majority "constitutional carry" nation after Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill into law allowing permitless gun carry, the 26th state to do so.

Questions swirl about the Gold Star father's claim and motivations.

 An award-winning cookbook author and California restaurant owner says anyone wearing a red "Make America Great Again" baseball cap will be refused service at his restaurant.

Yes, I have actually seen lefties saying this "just like the boston tea party." Unreal. What a time to be alive. And what a way to totally undermine the case...

Biden continued his war on sex and due process on Monday with the introduction of two executive orders that seek to dismantle Trump-era protections.

(2022). Men’s Feminist Identification and Reported Use of Prescription Erectile Dysfunction Medication. The Journal of Sex Research. Ahead of Print.

The increasing mining activities and the growing usage of sodium cyanide in extraction processes are primarily augmenting the global sodium cyanide market. In addition to this, the rising adoption of sodium cyanide as an ideal alternative to petroleum-based chemicals owing to its easy availability and low cost is propelling the market growth.

Every few years, a word or bit of terminology comes along and captures the political imagination. During the George W. Bush years, the magic word was “neocon.” For years, it was used as a term of abuse by the Left; later, it was adopted as a term of abuse by some elements of the Right. What they had in common is that neither camp had the faintest idea of what the word meant. “Neoconservative” was first brought to popular usage in the American context by left-wing intellectuals (the socialist Michael Harrington most prominent among them) to describe the thinking of a few critics of American progressivism and the American Left — especially Irving Kristol and Daniel Patrick Moynihan — who didn’t smell like conservatives. The classical conservative — the cartoon conservative — was Babbitt, a Midwestern businessman who was Republican, conformist, and, above all, anti-intellectual. Kristol was a Jewish intellectual from New York and a former Trotskyist; Moynihan was a Kennedy confidante, a diplomat, and, eventually, a Democratic senator. The neoconservatives, in essence, were those who began criticizing progressivism from within. Eventually Irving Kristol and Norman Podhoretz, among others, would embrace the label. There were and are many prominent Jewish neoconservatives, and as the neocons turned their attention more intensely to foreign policy and the Middle East in the post-9/11 era, the word “neocon” acted as a kind of catalyst enabling a political reaction that revived a great many stupid and ugly myths about Jewish bankers orchestrating wars for profit, and so by 2005 or so, “neocon” in the mouth of a man of the Left came to mean “Jew with politics I don’t like.” Google what’s been written about my friend Jonah Goldberg for a taste of that sort of thinking. Before the neocons were the neocons, they were in more fanciful minds “the Illuminati.” For Henry Ford, the neocon was “the international Jew.” (The Stalinists called them “rootless cosmopolitans,” a term recently revived by Donald Trump enthusiasts.) The idea is always the same: that somebody, somewhere, is operating secretly behind the scenes, that there is a covert, monolithic enemy pulling the strings of history in ways that are obscure to the uninitiated. The reality of George W. Bush’s “democracy project” program for the Middle East — to bomb the Arabs until they became Canadians — just wasn’t crazy enough for his critics. There needed to be something more. But it is a complicated family tree. The neocons used to be the Illuminati, but then, so did the new favorite conservative bugbear: the Deep State. On Wednesday, Sean Hannity spent a portion of his radio program raving about the “Deep State” and the “shadow government” that purportedly is maneuvering against President Trump. Hannity went so far as to suggest that the hacking and phishing shenanigans conducted against the DNC weren’t the work of foreign hackers at all but rather might have been (conspiracy theorists love the “Is it possible?” formulation) perpetrated by American intelligence agencies. No, that does not make sense as a conspiracy theory (undermine Hillary Rodham Clinton and help elect Donald Trump so that you can . . . covertly oppose him?), but the Right’s talking heads stopped making sense a long time ago. On Thursday, Rush Limbaugh insisted that the New York Times account of the investigation into possible links between Trump associates and the Russians was based on “Deep State sources.” In case it is not clear enough, Limbaugh published an article headlined: “Barack Obama and His Deep State Operatives Are Attempting to Sabotage the Duly Elected President of the United States.” Wreckers and saboteurs! If only there were some kulaks around to liquidate as a class! “Deep State” is a term that has been around for a while, often being used to describe extralegal political action in authoritarian regimes, especially in Turkey. The “Deep State” became a favorite conspiracy villain of the American Left, who described it as a nexus between the military, militarized law-enforcement agencies, the intelligence community, Wall Street (of course), and a few powerful political and business figures. An invisible enemy is very handy for the Left: It could not possibly be socialism that has reduced Venezuela to its current condition — it must be Goldman Sachs colluding with the CIA. The “Deep State” is sometimes conflated with what the political theorist (and, later in life, outright kook) Sam Francis called the “permanent government,” the bureaucrats and apparatchiks and such who remain in power irrespective of the outcome of any given election. They were a lot less scary back when they were “the civil service.” “Deep State” and “permanent government” of course refer to real things. The federal government really does have employees, and those employees do not change every time the composition of Congress changes, every time there is a presidential election, or every time there is a change in policy. And as we have seen everywhere from the LAPD to the IRS, government agents have interests of their own — political and economic — and will, from time to time, go to extraordinary and even criminal lengths to frustrate the intent of the people’s elected representatives, to flout policy, to undermine real or perceived opponents, etc. That’s what Mrs. Clinton’s e-mail shenanigans were really about: The chief bureaucrat in the State Department had (and, I suppose, has) political ambitions, and she was willing to go to great lengths to avoid ordinary oversight in order to pursue those ambitions. It isn’t the ‘Deep State’ that is making President Donald Trump look like an amateur. It is amateurism. Where the current critics on the right go wrong — where they veer from criticism into conspiracy theory — is in assuming that the aims and ambitions of the various power centers within the federal bureaucracy are identical or aligned, that they represent a monolithic interest group that is both capable of coordinating efforts across the vast federal apparatus and inclined to do so. That creates exactly what the kooks and quacks and demagogues of the world most need: a nice, vague enemy that can be blamed for practically anything. It isn’t the “Deep State” that is making President Donald Trump look like an amateur. It is amateurism. It is not the “Deep State” that prevents, say, serious reform of the financial-services industry. If you want to understand why Wall Street reform seems so difficult, you should begin by considering the fact that Wall Street’s most energetic critics do not understand what Wall Street does and have no interest in taking the time to learn. The most concrete banking-reform measure Bernie Sanders ever proposed before the financial crisis was a cap on ATM fees. You don’t need a “Deep State” to outmaneuver enemies like that. Bernie Sanders couldn’t outmaneuver Mr. Magoo. Watching Barack Obama careering around Syria policy was enough to make one wish there were some highly capable men in black behind the scenes pushing him in the right direction — they could hardly have done worse. Neocons, globalists, the Deep State, the shadow government, the International Jew, the Illuminati — it is nice to have someone to blame, especially if that someone does not exactly exist. (Any errors in this column are the fault of my intern, Skippy.) This is sloppy and stupid, and it is counterproductive, too. Team Trump’s first-down fumble on immigration and congressional Republicans’ apparent surrender on the Affordable Care Act are not the result of arcane and shadowy forces acting against the American interest — they are the result of choices made by identifiable people, and those people have got to go. But that is not going to get done if you spend your days hunting the political equivalent of the Loch Ness Monster. President Trump likes to read the tabloids, but presumably it was not Bat Boy advising him on that first executive order on refugees. The irony is that all this chasing after shadows instead of undertaking the hard and thankless business of governing is one of the things that empower those unaccountable bureaucrats and the time-servers in the alphabet-soup agencies. You think they’re sitting around having debates about how many neocons can dance on the head of a pin? There is an ancient superstition that to name something is to assert power over it. (The members of some ancient tribes kept their real names secret and had secondary names for public use.) But giving the figments of your imagination a name and an involved back-story doesn’t make them real. It just makes you nuts. — Kevin D. Williamson is National Review’s roving correspondent.

Rush Limbaugh's December 2018 Limbaugh Letter has an article titled "Demonizing White Men." It highlights — with actual quotations from people in the media, academia and the political and entertainment arenas — the attack on white men as a class.