Back in 2008, while covering the ‘Obama election’ for the Mail on Sunday, I wound up in the small town of Woodbridge, Virginia at a John McCain rally as the GOP presidential hopeful battled to hold on to what was traditionally a red state. Twenty-miles south of Washington DC, with …
Read More »Virginia should be a massive wake-up call for the Democrats… but they aren’t listening
The Republicans have registered a shock victory in Virginia, where Christian businessman Glenn Youngkin has won the race to become the commonwealth’s new governor. At the outset of the campaign, few political pundits gave Youngkin any chance of winning, as Virginia is traditionally a Democrat state, with Joe Biden defeating …
Read More »Tara Reade: Huma Abedin should reveal the identity of the US senator who allegedly abused her for the sake of other women
The Democrats, like all politicians, have a lot of secrets, lies, sexual misconduct, corruption, misdealing, you name it, yet the party still claims to occupy the moral high ground publicly, a falsehood perpetuated by their commissars in the corporate press. But, every once in a while, one of them gets …
Read More »‘Ultraviolent’ Korean Netflix hit ‘Squid Game’ should be BANNED from screens over gory violence, 1 in 4 Russians say in new poll
On Monday, the Russian Public Opinion Research Center published a poll of 1,600 people from across the country. Of those questioned, Russia’s older generation, in particular, said they believed the cruelty displayed in the South Korean hit series could incite violent incidents in real life. Some supported the idea of …
Read More »China’s hypersonic missile test should serve as a serious warning to Washington
Over the weekend, a report appeared in the Financial Times – via a leak from an anonymous US official – which claimed that in August, China had tested a nuclear-capable hypersonic missile which had orbited the entire world. The article described US intelligence as saying the test showed China had …
Read More »Even NCIS, which should know better, can’t seem to tell Russian warships from US Navy ones
Most Americans know about NCIS from the CBS TV series that’s been running for almost 20 years – a brainchild of the same producer that romanticized the JAG corps before that. The actual military agency barely cracks the top 10 Google searches. This week, they might wish they didn’t. On …
Read More »Wayne Dupree: Congress should be Calling the Biden administration into hearings over the border crisis
You might have missed this over the weekend, but the Biden Administration chose to remove border wall contracts while using all the unspent cash on environmental projects instead – including “biological, cultural, and natural resource surveys” in the border region, according to the statement. Think about that and you will …
Read More »Should Beach Boy Boris Johnson really be on holiday as Britain staggers towards a winter of discontent?
Now I would never begrudge anyone a nice holiday, especially after the past 18 months, but should the PM really be sunning himself in Marbella on the Costa del Sol when the country could be on the brink of another ‘winter of discontent’? There can be no doubt that the …
Read More »China’s proposed new laws to tackle Big Tech’s excesses show what America should be doing to reign in Facebook… but won’t
This week, members of the United States Congress are hearing testimony from former Silicon Valley data scientist Frances Haugen about unethical business practices by Facebook. Already, Haugen’s statements to the media show a company obsessed with profit over people – but they demonstrate a deeper systemic issue. In a ‘60 Minutes’ …
Read More »Should a devout Christian web designer be forced by law to create work promoting same sex marriage?
Artists have long held a special status in the US. While Pope John Paul II labelled Madonna’s controversial Like A Prayer video “blasphemy”, the singer exercised her creative licence and caused a Christian backlash. Now web designer Lorie Smith is picking up the baton and taking her own fight to …
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