Episode 216: A Very Taxing Podcast
Most Popular
Inching Back toward the Rule of Law
Conservatives typically have one of two reactions to the headlines in left-leaning publications: Ninety percent of the time, we cringe at the presumption on display, but 10 percent of the time, we wish they were true.
“The Supreme Court’s Conservatives Are Ready to Take a Wrecking Ball to the Entire ...
Read More
America’s First Third-World State
‘Third World” is now an anachronistic geographical term of the old Cold War. But after 1989, “Third World” was reinvented from a political noun into an adjective to mean more than just Asian, African, and Latin American nations nonaligned with either the West or the Soviet bloc.
Rather, the current ...
Read More
Video
Culture with Kat Timpf: 16-Year-Old Girl Shouldn’t Face Child-Porn Charges
Kat Timpf explains why a 16-year-old Maryland girl shouldn't be charged with child-porn distribution after making a video of herself.
Read More
What the Viral Border-Patrol Video Leaves Out
In an attempt to justify Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s absurd comparison of American detention facilities to Holocaust-era concentration camps, many figures within the media have shared a viral video clip of a legal hearing in which a Department of Justice attorney debates a panel of judges as to what constitutes ...
Read More
Clue Hidden in Website Code Fuels Speculation on Rep. Omar’s Marital History
Representative Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) has long dismissed the accusation that she married her brother in order to skirt U.S. immigration law, but a clue uncovered in the source code of her sister's website suggests that the freshman congresswoman may have perjured herself to hide her ex-husband's whereabouts when ...
Read More
A Scathing Denunciation of Some Administration’s Immigration Enforcement
The PBS Frontline special entitled “Lost In Detention” represents a scathing indictment of the administration’s immigration policy. The yearlong investigation did an extensive and deep dive into the U.S. immigration enforcement system and stories of hidden abuse in detention centers.
The nearly hourlong ...
Read More
Murder Mystery: An Old Comedy Genre Gets Polished Up
I like Adam Sandler, and yet you may share the sense of trepidation I get when I see that another of his movies is out. He made some very funny manboy comedies (Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore, The Waterboy) followed by some not-so-funny manboy comedies, and when he went dark, in Reign over Me and Funny People, ...
Read More
DOJ Lawyer Receives Death Threats After Appearing In Viral ‘Toothbrush’ Video
The Department of Justice official pictured in a viral video clip debating what specifically constitutes “sanitary conditions” under a court decision governing the detention of minors has received “several” death threats since the clip's contents were reported by a number of news outlets last week, DOJ ...
Read More
Making Sense of the Iran Chaos
One would prefer that correct decisions be made according to careful, deliberate plan. But a correct decision made impulsively, through a troubling process, is still nonetheless correct, and so it is with Donald Trump’s decision to refrain from military action against Iran. The proposed strike would represent a ...
Read More
Why Pelosi Continues to Deflect the Censure Gambit
One-quarter of House Democrats publicly support impeaching President Trump. It is an oft-reported talking point in media-Democrat circles. Not much mentioned is the corollary: That means three-quarters would rather see the question go away.
This is the challenge that Speaker Nancy Pelosi continues to navigate ...
Read More
Loading...