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I am not a fan of calling every act of political opposition to government policies an “insurrection.” The word is overused, largely because the Democrats found the term useful in their fight against Donald Trump. In turn, Republicans have taken to using the term frequently as an implicit rebuttal–if a term gets overused it loses...

Leftists have a love affair with political violence.  It is in the DNA of the movement, which began during the French Revolution. Obviously, modern leftism is not the first political movement to USE violence–at some level, force and politics are intimately tied together, although stable regimes try to reserve the use of violence as much...

David Hogg has been creating problems for DNC chair Ken Martin since he got the job as vice chair back in February. By April Hogg was using his PAC Leaders We Deserve to support primary opponents against moderate Democrats. By mid-May the DNC’s Credentials Committee suggested Hogg and fellow vice chair  Malcolm Kenyatta were elected...

Brian Wilson has died at the age of 82. The announcement was made by Wilson’s family on his Instagram page.     Wilson wrote all of the Beach Boys’ many hits and was considered one of the great pop songwriters alongside the Beatles in the 1960s. Born in Inglewood, California, Brian Douglas Wilson formed the band—then...

In war, the first casualty is the truth. — Aeschylus Los Angeles, and soon every Blue city in America, is a war zone.   Not nearly as bad a war zone as Gaza or Kyiv, but a war zone nonetheless. In this case, the violence is mostly a backdrop of a propaganda war, but then...

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