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San Francisco Has More Drug Addicts Than Public High School Students, Health Dept Survey finds

Posted by Leslie Eastman on February 03, 2019 20 Comments

The Left Coast of this great nation is often held up as a blueprint for progressive policy successes by its politicians, such as Democratic Party presidential hopeful Kamala Harris.

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Howard Schultz, Next Target of Democrats’ Angry Mob Machine

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on February 03, 2019 21 Comments

Billionaire and former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz has stirred up Democrat wrath by contemplating an independent 2020 run for president.  They and their #NeverTrump allies are ten kinds of not happy. Apparently, the left's latest attempts to dissuade Schultz from doing so will include tactics they've used repeatedly against Republicans: angry mobs confronting him anywhere and everywhere.

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Washington D.C. Now Has an ‘Inspector’ to Enforce the Ban on Plastic Straws

Posted by Mike LaChance on February 02, 2019 29 Comments

The Department of Energy and Environment in Washington, DC, now has someone to enforce the ban on plastic straws. Will you sleep better tonight knowing this scourge upon society is being dealt with properly?

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Anti-Semitism Is A Natural Choice for Grievance-Mongers

Posted by Katya Sedgwick on January 27, 2019 20 Comments

Earlier this month, #MyFirstAntisemiticExperience was trending on U.S. Twitter. I don't remember my first anti-Semitic experience; I have no idea who pushed me and called me a traitor first.

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Elizabeth Warren Proposing New ‘Wealth Tax’ on ‘Very Rich’ Americans

Posted by Mike LaChance on January 25, 2019 50 Comments

As we recently pointed out, Democrat hopefuls for 2020 are already trying to out-left each other on how much they want to raise taxes. Elizabeth Warren is trying to stake out new territory in that area with a proposed wealth tax.

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Kamala Harris Running for President in 2020

Posted by Mary Chastain on January 21, 2019 23 Comments

For once, something from anonymous sources came true! California Democrat Senator Kamala Harris has officially thrown her hat into the 2020 presidential race. She made the announcement on Good Morning America.

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UNC Prof Polls Students and Finds They Fear Reprisals from the ‘Progressive Police’

Posted by Mike LaChance on January 09, 2019 6 Comments

“This is a disgrace; and antithetical to a classic ‘liberal’ education"...

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American Psychological Association: ‘Traditional Masculinity’ Harmful to Men and Boys

Posted by Mike LaChance on January 08, 2019 40 Comments

We now live in a world where questioning whether Chelsea Manning is truly a woman can get you deplatformed on social media for hate speech while the American Psychological Association sees traditional masculinity as a mental disorder. The APA just published a lengthy screed on the topic which reads as if it was compiled with assistance from a college symposium on intersectional feminism. I've tried to digest some of the most telling passages.

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Portland State Prof Who Exposed ‘Grievance Studies’ Corruption Faces University Discipline

Posted by Mike LaChance on January 06, 2019 33 Comments

Last October, we brought you the story of three academics named Helen Pluckrose, James A. Lindsay, and Peter Boghossian, who wrote absurd papers in the areas of gender studies, women's studies, and more. They then submitted the papers to journals which, to their amazement, published many of them.

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Bernie Bros See Beto as Another Obama and That’s a Big Problem

Posted by Mike LaChance on December 29, 2018 6 Comments

The war between Bernie Sanders supporters and fans of Beto O'Rourke is real. Despite their similarities, people on the left are engaging in a battle over purity, and only the most "real" progressive will do.

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Leftist Feminists vow to create Angry Girls, and that’s a mistake

Posted by Katya Sedgwick on December 16, 2018 31 Comments

I'm old enough to remember when Brett Kavanaugh was not qualified to serve on the Supreme Court because he was visibly angry about being accused of sexual assault. Now I read feminist author Kate Rope advising parents to encourage their daughters to get angry and show it:

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“We’re all in gender studies 101 now”

Posted by Mike LaChance on December 04, 2018 17 Comments

Manhattan Institute scholar and author Heather Mac Donald appeared on the Mark Levin show this weekend to discuss how campus culture has begun to surface in American politics. Social justice warriors used to be confined to college campuses, now their world view has been adopted by many elected officials.

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Progressive Sole: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Shoes to be Displayed in Exhibit at Cornell

Posted by Mike LaChance on November 28, 2018 36 Comments

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is enjoying the sort of hero worship by Democrats and the media not seen since Obama. She can do no wrong in their eyes, and every aspect of her must be celebrated. Even the shoes she campaigned in are now going to get special treatment.

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VOX Co-Founder Matt Yglesias Gets Doxxed After Defending Harassment of Tucker Carlson

Posted by Mike LaChance on November 10, 2018 48 Comments

Matt Yglesias is one of the co-founders of the progressive site Vox, which aims to explain the news to its readers. After the Antifa mob harassment of Tucker Carlson this week, Yglesias took a less than sympathetic position on the issue and has now been doxxed himself.

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Adam Carolla and Dennis Prager on Dealing With the Left: Don’t Apologize

Posted by Mike LaChance on November 04, 2018 26 Comments

Adam Carolla and Dennis Prager have been making rounds in media, promoting their film project "No Safe Spaces" which focuses on free speech and social justice warrior culture on college campuses.

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Progressive Group at George Washington U. Demands ‘Fair Jobs’

Posted by Mike LaChance on October 19, 2018 5 Comments

“We spent the last two years researching these issues"...

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Democrat AZ Senate Candidate Kyrsten Sinema Caught on Tape Bashing Arizona (UPDATED)

Posted by Mike LaChance on October 12, 2018 27 Comments

Arizona Democrat Rep. Kyrsten Sinema has been running a competitive race for a Senate seat in the state. But a video of her speaking in Texas in 2011 has surfaced which has the potential to do some serious damage.

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Liberal Media: Our Mobs Are Not Mobs, So Don’t Call Them Mobs

Posted by Mike LaChance on October 11, 2018 20 Comments

As someone who attended and wrote about Tea Party protests in 2009 and 2010, it has been surreal to watch folks at CNN and MSNBC twist themselves into knots to defend the recent actions of the left. I clearly remember Democrats and their media allies using words like "dangerous" and "mob" to describe people who obtained protest permits and cleaned up their own trash. Everything is different now.

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