12-26-18 Great Guests for Your Show

1. Karen Kataline: 2018 Leftist Ideas Most Worth of Mockery and Derision
2. James Hirsen: Adam McKay's Oscar-Seeking 'Vice'
3. Lowell Ponte: The Way to Fund the Border Wall
4. Daniel Greenfield: Is Taxpayer Money Going to a Terror Refugee Resettlement Charity?
5. Michelle Seiler-Tucker: Trouble Ahead for Johnson & Johnson

2018 Leftist Ideas Most Worth of Mockery and Derision

By Karen Kataline

It’s time once again for those year-end lists when people rate everything from sports to literature. When it comes to politics and the bizarre notions from today’s Left, there is an embarrassment of riches from which to choose. Since Democrats had no federal legislative power in 2018, it was a banner year for advancing liberal language and cultural concepts. Whenever Democrats work to change our language today, it’s only the first step in their mission to change our policies tomorrow. Now that they are set to take control of the U.S. House of Representatives, look for them to roll out those policies one after another. [more...]

Adam McKay's Oscar-Seeking 'Vice'

By James Hirsen

Filmmaker Adam McKay is a comedian, whose stand-up helped him lock in a gig as head writer for “Saturday Night Live” for two seasons. Like so many modern-day stars who have parlayed their success into full-fledged liberal activism in exchange for the secret promise of more accolades and awards, McKay’s latest outing, titled “Vice,” is a biopic of the hateful and distorted kind. In the film, he re-writes the historical annals of Dick Cheney, who served as Secretary of Defense (1989 to 1993) during the presidency of the late President George H.W. Bush, and who went on to serve as Vice President of the United States (2001 to 2009) in the administration of former President George W. Bush. [more...]

The Way to Fund the Border Wall

By Lowell Ponte

Democrats have chosen to defund the federal government rather than pay a pittance to protect our country. Some kind of solution is desperately needed. The lack of a solid, impenetrable barrier has flooded the United States with an invasion of up to 22 million illegal immigrants. If neither Mexico nor the Democratic Party will agree to pay for the border wall, President Trump does have other ways and means of doing so, as I argued a year ago. He and the Republican Party, for example, could impose a 20 percent tax or tariff on imports, which would be paid in part by Americans in higher prices, to have “Mexico pay for the wall.” Better, we could impose a “border adjustment tax.”  [more...]

Is Taxpayer Money Going to a Terror Refugee Resettlement Charity?

By Daniel Greenfield

$704,662. That's how much taxpayer money may have gone to an Islamic charity allegedly linked to terror supporters. And the charity, Islamic Relief USA is also involved in helping resettle “refugees." That number comes from an important report by the Middle East Forum, a key counterterrorism think tank, and it involves a federal investigation into Islamic Relief USA, the Muslim charity in question, triggered by Ryan Mauro, the Director of the Clarion Intelligence Network, and a Shillman Fellow, and the Obama administration’s stand down order on the investigation. [more...]

Trouble Ahead for Johnson & Johnson

By Michelle Seiler-Tucker

Pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson is facing an onslaught of lawsuits to add on to their list of financial issues, as small amounts of cancer-causing asbestos lurked in the company’s baby powder from as early as 1971. According to an investigation by Reuters, J&J hid incriminating information and reports from regulators and the public. The report indicates that small amounts of asbestos have been found in some of the company’s talc powder, the substance that makes baby powder powdery. The company allegedly did not openly communicate results and at times purposely covered up findings to both consumers and the Food and Drug Administration. J&J executives, mine managers, doctors, and lawyers from 1971 to the early 2000s were aware that the company's raw talc and finished powders sometimes tested positive for small amounts of asbestos yet failed to report to the public. [more...]

12-18-18 Excellent Guests for Your Show

1. Dr. Elaina George: Life After the Affordable Care Act - What's Next?
2. Karen Kataline: Shutting Down the Myth of a Government Shutdown
3. James Hirsen: So-Called Trump Campaign Finance Violations are a Fallacy
4. Lowell Ponte: The Orwellian Lexicon of the Left
5. Daniel Greenfield: Never Trumpers Who Accuse Trump of Being a Russian Spy are Funded by Backer of Russian Spy Site
6. John LeBoutillier: The Leaning Tower of Trump

Life After the Affordable Care Act - What's Next?

By Dr. Elaina George

After the ruling by Judge O’Connor, the proponents of The Affordable Care Act plan to appeal the verdict. They are claiming that repeal will mean the end of coverage for patients who currently have plans, and that the repeal will mean the end of coverage for pre-existing conditions. Both are simply not correct.  What does repeal of the ACA really mean for the future of healthcare? [more...]

Shutting Down the Myth of a Government Shutdown

By Karen Kataline

Most of us who loathe the hubris of ever-growing government breathe a sigh of relief whenever politicians and bureaucrats take a holiday. Yet, they proceed with the narrative that we are more terrified of a shutdown than, say, allowing thousands of unvetted immigrants to storm our borders in violation of our immigration laws. By the way, if we demand that the caravans of illegals go back home, their organizers will be happy to honor our request if we pay them $50K a head. A shutdown shines a brighter light on how full of themselves the Deep State really is. They cry, “You can’t live without us!” Much of what they do is designed to bring about that very outcome. If we dare to think otherwise, they’ll really fix us and “threaten” to shut down the government. [more...]

So-Called Trump Campaign Finance Violations are a Fallacy

By James Hirsen

Democrat leaders and their allies in the media have momentarily dropped the Trump-Russia collusion narrative from their playbooks and are instead talking about purported campaign finance violations. In fact, some Democrats such as Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y. are attempting to characterize their latest campaign finance meme as constituting an impeachable offense. To claim that the payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels and Playboy playmate Karen McDougal would be impeachable offenses, one would have to ignore both the law and historical practices. [more...]

The Orwellian Lexicon of the Left

By Lowell Ponte

You might think we are approaching Christmas, but the left does everything it can to purge Christ from this holiday (which once meant “holy day”). Leftists tell me their immediate aim is to shorten this day’s name from “Christmas” to simply “Mas,” the Spanish word for “more.” Traditionalists will be permitted to call the day “Giftmas” or “Cashmas,” in keeping with the materialistic, fiat-money aspects that for many have replaced its religious nature. This is not to say that today’s leftists are godless; they worship the almighty state. And one of America’s most Democratic-ruled states, Illinois, days ago cheerfully erected a demonic statue, a gift from the Temple of Satan, in its statehouse. [more...]

Never Trumpers Who Accuse Trump of Being a Russian Spy are Funded by Backer of Russian Spy Site

By Daniel Greenfield

“Putin’s Party?” a Weekly Standard headline asked. It was the summer of 2016. Trump had won the nomination, but Bill Kristol, the most recognizable figure in the Never Trump camp, was laying out a case against him that rested heavily on Russia. "Honest and patriotic Republicans who support Trump," Kristol urged, should review the evidence of his "many troubling connections with Vladimir Putin's regime." These days, Kristol is using Defending Democracy Together, a 501c4 dark money organization of "conservatives and Republicans," to try and primary Trump. Components of DDT include, Republicans Against Putin and an analysis of Russian troll tweets. Beneath the concerns about national security and Russia, Kristol’s organization shares a funding source with a platform for the greatest Russian intel coup. [more...]

The Leaning Tower of Trump

By John LeBoutillier

On the latest edition of REVOLUTION_The Podcast... we examine the political and legal deterioration in all aspects of Trump. Every organization he has ever headed - from his company to his foundation, to his campaign, to his inaugural committee and now his White House - is now under criminal investigation. Where is this all headed? [more...]

12-11-18 Great Guests for Your Show

1. Karen Kataline: The 'Trump-Russia' Investigation Prosecuted by Criminals
2. James Hirsen: Republicans Can Win in 2020 if They Step Up Their Game
3. Lowell Ponte: Would Dems Wreck America to Win in 2020?
4. Sally Pipes: Dems Inch Toward Government-Run Health Care
5. Daniel Greenfield: Soros and the Media's Censorship Plot
6. John LeBoutillier: Ghosts of President's Past

The 'Trump-Russia' Investigation Prosecuted by Criminals

By Karen Kataline

Robert Mueller and his crack team of Democrat-connected lawyers have spent two years charging a long list of people with crimes that have nothing to do Trump or Russia or collusion, though Trump has obviously been their target all along.  It has all been used strategically to create screaming headlines and to make the President appear to be guilty… of something. At precisely the same time, the Special Counsel has ignored fact after fact made public of massive corruption in the Clinton Campaign and the DNC for, you guessed it, collusion with Russia - and a whole lot more.  That would include money-laundering, pay to play schemes while Hillary was Secretary of State, like selling 20% of American Uranium to Russia (yes, Russia!) in exchange for massive donations into Clinton campaign coffers; maintaining a private e-mail server to cover all her illegal doings which in itself is a felony, and then destroying the evidence after it had been subpoenaed, another honking felony. [more...]

Republicans Can Win in 2020 if They Step Up Their Game

By James Hirsen

After loads of liberal media gloom and doom regarding the fate of the GOP, it may be a surprise for some to hear that, despite the midterm election results, Republicans are in a good position to take the White House again, retake the House of Representatives, and maintain the Senate... that is, if they are able to focus on three key elements: voter data, party unity, and strategically significant issues. According to the hyperventilating panelists who appear on the left-leaning media news shows, President Trump and the Republican Party are in trouble. The recent court filings made by Special Counsel Robert Mueller concerning Paul Manafort and Michael Cohen have the talking heads sneering with delight at the prospect of more GOP misfortune. The lopsided media, though, is not presenting an accurate picture of the political playing field. [more...]

Would Dems Wreck America to Win in 2020?

By Lowell Ponte

“[The] way you get rid of Trump is a crashing economy. So, please, bring on the recession,” says leftist HBO comic Bill Maher. “Sorry if that hurts people ... [but] a recession is a survivable event; what Trump is doing to this country is not.” Actually, the country is better than it has been for decades. But Maher rightly understands that if Trump continues to succeed, the Democratic Party and its socialist boot on the necks of Americans will be finished. “You cannot be civil with a political party that wants to destroy what you stand for,” Hillary Clinton says, declaring that “civility can only return” when her Democratic Party again controls the government. Until voters restore leftist politicians to their entitled dominion as our superiors, the Democrats will turn politics into war, resistance, and unwavering hatred, because their unwanted collectivist party is fighting dirty for its survival. [more...]

Dems Inch Toward Government-Run Health Care

By Sally Pipes, President & CEO of the Pacific Research Institute

At the state level, Democrats are trying to resurrect one of Obamacare's least popular features, the individual mandate. Americans hated the mandate in part because it forced them to buy expensive plans on Obamacare's exchanges or pay a fine of the greater of $695 or 2.5 percent of income. From 2013 to 2017, average premiums doubled, according to the Department of Health and Human Services. Last year, Congress effectively repealed the mandate by zeroing out the fine for non-compliance. But as soon as the ink was dry, New Jersey and Washington, D.C., created their own state-level mandates. [more...]

Soros and the Media's Censorship Plot

By Daniel Greenfield

George Soros and his ilk want to regulate Facebook because they fear the power of populism. They see the media as a politically reliable entity pushing the public leftward while restraining blowback. The media wants to regulate Facebook because it offers too much scope for uncensored political dissent, but also because regulating its key distributor will lock in a business model that can assure its future. Facebook became the dog and the media the tail. The media dog wants Facebook to be its tail. [more...]

Ghosts of President's Past

By John LeBoutillier

On the latest edition of REVOLUTION_The Podcast... we examine the three recent federal court filings. What have we learned about President Trump's role in two felonies committed during the 2016 campaign? What clues have the filings' redactions given us about where the Mueller probe is headed? And, is Fox gradually beginning to peel away from their loyalty to President Trump? [more...]

12-6-18 Great Guests for Your Show

1. Brigitte Gabriel: Caravan Supporters Insult Legal Immigrants
2. Jeff Ferry: Tariffs are Working
3. Adam Andrzejewski: President Trump is Fighting the War on Waste
4. Lowell Ponte: Alaska and America's Fragile Foothold
5. Karen Kataline: Michelle Obama is NOT Running for President

Caravan Supporters Insult Legal Immigrants

By Brigitte Gabriel

Another liberal college campus is making its voice heard in the ongoing and controversial immigration debate. Breitbart is reporting that the University of California Berkeley “student government voted to financially fund the migrant caravan in a resolution passed by the student senate” last week. The $1,500 in funds for the student organization Central Americans For Empowerment will help with migrants’ “legal fees and health services.” Besides disrespecting the rule of law and the protection of borders, these students and other migrant caravan supporters like them are disgracing and insulting every legal immigrant who became a citizen of the United States through a lawful process. A member of America’s legal immigrant family is New York Times best-selling author Brigitte Gabriel, who in her latest book, “RISE: In Defense of Judeo-Christian Values and Freedom,” writes extensively about how immigration policies are fundamentally changing the nation.

Tariffs are Working

By Jeff Ferry

Since January, the Trump administration has implemented five major tariff policies, on the solar panel, washing machine, steel, and aluminum industries, as well as the so-called Section 301 tariffs affecting $250 billion worth of Chinese imports, chiefly in intermediate manufactured goods. And so far, the evidence is that the tariffs are working. Economic growth is up, inflation is under control, many of the tariffed industries are enjoying strong recoveries in output, profits, and employment. And as optimism spreads across manufacturing, other manufacturing sectors are also enjoying better growth than they’ve seen in years. There is such a constant onslaught of criticism of tariffs, and “warnings” about how they will damage the U.S. and world economy that I can’t blame anybody for believing tariffs are bad. But the truth is that if you look at the evidence, tariffs are contributing to the growth of our economy this year. [more...]

President Trump is Fighting the War on Waste

By Adam Andrzejewski, Author of Operation Drain the Swamp

Just a few weeks ago, we ran a two-page ad in the Wall Street Journal and USA Today urging the President to wage a war on waste. We asked him to do three things: 1. Post all White House expenditures online; 2. Cut agency waste by 5%; and 3. Report progress to the public. President Trump is listening to our demands. Just 28 days after our open letter published, the president ordered his agency heads to cut the fat and put an end to the fraud, waste, and abuse. This is a massive victory in our war on waste. [more...]

Alaska and America's Fragile Foothold

By Lowell Ponte

The great earthquake on Friday struck just north of Anchorage at 8:30 a.m., with dawn more than an hour away. Its magnitude 7.2 tremor lasted only 30 seconds but triggered more than 190 aftershocks as large as magnitude 5.8 over the next 24 hours. The quake swarm damaged buildings, cut off electricity to thousands, and tore roads apart; but according to early reports it miraculously neither killed nor severely injured anyone. A large earthquake is an awe-inspiring experience; it shows you how the material things we trade years of our lives for, such as a home, can be shaken to pieces in an instant. It teaches you how to survive in a land where the very earth you stand upon is not reliably stable. [more...]

Michelle Obama is NOT Running for President

By Karen Kataline

The former First Lady made headlines recently when she declared once again that she’s not running for president. She explained it this way: “My path has never been politics,” she said. “I just happened to marry somebody whose passion was politics. Just because he likes it doesn’t mean that I like it!” I found that curious since she has also said, “any woman who voted against Hillary Clinton voted against their own voice.” Like many of today’s socialist elites, Mrs. Obama reserves certain rights for herself that she can’t imagine allowing for others. [more...]

12-4-18 Expert Guests for Your Show

1. James Hirsen: Christmas Past, Present and Future
2. Lowell Ponte: Alaska and America's Fragile Foothold
3. Karen Kataline: Michelle Obama - 'I'm Independent, You're Not'
4. Daniel Greenfield: Muslim Migrants Terrorize a Sleepy German College Town
5. Michelle Seiler-Tucker: GM Suffers Massive Layoffs
6. John LeBoutillier: Trump-Russia-Mueller Investigation Update

Christmas Past, Present and Future

By James Hirsen

For centuries Christmastime in America was widely recognized as a special season of joy, filled with festive celebrations, heartfelt gift-giving, and, of course, transcendent music that conveyed the faith of so many of our nation’s people. Unfortunately, what has transpired over the last few decades is a rise of suppression of Christian expression, which has become most evident during the time leading up to this brightest of holidays. [more...]

Alaska and America's Fragile Foothold

By Lowell Ponte

The great earthquake on Friday struck just north of Anchorage at 8:30 a.m., with dawn more than an hour away. Its magnitude 7.2 tremor lasted only 30 seconds but triggered more than 190 aftershocks as large as magnitude 5.8 over the next 24 hours. The quake swarm damaged buildings, cut off electricity to thousands, and tore roads apart; but according to early reports it miraculously neither killed nor severely injured anyone. A large earthquake is an awe-inspiring experience; it shows you how the material things we trade years of our lives for, such as a home, can be shaken to pieces in an instant. It teaches you how to survive in a land where the very earth you stand upon is not reliably stable. [more...]

Michelle Obama - 'I'm Independent, You're Not'

By Karen Kataline

Michelle Obama has been on a celebrated book tour.  Unlike Bill and Hillary Clinton, who are speaking to houses that are 83% empty, Mrs. Obama has been speaking to sellout crowds. Orchestra seats for Mrs. Obama’s “Becoming” tour are going for $3000.00 a pop. The former First Lady made headlines recently when she declared once again that she’s not running for president. She explained it this way: “My path has never been politics,” she said. “I just happened to marry somebody whose passion was politics. Just because he likes it doesn’t mean that I like it!” [more...]

Muslim Migrants Terrorize a Sleepy German College Town

By Daniel Greenfield

29. That’s how many crimes one single Syrian migrant had allegedly committed since entering Germany four years ago. He had already been wanted for drug trafficking and had been investigated for a rape last year. And then he struck again, this time in a case that has once again torn apart a sleepy college town. Freiburg is a German city of 226,000 people. Foreigners make up 36,800 or 16% of the population. Of the foreigners in Freiburg, whose name means fortified city of free people, 18,750 or 8.5% are men. Even though foreigners are only a small percentage of the population, they commit 42% of the crimes. [more...]

GM Suffers Massive Layoffs

By Michelle Seiler-Tucker

General Motors announced Monday that it will close five factories, lay off nearly 15,000 or 15 percent of its salaried workers, and shut down five plants in North America. These cuts break down to around 8,000 white-collar workers, and 5,000 factory workers. GM is the leading enterprise in car manufacturing along with other productions. This news comes after the fear of tariffs and dealing with unknown market changes have seen the auto industry's raw-material costs for steel and aluminum skyrocket, costing the company over $1 billion this year alone. [more...]

Trump-Russia-Mueller Investigation Update

By John LeBoutillier

On the latest edition of REVOLUTION_The Podcast... we look at how the entire Trump-Russia-Mueller Investigation took an unexpected turn with the surprise plea of Michael Cohen. Why are Trump's own aides now describing him as "spooked" and "distracted?" What shoe is about to drop next? [more...]

James Hirsen: My Personal Tribute to Christmas Past, Present and Future

You know James Hirsen as an expert political and legal analyst, but did you know he is also a talented bluesman, singer/songwriter and the former keyboard player for The Temptations?  A true Renaissance man!  Now James has released his own Christmas EP to remind us of the true meaning of Christmas.  Remember the wonderful Christmas carols Americans have enjoyed every holiday season for time immemorial? James's new renditions are passionate interpretations that reflect his great and forever growing faith in Christ. [more…]

Listen here.

You can buy the record here… and a portion of the proceeds will go to Samaritan's Purse International Relief.  Also available on Amazon, Google Play and iTunes.

Unfortunately, the traditional songs Americans have always enjoyed during the holiday season have come under attack by the Left as well as their criticism and literal removal of Christianity and its symbols. Read James Hirsen's commentary here: Christmas Past, Present and Future.

James Hirsen, J.D., M.A. in Media Psychology, is a New York Times best-selling author, international attorney, cultural commentator, and social media scholar. Highly sought after for his perspective on a host of matters, he is unique in his capacity to provide insight through the lens of a moral universe. Hirsen has appeared on numerous television broadcast networks including NBC, ABC, CNN, CNBC, MSNBC, Fox News Channel, the BBC, Canada’s Sun News Network, and Trinity Broadcast Network, as well as various streaming media venues including Newsmax TV and Dove TV.

As a lifelong musician, his professional journey afforded him the opportunity to participate in numerous studio recordings, film scores, and performance events. He had the honor of being the keyboardist for one of the most legendary groups of all times, the Temptations. Hirsen’s efforts are presently focused on sharing the Good News via the universal language of music. In collaboration with his partner Dennis Anderson, he has just released an album titled Where Christmas Lives, which brings to the celebration of this beautiful time of year some of the most-loved Christmas songs ever recorded. Through his piano, vocals, and instrumental arrangements, Hirsen conveys his love of the season and his desire that others will fully share in the experience.

11-29-18 Excellent Guests for Your Show

1. Karen Kataline: It Takes a Good Guy with a Gun to Stop a Bad Guy with a Gun
2. Daniel Greenfield: Celebrate the International Day of Tolerance with Intolerance to the UN
3. Jeff Ferry: Steel Tariffs Creating Jobs, Boosting GDP
4. Robert Spencer: Lessons from 1,400 Years of Jihad

It Takes a Good Guy with a Gun to Stop a Bad Guy with a Gun

By Karen Kataline

When Democrats gain control of the house in January, they will be fighting harder than ever to convince us that law-abiding citizens shouldn’t be trusted to have guns to defend themselves. Not long ago, they balked bitterly at the accusation that their real goal was to repeal the Second Amendment. Now, many have finally started to admit that this is precisely what they had in mind all along. Good for them. Better for us. They are easier to beat when they tell the truth. Unfortunately, that’s never very often. Conservatives have an excellent argument in favor of the Second Amendment by proclaiming that “it takes a good guy with a gun to stop a bad guy with a gun.” Unfortunately, it makes no sense to Leftists and it’s instructive to examine why. [more...]

Celebrate the International Day of Tolerance with Intolerance to the UN

By Daniel Greenfield

International Tolerance Day was celebrated at the World Tolerance Summit at the Armani Hotel in Dubai. A photo of the event shows three Arab Muslim men in burnooses sitting under the Summit's subtitle, "Prospering from Pluralism: Embracing Diversity through Innovation and Collaboration." The UAE is an Arab Muslim entity. Good luck obtaining citizenship if you aren’t an Arab Muslim. Leaving Islam is forbidden, but the government has a special site encouraging infidels to convert to Islam. Diversity is great… as long as it’s limited to Muslim men. Pluralism is fantastic. But you’re not allowed to leave Islam. And tolerance is applied equally to Muslim men and other Muslim men on Tolerance Day. [more...]

Steel Tariffs Creating Jobs, Boosting GDP

By Jeff Ferry

Despite pessimistic predictions from many economists, the administration's steel tariffs are creating U.S. jobs and stimulating growth. Steel tariffs, in combination with other economic policies, will drive growth of 2.1 million additional jobs in 2018 over the baseline forecast. An additional 1.2 million jobs are expected to be created annually in the years 2019 through 2021. The performance of the U.S. economy since the steel tariff was implemented in March has been outstanding, with over a million more jobs in the U.S. economy today than in March, and GDP growth roughly half a point higher than economists had predicted. [more...]

Lessons from 1,400 Years of Jihad

By Robert Spencer

The History of Jihad is the first book that chronicles the entirety of the phenomenon of jihad for 1,400 years - not just the jihad against Europe, although that’s very much a part of the book, but also the jihad against India and the jihad elsewhere, also tying in the fact that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is itself a jihad, and, of course, the people who struck us on 9/11 were motivated by the exact same ideology that has motivated the jihad conquests of the distant past and is still with us very much today. If you do not learn from your mistakes, you keep making the same mistakes again and again and again. That’s U.S. foreign policy today, because of, in large part, a lack of awareness and understanding of the nature and magnitude of the jihad threat and of a complete lack of knowledge of the history of jihad. Here are three lessons from history that could have a very great impact on foreign policy today in the United States, were there to be sanity in the State Department, which, of course, I know is at a premium. [more...]

11-27-18 Great Guests for Your Show

1. Adam Andrzejewski: Federal Spending Jumps as Agencies 'Use it or Lose it'
2. Michelle Seiler-Tucker: Starbucks to Lay Off 5% of Corporate Workforce
3. James Hirsen: Critics Can't Reconcile Trump's Lawful Border Defenses
4. Lowell Ponte: Should You Take a Home DNA Test?
5. Sally Pipes: 'Medicare for All' Lost BIG Time in the Midterms
6. Karen Kataline: Why the 'Good Guy with a Gun' Argument Doesn’t Work with Leftists

Federal Spending Jumps as Agencies 'Use it or Lose it'

By Adam Andrzejewski, Author of Operation Drain the Swamp

At the end of every fiscal year, a spending spree of billions of federal tax dollars occurs in a matter of days. But not all of that money goes to essential items. We found examples of federal purchases for wine, snowboards, pianos, guitars and fancy gym equipment. We dug through thousands of federal contracts for September, the last month of the fiscal year. In just one month, the U.S. government spent more than $6.2 million dollars on gym equipment. One out of every nine dollars spent by the federal government occurs in just the last seven days of the fiscal year. When the bureaucrats cannot even spend all the money that Congress is sending them, there's a problem. [more...]

Starbucks to Lay Off 5% of Corporate Workforce

By Michelle Seiler-Tucker

Starbucks has announced plans to lay off around 5% of its corporate workforce following organizational and leadership changes within the company. CEO Kevin Johnson revealed that approximately 350 employees would be affected. Starbucks, known for its addicting coffee and juggernaut reputation around the world, is one of many companies who are planning to revamp their strategies, redistribute their assets and clean house. Companies facing sales declines are looking for new ways to stay relevant.  [more...]

Critics Can't Reconcile Trump's Lawful Border Defenses

By James Hirsen

Since the Trump administration authorized the military to use force along the U.S.-Mexico border, many are raising legal challenges to the president's border policy by invoking a 19th century law, the Posse Comitatus Act, which generally prohibits the federal government from using the military for domestic law enforcement functions -unless specifically authorized by the Constitution or Congress. According to U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis, over 5,000 active duty troops are now engaged in supporting missions along the border in Texas, Arizona, and California. [more...]

Should You Take a Home DNA Test?

By Lowell Ponte

“Know thyself,” advised the ancient Greek oracle at Delphi, whose Delphic prophecies sometimes misled those seeking guidance and destroyed them. Today, self-knowledge comes in a box from companies such as Ancestry.com or 23andMe. Send them a bit of saliva from swabbing the inside of your cheek and they will discern from your DNA, your genetic blueprint, your ancestral past and – coming soon – your health future. I received such a test kit as an early holiday gift, but thus far I have not decided whether to bare my personal DNA to this modern oracle. Peter J. Pitts, president of the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest, recently offered five reasons not to let curiosity lure us into taking such tests… [more...]

'Medicare for All' Lost BIG Time in the Midterms

By Sally Pipes, President & CEO of the Pacific Research Institute

Medicare for All - the rallying cry for much of the far left - lost big time in the midterm elections earlier this month. Voters outside liberal enclaves rejected candidates who touted their support for socialized medicine. That was wise. Medicare for All would saddle Americans with trillions in new taxes and diminish the quality of health care available in this country. Before the election, Medicare for All looked like a political winner. According to one Reuters/Ipsos poll, 70% of the public - including most Republicans - supported the idea. [more...]

Why the 'Good Guy with a Gun' Argument Doesn’t Work with Leftists

By Karen Kataline

When Democrats gain control of the house in January, they will be fighting harder than ever to convince us that law-abiding citizens shouldn’t be trusted to have guns to defend themselves. Not long ago, they balked bitterly at the accusation that their real goal was to repeal the Second Amendment. Now, many have finally started to admit that this is precisely what they had in mind all along. Good for them. Better for us. They are easier to beat when they tell the truth. Unfortunately, that’s never very often. [more...]

Trump’s China Tariffs Are Working and Their Impact Should Not Be Blunted by Potential Loopholes

By Michael Stumo

In response to Beijing’s longstanding commercial espionage practices, President Donald Trump embarked on a series of tariffs against China earlier this year. Free-trade economists and media pundits offered dire warnings when the tariffs were announced. But as recent data have made clear, the tariffs are working. U.S. manufacturing employment has grown by 296,000 jobs over the past year, including 32,000 factory jobs added in October alone.

With the tariffs making progress, it would be unfortunate to see their impact blunted by potential loopholes. But that may be exactly what’s happening, thanks to a recent decision by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to exempt many Chinese products from tariffs. [more...]

11-20-18 Expert Guests for Your Show

1. James Hirsen: Tim Allen - Liberals Have a 'Very Small Window of Sense of Humor'
2. Kerry Lutz: Why California is Burning
3. David Horowitz: The Top 10 University Leaders Who are Supporters of Terror
4. Lowell Ponte: California Smokescreen - More Red than Green
5. Karen Kataline: Is Fox News Turning on Trump?
6. Christian Toto: Fawning Press for New Dick Cheney Movie
7. John LeBoutillier: No Way Out?

Tim Allen - Liberals Have a 'Very Small Window of Sense of Humor'

By James Hirsen

“I think it’s funny to make fun of people that are full of themselves. Liberals have a very small window of sense of humor about themselves, so I love poking at it,” says Tim Allen who brought up a current practice in which many liberals routinely engage; that is, the avoidance of rational debate via the mallet of identity politics. "[R]ight now liberals, particularly progressives, hide behind large concepts,” Allen noted. “If you don’t agree with them, if you don’t agree with that position, then you hate women, and you hate gay people, and you hate pro-choice people…” [more...]

Why California is Burning

By Kerry Lutz

Fire knows no prejudice. It goes after everything and everyone in its path. Frightening. Our hearts go out to the people whose lives have been disrupted and damaged. But, as always, it’s largely the government’s fault as well as rabid environmentalism. Believe it or not, the paper/wood industry is the forest’s greatest friend. You wouldn’t know it to hear the media, but its decline has led to greater and greater wildfires out West. And the trend will continue until we come to our collective senses. [more...]

The Top 10 University Leaders Who are Supporters of Terror

In a report released today, the David Horowitz Freedom Center named university leaders from prestigious American campuses including UCLA, Columbia University, Kent State University, Tufts University, and the University of Chicago to the list of the “Top Ten University Leaders Who are Supporters of Terror.” These university leaders provide organizational and monetary support to Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), a campus organization which functions as an arm of the anti-Israel terror group Hamas and which has repeatedly acted to terrorize Jewish students on campus. They also imbue SJP with a false veneer of legitimacy by permitting it to benefit from its association with the university’s academic prestige. Even when SJP chapters repeatedly violate campus rules prohibiting the disruption of campus events (usually pro-Israel events) or when its members chant genocidal slogans, use hateful slurs, and commit violence against Jewish students on campus, university presidents and administrations repeatedly ignore or forgive these hostile, discriminatory and unlawful acts. [more...]

California Smokescreen - More Red than Green

By Lowell Ponte

Why is California ablaze with fires that have scorched more than a quarter-million acres, killed more than 76 people, and have more than 1,200 unaccounted for? The apparent answer is that Democrats have ideologically moved their one-party leftist state a lot closer to Hell. They have turned control of the once-golden state over to progressive environmental zealots and their unnatural idea of social engineering. For nearly two centuries, progressivism has advocated replacing God and religion with the idea that people could fashion a heaven on Earth, a new Eden, if we gave total power to the new ruling elite of Big Government and Big Science. [more...]

Is Fox News Turning on Trump?

By Karen Kataline

The faux outrage against Trump whom networks hate and the complete pass that was given to Obama whom they slobbered and fawned over is mind-boggling. Obama bullied and controlled the press. He even used the power of the federal government to retaliate against them when there was a possibility that they might not report on him favorably. What was their response? “Thank you, Sir, may I have another?" Obama also had a reporter removed from a press conference. Other reporters dutifully applauded. Meanwhile, Trump admonished one reporter at a press conference and removed his press pass which he has full authority to do and the networks go bananas screaming that Trump is against a free press. The circumstances of these two examples couldn’t be more different. So why is Fox News siding with CNN? [more...]

Fawning Press for New Dick Cheney Movie

By Christian Toto

Reporters are already rushing to paint the far-left filmmaker's Dick Cheney biopic as fair and balanced. The movie is “Vice,” a depiction of former Vice President Dick Cheney. The film’s writer/director is Adam McKay, one of Hollywood’s most outspoken, aggressive liberals. McKay injects his politics into all manner of product. The trailer alone, along with recent McKay interviews, suggests the film comes down hard on Team Cheney. [more...]

No Way Out?

By John LeBoutillier

On the latest edition of REVOLUTION_The Podcast... we explore why Donald Trump's mood has become "dark" and "sour" since the Midterm elections. Is it because Bob Mueller is now setting the agenda and Donald Trump can only react? Is it because he now sees his own perilous legal and political future? Has he figured out that he indeed has no way out? [more...]