A New York Times Writer’s Reckless Hit Piece on My Transgender Book

By Ryan T. Anderson, PhD

Anti-trans bigotry exists. It’s wrong, and we should all condemn it. I condemn it in my new book, When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment. But we lose the ability to effectively call out bigotry when all disagreement is condemned as bigoted—and when lies are told in the process.

That’s what happened earlier this week in a New York Times op-ed. Jennifer Finney Boylan, a contributing opinion writer for the Times, and a professor of English at Barnard College of Columbia University, told several bald-faced lies about my work. I’m surprised the editors published it.

For the record, Boylan never contacted me regarding my research or my book. Nor did the Times contact me to verify any of the claims made about me in the column. Boylan claims I wrote “a book that suggests that transgender people are crazy, and that what we [people who identify as transgender] deserve at every turn is scorn, contempt, and belittlement.” Good luck finding a single line from my book to back up either claim. [more...]

In his new book, When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment, Ryan T. Anderson, PhD offers a balanced approach to the policy issues, a nuanced vision of human embodiment, and a sober and honest survey of the human costs of getting human nature wrong. He draws on the best insights from the fields of biology, psychology and philosophy to explore the many contradictions at the heart of the transgender movement.

2-28-18 Great Guests for Your Show

1. Ron Hosko: MS-13 - Just Trump’s Boogeyman?

2. Michelle Seiler-Tucker: Citigroup to Refund $335 Million to its Credit Card Holders

3. Daniel Greenfield: Rep. Scalise, Shot by Dem, Urges Dems to Focus on Mental Illness, Not Guns

4. David Horowitz: How “Identity Politics” is Designed to Destroy Us

5. Dr. Gerard Lameiro: The 2020 Presidential Election Kick-Off

6. John LeBoutillier: Gunnin’ for Change

MS-13 - Just Trump’s Boogeyman?

By Ron Hosko - President of the Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund/ Fmr. Assistant Director of the FBI

It’s estimated that MS-13 has 10,000 members in at least 40 states.  In Northern Virginia and Maryland, once thinning MS-13 ranks, diminished by successful federal prosecutions, have been reconstituted with unaccompanied minors sent to the U.S. by families and gang masters in Central America. The gang’s calling card has been discovered across the region – shallow graves bearing the remains of youthful victims showing evidence of horrific deaths. But now, with an administration willing to actually enforce immigration laws, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) can play a larger role by identifying and deporting illegal alien MS-13 members and recruits before the more complex and longer term investigative efforts are even necessary. [more...]

Citigroup to Refund $335 Million to its Credit Card Holders

By Michelle Seiler-Tucker

If you are a Citigroup card holder, you may be entitled to roughly $190. On Friday, Citi reported with its annual filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission that it has failed to lower interest rates for some credit card holders and $335 million will be reissued. This bank is one of the largest credit card issuers in the U.S. and apprehended the issue after an internal review. The issue is stemmed from their methodology to lower interest rates in return for good behavior by its customers. [more...]

Rep. Scalise, Shot by Dem, Urges Dems to Focus on Mental Illness, Not Guns

By Daniel Greenfield

Lately, the left has been spouting about unchallenged moral authority. Rep. Scalise is the closest thing to a sitting official with unchallenged moral authority on mass shootings. He was seriously wounded when a Bernie Sanders supporter opened fire at practice for a congressional charity baseball game. Instead of seizing on that, Rep. Scalise and other Republicans took the high ground. I don't expect the media or the left to listen to Rep. Scalise. But maybe this should be a reminder that decency doesn't work with the indecent. Republicans should have treated the attack just like Parkland. [more...]

How “Identity Politics” is Designed to Destroy Us

By David Horowitz

In January 2018 when negotiations over the fate of 800,000 “DACA” recipients broke down, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi blamed the impasse on the alleged racism of President Trump and his senior advisers. “Last night the president put forth a plan,” Pelosi told the U.S. Conference of Mayors. “Let me just say what I said last night: that plan is a campaign to make America white again.” This was not only an obvious lie, but a spectacularly brazen one, since Trump’s announced plan would provide a path to citizenship not only for the DACA illegals who are non-white, but for a million additional illegals, mainly from Latin America, who are also mainly non-white. [more...]

NOTE: David’s new book, volume 9 of The Black Book of the American Left, will be out in April.

The 2020 Presidential Election Kick-Off

By Dr. Gerard Lameiro

We haven’t even hardly started the 2018 Congressional elections and the 2020 presidential election is already underway. It was the headline on both the Drudge Report and on Fox News this week. President Trump announced Tuesday that he will definitely run for re-election in 2020. It’s official. That’s 980 days before Election Day in 2020, which is historically early for a presidential re-election run. (Obama, as an example, announced 582 days ahead of 2012.) President Trump also introduced Brad Parscale, an expert on digital campaign strategy, as his campaign manager. He’s been called Trump’s “secret weapon” by a report on 60 Minutes and has been reported to have said that Trump won because of his use of Facebook and Twitter. [more...]

Gunnin’ for Change

By John LeBoutillier

On the latest edition of REVOLUTION_The Podcast... we explore President Trump's reaction to the organic high school student movement that is growing as a result of the Florida shootings. Will it be enough to force the political class to change any laws? Will this movement last? Will President Trump lead on this issue - or will he end up just being an advocate for the status quo? In the Trump-Russia Investigation, are things accelerating now that 13 Russians have been indicted? Is Special Counsel increasing the pressure on Paul Manafort because Manafort has knowledge of something Trump did? Where is this investigation headed? [more...]

2-27-18 Expert Guests for Your Show

1. Carl Schramm: When it Comes to Entrepreneurship, Age 40 is the New 20... and Always Has Been

2. Kerry Lutz: The Rise and Fall (and Rise Again?) of Bitcoin
3. Jeff Ferry: How Facebook Can Help Rebuild U.S. Manufacturing

4. James Hirsen: How to Get Real News in a World of Fake News

5. Lowell Ponte: Will the Supreme Court Defund the Democrats?

When it Comes to Entrepreneurship, Age 40 is the New 20... and Always Has Been

By Carl Schramm

The truth is that the average entrepreneur is nearly 40 years old. There are more Baby Boomers (ages 53 to 71) starting businesses than Millennials (ages 20 to 36) and even more entrepreneurs in Generation X (ages 37 to 52). What’s more, your odds of starting a company that experiences scale growth, becoming really profitable, only increase with age. The “Mozart Myth” leads us to believe that if you haven’t started your first company in your twenties then you’re never going to be an entrepreneur. But age, financial security, and experience — most often at an established company — are far more likely predictors of an entrepreneurial career. It turns out that corporations are often far more effective in training entrepreneurs than are most business schools or incubators. [more...]

The Rise and Fall (and Rise Again?) of Bitcoin
By Kerry Lutz

This wasn’t supposed to happen. As this article is written, Bitcoin is trading around $11,200. It’s up from breaking the $6,000 barrier, but this could well be a dead cat bounce. That’s down from nearly $20,000 in mid-December. After all, everyone knows that Bitcoin only goes up.... just like the stock market and housing prices. What gives? What’s happened in cryptocurrencies was completely predictable. In fact, I wrote an article about this very scenario back on December 25, 2017. Bitcoin and all of its Johnny-come-lately followers are in for some more tough times ahead. If it retraces 80-90 percent of its gains the past year, that will put it in a range of $3,800-5,600. Such a pullback would not be out of the realm of experience. When a bubble pops, it’s look out below. [more...]

How Facebook Can Help Rebuild U.S. Manufacturing

By Jeff Ferry

How could Facebook regain public and political support? Here’s a simple proposal: the company is investing $14 billion this year on capital spending. That’s a huge sum of money (and double its 2017 spend). The vast majority of it goes on the data centers Facebook is building in the U.S. and worldwide. And the vast majority of that money goes to the servers, storage, and networking gear crammed, floor to ceiling, into those data centers. Today, virtually all that money is going to Asian-manufactured IT equipment, simply because all that equipment is manufactured over there and almost none of it here. What if Facebook said it would spend a quarter of its data center budget on U.S.-manufactured equipment? If Facebook committed to spend one quarter of its IT budget on U.S.-made product, and was followed by other Internet giants, the U.S. might soon have some 3 million people working on manufacturing the products that make the Internet hum. [more...]

How to Get Real News in a World of Fake News

By James Hirsen

Assuming that Google’s bias is extensive and is unlikely to be addressed, conservatives cannot sit idly by and continue to use the search site. In the business world, there are antitrust laws that exist to protect consumers from monopolies, which artificially raise prices and stifle innovation. Perhaps people who are seeking objectivity should consider using an alternative approach when conducting Internet searches. Considering the fact that Google and most other search engines track and mine personal information without an individual’s knowledge or consent, it becomes even more important to adopt an alternative approach. This brings us to some Google alternatives that may surprise the reader. [more...]

Will the Supreme Court Defund the Democrats?

By Lowell Ponte

This will be a central issue this week as the U.S. Supreme Court considers whether a government worker can be compelled to pay money to a public employee union. Although not strictly union dues, the “agency” fees required by such unions typically range from 50 percent to 100 percent of union dues. Most would agree that compelling a citizen to pay a hefty hunk of his or her wages to any political party would violate that person’s rights of free speech and freedom of association. The very point of civil service reform more than a century ago was to remove government jobs from the corrupt old political “spoils” system, named after the saying “To the winner go the spoils,” through which activists in either winning party were given government jobs to reward their partisan loyalty. When public workers are forced to pay unions that have used their coerced money to become the biggest funders of Democratic Party candidates, this violates their rights and corrupts our democratic republic. [more...]

Parents Just Lost Custody of Teenage Daughter Who Wants to ‘Transition’ to a Boy: What You Need to Know

By Ryan T. Anderson, PhD

Parents in Ohio lost custody of their 17-year-old daughter Friday because a judge ruled that she should be allowed to receive therapy, including testosterone therapy, to identify as a boy. Without commenting on the specifics of this case just outside Cincinnati, Americans can expect to see more cases like it as government officials side with transgender activists to promote a radical view of the human person and endorse entirely experimental medical procedures. At stake are not only parental rights, but the well-being of children who suffer from gender dysphoria. Here’s what you need to know. [more...]
 
In his new book, When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment, Ryan T. Anderson, PhD offers a balanced approach to the policy issues, a nuanced vision of human embodiment, and a sober and honest survey of the human costs of getting human nature wrong. He draws on the best insights from the fields of biology, psychology and philosophy to explore the many contradictions at the heart of the transgender movement.

2-21-18 Great Guests for Your Show

1. Michael Stumo: Infrastructure Plan Must Not Succumb to Naïve Free-Trade Mythology

2. Michelle Seiler-Tucker: Volkswagen Making 2018 its Best Year Ever

3. Daniel Greenfield: The NRA Wins Because Love is Stronger than Hate

4. Bruce Thornton: Why the Media Fell in Love with NK’s Kim Yo-Jong

5. Dr. Gerard Lameiro: Are Gun Violence Statistics Overstated?

 

 

Infrastructure Plan Must Not Succumb to Naïve Free-Trade Mythology

By Michael Stumo

 

In a meeting with House and Senate members this week, President Trump was reportedly surprised to learn that his newly released infrastructure plan didn’t include any “Buy America” requirements. The president had issued an executive order last April stating: “It shall be the policy of the executive branch to buy American and hire American.” Administration staff writing the initial infrastructure plan appear to have overlooked that order, however. But an infrastructure package cannot create jobs in the U.S. if it exports taxpayer dollars to Asia and Europe. Thus, the president’s proposal is far less strategic than it should be, and the administration should promptly revise it to incorporate Buy America requirements. [more...]

 

 

Volkswagen Making 2018 its Best Year Ever

By Michelle Seiler-Tucker

 

Volkswagen has made a great start to 2018. Its sales are up 10% compared to January of 2017. Chief Executive Fred Kappler said that this was the best start for Volkswagen in its history, with significant growth in all regions.  The auto giant, which owns Porsche, Audi and Skoda, was struggling due to its diesel emissions scandal which has already cost the company more than $30 billion. But the company seems to have bounced back in spectacular fashion. The main contributors to the sales boom the German auto maker is experiencing is due to China, and the SUV. [more...]

 

 

The NRA Wins Because Love is Stronger than Hate

By Daniel Greenfield

 

Politico has a piece headlined, "Why the NRA Always Wins." "Your burning outrage about the Parkland school massacre is already starting to flicker," it begins. The assumption is that the "You" who reads this is also against the 2nd Amendment. Strip away the biased language and it's true. A movement built on exploiting the occasional crisis to hate guns is never going to be a match for those whose culture it is. That's always been the prohibitionist problem. [more...]

 

 

Why the Media Fell in Love with NK’s Kim Yo-Jong

By Bruce Thornton

 

There’s a pattern in the progressives’ admiration for Castro, Mussolini, Lenin, Stalin, Chavez, and most recently Kim Jong Un’s sister, the head of propaganda for the North Korean terror state whom the left’s media lackeys effusively praised during her appearance at the Olympics. No matter how blood-stained, any tyrant can be an object of the left’s affection, as long as he or she is on the side of “revolution” against the hated capitalists and the repressed bourgeoisie. This century-long love affair explains the endless parade of useful idiots making pilgrimages to totalitarian hell-holes like Stalin’s Russia, Chavez’s Venezuela or Castro’s Cuba, there to swoon over the Potemkin heaven on earth. It also accounts in part for the surreal, cult-like worship of the tin-pot messiah Barack Obama, whose very trouser crease could thrill the starry-eyed pundit, whose banal rhetoric could send tingles down the leg of the most hard-bitten journalist. [more...]

 

 

Are Gun Violence Statistics Overstated?

By Dr. Gerard Lameiro

 

After the gun violence and tragic massacre of 17 people in Florida last week, the Left has been pushing hard to further regulate or eliminate guns and to diminish the influence of the NRA. Actually, that’s a predictable response from the Left that includes the old mainstream media and the Democrats. While acknowledging the tragedy in Florida, let’s look at some gun violence statistics to put this terrible incident into some perspective. [more...]

2-20-18 Excellent Guests for Your Show

1. Jeff Ferry: Solar Industry Gears up for More U.S. Production as Tariffs Take Effect

2. Dr. Gerard Lameiro: Russian Indictments are Good News for Trump

3. Lowell Ponte: It’s Time to Disarm Certain Mentally Ill People

4. Tudor Dixon: What America’s Children are Being Taught

5. James Hirsen: Russian Indictments Could Be a Decoy

6. John LeBoutillier: For Democrats, the GOP's State of Turmoil Should Look Familiar

 

 

Solar Industry Gears up for More U.S. Production as Tariffs Take Effect

By Jeff Ferry

 

Safeguard tariffs imposed by President Trump on imported solar cells and panels have been in effect for just over a week, but already we’re seeing moves to boost U.S. solar production in response. No fewer than nine solar manufacturing companies are planning to launch or expand solar manufacturing in the U.S., according to our latest information. This is great news for the U.S. solar industry, because it shows that tariffs can produce the intended effect of boosting a U.S. industry, and, with it, jobs, research and development. It further suggests the U.S. has the opportunity to regain its leadership position in this critical industry. [more...]

 

 

Russian Indictments are Good News for Trump

By Dr. Gerard Lameiro

 

Last Friday, the Special Counsel Robert Mueller issued Russian indictments.  Specifically, he indicted 13 Russians and 3 Russian companies for their alleged interference before and after the 2016 presidential election. Allegedly, the purpose was to sow discord into the U.S. political system and into the 2016 presidential election. Their efforts began in or around 2014 before Trump was even a declared presidential candidate. Since the indictments show the Russians allegedly communicated with “unwitting individuals” in the Trump campaign, there is no indication of a Trump campaign – Russian collusion that many on the Left have been claiming for about 16 months. [more...]

 

 

It’s Time to Disarm Certain Mentally Ill People

By Lowell Ponte

 

In the wake of the Florida school gunman’s killing of 17 victims, it’s time we took violent mental illness seriously. Before we talk of further limits on Second Amendment constitutional citizen rights to keep and bear arms, we ought to be willing to disarm those who have openly exceeded the First Amendment by expressing their wish to shoot or otherwise violently attack those who hold different political views. They are shouting “Fire!” and sparking fires in a crowded theater. And, it’s time to crack down on those sick people who have threatened to attack or kill conservative office holders and President Trump. [more...]

 

 

What America’s Children are Being Taught

By Tudor Dixon, CEO of Lumen Student News providing unbiased news to America’s middle and high school students - LIVE FROM C-PAC

 

A recent poll by YouGov finds 58 percent of millennials would prefer to live in “a socialist, communist or fascist nation rather than a capitalistic one,” the Washington Times reports, with a staggering 44 percent preferring socialism. “This troubling turn highlights widespread historical illiteracy in American society regarding socialism and the systemic failure of our education system to teach students about the genocide, destruction, and misery caused by communism since the Bolshevik Revolution one hundred years ago,” Marion Smith, executive director of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, said in a statement. Only two years ago, the same group found 36 percent of millennials have a positive opinion of socialism; so, the trend is troubling, to say the least. [more...]

 

 

Russian Indictments Could Be a Decoy

By James Hirsen

 

The timing of the recent announcement by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein regarding the indictments of thirteen Russians appears to be part of an effort to provide possible cover for the FBI, Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, and the Democratic Party-aligned mainstream media. The hasty public release occurred via a press statement by Rosenstein on an unusual choice of days, a Friday afternoon that was a lead-in to a three-day holiday weekend. It is highly possible that the intention was to have the public focus on the headlines coming out of the press conference rather than zeroing in on the underlying facts of the matters at hand. [more...]

 

 

For Democrats, the GOP's State of Turmoil Should Look Familiar

By John LeBoutillier

 

By 1965 there was a small but growing part of the Democratic Party that would soon blossom into the New Left: an anti-military, anti-authority movement that idolized foreign revolutions in Russia (Lenin), Cuba (Castro) and Red China (Mao). That left wing of the Democratic Party trusted those anti-American dictators more than they trusted J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI, or Gen. William Westmoreland and the U.S. Army. Today, amazingly, more Republicans trust Vladimir Putin, a career KGB agent who hates America, than the FBI, when comparing various polls. The once-Grand Old Party has morphed into the 1960s Democratic Party. [more...]

2-15-18 Great Guests for Your Show

1. Stephen Thayer: Getting Criminal Illegal Immigrants out of America
2. Michelle Seiler-Tucker: Is the Market Correction Over?
3. Daniel Greenfield: The Price of Elizabeth Warren’s “Cherokee” Identity Politics
4. John LeBoutillier: Everybody Loves a Parade
5. Michael Stumo: Another Way NAFTA Encourages U.S. Firms to Ship Jobs Overseas


Getting Criminal Illegal Immigrants out of America
By Stephen Thayer - LAW ENFORCEMENT ACTION NETWORK

It’s happened again. An illegal alien deported from this country multiple times returns and kills an American citizen. This time, Indianapolis Colts linebacker Edwin Jackson and his Uber driver were killed by suspected drunk driver Manuel Orrego-Savala, a Guatemalan deported from this country in 2007 and again in 2009. When will we learn that not preventing illegals from entering and roaming free in our country has consequences - in this case, deadly consequences. This senseless killing was noted by President Trump when he tweeted that it was disgraceful that a person illegally in the country killed Jackson. He also tweeted, that “this is just one of many such preventable tragedies. We must get the Dems to get tough on the border, and with illegal immigration, FAST.” [more...]

 

Is the Market Correction Over?

By Michelle Seiler-Tucker

Whether the sell-off in stocks is over is still a question, but there is an increased attention to inflation and rising rates due to bullish trends in the stock market and the U.S. economy. Investing in stocks and businesses can be a difficult, emotional transaction. It is imperative to review each investment opportunity with scrutiny regardless of consumer confidence and optimism. When evaluating the attractiveness of an investment, it is important to analyze the underlying fundamentals of the business such as its financials, employees, and management. Moreover, it is important to be aware of exogenous factors - competition within the industry, geopolitical influences, and the general state of the economy. [more...]

 

The Price of Elizabeth Warren’s “Cherokee” Identity Politics

By Daniel Greenfield

I name Elizabeth Warren in the headline, but it's really the left. Elizabeth Warren, who clearly wants to run for president, delivered a professionally written speech at the National Congress of American Indians. The speech ties together two cynical legs that drive the left: 1) Anti-Trumpism - Warren has figured out that her bizarre claim to be Cherokee becomes more politically acceptable if she wraps it in attacks on President Trump's use of the name Pocahontas; 2) The political blackmail of identity politics - Conservatives missed a crucial element in some of the criticism from American Indian activists of Warren. Their criticism had less to do with Warren adopting a fake identity she had no right to than failing to care about Indian issues.  [more...]

 

Everybody Loves a Parade

By John LeBoutillier

On the latest edition of REVOLUTION_The Podcast... we examine the accelerating
Trump-Russia narrative, the plunging Dow Jones Index, the outlook for the November mid-terms, another possible White House staff shake-up and - yes - a national military parade. [more...]

Another Way NAFTA Encourages U.S. Firms to Ship Jobs Overseas

It's called 'mandatory arbitration' and is a huge incentive for big corporations to take paychecks to foreign countries
By Michael Stumo

An ironic aspect of the #MeToo movement is the revelation that mandatory arbitration clauses in women’s employment contracts have sometimes helped to keep sexual harassment claims secret. But in our daily lives, we all “agree” to similar mandatory arbitration clauses when downloading software, for example, or accepting a new credit card. Big business forces us to “choose” arbitration rather than public courts to resolve disputes because they say arbitration is less expensive and more efficient. On a larger scale, international trade deals like the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) contain similar “mandatory arbitration clauses” that allow companies to sue foreign governments for changing rules that interfere with their future profit expectations. [more...]

2-13-18 Expert Guests for Your Show

1. Lowell Ponte: Courting Female Votes

2. Dr. Gerard Lameiro: Trump Rebuilding America’s Infrastructure

3. Michael Stumo: Another Way NAFTA Encourages U.S. Firms to Ship Jobs Overseas

4. Tudor Dixon: NOW Feminist Defends Macy’s “Empowering” Hijab

5. James Hirsen: Uma’s Quentin Tarantino Story

6. Jeff Ferry: 2017 Trade Deficit Holds Back GDP Growth

Courting Female Votes

By Lowell Ponte

With President Donald Trump’s approval rising in recent polls, and with Democrat prospects for the November elections sinking, it is obvious why the Leftist media is suddenly trying to polarize America’s largest bloc of voters – women. Last Sunday, ABC’s “This Week” mobilized a hate fest condemning the President and Chief of Staff General John Kelly for not acting instantly to fire White House Staff Secretary Rob Porter, accused of domestic violence by two former wives. Despite the current scandal, one of Porter’s ex-wives days ago told the U.K. Daily Mail: “I don’t want to be married to him, but I definitely want him in the White House and the position he is in. I think his integrity and ability to do his job is impeccable.” [more...]

Trump Rebuilding America’s Infrastructure

By Dr. Gerard Lameiro

At $1.5 trillion, President Trump’s infrastructure plan is HUGE. It’s a 10-year investment program that is a federal, state, local, and private partnership that will likely change America for the better over the next decade. Trump wants to boost investment in American infrastructure. He also wants to streamline the process of getting permits for new projects and strengthen rural America. Plus, he wants to modernize our workforce. Without a doubt, President Trump’s plan will change the look and feel of America’s infrastructure: Airports, roads, bridges and power lines will all see profound change and improvements. In some cases, President Trump’s plan will even impact its ownership. [more...]

Another Way NAFTA Encourages U.S. Firms to Ship Jobs Overseas

It's called 'mandatory arbitration' and is a huge incentive for big corporations to take paychecks to foreign countries

By Michael Stumo

An ironic aspect of the #MeToo movement is the revelation that mandatory arbitration clauses in women’s employment contracts have sometimes helped to keep sexual harassment claims secret. But in our daily lives, we all “agree” to similar mandatory arbitration clauses when downloading software, for example, or accepting a new credit card. Big business forces us to “choose” arbitration rather than public courts to resolve disputes because they say arbitration is less expensive and more efficient. On a larger scale, international trade deals like the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) contain similar “mandatory arbitration clauses” that allow companies to sue foreign governments for changing rules that interfere with their future profit expectations. [more...]

NOW Feminist Defends Macy’s “Empowering” Hijab

By Tudor Dixon, CEO of Lumen Student News providing unbiased news to America’s middle and high school students

Our young people are being bombarded with images of the American flag-style hijab worn by many during the recent women’s march and feminists are screaming “empowerment” at the top of their lungs. Sonia Ossorio, the president of The National Organization of Women of New York, touted a new line of oppressive garments Macy’s will be rolling out soon during an interview on Fox News with Tucker Carlson. Watch the mind-bending interview. [more...]

Uma’s Quentin Tarantino Story

By James Hirsen

Film director Quentin Tarantino has come under fire in the wake of Uma Thurman’s recent revelations to the New York Times that she was treated abysmally on the set of her star vehicle, “Kill Bill.” Ever since the predatory behavior of disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein went public, Thurman has been haunted by her own arduous encounters with Weinstein. In the Times article, though, Thurman emotionally recounts the painful injuries she suffered due to an on-set accident that she claims was covered up by Weinstein and others associated with the movie. The actress also reveals that she was spit on and choked by Tarantino during the filming. [more...]

2017 Trade Deficit Holds Back GDP Growth

By Jeff Ferry

The U.S. trade deficit last year surged 12.1%, rising at three times the rate of nominal GDP growth, hampering U.S. economic performance, employment levels, and incomes. The Department of Commerce reported last week that the U.S. trade deficit in goods and services came in at $566.0 billion, an increase of $61.2 billion over 2016. The trade deficit lowered U.S. GDP by 2.9% in 2017, as compared to 2.7% in 2016. All the other major components of GDP -consumption, investment, and government spending - rose, leaving the trade deficit as the only negative force. [more...]

2-7-18 Expert Guests for Your Show

1. Jeff Ferry: The Beltway Squabbles Over America’s Overvalued Dollar

2. Michael Stumo: Five Reasons Why the Big 2017 Trade Deficit Affects You

3. Dr. Gerard Lameiro: A Quick Guide to the D.C. Swamp

4. Daniel Greenfield: The Clinton Dossier - Exposing the Collusion Between the DOJ and the Clintons

5. Bruce Thornton: The Dems’ 19th Nervous Breakdown

6. John LeBoutillier: The Memo - Scud or Dud?

The Beltway Squabbles Over America’s Overvalued Dollar

By Jeff Ferry

It may have been obscured by the State of the Union address, but there was quite a kerfuffle in Washington recently. Clinton-era Treasury Secretary Larry Summers went semi-ballistic over comments made by his successor, Steven Mnuchin. During the recent World Economic Forum in Davos, Treasury Secretary Mnuchin made a passing remark that “obviously a weaker dollar is good for us as it relates to trade and opportunities.” Summers quickly took to the pundit-sphere to criticize Mnuchin for perceived failures in “style and substance.” Specifically, Summers lectured Mnuchin that there are “good economic reasons the last seven Treasury secretaries stayed with the strong dollar mantra.” [more...]

Five Reasons Why the Big 2017 Trade Deficit Affects You

By Michael Stumo

The big news this week is that the annual U.S. trade deficit increased in 2017 by 12% over 2016. Here are five reasons you should care: 1) Your stock market gains could be at risk; 2) Your wages don’t grow as fast; 3) Our economy grows more slowly; 4) Foreign countries have nationalistic trade strategies; 5) A “strong” dollar hurts you and your family. Bottom line: Countries like China, South Korea and Germany benefit from weak currencies when selling goods in the U.S. [more...]

A Quick Guide to the D.C. Swamp

By Dr. Gerard Lameiro

With the FISA memo, the Schiff memo, and all the finger-pointing, what’s going on in the D.C. swamp now? Are the Democrats trying to protect Clinton’s potentially criminal activity? Are they trying to protect Obama and the politicization of his administration? Are the Democrats trying to protect the Obama FBI, the Obama Department of Justice (DOJ), the Obama State Department, and the Obama IRS? Are the DOJ and FBI trying to protect themselves from their potentially illegal efforts to exonerate Clinton and to cause trouble for presidential candidate and then, president-elect Trump? [more...]

The Clinton Dossier - Exposing the Collusion Between the DOJ and the Clintons

By Daniel Greenfield

There were many damning revelations in the Nunes memo released by a House Intelligence Committee vote. But the most damning of them all doesn’t raise questions about process, but about motive. The memo told us that the FISA application would not have happened without the Steele dossier. The document known as the “Steele dossier” was a work product of the Clinton campaign. Not only was Christopher Steele, the former British intel agent who purportedly produced the document, working for an organization hired by the Clinton campaign, but he shared a memo with the FBI from Cody Shearer, a Clinton operative, listing some of the same allegations as the ones in his dossier. That memo has raised questions about whether Steele had been doing original research or just dressing up a smear by Shearer. [more...]

The Dems’ 19th Nervous Breakdown

By Bruce Thornton

Staggered by Donald Trump’s unthinkable victory in the presidential election, Democrats have continued to be pummeled by the Trump’s tax reform, the supercharged economy, his withering tweet-scorn for them and their media flunkies, their own failed government shut-down, and a rousing State of the Union address that raised his poll numbers and made the Democrat Congressmen in the audience look like pouting prom wallflowers. And now comes the “Memo,” the House Intelligence Committee’s exposure of the slow-motion coup engineered by partisan FBI and DOJ functionaries, and other deep-state members of the “resistance.” Now it’s up to “We the People” to demand accountability from these abusers of the public trust and violators of the Constitution. [more...]

The Memo - Scud or Dud?

By John LeBoutillier

On the latest edition of REVOLUTION_The Podcast... we analyze the fall-out from the Nunes memo: what does it mean for the Trump-Russia investigation? What is next: Does Trump fire Mueller before he's forced to answer questions under oath? Is this what The Memo is really all about - to give Trump "cover"? What of the role of the Fox News Channel? Has it become the Trump News Channel? What about the Republican Party? Has it morphed into the Trump Party? Where is all of this headed? [more...]