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Plans for a National Mall concert series celebrating the nation’s 250th anniversary fell apart, leaving behind canceled performances and scathing Truth Social posts. On May 27, Freedom 250 — a public-private partnership tasked with celebrating the nation’s 250th anniversary — announced a lineup of nine musical acts that would perform June 25 to July 3 in the nation’s capital. But in the days that followed, the majority of the named performers bowed out, with most saying they feared the event had become politicized. The controversy quickly overtook social media, including inspiring a new version of a popular Secretary of State…
Most Americans knew the late Scott Adams for Dilbert, his beloved comic strip about an office worker and his dimwitted colleagues. Later in life, Adams became known as a kind of right-wing shock jockey. But the cartoonist caught the FBI’s attention for something a little bit different: the sex crimes investigation into former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R–Fl.) and a bizarre blackmail scheme that grew out of it. The FBI released its files on Adams last week, five months after his death, in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request from Reason. The records include the heavily redacted results…
On this week’s episode of the RealClearInvestigations Podcast, RCI Editor J. Peder Zane and RCI Senior Reporter James Varney speak with author Andrew G. Bostom about the rise of Sharia law in the U.S. and the EU and challenges it poses to those western laws, customs and society. Source link
Judge Eleanor Ross, who serves on the federal bench in Atlanta, engaged in multiple acts of misconduct. She carried on a secret affair with an Atlanta police department officer for nearly two years, repeatedly had loud sex in her chambers, lied about her trysts, and obstructed the investigation. Each of these actions warranted a public reprimand and an impeachment inquiry. But one of the more stunning allegations has flown under the radar: Judge Ross routinely signs judicial orders her law clerks prepare without even reading them. Indeed, it seems she never even talks about these cases with her clerks, so…
President Donald Trump said that “Dumocrats” and “unpatriotic Republicans” are harming his negotiating position with Iran. “Iran really wants to make a deal, and it will be a good one for the U.S.A. and those that are with us,” the President wrote on Truth Social Monday. “But don’t the Dumocrats, and various seemingly unpatriotic Republicans, understand that it is MUCH tougher for me to properly do my job and negotiate, when political hacks keep negatively ‘chirping,’ at levels never seen before.” Trump did not receive any authorization from Congress before starting the war with Iran. The House and Senate have…
Independent conservative journalist Nick Sortor says he infiltrated a leftist “medic” training class preparing to protest against ICE in New Jersey, where demonstrations against an immigration detention center have spiraled out of control into violence this week. Attendees receive brand-new high-end gear, including respirators, gloves, goggles, and more, to prepare for organized demonstrations outside a federal immigration detention facility in Newark. Sortor describes it as evidence of well-funded, Antifa-style support networks rather than spontaneous protests. “These people are basically Antifa’s support staff,” Sortor said. “Rioters are each handed ~$100 of equipment to pretend to be medics,” he said. “And they…
The vice president hopes to win the union’s 2028 endorsement by backing Big Labor priorities. Source link
I’m a humanistic weirdo, and as such I’m not sure where I belong in this modern culture war. I love truth and reason — I’ve built a career on them — but I belong to a humanistic tradition that refuses to stop at the head and leave the heart out of it. And these days there aren’t many of us. So when I look at the people we’ve come to call “anti-woke intellectuals”—many of whom have written for Skeptic or appeared as guests on The Michael Shermer Show podcast—I don’t see them the way either side wants me to. I…
Magnifica Humanitas lands its strongest blows not against machines, but against the old human temptation to mistake technological power for moral authority. Source link
PATRICK MCHENRY: But the facts remain. So he’s raised money. He’s fixed fountains. He’s restored statues. Parks are now accessible here in Washington, D.C. That’ll live far beyond this presidency. That should be a public good, and I think is a public good.JON KARL: And it is, I mean, it’s a priority for him to fix this stuff and needs fixing up.MCHENRY: The 250th anniversary is fantastic. And that should be beyond politics. But everything is so political now. Fixing all the stuff in the National Mall, what I can say, and I agree, Jon, Washington is a beautiful city.…