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Earlier this week, Elon Musk tweeted an emoji of a white rabbit and told people to follow it … Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D., explained that Musk was “explicitly” encouraging his 120 million followers to start following QAnon, “a domestic terrorism movement.” An explicit directive to follow QAnon would have gone something like, “Follow QAnon,” but she doubled down, revealing that Musk was using “memetic warfare” to conceal his creation of a network to organize violence. QAnon is most commonly associated with “Pizzagate,” which held that there was a pedophile ring being run out of a D.C. pizza shop. We’ve heard...

Strange yet unexpectedly true: Ocasio-Cortez isn’t the single biggest pain in the ass for Pelosi and Democrats from the freshman class.In fact, if not for the obsession on all sides of political media with AOC, Ilhan Omar’s periodic tweet-farts about AIPAC and dual loyalty would be a bigger story than they already are. She’d be the “new face of the party” to righty critics instead of you-know-who.But don’t underestimate her. She’s nothing if not persistent in pushing her favorite anti-semitic canards. We can’t be more than a few weeks away from her approvingly quoting something from the Protocols of...

Congressional Republicans may not celebrate the passage of the tax bill at the inside-the-Beltway equivalent of the Bada Bing, but Talking Points Memo editor and publisher Josh Marshall nonetheless likens them to some notable patrons of that fictional North Jersey strip club. "The absolute need to pass something and to pass it fast led to a legislative process which was akin to driving the truck up to the loading bay and just taking everything. Looting. Or perhaps a mob bust-out," wrote Marshall on Tuesday. "One episode of The Sopranos…was based on the 'bust out' idea. A guy got into debt...

A few moments ago I noticed a new PPP poll showing that Mitch McConnell seems to have been damaged significantly in his home state of Kentucky by the effort to repeal Obamacare. The number that caught my eye was that McConnell has an astonishing 74% disapproval rating with just 18% approving of his performance in office. A hypothetical Democrat beats him by 7 percentage points. But that only tells part of the story. McConnell is down at 18% approval. But Trump has a 60% approval rating in the state. If voters are upset with McConnell’s dogged efforts to repeal Obamacare,...

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National Public Radio reporter Ari Shapiro reports that liberal pundits were seen entering the West Wing:

This is mind-numbing: Revisiting the issue that helped spur her ouster from Congress three years ago, Rep. Cynthia Mc­Kinney led a Capitol Hill hearing Friday on whether the Bush administration was involved in the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. The eight-hour hearing, timed to mark the first anniversary of the release of the Sept. 11 commission's report on the attacks, drew dozens of contrarians and conspiracy theorists who suggest President Bush purposely ignored warnings or may even have had a hand in the attack — claims participants said the commission ignored.That, in and of itself, is nothing unusual for...

Blogger's remorse Posted: December 31, 2004 1:00 a.m. Eastern By Kevin McCullough © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com The combination of the greatest tragedy to hit mankind since Noah, and the emergence of the blogosphere is shining a pretty unflattering light on some from the left when it comes to just how "compassionate" they really are. This last week on my blog, I did a bit of an expose on three center-left blogs and their response to the tragedy of the earthquake-tsunami. The three I picked were the "shining stars" of the center-left blogosphere. Talking Points Memo by Josh Marshall, Wonkette, and the Daily...

Days before the United States launched Operation Iraqi Freedom this past March, a well-known intellectual close to the White House walked me through the necessity and promise of the coming invasion. Whatever rancor it caused in the short term, he said, would pale in comparison to the payoff that would follow. In the months and years to come, Iraqis who had suffered under Saddam Hussein's tyranny would write books and testify to the brutality of the regime, the bankruptcy of the Arab nationalism that stood idly by while they suffered, and the improvement of their lives. That testimony and the...