When I was a kid in the 1960s and 1970s, almost everybody was familiar with the prime-time schedules of the major networks. In those long-ago days before cable TV, the Internet, home video recording, and DVDs, broadcast TV was the...
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Wed, 04 Dec 2024 03:17:31 +0000When President Joe Biden leaves the White House on Jan. 20, he will be entitled to an annual presidential pension equivalent to a sitting cabinet secretary’s salary: $246,400. That’s already generous but, thanks to a quirk in the law, taxpayers...
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Wed, 04 Dec 2024 03:17:29 +0000I was among the first — maybe the first — to publish in a serious journal (this one) exactly who and what Kamala Harris is. It is documented — Aug. 12, 2020, Kamala the Mattress. Rush Limbaugh, of blessed memory, loved...
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Wed, 04 Dec 2024 03:12:00 +0000Muhammad: A Critical Biography By Robert Spencer (Bombardier Books, 352 pages, $35) As the usual pace of American life slowed with the approach of the Thanksgiving holiday, one of the headlines that went unnoticed involved a decapitation. The Daily Mail...
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Wed, 04 Dec 2024 03:05:18 +0000“Today we must reckon with the harsh reality that authoritarianism has arrived in America, that it’s broadly popular, and that millions of our fellow citizens have given it their votes,” writes the LA Times. “This was a conquering of the...
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Wed, 04 Dec 2024 03:05:16 +0000In July of 1863 at the battle of Gettysburg, Confederate forces reached their high-water mark during Pickett’s charge. While no one knew it as a high-water mark at the time, that point marked the beginning of the end for the...
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Wed, 04 Dec 2024 03:05:15 +0000MSNBC’s postelection viewership decline has surpassed its executives’ worst fears. Several top shows have lost more than half of their viewers since Nov. 5. This includes Rachel Maddow’s flagship show, as well as Joy Reid’s ReidOut, The 11th Hour with...
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Wed, 04 Dec 2024 03:05:13 +0000In recent weeks, a growing number of American companies are removing woke policies from their agendas. In this episode of The Spectator P.M. Podcast, hosts Ellie Gardey Holmes and Lyrah Margo discuss how prominent companies — such as Walmart, Ford, and Lowe’s — are...
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Tue, 03 Dec 2024 19:31:26 +0000For 20 days, MSNBC has accelerated its attacks on former Fox News host Pete Hegseth, who made headwinds when President-elect Donald Trump nominated him as his defense secretary. On Monday, “Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough led with what he called...
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Tue, 03 Dec 2024 14:49:33 +0000I’m back in the big city. I’m so happy I think I’m going to come down with a renal colic. You don’t really know what a traffic jam is until you see a mayor of a major capital city claiming...
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