"It is very difficult to maintain any kind of a 'common cause' with a Federal government which appears to have lost all common sense." -- Claire K. Rivero

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Social media applications are a constant topic of controversy.

While some tout that its great children can connect, there are also downsides. Recently, social media apps and big tech platforms have come under fire for hate speech, misinformation, spying on Americans, and the harmful effects social media can have on teens. Now, one state is paving the way to reign them in and limit the harm they are doing.

FTX victims sue YouTubers who promoted now-failed cryptocurrency exchange for $1 billion malterwitty Mon, 03/27/2023 - 09:23

Victims who lost money following the collapse of FTX are suing finance YouTubers who promoted the now-failed cryptocurrency exchange, which was run by disgraced CEO and left-wing megadonor Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF).

According to reports, the plaintiffs are seeking $1 billion in damages in a class-action suit against these social media “influencers” who peddled the toxic company and its products to the unsuspecting masses.

The Man Who Leaked the Pentagon Papers Is Scared MikeRivero Mon, 03/27/2023 - 09:19

Why aren’t there more? It’s a question I’ve often asked myself. Many of the people whistle-blowers work with know the same things and actually regard the information in the same way — that it’s wrong — but they keep their mouths shut. As Snowden said to me and others, “Everybody I dealt with said that what we were doing was wrong. It’s unconstitutional. We’re getting information here about Americans that we shouldn’t be collecting.” The same thing was true for many of my colleagues in government who opposed the war. Of course, people are worried about the consequences.

New Childrens Book She Is She Combats Attempt to Deny Females Their Womanhood MikeRivero Mon, 03/27/2023 - 09:15

In a day and age when libraries are holding drag queen story hours and pro-transgender children’s books like “I Am Jazz” are being pushed on kids, pro-family content is needed more than ever.

Bankrupt Banks, Food Crisis, Mandatory Vaccine and Our Grim Future. This Time, the Virus has Infected Money Itself MikeRivero Mon, 03/27/2023 - 09:12

Mark Petrakis shared an Ayn Rand quote on Facebook today that left me thinking for hours, especially as I watched the spreading waves left behind by the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank. The quote describes how you can tell when your society is doomed.

You Will Be Shocked by How Much Money Is Being Pulled out of U.S. Banks, and Now the Biggest Bank in Germany Is in Trouble MikeRivero Mon, 03/27/2023 - 09:08

A trillion dollars is a lot of money.  If you stacked a billion dollar bills on top of one another, the pile would be 67.9 miles high, but if you stacked a trillion dollar bills on top of one another the pile would be 67,866 miles high.  And if you lined up a trillion dollar bills end to end, the line of dollar bills would be a staggering 96,906,656 miles long.  That is longer than the distance from the Earth to the Sun.  A trillion dollars is such a vast amount of money that it is truly difficult to comprehend, but as you will see below, that much money has already been pulled out of “vuln

Warriors Don't Want to Fight for a Woke, Anti-American Military MikeRivero Mon, 03/27/2023 - 09:04

The House Armed Services Subcommittee for Military Personnel held a hearing last week to discuss the growing national security crisis arising from the military's cratering recruitment numbers.   A potpourri of Pentagon nincompoops all universally lauded the Defense Department's ideological obsession with "lived experiences" and "diversi

Pursuit of the Green Dream Will Make Inequality a LOT Worse MikeRivero Mon, 03/27/2023 - 09:04

There are different ways of looking at the issue of human inequality. The modern Left obsesses about inequality as measured in dollars of income.  But if one measures inequality based on quality-of-life, it quickly becomes clear that we have achieved great progress toward equality on the things that really count. Much of that progress is at risk of reversal from imposition of the green dream.

Rockstar Ted Nugent told Trump rallygoers in Waco, Texas on Saturday night that he wants his tax dollars back from the "homosexual weirdo" ruling Ukraine.

"I am a guitar player, I have a couple of demands. Secure my border," Nugent said to cheers. "I have a couple of really good ideas: give me my tax dollars back. I didn't authorize killing babies at Planned Parenthood....I want my money back. I didn't authorize any money to Ukraine to some homosexual weirdo!"

During a recent event at the Jesuit-run Georgetown University, self-professed “Catholic” Rep. Nancy Pelosi picked back up her fight with Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone and expressed support for the idea of women priests.