The wildfires, which continue to devour Los Angeles neighborhoods, have placed the diversity, equity, and inclusion practices at the Los Angeles Fire Department under intense scrutiny as the agency struggles to contain the blazes. But there is one particular executive who perfectly demonstrated the way in which wokeness has distracted...

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The lethal wildfires ravaging the Los Angeles area since last week have fixed Americans' attention on failed California Democrats. Now, it appears that the establishment might have handed its media allies a scapegoat, albeit one who actually deserves blame. In an October 2021 interview with The New York Times --...

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Multi-Grammy Award-winning artist Carrie Underwood is reportedly slated to perform at President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration next week. Underwood, 41, will sing “America the Beautiful” on Jan. 20 at the U.S. Capitol, according to a picture of the inaugural program shared by political reporter Matthew Foldi. The Armed Forces Chorus and...

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Tennessee Republican Rep. Andy Ogles unveiled legislation allowing President-elect Donald Trump to move toward purchasing Greenland once he returns to office. After weeks of the incoming commander-in-chief making gestures toward annexing the island territory, the “Make Greenland Great Again Act” will authorize Trump to “seek to enter into negotiations with...

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Fox News host and commentator Will Cain is slated to receive his own afternoon time slot on the Fox News Channel, the company revealed on Monday. Fox News Media revealed several changes to programming in a news release that included the announcement of “The Will Cain Show,” which will take...

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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced Monday that he has directed for the U.S. flag to be flown at full-staff on state properties for President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration next week. Following the death of former President Jimmy Carter on Dec. 29, President Joe Biden ordered that the American flag be flown...

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Police in Los Angeles County detained an alleged looter dressed as a firefighter on Sunday in the Pacific Palisades area as wildfires destroy property and force evacuations. Eric Fox, who runs Fox First on Scene Photography, saw a pair of apparent looters on a moped and a scooter, but he...

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Police detained two people at the home of Vice President Kamala Harris in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles early Saturday morning. "The Los Angeles Police Department said a call came into the West L.A. station around 4:40 a.m., reporting a potential burglary on the Vice President’s property," KTLA-TV reported. The...

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The fires in Los Angeles, tragic as they are, exist at the intersection of nature and ennoscriptment. Perhaps nobody exemplifies this fact better than Kim Kardashian. As perhaps everyone who's been paying attention knows by now, Southern California is in the midst of a drought. This isn't a matter of...

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There's been no shortage of ignominy and rightful condemnation to go around when it comes to the political incompetence that led to the Los Angeles wildfires. Now it's the time for Janisse Quiñones, the $750,000-a-year CEO of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, to feel the wrath. Oh,...

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California Democrat Gavin Newsom continued his undisputed reign as the worst governor in America as deadly wildfires destroy his state. In the latest debacle, Newsom's giddy demeanor and bizarre antics ignited speculation that he might be high on drugs, or something worse, after he repeatedly wiggled his shoulders and swayed...

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Starbucks is reversing a policy that allowed individuals to remain in stores without paying for any items as part of new rules meant to increase staff and customer safety. The coffee chain will start to post signage explicitly banning harassment, violence, threatening language, and other vices like smoking, panhandling, and...

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With just about a week left of his presidency, Joe Biden -- and his son, Hunter Biden -- are getting excoriated again. But this lambasting isn't in the court of public or legal opinion, as they have been recently. This is coming straight from the special counsel's office at the...

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Whaling is the most despised form of hunting in the world. Or at least it was until Donald Trump replaced Melville's whale as the target of unscrupulous, unprincipled, and sea-sick hunters using imaginary legal harpoons. The "Great Orange Leader" replaced the "Great White Whale." In both cases the quarry vanquished...

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Americans who've been paying attention have known for years that Kamala Harris is a classless act. From her disgraceful performance during the Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court confirmation hearings in 2018 to her playing the race card during the Democratic primary debates of 2019 (then forgetting about it to become VP),...

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Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth fired off a strong statement of his goals for America’s fighting forces in the opening statement that marked the beginning of his Senate confirmation hearings. President-elect Donald Trump reached beyond the military’s leadership ranks to tap Hegseth, a veteran and former Fox News host. The...

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New Yorkers are overwhelmingly in favor of banning mask wearing in public, a development which comes in the context of crime and harassment perpetrated by individuals concealing their identities. A poll from Mercury Public Affairs conducted on behalf of #UnMaskHateNY found that 75 percent of residents in New York state...

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President Joe Biden gave himself a pat on the back Monday for his policy in Afghanistan, infuriating family members of Americans who were killed in a suicide bombing in Kabul during the botched 2021 withdrawal. Calling himself “the first president in decades who's not leaving a war in Afghanistan to...

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If you didn't know better, you'd probably think it was a parody. Seriously. The ubiquitous supermarket chain Walmart turned heads this week with a ballyhooed redesign. Announced on Monday, Walmart boasted about its "Updated Look and Feel," while calling it "A Testament to Heritage and Innovation." In classic PR-speak, the...

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Christian charity requires that we forgive others and thereby refrain from making proverbial mountains out of molehills. Still, having acknowledged our Christian duty, who can fail to recognize the deeply spiritual element in our modern political contests? According to CBS News, Usha Vance, wife of Vice President-elect J.D. Vance, received...

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