Labor unrest is becoming a tradition at the leftist coffee chain Starbucks. On Thursday, as the Seattle-based business launched its "Red Cup Day" -- its most anticipated promotion of the year, meant to kick off the holiday season -- its unionized workers were trying to spoil the occasion. Strikes were...

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Totalitarian regimes achieve compliance not by brute force alone but, first and foremost, by inculcating self-censorship. Hence, modern anti-American and anti-Western leftists' embrace of cultural Marxism, aka wokeness. According to the U.K.'s Telegraph, neighbors of 43-year-old Urfan Sharif and 31-year-old Beinash Batool of Woking, Surrey, each sentenced to life in...

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Democratic Rep. LaMonica McIver of New Jersey lost a legal round Thursday in her battle to escape the consequences of whacking away at federal immigration agents during a chaotic May confrontation. McIver was indicted on three counts that allege she slammed a federal agent with her forearm, “forcibly” grabbed him,...

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Department of Justice Pardon Attorney Ed Martin has a promising update on former Mesa County, Colorado, election clerk Tina Peters, who is currently serving a nine-year sentence on a number of charges, including conspiracy to commit criminal impersonation, first-degree official misconduct, and attempting to influence a public servant. On Sunday,...

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Sometimes liberals exhibit qualities proving that we, as conservatives, have underrated their repulsiveness. Longtime establishment journalist (read: propagandist) Katie Couric falls into that category. Fortunately, when Couric tried coaxing Democratic Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania into saying something derogatory about slain conservative Christian icon Charlie Kirk, Fetterman refused, thereby earning...

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White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt conducted a master class on Thursday for the liberal media outlets that have been parroting the false Democratic talking point that President Donald Trump has created an "affordability" crisis. Polling surrounding the off-year elections earlier this month showed the economy and, particularly, inflation were...

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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem handed out several $10,000 bonus checks to TSA agents on Thursday who went "above and beyond" during the government shutdown to keep the American people safe. With agents standing behind her at Houston's George Bush Intercontinental Airport, Noem said that the checks would be going...

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To most of his critics, the biggest mistake that California Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell ever made was being romantically involved with an apparent spy. It's become a point of ridicule and ceaseless mocking for the California lawmaker. Now, Swalwell might have a much bigger -- and more serious -- problem...

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Ozzy Osbourne accrued quite a few fans over his legendary rock career. And one of them appears to have been President Donald Trump. In an emotional reunion podcast posted Wednesday, Osbourne's family gathered to discuss life after Ozzy's passing in an over an hour-and-a-half podcast episode of their show, "The...

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The Babylon Bee often laments that the real world has gotten so zany, it's getting harder to satirize. "Black Mirror," the Netflix anthology series that explores what happens in the near-dystopian-future where reliance on technology runs amok, must be thinking the same thing. Tech company 2wai gave the "Black Mirror"...

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In just one week, three former or current staffers for prominent Democratic politicians have faced allegations of public corruption or other wrongdoing. Perhaps the most stunning is the FBI's arrest of Dana Williamson, California Gov. Gavin Newsom's chief of staff from 2022 to 2024. The 53-year-old Williamson has been charged...

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The Democratic Party is staking a lot on the rather thin gruel in the Jeffrey Epstein emails they've released. So much so, in fact, that they're not apt to check whether the claims of a serial fabulist and convicted sex offender are verifiable. Spoiler alert: They are, and not in...

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On Wednesday, the Democrats' line was that President Donald Trump and the late, disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein were as thick as thieves. This was based on three emails taken wildly out of context, with a redacted name of an Epstein sex-trafficking victim. Later on Wednesday, Republicans released a fuller tranche...

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Drop Site News is one of the most poisonous journalistic outlets taken with any degree of seriousness on the left. Founded by two former staff members of The Intercept (already a bad sign), Drop Site, founded in 2024, focuses almost exclusively on what it describes as the predations of Israel...

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A video has been making the rounds on social media purporting to show an unbelievable racist incident. The video claims to show bodycam footage of a Seattle police officer, Craig Bartlett, approaching a black woman, Jennifer Monroe, at a coffee shop. According to the video's narrator, Bartlett was called to...

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A corruption probe in Ukraine has cost two cabinet ministers their jobs -- and could cost the government a lot more in terms of credibility. According to the Associated Press, a scandal involving up to $100 million in kickbacks, including deals around the state-owned nuclear energy company, has sparked the...

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By leaking a select few documents from the tranche of material they have on Jeffrey Epstein, Democrats on the House Oversight Committee aimed for Donald Trump. In the end, they ended up hitting themselves over and over again -- including their favorite media organ, The New York Times. In the...

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President Donald Trump was briefed Wednesday on possible military targets in Venezuela, according to a new report. According to CBS, the “potential operations” included “strikes on land.” The report was based on sources CBS did not name. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Dan...

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Lawrence O'Donnell, the host of MSNBC's “The Last Word,” is a complete buffoon. He attempted to label Vice President J.D. Vance as a silent bystander who should have spoken up about the president's involvement with international child trafficker Jeffrey Epstein this week. Vance, in humiliating fashion, reminded him there's no...

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The Department of Justice is suing California over its embrace of Proposition 50, which will redraw congressional district lines. The measure was approved by voters in last week’s election, and would allow California to add five Democratic seats in Congress as part of the battle for control of the House...

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The best defense is offense, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said Thursday as he outlined the purpose of the American military buildup near Venezuela. “President Trump ordered action — and the Department of War is delivering. Today, I’m announcing Operation SOUTHERN SPEAR,” Hegseth wrote in a post on X. “Led...

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