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What is North Korea's motivation?

Listen to the 10 min audio Read the transcript:                 SHOULD TRUMP GET PEACE PRIZE FOR NORTH KOREAN TALKS? TOM LAMPRECHT:  Harry, Sky News is reporting that the president of South Korea, President Moon, has said President Trump should win the Nobel Peace Prize. “What we need is only peace,” Mr. Moon told a room […]

Election night this November is probably going to be a win for Democrats. That’s how it usually goes in midterm elections – the party that won the White House suffers a setback two years later. It won’t help the GOP’s cause with President Donald Trump, still underwater in approval polling and a revved-up Democratic Party […]

Propaganda networks

Why does American journalist Abby Martin report for media run by socialist murderers? Martin once worked for RT, Russia’s state-run news network. Now she’s got a similar gig at teleSUR, an anti-capitalist, pro-socialist news network funded by Latin American leftists. I’d never heard of teleSUR before researching this week’s YouTube video. But teleSUR matters because […]

Smut night at the press dinner

Saturday’s White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, billed as a celebration of the First Amendment and a tribute to journalists who “speak truth to power,” has to be the worst advertisement in memory for our national press corps. Comedian Michelle Wolf, the guest speaker, recited one filthy joke after another at the expense of President Trump […]

Birds of a feather flock together, so President Donald Trump and Kanye West aren’t an unlikely pair. They deserve each other. Arrogant … check. Deplorable views on women … check. Unafraid to thumb their chins at bashers … check. I wouldn’t want my sons to be like either man, but I can give an appreciative […]

Ballots this November will offer Alabama a chance to authorize the display of the Ten Commandments on public property. Here are two quick thoughts on the issue: The Ten Commandments are important, and we are bound to keep them. “In fidelity to Scripture and in conformity with the example of Jesus, the tradition of the […]

Listen to the 10 min audio Read the transcript: IS OUR PSYCHOLOGICAL DIET AS IMPORTANT AS OUR PHYSICAL DIET? TOM LAMPRECHT: Harry, I want to take you to an op-ed piece in USA Today. It appeared about two weeks ago written by Art Friends, a clinical psychologist. He says — remember, you are what you […]

Ben Shapiro: Oh, say Kanye sees

It’s easy to dismiss Kanye West. It’s easy to dismiss him because he’s nutty. This is a fellow who tweets about antique fish tanks and fur pillows. This is the guy who calls himself Yeezus (after Jesus) and suggested that then-President George W. Bush didn’t care about black people in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. […]

Yesterday, I argued that it’s much too soon to be advocating a Nobel Peace Prize be granted to President Trump for his diplomatic progress on North Korea. Rich Lowry, editor of National Review, made much the same argument in his column today but with a few more specific reasons: – “His [Kim’s] father destroyed a […]

Listen to the 10 min audio Read the transcript: ALFIE EVANS, SOCIALIZED HEALTHCARE, AND LACK OF PARENTAL RIGHTS TOM LAMPRECHT: Harry, a few months back, we did a story on a young toddler in England named Charlie Gard. If you remember, this young man had a terminal illness. His parents were told they could not […]

If U.S. Rep. Martha Roby’s primary challengers censured every Republican who withdrew public support for President Trump following the release of that infamous Access Hollywood tape, they would lose many conservative allies, including U.S. Rep. Bradley Byrne (R-Fairhope). Rich Hobson, who was the director of the Administrative Office of Courts under former Chief Justice Roy […]

Colleges: Anti-diversity and pro-exclusion

Just within the past week or so, some shocking professorial behavior has come to light. In the wake of Barbara Bush’s death, California State University, Fresno professor Randa Jarrar took to Twitter to call the former first lady an “amazing racist.” Jarrar added, “PSA: either you are against these pieces of s— and their genocidal […]

Everything one needs to know about foreign policy can be learned by watching the three-minute negotiation scene between the Rebel outlaw and the Comanche chief in the film “The Outlaw Josey Wales.” Wales offers both life … and death … with utmost sincerity, and because the outlaw is willing to die in battle, the warrior chief […]

I’ve got a gripe and I recognize it’s not very nice considering it’s about people I sit next to … in a chapel … when I’m there to pray. Remember the “close-talker” in the show Seinfeld, who got right up in other people’s faces during conversations? Well, I’m about to go bananas about what I’ll […]

One of Republicans’ favorite stories over the past several years has been the regret that Geir Lundestad, former Nobel Peace Prize committee secretary, expressed about awarding President Obama the prize in 2009. Lundestad, as did many back when the prize was given, said in 2015 that the prize was given to President Obama too early […]

Another week has passed and the American media has completely beclowned themselves. There is a bevy of embarrassments for critics of the media to choose from. MSNBC’s Joy Reid declared she was hacked, said the FBI was looking into her hacking, and then opened her show on Saturday by declaring “I genuinely do not believe […]

Randa Jarrar and free speech

Listen to the 10 min audio Read the transcript: PROFESSOR MALIGNS BARBARA BUSH ON TWITTER WITH NO CONSEQUENCES TOM LAMPRECHT: Harry, last week, we spent some time remembering Barbara Bush and her passing and the Bush family. When we were doing that program, you said that now was not the time to critique her life. […]

Macron: The last multilateralist

“Together,” President Macron instructed President Trump, “we can resist the rise of aggressive nationalisms that deny our history and divide the world.” Before Congress he denounced “extreme nationalism,” invoked the U.N., NATO, WTO, and Paris climate accord, and implored Trump’s America to come home to the New World Order. “The United States is the one […]

On Saturday evening, the annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner was held in Washington, D.C. Things went just as we had imagined them to as the keynote speaker, Michelle Wolf, made a mockery of herself, President Trump, and President Trump’s administration. For the second year in a row, President Trump skipped the event; however, a few […]

In their incessant, mostly baseless attacks against President Donald Trump, his leftist haters reveal much more about themselves than him — and it’s not an attractive revelation. In what seemed like a parody of a coastal elitist disparaging inferior flyover Americans, CNN’s Jim Acosta said that too many Americans can’t see through Trump’s act because […]

The myths behind "equal pay day"

April 10 marked 2018’s “Equal Pay Day,” decrying the almost 20 percent difference between median yearly incomes for men and women working full time (35 hours or more per week) for the most recent reporting year (2016). As has become traditional, “celebrants” reiterated assertions that the data establishes unjustifiable discrimination against women “doing the same […]

America's unsustainable empire

Before President Trump trashes the Iran nuclear deal, he might consider: If he could negotiate an identical deal with Kim Jong Un, it would astonish the world and win him the Nobel Peace Prize. For Iran has no nuclear bomb or ICBM and has never tested either. It has never enriched uranium to bomb grade. […]

Before we condemn Tom Brokaw, we must stop. We must think.

American icons Bill Cosby and Tom Brokaw are in the headlines today, but one deserves to be there and the other probably does not. Cosby was convicted Thursday of drugging and sexually assaulting a woman 14 years ago. Dozens of other women have made similar claims about the actor known as “America’s Dad.” Cosby, who once […]

In his essay “The Prevention of Literature,” George Orwell discusses the various inhibitions that political discourse and general literacy were facing in 1946. Orwell goes after his usual suspects for censuring texts: Soviet Russia, fascists, the Catholic Church. But he discusses a more latent and unsuspecting cause of censorship, namely the dispositions of the people. […]