‘TAKING the piss’ is one of those phrases in common use of which few people know the original meaning. As a crude remark, it is sometimes more politely reworded by journalists and commentators as ‘extracting the urine’. But like the misused raw version, making fun of someone is not really what ‘taking the piss’ means. […]
THE documentary Climate: The Movie is the most needed and the most important contribution to the debate about the so-called climate crisis since the ‘alarmism era’ began in the late 1970s. Yesterday our climate science (sceptic) expert, Paul Homewood. reviewed the film for TCW. You can read what he says about it here. It is one and half hours […]
Nearly 190,000 at southern border. Image Credit: U.S. Border Patrol By Bethany Blankley | The Center Square contributor – The number of illegal border crossers has increased significantly since Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas implemented a range of policies he said were designed to reduce “irregular migration” and create a “legal pathway” for […]
Across the mighty Potomac sits the capital of our once noble and humane republic, founded upon the idea that all men are created equal, endowed with the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. What do the women and men who occupy the innumerable office buildings on either of the Potomac think about […]
March is National Women’s History Month. To celebrate, Disney Parks has renamed its popular ice cream treat to honor Minnie Mouse. Innocent enough, right? Well, Disney must have thought so but wokeism never fails to ruin things for everyone. Disney Parks renamed its Mickey’s Kitchen Sink Sundaes to Minnie’s Kitchen Sink Sundaes and woke women […]
I have been listening to podcasts in the late evening for years. It is a good way to wind down, and I admit I usually fall asleep with them on in the background. This leads me to listen to each several times to catch up to where I fell asleep, but that’s fine. YMMV. I […]
Image Credit: Canva By Bethany Blankley [The Center Square contributor] – As the Tennessee legislature considers funding the deployment of up to 5,000 National Guard soldiers to Texas over the next year, the soldiers would follow in the footsteps of historic Tennesseans who helped shape Texas and American history. Tennesseans arguably volunteered more than anyone […]
Those who are blinded by materialism cannot see the landscape of history. They see systems instead of people, and empowerment instead of virtue. They can’t see the beautiful because they refuse to raise their eyes to heaven. The past is present whether we like it or not or know it or not. The past is […]
Image Credit: U.S. Department of Homeland Security via RawPixel / Public Domain By Bethany Blankley [The Center Square contributor] and The Tennessee Conservative – In its second vote attempt in exactly a week, the U.S. House on Tuesday night impeached Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, who becomes the first sitting cabinet member to […]
Greater than population of three U.S. states. Image Credit: US Border Patrol / Facebook By Bethany Blankley [The Center Square contributor] – The number of apprehensions of illegal border crossers along the southwest border in the first quarter of fiscal 2024 (Q1 FY24) is the highest in U.S. history. They totaled 785,422, greater than the […]
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