VIDEO: Facebook’s Zuckerberg Says His Team Made a Mistake on Diamond and Silk, Essentially Admits Obscene Bias

-By Warner Todd Huston

Without a doubt, Facebook has become one of the biggest online forums for Americans — if not the world — to talk to each other. Sadly, CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his management team have chosen sides and decided to bat for team Democrat and then lie about it all. Still, he almost admitted his perfidy during his testimony before Congress this week.

Facebook has been engaging in the systematic silencing of conservatives who have tried to use the social media network just like everyone else, to debate the day’s news and reach out to others who may be of like mind.

Over the last few months, conservative groups have found that their traffic has cratered and many of their contacts can no longer see their posts. Already one prominent conservative website has essentially given up its business because Facebook has throttled its reach.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg continues to insist that he is only trying to stop “fake news” and to make Facebook more user friendly. However, it seems only conservative sites qualify as “fake news” to the biased administrators at Facebook. That’s because they have chosen sides, not because conservatives have more so-called fake news.

The latest conservative squelched by Facebook is the hilarious and energetic duo of Diamond and Silk, the pair of pro-Trump, African American women who became famous on Youtube for their support of Trump’s policies.
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VIDEO: Facebook’s Zuckerberg Says His Team Made a Mistake on Diamond and Silk, Essentially Admits Obscene Bias”


[Film Review] ‘The Circle’: An Unrealistic Portrayal of Real Problems

-By Cernan Cabriesy

Despite the star power of The Circle, the movie disappoints on so many levels. The story follows Mae Holland (Emma Watson) who gets the opportunity of a lifetime for a dream job at a massive internet company called The Circle — which resembles Facebook on steroids — collecting every piece of data the world has to offer, making it available for every user. Whatever data the company can’t collect from other sources, it collects on its own by distributing millions of tiny satellite cameras to users across the globe to be placed everywhere.

The movie explores many of the ethical questions regarding personal privacy, business occultism, and the ability of major corporations to aid society by catching “bad guys” on the one hand, while destroying the lives of innocent individuals on the other.

Perhaps it explorers too many of those ethical questions at once. So many, in fact, that the movie is unsuccessful at resolving any of them. Just as Mae decides to become “transparent,” as it is called in the film, by wearing a camera all the time and allowing the company to record her every move, conversation, and action, likewise this character’s arc becomes so transparent that any less-than-astute observer will be able to figure out the climactic twist before it happens.

The only lesson we are left with at the end is that the invasion of oir privacy will continue to get worse, there is no one to stop it, and there will always be someone at the top holding the keys, so they had better be “ethical,” whatever that means.

Every character in this film is gray. There are no real villains, there are no real heroes. All of the other high-powered stars like Tom Hanks and John Boyega could have easily been replaced by unknown actors.

Worst of all is that liberal Hollywood gets lost in this spider web by apparently deciding to trivialize the most serious of ethical issues our future faces, mostly by turning privacy on its head and making it the villain. It’s one thing to take down the CEO of a company who makes everyone else’s life transparent except his own. By doing so Hollywood still gets to “Stick it to the Man.” That’s right out of their playbook. But they get completely lost in all of the other issues and problems addressed throughout the film. I am guessing this is the case because most liberals are ethically stunted to begin with.

Perhaps we will have to wait for some indie filmmaker to tackle the real issues properly before we get a good film out of these topics.

[Editor’s note: Looks like Hanks’ The Circle is doing poorly at the box office, too. Tom Hanks’ latest movie is his biggest bomb EVER, lowest opening box office in his career.]


The Publius Forum Top 100 Conservative Websites

-By Warner Todd Huston

Everyone needs a handy single source for all the top conservative websites, so I decided to grab them all and put them down in one post for everyone’s convenience.

These were figured via each site’s Alexa listing. BuzzPo.com, number 89, was just sold, so the site now re-directs to Conservative Review. Also, the other three in black are sites of which I do not approve and won’t link to. EVER. However, they are in the top 100 so I listed them anyway.

Rank Website Link
1 foxnews.com http://foxnews.com
2 conservativetribune.com http://conservativetribune.com
3 drudgereport.com http://drudgereport.com
4 westernjournalism.com http://westernjournalism.com
5 wsj.com http://wsj.com
6 nypost.com http://nypost.com
7 breitbart.com http://breitbart.com
8 realclearpolitics.com http://realclearpolitics.com
9 wnd.com http://wnd.com
10 thehill.com http://thehill.com
11 theblaze.com http://theblaze.com
12 dailycaller.com http://dailycaller.com
13 bizpacreview.com http://bizpacreview.com
14 washingtontimes.com http://washingtontimes.com
15 newsmax.com http://newsmax.com
16 zerohedge.com http://zerohedge.com
17 allenbwest.com http://allenbwest.com
18 youngcons.com http://youngcons.com
19 pjmedia.com http://pjmedia.com
20 nationalreview.com http://nationalreview.com
21 theweek.com http://theweek.com
22 townhall.com http://townhall.com
23 washingtonexaminer.com http://washingtonexaminer.com
24 thegatewaypundit.com http://thegatewaypundit.com
25 hotair.com http://hotair.com
26 redstate.com http://redstate.com
27 reason.com http://reason.com
28 thefederalist.com http://thefederalist.com
29 newsbusters.org http://newsbusters.org
30 ijreview.com http://ijreview.com
31 thefederalistpapers.org http://thefederalistpapers.org
32 ocregister.com http://ocregister.com
33 freerepublic.com http://freerepublic.com
34 rushlimbaugh.com http://rushlimbaugh.com
35 thepoliticalinsider.com http://thepoliticalinsider.com
36 americanthinker.com http://americanthinker.com
37 Conservative Treehouse http://theconservativetreehouse.com
38 twitchy.com http://twitchy.com
39 jpost.com http://jpost.com
40 redstatewatcher.com http://redstatewatcher.com
41 nationalinterest.org http://nationalinterest.org
42 qpolitical.com http://qpolitical.com
43 timesofisrael.com http://timesofisrael.com
44 weeklystandard.com http://weeklystandard.com
45 freebeacon.com http://freebeacon.com
46 cnsnews.com http://cnsnews.com
47 chicksontheright.com http://chicksontheright.com
48 madworldnews.com http://madworldnews.com
49 powerlineblog.com http://powerlineblog.com
50 bearingarms.com http://bearingarms.com
51 therightscoop.com http://therightscoop.com
52 rasmussenreports.com http://rasmussenreports.com
53 clashdaily.com http://clashdaily.com
54 blog.heritage.org http://blog.heritage.org
55 rightwingnews.com http://rightwingnews.com
56 hannity.com http://hannity.com
57 conservativereview.com http://conservativereview.com
58 lucianne.com http://lucianne.com
59 dailysignal.com http://dailysignal.com
60 theamericanconservative.com http://theamericanconservative.com
61 judicialwatch.org http://judicialwatch.org
62 lifenews.com http://lifenews.com
63 weaselzippers.us http://weaselzippers.us
64 wattsupwiththat.com http://wattsupwiththat.com
65 truthrevolt.org http://truthrevolt.org
66 freedomdaily.com http://freedomdaily.com
67 frontpagemag.com http://frontpagemag.com
68 scotusblog.com http://scotusblog.com
69 spectator.org http://spectator.org
70 jihadwatch.org http://jihadwatch.org
71 freedomoutpost.com http://freedomoutpost.com
72 mises.org http://mises.org
73 debka.com http://debka.com
74 legalinsurrection.com http://legalinsurrection.com
75 city-journal.org http://city-journal.org
76 Cato.org http://Cato.org
77 amren.com http://amren.com
78 firstthings.com http://firstthings.com
79 aei.org http://aei.org
80 fas.org http://fas.org
81 shoebat.com http://shoebat.com
82 gotnews.com http://gotnews.com
83 creators.com http://creators.com
84 memeorandum.com http://memeorandum.com
85 takimag.com http://takimag.com
86 eaglerising.com http://eaglerising.com
87 teaparty.org http://teaparty.org
88 downtrend.com http://downtrend.com
89 buzzpo.com Site just sold, no longer exists
90 commentarymagazine.com http://commentarymagazine.com
91 althouse.blogspot.com http://althouse.blogspot.com
92 anncoulter.com http://anncoulter.com
93 dcgazette.com http://dcgazette.com
94 ricochet.com http://ricochet.com
95 patriotupdate.com http://patriotupdate.com
96 redalertpolitics.com http://redalertpolitics.com
97 joeforamerica.com http://joeforamerica.com
98 vdare.com http://vdare.com
99 libertyunyielding.com http://libertyunyielding.com
100 humanevents.com http://humanevents.com

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‘To Russia, With Love,’ Starring Barack Obama and the Democrat Party

-By Warner Todd Huston

After rolling in the mud for nearly two months desperately trying to find some reason, any reason… you know, other than facts… for their November 8 loss, Barack Obama, the Democrat Party, and their handmaidens in the Old Media complex have finally found their perfect scape goat: It wuz the Russians wut dun it.

Of course any look at the facts we have before us will prove that there was never any hacking of the election. And even if Russian hackers had something to do with the hacking of the Democrat Party and Clinton chief John Podesta’s email system from which months of leaks emerged in drip-drip fashion damaging Hillary’s campaign, that is not the same thing as saying “the election was hacked.” Hacking John Podesta’s badly safeguarded emails is NOT the “hacking” of the election.

But damn the truth, since just after the election Barack Obama has been selling the fiction that the Russians “hacked the election” and ostensibly selling that as the reason Hillary lost. But thus far there has been absolutely no proof at all that any of the 50 states and all their many millions of machines in their thousands of voting districts were electronically messed with in any way at all. One would think that Obama loves this whole thing. The fake news of a Russian hacking is his excuse du jour.

So, even though we have no evidence, Obama has been ramping up is anti-Russia actions which have now resulted in the expulsion of 35 Russian diplomats and government employees based here in the U.S.A.
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‘To Russia, With Love,’ Starring Barack Obama and the Democrat Party”


PubliusForum.com Wins Mention as a 2016 Fabulous 50 Blog Award Winner

Every year the Doug Ross Journal sponsors its 2016 Fabulous 50 Blog Award Winners and this year my PubliusForum.com won a mention as one of the top blogs of 2016. I was awarded as one of the “Best Grassroots Blogs.”

It is always nice to be recognized for all the hard work and thanks to the Journal for the mention.

Incidentally, Doug runs a great site called BadBlue.com that features a daily compilation of some of the bests posts on the Internet. It is a great page to find some fantastic, informative stuff aggregated all in one place.
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PubliusForum.com Wins Mention as a 2016 Fabulous 50 Blog Award Winner”


Facebook Set to Use Left-wing Snopes, PolitiFact, and FactCheck.Org to Quash Conservative News Sites

-By Warner Todd Huston

With the left’s newest war cry of “fake news” now always at the ready to deploy as a weapon to quash any right of center news outlet, Facebook has announced that it will now use three left-of-center organizations to “review” conservative sites to see if they are producing “fake news.” So, what could go wrong? Plenty.

Facebook insists it is doing its part to torpedo those “fake news” sites that so many liberals claim gave Trump the White House. But this is all just a smoke screen.

In fact, this effort has nothing whatever to do with making sure “news” is truthful. All it really is, is just another attempt by liberals to re-instate their once indisputable status as the “gatekeepers” of the media, an assumption that created a screening process through which only their approved, liberal “news” could get past. It was this “gatekeeping” wall that caused the loss of Vietnam, for instance, as the entirety of the liberal media lied to Americans that the war was lost and the U.S. should get out of Vietnam despite that the U.S. military won nearly every engagement it ever entered into during that conflict.

Facebook is being fueled by calls from such losers as Hillary Clinton who wants to quash the “fake news” that got Trump elected. Early in December, the two-time losing Democrat presidential candidate delivered a speech assailing “malicious” fake news hyperbolically claiming that its growth has “put lives at risk.”
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Facebook Set to Use Left-wing Snopes, PolitiFact, and FactCheck.Org to Quash Conservative News Sites”


This is the Mental Damage Liberalism Does to People

-By Warner Todd Huston

Today brought me yet another perfect example of the hate-filled, black souls liberals possess.

So, this halfwitted liberal woman sends me a mean tweet on Twitter… I know, SHOCKING, right? Anyway the context of that tweet is immaterial to this story, but after reading the idiotic tweet this woman sent me I clicked onto her Twitter feed to see her recent posts.

I usually do that just to make sure that when I ban a liberal — and I ban all liberals — my ban hammer is falling on a legitimate target.

After seeing this dimwit’s feed, BOY was she the right target, because looking at the top of her page revealed the hate, hypocrisy, and stupidity that infects every single liberal in the universe.

Now, we all understand that hypocrite liberals imagine themselves to be the sole arbiters of what is “love,” “tolerance” and intelligence. They constantly puff themselves up as the adults in the room, maintain that they are the only ones filled with love and tolerance, and that only they care about people all simultaneous with their spewing of hatred, ignorance, and hatespeech at those with whom they disagree politically; namely conservatives and Republicans.

And this damn ignorant chick gave the perfect example of liberal scumbaggery on her Twitter feed with a pair of polar opposite tweets made within four minutes of each other.

Check this out:

One minute she is setting herself up as the perfect example of “love,” “tolerance,” and “kindness,” yet a scant four minutes later she made the lie to her self-assessment by calling people she disagrees with “ignorant, clueless f….ucks.”
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This is the Mental Damage Liberalism Does to People”


CPAC 2016: Dennis Prager and Prager University

-By Warner Todd Huston

I have never written anything about Prager University and I have to say I’ve been remiss. So, with conservative talk show host Dennis Prager appearing at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC2016) it is a good time to correct that slight.

Dennis has been around quite a few years and is one of Salem Radio’s biggest stars, but he also founded a Youtube channel called Prager University where you can go to find some of the best arguments for conservatism ever put to video.

These great videos are concise, well reasoned, and short with great production values. But even more importantly, if you are looking for ways to argue against the left you can’t find better intellectual ammunition that that at Prager U.

If you need help understanding conservative principles or just need help on how to formulate your argument when talking to your liberal friends, Prager University is your ticket to the best source for conservative information.

Here is one example…


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CPAC 2016: Dennis Prager and Prager University”


#FreeStacy A Few Words With Stacy McCain at CPAC 2016

-By Warner Todd Huston

Here at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC 2016) I ran across an old friend whom I’ve known since 2001 when I first started doing all this political writing and activism full time. But, maybe I shouldn’t be advertising this because Stacy McCain is one of the first conservatives to be banned from Twitter for Tweeting While Conservative (TWC).

At CPAC I spoke to Stacy who has been a long-time blogger and journalist at places such as the Washington Times and asked him just why he was banned from Twitter. And after all was said and done he just plain didn’t have a clue why out of all the conservative Twittersphere HE was the first one banned.

And I ca’t agree more. Sure he was straightforwardly conservative but there are far, far worse users of the social media platform on the right (and you know who you are). So, why Stacy?

McCain, who had over 90,000 followers when Twitter lowered the boom on his account, was never given an explanation from Twitter and he has no firm idea why he was canned except for the fact that he is a conservative.

So, why is it a Twitter crime to Tweet While Conservative? I’ll bet YOU can guess.

In any case, if you want to tell Twitter about your disgust with its anti-free speech policies, tweet out the hashtag #FreeStacy and tell them.

Finally, I would be remiss not to say that Stacy has a great blog called The Other McCain that I am sure you’ll love.
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#FreeStacy A Few Words With Stacy McCain at CPAC 2016″


Facebook Can’t Handle The Truth: Censors Image of Muslim Kids Playing With Human Head

-By Warner Todd Huston

Amidst President Obama’s dangerous campaign to import hundreds of thousands of Syrian “refugees” into the U.S.–any number of whom WILL be ISIS terrorists–Facebook revealed its desire to help Obama by censoring a photo of a group of Muslim kids joyously playing with a human head as a toy.

Last week I posted to my personal Facebook account a photo of a pack of Muslim boys playing with a human head.

Along with the photo I wrote that the image was “A reminder: Here’s some of Obama’s “orphans” so deserving of getting imported into the U.S.”

This quip of mine was in reference to Obama’s absurd jab at Republicans who oppose his ISIS member importation policy where he said that Republicans were afraid of “widows and orphans.”

In any case, I posted the photo to show that we do, indeed, have something to worry about where it concerns Obama’s “orphans.” After all, these kids are raised to have no respect for “infidels,” they are raised to think that non-Muslim lives are not worth anything. And that is what Obama wants to bring here!

Further, we have a great example of a “widow” and her “orphans” who were allowed to come here without restriction in the persons of the Tsnaraev brothers who later became notorious as the Boston marathon bombers. These two young men were Muslim “orphans” from Kyrgyzstan who ended up as imported terrorists.

Yet, Facebook refused to allow my legitimate politically poignant photo of Muslim boys playing with a human head to stay up.

Facebook can’t handle the truth.
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Facebook Can’t Handle The Truth: Censors Image of Muslim Kids Playing With Human Head”


NOT a Victim: The Story of the Armed Black Man Stopped by Cops and WHY He DIDN’T Go to Jail

-By Warner Todd Huston

Everyday the liberal, old media establishment search for stories of black men illicitly accosted by our “raaaaacist” law enforcement community. So, you probably won’t hear this story of the armed African American who had an out-of-date driver’s license and other violations and was stopped by police but wasn’t arrested, or beaten up, or killed.

The story comes from the Facebook posting of a fellow named Steven Hildreth, Jr., an African American who wanted to tell the whole world about his encounter with the Tucson, Arizona police department.

But, unlike so many others looking to score big in the racebaiting industry, Mr. Hildreth didn’t post his story to call raaaacism, or attack our men in blue. In fact, Hildreth not only had the opposite message, but he even had a moral to pass on for why he wasn’t beaten up or harassed by police even though he was an armed black man who had some registration violations.

In fact, I’m not going to even rewrite his story. Here it is as he posted it on October 27:

So, I’m driving to my office to turn in my weekly paperwork. A headlight is out. I see a Tucson Police Department squad vehicle turn around and follow me. I’m already preparing for the stop.

The lights go on and I pull over. The officer asks me how I’m doing, and then asks if I have any weapons.

“Yes, sir. I’m a concealed carry permit holder and my weapon is located on my right hip. My wallet is in my back-right pocket.”

The officer explains for his safety and mine, he needs to disarm me for the stop. I understand, and I unlock the vehicle. I explain that I’m running a 7TS ALS holster but from the angle, the second officer can’t unholster it. Lead officer asks me to step out, and I do so slowly. Officer relieves me of my Glock and compliments the X300U I’m running on it. He also sees my military ID and I tell him I’m with the National Guard.

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NOT a Victim: The Story of the Armed Black Man Stopped by Cops and WHY He DIDN’T Go to Jail”


Apple CEO Who Hates Indiana Christians Happily Does Business With Countries That Execute Gays, Stone Women

-By Warner Todd Huston

Apple CEO Tim Cook is making a particular point this week to attack Christians in Indiana calling them “dangerous,” but it seems he has no problem at all selling his products in Muslim-led countries that kill gays for being gay and stone women when they are raped. Nor does he have a problem making his product in China, the world’s leading violator of human rights.

Clearly Tim Cook is a huge hypocrite… like all liberals are.

If you tool over Cook’s Twitter feed, you’ll see several Tweets of him whining about Indiana’s Religious Restoration of Freedom Act–a law just like those in 30 other states, states that no leftist is seeking to boycott.

Here is a screenshot of Cook’s Tweets…
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Apple CEO Who Hates Indiana Christians Happily Does Business With Countries That Execute Gays, Stone Women”


Are Tech Writers Full of Crap?

-By Warner Todd Huston

I have been seeing more and more reports that writers, reviewers and bloggers are by and large useless where it comes to real news about the tech industry and this failed reporting on the iPhone ap Meerkat is a perfect example.

Tero Kuittinen has a great synopsis on how the tech media reported on the Meerkat streaming media iPhone ap touting it as the next big thing in social media despite that the ap never once got into the top 100 for sales of iPhone aps.

Kuittinen points out that the reportage on Meerkat was a feeding frenzy with one tech writer feeding off another quite despite the fact that the very phone ap they were over the moon about was never the smash hit they were claiming it was.

But even as Meerkat was announcing a $14 million cash infusion by investors, a rial ap debuted that buried Meerkat instantly.
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Are Tech Writers Full of Crap?”


Google VP Publicly Flogs Own Company for Lack of Diversity

-By Warner Todd Huston

Laszlo Bock, Senior Vice President, People Operations, has publicly spoken out about the “lack of diversity” among Google employees. Despite Google’s far left-wing company culture, he is apologetic and wants users to know that there are reasons that Google isn’t “diverse” enough.

The reliably left-wing Google has for years tried to hide its astonishing lack of diversity from public view, but has apparently decided to come clean.

In a May 28 Google blog post Bock finally made to lift the veil of secrecy in which Google had enshrouded its employment statistics and revealed that the company is mostly white and mostly male.
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Google VP Publicly Flogs Own Company for Lack of Diversity”


Just Desserts: Silly Facebook Billionaire Ripped Off by Teachers Unions, Democrats, & Consultants

-By Warner Todd Huston

Oh, he thought that just because he had billions of dollars, all he had to do was flit into a New Jersey school system, spread some of his cash around, and voila kids would get a “good” education. But reality was a different thing as when Mark Zuckerberg tried it, he found that the greedy teachers union stole all the cash and his millions didn’t help the kids at all.

Yes, Facebook Billionaire Mark Suckerberg–er, I mean Zuckerberg–was mugged by reality and found out exactly why Johnny can’t read. Because our system of mis-education is held prisoner to the anti-education, greedy, uncaring, left-wing teachers unions who don’t give a flying fig about the kids. It’s all about them stealing as much cash out of the system for their bloated pensions and high-salaried union bosses as humanely possible quite despite whether it hurts the kids or not.

In 2010 super rich Suckerberg gave $100 million big ones to help turn around Newark, New Jersey’s failing schools. He made a big show of the whole thing, too, even making his announcement on the Oprah show.
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Just Desserts: Silly Facebook Billionaire Ripped Off by Teachers Unions, Democrats, & Consultants”


Are We Receiving Radio Signals from an Alien Race?

-By Warner Todd Huston

No, I’m not going to segue into a discussion of the entirely inhuman and alien ideas promulgated by left-wingers, though it would be fitting. No, I am talking about real radio signals from space. We are getting them, but we don’t know what they are, where they are coming from, and how they are produced. Are they signals from aliens?

Well, the truth is, we just don’t know. But that they could be alien signals is tantalizing, indeed. And scientists say there is no way to rule out that possibility.

So, what am I talking about? Well, it seems that scientists are finally agreeing that we have been receiving an occasional radio bust now called an FRB–which stands for Fast Radio Bursts.
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Are We Receiving Radio Signals from an Alien Race?”


Eating Their Own: Union Wants to Unionize Extremist, Left-Wing Media Matters, Website Owners Furious

-By Warner Todd Huston

Started in 2004, the left-wing propaganda website Media Matters for America has been spreading lies about Republicans and conservatives for a decade, now. Naturally the site has always claimed the center-right coalition is “anti-worker” for opposing unions, but this organization itself has never been unionized. Now the Service Employee International Union (SEIU) is agitating to organize Media Matters and the propaganda outfit is fit to be tied over the union’s efforts.

Started by Clinton operative David Brock, Media Matters for America (MM) has been programming the left-wing media since its debut and one of the organization’s repeated topics has been its blanket support for unions and for all the things unions advocate. Most especially a support for the union goal of “card check.”

Card check is a union scheme of making the unionization of a business easier–easier for unions, not employers. One of its features is to have employees voting on whether or not to allow a union to enter the workplace forced to vote their preference out in the open, without a secret ballot.
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Eating Their Own: Union Wants to Unionize Extremist, Left-Wing Media Matters, Website Owners Furious”


An Inventive Internet Scam Email ‘From’ Fed Head Janet Yellen

-By Warner Todd Huston

I received this absurd email in my inbox today that I thought maybe some of you may find amusing. It is purportedly sent by the new head of the Fed, Janet Yellen, of all people.

It is a scam email, a phishing expedition meant to get those slow of mind to pass on their personal information to a thief. But it is a rather inventive one, I thought.

Naturally the syntax and wording is just screwy enough to make it obvious to an educated person that it was written by a foreigner not conversant in English. But I thought the premise of the lie was pretty funny and just might be slick enough to get morons who were too busy mouth breathing in high school to pay attention to their studies to fall for it.

So, here is the letter…
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An Inventive Internet Scam Email ‘From’ Fed Head Janet Yellen”


Disqus: Feminizing America One Lost Down Vote at a Time

-By Warner Todd Huston

This month the blog commenting system Disqus changed its system with neither a warning nor an explanation, eliminating the ability of page visitors to see the tallied number of down votes to any of the comments. Apparently the blog service felt that Americans were getting their feelings hurt so badly by a down vote that it had to eliminate the capability. And thus the feminization of America continues.

Previously, the Disqus commenting system featured a way for other page visitors who had opened an account with Disqus to either up vote or down vote comments by clicking on a green arrow facing upward or a red arrow facing down. As each visitor clicked on the arrows a tally of how many votes the comment received was displayed.

But now, when someone tries to click on the down vote arrow it neither displays as red for other commenters to see, nor is there any longer a tallied number. The up votes, however, still show a green number tallying upward as each up arrow is clicked.

So, now no one knows how many down votes a comment is getting.
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Disqus: Feminizing America One Lost Down Vote at a Time”


Do Sarah Palin, LiveLeak, & Wash. Times Know Some Prepper Guy is Misusing Their Names?

-By Warner Todd Huston

It looks like the Washington Times and Sarah Palin have a case against the prepper company “Patriot Survival Plan” for misusing their names by making it seem as if they are supporting them–or at least using them to get people to click through to their advertisement site.

So, on my Facebook page I have been getting a sidebar ad with a (fake) photo of Sarah Palin and a dead “link” to the Washington Times newspaper (see screen shot below). But when you click on the thing it goes to some goofball prepper site trying to sell you some wacky video. It has nothing to do with either the Times or Sarah Palin. So, it makes one wonder if the paper and Palin are aware this prepper dude is misrepresenting himself using their images and faux links?

The prepper site, Patriot Survival Plan, is selling some sort of fear that the world is going to collapse because it is filled with big banks, civil unrest, Bilderbergers, Trilatteral Commissions, end of times, and aliens from outer space or some such stuff. I won’t link to them here as I won’t give them the free link. Besides, I’m sure it is jammed with malaware, too.

But what they are doing with their Facebook ad is very unethical. Firstly is the badly photoshopped photo of Sarah Palin you may have seen before. It is that one with “Sarah” in a tight-fitting, pink shirt opened wide enough to see her cleavage, an ampleness which she does not in reality possess.

Then there is the “link” typed into the ad that reads “washingtontimes.com.”

Next to that is the message, “This Video Went Viral in Mins. CLICK HERE to Watch.”


Screenshot of the original Facebook ad.

The viewer is fooled into thinking that clicking on this ad will take one to a video, one perhaps sponsored by the Washington Times and one talking about Sarah Palin or featuring her. But it is none of these.
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Do Sarah Palin, LiveLeak, & Wash. Times Know Some Prepper Guy is Misusing Their Names?”


Free At Last: Federal Court Hands Bloggers Legal First Amendment Protections

-By Warner Todd Huston

At long last we get a proper ruling on the First Amendment status of bloggers, one affording them the same legal status as “real” journalists; this from the Ninth Circuit Court in California, no less.

The Ninth Circuit is often derided as the “Ninth Circus” because its rulings are almost invariably left-wing and anti-American. But this time the court made a sensible ruling, for sure.

Lawyer Eugene Volokh reports that the ruling in Obsidian Finance Group v. Cox (9th Cir. Jan. 17, 2014) holds that, “all who speak to the public, whether or not they are members of the institutional press, are equally protected by the First Amendment.”

The relevant section in the ruling is as follows:
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Free At Last: Federal Court Hands Bloggers Legal First Amendment Protections”


WARNING, Sex Criminals Can Find Your Home Using Data in Cell Phone Photos on Twitter, Facebook Etc.

-By Warner Todd Huston

Everyone loves to use their iPhone or other smart phones to snap photos of family and friends, to take pics of places you’ve visited, and to upload those photos to the internet via services such as Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. But did you know that there is hidden data in those photos that can tell crooks and sex criminals exactly where those photos were taken? Alarmingly, your safety and privacy is at risk every time you upload a photo to the Internet!

So, if you are taking photos of your children inside your home, for instance, and you upload those to the Internet, criminals can use this hidden data to find out where you live. In fact, they can map out your entire life via this hidden data if you are a constant user of social media.

This should frighten the heck out of you if you are a parent that has a habit of uploading photos of your children to the Internet. Or if you are a single young woman who does the same. Any sex criminal can track you down using this data.

So, what is this hidden data? It is GPS information encoded into the photos you take from your cell phone that tells exactly where that photo was taken. This data can be revealed with add ons and phone aps that uncover the hidden GPS info.
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WARNING, Sex Criminals Can Find Your Home Using Data in Cell Phone Photos on Twitter, Facebook Etc.”


I Have Won An Award as One of 2013’s Top Bloggers

-By Warner Todd Huston

Well, I am honored to find myself included on the “2013 Fabulous 50 Blog Awards” list of conservative bloggers having won mention as one of this year’s “Best All Around Bloggers.” Yaaaa me!

As Doug Ross, blogawardist and a great blogger himself, explains his awards:

These awards recognize a variety of blogs and websites operating in the conservative hemisphere of the Internet, all of which have worked tirelessly to promote conservatism, free market capitalism, fiscal sanity, the sovereignty of the individual, and otherwise protect America from the cockroach-like Statists–some in very unique ways.

And here I thought the only way to ever win a blogging award is to be a hot white chick, or to be employed by Michelle Malkin! Ha, ha.

I thank Doug for his recognition and hope to spend 2014 living up to his trust.
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I Have Won An Award as One of 2013’s Top Bloggers”


White House Says Obama Too Busy For 150th Celebration of Gettysburg Address

-By Warner Todd Huston

While Obama likes to pretend he is somehow “just like” President Abraham Lincoln, on this 150th anniversary of the delivery of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address the President was no where to be found as the Address was celebrated in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Why not? He was “busy” with that “whole website thing,” the White House said.

Journalist Ron Fournier was curious why Obama was a no show in Gettysburg for the anniversary celebration and took to Twitter to ask the White House why he didn’t show up.

“Curious,” Fournier Tweeted White House spokesman Dan Pfeiffer on Nov. 19, “why not honor Gettysburg with a presidential visit?”


An actor portrays Abe Lincoln in Gettysburg.

Presidential spokesman Pfeiffer replied that the visit didn’t fit into the President’s schedule and that prompted Fournier to ask what was more important than the “Gettysburg anniversary.”
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White House Says Obama Too Busy For 150th Celebration of Gettysburg Address”


Twitter Covers for Obama, Cancels Account of People Who Lost Their Health Insurance

-By Warner Todd Huston

Social media giant Twitter has come under fire for canceling the account of a group hosting photos of people holding cancellation letters they received from their insurance company for accounts that were canceled because of Obamacare.

Twitter is now obviously working for President Obama to fool America into thinking that he didn’t lie when he said we could all keep our insurance if we liked it. Apparently, Twitter has chosen sides.

Thus far, 3.5 million Americans and counting have lost their healthcare thanks to Obama’s take over of our national healthcare system. So, a website to chronicle cancellation notices was created called MyCancellation.com where folks that Obama had thrown off their insurance could share their woes.

Naturally, as everyone does these days, the folks at the website created a Twitter account to advertise their website.

But as soon as they signed on, Twitter began to shut down the group’s Twitter feed.
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Twitter Covers for Obama, Cancels Account of People Who Lost Their Health Insurance”


Why Does Google’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Doodle Look Like Obama and NOT MLK?

This is odd. Google has what it calls a “doodle” on its landing page, it is a little cartoon, sometimes animated, posted to celebrate the birthday of a famous person or to commemorate a special day. Today, on the 50th anniversary of the delivery of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, Google has a doodle. Take a look at it…


Google’s Doodle Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have A Dream” Speech

So, why does Google’s doodle look like the jugged ears of President Obama instead of looking like King?


Evil Internet Voyeur Hacks Baby Monitor, Says Explicit Things to Her

-By Warner Todd Huston

A Houston, Texas couple with a disabled child was shocked when an Internet hacker got into their Internet-supported baby monitor video camera and began to say nasty things to the child over the loudspeaker in the device.

Marc Gilbert and his wife were sent scrambling to disconnect the camera when the hacker began to tell their child, Allyson, “Wake up, you little s**t,” and went on to yell out sexually explicit things over the device in the girl’s bedroom.

“As a father, I’m supposed to protect her against people like this. So it’s a little embarrassing to say the least but it’s not going to happen again,” Gilbert told KTRK TV in Houston.
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Facebook Removes GOP Texas Attorney General’s New Campaign Ad

-By Warner Todd Huston

Again showing how easy it is to have conservatives blocked or removed from Facebook, the new video campaign ad for Dan Branch, the Republican candidate for Texas Attorney General, was removed from the social media giant for “community standards” violations.

The ad, a fairly standard campaign ad, was removed and the candidate’s page blocked likely because Branch’s opponents flagged the Facebook posting.

The theme of the ad is “Come And Take It!,” and is filled with images of flags, pledges, hand holding, people in prayer, and talk of limited government, traditional marriage, and pro-life issues. It’s all pretty standard fare, especially for a Texas Republican.
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Facebook Removes GOP Texas Attorney General’s New Campaign Ad”


Photo: The Very First Computer in the U.S. House of Reps

This is from Roll Call’s Friday Flashback: The First Computer in the House

These days, in absence of computers it would be hard for Capitol Hill to conduct any business. But in the late 1960s, the new technology was a novelty in a world of typewriters and the ever-reliable pen and paper. In this 1967 photo, Speaker John McCormack and House Majority Leader Carl Albert learn to use the first computer in the House. That year, just three computers were on Capitol Hill, according to the Office of the House Historian — one for the Senate sergeant-at-arms, one for the Legislative Reference Service and one for the clerk of the House. The machines were used for inventory, payroll and other accounting work, according to the historian’s office.

(Photo Courtesy Office of the House Historian)


New Phone Ap Exposes Home Addresses of Legal Gun Owners

-By Warner Todd Huston

Are you an evil gun owner whose “gun religion” requires “live child sacrifices” to appease your gun god? Well now there is a smart phone ap to expose your home address to the world.

Gun Geo Marker is now available for anti-gun smart phone users to upload the home address of gun owners to a database created to mark “dangerous guns and gun owners.”

The ap was developed by University of California San Diego lecturer and anti-gun hobbyist Brett Stalbaum who claims that his project is meant to track “irresponsible” gun owners. But reading his ap website tends to affirm that Stalbaum thinks all gun owners are irresponsible–as with the “gun religion” comment.

As Stalbaum explains on the ap’s webpage, “Yes, I guess this is the same as ‘publicly geotag[ing] homes of people believed to belong to a particular religion.’ True enough, if your religion requires live child sacrifices to appease a cold, tubular god.”
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New Phone Ap Exposes Home Addresses of Legal Gun Owners”