Crackpots

“I am enthusiastically behind Ron DeSantis saying that Black-centered education has no place in Florida schools, obviously. It’s bigoted from its premise. “First of all, Western culture is better and it’s a thoughtcrime to say it out loud. Number two, Blacks were sold into slavery by other Blacks. Can’t say that out loud, Thomas Sowell wrote that in great detail. …

Deadspin reports: It hasn’t been a great week for NBC Sports football analyst Tony Dungy. He made up one-half of perhaps the most low-energy broadcast team we’ve ever heard on Saturday night and has been getting flack for it ever since. Dungy has also been getting roasted, and rightly so, by Cyd Zeigler over at OutSports for his ongoing opposition …

The Associated Press reports: When some of the world’s wealthiest and most influential figures gathered at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting last year, sessions on climate change drew high-level discussions on topics such as carbon financing and sustainable food systems. But an entirely different narrative played out on the internet, where social media users claimed leaders wanted to force …

Media Matters has the transcript: TUCKER CARLSON (HOST): On the other side, you have Republicans. They’re back in control of the House of Representatives. And because they are — on the House side — Republican members who want to smoke tobacco once again can. They couldn’t when Nancy Pelosi was speaker because she had banned tobacco smoking in the Capitol …

“You know, I actually, kind of, hate a lot of museums because they steal our tax dollars. And so, yeah, defund all of the museums and send back all of the artifacts. “The amount of money that was given in the COVID bill, the trillions of dollars – all of it going to, like, the Kennedy Center, the African-American Museum. …

Media Matters reports: Republicans have nominated right-wing commentator Leon Benjamin for Virginia’s special U.S. House election next month. Benjamin is an election denier who has frequently pushed fringe conspiracy theories, including claiming that the pandemic was actually a “cover-up” by elites to usher in a “new world order”; COVID-19 vaccines contain a “tracking system” and herald the “mark of the …

The Arkansas Times reports: No more TikTok on government-owned devices, critical race theory in Arkansas classrooms or the gender-neutral term “Latinx” on official state documents. These are among the first batch of decrees from Governor Sanders, who started signing executive orders before the folding chairs for her inauguration ceremony all got put away. Sanders signed seven(!) first-day executive orders. That’s …

“Someone who does no work at all and is utterly undeserving of his position and probably should be in line for impeachment with Secretary Mayorkas is Pete Buttigieg. Pete Buttigieg, his Transportation Secretary position, well, not going great. All flights have been grounded in America this morning, even though it’s, like, pretty nice weather – it’s, like, beautiful morning here …

Vice News reports: Joe Rogan has belatedly apologized after doing an entire segment about a clearly fake and intentionally absurd tweet about vaccines which was attributed to a doctor. Rogan ultimately pulled the segment from the episode where it appeared, but Dr. Natalia Solenkova, an intensive care doctor based in Florida, is still facing a deluge of harassment over the …

“She knows when she took that oath that she stole this election. The good thing about this being dragged out a little bit is that more and more information is coming our way. “I’m going to look for one judge that loves the Constitution and loves this country. We’re going to expose each and every one of them. And the …

“I mean, with President Trump, they did this, they did this in the middle of the night, and our movement was so big and so powerful that they couldn’t just do this in the middle of the night. They had to pull out all the stops and do this in broad daylight. So everyone saw it. “The way we get …

Deadline reports: Actor Kirk Cameron went on Fox News Channel on Friday to discuss his fight against libraries who have been turning down story-hour book-reading pitches from the publisher of Cameron’s new children’s book As You Grow. The sit-down came after a reading Thursday a the Indianapolis Public Library drew a sizable crowd — though the library disputes the attendance …

Fox News reports: Actor-writer-producer Kirk Cameron, who was originally denied or ignored by over 50 public libraries in America for a story-time book reading connected to his new children’s book, appeared at the Indianapolis Public Library on Thursday — and was met with the biggest crowd the library had seen in 137 years, according to the library. Cameron and his …

The Daily Beast reports: Kanye West is nowhere to be found, according to his former business manager Thomas St. John, who is currently trying to serve the disgraced music mogul with a $4.5 million lawsuit. According to a Dec. 19 court filing obtained by The U.S. Sun, the manager is looking for more time, at least until the end of …

CNN reports:   A Maricopa County judge on Tuesday ordered Kari Lake to compensate Gov.-elect Katie Hobbs for some legal fees related to the election lawsuit Lake had brought challenging her loss, but he stopped short of sanctioning Lake for filing the lawsuit. Attorneys for Hobbs – the current secretary of state – had charged that Lake and her lawyers …

The Washington Post reports: A rapidly growing measles outbreak in Columbus, Ohio — largely involving unvaccinated children — is fueling concerns among health officials that more parent resistance to routine childhood immunizations will intensify a resurgence of vaccine-preventable diseases. More than a third of parents with children under 18 — and 28 percent of all adults — now say parents …

“The Marxist Democrats must have something really big on Mitch McConnell in order to get him and some of his friendly ‘Republican’ Senators to pass the horrendous ‘All Democrat, All the Way’ OMINOUS Bill. “It gives Border Security to other countries, but ZERO $’s to the U.S., it fully funds the corrupt ‘Justice’ Department, FBI (which RIGGED the Presidential Election!), …

“Merry Christmas to EVERYONE, including the Radical Left Marxists that are trying to destroy our Country, the Federal Bureau of Investigation that is illegally coercing & paying Social and LameStream Media to push for a mentally disabled Democrat over the Brilliant, Clairvoyant, and USA LOVING Donald J. Trump, and, of course, The Department of Injustice, which appointed a Special ‘Prosecutor’ …

The Washington Post reports: An Arizona judge on Friday ruled from the bench against Abe Hamadeh, the unsuccessful Republican candidate for state attorney general who claimed that improper adjudication of ballots and other errors cost him the election and who had asked to be declared the winner. Hamadeh lost to Democrat Kris Mayes by 511 votes, a narrow margin that …

The Hill reports: Former President Trump defended his dinner with the rapper Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, saying it happened because he is “overly generous.” Trump told New York Magazine in an interview published Friday that Ye has “always been very good” to him and he believed that Ye wanted advice. “And I do that for people, sometimes at my …