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The trailer for ‘ORWELL 2+2=5’ begins with a heavy voiceover declaring, “when I sit down to write a book, I write it because there is some lie that I want to expose”. Two minutes later there is a photo of a BLM activist holding up an “I can’t breathe” sign. Such unintentional irony pervades a documentary which claims that what George Orwell really wanted to warn about in ‘1984’ were the dangers of free speech and political dissent. Not Communism. An Orwell documentary that treats ‘misinformation’ as the sort of threat that Orwell was warning about, rather than an Orwellian term for demonizing speech and providing a pretext for government propaganda and censorship of the kind that we see in ‘1984’, has lost the plot. But ‘ORWELL 2+2=5’ has an entirely different plot aimed at turning Orwell into Big Brother. ‘ORWELL 2+2=5′ was written and directed by Raoul Peck: a Haitian radical activist who made a movie celebrating Communist mass murderer Patrice Lumumba. George Orwell struggled agains...

How did an Islamist socialist who posed with an unindicted terror bombing coconspirator become elected to head a city of terror survivors, the “most Jewish city in America” and how did he defeat an Italian-American political dynasty in what was once an Italian-American city? Because that New York City, the one people imagine from movies, no longer exists.   In 1989, the last year of Mayor Ed Koch’s administration, Jews outnumbered Muslims roughly 4 to 1. By 2013, the last year of Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s administration, the number of Muslims had doubled and the number of Jews continued to drop. And by the time Zohran Mamdani beat Andrew Cuomo, there were more Muslims than Italian Americans in NYC. So much for New York City being the “most Jewish city” in America. Or “Italian city”. Like so many European cities, it’s been redefined by waves of Muslim mass migration. There wasn’t an Irish candidate in the race because the number of Irish-Americans in what is considered “one of ...

1. No, Mamdani Doesn't Have a Mandate. Zohran Mamdani won a little over 1 million votes (at current count) in a city with a population of around 7 million adults. That’s about 14%. The total election turnout was a little over 2 million (that will likely increase) making for an election turnout of 28%. That’s not even a third of New York City’s population. New York City’s election turnout has always been weak. And while the city has a large illegal alien population, it still has 5 million registered voters. That’s a below 40% turnout rate even for registered voters. The media is hyping this as the highest election turnout in decades. Only if you don’t pay attention to population growth. In the 1993 showdown between Giuliani and Dinkins, a racist hack who let the city burn, and whom Bill de Blasio viewed as an inspiration, 1.9 million voters turned out in a city with a smaller population and 3 million registered voters for a 59% voter turnout. The turnout fell in the 2001 election th...

After blowing through $1.5 billion to lose an election, Kamala is back. And wants to run again. “I am not done,” Kamala Harris declared. “I have lived my entire career as a life of service and it’s in my bones.” The terrible polls won’t be stopping her because “if I listened to polls I would have not run for my first office, or my second office – and I certainly wouldn’t be sitting here.” Kamala’s previous presidential campaign foundered when she couldn’t explain what the Harris-Walz administration would do differently than the Biden-Harris administration. This time around she can’t explain how she would run any differently in 2028 than she did in 2024. 107 Days, her campaign book, blames everybody and everything else for her defeat, including the Biden team, racism, sexism and only having 107 days in which to figure out who she was. 470 days later and counting, Kamala Harris is still claiming that Biden was “competent to serve” and couldn’t explain what she would have done differently...

In 1831, President Andrew Jackson dispatched the USS Lexington to the Falkland Islands to respond to attacks on American fishing vessels in the area. The Lexington rescued the American vessels and American citizens, and took some of the locals, loosely aligned with British and other local authorities, prisoner as punishment for seizing the American ships. Jackson did not pursue a declaration of war which, in any case, would have involved a fairly nebulous authority in Buenos Aires, or more dangerously, with London, although after having already dispatched the USS Lexington, he suggested to Congress that “they may clothe the Executive with such authority and means as they may deem necessary for providing a force adequate to the complete protection of our fellow citizens fishing and trading in those seas.” The Falklands Incident, as it was known, 194 years ago, was one of many interventions by American forces against, as Jackson put it, “bands” linked to governments, without being part ...

There are two ‘rights’ in America. There’s the one we belong to, concerned with fighting the Left, resisting Islam and preserving America. And there’s another right that hates America. These days that ‘right’ is easier to spot than ever because it has one fatal ‘tell’. It spends little or no time fighting the Left, instead it spends all or most of its time fighting conservatives. Not only doesn’t it fight the Left, but it often makes common cause with leftists, inviting on not just liberals, but hard core socialists and even Marxists, to its podcasts, and eagerly citing them to attack conservatives and the legitimacy of the United States of America. Watch for Jeffrey Sachs, Cenk Uygur, Glenn Greenwald and Max Blumenthal being interviewed and quoted to attack conservatives and America and you’ll see the anti-American right. That’s because, woke left or woke right, they’re all members of the anti-American club. Like the Left, they don’t want to save America, they want to replace it with...

In the spring of ’77, President Jimmy Carter visited the town of Clinton, MA, and called for a ‘Palestinian’ state. Why did Carter choose a town of 15,000 at a town hall where most of the attendees were asking him questions about the economy to announce what would become the single longest running nation-building project in American history? No one knows. But almost 50 years, 7 presidents and countless billions of dollars later, there’s still no ‘Palestinian’ state. And we are still nation-building that terror state in the name of peace. Even as America struggled through a recession, Carter traveled around insisting on the urgent need of “the Palestinians to have a homeland”. The ‘Palestinians’ repaid him by hijacking a German plane that included American passengers and holding them hostage in Somalia. After futilely pleading with Syrian dictator Hafez al-Assad to come to America, Carter finally met him in Switzerland, praised him as a “moderate leader” who had demonstrated “good will...