This morning on O’Connor & Company (Salem News Channel), host Larry O’Connor sat down with Media Research Center (MRC) President David Bozell to dissect the demise of Stephen Colbert’s Late Show on CBS. What was once a landscape of edgy, anti-establishment humor has devolved into a predictable echo chamber and the MRC has the data to prove it.
The opponents of U.S. President Donald Trump have been smearing him with the label fascist for years, but have always resorted to being inventive when producing the evidence.
In November 2024, American historian Timothy Snyder accused Trump of “talky fascism” and predicted he would change the system so he could remain in power until his death. Commenting last December on the Republican nomination for president in 2028, Trump said, “It’s not going to be me.”
US is ‘simply choosing not to stop’ Ebola outbreak after massive public health cuts, experts say
A previously undetected outbreak of Ebola is coursing through parts of central Africa, and the US appears to be doing little to help stop it, after massive cuts to global and domestic public health efforts.
There is no cure and no vaccine for the rare Bundibugyo variant of Ebola, which has caused two outbreaks in recent decades. Health leaders and scientists are now racing to understand where the virus is spreading and attempting to stop it – but the US is notably absent in these efforts.
In the past year, the US Agency for International Development (USAID) has been dismantled, thousands of staff at US health agencies were laid off, communications stalled and key scientific research canceled.
The rest of the world is broke?
It was in 2022, when Americans were reeling from the news that the supreme court had overturned Roe v Wade, that Jen Barnett got a firsthand glimpse of just how viable her new business could be.
Days before the court ruling, she had launched a website aimed at Americans looking to move abroad. As confusion and consternation set in over what the ruling meant for US women, Barnett watched traffic to her website steadily tick upward. “We had this huge spike.”
It was all she needed to co-found her company, Expatsi, which has since helped thousands of Americans looking to move abroad. Women remain a key part of her demographic, making up around two-thirds of her clients. “If it weren’t for young women, this business wouldn’t exist,” she said.
The Second Continental Congress called for a “day of humiliation, Fasting and Prayer” in May of 1776 amidst the impending separation with the Crown. As General George Washington stated, the day was set to “supplicate the mercy of Almighty God” and seek forgiveness for the nation’s sins before undertaking what would become the American Revolution.
My second book, , was not only a smash hit of political satire, but I spent a great deal of time trolling “the very fine people” hoax and mocking how the left used it as a decade-long lie that acted as the foundation of the “Trump is a racist” narrative.
I have done hundreds of interviews mocking the “very fine people” hoax, and had no idea that my jokes about the fraud would become real life.
In recent weeks, right-wing commentators have suggested Donald Trump, their once saviour, may be the Antichrist instead. Pundits have offered competing readings of this shift: is it a joke? A schism in Trump’s base? Good news for America’s midterms? But Trump’s transfiguration is no cause for celebration. Whatever else this new rhetoric portends, it reveals a spreading apocalyptic world view that endangers democracy.
Students of politics have long understood that the stories people tell themselves have at least as much power as the facts. In America, now, one story gaining traction is that of a coming apocalypse: there are signs, this story goes, of a final battle between good and evil, before the world ends. A 2022 Pew poll found 39 per cent of Americans believe they are living in the end-times, and this population overlaps substantially with Trump supporters.
The conscienceless monster that is left-wing political violence has a voracious appetite. And the Trump-hating media are feeding it.
A new Rasmussen Reports poll finds a majority of likely U.S. voters — 60 percent — believes that the constant barrage of negative coverage of President Donald Trump likely contributed to the latest assassination attempt. The national telephone and online survey of 1,076 Americans, conducted April 27-29, shows 41 percent of those surveyed think it “very likely” the media’s one-sided treatment had some influence. A mere 13 percent of respondents said it’s “not at all likely” that the media has some culpability.
A US judge on Monday apologized to the man accused of attempting to assassinate Donald Trump for the “legally deficient” treatment he has faced in a Washington DC, jail, including being placed on suicide watch, separated from other inmates and denied a Bible.
The US magistrate judge Zia Faruqui said he was disturbed by the conditions for Cole Allen, who allegedly fired a shotgun during a foiled attack on Trump and senior officials in his administration at a 25 April press gala. The judge said the conditions were inappropriate for a person with no criminal history.
“Whatever you’ve been through, I apologize,” Faruqui said during a court hearing.
When a federal grand jury indicted former FBI Director James Comey last week, the story that dominated headlines was the infamous Instagram post — specifically, the image of seashells arranged to spell out “86 47,” which prosecutors say a reasonable person familiar with the circumstances would interpret as a serious expression of intent to harm President Donald Trump.
A man running for the U.S. Senate seat in Pennsylvania has been arrested for leaving voicemails threatening President Donald Trump and the family of an unnamed member of Congress.
No shortage of progressive crazy people.
The Justice Department on Thursday released the clearest footage yet of White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting suspect Cole Allen charging the Washington Hilton ballroom security checkpoint as part of the alleged assasination attempt against President Trump.
The video, shared on social media by DC US Attorney Jeanine Pirro, appears to show that Allen was armed with a long gun during his mad dash.
A K9 appeared to be suspicious of White House Correspondents' Dinner shooting suspect Cole Allen but was pulled away just seconds before Allen charged through security.
The dog was seen following Allen through a doorway but was pulled back by its handler.
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— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) May 1, 2026
In the United States, mass protests against authoritarianism are gathering under the banner “No Kings.” These rebukes allege that Donald Trump is something “un-American”: a king.
Supposedly, America is the land that does not have kings. America is said to represent freedom, opposing the authoritarian oppression that monarchs can signify. The protesters’ thinking goes like this: Get rid of Mr. Trump, America’s King, and the United States would again become “the land of the free,” because America is freedom and kings are tyrants.
Judging from the brief but very woke biographies provided the authors are male Karens high on dope. Nothing else explains TDS as severe.
NPR “domestic extremism correspondent” Odette Yousef has a consistent pattern of finding extremism only on the “far right.” When Cole Tomas Allen shot up the White House Correspondents Dinner, that was somehow not left-wing extremism, as NPR’s headlines over Yousef’s reportage/camouflage from Monday’s All Things Considered claimed:
Shooting suspect’s online presence belies claims of ‘radicalism’
Once upon a time, there was a societal pact in this country that, when a depraved lunatic committed an atrocity, no one would breathe a word of his motives, speech, or writings. When Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold kicked off the school shooting craze at Columbine High School in 1999, we didn’t speak of what they thought they were accomplishing. Their so-called basement tapes were never publicly released, and authorities destroyed them in 2011. “Law enforcement officials have always regarded the tapes as a particularly infectious form of toxic waste, a primer in mass murder that could inspire more violence and must never be released,” reported the Colorado Freedom of Information Coalition.
