On July 26, in the aftermath of the Democratic Party’s ruthless midsummer coup of their own democratically elected presidential nominee, this column predicted that the elevation of dimwitted cackler-in-chief Kamala Harris to the party’s presidential slot would “spectacularly backfire.” More...
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Fri, 18 Oct 2024 04:05:20 +0000On Oct. 16, 1978, the cardinal electors of the Roman Catholic Church elected Polish Cardinal Karol Wojtyla to sit on the Chair of St. Peter. Wojtyla took the name Pope John Paul II, having succeeded John Paul I, who died...
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Fri, 18 Oct 2024 02:15:54 +0000This election cycle has been a bit of an odd one. There are plenty of important policy issues that could define it — the border, taxation, inflation, or foreign aid, for example — but none of them (despite how much Americans...
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Fri, 18 Oct 2024 02:15:53 +0000The woke Left continues to push for Indigenous People’s Day to replace Columbus Day, but Americans are pushing back. In this episode of The Spectacle Podcast, hosts Melissa Mackenzie and Scott McKay discuss how Americans are over DEI holidays like...
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Fri, 18 Oct 2024 02:15:51 +0000In 1985, the Coca-Cola Company took one of the biggest gambles in marketing history. It changed the formula for its widely popular soft drink and branded it “New Coke.” The result was an unmitigated disaster. Sales crashed, and the company...
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Fri, 18 Oct 2024 02:15:49 +0000Porn: everyone can see it but few will talk about it. Before photography, there were tasteful paintings at a downtown museum. Before the internet, there were tasteless videos at a few across-the-tracks theaters. Now in every man’s pocket cellphone is...
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Fri, 18 Oct 2024 02:05:50 +0000A couple of months back, this column noted a narrative being pushed by, among others, Donald Trump surrogate and former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy. Trump isn’t really running against Kamala Harris, said Ramaswamy; instead, he’s running against a machine. Instinctively,...
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Fri, 18 Oct 2024 02:05:48 +0000When Donald Trump left Washington on January 20, 2021, the consensus among our ruling elites was that his tumultuous career in politics was at an end. The Democrats, however, were taking no chances. Having impeached him just a week earlier...
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Fri, 18 Oct 2024 02:05:46 +0000Kamala Harris gave the silent treatment to the press for over a month to start her campaign. She ends it by squeezing in interviews with everybody from Bret Baier to Charlamagne tha God. The change in strategy tacitly acknowledges a...
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Thu, 17 Oct 2024 14:51:49 +0000The United States is at a crossroads. You may have heard that Social Security is politically impossible to reform. But that belief will be hard to sustain. In a few years, the Social Security Trust Fund will be exhausted. When...
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