**Written by Doug Powers For some reason I waited a few minutes before posting this because it seemed too ridiculous even for 2017, but I should have known better than to think there might be anything too ridiculous to be real anymore. Brace yourselves: RIP The Onion. NASA can't process my Mars mission astronaut application fast enough. **Written by Doug Powers Twitter @ThePowersThatBe       

**Written by Doug Powers DNC out: “Donald Trump's border wall is a massive waste of taxpayer money that will not make us safer. Like many of the president's policies, this initiative is rooted in nothing more than prejudice and fearmongering.” DNC in: He isn't building the border fence like he promised! The Democratic National Committee on Tuesday morning sent an email with the subject “Trump's Empty Promises on Border Wall.” “Trump has failed to deliver on his signature promise to build a borde...

**Written by Doug Powers …He apparently won't be worthy of this level of recognition: So far Clarence Thomas has not been deemed worthy of inclusion in the museum: Artifacts from former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick's national anthem protests will reportedly soon be on display at the Black Lives Matter collection at the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History. “The National Museum of African American History and Culture has nearly 40,000 items in our collec...

**Written by Doug Powers This Sunday “open thread & solar eclipse tailgate party” is now: OPEN. The usual starters to get things rolling… Tomorrow many will witness a solar eclipse. If you thought the amazing celestial event would provide a short opportunity for Americans to — for at least a few minutes — put our terrestrial squabbles & agendas aside to witness a rare occurrence, YOU WERE WRONG! Do these guys know how to party, or what? On August 21, 2017, a total solar eclipse will ar...

**Written by Doug Powers CNN continues to earn every ounce of criticism that's launched in their direction, and this headline that sounds like it belongs in a sequel to Idiocracy: And the story itself is as dumb as you'd expect — a eulogy of sorts for the satire CNN's headline killed. **Written by Doug Powers Twitter @ThePowersThatBe       

“She said kill him but not kill him kill him!” Odds the Secret Service will buy that explanation: LOW. **Written by Doug Powers Twitter **Written by Doug Powers Democrat Missouri State Senator Maria Chappelle-Nadal caught the attention of the Secret Service this week: The US Secret Service is investigating comments made online by a Missouri state lawmaker who reportedly said she hoped President Donald Trump would be assassinated. Democratic State Sen. Maria Chappelle-Nadal's comment has since...

**Written by Doug Powers Here's a quick refresher about terrorists using vehicles in Europe to attack pedestrians: Paris, 9 August 2017: A man rammed a BMW into a group of soldiers, injuring six. London, 3 June 2017: Eight people died when three jihadists drove a van into pedestrians on London Bridge and then stabbed passers-by. A man was killed later in June in a van attack on Muslims in Finsbury Park. Stockholm, Sweden, 7 April 2017: Uzbek Rakhmat Akilov killed four people when he drove a lor...

**Written by Doug Powers Just seven months into the Trump presidency and the liberal media have already reached the summit of Mt. Lunacy: Journalists and major liberal news outlets have compared violent American flag-burning protesters to soldiers storming the beaches of Normandy — all while downplaying the leftists' violence. The protesters, known as antifa (short for anti-fascist), often advocate for communism and have been deemed a domestic terrorist movement by New Jersey. Persons associate...

**Written by Doug Powers I'm guessing we could be about to experience a really short “year” in Berkeley: Carol T. Christ, UC Berkeley's 11th chancellor and the first woman to lead the nation's top public research university, unveiled plans Tuesday for a “Free Speech Year” as right-wing speakers prepare to come to campus. Christ said the campus would hold “point-counterpoint” panels to demonstrate how to exchange opposing views in a respectful manner. Other events will explore constitutional ques...

Where is corporate disavowal of Black Lives Matter? by Michelle MalkinCreators Syndicate Copyright 2017 Liberal business executives are leaping like lemmings from President Donald Trump's manufacturing advisory council. Good riddance. These silly string-spined CEOs have sided with social justice agitators, Beltway media enablers and Democratic resistance knuckleheads who believe Trump was wrong to condemn violence and hatred on all sides of the political spectrum. Never mind that of the four peo...

**Written by Doug Powers Ok, I realize this will be the second time I've singled out CBS News in the past day, but they're asking for it as if they're standing outside the Dan Rather entrance to journalism school with hands in pockets and lunch money taped to their foreheads. Check out this effort to frame abortion as some sort of advancement in the field of medicine: We're talking about human beings and they use the term “eradicate” like what's being dealt with is smallpox or malaria: With th...

**Written by Doug Powers Somebody better tell this guy that Hillary lost and saber rattling won't trigger the airlifting of another “pallet of cash”: Iran's president issued a direct threat to the West on Tuesday, claiming his country is capable of revitalizing its nuclear program within hours and quickly bringing it to even more advanced levels than when Iran reached a deal with world powers that limited its ability to produce nuclear weapons. Hassan Rouhani's remarks to lawmakers follow the Ir...

**Written by Doug Powers CBS News did yeoman's work again for Democrat talking points Monday morning with this report: Talking to Attorney General Jeff Sessions about the racist violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, O'Donnell contorted: “This is believed to be the largest white supremacist demonstration in over a decade. We went and looked at the data. And in fact, between 2001 and 2016 there were nearly three times as many fatal attacks by right wing extremists than Islamic extremists in the U...

Obligatory: Good luck, DNC. Have a good Sunday all! **Written by Doug Powers Twitter **Written by Doug Powers This Sunday open thread he hereby convened. Just a couple things to get the ball rolling… Yesterday in Charlottesville, Va. there was an ugly scene that culminated in many injuries and one fatality. Also, two police officers were killed in a helicopter crash nearby — terrible: The ramming of a car Saturday afternoon into a crowd protesting a white nationalist rally in Virginia, leavi...

**Written by Doug Powers Liberal Mainstream Media rule #1 this month: Never stop trying to boost Al Gore's box office, no matter what the situation. The New York Times showed 'em all how it's done: Here's how to turn that looming apocalypse frown upside-down: The island of Guam made rare headlines this week when North Korea, responding to blustery language from President Trump, threatened to fire four ballistic missiles into waters near the American territory's shores. Some Guam residents told...

**Written by Doug Powers Another day, another strongly worded letter for Dems to put in the “Impeach Trump” file: More than 60 House Democrats are urging Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to rein in President Trump's rhetoric on North Korea. “We write to express our profound concern over the statements made by President Trump that dramatically increased tensions with North Korea and raised the specter of nuclear war,” the lawmakers wrote in a letter to Tillerson on Thursday. “These statements are...

**Written by Doug Powers This could be the “pass the popcorn” moment for the ages: In an unusual move, New York federal court judge Jed Rakoff has called for an evidentiary hearing in Sarah Palin's defamation lawsuit against The New York Times. The lawsuit is just six weeks old, but the judge says he needs to hear from the paper's editorial writer(s) to decide whether the lawsuit should move forward. […] The editorial originally linked one of Palin's political action committee ads to a 2011 mass...

How did the Dems' IT scandal suspects get here? by Michelle MalkinCreators Syndicate Copyright 2017 Here is a radical proposition: The public has a right to know the immigration status and history of foreign criminal suspects. Their entrance and employment sponsorship records should not be treated like classified government secrets — especially if the public's tax dollars subsidized their salaries. In March, I contacted the D.C. offices of House Congressional Democrats Joaquin Castro of Texas, S...

**Written by Doug Powers This morning I was tracking the progress of a couple of bombs-in-the-making — the first is in North Korea. Here's the latest: While President Trump delivered a brash warning of “fire and fury,” Rex Tillerson, his secretary of state, is pushing for cooler heads and continued diplomacy. The belligerent message from an American president was meant to match the aggressive, at times ridiculous, rhetoric of the North Korean state, according to Tillerson. “What the president wa...

**Written by Doug Powers “Science” in the era of Trump has taken a turn for the desperate as global warming has sparked a frightening increase in the spread of “fake news.” The mainstream media and some science publications, almost as if prompted by some sort of talking points email, latched on to a certain approach to a new government climate change report. The New York Times got the “leaked” ball rolling: Nytimes says report on climate change leaked because source worried Trump admin would ...