Watch: Politically-charged Virginia AP test question divides America further: Lt. Gov. Sears
March 14, 2023
Morning Edition: Climate activists melt down
March 14, 2023
Mike Huckabee
Climate change activists are spewing dangerous levels of CO2 as they have meltdowns over word that President Biden plans to approve a major oil drilling project on Alaska’s North Slope.The Oscars
March 14, 2023
Mike Huckabee
I doubt that many of my readers really care much about the Oscars. Tom Cruise must’ve been so sure they’d never give an Oscar to “Top Gun: Maverick,” the patriotic movie that saved the studio, that he didn’t even attend.Where did “climate mental health issues” come from?
March 14, 2023
Mike Huckabee
Vice President Kamala Harris is taking some flak for claiming that young people are struggling with “climate mental health issues.”Evening Edition: College enrollment falls
March 14, 2023
Mike Huckabee
The Associated Press reports that between 2019 and 2022, college enrollment in the US fell by 8%.Morning Edition: The Oscars
March 13, 2023
Mike Huckabee
I doubt that many of my readers really care much about the Oscars. Tom Cruise must’ve been so sure they’d never give an Oscar to “Top Gun: Maverick,” the patriotic movie that saved the studio, that he didn’t even attendSen. John Kennedy: This took my breath away
March 13, 2023
The truth won't hurt us
March 13, 2023
Mike Huckabee
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy authorized the release of 40,000 hours of surveillance video from hundreds of cameras at the nation’s Capitol from January 6 of 2021.Mike Huckabee
Evening Edition: Bank woes
March 13, 2023
Mike Huckabee
Friday, California regulators and the FDIC shut down Silicon Valley Bank, and on Sunday, New York state regulators closed Signature Bank, which had heavy deposits from the cryptocurrency sector.5 “Facts” About January 6th We Now KNOW Are Lies | Monologue
March 13, 2023
Mike Huckabee
Mitch McConnell's Response to Tucker Carlson is CONFUSING
March 12, 2023
Mike Huckabee
Sunday Standard - March 12
March 12, 2023
Mike Huckabee
The top news from the week that was.Mike Huckabee
Federal judge strikes down Biden immigration policy
March 11, 2023
Mike Huckabee
A federal judge in Florida ruled in favor of the state and struck down President Biden’s “catch and release” border policy.SPLC nonsense
March 11, 2023
Mike Huckabee
The Southern Poverty Law Center, America’s second-most lucrative hate group (behind BLM, of course), is defending their attorney who was arrested for domestic terrorism in Atlanta for allegedly being part of an Antifa attack on police officers and arson of a police training center construction site.Wayne Shorter, RIP
March 11, 2023
Pat Reeder, Staff writer
As a music lover, indie record label co-owner, University of North Texas graduate, and husband of a jazz singer (Laura Ainsworth) whose dad was a major big band saxophonist, it gives me great sorrow to have to report that Wayne Shorter died Thursday in a Los Angeles hospital at 89.
https://news.yahoo.com/saxophonist-weather-report-co-founder-194054530.html
Shorter was an extremely influential saxophonist, composer and arranger who was a founding member of the pioneering jazz fusion group Weather Report. He played with everyone from Miles Davis and Art Blakey to Steely Dan (he played the sax solo on “Aja”), Carlos Santana and Joni Mitchell. Over a career that spanned seven decades, he was nominated for Grammy Awards 23 times and won a dozen, most recently in 2019 for Best Jazz Album for his final release, “Emanon.” He retired from performing in 2018 due to health problems, but continued composing.
If you’d like to explore his music, USA Today compiled some videos of some of his most popular tracks, including the jazz standard, “Birdland.”
https://ftw.usatoday.com/lists/wayne-shorter-best-songs-died-jazz
For those wanting to do a real deep dive, Ranker.com has a list of his albums ranked by fans (but don’t necessarily go by that.)
https://www.ranker.com/list/best-wayne-shorter-albums-list/reference
Finally, Robert Spencer at PJ Media penned an appreciation of Wayne Shorter and how his passing represents the passing of a great era of American music, art, literature and culture, the likes of which are almost nonexistent today.
“Weaponization” hearings: Democrats humiliate themselves
March 11, 2023
Mike Huckabee
Sit back while we try to manage the fire hose of news that spewed forth yesterday, much of it from hearings about the “Twitter Files” that took place before the Select Committee on the Weaponization of Government.Evening Edition - Economy update
March 11, 2023
Mike Huckabee
Friday, the stock market plunged yet again, on news that California bank regulators and the FDIC had seized the assets of Silicon Valley Bank and placed it in receivership.Chuck Schumer: The lowest of the low
March 11, 2023
Mike Huckabee
Having been in politics longer than Ariana Grande has been alive, I have seen more than my share of blatant opportunists and unrepentant, bald-faced liars.Entertainment news
March 11, 2023
Mike Huckabee
The Academy Awards air this Sunday, but it’s an open question as to how many people will actually watch what used to be the movie fans’ equivalent of the Super Bowl.Fox News keeps on winning
March 11, 2023
Mike Huckabee
If the Democrats thought that screaming, calling people names and doubling down on lies was going to put all this week’s escaped genies back into their bottles, guess again.Morning Edition:The NYT covers for Senator Fetterman
March 11, 2023
Mike Huckabee
To fulfill its mission of running defense for Democrats, the New York Times is trying to head off questions about how John Fetterman can perform his Senate duties when he’s hospitalized with severe clinical depression.
Mike Huckabee
A federal judge in Florida ruled in favor of the state and struck down President Biden’s “catch and release” border policy.Mike Huckabee
Before we get into the story of what the left is trying to do to Elon Musk for daring to expose the truth about Twitter, here’s an update on January 6 and Jason Chansley.Allard: Do we deserve our freedom?
March 9, 2023
Kenneth Allard
Just three years short of the nation’s 250th anniversary, the moment may have arrived when Americans no longer deserve our freedom. The latest points in evidence:
- The abduction by Mexican drug cartels of four Americans in Matamoros, hard by the border town of Brownsville Texas. In case you have been asleep these last two years, Mexico and the entire border region is now under the exclusive governance of the drug cartels, not the Department of Homeland Security and certainly not its hapless Bidencrat-in-chief, Alejandro Mayorkas.
- While the security of our homeland is still quivering from border to border (now including the flyover states recently visited by that Chinese spy balloon) American military pre-eminence is openly challenged by our traditional adversaries in Russia and China as well as such upstarts as Iran and North Korea.
As if all that were not enough, it appears that our volunteer military has fallen on hard times since both the Army and Air Force are falling well short of their recruitment goals. Even their sister services have been scrambling to deal with a tough labor market and an increasingly indifferent youth cadre.
Because in 2022 the Army fell farthest behind – 15,000 short of the 60,000 replacement troops it needed - Army Secretary Christine Wormuth recently visited Chicago-area recruiters to get a handle on the problem. Her visit was especially sensible because Chicago residents typically deal with casualty rates and daily mayhem worse than most battlefields. However, beleaguered Army recruiters were blunt in their assessment of civilian educational leaders, “many (of them) skeptical that the Army offers a good career option for their students. “I’m going to use the word hostile,” one recruiter told her. “There’s no other word to use.”
Worse yet, “Army leaders say their surveys show that young people don’t see the Army as a prime career choice, often because they don’t want to die or get injured, deal with the stress of military life or put their lives on hold.” But perhaps the greatest obstacle Secretary Wormuth encountered was “resistance from teachers’ unions and school board members who don’t see the value in offering students the military as a career option. In some cases, school officials view the military through a post-Vietnam era lens.” https://www.armytimes.com/
As a Vietnam-era draftee, I believe todays Army is still dealing with the latent effects of both Vietnam and the Great Divorce that followed immediately thereafter. While the volunteer Army re-established professionalism during the generation that followed, most Americans became accustomed to thinking of the Army – and the Armed Forces in general - as someone else’s problem. Even the shock of 911 didn’t bring national mobilization since we effectively transferred its burdens onto the Reserves and those hyper-deployed volunteers. Today we are defended by a brave but tiny force representing less than half of one -percent of our population. Small wonder that civilian educators in Chicago and elites elsewhere else recognize a segregated, sacrificial community when they see one!
While we have happily lived with those anomalies for decades, such a force becomes problematic when you need an Army to defend our own borders. The combination of cartel violence and the curse of fentanyl –already said to have killed more than one hundred thousand Americans – led Senators Lindsay Graham and John Kennedy to call for a declaration of war against the cartels: “We are going to unleash the fury and might of the United States against these cartels…We’re going to destroy their business model and their lifestyle because our national security and the security of the United States as a whole depends on us taking decisive action.” https://www.washingtontimes.
But barely were the words out of his mouth than White House spokes-person Karine Jean-Pierre responded, "Designating these cartels as…foreign terrorist organizations would not grant us any additional authorities that we don't really have at this time. The United States has powerful sanctions authorities specifically designated to combat narcotics trafficking organizations...” Thanks again, Baghdad Bob!
This Oscar weekend do yourself a favor and look up an old movie that portrays our new realities better than any DC bureaucrat: Sicario: Day of the Soldado. This 2018 thriller captures the ambiguities, tragedies and pathos of what an all-out war against the Mexican cartels would look like. Along the way, we might also find that the greatest tragedy of life imitating art is the creeping realization that both should have been better planned!
Morning Edition: Chuck Schumer: The lowest of the low
March 9, 2023
Mike Huckabee
Having been in politics longer than Ariana Grande has been alive, I have seen more than my share of blatant opportunists and unrepentant, bald-faced liars.Mike Huckabee
Revisiting "food deserts"
March 8, 2023
Mike Huckabee
Remember when liberals used to complain about so-called “food deserts,” and how poor people in urban areas didn’t have access to affordable, healthy food? They blamed that on Republicans, racism, capitalism, you know, the usual straw men the left likes to flail.Evening Edition: Here’s some good news
March 8, 2023
Mike Huckabee
All this “telling people the truth” stuff is suddenly becoming a trend! According to a new Issues & Insights/TIPP poll, 76% of Americans want Congress to investigate the origins of the COVID-19 virus...Mike Huckabee
Tucker Carlson’s Monday night presentation on the “new,” previously hidden January 6 video caused the predictable uproar from the left, who just can’t stand that you got to see anything they didn’t want you to see.January 6 video: “the truth is out there,” PART 2
March 8, 2023
Mike Huckabee
Tucker Carlson’s Monday night presentation on the “new,” previously hidden January 6 video caused the predictable uproar from the left, who just can’t stand that you got to see anything they didn’t want you to see.Mike Huckabee
Newsom continues attacks on red states
March 8, 2023
Mike Huckabee
California Gov. Gavin Newsom feels this strange compulsion to take to Twitter and attack the red states that California residents are moving to, and it always ends with the Governors of those states figuratively handing him his hair-gelled head.Disney doubles down on trashing its legacy
March 8, 2023
Mike Huckabee
Even after losing its self-governing status, its sterling reputation, and billions of dollars in market value, Disney continues to double-down on trashing its legacy by releasing “woke” propaganda.Trey Gowdy on Atlanta riots: Where is the DOJ?
March 8, 2023
Mike Huckabee
Atlanta: 23 suspects charged with domestic terrorism
March 7, 2023
Mike Huckabee
Twenty-three suspects have been charged with domestic terrorism in Atlanta for allegedly attacking both police officers and the construction site of a new police training center with rocks, bricks, fireworks and Molotov cocktails and destroying multiple pieces of construction equipment with fire and vandalism.At last “the truth is out there” about January 6
March 7, 2023
Mike Huckabee
The previously unreleased January 6 footage “does prove beyond doubt that Democrats in Congress, assisted by Adam Kinzinger and Liz Cheney, lied about what happened that day.Mike Huckabee
The previously unreleased January 6 footage “does prove beyond doubt that Democrats in Congress, assisted by Adam Kinzinger and Liz Cheney, lied about what happened that day.The AOC-Met Gala scandal
March 7, 2023
Mike Huckabee
Nicole Gelinas of the New York Post explains why Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez attending the Met Gala (in her borrowed “Tax The Rich” designer gown) has drawn the scrutiny of the House Ethics Committee...Criminal-coddling leftist DA’s
March 7, 2023
Mike Huckabee
On the subject of criminal-coddling leftist DA’s (whose elections were usually backed by George Soros’ money), I have several stories today that illustrate what a horrible idea electing them was.Mike Huckabee
President Biden reportedly plans to run for reelection, despite the facts that he’ll be 82 in 2024, there are serious questions about his mental capacities, polls show that less than 40% of Democrats want him to be the nominee...Biden can’t count on hiding again
March 7, 2023
Mike Huckabee
Biden for President: Will he run again?
March 7, 2023
Mike Huckabee
President Biden reportedly plans to run for reelection, despite the facts that he’ll be 82 in 2024...Morning Edition: President Trump at CPAC
March 6, 2023
Mike Huckabee
If nothing else, it was a refreshing reminder that we used to have a President who could actually speak coherently and extemporaneously for over 90 minutes without finishing up by shaking hands with invisible people.Evening Edition: Mental Competence Tests
March 6, 2023
Mike Huckabee
Forget Nikki Haley's call for politicians over 75 to have to take mental competence tests. At least two former White House physicians are demanding that President Biden take one...DID YOU HEAR THAT?! | Monologue
March 6, 2023
Mike Huckabee
CBS News tries to walk it back
March 6, 2023
Mike Huckabee
One of the more notorious moments of the 2020 election was Lesley Stahl of “60 Minutes” “correcting” President Trump when he said political opponents spied on his campaign, telling him, “There is no real evidence of that.” We later learned Trump was correct.Mike Huckabee
Sunday Standard - March 5
March 5, 2023
Mike Huckabee
The top news from the week that was.Mike Huckabee
Morning Edition: Joe Biden built this
March 4, 2023
Mike Huckabee
Just so it’s not forgotten, this is what President Biden’s reversal of Trump border security policies has created…Mike Huckabee
Regular readers of this newsletter are familiar with a State Department-funded think tank called the Global Engagement Center because we’ve covered it in detail.Sorry to report
March 3, 2023
Mike Huckabee
I’m sorry to have to report that Isaiah Washington, a terrific actor and outspoken black conservative...Morning Edition: Veto Update
March 3, 2023
Mike Huckabee
President Biden decided at the last minute not to make his veto pen do double-duty, and he signed a resolution passed by both Houses of Congress to block the DC City Council’s new “justice reform” bill...Morning Edition: AG Garland destroyed in Senate Judiciary hearing; FBI agents didn’t want to raid Mar-A-Lago
March 2, 2023
Mike Huckabee
FBI Director Christopher Wray was his usual disingenuous self during his Tuesday interview with FOX NEWS’ Bret Baier, who exposed Wray’s artful-dodge technique but didn’t exactly draw blood.Evening Edition: Interesting
March 2, 2023
Mike Huckabee
In the first hearing of the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, a Johns Hopkins University professor identified the biggest spreader of misinformation during the pandemic.Veto
March 2, 2023
Mike Huckabee
President Biden is expected to use his veto pen for the first time this week, and he’ll do it twice.AZ Gubernatorial Update
March 2, 2023
Mike Huckabee
Katie Hobbs may be ensconced in the Governor’s residence in Arizona, but we can’t say “safely ensconced” just yet.This backfired
March 2, 2023
Mike Huckabee
I’m sure you’ll be shocked to hear that a far-left, virtue-signaling law passed by San Francisco’s leaders backfired, didn’t do what was intended, and only ended up costing San Franciscans more money.AG Garland destroyed in Senate Judiciary hearing; FBI agents didn’t want to raid Mar-A-Lago
March 2, 2023
Mike Huckabee
On the issue of activists threatening the lives of Supreme Court justices, the attorney general tried to avoid responsibility for decisions not to prosecute this crime, placing this on the U.S. Marshals when it is clearly his. Under Cruz’s questioning, Garland’s attempt was unsuccessful.Mike Huckabee
No, that headline is not from the BABYLON BEE. Rather, it’s the best way to describe the interview that FBI Director Christopher Wray gave to FOX NEWS’ Bret Baier Tuesday evening.Mike Huckabee
President Biden continues to claim that inflation is dropping and most Americans just don’t realize how great they have it because the media doesn’t give him friendly enough coverage.Mike Huckabee
Mike Huckabee
Morning Edition: Update on Arizona Election Accusations
February 28, 2023
Mike Huckabee
We’re still in a holding pattern after reporting Monday about explosive testimony last week before a joint hearing of the Arizona Legislature’s Senate Elections Committee & House Municipal Oversight & Elections Committee.Evening Edition: Growing anger and desperate spin
February 28, 2023
Mike Huckabee
With the Energy Department becoming the second federal agency to determine that COVID-19 most likely escaped from a Chinese virology lab, anger and demands for investigations are growingEvening Edition: Another Trump policy is reversed
February 27, 2023
Mike Huckabee
The Biden Department of Education is reversing yet another Trump-era policy, this time the expanded First Amendment protections that Trump granted to religious clubs on college campuses.Morning Edition: A new COVID lab-leak report
February 27, 2023
Mike Huckabee
I hope I won’t get banned from Facebook for telling you this (I do love posting photos of my lunch), but – brace yourselves – the Wall Street Journal reported that the Energy Department concluded that the COVID-19 pandemic likely started with a leak from a virus lab in Wuhan, China.Paging Dr. Fauci: A new COVID lab-leak report
February 27, 2023
Mike Huckabee
I hope I won’t get demonetized from Google for telling you this, but – brace yourselves – the Wall Street Journal reported that the Energy Department concluded that the COVID-19 pandemic likely started with a leak from a virus lab in Wuhan, China.Is the IRS auditing through a racial equity lens?
February 27, 2023
Mike Huckabee
Earlier, I wrote a message specifically to anyone who had raised their approval rating of President Biden based on his vow to make “the wealthy and corporations” pay their “fair share” of taxes. That message was that the IRS was actually cracking down on underpaid service workers to make sure they reported every last penny of their tip money so that Uncle Joe could seize his “fair share.”
Well, if that wasn’t enough to convince you that the IRS is not the friend of the working person, try this: Following Biden’s unconstitutional order to inject “equity,” or race-based practices, into the federal government, the America First Legal Foundation has launched an investigation into the IRS because they suspect the agency has illegally altered its audit algorithm to include race and ethnicity data, “for the purpose of ensuring that more white, Asian, and mixed-race Americans are audited based solely on their race or national origin.”
For the record, they point out that “Congress has prohibited the IRS from collecting race and ethnicity data from American taxpayers. But since President Biden took office, the Treasury Department has been using ‘racial equity’ as a ‘key factor in the design of tax compliance,’ and illegally ‘examining the tax system through a racial equity lens.'”
Who guessed that when Biden vowed to go after wealthy tax cheats and make them pay, he was talking about waiters in Chinese restaurants?