Commentary Culture Investigations

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Salon.com, one of the truly crazy websites of the Left, has called it quits after 31 years, lamenting “the business realities of independent digital journalism have changed profoundly over the years.” AP’s headline saluted it as “an early staple of internet discourse,” and they tenderly reported:Salon, one of the early internet’s most influential websites that featured sharp voices and political and cultural journalism with a liberal sensibility, announced Thursday it would shut down after 31 years of publication.The New York Times headline similarly celebrated this “online magazine” as a “pioneer of digital journalism.” Salon was an important stop for a number of liberal journalists, most notably Jake Tapper, who during his tenure there wrote a book on the 2000 election provocatively titled Down and Dirty. On page 11, he decried George W. Bush and “his Bob Jones University-visiting, Confederate flag-waving, itchy-death-row-trigger-finger-wiggling, South Carolina-racist-pandering cracker Texas ass.”NewsBusters has captured some truly bizarre leftist takes over the years. Here’s a small sample: “Stop Thanking the Troops for Me: No, They Don’t ‘Protect Our Freedoms!’” — Headline of Salon.com article by Justin Doolittle published on Veterans’ Day, November 11, 2013.“Put a man in uniform, preferably a white man, give him a gun, and Americans will worship him. It is a particularly childish trait, of a childlike culture, that insists on anointing all active military members and police officers as ‘heroes’” — Salon writer David Masciotra, November 9, 2014.“Would anyone truly mourn the holiday [Christmas] if we did without it? How maddening become the carols, how cloying the endlessly proffered Seasons’ Greetings, how depressing the relentless tidings of joy, how un-silent the night! And all this over what?…Once one grasps the untruth of Christianity, the whole societal edifice built to shelter believers from reality and impose their way of thinking and living on the rest of us should come tumbling down.” — The Atlantic contributing editor Jeffrey Taylor on Salon, December 22, 2014.”Ben Carson and the anti-women’s choice movement imagine themselves as descendants of the Abolitionists who fought and died to bring down the slave regime in the United States and across the Black Atlantic. Reality, the facts, and history are often not kind to those who are possessed of such heavy and perverse delusions. Ben Carson and the other conservatives who want to limit women’s reproductive rights and control over their own bodies have more in common with the whites who ran the slave labor rape and charnel camps of the American South than they do with Abolitionists such as John Brown, Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, David Walker, Sojourner Truth, or William Lloyd Garrison.” – Chauncey De Vega on Salon, October 25, 2016.“The Second Amendment was designed to solidify the rights of white men to carry weapons, which were used to exterminate the indigenous population, hunt down enslaved people who escaped and crush uprisings.” — Chris Hedges on Salon, June 7, 2022.There’s more where that came from. Seth Dillon of the Babylon Bee joked that these articles must have been satire: Salon wrote some of the best satire we’ve ever seen. If these brilliant humorists couldn’t keep the lights on, what does that mean for the rest of us? https://t.co/KLTBAM9DTb— Seth Dillon (@SethDillon) November 6, 2026

Come on, man. Is it possible for The Alphabet Mafia to give us an occasional respite from their “pride” for, like, five minutes?! Before Thursday evening’s NBA game between the visiting Miami Heat and the host Golden State Warriors, gay singer Jason Brock — don’t worry, he’ll be more than happy to tell you he’s gay — waved a mini gay pride flag while singing the word “proudly” during his rendition of the National Anthem. It was “Pride Night.”The Warriors had a gay National Anthem singer and the players couldn’t stop laughing 💀 https://t.co/L9uQOFLqgi— BrickCenter (@BrickCenter_) November 6, 2026Look, to be fair, Brock has a very nice voice, full of soul and warmth. But why does everything for a flamboyantly gay man, who, if you saw his audition for the singing competition show “X-Factor” back in the day, you’d see I’m not wrong in my description of him, have to wave the flag of their figurative country or convey their religion of “Pride” because they feel they lack either?San Francisco’s Fox TV station KTVU reported this wasn’t a new thing:He previously waved a Pride flag while singing for the San Francisco Giants’ Pride celebration in 2024, an idea he said was his own and received no negative feedback at the time.According to Brock, Thursday’s performance at the Warriors game was planned and rehearsed ahead of time.”The team asked me—we’d love for you to do that again, so I was like great. I’ll do it,” Brock said….”I didn’t mean any disrespect to the anthem. I only meant to embrace everyone,” Brock said.”Everyone” would mean you might wave the American flag, not a flag for a small percentage of Americans.You wanna be gay? Go for it. You want to be one of the 84 letters, numbers, or symbols of The Alphabet Mafia? Have at it. But when it comes to certain traditions and things that people hold dear, maybe pick and choose your spots a little better.

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PicrylBy Josh KantrowThis was more than the usual midterm penalty for the party in power.

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Luis GonzalezBy Luis GonzalezA free society cannot survive when its citizens surrender the responsibilities that make freedom possible.

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Thomas COutureBy Paul E. ScatesAmericans, as brilliant and insightful as we like to think we are, can be so dead wrong about the real-world consequences of something like sexual immorality. 

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Public DomainBy Lars MøllerLawrence of Arabia and the imperative of courageous realism.

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AI for American ThinkerBy Jack HellnerUnfortunately, feckless Republicans made it possible for them to win.

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Darkmoon_ArtBy MaryAnn DiorioAnd we’re going to pay the price.

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AI for American ThinkerBy Allan J. FeiferThe women’s rights movement moved from Constitutional ideas to an experiment in unintended consequences.