SHARE | PRINT | EMAIL When I read The Premonition, by Michael Lewis – renowned author of The Big Short and Moneyball, among others – I had the same eerie Twilight Zone feeling as when I read Deborah Birx’s The Silent Invasion. The book brimmed with so many contradictions, obfuscations, and downright falsehoods that it […]
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C.S. Lewis Foresaw Dystopian Technocracy Based On Scientism
Several people in the 1900s foresaw where society was headed. C.S. Lewis was one of them. His book, That Hideous Strength, describes “a literal pact with the devil at the highest reaches of the technocracy, but at the same time a mechanism whereby the larger system remains defiantly bland and normal-seeming, and only a crazy person […]
F1 is ‘duty bound’ to raise human rights issue in the Gulf says Lewis Hamilton
Formula 1 is “duty bound” to raise awareness of human rights in Saudi Arabia and Qatar, says British racing driver, Lewis Hamilton. The 36-year-old, who has a record seven world championships, urged other sporting figures to join him in calling for greater scrutiny of Gulf countries that have been newly awarded a race during the […]
Senate introduces John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act
The John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act was recently introduced in the Senate after it passed the House of Representatives by a vote of 219-212 in August. The introduction of the bill is a chance to garner the votes needed to restore the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which was invalidated in the 2013 Shelby […]
Lewis Hamilton Makes History After Claiming 100th Victory in Formula 1 Racing
Lewis Hamilton reached a new milestone in his Formula One career on Sunday after claiming his 100th victory in the Russian Grand Prix—becoming the first driver in the motorsport competition to reach that goal. “Today we won our 100th race! Words can’t describe how it feels to make history with this team of hardworking, driven, […]
Heritage Foundation Slams John Lewis Voting Rights Act as ‘Invasion of State Sovereignty’
Hans von Spakovsky, a Heritage Foundation senior legal fellow and advocate of restrictive voting laws, denounced the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act as “an unbelievable invasion of state sovereignty” in a podcast interview promoted Tuesday morning by the right-wing think tank’s “news” service, The Daily Signal. Von Spakovsky claimed that the bill, also known as H.R. 4, would […]
VIDEO: Charlottesville Takes Down Lewis, Clark, and Sacagawea Statue
The city’s remaining contested statue was torn from its pedestal Saturday once Charlottesville’s City Council voted unanimously to take down the statue of Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, and Sacagawea. “The statue of Lewis, Clark and Sacagawea departed the intersection where it has stood since 1919 at around 2:45 p.m. aboard a flatbed truck,” the Daily […]
Mat Staver Claims John Lewis Voting Rights Bill Would Destroy ‘States’ Rights,’ Let Democrats Impose ‘Radical Marxist/Socialist Agenda’
Liberty Counsel’s Mat Staver claimed Monday that legislation designed to restore enforcement provisions to the landmark Voting Rights Act would “hijack” elections, destroy “states’ rights,” legalize election fraud, and clear the way for Democrats to seize power and implement “their radical Marxist/socialist agenda.” On Tuesday, Staver nonsensically accused congressional Democrats of resorting to Jim Crow tactics to “suppress the Republican […]
My long-lost conversation with John Lewis on his vision of nonviolence
Last summer, after Congressman John Lewis died, I posted a photo on social media of me and John from a memorable afternoon we spent together in his congressional office. It was 26 years ago. We had talked for a while, and then filmed a formal conversation on nonviolence. Needless to say, it was one of […]
Karen Lewis, firebrand Chicago Jewish union chief, dead at 67
(JTA) — Karen Lewis, the firebrand former president of Chicago’s teachers union, has died at 67 after a long battle with brain cancer. Lewis, a convert to Judaism who said she was attracted to the religion’s embrace of questions, ran the Chicago Teachers Union from 2010 to 2018. Under her leadership, the union became a model for […]
Formula 1: Lewis Hamilton wins his 91st race to match Michael Schumacher’s record
Even Lewis Hamilton once saw Michael Schumacher’s record of 91 wins as unbeatable. Now he’s matched it. Schumacher’s son Mick presented Hamilton with one of his father’s old helmets after the British driver took a record-equaling 91st win at the Eifel Grand Prix. “Seeing his dominance, I don’t think anyone, and especially me, didn’t imagine […]
John Lewis, civil rights icon, is also mourned by pro-Israel groups
John Lewis, the civil rights icon and Georgia congressman who died five days ago, was also a celebrated figure in the organized Jewish community, with many Israel lobby groups mourning the death of a steadfast supporter. Lewis described Israel as a refuge for Jews whose history was shaped as black people’s history is, by slavery […]
Bernard Lewis Has Died And Gone To Hell
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[WATCH] City Fires Punta Gorda Police Chief Tom Lewis After Internal Investigation
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The King Of Comedy Jerry Lewis Dies Aged 91
The king of comedy Jerry Lewis died of old age at his family home on Sunday, leaving behind an empty world filled with serious people with long faces. Jerry Lewis was 91. The comic genius made the world laugh for 70 years. Lewis’s role in his finest film performance ‘The King of Comedy’ demonstrated his […]
"I Refuse to Serve as an Empire Chaplain": US Army Minister Resigns Over Drone Program
An unlikely voice has emerged challenging the drone warfare program: former US Army Reserve Chaplain Captain Chris Antal, who spent time based in Afghanistan. In April, he wrote an open letter to President Obama detailing his reasons for leaving the US Army Reserves, citing his opposition to the administration’s use of drone strikes, its […]
Video Released in 2013 Alabama Shooting of Cameron Massey
Cameron Massey was shot in October 2013 after trying to leave a traffic stop in his friend’s car. Originally the officers claimed to be in imminent danger but the newly released body camera footage contradicts their statements. Proving once again that cops are liars who should never be trusted. Officers cannot just shoot people based on […]
Cop Runs Stop Sign, Kills Other Motorist
Two weeks ago James H. Bissell resigned after being involved in a fatal on duty car accident last October. Bissell was driving through a residential area with his overhead lights on and ran a stop sign at an intersection notorious for accidents. Even now not much has been made public about the incident other than: Bissell blew […]
46,471: Drug Overdoses Killed More Americans Than Car Crashes or Guns
In 2013, the most recent year for which data is available, 46,471 people in the United States died from drug overdoses, and more than half of those deaths were caused by prescription painkillers and heroin. That compares with the 35,369 who died in motor vehicle crashes and 33,636 who died from firearms, as […]