As Russia brutally invades Ukraine, columnist Gabriella Hoffman explains how extreme Western climate policies are giving Vladimir Putin more power in global politics. Plus a note about the global rarity of gun-rights guarantees.

It's more than a little odd when the same media that won't say the Pledge of Allegiance suddenly demand everyone needs to be "patriots" and support President Biden as Russia invades Ukraine and underlines Biden's failure and weakness on the world stage. The hounded House Republicans for mocking Biden walking away refusing to answer questions from the press.

The Left thinks their most effective messengers are comedians. But John Oliver's latest rant against Ted Cruz, complete with profane poetry borrowing a page from Dr. Seuss, shows comedians are better at angrily emoting than they are at enlightening.

Hillary Clinton didn't take the conservative media attacks lying down, tweeting out a "good debunking" of their "nonsense" from Bess Levin in Vanity Fair. That magazine is an anti-Trump hothouse in dire need of debunking. Levin has written up florid fantasies about punishing Donald Trump and wild suggestions that Trump's "beaten a few homeless people to death."

The media cheered a judge and jury dismissed Sarah Palin's lawsuit against The New York Times over their smears claiming she incited a mass shooting in Arizona. The media feared that John Durham's probe of the origins of the Trump-Russia obsession would ruin their narrative.

Over the weekend, a "bombshell" was released by special counsel John Durham, revealing the Clinton campaign was spying on Donald Trump (even into his White House years). The networks and major papers avoided touching this news like Durham was a leper.

The Olympics are an athletic event, but they can't help but be political when the host country is an abusive dictatorship like China. Geoffrey Dickens discusses his recent blogs on China and Olympic coverage, as well as a bit on hip-hop's halftime at the Super Bowl, and the Best Picture Oscar nods.

The liberal media have been truly hostile to Canadian truckers protesting vaccine mandates with a convoy in Ottawa. They've called it an "insurrection" and touted locals saying they're being held "hostage" by protests. They suggested they were populated by Nazis, Q-Anon, and Confederate flag-wavers. and stole food from the homeless. A real hatchet job.

In the angry aftermath of Jeff Zucker's dismissal, Brian Stelter is offended that anyone thinks CNN is more opinion than news, saying anyone who claims that doesn't watch CNN. And he cried "BS" that Zucker was out due to poor ratings. 

CNN people should never refer to anyone else as a "cult" after listening to them talk about their departed boss Jeff Zucker. One employee even suggested that members of the congressional January 6th committee felt "devastated for our democracy" over Zucker's dismissal.