The Number-One Political Virtue Needed Right Now Is Courage and Trump Has That in Spades
“We are facing an increasing clampdown on repression, censorship, mass surveillance, ideological indoctrination and the criminalization of political dissent. This is not normal,” writer and filmmaker Dinesh D'Souza told Breitbart News. D'Souza appeared with Breitbart News Daily host Mike Slater on SiriusXM Patriot Channel 125 to talk about the new film. Vindicating TrumpThe documentary's director […]
Liberty without virtue leads to ruin
Abstract freedom breeds a very stupid god. In many progressive American cities, heroin addicts spend their days injecting drugs freely while living in squalid conditions in the homeless encampments that now line city streets. Yet only the most deranged ideologues would see this as a blessing. Anyone who really understands human nature knows that we […]
Major Democratic donor tells Biden to choose ‘vanity or virtue’
Major Democratic donor Michael Mortiz has joined calls for President Biden to withdraw from the presidential race against former President Trump. Mortiz, a billionaire Silicon Valley venture capitalist, became one of the Democratic Party’s largest donors to pressure Biden to drop his campaign after his public comments. “Sadly, President Biden has a choice between vanity […]
Costly Virtue Signaling Forced on America by Left
The Left likes to treat skeptics of electrical cars as if they were Luddites. Truth is, making an existing product less efficient, but more expensive, doesn’t really meet the definition of innovation. Even the purported amenities and technological advances EV makers like to brag about in their ads have been a regular feature of gas-powered vehicles going […]
Recovering the lost virtue of humility for the common good
What happened to humility? Why should we care? Humility helps us see the common good. Take the example of masks during the pandemic. The message was all “Please wear a mask to protect others.” But do we care about others more than we should? Do we put others first? If the message had been “Wear […]
Gutfeld: America is falling apart as Democrats focus on ‘useless woke virtue signaling’
newYou can now listen to Fox News articles. Let’s do a monologue. Are we being torn apart because of the Democratic Party? If something important is neglected, things will fall apart as expected. A cargo ship crashed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge this week, making escape from the collapsed city of Baltimore a little […]
DeSantis criticizes Haley for ‘virtue signaling’ over George Floyd death
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) on Wednesday criticized former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R) over her comments regarding the killing of George Floyd, a Black man killed by a white police officer in May 2020. Republican) for “suggesting virtue'' to liberals. After Floyd's killing, Haley posted on X, then known as Twitter, that the […]
Mike Rowe says ‘the days are gone’ where work ethic used to be a virtue
Mike Rowe, host of “How America Works,” has long advocated for a strong work ethic, but he now warns that society's attitude toward the importance of hard work is at risk. Appearing on Wednesday's “The Story,” Lowe was criticized by some for an email Wayfair CEO Niraj Shah sent at the end of the year […]
COP28 is not just the Super Bowl of virtue signaling. It’s doing real damage
newYou can now listen to Fox News articles. It is tempting to dismiss COP28 as a Super Bowl of virtue. But that would ignore the tremendous damage being done to our country by President Biden’s unrealistic and costly climate policies. The administration’s misguided “leadership” on phasing out fossil fuels, which currently provide nearly 80% of […]
Those We Marched with on Racism, LGBT Issues Are Ignoring Us, It’s Easier to Virtue Signal than Be Virtuous
On CNN’s “Laura Coates Live” on Thursday, Steve Rader, senior rabbi of Wilshire Boulevard Temple in Los Angeles, said, “Most people are more concerned about communicating virtue than they are about acting virtuously.” I’m better at it,” he said. That’s what we’re experiencing, and the brothers and sisters who marched together after George Floyd, who […]