The Liberty Minds

“Saturday Night Live” is famous for its bread and butter sketch, the politically-tinged cold open, in which the NBC variety show stalwart reliably pokes fun at the major current doings of (usually) whoever sits behind the Resolute Desk. So it was a surprise when they opted to take something of a U-turn this week. Unlike […] More

Law enforcement officials have indicated they are getting closer to discovering the identity of the individual who killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson outside a Manhattan hotel, though experts warn that the path to identifying and apprehending the gunman remains complicated. Investigators are meticulously combing through evidence, including DNA, fingerprints, surveillance footage, and other leads. While NYPD investigators […] More

ROME — Pope Francis has proclaimed a special jubilee pilgrimage for gays and all LGBTQ+ people, Italian media announced this weekend. For the first time, a specific Jubilee event will be dedicated to Catholic homosexuals and LGBT people, noted the Italian daily, Il Messaggero, despite the Catholic Church considering homosexual acts to be intrinsically disordered. On September 5, […] More

Suffice it to say there is no joy in Walzville. Mighty Kamala, after all, struck out. Minnesota Governor Tim Walz (D), in his first interview following his and Vice President Kamala Harris’s devastating defeat on Election Day, offered his take on what happened. He’s sad. He’s “surprised” they lost. And the lesson learned from that […] More

Establishment Republican strategist Karl Rove attacked highly popular Vice President-elect JD Vance this week for his successful Senate bid in 2022, claiming he was a poor candidate. Rove’s odd and unprompted insult came in a comment to the New York Times in an article published Thursday about Steven Law stepping down as head of the Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY)-aligned […] More

“Nothing can defeat our purpose,” Vice President Kamala Harris said in a message delivered to supporters at a holiday party one month after losing the presidential election to President-elect Donald Trump. Video shows Harris standing in front of lighted wreaths, delivering a message to her supporters. “And nothing can hold us back. Nothing can push […] More

A federal appeals court has upheld a law requiring the social media platform TikTok to sever relations with its parent company ByteDance or lose access to the US market.  A panel of three judges from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit unanimously sided with the Justice Department in declining to review the […] More

Uh oh. It looks like folks on the left are concerned about X owner Elon Musk because he happens to be an influential individual who criticizes them. Whatever shall we do, dear reader? Apparently, Musk’s use of social media to target political critics and amplify anti-Democrat narratives has ruffled some feathers on the left, according to a report […] More