Last week, the US House Intelligence Committee released approximately 3,517 Facebook ads purchased by the Russians between 2015-17, meant to influence the 2016 election, all of which are available to download. USA Today conducted a study of the ads and concluded that more than ...read more
Kanye West's recent statements make him appear like a permanent resident of the Sunken Place. The hip-hop giant recently got back on Trump's favorite social media outlet to send out a series of missives that have baffled his fanbase, most notably his praise for Candace Owens, an ...read more
A 21-year-old walked into a crowded train station in Chicago wearing a bullet proof vest and carrying a loaded gun. Union Station is the third-busiest train station in the United States and is what is known as a "target rich environment". Had he opened fire, he would have been ...read more
During a speech at the National Sheriff's Association winter conference Monday morning, America's first Confederate Attorney General Jeff Sessions accidentally (or maybe not so accidentally) admitted out loud what the black community has been saying for decades (centuries?): ...read more
Video footage surfaced yesterday on Facebook of a black woman being viciously beaten in a Pittsburgh Pizza Milan by a white male manager. The woman is pinned up agains the wall, violently head butted, thrown down where she has her head slammed onto the ground repeatedly. Here is ...read more
If you want a perfect example of the bottomless narcissism that exists on the far Left, look no further than self proclaimed "social justice activist" Saira Rao, the co-founder of In This Together Media. In a breathlessly idiotic screed published on the Huff Post late last week, ...read more
The F.B.I. recently invented a new category of racial extremists in America called "Black Identity Extremists" or "B.I.E.". The idea seems to be that black people are organizing and radicalizing and that just won't do:The 12-page report, prepared by the F.B.I. Domestic Terrorism ...read more
After yet another killer cop was found not guilty of murdering an unarmed black man and planting a gun on his body, the people of St. Louis took to the streets in protest. They remained generally peaceful until sundown when the bulk of the protesters went home and a few remained ...read more
In 1899, Rudyard Kipling wrote his famous poem, "The White Man's Burden: The United States and the Philippine Islands". The poem was a call to American imperialism and became one of the many moral justifications for the West to exploit the rest of the world. After all, someone ...read more
Americans have now seen many young black men die on camera at the hands of the police. Thanks to body cams, dash cams, and primarily bystanders with cell phones, these gruesome events have been made public, showing us the speed with which officers have reacted and chosen to use ...read more
Jeff Sessions is moving all the pieces into place to kick the war on minority communities back into high gear:Law enforcement officials say that Sessions and [Stephen H.] Cook are preparing a plan to prosecute more drug and gun cases and pursue mandatory minimum sentences. The ...read more
During the confirmation hearing for Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III to become the attorney general for an administration that visibly rode into Washington on a wave of white nationalism and oppression, Cory Booker and Elizabeth Warren fought the good fight and warned that ol' ...read more
Jeff Sessions is already living up to his promise as a white supremacist with two back to back moves that will embolden institutional racism like nothing we've seen since Jim Crow.On Monday, Jeff Sessions' Department of "Justice" announced it would no longer oppose Texas' ...read more
2016 was the year that decency died in the United States. Sure, every year has its share of disasters, deaths, violence and tragedies but 2016 stood out for how poorly we as a people acted. Instead of compassion or empathy, we were faced with the sheer callousness of a ...read more
There have been plenty of police shootings of unarmed men in this country, black or otherwise, that have legitimately been open to interpretation. There have been police shootings that, despite being horrific, left at least enough wiggle room in the imagination that it was worth ...read more
There's been a lot of hand-wringing over Nancy Pelosi's victory over challenger Tim Ryan. The consensus of those opposed to her is that the Democrats need to change and something something something White People.Mr. Ryan argues that his party can only rebuild if it re-establishes ...read more
Saturday Night Live tried really, really hard to go full "kumbaya" this weekend, beginning with Tom Hanks' preciously earnest attempt at healing the nation during his monologue, offering Dad-like advice to Americans caught in the throes of the presidential election. It was ...read more
Lt. Tim McMillan pulled over a young, black man for texting while driving on the last day of September. This story, unlike many that make the media, doesn't end in that young man's death or a wild video with "he said/she said" type stories from the police and the subject of their ...read more
I'm going to roll this out to you Memento-style, because it's better that way. Fade in from credits to this shit here:Okay, how the fuck did we get there? Well, let's back the story up a little bit, and discover that this is Glenn Beck's way of trying to show how he's really down ...read more
We are committed to publishing a wide variety of opinions on The Daily Banter and will publish letters to the Editor if they are well substantiated and written concisely. The views expressed in reader letters do no necessarily reflect our own editorial position.To the Editor:I ...read more
Photo: Officer Montrell Jackson, one of those killed in Baton Rouge today. Courtesy PBSO.It would be a relief of inexpressible proportions if we could go just a few days without the kind of event that feels like it really does herald the collapse of society. But today, ...read more
Ah, who am I kidding, the All-Star Game sucks anyway, but dipshit Canadian tenor Remigio Pereira of creatively-named Canadian quartet "The Tenors" made it suck more by modifying the Canadian national anthem with a syrupy coating of racism, complete with visual aid:Why are there ...read more
The self proclaimed hero of 9/11 and former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani has a message for black America: Your deaths at the hands of the police are your own fault. During an appearance on CBS’s “Face the Nation over the weekend, Giuliani stated that other black people are ...read more
Sarah Palin has been Facebookin' again, and if her vitriol against Black Lives Matter didn't make her racism obvious, then her comments on the radio yesterday remove all doubt:At this point, she ought to just go ahead and use the n-word out loud, instead of just in her empty ...read more
It was an embattled week for FBI Director James Comey, who drew the ire of Republicans for announcing that his agency would not be recommending charges against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, then spent the better part of Thursday getting grilled by Republicans over it ...read more
The latest graphic videos of two Black men, Philando Castile and Alton Sterling writhing in pain as their death occurred soon thereafter, is gut wrenching to see. I felt compelled to watch because of the depth of police barbarism and indifference to Black life was on display ...read more
Let’s just come right out and say it immediately: If you’re someone who values innocent life, someone who is outraged by the killing of two black men by police officers who appeared to break their oath to protect and serve, you’re hopefully equally outraged by the wanton shooting ...read more
There is literally nothing the collegiate left's obsession with identity politics cannot ruin. Nothing. And if you think that's hyperbole or an overstatement, you need to watch a video clip posted yesterday to YouTube -- one that shows a young woman, apparently a student at the ...read more
Steven W Thrasher of the Guardian has provided perfect insight into the mind of the perpetually aggrieved liberal parody who insists on projecting their hysterical views about intersectionalism, race and cultural appropriation onto every topic known to mankind (sorry, humankind). ...read more
After being targeted by the Black Lives Matter movement for not offering explicit proposals to stop African Americans from being shot by the police, Bernie Sanders has been continually attacked by activists and Hillary Clinton supporters for being "too white" and not doing enough ...read more
Great news, all. Every crime in America has been solved and there won't be any new crimes for the foreseeable future. That means nobody's going to be robbed, raped or killed at any point in, well, at least the next few weeks. We know this because the nation's police apparently ...read more
I was on the Thom Hartman show last night (guest hosted by Sam Sacks) and got into it with my old pals Horace Cooper, Senior Fellow-National Center For Public Policy Research, and Neil McCabe, political reporter for the One America News Network. It was an entertaining show and we ...read more
Being black in Ohio apparently means you can get shot in the head for attempting to drive away from a police officer, or pulled over for the egregious crime of making perceived eye contact with an officer. John Felton, a former resident of Ohio, was pulled over by Dayton police ...read more
The Washington Post ran a story about an unarmed nineteen year old White male by the name of Zachary Hammond, who was shot and killed by police officer Mark Tiller in Seneca, South Carolina on July 26th, 2015. Initial reports indicate officer Tiller is claiming he shot and killed ...read more
In the never ending battle to see which racial/gender/religious/sexual-identity group has the right to the most outrage in America, the real victim in all of this is progressive politics in general. As Black Lives Matter people do battle with white progressives, Third Wave ...read more
If you've been following events here at the Banter over the past couple of days, you will have noticed an epic bust up between myself and some people in the #BlackLivesMatter movement over the behavior of Marissa Janae Johnson and Mara Jacqeline Willaford, the women who stormed ...read more
(Photo: Elaine Thompson/AP) Bernie Sanders is not the enemy -- not if you're in any way liberal. Let me repeat that so it sinks in: If you're liberal, Bernie Sanders is not the enemy. Likewise, the Black Lives Matter movement is not the enemy -- again, not if you're liberal. Both ...read more
Since I'm now writing for two websites, sometimes I take for granted that readers will follow me from site to site, and usually, the things I write for Mediaite are distinct enough from what I write here that it doesn't make that much of a difference. However, given the intense ...read more
Dear white "progressives", It has come to my attention that despite your well meaning allegiances to left wing causes, your failure to conform to the true tenants of pro feminist/transgender/multicultural/progressive liberalism is, to quote my good friend Sam Doloncot, deeply ...read more
It was Tuesday evening, August 11th, 2015 and I was fortunate to have some peace and quiet in my home as my wife took the children over to their grandparents home for dinner. Also, it was another example of being blessed in having an amazing wife that understands the benefits of ...read more
This morning, I have been accused of white supremacy, misogyny and infantilizing black people because I had the temerity to call out the two idiots who stormed the Bernie Sanders rally in Seattle last weekend and defend the Senator as one of the greatest hopes for progressivism ...read more
The weeks-long feud between Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and protesters from the #BlackLivesMatter movement culminated this weekend in yet another confrontation, this time at a Sanders rally in Seattle. The increasingly bitter rift, which took off at Netroots Nation a few weeks ...read more
Well, this doesn't look good for Marissa Janae Johnson, the activist who disrupted a Bernie Sanders rally over the weekend in order to call his supporters racist and white supremacists. In a post on facebook page, the "Radical Christian Mullatinist" (whatever that is) revealed ...read more
With the routine killing of unarmed African Americans by the police, the Black Lives Matter movement could not be more important an issue right now. It should be at the forefront of any serious Presidential candidate's campaign, and anyone who does not address it appropriately ...read more
Independent Vermont Senator and Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has had a rough couple of weeks when it comes to reaching out to the Obama coalition, particularly black voters. Already the subject of suspicion because of his longstanding emphasis on reaching out ...read more
Ever since Hillary Clinton's second presidential run was a gleam in her eye, nearly everyone in the political and media world has been dreaming of someone to fight her for it. First it was Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), who was asked so incessantly about running against Hillary ...read more
For a stark contrast in the use and misuse of power, look no further than the Eric Garner protests in New York City and the incident that bore them. As I walked among demonstrators protesting a grand jury's decision not to indict NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo in the death of Eric ...read more