During his interview with Tucker Carlson, Robert F. Kennedy made some concerning statements. One concern is the fact that he has been invited to sit on the transition team and will have a role in selecting staff. I respect RFK Jr., but he’s a Democrat, and Donald Trump isn’t the best at picking staff. I […] The post Donald Trump’s Transition Team Could Be Very Good or Very Bad appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

Now that Kamala Harris is talking about food price controls, we should consider that Democrats are also talking about city—and state-run grocery stores. They are also regulating small farms out of existence, and Big Agriculture is taking over. Does it sound like the US government is trying to take over the food supply like all […] The post Red Dems: Food Price Controls, Government-Run Groceries appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

Toby Keith’s daughter reflected on her late father and how he would not allow her to join him on his popular USO tours as a way of protecting her. Krystal Keith, who is also a singer, recently spoke with Fox News Digital about her dad trying to keep her safe while putting himself in harm’s way to entertain the troops. “I begged to go, but it was such a dangerous thing. He went into, like, dad mode,” Krystal told the outlet. “He was like, ‘No, no, this is really important work I’m going to do, and no, my daughter is not – It’s not something where … I’m going to put you in danger so you can go experience this.'” The country music legend’s daughter said she really wanted to tag along after launching her own career, but Keith still turned her down. “Then as I became an artist, I was like, ‘Hey, I want to go do those things,’ and he still, as much as it meant to him, and he knew how important it was for him, he was still like, ‘Hard pass on my daughter going to Afghanistan right now,’ because…his helicopters had been shot at. He had been in the middle of shows when mortar fire came down,” she added. Tickets for “Am I Racist?” are on sale NOW! Buy here for a theater near you. The “American Soldier” singer experienced danger firsthand after mortar fire exploded during a show he was putting on for 2,500 troops in Afghanistan in 2008, the outlet noted. And that wasn’t the only time, Krystal said. Keith’s daughter said she found a picture of her father after a show had been interrupted by mortar fire. “There was an underground bunker, and he had like signed on concrete, something about, like, ‘I’m in the middle of a show and some idiot set off some fireworks during my show,'” she said. The singer said her dad jokingly accused the perpetrators of being “rude” during his performance. While Keith wouldn’t let his daughter go overseas, she said he did bring her onstage in less potentially fraught situations.  WATCH THE TRAILER FOR ‘AM I RACIST?’ — A MATT WALSH COMEDY ON DEI “I did spend time on tour with him. I opened for him from the time I was 14 … I did the anthem. Anytime I’d go out on tour with him, I’d be like, ‘Hey, can I sing tonight?’ He’d be like, ‘Sure, you can go do the anthem. You can come out during this song.’” She added, “So, I’d either sneak out and do background vocals on a song and no one ever knew I was there, it was just for me, or I would go out and do the anthem before he went on. Then, when I put my album out, we actually were the opening band for several tours.” Krystal Keith will perform on Wednesday during the television special “Toby Keith: American Idol,” a tribute to the country star airing on NBC. Keith died on February 5 at the age of 62 after a battle with stomach cancer.

Adapted from “The Michael Knowles Show,” August 26, 2024. Starts: 29:04 The Free Press published an excellent article over the weekend by my friend Maddy Kearns, who has been on my show a number of times. I saw it at the top of the Drudge Report; it’s gone absolutely viral. Kearns’ piece is about women wearing veils at church — quite a niche issue. So why on earth would this make it to the top of the Drudge Report? Why would it go viral? Because it speaks to something really profound that is happening in religion and in politics. The article, “The Young Catholic Women Bringing Back Veils: A new generation of worshippers is longing for a ‘lost type of Catholicism’,” explores why young Catholic women have begun wearing veils in church in recent years. While Catholics are not the only ones who wear veils or cover their heads at church, we are most often the ones thought of first. Veil wearing comes from 1 Corinthians, chapter 11, verse 4: “Every man who prays or prophesies with his head covered dishonors his head. But every woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head—it is the same as having her head shaved.” More broadly, the first letter to the Corinthians is about the relation of man to woman and man to God, and it explains how we can symbolize this in our lives. But in the 1960s, a radical shift occurred inside the Catholic Church, outside the Catholic Church, and in secular society that it would be a good idea to sever our connection to the past. This shift was not solely supported by the hippies in drum circles with flowers in their hair. This happened in every institution throughout the West. Even in the most enduring and ancient institution in the world, the Catholic Church, a major liturgical reform took place. They upended the mass of the ages and the way the mass had been celebrated for at least 1,400 years — and really even earlier than that. They just kind of upended the past, which involved some radical changes, including encouraging women to stop wearing veils. Now people are realizing that there is usually a reason that things that endure for millennia endure. Maybe when a tradition persists for many centuries or millennia, there is a reason. Maybe we do not have a sufficient stock of reason that we can just reinvent the world anew so that it will be much better, as though that would be an advisable thing to do. Maybe those older generations knew something that we do not; maybe we are not that perfectly intelligent. Maybe we are not even as intelligent as our grandparents were. And maybe we need to return to tradition. Maybe that would benefit us. Maybe that is actually the way forward. It is not the way back. It is not regression because tradition is not some dusty old thing. There are plenty of dusty old things that have popped up in history that eventually fell away because they just did not have staying power. That is not what tradition is. In fact, that is what fads are. That is what radical innovation is. All those dusty old things that have been left in the dustbin of history all the way in the past? Those were fads; those were fashions. They were some supposedly genius ideas from some radical who wanted to upend everything — and then they didn’t work. WATCH: The Michael Knowles Show Tradition is not the oldest thing. Tradition is, in some ways, the newest thing, or at least we would say the most enduring. It is what links the past and the present and the future. Maybe there is a reason that Christians have acted as they have acted, believed as they have believed, and lived as they have lived for millennia. Maybe there is a connection. The Latin phrase lex orandi lex credendi means the way we worship influences the way we believe. Religion is not just a thing you do in your head and you ignore that you have a body in time and space. Religion is a thing that you do. You worship God. There is a difference between praying on your knees, praying sitting down, or praying while you’re driving. There’s a difference between saying a prayer you just invented yesterday or saying the Lord’s Prayer. Our Lord tells us in the Gospels how to pray: “Our father, Who art in heaven, Hallowed be Thy Name. Thy Kingdom come, Thy Will be done, On earth as it is in Heaven. Give us this day, our daily bread, And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.” He tells you how to do it. Then, going all the way back to the Apostolic Age, the Church in her wisdom established ways in which we can pray. And that’s going to affect the way we believe. If you receive the Eucharist on the tongue kneeling, you’re going to believe something about what the Eucharist, the Holy Communion, is. If you are just driving in your car and you stick your hand out like you’re going through the McDonald’s drive thru, that is also going to affect the way that you believe because we’re incarnate creatures and that’s going to affect the way that you live too. Maybe these young women who want to return to wearing veils realize something has been lost. Maybe they realize that all the innovation that was supposed to free us and make everything better has actually made things worse. Maybe the real update we need right now is to return to the faith as it was practiced for nearly two thousand years.

Former President Donald Trump has added former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard and independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — who just last Friday suspended his campaign in key swing states to support Trump — to his transition team. According to a Tuesday report from The New York Times, Gabbard and Kennedy will join Trump’s sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, as well as Senator JD Vance (R-OH) as “honorary co-chairs” of his transition team, the group that will aid in the former president’s efforts to fill out his new administration if he wins re-election in November. “I’ve been asked to go on the transition team, you know, and to help pick the people who will be running the government,” Kennedy confirmed the decision during an interview that aired on Monday. Tickets for “Am I Racist?” are on sale NOW! Buy here for a theater near you. Trump campaign senior adviser Brian Hughes told the NYT that the former president was pleased to have the two former Democrats on board, saying that the campaign was “proud that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard have been added to the Trump/Vance Transition team. We look forward to having their powerful voices on the team as we work to restore America’s greatness.” Gabbard had previously endorsed Trump in the race against President Joe Biden but reiterated that support on Monday after joining him to pay her respects to the 13 service members who lost their lives in the botched Biden-Harris administration withdrawal from Afghanistan. “I am proud to stand here before you today, whether you’re a Democrat, Republican, or an independent, if you love our country as I do, if you cherish peace and freedom as we do, I invite you to join me in doing all we can to save our country and elect President Donald J. Trump and send him back to the White House to do the tough work of saving our country and serving the people,” she said. WATCH THE TRAILER FOR ‘AM I RACIST?’ — A MATT WALSH COMEDY ON DEI Gabbard has long been a harsh critic of the Democratic National Committee, claiming that it routinely favors certain candidates while suppressing others. She left a position within the DNC in order to endorse Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) over former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the 2016 Democratic primary. Kennedy said he would remove his name from the ballot in key swing states and encourage his supporters to vote for Trump. He argued that the Democratic Party had turned its back not only on him but on the voters when they ousted Biden from the 2024 ticket and replaced him with Vice President Kamala Harris without a vote from the people.

Director Francis Ford Coppola promised that his new film, “Megalopolis,” won’t be filled with leftist propaganda like so many other Hollywood films. “What I didn’t want to happen is that we’re deemed some woke Hollywood production that’s simply lecturing viewers,” the director told Rolling Stone in a new interview.  “The cast features people who were canceled at one point or another,” he continued. “There were people who are archconservatives and others who are extremely politically progressive. But we were all working on one film together. That was interesting, I thought.” Tickets for “Am I Racist?” are on sale NOW! Buy here for a theater near you. That star-studded roster includes Academy Award-winning actor Jon Voight, who is vocally conservative and supports Donald Trump. His role in the film is said to be loosely based on Trump.  Coppola also cast Shia LeBeouf, a former Disney Channel star who was accused of sexual assault in 2021.  “Shia really took to it,” Coppola said. “I had no experience working with him prior to this, but he deliberately sets up a tension between himself and the director to an extreme degree. He reminds me of Dennis Hopper, who would do something similar, and then you’d say, ‘Just go do anything,’ and then they go off and do something brilliant.” “Megalopolis” stars Adam Driver as architect Cesar Catilina, who has dreams of building a utopian city after a catastrophic incident destroys a large city resembling New York. His plans receive pushback from various characters and support from others. Other big-name stars in the production include Giancarlo Esposito, Nathalie Emmanuel, Aubrey Plaza, Laurence Fishburne, Talia Shire, Jason Schwartzman, Kathryn Hunter, Grace VanderWaal, Chloe Fineman, James Remar, D. B. Sweeney, and Dustin Hoffman. The film received mixed reviews after it premiered at Cannes earlier this year.  Deadline reviewer Damon Wise called the movie a “mad modern masterwork that reinvents the possibilities of cinema.” He said “Megalopolis” is “something of a mess; unruly, exaggerated and drawn to pretension like a moth to a flame” but is also “a pretty stunning achievement.” WATCH THE TRAILER FOR ‘AM I RACIST?’ — A MATT WALSH COMEDY ON DEI Indiewire writer David Ehrlich said the spectacle was the point. “The silliness is a feature, not a bug!” he wrote of the movie on X. “A garish, epic, & utterly singular $120 million self-portrait that’s also a fable about the fall of ancient Rome & a plea to save our civilization (and its cinema) from itself. big fan.” Meanwhile, the reviewer from The Guardian gave it two stars, describing the project as “megabloated and megaboring.” A trailer for the film was taken down last week after it was discovered that it contained fake and misattributed critic quotes, as The Daily Wire previously reported. 

The Trump campaign is pushing back against media claims that Vice President Kamala Harris has changed her position on a border wall. Trump campaign spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said Tuesday in a statement that the Harris campaign is attempting to obscure the vice president’s record on immigration, calling Harris “pro-open border.” “How much longer will the mainstream media allow Kamala Harris to hide and use staff to speak on her behalf? It’s DAY 37 of ZERO interviews and Kamala’s anonymous campaign sources are now claiming she supports President Trump’s border wall – this is a preposterous and false claim,” Leavitt said. “Kamala’s RECORD proves she is pro-open border. She called the wall ‘un-American,’ a ‘waste of taxpayer money,’ ‘medieval,’ and said it isn’t going to ‘stop’ illegal immigration. As a senator, Kamala tried to block President Trump’s construction of the border wall. As Border Czar, Kamala Harris halted construction of the border wall,” Leavitt said. “Kamala’s ACTIONS speak much louder than the WORDS of the anonymous staff she is cowering behind.” Tickets for “Am I Racist?” are on sale NOW! Buy here for a theater near you. ?Trump Campaign Statement on Open Border Kamala Harris How much longer will the mainstream media allow Kamala Harris to hide and use staff to speak on her behalf? It’s DAY 37 of ZERO interviews and Kamala’s anonymous campaign sources are now claiming she supports President… pic.twitter.com/IzMfNVPtQ9 — Karoline Leavitt (@kleavittnh) August 27, 2024   Her statement came after Axios published a story headlined, “Harris flip-flops on building the border wall.” The story characterizes Harris’ support for a bipartisan border bill as a flip in favor of supporting a wall along the southern border. The bill, which died in Congress earlier this year, was negotiated by a team of lawmakers including Republican Sen. James Lankford of Oklahoma and Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut. “It requires the Trump border wall,” Lankford told Axios. “It is in the bill itself that it sets the standards that were set during the Trump administration: Here’s where it will be built. Here’s how it has to be built, the height, the type, everything during the Trump construction.” WATCH THE TRAILER FOR ‘AM I RACIST?’ — A MATT WALSH COMEDY ON DEI The proposed legislation would cut down border wall spending to a fraction of what Trump requested during his term and would allocate $650 million toward the border wall, far below Trump’s request of $18 billion. In addition to restricting the funds needed to complete the border wall, the legislation would codify a number of rules that border experts have said would lead to the crisis at the border growing worse. The bill would only force the Department of Homeland Security to take emergency action on the border if encounters rise to an average of 5,000 a day for seven consecutive days or 8,500 encounters in one day. The bill would also codify and continue the “catch and release” of illegal immigrants. “If passed into law, families and children would be released without supervision,” according to The Heritage Foundation. It would also allow the Department of Homeland Security to expand parole authority to provide legal pathways for immigrants to take advantage of to enter the U.S. — a tool that the Biden-Harris administration has already taken advantage of to increase immigration.

A recent Columbia Law School graduate whom the school praised for exemplifying its “spirit” attempted to bully The Daily Wire into censoring an article on the school’s partisan behavior with an email that seemed to threaten a reporter’s children and dog. Luke Cronin emailed The Daily Wire earlier this month to complain about a year-old article from this reporter on campus extremism. Cronin, a former editor of the Columbia Law Review and recipient of numerous awards and scholarships, advised The Daily Wire to “take down Mr. Rosniak’s [sic] writing.” He did not claim that the article was inaccurate, instead saying it referenced remarks he made on social media that have since been hidden from the public. Cronin, writing from his Columbia email address, concluded his missive with an ominous postscript containing specific details about this reporter’s place of residence, family members, and pet, expressing his wish that they have “gotten what they deserve.” In March 2023, The Daily Wire reported that Columbia’s law school had a collective meltdown because its official Instagram page posted a picture of some students meeting with Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Virtually all of the law school’s race-based student clubs, such as the Black Law Students Association, said they would no longer help Columbia recruit minorities in retaliation for the photo op. Tickets for “Am I Racist?” are on sale NOW! Buy here for a theater near you. The Daily Wire noted that students who objected to the meeting accused Kavanaugh of raping Christine Blasey Ford, even though such accusations against the justice have never been proven. Cronin, then a “Leadership Fellow” at Columbia, was one of the students who made a baseless accusation against Kavanaugh. “Kavanaugh sexually violated Dr. Ford,” he wrote on the school’s Instagram post. This summer, Cronin graduated and entered the job market. Shortly thereafter, he petitioned The Daily Wire to scrub his comments from its factually-accurate article. The timing suggests Cronin may have been looking to shield his partisan comments from potential future employers as he pursues a career in big law. Cronin spent last summer as a summer associate at Quinn Emanuel,  where he worked on the case of a homeless person whose cat plummeted out a window. Summer associates at big law firms like Quinn Emanuel virtually always receive permanent job offers after passing the bar exam. But a spokesman for the firm told The Daily Wire Cronin “does not have an offer to return to the firm.” Thirteen judges have said they will not hire Columbia law grads as law clerks due to an “explosion of student disruptions, anti-Semitism, and hatred for diverse viewpoints” at the school, saying it has become an “incubator of bigotry.” At the time he commented on the Kavanaugh photo, Cronin was a Davis Polk Leadership Fellow. The fellowship page said he “hopes to use the Davis Polk Leadership Fellowship to build an outreach organization which directly serves unhoused folks in Morningside Heights and in Harlem” and “connect unhoused individuals with legal issues to legal service providers. “As someone who has experienced housing insecurity, Luke hopes to build a bridges [sic] between his peers at Columbia and with unhoused folks,” a university website reads. In April 2024, Columbia gave Cronin its “Campbell Award, which is presented to a graduating student at each School who shows exceptional leadership and Columbia spirit.” The award said Cronin uses “he/him/his” pronouns and “helped represent asylum-seeking clients.” It said he “was selected to join the Clerkship Diversity Initiative, the Academic Scholars program, as well as the Tony Patiño Fellow-elect.” The Academic Scholars program is a scholarship that pays half of tuition for students who Columbia faculty believe would make good law professors. The Tony Patiño Fellowship pays an additional $17,500 a year for students who Columbia faculty believe show “good citizenship.” WATCH THE TRAILER FOR ‘AM I RACIST?’ — A MATT WALSH COMEDY ON DEI Columbia University president Minouche Shafik resigned earlier this month amid criticism of how the school has handled anti-Semitic protests since Hamas’s Oct. 7 invasion of Israel, including the student takeover of an academic building. The school has adopted a color-coded security system in light of the frequent disruptions on its campus. Columbia is currently at an “Orange Level,” meaning people seeking to enter campus must go through a checkpoint and show ID. Columbia University did not return a request for comment. Cronin’s response to the Kavanaugh photo and The Daily Wire’s story was not out of place on campus. The Center for Engaged Pedagogy at Columbia University’s sister school, Barnard College, used its official Instagram account to comment “WTF is wrong with you” on the Kavanaugh photo. When The Daily Wire asked the Center’s director, Melissa Wright, for comment last year, the comment request — which included the reporter’s phone number and email — was used to doxx the reporter. In a juvenile prank, his contact information was entered into dozens of spam websites, cult and far-left mailing lists, and dating sites. Wright has since been promoted from interim director to executive director. 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