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• “You know what it is? I’ll tell you what it is. It’s anti-Italian discrimination. Columbus Day is a day of Italian pride. It’s our holiday and they want to take it away.” So declares Silvio, one of the characters in The Sopranos, in a gloomy but very funny and politically incorrect scene at their regular meeting spot at Satriale’s market. The gang is upset by news of a local anti-Columbus Day protest. The organizers are planning a “death watch” over a statue of Columbus — that is, Cristoforo Co

  13 October 2026 · The American Spectator · $0 – $99 · 4K+ impressions · Informational · Ad Library

• Everything that has happened in America since 9/11 with respect to Muslim immigration, the growth of unassimilated Muslim communities, and the burgeoning of radical, tribal Muslim politics creating a power base for left-wing political parties to exploit, had already happened in the preceding 25 years in Europe. We had 9/11 as the strongest possible signal that we needed to put a stop to it, and we did nothing. We didn’t take Thomas Jefferson’s advice after 9/11. We didn’t make a study of the en

  4 October 2026 · The American Spectator · $0 – $99 · 10K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library

• Over the past day, the Daily Wire and the Blaze published twin interviews showing two pastors at Texas Senate candidate James Talarico’s home church, St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, disavowing Jesus Christ and Christianity in shockingly blunt terms. The first, from the Daily Wire, features the “nonbinary and lesbian” Rev. Babs Miller. “Whether or not Jesus existed doesn’t really matter to me,” she said. “The fact remains that that message that was delivered by someone named Jesus, supposedly

  29 September 2026 · The American Spectator · $0 – $99 · 5K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library

• This is probably a take on the AI-will-kill-us-all debate that you haven’t seen. If it isn’t, let me commend you for the quality of your social media feed and/or your internet-surfing habits. But if you’re a regular reader of The American Spectator, you’ve hopefully picked up enough knowledge to be very skeptical of a classic information operation, and you recognized something fishy in the spectacle put on by the AI companies last week and over the weekend. Specifically, that an employee who’d

  17 September 2026 · The American Spectator · $0 – $99 · 3K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library

• What’s probably worst here is the blithering idiocy of it all. You’ve let your nominee, a proven vote-getter who smashed your candidate almost two to one with your voters, wither on the vine for the entire summer, and he’s still right there in the fight. Paxton might not beat Talarico by the same margin he beat Cornyn, but not since 1994 has a Democrat won a statewide race in Texas. Talarico isn’t the kind of cultural figure you’d expect to change that. He’s not Beto O’Rourke. O’Rourke wasn’t ev

  4 September 2026 · The American Spectator · $0 – $99 · 2K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library

• WARNING: This opinion piece directly quotes the abundantly profane Hasan Piker. Piker’s acceptance among Democrat officials and candidates makes his horrid comments newsworthy. Reader discretion is advised. “Man, you can f**k and suck me from the back, okay. I f**k the Constitution. I wipe my a*s with the Constitution. It’s a f*****g piece of paper, dude. Shut the f**k up. Motherf**k the Constitution and motherf**k this country, okay. You st***d b***h.” Most people who heard such comments woul

  21 August 2026 · The American Spectator · $0 – $99 · 4K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library