The opinions expressed by contributors are their own and do not necessarily represent the views of RedState.com. On Thursday morning, news broke that Brittney Griner was headed home. The embattled WNBA star who once asked her league to stop playing the national anthem had been imprisoned for months in Russia, after being caught with hash oil. […]

The White House had to have known the kind of response the Brittney Griner prisoner swap with Viktor Bout, a.k.a. the Merchant of Death would bring. That is likely why reports say that the decision was a difficult one for Joe Biden. I guarantee Biden knew the kind of criticism he was in for with […]

San Francisco has been allowing tests of driverless cars and taxis and according to this report in Salon, the cars have occasionally been making a mess out of traffic: On Sept. 30 at around 11 p.m., an N Line streetcar ground to a halt at the intersection of Carl Street and Cole Street because an […]

I loved “Schoolhouse Rock,” as did most kids of my generation. Sadly, George Newall, the last surviving member of the team who created it, has passed away. Millions of kids learned basic concepts such as math, grammar, the parts of language, and other concepts from the videos dreamt up by Newell and his partner in […]

The Respect for Marriage Act will likely soon be signed into law by President Joe Biden after the House of Representatives gave its final approval on Thursday. The bill passed 258-169, with every Democrat voting in its favor as well as 39 Republicans. One hundred and sixty-nine Republicans voted against the bill with one voting […]

How ’bout THEM apples, you guys? Here you thought he only sent the big cha-ching to Ukraine – fooled you! And yes that’s $36 BILLION, with an almighty capital B. President Joe Biden on Thursday is announcing the infusion of nearly $36 billion to shore up a financially troubled union pension plan, preventing severe cuts […]

I wrote earlier about the reactions to the deal to get professional basketball player Brittney Griner back from Russia. Paul Whelan himself — an American who has been held by the Russians for the past four years, who was sentenced to 16 years in 2020 for doing nothing — explained how disappointed he was that […]

At 3:39 p.m. on Dec. 2, Elon Musk announced he’d release internal documents exposing how Twitter went about heavily suppressing The New York Post and its mid-October 2020 scoops from Hunter Biden’s laptop. Journalist Matt Taibbi began tweeting out documents three hours later, and not surprisingly, there was no time for it on the evening […]

The House of Representatives passed the Respect for Marriage Act, 258-169, on Thursday and it now heads to President Joe Biden’s desk. The measure, which seeks to codify the legalization of same-sex marriage into federal law, has come under attack from Republican lawmakers who see it as a threat to religious liberty. “It’s an absolute […]