https://pjmedia.com/author/jim-treacher/feedPJ Media is a leading news site covering culture, politics, faith, homeland security, and more. Our reporters and columnists provide original, in-depth analysis from a variety of perspectives.en-usThu, 09 Apr 2026 17:33:39 -0400<![CDATA[In November 2017, Senator Rand Paul was tending the lawn at his home in Kentucky when one of his neighbors, Rene Boucher, tackled him from behind and broke five of his ribs. Apparently it was the culmination of some sort of lawncare dispute between the two men. Boucher served time in prison for the attack, and Sen. Paul still deals with chronic pain from the injury. He&#8217;s since had part of his lung removed, hernia surgery, and several bouts of pneumonia as a direct result of the attack.]]>Wed, 26 May 2021 11:54:03 -0400<![CDATA[Jim Treacher]]><![CDATA[2021]]><![CDATA[Rand Paul]]><![CDATA[Stephen Colbert]]><![CDATA[Woke]]>https://pjmedia.com/jim-treacher/2021/05/26/stephen-colbert-and-some-80s-singer-yuk-it-up-about-death-threats-against-rand-paul-n1449775<![CDATA[As more and more Americans allow themselves to accept that this [EXPLETIVE DELETED] pandemic finally might be ending, as we start to see &#8220;the light at the end of the tunnel&#8221; that the oldest POTUS in American history keeps yammering about, a lot of stuff that&#8217;s been in the back of our minds over the last 15 months is starting to tiptoe to the front. We&#8217;ve all got persistent little questions like: How did all this happen, anyway? Who&#8217;s responsible? How much of what we&#8217;ve been told about the origin and spread of COVID-19 is true, and who benefits from the lies? And sooner or later, those questions all end up having the same answer: the Chinese Communist Party.]]>Tue, 25 May 2021 17:35:09 -0400<![CDATA[Jim Treacher]]><![CDATA[2021]]><![CDATA[Chinese Communist Party]]><![CDATA[COVID-19]]><![CDATA[media]]><![CDATA[Propaganda]]>https://pjmedia.com/jim-treacher/2021/05/25/chinese-communist-party-shelled-out-millions-for-propaganda-in-american-newspapers-n1449515<![CDATA[Remember #MeToo? Remember #TimesUp? It seems like a long time ago, after the interminable decade that was 2020, but all that Harvey Weinstein stuff happened just three and a half years ago. Weinstein&#8217;s plummet from grace in November 2017 set off an avalanche of accusations and recriminations in Hollywood, the effects of which can still be seen today. For example, right now on Netflix you can watch a blockbuster &#8220;zombie heist&#8221; movie in which one of the main characters was digitally replaced after filming wrapped, because the original actor was accused of creepy sex stuff.* That never would&#8217;ve happened back in the days when Weinstein was just a suspected pervert instead of a confirmed pervert. And if you grew up in the &#8217;70s and &#8217;80s, all I have to say is &#8220;Bill Cosby&#8221; and you don&#8217;t need to be told how much things have changed in the entertainment industry.]]>Mon, 24 May 2021 11:51:14 -0400<![CDATA[Jim Treacher]]><![CDATA[2021]]><![CDATA[Hollywood]]><![CDATA[Italy]]><![CDATA[sexual assault allegations]]><![CDATA[Woke]]>https://pjmedia.com/jim-treacher/2021/05/24/kevin-spacey-is-coming-back-to-movies-whether-you-consent-or-not-n1449173<![CDATA[It was one of the most eye-opening moments of the 2020 presidential campaign: Kamala Harris looked Joe Biden right in the face and pulled this ol&#8217; gag: &#8220;I ain&#8217;t sayin&#8217; you&#8217;re a racist, but&#8230;&#8221;]]>Wed, 19 May 2021 17:08:51 -0400<![CDATA[Jim Treacher]]><![CDATA[2021]]><![CDATA[biden administration]]><![CDATA[Democrats]]><![CDATA[Kamala Harris]]>https://pjmedia.com/jim-treacher/2021/05/19/doctor-jill-biden-told-kamala-go-f-yourself-for-attacking-her-husband-n1448153<![CDATA[Is there intelligent life on other planets? Is there intelligent life on this planet?]]>Tue, 18 May 2021 20:58:15 -0400<![CDATA[Jim Treacher]]><![CDATA[2021]]><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]><![CDATA[Conservatism]]><![CDATA[Outer Space]]>https://pjmedia.com/jim-treacher/2021/05/18/obama-says-there-might-be-ufos-n1447937<![CDATA[Before today, I didn&#8217;t know much about Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) except that, because she&#8217;s a black woman, anything I say to rebut or criticize her is automatically racist and sexist. For example, recently Rep. Bush referred to pregnant women as &#8220;birthing people&#8221; &#8212; apparently to avoid offending the 0.0001% of Americans who are or have been pregnant, but somehow identify as male &#8212; and all the people who slammed her for it were motivated only by her race and gender. And last week, when Bush stood on the floor of the House of Representatives and praised a Black Lives Matter activist who called for cops to be murdered, anybody who criticized her for it was a white supremacist. There&#8217;s no other possible explanation. That&#8217;s just how it works. (Please note that, as always, this rule does not apply to black and/or female Republicans. That&#8217;s different, because it just is.)]]>Mon, 17 May 2021 10:58:33 -0400<![CDATA[Jim Treacher]]><![CDATA[2021]]><![CDATA[COVID-19]]>https://pjmedia.com/jim-treacher/2021/05/17/was-cori-bush-cured-of-covid-19-by-one-of-her-fellow-faith-healers-n1447393<![CDATA[Are you vaccinated against COVID-19? I am. It makes sense to me because all the evidence indicates it&#8217;ll keep me from getting sick or making anybody else sick. The past 14(!) months have really sucked, and it&#8217;s nice to be able to do the stuff I used to do. Last week I sat down in a restaurant for the first time in over a year, and today I&#8217;m going to a movie theater.* Not only is it a relief to be able to do that stuff without worrying about a deadly virus, but I&#8217;m stimulating the local economy. Jobs. Remember those? So it&#8217;s all good.]]>Fri, 14 May 2021 11:00:24 -0400<![CDATA[Jim Treacher]]><![CDATA[2021]]><![CDATA[Congress]]><![CDATA[COVID-19]]><![CDATA[Democrats]]><![CDATA[Republicans]]><![CDATA[Science]]>https://pjmedia.com/jim-treacher/2021/05/14/all-congressional-dems-are-vaccinated-but-not-all-republicans-are-possibly-n1446944<![CDATA[In May 2021, I have about as much use for the CDC as a boar needs a bra. Those idiots have completely bungled their messaging during the COVID-19 pandemic, and they&#8217;ve managed to convince a lot of Americans that these miraculous vaccines, whipped up in record time, aren&#8217;t working. Why else have they kept insisting that we all need to wear masks wherever we go, even if we&#8217;ve been vaccinated? Why did they pull the Johnson &amp; Johnson vaccine after a handful of people reported side effects? Why does fully vaccinated Joe Biden wear a mask during Zoom calls, and then take it off to stand right next to 93-year-old Rosalind Carter? And this is after the government initially insisted that we must not wear masks. It&#8217;s completely incoherent. Operation Warp Speed has been an unqualified success &#8212; sorry, #Resistance, but it&#8217;s true even if Trump gets credit for something &#8212; and yet the government functionaries we&#8217;re supposed to trust to give us the facts about this pandemic are a pack of fools.]]>Thu, 13 May 2021 14:58:15 -0400<![CDATA[Jim Treacher]]><![CDATA[2021]]><![CDATA[CDC]]><![CDATA[COVID-19]]><![CDATA[masks]]>https://pjmedia.com/jim-treacher/2021/05/13/cdc-if-youre-vaccinated-you-can-ditch-the-masks-n1446630<![CDATA[In recent years, robots have started clank-clank-clanking their way into the food industry and I&#8217;m all for it. Even before the pandemic, I was glad to see such social-distancing innovations as pizza-delivery bots and automated burger-flippers. The fewer repulsive, disease-ridden humans stand between me and my next meal, the better. For most of us, swiping our own groceries over a supermarket scanner is no more vexing than pumping our own gas. (When we can find gas, of course.) As the food industry becomes increasingly automated, one day you&#8217;ll be able to enjoy a delicious meal with no human interaction whatsoever. It&#8217;s a plus for germaphobes and business owners alike, because a robot doesn&#8217;t #FightFor15. A robot never needs to take a vacation or a smoke break. A robot has no boogers to pick (yet). A robot doesn&#8217;t require food or rest or anything else that will distract it from serving its human masters. A robot is the perfect employee.]]>Wed, 12 May 2021 15:09:08 -0400<![CDATA[Jim Treacher]]><![CDATA[2021]]><![CDATA[journalism]]><![CDATA[Media Bias]]><![CDATA[robots]]>https://pjmedia.com/jim-treacher/2021/05/12/sophia-the-talking-robot-goes-into-journalism-n1446324<![CDATA[Speaking as a Trump agnostic &#8212; I didn&#8217;t vote for him and I don&#8217;t like him, but I also didn&#8217;t scream like a lunatic when he won and I can appreciate the good things that happened while he was president, Operation Warp Speed chief among them &#8212; the last four months have been a mixture of numbed relief and looming dread. Relief, because the crybaby #Resistance finally got what they thought they wanted and shut the hell up for five seconds. Dread, because&#8230; well, just watch Joe Biden try to put a sentence together while the synapses in his desiccated brain sputter and conk out like an ancient jalopy. The voters have spoken, and they traded in the president they hated for an even older model. Biden has been in Washington since Watergate, and all the people who convinced themselves he was something new are beginning to realize their mistake. So far, the only thing Biden is doing better than Trump is being old.]]>Tue, 11 May 2021 11:28:20 -0400<![CDATA[Jim Treacher]]><![CDATA[2021]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[media]]><![CDATA[NBC]]><![CDATA[Stephen Colbert]]>https://pjmedia.com/jim-treacher/2021/05/11/they-wish-they-knew-how-to-quit-trump-n1445962<![CDATA[Have you ever noticed that Joe Biden only says stupid stuff when he opens his mouth? When he keeps his pie-hole shut, he&#8217;s fine. He just shuffles around like a 137-year-old man, and his handlers pretend he knows who and where he is, and it&#8217;s all good. He doesn&#8217;t need to worry because he&#8217;s got 95% of the press there to cover for him and promote his agenda, even when he&#8217;s in one of his fugue states. But whenever Joe starts flapping his yap, every single time all sorts of crazy, moronic garbage comes out. More than the last guy spewed, even. Joe might be the dumbest president we&#8217;ve ever had, and sometimes I actually feel bad for the people whose job it is to clean up after the messes he makes every time he tries to express one of his increasingly erratic thoughts. Then I remember how much money those guys make when they leave the White House for the land of cable news and ghostwritten books and speaker&#8217;s fees, and the feeling goes away.]]>Thu, 06 May 2021 21:19:18 -0400<![CDATA[Jim Treacher]]><![CDATA[2021]]><![CDATA[Jen Psaki]]><![CDATA[Joe Biden]]><![CDATA[White House]]>https://pjmedia.com/jim-treacher/2021/05/06/wh-press-secretary-jen-psaki-wishes-biden-maybe-didnt-talk-so-much-n1445064<![CDATA[Ever since Superman was created over 80 years ago, the writers and artists who bring us his adventures have faced the same recurring problem: How do you make this guy interesting? He can do basically anything, after all. How do you challenge him? In the early days, they kept readers coming back by ramping up Superman&#8217;s powers. At first he just bounced bullets off his chest and leapt tall buildings in a single bound, but over the years he became so unstoppably mighty that he could fly under his own power into the heart of the Sun without even mussing his hair. Then DC Comics came up with kryptonite, the only thing that could weaken him, which kept him on his toes for a while. Then in the &#8217;80s, they tried de-powering him. Then they killed him. Then they brought him back to life. Then they gave him a mullet. Then they turned him into, I dunno, some sort of electrical being? I stopped paying much attention after that, but you get the idea. DC has cranked out multiple comic books with this character every single month for the better part of a century, and they&#8217;ve tried just about everything to keep the money rolling in.]]>Wed, 05 May 2021 14:06:02 -0400<![CDATA[Jim Treacher]]><![CDATA[2021]]><![CDATA[Conservatism]]><![CDATA[DC Comics]]><![CDATA[race relations]]><![CDATA[Superheroes]]>https://pjmedia.com/jim-treacher/2021/05/05/is-america-ready-for-a-black-superman-n1444724<![CDATA[Last week we watched as half of the country screamed at Tim Scott for daring to say America isn&#8217;t a racist country. The libs seemed determined to prove Scott wrong, even if it meant being as racist as possible themselves. They called him &#8220;Uncle Tim,&#8221; among other less printable things. Jimmy Kimmel tried to whitesplain racism to him. Al Sharpton stood up at a funeral and insisted that America is indeed racist, which he wouldn&#8217;t be allowed to say if America actually was racist. Throwing out accusations of racism left and right is a very lucrative business, and the people who profit from it aren&#8217;t about to let Tim Scott take food off their tables. So, their longstanding rule against criticizing black politicians went out the window, and they hit Tim Scott with every racist epithet they had.]]>Tue, 04 May 2021 14:47:29 -0400<![CDATA[Jim Treacher]]><![CDATA[2021]]><![CDATA[Conservatism]]><![CDATA[Democratic Party]]><![CDATA[Texas]]><![CDATA[Tim Scott]]>https://pjmedia.com/jim-treacher/2021/05/04/texas-dem-leader-resigns-for-calling-tim-scott-an-oreo-n1444460<![CDATA[Did COVID-19 escape from a lab?]]>Mon, 03 May 2021 14:56:59 -0400<![CDATA[Jim Treacher]]><![CDATA[2021]]><![CDATA[Chinese Communist Party]]><![CDATA[COVD-19]]>https://pjmedia.com/jim-treacher/2021/05/03/ex-mi6-chief-says-covid-19-probably-came-from-a-lab-n1444215<![CDATA[Remember when it was racist for a white person to disagree with a black politician? I&#8217;m not sure when that whole phenomenon started, but it had its heyday around&#8230; oh, let me look&#8230; January 20, 2009, to January 20, 2017. At any point between those two dates, you couldn&#8217;t say anything that contradicted and/or criticized a black politician without being informed that you only hated him for the color of his skin. That was the only reason anybody would ever bother to dissent, we were told. Wanted lower taxes? Racist. Didn&#8217;t want socialized medicine? Racist. Noticed that William Ayers was a terrorist and Rev. Jeremiah Wright was an anti-Semite? Racist, racist, racist. That was the rule, and it was rigidly enforced by our moral, ethical, and intellectual betters in the press, as well as many of their fellow Democrats.]]>Fri, 30 Apr 2021 16:02:53 -0400<![CDATA[Jim Treacher]]><![CDATA[2021]]><![CDATA[Conservatism]]><![CDATA[Jimmy Kimmel]]><![CDATA[Racism]]><![CDATA[Tim Scott]]>https://pjmedia.com/jim-treacher/2021/04/30/jimmy-kimmel-whitesplains-racism-to-tim-scott-n1443853<![CDATA[Now that Donald Trump is out of office, Democrats have abandoned their four-year term of pretending to care about our leaders scoffing at laws and abusing their power. For example, last month Bill Clinton co-hosted a symposium on&#8230; empowering women. That fact alone was astonishing enough, but even crazier was his co-host: Kamala Harris! The first female vice president in American history ignored a serial predator&#8217;s history with women, for political purposes. She lent the credibility of her office to rehabilitating his image. The Biden administration embraced a criminal and tacitly admitted they don&#8217;t care about women, and everybody shrugged. It was just another day in Biden&#8217;s America.]]>Wed, 28 Apr 2021 11:48:18 -0400<![CDATA[Jim Treacher]]><![CDATA[2021]]><![CDATA[Hunter Biden]]><![CDATA[Joe Biden]]>https://pjmedia.com/jim-treacher/2021/04/28/tulane-taps-hunter-biden-for-class-on-media-polarization-and-fake-news-n1443212<![CDATA[I&#8217;ve said it before and I&#8217;ll say it again: If you want the press to hold our leaders accountable, don&#8217;t vote Democrat. You don&#8217;t necessarily need to vote Republican, but voting Democrat means voting for our moral, ethical, and intellectual betters in the media to take a long vacation until the next time there&#8217;s a Republican in the White House. If you don&#8217;t think they&#8217;ve put their kid gloves back on to cover Biden, after four long years of 24/7 &#8220;TRUMP IS A LYING NAZI WHO HURTS MY FEELINGS&#8221; coverage, either you&#8217;re not paying attention or you&#8217;re getting paid to lie about it. The people who want us to trust them to bring us the news are abject hacks, and they&#8217;re not even trying to hide it anymore.]]>Tue, 27 Apr 2021 14:58:35 -0400<![CDATA[Jim Treacher]]><![CDATA[2021]]><![CDATA[Fact Check]]><![CDATA[Joe Biden]]><![CDATA[Washington Post]]>https://pjmedia.com/jim-treacher/2021/04/27/wapo-shuts-down-presidential-fact-checking-database-because-biden-is-just-too-honest-n1443036<![CDATA[As Americans cautiously emerge from our COVID-safe caves after a full year of tooth-grinding paranoia and panic &#8212; and as Democrats and their enablers do everything they can to distract us from the fact that Operation Warp Speed happened during the term of Bad Orange Man, which is just the reality whether you like him or not &#8212; some welcome signs of life are returning to our society. People are going back to restaurants and movie theaters and sporting events. Glenn Close can do &#8220;Da Butt&#8221; in a roomful of cheering onlookers during the Oscars, not alone in her mansion on a Zoom call. And to the relief of parents everywhere, kids are going back to school.]]>Mon, 26 Apr 2021 13:33:52 -0400<![CDATA[Jim Treacher]]><![CDATA[2021]]><![CDATA[Joe Biden]]><![CDATA[Racism]]><![CDATA[school]]>https://pjmedia.com/jim-treacher/2021/04/26/politico-most-of-the-kids-going-back-to-school-are-white-and-thats-a-problem-n1442758<![CDATA[Americans of a certain age will remember when Caitlyn Jenner was the most famous person in the world. Every kid in the country wanted to eat their Wheaties every morning, dreaming of the day they&#8217;d grow up and be just like the person on the box.]]>Fri, 23 Apr 2021 11:54:36 -0400<![CDATA[Jim Treacher]]><![CDATA[2021]]><![CDATA[caitlyn jenner]]><![CDATA[California]]><![CDATA[Conservatism]]><![CDATA[Gavin Newsom]]><![CDATA[Governors]]>https://pjmedia.com/jim-treacher/2021/04/23/caitlyn-jenner-finally-comes-out-as-california-gubernatorial-candidate-n1442145<![CDATA[(Blogger&#8217;s Note: I&#8217;m typing this up as I&#8217;m dealing with the side effects of my second vaccine dose yesterday. So far I&#8217;ve enjoyed fever, chills, dehydration, and the one-two punch of fatigue and insomnia. At least it&#8217;s better than getting COVID, right? So if this blog post doesn&#8217;t make sense, give me an &#8220;E&#8221; for &#8220;Exhausted.&#8221; I&#8217;m also very relieved. Getting vaccinated makes sense to me, and I hope it makes sense to you. If not, how is it any of my business? Do what you want. Your body, your choice.)]]>Wed, 21 Apr 2021 14:51:59 -0400<![CDATA[Jim Treacher]]><![CDATA[2021]]><![CDATA[COVID-19]]><![CDATA[Hollywood]]><![CDATA[masks]]><![CDATA[oscars]]>https://pjmedia.com/jim-treacher/2021/04/21/oscars-attendees-must-wear-masks-but-only-off-camera-n1441640