You remember Yevgeny Prigozhin, he was the leader of the Vladimir Putin sponsored Wagner Group . Still not ringing any bells? He was the one who led the rebellion against Putin, then died in a "mysterious plane crash." Editor's Note: Mysterious plane crash is not in quotations because I quoted anyone. It's because all the leaders of the Wagner Group died when their plane blew up. Putin claimed that the plane exploded because the members of the Wagner Group were on drugs and/o

Go to this website: https://www.justice.gov/epstein Answer the Question: Are you a Human? Answer the Question: Are you 18 or Older? There is a short disclaimer, but once you scroll down, there is a search bar that says: Search Full Epstein Library Type in the Politician of your choice and... Voilà You are now a citizen reporter. My wife keeps saying that she wants to see the Epstein Files for herself. I told her she could do that right now, but it's 3 million or so pages long

Back in 1992, the sketch comedy show In Living Colour decided to counter-program against the Super Bowl's crappy CBS Winter Spectacular Half Time Show. Fox's In Living Colour stole 25 million viewers from that game. The Super Bowl was so shocked by the viewer loss, some citations said Fox actually had higher ratings than CBS for those 12 minutes, that they were forced to make changes. 2 of the most radical changes were instituted just a year later. In 1993, the Super Bowl H

President Trump Deletes Racist Video From Truth Social After Outrage: That was the headline at every news agency today. ABC News NBC News CBS News CNN Drudge Report / X The video in question? Former President Barack Obama and his wife are portrayed as monkeys. Donald Trump really has no shame, he's a cartoon caricature of himself. He should know better, but he just doesn't. We condemn the President's antics. This is absurd. This is farcical. This is insanity. But deeper in th

In 1998, the Drudge Report broke the story of the Monica Lewinski Scandal. Almost immediately, the website went from a political insider destination, to a go-to source for Right-Leaning News. When I started Beacon of Speech in 2016, we were intrigued by the Drudge Report's business model. Many on the Left were either trying to ban the site or wanted to charge them for sharing links. But I couldn't understand how you could ban a site that was nothing but links. As a free speec

This story seems to be streaming across platforms: Kid Rock’s Song about Loving Underage Girls Resurfaces Ahead of TPUSA Super Bowl Show Honestly, to say that Kid Rock should be canceled based off of the fact that he wrote a song about young girls years ago, but now it's the Age of Epstein, is not really fair. Almost every rock star in the history of the Rock Genre has written a song about young girls. Here are 10 that stuck out from my memory (with an assist from Reddit ): L

Back on January 13, 2026 , ESPN's Dan Graziano predicted who would fill the 9 (eventually 10) coaching vacancies in the NFL. All I did was cut and paste the predictions, then I added 2 Comments: I said Robert Saleh to the Raiders absolutely would not happen. They wanted a "name" coach. I said Chris Shula to the Dolphins would be a slam dunk. Directly from ESPN: Arizona: Klint Kubiak Atlanta: John Harbaugh Baltimore: Kevin Stefanski Cleveland: Mike McDaniel Las Vegas: Robert

Do you know what happens to radical politicians in Europe? People hit them in the face with pies. They smash eggs on their bald domes. They throw shoes at them. So earlier this week, some pinhead sprayed.... This is so absurd, I have to go back and look it up again- APPLE CIDER VINEGAR on Congressperson Ilhan Omar. Now don't get me wrong, you shouldn't do that, but every single angle was so weird. Donald Trump chirped that he thought it was a false flag , as did nearly ev

I'm sorry, I read the above blurb at Consequence of Sound, at least, 20 times. Limp Bizkit was the band that people loved to hate. But I always liked Wes Borland, I liked the musical chances that he took outside of Limp Bizkit. But I'm not a Limp Bizkit fan. I remember standing in the hot sun and watching the band perform on the small stage at Warped Tour 97. I was a fan of DJ Lethal and wanted to check out his "new" band. I was not impressed and was glad I would never hear

If you passed 4th grade history, you know that America fought the Revolutionary War because they didn't want to pay taxes to that arrogant bastard King George III. But that was over 200 years ago. Who are the Kings today? If you're a Democrat, you are screaming that Donald Trump is a King/Nazi Hybrid, slaughtering people in the streets. If you're a Republican, you are screaming that Immigrants are massacring American Citizens on mass transit. The "King" is the "deep state" t

As I was doing some site cleanup, I came across some of my old articles about Amoye Favour. I wondered aloud to myself, "I wonder if he/it/they are still around?" Not only is Amoye Favour still around, but he/it/they just published an article earlier this week! 10 Metal Musicians with Asperger's Syndrome Let's cut to the chase and grade Favour's 10 Choices: Craig Nicolls - Lead singer of the Vines? Not Metal. Marty Balin - Member of the Jefferson Airplane? Not one ounce of

I have rarely been so mad that I can't write, but today is one of those days. Former FIFA boss Sepp Blatter rolled out of bed and dropped this quote on the world: That's it. If you asked me: Who was the most corrupt administrator in all of Modern Sports? Not in the NFL, not in the Premier League, not in the NBA, but IN ALL OF SPORTS , I would probably say Sepp Blatter. Between 2018's World Cup in Russia and 2022's World Cup in Qatar, which were awarded their tournaments a dec

This will be a very short article, mostly for my edification. This was the AP Top 25 in College Football Poll after the end of the regular season. After the season ended, the Miami Hurricanes and the Notre Dame Fighting Irish finished with the same record with very similar credentials for the college football playoffs. As in any sport, there are tie-breaker rules for evenly matched teams. So when push came to shove for the last at-large playoff spot, the committee chose the M

I watched Alex Honnold's Netflix Special: Skyscraper Live . I liked the special, it was good TV, like Evel Knievel on ABC Sports. But the commentators stressed, like a dozen times, how dangerous the climb was and that Honnold had a wife and kids. They HINTED that it was irresponsible to climb that building. Many viewers took to the internet and didn't hint at that position, they flat out said it. Let me ask you: What is better for your kids? Climbing a mountain for no money o

At a local bar, on the edge of Baldwin Wallace College, on Wednesday, January 22, 2026, the newly formed band International Threat, played a quick 3 song set as the snow lightly fell outside. Liam, Alex, Jimmy, and Pat met through similar channels out of the ashes of the former college radio station WCSB . Slightly off-topic, WCSB is (tentatively) slated to return as internet station XCSB in the Spring. International Threat's first playlist: Seventeen by Peach Pit Just Like H

Throughout this week, I saw this meme shared on, at least, a dozen feeds. Apparently, Pam Grier claims she saw lynchings....in Columbus, Ohio. Now the easily fooled clevland.com treated the story as straight news and didn't question the timeline. Do I believe Pam Grier? I believe she saw something, but not a lynching. Why the doubt? When I worked at Iron Mountain, I had to go into the dicey part of town at least once a month. Every time I went to E. 55th and Woodland area

The top story at the Drudge Report this morning was: Trump's Appalling Threat Leaves No Doubt That Its Time for the 25th Amendment. What website was so "brave" to invoke the Constitution? The Daily Beast. <sigh> The Daily Beast is one of the most partisan rags in America. Which one of their 150 or so Liberal staff members wrote the article? Janna Brancolini. Hmm, she must be new, I don't recognize her name. Editor's Note: Sorry, 150 Liberals and Token Moderate Matt Lewis . So

This was the headline over at The Blaze this morning: Clintons defy Epstein Subpoenas — but Glenn Beck says DON’T jail them. Here’s his shocking reason why. Let's pause for a second. In over a dozen Beacon of Speech Epstein articles , we have NEVER mentioned Hillary Clinton's name. Never. The Core Four names that come up in every file drop are: Bill Clinton, Donald Trump, Prince Andrew, and Bill Gates. Why would the government subpoena HILLARY Clinton? Let's get into the t

Co-Founder of Beacon of Speech Ted and I used to work together at the magical Iron Mountain. What was our favorite thing to do at work? I think Ted and I agreed that it was listening to the radio. Now I enjoyed Sports Talk on some days, and random music on others, while Ted would listen to mostly News Talk sprinkled in with Classic Rock . But both of us tended to start off our mornings with Howard Stern. Do either of us listen to Howard Stern today? Oh, absolutely not. Howar

I came across this meme on the Tubi Horror Movie Fan Sight . No parameters, no sourcing, no details. I reviewed the list in my head, over and over, and said to myself: "This is a crappy list." So Beacon of Speech Presents: Top 50 Horror Films of All Time! Not going back to Nosferatu , not including movies from the last year or so. 1946-2024, basically the time between World War II and the end of the Biden Administration: Evil Dead 2 (1983) The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) R

Since ICE killed Nicole Good, I have read on multiple platforms that Fascism is Here and Trump is Hitler. You can say Trumps is an idiot. You can say Trump has brain damage. You can say Trump doesn't have a plan. I will listen to all of those arguments. But, again , he is not Hitler. Before Hitler killed himself in that bunker, he had killed about half a million German dissenters, about 6 million European Jews, and about 25 million Soviets. And I didn't even mention casualti

Earlier today, Scott Adams, creator of the comic strip Dilbert, passed away at the age of 68. Was Dilbert the best comic strip of all time? Back in 2014 , we proclaimed Dilbert the best comic strip between the years 2000-2010: "Launched in 1989, it took a few years for Scott Adams’ crude drawings to take hold with the comic strip-loving public. Spot on observations pertaining to the business world, along with a razor-sharp wit, carried it until the cartooning caught up with

Arguably the Best Broadcast Team in Cleveland History Other than Dorothy Fuldheim , there may not have been a more popular, or respected, female broadcaster in Cleveland Television History than Robin Svoboda. But since her heyday in the 1980's on Channel 8, Svoboda has been on every news channel in Northeast Ohio. Now everyone has their own angles and reasons for their own career path, but Svoboda seemed to have tired of the limiting news format itself, which is fine. But o

For longtime readers, you are already aware that I went almost completely deaf earlier this year and can now only hear thanks to a double cochlear implant. But it still kind of nags at me why I'm deaf. Beacon of Speech co-founder Ted and I speak of Rush Limbaugh's hearing loss often. Ted says "technically Rush didn't know why he went deaf, either." And I always reply, "oh he knew, he sued people so you wouldn't find out." Now I can't prove it in a court of law, but coincident