DYSPEPSIA GENERATION

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Like the history of so many wars, the history of the Boer War has been written by the losers, assisted also by those hostile to the British empire in general. There is an alternative version and interpretation as set out here by Alistair Parker.

The Second Anglo-Boer War is amongst the most debated events in British history. The contested aspects include the ‘scorched-earth’ strategy, the British concentration camps, the numbers involved and the motivations behind the war. Yet the most striking feature of many narratives is how they are cast through the prism of our contemporary ethics, economics and politics. Prompted by pre-conceived conclusions on globalisation, imperialism, and racism, and energised by the selective search for evidence that fits, these narratives often fail to ‘add up the numbers’, assess the overall context, or judge human agency by the actual constraints of the time.

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I used to play this clip and then ask the audience a simple question: Look at everything Sal Khan does to learn something. He reads widely. He scaffolds. He draws. He questions. He calls friends. He argues. He makes connections across fields. He builds intuitive understanding from the ground up. And then he builds something to capture all that he had learned to share with others.

Now… how does Sal Khan want my kid to learn?

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The room always got it immediately.

Because nobody in that room would accept that for themselves. We all know, intuitively, that watching someone else explain something is not the same as understanding it. We would never settle for that as learners. And yet, somehow, we accept it as a solution for other people’s children. This is a version of a phenomenon that I have written about earlier: The reductive seduction of other people’s problems.

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Who wants to tell them?

Newsbusters.

On Thursday’s CNN This Morning, at the end of a segment pondering whether President Trump might throw Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth under the bus, host Audie Cornish took things in a very different direction, whining about how, “He very much has completely made good on his promises to focus on culture war issues in the military.” She also falsely claimed military promotions were now reserved for whites only.

As a Black American, she will TELL ANY LIE that advances her agenda.

JD Vance Says He’s OK With Bringing About the End Times (Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling/New Republic) So would I, if it meant the elimination of The New Republic.

Trump Says He’s ‘Happy’ Prince Harry, Meghan Markle Leaving US (Kate Sullivan/Bloomberg)  As are all right-thinking people.

Judge Blocks Newest Trump Order Limiting Birthright Citizenship

Judge blocks Trump’s birthright citizenship order aimed at ‘birth tourism’ (Josh Gerstein/Politico)

Trump’s first midterm ads are heavy on ‘me’ (Aaron Blake/CNN)

How freaked out should you be about Trump’s plot to disrupt mail voting? (Zack Beauchamp/Vox)

Maggie Haberman Reveals GOP Midterms Convention ‘Error’ That Trump’s Team Somehow Overlooked (Lee Moran/HuffPost)

The MAGA Right Is Only Pretending to Be Censored (Anne Applebaum/The Atlantic)  Anne Applebaum loses her shit.

Federal judges say they’re facing intensified threats since start of Trump’s second term (Jalen Beckford/Politico)  Tell the Left. They’re the ones with violence in their playbook.

Trump’s DOJ Blocked Serious ICE Shooting Charge Over Federal Prosecutor’s “Strongest Possible” Objections (ProPublica)

MS NOW’s Alexander Blames Trump’s ICE for Haitian Immigrant’s Suicide

OMISSION: Nets Hide Guilty Plea of Man who Vandalized JD Vance’s Home

Trump Returns to a Familiar Playbook as the War With Iran Flares Up Again (Erica L. Green/New York Times)

The Trump administration is taking stakes in more companies — and progressives are taking notes (Joseph J. Schatz/Politico)

Republicans fear Trump will keep super PAC money and not spend on the midterms (Washington Post)

MAGA begins to crack as 2026 GOP roster backs away from Trump’s tech vision (Paul Steinhauser/Fox News)

How Trump tanked Canadian conservatives (Tom Schaller/Public Notice)

Trump Moves to Strip Tax Exemption From Schools That Aid Minority Students (New York Times)  ‘Aid minority students’ being a code-work for ‘illegal racial preferences’.

Trump Sticks With a Losing Midterm Plan (Karl Rove/Wall Street Journal)  Well, we’ll find out.

A Casualty of a Cruel Immigration Policy (Naomi Bethune/American Prospect)  Jerk those tears! Jerk those tears! Women almost always react with emotion rather that thought, and female ‘journalist’ are the worst of the lot.

America’s War on Drug Smugglers at Sea Is Unlawful–and It Is Failing (Just Security)  So sue. Everybody else is.

IRS unveils plan to cancel universities’ tax-exempt status (Brian Faler/Politico)  Because of racism; of course he forgot to explain that part.

Welch Claims She Loves Vance Kids More Than He Does, GOP Doesn’t ‘Give a S***’ About Vets  Hey, you can make up any shit you want.

Gay LA activist arrested for threatening to kill Trump, doxxing Trump’s attorney

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France has launched an advertising campaign to combat the surge in female genital mutilation, as statistics show that 1 in 10 girls living in districts with large Muslim communities are being coerced into this cruel practice.

The three-monthslong campaign, which coincides with the school holiday season when parents are most likely to take their daughters abroad for the procedure, will conclude on Sept. 2.

Hoardings on bus shelters are warning parents: “Female genital mutilation should never be part of the journey.” The advertisement features an image of a young girl whose genitals have been mutilated.

The charity “Excision, parlons-en!” (Let’s Talk About Female Genital Mutilation!) is offering an awareness kit as it partners with the French government. According to statistics provided by the nongovernmental organization, 180,000 girls risk being “cut” each year in Europe.

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The Trump administration plans to end tax-exempt status for private schools that engage in any type of race-based discrimination or race-based admissions.

The Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service will issue the proposed regulation Thursday to restore merit.

“Under President Trump, this Administration is standing up for America’s students by ensuring racial discrimination has no place in American education,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told the Daily Caller. “Schools rebranding race-based preferences as equitable, inclusive, or diversity-enhancing does not change their discriminatory nature.”

Bessent added the proposed regulations “establish a clear standard, and the institutions that continue to use discriminatory practices will no longer receive the benefits of federal tax-exempt status.”

The proposed regulation will “put institutions on notice,” said IRS Chief Executive Officer Frank J. Bisignano.

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The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division brought a first-of-its-kind lawsuit against a Kansas school district, applying decades-old laws to combat a new problem: gender secrecy policies allowing school staff to hide a student’s claimed gender identity from parents or legal guardians.

“Parental rights are paramount in the operation of America’s public schools, and Kansas City, Kansas Public Schools does not know children better than their own parents,” Harmeet Dhillon, the assistant attorney general in charge of the division, said in a statement on the lawsuit Tuesday.

“The Department will not tolerate school districts playing fast and loose with federal law in the service of radical gender ideology,” Dhillon added.

The lawsuit, filed Tuesday, accuses the school district in Kansas City, Kansas, of violating the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (1974) and the Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment (1978). These laws protect parental access to student records and require parental consent before students participate in federally-funded surveys on sensitive personal topics.

The school district adopted a Transgender Guideline in 2024 stating: “If any staff member learns a student is transgender or gender non-conforming, that information should be relayed to the school principal without delay. The school principal should discuss available accommodations and resources with the student or the student’s parent or legal guardian, including the availability of a planning meeting.”

Yet, “if it becomes known that the student does not want the student’s parent or legal guardian included at this stage, that request will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis.” The policy states that requests “will be evaluated by the executive director of student services & family support, director of student support programs, executive director of equity & inclusion, and the district’s attorney.”

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I could get behind a requirement that all liberal women wear bags over their heads.

Imagine all the quiet….

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Of course she does.

A federal judge in Maryland halted President Donald Trump’s newest executive action to restrict birthright citizenship.

U.S. District Judge Deborah Boardman issued a temporary injunction late Wednesday, writing, “The 2026 Executive Order is almost certainly unconstitutional … for the simple reason that the Supreme Court in Barbara already decided that the children in the class are citizens at birth.”

Boardman, an appointee of President Joe Biden, also asserted, “The Supreme Court has spoken: Children in the certified class are ‘citizens at birth.’”

Well, we’ll just see about that….

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As they do for everything that happens that they don’t like.

The Atlantic staff writer Annie Lowrey joined PBS’s Amanpour and Company on Tuesday to allege that the reason why the United States does not have “universal, simple benefit systems” like universal basic income or single-payer health care is because of the legacy of Jim Crow.

Jim Crow had a legacy? Boy, I’d like to read that Will….

Lowrey was to promote her book, The Time Tax: How the Government Wastes Our Time and How to Fix, which naturally argues that it costs too much time and money in order to receive benefits in this country due to excessive bureaucracy. While attacking unnecessary bureaucracy may sound nice, Lowrey’s attempt to identify a source was way off track, “Part of the reason that we do not have universal, simple benefit systems in this country, like some of our peer countries have, is because we were creating those programs often during Jim Crow. And we wanted to have ways to get benefits to some people, but not others.”

Yeah, the difference is between ‘people who deserve help’ and ‘lazy feckless parasites’. This distinction is not one that proglodytes make. (Of course, these are the people who think that government is the perfect vehicle for telling everybody how to run their lives. Ironic.)

ScienceDaily.

Two widely used zero-calorie sweeteners, sucralose and stevia, may have effects that linger far longer than the sweet taste itself. In mice, researchers found that both sweeteners altered the gut microbiome, reduced beneficial compounds produced by gut bacteria, and changed the activity of genes involved in metabolism and inflammation. Some of those changes were also detected in later generations that had never consumed the sweeteners themselves.

Sugar. It’s not just for breakfast any more.

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AI sometimes comes up with useful stuff.

1. You’re living with too many strangers.
2. Your attention is actually working.
3. You’re forced to live in the wrong time zone.
4. You were made to squat and kneel, not sit.
5. Modern work is anti-social by design.
6. Your eyes are reshaping to fit indoors.
7. You feel too much in a world that wants you to feel less.

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As reported in last night’s news feed, the small village of Overasselt in the Netherlands was the scene of an unprecedented police operation yesterday in which 34 people (now 35) were arrested after a man was shot dead. Those arrested were allegedly narco-traffickers, and the incident was said to be part of a conflict among narcotics trafficking gangs.

ATQUE: Narco-State-Style Shooting in the Netherlands–34 Arrested

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The Justice Department has issued an important ruling requiring states to follow the legislated rule of reporting illegal aliens who receive Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) or Supplemental Security Income (SSI). This rule can substantially alter the nature of financial support programs currently taking place with federal funds.

The Office of Legal Counsel has issued a legal opinion clarifying that when a state chooses to participate in the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) programs, all agencies within that state — not only those that administer TANF or SSI benefits — must report individuals known to be not lawfully present in the United States to The Dept of Homeland Security.

2 Thessalonians 3:10-12:

For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.

For we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busybodies.

Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.

New York Post.

Few people have done more to destroy our culture than she has.

A child of divorce (of course). Fortunately she never had children and her defective genes are now expunged from the gene pool.

UPDATE: Powerful: Gloria Steinem Refuses To Allow Satan To Hold Door To Hell Open For Her (Babylon Bee).

‘Dangerous power grab’: top Democrats decry USPS system that could thwart mail-in voting – live (Dani Anguiano/The Guardian)

White House prepares for Democratic investigations (Politico)

Bad Manner: CNN’s Cornish Stacks The Deck Against Hegseth

MAGA-Curious CBS Boss Hit With Furious Staff Backlash (Ewan Palmer/The Daily Beast) “MAGA-curious”? (You can’t make this shit up….)

Governor Hochul Calls on the Trump Administration to Stop Defunding the Police and Deliver the $87 Million in Federal Counterterrorism Funds Still Owed to New York (Governor Kathy Hochul)  Because, as we all know, funding local police is TOTALLY the responsibility of the Federal governmnt—and the Federal taxpayer.

Mamdani, Hochul accuse Trump of defunding the police (Joe Anuta/Politico)  And they say it with a straight face.

Nikki Haley demands Vance ‘choose a side’ between Israel and its critics (Cheyanne M. Daniels/Politico)  Binary thinking is the first refuge of the dimwit.

‘A Shit Show’: Postal Service Whistleblower Warns That New Project Will Sow Chaos in Election (John Light/Talking Points Memo)  Certainly among Democrats trying to steal elections.

New Emails Show Greg Bovino Was Under Investigation Prior to His Retirement (Angie Orellana Hernandez/NOTUS)  The harpies of the Left will pursue you even unto the grave.

Mainstream Media Runs Spin Campaign As Deportations To Haiti Increase

Republicans aren’t exactly flocking to Trump’s midterm convention (Politico)  Because, as we all know, unless Republicans ‘flock’ to something then it’s a total repudiation.

Trump begs SCOTUS to let him unleash midterm chaos (Liz Dye/Public Notice)  Bias? What bias?

Trump aides, fearing a midterm rout, push to keep Iran war ‘quiet’ for now (Reuters)  The mind-readers at Reuters are on the case!

Trump’s boat strikes are illegal. Does it matter? (Jeffrey Stein/The Hill)  Apparently not.

“Like pissing in the wind”: Local concerns bulldozed by Trump’s border wall plan (Brittany Gibson/Axios)  I give up—since when does Axios care about ‘local concerns’?

What JD Vance’s Eruption of Rage over Usha and El-Sayed Really Reveals (Greg Sargent/New Republic)  Greg Sargent loses his shit.

Mike Johnson, Wet Noodle (The Bulwark)

The U.S. Has Killed 227 Civilians in Boat Strikes During “A Year of Murders” (Nick Turse/The Intercept)

Trump approves disaster relief funds for 7 red states, after denying aid to blue states (Steve Benen/MS NOW)  Because they just steal it. Witness California diverting money intended for rebuilding fire-damaged homes to rent relieve for fashionable minorities. (Almost 90 percent of Americans say there is widespread corruption in government (Gregory Svirnovskiy/Politico))

How the Supreme Court Helps Trump Run Out the Clock (Madiba K. Dennie/Balls and Strikes)

Trump’s Speed on the White House Ballroom Threatens to Outpace the Courts (Adam Liptak/New York Times)  OH NOES!

Tur Whines About Vance Going After El-Sayed, Ignore His Attack on VP’s Wife

Trump floats renaming Strait of Hormuz the ‘Trump Strait’ (Kevin Breuninger/CNBC)  Ah, ah, ah, ah, yankin’ their chains, yankin’ their chains….

‘Pitiful’: experts condemn initial US aid contribution for Nepal flood victims (Robert Tait/The Guardian)  Because, as we all know, relief for flood victims in Nepal is TOTALLY the responsibility of the U.S. government—and the U.S. taxpayer.

Elon Musk Unmasked in Alex Gibney Documentary: “Insane a Person This Chaotic Has So Much Power” (Steven Zeitchik/The Hollywood Reporter)

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A rather remarkable statement from Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick puts the Canadian government on notice. If Lutnick is accurately outlining what took place, there’s no way Trump is going to give them a trade deal.

When he is questioned about the U.S-Canada trade agreement collapse, Secretary Lutnick quotes the Canadian govt officials. “I said to him, are you trying to blow this up? and he said, and I quote, “I’m not allowed to say that.“” Lutnick then encapsulates what that response meant.

“They decided for political reasons, domestically, domestic Canada, they’d rather fight with Donald Trump; even if it’s bad for the economy of Canada, for their political ambition to get a certain election,” Lutnick noted. He continued, “now remember, Quebec has the sovereign party was in the lead, so that’s why they came up with this French nonsense. You think the American side talked about how people speak in Quebec? We have a deal with France, we have a deal with Italy, we have a deal with Germany, we don’t care about their language; none of that was true.”

Perfidious Hoserland.

The New Neo.

One of the drawbacks of being a Boss Babe Just Like A Man is that it makes you a target for Leftists kooks. (Be careful what you wish for….)

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For the record, here is a partial list of the causes for the Iranian War.

November 1979: Iranian students, backed by the regime, seized the U.S. Embassy in Tehran — taking 66 Americans hosta

We’ve been at war with Iran since 1979. The problem is that they have been the only ones fighting it—until now.

Power Line.

America’s leading practitioner of Democratic Socialism is the current mayor of New York City. He has a theory that little-used, second-homes in the City put an extra strain on municipal resources and must be taxed more to compensate.

Of course that’s nonsense, he just wants to punish “the rich” for the crime of being rich. But the reality of this new tax is not as advertised.

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So, around a million or so New Yorkers must prove in less than 30 days that they don’t fall under a tax meant to hit just 10,000 or so. The list of those hit with the new tax include long-time, current, full-year residents, commercial properties, homes worth only a few hundred thousand dollars, etc. Instead of using a rifle bullet, the city has used a nuclear bomb.

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So you go to the grocery store and you’ll see all these things on shelves. You’ll see meat, vegetables, chips, water, milk, soda. And they’ll all just be there. And you can read the back of the labels to see what’s in them. And you can eat pretty much any of it, and unless you’re allergic or something, you’ll definitely be safe in the short term.

But what you need to understand is that this food wasn’t put there for you. It’s put there to make money. There are some rules about what stores can sell, like alcohol, but for the most part what’s on the shelf isn’t determined by anything other than what companies can sell for the most. In fact some companies make rules that require the store to present their items on the shelf in a way they like.

So when you go to the store and see 50 types of soda, and maybe three types of juice there’s a reason for that. Everywhere sells soda only because it’s cheap to make, it’s just fizzy water with sugar and flavors added to it – no fiber, no fat, no protein, no vitamins. Because those ingredients is more expensive.

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On Tuesday, medical technology company Stryker announced that a hip arthroscopy had been performed at Duke Health using its SportSuite Vision app on Apple Vision Pro. SportSuite Vision allows surgeons to view the operating room while placing digital tools, including arthroscopic and CT imaging, within their field of view.

Typically, arthroscopic procedures require surgeons to reference multiple displays positioned around the operating room. SportSuite Vision displays that information through the Apple Vision Pro, reducing awkward bending and twisting and streamlining the surgical process.

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Marcus Coleman is the father of Dalilah, who was 5 years old in 2024 when a semi truck plowed into her stopped car at 60 miles per hour in the Mojave Desert.

She survived with a fractured skull, no thanks to the illegal alien behind the wheel of the truck.

Mr. Coleman was invited Tuesday to speak before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement regarding a hearing “Sanctuary Policies.”

How are you guys not fighting for [ending sanctuary policies]? I reject your guys’ sympathy, to be honest. There’s no way you guys are sorry.

Not one of you guys have ever called me. No one of you guys have ever reached out to me. Not one of you guys have ever seen me in the hallway and said, ‘Hey, sorry about your daughter.’

Babylon Bee.

Don’t hold your breath….

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News reports say the woman “was threatening people with two knives near West 42nd Street and Seventh Avenue” before stabbing two victims. Even when the knife maniac is an obese middle-aged woman, a knife that hits a major artery can kill quickly.

After being confronted by police, she “refused to drop the knives when officers approached,” after which she charged officers and was brought down. As the videos show, officers attempted to use Tasers to stop the perpetrator, but they didn’t work, because Tasers often fail to stop crazy people amped up on adrenaline/drugs, especially when they are Felons of a Particular Body Mass.

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A 27-year-old Moroccan construction worker in an irregular immigration situation in Spain was released from custody on Monday after being caught in the act of raping a 22-year-old woman on Valencia’s Malvarrosa beach. The duty judge cited the victim’s failure to appear in court to formalize a complaint as the reason for granting him provisional liberty – a Spanish procedural requirement that is relatively unusual compared with many other Western countries.

You can’t make this shit up.

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On Monday, the Trump administration’s top federal prosecutor in Los Angeles revealed that California’s voter ID rules are so lax that nobody was checking whether voters were American citizens, with what he says is at least half a million voters on the rolls who never provided documentary proof of identification.

The prosecutor, Bill Essayli, first assistant U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California, made the case in an interview with Bill Melugin on Fox News. He said the state runs voter registration on the honor system, with no one in government confirming citizenship and the state accepting an applicant’s word instead. Essayli’s interview came in the wake of the arrest of Darwin Rivera Flores, a Honduran national, on charges of illegally registering to vote in California.

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I guess they’d rather you just shoot people.

But the Department of Homeland Security said it would not comply with the legislation, calling it “unconstitutional.”

“Sanctuary politicians attempting to ban our federal law enforcement from any safety equipment is despicable and a deliberate attempt to undermine and endanger our officers,” DHS said in a statement.

“To be crystal clear: we will not abide by unconstitutional bans,” DHS added.

 

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In July, the Federal Communications Commission added foreign-produced “advanced robotic devices” to its Covered List, generally preventing new models from receiving the authorization needed to be imported, marketed, or sold in the United States. Although early headlines emphasized Chinese humanoid robots and mechanical dogs, Sean Hollister reported in The Verge that the rule also encompasses robotic vacuums, lawnmowers, delivery machines, and many warehouse robots. It potentially applies to almost any wireless, software-controlled ground robot weighing more than 4.4 pounds and capable of perceiving its surroundings.

As usual, the government is the reason we can’t have nice things.

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He wouldn’t do that, would he?

A Chinese national studying at a Canadian university has been charged with lying to American officials to conceal that he took photographs at a Chicago airport cargo facility at the direction of a suspected Chinese official, according to a federal complaint filed in Detroit on Aug. 26.

I’m sure there’s a perfectly innocent explanation….

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“The best estimate we have made at the Center for Immigration Studies of the possible number of births to tourists is 20,000 to 26,000 a year, though that estimate is based on data from 2016 and 2017,” Steven Camarota, the center’s research director, told a House Oversight Committee task force hearing led by Rep. Brandon Gill, R-Texas.

“Some might think the number is small relative to the overall number of births in the U.S. annually; however, the effect is cumulative. Assuming the numbers we estimated in the past continued, some 200,000 to 300,000 children were born to birth tourists over the last decade — hardly a trivial number.”

The testimony comes weeks after President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing the State and Homeland Security departments to take further action against birth tourism, defined by the administration as foreign nationals entering the country on nonimmigrant visas to give birth on U.S. soil.

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The official account of what happened in Ceuta on July 30th has just suffered its most serious blow from within the Spanish state itself.

A confidential report prepared by the National Police’s Centre for Immigration and Borders (CENIF) maintains that the mass entry was not a spontaneous phenomenon caused simply by traffickers, social media, or a temporary failure of Morocco’s border-control apparatus, as the government and media outlets aligned with it have argued for the past month.

According to the document, uniformed officers and members of Morocco’s security forces operating in plain clothes actively participated in organising and directing the groups that advanced towards Spanish territory.

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Italy’s political row over judges’ lenient handling of migrant criminals has intensified after a 42-year-old Bangladeshi shop assistant accused of raping a 13-year-old girl in the outskirts of Turin was released from prison after just two nights.

The crime occurred on Saturday, August 29th in Madonna di Campagna, a multi-ethnic district in the northern Italian city.

According to the girl’s account, she entered a minimarket to buy three fruit drinks for her younger siblings. She said the shop assistant gave her a drink, asked whether she had a boyfriend and how old she was, before sexually assaulting her.

Police arrested the man shortly afterwards, with surveillance footage from the shop forming part of the evidence. Prosecutors requested that he remain in custody. However, a judge ordered his release, only requiring him to report to the police.

The judge cited the suspect’s lack of previous convictions, his co-operation with investigators, and his expression of remorse.

The decision has provoked heavy criticism, particularly because authorities allege that the same man had sexually assaulted another woman around 40 minutes before the incident involving the girl.

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Why are people still making accusations about Trump and Epstein even after Trump was cleared by the Epstein files that were released. Let’s see if people can still use their brains to follow the facts and come up with the logical conclusion.

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The Biden Administration enacted hundreds of punitive actions against the domestic oil and gas industry. The Trump Administration has worked to reverse this overreach. The latest reversal concerns a Bureau of Land Management’s proposal to lower statewide bonding on oil and gas leases from $500,000 to $25,000.

In protest, the Evangelical Environmental Network (EEN) and other left-of-center environmental organizations claim that companies will be incited to abandon wells and stick taxpayers with the cleanup bill. EEN misleadingly argues that “asking companies to cover their own cleanup costs is not a regulatory burden….”

To clarify, the BLM is proposing to shift the state bonding minimums back to what they were prior to 2024, consistent with the White House’s intent to reduce regulatory barriers to energy production. The higher minimums imposed in 2024 have not taken effect yet, as the BLM had extended the phase-in date to June of 2027.

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Representatives on the House Oversight Committee Task Force on Protecting Constitutional Rights and Exposing Institutional Abuses, held a hearing today on the subject of Birthright Citizenship and immigration fraud [hearing below].

The committee subpoenaed Dr. Wladimir Lorentz, the owner and founder of Miami Medical Concierge Services, following his refusal to testify. The committee intended to ask questions about the company’s role in arranging births for foreign nationals. Following the subpoena, Dr Lorentz invoked the Fifth Amendment to every question, citing a pending federal investigation into his business, also known as “Have My Baby in Miami.”

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One of my longstanding complaints about the Republican Party is that they are unenthusiastic and weak; they don’t try hard enough to win.

Case in point; in this November’s congressional elections, there 18 races where the Democrat is running unopposed, compared to 1 race where the Republican is running unopposed. Yoiks!

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A watchdog group is pressing New York to act against the lawyer for E. Jean Carroll for allegedly failing to disclose that Democrat donor Reid Hoffman bankrolled the defamation lawsuit against President Donald Trump.

In July, the National Legal and Policy Center filed a bar complaint with the Attorney Grievance Committee against Roberta Kaplan, Carroll’s lawyer, alleging that she was not transparent about the role of Democrat megadonor Hoffman, a co-founder of LinkedIn, in bankrolling Carroll’s lawsuit.

By August, the committee dismissed the complaint without addressing the question directly.

“The dismissal was made without conducting any investigation, let alone a ‘thorough investigation’ that this committee promises to undertake for misconduct complaints,” the appeal filed by Paul Kamenar, chief counsel for the National Legal and Policy Center, says.

The appeal said the essence of the original complaint was that “Kaplan waited almost six months after the deposition of her client, E. Jean Carroll, until the eve of trial to correct Ms. Carroll’s false statement in an October 2022 deposition that she was not receiving any outside funding for her defamation lawsuit against Donald Trump.”

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The law firm America First Legal released a parental rights toolkit Tuesday, explaining how a law that protects the rights of disabled children also helps parents defend their rights when schools adopt policies hiding a child’s transgender identity from parents.

“Parents hold the fundamental and constitutionally-protected right to direct the upbringing of their children, and that includes authority over their children’s education,” Julie Alexa Strauss, general counsel at America First Legal, said in a statement on the new toolkit, exclusively provided first to the Daily Signal. “Yet today, radicalized school personnel are exploiting their access to children, particularly vulnerable children with disabilities—often behind closed doors—to push ideological agendas.”

“Congress gave parents of children with special needs powerful legal rights, but too many families are never made aware of just how extensive those protections are,” Strauss added. “AFL’s IDEA Toolkit helps parents understand those rights, empowers parents to assert their authority, and holds schools accountable when they overstep the law.”

The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, first passed in 1975 but renamed in 1990, guarantees children with disabilities access to a free, appropriate public education.

America First Legal argues that the law “also gives parents extensive authority over evaluations, educational services, school records, and individualized education programs.”

The law firm states that its “IDEA toolkit arms parents with an arsenal of tools designed to ensure that they, not the government, remain in control of their children’s education.”

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The Justice Department’s new report on the Richmond Catholic memo reveals that the FBI had cited the Southern Poverty Law Center more than 22,000 times, at times without any caveats, even though FBI policies would require any SPLC citation to note potential bias and contested credibility.

The Richmond office of the FBI published the notorious memo on Jan. 23, 2023, claiming that “racially-motivated violent extremists” were seeking to recruit “radical traditional Catholics.” The memo didn’t just cite the SPLC, it did so without any caveats about the SPLC’s questionable credibility.

The SPLC has explicitly stated that it “did not provide any information or communicate with any FBI personnel involved in preparing this Richmond Field Office memo.” Yet newly released documents reveal the FBI citing the SPLC without caveats, at a time when the SPLC maintained close ties to the Biden Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division.

The FBI publicly retracted the Richmond Catholic memo one day after it leaked, and a newly disclosed Feb. 21, 2023, Analytic Tradecraft Review explains why.

Among other things, the tradecraft review faults the memo for failing to “provide any details regarding any potential bias/credibility of the sources, including concerning SPLC.”

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Today’s federal government employs over 2 million people. It is composed of over 400 agencies that often combine legislative, executive, and judicial powers. These agencies regulate nearly all areas of life from cradle to grave. We may take this arrangement for granted, but it is far from what the Founders envisioned. For them, the federal government was meant to have a limited range of power. And these powers were to be assiduously separated, checked, and balanced by the constitutional system they crafted.

How did we go so far astray? The progressive era marks a key turning point. Woodrow Wilson, foremost among progressives, offered a candid vision of a new form of government in his 1912 presidential campaign speech.

Actually, the rot started with Theodore Roosevelt, who (be it remembered) also claimed to be a ‘progressive’. If I could strangle at birth only one American historical figure, I’d do TR before I’d do WW.

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It’s true. A spoonful of sugar does help the medicine go down. But it’s the medicine we need, not the sugar. With this understanding, one may happily recommend Georges Tamer’s recently translated book, Islamic Philosophy and the Crisis of Modernity: Leo Strauss’s Relationship with al-Fârâbî, Avicenna, and Averroes. The author makes clear arguments, and his translator writes good English prose. But the book is not light reading. It is a prescription dose of deep research and astute scholarship. Following two hundred pages of densely argued text are 120 pages of appendix, endnotes, and bibliography. Tamer draws information from a multitude of authorities, both primary and secondary. He uses sources written in Arabic, Latin, English, German, and French. Whatever this approach sacrifices in readability, it makes up for in credibility. Tamer knows what he is talking about.

SciTechDaily.

Or maybe not.

One of the biggest puzzles in origin of life research comes before the first cells even existed: How could RNA molecules gather in one place, interact, and help produce early life without cellular compartments to hold them together?

Without those boundaries, fragile RNA molecules would have struggled to encounter one another often enough in the primordial soup, while also surviving the hot and acidic conditions thought to characterize early Earth.

One possible solution is RNA’s ability to collect into liquid-like droplets known as condensates. These structures have no membrane, but they could have concentrated RNA molecules in small spaces, giving them more opportunities to interact while potentially offering some protection from harsh surroundings.

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Explore the proud tradition of Senate challenge coins, symbols of service, commitment, and democratic values. Each coin honors the dedication and achievements of our nation’s legislators. Begin your collection or commemorate service with these distinguished tokens of governance and excellence.

If, of course, that’s what you want to do.

Personally, I don’t associate ‘governance’ with ‘excellence’, in which opinion I believe I have the support of all human history. But that’s just me.

The Hill, a Voice of the Crust.

Across the U.S., an increasing number of young adults are treating the traditional wedding altar like a hazardous waste site. Their mass refusal to pair up fuels a predictable spiral. Fewer marriages produce fewer babies, and a society without babies eventually ceases to exist.

Part of this transformation is being driven by a massive demographic shift in higher education. Women now earn roughly 60 percent of bachelor’s degrees. This educational imbalance directly feeds into the white-collar economy. A large cadre of corporate women now routinely out-earn their male romantic partners, creating a dynamic the old domestic playbooks never anticipated.

The problem is 150 years of feminism. Feminism attempts to turn women into fake men, men into fake women, and our culture into a biohazard site.

To be clear, nobody is asking Congress to subsidize bonnets or sourdough starter kits. But the harsh reality is that the legacy model of holy matrimony has run face-first into an economy that renders it functionally useless. The nuclear family structure was built for an agrarian or industrial landscape, leaving it ill-suited to a service economy driven by laptop-wielding professionals.

Proglodyte stupidity. The ‘nuclear family structure’ is based on impulses and preferences that evolved over hundreds of thousands of years, and the blank-slate crowd think that they can just restructure this according to their latest Woke fad—and they’re always SO SURPRISED that the evolved impulses and preferences keep breaking through there proglodyte fantasy worlds.