DYSPEPSIA GENERATION

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The Bank of England has spent more than £85,000 of research money to justify wiping Winston Churchill, Jane Austen, J.M.W. Turner and Alan Turing off Britain’s banknotes and swapping them for hedgehogs, foxes and puffins.

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It’s a curious position for European governments; for the past few years they have been rattling their sabers over the Russian war in Ukraine, calling for boots on the ground. It’s the kind of intervention that would automatically trigger WWIII. Yet, these same governments are completely unprepared in terms of military spending, armament and training.

When the British government refused to join the US blockade against Iran in the Strait of Hormuz, almost no one cared because the British have allowed their navy to decay into irrelevance. Twenty years ago, they had nearly 50 active fighting vessels and today they are down to 22 vessels. Britain’s GDP per capita is currently lower than the state of Alabama. And, they keep importing thousands upon thousands of third world migrants, with the vast majority relying on taxpayer funded subsidies.

When given a choice between funding the British military or funding more immigrants, the government has chosen to fund more immigrants. Britain has increased welfare spending by 16% in the past 5 years alone.

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Import Turd World people, get Turd World problems.

The New Neo.

Seems there are two extremes right now on the subject of the Clancy case, at least in terms of the bulk of online discussion. I don’t fit into either camp – not those who say Clancy is some sort of heroic persecuted figure (or that her husband did it), nor those who say she’s nothing but a vicious killer who wanted her kids dead and came up with the excuse of mental illness for her own evil actions.

Modern-day jurors have a tendency to discuss trials and deliberations publicly, and a number of Clancy case jurors have come out with a lot to say, post-trial. Their decision came down, as I figured it would, to the idea of reasonable doubt, held by eleven jurors who would have put Clancy in a mental hospital for an undetermined amount of time rather than in prison for life.

I’ve written before about the fact that Massachusetts law supports that verdict (whether you think it’s a good law or not, and personally I do not) and how unusual that law is.

Power Line.

It’s been evident for a while that the Trump administration is investigating legal issues in the matter of Ilhan Omar. President Trump garbled the facts when talking about her case a while back. Vice President Vance has suggested that she is under criminal investigation. White House border czar Tom Homan has also referred to an “ongoing criminal investigation.”

Omar is under investigation, but I don’t think any one of these statements is entirely accurate. I don’t know what it’s all about, but I know something about it. This past January I was interviewed by two federal agents regarding my own work on the Omar case. I have covered the case on Power Line over the past ten years, beginning with “Ilhan Omar: Her back pages.” Most recently, I looked back in “Ten years on the curious case.”

Last week Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin made news with the comment that “Ilhan Omar ‘married her brother’ and could be deported: DHS secretary.” The linked New York Post story by Victor Nava cites the City Journal column I wrote about “The curious case of Ilhan Omar” in early September 2016, before Omar had even been elected to the lowly office for which she was running at the time. Nava doesn’t mention the New York Post column I wrote about Omar a year ago.

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Statistics compiled by the Institute for Family Studies revealed that there were 30.4 million single men aged 18 to 39 in 2025 in the U.S., amounting to almost 10 million more bachelors than there were in 2000 (20.7 million). The Institute for Family Studies further estimated that there were 15 million more single men than husbands in this age group in 2025. In 2000, there was only a 2.6 million difference.

This rise in male singleness has translated to fewer married men. Over the last 25 years, the number of wedded men has plunged from 18.1 million to 15.4 million, a 15% drop.

Experts say the sinking numbers are extremely troubling for the future prospects of the country in a host of ways. Sociologists like Institute for Family Studies fellow Brad Wilcox point out that single men are “more likely to be lonely, prone to deaths of despair and unhappy,” adding that “it’s never good for a society to have large numbers of unattached, dispirited and unhappy young men.” Data shows that unhappiness is rising among single men, from 16% in 1980 to 23% in 2020. Comparatively, the rate of unhappiness among married men has stayed steady, hovering between 8%-7% over the same time span.

Over 50% of American marriages end in divorce, and 80% of divorces are initiated by the wife.

Men don’t want to get married and face the prospect that the wife might dump them, take half their money and their kids, and pretty much destroy their lives.  An entirely rational decision.

Marriage is the only ‘contract’ where one party is paid to leave.

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It is a gift of Anglosphere culture that we can have obfuscatory rhetoric in any size or shape we want. Perhaps because of the wealth of options, it is not so strange that the first example that comes to my mind is from a 1978 novel titled The Empty Copper Sea. A Florida businessman disappears, presumed drowned in the Gulf of Mexico, but there is some evidence he made it across the water and is now living under a new identity. There is also some evidence that he had been selling assets and emptying bank accounts. I won’t spoil the story by revealing how he is found, or where, or in what physical or financial condition, but I do want to mention his attorney. This man is as genuinely ignorant as everyone else in their seaside town, but he feels that his client, dead or alive, still has interests to be defended. The advocate cannot agree with the idea that money was stolen, or even hidden. On the contrary, he suggests the man was fixing to turn his failing businesses around, as he had often done before, and to that end had simply “enhanced his cash position.”

One of finest of the Travis McGee series by John D. MacDonald. Read The Whole Series.

Come to think of it, I’ve read quite a few stories like this – I think they had titles like The Story, or maybe The Novel, or was it The Book – but while John Grisham is a talented author, I think John D. MacDonald was better at this. What I really want to discuss, however, are the two ways we can say something in English: Germanic and Latinate. Harsher words like “stolen” and “hidden” are Germanic; gentler words like “enhanced” and “position” are Latinate. What I really want to pursue is how other cultures manage this – if indeed they do at all. What about cultures that are largely or completely Latinate? Or ones that aren’t at all? In those, what do you do when you want to sound like a pompous jerk?

The reason English is everybody’s second language is exactly this overwhelming flexibility. (Plus Britain and America.)

It may be that riders of mass transit in Guatemala City and Mexico City say with a straight face – there being no other way to do it – that they’re using movilidad integrada. And it may be that the school system in Slovenia still says it’s dealing with Gypsy students using fleksibilna diferenciacija. I can believe education bureaucrats everywhere embrace such lingo. But what do people in, oh, Asia do?

I’m sure you’re going to tell us….

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Thus matching the number of children murdered in cold blood by Lindsay Clancy.

Compare and contrast the proglodyte reactions.

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My, what a surprise.

Rather ironic, since the NYC is owned and run by Jews.

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The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) have been much in the news lately. Their candidates have won some Democratic Party primaries, and a few have even been elected to local offices.

According to the DSA website, it rejects authoritarian forms of socialism. Yet the same website celebrates the career of Fidel Castro, the brutal communist dictator who converted Cuba from a prosperous and rather mild dictatorship into a poverty-stricken concentration camp. If you know nothing more about DSA other than its celebration of Castro’s career, that may be sufficient.

Consistent with the celebration of Castro is that the DSA’s website features sound bites from the writings of Karl Marx and from past communist propaganda campaigns. Examples include “World to win” (from Marx’s and Friedrich Engels’s Communist Manifesto), “international struggle,” “socialist solidarity,” “working class,” and so forth.

‘Democratic Socialist’ is an oxymoron, like ‘Democratis Fascist’.

The Foundry.

One of the most frustrating aspects of the debate over ESG–which stands for environmental, social, and governance investing–is that the term has no set definition.

Although the term “ESG” has general outlines and a basic connotation, the particulars are ephemeral. It can mean one thing one day to one investor, company, or ratings agency, and something completely different the next day or to the next individual or organization.

For example, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) recently released a list of more than 100 companies that applied under the EU’s new regulatory framework to be considered ESG ratings agencies.

Each of these ratings services has its own proprietary assessment variables and formulas and, as a result, its own proprietary definition of ESG–meaning that the term has more than 100 technically different meanings, even among those who are closest to the process and most heavily involved in its harmonization.

It’s been more than three years since BlackRock CEO Larry Fink told the Aspen Ideas Festival that he quit using the term “ESG,” yet his firm’s iShares family of ETFs is still by far the most dominant ESG firm in the world, managing roughly a third of global ESG investments.

ESG means nothing … and everything. It means whatever the user of the term wants it to mean at any given moment.

Much like ‘diversity’ … or ‘patriarchy’ or ‘supremacist’ or ‘misogyny’ or any of the other proglodyte smear-words.

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Last week the Canadian MP Dean Allison convened an independent enquiry on Parliament Hill in Ottawa into the adverse effects of the COVID-19 “vaccines”. On the second day (September 9) of the Allison Enquiry an American obstetrician and gynecologist, Dr. James Thorp, gave testimony.

After testifying, Dr. Thorp was interviewed by RAIR Foundation. He discussed the revelations found in the recently released diary and emails of Anthony Fauci, which showed that Dr. Fauci and other top medical officials were aware of the clinical results showing that the vax could harm pregnant women, yet they continued to push for expectant mothers to get “vaccinated”, saying that the mRNA shots were safe. Data from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) said otherwise: the vax could harm the developing fetus and cause miscarriages. Speaking out in public about this fact was what got Dr. Thorp in trouble.

Like Dr. Charles Hoffe (see yesterday’s report), Dr. Thorp was punished by the medical establishment, and was fired by his employer.

Medical practitioners were well aware of what would happen to them if they spoke up about the compelling evidence that the vax was harmful to pregnant women, so most of them complied and remained silent. Dr. Thorp was one of the few who had the sand to risk his career by telling the truth.

Welcome to the Canadian Soviet Socialist Republic. Be careful not to step in the Diversity.

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If you’re a black man, a lone black man; and nine white women tell you what to do; you better listen up. Don’t give them no smack. Don’t tell them, “I’m still not gonna sign.” And you just better get over those three dead kids. Cuz those nine white women will tell you what the law says and what reasonable doubt is. They’ll tell you what you can and cannot get over. And you’ll do as your told on the Democratic White Women Plantation.

Quillette.

Karl Popper invited us to be clear about the problem we are trying to solve. Testing a claim is not the same as evaluating the character of the person making it, and the latter cannot be asked to stand in for the former. Because it takes cognitive effort to parse data, weigh arguments, and assess logical coherence, we often default to name-calling, ad hominem, and guilt-by-association instead. This is a lazy and unscrupulous way to argue, and it drags down discourse, not least because its prevalence has made it unremarkable.

A news item in the Guardian on 31 August by the paper’s arts and culture correspondent amused me before it made me short-tempered. “British Museum,” the headline announced, “hosted Palantir founder Peter Thiel in private viewing of Bayeux tapestry.” The subhead: “Concern among staff that fragile artwork’s scarce ‘light hours’ given to someone with no known interest in museum” (emphasis mine, and a phrase that the great writer, Barbara Pym, would surely have enjoyed). Is there a global “Register of Interest in Museum”? Known to whom? Is the problem that Thiel’s degree of interest in the British Museum is uncertain or insufficient? Would the privileged visit have caused less concern had Thiel been a registered Museum donor?

Something isn’t bad just because Hitler liked it—else vegetarians would be compelled by their own principles to commit suicide.

New York Post.

The new threat election officials fear: Trump’s federal government (Washington Post)

NC candidate who is “running to restore human decency” says Trump voters belong in Nazi ovens

Months after mocking Trump for his focus on Greenland, media reports on China’s first Arctic shipping route

The Fix Was Almost In ??? It’s only September, and America just barely averted … (David French/New York Times)  David French, the Left’s favorite pseudo-conservative, does what he does best.

Republican Rep. Lawler dodges pledge of allegiance to Trump: ‘I pledge my allegiance to my constituents’ (Sophie Sonnenfeld/ABC News)  And his pocketbook, don’t forget that.

New York Times Pushes Page One Editorial: Trump ‘Wielding Power’ to ‘Stifle Speech’  No Democrat needs to do that, because the Narrative Media and socialist mobs do it for them.

Democratic voters driven more by opposition to Trump than party platform in fight for the House, poll finds (Jalen Beckford/Politico)

For Trump, a Golf Trip to Ireland Tees Up a Reunification Controversy (Meridith McGraw/Wall Street Journal)  The Usual Suspects make a mountain out of a molehill. Every Irish person would welcome re-unification, if it could be done peacefully.

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Thousands of judges across the nation have sat through climate-science training and received literature from trusted federal bodies and scientific institutes. Those judges had every right to expect that the information they received was neutral, objective, settled science.

They were mistaken.

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How about that Climate Change Emergency, eh?

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Nobody can hate like the Left.

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Anything to help the Chinese win, since the Chinese are socialists, just like the Democrats.

Treason in the U.S. is defined as levying war against the United States or adhering to its enemies, giving them aid and comfort.

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Why wasn’t this page found?

We asked some leading economists.

Stagflation info
The cost of pages rose drastically, while the page production rate slowed down.
General economics
There was no market for it.
Liquidity traps
We injected some extra money into the technology team but there was little or no interest so they simply kept it, thus failing to stimulate the page economy.
Pareto inefficiency
There exists another page that will make everyone better off without making anyone worse off.
Supply and demand info
Demand increased and a shortage occurred.
Classical economics
There is no such page. We are not going to interfere.
Keynesian economics
Aggregate demand for this page did not necessarily equal the productive capacity of the website.
Malthusianism info
Unchecked, exponential page growth outstripped the pixel supply. There was a catastrophe, and now the population is at a lower, more sustainable level.
Neo-Malthusianism info
To avoid unchecked, exponential page growth outstripping the pixel supply and leading to an inevitable catastrophe, we prevented this page from being conceived.
Marxism info
The failure of this page to load is a consequence of the inherent contradictions in the capitalist mode of production.
Laissez Faire Capitalism
We know this page is needed, but we can’t force anyone to make it.
Monetarism info
The government has limited the number of pages in circulation.
Efficient Markets Hypothesis info
If you had paid enough for the page, it would have appeared.
Moral Hazard info
Showing you this page would only encourage you to want more pages.
Tragedy of the Commons info
Everyone wanted to view this page, but no-one was willing to maintain it.
Game theory info
By not viewing this page you help everyone else get better pages.
Mercantilism info
The page is hosted by a foreign web server and is therefore banned to ensure the supremacy of our own software.
Trickle-down
High taxes on content publishers prevented them hiring the person who would have written this page.
Speculative bubble
The page never actually existed and was fundamentally impossible, but everyone bought into it in a frenzy and it’s all now ending in tears.
Socialism
If you were to get the page you wanted you might get a better page than someone else, which would be unfair. This way at least everyone gets the same.
Behavioural economics info
The influence of psychological factors caused you to act in a manner that would not be expected of a purely rational actor.
Theory of the second best info
The best outcome was unachievable, so you have arrived here instead.

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Leaders of the governing pro-independence parties in Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland will meet in Cardiff on Monday to sign a joint declaration calling for independence referendums….

Uh, thats ‘referenda‘, chaps….

L.A. Times, a Voice of the Crust.

The company pulled the car over after detecting a “violation of our terms of service involving a firearm,” the spokesperson said. The company alerted emergency services and “cooperated fully” with San Francisco police.

Proglodytes will start to embrace AI when it starts enforcing Woke ideology—as here.

This wasn’t the first time Waymo has tattled on alleged troublemakers. In July, Waymo contacted the San Mateo Police Department after two teens were found drinking alcohol and shooting toy guns in the back of a car, authorities said at the time.

The Guardian, Pravda of Progressivism in Britain and around the world.

I think one can comfortably assume that Naomi Klein is not a Person of Poverty. Note the weasel-word in the theme: ‘Extreme wealth’. I suspect that, to Naomi Klein (as to Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth ‘Professor Umbrage’ Warren), extreme wealth is anyone richer than Naomi Klein.

Of course, ‘supremacist’ is a Bad Word only with respect to people who are Heretics and Sinners. Ideological supremacists like the Left are perfectly admirable.

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Everyone knows there’s cultural knowledge in elite circles. How to get your kid into a good college. How to pass a consulting or finance or Google interview.

There’s just as much cultural knowledge to being in the bottom two quintiles. I see it written about much less.

My first car was a Datsun PL510, a previous owner of which had glued fake fur to the roof such that you appeared to be riding in an inside-out wolfhound. And the door panels had been reupholstered in red plus that had since sun-faded to a nice peach color. And the shotgun-seat door didn’t open from the outside.

Cost me $1,000 of my own money. Did me all five years of graduate school. Don’t dare return to Indiana because the friends I left it with never changed the registration and eventually it was impounded for traffic and parking tickets. (I know they’re still looking for me….)

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The reason why Japanese people don’t use something like this is that the language contains an obscene amount of homophones, and kanji allow one to nail down the precise meaning without having to depend on vague contextual clues or tedious periphrasis.

(English is just the opposite—it has an excess of what one might call ‘heterophones’, words that mean pretty much the same thing but look and sound entirely different. Of course, if you try to use different heterophones to express different nuances of meaning it brings out the Humpty-Dumpty My Way Or The Highway linguistic hatermongers.)

The Foundry.

Remember the media firestorm in 2016 when Donald Trump supposedly failed to denounce former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke?

Trump, appearing on CNN, claimed he did not know enough about Duke to disavow him. Trump later blamed a faulty earpiece and repudiated Duke and the KKK. But the episode became Exhibit A for those who accused Trump of using racial “dog whistles.”

Then-Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan declared, “If a person wants to be the nominee of the Republican Party, there can be no evasion and no games. They must reject any group or cause that is built on bigotry.” Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said, “Senate Republicans condemn David Duke, the KKK and his racism.”

When Duke later announced a Republican candidacy for the U.S. Senate from Louisiana, Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus said: “David Duke & his hateful bigotry have no place in the Republican Party & the RNC will never support his candidacy under any circumstance.”

Now consider the Democratic Party’s treatment of Hasan Piker, the socialist streamer who said, “America deserved 9/11.” He called Israel “the Jewish ISIS” and declared Hamas “1,000 times better than Israel.” Piker warned that if American Jews continue to show, as Piker put it, to be “singularly invested in Israel,” eventually someone would “take action” against them.

Unlike Duke in 2016, Piker is not a politically marginal figure with little influence. The Anti-Defamation League estimates he has over 11 million combined followers. He has interviewed or appeared online with Democrats Sen. Bernie Sanders; Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar; New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani; Rep. Ro Khanna; and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson.

The Economist, a Voice of the Crust.

Let that be a lesson to us all.

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Zach Goldberg’s most famous graph depicts the strange phenomenon whereby every racial group in America likes themselves, except for White liberals, who like other groups more than they like Whites.

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Has it always been this way? No. White liberal self-derogation is a recent phenomenon, timed after the so-called ‘Great Awokening’ that came with Obama’s re-election and fomenting of race relations.

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Stroke your Inner Climate Change Hand-Wringer.

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Instead of paying to freeze and store her eggs with money — the going rate in New York City, where Sue lives, is about $18,000 — [Sue] would use a currency she already had in abundance: the eggs themselves. Cofertility’s clients must, in the company’s words, ‘donate half of the eggs retrieved to intended parents that need the help of an egg donor to have a baby.’

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The company advertises its services to intended parents with ghoulish headlines such as “How to Find an Ivy League Egg Donor.”

I’d pay good money to avoid finding ‘an Ivy League Donor’. (Sure, Wokeness probably isn’t genetic—but why take a chance?)

Newsbusters.

Neither, apparently, is Eddie Glaude.

Appearing as a guest on the first episode of The Assignment with Antonia Hylton on Saturday, MS NOW contributor Eddie Glaude declared that Vice President J.D. Vance may be “tired of being called racist,” but that he is “not tired of being racist.” He also tacitly admitted that the liberal agenda on how to teach history is to provoke “judgment” against whites.

Hylton devoted a segment to reports that the Trump administration plans to return a Confederate monument to Arlington National Cemetery next year. After noting that a disclaimer arguing against the Lost Cause was recently removed from where the monument used to be, she went to Glaude and asked why he believed the words were scrubbed.

On the liberal news network that has frequently accused the Trump administration of promoting white nationalism, the liberal professor began by claiming that not enough time has been spent accusing the Trump administration of promoting white nationalism.

Message: He’s white and therefore must be a racist.

New York Post.

The best way to get rich without honest labor is (a) be a member of a fashionable minority for which preferences are embedded in the law, and (b) ‘provide’ non-existent services to the governmental welfare system that won’t be seriously examined because to do so would be ‘racist’.

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The first thing is the assumption that there is even such a thing as ‘capitalism’.

The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is not a publication most would be familiar with. It is meant as a repository of overviews of big topics in philosophy broadly defined, inclusive of political theory. As such, entries added to it are unlikely to generate strong responses by the experts deeply familiar with each individual entry. Every rule has exceptions though.

Recently, Chiara Cordelli, a political philosopher at the University of Chicago, delivered her “three years in the making” commissioned piece on “capitalism.” The piece went viral. The reason that it sparked such attention is that it read to many as basically a rehash of old online talking points spewed by more refined trolls. That is unfair but there is truth to the claim that there is no smoke without fire. It is indeed a boring “takedown” of capitalism.

Let me be precise here: the problem is not that the entry is critical of capitalism. There is nothing wrong with criticising capitalism, Friedrich Hayek, Milton Friedman or classical liberalism. The problem is that much of the discussion does not pass even a modest ideological Turing test. An ideological Turing test asks whether one can state an opposing position so accurately that its proponents would recognise the argument as their own before one proceeds to criticise it. Here, too often, they would not.

The unique characteristic of using a name for something that doesn’t exist is that everybody gets to create his own definition—and always does.

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Jewish institutions are spending a record $1.02 billion a year on security as the High Holy Days bring large crowds to synagogues amid persistent antisemitic threats.

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Funny how that works.

Among the things a police career taught me is that a small number—usually single digits—of felons commit most felonies. They’ll draw in other criminals, involve them in their crimes, and when convenient, abandon them to arrest. There is no honor among thieves. And the number of the most prolific felons increases and decreases slightly from place to place, and in relation to the specific type of crime.

In some places, crooks specialize in home or business burglaries. In others, specialization might involve burglarizing vehicles or carjacking.

But one thing is certain: take these small bands of crooks out of circulation, and the number of their crimes in those areas immediately, dramatically plummets. The trick is identifying the crooks and rolling them over on each other. Catch some in the act or with the evidence, and the second part is usually easier than the first. When they’re put away, innumerable people we’ll never know don’t end up as victims.

Of course, these kinds of positive results also rely on prosecutors willing to prosecute and judges willing to keep criminals in jail and hand down realistic sentences. That’s a real issue in blue cities and states.

Now it seems Sweden is discovering this reality, particularly where gang-committed, immigrant crime is involved. And it’s about time too. Reports out of Sweden, which has shown suicidal empathy for third-world barbarians, indicate that hand grenade(?!) attacks have become common.

The Foundry.

Microsoft teamed up with America’s second-largest teachers union to release a “National AI Safety & Privacy Standard” Wednesday, and critics are warning about the union’s left-leaning bias and the coalition’s apparent absence of engagement with parent associations or parental rights groups.

The American Federation of Teachers, its New York City affiliate United Federation of Teachers, and Microsoft jointly presented the standard, aiming to establish “legally enforceable protections to ensure the safety of students, families, and educators” following “months of intense negotiations and in the absence of any meaningful federal and state rules.”

Microsoft says the policy will go into effect on Nov. 1 for every school district that already has contracts with the company, and districts will not have to wait until renewal or to opt in.

“We have forged a hard-fought, iron-clad privacy agreement with real teeth that protects students and families, because no one else, including the federal government, has stepped up to do the real work,” AFT President Randi Weingarten said.

The AI company Anthropic, when launching its Claude for Teachers program, noted that it, too, was working with AFT “to align our terms and privacy practices with gold standards they’re developing.”

Yet critics sounded the alarm.

I’ll just bet they did. Teacher Unions regard parents as roadblocks on the way to indoctrination of children with the One True Way, and exclude them from any influence on their child whenever the opportunity presents itself.

Don’t ever send your kid to a government school.

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Last week Conservative member of the Canadian Parliament named Dean Allison convened an independent enquiry on Parliament Hill in Ottawa into the adverse consequences reported by people who received one or more of the COVID-19 “vaccines”. On the opening day (September 8) of the Allison Enquiry a doctor from British Columbia named Charles Hoffe testified.

Dr. Hoffe also gave an important interview during the lunch break. He discussed his discovery that an alarming percentage of his patients who had been vaxed ended up with otherwise unexplained blood clots spread throughout their bodies.

He was, of course, punished by the medical establishment for making his findings public. And a few days after he spoke publicly about the clots, the small town where he practiced, Lytton, was almost completely destroyed by a wildfire that was almost certainly caused by arson. A coincidence? You decide.

Watts Up With That.

This compilation serves as a fact check on the most widespread false claims made about climate change by the media in August, 2026.

I would prefer the term ‘debunk’ rather than ‘fact-check’, but combatting the degeneration of our modern language is a rope I don’t have time to push.

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It follows as the night the day.

NBC has taken things far beyond what is moral, ethical or even legal, and they should pay a heavy price.

But won’t.

Anyone thinking about sitting out the 2026 midterm election should immediately think about the ramifications and consequences of letting this type of toxic leftism run amok. This is horrid, toxic and creepy in the worst and most direct way imaginable.

And entirely by design. No one may be allowed to escape the Narrative.

The Other McCain.

Every time I use the word liberalism — as it has been commonly used in the United States for decades, describing the belief system associated with the Democratic Party — some pedant will invariably show up in the comments to scold me with a lecture about “classical liberalism” as if I’m an ignorant schoolboy in need of their tutelage, which I am not. Nobody needs to teach me about John Locke, Adam Smith, et al., whose books have been on my shelves for 30 years. Nor am I ignorant of the fact that most young left-wingers nowadays make a point of scorning liberals, instead referring to themselves as progressives or socialists.

I always use the term ‘proglodyte’, a convenient amalgam of ‘progressive’ and ‘troglodyte’ that is true in almost every case.

What struck me was how, 25 years later, we’re still stuck with the same problem — the decadent elites haven’t changed, except insofar as they’ve gotten worse. And, in point of fact, the problem hasn’t really changed since before I was born.

Except to get worse.

If liberalism means anything, it means a commitment to equality — or Equality, with a capital “E,” denoting its quasi-religious status in the liberal mind. The liberal is unable to say that Islam (or Communism) is wrong and bad, because the Muslim or the Communist must be treated as an equal. The fact that an avowed enemy seeks to kill us — well, who are we to say that he is wrong for this? Instead, the liberal believes, we must critically examine ourselves to see what we have done to provoke the enemy’s murderous rage. Of course, it’s lunacy to think like this, but the liberal never breaks down his arguments into the form of a syllogism, with the premises clearly delineated and the structure of the argument made evident. Instead, his fanatical commitment to Equality is an unexamined prejudice from which every error of his belief emerges.

And that’s where I break with the Declaration. “All men are created equal…” Nope, they demonstrably are not.

Liberals are so certain of their moral and intellectual superiority that, even when their errors are pointed out with the utmost precision — as Buckley did — they refuse to acknowledge they have been proven wrong. No matter how skillfully you deploy facts and logic to contradict them, nothing can persuade them to admit their mistake or change their policy, because this would be tantamount to confessing that they are not actually so superior.

Hence the accuracy of the ‘troglodyte’ component of ‘proglodyte’. They live in a cave of their own creation, guessing about the nature of the objects passing by outside, but never able to looks directly at reality because of the chains that tie them down, invisible but unbreakable.

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I recently wrote about the wretched experience of trying to access a medical referral by using a medical portal that required various security gyrations, which in turn would grant me access to yet another portal with a fresh set of requirements before I could have a look at the actual referral.

Alas, the first portal’s requirements proved too much, and I had to abandon the effort because I can only spend so much time coming up with a password that requires 16 characters, an Egyptian hieroglyph, the maiden name of my third-grade teacher’s mother-in-law, an unpublished Hemingway manuscript, and one character not currently recognized by any code known to man, before going full Lizzie Borden on an iMac.

I have far too often had the same experience. I now invariably refuse to ‘check in online’ for doctor appointments; they’re doing it for their own convenience, not yours.

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

Watch it.

Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries.

US excludes French groups from MAGA-aligned grant program (Marion Solletty/Politico)

JD Vance echoed one of Tucker Carlson’s most notorious comments at the GOP midterm convention (Matt Gertz/Media Matters for America)  Notorious!

Afghan woman in Texas dubbed an “alien terrorist” is deported in DOJ’s first case using obscure court (Sarah N. Lynch/CBS News)  ‘Obscure court’ means one they disapprove of.

Trump’s Weird Convention Just Tied Every GOP Candidate To His Sagging Popularity (Jennifer Bendery/HuffPost)  As usual, the Magazine of Record for AWFLs does what it does best.

Trump’s ‘Midterm Convention’ Tried to Reach Die-Hard Republican Voters, but Lacked Oomph (James Poniewozik/New York Times)  They were all normal people, unlike Democrats.

In ominous sign, USPS initially rejected Florida county’s mail ballot over spacing issue (Jim Saksa/Democracy Docket)  Rules? Democrats don’t need no stinkin’ rules!

Trump asks convention crowd to pledge to him they will vote, ‘cheat like hell’ (Amy B Wang/Washington Post)  Geez, you’d think they were Democrats or something.

Immigrant Trump Sent to African Hotel Prison Arrested After Speaking With Media, Lawyers Say (Gillian Brockell/American Prospect)  Well, I guess Africans aren’t the Origin of True Civilization after all. Good to know.

What Does FBI Director Kash Patel Actually Do? (Alex Nguyen/Mother Jones)  Enforce the law, something with which Mother Jones is totally unfamiliar.

The Numbers Don’t Lie: Trump’s Convention Speech Was a Total Flop (Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling/New Republic)  But the number-squinters certainly do.

Katy Tur Focuses on Islamophobia During 9/11 Anniversary, Says It Led to Trump’s Rise  Proglodytes wave the term ‘Islamophobia’ around as if it were a magic wand rather than a rational response to Muslim terrorism.

Trump’s Real Problem Is Real Wages (Wall Street Journal)  As if Trump could magically change that.

Republicans, Facing Midterm Peril, Try to Brand Democrats as Communists (Tim Balk/New York Times)  Which, these days, they are.

How Trump Is Wielding Power to Stifle Speech (New York Times)  Wake me up when Trump becomes worse than Obama or Biden.

These are the Trump investigations Democrats plan if they win in November (Washington Post)

Fear and Delusion in Dallas: Inside Trump’s Midterm Convention Flop (Nikki McCann Ramirez/Rolling Stone)  The proglodyte Pravda exceeds expectations.

Some Media Outlets Make 9/11 About Bashing Trump  My,  what a surprise.

Babylon Bee.

I’m not sure this is satire.

Babylon Bee.

That’ll show ‘im!