DYSPEPSIA GENERATION

Dude, I was writing 10-page papers without knowing the name of the book.

In Latin. (Don’t ask for Greek….)

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Five years after the Taliban’s return to power on August 15, 2021, Afghanistan has transformed from a chaotic battlefield into a functioning but deeply authoritarian state. Foreign troops are gone, and fragmented opponents have failed to mount a significant challenge to Kabul’s centralized control. The movement has established a degree of internal security unimaginable under the previous government.

However, this stability rests on systematic exclusion, most notably of women, leaving the nation economically fragile and politically isolated. While the Taliban have proven they can govern without western support, they remain an international pariah managing a historic humanitarian crisis.

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The Prioritizing Patient Access to Care Act strips away the state’s statutory ban on abortions after 24 weeks of pregnancy. Physicians in the state can now perform abortions at any point in the pregnancy, based on their own professional judgment, with no gestational cutoff written into law. The measure also expands legal protections for providers, shielding them from consequences that once accompanied performing procedures deep into the third trimester. Critics have a simple way of describing what changed: abortion in Massachusetts is now legal up until the moment of birth.

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When I was a student, I lived in the Boston area, and that was a different feel, more of what we can find in our Blue American cities today. I have to say that Cambridge was ahead of its time. When I worked on the student janitorial crew, my boss, one of the wisest men in Boston—a dyed-in-the-wool Bruins, Red Sox, and Patriots fan and Vietnam vet—comforted me one day as we sat together on the steps in Radcliffe Yard. Bob said to me, “Donnie, the thing you need to know about this place is that it’s basically an insane asylum where the inmates would never think of leaving.” It is a fact of my life that the best advice I have ever received has not come from professors or academics, and certainly not lawyers, but working people.

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Gov. Greg Abbott has ordered a state investigation into ablution facilities planned for Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, arguing in a letter that the Islamic foot-washing stations amount to unconstitutional religious favoritism at a government-owned facility.

In an Aug. 14 letter to DFW Airport CEO Christopher McLaughlin, Abbott said he had referred both DFW and Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental Airport to the U.S. Department of Transportation for investigation. Houston’s airport installed a wudu washing facility and adjoining prayer room in 2024 stocked with copies of the Quran, prayer rugs, prayer beads and a turbah, according to the letter.

Abbott wrote that the facilities single out one religious group for accommodations not extended to other faiths represented in Texas, and that both the U.S. and Texas constitutions bar government entities from favoring one religion over others.

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America’s largest unions don’t just mobilize workers to fight for better wages and benefits. Many of them operate as hubs of leftist advocacy and engines for the Democrat Party.

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For many generations, government has been a ratchet. It only grows, never shrinks. Trump flipped the switch. He is actually reducing the size of government. The process starts by cutting parts of government doing mostly harm, and very little good. USAID: send food to the starving, cut everything else. Department of Education: keep standardized testing, cut everything else. The EPA: End the War on Carbon, let the marketplace determine the future of electric cars and optimal miles per gallon, and quit moving the goal posts regarding clean air and water standards.

The next stage will be much harder. Don’t just cut bloated, wasteful, and ineffective, replace it with something lean, useful, and effective.

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Across the U.S., private citizens, organizations like Amy Mek’s “RAIR Foundation USA”, city- and county-level boards, and on up to Members of the U.S. Congress, are speaking up and standing up to oppose the establishment of Islamic ‘hubs’ and development enclaves in their neighborhoods. Likewise, at the U.S. Cabinet level, steps are being taken to sanction and curtail the activities of the Muslim Brotherhood.

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There are how things operate in theory and how things operate in practice. A Law is an observation about how things in the natural world and human society operate with repeatable high levels of confidence. A Principle is similar to a Law, but does not rise to the same bar level. However, solidly founded Principles when observed can be written down and codified for reference with high degrees of trust in order to better run our affairs in this world.

I strongly recommend my friend Rick Brookhiser’s book, The Way of the WASP.

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Leftists have for years decried American Thanksgiving, mostly because they assert that the holiday celebrates the arrival of “white” Europeans in North America, which was bad because of the impact that arrival had on the pre-existing population of people in North America. Such leftists also assert that Christopher Columbus should be “canceled” because his exploratory travel from Spain paved the way for the migration of “white” Europeans to North America.

Yet, the family lineage of many of these leftists traces their presence in North America to times much more recent than the 17th century. For example, Ms. Hong’s family arrived in North America (from Korea) only a few decades ago. Why was it wrong for Europeans to come to North America in the 17th century, disrupting the pre-existing local population, yet acceptable or even laudatory, for Ms. Hong’s Korean family to come to North America in the 20th century, and in its own way disrupt the pre-existing local population?

New York Post.

It is for Democrats.

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I suspect that this is AI content, but nevertheless it has some interesting and useful information.

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The effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz has forced hundreds of commercial ships onto longer routes around Africa, and Somali pirates are moving quickly to exploit the sudden increase in traffic off the continent’s eastern coast. Oil tankers MT Honour 25, MT Eureka and MT Asana were hijacked in the Gulf of Aden and off Puntland between April and July 2026, the largest attacks by Somali pirates in years. The Iran war has now delivered these groups more targets, spread across thousands of miles of ocean, while diverting naval resources to the Persian Gulf and Red Sea.

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As well they should.

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And here I just thought they bought Kools because, well, it was Kool.

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The invasion proceeds apace.

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Life in blue states is just an episode of SNL now.

My favorite part? When the lawyer pulled the race card. Classic!

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The mayor (again, for a Massachusetts town) has repeatedly said he does not speak English.

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Yes, it’s AI content. That doesn’t make it wrong.

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The Endangerment Finding (EF) is the completely absurd piece of regulatory overreach by which the Obama EPA in December 2009 purported to determine that the trace atmospheric gas carbon dioxide was a “danger to human health and welfare.” That action may have been absurd, but it was by no means benign. CO2 is a principal product of all combustion of fossil fuels. Following on the EF, EPA and other government agencies in the Obama and then Biden Administrations set out to use the EF as the basis to transform our entire energy economy — suppressing drilling, blocking pipelines, forcing closure of power plants, outlawing combustion cars and gas heat and stoves, and much, much more.

In Trump’s first term, EPA never chose to take on the EF; but in Trump’s second term the agency got right to work on the job of rescission, and issued the final rule rescinding the first part of the EF (as to motor vehicle emissions) on February 13, 2026. By February 18, progressive NGOs were already in court (D.C. Circuit) seeking to block the rescission.

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I see Jew hatred as the one unifying force in America today, and it’s growing. I think people are fed up with tolerating every aberration of human behavior and law — the trans movement, multi-culturalism, tattoos. nose rings, pink hair, gay marriage, abortion rights, birthright citizenship — and long to openly display some good old fashioned, widely and historically acceptable form of hate.

The Foundry.

It has never been easier to feel virtuous without making much of an effort.

Put pronouns in an email signature, repost the slogan of the day, or join the online denunciation of someone who used the wrong word. In many circles, such gestures are expected. A person can take part with little at stake and still come away feeling that he has done something morally worthwhile.

The trouble begins when support for fashionable causes is treated as proof of good character.

City Journal.

In June, the president of the United Auto Workers celebrated the victory of one of “the UAW’s own” in a Democratic primary election. Shawn Fain wasn’t talking about a machinist from Flint or an assembly-line worker in Kokomo. He meant Claire Valdez, a program assistant in Columbia University’s visual arts department, who won the primary in New York’s overwhelmingly Democratic Seventh Congressional District with 58 percent of the vote. She will be prohibitively favored to win the seat in November.

Valdez came to politics through her union. She joined UAW Local 2110 as a Columbia employee, served on her unit’s bargaining committee, and in 2022 was elected chair of a unit representing 500 administrative coworkers. Local 2110 holds some 30 contracts covering universities, publishing houses, museums, and law firms, and its Columbia units have included thousands of graduate student workers.

Valdez offers a preview of what the UAW is becoming: a union that puts politics first and is leaning heavily on higher education to sustain its dwindling numbers. The results of this transformation are changing not just unions but higher ed itself.

“Come back with a warrant” certainly works for me.

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In a matter of days, once-pristine beaches in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta have been reduced to open-air dumps and disease-ridden camps occupied by thousands of illegal migrants who refused to leave after the mass invasion from Morocco.

Locals describe feces, urine, garbage, and makeshift shacks covering the sand. Contagious illnesses are spreading. Mass brawls with bladed weapons have broken out.

What was a quiet coastal stretch has become a third-world encampment on European soil.

“It’s not my goddamned planet! Understand, monkey boy?”

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A report released by House committees on Aug. 13 alleged that Harvard University prioritized financial ties over American national security and received more than $600 million from China, the most of any U.S. university.

Newsbusters.

It’s no secret that Forbes magazine has largely betrayed its capitalist foundation by becoming a megaphone for some of the most vile left-wing, cultural Marxist tripe in the media ecosphere. But a new scandal did show that its top leadership didn’t completely abandon free markets when it suited their own interests.

The New York Times reported on Wednesday that Forbes chief content officer Randall Lane was fired after “the company discovered that he had received a payment of about $6 million from the founder of a firm that does business with the magazine.”

The payment was made after RJ Shook, the founder of the firm that worked with Forbes to publish wealth adviser rankings, “sold a majority stake in Shook Research to PPC Enterprises, a private equity firm, last August.” Lane made himself a spectacle of anti-Trump furor in 2021 when he threatened companies that dared to hire people who formerly worked with President Donald Trump, such as former White House press secretaries Sean Spicer, Sarah Huckabee-Sanders, and Kayleigh McEnany.

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A federal judge on Friday cleared the way for U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration to strip nearly 1,100 Somalis of legal protections against deportation that have allowed them to live and work in the United States.

The Foundry.

Nothing is more natural when buying a house than looking into how safe the neighborhood is and, if you have or plan to have children, whether the schools are any good.

Yet the last Democrat presidential administration tried to prevent real estate agents from answering those kinds of questions because it prioritized “diversity” over safety and education.

The Trump administration revoked the de facto gag rule this year, but the damage the Biden administration inflicted is still being felt.

What’s worse, state regulations in New York and elsewhere still prevent real estate agents from speaking freely to homebuyers about crime and schools.

Interfering with homebuyers was a first-week priority for the Biden administration.

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The UN’s climate funds spent a July dialogue asking for more money. The best thing America did was stop sending it.

The Telegraph (UK).

Donald Trump said he would declare the Strait of Hormuz a “territory of the United States” despite having repeatedly failed to reopen it.

The US president on Friday said he would annex the waterway, before suggesting he already controlled it anyway.

Iranian officials accused Mr Trump of indulging in “fanciful delusions”.

During a speech in New York on Friday, Mr Trump said: “After we finish defeating Iran, which is being very badly defeated, pretty soon I’ll be declaring the Hormuz Strait a territory of the United States.

“Essentially, that’s what it is. We have the blockade. No ships get through unless we want them to.”

Ah ah ah ah, yankin’ their chains, yankin’ their chains….

The Telegraph (UK).

Middle-aged men have been stripped of their right to tests that help detect prostate cancer.

Men aged over 50 will no longer be entitled to a blood test to help identify the disease, with GPs instead deciding who is given one.

Experts described the decision as an “outrageous betrayal”.

Letting one’s doctor decide whether or not one needs a test) Inconceivable!

Of course, this is only an issue because in Britain medical care is provided by the government, and sparks a battle between those who believe that everything provided by the government is ipso factor a ‘right’ (plus those who believe that government bureaucrats, not doctors, ought to make your health care decisions) and those who think that doctors ought to make those decisions. Fortunately, in the U.S. we leave those decisions to the insurance companies, who naturally have our best interests at heart. What could possibly go wrong?

And then there are those anti-social individuals who can afford to have whatever care they want and decide for themselves. Splitters!

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I’m guessing this culprit had the same motivations as the white libs who tore up the Reflecting Pool liner or killed the grass on the National Mall to spell out “86 47.”

No better way to protest the guy you call the next Hitler than to deface the memorial of those who died fighting the real Hitler!

UPDATE: WWII Memorial Vandalism Suspect in Custody, Pirro Says

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My kind of woman.

(I’m not to sure I’d trust a guy in his 40s who has a ‘favorite bird’. Sounds fake & gay to me.)

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In the southern French city of Toulouse on Monday, knives suddenly became active — three of them, to be precise. They were wielded by a young man who is alleged to have been somewhat intoxicated. Two police officers were wounded in the struggle to disarm the miscreant.

The motives of the mischievous knifeman are as yet unclear, according to police. He reportedly uttered “Allahu Akhbar” during the attack, which is Arabic for “I have been diagnosed with an acute mental disability.” This prompted authorities to transfer him to the psychiatric ward of a hospital.

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Minnesota, where the men use tampons, the women wear hijabs, and the poll workers are below average.

Right-wing activist Cam Higby showed up to a polling location in Minnesota to test the election integrity of the city. The very white man put on an entire burqa, with only a cutout for his eyes, told poll workers that he was a Muslim woman, and the results were horrifying.

For Trump, Secret Flight Was a Stunning Ruse. For Putin, ‘a Regular Tuesday.’ (Anton Troianovski/New York Times)  God forbid that the NYT should pass up a chance to link Trump to Putin.

Which Trump Officials Joined Him on His Secret Flight Out of Turkey? (Maggie Haberman/New York Times)  Maggie Haberman goes on a witch-hunt.

How Trump’s Ruse to Evade an Iranian Threat Unfolded on the Tarmac in Turkey (Wall Street Journal)

China Dominates The Humanoid Robot Race. Can Trump Close The Gap?  Because, as we all know, ‘closing the gap’ in the ‘humanoid robot race’ is TOTALLY the responsibility of the President of the United States.

Greenland forces Trump-linked US oil firm to delay drilling (Tom Burgis/The Guardian) LINKED TO: “Linked to” in news stories means “there is a strong correlation but we can’t really say that there’s a causal link without being called out for it, but we’re going to write as if there actually was a causal link because otherwise we wouldn’t be able to stir people up and get more clicks”.

The New Neo.

Like many phenomena, it seemed to come suddenly and out of the blue: all of these far-leftist Israel-hating candidates, many but certainly not all of them Muslim, many but certainly not all of them immigrants or first-generation children of immigrants from third-world countries.

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After the McKinney City Council unanimously voted to approve a mosque relocation proposal, a group of residents is now pushing a recall effort against several members of the council.

On Wednesday, Ashley Marie, a local resident, announced on X that a recall effort was underway. The petition seeks to recall McKinney Mayor Bill Cox and Council Members Justin Beller, Geré Feltus, and Ernest Lynch.

“This recall exists because the government does not get the final say—We the People do. When elected officials ignore the community and force decisions we never approved, they forfeit the right to stay in power,” Marie told the Daily Signal in a written statement. “We are seeing it with the amphitheater, the airport.”

The petition states that the grounds for removal are based on “a loss of public confidence in the ability of the officers named herein to faithfully represent the citizens of the City of McKinney.”

The Foundry.

Special Senate Committee on Aging Chairman Rick Scott sent a letter to New York Attorney General Letitia James demanding answers on alleged rampant Medicare fraud in her state.

The Florida Republican’s letter noted that the number of indictments and convictions for Medicare fraud has declined under the New York Medicaid Fraud Control Unit since James assumed her role.

For instance, from 2023 through 2025, New York secured only 53 Medicaid fraud convictions, while the next-lowest state with a similar population secured 129 convictions, Scott’s letter said. In four of the past five years, New York recorded fewer than 10 criminal fraud indictments, ranking last among comparable states every year from 2021 through 2025.

In his letter, Scott added that the unit’s performance “fell off a cliff” in 2020, as fraud convictions decreased from 56 in 2019 to only 14 in 2020, and patient abuse and neglect convictions collapsed from 30 to just four over that same period.

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Under the administration of President Joe Biden, foreign service officers were asked to read materials on critical race theory, reparations, and so-called white fragility.

The Biden State Department provided a document titled “Resources for Talking About Racism and Injustices” to instructors of Foreign Service Officers. The materials covered topics including “When White Women Cry: How White Women Tears Oppress Women of Color.”

“As shown through this scenario, the White woman’s reality is visible, acknowledged, and legitimized because of her tears, while a woman of color’s reality, like her struggle, is invisible, overlooked, and pathologized based on the operating ‘standard of humanity,’” the article said.

Generated Low Output Voltage Emitter.

Tim Pool brings the low-down.

ATQUE: ICE reportedly set to spend $20 million on “shock gloves” which allow non-lethal force (get ready for libs to lose their minds)

The Foundry.

New Jersey recently exposed a problem poised to change the national conversation about election administration. State officials disclosed a so-called processing error at the Motor Vehicle Commission that resulted in approximately 6,600 people who identified themselves as noncitizens registering to vote between June 2023 and June 2024.

The numbers are troubling, but they are not the most important part of the story. Those individuals reportedly did not falsely claim to be citizens. They told the government they were not U.S. citizens, yet they were registered anyway.

Election officials often assure the public that such incidents are isolated anomalies, clerical mistakes, or software glitches. One case, standing alone, may deserve that description.

But Virginia recently removed more than 6,500 voter registrations associated with declared noncitizens, while North Carolina is investigating nearly 1,600 registrations flagged by the federal SAVE system. Alabama, Iowa, and Ohio have reported similar findings, including documented voting histories among some noncitizen registrants.

At what point does a “glitch” become a systemic vulnerability?

A responsible election system should protect eligible citizens from erroneous removal while also identifying registrations that do not belong on the rolls. Those objectives are complementary, not contradictory.

Guess where all the people flooding into Europe are coming from.

Go on. Guess.

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Boy, she’s right on top of it.

Not to mention that getting outside for a few minutes once the sun has risen sets your circadian rhythm properly. Another thing to do as early as possible after you wake up.

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Eleven years have passed since Angela Merkel opened the floodgates of migration to chaos. The European Union, already firmly in the grip of statists and numerous left-wing currents, has since become almost unrecognizable. The advance of Islamization and the dissolution of established urban milieus, traditions and cultures are progressing and contributing to the disintegration of European societies.

What is particularly striking is the emergence of a kind of Islamo-Marxist movement, a fusion of radical socialist social ideals with a Sharia-based reinterpretation of society – as long as it is directed against the bourgeois West and the civilizational achievements of old Europe. Migration from North Africa and the Middle East is the united Left’s battering ram against the remnants of bourgeois European societies.

Against an increasingly tense backdrop came the Ceuta crisis: the invasion of more than seventy thousand mostly young men, tolerated as a triviality by the Spanish government – initially portrayed by the mainstream media, in a desperate attempt, as a kind of party invasion, later as a wave of poverty migration, and finally, with some reluctance, as an organized and aggressive political act. In the end, one sober conclusion remains: The European Union has no effective border protection whatsoever. Its organization Frontex is a band-aid, hastily stuck onto the gaping wound of a migration policy that, in reality, has made mass migration a goal of the left-wing consensus.

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The Southern Poverty Law Center was recently indicted on a slew of federal charges, including fraud. Today a top official was indicted in relation to these charges. Then, as now, the Elitist Media Evening News seemingly took a vow of collective silence.

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What compelling stories bumped the indictment of the former SPLC CFO allegedly rerouting donor monies to her live-in neonazi lover from the airwaves? Among other things: ICE spending $20M on electroshock gloves (ABC, NBC), John Hinckley, Jr. shooting his shot with Jodie Foster (NBC), Travis Kelce gushing about his wedding to Taylor Swift (CBS, NBC), and Bob Iger and a Kushner buying the Lakers (ABC).

Newsbusters.

A surrogate mother fought tooth and nail to save the baby she was carrying from abortion due to a dangerous but treatable medical condition. The Elitist Media mostly whiffed on the story, and the outlet that did cast pro-lifers in a weird frame.

CBS reported the story mostly down-the-middle, except for the weird framing of Live Action as an “anti-abortion rights group.” And although that characterization might be perceived as a badge of honor, there is much more that the organization does. It’s pretty clear that the Elitist Media haven’t gotten over Dobbs.

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On Wednesday’s CNN This Morning, between coverage of the previous night’s primary elections, the show decided to dedicate a segment to bash the Patriot Games youth sports event and complained that the event seemed like a “MAGA Olympics.” Host Audie Cornish cited a CNN article that complained about the event, and said “many” youth participants “attend private Christian schools” and “appear to be overwhelmingly white.”

Apparently being white is a grievous moral failing. (MAGA is the Noo Jooz.)