19th September 2026
Babylon Bee.
Concerned Americans have started a GoFundMe to purchase some clothing for the obviously destitute Sydney Sweeney.
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19th September 2026
Not the Bee.
I’ve been informed that if you oppose American workers being replaced with cheaper foreign labor and having to train their replacements, then you’re a bigot and a racist hater who isn’t a real American.
I’ve heard the same thing.
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19th September 2026
Not the Bee.
Reality is stranger than satire.
Guess the ethnicity….
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19th September 2026
Newsbusters.
When CNN’s Erin Burnett wants to offer up a hot take, she launders it through former Trump lawyer-turned anti-Trump doomsday prophet Ty Cobb. Earlier this week, Burnett welcomed Cobb to spread baseless conspiracy theories about the upcoming midterms, while in August, she invited Cobb to compare the Trump DOJ to a cast of Nazis. This Friday, Cobb was more diverse in his dictator analogies as he suggested Trump’s effort to ban CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from the White House was part of a Hitlerian, Stalinist, and Putinist dream to shut them down altogether.
Burnett began by putting the ball on the tee, “I want to go now to Ty Cobb. He’s a former Trump White House lawyer. Ty, from a legal standpoint, does Trump have any basis to ban CNN, MS NOW, Politico? And he says more to come from the White House.”
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19th September 2026
Newsbusters.
A week ago, NBC’s Saturday edition of Today highlighted what it considered an in-depth report from its Boston affiliate on the lone holdout juror in the Lindsay Clancy triple murder trial but in reality was just a doxing operation. Now, a week later, correspondent Emilie Ikeda reported on the threats to the juror but omitted any role NBC had in exposing the man to threats and harassment.
Ikeda began by declaring that, “The sole holdout is breaking his silence, publicly identifying himself as Michael Desronvil. In a statement shared by his attorney, he said he kept getting cut off during deliberations and that he thought the prosecution had enough proof that Clancy knew exactly what she was doing and planned, also saying, ‘I didn’t have any doubts.’ In contrast to what other jurors, including the foreperson, have suggested since the mistrial.”
She then played a clip of jury foreperson Roni Carlson telling NBC10 Boston, “He admitted he had reasonable doubt, and I started filling out the forms…and then he said, but I’m still not going to say that she’s not guilty by reason of insanity.”
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19th September 2026
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Gee, I wonder why?
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19th September 2026

Modern education in a nutshell.
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19th September 2026
Newsbusters.
On Friday, ABC’s World News Tonight was the only network evening newscast to avoid the news of a U.S. deal with Denmark that would give the U.S. military rights to Greenland and bar adversaries like China and Russia from building bases on the island.
After all networks led with news of Trump banning reporters from CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from the White House, ABC was the only network not to shift to news of the Greenland deal. Instead, it decided to go back to bashing the lone holdout juror in the Linday Clancy murder mistrial.
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19th September 2026
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Officials in Hennepin County, Minnesota, shut down a $2 million relief fund for businesses claiming to be affected by federal immigration enforcement after officials discovered widespread fraud among applicants, forcing them to end the program. The county board created the fund to help businesses “harmed” by Operation Metro Surge, the federal immigration enforcement operation that began in December 2025. Federal agents shot and killed two U.S. citizens, Renee Good and Alex Pretti, in Minneapolis in January, turning it into one of the most scrutinized immigration enforcement actions in the country.
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19th September 2026
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Of the world’s “holidays,” Talk Like a Pirate Day (or, to use its full name, International Talk Like a Pirate Day) is probably not high on most people’s list. It was promulgated in 1995 by two guys in Oregon named John Baur and Mark Summers who were playing racquetball. One injured himself and said, “Aaarrr!” Given the associations of this phrase with stereotypical piratical conversation, the two decided that a day (September 19 was chosen) should be established in which all talked like pirates. What they mean, the scholars say, is to talk in the dialect of the West Country, meaning South West England.
Yet, whether it is widely celebrated is less interesting than its premise that we all know—or think we do—what pirates sound like. We also all think we know what pirates look like. Where did our images come from? They came from that genius of American art, illustration, and children’s fiction, Howard Pyle.
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19th September 2026
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Left-leaning labor unions and activist groups are seeking to influence artificial intelligence, not just in how it is deployed in schools and the federal government, but also in how technology companies build the AI models themselves.
The American Federation of Teachers, the U.S.’ second-largest teachers union and a major Democrat ally, has teamed up with Microsoft to craft rules for AI in education. The American Federation of Government Employees, a federal government union endorsing Democrats, aims to incorporate AI influence into union contracts. Meanwhile, the LGBTQ+ activist group GLAAD has published guidelines to shape the way AI companies build their systems.
Each group targets a different layer of the AI ecosystem. AFT shapes how AI enters classrooms. AFGE seeks influence over how government agencies deploy AI. GLAAD targets the underlying rules governing training data, content moderation, and AI model behavior.
“If Republicans in Congress continue to wait on passing commonsense AI safeguards, we are going to lose the fight to the activist Left,” Janet Kelly, CEO of the Alliance for a Better Future, told the Daily Signal in a statement Friday. “Teachers unions and radical advocacy groups aren’t waiting. They are already working to pressure tech companies to strangle innovation and inject woke priorities directly into the code.”
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19th September 2026
New York Post.
A Missouri woman was indicted on federal charges for threatening to kill Austin Metcalf’s father around the time Karmelo Anthony — the teen’s killer — was found guilty, according to a new report.
Sharifa Nicole Henderson, 34, allegedly sent “violent and vulgar threats” to Jeff Metcalf, the slain high school football’s dad, as Anthony’s trial wrapped up in Collin County, Texas, CBS News reported.
Black people killing white people seems to be all the rage these days.
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19th September 2026

Black people killing white people seems to be all the rage these days.
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19th September 2026
New York Post.
My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.
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19th September 2026
New York Post.
An elderly Walmart customer was beaten to death by the parents of a teen employee who he had argued with after accusing her of nearly ramming his wife with a shopping cart, according to his grieving widow.
Bert Atienza died of blunt head trauma at a hospital on June 8, a day after two people attacked him inside a Walmart in Norfolk, Va., WTKR reported on Monday.

The victim.
“He said, ‘You almost hit my wife with your heavy cart, and you did not even say excuse me or apologize to her,’” Josephine Atienza told the outlet.
“If he sees things that he doesn’t like, he will tell it to you straightforward. That’s how it is. He doesn’t care who you are,” Josephine said, explaining her husband’s personality.
Atienza and the unidentified employee argued for a moment before the worker chucked a can towards the couple as they walked away, she said.
The teen allegedly called her parents for backup and Travis White and Erika Mitchell were hunting down the elderly couple inside the store minutes later.
Bert Atienza was browsing a shelf in one of the aisles when White and Mitchell allegedly attacked him as their working daughter looked on, according to store surveillance video obtained by WTKR.

Black people killing white people appears to be all the rage these days.
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19th September 2026
The Telegraph (UK).
Balaclava-clad children as young as five have been filmed shoplifting in a brazen raid.
Erdogan Yigitoglu, who runs the corner shop targeted by the youths in Charminster, Dorset, claimed that the children’s parents had stood nearby and congratulated their offspring afterwards.
Security footage showed two children approaching stalls where fruit and vegetables were displayed, before hurriedly helping themselves to a slice of watermelon.
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19th September 2026
dThe Telegraph (UK).
Thousands of migrants charged through the streets of Ceuta on Friday as police attempted to move them to a new camp.
The migrants, the majority of whom had travelled to the Spanish territory from Morocco, had been sleeping rough on beaches for weeks, waiting to be relocated to an official camp in the port area.
The crowds reportedly became impatient when only a few officials arrived to facilitate the move, and began running towards the new camp just before 7am on Friday.
Footage taken from above showed people stampeding along the Ceuta seafront, cheering and shouting as they ran.
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19th September 2026
The Telegraph (UK).
The brain is two separate organs that work together, rather than a single unified unit, scientists at Stanford University have discovered.
Researchers now think that at some time in human evolutionary history, the two parts of the brain may have been separated in space – similar to how jellyfish have two nervous systems in different parts of their body – before moving together.
The human brain, therefore, consists of two ancient nervous systems which are “cleverly packaged together” and have evolved independently over millions of years, experts believe.
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19th September 2026
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18th September 2026
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States with strong teachers’ unions are the least likely to adopt policies that improve early-literacy outcomes, Progressive Policy Institute Education Policy Director Rachel Canter explains, reporting the results of the Institute’s analysis.
“Powerful teachers’ unions are an obstacle to reform. But Mississippi’s dramatic breakthrough proves that evidence-based literacy can succeed anywhere,” Canter writes in her Wall Street Journal article, “Mississippi Fixed Its Schools. Here’s How Other States Can Too.”
Canter presents the new policies that helped rocket Mississippi, from a last-place tie in fourth grade reading and math in 2019 to seventh in reading and 13th math in 2024, as a template for states looking to improve their early education results.
Many states haven’t adopted these policies, Canter writes, noting the differences between those states that do, and don’t, embrace the reforms – such as the degree of influence of teachers’ unions.
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18th September 2026
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You know the midterm election is a struggle session testing whether our country wants to be sane or insane. Of course, this raises the question: what’s so great about being insane? If nothing else, it implies a lot of bad decision-making, leading to all manner of sorrow and woe in life.
So, why would so many opt to be crazy?
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18th September 2026
Babylon Bee.
Reports indicated that a modern “Underground Railroad” had been established to help the lone black juror from the Lindsay Clancy case escape from angry, violent, white Democrats.
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18th September 2026
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Which is pretty much all of them, I’m thinking.
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18th September 2026
Newsbusters.
While the elitist media continue their attacks and slurs on hard-working ICE agents, they have ignored the almost daily cases of illegal immigrants committing terrible crimes.
On September 16, family members of victims of illegal immigrants blasted Democratic lawmakers for their sanctuary city policies that have led to the deaths of their loved ones.
The refusal of the leftist media to report on these cases has pushed their narrative that the Trump administration’s increased immigration enforcement is an “authoritarian” overreach, instead of a necessary response to the lax Obama-Biden years.
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18th September 2026
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For years, the left has lectured Americans about the dangers of “foreign interference” and dark money in our elections. But a sweeping congressional investigation has laid bare a vast Democratic fundraising apparatus that paved the way for just that: ActBlue, the billion-dollar financial engine of the Democratic Party, created a mechanism that encouraged illicit foreign cash – and then, investigators say, covered it up. Read on.
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18th September 2026
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Many of us in Britain still flatter ourselves that we live in a free country. Although the UK isn’t quite a police state (not yet anyway), neither is it a country in which the individual can any longer speak without glancing over his or her shoulder. The old compact of a liberal society was simple – the state punished genuine criminality, while opinion was left to the rough justice of argument, satire and public disagreement.
That compact has now been comprehensively torn up. Across Britain, speech that would once have been answered by rebuttal or humour is now treated as a matter for police, regulators and secretive Whitehall machinery. A report published this week by civil liberties and privacy campaigning organisation Big Brother Watch states that more than 62,000 people in the United Kingdom were arrested for communications offences over a five year period, with at least 18,500 charged and 12,292 convicted. These numbers should alarm anyone who still believes the citizen is master and the state is servant.
I thank God every day that I don’t live in Britain.
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18th September 2026
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Paramount Skydance Chairman and CEO David Ellison is exploring a potential California exit as the studio battles a multistate challenge to its $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery.
Politico reported late Wednesday that the studio is seeking roughly 400,000 square feet of office space in Nashville, signaling that its relocation is in the works. We have reported in the last few days and last month of Paramount’s plan to exit the left-wing state (read here & here).
The studio could move at least some operations to the Tennessee capital within two to three years, according to the report. No relocation has been announced, but the search raises the risk that California could lose a major Hollywood studio headquarters. Such a loss would deepen concerns about the state’s ability to retain businesses as its entertainment industry struggles and the exodus of businesses and residents shows no signs of stopping.
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18th September 2026
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The same online machine that turned a confessed child killer into a cause has a new target. After hanging Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial, the lone holdout juror’s family says TikTok extremists have them trapped indoors, leaving notes at his mother’s house and refusing to let them live in peace.
The juror’s brother told the New York Post that the family’s life has been flipped over since the September 4 mistrial in Plymouth, Massachusetts. He rejected the claim that Catholic faith drove the holdout vote.
“I don’t think religion had anything to do with it,” he said. “He looked at the case, and he made the call. For me, that’s how I would do it. I would just listen to the case with all the evidence, and go from there.”
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18th September 2026
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“Teen takeovers” have gone from a social-media spectacle to a serious public-safety issue. While the name conjures images of high schoolers innocently hanging around a drive-in à la American Graffiti, at its core, this phenomenon is about sowing violence and chaos—and leaving communities to deal with the consequences.
The 2026 Wisconsin State Fair concluded its final evening with a massive brawl, during which violent “teens” swarmed the park and beat unassuming fair guests. One man was kicked and beaten as he lay in the fetal position. Earlier this summer, a teen takeover at a Chipotle in Washington, D.C., forced frightened patrons to scramble as youths began throwing chairs and screaming.
In cities across the nation, the same pattern of brutality has emerged: swarms of young, primarily black teenagers will suddenly invade a public space to fight, threaten police, destroy private property, and occasionally get involved in shootings.
This is happening because over the past decade, our public institutions have encouraged black Americans to see themselves as perpetual victims of so-called systemic discrimination. As Spencer Klavan points out in his analysis of the fast-evolving political climate, “Wokeness in all its form is grievance politics.” Activists expanded DEI programs, decried America’s alleged systemic racism, and pushed for prison-abolition movements and reparations.
The behavior at teen takeovers is an outgrowth of the so-called peaceful demonstrations Black Lives Matter encouraged during the height of the George Floyd protests. Though the BLM movement has gradually lost traction—its corruption is widespread, and policies like abolishing the police are unpopular—its cultural influence endures.
Constant exposure to BLM has shown young people that if they commit wanton acts of violence en masse, they can get what they want. They can hop fences, smash windows, blast music, and brawl in the streets—and Democratic politicians will then attack peaceful citizens, demanding that they give away their livelihood and communities to correct “systemic injustices.”
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18th September 2026
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In his documentary “The Basilica or the Mosque—Mass Migration to Maine,” Daily Signal contributor Steve Cortes details how Somali immigrants take advantage of the American government and its people to enrich themselves and their home country.
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18th September 2026
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A Frisco ISD high school is facing scrutiny after a classroom was reportedly being used as a prayer room exclusively for Muslim students.
Earlier this month, RAIR Foundation USA reported that Liberty High School in Frisco ISD was using a classroom for Muslim students to pray for two hours a day.
“Frisco ISD taxpayers are paying for a Muslims-only prayer room inside Liberty High School,” RAIR Foundation USA reported.
According to an introduction video posted by the student club, called the Liberty Muslim Student Association, the room was “meant a [sic] space for Muslims to pray,” and “not a hang out spot,” and that “only Muslims will be allowed in.” RAIR Foundation USA reposted the video. The video has since been deleted.
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18th September 2026
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Looks as if we’ll need a wall in the North as well as the South. You know that those ‘European migrants’ are going to be the non-white troublemakers that have been destroying the EU from the inside.
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18th September 2026
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The Public Interest Legal Foundation released a new report Thursday titled “Dangerous Imbalance: Why Law Schools Graduate an Army of Activist Election Lawyers.”
The report focuses on the disparity in election law course offerings and the overwhelming number of left-leaning professors teaching these courses compared with right-leaning professors.
Left-leaning and liberal election law professors outnumber right-of-center and conservative professors by 76 to 12, according to the report.
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18th September 2026
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When the definitive history of Joe Biden’s presidency is written, it will likely conclude that his most important legacy was unprecedented immigration levels. The U.S. foreign-born population (legal and illegal) grew by 8.3 million during his time in office, driven mostly by the border crisis that he instigated.
At first, the media called the massive influx “seasonal” or blamed it on pent-up demand after COVID lockdowns. Later, they claimed that every Western country faced a similar situation. Many argued it was inevitable. As David Bier of the Cato Institute argued in the New York Times, “Biden Can’t Stop Immigration. Time to Embrace It.” Of course, nothing about it was inevitable.
The border crisis began almost immediately after Biden took office. The president’s public statements and his decisions to end the Remain in Mexico policy, dismantle Title 42, and terminate agreements with Central American countries that stopped people from transiting through those nations all played a part. Biden also chose not to pressure Mexico to stop the flow of migrants through its territory. Most important, however, was the administration’s decision to release most people encountered at the border into the United States rather than detain them and expedite their removal.
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18th September 2026
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Always and everywhere, political institutions are controlled by elites. It doesn’t matter if the regime type is democratic or monarchical. It doesn’t matter if there is a written constitution or not. All political institutions – and certainly every sovereign state – are run by a group of elites who control the means of coercion.The myth of “rule by the people” is precisely that: a myth.
Yeah, but try getting the average dimwit socialist to realize that….
But this leaves a big question open: who are the elites? Wilfredo Pareto, that pioneer of Italian elite theory, convincingly suggests that elites are simply those people who are most skilled in their respective fields. Being skilled does not suggest any sort of virtue or beauty, of course, and we cannot assume that any member of the elite will be more moral or refined than any, say, middle-class mechanic.
In the case of political elites, to be “elite” simply means to be the most effective at organizing and commanding political action. This can be done toward both virtuous ends or evil ends. The political elites excel at the gaining and wielding of political power. Nothing more. In hereditary monarchies, for example, the monarch is a monarch because his ancestors were more effective at using violence – and at stealing and killing – than were their competitors. Their descendants are able to remain in the elite through effective political scheming to maintain their positions. In democracies, those who gain and maintain power are effective at deceiving the voting public and at currying favor with the ruling coalitions of various interest groups. They’re not “the elite” because they are especially virtuous or well educated. They simply excel at cultivating the knowledge necessary to wield the power of the state against their enemies and against potential rivals.
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18th September 2026
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18th September 2026

How many of them are done by women? Hmm?
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18th September 2026
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First, I should state my credentials to give opinions regarding AI. My teenage self was a big fan of Colossus: The Forbin Project.
It is surreal to hear AI companies say “Please stop us from ending life on earth.” The people running AI corporations are blessed with free will. If they think their activity endangers mankind, they are free to stop. The existence of a law that says thou shall not endanger mankind seems, one, a tad ambiguous, and two, sufficiently self-evident so as to be unnecessary.
Much like all of the Chattering Class emphasis on billionaires calling for an increase in their taxes. If they wanted to pay more in taxes, they could just write a check. No, what they want is to increase everybody’s taxes, for a system in which they would have a comparative advantage.
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18th September 2026
The Antiplanner.
“I’ve got mine; screw you!” is the rallying cry of those who seek to increase the density of urban areas by building multi-story apartment buildings. Actually, the rallying cry is “Yes in my backyard,” but most prominent YIMBYs live in single-family homes and I haven’t heard of a single one of them inviting developers to put apartments in their backyards. Instead, their attitude is “now that I have a single-family home, anyone else moving to this urban area should live in an apartment.”
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18th September 2026
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Hey, it all depends on the price.
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18th September 2026
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The numbers for 2025 just came out. And they are really good. It’s too bad we won’t know about 2026 until September 2027, but let’s look at what we do know…
Real (i.e., inflation-adjusted) Median Household Income:
2024 was $85,210
2025 was $87,460
That’s a one-year gain of $2,250 or 2.64%. That’s spectacular. Of course, as the stockbroker commercials caution: past performance is no guarantee of future. But, by way of comparison…
Obama’s total gain over 8 years was $4,970, or 6.88%.
Biden’s total gain over 4 years was $1,620 (1.94%).
Trump v1 total gain over 4 years was $6,360 (8.24%).
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18th September 2026
The Foundry.
Both the Founders and the progressives recognized the political and civilizational stakes of education. They agreed that certain kinds of schooling prepare students to be citizens of a republic, while others incline them to be members of a centralized state ruled by expert administrators; they disagreed on which goal was desirable and, thus, which educational scheme should be preferred.
The local, classical education that characterized early America, that formed most of the American Founders, and that many Founders prescribed for the new nation reinforced the principles of a free federal republic.
Classical colleges taught Americans that human nature was fixed and purposive; that human beings perfect their nature in and owe profound obligations to their familial, political, and religious societies; that the masterworks of classical Greece and Rome, the teachings of the Christian religion, and the heritage of European civilization are part of our birthright and are indispensable aids in cultivating the moral, intellectual, and theological virtues as well as securing the safety and happiness of our nation.
Some times the old ways are best.
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18th September 2026
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Unions are a natural component of the Party of Free Stuff.
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17th September 2026
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