DYSPEPSIA GENERATION

ABC Hosts Disgraced Former Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall to Frame Hit Against President Trump

Trump Floats ‘New America’ Name for New Mexico  Ah, ah, ah, ah, yankin’ their chains, yankin’ their chains….  Funny how the same people freaking out over Trump playing with them are the ones who spent Obama’s and Biden’s administrations attempting to erase the names of famous Americans and replace them with obscure members of Fashionable Minorities. Compared to those efforts, Trump is a piker. (‘Oh Hell No!’ Democrats Object to Trump’s Suggestion to Rename New Mexico (Jenna Monnin/NOTUS))

For Trump’s Former Fixer, a Tortured Path From ‘Rat’ to Reconciliation (Peter Baker/New York Times)  Of course, only Republicans are deserving of such obloquy.

John Eastman Was Disbarred—Larry Krasner Got a Laugh If it weren’t for double standards, Democrats would have no standards at all.

BAD-FAITH FRAME: ABC’s Rachel Scott Repeats ‘No End in Sight’ to Iran War

Why Did Trump Order Up 660 Million Pounds of Mystery Meat? (Eric Schlosser/New York Times) Not difficult to find a ‘mystery’ to the New York Times.

As War Grinds On, Trump Relishes Renovation Projects (New York Times)

Trump should draw a clear midterm line between his record and the blue wave of weirdo Dems (Miranda Devine/New York Post)

Neo-Nazis and the Impotence of Trumponomics (Paul Krugman)  The vacuum has given up any pretense of being an economist and embraced his role as Leftist shill.

Trump’s colonialist Venezuela fever dream (Noah Berlatsky/Public Notice)  Noah Berlatsky loses his shit.

The federal government is falling apart (Thor Benson/madness)  As it habitually does.

Trump suggests renaming New Mexico amid torrent of online memes and taunts (Dan Diamond/Washington Post)  The Gossip Girls at the Washington Poop are in rare form today.

‘Nakedly political’: US attempts to link trans support to authoritarianism in new health department report (Melody Schreiber/The Guardian)  ‘Trans support’ IS totalitarianism, straight up.

Government Employees Fight Trump’s Reforms From Within the Executive Branch

It’s a tough time for unions in the age of Trump — cities and states can help (Terri Gerstein/The Hill)  A definition of ‘help’ that turns reality on its head.

Trump Threatens to Bar Sale of Canadian Bombardier Jets in US (Jennifer A Dlouhy/Bloomberg)  Let the hand-wringing commence.

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President Donald Trump has expanded his recent geographic rebranding campaign from renaming U.S. locations to sharing AI-generated maps depicting Canada, Mexico, and other foreign territories as part of an expanded America.

Really, he’s having more fun than a human being ought to be allowed to have.

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High schoolers from over 200 Colorado schools walked out of class Friday to protest against the lawful deportation of foreign criminals who entered the United States illegally, many of them violent felons with long criminal records.

(I’m told this means they were protesting “fascism.”)

Colorado, being a Blue state now, has inverted the meaning of ‘school’. (What stupid thing will they do next? Walk out of the hospital? Walk out of the grocery store?)

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Michigan released the results of the 2026 MI Standardized Testing … M-STEP. Despite ever increasing spending, scores are on a persistent downward trend. Read’em and weep…

Math: Only about 33% of 7th graders are at least Proficient.

English : Only about 38% of 7th graders are at least Proficient.

And people wonder why kids eventually can’t get good jobs.

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Gee, who could have seen that coming?

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Another week, another historic church reduced to smoke, rubble. The former Saint Agnes Church on Martha Avenue in Toledo, Ohio went up early Saturday morning. The 116-year-old landmark’s steeple came down. The roof burned out. Nearby homes were evacuated. Once again the cause is listed as currently unknown.

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A certain pattern is emerging on the far left. Political figures spend years currying the favor of other extremists with outrageous commentary, proudly proclaiming their commitment to eliminating the Senate, opening the border, and other measures. Then, they delete all of the comments and declare themselves mainstream. The idea is to run in the center but govern from the far left, the so-called Spanberger strategy. The latest example is William Lawrence, who is running for Michigan’s 7th Congressional District. However, Lawrence’s prior self reveals just how radical this movement could prove.

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Apparently, there was an organized boatlift of north African migrants crossing from France into the U.K earlier today. Various non-governmental organizations were in place with tents and supplies to assist the migrants upon arrival.

By most accounts the influx appears to have been facilitated by NGO’s working with British authorities.  However, at various ports where the migrants arrived, they were met with hundreds of young British men who attempted to blockade the activity of the police and nefarious human traffickers.

Sounds like democracy to me. Good to see people waking up to the problems that their government is facilitating rather than preventing.

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Dr, Orion Taraban looks at modern dating and relationships and lays it out logically and bluntly.

Demographic crisis? The answer is provided.

Women can’t find “good” men? The answer is provided.

Incels? The answer is provided.

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Things are looking up.

“We’re stuck:” GOP accepts Trump’s all-about-me midterms (Marc Caputo/Axios)

Iran Releases Footage Of Drone Swarm Attacks On Several ‘US-Linked’ Ships In Hormuz Strait

Democrats seek to counter RNC’s ‘Trump-a-palooza’ convention in Dallas (Julia Mueller/The Hill)

Trump’s Embrace of AI Data Centers Adds to GOP’s Midterm Peril (Bloomberg)

Hegseth Appears to Mock Canadian Coast Guard over Pride

Biden-Appointed Judge Dismisses DOJ Lawsuit Against New Jersey Law Restricting ICE Operations

In latest win for voters, appeals court rejects bid to revive DHS voter purge database, for now (Yunior Rivas/Democracy Docket)  “Voters” here meaning, of course, “illegal voters”.

Inside AOC’s MAHA outreach (Will Steakin/Politico)

AI, ChatGPT, And Its Anti-Trump Propaganda

Capehart Claims Trump’s Smithsonian Battle Is About Destroying ‘Our Democracy’

The Rush-Job Presidency — Trump wants his ballroom and arch done while he’s in office. There’s a risk. (Janay Kingsberry/The Atlantic)

The U.N. backed a map that shows Africa true to size. The U.S. was sole objector. (Victoria Craw/Washington Post)

As Midterms Approach, Republicans Find There Is No Escape From Trump (New York Times)

Trump is running out of time as he tries to restrict mail voting (Washington Post)

Inside the Battle to Save One Pioneering General From Hegseth’s Purge (New York Times)

CNN edits headline after trying to blame Trump for landslide in Nepal

Why Does Canada’s Capital City of Ottawa Have a Street Named After President Donald Trump?  Not for long.

Donald Trump’s approval rating falls to all-time low in FT poll (Financial Times)  Calvin’s Dad has the same problem in Calvin’s polls. Doubt if he cares any more than Trump does.

RFK Jr.’s Sickening Measles Victory Lap (Jonathan Cohn/The Bulwark)  Anything that sickens a writer for the Bullshitwark has my support.

House Dems plot Trump investigation blitz if they seize majority (Elizabeth Elkind/Fox News)  Of course they do. Plotting is all they’re good for.

Rep. Jamie Raskin says impeachment isn’t a ‘fetish’ for Democrats but ‘a critical tool’ (Megan Brand/NBC News)  Sure looks like a fetish to me.

Pete Hegseth Is a Wrecking Ball (David French/New York Times)  I like him already.

Trump’s War on Mail-In Ballots Has Voters Baffled. That May Be the Point. (New York Times)  It certainly baffles readers of the New York Times, who are (let’s face it) not the sharpest knives in the drawer.

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S&P Dow Jones Indices announced Friday that Nike is being booted from the S&P 100 after nearly two decades, another sign of how America’s most exclusive blue-chip benchmark is being reshaped by the artificial-intelligence spending boom. But that’s not the entire story.

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Being a psychotic murderer appears to be very profitable.

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Remind me what ethnicity is Fat People, that they can be subject to genocide.

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Will they demand the same of the Muslim governments of the Middle East, who transported more black Africans to slavery in the Arab world than crosses the Atlantic.

Of course not.

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Chicago’s archbishop, Cardinal Blase Cupich, joined two orders of Catholic nuns and an Illinois pharmacist in a lawsuit filed Thursday in an effort to block the End-of-Life Options for Terminally Ill Patients Act (EOLOA), the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty stated in a press release. The law, which they say would force the Church to help terminally ill patients kill themselves in violation of its teachings on the dignity of life, was signed by Democratic Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker in December 2025 and is scheduled to go into effect Sept. 12.

Power Line.

Justice Louis Brandeis wrote that “Our Government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher.” He was right, for better or worse. Our court system is a part of our government, and trials, especially criminal trials, are also a great teacher. The spectacle of Lindsay Clancy murdering her children and perhaps getting away with it, while being supported by large numbers of sympathetic women, taught unfortunate lessons to many of the millions who followed the story.

The Other McCain.

Carlton Johnson II died Wednesday in a shootout with police at an apartment building in downtown Minneapolis. Johnson killed two people and wounded five others, including two police officers.

The Shoreline Plaza apartment building, formerly known as the Loring Towers, offers “affordable housing,” subsidized by taxpayers. Johnson paid only $105 a month for his apartment, and guess what? He wasn’t even from Minneapolis! He was from Chicago.

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Just like the networks spent months helpfully skipping over the Nazi tattoo on the chest of Maine Democrat Graham Platner, they have largely ignored radical leftist influencer Hasan Piker, who has campaigned with Michigan Democrat Abdul El-Sayed. ABC and NBC haven’t found him, while CBS broke the mold with two stories.

The “PBS NewsHour” hasn’t mentioned Piker, although there was a mention on the PBS show “Washington Week with The Atlantic” on Aug. 14. The show’s host, Atlantic Editor Jeffrey Goldberg, volunteered: “The party has developed something of a Hasan Piker problem. This is a popular hard-left Twitch streamer who has said that America deserved 9/11, that Jews are inbred. He’s praised Mao. He’s praised Houthi terrorists and so on. Democrats are extremely worried about the presence of people like this who are no longer at the margin, who are creating, let’s say, loads of new ads, if nothing else, for Republicans.”

National Public Radio offered more coverage, but none of it dipped to the level of loopy detail that Goldberg did. “America deserved 9/11” never came up, or the Houthis, or praising Chinese communist dictator Mao Zedong as a great leader. On the June 15 “All Things Considered,” Elena Moore, who covers young voters for NPR, tamely described Piker as “a leftist streamer who’s been stumping for progressive candidates. He’s got an audience of millions across social media, but he’s also, Ailsa, divisive because of his strong anti-Israel beliefs.”

Babylon Bee.

Sometimes the old ways are best.

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This woman was riding an e-bike in a town 10 miles outside Philly and cut in front of a classic Volkswagen Beetle.

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A horrific copycat Lindsay Clancy murder of a child has been committed by a woman in Frankfort, Illinois.

Prosecutors say Corie Walsh hanged her 2-year-old son, Barrett, from a basement rafter on Tuesday, then tried to kill herself with a knife. She told police she did it because the boy was the “devil” and the “anti-Christ.”

Witnesses said she had become “very invested” in the Lindsay Clancy trial and was still texting friends about it hours before her son was found.

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Gambians have been in the news lately on both sides of the Atlantic. For some reason the expatriates of that small African country are getting increasingly lively in their attempts to culturally enrich their host countries.

The latest example of a gamboling Gambian comes from the Italian city of Padua, and involves the familiar pastime of shouting “Allahu Akhbar” while brandishing a knife in a public place. The mischievous youth is one of the innumerable “children” who landed in Europe during the Great Migration Crisis, and has availed himself of the benefits conferred by the Italian welfare state ever since, all while helping the police increase the volume of their arrest records.

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On the Lake Ontario battle, HBO host Bill Maher joked: “The liberals are very pissed at this. They say you can’t just go around changing things to fit your political agenda. Just ask any Latinx birthing person.”

As anyone who watches the “evolution” of what terms are acceptable, the Left regularly changes the terminology and expects everyone to follow its changes. Try to keep up with The Associated Press Stylebook, which calls the tune for the press.

G. K.Chesterton:

I HAVE NEVER managed to lose my old conviction that travel narrows the mind. At least a man must make a double effort of moral humility and imaginative energy to prevent it from narrowing his mind. Indeed there is something touching and even tragic about the thought of the thoughtless tourist, who might have stayed at home loving Laplanders, embracing Chinamen, and clasping Patagonians to his heart in Hampstead or Surbiton, but for his blind and suicidal impulse to go and see what they looked like.

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St. Paul politicians pushed rent control, saying rent caps would stop “unfair profiteering.”

But what the heck is “profiteering,” and how is it different from “profit”? Who decides what is “unfair”?

Any phrase with ‘control’ in it—rent control, gun control, price control—is the signature tag of people who want to substitute what they want you to do, using the coercive power of government, for what you want to do.

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Not too long ago I engaged in a discussion with a Muslim individual who asserted our American democracy can be found in some elements of the document commonly known as The Constitution of Medina, or ?a??fat al-Mad?na, which occupies an important place in discussions of early Islamic political history. It is sometimes presented as evidence that Islam developed a form of constitutional democracy centuries before the emergence of modern Western democracy, and particularly before the founding of the United States.

The document is an unusually early example of a written political and legal agreement associated with Muhammad’s community at Yathrib (now Medina) following the hijrah (migration) from Mecca in 622 A.D. It regulates relations among different groups, establishes mutual obligations, addresses collective security, and recognizes the religious identity of Jewish participants. Modern scholars have therefore understandably regarded it as a significant document in the history of Islamic political organization.

Yet acknowledging its historical importance is not the same as identifying it with modern constitutional democracy.

The central problem is anachronism. The Medina Charter can reasonably be described as constitutional in a broad, functional or historical sense. It is much harder to defend the claim that it represents ‘democracy’ in the modern political sense of popular sovereignty, representative government, political equality, separation of powers, and legally protected individual rights.

Theocracy and democracy are clean different things.

New York Post.

The United States military destroyed three Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps crude oil tankers in the Persian Gulf Saturday – after Iran launched ballistic missiles at two US Navy vessels.

Footage shows large tankers blown up in flames, as a thick plume of black smoke rise off the sea.

A US military aircraft crew can be heard over radio warning an oil tanker near Kharg Island, before unleashing a barrage of missiles that lit the vessel in flames.

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A fool and his money are soon parted.

Remember: Kidney, not carotid—that way you don’t care how sharp the knife is, plus you don’t have to clean up all that mess. Oh, and it reduces the amount of noise the victim makes, as an added bonus.

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The title of this post is a rhetorical question — when push comes to shove, it’s all but certain that the Hosts of Mohammed will clean the clocks of the Pink Legions. The same is true of the militant feminists. But those two struggles are relatively minor fronts in the culture wars, since both groups act as cannon fodder for the Marxist-Globalist forces that aim to impose a borderless New World Order on all of us. Even if the gays and the feminists are still blithely unaware of what Islam intends for them, I’m sure the theater commanders of the NWO have factored it into their planning.

A couple of minor skirmishes in that war took place recently in two very different places, Tucson and Paris.

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Funny how all these New York City socialists are rich white nepo kids.

You’ve heard of Red Diaper Babies? I guess we can call these Green Diaper Babies.

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Let that be a lesson to us all.

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Sure, I believe that.

The Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) rejected Jebreal’s defense.

“To be clear, there isn’t a non-racist way to call Leader Jeffries—a Black man—a ‘monkey’ or ‘errand boy,’” the group posted on X.

Oh,  say it ain’t so….

One of the most amusing aspects of modern race-hustling culture is the historical fact that Arab and other Muslim slave-traders exported more ‘black ivory’ to the Muslim world than ever made it across the Atlantic. So African-Americans taking Muslim names makes about as much sense as Jews naming themselves Adolf or Heinrich.

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Across the Muslim world, millions of girls are still married before they reach adulthood. This is not merely a cultural issue. It does not happen simply because of traditions. This violent, misogynistic practice is rooted in religion, reinforced by law, and defended as obedience to God and the example of Mohammad. While activists risk imprisonment, persecution, and even death to challenge these laws. , countless girls continue to lose their childhoods, their education, their health, and often their lives.

Alejandro Betancourt, Trump’s Partner in Venezuelan Oil Deal, Has Faced Investigations (New York Times)  Just like a Democrat!

Feds bust LGBT podcaster, former Christian reality TV star for alleged threats to kill Trump (Peter D’Abrosca/Fox News)

Feds bust podcaster Azariah Southworth in Los Angeles for allegedly threatening to kill Donald Trump (Ben Chapman/New York Post)

Judge Weighs Extending Block on Trump Mail Voting Rules  Indira Tawani—can’t get more American that that….

Vance Defends Friendship With Trump Critic Tucker Carlson (Natalie Andrews/Wall Street Journal)  They’re always SO SURPRISED that everybody isn’t as totalitarianly political as the Wokerati.

Elon Musk’s Midterms Play: Ken Paxton, Susan Collins, Socialist Scaremongering (Bess Levin/New York Magazine)  Hey, socialists provide a lot of scares to monger.

Trump Is Keeping Venezuela’s Dictatorship in Business (Will Saletan/The Bulwark)  Will Saletan loses his shit.

Diesel prices hit all-time high as Trump administration brandishes energy policies (Politico) Rich, coming from the people who want to jack up gas prices with taxes to discourage the use of ‘fossil fuels’. They ought to make up their minds.

Judge Suggests Trump Mail-In Voting Rules Could Cause ‘Major Disenfranchisement’ (Zach Montague/New York Times)  Sorry, but the correct term is ‘disfranchisement’. Learn some English, Indira.

Inside Trump’s Nightmare for Haitians in Springfield: ‘We’re Following Our Orders’ (Asawin Suebsaeng/Zeteo)  I guess only Haitians have nightmares.

ChatGPT Says Trump Is Greatest Threat to Democracy Since Hitler  I guess it’s a Democrat.

Donald Trump is acting like he *wants* to lose the midterms (Strength In Numbers)  The Left never lacks for mind-readers who always have a back-seat from which to criticize the driver.

Newsbusters.

During Wednesday’s OutFront, CNN host Erin Burnett was irked that the Trump administration had agents with the Department of Homeland Security examining voter rolls and removing noncitizens. While framing it as President Trump willing letting Americans be exposed to terrorism and sex trafficking, Burnett brought on Democratic New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill, who recently announced her state had registered thousands of noncitizens, to downplay the problem and claim Trump was trying to steal the midterms.

Leading into the segment, Burnett tried to claim there was no reason for the investigation at all and that the investigators were the ones who couldn’t be trusted.

“The agents are scouring voter rolls for non-citizens, despite a lack of evidence of any major fraud or any widespread fraud at all,” she proclaimed, despite the fact she was about to bring on a governor who admitted over 6,000 noncitizens were registered to vote in her state, with hundreds casting ballots.

“Documents also show agents are using personal information about voters, including partial Social Security Numbers, in their search,” Burnett said, trying to fear monger that the investigators were mishandling their sensitive personal information.

Of course, she omitted that fact that the Social Security Numbers the investigators were using were the ones the noncitizens illegally acquired in order to illegally register to vote.

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Following the news of the death of feminist Gloria Steinem, MS NOW pulled out the big guests for Thursday’s State of Play as former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and former Vice President Kamala Harris joined for remembrance in live interviews. However, host Peter Alexander’s questions later turned to referendums on the current Trump presidency, especially in his interview with Pelosi.

After Pelosi showed her thankfulness for her relationship with Steinem, Alexander noted how there was a record number of women in Congress. But then, Alexander started to frame Steinem and Pelosi as fighters against Republicans.

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Austria’s government is beginning work on a proposal to constitutionally ban “political Islam,” following Chancellor Christian Stocker’s call for legislation targeting the ideology that he says is incompatible with democracy and Western values.

Integration and Europe Minister Claudia Bauer is expected to draw up a proposal for Austria’s coalition partners, the Social Democratic Party (SPÖ) and NEOS. Bauer wrote on X “Political Islam is directed against our free way of life, against the freedom of girls & women, and against all religions that coexist in Austria in a completely natural and peaceful manner.”

I do not want our children and grandchildren to grow up in an Islamic state,

A bit late to be worrying about that. The time to worry was fifty years ago.

The chancellor continued: “But where believers and non-believers are treated differently, where men and women do not have equal rights, and where our institutions, authorities, and courts are not respected, that freedom ends.”

He has also warned that religious figures must not be allowed to exercise authority over Austria’s democratic institutions. “It cannot be allowed to happen in this country that a preacher dictates things rather than Parliament,” Stocker said.

Stocker also pointed to the religious composition of Vienna’s schools, claiming that pupils with an Islamic religious affiliation now constitute a relative majority in the city’s primary and middle schools. He cited a figure of 41.2%.

Gee, there’s an echo in here….

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Karyann Parkinson let her 5-year-old son, Sam, walk half a mile to collect goose feathers near their neighborhood pond. Last week, a Virginia judge convicted her of a crime for it, and her family is now appealing.

Sam had made that walk safely six times already that morning, down a sidewalk buffered from the street by 10 feet of grass, through a gated community with round-the-clock security guards and a 25-mph speed limit.

A passerby spotted him and called it in. A guard marched the boy home and told him bad people would have taken him. Then came three patrol cars, a security vehicle, and two Child Protective Services caseworkers. CPS logged a “Level 2” finding against Parkinson for inadequate supervision, the trigger for a registry placement, while prosecutors separately pursued her in criminal court. She now carries a Class 1 misdemeanor conviction for contributing to the delinquency of a minor, a suspended six-month jail sentence, and a spot on Virginia’s child abuse and neglect registry, where she’ll stay for seven years.

I spent eight years in private security and executive protection before I earned my securities licenses and built a career assessing risk for a living, first for people’s bodies, then for their money. A 5-year-old walking a supervised sidewalk in a gated community with paid guards on every corner isn’t a crisis. It’s a Tuesday.

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Dana Loesch lays it out.

“Attention-whore communist” pretty much sums it up.

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

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

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

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

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The room always got it immediately.

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

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Who wants to tell them?