DYSPEPSIA GENERATION

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

Muslims invaded Spain in 711 and conquered almost all of that country. They held Spain for centuries, until the Christian Reconquest finally drove out the last of the Muslims in 1492. The Reconquest has always been regarded as a glorious chapter in Spanish history, but its current far-left, socialist government seems to be on the other side.

Spain’s government had already given 500,000 illegal aliens, mostly Muslims, legal status in that country. That was the context for yesterday’s attack by Moroccans on the Spanish territory of Ceuta, which Bill Glahn wrote about here. Suddenly, thousands of Moroccans swam or boated around Spain’s fence into Cueta. Why did this happen all at once? They seem to have gotten word that the Spanish authorities wouldn’t stop them.

As usual in these cases, the “migrants” were nearly all military-age men. This wasn’t a migration, it was an invasion, as in 711. And Spain’s government seems to be on board with it.

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Speaking for the people with three degrees, I can vouch for all of this.

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A clear pattern is emerging: When the political left or their favorite pet migrants wreak havoc and commit heinous crimes, the immediate canned response from the activist fold is to blame the “right wing” or blame those devious Israelis. Why do they do this? Because it works.

Progressive politicians and third world invaders always seem to dodge accountability while conservative movements in-fight over the source of the problem.

There a people on both sides of the aisle that maintain a distaste for Israel, sometimes to the point that they attribute almost godlike abilities to the Israeli government. They seem to be downright omnipresent; everywhere all at once and always ten steps ahead. It’s positively astounding.

Strategists within leftist and elitist movements understand very well that many conservatives and independents are suspicious of Israeli influence and they use this built-in paranoia as a weapon to divert attention away from their own machinations. While there are plenty of valid criticisms to be made against Israel, some claims dive deep into the absurd.

For example, the political left is spreading a new narrative across social media asserting that the migrant invasion of Spain’s Ceuta enclave is part of a vast US/Israeli conspiracy to destroy the country. In other words, they believe that tens-of-thousands of Muslim migrants are taking marching orders from a Jewish-run government.

Truly, this is an unprecedented level of progress in Islamic/Israeli relations.

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Husbands do ‘hubby work’, i.e. anything that requires height or upper body strength that the wife just does not have.

Otherwise, you’re on your own.

Newsbusters.

The main Democratic and media—but we repeat ourselves—conceit of the 2024 election that voters saw straight through was that former Vice President Kamala Harris is some sort of a moderate. Harris recently proved voters right again in a recent statement where she endorsed statehood for Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico, expanding the Supreme Court to 13 justices, and the need to “revisit” the Electoral College. However, on Friday’s PBS News Hour, The Atlantic staff writer David Brooks and MS NOW host Jonathan Capehart agreed, “That’s not controversial.”

Not at PBS, that’s certainly true.

Moderator Geoff Bennett teed up Brooks by playing a clip of Harris insisting, “We need to revisit the Electoral College. We need to revisit the point of expanding the Court to 13 justices, like we have 13 district courts. We need to revisit, if they so want, statehood for Puerto Rico and D.C.”

Bennett was not interested in examining the radical aspects of those proposals. Instead, he wondered if it showed Harris was in tune with the Democratic base, “So that’s the thing. Democrats are saying they want a candidate who will fight for the things that Democrats say they care about. What do you make of that message?”

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The Department of Homeland Security has issued the broadest Jones Act waiver since at least the 1950s, just weeks after the US-Iran conflict erupted. The measure has allowed foreign-flagged vessels to transport fuel, crude oil, fertilizer, and other essential goods between US ports, bypassing domestic shipping restrictions to mitigate supply chain disruptions across various U.S. regions.

The Jones Act, a century-old law requiring goods transported between U.S. ports to be carried aboard U.S.-Built, US-owned, and US-crewed vessels, was immediately waived in the early days of the U.S.-Iran conflict by the Trump administration.

As of Friday, the waiver has entered its 135th day, suggesting that the administration is continuing to protect domestic supply chains and curb energy prices by temporarily easing maritime protectionist restrictions.

A recent Reuters report stated that the Trump administration was considering another extension of the waiver.

The Jones Act is one of those cut-off-your-nose-to-spite-your-face pieces of legislation that disgrace the U.S. Code. It ought to be repealed, not just waived.

The Other McCain.

Say hello to Bryan Axel Ramirez Gomez and, while you’re at it, go ahead and say good-bye, because young Mr. Gomez shuffled off this mortal coil in February, after deciding to start a shootout with police in Elkhart, Indiana, which lasted only three seconds.

I spent my high-school years in Elkhart, Indiana. There were no ‘Hispanics’ there at the time, and not a lot of People of Color.

What do you notice about the photo of Gomez? Does that jersey signify that he was a fan of the Chicago White Sox? Well, Elkhart is only 112 miles from Chicago, and I suppose it’s possible that Gomez was a White Sox fan, but a quick Google search indicates that wearing White Sox regalia is common among certain gangs affiliated with the Crips. Just had to point this out.

And why is this relevant? Well:

Although Officer Ragsdale did not know it at the time, the front seat passenger provided false information regarding his name during the investigation and was on probation after having being adjudicated Delinquent for both felony and misdemeanor offenses in Elkhart County Juvenile Court, the nature of which included Auto Theft, Resisting Law Enforcement, Dangerous Possession of a Firearm, and Disorderly Conduct . . .

The front passenger then abruptly turned, got out of the car on the passenger’s side, and fired a handgun toward Officer Breneman.

Both Officer Ragsdale and Officer Breneman fired their respective handguns in response. The front passenger was fatally shot during this event. A Glock 9mm handgun was on the ground near him. . . .
During the crime scene investigation in which crime scene specialists documented and recovered evidence related to the event, another handgun was found on the front passenger floorboard of the subject vehicle that had been modified to be fully automatic by what is known as a “switch”. A “switch” is an after-market attachment that converts a semi-automatic handgun to a fully automatic handgun which is illegal to possess pursuant to both State and Federal law.

Yeah, just a totally innocent Member of the Community.

The Telegraph (UK).

Works for me (except for the nose-ring, of course).

The Telegraph (UK).

My,  what a surprise….

Despite the fact that Ceuta has been Spanish since 1580, Morocco wants it ‘back’, and this is an obvious ploy in that direction.

Some place cool.

There is an historian with a YouTube channel who explores the insanity of racial classifications in America.

I Stopped Checking WHITE. Then This Happened?

If you get sucked into this rabbit hole, I have no sympathy for you….

For the record, I know who my great-grandparents were, and I am 7 parts Irish and 1 part Scots, and you can’t get much Whiter than that; maybe if you came from Norway (as my ancestors did 900 years ago). My paternal great-grandfather was born in Ireland in 1854, and I doubt that he ever saw a non-white person in his life until he got to Boston, and quite possibly not even then.

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What had changed, and what generated the host of NITBYs that bore conservationism to victory, was the ascendancy of modernist architecture, a style that most people demonstrably find relatively ugly. Conservationism was a reaction to postwar redevelopment, as its proponents claimed. But it was less a reaction to what the modernists destroyed, than to what they created.

Most debates about the policy significance of ugliness presuppose a certain model of how it affects housebuilding. On this model, local people resent the prospect of having ugliness inflicted upon them, they therefore oppose ugly developments, and politicians implement antidevelopment policies to placate them. This probably does happen sometimes: ugliness obviously does affect local people, and it would be surprising if this had no effect at all on their behavior. But a closer look suggests that ugliness plays only a minor role in motivating NIMBYism.

New York Post.

Despite a career-long commitment to combating racial disparities in housing and touting the importance of living among Black people, former Vice President Kamala Harris’ new California mansion is situated in a neighborhood with virtually no racial diversity.

Harris’ new 4,000-square-foot property, which reports indicate she acquired for $8.15 million, is located in the exclusive seaside community of Point Dume and includes ocean views, multiple wine fridges, private golf greens and enough parking to accommodate five vehicles.

Point Dume is situated entirely within Census tract 8004.08, which the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey estimated was just 0.2% Black and roughly 94% White as of 2019.

Harris’ choice of neighborhood may surprise longtime observers given past comments she has made about the importance of living among other Black Americans.

Oh, I can assure you that most of us aren’t surprised at all.

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omeone carved a notch to lock two logs together—half a million years before Homo sapiens.

Obviously the Silurians.

Tina Peters and other election deniers claim they’ve pitched the Trump administration on a midterm “election-security plan” (Alex Kaplan/Media Matters for America)

Trump Puts Immunity From Probes Over His Fight for Blanche (Bloomberg)

Trump’s ‘Freedom Haulers’ event revealed something deeply unsettling about the president and his team (Holly Baxter/The Independent)  Yeah. He actually has original ideas, ideas that The Usual Suspects can’t wrap their mindes around.

Defying Trump, Cornyn Uses His Lame-Duck Power (Michael Gold/New York Times)  The RINO is strong in this one.

Inside Trump’s Senate playbook (Axios)  The mind-readers of the Narrative Media are SURE they have the inside scoop on what Trump is planning. ‘Delusional’ seems totally inadequate to describe it.

Faced with Blanche dilemma, Trump chooses revenge (Politico)  The Narrative Media lament the disappearance of the traditional Republican Punching Bag.

Nine Things to Know About Trump Fundraiser Meredith O’Rourke (Wall Street Journal)  Come and git yer Narrative, right here.

Democrats Mobilize Over Fears Trump Will Deploy Troops to Polls (NOTUS)

How the Pro-Trump Media Ecosystem Is Splintering Ahead of the Midterms (Stuart A. Thompson/New York Times)  They hope, they hope, they hope….

Cheap gas won’t save Trump, now at a new all-time approval low (G. Elliott Morris/Strength In Numbers)  Whistling past the graveyard….

Trump’s Iran strategy is working. His vice president’s isn’t. (Marc A. Thiessen/Washington Post)  Hey, we gotta find somebody to hate on.

Trump admin tries to rebuild election security infrastructure it gutted as midterms near (CNN)  Wow, election security infrastructure (that guaranteed Democrats wouldn’t be caught cheating) guts all over the place. What a mess!

The Tate Brothers’ Should Be The Trumps’ Second Epstein Scandal (Brian Beutler/Off Message)  Yeah, they couldn’t lie their way into making people believe that there was some connection with Epstein, perhaps they can lie their way into making people believe that there is some connection to the Tates. Hey, words are cheap….

Critics Say Historic Sites Are Endangered by Trump-Aligned Panel’s Plan (Julia Jacobs/New York Times)  “Trump-aligned” means “We can’t provide any evidence of a connection, so we’re just going to depend on smears and innuendo to see if people will buy it”.

In Trump’s Economy, Job Gains Go to Women. That’s Not an Entirely Good Thing. (Noam Scheiber/New York Times)

Trump’s Saudi nuclear deal is corrupt and dangerous. Just ask Marco Rubio. (Sen. Edward J. Markey/MS NOW)

How a Lawsuit Seeking to Silence Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission Actually Proved Its Point

We Now Have the Leading Charge in Trump’s Next Impeachment (Michael Tomasky/New Republic)  But it doesn’t matter—we’d just make something up anyeway.

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Smallpox is an age-old scourge with a terrible history.

Caused by the variola virus, it’s thought to have been responsible for some 4 million total deaths in Indigenous communities in the Americas after European colonizers arrived – communities with no immune protection against the virus.

Previously, the evidence for this has been a historical paper trail.

Now though, 500 years later, we have the first solid genetic evidence that it was indeed smallpox contracted from Europeans that led to this catastrophic population decline in Indigenous communities.

Oh, good. Another thing to blame white people for. Just think of it as evolution in action and move the fuck on.

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In January, I had the fortune of being a keynote speaker at LCA2013. One of the tchotchkes I received from the conference organizers was a little USB memory stick.

I thought it was a neat coincidence that I was in a factory that manufactured exactly such memory sticks about a week before the conference. In fact, I managed to score a rare treat: the factory owner gave me a sheet of raw chip-on-flex, prior to bonding and encapsulation, to take home.

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The lady is using some sort of tool made out of hand-cut bamboo. I still haven’t figured out exactly how they work, but every time I’ve seen this process they are using what looks like a modified chopstick to place the chips on the board. My best guess is that the bamboo sticks have just the right surface energy to adhere to the silicon die, such that silicon will stick to the tip of the bamboo rod. A dot of glue is pre-applied to the bare boards, so when the operator touches the die down onto the glue, the surface tension of the glue pulls the die off of the bamboo stick.

It’s trippy to think that the chips inside my USB stick were handled using modified chopsticks.

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A Smithsonian Institution exhibit featuring 250 objects claiming to tell the story of American history is overwhelmingly dedicated to promoting liberal causes, including controversial sexual themes, a review of the exhibit’s catalog reveals.

The Smithsonian’s “Pursuit of Life, Liberty & Happiness” exhibit at the Museum of American History features three times more liberal than conservative items, the Fox News Digital review found. Several of the liberal items were overtly sexual items.

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A generation of socialist candidates—Ivy-educated and meritocracy-perfected—has turned the ladder it climbed into a weapon against the country that provided it.

A civilization can be measured not only by what it produces, but by what its beneficiaries choose to do with what they have received.

America has produced a generation of political candidates who represent something genuinely new to our nation. They call themselves Democratic Socialists. They are on the ballot in Colorado, in Michigan, in New York’s most competitive districts. And the story being told about them is that they are the voice of the working class—champions of the paycheck-to-paycheck laborer, tribunes of the forgotten American.

That story is not true.

Look at who they actually are.

The new nomenklatura.

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Gee, who could have predicted that?

Newsbusters.

The spectacle of Dr. Anthony Fauci refusing to answer questions from senators by repeatedly citing his Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination was blatantly ridiculous. A man who never found a microphone he didn’t like was refusing to engage in defending his record. Then the elitist media that claim to be all about transparency and accountability rushed to his defense.

Sen. Rand Paul’s release of Fauci’s writings on his government computer revealed just how cozy the wily doctor was with the network news stars in 2020, from George Stephanopoulos to Chuck Todd to Jake Tapper. This was an obvious reason for the networks to bury the story of these writings.

It was all reminiscent of 2016, when Wikileaks dropped a pile of communications between Hillary Clinton aide John Podesta and other Democrats and political journalists. The networks discussed the leaked documents about the Clinton campaign vs. the Bernie Sanders campaign. But they weren’t going to discuss the chummy content between Podesta and the “objective” reporters.

Wikileaks exposed that in 2015, NBC’s Chuck Todd invited Podesta (among others) to their home for “Cocktails & Dinner in honor of” Jennifer Palmieri, another Clinton staffer, and her Democrat husband, Jim Lyons. Wikileaks revealed CNN asked the Democratic National Committee for questions to ask Donald Trump and Ted Cruz. What we’re never told is how cooperative the journalists were with the Democrat suggestions.

This is, in a word, collusion – a complete blur between journalists and Democrats, all seeking the same political objectives. But the media that claims to be all for democracy and transparency hide their inner chumminess in concocting the “news” product while pretending there is no secretive alliance.

You don’t need a ‘conspiracy theory’ if everybody involved knows what they need to do.

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A 164-year-old historic church in Leicester, UK “caught fire” this week, leaving its roof severely damaged while officials initially described the cause as unknown.

Must be those damned Methodists.

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Twenty Ethiopians connected to a youth football team disappeared in Sweden on the final day of the Gothia Cup youth tournament, prompting an international missing persons search.

The group consists mainly of boys aged between 14 and 17, together with one or more adult leaders. Police believe they left voluntarily, amid suspicions that they may be attempting to remain in Sweden or another European country, although officers say that has not been confirmed.

Uh-huh. ‘Not been confirmed’. “The prisoners may be attempting a jail-break, but that has not been confirmed.”

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Berlin Mayor Kai Wegner has called for Islamic religious education to be introduced in state schools following the deadly Islamist attack near the capital’s Christopher Street Day celebrations.

The Germans are committing suicide. Nothing we can do, unfortunately.

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Of course they do. Muslims invading? Ho-hum….

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CBS announced a new spate of 60 Minutes correspondents – including Sebastian Junger, Gianna Toboni and Trevor Phillips – but the left-wingers obsessed over New York Times columnist Ross Douthat. The Daily Beast screeched: “Right-Wing Religious Zealot Unveiled as New Star of ‘60 Minutes’.”

I like him already.

That phrasing is comical — any tilt to the right is “desperate,” and the relentless leftist bias is “perfectly built.”

Just like Bari Weiss, the liberals throw “no real TV experience” — as if the newbie won’t be surrounded by veteran TV producers. Let’s guess if CBS recruited Trump-loathing columnist David French instead, they wouldn’t sweat the experience thing.

In the announcement, new executive producer Nick Bilton played up Douthat’s podcast at the Times: “A Ross interview—and he’s interviewed on camera Vice President Vance, Dario Amodei, Amy Coney Barrett, Hasan Piker and Ben Sasse among others—is a special conversation, expansive and probing and news-making.“

Then there’s the biggest Bari Weiss-haters on the internet, the team at Status.com. They turned to anonymous sources to trash the Douthat pick.

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Even colleges can’t fool all of the people all of the time.

It’s barely education and the ‘higher’ refers to the debt you accumulate.

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Massachusetts lawmakers are taking steps toward using taxpayer dollars to prioritize the hiring of American Muslims for state government positions through a permanent so-called Islamic commission, sparking concerns that the Left is prioritizing a religion that contradicts its own political agenda.

If enacted, Bill S.2134, “An Act promoting the civil rights and inclusion of American Muslims in the commonwealth,” would create a “permanent” commission to help recommend Americans who practice Islam for appointed government positions in the New England state.

The commission, as stated in the bill, would consist of a panel of 11 Muslims appointed by Democrat Gov. Maura Healey and other state officials to represent the Islamic faith on issues such as business, the economy, health care, and other concerns.

The commission will be responsible for executing eight different tasks, which include serving as a liaison between the Muslim American community and the government, researching “Islamophobia,” recommending Muslim Americans for positions in the government, and undertaking “activities designed to enable the commonwealth to realize the full benefit of the skills, talents, and cultural heritage of American Muslims.”

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On July 4, a documentary titled “Remember the Alamo: Don’t Sharia My Texas” was released, drawing attention from supporters and critics alike over its information on Islam.

The film, created by Chris Burgard, argues that there is a coordinated effort to introduce Sharia law into American society, with Texas serving as the primary target. Throughout the documentary, speakers claim that Dallas has become the “Mecca of the West.”

The documentary opens by recounting the Battle of the Alamo during the Texas Revolution in 1836 before shifting to the new threat Burgard says the state now faces in the threat of Islam.

Burgard interviews several individuals throughout the film, including former U.S. Rep. Allen West, former FBI Special Agent and counterterrorism expert John Guandolo, investigative journalist Lara Logan, and retired Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn.

According to the documentary, Islamic leaders are working to expand Islam’s influence in Texas. The film includes clips of Islamic scholars and imams discussing their religious beliefs and goals, as well as segments examining terrorist attacks carried out on U.S. soil. Burgard also argues that Islamic organizations have increasingly used litigation, or “lawfare,” to advance their objectives.

Dallas is about the same lattitude as Damascus. Texas feels right at home to most Arabs.

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But I’ve seen it everywhere. One group condemning President Trump for not sending firefighting help to Canada, the other group condemning President Trump for sending firefighting help to Canada so it’s not available to local fires.

One group condemning Congress for grilling that poor old hero Fauci, the other group condemning Congress for not jailing that old crook Fauci.

One group condemning parents for not getting their kids vaccinated thus causing the spread of measles, the other group pointing out that the current cases are vaccinated adults.

One claiming that Russia or Iran has won and the Ukraine or the USA are done for, the other claiming that the Ukraine or the USA has won and Russia or Iran is on the brink of total collapse.

One claiming that ICE is arresting and deporting Native American Tribal Members, the other pointing out that the photo is too blurry to make out if it’s ICE, there’s no evidence that the arrestee was deported, there’s no evidence of the legal status or tribal membership of the arrestee, there’s not even a name attached . . .

The award winning children’s book is banned! The smut is removed from the school library, go buy it online you nasty person.

A rational person would think these are fairly . . . reality checkable things? As checkable as the doe with the twins is? But they aren’t . . . that is, we ourselves cannot go there personally and look. Well, some of us have looked at the lack of aerial support in the timeline we would prefer to local fires, but it’s a bit harder to tell if that’s because the planes are stateside elsewhere, out of country elsewhere, getting repairs, or some other reason why reality simply couldn’t conform to our expectations.

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Yesterday, more than SIXTY THOUSAND military-aged Arab men stormed two Spanish cities on the coast of North Africa.

Don’t think they’re there by accident. This was planned.

Spanish residents of Ceuta and Melilla were flooded by “refugees” who burned cars, stormed buildings, and shouted “Allahu akbar.”

These cities are the last European holdings in North Africa.

More and more men continued to arrive late into the night.

ATQUe: Spaniards Horrified To See Their Country Turning Into Minnesota (Babylon Bee)

ATQUE: Facebook Shuts Down Large Groups Coordinating Invasion of Spain’s Ceuta

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Some of rhem appear to agree with me that root beer tastes like cough syrup. God knows what they’s think of Dr. Pepper.

Interestingly enough, a couple of the boys were from Italian families and refused to accept that Detroit deep-dish pizza is legitimately pizza, characterizing it as a form of lasagna. Can’t say they’re wrong.

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Dr. Anthony Fauci may have believed his Fifth Amendment marathon at the Senate Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee hearing on Wednesday would shield him from prosecution, but he miscalculated.

Before he refused to answer questions from the committee, Fauci did deliver an opening statement, during which he attacked Committee Chairman Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and explained his decision not to answer any questions.

“Given Senator Paul’s obvious obsession with calling for my prosecution, his repeated slanderous comments about me, and, recently, his publicly releasing my unredacted personal diary aimed at embarrassing and intimidating me, the only conclusion I can reach is that the sole reason he is calling me before this committee is to get me to say something – anything – that could vindicate his repeated public pledges that I end up, in his words, ‘behind bars,'” Fauci said. “Therefore, although it pains me to do so because of the respect I have for the legislative branch of government and my decades-long record of cooperating with Congress, under the advice of my attorneys, I will invoke my right under the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution to refrain from answering your questions.”

And so he did, an estimated 111 times, but it won’t protect him completely.

On Jan. 20, 2025, his last day in office, Biden granted Fauci a full and unconditional pardon covering any offenses he may have “committed or taken part in” tied to his government roles between Jan. 1, 2014, and Jan. 19, 2025. The broad preemptive pardon Joe Biden handed him on the way out the door covers federal charges alone, and it leaves him exposed to the state charges that may arrive sooner than his lawyers expected.

Florida wasted no time proving the point. State Attorney General James Uthmeier announced an investigation into the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) after Fauci declined to answer lawmakers’ questions on Wednesday.

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Morocco into Ceuta, a Spanish territory on the North African coast. At least 18 people have died, while Italy is threatening to bring back border checks.

The mass crossings into Ceuta and Melilla—two Spanish territories that border Morocco—sparked a major diplomatic crisis within hours. Both cities belong to Spain, making their borders with Morocco part of the European Union’s external frontier.

Spain’s interior ministry says around 49,000 people crossed by land and sea in just 24 hours. At least 18 reportedly died in stampedes or while trying to swim around the Tarajal border crossing into Ceuta.

The Spanish government has sent 200 specialist police officers and 60 soldiers to the area. Melilla has not seen an influx on the same scale, but clashes broke out at its Beni Enzar border crossing. Several vehicles were set on fire, while migrants and members of the security forces were injured.

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez promised an “immediate” response, saying his left-wing government was sending help and working with Morocco. Sánchez is expected to visit Ceuta with Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska to meet local officials and police commanders.

ATQUE: Videos Show Thousands Swimming Into Spain as Border Is Overrun  This is an actual invasion, and deserves to be responded to as such. This is why God gave us machine guns.

ATQUE: Not Just an Invasion—but Surrender

ATQUE: Weaponized Migration? 50,000 Military-Aged Men Invade Spanish Enclave Without Supplies As Chaos And Riots Erup

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Yet another win for The New Hitler™.

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Herzens), one could closely follow the psychological turmoil raging within the soul of Lieutenant Hofmiller after he asks the host’s daughter for a dance at a social gathering, completely unaware that she is paralyzed. What follows is the lieutenant’s Walk to Canossa, a primary lesson of which is understanding the different types of pity. Through the lieutenant, Zweig demonstrates that pity can be, on the one hand, active, rational, and genuinely helpful. On the other hand, it can be weak, sentimental, and selfish: not truly concerned with saving the other person, but with quickly appeasing one’s own conscience and avoiding the discomfort of confrontation. This sort of virtue signaling, devoid of rationality, ultimately drives both the victim and the benefactor to ruin.

Our age has hardly changed, as we currently live in the cult of empathy, which relates to the second type of pity depicted by Zweig. I recall from my own experience, even during my university times, that it was repeatedly emphasized: if you are not empathetic, you cannot be a good teacher since you must put yourself in the child’s shoes. This is undeniably true but just to a rational extent. Nowadays you cannot even be a corporate executive without empathy, as its absence is said to harm workplace well-being and increase organizational turnover. In fact, even the police are now expected to be empathetic since, according to contemporary progressive narratives, a person exhibiting unlawful behavior is often merely a victim of social circumstances like ‘systemic, white supremacist oppression.’

However, this is one of the greatest fallacies of our time. Empathy is an individual, personal virtue, not a prescriptive behavioral norm—not a universal metric that dictates at all costs how you ought to be. Elevated from the micro to the macro level and made the exclusive basis of state and institutional decision-making, boundless empathy has a self-destructive effect; this is the thesis argued by Gad Saad in his latest book, Suicidal Empathy: Dying to Be Kind.

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In January 2005, at a private conference hosted by the National Bureau of Economic Research, Harvard President Lawrence Summers violated a central taboo of liberal discourse. In a discussion of why men were overrepresented in tenured science and engineering positions at top universities, he suggested that one possible cause was genetic differences between the sexes.

Summers offered this as one hypothesis among others, including bias against women, the different socialisation of the sexes, and women’s lesser willingness to trade off parental care for time-consuming jobs. His point was that we must understand the causes of unequal representation before trying to change it.

But Summers’s even-handed approach was ignored in the feeding frenzy that followed. The mere suggestion that sex differences in aptitude might be innate—based on genes—was a red line crossed: Summers had raised the spectre of “genetic determinism”. Innate sex differences in aptitude or preference, according to liberal logic, will inevitably produce bias, bigotry, and discrimination—in this case against women—finally yielding inequity: unequal representation of the sexes in valued jobs.

Foolish mortal. He ought to have known better—after all, he dealt with these rabid Wokerati every day.

The Telegraph (UK).

An agreement has been reached to disarm and demilitarise Hamas and the Gaza Strip, Donald Trump has claimed.

The agreement marks a major step towards implementing the US president’s peace plan, under which a Palestinian technocratic government overseen by the US-led Board of Peace would eventually govern Gaza.

“This is a monumental step toward lasting PEACE and SECURITY,” Mr Trump posted on Truth Social on Thursday.

Until the Muslims break it, as they always do.

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To be fair, English cuisine sets a pretty low bar.

There is also a video in this series in which they try biscuits and creme gravy with sweet tea, which is also a hit.

Cornbread, however, receives a less favorable reception. Unfortunately, they didn’t provide them with hush puppies, which I suspect they would have found more appealing.

I tremble to think how they would react to grits….

“We need Nuremberg trials for all the 2010s. You should legally be forced to wear some kind of patch on you in public to identify you as a Woke 1.0 freak.”  — ShoeOnHead.

ShoeOnHead is one of the most entertaining things you will ever see, on or off the Internet.

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Houston is one of the Blue pustules on the rosy Red cheek of Texas.

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An Afghan woman living in Texas, whose son and son-in-law were convicted of plotting an Election Day mass killing in 2024, had a public removal hearing Thursday, the first case before the Alien Terrorist Removal Court.

The Justice Department says Nazira Haji Zada, 47, of Fort Worth, Texas, is being removed for her role in a plot involving her son, Abdullah Haji Zada, and son-in-law, Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi. The pair were arrested in October 2024 after buying guns and ammunition from an undercover FBI employee that were to be used in an Election Day attack. The Justice Department asserts the planned shooting was inspired by the terrorist group ISIS. Zada, a legal permanent resident, is challenging the constitutionality of her deportation order.

The case marks the first public session of the Alien Terrorist Removal Court, a specialized federal court that Congress established in 1996. The court has jurisdiction to remove foreign terrorists from the United States when the government establishes by a preponderance of the evidence that an alien is a terrorist. The secretive court allows the government to produce classified information to use in prosecution.

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I’d tell them: Hope you brought food.

But Spain’s socialist government wouldn’t dare do that, even if they wanted to, which they don’t.

As a result, Spain just got a big batch of Turn World trouble. I wish them the joy of it.

Victor Davis Hanson.

One of the things that is perplexing and often a topic of conversation is this new American-Western European alliance or absorption of Islam and Marxism-socialism-communism. In other words, people who identify as radical Muslims, often in their alliance, include people who are traditional Western Marxists, and it doesn’t seem possible for a variety of ways.

There’s a lot of antitheses. Do we really believe that these upscale people in blue enclaves in the United States who declare themselves socialist and are voting for people like Zohran Mamdani, or Ilhan Omar, or Rashida Tlaib, who are proud, and active, and often fervent Muslims, tolerate gays? Do you really believe if you said, “I am gay, and I’m proud of it, and I want to announce that in Saudi Arabia,” you wouldn’t be in trouble?

Do you really believe that if you went to Iran and said, “I want to repeal all the sodomy laws,” you wouldn’t be in trouble?

Or if you went, let’s say, to Egypt and you said, “I wanna have a trans, sexual support group,” you wouldn’t be in trouble? Do you really believe that upscale, independent women in Western cities, maybe unmarried, professional, doesn’t that bother them a little bit when they ally themselves with radical Muslims who tell them that, as far as men go, their dream is going to an Islamic heaven and having the sexual use as if they’re almost tools of 72 virgins?

Does that go well with a book editor in Manhattan or the head of an NGO in Denver? I don’t think so.

MS NOW’s Velshi Compares Trump, ICE to Nazis: ‘This Is Not Hyperbole’  No, it’s a flat-out lie.

Singer Humiliates Trump After White House Uses His Song (Leigh Kimmins/The Daily Beast)  The Daily Beast needs to learn the distinction between ‘bad-mouth’ and ‘humiliation’.

‘It’s a Joke, But It’s Not a Joke’: MS NOW Claims Trump Wants a 2028 Run

Trump Has Made Billions in Office. Will His Party Pay Politically? (Jess Bidgood/New York Times)

A majority of MAGA supporters would still vote for a Republican candidate despite a scandal (Erin Doherty/Politico)  People realize that most such ‘scandals’ are Narrative Media lies.

How Donald Trump Silenced the Voice of America (Marc Fisher/New Yorker)  And returned the money to the people.

How Trump made America less popular than China (Matthew Yglesias/Slow Boring) Whatever happens, It’s Trumps Fault.

We’ve Officially Entered the Twilight of Late-Stage Trumpism (Greg Sargent/New Republic)  Greg Sargemt loses his shit.

The Campus Free Speech Wars Are Over. MAGA Won. (Aaron R. Hanlon/New Republic)  There’s that MAGA guy agin. He sure gets around.

Trump’s Court Losses Leave Taxpayers Facing Millions in Legal Fees (Zoe Tillman/Bloomberg)  At least it’s not “Ten percent for the Big Guy.”.

Reality is a Communist Plot (Paul Krugman)  The vacuum speaks.

It Doesn’t Get Much Dumber Than Trump’s War on ‘DEI Bike Lanes’ (Sean Woods/Rolling Stone)  On the contrary, there is nothing dumber than “they/them”.

What to know about Republican lame ducks defying Trump over Blanche nomination (Sammy Westfall/Washington Post)  Come get yer Narrative, right here.

Blame Elon Musk and Donald Trump for the Out-of-Control Ebola Crisis (Jeremy Konyndyk/Zeteo) Because, as we all know, treating diseased Africans is TOTALLY the responsibility of the Federal government—and the Federal taxpayer, including anybody who has more money than the Left wants them to have.

Trump has been dismantling post-9/11 counterterrorism protections, Senate report says (Ken Dilanian/MS NOW)  And Security Theater (and the parasites who feed off of it) is suffering. The swine!

Why Trump is Afraid of International Law (Nahal Toosi/Politico)  Because he knows it’s totally politicized against him. Who doesn’t know that?

ICE’s Secret Weapon Is in Your Community (Melissa Gira Grant/New Republic)  Yeah, it’s called ‘law enforcement’.

Not the Bee.

Who knew coyotes were Democrats?

“Not punishing crime is incentivizing it.” — Sarah Hoyt