Archive for May, 2023
24th May 2023
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24th May 2023
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24th May 2023
The Foundry.
What can America learn from Israel? David Rubin, former mayor of Shilo, the modern settlement close to the ancient site of Israel’s Tabernacle Tel Shiloh, survived a Palestinian terror attack and urges the U.S. to take seriously the axis between radical Islam and the American Left.
Speaking to The Daily Signal at the National Religious Broadcasters Convention in Orlando on Monday, he outlined attacks “from those on one hand who want to make the world secular, the hardcore leftists that you saw rioting during the George Floyd riots, and at the same time, you have it coming from the other side, from the Islamic radicals who want to bring down both of our houses, the Jews and the Christians.”
“They want to bring down both of our houses,” he reiterated, “and that’s why it’s important for us to be standing together in these times.”
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23rd May 2023
Nebraska governor signs bill that bans most abortions at 12 weeks, gender-affirming care for those under 19 (CNN)
AP Warns of ‘Far Right’ in Red States, But Touts ‘Drag Laureates’ in San Francisco
Fla. Sued for Halt to Chinese Citizens Owning Homes, Land
Susan Rice Meets With Activist Lawyer Who Stoked Online Mob Against Pregnant Nurse
DeSantis’s $13.5m police program lures officers with violent records to Florida (The Guardian)
Tucker Insider: Carlson was Fired from Fox Due to Dominion Suit
House GOP Members Rip Texas VA Clinic for ‘Cross’ Removal
North Carolina’s Democrat Governor Declares Emergency Over School Choice ‘Scheme’
GOP donor denies influence over Clarence Thomas, despite lavish gifts (Washington Post) I guess Clarence Thomas isn’t allowed to have any rich friends.
You Cannot Hear These 13 Women’s Stories and Believe the Anti-Abortion Narrative (N.Y. Times) Michelle Goldberg loses her shit.
In Florida, reproductive care nightmares become tragically common (MSNBC) Note that this complaint doesn’t mention the tragedy of unborn babies being murdered.
Republican witness faces questions over whether he lied under oath to key panel (The Guardian)
Ron DeSantis’s presidential campaign could be brief (Washington Post)
Dodgers apologize and invite Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence to Pride Night (L.A. Times)
Free Advice for Ron DeSantis: Don’t Run for President (Daily Beast)
Santos Sent GOP Allies ‘Thank You’ Notes After Expulsion Vote Failed: Report (Daily Beast)
U.S. lawmakers OK’d more pro-gun bills than safety measures since Uvalde (Axios) Note the obvious assumption that ‘pro-gun bill’ and ‘safety measure’ are opposites.
Abortion bans drive off doctors and close clinics, putting other health care at risk (NPR) Abortion doctors are there for the money; they don’t practice general medicine. This is like saying that closing extermination camps would reduce availability of police protection.
Here’s How Bad CNN’s Post-Trump Town Hall Ratings Have Been (Daily Beast) Hey, Annhauser-Busch thought Dylan Mulvaney was a good idea, too.
Trump Organization finishes last in brand reputation survey for second straight year (The Hill) That’s like saying that witches have a bad reputation.
Democrats sue W.Va. Gov. Justice over refusal to disclose work schedule (Washington Post)
How DeSantis and other GOP lawmakers are killing LGBTQ young people (Robert Reich) The deranged ravings of a Clinton-era proglodyte. Why anybody pays attention to these derelicts is beyond me. (Next up: Carl “Worse Than Watergage” Bernstein….)
How Vivek Ramaswamy helped make Martin Shkreli the ‘pharma bro’ (Politico) Vivek must be getting some traction if the Usual Suspects feel the need to witch-hunt him.
DeSantis Sued Over Ban on Drag Shows
Republican John Kennedy: southern plain-talk or Foghorn Leghorn shtick? (The Guardian) Not a trace of journalism here, just pure smear. Scraaaaaaape that barrel….
Why Don’t Americans Recognize that Inflation is Down and Incomes Are Up? (Washington Monthly) Maybe because they look at their monthly bills and refuse to buy what the Usual Suspects are selling?
Trump’s Truth Social Sues Washington Post For Over $3 Billion Two can play at this sue-their-pants-off game.
Casey DeSantis Is ‘Lady MacBeth.’ Jill Biden Is a Doctor. Got It?
Teachers’ Union ‘Triggered’ After Republican Lawmaker Brings Educators Donuts
VINDICATION: Alan Dershowitz Defends Musk’s Criticism of George Soros
CBS’s Gayle King Fears for Her Sisters Because of NAACP Travel Advisory for Florida These people spend too much time breathing their own exhaust.
Republican Debt Ceiling Lies (The American Prospect) Bias? What bias?
Southern Poverty Law Center Classifies Everyone Not Currently Wearing A Pride Shirt As A Hate Group (Babylon Bee)
Republicans Are Trying to Seize Control Over Voting In Texas’ Largest Democratic County (Mother Jones) Of course they are, because otherwise Democrats try to steal the election, as they have been doing since LBJ in 1960.
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23rd May 2023
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23rd May 2023
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23rd May 2023
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23rd May 2023
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23rd May 2023
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23rd May 2023
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23rd May 2023
Washington Free Beacon.
It goes without saying: The mainstream media is run by liberal activists. This ideological bias manifests itself in several ways, including the words journalists are allowed to use when discussing controversial issues.
For example, the New York Times might publish an article about how “a group of anti-fascist uterus-bearing individuals deployed Molotov cocktails to peacefully express their grievances over Florida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ law, which critics say could prevent access to gender-affirming care and reproductive freedom for undocumented Latinx immigrants, substance-affected unhoused citizens with prior justice system involvement, and full-figured sex entrepreneurs.”
The story would read a lot differently if it wasn’t written, edited, and published by liberal activists and members of the cultural elite who are constantly trying to impose their “correct” opinions on the general public. The woke words and phrases used in media reports would make a lot more sense to the average American if these people weren’t in charge—if journalists were forced to abide by the Washington Free Beacon Alternative Style Guide for Reporting on Issues of Controversy (ASGRIC).
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23rd May 2023
Sarah Hoyt.
Phantom — in comments, recently — mention at the basis of all the leftist policies is the idea of overpopulation: the Malthusian hot mess that believes humans, like some kind of fungus will reproduce till the Earth can’t support them.
I’d never realized that. It is true sort of, though it’s perhaps based on an even crazier premise which in turn is at the very heart of not just socialism/communism but the idea that anyone gets to arrange all of human life from the top down, to spare individuals’ making wrong decisions. Which is, objectively, an idea so crazy that you can’t figure out how any human alive can think it.
And yet, if your theories tell you that humans are too stupid to stop reproducing when they’re starving, then any level of intervention is justified, because, OBVIOUSLY humans are brainless.
Except for the Ruling Class, of course.
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23rd May 2023
The American Mind.
Many policy experts, politicians, and everyday citizens have long been concerned with the breakdown of the family as a result of divorce or separation. But the lack of family formation in the first place is now an even more pressing problem. Birthrates have been falling around the world, a complex phenomenon with many contributing factors. Women are not finding partners in time to become mothers (though the vast majority want children), and young men are disproportionately single.
Sociologist Andrew J. Cherlin has observed that marriage—to the extent it is desired at all—is now viewed as a “capstone” rather than a “cornerstone” of life. That is to say, marriage is no longer considered the foundation of adult life but a kind of feather in the cap of a successful person. We have lost a shared understanding of the human person, of how familial and civic responsibility provide meaning, and what encompasses a life well-lived (as evidenced by this recent Wall Street Journal-NORC poll). These shifts in beliefs have affected marriage rates. But technologies like the smart phone, social media, and online dating have exacerbated the family formation crisis for the youngest generations.
Think of it as evolution in action. The only women who will have children are those who put family ahead of career, and thus the Power Feminists will slowly get weeded out of the gene pool. Natural Selection works even when you don’t want it to.
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23rd May 2023
John Hinderaker at Power Line.
At the G7 meeting in Japan, Joe Biden went on a riff that seems to be about our federal budget. See if you can figure out what he is trying to say….
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23rd May 2023
The Spectator.
Ah, Seattle, that environmentally obsessed city where all is decorous, the sidewalks immaculately swept, the parks rigorously trimmed, proverbial for its shimmering lakes and charming rows of variegated tents housing those of no fixed abode — and recently, too, for a municipal government with much the same level of restraint as a bus being driven downhill by the Marx Brothers.
Readers may be familiar with the strange phenomenon of a civic treasury that marries heady rhetoric about its prudent stewardship of public money with a cynical disregard for the suckers who actually foot the bills. Surely our bureaucrats know no greater pleasure than when it is given to them, as the poet has it, to scatter plenty o’er a smiling land and read their fortune in the people’s eyes, or, failing that, to drop a million or two without any recourse from the hapless taxpayer.
Our story begins in June 2020, that era of social distancing mandates and mass race protests on American city streets, when the almost heroically inept mayor of Seattle, one Jenny Durkan, informed CNN: “We’ve got four blocks here that [are] like a party atmosphere. It’s not an armed takeover… I don’t know how long it will last. We could have the Summer of Love.”
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23rd May 2023
ZMan peers behind the curtain.
Since the late Middle Ages, political thought in the West has started with the assertion that the point of social organization was to reduce coercion. The ideal society is one in which everyone naturally played their role without being forced into it. The assumption is that forcing people into roles for which they are not suited, or they do not wish to perform is both unjust and dangerous. It is also more costly to compel people to obey the law than if they voluntarily abide by the law.
If the goal of your political model is to reduce coercion to the absolute minimum, then you ideally want a society that agrees on everything. After all, if everyone agrees that society must have gong farmers and some people are better suited for the task than others, then everyone is going to agree on having gong farmers. Even the guy chosen for the task will agree if it is explained to him. He may not like the task, but he will understand he is playing a vital role in his society.
Straight away you can see the problem for individualism and the natural rights crowd when it comes to organizing society. If we start from the assumption that we are all unique individuals in control of our own destiny, then we are free to not go along with being the town’s gong farmer. Even if all the facts point to that role being best for the person and his community, he is free to reject it because he is an autonomous person free to live his life as he sees fit.
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23rd May 2023
Associated Press.
A divided federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld the constitutionality of a new admissions policy at an elite public high school in Virginia that critics say discriminates against highly qualified Asian Americans.
The 2-1 ruling from the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond overturns a ruling last year from a federal judge who found that the Fairfax County School Board engaged in impermissible “racial balancing” when it overhauled the admissions policy at the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology.
The school frequently is cited among the best in the nation, and parents jockey and prepare for years to get their children admitted. But for decades Black and Hispanic students have been woefully under-represented, while Asian Americans made up more than 70% of the student body.
And, since we all know that Black and Hispanic students are just as smart as Asian students, this is obvious racism. The swine. (I guess Asian Is The New White. Good to know.)
Taking book on how long this schools reputation lasts once they start stocking up on students chosen for their skin color rather than smarts….
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23rd May 2023
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22nd May 2023
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22nd May 2023
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22nd May 2023
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22nd May 2023
Why was this massive Trump scandal hiding in plain sight for 28 months? (Philadelphia Inquirer) Will Bunch holds the Jennifer Rubin Chair at the Inquirer.
Why won’t conservatives ask Trump tough questions? (The Spectator) Maybe because they don’t have to? There are plenty of progs and RINOs queueing up to do that job.
The GOP Is in an Abusive Relationship with Trump (The Bulwark) The Bulwark is certainly in an abusive relationship with Trump, with them doing most of the abusing.
Why Trump Wants U.S. to Default on Debt (The Bulwark) Of course Trump doesn’t really want the U.S. to default on the debt; he wants Republicans to be willing to go that far in order to get concessions from Biden, rather than the usual go-to-the-brink-and-then-roll-over that Republicans have historically done. But any excuse will do for an invented smear by the left-adjacent Bulwark.
GOP Rep. James Comer Implies Biden Family Probe Is Really About Helping Trump In 2024 (Huffington Post) No he doesn’t–but I’m sure they’d like to believe that he does.
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22nd May 2023
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22nd May 2023
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22nd May 2023
The American Mind.
In Japan, social withdrawal among young men is now so severe that the Japanese have a very specific term for it: hikikomori. Hiki means “to withdraw,” and komori means “to remain inside.” At least 1.5 million Japanese people, many of whom are young men in their twenties and thirties, have completely withdrawn from society.
They don’t date; they don’t mate; they don’t work; and they don’t socialize. In short, they refrain from doing anything that requires them to leave their hyper-isolated chambers.
Many of these young males are hurting—financially, spiritually, and psychologically.
Up until very recently, hikikomori was considered a culture-bound syndrome, a problem unique to Japan. That is no longer the case. Hikikomori is now a global phenomenon, observed across the world regardless of culture—from Asia to Europe to the United States.
Huh. I didn’t know this was an option.
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22nd May 2023
The American Mind.
Marymount University sits on a high hill over the Potomac River, in northern Virginia. Founded in 1950 by a religious order devoted to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, the school’s undergraduate courses focus on the humanities—or they did until the president and the board of governors met to “restructure” earlier this year. This meant gutting nearly all the humanities, plus mathematics, science, and even theology and religious studies.
The sheer extent and suddenness of this transformation caught the public’s imagination. A small university’s restructuring is not typically the stuff of frontpage, international headlines. But these cuts perfectly illustrate how Christian education has squandered its moral, intellectual, and religious inheritance in a 100-year search for prestige—a search which has been inevitably followed by a retreat into rootless, commercial secularism and left-wing, political glad–handing. In this, the plight of Catholic universities offers a microcosm of the institutional capture that afflicts traditional institutions around the country. But it also offers instructive, object lessons in how to fight back.
Prior to, oh, say, Vatican II (early 1960s), this could not have happened. The entire reason for ‘Catholic schools’ was to provide education with a Catholic intellectual foundation explicitly separate from secular intellectual fads and fashions. But that was then; this is now.
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22nd May 2023
ZMan turns over a rock.
In The Past is a Future Country, Ed Dutton and J.O.A. Rayner-Hilles, argue that the West is about to be swamped by an unsustainable wave of stupid people. This is not the result of immigration, but rather the culmination of an evolutionary process that began in the Industrial Revolution. Darwinian selection weakened along with the increase in living standards. The result is a steady increase in narcissistic stupid people who undermine the fundamentals of Western society.
In this post, Ed Dutton makes the point that liberal female politicians are getting dumber, as a result of this process he outlined in his book. He relies on two examples, Sanna Marin of Finland and Angela Rayner of Britain, to make his point. Both women are on what we insist on calling the Left and both women are morons. Not only are they stupid, but they appear to have come from stupid parents. They are Nth generation morons who have risen to the top of politics.
It is an amusing and satisfying read for people who think of themselves on the Right, even if he is making sweeping claims from just two examples. For as long as anyone can recall, the people we call the Left have claimed that their opponents are unsophisticated morons who should be dismissed. Having this turned on its head with the use of the human sciences is good fun, but it may be missing the real cause for the great dumbing down of Western politics.
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22nd May 2023
Charles C.W. Cooke at National Review.
Rich points to a column by Ezra Klein in the New York Times, in which Klein objects to President Biden taking the “14th Amendment option.” Rich notes that Klein has a practical objection to the idea — namely that “if the administration declares the debt ceiling unconstitutional, only to have the Supreme Court declare the maneuver unconstitutional, then Biden owns the market chaos that would follow.”
This is probably true. But it’s notable that, as usual, Klein and those who share his politics seem to live in a completely lawless world, in which there is no such thing as truth, in which ridiculous ideas that were arrived at yesterday by transparent political hacks are as worthwhile as centuries of universal understanding, and in which the only reason to avoid violating the Constitution is that one might get caught.
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22nd May 2023
The Spectator.
Shortly before the coronation of Charles III, a group of indigenous leaders from around the Commonwealth released a statement. They called on the King “to acknowledge the horrific impacts on and legacy of genocide and colonization of the indigenous and enslaved peoples,” including “the oppression of our peoples, plundering of our resources, (and) denigration of our culture.” Charles was told to “redistribute the wealth that underpins the crown back to the peoples from whom it was stolen.” Yet the argument that Britain should pony up for its historical sins is based on a number of rickety assumptions.
One of these is that a substantial portion of the wealth of the UK, or the British Crown, derives from slavery or colonial exploitation. Famously, empire often cost more than it brought in. And, like the rest of northwest Europe, the UK was already wealthy before colonialism or the slave trade. Western Europe would have remained rich even in the absence of overseas adventurism. Germany, for example, was one of the world’s richest areas, long before it gained any colonies. It’s true that overseas resources were exploited; but this was not the sole source of Europe’s wealth. Far from it.
Even more questionable than the call for reparations are the claims of “genocide” in the context of New World colonialism. Until a few years ago, only a tiny fringe of historians believed that European colonialism in the New World was “genocidal.” In the six-volume, 3,000+ page Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas (published 1996-2000) several dozen specialists saw fit to mention genocide precisely twice. In both of these instances, the scholars in question do so only to reiterate that it did not apply.
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22nd May 2023
Read it.
We are always told by today’s woke Stasi that “language matters.” They’re quite correct: that’s why their own attempts to police our words have to be so assiduously resisted by conservatives. When the language being policed is scientific in nature, the need for resistance is even greater. To redefine the discourse of science along political lines is to redefine the very parameters of reality itself.
The latest attempt to do so comes in the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Language Project (EEBLP), launched in February 2023 by a network of clearly left-leaning scientists from universities across the U.S. and Canada. Predictably, the EEBLP commissars seek to decolonize their subject, whose very origins are supposedly steeped in the Western civilizational filth of white supremacy and cis-heteronormative oppression alike.
In their online “Team Statement of Positionality” (‘positionality’ here being a fancy euphemism for ‘sexual, racial, and political bias,’ but in a good way), EEBLP proselytizers are encouraged to “critically assess their subfield’s terminology,” asking whether it helps “celebrate dominant narratives or oppressive norms”—norms such as the sole existence of the two traditional binary human sexes of ‘male’ and ‘female,’ and not any recently invented new made-up ones like those of the popular entertainer Sam Smith, who self-identifies both as ‘non-binary’ and as a professional singer.
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22nd May 2023
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22nd May 2023
John Hinderaker at Power Line.
The scientific method works as follows: 1) You come up with a hypothesis. 2) You look for the implications of the hypothesis. What will be the case if the hypothesis is true, but will not be the case if the hypothesis is wrong? 3) You carry out observations or run experiments to find out whether the facts implied by the hypothesis do or do not obtain. 4) If you find that a fact implied by the hypothesis is indeed the case, it provides support for the hypothesis. If you find a number of such facts to be true, as implied by the hypothesis, then you may have strong support. 5) But it is not conclusive: if a fact or condition implied by the hypothesis is shown by observation or experiment not to be the case, then the hypothesis is refuted, and you go back to the drawing board.
Global warming hysteria is politics or religion, not science. This conclusion follows from the fact that the global warming models have generated many predictions that turned out to be wrong. A single wrong prediction is enough to disprove a model. Numerous, consistently repeated failures mean that the model is a joke.
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22nd May 2023
Read it.
French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin has asked the U.S. government for greater intelligence sharing and warned of a resurgence in Islamic terrorist threats in Europe ahead of France hosting global sporting events in the coming year.
Let us not forget that Islam presents an existential threat to Western civilization, and always will.
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21st May 2023
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21st May 2023
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21st May 2023
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21st May 2023
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21st May 2023
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21st May 2023
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21st May 2023
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21st May 2023
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21st May 2023
Read it.
Lebanese militant group Hezbollah put on a show of force Sunday, extending a rare media invitation to one of its training sites in southern Lebanon, where its forces staged a simulated military exercise.
Masked fighters jumped through flaming hoops, fired from the backs of motorcycles, and blew up Israeli flags posted in the hills above and a wall simulating the one at the border between Lebanon and Israel.
The exercise came ahead of “Liberation Day,” the annual celebration of the withdrawal of Israeli forces from south Lebanon on May 25, 2000, and in the wake of a recent escalation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in Gaza. Gaza’s militant Hamas rulers and Hezbollah have had long-standing ties.
Wherever you go,
Whatever you do,
A Muslim waits there
To try to kill you.
Especially if
You might be a Jew.
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21st May 2023
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21st May 2023
Read it.
Between Matamoros, Mexico and Brownsville, Texas lies the Rio Grande river. On one side is the Matamoros migrant camp where thousands of illegal invaders prep for the invasion with the aid of American open borders non-profit groups, squatting in their own filth, fighting, shaking each other down and starting fires like those that killed 40 male migrants. Across is America.
At 160 feet wide and only 2 feet deep, the invaders have little trouble making their way across. Despite the slur ‘wetback’, little actual swimming is usually required. Past proposals to widen and deepen the river so it’s a tenth of a mile and twenty feet deep would have been fairly expensive, but was shut down by open borders advocates who claim the invaders might drown.
In one week in April, some 15,000 illegal invaders traversed the river. The media regularly features dramatic photos of migrants crossing the Rio Grande and offers sympathetic portrayals of the invaders such as the New York Times story: “Desperate Migrants on the Border: ‘I Should Just Swim Across.” The coverage often describes these invasions as “sudden” or “unexpected”.
But there’s nothing sudden or unexpected about them. They’re the work of the Coyote-in-Chief.
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21st May 2023
Gates of Vienna.
emerge an inevitable conflict will break out between the Socialist intersectionals and the devotees of Mohammed. The two groups of religious fanatics are utterly incompatible with each other, and only one can emerge triumphant. The best outcome would be for each side to spray AK-47 fire at the other simultaneously, leaving the field strewn with the corpses of fighters for both groups. Alas, that outcome is very unlikely. For what it’s worth, my money’s on the Muslims.
The following report concerns friction between the promoters of sexual perversion and the soldiers of Allah. The incident in question occurred at a school in the Flemish city of Genk.
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21st May 2023
John Hinderaker at Power Line.
It wouldn’t be if it were imposed by a private party, although there might be other problems with it. But can a government entity require its employees to assent to a series of political propositions, and to take what is effectively a loyalty oath? I don’t think so.
That’s why my organization has moved to participate in the case of Henderson v. Springfield R-12 School District, now on appeal in the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals, as an amicus. The Henderson case is horrifying, and yet typical of what is going on in contemporary America. Plaintiffs are school district employees who were required by the district to undergo “anti-racism” training. The district’s “training” was a series of Maoist struggle sessions.
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21st May 2023
NewsBusters.
In theory, the Durham Report and the testimony of FBI whistle blowers was to be about the internal conduct of the FBI.
It was that, to be sure. But without doubt the combination of the two was a decided fusillade that hit the once impenetrable fortress that was the credibility of the American mainstream media. And specifically the credibility of The New York Times, The Washington Post and the Pulitzer Prize.
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20th May 2023
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20th May 2023
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