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A Moroccan culture-enricher who was already in a Spanish prison is going to have his sentence extended because he decided to take up jihad while he was in the slammer. Like so many confused migrant youngsters, he did not understand that his host country did not approve of one of his cherished traditional cultural practices, namely the slaughter of infidels in the name of Allah.

The article below asserts that he was self-radicalized while he was in prison. It doesn’t identify any specific ideology, so I guess he was just, well, radicalized — you know, in a general sense. Like catching the flu or something similar.

Imagine how peaceful the world would be if the Religion of Peace didn’t exist.

John C. Wright passes the word.

This text is shamelessly copied from Karl Mehta, since the pace at which we are flooded with winning has finally broken me. I simply cannot keep up. But some of these gems were too good not to share, and the Marxist media will not cover the story.

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Sweden has seen massive demographic changes over the last 25 years, and this is not only reflected in the demographic composition, but also the religious composition of the country. While churches continue to close their doors, the country went from approximately seven mosques in 2000 to now 300 in 2025.

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And has been since the fall of Soviet Communism, the threat that it was intended to counter. It stands as a poster child for Reagan’s adage that the closest thing to immortality is a government program.

NATO is a corpse. All that remains is the grotesque performance art of a diplomatic zombie stumbling from summit to summit, mouthing tired clichés about “shared values” and “burden sharing,” even as its core strategic logic lies rotting beneath the surface. The Atlantic Alliance, once the steel scaffolding of Western security, has become a hollow ritual. Its military readiness is an illusion. Its political cohesion is fraying. Its future, if it has one, lies not in revival—but in reinvention or replacement.

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NATO’s death was not caused by Donald Trump, though he may soon become its undertaker. Nor was it caused by Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, though that war has exposed the Alliance’s hollowness in ways no war game or communique ever could. The real cause lies in decades of European free-riding, American strategic drift, and a foundational lie at the heart of the Alliance: the idea that an empire can masquerade as a collective defense pact without consequences.

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A 16-year-old runner at a California high school is suing Attorney General Rob Bonta over failure to enforce Title IX standards to protect female athletes.

In November, Taylor Starling, a track athlete at Martin Luther King High School in Riverside, California, along with her teammate, Kaitlyn Slavin, filed suit against the district, alleging she lost a spot on the team to a biological male student. Now Stirling has added Bonta to the lawsuit in light of President Donald Trump’s executive order that banned males from competing in female sports.

“I felt angry when I was removed from my varsity team because I knew the requirements were changed for him because he is transgender. I felt like my sacrifice, hard work, and dedication didn’t matter to my school administrators because I am a girl. It was easy for them to push me aside and that hurt,” Starling said.

Apparently it’s not enough to be a girl to be on a girls’ team, you have to be the right kind of ‘girl’.

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The center of world terrorist activity and violent death is no longer the Middle East. The “Sahel region of Africa is now the ‘epicentre of global terrorism,'” responsible for “over half of all terrorism-related deaths” worldwide, according to the respected Global Terrorism Index.

The sub-Saharan Sahel is largely unknown to much of the world. It can be described as the large, mostly flat, strip, nearly 600 miles wide, located between the savannahs of Sudan to the south and the Sahara desert to the north.

During the last ten years or so, according to the Royal United Services Institute, the world’s oldest defense and security think tank, headquartered in London, the Sahel has undergone a “significant surge in jihadist violence. Armed actors take advantage of porous borders, fragile states, and local grievances to extend their operational reach,”

Pretty ironic, considering the fact that Islam has no problem with slavery and the major role that Muslims (especially Arabs) played in the African slavery business. People like Hakeem Jeffries always make me want to laugh.

Imagine how peaceful the world would be if the Religion of Peace didn’t exist.

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In a ruling on Thursday, Judge Trevor Neil McFadden said that a rule by the Department of Homeland Security to require illegal immigrants to comply with statutory registration and fingerprinting may move forward as plaintiffs arguing against it failed to “demonstrate that they have standing to bring this suit.”

The case was filed on March 31 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in Washington, with the main plaintiff being the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, along with other immigrant advocacy groups.

On Jan. 20, when President Donald Trump took office for the second time, he issued an executive order, “Protecting the American People Against Invasion,” in which he stated that illegal immigrants must be identified and registered with the federal government.

Apparently the fact that it makes your butt hurt to think of immigrants being inconvenienced in any way is not enough to justify a suit.

USA Today, a Voice of the Crust.

They say that like it was a bad thing.

Every piece of evidence regarding Head Start indicates that it spends money and doesn’t do any good. If sixty years of failure doesn’t justify ending a program, what would? The Brookings Institution (a Voice of the Crust) reports:

In 2005, the first report about the Head Start Impact Study found that one year of Head Start improved cognitive skills, but the size of the effects was small. While this first report affirmed Head Start’s impact on school readiness, the final HHS report published in 2010 showed that by the end of first grade, the effects mostly faded out. According to the 2012 HHS report on third grade follow-up, by the end of primary school there was no longer a discernible impact of Head Start. Due in part to these reports, some have concluded that while Head Start has some initial impact on kindergarten readiness, the fadeout in impact over early elementary school qualifies attempts to invest more in early childhood education.

Let us get away from this Deep State notion that every problem can be solved with a Federal handout administered by a Federal bureaucracy.

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With chronic illnesses soaring across the United States, a group of doctors and nutrition researchers say it’s time to reconsider the foundation of American dietary advice—starting from the bottom up.

How about educating people and letting them make their own choices? ‘Doctors and nutrition researchers’ seem to think they have a God-imposed duty to lecture other people about how to go about their daily lives, rather than just presenting the information and allowing people to take whatever action they deem appropriate. I’ve got a mother, I don’t need a bunch of volunteers.

In a peer-reviewed paper published in Nutrients, the authors contend that the traditional carb-heavy diet has not only failed to safeguard public health but may be contributing to rising rates of obesity and Type 2 diabetes. They propose a new low-carbohydrate food pyramid designed for the vast majority of American adults showing signs of metabolic dysfunction.

Their model—built on protein, full-fat dairy, and healthy fats—challenges decades of federal guidance and reignites a long-simmering debate about dietary fat’s role in chronic disease.

How about the Federal government stop spending my tax dollars on ‘guidance’? The Nanny State is an ugly thing.

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Enacting what gun-grabbers see as the next-best thing to an outright “assault weapon” ban, Colorado Gov. Jared Polis on Thursday signed off on a law that will make it a much bigger hassle purchase many semiautomatic firearms. The law, which will face immediate legal challenges from gun rights groups, also takes aim at bump stocks and binary triggers, while increasing the penalty for violating the state’s magazine restrictions. It’s set to take effect on August 1 of next year, with violators facing up to 120 days in jail, a fine, or both. Repeat offenders could be locked up for 18 months.

“The bill enacts some of the most sweeping gun regulations ever considered in the Centennial State, even compared to the few dozen restrictions Colorado lawmakers have been stacking up over the last decade,” notes The Reload’s Jake Fogleman. The law affects the purchase of so-called “assault rifles” — like AR-15s and AK-47s — as well as gas-operated pistols that use a detachable magazine. Recoil-operated handguns aren’t subject to the restrictions; the bill’s advocates say 90% of the pistol market won’t be affected. Examples of affected gas-operated handguns include the Desert Eagle, Walther PPK, Sig Sauer MPX Copperhead and Smith & Wesson MP 5.7.

A key element of the progressive mindset is to treat The Common People like children, restricting their access to tools in the expectation that if they are allowed access to tools they will inevitably misuse them. Not Appearing In This Film is the notion that perhaps, just perhaps, a better solution is to educate and persuade people not to use tools in an inappropriate manner.

The Foundry.

In the ongoing debate about the role of government in addressing societal issues, a crucial misconception often surfaces on one side: The desire to help others equates to a mandate for state intervention.

Advocates for increased government action frequently ignore the vital distinction between voluntary assistance and coercive mandates. The belief that government can—or should—serve as the ultimate arbiter of compassion neglects the fundamental principle that true generosity arises from individual choice rather than compulsion.

Those advocating for increased government intervention often exhibit a profound misunderstanding about the nature of help. They seem to believe that the mere desire to assist equates to a moral imperative for the state to act—often through coercive means. This reliance on government as the ultimate solution tends to obscure an essential principle: the freedom of individuals to choose how, or whether, to help.

Government is, at best, a necessary evil, and that evil ought to be mitigated as far as possible by restricting its activities to the essentials: Keep people save and keep people honest. Anything beyond that is illegitimate.

ZMan’s weekly podcast.

I thought I would take a break from the money game this week to address an issue that comes up in the email from time to time. That issue is my ideology. Whenever I comment upon ideology, almost always in a negative way, I get comments suggesting I should explain my ideology, rather than just criticize others. Certain nationalists take issue with being called ideologues for some reason.

The trouble with this is I am not an ideologue, but I thought that might make for a good show, so that was the plan this week. Then as I was recording it, I started having issues with my voice, like I am getting a cold. That threw me off my game and the show wandered around a bit. I would have scrapped it and started over, but I was not sure if the pipes would make it, so I stuck with the first pass.

This is the best show I’ve heard ZMan do to date, and it matches my own views on what is going on about 95%.

Very highly recommended. I certainly wish he’d do more stuff like this.

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Today, the U.S. Department of Education (ED) referred its Title IX investigation into the Maine Department of Education (MDOE) to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) for further enforcement action. Simultaneously, ED will initiate an administrative proceeding to adjudicate termination of MDOE’s federal K-12 education funding, including formula and discretionary grants.

These actions are a direct result of MDOE’s continued refusal to comply with Title IX. ED issued a noncompliance finding on March 19, and sent a final warning letter to the state on March 31.

“The Department has given Maine every opportunity to come into compliance with Title IX, but the state’s leaders have stubbornly refused to do so, choosing instead to prioritize an extremist ideological agenda over their students’ safety, privacy, and dignity,” said Acting Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Craig Trainor. “The Maine Department of Education will now have to defend its discriminatory practices before a Department administrative law judge and in a federal court against the Justice Department. Governor Mills would have done well to adhere to the wisdom embedded in the old idiom—be careful what you wish for. Now she will see the Trump Administration in court.”

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You can’t make this shit up.

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The first Earth Day was organized in 1970 in response to growing public concern for the environment. Many of these concerns were entirely justified. In 1969, for example, an oil slick along an industrialized stretch of the Cuyahoga River in Ohio caught fire, generating national awareness of the need to reduce water pollution. Similarly, in coastal cities in California, most notably in Los Angeles, the exhaust from unleaded gasoline created air pollution so dense you couldn’t see the hills a few miles away.

We’ve come a long way in 51 years. This month, as Americans celebrate Earth Day on April 22, we are challenged to differentiate between legitimate environmental priorities and those priorities chosen for us by special interests with ulterior motives for whom environmentalism is a sentiment to be manipulated.

Here are ten issues where environmentalism has been misused, with consequences that have either been of no benefit whatsoever to the environment or have even caused harm.

Mediaite, a Voice of the Crust.

A U.S. Space Force colonel was removed from her position as the commander of Pituffik Space Base in Greenland on Thursday after she disavowed Vice President JD Vance’s remarks about acquiring the Danish territory.

This is public insurbordination, and fully justifies her removal. (Notice that all these officers causing trouble are women.)

You mess with the bull, you get the horns every time.

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Large banks can fail within hours, and life savings can vanish overnight.

The US banking system is particularly vulnerable.

So, why do so many people place their confidence—and life savings—into such a fragile system?

It’s because they don’t understand three fundamental truths about modern banking:

#1. The money isn’t yours.

#2. The money isn’t actually there.

#3. The money isn’t really money.

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Trying to grasp the brain’s complexity is a little like trying to comprehend the vastness of space – it feels way beyond our scope of understanding.

By mapping a small part of a mouse brain down to an amazing level of detail, new research could help us grasp the magnitude of the neurological cosmos inside our heads.

Though the volume of brain matter analyzed was barely the size of a grain of sand, the researchers still had to describe the relationships between 84,000 neurons via half a billion synapse connections and 5.4 kilometers (3.4 miles) of neural wiring.

The result is the most detailed rendering of a mammalian brain on record, by some distance.

The incredible work took nine years to complete from start to finish, and involved more than 150 researchers and 22 institutions along the way, including representatives from Princeton University, Baylor College of Medicine in Texas, and the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle.

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The late and over-budget Constellation class design is still in flux, with only 15% commonality with the frigate it’s based on, not 85% as planned.

The Register.

This year will be Ground Zero for the commercialization of satellite smartphone services, but a key question is whether operators will charge extra for this capability or include it as part of customer subscriptions.

A report by mobile industry analyst GSMA Intelligence says that the monetization of satellite services may hinge on whether mobile operators decide to charge for them, with a mixture of approaches already evident.

To be clear, we’re talking about satellite connectivity with unmodified, standard smartphones, for when you’re out of cellular range or service, not dedicated sat-phones that have been around for years already.

T-Mobile in the US, for example, has already said that satellite service will be included at no extra cost on high-value subscriptions, while customers on other plans can add the service for $15 per month. The company announced a beta service in February, which offers just text messages for now, with data and voice calls coming later.

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Sweden has seen a significant rise in the number of mosques over the past few decades, with estimates suggesting a 4,200% increase in less than 25 years, according to Samnytt. Meanwhile, membership in the Swedish Lutheran Church, once the state church, has dropped below 50% of the population.

Exact figures on mosques are uncertain due to the lack of official data. The Swedish Agency for Support to Religious Communities (SST) estimates there are around 300 mosques today, up from just seven “permanent prayer places” in 2000. However, since mosques are not required to register with the state and many operate in informal spaces like storefronts or basements, the true number could be higher. There is also little public information on their financing or the content of their teachings.

Funding for mosque construction comes from both domestic and international sources. The SST allocates millions of kronor yearly to Muslim organizations, which distribute funds to local congregations. Additionally, countries such as Saudi Arabia, Iran, Qatar, and Turkey have contributed to or fully financed mosque projects. In 2017, the leftist outlet ETC reported that one in four mosques in Sweden was built with Saudi funding.

Some mosques have faced scrutiny. The Saudi-financed Gothenburg mosque has been criticized for sharing misogynistic content, while Stockholm’s Imam Ali mosque, linked to Iran, has hosted speakers promoting martyrdom and sacrifice for Islam. Despite these concerns, no comprehensive study of mosque financing or activities has been undertaken.

Swedish authorities, including the Security Services (SÄPO) and the Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB), have warned that foreign states may use mosques to exert geopolitical and religious influence. Critics argue this lack of oversight is a growing issue.

According to a 2017 Pew Research Center report, 8.1% of Sweden’s population was Muslim, a figure surpassed only by France (8.8%) and Bulgaria (11.1%) in Europe. Some projections suggest that by 2050, Muslims could make up over 30% of Sweden’s population.

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In an article published today at the New York Post, journalist Emily Crane described the Darién Gap route as a “ghost town” after just four months of the illegal migration crackdown from the Trump administration.

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A top House panel that oversees public land policies is investigating five green groups that brokered a settlement with federal officials in the waning days of the Biden administration, forcing family-owned ranches to vacate their leases on federal property over environmental concerns, the Washington Free Beacon has learned.

Under the January 2025 settlement between the green groups, owners of 11 multi-generational ranches, and the National Park Service, 12 of the 14 existing organic dairies and cattle ranches located across Point Reyes National Seashore in northern California will be abandoned by early 2026. The agreement was made possible by the Nature Conservancy, a Virginia-based group which financed the agreement and will pay the ranchers an undisclosed sum of money.

The settlement is the culmination of a lawsuit the green groups in question filed against the National Park Service in 2022. The lawsuit argued that the agency had illegally leased Point Reyes National Seashore property for commercial beef and dairy ranching “despite the significant harm that it causes to environmental, scenic, and recreational values.” Environmental activists have long attacked ranching, arguing it destroys surrounding habitats and produces carbon emissions.

The Foundry.

The White House has begun to cut funding for a federal program that drives climate alarmism and bolsters the narrative that burning fossil fuels will doom the environment.

The Trump administration is cutting funding for the U.S. Global Change Research Program, which produces a National Climate Assessment. Agencies across the government use the assessment to justify directing taxpayer dollars to fighting the specter of climate change.

President George H.W. Bush signed the Global Change Research Act of 1990, which directs the administration to release the assessment every four years. The law does not require the assessment to come to biased conclusions in favor of climate alarmism, however.

The government report gives a veneer of respectability to the claims that scientists all agree that burning fossil fuels will lead to catastrophic climate change. This justifies massive boondoggles like the so-called Inflation Reduction Act.

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The French National Assembly has just been the scene of a serious altercation between staffers of the far-left party La France insoumise (LFI) and the right-wing investigative media outlet Frontières, in which the staffers resorted to violence as they tried to remove the reporters from the premises. On Wednesday, April 9th, parliamentary staffers from the far-left LFI party gathered at the National Assembly in protest against the publication of a major feature by the conservative magazine Frontières entitled “LFI: le parti de l’étranger” (LFI: the party of the foreigner), which highlights the party’s links with Hamas and Islamist lobbies.

Three Frontières journalists went to the site to cover the protest. When identified by the LFI protesters, tempers quickly flared and the journalists were physically attacked by parliamentary staff. Videos have since been circulating on X that show the aggression towards the three journalists—one of whom was a woman—with the involvement from Raphaël Arnault, an LFI MP who, by the way, has been placed on a watchlist by the French police as a possible national security threat..

The President of the National Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet, issued a press release—placing almost all the responsibility for the violence on Frontières. The statement said nothing to condemn the actions of LFI as a blatant attack on press freedom. “Any action that could be considered as a stunt or provocation of any kind will not be tolerated. Failure to comply with these rules may result in restrictions on access to the Assembly and withdrawal of accreditation. The President of the National Assembly will ensure, in a firm and balanced manner, that they are respected. She will reiterate this in a letter to the media outlet Frontières”, the statement read.

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The House Oversight Committee’s subpanel on government efficiency held a hearing Tuesday exposing billions of taxpayer dollars wasted annually on outdated federal buildings.

Republican Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who leads the Subcommittee on Delivering Government Efficiency, opened the hearing by slamming federal agencies for maintaining a bloated real estate footprint. She pledged to continue pushing to “right-size” the federal government’s real estate portfolio.

“Here in D.C., [the Government Accountability Office] found in 2023 that the vast majority of federal agency headquarters buildings were less than 25% occupied—some much less,” Greene said. “Meanwhile, from 2022 to 2024, the backlog of deferred maintenance on the aging buildings the government owns grew from $216 billion to $370 billion. That’s more than one-third of a trillion dollars it will cost to restore them—if we don’t sell them.”

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West Yorkshire Police (WYP) is currently blocking white British applicants from its police constable entry programmes, according to reports. Aiming to ‘boost diversity,’ black and Asian candidates are being advised to apply early before the vacancies are made open to other potential recruits.

WYP’s goal is to address the problem of “under-represented” groups in the workforce. This is despite it already spending a police record minimum of £1m (€1.17m) a year employing 19 diversity, equality and inclusion (DEI) staff. Its website admits that it accepts

applications all year round from these under-represented [ethnic] groups [while white British candidates must wait until] our recruitment process is open.

Employed in police human resources, a WYP whistleblower claimed that a candidate rating system is in force. While black and East Asian candidates were ranked “gold”—and south-east Asians “silver”—“white others”, such as candidates from Irish and eastern European backgrounds—were tiered “bronze.” This means the recruitment process is being distorted at the insistence of senior officers. Separately, vacancies were not made directly available to the public but emailed out to selected applicants using a ‘Positive Action’ mailing list.

UK Daily Record.

The UK and various European countries have recently advised citizens to prepare emergency kits with at least 72 hours’ worth of essential supplies.

Fresh advice issued to UK residents by the government suggests they should keep a 72-hour emergency kit ready at home, sparking confusion about what should be included and how to store the additional supplies like cans of baked beans and water bottles. The recent encouragement from both UK authorities and European countries reminds everyone to prepare emergency kits packed with at least three days’ worth of supplies.

A handgun, of course, is not included–nor is any kind of knife, axe, or wrecking bar.

ZMan explains it all to you.

Warren Buffet famously said, “Only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked.” The point of this metaphor is that in economic downturns you learn who has been taking excessive risks. Another way of putting it is that in easy times, everyone can be a hero or a genius. This has been the case for the American financial system for over thirty years. As long as credit money kept expanding, everyone had a chance to look like a financial genius.

This explains the prevalence of people in the financial media who somehow get everything wrong but maintain their status as experts. The most notable of this sort is Jim Cramer who has made a career out of being outlandishly wrong. Paul Krugman wrote a column for years about the economy, despite never being right about it. These are two famous examples, but the commentariat is littered with these types. As long as the arrow kept going up, being wrong was good money.

The trouble is that the entire financial industry is built on this premise. Being wrong comes with no penalty, because wrongness rarely comes with a cost. Sure, the MegaBrain Capital Fund might not perform as well as random guessing, but because the arrow always goes up, even the bad bets pay off. This also means anyone spouting random gibberish can present himself as an expert. Tens of thousands of mortgage payments, maybe hundreds of thousands, rest on this assumption.

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The US income tax system is still a progressive tax system, where those with the most income pay not only the most taxes but also the highest tax rates.

I went to the IRS website (You can Google IRS TAX STATS) and found the breakdowns for income taxes paid for several years. Let’s look at 2020, Trump’s last full year in office…

The richest Americans — those with incomes over 2 million dollars in 2020 — paid an effective tax rate of 26.68%.

The middle class — those with incomes between 75,000 and 200,000 dollars — paid an effective tax rate of 10.12%.

The poorest — those with incomes less than 25,000 dollars — paid an effective rate of 1.04%.

How does this compare to, say, Obama’s last year? Let’s look at 2016…

The poorest Americans paid an effective tax rate of 1.7%. Between 2016 & 2020, their effective tax rate went down by almost half, from 1.7% to 1%.

The middle class paid an effective rate of 11.69% in 2016. Their taxes also went down, but not nearly by almost half. They went from an effective tax rate of 11.69% in 2016 to 10.01% in 2020.

And the richest? They got a break too. But a tiny one. Their effective tax rate went from a rate of 27.0% to 26.67%.

It is a fact (whether you like it or not) that those who pay most of the taxes will benefit most from tax relief.

If I am paid $1,000,000 a year and pay tax at a 20% rate, I will owe $2oo,00 in tax. If my tax rate is changed to 19%, I’ll get to keep $10,000 more of my own money.

If you are paid $50,000 and pay tax at a 10% rate, you will owe $5,000 in tax. If your tax rate is changed to 9%, you will get to keep $500 more of your own money.

This is the hard truth of plain mathematics that proglodytes can’t stand.

BUT I’M A DEMOCRAT!

The Foundry.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was arrested on Feb. 12, 1974, for speaking out about the evils of Soviet communism. The next day, he was exiled to the West and would not touch Russian soil again for more than 15 years.

On the day of his arrest, Solzhenitsyn published an essay titled “Live Not by Lies.” The four-page essay was a call for civic courage: The end of Soviet totalitarianism would begin only when the Russian people refused to accept the regime’s lies.

Solzhenitsyn’s essay inspired the title of Rod Dreher’s 2020 book “Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents.” Almost five years later, Angel Studios has turned Dreher’s book into a four-part documentary series focusing on the stories of the brave souls that stood up to communist regimes. Dreher joined “The Signal Sitdown” to give a behind-the-scenes look at the Angel Studios project.

Dreher started working on “Live Not by Lies” when he received a shocking phone call.

“I got a call from a doctor in the Midwest who had reached out to me through a mutual friend. He said, ‘I have to tell somebody what’s going on,’” Dreher recalled. “What he said was his elderly mother, who lived with him and his wife, had been a political prisoner in Communist Czechoslovakia in the 1950s. They imprisoned her—the communists did—because she was a spy for the Vatican, meaning she wouldn’t stop going to church when they told her to.”

“But in 2015, she told her son, ‘The things I see happening in this country, the United States, remind me of what it was like when the communists first came to power in Czechoslovakia,’” Dreher said.

Even Dreher was skeptical. “I thought it was a little extreme at first, but the more I started talking to people—when I would go to conferences or travel—people who had come to America to escape Soviet communism, I would just ask them, ‘Do you see parallels to what you left behind?’”

“Every single one of them said yes, and if you talked to them long enough, they would get really angry that Americans didn’t take them seriously,” Dreher said.

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Recently, a young Black male killed another young White male. This is hardly news, seeing as how every day, young Black males kill. It’s a ‘hood workout. The apparent motive in this case, was that the young Black male felt “disrespected.” In ghetto culture, you don’t accept “disrespect.” You have to respond, too often in a deadly way.

Now why this story has become national news is puzzling. The young victim, an honor roll high school student named Austin Metcalf, who was a Division 1 college football prospect, is no different than countless other White victims of Black pathology who remain anonymous because the crimes were ignored by mainstream media. The murderer is named Karmelo Anthony. We were assured that he came from a good home, unlike the vast majority of young Black killers. In this case, Anthony appears to have wandered into the tent provided for members of Metcalf’s high school track team. Maybe Karmelo forgot what school he went to. Metcalf asked him to leave, because the tent was reserved for track players at his particular high school. Now, no one asks a young Black man to leave any place. If he’s there, he must have a reason. So, Karmelo felt “disrespected.” And he responded in an appropriate ghetto style.

According to Austin’s twin brother, who will be haunted for the rest of his life by reliving the indescribable agony of his twin dying in his arms, Austin represented no threat to Karmelo. Austin didn’t bring a knife, or any other weapon, to a track meet. Karmelo Anthony did. The mainstream media normally suppresses stories like this, because they are so common that even the comatose “normies” might eventually start wondering. But they did report this one. Why? And the reaction has been predictable; uniform and irrational Black solidarity online. I’m sure Joy Reid and the shrews from The View will be chiming in soon. There is no other racial group that would attempt to justify cold blooded murder. You couldn’t find a single White person on earth defending this killer, if the races were reversed. This case is as cut and dry as can be. A knife to the heart for being asked to move from a restricted area?

“Among other evils which being unarmed brings you, it causes you to be despised.” — Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince, c. 14.

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What if I told you that when federal district judges issue injunctions blocking President Donald Trump’s policies in a judicial insurrection, they were the ones breaking the law?

No, it’s not just because these judges are effectively usurping the authority of the president over the executive branch. It’s more clear-cut than that.

When Chief Judge James Boasberg of the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., issued an order demanding the Trump administration return reputed members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua to the U.S., he wasn’t just making immigration policy—he was violating a black-and-white rule laid down by the U.S. Supreme Court.

NBC News, a Voice of the Crust.

he Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered that, for now, President Donald Trump is not required to reinstate two members of independent federal agencies he wants to fire.

The provisional decision affects Gwynne Wilcox, a member of the National Labor Relations Board, and Cathy Harris, a member of the Merit Systems Protection Board.

Chief Justice John Roberts issued an order that temporarily blocked lower court rulings that said the two officials should be reinstated.

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The head of the nation’s largest health care union “has for years used the politically influential union’s funds to benefit himself, his family and political allies,” Politico reported after reviewing thousands of pages of financial records and interviewing more than 20 current and former union staffers.

George Gresham, president of the 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East, spent more than $60,000 in union funds on hotel stays, meals, and transportation for his daughter to accompany him as a caregiver on business trips, according to Politico. The union also paid over $86,000 for Gresham’s flights to South Africa and $17,000 for his extended stay at a Bronx hotel—even though he owns a home nearby and earns a $300,000 annual salary.

“Whatever George needs, they find the money to do it,” one union employee told Politico, while a former staffer said that “it was clear I wasn’t supposed to ask questions about a whole bunch of stuff.” Another staffer said that, unlike Gresham, “our members don’t get an unlimited piggy bank where they can just tap it anytime they need something.” Nearly all of the interviewed staffers requested anonymity for fear of retaliation by Gresham and his allies, Politico reported.

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Russia’s ongoing war in Ukraine exposed the harsh reality that energy dependence can pose a threat to national security. For too long, Romania, like much of Europe, has relied on imported Russian fossil fuels, leaving families and businesses vulnerable to geopolitical manipulation. If Romania is to secure its future, it must cut its reliance on unstable suppliers and invest in domestic energy.

A solution for achieving energy independence? Nuclear energy. Specifically, small modular reactors. These reactors are currently developed in partnership with the United States as a clean, scalable, and safe source of energy.

Romania can benefit from safe, sustainable power generation, strengthen its economy, and attain true energy independence with America’s innovative assistance and technology.

Perhaps if enough desperate small countries try SMRs, and they work, the sclerotic energy establishment in the U.S. will get a clue and reduce the regulatory burden sufficiently for them to take hold in this country as well.

We can only hope.

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The things your doctor tells you ain’t necessarily so.

Babylon Bee.

Aye, there’s the rub … so to speak.

The Bullshitwark, a Voice of the Crust.

William Kriston loses his shit.

Jennifer Rubin loses her shit.

Salon, a Voice of the Crust.

Amanda Marcotte loses her shit.

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President Donald Trump’s tax cuts from his first term helped low- and medium-income earners more than high earners, a new study from The Heartland Institute found.

The conservative think tank based in Illinois examined Internal Revenue Service data from 2017, the year Trump signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act into law, through 2022, the most recent year that tax data is available.

While all income earners got lower rates, high earners paid a larger portion of the tax burden from 2018-2022 compared to 2017 when the tax law was not in effect, the study found.

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If they didn’t do it for Biden, they certainly won’t do it for Trump.

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A significant portion of unemployed people in Germany have a migrant background. According to the federal employment office, 1.5 million out of the 2.8 million unemployed are migrants—they represent 54% of the total.

Among the migrants, 1,1 million people, 39% of all unemployed people, are foreigners—people without German citizenship. This means that they are hugely overrepresented in the unemployment figures, as foreigners make up 16% of the total population.

There is a similar trend among the long-term unemployed—defined as those who have been out of work for two years or more. Of the 881,000 long-term unemployed in Germany, 52% have a migrant background.

Differences between Germans and non-Germans also run through the levels of education. While 51% of unemployed Germans have not completed vocational training, the figure is almost 82% for non-Germans.

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Democrat Hawaii Sen. Brian Schatz is blocking more than 300 of President Donald Trump’s nominees from swift confirmation votes despite previously criticizing efforts to stall nominations during the Biden administration.

Schatz’s blockade on hundreds of Trump nominees and at least nine bipartisan foreign relations bills comes as Senate Democrats are escalating opposition tactics against the Trump administration to appease their left-wing base. Schatz, a member of Senate Democrat leadership, previously criticized Republican Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s decision to place holds on military officials’ promotions as “obstruction” and “antithetical” to the Senate’s “advice and consent” responsibilities.

Schatz expanded his holds on Trump nominees to include individuals tapped to serve across 12 agencies, such as former New York Republican Rep. Anthony D’Esposito whom Trump appointed to a Department of Labor position, Axios reported.