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Or not, as it pleases you.

The Enneagram is a powerful tool that helps us understand our motivations, core beliefs, and unconscious patterns that drive our behavior. We have all 9 Types in us, although one of the Enneagram Types is dominant for each of us. A good place to start with the Enneagram is in learning about all 9 Types and identifying our own dominant Enneagram Type.

How this differs from astrology eludes me.

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Integral theory as developed by Ken Wilber is a synthetic metatheory aiming to unify a broad spectrum of Western theories and models and Eastern meditative traditions within a singular conceptual framework. The original basis, which dates to the 1970s, is the concept of a “spectrum of consciousness”[1] that ranges from archaic consciousness to the highest form of spiritual consciousness, depicting it as an evolutionary developmental model.[2] This model incorporates stages of development as described in structural developmental stage theories, as well as eastern meditative traditions and models of spiritual growth, and a variety of psychic and supernatural experiences.

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Kohlberg’s theory of moral development outlines how individuals progress through six stages of moral reasoning, grouped into three levels: preconventional, conventional, and postconventional.

At each level, people make moral decisions based on different factors, such as avoiding punishment, following laws, or following universal ethical principles.

This theory shows how moral understanding evolves with age and experience.

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While foreign nationals account for only 8% of the total population in Saxony, 26.9% of all crimes in 2024 were committed by immigrants and undocumented individuals. The number of crimes committed by foreigners may be even higher, as people with dual citizenship are recorded as German in the statistics.

Following a parliamentary inquiry submitted by Sebastian Wippel, a member of the Saxony state parliament representing the right-wing populist Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), the Saxon Ministry of the Interior released the statistics for crimes committed in 2024 involving suspected asylum seekers.

Out of a total of 6,564 crimes reported in connection with asylum seekers, 4,839 involved suspects classified as ‘tolerated persons’—individuals who are required to leave the country but whose deportation has been temporarily suspended.

Among crimes against sexual self-determination, which include offenses such as sexual assault, there were 197 cases involving asylum seekers and 84 involving refugees under protection status.

Violent crimes and offenses against personal freedom, including physical assaults and threats, made up another significant portion of the statistics. Tolerated persons were suspected in 1,349 of these cases, in addition to 1,853 cases involving asylum seekers and hundreds more from other immigration statuses.

It may be no coincidence that in the federal election in March, 38.5% of Saxony’s first vote went to immigration-critical AfD.

Letting immigrants from the Turd World into your country is usually a mistake.

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Two Turkish men suspected of being involved in the brutal murder of two of their compatriots in Germany, were arrested on Tuesday, April 22nd.

The bodies of the two victims, both with gunshot wounds, were found in front of a residential address on Saturday in Bad Nauheim, a town north of Frankfurt.

The victims were a man, 59, and his 28 year-old son-in-law, both of Turkish nationality, who had no previous dealings with the police.

The two men arrested on Tuesday, aged 31 and 36, are said to have ordered the murders. They have no criminal record. The shooter himself is still on the run.

As we recently reported, the number of asylum seekers suspected of violent crimes saw a dramatic increase in Germany in 2024. The authorities registered a staggering increase of 47.6% among Turkish nationals compared to the previous year.

Letting immigrants from the Turd World into your country is usually a mistake.

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Between 2016 and 2024, the European Union spent upwards of €150 million on education in Pakistan, according to a 2024 report entitled Pakistan, Education System, Curriculum and EU Funding, authored by Sallux/ECPM (the European Christian Political Movement).

The ECPM report contains over 40 pages of excerpts and pictures from textbooks which show that the views expressed in Pakistan’s official curriculum are not compatible with the EU values expressed in its Charter of Fundamental Rights.

This misuse of EU taxpayers’ money was revealed at a gathering at the United Nations headquarters in Geneva during the recent 58th Session of the UN Human Rights Council.

The Foundry.

Recent votes to continue secret gender “transitions” in schools and to remove public access to the Fairfax County, Virginia, sex education committee cap years of deceit by Fairfax elected officials. For a decade now they have inserted themselves between parents and children where they should most defer: in sensitive areas of mental health and sexuality.

The Financial Times, a Voice of the Crust.

The Financial Times is the British analog of the Wall Street Journal — if the Wall Street Journal were run by the staff of Mother Jones.

*sigh* Thera are no ‘MAGA Catholics’, just Catholics who are tired of Woke changes in the church.

The FT just uses that phrase to smear traditionally-inclined Roman Catholics, because MAGA is the New Nigger.

Newsbusters.

Wikipedia handles the leftist propagandists at National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) with kid gloves, all while it bars editors from citing nearly every right-leaning media source.

The online encyclopedia revealed its true colors when it rated NPR and PBS as “generally reliable” in its permissible sources list for editors, despite ample evidence of the two publicly-funded media outlets’ flagrant bias. But Wikipedia rated every single right-leaning media outlet included in the list as “blacklisted,” “deprecated,” “generally unreliable” or “no consensus.” Both NPR and PBS are partially funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) and have been under the gun in Washington, D.C. due to their leftist bias and public funding.

Wikipedia assigns ratings ranging from “generally reliable” to literally “blacklisted” to determine whether and where publications can be cited on the online encyclopedia. In a previous report, MRC Free Speech America found that Wikipedia labeled 84 percent of the listed left-leaning media sources featured here as “generally reliable,” including NPR. Wikipedia then smeared 22 out of 29 right-leaning sources with negative labels, while the other seven fell under “no consensus.”

Associated Press, a Voice of the Crust.

The U.S. Army has suspended a Wisconsin training base’s first female commander after discovering portraits of President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had been flipped around to face a wall.

The Army has posted an undated statement on Fort McCoy’s website saying Col. Sheyla Baez Ramirez has been suspended as the base’s garrison commander. The statement said the suspension isn’t related to any misconduct but provided no other details, saying the matter was under review.

The Department of Defense on April 14 posted photos on X showing portraits of Trump and Hegseth on the base’s chain of command wall had been turned to face the wall, along with photos showing that they had been flipped back to face the corridor.

ZMan says the quiet part out loud.

Wednesday, April 23 was supposed to be a big meeting of Western countries and Ukraine in London where the Trump administration would make its final push for peace to end the war in Ukraine. The meeting was canceled due to the Ukrainians announcing in advance that they were not interested in any deal that would require them to make concessions. This prompted Marco Rubio to cancel the meeting, at least the portion involving decision-makers from the administration.

The lead-up to this now-canceled meeting has been a microcosm of how the Western political system now operates. For example, the period before the meeting featured stories in prominent nodes of the Western information control system about the secret details of the Trump plan. The sources for these stories were never mentioned, most likely because they did not exist. Instead, it was members of the Kagan cult, former Biden people, or schemers in the British government.

It was clear that these stories were coordinated as they all featured the same narrative and much of the same language. For example, they dusted off the old 2024 narrative of a freeze along the front line, something Russia has always rejected as both unacceptable and impossible to implement. The stories also all framed the deal as a major concession by Putin, the subtext being that he is now desperate for a way out of the war he started for no reason at all.

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Another major e-commerce player is departing from Delaware as corporations pack up and find a new domicile for their businesses.

Affirm Holdings Inc., a publicly held American technology firm with a market cap of about $14 billion, is preparing a move to either Nevada or Texas, reports GuruFocus.

Affirm, founded in 2012 by PayPal co-founder Max Levchin, handles financial services for merchants and shoppers. The company is headquartered in San Francisco but seeking shareholder approval to move its corporate domicile from Delaware.

ProPublica, a Voice of the Wokerati.

China’s vast security apparatus shrouds itself in shadows, but the outside world has caught periodic glimpses of it behind the faded gray walls of Shijiazhuang prison in the northern province of Hebei.

Chinese media reports have shown inmates hunched over sewing machines in a garment workshop in the sprawling facility. Business leaders and Chinese Communist Party dignitaries have praised the penitentiary for exemplifying President Xi Jinping’s views on the rule of law.

But the prison has an alarming secret, U.S. congressional investigators disclosed last year. They revealed evidence showing that it is a Chinese government outpost in the trafficking pipeline that inundates the United States with fentanyl.

It’s nice to see a proglodyte mouthpiece write something like real news other than just Orange Man Bad.

Like this one: The Trump Administration’s War on Children  There is, of course, no ‘war on children’; it’s merely shutting off the spigot of Federal taxpayer dollars that are nominally for the benefit of children but actually wind up in the pockets of bureaucrats and socially parasitic NGOs.

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Making the rounds this past week were comments by a Mexican archeologist regarding the discovery of a Mayan altar at which child sacrifices were performed.

As reported by CBS News, the altar, found in Tikal National Park, showed “the remains of three children not older than 4 years,” according to the scholar who led the discovery team.

The savagery of how such sacrifices were performed, however, is not brought up. Instead, we merely read how Tikal was “a cosmopolitan center,” a “center of cultural convergence,” and how the altar had a “figure representing the Storm Goddess.”

CBS also managed to get a comment from an archeologist not affiliated with the findings at Tikal. How come? Probably because María Belén Méndez of the National Autonomous University of Mexico said the child sacrifices were merely “a practice.”

I’ve Got a Little List (W.S. Gilbert)

…
Then the idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone
All centuries but this, and every country but his own;
And the lady from the provinces, who dresses like a guy….

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Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) humiliated herself on Sunday when asked if she regretted her repeated praise of former President Joe Biden’s mental fitness, which continued until the moment he dropped out of the race. “I said what I believed to be true,” Warren said during an interview with liberal podcaster Sam Fragoso. “Look, he was sharp, he was on his feet. I saw him [at a] live event, I had meetings with him a couple of times … the question is, what are we gonna do now?”

Warren, who is best known for pretending to be Native American, was almost certainly lying.

Oh, ya think?

From the moment Biden shuffled on stage at the CNN debate and bragged about beating Medicare in June 2024, there has been a steady stream of revelations about all the Democrats who were (privately) concerned or even shocked by the extent of Biden’s cognitive decline since taking office in 2021. They didn’t say anything at the time, obviously, because they didn’t want to anger the president—a notoriously vindictive narcissist—and they didn’t want to help Donald Trump by validating his attacks on Biden’s fitness for office. Two recently published books—Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House by Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes, and Uncharted: How Trump Beat Biden, Harris, and the Odds in the Wildest Campaign in History by Chris Whipple—shed even more light on the Democratic Party’s abject failure to stop Biden from running for reelection, even though many believed he was too old and cognitively impaired to serve another four years.

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Estonia catapulted back into international news after it recently seized an alleged vessel from Russia’s so-called “shadow fleet”, to which Russia had a restrained reaction for the pragmatic reasons explained here, but it’s also been stirring up trouble with Russia in other ways too. The aforementioned provocation coincides with the passing of a law allowing Estonia to sink foreign vessels that it deems to pose a national security threat. It’s possible that this could be the next planned regional escalation.

On the security front, Estonia also reportedly wants to deploy some of its troops to Ukraine as part of a peacekeeping mission jointly led by France and the UK. Moreover, there’s always the chance that the UK decides to transform its rotational ~1,000-troop military presence in Estonia into a permanent fixture. That would make it the third NATO member to do so in the region after the US (in Poland and Romania) and Germany (in Lithuania). This could be sold as a hedge against the US withdrawing some of its troops.

Estonia’s internal situation is also becoming increasingly tense as a result of three interconnected developments.

Tim Graham.

Is there any political schtick more tedious now than comparing President Donald Trump to Hitler? Politico posted an article noting Al Gore did this at a Climate Week event in San Francisco, and RealClearPolitics co-founder Tom Bevan tweeted with a smirk, “Gore says the same thing Democrats have been saying for a decade.”

The Democrats campaigned heavily in 2024 claiming Trump represented an end to democracy, and they lost the election. But it hasn’t slowed them down in the slightest.

The “independent fact-checkers” who act as a publicity arm of the Democrats never “fact-check” anyone calling Trump a “fascist” or comparing him to Hitler or Mussolini or Pol Pot or “insert mass-murdering dictator here.” PolitiFact screeches “Pants on Fire” when a Republican calls a Democrat a “socialist,” but “fascist” is always fair for categorizing conservatives.

Newsbusters.

The New York Times has a nasty, Soviet-style habit of putting political personalities they don’t approve of on the psychiatrist couch. Elisabeth Bumiller, writer at large for the New York Times and a former Washington Bureau Chief at the paper, issued a self-righteous, unprofessional screed in Monday’s “Washington Memo” slot, “In the Words of the Trump Billionaires Who Run the Economy,” in which she psychoanalyzed Trump-supporting billionaires and condemned them as soulless monsters bereft of empathy.

The opening sounds like something from a left-wing group’s press release, but this is a news story in the Times.

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When an unflagged vessel smuggling advanced arms to the al-Shabaab jihadi group was spotted in the waters off Somalia last week, there was no time to send a boarding party to interdict it, a U.S. defense official told The War Zone Tuesday morning. So, U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) made a rare decision, calling in an airstrike. The ability to do so was, in large measure, made possible by new authorities given to commanders to act, the official told us. This is meant to speed up critical kill chains and increase the effectiveness of the force that has to keep ahead of enemies on a fast-moving modern battlefield. But even with the clear benefits of increased authorities down the chain of command and forward in the field, there can be added risks.

“This was a time-sensitive issue,” said the official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss operational details. “They have to do things quickly. They did not have time to pull in boats.”

“In coordination with the Federal Government of Somalia, U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) conducted airstrikes against advanced conventional weapons aboard a flagless vessel and a smaller supporting vessel inside Somalia territorial waters on April 16, 2025,” the command announced. “The weapons were en route to al Shabaab terrorists inside Somalia and posed an imminent threat to partner and U.S. forces in Somalia. AFRICOM’s initial assessment is that no civilians were harmed.”

This is a positive change. One of the constant drags on U.S. military operations, present since the Viet Nam debacle, is constant micro-management of military operations by political operatives, exacerbated by modern telecommunications. Trump and his appointees bring refreshing self-awareness to this situation, setting policy and allowing military commanders the freedom to exercise their professional competence in effecting that policy, something no Democrat President has ever (since Wilson) been able to do.

ZMan jerks back the curtain.

If you consume any of the content from Hollywood produced in the last decade, you no doubt are familiar with the concept of the girl boss. This is now the main character in almost every film and television show, even creeping into video games. These days, gaming is as much about narrative as gameplay, and anywhere there are narratives being constructed or undermined, you will find girl boss. This character has even jumped into the pseudo-reality of the public square.

As usual, the Democratic Party is leading the way. Versions of girl boss are turning up in their response to what is happening in Washington. Ocasio-Cortez is waddling around the country doing the girl boss act in the hopes of running for the party nomination in 2028 and perhaps becoming the ultimate girl boss. Jasmine Crockett is making a name for herself as the black version of girl boss. This is when girl boss pretends to be a character on a daytime trash television show.

Even the old gals are getting in on the act. Elizabeth Warren no longer pretends to care about “working people,” whatever that means these days. Instead, she is doing her version of girl boss. She regularly turns up on social media explaining how things must be done, or she will call the manager. The old gal version of girl boss still has those vestiges of the Karen character that entertained and amazed during COVID. The Karen role was something of a proto-girl boss.

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The State Department is formally removing the Office of the Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, the office former president Joe Biden created and appointed John Kerry to lead as part of his aggressive agenda to combat global warming, the Washington Free Beacon has learned.

In a statement to the Free Beacon, a senior State Department official confirmed the office has been shuttered, noting that its mission did not align with the Trump administration’s agenda. Webpages for both Office of the Special Presidential Envoy for Climate and the State Department’s initiatives relating to the environment were recently deleted.

“This climate office has long been captured by ideology instead of common sense policy. The new chapter of the State Department will not include this office,” the official told the Free Beacon. “This is part of a broader effort to empower regional bureaus and embassies to effectively carry out diplomacy.”

The New Neo.

At some point during the 20th century in America, racism became the biggest sin or at least one of them. This may have occurred during the 1960s, to the best of my recollection. But at any rate it occurred – and the Democrats, who had previously been upholding and institutionalizing racism (especially in the South) managed to pin the “racist” label on the GOP. How that occurred is a long story, but the gist of it can be found here.

Once that was done, by the time Obama campaigned for president he was escalating into what I called “playing the pre-emptive race card” (I describe it in this post, with links there to earlier posts of mine). Obama specialized in accusations of racism against the GOP opposition before any had occurred, and also of redefining all criticism of himself or his policies as racist. That seemed a real turning point to me.

Once it became racist to criticize him in any way, the idea spread that criticizing any black Democrat was racist. Strangely, that “racist” accusation didn’t apply when Democrats criticized black people on the right, because by definition those conservative Republicans were allying themselves with racists and were therefore race traitors and fair game.

Once all of that was established, when the Tea Party movement – which had zero to do with racism – came into being, it was also labeled racist.

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As Colorado lawmakers consider a bill that would take custody rights away from parents who diverge from transgender orthodoxy, the Trump administration’s Education Department says that children aren’t the property of the government.

“Children do not belong to the government. They belong to parents,” Education Department spokeswoman Julie Hartman told The Daily Signal.

The Colorado House of Representatives passed a bill April 6 that would remove kids from parents’ custody for behaviors such as “misgendering” and “deadnaming” a transgender-identifying child. The bill has yet to progress in the Colorado Senate.

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A Minnesota prosecutor is allowing state employee Dylan Adams to skirt criminal charges for vandalizing Tesla cars and causing more than $20,000 in damages, even after surveillance footage caught Adams vandalizing the vehicles.

While police described the video as clear evidence that Adams committed felony-level vandalism, Hennepin county attorney Mary Moriarty (D.) declined to charge the 33-year-old, a program consultant at Democratic governor Tim Walz’s Department of Human Services. Surveillance footage shows Adams keying six parked Teslas and stripping their paint—just weeks after Walz mocked the electric car company, saying that watching Tesla stock fall gave him “a little boost during the day.”

Adams is not a political appointee, a Walz administration spokesperson said.

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As illegal crossing fall rapidly at the U.S.-Mexico border under President Donald Trump, a dramatic shift is also taking place at the border with Canada, according to recent data from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

Newsbusters.

At 94 years old, leftist billionaire George Soros has established the blueprint for how his enormous Open Society Foundations, fueled with $32 billion of his fortune, will continue fulfilling his dark vision throughout the world under the leadership of his more extreme son Alex. Part of that vision involves using the ever-evolving specter of climate change as a springboard to impel the world towards a New World Order. The utopia that the elder Soros envisions is one that has banned fossil fuels, with everyday human existence regulated into oblivion. The COVID pandemic in 2020 provided what he called a “revolutionary moment” to recognize what kind of social control could be accomplished.

MRC Business, in partnership with Bongino Report, conducted a three-month investigation into the Soros empire’s reach into the global climate-change movement. We uncovered a vast radical leftist network of hundreds of powerful Soros-funded grassroots organizations, universities, and international NGOs with influence in some of the most powerful policy-making institutions, such as the United Nations.

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An interfaith group of parents says forcing elementary school children to participate in instruction that contradicts their religious beliefs on sex and gender violates their First Amendment rights.

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Illinois Republican state Rep. Dan Ugaste is speaking out against a “nationwide literacy crisis” that counts Illinois among the more than 40 states where just one out of every three fourth grade students are now meeting reading proficiency standards.

Data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress report card shows that in Illinois, just 30% of fourth graders are hitting such standards.

In a 2024 national exam, the state’s students finished 29th in the country for the percentage of fourth graders at or above proficiency.

Look for … the Union label….

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Last week I wrote about the Grand Mufti of Pakistan, who had just announced a mandatory global jihad to liberate “Palestine” on behalf of the Ummah, the worldwide body of the Islamic faithful.

Now would be a good time to dust off some of my decades-old material about waqf, which is the principle codified in Islamic law on which the Grand Mufti’s call to jihad is based.

According to the time-honored doctrines of Islamic jurisprudence, any plot of ground that has ever been conquered or occupied by Muslims remains the sacred territory of the Ummah in perpetuity. It doesn’t matter what may have occurred later — the Reconquista, the establishment of Israel, the Raj in India — Muslim land is Muslim land forever.

Legally recognized domains of Islam are considered to be held as a waqf, or scared trust, by the entire Ummah. These waqf territories include not only current Muslim-majority nations and previously conquered lands, but also the buildings and grounds of mosques and madrassas, Muslim cemeteries, and even the homes and community buildings where Muslims live and congregate.

Western officials do not realize the significance of opening an official Muslim cemetery within their jurisdiction, but the Muslims do: they know that by doing so they have carved out a little piece of Dar al-Islam within Dar al-Harb, in perpetuity.

This is an important issue that until recently was of no concern in the West. But India is another matter: since most of India was at one time or another conquered territory for Islam, the waqf issue there is very real and urgent. India has Waqf Boards (or councils) charged with overseeing Islamic real estate. Based on waqf principles, the Taj Mahal has been claimed by Muslims as Islamic property.

Babylon Bee.

It would be a refreshing change….

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Arizona Democratic Party chairman Robert Branscomb II accused his party’s U.S. senators of trying to intimidate and coerce him, prompting sharp rebukes from state and federal officials and pointing to a deep rupture in the state party.

Branscomb alleged in a Saturday morning email to party members that Arizona senators Mark Kelly and Ruben Gallego, both Democrats, “threatened” and “intimidated” him after he appointed an executive director who is not their preferred choice. According to Branscomb, one of the senators vowed to “no longer support or participate in state party fundraising,” while the other told Branscomb to reverse the decision or “face consequences.”

Within hours, Arizona’s Democratic officials—in a statement sent by party vice chair Aaron Marquez—fired back. The senators—along with Governor Katie Hobbs, Secretary of State Adrian Fontes, and Attorney General Kris Mayes—said that “the Chair has lost our trust” and slammed Branscomb’s accusation as “the kind of bad-faith response we’ve come to expect from leadership,” according to Arizona’s 12News.

Antigone.

Name that Order!

Governing the election of a new Pope of Rome. (There are other Popes; the title was first used by the Patriarch of Alexandria.)

Read it in English.

Read it in Latin, the definitive text.

Sede vacante nihil innovetur.

The movie SHOES OF THE FISHERMAN, which Anthony Quinn, gives an excellent depiction of the death of one Pope of Rome and the election of his successor, although using the traditional composition of the College of Cardinals before it was expanded by Paul VI.

UK Daily Record.

Obviously the lion was an environmentalist.

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he internet age has allowed for the uncompromising demystification of all sorts of public archetypes. Sectors once held in high regard, or at least intense intrigue, have suffered from a dramatic drop in prestige as more comes to be known about the true nature of those who fill their ranks. Social media is awash with people from once-respected professions like academia, journalism, or law repeatedly making fools of themselves, exposing their intellectual vacuity for all to see, and being humiliatingly dunked on by random nobodies with anime profile pictures and usernames best not repeated. In doing so, they have been shorn of the high social status that they were once deferentially afforded on the assumption that most members of these professions were fundamentally interesting, capable, or at least replete with stories and opinions worth listening to. The more we see of who they truly are, the more banal and petty these figures appear.

But perhaps the archetype that has suffered the greatest collapse in perceived stature from unfiltered online exposure is the jihadi.

ZMan talks about the gathering….

One of the amusing sideshows since Trump has taken power is the pearl clutching from the usual suspects about the law and process. The people who sat silent as lawfare was waged against Americans for the crime of holding unapproved opinions are now suddenly concerned with the rule of law. The people who took money from tech companies to remain silent about tech censorship are now carrying on as if they are dissidents because they no longer control the discourse.

Hypocrisy is a feature of man, and it has always had a central role in American politics because America is a nation of moralizers. The one thing we have always overproduced is preachers ready to wag their bony fingers at the people as they lecture them about their many moral failings. The United States is a giant outdoor revival tent where preachers take turns performing for the crowd. When not lecturing the locals, our preachers travel the world to lecture foreigners.

Preachers need to believe they are special, perhaps even called or chosen to lead the sinners out of sin into the land of salvation. You cannot think you are a wretch and at the same time be a preacher. You can be a wretch and confess your wretchedness to the people in the pews as part of your redemption. You can testify about your former wretchedness and how you rejoined the mass of ordinary sinners. You cannot preach unless you are sure you are something special.

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The Supreme Court’s ruling in J.G.G. v. Donald J. Trump was not an unqualified triumph for the Trump administration’s deportations of foreign gang members, but it was a definite rebuke not just to Judge Boasberg, but to the entire D.C. Circuit Court shadow government.

The ACLU filed J.G.G. v. Trump in defense of five Venezuelan inmates in New York and Texas. All of the men claimed that they were not gang members and there was no indication that any of them were being deported, denying them any actual standing for coming before the court.

Especially before Judge James Boasberg who is thousands of miles away in Washington D.C.

Despite the lack of standing and the case being filed in the wrong venue, Judge James Boasberg, the chief judge of the D.C. Circuit Court, not only blocked the deportation of all gang members back to Venezuela, but ordered that planes currently over international airspace that were carrying gang members turn around and bring them back to the United States.

Boasberg fumed that the planes were not turned around on his mere word and threatened the Justice Department with repercussions for not recognizing his power over not only the entire country, but also the entire planet.

But why was a judge from the D.C. Circuit Court on a case involving inmates in Texas?

The answer is that leftist organizations and the judges of the D.C. Circuit Court were using one weird trick to seize power over the entire country (if not always the planet) and transform themselves into a shadow government able to block any Trump administration move.

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The following panel discussion featuring Erik Tegnér discusses conspiratorial plans by devotees of the Islamic State to wipe out an entire village in rural France.

Newsbusters.

This week, Democrats decided to expend their quickly diminishing political capital in defense of a deported Salvadoran illegal immigrant named Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Garcia was deported to El Salvador some weeks ago; the Department of Justice initially admitted that his deportation was an “administrative error.” It turns out that Garcia had an order withholding removal to his home country, due to his claims that returning to El Salvador would risk his life. Nonetheless, the administration flew him to that country’s Terrorism Confinement Center, where he is apparently being held to date.

Initially, a district court judge ruled that Abrego Garcia’s removal was violative of due process, and that the administration had to “facilitate” his return to the United States. The case was elevated to the Supreme Court, which found 9-0 that while the executive branch likely had the power to order his deportation, it still had to follow court orders to “facilitate” his temporary return for due process reasons. The Trump administration, for its part, claims that it has already “facilitated” his release from custody — that they’ve asked Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele nicely to release him, and that Bukele has refused. Bukele sat in the Oval Office with President Donald Trump and said just that: “The question is preposterous: how can I smuggle a terrorist into the United States?”

Regardless of the legal wrangling over the case — and there is in fact a solid legal basis to the idea that the administration ought to temporarily return Abrego Garcia just to receive a court hearing, after which he can be deported right back again — Democrats have wrong-footed themselves yet again. This week, Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., decided to fly down to El Salvador to visit Abrego Garcia; other Congressional Democrats vowed to do the same. In their telling, Abrego Garcia is an innocent caught up in the mills of wrongheaded justice.

But Abrego Garcia is indeed a nefarious character. It turns out that aside from his illegal immigration status, Garcia’s wife accused him of “violently beating her multiple times” in a 2021 court filing, according to the Daily Mail. When he was originally arrested in 2019, arrest records show he was found with cash and drugs, as well as two other members of MS-13, while wearing gear associated with MS-13. And this is the person Democrats have tried to valorize.

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While Columbia University is the reigning champion of the anti-Israel academic scene, over in New Jersey, Rutgers University is making a bold play for the title with its Center for Security, Race and Rights (CSRR). For a center housed in a 4th-tier law school at a 3rd-tier university, it has assembled a surprisingly major collection of anti-Israel academics, making it worthy of the kind of scrutiny that many 1st-tier universities are now facing.

In fact, if a university sought to bring together the largest, most diverse group of credentialed, (in)famous, BDS-supporting, Israel-hating apologists for Palestinian terrorism, it would be difficult to top the CSRR.

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Not just “Maryland Man”, but “Wrongfully Deported Maryland Man”. C’mon, guys, get with the program….

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This past week, The Atlantic ran an excellent, helpful, and important piece by David Zweig, excerpted from his forthcoming book An Abundance of Caution, which is, at least superficially, about the coronavirus pandemic and the school closures it prompted. Zweig denies that it is about the pandemic specifically, saying that it is, rather, about “the failure of the expert class.” Whatever the case, Zweig is unsparing in his criticism:

Without sufficient acknowledgment of the harms of school closures or adequate planning for unwinding this intervention, officials showed that their decisions to close were simply reactive rather than carefully considered. The decision makers set a radical project in motion with no plan on how to stop it. In effect, officials steered a car off the road, threw a cinder block on the accelerator, then jumped out of the vehicle with passengers still in the back. No one was in the front or even knew how to unstick the pedal.

The main point of Zweig’s case is that the so-called expert class was not particularly expert in this instance, which is to say that the damage it did was predictable and therefore preventable. Those in charge, whom we were all urged constantly to “trust,” were either ignorant of existing literature warning of the consequences of the actions they were taking or arrogant enough to think that they could produce outcomes different from those previously forecast.

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Pro-Israel students at Cornell University are up in arms over an upcoming spring concert funded by hundreds of thousands of dollars in mandatory student fees featuring the singer Kehlani, who has endorsed “intifada” and said bluntly, “It’s f— Israel, it’s f— Zionism.”

Kehlani is slated to headline Cornell’s Slope Day, scheduled for May 7, an annual concert that marks the end of the school year. The university announced the event in a statement touting the “multi-Grammy Award-nominated R&B artist.” It did not initially acknowledge the controversy her appearance has kicked up, though university president Michael Kotlikoff said last week that the artist will not make political statements and will forfeit her fee if she does so.

Kehlani, whose anti-Israel activism has garnered national headlines, posted a series of Instagram videos last May in which she said she had lost “any ounce of f—ing respect” for musical artists who did not publicly condemn Israel and its war on Hamas.

The musical is political, apparently. To a proglodyte, just as every German is a fascist, every Israeli is a Zionist.

UPDATE: ‘F— Israel, f— Zionism’: Cornell University Concert Headliner Sparks Uproar

UPDATE: Cornell Drops Spring Concert Headliner Kehlani After Uproar Over Singer’s Anti-Semitic Statements

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In late March, Harvard University, anticipating a funding fight with the Trump administration, suspended its School of Public Health’s longstanding research partnership with Birzeit University, a West Bank institution known for hosting Hamas military parades. But a half-dozen faculty members and affiliates who have defended Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack and accused Israel of “genocide” and “terrorism” remain at the school, a Washington Free Beacon review found.

They include the director of Harvard’s François-Xavier Bagnoud (FXB) Center for Health and Human Rights, former New York health commissioner Mary T. Bassett, who sent a message to the center’s students and faculty just one week after Oct. 7 that accused Israel of “potential genocide.” Bassett penned an article for Qatar’s Al Jazeera in February arguing that Israel aims to kill “all Palestinians in Gaza” and calling on the Jewish state to pay “reparations.”

The Center for Health and Human Rights is housed within the School of Public Health and was the primary source of collaboration between Harvard and Birzeit. Her views are widespread among the academics working underneath her. FXB Center visiting scientist Sawsan Abdulrahim, for example, posted an image of a Hamas paraglider to her since-deleted X account on Oct. 8, 2023, a nod to the terrorists who flew into the Nova music festival, massacred 364 Israelis, and took another 40 hostage. The next day, she shared a post expressing solidarity with the “Al-Aqsa Flood,” Hamas’s name for the attack.

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

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Why take a chance? That’s all I’m sayin’….