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n a landmark clash between 15th-century religious tradition and 21st-century equality mandates, the Spanish government has initiated the formal revocation of the Holy Week of Sagunto’s National Tourist Intereststatus.

The move, announced jointly by the Ministries of Tourism and Equality, comes as a direct response to a defiant vote by the Brotherhood of the Immaculate Blood of Our Lord Jesus Christ.

The brotherhood, which has operated with male-only statutes since the late Middle Ages, recently rejected a proposal to allow women into its governing body by a margin of 267 to 114 and limits participation in the Holy Week of Sagunto to males.

The Spanish Socialist government argues that the exclusion of women violates the 2007 Equality Law and the “citizen participation” requirements necessary for state-recognized tourist festivals.

While the Institute of Women asserts that such exclusions are “not tradition but discrimination,” the brotherhood and its supporters view the government’s intervention as an ideological overreach into the autonomous life of a private religious entity.

Sometimes the old ways are best.

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Apparently “dangerous climate lies” like claims there is no climate emergency should not be allowed to go unchallenged in TV programmes.

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The National Trust’s director-general has declared that Britain’s countryside remains unwelcoming to ethnic minorities, blaming everything from clothing choices to ignorance of basic rural etiquette.

This isn’t some fringe activist rant — it’s official policy from the charity tasked with protecting the nation’s heritage, straight out of the same DEI playbook that’s already consumed government agencies.

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Well, they don’t call it ‘Taxachusetts’ for no reason.

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Last year the Trump administration designated Mexico’s Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) as a terrorist group allowing the military to carry out strikes against it and its leadership, but the massive drug cartel across the border understands the weaknesses of our system all too well.

That’s why its new leader has American citizenship.

Law enforcement, intelligence agencies and the military will have to jump through all sorts of legal hoops to spy on, target or take out Juan Carlos Valencia Gonzalez, who has a $5 million bounty on his head, but the best protection in the world because he was born in California.

The new cartel leader’s drug dealing Mexican parents had a baby in America. That child became a Mexican citizen who runs a Mexican drug cartel that the government has designated as being at war with the United States, and yet we can’t simply remove his citizenship.

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The sputtering Castro-ist regime in Cuba has managed to stick to its communist roots. It’s doing this by ensuring that while everyone is “equal,” foreign stooges and social influencers willing to spread propaganda for the regime are treated more equally than others.

That’s a time-honored, socialist tradition.

Over the weekend a junket of various activists and assorted clowns traveled to Cuba and partied it up while the locals starved and lingered in darkness.

“Hundreds of tone-deaf lefty radicals flocked into Havana this weekend to meet with Communist Party officials—staying in luxury hotels and traveling in air-conditioned buses—as the rest of the island grapples with a worsening economic crisis that’s starved it of electricity, food, water and medicine,” the New York Post reported Friday.

They were part of the so-called Nuestra America Convoy that went to Cuba, according to the Post, “under the guise of handing out 20 tons of humanitarian aid to protest the United States oil blockade on Cuba.”

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‘Diversity is our strength.’ One hears this, or myriad variants of the same idea, unrelentingly. Certainly I work in an Australian university where the extent of higher-ups pushing this notion does indeed qualify as unrelenting, even matching totalitarian state levels of propaganda. But even outside the hallowed halls of impartial, politically balanced academia (did I write that with a straight face?) the mantra or cliché that diversity somehow delivers a stronger balance sheet or a more cohesive society or just better outcomes is pervasive in today’s democracies that have committed themselves to multiculturalism and to the various neo-Marxist versions of feminism. Sure, those spouting these ‘diversity is a panacea’ nostrums never cash out the claim. They never tell us precisely how ‘diversity’ is making society better or wealthier or more unified. We are all just supposed to take it on faith, as it were.

We’re just to believe the bureaucratic, political and various professional bodies’ elites who push this line, and believe it simply because they are the ones telling us it’s so.

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Ahead of next week’s three-year anniversary of Anheuser-Busch’s most epic marketing ad blunder ever, the Bud Light backlash remains intact and should serve as a case study for generations in how far-left wokeism in corporate America can destroy decades of brand-building overnight.

What began as a viral TikTok promotion featuring Dylan Mulvaney, a man pretending to be a woman, has since become one of the clearest examples of self-inflicted brand suicide in recent consumer history. The latest beer trends from Goldman suggest the brand has yet to fully recover nearly three years later.

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Newly released CIA documents reveal that the Biden regime identified “motherhood,” and “homemaking” as indicators of so-called “white racially and ethnically motivated violent extremism” (REMVE).

The Trump administration recently retracted an October 2021 intelligence assessment, titled “Women Advancing White Racially and Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremist Radicalization and Recruitment” that branded average women as domestic terrorists.

The Biden CIA invented the term “white REMVEs” to describe people they claimed “incite, facilitate or conduct violence because they believe their perception of an idealized white European ethnic identity is under attack from people who embody and support multiculturalism and globalism.”

Newsbusters.

Tuesday’s Morning Joe led with lies about the SAVE America Act, as host Joe Scarborough insisted the legislation required everyone, including his co-host, and wife, Mika Brzezinski to present their original birth certificate from their hospital of birth in order to register to vote.

That’s false. In the legislation, voters would need a passport or birth certificate to register. One can find ways to buy birth certificates from their local government offices. For example, a simple internet search for birth certificates in a person’s county will bring up links, like this from Fairfax, VA, and give options to obtaining a copy of a birth certificate.

The topic came up in an opening discussion on the SAVE ACT. Scarborough referenced Brzezinski not knowing where she was born since her mother, apparently, did not remember.

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California’s top-two primary system allows the two highest vote-getters to advance, regardless of party, and Republicans Steve Hilton and Sheriff Chad Bianco have emerged as the top contenders in the race. Unless one of the Democrat candidates break out, the two Republicans could face each other in the final runoff in November.

Hilton, 56, is a conservative commentator who formerly served as a political advisor in Great Britain. Bianco, 58, is a “law and order” sheriff and coroner of Riverside County.

Polls have consistently showed the two Republicans leading the pack.

The Trump Administration Turns a Blind Eye to White-Collar Crime (Marie Gottschalk/Bloomberg)

Democrats launch new inquiry into Corey Lewandowski (NBC News)

Conservation groups sue to block Trump efforts to ‘hastily gut’ the Kennedy Center (NBC News)

Bill Kristol: Trump Is in Way over His Head (The Bulwark)

The Crazy Bill for ICE Barbie’s Cowboy Cosplay Is Revealed (Tom Latchem/The Daily Beast)

ICE Agents Are Now Patrolling U.S. Airports. Here’s What to Know. (Gabe Castro-Root/New York Times)  Come get your Narrative, right here.

Voice of America journalists allege Trump wants to make outlet a propaganda source (David Bauder/Associated Press)  VOA was established to be a propaganda source, one in favor of America and against Communism. The problem with VOA is that it morphed under the Deep State into a vehicle for promoting Wokeness.

ICE heads to the airport (Cameron Peters/Vox)

Jason Stanley on Fascism (Michael Podhorzer/Weekend Reading)

ICE Agents Deployed To Nation’s Swamped Airports To Stand Around And Do Nothing (Barry Petchesky/Defector)

Margaret Brennan Warns of U.S. War Crimes, Tries to Drive Wedge with NATO Leader

Watson v RNC: The Supreme Court’s Conspiracy-Brained Justices Are Ready to Limit Mail-In Voting (Madiba K. Dennie/Balls and Strikes)

Folks, We’ve Got Yet Another Right-Wing Media Payola Scandal (Will Sommer/The Bulwark)  Will Sommer loses his shit.

Trump casts a mail ballot again in Florida even as he calls the method ‘cheating’ (Jane C. Timm/NBC News)  When cheating is allowed, non-cheaters are at a disadvantage. There is no inconsistency here.

Trump, Who Calls Mail-in Voting ‘Cheating,’ Just Voted by Mail (Erica L. Green/New York Times) See above comment.

Trump casts Florida mail ballot as he pushes Congress to severely limit that voting option (Bill Barrow/Associated Press)  See above comment.

When Trump Wants Something Done, He Dispatches ICE to Do It (Hamed Aleaziz/New York Times)  So what?

Trump’s suspiciously timed announcements on Iran (Aaron Blake/CNN)  Suspiciously!

The ugly history behind Trump’s birthright citizenship case in the Supreme Court (Ian Millhiser/Vox)  Ugly, of course, because it’s contrary to the Narrative.

Mark Jacob on how the press ignores the biggest Trump story (Public Notice) More Proglodyte Projection.

Airports on ICE — Federal immigration agents popped up around the country on Monday to do seemingly nothing. (Marisa Kabas/The Handbasket)  Except, perhaps, to yank the chains of the hand-wringers in the Narrative Media.

Trump in His Elvis-in-Vegas Era (The Bulwark)  The best of American high-school journalism.

The unraveling of the war in Iran (Popular Information)

PrinceHarming: 20 Short Quotes About Jared Kushner (Greg Olear/PREVAIL)

US’s new ‘brand ambassador’: A Hooters-loving, ‘Alpha Male’ Trump nominee (Gregory Svirnovskiy/Politico)

Trump’s Threat to Iran Crosses a Line, Rights Experts Say (New York Times)  Really? And what might a ‘rights expert’ have in the way of qualifications?

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A viral video has revealed that CVS is locking up darker makeup shades behind security devices while lighter ones sit open — because stores secure what thieves steal most, and the data backs it up.

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A modern aircraft carrier can shrug off layers of aerial threats and still remain exposed to one of naval warfare’s oldest killing mechanisms. That mismatch matters because the danger does not come from dramatic new physics. It comes from the stubborn effectiveness of underwater blast effects, the limits of sonar in cluttered seas, and the growing appeal of low-cost undersea weapons that can force far more expensive ships to operate differently. For a carrier strike group built around radar, escorts, and long-range air defense, the hardest problem may still arrive from below the waterline.

The torpedo’s lethality is rooted in how it attacks a ship’s structure rather than its armor. A heavyweight torpedo detonating under the keel creates a gas bubble that rapidly expands and collapses, lifting the hull and then dropping it with violent force. That shock can break the keel, the load-bearing spine of the ship. The concept is old, but the threat is not obsolete. Modern torpedoes combine acoustic homing, wake tracking, and in some cases wire guidance, allowing them to keep updating their run after launch. Wake-homing in particular is uncomfortable for defenders because a ship’s wake is difficult to disguise, especially for a very large vessel moving at speed.

The carrier’s own design compounds the problem. As one U.S. Naval Institute analysis argued, ships without sonar, such as aircraft carriers, face a punishing reaction-time problem even before maneuver limits are considered. Carriers rely heavily on escorts, helicopters, patrol aircraft, and wider anti-submarine networks for warning and protection. That layered approach remains formidable in open water, but it is less comfortable in littoral zones where background noise, bottom reflections, traffic density, and shallow depth all degrade acoustic performance. In exactly the waters where carriers may be asked to influence access and sea control, torpedo detection can become more ambiguous and engagement windows much shorter.

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When Stanford biologist Paul Ehrlich appeared on “60 Minutes” in 2023, he warned that humanity was on an unsustainable path and that “the next few decades will be the end of the kind of civilization we’re used to.” He explicitly linked overpopulation and consumption to climate disruption, claiming it was already killing people.

Ehrlich recently died at 93, and the media offered respectful tributes to his 1968 bestseller “The Population Bomb,” yet almost no outlet asked the glaring question: why should anyone trust predictions from a man whose most famous forecasts were spectacularly wrong? In fact, all of his doom predictions were wrong—similar to the climate doom predictions of today.

Ehrlich predicted mass starvation would kill hundreds of millions in the 1970s and 1980s, that England would cease to exist by 2000, and that the U.S. would face widespread famine. None of that happened. Instead, the population doubled to 8 billion.

Prosperity soared. The Green Revolution—powered by better seeds, fossil-fuel-derived fertilizers, and fossil-fuel-enabled agriculture—fed billions more people than Ehrlich believed possible.

This same pattern of failed apocalyptic forecasts now dominates mainstream climate information. For decades, prominent voices have warned of entire nations underwater, no snow in the U.K., mass extinctions by 2010, and permanent global famine with timelines that have quietly slipped while humanity has thrived.

The Foundry.

Mobile billboards are being deployed Tuesday morning at the three Washington, D.C.-area airports amid the Department of Homeland Security shutdown that has led to long security lines at airports across the nation.

“You’re waiting in line because millions skipped it. Tell Chuck Schumer: Fund DHS,” the billboard reads, referring to the millions of illegal aliens that Customs and Border Protection reports entered the United States during the Biden administration. Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., is the Senate Minority Leader.

The billboard includes a number and a QR code to call Schumer’s office.

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These pleas are offensive, intellectually degrading and founded on exaggerations, fables and lies. But as 2024 Sierra Club Changemaker of the Year Bruce Hamilton has admitted, “It’s what works. It’s what builds the Sierra Club.” And keeps funds flowing to countless Climate Crisis, Inc. corporations.

The Other McCain.

Most people — even people who follow politics closely — never figured out that the Great Feminist Boom of 2014-2017 was not a coincidence. All the institutions of academia and media did not suddenly decide to the embrace and promote #feminist brand by accident. No, that cultural moment was organized to support the Right Side of History™ crusade to make Hillary Clinton America’s First Female President.

Having examined the reasons for the failure of her 2008 presidential bid, Team Hillary recognized that being identified as a feminist was a net negative for her and, in war-gaming her 2016 campaign — a process that began as soon was Obama got reelected in 2012 — they saw the importance of creating an “Astroturf” project to make it seem as if feminism was a mainstream grassroots movement. Young women who were targeted by this effort were generally too naïve to comprehend the cynical partisan calculatIons behind it, and sincerely believed that they were part of a spontaneous emergence of feminist consciousness, a belief that was much more flattering to their egos than to recognize they were pawns of a multimillion-dollar P.R. operation in service to the selfish political ambitions of one very wealthy and powerful woman.

All of which is to say that only a fool would have thought it was a coincidence when, in September 2015, Guardian columnist Lindy West “encouraged other women to share positive abortion experiences online using the hashtag #ShoutYourAbortion in order to ‘denounce the stigma surrounding abortion.’” Nor was any intelligent person surprised when, a few months later in May 2016, Lindy West published Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman, which was universally praised in the liberal media and immediately became a bestseller. The TV rights to Shrill were then bought by Hulu, which turned it into a 22-episode series.

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By many measures, California is the center of the Democratic Party’s political universe. The most populous U.S. state, it is home to both the party’s last presidential nominee, Kamala Harris, and possibly its future one, Gov. Gavin Newsom.

But thanks to the state’s quirky electoral system and a crowded field of candidates, Democrats are suddenly facing an unlikely but unpleasant possibility: getting locked out of the general election this fall to succeed Newsom, who is not permitted to run for a third term.

Under California law, the top two finishers in the June 2 open primary contest will advance to November’s election, regardless of party.

Polls show the two leading Republican candidates, former British government aide and Fox News host Steve Hilton and Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco, are closely bunched with three Democrats: U.S. Representative Eric Swalwell, former U.S. Representative Katie Porter and billionaire activist Tom Steyer.

The New Neo.

Today Trump announced a moratorium on attacking Iran’s energy infrastructure while talks he described as “very good” are supposedly going on. Meanwhile, the Iranian leaders – although “leaders” is a fungible thing in Iran these days – say he’s full of it and that no such talks are occurring, much less “very good” ones.

So, what’s going on? If you expect a definitive answer here, you’re surely not going to get one. But I don’t think you’re going to get one anywhere right now. We’re all speculating, and I think that’s the point.

We do know that Trump likes to keep people guessing as he bobs and weaves and wheels and deals. We know he said what he needs from Iran is unconditional surrender. But we don’t know exactly what that means in a case where we don’t know who’s in charge or if any one person (or even small group of people) is in charge. We don’t even know if he really is negotiating, or with whom such talks might be, or exactly for what. Nor do we know, if the subject is indeed for unconditional surrender, if such talks are with someone or some group with the will to actually surrender or the ability to do so even if the will is there.

Clear as mud. And I believe that is Trump’s intent.

Indeed it is.

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A comprehensive study reveals that approximately 90% of academic publication in the social sciences can be identified as taking a left-wing stance.

Conducted by James Manzi of the University of Oxford and published in the journal Theory and Society, the research analyzed 599, 194 English-language articles published between 1960 and 2024. Working across 367 journals and eleven disciplines—including economics, sociology, political science, psychology, criminology, and gender studies—some 180, 311 articles were deemed directly relevant to contemporary political or social debates.

The analysis was conducted multiple times using different AI models, alternative classification methods, and various databases.

“Social sciences” aren’t science. Science can make predictions that are right every time. Don’t be fooled by areas of study that think they are ‘science’ because the use a lot of math.

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Michigan’s Democrat attorney general cited the Southern Poverty Law Center’s “hate map” when announcing a “hate-crimes unit” in 2019, and after one of the conservative groups on the map sued, the AG’s office won’t say whether it will refuse to cite the SPLC in the future.

The American Freedom Law Center, a Judeo-Christian public interest law firm that the SPLC calls an “anti-Muslim hate group” because it warns against radical Islam, sued Michigan AG Dana Nessel and Agustin Arbulu, then-director of the state’s Department of Civil Rights. Nessel and Arbulu had issued a press release in February 2019, citing the SPLC map. Nessel said she was “establishing a hate-crimes unit” in order “to fight against hate crimes and the many hate groups which have been allowed to proliferate in our state.”

After a lengthy court delay due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a district court granted Nessel’s motion for summary judgment, ruling against the American Freedom Law Center in August. The court ruled that the center lacked standing to bring the suit because it could not demonstrate concrete harm from the government, citing the SPLC accusation. AFLC appealed, and the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals heard the case on Thursday.

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Across the nation, states are raising their gas taxes. Leading the way, California now has a 70.9-cent per-gallon state excise tax.

The Tax Foundation says the “gas tax is meant to function as a user fee, charging drivers to fund the construction and maintenance of the roads they use.”

States apply tax gas in a variety of ways; most add tax at the pump, some charge sales taxes on fuel suppliers, and others tack on extra fees like “underground storage tank fees.”

All of these charges add differently, which is why gas taxes—and gas prices—can look very different from one state to another.

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Since the end of the Cold War, for 30 years, the U.S. Navy has sustained a third of its fleet deployed on the backs of sailors and sometimes taking shortcuts at the shipyard—this approach is breaking down, according to the Government Accountability Office and the Congressional Budget Office.

But with what is being called a New Cold War with China potentially heating up, the luxuries of the past are now urgent necessities—needed are more sailors, warships, and shipyards.

Each week, the U.S. Naval Institute Fleet Tracker has for years been reporting roughly 100 U.S. Navy warships deployed overseas. This total of warships deployed has remained remarkably consistent from the 1980s through today. But the fleet supporting that presence has been halved. In the late Cold War, the Navy peaked at 594 battle-force ships in 1987. Today’s fleet hovers around 293 ships, which is well below what is assessed as necessary by The Heritage Foundation’s 2026 Index of U.S. Military Strength.

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Federal prosecutors in Virginia have charged four men — a Bulgarian arms trafficker with ties to the notorious Russian weapons dealer Viktor Bout, and several African co-conspirators with connections to the governments of Uganda and Tanzania — with conspiring to supply the Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generación with a $58 million military arsenal that included rocket launchers, surface-to-air missiles, anti-aircraft drones, and high-powered explosives the brokers boasted could bring down helicopters.

The international arms trafficking conspiracy deepens an already troubling portrait of the military reach and intelligence ties of the Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generación. Court documents unsealed by the Department of Justice, in an investigation first reported by The Bureau, revealed that Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security publicly issued threats directing the cartel to execute Goldie Ghamari — a prominent Iranian-Canadian activist and former Ontario politician — at her Ottawa home, offering a $250,000 bounty. The arms case suggests that the cartel Iran chose as its instrument of political assassination was simultaneously seeking the weapons inventory of a mid-tier military force.

The investigation was carried out by the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Special Operations Division — an elite, little-known counternarcotics unit that deploys high-grade intelligence tradecraft and has built its reputation targeting criminals of international reach, including those with connections to senior officials in hostile and corrupt states.

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A mother in Lower Saxony who found a disturbing video on her daughter’s phone that revealed that she was gang raped inside a church-run youth center by three teens, including a Syrian, Iranian, and Dutch national, in Gnarrenburg. However, once the story came out, it only grew darker, as it was revealed that staff, church officials and local authorities subsequently did everything possible to bury the story.

This gang rape comes after national news reports revealed that a gang rape sexual assault occurred in another youth center in Berlin, but which was covered up because the assailants were Muslims and the youth center workers did not want to increase stigmatization.

Newsbusters.

As the DHS-only government shutdown rages on, the Elitist Media’s broadcast network newscasts continue to work overtime to shield the Democrats from accountability over their role in creating the shutdown in the first place. This dirty work is being performed as security lines worsen across the nation’s airports.

Newsbusters.

In not-so-shocking turn of events, former CBS correspondent Scott MacFarlane — a man with seemingly zero hobbies in life outside of January 6 — announced Monday morning he was joining the far-left Meidas Touch Network as a host and correspondent, cartoonishly insisting without a shred of irony he’s “not an opinionist” or “editorialist” but would nonetheless refuse to “platform conspiracy theories” or allow “whitewashing of history” in “such a critical moment.”

The pedantic partisan boasted to followers that, less than ten days after leaving CBS, he would become, “[e]ffective immediately,” the “chief Washington correspondent for the MeidasTouch Network” and an eponymous daily show will launch in “two or three weeks,” bringing together those who “share the same north star of communicating that when you have news to break or something important to explain, just get to it, straight to the point.”

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Obituaries on eminent Washingtonians usually omit the dreadful precedents they set that will vex Americans long after their death. Not this piece.

Former FBI director Robert Mueller died last week at the age of 81. The New York Times eulogized him as a “button-down, lockjawed, rock-ribbed exemplar of a vanishing caste.” In reality, Mueller was simply a twenty-first century version of J. Edgar Hoover, trampling the Constitution and seizing new power on any pretext.

Mueller took over the FBI one week before the 9/11 attacks and he was worse than clueless afterwards. On September 14, 2011, Mueller declared, “The fact that there were a number of individuals that happened to have received training at flight schools here is news, quite obviously. If we had understood that to be the case, we would have—perhaps one could have averted this.” Three days later, Mueller announced, “There were no warning signs that I’m aware of that would indicate this type of operation in the country.” His protestations helped the W. Bush administration railroad the Patriot Act through Congress, vastly expanding the FBI’s prerogatives to vacuum up Americans’ personal information.

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The Chicago City Council has approved a plan to boost tourism marketing by raising hotel taxes. Under Ordinance 2026-0022544, the total tax rate on hotel rooms will increase from 17.5% to 19% in downtown and nearby areas, according to Fox News.

The higher rate will apply to hotels with more than 100 rooms that choose to participate.

The report says that alongside the tax increase, the council created a Tourism Improvement District (TID) to fund Choose Chicago, the city’s tourism marketing organization. Revenue will support promotional campaigns and help cover bids for major events and conventions.

“How can we bring more tourists to Chicago?”
“I know! Let’s charge them a 19% tax on their hotel rooms!
“That’s brilliant!”

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Australia’s weird obsession with “green energy,” compounded by a lack of urgency regarding proper energy security, has now collided with the worst energy crisis the world has ever seen.

A country heavily dependent on imported refined petroleum products, many of which transit the Strait of Hormuz, has reached the fourth week of the U.S.-Iran war, but with a full-blown fuel supply shock now underway, and hundreds of gas stations across the country running dry.

Energy Minister Chris Bowen warned federal parliament on Monday that more than 109 gas stations in Victoria had run out of at least one grade of gas. He said 47 outlets in Queensland had no diesel, 32 had no regular unleaded, and 37 stations in New South Wales had completely run out of fuel.

Get Woke, go broke.

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A new report says that the J.P. Morgan Wealth Management office at Rockefeller Center in New York City has installed a Muslim foot-washing station designed to facilitate ritual washing before prayer.

Amy Mekelburg, founder of the RAIR Foundation USA, centered on topics such as immigration, Islam, left-wing politics, and globalism, stated on X that Muslim foot-washing stations at the JPM building in NYC come as no surprise, indicating “this isn’t random.”

“JPMorgan openly structures billions in Sharia-compliant deals: Murabaha, Sukuk Islamic bonds, liquidity products – all avoiding ‘riba’ interest per Islamic law,” Mekelburg said.

She noted, “While everyday Americans get stuck with interest-based banking, the elite side bends to Sharia rules, funnels capital into Islamic finance, and now embeds wudu rituals in corporate bathrooms.”

Welcome to Mamdanistan. Be careful not to step in the diversity.

The Telegraph (UK).

Drawings at an “anti-Semitic” art exhibition allegedly showing Jewish people eating babies are not “directly abusive or insulting” to Jews, a police force has decided.

Kent Police has ruled that art in the exhibition condemned by leading Jewish figures and politicians for portraying anti-Semitic tropes has not reached the threshold to be considered either a hate crime or a non-crime hate incident.

The force was responding to a complaint after the exhibition, called Drawings Against Genocide, prompted an outcry from Jewish campaign groups and politicians who said the artwork was “grotesque” and “not just sickening, but dangerous”.

CNN’s Bash Sets Up Hakeem Jeffries to Tell Trump To ‘Keep His Reckless Mouth Shut’

jTrump issues his most bizarre endorsement yet (David Nir/The Downballot)

Trump Has Detained the Parents of More Than 11,000 U.S. Citizen Kids (ProPublica)  They say that like it was a bad thing.

‘No practical use’: TSA experts say Trump’s ICE deployments won’t help with airport security (Eric Katz/GovExec.com)  It’s not intended to be ‘of practical use’. It’s intended to put pressure on Democrats in Congress by pointing out that their attempt to pressure Republicans by inconveniencing the American people will have the effect of inconveniencing the Democrat base of pro-illegal-immigrant activists. Let’s see who blinks first. I’m betting that Trump wins this one.

Pete Hegseth is promoting a nihilist cult of death (Jan-Werner Müller/The Guardian)  Oh, is Pete a Muslim?

Jeffries tells Trump to ‘keep his reckless mouth shut’ (Cheyanne M. Daniels/Politico) Proglodyte Projection: When the Left accuses you of doing what they are doing 

March 22, 2026 — President Donald J. Trump’s behavior is increasingly erratic as he lashes … (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters …)

To Trump, America’s judges are either minions or traitors (Svante Myrick/The Hill)

Adventures in Fantasy Diplomacy (Paul Krugman)  The vacuum speaks.

Trump is the biggest threat to D.C.’s architectural splendor since War of 1812 (Philip Kennicott/Washington Post)

It’s three times harder for blue states to get disaster funding under Trump (Thomas Frank/Politico)  Not surprising, considering how much Democrats steal.

ICE Invades Airports Across the US (Wired)

How Trump Killed Conservatism (Peter Wehner/The Atlantic)

There’s no way to redeem Trump’s dismal second presidency (John Kenneth White/The Hill)  Trump must be doing something right,  all the right people are his enemies.

Trump Blows Up DHS Deal, Chooses ICE Airport Chaos Instead (Ed Kilgore/New York Magazine)

Trump’s shambolic policy-making by Fox segment hits the airports (Matt Gertz/Media Matters for America)

The Supreme Court seems alarmingly willing to trash thousands of ballots (Ian Millhiser/Vox)  More accurately, thousands of ILLEGAL ballots.

GOP Grows More Unpopular, More Desperate (Jill Lawrence/The Bulwark)  And if you believe that one, they’ll tell you another one.

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Five more defendants have pleaded guilty in a multimillion-dollar fraud scheme tied to the COVID-era Feeding Our Future child nutrition program in Minneapolis.

That brings the total number of convictions in the case to 63, the largest in a single fraud investigation by the Minneapolis U.S. Attorney’s Office in recent memory, the Department of Justice said in a news release.

Ikram Yusuf Mohamed, Aisha Hassan Hussein, Sahra Sharif Osman, Shakur Abdinur Abdisalam, and Fadumo Mohamed Yusuf all pleaded guilty last week to wire fraud. Mohamed’s husband, sister, and mother were among the defendants, according to the indictment.

Newsbusters.

Early Thursday, 18-year-old Loyola University of Chicago student Sheridan Gorman was murdered by a lone gunman on a Lake Michigan pier as she strolled with classmates hoping to catch the Northern Lights. Two days later, Fox’s Matt Finn revealed police detained a violent, 25-year-old illegal alien from Venezuela as suspect. Of course, he reportedly arrived in the U.S. during the Biden border crisis.

Of course, this heinous killing — which Finn’s colleague Bill Melugin dubbed “Laken Riley 2.0” — has been of zero interest to the flagship morning and evening newscasts of ABC and CBS with zero mentions on Sunday or Monday.

In NBC’s case, they had the gall to cover it for 98 seconds on Sunday’s Nightly News, but hid from viewers the crucial details about the suspect.

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Update from the transgender cult.

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Then, this past Friday, local news in Concord, California, reported a “punch to the gut” story where locals discovered Muslims had hung an Islamic banner directly over the 9/11 memorial in a cemetery.

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In 2022, while filming a search for lost World War II aircraft, a dive team working on History Channel’s The Bermuda Triangle: Into Cursed Waters found a large object partly buried in sand. It was clearly engineered, but not in the way they expected. The surface was covered with 20 centimeter square tiles, a detail that immediately separated it from wartime airplane wreckage. Because the find lay near Florida’s launch corridor, the team asked NASA to examine the evidence. The agency confirmed it was debris from space shuttle Challenger, which broke apart 73 seconds after liftoff in 1986.

The identification gave the discovery a very different weight. Challenger was not an unsolved disappearance but one of the most studied failures in aerospace history, a disaster that killed all seven astronauts aboard and exposed how a flawed seal in a solid rocket booster joint could become catastrophic under launch conditions. What the divers found was a reminder that even after an enormous recovery effort, the ocean does not easily surrender everything it keeps. NASA’s post-accident salvage operation recovered 167 pieces weighing 118 tons, yet fragments still remained on the seafloor decades later.

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The case for life’s raw ingredients arriving from space just became harder to dismiss. In samples returned from the asteroid Ryugu, researchers identified all five nucleobases that make up DNA and RNA’s chemical alphabet: adenine, guanine, cytosine, thymine, and uracil. The finding does not show that life existed on the asteroid. It does show that some of biology’s most important molecular parts can form and persist in ancient space rock.

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Zohran Mamdani campaigned on a promise to “shift the tax burden from overtaxed homeowners in the outer boroughs to more expensive homes in richer and whiter neighborhoods”. His tenant official Cea Weaver tweeted that she wanted to “impoverish the *white* middle class” because “homeownership is racist”, declared that “private property is a weapon of white supremacy” and warned that, “we’ll transition from treating property as an individual good to a collective good. Whites especially will be impacted.”

Now Mamdani has shown the first sign of implementing these systemically racist proposals.

Hidden at the bottom of the first page of his proposals to increase revenue through various gimmicks and taxes is a call to increase the estate tax “by lowering the exemption to $750,000 from its current value of $7.1 million” and massively raising the “top rate from 16% to 50%.”

Why specifically $750,000? Why is that the magic number? The proposal doesn’t explain but the demographics do: New York is already one of the few states with its own estate tax. Mamdani’s proposed changes to the state estate tax would make it the state that taxes middle class homeowners the hardest.

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That’s hardly the reminder one would like to think suitable for modern day London. Yet it is the one the Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA) group saw fit after four ambulances belonging to a Jewish charity based in the city were destroyed in an overnight arson attack.

London’s Metropolitan Police says it is investigating the attack as an antisemitic hate crime. Prime Minister Keir Starmer has also condemned what he described as the “deeply shocking antisemitic arson attack.”

No injuries to the public or emergency services have been reported. But CAA representative Gideon Falter said on Monday morning that the attack revealed “the new depth that Britain has descended to.”

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March 23, 2010. Sixteen years ago, President Barack Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law, thus locking into statutory concrete the dysfunctional status quo that burdens us today. Recall this was Obama’s “signature” legislative achievement.

Of course, Obama’s congressional allies knew exactly what they were doing. They conscientiously read and fully grasped the 2,700-page product they were enacting. Right?

Well, not to worry, said then-Democrat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi: “We have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it—away from the fog of the controversy.”

Also, do not forget Obama’s absurd promises, just to name a few: If you liked your health plan, you could keep it, and nothing would change; the bill would create robust and competitive health insurance markets; the bill would expand access to high quality health care; the bill would save the typical family $2,500 in yearly health care costs; and the bill would bend the soaring health care cost curve downward.

So, what have Obama and congressional Democrats wrought? After 16 years, they have imposed a complex health care law that is unaffordable and dysfunctional.

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Monday, March 23rd saw soldiers deployed on Belgian streets, initially in Brussels and Antwerp. The initial three-month commitment will involve 200 soldiers, tasked with protecting Jewish community sites. Operations will be extended to Liège, including military backing for the railway police—and for large-scale integrated police operations (FIPA).

While the troop contingent will guard synagogues and schools, part of its assignment also includes working against the Kingdom’s burgeoning narcotics trade, especially in the capital.

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Car manufacturers must ensure that electric cars make up at least 33% of their total registrations this year or face swingeing government fines of £12000 for every car they are short.

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In the Italian city of Turin — with the help of local government and the Catholic Church — public and ecclesiastical spaces are being taken over by Muslims celebrating the end of Ramadan with mass prayer.

This is “Interfaith” in action. In the same way, Christians can go to Mecca or Riyadh and celebrate Easter in public spaces, right? Right?

Just try it and see what happens.