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Dozens of boats carrying activists and symbolic humanitarian aid for Palestinians in Gaza have set sail from Barcelona after a weather-related delay, according to organisers.

Representatives of the Global Sumud Flotilla claimed that more than 70 boats and over 1,000 participants from around the world are expected to join the mission. Nearly 40 vessels departed from Barcelona, while others are expected to join from additional Mediterranean ports as the convoy sails eastward.

The departure had originally been planned for April 12th but was delayed due to bad weather. Organiser Thiago Ávila told a news conference in Barcelona that the fleet was able to leave once conditions improved.

The proglodyte appetite for fatuous virtue-signaling is bottomless.

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Sometimes you don’t really need any sobriety tests to figure out when someone is hammered.

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The Four Seasons Private Residences in Harbor East, situated in crime-ridden Baltimore City and serving as a flagship luxury development project tied to the Inner Harbor’s waterfront revitalization, was originally envisioned as an ultra-luxury tower designed to attract the rich and powerful. The premise for building the tower, which opened in 2017, was very simple: build it, and they will come.

The Paterakis family, one of the most prominent business and real estate families in the Baltimore metro area, best known for their baking empire and for transforming part of the city’s waterfront over the decades, backed the Four Seasons Private Residences project, with one-bedroom condos hitting the market in 2017 for $1 million.

It’s still in deep Blue Maryland, full of Democrats and other socialists. Who, with money, wants to live in a Blue state?

BBC, a Voice of the Crust.

A prison work programme has backfired, after two inmates in the US state of Ohio built computers from PCs they were supposed to be dismantling for recycling.

The unsupervised inmates later hid the PCs in the ceiling of a training room.

Investigators found software, pornography and articles about making drugs and explosives on the machines.

Oh, ya think?

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As America’s westernmost territory, the island of Guam is the logistical heart of any large-scale military build-up in the western Pacific. It has long runways, a deepwater port, huge fuel storage and weapons depots, and it’s about 2,000 miles closer to China than it is to Hawaii. The island is also U.S. soil, so the military does not need permission from a foreign government to operate there.

Those factors make Guam a prime target for the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) if a conflict were to break out between the U.S. and China. The PLA has hundreds of missiles it would almost certainly fire at Guam in a shooting war. That would disrupt the military’s logistics machine, on top of endangering 170,000 U.S. citizens who live there.

While the military is building a new missile defense system to protect Guam, it’s not clear when that system will be fully operational. And, as the war with Iran has shown, even a robust missile defense system can’t stop everything. So how can the military keep both the troops and civilians on its most important island safe in an all-out war?

Probably not.

https://accordingtohoyt.com/2026/04/11/memes-keep-falling-on-my-head/

There’s the finger of God pointing.

Newsbusters.

The elitist media are refusing to report on the heinous murders committed by illegal immigrants – probably because they don’t want to give any credence to the necessity of the Trump administration’s beefed-up enforcement of the nation’s immigration laws.

In just the last two weeks, we’ve seen four high-profile cases (some involving Biden and Obama-era illegals) who have committed horrific crimes. One of the cases involved a gruesome video of an illegal Haitian immigrant killing his victim with a hammer. It’s the kind of video that usually makes national news. Yet it’s only been covered by one of the broadcast networks (CBS).

The Somali Community Of Minnesota Would Like To Remind America That Today Is Tax Day (Babylon Bee)

Where the fuck did my taxes go? Enter what you paid in federal income tax for FY2025 and see exactly where every dollar went.

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For some reason, most national news companies are avoiding this story!

Olaolukitan Adon-Abel is charged with randomly shooting three people in the Atlanta area, including two women and a homeless man.

Lauren Bullis, a DHS employee who enjoyed running, was shot in the face six times (and stabbed for good measure).

Ah, well, that’s Diversity for you.

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No trial needed this time, thank goodness.

Naomi Guzman abducted a child from Walmart and carried out her threat to stab him in front of police officers. She was shot and killed by Omaha PD for her troubles.

Guzman … Guzman … undoubtedly of Old Yankee stock.

Babylon Bee.

After a fifth woman came forward yesterday to accuse former Representative Eric Swalwell of sexual assault, Swalwell has hurtled into the lead of Democratic presidential candidates.

With the horrific details of the alleged assault coming to light, Swalwell quickly leapt past other contenders to become the Democratic Party’s presumptive nominee.

“With several women now coming forward with accusations of increasingly violent sex crimes, Swalwell has taken a commanding lead,” said longtime Democratic strategist David Axelrod. “Swalwell was looking like Senator material after a couple of women alleged that he acted in an inappropriate and possibly criminal manner. With five women now leveling accusations of really heinous crimes, Swalwell is now the clear front-runner for President. “

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Iran has used a secretly acquired Chinese spy satellite to target U.S. military bases in the Middle East, raising new concerns about Beijing’s role in bolstering Tehran’s military capabilities, according to a report.

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) obtained control of a Chinese-built satellite known as TEE-01B in late 2024, the Financial Times reported Wednesday.

The satellite, launched from China and later transferred to Iran, significantly enhanced Tehran’s ability to monitor and strike U.S. and allied positions across the region.

Leaked documents reviewed by the Financial Times show Iranian commanders used the satellite to track key American military installations, capturing high-resolution imagery before and after missile and drone strikes.

Among the locations reportedly surveilled were Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia, U.S. facilities in Jordan and Bahrain, and other strategic sites in Iraq and Kuwait.

Analysts say the system marks a major leap in Iran’s intelligence-gathering capabilities.

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House Democrats plan to introduce five articles of impeachment against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday, marking the latest partisan push against a top Trump administration official as tensions escalate over U.S. military operations in Iran.

Which will go nowhere, and they know it. This is just political posturing, the last refuge of the impotent.

Tim Graham.

If you doubt that our elitist media are a powerful component in the Democrat Party messaging machine, see what happened to Rep. Eric Swalwell of California. His career collapsed. Within about 48 hours, he went from the leading Democrat in a very fragmented field for governor of the Golden State to an exit ramp out of Congress.

It was a conservative pouncing party when CNN media reporter Brian Stelter touted Swalwell’s sudden misfortune as a “real testament to the power of investigative reporting.” Assembling a set of damning allegations of sexual assault certainly looks like investigative reporting. But the assembly can often look remarkably organized and timed for political effect.

In this case, California Democrats have been growing increasingly panicked at the polls in their “jungle primary” for governor – where the top two vote-getters (regardless of party) advance to a general-election runoff. It had become disastrously possible that the Top Two could both be Republicans – Steve Hilton and Chad Bianco. Democrats needed to shrink their field of candidates. So voila, “investigative reporting” dropped a bomb on Swalwell – from the liberal San Francisco Chronicle and liberal CNN.

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This is quite the ambitious headline revealing the latest ‘plan’ for Hormuz to come out of Europe, as it sits on the sidelines watching the US get potentially bogged down in the region following a month of heavy airstrikes on Iran: Europe drafts postwar plan to free up Strait of Hormuz without US, WSJ reports.

This is apparently a plan for after the main crisis is over, amid the strait still being blockaded (with the each warring side insisting it is they in control of the strategic chokepoint waterway). It seems the main idea is to eventually take the United States out of the equation, allowing only for the ‘neutral’ countries to free up and clean the Hormuz Strait.

The problem with socialists is that they spend too much time breathing their own exhaust.

The reality is that this supposed plan brings things back full circle to problem #1… as it’s not as if either Iran, or the United States, will simply shrug and cede control so that a European military coalition can step in and take over.

Which side will ever actually agree to this? The obvious answer, at least for the time being and foreseeable future is… nobody.

And then there’s the question of what leverage or force will Europe employ to assert its military presence in the strait in order to keep all parties in line… some mere harsh language and strong words?

Maybe if they wish hard enough Tinkerbell will return to health.

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For over a century, Delaware has been the preferred home for corporations, thanks largely to its Court of Chancery — a specialized court known for its expertise in business law — and a well-established legal framework that offered predictability.

But that reputation is now history.

Corporate leaders increasingly argue that Delaware’s legal environment has become unpredictable, with courts seemingly controlled by major trial firms that donate heavily to the Democrats’ local political machine.

With big money at work Delaware’s judges no longer see the law as black and white.

Harvard professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz has called the state’s judiciary “one of the most corrupt in the nation.”

Sometimes the old ways are  best.

Daily Mail (UK).

A large home builder has become the latest company to flee California for the more business-friendly neighboring state of Arizona.

KB Home, which has a market cap of $3.25 billion, has announced that it plans to move its corporate headquarters from Los Angeles to Tempe, a suburb of Phoenix, beginning next spring.

The company’s leadership has said that the move is expected to save money and increase efficiency.

The Telegraph (UK).

Law firms are charging thousands of pounds to help migrants pretend to be gay so they can stay in the UK, an investigation has found.

Migrants whose visas have run out are being provided with fake cover stories and guided on how to obtain fabricated evidence such as letters, photographs and medical reports.

They then apply for asylum claiming to be gay, which they say would put them at risk of persecution if they were to return to Pakistan or Bangladesh.

Just in case you wondered where the phrase “fake and gay” came from.

The War Zone.

A day into the U.S.-imposed military blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, several ships have apparently transited the narrow waterway, including at least two that reportedly had previously stopped at Iranian ports. However, U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) is pushing back against claims that vessels ran the blockade. As we noted yesterday, CENTCOM said the maritime exclusion operation would be “enforced impartially against vessels of all nations entering or departing Iranian ports and coastal areas, including all Iranian ports on the Arabian Gulf and Gulf of Oman.”

Meanwhile, there are indications that the U.S. and Iran may continue seeking a diplomatic offramp to the crisis, which began Feb. 28 when America and Israel began bombarding the Islamic Republic. We will discuss that in greater detail later in this story.

The Foundry.

The Daily Signal’s Mehek Cooke said President Donald Trump’s handling of Iran and the Strait of Hormuz is forcing both Tehran and Beijing into a corner, calling the strategy “checkmate” during a television appearance Tuesday night.

Speaking on NewsNation’s “Katie Pavlich Tonight,“ Cooke said the Iranian regime miscalculated by threatening shipping lanes just as a ceasefire agreement with the United States reached its two-week mark. Under the original terms of the ceasefire, Iran was expected to keep the Strait of Hormuz open—through which much of the world’s oil flows.

“Iran still thinks they’re winning because they have a ceasefire and President Trump gave them a lifeline,” Cooke said. “But what President Trump really did was give the American people a window into who Iranians really are—that they’re not going to negotiate in good faith.”

Cooke argued that by moving to control the strait, the Trump administration is cutting off Iran’s primary economic leverage and drawing China—Iran’s largest oil customer—into pressuring Tehran.

“China was getting 90% of that oil,” Cooke said. “So, guess who’s going to be at that negotiating table pushing Iran to stop holding proxy wars and stop holding us hostage? It’s China.”

Associated Press, a Voice of the Crust.

A federal judge must end his “intrusive” contempt investigation of the Trump administration for failing to comply with an order over flights carrying Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador last year, a divided appeals court panel ruled Tuesday.

Chief Judge James Boasberg abused his discretion in forging ahead with criminal contempt proceedings stemming from the March 2025 deportation flights, according to the majority opinion by a three-judge panel from U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

The ruling is the latest twist in a yearlong legal saga that has became a flashpoint in President Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign. The White House has portrayed Boasberg as a biased judge who overstepped his authority.

Trump’s administration has a “clear and indisputable” right to the termination of the contempt proceedings, Circuit Judge Neomi Rao wrote in the court’s majority opinion.

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I am not making this up.

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In 1997, Gwendolyn Westbrook was arrested after being accused of embezzling thousands of dollars from the San Francisco port parking lot collections that she had been hired to monitor.

By 2022, she was running a homeless nonprofit that took in $36 million in grants while operating a tent city that took over a block and filled a neighborhood with violence and human waste..

Now she’s under arrest. Again.

Westbrook, the CEO of the United Council of Human Services, is currently accused of misappropriating $1.2 million and a lawsuit claims that she told staffers about buying a Tesla for herself, handing out luxury cars to other family members, vacationing in Aruba and driving around for some unstated reason with a “a trunk full of high-priced jewelry”.

“I guess it’s because I’m a black woman,” Westbrook had said of critics. “I think it’s racism. They don’t want a black woman running this organization.”

Yeah, that must be it.

The Foundry.

When Sharon Simmons delivered McDonald’s to President Donald Trump in the Oval Office on Monday, she shared that his tax policy has saved her about half her income.

Trump’s “One Big, Beautiful Bill,” passed and signed into law last year, established a tax deduction of up to $25,000 for tips. Simmons, a grandmother of 10 who lives in Arkansas, said half of her income is tips.

“I saved over $11,000 by not having to claim,” Simmons said.

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An unusually large number of crude oil tankers on the open seas has the American Gulf coast as a destination as the ships are redirected to load cargoes bound for markets around the world already experiencing shortages.

As Alton Wallace writes at The Center Square, second-term Republican President Donald Trump said Saturday on social media that “massive numbers” of “completely empty” oil tankers are en route to the United States to purchase American energy.

Japan was getting 75% of its oil from the Middle East. Guess who gets that business now?

The surging vessel traffic comes as nations throughout Europe and Asia grapple to secure energy supplies and regional prices skyrocket. Germany is providing emergency fuel relief to its citizens while officials in the Philippines recently declared a national energy emergency as the world looks increasingly to the U.S. to replenish war-starved oil and gas markets.

Gee, I don’t see any sudden rush to ‘green’ energy that Krugman says will be taking place.

Trump on Saturday remarked that the U.S. oil output is more than the combined total of Saudi Arabia and Russia, the next two largest producers, and the president promised a “quick turnaround” for the arriving fleet.

We are the nice ones.

ATQUE: The Hormuz Blockade Is as Much About China as Iran (Javier Blas/Bloomberg)  Hey, the sleepers are waking up….

Huffington Post, a Voice of the Crust.

I guess they didn’t get the Narrative Memo.

Paul Krugman.

Since it’s an eternal truth that Krugman Is Always Wrong, let’s see how he’s wrong today.

Donald Trump wants to stop the renewable energy revolution. But he can’t — it will continue to advance around the world because the economics and the science are compelling.

An obvious lie to anybody who has been paying attention. Renewable energy fails almost every time it’s tried, and causes unceasing problems for those who stupidly depend upon it. Not to mention all the birds and whales that it kills.

Trump can, however, ensure that the revolution passes us by.

That’s why we elected him.

And the big geopolitical winner from Trump’s hostility to the energy revolution will be China, which dominates the production of renewable-energy infrastructure.

Only so long as people are stupid. It’s no surprise that a Communist regime would dominate a communist enterprise.

Furthermore, the China-led energy future will arrive ahead of schedule thanks to the debacle in Iran.

“China-led energy future”? These are the people who have more coal-fired power plants than any other nation, and whose air pollution in its capital city is notoriously bad.

Also, Trump’s decision to counter Iran’s blockade of the Strait of Hormuz by blockading the Strait of Hormuz surely adds to the perception that relying on U.S. oil and LNG, which is what countries will have to do if they don’t turn to solar and wind, isn’t safe.

The available evidence seems to indicate pretty clearly the U.S. is actually the only ‘safe’ place to get oil and LNG.

Who can guarantee that an erratic America won’t try to weaponize other countries’ dependence on our energy?

‘Erratic’? Far less ‘erratic’ than Krugman’s brain. I suspect that ‘weaponizing’ other countries’ dependence on our energy is what it’s all about.

While China is strong in many industries, it is utterly dominant in electrotech, the cluster of industries — solar panels, wind turbines, batteries and electric vehicles — at the heart of the renewables revolution. Or as the Wall Street Journal puts it, China’s “green industrial complex” rules. China accounts for more than 80 percent of global production in all these sectors with the exception of wind turbines. In the wind turbine sector, China’s share is “only” 60 percent because Europe retains a significant role.

And of course I’m sure that NOBODY is worried that COMMUNIST CHINA will ‘weaponize’ that reliance on ‘green tech’.

Looks like Krugman came through for us again.

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Trump’s plan to choke off China and make people come to the U.S. for their oil proceeds apace.

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Maryland Democrats have rejected an effort to redraw the state’s congressional map to boost their party’s chances in the midterm elections, a setback for Gov. Wes Moore who put his clout behind the attempt to blunt President Donald Trump’s own redistricting campaign.

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So you say you want a revolution? Well, take a look at what’s happening in Ireland right now. Tens of thousands of farmers, truckers, and other fed-up “normies” are taking to the streets of Dublin to protest fuel taxes, mass immigration, and poverty-inducing “climate change” policies. For the most part, corporate news propagandists in both Europe and North America are intentionally ignoring the combustible situation. Just when I had begun to think that all the “fighting Irish” had moved to America, the Old Country has started to show signs of life. Perhaps there are still a few irascible pugilists willing to bash heads and take on the globalist empire after all.

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I guess they’ll just have to encourage native Germans to rape more, since nobody is going to touch ‘migrants’.

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New York has been a godsend for gun rights in passing a series of unconstitutional limits on Second Amendment rights only to result in major adverse rulings. It may soon do the same for the free exercise of religion. New York is now going head-to-head with a group of Dominican nuns over a law challenged as unconstitutional. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and the state are being sued over a law that forces religious organizations to adhere to LGBTQ policies.

Mother Marie Edward, O.P., explained to Fox News Digital that they will not set their faith aside under the threat of fines, loss of licensing and even jail time. She noted that they ask nothing from the state and ask to be allowed to offer charity without abandoning their religious principles.

ATQUE: California Lawmakers Introduce The “Stop Nick Shirley Act”

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CA State Assemblymember Carl DeMaio is slamming state Democrats for voting to advance a controversial new law (AB 2624) to silence citizen journalists and shield taxpayer-funded organizations from public scrutiny.

DeMaio has gone as far as dubbing AB 2624 the “Stop Nick Shirley Act” for the chilling effect it will have on free speech.

AB 2624 comes as independent journalists like Nick Shirley have used viral videos to expose fraud and abuse in government-funded programs using on-the-ground footage and firsthand documentation.

AB 2624 claims to be about protecting immigrant organizations from “threats of violence,” when in fact the legislation would apply to any left-wing group that claims to provide any services to legal or illegal immigrants. For example, under AB 2624 entities like the Somali “Learing” Daycare centers would all be covered if they operated inside California.

During a recent Assembly committee hearing, DeMaio directly confronted the bill’s author, Mia Bonta, over language that would allow individuals affiliated with certain organizations to demand the removal of video recordings — even if taken in public — and even impose costly financial penalties against those who publish the videos online.

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For decades, public-sector unions ran on automatic – automatic dues collection, automatic membership, automatic political spending – whether the worker wanted it or not.

The National Education Association confiscated $390 million in dues revenue during the most recent fiscal year from nearly 2.9 million members – most of it seized directly from taxpayer-funded paychecks before the workers could even see it.

In California alone, public education unions are estimated to collect more than $800 million per year. That money doesn’t come from convincing workers the union is worth it. It comes from a system designed so workers never had to be asked.

When the Supreme Court exposed their scheme in Janus, unions had to find other ways to keep the cash spigot open — including literally criminalizing their opposition.

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The Russians have a phrase for it: negotiation-incapable (ne peregovorosposobny).

That is what the Iran delegation demonstrated during a long day of talks with the US team over the weekend in Islamabad. What part of “no nukes” didn’t they understand? All of it, apparently. The corollary question on the table — arguably more pressing for Iran — was: how much more punishment are you willing to suffer to sustain your dream of atomic bombs? You have no defenses left, no control of your air-space. Do you just want to sit in the dark for the next hundred years?

Such is the obduracy of the Shia death cult. They have no friends left in the world. Russia, you think? Not really. That relationship was pegged to geopolitical dynamics that are dead and gone. Russia is much better off normalizing relations with the USA so we can both be safe and secure in our spheres of influence. Europe is busy committing suicide. In this situation, China is little more than Iran’s very unhappy customer. Maybe Uncle Xi Pooh Bear can try talking some sense to whoever is left in-charge at the IRGC. . . give up your lunatic bomb dreams and just re-open the dingdang gas station! Pretty Please!

“Shia death cult” is a very good way of putting it.

“They’re holed up in a bank demanding three large pizzas, a helicopter, and a personal phone call from Sydney Sweeney…”

– Greg Gutfeld on Iran’s negotiating position

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Indeed, I wouldn’t want to be in a shuttle crew with somebody like him—and it has nothing to do with him being white.

Bear in mind that we landed on the moon with all white male crews—and never since.

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China has spent the past two decades making huge, aggressive moves worldwide. China has essentially colonized the African continent as part of its Belt and Road Initiative, and has poured money into new highways that connect it to Africa, the Middle East, and Europe. China dominates global manufacturing, having drained the U.S. of manufacturing jobs. It is also building islands in the Pacific to expand its territory and trade routes while a supermassive fishing fleet goes up and down the coast of South America and Antartica, stripping the oceans of fish.

It is not a coincidence that American forces captured the former president of Venezuela in a nighttime raid on the same day he was meeting with Chinese delegates. Oil is Venezuela’s currency, and China needs it.

Iran is another critical piece of the puzzle. If China-friendly Iran did become a nuclear power, it would not only hold the Strait of Hormuz hostage (where American allies in Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Oman, and the UAE produce oil), but could reach as far as London, destroying American security of global trade around Europe, Africa, and Asia.

In essence, if China controls the high seas with the help of proxies like Iran and Venezuela, as well as the manufacturing hubs, as well as the oil trade, then they control the world.

Taking steps to counter the Chinese government’s desire to become the dominant superpower does come with pain at the pump, but the Trump admin is betting its worth it to retain American/Western dominance.

Who depends on Middle Eastern oil? Not the U.S.—we have our own oil, and can get it easily from Canada (you go, Alberta!) and (now) Venezuela. The people who need Middle Eastern oil are Europe and Asia. China, in particular, get about half of its oil from the Middle East—oil that the U.S. has just cut off.

TRUMP IS A BILLIONAIRE BUSINESSMAN. He understands global markets better than you do, and much better than any scribbler writing for the New York Times or the Washington Post—or, nowadays, the Wall Street Journal.

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ALL liberals think that they are better than their fellow citizens.

Signs that read, “Don’t Fairfax Me” and “Vote No,” are reportedly prevalent in rural Virginia for good reason. Virginia Democrats’ redistricting campaign aims to disenfranchise rural Virginians. The referendum, which would split heavily populated Fairfax County across five congressional districts, is a deceptive power grab.

Farfax county Virginia used to be where the Republicans who worked in DC would commute from, while the Democrats lived in Maryland. Apparently DC is overflowing Democrats these days.

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A tight primary race between the three Democrat candidates for Michigan’s Senate seat is showcasing the different extremes of the Democratic Party.

According to polls, voters are currently divided among a center-left congresswoman who is backed by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC, a physician who appears to be sympathetic toward Islamic radicals, and a current state senator who has been accused by her colleague of “grooming” children while adopting popular Democrat stances.

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Faribault, Minnesota, is a small city about an hour’s drive from Minneapolis. On paper it should have the smaller crime rate of the alphabetically similar Farmington which is nearly the same size and only a half hour away. Instead, Faribault has more than twice as much violent crime, aggravated assaults, burglaries and car thefts, 30% more rapes, and 8 times as many robberies. Farmington has no arsons, but Faribault has the most arsons of any city outside major strongholds like Minneapolis, St. Paul or Duluth.

But Faribault has something Farmington doesn’t: diversity. Especially from its Somalis.

The Other McCain.

If the election of Abigail Spanberger as governor of Virginia has proven anything, it’s that there are no more “moderate” Democrats. Since taking office in January, Spanberger has been ramming through a left-wing agenda that might be more suitable to Berkeley, California, than to the Old Dominion, and the very worst of it is the proposal to redistrict Virginia’s congressional map by an outrageous partisan gerrymander. Among the many atrocities of this is the proposed 7th District, which would stretch all the way from the Potomac River in Arlington County to Harrisonburg in the Shenandoah Valley and down to Powhatan County, below the James River 30 miles west of Richmond.

Since most of the Republican areas of the state appear to be in the west, perhaps they might take a hint from the Greater Idaho Movement and attempt to leave Virginia for West Virginia. After all, there is precedent.

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The $15 billion USS Ford was forced to cut short its deployment due to a 30-hour laundry fire that did millions of dollars in damage. And it has been revealed that even while it remained on station in the Gulf, Ford could not generate combat sorties for two days due to the raging 30-hour laundry fire that drove some 600 sailors out of their sleeping quarters. Thirty hours to get a laundry fire under control raises a couple of questions. Why would a laundry catch on fire, and why did it take the firefighters and damage-control personnel of the USS Ford so long to put out the laundry fire? Sadly, the answers can be found in some wrongheaded decisions the Navy made in its effort to be viewed as being “green.”

Design for the Ford-class carrier began in March 1996, and finally, more than $15 billion later, the USS Ford was fully certified for combat in April 2023. Due to a misguided green initiative, instead of installing inherently super energy-efficient steam-based laundries, the Ford-class carriers have standardized on more expensive, more complex, inherently fire-prone, ozone-based systems.

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In a long-awaited release that sent ripples through Washington on Monday, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) has declassified closed-door 2019 transcripts from briefings with then-Intelligence Community Inspector General (ICIG) Michael Atkinson. The documents, withheld from the public for over seven years, reveal critical details about the anonymous “whistleblower” whose complaint about President Trump’s phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky triggered Trump’s first impeachment – details that directly contradict the narrative of a neutral, non-partisan civil servant acting in good faith.

My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

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

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Which tells you everything you need to know abut the ‘immigration crisis’.

Cheap labor. That’s what it’s all about. Your country not producing enough babies? Import them from the Turd World?

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In Mary Shelley’s famous work, Dr. Frankenstein is asked, “Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust?”

This week, Rep. Eric Swalwell (D. Calif.), the leading Democratic candidate for California governor, may wish he could ask that of former Speaker Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.). After sexual assault allegations were raised by former staff members, Pelosi, Sen. Adam Schiff (D., Calif.), and even his close friend (and former campaign chair) Sen. Ruben Gallego (D., Ariz.) have withdrawn their endorsements.

The fact, however, is that (regardless of the merits of these latest allegations), Swalwell was always a notorious figure in Washington who was constructed by Pelosi and others to serve their interests.

Fortunately, these problems have a tendency to solve themselves over time. Think of it as evolution in action.