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A new analysis of the federal National Health Interview Survey finds children who received a COVID-19 shot had higher odds of autism, ADHD, anxiety, asthma and special-education use than children who did not.

The authors, including epidemiologist Nicolas Hulscher and cardiologist Peter McCullough, say the pattern survived a long list of statistical controls and rose with dose count.

Their conclusion is blunt: COVID-19 vaccination of children should cease immediately.

Oh, as if the people bushing COVID shots will ever ‘follow the science’….

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Perhaps the Saudis will get off the dime and take care of the Houthi problem permanently. They can certainly afford it.

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Masked attackers set fires at the doors of a Paris vocational high school Monday, confining about 100 students and staff inside, as nationwide student protests over school conditions entered another week with thousands already arrested and hundreds reported injured.

At the Nicolas-Louis Vauquelin High School in the 13th arrondissement, Principal Carole Zerbib said a group of about 10 people in hoods, masks and black clothing arrived around 7:50 a.m. as students were arriving. She told BFMTV they looked “very determined, very fast,” and that staff “immediately understood that we were not going to be able to talk with them.”

“Zerbib”. Can’t get more French than that….

Zerbib said the group threw full trash bins and other flammable material in front of the entrance, brought a sofa and bicycles to barricade the door, smashed glass with a pair of crutches, and set fires outside using a flammable liquid. A staff member was struck in the face by a shard of glass, BFMTV reported. Firefighters and police were met with mortar fire. Courses were canceled for the day.

I imagine they were. Sounds like a well-planned attack. Where have we seen that sort of thing before?

In the U.S., of course, the football team would have mobilized and taken care of the problem.

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The photo above shows police in the process of removing “migrants” from the camp on Trampolín Beach in Ceuta, the Spanish enclave/exclave on the coast of North Africa, ahead of next week’s planned visit by King Felipe VI. Notice that the poor wretched refugees aren’t clothed in rags, but in nice warm new-looking hoodies. Some of them are carrying backpacks, which are also new-looking. They all have cell phones. The tents they are being forced to abandon seem to be of good quality, with lots of extra bedding spread over them, also of good quality. If this were a true shantytown, all the shelters would be made of scrap wood, battered sheet tin, and cardboard, and their bedding would be tattered rags.

The operation at Ceuta is a well-financed invasion. Who paid for all that stuff?

Muslim Morocco. The saw a European country being stupid and naturally decided to take advantage of it. The same thing happens to the U.S. under a Democrat administration.

Once the invaders were relocated, 200 tons of waste were removed from the beach.

Bulldozers have been brought in for the final phase of the cleanup, leaving the beach looking nice and smooth. However, the damp sand has been an E. coli farm for the last two months, which makes me wonder whether the municipal authorities will be down there spraying 200 gallons of air freshener in advance of a possible stroll along the strand by King Felipe.

New York Post.

It’s nightmarishly grotesque, and horribly revealing, that crowds will gather in New York and other cities on the third anniversary of the Oct. 7 atrocities to celebrate the mass slaughter of Israelis by the “Islamic Resistance Movement,” a k a Hamas.

Not to protest Israel’s actions before, during or since the war those attacks began, but to cheer the 6,000 or so who invaded the Jewish state to kill, rape and kidnap civilian kibbutzim and dance-festival ravers — and filmed it all, instantly sharing it with their victims’ families and the world.

Why else gather on this day, the high mark for the terrorists and their cause?

The organizers, including the “youth section” of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s beloved Democratic Socialists of America, say it’s because the date “marks three years since resistance against imperialism changed the fate of our world forever.”

Again, the “resistance” that day was purely a matter of terrorizing innocents, and Hamas’ least-shameful actions since amount to nothing but losing to the Israeli forces that moved into Gaza to recover the hostages and smash the terror infrastructure.

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Scientists have found a surprising way to regrow damaged knee cartilage by blocking a protein that becomes more abundant with age. In old mice, the treatment restored naturally lost cartilage and also helped prevent osteoarthritis after ACL-like knee injuries, while human cartilage taken from knee replacement patients began producing new, functional joint cartilage after exposure to the same inhibitor.

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When it was reported that Paramount is considering leaving California, many politicians looked for ways to keep one of the largest moviemakers in Hollywood. But few looked for reasons why employers are packing their bags in the first place.

Chevron, Tesla, Oracle, and more Fortune 500 companies have already left for other states. And all cited an unfriendly business environment.

High taxes and onerous regulation are big parts of that story, but California’s legal environment has also chased big taxpayers out of the state.

The Golden State is a troubling example of what happens when workplace litigation becomes an industry unto itself. From the beginning of this year through August, nearly 2,000 California workplace disputes reportedly settled for a combined $1.63 billion. Some undoubtedly involved workers who had been genuinely wronged and were entitled to compensation.

But over the years, an enormous cottage industry has grown from workplace lawsuits and employment claims, in part because many employers acknowledge that even claims with some merit can cost enormous sums to defend.

Sometimes paying a settlement is simply cheaper than proving you did nothing wrong.

“Sue and settle” has been a guaranteed money-maker for trouble-makers for too long.

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Last week saw much gnashing of teeth and rending of garments among American voters and Trump administration officials watching the “Fey Esperanza” migrant caravan march out of Honduras into Mexico, reportedly en route to smash a hole through President Donald Trump’s mostly sealed Southwest Border.

But if this started as a rebel migrant caravan planning to throw itself upon Trump’s border as its predecessors violently did back in 2018 and 2019, those aspirations ended as soon as it crossed into Mexico. That’s because today’s caravans are not at all what people presumed about the Fey Esperanza group.

Some grace is due the many who did not know that Mexico’s government long ago converted and then harnessed the caravan model to serve its own domestic purposes of spreading foreign nationals around its territory more equally. These are government-escorted, permitted transit caravans whose purpose is to disperse migrants to other southern Mexico cities and towns nowhere near the U.S. border.

Fears expressed in the U.S. about the caravan reveal a glaring need for wider knowledge as to why the Fey Esperanza caravan was a “Boy Who Cried Wolf” event. But elected leaders, media, and influencers would be well served to know when a real rebel caravan is coming, as one almost certainly will in a couple of years, so they can call for action then.

Robert De Niro accuses Trump of being ‘Epstein’s chief protector’ (The Telegraph)

New York Declares State of Emergency Over Measles Outbreak (Jessica Nix/Bloomberg)  There is, of course, no ‘measles emergency’; this is just another Mid-Term Democrat Hand-Wring aimed at RFK Jr. and by extension the entire Trump administration. Supposedly RFK Jr. is an anti-vaxxer and thus ‘putting children at risk’; unmentioned is the fact that parents are free to get their kids vaccinated for whatever floats their boat, and RFK Jr. has no power to bar vaccinations or interfere with the availability thereof. This is the same sort of panic-mongering that gave us the COVID-19 lockdown fascism. (RFK Is Gloating That His Changes to HHS Are Permanent (Anna Merlan/Mother Jones))

Trump approval at record low; Hispanic voters sour on Republicans, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds (Reuters)  Pushing the continuing Narrative. (Networks Giddily Promote Bad Polls, Seek to Depress GOP Turnout Ahead of Midterms)

MS NOW Claims Trump Threatens SCOTUS As It Labels Court As Right-Wing

Democrats Map Plans to Reverse Trump Actions After Midterms  Which they can’t do, even with control over both Houses of Congress, which they won’t have . Democrats, like Calvin in ‘Calvin and Hobbes’, are great on plans.

Appeals court weighs judge’s authority to restore Trump administration funding cuts to Harvard (Associated Press)

Trump hurls anti-trans slurs at Graham’s opponent as South Carolina race tightens (Ryan Mancini/The Hill)

Trump uses anti-trans slur against Democratic Senate candidate in South Carolina (Raquel Coronell Uribe/NBC News)

NewsBusters Podcast: Any Good Economic News Is NOT News Under Trump

ANTI-NEWS: Nets Push GOP Poll DOOM, Omit Becerra Family Story Crumble

Trump wants to rewrite the midterm lexicon (Avery Lotz/Axios)

More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown (ProPublica)

As always, government is the reason why we can’t have nice things.

Oh, and if you don’t subscribe to Bluebird of Bitterness, my source for this cartoon, the angels will weep for you.

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Universities have decided the phrase “ethnic minority” is now an offence. The approved substitutes are “racialised minority” and “global majority.” The delivery system for this newspeak is a compulsory lecture for students.

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Alternative media reports say social unrest in France has spread to Belgium.

Those X accounts say that far-left groups are mobilizing young people and migrants, while corporate media coverage emphasizes the narrative that overcrowded classrooms, teacher shortages, long school days and deteriorating facilities are to blame for the chaos.

Whether the unrest reflects the coordinated weaponization of young people or simply parallel local grievances remains unclear at this moment.

European political news website Remix News published footage earlier on Monday, stating, “Student protests have now spread to Liège in Belgium.”

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Gunmen on motorcycles attacked the Christian town of Suqaylabiyah in the Hama countryside in Syria on Saturday, smashing shops and opening fire on residents, the Syrian Justice Archive (SJA) reported.

Armed men coming from the nearby Sunni town of Qalaat al-Madiq attacked Christian-owned shops and opened fire on residents with Kalashnikov rifles, wounding a woman on Al-Mashwar Road.

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The math comes straight from UD’s own 2026-27 cost-of-attendance page. Undergraduate tuition for Delaware residents is $15,740. For non-residents it is $42,470.

A qualifying illegal alien who went to high school in Delaware pays the first number. A US citizen from Pennsylvania or Maryland pays the second. That is a $26,730-a-year premium for the crime of being an American from the wrong state, or roughly $107,000 over four years at current rates, before fees.

To qualify, according to NBC Philadelphia, a non-citizen must have attended a Delaware high school for at least three years, graduated there or earned a GED, lived with a legal guardian while in school, enrolled at UD within 18 months of graduating, and provided evidence of permanent residency or an application for U.S. citizenship.

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President Donald Trump on Monday argued that refinery disruptions in Russia and the United States, rather than the ongoing war with Iran, are now the primary reason gasoline prices remain elevated, pointing specifically to Ukrainian attacks on Russian refineries and refinery closures in California.

Trump said oil flows through the Strait of Hormuz have recovered enough that the waterway is no longer the main factor driving gasoline prices, while disruptions to refining capacity have created a separate supply problem.

“What’s driving up Gasoline is no longer the Strait of Hormuz, because Record Numbers of Barrels are coming out now on an almost daily basis, but the word, ‘Refineries,’ where Russia’s are being blown up by Ukraine, and where ours are being closed up, in Blue States, like California, by the Dumocrats,” Trump wrote Monday on Truth Social.

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Nearly 12,000 instances of book bans were recorded in public schools nationwide during the 2025-2026 school year, the highest number recorded in a single year by free expression group PEN America.

Texas accounted for more than 8,100 of the reported bans and Florida more than 3,200, according to a report released Monday. The group attributed much of the increase to new state laws and pressure on school districts to remove books.

Florida had ranked first for the three previous years.

Of course, these are not book ‘bans’, merely exclusion of books with a tendentious political/cultural agenda from schools. People with strong feelings on the subject can get them from Amazon and have them the next day. The unspoken assumption is that government schools ought to be allowed to push any radical notion on their unwitting charges and their clueless  parents that they want to, without any accountability.

In a September post on X, the Florida Department of Education wrote: “SEXUALLY EXPLICIT and INAPPROPRIATE content has NO PLACE in Florida schools.

“Florida school districts will be held ACCOUNTABLE for failing to protect our children from this type of content. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.”

The post included a statement signed by Education Commissioner Henry Mack.

Sounds perfectly reasonable to me. Feel free to send your kids to a Woke private school that can drill them in Marxism until quitting time.

The Antiplanner.

Since 2019, the Pearl Transit Company has received more than $1.6 million in federal funds to carry around elderly and disabled riders in California, Georgia, and North Carolina. The problem is that none of the people Pearl claimed to transport received rides — in fact, some of them were dead — and the drivers Pearl claimed to employ did not work for the company — their identities were stolen by the company. Instead of moving people, the money went to renting Porsches ($100,000), Loro Piana clothing (where a jacket can cost $9,900 and a wool hat is $500), and international travel.

For some reason, the U.S. Justice Department took exception to this and has successfully prosecuted the owners of Pearl Transit, a husband-and-wife team named Luis Pino-Copete and Jael Watts, for fraud. But I have to wonder why this fraud gets prosecuted when the much larger fraud that is the U.S. transit industry is ignored by the Justice Department.

Between 2019 and 2024, the amount of federal dollars spent on operating transit grew by $7.9 billion, a 186 percent increase. Nearly 63 percent of that increase went to “general administration,” i.e., bureaucratic overhead, the functional equivalent of renting Porsches and buying luxury clothing. Yet the number of people carried by transit declined by more than 22 percent.

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1985, Anthony Burgess’ novel of a dystopian future (now present-day) Britain, opens with these words:

It was the week before Christmas, Monday midday mild and muggy, and the muezzins of West London were yodeling about there being no God but Allah:

“La ilaha illa’lah. La ilaha illa’lah”

It seems that the UK is not the only country that has to put up with the yodeling. The Netherlands has been experiencing the same high-decibel cultural enrichment, and now some lawmakers in the national parliament say they have had enough (genoeg).

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Congressional candidate Lily Tang Williams told the Daily Signal that witnessing Democrats push the same policies she experienced under the Chinese Communist Party motivated her to want to unseat Rep. Maggie Goodlander, D-N.H.

Goodlander, who spent more than 10 years in Washington before running for Congress in 2024 and served as a legal counselor to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland under former President Joe Biden, has refused to condemn socialism when asked. She also voted “present” on the September House resolution condemning socialism.

Tang Williams, during her interview with the Daily Signal, said she became politically involved under former President Barack Obama after realizing that “what he said, what he did” reminded her of what she “went through in China.”

“I don’t want my kids to live in some socialist country,” she said. “It sounded familiar to me. [Obama] was pushing for common core, centralized government and education, and the bribe state with the federal dollars to push.”

“I took my kids out of public school and put them in a charter school to exercise my parental choice,” Tang Williams added.

Al Jezeera, a Voice of Islam.

United States President Donald Trump has ordered the use of a firing squad in the execution of a former army psychiatrist who killed 13 people in a mass shooting at Fort Hood, Texas, in 2009, the Pentagon spokesman has said.

Nidal Hasan, a US citizen of Palestinian descent, would be the first US soldier to be executed by the US military in more than 60 years.

And it’s been too long in coming.

He said during his court-martial that the shooting was an effort to stop the soldiers from going to Afghanistan and killing his fellow Muslims, and made almost no effort to defend himself.

And that’s all you need to know.

The Telegraph (UK).

Police have charged at student protesters and fired tear gas into crowds as France braces for its largest day of education demonstrations.

Some 40,000 people are expected to march through Paris today, with the country’s trade unions joining students and teachers to demonstrate against poor school conditions.

Pupils have barricaded schools from Lille to Marseille. Around 1,800 institutions have been blockaded or are closed for today, according to a French students’ union.

The Telegraph (UK).

Police are being diverted from 999 calls to deal with anti-migrant protests over a new mega-dinghy route across the Channel, a policing chief has warned.

Donna Jones, police and crime commissioner for Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, revealed that around 200 officers from seven forces had been pulled off crime-fighting duties to manage protests in Gosport.

Protesters gathered in the Hampshire town on Sunday night after a third migrant boat crossed the Channel from Normandy.

The Telegraph (UK)

The former head of Germany’s BND intelligence service has been arrested on suspicion of espionage and attempted treason.

In potentially the most serious spy scandal in German history, August Hanning is suspected of alleged treasonous espionage, the disclosure of state secrets, attempted treason and intelligence activity.

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Mr Hanning served as president of the Federal Intelligence Service, or BND, from December 1998 to November 2005.

The prosecutor’s office did not reveal who the men were suspected of spying for.

The War Zone.

The Saudi-backed Yemeni forces battling the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels claim they have regained a large swath of territory in a new counteroffensive launched on Monday. This includes the recapture of the Red Sea port city of Mokha and other key positions near the highly-strategic Bab al-Mandeb Strait (BAM). As we reported last month, the Houthis had taken these areas during an offensive of their own.

“On Monday, the Nation Shield Forces, the Giants Brigades, and the Tihama Resistance—supported by the Popular Resistance—seized control of the city of Al-Mokha in western Taiz Governorate following fierce battles against the terrorist Houthi militias backed by the Iranian regime,” the official Yemeni Saba news outlet reported. “The forces, aided by air support, succeeded in capturing Al-Mokha after clashes with the terrorist Houthi militias, which had controlled the city since early last September. The battles, which took place at various locations surrounding Al-Mokha, involved the use of diverse weaponry and resulted in casualties among the terrorist Houthi militias, the capture of several of their members, and the flight of others.”

Dubbed Operation Yemen Dawn, the counteroffensive aims to “restore state institutions, liberate the capital Sana’a, and end the Houthi terrorist militia coup,” Rashad al-Alimi, president of the internationally recognized government of Yemen, stated Monday on X.

Poll: Latino voters swing away from Trump and Republicans (NBC News)  And the ‘poll’-driven Narrative lives on.

He Wanted to Modernize the Military. Pete Hegseth Forced Him Out (Kevin Maurer/Rolling Stone)  ‘Modernize’ is Democrat-speak for ‘make more Woke’.

Inside Democrats’ efforts to secure Election Day and respond to fears of Trump interference (CNN)  ‘secure election day”‘means ‘cheat successfully’ and ‘Trump interference’ is ‘making sure only legitimate votes are counted’.

Trump won’t be in the White House during the next census. But his directives could outlast his presidency. (Elleiana Green/Politico)  Needless to say, Politico considers that a bad thing.

Trump Blasts Fox for Censoring Rallies, Says MAGA Could Abandon Network  You mess with the bull….

At Trump’s Rallies, a Familiar Mix of Rituals and a Plea to ‘Please Pretend’ (Katie Rogers/New York Times)  Bias? What bias?

Trumpism in Trouble on the Prairie (Lauren Egan/The Bulwark) There is, of course, no such thing as ‘Trumpism’ except in the fever dreams of the Narrative Media.

Democrats are divided over how hard to go after companies that courted Trump (Politico)  Not whether; HOW HARD.

Republicans in Safe Red States Are Breaking With Trump, Too (Avani Kalra/The Washington Sun)  Spooked by the Narrative.

The unmanly truth about Trump’s jobs record (Paul Waldman/MS NOW)  Bias? What bias?

The Trump Administration is a Cesspit of Corruption (Paul Krugman)  This from the guy who took $5o,000 from Enron for no work.

A Death. A Funeral. And the Trump Rally Down the Block. (Andrew Egger/The Bulwark)  Don’t forget ‘A Narrative’.

White House defends new press aide who posed with rifle in ‘Fuck Joe Biden’ shirt (Robert Mackey/The Guardian)  I like him already.

Trump’s Economic Meltdown Is the Ultimate Self-own (Matt Bai/Rolling Stone)  Sure, we all go to Rolling Stone for our economic analysis.

On ABC, New York Times Opinionator Bizarrely Blames Trump in Cornell Rape Case  Of course she does.

A Democratic Senate Should Adopt Secret Impeachment Ballots on a Priority Basis (Andy Craig/The UnPopulist)  Democrats thrive in darkness.

Job numbers make clear that Trump has a reality problem, not a public relations problem (Steve Benen/MS NOW)  Although not a touch on the reality problem that MS NOW has.

Democrats Map Plans to Reverse Trump Actions After Midterms  Of course they do.

Using the Power of the Government to Win Elections (Paul Rosenzweig/The Atlantic)  Proglodyte Projection on the hoof.

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Everybody loves ‘equity’ unless their special snowflake is disadvantaged.

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Recently, I have bumped into multiple cases where I believe the correctness of the results, the honesty of the people writing them, or the lack of curiosity once they are told that their results are wrong, incorrect, faulty, or misleading, has been unsatisfying. Simply put, researchers are not too interested in learning that their papers or reports are wrong, and/or misleading others who don’t happen to know that the results are — known to the authors, and a few select others to be partially — incorrect.

The issue is, once you published the paper, and got the promotions and fame, it doesn’t matter that the results are wrong, and known to be wrong or misleading, and potentially doing harm to the advancement of science. It’s not your problem. It’s someone else’s problem. In fact, when I challenged the authors of one such paper, considered state-of-the-art, and known to the authors to have incorrect evaluation, one of the author’s response was along the lines of acknowledging the issues, but refusing to retract the paper, and instead asking if it’s bothering me in publishing my paper.

Hey, tenure doesn’t grow on trees. (Remember this the next time you trip over somebody shouting TRUST THE SCIENCE!)

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Funny how the people telling kids to get jobs in the trades tend to be white-collar.

Or maybe not so funny….

There’s a popular story about working in the trades that goes something like this: College prices have spiraled wildly out of control, while trades salaries have skyrocketed, often surpassing those of college graduates. Even if you do get a degree, AI will displace most knowledge work. So why would anyone, the story goes, spend $200,000 on a worthless college education when union electricians make six figures performing work that’s impossible to replace with AI? There’s a populist angle here, too: The nerds with guaranteed B averages who waltzed into high-paying jobs will get their comeuppance as they’re pushed aside by the hard-working blue-collar moderates who ceaselessly toil at the real work of building the country!

The skilled trades hold a special place in the public imagination as a route out of poverty. Trades have advocates like Mike Rowe, former opera singer and host of the TV show Dirty Jobs, whose foundation routes smart, hard-working kids into the trades via scholarships. (Today, its website prominently advertises “AI-proof six-figure jobs.”) But Rowe has something in common with most people selling this popular narrative: a college degree.

Trades workers tell a very different story. When I was an apprentice over 30 years ago, we would tease the old-timers for badgering us to quit construction and return to school (the “look at these hands” lecture). In fact, one of the most reliable indicators of an apprentice’s low intelligence was being quickly embraced by old-timers, because it meant they immediately recognized that the kid’s greatest potential was in construction.

No one understood the physical demands and uncertain rewards of trades jobs better than older tradespeople. So take it from an older tradesman: The story is more complicated than you might think.

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Residents of Gosport, the Royal Navy harbor town across the water from Portsmouth, spent Sunday under police orders that let officers direct people to leave town, as a migrant boat from France made its way toward their coastline.

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary imposed a Section 34 dispersal order covering the entire town under the Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014, running until 7am Tuesday. It lets officers order people to leave an area and not return, and refusing is a criminal offense. Police stacked several more restrictions on top.

Not the Bee.

Not satire. We checked.

I’m glad she has a ‘beautiful lesbian brain’, because the rest of her is fugly.

Not the Bee.

Ask yourself why Muslims get a pass for stuff for which white people would be subject to a blue-haired mob.

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The decline of higher education into an ideological echo chamber has been widely discussed on this and other sites. Polls show record lows in the public trust in our universities and colleges as revenues decline and closures increase. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon responded to this meltdown with a common-sense call for greater transparency and tolerance.

The response from teacher unions has been nothing short of hysteria, led by Randi Weingarten at the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and Todd Wolfson at the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) – two of the most polarizing and political figures in teaching.

Secretary McMahon released a policy statement titled “National Call to Action to University Presidents and Governing Boards.” I encourage you to read it. Few Americans would disagree with the call for universities to post policies on how they can achieve greater intellectual diversity and openness in both admissions and hiring.

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Gonville and Caius College, one of Cambridge’s oldest foundations, is compelling its undergraduates to attend mandatory “inclusivity training” from the start of term.

The 90-minute sessions are being delivered by Stop Hate UK, a ‘charity’ activist organisation whose own materials tell students their free speech rights may be restricted, that “Islamophobia is a crime”, and that a facial expression can count as harm.

The order lands in the same university that spent the better part of two years investigating a philosopher for lawful speech, and in the same education system that has spent 2026 drilling children in white privilege, “racism requires power”, and compulsory hijabs.

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The British government has been handing out thousands of hijabs to illegal migrants washing up on the shores of the country in boats, while Home Office staff have been spending time in Calais cooking meals for them.

Internal figures show 974 hijabs issued to small-boat arrivals between January and June, at a rate of 162 a month. Run that rate forward and the year’s total is already past 1,000 and heading for 1,500.

The same clothing data also proves that the vast majority of those arriving are fighting age males, with more than 10,000 male packs being provided against 2,670 for women, while children’s packs number just 773 for boys and 829 for girls.

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One of the enduring weaknesses of the modern US economy is the lack of redundancy. As long as most of the world is operating normally and there are no serious geopolitical disruptions, America’s “just in time” system works fine. But, throw a monkey-wrench into distribution, global exports, freight systems, shipping or elements of production and cracks quickly form in the armor.

This does not mean that the US economy can’t adapt; the pandemic shutdowns were horrifically pointless but they did prove that the system has the ability to function despite deep deficiencies. However, when it comes to the management of vital resources, such as energy resources, it’s clear that some changes need to be made in the near term.

Before the war in Iran a large portion of the public was oblivious to the fact that the US is the largest exporter of oil in the world, and of the foreign oil supplies we do receive, only 8% come from Gulf nation producers. A mere 7% of those supplies travel through the Strait of Hormuz. In other words, the US doesn’t rely on the Gulf for oil. With the new Venezuelan deal and oil flows from the gulf back to 98% of pre-conflict levels, the war is even less of a concern when it comes to US energy.

Similarly, the U.S. has too few competent Navy ships because it has too few competent shipyards—in marked contrast to China, South Korea, and Japan, for example.

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Federal prosecutors have charged a father and son in an investigation into the deaths of two University of Mississippi students, as colleges from Mississippi to Cornell University confront dangerous drugs and calls for greater access to overdose-reversal medication.

U.S. Attorney Scott F. Leary for the Northern District of Mississippi said in a news release that a criminal complaint charged Yahya Mohamed Mosleh, 51, and his son, Islam Yahya Mosleh, 18, with possession of controlled substances with intent to distribute.

A complaint contains only allegations, and the men are presumed innocent.

The existence of the Narrative media requires this notice for the dimwitted. Didn’t need it in the old days.

One might presume that college students would be smarter than that, but one would be wrong.

On the other hand, this sort of thing weeds out the weak and stupid, and that is not necessarily a bad thing, however tragic it might be for the families involved. Natural selection is a stone-cold bitch. The wheels of evolution grind slowly, but they grid incredibly fine.

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The first being the ‘social science’ is in any meaningful respect a science.

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When they don’t have Christians and Jews available, Muslims will cheerfully kill each other.

The New Neo.

I fear the answer is “no.” Voting Democratic is a deeply-ingrained habit, plus the mail-in voting system solidifies Democrat control even further.

I can’t recall when I first heard the term “virtue signaling.” I think it wasn’t long after I began blogging, more than twenty years ago. It has occurred to me more and more over the years that virtue-signaling is at the heart of the appeal to the Democrat voter. The idea is that one is proving oneself to be a good person, a kind person, a generous person, a non-bigoted person – and that those who vote otherwise are neither good, nor kind, nor generous, and that they are bigots.

This is also the source of the hatred many Democrats have for Republican voters. These convictions have broken up family and estranged old friends who should know better.

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When I was U.S. Consul General in Marseille, France from 2017–2020, I visited countless schools across the south. One was the Lycée de la Méditerranée, a high school in the city of La Ciotat on the Mediterranean coast. By French standards it was a tough school, though it would not have seemed so in comparison with inner-city America. Many of its students had family roots in France’s former colonies.

Today, I watched a video of young people at that Lycée, who may not all have been students there, assault and pour gasoline on a teacher, with the presumed intent to set him alight.

Elsewhere across France, there has been rioting and mayhem. In Marseille, rioters set their school on fire and then torched the fire truck sent to put it out. In Nantes, rioters caused millions of euros in damage to 40 schools. In Paris, high schoolers blocked their school, set fire to e-bikes, and played cat-and-mouse with riot police. French police have arrested around 2,000 people–mostly young folks, though not necessarily students–so far.

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Biden Justice Department officials raised serious concerns about the DOJ treating concerned parents like domestic terrorists before Attorney General Merrick Garland released his memo directing investigations into school board protests in 2021, a new report from the Trump administration’s Weaponization Working Group reveals.

DOJ attorneys repeatedly questioned the proposal internally. One official called the effort “ridiculous.” Another complained that the department was deploying “an awful lot of federal manpower for what is currently non-federal conduct,” and that “almost all” of the conduct cited by school boards involved speech protected by the First Amendment.

The issue traces back to September 2021, when the National School Boards Association sent a letter to President Joe Biden urging federal action against alleged threats against school board members. The letter suggested the government could treat some conduct as “the equivalent of a form of domestic terrorism,” and cited disputes involving COVID-19 mandates, critical race theory, transgender orthodoxy, and other issues.

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Former special counsel Jack Smith monitored the phone communications of Susie Wiles when she was Donald Trump’s campaign chief in 2024, newly released documents show.

This included her communications with at least five journalists, 21 different defense attorneys, and several political advisers.

Smith’s team obtained the information through what is called a pen register, sometimes called a trap-and-trace device. This does not access the content of conversations. Rather, it’s a surveillance tool that records metadata, such as the numbers called and the times of the calls.

Most names were redacted, but the documents show the news outlets she was in contact with included CNN, The Washington Post, Politico, and Just the News.

This was part of the “Plasmic Echo” investigation of Trump’s alleged mishandling of classified documents.

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Today was a big day at the “migrant” favela on Trampolín Beach in Ceuta. In a little over a week, King Felipe VI of Spain will pay a state visit to Ceuta, so the local authorities made like Prince Potemkin preparing for Catherine the Great: police began the laborious process of clearing the tents and makeshift shanties from the beach. It’s important to get the place looking neat and tidy for when His Majesty pops in for a visit.

But don’t get your hopes up: the eviction of the culture-enrichers from Trampolín Beach doesn’t mean they’ll be deported. They’re just being relocated to a place where they’ll be less of an eyesore, at the El Tarajal industrial estate hard on the border with Morocco, where several warehouses have been converted to migrant accommodations.

The Foundry.

When Zohran Mamdani said he’d govern New York City as a socialist, he meant it. And the way the mayor is doing that is by merging the Democratic Socialists of America and other left-wing groups with the official functions of city government.

It’s an ominous development for New York City.

Mamdani is creating a patronage machine—one writer cleverly coined the phrase “hipster Tammany Hall” to describe it—where he operates as the kingmaker of New York electoral politics and the chief administrator of New York’s government managerial class.

It’s that second function that could transform the city, if not permanently, at least for as a long as Mamdani is in office and probably for his successors too.

Ensuring that DSA candidates sit atop the ticket in local elections is one thing. Mamdani clearly intends to create an enduring coalition. But by integrating the larger left-wing organizing network into official government business he is more likely to transition New York from the financial capital of the United States into Havana on the Hudson.

Mamdani is doing this by creating new bureaucracies that prioritize its goals and is even funding an army of influencers who technically promote his agenda as private citizens but are functionally part of the larger governing apparatus. This has been engineered to the point where it’s increasingly unclear where the line is between the DSA and City Hall.

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An immigration activist group that receives substantial taxpayer funding helped push a California law creating new privacy protections for immigrant-service organizations, drawing criticism from watchdogs who say the measure will reduce transparency and public accountability.

AB 2624, which California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed in August, extends a privacy program to immigrant-serving nonprofits, their staff, and volunteers, allowing them to acquire substitute addresses in public records rather than their home and business addresses. The law also bans anyone from posting information on the internet with the intent of enabling another person to threaten violence against an immigration support services provider.

The Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights—which received more than two-thirds of its revenue from government grants between July 1, 2021, and June 30, 2025—co-sponsored, testified in support of, and lobbied for the bill. CHIRLA, which operates an “immigrant political power project,” did not respond when asked whether it expects to apply for the protections in the bill.

Democrats thrive in darkness.

The Other McCain.

The Ivy League Is Decadent and Depraved, as I have been saying for years, and recent events at Cornell University confirm my judgment.

Note: The Whiffenpoofs aren’t from Harvard (that’s the Krokodillos) but from Yale.