DYSPEPSIA GENERATION

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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.

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A Brazilian legislator last week mocked one of LGBT activists’ core arguments in favor of transgenderism with a simple demonstration during a state assembly session in São Paulo.

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Hospital prices are out of control. We know this.

A patient recently posted a bill showing a hospital charge of $17,813 for an MRI. Her insurance absorbed most of it, but she was still left owing about $2,600 herself. This is not some isolated curiosity. In the recent House Energy and Commerce hearing on health care affordability, Rick Pollack of the American Hospital Association defended hospital finances by arguing that “Medicare and Medicaid payments generally do not cover the full cost of providing care.”

That is the standard hospital defense. Privately insured patients, they say, must make up the difference. They are the cross subsidy.

But the same MRI can often be purchased in a competitive cash market for a fraction of the hospital charge. That alone tells us the hospital bill is not simply the price of an MRI. It is an opaque financing mechanism for the hospital’s broader cost structure.

Hospitals, by law, are not allowed to deny care to people who can’t or won’t pay. They’ve got to cover that cost somehow.s

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No matter which party was in charge nor which party had publicly announced they were withholding their votes, the liberal media would always blame the Republicans, especially in an election year. The effort to manipulate the facts in that way was nakedly apparent during Monday’s episode of The View when the ABC co-hosts openly admitted it was Democrats who were “holding up funding” to the government and TSA, but still insisted it was “a Republican problem.”

Amid their conversation about the long lines at airports, and TSA workers not getting paid, co-host Ana Navarro admitted Democrats were behind it but suggested it was for the just and noble cause of sticking it to ICE.

Amid their conversation about the long lines at airports, and TSA workers not getting paid, co-host Ana Navarro admitted Democrats were behind it but suggested it was for the just and noble cause of sticking it to ICE.

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Dr. Mehmet Oz, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, posted an Instagram video this week detailing ongoing fraud among hospice and health care facilities in Los Angeles County.

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An illegal alien previously released twice before by sanctuary city Chicago is now in custody again and charged with murdering an 18-year-old woman on Thursday.

“Sheridan Gorman had her whole life ahead of her before this cold-blooded killer decided to end her life. She was failed by open border policies and sanctuary politicians who RELEASED this illegal alien TWICE before he went on to commit this heinous murder,” Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Acting Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis said in a statement released Sunday.

DHS has filed a detainer request asking the sanctuary city to keep the illegal alien murder suspect, Venezuelan national Jose Medina-Medina, in custody and notify it before local law enforcement release him back into the community.

However, both Chicago and Illinois are so-called “sanctuaries” for illegal aliens. As such, they refuse to cooperate with U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement (ICE) and have a policy of releasing illegal aliens and denying detainer requests.

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Last week I wrote that Zohran Mamdani is a f***ing moron has proposed a new estate tax that is not really aimed at billionaires but at ordinary New Yorkers whose so called wealth is largely tied up in the homes they spent decades paying off.

That argument may have sounded abstract to some readers, like a warning about unintended consequences that might or might not materialize. But we do not have to speculate about how these kinds of burdensome taxation policies play out. Other than the Laffer Curve, which exists for a reason and has existed for 50 years now, we have another real world example, and it is happening in a state that shares many of New York’s political instincts and fiscal habits.

Massachusetts recently implemented a new 4% surtax on income above one million dollars after voters approved the measure in 2022. Supporters framed it as a targeted, reasonable way to raise revenue from top earners in order to fund public priorities like education and transportation. In theory, it was precisely the kind of policy that politicians like Mamdani claim will generate large sums of money without broader economic consequences.

But, of course, the early data tells a more complicated and far less comforting story.

In 2023, the first year the surtax took effect, Massachusetts experienced a net outflow of $4.2 billion in adjusted gross income. That number increased eight percent from the prior year. This was not driven by a sudden collapse in population or some unrelated shock. It reflects a steady and measurable movement of income and the people who earn it out of the state. Even more telling is that this shift occurred despite the fact that overall migration patterns did not dramatically worsen. In other words, fewer people may have left, but those who did leave took significantly more income with them.

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Hee hee hee hee hee….

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In Sweden, a Christian couple is going through a nightmare that captures the growing bias and targeting of religious families in Europe. Daniel and Bianca Samson have been fighting to regain custody of their daughters since 2022 after the government cited their regular church attendance and faith as warranting their removal.

The parents, with the help of the Alliance Defending Freedom International, were delivered another blow after the European Court of Human Rights refused to accept their appeal as “inadmissible.”

This saga began when their eldest daughter had a fight with her parents over being denied a smartphone and makeup.

She contacted police and made a false report of abuse.

However, Sara, quickly retracted the allegation and police found no evidence of abuse.

Nevertheless, the state took both girls — aged 10 and 11 at the time –and refused to allow them to return home.

The government alleged that they found evidence of “religious extremism” and, according to ADF, cited the family’s habit of attending church three times a week.

It also cited strict religious upbringing in the home.

Funny how Muslim kids never get taken away from their parents for ‘strict religious upbringing in the home.”

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It’s not easy being Green.

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Spain is facing mounting concern over the long-term consequences of years of large-scale Moroccan migration, as warnings grow that a sizable and increasingly organized community could begin to exert coordinated political influence.

Official figures cited by La Región show that nearly 900,000 Moroccan nationals were living in Spain in 2024, making them the largest Muslim group in the country.

More than 226,000 are concentrated in Catalonia, with numbers continuing to rise sharply.

What is now causing alarm is not just the scale, but the potential for political mobilization.

Gee, if the Spanish had done this in Morocco, the Usual Suspects would be whining about ‘colonialization’.

But when Muslims do it to European countries, well, that’s all right, then.

This is what Restore Britain is talking about when they complain that their country is being ‘colonised’.

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Well, you can’t say she doesn’t need something.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (D- NY) campaign splashed close to $19,000 in campaign funds last year to a Boston-area psychiatrist affiliated with a chain of clinics that specialize in ketamine-based treatments for mental-health conditions, according to the New York Post.

Disclosures filed with the Federal Election Commission indicate that Ocasio-Cortez’s campaign committee made three payments totaling $18,725 in 2025 to Dr. Brian Boyle, chief psychiatric officer at Stella Mental Health. The expenditures were recorded as “leadership training and consulting”: $11,550 in March, $2,800 in May and $4,375 in October.

Dr. Boyle, a Harvard Medical School graduate who previously served as an attending psychiatrist at McLean Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital, focuses on interventional psychiatry. Stella Mental Health offers treatments including intravenous ketamine infusions, Spravato nasal spray, transcranial magnetic stimulation and other approaches aimed at conditions such as treatment-resistant depression, post-traumatic stress disorder and anxiety. The clinics market these services to patients who have not responded to conventional therapies, and ketamine-based options have gained attention in recent years among certain professional and celebrity circles seeking alternative mental-health interventions, the Post reports..

Makes me want to run for something so that other people will be persuaded to pay for my stuff without it being taxed as income to me. Actually, running (or servicing) a political campaign appears to be a lucrative gig without much accountability, as in the 1972 Robert Redford movie THE CANDIDATE.

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he New York Times Magazine is clearly inflating Don Lemon’s already massive ego with a story titled: “‘I Am the News’: The Absurd Drama (and High Stakes) of the Don Lemon Affair.”

Times writer Matt Flegenheimer implies that Lemon isn’t exactly the best example of journalism and that he’s remarkably stuck on himself. The absurd drama seems to be how both sides of the Trump wars have made Lemon’s post-CNN career.

The Telegraph (UK).

Research by The Telegraph and Public First has identified six distinct, new social groupings that reflect the reality of today’s Britain.

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Macmillan Cancer Support will prioritise access to its welfare advice for gay, transgender and ethnic minority cancer patients, and those with existing health problems, The Sunday Telegraph can reveal.

Under a new model, the charity’s benefits advisers would target ongoing financial and wellbeing support at groups it would deem most vulnerable, including LGBTQ+ people, ethnic minorities and those already unwell before their cancer diagnosis.

Staff will also be asked to prioritise those with caring responsibilities.

Apparently some animals are more equal than others.

The Telegraph (UK).

An “anti-Semitic” art exhibition with drawings allegedly showing Jewish people eating babies was seemingly promoted by a Labour council.

The Drawings Against Genocide exhibition at an independent gallery in Margate, Kent, features hundreds of crudely-drawn pictures that critics claim contain anti-Semitic tropes.

It is the work of Matthew Collings, 70, formerly one of the country’s leading art critics, who said the art was “about raising consciousness about hell” and that “Israel is the pure encapsulation of it” through its actions in Gaza.

The Telegraph (UK).

A Labour council has said it is wrong to claim that migrants come from “cultures that don’t respect women”.

Although that seems pretty obvious.

In an online “myth-buster” addressing asylum and immigration, Liverpool city council said that blaming foreign cultures for violence against women and girls “reinforces harmful stereotypes”.

Much like the daily news.

The myth-buster said there was “no causal link between asylum seeker populations and increased levels of violence against women and girls”.

Which, of course, they can’t know—but the statistical correlation is pretty solid.

Last year, analysis by the Centre for Migration Control found that foreign nationals were three times as likely to be arrested for sexual offences as British citizens.

LA LA LA LA LA LA LA I CAN’T HEAR YOU….

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Several ambulances reportedly belonging to a Jewish volunteer organisation have been set alight in Golders Green, northwest London.

The London Fire Brigade (LFB) told CNN in the early hours of Monday that they were “in attendance managing a fire” in the neighbourhood, which is home to one of the UK’s largest Jewish communities.

Unverified footage circulating on social media appeared to show multiple vehicles engulfed in flames and the sound of loud explosions.

Trump Is Finally Eyeing an Exit From Iran. But Will He Take It? (David E. Sanger/New York Times)  Despite their pretenses of being able to mind-read “what Trump is really thinking”, they have no clue as to what Trump is thinking.

Democrats pile on Trump for post celebrating Mueller’s death (Politico)

State Dept. fumes after insiders reveal who ‘motivated’ Trump to launch Iran war: report (Alexander Willis/Raw Story)  The Narrative Media will believe anything that fits in with their delusions.

Donald Trump Is Nothing Like Robert Mueller (Jonathan Lemire/The Atlantic) And thank God for that.

Haters at NPR Hype Swedes Claiming Trump’s ‘Dismantling Democracy’ at Alarming Speed

Trump’s Reaction to Mueller’s Death: ‘Good, I’m Glad.’ (Erica L. Green/New York Times)  Me, too.

Dump Trump: MS NOW’s Capehart Calls for 25th Amendment Talk After Trump’s Pearl Harbor JOKE

CNN’s “100% MAGA Trump approval” segment omits key nuance for virality (G. Elliott Morris/Strength In Numbers) Oh—say it ain’t so….

Trump Has Made a Fundamental Miscalculation about Iran (Phil Klay/New York Times)  After all, Phil Klay is The Expert! (Phil who…?)

Washington ignores America’s fiscal cliff (Neil Irwin/Axios)  Have you ever noticed that the Narrative Media only care about “America’s fiscal cliff” when a Republican is President?

Trump Destroyed the EV Industry, Just When We Need It Most (Jonathan Cohn/The Bulwark)  Uh, no, economics destroyed the ‘EV industry’.

‘Nobody else is responsible’: Trump to blame for Iran crisis, ex-CIA chief says (David Smith/The Guardian)

Gov. Pritzker Says Trump Has Dementia, CNN’s Erin Burnett Doesn’t Push Back a Bit

Trump’s changing course on Strait of Hormuz strategy raises questions about US war preparation (Collin Binkley/Associated Press)  Grasping at straws much?

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The head of a left-wing nonprofit, reportedly linked to a Marxist propaganda network connected to a China-based billionaire, flew first class while her supporters traveled in coach to Cuba. This appears to be an effort aimed at disrupting U.S. foreign policy operations in the Caribbean.

“NOW we’re on our way to Cuba!” Code Pink wrote on X on Friday.

Never a Stinger missile around when you need one….

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In the most recent election cycle, three incumbent black judges in San Antonio lost their primaries, and the other two first time black candidates also lost. In this article in the San Antonio Express-News appears the following quote:

“I think it’s a very bad look for the criminal justice system not to have any African American judges,” said attorney Andrew Birrell, president of the National Association of Criminal Defense Attorneys. “The bench ought to reflect A, the society, and B, the people who come before the court. That’s how you get the fairest result that people are the most accepting of.”

Now, it really bothers me that someone can make such an absurd statement and no one raises an eyebrow. This is one of those fallacious arguments that has become so widespread that no one seems to notice anymore. Is this stuff impossible to overcome, or are we fated to have to hear it until the end of days?

Have you ever noticed how much trouble black women go to in order that their hair looks like white-woman hair rather than black-woman hair?

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President Donald Trump said Sunday that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents would be sent to U.S. airports beginning Monday to assist Transportation Security Administration (TSA) personnel.

In a post on Truth Social, Trump said ICE would support TSA agents who have continued working during a partial government shutdown. He had also warned a day earlier that he would deploy ICE officers to airports if congressional Democrats did not agree to fund airport security.

Tom Homan, the White House border czar, confirmed the planned deployment, describing it as an effort to address long security lines during a busy travel period. Speaking on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Homan said ICE agents would help TSA manage passenger flow as staffing shortages have increased amid the shutdown, during which many TSA employees are working without pay.

The logic of government is, that if getting on an airplane requires TSA screening, and you don’t have enough TSA screeners, that doesn’t mean you can get on without screening (God forbid); it means you have to wait hours in long lines in order to be screened by however few may actually be available.

Democrats, knowing that this sort of bureaucratic bottleneck was impassible, are using their holdup of DHS funding to cause the maximum inconvenience to people who ordinarily don’t give a shit about politics but just want to get on the damned plane. Such people, unaware of the actual issues involved, whine to their elected representatives to JUST GET SOMETHING DONE, which works out to eventually requiring greasing the squeaky wheel of Democrat intransigence.

Trump, who is smarter than you and me in these matters, has brought his BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR stamp and is busily impressing it on the foreheads of the Democrats in Congress: Okay, if we need more screeners and Democrats won’t pay for it, then we’ll use ICE and put them there and (oh, by the way) arrest any illegal immigrants we may come across in the process. This puts Democrats in a cleft stick and uses them to play Lacrosse.

I really love this guy.

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For years, the Left tried to gaslight Americans into thinking that Antifa was a fake threat, even though we could see the political violence before our own eyes. Now, the Trump administration isn’t just bringing charges against Antifa rioters, it’s taking aim at the potential funding networks behind the violence.

When Antifa agitators set cars on fire, threw Molotov cocktails and fireworks at the federal courthouse in Portland, and terrorized the streets of U.S. cities in the summer of 2020, many on the Left brushed aside the violence as “fiery but peaceful protests.”

Insurance analysts have estimated that the Black Lives Matter riots between May 28 and June 8, 2020 resulted in more than $2 billion in insurance payouts. The violence cost the lives of at least 26 Americans, including heroes like retired police Captain David Dorn.

The street violence has become more intermittent, but it hasn’t fully abated. Agitators have set Teslas on fire to protest Elon Musk’s work in the Trump administration. Anti-Israel demonstrations on college campuses have veered into antisemitic harassment. In some cases, groups that organized protests received grants from the Left’s dark money network.

Some radical leftists have even attempted or carried out assassinations. President Donald Trump survived two assassination attempts in 2024, as did Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh in 2022. Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk wasn’t so lucky.

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Belgium marked the 22 March 2016 terrorist attacks on Sunday, which killed 32 people and injured more than 300.

Official ceremonies began at Zaventem Airport, continued at Maelbeek metro station—another site of the attacks—and concluded at a central memorial in Brussels. Prime Minister Bart De Wever, King Philippe of Belgium, and Queen Mathilde attended the events.

Remembrance events had already begun on Saturday, when a human chain was formed at Maelbeek metro station to mark the tenth anniversary of the attacks.

The Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attacks, which were carried out by the same network behind the Paris attacks a few months earlier, which killed 130 people. After retreating to safe houses in Brussels, the attackers launched a hastily organised operation days after the arrest of Salah Abdeslam, the only surviving member of the Paris cell on 18 March.

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For many years the political left has dismissed all discussion about links between third world populations and low intelligence as “racism” and “xenophobia”. The well documented fact that low IQ populations are more inclined towards lack of impulse control and a higher crime rate does not matter to progressives. They assert that such claims are based on “rigged” and “biased” data.

For example, the data on Somalia’s low median IQ (which is 67 and far below the western average of 100) is often criticized as “incomplete” because the data is usually taken from refugees and migrants leaving the country rather than a population sample from within the country. However, populations in neighboring countries like Djibouti or Ethiopia have nearly identical test results.

It is simply a fact that IQ is largely genetic (around 80% of testing outcome). The rest is a matter of varied experiences and environment. This does not mean that a “disadvantaged” childhood results in a lower IQ score. In fact, high IQ individuals often come from significant struggles and studies on top “high achievers” show that around 75% of them come from difficult backgrounds including extreme poverty.

A game anyone can play.

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New York City spent about $368 million last year on services for people living on the streets, which equals roughly $81,000 per unsheltered person, according to the NY Post.

Spending through the city’s New York City Department of Homeless Services street outreach programs has increased sharply over the past several years. In 2019, the city spent about $102 million on these services, averaging around $28,000 per unsheltered individual. By the 2025 fiscal year, the average cost had risen to about $81,000 per person, close to the city’s median household income of $81,228.

Unsheltered homeless individuals are those who regularly live outside rather than in shelters or permanent housing. During this same period, the number of people living on the streets grew by 26 percent, rising from 3,588 in 2019 to 4,505 in 2025. However, spending increased far faster than the population itself.

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If you have been watching the media coverage of the war with Iran, you can not help but be aware of the leftist agenda being driven home day after day, report after report. You hear that there was no imminent threat from Iran, Trump has no exit strategy, etc. And of course the one they really love to push is Israel as an evil player, whether it’s how they somehow made the U.S. start the war, or as a recent CNN report implied, how they are bombing Lebanon for no reason, and are responsible for the deaths of children.

On Thursday’s Erin Burnett OutFront, the CNN host began her segment by talking over a video of an RT reporter in Lebanon, who just managed to avoid an Israeli air attack, while giving his report. She would then play it with sound, as she made her feelings known.

Burnett failed to mention that Israel has said that it issued explicit warnings the day before, citing Hezbollah’s use of the area for moving fighters and weapons. She then threw it to a report from inside Lebanon by Correspondent Isobel Yeung, who first showed us the funeral of what she says were four young siblings and a cousin killed in Israeli airstrikes.

The Narrative Media also wring their hands a lot when hospitals, mosques, and orphanages get targeted, without bothering to report that Islamic terrorists (like Hamas and Hezbollah) regularly use such places as command posts and staging areas with the “innocent” denizens as their human shields.

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With the return of President Donald Trump to the White House, panicked liberals fearful of a Fascism that never seems to happen outside of their fervid imaginations are seeking an escape route via obtaining foreign citizenship. Also key to their escape from Orange Man Bad is getting foreign passports as chronicled on Monday in the New Yorker by Lauren Markham, “Seeking a Second Passport.”

For decades proglodytes have been whining that if so-and-so is elected President (or Governor or whatever) they would leave the country. And then they still stay. It’s gratifying to know that Trump is the incentive they need to get out for real. (Don’t let the door hit you in the butt on the way out.)

Iran Believes It’s Winning–and Wants a Steep Price to End the War (Yaroslav Trofimov/Wall Street Journal)

Trump’s unshackled presidency puts him at the center of the economy (Matt Peterson/CNBC)

Trump Is Hiding the Truth About the War in Iran (New York Times)

Capehart Tries To Cast Doubt On Claims Of Success In Iran

Three weeks in, Iran war escalates beyond Trump’s control (Reuters)

The Energy Supply Shock of the Iran War Changes Everything (Matthew Zeitlin/Heatmap News)  Everything?

On CNN, Democrat Discovers $200 Billion Is Too Much Money—When Trump Spends It

Iran war’s economic shocks could reverberate for a while (Courtenay Brown/Axios)

‘This is about attention’: Mike Lee’s MAGA crusade is driving his colleagues crazy (Jordain Carney/Politico)  MAGA is the New Nigger.

Chicago Transit Authority sues to restore billions in federal funding (Gregory Svirnovskiy/Politico)  Because, as we all know, funding local transportation is TOTALLY the responsibility of the Federal government—and the Federal taxpayer.

Trump Erupts in Fury Over His War Failures–and Exposes a Big Weakness (Greg Sargent/New Republic)  Gred Sargent loses his shit.

Trump Thinks Cuba is Another Venezuela. Here’s Why He’s Wrong (Achy Obejas/Politico)

Trump’s Iran War Drive Exposes Limits of ‘Yes Sir’ Cabinet (Bloomberg)

The Crust
The Clerisy
The Comfortable
The Constructive
The Contemptible

I’m sure you can do the sorting.

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Martin Hewitt, head of the Border Security Command, will leave his post at the end of March—well before the end of his three-year term—following mounting frustration inside the Home Office over persistently high migrant arrivals. His departure comes after more than 66,000 migrants have crossed the Channel in small boats since Labour took office 19 months ago, with last year alone recording over 41,000 arrivals.

Appointed in September 2024 to deliver on the government’s pledge to “smash the gangs,” Hewitt had been given sweeping powers modelled on counter-terror operations. Yet crossings continued at scale, exposing the limits of enforcement efforts without a credible deterrent.

Insiders said Hewitt had become increasingly frustrated with both operational constraints and a lack of decisive policy backing. He had previously pressed for tougher cooperation from France, including the interception of migrant boats at sea—a measure repeatedly delayed amid political and legal obstacles.

The Foundry.

I would have put it a little more bluntly.

New York’s desperate governor is turning to a well-known practice in New York City: aggressive begging.

While speaking at Politico’s “New York Agenda: Albany Summit” last week, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, admitted that the state’s tax base has eroded and that it faces a deepening fiscal crisis.

She then put out a call for wealthy, former New Yorkers to come back to the state so they can be robbed again by beneficent government overlords.

The Other McCain.

You are an intelligent, responsible adult, which is why you’ve never heard of Taylor Frankie Paul. Until Thursday, I hadn’t heard of her either because — as an intelligent, responsible adult — I pay zero attention to “reality TV.” But before getting to her recent failed attempt to break out from that entertainment ghetto, let’s start at the beginning: By 2022, when she was 28, Taylor Frankie Paul had accumulated a massive following on TikTok. She was a married mother of three, and a lot of her content featured her and her husband, Tate Paul, doing silly stunts, sometimes with their two young children. Then in mid-2022, Taylor “went viral” with a video announcing that she would be getting divorced. Her “life was falling apart,” she said and then she dropped the bomb: The breakup was because she and her husband (and many of their friends in their Utah community, allegedly) were involved in “swinging.”

Don’t know who needs to hear this, but . . . BAD IDEA!

Newsbusters.

When a military expert’s opinion is different than a politician’s, how are fact-checkers like PolitiFact supposed to adjudicate the politician’s claim? If a Friday article by Zoe Weyand is anything to go by, the answer is not at all, or at least if the politician is Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren. However, Weyand’s standard for giving Warren a “true” rating for a recent claim she made about President Trump is different than the one PolitiFact has traditionally applied to Republicans.

Warren claimed that Trump has dropped more bombs on more countries than any president in the modern era, which was defined as since 9/11. In the “If your time is short” summary, Weyand wrote, “From the start of his first term to now, Trump has authorized military strikes in 10 countries, more than any other president in the 21st century. He has also authorized a higher number of military strikes than any other modern president.”

However, she also observed how “An expert said the use of ground troops is a better way to analyze military activity. Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush deployed a far greater number of American troops during their tenures.”

That expert was Mark Cancian, who Weyand described as “a senior adviser with the Center for Strategic and International Studies’ Defense and Security Department.” Cancian’s opinion that ground forces are a better way to measure military activity did not dissuade Weyand from giving Warren a straight-up true rating, but historically, Republicans have not been given that benefit.

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On Tuesday’s Fox & Friends, the show gave coverage to the story of how anti-ICE agitators blocked ICE agents from arresting a sexual predator in Boston, leading it to take a month to finally catch him.

Co-host Ainsley Earhardt set up the segment by recalling that Fox reporter Bill Melugin was informed by an ICE agent about the incident that happened in Boston. Reading from Melugin’s post on X, co-host Brian Kilmeade filled in viewers.

Newsbusters.

As the military uses up expensive weapons in the war with Iran, it naturally seeks to replenish them. However, CNN’s Saturday host of First of All, Victor Blackwell, suggested that the money being used to protect our troops means that the government isn’t concerned with “you” as he rattled off several welfare programs he claimed the money should go to instead.

 

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The authoritarian COVID lockdowns and stay-at-home orders sold as life-saving measures have been unmasked once again as a deadly failure of big government overreach.

A new UK Covid-19 Inquiry report has concluded that the relentless “Stay Home, Protect the NHS, Save Lives” messaging likely cost thousands of lives by convincing people they could not get access to health services.

The inquiry, led by Baroness Hallett, slammed the slogan created by Cabinet Office officials without input from health leaders. It “led some people to feel they must avoid burdening the NHS” and “may have inadvertently sent the message that healthcare was closed,” contributing to a sharp decline in A&E attendances for life-threatening emergencies such as heart attacks.

UnHerd.

I hate to pass along such news, but it’s the 30th anniversary of David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest, the preeminent MFA novel, which in the heady days of the Clinton surplus passed through the aforementioned burning hoops of the publishing-industrial complex with flying colors. In fact, it introduced many of the colors as it leapt and gamboled. Three decades of nimbus have grown round its obsolescence, and yet its publishers insist on goading us every 10 years with a freshly introduced reissue of the dead horse. This time, the publishers have tapped singer-songwriter Michelle Zauner, an introductress who has gone into the belly of the beast cognizant of her “own innate and internalized misogyny,” an obligatory non-sequitur that lets the reader know they’re in the good, coercible hands of someone in way over their head.

I must confess to having attempted to read INFINITE JEST on multiple occasions without success. I am persauded that the title references the scam that Wallace managed to perpetrate on his agent, his publisher, and the Usual Literary Suspects.

Watch it.

Just in case you were wondering.

Helps explain why Britain is such a shit-hole, and why my great-grandfather was willing to spend a couple of months seasick.

I got yer affordable housing, right here….

Read it.

The Department of Homeland Security shutdown entered its 36th day on Saturday after Senate Democrats blocked yet another funding bill for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Transportation Security Administration, and other federal agencies, triggering weeks of chaos at airports nationwide, including long TSA checkpoint lines during the peak of the spring break travel season.

Early Saturday morning, Elon Musk, closely tracking the DHS funding lapse, wrote on X that he would personally pay the salaries of TSA agents to get them back to airports and help avert further chaos.

“I would like to offer to pay the salaries of TSA personnel during this funding impasse that is negatively affecting the lives of so many Americans at airports throughout the country,” Musk said.

Pay attention, all of you Democrat billionaires who keep screaming that you want your taxes raised: All you have to do is write a check. Alex Soros—ball’s in your court.

On the other hand, the Airline Gestapo TSA is one of the ugliest manifestations of the Security Theater State soaking up taxpayer dollars. How about we Defund the TSA? Sounds like a win-win!