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The European Commission has threatened to take away European Union funds from Hungary if it does not pay the €200 million fine imposed by the European Court of Justice over the country’s asylum system.

“There is no wiggle room here. We have to follow the applicable procedures,” a Commission spokesman said on Monday, September 2nd.

The issue revolves around the Hungarian conservative government’s tough stance on migration. Hungary has made it difficult for illegal migrants to enter the country, which is also the external border of the European Union—a border Hungary is obliged to protect.

Since 2016, Hungary has been enabling its police to deport foreigners lacking valid documentation directly to Serbia. Illegal migrants travelling through the Western Balkan route can only submit requests for asylum outside Hungary’s borders.

The European Commission, which has been pursuing an open-border, pro-migration policy, has deemed these practices a breach of EU law, saying asylum seekers should be allowed into a member state to seek protection and to stay there until their claim is handled.

“We won’t give you this money until you pay this other money.” To which the appropriate response would appear to be “Stick them both up your ass.” But that’s just me. Why Hungary remains a part of the European Union escapes me.

Tyler Cowen.

I don’t agree with this theory as stated, but it can be worth spelling such things out, if only to see their weaknesses, or perhaps some strengths at some of the more unusual or less likely margins. Here goes:

People, especially “thinkers,” like to believe they serve all sorts of noble purposes in the intellectual infrastructure. But in reality their main effects are either to raise or lower the status of the elites in their society.

Noam Chomsky, for instance, has lowered the status of American elites. That is his net long-run effect, not that he drummed up sympathy for the Khmer Rouge. A lot more people, for better or worse, are more skeptical of a bunch of things because of Chomsky.

The New York Times, in contrast, works hard to raise the status of elites. It tries especially hard to raise the status of Democratic elites, but still it is raising the status of elites for the most part.

Most ‘thinkers’ are in love with thinking, and spend little time thinking about whether what they’re thinking has any connection to reality. Usually they think of ‘connection to reality’ as a bug, not a feature

It is hard to lower the status of elites without lowering your own status as well.  It is not just that the elites will not like you, or may treat you and your PR harshly.  You also have to come across as quite negative, and furthermore some of the negativity you create for your targets will rub off on you, at least in the eyes of much of your audience.  Plus being too relentlessly critical, rather than constructive, tends to make people stupider.

I can live with it. Most people will grow stupider over time all by themselves; I am happy to help that process along pro bono publico. Think of it as evolution in action.

UnHerd.

Human beings are conflicted animals. We are capable of great devotion to the people and things we cherish, and will strive tirelessly on their behalf. Yet we long to be done with worry and struggle, to close the open wounds of existence and be relieved, once and for all, of anxiety and toil. At times of cultural exhaustion, this longing can afflict a whole people. We see this today in the United States.

Americans have suffered bruising blows for four years now: the Covid shutdown, urban riots and crime, ballooning inflation and debt, open borders, civil strife, the gloating of our enemies and the collapse of the international order. The electorate is weary and dispirited, and seems ready, like a boxer on his last legs, to take a sweet nap on the canvas.

Kamala Harris’s handlers understand this perfectly well. Having accurately discerned the national mood, they have made her the woman of the hour. She seems to float above all weighty issues. In her campaign poster “Forward”, a knockoff of the iconic Obama “Hope” image, her uplifted gaze radiates joy and “upliftment”. Her invocation of “What can be, unburdened by what has been” is happy and hopeful.

If all that sounds attractive, consider that Harris’s candidacy involves a deep memory-wipe. Politically speaking, she has sprung into being as a fully formed adult with no discernible past or historical recall. Her plan to control food prices repeats a common, famine-inducing error of communist regimes. Her tough-on-crime and border-securing persona rests not just on amnesia, but on media-driven amnesty. And yet, propelled forward by the cheerful drone of the “KHive ” and the good vibrations of “Brat summer”, Harris may surf all the way to the Oval Office.

In the immortal words of the Clinton Campaign Song: Don’t stop thinkin’ about tomorrow/Yesterday’s gone, yesterday’s gone….

NPR.

An Iranian writer and activist has been sentenced to 12 years in prison after replying with a single dot, or period, in response to a post on the social platform X by Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Hossein Shanbehzadeh, a longtime critic of Iran’s leadership, was active on social media, supporting political prisoners and the removal of mandatory headscarves for women. He was sent to prison in 2019 for his online comments insulting Khamenei. He later wrote about the experience, including being flogged, according to Voice of America.

In early June, 35-year-old Shanbehadeh was arrested in Ardabil, northwestern Iran. According to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, he told his family he wasn’t sure why he was arrested, but it came shortly after he posted the response to Khamenei’s tweet, which showed the Iranian leader with the country’s national volleyball team.

Reminder for the dimwitted: Islam is an oppressive totalitarian ideology, masquerading as a religion, with which no co-existence is possible.

CNBC.

There’s nothing remarkable about Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit to Mongolia on Tuesday — he’s due to meet the country’s leader, hold talks on developing bilateral ties and attend a gala reception.

What is unusual is that Mongolia, as a member of the International Criminal Court (ICC), should have arrested the Russian president as soon as he landed on Mongolian soil Monday evening.

Putin is the subject of an international arrest warrant issued by the ICC in March 2023. The court alleged that he is responsible for war crimes, with a particular focus on the unlawful deportation of children from Ukraine to Russia.

At the time, the Kremlin described the ICC’s actions as “outrageous and unacceptable” and said they had no effect on Russia, which is not a member of the ICC.

Mongolia has now found itself in hot water as Putin visits the country — his first visit to an ICC member state since the arrest warrant was issued — with apparent impunity.

Under the Rome Statute, the founding treaty of the ICC that came into effect in 2002, ICC member states are obliged to detain and surrender to the court any persons who are subject to an ICC arrest warrant, if they set foot on their soil.

The court has no way to enforce the rule, however, and Mongolia defied it by welcoming Putin with a guard of honor as he met President Ukhnaagiin Khurelsukh in the capital, Ulaanbaatar, on Tuesday.

The do-gooders establish these feel-good institutions that parade around at the expense of taxpayers, and do absolutely nothing except provide well-paying and pompous-sounding jobs for favored apparatchiks. Why do they even bother? Nobody takes this shit seriously. But they pretend to, and take money out of your pocket in the process.

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Researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have shown that therapeutically restoring ‘youthful’ levels of a specific subunit of the telomerase enzyme can significantly reduce the signs and symptoms of aging in preclinical models. If these findings are validated in clinical trials, they could have important therapeutic implications for age-related diseases such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, heart disease, and cancer.

The study, published in Cell, identified a small molecule compound that restores physiological levels of telomerase reverse transcriptase (TERT), which normally is repressed with the onset of aging. Maintenance of TERT levels in aged lab models reduced cellular senescence and tissue inflammation, spurred new neuron formation with improved memory, and enhanced neuromuscular function, which increased strength and coordination.

The researchers show that TERT functions not only to extend telomeres, but also acts as a transcription factor to affect the expression of many genes directing neurogenesis, learning and memory, cellular senescence, and inflammation.

“Epigenetic repression of TERT plays a major role in the cellular decline seen at the onset of aging by regulating genes involved in learning, memory, muscle performance, and inflammation,” said corresponding author Ronald DePinho, M.D., professor of Cancer Biology. “By pharmacologically restoring youthful TERT levels, we reprogrammed expression of those genes, resulting in improved cognition and muscle performance while eliminating hallmarks linked to many age-related diseases.”

Not coming to anywhere near you anytime soon, because reasons, mostly having to do with government regulation.

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Using cannabis may cause changes in the human body’s epigenome, a study of over 1,000 adults suggests. The epigenome functions like a set of switches, activating or deactivating genes to change how our bodies function.

“We observed associations between cumulative marijuana use and multiple epigenetic markers across time,” explained epidemiologist Lifang Hou from Northwestern University when the research was published in 2023.

Cannabis is a commonly used substance in the United States, with 49 percent of people trying it at least once, Hou and a team of US researchers report in their published paper. Some US states and other countries have made it legal, but we still don’t fully understand its effects on our health.

Gee, whoda thunkit?

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The word ‘democracy’ still enjoys considerable cachet. It is invoked with reverence by politicians as various as Nancy Pelosi and Nigel Farage. The difference is that while the populist Right lauds the democratic ideal as something from which we have strayed, Left-liberals yammer on about ‘our democracy’ in defence of an unpopular status quo, dominated by a nexus of like-minded political, media, and cultural elites. The urgency of guarding against ‘authoritarian strongmen’ is cited as the legitimising basis of this regime. Even if the people start clamouring for a stronger, more personally accountable executive, it falls to this mass of faceless mandarins to save them from their own misguided preferences.

In Auron MacIntyre’s new book, The Total State: How Liberal Democracies Become Tyrannies, the Right is given a lesson which, until recently, only the most callow, sentimental progressives needed to hear: it is a fatal error to worship warm-sounding ideals in abstraction from political reality. The left-wing rebranding of oligarchy as ‘our democracy’ is a cynical lie, but it is politically clever at a time when conservatives still lionise the democratic form of government while failing to take seriously its obvious breakdown in practice.

UK Daily Mail.

Wealthy Americans are packing up and shipping out of blue states in record numbers, a bombshell new report has revealed.

High earners from California and New York are leaving faster than all – topping the list of 10 states seeing an exodus of their richest residents.

The new data by SmartAsset revealed a mass migration of households pulling in at least $200,000 or more annually.

California, the land of Silicon Valley and Hollywood glitz, waved goodbye to a net 24,670 wealthy households.

Coming in close comes New York which saw 12,040 of its highest earners hit the road.

Your tax dollars at work.

Off-Guardian.

Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Meta, has finally admitted what we knew all along: Facebook conspired with the government to censor individuals expressing “disapproved” views about the COVID-19 pandemic.

Zuckerberg’s confession comes in the wake of a series of court rulings that turn a blind eye to the government’s technofascism.

In a 2-1 decision in Children’s Health Defense v. Meta, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed a lawsuit brought by Children’s Health Defense against Meta Platforms for restricting CHD’s posts, fundraising, and advertising on Facebook following communications between Meta and federal government officials.

In a unanimous decision in the combined cases of NetChoice v. Paxton and Moody v. NetChoice, the U.S. Supreme Court avoided ruling on whether the states could pass laws to prohibit censorship by Big Tech companies on social media platforms such as Facebook, TikTok, and YouTube.
And in a 6-3 ruling in Murthy v. Missouri , the Supreme Court sidestepped a challenge to the federal government’s efforts to coerce social media companies into censoring users’ First Amendment expression.

Welcome to the age of technocensorship.

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Labour’s recent victory in the general election was hardly welcomed by the public. After all, they received fewer votes than Jeremy Corbyn’s failed campaign in 2019. Keir Starmer’s victory was only secured because Reform ate into large swathes of the Tory base, a reality that also redounded to the benefit of the Liberal Democrats. Nigel Farage’s rise to Parliament, with the capture of the Clacton constituency, is to be celebrated as a step in the right direction, but at the same time we should not ignore the monumental problems that a Labour government will now face.

It is difficult to know where to begin. No doubt many on the Right will point to mass immigration, and this of course is a major threat to the West. Yet, to understand why this is, we must go deeper into the economic frameworks that bureaucrats have been building in recent decades, because immigration can be blamed as much on shoddy monetary theory as the cult of global universalism.

It is unquestionable that mass immigration is a liberal project, one built on naivety in presuming that everyone who arrives will benefit our society and thus the economy. However, this is only part of the story—and probably the most well known part—because it’s easy to remember, understand, and is repeatedly trumpeted by left-wing activists. That said, the economic pretext for current demographic change has been typically neglected. This is because the idea that flawed monetary and economic policy could be driving the West into a downward spiral strikes us as unlikely, such that we’d rather just pin the blame on social justice warriors and NGOs. This is a mistake.

JD Vance Rants About ‘Miserable’ Professional Women in Unearthed Clip (Lily Mae Lazarus/The Daily Beast)

Winning election wouldn’t save Trump from massive fraud, defamation judgments (Griffin Eckstein/Salon)

Missouri Man Arrested For Allegedly Threatening To Kill Trump, Republicans, Police Officers

Conservative Moms, Charmed by Trump, Would Rather Avoid His Misogyny (Shawn McCreesh/New York Times)

In N.C., some Black voters are uneasy with Harris’s abortion rights focus (Cleve R. Wootson Jr/Washington Post)

Elon Musk Warns Censorship Of X “Is A Certainty” If Kamala Harris Wins

NEW: Gold Star Families Release Devastating Responses to Kamala Harris Politicizing Trump Cemetery Visit (Bonchie/RedState)

Happy Labor Day.

The Other McCain.

Say hello to Corey Cobb-Bey and, while you’re at it, go ahead and say good-bye, because he died Thursday night in the proverbial hail of police gunfire after he murdered a Dallas cop and wounded two others.

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As he filled in on Alex Wagner Tonight on Thursday, MSNBC host Ayman Mohyeldin allowed his anti-Israel guest to rant so that he took a full minute from his colleague Lawrence O’Donnell’s show — a fact that O’Donnell made sure to point out as he joined.

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Anchor Amna Nawaz hosted on Thursday’s PBS News Hour as her expert Steven Erlanger, chief diplomatic correspondent and former Jerusalem bureau chief and fiercely pro-Palestinian voice for years at the paper. They spoke about Israel killing young Islamic Jihad leader Mohammed Jaber in a West Bank action.

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The Israel Defense Forces announced Saturday that several bodies, likely of those of Israeli hostages seized and held by Hamas, were found underground in Gaza.

UPDATE: Family Confirms Death of Israeli-American Hostage Goldberg-Polin (Bloomberg.com)

UPDATE: Israel recovers the bodies of 6 hostages in Gaza, including Israeli-American Hersh Goldberg-Polin (Josef Federman/Associated Press)

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It looks like the U.S.’s sole export is no longer just dollars and inflation…we’re also exporting the products of our rising crime rate.

A new report last week says that stolen vehicles have become a “world epidemic” and that there is a rising number of stolen vehicles at east coast ports, according to CBS.

The number of cars seized at the Port of Newark is on the rise, according to CBS News New York’s Derick Waller.

Jeffrey Greene, acting director at the Port of New York and Newark, oversees customs officials using x-rays to inspect containers and seize stolen cars. In one case, two junk vehicles concealed a pristine Mercedes, while another container held a stolen Chevy Silverado.

So far this year, they’ve seized 331 vehicles, on pace to surpass last year’s total. Investigators say West African markets, especially Nigeria, offer the highest prices. Social media videos show luxury SUVs being unloaded from containers, sometimes still sporting American license plates.

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As the 2024 election looms, the Biden administration is accelerating efforts to distribute billions in clean-energy loans, fearing the program could stall if former President Donald Trump is re-elected, the Wall Street Journal reported.

The Federalist.

Earlier this year, Cincinnati-area voters Cassandra and Harry Scott were puzzled to receive voter registration updates showing they had changed their address. They hadn’t.

The Hamilton County Board of Elections had received two registration forms for the voters from Black Fork Strategies LLC, an Ohio-based “engagement firm that focuses on all aspects of community and electoral field work.” Elections Board staff made the requested changes in the voter rolls and, per Ohio law, sent notice to the voters at their “new address.” That’s when Cassandra and Harry Scott showed up at the BOE office.

“Both of those voters appeared at our office during normal business hours after receiving those acknowledgement cards. The new address that was submitted on these registration cards was actually the place of business for Ms. Cassandra,” Elections Board Director Sherry Poland told Hamilton BOE members at a meeting last month. “She had not moved and did not complete the registration form.”

The New Neo.

That won’t necessarily stop her from being elected, of course. But I really wonder why she decided to become a politician. Among other things, although she lies and lies and lies, she – unlike most politicians – seems somewhat uncomfortable doing so. That discomfort gets transmitted in awkward body language and stress in her voice, as well as a lack of emotional match to the content of what she’s saying. That’s why the awkward forced laugh comes out sometimes; I think it’s nervous laughter.

And that is why Walz was part of her interview with CNN and why people joke that he’s her emotional support animal. And I don’t think Walz has any discomfort whatsoever with lying.

But this uneasiness of Harris’ is not her only difficulty when she’s playing the role of a politician (and on her it really does seem to be a role). Most politicians are verbally fluent. They may be lying through their teeth, but the listener has no trouble understanding what they’re actually saying. Kamala Harris, on the other hand, generates a lot of near-meaningless words in the process of trying to find her way to an answer that doesn’t implicate her. She is, to be blunt, BS-ing and stalling, and in the process leaves the listener scratching his or her head. Again, this is something most or all politicians do, but they ordinarily accomplish it with smoothness and finesse.

For some reason, Harris has trouble doing that.

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis dismisses migrant gang takeover of apartments as ‘imagination’ – despite video, mayor confirming truth (Jennie Taer/New York Post)

“Why Haven’t You Done That Already?”

‘I Didn’t Know She Was Black!’ MSNBC ‘Mixed Race Voter’ Attacks Kamala Harris – Turns Out He’s Pro-Trump GOP Candidate (Tommy Christopher/Mediaite)

Cheney, on the Sidelines as Harris Courts Her Endorsement, Plans to Weigh In Soon (Annie Karni/New York Times)

New Rules for Radicals—How to Reinvent Kamala Harris

Tim Walz Took a Big Step Toward Scrapping the Electoral College (David Edward Burke/Washington Monthly)

Tim Walz Says He Got Into Politics Because His Students Were Kicked Out of a Bush Rally. That Doesn’t Seem to Be The Case. (Spencer Lindquist/The Daily Wire)

PBS Pounces on Trump’s ‘Conspiracy Theories,’ Arlington, Gives Dems Pass on Deception

Snopes Defends Walz In One Of The Worst Fact-Checks Ever Written

Coates and Chang to Newsmax: Walz Has Regular Contact With CCP

The Entire Manufactured Controversy Over Trump’s Arlington Cemetery Visit

‘Political poison’: How Trump’s tariffs could raise gasoline prices (Ben Lefebvre/Politico)

Hot-Button Trump Flick ‘The Apprentice’ Acquired by Briarcliff for Pre-election Release, Awards Campaign (Exclusive) (Scott Feinberg/The Hollywood Reporter)

Thumbs Up: The Story of No-Context Trump (Jonathan V. Last/The Bulwark)

Lincoln Project: Probe RFK Jr.’s Trump Endorsement

Trump-Hate: Nets Go on Attack on Arlington, Suddenly Concerned About Cost of IVF

Miss Teen USA Runner-Up Shames JD Vance for Cruel Video Post (Hugh Dougherty/The Daily Beast)

Trump’s latest waffling on reproductive health shows he’s still struggling to find an answer for what he created (Steve Contorno/CNN)

New details suggest Trump’s Arlington controversy won’t end soon (Steve Benen/MSNBC)

Trump questions acceptance of transgender people as he courts his base at Moms for Liberty gathering (Associated Press)

JD Vance’s Combative Style Confounds Voters but Pleases Trump (Michael C. Bender/New York Times)  My, what a surprise.

Trump speaks at Heritage-sponsored event after disavowing Project 2025 (Abbie Cheeseman/Washington Post)  “Linked”.

‘Dangerous and un-American’: new recording of JD Vance’s dark vision of women and immigration (Jason Wilson/The Guardian) Dark!

Trump Contorts Himself on Abortion in Search of Political Gain (New York Times) Contorts!

DOUBLE STANDARD: ‘Joyful’ and ‘Happy’ Harris-Walz Vs. ‘Dark’ and ‘Dangerous’ Trump-Vance

‘One Of The Lowest Moments That I’ve Seen’: PBS Attacks Trump’s Arlington Visit

Trump Wants to Hide His Attempt to Assassinate Mike Pence from Voters (emptywheel)

Pelosi: Trump Entirely to Blame for Jan. 6

Top Oversight Committee Dem seeks ‘full account’ from Army secretary on Arlington incident (Daniel Hampton/Raw Story)

Cleanup on Aisle MAGA: Trump Bends to Conservative Abortion Critics (Marc A. Caputo/The Bulwark)

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Chicago has a budget deficit of nearly $1 billion. Tack on another $2.9 billion for a proposed teachers’ contract plus an unknown amount for firefighters.

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If you’ve been wondering how it’s possible for so many woke movies, streaming series and video games to continually fail yet still get made, the answer is of course ESG funding. These products don’t necessarily have to bring in consumer dollars because the companies already got paid by an army of NGOs and government programs.

Though the flow of ESG cash has slowed dramatically ever since central banks started raising interest rates there’s still a long list of projects that were initiated several years ago that are finally being released today. This is why, despite the complete public rejection of woke propaganda and dying ESG, we are still being inundated with far-left media.

For many years it has been suspected that leftist government officials are involved in directly financing social engineering projects using public tax dollars. In film and TV the influence is more obvious, but what about video games (the largest entertainment market on the planet)?

“How can you trust a man who wears both a belt and suspenders? The man don’t even trust his own pants.” — Henry Fonda, Once Upon a Time in the West

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This summer’s events could hardly have shown us more clearly how Europe’s spineless, self-loathing attitude to the fight against Islamism here and abroad is putting democracy and Western civilisation at risk. Yet our leaders refuse to face the truth.

Until the recent announcement of their big reunion gigs, 1990s Britpop band Oasis only featured in the news whenever there was a terror attack in the UK; most notably after the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing in which an Islamic suicide bomber killed 22 people, including children, and injured a thousand more at an Ariana Grande concert in the band’s home city.

After terror attacks, the authorities play the Oasis classic “Don’t Look Back in Anger” at every opportunity, as if it was a state anthem in a totalitarian regime. The message to the public is: be sad, weep for the cameras, but don’t show the ‘wrong’ kind of emotions; don’t get angry about the Islamist slaughter of innocents—and if you do, we’re coming for you.

‘Islamism’ is not a thing; it’s a euphemism used by people who are unwilling (or afraid) to voice the truth that Islam, not some ‘variant’ thereof, is the problem.

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It pays quite well, at least for the criminals being deported from Germany to Afghanistan. You get to come to Germany, live on the dole, rob and rape to your heart’s content, and then they give you a cool €1,000 when they send you home. What’s not to like?

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Near riots around several public libraries in San Francisco ensued when gay, lesbian and other gender-identifying parents discovered that cisgendered, heteronormative married couples who identify as men and women were scheduled to read storybooks to children in many of the city’s public libraries.

Hey, me too…

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In a public hearing exclusively recorded and streamed by NewsBusters, on Friday, CNN defended their use of Taliban Sharia law in the courtroom. CNN’s lead counsel Deanna Shullman (of Shullman Fugate PLLC) repeatedly argued that the network was correct to suggest Plaintiff and Navy veteran Zachary Young took part in an illegal “black market” because he was getting women out of Afghanistan “without permission of the Taliban;” an argument that got some push back from Judge Scott Henry.

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Today in “victories by our Border Czar Kamala Harris” it was reported that this past week a group of about 20 migrants tried to board a children’s school bus in California, “terrifying” the children.

And the incident came one day after another group of migrants were walking down the highway trying to stop another bus, according to a report by the NY Post. On Tuesday, at least 3 migrants were in traffic on Highway 94 trying to stop a bus that was ultimately forced to go around them.

Then, early Wednesday, about 20 people tried to board a bus at a stop near the highway while students were getting on for school.

Both incidents took place in the Jamul-Dulzura Union School District close to the Mexico border, according to the Post.

Mother of one child, Nicole Cardinale, said: “It was definitely really scary. Your initial shock is you’re helpless.”

“He said these adults — they weren’t kids — had backpacks on and they were trying to get on our bus … He said there was a lot of them,” she continued, stating that the kids were “really confused” by the episode.

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On Tuesday, a federal appeals court in New Orleans ruled that illegal aliens do not have the right to bear arms under the Second Amendment, due to the fact that they are not American citizens.

As reported by Fox News, a three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals determined that federal law prohibiting illegal aliens from owning firearms is legal, as the Constitution does not apply to anyone who has entered the United States illegally.

The decision came as the result of an appeal by an illegal alien named Jose Paz Medina-Cantu, who had been arrested in Texas in 2022 by the Border Patrol. He was charged with illegal possession of a handgun, and illegally re-entering the country after having already been deported.

No-brain journalism strikes again: ‘Not an American citizen’ and ‘in the country illegally’ aren’t the same thing.

“The Second Amendment protects the right of ‘the people’ to keep and bear arms. Our court has held that the term ‘the people’ under the Second Amendment does not include illegal aliens,” said U.S. Circuit Judge James Ho in a concurring opinion. “As to common sense, an illegal alien does not become ‘part of a national community’ by unlawfully entering it, any more than a thief becomes an owner of property by stealing it.”

Love that analogy.

New York Times.

How is this news? If you get rid of the rules pumping up the numbers of unqualified minorities, you’re going to wind up with fewer of them. A six-year-old could see this–but not, apparently, AWFUL writers for the New York Times.

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Right now, people in Germany can carry knives up to 4.7 inches long. The law will be modified so that they can only carry knives up to 2.4 inches long. No one appears to have considered the possibility that Muslim terrorists on the way to killing as many infidels as possible might violate the law and carry a concealed knife of 4 inches or longer. Such thoughts are unthinkable.

It’s not the knives, it’s the Muslims.

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As we previewed overnight, Elon Musk’s X has been ordered ‘immediately suspended’ by Brazilian Supreme Court Judge Alexandre de Moraes, citing the company’s refusal to comply with a legal order to censor the judge’s political opponents, Bloomberg reports.

Officially, the ruling was due to Musk’s refusal to name a legal representative for the social network (after the judge froze his last attorney’s bank accounts).

This is the sort of thing that Democrats are trying to implement in this country.

Harris Explains Flip-Flopping: ‘Values Have Not Changed’

Harris Claims Her ‘Values Haven’t Changed.’ Her Record Says Otherwise.

Harris Vows to Appoint Republican to Her Cabinet  And if you believe that one, she’ll tell you another one.

Deja Vu All Over Again? Kamala McGovern

Harris camp hires activist reverend who claims Christianity has been ‘hijacked’ by White supremacy (Alec Schemmel/Fox News)

The Left Is Going to Freak Out Over Nate Silver’s Latest Election Model (Matt Margolis/PJ Media)

You Had One Job: Kamala Blows Pre-Taped Interview Question With Walz Right Next To Her

Kamala Harris Has Snappy Answer To CNN’s Trump-Inspired Question (David Moye/HuffPost)

Kamala Harris Sidesteps Question on Race: ‘Next Question, Please’

Fact-Checking Kamala Harris’ CNN Interview

Kamala Harris Comes Out of Hiding

CNN’s Softball Interview of Kamala Harris

The CNN-Harris Interview Wasn’t Actually An Interview, But a Debate Dress Rehearsal

New Rules for Radicals — How To Reinvent Kamala Harris

Donors Quietly Push Harris to Drop Tax on Ultrawealthy (New York Times)

Kamala’s First ‘Interview’ Was the Dumpster Fire You Expected It Would Be (Matt Margolis/PJ Media)

About That List of ‘Republicans’ Endorsing Kamala Harris

MSNBC Hails Harris’s ‘Clever’ Defense Of Fracking Flip-Flop

Official Dem Platform Backs Plan To Give Amnesty to Already-Deported Aliens

Despite Tough Talk, Biden-Harris Admin Rolls Out Red Carpet for Illegal Alien Gangs

‘Nothing’s Been Decided Yet’: Dem Megadonors Plot To Shape Kamala’s Half-Baked Economic Policies

Henry Racette: CNN’s Dana Bash and the Oldest Profession

California bans local governments from requiring IDs in local elections

Jack White rips Trump campaign for posting band’s song: ‘Don’t even think about using my music you fascists’ (Judy Kurtz/The Hill)

For Trump, Arlington National Cemetery controversy goes from bad to worse (Steve Benen/MSNBC)

Harris Campaign Trolls Trump With Ad Buy in His Own Backyard (Josh Fiallo/The Daily Beast)

The Trump campaign’s conduct at Arlington is shocking but not surprising (Kevin Carroll/The Guardian)

Dems press Arlington cemetery for Trump incident report (Andrew Solender/Axios)

MAGA faithful blow off polls in Michigan, insist ‘Trump’s got it made.’ (Adam Wren/Politico)  MAGA is the New Nigger.

‘The behavior is grotesque’: MSNBC host pummels Trump World over war with cemetery (Tom Boggioni/Raw Story)

If Trump loses, expect a Republican civil war (Myra Adams/The Hill)

CNN Suggests To Vance He Was Making Fun Of Suicide

Team Trump Makes Arlington Cemetery Fight Way Worse With Army Insult (Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling/New Republic)

Pushing Back on Trump’s Latest Lies About IVF (Dan Pfeiffer/The Message Box)

In a test of character, Trump shows his true grift (Dana Milbank/Washington Post)

Why Trump’s Arlington Debacle Is So Serious (Michael Powell/The Atlantic)

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A leftist group financed by self-appointed Minister of Truth George Soros is partnering with a Big Tech-backed organization in an attempt to interfere in the 2024 election.

The Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) boasted in an Aug. 21 press release how it was leading a joint effort for “Helping Election Officials Combat Misinformation in 2024” with a “course” co-led by the Google and Facebook-backed Center for Technology and Civic Life (CTCL), which was significantly involved in the whole “Zuck Bucks” scandal to influence the 2020 election. Notably, Soros pumped at least $1,496,000 into the coffers of CDT and its international affiliate between 2016 and 2023, according to grant disclosures reviewed by MRC Free Speech America.

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How many times have you heard the mainstream media tell you that the economy is doing just great in recent months? Personally, I have seen the word “booming” used over and over again to describe the economy, and it makes me sick. The level of gaslighting that we are witnessing right now is off the charts. Millions of Americans are sleeping in their vehicles, thousands of businesses are failing all over the nation, and most of the country now believes that the American Dream is no longer attainable.

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We have been discussing Democratic leaders and activists who have been calling for revolutionary change and a rejection of the foundation of the American constitutional system. The latest is Human Rights Campaign president Kelley Robinson, who spoke at the National Democratic Convention. In an earlier speech, Robinson rejected what she referred to as Founders’ “little piece of paper” and called for reimagining our constitutional system.

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A Christian infantry officer is now being punished by the Idaho Army National Guard for using his First Amendment right to speak out against the LGBTQ+ ideology that he believes is harming children.

In 2023, the officer posted about some of his deeply held beliefs on his private social media account while running for political office in his “private capacity.” According to Liberty Counsel, the legal group defending him, his posts included statements “against graphic, obscene children’s books in a library and the promotion of a ‘drag kids’ event and drag queens in schools.”

He also posted statements such as ‘No child is born in the wrong body,’ males should not be competing in female sports, and against the medical mutilation of gender-confused children.

His concern over LGBTQ+ indoctrination resulted in “a subordinate senior enlisted man who claims to be homosexual” filing “a formal discrimination military complaint against the officer” for sharing his beliefs. The complaint accused the infantry officer’s posts of showing “just how much [the officer] truly hates the LGBTQ community.”

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A video of what appears to be a young boy scantily dressed as a girl broke the internet this week. The child is seen provocatively dancing on a stage, surrounded by half-naked grown adults shaking their naughty bits in his face.

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You? Who cares about you?

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Robert Reich and his fellow fascists are all about control–especially of the Wrong Sort of People.

And they’re always on the look-out for ways to ‘rein in’ such people.

Wouldn’t it be nice if they would just mind their own business?

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The German government is financing procedural instructions for migrants that tell them how to avoid deportation. It’s not enough to just stand by passively and allow the invading hordes into the country: Interior Minister Nancy Faeser is teaching them how to circumvent Germany’s (and the EU’s) immigration laws.

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Books have been written, movies made and college courses taught about white privilege. Denouncing the evils of whiteness indiscriminately allows people of all races, even white people like Robin DiAngelo and Tracie McMillan, to earn a very good living from hunting for white privilege.

Less discussed is ‘whiteless privilege’. Even when one of the biggest beneficiaries of whiteless privilege, Vice President Kamala Harris, has made that her identity. What race is Kamala? Kamala is at once black and Indian, and none of the above because what matters most is not what race she is, but what race she is not. By not being white, she is a person of color and thus whiteless.

Kamala has white ancestry by way of her father, but in a world where men can be women and women can be androgynous and can then march in pride parades as Androgynes for Gaza while wearing half-burkas, what you are matters much less than what you identify as and what you don’t identify as.