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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Get Woke, go broke.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

ICE Invades Airports Across the US (Wired)

How Trump Killed Conservatism (Peter Wehner/The Atlantic)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Update from the transgender cult.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Just try it and see what happens.

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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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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.

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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.

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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.