The World as I See It! Profound, Provocative and Unfailingly Accurate

By Rich Kozlovich  

Let's start out with two thoughts I think absolutely represent insightful foundational thinking.  

1. You can't reform totalitarianism. 
2. Reform isn't a viable policy regarding Iran's current government.  

Yet we have comments from former Secretary of State Pompeo making comments that are a study in antithetical thinking, and are representative the administration's current thinking,  saying: 

.........the United States does not support regime change in Iran, but rather a change in the behavior of the Iranian regime" and that "the United States supported Iranians, wherever they were, who were fighting for greater freedom, so long as they did not advocate an end to the Islamic regime itself"........"We don't want them advocating for regime change, either…We want them working on behalf of the Iranian people, ordinary Iranian citizens who want nothing more than to live their lives, to be able to take their hijab off, to be able to go to work and raise their families and worship in the way they want to worship."

The major problem with this policy is that totalitarian regimes, like the Islamic Republic of Iran, can’t be reformed. Remember “Communism with a human face”? We never saw it. Instead, we saw the Red Army crush Alexander Dubcek’s reformists in the streets of Czechoslovakia. Ditto for Mikhail Gorbachev, whose glasnost was widely believed to signal the transformation of Soviet Communism. It didn’t, and the Soviet system wasn’t transformed until Gorbachev was removed, and his successors abolished the Communist state. Italian fascism and German Nazism were both defeated on the battlefield, and abolished, not transformed.....  

This take by Pompeo is interesting since Iran was plotting to kill him.  Then there's Vance who clearly is on board with this foolish Iran Deal. 

• The Iran Deal is Already Crumbling 
• Doesn't Anyone Read History Books Any Longer?

I have conservative friends, politically active friends, who point out Vance originally was an anti-Trumper who converted, and they simple didn’t trust that conversion, and while he’s been impressive in some scenarios, he’s not doing himself any favors with this lousy deal and his failure to disavow Tucker Carlson, who I think is either mentally disturbed or on the take….. maybe both…. and that includes Candace Owens, along with a number of well known writers, and politicos.

Disagreeing with Trump isn’t irrational. De Omnibus Dubitandum (everything is to be questioned) is the motto of science, which government grant money ended, however it’s my personal motto and is foundation thinking to the rational mind. But for these who go from being solid conservative voices to far left, anti-conservative, anti-Trump, anti-Republican, and antisemitic, Islamophalic ranters isn’t the least bit rational, and it should be troubling to sane minds.  It appears this doesn't trouble Vance's mind.

Socialism

Socialism is the foundational philosophy for fascism and communism, and most of the other leftist isms, and are embraced with irrational enthusiasm. Every leftist controlled nation fails economically, philosophically, and are absolute disasters in human rights.  As Winston Churchill noted in 1948, "Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy." 

Yet with all that history of disaster we find these young and foolish radicals, many of them college graduates and/or students have been propagandized by far left leaning university leaders and professors to embrace insanity.  All of whom suffer from preconceptualism. They reach a conclusion before doing any research, and then dismiss anything that refutes their preconceptual views, ergo, since they never see anything that refutes their preconceived notions, they must be right!  What they are is certifiable and insufferable lunatics. 

The Race Card 

Let's take for example this issue over this book on slavery, The Grimkes, by a black Tufts professor, Kerri K. Greenidge.  Initially it was a big hit and widely lauded.  That was until historians started to take a good look at her book and found it to be:

"deeply flawed" and disputing Greenidge's accounts of key episodes and the location of certain letters the book cites."'

While denying these claims against her, she fails to refute them.  Instead she cries it's those white racist men who are against her.  Okay, well, maybe that's true, but that doesn't refute their claims.  Are their claims just racist, or are they accurate?  If she's playing the tiresome race card and not refuting those claims it's reasonable to assume their claims are accurate, and even if racism is behind their actions, which is a highly dubious claim, the real issue is for her to provably refute whether or not their claims are false.  I think it's clear the publisher thinks that's the real issue also, since they've pulled her book.  

The question that needs asked and answered is this.  If she wasn't a black woman would her book have been published in the first place?  Since it's been shown publishers are now giving precedence to black and female authors, I think the answer just might be.... NO! 

Update, 7/13/26: Renowned Feminist Historian Loses Professorship as Experts Tear Apart Her So-Called Historical Finding.   Here are five of the claims against her work. 

1.  ‘Where is she getting this?’.............Boy, it became a major problem.”
2. ...lacks the evidence to substantiate many of her major claims. 
3. Her work is also riddled with factual errors. 
4. ....repeatedly omits needed endnotes.
5.  “It seems well done, except when you look at the footnotes,” Fox said, noting that he could not find the material cited using the sources Greenidge listed
6. ........ key letters she cited were held by the University of Michigan, they were not.

She 'was' a tenured professor in the Department of Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora at Tufts University, which prepares students to do .... nothing.... except to be radicals, and at great expense.  It's time to end this charade.  Bye, Bye, Black Studies

Update,  7/21/26 5:07 AM:   

• Trump Admin Applies Common Sense Test to Useless College Degrees - College enrollment is booming not because there’s any real need for it or any real value to it (just the opposite) but because there is the perception that college is the only viable path to a career and enough jobs are gated off behind college diplomas to create the pressure for massive student loans to finance a worthless woke degree to get a job that it turns out will pay less than anticipated. Then come the cries about student loans.  The Trump administration is using a common sense test to try and break the cycle.......The other half of this needs to be a stronger push to end the practice gating off jobs that don’t require college degrees behind those degrees… a practice that the Supreme Court at one point found to be illegal and which drives massive debt and taxpayer spending on subsidies for colleges that benefit no one except the colleges and their deans and faculty members.......

Treat Campuses Like Terrorist Training Camps

By Daniel Greenfield @ Sultan Knish Blog

A day before Charlie Kirk was assassinated, the 2026 Free Speech Rankings, a FIRE survey of 68,000 college students at 257 universities, was released and it revealed that 1 in 3 students believed that using violence to stop a speaker they disagreed with on campus was acceptable.

2% or 1,360 students believed that violence to stop speech they opposed was “always acceptable”. 13% found it “sometimes acceptable” so that over 10,000 students find violence against campus speakers acceptable some of the time. When combined with the 19% who say violence is rarely, but sometimes, acceptable, that’s over 23,000 college students who were willing to answer that using violence against speakers they disliked was a valid option.

Projecting and generalizing this large sample size to the much larger number of 18 million of college students across the country would translate into support for violently shutting down campus speakers by between 2.7 million and 6.1 million college students.

Another 54% or more than half, support blocking students from attending campus speeches they oppose, and 71% back shouting down speakers.

A majority of college students not only oppose free speech, but support intervening to stop it.

What kind of views do they support shutting down by any means necessary? 74% believe speakers who view transgenderism as a mental illness should 60% believe in blocking abortion opponents. 76% believe in banning anyone who says BLM is a hate group.

Charlie Kirk believed all of these things and was willing to come to campus and say it, challenging students to come and debate him, until the debate was ended finally and fatally.

He’s dead because 1 in 3 students support using violence to silence opposing speakers.

His killing though was not some aberration. It was not, no matter how much the media will try to portray it, the equivalent of John Hinckley shooting Reagan. One killing anywhere can be an aberration but generations of violence incubated by professors and deans on campus, some of whom openly admire terrorists and urge students to imitate them, is not random chance.

It’s a culture of terrorism that is now approaching its murderous apex.

A generation before Kirk’s murder, conservative speakers were already learning to avoid campuses. When David Horowitz toured college campuses, he faced harassment, threats, and attacks, forcing him to invest in expensive security. By the time a new generation of speakers like Ben Shapiro were coming to campuses, security expenses had skyrocketed and colleges routinely used the threat of violence by their own students to shut down conservative events.

The media attacked Horowitz, Kirk and other campus speakers as ‘provocateurs’ as if they were the ones bringing the violence to campus, rather than exposing the readiness of all too many college students to turn to violence in order to stop them from being heard by other students.

Ignoring this state of affairs led to a wave of assaults against faculty, not only conservatives, but liberals who dissented in some way from political dogma. And deans stood by and said nothing as college campuses became not only a political monoculture, but a radicalized one where professors were prevented from teaching their classes if they were targeted by leftists.

The next stage of campus radicalization were the Hamas encampments after Oct 7.

Now the assassination of Charlie Kirk is the next stage as campuses have grimly followed the course that they began during the counterculture movement a few generations ago as organizing centers, staging grounds and finally front lines in the leftist war on America.

Some have said that President Trump has been too hard on campuses like Harvard, Columbia and UCLA after the Hamas encampments. The sad truth is that he hasn’t been hard enough.

College campuses have become terrorist training camps and should be treated like them.

During the Civil Rights movement, certain parts of the country were treated as dangerous hateful places whose authorities were suspect and which required extensive monitoring. Unfortunately the parts of the country, college campuses, that needed that treatment, didn’t get it, resulting in a wave of violence, extremism and domestic terrorism that has become a multigenerational legacy as that generation of radicals has taught generations more.

After Charlie Kirk’s murder, it must end.

Colleges must be ‘deradicalized’ the way that Germany was ‘denazified’. There can be no more room for faculty or students who preach violence. And the militant defenses of even foreign nationals who rallied for Islamic terrorists on college campuses by universities, by the media and by top Democrats show how terrorism goes from the top down through the movement.

American taxpayers remain the primary funders of the college system. Mostly involuntarily. They’re funding a system that has failed, by every objective metric, at its stated goal of education, but succeeded brilliantly at its actual goal of radicalization and indoctrination.

The radicals who poisoned every soft science moved on to fatally taint any cultural field and have lately been rampaging through the sciences. The assaults on conservative speakers, beginning with David Horowitz, and climaxing in Charlie Kirk’s murder, show that this is not just politics, it’s terrorism and unless we deal with the campus, we will be dealing with a civil war.

The 2026 Free Speech Rankings show that it may already be too late for American academia.

But these may be the final years in which something may be salvaged from the cultural wreck before we really have to start treating Ivy League campuses like Jihadi camps in Afghanistan.

The radicals in control of college campuses have escalated from targeted harassment to terrorist encampments to murder. And worst of all, the majority of college students have been indoctrinated into supporting these crimes. If that is what the multi-trillion dollar edifice of higher education gets us, then as a country we may be better off without it.

In 1910, there were only 332,000 college students in the whole country. By 1931 there were a million, by the 1950s there were 2.5 million, by 1970 there were 8.5 million, by 1984 there were 12.5 million and we now approach 20 million. The question is are we better off for it?

The college boom was driven by the conviction that the bright shiny future required a top-ranked class of experts who could figure out everything for us. But instead college has become an elite overproduction factory churning out mediocre paper fillers even as the science and tech talent is increasingly coming from Asia.

Higher education is bad enough as a great ripoff that has saddled a generation of parents and children with endless debt, but worst of all, it’s become a training ground for tomorrow’s terrorists. Instead of treating colleges as the bright promise of tomorrow, treat them like the terrorist training camps they’ve become. End the violence and hold them accountable.

Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine. Click here to subscribe to my articles. And click here to support my work with a donation.  Thank you for reading.

 

At The Columbia Academic Freedom Council Conference

September 15, 2025 Francis Menton @ Manhattan Contrarian

On Saturday (September 13) something called the Columbia Academic Freedom Council held a day-long conference here in New York. The Council used the event to hand out awards to some 23 recipients. Each of the recipients had not only been punished or ostracized somehow for speaking out as a dissenter from the groupthink of academia, but had also fought back in some way.

The CAFC is composed of members of the Columbia faculty, most prominently law school professor Philip Hamburger, who was listed as a “Co-Chair” along with four others. The organization’s website indicates that it has over 100 members, most but not all of whose names are listed on the site. One hundred may seem like a substantial number, but Columbia’s website lists close to 4800 full time faculty members.

The day’s program was organized into a series of panels, where each panel’s members were award recipients who got to tell their stories. The recipients included some prominent academics from elite institutions, but also some from less-well-known places, including some from community colleges and high schools.

The entire program was some 10 hours long. I was able to stay for about half of it. In many cases I was familiar with the story of the award recipient, but in many others I was not. I thought readers might be interested in the personal stories from a sample of some of the more and less prominent recipients.

Martin Kuldorff. Kuldorff was probably the most famous of the award recipients at the conference. He was a Professor of Medicine and a biostatistician at Harvard, starting there in 2003. He gained fame in 2020 as one of the co-authors of the Great Barrington Declaration, a widely circulated petition opposing the lockdown policies then sweeping the world in response to the Covid pandemic. The GBD ultimately got almost 1 million signatures. 

According to this piece from Reason Magazine in April 2024, for his trouble Kuldorff was ....

“booted from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) COVID-19 vaccine safety commission and regularly de-boosted on Twitter and YouTube for his views. Former National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins labeled him and his co-authors of the Great Barrington Declaration ‘fringe epidemiologists’ and demanded a ‘quick and devastating…takedown’ of their call to end lockdowns in favor of a "focused protection" strategy.” 

In 2024, Kuldorff was fired from Harvard, allegedly for failure to take the Covid vaccine, even though he had had the disease, and thus had natural immunity. More recently, in June 2025, Kuldorff has been appointed by new HHS Secretary RFK, Jr., to a new Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices.

Roland Fryer. Fryer is also one of the most prominent among the award recipients. He was hired by Harvard as an economics professor in 2003, and in 2007 he became the youngest African American, and second youngest person, ever to receive tenure at that school. His career trajectory was continuously upward until 2016, when he published a research paper concluding that blacks were not more likely than whites to be shot in a given interaction with police. The next year, Fryer fired a long-time personal assistant, who proceeded to accuse him of various acts of sexual misconduct. 

I wrote about this story extensively in a post back in December 2022. None of the allegations against Fryer went as far as accusing him of ever making a pass at a subordinate or of asking for sex. My post links to other articles that contain lists of his allegedly inappropriate statements, most of which amount to off-color jokes. (My favorite was “I learned my negotiating skills trying to get laid in high school.”). The then dean of Harvard’s Faculty of Arts & Sciences — Claudine Gay — recommended that Fryer be fired. He ultimately got a two-year suspension, and had his lab and researchers taken away from him. 

Gay went on to become President of Harvard, before very quickly disintegrating in a plagiarism scandal. A film maker named Rob Montz made a documentary about the Fryer affair, and later commented in an interview, “Roland’s work represents a mortal threat to some of the most powerful black people at Harvard,” such as Claudine Gay. Remarkably, Fryer hung on at Harvard, and is still there as far as I can determine. (But then, so is Gay, as a tenured professor rather than as President.)

Tabia Lee. Ms. Lee is an example from the less prominent category. She worked as a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion co-ordinator at a California public community college called De Anza, until fired in 2023. Whereupon she brought a lawsuit, the complaint from which is extensively quoted in this Newsweek piece from July 2023. From Newsweek:

A 53-page lawsuit filed July 10 claims that [Lee] encountered a hostile department "illegally targeting White people on the basis of race." It also says she was accused of "whitesplaining" and not being the "right kind of Black person," and claims she was vilified for refraining from invoking racial stereotypes and refusing to use the term "Latinx" instead of "Latinos." . . . The lawsuit says that she "objected to racial stereotypes peddled by Defendants that targeted both White and Black Americans, bizarrely celebrating Blacks as incapable of objectivity, individualism, efficiency, progress, and other grossly demeaning stereotypes, while condemning Whites for promoting these same values, which Defendants label 'colonialism' and 'White supremacy.'"

I can’t find further information about what Lee is up to today, other than that her lawsuit continues. However, from her presentation, I will say that she is quite the firebrand.

Paul Rossi. Rossi was a high school math teacher at Grace Church School, a private school in Manhattan, when, in 2021, he publicly called out the administration for indoctrinating the students with extreme progressive politics. On April 13, 2021, Rossi published an op-ed in the New York Post titled “We’re damaging kids with ‘Critical Race Theory.’” Excerpt:

“Antiracist” training sounds righteous, but it is the opposite of truth in advertising. It requires teachers like myself to treat students differently on the basis of race. Furthermore, in order to maintain a united front for our students, teachers at Grace are directed to confine our doubts about this pedagogical framework to conversations with an in-house “Office of Community Engagement” for whom every significant objection leads to a foregone conclusion. Any doubting students are likewise “challenged” to reframe their views to conform to this orthodoxy.

By April 19, after several students complained of feeling “uncomfortable” in his class, Rossi was removed from teaching for the year. He declined to return thereafter. However, he did have a conversation with head-of-school George Davison, which he recorded, in which Davison appeared to agree with Rossi about the student indoctrination, even while reciting progressive mantras in public.

Since his experience in 2021, Rossi has made the rounds of the speaking circuit, continuing to publicize his story.

I feel particularly close to this circumstance for a couple of reasons: 

(1) my son-in-law attended Grace Church School from K to 8; and 

(2) one of my daughters shared a piano teacher with Davison’s kids, as a result of which I met the guy in the context of attending piano recitals at his apartment.

Rebecca Tuvel. And finally, another example from the non-prominent category, but in this case extremely funny. Ms. Tuvel was a junior (assistant) professor of philosophy at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee, when in 2017 she published an article called “In Defense of Transracialism” in a “peer reviewed” feminist philosophy journal called Hypatia. The article cleared the journal’s peer review process and got published on April 25, 2017. The article compared the case of Caitlyn Jenner, a trans woman, to that of Rachel Dolezal, a white woman who identifies as black. Key quote from the article: “Since we should accept transgender individuals' decisions to change sexes, we should also accept transracial individuals' decisions to change races."

The blowback was immediate. According to a Wikipedia summary here, by April 28, 2017, the article had come under massive attack on Facebook and Twitter. Tuvel was called “transphobic, racist, crazy, and stupid, and was accused of having engaged in ‘epistemic violence.’ Several feminists referred to her as a ‘Becky.’ The article was called ‘violent’, ‘crap’, and ‘wack shit.’” By May 1 the journal had posted an apology on its Facebook page. An open letter of protest to the journal got some 830 signatures.

Remarkably, Ms. Tuvel seems to have survived the controversy, and still teaches today at Rhodes College, where she is listed as an Associate Professor and Chair of Philosophy.

So it’s just a small sample of how you get treated in academia if you have the temerity to speak out publicly in opposition to the dominant progressive/woke groupthink. It’s little wonder that few have the courage to do it. But this was a very impressive group.

Who Will Answer?

Charlie Kirk is dead because 1 in 3 students support violence against opposing speakers.

By Rich Kozlovich

Let's try and get this once .... just once.... please.  The left is a  terrorist movement.  When people tell you they hate you and want to kill you, then you should believe them. Daniel Greenfield posted an an article showing how two percent of the students questioned believed violence to stop free speech is "always" acceptable,  thirteen percent said is was “sometimes acceptable", but here's the kicker.  Only 19 percent felt it was “rarely acceptable.”  What exactly does "rarely acceptable" mean?  That was 34% of the students, what does the remaining 66% think?  They don't say, which is even more disturbing since it's clear they either didn't answer, didn't know, didn't want to say, but it seems clear to me they didn't confirm violence to stop free speech is "never acceptable."  Just how many violent left wing fanatics are out there?   A lot!

Conclusion?  Academia is a problem of mass proportions as these professors are corrupting the minds of America's youth, and they absolutely need to be held accountable.

 .........we need to take the ideological “fight” up a notch, and that includes holding professors accountable if it can be proven they incited their students to violence.  After all, a recent Emerson poll found that 41% of voters between the ages of 18 and 29 say the UnitedHealthcare CEO’s killing was “acceptable” or “somewhat acceptable.”  

That dreadful attitude wasn’t fomented in a vacuum, but in an intellectually vacuous classroom.......highfalutin initials behind their names are one of the great scourges of America as they mold pliable youngsters into anti-American radicals.  They may be protected by tenure, but, if proven that they incited a specific act of violence by one of their students, they should also be protected by the legal institutions they disparage.........., fight against the enemy within the ivory towers.......

It's time to start treating these leftist college campuses for what they are, terrorist training camps, and they must be de-radicalized, starting with ending all financial support for academia.  Call in the student loans, sue these institutions for false advertising promoting the idea so many of these useless degrees are the path to success.  Sue and/or charge academics who popularize violence, and demand an end to tenure.  They must be publicly exposed for their vile behavior.  

Charlie Kirk's murder, following the horrible murder of Iryna Zarutska, and all of that happening on the eve of the 9/11 anniversary is playing out like a "disturbance in the force", and is going to have long term consequences.   Representative Mike Collins is calling for the creation of a House Select Committee on left wing violence, and the Democrat party will not come out of that looking good by stretch of the imagination, or any effort to twist reality by them or their flunkies in the Pravda media. 

They may be more concerned about investigating active members of the nation's military, who are pretty much approving of Charlie Kirk's murder, which Pete Hegseth  says is unacceptable and will be addressed immediately, and someone needs to take a look at the Secret Service.

• Update, 9/12/25:   Secret Service Agent Who Said Kirk Got What He Deserved Is Now on Leave.  My Take - This agent hated Charlie Kirk spewing out lies about him and hates Donald Trump, and was quite public about it.   How could this man be in that job?  How could the Secret Service's leadership not know all this?   It's clear the Secret Service is still rife with people who need to be purged from the ranks, and I'm a firm believer that purge needs to start at the highest levels.   RK

Living with Neo-Marxism

A fantasy only academics could like 

Michael D. Shaw Jul 31 @ Mike's Point of View

 

As with many “Neo-” theories, Neo-Marxism was introduced to bolster the already-failing notion of classical Marxism. (cf. Neo-Darwinism). First promoted by a group of sociologists out of the University of Frankfurt in the 1920s, these members of what was to be called the “Frankfurt School,” endeavored to develop a theory of society that was based on Marxism and Hegelian philosophy, but which also incorporated the insights of psychoanalysis, sociology, existential philosophy, and other disciplines.

This method of analysis became known as "critical theory”—a term that is simultaneously opaque and grandiose.

Many influential articles were published in the Frankfurt School’s journal Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung (Journal for Social Research). Prominent contributors included:

** Theodor W. Adorno—Theorized civilization’s tendency to self-destruction; fled Nazi Germany in 1934 (ironically to capitalist Britain and even more capitalist United States); returning to Frankfurt in 1949 to pick up where he had left off.

** Walter Benjamin—Possessed great intellect, trying to reconcile Marxism, Kabbalah, free love, and the Arts scene; alienated some colleagues, and lived in exile, in fear of the Nazis; committing suicide when he realized he would be turned over to the Gestapo.

** Erich Fromm—Yet another German Jew who had to flee the Nazis; a disciple of Sigmund Freud before turning against him; Zionist for a while but functional atheist, calling himself a “nontheistic mystic”; held that modern man has become alienated and estranged from himself within consumer-oriented industrial society.

** Julian Gumperz—Born in the US, before returning to Germany with his parents; hard-core Commie who renounced it all after World War II to become a stockbroker; wrote Pattern for World Revolution (1947) under a pseudonym, this work analyzes the structure and strategies of the Communist International and its role in promoting world revolution.

** Herbert Marcuse—Followed the Frankfurt School members first to Geneva, and then to Columbia University; hired by the OSS (precursor to the CIA) in 1941; his Eros and Civilization: A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud (1955) attacked capitalism, and was described by some as “eroticizing Marx”; not surprisingly became popular with students in the 1960s for his Marxist and sexual liberation views.

Cutting to the chase, whether Marxism or Neo-Marxism, all focus is on the dialectic between the Oppressor and the Victim. However, this always requires a determination of which party IS truly the Oppressor and the Victim. In the US, ever since Affirmative Action (growing out of the Civil Rights Act of 1964), this distinction has become fatally flawed.

Under what rubric is a White job applicant denied a position in favor of a Black the “Oppressor”? What is the formula whereby society is healed by perpetuating discrimination in a modified context? Is a woman seeking an abortion a worthy Victim?

Indeed, the entire dialectic has deteriorated into pure travesty. How else to describe the new production of Jesus Christ Superstar, featuring Black Lesbian Cynthia Ervio as Jesus, and gay Adam Lambert as Judas. Surely, this arrangement will give new meaning to Mary Magdalene’s song “I Don’t Know How to Love Him.”

And, how can we forget the ridiculous incident (July 27th) in which WNBA player Kahleah Copper’s hair extension was inadvertently pulled off, and the game was actually stopped, followed by the ejection of a fan who apparently laughed at the absurdity of it all. Never mind that by all rights the league should not even exist since it has NEVER turned a profit since its inception in 1997. Who is the Victim here?

Make it make sense.

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Higher Education For Future Communists

By Robin Itzler 

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Many ivy league and ivy-like universities could not survive without international students who pay in full for their leftist education. This is a major reason why they turn a blind eye to radical anti-America, anti-Semitic protests.

India sends the most students while China sends the most undergraduates. It’s not just tuition and books, but these students spend money on rent if they live off-campus, food, clothes and many other items that bolster a local college economy.

Note: Ivy league refers to EIGHT universities, all located in the northeastern United States: Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Dartmouth, Brown, Cornell and Penn.

Schools with the most international students as a share of full-time undergraduate and graduate students (2023):

Illinois Tech 06,571 51%
Carnegie Mellon 14,517 44%
Columbia - 28,756, 40%
John Hopkins - 16,830, 39%
Caltech - 02,463, 32%
M.I.T. - 11,706, 30%
Harvard - 20,807, 28%
U.S.C. - 41,648, 28%
Penn - 23,948, 27%
Princeton - 08,849, 24%
Yale - 14,854, 24%
Berkeley - 41,572, 17%

What these numbers tell us is that international students—many from nations that hate the United States of America—is big business. It also tells us that higher education is an export, but we know it’s not an export that promotes America’s Judeo-Christian values that founded our nation. Sources: New York Times and Wall Street Journal

If a liberal from 1960 showed up in 2025, he’d be considered a conservative. If a liberal from 2025 showed up in 1960, he’d be considered a dangerous lunatic.

America Doesn’t Need ‘International Students’

By Daniel Greenfield @ Sultan Knish Blog

There are over 1 million foreign students in the United States. The largest group by far are Chinese students whose numbers have fluctuated between a third and a quarter of a million. These students are in America to gain training in this country, not only at top universities like Harvard, but at tech companies, before taking their knowledge and skills back to China.

Saudi Arabia, the tenth largest source of foreign students, had the single most famous foreign students of any country who didn’t win any Nobel prizes, but did successfully fly passenger planes into the Twin Towers and the Pentagon, but didn’t quite make it to the White House.

Despite that, the Saudis continue to send tens of thousands of their students to America.

With Bangladesh in 13th place, Iran in 14th, Pakistan in 16th, Turkey in 19th and Indonesia in 22nd, a lot of foreign students come from the Muslim world and were involved in the pro-terrorist riots calling for the destruction of America, Israel and all of Western civilization.

Notably, few of America’s foreign students are westerners. No European nation even shows up in the top 10 countries for foreign students. The UK is in 15th place and France is only in the 20th. Only Canada, right across the border, is in the top 5, but accounts for only 2.6% of foreign students. Nigeria accounts for three times as many foreign students as France, Iran sends more foreign students than the UK and Pakistan far more than Spain. While most American students who study abroad go to Europe, European students are not going to America.

International students are mostly non-westerners and that’s by design. The Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations, after extensive lobbying by Ivy League colleges, began bringing third world students to America to counter Communist influence. Beneficiaries included Barack Obama Sr and Shyamala Gopalan, the mother of Kamala Harris, along with other radicals, who found positions in the United States and left behind radical children who undermined America.

Whatever benefits we may gain from foreign students are more than outweighed by 8 years of Obama and by the destruction wreaked by the wayward children of other ‘international students’. And those benefits are at the heart of the debate taking place right now.

Outrage and protests followed the Trump administration’s crackdown on foreign students. America, we were told, would be absolutely lost without those 1 million foreign students.

According to NAFSA, the Association of International Educators which promotes foreign students, foreign students contributed $43.8 billion to the U.S. economy. NAFSA did not mention its support for nearly $1 billion in federal subsidies for “international education” appropriations.

We are told that “international students” pay their way, but that’s not actually true.

In 2023, around 20% (or 207,788) of foreign students benefited from university subsidies, 1,684 foreign students were funded by the U.S. government and 2,351 by other domestic sponsors.

Only 56.8% of foreign students were mostly using their or family money to pay their way.

(Federal student aid is also extended to ‘refugees’, Afghans, Ukrainians, Haitians and any number of other groups seen as distressed, also victims of human trafficking, children of foreign domestic abuse victims, and anyone who spends enough time complaining about their life.)

It’s hard to track exactly how much student aid is going to foreign nationals, but it very likely outweighs the very limited impact of foreign student spending on the broader economy outside of a few college towns in Boston, D.C. and a handful of big cities in California and New York.

What is painfully clear is that the costs of foreign students, whether it’s 9/11, the Hamas campus riots, Obama administration, a hypothetical Kamala administration or Chinese intellectual property theft far outweighs whatever limited benefits they provide to anyone outside Harvard, Yale, Columbia or Georgetown. America doesn’t need international students, colleges do.

And as has been obvious for a long time: what’s good for colleges, isn’t good for America.

American taxpayers subsidized wealthy nonprofit institutions. These institutions demand an unlimited flow of foreign students to further enhance their revenues. And these foreign students, whatever tuition they pay or don’t pay, are benefiting from taxpayer-subsidized institutions.

It’s a good deal for Harvard, but it’s not a very good deal for America.

The original idea of bringing foreign students to America was that they would learn about ‘democracy’ and our way of doing things, then go back to their countries imbued with the American spirit. This hasn’t worked very often because foreign students are usually members of foreign elites, like the Obamas or Kamala’s family, who despise America. Rather than teaching the rest of the world about America, we import foreign and domestic enemies into our country.

Foreign students haven’t Americanized the world, they’ve radicalized, Islamized and terrorized America. Many of those third world students who moved here undermined America and even those who went back home, returned with an insider’s understanding of our weaknesses.

And American campuses, in their current state, are hardly likely to do anything other than radicalize foreign students and teach them to hate America. The original purpose of the foreign students programs introduced under Eisenhower and Kennedy failed even as the number of foreign students shot up from 400,000 in the 1990s to over 1 million.

Instead of making America or the world, foreign students set up Muslim Brotherhood operations, Chinese spy organizations and radical groups calling for the destruction of America.

There’s a place for foreign students in America, but the Trump administration is right to closely scrutinize Chinese students and the social media of students from Islamic terrorist states like Saudi Arabia, Iran and Pakistan, while trying to cut back on the number of foreign students.

The truth is that America doesn’t need foreign students, foreign students need America.

Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine. Click here to subscribe to my articles. And click here to support my work with a donation.  Thank you for reading.

 

Skin Color Is Not a Viewpoint

By Daniel Greenfield @ Sultan Knish Blog

The Trump administration has pressed Harvard and other academic institutions to open themselves up to more “viewpoint diversity”. And, if nothing else, Harvard’s leadership has for the first time committed themselves to “viewpoint diversity”, but what they mean by that may be very different.

Everyone is familiar with the negative argument for DEI, affirmative action and similar diversity programs which claim that our country and its institutions suffer from “systemic racism” that has to be remedied through equity programs that discriminate in favor of underrepresented groups and against those groups deemed to be overrepresented. Mostly white people and Asians.

Anyone who has sat through corporate or government diversity training in the past few years probably also encountered the positive argument for DEI which is that a diversity of races, cultures, sexual identities and genders also provides viewpoint diversity. That was the argument that the Biden administration made in defense of its diversity mandates.

“Cognitively diverse teams are better at solving complex problems when compared to more homogenous teams even when the homogenous teams are composed of top performing highly capable individuals,” Army Secretary Eric Fanning had argued. The Biden official contended that it takes members of “different ethnic or cultural” groups to produce better results.

“People who are different from one another in race, gender and other dimensions bring unique information and experiences to bear on the task at hand,” Berkeley’s Greater Good Center contended. “A male and female engineer might have perspectives as different from one another as an engineer and a physicist.”

While that’s no doubt true in any number of areas, is that really true in science? Have women or men made major scientific discoveries about the way the world works that the opposite sex could never have uncovered? And could women have never duplicated male discoveries? The discovery of DNA is fittingly attributed to two men and one woman. Did Marie Curie succeed in isolating radium because she had a fundamentally different perspective on account of her sex or because she was a dedicated researcher? Does the nature of the universe have a gender? Is the scientific method different for men and women?

And, more absurdly still, is it different for members of different races and ethnic groups?

The idea that individuals, no matter how innovative, intelligent or creative, are still “homogenous” as long as they have the same skin color is not only racist, but is mindlessly collectivist. And the notion that ideas are the products of biology, of ethnicity and of skin color, rather than of individuals insists on the primacy of the group over the individual.

The Left not only suffers from groupthink, it suffers from the belief that only groups think. And if only groups think, then intellectual or viewpoint diversity only requires that members of different groups take part. It doesn’t matter who the individuals are so long as the group has a diverse representation of every group. A group with the dumbest possible white man, black man, lesbian and transgender man is inherently better than a “homogenous” group of geniuses because the geniuses lack diversity and therefore can’t come up with any new ideas.

Just don’t tell that to the researchers at the Manhattan Project.

People don’t come up with ideas, as Biden’s former Army Secretary already told us, groups do. A white man, no matter what his personality, his interests or skillset, can only come up with ‘white man ideas’ and a Latino woman with ‘Latino woman ideas.’ Unless someone diversely puts the two of them together, they’ll be hopelessly trapped in their homogenous boxes.

Obama and Biden officials dismissed the threat of China because, they claimed, the People’s Republic was not a true competitor because it lacked diversity. It couldn’t come up with new ideas because everyone was Chinese. Universities, including Harvard, struggled to keep out Asian students because they lacked diversity and would trap colleges into echo chambers full of students who only had ‘Asian ideas’. Harvard and other colleges engaged in racist admissions practices driven by racist ideas because they were convinced diversity was anti-racist rather than racist.

Scale up the racist credo that the only way to succeed is to have the widest possible mix of groups and you end up with everything from open borders to systemic racism. America, many liberals came to believe, could not succeed without maximizing its diversity. Any institution that was not diverse was doomed. And, retroactively, anything that was not diverse was worthless.

Most culture, science and history that occurred before DEI’s eternal Year Zero has been deemed worthless because they were not diverse. Art museums jettison classical paintings. The work of Nobel Prize winners is written off because they were white men who could not truly understand the universe because they were not diverse.

And that which is not diverse is inherently flawed.

America is only as good as it is diverse. The Constitution, the Renaissance and most mathematics are bad because they are not diverse. Had more diverse groups put them together, they would have been far better and will soon be replaced by diverse output.

Rather than measuring diversity by its accomplishments, accomplishments are defined by diversity, and as a result, much of what we produce has become worthless. Rather than producing new ideas, diversity rehashes the same old ideological ones. Academia became less intellectually diverse even as it became more racially and sexually diverse. By making diversity its supreme value, universities adopted a dogma and the political monoculture that goes with it. You can have intellectual and racial diversity as long as they operate within a competitive environment and a marketplace of ideas. Diversity’s only real idea however is diversity. And by diversity it means people, of different races and backgrounds, who believe the same things.

Diversity has little disagreement because the only kind of diversity it values is external. It substitutes external diversity for internal diversity. The only diverse people allowed inside are those who already agree with its fundamental beliefs. And if they disagree, it can only be a limited disagreement in one direction. There is room for intellectual diversity between socialists, Communists and the occasional free market liberal who leaves a lot of room for government intervention. There’s likewise some room for viewpoint diversity between those who believe America is a colonial settler state forever tainted by its original sins and those who contend that it can be redeemed through more diversity. But there’s no room for going out of this leftist box.

Diversity is not an intellectual value, it’s a political one, and therefore it cannot tolerate intellectual diversity and it also cannot be debated. Intellectual ideas can be debated, political ones must be accepted. The only way to maintain a climate of political debate is to have intellectual diversity. The more politics determine the nature of ideas, the fewer ideas there are.

And diversity’s real underlying concept is that the only worthwhile ideas proceed from the political conditions produced by diversity and through the conditions created by politics. Testing this theory in any kind of way is forbidden because that would be bigoted. Questioning it is also bigoted. Any disagreement at all is bigoted and therefore unacceptable.

This is not an argument, it’s a political dogma meant to enforce conformity by banning any arguments against its own premises. An academic institution that accepts it, as virtually all of academia has, ceases to function as anything except a totalitarian political organization with its own thought police, mobs and machinery for outing and ousting all forms of political dissent.

And that is what modern universities have become.

Skin color is not actually a point of view, but the argument that skin color is a point of view is a useful political line for enforcing conformity under the guise of diversity. To argue that groups think and individuals don’t is to dismiss every non-conforming individual as a representative of old non-diverse ideas if he’s white or as non-representative of his group if he’s non-white.

Diversity is the enemy of intellectual diversity because it is the enemy of individuals. Challenging it is the only hope for the return of a country where people think for themselves.

Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine. Click here to subscribe to my articles. And click here to support my work with a donation.  Thank you for reading.

 

 

America's “Fifth Column”

By Rich Kozlovich

In 1936 Emilio Mola, a Nationalist general during the 1936-39 Spanish Civil war referred to a fifth column at his disposal when it was clear there were only four columns of troops marching on Madrid.  What did it mean?  These were supporters who would undermine the enemy from within the city.  A population who had loyalties they hid from the group.  Individuals who supported efforts against the group they claimed to be a part of.  We would probably call them terrorists today, but most certainly traitors.

Until Trump was elected, and SCOTUS overturned Chevron with the Loper Bright decision, it became the duty of society to obediently ignore obvious, ignore what they could see going on before them, and provable realities.  Inculcated deep within the collective psyche of America we were expected to accepting every bit of horsepucky which the so-called experts, the media, leftist politicians, consultants, activists, and academicians heaped upon us. 

Now it's our duty and responsibility to stand up against things which are unproven or improvable.   To end support of things that are not true, while having the courage to stand up for those things which are true.

Academia is constant groveling before that “sacred cow”, known as government grant money, which has corrupted the universities, and we now know the media has been funded by the bureaucrats to support their continued tyranny over America. 

 

Think about this.  What if the only grant money available was for the purpose of proving there was no such thing as anthropogenic climate change?  I'll tell you what would happen, there'd be a dramatic shift in gears and the information coming out of these self same universities would change overnight.  On August 4th, 2006 an article appeared in the Wall Street Journal by Shirley S. Wang, reporting on a study that researched the potential of bias in science when it is tied to funding.  The finding? 

 

“Studies show that even small gifts create feelings of obligation, and that those feelings can influence subsequent decisions, so why do many researchers feel they're immune to conflicts of interest?” “Just as we fool ourselves into thinking we're more ethical, kind and generous than we are, so scientists can be blind to the very real possibility that their work is inappropriately influenced by financial ties. These psychological processes usually operate so subtly that people aren't aware that such ties can bias their judgment.”

 

Based on the tone of her article she was attacking the pharmaceutical and chemical industries, and her points were well made.  However, what about research that is tied to a regulatory agency such as EPA?  Are these researchers any less affected by this same kind of bias? 

The activists have no problem finding problems to whine about.  That's easy, especially when these problems are usually speculative.  You know the kind I am talking about.  So much of their whining is filled with Weasel-words and Phrases.

This could happen or that could happen or maybe something could possibly cause something, someday, somewhere by someone doing anything or something or maybe no one doing nothing or anything anywhere.   

Wow, get your mind around that!  Whining about speculative problems is one thing, fixing real problems is another.  We must remember that every action triggers the law of unintended consequences.  Some consequences are positive and some are negative.  Sometimes both.  

What happens when the fixes they impose on society leads to unintended negative or even vile consequences?  Usually people die.  Yet they go on their merry way as if this is normal or worse yet, acceptable.  DDT is a case in point.  Tens of millions have died unnecessarily over the last 52 years since the ban on DDT and yet they still fight to maintain this ban.  These are adherents of a neo-pagan secular religion.  "Ecotheologians, demanding 'death' on a crowded planet."

“Fifth Columnists” are heroes when they win.  If they lose, they are traitors, either way they undermine society and civilization while proclaiming to the world they are bringing enlightenment, promising utopia, but consistently delivering dystopia.  

We need to start shedding ourselves of these so-called in the media, academia, scientific advisors, government consultants, and bureaucrats, who don’t know whose side they are on.  Then again, maybe these “Fifth Columnists” really do know what side they’re on, and it's not the side of humanity.

 

Why Are We Giving Any Money to Colleges?

They have BILLION dollar endowments 

Susan Daniels Mar 21, 2025 @ Susan's Newsletter

President Trump just “paused” $174 million from going to the University of Pennsylvania because the school is still allowing transgenders to compete against women. That college has an endowment of $22 billion dollars. Why are we giving them a nickel?

We throw around the word “billion” so easily that we forget what a billion really means. A billion is a thousand million: $1,000,000,000. The UPENN has twenty-two times that much. $174 million is pocket change to them, so why just “pause” it?

These colleges could allow students to attend for free.

From USA Facts 2023: What schools received the most money?

A little less than half of all federal grant money was for university medical research and development. Biomedical research and research training was the largest funded medical research and development category in 2018, followed by aging research. Harvard University received the largest federal grant: $179 million from the National Institute of Health. Columbia University received the second largest grant, $165 million, invested from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Why are they getting any money? If the cannot sustain themselves with their outrageous tuition, then they need to close shop like private industry does.

Where’s DOGE?

Susan Daniels is a private investigator and the author of The Rubbish Hauler’s Wife versus Barack Obama: A True Story which is available on Amazon.com.

Politics like we have never seen.  Recommend Susan’s Newsletter to your friends.

 

 

Saudi Arabia, China, and the Harvard Endowment Connection

Who cares about human rights when the money’s right? 

By Joe Schaeffer | Mar 23, 2025 @ Liberty Nation News, | Articles, Opinion, Politics

 

Harvard enjoys a massive endowment of over $53 billion – but there’s a dark side to all that wealth. On March 5, Harvard Management Company, which runs the famed university’s endowment, named a new member to its board of directors, and he’s a top executive at a company with deep ties to China and Saudi Arabia, two nations notorious for human rights violations.

As always, the watchword should be follow the money. Martin Escobari, co-president and head of “Global Growth Equity” at General Atlantic, one of the largest private equity firms in the world, is the newest member of the board at Harvard Management Co., which oversees the vast treasure chest. General Atlantic’s business vision just happens to dovetail perfectly with Harvard’s funding and international partnerships. It’s all one ecosystem.

Mideast Money Pipeline

“Harvard received more than $100 million in contributions from government sources in the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Bangladesh in the last four years, according to data released by the Department of Education,” The Harvard Crimson, a student newspaper, reported on February 28.

General Atlantic is right there with them.

“In a groundbreaking expansion, General Atlantic … has chosen Saudi Arabia as the location for its first office in the Middle East,” R Consultancy Group reported in November of 2024. “This strategic move underscores the firm’s commitment to the region and highlights the growing appeal of Middle Eastern markets, especially Saudi Arabia, to international investors.”

R Consultancy is a British firm that “specializes in helping international companies expand into Saudi Arabia and the UAE.”

“An essential factor in General Atlantic’s move is the sheer size and influence of Middle Eastern sovereign wealth funds, which collectively hold more than $4 trillion in assets,” R Consultancy stressed. “These funds, particularly from Saudi Arabia, have become substantial sources of capital for global fund managers.”

Then there’s the country overwhelmingly identified as the leading geopolitical foe of the United States today.

Harvard, a Private Equity CEO, and a Chinese University

“Harvard received the most non-governmental funding from England, Switzerland, China and Hong Kong,” The Harvard Crimson report continued. As Liberty Nation News documented in 2024, American universities are deeply tied to Chinese money via lucrative “academic research” and “training expertise” contracts with the Asian communist superpower and the various companies and organizations it controls.

Harvard’s connection to the Beijing regime is too exhaustive to list in one article.

“Hosted within the Harvard Kennedy School, the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation is funded by several Chinese Communist Party-backed entities. Among its donors are China Southern Power Grid Corp, whose management is ‘directly appointed by China’s central government,’” The National Pulse reported in 2021.

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Oh, but it gets worse. The Harvard Kennedy School’s Rajawali Foundation Institute For Asia actually helps train Chinese regime apparatchiks.

“Established in 2001, China’s Leaders in Development program was widely recognized by the Chinese government as one of the best overseas training programs for government officials,” the institute boasts at its portal on the Harvard website. “Taught both at Tsinghua University, China and Harvard Kennedy School, this multi-week training program was specifically designed to help prepare senior local and central Chinese government officials to more effectively address the ongoing challenges of China’s national reforms.”

In March 2024, Chinese President Xi Jinping met “with representatives from American business, strategic and academic communities,” state-run media outlet China Daily reported. The meeting “is widely considered as a significant step China has taken to stabilize the expectations of foreign investors with regard to the Chinese market.”

Harvard was on hand to represent US academia.

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“Evan G. Greenberg, chair of the Board of Directors of the National Committee on US-China Relations, Stephen A. Schwarzman, chairman and CEO of Blackstone, Cristiano R. Amon, president and CEO of Qualcomm, Graham Allison, founding dean of Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, and Craig Allen, president of the US-China Business Council, spoke at the meeting,” China Daily related.

Harvard professors and staffers have frequently associated with the National Committee on US-China Relations (NCUSCR), which made headlines in Nov. 2023 when it co-hosted an infamous dinner in honor of Xi along with the US Chamber of Commerce as the Chinese head of state visited San Francisco. But guess who else is attached to this rabidly pro-China group? “The National Committee on U.S.-China Relations held our annual black-tie Gala Dinner on Tuesday, October 15 2024,” a post on the NCUSCR website proclaims. “This year, we celebrated William E. Ford, chairman and chief executive officer of General Atlantic, for his enormous contributions to constructive Sino-American relations.”

Ford has been intimately involved with the group for years.

“Mr. Ford has been a board member of the National Committee for almost a decade and strongly supports our mission to promote forthright dialogue, mutual understanding, and cooperation between the United States and China,” the organization states. This is the CEO of the private equity giant that helps manage Harvard’s endowment.

General Atlantic’s ties to China are indeed prolific. The company has invested in 56 Chinese companies, including ByteDance, the controversial owner of TikTok.

“Ford currently serves on the board of BlackRock [and] ByteDance,” his bio at Klaus Schwab’s World Economic Forum reveals. “He is also involved with several educational and not-for-profit organizations including The Rockefeller University … the Council on Foreign Relations and Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management.” Tsinghua is the Chinese university that partners with Harvard to train Beijing government officials. See how it all ties together?

General Atlantic currently lists online fashion retailer Shein as part of its China portfolio on its website. That corporation is in the news today as it faces numerous accusations of selling products manufactured by Uyghur slave labor. Forget the human rights posturing by campus radicals – the bottom line at Harvard is being steered by “globalist” international finance concerns. And morality does not reign supreme in that coldly calculating milieu.

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Observations From the Back Row With News and Views For March 22, 2025

By Rich Kozlovich 

I save a lot of articles dealing with every issue facing mankind, and my draft file is large, so, I've created ways of saving them for reference purposes by creating gazettes, and News and Views pieces, and I will be linking them as add on pieces in order to purge my draft files and still have the ability to reference that material.   

Starting on Monday I will be posting a new daily feature called News and Views.  And while I've posted articles under that name this will be different.  It will consist of a list of linked articles I think are newsworthy, and where possible I will categorize them topically,  posting it later in the news day as most sites will be done posting their pieces by then.   

Anything posted later will be part of the next day's list.  Anything that appears on Saturday or Sunday will be linked with the Monday News and Views post.  What appears below are pieces I've been saving for quite a while, some going back a ways, and some very current, but not in chronological order.  

What's included are articles dealing with:

Abortion, Academia, Autopen, California, Celebrity Views, China, Christian Persecution, Covid, Deep State Corruption, FBI, Democrats, DOGE, Economics, Tariffs, Education, Energy, Europe, Immigration, Justice, Middle East, Race Hustlers, Russo/Ukrainian War, Transgenderism, and Voter Fraud.  

While not listed chronologically, they're all listed topically and alphabetically.  As a result, this piece is unusually long, as a Word document it would be over 30 pages, all others in the future will be much shorter.... much shorter.... as this is just a catch up piece.

Abortion

 

Oregon’s governor establishes an ‘abortion provider appreciation day’ March 11, 2025 by Olivia Murray Does this mean the progressive left has finally and totally conceded that baby murder isn’t anything but a celebration to them? More

Academia

Columbia Crumbles - Money talks, even when you have a $15 billion endowment. So Columbia has acceded to the Trump administration’s demands to get back the $400 million in federal funding that Trump revoked over the university’s anti-Semitism........

Schools nationwide are watching Columbia with alarm; many fear a demand for similar concessions. Their primary concern: without freedom to follow their intellectual curiosity, the discoveries and innovations that fuel the U.S.’s economy will decline or even grind to a halt.

Yes, the “intellectual curiosity” to vandalize buildings and beat up Jews. It’s a pity: no doubt Mahmoud Khalil was just about to discover a cure for cancer. Now Syria or Algeria will get the benefit of his intellectual curiosity and spirit of innovation....

Ivy League university webinar says science is too male, too hetero, and too fetus-centric -  The presentation by two lefties was titled, “Is Fat Female? Evolution, Feminism, and Getting the Story Right.” According to a recent article on thecollegefix.com, during a recent online event at Cornell University, feminist ‘scholars’ discussed their concerns about science being too male, too “hetero,” and too “feto-centric.” Really. ........To recap: males are bad. Straight males are worse. Babies are bad. Fat can be good.........

Shalom, Mahmoud! - If Mahmoud really wanted to be a revolutionary at Columbia, he could have done something genuinely radical—joined the College Republicans, read the collected works of P.J. O’Rourke, or written a thesis on why Adam Smith is the most unappreciated intellectual of the last 500 years.   

 

America has many traditions—apple pie, baseball, and, thanks to Columbia University, mass-producing trust-fund revolutionaries with a soft spot for Hamas. But as it turns out, supporting terrorist organizations while enjoying a cushy student life in the U.S. isn’t quite as consequence-free as our academic betters would have you believe.

Enter Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia campus firebrand turned deportation candidate. ICE picked him up, shipped him off to Louisiana, the White House hit send on a two-word masterpiece—“Shalom, Mahmoud”—and suddenly, an entire generation of Ivy League agitators needed fainting couches and emotional support kombucha............

Send them home March 10, 2025 - It makes no sense for people, students or faculty, to come here and engage in illegal activities.  Cheers for the Trump administration. We learned yesterday that some students may going home sooner than expected. Here is the story:.....

College Can’t Punish Math Professor for Criticizing Low Academic Standards, Appeals Court Rules - Lars Jensen was nearly fired for handing out flyers about potential harm to the community from lowering the "academic level" of math classes. Oregon sows the wind, reaps the whirlwind in "staggeringly low" student proficiency. .....

Dershowitz: We Have to Go After All ‘Propaganda’ Studies Programs - On Friday’s broadcast of Newsmax TV’s “The Record,” Harvard Law Professor Emeritus Alan Dershowitz praised the Trump administration for ending $400 million in federal grants to Columbia University and stated that we have to “smash these bureaucracies, this intersectionality, and the DEI. All of this is destroying higher education.”  Dershowitz said that the Columbia move “is just the beginning. This is going to apply to Harvard and Yale and NYU and UCLA and the University of California. This is going to create a revolutionary effect on higher education and make sure that we get back to the day where colleges and universities educate instead of propagandizing. These universities today are not teaching their students how to think. They’re teaching them what to think in a propagandistic way.”..........

Trump’s defunding Columbia is great, but all academia is riddled with ideological madness March 9, 2025 by Andrea Widburg The $400 million pulled from Columbia is that it’s the first step in a journey of 1,000 miles and billions of taxpayer dollars......

 

Why a former Columbia professor is glad that the feds have yanked $400 million in funding from it March 11, 2025 by Thomas Lifson I almost cheered out loud when I read that the Trump administration has cancelled $400 million in funding for Columbia University ...........

 

Autopen 

Null and void: Autopen misstep means arrests are now on the table - Until today, the Democratic Party Deep State (DPDS) and its propaganda bureaus — once known as “news media” — have carefully avoided the Autopen scandal, because it hasn’t had any consequences that couldn’t be comfortably ignored.  But this morning, President Trump declared that all the pardons Joe Biden allegedly signed, during his final days in office, are null and void...........

 

Was Biden aware of anything? March 9, 2025 by Mike McDaniel If Joe didn’t know about those documents, if he didn’t sign them, who did?........

 

There Needs To Be An Investigation of Biden’s State of Mind  “They must now be made to testify in front of the American people.”..........

 

California

 

Schweizer: ‘Fool’s Gold’ Blows the Lid on California Corruption - If you think you know how bad things are in California, you don’t. If you think you know how corrupt the state’s leading politicians are, it’s worse than that. Sticky-fingered pols pushing woke policies have turned the Golden State into fool’s gold......

 

After blowing $9 billion on 'free' health care for illegals, California's Gov. Gavin Newsom asks for a bailout March 13, 2025 by Monica Showalter - Who didn't see this coming from ten miles away?...........

 

California tries to tear down the Castle Doctrine - That’s virtue signaling, California style. A few decades ago the movement for concealed carry began. Anti-liberty/gun cracktivists were outraged. There would be wild west gunfights everywhere! The streets would run with blood! Of course, none of that happened. More recently, the Constitutional Carry movement caught fire, and the same predictions of blazing gunplay were made and failed to materialize. More than half the states allow constitutional carry and every state allows concealed carry of some sort. No state that has adopted concealed or constitutional carry has repealed either.....

California Dems Offer Prayer to a Strange New God to Open Assembly Session -Okay, wait, I thought they worshiped Dylan Mulvaney. But if the Democrats are anything, they’re full of surprises, as we saw at the California state assembly on Friday. A Democrat assembly member offered a prayer to open the assembly session, as is the time-honored custom, but the prayer wasn’t to any deity that you’d learn about in the average world religions course, even in these latter days of American colleges and universities being reduced to little more than Antifa recruitment centers. The prayer was offered to none other than Beyoncé.

Celebrity Views

Singer Courtney Love ‘Getting British Citizenship’ Because America ‘Frightening’ Under Trump: ‘Like Cyanide Now’ - Singer Courtney Love has announced that she is soon “getting British citizenship” because she claims America is “frightening now” since President Donald Trump returned to the White House......She slammed America as “frightening now.”  “In terms of Trump, and particularly this group… it’s like emperor-core – like, [they’re] wearing million-dollar watches,”....... “It’s like cyanide now.”....... “I love London, it’s my favorite city and is the best place I’ve ever lived.............I’m left alone, there are laws here that protect me when I’m being outspoken, I like the friends I’ve made here'.......

• Rosie O’Donnell and Ellen DeGeneres also reportedly moved overseas.
• Rosie O’Donnell has moved to Ireland.
• Britain's lamest hour March 18, 2025 by Eric Utter The ruling Labour Party is targeting English pubs in many awful ways. 
• Never Forget That Making Britain Into a Broke, Repressive Dystopia Was a Deliberate Choice

Trump-O-Phobia Drives Some Americans to Questionable Greener Pastures Overseas Brian C. Joondeph They probably won't find this the 'solution' they think it is. More

 

My Take - Goodbye and good riddance

 

 Actress Mia Farrow Wants to ‘Lock Up’ Trump Over Deportation of Venezuela Gang Bangers This falls under the category of "Who gives a .....!" 

Americans Don't Want to Hear Celebrities Spew Their Political Beliefs - A new poll released this week confirms what many Americans already knew – the majority of people do not want to hear their favorite celebrities’ political opinions.  Late last year, Townhall covered how singer Taylor Swift announced on Instagram that she would be voting for Vice President Kamala Harris. Swift has over 284 million followers. But, a poll showed that more voters said that her endorsement would turn them away from voting for Harris than support her. ..............

 

Debra Winger, Joe Rogan: It’s hard out there for a Jew - Currently, we are experiencing the worst overt, monolithic Jew-hatred in American history.  One would think Jews would band together in battle against this threat.  But no — useful idiots and just plain ignoramuses have jumped to the head of the line to enhance the madness.  Has-been Jewish actress Debra Winger, of An Officer and a Gentleman and Terms of Endearment faded fame, recently exclaimed she had a debt to repay, presumably to the Jewish people. .......From the mid-1930s in Berlin, initially German Jews did not want to believe the evolving Jew-hatred emanating from the four corners of a once highly civil society.  But emanated it did, and ultimately six million Jews and others were murdered before the Nazi regime was vanquished.......

 

China 

 

How Mexico Became China’s Trojan Horse in U.S. Trade - Beijing has discovered a highly effective workaround to Trump’s tariffs that the media deliberately ignore.......The second Trump administration has refocused America’s attention on trade, tariffs, and national security—a conversation long overdue. But while pundits and policymakers wrangle over China’s economic warfare and Mexico’s growing defiance, few are paying attention to the real story hiding in plain sight..........China and Mexico aren’t just separate trade problems. They are one and the same..............

 

Active-duty soldiers indicted for disclosing sensitive government info to China - The DOJ decried the ‘persistent and increasing foreign intelligence threat facing our Army and nation.’ On Thursday, federal grand juries in the District of Oregon and the Western District of Washington handed down indictments against three individuals linked to the U.S. military.  Jian Zhao and Li Tian were both active-duty soldiers stationed at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, and the third, Ruoyu Duan, is a former soldier.........

 

The China Connection? -  It’s not racist to be concerned that Chinese spies are targeting vulnerable Chinese-American troops.......A dramatic illustration of how wokism is injuring US national security is currently on display in the nation’s news media. On March 7, a Portland Hoodline headline blared “Trio of U.S. Army Soldiers at Joint Base Lewis-McChord Indicted for Selling Military Secrets to Chinese Interests”..............And yet here we are with three soldiers clearly of Chinese descent accused of successful espionage by selling secret information to Chinese agents. Is it not highly notable that not one of these news posts dares raise questions about how this happened............

Report: Chinese wind turbines purchased by the West may become weapons of political coercion - German progressives remind us how slow on the uptake they are...........The German progressives, who have already been famously scolded by President Trump for their short-sighted and suicidal reliance on Russian energy—which led to a historical energy crisis—are reminding us how slow on the uptake they really are as news emerges that their dependence on hostile foreign nations for crucial infrastructure needs is once again biting them in the rear.......

 

China’s 4-Stage Strategy to Surpass the USA  If the United States is to maintain its technological lead over China, then it must step up its game.  As China stands on the threshold of competing with the United States in critical technology fields, such as A.I., biotechnology, and computing, it’s important to understand the four-stage strategy that has propelled the nation to this point.  This approach has allowed China to bypass stages of development, catching up and in some areas achieving technological dominance.........

 

Meta Attempted to Enter China by Promising Censorship - Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta went to great lengths, including developing a censorship system and potentially sharing user data, in an unsuccessful bid to bring Facebook to China, according to a whistleblower complaint..........

 

House Lawmakers Seek to Crack Down on China’s Secret Police Stations in US - ‘We should find, prosecute, and sanction any Chinese Communist Party official involved in standing up police stations on U.S. soil,’ Rep. Ashley Hinson said...........

 

The Threat of China’s Secret Police Stations on Our Soil - When you think of a local police station—not the headquarters building but a smaller neighbourhood branch—what comes to mind? Likely a few things: a sense of security that the police are nearby if trouble brews, a place to touch base with law enforcement officers, perhaps a way for police to engage in outreach with residents. Overall, a positive vibe.

 

What, then, comes to mind when you learn that the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has set up a “police station” around the corner from your house? Likely anything but the scenarios just listed.  China denies—of course!—that such places exist. But they do, in several cities across 50 nations worldwide, including at least five in Canada and four in the United States. It is unclear whether all these stations remain operational. The Canadian government finally began “investigating” them two years ago (who knows how long they had been in operation up until then). The RCMP announced in June 2023 that it had “shut down” these facilities..........

Christian Persecution

 

Butcher Christians in the Middle East and receive a VIP invite to an EU conference in Brussels - Syria’s new president is the man of the hour for European progressives.........Syria’s new head of state, Ahmed al-Sharaa, the violent Islamist—but I repeat myself—who rose to power after his forces toppled Bashar al-Assad, is the man of the hour for European progressives, as the European Commission recently extended an invitation to the interim president to attend a “donor conference” in Brussels. This is all despite the fact that under his watch, thousands of civilians, many of the Christian faith, have been slaughtered in the streets by what are reportedly, government forces............

 

Syria: The graveyard of Christianity - And the West is complicit. Syria has become a graveyard for ancient Christianity.  What was once home to some of the world’s oldest churches is now rubble — its crosses toppled, clergy hunted, and Christian families driven from their homes or slaughtered outright.  Under Bashar al-Assad’s brutal regime, Syria was no model of liberty.  But there was a fragile balance.  Christians, though never truly free, were tolerated — and even protected at times — as a stabilizing force against the rise of Islamist extremism..........

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Without God, There is No TRUE Respect for Human Life - Give people a good rationale for being psychopaths, for long enough, and a more psychopathic civilization just may be your fate. ..........Since my title is bound to inspire criticism that I’m a “God botherer,” I’ll preface what follows by stating that I wasn’t always the halo-adorned, floating-in-the-ether desert mystic (without the sand or heat) you behold today. I wasn’t raised with faith, and as a 12-year-old was an agnostic who’d say, “I’d never believe or disbelieve in anything there’s no proof of.” Later on I’d be rather dismissive of theists, actually, viewing them as God botherers myself, though we didn’t have that term or as many Richard Dawkins-like secularist warriors back then. I suppose we were, relatively speaking, handicapped in our exercise of supercilious anti-theism.....

 

Revisiting a Forgotten History of Christian Political Activism - A new insight regarding the Christian response to politics — from a pre-Revolutionary War pastor. Since the Obama years, pastors and church leaders have felt emboldened to promote Liberal/Leftist/Statist political points-of-view. Conservative Christians, on the other hand, have tended to assiduously stay in the lane of “Jesus only”. Don’t comment on culture. Don’t comment on politics........

 

The Law v. The Church - Putting the best interests of illegal aliens above Americans. In contrast to cultural issues like abortion, homosexuality, and same-sex marriage, leftists are once again in league with their longstanding Christian allies on immigration: The Catholic Church. Pope Francis has rejected what he calls “hatred, discrimination or exclusion” in Trump’s immigration policies, and even denounced Trump’s migrant deportation plan as a “disgrace.”  Meanwhile, relief agencies like Catholic Charities USA have long been accused of helping facilitate illegal immigration to this country...........

 

Why the Silence About the Slaughter of Christians in Syria?  - For 14 years, Syria has been engulfed in a civil war. Until three months ago, dictator Bashar al-Assad controlled the government, but he was overthrown by the Jihadist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), an al-Qaeda affiliated terrorist organization. While Assad had many faults he did protect the Christian minority in Syria. However, as noted by commentator Tucker Carlson, as the civil war progressed, “The percentage of Christians in Syria went from ten percent to two percent.”.............

 

Covid.  

 

My Take - It turns out the bugman was right again, imagine that. Here's a link to one of my many articles on the false covid disaster that was imposed on the world. 

 

Major Autopsy Study Finds Scars in Hearts of Covid-Vaxxed - Two of Japan’s leading medical researchers have issued a warning after their major autopsy study found that people who died from a sudden cardiac arrest had multiple scars in their hearts caused by Covid mRNA “vaccines.” The study was conducted by cardiologist Dr. Tomomi Koizumi and pathologist Dr. Masao Ono of the Mito Medical Center in Higashi-Ibarakigun, Japan. They sought to identify the cause of spikes in “unexplained cardiac arrest.”..............

 

Exclusive: Dr. Mark Trozzi & Dr. Regina Watteel Expose the COVID Cover-Up—Weaponized Science, Rigged Data, and Crimes Against Humanity with Video - In an exclusive interview with RAIR Foundation, Dr. Mark Trozzi and Dr. Regina Watteel, PhD, exposed the systemic fraud and coercion that underpinned government COVID-19 policies, revealing how medical institutions weaponized pseudoscience to enforce dangerous mandates and silence dissenting experts. They detailed how an intricate web of political, corporate, and academic collusion ensured that dissent was crushed, fraudulent studies were upheld, and the public was force-fed a narrative that had no basis in reality...........

Study Warns That Adolescents With Heart Damage After Covid “Vaccine” Face Long-Term Health Challenges -  Children and young people who suffered heart damage after receiving a Covid mRNA “vaccine” are facing long-term, and possibly life-long, health issues, a new study has revealed.  A team of South Korean researchers, led by Professor Yoonsun Yoon of Korea University College of Medicine’s Department of Pediatrics, sought to investigate rising concerns over myocarditis and pericarditis following mRNA injections.  The study was conducted in conjunction with colleagues at the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency......

Japan Issues Alert as Deaths Surge Among Vaxxed Children - Leading experts in Japan have issued a global alert to call for an urgent reassessment of worldwide vaccination programs after linking a recent surge in child deaths to “vaccines.” A bombshell new study published in the Springer Nature peer-reviewed journal Discover Medicine raises the alarm over the issue after connecting several child deaths to “vaccinations.”

They Knew. They All Knew. March 17, 2025 — John Hinderaker - It is now just about universally acknowledged that the covid-19 virus escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, where gain of function research was being conducted with the support of the U.S. government. This was vociferously denied for years by Western governments, apparently because they were afraid to cross the Chinese Communist Party. But it came out a few days ago that Germany knew all along that covid-19 was a lab leak.

Did COVID Nearly Start a Revolution? - Things changed quickly three years ago. Let’s revisit the tumultuous second half of 2021.  Dementia-addled President Joe Biden executed a disastrous retreat from Afghanistan in August that resulted in the killing of thirteen servicemembers.  Having spectacularly failed America’s warfighters, he transitioned quickly to the ongoing “fight against COVID.”  ......

 

Covid Redux: The Bird Flu Scare - Instead of directly targeting humans, our food is the focus for the creation and mandating of ineffective vaccines — it stands to devastate our food supply, and cause mass starvation. ..........

 

Whoops! Cori Bush's Husband Just Got Indicted by the DOJ for COVID Fraud - We haven't heard a whole lot from former Congresswoman Cori Bush (D-MO) since she left office at the end of the 118th Congress (having been defeated in the Democratic primary last August by former St. Louis County Prosecutor Wesley Bell). But that doesn't mean all's been quiet in her world...............

 

Deep State Corruption, FBI

 

 FBI Agent Who Opposed Trump’s First Term Charged for Disclosing Confidential Information - An FBI agent who opposed President Donald Trump during his first term was arrested and charged on Monday for sharing confidential information to write a memoir. The arrest of 15-year FBI veteran, Jonathan Buma, occurred at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City on Monday. He was accused of “printing about 130 files of classified FBI documents and messages and later sharing the material with associates for a book he was writing about his career at the bureau,” per Fox News...........

 

FOIA: Biden’s Army Trained Soldiers to Believe Pro-Lifers Were Terrorists and Jews Invented Terrorism - When President Trump fired several of the military’s top brass this past February, the mainstream media echoed the headlines in the usual doomsday tone we’ve all come to expect, labeling it as “unprecedented” and that it was a cause for “concern” that endangered the traditional nonpolitical role of the military. Well, based on what we uncovered, it appears a shake-up in leadership was in order.........

 

Time for the Trump DOJ and FBI to Deal the Pain- We’ve all seen those uppity federal judges presuming to tell the executive branch when it can deport enemy aliens, when it can fire useless government flunkies, and when members of the administration must stand or sit to pee. Like much of the lawfare against Donald Trump, this craziness is going to come to nothing. It’s all going to turn to ashes in their soft, girlish little hands. But here’s the thing – we control federal law enforcement right now. That means we get to set the agenda, and we need to ruthlessly and brutally use the law to defeat our enemies’ outrageous and disgraceful attacks upon patriotic Americans.....

 

FBI Turns Over Biden-era DOJ Weaponization Docs to the House Judiciary Committee -  These are the files that Democrats do not want in the hands of Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH). The chair of the House Judiciary Committee received the Biden-era Department of Justice weaponization docs from the FBI. Its contents aren’t January 6-related, but one that went underreported for years: the alleged crusade against pro-life activists. Jerry Dunleavy of Just the News has more:.......

Here Are Some of the Biggest Bombshells Uncovered by Internet Sleuths in the Newly Released JFK Files - President Donald Trump ordered the release of approximately 1,123 PDF files of previously classified documents related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, fulfilling a long-standing promise to declassify all remaining records. These files, part of the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection, are accessible online at the National Archives (JFK Release 2025) or in person at the National Archives at College Park, Maryland.  Internet sleuths and researchers have been combing through these files, uncovering what they believe are significant revelations.............

 

The Dems Don't Want These Docs in the Hands of Jim Jordan - These are the files that Democrats do not want in the hands of Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH). The chair of the House Judiciary Committee received the Biden-era Department of Justice weaponization docs from the FBI. Its contents aren’t January 6-related, but one that went underreported for years: the alleged crusade against pro-life activists. Jerry Dunleavy of Just the News has more:..

 

The FBI Must Investigate Itself And, Once Cleaned, Several Other Political Crimes - The Epstein and Seth Rich cases are the beginning of cleaning out the Deep State, including the rot in the FBI and DOJ, but there’s much more to do.....

 

San Francisco Pride hemorrhages corporate dollars, will ‘make do’ with tight budget March 18, 2025 by Olivia Murray Without government pressure, companies are now able to curry favor with customers, not the LGBTQ mafia.......

 

Stacey Abrams really, really, wants 'her' $2 billion from Biden's EPA slush fund  Not a whit of shame at this pork barrel scheme, just hand over the money, honey ........Is there a bigger pig at the government trough than Stacey Abrams?  After EPA chief Lee Zeldin uncovered a massive $2 billion cash haul earmarked for a coalition of five NGOs called Power Forward Communities, one of which was closely linked to Stacey Abrams, Abrams decided to sue the government to get "her" money back. No hiding from embarassment at the revelations of how pop-up NGOs were scarfing up government cash in a "gold brick" pork-barrel scheme in the wretched days after President Trump was re-elected, trying to grab as much cash as possible as they headed out the door.  In Mexico, this practice has a name: "La Piñata."............

 

Democrats

 

Joe Biden Quietly Meets with DNC Chairman in Bid to Get 'Back In': Report- Supporters of President Donald Trump aren’t used to getting good news from establishment media outlets when it comes to the Biden family. After legacy media spent four years covering for an increasingly debilitated Joe Biden rambling around the White House, conservatives have good reason to be suspicious of just about any mainstream news about the former president and his plans. But if an NBC report Friday is on point, it could be the best thing for the GOP since the results of the November election came in.........

 

Democrats May Face Their Own “Tea Party Revolt” as Approval From Their Base Dips - As approval ratings for the Democrats have hit a low point, the political party may face something of its own "Tea Party revolt" that the Republican Party faced in the 2010s, according to a report from Politico.  The report comes just as many Hollywood donors snubbed a fundraiser that was held for House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries this week, where left-wing donors feel that the party's leadership is not performing as it should to take on President Donald Trump..............

 

“It’s a Mistake”: Megadonor Who Left the Democrats Says AOC and Bernie Sanders’s Anti-Oligarchy Tour Will Backfire -  Former Democrat megadonor John Morgan told NewsNation host Chris Cuomo Thursday that Sen. Bernie Sanders’ anti-oligarchy tour featuring Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will backfire, saying both politicians motivate President Donald Trump’s supporters. The Vermont independent launched his “Fighting Oligarchy” tour in February, with the New York Democrat set to participate at multiple rallies. Morgan, who was very critical of former Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign in 2024, argued on “CUOMO” that Democrats should step aside rather than actively and outwardly oppose the Trump administration................

 

Taxation as a Moral Question - Appearing March 18 on ABC’s The View, Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer criticized Americans who think their taxes are too high.  Channeling his inner Barack Obama (“you didn’t build that”), Schumer asserted: “Their attitude is, ‘I made my money all by myself.  How dare your government take my money from me?  I don’t want to pay taxes.  Or ‘I built my company with my bare hands.  How dare your government tell me how I should treat my customers, the land and water that I own, or my employee?’”.....

 

Democrat Dimwit Jasmine Crockett Is the Best Gift Democrats Have Given to Republicans - Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) might be one of the biggest gifts the Democratic Party has bestowed upon the GOP since AOC. Crockett has made quite a name for herself after taking office in 2023. She has been known for her grandstanding antics and pugilistic approach to political discourse. Unfortunately for her and her party, she is not nearly as good at this game as she would like..............

 

Radical Leftists, Communists, and Antisemites Declare War on The Heritage Foundation’s Project Esther - Ever heard of The Heritage Foundation’s Project Esther? It was put into play a year after the horrific slaughter by Hamas in Israel of over 1,200 innocent souls on October 7, 2023. That was followed by hellish rapes, butchery, torture, and kidnapping. According to The Heritage Foundation, the project is “named after the historic Jewish heroine who saved the Jews from genocide in ancient Persia, Project Esther provides a blueprint to counter antisemitism in the United States and ensure the security and prosperity of all Americans.”......

 

Schumer Mocks ‘Greedy’ Americans Who Want Less Taxes, Less Government Control - Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) mocked so-called “greedy” Americans for wanting to keep more of their hard-earned money and wanting less government control over their lives. During an episode on ABC’s The View on Tuesday, Schumer spoke about the recent government spending bill, which President Donald Trump recently signed. As Breitbart News previously reported, Schumer explained that he voted in favor of keeping the government open because a “Republican Senator told Democrats the plan was to ‘decimate the entire federal government.”..........

 

Democrats and Muslims: No More Middle - One can see an eerily similar phenomenon in both the Democratic Party and Islam, namely, there is no more middle countering excesses at the extremes.  Imagine a Clinton Democrat coming out of a coma just now. Before he can be taught about that “internet thing”, you ask him to summarize his political views:............

Democrats Unmask Themselves - Three examples show how the Donkey Party was never serious about its professed deepest principles.......The Democrats stand primarily for their own personal power, prestige, and wealth.  To maintain these, they’ve patched together a rogue’s gallery of supporters, forcing party leaders to navigate an array of contradictions.  These incongruities between rhetoric and action blast torpedoes straight into their brand's tattered remains.  Four obvious contradictions were on full display this week......

 

Hills to Die On: Democrats know how to pick 'em - They raise high holy stinks about the rights of terrorists, sympathizers, and criminals to stay in the country and live among us.  What is it about Democrats and their urge to inflict criminals and terrorists upon us? In their quest to Get Trump on immigration, which is probably his strongest point with the public, they've picked three migrant cause célèbres they're waving at the public, promoting them as sob stories and "threats to democracy."  And boy, do they stink......

CNN Poll Shows That Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Leader of the Democrat Party - You might remember that during the whirlwind of the first weeks of President Donald Trump's second term, the question began to circle: Who is the leader of the Democrat Party? Chuck Schumer? Nancy Pelosi? Extreme Hakeem Jeffries?......

Cuck Schumer Cancels Book Tour Over “Security Concerns” After Caving to Trump and Angering Democrats -  The Democratic in-fighting is getting ugly. Democratic Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) is being mocked and ridiculed for canceling stops on a book tour after angering Democrats, who wanted him to fight against a Republican funding bill......

Leftists are dragging us through the worst parts of their ‘Groundhog Day’ March 18, 2025 by Andrea Widburg It’s been a disaster for America as they keep repeating their personal history, only every repetition is worse, without Democrats ever learning to “get it right.” .....

 

Democrats smashed on the rocks - Polls are bearing out what we all suspect: The Democrat party is in steep decline, with no sign of a course correction.....A new NBC News poll found that a scant 7% of registered voters have a “very positive” view of the donkey assemblage. Last November, real America roared back into bloom.  Voters swarmed polling sites to give Democrats a walloping so absolute that globalists the world over dropped megalomaniacal schemes and cowered. .......

  

Britain's lamest hour March 18, 2025 by Eric Utter The ruling Labour Party is targeting English pubs in many awful ways.   Britain’s Labour Party has introduced the “Employment Rights Bill,” which, of course, is actually about limiting the rights of the vast majority in order to protect the ‘rights’ of a relative few.  Clause 18 of the ERB would amend the Equality Act to force employers to “take all reasonable steps” to cocoon their staff from “harassment” by “third parties.”......

  

How the Fate of the West is Tied to the Fate of the Jewish Nation - Janet Levy Josh Hammer’s new book, releasing today, is life-changing.  Why is Israel alone forced to justify its existence and questioned when it stands up to those who would annihilate it?  Why was a worldwide campaign of hatred that reeked of anti-Semitism unleashed on Israel when it responded to the October 7, 2023, attack, while there was no criticism of Hamas?  Why has the U.N. censured the Jewish state more times than any other nation, even China, North Korea, and Cuba combined?......

 

Leftists are dragging us through the worst parts of their ‘Groundhog Day’ March 18, 2025 by Andrea Widburg It’s been a disaster for America as they keep repeating their personal history, only every repetition is worse, without Democrats ever learning to “get it right.”.....

 

Democrats smashed on the rocks - Polls are bearing out what we all suspect: The Democrat party is in steep decline, with no sign of a course correction. ..........

 

A deplorable explains why the Dems will probably run AOC in 2028 - Still inexplicably clinging to the failed policies of the Biden years, they need another insentient puppet.  My mother was as tough as an old bar of iron. Anytime I worked up the guts to ask her, “Why”, she’d stab me in the chest with her bony finger and hiss back, “Because I said so, that’s why!” And I’d instantly plop back down into my lowly place—but at least she respected me enough to answer my question, which is more than I can say for Joe Biden......

 

Democrats Are Just the Worst People - I know, I know – Donald Trump has been no saint in his personal life. I’ve never really cared – as I’ve repeated for years, I was voting for president, not Pope (though, given how this Pope is on the border, I’d vote for Trump there too). But Democrats would not let it go. “He’s a cheater!” The party of every Kennedy until 5 months ago screamed as though no one remembered anything about history. “He’s been accused of rape!” voices screamed from the wagons still circled around Bill Clinton and his enabler Hillary. One thing is certain: the old adage is true: Democrats are always guilty of what they accuse Republicans of doing......

 

Death by Lunacy -  The West has made a fundamental and destructive error. Can it still save itself?  Over the past few days, Sunni Muslims, under the nominal command of Syria’s new leader, went on killing sprees against Alawite and Christian citizens. The last number I saw had over 700 killed. Videos show Syrian army personnel riding on some of their victims, who are forced to bark like dogs before being shot dead. People had warned that an ISIS/Al-Qaeda government led by Abu Mohammed al-Julani would go against other ethnic groups sooner or later. Israel last week emphatically expressed its support for the Druze communities in southern Syria. Julani is smart, if nothing else. He dropped his fatigues, moved to nice suits and ties, and in no time was meeting with world leaders, including the head of the UN. Will any of them hold him accountable for the actions of his soldiers? I would not bet on it......

 

What Do Democrats Stand For? - Greetings everyone, after last week's Presidential address to the joint session of Congress, I think this is a question all Americans are asking. President Trump was quite direct, and appropriate, in pointing out that his address was his fifth and he realized that there was nothing he could say, or do, that would wipe the angry looks from the faces of the people on his right side of the House floor. But there was something very different about this time, and it was reflected in the speech polls. The American people watching the address gave it resounding high marks, and I mean from CBS and CNN polls......

 

 Van Jones: Democrat Party ‘Screwed’ -  CNN political commentator and former Obama adviser Van Jones said Sunday on CNN’s “Newsroom” the current state of the Democratic Party was a “nightmare.” Jones said, “Can we ask another question? Do I keep talking about my own party? Can we talk about Ukraine or something? No, look, man, we’re screwed. I mean, we don’t know, Democrats don’t know what to do. This is a nightmare. You know, somebody like Donald Trump, we thought we’d at least have Hakeem Jeffries in the speaker’s chair to hold him back. If we didn’t have Kamala in there to do the right thing.”......

 

Getting the left out of the political wilderness - There is a way, but the left will never take the necessary advice.  President Trump has the left’s number.  He spent a lifetime among the leftist glitterati.  He knows the moves they are going to make.  He’s setting them up for a fall every time, and he’s boosting his poll numbers every time he does it.  The left can’t get out of his trap because it’s based on leftists’ fundamental beliefs and who they are....

 

Americans have already chosen their fighter March 8, 2025 by Noel S. Williams Is there anything more toxic than demented Dem divas who are so uncomfortable in their own feminine skin that they assume an aggressive, masculine fighting stance?  More

 

Crisis fatigue catches up with the Democrats -  The Democrats are finding out that cultivating a state of fear in the populace to attain and maintain power has its limitations....

 

Democratic fundraising behemoth in legal trouble - ActBlue is one more brick in the “Blue Wall” giving way under scandal......President Trump has the left’s number.  He spent a lifetime among the leftist glitterati.  He knows the moves they are going to make.  He’s setting them up for a fall every time, and he’s boosting his poll numbers every time he does it.  The left can’t get out of his trap because it’s based on leftists’ fundamental beliefs and who they are......

 

TDS belongs in the DSM - Assiduously codifying TDS in the DSM will not only help diagnose the enlarged ranks of sufferers, but will benefit society as the Golden Age of America flourishes. .....

 

Poll: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ‘Best Reflects Core Values’ of Democrat Party over Biden, Harris, Obama - Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) was found to “best reflect the core values” of the Democrat Party in a new CNN poll, narrowly beating failed presidential candidates Kamala Harris and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT).  The poll, conducted March 6-9 among approximately 500 Democrats and Democrat-leaning independents, resulted in the far-left congresswoman coming out on top with ten percent of the vote for representing the party’s “core values”:..........

 

CNN’s Harry Enten Unpacks Democrats’ ‘Horrible’ Ratings - CNN senior data reporter Harry Enten explained on Monday how disastrously low Democrats’ popularity ratings are, based on recent polling. Polls released by CNN/SSRS and NBC News on Sunday showed the Democratic Party at an all-time low popularity with voters. Enten, on “CNN News Central” referenced these polls and highlighted that Democrats in Congress have even worse approval ratings than the party at large..........

DOGE and More  

Inspector General Report Backs DOGE, Reveals Unused IRS Space Wastes Millions - The Department of Government Efficiency’s cutting of Internal Revenue Service office space is consistent with the federal government’s earlier findings about excessive expenses within the tax collecting agency. The Trump administration will reportedly close more than 110 IRS offices across the country.  In June, during the Biden-Harris administration, the Treasury Department’s Inspector General for Tax Administration, or TIGTA, issued a report stating a majority of IRS offices are less than half full. ......

Massive Censorship Scheme by USAID and Global Engagement Center Gets Exposed - Today, America First Legal (AFL) released explosive new documents obtained through ongoing litigation against the U.S. Department of State’s Global Engagement Center (GEC), exposing a vast, government-backed censorship operation to silence Americans under the guise of “misinformation,” “disinformation,” and “malinformation.” The documents reveal a disturbing alliance between the GEC, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the British Foreign, Commonwealth, Development Office (FCDO), and media censorship organizations, all working in lock-step to manipulate public discourse, control media narratives, and suppress free speech.

'DOGE has broken into our building': Federal bureaucrats panic, call cops for 'illegal takeover' - Officials at the U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP) called police Monday in a failed effort to block personnel from Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from entering their Washington headquarters. Former USIP officials insisted DOGE had no authority to enter the building and remove its staff, claiming the institute operates independently of executive branch control despite operating almost entirely on federal funding. USIP, established by Congress in 1984, claims its mission is to "prevent violent conflicts and broker peace deals abroad," despite the U.S. having been involved in numerous military interventions, prolonged wars and rising global instability in the decades since..........

The Democrats’ war on Tesla and Tesla owners - Andrea Widburg Boycotts used to be about a corporate stance; with Tesla, though, Democrats have taken the politics of personal destruction to a whole new level......

 

Tens of Thousands of JFK Assassination Documents Under Urgent DOJ Review - The first files on JFK’s assassination in 1963 were just released tonight by President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice.The documents are listed on the DOJ Archives page. The long-awaited release of tens of thousands of John F. Kennedy assassination documents is facing a delay.

  Despite President Trump’s executive order demanding full transparency without redactions, the Department of Justice (DOJ) has scrambled to conduct a last-minute review..............

Rubio: Tens of Billions of USAID Contracts Terminated - Secretary of State Marco Rubio has stated that around 5,200 contracts—worth tens of billions of dollars—belonging to the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) have been terminated as the Trump administration continues efforts to abolish the agency. He added that the remaining contracts, about 18 percent of the total, will now be taken over by the State Department for management.....

Kelly: Musk’s ‘Slash and Burn’ of Government Is Ruining People’s Lives -  Senator Mark Kelly (D-AZ) said Monday on MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show” that the U.S. Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was ruining people’s lives. Maddow said, “I have to ask you if you if you have any response tonight to what the president’s top campaign donor, Mr. Musk, said about you bluntly calling you a traitor in response to you writing about your your trip to Ukraine?”.............

Report: Nicaragua Received $373.5 Million in Remittances from the U.S. in January - Nicaragua received $373.5 million worth of remittances originating from the United States in January 2025, the local newspaper La Prensa reported Monday. The amount represented 83 percent of the $448.2 million in remittances received by Nicaragua that month. The remaining 17 percent mainly originated from Costa Rica and Spain, as well as Panama, Canada, Mexico, and El Salvador..........

Elon Musk Claims IP Addresses Connected to ‘Massive Cyberattack’ on X Originated in Ukraine - Elon Musk claimed that IP addresses connected to a “massive cyberattack” on X, which caused significant outages throughout Monday, originated in Ukraine. In an interview with Fox Business Network host Larry Kudlow, Musk admitted that they were still “not sure exactly what happened.”..............

DOGE Says Children Aged 11 and Under Were Granted $312M in Loans During Coronavirus Pandemic -  Thousands of loans worth $312 million were granted to children during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) announced Saturday.   DOGE, which is headed by Elon Musk, said it had discovered that the Small Business Administration (SBA) had granted nearly 5,600 loans for $312 million to “borrowers whose only listed owner was 11 years old or younger at the time of the loan.” The loans were granted in 2020 and 2021...........

Musk-Bashing Democrat Donor Pleads Guilty in Woke Fraud Scheme - A Democrat donor who has heaped criticism on Elon Musk pleaded guilty to wire fraud as an alleged co-conspirator in an alleged woke investment fraud scheme, according to federal prosecutors in California......

Another violent attack on a Tesla dealership; two 'trantifa' thugs picked up by cops for last two  - What's going on is a slowly unfolding criminal spree. Yet another one. The concerted attacks on Tesla, a company run by Elon Musk, are continuing without abatement. According to Seattle's KOMO:.......

 

Betrayal President Trump has found them out. He has found their corruption, their greed, their fraud, their hatred, and their betrayal of the American people, and he's going to nail them to the wall. 

Everything You Know About the USAID Case May be Wrong Ted Noel Or, Justice Barrett didn’t sell out conservatives. She’s just waiting for the right opportunity to rule on the merits, rather than on a leftist judge’s procedural mess. More

 

Trump Takes Aim at Government-Funded News Agency, Starts Dismantling 'Propaganda' -  President Donald Trump took a decisive step in overhauling the Voice of America (VOA) with a new executive order, slashing its operations and putting nearly all its employees on leave. The move, which aims to eliminate government-funded propaganda-fueled media outlets, is part of Trump’s broader effort to reign in biased media. .....

Trump Fires Both Democrat FTC Commissioners - Both Democrat members of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) were fired by President Donald Trump on Tuesday in a shocking move that may have “major implications for the independence of the Fed,” according to a former official.......

 

Economics/Tariffs

 

Let American companies compete with China on 5G - The Trump administration has rolled into Washington and they’re determined to shake things up. Already Trump has fired Joe Biden’s anti-business head of the Federal Trade Commission, Lina Khan, and replaced her with the more reasonable Andrew Ferguson.  Ferguson, along with Trump picks like Pamela Bondi and Gail Slater at the Department of Justice, suggest the new administration plans to be fairer to American companies than its predecessor. This new attitude can’t come soon enough. Team Trump will soon have to make a decision that will directly impact how the United States competes with China when it comes to the technologies of tomorrow..........

 

Taxation as a Moral Question - Appearing March 18 on ABC’s The View, Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer criticized Americans who think their taxes are too high.  Channeling his inner Barack Obama (“you didn’t build that”), Schumer asserted: “Their attitude is, ‘I made my money all by myself.  How dare your government take my money from me?  I don’t want to pay taxes.  Or ‘I built my company with my bare hands.  How dare your government tell me how I should treat my customers, the land and water that I own, or my employee?’”.....

 

Europe Postpones Tariffs on U.S. Whiskey and Other Goods, Fearing a Trade War With Trump -  The European Union (EU) says it will now delay implementing tariffs against the United States, originally planned to begin at the end of March, until mid-April. While European officials claim the delay is to give more time to refine the list of U.S. products subject to the tariffs, it is widely seen as allowing more time for negotiations with U.S. President Donald J. Trump‘s White House.  Olof Gill, a spokesman for the European Commission, confirmed the delay on Thursday. “This provides additional time for discussions with the U.S. administration,” he stated...............

 

POTUS Gets Tough: European Union, ’Treats Us Terribly on Trade’…India ’One of the Highest Tariffing Nations in the World’ -  President Donald Trump told Breitbart News exclusively on Wednesday afternoon that his phone calls on Tuesday with Russian President Vladimir Putin and on Wednesday with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky were “two very good conversations.”......

 

‘Could Be $100 Trillion’: Doug Burgum Says U.S. Natural Resources Could Be ‘Triple’ the National Debt -  Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum said the natural assets of the U.S.could be worth triple the country’s $36.6 trillion national debt during a Wednesday policy event hosted by Breitbart News.  The conference, just blocks away from the White House in Washington, DC, featured fiery statements from Burgum as he was interviewed on stage by Breitbart News Washington Bureau Chief Matt Boyle:.......

 

 Meloni Cautions Against Tit-for-Tat Tariffs Between EU, US - The Italian prime minister also spoke out in support of Trump’s proposed cease-fire between Russia and Ukraine. Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on March 18 called for pragmatism to prevent a “vicious cycle” of tariffs between the European Union and the United States. Speaking to the Italian Senate ahead of a meeting of EU leaders this week, Meloni made her first comments on President Donald Trump’s policies that have shaken the European Union this year.......

Tariffs, Tariffs Everywhere: What the Latest China Tariffs on Canada Are About - The timing of the tariffs doesn’t appear to be just a coincidence.  As Canada grappled with shifting U.S. tariffs last week, China added to the pressure over the March 8 weekend, slapping new tariffs on Canadian agricultural and food products effective later this month.  But the timing of the China tariffs coming only now, several months after Canada put U.S.-matching levies on Chinese electric vehicles (EVs) and other products last October, doesn’t appear to be just a coincidence..........

The Tariff Is a Weapon - And it has short- and long-term effects, and Americans need to be conversant in all this. ....“Anyone who doesn’t take tariffs seriously is gravely mistaken — tariffs are a weapon of economic warfare.  They can have enormous consequences.”  Still, American voters are largely indifferent about  tariffs.  A survey by Quinnipiac University reported that 51 percent of respondents oppose Trump’s imposing tariffs on imports from Mexico, Canada, and China, whereas 38 percent support them.....

 

Canada, Europe bemoan the very tariffs they levy, advantages they give their own industries -  Such hypocrisy at the nation that bailed so many of them out in the past.  Canada and Europe, to the U.S.: “How dare you do to us what we did to you long ago! What gives you the right to do to us what we're doing to you now?!” Canada and several European nations (as well as other nations, such as China) have long placed tariffs on American goods, and/or subsidized their businesses and industries placing them at a distinct advantage over their American counterparts......

 

Canada Keeps ‘Retaliatory’ Tariffs on U.S. Despite Trump Delaying ‘Reciprocal’ Tariffs - President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order delaying his planned 25 percent tariffs against Canada and Mexico until April 2. Canadian officials refused to delay their own retaliatory 25 percent tariffs against U.S. goods........

 

Breaking the chains of financial enslavement - For generations, Americans have been deceived, manipulated, and financially enslaved by a system designed not to serve them, but to extract from them.   For generations, Americans have been deceived, manipulated, and financially enslaved by a system designed not to serve them, but to extract from them. We have watched as our hard-earned tax dollars -- money taken from our paychecks, our businesses, our families -- have been siphoned off to fund endless wars, bloated bureaucracies, and foreign regimes while our own country crumbles. We have seen our elected officials, Republican and Democrat alike, become millionaires while sitting in office, amassing fortunes through lobbying, insider trading, and outright theft under the guise of “public service.”..........

 

Unleashing American Competitiveness: Trump and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act - Unshackling private American companies from the FCPA is one step in leveling the playing field with China.  America’s Founders were students of the classics, and attempted to avoid the pitfalls of Greece and Rome in founding a republic. America’s first envoy to Russia, John Quincy Adams, also studied the classics and once remarked that to be without the works of the Roman philosopher Cicero would be akin to being without one of his own “limbs.” As a diplomat, Adams would have also known Cicero’s adage that the “sinews of war are infinite money.” The worlds of business, diplomacy, and war are closer than most generals, CEOs, or diplomats would admit. In a world that has been on the brink of World War III since 2022, the Trump administration fortunately seems to have read Cicero as well...........

 

Trump’s Timber Triumph: An America First Blueprint for Prosperity - America’s vast landscape can support timber plantations without destroying the environment. On March 1, 2025, President Donald Trump signed the “Freeing Our Forests” executive order, igniting a bold vision to vault U.S. lumber production to unprecedented heights. This is no mere policy tweak—it’s a seismic shift aligning with the America First ethos that propelled Trump back to the White House. By slashing bureaucratic shackles, targeting 95% domestic lumber self-sufficiency, and eyeing tariffs on foreign imports, Trump is reasserting American economic sovereignty. The move promises cheaper homes, robust jobs, and a rebuke to globalist trade imbalances. .........

 

The Three Canadian WEF’ers And Their Staged Robust Leadership Convention - The only hope in the hot mess caused by Canadian WEF’er politicians, is that the strong leader next door will NEVER, EVER allow it to happen..........

 

The half-million dollar American Never forget, you’re just a tax slave.  The average American pays a bit more than a half million dollars in taxes over the course of his/her lifetime:........When we talk about federal dollars, it’s usually outgoing and often in decimals so far to the right that it just becomes noise. A billion. A trillion.  Lottttttta zeroes. It’s all just big, big money of the type we will never see in our lifetimes and we just zone out. It’s just too much to comprehend. .......

 

Education

 

Weingarten: Axing Dept of Education Will Lead to Repeat of Damage from COVID School Closures We Have ‘Loneliness Crisis’ - On Thursday’s broadcast of “MSNBC Prime,” American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten argued that eliminating the federal Department of Education will lead to a situation like the learning loss we saw during the coronavirus pandemic and said that we saw during COVID “kids don’t go through kindergarten more than once. They don’t go through first grade more than once. If you start cutting what we have in terms of elementary schools right now or high schools right now, how are we going to get it back?” And also stated that “We have a loneliness crisis.”........

 

Trump Signs the Order to Dismantle the Education Department - On Thursday afternoon, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to dismantle the Department of Education and return education decisions back to individual states............ Trump said ahead of the signing, "We're going to be returning education, very simply, back to the states where it belongs," adding that "Probably the cost will be half, and the education will be maybe many, many times better.".............

Closing the DoE -  President Trump has called the DoE a “big con job” -- and he’s absolutely right. It’s time to shut it down and put education back in the hands of parents and states, where it belongs.   On March 3, 2025, Linda McMahon was sworn in as the 13th Secretary of Education. The very next day, March 4, President Trump, in his address to Congress, reaffirmed his commitment to dismantling the Department of Education (DoE) as part of his ongoing efforts to return power to the states. Then, on March 5, 2025, President Trump took decisive action by signing Executive Order 14201, directing Secretary McMahon to begin the process of closing the DoE. This is a bold step that moves us closer to fulfilling a promise made to the American people............

 

Dem Gov. Walz: Axing Federal DOE Will Lead to Segregation - On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “All In,” Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) responded to plans to eliminate the federal Department of Education by claiming that “Ruby Bridges needed to be escorted into those schools and the folks who went into Little Rock because we didn’t have an Education Department that ensured her civil rights were respected. That’s gone now.” And stated that “when Trump says it’s a bunch of bureaucrats interfering with your local schools, give local control, we’ll give you the money, it sounds pretty good. And we have not provided what that alternative looks like.”...

 

Energy  

EPA's Attempt to Roll Back Climate Regs May Come Down to One Key Legal Point. On his new role as head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Lee Zeldin has proposed changes that would fundamentally alter government regulation of America’s energy and transportation industries—if the changes can survive legal challenges from environmental groups. ..........“We are driving a dagger straight into the heart of the climate change religion to drive down cost of living for American families, unleash American energy, bring auto jobs back to the U.S., and more,” Zeldin said in an official statement.  These changes, he said, would “roll back trillions in regulatory costs and hidden ‘taxes’ on U.S. families” and make it “more affordable to purchase a car, heat homes, and operate a business.”............

Ruling Gives EPA Green Light to Suspend Approvals for New Jersey Wind Power Project - An appeals board has upheld the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) suspension of approved permits for a massive wind power venture off New Jersey’s coast in compliance with President Donald Trump’s Jan. 20 executive actions demanding an immediate freeze in offshore wind development and leasing. It could be the first of many similar remands, or reconsiderations, of issued permits in coming months as the EPA pauses wind power projects that have been permitted but haven’t started construction under the president’s directive........

Greenpeace Loses in North Dakota - A jury in North Dakota ordered the environmental group Greenpeace to pay more than $660 million to Energy Transfer and Dakota Access LLC for its role in defaming the company and inciting illegal behavior during protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline in 2016 and 2017. Energy Transfer filed the lawsuit in 2019, suing Greenpeace USA, Greenpeace International, and Greenpeace Fund.  The jury found Greenpeace USA liable for nearly $404 million, while Greenpeace Fund Inc. and Greenpeace International were each held responsible for approximately $131 million. It was the second-largest win in the history of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, the law firm representing the pipeline developer. In addition, it was “one of the largest and most complex civil suits” in North Dakota’s history, as reported by the North Dakota Monitor........

Near-death experiences, reliance on oil, and more cataclysmic failures—it’s all just part and parcel of ‘green’ energy - It was a tough week for the wind turbine industry........It was a tough week for the wind turbine industry, with more disasters than normal.  First, a Chinese truck-driver was almost impaled by a wind turbine blade in transport after a wreck on the roadway—it is the definition of “narrow miss.” The video footage is terrifying; see here:.........

 

 $660 Million Dakota Pipeline Jury Verdict Could Put Greenpeace out of Business - Energy Transfer just won a $660 million jury verdict against Greenpeace, which is enough to put those anti-science fascists permanently out of business in America. Tee hee. Energy Transfer is the Texas-based pipeline company behind the Dakota Access Pipeline, which suffered through Greenpeace’s months long protests against the pipeline about ten years ago. The suit accused Greenpeace of defamation, trespassing, physical damages to the pipeline and equipment, and overall (and unceasing) harassment that caused expensive delays.........

Europe 

 

European Leaders Are Drafting a Plan to Replace U.S. in NATO - In the ultimate act of seeking to ‘Trump-proof’ the NATO alliance, even well into the future, Europe’s largest military powers are now drawing up plans to keep the alliance strong in case of a US exit from leadership over the next five to ten years. Informal discussions have involved the United Kingdom, France, Germany and the Nordic countries, who are envisioning a managed transfer of power and leadership reshaping the NATO bloc........ (My Take - Wow!  That'll fix us!)

 

NATO and the German straitjacket - Lord Ismay, the first Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), reportedly observed that the purpose of the Alliance was to keep the Americans in Europe, the Russians out, and the Germans down. A majority understand what is meant by keeping the Americans in and Russians out, but few grasp the full implications of keeping the Germans down. Lord Ismay was referring to using NATO as a tool for locking Germany into a military and political straitjacket which would impose limitations on the future direction of German foreign and domestic policy.  In the minds of post-WWII policy planners, this goal was as important as keeping the Russians from rolling their tanks across the whole of the Northern European Plain......

 

Emergency Hearing in UK Steps up Legal Fight for Tommy Robinson’s Rights - An emergency hearing on behalf of Tommy Robinson could bring relief to the UK’s high-profile political prisoner. Rebel News boss, Ezra Levant will be in England to cover the case. In a statement published earlier today, Levant said, the Royal Courts of Justice in London, will hear Robinson’s barrister advocate for a judicial review into how he’s being treated.  Robinson (Stephen Lennon) has been held in solitary confinement for 140 days, which is, according to the Rebel News veteran reporter, not just illegal, it’s a kind of torture.  There is no sign Nicola Marfleet, the female governor of the high-security prison, HMP Woodhill, has any intention of stopping the state from squeezing the life out of Robinson..........

 

Europe Goes Full Totalitarian and Puts the Entire Western World at Risk - It’s happening again. Europe is once again going totalitarian and this time there’s a decidedly familiar communist stench. The outcome was predictable for many of us in the alternative media and the situation is only going to get worse in the next few years, but what does this mean for the rest of the world? With the European elites casting off their humanist masks and going outright Orwellian, what kind of chaos can we expect to unfold?  First and foremost I want to point out a key piece of irony here – For decades in the US we heard the tiresome argument that our 2^nd Amendment gun rights are meaningless because they are “unnecessary in maintaining our freedoms”. Anti-gun rights activists and politicians commonly used Europe as their sterling example:........

 

Conor McGregor Announces Run for President of Ireland - NEWS & ANALYSIS - "All citizens of Ireland to have a voice and a choice on their future! Vote McGregor and have your voice heard!"..........Irish MMA superstar and businessman Conor McGregor has announced his intent to run for the presidency of Ireland, promising to challenge the government’s stance on the EU Migration Pact and put the issue to a public referendum. In a post to X on Thursday, McGregor slammed the Irish government over its immigration policies................ 

Immigration and Deportation

 

Reclaiming Control of America’s Immigration System - In biology, the membrane defines the boundary of a cell, regulating what enters and exits to ensure the cell’s survival.  Without this boundary, the cell disintegrates. Similarly, a nation’s border defines its sovereignty, regulating the flow of people, goods, and ideas to protect its identity and security.  President Donald Trump captured this truth when he asserted, “We do not have a state without a border.”........

 

Wages of open borders: 2024 the deadliest year on record for migrants -UN's IOM - If you build it, they will come.Set up an open border. Fund a vast, costly, NGO network with public funds, let organized criminal networks operate unchecked to collect from it.  And don't be surprised if huge numbers of migrant deaths result from this development 'model.'That's the sorry record of the great migrant surges in recent years, but it isn't stopping the United Nations's International Organization for Migration (IOM) from putting out this report, as if to blame and shame the West for what they themselves helped build:......

 

Shalom, Mahmoud! - If Mahmoud really wanted to be a revolutionary at Columbia, he could have done something genuinely radical—joined the College Republicans, read the collected works of P.J. O’Rourke, or written a thesis on why Adam Smith is the most unappreciated intellectual of the last 500 years.   

 

 America has many traditions—apple pie, baseball, and, thanks to Columbia University, mass-producing trust-fund revolutionaries with a soft spot for Hamas. But as it turns out, supporting terrorist organizations while enjoying a cushy student life in the U.S. isn’t quite as consequence-free as our academic betters would have you believe.

Enter Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia campus firebrand turned deportation candidate. ICE picked him up, shipped him off to Louisiana, the White House hit send on a two-word masterpiece—“Shalom, Mahmoud”—and suddenly, an entire generation of Ivy League agitators needed fainting couches and emotional support kombucha............

CBS Paints Trump as Worse Than Venezuelan Gangs  - In the moral battle between President Donald Trump and the violent Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, the media have chosen a side. The foreign gangsters are less morally questionable than the president.

 

Charlamagne tha God: ‘Why Are Folks Fighting’ About Trump Deporting Gang Banging Criminals -  Charlamagne tha God openly wondered why some Democrats have been actively fighting Trump over the deportation of criminals and gang members. Speaking on Tuesday’s episode of his radio show The Breakfast Club about the Trump administration’s recent deportation of 250 gang members here in the United States illegally, Charlamagne wondered why the story generates any backlash at all.............

What to Know About the Alien Enemies Act, a 1798 Law Invoked by Trump - President Donald Trump has issued a proclamation invoking the Alien Enemies Act, a 1798 law providing for deportations of noncitizens during times of war or invasion. The proclamation targets members of the Tren de Aragua (TdA) gang, which Trump links to the socialist regime in Venezuela. Trump declared TdA a foreign terrorist organization in February. The case is in legal limbo after several groups sued the administration.........

History Affirms Trump’s Right to Use the Alien Enemies Act Against Gangs -  Activists claim the move is illegal and unconstitutional, but courts have long upheld presidential power to remove foreign nationals who threaten national security. President Donald Trump on Friday issued a proclamation invoking the Alien Enemies Act to deport members of the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang. Predictably, this move drew the ire of anti-borders activists, who classified it as an attempt to circumvent due process protections for illegal aliens. Critics claimed that the legislation can be used only in times of war, but do they have a legal leg to stand on? For several significant reasons, they do not. ......

Illegals working for Congress — addendum - Does anyone remember the story about Bob “Gold Bar” Menendez’s illegal alien intern who was sexually abusing a young boy? ......American Thinker recently published an article of mine about AOC hiring an illegal alien to work for her.  Seems she wasn’t the only one.  The (criminal) coddling of illegal aliens went straight up the halls of power from the House to the Senate and, yes, even the (Obama) White House......

 

Austrian Schoolteacher Raped and Extorted by Migrant Gang - A shocking case of migrant sexual violence, extortion, and arson has emerged in Vienna, where a 29-year-old schoolteacher was allegedly gang raped by a group of teenage migrants. Austrian authorities have launched an investigation into the case, which has once again raised concerns about crime linked to mass migration......

 

Green Cards, Student Visas and Domestic Terrorists Susan Quinn The left is trying to confuse things by painting Mahmoud Khalil as a persecuted free speech warrior. There’s nothing confusing. On the known facts, he should go......

 

A Hamas supporter who graduated from Columbia got his green card revoked, and the left is losing its mind March 11, 2025 by Monica Showalter The left is going bonkers, claiming Trump violated this Hamas fanboy's free speech, but the U.S. has anti-terrorism support laws on the books for migrants. 

 

In Paterson, New Jersey, the local Muslims show their hand March 11, 2025 by Andrea Widburg This New Jersey town is a reminder that many Muslims believe the Islamic doctrine that says you don’t immigrate to assimilate; you do so to conquer. 

 

Faith, Hope, and Babies Fletch Daniels An aggressive Islamic culture with high birthrates will sweep away the postmodern secular European culture that can’t be bothered to awaken from its slumber to defend its people or have children of their own.

 

‘Charities’ that trafficked migrants into the US abandon their charges now that the taxpayer dollars have dried up March 10, 2025 by Olivia Murray As USAID handouts diminish, so goes the leftist do-gooding, which vanishes without a trace.  

 

One official (or primary) language unites a country - Other nations’ experiences show that President Trump is right to believe that America should have an official language. ..........

 

Chile Sentences Tren de Aragua Members to over 500 Years Total in Prison - A Chilean court in the northern province of Arica issued prison sentences of roughly 560 years against 34 members of Los Gallegos on Thursday, a local “armed wing” of the Tren de Aragua terrorist organization.  The convicted men, 31 Venezuelan nationals and three Chileans, were found guilty of multiple charges ranging from illicit association, drug trafficking, arms trafficking, kidnapping, and homicide to others. The sentence, which concluded nearly an entire year’s worth of trial proceedings, was reportedly read in a hearing without access to the press and under strong security measures......

 

Elon Musk’s Rogan interview was a masterclass on illegal immigration March 9, 2025 by Brian Lonergan There is little debate that Musk is a genius when it comes to technology and space travel. But it turns out he’s pretty smart about illegal immigration as well. 

 

Sanctuary City Mayors Deny Harboring Criminal Aliens - Do sanctuary city policies limiting local law enforcement cooperation with federal immigration authorities undermine efforts to combat crime? .......

 

ICE Official: Many Gang Members Deported by Trump Face Murder, Rape, Kidnapping Charges - Many of the illegal alien gang members deported to El Salvador by President Donald Trump via the Alien Enemies Act had criminal records that included murder, rape, kidnapping, and other violent crimes. Last week, the Trump administration used the Alien Enemies Act to deport 250 illegal alien gang members associated with Tren de Aragua (TdA) and MS-13 — both of which are now designated as terrorist organizations by the State Department — to a mega-prison in San Salvador, El Salvador............

 

Justice

 

Supreme Court Justice Roberts Drags His Feet on Trump Request to Intervene in Birthright Citizenship Fight - Supreme Court Chief Justice Roberts showed no urgency when he set a leisurely schedule in response to President Trump’s request to intervene in the birthright citizenship fight.Rather than responding to Trump’s emergency appeal right away, without explanation, Roberts set an April 4 deadline for opponents to respond.  Last week President Trump asked the US Supreme Court to intervene in the birthright citizenship fight.  Four federal judges have blocked President Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order........

 

Chief Justice John Roberts Caught in Secretive, Invite-Only Club of Elite Judges That Includes Radical Activists - Investigative journalist Bad Kitty Unleashed reported on Thursday that Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts is involved in a secretive, invite-only club for elite judges in Washington, DC.  The secretive club America Inns of Court also includes the radical America-hating judges James Boasberg, Beryl Howell, Ketanji Brown Jackson, and Amit Mehta—all hard-left judges and Trump-haters.  John Roberts has been Chief Justice of the Supreme Court since September 2005. What in the world is he doing fraternizing in a secret group with far-left colleagues?  This is a shocking development.........

  

Who will stop the judges? March 19, 2025 by Silvio Canto, Jr. -We've been watching federal judges playing President or Commander in Chief. I guess that these judges, coincidentally appointed by President Obama or President Biden, have concluded that Article 2 powers apply to a presidency only if a judge in some blue island agrees with his decision.  Glenn Reynolds asserts that this is not going to end well for the judiciary. Let's check out what he wrote:

 

The Supreme Court Has Long Held That The Alien Enemies Act Gives The President Plenary Power S. David Sultzer, Andrea Widburg - Several days ago, invoking the Alien Enemies Act (“AEA”), President Trump ordered that “250 Tren de Aragua members and 23 MS-13 members wanted for alleged crimes in El Salvador” be deported. The woke left, led by the Soros minions, immediately asked Judge James Boasberg of the US District Court in DC to stop it—and amazingly, he agreed via minimalist “minute orders.” Boasberg ignored Trump’s findings and ordered that the planes carrying the deportees (already en route to El Salvador) return to the US. This grotesquely wrong decision justifies impeachment. The AEA is one of our nation’s oldest statutes, enacted in 1798, 11 years after America’s founding. Many of the same men who drafted the Constitution later drafted and approved the Act. It provides:.............

 

 The Founders Provided Remedies for a Runaway Judiciary - Recently a gaggle of rogue U.S. District Court judges have issued numerous restraining orders and opinions aimed at curtailing, and in some cases overturning, the constitutional authority of President Trump as the head of the executive branch of government. There have been a series of court orders that rival the most egregious judicial decisions in American history, virtually all of which dramatically undermine constitutional separation of powers as well the sovereignty of this nation. What the country is witnessing is the culmination of many decades of ever-expanding judicial activism and the cowardice of the Congress to exert its prerogative to rein in this runaway usurpation of political power..................

 

Fani Willis Is Going to Pay Big for Violating State Law While Prosecuting Trump - Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis just got some more horrible news. A judge has ordered her to pay over $54,000 in attorney’s fees and hand over documents her office held in violation of Georgia’s Open Records Act..........

 

Time For The American Bar Association To End its Democrat Party Bias -   ABA must become the truly professional and therefore apolitical guardian of the legal profession and the justice system. A sacred system which holds that all Americans are created equal by God and entitled to blind and truly fair justice.........

 

'A sham': Clinton judge orders thousands of fired employees to be returned to jobs -  A federal judge on Thursday said the Trump Administration's Office of Personnel Management (OPM) illegally fired thousands of probationary employees. US District Judge William Alsup, a Clinton appointee, ordered the Trump Administration to rehire thousands of fired probationary employees in six federal agencies. The judge blasted the Trump Administration and said he felt "misled by the US Government" as he ordered six federal agencies to offer reinstatement to fired probationary workers.......

Obama-Appointed Judge Orders DOGE to Disclose Plans, Personnel - Obama-appointed Judge Tanya Chutkan ordered that Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) must reveal their plans to downsize government and disclose employees’ identities.  U.S. District Judge Chutkan gave the order after 14 Democrat state attorneys general sued President Donald Trump, Musk, and DOGE, claiming that Musk is unconstitutionally wielding power. Chutkan gave Musk and DOGE three weeks to produce information, which would help her decide if she should block DOGE’s operations........

 

Here’s Where Dozens of Legal Challenges Against the Trump Admin Stand - Dozens of lawsuits have been filed against the Trump administration since day one, challenging everything from the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to executive orders on birthright citizenship and funding for institutions that provide child gender transitions. Several cases involve significant questions of executive power that are likely to be resolved ultimately by the Supreme Court. Some have already reached the justices on an emergency basis, as the administration argued lower court judges blocking aspects of President Donald Trump’s agenda were exceeding their authority..........

BREAKING: Federal Judge BLOCKS Trump from deporting Mahmoud Khalil - A federal judge has just blocked the Trump administration from deporting pro-Hamas activist Mahmoud Khalil, who they arrested over the weekend. Because there’s a challenge to his arrest, the judge says he must remain in the US to “preserve the court’s jurisdiction”. Here’s more from NBC News:...

 

GA Lawmakers Pass Bill that Could Let Trump Recover Costs of Failed Fani Case - Georgia’s Senate has passed a bill that would allow President Donald Trump and more than a dozen people to seek compensation for legal bills stemming from an attempt to overturn his 2020 election loss in the state Georgia lawmakers pass bill that could let Trump, others recover costs of election meddling case.......

 

Middle East

 

Release the video of the October 7 massacre, now -Is there anything more loathsome than watching milk-fed, trust fund, nepo-baby, no common sense, gullible, spoiled, privileged, pampered, preening, $93,417/year tuition and costs, cosplaying, interpretive dancing, vegan, gluten free, nut sensitive, Jew-hating, Jew-harassing, Jew-attacking Ivy League students occupy buildings, assault campus employees, and act out their various neuroses while clashing with police officers? (Here’s the “nut sensitive” context: The Columbia protesters’ makeshift outdoor canteen had readily available sanitizer wipes “with a sign on the bottle urging attendees to ‘keep each other safe and wipe hands after touching NUTS,” along with $12 croissants and a hot sauce stand.).............

 

Trump Promises Houthis ‘Will Be Completely Annihilated’ with or Without Iranian Support - President Donald Trump urged Iran to stop offering financial and political aid to Yemen’s Ansarullah terrorist organization on Wednesday or face the wrath of the U.S. military, predicting that, with or without Iranian help, the Houthis “will be completely annihilated!”.......

 

Israeli Cabinet Backs Netanyahu’s Firing of Security Services Chief - Shin Bet director Ronen Bar did not attend the meeting where the vote on his dismissal took place. 

 

Trump’s message shakes the pillars of Khamenei’s regime - On March 17, 2025, Donald Trump issued a significant statement on his Truth Social account. This firm and threatening message explicitly holds Khamenei’s regime accountable for the actions of the Houthis in Yemen, aiming to exert direct pressure on Iran’s leadership. Trump’s statement carries several key aspects.

 

How the Fate of the West is Tied to the Fate of the Jewish Nation - Janet Levy Josh Hammer’s new book, releasing today, is life-changing.   Why is Israel alone forced to justify its existence and questioned when it stands up to those who would annihilate it?  Why was a worldwide campaign of hatred that reeked of anti-Semitism unleashed on Israel when it responded to the October 7, 2023, attack, while there was no criticism of Hamas?  Why has the U.N. censured the Jewish state more times than any other nation, even China, North Korea, and Cuba combined?.......

 

America and Israel Share The Same Enemy - While Democrats keep their eyes firmly focused on imaginary “white supremacy,” a real, dangerous, and very active enemy is lurking.  In his inaugural speech as president, Joe Biden said, “The dream of justice for all will be deferred no longer,” adding that it faced “a rise in political extremism, white supremacy, [and] domestic terrorism...” That might have been the first symptom of his dementia. “White supremacy?” Biden and I are about the same age, and here he seems to have forgotten the 1960s, with its race riots, Freedom Rides, Selma, and new civil rights legislation that truly succeeded in dramatically changing the nation..........

 

Saudi Diplomat: Trump Leading ‘New World Order’ of Peace and Cooperation - President Donald Trump is ushering in a new age of peace, stability and cooperation in the region, according to Hassan bin Youssef Yassin, a senior Saudi diplomat and advisor to King Salman bin Abdulaziz, who expressed strong support for the President’s efforts to create a “new world order” based on coexistence and cooperation, as he urged Arab nations to back his initiative as they did in the past...........

 

Trump just fired a huge warning shot over Iran’s bow -  If they’re smart, the mullahs will be quaking under their turbans because Trump means what he says. Things may be about to get interesting in the Middle East, and this time, it has nothing to do with Israel. Just a few hours ago, Trump published a warning to the Iranian mullahs that, unless they restrain the Houthis from firing on international shipping in the Red Sea and on American ships, they will pay a price......

 

Three things for the U.S. to understand about the Middle East - There are three things that ordinary Americans need (but often fail) to understand about the Middle East.  These three things are necessary parts of U.S. policy. Team Trump, as well as our European allies, would do well by completely adopting all three. 1. The Iranian Kraken Must Be Defeated. .....2. Muslim “Refugees” Need To Be Sent Home...... 3. Israel Deserves Our Support — And It’s A Bargain...........

 

Institutional Rot -  The major institutions built to serve the people throughout the West have failed badly. Just shy of one year from my arrival in Israel in 1992, I experienced my first Israel Independence Day. I didn’t know then that my job was to nurse a barbecue or go to the beach to watch flyovers of the Israel Air Force (IAF) and El-Al. Instead, I went to the lab.......

 

Iran should heed Trump’s warnings March 22, 2025 by Kenneth R. Timmerman Or else things are gonna get ugly in Tehran. More

 

Race Hustlers

 

“They Bought Mansions”: Rap Star Spills the Beans, Says Black Lives Matter Is “Literally a Scam” - A rapper is singing a politically incorrect tune as he says Black Lives Matter is “literally a scam.” The singer is Lil Yachty who made the comment during an appearance on a cooking show with Quenlin Blackwell. During the pair’s kitchen discussion, Blackwell asked Lil Yachty: “You spent $100,000 on a trip to Disney once. How much have you spent on charitable causes this year?”..........

 

Stacey Abrams takes a page from Hugo Chavez on the matter of home appliances -  After getting called out by President Trump for government waste, she told MSNBC she spent her $2 billion on home appliances in DeSoto, Georgia. .........

 

Does mourning brutally murdered children who are white mean you are a ‘white supremacist?' Some leftists think so March 8, 2025 by Eric Utter Leftist after leftist says anyone mourning the Bibas family, brutally murdered by Hamas terrorists, is a white supremacist. More

 

Russo/Ukrainian War

 

Markets respond: Trumpian peace in Russo-Ukrainian war is in the bag - The rouble rallies, and hedge funds move to buy up Russian assets. 

 

EU and Ukraine: Stop Blaming Trump, Look in the Mirror - Donald Trump remains the only leader advocating for a pragmatic resolution to the mess in Eastern Europe. As we all know, markets are excellent indicators of political directions and trajectories, because where the people put their money is where the wind is actually blowing—you don’t risk dollars on an outcome you don’t anticipate as conceivable—and the verdict is in: the market is betting on President Trump accomplishing a legitimate and effective peace deal in the Russo-Ukrainian war...........

  

Zelensky's arrogance -  President Zelensky often uses half-truths and power moves to get his way in his dealings with foreign leaders. ....... As an example, he brought up the Western failure to stop Putin “after he annexed and occupied Crimea in 2014.” It is true that the Minsk agreement with Russia, France, and Germany that followed was unsuccessful but the United States was not a party to it. Furthermore, Putin occupied Crimea because the corrupt and compromised Ukrainian Army did not defend it. Not one shot was fired. Even Zbigniew Brzezinski, a great friend of Ukraine, said that this disqualified Ukraine from membership in NATO. Only after this disaster did the Ukrainian government ask the West for advice on reform of the Ukrainian Army from its Soviet model. As a result it was much better prepared to face the Russians in 2022................

 

Russia Just Spit in Trump’s Face, and It’s Time They Reap the Whirlwind - Russia escalated attacks on civilian areas on Friday night, bombing residential neighborhoods with cluster munitions and using ballistic missiles to hit various parts of Ukraine's industrial base. Unlike past attacks, though, these are far more consequential because of what President Donald Trump threatened less than 24 hours prior..........

 

The Grand Prince of Kyiv? -  Zelenskyy’s authoritarian drift and the West’s blind spot.  For years, the Biden-Harris administration and the legacy media have insisted that Volodymyr Zelenskyy is a valiant defender of democracy. The narrative has been relentless—from the halls of Congress to the editorial pages of newspapers on both sides of the Atlantic: Zelenskyy is a modern Churchill, courageously leading his people against tyranny.  Then Donald Trump did what he always does—he said the quiet part out loud:........

 

Trump brings sanity to Russia and Ukraine - With a firm ultimatum, President Trump has made it clear that the war must end.  The recent geopolitical chess match between President Trump and Vladimir Putin has shattered the old narratives surrounding the Ukraine conflict.  With a firm ultimatum, President Trump has made it clear that the war must end, putting direct pressure on Putin to engage in peace talks. Meanwhile, Europe continues its willful delusion, clinging to failed policies and blindly enabling a war machine that serves the elite far more than it serves the people.....

 

Sanctions On Pro-Iranian Russian Oligarchs Must Be Upheld - The Trump administration is considering lifting sanctions on Russian oligarchs to placate Moscow and help facilitate a peace agreement with Ukraine. However, carte blanche sanctions relief is too extreme an approach and could damage U.S. national interests in several key regions, including the Middle East. This is because many of the oligarchs who were sanctioned are actively supporting Iranian and its machinations in Europe and the Middle East...........

 

Transgenderism

 

‘School Officials Need to Be Prosecuted’: High School Girls Allegedly Forced to Disrobe in Front of Teen Boy- The Trump administration and politically progressive jurisdictions are playing tug-of-war with school districts on gender identity policies such as access to the opposite sex’s intimate facilities and disclosure of gender transition to parents. The American public is also getting its greatest insight into the lives of formerly gender-confused young people, while pop culture finally acknowledges a sexual-arousal condition of unknown frequency among males who identify as girls and women. Illinois’s Deerfield Public Schools District 109 is under the microscope on both sides of the Atlantic after parent Nicole Georgas (pictured above) said Thursday at a school board meeting that administrators and teachers entered the junior high girls’ locker room to force girls to change into their gym clothes after they refused to do so in the presence of a male who identifies as a girl...............

 

Whoopi Goldberg Thinks Those Opposing Men in Women’s Sports “Don’t Know Anything About” Female Anatomy - “The View” co-host Whoopi Goldberg claimed Monday that anyone opposing trans-identifying men from competing in women’s sports fails to understand basic female anatomy. Goldberg told Dylan Mulvaney, a trans-identifying male activist, that those against men competing in women’s sports are ignorant about women’s bodies and just immediately assume that female athletes are weak. Studies have proven that men are biologically stronger and carry more body mass than women, posing an unfair advantage to male athletes and a higher risk of injury for women.....

• Riley Gaines Destroy’s Whoopi’s Idiotic Argument [VIDEO]

Trans Rocker Laura Jane Grace Slammed for ‘Pure Evil’ Lyrics at Bernie Sanders Rally: ‘Does Your God Have a Big Fat D*ck’ - Socialist Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders has shocked many for including a transgender punk rocker in his rally who belted out a song containing offensive lyrics that are being blasted as “pure evil.” The Sanders rally which drew about 3,500 attendees occurred in Somers, Wisconsin, on Friday where Sanders — who is working to become the face of Trump resistance — invited punker Laura Jane Grace, the transgender head of the band Against Me!, to perform for the left-wing crowd..........

 

Am I the only one not shocked by the blasphemy at a Bernie Sanders rally? (But I am disgusted.) - I mean, what do you expect from a sexually obsessed man invited to sing at a far-left rally? This was inevitable and may be useful......

 

Laurel Libby Fights for Girl's Sports -  Maine Republican representative Laurel Libby was censured by the Democrat controlled Maine legislature for speaking out against biological males participating in female sports.........

 

So-called ‘Gender affirming’ surgery is bad for people’s happiness -  This was obvious to anyone with common sense, but a large study has confirmed it.  When my kids were growing up, I knew a young man who was charming, funny, sociable, and quite obviously going to be gay. Exactly no one was surprised when, at 13, he came out of the closet. All would have been well if COVID hadn’t hit when he was in college. Isolated and depressed, he signed up for therapy, ending with a therapist who informed him that he was actually a woman. (I’m sure social media algorithms, such as Chinese-run TikTok’s, helped steer him in that direction.)

 

Voter Fraud

 

The Left Says It Doesn’t Happen, but Noncitizens Voted in Iowa’s Election - The media continually say that noncitizens won’t vote in U.S. elections because the penalty is so severe — fines, prison, and potential deportation are enough of a deterrent. But hundreds of noncitizens have not been deterred from registering in Iowa, where Secretary of State Paul Pate this week said audits of Iowa’s voter registration rolls found 277 noncitizens registered to vote or actually voted.   Using data from the federal Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) program, the audit found 35 noncitizens cast ballots that were counted in the 2024 general election and five noncitizens tried to vote but their ballots were rejected, a statement from Pate’s office said. It also offered the following fine detail of what the audit found:.......

 

This 70-year-old woman is serving 9 years in prison - By Joe Fried -  Tina Peters was once the Clerk and Recorder of Mesa County, Colorado, and was in charge of county elections. Now she is serving a nine-year term in a Colorado prison. Her crime? She identified the unauthorized destruction of voter information that took place in two consecutive county elections: the November 2020 election and a local election held in early 2021. In each case, there is irrefutable evidence showing that the election database had been removed and subsequently reinstalled, minus information needed to identify the voter intent of thousands of ballots.

Peters, who is a matronly gold star mother, was concerned after three conservatives lost in a local election, despite the county having far more Republicans than Democrats. Due to a pending software update, the election database would soon be altered. For that reason, Peters asked her IT department to make a backup copy of the database. When they refused, Peters decided to take independent action. That action involved legal infractions that gave Colorado and local officials the excuse they needed to wage despicable lawfare. Here is the background......

New York’s Highest Court Blocks NYC Law Allowing Noncitizens to Vote - The State of New York Court of Appeals ruled that New York City’s law allowing noncitizens to vote violates the state’s constitution. The State of New York appellate court ruled the law unconstitutional in February 2024. The law allows “municipal voters” to vote in NYC elections: mayor, public advocate, comptroller, borough president, and city council member.   The Court agreed with the plaintiffs that the NYC law violated the New York Constitution’s Article II, section 1........