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.......

Turning Point: End of the Race Weapon

Final Word: The identity-based race weapon will be disarmed, and Freedom will be deployed. Hallelujah!

By Steve Eichler ——Bio and Archives--August 4, 2025

It’s happening in your lifetime: fair elections and true representation are about to be installed! Hallelujah! For decades, American politics has suffered a legally suspect and morally corrosive weaponization of race in the redistricting process, a strategic weapon wielded under the guise of civil rights but increasingly under scrutiny as a political device of division.

Now, with the Supreme Court poised to review the constitutionality of majority-minority congressional districts, a new chapter may be opening, one that promises a genuine reckoning with how race is used, and distorted, in our republic........To Read More.....

• Hochul: Republicans Attempting ‘Legal Insurrection’ with Redistricting - Governor Kathy Hochul (D-NY) said Thursday on MSNBC’s “The Weeknight” that Republicans were attempting a “legal insurrection” with redistricting.  Hochul said, “History will judge us how we respond in this moment, because if we allow the Republicans to get away with what they’re attempting to do, this legal insurrection of our U.S. Capitol, then we’ll have a generation of redistricted gerrymandered seats that are skewed against Democrats..... 

 

Criticizing the FTC? You Racist!

Who knew the FTC elicited so much passion from lawmakers? 

 Andrew Moran July 15, 2023 @ Liberty Nation News

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) oversight hearing on July 13 was quite the spectacle. Typically, these congressional events are hebetudinous affairs, but both sides of the aisle put together several hours of entertainment for viewers. Democrats accused their opponents of racism. Republicans called FTC Chair Lina Khan “a bully” and “a disaster.” The agency chief evaded questions, stuck to talking points, and concealed the entity’s true motives. For concerned citizens who tuned in, they might have regretted not warming up the popcorn.

FTC FTW?

Bully tactics. Targeted harassment. Politicized rulemaking. Mismanagement. This is the record Lina Khan has put together since becoming head of the Federal Trade Commission in 2021, according to Republican lawmakers serving on the House Judicial Committee. However, if anyone in the GOP dared question the FTC’s record under Khan, then they are only doing so because of her ethnicity, says Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA).

“When we treat a witness who looks like you with the politics of personal destruction, and when we only attack witnesses who look like you with allegations of incompetence and a lack of ability to lead their agency, it’s indicative of the need for this committee to reflect what the American people look like,” he stated.

My Take -  Hank Johnson is famous for believing Guam was going to fall over into the ocean because there are too many Marines stationed there, and he keeps getting re-elected. 

Khan is a British-born American with Pakistani parents. So, are these criticisms of Chair Khan justified, or are conservative critics only making complaints of FTC overreach because of her skin color?

‘Obsession’ Over Twitter

Twitter was one of the main focal points of the congressional hearing. Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), who is also the committee chair, wondered why the FTC possesses an “obsession” with Elon Musk as the social media network requested a federal court absolve a consent decree allowing US government data oversight of the company.

Rep. Jordan asked point blank:

“Why are you harassing Twitter?” 

Khan explained that FTC’s work on Twitter extends a decade. Jordan noted that he was not referencing a decade but the present. “Twelve demand letters in 10 weeks, 300 – over 350 separate requests you’ve demanded of Twitter. Why are you harassing them?” he said. The FTC head purported that the social network maintains a history of lax privacy policies and security, adding that this facilitated unauthorized users to coopt Twitter accounts. “Subsequently, Twitter voluntarily entered into a consent order with the FTC,” Khan said.

Jordan then quoted a correspondence authored by Khan: 

“Identify all journalists and other members of the media to whom Twitter has granted access since Musk bought the company.”

 This prompted Jordan to ask if her request to know the name of every reporter a private firm has talked to is consistent with the First Amendment. 

“Congressman, as a former journalist, I take extremely seriously the valuable work that they do and understand that there can be instances in which government action is unjustifiably chilling,” Khan responded.

The hearing took place the same day that Twitter (which is now known as X Corp.) petitioned the US District Court for the Northern District of California that has “spiraled out of control and become tainted by bias.” The company stated that it has complied with the “avalanche of demands,” responding to FTC inquiries and submitting roughly 22,000 documents to date.

Microsoft and Activision

Microsoft recently proposed buying Activision Blizzard for $96 billion. This perturbed the FTC, submitting a request to install a preliminary injunction that would have stopped the acquisition from being completed before the July 18 deadline. But the US District Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley ruled against the FTC, forcing the federal agency to ask the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco to overturn the decision. The argument was that the possible merger would diminish competition in the video game market, be it consoles and cloud gaming.

Khan told the House Judicial Committee that there was “a law violation,” adding that “when we get an adverse ruling, our teams look closely at the text of opinion and see if there are errors on matters of law that warrant an appeal.”

Several Republican lawmakers alluded to the FTC’s losing record in corporate merger trials. Rep. Kevin Kiley (R-CA) wondered why the FTC loses so much. But some House GOP members think the entity is purposely losing to push Congress to pass even more antitrust legislation. “My problem here today is that you’re a bully. You run this organization, and its left turn came when you took over,” said Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA). “You have half a billion dollars to spend, and you choose to spend it promoting a policy that every merger has to be somehow bad for the company and good for the consumer, a standard that cannot be met.”

Got Ethics?

In June, Bloomberg News published FTC documents that revealed Khan chose to not recuse herself from the agency’s review of Meta’s merger with virtual reality app maker Within Limited. Lorielle Pankey, a designated ethics official, stated in an August 2022 memo that Khan should remove herself from the probe to “avoid an appearance of partiality.” Khan insisted that she did nothing wrong and acted appropriately because she does not own a single share in any of these companies.

But Rep. Harriet Hageman (R-WY) contended that it was “unbelievable” that she would not request for written ethics advice on this issue. “You admit that you have received written ethics advice on other topics, but on this topic, you claim you did not see the written memo,” Hageman purported. “Instead, you want us to believe that you only received oral advice and not specific oral advice, but only general advice on ‘understanding the legal framework’ today to give you advice that is different than what was written in the memoranda.”

Some Democrats did not appreciate this line of questioning. Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY), who is also the ranking member on the committee, asked if all Republican staff will recuse themselves from any issue relating to their work. “Because that is the standard they are holding Chair Khan to,” he said.

The Khan Doctrine

It is no secret that Lina Khan has attempted to transform the Federal Trade Commission into a “forward-looking” force that homes in on “next-generation technologies, innovations, and nascent industries across sectors.” 

But this new worldview has resulted in the FTC to target large companies ushering in significant change, from Twitter to OpenAI’s ChatGPT. As many Republicans on the committee alluded to, a lot of the legislative and regulatory pushes have been a detriment to the marketplace. But this might be the summary of the agency. Whether it is Lina Khan or somebody else, this is the FTC’s mandate.

Read More From Andrew Moran.  All opinions expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Liberty Nation.

 

The Power is on the Side of the Killers, Not Their Victims

What Rep. Cori Bush’s racist defense of a black man’s killer tells us about power. 

Thu Oct 7, 2021 Daniel Greenfield 12 comments

On a cold day in a Missouri winter, Mary Bratcher never came home to the trailer park where the single mother lived with her three children. She was working that night as a manager at a Casey’s General Store in Columbia helping out Mable Scruggs, another single mother, making ends meet by picking up a night shift. Neither of the two women would make it home again.

 An hour before midnight, Ernest Lee Johnson came in after a binge in which he bought three rocks of crack cocaine, traded one of them for a gun, put on a mask and came to rob Casey’s.

The plan had been to lock the employees in the back and have one of them open the safe. But then Johnson beat all three of the Casey's employees to death.

He stabbed Mary Bratcher repeatedly through her hand with a screwdriver, likely defensive wounds as she fought the monster for her life. Then he smashed her over the head with a claw hammer again and again. Johnson appeared to be aiming for her face, striking her mouth and nose, to disfigure her while killing her. He beat Mabel to death in the same vicious way.

That was 1994. Like every monster, Johnson never had any shortage of defenders..............But now that Johnson is out of tricks, the Democrats have come to his defense.  Rep. Cori Bush, a former organzier for the racist hate group, Black Lives Matter, co-signed a petition demanding a commutation of Johnson's sentence because it's just like "slavery and lynching". It’s understandable that Bush would take that position considering that Mary and Mabel were white women and their worthless lives don’t matter to Black Lives Matter.............To Read More....