Sunday, September 28, 2025
Jobs Americans Won't Do
To hear his defenders, it is as if, in a country of over 330 million people, he is the only possible savior for Des Moines public schools. To read the facts of the case, a different picture emerges. One in which a school district faced a lot of challenges, but they chose to make an in-your-face DEI hire to virtue signal.
The Chair of the Des Moines School Board is Michele Obama's former Chief of Staff and current candidate for US Senate, Jackie Norris, who will no doubt be forced to answer questions regarding why she led the charge to hire a DEI-focused illegal alien with a criminal record to be the leader of Des Moines' schools.
And no doubt she will get shielded by Pravda propagandists who will spin a tale about what a wonderful man Roberts is, and how he, unique among all people on the continent, was the sole person capable of leading Des Moines to a brighter future. After all, Randi Weingarten is busy, and Luigi Mangione is otherwise engaged.
Absolute Garbage
So throwing bricks at ICE vehicles and setting police cars on fire as part of an anti-Israel protest doesn't count? They claim these actions weren't intended to have a broad psychological effect despite the fact that these people are holding mass protests and organizing apps to track ICE movements.
Also, the murder of two Israeli Embassy staffers definitely doesn't count (according to this description), even though the shooter shouted "Free Palestine!" after the murders.
And the weeks of arson and vandalism aimed at Teslas and Tesla dealerships, which also had a specific and clearly stated political goal (to punish Elon Musk for his cuts to government through DOGE), is not being counted in this study.
This is absolute garbage. Any study which ignores years of anarchist, anti-Israel, anti-ICE and anti-Elon Musk violence is not worth taking seriously. It's remarkable that even with all of these omissions, leftist violence still comes out on top.
A More Worthy Cause
Somaliland is a breakaway province of Somalia. The United States has yet to extend formal recognition to it, though several Senators have taken up its cause. I should think it’s more important to shut down immigration to the United States from Somalia and Somaliland than to mire ourselves in the Third-World tribal mores that their emigrants have brought with them to the United States.
Debate Really Isn't Her Thing
This is idiotic, of course, but like many Democrats, Ocasio-Cortez made no effort to read anything Charlie Kirk wrote, or watch the many videos in which he explicated his ideas. She simply regurgitated smears that have been uttered by others.
I think that unbalanced, left-leaning people who listen to leaders like Ocasio-Cortez and weigh whether they should try to kill a conservative may hear her over-the-top lies and conclude that assassination is a reasonable idea. Don’t be surprised if we see more such attempts.
Chicago-Style Peacekeepers
To give you an idea of just how effective this program is, Governor Pritzker did a photo op with the Peacekeepers, giving us this wonderful photo of the governor with a felon with four outstanding warrants, including one in Illinois.
But wait! There's more!
Not long after that touching bit of pathos in which Pritzker congratulated the man for being a "Peacekeeper," he committed a massive robbery and, while escaping, killed an innocent man.
And, from Ed Morrissey:
Unfortunately for Chicago, they elected Johnson and now they're stuck with him. It's not as if they didn't have other options, and it's also not as if they couldn't see where radical-Leftist policies were taking the city during Lori Lightfoot's disastrous turn as mayor. Unless and until they eject Johnson from his perch at City Hall, Johnson will continue to defend criminals that "look like me" rather than protect law-abiding citizens from their depredations.
Alberta
This puts me in mind of the Alberta independence movement. In the linked post, I described Alberta as one of the most desirable pieces of real estate on Earth. It is oil- and natural resources-rich, and home to some of the world’s most beautiful scenery. Its population is mostly conservative, and chafes at rule by the bizarro libs in Ottawa.
Is Alberta independence a serious possibility? It may be. Independence polled at 35% and rising in the most recent survey I have seen. Canada’s constitution provides for secession if there is a clear vote in favor.
A second question is whether secession could lead to Alberta becoming a state. Obviously, Democrats would block it in the current power alignment. When Alaska and Hawaii became states, they were paired, one leaning Republican and one Democrat, to secure bipartisan support. I wouldn’t favor doing that here. But as a long-term goal, conservatives should be thinking about Alberta and maybe one or two other provinces as future states. And if the United States splits into two countries, which seems increasingly possible, Alberta would be a natural choice to join Red America.
Credentialed, Not Educated
Our credentialed class is, for the most part, trash. And the closer you get to the liberal arts, the worse it becomes. There is a sickness that has infected our academic institutions, and the only solution is to strangle their funding and build up new, parallel institutions.
Also, from Bill Glahn:
Robinson appears to be exactly the sort of product that the education establishment and the progressive left hope to produce by age 22. Call him the New Soviet Man for the 21st century.
Critical Theory Creates Monsters
You have to understand the fundamental principle of modern Critical Theory, which is that words are weapons, and using the wrong words, even if they are "true," is an act of violence. And, modern leftists believe, violence of this kind should be met with violence in the world. Shooting Charlie Kirk because he said the wrong things wasn't violence, but self-defense.Also:
Yes, they see the world that way because, for them, the world is a construct of the mind. Believe something and it is true. Charlie, by persuading people to believe the "wrong" things, is a murderer.
That is why "deadnaming" is a "violent" act, denying men can become women is "genocide," and the killing of a lovely father and husband is worth celebrating. Charlie Kirk, in their eyes, is no different from killing Hitler.
It shouldn't shock you that randos on the internet celebrated Kirk's death, but it should shock everybody that teachers, professors, and Deans of colleges are. They are not random people, but ones who are in positions of responsibility who teach the next generation how to think and behave.
Doctors, nurses, teachers, and liberal politicians all jumped on the bandwagon of celebration, at least until the talking points went out. The most prominent Democrats tried to tamp down the celebrations by, for once, not celebrating the murder openly after Matthew Dowd stepped in it badly enough to get fired. But it takes a while for the activists to get the talking points--long enough that the line troops didn't get the message.
A civilization with an elite filled with people who not-so-secretly wish for half their fellow citizens to be dead cannot survive, and won't. These people control the levers of power, teach our children, care for us in our hospitals, and literally judge us from the bench.
Is it cancel culture to drive them out of polite society? No. It is self-defense.
Leftism is Evil
Democrats keep blaming Republicans for inciting violence, but somehow the violence is always against Republicans and people of faith. As leftists shoot down one target after another--kids praying at MASS!--we are told that it is our fault because we won't submit to every insane demand that the left makes.
The left always couches their arguments as expressions of love and compassion, but somehow their preferred actions and policies always end in the death of people they disagree with.
Grotesque Asymmetry
Wars end when one side loses the will or ability to continue fighting. For Hamas, that calculus has been distorted by Qatar’s provision of an extraterritorial sanctuary where its leadership could direct operations, manage finances, and plan attacks while remaining physically removed from consequences. This arrangement—in which Khalil al-Hayya, Khaled Mashal, and their lieutenants could watch October 7 unfold on television from Doha penthouses while Israeli families burned alive in their homes—represents a perversion of both warfare and diplomacy that no civilized nation should tolerate.Via Scott Johnson.
The principle at stake transcends Israel’s immediate security concerns. When Qatar transformed itself into a five-star command center for terrorism, it challenged the fundamental architecture of international order. The post-Westphalian system assumes that states will not provide operational headquarters for groups dedicated to the genocidal destruction of other states. Qatar’s hosting of Hamas since 2012 shattered this assumption, creating a precedent whereby wealthy nations could sponsor terrorism while maintaining diplomatic respectability through strategic ambiguity and energy leverage.
Consider the grotesque asymmetry: while Hamas fighters used Gazan civilians as human shields in tunnels beneath hospitals, their political leadership enjoyed the protection of Qatari state security. While Israeli reservists left their families for months of urban warfare, Hamas’s decision-makers conducted press conferences from air-conditioned hotel ballrooms. While Palestinian civilians in Gaza suffered under Hamas’s brutal rule and Israel’s military response, those most responsible for precipitating this suffering remained untouchable in their Doha safe houses.
This bifurcation of accountability—where those who order atrocities remain immune from their consequences—corrupts the very concept of warfare. It incentivizes maximum violence with minimum personal risk, creating moral hazards on a civilizational scale. Israel’s strike restored the principle that leadership entails vulnerability, that those who choose war must share its dangers.
Gotta Protect the Barbarians and Their Coddlers
Why are media outlets refusing to cover this story? For the same reason that they rely on cooked crime data: narratives. The case of Iryna Zarutska reminds us of the costs of leaving dangerous psychopaths and criminals on the street. The abominable public-safety conditions in America's cities provide evidence of the failure of progressives who have controlled them for decades. The success of Trump's intervention in DC re-teaches the lessons learned in the 1990s about enforcing the law and keeping dangerous people in prison.
A decade or more of apologizing to criminals gave us Decarlos Brown and took from us Iryna Zarutska. That's the real news, that's the real truth, and the AP and NYT would rather say nothing than report it.
So yes, maybe conservatives are pouncing. But so are violent felons like Decarlos Brown, and progressive mayors, prosecutors, and governors are abetting it while the Protection Racket Media conspires to cover it up. How long will we allow them to get away with it?
How Does This Benefit America?
If the news gets out, Minnesota may become something of an international embarrassment in this case. What we have here is a somewhat gross example of what you get when you cross a Third-World tribal culture with an urban Democratic establishment, if I may say so. So far, however, mum’s the word.
The Fundamental Principle
A lot of people will see the "gotcha" element in this exchange. Tim Kaine appears to be making a gaffe, and it looks stupid.
But if seen in that way, the bigger point is missed. Tim Kaine and Democrats really DO find the idea that God, or as Jefferson put it "Nature and Nature's God," creates a standard higher than that of man's will very troubling. To accept that idea is to destroy the fundamental principle upon which leftism is based: reality is what we say it is.
Alphabet ideology falls. Critical Theory evaporates. Marxist theory goes out the window.
God and nature must be discredited, or reality reasserts itself. Men are men and women are women.
That cannot be.
Too Gentle
It isn’t clear what happened to Hind Rajab. The IDF initially said that they didn’t have any troops operating in the area, and I haven’t seen any follow-up. But to me, that is mostly irrelevant. Once Gaza started the war, it was a given that there would be casualties.
What did Gazans think would happen? Did they expect Israel to say: “We are unhappy that you murdered, tortured and raped more than 1,000 of our citizens, but because urban warfare always entails casualties, we aren’t going to do anything about it. So go ahead and murder our hostages, parade our people through your streets and celebrate your victory. We won’t do anything to stop you.”
No: if that is what Gazans thought, it was an unrealistic expectation. They sowed the wind and they reaped the whirlwind. Gazans have no one to blame but themselves for the fate of children like Hind Rajab. But even today, Gaza does not resemble Berlin or Hiroshima in 1945. The Israelis, as I said, have been gentle; Gazans have not gotten what they deserve. But perhaps the final battle is about to begin. I hope so.
Also, from Ed Morrissey:
This is what war looks like. Hamas wanted a war, started a war, and now they have two choices to end the war: total destruction or total capitulation. And even that choice has an expiration date.
All Benfits, No Obligations
Who is included in “ourselves”? My answer would be current American citizens, “subject to the jurisdiction thereof.” It would not include noncitizens, not subject to the jurisdiction thereof.
In my views, “Posterity” would include the children and descendants, if any, of current citizens. Posterity would not include those foreigners (noncitizens) yet to be born, who may one day develop a desire to show up in America and enjoy the blessings.
Courts have found that illegal aliens, the instant they cross the border, are entitled to the full protection (blessings) of the Constitution including full due process, with limitless resources (court-appointed lawyers, translators, etc.) provided at taxpayer expense.
But none of the obligations of American citizenship is placed on new arrivals, only the taxpayer-funded benefits. They are not “subject to the jurisdiction.”
It's the Blue Cities, Clown
The interview is notable for Pritzker’s complete lack of a defense. “Big cities have crime!” Yes, and Chicago has more than most. Better just accept it, says the billionaire Pritzker, who is protected by an armed security detail.
Note how Pritzker, unable to defend himself or local authorities (all Democrats), immediately shifts to an attack on President Trump. This is the Democrats’ universal refuge: they can’t defend their own policies, so they simply play to the 40% or so of the country that hates Trump.
Note, too, how pitiful Pritzker’s attack on Trump is. He accuses Trump of discriminating against cities in blue states—there are cities in red states that have high crime, too! Sure, and those cities, just like Chicago, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., have been run by Democrats for decades. What’s the point? Not to mention that Trump is hardly discriminating against a city when he tries to reduce crime there.
