Tuesday, June 30, 2026
How About We Just Win?
The Trump “Board of Peace” is dead on arrival and has never been implemented, and it is disgraceful that our government is protecting Hamas.
I have long been critical of Israel’s government for being too lenient toward Hamas. When dealing with fanatical terrorists, the only proper course of action is to kill them all. I would have expected the Trump administration to have sense enough to understand that.
I'm getting really tired of bullshit "deals" as substitutes for victory.
Monday, June 29, 2026
Greatest Threat
In other words, this is not a drill. These are real Marxist revolutionaries taking over the Democrat Party, and Democrat leadership appears either unwilling to stop them or outright choosing the revolution.And many Republicans haven't figured out they are up against enemies of civilization.
Disunion
Most people think that disunion is only a remote possibility. But if the Democrats take control in 2028, I believe that a national crisis, potentially leading to disunion, could soon follow. It would depend on whether the Democrats follow through on their current plan for a radical restructuring of our government that would entrench their power indefinitely.
Half Free and Half Socialist
How do two parties jointly govern a republic when one of them wants to establish a completely different economic system—a system which is not only intrinsically evil, but which always leads to tyranny? We once were able to compromise our differing views of what would be optimal marginal tax rates. But how do you compromise our insistence on freedom with their yearning for socialist servitude?
The only parallel that our country’s history offers is the conflict over slavery that resulted in the Civil War. Arguably that conflict was more amenable to peaceful political resolution than the one we face now, since we theoretically could have continued for a long time as a nation composed of some free states and some slave states. That is, in fact, what happened for around 70 years. But in today’s world, there isn’t any way to have an economy and a legal system that are half free and half socialist.
There is one obvious positive resolution of the current crisis—a thorough repudiation of the Democratic Party at the polls. But that doesn’t seem to be happening. The Democrats have generally done well in elections in 2025 and 2026, and they probably will do well again in the midterms. What, then, will deter them from continuing down the socialist path? A brutal drubbing in 2028. But at present, there is no reason to expect that result.
So before long, we may have to confront the question whether a nation can long endure, half socialist and half free.
The Deal Sucks
Trump refers to this as a “deal,” but I am not sure that terminology is accurate, since we didn’t actually get anything from Iran. (I suppose some would say we secured a restoration of the status quo ante with regard to the Strait of Hormuz, hardly a victory and something that could better have been obtained by punitive bombing, or by letting the Europeans and Asians deal with the situation.) I would describe the Memorandum as a one-sided set of inexplicable concessions.
I have no theory as to how Trump could have done something this foolish. It is being viewed everywhere as a massive defeat for the United States, and the Democrats, who are unabashedly on Iran’s side, are turning cartwheels. Foreign Policy magazine, a voice of foreign policy liberalism, headlines “Iran Is a Bigger Defeat Than Vietnam.” That’s hyperbolic, but I take their point.
It is a sad day for America and for our allies.
No Basis
Seriously, I do think that the U.S. may be in the process of breaking up. When Democrats say they would like to live in a different country, I think it means they want a country of their own—a socialist country where there are 256 genders, no rich people, no free speech, no religion. Someday, I think they may get it. Because there is no basis for common citizenship between us, who love our country and want to preserve it, and them, who hate our country and want to destroy it.
Totally Legit
The thing is, my friends, that the vote counting, or should I say vote manufacturing, does not show a surge in voting by Democrats in the mail-in ballot. It shows a massive surge—in fact, a doubling in some cases—of Nithya Raman's pre-election-day vote percentage, and Nithya Raman is the candidate who needs the votes to knock Spencer Pratt off the ballot. A candidate who was getting around 20% of the vote is suddenly getting 40% of the vote, and those votes are coming at the expense of Spencer Pratt.
Not her Democrat opponent, whose vote percentage has remained steady.
And where are those votes coming from? Well, the massive vote counts seem suspiciously concentrated in areas where voters have no known address, so the ballots are automatically sent to locations run by the homelessness NGOs that Nithya Raman is deeply involved with.
Team America
Back to John Fetterman, perhaps the only voice of sanity in today’s Democratic Party. I think we are living through an era that resembles, in some ways, the years before the Civil War. Then, there was one great issue, slavery. Americans may have disagreed on a host of lesser issues, but if they were pro-slavery or anti-slavery, they were fundamentally aligned with others who shared that view. Similarly, our electorate today has divided into two groups: conservatives who love America and are trying to preserve her, and liberals who hate America and are trying to destroy her.
If you, like John Fetterman, are pro-America, you are on our team. We can sort out our disagreements later—marginal tax rates and the like. For now, in the battle that is raging, everyone who is for America is on our side.
Being a Leftist Must Be Exhausting
These entertainment people are "freethinkers," according to Anderson, who also says, contradictorily, that "the prevailing politics are extremely progressive," so "they don’t feel safe to question an asserted identity by one of their children."
So what is it? Do they feel compelled to go along with whatever the child says — politically compelled — or are they — because of their inherent creativity — celebrating and encouraging unusual expression?
"Hard Drive" Talarico
James Talarico is creepy as hell.
I don't say this as a Republican who disagrees with him on most things, but as a human male. The more you hear of him, the more repulsive he is.
No doubt he will get some male votes, but almost exclusively from people who think that Scott Weiner's campaign parties are really great.
What are the Odds?
Zeek Arkham's question is a good one: why is it that EVERY time there is a late vote dump, it is overwhelmingly Democrat? Why do media folks have to report that early surprise totals for Republicans may get wiped away by votes that are banked and uncounted?
Because it is assumed that vote dumps always help Democrats. It is an iron law of nature. Or, should I say, vote rigging.
The Alliance
Welcome to the Hezbollah version of the Hokey Pokey. This is the same dance perfected by Hamas, and by Iran's regime as well. They do not negotiate in good faith, they do not adhere to agreements, and they use splits between allies with the effectiveness of narcissistic teenagers who find cracks in parental fronts on discipline.
That is what makes this story so bad, no matter what words were used in this conversation. Neither the US nor Israel can afford to let Iran split this coalition, especially at this stage. Trump seems to want a deal with Iran more than he wants an actual end to terrorism against the Israelis, and the Iranians are taking that as a lesson every day of the so-called ceasefire already. Letting White House aides leak this story to the press unnecessarily exposes a split between the two allies that the Islamists are already all too eager to exploit. Whatever momentary political benefit comes from this leak will be paid for in blood if and when the IRGC succeeds in exploiting it to get the diplomatic escape it desperately seeks. Hezbollah's offensive in Lebanon is designed to produce this very result, and if the White House can't see that, then Netanyahu has every reason to start acting on his own to end the threat on his northern border the best he can.
Sunday, May 31, 2026
Inverse Bigotry
While I don't, in principle, object to politicians respectfully adopting traditions for the sake of their audience, there is something especially bizarre about AOC, a truly radical feminist, wearing a hijab to speak in front of a crowd that appears to be exclusively male, and largely uninterested in what she has to say.
She has unconsciously adopted the traditions of a culture that respects women even less than the one portrayed in The Handmaid's Tale—you know, that horror that Donald Trump is supposedly bringing about in the United States with the help of the docile women who surround him and the openly gay men in prominent administration positions.
All the men around her, with the exception of Mamdani himself, are dressed like the Afghan Taliban, so obviously rejecting the Western society that has welcomed them. AOC spends an inordinate amount of time condemning people who have no intention of oppressing women, but when given the chance, she embraces a crowd that is filled with people who do.
An all-male crowd, from the look of it, except for a woman who likely is either the mayor's or AOC's staffer.
One of the more bizarre things about leftists is their inverse bigotry regarding brown and black people. They so obviously expect them to behave like savages that they excuse behavior that they would never tolerate in white people. They spout out excuses, trot out claims of oppression, and claim that any bad behavior is caused by white oppression.
Poisonous
The Palestinians, who are the new hot group of "victims" in the West, are notably excluded from settling in Muslim countries, which want nothing to do with them. A Palestinian "refugee" from Gaza will be welcomed in Europe, but not in Egypt, Lebanon, or Saudi Arabia. Because they are poisonous to civilization itself.
Selective Open Borders
Opposing the Trump policy clearly doesn't stem from a concern for the illegal migrants per se—they can get a very good deal, in fact, and even the chance to return legally.
What's really at stake is the commitment to open borders. And by that, it's not even a commitment to the principle of open borders, since none of these advocates are up in arms about the fact that Mexico's immigration laws are far harsher than the United States, and Mexico wants nothing to do with feeding or housing illegal immigrants.
It's open borders for the United States, and more generally for First World countries. The goal is to redistribute our income, which amounts to pillaging our country.
But It's a Civil Violation!
I must be missing something in this story. The fact that Vang had a conviction for armed robbery explains why he may have been a priority case for deportation, but it is the fact that he is an illegal alien, not the fact that he committed a crime, that makes him subject to deportation. I don’t understand why a pardon from the State of Minnesota would have any bearing on his impending deportation. If he is an illegal—a fact that I take it no one denies—he is subject to deportation, period. As a matter of policy, ICE might decide to leave Vang alone, but the pardon would have no impact on that. What am I missing?
Labor Theory of Math
DEI math teaching is based on the labor theory of math: your effort, not achievement, is what counts in K-12 grading, and the demand that students get the right answer is white supremacy.
If so, it takes white supremacy to build a bridge or study physics.
It's striking how, during the George Floyd/COVID years, teachers' unions agitated to eliminate standards, and universities seized on the trend, doing much the same. The claim was that testing was racist; the reality was that standardized testing exposed the rot in our educational system.
Deserved Mockery
Generation Z is famously facing more dire financial conditions than previous generations.
We hear that constantly, and I certainly don't deny that in many respects, they have gotten a raw deal. Housing prices are high, and the job market is not particularly aligned with the education they were told would set them up for a comfortable life.
These kids, after all, were convinced that a degree in Women's Studies and Gender Confusion was the path to prosperity as they agitated for a communist revolution.
But you have to admit, these kids have no financial sense. It's obvious when you look at how they spend their money.
It turns out that Generation Z loves to eat out and get food delivered, despite not having the financial means to sustain the lifestyle they feel entitled to. You and I, when younger, made macaroni and cheese, ramen, and inexpensive meals to extend our food dollar.
When this is pointed out, our favorite indeterminate age journalist explains that it is not their fault. As poor people, they don't have the capacity to actually make meals such as mac and cheese, spaghetti with Ragu, salad, fresh vegetables, hummus, or any of the cheaper foods you can pick up at any grocery store and spend a few minutes making.
They have no choice but to order avocado toast for delivery to their door.
Gospel-of-Thomas Talarico
The Gospel of Thomas was not "omitted" from the Bible by "church leaders"; it was never an accepted part of the prophetic writings. Every reference to it in the early Church condemned it as false, used to advance the Manichaean heresy of dual gods of good and evil (and perhaps the Gnostic heresies as well). Any seminarian building a theological argument on the Gospel of Thomas about the true teachings of Jesus should be flunked out of school. And there are a lot of Bible-taught Baptists in Texas who know the difference, not to mention Catholics, Episcopalians, Presbyterians, and so on.
The Cultural Enrichment Is Real
Georgia Meloni should follow Keir Starmer's lead and step up the surveillance of white Europeans, because they will no doubt overreact to the culturally vibrant, diverse behavior of the Muslim migrants who drive their cars into crowds and jump out to stab people as they try to escape.
It's just part of their culture, don't you know?
Islam is the religion of peace, but apparently an awful lot of Muslims didn't get the memo. Ramming incidents are becoming more common in Europe and serve as an easier version of the IED, allowing people to commit random mayhem without all the fuss of building a bomb.
One of the least spoken of features of Muslim migration is that the second generation, born in their adopted countries, is often even more radicalized than the first. Studies in Nordic countries, where they actually keep track of such things, show that 2nd generation migrants (children of migrants) are just as dependent on social services and no more integrated than their parents.
100% Insane
Most of us, on hearing that 20% of Fairfax County, the bedroom community of our nation's capital, are "deportable" or live with somebody deportable, recoil. Even though most are not actively committing crimes, that concentration of migrants distorts how the people who govern our country view the world. The people who govern us don't live like us, and that explains why they don't share our concerns.
If one in five is deportable, that probably explains why housing costs are artificially high. That probably explains why Fairfax County's values differ so significantly from those of the rest of Virginia. That explains why the County has a two-tier criminal justice system that allows predators to roam the streets.
Life-Loser Mayor
In sum, Seattle's budget is too big and Mayor Wilson has been treating the companies and people that pay all those taxes like they are not wanted and not needed exactly when they are most needed. Maybe this week she's finally decided to pull her head out of her DSA backside but I'm not too optimistic. It took her months to fix this one mistake. She'll probably keep mouthing off and watching as the millionaires and big businesses wave, like, bye.
More Mythical Problems
Some things are too on-the-nose to be believed immediately, so when Jonathan Turley read about the City of Ann Arbor, Michigan spending $18,000 to remove Community Watch signs in order to foster "inclusivity," he had to check whether it was a Babylon Bee story or if it was real.
It was, of course, real, because Ann Arbor isn't just a Blue city, but a Blue city with a far-left academic population that considers itself the most virtuous group of people in the world.
And virtue, these days, does not mean what it used to mean, but rather something closer to one-upping everybody else on making symbolic moves that either don't make things better or make things significantly worse.
Now removing Neighborhood Watch signs is an example of the former. Nobody takes Neighborhood Watch signs seriously, and Neighborhood Watch groups almost never really exist; when they do, city authorities work mightily to ensure they do nothing that actually reduces crime. That would be vigilantism, which is a no-no, and these days, reporting a crime is almost a purely symbolic act unless there is blood flowing in the streets.
Activism 101
There is a reason why student performance in schools is tanking fast, particularly in Blue states. As Mississippi is zooming ahead in teaching kids to read because they dropped the stupid liberal methods of teaching and went back to phonics, teachers, administrators, and school boards in Blue areas are focusing their attention and their school funding on indoctrinating children and turning them into leftist activists.
And:
To a certain extent, that used to be true, but that time is long in the rear-view mirror, as is the myth that most teachers are underpaid. While some still are, including new teachers whom the unions work hard to keep underpaid to ensure they can trot out somebody with a low salary, teachers in many districts make far above the median income.
In cities like Chicago, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., and many others, teachers are well-paid, the schools are grossly overfunded, and the kids are learning basically nothing. Kids can graduate with A averages and also be illiterate.
Public schools in general have plunged in performance for any number of reasons, but one of them is that many of them don't even bother to teach things like reading and math. They exist as jobs programs for left-wing activists and indoctrination centers for the radical left.
Moral Inversion
Now, 20 years later, Haynes has not only been released from prison, but is being paid $4.5 million by the State of Minnesota. His conviction was obviously not wrongful, but Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty, who is unabashedly pro-criminal, sided with Haynes in overturning his conviction on essentially non-existent grounds. Instead of playing her proper role in our judicial system, representing the public and prosecutors, she colluded with a murderer to spring him from prison and make him a wealthy man.
There is more to the story. My colleague David Zimmer tells it all here. It is impossible to overstate the moral inversion that takes place when we turn government over to leftists.
The Far Left
Thus, Prime Minister Keir Starmer denounced this year’s rally as “peddling hatred and division,” saying “we’re in the fight for the soul of this country.” Hatred apparently meaning love for one’s country, and the soul of the U.K. apparently consisting exclusively in importing millions of unassimilable third-world immigrants.
Dems Prefer Addressing Mythical Problems
Instead of doing the Republican thing of laying out detailed policy proposals and taking veiled shots at the failure of Democratic Party policies, Pratt goes for the jugular.
He asks the simple question: Do you want to live in squalor? In Los Angeles, of all places, which has every natural advantage, and one big disadvantage: Democrats.
Bass is a Democratic Party politician from central casting. Her answer to arsonists who revere Luigi Mangione is to discuss climate change, and her response to allowing residents to rebuild their burnt-down houses is to pile regulations on top of regulations to ensure they cannot do so.
Bass' allies can't figure out how to fight back because Pratt's message is too powerful to ignore. Instead, you get insane attacks on the fan-made videos that mock the establishment. It's not the message, but the medium, because again, that is how Democrats think.
Bass' major problem is that Pratt exposes the insanity and corruption of the Democratic Party machine, and there is no way to deny the basic facts of his case.
Saturday, May 30, 2026
Dissolution
As I have written before, I think it is increasingly questionable whether we conservatives can continue to share a country with liberals. It saddens me to say it, but there seems to be little basis for any common citizenship. The Left’s demented reaction to Mangione’s cold-blooded murder is one more data point on that question.
More Red vs. Blue
There are a lot of these kinds of complaints on social media too, claiming that Texas, Florida, and Tennessee made these changes "without a vote." That's not true at all; state legislatures voted on these redistricting plans in all three states, and other red states will do the same. The real difference in this fight is that blue states passed amendments to state constitutions that passed authority for redistricting from legislatures to so-called "independent" commissions to lock in previous gerrymanders. Red states kept redistricting authority where it belongs, in state legislatures, while Gavin Newsom and Abigail Spanberger had to reverse those previous amendments via referendum first before their legislatures could act.
The History of Fantasyland
It is no surprise that those who trust our education establishment are the most ignorant. But the idea that one-half or more of Americans believe that Indians were peaceful until the white man came along is astonishing. It means that they know absolutely nothing about pre-Columbian American history, and they ascribe to natives virtues that the Indians never would have claimed for themselves.
Tribes like the Iroquois, to name only one, were in warfare among the most vicious peoples in history, ranking perhaps even worse than the Assyrians and the Mongols. Indian tribes were pretty much all proud of their martial prowess, and would be horrified to learn that, several hundred years after the fact, they are regarded as having lived in peace and harmony with their neighbors, whom they despised.
Our education system is irredeemably awful, and needs to be blown up so that we can start over from scratch.
Infiltrator
As shown in a number of other instances, Justice Jackson is either a person of extremely limited intelligence or a political operative, rather than a legitimate judge. Her repeated personal attacks on her colleagues are unprecedented, at least in the modern history of the Court. They can best be understood, I think, as part of the Democratic Party’s effort to delegitimize the Court in order to lay a political foundation for court-packing or for disregarding the Court’s rulings in Democratic jurisdictions. Jackson’s role on the Court can perhaps best be seen as that of an infiltrator, rather than a judge.
Tucker is Israel First
Carlson's overall argument is that we should care very much about the behavior of Israel killing people in Gaza. We should all be righteously angry not only at Benjamin Netanyahu but at anyone who supports him. But also, who cares if someone is making light of the Holocaust and celebrating Hitler and Stalin as heroes.
There's no way to square this circle, morally speaking.
Tuesday, April 28, 2026
Lear the Hard Way
It’s like Christmas in April. Another two dozen fraud-linked locations in Minnesota were raided by the FBI this morning. Reportedly, Quality Learing Center was among them.
Social Trust is Evaporating
Look at all the countries that Trump so artfully called "s**thole countries," and they all have one thing in common: disdain for the rule of law and a social structure based on what amounts to gangs or tribes that fight for resources, either literally or at least in non-cooperative ways.
That's why the argument that "diversity is our strength" is asinine. Homogeneity may not lead to societal health, but genuine diversity, where people don't share the same basic values and identity, everywhere and always leads to social discord. That is why the idea of the melting pot was so powerful: out of many, one.
Illegal Aliens Have No Birthright
And that doesn’t even count the 50,000 or so Chinese women who come to the U.S. legally each year, simply to give birth to a baby who is absurdly deemed an American citizen. At some point, will the Chinese Communist Party control enough votes to swing a U.S. presidential election?
The current interpretation of birthright citizenship is a disaster that is not mandated by the language or the history of the 14th Amendment. It represents one of several respects in which our national policies are more or less suicidal.
The VP Disappoints
Contrast Ramaswamy’s remarks with Vice President Vance’s during an appearance at a TPUSA event held at the University of Georgia. There he was heckled by someone who interrupted his comments to accuse the Trump administration of supporting “genocide” in Gaza and “killing children.”
“If you want to complain about what happened in Gaza, why don’t you complain about Joe Biden and the last administration? We’re the administration that solved that problem,” Vance said in response to the heckler, after defending what he called Trump’s “peace agreement in Gaza.” Vance’s refusal to address the false premises of remarks such as those above does not derive from any inability to do so. It is pathetic.
Tuesday, March 31, 2026
The Nonexistent Solar Wars
But nobody goes to war over solar panels for the same reason nobody goes to war over candles: they cannot power the things that economies, civilizations, and wars run on. A gallon of jet fuel contains 34 kilowatt-hours of energy in a package weighing six pounds. A lithium-ion battery storing the same energy weighs 250 pounds. That density gap is why every military on earth runs on liquid hydrocarbons, why every container ship crossing the Pacific burns bunker fuel, why every combine harvester in Iowa runs on diesel, and why every 747 landing at Heathrow runs on kerosene. The fact that nobody wages war over solar panels is evidence of their limitations not superiority.
Pure Emotion
Ann Althouse discussing an interview of Elissa Slotkin:
Did she answer the question "What is something Democrats do that is the opposite of alpha energy?" Only vaguely. They're "speaking from wonky details" and not "speaking about your gut and your emotion." Her statement of the problem is, ironically, lacking in the quality she's saying they need.
Are you kidding me? Speaking about their emotions is all Democrats do!
"F*ck ICE!"
"Diversity is our strength!"
"Immigrants built this country!"
"F*ck Trump!"
"No one is illegal on stolen land!"
"Medicare for all!"
Yep, super wonky! Ask a Democrat what his or her (yes, there are two genders) top-five policy ideas are.Africans Should Pay Slavery Reparations
So the British didn’t even have the courage to vote in their own self-interest, against the most grotesquely unfair money grab imaginable. Britain did, indeed, play an important role with regard to African slavery: it stamped it out. It was in Great Britain that the abolitionist movement was born, and it was the British Navy that suppressed the world-wide slave trade, to the great consternation of Africans. In the late 19th Century, the British Foreign Office issued a warning to its citizens not to travel in Africa. Englishmen in Africa were being murdered by tribesmen who were enraged that the British were ending their trade in slaves.
Africans exported most of their slaves not across the Atlantic, but East to the Islamic world. For a millennium or more, Muslim countries were always the largest consumers of slaves. So where do they figure in the U.N. resolution?
The Invasion Continues
I have countless clips of Muslims and Islamic leaders openly asserting that their goal is to destroy Western culture and replace it, and the entire history of Islam is one of conquest and colonization. All those TSA lines in airports exist today not just because Democrats want to make Americans suffer, but primarily because Islamic terrorists fly airplanes into buildings, make shoe bombs, and plot to kill Westerners.
"Diversity is our strength" is only the second-biggest lie we keep being told about immigration; the first is that "Islam is the religion of peace." We keep having the Crusades thrown in our face to explain why Muslims are angry at us, but the Crusades were an attempt to retake the Holy Land from Muslims who had conquered it, the Middle East, and all of North Africa, which, until the Muslims came along with their armies, were Christian and Jewish.
Even the briefest examination of history shows that Muslims invaded Europe countless times, conquered Spain, and had to be kicked out in almost endless wars.
Embrace Their Diversity!
Craig's switch on the issue says little about her. Like most politicians, she takes positions based on her assessment of where the voters are on any particular issue, not on things like principles or what would be best for the country. A politician doing an about-face for political purposes is as surprising as the sun rising in the East.
But this reversal tells you everything you need to know about how radicalized the Democratic Party has become. It is now toxic for a Democrat to have voted to expel criminals from the country. No matter the crime, no matter the danger the criminals pose to the community, it is imperative that we embrace their diversity because they are the ones who give us strength.
Team Columbus
Christopher Columbus, one of the greatest explorers of all time, has become something of a litmus test. If you celebrate the fact that he discovered America and opened the door to one of the most important sagas in world history, you are a conservative. If you think Columbus was a villain, and the European settlement of the formerly-Edenic America was a tragedy, you are a liberal.
Qualification?
A more normal person—more normal than most Democratic Party primary voters—might respond: 1) Everyone had traumas growing up. So what? 2) How does the fact (if true) that you had an unhappy childhood qualify you to be President? 3) If I take it at face value that you grew up in a screwed-up family, why should that make me want you to be my President? If anything, one might think, the reverse.
But in today’s therapeutic society, especially in its blue precincts, spilling the beans about one’s own family dysfunction is apparently a plus. God help us.
Anti-Civilization
The assembled leftists took time out to express their support for “Palestine,” which again raises the question, what does Islamic extremism have to do with Communism? The answer is that leftism is anti-civilization. Leftists will happily endorse any movement or theory that tries to destroy civilization.
They have gotten their way, as civilization in both Cuba and “Palestine” has been thoroughly destroyed. And leftists will continue to cheer on that destruction, right up to the last gasp of the evil regimes that have perpetrated it.
Reminder: Diversity is Our Strength!
Here’s the funny thing. In 2019 the Star Tribune published a 3,000 word page-one story — the most-read Star Tribune story of 2019 — revisiting the issue of Omar’s marriage to her brother. The story drew on documents that had just been released by the state board of campaign finance in its investigation of her 2016 campaign and other social media material we had reported on Power Line.
In my view, the 2019 story proves far beyond a preponderance of the evidence that Omar married her brother for some fraudulent purpose. I think I could persuade a jury of it based on the evidence in the Star Tribune story, though there is much more for anyone inclined to look. The Star Tribune story by itself is full of evidence tending to prove that Omar married her brother. I wonder if Kashiwagi is familiar with the story published by her own paper.
The Power of Words
Liberals have a faith in the power of words that is typical of primitive cultures. They seriously seem to believe that if they pass a law that says, for example, all electricity most come from wind or solar power by 2035, it will happen. It’s the law! Unfortunately, the laws of physics are not impressed. The entire “green” edifice is a house of cards that is rapidly crumbling.
Illegal Aliens Built This Country!
Democrats are proving that there is literally no crime for which an illegal alien can be deported in their eyes. They object to ICE arresting rapists, murderers, child molesters, and fraudsters. Illegal aliens can get arrested 10, 20, 30 times and Democrats will refuse to turn them over to ICE.
They will cover up sex crimes against children to protect illegals, because that is how they roll. They will sacrifice American citizens to protect illegals because illegals built this country, you know.
It is now the official position of the Democratic Party that illegal aliens should vote, and that requiring proof of citizenship would "disenfranchise" millions of people. Illegal aliens should be allowed to remain in the country even if they rape or murder people. That gang members should be allowed to terrorize people. And that protecting Americans is not the primary responsibility of the US government.
Sunday, March 29, 2026
The Government Racket
So, what are “our values”? Liberals always claim to be acting on behalf of the poor and disadvantaged, but those aren’t the ones who get most of the money. Government has largely become a money-laundering operation, in which people who actually do productive work pay taxes, and the government then gives their money to NGOs, consultants, and politically-favored companies, all of which purport to be doing good, but in fact are corrupt rackets.
Thus, to take just one example, New York City reportedly spends $81,000 to $97,000 per homeless person, more than the city’s median income. Does that mean that homeless people in New York are rolling in dough? No, it means that politically-favored Democratic Party constituencies are siphoning off enormous amounts of money while doing virtually no good.
Contradictions
The global left is losing all its favorite regimes, and it is driving them absolutely crazy. Suddenly, they are all about increasing oil consumption, demanding American capitalists save a communist country from collapse, so that the communists can use it as a base to destroy...evil capitalism.
Allies
For one thing, we can evaluate the effectiveness of several nations’ armed forces. The U.S. and Israeli militaries have both performed brilliantly, and in close harmony. Some liberals question whether Israel is a valuable ally. I am not sure why; I think a case could be made that Israel is our only valuable ally. What other nation, besides us, performs with their effectiveness?
Will to Survive
Sunday, March 15 is the International Day to Combat Islamophobia, and the day couldn’t possibly have come at a better time. It looks as if it was planned this year specifically in order to demonstrate the fact that “Islamophobia” is a spurious propaganda concept designed to intimidate people into thinking it’s wrong to stand against jihad violence and Sharia oppression of women.
It’s the best possible time because there have been four jihad attacks in the U.S. in the last two weeks, demonstrating in the most vivid and indelible way possible that criticism of Islam is not only not a manifestation of “hatred” or “bigotry,” much less “racism,” but a healthy manifestation of a society’s will to survive.
Motivations
Speaking of evidence, I have seen no evidence that Boasberg even referred to the issue before him, i.e., the Fed’s building boondoggle. The evidence presented to the grand jury was sufficient to cause them to issue the subpoenas, which is what counts. This is an investigation, not a prosecution.
And what is the point of Boasberg’s reference to conflicting views as to interest rates? They have absolutely nothing to do with the issue at hand, the Fed’s building renovation. Jerome Powell is on his way out as the Fed Chairman. He will be gone in two months, so Boasberg’s theory makes little sense.
This is one of many instances of left-wing judges imputing invidious motives to the Trump administration, and ruling on that basis. But such speculation as to motives, inspired by Democratic Party talking points, is improper.
Another instance occurred just a few days ago, when a Democratic Party district court judge ruled that the Department of Homeland Security may not terminate the “Temporary Protected Status” of Haitian immigrants, which has been in effect since an earthquake in 2010. Obviously, that judge’s party wants the “temporary” status to be permanent. The judge’s rationale was that the DHS’s decision manifested an animus by President Trump and Secretary Noem against immigrants “of color.” Again, an inflammatory but wholly irrelevant consideration.
Any time a judge says that the Trump administration lacks the power to do something that would be perfectly acceptable if the president were a Democrat, based on the Trump administration’s alleged motivations, that judge is wrong and is acting as a partisan hack. I think the general public would be astonished at how often that happens.
Trump and the GOP Senators need to ram through as many ultraconservative, hyperpartisan judges as possible between now and next January.
The War Against Fantasyland
But imagine what it is like for a sane person to walk into and try to set straight a bureaucracy that thinks "Queering the Map" is a thing, no less a thing that the State Department should spend time and money on.
It's an "Uh, wat?" experience, for sure.
I can't imagine what it is like for Trump appointees who have to navigate the bureaucracies that have become corrupted or so off track that their value is negative and trying to fix them. It must not just be immensely frustrating, but akin to jumping through the looking glass and trying to make sense of it.
Another Example of the Obligation Inversion
So great figures from British history like Winston Churchill and Jane Austen are now “divisive.” One guess as to which group in the Isles claims to feel excluded by any acknowledgment of British history.
Cultural Enrichers
Wajahat is, as with Mamdani, one of the many Islamic immigrants who have immigrated to this country in order to lecture us about how awful we are, and assure us that they are here to change this evil country. If only America could be more like Pakistan!
And:
Given how many of these hatemongers are or have become American citizens, it's hard to see how we can clear them all out of our society in any manner that is constitutional. Perhaps Ali has pointed us to a good idea: make life uncomfortable for them here.
Also:
It should be, at minimum, slowing to a trickle immigration from Muslim countries, doing a deep vetting process of all who come, and a campaign to identify deportable Muslims who present any sort of threat, including ideological.
We can't ban Islam, but we can do things that Wajahat Ali and his Pakistani family and friends hate.
Accommodations
Call me hard-hearted, but if you can’t complete a set of tasks in the same amount of time as your competitors, shouldn’t that impact the evaluation of your performance? In the real world, if it takes you twice as long as someone else to complete a task, you are only worth half as much on an hourly basis.
Higher education, at least at the “elite” level, has turned into something of a joke.
Suicide of the West Watch
As recently as 40 or 50 years ago, the idea that Germany might de-industrialize would have seemed absurd. Germany’s status as an industrial superpower dates to the 19th century, and it seemed impregnable. But that was before the “green” movement brought Germany to its knees. The German government’s war on energy, along with other policy failures, have made it increasingly impossible to manufacture products (automobiles, for example) competitively in that country. The result is a looming economic crisis, with third-world status by no means an impossibility.
Talarico's Creepy As Hell
The more you listen to this guy, the more you wonder why the authorities have not searched his hard drive yet. Rather than being an attractive face for liberalism, he is a parody of what leftists think conservatives want or need to hear in order to vote for a Democrat.
He is just another version of the Tim Walz strategy. Democrats think they can find a magic white man who can "code talk" to those of us who identify as one of the six scientifically proven sexes: men.
And:
The man is a low-T version of Beto O'Rourke crossed with California State Senator Scott Weiner.
They Just Say Sh*t
"We're dealing with what we're dealing with right now" is an excuse for the ages. "This is different," he begins, and yet he hasn't worked out how it's different. He just needs it to be different. A dangerous move when you're winging it and don't know the facts of the things you're saying are different. There are a few seconds — 0:26 to 0:33 — where Jeffries knows he's in trouble. He mutters the hilarious line, "First of all, I was not in Congress," and shows a flash of shame before resetting with the all-purpose segue "So we're dealing with what we're dealing with right now."
