Friday, July 31, 2026
Leftists Really Love Forced Labor
This claim, though, is based on a fundamentally broken understanding of how those "basics" come to be. None of them merely exist in nature; each of them is the product of somebody's labor, and when you make the claim that everybody has a "right" to them, it is equivalent to saying that they have the right to others' labor.
Food doesn't just appear. Houses and apartments don't just grow out of the ground. Medical care is not magically produced in the air. All these things are produced, and one reason they are unevenly distributed is that some people and some systems are far better at producing them than others.
Industrial capitalism is extraordinarily good at producing them—so good, in fact, that the burden for giving them away is relatively small and people are willing to give them away without thinking that much about them. Some of that is out of the goodness of their hearts, and some is just a practical decision based on the fact that we don't want to be stepping over drug addicts who poop in the streets.
Whatever the reason, it's not that the recipients of others' largesse have a "right" to the labor and efforts of others. And if we rearrange our societies based on the mistaken notion that they do, it turns out the very system that produces all that extra wealth we are generally happy to share collapses.
It's not theoretical that this is the case. Socialism has been tried in many forms and many places. The Nordic countries, which many socialists wrongly believe are socialist, gave up on the idea back in the 80s and 90s and are now free-market systems (in many cases freer than our own, which has become bogged down with excessive government regulations) with a high level of social insurance.
One of the reasons why all these countries are working mightily to kick migrants out is that they treat that social insurance as a "right" to state support and thus abuse the system, which is supposed to be for the aged, infirm, and those in temporary distress. When people demand something for free, they are really demanding that others do all the work while they get to consume the product of others' labor.
Commies Are Resentful Life-Losers
Let's stipulate up front that no requirement exists for radical socialists to mooch off their parents. However, it certainly correlates strongly, and for good reason. Radical socialists resent employment in the free market as well as paying bills, which is actually an agenda item on the Democratic Socialists of America platform. Like any communist platform, the DSA wants to seize all property and means of production to then ration goods and services from an authoritarian central-planning government.
Pathetic Does Not Begin to Describe John Patterson
Then the Chief of Police, John Patterson, spoke. Chief Patterson unfortunately collapsed in his role as the leader of the police department.
His demeanor was pained and passive. His remarks were peppered with sighs as he slouched and focused down at the podium or the ground. The lack of command presence was simply, sad.
Rather than comment on the difficult day his department had Wednesday, the challenges Ruiz created or provide an update on the condition of his officers, Chief Patterson chose to lament that a “member of the community” had lost his life during an encounter with his officers.
And:
Then, just six minutes into his comments, the chief passively allowed an activist to literally force him away from the podium and take over the press conference for 15 minutes — calling Patterson’s officers “pigs” and demanding their immediate arrest.
It was one of the most feckless responses I’ve seen by a law enforcement leader — one deserving his serious consideration of resignation. The performance has no doubt destroyed any respect Madison police officers had for their chief, and that could cascade into serious problems for the agency and for public safety in Madison going forward.
Via John Hinderaker.
What An Obnoxious Little Twit
And you may remember this clip of Moraff [who incidentally has the most annoying voice of all time] being asked about the vetting he did. He said he didn't see anything that concerned him so he just moved forward without checking any further into his background.
I'm sorry, this uptalking commie beta is harassing women??
There's Nothing Working-Class About the Resentful Bolsheviks
A working-class neighborhood in the Bronx? The deuce you say. Has the famously working-class socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez spoken up to defend her constituents? Perhaps she is also defining bourgeois downward as well, although one has to wonder what both AOC and Mamdani think of their mentor Bernie "Three Houses" Sanders these days.
Savages Gonna Savage
Of course, you have the same problem now as you did back in the late 1990s, the 1980s, the 1970s, and going all the way back to the days before Israel was even founded: there's nobody on the other side willing to negotiate. They don't want an end to the conflict; they want to drive the Jews out, and with any luck, do so by killing them.
Every intermediary who has tried to resolve the conflict has discovered to their chagrin that the problem is not the Jews in Israel; shockingly, it's the people who tell you every day they are determined to kill them all. "From the River to the Sea" is not just a slogan. It is a mission statement.
Palestinians didn't invent terrorism, but they mastered the art and turned it into a lifestyle, along with a grievance and hate culture that is second to none.
The "Palestinian" identity is built on grievance; it is what makes a Palestinian a Palestinian. For all the talk of the "refugees" (nobody is a refugee after 75 years) being indigenous to Palestine/Israel, the truth is that most of the people who left during the first war against Israel came from elsewhere and were migrant workers.
Surrounding Arab states supported the Palestinians for decades for a variety of reasons, but every single one that did regretted it. Palestinians are poison everywhere they wind up because their ideology is driven by hate and a desire for power. The Lebanese Civil War was caused by Palestinians, and the country, which used to be majority Christian and peaceful, has lived to regret its willingness to accommodate Palestinian refugees.
During the latest Gaza war, no Arab country opened its arms to take in refugees. They aren't stupid, you know. Many of them are informally allied with Israel these days because they think the Iranians and Palestinians are nuts and dangerous.
Spoiler Alert: They Won't Disarm
So for Hamas, feigning cooperation could be worth billions of dollars in Western aid. I am not a cynical person, but no one who has observed Hamas, Hezbollah and other Iranian proxies over recent decades would dream of taking any representation by them at face value. So we will see how this plays out, but I am not holding my breath.
Thursday, July 30, 2026
Third World-ism
And there is a name for that ideology: Third World-ism. It's a dystopian zeal for barbarism over civilization. And these days, it's the name of the game for the activist left. We see it everywhere.
Third World-ism explains the activist left's support for the butchers of Hamas over the free people of Israel. Third World-ism explains the activist left's support for punitive environmental regulations that engender economic degrowth. Third World-ism explains why the activist left wants us to have fewer children. Third World-ism explains why the activist left speculates that maybe America actually deserved 9/11. Third World-ism explains why the activist left wants the anarchy of open borders, not the ordered liberty of the nation-state. Third World-ism explains why the activist left sides with illegal aliens and not victims of illegal alien crime. And Third World-ism explains why the activist left sides with criminals, in general, and not victims of crime.
There's Nothing Left to Cut in the Budget!
We can debate where the boundaries of “America First” lie with regard to foreign policy, but I think we can all agree that keeping Nepalese transgenders gainfully employed does not lie within the federal government’s constitutional ambit. Stories like this one also raise the question: do reporters for left-wing outlets like the Associated Press have any idea how normal people respond to their articles?
It's News to Bolshevik Gender Studies Majors
Of course it can’t accurately model the power system! Wind and solar are intermittent, weather-dependent electricity sources. There is no way to predict, or to control, when they will produce electricity and when they will not. This has been obvious to everyone for a long time, but apparently it took a “confidential report” and a “whistleblower” to bring the facts to the attention of the British public.
Time to Choose
JD Vance will have to decide whether he wants to continue to cozy up to a lunatic who wants his boss to be tried for treason. Going full-on anti-Semite may be a viable political strategy in the Democratic Party, but it is not in the Republican Party. So Vance will need to either abandon his disreputable friends, or switch parties.
Ugandan Trust Fund Baby Wisdom
New York City's equivalent of a callow student body president just discovered yesterday that he can't actually fulfill his promises to end homework and get better food in the cafeteria, let alone arrest foreign leaders who travel to his city under diplomatic immunity. Last night, Zohran Mamdani attempted to cover up his humiliating retreat from his campaign promise to arrest Benjamin Netanyahu, finally acknowledging that he had no idea what he was talking about, by demanding that Donald Trump let him off the hook.
Fatigue
All of this has combined to play into other cultural phenomena now being openly talked about: the so-called "black fatigue" and a similar, as-yet-unnamed, queer fatigue.
People are done with the victimhood claims, and the bad behavior that gets enabled and excused by references to unearned victimhood. People claim victimhood while having tantrums, and the increasingly outrageous behavior by black teens on the streets is fueled by the rhetoric.
Don't like shoplifting? You're a white supremacist. Teen takeovers get you down? You want to lynch people. Don't want to kowtow to the pronoun police? You support "genocide" and want to "erase" people.
A lot of people are over it. The case for changing attitudes and practices regarding race and gender—and it is a great case—is that people should be judged by how they act, not what group they happen to belong to. Skin color or sexual preferences are not the core of one's being, or rather the "content of their character," right?
Foreign Judges
Who is Araceli Martínez-Olguín? When she was nominated to the federal bench by Joe Biden, her background was that of a left-wing activist. After working in the Office of Civil Rights at the Department of Education, she was the Managing attorney of the Immigrants’ Rights Project at Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto, and then served as a Supervising attorney at the National Immigration Law Center. I think it is fair to say that her brief career has largely been spent as an advocate for illegal immigration.
Born in Mexico City. Shocker.
Don't Question Their Patriotism!
In order to avoid recognizing Independence Day or the 250th Anniversary of America, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has discontinued the practice of issuing proclamations altogether. I’m not kidding.
Item Number One
Zohran Mamdani’s obsession is another reminder that anti-Semitism is not just a stray plank in the Democratic Socialists of America’s platform, it is agenda item number one for them, just as it was for the National Socialist Party in Germany.
It's a Bold Strategy
Don’t let the facts get in the way when you want to blame the Jews. I’m sure President Trump appreciated Vance stirring the Epstein pot. That was equally well done.
Cotton Gets It
You may have heard Vice President Vance’s latest line about the government of Israel undertaking a secret influence operation to undermine Vance’s brilliant work on the Memorandum of Understanding with Iran. Dana Perrino asked Senator Tom Cotton about it on FNC’s America’s Newsroom this morning. Senator Cotton bluntly denied knowledge of any intelligence to support Vance’s braying. Thank you, Senator Cotton.
Anti-Capitalism
The Democrats have become a socialist party.
Some say that numbers like these are misleading, since a great many people don’t know what socialism is. That is true. But whatever they think it is, it is being contrasted with capitalism, and lots of people say they prefer the alternative. In my opinion, this is a four-alarm fire.
A Few Names Come To Mind
It is unfortunate that Trump dallied with the mullahs for something like three months. By doing so, he lost the benefit (the political benefit, anyway) of a brilliantly successful military campaign. I have no idea who in his administration convinced him that this was a good idea. Maybe the plan was Trump’s all along. But I hope he remembers who on his team understood Iran, and who didn’t.
They Just Say Stuff
This is not just bigoted, it is delusional. Every industry is dominated by a monopoly? That is an absurd claim. To cite just one example, what monopoly dominates the automobile industry? How can there be a sentient being, who presumably participates in our economy to some extent, who actually believes that every industry is a monopoly?
I think what is going on here is not just garden-variety stupidity. I think, rather, that Mamdani is exhibiting fealty to Marxist doctrine. Karl Marx taught that free markets inherently tend toward consolidation, and that the resulting monopolies would lead to the collapse of what he called “capitalism.” Vladimir Lenin elaborated on this theory, describing a final phase of “monopoly capitalism” that inevitably would replace the competitive markets that he actually observed.
Obviously, that hasn’t happened. But to a socialist like Zohran Mamdani, reality is less real than Marxist dogma. Marx and Lenin said that every industry would be dominated by a monopoly, so it must be true. The evidence of his eyes counts for nothing.
Jefferson's Genius
The famous second sentence of the Declaration of Independence enumerates three “unalienable Rights.” The first is life, naturally. The second is liberty. Those concepts are rather standard. But the third—the pursuit of happiness—is not. It is an expression of Jefferson’s genius, I think, and it contains the seeds of what has made America unique. You will find it [in] no other national charter, in no international human rights document. It is solely American.
What does it mean? It means that the individual is paramount, that every person has the right of self-determination. That every American can make his own judgments, chart his own course, choose his own goals, live out his own values, measure success by his own yardstick, and dream big. He owes no accounting to the government or to his fellow citizens for the way he chooses to live his life.
Replacement
As a result of third-world migration—some say, invasion—much of Western Europe is no longer recognizable. Mass third-world immigration is unpopular nearly everywhere, but European elites, being unhappy with their populaces, seem determined to replace them.
Democrats Have a Major Criminal Fetish
For Tou Vang, child rape is “normal in his culture.” Then let us each act according to our national customs and deport Vang back to his homeland, where he can practice his cultural traditions as he sees fit, and see where that leads.
The details of the Vang case are horrific enough. But now we have the added outrage of Democratic politicians trying so score points against “Trump” by preventing the deportation of this monster.
I wrote about a similar case in May involving an armed robber. Minnesota is host to another large, monolithic-voting ethnic community, this one involving Southeast Asians. As with the state’s Somali community, without huge turnout in the Southeast Asian voting block, Democrats could not win elections in Minnesota.
As with any large group, a few of its members have run afoul of the law over the years and have been threatened with deportation. For the first time ever, we have a President (Trump) willing to carry out deportations, and home nations (Laos, Vietnam, etc.) newly willing to take back their own citizens.
To prevent these deportations, Walz and state Attorney General Keith Ellison have been issuing “emergency” pardons that they hope will prevent the execution of final deportation orders filed against these criminals.
Saturday, July 04, 2026
America 250
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
Declaration 150 And 250
About the Declaration there is a finality that is exceedingly restful. It is often asserted that the world has made a great deal of progress since 1776, that we have had new thoughts and new experiences which have given us a great advance over the people of that day, and that we may therefore very well discard their conclusions for something more modern. But that reasoning cannot be applied to this great charter. If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward the time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people. Those who wish to proceed in that direction can not lay claim to progress. They are reactionary. Their ideas are not more modern, but more ancient, than those of the Revolutionary fathers.-President Calvin Coolidge
(First posted on July 6, 2011.)
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.
