Random stuff I find interesting and you may not.
MINNEAPOLIS, MN — Following recent developments stemming from political protests and clashes with the federal government across the state, Minnesota announced that it had changed the official state bird to a screaming lesbian. After the recent spate of screaming lesbians, state officials agreed that a change was needed to modernize the official state bird and … Read more
This week’s oral arguments before the Supreme Court, in cases involving state laws that ban boys from girls’ sports, may prove to be a decisive turning point in the surreal political struggle over gender ideology. The battle is not won, but the momentum has shifted. Credit Justice Samuel Alito with the question that fully exposed … Read more
Do you know what might have saved Renee Good’s life? A necktie. Bear with me. Good’s death was the result of a lack of professionalism on the part of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. Whatever silly shenanigans Good may have been up to before the shooting, the video of the incident makes it clear that … Read more
“I got older, and I became a Communist,” Graham Platner, the socialist Bernie-endorsed candidate to become Maine’s senator, posted. Platner is also living under Communism. While his mentor, Sen. Bernie Sanders, is famous for never being able to hold down a paying job for long until he went into politics, Platner, the prep school grad … Read more
Every so often, a cultural moment exposes something far deeper than a policy disagreement. That happened again recently when comments from Stranger Things actress Maya Hawke resurfaced online — remarks she made several years ago but which gained renewed attention amid the show’s continued popularity. Appearing on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon in 2022, … Read more
The widespread fraud in Minnesota that’s made national headlines in recent weeks is likely occurring in states across the country, Cato Institute scholar Chris Edwards told The Center Square in an exclusive interview. He called it a “remarkable cascade of fraud scandals.” Edwards, an expert on federal and state tax and budget issues, wrote a … Read more
Big Fertility markets itself as a compassionate branch of the medical world that exists to help infertile couples — but instead it facilitates a return to harem logic. History is littered with powerful men who collected women the way empires collect territory, for the express purpose of producing as many children as possible. The dehumanizing … Read more
Taxpayers have spent hundreds of billions more on completely ineffective daycare than even Somalis have been able to pilfer. The Trump administration announced it is pausing all child-care payments to Minnesota in light of explosive revelations about Somali-saturated fraud rings siphoning billions from federal welfare programs. State officials in Ohio, where the second-largest Somali population … Read more
It was bad enough that ostensibly conservative political commentators Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens both have been the main drivers of a growing divide in the MAGA movement, through their obsession with demonizing Israel and the Jews. Now they have also become leading Western apologists for Islam. Are they even conservative? Were they ever? (Owens … Read more
New research strongly suggests teachers’ unions are driving the skyrocketing administrative bloat that’s sucking resources away from classrooms. By diverting additional funding toward hiring more people, they starve effective educators of the raises and support they need, all to pad their own power structures. Unions benefit enormously from inflating the number of employees in the … Read more
School names, Civil War history, and the politics of historical memory. After whom should one name a school? The United States faces enormous economic, political, and international challenges. However, that isn’t what captured public attention in Harrisonburg, Virginia, during a trial that ended shortly before Christmas. Residents fought over the Shenandoah County School Board decision … Read more
We are not here to be bystanders; political power ultimately rests with us. Last week, I was a guest on Michael Medved’s show, and the host asked a question that surprised me: If the Democrats take the House and the Senate after the midterm elections, will they impeach Donald Trump a third time? I was … Read more
The digital right’s embrace of Jew hatred can no longer be ignored. In a way, I’m glad Candace Owens held up a copy of the notoriously anti-Semitic screed, The Talmudic Jew, during her latest digital rant. For it confirms what she is. More importantly, it lays down a gauntlet to the right. To the left … Read more
Anybody who spends much time on social media, especially that website formerly known as Twitter, has likely seen an uptick in antisemitism these last couple years. As a Catholic, it has been disappointing to see so much of it among Catholic youth. For many years, we lived in a world in which the social memory … Read more
A Hong Kong court this week convicted Jimmy Lai, the territory’s most prominent champion of democracy and basic human rights, of breaching national security. The sham trial and conviction confirm Hong Kong’s tragic descent into tyranny. Hong Kong was long one of the freest places on earth, and Jimmy Lai, age 78, both symbolizes and … Read more
Doing so will not somehow damage the ‘movement.’ Here’s a friendly tip for the confused and apprehensive among us: Whatever the loudest and most intrusive voices within the firmament might like to insist, you don’t actually have to defend Donald Trump when he’s being a complete idiot. Suppose, to pluck a trio of wild examples … Read more
It’s not about Israel. It’s about convincing Jews everywhere to let themselves be killed by Muslim terrorists. If Not Now, is an anti-Israel BDS group, whose gimmick is pretending it’s an organization of “Jewish youth.” (In reality, many of its members are not Jewish and it’s a typical far leftist organization.) There was a period … Read more
If you want to know why Donald Trump and his three-legged psychedelic pinball machine of an administration are on the wrong side of Americans when it comes to economic performance, consider this interesting fact: Grocery inflation is more than twice as bad right now as it was in the closing days of Joe Biden’s presidency, … Read more
On Sunday, a Chabad Hanukkah candle-lighting at Bondi Beach was turned into a massacre. At least 16 people are dead. Witnesses report that the terrorists shouted “Allahu Akbar” between bursts of gunfire. What should have been a moment of communal joy became a scene of mass murder, carried out in full view of a society … Read more
PRESIDENT TRUMP was back in Pennsylvania last week to tout his economic record, but one of the lines that drew attention had nothing to do with jobs or inflation. He revived a crude slur he used in 2018, when he called several poor nations “s**thole countries” during a White House meeting with lawmakers. At the … Read more
Has 2025 been a disastrous year for nonprofits? Allegedly so: For nonprofit organizations and charities — which the administration and Congress have scrutinized, criticized and stripped of federal money — it’s been a repeat of the terrible difficulties of 2008, when the rapid onset of recession led donors to cut back on contributions. At least … Read more
The strange new alliance between democratic socialists and nationalist populists isn’t a sign of political healing. It’s a sign that people have lost their grip on basic economics. In a scene that perfectly captures the strangeness of American politics today, President Donald Trump, a billionaire and self-styled champion of American business (at least the ones … Read more
“The fraud scandal that rattled Minnesota was staggering in its scale and brazenness,” The New York Times reported in a bombshell article on November 30. “Over the last five years, law enforcement officials say, fraud took root in pockets of Minnesota’s Somali diaspora as scores of individuals made small fortunes by setting up companies that … Read more
After Pope Leo XIV met with Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan last month, he reiterated what has become one of the most familiar refrains in international diplomacy: The “only solution” to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, he told reporters, is the creation of a Palestinian state alongside Israel. The pope has said as much before, as have … Read more
Last month, Communist China launched its largest ever crackdown on Christians. The raids across Beijing, Shanghai and eight other cities mark the beginning of an escalation as the paranoid Xi regime sets out to suppress the growing number of Chinese Christians. While the Communist regime claims that the official number of Christians in China is … Read more