Random stuff I find interesting and you may not.
On college campuses and on the liberal side of the political nexus, support for non-violent opposition to Israel gave way to support for Oct 7 and the violent mass murder of Jews. After being initially greeted with polite revulsion, the terrorist side, including Zohran Mamdani, won the argument with the moral pragmatism of genocide lies. … Read more
For many Americans, the issue of greatest salience has nothing to do with the Middle East, the groyper menace, or Jeffrey Epstein. Rather, it has to do with the reasonable concern that they soon won’t be able to afford the life they’re currently living. The University of Michigan’s Index of Consumer Sentiment is at its … Read more
Average family health insurance premiums rose 6% in 2025, nearing $27,000, underscoring consistent increases and warning of more hikes ahead. Higher healthcare spending, including increased hospital and drug prices, is driving up the cost of coverage, according to an annual survey from the nonprofit KFF. For most American families, $27,000 is a lot of money. … Read more
Various departments and programs at UCLA are sponsoring a talk by Rutgers professor Noura Erakat styled Revisiting Zionism as a Form of Racism and Racial Discrimination. And given Erakat’s record, “Revisiting” means “Endorsing the Notion that Zionism is a Form of Racism.” There are two commentators on her talk. There is no pretense of academic … Read more
Americans need to go cold turkey from Uncle Sugar. That the “government shutdown” is disruptive is an indictment of just how far we’ve let the federal Leviathan intrude into areas it doesn’t belong. Of course, it’s not really a shutdown; it’s a temporary suspension of nonessential activities while lawmakers posture over budget issues for the … Read more
The conventional career track of high school, to the glorified credentialing programs we now call colleges, to a narrow sector of the workforce that one has ostensibly been prepared for has never seemed like a good one for all people. It raises a barrier to entry for many jobs, forces life-altering choices on people without … Read more
Donald Trump is a man with a short attention span, a toddler’s sense of entitlement, a high-school mean girl’s thin skin, and the approximate IQ of today’s lunch special at Joe’s Stone Crab, none of which leaves him very well suited to the kind of long-term administrative and management work that effective policy development requires. … Read more
Every day millions of parents put their children under the care of public school teachers, administrators, and support staff. Their trust, however, is frequently broken by predators in authority in what appears to be the largest ongoing sexual abuse scandal in our nation’s history. Given the roughly 50 million students in U.S. K-12 schools each … Read more
Trump’s presidency may have amplified executive power, but unless lawmakers roll back those powers—and the bloated government behind them—the next administration will do the same. Sen. Jeff Merkley (D–Ore.) took to the Senate floor on Tuesday around 6:30 p.m. to “ring the alarm” on what he described as President Donald Trump’s “tightening authoritarian grip on … Read more
Opposition to technological innovation is as mistaken as it is bipartisan. Bernie Sanders thinks that Amazon warehouse jobs are soul-crushing, backbreaking, and exploitative. He is also steadfastly opposed to any automation that would eliminate these undesirable positions. “Big Tech oligarchs are coming for your job,” said the independent Vermont senator on X in response to … Read more
Government interference in health care should be reduced, not expanded. The federal government’s not-really-a-shutdown lingers on, largely driven by Democrats’ insistence on extending pandemic-era subsidies that conceal the real cost of health coverage under the Affordable Care Act (ACA)—better known as Obamacare. It’s not enough that the spending bill under consideration is already bloated with … Read more
There are too many criminals in prison and Mamdani wants to let half of them out. Mamdani complained that the Adams administration had increased the number of criminals in Rikers Island by a thousand and claimed that “we can reduce that jail population to less than four thousand”. The infamous New York City prison has … Read more
Chicago is at 338 murders so far this year and over 1,500 shot. Why? It’s a mystery. Mayor Brandon Johnson recently claimed that “jails and incarceration and law enforcement is a sickness that has not led to safe communities.” He praised Joanne Chesimard aka Assata Shakur, a racist terrorist who murdered a police officer and … Read more
BREAKING NEWS: Father Of Murder Victim Lets Loose On Soft-On-Crime Policies At NC House Hearing In emotionally fraught testimony Monday, Steve Federico, father of a young woman who was brutally murdered by a black career criminal in South Carolina, pleaded with Democrats to stop protecting dangerous criminals with soft-on-crime policies. The House Judiciary … Read more
Texas has an Islam problem. And it’s getting worse. Charges have been filed against three men in connection with a shooting on Sunday, September 21, at The Rac Katy on FM 2855. It happened as youth baseball player and coaches were on the field. A coach for one of the teams is recovering after he … Read more
Zohran Mamdani should get the hint and scrap his proposal for New York City. The cities of Albuquerque and New York don’t have a great deal in common. One is a densely packed East Coast metropolis, while the other is a relatively spread out (and much smaller) city in the American Southwest. But they do … Read more
Is anyone talking about the leadership qualities of Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker? No. Of course not. He is a liar who has run his failed state into the ground, damaging all who can’t escape and still live there. Pritzker has inherited billions of dollars from his family’s hotel empire, allowing him to indulge every whim … Read more
Did anyone ever really believe that men could become women? ‘Tipping Point’ author Malcolm Gladwell helped answer that question when he recently apologized for publicly asserting that men could change sex and fairly compete against women in sports because he was “cowed”. No one bothered to follow up with the more interesting question, ‘What is … Read more
The Constitution is designed to check the power grabs of reckless men. Will Congress and the Courts defend the rule of law against an increasingly lawless executive branch? “I don’t give a sh*t what you call it.” So wrote Vice President J.D. Vance in response to journalist Brian Krassenstein, who questioned Vance’s assertion that assassinating … Read more
Food insecurity in Gaza is being exaggerated, and few observing the real suffering there blame Hamas. The death of a child is a tragedy. The infliction of that death by deliberate starvation is an intolerable crime. And an image of such a starving child is a demand for justice, eliciting deep sympathy from almost everyone … Read more
British satirist and cultural commentator Konstantin Kisin — author of An Immigrant’s Love Letter to the West (2022) — recently shared a debate clip from Doha, Qatar, in which he made a simple observation: Slavery has existed in every human society and across the whole of human history. It’s a statement so uncontroversial it should … Read more
My only purpose in working as a teen was to earn as much money as possible. But I now realize the experience and life lessons those jobs provided were far more valuable. Low-wage, entry-level jobs provide the perfect opportunity for young people to learn the importance of key skills: showing up on time, getting along … Read more
Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee for mayor of New York, isn’t just a self-described democratic socialist; he’s a wealthy democratic socialist. The son of a Columbia professor and a successful filmmaker, Mamdani grew up on Manhattan’s Upper West Side and attended a prestigious and pricey private school. He owns four acres of land on Lake … Read more
On Wednesday morning, the students at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis were attending a Mass in the church next to the school when, suddenly, the stained-glass windows were shattered by a hail of gunfire. The fusillade didn’t stop immediately. Witnesses said that between 50 and 100 bullets were pumped into the church, injuring at least … Read more
In the advertising world, there is an old adage that there are times when you take a pitch and “run it up the flagpole and see who salutes.” That expression came to mind yesterday when President Donald Trump signed an order to punish flag burning. The President may be hoping that the Supreme Court might … Read more