Random stuff I find interesting and you may not.
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
Big city mayors’ progressive ambitions are on a collision course with fiscal reality. Progressives were elated when Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani won an upset victory over former Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the Democrats’ New York mayoral primary this past June. The 33-year-old self-described socialist’s win “sends a clear message,” gushed Jared Abbott in Jacobin. “A bold … Read more
The Bishops would have the US incentivize illegal immigration, rewarding lawbreakers with public health benefits. America’s Catholic bishops are at it again: undermining the nation’s sovereignty and security for the sake of a misinterpretation of the Catholic Church’s teachings on immigration. In a ten-page public comment, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) asked the … Read more
Perónism: the one import that Trump likes. When economist Javier Milei won the Argentine presidency in 2023, the international media portrayed his victory in the light of America’s burgeoning populist movement. “Who is Javier Milei?” asked The Guardian. Describing him as the country’s “new far-right president,” the publication compared him to “his fellow right-wing populists … Read more
How big food and big pharma hatched a crisis. They lied. For 50 years, nutrition “experts” told you eggs would kill you. A University of South Australia study just proved them wrong. Eggs don’t cause heart disease. They never did. The methodology was embarrassingly simple. Separate the effects of cholesterol from those of saturated fat. … Read more
Beginning with the Obama administration, Muslims murdered over 125,000 Christians in Nigeria. This revelation in the latest report from the International Society for Civil Liberties and the Rule of Law documents a Christian genocide that has been taking place in Africa, enabled by Barack Obama and the State Department, and carried out with the complicity … Read more
Zarah Sultana is so wrong. Today’s obsessive loathing for Israel is definitely driven by bigotry. Is it anti-Semitic to criticise Israel? Of course not. No nation on Earth should be shielded from the brickbats or even the ridicule of the world’s citizens. Is it anti-Semitic to rage day in, day out against Israel? To think … Read more
Rare is the day that passes during which I don’t, at least once (and usually more than once), say to myself, “Omigosh, I do wish that HL Mencken were still alive and active; he’d have a field day commenting on this particular politician or that tempest du jour.” There’s no question that if I could … Read more
AMMAN — As experts and diplomats continue to search for the solution to the generations-long conflict in the region, one surprising study has concluded that problems in the Middle East should definitely be blamed on the 0.3% of it that isn’t an Islamic dictatorship. Though opinions on the conflict have been divided over the decades, … Read more
Republican states aren’t high-crime states. Only Democrat cities are. Gov. Gavin Newsom and elements of the media keep making the claim that Republican states ‘red states’ have higher crime than Democrat states or ‘blue states’. This is really one of those ‘lying with statistics’ exercises. The national political split is in great part an urban-rural … Read more
The Hong Konger: Jimmy Lai’s Extraordinary Struggle for Freedom [Full Film] See also “Trump vows to push for release of jailed Catholic activist Jimmy Lai“ Related PostsCommunist Terrorist Kills Engaged Couple Outside Israeli Embassy ‘Woke’ college students benefit from the slavery of millions of people. Shia LaBeouf enters Catholic Church, considers vocation to … Read more
Dr. Gregory Stanton, founder of Genocide Watch, argues that genocide unfolds through a ten-step process. It begins with early warning signs like discrimination and dehumanization, then escalates into violent persecution and extermination. But Stanton’s final stage might come as a surprise. He says genocide culminates with denial, and that denial is an integral part of … Read more
How progressive rhetoric on immigration masks condescension and control. It has become a familiar scene: A Democratic strategist sits on a cable news panel, the host mentions illegal immigration, and phrases such as “white privilege,” “doing the jobs Americans won’t do,” and “no human being is illegal” drop so predictably you could play bingo. Throw … Read more
Tariffs on auto parts, meant to “protect America’s automobile industry,” make repairs more expensive and drive up the cost of insurance. We expect certain actions will have certain effects: For example, when President Donald Trump imposes double-digit tariffs on imports from nearly every country in the world, we shouldn’t be surprised that prices would go … Read more
Andrew Fox on the truth about the aid crisis, the lies of Hamas and how Keir Starmer is rewarding terror. Andrew Fox: What I saw in Gaza | The Brendan O’Neill Show Andrew Fox – former British Army officer and an associate fellow at the Henry Jackson Society – returns to The Brendan … Read more
President Donald Trump has a historic opportunity to turn American academia back into an institution that serves Americans. He recently denied Harvard University additional international students in his crackdown on foreign subversion and discriminatory diversity, equity, and inclusion policies. Harvard won a temporary restraining order, but with the Supreme Court in safe hands, he is … Read more
Los Angeles County is struggling with a massive budget crunch. Sales taxes are rising to over 10% in some areas and many departments are being cut down the line over what Fesia Davenport, the county’s first black female CEO, has described as “unprecedented financial challenges” and “extraordinary budgetary pressures.” But those challenges are not coming … Read more
On Oct 7, 2023, thousands of Muslim Jihadis swept from Gaza into Israel, killing, torturing, raping and kidnapping anyone in their path. The victims included not only Israelis or Jews, but Americans and Europeans, Christians and Buddhists, as well as those Bedouins whom the Hamas, PLO and Islamic Jihad attackers did not consider Muslims. Their … Read more
After five decades of failure, a rubber-stamp renewal of UNIFIL is no longer acceptable. The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon, UNIFIL, is up for a renewal of its mandate in the United Nations Security Council this August. The United States should oppose renewal and end a costly 47-year program with a price tag of … Read more
There is one big problem with recognizing a Palestinian state, as the United Kingdom, France, and Canada apparently intend to do: There is no Palestinian state. You wouldn’t know that from the formalities: Almost as many countries recognize the so-called Palestinian state as recognize Israel. But a Palestinian state cannot be wished into existence. It … Read more
From the start of Israel’s war against Hamas, there have been dire warnings of imminent famine in Gaza that have proven false. In November 2023, just over a month after the October 7 massacres, United Nations World Food Programme director Cindy McCain told CBS that Israel’s effort to destroy Hamas had already put Gaza “on … Read more
If you go back to the early 20th century, people who wanted a career in the law did not have to go to law school at all, much less one meeting the standards of the American Bar Association. Then, starting in the 1920s, the ABA decided that it had to “improve” legal education, and it … Read more
President Donald Trump’s Liberation Day — “one of the most important days in American history,” he says — was one day late. Instead of proclaiming April 2 as Liberation Day, April 1 — April Fools’ Day — would have been a more appropriate choice. April 1 has traditionally been celebrated by pranks, jokes, and hoaxes. … Read more
The terror group considers the agony of Gazans a useful weapon in the narrative war. From this perverted point of view, a famine would be welcome news. Hamas started a war, rejected a cease-fire, and stole and profited from humanitarian aid, and we are supposed to believe that it’s all Israel’s fault. International attention is … Read more
AS THE days grow shorter and schools prepare to reopen, debates over how students are taught about race, identity, and history are heating up again. In California, San Francisco’s mandatory ethnic-studies program has sparked fierce backlash from parents and conservative groups, who are alarmed at how the curriculum promotes political activism in the classroom. The … Read more