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Two of the radio and television shows that I was on yesterday were hosted by liberals. In each case, they asked what I thought *we* can do to reduce political violence. For starters, I said, you can stop calling everyone you disagree with Adolf Hitler. They didn’t seem to think that was a good idea. Which raises the question: Why do liberal politicians, talking heads and social media influencers relentlessly liken Donald Trump to Hitler? In every relevant way, Trump is the exact opposite of Hitler. Hitler invaded Poland, France, Belgium, Russia, the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, Yugoslavia, Greece, and no...

These poor fools are missing the big picture. When there's a killing the left always tries to assign the killer to the right. We're used to it. And the vast majority of the right always overwhelmingly condemns the killer. Only this time all the moderate normie republicans out there saw MILLIONS of liberals celebrate and justify the brutal murder of a man... all because that man held beliefs similar to theirs. Beliefs that regular Americans consider completely normal and common sense. These normal folks were going about their day, then they saw some shocking brutality, and before they could even...

... The list of iniquities, sadly, goes on and on. In the name of “criminal justice reform,” for example, hordes of violent criminals were let loose, backed up by progressive attorneys general and activist judges and local legislators who robbed law enforcement officials of any means of meting out justice. Bail, we were told, was modern day Jim Crow. Prison was slavery in other forms. Policing was racist. And when savages like Decarlos Brown Jr., with 14 prior violent convictions to his record, were set loose, it was only a matter of time before they produced a knife and slaughtered...

Charlie Kirk, co-founder and CEO of TurningPoint USA, was assassinated at Utah Valley University yesterday (10 Sept 2025). I really don’t care if you hated him, thought he was a racist, misogynistic, homophobic asshole, or whatever; only a sick, twisted individual would think that somebody deserves to die for the crime of holding different opinions. Since at least Reagan and Nixon, the Left has made a point of calling all Republican opponents Hitler and comparing Republican/conservative policies to Nazi policies... A friend pointed out on Facebook that when it is your M.O. to call all your political opponents “literally Hitler”...

Businessman and Media personality Patrick Bet-David recently appeared on Jubilee to defend Capitalism against 20 socialists. What followed was masterclass on the topic of why socialism fails. .... - Hiding behind altruistic motives, one debater claimed that he “served humanity” as a substitute teacher and tutor. Then he wondered why he wasn’t worth more in the market, even as he presented himself as a homeless guy wearing a dress. - Another debater admitted to his disability and mental illness, although he blamed it squarely on capitalism, and then refused the offer of psychiatric help on PBD’s dime. - Multiple speakers...

There was a clip doing the rounds a few months ago from Charlie Kirk’s clash with students at the Cambridge Union. It featured Kirk going head to head with a fidgeting posh oddball whose ginger bouffant defied gravity. Anyone who’s ever visited Cambridge will be familiar with this kind of kid: woke, pompous, his arrogance entirely out of proportion to his intellect. Tell me this, said Kirk: ‘In the conflict of Israel vs Hamas, who’s the good guy?’ His diminutive adversary twitched and stuttered, then finally spoke. ‘Both Hamas and the Israeli government are evil’, he said, giving perfect voice...

Charlie Kirk was murdered during a debate.Here were his last words:Questioner: Do you know how many transgender Americans have been mass shooters over the last 10 years?Charlie Kirk: Too many.Questioner: Do you know how many mass shooters there have been in America over the last 10 years?Charlie Kirk: Counting or not counting gang violence?Then he was shot and killed. And the feds say the ammo the shooter left behind was engraved with “transgender ideology.” Quite a coincidence, huh?As of this writing, we don’t know who did it or exactly why. But a lot of Kirk’s self-styled enemies sure are happy...

VIDEOLet us remember Charlie Kirk doing what he did best namely changing lives as well as America simply by engaging others, particularly college students, in polite dialogue. He was the BEST of us.

The living memory of World War II is passing away. In April, the oldest known survivor of Pearl Harbor died at 106 years old. A few weeks ago, a 102-year old veteran who stormed the beaches of Normandy on D-Day (June 6, 1944) entered his eternal reward. Sadly, less than one percent of the war’s veterans are still alive. However, more troubling and dark, the increasing deaths of witnesses — those who endured the conflict and its horrors — has been coupled with the rise of revisionist ahistorical conspiracies about the Second World War. Worse, this is increasingly a right-wing...

I have written several posts on California Federal District Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong’s temporary restraining order more or less preventing ICE from operating in California’s Central District — the district covering the seven counties of Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, and Ventura. The counties’ population of nearly 20 million people is the largest of any federal judicial district in the country. I wrote about Judge Frimpong’s crimping of ICE in posts that are accessible here. It’s crazy, baby. That’s my view. ... By a vote of 6-3, the Supreme Court order has stayed Judge...

Doug Ross has created a very readable six-part series, with illustrations, outlining in great detail and in dramatic form the corruption of the FBI and the entire intelligence community in the latter years of the Obama administration, beginning first with an extensive cover-up of Hillary Clinton’s illegal use of a private server for sending classified emails, followed by the initial stages of the Russian collusion hoax against Trump that was also used to justify spying on his campaign. The series admits to be being a dramatization, but is also is based entirely on actual facts that are now documented and...

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Much was foretold this last weekend by Mahmoud Khalil, the formerly arrested Columbia University Palestinian student leader, who spoke before the pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel “People’s Conference for Palestine” held in Detroit, Michigan. Khalil, the keynote speaker, told a room packed with thousands of pro-Palestinian militants that they should organize a “national liberation movement” in the United States. “We should build a national liberation movement,” Khalil advised the activist audience who openly strategized for “resistance.” “We should build a national liberation movement,” Khalil advised the activist audience who openly strategized for “resistance.”

...this brief interview with Illinois Governor JB Pritzker, walking next to Lake Michigan:Breaking911 @Breaking911 · Follow REPORTER: “This past weekend, 54 shot, 7 dead…”PRITZKER: “Look, big cities have crime!”The interview is notable for Pritzker’s complete lack of a defense. “Big cities have crime!” Yes, and Chicago has more than most. Better just accept it, says the billionaire Pritzker, who is protected by an armed security detail....Note, too, how pitiful Pritzker’s attack on Trump is. He accuses Trump of discriminating against cities in blue states–there are cities in red states that have high crime, too! Sure, and those cities, just like...

From the U.K. Daily Mail,Brazen driver is arrested by FBI for stealing ICE agents’ vehicle during immigration raid.The “driver” in question is one Bobby Nunez, who used his tow truck to remove a marked ICE vehicle during an arrest of an illegal immigrant last month.Nunez was laughing and having a great time during his theft of government property. He was much less happy during his perp walk. Bill Melugin of Fox News commented on Twitter (X) today,According to the criminal complaint, which was signed off on by a federal judge, Nunez was laughing and recording the ICE agents on his...

Over the Labor Day weekend, more than 50 people were shot, and seven were killed in Chicago. It's as bad as it gets, and for a blue city in a blue state, it's not surprising.Chicago is also one of the cities that has vehemently opposed President Trump's plan to crack down on crime. Mayor Brandon Johnson called jailing criminals racist and immoral and Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker claimed Trump's plan is to really 'interfere' with the 2026 elections. A Democratic councilman in Chicago broke ranks with his party and said Johnson should take Trump up on the offer (don't hold...

One of the most striking things about the Biden years was the proliferation of...idiosyncratic..."public servants" and, in particular, how obviously their presence was shoved in our face. We went from being asked to tolerate "idiosyncracies" when they were expressed in private life (which seems fair) to embracing the authority of "experts" who clearly hate us. There are lots of examples, but the two which have popped up in the news due to their finally departing government are Rachel Levine and Demetre C. Daskalakis MD MPH (he/his/him). Levine was booted, Daskalakis resigned, and walked out the door. Levine, who was presented...

“We have to destroy the idea of America in our heads, in our neighbors’ heads, in our comrades’ heads, in everybody’s heads in this country.”The People’s Conference for Palestine, held in Troy, Michigan, this past weekend, was billed as a grassroots gathering of Palestinian activists and their allies. But behind the carefully packaged language of “liberation,” the rhetoric captured in multiple clips from the conference reveals an alarming mix of anti-Americanism and anti-Semitism—messaging that seeks to delegitimize the United States itself while demonizing Israel and its supporters. The clips, shared by Twitter/X user @thestustustudio (Stu Smith), expose the raw language...

We were walking to our train in the main Glasgow, Scotland train station a half hour ago. Halfway down the platform there were two policemen restraining a crazy man who was screaming at the police and struggling to break free from the cops. I really wanted to get a video, but didn’t want to go to jail for that.

Revelations of all kinds are upon us. Here's one that just caught my eye. It's about Zohran Mamdani's film-maker mother, Mira Nair, whose films I've reviewed over the years. Guess who funded Mira Nair's propaganda filmmaking? According to Will Bredderman at the New York Post, (August 31st), none other than Sheikha Al-Mayassa bint Hamad Al-Thani, sister to the ruling Emir of Qatar. Qatar! The banker for Iran's terrorist proxy, Hamas, and for Afghanistan's Taliban; the safe haven for terrorist leaders and for antisemitic psychologists such as Lara Sheehi; the owners of Al-Jazeera, which was founded in 1996. Al Jazeera? An...