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In an appearance on The Light Podcast, hosted by his wife, Michelle, former President Barack Obama offered his views on male development and friendships, saying "a dad, no matter how good the dad is, can't be everything. A boy may need somebody to give the boy some perspective on the dad, like Frank Davis did for me when I was growing up." "I had a gay professor in college at a time when openly gay folks still weren't out a lot, who became one of my favorite professors and was a great guy and would call me out when I...

https://danfromsquirrelhill.wordpress.com/2025/07/30/billionaires/Since Bernie Sanders, Zohran Mamdani, and other people believe that billionaires shouldn’t exist, I asked Grok what would happen if the government were to seize Elon Musk’s wealth.By Daniel Alman (aka Dan from Squirrel Hill)July 30, 2025Bernie Sanders said:“Billionaires should not exist.”Source:https://x.com/BernieSanders/status/1176481898685710337Billionaires should not exist. https://t.co/hgR6CeFvLa— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) September 24, 2019Zohran Mamdani said:“I don’t think that we should have billionaires.”Source:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VowT8L8Uu6kI asked Grok:Some people, such as Bernie Sanders and Zohran Mamdani, say that it’s wrong for anyone to be a billionaire. Twitter has a hashtag called #BillionairesShouldntExist. Some also say that rich people “hoard” their money. What percentage of Musk’s...

VIDEOPoll after poll has revealed a STEEP decline in the Democrat Party. One big reason is that most normal people are completely turned off by the LACK of any sign of mental health among the liberals and have no interest to associate with such loons. This video compilation reveals that the most outspoken of the libs are in severe need of being committed to asylums. The good news for them is that PRESIDENT Trump is now advocating for the reopening of the mental asylums that have been closed with the resultant INSANITY you see here.

Dr. Naomi Wolf interview "Are Allies of Israel being Targeted?" w/ Jonathan Pollard who betrayed U.S. SigInt "Bible" to Israel & U.S.S.R. which cost American Lives to Assemble Today Dr. Naomi Wolf conducted a laudatory interview on the topic "Are Allies of Israel being Targeted?" with convicted spy, Jonathan Pollard, animated-gif video thumbnail below. Pollard had betrayed the U.S. SigInt 'Bible' to Israel, which in turn gave it to the Soviets, its subjects.The SigInt "Bible" was assembled at the cost of some lives. The answer is "No", to the question, "do we know the identities of any of those who...

Sure, the calendar may still read "2025," but the 2028 presidential primary season will be here before you know it. While big names like Gavin Newsom, Kamala Harris, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez grab all the headlines, there are other Democratic candidates making waves behind the scenes. The Babylon Bee has obtained the following list of frontrunners for the 2028 Democratic nomination: 1. Hunter Biden: The perfect heir to the family legacy, only with more F-words and crack. 2. Kilmar Abrego Garcia: Few candidates have been able to build as much support among the Democratic base as this wife-beating illegal immigrant. 3....

This was the (top part of) front page of the New York Times on July 25 featuring what appears to be a starving, emaciated Gaza child.I just went through the front pages of the New York Times for the past 365 days. Not once has it positioned a photo in this extraordinary way.Usually the NYT will feature a photo that is four columns wide, and that photo is always wider than it is tall (landscape). For example, here is the front page from yesterday, illustrating the mass shooting in Manhattan.Once every couple of months it has a feature photo that...

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Rick Crawford (R-AR) have dropped a political nuke on Washington: Smoking-gun thumb drives containing unreviewed evidence in the Hillary Clinton email scandal have been sitting in an FBI office collecting dust for over SIX YEARS. The letter, addressed directly to FBI Director Kash Patel, demands that the unevaluated materials — which include sensitive intelligence, foreign communications, and damning evidence related to the Clinton Foundation and Barack Obama — be immediately reviewed and exposed to the American people. “Thumb drives containing unreviewed info on the Clinton...

The U.S. Air Force’s plan to buy “at least 185” F-47 sixth-generation fighters is “dangerously delusional” and inadequate for a future war. To maintain air dominance against peer competitors like China, the U.S. needs a fleet of at least 400-500 F-47s. The current plan repeats the historic mistake made with the F-22 Raptor, where a small, boutique fleet was procured that proved insufficient for global demands.

Rep. Rick Crawford joined the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) in early 2017, just as the Obama administration was putting the Russia collusion hoax into motion. The Arkansas Republican and his fellow committee members would soon be up to their necks in one of the darkest chapters in U.S. intelligence history. On Jan. 6, 2017, documents suggest, the deep state was setting up its own brand of insurrection, pushing an Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) filled with dubious information and sourcing that Crawford believes was designed to topple President-elect Donald Trump’s first term in office. “Forgive me for being...

The Admiral Kuznetsov, Russia’s only aircraft carrier, is likely headed for the scrapyard after a disastrous career. Plagued by mishaps, including a fire, a crane collapsing on its deck, and the sinking of its drydock, the carrier has been out of service since 2017. With its crew reportedly transferred to fight in Ukraine and the Russian economy strained by war, the Kremlin can no longer afford the “albatross.”

Preface. This is my book review of Chris Mooney’s 2012 “The Republican Brain. The Science of Why They Deny Science—and Reality”. This has grown from a review of this book (far below) to more recent science and writing on the conservative mind. People who want certainty and do not like change or changing their mind have been with us since humans evolved. That is discussed in another post: Garcia, H. 2019. Sex, Power, and Partisanship. How evolutionary science makes sense of our political divide. Lately with all the division and even talk of civil war, there have been many broadcasts...

1. "Genocide in Darfur – How the Horror Began." By Eric Reeves. SudanTribune September 3, 2005: "likely more than four million if we consider its earlier phase (1955-72)." Add the hundreds of thousands dead since 2005 including 150,000 2023/4 3. Nigeria, Igbo genocide by Hausa-Fulani Jihad: 3 million 2. 1971, 3 Million Bengalis by Pakistan using Islamic themes. 3. Idi Amin, sought to islamicize Uganda, 300,000. 4. Lebanon 1970s-1999 - by Syria and "Palestinians" Muslims: 300,000. 5. Iran 1979 Islamic Revolution: 80,000. 6. Saddam Hussein (- Quran waving dictator), 500,000. 7. Iran-Iraq war (Sunni vs Shiite), 1.5 million. 8. Yemen,...

When Russia invaded Ukraine, its primary objective was not just territorial expansion—it was the outright elimination of Ukraine’s independent government. Russian leader Vladimir Putin even claimed that the bloodshed caused by Russia’s invasion is “fully and wholly” the responsibility of “the ruling Ukrainian regime” in his address on February 24, 2022. As Ukraine’s political and military heart, Kyiv was the ultimate target. Historically, the fall of a nation’s capital has often signaled the collapse of its government and the end of organized defense. Russia’s plan closely mirrored the Blitzkrieg tactics of Nazi Germany in 1940, when swift mechanized assaults and...

It’s easy to think of American voters as hopelessly polarized, with few true Independents or undecided voters. But when you look beyond how people vote, to what they actually believe, the picture is more complex. In 2025, we expanded our Political Quadrants to include a third dimension gauging Anti-Establishment sentiment. We then took the combined responses and clustered them, uncovering eight Political Tribes in the American Electorate. ============ Download detailed report here.

A church in Montreal, Quebec, has been slapped with a $2,500 fine for hosting a church service featuring activist missionary and worship leader Sean Feucht, whose views on sexuality, gender and President Donald Trump have drawn the ire of authorities in multiple Canadian cities. Ministerios Restauración Church, a Spanish-speaking congregation in Montreal's Plateau-Mont-Royal borough, was fined because they allowed Feucht to conduct a worship service last Friday without a permit, according to the National Post. The stop in Montreal was part of the "Revive in 25" tour being led by Feucht, an outspoken Trump supporter who has denounced abortion, transgender...

VIDEOThe latest darling of the Democrats, James Talarico, a leftist politician out of Texas has as his shtick the PRETENSE of being a devout believer in the Bible. Of course, for him that means citing the Bible to promote leftist ideology. However, the hilarious thing is that the most effective person to discredit him is James Talarico himself as you will see. Also hilarious is how poor Talarico twists himself into a pretzel to explain how the Bible doesn't really mean what it clearly says. His excuse is that the Bible uses "ancient euphemisms" that shouldn't be taken literally. Meanwhile...

You could visualize CNN This Morning host Audie Cornish in the green room, prepping her panelists for today's show. "So, Trump's had a few good weeks. Worked out ceasefires between India and Pakistan, and Thailand and Cambodia. Did a bunch of trade deals, and is coming off a successful trip to Scotland in which he and von der Leyen announced a deal for a 15% tariff on most EU exports to the US, and an EU commitment to purchase $750 billion worth of U.S. energy exports. Sucks, I know. So guys, want you to get to work from the go...

As RedState reported, a woman was sucker-punched and left incapacitated in Cincinnati in an incident that quickly went viral. What sparked the fight remains an unknown, and authorities haven't exactly been forthcoming with information. They have been forthcoming on other things, though, which we'll get to momentarily. Ohio gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy spoke to the woman, revealing that she's a single mother named Holly and that she was attending a birthday party. He also accused Cincinnati PD of not having any presence in the area despite a major music festival going on nearby. Some initially claimed this was a racially...

For decades, China’s advanced fighter jets, including the J-20 stealth fighter, were held back by a critical dependency on Russian-made engines. China has systematically overcome this weakness, evolving from copying Russia’s AL-31F engine to reverse-engineering Western commercial cores and finally developing its own powerful, indigenous designs like the WS-10 and WS-15.

President Trump’s former impeachment attorney David Schoen dropped a legal nuke on the legacy of Barack Obama — declaring that the 44th President of the United States can still be impeached, and if so, could lose his post-presidential immunity and face indictment for criminal conduct tied to the Russia Collusion hoax. This explosive revelation came just days after President Trump remarked that Obama owed him “big” for the recent Supreme Court decision affirming presidential immunity for official acts committed while in office. But Schoen isn’t letting Obama off the hook. Let’s not forget — during their second failed impeachment attempt...