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  • An Entire Generation Has Turned Feral

    05/01/2025 1:58:43 PM PDT · by Angelino97 · 57 replies
    The American Spectator ^ | April 30, 2025 | James Fritze
    What do you get when you take a 40 percent out-of-wedlock birthrate, mix it with a 25 percent absentee-father rate, and sprinkle some social media on top? You get feral kids. Raised by their devices and peers, and educated not in the school of virtue but of virality, most of them are in their late teens to early twenties. Anybody living in our nation’s largest cities has become acquainted with these kids in recent years — from the teen takeovers in Chicago and illegal house parties in Nashville to the drag racing in Florida and the storming of malls in...
  • The Dems’ far-left agenda is just starting — and the worst is yet to come

    04/27/2025 6:31:09 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 39 replies
    NY Post ^ | 26 Apr, 2025 | Michael Goodwin
    To most Americans, the big problem with the Democratic Party is that it has moved too far left in recent years. If you’re among those who believe that, brace yourself. The worst is yet to come. A serious push is underway to move the party even further away from the political center, embrace economic plans close to pure socialism and launch radical woke culture battles. It sounds like a bad joke, but it’s really happening. And it’s a movement that goes beyond the socialist fever dreams of Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria ­Ocasio-Cortez. Although some of the push is...
  • Drive-in movies and days gone by

    04/26/2025 6:04:20 PM PDT · by DallasBiff · 81 replies
    Lincoln Times-News ^ | 3/25/25 | Dan Barefoot
    In the 21st century, Americans are enamored with outdoor life. They seem to think that the “au naturel” way of life is quite magical. Did you realize that a type of movie theater was a forerunner of this out-of-doors magic nearly 100 years ago? And, yes my friends, the drive-in theater was an American invention. What a novel idea — a whole group of people could casually view a movie/movies from the privacy of their own vehicles, parked with many others under a star-filled sky
  • Ok, a little favor....AI (artificial intelligence)

    04/25/2025 5:16:55 AM PDT · by ma_che62 · 50 replies
    self | 4/25/25 | self
    I confess to being a troglodyte or cave man or idiot or whatever metaphor you'd like to use but I'm very skeptical of AI...
  • Taco Bell Refuses to Serve English-Speaking Woman

    04/24/2025 7:00:39 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 120 replies
    www.toddstarnes.com ^ | April 24, 2025 | Todd Starnes
    A Florida woman was denied service at a Taco Bell because none of the workers spoke English. Apparently the Chalupa Supreme Combo doesn’t translate South-of-the-border. Alexandria Montgomery posted a video of the entire incident as it unfolded in the drive-thru of the Taco Bell in Hialeah. “Nobody here speaks English? Nobody in the back speaks English? So you can’t take my order,” Montgomery said. At one point another staffer intervened, but that individual claimed not to speak English, too. “She doesn’t want to help me because she don’t speak English. But you know the menu. You work here, so you...
  • Holy Tuesday

    04/15/2025 9:35:37 PM PDT · by kawhill · 3 replies
    https://www.christianity.com/ ^ | Updated Apr 15, 2025 | Dr. Sandra Hamer Smith
    You probably haven’t heard much about Holy Tuesday when people talk about Jesus’ last week in Jerusalem. This day may not have any of the exciting moments that happened at the end of Holy week, but it shows hints of the coming danger and gives us some vital lessons about Jesus' values.
  • Systemic Considerations

    04/14/2025 5:52:02 PM PDT · by little jeremiah · 8 replies
    Clusterf**k Nation ^ | Apr 14, 2025 | James Howard Kunstler
    “Every western society is confronted by an internal cultural conflict between those who wish to distance society from its civilizational legacy and those who wish to renew it.” —Frank Furedi on Substack Whatever else you think is happening in our world, contraction is the reality-based order-of-the-day, and everything else is downstream of that. The world has to get by with less. Nothing is going to fix this for everybody, though any number of schemes for redistributing what’s left will preoccupy the political mojo. Right now, it’s tariffs, which are an attempt to restore industry ceded to the formerly left-behind people...
  • Fundraiser for Accused Killer of TX Football Star Austin Metcalf Rakes in Nearly $90K

    04/07/2025 7:40:49 AM PDT · by Racketeer · 42 replies
    Breitbart News ^ | April 6, 2025 | Katherine Hamilton
    A fundraiser for a Texas teen accused of fatally stabbing Austin Metcalf garnered nearly $90,000 in donations from more than 2,400 donors on Sunday, as the teen claims he acted in self-defense. “The GiveSendGo campaign was purportedly set up by the family of Karmelo Anthony, 17, who cops say confessed to the horrific stabbing at a track meet in Frisco, Texas, last Wednesday,” the New York Post reported.
  • VIDEO: This Is Why Computer Dating Is a Really BAD Idea

    04/05/2025 12:24:58 PM PDT · by PJ-Comix · 115 replies
    Rumble ^ | April 5, 2025 | DUmmie FUnnies
    VIDEOLet this video be your warning to NEVER go on a computer date because even if she turns out to good looking, there is an excellent chance you will end up with someone who has gone Full Mental Jacket. Oh, and avoid blind dates as well. Those almost never work out. Ol' PJ once knew a woman who looked like Sophia Loren who set me up on a blind date with her sister. I figured the sister must also give off the same Sophia Loren vibes so imagine my SHOCK when the door opened to my blind date who looked...
  • How Estrangement Has Become an Epidemic in America

    03/29/2025 6:54:15 PM PDT · by DoodleBob · 89 replies
    Time ^ | December 13, 2024 | JOSHUA COLEMAN AND WILL JOHNSON
    He’s a father of a 28-year-old son and he’s hurting. A retired police officer, he proudly voted for Donald Trump every time he ran and never hid his political beliefs from his family. “My son and his wife say that since I’m a fan of Trump they’re no fan of mine and cut me off,” he said. “Now I can’t see my only grandchild who I was so close to. It’s crazy and it’s tragic.” … Social psychologists have long understood that merely identifying with a group in competitive contexts can lead people to view those outside the group less...
  • New audiobook release: Great Events in the History of North and South America by Charles A. Goodrich

    03/30/2025 4:47:21 PM PDT · by ProgressingAmerica · 5 replies
    PGA Weblog ^ | 3/30/25
    Today I would like to highlight the release of a book written by Charles A. Goodrich: Great Events in the History of North and South America https://librivox.org/great-events-in-the-history-of-north-and-south-america-by-charles-goodrich/This book ought to be highly useful for home schoolers, it is nearly 90 sections of audio covering a much more generalized education than a deep-dive into one single person or historical event. Many of the audio sections are short in length in the 5-10 minute range, and while the book mentions both North America and South America, 75%~ of the book is North America and almost half of it is the American Revolution...
  • Whites, Blacks & Culture

    03/08/2025 7:45:41 AM PST · by Starman417 · 26 replies
    Flopping Aces ^ | 03-08-25 | Vince
    If you spend any time online (particularly after Kendrick Lamar’s halftime show) you’ll come across memes that say that America was built by blacks or that Shakespeare’s work was written by a black woman or that black Africans built western civilization. I’m not convinced. To put it bluntly, has black Africa ever given the world anything of consequence since humans originated there? Has black Africa ever had a civilization worthy of comparison to the great civilizations we’re all familiar with? Is there a reason why Africa has the lowest IQs on the planet? That almost every country in Africa is...
  • Should Good People Pray for a Malicious Pope?

    03/04/2025 6:23:00 AM PST · by Stepan12 · 71 replies
    Frontpage Magazine ^ | March 4, 2025 | Joseph Hippolito
    As Pope Francis approaches death, millions of Catholics around the world put aside their differences with the man to pray for him. Some pray for what Catholics call a “happy death” free from mortal sin. Some pray for his return to health. Some pray for his conversion or repentance.“It’s a sad thing to say but there should be no controversy whatsoever about people sincerely praying for the salvation of the pope’s soul,” said Frank Wright, a British Catholic journalist. “I see nothing but good intentions for that. I pray for the soul of the pope myself. It’s our duty.”It might...
  • US friendship is in freefall — shredding bonds and cutting lives short

    02/25/2025 1:03:11 AM PST · by george76 · 75 replies
    New York Post ^ | Feb. 24, 2025 | Karol Markowicz
    The loss of friendship is measurable, and can be seen in every age group and demographic -- although working-class Americans look to be hardest hit.. Friendship in America is in steep decline: We’re more disconnected from each other than ever, and the gulf between us is only growing. Does it matter? It does. We know that friendships are good for us. People with stronger social interactions live longer than those without, according to a study published last week in the UK’s Nature Medicine journal. Living with a partner, for example, is as good for physical health as regular exercise, researchers...
  • How to handle bad customer service ... without holding a grudge

    02/22/2025 11:31:02 AM PST · by CondoleezzaProtege · 23 replies
    NBC ^ | Dana McMahan
    Can you remember the last customer service experience that left you fuming? Not too hard, right? We all want to be treated with a level of respect, and with so many people veering on the edge of a boiling rage these days sometimes all it takes is one nasty exchange with a company's representative to send you teetering over the edge. It happened to me recently when I made a call about an item I'd returned to a company for an exchange that had seemed to vanish. The agent on the phone interrupted me repeatedly and was actively unhelpful. Even...
  • Leftist lawyer Benjamin Crump calls for crime to be legalized because it's just part of black culture

    02/19/2025 4:55:58 AM PST · by MtnClimber · 68 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 18 Feb, 2025 | Monica Showalter
    Who needs the Klan when there are guys like left-wing lawyer Benjamin Crump doing what it does better? According to Fox Business host Charles Payne: [Video and X-post at link] The video, which has an MSNBC badge below it, and was probably made in 2024, features Crump, who represented George Floyd and Trayvon Martin in their race-baiting cases, shooting cue balls on a pool table with the Rev. Al Sharpton and a couple other men, waxing philosophical between pool shots: "We can get rid of all the crime in America, overnight, just like that ... change the definition of crime....
  • Investigations launched, NSW Health nurses stood down over video making threatening comments about Israeli patients

    02/11/2025 8:32:25 PM PST · by GingisK · 10 replies
    ABC Austrailia ^ | 02/11/2025 | NSW Health Minister Ryan Park
    Two NSW Health nurses have been stood down after video emerged showing them allegedly bragging about killing and refusing to treat Israeli patients.The clip was shared by content creator Max Veifer speaking to a man and a woman, both of whom have been confirmed to be health workers from Bankstown Hospital in Sydney's south-west.
  • This is what Victorian people sounded like

    02/07/2025 4:15:58 AM PST · by Eleutheria5 · 28 replies
    In a previous video I introduced the oldest voices that can still be heard through recordings made on Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville’s phonautograph and Thomas Edison’s early tinfoil phonograph. This time, we look at how efforts to promote Edison’s new “perfected” phonograph in Britain led to the preservation of the voices of many famous Victorians - from poets and composers like Robert Browning and Arthur Sullivan, to major political figures like William Gladstone. We will also see how his rivals finally succeeded in recording the voice of Queen Victoria.
  • From Protests to Prime Time: How USAID Powers the Deep State’s Hold on Culture, News, and Healthcare

    02/06/2025 7:53:14 AM PST · by Starman417 · 38 replies
    Flopping Aces ^ | 02-06-25 | Jeff Childers
    Yesterday, the Washington Post ran a remarkable story headlined, “DOGE broadens sweep of federal agencies, gains access to health payment systems.” In other words, after exposing the Deep State’s regime-change operation, DOGE is sprinting into the Swampy engine room: the CDC and Medicare / Medicaid Services, the domestic versions of USAID, how the Blob effectuates its aims here at home. It’s impossible to overestimate the revolutionary significance of the abolition of USAID and its poisonous children. Emerging from the fog of bureaucratic and political war, we see dimly the rough outlines of the Golden Era that Candidate Trump promised, a...
  • Russian Views on Morality Will Shock You

    01/28/2025 9:03:14 PM PST · by buwaya · 51 replies
    Youtube ^ | 1/29/2025 | Elvira Bary
    "Why are Russians often seen as amoral, brutal, or ruthless?" In this video, I tackle this intriguing question from a subscriber's perspective as a writer born in the USSR. Join me as I uncover the deep social and historical forces that shape Russian behavior, exploring the layers of the social pyramid, the influence of state power, and its impact on morality and actions. From loyalty to authority to the importance of personal connections, I dive into the unique dynamics of Russian culture and social structures. Get ready for an eye-opening journey into the complexities behind the perceptions. Video Chapters: 00:00...