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Taliban “supreme leader” Hibatullah Akhundzada recently approved a novel criminal code, multiple outlets reported this week, that dramatically expands the legal ability for men to physically abuse women and children and provides for the creation of a formal “slave” class in the country. The Taliban is a radical Islamist terror organization that currently operates as the uncontested government of Afghanistan. The Taliban returned to power on August 15, 2021, following former President Joe Biden’s decision to extend the 20-year-old Afghan War beyond the deadline of May 15 of that year that President Donald Trump had previously agreed to. The Taliban’s...

The Sally Jenkins meltdown.Taking things particularly hard has been sportswriter Sally Jenkins, publishing a piece called “You Can’t Kill Swagger” in The Atlantic. “The Post Sports section is, was, no ordinary section, in heritage or in coverage,” Jenkins wrote. “It was habitually young, because it required hiring people with no sense of off-the-clockness. We moved in a close group… We came from all over, competed desperately to outwrite one another, teased one another mercilessly, loved one another.” The Post’s sportswriters were trained “to grab the pen and go, and to regard sportswriting as merely another portal through which to report...

The Land of Make Believe will eventually come to an end, and sobriety and rationality will be restored. Let’s pray the correction doesn’t come in the form of a hot war or a natural disaster.In a recent viral video, an angry mob (composed almost entirely of white women) hurled expletives at the staff of a Minneapolis CorePower yoga studio, berating them because they reportedly removed anti-ICE signage. While their verbal onslaught apparently worked in this case, these females revealed just how many women live in a Land of Make Believe where everyone magically bends to their will. This tiny glimpse...

Intent vs results. I had this conversation with Grok.Me:This person was planning to be a nursing assistant, but they died in a car crash and were not wearing a seat belt.It seems to me that if someone was not wearing a seat belt, they’d probably be very bad as a nursing assistant, because they ignore the most basic of safety instructions.https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/high-school-senior-dies-high-202105021.htmlGrok:The article you linked (and recent reports confirm) is about Olivia Bumbac, an 18-year-old high school senior from Parkway Central High School in Missouri. She died on February 15, 2026, in a tragic high-speed crash on Interstate 64. She was...

“Not only are Jews unsafe in her care, but it calls into question the judgment of those who employ her" says Physicans Against Antisemitsm (PAA).A California-based registered nurse has come under fire from the nation’s largest organization combatting antisemitism in healthcare after she posted dozens of tirades against Judaism and Jews, saying they pray to the “Synagogue of Satan” and that Judaism is “built on lies.” The nurse — RN Gina Borggrebe — works at Michael Lin Advanced Dermatology and for Paul Dougherty MD, according to her LinkedIn. The nurse is based in California and works throughout the LA county...

And Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have never looked so out of touch.You know things must have been bad for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in Munich for the New York Times to attempt some damage control.But rather than the substance of her arguments, it was her on-camera stumbles when answering questions about specific world affairs that rocketed around conservative social media and drove plenty of the discussion about her visit, as political observers speculated whether they would make a dent in a potential presidential run in 2028.It must be nice to have a full court press — a propaganda machine — to...

Parents surprised to see a man with a beard wearing makeup and a dress at Countryside Elementary. He uses a man’s name but instructs the children to call him “Miss”. Parents were not informed of the staff change.

Stephen Colbert still has a late night show, but not for much longer. The cancelled, not-so-funnyman who hates guns, gun owners and the right to armed self-defense has suffered a precipitous ratings collapse in recent months years. What caused viewers to flee? Could it be his relentless alienation of over half of America with his insufferable woke scolding posing as comedy? The Park Place has the grim news many of us view with a certain Schadenfreude delight:The Stephen Colbert ratings freefall has reached an undeniable breaking point. As The Late Show with Stephen Colbert approaches its already-announced cancellation, the program...

OBAMA: “The other side does the mean, angry, exclusive, us/them, divisive politics. That's their home court. Our court is coming together.”

This week, California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) joined the many Californians now seeking their fortune elsewhere. The difference is that Newsom is planning to come back to California, even as billionaires, investors, and companies flee his state for greener pastures. Newsom and Democrats such as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) were selling a brave new world that looked a lot like the broken old world. It was an ironic moment. They were addressing countries at the Munich Security Conference that had previously destroyed their economies through socialist and far-left policies. The rush of liberal Democratic officeholders to Europe was telling. A...

I'm picking up a cordless grinder at Harbor, the bauer is $39.99, Hercules is $79.99 twice as much. I'm leaning towards the Hercules. Have you all had any luck with the cheaper Bauer stuff?

Rinse, repeatIt was obvious, at least to me, why Bad Bunny, Lady Gaga, and Green Day were headlining the Super Bowl halftime show. Each of them had loud anti-ICE messages heading into the Super Bowl weekend. All of their clips went viral. Lady Gaga and her usual blithering nonsense virtue signaled over in Japan.Green Day, a band that is no longer relevant and is sponsored by Spotify, had its usual anti-Trump screeching that then went viral, telling ICE to quit their job and calling out Kristi Noem, JD Vance, etc. I don’t believe this clip is from the Super Bowl,...

We have another video masterpiece of peace and urban harmony from Chicago, otherwise known as America’s largest open-air shooting gallery. While Mayor Brandon Johnson continues to rail against ICE agents rounding up criminal illegals in his dystopian city, four gang members opened up on a rival’s car shortly after noon just across town from hizzoner. While the shooters only perforated their intended target in the butt-tocks, they did successfully kill the man’s girlfriend with their fusillade of lead. Thankfully and miraculously, the bangers with the blasters somehow missed the toddler in the back seat. Gabryel Ayers, 26, was driving the...

Just in the past few weeks, it has come to the attention of the American People that, in many cities across the country, Teachers are taking entire classes of students out of school to demonstrate against the Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers who are enforcing Federal Law by removing Illegal Alien Criminals from our midst. These mostly far-left teachers are also teaching their students about how to “demonstrate” against their own government, and how to act in ways that might injure them. Yes, that’s what Teachers, paid with YOUR tax money, are indoctrinating your children to do. Yeah, these “teachers.”...The...

Not in Britain's repertoire anymore.Well, seems that Great Mediocre Britain is continuing its slide into obscurity and irrelevance.I admit it is somewhat depressing to have a ringside seat at the destruction via self-loathing of one of the great Empires of history.If you think I exaggerate, google “British Museum” and see how much whinging, snivelling, and garment-rending British “scholars” are indulging in regarding “stolen artefacts”.Uh huh. You know what happens to “repatriated” artefacts?Museums after Islamist Douchebags get doneSo far, religious fanatics haven’t gone running into the British Museum with sledgehammers because pre-Islam artefacts are heresy. Yes! Let us tear our shirts...

If he were so inclined, I think Governor Walz could rewrite the Paul Simon song subtitled “How I Was Robert McNamara’d into Submission.” In Walz’s case, it would go “How I was Nancy Pelosi’d Into Submission.” The lyrics would explain how he was Nancy Pelosi’d into submission by Amy Klobuchar, or perhaps how he was Klobber’d into submission. I told the public part of the story in the Examiner column “Exit Tim Walz, stage Biden.” Walz has now folded his campaign for an absurd third gubernatorial term. To say that Walz is the worst governor in Minnesota history does not...

It is not momentous events that are the most meme-worthy. Rather, it is moments when liberals show their true colors and embarrass themselves, often in relatively trivial ways, that set meme-creators to work. This week, along with the ongoing fiasco in Minnesota, we had severel such events. The Washington Post, hemorrhaging losses, laid off a large portion of its staff, causing its newly-unemployed reporters to demonstrate outside the building. They marched in defense of the moral principle that Jeff Bezos is obliged to support them forever, no matter how much money they lose. I wonder whether some of the newly-laid-off...

A drag performer dressed as the Pope appeared during Northwestern University’s annual drag show, raising questions about religious sensitivity on campus. Northwestern’s annual drag show included a performance featuring Catholic imagery, drawing scrutiny over how religious beliefs are treated on campus. A drag performer dressed as the Pope appeared during Northwestern University’s annual drag show on Feb. 2 at Norris University Center, performing choreography that incorporated Catholic imagery while music played for a student audience. The event was organized by the Society of Trans and Non-Binary Students and the Rainbow Alliance and promoted as a cultural experience for students, including...

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos didn’t really buy the Washington Post to keep democracy out of darkness or whatever, he bought it to build influence and decided that the Resistance branding was poison in the post-woke era of the second Trump administration. His staff doubled down. So he tried bringing in editors and people from conservative British papers and Washington Post staffers worked to sabotage them. The ongoing battle over the Washington Post between its actual owner, Jeff Bezos, the 2nd wealthiest man in the world, who paid $250 million for it, and the staff, show that, at least when it...

"MAGA is as POWERFUL as it has ever been! ... What he brought into the GOP looks like it's going to last long beyond him.""The Republican base LOVES JD Vance."