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  • Sen. Rand Paul's Reasoning: The bad Libertarian take on Trump hitting a Venezuelan drug boat

    09/06/2025 7:22:10 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 34 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 09/06/2025 | Joe Herring
    There’s a reason Libertarians fail to solve issues. They are the political equivalent of a debating society arguing over how many angels can dance on the head of a pin at one time while sipping tea and congratulating themselves on how astute they are. I suppose it’s the inevitable result of pursuing an ideology that relies on people acting directly against their human nature to succeed. Lofty diatribes over how people ought to think and act are fine when trying to persuade people to think and act in a particular way, but they’re utterly worthless (and ultimately dangerous!) when relying...
  • Lesbian women using partner’s egg in IVF ‘face higher medical risks

    09/06/2025 7:49:02 AM PDT · by fwdude · 12 replies
    The Telegraph ^ | 5 Sept 2025 | Laura Donnelly
    Lesbian women using their partner’s egg in IVF may face higher medical risks, research suggests. The study, the first of its kind, found that such women may have a greater chance of complications such as pre-eclampsia and gestational diabetes. Co-IVF, also known as reciprocal IVF, is an option for lesbians and trans men who want to start a family. Embryos are created from the egg of one partner and donor sperm before being implanted into the second partner to carry the pregnancy.
  • Classified Navy SEAL Mission Leaked to Damage President Trump Harms National Security Instead(follow up)

    09/05/2025 1:29:49 PM PDT · by rktman · 34 replies
    redstate.com ^ | 9/5/2025 1354 hrs | Streiff
    A group of Navy SEALs penetrated North Korea in early 2019 in an attempt to compromise North Korea's nuclear communications channel. The mission may or may not have been compromised, and the resulting shootout, according to The New York Times, left a handful of North Koreans, possibly civilians, dead. The question is, why is this story running now? The Mission In 2018, as President Trump was engaged in high-wire nuclear diplomacy with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, a Navy SEAL team was dispatched on a high-risk, high-payoff mission to bug the communications network used to discuss nuclear strategy and...
  • US appeals court rejects Trump bid to restore passport policy targeting transgender people

    09/05/2025 8:39:37 AM PDT · by fwdude · 15 replies
    Reuters ^ | Sept 4, 2025 | Nate Raymond
    A federal appeals court on Thursday declined to allow U.S. President Donald Trump's administration to refuse to issue passports to transgender and nonbinary Americans that reflect their gender identities. A three-judge panel of the Boston-based 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals declined to put on hold an injunction issued by a trial judge barring the U.S. Department of State from enforcing a policy it adopted at Trump's direction.
  • Brainwashed Leftist Is Offered 1-Way Ticket to Communist Country of Her Choice—the Result Is Fabulous

    09/03/2025 9:16:27 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 37 replies
    Red State ^ | 09/03/2025 | Becky Noble
    For what seems like forever, conservatives have been calling out the train wreck that is the American educational system. Instead of teaching things that will help students become responsible, productive citizens, the agenda is all woke, and Donald Trump sucks. It is a good guess that we have at least two generations of budding young leftists who have been taught literally nothing about America, its friends, and enemies, and most importantly, the true difference between capitalism and communism, and what both systems of government really offer their citizens. Recently, that indoctrination was on full display. This is one kid. There...
  • When Homer Becomes Hate Speech

    09/03/2025 2:24:39 AM PDT · by Salman · 39 replies
    Taki's ^ | September 03, 2025 | Spencer Davis
    A civilization confident in itself reads the Iliad. A civilization in decline denounces it. Guess which one we are. A confident civilization does not quake at the sight of Homer. It does not avert its gaze from Pericles or issue trigger warnings before mentioning Caesar. It does not treat the Iliad like some toxic spill to be cordoned off by hazmat crews. Yet ours does. As Victor Davis Hanson and John Heath warned in Who Killed Homer?, the gravest threat to the classics is not public indifference but professors themselves—men and women who, having ceased to teach Homer, now cower...
  • Wes Moore’s Bronze Star Falsehood Implodes Under Scrutiny

    09/01/2025 8:34:57 AM PDT · by rktman · 64 replies
    townhall.com ^ | 8/31/2025 | Sarah Arnold
    It looks like another Democrat darling has tripped over his own carefully crafted narrative. Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D) just had a public meltdown when confronted about a glaring and long-running falsehood: his claim to having received a Bronze Star. For years, Moore casually let the military honor bolster his public image, political resume, and book sales — but now, under scrutiny, he’s suddenly claiming it "wasn't something I even thought about.” That’s a hard pill to swallow, considering the Bronze Star is not just some casual decoration. It’s one of the U.S. military’s most prestigious awards, given for heroic...
  • ‘It’s totalitarian’ | Wesley Yang on the ‘successor ideology’ that captured our elites

    08/31/2025 7:56:39 PM PDT · by TexasKamaAina · 12 replies
    Spiked (YouTube) ^ | 08/27/2025 | Wesley Yang
    When a man can declare himself a woman, how do we know what is true or false anymore? The institutions we might once have looked to – from academia to journalism to science – have all rallied around the absurdity that we can change sex at will. Here, Wesley Yang – essayist and author of The Souls of Yellow Folk – explains how a ‘successor ideology’ has captured the liberal mind. It has swapped tolerance and pluralism for brutal authoritarianism. And it has redefined reality itself, embedding lies in the fabric of our institutions. Democracy, Wesley says, is our only...
  • Air Force Reverses This Biden Administration Decision on Ashli Babbitt

    08/28/2025 9:26:44 AM PDT · by rktman · 15 replies
    townhall.com ^ | 8/28/2025 | Leah Barkoukis
    The U.S. Air Force will provide full military funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt, the Air Force veteran fatally shot inside the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, by then-Capitol Police Lt. Michael Byrd. The development comes after Judicial Watch wrote to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth urging him to “make a new determination granting military funeral honors” for Babbitt, which had been denied by the Biden administration. Senior counsel Robert Sticht asked Hegseth to consider two recent updates related to the case.
  • Democrats set to take Texas redistricting fight to the courts

    08/23/2025 2:45:22 PM PDT · by fwdude · 20 replies
    The Hill ^ | 08/24/2025 | JULIA MUELLER
    The Texas redistricting battle is entering a new front as the fight turns to the courts, where Democrats and civil rights groups are expected to challenge the newly passed maps. Texas House Democrats who had fled the state to stall the maps said that they were returning “to the House floor and to the courthouse” this week — and several groups signaled they are ready to sue as soon as Gov. Greg Abbott (R) signs the legislation. But experts forecast Democrats will face an uphill climb to stop or even stall the maps, which could net five GOP House seats,...
  • Ethel Caterham, World’s Oldest Person, Turns 116. Her Secret? Listen, But Do What You Like

    08/23/2025 3:34:22 AM PDT · by texas booster · 18 replies
    News18.com ^ | Aug 22 2025 | Mallika Soni
    Ethel Caterham, born in 1909, celebrated her 116th birthday in Surrey, She is now the world’s oldest living person. Ethel Caterham, the last surviving Edwardian and officially the world’s oldest living person, marked her 116th birthday surrounded by family at her care home in Surrey. Born on 21 August 1909 in Shipton Bellinger, Hampshire, Ethel Caterham came into the world during the reign of King Edward VII and the premiership of Herbert Asquith. Ethel Caterham, the second youngest of eight siblings, grew up in the twilight of the Edwardian era. She became the world’s oldest living person in April following...
  • Opinion: The Political Disaster Hiding in Plain Sight for Democrats

    08/22/2025 3:19:35 AM PDT · by where's_the_Outrage? · 53 replies
    The Daily Beast ^ | Aug 21, 2025 | Chris Cillizza
    I am generally bullish about Democrats’ chances of retaking the House majority in 2026. That’s because the history of midterm elections is pretty overwhelming when it comes to seat losses for the president’s party. When a president is unpopular in polls—as Donald Trump is today—those losses are even steeper. And yet, I don’t think a Democratic-controlled House is in the bag just yet. Why? Well, for much of the past year, I have been hearing from smart Democratic strategists who insist that their party has fallen badly behind Republicans in one of the critical nuts and bolts needed for winning...
  • Beware Universal Mental Health Screening

    08/21/2025 7:11:26 AM PDT · by Heartlander · 28 replies
    Brownstone Institute ^ | August 21, 2025 | Cooper Davis, Jeffrey Lacasse
    Beware Universal Mental Health ScreeningHow would your child score on a common mental health screening? A mental health professional might view the results and conclude that your child has a mental health problem…that needs to be psychiatrically diagnosed and treated, even medicated. Will this help your child thrive? Or will it reshape their identity in undesirable ways? Will you be comfortable with your child taking medications that alter their developing brains and could perturb their sexuality? When your child reaches adulthood, will they be able to withdraw from these drugs, or will they despair to find out that their body...
  • NFL’s Washington Redskins should restore name and logo, says family of Indian chief it was based on

    08/16/2025 10:17:36 AM PDT · by BenLurkin · 73 replies
    ny post ^ | 8/16/2025 | Thomas White Calf
    Blackfeet Chief Two Guns White Calf was my great uncle and a great American icon. Americans know his face: he was the face of the Washington Redskins for 48 years, until he was cancelled in 2020. Americans once knew his story. White Calf defended tribal traditions in our Blackfeet homeland in Montana, where many of us still live today. He went to Washington D.C. where he forced the U.S. government to honor Indian treaties. He served as a model for the U.S. Mint’s famous 1913 “Indian head” nickel. White Calf’s face is still a collector’s item. ... White Calf became...
  • Gavin Newsom and His Hair Gel Aren't Going to Be Happy About This Appeals Court Ruling

    08/16/2025 8:02:53 AM PDT · by rktman · 22 replies
    townhall.com ^ | 8/13/2025 1430 hrs | Jeff Charles
    And another one gone, another one gone, another one bites the dust! The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has laid waste to California’s ridiculous “one-gun-per-month” law in yet another victory for gun rights. The law, passed in 2019, prohibited individuals from purchasing more than one handgun or semi-automatic rifle within a 30-day period. The court had declared that the law violated the Second Amendment because the state “has not demonstrated that the one-gun-per-month law is consistent with the Nation’s historical tradition of firearm regulation.” The historical test was established by the Supreme Court’s 2022 ruling in New York Rifle &...
  • Air Force revokes approved retirement for trans service members: 'Complete and utter betrayal'

    08/10/2025 6:31:24 PM PDT · by fwdude · 87 replies
    NBC News ^ | Aug. 8, 2025 | Jo Yurcaba
    Alyx, a transgender woman who has served in the Air Force for 15 years, was approved in May for early retirement due to the Trump administration’s policy prohibiting trans people from serving and enlisting in the military. On Wednesday, that retirement was revoked under a new Air Force directive. She said she wasn’t provided any reason other than that her retirement was “prematurely" approved, according to documentation she provided to NBC News.
  • After the Spike: What Slow and Steady Depopulation Means For the World

    08/09/2025 10:30:21 PM PDT · by Cronos · 44 replies
    Lithub ^ | August 8th, 2025 | Dean spears, Michael Geruso
    IN 2012, 146 million children were born. That was more than in any prior year. It was also more than in any year since. Millions fewer will be born this year. The year 2012 may well turn out to be the year in which the most humans were ever born—ever as in ever for as long as humanity exists. No demographic forecast expects anything else. Decades of research studying Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas tell a clear story of declining birth rates. The fall in global birth rates has lasted centuries. It began before modern contraception and endured through...
  • History teacher says Incan human sacrifice method was ‘kind’ and if you don’t agree, you’ve had a woefully ‘white’ education

    08/06/2025 9:51:53 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 40 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 08/06/2025 | Olivia Murray
    Can people like this even be brought into the fold of sanity and morality?History teacher on TikTok says that Incan child sacrifices were “kind” and “voluntary.” Children were merely left to freeze to death, which isn’t so bad when you think about it. She blames white people for having a judgmental view of human sacrifice. pic.twitter.com/PuB26tmVQj — Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) August 5, 2025The hill she’s going to “die on” is the human-sacrifice-isn’t-all-that-bad hill? Spoken like a committed leftist. She must feel pretty virtuous and anti-racist, rattling off words like “Mochica” and “Tahuantinsuyu” and “Quechua” because she’s sooo educated and multicultural.In...
  • Men Who Love Men: But Mainly Themselves

    08/04/2025 5:02:23 AM PDT · by Salman · 19 replies
    Taki's Magazine ^ | August 04, 2025 | Steven Tucker
    I once considered pitching publishers a book called 101 Things That Are Now Suddenly Gay, cataloguing the increasing number of completely non-gay things that fanatical homos now claim are gay after all, from ball bearings to hovercraft, upon no rational basis whatsoever. Yet I have already been beaten to it by a temporary daily series from the pages of lefty U.K. newspaper The Guardian to celebrate this summer’s annual Gay Pride Month(s). This was called “My Unexpected Pride Icon” and was basically my old proposed book in short serial form—but taken seriously, not as a rainbow-mocking joke. ...
  • Canadian Activists: Meth-Fueled Orgies Should Be Celebrated

    07/31/2025 10:05:17 AM PDT · by fwdude · 21 replies
    The Bureau ^ | July 7, 2025 | Adam Zivo
    Most reasonable people would agree that meth-fueled orgies are a bad thing, and that having sex with groups of strangers for days on end should be discouraged. Yet some “harm reduction” advocates have suggested that these orgies should be tolerated, perhaps even celebrated. This demonstrates that the harm-reduction movement is more interested in normalizing drug use than mitigating its negative consequences. Meth-fueled orgies emerged as a policy issue in the mid-2010s, following the popularization of so-called “chemsex” (also known as “party and play” or “PnP”) within the gay community. The term refers to having sex while under the influence of...