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Consistently, and even as recently as the State of the Union address, President Donald Trump has not minced words when speaking about issues that are obviously dangerous and destructive to America. How, then, is it possible that, with so many outlandish, persistent issues, ordinary folks seem to be missing the blatantly obvious? For example, why do everyday Americans listen to the twisted “logic” of the Woke mindset and not say, “What?! That doesn’t make sense?!” Think about the waywardness of woke thinking when it comes to addressing three extremely simple, straightforward ideas President Trump posited: 1. “There are two sexes.”...

NASA today released its final investigation report on the causes behind the Starliner thruster issues during that capsule’s only manned mission in ISS, issues that almost prevented the spacecraft from docking successfully and could have left it manned and out-of-control while still in orbit. Starliner docked to ISS in 2024.You can read the report here [pdf]. NASA administrator Jared Isaacman made it clear in his own statement that the Starliner incident was far more serious than originally let on. “To undertake missions that change the world, we must be transparent about both our successes and our shortcomings. We have to...

The European Parliament has adopted a non-binding resolution setting out the European Union’s priorities for the upcoming session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, including language recognising trans women as women within the framework of EU gender equality policy. The resolution was approved on 12 February by 340 votes in favour, 141 against and 68 abstentions. The adopted text forms part of the European Union’s negotiating position ahead of the 70th session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, which will take place in New York next month. The Commission, established in 1946...

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There are many simple “fixes” to things in life that will improve basics or just relieve stress. Some are obvious: avoid girls with septum piercings and unnaturally colored hair, as they have daddy issues and will always lead to something involving bail money. Others are less obvious: if you love the food at a small, local Chinese restaurant, avoid looking into the kitchen. Still, there are some things you’ve likely never thought about before, so I wanted to talk about a couple of them here. First, avoid anyone with no inner monologue. I don't mean that you should ditch friends...

Except for his early SNL career and the first Vacation movie, I've always considered Chevy Chase to be a poor actor and not particularly funny. And he has a reputation as a jerk. They didn't let him do a skit or appear on stage at the SNL 50 year anniversary show. Apparently a lot of people don't like Chevy Chase and he's difficult to work with. A clip from the CNN "I'm Chevy Chase and You're Not" special made him look like he was nasty to the female interviewer, telling her she's not intelligent enough to understand him. Having watched...

There is an old American promise that has always been more fragile than we like to admit, and today it is being broken in plain sight. The promise was never that everyone would succeed. It was that everyone would be allowed to compete under one set of rules, and that those rules would not be rewritten midstream to punish someone for what he is rather than what he has done. When Americans say they reject caste, they mean that no class of people is preemptively marked for exclusion. That promise is now being quietly revoked. Over roughly the last...

Beijing’s epic military parade in early September triggered Western anxiety over China’s mounting hard-power potential. Indeed, the weapons trotted out were fearsome... But there’s a danger in fixating on China’s military upgrades. In fact, the country is fast eclipsing liberal democracies in more pragmatic ways — or already has. Grand set pieces of military theatre highlight combat threats to be taken seriously. Yet the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is positioning the nation as a twenty-first-century leader for different reasons. Among these are China’s near monopoly on critical mineral processing and refinement, its application-centric approach to artificial intelligence (AI), and...

Scouting America responded on Tuesday to a reported memo from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth seeking to cut ties with the organization, saying it was “surprised and disappointed” by the potential policy change, as the military has given its support to the Scouts since 1937. Congress requires the Pentagon to support Scouting America’s Jamboree, lending trucks, ambulances and medical teams free of charge. “The Scouting movement has had a strong relationship with our nation’s military going back more than a century,” according to the group. “From the tremendous support of the West Virginia National Guard at our National Jamborees to Scout...

Next stop: meet with President Trump next April 3 at the White House.

In 2019, I read an article about Larry Summers and Harvard that changed the way I look at the world. The author, writing under the pseudonym “J. Stone,” argued that the day Larry Summers resigned as president of Harvard University marked a turning point in our culture. The entire “woke” era could be extrapolated from that moment, from the details of how Summers was cancelled and, most of all, who did the cancelling: women. The basic facts of the Summers case were familiar to me. On January 14, 2005, at a conference on “Diversifying the Science and Engineering Workforce,” Larry...

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth is set to gather senior generals and admirals in Quantico Sept. 30 for a high-stakes, unprecedented meeting shrouded in mystery. Some really big news in the American military community broke this week, as Secretary of War Pete Hegseth is convening an unprecedented meeting of his senior generals and admirals in Quantico, Virginia, on Tuesday, September 30th. As the proprietor of a somewhat prolific X account that largely focuses on military matters, many people have been asking me what I think this meeting is all about, as the meeting is currently shrouded in mystery. So what...

Isaiah 46:4 (King James Version) And even to your old age I am he; and even to hoar hairs will I carry you: I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you. Are you women paying attention to which group in America is being raped and murdered in America? It is young white women in massive numbers since the Democrat Communist Party has convinced you that it is virtuous to allow criminals to run free and rape and murder you. You have voted in massive numbers to eliminate the police and jailing of criminals...

FORT MYERS. Fla. – Jaimee Michell, founder and president of Gays Against Groomers, said transgenderism should be classified as a mental illness, arguing that cross-sex hormones only worsen the problem. This comes after a transgender gunman opened fire during a mass shooting early Wednesday morning, killing two children and injuring 17 others, according to several news outlets. Speaking on Florida’s Voice Radio with host Drew Steele, Michell warned that prescribing synthetic hormones to those suffering from gender dysphoria is “a recipe for disaster.” “Time and time again when we sound the alarm that cross sex hormones given to a mentally...

Cracker Barrel's decision to remove a beloved businessman from its logo has sparked fury across the United States. The company announced earlier this week it would remove the likeness of Uncle Herschel, the real-life relative of the brand's founder Dan Evins, from its iconic signage. In the old emblem, Herschel was shown sitting on a wooden chair in front of the eponymous barrel. But he is notably absent from the new logo, which features just the text of the brand name in a yellow hexagon. The change is being keenly felt by fans of the restaurant, who knew Herschel as...

If the Cracker Barrel market puke has anything to teach Wall Street, it’s that investors who are deciding where to put their money must add corporate “wokeness” to their menu of risks to ­digest. In fact, making “woke” an investing risk factor — in some cases as important as the direction of interest rates and inflation — seems so obvious that I hesitated to write this column. Recall Bud Light’s ­Dylan Mulvaney fiasco, or Target CEO Brian Cornell’s recent exit following his ill-fated ­obsession with DEI. Wokeness is generally defined as subjecting the culture and business to left-wing dogma involving...

Democrats seem to think they can talk their way out of the political wilderness. Listen closely and you can hear it through the din of their all-caps Trumpian X feeds, their hourslong “manosphere” podcast interviews and their more frequent swearing. Nearly 10 months after the 2024 elections, and the party is still embroiled in self-recriminations over where they’re talking, what they’re talking about and, now, the actual words they’re using. Or, more precisely: which words they shouldn’t utter. In a new memo, shared exclusively with POLITICO, the center-left think tank Third Way is circulating a list of 45 words and...

According to a recent Speech First report, the nation’s leading medical schools are controlled by Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion fanatics, who inflict beliefs such as “weight inclusivity,” racial justice, and gender ideology on their staff and students through policies, forced statements, and curricular mandates. Filed in the fall of 2024, “Critical Condition” analyzed public records from FOIA requests from 54 of the country’s top medical schools, and the results are alarming. For example, the University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School offers a “Developing Outstanding Clinical Skills” program that teaches students to embrace “weight inclusivity,” arguing that weight-loss strategies...

I started writing my Imperfect America blog in 2009. It’s my passion, despite the sad fact it’s never made me a penny. Not even on Twitter, new or old, where my account is constantly throttled! My first post was titled “Racism, America’s Original Sin”. It was a response to the new normal of anyone disagreeing with Barack Obama being called a racist. In it, I talk about the 3/5th Compromise and the fact that it gave Southerners less power in the House than they wanted, but more importantly, it was the key to America being one nation rather than two,...

WASHINGTON (AP) — As transgender service members face a deadline to leave the U.S. military, hundreds are taking the financial bonus to depart voluntarily. But others say they will stay and fight.For many, it is a wrenching decision to end a career they love, and leave units they have led or worked with for years. And they are angry they are being forced out by the Trump administration’s renewed ban on transgender troops.Active duty service members had until Friday to identify themselves and begin to leave the military voluntarily, while the National Guard and Reserve have until July 7. Then...