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The living memory of World War II is passing away. In April, the oldest known survivor of Pearl Harbor died at 106 years old. A few weeks ago, a 102-year old veteran who stormed the beaches of Normandy on D-Day (June 6, 1944) entered his eternal reward. Sadly, less than one percent of the war’s veterans are still alive. However, more troubling and dark, the increasing deaths of witnesses — those who endured the conflict and its horrors — has been coupled with the rise of revisionist ahistorical conspiracies about the Second World War. Worse, this is increasingly a right-wing...

I have written several posts on California Federal District Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong’s temporary restraining order more or less preventing ICE from operating in California’s Central District — the district covering the seven counties of Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, and Ventura. The counties’ population of nearly 20 million people is the largest of any federal judicial district in the country. I wrote about Judge Frimpong’s crimping of ICE in posts that are accessible here. It’s crazy, baby. That’s my view. ... By a vote of 6-3, the Supreme Court order has stayed Judge...

Doug Ross has created a very readable six-part series, with illustrations, outlining in great detail and in dramatic form the corruption of the FBI and the entire intelligence community in the latter years of the Obama administration, beginning first with an extensive cover-up of Hillary Clinton’s illegal use of a private server for sending classified emails, followed by the initial stages of the Russian collusion hoax against Trump that was also used to justify spying on his campaign. The series admits to be being a dramatization, but is also is based entirely on actual facts that are now documented and...

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Much was foretold this last weekend by Mahmoud Khalil, the formerly arrested Columbia University Palestinian student leader, who spoke before the pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel “People’s Conference for Palestine” held in Detroit, Michigan. Khalil, the keynote speaker, told a room packed with thousands of pro-Palestinian militants that they should organize a “national liberation movement” in the United States. “We should build a national liberation movement,” Khalil advised the activist audience who openly strategized for “resistance.” “We should build a national liberation movement,” Khalil advised the activist audience who openly strategized for “resistance.”

...this brief interview with Illinois Governor JB Pritzker, walking next to Lake Michigan:Breaking911 @Breaking911 · Follow REPORTER: “This past weekend, 54 shot, 7 dead…”PRITZKER: “Look, big cities have crime!”The interview is notable for Pritzker’s complete lack of a defense. “Big cities have crime!” Yes, and Chicago has more than most. Better just accept it, says the billionaire Pritzker, who is protected by an armed security detail....Note, too, how pitiful Pritzker’s attack on Trump is. He accuses Trump of discriminating against cities in blue states–there are cities in red states that have high crime, too! Sure, and those cities, just like...

From the U.K. Daily Mail,Brazen driver is arrested by FBI for stealing ICE agents’ vehicle during immigration raid.The “driver” in question is one Bobby Nunez, who used his tow truck to remove a marked ICE vehicle during an arrest of an illegal immigrant last month.Nunez was laughing and having a great time during his theft of government property. He was much less happy during his perp walk. Bill Melugin of Fox News commented on Twitter (X) today,According to the criminal complaint, which was signed off on by a federal judge, Nunez was laughing and recording the ICE agents on his...

Over the Labor Day weekend, more than 50 people were shot, and seven were killed in Chicago. It's as bad as it gets, and for a blue city in a blue state, it's not surprising.Chicago is also one of the cities that has vehemently opposed President Trump's plan to crack down on crime. Mayor Brandon Johnson called jailing criminals racist and immoral and Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker claimed Trump's plan is to really 'interfere' with the 2026 elections. A Democratic councilman in Chicago broke ranks with his party and said Johnson should take Trump up on the offer (don't hold...

One of the most striking things about the Biden years was the proliferation of...idiosyncratic..."public servants" and, in particular, how obviously their presence was shoved in our face. We went from being asked to tolerate "idiosyncracies" when they were expressed in private life (which seems fair) to embracing the authority of "experts" who clearly hate us. There are lots of examples, but the two which have popped up in the news due to their finally departing government are Rachel Levine and Demetre C. Daskalakis MD MPH (he/his/him). Levine was booted, Daskalakis resigned, and walked out the door. Levine, who was presented...

“We have to destroy the idea of America in our heads, in our neighbors’ heads, in our comrades’ heads, in everybody’s heads in this country.”The People’s Conference for Palestine, held in Troy, Michigan, this past weekend, was billed as a grassroots gathering of Palestinian activists and their allies. But behind the carefully packaged language of “liberation,” the rhetoric captured in multiple clips from the conference reveals an alarming mix of anti-Americanism and anti-Semitism—messaging that seeks to delegitimize the United States itself while demonizing Israel and its supporters. The clips, shared by Twitter/X user @thestustustudio (Stu Smith), expose the raw language...

We were walking to our train in the main Glasgow, Scotland train station a half hour ago. Halfway down the platform there were two policemen restraining a crazy man who was screaming at the police and struggling to break free from the cops. I really wanted to get a video, but didn’t want to go to jail for that.

Revelations of all kinds are upon us. Here's one that just caught my eye. It's about Zohran Mamdani's film-maker mother, Mira Nair, whose films I've reviewed over the years. Guess who funded Mira Nair's propaganda filmmaking? According to Will Bredderman at the New York Post, (August 31st), none other than Sheikha Al-Mayassa bint Hamad Al-Thani, sister to the ruling Emir of Qatar. Qatar! The banker for Iran's terrorist proxy, Hamas, and for Afghanistan's Taliban; the safe haven for terrorist leaders and for antisemitic psychologists such as Lara Sheehi; the owners of Al-Jazeera, which was founded in 1996. Al Jazeera? An...

In the wake of the horrific mass shooting at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis on August 27, 2025, where 23-year-old Robin Westman (formerly Robert) murdered two innocent children—an 8-year-old and a 10-year-old—and wounded 17 others before taking his own life, a vile wave of misinformation has surged online. Far-right extremists, white supremacists, and self-proclaimed "Christian nationalists" have peddled the baseless lie that Westman was Jewish, attempting to twist this tragedy into fuel for their antisemitic agendas. This claim is not just false—it's a deliberate distortion designed to deflect from Westman's own rabid hatred of Jews and to perpetuate Nazi-inspired tropes...

Lisa Cook is, or was, a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve. President Trump wrote Cook a letter, firing her for cause, i.e., mortgage fraud. He announced the firing on Truth Social:Rather than going quietly, Cook responded by suing Trump and others, alleging that grounds for her firing do not exist and asking for declaratory and injunctive relief to that effect. It alleges that Trump’s grounds for firing Cook are pretextual, and the firing is an attack on the Fed’s vaunted independence. The Cook cases raises several issues. The Federal Reserve Act says that the president...

...how a gas station megachain with palatial bathrooms, beef jerky walls, and neverending merchandise became a cultish American spectacle...Roadtripping through the South is an experience that I associate with empty Arizona cans, endless stretches of interstate, Spotify, the occasional Hostess Zinger, and my compulsive noticing and reading-out-loud of every passing billboard. After a couple hundred such noticings of these advertising relics, the thematic frequent fliers become apparent: ALL-CAPS fireworks-warehouse placements, PSAs of upcoming generic gas-and-food oases, phone numbers promising to chastise you out of eternal damnation (often abortion-adjacent), anti-balding serum promotions with “before and after” pictures of hairless men growing...

We live in a moment when Jewish life in America feels more vulnerable than it has in decades. The threats are real, and we cannot outsource all responsibility for our safety. With that in mind, I want to offer a modest proposal: First, we should drop the sneering rhetoric about guns. Too often, Jewish discourse is laced with derision for those who own guns or advocate for them. A little empathy, even if we disagree, is a Jewish value too. Second, Jews should learn to shoot. Every Jew should go to the gun range at least once. You may never...

The sports giant who refused the shotI am writing this just a few hours before Novak Djokovic steps out on Arthur Ashe Stadium, the largest tennis arena in the world, to compete in the first round at the US. Open.Djokovic at 38 is aiming for his record-breaking 25th Grand Slam victory, taking his first step against Learner Tien, a young Vietnamese American literally half his age at 19.It’s Arthur Ashe at night, the most dramatic and raucous event in tennis.This promises to be an unusually competitive first rounder because Tien is a comer who has already beaten several top ten...

Tina Moore is a reporter for the New York Post.She has been writing about crime in New York City for more than 20 years.She recently wrote:https://nypost.com/2025/08/30/us-news/goon-who-punched-me-picked-up-on-drug-charges/“The monster who randomly sucker-punched me in the gut while I was walking to work two years ago was arrested on Aug. 18 – and given an insulting $1 bail by infamously soft-on-crime Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg…”“… has 20 prior arrests for violent crimes on his record…”“…The violent criminal who punched me in the ribs on my way to work in NYC in 2023 had been paroled the prior year for a double stabbing on...

Palestinian activists are huddling this weekend to devise the "next phase" of their protestsRadical Palestinians are planning and moving again on multiple fronts, raising the question: will we experience a violent fall semester on college campuses, in workplaces, in our places of worship and on our streets? The answer appears to be yes.On this Labor Day weekend, the nation’s top Palestinian and pro-Hamas strategists are gathering in Detroit, Michigan. We should pay attention as they plan for what they call the “next phase” of their campaign against Israel and against Jews. We saw a glimmering of this incipient uptick over...

The Leftwing Propaganda Media Vows, "We Will Never Know the Trans Shooter's Motive" They just will not accept that members of the left are capable of hate crimes, or than anyone not on the left can be the victim of a hate crime. Therefore James Hodgkinson's shooting up of Republicans at a baseball game was just an attempt at "suicide by cop." An Islamist's shooting up of soldiers is just "workplace violence." And despite this trans terrorist decorating his guns with "Kill Donald Trump" and an evil mocking declaration "for the children" -- the bullets are, he meant -- the...