From Charles Manson to Bruce Davis: California’s Troubled History of Crime and Punishment |

California has come by all this honestly.

The American Spectator  

"Historians are still debating whether Manson was part of the CIA’s LSD experiments, and possibly the reason he was not sent back to prison when he violated parole. That might have saved a few innocent lives, but a different dynamic is now in place." 

. . . "On his way out the door in 2018, recurring Gov. Jerry Brown signed Senate Bill 1391, which allows anyone under age 16 to murder and mutilate any number of victims, be tried only in juvenile court, and gain release at age 25.

"The state’s adult criminals caught a break during the Covid pandemic. California’s Employment Development Department (EDD) approved more than $140 million in unemployment benefits for at least 20,000 prisoners. Convicts who made fraudulent claims included convicted murderers Scott Peterson and Cary Stayner. Death row inmates accounted for at least 158 claims landing more than $420,000 in benefits, all intended for workers who lost their jobs.

"Consider also the case of Rodney Quine, who in 1980 murdered Shahid al Baig, a father of three, who begged for his life. In prison, Quine claimed that, since the age of nine, he believed he was really a woman. Without examining any of the physical evidence, judge Jon Tigar not only believed Quine but ordered up “gender reassignment” surgery at taxpayer expense. That drew a protest from Farida Baig, daughter of Quine’s victim.

"The convicted murderer is now Shiloh Heavenly Quine, inmate WB1121 at the Central California Women’s Facility.  Californians can be forgiven for believing that Quine, Corona, Manson, Davis et al., never got what they deserved. And if anybody thought California’s ruling class is kinder to criminals than their victims it would be hard to blame them.

"Meanwhile, Manson follower Leslie Van Houten was released on parole in 2023. At this writing, Charles “Tex” Watson and Bobby Beausoleil remain in prison."  Full article here:

Mamas, Don't Let Your Daughters Grow Up to Be Wokesters -

 Intellectual Takeout    

"Women have long possessed the rights common to everyone in this country. It’s long past time that feminist ideologues allowed them the right to be themselves."

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"Recent events reveal more women who are waking up and rejecting woke feminism, even though that doesn’t always seem to be the case on the surface.

"Consider Lindsay Clancy, for instance, who was on trial for allegedly strangling her three young children. The case resulted in a mistrial, on account of one juror, one of only three men on the jury, who refused to go along with the others in dropping the murder charges against her. Supporters for Clancy gathered at the courthouse, standing vigil and holding signs calling for Clancy to be freed. Others posted videos on TikTok and other social media declaring their support Clancy.

"Around the same time, Massachusetts governor Maura Healey signed an abortion-up-until birth bill into law. The women surrounding her applauded and turned on bright smiles for the photographers.

"Other women, however, are expressing their outrage and disgust. In her American Thinker column, Patricia McCarthy pronounced the lone holdout on the jury a hero. “This is the now-institutionalized playbook of the woke left,” she wrote of Clancy’s supporters.

"Those ladies in pink are essentially a cult of wokery: What is wrong is right to them and what is right – accountability for one’s crime – is now wrong. They are of the cult that calls for the destruction of the nuclear family, the erasure of gender, the stupid belief in ‘toxic masculinity’ that has successfully made male-female relationships fraught with anxiety.

"Writing for Townhall, long-time commentator Laura Hollis addressed the horror of the Healey scene and the Clancy verdict, then added to that list of scorn and shame New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill’s recent signing of a law which will likely prohibit sidewalk protests and prayers against abortion. Hollis also mentions, but doesn’t support, the women on social media now proclaiming they’d give up their right to vote under the 19th Amendment if it meant putting an end to the insanity of these leftist feminists." . . . More...

Love It or Leave It: How to Make a Better America

 Intellectual Takeout  

"We’re witnessing even more people, a mob of left-wing socialists and Antifa rioters, who are open in their hatred not only for Trump, but for their country."

. . . "Skip forward 50 years to early September 2026 when 84-year-old Garfunkel announced that he might leave the United States because of his disgust with Donald Trump. He specifically attacked the president and his administration for their stance on climate change and on their intervention in Venezuela. “I’m not aboard, and I’m thinking of leaving the country, frankly,” he said.

"As soon as this headline popped up, Simon’s “50 Ways” popped into my head. Substitute the world “country” for “lover,” and the song offers perfect advice for Garfunkel.

"First, there’s that opening line, “The problem is all inside your head.” If you’re thinking of leaving the country on account of the president, you’re likely suffering a severe case of TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome), which, by the way, some psychologists view as an illness.

"Then there’s the song’s advice about slipping out the back, hopping on a bus, and getting yourself free. Again, a perfect fit for Garfunkel. We might even add this line to the lyrics: “Pack your bags and depart, Art.”

"Garfunkel’s announcement also brought to my mind a long-ago conversation with a professor and friend at North Carolina’s Guilford College, Dr. Ed Burrows. Burrows was a conscientious objector during World War II who spent time in prison for his beliefs. In 1972, with the fighting in Vietnam ongoing, I asked what he thought of those Americans who had fled to Canada to avoid the draft. He was a kind and gentle man, and a liberal to the core, but he couldn’t quite hide his contempt for them." . . . More.

What Longstreet Understood About Grant That Lee Refused to Accept Until It Was Too Late

The Untold Story of James Longstreet & Ulysses S. Grant.

"At Appomattox Court House in April 1865, after four years of brutal Civil War, Ulysses S. Grant walked toward Confederate General James Longstreet and said one word: “Pete.” "A nickname from another life. Before the war. Before Gettysburg. Before the bloodshed. "But here’s the part history rarely tells: Longstreet understood Grant better than almost anyone in the Confederacy. He knew Grant long before the Civil War—through West Point, Jefferson Barracks, Mexico, and even Grant’s connection to Julia Dent. "When Grant came east in 1864, Longstreet warned Robert E. Lee that this Union general would be different. Grant would not stop. He would not retreat after setbacks like previous Union commanders. He would keep pressing until the Confederacy ran out of time, men, and options. "Lee didn’t fully believe it—until it was too late. "In this video, we explore the hidden friendship between Grant and Longstreet, the warning Confederate leaders ignored, the brutal Overland Campaign, Petersburg, Appomattox, and how the Lost Cause myth later punished Longstreet for being right."

"Grant‘s wife, Julia, wasn’t just nearsighted. She had strabismus - commonly referred to as cross eyed. Later in his career, she wanted to have surgery to correct it because she was feeling self-conscious. Grant told her to cancel it because he fell in love with her just as she was. I think this detail speaks to his character and genuine feeling." From the comments.

Jesse Duplantis Exposed. "Jesus is Crying, Give ME Your Money".

#FalseTeachers #FalseProphets #ProsperityGospel

The Gospel of Jesse Duplantis: Irreverence, Fraudulent Theology and Carnality of Excess – The Righteous Cause

“Cash is king! The hundredfold works. ‘If I give $50 you mean God will give me $5,000?’ Yes! If you give $1000 in the offering this morning, will God give you $100,000 by tomorrow? Yes!”
(Jesse Duplantis, “The Choke Hold,” The Church Channel, January 24, 2004)"

Humiliated MS NOW Reporter Forced to Report From the Street After Trump Ban

 RedState  

"Additionally, Holder's team seized the records of reporters at Fox News and the Associated Press (AP). The AP reporters – 20 of them – had their phone records subpoenaed through their providers, something they claimed at the time was a “massive and unprecedented intrusion” into news-gathering operations." 

Ali Velshi of MSNBC says nothing to see Here: Peaceful Protest

"An MS NOW White House correspondent was denied entry to the complex Saturday after her press badge failed at a security checkpoint. The episode came one day after President Donald Trump announced he was banning CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from White House grounds over what he called "fake news."

"Akayla Gardner, who has been covering the administration since August of last year and previously reported for Bloomberg News, said an officer told her the credential had been disabled and confiscated it.

She tried to enter despite knowing the President had announced the ban on her legacy media network. And although she made it through the first two gates to the grounds, the third was a different story.

"Once I was inside where we have magnetometers, I attempted to scan my badge, which we have to do in able to get into the White House grounds," she said. "It did not work. There was a red beeping light."

"And so the officer asked me to hand over my badge. He said that it was disabled. I asked why I was not able to get inside. He said it was above him," added Gardner.

The reporter explained that her producer got past the security apparatus, but she and a photographer had their badges confiscated.

"This is the first action we know of, of them actually denying us entry into the White House."

MSNBC allstars doing their form of "Journalism"

The administration's rapid response team hilariously countered CNN's claims by listing a plethora of provably false narratives pushed by the once-respected network.

Looking back on MSNBC/NOW's performances

Team Trump Releases the List CNN Wishes Didn't Exist: A Staggering Tally of Failure and Deception – RedState

Massachusetts Mob Surrounds Lindsay Clancy Holdout Juror's Home Because He's Not One of Their Kind

How can one not believe in the power of evil? How satanic is the evil we saw in the Hamas videos of the Oct 7th? The support we are seeing for the actions of murderers who kill children with their bare hands? American young people cheering the murder of a businessman, of Charlie Kirk, of America's President?

PJ Media 

"Desronvil isn't one of Massachusetts' own kind. He's the wrong color. And because he's the wrong color, Republican red, he's fair game to threaten, stalk, and commit violence against by the mob."  

"Wait until CBS host Gayle King finds out the holdout Lindsay Clancy juror isn't only black — news that made the shocked Oprah buddy stop a blabbing juror long enough to tell her she needed to "sit with" the information for a second — but that they don't wear the same political team colors. 

"Well, Gayle might have to lie down after these next revelations. 

"We find out from a YouTube host and the holdout juror's own attorney that not only is the holdout juror, who came out of the shadows on Friday to tell the world his name — Michael Desronvil — an "American Hero and Champion of Justice [who] loves the United States of America as the greatest country in the world; cherishes our sacred Constitution as the pinnacle of human liberty; and supports our amazing leader, President Donald J. Trump, as a fellow defender of common-sense, liberty, and sanity." That's what his attorney tweeted out on Desronvil's behalf." . . .

Desronvil has — as expected — left town to hide out "at an undisclosed secure location in a rural area of Northern New England." 

Bigots don't like people who aren't their own kind. Just ask Desronvil's fellow jurors. 

 The Lone Juror speaks out - J.R. Dunn    "The lone juror has come in from the cold to shine a much-needed light on the circumstances of the Lindsay Clancy trial, as well as certain media accusations that were tossed his way.

"Michael Desronvil went public only days after he was doxxed by Boston-area legacy media and nationwide social media.

"Desronvil was blunt in his response to the three jurors who misrepresented his stance during the trial, along with tacitly encouraging individuals attempting to track him down and expose him to ridicule and harassment. From his point of view, the majority of the female jurors were activists who “wanted her [Lindsay Clancy] found not guilty on Day 1.”

"None were interested in hearing his interpretation of the evidence presented in court, instead resorting to badgering and nagging. This is easy to accept after seeing their attitudes and rhetoric in the interviews released over the past week.

"Desronvil spoke out on Fugitive TV, a notable black political podcast. Host Ray Marcel talked with him on the phone for an hour, and stated that he was “very well spoken, very nice, very kind.” It was also revealed that, along with being a Catholic, Desronvil is a registered Republican. No wonder the feminist jurors lost their minds. (Asmongold commented, “Christ spent forty days in the desert. He spent forty hours with hags.”)

"The interview also straightened out a number of accusations thrown his way by media sources while he was incommunicado and unable to defend himself, in particular one insinuation that he was guilty of domestic violence. The truth is that after he was married, Desronvil learned that his wife had lied about her immigration status and was, in fact, an illegal. This put his own legal status in jeopardy, so Desronvil initiated divorce proceedings. It was only then that accusations of abuse began to fly, in a clear act of revenge. The case was later dismissed." . . .  More.

Transforming 9/11 Into Trump Derangement Syndrome

How the Islamic terrorist attack has become an argument about Trump.

The American Spectator

"The left in this country praises executive power when it is used for liberal purposes. When conservatives use it, however, it supposedly becomes dangerous. And when Donald Trump uses it, the sky is about to fall on American democracy."

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"Writing on the Foreign Affairs website on the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks by Islamic terrorists, two former Clinton and Obama administration national security officials claim that the war on terror that resulted from the 9/11 attacks led to the “unraveling of American democracy” in the form of the “authoritarianism” of the Trump presidency.

"Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon both served in the State Department and on the National Security Council during times when the U.S. responded ineffectually to the growing threat of Islamic terrorism (Clinton presidency) and later when the U.S. simultaneously continued the war on terror while apologizing for America’s past sins in the Middle East (Obama presidency).

"It is no wonder that Benjamin and Simon ignore the flawed foreign policies they helped to formulate and implement and instead blame the Trump presidency for its efforts to undo the damage caused by his predecessors.

"Benjamin and Simon criticize the U.S. “fixation on Islamic terror,” which they claim “shaped a culture drenched in fear, as voices from politics, the media, civil society, and a swelling counterterrorism-industrial complex insisted that the country faced an existential threat.” Apparently, the authors believe that our Islamic enemies who have repeatedly killed Americans since at least 1979, if not before (as Norman Podhoretz pointed out in a series of articles in Commentary which were later collected into a book titled World War IV), and who 25 years ago attacked the American homeland, are a narrow group of extremists rather than the vanguard of what Samuel Huntington rightly called a “clash of civilizations.”

"They lament the rise of “Islamophobia” and anti-immigrant sentiment, especially pronounced, they claim, in the Trump presidencies. While praising some of the successes in the war on terror, Benjamin and Simon claim that 2016 was a “hinge” year when the focus of our efforts shifted from the external war on terror to the “other” war on terror at home — a war against Muslims and immigrants waged by the Trump administration.

Watch: AI World Takeover Hits Snag As Fake Actress Glitches and Starts Speaking Chinese on Live TV

RedState

"I mean, this couldn't be more on the nose. We've got AI presenting itself as a harmless entity, with the backdrop of China running a propaganda machine to steer the rest of the world away from reaping the benefits of the technology, only for the lovely young actress to be revealed as a secret product of the CCP."

"Perhaps fears of an AI takeover of the human race have been slightly overblown.

"Tilly Norwood, an actress created entirely by artificial intelligence, glitched during an interview on Piers Morgan Uncensored on Friday, suddenly switching from English to Chinese while speaking with the host and accomplished Scottish actor Tom Conti.

"Norwood, a computer-generated performer being promoted as a new kind of Hollywood star, answered questions about her upcoming film before going silent and then speaking in a different tongue.

"Morgan asked why it happened, and Norwood called the episode little more than a programming “hiccup.”

"'I certainly didn't mean to start speaking Chinese or impersonate Piers. Sometimes my wires get a bit crossed, you know?" she responded.

"Morgan, ever the inquisitive journalist, asked, "How often do you just randomly start talking Chinese when you're talking to two English people?"

"The look on Conti and Morgan's faces when the AI actress begins speaking fluent Chinese is priceless." . . .  <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">EXCLUSIVE: AI actress Tilly Norwood glitches and starts speaking CHINESE during her interview with Piers Morgan and real-life actor Tom Conti...

Watch the full interview at 7pm (BST) https://t.co/1nTb79BH8D @piersmorgan | @TillyNorwoodX https://t.co/DDkveWvVzz— Piers Morgan Uncensored (@PiersUncensored) September 18, 2026

Natural Gas Is Cheap – Why Is Your Bill So High?

 We wait for liberal activists to call it 'big gas".

Watts Up With That?  

"Asked whether most people she knows understand their gas bill and why it may soon go up again, she replied: “I was a schoolteacher. So, of course I know how much they don’t know. But I do think a lot of us retired folks know it’s going to be worse than we expect.”

WASHINGTON, Pennsylvania—Janet Stechly, a retired schoolteacher, and her husband, a retired coal miner, pore over every monthly expense. One of the most confounding is the monthly natural gas bill for their small townhouse in southwestern Pennsylvania.

Their March bill from Columbia Gas of Pennsylvania totaled $95.17, but only $13.99 of that was for the gas itself. The other $81.18 covered delivery ($40.68) and a series of hard-to-decipher items including a “customer charge” ($20.15), “pass-through charges” ($13.37), and a “weather normalization adjustment” ($6.60) that was included because warm weather meant the Stechlys had used less gas than expected. 

The retirees in this small town in western Pennsylvania will likely face even higher gas delivery charges in years to come as more power-hungry data centers are built in the region to accommodate the burgeoning era of AI. While public protests over higher electricity bills, water use, and noise caused by the buildout of data centers have erupted in several states, consumers are less aware of the effect on their natural gas bills. 

. . . "As this family’s experience illustrates, increasing gas bills have nothing to do with the price of gas itself. Nationwide, the American Gas Association reports, actual fuel itself accounts for only 31% of the average bill. It is even lower for the Stechlys, who live in the most-drilled county in Pennsylvania. Washington County has 2,148 unconventional gas wells, more than any other county in the state. All told, they produced 1.15 trillion cubic feet of gas last year. 

The price of the abundant commodity in this region is relatively low, and economists say it will remain so for some time. The expensive part is the plants, pipes, and wires that utilities install to serve new demand, and the companies recover those costs from every customer on the system with a guaranteed return, over decades, set by the state Public Utilities Commission (PUC). And those charges to consumers arrive whether or not the infrastructure is actually used to meet anticipated demand.

Like other utilities, Columbia Gas of Pennsylvania, which serves 445,000 customers in 26 counties, makes nothing on the gas itself; it buys the fuel and passes on the costs to ratepayers. 

“Natural gas itself is completely unregulated. That’s the cheap part of it,” said Dale Nesbitt, president of ArrowHead Economics and a Stanford-trained economist who has modeled energy markets since 1974. “The pipe is regulated. That’s where you’re getting screwed. That’s where the fees are fixed.” . . . More.

Am I a 'truther?'. . . "When your culture is a sewer, the rats will proliferate. "

 Eric Utter - American Thinker

Democrat candidate says Trump supporters should be put in concentration camps – The News Beyond Detroit

"North Carolina Democrat state legislative candidate Shelly Headen recently took to Facebook to post a picture from her vacation to Germany.

"Was the pic perhaps of a bucolic Oktoberfest scene? The Alps? The North Sea? A Black Forest torte?

"Nope, Headen was shown standing in front of crematorium ovens in Dachau, an erstwhile German concentration camp, now a somber memorial. She chose the accompanying words to complement the photo: “Visiting Dauchau [sic] Concentration Camp in Germany … This is where Trump supporters belong.”

"At least 41,500 people were murdered there. How is this possible?

"Astoundingly, on her Facebook page, Headen asserts that she is a CPA and business owner “running to restore human decency.”

"There is no metaphor, allusion, simile, or other semantic device that can come close to illustrating the insanity and depravity of that assertion. It is as insane as someone stating that a person who viciously murdered all three of her kids is “a darn good mother.” Oh, wait, that recently happened, too.

"One might think that suggesting that one’s political opponents be subjected to mass extermination by crematorium ovens would not be a particularly good look for a politician. However, at this point who knows? Maybe it was just her hormones acting up.

"Long-time readers know I often write about truth. The truth which we are Biblically encouraged to seek." . . . 

"I am not a “truther,” in the sense that I don’t believe the 9/11 conspiracy theories, in specific. But it should be noted that a great many other “conspiracy theories” have proven to be true. A number of which I wrote about at the time. (Russian collusion, COVID, etc., etc.) If that makes me a truther, so be it. If we aren’t willing to stand up for even the most obvious — and important — truths, what will we stand up for? Nothing that matters." 

Democrats and Antisemitism in the Midterms

"Will Michigan voters ratify this rise of antisemitism in the November midterm election? And is this antisemitism limited to the Michigan Democrat Party? Will it spread around the country? And will it become an issue in the 2028 presidential election?"  Jeffrey Lord

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Historic newspaper gives El-Sayed a savage rebuke for hiding his past while endorsing his opponent   . . . "He has deleted social media posts that reportedly called into question his attitude about America in the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. He's taken down roughly 100 YouTube videos that paint an unflattering picture of him and his cultural views," the conservative-leaning newspaper argued. "A candidate who feels the need to hide his past from voters is not someone who can be trusted to be the same person after Election Day as he was on the campaign trail." . . .

Democrats and Antisemitism in the Midterms | The American Spectator | USA News and Politics   . . . "Over there in The Atlantic, one finds this in a profile of El-Sayed during the recent Michigan Democrat primary:

Were he to win, and then go on to defeat Mike Rogers, the presumed Republican candidate, El-Sayed would become the most fervently anti-Zionist senator. “If you want your politics dictated to you by AIPAC or Chuck Schumer, then I’m not your guy,” he said during a debate with Stevens … El-Sayed depicts Israel and its American supporters as the primary authors of Donald Trump’s foreign policy. He also blames Israel and AIPAC for a wide array of domestic social problems.

"In short? In short, El-Sayed brings nothing new to the 2026 midterms with the exception of a decided antisemitism. A plain, old-fashioned hatred of Jews — whether those Jews are in Israel or here in America.

"There is a larger issue here as this Michigan Senate election unfolds — not to mention as the entire raft of midterm elections across the country unfolds.

"That would be the role of antisemitism in the larger Democrat Party. Here in my own state of Pennsylvania, Democrat Governor Josh Shapiro is running for re-election against the GOP’s state treasurer Stacy Garrity." . . . More.

Fetterman says he 'can't compete' with Piker: 'Base loves him'