What has become of our judiciary, of our entire system of justice?

Patricia McCarthy  

The George Soroses and the Neville Roy Singhams are determined to destroy the U.S. by any means necessary and they have the means necessary.  

"No one paying attention today is unaware that the once heralded system of American justice has become a joke.  

"It is no longer about justice at all but only about ideology, about politics, about preserving any and every leftist dream scheme for getting and keeping power.  

"For those of us who tuned in to the courtroom scene in Utah on Wednesday to see Tyler Robinson’s lawyer claim that Charlie Kirk deserved to be killed, it was just another nail in the coffin of that once-thought-to-be-great system of justice.  

"Why on earth did Judge Tony F. Graf, who has bent over backwards to be fair, let Robinson’s defense attorney, Richard Novak, continue his outrageous and totally false diatribe that overtly suggested that Robinson had good reason to assassinate Charlie Kirk?  Even given today’s lack of faith and trust in our judiciary, this was shockingly illicit.  It is doubtful that any film or television legal thriller would not have nixed such a blatantly illegal tactic. 

"The judge in the Lindsay Clancy trial disallowed any reference to the defendant’s religion and chastised the prosecutor for even suggesting it was relevant to the matter at hand even though it actually, sort of is.  

"But Judge Graf in the Tyler Robinson hearing allowed Robinson’s lawyer to disingenuously malign Charlie Kirk for what seemed an eternity of lies.  

"Charlie Kirk never spoke “hatefully” about anyone or any group.  He offered conversation, he was never rude or condescending.  He simply valued and promoted traditional values and shared his faith In God.  Defense attorney Novak was totally out of line and Judge Graf should have stopped his vicious tirade meant to excuse what his client did.  He murdered a man in cold blood, risked harming countless others, and bragged about what he had done to his furry pal with whom he had a romantic relationship.  The evidence that proves his guilt is overwhelming.  Novak leapt into the gutter at the end of this prolonged “preliminary hearing” and humiliated himself as did Judge Graf for letting him vent so egregiously." . . .

Education Dojo

Donald “Jed Clampett” Trump

"The world runs on oil. The USA is getting back to controlling the world’s oil"

Don Surber  

“Torn between strategic gain and economic risk, Beijing bets on how far it can back Tehran without fully provoking Washington.”

"Red China is hurting for certain. The world’s largest oil importer lost oil from Iran and Venezuela, which supplied 15% of the oil it bought last year.

"Under Trump, the USA is a net exporter of oil. That should be the case for decades to come because thanks to President Trump and Chief Warrant Officer Five Eric A. Slover, America now controls 65 billion barrels of oil in Venezuela. Slover is the helicopter pilot who took a licking of bullets but kept on ticking as the military extracted Maduro on January 3, earning a Medal of Honor.

"Trump wisely kept Maduro’s veep—Delcy Rodriguez—as interim president because she was more malleable than a popular president would be. He got her to sign over control of 65 barrels of oil in the ground—more than doubling oil reserves controlled by the USA (we have 46 billion barrels in the USA.)

"This is bad news for Red China, which always delights me. The commies imported 11.6 million barrels per day in 2025. That was 70% of the oil the Chinese used.

"This year, its imports have fallen by 11%—down to 7.1 million bpd in June. It rebounded slightly in July and with the re-opening of the Strait of Hormuz, it should rise as Saudi and Iraq will be able to deliver almost 3 million bpd (combined) again.

"Iran won’t. It was delivering 1.4 million bpd. Nada now. Between Iran and Venezuela, Trump now controls 15% of the oil Red China imported last year.

"Chairman Xi may own American colleges, American media and the Uniparty in DC, but Trump controls the oil." . . .

. . . "The short answer is not very far because Trump knows the value of what he holds. Oil for rare earth elements would be a nice deal if you could trust Red China. So it is not going to happen. Trump also controls the currency." . . .More.

Another Long Twilight Struggle | The American Spectator

 "The French writer Charles Baudelaire once noted that “The Devil’s cleverest wile is to make men believe that he does not exist.” Beginning in the 1980s and continuing to the present, the CCP’s “cleverest wile” was and is to make Americans believe that the leaders of the CCP are no longer communists."

. . . "That doesn’t mean that this geopolitical rivalry will end in war. Chinese strategic thought reaches back to Sun Tzu, who in the fifth century B.C. counseled: “To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.” The United States, meanwhile, won the first long twilight struggle against the Soviet Union by combining George Kennan’s preferred “patient, firm and vigilant” containment with the political, economic, and subversive warfare of the Reagan administration." . . . 

Megyn Kelly Told Michelle Obama to Get a Divorce After She Laughed at Barack for Crying

 Renewed Right 

"She built a post-White House brand entirely on the image of a woman who gave everything to her family. And now, episode by episode on her own podcast, she's dismantling every piece of it – the marriage she resented, the motherhood she endured, the White House years she didn't enjoy, the husband she mocked into a microphone while his Secret Service detail asked if he was okay." 

Dianny's Ten Most Tiresome People of 2025

 "Michelle Obama spent years telling America she sacrificed everything for her family.

""Now she's on her podcast laughing at her husband for crying when his daughter left for college.

""Megyn Kelly watched the clip – and told Barack Obama to find someone who actually loves him.

"The Moment That Set Megyn Off

""It started with an October 2025 episode of Michelle's IMO podcast, where she walked listeners through dropping Malia off at college.

"She described giving Barack a simple Ikea lamp to assemble – something with nothing to put together – just to keep him occupied.

""Then came the motorcade ride back to Air Force One.

""Michelle heard something and turned to look.

""Barack was trying to hold back tears." . . . 

Michelle Obama says she doesn't miss her kids when asked about them pic.twitter.com/usIqJxXMV4
“I love them. I’m going to see them tonight for dinner. I love them. But Barack cried when they went to college. I was like, ‘Bye, goodbye!’”
Malia and Sasha were 10 years old and 7…

— Defiant L’s (@DefiantLs) August 28, 2026     More... 

Number Six on Dianny's Ten Most Tiresome People of 2025  

. . . "If Hunter Biden’s endless complaints are annoying, Michelle’s are unfathomable. Never in the history of the universe has there been such a wealthy, pampered, overindulged crybaby as Michelle Obama. For more than fifteen years, Americans have had to listen to this privileged, molly-coddled shrew bang on about her miserable, no-good, very bad life. And every few years, a publishing company hands her millions to write yet another memoir about how she has overcome so much hardship and what a big old victim she is. We’ll never be rid of her." 

A warning and referendum on the future of America

"How Michigan goes, so will go the country."  "How do we convince Republicans to get out and vote?"

Susan Quinn 

 "When we study these two candidates, at a time when polarization and anger are dominating the political landscape, we can ask the following questions, regardless of what party we support: Which candidate has had to apologize for or “correct” his public comments? *Which candidate is more likely to help bring stability to the country? *How do we convince Republicans to get out and vote?" 

. . . "The largest source of controversy is the Democrat nominee, Abdul El-Sayed, who insists he isn’t a Democratic Socialist, in spite of his headlining six DSA events. But he wears all the trappings of the DSA:That El-Sayed hates the state of Israel is not open for debate. He does. He also routinely attacks Americans who support the state of Israel by repeatedly attacking the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, which is primarily, though not exclusively, made up of American Jews. El-Sayed, himself a Muslim, will probably energize the estimated quarter of a million Muslims in the Wolverine State as well as the Jewish population of approximately 120,000 people (about 1.2% of Michigan’s population). Most Jews and many non-Jews believe that El-Sayed is simply antisemitic, and certainly the most extreme mainstream party candidate to ever run for, much less serve in, the United States Senate." . . .  More.

Democratic Socialism: A Limited Appeal to Voters

"The democratic socialist approach relies on one central idea: tearing down all the nation’s existing institutions and replacing them with a system that eliminates inequality by redistributing wealth and status."

S.T. Karnick   

"That is how leftist politicians thrive even though their proposed solutions make things much worse. The greater the decline in economic and social conditions, the more blame and hatred they can heap on the out groups."

"The defeat of Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) member Francesca Hong in Wisconsin’s Democratic primary arrives as good news for the vast majority of Americans who are not among the DSA’s 120,000 members.

"'It was, however, a very close race. Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley, who was endorsed by Gov. Tony Evers (a fellow Democrat), received 39.8 percent of the vote, to Hong’s 39.3 percent.

"Hong was a weak candidate and a poor standard-bearer for the DSA agenda, possessing none of the charisma and political talent of DSA superstar New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

Hong’s charisma shortage limited her appeal to voters and led to the refusal of prominent DSA favorites Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) to endorse her. The missing endorsements were probably dispositive in such a close race.

"I think Hong’s failure to get past the post in the Democrat primary illustrates a greater problem for the collectivist “democratic socialist” movement.

"The democratic socialist approach relies on one central idea: tearing down all the nation’s existing institutions and replacing them with a system that eliminates inequality by redistributing wealth and status to those who have allegedly been unfairly denied these things." . . . More.

S. T. Karnick is a senior fellow at The Heartland Institute and author of the Life, Liberty, Property weekly e-newsletter.

Evidence doesn’t point to a genocide in Gaza — despite all of the rage

David Harsanyi 

 The survival rate of Jews under Nazi control in Europe was roughly 30% — and only because Nazis did not have time to finish the job. The survival rate for Arab civilians during the Gaza war was somewhere around 99%. 

"In May 2025, Tom Fletcher, the United Nations under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs, went on BBC Radio and told the audience that 14,000 babies in Gaza were going to die “in the next 48 hours unless we can reach them.”

"Two days. Fourteen thousand babies.

"According to UNICEF, there are around 20,000 babies in the entirety of Gaza. Which means 70% of all infants were in danger of dying in mere hours. An “utterly chilling” figure, Fletcher stressed.

"The New York Times, along with numerous other establishment media outlets, relayed Fletcher’s allegation to its credulous audience without any skepticism. The usual experts were summoned to discuss this unfolding famine on cable news. And the antisemites across social media amplified the claim.

"No matter how far-fetched a story is about Israel, including preposterous evidence-free accusations that it trains dogs to rape Palestinians, papers such as The New York Times will spread it to feed the perception that the Jewish state operates as a genocidal entity.

"And no matter how often the claims are debunked, they keep at it." . . . More.

Caught Pushing An Apocalyptic Scenario They Knew Couldn’t Occur, Climate Scientists Are Now Claiming Their Policies Prevented It

"Clique of stealth activists, including the former head of the National Academies of Science, claimed a high-emissions future was possible long after it had been falsified"

Michael Shellenberger

Zeke Hausfather, climate scientist and IPCC lead author; Marcia McNutt, geophysicist and former
president of the National Academies of Science; Gavin Schmidt, climate scientist and director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies

"Climate policies saved the world from catastrophic warming, say leading climate scientists. On September 1, a consortium that produces analyses for the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released new scenarios. They say the new worst-case scenario is just 3.3 degrees Celsius of warming by 2100 over pre-industrial temperatures. That’s down from 4.6 to 4.9 degrees of the last three generations of climate scenarios used by the IPCC. “Our business-as-usual projection of 3C of warming – rather than 4 or 5C – is a testament to the progress in global decarbonization over the last few decades,” wrote climate scientists Zeke Hausfather, Glen Peters, and Piers Forster back in May.

"Others agreed. Chris Smith, a modeler at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis who helped build the new scenarios, told Carbon Brief that “back in 2010, RCP8.5 wasn’t an implausible future, we’ve now made it an implausible future.” Gavin Schmidt, the longtime director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, argued that scenarios shifted “in light of what we (as a society) are doing,” so that “we have already done things and so ‘business’ is no longer ‘usual.’” Robert Vautard, cochair of the IPCC working group on physical science, said the old high scenarios “assumed no climate policies,” while “there ARE now many climate policies in many countries, developed in particular with the Paris Agreement signed in 2016.”

"But the high emissions scenarios were never plausible."  More.  

Watch: Fmr. Harvard Astrophysicist Dr. Willie Soon: ‘Plants Don’t Call CO2 a Pollutant — They Call It Dinner’  

"In this presentation from EIKE-17, Dr. Willie Soon challenges the characterization of carbon dioxide () as a harmful air pollutant. Instead, he presents a scientific case for as the “gas of life” and essential “dinner” for plants (0:02–2:56)."

Florida’s Curriculum on Communism — Every State Should Follow Suit

 DeSantis wants students to learn what socialism looks like after the slogans meet reality.

The American Spectator   

"If our educational system was working better … Marxism would have the same evil connotations as Fascism."

Mike Rowe: Supporters of socialism are mostly college grads pissed they're buried in debt because they swallowed the 'get a degree' kool-aid"

"Florida’s middle and high schools are expanding instruction on communism for students in grades 6 through 12. Last November, Florida’s Board of Education approved new History of Communism standards to be implemented during the 2026-2027 school year."

"In 2024, the Florida legislature passed, and Governor Ron DeSantis signed into law, measures requiring schools to teach about the “evils and dangers of Communism.” DeSantis started this process back in 2021. One goal of the law and new standards is to prepare middle school and high school students to “withstand indoctrination on Communism at colleges and universities.” Every state in the country should follow Florida’s lead, despite those on the left who characterize Florida’s move as a “dangerous recasting of McCarthyism” and designed to teach students “what to think, rather than how to think.” (RELATED: Meet America’s New Un-Americans… the DSA)

"A history professor at UCLA said: “If I were a teacher, I would feel really scared by this” — apparently teachers should be scared to tell the truth about communism. A retired Yeshiva University history professor expressed concern that the curriculum would downplay or ignore “McCarthyism,” which she described as “the longest lasting and most widespread episode of political repression within the United States,” ignoring the extent of communist infiltration of our government and society that even McCarthy underestimated. (RELATED: The Communist Warnings Conservatives Ignored for Years)

"A history professor at the University of Central Florida claimed that the new standards are a “rewriting” of history. The daughter of blacklisted communist Hollywood screenwriter Dalton Trumbo criticized the legislation last year as an effort to downplay the Red Scare of the 1940s and 1950s.

"These are examples of a phenomenon known as “anti-anti-communism,” which portrays anti-communists as greater threats to liberty than communists. For this group, Joe McCarthy was a greater threat to America than those domestic communists who worked on behalf of Josef Stalin. . . ."  More.

They Buried The Good News. We Drew It.

The Scott Bessent Fireside Chat in Pictures

Doug Ross

"Socialism never works. Free enterprise always does. November is coming."

"The Wall Street Journal sat on the story for months. Cable news buried it. But the numbers don’t lie - and the numbers are stunning. In a chat at the G20 with Larry Kudlow, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent offered a recap of the economic success stories that have been hidden from the public. This is the story Americans need to read before the midterms.

"Since1/20/2025, the American economy has ripped. Profits are up 53%. 900,000 new private-sector jobs created. Meanwhile, half a world away, a regime that spent forty-seven years chanting “Death to America” is watching its currency turn to confetti. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent calls it Operation Economic Outcast. Iran is a snake with its head cut off.

"The bond market, the stock market, the oil fields, the semiconductor fabs — all soaring. In 2026, drug prices have seen the largest one-year price drop since 1963.

"The doctrine is simple: cut taxes, cut red tape, drill, onshore, and hunt the bad guys down to their last offshore trust.

"Socialism never works. Free enterprise always does. November is coming."  More...

California Spent Years Banning Christmas From Schools and Now Wants to Celebrate Islam

  Renewed Right   

"Democrats are moving Assembly Bill 2017 towards Gavin Newsom to sign. This will make Muslim holidays states holidays. Public schools and Universities CAN CLOSE to observe Muslim holidays. Democrats are the party of Islam"

"California schools erased Christmas.

"They renamed it "Winter Break" and told Christian parents the state had to stay neutral on religion.

"But now Gavin Newsom is about to sign a law forcing those same schools to celebrate Islam.

The Asymmetry Written Into the Law

Assembly Bill 2017 does three things California has never once done for Christians or Jews: it makes Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha official state holidays, authorizes school closures on those days, and directs the State Board of Education to build a model curriculum guide for classroom exercises marking the holidays.

"The bill passed the California Assembly 64-1.

"Sixty-four lawmakers voted yes.

"One had the nerve to vote no." . . .

. . . "The bill cleared the Assembly in May and ran through the Senate committee.

“California is home to one of the largest and most vibrant Muslim communities in the country,” said bill author Assemblymember Matt Haney. “AB 2017 is about making sure Muslim Californians are seen, valued, and treated with the same dignity as every other community in our state.”

"The legislative session ended Monday – which means Newsom either signs it or lets it die.

"He's going to sign it.

"Newsom has spent his entire political career building the coalition that wrote this bill – San Francisco Democrats, CAIR, progressive advocacy groups.

"The assemblymember who introduced AB 2017, Matt Haney, represents San Francisco."  More.

UPDATED Thursday, Sept 3;  UPDATE: California seeks to honor Islam - American Thinker   "Following this outrageous act by California, we now learn the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) has done one better. Its store, which sells customized WNBA jerseys, has banned any mention on them of “Jesus Christ” while authorizing the use of “Muhammad” and “Allahu Akbar.” And, despite the socialist influence destroying the Democrat party, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel, who is Jewish, says Jews may need to sacrifice their own future to save humanity by voting Democrat."

Beauty and Destruction: Wartime London in Art

 Imperial War Museums;..... Imperial War Museums  via Military History Matters

Louisa Puller captures an area of total devastation north of St Paul's Cathedral after intense aerial bombardment
 in the winter of 1940-1941.

"The German Air Force, the Luftwaffe, conducted aerial raids against Britain between May 1940 and the early part of 1945. The most intense period, known as the Blitz, came between May 1940 and September 1941. 

"Though the Blitz saw towns and cities across Britain subjected to bombing raids by the Luftwaffe, London received the heaviest and most sustained assault, with 57 consecutive night raids.

"The War Artists’ Advisory Committee was set up in 1939 to compile a documentary record of the war. As the bombs rained down on the capital, the WAAC and its artists were eager to get to work documenting the scenes that played out night after night. 

"Some of the WAAC artists even served in the Auxiliary Fire Service - their understanding of the work evident in their art." . . . More...

A man and woman asleep under blankets in the tube tunnel, Liverpool
 Street Underground Station Shelter, November 1940.
Photograph by Bill Brandt.

A Parachute Bomb | Imperial War Museums

"image: a night time view across the Thames, showing the dark silhouettes of shipping and equipment against the glowing red sky opposite. Just above the buildings on the other side of the river there is a parachute bomb descending, about to explode.

Matvyn Wright, working for the Auxiliary Fire Service, witnessed with his colleagues the extraordinary strange silhouettes and falling forms of the Thames Blitz; here he captured the fear of waiting and destruction. The bomb almost appears to be held up by the crane-like structures of the barge. In reality, this is a fragile snapshot before the inevitable explosion, with the fire crew poised to respond."

A Parachute Bomb Image: IWM (Art.IWM ART LD 1355)

Target the Palace / London's Burning