"The traditional media would be in a whole world of legal pain if we ran and boosted claims that were knowingly untrue. Yet Meta, Facebook, X, YouTube, TikTok and the rest of them actually make money off this model. They incentivize people by rewarding those who advance the wackiest claims imaginable."
Wednesday, May 13, 2026
Douglas Murray: Tech firms must crack down on mad conspiracy theories destroying society
How Biden and Obama Failed in the Middle East
Democrats have been the wimpy kid who gave their lunch money to the school bully every morning so he wouldn't disturb them. TD
" . . .Ten, the Obama and Biden teams -- Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, Susan Rice, Leon Panetta, Jake Sullivan, Antony Blinken, and Lloyd Austin -- were force multipliers of their presidents' naivete and incompetence."
The Thing That Works
They listen to people like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who says, "Capitalism ... is the absolute pursuit of profit at all human, environmental and social cost. That is not a redeemable system."
. . . "For thousands of years, everyone but the nobility was poor. Then, when some countries tried capitalism, wealth skyrocketed.
"When people are allowed to buy and sell things freely, everyone is better off.
"Socialists don't get that. AOC insists: "No one ever makes a billion dollars. You take a billion."
"But no billionaire showed up at my door demanding I give them money. Under capitalism, they can only get rich by offering people something we think is better than what we bought before.
"Yes, Amazon's founder is now absurdly rich, but consumers didn't lose. Jeff Bezos got rich by inventing a way for us to shop efficiently and pay less.
"And as Forbes points out, most billionaires weren't born rich.
Video: AOC "is why there are directions on a shampoo bottle"
. . . "Maybe, but capitalism also lifted more people out of poverty, created more opportunities and improved more lives than any other system.
"Economist Thomas Sowell said, "I don't ask, 'What is the cause of poverty?' Everybody is born poor and ignorant. The question is, what factors allow some groups to get from that position?"
"'Sowell put it well," concludes Forbes. "What is the difference between people today and people in the Stone Age? Difference is -- we know more. That's how you get a higher standard of living, from experiments in the marketplace, the laboratory, always trying to find new things. That's why planning doesn't work, because if we already knew it, we'd already be doing it!"
"Only capitalism allows the experiments that create better lives." . . . More...
Humor: How many Democrats does it take … - Eric Utter
"How many Democrats does it take to screw in a lightbulb?(Trick question. Many Democrats don’t know how to screw in a lightbulb and most have their servants do it. It should be noted, however, that hundreds of them in Washington, D.C. will debate what kind of bulbs should be legal, their maximum wattage, etc., etc.)" . . .
Tuesday, May 12, 2026
Fixing the Failures of the Pro-Life Movement -
American Reformer; via Glenn Gaither
"Defending the rights of the unborn is not enough. A pro-life party worthy of its name would defend motherhood, maternal character, and parenthood, too.
A Never-Before-Seen Look at Life’s First Moments | Baby Oliver
"Conservatives have long understood that abortion has fundamentally changed the sexual constitution of America, its system of honor and shame shaping relations between the sexes. But they have mostly underestimated the scope and nature of the abortion revolution.
"Abortion is usually seen only as part of the Left’s rights revolution. Pro-abortion activists see the “right to choose” as an expression of individual autonomy, providing “the right to define one’s own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life,” as Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote in Planned Parenthood v. Casey. Advocates slip other “rights” into American life through this window, including access to contraception, obscenity, sodomy, same-sex marriage, and suicide.
“Pro-life” framing focuses on how the baby’s “right to life” limits female autonomy. Autonomy is thought to be a good, but only up to a point where it meets the baby’s personhood. A woman’s right to swing and punch is limited by the baby’s nose. Much ink has been spilled to prove that the baby is indeed a life—all to the good.
"Conservatives have also long emphasized how permissive abortion laws produce a culture of death. Life everywhere is cheapened when it can be ended in the womb. The old or ill, facing life’s inevitable end, will either be ushered out through physician-assisted suicide or shunted away. A culture of death is also callous to children generally, tolerating forms of child abuse and neglect.
The emphasis on life more easily gains purchase in today’s environment because it exists within our rights framework. But, as the pro-abortion votes in most state referenda after the Dobbs decision show, the movement has not won the hearts and minds of the American people. Part of what the pro-life movement has missed is how abortion also affects the ethos of family life and shapes female priorities and character away from motherhood. Abortion exists downstream from feminist career ambitions and associated lifestyles. Once women adopt such lifestyles, they become, mostly, either softer on abortion or positively pro-abortion. Defending abortion means defending a way of life that depends, in many cases, on access to abortion." . . . More...
Where on earth do these Democrats come from?
The moral compass of Democrats and Gen Z [especially] women I find rather terrifying.
“These are not your father’s political assassins. Things have changed. For one thing, today’s assassins have popular support with the kids.”
After all, didn't many of them support the Hamas slaughter of Israeli families and their infants?
| AfterMath |
"Zohran Mamdani is a DSA member and a communist Islamist. Ketanje Jackson was pushed forward by the DSA for the Court. AOC is a DSA plant." . . .
Stu Smith posted: "The California governor section is where DSA’s “lesser evil” logic gets especially funny. "They warn voters not to cast a left-wing protest vote because “the stakes are incredibly high” and “the chance of the top two candidates both being Republicans is still very real.” "Then they land on Tom Steyer. Yes, billionaire Tom Steyer. "DSA admits Steyer is “somehow running the most progressive campaign,” praising him for backing a billionaire tax, state-level Medicare for All, labor unions, and calling ICE a “violent extremist group.” "But they still cannot fully stomach him. The guide calls him the “most progressive” viable candidate, then immediately adds: “Time will tell whether he’s truly a class traitor.” "Even when they endorse the billionaire, the highest compliment they can offer is that maybe he will betray his own class." . . .
Michael Goodwin: Dems continue to wallow in denial and do the dumbest things – it's clear they haven't learned a thing “So Donald Trump, Republican Party: This is a new DNC. We are not going to sit back and not take you on when you fail the American people.”
"If it really were a new DNC, Dems would have a fighting chance of winning back public trust.
"Instead, they are living examples of the maxim that insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result." . . .
Watch: Bill Maher Calls Out The Left’s Selective Tolerance For Political Violence . . . “These are not your father’s political assassins. Things have changed. For one thing, today’s assassins have popular support with the kids.” . . .
Exclusive | Dead voters' signatures appear on Dem candidate's forms: 'Our democracy nowadays' “'This is why people lose faith in government, because you have people running for office who are willing to lie and cheat because they can’t compete by following the rules,” McCreight said in a statement."
Spencer Pratt’s Mother’s Day Post is a Gut Punch to Democrats
From the comments: "Virginia and the south is with you Spencer don’t be surprised if Miss Heidi is our first lady one day. I really see good things for you and your family and this country with you leading the way God bless you and you’re fight for truth, justice and the American way that has been hijacked from the REAL Americans that love this country and will fight for it till the end. You give ..us all hope.
"Make California California again!"The Four Horsemen of the New Antisemitism › Victor Davis Hanson
"Instead, what is left in the pathway of demonizing Israel and blaming Jews, here and abroad, is the supposed bigot Donald Trump and his “irredeemable,” “deplorable” MAGA movement—for now, the last dam holding back the rising flood."
Here's Why the Iranian People Never Rose Up, and It's Not the Reason You Think
"President Trump reveals the Kurds REFUSED to hand over American arms to the Iranian people The Kurds disappointed us . . ."We sent some guns with ammunition. They were supposed to be delivered, but they KEPT IT. I said they're gonna keep it. What do I know?!"
"President Trump revealed on Monday to reporters why the Iranian people were unable to rise up against the regime during Operation Epic Fury.
"According to the president, it was not simply because public morale had been crushed following the regime’s harsh crackdown on protests in late 2025 and early 2026. He said a broader U.S. plan to help arm anti-regime forces inside Iran was ultimately derailed by a third party: the Iraqi Kurds, whom the United States had planned to rely on as ground forces in southern Iran.
"'No weapons, they have no guns. We thought the Kurds were gonna give us weapons, but the Kurds disappointed us," President Trump revealed in the Oval Office. "The Kurds take, take, take. They have a great reputation in Congress. Congress says, oh, they fight so hard. No, they fight hard when they get paid."
"'So I'm very disappointed in the Kurds, but they were given, I said it wasn't gonna work, by the way," he added. "I just have to say it. I disagreed with what they did, they gave it. I said, they'll never get there. And I was right, I like to be right. In this case, too bad, but we sent some guns with ammunition and they were supposed to be delivered, but they kept it. I said, they're gonna keep it, but what do I know? I've only been doing this a short period of time."
"This comes as negotiations with Iran, and hopes for a permanent ceasefire, appear to be on life support, with regime negotiators repeatedly making promises, walking them back, and offering what President Trump has reportedly dismissed as unserious peace proposals. More...
‘The View’ Is a Cancer on the Culture and the Country
"The View is a cancer and it metastasizes through society via its audience; an army of hateful AWFULs weaponized by ignorance and set upon the country like Frankenstein’s monster. We have ABC News to thank for it, and Disney on top of that, both of which are the cultural equivalent of cigarette companies. Remember than and vote accordingly."
In order to avoid any standards to skirt from lawsuits, and to deny anyone not a doctrinaire leftist claims of “equal time” on the public airwards, The View is part of ABC News, not ABC entertainment. Those of us who work on the public airwaves know that there are rules before elections that require, should a candidate ask for it, that they get equal time as a guest on a show 30 days before a primary and 60 days before a general election.
"It's rarely an issue, as few Democrats have the guts to appear on conservative talk radio because they can’t actually defend their agendas or policies, so they don’t ask for that time – and it has to be asked for. But conservatives aren’t afraid of leftists and would happily take on the five harpies on the show. Producers, however, know that would be an absolute disaster for the show, so they will never allow it. As a “news” show and a “journalistic” outfit, they don’t have to.
"It's not surprising ABC would do this, but you’d think Disney might want to protect the brand. Maybe they are." . . .More...
Oh, wait! There is this:
"From “Dr. Jill Biden would make a great Surgeon General because she’s a great doctor” to “Republicans have overruled the will of the voters” in Virginia because the State Supreme Court tossed out the unconstitutional power grab Democrats tried to rush through, you’d have to try to get the basic facts of daily life and basic civics as wrong as these women do."
‘The Odyssey’ set to be bastardized beyond all recognition
"The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long that nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was..."
"While Pitt is clearly an attractive man, it was his portrayal of Achilles that made him such a dream: morally gray, hypermasculine, deeply loyal, dangerous (but gentle with Briseis), peak Western warrior. Kruger? She was simply stunning, a believable “face that launched 1,000 ships,” noble and resplendent.
"So, it is with that point in mind that I have nothing but disgust and contempt for Christopher Nolan’s planned production—entirely undeserving of being called an “epic” take. The new Achilles and the new Helen? Truly an abomination if the rumors turn out to be true. Ellen (“Elliot”) Page, a very petite woman who cut off her breasts because she’s “trans,” is reportedly set to fill Pitt’s shoes, and Lupita Nyong’o is said to be playing Helen. Now, Nyong’o’s physical unattractiveness has nothing to do with her skin tone, which is offensive in and of itself because Helen was not black and I’m so sick of the woke swaps, but Lupita is just not a pretty woman." More...
. . . "And in this light, Athena is played by Zendaya, a black woman who is 29 years old. And Achilles is played by…Elliott Page. Ex-Ellen Page. “Trans-Man”...All 5’ 2”, 105 pounds of her. The greatest warrior hero in the Greek mythos, a synonym for his power and his anger, played by a tiny woman.
| Achilles the warrior |
"There is no purpose to this that I can see other than “inclusivity,” and an obvious pandering to “the rules.” But what is lost when race, sexual orientation, and gender are made criteria for anything is talent. Instead of ability being the sole arbiter of who is a pilot, or a doctor, or who is best suited to a part, we get quotas and agendas. United has committed to 50% “diversity” at its pilot school. That’s what I want—a diversity pilot hire. I want a doctor hired for race and sex rather than one hired for ability. Or an actor chosen to include LGBTQ+++ (or however many letters are fashionable today) rather than being suited to their role." . . .
Read it for yourself: Representation and Inclusion Standards | Oscars.org | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Monday, May 11, 2026
They are actually pitching their failures as positives.
Union-funded anti-Spencer Pratt ad sparks backlash as critics say it could help him
"A political advertisement opposing Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt is drawing attention online as critics argue the messaging could ultimately benefit the former reality TV star instead of hurt his campaign.
"The ad, which has circulated widely on X in recent days, attacks Spencer Pratt over homelessness, policing and public employee unions while urging voters to reject the Republican candidate.
"Republican Spencer Pratt is the last thing Los Angeles needs for mayor," the speaker in the video says. "Pratt opposes using taxpayer money to build brand new houses for unhoused neighbors, saying it's time for the homeless to get help or get out.
NOW: Leftists are being brutally mocked for DROPPING THIS “attack ad” on LA Mayor candidate Spencer Pratt — which says he opposes rampant homelessness and supports the police
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) May 10, 2026
LMAO — and they’re spending hundreds of thousands to blast this everywhere!
“Pratt says it's time… pic.twitter.com/VYLB2QSUPD
Holding the Media Responsible for the SPLC Scandal
"For those who have long watched Southern Poverty Law Center and the extraordinary influence it has with the media, the last few weeks have been positively beautiful to behold."
Christopher Knight - American Thinker
Victims of SPLC for the past fifty years and more would do well to strike while its wounds are fresh, and hold the media inescapably culpable in its activism against the innocent.
"We are owed an expansive apology. That however would require sincere admission on the part of the aggressors that they did us wrong.
"A vigorous scan through the legacy news from this past two weeks has not turned that up. Indeed, the parties at fault have circled the wagons instead of confronting the problem. They are attempting to make it out that the Department of Justice at the behest of President Trump is executing a campaign of persecution against a “storied civil rights organization,” as CNN on Facebook described Southern Poverty Law Center.
"For those who have long watched Southern Poverty Law Center and the extraordinary influence it has with the media, the last few weeks have been positively beautiful to behold. That nigh-unassailable bastion of “anti-racist monitoring” has been indicted in federal court for funneling $3 million of its nonprofit coffers toward paying the very racial extremists it professed to stand against. The scheme could have sprung from the pages of a comic book: SPLC funding neo-Nazis and other white supremacists to actively hate people, so that SPLC could campaign against them. It’s basically akin to the fire department putting the torch to your house and expecting to be paid to put it out.
"SPLC’s motives and actions could almost be laughable. But there is no hilarity in this situation. Not with SPLC having fought tooth and claw across the previous five and a half decades to establish itself as the definitive arbiter of “hate” in America. Which in the case of SPLC happens to be anything to the right of the Politburo. Conservative individuals and organizations, and especially Christians, however minimum the magnitude of their actions, have long been cast by SPLC as being “extremist hate mongers” to be abhorred. This, while Southern Poverty turns a blind eye to the violence and mayhem and even loss of life brought about by leftist groups such as Antifa and those inspired by Black Lives Matter.
"No, there is not and never has been any intention by the Southern Poverty Law Center to legitimately monitor hate groups. The organization is just as Morris Dees and his confederates intended it to be: a weapon against liberty-minded people and groups that few would dare oppose without also being likened to racists." . . .


