Google: Search Engine or Echo Chamber?

"Now, why would anybody ever think there was left-wing bias on Google?"

I have scrolled through as many as a dozen pages before finding liberal-refuting posts. Many of the liberal posts were repeated numerous times before a conservative post appeared for the first time. Did I also mention ChatGPT? TD

 Rusty Walker - American Thinker

"I only hope American teenagers notice the way I noticed the subtle political persuasion of the Left that demonstrably permeates all our institutions." 

Light Wave

. . . "But I wasn’t writing an essay, I was just looking for a better way to write in my notes “breathtaking corruption.” (I take notes while reading. It’s a long-time practice of mine to remember what I read.) On my mind was what Theodore Roosevelt saw when he became New York Police Commissioner, and the normalization of the Democrat Tammany Hall political machine he encountered. I wasn’t searching for a political answer to anything.
"As I searched Google I was expecting a simple thesaurus-like list of such expressions as “astounding fraud,” “incredible graft” et.al. Expressions I could come up with.

"I entered “breathtaking corruption” in Google. Can you guess what paragraphs were chosen to explain “breathtaking corruption”? There were nine paragraphs the subject of which was Donald J. Trump!" . . .  More...

Fenway Park Video Shows the America We Lost

Brian Lonergan; Chronicles  

The stands at Fenway in the ’50s were full of people who had chosen America, and everything that comes with it. If we want those days back, we must choose it again unapologetically and without guilt. 

"When the Boston Red Sox’s legendary Fenway Park posted archival footage of 1950s Opening Day last week, the team expected a pleasant wave of nostalgia. But the comments section produced something else. The grainy clip showed thousands of Bostonians—men in fedoras, well-dressed women in coats, kids waving pennants—all lining up with uninhibited joy for a baseball game. After receiving almost 10 million views, the video was so flooded with pointed comments that Fenway had to lock it. The message was clear: The America in the video exposed the unmistakable decline of our current nation. Millions of viewers saw it and immediately understood why.

"The video touched a raw nerve not just because it was beautiful but because it showed how far we have fallen in what amounts to the span of a single lifetime. The decline did not happen by accident. It is largely the direct, predictable result of decades of reckless immigration policies that prioritized volume over values and social engineering over national cohesion.

"Predictably, the first instinct of critics on the left was to cry racism over these heartfelt reactions to a lost America. It is true that the crowds in the footage were overwhelmingly white. Therefore, the argument goes, any longing that scene stirs in people must be rooted in racism and xenophobia, rather than a recognition of the defects of our current cultural reality.

"This is a lazy, intellectually dishonest dodge. Race is not the point; assimilation is. The people in that 1950s footage were, in many cases, themselves first- or second-generation Americans—Irish, Italian, Polish, Jewish, among others. They were people whose parents or grandparents had arrived here through Ellis Island. They did not come to recreate the old country on American soil, transforming it. They came to become American—to transform themselves. They learned the language, embraced the civic norms, cheered on the same teams as their neighbors, and played by the same unwritten rules that made public spaces safe and orderly. Baseball was not merely entertainment. It was a sacrament of a shared American identity.

"That unifying force is precisely what is missing today. Boston Mayor Michelle Wu—who was booed loudly along with Governor Maura Healey on the field at Opening Day—recently declared that “you cannot talk about any achievement that the city of Boston has had … without talking about the Somali community that has lifted our city up.” The Fenway video is a devastating rebuttal to her. There are no Somalis visible in those 1950s stands—nor could there have been, given the timeline." . . .  More...

Brian Lonergan is director of strategic communications and content for the Federation for American Immigration Reform in Washington, D.C., and the co-host of the “No Border, No Country” podcast.

Adam Schiff Disavows His Faithful Sidekick, Eric Swalwell

 The Last Refuge  

The wheels on the bus go, whomp, whomp, whomp.

"You have to remember how close they are in all their collaborative efforts in order to truly appreciate the level of disingenuous gaslighting present in this effort to create distance.

"Throughout Spygate, Russiagate and all the impeachment nonsense, Adam Schiff was Batman to Eric Swalwell’s Robin. They were/are peas and carrots, partners in every sense of the word.

"Schiff and Swalwell organized together, planned and conducted media hits together, schemed together, shared the same staff together and were fundamentally side-by-side in everything.  However, now that Swalwell’s perverted zipper problems and rape tendencies have become the talk of California and Washington, DC, Schiff retracts:. .  . " More...

How The Algorithm Stripped The Soul Out Of Songwriting

Now maybe I can find out what an algorithm is.

The Federalist   Instead of being consumed in its entirety, a song fragment must typically succeed on social media before listeners seek out the full track.

"I'm sure you’ve experienced this ritual: a baby boomer, raised on The Beatles or Led Zeppelin, encounters a viral hit from TikTok and declares it terrible. “Today’s music,” he insists to his Gen Z interlocutor, is less melodic, less introspective, less human. Where, he asks, is the aching release of “Hey Jude,” the slow climb of “Stairway to Heaven,” the sense that a song might reveal something rather than simply repeat itself? 

"The charge is not entirely wrong. Engineering modern mainstream music often involves repeating wide-net choruses between forgettable verses, occasionally throwing in a bridge. Music from the 1960s and ’70s may have followed the same recipe, but there was something soulful about the hits of the past that cemented them as diamonds, still rediscoverable decades later. 

"What has changed is not the presence of emotional expression, but the conditions under which the feeling must be expressed. Music, like language, bends to the medium that carries it. And in the 2020s, that medium is not the radio dial, but the social media algorithm. 

"In the mid-20th century, the journey from artist to audience resembled a procession. Songs were written, recorded with real instruments, and released into a relatively stable system of promotion — labels, radio stations, critics, and live performances. Gatekeepers stood between creation and consumption, and while their power constrained access, it also created coherence. When The Rolling Stones released “Gimme Shelter” or The Doors released “Light My Fire,” those songs did not arrive as 15-second fragments but as complete statements.

"The listener, in turn, was patient. Songs could begin slowly, even experimentally, because they were not competing against the infinite scroll. One hears echoes of this in the structure of the music baby boomers grew up loving, with its extended intros and guitar solos." . . .

. . . "When a culture cannot sit still long enough to reflect on its inability to sit still and reflect, meaningful music will rarely meet the mainstream. The drumbeat of soul-catching music pounds beneath the floorboards of digital platforms, waiting for those who will pause, listen, and dig it out." . . . More...

Buster Crabbe as Flash Gordon

Buster Crabbe - Wikipedia

The 1930s comic strip came alive!

"Clarence Linden "Buster" Crabbe II (/ˈkræb/; February 7, 1908 – April 23, 1983) was an American two-time Olympic swimmer and film and television actor.^[1] He won the 1932 Olympic gold medal for 400-metre freestyle swimming event, which launched his career on the silver screen and later television. He starred in a variety of popular feature films and movie serials released between 1933 and the 1950s,^[2] portraying the top three syndicated comic-strip heroes of the 1930s: Tarzan, Flash Gordon, and Buck Rogers." . . .

Crabbe at age 20 at the 1928 Olympics in Amsterdam

Olympic medal record
Representing the United States
Men's swimming
	1932 Los Angeles	400 m freestyle
	1928 Amsterdam	1500 m freestyle

Crabbe competed in two Olympic Games as a swimmer. At the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam, he won the bronze medal for the 1,500 metres freestyle, and at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, he won the gold medal for the 400 metres freestyle when he beat Jean Taris of France by a tenth of a second.^[4][5]

. . . "In 1936, he was selected over several stars to play Flash Gordon in the first, very successful Universal Pictures Flash Gordon serial, which was followed by two sequels released in 1938 and 1940. The series was later edited and shown extensively on American television during the 1950s and 1960s, then fully restored for home video release. He also starred as Buck Rogers for Universal, playing the role with dark hair, unlike his blonde hair for Flash Gordon. In 1939 Crabbe reunited with Grable for a lead role in the mainstream comedy Million Dollar Legs." . . .

Kennedy WALKS UP to That Microphone & DESTROYS Schumer And the Entire Democrats in 5 Minutes!!

Patriot Pulse

@markfalshaw-gv9im:    "UK Here o boy I wish we had a politician like your Mr Kennedy I really do ,you don't know how lucky you are to have a honest politician be careful what you wish for America just look across the pond to the once mighty Great Briton now we are a weak country who hasn't. even got a Army or a Navy worth talking about our ileagal immigration has run wild and they live in 4 star hotels while the tax paying population are going without food and heating and can't afford petrol for there cars last time l looked ours was about 3 X more expensive than yours and our country is on brink of bankruptcy and our leader is a cowardly self serving con artist who is running our country to win votes from well you know who and it's on your doorstep ,make your next move very carefully America there may be no way back if you make the wrong decisions, God Bless America"

Trump’s White House Ballroom Can Resume Construction, Court Rules

 Scott McClallen

"A panel of federal judges ordered that President Donald Trump's administration can resume building the White House ballroom while a lower court gathers more information about whether a building pause will cause a national security risk.

"The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia gave a 2-1 ruling on Saturday.

"The 17-page order extended the district court’s stay of its March 31 preliminary injunction to April 17. The National Trust for Historic Preservation had sued the National Park Service over the planned 90,000 square-foot ballroom to replace the demolished East Wing. The project is funded by private donors. 

"The three-judge panel of Patricia A. Millett, Neomi Rao, and Bradley N. Garcia remanded the case to the district court. 

"On March 31, a district court granted the National Trust’s motion for preliminary injunction. The National Park Service appealed. 

"The National Park Service argued that the ballroom was a matter of national security because planned construction beneath it includes bomb shelters, a hospital and medical area, and military installations. 

“As a result, it remains unclear whether and to what extent the development of certain aspects of the proposed ballroom is necessary to ensure the safety and security of those below-ground national security upgrades or otherwise to ensure the safety of the White House and its occupants while the appeal proceeds,” the order said."

Scott McClallen is the Night and Weekend Web Editor at Townhall.com. A Hillsdale College graduate, his work has been featured in RealClearPolitics, the Washington Examiner and The Center Square. He’s also the author of “Twisted Tech: The Death of Privacy in the Digital Age” and Managing Editor of Michigan Capitol Confidentia

Woke pope becomes a joke and gives the Babylon Bee a field day

 Monica Showalter - American Thinker

Pope Condemns Allied Forces For Not Just Talking It Out With Nazis | Babylon Bee

. . . "We must not stoop to violence against Nazis," said Pope Leo in a general address. "When the Nazis loaded millions of people into gas chambers, that was the time for sincere dialogue. If only the Allied Powers had laid down their weapons and just hugged it out with Nazis, peace could have returned once more." . . .

"Following his meeting with Obama strategist David Axelrod, Pope Leo XIV came out with some of his wokest, most indistinguishable-from-Democratic Party platform statements ever -- all within a day of the encounter.

"Which gave whiplash to many Catholics, whose churchgoing members tend to skew conservative, with the younger, more energetic ones, including many converts, leaning traditional.

"The pope condemned all wars in full pacificism, scrapping the Church's thousand-year-old 'just war' doctrine, urged global income redistribution, moved closer to Pope Francis's call for a universal basic income, called on 'those involved' to contact their local leaders to urge peace, claimed the military action was motivated by business, and said the solution to all conflicts to be addressed through "dialogue." 

"All of the calls were extreme, and in extremity, absurd. After all, is he really telling Iran's battered citizens being machine-gunned in the streets by Iranian government goons to get their local mullahs on the phone and tell them to stop waging war?

"That gave the satirical site, the Babylon Bee, which is an equal-opportunity humor outfit, plenty to work with. They put out these tweets: . . .

. . . "The remarks from the pope were intensely distressing to Catholics, including myself, who are familiar with traditional Church teaching on just war theory, as well as current Democrat party partisan talking points, while also having no desire to loathe Pope Leo. That the Bee could see the contradictions and make humor out of them was a terrific way to deal with this intractable situation. Humor is the best medicine, so good for the Bee!"

Monica Showalter

The negotiators you need when dealing with Iranian antisemites

 Andrea Widburg - American Thinker  "It’s true that Trump trusts both Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, but are they joining Vance for another reason, too?"

. . . "Is it also possible that he’s making a point to the Mullahs? Or maybe it’s just a beautiful coming together of circumstances that sees Trump’s best negotiators also being the ones most likely to offend the deeply offensive, indeed, evil mullahs?"

"As I write these words, JD Vance, Jared Kushner, and Steve Witkoff are in Islamabad, Pakistan, to see if they can get a lasting ceasefire deal with the Iranians. I don’t believe that will happen. Still, I believe that good things will flow from the effort, and I also believe that there may be a funny little twist to the nature of the American negotiators now in Pakistan.

"As people have also known for thousands of years, Persians are wily negotiators. Also, as people have known for 1,400 years, Muslims are dishonest negotiators. It’s right there in the Taqiyya principle, which originated to allow beleaguered Muslims to save their lives in the face of forced conversions but has morphed into a license to lie when dealing with infidels, especially during wartime.

"Thus, the current negotiations are as much stagecraft as they are real. First, they allow Trump to show the world that, having achieved his long-stated objective (e.g., destroying the nuclear threat Iran poses to the world), he’s happy to end the fighting.

"When it comes to regime change, it’s important to note that Trump never stated that as a goal. If the war really ends now, I’m sure Trump will tell the Iranian people something along the lines of Look, I made your corrupt government the weakest it’s ever been, and I’m working on getting arms to you. Now it’s up to you. I am not interested in being responsible for you. You guys are responsible for you.

"Second, because Trump is no fool and must have known that the Iranians most likely would not negotiate in good faith, the two-week ceasefire is a chance to rest the troops, replenish supplies, and plan for the war’s next phase. Yes, it’s also a chance for the Iranians to regroup, but they don’t have much equipment left to regroup with. Also, I suspect that the Artesh (i.e., the regular army, not the IRGC or Basij) is not thrilled about regrouping at all." . . . More...

Nancy Guthrie disappearance: Day 70 latest updates ; Not Much

FOX 10 Phoenix 

Nancy Guthrie: TMZ says it received another demand letter:  "TMZ reported it received another demand letter in connection to the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie. Jakson Buhaj with TMZ explains.  Posted April 7, 2026 8:13am MST

Nancy Guthrie’s kidnapper ‘terrified’? Ex-FBI agent analyzes timing of Savannah Guthrie’s emotional interview as mystery behind her disappearance deepens - The Economic Times

Aspiring California Governor Eric Swalwell apologizes to wife in video denying sexual assault claims as calls for him to quit mount (UPDATED)

 Enough of Swalwell? Then don't read this.

The Swalwell story fits a familiar pattern - Jack Hellner 

"This current Swalwell story will be buried. Meanwhile, instead of reporting the news and the truth, Billy Bush says seventy-five people at ABC were tasked with destroying Trump. My guess is that this is also happening at other media outlets."

    "Most of the media and many Democrats have a pattern of supporting degenerates for office while burying the truth, so the public has no idea who is actually getting their votes. The only time they act outraged and surprised is when the truth somehow comes out and im"Mperils their election opportunities.

"They know that Swalwell continuously lied about Trump and the Russia Hoax collusion.

"They know of his relationship with a Chinese spy, but they don’t care. He is working very hard to hide FBI information about that relationship, and the media and other Democrats have not demanded transparency.

"My guess is that Swalwell’s treatment of young, drunk women has been known for years, but the media didn’t care as long as he was a Democrat.

"They all knew that Ted Kennedy left a woman to die, had “waitress sandwiches,” but they didn’t care. They acted as if he really cared about the treatment of women.

"They never cared about all the women Bill and Hillary physically and mentally abused and sought to destroy. Those women were disposable." . . . More...

Daily Mail Online  

'Mr. Swalwell should end his campaign and resign from Congress immediately. His conduct is incompatible with elected office. The women who came forward deserve to be heard and deserve justice,' she wrote."  

"Aspiring California governor Eric Swalwell issued an apology to his wife as part of a video response to sexual assault and misconduct claims against him as his campaign hangs in the balance.  

"The anti-Trump Congressman posted the video to social media as more women came out to make accusations of misconduct and more Democrats demanded he step aside. 

"'A lot has been said about me today through anonymous allegations and I thought it was important that you see and hear from me directly,' Swalwell said. 

"'These allegations of sexual assault are flat false. They are absolutely false. They did not happen. They have never happened, and I will fight them with everything that I have.'

"He also suggested conspiracy when he pointed out that they were released 'on the eve of' the June 2 primary in which he claimed to be 'the frontrunner,' though Real Clear Politics' average shows him trailing Republican Steve Hilton in the jungle primary.

"'I do not suggest to you in any way that I am perfect or that I'm a saint, I have certainly made mistakes in judgment in my past, but those mistakes are between me and my wife,' he continued." . . . More...

UPDATE:  Top 20 Swalwell Scandals: Spies, Lies, . . .

Of the many, this was number 18:  "Helped Hunter Biden defy subpoena: "In 2023 Swalwell reportedly helped reserve Capitol space for Hunter Biden’s defiant press conference during a House subpoena fight. Eric, you’re the only guy who can make the Bidens look like the honest ones."

TWO WONGS DON’T MAKE A RIGHT -

Ann Coulter  

"If the justices are so concerned with the meaning of the Constitution, the only possible conclusion is that the 14th Amendment doesn’t have anything to do with immigrants at all. It’s about freed slaves. Wong was wrong and should be overruled."

"President Trump’s executive order denying citizenship to “anchor babies” has caused quite a stir. The media insist that kids born to illegal aliens on U.S. soil are automatic citizens at birth. Although asserted with smug arrogance, they then bury any discussion of the issue in lies.

"Thus, for example, the entire media claim that Trump’s order is about “birthright citizenship.” That’s rather circular. The precise question at issue is whether kids born to illegals are citizens by right. It would be like calling a case about transgenders a “women’s rights” case.

"In fact, for nearly a century, no one disputed that “birthright citizenship” referred exclusively to the citizenship of children born on U.S. soil to citizens and legal immigrants—not including tourists, diplomats or others in the country temporarily. No court has ever held otherwise.

"But the Times neurotically insists that anchor babies’ citizenship is “well-established through the 14th Amendment and nearly 130 years of case law.” The Newspaper of Record is lying about the record.

"Actually, the idea that babies of illegals have won the citizen jackpot was invented by Justice William Brennan in 1982 and inserted as dicta—i.e., idle chitchat, not part of the court’s ruling—in a footnote. He cited no law, no constitutional provision and no court holding.

"There’s your “well-established” doctrine that anchor babies are citizens—Doctor Demento’s crayon scribbling on the Constitution in the 1980s.

"The legendary “130 years of case law” said to establish the citizenship of anchor babies refers to an 1898 case, U.S. v. Wong Kim Ark, that took the 14th Amendment’s guarantee of citizenship to freed slaves and gave it to a child of legal immigrants.

"Manifestly, the opinion in Wong had nothing to do with illegal immigrants." . . .More...