A New Wave of Domestic Terrorism Coming?

 Which came first? Radical teachers who create radical students, or leftist students influencing malleable teachers (who we assume were radicalized by leftists in teachers' colleges? TD

David Strom – HotAir 

"Democrats are rallying around Hasan Piker and Graham Platner, who both have called for violence and who have been open about being revolutionary communists (although Platner is now disputing that he remains one). Luigi Mangione is a hero." . . . 

"It's no longer in the public consciousness, but domestic terrorism was very much a thing in the United States and Europe during the 1960s and 1970s. 

"There is no one hard count, but in those two decades, about 20,000 bombings happened in the United States, with actual revolutionary groups trying to overthrow the United States government. 

"They failed, of course. But domestic terrorism was very much a thing, and a significant fraction of our cultural elite were at least somewhat supportive. That's one of the reasons the working class started moving rightward, alongside crime, cultural, and economic issues. 

"The radicalization of the left in recent years has already inspired riots and assassinations (sound familiar?), and it is quite possible that a new wave, hopefully not as widespread, of domestic terror will be unleashed. 

"Radical groups are gearing up for it already, feeling that the wind is at their back, unifying around racial issues and the Palestinian "cause.". . .  More...

David Strom is a reformed academic, which means he has a modicum of common sense. He has been a political and policy advisor as well as a speechwriter in 3 gubernatorial campaigns, several Congressional campaigns, and a US Senate campaign. He has also advised numerous state legislative candidates on policy issues. Over the past 25 years he still hasn’t figured out that Minnesota is a terrible place to be a conservative

Report: Israel Formed Secret Unit to Kill or Capture Every Oct. 7 Attacker

 Report: Israel Formed Secret Unit to Kill or Capture Every Oct. 7 Attacker

"Israel established a secret elite intelligence task force in the aftermath of Hamas’s October 7, 2023, massacre to track down and kill or capture every terrorist involved in the attack — from senior commanders who orchestrated the assault to individual gunmen who crossed into southern Israel during the deadliest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust.

"According to a detailed Wall Street Journal report published Wednesday, the unit — known as NILI, a Hebrew acronym derived from a biblical verse meaning “The Eternal One of Israel Does Not Lie” — was formed by Israel’s Shin Bet internal security service and military intelligence shortly after the Hamas-led attack that killed roughly 1,200 people and saw 251 Israelis taken hostage, most of them civilians.

"Earlier reports following the massacre indicated the operation also involved Israel’s Mossad foreign intelligence agency, signaling from the outset that the campaign would likely extend beyond Gaza to Hamas operatives and leadership figures based abroad.

"The report said the task force compiled a database containing thousands of names, including Hamas Nukhba commandos — the terror group’s elite assault force that spearheaded much of the October 7 infiltration — as well as additional Palestinians identified as participating in the massacre. Israeli officials told the newspaper that targets are reportedly approved only after investigators obtain at least two independent pieces of evidence placing them at the scene of the attack or directly tying them to the assault.

"According to the report, Israeli intelligence personnel relied on a sweeping range of surveillance and intelligence tools to identify suspects, including facial recognition software run against videos uploaded by Hamas terrorists themselves, intercepted communications, cellphone location data, social media footage, and interrogations of Gazan detainees captured during the war." . . .  More...

One year ago, Hamas leader Mohammed Sinwar was eliminated by the @IDF.
He was hiding in a tunnel directly beneath the emergency room of a hospital in Khan Yunis.
He didn't die on a battlefield. He died in a hole under a hospital, using the sick and wounded as his final shield.… pic.twitter.com/cbFVfBs5NE

— Embassy of Israel to the USA (@IsraelinUSA) May 14, 2026

President Trump: Please Do Not Leave the Iranian Regime in Place. . .

. . . "We Waited More Than Four Decades for You, We Will Not Get Another Break"

Gatestone Institute  

"President Trump: For the world, for humanity, for Western civilization, please do not leave this regime in place -- or a secular military one that is just as fierce. We cannot wait another 50 years for someone like you again."

Toon added by TD

"The Iranian regime is playing its game again: drag everything out to stay in power until the American public grows tired of high gasoline prices; or until the November midterm elections, when the Democrats might win; or until 2029 when President Donald J. Trump's term finally ends and he is replaced, with luck, by an invertebrate.

"Iran's regime has been using two tactics. It says: "We need time. We are, because of the strikes, fractured and our leadership divided." Or, as Vice President J.D. Vance naively noted on its behalf: it says it does not know what it wants. "The Iranians aren't themselves quite clear in what direction they want to go," Vance, with a straight face, told reporters at the White House; "they are also just a fractured country."

"That is exactly what the regime wants: that you are dumb enough to believe that. The Iranian regime knows precisely what it wants. It wants to stay in power to continue its anti-Americanism, anti-Semitism, anti-Westernism and anti-its-own-people-ism. The regime wants to revive its nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles programs; restore its terrorist proxies, Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis; try to create another noose of death around Israel; threaten Europe and eventually the United States; suppress, kill and execute its own people, and continue to export its fanatic ideology and Islamist revolution.

"The supposed "moderates" will say, " Oh please wait for us. We are so fractured! We just want to win over the hardliners -- and we are ALMOST there!" This dish has been served up for years. It works.

"The second ploy is "Drag, Drag, Drag." Drag the deals. Drag the talks. Drag the feedback. Drag the confusion. Or else: Put a deal out on the table and then take it back. Then put out another deal. Then another one. Before you know it, the West will be worn down." . . .

Full article here.

Dr. Majid Rafizadeh is a political scientist, Harvard-educated analyst, and board member of Harvard International Review. He has authored several books on the US foreign policy. He can be reached at dr.rafizadeh@post.harvard.edu

Reparations: Who Pays Whom?

 John Perry - American Thinker

"Reparations, its proponents insist, are payments white Americans owe black Americans for enslaving them, a practice that ended 163 years ago.  These advocates would have us believe that seven or eight generations after the fact, the limitations and inequalities of slavery still hold slavery’s descendants back and deny them their chance at the American dream.  And somebody has to pay.

"Setting aside the logic of that claim for the moment — while noting its similarity to the familiar liberal mantra: “Vote for us, and we’ll give you stuff!” — let us consider the practical question: Who exactly should pay whom?   

"Since only the wealthiest people could afford slaves, the legal and moral argument on the subject was academic, not practical, for the vast majority of citizens at the time.  That being the case, few among today’s population, even in theory, should have to pay reparations to descendants of slaves.

"According to the 1860 census, on the eve of the Civil War, under four percent of American households owned one or more slaves.  That means about ninety-six percent of the population owned none.  So the descendants of that ninety-six percent should be off the hook.  But what about people whose ancestors were members of slaveholding families yet personally opposed slavery?  On the other hand, what about people who would have liked a slave but couldn’t afford one?

"If descendants of slaveholders should foot the bill, who among us today is descended only from former slaveowners?  Odds are that after seven generations, it’s nobody.  Why should descendants of non-slaveholders be liable financially for the decisions of others?  What about those who are fifty percent descended from a slaveholder?  Forty-nine?

"The United States government as a whole isn’t liable for slavery; it fought the bloodiest war in its history in part to abolish slavery.  It doesn’t owe a dime in reparations to anybody." . . .More

John Perry is a ghostwriter and collaborator, as well as the author of more than a dozen books including Sgt. York: His Life, Legend, and Legacy (Fidelis, 2021). His latest book is The Detroiting of America: What Happened to the Motor City, Why Other Cities Followed, How Detroit is Coming Back

Must watch: Ted Cruz obliterates the lies of Mazie Hirono

 D Parker - American Thinker   

"This highlights an important point: With the midterms only a few months away, it’s vitally important to clear away the detritus of leftist lies now rather than later, while also setting forth our principles."

"The good guys are winning.  Plain old facts are obliterating the lies of the left, and the leftists don’t know what to do with themselves.

"A recent congressional hearing had Hawaii Democrat Mazie Hirono trotting out the ever tiresome litany of leftist lies on slavery, elections, and racism.  Violent leftists usually expect to get away with their big lies because that’s the way it’s been in the past.

"But something’s changed in the world, primarily because of the threats from an increasingly violent left and the looming implications of the midterm election season.  It’s become clear to the pro-freedom community that we must push back on the perennial lies of the left simply because they have become dangerous.

"Violent leftists have often tried to dehumanize their political opponents as collectivist fascists, national socialists, and KKK members.  Though these organizations originated on the far left, the left continues to call them “far right.”  Senator Hirono presents the familiar claims on slavery, elections, and racism.

"Although it’s almost painful to sit through her ramblings on the subject, it’s also amusing to watch her doing this, knowing what is going to happen next:" . . .

"The icing on the cake is that after this rhetorical beatdown of her facts, Ms. Hirono asks for a point of personal privilege.  And then, instead of actually refuting these facts, she complained that she feels personally aggrieved because she’s being “lectured.”  You can almost sense their arrogance and anger at no longer getting away with spewing lies."    More...

D Parker is an engineer, inventor, wordsmith, and student of history, a former director of communications for a civil rights organization, and a longtime contributor to conservative websites.  

The Media War on Israel

 The American Spectator  

"If the New York Times wants to be a voice for the Palestinian people or for victims of sexual violence, it has already done them a grave injustice through its untrustworthy reputation. Any facts that are unveiled, unfortunately, are drowned in a sea of objective opinions. If corrections are later published on Kristof’s latest piece, chances are most readers won’t see it."

"The New York Times’ coverage of Israel’s wars has established a new precedent in journalistic integrity: publish stories as soon as possible, let them go viral, then discreetly apologize when the stories prove to be false. 

"Take, for example, the explosion at the Al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City on Oct. 16, 2023. Palestinian authorities blamed the explosion on Israeli air strikes, and the Hamas-run Palestinian Ministry of Health reported 500 people dead. The following day, the New York Times posted “At least 500 people were killed by an Israeli airstrike at a Gaza hospital, the Palestinian Health Ministry said.” Other outlets followed suit. “Hundreds feared dead or injured in Israeli air strike on hospital in Gaza, Palestinian officials say,” reported the BBC.

"After a thorough investigation, the hospital explosion was confirmed to be caused by an Islamic Jihad rocket that misfired in a barrage intended for the civilian populations of southern Israel. But by the time the facts came out, the narrative had already been set. 

"But there’s more. In July 2025, the New York Times published a photo of an emaciated toddler on its front page as proof of an Israeli-facilitated famine in Gaza. As it turned out, the boy suffered from a preexisting genetic disease unrelated to the war. The Times did issue a correction, but it was published on its public relations X account, seen by less than 100,000 viewers, and not on its website or main account, followed by over 55 million users. Over the past two years, I’ve also reported on how widely circulating claims of genocide and famine in Gaza have been fabricated by biased NGOs, politicians, and media outlets as part of a campaign to slander Israel.  

"News, therefore, is not being reported; it’s being shaped and fabricated through biased narratives, and the consequences are dangerous.

"The most recent jab at Israel is Nicholas Kristof’s opinion piece published in the New York Times on May 13. Kristof unveiled alleged horrific sexual abuses committed against Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons. This followed a similar report from Faisal Ali at the Guardian a year earlier on alleged sexual abuses of Palestinian detainees. 

"Kristof’s piece was hard to read, filled with emotionally driven accounts from sexual abuse victims. It claimed that there is a pattern of widespread sexual violence against detained Palestinians by the Israeli military, intelligence agencies, Jewish settlers in the West Bank, prison guards, and specially trained rape dogs. But even in the most cringeworthy moments, I recalled reading uncomfortable pieces from the Times before, only to find out days or weeks later that the content had been recalled or debunked." . . . 

Dems React to Gabbard's Tragic News the Only Way They Know How: With an Utter Lack of Class or Humanity

 Bob Hoge – RedState

Miranda Devine called Schiff, "You snake"  STREISAND EFFECT Slang Meaning | Merriam-Webster

"California Sen. Adam Schiff (D) is one of the most insidious Democrats in Congress, and that’s saying a lot these days. He reminds me of former FBI Director James Comey, since they both ooze fake sincerity and piousness even though their hands are dirtier than a kid’s in a mud puddle.

"When news broke Friday that Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard was stepping away from her post because her husband had been diagnosed with a rare and serious form of bone cancer, decent people immediately felt for her and prayed for her husband’s recovery.

“'Decent” isn’t an adjective used frequently to describe the man known as “Shifty Schiff,” however, and he wasted no time before trashing Gabbard for her DNI tenure. Did he really think it was appropriate to drop a nakedly partisan job performance review just hours after she’d revealed her husband of 11 years could be in mortal danger?

"'I’ve run out of ways to describe "disgusting" when it comes to Schiff." . . .

Next came the usual thoughts and prayers. Then...

"Why didn't you stop there, Adam? Because you seemingly have a black hole where your heart is supposed to be:

While the circumstances around her departure are deserving of our sympathy, let’s be clear: Tulsi Gabbard’s only positive contribution to our nation's national security is her resignation.

She politicized intelligence. She dismantled critical agencies keeping Americans safe. She weaponized the IC to pursue baseless election fraud claims. And more.

We must ensure that her tenure — marked by a devotion to the person of the president and not to the security of the country — represents a terrible exception at DNI and not the new normal.

"Time to pull out the thesaurus: this message is disgusting, repugnant, loathsome, inhuman, heartless, detestable… There are even plenty more applicable words, but they’re not fit for publication." . . .  More...

The Streisand Effect Hits Newsom Hard After His Office Makes Huge Blunder Attacking Chevron

 STREISAND EFFECT refers to a phenomenon in which an effort to hide, censor, or remove a piece of information (such as a photo, a news story, a social media post) results in that information receiving far more attention than it ever would have on its own.

RedState  

"Wow. So think about that for a second. That's the press office of a governor of a state attacking a business in his state, because they're being truthful about the harmful nature of Democratic policies. Not just responding or being critical, but actively calling for a boycott of that business from their official account.

Gavin Newsom’s anti-oil smoke and mirrors on Chevron

"It's not a big secret that California's gas is so expensive compared to most of the rest of the country because of its taxes and regulations. 

"But Chevron drove that point home when they explained to drivers why the gas is always more in California with signs they put up at their stations.

The signs carry messages like: “Sacramento policies did this. Now, you pay more."

Others saying, “California has the highest gas taxes and fees in America.”

"Chevron spokesperson Ross Allen explained more. 

“They have a 61-cent excise tax on every gallon of gasoline. That’s the highest in the nation,” Allen said.

Allen also pointed to environmental programs like California’s cap-and-trade system and Low Carbon Fuel Standard, which he says increase costs for refiners and consumers.

"But that's apparently not something that the California Dems, particularly Gov. Gavin Newsom, want you to hear about. They don't want that blame to fall where it should — squarely on their shoulders. His Press Office X account posted this: " . . .

"Californians, if you’re hitting the road this holiday weekend, be sure to AVOID Chevron.  — Governor Newsom Press Office (@GovPressOffice) May 21, 2026

Drivers across California, including here in the Central Valley, may be noticing new signs posted at some Chevron gas stations pointing the finger at Sacramento for high gas prices.

FULL STORY: https://t.co/TuGBPvhb4D pic.twitter.com/2ECsdQFMSZ

— FOX26 News (@KMPHFOX26) May 22, 2026

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