"There’s a long and stubborn pattern in history that refuses to die. Charlie Manson had his “Family” — a group of young women who not only followed him but committed murder for him, then remained loyal even after the horrors were exposed. They saw a messianic figure. The rest of us saw a manipulative psychopath with a guitar and a lot of empty slogans.
"A decade later, Ted Bundy sat on death row and received stacks of love letters and marriage proposals from women who had never met him. They wrote about his eyes, his intelligence, his “misunderstood” nature. The fact that he had raped and murdered dozens of young women somehow became a detail they were willing to overlook.
"Now, in 2026, we have Luigi Mangione—a man who just admitted to a judge that he committed the cold-blooded murder of a healthcare CEO. He has somehow acquired a fan club of women who romanticize him, call for his freedom, and treat him like a folk hero.......
"But if it’s a league which buys into the woke “inclusion” language and purports to inflict the effects of that language on its players, then there is no reason why a G-League men’s player can’t declare himself a woman and claim a WNBA salary."
"I’m not a fan of the WNBA. I think it’s a joke of a league. I’m not a huge fan of women’s basketball, period, though I’ve got nothing against women playing basketball. I just notice that women’s basketball has emerged as a particular kind of entity which is hard to like.
"And the people it attracts as participants and huge fans are really, really hard to like.
"That said, the Caitlin Clark-Sophie Cunningham show in Indiana is pretty cool. Those two are relatively likable — Clark because she’s an outstanding player and Cunningham because she brings a lot of personality to the court. If you had a league full of players like those two, you probably could sell women’s basketball. (RELATED: The Spectacle Ep. 451: Caitlin Clark and Sophie Cunningham vs. The WNBA: We’re Fatigued)
"The WNBA doesn’t cultivate Sophie Cunninghams, though. The opposite is true. It’s actively discouraging people like her from getting involved, in favor of… other people.
"And I know it wants nothing to do with me, so, as the meme says…
"I’m not alone. The WNBA gets pretty lousy viewership for a major sports league, and it’s dependent on subsidies from the NBA. It’s also dependent on as many controversies as it can stir up in order to spice up its games.
"Which is why the league’s referees are basically pro wrestling refs who call games in utterly absurd ways. And it’s why the league’s players say off-the-wall stupid things all the time, nonstop. All the worst instincts of the social media world are present in how the WNBA conducts its business.
"And the most absurd thing about the WNBA is the refusal to simply allow reality in the door. This is a basketball league for biological women, and there is no legitimate moral or intellectual case for allowing anyone but biological women to play." . . .
"But wait, there was more! It turns out a pursuing of Lane’s time at Forbesshowed he played a key role in helping MS NOW’s Morning Joe co-host Mike Brzezinski launch a partnership between her Know Your Value initiative and Forbes with a Over 50 list for businesswomen making a difference across four categories " . . .
"It’s no secret that Forbesmagazine has largely betrayed its capitalist foundation by becoming a megaphone for some of the most vile left-wing,cultural Marxist tripein themedia ecosphere. But a new scandal did show that its top leadership didn’t completely abandon free markets when it suited their own interests.
"The New York Times reportedon Wednesday thatForbes chief content officer Randall Lane was fired after “the company discovered that he had received a payment of about $6 million from the founder of a firm that does business with the magazine.”
"The payment was made after RJ Shook, the founder of the firm that worked withForbesto publish wealth adviser rankings, “sold a majority stake in Shook Research to PPC Enterprises, a private equity firm, last August.” Lane made himself aspectacle of anti-Trump furorin 2021 when he threatened companies that dared to hire people who formerly worked with President Donald Trump, such as former White House press secretaries Sean Spicer, Sarah Huckabee-Sanders, and Kayleigh McEnany.
"Reading his virtue-signaling now about “truth reckoning” in light of his own duplicitous violation of journalistic ethics is poetic justice. At the time, Lane promised his outlet will “scrutinize, double-check, investigatewith the same skepticism we’d approach a Trump tweet” any company that hires one of the forbidden Trumpsters in his arbitrary blacklist: “Let it be known to the business world:Hire any of Trump’s fellow fabulists above, andForbeswill assume thateverything your company or firm talks about is a lie.“
"Lane doubled down on his threats: “Want to ensure the world’s biggest business media brand approaches you asa potential funnel of disinformation? Then hire away,” Lane quipped." . . .
"This political commentary examines the dramatic confrontation presented between Marco Rubio and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, focusing on her "girl from the Bronx" identity, her Westchester upbringing, the Green New Deal, Amazon's Queens headquarters, Met Gala attendance, and campaign finance questions.
Rubio answers with his parents' immigrant story and a worn photograph from their citizenship day, arguing the difference between a real record and a manufactured brand. This video contains commentary and dramatized or fictionalized elements. Claims, figures, and events discussed should not be treated as verified facts without consulting reliable primary sources.
What do you think — was the photograph the decisive moment?"
"Why should the accurate depiction of ISIS on TV be thought of as bigoted when the radical Islamists this film portrays see America as the Great Satan and Israel as the Little Satan, believe that the West needs to fall, and also terrorize their own people? Currently, ISIS is responsible for 20 percent of all terrorist attacks on the planet. This radical mentality is fueled by Jihad, which asserts that non-believers should either be converted or killed. " . . .
For balance, TD searched for famous examples of Islamists and found what looked like a fair site. But it could be sized up well by examples nine and ten, to name just two. TD: Top 10 Most Famous Muslims
He later retracted the statements, but even so, that was his first impulse as a new Muslim. Islam did not bring out the best in Cat Stevens. The Tunnel Dweller.
"They want to impose a barbaric foreign code on us, given the advances that we've made as an Anglo-American country," Giuliani said. "It's a disgrace. They're trying to accomplish by infiltration what they couldn't accomplish by murderous attack."
This is not the first time the World War II Memorial has been defaced. During the 2020 George Floyd protests,anarchistsspray-painted "Do Black Vets Count?" on the fountain. Nothing happened in that case. An example needs to be made in this one. Let's hope this woman is not allowed to skirt the law.
"On Thursday, someone decided to desecrate the World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C. The actor defaced the monument with graffiti that read, "Clean hands dirty $," and filled the fountain with soap, creating bubbles.
"The person was caught on camera, and by Friday, the alleged perpetrator of this disgusting act was arrested.
Authorities have taken into custody the suspect accused of vandalizing the World War II Memorial on the National Mall, where bubbles filled a fountain and "Clean hands dirty $" was written in red paint.
"Melissa L. Farris is now in federal custody. According to U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, Jeanine Pirro, Farris will be charged with depredation against property of the United States and destruction of veterans' memorials. This not-very-bright woman faces up to 10 years in prison.
"Farris wasn't expressing free speech; she was just being a terrible person. This disgrace to humanity deserves all the books thrown at her." . . .More...
The Lincoln is coming home. Her crew did the job they were sent to do. And after 266 days at sea, perhaps the story isn't that they were "victims" of Donald Trump. Perhaps the story is exactly what Cao said – they crushed the mission.
"Having failed to gain enough traction on the Air Force One rope-a-dope story from earlier in the week, the legacy media – in its never ending quest for a "gotcha story" on President Trump – has made a hard pivot and is now focused on the conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln. (A topic they didn't care one iota about until it occurred to them that possibly unhappy sailors could reflect poorly on the Commander in Chief.)
"Here is RedState's Bob Hoge reporting on the media's reaction to the supposed widespread misery on the Lincoln, which has been on a long-term deployment in the Middle East:
The reports are everywhere — miserable conditions supposedly aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, including food shortages, broken plumbing, widespread exhaustion, and plummeting morale. It’s so bad, these reports say, that some sailors have attempted to jump overboard and presumably drown. Breathless headlines like “Conditions on US aircraft carrier at sea for more than 250 days raise alarms” are rampant.
"As Bob noted, the increasing histrionics from the media led CENTCOM to release an "everybody just calm down" statement to set the record straight, particularly about a false report that seven sailors had died in a brawl aboard the Lincoln. Here's CENTCOM:
Over the past 48 hours, multiple media outlets have reported several false claims related to USS Abraham Lincoln's (CVN 72) deployment to the Middle East. One report alleged seven Sailors died in a brawl aboard the aircraft carrier and others have recently suggested a spike in suicidal ideations. These reports are FALSE.
"This did little to placate the press, which is hungry to head into the weekend with something to pin on Trump for the Sunday morning news shows.
"Not willing to play that game, Acting Secretary of the Navy Hung Cao released a statement Friday afternoon shooting down the idea that the Lincoln and its crew were experiencing anything other than a long and challenging deployment. Something sailors and their families have dealt with for decades." . . .
