The Laugh’s on Hollywood; "The disappearance of comic risk has left American entertainment joyless, preachy, and unintentionally absurd."

 The American Spectator   

"The Industry’s woke intransigence is no longer annoying, now it’s amusing. You can almost see the in-crowd tossing the banana peel they themselves are going to slip on, and wreck their habitat.

"The long whimpering finish of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert last week confirmed a sad truth. Hollywood killed comedy. A century of laughter provoked by comic geniuses — Chaplin, Keaton, Laurel and Hardy, the Marx Brothers, Fields, Hope, Brooks, Martin, Carrey, and Saturday Night Live alumni (Belushi, Aykroyd, Murray, Murphy, Sandler, Ferrell, Myers, Stiller) ended in the first decade of this one. Mirth has either been missing from the screen since 2010 or reduced to conservative man-bashing, as on every late-night show. The latter is questionably rewarded by “clapter,” the former depends on mocking the now unmockable — to Hollywoke if not the audience.

"The last great comedy film was Tropic Thunder in 2008, directed and co-written by the brilliant Ben Stiller, before the Hollywoke Strain broke his mind and spirit. Tropic Thunder lampooned everything and everyone, including Asian communist terrorists and Hollywood, with a hilarious Tom Cruise as amoral studio executive Lee Grossman (“I don’t know what kind of pan-Pacific bullshit power play you’re trying to pull here,” Grossman snarls at the commie leader. “But Asia, Jack, is my territory!”). The gem also features Robert Downey, Jr. in blackface uttering the classic politically incorrect line, “Never go full retard.” Any part of the picture would melt down real studio execs today — and, sadly, Ben Stiller.

"The highest rated, and funniest, sitcom of the 2010s was Two and a Half Men. Every episode featured the hedonistic Charlie Sheen not only enjoying the Male Gaze on a bevy of ridiculously sexy underdressed women but acting on it.  And viewers of both sexes loved it, making the show number one for the whole decade. The audience for such humor hasn’t disappeared, only the producers of it.

"The Hollywoke Strain is fatal to the comic mind. Will Ferrell, for instance, is responsible for some of the biggest howls and hits of the 00s — Elf, Old School, Anchorman, Blades of Glory, others. His last major film, however, was Will and Harper, a documentary about a road trip he took with his ex-SNL writer friend Harper Steele after he “came out” as a trans woman. Mostly groans replaced laughs. Ferrell’s most recent appearance on the Saturday Night Live season finale as the ghost of Jeffrey Epstein yukking it up with “old pal” Trump, was cringeworthy.

"Meanwhile, the once uproarious Jim Carrey never recovered from Trump Derangement Syndrome. He was all over Twitter insulting the President during his first term, and composing anti-Trump cartoons. Trump’s 2024 election must have totally broken Carrey. He’s been absent from any screen during the man’s second term." . . . More...

And there’s no end in sight to the comedy. Next year, Random House is coming out with Connie, a feminist sequel to The Godfather. It will feature Connie Corleone, Don Vito’s daughter and Michael’s sister, with a movie already in the works. 

Professor Brother of Hakeem Jeffries Invokes the Violence of John Brown on Social Media

 Legal Insurrection

"This is not the 1800s, and America does not have a slavery problem anymore. We do not even have a serious racism problem anymore, but the left will not let the issue die because they still see it as politically useful."

In penance for George Floyd, Democrats beg you to burn our cities!

"Hasan Kwame Jeffries, the younger brother of House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, is a professor of history at Ohio State University. In a recent social media post, he invoked the violence of John Brown, suggesting ‘white supremacy’ should be ended “by any means necessary.”

This is Hakeem Jeffries, brother. Dangerous gaslighting rhetoric runs in the family. pic.twitter.com/1cIQydezbV

— Matthew Nichol (@MatthewNichol5) May 16, 2026

"Violent rhetoric and actual violence have become normalized on the left. This must end.

"From Campus Reform:

"Hakeem Jeffries’ brother invokes John Brown’s violence while discussing white supremacy ‘in the White House’

"Hasan Kwame Jeffries, an Ohio State University professor and the brother of Hakeem Jeffries, made social media posts referencing the elimination of white supremacists “by any means necessary.”

"In a trending social media post, Libs of TikTok highlighted an X post from Jeffries. In the post, he writes, “John Brown understood that the only way to free Americans from the scourge of white supremacy was to get rid of white supremacists by any means necessary. He was right then. He is right now.”

Jeffries cited John Brown, an American abolitionist known for advocating violence to end slavery. One quote from Brown that describes his philosophy states: “I am quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now think vainly, flattered myself that without very much bloodshed it might be done.”

One person commented on the post, jokingly asking, “Are these ‘white supremacists’ in the room with you now?” Jeffries responded, “Nah. They’re in the White House.” The post further suggests that Jeffries was referring to President Trump and his administration in the original post.

"Professor Jonathan Turley of George Washington University notes that progressive academics have done this with Brown before." . . .

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The One Criminal From OJ’s Murder Trial Has Died

Ann Coulter   

"White Americans took it all in and said, That’s it. The white guilt bank is closed. When it was considered a graver offense to use “the N-word” than to cut off a white woman’s head, the “legacy of slavery” crap had run its course." . . .

"Mark Fuhrman, the only man convicted of a felony in the O.J. Simpson trial, died this week of throat cancer at age 74. He was also a crucial player in my book, “Mugged: Racial Demagoguery from the Seventies to Obama” for his part in the case that inadvertently gave us a 15-year intermission from perpetual race-mongering. That Xanadu could last only as long as most Americans still had a piercing recollection of the nearly universal jubilance of black people when O.J. was acquitted.

"From that point on, the race card simply stopped working, like a subway card that won’t open a turnstile anymore. Fuhrman’s obituaries didn’t explain his part in helping secure this brief respite, so I thought I’d write my own.

"The evidence that O.J. — a star football player, actor, sportscaster and product spokesman — had murdered his ex-wife Nicole and her friend Ron Goldman was overwhelming. O.J.’s blood was found on the ground next to the mutilated bodies, on a walkway from Nicole’s house, on her driveway and on her back gate. Blood from all three was inside O.J.’s white Bronco and on a pair of gloves, one at the murder scene and its match on O.J.’s property. Nicole’s blood was in O.J.’s foyer, master bedroom, driveway and on a pair of socks in his bedroom. All samples were collected before police had a sample of O.J.’s blood and showed no one else’s DNA.

"For the icing on top, O.J. had a documented record of beating up Nicole, and, within hours of his arrest warrant being issued, attempted to flee in his white Ford Bronco with cash, a passport, a disguise and a gun.

"But none of that mattered to the jury because Fuhrman, a Los Angeles police detective, had used the N-word nine and a half years earlier. He was the investigator who first spotted — but did not touch — the glove on O.J.’s property, a tiny pebble in a mountain of incriminating evidence. That was the fig leaf used to explain why a mostly black jury acquitted O.J. on all counts, for an attack so brutal he nearly decapitated Nicole.

"Despite its monumental irrelevance to O.J.’s guilt or innocence, the judge allowed defense attorney F. Lee Bailey to ask Fuhrman if he had — I quote — “addressed any black person as a [the N-word] or spoken about black people as [N-words] in the past 10 years.” A normal person would understand that question to mean, “Do you call black people the N-word?” not, “Has the word ever passed your lips, including the way I — F. Lee Bailey — just used it?”

"Fuhrman said he had not. A year later, his denial was pretty well corroborated in a New York Times article quoting his many black partners, colleagues and friends. The Los Angeles public defender’s office investigated the detective “aggressively,” but found “virtually no complaints” against him, and not a single accusation of racial misconduct. To the contrary, the investigation turned up “compliments paid to Fuhrman by arrestees,” including minorities." . . . More...

Trump’s Ballroom Broke the Democrats

 Victor Davis Hanson - The Daily Signal   

"But nonetheless, the ballroom was needed. It’s paid for by private funds. It will be built efficiently, quickly, quite unlike what we see in California with taxpayers’ money and incompetence and regulations." 

10/19/2025; From the Oval Office to the Rose Garden: A look at Trump's renovations so far

"For years, decades, maybe over a century, people have complained that the world’s superpower has nowhere at its capital, i.e., its executive branch, at the White House to entertain people. And usually, tents are constructed when there’s diplomatic or state dinners or there’s festivities.

"Donald Trump, the builder, comes along in his second term and says: You know what? I’m going to solve the problem. I’m going to refashion the East Wing of the White House complex and build a beautiful 90,000-square-foot ballroom, which will allow 650 guests to eat and be entertained and to have official functions. And more importantly, I am going to enlist people from the private sector to pay for it, along with myself. And the price will probably be somewhere between $200 and $300 million.

"The plans are out there. It’s perfectly transparent. There’s a list of everybody who’s donated. They’re not just right-wing donors. There’s most of the familiar Silicon Valley grandees: Apple, Meta, etc. And it looks pretty much consistent with the style of the White House in general.

"But people were outraged because to build this huge ballroom—which was sorely needed—you had to demolish the area where it will connect into the east complex. And of course, that’s always messy.

"So, immediately, Sens. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and the Left—who have shut down the government—are saying the people don’t have enough food or they’re not getting paid, and Donald Trump is building this luxurious, capitalist, oligarchic, aristocratic hallway. No. It’s for all of America. It’s being privately paid. And if the senators are worried about the people with less means, then just open the government.

"But more importantly, it wasn’t more than a nanosecond when the media—Left and Right—started to give examples that refurbishing, remodeling, redoing the White House is very common since its or origins.

"It was burned down—the War of 1812—completely rebuilt.

"President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who suffered from paralysis, wanted to put an indoor swimming pool. He did. And it was torn out by a later administration, made into a press room.

"President Jerry Ford wanted to swim. So, he has an outdoor swimming pool. He just tore up the garden and made a swimming pool. And people use it to this day.

"President Barack Obama wanted to refashion a tennis court into a basketball court. He did just that." . . . 

The Most DEVASTATING Rebuttal Yet To The Israel Narrative; The Israelites ARE the indigenous people there!

"I will establish my everlasting covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you for the generations to come ... The whole land of Canaan, where you now reside as a foreigner, I will give as an everlasting possession to you and your descendants after you; and I will be their G‑d." Chabad.org 

Erin Molan   "For years, the world has heard the same accusations against Israel: apartheid, genocide, colonization and more. But what happens when a U.S. Federal Judge actually examines the evidence?

"In this powerful conversation, Erin Molan sits down with Judge Roy Altman, author of *Israel On Trial*, to break down some of the biggest claims surrounding Israel, the media narrative, international law, history, and the facts many refuse to discuss openly. "Whether you agree or disagree, this is one of the most important conversations we’ve had on the show."

What Is the Jewish Claim to the Land? - Chabad.org ;

. . . The Divine Promise 

"The Jewish people's connection to the Land of Israel begins with the biblical Patriarch Abraham approximately 4,000 years ago. In the Torah, G‑d commands Abraham to leave his homeland and migrate to the Land of Canaan.2 G‑d promises to give the Land to Abraham and his descendants as an eternal inheritance.3 Once Abraham arrives in the Holy Land, G‑d tells him:4

Look around, to the north and south, to the east and west. All the land that you see I will give to you and your offspring forever.

G‑d reaffirms this promise declaring:5

I have given this land to your descendants, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates — the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites, Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites, Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites, and Jebusites.

"G‑d further emphasizes the eternal and unconditional nature of this promise in the Covenant Between the Parts (Bris Bein HaBesarim), promising:6 . . . More...

Victor Davis Hanson: What’s Behind the Demonization of Israel?  

"So why in the so-called bastion of Jewishness in the West, here in the United States, which has avoided the antisemitism of Europe and the Middle East, why is it starting to come out now? What’s behind this? And from people that you wouldn’t expect it from." 

5 graduation speeches with truly helpful tips for living your life

 Maggie Penman  

"A catastrophe is an opportunity," Livingston said. "Your purpose doesn't often reveal itself in a moment of comfort or convenience. Your purpose shows up when the sky is falling down."

"Donovan Livingston knew the stakes were high this year when he was asked to deliver a commencement address at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he teaches.

"Ten years ago, he was the student speaker at his graduation from Harvard's Graduate School of Education. The speech went viral, inspiring millions of people around the world — and changed his life.

"He told the audience a decade ago that he once was the kid who never sat still in class.

"'I was in the seventh grade, when Ms. Parker told me, ‘Donovan, we can put all of your excess energy to good use,'" he said.

"He delivered that speech as an impassioned spoken word poem about the promise of education as an "equalizer" and how it falls short for many students. "Injustice is telling them education is the key while you continue to change the locks," he told his graduating class.

"Livingston said the speech was about finding and embracing individual strengths.

"'I've been the black hole in a classroom for far too long, absorbing everything, without allowing my light escape," he said in his poem. "But those days are done. I belong among the stars. And so do you."

"The success of that speech led to a book, media coverage and international acclaim.

"'I had no idea it would blow up the way it did. But I'm grateful that folks were paying attention," Livingston told The Washington Post this week.

"Like Livingston's speech, every year, graduation speeches circulate on social media, offering wisdom, advice and inspiration.

"We spent a week watching graduation speeches and pulling out some of the best ideas they have to offer. Here are some of our favorite pieces of advice." . . . More...

The WNBA doesn't market--Caitlin Clark?! Why would the WNBA refuse to market its most revenue-producing talent?

 Mike McDaniel 

. . . "Could the resentment and the assaults be due to anti-white racism and the fact that Clark isn’t a lesbian? Clark’s presence in the league has dramatically raised the salaries of every player and equally dramatically increased the exposure of women’s professional basketball, yet the league and her own team seem determined to undermine her and, in so doing, undermine women’s basketball.

. . . "Outkick’s Clay Travis is right. This is marketing 101. You bring fans into the stands by marketing your stars, or in this case, the star, the young woman who has single-handedly made the WNBA a sort of going concern.

"And how has the League treated her? They’ve all but openly encouraged not fouls, but assaults on Caitlin Clark, which have resulted in multiple injuries, and now her own team is snubbing their number one draw—it’s not even close—in their marketing. That doesn’t mean you never feature other players, just that you have a clear, and fiscally responsible, sense of who puts posteriors in the stands.

And how did the featured Raven Johnson do? Not well:

Thrust into the spotlight as the unexpected "poster child" for the Fever in the WNBA’s promotional rollout, Johnson’s on-court production miserably failed to match her sudden marketing billing.

In 17 minutes of action off the bench, Johnson failed to register a single point, dropping a giant goose egg on the stat sheet.

While her defensive energy contributed to the team’s depth, a scoreless night highlighted the utter absurdity of the league elevating a backup guard over the most prolific scorer in basketball history, especially on a night when the team was already missing its star center.

"That’s right.  The Fever, missing its star center, Clark picked up some of the rebounding slack.

"The WNBA and Indiana Fever don’t have to listen to me. I’m not a noted and read sports writer, and particularly not a fan of women’s basketball, but I do pay attention to cultural issues, and this sort of treatment of a woman who is already playing a major role in the history of women’s sports is worth examining." . . .More...

"Critical thinking is not merely a buzzword. It is an essential tool that children must learn at an early age."

From Tying Shoes to Artificial Intelligence - Eileen F. Toplansky

"In fact, states are at long last now reintroducing cursive handwriting because it appears to boost brain development, reading comprehension, and fine motor skills. As of 2026, New Jersey districts require cursive handwriting instruction."

. . . "Of particular note is the finding that students who “used ChatGPT as a study aid retained significantly less knowledge 45 days after instruction than students who studied without it (Barcaui, 2025). Thus, short-term performance gains masked long-term learning deficits. 

"So, from tying shoes to the exponential growth of AI, we need to consider how well we are creating critical thinkers. In far too many instances, AI actually shortcuts the critical learning process, i.e., brainstorming, drafting, revising, justifying.

"If in the learning process, AI generates the product, the student loses the important steps of knowledge attainment because the effort has been removed as a consequence of the machines doing the work.

"Also, as Eng points out “[i]t is also worth remembering that AI developers have profit motives that have nothing to do with improving student learning. The enthusiasm of technology companies should not be mistaken for evidence of pedagogical effectiveness.”

"Children need to be exposed to the steps of learning. Instead, we are creating mental passivity and cognitive apathy. Passive acceptance without active thought creates boredom, which, in turn, creates a lack of desire to engage mentally.

"Critical Thinking is not merely a buzzword. It is an essential tool that children must learn at an early age. In the digital age, far too much is being done by machines.

Children deserve the right to discern for themselves; they need the challenge of discovery and the exhilaration of accomplishment.

"How do we create a balance? Are we cheating the children in our quest for increased technology?"

Check out Eileen’s new book titled Won Ton is Not Now Backwards. Available at Amazon, it is a collection of very short stories, and is a book that parents, grandparents, speech therapists and young people will find useful and most importantly enjoyable.

Wacky birds whack Cornyn

Don Surber   

"The media is lying when it frames the issue as Trump’s revenge against perceived enemies. This is MAGA voters flushing the commode. The electorate has had it with politicians who promise voters everything but give them Dem Lite."

. . . "Well, he is. The party has nominated Trump for president three consecutive times. In 2016, he ran on building the wall; Cornyn and company blocked him. In 2024, Trump ran on deportations; Cornyn and company won’t fund it.

"The Kool-Aid swilling media spin on Republicans choosing Paxton over Cornyn is this will elect Democrat James Talarico to the Senate.

"On CNN, Scott Jennings and Xochitl Hinojosa traded words.

HINOJOSA: Talarico is well funded. Talarico will continue to raise money, but it’s interesting to me that now Republicans have to worry about deep red Texas because they have a flawed candidate who does not know how to raise. And you’re now seeing that currently play out.
JENNINGS: All these analysis of this race and sort of the differences between what a Cornyn or a Paxton would look like here. I’m thinking about the differences between Talarico and LITERALLY every other Texan.

I don’t know any Texans who believe in six genders other than Talarico. Don’t know any Texans who said it’s immoral to eat meat other than Talarico. Don’t know any Texans who walk around saying things you know God is non-binary. You all are both Texans. Do you know ANY other Texan who even talks like that?

Issues aside, who says these things out loud? When this gets adjudicated, all that money coming in from California and New York, it will be well spent in Texas.

"Establishment Republicans see Trump and his voters—wacky birds as John McCain called them—as a threat to their very existence.

"For 10 years they weren’t. Now they are." . . . More...

All Democrats Boycott JD Vance's Anti-Fraud Roundtable, Because They're the Party of Looters and Shooters;

A reminder from last week: the Trump Administration charged 15 Minnesota Men for pillaging $90 million from American citizens.

AF Branco

 Ace of Spades HQ  . . . "A big source of fraud consists of paying off corrupt, criminal parents to take their children to a corrupt doctor to get a fake autism diagnosis. Then they get fraudulent benefits, and scammers bilk the taxpayers out of huge sums of money providing non-services to non-autistic children.

"Today's arrests mark the largest autism fraud bust in American history," said HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. "Under the leadership of President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance, this Administration is carrying out the most aggressive anti-fraud effort in modern American history. These criminals exploited vulnerable children, stole taxpayer dollars, and diverted critical autism care and resources away from families who truly need support, and we will continue rooting out fraud to protect children and restore integrity to America's public health programs."

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Joe Biden: Decline and Fall

PragerU  

"Joseph Biden spent his career chasing one goal: the presidency. After decades of political frustration, he finally became the 46th president of the United States. What happened next is one of American history’s tragic ironies. Presidential historian Tevi Troy explores Biden’s rise and fall."

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