"The circumstances surrounding Carlson’s Fox News departure remain only partially understood by the public. The Dominion lawsuit discovery process unearthed private text messages in which Carlson expressed views sharply at odds with his on-air persona, including personal criticism of Donald Trump and colleagues. Legal analysts noted the internal communications created significant discomfort for Fox’s leadership and advertisers alike. Reports also indicated ongoing tension between Carlson and Fox Corp. executive Lachlan Murdoch over editorial direction. Whatever the specific chain of events, the split was mutual in its acrimony — Carlson later described feeling liberated by his exit and leveled public criticism at what he characterized as constraints on his speech within corporate media. His departure was part of a broader shakeup at Fox that same week, which also included the exit of longtime host Dan Bongino, raising questions about internal realignment at the network following the Dominion settlement." . . .
We have followed the sad descent of Tucker Carlson into madness. Here, he accuses President Trump and the entire Republican Party (except for Marjorie Taylor Greene and Thomas Massie, now gone from the party) of treason. He wants them subjected to Nuremberg-style show trials. Why? It has something to do with Israel. As best I can reconstruct it, some tinfoil hat types are saying that the National Defense Authorization Act for FY 2027 provides for a merger of U.S. and Israeli intelligence. That seems to be what Carlson is talking about, as he refers to “merge them formally.” . . .
""Nothing about that note rings true for me," Sheryl said of the first message received in the investigation.
"Nancywent missing in the middleof the night on February 1 after a mysterious figure appeared on the doorbell camera of her Tucson, Ariz., home. The 84-year-old has been missing ever since, with investigators believing she was forcibly taken.
"The family received alleged ransom notes at the beginning of the search that claimed Nancy was "safe, but scared."
" . . .“Hello, Savannah. We have your mother, Nancy. She is safe but scared. She will be held for ransom, and once payment is received, she will be released unharmed. We will be holding her for a maximum of seven days,” the note read.
"“Once payment is received to the Bitcoin address below, she will be released within 12 hours of deposit to a safe drop-off location back in Tucson,” the note continued. “If the payment is not received by the last deadline on Monday, the 9th at 5 p.m., she will be killed.Your motheris aware of this, and her life is in your hands. It is in the best interest of everyone to have this completed as soon as possible. You will not be able to contact me from here on out. There will be no negotiation. Do not play games. Law enforcement will not be able to help you."
"Sheryl criticized the note for explaining “things that are obvious.”
""Of course, she’s scared. Everybody’s scared," she said. "The whole family’s scared. But if this was a demand for money, that doesn’t even play into what you’re saying.” . . .More...
"Trump mixed a tribute to law enforcement with an extended roast of the press, Democrats, and celebrities. He capped it by pulling out a red “Trump 2028” hat and joking that he planned to run for a fourth term."
. . . "I hope that everyone finally got to enjoy their entire, very delicious beef tenderloin, very special beef. And I want you all to know that Bobby Kennedy, who’s right here, personally ran over the cow with his car. And he cut it up, and he brought it here for you to eat tonight. So it’s very fresh. Bobby also suggested an appetizer featuring his favorite cut of male raccoon roadkill, but we drew the line at that."
"One of Trump’s prepared jokes did not go over quite as well. Rather than simply move on, he turned on the speech itself.
Does anybody get that? I thought that was actually pretty good. That was actually the only thing I thought was good in this whole freaking stupid speech. The only good one, and that went down with not exactly great laughter.
"Trump briefly shifted away from the jokes to discuss Iran, claiming the country’s military had been devastated and that Tehran was now talking with the United States about a possible deal. He said any agreement would require Iran to remain without a nuclear weapon.
"The president later recalled being roasted by former President Barack Obama during the 2011 dinner, an appearance that has long been linked to Trump’s eventual decision to enter politics." . . .
UPDATED: You can watch the full speech, starting at 2:27:13, in the video below:
President Donald Trump delivers remarks at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner at Waldorf Astoria at 8:55 p.m. ET on July 24. https://t.co/p2ACHI53JA
"Last, but not least, it may be that blacks think Talarico is a strange dude with all of his obsessions about six genders and a non-binary God. He may remind them of Mayor Pete, who never caught on with black voters."
"There is a crazy thing going on in Texas: James vs. Jasmine. As you may remember, James Talarico defeated Jasmine Crockett for the Democrat nomination last March. It’s not been pretty since that election, with charges of racism in the air,
Texas Senate candidate James Talarico is now endorsing reparations for slavery to black people as the Democrat continues to be haunted by allegations of racism first hurled against him during the final weeks of his primary campaign against Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D., Texas).
Claiming Texas still suffers from the “reverberations of slavery,” Talarico threw his support behind reparations for black people during a town hall event, saying he would enact tuition relief, homeownership, and baby bonds for black people to help build generational wealth. The move comes at a fraught time for the Texas Democrat as recent polling shows he’s struggling to shore up support from the black community and comes one day after he was dressed down by an angry voter who declared that black people don’t trust him.
“Reparations, repairing past harms, is part of my faith tradition. It’s part of the values I was raised with,” Talarico told an audience of mostly black people on Monday. “Until we, as a society, are committed to restoring those past wrongs, of restoring our black communities, we’re never going to be able to get this country back on track … if we win Texas with a room that looks like this, that is going to be an earthquake in American politics. It will transform the politics of this country and allow us to build the political will to repair those past harms.”
"Talk about pandering. Furthermore, does Talarico understand how badly this is going to play with Hispanic voters? Does he seriously think that Hispanic, or any other voters, believe that we fix our past problems by giving money to people in 2026?" . . . More
"In 2016, at the World Economic Forum, Danish politician Ida Auken made a prediction about life in 2030. She made the now-infamous statement, “You’ll own nothing. And you’ll be happy..." Apparently, Ida Auken has never been to the island "paradise" of Cuba. The people of Cuba own nothing, and they are far from happy. In fact, Cubans are so unhappy that the Cuban government recently admitted to some grim statistics.
"JUST IN: Cuba’s population has reportedly fallen 16% in a decade as births plunge & emigration surges." Polymarket
"A recent bleak admission from the Castro regime confirmed the ongoing population collapse in Cuba continued unabated in 2025, with a perfect storm of record-low birth rates and a quarter of a million Cubans fleeing the island. Also thrown into the mix is the fact that Cuba's population is the oldest in Latin America and the Caribbean, with 26 percent of the population aged 60 or older. That affects not only the birth rate, but also means that Cuba has lost 1.25 million working-age people." . . .
"Politicians who hate everything America stands for are taking over the Democratic Party. And several mainstream Democrats are coming forward to sound the alarms.
"America has seenthe polls. Young people are embracing socialism with afervorunseen since the radical 1960s. The Democratic Party’s left-wing base ischampioning Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as the standard bearer heading into the 2028 election." . . .Behind a paywall: More...
"But it’s not the artistry of these films that counts for Hollywood. It’s the propaganda value, even on a small audience. Joseph Stalin understood the mind-influencing power of cinema* . . ."
"Still, Wayne was the recipient of several other attempted assassinations in the future, most notably in 1966, when a sniper was caught attempting to shoot the actor in Vietnam. The sniper alleged that Chairman Mao Zedong ordered the shooting. Again, whether this is true or not remains speculation."
"Last week, conservative writer Mark Judge officially announced the first annual Anti-Communist Film Festival — October 1-4 at the Victims of Communism Museum in Washington, D.C. With open or quasi communists taking over the Democratic Party and several American blue cities and states, the festival’s timing is perfect. I know which movie would win the top prize if it had been made already — Operation Cowboy: The Assassination of John Wayne, my Day of the Jackal-style thriller about a real 1950 Stalin plot to murder John Wayne because of his success flushing out Hollywood communists. As more genuine historical sources rip through the cobweb of leftist media lies, two commie-exposing heroes have found new respect as framed victims — Joseph McCarthy and Richard Nixon. To requote The Daily Wire star Matt Walsh in his recent X post, “McCarthy was right and fully justified.”
"For over 60 years, progressive filmmakers have depicted the communist investigations as the Hollywood Holocaust, wherein fascist officials and their studio-mogul acolytes silenced and persecuted Socratic screen artists. It began subtly enough in blacklisted genius screenwriter Carl Foreman’s High Noon. The classic 1952 Western depicted ex-Marshal Gary Cooper forsaken by the townspeople he protected ahead of four outlaws coming to kill him. It was clearly Foreman’s analogy for his abandonment by his peers during the blacklist.
"But when the Democrats took control of Congress in Eisenhower’s second term, and as studio power waned, liberal Hollywood filmmakers and the media got their revenge. They used all their propagandic powers to demean the anti-communist patriots inside and outside the entertainment industry. This included then-congressman Richard Nixon, whom they never forgave for exposing FDR State Department darling Alger Hiss as a Soviet spy.
"The critics of this rule complain that all of this would significantly expand the USPS role in elections. This is nonsense. As Palmer points out, “USPS is already significantly involved in elections because of its handling of millions of ballots."
"In March of 2026 President Trump issued Executive Order 14399, “Ensuring Citizenship Verification and Integrity in Federal Elections,” directing the U.S. Postal Service to create a rule whereby any state that intends to send mail-in ballots to voters must provide a list of those eligible to participate in federal elections or the USPS “shall not transmit” those ballots. The obvious goal of the EO is to keep ballots from reaching people who are not eligible to vote. This predictably produced several lawsuits. On Friday, however, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals issued a temporary stay on a lower court injunction that had the effect of permitting the U.S. Postal Service to move forward with the proposed mail-in ballot rule.
"The court’s order does not resolve the underlying lawsuits but permits the USPS to move forward while the case is reviewed. “This ruling is a win for election integrity and would have significant implications for states like California that refuse to submit their voter rolls to verify compliance with federal election laws,” said First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli. California is not the only state that refuses to allow its voter rolls to be audited. Every “blue” state in the nation is actively flouting the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA) and the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (HAVA), both of which require all states to conduct voter roll maintenance.
"Curiously, most states with GOP governing trifectas — those with Republican governors and legislatures — have been transparent with the Department of Justice concerning their voter rolls. An NBC report grudgingly admits that Wyoming, South Dakota, Nebraska, Ohio, Indiana, Texas, Alaska, Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, Tennessee, South Carolina, Florida, Missouri, Kansas and Montana are all cooperating. Meanwhile, the remaining red states are negotiating with the DOJ. The Democrat-controlled states are all fighting to hide their voter rolls. California is leading the resistance, and it is little wonder. Its management of mail-in ballots in the 2022 midterms was utterly chaotic. As the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) phrases it:
After accounting for polling place votes and rejected ballots in November 2022, there were more than 10 million ballots left outstanding, meaning election officials do not know what happened to them. It is fair to assume that the bulk of these were ignored or ultimately thrown out by the intended recipients. But, under mass mail elections, we can only assume what happened. Mail voting practices have an insurmountable information gap. The public cannot know how many ballots were disregarded, delivered to wrong mailboxes, or even withheld from the proper recipient. . . .More...
"That was the reason a generation of German engineers after the war quietly stopped building tanks the way they used to build them and started building them the way the Americans had."
"In the spring of 1943, the finest tank engineers in Nazi Germany were handed an American tank captured in the deserts of Tunisia. They spent the next two years trying to understand it. What they wrote in their private reports, in the technical language of men who could not afford to lie to themselves, was something Berlin did not want to hear, and something the American soldiers who had built these tanks and bled inside them would never live to know.
"This is the story of one Sherman and what it did to the engineers of the Third Reich when they finally took it apart. The wind came off the Dorsale Mountains at dusk, carrying grit and the smell of burnt oil. Sidi Bouzid, Tunisia, mid-February 1943. The battle was over. What remained was a landscape of dead machines.
American tanks lay everywhere. Some were burned black, hatches thrown open, turrets twisted at angles no factory ever intended. Others sat almost peaceful in the dust, engines silent, tracks intact, as if their crews had simply walked away. Which, in many cases, they had. At Sidi Bouzid and in the days that followed at Kasserine Pass, the US Second Corps had learned what the Afrika Korps already knew, that the desert punished mistakes without mercy, and that green troops paid the highest price. But among the wrecks, a different discovery was being made. German recovery teams moved between the hulks in the early mornings, before the sun turned the metal too hot to touch. They were looking for intelligence, for maps, for anything the retreating Americans had left behind. What they found was a tank, an M4 Sherman, standing upright on its tracks, undamaged, its engine cold, but its interior almost untouched. The crew had bailed out in a panic and run. The machine itself was intact. The men who found it climbed inside. They ran gloved hands over the seats, over the controls, over the strange American labels stamped in English on every gauge. And then, because that was their job, they tried to start it. The engine caught on the first attempt. For a long moment, no one spoke.". . .More...
"Richardson shows how Mangione’s mugshot became iconography, his manifesto fragments became memes, and his crime a kind of collective confession."
"Luigi Mangione was once the sort of young man about success stories were written: sharp, disciplined, and quietly ambitious. A programmer with promise, he preferred patterns to platitudes, structure to sentiment. Then, last December, he shot United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson on a Manhattan street, and the country cracked along familiar fault lines. To many, the then-26-year-old was a cold, calculating killer; to others, a kind of crusader — disenchanted, disillusioned, and reflecting what America has become. He embodied what more and more young Americans feel and now openly confess: they were promised everything, yet are left with nothing.
John H. Richardson’s Luigi: The Making and the Meaning arrives with unsettling urgency. The veteran journalist doesn’t merely recount events, but exposes how a killing became content, how a mind came undone, and how America turned the aftermath into ritual. The book’s most arresting passages trace Mangione’s psychic breakdown: a gifted student who begins by questioning the world and ends by waging war against it. His early journals burn with idealism, but the flame soon dims. What begins as frustration deepens into fury; curiosity stiffens into conviction. Before long, Mangione is reading the Unabomber’s manifesto and echoing it with eerie precision.
The parallels to Ted Kaczynski are particularly striking. Both were obsessive intellects drawn to the purity of logic and the promise of order. Kaczynski wrote from a Montana cabin; Mangione coded from a rented loft. Richardson knew Kaczynski personally — corresponding with him for years — and draws on those letters like confessionals. The author shows the cost of obsession, and what happens when the search for meaning becomes the road to madness." . . . More...
"Sen. Mike Crapo's legislation would save consumers billions of dollars and prevent future administrations from pursuing a 'de facto electric vehicle mandate'"
Update 4:04 p.m.: This piece has been updated to remove mention of the American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers, which did not endorse the bill.
"Sen. Mike Crapo (R., Idaho) is preparing to introduce first-of-its-kind legislationthat would scrap fuel efficiency rules for vehicles, regulations that Republicans say have cost consumers billions of dollars, theWashington Free Beaconhas learned.
"Crapo's bill would end a decades-old program requiring the federal government to set environmental fuel efficiency standards for cars and trucks. Crapo, the Senate Finance Committee's chairman, says the bill would save Americans money and ensure the federal government is unable to use the so-called corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) program to implement a "de facto electric vehicle mandate" or other broad climate objectives.
"The bill is not a symbolic one. It has five Senate cosponsors, all Republicans, and strong backing from major industry groups. It's also being introduced in time to clear Congress before any shift of control in January.
"The Biden administration finalized CAFE standards in 2024 that would have doubled fuel efficiency requirements in new cars, something automakers said was unachievable, costly, and designed to incentivize purchases of expensive electric vehicles. Last year, President Donald Trump reset the CAFE standards, calling the Biden-era regulations "ridiculously burdensome" and "horrible."
"Congress created the CAFE program to limit fuel consumption during the 1970s oil crisis, when Arab nations implemented an oil embargo against the United States and other nations that had supported Israel militarily. The United States has since shed itself of dependence on Arab oil, but the CAFE program has persisted and been reimagined as a tool to achieve the left's environmental goals.
"While advocates argue the program saves consumers money in the long run by decreasing their spending on fuel, an increase in CAFE standards of just 1 mile per gallon costs consumers an estimated $24.1 billion and automakers an estimated $5.5 billion over 10 years, even when accounting for fuel spending, according to a 2022 report from the right-leaning Mackinac Center for Public Policy. That's because higher fuel efficiency creates high compliance costs that automakers then pass on to buyers." . . .More...
She found success in a league that has historically excluded attractive white women. Now she's using her platform to 'protect young girls' from 'biological men.'
. . . "Cunningham made headlines this week by using her platform to stand up for female athletes, telling ESPN that transgender athletes should not be allowed to compete against biological girls.
""I got a lot of negative feedback about me hating trans. And I'm like, 'I never once said that,'" Cunningham said. "I think that I am here to extend love. But I also think with that love is truth, being honest. And I want to protect young girls in a locker room, or young girls in sport who shouldn't have to go against biological men."
"Cunningham said she is "very much in the middle" when it comes to politics, which makes sense given that her view on transgender athletes is sharedby nearly 80 percent of the American public. Most of the WNBA, however, agrees with the radical minority.
"The WNBA All-Star game on Saturday willraise moneyfor Girls in the Game, a Chicago-based charity that boasts of moving "beyond the binary of 'girl'" by welcoming "gender-expansive participants." In 2022, the WNBA players' union issued a statementdescribingtransgender people's participation in sports as a matter of "human rights."
"In a move some have denounced as a textbook example of structural racism and mean-girl pettiness, Cunningham wasnot invitedto participate in the upcoming WNBA 3-Point Contest. It was an obvious snub, given that Cunningham is shooting a career-high 43.7 percent from beyond the arc,second-bestin the WNBA. Stats aside, excluding one of the most attractive and recognizable players was an unusual marketing decision for a so-called business desperate to prove it can be profitable someday." . . .
. . . "The contrast between the actions of Mallory Holtman and Liz Wallace and those of the various members of the WNBA who attack Caitlin Clark is striking. The former shows opponents aiding an injured rival at great personal cost, while the WNBA record shows repeated aggressive cheap shots at a high-profile player, while officials sometimes penalize the victim while the perpetrators are barely held accountable.
"The amateurs at the college level fostered idealism, whereas the professionals exhibit rivalry, resentment, and a win-at-all-costs mentality. The former reinforces positive values and gains the admiration of the public, whereas the latter alienates fans and damages the growth of the league." . . .
"The question is old, but it still needs to be asked: When is California going to turn things around? The answer is unknowable, but now would be a good time to start, because the bottom is closer than ever and coming up fast."
"Florida Pizza Kitchen. It doesn’t have quite the ring to it that California Pizza Kitchen does. But had the iconic chain been dreamed up in the 2020s rather than the 1980s, it would have been FPK rather than CPK, not because the California Pizza Kitchen’s co-founders moved to Florida, though one did a couple of years ago, but due to the Golden State’s corrosive business policies.
"Not that long ago, California was “the greatest place to do business,” Rick Rosenfield, the CPK co-founder who fled to the Sunshine State, told Fox News Digital.
“'If it were me today, I would open in Florida before I would open it in California,” Rosenfield said. “California is less business-friendly today, and they make it apparent.”
"Rosenfield and Larry Flax started CPK in Beverly Hills in 1985, before the state became a tax-regulate-and-degree nightmare for businesses. Today the state is more well known for the steady flight of companies, capital and vital human resources, all seeking liberalized markets where entrepreneurship, innovation and hard work are rewarded rather than punished.
"That describes Florida, which Rosenfield says is “quite friendly,” and relative to California and the rest of the blue states, an oasis where “there’s less bureaucracy.”
"California is actively hostile to business. Rosenfield told Fox that the business climate sharply changed after COVID, which is true, but it didn’t begin there. Not dozens, not hundreds, but thousands of businesses have quit on the state and relocated either fully or partially elsewhere since 2008. The list of high-profile and California legacy companies that have fled, according to a Pacific Research Institute report, includes “Hewlett-Packard, whose founding is recognized as the birth of Silicon Valley; entrepreneur Elon Musk’s Tesla and SpaceX; Charles Schwab, founded in San Francisco in 1971; Mitsubishi; Nissan North America; Toyota Motor North America; Oracle; Palantir Technologies; and Jacobs Engineering.” . . . More...
