IT TAKES THE DRUDGERY OUT OF KEEPING UP WITH ADMINISTRATION NEWS: The White House Launches Familiar Looking Website for ‘Trusted News Sites and Resources’.
May 2, 2025
THEY HAVE BEEN A DISASTER … FOR THE LEFT: No Wonder Why the Liberal Media Thinks Trump’s First 100 Days Are a Disaster.
IT’S HARD NOT TO: House GOP Reps Mock Dems for Being Totally Lost and Adrift.
ALWAYS. THAT’S MORE OPPORTUNITIES FOR GRAFT AND CORRUPTION: Lefty policies come with additional costs.
THE ACCOUNTANT 2 WAS GOOD: Target Rich Environment.
The best part about this is that it shows the criminal horrors of an open border policy and how those who come in get exploited even as the country is being destroyed. I don’t think the filmmakers realized how revelatory they were.
TOTALITARIANS CAN’T ADMIT TO DOING ANYTHING WRONG: China’s Back to Blaming the United States for Covid Pandemic.
THEY CAN’T BUILD. BURNING AND DESTROYING IS ALL THEY CAN DO: Eco-Terrorism: Fires Rage Across Israel as Hamas Calls on Palestinians to ‘Burn Everything’.
SHOCKED, SHOCKED, SHOCKED*: Network Coverage of Defense Sec. Pete Hegseth Was 100% Negative in Trump’s First 100 Days.
*Boss? The shocked face situation is becoming critical.
YES, I KNOW THERE’S ANOTHER ONE IN NOVEMBER. BUT THERE ARE SO MANY VICTIMS: Victims of Communism Day.
YOU KNOW, THE MAN DIED, AND I HAVEN’T SEEN A RETROSPECTIVE OR A TRIBUTE: David Horowitz R.I.P.
Maybe it’s just that I haven’t bounced against the right pixels, but eh… We work alone or at least it feels like it, even when we have associates. We should be remembered.
THERE IS THIS SERIES OF RIDICULOUS COMMERCIALS FOR BLOOMBERG, BUT REALLY THEY’RE: Trash News.
And the smugness of those commercials is making me hate Bloomberg even if they weren’t… trash.
May 1, 2025
TO BE OVERTURNED BY A JUDGE IN 3..2..1…: Breaking: President Trump Signs “Ending Taxpayer Subsidization of Biased Media” Executive Order to Defund NPR and PBS.
OPEN THREAD: Make me proud.
THE TIPPING POINT: Democrat’s ‘grotesque’ blanket statement about Latinos sends internet ablaze.
A Democratic congressman from the South is in hot water after claiming he did not defend migrants getting deported, ‘because I’m not a Latino at the Home Depot.’
‘First, they came for the Latinos outside of the Home Depots trying to get work so that they could feed their families,’ Rep. Hank Johnson, D-Ga., said during a congressional hearing on Wednesday.
‘I didn’t say anything about it, because I’m not a Latino at the Home Depot,’ the Democrat continued.
The lawmaker appears to have been making his own version of a poem by a Martin Niemöller.
The work, titled ‘First They Came,’ talks about how officials in Nazi Germany began persecuting communists, socialists and Jews, before the eventually ending with chilling phrase ‘Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak out for me.’
Johnson clearly sought to connect President Donald Trump‘s approach to deportation to being akin to Nazi atrocities.
‘Then they came for the Hispanic looking folks wearing hats backwards with tattoos, and they deported them to El Salvador,’ Johnson recited.
‘I didn’t say anything about that because I don’t wear my hair backward, and I don’t have any tattoos, and I don’t look like a Latino,’ he added.
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‘Man…..that’s hard to watch,’ another X user, Brian Hastings, commented.
‘I’m sure he thought it would be dramatic and cool. But he seemed to realize, about halfway through, that he looked like a complete idiot, taking eloquent, historically meaningful words, and making them meaningless.’
Another wrote: ‘They are trying to draw a parallel with the Holocaust. Despicable.’
Flashback: Hank Johnson Worries Guam Could “Capsize” After Marine Buildup.
UPDATE: Tennessee bodycam of ‘Maryland man’ traffic stop shows troopers’ hands tied despite smuggling clues. “The Tennessee Highway Patrol released body camera footage of its 2022 encounter with Kilmar Abrego-Garcia, where state troopers suspected he was involved in human trafficking.”
RADICAL CHIC: THE BOY BAND ERA: Luigi Mangione: The Musical. Seriously. How Far Can the Left in This Country Descend?
LEE SMITH: David Horowitz, 1939-2025.
I asked him about the upcoming election, Trump, and the global paranoia his campaign had given rise to. He asked of his fellow Republicans, “Don’t they understand the seriousness of this election?” He saw the left primarily as a secularized religious movement rather than a political one. “It’s a faith that seeks redemption in this life with itself as the savior,” he said. “It’s such a beautiful dream, what lie would you not tell and what crime would you not commit to realize it?”
Radical Son is a narrative driven by crimes and lies. He’d helped his friend Betty Van Patter get an accounting job with the Panthers, and Newton had her murdered. That kept Horowitz out of politics for a while, as he wondered if the left could “take a really hard look at itself—the consequences of its failures, the credibility of its critiques, the viability of its goals.” He wrote, “I already knew the answers, although I wasn’t ready yet to draw the appropriate conclusions.”
His parents had not wanted to ask those questions, so when it became impossible to ignore or excuse Stalin’s crimes, they were crushed—they’d nurtured lies great and small for decades. In the Tablet article recounting my afternoon with David, I wrote that, with his parents’ failed political commitment in mind, he’d “resolved not to be played for a sucker.” Now I see that was a coarse formulation, and false. There was nothing calculated about his reevaluation of his place in the political realm. He lived by his sense of what was true and what was good, as he records in Radical Son. It’s a work of profound psychological acuity, whether he’s describing Newton, his parents, the character of an ex-wife, or his failure to see his own faults as clearly as he sees others’.
The fact is that throughout his career, first on the left and then on the right, Horowitz’s main theme wasn’t really politics; rather, it was family. Along with fellow former leftist turned conservative Peter Collier, he wrote several histories of great American families, including the Rockefellers and the Kennedys. Many consider A Cracking of the Heart, his memoir of his late daughter Sarah, to be his best book. Conservatives generally argue, with good reason, that leftist policies are designed to break the traditional family structure. But David believed that failures at home generate the psychological chaos at the heart of the leftist project to undo civilization and remake it in the image of barbarism.
“The perennial challenge,” he wrote in Radical Son, is “to teach our young the conditions of being human, of managing life’s tasks in a world that is (and must remain) forever imperfect. The refusal to come to come to terms with this reality is the heart of the radical impulse and accounts for its destructiveness, and thus for much of the bloody history of our age. My own life, which has often been painful and many times off course, is ultimately not discrete—a story to itself—but part of the narrative we all share.”
Read the whole thing.
WE SHOULD GO THERE AND EXPLORE. Dawn’s Second Look Reveals Vesta Could Be Part of a Lost World. “While smaller asteroids in the belt are considered fragments of collisions, scientists think Vesta and the other three large objects in the belt are likely primordial and have survived for billions of years. They believe that Vesta was on its way to becoming a planet and that the Solar System’s rocky planets likely began as protoplanets just like it. But new research is casting doubt on that conclusion.”
One hypothesis: “Vesta is a broken-off chunk of a growing planet in the Solar System. Jacobson suggested this idea at a conference in the past because he wanted other researchers to consider the idea that some meteorites are pieces of debris from collisions during the era of planet formation in the Solar System.”
TRUTH:
There is not. There has, in fact, never, ever been less of a clamoring for anything that is on offer. In the history of clamoring, no people has ever clamored less than the American people are clamoring for Kamala Harris’s voice. She is clamorless. She is a hollow clamoree. pic.twitter.com/dStanHYBm8
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) April 30, 2025
THAT’S (D)IFFERENT BECAUSE SHUT UP:
🚨 LMAO! A reporter just EMBARRASSED Chuck Schumer after Chuck claimed Trump’s poll numbers were bad
REPORTER: “There's a poll out today that has your approval rating lower than any other Congressional leader at 17%…”
SCHUMER: “POLLS COME AND GO!”
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) May 1, 2025
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