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This is an adjunct to my long-running blog at Bookworm Room. There, I talk about politics and social issues from a conservative perspective. My blog's motto is "conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts."
Germany was unified in 1866, bringing together a hodgepodge of duchies and kingdoms, none of which was very powerful, but all of which shared a sort of Germanic culture.
Kaiser Wilhelm's dreams of an All-Powerful German nation died on the battlefields of WWI, while Hitler's dreams of a racially pure Thousand-Year Reich died on the battlefields of WWII. Germany was broken in half, and that seemed to be the end of its ability to be a problem.
However, Germany was not done making mischief. When it was finally reunified in 1990, it became the most powerful country in the EU and, in 2015, opened the door to mass radical Islamic immigration, destroying Europe and, potentially, the entire West.
If you want to see me get mad, rub my face in the fact that South Carolina has an open primary. Listen to this video to hear why, complete with examples from how the largest circulation paper in the state, the Post and Courier, is trying to game the open primary system.
Also, I offer my personal endorsement (this is NOT an endorsement from American Thinker) to my friend Duke Buckner, someone whom I know personally and respect greatly, whose prescience I admire, and whose pro-American values I strongly support. If you want to learn more about Duke, you can find his campaign website here.
Chick-Lit used to be wholesome and patriotic. A perfect example is a book by D.E. Stevenson, a very popular British mid-century women's writer. Her book, Listening Valley, embodies the patriotism necessary for a country to win wars. We no longer have that patriotism, so it's questionable whether we can still win wars.
Winston Churchill famously said that an appeaser is one who feeds the crocodile in the hope that it will eat him last. Now that the radical Abdul El-Sayed, a Muslim socialist, has become the Democrat nominee for U.S. Senate in Michigan, old-line Democrats are running scared—and they're right, too, because the Democratic Socialists of America and Muslims have made it clear that they're not going to be the last to go but the first.
Jason Arday, a storied black academic at Cambridge University in the UK, and Angel Reese, a less storied black basketball player in the WBA, have both had their narratives called into question. Arday's fall from grace (allegations of plagiarism and lies about his past) has become a cause célèbres, while almost no one noticed what was going on with Reese's little Barbie tale. However, both speak to a ginormous shift in black culture, from one grounded in the Christian notion of truth to one that—at least among academics and others marinated in leftism—has broken free of facts thanks to post-modern victim culture.
Last week, DataRepublican (Jennica Pounds) announced that her new book, Unelected: How You Paid a Sinister Elite to Take Over America, is coming out in October. She added that she and her ghostwriter, Joshua Lisec, will be giving interviews. I instantly pounced on that opportunity, so Joshua and I arranged an interview.
I found what Joshua had to say fascinating, for he expanded on the book's basic premise: A taxpayer-funded NGO complex has become a supranational force that weakens American sovereignty, advances left-wing causes, and prioritizes global humanitarianism and cheap labor over constitutional stability and national cohesion.
Nor does Joshua let Republicans off the hook, for he explains that supranationalism is essentially the reductio ad absurdum of the Enlightenment idea that all men are created equal—which may be true, but it fails to consider that not all cultures are created equal. Nevertheless, our "gentry Republican" class, as he terms it, has the same virtuous high from open borders as George Soros does. To the end, they join with leftists in viewing as America's ultimate goal a borderless world of equal people.
All is not lost, though, for there are ways Americans can fight back—and the left, of course, has mapped how to do that, for it used these same techniques to drag America left after WWII.
I was hoping that the video would record as a side-by-side chat, but Google Meet refused to cooperate. The next time I do a video, I'll have that bug worked out.
Michigan's Attorney General, Dana Nessel, a Jewish lesbian, has been among the most ardent and radicalized Democrats in America. But the new Michigan Democrat party has no room for Jews, and she's now afraid to attend her own state's Democrat convention. I look at Nessel's sterling leftist bona fides, and her sudden realization that the Islamicized party is casting Jews out.
Although the American media haven't yet caught up (as of this recording), there is a mass invasion taking place in Spain, as thousands of young, military-aged men from Morocco have breached the Spanish border in Ceuta, a small Spanish outcropping that shares a border with Morocco. From there, it's an open door to the rest of Europe and to Great Britain.
A recent statement from Wisconsin's current leader in the Democrat gubernatorial primary, DSA member Francesca Hong, highlights how different Americans' constitutional understanding of "freedom" is from what the DSA has planned for us—and we'd better pay attention to the difference because, as Obama said, "Don't tell me words don't matter!" If we embrace the DSA meaning of freedom, we will soon find ourselves enslaved.
Rand Paul released Anthony Fauci's diaries, confirming conservatives were right about everything. The diaries also showed that Anthony Fauci was a complete megalomaniac, with way too much power.
What's concerning today, though, is that the vast majority of mainstream media outlets (at least as of 3 p.m. on Tuesday) have assiduously ignored this story. If you're wondering why your friends and neighbors in the political middle or moderate left aren't outraged, this is why. The media have intentionally kept them ignorant.
This sounds counterintuitive, but the best thing that could have happened for America was that Trump lost in 2020. And those people who caused that loss have been hoist on their own petards in a very satisfying way.
A fully veiled woman won a British Citizens Award for her community service "empowering" women. I find it inconsistent that one can be fully veiled and empowered, but what interested me more was her organization and the money and people behind it. They are fully Islamic and manifestly anti-Israel. It made me...let's say uncomfortable that the United Kingdom is honoring this woman and that organization. It doesn't feel very British anymore.
The evidence is overwhelming: The Overton Window that the Democrats forced into a hard-left shift that allowed so-called transgenderism to take over the public square is returning to normal. Sophie Cunningham is Exhibit A, aided by the fact that the so-called "trans women" out there can no longer control their insanity, deviance, or opportunism.
The Democrats cobbled together a coalition based upon race and sexual identity. With the rise of socialism and Islam, that coalition may be collapsing.
President Trump announced today that he's taking the gloves off with Iran, and that anything Iran does in the Strait will be met with a strike on its infrastructure. This is something he should have done a long time ago. You fight wars to win them, and you win wars against a tyranny by bringing it home to the tyrant.
China is an interesting country. Its economy is weakening for myriad reasons, but it is also stockpiling energy and has a dangerous amount of control over our energy supply. For those tempted to say it's a "paper dragon," it's not. It's a powerful and weakened country, with that weakness meaning that it's still a dangerous geopolitical rival.
For decades, whenever Democrats have run Northern leftists candidates (going back to Humphrey and McGovern), they've failed to take the White House. They've done well with Southern Democrats, though, which may explain Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez mimicking Hillary Clinton's fake Southern accent. That fakery didn't work before, but AOC is a different kind of candidate and, more importantly, we aren't the same Americans we were 50 or more years ago.
Two takeaways for you today:
0:00 Maine's Ashley Webb shows how politicized transgenderism denies us the ability to pity people so disconnected from their bodies.
5:58 AI is a good servant but a bad master. We need it for personal productivity, national security, and America's economic strength, but we must control it.
One of the left's most common rallying cries is that Republicans, from Trump on down, are fascist. That's a slur going back to the end of WWII and bears no relationship to reality. The world is divided between totalitarian and liberty-centric political ideologies. Fascism and the American left are on the totalitarian side, and American conservatives come squarely down on the side of liberty.
A Black Lives Matter era screen grab from Netflix shows the company describing the 1939 classic Gone With The Wind as racist and recommending that viewers check out Black Lives Matter (presumably as opposed to watching the movie). I argue the opposite: GWTW is truly a great American novel, written by a woman who clearly understood the rot of the Antebellum South.
This is a single-issue program about the D.C. gossip claiming that tonight—Thursday—Donald Trump will announce that he has evidence that the 2020 election in Georgia was illegitimate, meaning that Senators Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff are never elected. There are several problems with that, especially the fact that neither of those Senators was elected in the November 2020 election, but the rumor raises larger questions about election integrity and the process when fraud taints a Congressional election.
This is a single-issue program about the D.C. gossip claiming that tonight—Thursday—Donald Trump will announce that he has evidence that the 2020 election in Georgia was illegitimate, meaning that Senators Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff are never elected. There are several problems with that, especially the fact that neither of those Senators was elected in the November 2020 election, but the rumor raises larger questions about election integrity and the process when fraud taints a Congressional election.
This is a single-issue program. My topic is my "catch them being good" philosophy, which I used to raise my children. However, I've realized over the years that it can help us remake American society for the better.
Today I discuss just one subject: A crazy new recycling rule that may destroy a large part of California's dairy industry or, at the very least, make an essential nutrition source for children much more expensive.
In today's podcast:
0:00 Zohran Mamdani rewrites New York City's immigrant history
8:16 Ireland and the problem of mass Islamic immigration
11:25 The center cannot hold because there is no center
In today's podcast:
0:00 Has the post-MOU era created a Vance v. Rubio foreign policy schism?
8:32 The left's blind spot for Islam, which represents everything leftists purport to hate
I read at length from four things:
A June 24, 2026, American Thinker essay.
A June 17, 2026, Will Ricciardella tweet.
A July 8, 2026, Will Ricciardella tweet.
A July 6, 2026, LGBTQNation news report.
In today's podcast:
0:00 Regarding Iran, was this Trump's plan all along?
4:20 The Democrats revisit the Biden play with Graham Platner
7:08 The Democrats' horrible crime against American blacks.
Today's video podcast tackles just one topic, which is the common thread that runs through raising children, training dogs, and dealing with Muslims on American soil who have dreams of caliphate glory.
Today's video podcast tackles the following topics:
· 0:00 Introduction
· 1:05 European inertia
· 9:52 Conservative Americans' malaise
I almost kept to my upper limit of ten minutes, and hope to do better next time.
You can also watch the video on Rumble.
Today's video podcast tackles the following topics:
· 0:00 Introduction
· 0:39 Never vote for the antisemite
· 7:22 No, TPS doesn't mean we have to save the whole world
· 11:45 Socialist delusions about food redistribution
· 17:53 Our almost socialist American medical care
· 27:56 My lack of sympathy for Caitlyn Clark
· 38:31 Europe's lying communists against A/C
Today's video podcast tackles four topics:
One. The surprising nature of employees at major airports given the identity of most hijackers since the 1960s.
Two. The non-stop leftist propaganda at Seattle Airport.
Three. Our quisling institutions are part of why Trump signed the Iran MOU.
Four. Apparently, the Holocaust will soon be a forbidden subject at schools for fear of offending...certain people.
· 0:00 Introduction
· 04:21 Airport Security
· 13:37 Seattle Airport indoctrination
· 18:28 Quisling institutions and the MOU
· 26:09 The forbidden Holocaust curriculum
Today's video podcast, which is going to be my last full podcast before I leave for a three-week trip, focuses on two topics:
One. Memorial Day and stories of war, especially WWII, the war that cast a shadow over my childhood, despite my being born 16 years after it ended. Meanwhile, leftists want to talk about George Floyd.
Two. Why Trump's Iran deal (if it comes through) is probably as good as it's going to get.
· 0:00 Introduction (including some discussion about my upcoming trip)
· 6:00 Remember those who fought and died for America, especially WWII
· 18:57 The Iran Deal.
Today's video podcast tackles four topics:
One. On Monday afternoon, Trump announced that he was calling off a planned military strike that was to have taken place today, since the leaders of Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE promised that—honest!—this time there really is a deal with Iran on the table. I support Trump's war effort 100%, but I worry that he's being played.
Two. Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey is almost ready to hit the theaters. That gives me a chance to talk about bad translations, boring teachers, my real problem with the story itself (and the Greek myths, too).
Three. I believe that Great Men and Women create history, and that the left is lying when it tells young people otherwise. Throughout history, change starts with individuals who have the power to bring down kingdoms.
Four. The American public education model is an awful one. A very expensive private school is using AI to beat it, but it basically just seems to be a space-age Montessori approach, and that's a good thing. If you can put your children in Montessori, go for it.
· 0:00 Introduction
· 1:24 Is Iran playing Trump to buy time?
· 14:20 The problems with The Odyssey
· 27:07 The Great Man (and Woman) approach to the past and present
· 41:16 The problem with education and the Montessori solution
Today's topics are:
· 0:00 Introduction
· 0:16 Islam's sado-sexual culture
· 10:52 How America is doing in Iran and China
· 21:47 The reasonable reason for halting redistricting in South Carolina
· 26:43 A society cannot be structured around damaged people
First, I examine the dueling reports about the unspeakable crimes Arabs committed against Jews on October 11 and Nicholas Kristof's blood libel about raped Arabs in Israeli prisons. I'll explain exactly why the former reports are manifestly true and the latter obscenely false.
Second, I look at how we're doing vis-à-vis Iran and China. Maybe I'm a cockeyed optimist, but I think all is well under Trump's management.
Third, before people get their knickers in a twist about the fact that the South Carolina legislature is dragging its heels on redistricting, there's reasonable thinking going on there.
Fourth, and last, based on people I know and know of, a reminder that a society cannot organize itself around its most damaged members, no matter how sad their lives are.
In today's video-podcast, I begin by riffing off of a delightful Victor Davis Hanson neologism—"scholastic" terrorism. He was talking about the way Democrats, as a general matter, create a mindset in which assassination seems not only reasonable, but desirable, but I focused on academia.
And speaking of Democrats' desiring death for their political opponents, it's bigger than that. Like Iran itself, they seek "death to America." For the first time in our history, a major political party, during a war, openly roots for the opposing side, even though the opposing side is genuinely evil by any American metric.
It's not just in the war, though, that Democrats seek America's demise. It's also on America's streets, and nothing more perfectly illustrates this than Rashida Tlaib's proposed Homeless Bill of Rights. No wonder Barney Frank, in his twilight years, is desperate for Democrats to back away from the edge of the crazy cliff.
And finally, sex and Congress are in the news, both because of Eric Swalwell's extreme sexcapades and because of Nancy Mace naming names.
· 0:00 Introduction
· 1:09 "Scholastic" terrorism
· 13:42 Democrats: America's suicide party (as in they want America to die)
· 31:07 Sex problems in Congress
· 43:28 Signing off
Something new today because I ran out of time to do one of my carefully curated preparations: It's just me, some ideas, and a camera. Yikes. I can tell you generally that I talk about
The unconstitutional madness in Virginia and how hard it is to pull the country back from the downstream effects of a state that goes crazy
Absolute morality versus the purely situational morality of the left, with examples drawn from Hiroshima, the IRGC, and pop culture.
The entitlement of publicly funded "artists."
It's a wild ride because my brain was crowded today, but you might find it amusing, if nothing else.
Today's topics are:
· 0:00 Introduction
· 0:38 Hennepin County is indicting ICE agents
· 9:16 Is this the real reason Trump forced a settlement in Gaza?
· 19:16 Laughing at oil-rich states and nations facing oil shortages
· 25:42 Wrapping up.
This one's a bit different, because it's relatively short (for me) and discusses only a single topic: Whether Europe can survive. I don't think it can, and I explain why.
· 0:00 Introduction
· 0:40 Trump on Iran is no fool, no matter what the media say
· 11:43 Trump hatred started with Reagan hatred
· 15:11 The left mutilates Passover
· 28:18 The View hosts' modern eugenics
· 35:49 Free speech is dying in the Anglosphere
· 0:00 Introduction
· 0:44 Fifth columnists
· 22:08 Israel may allow the death penalty
· 24:25 Leftist women destroying men
· 30:10 Zohran Mamdani's Islamic governance (and where does his wife fit in?)
· 42:00 Conclusion
Today's topics are:
· 0:00 Introduction
· 0:23 Democrats are determined to lose another war
· 5:15 The Republican Party should not be a Big Tent. Toss the Groypers
· 20:28 The UK continues its war on self-defense
Today's topics are:
· 0:00 Introduction
· 2:54 Joe Rogan versus Ed Sullivan
· 10:13 Tucker Carlson's downfall?
· 19:34 Regarding Tucker, it's never really about the Jews
· 24:41 David French's fact-free morality
· 37:12 Conclusion
The video that I reference at 32:34, which discusses Trump's infamous Access Hollywood tape, can be found here.
Today's topics are:
0:00 Introduction
0:38 We are not Jews with trembling knees
14:23 Why I don't like Joe Rogan
17:00 I'm optimistic about the Iran War
17:31 We have no choice but to fight
22:20 We are doing spectacularly well, and it's not a quagmire or forever war
29:44 Iran has terrible internal problems
33:39 The Gulf nations are sitting this one out
35:15 China isn't helping
38:24 The only thing that can defeat us...is us
Today's topics are
(1) China isn't having a good year, whether at home or abroad
(2) What's happening in Iran is both amazing and necessary
(3) The Democrats' hatred for Trump is blinding them to both the truth and the incredible evil that the mullahs represent
(4) There are morally decent Democrats, but they're incapable of seeing that the isolated problems they recognize are part of an inherently corrupt ideology
(5) The Democrats are destroying young lives, with just one example highlighting what they've done
Today's topics are
(1) how Trump took the necessary steps to improve his job approval in the lead-up to the midterms,
(2) the reason tariffs won't cause economic collapse and why they're a wonderful and equitable way to raise revenue,
(3) the real meaning behind "Prince" Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor's detention,
(4) the truth about the world in which Gavin Newsom grew up, and
(5) the fact that my dad was right all along (going back to the 1970s) about the collapse of American K-12 education.
You can find the Scott Sultzer essay I recommended here:
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2026/02/the_supreme_court_s_political_attack_masquerading_as_a_judicial_decision.html
Today's topics are the prince formerly known as Andrew, which is really more about Trump's prescience and the British government's cowardice than about Andrew himself; the woke, DEI-obsessed power behind the throne at trouble-plagued DC water, along with his own troubled history; America's scary generation of woke mad scientists show up for their biggest annual convention, and the lower House in the Netherlands' Parliament decides to jettison the country's wealth by chasing out the wealthy.
Today's topics are how the left is seeking to return us to an age when we no longer are Nature's master, but nature is our master, and a hard, cruel one at that; the completely unnecessary Silence of the Lambs apology; the unfriendly skies we're flying; the autism myth; and me smugly patting myself on the back for being right about a lot of things.
Today's topics are the real reason the NFL went with Bad Bunny, some thoughts about American football versus soccer, watching Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, and knitting and the magic of AI.
Today's topics are (once again) our grossly dishonest media, the story of Obama's "fixer" and Jeffrey Epstein, the tragedy of blacks failing in Marin County's school district (and one local media's effort to hide that), Europe's continued downfall as it bows before Islam, and the Ivy League college scam.
Today's topics are Trump's brilliance in negotiating a trade deal with India, the reality of the hijab (and it shouldn't be celebrated), the bizarre priorities of Senate Republicans when it comes to the SAVE Act, and understanding leftist Jews.
Today's topics are (1) more examples of the "de-Judaization" of the Holocaust and the total inversion as a vehicle to attack Jews, and (2) the weird thing about Michelle Obama's answer when she was asked whether she'd urge Obama to run again if Trump goes for a third term.
Today's topics are the terrible consequences of electing communists, the leftist view of religious rights, the dangerous drift toward "de-Judaizing" the Holocaust, and pure schadenfreude when looking at leftist expectations about "Melania," the movie.
Today's topics are one doctor's testimony in the Senate reveals how ideologically corrupt medical education has become, an essay by Ireland's former president reveals more than she realizes when she rants against infant baptism, Scott Adams's death highlights (again) how utterly corrupt the media are (but change can happen), and the necessity for Trump to act in Iran.
Today, there's only one topic: Singapore. I spent 12 days there and have opinions (plus, if you're watching the video, photographs).
Today's topics are tariffs, and why Trump's tariffs are good, not bad; the divisions (perhaps good ones) that come from our siloed media world; and the reason that medical costs are so high and—sorry—will never go down.
Today's topics are why the shutdown's end was inevitable, why New York City doesn't matter anymore, the problem of rogue judges, a (good) cultural shift and the evidence supporting it, a bad shift in South Korea, the Palestinian "fatocide" (and why, inevitably, the absence of starvation genocide is the Jews' fault), and whether God serves man or man serves God.
This is a special edition of the American Thinker Takeaways podcast. I had the opportunity to interview Professor Charles Murray about his new book, Taking Religion Seriously, about his intellectual journey to faith.
Today's topics are a little insight into some of the people on food stamps and Governor Tim Walz's deeply dishonest accounting; Karine Jean Pierre's victim-centric mindset and the dirty little anti-democratic secret her interviewer gave away; and the serious problem with elected politicians who were not born in America and have roots in cultures utterly alien to our own.
Today's topics are scary ideas from Google's AI (and their intersection with the climate changista and environmentalist worldview), Europe's problematic African and Middle Eastern immigrants (and the coming purification), how one leftist member of the media defines "racism" to attack Timothy Mellon (we're all racists now), and the demise of Napoleon's Army.
Today's topics are what Obamacare has done to ERs, the drop in fuel prices, WaPo journalists who dare not speak "their" truth, what Google AI is alleged to have done to Robby Starbuck, and the fall of John Cleese, the avatar for all bad things from the "intellectual" left.
Today's topics are the leftist obsession with animal costumes (and what Biblical proscription I think it violates); the antisemitic madness in England and the general problem of unlimited, mostly Islamic, immigration to Europe, the Pope's obsession with immigrants over his own flock; and, lastly, Zohran Mandami's open embrace of the same pro-Islamic ideas that Barack Obama and his supporters are believed still to be hiding.
This episode looks at the peace plan in Gaza, Kamala Harris's ignorance (whether willful or natural), dhimmitude in America's prison system, the slaughter of Christians in Africa, the Blue state and city insurrection when it comes to illegal immigration, Jack Smith's serious misstatements about national security law, and the return to gender sanity.
In this, the last podcast of 2024, I consider my movement to “ReclaimTheRainbow” for everyone, not just the LGBTQ+ crowd; the Biden military’s crazed focus on gender and climate change rather than national defense;* Islamified Europe; and the necessity of Biden’s presidency, along with my hope for the New Year.
*This is the Naval War College video underlying my look at Biden’s military: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEBdWjN9V_E
A look at the eight factors that make American healthcare so expensive—and why socializing our medical care will not make things better.
This video-podcast covers why it was a good thing Biden was elected (yes, I really said that), how Biden corrupted the constitutional pardon power, the difference between conservative and leftist populism, and why I think that Trump is America’s Churchill.
This video/podcast discusses the illegal long count in Pennsylvania, the exodus from X, the La Leche League’s founder going out with a “transphobic” bang, the Antifa fan in the Secret Service, and how Britain is going pre-modern with Net Zero.
· Jack Smith’s apparent retreat from the DOJ lawsuits against Trump, a tactic that is actually as slimy as the lawsuits themselves
· The FEMA worker who was fired for instructing people to ignore Trump supporters’ homes, and the situation isn’t as obvious as you think.
· The pathetic nature of today’s performers, which explains why it cost Kamala so much to bring them to her rallies (with a cameo from poor Britney Spears)
· The overall cult-like nature of today’s leftism
· A horrible development for women and girls in Iraq, something I lay squarely at Obama’s feet—along with a short rumination about how bad Democrats are for women generally
· The New York Times’s despicable anti-Israel animus
· A mass murder in China and what it says about guns and government
American Thinker's managing editor, Andrea Widburg, talks about:
- An important point about Civil Rights that too few Democrats understand.
- How the election spelled the end of the pernicious intersectionality that has dominated Democrat politics since the Obama era.
- The leftist overreach that spelled the Democrats’ doom.
- The Trump dividends that are already paying off in foreign policy, even though he hasn’t even been inaugurated.
- The American people’s verdict should mark (and seemingly already is marking) the end of the lawfare against Trump.
- Fear and loathing at the FBI’s headquarters now that there’s a new Trumpian sheriff in town.
- The jihad playing out in Amsterdam.
- Why Hollywood stars—and, maybe, some politicians—should are, or should be, running scared...or just running.
- The sad, funny story of the leftist who utterly fails to connect her political values to the frightening world that she inhabits.
This video/podcast discusses a leftist European writer’s accurate—and depressing—take on the state of America under Harris and Biden, the fraud against Israel that’s taking place on Wikipedia, and the wonderful New York Times article that’s meant to dissuade people from supporting Trump but that reads like the perfect Trump campaign promotional material.
This video/podcast discusses the Harris campaign’s and the Democrat party’s inherent racism, the joke on the Democrats regarding Trump’s upcoming Madison Square Garden rally (plus the usual defamation against Trump), Kamala Harris’s transgender policies, and a lovely pro-Trump message from Stanley Kubrick’s daughter.
This video/podcast discusses the chains the Deep State has on its employees as viewed through a Secret Service lens, Donald Trump’s brilliant tax idea, yet another big lie about illegal immigration, lessons from a Trump rally, the positive trend that election polling is showing, and the war Israel faces.
This podcast discusses FEMA, the media’s ugly euphemisms, the government’s latest policies affecting our food supplies, and giant rats.
This video discusses a NeverTrumper who came home; JD Vance’s masterful answer re abortion; the burgeoning FEMA scandal in NC; Israel does immigration and assimilation right; election interference from the DOJ; and how the left abuses religion for political ends.
0:00 - Intro
01:00 - A NeverTrumper comes home
03:34 - JD Vance’s masterful answer re abortion
06:37 - The burgeoning FEMA scandal in NC
11:03 - Israel does immigration and assimilation right
13:47 - Election interference from the DOJ
15:03 - The left abuses religion for political ends
Insights from American Thinker about the debate, Iran's attack on Israel, and Doug Emhoff's allegedly striking a woman.
Everyone recognizes that our dominant American culture marks a return to the pagan, but they don't see that, at a profound level, it's worse than the original.
I've been writing over the last decade about our culture's return to the pagan -- and, indeed, I'm not the only one making this point. A lot of people are. In this video podcast, I examine the many ways in which we are abandoning the Biblical worldview in favor of paganism. That's bad, but I argue that the West's neo-paganism, which has made huge headway in America, is even worse than the original. That's not just because we're killing people; it's because the goals are different.
A cheerful look at problems with the Georgia RICO indictment, within China, and for the leftists in Marin County.
The three stories I recount in this podcast give me hope. Whether it's the fact that even a stalwart NeverTrumper recognizes how horrible Fani Willis's RICO case against Trump is, the deep doo-doo into which China is sinking, or the fact that Marin's leftists are discovering that the piper inevitably must be paid, all of these are reports that will hearten you.
I've kept it short this time, focusing on one issue, which is the real -- and very weird -- beneficiary of the left's forced existential crisis.
No matter how you look at it, every one of the left's policies is intended to decrease dramatically the number of humans on earth. This is a very bizarre and horrible experiment. More than that, the ultimate intended beneficiary isn't who (or what) you think it is.
This is an unusually short video podcast (for me, at least) because it addresses just one issue: The schism between Republicans and conservatives.
Not only do I identify the issue, but I also offer suggestions for addressing what I see as a very serious problem in American politics. Plus, I want you to know there is reason to hope in America.
It's another thrilling ride through the flotsam and jetsam of my mind as I examine the social and political scenes in America today.
It's all here: following the money behind transgender madness in women's sports, Biblical morals, Hunter Biden as an unlikely 2nd Amendment warrior, reefer madness, Republican candidates who have gone to the dogs, the American institution that is the root of all of today's evils, and one Democrat judge who got what he voted for.
On this podcast, gay activists v. gay men, crazy leftist ladies, why I don't trust RFK, Jr., a little secret behind so-called "white" crime, and a love letter to Pete Buttigieg.
The most important thing to note is that it's not my love letter to Pete Buttigieg. But that comes last. Before I get there, I discuss what makes gay activists different from men who are gay, why we'd have fewer crazy leftist women if men weren't marginalized, the problem (as I see it) with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and one of the statistical lies behind the wave of white crime Biden insists is terrifying the nation.
It's late at night, and my dyslexic tongue is stumbling, but I think I made sense with my look at some of the week's news.
As always, there's a lot to talk about: The failed efforts to destroy Tucker, the problems for the left with Hispanic mass murderers, words that shall not be spoken, the things that leftists see and don't see (and how that drives policy), and a remembrance of a very good judge.
The gal suing Tucker is very much an avatar for the modern left, so I spend a bit of time discussing her (which also allows me to demonstrate my growing proficiency in embedding video clips). But before I touch upon Tucker, I have a few quick things to say about the "fascist" label, evil Republicans, and the fact that Don Lemon is also an avatar of sorts.
I'm baaaaack! This time, I take on God's role as a speed trap, homework (yes or no?), Sen. Tim Scott, slavery, and women's (or is it men's?) lingerie.
Because my work schedule and the demands on my free time mean that, at least for now, I'll be unable to do a current events podcast, I'm trying to focus on subjects that draw on my personal knowledge and insights rather than essentially echoing other commentators. Most of these are ideas that come to me in the car (I don't know why), so it's up to you whether they're worth your time.
This is an everything and the kitchen sink edition: Slavery, Trump, so-called transgenderism, leftists' children, children on prescription drugs, pedophiles, reparations, politicians, and colleges! It sounds boring when I've reduced the content to its essentials, but I hope it's lively enough to stick with and enjoy.
What'll you hear in this podcast? Ruminations about Trump, childhood, parents, black racism, gun safety and government, Heaven and crime, and a few random other topics.
Dictionaries, pronouns, cops gone wild, celebrating ourselves versus being forced to celebrate others, leftists manipulating the human capacity for change, and Hooray for Jimmy Cagney.
Because I write so much for work, I don't always have the energy to put my random thoughts (and, sometimes, deep thoughts) into written form. My choice, then, is between a podcast or tossing those ideas. So here's that podcast. I managed to cover gender and sexuality, Biden and the PLO, Ukraine, the war in Ukraine, education, socialized medicine, and a touch of Milton Friedman who, surprisingly, sort of intersected with my life.
It's a short(ish) one this time, in which I ruminate about Biden's presidency, leftist antisemitism, the dead in Ukraine, motherhood, and the intersection between conservativism and the NFL.
This is the extended version of a speech I delivered about the left's two-pronged attack on American children via Critical Race Theory and "gender theory."
A special edition dedicated entirely to Joe Biden's classified documents problem. And unlike Trump, where the classified document "crime" is completely fake, Joe Biden is in real trouble.
Articles cited:
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/biden-aides-find-second-batch-classified-documents-new-location-rcna65371
https://apnews.com/article/biden-classified-documents-updates-e506a5c4094356cf4c7d11f8fb3d23b4
https://apnews.com/article/biden-classified-documents-trump-side-by-side-fb2c4ebccdbdbb9039c1c5e227b1da53
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/01/biden_just_put_obama_in_a_delightfully_serious_bind.html
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/3810424-biden-lawyers-find-additional-classified-documents-at-wilmington-residence/
Our money in Ukraine and Africa, Sam Brinton's security clearance, the CIA and JFK, gender-neutral Marines, zombies in college, the Uniparty, and why I still have hope.
Sources:
New York Times: Zelenskyy transcript
Council on Foreign Relations: U.S. Aid to Ukraine
Fox News: Ukraine relief in new Defense bill
Axios: Biden sending Patriot Missles
The Conservative Treehouse: Mrs. Zelensky spending binge
Transcript of Biden’s remarks to African leaders
Just the News: Sam Brinton’s tale falls apart.
Daily Caller: Security Implications of Brinton’s lies.
The Washington Free Beacon: Buttigieg in Europe during threatened rail strike
The College Fix: Zombie cultural appropriation
American Thinker/Jay Valentine: Corrupt voting rolls
https://www.freepik.com/free-photo/cute-christmas-background-with-bokeh_19314682.htm#query=christmas&position=6&from_view=search&track=sph
https://www.freepik.com/free-photo/christmas-tree-with-gifts_1011584.htm#page=2&query=christmas%20tree&position=10&from_view=search&track=sph
https://www.freepik.com/free-photo/hebrew-menorah-with-candles-burning_5870245.htm#query=menorah&position=2&from_view=search&track=sph
This is a valiant attempt on my part to look at Kanye's and Dave Chappelle's recent run-ins with claims that they are antisemitic. My conclusions may surprise you.
Unlike all my other podcasts, this podcast gets a content warning because I quote material that contains obscenities.
Links to content cited in the video podcast:
- Bookworm Room: Hollywood Jews and Antisemitism
- The Hollywood Reporter: The 100 most powerful people in Hollywood in 2016
- The Hollywood Reporter: The 100 most powerful people in Hollywood in 2017
- The Hollywood Reporter: The 100 most powerful people in Hollywood in 2019
- The Hollywood Reporter: Executives donate to Democrats
- Pew Research: Size of the U.S. Jewish Population
- Israelly Cool: Why I don't think Dave Chappelle's monologue about Kanye West was antisemitic
- DW.com: The Hollywood pioneers
Colonial Williamsburg, Yorktown, Mount Vernon, Monticello, and Montpelier -- we did them all, and I have opinions. They're mostly positive opinions, but there's one place I found distressing and depressing.
Colonial Williamsburg, Yorktown, Mount Vernon, Monticello, and Montpelier -- we did them all, and I have opinions. They're mostly positive opinions, but there's one place I found distressing and depressing.
In this video podcast, I give my own take on Dobbs and other Supreme Court issues, Uvalde, Marxism, Democrats as the Party of poop, the racist, and fanatically homophilic nature of pricy education in America. Here are the links to which I explicitly refer.
https://www.bookwormroom.com/?s=party+of+poop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=68&v=IfDr9nZAAMk&feature=emb_title
https://www.foxnews.com/us/uvalde-texas-mayor-says-crime-near-daily-police-chases-a-hallmark-of-biden-border-crisis
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/paigeskinner/uvalde-school-shooting-lockdowns
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1539597431779762176
https://gellerreport.com/2022/06/watch-thousands-of-north-african-muslims-ransack-italian-cities-while-chanting-we-own-europe.html/
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/06/thoughts-on-the-dobbs-decision.php
https://www.revolver.news/2022/06/colleges-are-ethnically-cleansing-americas-white-kulaks/
I address hope about politics and climate, our reversion to paganism, lockdowns and what they did, the madness of the transgender crowd, and the Uvalde shooting, with my usual side notes into things I find interesting. Links below
Historic hope: 18th to 19th century England:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4b/The_Rake%27s_Progress_8.jpg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7d/Marriage_A-la-Mode_4%2C_The_Toilette_-_William_Hogarth.jpg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/15/GinLane.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Harlot%27s_Progress#/media/File:Hogarth-Harlot-1.png
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link-boy#/media/File:Cupid_as_Link_Boy_by_Joshua_Reynolds.jpg
https://obsessiveskier.blogspot.com/2008/12/votes-for-sale-bribery-and-corruption.html
Handling emails saying that we’re all going to die from vaccines.
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/expect/after.html
https://www.informedchoiceaustralia.com/post/a-staggering-number-of-athletes-collapsed-this-past-year
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/safety/myocarditis.html
More evidence, if any is needed, that we’re reverting to pagan times:
https://www.bookwormroom.com/2021/01/31/the-west-is-reverting-to-paganism/
https://www.livescience.com/roman-penis-pendant-found-uk
https://www.livescience.com/roman-penis-graffiti-stone-uk
https://pagesix.com/2022/06/13/christina-aguilera-wears-strap-on-during-la-pride-performance/
Yellowstone changes mountain’s name and Mother Nature attacks.
https://nypost.com/2022/06/11/yellowstones-mount-doane-renamed-to-first-peoples-mountain-for-being-offensive/
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10913125/Yellowstone-closes-entrances-unprecedented-flooding.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10919573/Yellowstone-closed-indefinitely-thousand-year-flooding.html
Earth’s magnetic polarity not reversing
https://www.upi.com/Science_News/2022/06/08/earth-magnetic-polarity-not-reversing-PNAS/7321654702819/
For Democrats, lockdowns were anything but useless.
https://instapundit.com/525372/
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/516521-democrats-more-likely-to-mail-in-ballots-early-than-republicans-poll/
Glenn Greenwald and Bradley Manning
https://nypost.com/2022/06/13/chelsea-manning-details-rift-with-dangerous-glenn-greenwald/
“It” people
https://twitter.com/FlorioGina/status/1536752976152432640
Uvalde:
https://www.thenewneo.com/2022/06/11/school-police-chief-arredondo-speaks/
https://piegg.com/blog/2022/05/28/uvalde-school-districts-police-chief-pedro-arredondo-must-resign-after-robb-elementary-massacre-the-daily-beast/
This video offers a snapshot of just how crazy Democrats have become. But don't worry! This is actually good news.
I discuss a little bit of everything about the news of the day: Truckers, federal money for crack pipes, Joe Rogan and the "N" word, and more.
I'm learning a new technology, so this is a wee bit rough, but I cover the need for courage today (with examples), ivermectin madness and government control over healthcare, media lies, the lack of religious liberty in Canada, and Americans' loss of trust in the military.
Here are the articles to which I referred:
https://flconservativevoice.com/powerful-fl-consultant-alex-bruesewitz-being-targeted-by-january-6th-committee/
https://nypost.com/2022/01/15/five-college-students-speak-out-against-campus-wokeness/
https://www.dailywire.com/news/revival-and-reformation-is-needed-canadian-pastors-sound-off-on-new-law-that-threatens-to-criminalize-evangelism
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/hidden-military-documents-reveal-nih-intent-create-sars-cov-2-using-gain-function-research
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/kevindowneyjr/2022/01/16/family-fights-for-ivermectin-for-dying-loved-one-courts-say-no-n1549942
https://www.hfma.org/topics/news/2021/11/cms-finalizes-vaccination-requirements-for-hospitals-and-most-ot.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10408297/AP-FACT-CHECK-Trump-seeds-race-animus-COVID-falsehood.html
https://mises.org/wire/americans-may-finally-be-losing-confidence-woke-military
I'm back after almost five months (2021 was a busy year), and I hit the ground running discussing January 6 and how the Dems are weaponizing it, continued COVID madness, crime in New York, the Tower of Babel which goes along with the leftists' racializing society, gender roles in marriage, and more.
The three big topics I cover are Biden's Afghanistan failures and the left's inability to understand what's going on, COVID vaccine mandates and other pressure for a disease with a greater than 98% survival rate; and gender madness, especially the type that's targeted at children.
The subtitle says it all. Here are the relevant web pages I used:
https://www.dailywire.com/news/for-anyone-saying-i-quit-simone-biles-posts-videos-of-crashing-to-mat
https://nypost.com/2021/03/08/surge-in-covid-positive-migrants-being-released-in-us/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kindertransport
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29665232
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9839755/Parents-oppose-CRT-white-like-Capitol-rioters-says-head-66k-year-DC-school.html
http://www.gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200991h.html
Once again, I give my invariably strong opinions about the day's news, whether it's lying doctors, sports teams renaming themselves, the Olympics, poor Jacob Chansley, Antifa and the NYPD, the myriad failures of the governing left, Jen Psaki's snark, or a wonderful Donald Trump impersonator. Here are links to all the sites on which I relied or to which I cited.
(Also, too late to do anything about it, I remembered the word for the wonder Shawn Farsh is "impersonator" not "imitator.")
Bookworm Room
American Thinker (re the Alabama doctor)
New York Post (re the Cleveland “Guardians”)
Daily Caller (re Olympics)
Newsmax (re Jacob Chansley)
RedState (re Antifa and NYPD)
Andrew Klavan
CNS News (re Jen Psaki)
Shawn Farash on Twitter
This podcast looks at Turning Point USA's decision to ban a porn star from one of its events; the current unattainable COVID policy allowing the government to stay in the driver's seat; the big problem Democrats are going to face with their January 6 prosecutions; why we should be dubious about anything coming from the American Academy of Pediatrics; and how we can all help America through this trying time.
This marks my second attempt at a video podcast and it's still rough around the edges (especially at the end) but you get to hear me opine about social issues and politics, including Critical Race Theory, gender madness, military madness, and more.
After an 18 month hiatus, I decided it was time to start podcasting again. This time, there's a slight twist, which is that I also did a video. (Don't worry, though. You don't need to watch the video to understand the podcast.)
I discovered that I'm amazingly rusty when it comes to the technical aspects of all of this but I can still talk the hind leg off a donkey. Join me as I walk you through the sublime, the ridiculous, and the very serious mental journey I make every morning when I read the news.
I promise that my work will improve with time. My current hope is to produce 2-3 podcasts/videos a week -- but no promise.
This is the companion podcast to my post about the way Bernie and other Democrats seek to end American liberty by imposing gun control.
Just today, I put up a post challenging the gun control that is dear to the hearts of Bernie (the current Democrat candidate of the week) and the other Democrat candidates. I've done a 180 since my younger days, when I too advocated gun control, and I've made this transition because I've learned that the only way a society can remain safe and free is for moral, law-abiding citizens to have the right to arm themselves. This isn't just my opinion. The data is overwhelming.
If you prefer reading to listening, or if you want links to the articles and data I site, please check the companion post, which you'll find here.
Over the past week, I’ve put up two posts about something that really gets my goat, which is the way in which those who contend that it’s possible to change ones gender — that is, to be “transgender” — are leading a very aggressive war against reality. In doing so, they are accidentally or deliberately partnering with Marxists to destroy Western culture. Reality will always win, but that fallout from a society’s break with reality can be terrible.
If you prefer reading to listening, or if you want links to the articles I cite in Part 2 of this two-part podcast, the two posts are:
- J.K. Rowlings’ fallout with the so-called transgender movement is instructive
- An addendum to my previous post about the “transgender” movement
Over the past week, I’ve put up two posts about something that really gets my goat, which is the way in which those who contend that it’s possible to change ones gender — that is, to be “transgender” — are leading a very aggressive war against reality. In doing so, they are accidentally or deliberately partnering with Marxists to destroy Western culture. Reality will always win, but that fallout from a society’s break with reality can be terrible.
If you prefer reading to listening, or if you want links to the articles I cite in Part 1 of this two-part podcast, the two posts are:
- J.K. Rowlings’ fallout with the so-called transgender movement is instructive
- An addendum to my previous post about the “transgender” movement
Faux impeachment proceedings aren't going to help the Democrat Party faithful's deadly lack of enthusiasm; they're paralyzed by their own ineffectiveness.
For three years, Democrat politicians and activists have been promising the party faithful that they'll impeach Trump. Instead, Trump's been going from one success to another, while the Democrats are left with two silly, probably unconstitutional, meaningless articles of impeachment. No wonder Democrats aren't taking to the streets anymore. They're tired, very tired.
Having looked at what Trump and the Republicans stand for in terms of values, practical politics, and long-term goals for America, and compared that to what the Democrats have offer, I've concluded that I'd vote for Trump no matter how awful a person he was (and I don't think he's awful). On all things -- the Constitution, an armed citizenry, binary sexes, the free market, climate, the national debt, immigration, the rule of law -- Trump is not just the lesser of two evils, he's also the greater good.
This podcast reflects ideas set out in the following posts:
The British People Stage A Counter-Coup
Buttigieg’s rise highlights the travesty of the Democrat field
The Horowitz report and impeachment stuff
This podcast takes on a series of several different posts I've written, as well as opening with two new issues:
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The IG Report re the FBI that was released today. (See The IG Report -- The Good, The Bad, & The Questionable.)
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Michelle Obama's wacky comment on the "surreal" impeachment.
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"They Shall Not Grow Old" is returning to theaters; try to see it!
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Movie Review : No Safe Spaces (including my own take on the transgender movement's effect on free speech).
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A strong recommendation that you watch Candace Owens' interview with Taleeb Starkes.
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Slavery, Color of Change, Pinterest, and Plantation Weddings, a look at the cruel history of the world and the beauty that's still left behind.
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Call me callous, but I'm enjoying watching Joe Biden decompensate, in which I explain why I think Biden is suffering from dementia and why I don't care.
In this podcast I discuss the many things for which I am grateful this Thanksgiving. They include friends and family (and the wisdom to attain them), the many blessings of living in America, and my incredible gratitude that Donald Trump is the American president (along with all the reasons why I feel that way).
Although the world applies the terms "Left" and "Right" to the American political scene, those words fail to distinguish American conservatives from the rest of the world's political "Right." We conservatives are different and we're better.
In this podcast I discuss:
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Why Leftism and Islam silence opposing ideas.
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The Left's memory-holding of Eric Ciaramella's name.
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Jeffrey Epstein and John Galt.
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Senators who ought to recuse themselves from impeachment.
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The military coup coming from the Pentagon Obama created.
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Trump's efforts to stop funding foreign kleptocrats.
For links to referenced articles and books, visit the companion post at Bookworm Room.
In this podcast, I discuss:
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How lovely and normal the American Southeast is (plus a riff about historic reenactments)
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The plague of woke K-12 teachers and the ignorance they visit on students, with close looks at Christopher Columbus and Megan Thee Stallion.
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People who foolishly accept as legitimate Leftist assumptions, including Mark Zuckerberg and Ken Cuccinelli.
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The weird class division present in expensive private schools.
See more, including links, at Bookworm Room.
This podcast addresses these ideas:
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The horrible feminization of modern thinking.
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Politicians who want taxpayers to cover student loans ask us to pay something for nothing.
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California's problems remind us that Nature is much bigger than we are and very rapacious.
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The Whistleblower's staunch Leftism.
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Trump reveals the two Americas, as well as the fact that once-conservative NeverTrumpers have to move left in their values to justify Trump hatred in our binary political system.
This podcast addresses:
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The homeless "crisis," which really involves governments using taxpayer dollars to subsidize homelessness.
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The fruits of Obama's military -- one dedicated to social justice and climate change -- reveal themselves in the attacks his high-ranking officers (plus one of Clinton's officers) level at Trump.
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Around the world, the ruling class has nothing but disdain for the people it rules, seeing itself instead as a transnational brotherhood government for like minded people in other governments -- and the people are starting to rebel.
This podcast discusses:
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Tennessee as a haven for American values
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The unending, but often very subtle, anti-Trump lies that media tells about the Russia hoax's inception, it's implementation, and its conclusion.
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No, Hillary will never be president.
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President Michelle?
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Melania does not need to defend her husband.
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The homeless are urban profit centers.
This podcast:
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Explains why I do not believe that "transgenderism" is real.
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Discusses the facts of the James Younger case.
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Explains the lack of science underlying so-called "transgenderism."
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Gives a best guess as to why doctors go along with all this.
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Discusses how promoting transgenderism advances the Left's agenda.
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Talks about the effect of James Younger's travails on politics.
Links to articles discussed in the podcast can be found at Bookworm Room.
In this podcast, I talk about:
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Elizabeth Warren is an economic illiterate, something due in part (I believe) to her academic background.
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Bernie isn't cute, he's evil. (And I explain why.)
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Trump's wisdom vis-a-vis Syria. He's already winning and I quote from people who help you understand why.
In this podcast, I discuss:
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Why I'm not watching tonight's Democrat party presidential debate.
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Why it's fundamentally important that the House vote on opening impeachment hearings.
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Why Americans are better than Europeans (yes, I said it).
In this podcast, I discuss:
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Elizabeth Warren's relationship to Lina Lamont of Singing in the Rain
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Why Modern Art is so bad
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Project Veritas videos about CNN, which report the obvious know but promise zingers in the future
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Radical LGBTQ's long-standing attack on Christianity
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The urban nature of Leftism
In today's podcast, I look at
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The fact that we're living in Groundhog Day
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Trump's vulgarity versus Obama's vulgarity
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Trump's genuine greatness
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Silly Leftist language
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The Leftist impulse to force religion to conform to behaviors incompatible with religion.
Today's podcast looks at President Trump's decision to withdraw American troops from Syria. While many people are upset at the president for doing so, especially because they feel he is abandoning the Kurds, I see him fulfilling a prediction I made more than two years ago.
Back then, I compared Trump's unstated foreign policy agenda to the Wilson Doctrine, which held America responsible for making the world safe for democracy, and the Obama Doctrine, which held Obama responsible for making the world safe from America. I concluded that Trump believes that his primary responsibility is to keep America safe, with a secondary responsibility to help our allies . . . but only up to a point. America's interests must always come first.
Topics:
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Carson King, the "buy my beer" guy who donated the money he received to a children's hospital got doxed by Aaron Calvin, a two-bit reporter for a two-bit newspaper. When good people turned around and doxed Calvin, the two-bit paper fired him. Calvin, instead of learning from his disgraceful behavior promptly cried victim, likening himself to "women and journalists of color." This story is a microcosm of the Democrats who falsely attacked Trump and then, when the tables are turned with the investigations into the origins of the Russia Hoax, began to cry victim at the top of their lungs.
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The Seattle School District, in an effort to raise scores and learning outcomes for its minority students has elected to bath in racial and educational "justice." This means telling students that they are oppressed, beleaguered, abused victims. I don't see this having a good educational outcome.
I'll have a companion (not identical, but similar) post up at Bookworm Room, which will contain links to documents and articles cited in this podcast.
In this podcast, I try to explain to NeverTrumpers that their prejudices are getting in the way of their core values -- and I remind them that, if past presidents had been given daily media colonoscopies, as has been the case for Trump, they'd look pretty gross too.
The starting point for any podcast today has to be Ukraine-gate, but I also throw in the physical dangers to our children because of college insanity and Mattel's new gender neutral dolls.
For more details, check out the accompanying post at Bookworm Room.
A lively Bookworm Beat covering gun control and suicides, Marianne Williamson (the Proggie Id), Justice Kavanaugh, free speech on campus and much more.
To read this instead of listen, please go here.
Socialized medicine is bad and the "moderate" plan to have a public/private hybrid healthcare system only draws out the agony on the road to single payer.
In Scott Adams' Friday podcast, he noted that, while he's aware of many attacks on Bernie's and Warren's "Medicare for All" plan (aka socialized medicine in an already debt-burdened society), he hasn't heard challenges to a slightly different plan coming from others, most notably Biden and Buttigieg. This alternative Democrat healthcare plan promises "free Medicare for everyone who wants it," while allowing those who prefer private insurance to opt-out and buy their own insurance.
To Adams, this second plan sounded kind of like the free market, with insurers competing with the government for customers. If the government could squeeze a low price out of drug manufacturers, Adams posited, wouldn't that mean insurance companies could do so too? He hastened to add that he was just thinking out loud, rather than advocating for this "Medicare for All Lite."
I'm glad Adams was just advocating and not thinking. When you start thinking about it, you realize that this is a recipe for worse care than we have now, plus increasing health care inequality for the American people.
Before going further, I should begin with my two strong biases against socialized medicine, because these biases inform my belief that even a hybrid system is a bad system: My first bias is that I don't believe medical care is a right. I think it's a wonderful thing. I'm tremendously grateful I live in modern times because I didn't die from a massive cyst in my 20s or during childbirth. I'm also not consigned to a wheelchair or in perpetual pain from joint problems, nor am I rendered dysfunctional by chronic migraine syndrome, nor am I legally blind. Modern medicine has been very good to me.
Just because it's good, though, doesn't make it a right. Instead, the blessings of modern medicine are a product of the free market system. In America, the medical field has been given room to grow in extraordinary ways, both in terms of medical and scientific breakthroughs (which overlap, but aren't always the same) and in terms of ease-of-access. That's why those who say we have lousy medical care in America are talking through their hats.
On the subject of the quality of care in America, as Scott Atlas wrote in an article that should be required reading in every American high school and college, America has the best medical outcomes in the world. To conclude the opposite, you have to game the statistics in one of two ways. The first is to give a high value to factors other than a good medical outcome. This means arguing that the best medical care means seeing a doctor for free, even if it's after an interminable wait and even if you die unnecessarily, are euthanized, live in constant pain, or otherwise never get any meaningful treatment. The second is to lie about the economic cost, as Elizabeth Warren did with her faulty, shoddy study that grossly overestimated medical bankruptcies.
But back to the point about healthcare being "a right." Traditionally, in America, rights are freedoms inherent in all people and have nothing to do with government. Rights aren't given by government; they need to be protected from government.
The only way to protect an inherent right is to amend the Constitution to state explicitly that "X" is a right inherent in all people, separate from government. Progressives talking about "rights" should therefore agitate for a 28th Amendment saying, simply, "Americans have a right to healthcare."
The problem is that this amendment wouldn't achieve Progressive goals. Enshrining the "right" to medical care in the Constitution means only that state and federal governments cannot prevent Americans from seeking healthcare. The Amendment, if it existed, could not impose on the taxpayer the obligation to pay for everyone else's healthcare in a government-run system.
To read the whole thing, please go here.
If listening to Trump irks you, stop listening and start focusing on his accomplishments. Then do the same for the Dem candidates. Then vote for Trump.
When I'm bored, I watch video compilations showing how to do things better. Each video has 20-30 clips showing clever tricks for doing anything better (cleaning, packing, cooking, etc.). The videos are "show and tell," without narration, but with a music soundtrack. These soundtracks are always horrible.
This video, viewed over 270,000,000 times, shows both the useful information and the horrible music.
The bad music doesn't make me avoid the content. Instead, I mute the music.
There’s a point to his seemingly irrelevant anecdote: When NeverTrumpers start wittering on about about Trump's latest bombastic tweet or speech, or another act of boastful puffery, I want to tell them to do as I do with my life-hacking videos: Turn off the sound and just focus on the content -- the content, in this case, being his achievements in office.
It occurred to me that this would be an interesting test to apply as well to the top Democrat candidates, each of whom functions at three different levels: (1) Promises to the base; (2) personal style; and (3) actual accomplishments.
To learn more, go to Bookworm Room -- or listen to this podcast.
I'm not normally focused on or inspired by the thought of chicken sex, but a video out of Spain about roosters raping hens changed all that.
A friend and I play a game. He sends me headlines and asks me to guess whether they're real headlines about actual events or satirical headlines from sites such as the Babylon Bee. Showing both how crazy the Left has become and just how darn good the Babylon Bee is, I'm wrong at least half the time.
This post/podcast is about the most recent headline my friend showed me: "Vegan activists separate chickens from cockerels on Spanish farm 'so the hens aren't raped' because they do not give 'consent' in video released by 'anti-specist [sic], transfeminist' group."
"Definitely Babylon Bee," I said.
"Nope," he replied. "It's from the Daily Mail. It's real."
According to the Daily Mail, a Catalanian Spanish-language vegan group called Almas Veganas (translated as Vegan Souls) released the video. But I do the group an injustice. It's not just about veganism. Instead, its members are also "anti-speciesist" and "transfeminist."
Read the rest (and watch the video) here.
The American college has lost its way. Saving it requires removing all taxpayer funds and refocusing the mission on high-level, job-based skills.
Several people have emailed me the link to Victor Davis Hanson’s latest article at American Greatness, entitled From Icon to Just a Con. It’s about the downfall of America’s colleges and universities.
My friends have sent the link to me because, if they’ve followed my blog over the last 15 years, they know that it’s peppered with my disdain, disrespect, dislike, and sometimes downright hatred for education in America, from elementary school to post-graduate degrees.
When my kids were younger, after I transferred them from a Montessori school to public school, my attacks were aimed at a few specific issues. The first was that their teachers were, with almost no exceptions, young, pretty, good-natured . . . and totally moronic women, none of whom knew nothing outside of their teaching manuals.
(To read more of this content, and to find videos and hyperlinks, go here.)
Help me develop a polite, persuasive argument to challenge a young friend of mine who has bought into the media narrative about right-wing extremism.
I have a young friend — my children’s age — who is an extremely bright, thoughtful, and (so he believes) informed young man who wants to pursue a graduate degree in politics and terrorism. His biggest concern is “right-wing extremism in America.”
When I first heard this, my initial impulse was to say, “That’s just wrong. It’s a stupid Leftist lie. You’re being brainwashed. If you want to make a difference in the world, tackle left-wing extremism.”
Fortunately, I’ve finally figured out that insulting people is not the way to get them to agree with you. There are better persuasion techniques. Because I respect my young friend’s intelligence, I want to take some time to assemble an argument that will present data in a way that challenges his beliefs without insulting his intelligence. This post represents the first draft of that email.
Maybe it’s my legal training, but I believe that one of the best ways to challenge an argument is to start by identifying bias, both my own and the bias of the person(s) advocating the opposite view. I’ve been open with my friend about my bias. My problem is to convince him that the media from which he gets his ideas about right-wing extremism is biased too. Very biased.
The other day on his podcast, Andrew Klavan played two videos, one of the media celebrating Trump’s anticipated downfall and the other celebrating Obama’s allegedly scandal-free presidency. In both videos, raw partisanship is on display. The video below is Andrew Klavan’s show, which I’ve queued up to those back-to-back videos, starting at 19:15:
[To read the rest, rather than listening to the podcast, please go here.]
Though slavery was awful, for today's American blacks what would have been even worse was an absence of the slavery that brought them to these shores.
My co-blogger, Wolf Howling, has already written two excellent posts savaging the shoddy scholarship and evil motives behind the New York Times' 1619 Project. He's right, of course, but that hasn't stopped the project from benefiting from the fact that the Times, while it no longer even makes a pretense of reporting news (instead it works as a Democrat propaganda arm), still has a disproportionate reach into American minds. For example, at Twitter, Stu Cvrk does a quick rundown of the Times' decades'-long control over American newsrooms, a power it still holds today -- as can be seen from the fact that USA Today has already published its own echo of the 1619 project.
Even the meanest intellect can understand the message that the Times' and its fellow travelers are pushing: Americans cannot hide behind the Constitution to claim that they are a society founded on a great and colorblind idea (albeit one that was imperfectly implemented for a long time). Instead, from the moment Europeans set foot on America's shores, they brought with them an evil so great that America is irredeemably corrupt. And of course, the proggies know the only way to purge that corruption: America must be destroyed and rebuilt in a socialist mold. ***
Read the full companion post, complete with all hyperlinks, here.
In this podcast, I'll take you on a very quick journey through Stone Age and Roman History to remind you that a pre-modern, pre-Judeo-Christian, pre-Bill of Rights world was a terribly violent place. One of the horrors of the modern era is that the Leftists, in their push for power, are trying to return us to that violent tribal worldview.
If you want to see the full written version of this podcast, you can find it here.
Back in the day, the mainstream media would probably have castigated Israel for refusing to admit Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar. Nowadays, though, thanks to the internet -- and despite Leftist control over search engines and social media -- ordinary people have a much louder voice than before and can still counter the media's very bad ideas.
Also, the New York Times is arguing that slavery made America and that slavery is interwoven, in the worst way, in America's soul. This is just plain wrong.
If you don't have the patience to listen to this podcast, the companion post to this podcast develops the above ideas at greater length here.
For a full written version of this podcast, go to Bookworm Room.
The short version is that Elizabeth Warren is not only a pedestrian thinker, she is a hardcore socialist. When one looks at the history of socialism -- as I do in this podcast -- one can see that it has failed wherever its been implemented, whether by killing tens of millions of people, bringing starvation and terror in its wake, or just destroying freedom and initiative by inches. That's a terrible deal for America.
The great danger of riptides is the fact that you don't realize you're drifting further and further from shore. In American politics, Leftists and, of late, NeverTrumpers have inexorably been drifting further and further from the shore of sanity, rationality, and national security. I discuss that drift in today's politics -- how it happened, what it means, and whether there's hope for it to stop.
You can read more here.
Although there is no real news out there right now (the economy is chugging along, the world is relatively stable), the 24-hour internet, corporate media, and social media keep churning out fantasies that aren't even closely related to reality.
This podcast looks at five exhibits highlighting how far removed American news is from actual news and how dangerously its perverting our political discourse.
For more about the podcast's content, as well as links for the material cited in the podcast, you can find a full post here.
When it comes to mass shootings, guns are a tool, not a reason. In this podcast, I run through the reasons behind mass shootings:
Violent rhetoric permeating our culture (mostly from the Left)
Fatherlessness
Attacks on men as toxic and evil
Loss of respect for life as seen in abortion, rejection of the death penalty for murder, and the end of our anthropocentric world view in favor of a Marxist, Gaia-ist world view.
The de-institutionalization of the mentally ill
The reliance on drugs to treat normal boy energy and genuine mental illness.
Put these all together and you've got a powerful brew of nihilism, anger, and madness.
In this podcast, I spent a little time talking about our Bill of Rights, which constrains the government in favor of liberties naturally inherent in all people. Of these liberties, the Second Amendment is one of the most important. I discuss too the lack of imagination that has Progressives see only the relatively small number who die from guns, versus the very large number of people whose lives are saved by guns.
Finally, I discuss the way in which the Left is making thought crimes an issue. Leftists impute racist thought crimes to Trump and then seek to punish them. In doing so, they ignore that Truman, one America's more righteous leaders was a racist who integrated the U.S. Military Forces and an anti-Semite who supported the founding of the state of Israel. In other words, people can put principles ahead of prejudices. Trump's record shows that, even if we pretend solely for the sake of argument that he's a racist, there is nothing racist about his governance.
In the wake of mass shootings in Texas and Ohio, we need to remember that the Second Amendment still protects us against the greatest killer of all: government. The change in our society shouldn't be about guns; it needs to be about morality. We've reverted to a neo-paganism that devalues human life, leaving us more open to mass shootings. Lastly, I suggest that simply being kind may be something of an antidote to the alienation that seems to drive some shooters.
In this podcast:
Michelle Obama, please save us Michael Moore thinks Michelle Obama is the Democrats' only hope.
Reasoning: people like her – it’s a popularity contest.
Doesn’t point to any major accomplishments. Can’t.
Until Obama, presidents were expected to have accomplished things before presidency.
It's a new aristocracy. The old aristocracy held you're entitled to office by birth; the new aristocracy holds you're entitled to office by membership in the Leftist elite
Tulsi is another generic Leftist Tulsi is lovely to look at and has proven that she can strike like a rattlesnake. Her military record makes her appealing to centrists and, unlike the other vet on the stage, she lacks the anger and LGBTQ baggage Buttigieg.
The thing is, though, she's just a generic leftist in policy.
Supports socialized medicine, although she pays lip service to some form of private insurance.
Wants to force American taxpayers to fully fund community and two year colleges and to pay for “middle-class students” at public universities, seeding generations of new, government-funded Leftists.
Supports unlimited abortion – supported 2013’s “Women’s Health Protection Act” which would have removed all state mandated limits on abortion.
Generic greenie
On race, voted yes on the “Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals.”
On immigration, talks tough about security but really wants to give a free pass to people already in the country illegally, giving hope to millions more to come here illegally.
On national security, like Trump, Tulsi is anti-Wilson doctrine. Because she's like Trump, why not stick with him?
Old ladies still have to follow the rule of law Story out of Garfield Heights, Ohio, about a 79 year old woman being sent to jail for 10 days for feeding stray cats.
Feeding feral cats is not innocuous. Feral cats have lots of nasty diseases, they kill birds, and the food you put out for them brings in other animals, such as rats and raccoons.
Just because you’re a cute little old lady doesn’t mean the law doesn’t apply to you.
Show notes:
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All led with emotions – and some never left them. It was always about the children – Latin American children, never American.
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Kamala is good when she’s in an offensive position and dreadful when she’s in a defensive position. In other words, she can handle herself when she’s been prepped, but falls apart when she’s blindsided, as she was by Tulsi.
a) Sounds both bored and condescending.
b) Healthcare is a NOT right.
c) Described every summer camp ever.
I went to a place in Florida called Homestead, and there is a private detention facility being paid for by your taxpayer dollars, a private detention facility that currently houses 2,700 children.
And by the way, there were members of us -- Julian was there, members of Congress, they would not let us enter the place, members of the United States Congress. So I walked down the road, I climbed a ladder, and I looked over the fence. And I'm going to tell you what I saw. I saw children lined up single file based on gender being walked into barracks.
- Biden is haunted by the “sleepy Joe” tag Trump hung on him. Biden just made going to prison a better option than trying for a college scholarship.
Right now, we're in a situation where, when someone is convicted of a drug crime, they end up going to jail and to prison. They should be going to rehabilitation. They shouldn't be going to prison. When in prison, they should be learning to read and write and not just sit in there and learn how to be better criminals.
And when they get out of prison, they should be in a situation where they have access to everything they would have had before, including Pell grants for education, including making sure that they're able to have housing, public housing, including they have all the opportunities that were available to them because we want them to become better citizens.
Radical: Biden wants to imprison law-abiding businessmen for disagreeing with him: “we should put some of these insurance executives who totally oppose my plan in jail for of the $9 billion opioids they sell out there.”
- Inslee is a climate monomaniac. It’s sad, really. No, I take it back. It’s scary that he’s the avatar of too many indoctrinated Leftists. (This indoctrination, BTW, is why Dems want to funnel all Americans into college.)
Also funny to hear him tout criminal justice reform in Washington when you think about Seattle.
- Gillibrand touts herself as the “white privilege translator.”
I think as a white woman of privilege, who is a U.S. senator, running for president of the United States, it is also my responsibility to lift up those voices that aren't being listened to.
And I can talk to those white women in the suburbs that voted for Trump and explain to them what white privilege actually is, that when their son is walking down a street with a bag of M&Ms in his pocket, wearing a hoodie, his whiteness is what protects him from not being shot.
When his - when her - when their child has a car that breaks down, and he knocks on someone's door for help, and the door opens, and the help is given, it's his whiteness that protects him from being shot. That is what white privilege in America is today. And so, my responsibility's to only lift up those stories, but explain to communities across America, like I did in Youngstown, Ohio, to a young mother, that this is all of our responsibilities, and that together we can make our community stronger.
Does it not occur to her that if WP is such a problem, every candidate who is white needs to withdraw immediately from the race?
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