War against Americans: No wonder even FDR opposed federal employee unions

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IRS union endorses Kamalla “because she shares our values”.

Fox News contributor Jason Chaffetz warned of the Biden-Harris administration’s further plans to expand the IRS, writing in a September Fox News op-ed, "Now, the Biden-Harris administration’s 2025 budget proposal calls for an additional $104 billion for the IRS. That’s eight times the annual budget, just two years after Congress appropriated an amount that was seven times the agency’s annual budget. What is going on here?" 

I don't care how privileged college students spend their post-adolescent years; I do care that they and our betters expect the rest of us to pay for their frivolity

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Ivy League Idiocy: Barnard Offers ‘Queer Caribbean Critique’ Course

Barnard’s “AFRS BC3021” or “Queer Caribbean Critique” course, worth “4.00 points,” will apparently lead students down a magical path of glorifying homosexual licentiousness and hating Europeans. Below is the jargon-laced description of this course:

This seminar analyzes the different critical approaches to studying same-sex desire in the Caribbean region. The region’s long history of indigenous genocide, colonialism, imperialism, and neo-liberalism, have made questions about “indigenous” and properly “local” forms of sexuality more complicated than in many other regions. In response, critics have worked to recover and account for local forms of same-sex sexuality and articulated their differences in critical and theoretical terms outside the language of “coming out” and LGBT identity politics. On the other hand, critics have emphasized how outside forces of colonialism, imperialism, and the globalization of LGBT politics have impacted and reshaped Caribbean same-sex desires and subjectivities. This course studies these various critical tendencies in the different contexts of the Anglophone, Francophone, Hispanophone, and Dutch Caribbean

Tuition at Bernard is $67,602, plus fees.

Tampon Tim breaks convention and tells the truth, then ruins it by lying about Project 2025. Still, it's a pretty good try for a congenital, prevaricating socialist

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"If you're stupid, and not a smarty, you'll come and join the Nazi party — otherwise, you know what to do."

(Full quote: “It doesn’t have to be this way. We can’t afford four more years of this.”)

Walz on the stump

The NYT seems determined to retain its title of worst, most sycophantic major newspaper in the world

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As American suck-ups held a concert to celebrate the 100th birthday of Jimmy Carter, this county’s runner-up to Joe Biden as worst president in our history, the Times reports on his accomplishments:

“In many ways, the concert “mirrored the scope and ambitions of the man it was celebrating: Global and idealistic in its reach, but firmly planted in Georgia, molded by religious and cultural traditions as well as the rich but complicated history of the rural South.”

Robert Spencer begs to differ:

Accomplishments? During his one term as president, Carter fought the “energy crisis” by scolding Americans for using too much energy and overseeing a proliferation of government regulation in order to make Americans become more energy-conscious and less wasteful. But the whole endeavor was built on sand: there was actually no energy crisis. The world’s oil reserves did not run out in the 1980s, as had been predicted, and not because Carter saved the day by winning what he called the “moral equivalent of war.”

Carter only made the real problem worse: oil companies were so beset with restrictions and regulations that they couldn’t take adequate steps to find new oil supplies. Carter’s successor, Ronald Reagan, changed that, and the days of the energy crisis were over, at least until apocalyptic climate hysteria of a different kind became the centerpiece of later Democratic presidents’ efforts to assert even more federal control over the lives of Americans.

The Department of Education is another Carter failure. Despite pouring tens of billions into U.S. public schools, student performance has not improved; just the opposite has happened. Even worse, the federal bureaucrats who oversee the Department of Education have created national standards and curricula that are marred by a pronounced leftist bias. This has taken the form today of a manic attention to race and diversity, at the expense of giving children a basic education. 

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Meanwhile, the Iranian hostage crisis, as well as the abject failure and apparent amateurishness of the rescue operation, epitomized the Carter administration’s impotence in the face of repeated provocations from the nascent Islamic Republic of Iran. In a very real sense, Jimmy Carter is the Father of the Islamic Republic of Iran, a rogue regime that still viciously oppresses its own people while allying with and financing jihad terror groups around the world.

 Only Old Joe Biden has now ensured that Carter will not be thought of as our worst president ever. So what were these people celebrating? Why are “celebrities” usually on the wrong side of every issue? If Jimmy Carter was a great president, the nation sure could use some bad ones.

Modern Journalism: “She's not Trump; neither we nor the masses have a need to know more.”

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Don't ask, don't tell, be happy, citizen

MSNBC's Stephanie Ruhle on Kamala Harris Avoiding Interviews —

Brett Stevens: … My fear is that she doesn't really have a very good command of what she wants to do as president.

It would be great for her to sit down with you, or George Stephanopoulos, or you Stephanie. 

It's not too much to ask Kamala 'Are you for a Palestinian state, if Hamas is going to run that state?'"

Stephanie Ruhle: "If you don't like her answer, are you going to vote for Trump? Kamala Harris is not running for perfect, she is running against Trump.

We have two choices. There are some things that you might not know her answer too.

In 2024, we know exactly what Trump will do, who he is, and the kind of threat he is to democracy."

Bret Stephens: "The problem that a lot of people have with Kamala is that we don't know her answer to anything."

Ruhle: "But you know his answer to everything."

Stephens: "People also are expected to have some idea of what the program that you're supposed to vote for.

I don't think it's a lot to ask for her to sit down for a real interview."

Ruhle: "When you move to Nirvana, I'll be your next door neighbor. We don't live there."

Israel sabotages pagers ordered by a terrorist group specifically for use in coordinating terrorist attacks ? DAMN those sneaky Jews!

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How it's properly done, using UN-approved tactics

Weaponizing Pagers Violates International Law and May Be a War Crime, UN Rights Chief Says

Volker Türk, the U.N. high commissioner for human rights, claims that the pager attacks using Hezbollah electronics not only "violated international human rights law" but also appear to violate international humanitarian law’s key principles in carrying out attacks: "distinction between civilians and combatants, proportionality, and precautions."

“We need only look at the Palestinian freedom fighters’ tactics to see the difference here” , Mr. Türk explained to FWIW. “Hamas and Hezbollah do make a distinction between civilians and combatants: they target only the former. The October 6 massacre? Young music lovers only — the few Israeli soldiers who died were accidental deaths, unfortunate victims who happened to be where they weren’t supposed to be, attending a music festival when they should have been in their barracks.

“The same principle was followed when the Hezbollah shot randomly-aimed Iranian rockets into that Druze playground killed 12 children — no Jew soldiers there, so any deaths were expected to be, and were, Druze civilians, wherever the rockets found them. This is how war is properly conducted; openly, not by using sneaky tricks .

“And look: even your country’s most distinguished statesmen agree with us. Your Bernie Sanders and Miss Occasionally- Cortez have labeled this a war crime, a violation of the international law that prohibits the humiliation and embarrassment of enemy combatants. They demand an investigation, we demand more — we demand justice for Ahmad and his brothers in terror!”

Kampalla FINALLY reveals her foreign policy strategy: "You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs". That sounds tough, but you’ll have to elect her to find out the rest of her “thinking”.

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If we thought you needed to know any more, we'd have told you. now shut up and vote

Cooking host Padma Lakshmi: Harris’ culinary skills ‘might say even more about her success as a leader’

The TV host, chef and actress wrote in a New York Times column, 'I want a president who is intent on nurturing and nourishing all Americans'

This is the (only) kind of coverage of Harris’s campaign that the Times is providing its readers this year. Many decades ago, the paper had a reputation as a legitimate, serious source of news; that hasn’t been true for a long time, if it ever were. See, eg, Duranty, Walter, and Stalin’s Holodomor, 1930-1933.

The inmates have taken over the zoo

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Howling mad! Fury as school allows pupil suffering from 'species dysphoria' to identify as a WOLF

A British schoolchild has been officially allowed to identify as a wolf, the Mail can reveal.

The secondary-school pupil is said to suffer from 'species dysphoria', which is when someone claims their body belongs to a different species.

Teachers are said to be supporting the youngster.

Growing numbers of schoolchildren are said to be taking on the personalities of creatures including foxes, dragons, birds, snakes, sharks and even dinosaurs.

However, clinical neuropsychologist Dr Tommy MacKay insisted last night: 'There is no such condition in science as 'species dysphoria'. It's not surprising that we are seeing this in an age when many people want to identify as something other than they are.

'Now we have a council which appears to accept at face value that a child identifies as a wolf, rather than being told to snap out of it and get to grips with themselves, which would be the common-sense approach.'

Confirmation of the first-known case in Scotland in which a school has recognised that a pupil identifies as an animal was revealed in official documents.

The local authority said the pupil belonged to a group who called themselves 'furries' and identified with 'animal persona'. The council said it offered 'personal support' and 'more specific support' from a 'wellbeing worker', including counselling and help with learning, adding: 'There is very little specific guidance on species dysphoria.'

When I was very young — 2 1/2? 3? — I had a game that I played, where, upon awakening, I would declare to my mommy what animal I was that day, and insist that she play along. “Chrissy, breakfast is ready”, she might call, but I’d refuse to respond, so she’d try again: “Mr. Tiger, your breakfast is here”, and I’d toddle off to the kitchen to get fed (I assume I ate oatmeal, rather than raw meat, but the memory is dim).

I’m told I kept that game going for much of one entire summer, but then stopped. If I hadn’t, if I’d truly believed I was a tiger, or lion, or an ant eater, my parents would have hustled me off to a child psychiatrist for immediate treatment. Today, I’d be encouraged to continue my fantasy, and my delusion would be reinforced by my teachers and society; hell, I could probably announce that I was a girl these days, and still be applauded. Is that crazy, or what?