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[WIRE] "So why do you think that the West has lost its way?" Shapiro asked. "There are a lot of people who posit that it’s a loss of religious faith. There are a lot of people who posit that in the aftermath of the Vietnam War, the West basically has no confidence in its own ability to shape the world. But where do you place the blame for the West having lost its confidence?"
"It’s both. But I think that the loss of faith and the loss of faith in the Christian core," Ali said, adding. "I think that is a very, very important point that was neglected and maybe so neglected to the point where we literally are on the brink of losing everything."
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If you have hostile forces gnawing away at God, family, long established institutions, religion, education, culture, history, and individual rights as elucidated in the Constitution, you end up with nothing of any worth.
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Y'all complain about liberal policies in the churches but if you were there you might be able to steer the church in a more conservative direction. If you're not there, well, you know about the people who have taken over the universities.
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[PJ] "If I am brutally honest, the only realistic way I see emissions falling as fast as they need to, to avoid catastrophic #climate breakdown, is the culling of the human population by a pandemic with a very high fatality rate."
Professor Bill McGuire is a well-known vulcanologist and climate scientist who doesn't care much for humanity.
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The entire world is about to go through a huge population decline over the last half of this century as the collapsing fertility rates catches up. So we are already culling ourselves.
But if the professor wants it done faster I can start with him and his family. Seems only fair.
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He's right, we should start with HamAss and ALL their supporters, then the gender studies departments at all colleges, followed by anyone crossing our borders illegally and finally with the so called MSM. Once that's done we can start expanding it outward to things like the cartels and communist countries.
Did you notice that it took just a little bit of internal chaos to alert the Party of Chaos that maybe chaos wasn’t the greatest thing to be the party of? Something went awry the past two weeks when thousands of creamy coeds on every campus across America donned the keffiyeh and, in effect, demanded submission to history’s most notorious misogynist cult. It struck a most cacophonous chord among progressives, like Kumbaya as orchestrated by Karlheinz Stockhausen. To awaken from Wokery, you see, is a brutal shock to the brain.
And so, over the weekend every big dog in the Democratic Party’s doghouse came out barking against the current direction of the Democratic Party — that is, over an electoral cliff, lemming-style. Bill Clinton lamented at the Milken Conference that “the political rewards of grievance politics and name-calling and being negative have been so immense that nobody could give’em up. That’s what this whole shebang has come down to now.”
James Carville had a veritable nervous breakdown on X: “It’s going the wrong way, it’s not working. Everything we’re throwing is spaghetti at a wall, and none of it is sticking, me included.” Fareed Zakaria over on CNN confessed that “None of this is playing out the way I thought it would.” Gee, really?
None of them could bring themselves to actually name the doddering donkey in the room, “Joe Biden.” Nor did they dare call out the stage manager behind the old Joe-from-Scranton show, Barack Obama, not exactly coasting into his fourth term, as expected. They’re all surprised the way things are turning out. And, of course, “JB” himself did not come out of his Rehoboth Beach hidey-hole after declaring no more bullets and missiles for you, Israel, which landed amongst the Party’s donor class like a tear-gas bomb.
[FoxNews] 'We're ready and we will absolutely find you, hunt you down, and charge you to force the extent of the law,' the sheriff said about criminals in his state.
Florida sheriffs have been making headlines of late for their no-nonsense approach amid liberal cities being accused of enacting pro-criminal policies such as eliminating cash bail and reducing incarceration. The Lee County sheriff is no exception.
Sheriff Carmine Marceno, originally in New York, is taking a hard line on criminals thinking they can "play" in his county, warning he will "hunt" them down. The sheriff blasted liberal cities for trying to tip toe around taking a hard line on criminal behavior.
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[Federalist] Finding out that my child was going to die was a jarring experience. The doctor saw the problem with our baby and turned off the ultrasound.
"This baby has no chance of survival." So much for the bedside manner.
I was reminded of him, and my baby, this weekend when my husband and I went on a grocery run before dinner. On the way home, we noticed a note tucked under the windshield wiper. We pulled over to read it. I was shocked, saddened, and angry. Hastily scribbled on the back half of a paper bag, it read:
My baby was born with a broken heart. It was supposed to be survivable but it wasn’t. The few un-sedated hours of his life were full of violence. Needles and chest compressions and bright light and yelling. The first time I held him, it was as he died. The second and final time I held him was when he was frozen in the funeral home. I wish every day that I had chosen to spare him by letting him go at 20 weeks. That would have been the most humane & loving thing I could have done.
Now, my bumper stickers make it clear that I am pro-life, so I suppose it’s fair game for anyone who wishes to leave a note. But this one really got to me.
This woman’s note said she wished she had ended her child’s life at 20 weeks. I imagine this was the point at which she was shown an ultrasound revealing her baby’s heart defect. I say this because my 17-week ultrasound is when I learned my baby had "no chance."
I was told to come in the next week to have further tests done on the baby to see if his kidneys were functioning enough for him to survive. That day happened to be Good Friday in 1994. And sure enough, his kidneys were not functioning.
[DM] Vladimir Putin has fired his bungling defence minister and replaced him with a 'puppet' with zero military experience in a wide-ranging reshuffle of his most senior cronies. Putin sacked his longtime friend Sergei Shoigu, 68, and instead shifted him into the role of secretary of Russia's national security council. Reports say he has proposed little-known civilian economist Andrey Belousov, 65, to replace Shoigu as defense minister in his new government. Kremlin press spokesman Dmitry Peskov, explaining the timing of the decision, said it needed the defence ministry to stay 'innovative' and better utilise defence expenditures to win in Ukraine.
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The CA attorney General said he is building cases to sue Trump the minute he gets in office. In his words, in order to use the legal system to block every Trump action as president.
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^ Rob Bonta is a Dem partisan (former Pol) hack. The good thing is he's also incompetent
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05/13/2024 10:26 Comments ||
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After the prosecution finishes with Michael Cohen, their last witness, the defense will move for a directed verdict of not guilty.
Let's see what the judge does not.
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#2, the Biden Precedent allows the executive to ignore judicial fiats.
[HT Insty] Like every time the original news affirms the favored (or dictated) narrative of the presstitutes and mediatamites, the original story is trumpeted (or tromboned? ;)) far and wide on Page A1 , even when absurd and/or libelous on its face — then the correction or rectification gets printed on the new media equivalent of Page B39.
In this case, they have been loudly and uncritically repeating the 30,000+ civilian deaths figure put out by HamaSS. (Some right-leaning papers hedge by pointing out the source and saying this cannot be verified independently.) The United Nebbich too has been taking these figures at face value (at least in public). Useful idiots of radical Islam, judeophobes, and deluded fools keep citing the 30,000+ figure in support of absolutely baseless claims of (a lawyer pointed this out to me) the one crime that they hope they can drag things into the International Clownshow Criminal Court.
Marc Lawrence on Quora mentioned this in passing, so I looked around for a source. Yes, none other than the UN (!) has walked back and revised the statistics downward by 50%:
The United Nations Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) revised its child fatality figure from the Gaza war sharply downward, reporting more than 14,500 deaths on May 6 but then 7,797 on May 8. OCHA also revised downward its figure for women fatalities from more than 9,500 deaths to 4,959 deaths. The Jerusalem Post first reported the changes on May 11.
The UN attributed its original, higher figures to the Hamas-controlled Government Media Office (GMO) in Gaza, whose figures OCHA has cited continually for the past two months. The UN gave no source for the lower figures in its May 8 update, but the figures precisely match those in a May 2 report from a different Hamas-controlled organization, the Gaza Ministry of Health.
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In early April, the Gaza Ministry of Health admitted it had “incomplete data” to document more than 10,000 of the deaths it had previously reported. Subsequently, the ministry indicated that it did not have names for more than 10,000 of the individuals it claimed to be deceased. As of April 1, the ministry also stopped repeating the claim it made since the first weeks of the war that 70 percent of the dead were women and children, even suggesting the media invented this number. Meanwhile, the GMO continues to promote the 70 percent figure while revising its own numbers upwards, to remain consistent with that claim.
Read the whole thing. The revised numbers are roughly in the same ballpark as unofficial Israeli estimates, by the way. Which in fact, given that some 9,000+ HamaSS Einsatzkommandos “combatants” have been killed, implies an impressively low civilian:combatant kill ratio for asymmetric warfare[*] in dense urban environments.
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I guess Biden will have to sell those bombs after all.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Government provided, voluntary systems are simply not working. 
