Mary Alice

[America's Newsroom @AmericaNewsroom]

🚨 @DanaPerino asks @FrancescaHongWI point-blank if she's a dues-paying member of the Democratic Socialists of America. Listen to her answer ⬇️👀

@FoxNews

[Giorgia Meloni @GiorgiaMeloni]

Le immagini che arrivano da Ceuta sono impressionanti e dimostrano, ancora una volta, che l’immigrazione clandestina fuori controllo rappresenta una minaccia concreta per la sicurezza dei confini europei.

Mi sono confrontata con il Ministro dell’Interno Matteo Piantedosi. L’Italia non resterà a guardare. Stiamo convocando gli organismi preposti, e all'esito di queste riunioni siamo pronti a intervenire anche con strumenti straordinari per difendere i confini e la sicurezza dei cittadini, come la sospensione dello spazio Schengen con la Spagna.

Sull’immigrazione clandestina non arretreremo di un millimetro: difendere i confini, fermare i trafficanti di esseri umani e garantire rimpatri efficaci continuerà a essere la linea di questo Governo.

[Answers4Sean 🇨🇦 @Answers4Sean]

Spending time with Sean.
17 years old.
My only son.
😭😭😭🤡
He was told safe and effective.

[Samuel Culper 🇻🇦🇺🇸 @Samuel84170104]

@PhrogPollen I was an atheist for the first 25 years of my life. I was never taught about religion growing up. I converted because I was convinced by rational argument by then Fr. Robert Barron, now Bishop Robert Barron, and others.

To my mind Christianity is the most logical conclusion.

[Rep. Don Bacon 🇺🇸✈️🏍️⭐️🎖️ @RepDonBacon]

Anthony Fauci tried to squash that COVID was a lab leak. When the COVID news started, Congress was briefed by the Administration that it was likely a lab leak. Then Fauci tried to say it’s not the case. Now, most agencies think it was a lab leak from Wuhan. Fauci owes us answers.

[Chris Stigall @ChrisStigall]

Spent the evening at the Platte County Fair, the longest continuously running fair west of the Mississippi, now celebrating its 163rd year.

It was a hot one, so I did my part to support the local 4-H kids by buying enough water to fill a fish tank! I also caught the tractor pull and couldn’t help but think there was a Democrat in sight with those engines! 😂

County fairs are one of the best parts of North Missouri. They’re where neighbors gather, traditions are passed down, and the next generation of farmers and leaders get their start.

[Political Polls @PpollingNumbers]

Several Democrats are embracing "America First" amid Trump's war with Iran, Axios reports.

🔵 El Sayed: "I'm the most America First candidate in the country, proudly."

🔵 Ro Khanna: "Another war in the Middle East is not America First."

🟡 Dan Osborn: "We need to be putting America first, not Israel first."

[Rep. Don Bacon 🇺🇸✈️🏍️⭐️🎖️ @RepDonBacon]

This is a total distortion of the bill. It tasks US and Israel to coordinate and share info on technology. That’s what we do with Allies. So now Osborne is taking an anti-Israel line, and sounding like Platner and Mamdani. His true colors are starting to shine bright.

[Brinker Harding @BrinkerHarding]

Team Brinker had a great day at the Gretna Days Parade! Thank you to our incredible volunteers who showed up to represent, and to the Gretna community for the warm welcome!

[Dr Jordan B Peterson @jordanbpeterson]

This is the first long-form piece I've written in a year:

Why this topic? Because, for starters, 250,000 girls were raped. Unimaginable and appalling though that is—the reality is much worse:

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

141 years ago today, on July 23, 1885, Ulysses S. Grant died at 63.

Most people know him as the general who won the Civil War and the two term president on the fifty dollar bill. Almost nobody knows how his story actually ended, and it's one of the most quietly heroic things in American history.

Start with the fact that "Ulysses S. Grant" was never even his name. He was born Hiram Ulysses Grant. When he got to West Point, a congressman filled out the paperwork wrong and wrote him down as Ulysses S. Grant. The S stood for nothing at all. Grant just shrugged and kept it for the rest of his life. Later, when he forced a Confederate fort to give up with no conditions, soldiers said the U.S. stood for "Unconditional Surrender."

Here's the strange thing though. Before the war, Grant was a failure at nearly everything he tried. He flopped at farming. He flopped at real estate. By his late thirties he was working as a clerk in his father's leather goods store, hauling hides for his younger brothers. Then the war came, and the quiet clerk turned out to be one of the greatest military minds the country ever produced. He took Vicksburg. He ground down Lee. He accepted the surrender at Appomattox and, instead of gloating, let the Confederate soldiers keep their horses so they could plant crops. Then he won the White House twice.

So how does a man like that end up dying broke?

In 1884 Grant trusted his savings to a Wall Street firm run by a young hotshot named Ferdinand Ward, basically the Bernie Madoff of his day. Ward was running a con. When it collapsed, Grant lost everything. He was so wiped out that he had to borrow money just to cover his household, and he handed over his war trophies and swords to pay a debt. The most famous soldier in America was suddenly poor.

Then it got worse. Doctors found throat cancer. Grant had smoked as many as twenty cigars a day, a habit the public actually fed. After his victories, admirers mailed him cigars by the thousands, and it very likely killed him.

Now here is the part that gives me chills.

Grant knew he was dying, and he knew he was leaving his wife Julia with nothing. So a man in constant pain, throat closing up, some days unable to speak above a whisper, sat down to write his memoirs and out earn death itself. Mark Twain, who admired him, offered him a stunning book deal, far better than anything normal authors got. Grant took it and went to work.

He wrote something like three hundred thousand words in about a year while cancer ate his throat. On the days he couldn't talk, he wrote on slips of paper. Witnesses said the pain was constant. He kept going anyway. He finished the manuscript just days before he died.

And it worked. The memoirs became one of the best selling books of the century and are still considered maybe the finest memoir ever written by an American president. The royalties sent to Julia came to roughly four hundred fifty thousand dollars, an enormous fortune then, enough that she never had to worry about money again. He couldn't win the money back on Wall Street, so he wrote his way out and crossed the finish line with almost nothing to spare.

When he died, the country stopped. Around a million and a half people lined the streets of New York for his funeral, the largest the city had ever seen. And look at who carried him. His pallbearers included Union generals and Confederate generals, side by side. One of them, Simon Bolivar Buckner, was the very man who had surrendered to Grant at Fort Donelson decades earlier. He came to Grant's sickbed near the end, two old enemies making peace, and then helped carry him to his grave.

That grave became Grant's Tomb in New York, the largest mausoleum in North America.

A failed store clerk who saved the Union, lost everything to a con man, and then, dying and in agony, wrote a masterpiece to protect his wife.

141 years ago today. They really don't make them like that anymore.

[John Solomon @jsolomonReports]

Software vendor disputes NJ governor’s ‘glitch’ claim, says state approved foreigners on voter roll https://t.co/dYCVPWvVel

[Simon Wiesenthal Center @simonwiesenthal]

Mayor Mamdani did not simply express a personal political opinion. He used the authority, symbolism, and credibility of the mayor’s office to issue what amounted to an official public address declaring that the democratically elected leader of the world’s only Jewish state is a ‘war criminal’ who is ‘not welcome in New York City.’ That is a profound misuse of the office entrusted to him by all New Yorkers.

After acknowledging that New York City has no independent legal authority to execute the International Criminal Court’s arrest warrant, the mayor nevertheless chose to transform that legal reality into a televised political spectacle. Respect for the separation of powers and the legal limits of public office is a bedrock of American democracy; those limits should not be treated as an inconvenience to be exploited for political theater.

Perhaps most telling was what the mayor chose to leave out. His address made no mention of Hamas or the October 7 massacre of innocent civilians. Instead, he delivered a sweeping moral indictment of Israel while erasing the terrorist atrocities that ignited this war. Appeals to universal humanity and justice ring hollow when they exclude the victims whose suffering does not fit a preferred political narrative.

This is no longer simply about Prime Minister Netanyahu. It reflects a broader pattern in which Mayor Mamdani repeatedly singles out Israel while using the prestige of his office to legitimize rhetoric that further isolates the Jewish state and deepens division here at home. At a time when Jewish New Yorkers are experiencing alarming levels of antisemitism, harassment and intimidation, they deserve a mayor who refrains from fomenting hatred against the world’s only Jewish country while maintaining the fiction that this is not anti-Jewish.

Throughout his campaign, Mayor Mamdani repeatedly insisted that his responsibility as mayor would be to focus on New York City and the issues affecting New Yorkers. New Yorkers elected him to make their neighborhoods safer, combat hate and unite a diverse city, not to conduct foreign policy or transform City Hall into a stage for ideological declarations about world leaders.

New Yorkers elected a mayor, not a prosecutor of foreign leaders. Mayor Mamdani should spend less time trying to demonize only one leader and one country from City Hall and more time protecting the New Yorkers he was elected to serve.

#Mamdani #MayorMamdani #Israel

[Hal Rogers @RepHalRogers]

House Republicans just passed a bill extending federal funding through December 4, 2026.

It was clean and simple, ensuring there is no lapse in funding and preventing a government shutdown, yet 205 Democrats voted against the bill.

@HouseAppropsGOP already passed ALL 12 federal funding bills, three of which have passed the House.

Still yet, the end of the fiscal year is rapidly approaching on September 30th. This extension simply provides more time, if necessary, and avoids the chaos of last year's Democrat-led shutdown.

Read more: https://t.co/qYoGBXtR7i

[Brinker Harding @BrinkerHarding]

This you?

[Bishop Robert Barron @BishopBarron]

I’ve just finished reading Gad Saad’s book Suicidal Empathy.

It ranks, along with Chris Rufo’s America’s Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything and Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay’s Cynical Theories, as the best take-down of the lunacy at the heart of the wokeist philosophy.

For Saad, empathy—in itself a perfectly decent trait—has become so grossly exaggerated that it threatens truth, reality, and justice.

Cases in point abound: so they won’t feel bad about themselves, we’ll allow biological men to compete in women’s sports and crush the dreams of thousands of young women; so as not to undermine the self-esteem of minorities, we will permit unqualified candidates to have positions in universities and the corporate world; so that everyone might feel included, we will characterize the meritocracy as “white privilege,” etc.

As I was making my way through Saad’s book, I kept remarking the sharp distinction between empathy and love.

To empathize is to enter profoundly into the experience of another and to endeavor not to hurt that person’s feelings. But to love is, as Thomas Aquinas taught, “to will the good of the other.”

As I said, in itself and all things being equal, empathy is a good thing. But it is not the same as love, which, depending on circumstances, can very much involve hurting someone’s feelings.

When a professor gives a student a “C” as an honest reflection of his work, he might well be insulting him, but he’s also telling him the truth and perhaps even urging him to try harder.

When, in the Confessional, a priest tells a murderer to turn himself in to the police, he’s undoubtedly making that person’s life more uncomfortable, but he’s also willing the man’s good.

Any decent parent knows that showing real love for her children means engendering all kinds of bad feelings in them.

In light of this distinction, we can understand why Jesus didn’t say, “have empathy for one another,” but rather “love one another.” And why St. John the Evangelist didn’t say, “God is empathy,” but rather “God is love.”

It occurred to me as I was reading Saad’s book that one reason Wokeism has seized the consciousness of so many in the West is that Christianity has faded as a cultural force and Christians themselves have forgotten what stands at the heart of their faith.

[Dudes Posting Their W’s @DudespostingWs]

I don’t think people realize how absurd this is. Scottish runner Josh Kerr just broke the mile world record in 3:42.66, an average speed of 16.2 mph. Most people couldn’t even briefly reach that speed, let alone sustain it for an entire mile.

[Save Standard Time @SaveStandard]

Why dangerous permanent Daylight Saving Time? Why not healthier, safer permanent Standard Time?

[Grassroots Matt @rightcheer]

Speaker Mike Johnson visited Wheatfields in Omaha this morning to campaign with Brinker Harding in Nebraska’s Second District. He framed this election as "common sense versus crazy" — and endorsed Brinker as the common sense candidate.
@BrinkerHarding @SpeakerJohnson

[Mossad Customer Support @LionOfJudahX]

Polish PM dropping truth bombs:
'How can 500 million Europeans ask 300 million Americans to protect them from 140 million Russians...?
But I’ll tell you something even more astonishing — there are 2 billion Muslims asking the world to protect them from 7 million Jews...!?'"
The numbers say it all.
The same crowd that can’t win a single war, builds tunnels instead of schools, and turns every territory they control into a dumpster fire is convinced the tiny Jewish state is an existential threat to them.
It’s not about land. It’s not about 'occupation.' It’s pure Jew-hatred on an industrial scale.
One side contributes to humanity. The other side contributes body counts and conspiracy theories.
Thanks for the reality check, Poland. 🇮🇱