CNN, MS NOW and Politico are melting down because they’ve had to report from outside the White House for one day.
I couldn’t get access to cover President Biden or even the 2024 DNC. Neither could many of my peers in independent media. We pay our own way. We don’t have billion-dollar corporations backing us. Where was the outrage then?
And when President Trump, RFK Jr. and other conservatives were deplatformed, much of the mainstream media laughed and celebrated. They weren’t screaming about an attack on free speech when we were silenced.
President Trump has opened the White House to independent journalists, podcasters and new-media voices who were shut out before. He’s the most transparent President we’ve had.
I’m a free-speech absolutist. I believe in a free press. But that doesn’t give anyone the right to run into the Oval Office, scream and yell at the President, and then expect to face no consequences for printing lies or slanderous claims.
Dear socialist friend,
Nothing is stopping you.
If collective ownership works so much better, you can prove it by next Tuesday. Pool your savings with your comrades. Elect a planning committee. Run a bakery, a farm, a repair shop – shared ownership, equal pay, decisions by vote. All of it is fully legal, today, everywhere in the West. No revolution needed.
And yet.
You want the workers to seize the factories – but you won’t open a food truck with three people from your group chat. You demand collective housing – but you won’t sign a joint lease with people who agree with you about everything.
People have tried voluntary socialism for two hundred years. The communes keep dissolving – the members simply walk out. The only socialist countries that lasted were the ones that locked the borders.
That’s the whole story. Where leaving is allowed, everyone leaves. Socialism only survives where leaving is banned. The people voted – on foot.
Just do it. Or admit that "collective" was always just a word for other people’s property.
“Bill Maher exposes the chilling stat about British Muslims that leftist activists are completely ignoring.”
Bill Maher: Ayaan Hirsi Ali wrote an op-ed in the New York Times and said when it comes to the pay gap, abortion access, and workplace discrimination, progressives have much to say.
But we're still waiting for a march against honor killings, child marriages, polygamy, sex slavery, or female genital mutilation. She was calling out the four Democratic women senators who would not even bring her issue to the floor.
Maajid Nawaz: This is a real problem. We have surveys that look at British Muslim attitudes to homosexuality.
One in The Guardian reported that 0% of British Muslims said homosexuality is morally acceptable. A later ICM poll said 52% of British Muslims said that they would ban homosexuality.
Yet at the same time, you've got leftist activists who are very concerned about gay rights within white communities. There are gay Muslims who need our help, feminist Muslims, liberal Muslims, ex-Muslims.
Bill Maher: I'm always so confused about this.
These are liberal principles. In Chechnya, a spokesman for their leader said, “If such people existed in Chechnya” meaning gay people “law enforcement would not have to worry about them as their own relatives would have sent them to where they could never return.”
Maajid Nawaz: The link between these attitudes and ISIS throwing gays off the top of buildings must be recognized. If you have these attitudes towards gays, women, or ex-Muslims and you see what ISIS is doing to them, that's the link we need to be making.
Bill Maher: Most Muslims are not ISIS, of course. But size matters. How big is the number of those who are jihadists people who are actually violent versus islamists, versus conservatives?
Maajid Nawaz: After three jihadist attacks in the UK, the security services said we only have the capacity to monitor 3,000 suspected jihadists at any one time.
Then they said, however, we really need to be monitoring 23,000, because that's how many there are out there in the United Kingdom. 23,000 jihadists ready to attack.
Around those 23,000, imagine how many more are ideological bedfellows.
It’s easy to look tough when you’re not the one paying rent.
Carney was sold as the guy who would get a deal.
Year and a half later the “agreement” shows up…
then Ottawa walks it back
because the politics suddenly looked bad.
They spent months calling Trump a flip-flopper.
Then they did the same move
and asked Canadians to clap for it.
Here’s the part they skip.
About 3 out of every 4 Canadian export dollars still go to the United States.
Merchandise exports to the U.S. are around 16% of our GDP.
America’s sales into Canada are a rounding error on their economy.
So when Ottawa plays “show them who’s boss,”
the shop floor feels it first.
The grocery bill feels it second.
The rent cheque feels it after that.
Looking strong on TV is cheap.
Heating a house in Canada is not.
Judge him by the kitchen table.
Not the press conference.
#cdnpoli #CanadaFirst
Fossil fuels did not cause the CO2 rise. PERIOD.
Here is why we know, without wiggle room:
Every carbon source has an isotope fingerprint.
Fossil carbon: -28‰.
Ocean outgassing: -8‰. Standard values. Undisputed. In every carbon-cycle textbook. Used by the IPCC itself.
The Keeling plot reads the fingerprint of whatever is actually being added to the atmosphere. Pure mass balance. No models. No parameterizations. No assumptions.
Scripps measured it at four stations, Barrow to the South Pole, from 1978 to now.
Answer: -13.2‰.
Not -28.
Not close to -28.
Not fossil fuel.
Caribbean sclerosponges preserve that same fingerprint back to 1500 AD.
Same value.
About -13‰.
For five centuries.
Across those five centuries fossil emissions rose from essentially zero to roughly 10 billion tons of carbon per year. A ten thousand fold increase.
The isotope needle did not move.
If fossil combustion were driving atmospheric CO2, that needle would have swung hard toward -28‰.
It did not budge.
The two endmember mixing equation is arithmetic a middle schooler can do. Plug in -13.2 for the observed signature, -28 for fossil, -8 for ocean outgassing.
The fossil share of the net atmospheric addition cannot exceed 26%.
Then apply the five century constancy. In 1500 AD fossil emissions were essentially zero, so the observed -13‰ signature had to be the natural signature itself. That fixes the natural mix at -13‰. Plug that in with the modern -13.2‰.
Fossil share of the net addition: 1.3%.
Within noise of zero.
To escape the conclusion you must reject one of:
1. Elementary algebra applied to mass conservation
2. The isotope endmember values the entire carbon-cycle literature has used for sixty years
3. The Scripps and sclerosponge datasets the IPCC itself relies on
Nobody rejects any of them.
The rise in atmospheric CO2 is not the residue of your gas tank.
The isotopes rule it out.
Full stop.
In 1954, scientists told Congress the Arctic would melt within 25 to 50 years.
Then 20 years later, in 1974, Time magazine warned we were heading for another ice age.
By the 1990s, when that didn't happen, warming was the returning scare, with Norway's top expert saying the Arctic would be ice-free by 2007. The Centre for Biological Diversity said it would be ice-free by 2012. The BBC said by 2013. Needless to say, they were all wrong. The Arctic sea ice minimum has actually been stable for the past 18 years now.
In 2008, NASA's James Hansen predicted lower Manhattan would be underwater by 2018 due to the burning of fossil fuels.
Back in 1923, scientists claimed Glacier National Park would melt by 1950. Then in 2006, Al Gore said it would be gone by 2020. Yet today, the glaciers are still there, about the same size they were 35 years ago.
Decade after decade, the doomsday dates change. But the climate alarmist script persists.
This PERFECTLY explains the Capitalism vs Socialism argument for America
“So now, Colombia rejected a socialist. Peru rejected a socialist. El Salvador, Chile, Honduras, Ecuador, Bolivia, Argentina all rejected Marxist or socialist leadership. And Venezuela was destroyed by socialism. Latin Americans are rejecting socialism after having tried it. So why are Americans accepting socialism, having never tried it?
Well, partially because most Americans don't know what socialism is
It's not healthcare for all or affordable housing. Socialism isn't a synonym for all the things I want, but I'm not getting in my capitalist country. It's not a vibe. It's an economic system characterized by collective or governmental ownership of the means of production. Means of production meaning infrastructure used to produce goods and services like factories, farms, and companies.
Capitalism also isn't a vibe. It's not billionaires and corporations controlling politics. It's not a synonym for all the things I hate about my country. It's an economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of capital goods, AKA the means of production.
Now, just like Mac versus Windows, there are different versions of capitalism and socialism. Finland, Norway, Denmark, and Sweden are less capitalistic than America, but they are still capitalist. Although they have a few exceptions to the rule, private companies own the means of production, not the government in those countries.
Now, you might like certain programs that socialism promises, like universal healthcare, but those programs aren't tied to a specific operating system. You can run Photoshop on Mac or Windows, just like you can have universal healthcare in socialism or capitalism. But it seems we as a people keep getting more confused about what socialism is.
In 1949, 34% of Americans correctly identified socialism as government ownership of the economy. By 2018, only 17% did, and I suspect it's even worse now.
American politicians are confused, too. In 2015, Denmark's prime minister had to correct Bernie Sanders and say, "Denmark is far from a socialist planned economy. Denmark is a market economy." Zoran Mamdani is a democratic socialist. Democratic socialism is a version of socialism.
Now, you could argue that socialism just hasn't been done right yet. And when every socialist experiment at the national level in the 20th century failed, and every experiment in the 21st century is failing, maybe the problem isn't that socialism hasn't worked in practice, it, that it almost certainly can't work in principle.
And maybe the assertion that this time will be different isn't optimism, it's actually just unfalsifiability, where a theory cannot ever be contradicted by actual evidence.
We have bugs in this version of capitalism that need to be fixed, principally that there is too much money in politics, that billions of dollars speak louder than millions of voices. And you know what? The socialists might create healthy pressure to fix those bugs. That's good, but that's different than changing the whole operating system.
Sometimes the cure is worse than the disease. Because when there's never been a successful socialist country in history, and the countries who have actually experimented with it are abandoning it, the results start to speak for themselves. And lately, they're speaking Spanish.”
And just so we’re crystal clear, here are the stated goals of the Democratic Socialists of America in America
- Abolish the US Senate
- Replace the Presidency and Supreme Court
- Abolish the Electoral College
• Abolish police and the prison system
• Abolish ICE, grant amnesty to all immigrants and end visa restrictions
• Public ownership of the largest corporations
- Defund the US military
- End economic sanctions on Iran
- Government owned social housing
Islam in the West is the ring of power in The Lord of the Rings.
Everyone thinks they can handle it. They think they can use it, moderate it, integrate it, tame it, or negotiate with it.
The Ring serves only one master, and it is not the one wearing it. As long as the West thinks it can use Islam, Islam ends up using the West.
Just like the Ring amplifies the worst impulses of the one who carries it, Islam reshapes whatever institution allows it inside:
Human-rights language becomes a shield for illiberal politics. Free-speech norms become a platform for anti-free-speech doctrines.
Religious liberty becomes legal cover for parallel legal systems. Democracy becomes a staircase to end democracy.
This is the rule of the Ring: Whoever tries to wield it eventually becomes its servant.
Even the well-intentioned fall.
Especially the well-intentioned.
The West keeps trying different strategies:
"Support moderates, integrate communities, counter the extremists, not the ideology, dialogue will soften them, maybe they don’t really mean what they say, economic uplift will change their worldview, second and third generations will modernize."
Every one of these is the Council of Elrond arguing that maybe someone, somewhere, might use the Ring differently.
But Tolkien’s world and Islam world share the same truth:
You can't reform an object built for domination. You can't tame an ideology constructed for supremacy.
The Ring can't be debated, reasoned with, or negotiated into moderation.
It was forged for one purpose, and it retains that purpose regardless of who wears it.
Islam is the same.
The only way to destroy the Ring is to take it back to the place where it was forged, the fires of Mount Doom, and burn it in its original source.
The same is true for Islam:
You can't defeat it with counterterrorism alone. You can't defeat it with border policy alone.
You can't defeat it with intelligence operations alone. You can't defeat it through elections, speeches, or interfaith dialogue.
You must go to its Mordor, its theology, its texts, its jurisprudence, its political creed, its doctrinal foundations, and you must burn it there.
Confront the doctrine of jihad. Expose the political blueprint. Discredit the historical narrative. Challenge the legal theory that divides humanity. Break the ideological architecture. Expose it's master.
Only then does the Ring lose its power. Everything else is delay.
The danger is not in extremism. The danger is in believing you can harness extremism for your benefit.
Like the Ring, Islam corrupts even those who oppose it. It drags the center toward its worldview.
It forces institutions to accommodate its demands. It shapes the political discourse through intimidation, guilt, or demographic leverage.
The Ring does not want to be hidden. It wants to be worn. Islam does not want to coexist. It wants to rule.
There is no path to victory that avoids the mountain. There is no shortcut around theology.
There is no peace purchased through appeasement. There is no safety in pretending the ideology is harmless.
There is no future if you refuse to confront the source of the problem.
The West keeps walking in circles around Mount Doom, hoping for an easier route. But there isn’t one.
If you want to destroy the Ring, you must go to Mordor. If you want to combat Islam, you must confront its theology.
That is the fire in which the ideology was forged. And that is the only fire in which it can be destroyed.
THOMAS JEFFERSON: "It was written in their Koran, that all nations who should not have acknowledged the Muslim's authority were sinners, that it was their right & duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as prisoner."
Dr Mototaka Nakamura has called climate models mere "toys."
They're tuned with guesswork, he says, ignore key drivers like clouds, oceans and the sun, and cannot predict climate.
Dr Nakamura is far from fringe.
He earned his doctorate at MIT, worked with NASA and Caltech, and spent 25 years studying climate dynamics.
"Climate models are Mickey-Mouse mockeries of the real world," he says. And he argues scientists have falsified records to exaggerate recent warming, exaggerations that underpin trillion-dollar policies.
Nakamura says meaningful climate forecasting is an impossibility, and that CO2 isn't the control knob.
This is what happens when you do not have a proper educational system in America. The result is people like her.
Christianity is not a “white-supremacist colonizer religion.” It originated in the first-century Levant among Jews, not Europeans. Jesus was a Galilean Jew, and the faith spread across the Mediterranean, North Africa, Asia, and beyond. Ethiopia became one of the earliest Christian kingdoms and ancient Christian communities existed in Egypt, Syria, Armenia, Persia, and India.
Today Christianity is the most geographically widespread major religion on earth. According to Pew Research’s 2020 data, published in 2025, approximately 31% of the world’s Christians live in sub-Saharan Africa, 24% live in Latin America and the Caribbean, and only 22% live in Europe.
Colonialism, conquest, slavery, are not Christian phenomena, nor do they define Christianity. Nearly every major civilization has conquered territory, imposed political authority, practiced slavery, and developed social hierarchies. Islamic expansion beginning in the seventh century conquered vast Christian, Jewish, Zoroastrian, and other territories across the Levant, North Africa, Persia, Iberia, Anatolia, and the Balkans through military force. The caliphates and the Ottoman Empire exercised imperial rule over non-Muslim populations, imposed special legal and tax obligations, and transformed the religious and demographic character of lands that had previously been overwhelmingly non-Muslim.
The trans-Saharan, Red Sea, and Indian Ocean slave trades operated for centuries under Muslim rulers and merchants and enslaved millions of Africans, Europeans, and others. Still legal in some places today.
Christian-influenced societies also produced the most powerful organized movements for the abolition of the slave trade and slavery. British evangelicals pushed for the Slave Trade Act of 1807 and the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833. American abolitionism was also shaped by Christians.
Christianity does not teach that men are more human, more valuable, or closer to God than women. The New Testament places women at the center of Christ’s ministry and resurrection. Women followed Jesus, supported His ministry, remained near the cross, discovered the empty tomb, and became the first witnesses entrusted with announcing the resurrection.
The university system developed in Christian Europe through institutions such as Bologna, Oxford, Cambridge, and Paris. Christian scholars preserved, debated, translated, and expanded knowledge in philosophy, medicine, law, mathematics, theology, and natural science. 65% of Nobel laureates are Christian.
The Scientific Revolution also arose in Christian Europe. Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Boyle, Pascal, Newton, Faraday, Maxwell, and Mendel.
Christian civilization produced universities, hospitals, orphanages, hospices, charitable orders, mass-literacy movements, scientific societies, constitutional government, abolitionist movements, and some of the most innovative societies in human history.
Christianity does not oppose progress. It asks the question that every serious person should ask: progress toward what? A society can become more technologically advanced while becoming less humane. Technology can cure disease, or it can industrialize murder. Political movements can call something progress merely because it is new, or fashionable. Christianity insists that real progress must be measured against truth, justice, and the moral character of the ends being pursued.
Christianity does not prevent equality.
Every person bears the image of God. The rich cannot buy salvation, the powerful cannot escape judgment, and the weak do not lose their dignity because they lack social usefulness.
Christian society is where women enjoy the broadest access to education, voting, property ownership, political office, employment, legal protection, and public life.
Whereas in Muslim majority countries they can do none of that.
TOCQUEVILLE: "I studied the Koran a great deal. I came away from that study with the conviction that by & large, there have been few religions in the world as deadly to men as that of Muhammad."
This article was written by a 26 yr old college student by the name of Alyssa Ahlgren, who's in grad school for her MBA. What a GREAT perspecitve..👍🏽
My Generation Is Blind to the Prosperity Around Us!
I'm sitting in a small coffee shop near Nokomis (Florida) trying to think of what to write about. I scroll through my newsfeed on my phone looking at the latest headlines of presidential candidates calling for policies to "fix" the so-called injustices of capitalism. I put my phone down and continue to look around.
I see people talking freely, working on their MacBook's, ordering food they get in an instant, seeing cars go by outside, and it dawned on me. We live in the most privileged time in the most prosperous nation and we've become completely blind to it.
Vehicles, food, technology, freedom to associate with whom we choose.These things are so ingrained in our American way of life we don't give them a second thought.
We are so well off here in the United States that our poverty line begins 31 times above the global average. Thirty One Times!!!
Virtually no one in the United States is considered poor by global standards. Yet, in a time where we can order a product off Amazon with one click and have it at our doorstep the next day, we are unappreciative, unsatisfied, and ungrateful. ??
Our unappreciation is evident as the popularity of socialist policies among my generation continues to grow. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently said to Newsweek talking about the millennial generation, "An entire generation, which is now becoming one of the largest electorates in America, came of age and never saw American prosperity."
Never saw American prosperity! Let that sink in.
When I first read that statement, I thought to myself, that was quite literally the most entitled and factually illiterate thing I've ever heard in my 26 years on this earth. Many young people agree with her, which is entirely misguided.
My generation is being indoctrinated by a mainstream narrative to actually believe we have never seen prosperity. I know this first hand, I went to college, let's just say I didn't have the popular opinion, but I digress.
Why then, with all of the overwhelming evidence around us, evidence that I can even see sitting at a coffee shop, do we not view this as prosperity? We have people who are dying to get into our country.
People around the world destitute and truly impoverished. Yet, we have a young generation convinced they've never seen prosperity, and as a result, we elect some politicians who are dead set on taking steps towards abolishing capitalism.
Why? The answer is this,?? my generation has only seen prosperity. We have no contrast. We didn't live in the great depression, or live through two world wars, the Korean War, The Vietnam War or we didn't see the rise and fall of socialism and communism.
We don't know what it's like to live without the internet, without cars, without smartphones. We don't have a lack of prosperity problem. We have an entitlement problem, an ungratefulness problem, and it's spreading like a plague."