There’s an old saw in conservative circles that says, “When a liberal calls you a racist, that means you’re winning the argument.” For the most part, that’s true. Leftists shout “Racism!” reflexively, not thoughtfully. Also, their responses to conservatives are based on fictional evil caricatures that, in their minds, justify their unhinged emotional responses to anything we say or do.
A woke Seattle Congressional candidate told a local newspaper she does not have a public stance on LGBTQ rights to avoid upsetting Muslim voters.
Melissa Chaudhry, 34, is running for Congress for a second time in Washington State after losing her bid in 2024.
During a recent explicitly on-the-record interview with local newspaper The Stranger, she said her campaign website does not have anything about gay rights because she ‘was careful about her Muslim constituents.’
Next year, the Democratic Socialists of America will have at least six of their own in Congress. The Squad — an overlapping, larger grouping in the House that includes Leftist Democrats who aren’t part of the DSA, like Minnesota’s Ilhan Omar — will be even more expansive. The upsurge owes to the primary victories of Claire Valdez and Darializa Avila Chevalier in New York City, Melat Kiros in Colorado, and Chris Rabb in Philadelphia. All are unapologetic Leftists who have campaigned on blocking aid to Israel and abolishing ICE. With the GOP facing an uphill battle to keep the House, all of these socialists will likely be sitting in the majority next year. And if Democrats somehow flip the Senate, too, they will be emboldened as never before.
Did you live a self-reliant, constructive life? Did you play by the rules, work hard, raise your kids to be productive members of society, save up, and arrive in seniority well-provisioned for your well-earned golden years?
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If you simply reverse the direction of each of the Ten Commandments, you arrive at the leftist version. Among these is the Marxist tenet of weaponized envy — Thou shalt covet — and its corollary, Thou shalt steal.
These are the two columns referenced in the article:
Older Americans Are Hoarding America’s Potential
“An Oligarchy of Old People.”
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has announced the first location for one of the five promised city-owned grocery stores. The 9,000 square-foot store will be built on a city-owned vacant site under the Metro-North railroad viaduct at La Marqueta, near Park Avenue and East 116th Street, in Manhattan’s East Harlem neighborhood.
The city will finance the store’s construction with $30 million from the capital budget. The store will have no debt service. Though privately operated, it will pay no rent or property tax.
Last week, the Irish government released a St. Brigid’s Day video that mocks the Catholic saint while celebrating abortion and gay marriage. The video shows a cloaked figure—a pagan witch—carrying fire from one feminist milestone to the next, boasting images from when Ireland redefined marriage and created a constitutional right to abortion. The Irish government elite confused (or conflated) the Catholic saint with an old Gaelic goddess of the same name. This was not merely a mistake. It is the latest example of the elite’s contempt for Ireland’s Catholic heritage.
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— Brian Jonathan Cowan (@_briancowan_) January 30, 2026
Yesterday, I wrote about toxic empathy posing a dire threat to Western society. What makes this kind of empathy “toxic” is not that it is empathy, which is a characteristic that is necessary for the formation of a conscience, but rather that it is selective and, in many cases, unlimited.
People identified as deserving of empathy get infinite forgiveness for the most egregious actions, while those seen as “oppressors” deserve none at all and, in fact, should be punished and silenced for objecting to demands they submit to the will of the “oppressed.” It’s all based on an ever-changing and immensely complicated intersectional ladder of oppression, where points are assigned for various degrees of victimhood.
Alex Pretti would be alive today had he not been armed while interfering with an ICE operation.
It was hardly necessary to read the headlines Sunday morning to know that the corporate media, like Minnesota’s irresponsible governor Tim Walz, would effectively accuse federal immigration officers of brutally executing Alex Pretti. For example, a New York Times “analysis” fails to mention that Pretti was an anti-ICE activist who had just interfered with the apprehension of a criminal suspect, and was violently resisting arrest when the officers realized he was armed. The Times falsely claims, “An agent had already removed Mr. Pretti’s gun when two other agents opened fire, shooting him in the back as he lay on the ground.” No honest analysis of this episode could lead to this conclusion.
The Democrat who people most need to be paying attention to right now isn’t in Congress and isn’t expected to run for president. It’s Jennifer Welch, the gaunt, puckered up nag who hosts a popular podcast and who now proudly displays on a regular basis just how dark and decayed the left’s collective soul has become.
Once again, protests fill the headlines all over the country. People sometimes claim that protestors are people without jobs, without values, and without direction. But protesting is much more complex than just those factors. And much more difficult to suppress than some people might think.
Many members of the mayor-elect’s Committee on Community Safety have long histories of anti-law-enforcement radicalism.
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani wants to reimagine public safety in New York City. On the campaign trail, he promised to devote more than $1 billion to the “Department of Community Safety,” a new agency that will “tak[e] a public health approach to safety.”
But what will his agenda look like in practice? Late last month, the mayor-elect released the roster of his transition team’s Committee on Community Safety, a 26-person group that will advise him on criminal-justice and related issues. The list contains several activists who are not only openly hostile to law enforcement but also reject the very concept of carceral punishment.
These misspellings are deliberate.
It’s a very old trick to thwart Google searches for/about controversial names. https://t.co/HqDiz8SBzL
— Councilwoman Vickie Paladino (@VickieforNYC) December 9, 2025
h/t Patti Jo
The Toronto Star has once again graced us with its wisdom. In a piece penned by one Craig A. Johnson—presumably not the sort of chap who’d last five minutes in an Alberta oil patch—the Star wrings its hands over the left’s tragic loss of young men to the dastardly right. “The left needs to learn how to talk to young men—or it will keep losing them,” wails the headline, as if these wayward lads are lost puppies rather than thinking adults who’ve had quite enough of being lectured on their “privileges” while scraping by in Trudeau’s inflation-ravaged economy.
One of the virtues of being a mentally healthy person in an honest society is that you don’t have to deal with cognitive dissonance. That is, there are no moments when you are forced to accept two entirely conflicting facts or values. Instead, you have the mental freedom to work through the conflict and come out with an honest evaluation.
The HBO host made these remarks during the Overtime part of Real Time, but one thing was clear: the comedian is in favor of defunding National Public Radio. Bill Maher described the outlet as crazy far-left and ripped apart its CEO, Katherine Maher, no relation, who delivered a most unbelievable congressional testimony this week…
NEW: Bill Maher, Columbia U Professor John McWhorter call to STRIP taxpayer funding from NPR
MAHER: "They're crazy far left … We're so polarized — these outlets became popular at a time when Republicans and Democrats didn't hate each other and weren't at each other's… pic.twitter.com/bMKcDTMCpy
— Jason Cohen (@JasonJournoDC) March 29, 2025
Vietnam War-era protests are among the most well-known and well-documented movements in U.S. history, notoriously culminating in the violent clashes during the 1968 Democratic National Convention (DNC). As Election Day nears in the U.S., striking parallels are emerging – protests against U.S. involvement in foreign conflicts, a deteriorating financial situation, and rising tensions on all fronts. It’s hard not to wonder if history is repeating itself.
Unless Kamala denounces Israel, and that is entirely possible, Chicago will be fiery but peaceful if yesterday’s antics are an indication.
BREAKING: PROTESTERS IN WASHINGTON, D.C., ARE BURNING AN EFFIGY OF BENJAMIN NETANYAHU
This is blocks always from where he addressed congress. pic.twitter.com/1VF6xSTXys
— Sulaiman Ahmed (@ShaykhSulaiman) July 24, 2024
