The Death of Cross-Examination - Kurt Schlichter

If you’re wondering why lies can go on and on and on, apparently unchallenged, you can go no further than the death of cross-examination. - Kurt Schlichter 

Legal scholar John Henry Wigmore famously observed, "Cross-examination is the greatest legal engine ever invented for the discovery of truth,” and he’s right...

But its utility is not limited to the courtroom. 

• Cross-examination should be part of all our debates, but it’s not, and that is no accident. 
• Cross-examination makes it that much harder to lie, and when the only way you can win is through lies, you know what you have to do.
• Look around at our "debates" today. They aren’t debates.
• They are a series of monologues where the speaker never has to defend what he is saying...

And there are a lot of lies...
And when everyone lies, it makes it that much more important to get to the truth. 

But you can’t get to the truth unless you can confront people with the holes in their argument...

Look at the Epstein thing...

Many of the alleged victims are just begging to be asked the question, “How old were you anyway when you first got with Epstein, and did he give you money?” And in many cases, an honest answer would be “18 or over” and “yes.” 

Well, there’s another word for someone like that, and it’s not “victim.”...

Scott Jennings Causes CNN Panel to Implode After Suggesting Dems Think Minorities Are 'Too Dumb' To Get Voter ID

Scott Jennings Causes CNN Panel to Implode After Suggesting Dems Think Minorities Are 'Too Dumb' To Get Voter ID: 

“You’re saying married women, black voters and rural people are too stupid to figure out how to register to vote?” Jennings responded, adding, “Are you saying they can’t figure out how to vote?”

If You Hate Your Country… Who Defends It?

If You Hate Your Country… Who Defends It?

Read all!!-----Trump's economy is strong. The 'vibecession' may be stronger | Opinion

As with nearly every other facet of American life these days, the partisan divide also is at work on opinions about the economy. - Tim Swarens

• In April 2025, as U.S. stock markets were melting down in reaction to Donald Trump’s so-called Liberation Day edicts, the president’s top adviser on tariffs, Peter Navarro, proclaimed that not only would markets rebound but that the Dow Jones Industrial Average also would soar past 50,000 points.

Listening to Navarro at the time, I resisted the urge to roll my eyes like a 12-year-old. Since I’m a semi-functional adult, I instead muttered: “Yeah, right.”
It turns out I was (happily) wrong and Navarro was right, much to the relief of the 62% of American adults who own stocks.
The Dow not only closed past the 50,000-point milestone for the first time in history on Feb. 6, but the Dow, S&P 500 and Nasdaq indexes have each gained more than 10% in the past year.
I hear what you’re thinking: The stock market isn’t the economy. 

That cliché is both true and false. 

• True in that not all dinghies rise when the markets swell. 
• But false because of what the markets do measure – the financial health of companies that cut paychecks for the vast majority of Americans.

The data is clear: Trump's economy is strong...

Lunch video----- The Left's Case Against Voter ID Is Collapsing - YouTube

(4) The Left's Case Against Voter ID Is Collapsing - YouTube

Noon-toon

 

'Her level of fanaticism used to be fringe': Left-wing woman reports Turning Point USA chapter to Child Protective Services * WorldNetDaily * by Joe Kovacs

'Her level of fanaticism used to be fringe': Left-wing woman reports Turning Point USA chapter to Child Protective Services * WorldNetDaily * by Joe Kovacs: 

Opposing the formation of a Turning Point USA chapter is apparently not enough for some left-wing activists. One woman told the school board of Calvert County, Maryland, on Thursday that she proudly reported conservative students looking to start a chapter to Child Protective Services. Nancy Krause, a retired nurse, admitted making the report, claiming the Calvert County Club America had banned adults who were not volunteers from a Dec. 17 event featuring two members of the Calvert County Board of Education.

"Projection"! They see their own hate and project it onto anyone who would disagree with them.

 

The Ironic Curtain - Don Surber

Europeans who lived under communism hate it. Those spared pursue it.

“We do not want allies shackled by guilt and shame. We want allies who are proud of their culture and heritage, and are willing to help us defend it.” - —Marco Rubio

Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s speech at the Munich Security Conference shook up the European leadership by reminding them of the dangers of communism.

He did this because his grandpa, Pedro Víctor García, a refugee from Castro’s Cuba, taught him well about the dangers of communism...

It's never been about people. It's always, and only, to be used as a weapon.

 

What happens when they're armed??!!-----Have You Seen What China’s New Humanoid AI-Powered Robots Are Capable Of Doing?

The footage that is posted below looks like it could have come out of a science fiction movie, but I assure you that this is very real… - Michael Snyder
It takes a lot to blow me away in this day and age, but the video footage of humanoid AI-powered robots in China that I am about to share with you truly blew me away. 

• During the CCTV Spring Festival gala, humanoid AI-powered robots built by Unitree performed an incredibly complex martial arts routine that was simply jaw-dropping. 
• I never thought that we would get to a point where robots could move like that...

#1 This day 1964-----The Beatles - I Want To Hold Your Hand (Live on The Ed Sullivan Show) - YouTube

The Beatles - I Want To Hold Your Hand (Live on The Ed Sullivan Show) - YouTube

It's never about accomplishment with the dems. It's who's in their tribe.

 

Hillary Clinton fumes as Czech politician calls out her Trump derangement syndrome | Blaze Media

Hillary Clinton fumes as Czech politician calls out her Trump derangement syndrome | Blaze Media: 

After one of Clinton's more loveless Valentine's Day rants, an official from the Czech Republic highlighted her Trump derangement syndrome and defended the president, stressing that the man whom Clinton so despises is a "reaction" to the extremism and failures that preceded his rise to power.

Apple News is boosting leftist news outlets while burying conservative sites.

Facebook - MRCTV

• Apple News is boosting leftist news outlets while burying conservative sites. 
• This is why so many people are misinformed.

AM Fruitcake

 

History for February 18

History for February 18 - On-This-Day.com 

Helen Gurley Brown 1922 - Author, editor

• 1685 - Robert Cavelier, Sieur de LaSalle established Fort St. Louis at Matagorda Bay, and thus formed the basis for France's claim to Texas.
• 1841 - The first continuous filibuster in the U.S. Senate began. It lasted until March 11th.
• 1885 - Mark Twain's "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" was published in the U.S. for the first time.
• 1930 - Elm Farm Ollie became the first cow to fly in an airplane.
• 1930 - The planet Pluto was discovered by Clyde Tombaugh. The discovery was made as a result of photographs taken in January 1930.

Indictment Made in Shocking Human Enslavement, Forced Labor Cult in 4 US States - Grotesque Objectives and Punishments

Indictment Made in Shocking Human Enslavement, Forced Labor Cult in 4 US States - Grotesque Objectives and Punishments: 

A Michigan federal grand jury indicted an individual for her alleged involvement in a “forced labor conspiracy” spanning Michigan, Florida, Texas, and Missouri.

Kathleen Klein, also known as “Prophetess,” ran a network of call centers throughout several states and “used forced labor to solicit donations” for Kingdom of God Global Church, according to a Thursday Department of Justice news release.

“Victims were forced to work grueling hours at the call centers without pay and pressured to hit impossible fundraising targets,” the news release stated. “When victims fell short of leaders’ goals or dared to push back, the punishment was severe: public humiliation, sleep deprivation, physical violence, withholding of food and shelter, forced repentance rituals, and threats of eternal damnation.”

The way we were----- Colin Ferguson Trial (1994) | Long Island Railroad Shooting - YouTube

Colin Ferguson Trial (1994) | Long Island Railroad Shooting - YouTube

The Slow, Gentle Goodbye - YouTube

The Slow, Gentle Goodbye - YouTube

Local Police Agreements With ICE Surge 950% In First Year Of Trump’s Second Term

"The program allows ICE to enhance collaboration ... to protect the homeland through the arrest aliens." - Jennie Taer

Agreements between local law enforcement agencies and Immigration and Customs Enforcement have surged 950% in President Donald Trump’s first year in office, according to a new report by the advocacy organization FWD.US.

• Under the Biden administration, there were 135 such agreements. 
• Now, there are 1,168 as of Jan. 26, according to the report...

And local police officers have been jumping at the opportunity to train to assist in Trump’s mass deportation effort...

Interesting take-----Only the good die young. - Debbie Schlussel | Facebook

Jew-hating racist shakedown king Jesse Jackson is dead at age 84 and hopefully rotting in hell, where he belongs.  - Debbie Schlussel

In addition to shaking down businesses on the basis of race (and smearing the blood of MLK Jr's dead body on him for the optics), he had a long history of Jew-hating (and racist anti-White) comments beyond calling NUC "Hymietown." 

Some of them from my 2006 "They Have a Scheme" column is.gd/77sj5T:

• * He said he spit into White customers’ food when he worked as a waiter because, “[It] gave me a psychological gratification.”
• * “You can’t trust the Jews. I never have trusted those people.”
• * He claimed Nixon’s policies were harsh on the poor because, of Nixon’s top aides, “four out of five of them are German Jews.” Someone forgot to tell him that Erlichman and Haldeman were not “Hymies.” (They were not Jews.)
• * In inciting a Black church against the Jews, he claimed Jews conspired to keep the Black man down (shown on PBS’ McNeil-Lehrer Report).
• * Jews are “not willing to share
• power.”
• * He told an Ohio County Commissioner, “You Jews are much too sensitive.”...

Sweden Slashes Murder Rates by 63 Percent - All They Had to Do Was Empower Cops and Ignore Libs

Sweden Slashes Murder Rates by 63 Percent - All They Had to Do Was Empower Cops and Ignore Libs: 

Violent crime rates declined rapidly after Swedish police were given greater authority to crack down on criminal organizations that recruit children to become hitmen despite liberal outcries against the measures.

Middle Eastern drug syndicates in Sweden recruited children as young as 12 years old through social media to carry out assassinations against rival gang members causing a massive peak in gun violence in 2022, the Telegraph reported. The Swedish government granted new enforcement powers to the police in 2024 that civil liberty campaigners condemned and the United Nations called “repugnant and illegal,” according to the outlet.

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