EXERCISE: Apropos, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the last remaining political throwback to that era, rec

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EXERCISE:

"...But perhaps the most jarring thing was the spectacle of an avowed progressive being in shape, as this is atypical, given the leftist proclivity for fetishizing weakness and victimhood. But while RFK Jr. is a progressive, he is also a Kennedy, and that fact is significant, because it points to an overlooked part of the Kennedy legacy- the role that his uncle, John F. Kennedy, playing in creating the last great wave of enthusiasm for physical education, and what that means for the future. . . .

• Plus: “For the confused modern reader, please know that at one time, California was not the American capital of fail, fentanyl, and feces. 

For a shining moment after the Second World War, the Golden State was the epicenter of all the promise of the nation, a paradise of opportunity and excellence, glamor, wealth, fame, and beauty.”... Glenn Reynolds

Ex-State Dept COVID investigator calls newly-unredacted Fauci communications 'an extensive cover-up' | Fox News

Ex-State Dept COVID investigator calls newly-unredacted Fauci communications 'an extensive cover-up' | Fox News: 

A newly-unredacted missive from Dr. Anthony Fauci suggesting the COVID-19 pandemic may have been grounded in gain-of-function research is proof positive of an extensive "cover-up," according to a former State Department pandemic investigator. On Friday, Fox News anchor Martha MacCallum's team on "The Story" delved deeper into messaging from Fauci at the suggestion of a former top COVID policy official in the Trump administration, after the House Select Committee on the Coronavirus Pandemic released more unredacted documents this week.

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And now, Xi owns the Biden crime family!-----'It Was Extraordinary'

'It Was Extraordinary': Government Officials Were Stunned by 'Startling' Spike in Chinese Donations to UPenn After Biden Think Tank Opened - Alana Goodman 

"The former chief investigator for the Department of Education said the agency noticed a "startling" spike in Chinese donations to the University of Pennsylvania after President Joe Biden opened his think tank at the school in 2017.
"It was extraordinary," said Paul Moore, who served as the agency's chief investigative counsel during the Trump administration, in congressional testimony on Thursday. 

• UPenn raked in over $100 million from China-based contributors between 2017 and 2022, the Washington Free Beacon reported earlier this year. 
• This was a substantial increase from the four years prior to 2017, when the school received a total of $19 million...

Lunch video-----"Fundamentally transforming"-----The face of modern, British youth; only one quarter of whom are of white...

"Every so often, an image will make one stop and reflect seriously upon what is being seen. 

This is the case with a picture in a newspaper of the Youth Council in the Cambridgeshire city of Peterborough. 

Noon-toon

 

Tucker Carlson interviews Ron DeSantis - TheBlaze

Tucker Carlson interviews Ron DeSantis - TheBlaze: 

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), who is currently one of the many GOP presidential primary candidates running for the Republican presidential nomination, has said that as president, he would put the kibosh on the idea of a central bank digital currency in the U.S.

If true, explains much!

 

Clarice Feldman--Tucker Carlson Helps Cull the Republican Presidential Field - American Thinker

Tucker Carlson Helps Cull the Republican Presidential Field - American Thinker By Clarice Feldman

"If, like me, you find the presidential debate format a rather meaningless exercise, you will be astonished at what one-on-one interviews by a skilled interrogator can accomplish.
At the Iowa family Leader conference, Tucker Carlson interviewed several leading contenders for president Tim Scott, Asa Hutchinson, Mike Pence, Nikki Haley, Vivek Ramaswamy, and Ron DeSantis.
If the participants thought this was going to be another tongue bath, they were certainly surprised. 

He asked hard questions and some of their answers exposed their muddled thinking. 

At least two of them – Asa Hutchinson and Mike Pence -- were clear losers and can now be safely considered out of the running. 

•  If you haven’t had an opportunity to listen to all the interviews on the site, I’ll summarize some of the highlights.

Tucker chided Pence for being more concerned about defending the Ukraine than with dealing with domestic problems.
Tucker: "Where's the concern for the United States?"
Pence: "That's not my concern. Tucker I've heard this routine from you before. That's not my concern."...

Who led them to believe that nonsense?

 

HIGHER EDUCATION AS MONEY LAUNDRY

Instapundit - Blog Archive - People ask why Harvard admissions can still be bribed...

HIGHER EDUCATION AS MONEY LAUNDRY:

"People ask why Harvard admissions can still be bribed or influenced by the rich or well-connected. This is the wrong question: the right question is why they ever give spots based on merit at all. The answer is: otherwise the scheme wouldn’t work. The point of a money-laundering operation is to take in both fairly-earned and dirty money, then mix them together so thoroughly that nobody can tell which is which...

I expect that without such a system the elites would do their own thing without any concession to merit whatsoever – so maybe it beats the alternative.

On the other hand, this lets them coopt potential opposition. by Glenn Reynolds

#1 This day 1968-----Hugh Masekela - Grazing in the Grass

And Just Like That, It's No Longer an Insurrection

And Just Like That, It's No Longer an Insurrection - BY VICTORIA TAFT 

• And just like that, the January 6 insurrection is no more. And the deconstruction story is really something. 
• At the center of this narrative switcheroo is none other than Ray Epps.

"Before we get to that, let’s remember how we got here. 

It took only moments for the Democrat media complex to anoint the January 6 breach and riot at the U.S. Capitol Building an “insurrection.” 

• As if beckoned by an unseen force, narrative builders dutifully lined up to receive the official wafer on their tongues, and voilà! “Trump supporters” who had never committed an act of violence at years of peaceful and crowded rallies were eligible for a 20-year prison stretch.

Shortly thereafter, the insurrection became a deadly insurrection when the same media reported, wrongly, that police officers were killed by rioters on January 6.
The only ones who died on January 6 were killed by police...

Worthy thought.

 

Utah Sen. Mike Lee says 'We might have to invoke the War Powers Act' after Biden authorizes deployment of reservists to Europe - TheBlaze

Utah Sen. Mike Lee says 'We might have to invoke the War Powers Act' after Biden authorizes deployment of reservists to Europe - TheBlaze: 

Turning Point USA CEO Charlie Kirk wrote, "Joe Biden is calling up reservists for active duty in Operation Atlantic Resolve, because apparently it can’t fill the ranks of its rainbow flag military as recruitment plummets. This is not to fortify our border, which remains wide open, but to increase our deployments near Ukraine. America Last strikes again!"

If Pedophiles Ruled the World - Intellectual Takeout

If Pedophiles Ruled the World - Intellectual Takeout - Kimberly Ells

"With the sobering and inspiring film Sound of Freedom hitting theatres this week, we are faced with the reality that there is a huge appetite for child sex throughout the world. 

While Operation Underground Railroad is fighting the child sex movement, there is an international effort pushing it forward in the name of “children’s rights”.

• Here is a crucial piece of background. 

In 1983, two members of the Pedophile Information Exchange (PIE), a pro-pedophile group, were interviewed for Newsnight. 

In the interview (watch it here), pedophile Steven Adrian said:“Our political objectives include developing a society where children are given a much higher status than today, where they’re recognised as individuals in their own right and this includes recognising their right to certain sexual freedoms.”
“It’s an obligation on society to see that children are given a far more comprehensive sexual education from a far earlier age.”...

...For children, hearing the Sound of Freedom does not mean being freed from their parents or from laws that protect them. 

Hearing the Sound of Freedom means living free from the grasp of eager pedophiles.

AM Fruitcake

History for July 16

History for July 16 - On-This-Day.com 

Barbara Stanwyck 1907

• 1790 - The District of Columbia, or Washington, DC, was established as the permanent seat of the United States Government.
• 1935 - Oklahoma City became the first city in the U.S. to install parking meters.
• 1940 - Adolf Hitler ordered the preparations to begin on the invasion of England, known as Operation Sea Lion.
• 1942 - French police officers rounded up 13,000 Jews and held them in the Winter Velodrome. The round-up was part of an agreement between Pierre Laval and the Nazis. Germany had agreed to not deport French Jews if France arrested foreign Jews.
• 1969 - Apollo 11 blasted off from Cape Kennedy, FL, and began the first manned mission to land on the moon.
• 1979 - Saddam Hussein became president of Iraq after forcing Hasan al-Bakr to resign.
• 1981 - After 23 years with the name Datsun, executives of Nissan changed the name of their cars to Nissan.

Swedish Police Authorise Burning of Bible, Torah Outside Israeli Embassy

Swedish Police Authorise Burning of Bible, Torah Outside Israeli Embassy: 

Stockholm police on Friday said they have authorized a protest this weekend by a man who has stated that he wants to burn the Torah and the Bible outside the Israeli Embassy in Stockholm. Israeli officials called on the Swedish government to stop the protest, which is scheduled to take place Saturday outside the diplomatic mission.

Op-Ed: Black Americans Were Doing Great Under Trump... Then Joe Biden Showed Up

Op-Ed: Black Americans Were Doing Great Under Trump... Then Joe Biden Showed Up: 

How can President Joe Biden have the most racially focused presidency in history while black Americans have lost so much ground during his administration?

Horace Cooper’s latest book, “Put Y’all Back in Chains: How Joe Biden’s Policies Hurt Black Americans,” dares to question the accepted view that the Biden administration is making a special effort to assist blacks and the working class.

The way we were-----Blaming The Victims: The USS Iowa Turret Disaster 1989 | Plainly Difficu...

Multiculturalism; why we abandoned the idea of immigrants adapting to th...

"Fifty years ago, it was accepted that immigrants to Britain and the United States should try to integrate and fit in with the customs of the country they chose to live in. 

Then, along came the awful idea of multiculturalism…

Half of What the Soviets Knew About U.S. Stealth Tech, They Got From One Reporter - War Is Boring

Half of What the Soviets Knew About U.S. Stealth Tech, They Got From One Reporter - War Is Boring

• Bill Sweetman’s articles were a Cold War intel bonanza

The Americans were up to something, and the Soviets knew it...

In the late 1970s and early ‘80s, the U.S. military was quietly developing sophisticated stealth technology meant to help aircraft evade detection by radar and other sensors...
Soviet intelligence agents had a pretty good idea what was going on...

• They knew about stealth because they routinely read and translated American trade magazines and hobbyist books. 
• Specifically, the reporting of one man, Bill Sweetman...

White House cocaine mystery shows 'Biden, Inc.' always gets special treatment: McCarthy | Fox News

White House cocaine mystery shows 'Biden, Inc.' always gets special treatment: McCarthy | Fox News: 

The U.S. Secret Service's (USSS) announcement it has closed its investigation into cocaine found at the White House on July 2 is another example of President Biden's orbit getting disparate, favorable treatment, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy told Fox News on Thursday.