Saturday, July 19, 2025
Instapundit - TIMES CHANGE
Previously, from P.J. O’Rourke’s Parliament of Whores:
Not long after Andy [Ferguson] and I met, we were driving down Pennsylvania Avenue and encountered some or another noisy pinko demonstration.
“How come,” I asked Andy, “whenever something upsets the Left, you see immediate marches and parades and rallies with signs already printed and rhyming slogans already composed, whereas whenever something upsets the Right, you see two members of the Young Americans for Freedom waving a six-inch American flag?”
“We have jobs,” said Andy.
- We still have jobs, but the Left finally pushed normies into activism. They had thought that was exclusively their turf. - Stephen Green
Wherefore, Cincinnatus? A Tale of Staggering American Political Corruption. By Ward Clark
Cincinnatus had retired to a farm, but when Rome called, he answered. He was appointed Dictator by the Roman Senate, giving him absolute power over the city - and the army. He oversaw a quick victory over the Aequi; the Roman historian Livy puts the time at sixteen days. With that done, Cincinnatus surrendered the dictatorship and went back to his farm.Livy and other Roman scribes of the time held Cincinnatus up as a model of civic virtue, an example for any who would serve the republic...
- We have no Cincinnatus among us today.
Well, the Trump administration is getting in on the action with their own Friday afternoon document dump—and their dump also does not reflect well on Barack Obama and his administration. The documents in question are newly-declassified materials released by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard showing how deeply involved Obama and members of his administration were in helping to devise and perpetuate the Russia collusion hoax against Donald Trump.
A clearly-irate Gabbard took to X Friday afternoon to detail what was found in the documents—i.e., Obama & co. made the whole thing up—and what she plans to do with the information.
- If you haven't yet read Teri's account of this disaster, do so.
- Make sure you're sitting down, and I'd recommend a good stiff belt at your elbow; you're going to need it...
Federal agents tackle, mace anti-ICE protester who slashed their tires * WorldNetDaily * by Cristina Laila, the Gateway Pundit
No Evidence of Harm? A “Garbage In, Garbage Out” Analysis of the Aluminum Vaccine Study
- But dig a little deeper, and you’ll find a textbook case of how to spin noise into confidence. Let’s walk through it.
- This is a textbook case of GIGO (“Garbage In, Garbage Out”).
Taxpayers poised to save $9 billion as deadline looms for congressional recissions * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh
But, but, but those Up-Northers seemed so nice!-----Canada Slaps Higher Tariffs on Chinese Steel | The Epoch Times
- Canada will implement an additional 25 percent tariff on steel imports from China before the end of July, among new measures aimed at bolstering Canada’s steel industry and preventing steel dumping in the Canadian market, Prime Minister Mark Carney says...
Who's funding/buying the violent rioters??!!-----CEO claims he rejected $20M offer to recruit anti-Trump protesters | Fox News
- The CEO of advocacy group Crowds on Demand, Adam Swart, says his organization turned down an offer that he said would have been worth around $20 million to help recruit protestors for a national rally against President Donald Trump...
- "Interests aligned with the organizers of the July 17th movement have approached us and, in fact, we rejected an offer that probably is worth around $20 million dollars," Adam Swart, the CEO and founder of Crowds on Demand, told NewsNation’s Brian Entin in an interview that aired on Tuesday...
MI state Board of Canvassers recently approved petition language for Ranked Choice Voting. Petitions will soon be circulation to put RCV on the 2026 election ballot.
- If passed, this will drastically change the way we vote.
- Do NOT sign any petition for Ranked Choice Voting!
- Complex and confusing process– RCV requires voters to rank candidates and triggers multiple elimination rounds.
- That complexity leads to more spoiled or uncounted ballots if you miss or mis-fill a ranking.
- Voter ballot exhaustion– Many votes go uncounted if someone fails to rank every candidate. So your vote might never count at all...
BUSTED: Video shows J&J scientist admitting vaccine unsafe | Blaze Media
History for July 19
- 1799 - The Rosetta Stone, a tablet with hieroglyphic translations into Greek, was found in Egypt.
- 1870 - France declared war on Prussia.
- 1943 - During World War II, more than 150 B-17 and 112 B-24 bombers attacked Rome for the first time.
- 1971 - In New York, the topping out ceremony for Two World Trade Center (South Tower) took place. The ceremony for One World Trade Center had taken place on December 23, 1970.
- 1974 - The House Judiciary Committee recommended that U.S. President Richard Nixon should stand trial in the Senate for any of the five impeachment charges against him.
- 1982 - The U.S. Census Bureau reported that 14% of the population had an income below the official poverty level in 1981.
- 1985 - Christa McAuliffe of New Hampshire was chosen to be the first schoolteacher to ride aboard the space shuttle. She died with six others when the Challenger exploded the following year.
Friday, July 18, 2025
'Taking your tax dollars and using them against you': House probes public money sent to left-wing groups * WorldNetDaily * by Fred Lucas, The Daily Signal
What If The Marines Got The Money They Needed, And NPR Had To Hold A Bake Sale? - Mitch Berg
- "So then you won't really miss the money", you might respond.
- "NOOOOOOOOOO! You'll be killing Teri Gross and Elmo!"
NPR didn't help itself out much by responding to charges of editorial bias by picking Katherine Maher as CEO - a woman with impeccable credentials who proposed doubling down on everything that'd made NPR suspect in the first place:
Well, that backfired, didn't it?...Maher has supported “deplatforming” anyone she deems to be “facsists” and even suggested that she might support “punching Nazis.” She also declared that “our reverence for the truth might be a distraction [in] getting things done.”...
One editor had had enough. Uri Berliner had watched NPR become an echo chamber for the far left with a virtual purging of all conservatives and Republicans from the newsroom. Berliner noted that NPR’s Washington headquarters has 87 registered Democrats among its editors and zero Republicans.
Prisoners of Lies
- But actually, at least judging from the Mouse Utopia and the Stanford Prison Experiment?
- It’s made up from whole cloth.
It studied this by having students divided into prisoners and guards.
- And supposedly it proved that, driven by peer pressure, these arbitrarily chosen prisoners and guards fell into their roles. Right?
- It’s been quoted everywhere, over and over again.
Well, apparently not. This article admits that:
This one is a little more candid...data collected from a thorough investigation of the SPE archives and
interviews with 15 of the participants in the experiment further
question the study’s scientific merit. These data are not only
supportive of previous criticisms of the SPE, such as the presence of
demand characteristics, but provide new criticisms of the SPE based on
heretofore unknown information. These new criticisms include the biased
and incomplete collection of data, the extent to which the SPE drew on a
prison experiment devised and conducted by students in one of
Zimbardo’s classes 3 months earlier, the fact that the guards received
precise instructions regarding the treatment of the prisoners, the fact
that the guards were not told they were subjects, and the fact that
participants were almost never completely immersed by the situation.