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If The Jews Are Packing

K T Cat
10/8/2025 8:29:29 AM

 ... then it might be time for you to check to see if your luggage is in working order.Dig this.  France entering new phase in antisemitism. 400% increase in applications to move to Israel from France last year. 52% of French Jews considering leaving the country. Number #1 threat: radical Islam. https://t.co/eLvHyR2SMA Mark Dubowitz (mdubowitz) October 7, 2025   Also, this.My own family arrived here at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. Like many Jews from Eastern Europe, they were fleeing the mass murders perpetrated by the Russian state. That journey brought them to Scotland, where they built new lives and laid down roots. I grew up in Glasgow, deeply proud to be British. I learned the[...]

Well, That Didn't Take Long

K T Cat
10/6/2025 11:47:35 AM
 I wasn't going to write about France again, but they, well, they did a France.French Prime Minister Sbastien Lecornu abruptly resigned on Monday morning, just three weeks after his appointment, preempting what appeared to be an inevitable ousting. Lecornu was expected to unveil his policy agenda before the National Assembly on Tuesday, but both the Socialist Party and the National Rally had warned that without a drastic policy shift, they would trigger a no-confidence vote. French bonds and stocks slumped on the emerging political crisis. President Emmanuel Macron's office issued a one-sentence statement, confirming that Macron had accepted the resignation of Lecornu. This comes amid turmoil over the composition of[...]

What's going on in ungovernable France

Silvio Canto, Jr.
10/8/2025 5:00:00 AM
What's going on in ungovernable France: And we think that Chicago is a mess? Yes it is, but not as bad as Paris or France. What in the world is going on in that fabled nation? They can't seem to keep a prime minister on the job. Let's check the story:French President  Click to read:        https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/10/what_s_going_on_in_ungovernable_france.html          The problem in France, according to the article, is no tradition of coalitions. I guess that French politicians meet in their corners, left, center, or right, enjoy a glass of wine, a nice croissant, and agree on nothing. Who knew that the French were so disagreeable? But— Silvio[...]

1970: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn won The Nobel Prize in Literature

Silvio Canto, Jr.
10/8/2025 2:40:17 AM

            We remember how Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was given the prize back in 1970.   The Soviet Union did not allow him to receive the award.  In 1974, he was expelled for treason and moved to the U.S.  Solzhenitsyn was a great man, writer and hero. He was willing to write books in a country that did not tolerate dissent.  He was exactly the kind of man for a Nobel Prize.     He died in 2008 at age 89.  His books are very difficult to read but they[...]

How do I love SPBC? Let me count the ways

W.C. Varones
10/2/2025 4:46:11 PM

     SPBC is the Simplify US Equity Plus Bitcoin ETF. Simplify is stock market genius Michael Green's (profplum99) place of business.SPBC was launched in 2021, near a Bitcoin peak with $100 million in assets. in the ensuing Bitcoin winter, SPBC was largely forgotten and dwindled down to a few million in assets. But it shouldn't have been. SPBC has outperformed just about every asset class except gold (by a nose) since its launch.The concept is simple and beautifully elegant. It's designed to give you 100% of the return of the S&P 500, plus 10% of Bitcoin. I love Bitcoin, and I love stocks. But like Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, this is two great tastes that taste great together. The kicker is in the[...]

Happy government shutdown day

W.C. Varones
9/30/2025 6:04:00 AM
  It's looking like the best shutdown everThe Vought memo orders agencies to identify all programs that depend on discretionary funding (which lapses next week) and dont align with the presidents priorities. Employees who administer those disfavored programs or projects wont be furloughed. They will be fired.For small-government advocates, the beauty of this is its reset potential. When government reopens, the Trump team will hire back the fewest possible statutorily required employees at programs it already wanted to cut. For a starter list, see the more than 45 Mr. Trumps recent budget asked Congress to eliminateamong them the Economic Development Administration, the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness, the[...]

What Ails Us - But First Some Background

B-Daddy
4/6/2025 5:10:10 PM
Someone close to me asked me to give an overall take on the current state of politics and the prospects for our future. I thought to answer, but first want to explain how I analyze the political landscape.Here are some key principles that are worth repeating because we seem to forget them.1. A chicken is an eggs way of making another egg.      To influence the the size and numbers of your chickens, manage egg production and consumption. Demographics are destiny.2. Eggs are rare, sperm is plentiful.      Combined with 1 above, the most important variable component of demographic destiny is female reproductive behavior and strategies.3. Testosterone confers greater strength and aggression[...]

Bezos vs Burnham - Robber Baron vs Managers

B-Daddy
1/26/2022 8:32:44 PM
 Well not really; and not just because Burnham isn't a household name. James Burnham authored key insights on "managerialism" and predicted its eventual triumph over capitalism in his 1941 book "The Managerial Revolution," summarized here, but skip ahead 5 minutes (this is a great podcast). George Orwell provided this summary in 1943.Capitalism is disappearing, but Socialism is not replacing it. What is now arising is a new kind of planned, centralized society which will be neither capitalist nor, in any accepted sense of the word, democratic. The rulers of this new society will be the people who effectively control the means of production: that is, business executives, technicians, bureaucrats and soldiers,[...]

Natural Born Citizen Definition

Doo Doo Econ
1/19/2016 6:08:58 PM

    Once again Americans are facing questions about the definition of a Natural Born Citizen (NBC).This is the simple and indisputable definition: Two citizens who have a child, naturally create a new citizen. This is a Natural Born Citizen.There is absolutely no expert either legal or historical who will argue to the contrary. They may argue to include additional citizens, but this is the core of the definition.Two people who have a child in a location, have a citizen who is native to that land. This is a Native Born Citizen. Thus, terms like "Native American" which imply a location and not an allegiance to a country.A person can be both Natural Born and Native Born, or in the United States we also have Naturalized[...]

Obama Fuels Eternal Islamic War on America

Doo Doo Econ
8/5/2015 5:00:00 AM

                Do you remember the headlines when Obama apparently declared America a Muslim country on French television?    Taken from an Islamic perspective this statement is dangerous. It sounds as if the President of the United States sees America is a Muslim nation. When you consider translations, this may presented to the masses as exactly that, American President Hussein (an exclusively Islamic name)  Obama declares America to be Islamic. Thus America would be "al-Islam", or territory which may never be ceded to non-Muslims.Semantics, right? Over-reaction, right?Except, this is a long standing meme from not only the President, but also his staffers.   [...]

And Where a Salon Scribe Gets a Tad Out of His Swim Lane

Dean
11/11/2015 9:22:09 AM
Over the weekend, Salon writer, DAVID MASCIOTRA, caused quite a dust-up on social media with his own salute to the troops ahead of Veterans Day . Here is the headline, followed by the sub-headline and then followed by the first paragraph of the piece:You dont protect my freedom: Our childish insistence on calling soldiers heroes deadens real democracyIt's been 70 years since we fought a war about freedom. Forced troop worship and compulsory patriotism must endPut a man in uniform, preferably a white man, give him a gun, and Americans will worship him. It is a particularly childish trait, of a childlike culture, that insists on anointing all active military members and police officers as heroes.If you desire, you can read it[...]

Football rules changes...? You've come to the right place

Dean
1/31/2015 2:04:56 PM

    Theres no denying that over the last few decades most all on-field rules changes made by the NFL have been exercises in increasing offense and scoring. This has created an arms race in a sense where the pendulum swings back and forth between the NFL offenses and NFL defenses whereby the offenses get aided by rules changes and the defenses counter with a combination of innovative schemes and superior athletes. To wit, for years, its been conventional wisdom that the best athletes in the world were in the NBA. Now days, we would add NFL defensive backs and possibly outside linebackers/rush ends into that mix (you dont think dudes like Richard Sherman, Darrelle Revis and J.J. Watt can ball a little?).But[...]

Trump Approves Permits for Alaska Mining Road Blocked by Biden Administration 

Leslie Eastman

The White House also announced a $35.6 million investment in Canada's Trilogy Metals, one of the regions possible developers. Also, 10 other key mine projects have been expedited in a mad dash to make us competitive with and independent from China.The post Trump Approves Permits for Alaska Mining Road Blocked by Biden Administration first appeared on Legal Insurrection.

FDA Exploring Evidence-Based Approach for Evaluating Vaccine Coadministration Safety 

Leslie Eastman

"In the absence of such studies, FDA cannot affirm that concurrent administration is both safe and effective."The post FDA Exploring Evidence-Based Approach for Evaluating Vaccine Coadministration Safety first appeared on Legal Insurrection.