WEIRD, BUT LET’S GIVE IT A TRY: Don’t let people who hate America move here.

I pledge allegiance to the flag …

I heard those strange words for the first time at Riverside Elementary School in 1976, as a first-grader who had just moved to the United States with my family. I learned quickly how to say the words, but it took me much longer to learn what they mean.

Like Jefferson, Franklin and Washington, I was born English but chose to become an American. I took US history in middle and high school, got a degree in history, and later taught American history to 8th- and 11th-graders.

But though I knew the names and dates, nothing taught me to love my country like spending half my life outside of it, including 23 years as a US diplomat in Africa, Asia and Europe. The singularity of American freedom and opportunity is best proven through comparison.

Like many other Americans who came here legally and became citizens, nothing rankles me more than seeing disrespect, ingratitude, and even homicidal violence from some who have been granted the opportunity to come here — or allowed to remain despite coming illegally.

You’d figure the least they could do would be to obey our rules and respect our culture and values.

“Assimilation” is a dirty word to Americans who don’t like America very much.

YES:

More than one and it’s not “lone wolf,”
It never was. https://t.co/Akf3YxMNyu

— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) June 3, 2025

DO NOT TRUST CHINA; CHINA IS ASSHOE: Chinese nationals charged after bringing possible ‘agroterrorism’ fungus into US.

Seems like a huge deal that Chinese students linked to the CCP are getting caught trying to smuggle crop and livestock killing pathogens into the United States https://t.co/grT6IbfdSu pic.twitter.com/QDEXe6rPJm

— Enguerrand VII de Coucy (@ingelramdecoucy) June 3, 2025

JOHN LUCAS: Intifada Here! Intifada Now! The evil consequences of appeasement and enabling calls for violence.

JOHN HINDERAKER: Mass Murder at USAID?

If you listened to liberals, you would never cut any government spending, because all spending cuts cause people to die. How anyone ever survived before the modern era of behemoth government is a mystery.

The Trump administration’s pause on dispensation of USAID grants is a case in point. We know that many USAID programs were money-laundering operations for the global Left that needed to be shut down. Happily, that is being done. The administration says that legitimate aid programs that survive scrutiny will continue. I have no idea what the status of current program funding is, and this is not easy to discern from news accounts, which are often hysterical and rarely informative.

Thus, liberals are now asserting that USAID cuts have caused 300,000 people to die. U2 frontman Bono made this claim on the Joe Rogan podcast. It didn’t fare well.

Well, you know, it isn’t remotely true, and Bono isn’t remotely bright.

And even if it were true, many taxpayers wonder why it’s their responsibility to save the lives of people in other countries who often as not hate them.

Related: The reviews aren’t good.

Bono's first foray into "philanthropy," the Live Aid music concerts of the 1980s, raised $100 million for famine relief in Ethiopia. BBC later reported that just $5 million of it went to food — $95 million of it went to buy guns and organize CIA-backed warlords. pic.twitter.com/hdI1qd7lNM

— Mike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber) June 4, 2025

QUESTION ASKED: Why Won’t Trump 47 Enforce the Law Trump 45 Wanted?

FLASHBACK: Who are You? Voter ID law and election integrity should be top priority in new Congress.

IT’S NOT LIKE YOU CAN BE ANYONE ELSE:  On Being Yourself.

CBO HEADED FOR A DOGE AUDIT? – Won’t literally be done by the DOGE corps of waste and fraud killers in the executive branch, but there is a movement that is gaining some traction on the Hill for a DOGE-like top-to-bottom audit of the Congressional Budget Office. My exclusive report is on The Washington Stand this morning.

I WAS RELIABLY ASSURED MEDICARE FRAUD WAS MINOR:  CEO of Health Care Software Company Convicted in $1 Billion Medicare Fraud Scheme.

CALL YOUR CONGRESS-CRITTER TODAY:  First Round of DOGE Cuts Headed to Capitol Hill.

I voted for the chainsaw. Make it go bzzzzzzzt.

I EAGERLY AWAIT THE WAILING OF THEIR WOMYN:  Are the Biden Family Pardons About to Disappear?

JOURNALISM STARTED ITS WAY DOWN THE TOILET WHEN IT TRIED TO BECOME A PROFESSION INSTEAD OF A TRADE:  Did You Catch Axios’ Recent Headlines About the Boulder Terror Attack? Who’s Running the Site?

THEY ONLY RELY ON POLLS THAT ADVANCE THE NARRATIVE THEY WANT (BECAUSE THEY KNOW HOW EASILY POLLS ARE RIGGED):  CNN’s Political Analyst Has a Simple Reason Why the GOP Are Whipping the Dems on the Economy.

ANOTHER SAINT PANCAKE IN THE MAKING:  Greta Thunberg Sets Sail on Luxury Yacht to Break Gaza ‘Siege’.

AND THE ERUPTION WILL PROBABLY HERALD AN EXCEPTIONALLY COOL YEAR: Pyroclastic Flows from Mt. Etna Send Tourists Fleeing Down its Slopes.

THEY’RE DESPERATE. THEY’RE GOING TO TRY EVERYTHING:  That’s a lot of things, if you’re keeping track at home.  Two Chinese Nationals Accused of Smuggling ‘Potential Agroterrorism’ Fungus into U.S..

THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION NEEDS TO GO: I don’t care where it goes. It just can’t stay here.  EXCLUSIVE: Federal Education Program Warned Teachers About Racist Babies, Made Old MacDonald Trans.

THE PROBLEM WITH THE ELITES IS THAT THEY FALL FOR FADS:  When the fads are fashion and how to speak, it’s one thing. Once it becomes a poisonous political ideology, and the oikophobia it engenders, there’s going to be trouble.  ‘Elite’ university system should be burned to the ground.

HEY, WHICH OF YOUR REPROBATES HAS TAKEN HOLD OF MY SHOCKED FACE? Bring it right back. I have need of it.  Shady Donation Leads to Questions for Candidate Over School Abuse Cover-Ups.

I DON’T JUDGE OTHERS HABITS, BUT I HATE ANYTHING THAT TAKES ME OUT OF CONTROL OF MY OWN THOUGHTS:  On drugs, Glenn Greenwald, and serious jobs.  Greenwald’s sexual fetishes are his business; but his apparent use of dangerous drugs puts his journalism in question.

You do what you have to do. But IMHO it’s always best to know the voice in your head is your own.

YEAH. THEY DO COVER UP ATTACKS ON JEWS. AND I’M GETTING SICK AND TIRED OF IT:  ‘Bout covers it.

A MAN KNOWS WHEN TO SHOOT HIS OWN DOG:  When dogs go rabid. You do the right thing.