Archive for 2025
June 24, 2025
RIP: ’60s teen idol Bobby Sherman dead at 81.
Bobby Sherman, the ’60s teen idol and actor, died Tuesday morning at the age of 81.
His wife, Brigitte Poublon, confirmed Sherman’s death to Fox News Digital.
Crafted with the help of friend John Stamos, Poublon shared the news of Sherman’s death on social media.
“It is with the heaviest heart that I share the passing of my beloved husband, Bobby Sherman,” Stamos wrote on Instagram on behalf of Poublon. “Bobby left this world holding my hand—just as he held up our life with love, courage, and unwavering grace through all 29 beautiful years of marriage.”
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Throughout his career, he also appeared on shows like “Fantasy Island,” “The Love Boat” and “Frasier,” his last credited appearance in 1997.
After an appearance on the TV show “Emergency!” in 1974, Sherman decided to change career paths and eventually leave entertainment to be a technical reserve police officer with the Los Angeles Police Department.
According to the Los Angeles Police Reserve Foundation’s Facebook page, Sherman was also an EMT and in 1999 was named LAPD Reserve Officer of the Year.
Poublon said Sherman “gave his all” to public service, adding it was a “labor of love” for him.
In the early 1970s, Sherman and his manager Ward Sylvester purchased a former United Airlines Boeing 720 and transformed it into the “Starship,” which ferried “Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones, Deep Purple, The Allman Brothers, The Bee Gees, Elton John, Peter Frampton and Alice Cooper” to their US concerts throughout the 1970s. “Most of the Starship’s nouveau-riche rockers thought the plane was the ne plus ultra of decadence and luxury. And for the times, it probably was. A four-engined variant of the Boeing 707 renovated at a cost of $200,000, the Starship leased for a staggering $2,500-per-flight hour and was a potent symbol of rock’n’roll primacy.”
DAMNING WITH FAINT PRAISE: Scarborough Shocks Viewers with Rare Defense of Trump’s Iran Strike: ‘Any President Would’ve Done It.’
Hell may have just frozen over.
In a rare moment of clarity from the liberal media, MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough left viewers stunned on Monday when he offered a surprising defense of President Donald Trump’s bold and strategic strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities. Known for his relentless criticism of Trump, Scarborough broke ranks with the left-wing echo chamber by acknowledging the strength and effectiveness of the president’s Operation Midnight Hammer.
During Monday’s broadcast of “Morning Joe,” Scarborough said he was not “championing either side,” but defended Trump’s strikes on Iran’s nuclear program. He argued that any president, including Hillary Clinton and George W. Bush, would have felt compelled to act given Iran’s looming nuclear threat.
“I find it hard to believe that Bush 41, Bush 43, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, you know, go down the list, any president wouldn’t have felt compelled to take that strike,” he said. “What would Monday look like if he hadn’t have moved? If Iran wasn’t already at 60 percent [enrichment of uranium] and an ability to create nuclear weapons in a short matter of time, right?”
Right. As Jeffrey Blehar writes: Trump’s Iran Strike Shows Precisely Why Elections Matter.
This is an unalloyed victory for the forces of sanity and civilization. To those who point to the inevitability of unforeseen “blowback,” I will remind you that Iran and its proxies have been engaging in low-level conflict with America for well over a decade now — who do you think was funding and training the people killing our boys in Iraq and Afghanistan all those years? — and now it is free to try its hand at more of the same, if it wishes, this time without a looming nuclear threat to back it up. America has come out ahead on this in concrete, measurable, and hugely valuable geostrategic ways.
Most importantly of all, none of this would have happened if Kamala Harris were president. Think about that for a moment; think about the road not taken. One can only speculate about hypotheticals, but . . . c’mon now. Look into your heart, you know it to be true. Imagine a President Harris, sitting uneasily atop a Democratic coalition barely held together at the seams: Would she have encouraged Netanyahu in his initial campaign against Iranian military and nuclear assets? Would she have provided the final air support and ordnance necessary to get the job done? With people such as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, David Hogg, and Zohran Mamdani calling the shots among large segments of her base?
To ask the question out loud is to answer it: no. For that reason alone, it is no exaggeration to say that the shape of the world perceptibly turned for the better on the outcome of last November’s election. You can draw a straight line between Donald Trump’s winning the 2024 race and Iran’s nuclear weapons program now being best described as a series of variably sized craters. If you supported Donald Trump and voted for him in 2024, you should feel proud of it today: Saturday is the most obvious evidence yet of why your vote mattered. (And if you voted for Donald Trump because you mistakenly thought him to be a whimpering, limp-tailed isolationist? Well, your dismay pleases me as well.)
Jonathan Tobin adds: Would anyone but Trump have done it?
There have always been reasons for American presidents to avoid taking action on Iran.
Key among them has been an unwillingness to acknowledge Iran’s goal or what it would mean if Tehran obtained a nuclear weapon or was allowed, as it appeared to be already the case in recent years, to become a threshold nuclear power.
Many in the American intelligence community clung to the belief that “Supreme Leader” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s purported ban on Iran’s building a nuclear weapon was a genuine policy decision. Though it was proven false by the regime’s nuclear files obtained by Israel’s Mossad in 2018, those determined to give Tehran a pass—like current Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard—have continued to wrongly insist that its nuclear project is not a threat.
Others thought that dealing with the problem could also be postponed. That was the position of the George W. Bush administration, which was already embroiled in quagmires in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Obama went even further and negotiated a nuclear deal that not only postponed a reckoning on the issue, but essentially guaranteed that Iran would get a weapon once the sunset provisions in the 2015 accord expired by 2030. More than that, Obama and his former staffers who ran foreign policy during the Biden administration went even further and imagined that Tehran was open to a rapprochement with the West and believed that it should replace Israel and Saudi Arabia as the lynchpin of U.S. policy in the region.
Flashback: Ben Rhodes: Obama Admin Threw Israel Under Bus at U.N. to Pressure Jewish State.
MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: Oh, Chuck Todd, You Sweet Summer Child… “Before we go any further, allow me a brief word about the headline: It is dripping — nay, absolutely saturated — with sarcasm and condescension. Chuck Todd is in no way an innocent, sweet summer child — no matter what the headline might tease. He was a willing participant in the Democrat-Media Complex cover-up of Biden’s increasingly crippling senility. Like Tapper and others before him, Todd now admits to some of the truth in a pathetic attempt at CYA. Unlike Tapper, however, Todd might actually convince a few sad souls that the Biden White House snookered him because, if you’ll allow me to continue being frank, Todd never came across as particularly bright.”
“HUMAN RIGHTS GROUPS” ARE A JOKE: The latest idiocy is that it’s purportedly a human rights violation to feed hungry civilians in Gaza unless Hamas gets a large cut.
GOOD NEWS FOR ME: Zoning out could be beneficial—and may actually help us learn faster.
OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY:
🚨ALERT: This pseudoscientific activist "study" on "White ignorance" grounded in Critical Race Theory was paid for by an NIH grant that is supposed to be funding research on coronary heart disease (CHD) in children.
What was the justification for this? How much of this $3.1M… pic.twitter.com/rnW85UBMHX
— Colin Wright (@SwipeWright) June 23, 2025
Stuff like this is exactly why the left squealed like stuck pigs when DOGE got into USAID and other progressive boondoggles.
MORE NUKES IS GOOD NUKES: N.Y. Plans to Build Nuclear Power Plant.
Only five new commercial U.S. reactors have come online since 1991, the Journal said.
The most recently built reactors were at Plant Vogtle in Georgia. Construction started in 2009 and they were completed in 2023 and 2024.
Nuclear plants currently produce about 19% of the nation’s electricity.
Those aren’t even rookie numbers.
THE NEW SPACE RACE: In Calif. launch, Space X sends up Transporter-14 with satellites, human DNA.
OLD AND BUSTED: Democracy Dies in Darkness.
The New Hotness?
This is being removed because, much like body cameras, it doesn't say what they wanted it to say. https://t.co/a1e6OVUJlT
— Upstate Federalist (@upstatefederlst) June 23, 2025
Related: Leftists Demanded Police Body Cams. Now They Regret It.
UPDATE: The Washington Post ends toxic narrative that cops are hunting black men.
The fatal flaw in the Post’s project – and in the broader progressive framing of policing – is its refusal to confront the correlation between crime and police presence. The hard truth is that urban minority communities tend to have higher rates of violent crime. That’s not because of skin color. That’s because of systemic issues like broken families, failing schools and economic neglect – many of them the legacy of progressive policies, by the way.
But when crime is high, police presence follows. It must. And when police presence is high, so too is the probability of interaction, arrest, and – yes – conflict. This isn’t racism. It’s math.
The idea that this basic dynamic can be reduced to a racial morality play – black victim versus white oppressor – is not only wrong, it’s dangerous. It cultivates fear. It discourages cooperation with law enforcement. It teaches young black men that any contact with a cop is a threat to their life, instead of an opportunity for protection, resolution, or correction.
And it has consequences. In cities across America, police officers have scaled back traffic stops, foot patrols and street-level enforcement, not because they don’t care – but because they’re being watched like predators and punished like criminals for doing their jobs. That vacuum doesn’t lead to peace. It leads to unchecked violence.
Look at the statistics the media ignore: in recent years, spikes in homicide, carjackings and armed robbery have hit minority communities the hardest. Children are gunned down on their front porches. Elderly women are assaulted in broad daylight. And where are the think pieces on that? Where’s the Washington Post database for the victims of post-police America?
MICHAEL WALSH: Unconditional Surrender.
[In the wake of 9/11] we know from history what other, more secure and confident, cultures would have done. The imperial Romans would have gone full delenda est on Saudi Arabia, razed its cities, destroyed the Kaaba, leveled the mosques, occupied the oil fields, seized its wealth, executed its leaders, and sold the populace into slavery; they knew an existential struggle when they were in one. Constantine would not have stopped until Greco-Roman writ applied without resistance across his realm. Bohemond would immediately have known the holy warriors for what they were: dedicated, merciless enemies in a religious war in which there could be only one victor, and helpfully converted their mosques back into churches as he put them to the sword.
Napoleon would have as handily defeated them as he did the Egyptian mamelukes—former slaves who had risen to power over the centuries—and added their territory to his empire, sending scholars and scientists to preserve and protect the ruins and artifacts and where possible restore the preexisting nations and faiths that had been overwhelmed by the Islamic conquest, especially in Persia, a once-great nation that has not been the same since the Arab conquest in 654 A.D. Americans, however, have never had a taste for empire.
True, the U.S. successfully rehabilitated Germany and Japan as allies, in large part by Americanizing them via its pervasive popular, even vulgar, culture. But that was only possible after both nations had been convincingly beaten. As for Russia, the Cold War foe, it is still feeling the effects of its loss of manpower during the Great Patriotic War, the collapse of its moral structure under atheistic Communism, its reliance on abortion as birth control, its corresponding declining birth rate, and a host of other ills brought on by its self-imposed, prolonged absence from Western civilization during most of the last century. Once an enemy, Russia is now simply an adversary, and not a particularly potent one at that.
The Dar al-Harb, however, is still out there, itching for a fight.
Read the whole thing.
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KNOWN UNKNOWNS ARE STILL PREFERABLE TO UNKNOWN UNKNOWNS: The Great Unknown About the Damage to Iran’s Nuclear Facilities.
SOLICITOR GENERAL ASKS SUPREME COURT TO REMIND DISTRICT COURT WHICH COURT IS SUPREME:
🔥🔥"The district court’s ruling of last night is indefensible." – Solicitor General John Sauer. DOJ is formally asking the Supreme Court to clarify the scope of its stay after the district judge yesterday appeared to defy the Supreme Court's order. pic.twitter.com/226KzhaFkw
— Eric W. (@EWess92) June 24, 2025
ALLIGATORS MAKE GREAT GUARDS: Florida Just Raised the Bar in the Fight Against Illegal Immigration.
DOES IT MAYBE WORK THE OTHER WAY? Frequent nightmares might increase risk of premature death. People at higher risk of premature death have more nightmares?
ANALYSIS: TRUE.
You need to understand how many former Obama staffers hated not only Israel but had a general hostility to Jews, and it helps explain their foreign policy for 8 years https://t.co/Haj3Xw6UY6
— Sunny (@sunnyright) June 24, 2025
WHATEVER GETS YOU THROUGH THE NIGHT: Hahahahaha: Scott Jennings Bursts Out Laughing When Obama Aide Claims He Was an ‘Anti-War’ President.
Was informed tonight on live TV that Obama was an “anti war” president https://t.co/M1Wlwjld6L
— Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) June 24, 2025
“For the record, in his last year in office alone, Obama dropped more than 25,000 bombs on seven Middle East countries.”
And worked ceaselessly to aid Iran in building theirs:
Democrats watching Iran lose their nukes pic.twitter.com/JAns2iLbWm
— Joel Berry (@JoelWBerry) June 22, 2025
More from Stacey Matthews, aka Sister Toldjah: “They can stomach many things, but losing to Trump — especially on issues as consequential as this one, is not one of them, hence the pearl clutching, handwringing, and gaslighting about the nuclear site strikes and the ceasefire deal. It simply does not compute with them that it’s Trump, not Obama and not Biden, who is the actual anti-war, peace through strength president in this scenario, bless their hearts.”
THE RULING CLASS WANTED WHAT IT WANTED:
Way back in 1992, 65% of Americans wanted immigration decreased. That’s a higher percentage than even today. Yet it kept going up and up. Why? pic.twitter.com/4qhmAjBc5b
— Roman Helmet Guy (@romanhelmetguy) June 24, 2025
ENJOY SUMMER: Crocs Unisex Adult Classic Clog. #CommissionEarned
HERE’S HOW THAT SPACE PROGRAM IS COMING ALONG: The Rubin Observatory found 2,104 asteroids in just a few days. It could soon find millions more.
First of all, to put it simply, with just a few nights of data, the Rubin Observatory team was able to identify 2,104 never-before-seen asteroids in our solar system — seven of which are categorized as near-Earth objects. (No, none are expected to strike our planet. Don’t worry). For context, there are approximately a million known asteroids in our cosmic neighborhood; over the next few years, Rubin could very well hike that figure up to five million.
“This is five times more than all the astronomers in the world discovered during the last 200 years since the discovery of the first asteroid,” Željko Ivezić, Deputy Director of Rubin’s Legacy Survey of Space and Time, said during the conference. “We can outdo two centuries of effort in just a couple of years.”
This is astonishing in itself — talk about an exemplary first impression — but there’s still that second thing that makes Rubin’s new asteroid data incredible.
They can be formatted as movies.
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This feature of Rubin should be huge not only because it’d allow scientists to better study asteroid movements and discover new near-Earth objects, but also for humanity’s efforts in planetary defense.
Well, good.