Archive for 2025
August 26, 2025
KEEP YOUR NAILS TRIMMED: Ergonomic Grip Toenail Clipper for Thick Nails. #CommissionEarned
MAKING DO: Hunting Russian Drones in a Prop Plane With Shotguns and Rifles.
This month, a beaten-up, Soviet-era propeller-driven plane taxied to a halt on a rural runway and two of Ukraine’s top air aces clambered out, one carrying a rifle. The pair, clad in olive-drab flight suits, are part of a low-tech solution to the high-tech problem of Russian drones.
The 56-year-old pilot, who learned to fly as a hobby before the war, and the gunner, 38, a former auto mechanic who had never been in a plane before the invasion, are part of a squadron dedicated to knocking down the unmanned Russian attack and reconnaissance aircraft that are the bane of ground troops and civilians.
In the past year, these two unlikely air warriors have flown around 300 combat missions as part of the 11th Army Aviation Brigade and downed almost half the unit’s total of 120 drones eliminated, according to its deputy commander, Col. Mykola Lykhatskiy.
Ukraine has some of the West’s most advanced air defenses, including the Patriot missile system. It also has F-16 jets that it sometimes uses to down missiles and drones. But it has also developed a series of lower-cost tactics to counter the threat from the skies, ranging from nets to signal jamming.
Is the Pentagon paying attention?
CHOKE POINTS OF COLLAPSE: Venezuela’s Fragile War Machine.
WATCH: Cameraman Wins the Day During Live Shot of JB Pritzker’s Anti-Trump Presser.
Though he used the event to give a warm-up speech well ahead of a prospective run for president in 2028, the unintended consequences of Pritzker holding the news conference in close proximity to Trump International Hotel and Tower – Chicago even as he claimed he was “living rent-free” in Trump’s head was something that perhaps could not be overlooked by a cameraman who was filming the goings on.
“I know that I live rent-free in the president’s head. I wish he would spend some time in Chicago so that he can see what a lovely city we have,” Pritzker proclaimed. But watch what the cameraman did next:
PRITZKER: "I live rent free in the President's head."
Wait 'til the end. 🤣 pic.twitter.com/wPiB3xSi0b
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) August 25, 2025
“Might have been intentional. Might not have been. But still funny.”
ANALYSIS: TRUE. Ending Rural Solar Subsidies Was the Right Call.
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LANGUAGE RULES FOR CRAZY PEOPLE: Democrat Forbidden Words For 2025 (Plus Additions). “See, the problem with the modern woke mind-virus, social justice-infected Democrat Party doesn’t begin, or end, with their obfuscating academic jargon. Their need to Orwellize the language is a result of the deeply unpopular, racist, bigoted, anti-borders, anti-reality policies social justice democrats have been promulgating. Their language is bad because their ideas are bad.”
A CENTURY AGO, THE ‘SCOPES MONKEY TRIAL’ SHOOK THE NATION. THE STAKES ARE JUST AS HIGH TODAY:
What many Americans know about the Scopes trial is actually based on a popular play and film inspired by the trial. “Inherit The Wind” tells the story of a teacher prosecuted by a small religious town for teaching human evolution. The play, which is often taught in schools, portrays critics of evolution as backwards fanatics denying scientific evidence.
Critics say “Inherit the Wind” misleads the public about key facts about the case, whitewashes inconvenient facts about the biology textbook in question, and has perpetuated stereotypes about opponents of evolution as backward rubes.
Dr. John West, the vice president of the Discovery Institute, a Seattle-based think tank, told The Daily Wire that there are many facts of the case that don’t come across in its telling. For example, the 1925 textbook at the center of the Scopes trial — Civic Biology, by George Hunter — was deeply racist and promoted eugenics.
“The dirty little secret that very few people actually talk about … is that Hunter’s civic biology was a ravingly racist and pro-eugenics book,” West told The Daily Wire. “It’s kind of a riot today because if you actually tried to teach out of that textbook today, teachers would probably be fired.”
For example, the textbook said that the Caucasian race was the “highest type of all” humans, and said some people were “parasites” unfit to reproduce.
“If such people were lower animals, we would probably kill them off to prevent them from spreading,” the textbook said. “Humanity will not allow this, but we do have the remedy of separating the sexes in asylums or other places and in various ways preventing intermarriage and the possibilities of perpetuating such a low and degenerate race.”
West also said that Bryan, the progressive Democrat politician who helped prosecute Scopes, saw the trial as a battle for parental rights. Bryan believed that parents should not be forced to send their kids to government schools that would undermine their Christian faith. Instead, he believed the teachers should avoid the issue of human origins altogether, according to West.
Related: A Forgotten Lesson of the Scopes ‘Monkey Trial.’
We already have seen what happens when this suffocating ideology is given a free hand. When the United States indoctrinated its citizens in the dogma of eugenics, the results were catastrophic: a widening and deepening of institutional racism, xenophobic anti-immigration policies, and the coercive sterilization of “the unfit.” And it was all justified in the name of “progress,” supported by the scientific and academic establishments.
“Could any doctrine be more destructive of civilization?” Bryan asked. The answer arrived soon enough: The event that brought all of it to a screeching halt was the Holocaust. It is well known that the Nazis based their 1933 sterilization laws on the work of American eugenicists such as Harry Laughlin, who received an honorary doctorate from the University of Heidelberg for his efforts to promote “race hygiene.”
Exit quote: “Hitler’s death camps were the horrific yet logical result of the militant rejection of the God of the Bible.”
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ROGER SIMON: Tired of Selfish Weed Smokers?
Some would call Norwegian tennis star Casper Ruud—currently competing at the US Open— rude with an e for bringing up something many of us have been thinking for years.
The NY Post reports under the headline: “Casper Ruud hates the weed smell at US Open: ‘Worst part about New York’”
I don’t know about “worst,” but it’s certainly up there. Every time I go to New York I feel as if I’m getting a contact high just walking around midtown Manhattan, a contact high, to be clear, I don’t want.
(This goes for many other cities, notably Seattle, Denver, Portland and everywhere in CA. In the case of Seattle, you trip over smokers getting off the ferry. It’s like an opium den in 19th Century China.)
I have no right to be a prude about marijuana. I smoked it regularly in my thirties. As I detailed in “Turning Right at Hollywood & Vine,” I did a fair number of other drugs popular at the time as well (psychedelics, etc.). Most of them I only tried once (okay, twice) because I am fortunate not to have an addictive personality—except for the ribeye steaks my doctor tells me are lethal for my kidneys and I am currently trying to shake.
As is well known, marijuana has changed over the years, becoming many times more potent. Curious about that, roughly ten years ago when I was still living in Los Angeles, I picked up the new vintage (there were as many choices as at a luxury wine shop) at a couple of the upscale marijuana emporiums then blossoming along Ventura Blvd. One of them had valet parking yet.
Earlier: How Weed Became The New Oxycontin.
FAIL, BRITANNIA: From the ‘Banter Bill’ to Bias Hotlines: The Alarming Rise of Snitch Networks.
A troubling new piece of legislation continues to make its way through the British parliament. Dubbed the “Banter Bill,” the Employment Rights Bill would criminalize any speech that might be considered offensive by any passerby.
As Dominic Green reports for The Free Press, under this proposed law, “Britons can be prosecuted for a remark that a worker in a public space overhears and finds insulting.” Under this standard, whether a certain sentiment (for instance, that Britain should reduce immigration) is legal will now depend on whether someone in the vicinity takes offense.
Unfortunately, this new subjective standard for what types of speech are allowed isn’t restricted to Great Britain. In the United States, more and more states are experimenting with a similar system. The Washington Free Beacon reports that eight states have set up “bias-response hotlines” which citizens are encouraged to call if they hear a comment — from a neighbor, coworker, or even passersby on the street — that they consider to be offensive. As Oregon says of their hotline, if you see or hear someone “creating racist images/drawings; mocking someone with a disability; or telling or sharing offensive ‘jokes’ about someone’s identity” they want to hear about it.
“The Lives of Others” was not supposed to be a training film.
DON’T GET COCKY: Are Democrats on the Verge of a Historic Midterm Wipeout?
CONSEQUENCES: Unsafe spaces: Throw rocks at the teacher, get ‘Tiger tokens.’
Lax discipline policies are creating classroom chaos, writes Neetu Arnold, a Manhattan Institute policy analyst, in City Journal. Teachers, citing “chronic student misbehavior as the top source of stress and burnout,” quit.
Parents, worried about their children’s safety, turn to homeschooling, private or charter schools.
“Restorative justice” often gets the blame, writes Arnold but it’s far less common than Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS), which has been around for decades. PBIS “masks its anti-punitive bias behind uncontroversial goals” such as collecting data and setting clear behavior expectations. It’s not overtly political. The idea is to reward positive student behavior and avoid punishments. Schools have lots of discretion on how to use it.
The U.S. Department of Education has urged schools to use PBIS as an “equitable” way to reduce racial disparities in discipline, she writes. The easiest way to do that is to reduce discipline.
Unexpectedly, they get more of what the tolerate.
KAMALA’S REVENGE: Harris Screwed the Democrats So Badly I Can’t Stop Laughing. “Forget the old-school thrills of ‘F1,’ the family charm of ‘Freakier Friday,’ and even the surprisingly pro-life ‘Fantastic Four: First Steps’ — because this summer’s feel-good movie turns out to be an August sleeper hit that virtually nobody saw coming.”
WHAT NEWSOM HATES, LOVES: Issues & Insights surveys the man’s record and concludes that what California’s governor hates is Californians and absolutely, totally, completely worships is being in the spotlight.
“JOURNALIST”:
Hamas journalist Mohammed Salama infiltrated Israel on October 7.
Here is one of his videos from inside Israel, chanting “Allahu Akbar.”
He has been eliminated today. pic.twitter.com/Bgk8hBiA2s
— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) August 25, 2025
IT’S GOOD TO BE THE NOMENKLATURA: Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick voids ‘illegal’ $7.4B payment to Biden ally-staffed nonprofit for semiconductor research.
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick canceled an Biden administration agreement Monday to distribute billions of dollars for semiconductor research through a nonprofit set up and staffed by former political appointees, according to a letter obtained by The Post.
The 2022 CHIPS and Science Act provided for $11 billion in semiconductor research and development funding to be given out by the Commerce Department’s National Semiconductor Technology Center.
“Rather than establishing these operations within the Department, however, Biden Administration officials spent significant time, effort, and resources creating an unaccountable, outside entity–Natcast–to administer taxpayer funds,” Lutnick wrote Natcast CEO Deirdre Hanford.
Four days before Biden left office on Jan. 20, Lutnick noted, the Commerce Department agreed to set aside $7.4 billion in “advance payments” to Natcast after spending nearly two years setting it up and tapping administration officials, advisers and allies to fill out positions.
That arrangement both effectively removed the incoming Trump administration from being involved in the process and provided “virtually all” of Natcast’s funding — prompting incoming Departments of Justice and Commerce officials to take another look at the Sunnyvale, Calif., nonprofit.
The most corrupt administration in history.
AS PREDICTABLE AS THE DAWN: Trump fires corrupt Federal Reserve governor, “The NYT article is full of material about the importance of the independence of the Federal Reserve.”
If the president can’t fire them, then the Fed is unconstitutional.