MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: How Democrats used NGOs to end-run voters: A ‘parallel government.’

NOT FORD TOUGH: Ford Has a ‘Chief Learning Officer,’ and He’s Exactly What You’d Expect.

PICKING ON THE SLOW KIDS:  Trump repeatedly insults CNN’s Kaitlan Collins in Oval Office over deportation of El Salvadoran national: ‘Why can’t you just say that?’

YES.

Tax payers have been funding our opponents. If DOGE continues, the real political dynamic of the US will emerge. This, not the deficit, is why DOGE matters so much. https://t.co/qS9zxGddJ7

— Randy Barnett (@RandyEBarnett) April 14, 2025

POLITICIANS RESPOND TO HEAT, SO BUILD A FIRE UNDER THEM*:   If Labour won’t do anything about the rape gangs, I will.

*not literally. Ix nay on the arsonay.

YOU DON’T SUPPOSE HE’S NOW BEING HELD ACCOUNTABLE:  What’s behind Kennedy’s ‘MMR U-turn’?

I ASSUME IT’S FOR BEING THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION:  Sen. Lie-a-watha Demands Investigation Into Trump Administration. Wait Until You Hear Why.

IT’S A BIG CHALLENGE FOR THOSE TWO BRAIN CELLS:  Kamala Harris Is Still Thinking About Her Political Future.

I HAVE FRIENDS THERE WHO WILL BE GUTTED:  Maybe it finally is time we actually made these major budget cuts at NASA.

But perhaps it’s time to consider whether this centralized, government funded approach to space is what America — of all places — should be doing.

A TOOL TO FIND OUT IF THE NGO GETS GRANTS FOR WHAT THE NGO’S STATED PURPOSE IS?  Today I’ve been deep in the guts of something ambitious: a system to cross-check Form 990 data, audit reports, and federal spending to flag when an org’s stated purpose doesn’t match where the money’s actually going.

AND FOR THE WRETCHED AND X-LESS:  Go here to read.

IF ALIENS EXIST THEY’RE PROBABLY GETTING MONEY FROM USAID:  UFOs, Area 51, and now Angry Aliens in Ukraine.

D*MN IT. IF FORGOT TO INVEST IN POPCORN FUTURES:  Harvard sees $2.2 billion in grants frozen after telling Trump to back off,

AW. TOO BAD, SO SAD. I MEAN HE WAS ILLEGALLY HERE…  El Salvador president says deported Maryland man with alleged MS-13 ties can’t be brought back to US despite Supreme Court ruling: ‘Question is preposterous’.

WE’VE BEEN ADULTERATING UR WATER FOR HOW MANY DECADES?  Fluoride exposure linked to ‘detrimental effects’ on health of pregnant women, infants: study.

YEP:   Why Do I Have Guns? Because of People Like Taylor Lorenz.

US OUT OF THE UN, UN OUT OF THE US:   White House Proposes Drastic Cuts to State Department and Funding for UN, NATO and Other Groups.

DEREGULATION:  Reducing anti-competitive regulatory barriers.

AND THIS IS WHY THE US NEEDS TO STOP IMPORTING DOCTORS, WHICH MEANS FIXING OUR MEDICAL EDUCATION AND PRACTICE:  Antizionism Makes Its Way into Medical Practices.

Because we don’t need that here.

TO QUOTE NELSON MUNTZ, “HAH-HA!”  ICE agents snatch anti-Israel Columbia protester Mohsen Madawi during his US citizenship appointment.

GOOD:   Trump Withdraws US From International Maritime Organization’s “Decarbonization” Negotiations.

BUT DOES THIS MEAN MORE TESTING USING “HUMAN GENETIC MATERIAL*?  Trump’s FDA Plans to Roll Back Animal Testing.

*i.e. What Planned Parenthood sells?

I BELIEVE IT. AND I BET THEY’RE NOT THE ONLY ONE THAT CAME OVER THE BORDER:  Report claims that criminal gang Tren de Aragua is an actual foreign militia.

For one, you know that we have military personnel from the PRC here.  When we pointed out that the people coming over the border were military age males that’s what we were saying. If it looks like an invasion and moves like an invasion….

ROGER KIMBALL: What the left calls ‘chaos,’ the rest of us call ‘winning:’ One by one, countries line up to make a deal with the world’s largest economy.

For those scouring the news cycle for the next meme, I offer what seems to me the word of the day: “chaos.” Yes, that’s right, like some character out of the Book of Revelation Donald Trump has unleashed chaos upon the world. He is in the process of gutting, defunding or eliminating all the left’s favorite playpens, from the Department of Education to the National Endowment for Democracy. Thanks to the efforts of Elon Musk and his team at the Department of Government Efficiency, he has revealed the sorry truth that “NGO,” which we were told meant “non-governmental organization,” actually means “nurturing governmental officialdom,” i.e., diverting taxpayer dollars for oneself, one’s relatives and people who can do you some favors. Which is to say that the “non” in “NGO” really means “all” or “limitless.” As one canny commentator on X observed, “Over the last few months, we’ve come to a realization that should have landed much harder: NGOs weren’t just adjacent to government, they were the parallel government.”

Indeed. Remember all that talk about “the deep state?” NGOs were a critical enabling yeast. . . .

Donald Trump has upset that apple cart. For people who care about things like fiscal sanity, accountability and transparency, it is a welcome restoration. For people who have made their living exploiting the many opportunities for corruption the status quo ante offered, it is chaos, a plunge into outer darkness.

Once again, the tergiversations of the punditocracy and the public-teat-sucking political class are amusing to behold. Donald Trump announces a raft of tariffs in an effort to bring critical industries back to the United States and to level the economic playing field. The markets weep for a few days. One by one, countries line up to make a deal with the world’s largest economy. At last count, some 90 countries have signaled their intention to trim the tariffs and other trade barriers they have erected against America. Even China is making some agreeable noises. Trump has responded by delaying the imposition of certain tariffs, a canny bit of flexibility that the anti-Trump chorus has denounced as “panic.” “No One Is Buying the White House Spin,” screams one headline. But in fact, countries are lining up to buy it, and it’s no spin, it’s negotiation. As the investor Bill Ackman put it, “A willingness to adjust a strategy based on new facts and data is a sign of the strength of a leader. It is not an indication of weakness.”

Leftists’ unwillingness — inability? — to live in the real world is one of the right’s hidden strengths. Well, hidden from the left, anyway.

OPEN THREAD: Monday, Monday.

MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: How Democrats used NGOs to end-run voters: A ‘parallel government.’