VOX POPULI, VOX DEI: New Poll Finds Soaring Approval for Trump’s Handling of Israel-Hamas War.

CUE THE IMPERIAL MARCH: Obama Learns What Folks Really Think About His Awfully Ugly Presidential Center.

Tolkien’s description of Orthanc, from the road to Isengard, comes to mind at the first sight of the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago. You can almost picture Saruman standing atop the tower, sending his legions of Uruk-hai to war against Rohan at the fortress of Helm’s Deep.

Perhaps you prefer science fiction, and you picture Darth Sidious laughing as he informs a shocked Luke Skywalker that this Death Star is a fully operational battle station.

Be it Middle Earth or a galaxy far, far away, the dystopian-looking chunk of rock that bears the former president’s name seems to remind everyone who sees it of something, and none of it is very good.

Except for Barry, he really seems to like the place. He recently took to social media to brag a little about the progress being made, posting a video of himself, complete with a hard hat and safety glasses, overseeing the construction. Politicians do love to cosplay, don’t they?

During Trump’s first term in office, the reactionary left found itself vigorously defending hideous brutalist buildings inspired by the architecture of “militant fascist” Le Corbusier, such as the J. Edgar Hoover Building, when Trump’s administration expressed a desire to return to classical forms in 2018. This culminated in an executive order “Promoting Beautiful Federal Civic Architecture” near the end of his administration, which of course was quickly discarded by Biden’s self-described Politburo.

And with his new presidential library that’s not really a presidential library, the Age of Obama comes full circle. His campaign began in 2007 when his operatives dropped an viral video that cast Hillary Clinton in the role of Big Brother from Ridley Scott’s legendary Super Bowl 1984-inspired Apple ad:

Not surprisingly after the choices made by Obama during his administration, his new building looks like Orwell’s Ministry of Love, where Winston Smith was tortured into believing that the past was constantly alterable and 2+2=5.

First of all they’re calling it a “center,” not a library, understandable given the woeful illiteracy rate of his more passionate followers. https://t.co/Obs0ZY0sUA

— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) October 18, 2025

COLONIALISM, STRAIGHT UP:

BREAKING: UK police stopped a woman from walking her dog, saying it could offend the local Muslim population — and ordered her off her own street. pic.twitter.com/aguR9J24zq

— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) October 19, 2025

What’s most remarkable about the colonization of Britain is that it’s being done with the connivance of British officials, and without the threat of a powerful foreign army or navy.

YEP:

No kings but we’ll shoot you for not believing what we believe.

— Magellan (@MagellanVa) October 19, 2025

FLASHBACK: Make DC A Swamp Again.

IT’S COME TO THIS: CBS News editor Bari Weiss stuns 60 Minutes journalists to silence as she asks humiliating question on ‘slanted’ coverage.

Anti-woke CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss left the 60 Minutes team stunned when she asked them to consider why viewers think their coverage is slanted.

The self-proclaimed centrist, 41, who has made political neutrality a focal point of her plans for the network, hit journalists with the seven-word question during a private Tuesday meeting, The New York Times reported.

‘Why does the country think you’re biased?’ she asked – leaving the staff and stars of the country’s top news program baffled and unable to respond.

Weiss’s question was awkward, as three anonymous sources told the newspaper.

The 60 Minutes reporters – including standouts Anderson Cooper, who doubles as a long-time CNN anchor, and Lesley Stahl – see themselves as impartial, the insiders said.

They have fiercely rejected the idea perpetuated by Donald Trump and other conservatives that their coverage is left-leaning.

CBS News has institutionally leaned left for well over half a century. Twenty years ago, Leslie Stahl couldn’t name a single conservative who works for CBS. Earlier this year, “Scott Jennings [Dropped] Leslie Stahl for Asking Jewish Hostage If He Thinks Hamas Meant to Starve Him. In 2019, appearing on CBS, Anderson Cooper didn’t object when AOC compared herself to Lincoln and FDR.

As John Podhoretz jokes:

But all journalism is biased – there’s no such thing as “objectivity;” it’s a construct from a time when media consisted of three radio networks whose frequencies were licensed and regulated by the FCC, and a handful of national wire services feeding articles to local newspapers. Since the news consumer now has a seemingly endless amount of sources to choose from, instead of pretending “they have no biases,” CBS would be far better off telling their viewers what exactly their biases are. Let the viewers know which party most of its journalists root for, what they think about free markets, America versus other nations, their take on the Middle East, etc.

YES:

Dear citizens of New York, I urge you to research the concept of "Taqiyya".

This is an Islamic concept allowing Muslims to conceal their true beliefs when talking to non Muslims.

Mamdani is playing yall for a fool. Take a look at Paris and London. Is that really what you want?

— Tom Nash (@iamtomnash) October 18, 2025

OH: Secret Service Finds Hunting Stand in Florida With Line of Sight to Air Force One ‘Exit Area.’

HARSH, BUT FAIR:

Weird you claim that a politician is cruel, immoral and corrupt … and then you supported Joe Biden https://t.co/OGF78MZvNk

— (((Aaron Walker))) (@AaronWorthing) October 19, 2025

ICYMI: POETRY:

I cannot shake this irony. Five years ago, government shut down society. Today the government itself is shut down, society is open, and the agencies that were most at fault for this outrage are themselves being gutted. Anyone else see the poetry in this?

— Jeffrey A Tucker (@jeffreyatucker) October 15, 2025

WE SHOULD FIND OUT:  If there is any microbiology on Mars, new research says it will be found in the red planet’s ample ice.

IT’S MORE THAN THE CHURCH IS DOING AND IT NEEDS TO BE DONE:  Raise your voices for Christianity before it’s too late.

KNOW YOUR PLACE, PROLE:  BBC’s message to working-class white youths: Keep your mouths shut.

WHEN IT COMES DOWN TO HARD CASES MY MONEY’S ON THE CORPS:  VP Vance Rallies Marines While Old Liberals Jeer Trump.

PROFESSIONALLY PRODUCED SIGNS, PAID FOR BY ?   ‘Kings Get Guillotines’: Leftists Show Out Threatening Trump.

BE FAIR, IT’S NOT ALL BOOMERS. THERE’S ALSO YOUNG PSYCHOTICS:  “Coup d’Flat”: Billionaire-Funded ‘No Kings’ Color-Revolution Turns Into White Liberal Boomer Parade As Dems Become National Laughingstock.

WHAT THE FUTURE WILL THINK THE MOST IMPORTANT EVENT OF THE YEAR:  Carbon Tax on Shipping DID Not Pass the UN’s IMO | US Leads Coalition Against Passage.

AS LONG AS THERE ARE NO LOCKDOWNS, I HONESTLY DON’T CARE:   After Six-Year Pause, U.S. Sees New Local Chikungunya Case in New York.

Disease has been a fact of human existence forever, and death comes to us all. We can’t pretend we’re past it all.

AT THIS POINT I DON’T THINK ACADEMIA CAN BE SAVED:   “Academia is a sinking ship, and the Trump administration is actually trying to intervene and rescue it”.

Something will come after. I don’t know what it is.

PRESIDENT TRUMP, UNLEASH ISRAEL:   After Attack on Troops, Israel Hits Hamas Terror Targets in Gaza.

OCCUPIED BRITAIN SHOULD CRY IN SHAME:  British Police Allegedly Arrest Jewish Man Because His Star of David ‘Antagonized’ Protesters.

BEHOLD! MY SHOCKED FACE:   Mamdani Boasts of Meeting Unindicted 1993 WTC Terrorist Attack Co-Conspirator.

REAL TYRANTS FEAR PUBLIC SPEECH:  No Komments.

THEY’VE LOST ALL CONTACT WITH REALITY. ALL OF IT:   The Red, White and Blue.

ON SUNDAYS I DO A PROMOTION FOR (MOSTLY) INDIE AUTHORS:  Book Promo And Writing Challenge.