Archive for 2025

JUDGES CONFESS AI IN RULINGS: The Washington Stand’s Sarah Holliday advances the recent news about two federal judges admitting an intern and a clerk used AI in researching and drafting two rulings that were subsequently withdrawn due to AI-induced errors. Opinions based on AI are only one aspect of the potential problems stemming from widespread adoption and development of AI technology.

Holliday reports that much AI discussion was raised during the Family Research Council’s recent 2025 Pray-Stand-Vote Summit. Asked by FRC Vice-President Travis Weber if Americans should be worried about AI, the response of a panel of experts was clearly in favor. Holliday quoted Jon Frendl, a tech entrepreneur and founder of the custom app development firm Cappital:

“'[T]he way to really do a lot of work in AI is you build several AIs that help to build even better AIs, and those better AIs help you build even better AIs. So, there’s an exponential nature to that. And when you combine that with the amount of investment across the board internationally, and then really you can look at power companies and chips, which are the fundamental things necessary behind this,’ Fremdl said.

“Understanding all this, he stressed, shows us that it’s only ‘just getting started, and it’s going to radically change things.’ However, as both Frendl and [Brandon Maddick, software engineer and head of product for the Christian AI platform Dominion] Maddick concluded, these advanced and ever-advancing AI developments, especially if left unchecked, could potentially drive people back to a place of desiring true meaning — church, real human connections, and genuine effort,” Holliday said.

 

VDH: Media Terrified of JD Vance; “I Think They Should Be:”

MARK JUDGE:

Background here: The Anti-Communist Film Festival. “The Anti-Communist Film Festival, planned for the fall of 2026 in Washington, D.C., does not want to shut down filmmakers or tell them what kind of movies to make. We just want to offer the audience the truth about an evil pseudo-religious cult, which has caused more damage to the world than anything that could be depicted in a disaster movie.”

HILL AIDES SNAP OUT OF IT? New survey by CNCT Capitol Pulse finds 80 percent of congressional aides responding “No” when asked if Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) beneficiaries should be able to use the benefit to purchase sodas.

FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY [VIP]: Do NOT Take a Sip From His Thermos. “It’s time for your much-needed break from the serious news, and this week, we’ll learn the lyrics to ’40 Oz to Incarceration,’ the worst way to show appreciation to a firefighter, and where to take an excavator on a joyride.”

HOW’S THAT SPACE PROGRAM COMING ALONG? Astronomers discover skyscraper-size asteroid hidden in sun’s glare — and it’s moving at a near-record pace. “Most asteroid research finds these objects in the dark of night, where they are easiest to spot. But asteroids that lurk near the Sun can only be observed during twilight — when the Sun is just about to rise or set. If these ‘twilight’ asteroids approach Earth, they could pose serious impact hazards.”

HOW IT STARTED: Rivals Attack Dean for Wooing ‘Guys With Confederate Flags.’

Howard Dean’s rivals for the Democratic nomination roundly attacked him on Saturday for telling an Iowa newspaper he wanted ”to be the candidate for guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks” in defending his opposition to some gun control legislation.

—The New York Times, November 2nd, 2003.

How it’s going: How ‘Big Tent’ Are Democrats Willing to Go? Many in the party say it needs a wider range of candidates to run. Does that include people with Nazi tattoos?

—The Atlantic, today.

Platner has received extensive criticism for the revelations. The podcaster and writer Wajahat Ali wrote, “It’s time to drop Platner.” The Wall Street Journal published an editorial with the headline, “Oops, I’ve Had a Nazi Tattoo for 18 Years.” Zach Schwartz, the director of the Jewish Community Relations Council of the Jewish Community Alliance of Southern Maine, denounced Platner’s tattoo, along with his refusal to take donations from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, which Schwartz said “plays into familiar, harmful tropes that Jews or organizations like AIPAC control the government.” Jordan Wood, another candidate in the Maine race, said, “Graham Platner’s Reddit comments and Nazi SS Totenkopf tattoo are disqualifying and not who we are as Mainers or as Democrats.” Republican incumbent Susan Collins, said last week that she was “appalled” by what he had written online. “These were not comments that he made when he was in high school,” she said. “These are comments that he has made quite recently.”

But for now, at least, the Democratic party is not calling on Platner to step down. Ken Martin, the head of the DNC, said that Platner’s online comments were “hurtful” but not “disqualifying,” and that the choice is up to primary voters. Senator Ruben Gallego of Arizona, who is neutral in the race, said, “Everyone has a right to grow and grow out of their stupidity.” Senator Martin Heinrich of New Mexico said, “Graham has made a lot of mistakes in his life. He’s had a very long journey to the place where he is today, but he’s owned those mistakes, owned up to them, and he’s evolved.” Khanna called the tattoo “horrendous,” but said: “Do we want our political governing class to be like the classmates I had at Yale Law School, some of them who dreamed of being president of the United States from the age of twelve?” He continued, “Or do we want normal people also having a chance at these offices?”

Wait, do Democrats actually believe that “normal people” get Nazi skull tattoos? Has Mitchell and Webb’s viral “Are we the baddies?” sketch not crossed over to the other side of the aisle, yet?

I would assume choosing to run for the Senate isn’t a spur of the moment decision; it’s something carefully appraised and planned before the initial public announcement is made. “Readers, I just want you to ask yourself, if you realized you had accidentally gotten a tattoo that was the symbol of the Nazi SS… how many speed limit laws would you break on the way to the tattoo removal service, and/or a tattoo artist to cover it up? How long would you want a mark of the Nazis on your skin? Would getting that tattoo removed be something you’d jot on your to-do list, and get around to doing at your leisure? Or would it be something you’d want to take care of immediately? You know, when you’re running for a U.S. Senate seat?”

ALL IN: After a lengthy wait, Jeffries to endorse Mamdani.

It’s a bold strategy, Cotton. Let’s see if it pays off for him:

HEY, BIG SPENDER: Trump says an anonymous donor has pledged $130 million to cover military pay amid shutdown.

The private donation comes the same day Senate Democrats blocked a Republican bill that would have covered the paychecks of servicemembers, Transportation Security Administration employees, and air traffic controllers.

Trump said the donor, who did not want his identity disclosed, has agreed to donate $130 million to the federal government to help cover the spending shortfall. The $130 million check has already been received, the Epoch Times reported.

“He called us the other day and he said, ‘I’d like to contribute any shortfall you have because of the Democrat shutdown. I’d like to contribute, personally, contribute any shortfall you have with the military, because I love the military and I love the country, and any shortfall, if there’s a shortfall, I’ll contribute it,’’’ Trump said.

It’s a pretty short list of conservatives with $130 million to spare in the checking account.

GREAT MOMENTS IN WHIPLASH: Saturday: No Kings!

Yesterday? Democrats Attempt To Dunk On Trump’s White House Ballroom Construction With Photo Of Buckingham Palace.

Many Democrats, left-wing activists and corporate news outlets are reportedly extremely upset over the temporary East Wing demolition. DNC Chairman Ken Martin wrote Thursday in an Instagram post “RIP to the East Wing- you were elegant, inviting, and didn’t deserve to be bulldozed for a gaudy ballroom.”

Additionally, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton wrote in an X post on Tuesday that “It’s not his [Trump’s] house. It’s your house. And he’s destroying it.” Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom wrote in a Monday post to X that Trump is “ripping apart the White House just like he’s ripping apart the Constitution.”

It’s your house – so remember to count the silverware after the Clintons leave:

UPDATE: Not surprisingly, Trump’s staff are having lots of fun with their Website trolling pearl-clutching leftists over recent events at the White House:

NEW YORK BECOMES BERLIN, 1939: A Jew Hunt At City University. This is obviously national-origin discrimination in violation of federal law. Expel the students.

FIREARMS TRAINING FROM PEOPLE AGAINST OWNING FIREARMS: I Took Everytown’s Training Class and It’s Everything You’d Expect it to Be. “Besides their missing last names, none of Everytown’s training staff list their actual instructor credentials or even where they were trained, but they’re all beautiful people and very diverse, which was probably much more important to the folks at Everytown than what’s in their CVs.”

BREAKING: Germans with a sense of humor.