Archive for 2025

WHAT THIS HAD TO DO WITH THE INNOCENT CHILDREN HE ATTACKED IS SOMETHING ELSE:  Minneapolis School Shooter Admitted He was ‘Tired of Being Trans’.

I’d guess he stopped taking estrogen and the full return of testosterone messed with his mind.  Hormones are dangerous people. They’re not just a thing of the body, but also a thing of the mind.

A QUESTION MANY OF US ARE ASKING:  What Happened To Tucker?

I understand, if you follow the money, the money comes from Qatar, though.

I GREW UP READING SO MANY PEOPLE FROM BRITAIN AND SO MUCH BRITISH HISTORY IT’S ALMOST LIKE AN ALTERNATE HOMELAND OF THE HEART:  Rue, Britannia.

I also mourn.

FROM BLAKE SMITH:  A Kingdom of Glass: A Novel of The Garia Cycle.

In a kingdom of secrets and silk, one girl must choose between duty and her heart.

Zara has spent eleven blissful years in the sun-drenched kingdom of Garia, where she rides free across a vast grassland, shoots her bow beneath starlit skies, and calls her foster family’s castle home. But when a royal summons arrives, her golden world shatters like spun glass.

Thrust into the cold, formal courts of the East Morlans—a realm of rigid etiquette and deadly politics—Zara must navigate an arranged marriage to a stranger, reconnect with a family she barely remembers, and survive the unforgiving world of noble society.

Gone are the warm winds and open skies of her beloved home. In this land of marble halls and suffocating tradition, every word is measured, every gesture scrutinized, and falling in love might be the most rebellious act of all.

As court intrigue swirls around her and threats close in from every side, Zara must discover who she can trust—and what she’s willing to sacrifice—to reclaim the freedom she left behind in the endless plains of Garia.

Some cages are gilded. Some prisons are palatial. But Zara’s heart belongs to the steppe.

Perfect for fans of court intrigue, swoon-worthy romance, and heroines who fight for their own destiny.

READING THIS MADE #TEAMHEADSONPIKES GET REALLY LOUD IN MY HEAD:  Melodrama.

OPEN THREAD: Just do it.

SHE’S NOT WRONG: Karoline Leavitt Slaps Crime Deniers in Dem-Run Cities Back to Reality: ‘Your Leaders Are Lying to You.’

Democrats are hell-bent on digging in on the wrong side of every 80-20 or even 99-1 issue affecting the American people. Karoline Leavitt is delivering a strong message on one of those issues – crime in big, blue cities such as Washington, D.C., Chicago, or New York City.

That message is intended for those who genuinely believe in a resistance party that assures them everything is fine and crime is not a problem.

“Nothing to see here. Please disperse,” as Leslie Nielsen famously said in the movie The Naked Gun.

The White House Press Secretary addressed those misinformed souls directly today.

“This is our message to Americans in Democrat-run cities nationwide: decline is a choice. You don’t have to live in constant fear of being robbed, raped, or murdered,” she declared. “Your leaders are lying to you — and they have been failing you for decades.”

In the 1990s, in the wake of Rudy Giuliani’s cleanup of New York, Democrat mayors such as Philadelphia’s Ed Rendell at least paid lip service to getting serious about crime. By the 2010, and certainly after 2020, most simply gave up and started spouting sub-Butterfield leftist platitudes a la Brandon Johnson on Monday:

 

JIM TREACHER: The Man Who Shot Those Kids in Minneapolis Was Not a Woman.

I’m putting that irrefutable statement of fact in a headline, because I haven’t seen it anywhere else.

Yesterday in Minnesota, a man who claimed to be a woman shot up a Catholic church full of children. He wasn’t a “trans woman,” let alone a woman. He was a man. A very crazy man.

A lot of mainstream “news” outlets don’t want you to say that. And if you insist on pointing out the truth, they’re eager to brand you a bigot.

Read the whole thing.

CONSERVING CONSERVATISM MOST CONSERVATIVELY: David French Proposes Democrats Fight Trump On Crime By Blaming Him For 2020 Crime Spree.

Co-host Willie Geist opened up the floor, “So, David French, the question is then for Democrats, and you can offer some free political advice, too, if you’d like to. What is the way through this? We have heard Governor Moore, Governor Pritzker, Governor Newsom saying, ‘We welcome partnership, we welcome more cops. We want people in our streets to feel safe, but we’re not doing it his way. We’re not going to have troops walking down the streets of Baltimore and Chicago and Los Angeles.’”

French began, “I mean, you have to use the truth to blow up his narrative.”

According to French, the very same people who accuse Trump of acting like a king or a fascist dictator should also attack him for not micromanaging cities in 2020, “And the truth is this: that people forget he was president in 2020. And when crime really exploded, when violent crime really exploded in a way that was terrifying and dangerous, it happened in 2020, in his presidency, his first term.”

This seems to be the tactic the left has begun using to attempt to distance themselves from the Color Revolution they launched in the spring of 2020, when the narrative shifted on a dime from “we must all socially distance at home” to “we must all mass in the streets to burn buildings and topple statues and loot stores:”

TWO MODEST PROPOSALS FOR THE NATION’S CAPITAL: Can you imagine an end to the Traffic Hell that is commuting to and from the District of Columbia and thereabouts? How about a massive infusion of Real World America values into the federal bureaucracy? I’ve got just what you’re looking for in my latest Substack column.

TRUE:

IT’S THE DEMOGRAPHY, STUPID:

(Classical reference in headline.)