MAYBE THEY’RE RIGHT, IT’S A TOUGH WORLD OUT THERE: Adolescents who smoke or vape may believe tobacco’s perceived coping benefits outweigh accepted health risks.

ONE REASON PEOPLE HATE THEM IS THEIR SHEER COMPETENCE: You Thought the Pager Attack Was Amazing? Israel Outdid Itself This Time.

Leftists hate competence.

SHE CAN’T PLAY THE LITTLE GIRL CARD ANYMORE. SHE’S JUST A PUTZ. The Greta Awakening: The World Stands United, ‘Get a Job, Ya Bum.’

NICK GILLESPIE’S INTERVIEW: Kennedy’s Gen X Journey From MTV to Fox News.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: The Rogue’s New Gallery of Left-Wing Scoundrels.

JUST ANOTHER LAME SLOGAN THAT WOKE WHITE ACTIVISTS CAME UP WITH: There’s no such thing as the ‘global majority:’ Ethnic-minority groups are right to reject the latest activist jargon.

OPEN THREAD: Because I love you and want you to be happy.

ASK THE ANCIENT BARSOOMIANS: Mars is covered in evidence of ancient lakes, rain and snow — but scientists aren’t sure how that’s possible.

WELL, FOR ONE THING PEOPLE ARE KEEPING THEIR APPENDIXES: A Forgotten Cancer Is Surging in Young People, And Experts Are Puzzled.

I noticed the other day that I hear about tonsil stones, which I never used to, and then I realized that it’s because people keep their tonsils now.

PUT IT IN A PILL: Natural Compound in Fruit and Vegetables Found To Slash Heart Disease and Diabetes Risk.

MICROBIOME NEWS: Gut microbiome study links Parkinson’s disease to environmental chemicals.

RESHORING: GM Announced a Landmark U.S. Manufacturing Investment.

BURIED LEDE: NORTH KOREA HAS MONEY? Chinese Illegal Pleads Guilty to Using North Korean Money to Buy a Houston Gun Store and Shipping Arms to Pyongyang.

SUGAR IS BAD FOR YOU, ARTIFICIAL SWEETENERS MAY BE WORSE: Major sugar substitute found to impair brain blood vessel cell function, posing potential stroke risk.

WHEN YOU’RE PUTTING A PRODUCT OUT THERE WITH THE LIKELIHOOD OF DOING HARM . . . Large Libel Models: Small Business Sues Google, Claiming AI Overview in Searches Hallucinated Attorney General Lawsuit.

SKYNET CARESSES: Scientists develop electronic skin to give robots the feeling of human touch.

I DUNNO, MOST OF THEM CAN’T SEEM TO REMEMBER WHAT A STOP SIGN IS FOR: Biking might help lower risk of dementia.

JAMES PETHOKOUKIS: NASA and the New Space Age: My chat (+transcript) with James Meigs.

JUST SAY NO TO TERRORIST DOCTORS: Doctors urge Brown not to rehire Hezbollah-supporting physician deported by DHS.

STONEWALLING: Journalists sue Brown U. for refusing to release police reports after pro-Palestinian protest.

KAROL MARKOWICZ: I’m a legal immigrant — don’t you dare lump me in with border-jumpers. “This should be no surprise: Legal immigrants, who waited their turn and struggled to become Americans, have little in common with those who broke the law to arrive in our country ready for someone to take care of them — and are increasingly angered by politicians who coddle the criminals.”

ONE OF MY FAVE CABINET MEMBERS OF ALL TIME: Bessent Identifies New Strain Of TDS, Reminds Dems They Lost The Election.. “A higher decibel level does not give your statements more veracity.”

BEWARE:

I don't expect a symmetric retaliation by Iran. Rather the Ayatollahs, now clearly in an existential struggle with Israel, will likely attempt to expand the conflict to the West. The Trump admin may believe Iran has infiltrated the southern US border. Watch this space.

— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) June 13, 2025

Kurt Schlichter’s The Attack made real?

The threat we face right now inside the US is activated Iranian-allied terror cells.

This is where the Democrat "No Border" policy has created huge risks.

Hundreds of thousands of military aged men made it into the country without any encounter with US immigration personnel.…

— Shipwreckedcrew (@shipwreckedcrew) June 13, 2025

Plus:

Wow, yet another surprise attack against internal strategic targets using smuggled shorter-range drones.

Given the near-complete lack of hardening in CONUS, and the volume of goods that comes in from China every day, this should be making hair stand on end in the Pentagon. https://t.co/W4DGmzBxqD

— Tom Shugart (@tshugart3) June 13, 2025

Will we learn from this?

MARC THIESSEN: How Trump is bypassing Los Angeles’s sanctuary city hurdles: A new U.S. attorney in California has devised a way to make sure illegal migrants are deported.

DON SURBER: Sucks to be Iran this morning: Trump gave them a 60-day notice to negotiate.

Well, it sucks to be the Mullarchy, anyway. For actual Iranians, it’s a major opportunity.

🔴 Iran's King in Exile speaks:

"My message to the military, law enforcement, and security forces is clear:

This regime and its corrupt and incompetent leaders do not value your lives or our Iran. Separate yourself from them and join the people." pic.twitter.com/tEvuRRQiT7

— 𝗡𝗶𝗼𝗵 𝗕𝗲𝗿𝗴 ♛ ✡︎ (@NiohBerg) June 13, 2025