TO BE FAIR, IT WOULD BE PRETTY:  Spencer Pratt Vows to Bring Art Deco Architecture Back to Los Angeles.

Meanwhile, what is Pratt’s opponent promising? Free teeth for meth-heads.

I’M NOT ALONE:  Don’t Fall for the Left’s Fake News on Leo XIV: The Pope Turns Out to Be Surprisingly Conservative.

POWER IS NOT ALWAYS AS CLEAR-CUT AS IT SEEMS TO BE:  Kingship By Consent.

I HOPE OTHER RESERVOIRS ARE NOW BEING CHECKED AND GUARDED:  ‘Unprecedented Threat:’ Routine Maintenance Found an IED at an Alabama Dam.

FROM L. A. GREGORY:  Hawkwing: A Novel of the Bitterlands.

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Kestrel’s land is scarred in ways its inhabitants cannot begin to understand, built on long-poisoned earth and menaced by twisted plants and animals. Farmers, hunters, and magic-users fight a long battle to create safe havens and reclaim lost ground, but their casualties mount over generations. Kestrel knows little and cares less about the patterns that shape her world. She’s a shapechanger and healer who has spent the handful of years since reaching womanhood cleansing the wildlife of her blighted land with medicine and magic. Sure of her place and confident in her skills, she takes care of her own and doesn’t poke at things that don’t concern her. But when she returns from a routine journey with her brother to find her home ransacked and empty, Kestrel must gather her remaining family and search for new allies before old magic and older hatred rob her kin of their freedom, their lives, and possibly their souls.

AND IT WILL HAVE THE SAME RESULTS:  New York Following Cuba’s Strategy For Powering The Electrical Grid.

BEHOLD, MY SHOCKED FACE:  Democrats Tell Pollsters They’d Happily Ditch Black Districts To Get More Power.

NOT ALL ‘STUDIES’ ARE CREATED EQUAL:  Observation, Not Study.

DIDN’T THE SENATE PARLAMENTARIAN ASSURE US THAT OBAMACARE WAS REVENUE NEUTRAL? GOOD TIMES:  Senate Parliamentarian Just Delivered Some Brutal News About the Reconciliation Package. 

FAUX ARTISTES. TRUE LEFTY ACTIVISTS:  Art World Antics: Virtual Signaling at the Venice Biennale.

No one will remember their names.

OR, YOU KNOW, NOT:  Yeah, I’m sure all the Conservative Influencers with 50k+ followers all coming out at the exact same time against Data Centers is super duper organic.

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WE WON’T BE FOOLED AGAIN:  CDC Official Dusts Off Familiar ‘Six Feet’ Playbook Regarding Hantavirus.

Or they’ll pull off a plague every time the left is likely to lose an election.

THAT’S BECAUSE SYSTEMIC RACISM IN THE US ISN’T REAL:  Former BLM activist goes scorched earth on ‘scam’ group, insists systemic racism in US isn’t real.

INTERESTING:  Empty offices, Indian HR calling the shots: ICE uncovers rampant OPT abuse by foreign students.

GOOD:  Boss of NYC’s ‘secret Chinese police station’ convicted of acting as illegal ‘agent’.

YES. YES, IT IS:  Is One American Really Worth $200 Million? Yes, All Lives are Priceless.

EQUALITY IS NOT THE POINT. THE POINT IS TO HAVE EVEN THE POOR LIVE LIKE THE RICH OF OLD:  The Gap Doesn’t Matter.

I HAVE ENJOYED POWERLINE IN THE PAST AND I’M SURE WILL IN THE FUTURE, BUT THIS IS SLOPPY, YELLOW JOURNALISM AND FRANKLY UNWORTHY OF THEM:  Pope Leo makes a statement.
I’m sorry. I try not to write essays here, but this entire post is nonsense. The outrage of the “award” (Vatican’s “highest award” my feet!) being given to Iran to send a message is nonsense. The entire “Leo was bath-mouthing Trump” is not true. It was spun up by our press and Leo HIMSELF denied it, (which let me add was at considerable risk to himself, since the Euroweenies in the Vatican would be big mad at his saying this outright.)
As for the award to Iran, it is nonsense. It’s an automatic medal given to an ambassador who has served x amount of time. In fact, most of “Leo’s scandals” are nonsense. A brief list: Fact check: Did the Vatican Library open a prayer room for Muslims? (Spoiler. No.)  Pope prays at mosque!  Or, you know: Pope visits Istanbul mosque but, unlike predecessors, opts not to pray there.  Keep in mind the man took the name Leo, our last strongly anti-communist pope. before John Paul II and also that he has said this: “Communism has penetrated even Christian circles disguised as solidarity. It is our pastoral duty to expose it.” – Pope Leo XIV .   Now is he perfect? No. No man is. Is he doing everything right? No. but the Vatican has its own deep state around which he has to maneuver.  HOWEVER so far, he’s making a lot of right moves. As I said often about Trump during his first term and still do sometimes: Give the man room to cook.
Before you say I’m saying all this because I’m Catholic, you should remember I’m the one Catholic who used to make “is the Pope Catholic” jokes about Francis. So, spare me. I know it’s lots of fun to indulge America’s oldest bigotry but it burns me to see you people fall for the left’s psyops.
He p*sses the left off by not liking commies. And they try to use him to beat Trump. But you? Think.

FROM MARY CATELLI:  Enchantments And Dragons.

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A wizard must produce justice enough to satisfy a dragon.

A young man tries to rob a tiger’s lair.

An enchantress tries to keep a court safe while they ignore the perils of misusing her magic.

A lady finds that court intrigues can spread even to the countryside.

And more tales.

Includes “Over the Sea To Me,” “Dragonfire and Time”, “The Maze, the Manor, and the Unicorn”, “The White Menagerie”, “The Dragon’s Cottage,” “Jewel of the Tiger,” and “The Sword Breaks.”

MORE DIABOLICAL ISRAELI PROPAGANDA, TELLING THE TRUTH ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED:  Hamas forced sex between family members as part of Oct. 7 torture campaign, probe finds: ‘You hear the screams’.

THEY’RE TRYING THEIR HARDEST:  Will Trump’s leftie foes turn Iran victory into defeat?

IRAQUI KURDS ABSCONDED WITH THE WEAPONS? DIDN’T WE ALREADY KNOW THAT?  Here’s Why the Iranian People Never Rose Up, and Its Not the Reason You Think.

I’M PRETTY SURE WE KNOW:  What Is Wrong With These People? Protesters Try to Crash Kash Patel’s Private Funeral Trip.

DID THEY NUKE IT BECAUSE IT WAS WRONG OR BECAUSE IT COULDN’T BE DONE BEFORE THE ELECTION CLOCK RAN OUT?  Virginia Dems Reject Insane Idea to Nuke State Supreme Court to Push Gerrymandered Map.

EXCEPT OF COURSE SCIENCE HAS BECOME A JOKE:  When a paper drops saying every testicle sampled had microplastics in it, that should have bene a clue that the process, not the tissue, was contaminated.

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