SHOCKED, SHOCKED, SHOCKED. BEHOLD MY SHOCKED FACE:  Mexican Cartel ‘Travel Agencies’ Selling $15,000 Packages to Illegal Aliens for Help to Cross Border.

IT’S ODD HOW OFTEN THAT HAPPENS WITH THE MSM, HERE AS THERE:  Reform ahead of Lib Dems to win seats – the poll news the MSM didn’t lead with.

THERE’S STILL TIME TO INVEST IN POPCORN FUTURES:  There Will Be a Price to Pay: Consequences Are Coming for Universities That Allowed Pro-Hamas Mobs.

HE SAYS THE MEDIA DOESN’T UNDERSTAND WHAT’S HAPPENING:  It’s Not the Iowa Poll That Has Frank Luntz Gobsmacked.

THERE ARE A LOT OF ZOMBIES WANDERING ABOUT:  Bill Maher Had to Call Out This ‘Zombie Lie’ When Interviewing a Black Radio Host.

I’D SAY THE PROBLEM IS WITH SCHOOLS OF EDUCATION AND THE FADS AND OUT OF THE BLUE THEORIES THEY ENCOURAGE:  The trouble with (many) teachers.

FROM NATHAN C. BRINDLE:  The Lion and the Darkness.

The Long-Awaited Sequel to The Lion in Paradise

At long last, Ariela Rivers Wolff begins her mission to the Simulated Worlds.

As the Martyr of Sardristra, she finds herself in the position of a Joan of Arc, burned at the stake for preaching a sermon of love to a very violent race of . . . blue, four-legged, four-armed, sort-of-horse analogs. Five hundred years later in their history, she finds a totally-reversed welcome as “Saint Ardreyelya” in the country in which she first appeared. Will she be able to prevent the rest of the world from destroying “her” people before she can convert them, too?

As the Goddess of Mahoukai, she finds herself the deity of a world religion in a world governed by magic. And like all worlds with magic, inevitably there is a Demon Lord. She’ll have to deal with that Demon Lord before the world of Mahoukai can be realized into the True Universe . . . but in the event, the Demon Lord is an infiltrated agent of the very enemies she is sworn to fight in the real world. Can The Lion of God take on a Darkness, single-handed? If not, it may spell doom for the inhabitants of Mahoukai – and for herself.

AND PORTENTS IN THE HEAVENS:  NASA Predicts Rare Nova Explosion This Summer.

THE COMMUNITIES HAMAS ASSAULTED OCT. 7TH WERE THE ISRAELIS MOST EAGER TO MAKE PEACE … NOW, NOT SO MUCH:  Israel warns of ‘all-out war’ with Hezbollah as Hamas rep gloats about Oct. 7 attack.

THEY DON’T LIKE BABIES ANYWAY?  Massachusetts Spends $1 Million of Taxpayer Money on Ad Campaign Against Pro-Life Pregnancy Centers.

IN TODAY’S EPISODE OF TOTALITARIAN REGIMES RUIN EVERYTHING:  Is the Chinese Military Crumbling Under Xi? It Seems Like It…

BEHOLD MY PROFOUNDLY SHOCKED FACE:  DEA Uncovers Drug Money Laundering Scheme Between Chinese Organized Crime, Sinaloa Cartel.

CONSEQUENCES FOR CHILDREN WHO WERE NEVER TOLD “NO”:  Cal State LA President: Students Who Took Over Building No Longer Welcome on Campus.

SO THE MSM IN THE UK IS (OF COURSE) CLAIMING THAT NIGEL FARAGE’S REFORM UK PARTY IS “FAR RIGHT”, ISLAMOPHOBIC YADDA YADDA:  Reform UK’s largest political donation is from a British Muslim, who, shock! horror! agrees that there’s too much immigration and not enough assimilation of the immigrants:  Muslim millionaire gives major donation to Reform UK.

SAVAGES:  Just Stop Oil Protesters Spray Stonehenge With Orange Paint.

IT ALWAYS HAS TAKEN TWO (OR MORE) TO MAKE PEACE, BUT ONLY ONE TO MAKE WAR:  Israeli peace activist held hostage by Hamas doesn’t ‘believe in peace’ anymore.

IS IT A RECESSION? IS IT A DEPRESSIOIN? NO, IT’S BIDENOMICS!  More companies announce bankruptcies and closures, citing inflation as almost 3,200 stores face shuttering in 2024: poll.

CHASER:  Hollywood Arby’s closes after 55 years over California’s $20 minimum wage.

WE HAVE A ZOMBIE PRESIDENT SO THIS SEEMS APPROPRIATE:  ‘Zombie mortgages’ come back to haunt thousands of homeowners now facing foreclosure.

FASTER, PLEASE:  Resolution Declaring J6 Committee Illegitimate Awaits Action.

THE PEOPLE WHO MOST OWE APOLOGIES RARELY DELIVER THEM:  Greta & Co: An apology.

LUXURY BELIEFS ALWAYS HIT THE POOR FIRST AND HARDEST:  The tragedy of Net Zero for the world’s poor.

THE WOMAN IS AN IDIOT STUDYING TO BE A MORON:  V.P. Office Releases Cringey Video of Kamala Harris Meeting With ‘Queer Eye’ Cast Members.

WHEN EVERYBODY’S OUT OF STEP BUT YOU AND YOUR FRIENDS:  The myth of the ‘far right surge’ in Europe.

IT’S NOT AS IF IT WERE ANYTHING MORE THAN A PR STUNT:  Remember Biden’s Failed $230M Humanitarian Pier in Gaza? Well…

THEY ARE SCARED OF A LITERATE POPULACE FOR ONE:  How you know they’re scared of homeschooling.

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