YES:
This real-time 1948 article from The Economist completely destroys the modern “Nakba” narrative that was invented decades later as political propaganda.
Straight from British eyewitnesses in Haifa, October 2, 1948:
“Jewish authorities urged all Arabs to remain in Haifa and… https://t.co/WIcnerXMmQ pic.twitter.com/pifBTXIzey
— Captain Allen (@CptAllenHistory) May 16, 2026
YOUR OCCASIONAL REMINDER THAT ANYTHING THE LEFT CAN’T CONTROL, IT WILL DESTROY, AND IF IT CAN’T BE DESTROYED, THEY’LL DISCREDIT IT:
You get the game here, right?
They file an absurd motion asking the Supreme Court to rule on a case where it clearly has no jurisdiction. Then when it obviously refuses (w 0 dissents), they accuse it of corruption to justify trying to stack the court.
Shameful. https://t.co/VwUlPiF41l
— AG (@AGHamilton29) May 16, 2026
CORN, POPPED: Israel Knows a Defamation Case Won’t Fly. That’s Not the Play.
Which brings us to the real mechanism: 28 U.S.C. § 1782.
Once an Israeli proceeding is in reasonable contemplation, an interested person can apply in the Southern District of New York (where the New York Times is headquartered) to compel evidence production from a U.S. entity for use in foreign litigation. A properly framed § 1782 application does not ask the court to adjudicate the case; it simply asks the court to order the Times to produce the factual basis for one published allegation.
The subpoena categories write themselves: documents identifying the source and evidentiary basis for the dog allegation; fact-checking notes and editorial review records; communications with cited human rights organizations about this specific claim; internal discussions of reliability or corroboration. The Times will obviously raise reporter’s privilege. That is expected. But the answer here is a measured response: Nobody is asking for every source on every story. The request is for the factual foundation for one allegation the Times has publicly called corroborated and extensively fact-checked and “deeply reported.” Either show the corroboration or explain why you cannot. Both answers are informative.
None of this is a technical defamation case, but the critics declaring the claim dead on arrival are focusing on the colloquial use of the word “defamation” expressed in a spokesperson’s tweet and missing the tree for the forest. The real question is whether there exists a narrow, disciplined legal theory that forces the Times to produce the evidentiary basis for one of the most inflammatory factual allegations it has ever published. And there is.
Clever.
THIS “TRUMP VINDICATED” THING SEEMS TO HAPPEN AN AWFUL LOT: Trump vindicated as OPEC faces collapse following UAE departure. “The price of gasoline is set to drop as the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) appears poised to collapse, experts predict. OPEC has long kept crude oil prices higher than they would otherwise be. If this pans out, it will be a major victory for the Trump administration, which is resetting global energy markets.”
Exit question: What would we do without experts?
NORMAL IS PRACTICALLY A FREAKSHOW IN TODAY’S LA:
Everyone's going on about how Spencer Pratt is running an incredible campaign.
In reality, he's literally just being a normal human being & mocking all the insane things out of touch politicians say/do. He's either one of the boys, or he's the greatest actor of all-time. People… https://t.co/BHmjYmH5Sp
— Jason Howerton (@jason_howerton) May 15, 2026
FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY [VIP]: That Guy Is SO Going Back to Venezuela. “It’s time for your much-needed break from the serious news, and this week, we’ll learn why they call it blow, what not to do to your boss’s Subaru, and when to stop drinking on that flight to Cuba.”
CHANGE YOU CAN BELIEVE IN:
18 months ago we were doing diversity and inclusion vignette training.
Today we’re obliterating terrorists, sinking entire navies, and snatching rogue leaders during their sleep.
Fort Benning is using bayonets again.
Understand how far we’ve come.
Not a step back.
— InfantryDort (@infantrydort) May 15, 2026
THE LOCKDOWNS CERTAINLY DIDN’T HELP: Down in the dumps: ‘Learning recession’ started in 2013.
REDISTRICTING DIDN’T LEAVE HIM MUCH CHOICE:
BREAKING: Longtime Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN) announces he will not seek re-election. pic.twitter.com/UUEVOgLazZ
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) May 15, 2026
You’re in MAGA country now, Congressman.
LARRY KUDLOW: Mr. Xi Can Saber-Rattle, But Mr. Trump Has the Goods
In recent weeks he has watched America end his influence in Venezuela, the Panama Canal, soon it will be Cuba, and of course Iran. I mean Communist China’s buying 90 percent of Iran’s oil and gas exports.
But with Mr. Trump’s air-tight blockade of Iranian ports, China is starving for energy. They might make a deal with us, but that too remains to be seen if it comes under Treasury Man Scott Bessent’s investment board idea.
Meanwhile Mr. Trump has elbowed China out of the Middle East and out of the Western Hemisphere.
And on top of all that, China’s economy has never recovered from the real estate property crash of a couple years ago.
They used to post GDP growth rates of 15 percent or more. Now that’s down to 5 percent or even less, which is essentially for them a recession.
And if they have bad economic statistics cropping up, they have decided not to publish them at all.
Read the whole thing.
NICE WORK, FELLAS:
BREAKING: Israel says it carried out a strike in Gaza targeting Hamas military chief Izz al-Din al-Haddad, described as one of the architects of the Oct. 7 attacks.
The initial indication is that he was killed, per Times of Israel.
Contributed by @AZ_Intel_. pic.twitter.com/PXluo4JrRK
— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) May 15, 2026
THEY TELL ME THIS IS DUE TO ISLAMOPHOBIA: Christian Persecution: Massacres in Congo and Nigeria, Kidnappings in Pakistan
DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE:
@jonhaidt says college students are coddled. Boy did they prove him wrong. https://t.co/jOE4pEHGSV
— Ed Carson (@IBD_ECarson) May 15, 2026
MORE LIKE THIS, PLEASE: Flashy Car Daycare Commie Fraudster Indicted. “Remember Yuan Yao, the flashy car-driving daycare owner accused of fraud and ties to the CCP? He’s been indicted.”
WELL, BYE:
The same Congressional Black Caucus that refuses to admit Byron Donalds, Wesley Hunt, John James, and Burgess Owens because they don’t consider them Black since they’re Republicans. Good. It’s a total joke. It can’t go away soon enough. https://t.co/wbyavLtFax
— Bad Hombre (@Badhombre) May 15, 2026
NIFTY: L3Harris turns handheld radios into counter-drone jammers.
With small drones inflicting massive losses on both sides in Ukraine, defense electronics maker L3Harris is reprogramming its widely used Falcon IV handheld radios to generate a personal protective electronic-warfare “bubble” for the soldiers carrying them, company executives said.
Branded as Wraith Shield, the capability doesn’t require any new hardware, the company said, just a software upgrade to the existing Wraith communications waveform, which is compatible with over 100,000 Falcon IV radios in service worldwide.
“At the cost of a software upgrade … single-digit thousands of dollars … you can add this capability to a radio they’re already carrying,” Chris Aebli, the company’s president for Mission Critical Communications, told reporters this morning. “[It’s] their own protection bubble for counter-UAS.”
“It’s ready to be delivered,” he said, although international sales are still awaiting export approval from the US government.
Probably not a bad way for L3Harris to sell more radios, too.
ART OF THE DEAL: Trump Flips Xi’s America-in-Decline Line Back on Biden.
CREDIT WHERE IT’S DUE: Gov. Polis helps axe bills rolling back business tax breaks.
To those who remember Polis’ 2018 campaign for Governor, eliminating tax loopholes and using the increased revenue to “buy down” the income tax rate was a popular campaign promise.
Colorado’s free-market think tank, Independence Institute, was initially optimistic about such a tax policy because it would increase the tax base while lowering individual Coloradans’ tax burden.
The think tank published multiple reports analyzing Governor Polis’ words versus actions on taxes.
Unfortunately, time has not been kind to Governor Polis’ tax policy promises.
Instead of lowering and eliminating tax breaks, they exploded under Governor Polis’ watch.
That said, Polis’ stated desire to lower the income tax while reducing special-interest loopholes was and remains a commendable idea; it would be better to eliminate both if possible.
However, not all tax breaks are created equal, and targeting those that help keep Colorado somewhat economically competitive is probably worse than targeting those that benefit people who generate the least economic activity (and thus the least revenue for the state).
Apparently, Governor Polis understands that tax breaks for things he likes become unaffordable if the economy isn’t doing well.
As Glenn likes to say on occasion, even a flatworm is smart enough to turn away from pain.
GOOD ADVICE:
Unite the Kingdom marchers will want to be on the lookout for a J6 setup.
Expect agitators, and be prepared for them.
Step away from agitators. Don't engage. Film them. Livestream them.
This message from Starmer indicates he and the regime thugs who pass for cops in Britain… https://t.co/vpoTaxZnfM
— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) May 15, 2026
CUBA: There’s a Lot Going On Right Now. This Could Be the Breaking Point. “Many experts — real ones whom I trust and learn from regularly, not just whoever the MSM could dig up — are calling today the ‘beginning of the end’ of the regime that has been in power for 67 years.”
VDH: The Newsom Nightmare: Why California’s Elites Refuse to Face Reality.
Every time Gov. Gavin Newsom is presented with a critique of his leadership, he said, “We’re the fifth-largest economy in the world.” He never says that I’ve driven out oil refineries. I prohibited pipeline construction. I drove out the timber industry, and that I, as a San Francisco County official, as a mayor of San Francisco, as a lieutenant governor of the state, and as governor, I’ve had over 32 years, and no one is more responsible for California as it is today than Gavin Newsom.
No, he won’t talk about any of these problems. He just talks about Donald Trump, Donald Trump, Donald Trump. He has these nasty sort of Truth Social people who use capital letters, foul language, and threaten people. I’m gonna hit Trump in the mouth, or people in Europe got on their knee pads, kind of foul imagery, thinks it’s really neat.
He gives these interviews where he kind of wiggles his shoulders, but he doesn’t talk about his record. So how did we get here if they didn’t tell us? How did a state that was well-governed and had a natural paradise and was the envy of all 50 states in matters of energy production, defense, production, tripartite higher education system, a solid K-12 educational, system, great infrastructure—
Why would the American Trucking Association say, “I don’t want you driving on the 99 or north-south lateral”? Most dangerous highway in the nation per miles driven. What happened? Well, how did these people come to power? The first thing was that we had an explosion in technology in the 1970s and ’80s, and due to the location of Stanford University and UC Berkeley, in between was Silicon Valley.
And that boomed as the creators of everything from computers to iPhones to iPads to Adobe to everything. Now it’s AI, and that has now ballooned to $14 or $15 trillion in market capitalization, and it’s left-wing. At least it was until recently. The state has turned on them. We’ll see what happens.
The short version is that California’s elites refuse to face reality because it still remains profitable not to.
But as VDH said, we’ll see what happens.
ROBERT SPENCER: Waging War on the Time Clock. “The November election is coming, and Iran will be an issue. It could still be an issue in the 2028 presidential election. The Democrats are certain to claim, whatever is really happening, that Trump has gotten us mired in a needless ‘quagmire’ there.”
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