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Brothers who targeted girls in Barrow and Yorkshire handed life sentences
From a Cumbria Police news release and the BBC. Remember Cumbrian Police denied that any organised ‘Asian’ gang was operating in the county to rape and coerce girls into sex […]

The Lost Agrarian World
By Victor Davis Hanson I’d like to do something a little bit different. I want to talk about a lost agrarian world and what it was like before the rapid […]

Five Guys BANS pork and alcohol in new ‘halal’ restaurant as fears raised over ‘Islamic enclaves’ in Britain
GB News report this as if it was a new thing; those of us who live near Islamic areaa and ‘sharia zones’ know many establishments where our tastes and culture […]

Pope Francis’ Unholy Alliances
By Eric Rozenman One can pray for the speedy recovery of Pope Francis, 88 and hospitalized with pneumonia, while wishing that when called in 2013, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio […]

Knife attack at the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin
It’s Friday! A paraphrase from Bild A man was attacked around 6pm this evening at the Holocaust memorial in Berlin, near to the US embassy. Police spokesman Florian Nath said […]

Strong Advice But Will Anyone Pay Attention?
By Phyllis Chesler The prophet Samuel annointed Israel’s first King, Shaul. It was a terrible idea from the beginning. And why? Because the Jews wanted to be like other nations, […]

The televised statement of IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari
From The Times of Israel The televised statement of IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari. Hagari said the evidence clearly showed that they were not killed in an airstrike as […]

Chechen teen held for planning attack on Israeli Embassy in Berlin
From the Times of Israel and the Jerusalem Post An 18-year-old ethnic Chechen has been arrested on suspicion of planning an attack on the Israeli Embassy in Berlin, German newspaper Bild […]

Pete Hegseth’s Military
By Victor Davis Hanson I’d like to speak a little bit today, very briefly, about the Pentagon under new Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. Did you notice that of all the controversial […]

‘Unspeakably evil’: Kfir, Ariel Bibas were brutally murdered in Gaza captivity, not by IAF strike and Hamas did not return Shiri Bibas, sent anonymous body, IDF confirms.
From The Jerusalem Post, here and here. And Ynet News The IDF confirmed on Friday morning that the hostage remains released on Thursday belonged to Ariel and Kfir Bibas. However, the third […]

Realities, politics, and the press: a comment on Trump, Ukraine, and Gaza
By Lev Tsitrin Machiavelli’s foundational contribution to political science was to decouple state policy from morality — or at least from morality as conventionally understood by an individual. To all […]

I’m like literally LMAO
pic.twitter.com/SZIEkUjUZC — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 19, 2025

The AP’s Dangerous Language Dictatorship
By Roger L Simon Racket News’ Matt Taibbi tells us Donald Trump is trolling the Associated Press by, according to the news organization itself, “telling them what words to use.”. Mr. Taibbi […]

Tom Hanks, Margaret Brennan, and the European Ministers—Reveal It All
By Victor Davis Hanson Three recent but completely unrelated events illustrate the deranged hatred of Donald Trump and his supporters continuing now even into a second decade. And yet the […]

Congress Mark Green on USAID
By Armando Simón I rarely submit to The Iconoclast speeches made by other individuals, unless they are remarkable, my main motivation being that they not be overlooked since the […]

Trump’s Counterrevolution in Washington
By Victor Davis Hanson I want to talk about the Trump counterrevolution, not the revolution. There’s been a lot of false information—what the Left calls misinformation, disinformation—about what’s going on in these […]