Butterflies? Emphatically yes! Blacks? Emphatically no! Cats? Emphatically maybe. Those are my varying answers to the question of “Do you want more of this group in your your life?” Butterflies are beautiful and benign, so I’d be delighted to have more of them. Blacks are uncouth and criminal, so I want fewer of them, not […]
Map of Cyprus. The gray line separates the northern part, occupied by Turkish Cypriots, from the southern part, occupied by Greek Cypriots and the Jewish settlers. What began as a quiet migration of affluent Israeli families to southern Cyprus has now triggered fears of foreign encroachment and strategic displacement. Since 2021, nearly 4,000 properties have […]
“The cover-up is worse than the crime” is almost never true — of course the crime is worse — and when the crime is rape of underage girls, I’d say it’s nearly impossible for the cover-up to be worse. But Attorney General Pam Bondi is challenging that presumption with her enraging refusal to release the names of […]
On Thursday in Gaza the IDF killed 3 in an attack on a Catholic church and wounded the priest,& at least 8 others. Like yesterday’s deadly stampede this managed to disrupt US MSM indifference. The church had been sheltering many people. https://www.nbcnews.com/world/middle-east/israel-strike-catholic-church-gaza-pope-francis-gabriele-romanelli-rcna219268 In a rare exception, the San Francisco Chronicle https://www.sfgate.com/news/world/article/parish-priest-and-several-injured-as-airstrikes-20773517.php carried more of AP‘s report “Separately, another person […]
Trump Gaslights His MAGA Base: Is This Supposed to be “Winning”? Trump recently expressed his disinterest in perusing the Jeffrey Epstein matter after the Justice Department on July 7th released a memo detailing how Epstein died at the Metropolitan Correctional Center (NYC) in 2019. Not only was foul play ruled out with Epstein committing suicide […]
On Wednesday in Gaza, the inevitable occurred: a stampede by Palestinians trying to get food at a Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) distribution point killed some 20 people. Both sides blame the other but the flat GHF assertion blaming Hamas contrasts badly with the circumstantial Palestinian accounts. Ultimately, of course responsibility lies with those insisting on […]
Israel is displacing Palestinians on a scale not seen since 1967. Photo: Palestinian mourners attend the funeral of three people killed the previous day in Kufr Malik in the West Bank, June 26, 2025. (Oren Ziv) While the genocide in Gaza rages, the Israeli military and Israeli settlers are not-so-quietly carrying out a massive, increasingly coordinated campaign […]
Article 19 is an organization which monitors global free speech, and it issues an annual report which grades countries into five categories of freedom of expression: Open, Less Restricted, Restricted, Highly Restricted, and In Crisis. In its most recent report, the United Kingdom has been demoted from the highest category to the second for the […]
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