JP Morgan Chase & Co. CEO Jamie Dimon on Thursday blasted the Democrat Party for being too devoted to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI).

“I have a lot of friends who are Democrats, and they’re idiots. I always say they have big hearts and little brains. They do not understand how the real world works. Almost every single policy rolled out failed,” Dimon said.

The JP Morgan chief executive has said that too many American companies focused too much time and energy with DEI and that the banking company he led would pull back its focus on these topics.

“They overdid DEI,” Dimon said, noting that he refers to himself as “barely a Democrat.”

He added, “We all were devoted to reaching out to the Black community, Hispanic, the LGBT community, the disabled — we do all of that. But the extent, they gotta stop it. And they gotta go back to being more practical. They’re very ideological.”

Dimon said that former President Joe Biden “didn’t have one business person” advising him and that he was “speechless about the lack of knowledge” in the administration.

Bloomberg continued:

The JPMorgan CEO’s criticism of the Democratic Party extended to the mayoral race in New York, where his bank is based. Zohran Mamdani, a 33-year-old assemblyman and democratic socialist, won the Democratic primary after vowing to freeze rents, make city buses free and create city-owned grocery stores.

“This guy just got elected — he’s more of a Marxist than a socialist, and now you see these Democrats falling all over themselves saying, ‘Well, he’s pointing out some real problems, affordable housing and grocery prices.’ OK, maybe,” Dimon continued. “There’s the same ideological mush that means nothing in the real world.”

Sean Moran is a policy reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on X @SeanMoran3.

Tyrants like Obama-Hillary Deep State henchman John Brennan love to talk about “democracy.” In their sociopathic lexicon, “democracy” is code for “What I want.” They actually rather like democracy. As totalitarian elitists with media and schools uncritically behind them, they’re confident they can get a lot of stupid people on their side in order for them to acquire the unearned wealth, power and attention they so crave.

When they’re unsuccessful at doing so, as in the elections of 2016 and 2024, they’re confident in their ability to sustain or recover power through deception and rigging the outcomes, as they have managed in most other elections (most notably 2020 and 2022). That’s why it’s important to try, convict and thoroughly punish these loathsome enemies of individual liberty. Because unless we the people stop them, they will keep doing it.

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“The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism.” — Hannah Arendt

We live in an era of global socialism, self-conscious woke “sensitivity” and all the rest of the crap … and never have we witnessed less empathy. She nailed it.

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Jewish Democrat lawmakers on Capitol Hill are sounding the alarm on Democratic Socialist New York City Mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, pointing to his refusal to condemn the phrase “globalize the intifada” or recognize Israel as a Jewish state, especially at a time when antisemitism is on the rise in the United States.

Jihad, bread lines, terrorist drag queens and three-families-to-an-apartment social worker enforcement teams are on the verge of taking over New York City…and now Jewish Establishment Democrats are starting to panic.

Too late, leftists. These are your comrades. And you brought it all on yourselves.

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I want to add my $.02 to the excellent piece Ed wrote this morning about the farm raid in California that so exorcised the Democrats. 

You know, the one where a violent “protester” shot at law enforcement, risking everybody around him in the process. 

Democrats were livid at…ICE…apparently for provoking a well-justified armed response from a good citizen who rightly wanted to ensure that the pot farm he was protecting could continue to employ children to harvest the crop. 

Unaccompanied migrant children are doing what amounts to slave labor, and the Democrats are incensed that their pot supply might become more expensive or even be reduced a bit by the federal government rescuing children from abuse. They need a steady supply of illegal aliens to keep their precious industry healthy and productive. 

NEW MEDIA SPIN JUST DROPPED

“ICE forcefully raided a California farm and arrested farmers.”

REALITY: It was a WEED farm exploiting child labor, and ICE agents had rocks thrown and a gun fired at them

You don’t hate the media enough.

Democrats seem obsessed with ensuring that industries that rely on cheap and slave labor thrive. Child slaves in the Congo are reportedly mining with their bare hands the cobalt used in EV batteries, and apparently, pot farms thrive when they use underage, often unaccompanied minors in their fields.

Yes, potheads will attack federal law enforcement to protect their right to cheap cannabis farmed by children

The moral bankruptcy of drug legalizers has never been clearer.

Without the slaves, who will pick the pot? We might have to actually pay people!

From Ed:

The scene left Gavin Newsom outraged. He wasn’t outraged by the shooter, nor the mob that showed up to obstruct federal agents enforcing immigration law. Newsom saved his ire for Trump and his adviser Stephen Miller for taking someone’s “mother” from the “fields”:

“Kids running from tear gas, crying on the phone because their mother was just taken from the fields,” the governor wrote in a post accompanied by a video showing people running to avoid tear gas deployed by authorities. “Trump calls me ‘Newscum’ — but he’s the real scum.” …

“Instead of supporting the businesses and workers that drive our economy and way of life, Stephen Miller’s tactics evoke chaos, fear and terror within our communities at every turn,” he wrote. “At Miller’s direction, Trump’s agents continue to detain U.S. citizens and racially profile Americans, ripping families apart and disappearing parents and workers into cruel federal detention centers to meet their self-imposed arrest quotas.”

Ahem. In the first place, despite some uninformed commentary on social media, these were not Strawberry Fields Forever. This was a cannabis farm, which in itself is still technically illegal under federal law. Furthermore, the state of California routinely separates mothers from children when mothers commit crimes, and sometimes violently and in front of those children. It’s called getting arrested, which happens when mommies and daddies violate the law. That also “rips families apart” and puts parents into “detention centers.” How is that any different, except that Newsom doesn’t like the federal laws in question?

Speaking of children, though …

Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Rodney Scott responded to Newsom’s post.

“Here’s some breaking news: 10 juveniles were found at this marijuana facility – all illegal aliens, 8 of them unaccompanied. It’s now under investigation for child labor violations,” Scott wrote.

Newsom was fine with the shooting, apparently. It was entirely justified since ICE was trying to enforce a law he happens to find inconvenient. California needs those children to pick the crops, you know. And what about the gardeners, and the people who we need to wipe our a$$es?

BREAKING 🚨 Trump said “300,000 children went MISSING under Joe Biden” and They have already saved 10,000 of them

“We’re getting them back by the THOUSANDS”

AMEN 🙏

pic.twitter.com/heou5LKp8j— MAGA Voice (@MAGAVoice) July 11, 2025

As I have written several times this week, the Democrats are calling for blood. Literally, as Axios reported–they are calling for gunfire and what amounts to revolution–and politicians like Newsom are egging them on. Any bad thing that happens is Trump’s fault, you see. 

🚨 BREAKING: The weed farm that was raided by ICE agents yesterday is a donor for Gavin Newsom.

It’s now officially under investigation for child labor violations.

Hakeem Jeffries smirked when asked about fellow Democrats declaring open season on Republicans and Trump–after all, their anger is totally justified because Trump is Orange. 

NEW: The President of Glasshouse Farms, which had two cannabis farms raided by ICE & Border Patrol in Camarillo yesterday, has donated thousands of dollars to Democrats in California, including $10,000 to Gov. Gavin Newsom in 2018.
Story:

@cameron_arcand https://t.co/tl3LH6j6EJ— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) July 11, 2025

Democrats are the party of Luigi Mangione and Antifa. 

David Strom, Hotair

The federal government posted an unexpected budget surplus in June, fueled by a sharp rise in tariff revenues and higher-than-anticipated tax receipts, marking a notable vindication for President Donald Trump’s economic strategy.

The $27 billion surplus reported Friday by the Treasury Department stood in stark contrast to forecasts for a $50 billion deficit, representing one of the largest upside surprises in recent budget data.

Monthly surpluses typically occur in April, when many Americans file their taxes. Surpluses are also common in January and September. A June surplus is highly unusual.

Much of the improvement stemmed from a 301 percent increase in tariff collections compared to June of last year. Customs duties totaled $27 billion in June, up from $23 billion in May and more than quadruple the $6.7 billion collected a year earlier. For the fiscal year to date, tariff revenues have reached $113 billion, an 86% increase over the same period in 2024.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has said that he expects tariffs to bring in as much as $300 billion in revenues this year.

The surge follows Mr. Trump’s sweeping 10 percent universal tariff on imports implemented in April, as well as a growing array of reciprocal duties aimed at specific trading partners. Administration officials have pointed to the June surplus as evidence that the new trade regime is strengthening federal finances without imposing the widespread inflationary pressure critics once warned about.

Receipts overall rose 13 percent from the prior year, driven in part by quarterly corporate tax payments. At the same time, federal outlays fell 7 percent, contributing to the favorable monthly balance. The June surplus followed a $316 billion deficit in May.

Through the first nine months of the fiscal year that started on October 1, the federal deficit stands at $1.34 trillion, up 5 percent from the prior year. But the Treasury noted that, after accounting for calendar shifts, the adjusted deficit is down 1 percent year-over-year—a notable development at a time when interest payments are consuming a larger share of federal spending.

In June alone, net interest payments on the $36 trillion national debt totaled $84 billion, second only to Social Security outlays. Cumulative interest costs for the year have reached $749 billion, with full-year totals projected to top $1.2 trillion. President Trump has criticized the Fed for holding interest rates too high, adding to the cost of debt service.

John Carney, Breitbart

For years, the MAGA base has been demanding real accountability, not just for January 6th protestors or anti-Hillary meme posters, but for the actual predators and monsters who walk free among us under our broken, two-tier justice system.

One of the biggest demands from Trump’s America First supporters has been the truth around Jeffrey Epstein’s supposed client list. MAGA was promised sunlight on this issue. They were promised justice. And instead, many feel as if they’ve been gaslit, stalled, and handed recycled documents while the real power players skate free, without a care in the world.

From the very beginning, many believed Pam Bondi botched the Epstein rollout. MAGA supporters haven’t forgotten that awkward February stunt at the White House, where so-called “Epstein files” were handed out to conservative influencers. They were actually old files that turned out to be publicly available court records everyone had already seen. The base expected bombshells. What they got felt like a cover-up. It was an embarrassing moment for Bondi and the Trump administration.

Bondi even made the cover of the box look like some official classified documents.

People were furious.

The Vigilant Fox:

NEW: @Liz_Wheeler says Pam Bondi BRAGGED about personally making the cover of the Epstein Files binders before handing them out to influencers. Wheeler was one of those influencers, and now she’s furious. “That day in the White House, Pam Bondi bragged about making that cover sheet on the binder you’re showing on the screen. That cover sheet that reads, ‘The most transparent administration in history: Epstein Files, Phase One.’ She told us she made that. She printed it. She put it in that binder.” Bondi worked hard to make the cover look like an exposé but put in no effort to actually do one.

But things actually got worse for Pam.

After that stunt fell flat, Bondi said officials were poring over a supposed truckload of previously withheld evidence she said had been handed over by the FBI. In a March TV interview, she claimed the Biden administration “sat on these documents; no one did anything with them.” She then went on to say the following: “Sadly these people don’t believe in transparency, but I think more unfortunately, I think a lot of them don’t believe in honesty.”

Pam was digging herself a hole that she may never get out of… because now, after months of Pam’s hype and speculation, the DOJ has released a memo that’s ignited a political firestorm, claiming there is no Epstein list and there will be no further disclosures. The End.

What?

AP:

WASHINGTON (AP) — Jeffrey Epstein did not maintain a “client list,” the Justice Department acknowledged Monday as it said no more files related to the wealthy financier’s sex trafficking investigation would be made public despite promises from Attorney General Pam Bondi that had raised the expectations of conservative influencers and conspiracy theorists.

The acknowledgment that the well-connected Epstein did not have a list of clients to whom underage girls were trafficked represents a public walk-back of a theory that the Trump administration had helped promote, with Bondi suggesting in a Fox News interview earlier this year that such a document was “sitting on my desk” for review. Even as it released video from inside a New York jail meant to definitively prove that Epstein killed himself, the department also said in a memo that it was refusing to disclose other evidence investigators had collected.

Bondi for weeks had suggested more material was going to be revealed — “It’s a new administration and everything is going to come out to the public,” she said at one point — after a first document dump she had hyped angered President Donald Trump’s base by failing to deliver revelations.

The backlash inside the MAGA movement has been fast and furious. People want answers and are not taking this latest stunt sitting down.

It’s gotten so bad that, according to investigative reporter Laura Loomer, the anger is boiling over inside the Trump administration. According to Loomer, Kash Patel and Dan Bongino are absolutely livid with Pam Bondi, and the damage she’s caused is serious enough that some want her gone.

Laura Loomer:

SCOOP: @FBIDirectorKash and @dbongino are LIVID with @AGPamBondi over her DOJ Memo and the lack of transparency from her office regarding the Jeffery Epstein files.

Source tells me Dan Bongino is taking the day off today from his job as Deputy Director of the FBI, and there’s now speculation on whether or not he will return to his job at the @FBI over his disgust with Blondi’s lack of transparency and handling of the Epstein files.

Pam Blondi has brought total embarrassment to President Trump, @JDVance, @dbongino and @Kash_Patel. She has also LIED to the American people.

I’m told Kash and Bongino are furious with Blondi and the blowback she has caused them with her lack of transparency.

Kash Patel and Dan Bongino should call for Blondi’s public resignation today to save themselves and to also push for full transparency into the Epstein files.

This is an issue the American people care deeply about.

Someone needs to be fired for this. Giving Blondi courtesy to resign is more than she deserves.

Trump should just FIRE her.

That’s some heavy-duty stuff, if true.

Adding another layer to this already convoluted story, Bill O’Reilly recently said that President Trump gave him a direct reason for not disclosing Epstein-related names. According to O’Reilly, Trump said he didn’t want innocent people, like a golf buddy or casual acquaintance, dragged through the mud just for appearing on a list, without context.

This is a powder keg issue and one of the biggest that President Trump has faced since he’s been in office.

But the bottom line is this: the American people deserve to know what really happened. We were promised transparency, and more importantly, we were promised justice. If we want a country where citizens respect their leaders, then morality matters. Crimes against children matter. And if there are names on that list of people who did nothing wrong, then fine… put it into context and release the thing.

Don’t bury the truth. Let the chips fall where they may.

Now we want to hear from you: Should Pam Bondi be fired over this mess? Let us know what you think in the comments below.

UPDATE:

This story is heating up and spreading like wildfire. Now, Axios is also reporting the same story, claiming they have two sources who’ve corroborated Bongino’s ire with Pam Bondi and the handling of the Epstein files.

Axios:

FBI deputy director Dan Bongino took a day off from work Friday after clashing at the White House with Attorney General Pam Bondi over their handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files, four sources familiar with the conflict told Axios.

Why it matters: The dispute erupted Wednesday amid the fallout of the administration walking back its claims about Epstein by determining the convicted sex offender didn’t have a celebrity “client list,” and that he wasn’t murdered in his New York City prison cell in 2019.

Bongino didn’t come to work Friday, leading some insiders to believe he had quit. But administration officials say he’s still on the job, even as the internal tension over the Epstein case continues. Zoom in: At the center of the argument: a surveillance video from outside of Epstein’s cell that the administration released, saying it was proof no one had entered the room before he killed himself.

The 10-hour video had what has widely been called a “missing minute,” fueling conspiracy theories in MAGA’s online world about a cover-up involving Epstein’s death.

The “missing minute,” authorities say, stemmed from an old surveillance recording system that goes down each day at midnight to reset and record anew. It takes a minute for that process to occur, which effectively means that 60 seconds of every day aren’t recorded.

Bongino — who had pushed Epstein conspiracy theories as a MAGA-friendly podcast host before President Trump appointed him to help lead the FBI — had found the video and touted it publicly and privately as proof that Epstein actually hadn’t been murdered. That conclusion — shared by FBI Director Kash Patel, another conspiracy theorist-turned-insider — angered many in Trump’s MAGA base, criticism that increased after Axios first reported the release of the video and a related memo.

After the video’s “missing minute” was discovered, Bongino was blamed internally for the oversight, according to three sources.

Two sources familiar with Bongino’s position say he was increasingly displeased with Bondi’s handling of the Epstein case because she had publicly overpromised and underdelivered disclosures about an Epstein “client list” that apparently never existed.

As the Epstein scandal backlash grows bigger and louder, Laura Loomer just dropped yet another thread exposing even more behind-the-scenes chaos. This time she’s accusing Pam Bondi of actively blocking the FBI from releasing more Epstein-related files.

It all started when Laura responded to this X post from Todd Blanche, the Deputy Attorney General under Pam Bondi.

I worked closely with @FBIDirectorKash and @FBIDDBongino on the joint FBI and DOJ memo regarding the Epstein Files. All of us signed off on the contents of the memo and the conclusions stated in the memo. The suggestion by anyone that there was any daylight between the FBI and DOJ leadership on this memo’s composition and release is patently false.

I worked closely with @FBIDirectorKash and @FBIDDBongino on the joint FBI and DOJ memo regarding the Epstein Files. All of us signed off on the contents of the memo and the conclusions stated in the memo. The suggestion by anyone that there was any daylight between the FBI and…

— Todd Blanche (@DAGToddBlanche) July 11, 2025

Laura Loomer:

How come nobody signed their name to the memo? @DAGToddBlanche

My sources tell me that the FBI wanted to release more information about Jeffrey Epstein, and Pam Blondi @AGPamBondi and her DOJ said NO. This has caused tension between Blondi, Kash, and Bongino.

Asking for transparency isn’t difficult.

Blondi is literally blowing up the Trump admin by concealing information, spending time on Fox News lying to MAGA base and by releasing contradictory statements.

There is information that can be released that the public wants to see.

Why was the Memo released on a Sunday night on 4th of July weekend with no official signage and no names of any admin officials?

You only release memos on Sunday evening on holiday weekends when you don’t want anyone paying attention to the contents.

Trump’s team needs to READ THE ROOM.

Blondi has been very DAMAGING to the admin and she has damaged public trust in the DOJ.

She is hurting President Trump and his staff/advisors.

She lied on national TV and needs to be held accountable for harming the Trump admin and public trust.

How come nobody signed their name to the memo? @DAGToddBlanche

My sources tell me that the FBI wanted to release more information about Jeffrey Epstein, and Pam Blondi @AGPamBondi and her DOJ said NO. This has caused tension between Blondi, Kash, and Bongino.

Asking for… https://t.co/CuMj70PUOk

— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) July 11, 2025

Stay tuned, folks. Something tells us this story’s far from over.

Staff, Revolver News

This below average woman doesn’t even rise to the status of a villain. She’s a lightweight elevated to a level she never was capable of achieving, greeted with hollow and nervous applause by a culture of sycophants afraid to tell her the truth.

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“As the world watches, Trump’s presidency burns brighter than ever.
It is a beacon of audacity in a time of uncertainty.”

— Christopher Ruddy, CEO of Newsmax

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The thing I have noticed about most leftists that I haven’t seen with nearly as many nonleftists: Leftists will not tolerate or interact with people of differing views. Not for a moment, once the discovery is made. When they get the slightest inkling you might have voted for Trump, that you might support tax cuts, that you think fossil fuels should be legal after 2030, or that you have any questions at all about the logical tenability of “transgender” — they are done with you. Even if people with nonleftist views don’t bring up the subject, most leftists dismiss the dissenters with a considerable amount of hostility. No common ground is desired, or thought possible by the leftist.

The leftist reaction to dissenting views is similar to what you’d expect from someone guilty of physical violence or overt verbal nastiness, even though no such thing has occurred. It’s almost as if the leftist genuinely believes that: “You, the nonleftist, merely by holding different views from me, have done the equivalent of physically assaulting me.” It’s rather fascinating, and also pretty disturbing.

Michael J. Hurd, Daily Dose of Reason

By S. David Sultzer

The Democrat party has just taken a huge step. For the first time, it has openly embraced not merely hard-left socialism, but the bloody and evil antisemitism of its radical Islamist allies.

The hard left—whether you denominate them socialists, communists, or progressives—are determined to destroy traditional Western Civilization and the Judaeo-Christian religions that are its foundation. Then they would rule over the ruins.

This has been true ever since socialism and state-mandated atheism were birthed in 1792, in the crucible of the French Revolution. It has been true since Karl Marx, the virulent antisemite, wrote in 1843 On the Jewish Question, linking Jews to capitalism, the main enemy of Marx’s communist utopia to come. And it has been true since the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party made an alliance with radical Islamists in Jerusalem in 1941.

Indeed, ever since Hitler’s alliance with the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, the hard left and radical Islam have been in a blood-soaked partnership. Radical Islamists, like the hard left, are dedicated to the destruction of Western Civilization. Radical Islamists, like the hard left, are inveterate enemies of Judaism and Christianity, seeking to destroy those religions.

Until recently, socialists and Islamists were on the very fringes of American society, only spreading their cancer in our nation’s ivory towers. But as was inevitable, that cancer has now leaked into society. The cancer announced its arrival with the victory of Zohran Mamdani in the Democrat primary for Mayor of New York City. Mamdani is both a socialist and an Islamist who has called to “globalize” the bloody war on Jews, “the intifada.”

One could take some comfort in the fact that the election of Mamdani was simply in one city, but then the unthinkable happened. The leader of the Democratic National Committee, Ken Martin, appearing on the PBS Newshour, has given his imprimatur, not only to the hard-left socialists, but to their embrace of radical Islam and its war on Jews as well. The evil is now mainstream and acceptable.

 The dissimulation from Martin is stomach-churning. “Globalize the Intifada” is not a call for “debate.” It is a call for genocide.

Moreover, while this embrace of a dangerous fringe may allow Democrats to win elections, the costs will be paid by the nation at large. Mamdani and his ilk have nothing in common with the Democrats of old. They do not seek to argue about strengthening government institutions and redirecting policy around the center. They seek only to tear down government institutions and use each resulting crisis as a justification for more power and control.

Dean Phillips, despite trying desperately to deflect to almost non-existent problems among Republicans, has conceded that the new Democrats cannot coexist with the old ones:

On a final note, the hard left does not seem to have thought through their alliance and what will happen when they and their radical Islamic allies succeed in their efforts to tear down society. The hard left expects to rule over the ruins in a socialist, atheist paradise where the Constitution says whatever they want it to say. That is suicidally naïve. A millennium of history tells us that the Islamists are far more likely to toss the hard-left off rooftops than they are to share power with the godless, and that the Constitution will take on a complexion that matches.

American Thinker

On July 10, 2025 a Dr. Jennifer M. Morton, who says “I am a philosophy professor whose views are, for the most part, politically progressive,” offered a New York Times op-ed, “Why Hiring Professors With Conservative Views Could Backfire on Conservatives”.  She teaches at U. Penn, and Dr. Morton is worried.

She’s worried a conservative prof hired for being conservative might be rigid and inflexible in his or her thinking.

Me thinks she might be telling on herself. Of course, she’s not rigid and inflexible in her thinking.  Oh no.  She offers, by way of proof of her reasonableness, that she teaches one libertarian philosopher.  And why does she do this, in her view, magnanimous thing?  Because she wants her “liberal students to be challenged” and her “libertarian students to think carefully about the arguments that support their position.”

Kind of a lot to unpack there.  That thought is heavy with implications.  You’ll note the liberal students are not invited to “think carefully about the arguments that support their position,” only the libertarian students are invited or expected to do that.  The liberal students will be coddled and calmed down should they be triggered, presumably.

And, of course, she says all this in a New York Times op-ed discouraging viewpoint diversity, but because this opinion is purportedly based on her concern that these poor conservative professors would experience a kind of existential angst about having to stay conservative to keep their jobs, we’re just supposed to overlook that, I guess.  She must think they don’t know their own minds as well as she clearly does and could be easily swayed, I suppose?  Once they are exposed to their colleagues’ progressive enlightenment?

Why is it when progressives talk about people who aren’t like them it’s always with a sense of pitying superiority?  That if only these poor slobs would avail themselves of their enlightened benevolence, these rubes would discover what it is to be right with the world?

She also spends quite a bit of time talking about conservative students and professors admitted or hired for being conservative as being easy to spot somehow.  Honestly it’s kind of creepy.  Does she think they’ll all be wearing a scarlet letter?  How would she know?  Oh, to be sure, word would get around that one of “them” was on campus, but that, in and of itself, demonstrates the fragility of her position:  “they” are distinct from the progressive establishment and must be treated differently.  Sounds kind of rigid and inflexible to me.  There is, of course, the available option of just being equally civil to every colleague, but I guess that’s outside the realm of possibility, in her 

She concedes that “many” people think having more ideological diversity on campus would be a good thing, reasoning that “certainly, there is not enough engagement with conservative ideas on college campuses.”

Conservatives have criticized identity-based affirmative action because, they suggest, it imposes an expectation on students of color that they will represent what is presumed to be, say, the Black or Latino view on any given issue, which discourages freethinking. Admitting students for viewpoint diversity would turn the holding of conservative ideas into a quasi-identity, subject to some of the same concerns. Students admitted to help restore ideological balance would likely feel a responsibility to defend certain views, reless of the force of opposing arguments they might encounter.

“[R]egardless of the force of opposing arguments they might encounter.”  Yet another thought heavy with implications from the good professor.  One might read that to mean that the progressive argument, being so obviously right, should be accepted, and that should it not, it’s due to conservative intransigence, not progressive intransigence.  Now who’s rigid and inflexible?

It’s important not to overlook her implicit admission here about race:  that “the Black or Latino” view is expected.  I’m sure she didn’t mean to admit that, but she 

She admitted quite a bit in this op-ed, and none of it good.  Either way, she gets what she wants: discouragement of diversity of thought, which was her point.

M. Walter, American Thinker

What is more important — wealth or health?  Do you prefer to be loved by adoring strangers or by close members of your family?  When you depart this world, would you rather be remembered for your political power or moral courage?  Is the cultivation of a virtuous character more valuable than the accumulation of material things?

I ask these questions to highlight how much power you have over your own life.  I often receive messages from people who are worried about the future.  Some sound despondent about the challenges ahead.  Some are happy that President Trump did this and unhappy that he did that.  Some seem so engrossed in the turbulent world of politics that they struggle to be upbeat about more important things.

I am an ordinary sinner with no special knowledge about our existence, and my intention is not to lecture others.  I do wish to remind people, though, that they are in control.  No matter how coercive governments and corporations are, we are still masters of our fates.  We decide what we believe.  We decide how we will act.  We decide what costs we are willing to bear in defense of our principles.  

There is something liberating in the acknowledgment of these simple facts.  Surely our principles aren’t really our principles until we are willing to suffer in defense of them.  Our earthly struggles are the grindstones that sharpen our moral virtue.  Adversity is as much a blessing as it is a burden.

Those who worry so much about the future that they squander the 86,400 seconds each day sacrifice present happiness.  And happiness, as I suggest in the first paragraph, cannot be bought.  Fame is a shabby substitute for love.  Just consider how many celebrities use alcohol and drugs to treat their depression.  Likewise, the size of your home or bank account reveals nothing about your worth.  Wealthy people die every day.  Their possessions do not make their lives exemplary.  Moral excellence, on the other hand, is rare in this world.  The life of a poor but virtuous person is more extraordinary than the life of a wealthy but dishonorable one.  Strength can be found in remembering that.

Advancements in artificial intelligence (A.I.) worry people.  Every week, a major news publication is accused of publishing A.I.-written articles.  Students are turning in A.I.-written assignments as their own work.  Professions, including medicine and law, are increasingly relying on A.I. tools for both problem-solving and finished reports.  Some people connect these dots and conclude that not only will there be no human jobs in the future, but also there will be no thinking human beings.  

Allow me to offer an even more startling glimpse into the future.  As A.I. becomes more adept at mimicking the great writers of the past, it will not stop once it corners the market on popular fiction.  The Big Tech companies that are building A.I. infrastructure today are the same companies that store all our emails, text messages, and social media posts.  You didn’t think that they provided “free” accounts all these years out of the kindness of their corporate hearts, did you?  What happens when an A.I. system uses everything you’ve written in the twenty-first century to mimic your writing style in a personal message to a loved one?  The more competent that A.I. becomes, the more difficult it will be to know for sure who is communicating with us.

Taking this line of reasoning to its logical conclusion, it is easy to see how foreign adversaries (or unsavory domestic intelligence services) might one day use A.I. to foment social unrest by impersonating the friends and family members of millions of citizens instantaneously.  Will we be forced to verify one another’s digital identities to avoid confusion and deception?  

Surely that won’t work, either.  For decades, companies such as Google and Apple have requested that we answer a series of “security” questions, ostensibly to help them verify our identities should we get locked out of our accounts.  As any computer engineer with expertise in algorithms and probability can tell you, a small amount of personal information is highly predictive at generating an individual’s likely passwords.  Next time you tell Big Tech or Big Brother your first pet’s name, childhood address, or high school mascot, remember that some A.I. is using that information to build a digital profile on you in cyberspace.  Is it any wonder why government agencies are the silent partners of every tech company?

In a world where our digital identities may never be secure, what is one to do?  Perhaps we will relearn the value of human interaction.  Perhaps we will realize that we are only as secure as our personal relationships are strong.  In fact, it is entirely possible that one outcome of a future dominated by A.I. is a renewed appreciation for human-intensive work.  

Have you noticed, for instance, that the market for handmade furniture and crafts has grown steadily since the ’90s?  What happened around that time?  The World Wide Web crisscrossed the planet.  Ironically, technological innovation actually renewed consumer demand for trade skills that were in obvious decline.

The twentieth century gave us the modern factory, and rapid technological growth increased manufacturing productivity exponentially.  But those “advancements” came with serious costs.  Jobs were lost to international trade as multinational firms chose cheap foreign labor over domestic producers.  Quality also declined, and consumers who once expected appliances to last decades were forced to accept that goods barely survived a manufacturer’s limited warranty.

People fed up with cheaply made products have used the internet to find human producers who would otherwise never be able to survive in a globalized world of Big Box fabrications.  Thirty years ago, this trend seemed unlikely.  Today, it is an undeniable reality.  An increasing number of consumers would rather purchase quality handmade goods than mass-produced facsimiles that cannot withstand the rigors of time.  There is a reason why Amish furniture is in high demand today.

Do not be surprised if a similar effect follows advancements with A.I.  The more that artificial intelligence dominates life, the more that real intelligence will become a precious commodity.  There will be a moment when an individual’s skill and education are prized because the A.I.-enabled knockoffs appear as hollow imitations of human creativity.  There will be a moment when human interactions are cherished because digital interactions can’t be trusted.  There will be a moment when personal knowledge and character will be valued for their human authenticity.  Technological revolutions impact human history in unexpected ways.

For millennia, a good sword was expensive and required time and skill to wield well.  Big, strong swordsmen had a distinct advantage.  The handgun, however, quickly leveled the playing field.  As was often said of Samuel Colt’s famous revolver, “God created men; Colonel Colt made them equal.”  A lightweight AR-15-style rifle provides a small woman with the power to defend herself against a large man.  Firearms have democratized self-defense.

Similarly, the printing press, radio, television, and personal computer have democratized communication.  Although governments have had varying success in using these innovations to maintain power, there is no doubt that the information revolution of the last five hundred years has narrowed the knowledge gap between the wealthiest and the poorest more significantly than during any other period in history.  And whatever happens with A.I. over the next few years, there is no doubt in my mind that a similar democratizing effect will accompany its proliferation — irrespective of the wishes of today’s “ruling class.” 

In the midst of great change, certain things remain constant.  We humans love and seek to be loved.  We are remembered for our virtues and moral failings.  We find sustained purpose in our relationships with God and our families.  Let us hold fast to these truths.

J.B. Shark, American Thinker

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In 1945, Edward Lowe (1920-1995) created an industry when he developed a clay- based cat box filler as a favor to a friend. Upon realizing the potential of his product, he faithfully pursued informing people of the need his new Kitty Litter® could fill.

More than any man, Ed Lowe brought the cat in from the barn and out of the alley. Ed and the housebroken cat revolutionized the way people thought about cats and literally made them into America’s favorite pet.

In 1985, Ed turned his attention to helping other entrepreneurs achieve their own goals by creating the Edward Lowe Foundation, a resource center dedicated to helping entrepreneurs and small-business people through educational programs, information services, research tools, and other support services.

Quotes

“The real roots of economic growth in the United States came about through the ingenious efforts of the entrepreneurial-spirited individuals and their small, independent companies, rather than through the giant companies. We must give redit to the mountain of men of the past – from them came the grassroots of American greatness.”

“My life has been a testimony to the credo of the entrepreneur. People like me who have lived the dream should share their knowledge with others, because if private sector business doesn’t help–then the American entrepreneur won’t survive,”

“As a general rule, change is brought about by discontent.”

Entrepreneurship at an early age

A determined young entrepreneur with several businesses – some successful, some not – under his belt, Ed drew on his father’s inspiration to drive him in pursuing his own dreams. After completing high school and serving four years in the U.S. Navy, he joined his father in the family coal and sawdust business. Realizing the commercial potential for his processed clay product, Ed left the family business and began the task of marketing Kitty Litter® full time.

The early cat box filler years were dominated by Ed’s uncommon perseverance. Literally hauling a trailer full of his new product from cat show to cat show across the country, he would provide free litter to each show’s sponsor, in return for booth space from which to show off his wares. Word soon spread, and the business took off, eventually turning Edward Lowe Industries into a multi-million-dollar, multinational enterprise. In 1991, Ed sold the cat box filler portion of the business, focusing instead on the creation of new, innovative products for the agricultural and chemical industries, among others.

Key thoughts for entrepreneurs

Among the most notable of Lowe’s successful elements was his undiminished determination and belief in what he was doing.

Upon marketing Kitty Litter® to pet stores, Lowe also noted a larger market in grocery stores. Opposition from pet stores spurred him to create a separate brand, Tidy Cat® for grocery stores so as to not infringe upon the pet store customer base.

Realizing the difficulties small-business people face in competing against large companies, Lowe created the Edward Lowe Foundation to assist entrepreneurs by acting as an informational resource.

Poetry

Ed Lowe felt that pondering was an important part of life. Some of his most creative ideas came to him during the hours he would spend reflecting in his hometown of Cassopolis. He and his wife, Darlene, put together many collections of poetry about their lives and the undying passion they both had for championing the entrepreneurial spirit. Here is a sample:

Oh, Entrepreneur

You have an unending desire to do something. And when you do something, you have an Unending desire to do something else.

You have an unending desire to be someplace. But when you are someplace, you have an Unending desire to be someplace else.

You have a mysterious ability to explain something Without being understood – mysterious and Misunderstood, even to yourself at times.

You have the ability to see what is not there, Construct in your mind things not constructed – Piece together fragments of flitting thoughts
And at the proper time mold them into reality. You have an inborn instinct to know what is right And what is wrong – many times only On the verge, but you know!

Your many urges, desires and impulses are like The tide of the sea – always coming and going,
Thoughts, like the waves instructed by the wind, Dictating whether they are lazy swells, choppy whitecaps Or thundering mounts – they cascade Through your mind with uncontrolled direction.

It’s not easy to give up; it’s not easy to stay put; It’s not easy to go on riding wave after wave Of this unsatisfied impulse; to move, to construct, To dream, to do, but be instructed not to do.

The secret to satisfaction and success, then,
Must be dealt with very carefully by controlling
And adjusting the scales of deed to a delicate balance; A balance that will be compatible with your own. Strengths and weaknesses.
But be wary that they do not become overbearing. To those who do not understand.

So pledge to the creed, Oh, Entrepreneur, Bypass the negative, be patient with the structured, Be passive with the limited, be understanding to Those who are naïve – But never let your words, thoughts and deeds Be smothered by those who cannot understand!