I remain a tremendous fan of Ayn Rand (Atlas Shrugged, Anthem, The Fountainhead, Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal), who contributed enormously to my comprehension of psychology, philosophy, human nature, ethics and government. The people writing in her name today, without any authorization by her since she died over 40 years ago, are peddling as original the precise propaganda you can find on MSNBC or in The New York Times. This post will be of interest to those who follow such topics.

The following is a post by Char Cushman to which I say, Bravo!

For those of you who have read Harry Binswanger’s latest post about ICE. I 100% disagree with him. He completely ignores the entire context.
Culture matters.

Binswanger [of the Ayn Rand Institute] claims we are all tribalists who dislike immigrants because of their color. I wonder what he thinks about Ayn Rand when she called people in the Middle East savages.

He defends the rule of law–the aliens broke immigration law. What about that law? Without vetting, immigrants entered here who have harmed American citizens. They have brutally murdered people, raped and murdered women, and have committed massive theft (the Day care fraud and other fraud) from us. And don’t forget that many of them hate our country and wish for our demise i.e. “death to America.” I have heard some say, well, we have criminals too. So? Our criminals should go to jail and criminal immigrants should be deported. Let’s say the rape and murder of Laken Riley was the only crime committed. It was one death too many. It would have never happened if we had protected borders. Tell Laken Riley’s parents, family and close friends that her death by an illegal alien doesn’t matter because we already have criminals here.

The Left is focusing on the rights of the immigrants. Those who commit crimes have given up their rights. Besides, what about our rights? We don’t have any? We work and pay the taxes, but we don’t get a say on who can come here?

There is NO RIGHT to go where ever you want to in the world. To say it is a right means that others have to provide you entrance no matter where you go, no matter who you are. Criminals do not have a right to go where ever they want. That is one reason why borders need to be protected so that the good immigrants can be distinguished from the bad.

Another crucial point is that we are now a welfare state which was not the case in the early years of our country. How many people can we support on welfare before the United States collapses?

Don’t listen to ARI (Ayn Rand Institute). They are traitors to our country.

… I would add to this that the protestors are not peaceful. Blocking traffic, spitting on officers, throwing bricks at them, surrounding their cars, breaking their windows, breaking into their cars, and stealing items such as guns from police cars is not peaceful. Plus, there is evidence that they are paid to protest. My only complaint about them is that they are being too soft. From the get go, they should have been arresting them and putting them in jail or spraying them with pepper spray or cold water.

By all means, read and discover the ideas and contributions of Ayn Rand. As for the people peddling leftism and subjectivism at ARI, run for your life.

As a reader commented on Facebook, “I’m totally flabbergasted at the turn ARI has taken in the last ten years — maybe longer, but I didn’t notice it until the 2016 election cycle, when they went off the rails.”

My reply: When you think about it, the people at ARI are making a career living off the work of another person, i.e., Ayn Rand. They’re the very kind of people she wrote about as the mediocrities in her novels. From what I can see, the leadership there hasn’t changed for two decades or more. It seems like this would have to be a symptom of something. The great thing about Ayn Rand’s ideas is that they will matter, and they will always matter somewhere, to somebody; ARI will be forgotten when it eventually runs out of other people’s money.

Michael J. Hurd, Daily Dose of Reason

Existence is rational. Questions are reasonable. All questions can ultimately be answered — it’s only a matter of knowledge and time. In short: It’s a rational universe. Things are “figure outable”. Children start out with this unarticulated, but deeply held, conviction. It’s the irrational and dysfunctional people who cause them to later question it. Giving up on this originally valid conviction leads to the unhappiness and internal conflict so prevalent in the world. Holding on to it — or learning how to embrace it once again — is the road back to serenity and happiness in life.

Michael J. Hurd, Daily Dose of Reason

Tensions over Greenland disrupted ⁠negotiations on the prosperity ​plan text this ⁠week, the FT report said, adding that the U.S. did not send ‍a representative to a key meeting on Monday evening.

The “prosperity plan” was not ‌being shelved indefinitely and could still be signed at a later date, the newspaper added.

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy ⁠said on ​Tuesday that he would ‍travel to Davos only if documents on security guarantees with the United States and a ‍prosperity plan were ready to be signed there.

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European opposition ⁠to President Donald Trump’s bid to acquire Greenland and his proposed “Board of Peace” initiative has disrupted plans for an economic support package for postwar Ukraine, the Financial Times reported ‍on Wednesday.

A planned announcement of an $800 billion prosperity ‍plan to be agreed between Ukraine, Europe, and the U.S. at the World Economic Forum ⁠in Davos this week has been delayed, the report said, citing six officials.

Reuters could not immediately verify ​the report. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Nobody is in any mood to stage ‍a grand spectacle around an agreement with Trump right now,” ⁠one official told the FT, adding that disputes over Greenland and the Board of Peace had overtaken an earlier focus on Ukraine at the Davos meeting.

Tensions over Greenland disrupted ⁠negotiations on the prosperity ​plan text this ⁠week, the FT report said, adding that the U.S. did not send ‍a representative to a key meeting on Monday evening.

The “prosperity plan” was not ‌being shelved indefinitely and could still be signed at a later date, the newspaper added.

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy ⁠said on ​Tuesday that he would ‍travel to Davos only if documents on security guarantees with the United States and a ‍prosperity plan were ready to be signed there.

© 2026 Thomson/Reuters. All rights reserved.

How many times have you heard it said that Barack Obama was “deporter in chief”? How many times did Joe Biden brag that he’d deported more illegal immigrants than Donald Trump had in his first term?

Turns out, those were wild distortions of the truth bordering – if you will pardon the pun – on outright lies.

In late 2024, for example, we saw stories about how deportations that year were the largest in a decade, beating Trump’s record in what would be his first term.

As NPR put it, this meant that “the Republican narrative that the Biden administration has not done anything to combat illegal immigration is just not true.”

The New York Times, of all places, called the lie on this (albeit unintentionally).

Over the weekend, it published a story about how many people Trump has deported. Except in doing so, it broke down the number of deportations “of people arrested inside the country” and those “arrested at the border.”

There’s a big difference. During the Obama and Biden administrations illegals were flooding across the border. They came in record numbers during the Biden years.

Turning them around and sending them home isn’t the same as removing those who managed to sneak past border agents, or worse, were caught and released. But the press never made that distinction.

What did the Times report?

That in his first year, Trump arrested and deported 230,000 illegals inside the country – a number, it says that “is already higher than the total during the entire four years of the Biden administration.”

In contrast, the number being turned around at the border has dropped from roughly 600,000 in 2024, Biden’s final year in office, to just over 250,000 in 2025, the first year of Trump’s second term.

But that’s good news. Because it means fewer are now trying to come into the country illegally under Trump.

So, not only has Trump made remarkable progress in securing the border, he is actually doing his job and removing those inside the country who are here illegally.

This should be cause for celebration.

The ones who deserve to be condemned are Obama and Biden for gaslighting the country about their immigration policies.

Issues & Insights Editorial Board

J. B. Shurk, American Thinker

It has been disconcerting to watch Minnesota governor Tim Walz and Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey go out of their way to defend not only the violent actions of illegal aliens residing in their state but also the criminal behavior of citizens who endanger the lives of law enforcement officers and everyone around them by obstructing necessary arrests.

The Department of Homeland Security has been spectacularly transparent about the targets of its operations in the North Star State. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are going after vile human beings who should not be walking freely on American streets. Men accused or convicted of murder, child rape, and other horrific violence have fled their home countries and now call Minnesota (and other “sanctuary” jurisdictions) home. If they were white, Anglo-Saxon Protestants — or could otherwise be quickly dismissed by prominent news personalities as just “privileged white boys” — nobody would be defending these scumbags. Because Walz, Frey, and the propaganda press describe them as part of the “immigrant community,” middle-aged Minnesota women are willing to risk their lives to keep men who rape and murder women and children from being detained. The whole scene is sad, disturbing, and discouraging. 

To be sure, what’s unfolding in Minnesota and other Democrat-controlled cities and states in response to President Trump and DHS Secretary Kristi Noem’s immigration enforcement operations has many moving parts. Information warfare is a permanent component of the modern battlespace. When almost every person on the planet has a pocket computer that also makes phone calls and social media sites are constantly pinging those pockets with targeted news stories, bits of information behave like bullets directed to shape or destroy the minds of those in the crosshairs.

Foreign and domestic billionaires, multinational investment firms, and local Chamber of Commerce chapters have real financial interests in influencing American mindsets regarding the flow of illegal immigrants into the United States. Among other economic and cultural motivations of the Big Business community, endless supplies of cheap labor help to drive profits while simultaneously preventing the American middle class from ever prospering robustly enough to compete on its own terms. While business firms economically benefit from downward pressure on employee wages, they also economically benefit from the growing supply of illegal alien customers. When millions of people enter the United States illegally, the increased demand they create for food, fuel, housing, and other commercial goods drives up prices. Because illegal aliens disproportionately depend upon local, state, and federal welfare programs to survive, all levels of the American government directly subsidize these price increases. American taxpayers, in other words, pay for welfare that contributes to inflation which, in turn, decreases Americans’ disposable income (income that is kept artificially lower due to competition from illegal immigrant employees). Public schools, hospitals, and other social welfare institutions are also forced to spend substantial percentages of their allotted taxpayer funds on services for people illegally residing in the United States. The end result is this: Big Business profits from illegal aliens while offloading the financial and social costs onto Americans already struggling.

Foreign militaries and espionage agencies have real strategic interests in causing deadly mayhem in American cities and enough social upheaval to weaken the influence of federal authorities. Just as the U.S. military and America’s Intelligence Community have been justifiably accused of fomenting “color revolutions” abroad, foreign powers habitually work to undermine the social stability, legitimacy, and peace of the United States. It is no surprise that so many anti-ICE groups operating in Minnesota today receive operational funds from non-governmental organizations and “charities” whose funding appears to originate with foreign financiers with direct links to adversarial governments such as China.

The Democrat Party — as the political party technically out of power in Congress and the White House (although realistically still exercising vast power through its agents operating within the permanent bureaucracy) — has real political interests in undermining both President Trump and a MAGA agenda that threatens Democrats’ priorities. Among those priorities, Democrat politicians benefit from intentional disregard for federal immigration laws and the importation of new “voters” who often come from third-world countries whose leftist and even communist policies align much more closely with the Democrat Party in the United States. As we have begun to see with the multi-billion-dollar Somali fraud scandal in Minnesota (just the tip of a much larger fraud-iceberg that has steadily grown in Democrat jurisdictions across the country), when criminal illegal aliens and criminal politicians conspire together to launder taxpayer money into their own pockets, politicians, illegal aliens, and other fraudsters have much to gain both politically (in terms of ill-gotten votes) and financially (in terms of ill-gotten dollars).

So there are many external players quietly operating behind the scenes of chaos in Minnesota. While the propaganda press pushes hysterical narratives meant to portray ICE agents as “Trump’s Gestapo,” leftist activist-obstructionists as just “caring moms,” and despicable, murderous pedophiles from faraway foreign nations as just ordinary “Minnesota men,” the true story involves a range of economic, geopolitical, subversive, and criminal interests that all benefit from open borders and endless illegal immigration.

One part of this story that has gotten little attention is how Minnesota’s intentional disregard for federal immigration law is the mirror opposite of former Arizona governor Jan Brewer’s attempt to enforce immigration laws in her state during Barack Obama’s presidency. Sixteen years ago, Arizona’s Republican governor was earnestly working to stem the flow of illegal immigrants into her state. She signed into law a statute that authorized state and local police officers to enforce federal immigration laws. The Obama administration joined sides with “open borders” special interests to challenge Arizona’s sovereign authority to enforce the federal government’s immigration laws. Eventually, the case made it to the Supreme Court, and Justices Kennedy and Roberts joined their politically left-leaning colleagues in holding that federal immigration authority preempted Arizona from establishing any immigration rules of its own. President Obama’s solicitor general, Don Verrilli, argued that “states are trying to supplant the federal government’s role in setting immigration policy, and we can’t have fifty different immigration policies.”

Governor Brewer tried to defend her state and the country from drug cartels, sex slavers, and other criminal organizations that use America’s open borders to import harm and misery. President Obama and the Democrat Party (and many Establishment Republicans, as well) had vested interests in keeping America’s borders open and went to great lengths to make sure that Arizona authorities could not enforce federal immigration law when the federal government was actively subverting those laws.

Now we have Governor Walz and Mayor Frey actively subverting federal immigration law, and a loud contingent of activist judges, obstructionist politicians, and intentionally misleading members of the propaganda press pretend that Minnesota can do what Arizona could not: establish its own immigration rules. Fifteen years ago, the Obama team argued that “we can’t have fifty different immigration policies.” Today, Obama’s friends act as if Minnesota can do whatever it wants — the consequences to federal authority and national sovereignty be damned.

Either the federal government exercises authority over immigration enforcement or the state of Minnesota does. We either have a country, or we don’t.

J. B. Shurk, American Thinker

By: Joshua Slocum

Like toddlers throwing tantrums, the leftist women attacking federal officers need to be told ‘no.’

White leftist women reacted to the shooting of Renee Good by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement Officer (ICE) last week with screaming, tantrums, and public meltdowns. What’s more, they’re stepping up their harassment of ICE officers who are only carrying out their lawful duties.

Anyone who has paid attention to the news and to social media this week is getting their eyes opened to the level of emotional derangement in modern leftist women. They’re pitching profane fits on the street and abusing ICE officers, perhaps thinking they’ll have better luck in that pursuit than Good did.

This post from the X/Twitter account “Chief Trumpster” has a great example:

This is largely, though not exclusively, a woman problem. The way to deal with adults who act like toddlers is to deal with them as toddlers; we have to enact swift, consistent, and appropriately stern consequences. There’s more to say on this, but first we have to look at where we are and how we got here.

Out with the Patriarchy, In with the Gynocracy

At least 60 years of mainstreamed feminism has put American culture under the stiletto heel of entitled and exploitative women. They’ve come a long way from the days of “just asking for equal pay for equal work.” Of course, the “gender pay gap,” is a myth, and any legitimate grievances feminism may have had were resolved decades ago.

We’re not living in a patriarchy, but in a gynocracy ruled by real-life versions of the wicked queens and stepmothers from fairy tales.

Social media is teeming with examples this week. Women from their 20s to their 70s are on the streets shrieking through bullhorns at cops who are trying to protect them and other Americans from illegal aliens who have no business here. Take a look at this lady waving her sign around and hooting with that familiar glazed look in her eyes.

We’ve all seen the gruesome consequences of the Biden open borders policies. College student Laken Riley was murdered by an illegal from Venezuela in 2024. Twelve-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray met the same fate in June 2024 at the hands of two men, also illegals from Venezuela.

How did so many leftist American women decide that young foreign men who jump the border are innocent victims in need of their maternal protection, instead of the American girls and young women entitled to be shielded from these men?

The answer appears to be Cluster B personality disorders. These are deep, ingrained characteristics. Those with such disorders are fundamentally narcissistic, emotionally unstable, and often disconnected from reality. But do not let the name fool you. The term “disorder” should not be taken to mean “disability.”

While these severe mental conditions are grouped under the headings of psychiatry and psychology, they are not medical conditions, but moral conditions. Psychologist George K. Simon is one of the few professionals who recognize that these are character and moral distortions, not blameless medical ailments. To the person with a Cluster B disorder, up is down, black is white, evil is good, and perpetrators are victims.

This is what we’re seeing in these female leftist “protestors.” Cluster B personalities are all about dysregulated emotions (usually rage or suicidal despair) and twisting reality into its opposite. As difficult as this is for stable people to grasp at first, the model explains otherwise incoherent behavior.

There is nothing new about this type of derangement. What’s different today is the prevalence. When I became aware of the “dramatic and erratic” personality disorders 10 years ago, it was clear that the kind of psychology behind domestic and child abuse had metastasized into the wider society.

When you see these deranged, screaming street “demonstrations,” they probably look to you like toddler tantrums. That’s because they are. Cluster B personalities are characterized by arrested emotional development around the toddler stage. We must deal with childish behavior in adults the way we deal with it in children.

What Would That Look Like?

First, we must enact swift and proportionate consequences. For too long, leftist agitators, especially women, have been given the hands-off treatment. Too many of these videos show cops wasting time issuing repeated orders to stop the car and get out while the harpies behind the wheel only escalate. Give the order clearly once. If she disobeys, cuff her and put her in the paddy wagon.

This video from Minneapolis shows one way to do it. Though the ICE cops didn’t move quickly enough, they ended this woman’s attempts to frustrate their operation. They got her out of the car (having to cut her seatbelt since she refused to cooperate), cuffed her, and sent her to the station

This is a phenomenon that describes how both men and women have an in-built pro-female bias. We can look at a man and a woman both performing the same bad action, but we’ll excuse the woman while condemning the man.

Ill-tempered women in America have gotten away with disorderly and criminal behavior at high rates because of this bias. They know it, and they use it deliberately. This woman was tailing ICE and interfering with their operation, pulled the “I’m just a mom!” card when she was caught and forced to stop. Don’t fall for it.

Finally, men have to go back to telling women “no.” This is the piece of advice most people have the hardest time with. Women hate hearing it. Many men do, too. We’ve been so hypnotized for so long by feminism that simply telling women “no,” and suggesting that a man ever exercise authority over a woman, is read by otherwise reasonable people as “misogyny.”

Nonsense. If women are full adults with as much agency as men, then they must be treated that way. Men have become knock-kneed with fear, even contemplating telling women “no.” It’s not an unreasonable worry. In my counseling practice, male clients have told me that simply holding female underlings to the same standards as males has resulted in complaints to HR that the men are “aggressive” with women.

Men, I’m afraid we’re going to have to do it anyway. They’re going to call us misogynists. They’re going to tell us we have “an aggressive tone” with women. This is merely the same toddler distraction behavior that ends up exploding in these absurd and dangerous street performances.

Men are not going to get through this without the accusations, and we have to accept that as the price we pay for helping put civil society back in order. The women will be fine. Sooner or later, the stroppy toddler cries it out and starts behaving sanely again.

Joshua Slocum is a writer and commentator focused on the rise in abusive and narcissistic behavior in American society. His weekly podcast “Disaffected”, and the show’s Substack, analyze cultural trends through the lens of negative personality traits that mirror the psychology of domestic and child abuse.

‘Racial Equity’ Group Funded by Minnesota Taxpayers Asks for Donations To Bail Fund Freeing Anti-ICE Agitators

A racial equity” and “restorative justice” nonprofit funded by Minnesota taxpayers is calling for donations to a new bail fund that’s helping free anti-ICE agitators and illegal immigrants detained in Minneapolis.

The Legal Rights Center, which Minnesota attorney general Keith Ellison led for five years, is promoting the People’s Bail Fund of Minnesota through Know Your Rights MN, a Legal Rights Center project that provides legal information and resources for activists. The project’s website was updated Thursday to include a link to the bail fund, which only secured nonprofit status last week and is actively “accepting requests for ICE protest cases,” according to its Instagram account.

The Legal Rights Center received nearly $5.7 million—roughly two-thirds of its total revenue—in grants from the government between 2021 and 2024, according to the Minnesota attorney general’s office. It doesn’t indicate whether that’s from federal, state, or local sources, but the nonprofit’s website lists the state among its financial backers. At least $400,000 of that funding came in the form of sub-grants from the Minnesota Department of Public Safety. In 2024, for example, the department awarded the Legal Rights Center a $45,000 award for work aimed at “ending racial disparities and improving outcomes in the juvenile justice system.” A state agency also promotes the organization.

The Legal Rights Center’s move to solicit donations for the People’s Bail Fund of Minnesota came amid escalating protests and riots across Minneapolis in response to a surge of ICE agents in the Twin Cities. The evening before Know Your Rights MN’s website was updated, Minnesota governor Tim Walz (D.) urged residents to resist ICE, accusing the agency of waging a “campaign of organized brutality.” In recent weeks, roughly three dozen agitators have been arrested, with charges ranging from assaulting law enforcement to refusing lawful orders to disperse. DHS has taken more than 3,000 criminal illegal aliens—including murderers, rapists, and pedophiles—into custody, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced Monday.

Radical groups organizing the anti-ICE protests have received millions of dollars from the Left’s premier foundations and dark money networks, including George Soros’s Open Society Foundations, the Ford Foundation, Tides Foundation, and the Sixteen Thirty Fund, the Washington Free Beacon reported. The Legal Rights Center itself received nearly $460,000 from the New Venture Fund, a behemoth left-wing dark money charity, between 2021 and 2024.

Other funding to the nonprofit includes $30,000 from the Pohlad Family Foundation in 2020 to protect “community during protests,” another $30,000 from the Minneapolis Foundation in 2024 to “foster resilience,” and $4,000 the same year from the Hennepin County Bar Association.

The Legal Rights Center also partners with the Minnesota chapter of the National Lawyers Guild, whose parent organization is a radical left-wing group that defended Hamas’s Oct. 7 assault on Israel. During the wave of pro-Hamas demonstrations following the terrorist attack, the group was explicit about its role, stating that its jail support hotline connects arrestees with “bail payment coordination.”

Know Your Rights MN’s website, which was overhauled Thursday in partnership with the anti-ICE “abolitionist design & production studio” Blackbird Revolt, provides guidance on protest activity, interactions with law enforcement, and propaganda pushing for an end to cash bail. It offers “legal empowerment workshops” for audiences as young as elementary school students, as well.

The People’s Bail Fund of Minnesota isn’t the only organization that frees detained immigrants and other arrestees Know Your Rights MN began promoting after updating its website. It also touts the Black Immigrants Bail Fund, the LGBTQ Freedom Fund—which has never freed a Minnesotan, according to its website—and the Repro Legal Defense Fund, which “covers bail and funds strong defenses for people who are investigated, arrested, or prosecuted for self-managed abortion.”

The People’s Bail Fund of Minnesota, meanwhile, is “dedicated to supporting communities affected by injustice and criminalization,” according to its website. The group has been posting bail for Hennepin County misdemeanor cases since it launched in July. It began operations just two months after the new executive director for the Minnesota Freedom Fund—the bail fund promoted by former vice president Kamala Harris amid the 2020 George Floyd riots that freed violent criminals—announced that his group would shift away from “transactional bail and immigration bond payments” toward broader “community power-building” efforts.

The Legal Rights Center, People’s Bail Fund of Minnesota, and Walz did not respond to requests for comment.

Jessica Costescu, Washington Free Beacon

Waiting for an Atrocity

With the attack on the Cities Church, the Minnesota Nice lefties have crossed a clear line. They’re no longer tribunes of the people, defenders of the oppressed, or speakers of truth to power. No…. now they’re living a dream. They’re giving full expression to their fantasy lives as Bolsheviki storming the Winter Palace, Red Guards liquidating the bourgeoisie, and Khmer Rouge cutting down everybody they come across, with all that implies — terror, violence, destruction, and bloodshed.

So we hear the cries of “why won’t Trump do something…” Why doesn’t he make his move? Why doesn’t he send in the 101st the way Ike did? Why doesn’t he federalize the state National Guard? Why doesn’t he declare martial law, clean out the streets, and send the cosplay Bolshis back to their dorms?

The answer to that it simple: he needs an atrocity.

Now, from our point of view, this has already happened, and in spades. Since the Renee Good shooting  (in which as we know, though too many others don’t, an ICE agent was run down and sent to the hospital) we have seen plenty. We have seen ICE officers attacked with shovels, iceballs, bottles, and explosives. We’ve seen hotels besieged and shut down. We’ve seen ordinary citizens stopped, interrogated, and threatened in the streets for driving a doubleplusungood SUV (more Red Guard cosplay here.) We’ve seen government vehicles wrecked and looted, including the theft of an FBI rifle – by a Tren de Agua member, no less. We’ve seen the lefties assault and severely beat one of their own. (He was rescued by ICE agents. Of course he was.) And we’ve seen a church disrupted in the middle of services, its congregation and pastor abused and threatened, with Don Lemon, that stalwart successor to Edward Murrow, present to lend legitimacy. What more do we need?

Well, here’s the thing. We’ve seen all that. But the man in the street, your average American, hasn’t.

He hasn’t seen it because the Minneapolis uprising has been carefully curated by the media to look exactly the opposite of what it is. Hired leftist thugs and TdA members have been masked by images of ICE officers presented as neo-Nazi thugs tormenting the innocent. This past weekend, the media was full of reports that the DoJ was deliberately hiring “white supremacists’ to serve in ICE. This is all that they hear. And keep in mind that many of our gentle fellow citizens are, to put it kindly, subnormal. The ones who believe exactly what they hear until they hear something else, and then believe that. There’s a lot of them, and they have the vote.

If Trump was to send in the troops at this point, the Morlock vote would hear that this was the second coming of fascism, that Trump had shown his true colors, that end of democracy was nigh and could be stopped only by heroic figures like Tim Walz and Ilhan Omar. The media would continue riding this straight up until November.

So that’s why we need an atrocity. That’s why we need something so horrifying, so ghastly, so grim as to be impossible to cover up or ignore. That may sound cynical, and it may sound cold, but that’s the world as it is, and it ain’t any other way.

And we will see it come. The Left has the bit between its teeth and is rampaging. All the wannabe Ches and Pol Pots gathered from around the country have sniffed blood and are ready to indulge all their bloodyminded fantasies. The beatings, the savagery, the descent into precivilized barbarity justified by perverse rhetoric and erudition, are coming to life. Their moment has arrived. They can sense it out there in the darkness, nearly within reach – their own, private version of a boot stamping a human face. It’s been five years since the new “Summer of Love” in which Minneapolis itself was put on the rack, the citizens terrorized, entire blocks burnt out. Long enough for it to be viewed with nostalgia. Now they are going to revive it, to relive it, to outdo it.

When they do, that’s when the hammer comes down. That’s when the troops already on alert take to the streets to restore the order that the citizens of Minneapolis, along with Walz, Frey, and Omar, have thrown aside. I’m not sure how Don Lemon will handle that. But I can guess.

J.R. Dunn, American Thinker

Five simple steps are all it takes to reclaim control of your news feed.

Gone are the days when you type hot-button topics — say “latest on border security” or “ICE protests” — into Google and are forced to sift through the same list of mainstream left-wing propaganda while the sources you trust are intentionally buried.

In an act nothing short of miraculous, Google recently handed power back to the user with a new tool called the Preferred Sources feature. With a few clicks of a button, you can personalize your news-related search results so that your most pressing questions are met with the unfiltered answers you value.

Ready to make it happen? Here’s how to flip the script on Google’s algorithm, transforming it from gatekeeper to your personal servant in just five simple steps.

Step 1: Go to google.com and sign in using your Google account information. Note: You must have a Google account to use the Preferred Sources feature.

Step 2: Search a current news topic (e.g. Iran protests, Trump tariffs, border security updates). You will see articles from mainstream sources, like CNN, NPR, USA Today, AP, Reuters, etc.

Step 3: Directly to the right of the “Top Stories” header at the top of your Google search page, you will see an icon that looks like overlapping boxes with a star in the middle. Click or tap that icon to open the Preferred Sources pop-up.

Step 4: In the text box, type theblaze.com. When it appears in the results, check the box next to it and click “Reload results.”

Step 5: Refresh your Google page — you’ll start seeing boosted results from Blaze News where relevant.

You can add as many sources as you want (no limit) and remove them any time by unchecking the boxes in the same menu.

Stick it to Big Tech and its echo chambers by utilizing Google’s Preferred Sources feature. The power to choose who you listen to has always been rightfully yours, but those who seek to shape and steer the narrative have kept it hidden behind algorithms designed to favor certain voices over others — until now.

Add your trusted sources today, and experience news that serves you.

The Blaze

The government has no business running these [auto] companies because the government does not know how to run these companies. That’s not government’s job.”

–Carly Fiorina, businesswoman and former CEO of Hewlett-Packard

How refreshing–and true!

I would only add: Government has no moral right to run these companies. In other words, government has no right to force some members of the population to work for the sake of others. Tyranny is tyranny, whether it’s forcing people who have health care to pay for the medical care of those who don’t, or whether it’s forcing people who don’t have gold-plated benefits to work to pay for those who demand they continue to get them (which is what federal ownership of the once private American auto companies is all about).

Bottom line? Government has no right to force some to live for the sake of others.

It’s either a free country, or it’s not. If we’re all free, then government stays out of the business of business. Until or unless the time comes when both political leaders and voters get this, our slide into socialism, and ultimately dictatorship, will continue.

Michael J. Hurd, Daily Dose of Reason