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BRITAIN IN THE BALANCE

Published November 4, 2025 | By Lars Møller

For centuries, Britain — and England in particular — has represented a civilizational ideal for much of the modern world.

The birthplace of parliamentary democracy, the common law system, and global standards of governance, Britain has exported its political and cultural values far beyond its shores. At home, it once epitomized social cohesion, stability, and civic pride.

Yet, in the 21st century, many Britons — particularly in working-class communities — report a growing sense of cultural alienation. Towns like Bradford, Luton, and Rotherham now evoke, for some, a sense of displacement rather than belonging.

This perception of a “de-Anglification” of England, whereby traditional English culture appears to be losing ground in its own homeland, reflects a deeper civilizational unease.

There is a need to explore the causes and consequences of this transformation, including the policies of the New Labour government, the fragmentation of national identity, the failure of integration, and the erosion of trust in public institutions.

TEACHERS AND COACHES

Published November 3, 2025 | By Jason Edwards

[This Monday’s Archive was originally published on November 17, 2005. The best teachers forge character through discipline, competition, and the earned confidence that comes only from mastery.]

The difference of commitment to sports versus academics by students and parents is striking, but don't believe for a minute that the same bias is not institutional as well. I have taught now at every level of American academia and I have yet to give a test or assign a project that was so important that it caused a game to be canceled or missed.

However, from elementary school to college, I regularly have had class time canceled, projects excused and test times altered to cater to athletics. In fact, it seems any academic activity humbly bows before the holy incantation, “Uh, I'm going to be gone; we've got a game that day.”

This explanation is not the bitter ranting of an egghead who was always picked last in gym class. Rather, I'm a former collegiate athlete and high school coach who is intrigued by what could be accomplished if we would bring our athletic commitment into the classroom.

And, because attitude is not enough, we should also contrast coaching to teaching, so that we might re-learn some valuable lessons about instructional methods. To this end, I see three prime areas for consideration.

DEMOCRATS VOW TO STARVE AS MANY FOOD STAMP RECIPIENTS AS IT TAKES TO GET FREE HEALTHCARE FOR ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS

Published October 31, 2025 | By Babylon Bee

Cory “Let ‘Em Starve” Booker

Cory “Let ‘Em Starve” Booker

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Democrats have taken a bold stand by vowing to starve as many food stamp recipients as it takes to get free healthcare for illegal immigrants.

According to prominent Democrat leaders, starving a couple million kids is a small price to pay to ensure that blue states continue to provide free healthcare to illegal immigrants.

"If you're going to make an omelet, you've got to crack a few eggs. And if you're going to give free healthcare to illegal immigrants, you've got to let some children go hungry," said Senator Cory Booker. "Honestly, who cares? Kids can't vote. Plus, they're very resilient, they can dig around in some dumpsters, or forage for berries or whatever. Cry harder."

Booker's statement was echoed by other intellectual pillars of the Democrat Party.

"It's, like, not hard for kids to find food. There are stores literally filled with food," said Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. "Some food even grows in the ground, and the ground is everywhere, so technically, they can get food from anywhere. You just, like, dig the food out of the ground or whatever."

At publishing time, Democrats had vowed to personally go to grocery stores to filibuster poor people attempting to buy food.

~ Babylon Bee reporting

HALF-FULL REPORT 10/31/25

Published October 31, 2025 | By Mike Ryan

All Treats, No Tricks

Happy Halloween. Meet the Skittles Rebellion In an unexpected twist, trick-or-treat in my town took place a night early this year to avoid a clash with Friday night football. The streets were full of polite kids, most in homemade costumes, proof that American neighborhoods still hum with decency beneath the noise. But a subtle cultural shift was hiding in plain sight. Three separate groups of girls 10 to 12 years old, turned down Skittles for chocolate, explaining, “Synthetic dyes aren’t healthy. Mr. Kennedy says so.” That moment, repeated three times, said more about the next generation than a thousand polls: Generation Alpha and their mothers are quietly choosing RFK over Red Dye 40.

Meanwhile, north on the Hudson, New York is watching a generational revolt of its own. Zohran Mamdani leads the city’s mayoral race, powered by youth, ideology, and viral energy that bypass traditional media channels. Cuomo’s experience and Sliwa’s populism can’t counter a movement that runs on online momentum instead of institutional blessing. Mamdani’s rise marks the old Progressive class fighting to preserve its relevance as digital-age executors we know as builders, coders, and operators supplant the credentialed elites. Like the girls rejecting candy, Mamdani’s voters are rejecting the establishment’s diet, though what they’ll swallow next may be harder to digest.

Across the world, the same tension is visible. Russia clings to fossil-fueled power while America, under Trump’s Pacific realignment, rebuilds alliances grounded in production and execution. Canada throws tantrums while Washington moves steel, energy, and manufacturing back home. The global pattern is clear: symbolic capital is dying; operational mastery is ascendant. From costumed kids to collapsing empires, the message echoes that the age of performance is over; the age of execution has begun.

PUTIN’S ENERGY WEAPON HAS NOW COME BACK TO BITE HIM

Published October 30, 2025 | By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

[I have known Ambrose since the early i990s, when he was the London Telegraph’s US correspondent based in DC. Now he is the Telegraph’s World Economy Editor. Ambrose is at the top of his game in this analysis. –JW]

Vladimir Putin’s predicament is deteriorating fast across every front of the global energy war. Western sanctions are at last going for the jugular, and Donald Trump has finally thrown American power behind the blockade.

The Saudis are flooding the world oil market in a ruthless drive to regain lost share. A glut of historic proportions is building and is likely to last deep into 2027. Goldman Sachs has told clients that Brent crude prices could drop to the low $40s.

The International Energy Agency (IEA) has drastically revised its global supply and demand forecasts. China has filled its strategic petroleum reserve to near bursting point and can no longer keep mopping up the surplus. Excess crude is now being stored on water in a giant global armada of floating tankers.

The math is brutal. The IEA expects a jumbo global surplus of four million b/d in 2026. “It is increasingly clear that something has to give,” said Toril Bosoni, head of the agency’s oil and markets division.

That something is the Russian war economy.

ARCTIC FROST: “100 TIMES WORSE THAN WATERGATE”

Published October 30, 2025 | By Brianna Lyman

Senate Judiciary Chair Chuck Grassley revealed Wednesday (10/29) that former President Joe Biden’s corrupt Department of Justice (DOJ) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) compiled what’s being described as an “enemies list” of Republicans to target, including through wiretapping the phones of several high-ranking Republicans as part of their “get-Trump” lawfare.

Grassley revealed more than 1,700 pages of documents provided by whistleblowers, shining further light on the “Arctic-Frost” inquiry. Arctic Frost was an investigation led by the Biden administration to, as The Federalist’s Margot Cleveland explained, “target Republicans in key battleground states.”

Then FBI Director Christopher Wray sent a memorandum to then-Attorney General Merrick Garland claiming that “fraudulent certificates of electors’ votes were submitted to the Archivist of the United States” for Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, and Wisconsin. Wray also asserted that these votes were part of a grand conspiracy to obstruct the certification of the 2020 election.

Jack Smith relied on this investigation as the basis for his anti-Trump lawfare, through which he attempted to both put the then-former president in jail and spy on the entire Republican political apparatus. Grassley made public the 197 subpoenas sought by Smith.

WHAT LYING DOES TO US

Published October 30, 2025 | By Dr. Joel Wade

Lying takes a huge toll on our relationships, our physical health, and our mental health. But sometimes we’re not so clear about what it means to be honest. Does it mean we say everything that we think or feel?

There are very strong benefits to honesty; and also some common sense guidelines as to what’s appropriate to express.

This is common sense, but here’s where this can get tricky: I have known people who believe that if we don’t express every feeling or impulse, we’re being dishonest. I’ve watched these folks say the most awful, hurtful, vile things to each other, calling each other the most insulting names in the process. Their impulse is sometimes to hurt the other, and so they do it.

It doesn’t really work very well for them.

By this philosophy, the whole concept of honesty and authenticity becomes nebulous. By this way of thinking, if we don’t express literally everything that goes through our mind, we can’t be honest.

This is of course ridiculous. To be honest is not to be brainless. To be honest does not mean that we let fly anything that comes to mind.

THE WORLD SHOULD CHEER IF TRUMP RIDS IT OF VENEZUELA’S MADURO

Published October 29, 2025 | By Daniel Hannan

USS Gerald R Ford on its way to Venezuela

USS Gerald R Ford on its way to Venezuela

Donald Trump is preparing for a military intervention in Venezuela. You don’t send a dozen warships, including a nuclear submarine and an aircraft carrier, to interdict a few drug traffickers. You don’t deploy 10,000 troops to deter smugglers.

Many, especially in the Global South, will fall hungrily on the parallel with Russia. So much, they will say, for the pretense that Western countries uphold the international order. The US, they will aver, is no different from Russia, acting from self-interest, and then coating its Machtpolitik in cant about freedom and democracy.

The comparison is false, the opposite of the truth.

Trump has no interest in annexing Venezuelan territory. Whatever happens next, whether we end up with shots fired in anger or whether Maduro’s rotten regime agrees to free elections, no one can credibly claim that the US is commandeering Venezuelan resources.

Putin’s objective in Ukraine was to remove a freely elected government and replace it with a Russian client regime. Trump’s objective in Venezuela is to remove a Russian client regime and replace it with a freely elected government. That difference is categorical.

WHY THE DEMS ARE IN MELTDOWN OVER TRUMP’S WHITE HOUSE BALLROOM

Published October 28, 2025 | By Charles Lipson

The new White House Ballroom with new First Lady’s East Wing in foreground

The new White House Ballroom with new First Lady’s East Wing in foreground

Donald Trump has demolished an old office wing attached to the White House and begun building a large new ballroom, big enough to accommodate state dinners and other major events. Currently, those have to be held outdoors, under a temporary tent, because the White House lacks a large, permanent space.

Democrats are outraged by Trump’s move. They have filled social media with pictures of the demolition. Oh, the humanity. Tearing down any part of the White House is a travesty, they say, and an assault on one of our cherished national landmarks. They are so enraged that at least one Democrat lawmaker has made tearing down the new ballroom – after it is built and paid for – a litmus test for his party’s 2028 presidential candidates.

Call it BDS – Ballroom Derangement Syndrome. To explain it, we’re going to take a look at Rodney Dangerfield in Caddyshack.

WHERE IS TRUMP’S DOJ ON DENATURALIZING ZOHRAN MAMDANI?

Published October 28, 2025 | By Joseph Ford Catto

When a man seeks to lead the largest city in America, his citizenship should be beyond question. Yet the candidacy of Zohran Mamdani, an avowed Radical Muslim Communist Democrat and recently naturalized U.S. citizen, has raised a troubling question: Did he obtain his citizenship under false pretenses?

That question became official on June 26, when Congressman Andy Ogles, Republican of Tennessee, formally asked the Department of Justice to investigate whether Mamdani’s 2018 naturalization should be revoked under 8 U.S.C. §1451(a) for “willful misrepresentation or concealment of material support for terrorism.”

The request, addressed to Attorney General Pam Bondi, was not a partisan stunt. It was a carefully structured one-page letter that laid out specific evidence, cited public sources, and explained why Mamdani’s own words may point to something more serious than youthful rebellion or artistic expression.

By early autumn, the issue had escalated far beyond a single letter. On October 8, Florida Congressman Randy Fine, a Republican, reignited national debate by denouncing Mamdani as “little more than a Muslim terrorist” and demanding his deportation to Uganda. Fine’s comments reflected genuine anger among voters who believe the system too often protects destroyers rather than creators.

TRUMP’S WHITE HOUSE BALLROOM IS NOT ABOUT VANITY, IT’S ABOUT AMERICAN GRANDEUR

Published October 23, 2025 | By David Marcus

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The Democrats, or socialists, or whatever they are these days, are hopping mad over President Donald Trump’s construction of a ballroom in the East Wing of the White House, and while it may be their silliest freakout of the entire Trump era, it is also quite telling.

The ladies on ABC's "The View" were apoplectic when they saw images of demolition, a fairly ordinary way to begin renovations, at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. They echoed one-time resident Hillary Clinton’s complaint that Trump doesn’t own the White House, even taking to song about it.

What makes this argument so absurd, is that Trump is not building this ballroom for his personal use or glory. It’s not a vanity project. It is a long-considered addition to an executive home that lacked the capacity to hold large indoor events.

Trump, as has always been his wont, is looking to create grandeur, and that seems to be something to which leftists reflexively object. The ballroom he is constructing will survive as a symbol of American power long after we are all gone. It will be, in a sense, our generation’s contribution to the people’s home.

Trump wants this venue, this symbol of America, to be grand and classically inspired, a timeless marble monument to a United States that emerged from the 20th century as the world’s only super power.

THE RIGHT WAY TO APOLOGIZE

Published October 23, 2025 | By Dr. Joel Wade

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In 399 BC, Socrates defended himself in the court of Athens against charges that he had corrupted the young and did not believe in the gods of the city.

Though his attempt was unsuccessful, and he was shortly put to death, Plato recorded his great teacher’s performance that day as his Apology.

The title of this account uses the original definition of the word apology: the Greek apologia (apo – away from or off; logia from logos, words or speech), that is, “A defense especially of one’s opinions, position, or actions.”

Though the modern definition of the word apology is quite different, “an expression of regret for having done or said something wrong;” in some ways, I think we have culturally reverted to this older definition of apology – at least when it comes to politicians and other public figures.

We rarely hear publicly a genuine acceptance of responsibility for hurtful acts. It’s more common to hear either a defense of one’s actions, a displacement of responsibility onto the listener such as, “I’m sorry you feel badly about this,” or a diffusion of responsibility into the ether through the use of the passive voice such as, “I’m sorry that happened.”

Fortunately, we don’t have to behave like these public dissimulators…

We all make mistakes, and sometimes those mistakes let other people down, or hurt them. The first step in repairing the mistakes we’ve made is to acknowledge that we’ve done something hurtful. Then the question becomes: “What’s the best way to apologize to the people we’ve disappointed or hurt?”

For it matters how you apologize, and Heidi Grant Halverson, author of Focus, has some great advice about this.

DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL TODD BLANCHE’S DEATH GRIP ON THE DOJ

Published October 22, 2025 | By Joel Gilbert

Todd Blanche

Todd Blanche

Florida Attorney Peter Ticktin has known Donald Trump personally since grade 10 of their high school days in 1961, when both attended New York Military Academy. Ticktin has publicly described Trump as a classmate and friend from that period and has often recounted their interactions as cadets.

They have remained friends for over 60 years. I had this conversation this week with Ticktin regarding his concerns about the Department of Justice and Todd Blanche’s role in running the DOJ and what it means for Trump’s second-term agenda.

What is Todd Blanche’s role at the Department of Justice?

Todd Blanche is the Deputy Attorney General, which makes him the second-highest-ranking official in the DOJ, serving under Attorney General Pam Bondi. My assessment is that he handles the day-to-day operations of the DOJ, like a COO of a private company. The DOJ has 115,000 employees; it’s not something that Pam Bondi necessarily knows how to manage.

What’s your biggest concern about Todd Blanche?

My biggest concern is that he may be ideologically opposed to Donald Trump’s agenda and see his role as stopping Donald Trump’s agenda in its tracks.

I do not know this man personally, and I am not involved with the decisions in the DOJ. All I know is that I see complete failure with pardons, compensation to J6ers, investigations into Dominion machines, the release of Tina Peters, and other matters under that guy. I am not seeing movement.

My opinion is that everything that needs to be done at the DOJ to make Donald Trump’s presidency work is being stalled by Todd Blanche. He’s intentionally doing things opposite of what needs to be done. As a result, morale in the Department of Justice is way down. He is supposed to make the goals of Donald Trump get realized.

CONSERVATIVE TRIUMPHS WORLDWIDE

Published October 22, 2025 | By John and Andy Schlafly

Called “ultraconservative” by the liberal media, Japan’s new prime minister is its first woman ever in that position. But a Japanese feminist author told NBC News that Japan attaining its first female prime minister “doesn’t make me happy.”

Sanae Takaichi takes the reins of power in Japan with strongly conservative positions on gender and marriage. She’s much more like Margaret Thatcher than Hillary Clinton or Kamala Harris.

Takaichi opposes same-sex marriage. She doesn’t support DEI. She will strengthen the Japanese military, which would help us by creating a buffer against Communist China, and she’ll meet next week with President Trump during his Asia trip.

Takaichi’s election is part of a trend worldwide which also recently resulted in the first conservative president of Bolivia in 20 years. Rodrigo Paz Pereira won a stunning upset against Leftist control of that South American country, and he vows to establish a better relationship with the United States.

THE ‘NO KINGS’ JOKE FLOP

Published October 21, 2025 | By Patricia McCarthy

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— Ramble_Rants (@ramble_rants) October 20, 2025

The Saturday protests were a joke. Why did so many of them dissipate after an hour? Why all the animal costumes? Why did MSNBC have to use years-old pictures of alleged crowds? What do they have to do with “no kings”?

Perhaps the most mysterious, creepy aspect of the whole movement is their willingness to call for violence and the murder of those whom they hate so vehemently. These are demented people. They have been hopelessly inculcated with the anti-American, anti-Trump propaganda that the Marxist left is so good at propagating.

Our old hippies and the college students who have been so thoroughly indoctrinated by their Marxist professors are sitting ducks for George Soros and his ilk. These are the useful idiots, as Lenin called such people, who can be successfully relied upon to mindlessly further his ends.

That pretty much sums up who all those aging, blinkered “no kings” marchers were. Apparently, none of them know that the successful American Revolution rid the new nation of kings for all time.

THE MYTH OF PUTIN’S STRENGTH IS CRUMBLING

Published October 21, 2025 | By Mark Brolin

Trump has finally ditched the Cold War notion that Russia is so formidable that we must, to avoid World War Three, accept that it can bully its neighbors into vassalage.

Russia is a weakish, brittle power in rapid decline, with a sphere of influence that has been steadily shrinking for decades. The invasion of Ukraine was meant to arrest the decay; it accelerated it. The land seized at vast cost does not begin to compensate for the collapse of Russian clout in Central Asia, the Middle East and the rest of Europe.

The crucial moment came in late September, when Trump publicly embraced the proposition that Ukraine can recover all its territory. That was not just rhetorical flourish; it marked a clean break with the “both sides must yield” mush that undermined the heroic Ukrainian fight and flattered Kremlin mythology.

Words from a US president matter. Treat Russia as strong and stakeholders default to caution. Treat it as fragile and initiative is unlocked.

CLARENCE THOMAS GENTLY EXPLAINS TO KBJ THAT NOT ALL BLACK PEOPLE ARE MENTALLY DISABLED, JUST HER

Published October 17, 2025 | By Babylon Bee

WASHINGTON, D.C. — After Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson claimed in court today that all black people are mentally disabled, Justice Clarence Thomas gently informed her that it's actually just her.

Not wanting to embarrass Jackson in front of the rest of the court, Justice Thomas waited for a brief recess to explain.

"I don't know how to say this best, Ketanji, but not all black people are mentally disabled. It's just you," said Thomas. "You having an exceptionally low IQ has absolutely nothing to do with your skin color, Ketanji. You're just an idiot. I know this is hard for you to understand... I mean, of course it is, you're mentally handicapped."

Onlookers reported Jackson was stunned by the news, shocked to learn that not all black people are mentally disabled. She sullenly closed the Leapfrog tablet she had been playing Sesame Street puzzles on, before hurling it at the wall in rage. Justice Thomas, however, managed to lift her spirits with a brief game of peek-a-boo.

At publishing time, Justice Thomas had been forced to have the same conversation with Justice Sotomayor about Hispanics.

~ Babylon Bee reporting

WHY DEMS FACE ANNIHILATION IN THE SOUTH

Published October 16, 2025 | By Matt Vespa

Democrats in South face wipeout if Supreme Court guts Voting Rights Act — NYT pic.twitter.com/goHof93AS3
— NewsWire (@NewsWire_US) October 15, 2025

This graphic is from the New York Times story yesterday (10/15): A Supreme Court Case Could Hand The House to Republicans.

The Supreme Court is considering whether to gut a key provision in the Voting Rights Act. Democrats are nervous because, if the Court strikes it down, coupled with Republican governors redrawing maps ahead of the 2026 midterms, they could be wiped out in the South.

Of course, the Times tries to lessen the impact, adding that the full effect of the upcoming ruling, should it go against liberals, might not be fully felt until after 2026, but it’s still going to be a sledgehammer to the face. The provision centers on whether race should be considered when drawing legislative districts.

From the NYT story:

RUSSIA’S WEAKNESS IS TRUMP’S OPPORTUNITY

Published October 16, 2025 | By Rahm Emmanuel

Having just commemorated two years since Oct. 7, 2023, we’re now approaching another grim anniversary—Feb. 24, four years since Russia invaded Ukraine.

President Trump deserves credit for recognizing that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was vulnerable after having overreached by bombing Qatar. The president leveraged Bibi’s weakness to force a cease-fire.

Russia is in a similarly vulnerable position after the failure of its third offensive against Ukraine, yet Mr. Trump has failed to exploit this weakness. This raises the question: When is Mr. Trump to take advantage of Vladimir Putin’s helplessness?

HEY, BARRACK! YOU CAN GO AWAY NOW!

Published October 15, 2025 | By Andrea Widburg

Barack Obama really should follow the lead of old-time presidents and, instead of seeking the limelight, opt for a rocking chair on his front porch. In that way, he could spare himself the embarrassment of saying really stupid things.

During a podcast with Marc Maron, Obama made a comment about using the National Guard that was meant to attack Trump, but merely made Obama look ignorant and partisan.

Before even getting to the substance of what Obama said, what’s notable about the interview is how Obama looks. He’s wound up as tightly as an angry suburban leftist woman explaining to her psychiatrist why her husband was completely wrong in the recent fight they had. His legs are crossed, his arms are crossed, and his shoulders are hunched over. He looks lost in the comfy white armchair in which he sits.

Looking at this effete, defensive little man, it’s almost incomprehensible that he was the leader of the free world for eight years.

WHAT SORT OF WORLD WILL YOUR GRANDCHILDREN LIVE IN?

Published October 15, 2025 | By Robert Arvay

Advances in technology have often been sudden and unexpected. Their speed and acceleration are exemplified by the fact that in one lifetime, people born before airplanes were invented saw, on television, men landing on the moon with 1960s technology. Unpredicted was the invention and wide use of desktop computers, which not even the writers of science fiction had foreseen.

I have a memory of watching a television show as a child, hearing my parents remark that I had no idea of what life had been like before there were any televisions to watch. I do remember a time before microwave ovens and pocket transistor radios.

As I was playing with my grandchildren, watching them use gadgets that did not exist when I was their age, it occurred to me that they had been born into an era where technology was influencing their lives, their attitudes, and their expectations in ways that we might scarcely imagine.

What’s next for them?

EXPLAINING TRUMP’S GENIUS IN THE MIDDLE EAST

Published October 14, 2025 | By Victor Davis Hanson

.@POTUS addresses Israel's Knesset: "After two harrowing years in darkness and captivity, 20 courageous hostages are returning to the glorious embrace of their families... And after so many years of unceasing war and endless danger, today, the skies are calm, the guns are silent,… pic.twitter.com/yLfmDIgzVJ
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) October 13, 2025

President Trump addresses Israel’s Knesset, October 13, 2025

What did Donald Trump do differently to obtain at least temporary calm in the Middle East compared to the failed efforts of past administrations, foreign powers, and the United Nations? Let us count ten different approaches.

Trump curtailed a considerable amount of Iranian oil income and its dispersal. He stopped, for the near future, the Iranian effort to build a bomb. Trump also allowed Israel to destroy Tehran’s air defenses, humiliate it militarily, and eliminate many of its top military officers and nuclear physicists. Thus, Israel’s half-century-long worries about Iranian nukes were addressed. At the same time, its stature as a military power soared to an all-time high—even if it became more isolated politically. Israel became more confident but also more sensitive to past, current, and future American military and political support—or pressure.
Trump allowed Netanyahu to destroy Hamas, cripple Hezbollah, and retaliate at will against the Houthis. That liberation led to general dejection among Israel’s enemies and a resurgence in Netanyahu’s own political fortunes. And that rise of Israel and the collapse of the Iranian terrorist network—the “ring of fire”— explain the greater chances for a ceasefire and possibly a peace. Trump allowed no daylight between Israel and the U.S., which, under the Biden administration, may have sent the wrong signals to Hamas prior to October 7.

WHAT HAPPENS TO IRAN WHEN KHAMENEI IS GONE

Published October 14, 2025 | By Rick Moran

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is 86 years old and in ill health. Western intelligence believes he had prostate cancer in 2014 and, most recently, a severe bowel obstruction in 2022. In public, he has appeared to be weak and tired at times. Health rumors were flying after Khamenei didn't appear in public in the immediate aftermath of the U.S. attacks on Iran in June.

It doesn't take much to get tongues wagging in Iran about the mental and physical state of their Supreme Leader.

Regardless of when he dies, sooner or later, the shape of a post-Khamenei Iran is of intense interest to the U.S. and the world.

The last two years have seen the breaking of Ayatollah Khamenei's power and the weakening of the regime he leads. The events that have transpired during the Gaza War will have an enormous bearing on what Iran will look like after Khamenei dies.

HALF-FULL REPORT 10/10/25

Published October 10, 2025 | By Mike Ryan

Rebuilding Order

The price of gold, government shutdowns, and global conflicts are signals of a deeper struggle between order and disorder.

From yesterday’s collapse of the USSR to this morning’s Gaza ceasefire, from Trump’s battle against bureaucratic chaos to Japan’s “Iron Lady” restoring confidence, the world is at a turning point.

Truth is reclaiming the field while both citizens and leaders are driving out the agents of disorder. Systems are being repaired, virtue is being rewarded, and civilization is standing firm.

Chaos is losing, truth is winning, and the world is reclaiming its order and vibrancy.

BUILD A GROWTH MINDSET

Published October 9, 2025 | By Dr. Joel Wade

When you think of what you do in your life, how do you think of yourself?

If you think thoughts such as, “I’m intelligent,” or “I’m talented,” or “I’m a failure,” you’re thinking of yourself in terms of traits. Traits are fixed qualities that do not change much, if at all.

There is a big problem with thinking of yourself – or other people – in terms of traits; it makes it very difficult to learn, grow, and change.

In research done by Carol Dweck and others, they found that kids who thought of themselves in terms of traits would give up easily, and had a hard time bouncing back from adversity or defeat.

If you’re told how smart you are, how talented you are, how gifted you are, and such traits are the main focus of praise for you, then what happens when you fail a test?

You shouldn’t fail a test; in fact you should never do anything but great on a test. After all, you’re brilliant and talented; a real natural at these things!

When a child is evaluated in terms of such positive traits, there isn’t much room for improvement.

You either do well and live up to your evaluation, or if you fail, that failure undermines the positive evaluation of your traits.

How can you be brilliant and do poorly? There must’ve been a mistake in the positive evaluation.

When there is failure, there isn’t much room for improvement, either.

Failing is not a verb to a trait-oriented person. Failure is something that you are.

A child with a trait-oriented mindset who has a setback or failure does not experience it as a failure of action, he experiences it as a failure of character – an overwhelming defeat at a fundamental level.

A trait-oriented mindset is a helpless mindset. But there is an alternative…

BARI: THE ANTI-WOKE SUPERSTAR SHAKING UP AMERICAN JOURNALISM

Published October 9, 2025 | By James Warrington

As America’s political and media elite partied in Washington, DC, following Donald Trump’s inauguration at the start of the year, one event in particular drew the great and the good.

The Free Press, an online news publication founded by outspoken US journalist Bari Weiss, teamed up with Uber and Elon Musk’s X for a party that played host to famous faces, including the Republican senator Ted Cruz, controversial Irish UFC star Conor McGregor and former prime minister Liz Truss.

The star-studded bash was a coup for Weiss, the former New York Times journalist who in recent years has become one of the hottest names in US media.

Now, though, her star – and her fortune – have risen further after Hollywood giant Paramount inked a deal to buy The Free Press for a reported $150m price tag.

The takeover embeds a news startup at the heart of one of America’s largest media empires.

More controversially, however, the deal will also see Weiss take up the role of editor-in-chief of CBS News in a move that could herald the biggest overhaul in the Paramount-owned network’s near-100-year history.

WHEN LIBERALS PLAY CONFEDERATES

Published October 8, 2025 | By Victor Davis Hanson

In blue cities across America — Portland, Oregon, especially — often violent protesters now seek to surround ICE facilities to stop federal officers from fulfilling their assigned and legal duties of arresting illegal aliens.

Some 10 million or more illegal aliens were allowed to enter the U.S. during the Joe Biden years — illegally and thus without criminal or health checks.

Neither Antifa nor liberal urban America objected to such a flagrant disregard for the law. But both are now as intent on obstructing the legal enforcement of the law as they were earlier in favor of its illegal non-enforcement.

Much less did they care about the consequences of sending millions of foreign nationals into cities and counties where they swamped social services, spiked crime, and flooded emergency rooms and schools.

ICE has repeatedly presented data that show in its first rounds of deportations, it is concentrating on removing either criminal illegal aliens or those who have already been processed with deportation orders, somewhere between 70 and 90% of all current apprehensions.

No matter.

Left-wing protesters are swarming ICE headquarters in Portland to violently oppose all deportations, even those of known criminals and those who have already exhausted efforts to remain here illegally.

WHY SHARPIES ARE MADE IN AMERICA AGAIN

Published October 8, 2025 | By Daniel McCarthy

President Donald Trump loves a Sharpie pen, and now he has all the more reason to love the company that makes them.

The president signed the flurry of executive orders he issued the day he returned to office with a Sharpie.

He's used them for years, finding them more reliable than fancier pens.

Now we know they have another merit, too: They're almost entirely made in America.

Only the felt tip of a Sharpie comes from abroad -- it's made in Japan, according to the Wall Street Journal's Natasha Khan, who published an eye-opening article on the penmaker last week.

What makes Newell Brands, the corporation behind the Sharpie, so newsworthy is its success saving money -- and holding down consumer prices -- by making the pens in America.

Newell was once as dazzled as other manufacturers by the prospect of making its products more cheaply in Asia.

But in 2018, CFO Chris Peterson looked into producing the latest Sharpie, a gel version, at the company's factory in Maryville, Tennessee.

The new pen required updating the plant and training workers to operate and maintain the new machines.

Yet that's what made the project a triumph: investment, in an American factory and the Americans working there.

NEW FRENCH GOVERNMENT DOESN’T WAVE WHITE FLAG, IT JUST QUITS

Published October 7, 2025 | By Beege Welborn

At the beginning of September, I told you how French President Emmanuel Macron was on the hunt for Prime Minister Number Four after yet another French government went le poof like a deflated soufflé.

It's always entertaining to watch the turgid burps of the excitable Gallic political process as they go about trying to form and reform governments, with cranky citizens (and others) taking to the streets in rowdy, car-b-quing mobs expressing either their delight or disgust.

Public unions often join the fray in generally making things even more difficult by striking various aspects of the national service industries.

Macron settled on a fellow named Lecornu as his Prime Minister, and things seemed to settle down, which made those watching more than merely the political upheaval breathe a small sigh of relief.

Stability in France has many in Brussels and beyond very concerned right now, as the French are in quite possibly one of the worst financial pickles they have been in decades - some say since the founding of this latest iteration of government in the early 1950s. Without a settled government, they are paralyzed as far as taking any action to correct it.

Hopes of breaking the impasse and moving on to restoring some fiscal sanity were dashed when No.4, Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu, resigned twenty-seven days after accepting the office and about fourteen hours after Macron finally named his new cabinet.

YOU ALL ARE CRAZY AND I'M OUT OF HERE

THE JUGGERNAUT

Published October 7, 2025 | By Mark Deuce

It was the 1980s. Reagan was in charge of the country now, and the US was engaged in an urgent rebuilding of our military.

Vietnam was still a fresh wound and the country was emerging from a crisis of confidence in itself and in its institutions.

On the other side of the world, the menace known as the Soviet Union was churning out weapons and had just invaded Afghanistan.

Europe, so the thinking went, or the Middle East at large, might be next.

Or perhaps both at once. Or perhaps they would just pound the US with a surprise nuclear first strike.

Nikita Khruschev had sworn to bury us.

The Soviets weren’t building all of their stuff for show, and were openly preparing for The Big One with us. The Soviet menace blared from every side—TV, books, and movies—and had transfixed me. My America and this entity were on a collision course.

My idiotic pacifist classmates told me I was paranoid. I knew better. I knew the things I was reading were fiction, but behind it was a very real, deadly, and evil menace that was killing and enslaving many people on the other side of the world.

On this particular day I’d left the video arcade by way of the bookstore and sat down in the mall reading a Popular Mechanics issue that had a rather gripping cover. It was a very well-drawn Soviet T-72 tank—charging towards the viewer in exquisite detail with a gun bore about three feet wide.

The issue talked about America’s new M-1 Abrams tank, its close cousin the German Leopard 2, the British Chieftain, and some other vehicles I’d never heard of before.

How did these US and NATO tanks stack up against the Soviet tanks? Our brand-new M-1 was “probably the best all around tank,” it said, “but expensive compared to the opposition.” And somewhere out there would be a new Soviet “T-80.” I read on….

It seemed America had a tank problem—and a big one.

NFL HOPING TO WIN BACK CONSERVATIVES WITH SUPER BOWL PERFORMANCE BY SPANISH-SPEAKING MAN IN DRESS

Published October 3, 2025 | By Babylon Bee

U.S. — The National Football League is apparently working double time to win back its conservative fanbase by planning a Super Bowl halftime show with a Spanish-speaking man in a dress.

Puerto Rican rapper and singer Bad Bunny has officially signed with the NFL to perform at the Super Bowl halftime show in what experts are calling a desperate bid to attract conservative viewership.

"Conservatives are going to love this," NFL Chairman Roger Goodell said. "They're always talking about the brave Latinx people and gender roles."

Bad Bunny, who champions a new masculinity with his floral dresses, short shorts, and pink skirts, topped the Billboard Hot 100 in 2018. This makes him influential enough to reach conservative minds, said experts.

Conservatives gradually dropped out of football during COVID when the league embraced social justice causes such as defunding the police, Black Lives Matter, and kneeling for the National Anthem. The NFL is hoping to change all that with Bad Bunny.

At publishing time, conservative viewership continued to drop off for unknown reasons.

~ Babylon Bee reporting

VAST FRAUD OF SOMALI MIGRANTS LED BY ILHAN OMAR IS FINALLY EXPOSED

Published October 2, 2025 | By Scott W. Johnson

Ilhan Omar

Ilhan Omar

This week, federal officials made an astounding announcement: Nearly half of all immigrants in greater Minneapolis were found to have committed some form of immigration fraud.

The fraud, uncovered in a September sweep, came in all kinds — sham marriages, fake death certificates and “other bizarre schemes,” as US Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Joseph Edley put it.

But the revelation was no great surprise to those of us who have followed the settlement of some 100,000 Somali immigrants in Minnesota over the past three decades. As far back as 2008, the State Department temporarily suspended one of the family reunification programs used by Somali immigrants when DNA testing of applicants found that 80% of all its claimed family relationships were fake.

Immigration fraud in this community has been the norm.

And when it comes to “bizarre schemes,” Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) serves as Exhibit A.

HOW TO BE AGE-LESS

Published October 2, 2025 | By Greg & Michelle Pryor

[Durk and I had many a conversation about a nutritional formula that he and Sandy were very proud of creating. There is a mechanism in your body responsible for so many aging maladies, and their formula either stopped it or slowed it way down. They called their formula AGEless for good reason. I’m so grateful to Greg and Michelle making it available.—JW]

This is about protecting Your Health at the Cellular Level.

Aging brings with it many invisible changes in the body. One of the most damaging is the buildup of Advanced Glycation End Products (AGEs). These compounds form when sugars attach to proteins and fats in your body, creating “sticky” molecules that:

Damage tissues and organs.
Contribute to inflammation and oxidative stress.
Weaken the kidneys, eyes, skin, blood vessels, and nerves.
Speed up the aging process.

The challenge is clear: AGEs silently accumulate year after year, leaving behind lasting damage. The good news is that science—and smart nutrition—can help.

WELCOME TO THE WAR DEPARTMENT BECAUSE THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE IS OVER

Published October 1, 2025 | By Secretary of War Pete Hegseth

[On Sept. 30, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth delivered an address at Marine Corps Base Quantico to an unprecedented gathering of hundreds of admirals, generals, and senior military leaders. This is the transcript in full. This is a turning point in America’s modern military history. TTP feels strongly that TTPers should consider reading it entire. The video of SecWar Hegseth’s 6,000 word/45 minute speech is here.]

Mr. Chairman, the Joint Chiefs, generals, admirals, commanders, officers, senior enlisted, NCOs, enlisted and every member of our American military, good morning. Good morning, and welcome to the War Department, because the era of the Department of Defense is over.

You see, the motto of my first platoon was, “Those who long for peace must prepare for war.” This is, of course, not a new idea. This crowd knows that. The origin dates to the fourth century Rome and has been repeated ever since, including by our first commander-in-chief, George Washington, the first leader of the War Department. It captures a simple yet profound truth; to ensure peace, we must prepare for war.

From this moment forward, the only mission of the newly restored Department of War is this: warfighting, preparing for war and preparing to win, unrelenting and uncompromising in that pursuit. Not because we want war. No one here wants war. But it’s because we love peace. We love peace for our fellow citizens. They deserve peace, and they rightfully expect us to deliver it.

Our number one job, of course, is to be strong so that we can prevent war in the first place. The President talks about it all the time. It’s called “peace through strength,” and as history teaches us, the only people who actually deserve peace are those who are willing to wage war to defend it.

That’s why pacifism is so naïve and dangerous. It ignores human nature and it ignores human history. Either you protect your people and your sovereignty, or you will be subservient to something or someone. It’s a truth as old as time. And since waging war is so costly in blood and treasure, we owe our republic a military that will win any war we choose, or any war that is thrust upon us. Should our enemies choose foolishly to challenge us, they will be crushed by the violence, precision, and ferocity of the War Department.

In other words, to our enemies, FAFO. If necessary, our troops can translate that for you.

COMEY IS INDICTED BUT HIS REAL CRIMES REMAIN UNTOUCHED

Published October 1, 2025 | By Victor Davis Hanson

We have no idea whether the current DOJ indictments will lead to a conviction of James Comey, namely that he authorized FBI subordinates to leak to the media and then lied about it, obstructing Congress in the process.

It may come down to the word of Comey, a known fabricator, against the testimony of his former subordinate, Andrew McCabe, an admitted liar. Take your pick.

We know, however, that Comey is not facing a Trumpian $500 million in potential fines, nor 93 indictments, nor the scrutiny of five different local, state, and federal prosecutors. Nor, like some of the J6 arrested, will he be sent to solitary confinement to await a trial in a year or two or be charged with “illegal parading.”

We also know of the crimes or unethical conduct for which James Comey is not currently being indicted or investigated. Here’s a baker’s dozen of them.

TRUMP’S GAZA PLAN IS THE BEST CHANCE TO END THIS WAR

Published September 30, 2025 | By Richard Kemp

[Note: 20-point Trump Gaza Plan appended in full below]

The Trump plan represents the best hope so far for ending the war in Gaza, giving some prospect of normality and prosperity for the people of Gaza and of developing a sustainable peace in the wider Middle East.

It has also completely turned the tables on Hamas. With Israel and Arab countries on board, the ball is now entirely in Hamas’s court and their response will show the world what many of us have long known: it is not Israel that has kept this war going but Hamas. War or peace is in their hands as it has been from the start.

We will have to see which path they take. But if anything, now is the time not just for Arab countries but for Western nations to step up to the mark. Those that are in a position to do so need to pile the pressure on to Hamas and give them no quarter. We need to hear no more encouragement of Hamas, no more rewarding them by recognizing a Palestinian state and no more unjust lashing out against Israel.

Instead Hamas need to be forced to understand they are isolated and no longer have any friends. If that kind of action had been taken from the beginning we might have been where we are long before now with many lives saved.

MAKING SENSE OF GOLD

Published September 30, 2025 | By Ira Bershatsky

Welcome to a regular person's guide to physical precious metals.

Gold isn’t just for the wealthy—learn how investing in physical gold can protect your savings, hedge against inflation, and add stability to your portfolio.

Picture this: You're looking at your savings account or recent inheritance, wondering if there's a better way to protect its value over time. Or maybe you're watching your retirement account fluctuate with each market swing, thinking about ways to add some stability to your financial future.

Perhaps you've heard about investing in gold but figured it was only for Wall Street experts or the ultra-wealthy.

The truth is, investing in physical gold is more accessible than most people realize. While it might seem intimidating at first, it's actually a straightforward way to diversify your savings beyond traditional stocks and bonds.

LOGO UPDATE! DEMOCRAT DONKEY NOW CARRYING SNIPER RIFLE

Published September 26, 2025 | By Babylon Bee

WASHINGTON, D.C. — In an update to make the party's longtime insignia more accurate in reflecting its modern platform and constituency, Democrats unveiled a new logo featuring a donkey holding a sniper rifle.

Following a rash of violent crimes perpetrated by members of the political left, the Democrat Party held a closed-door meeting that determined adding a sniper rifle to the logo would best depict what the party stands for and who it represents.

"It's the perfect illustration of what our party stands for," said Ken Martin, head of the Democrat National Committee. "Everyone has known the donkey as the Democrat mascot for decades, but we felt that it no longer conveyed the message of who we are as a party. Giving the donkey a sniper rifle gives us a harder edge while letting everyone know what our party stands for in 2025."

Prominent Democrats believe the updated logo would make the party's agenda clearer to voters. "When you're running political campaigns, it's important to make your message as clear as possible," said Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. "We're the party of threats, violence, and murder, so it's only right for our logo to accurately reflect that. There's also a ‘Vote for us, or else' vibe to it, which is perfect."

At publishing time, Democrats had made the logo even more modern and inclusive for its current supporters by revealing that the sniper rifle-carrying donkey depicted was actually a male donkey that underwent gender reassignment surgery so it could pretend to be a female donkey.

~ Babylon Bee reporting.

HALF-FULL REPORT 09/26/25

Published September 26, 2025 | By Mike Ryan

Order Rises From Chaos

In a world that cannot be predicted, only the free can survive, and only the free will inherit tomorrow.

The world stands on the precipice of a new era, a saeculum marked by the resurgence of moral clarity, decentralized power, and a collective yearning for truth.

The events of recent weeks have illuminated the fractures within the old order and heralded the rise of a generation determined to reclaim the narrative.

On September 21, 2025, State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, became the epicenter of a transformative movement.

Over 100,000 young Americans gathered to honor Charlie Kirk, a conservative activist whose untimely death had galvanized a generation. Overflow crowds filled adjacent arenas, and the event was streamed over 100 million times, underscoring the widespread resonance of the moment.

At the heart of the memorial stood Erika Kirk, whose public forgiveness of her husband's alleged killer became a symbol of grace and moral fortitude. Her act of mercy, delivered amid profound personal anguish, radiated through millions worldwide, converting grief into ordered energy.

Erika's unwavering faith and resilience embodied the archetype of the new saeculum: a generation capable of transforming personal loss into collective purpose.

As the First Turning gained momentum, the old guard responded with characteristic defensiveness. In a striking display of misplaced priorities, left-wing activists rushed to defend Tylenol (acetaminophen) amid emerging concerns about its potential link to autism when used during pregnancy.

Instead of engaging with the growing body of scientific inquiry, they chose to protect the messenger, not the science. Pregnant women, some of whom identified with leftist ideologies, staged public demonstrations consuming Tylenol, symbolically protesting what they perceived as an attack on their body, their choice.

Globally, entrenched powers are exhibiting signs of desperation in the face of shifting dynamics. From Brazil to Russia, leaders are employing legal systems to imprison or silence their opponents, often under the guise of combating corruption or maintaining national security.

These actions serve to eliminate political competition and consolidate power, raising significant concerns about the erosion of democratic norms and the rule of law worldwide.

Few events have signaled the emergence of a new order more clearly than President Donald Trump’s address at the United Nations. His entry into the chamber with the Teleprompter stalled, escalator faltering, was emblematic: institutions that had long claimed moral and organizational authority were visibly fragile.

Trump enacted the principles of the First Turning. He challenged global institutions to justify their existence, demanding that they act with purpose or cede authority. His insistence that nations secure their borders was a call to the disciplined application of civic energy in defense of ordered society.

The Western European delegation bristled, but Eastern Europe and allies like Poland and Hungary recognized the signal: moral and political authority now emanates from those willing to act decisively in the face of chaos.

PUTIN’S FATAL MISTAKE

Published September 25, 2025 | By Frank Friday

A lot of people are wondering why Donald Trump suddenly seems to have changed his position on the Ukraine War. But it is simple enough.

Amid all the terrible news about Charlie Kirk, few noticed the resignation (or firing) of Deputy Chief of Staff of the Kremlin and Putin’s only sensible advisor -- Dmitry Kozak.

Kozak was Putin’s alter-ego going back to their early days in St. Petersburg. It was Kozak who had been against the Ukraine War from the start, understanding how weak Russia truly is. And it was Kozak who has been trying to work out a peace deal the last several months.

With his firing, President Trump understands Putin has given up on making some kind of arrangement, no matter how one-sided. Instead, Putin is committed to conquering Ukraine.

Until now, President Trump has been solicitous of Putin, hoping he would work with him to find a face-saving end to this horrible war. Instead, he effectively double-crossed Trump, just to gain another eight months of useless fighting. Big mistake.