TRUTH:

“If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.”

— Thomas Sowell

— Thomas Sowell Quotes (@ThomasSowell) June 15, 2025

AND SPEAKING OF THE WASHINGTON STAND: California officials have shoveled tens of millions of tax dollars to five key Far Left non-profit activist groups that are supporting the violent and continuing anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles and elsewhere across the nation.

KERSHAW REMINDS MLB WHO CREATED THE RAINBOW: You may have seen one of the several Major League Baseball team “celebrations” of Pride Month. Los Angeles Dodgers’ star pitcher Clayton Kershaw’s response to the LGBQTetc.etc.etc. tyrants reintroduced them to a hugely significant fact, as The Washington Stand’s Suzanne Bowdey explains.

WAIT, WHAT? Elementary Kids Forced to Ride the ‘Lolita Line’ to School.

DAVID FRIEDMAN: The AI Boom Is an Infrastructure Supercycle.

WASN’T NY JUST DECLARING “NO KINGS”?  This State Tried to Force a Christian Photographer to Work Same-Sex Weddings – A Judge Said ‘Nope’.

THAT’S SO CRAZY IT JUST MIGHT WORK:  Illegals Out, Wages Up: The Quiet Labor Shift Behind Trump’s Self-Deportation Plan,

DEMOCRATS CAN’T STOP LYING – PERIOD:  Democrats Can’t Stop Lying About Medicaid in the Big Beautiful Bill.

FOR IT TO HAVE BEEN ‘POORLY VETTED’ THERE WOULD HAVE HAD TO BE VETTING:  DHS Officially Terminates Biden’s ‘Poorly Vetted’ Illegal Alien Parole Program.

LET’S BE HONEST, CBS HOST’S ONLY HAVE TALKING POINTS:   GOP Senator Shuts Down a CBS News Host’s Talking Points on LA Riots in Less Than 90 Seconds.

THEY ARE…. WHAT’S THAT TERM? OH, YEAH, IDIOTS:   No Heart – Ann & Nancy Wilson Object To Army Using Barracuda.

IF I HAVE TO SPELL THIS OUT, THE TEACHER’S UNION IS IN THE DEMOCRAT PARTY’S POCKET:  DNC Chair Thought David Hogg’s Departure Would End His Woes, But Another Shoe Just Dropped.

Abolish the certification authorities, abolish the education department. Set education free and make it local. And if you’re a parent, and you can at all contrive it, take your kids out of the schools. Bring them home to teach.

APPARENTLY BEING OBEYED:  IDF Issues Evacuation Order for Tehran Ahead of Possible Strike.

GUYS…. I READ A LOT OF STRANGE STUFF IN MY MISSPENT YOUTH: I don’t want it to serve as a script, though.  What Exactly is Going on in Antarctica?

AH, CALIFORNIA:  Final Evacuation Order Finally Lifted Almost 6 Months after Palisades Wildfire Disaster.

PEOPLE HAVE NOTED THE MSM IS LYING AND ARE VOTING WITH THEIR FEET:   Social media now main source of news in US, research suggests.

YEAH:  This was Seattle. This is Seattle. Mostly peaceful? You be the Judge.

THIS IS ONE OF THE REASONS TRUMP HAS A COMMISSION ON CHRISTIAN PERSECUTION:  Christian officer sacked by Indian army for refusing to ‘worship idols’.

SHOCKED, SHOCKED, SHOCKED, BEHOLD MY SHOCKED FACE:  Murder Suspect in Utah ‘No Kings’ Shooting Was Trump-Hating, Antifa-Loving Leftist.

YES “HUMAN RIGHTS” WAS A SOVIET UNION OPS. BUT DO LET’S FLIP IT ON THE LEFT:  The Right Not To Be Groomed and Abused. Using the ECHR to good effect.

ON SUNDAYS I RUN A PROMO POST FOR (MOSTLY) INDIE AUTHORS. AND YESTERDAY I FORGOT TO LINK IT:  Book Promo And Vignettes By Luke, Mary Catelli and ‘Nother Mike.

Remember all of these authors are willing to be linked on my blog, despite my shocking non-woke opinions.

OPEN THREAD: Because I love you and want you to be happy.

WE NEED TO DEVELOP ARTIFICIAL GRAVITY AND ANTIGRAVITY: Why space wrecks the human body.

SHOULD HE HAVE SPOKEN?

This flight from reality is not a new feature of political life. It is always easier to bequeath a problem to your successors than to face it yourself, and when the problem is intractable, Doublethink will soon erase it, as Hitler was erased from the thoughts of the appeasers, and the Gulag from the political map of the peaceniks. Nor are American presidents any more realistic than the rest of us. When the embassy in Tehran was invaded and United States citizens taken hostage, President Carter chose not to notice what was, certainly de facto and probably de jure, a declaration of war. That may prove to have been the costliest mistake made by America in the Middle East. Likewise, the silencing of Enoch Powell has proved more costly than any other post-war domestic policy in Britain, since it has ensured that immigration can be discussed only now, when it is too late to do anything about it or to confine it to those who come in a spirit of obedience towards the indigenous law.

—The late Roger Scruton, the New Criterion, September 2006. Read the whole thing.

SHE’S NOT WRONG:

No place on the planet has ever in history been better for white progressive women with bullshit college degrees than America in 2025, and there's no place in time they hate more.

— Margot Cleveland (@ProfMJCleveland) June 15, 2025