April 11, 2025

EUROPE’S ELITES DESPISE EUROPE:

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Ireland is being plundered by a small group of Irish families, banks and foreign investors. They are making billions for housing migrants through a network of shadowy offshore companies.

This industry is backed up by an NGO complex that employs 200,000 people and also costs us billions. Its purpose is to dumb us down and convince Irish people that being replaced in our own homeland is normal.

The police and judicial system are also onboard. Enforcing illegitimate laws passed by compromised politicians who serve the EU. Foreigners even get special privileges under Irish law.

What’s happening to Ireland is completely unnatural. Dumping people from African and Islamic countries into an ancient and homogeneous society is the quickest way of causing that society to collapse.

Trust is low, cohesion is gone and people from the 3rd world are walking straight into our country without even so much as medical screening. HIV, typhoid and diphtheria are becoming more common in Ireland.

None of us are safe.

Plus the added strain these migrants place on our housing market, education and healthcare systems cannot be ignored.

Those of us older than 20 remember the old Ireland. An Ireland with a relaxed pace of life and high trust communities.

We have a responsibility to maintain that version of Ireland and hand it to the next generation.

Yes.

Posted at 11:56 am by Stephen Green 17

BREAKING:

Developing…

Posted at 11:20 am by Stephen Green 67

AN UNGUARDED RESPONSE TO A CRITIC: Velkyn1 offered an usually detailed and lengthy critique of a video on the HillFaith YouTube channel. Take his critique and my response, put them together and you have an insight into the depth and detail of the present state of apologetical discussion of one critical detail from the Easter story, who were the guards Pilate commanded to keep watch on the tomb of Jesus to prevent His disciples from stealing his body and [falsely] proclaiming His resurrection?

Posted at 10:52 am by Mark Tapscott 11

NICE AIRPORT YOU’VE GOT THERE, BE A SHAME IF ANYTHING HAPPENED TO IT: ‘All kinds of scavengers’: Russia speeds up asset grab.

Russian billionaire Dmitry Kamenshchik last year was approached by people close to the government and security services with an offer they hoped he could not refuse.

But when Kamenshchik balked at gifting the state 25 per cent in Moscow’s second-largest airport, a person close to him recalled, he was met with the full force of the Russian legal system.

In January, the Russian prosecutor-general asked a Moscow court to order the nationalisation of Domodedovo airport, claiming that Kamenshchik and his business associate were part of western efforts to undermine the Russian economy because they held foreign passports. The case, which is being heard in closed-door hearings, is ongoing.

The episode is part of a string of nationalisations that have accelerated since Vladimir Putin started his full-scale war in Ukraine, even as he is also making overtures to western companies lured by the prospect of Donald Trump rekindling economic ties with Russia.

Strongarming billionaire oligarchs to feed the war machine doesn’t seem like a sustainable business model.

Posted at 10:42 am by Stephen Green 67

OUR CALIFORNICATION IS NEARLY COMPLETE: Colorado Dems Just Drove Another Stake into the Bill of Rights. “The 2nd Amendment died in Colorado on a sunny spring afternoon in Denver, and Democrats murdered it. Yesterday, so-called ‘moderate’ Democrat Gov. Jared Polis put his signature on SB 25-003 — perhaps the most convoluted and restrictive gun control law anywhere in the nation. But don’t you worry, Democrats are gunning next for the 1st Amendment.”

Posted at 10:11 am by Stephen Green 125

HMM: Trump Order Would Force the ACLU to Put Its Money Where Its Mouth Is on Lawfare.

What if I told you that when federal district judges issue injunctions blocking President Donald Trump’s policies in a judicial insurrection, they were the ones breaking the law?

No, it’s not just because these judges are effectively usurping the authority of the president over the executive branch. It’s more clear-cut than that.

When Chief Judge James Boasberg of the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., issued an order demanding the Trump administration return reputed members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua to the U.S., he wasn’t just making immigration policy—he was violating a black-and-white rule laid down by the U.S. Supreme Court.

What does that mean? It means that when the ACLU files a lawsuit against the Trump administration and asks the judge to issue an order forcing Trump to turn around, in midflight, the planes deporting violent gangbangers, the ACLU has to put up or shut up.

The ACLU has to put down a “security” payment when asking for the court order, just in case a later judge strikes down the order after it already cost the government money to follow it.

This commonsense requirement isn’t a Trump wish list item. It’s a rule with the force of law.

If the administration were to demand that judges follow this rule, it could stop the judicial insurrection in its tracks—or, at the very least, make the activists think twice before assuming they can dictate federal policy.

Much more at the link.

Posted at 9:40 am by Stephen Green 44

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: It’s Hard to Believe, but People Still Underestimate Trump. “It’s stunning to me that President Trump’s detractors still like to portray him as some sort of hot-headed buffoon who doesn’t know what he’s doing. Well, stunning and tedious at this point. You would think that they would eventually get tired of being wrong.”

Posted at 9:09 am by Stephen Green 124

A MESSAGE MUST BE SENT:

Posted at 8:49 am by Glenn Reynolds 262

A TIME FOR CHOOSING: Nato’s 2023 military spending produced about 233m metric tonnes of CO2 – report.

Is NATO prepared to fight against Europe’s enemies, or merely wage the moral equivalent of war against global warming? I know which way I’m betting; as Richard Fernadez tweets, “The European desire to defend against Russia is hampered by its conviction that building up the military is a climate crime. Cognitive dissonance is the mental discomfort or tension that arises when someone holds conflicting beliefs, values, or attitudes. Classic symptoms of cognitive dissonance are: Anxiety, guilt, shame, or regret Feeling paralyzed in decision-making Difficulty recognizing the person you’ve become and feeling a lost sense of self ‘Trump! Why did you do this to me?’”

That’s been the left’s constant cri de coeur during the last decade.

Posted at 8:45 am by Ed Driscoll 42

RESISTANCE IS FUTILE: Colorado’s K-12 education department won’t comply with Trump’s DEI order.

The U.S. Department of Education sent a letter to state education departments on April 3 threatening to pull federal funding from public schools over such programs. States were given 10 days to sign and return the notice, but multiple states, including New York and Minnesota, have said they won’t comply with the order.

“The use of certain DEI practices can violate federal law,” the federal Education Department wrote in the certification, adding that it is illegal for programs to advantage one race over another.

Córdova said during a meeting of the Colorado State Board of Education on Thursday that she isn’t signing the certification letter and will not ask districts to do so. She added that Colorado schools already comply with federal anti-discrimination laws.

Not if they’re promoting DEI, they aren’t.

Posted at 8:38 am by Stephen Green 55

SETH BARRETT TILLMAN: A Critique of John Yoo on Ex parte Merryman. “Yoo tells us that Lincoln defied a judicial order in Merryman. But Taney issued three orders in Merryman. Which among the three Taney-issued Merryman orders does Yoo believe Lincoln defied? Yoo does not say. That is a tell. Nor does Yoo, in any readily identifiable way, explain what action or inaction by Lincoln constituted defiance. And that is a tell too.”

Posted at 8:37 am by Glenn Reynolds 14

IF YOU CAN MAKE IT WITH A CORPSE THERE, YOU CAN MAKE IT WITH A CORPSE ANYWHERE:

Posted at 8:35 am by Glenn Reynolds 74

NOW IT CAN BE TOLD: Stephanopoulos Described Biden as ‘Heartbreaking’ After Interview.

They all knew. They. All. Knew.

We knew they all knew, too. It’s infuriating.

In his new book Uncharted: How Trump Beat Biden, Harris, and the Odds in the Wildest Campaign in History, Chris Whipple claims that ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos described former President Joe Biden as “heartbreaking up close” after an interview in July.

The interview happened one week after Biden debated then-Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.

Biden dropped out of the race on July 21. He immediately endorsed his VP Kamala Harris.

More from The Washington Examiner:

The book’s author, Chris Whipple, described Biden’s appearance as “hoarse and semi-coherent” during the interview, in which Stephanopoulos asked his questions “gently, like a grandson.”

“Afterward, when I asked the ABC anchor by email for his impressions, he replied: ‘Heartbreaking up close,’” Whipple wrote.

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Whipple’s statement mirrors a story that spread after the Biden interview when a passerby asked Stephanopoulos if he believed the president should step down. The anchor appeared to respond, “I don’t think he can serve four more years.” The Washington Examiner’s Sarah Bedford contended that most people agree that Biden was not fit to serve another term and that such an assessment is “pretty apparent.”

Related: Stephanopoulos in June of 2024:

“We had a dry run in 2016, we saw more of it in 2020, it’s going to be worse than ever here in 2024,” George Stephanopoulos told the Deadline ElectionLine podcast this week regarding disinformation campaigns and tactics that are going to be unleashed on America as we get closer to this year’s general election in November.

Stephanopoulos was certainly correct; if only he know how accurately he described his industry during every presidential election year.

Posted at 8:14 am by Ed Driscoll 87

SUNLIGHT IS THE BEST DISINFECTANT:

Kudos to The Federalist for making these files available to all.

Posted at 7:50 am by Stephen Green 52

COVID FIVE YEARS AGO TODAY:

As Ross Douthat wrote in the New York Times a few days later in 2020: When Coronavirus Lockdowns Go Too Far. The closures were necessary. Chasing picnickers and closing paint aisles is petty overreach.

The tweet shows two silhouettes, extending in familiar policeman shapes. The text is as cheery as a beat-walking bobby in an Edwardian children’s book: “If you think that by going for a picnic in a rural location no one will find you, don’t be surprised if an officer appears from the shadows!” And the message, directed in this case to the inhabitants of Central Bedfordshire in England, is an example of how even when they’re essential, anti-pandemic policies are always at risk of going a little bit insane.

I’m a skeptic, to put it mildly, of the skeptics of lockdowns and social distancing requirements. At best they make an argument for more speed and optimism in reopening*, not a case that there’s an alternative world where the American economy stayed open** and steady while the virus was killing more people weekly than car crashes, flu or cancer and New York’s monthly death toll was climbing above that of September 2001***.

But the skeptics’ determination to catalog every petty tyranny inflicted in the name of quarantine is an important public service — not just because overreach always needs critics, but because petty tyrannies today are obstacles to the adaptation we need to get to semi-normalcy tomorrow.

In response to the overreach of the Central Bedfordshire rozzers, James Lileks noted:

If you sneak off into the woods for a picnic, you could be killing people and crippling the NHS, so shadowy peelers should manifest themselves and issue tickets.

Turns out this wasn’t well received:

Utter nonsense. Huge stonking heaps of bollocks. Walking to the dunes for a picnic, or heading to the field off Potter’s Lane to enjoy the sun, is absolutely harmless, and everyone knows it, and it’s corrupting the trust people would normally grant the authorities. As I once wrote about small-minded public officials: “I don’t make the laws, sir, I just enforce them with a great deal of enthusiasm.”

Back in 2018, when British cops were threatening social media critics after the NHS banished 23-month-old Alfie Evans to the Spartan hillside, British ex-pat Charles Cooke tweeted, “Michael Brendan Dougherty pointed out to me that police in the U.K. spend all their time on Twitter threatening people with jail time for frivolous things, and now I can’t stop seeing it.” The lockdowns gave the British police all the excuse they needed to get their inner Mosley on.

* In retrospect, Sweden would like a word here.

** As John Hinderaker wrote at Power Line last year, “The New York Times looks back on covid, four years down the road, and says ‘Here’s what we’ve learned.’ I would say we have learned some things that the Times doesn’t touch, like the idiocy of shutting down stores, businesses, churches and, especially, schools.”

*** New York Times quietly admits COVID deaths were overcounted by ‘almost one-third.’

Posted at 7:45 am by Ed Driscoll 82