Four-year-old X Æ A-12 Musk has a new playmate, and it’s Barron Trump, son of the former President, the Wall Street Journal reports. The touching detail embroiders speculation (it’s an “exclusive”) that Elon Musk is being considered for a presidential advisory role, should Trump regain the White House. The Journal reports that Trump and Musk are already close enough to talk “several times a month”, so the prospect is not so far-fetched.
The Biden Administration may have set a new record in appeasing the Iranian regime, which is, according to the annual US Terrorism Report, the world’s “Leading State Sponsor of Terrorism” and a flagrant violator of human rights.
While people in Iran were celebrating the death of the tyrannical President Ebrahim Raisi, whom they called “the Butcher of Tehran,” the Biden Administration was sending condolences to the Iranian regime — a move that sparked outrage and disbelief among those who champion democratic values and human rights (here, here and here).
The Biden administration was sending condolences to a regime that not only brutalizes its citizens, but that has also been using its militias and proxies — Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, Palestinian Islamic Jihad — to blow up peace throughout the Middle East, and sending missiles and drones to Russia — after it illegally seized Georgia and Crimea — to illegally attack Ukraine.
Activist investor Ari Nessel recently wrote a piece in The Hill criticizing Florida for banning the sale and distribution of lab-grown meat. Nessel’s position is understandable, given that his company has invested in lab-grown seafood. But in banning or restricting lab-grown meat, states are simply responding to the lack of long-term safety studies and widespread consumer skepticism of this novel — and experimental — food product.
Donald Trump was convicted of 34 felony counts in a trial in Manhattan on May 30. Democrats are singing with joy, but it was a truly sad day for America.
This was a prosecution that never would have been brought had the defendant not been Donald Trump, and had Trump not run for reelection in 2024. Rather than prosecuting an obvious crime, prosecutors set out to prosecute a political opponent. And to do so, they invented a criminal theory to pursue.
His Fraudulency Joe Biden is struggling with celebrity endorsements, according to CNN — a basement-rated, far-left propaganda outlet that spreads conspiracy theories and violence — especially with Young Hollywood’s Jew haters …
On GB News @MartinDaubney introduces @StevenEdginton's report on Muslim dominated Hamtramck, Detroit. They've banned LGBT flags, changed public animal sacrifice laws & the call to prayer.@Ayaan Hirsi Ali notes violence, the subjugation of women, 7 year old girls in burkas. pic.twitter.com/VFH1VqHrq8
— David Atherton (@DaveAtherton20) May 31, 2024
This is next door to Windsor.
“‘With Trudeau, I have to get out of here,’ that’s what people tell me. They say to me, ‘Marco, who do I have to talk to to get out of here?'”
Tens of thousands of Canadians are emigrating to the United States and the number of people packing up and moving south has hit a level not seen in 10 years or more, according to data compiled by CBC News.
There’s nothing new about Canadians moving south of the 49th parallel for love, work or warmer weather, but the latest figures from the American Community Survey (ACS) suggest it’s now happening at a much higher rate than the historical average.
Christopher Lasch’s forgotten book foresaw America’s malaise
Over the past half-decade, few intellectuals have undergone a renaissance like Christopher Lasch — and few renaissances have been quite as startlingly heterodox. After the 2016 election, Lasch’s posthumous 1994 book Revolt of the Elites was cited as a key influence on the Right-populist strategist Steve Bannon. Shortly after that, a new edition of the author’s 1979 bestseller The Culture of Narcissism appeared with an introduction by liberal pundit E.J. Dionne that applied Lasch’s ideas to the pathologies of Bannon’s erstwhile boss, then-president Donald Trump.
Joe Biden was left isolated in his refusal to allow US weapons to be fired into Russia by Ukraine, after France and Germany relaxed their rules.
Emmanuel Macron said Ukraine is free to use its high powered weapons – which include French versions of Storm Shadows – to fire over the border.
He made the announcement alongside Olaf Scholz, the German chancellor, while holding up a map showing Russian bases being used to attack Ukraine in the latest offensives.
Footing the lion’s share of the bill but not calling the shots is a bad look for Biden.
The U.S. Department of Justice says two men are facing human smuggling charges in Seattle for their alleged role in what it calls a dangerous scheme to transport people out of B.C. and across the border on freight trains.
U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Washington Tessa Gorman says 45-year-old Jesus Ortiz-Plata of Oregon and 35-year-old Juan Pablo Cuellar Medina of Washington were arrested last week, along with three non-citizens who were allegedly smuggled out of Canada.
Fast food was once fast and cheap. Now, though, it’s just fast … sometimes.
A new survey has found that 78 percent of consumers now consider fast food to be a “luxury” purchase due to the rising costs of meals. The survey, conducted by LendingTree using nonprobability sampling, highlights the growing financial strain on many Americans.
More Democrats than Republicans say they want President Biden off the Democratic presidential ticket, according to a Rasmussen poll released Tuesday.
Some 54 percent of likely Democratic voters would approve of ditching Mr. Biden, and only 38 percent of Democrats would disapprove of doing so. A smaller number of Republicans — just 43 percent — say they would approve of the Democrats replacing Mr. Biden on the ticket.
Islamic pro-terror groups reacted to the Hamas terror attacks of Oct 7 not only with riots and public pressure campaigns aimed at politicians, but also by privately meeting with top federal and state law enforcement officials to demand that they lock up Jewish political opponents.
A little more information has turned up regarding the article I wrote about two Chechens who were posing as utility workers but were actually taking pictures of a Special Ops Colonel and his family in Carthage, NC, one of whom, Ramzan Daraev, ended up shot and killed.
h/t XC
Batya Ungar-Sargon’s first book, Bad News: How Woke Media is Undermining Democracy, was a barnstormer of a read. This was partly because it was punching up and pointing out the hypocrisy of America’s super-privileged woke journalists.
Reading Ungar-Sargon’s new offering, Second Class: How the Elites Betrayed America’s Working Men and Women, was an entirely different experience. Here she explores, largely through interviews, the lives of those living at the opposite end of the social ladder to America’s cultural elites. She arrives at a distressing conclusion: for countless hard-working people, the American Dream is increasingly out of reach.
