Hating Jews. under the guise of hating the colonialist apartheid genocidal oppressor State of Israel, has become the new fashion accessory of the righteous left. The hard right was caught off guard, finding itself outflanked in its hatred of Jews (who have their own space laser and will not replace them). What to do? Open a new Overton Window!

This week Tucker Carlson, the former Fox News star who now hosts one of America’s top podcasts, had an apologist for Adolf Hitler on his show. Darryl Cooper, who runs a history podcast (and newsletter) called “Martyr Made,” considers Winston Churchill, not Hitler, the chief villain of World War II. In a social media post that he’s since deleted, Cooper argued that a Paris occupied by the Nazis was “infinitely preferable in virtually every way” to the city on display during the opening ceremony of the recent Summer Olympics, where a drag queen performance infuriated the right. On his show, Carlson introduced Cooper to listeners as “the most important popular historian working in the United States today.”

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Will the world end in a nuclear Holocaust? Jake Halpern seems to not only consider this a probability, but considers this something to discuss with his kids.

In one conversation, Lucian told me: “Dad, it’s not a matter of ‘if’ there will be nuclear war; it’s a matter of ‘when.’” He had this look in his eyes: a gleam of defiance, as if he were daring me — the resident optimist — to disagree. I was at a loss for words because, truth be told, I had been inching my way toward that same terrifying realization. The only question was whether I was willing to offer him some grand reassurance that we both knew would be a lie.

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The implicit argument as Jennifer and James Crumbley were charged and ultimately convicted of murders committed not by them, but their son, was that the circumstances, the evidence, was so unique that this mom, this dad, deserved to be held accountable for their miscreant son, Ethan. After all, they gave him a gun as a Christmas present and they knew of his propensity for violence. What are the chances that would happen again?

[Colin] Gray rocked back and forth in shackles and prison stripes on Friday morning as the charges against him were read. His son had just been charged with murder for opening fire at Apalachee High School, killing two students and two teachers. Next came the charges against the white-haired Mr. Gray, including second-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter for allowing his son access to the gun even though, prosecutors say, Mr. Gray knew the boy was a threat to himself and others.

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Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve is arguably the crown jewel in America’s national park system. It’s beautiful beyond the human capacity to articulate in words. It’s also colder than any other place we visited on the Alaska cruise. All of these things can be attributed to the prevalence of glaciers in Glacier Bay.

Glaciers are beautiful masses of snow and ice. That snow and ice is capable of massive destruction when it decides to move. As we made our way through the park rangers pointed out an oddly shaped set of hills near our boat. The odd shape we saw was from a glacier’s movement that damn near obliterated a huge mountain range when it decided to descend.

Beauty coupled with the tremendous potential for destruction. That’s the best way to describe a glacier.

This was the morning my nine-year-old son woke me excitedly yelling “DADDY DADDY WHALES WHALES!!!” We’d gone whale watching in Seattle for my daughter’s birthday and he knew what to look for when we got into the park. The three we saw in Seattle were apparently enough to prepare my eagle-eyed boy for service as the family’s unofficial whale-spotter.

In addition to whales, we viewed sea otters and bears. The sea otters were cute and happy to show off for our boat as we floated by. The bears were best experienced as we did—from afar with telephoto lenses as they explored land.

Next week when we’re in Ketchikan I’ll explain why if you’re not familiar with our ursine friends and what they can do to humans. That’s foreshadowing, folks!

The highlight of Glacier Bay’s natural beauty was seeing a glacier “cap.” That’s the moment part of the glacier separates from the rest of the body and rejoins the sea. As much as I wish I’d gotten a photo of the event, it was very much “a blink and you’ll miss it” moment. I will not forget the sound, though—the crash of the ice hitting water echoed for what had to be miles.

Another highlight of the Glacier Bay day was seeing magician Elliott Hunter’s close up magic show with my son. Elliott is a wonderful magician with both a stage and parlor/close up show my son and I took in after he was technically supposed to be in bed.

Yes. I snuck my nine-year-old son out of bed for a couple of hours to go see a magician in his PJs with Grammie and Grandpa watching on. What can I say? I’m a pushover for my children.

We decided on sushi for lunch this particular day from the ship’s in-house sushi bar. This was a “specialty restaurant” on the boat everyone heard good things about. Naturally everyone wanted to eat there which meant an ungodly long wait time for a two-top table. I swear my nephews only got seats before us because one of them has a grade-A mope face when he doesn’t get his way.

The sushi was great though.

At the end of the day, my family retired to our stateroom to watch the latest “Super Mario Brothers Movie.” I’m old enough to remember the one with John Leguziamo and Dennis Hopper but this was good enough for stupid kid fare. Plus a couple of drinks made it more entertaining.

We were treated to a reminder that nature can kill you before we left Glacier Bay when a ranger informed us the captain made an executive decision to not take us around the entire park as the fog made visibility in those narrow waters very difficult. When you’re one cruise ship of several angling for the best views your passengers demand, I guess it gets difficult maneuvering at times due to human stupidity too.

So that was Glacier Bay: Beautiful, untamed, cold as balls and best experienced from the comfort of one’s stateroom. Next week is the last stop on our tour of Alaska—Ketchikan. The land of bears, seals, whores and a healthy hatred of Juneau.

See you next week, everyone!

David French makes an emotional appeal to hold TikTok liable for the tragic asphyxiation death of a 10-year-old girl, Nylah Anderson, who took the “so-called blackout challenge.” It is, without a doubt tragic and horrible, as the facts leave no doubt.

In 2021, a 10-year-old girl named Nylah Anderson was viewing videos on TikTok, as millions of people do every day, when the app’s algorithm served up a video of the so-called blackout challenge on its “For You Page.” The page suggests videos for users to watch. The blackout challenge encourages users to record themselves as they engage in self-asphyxiation, sometimes to the point of unconsciousness. Nylah saw the challenge, tried it herself and died. She accidentally hanged herself.

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More than a few captive organizations have forsaken integrity in their quest for ideological purity. Think ACLU and ABA. Now, it’s the AAUP, the American Association of University Professors. which reversed it principled position against academic boycotts. Emeritus Northeastern law prof Steven Lubet explains.

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In the Southern District of New York, Judge Ronnie Abrams did exactly what a judge is supposed to do on a Rule 12(b)(6) motion to dismiss. She accepted the allegations in the complaint as true.

On June 9, 2022, one of Samuels’ students “threw a hard ball that hit Samuels in the head, causing a concussion.” Upon being struck, Samuels immediately reported the incident and her injuries to Defendants. Although Noah [the school’s founding principal] “instructed Samuels to not give the police any information about the student who had assaulted her,” she nonetheless began reporting the incident to the police. Samuels asserts that Noah then physically confronted her, “approach[ing] her within a few inches of her face … and angrily ask[ing] if she really wanted to get a kid involved in the criminal justice system.” In response to Noah’s alleged “attempt[ ] to prevent her from reporting the incident,” Samuels “objected” and continued to report the incident to the police officers present. Soon after, Samuels left Urban Assembly in an ambulance and the school “disabled her school email and system access.”

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Whenever criminal defense lawyers talk about the constitutional rights of defendants, someone will respond by telling us we would feel very differently if it was our child who was harmed. And they are absolutely right, but irrelevant. I would do anything, sacrifice anything, for the sake of my children. What parent wouldn’t? But that’s because they’re my children. Policy must concern itself with what’s best for society, not what’s best for my children.

I can’t blame any parent for putting the welfare of his child above the welfare of society. I also can’t blame any public official for putting the welfare of society above the welfare of a child. This is a brutal thing to say, and I fully appreciate why any parent currently dealing with the harm faced by his child to reject it, to be outraged by it, but it nonetheless has to be said. Continue reading →

Over the past few weeks, we’ve come to learn a few things about our friends. A shocking number of dear friends, people we like and respect, people with good jobs and the degrees given by good universities, are likely to vote for Trump. Or to be more specific, are likely to vote against Kamala Harris.

It’s not that they don’t find Trump personally repugnant. They do. It’s that they fear what’s become of a nation where young people march for terrorists, obsess over race and gender and hate their nation. They do not believe that Harris will avoid pandering to the progressive wing of the Democratic Party, and see the few generic policies she’s announced, the $25,000 tax credit for first time home buyers, forgiving student loan debt and taxing unrealized gains, for example, as positive proof that she lacks the fortitude to say no to the demands of the left. Continue reading →

Malaysian businessman Low Taek Jho wanted to meet Barack Obama, but as a foreign national, could not buy his way to a meeting through campaign contributions. So he used Rapper Pras Michel of the Fugees as his conduit, feeding Michel money to contribute to Obama. Things did not turn out as well as hoped.

On April 26, 2023, a jury convicted Defendant Prakazrel Michel (“Michel”) of ten (10) counts related to his conduct in three (3) schemes involving conduit contributions, witness tampering, and foreign lobbying. Before the Court is Michel’s  Motion for New Trial (“Motion” or “Mot.”). Michel moves under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure (“Rule”) 33(a) for a new trial, arguing that a myriad of errors undermine the jury’s verdict.

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