pretending reality doesn’t exist. Truth isn’t racist. Statistics aren’t bigoted.” (John MacGhlionn, American Spectator)
From the
article -- It’s time to face a simple truth: discussing black-on-white crime
isn’t racism. It’s reality, and reality doesn’t bend to our feelings or our
carefully crafted fairytales. Black-on-white crime exists. In fact, according
to National Crime Victimization Survey, blacks commit 85 percent of all
non-lethal interracial violence between blacks and whites.
Let me be
absolutely clear. This isn’t about defending one race or condemning another.
It’s about the lives of Americans — black, white, and every shade between — who
are left to live with the consequences. Crime that cuts across every racial
line exists. If we treat the problem as taboo, we stay silent while the damage
spreads.
The
numbers tell a story that makes many people deeply uncomfortable. Violent crime
is not evenly distributed across America. Certain communities commit violent
offenses at rates dramatically higher than others. The standard deflections
don’t hold water anymore.
2) “The British Aren’t Coming!-- The decline and fall of the non-American Anglosphere.”
(Ronald Dodson, The American Mind)
From the
article -- The flagship aircraft carrier, HMS Queen Elizabeth, still “new” in
naval terms, is visiting Rosyth—not to assert British naval prestige but to
begin maintenance. Commissioned in 2017, the ship had already spent most of
2025 under repair after corrosion was found in its propeller shaft. Now,
despite recent $4.3 billion refits, it’s once more out of action for further
upgrades and inaccessible-system inspections, pushing its availability deeper
into the future.
Three
thousand miles to the west, a Canadian-born civilian sits on her living room
couch, contemplating her approaching death. She isn’t terminally ill, but the
state won’t provide the medical home care she needs. Canada has promised health
care via socialized medicine, but it will instead administer a lethal injection
within days. This is the regime of MAID, Canada’s euphemistically termed
Medical Assistance In Dying legislation that legalized assisted suicide in
2016. This “choice” is presented as a compassionate right. However, in practice
it underscores a disquieting fact: the machinery of death is more functional
than that of living care.
These two
scenes, thousands of miles apart, are sewn with the same thread: governance
through surrender—be it in defense, health care, or the stories the state
tells. In both countries there’s a clear willingness to cede the capacity to
preserve life, the life of a polity or of a person, in favor of an easier,
cleaner exit.
The
non-American Anglosphere, from Ottawa to Wellington, is drifting into a
post-sovereign condition. Their governments still perform the ceremonies of
independence, but in their essential duties of defense, stewardship of
demographic cohesion, and protection of vulnerable citizens, they have begun to
relinquish the will to endure.
3) “Yes,the whole world is wrong about Israel: Even some who say they don’t hate theJewish state yet rely only on the mainstream media for news think that theremust be some truth to the ‘genocide’ blood libel. Challenging it isn’t easy.” (Jonathan
S. Tobin, JNS)
From the
article -- After all, if you’ve grown up believing that what you’ve read in The
New York Times, watched on CNN or heard while listening to NPR is true, then
why question the assumptions about what’s been happening in the conflict that
are treated as accepted facts in those outlets and others like them? And even
if you are willing to question individual stories that are largely the product
of Hamas propaganda and spread by so-called journalists working in territory
controlled by those Islamist terrorists, the sheer volume of reporting that
bolsters these claims has established a baseline concerning assumptions about
the war. Those who consider themselves fair-minded and not prejudiced in their
opinions about Israel have long since accepted the idea that where there is so
much smoke about Israeli misconduct, there must be fire.
In this
way, the belief that the primary, if not sole, cause of suffering in Gaza is an
unjustified and heartless war policy pursued by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu becomes not merely a pro-Hamas talking point but conventional wisdom
accepted by those on the political left and even in the center, where legacy
liberal media outlets still have considerable influence.
4) “AmericaTakes a Stand for the Rights of Western Christians” (Jonathon Van Maren,
European Conservative)
From the
article -- There has, predictably, been much criticism of the Trump
administration’s advocacy for prosecuted pro-lifers; indeed, it is
extraordinary for an elderly pro-life woman to hear that the government of the
world’s reigning superpower is interested in her case and that the “United
States stands” with her, especially when so few others will.
But it is
common practice for governments to advocate for persecuted dissidents in other
countries; progressive regimes have been especially interested in defending
LGBT activists. What is uncommon is that a U.S. administration is taking
interest in the rights of persecuted and prosecuted Christians in the West.
Even though Christians are now a minority in the UK while LGBT activists still
cosplay as victims, the progressive establishment narrative still treats
traditional Christians as dominant oppressors and their reigning ideological
opponents as the underdog.
America’s
interest in the actual underdog reveals the much-denied reality and forces
profoundly uncomfortable questions for the ruling classes—and it is about time,
too.
5) “The Evil Idea That Has Taken Over the Woke Right: The coming of ‘critical religiontheory’” (Josh Appel, Commentary)
From the
article -- However, the evidence suggests that the new right-wing conspiracy
culture is more than just anti-institutional—it is a new adaptation of an
intellectual trend that has dominated the left for two generations. That trend
is “critical theory”—the study of the supposedly hidden systems of power and
oppression that shape society and must be exposed before being dismantled.
Critical theory has found its most salient and powerful expression in the
triumph of critical race theory, which posits that America was born in original
sin in 1619 and still functions as a machine to suppress black people whose
presence in the United States was a crime to begin with and whose problems are
the result of a centuries-long criminal conspiracy against them.
The woke right has adapted this and created what I call critical religion theory. It holds that a small elite has hijacked Western civilization and actively used its power to manipulate the world against religion. For these thinkers, the danger isn’t the policy, but that the policy reflects an anti-religious force subverting their worldview, and the world itself, behind the scenes. This movement sees power as illegitimate and influence as suspect. Those in “power”—by which they mean having wealth and success—are clearly part of a group trying to influence the masses. The tools of subversion are money, drugs, movies, devil worship (literally), and sexual blackmail. If you disagree, it’s because you are in on it, too.
Other
important reads for this week?
* “SenatorsAsk AG Bondi to Investigate Abortion Pill Manufacturers” (Daily Citizen via
Harbinger's Daily)
* “Fourteen-Year-OldScottish Girl Arrested for Resisting Probable Assault by Migrants”
("Streiff," at Red State)
* “PleaseDeliver Us From the Poorly-Behaved Women...and the history they strive tocreate.” (Scott McKay, American Spectator)
* “Who's
the Crazy Alert: Mental Health Form for Girls Who Think Boys in Their Bathroom
is a Problem” (Beege Welborn, Hot Air)
* “Junkscience now dominates the reporting of the propaganda press” (Robert Zimmerman,
Behind the Black)
