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Don Surber 
On May 9, 2013, David Burge, a blogger best known for identifying old cars from family photos sent in by readers, told a truth about journalism that no others would dare: “Journalism is about covering important stories. With a pillow, until they stop moving.”
Don Surber takes us through the most impactful news items of the week in a manner only he can. You’ll see the media for what it is and uncover the truth behind the packaging. Enjoy!
President Trump announced the USA will allow Saudi Arabia provided the Crown Prince signs the Abraham Accords and officially recognizes Israel’s right to exist. The Saudis already do. The two countries have made under-the-table deals in the past. Nothing personal, just business.
Democrats have a poison called DSA—Democrat Socialists of America—a communist organization that made Mamdani mayor of New York, New York. If communism can make it there, it will make it anywhere, right?
But Democrat officials know voters are rejecting it—for now.
My condolences to Andy Burnham upon his selection as the 59th prime minister of the United Kingdom. The political insiders picked the right guy because he has experience in handling tragedies.
Days after Burnham was sworn in as mayor of Manchester in 2017, a Muslim suicide bomber ignited a nail bomb that killed him and 21 others and injured more than 1,000 fans at an Ariana Grande concert. Most of the victims were young girls. Muslim terrorists have real problems with females.
Sometimes a swamp critter acts too smart for his own good. And so it goes with the Dishonorable Judge Jimmy the Geek Boasberg, who mocked the Department of Justice in a hearing on March 21, 2025, in which the ACLU claimed that the government violated a previous order by Boasberg not to deport 100 members of the Venezuelan gang TdA.
Don Surber’s roundup of this week’s news items is more enlightening than the actual reporting. Enjoy!
Just what time that sun’ll come out is up to Congress.
Having balanced the budget, passed the SAVE Act and restricted insider trading by congressmen and congressional staffers, members of the House and the Senate are debating time itself. The issue is whether we should go to year-round daylight savings time, year-round standard time or just leave the whole thing alone and keep changing our clocks twice a year.
Destroying Iran’s military threat to the world bounced President Trump’s approval back to 49% in the latest Rasmussen Poll. That’s his maximum just as it was for Lincoln. While the media claims the world has turned against him, the fact is he and America are on the top of the world, looking down on creation.
On June 24, 2026, two earthquakes hit Venezuela back-to-back. They registered 7.2 and 7.5, numbers that are pretty high on the Richter scale. The military sent in the Marines (and other branches). The State Department worked with charities such as Samaritan’s Purse, World Vision and Catholic Relief Services to avoid the confusion that occurred in the successful response to the January 12, 2010, earthquake in Haiti.
128 days after the IDF Cremation Services un-alived the ayatollah, Iran finally got to give their Supreme Leader a funeral. Israel and the United States agreed not to bomb the ceremony because that is the decent thing to do especially when millions of innocent civilians are weeping for him.
Senator Lindsey Graham died this weekend from a heart attack, two days after his 71st birthday. He left behind no wife, no children and not much of a fortune—at best $3 million after 33 years in Congress.
But he bequeathed to the American people a fair and impartial Supreme Court that had the boldness to take on the powers of the federal bureaucracy (West Virginia v. EPA) and return to the states powers previous courts and Congress had stolen (Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization).
Don Surber’s take on this week’s offerings from the news media will make you think and often laugh out loud. Enjoy!
The globalist Wall Street Journal published a two-part series on European resentment of Trump and hence, America. It was pretty good stuff.
A month ago, Democrats in Maine nominated Graham Platner and his Nazi tattoo (now covered up) as their Senate candidate. The party hoped that they could dress up as a working class hero someone expelled from a private school as a teen who grew up to be a ne’er-do-well.
A few Brits on Twitter congratulated us on our 250th birthday as a nation by reminding us that this Sunday they will celebrate the 1,099th anniversary of their nationhood.
Well, cheers to them as well.
As the British would say, the Democrat Party is about to give Graham Platner the Spanish archer, aka, the El-Bow. The Nazi-tattooed misogynist mess who raises oysters for his mommy’s restaurant has begun to slip in the polls made public—an indication that Democrats are horrified by the results of their more accurate internal polling.
On Monday, he suspended his campaign, which paves the way for replacing him before the weekend deadline.
Roger Kimball wrote, “Why socialism will fail,” a pretty nifty if overly intellectualized piece that encapsulates the common smug capitalist prediction of doom because “sooner or later you run out of other people’s money.”
Hahaha, right?
Really? Well, Congress ran out of other people’s money in the 1980s. We have a national debt approaching $40 trillion—$40 million million. Maybe we’re the socialists but we just won’t admit it.
Check out this week’s round-up of the media’s feeble attempt to report the news. Don Surber is your guide. You’ll appreciate his snarky sense of humor on our Fourth Estate.
On July 17, 1980, Ronald Reagan accepted the Republican nomination for president. In his acceptance speech, he said, “For those who have abandoned hope, we’ll restore hope and we’ll welcome them into a great national crusade to make America great again!”