From the Thousands to the Billions, There’s One Thing In Common
The problem won’t end until that mindset, that worldview – the criminal element and the avaricious, unamerican motivations behind it – are purged from government entirely.
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Subject: Mr. Ayatollah, Tear Down This Constitution
Mr. President, for more than three years, together with friends and colleagues in the organization Cyrus Force, we have argued that the crisis between Iran and the West cannot be solved permanently through military confrontation, temporary ceasefires, sanctions alone, or emotional political slogans.
HIGHLIGHTS OF THE NEWS with Don Surber
Don Surber performs his aerial surveillance of the news this week. His findings, as always, will leave you better informed than if you had actually watch the mainstream media.
Thune joins the resistance; Sends Senate home without passing a budget. Whee!
Led by John Thune, Republican senators have joined the resistance by going on recess without fully funding the Department of Homeland Security—perhaps in an effort to attract the terrorist vote.
Senators claim it is a pro forma recess and not a real recess. I never studied the law but I do know that when lawyers start talking in Latin, my liberty is in jeopardy.
Democrats are blowing it: Taking back the House should be a gimme. It isn’t.
History says it would take a miracle for Republicans to hold onto the House. Presidential parties lose seats in the House at midterms. There are a few exceptions. Backlash from the Lewinsky impeachment gained seats for Democrats and 4 years later, tough action on 9/11 earned Bush’s party extra seats.
From Wounded Knee: A Lesson on Gun Control & the Second Amendment
American Indians in their winter camp at Wounded Knee, were murdered on Dec. 29, 1891, by federal agents and members of the 7th Cavalry who had come to confiscate their firearms “for their own safety and protection.”
Accepting Reality, Not Lies and Propaganda
Lies: People lie for two fundamental reasons: to protect themselves from something bad or to gain something good. That simple framework covers everything from a child’s first fib to a calculated fraud, but the full picture involves brain wiring, developmental milestones, personality traits, and social pressures that make deception a deeply human behavior. The average person lies once or twice a day, though that number is misleading. Most lies are told by a small minority of people, while many others rarely lie at all. Telling the truth is your brain’s default setting. Lying requires overriding that default, which demands real cognitive effort. Neuroimaging research shows that deception activates the prefrontal cortex, the region responsible for higher-level thinking and self-control, far more than honest responses do.
With (Gun) Rights, Come Responsibilities
The Second Amendment guarantees the right to bear arms, but unfortunately not all those who bear arms today are responsible.
America’s Media are Suffering from a Crisis of Competence
I am not optimistic about today’s independent media. Most of its practitioners are untrained amateurs who lack the basic reportorial skills to gather accurate, fair, and balanced information.
HIGHLIGHTS OF THE NEWS with Don Surber
Don Surber presents his unique take on this week’s media reports. As usual, you’ll learn more from his offbeat perspective than actually reading or watch the news.
Propaganda from the credentialed media will not change reality
My website, The First Street Journal, maintains a Stylebook of its own devise. It includes: Those who claim to be transgender will be referred to with the names, honorifics, and pronouns appropriate to the sex of their birth; the site owner does not agree with the cockamamie notion that anyone can simply ‘identify’ with a …
Trump Conquers Red China
He has the oil, the military and the corporate wizards on his side
Landing in Beijing with his secretary of state, his treasury secretary and the No. 1 executives of the top 30 corporations in America, President Trump received the royal treatment.
10,000 rulings from 10,000 maniacs
I don’t know much about the rock group 10,000 Maniacs other than when Natalie Merchant was its lead singer, the group’s cover of Because the Night reached No. 11 on the charts.
The group’s name popped up when I read the Politico story, “10,000 rulings: The courts’ overwhelming rebuke of Trump’s ICE policies.”
Thoughts on the Racial and Ethnic Transformation of America
Writing about race and the rapidly shifting racial complexion and composition of America is a dangerous exercise. No matter how you discuss it or describe it, if you are white, you are almost certain to be called a racist by easily triggered leftists who prefer that you keep silent
Trump cleans up Obama’s mess
The latest battlefront in the Democrat War Against Sanity is the Reflecting Pool on the National Mall.
Barack Obama renovated it in 2012 and left a big mess when he left office because instead of using city water treated with chlorine, he brought in brackish water from the Tidal Basin and treated it with a product called Ozone.
Louisiana v Callais is a win, but perhaps not the win you expect
Our good friends on the left, who have been so supportive of the Fourteenth Amendment’s provision that “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside” must grant automatic citizenship to the “anchor babies” of people …
Blue wave? Red wave? No, an Orange Wave nears
The Gerrymander Wars of 2026 are almost at an end. Between the federal Supreme Court finally noticing that hey, minority-majority districts are kind of racist, and the Virginia Supreme Court upholding the rules for amending the state constitution, Trump pretty much handed Democrats their bums.
And voters are primarying RINOs for him.
The 4th Estate. Enough Said.
Not known for excellence, recent examples of incompetence are an embarrassment even by the media’s low standards.
They got covid 100 percent wrong
This week marked the sixth anniversary of the fascist governments of the world—the United States included—shutting down the world over a virus. The Public Health Obergruppenführers said follow the science and then ordered us to social distance and where cloth masks, neither of course were ever studied.
HIGHLIGHTS OF THE NEWS with Don Surber
The news is full of entertainment, if you know how to read it. Don Surber guides us through this week’s presentations from the media, an institution seemingly incapable of unbiased reporting.