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Sam Harris showcases the severity of his Trump derangement syndrome
Atheist podcaster Sam Harris has made no secret of his antipathy toward President Donald Trump. Harris has, for instance,
called Trump “the most dangerous cult leader on Earth”; blamed him for “how divisive our politics have become”; accused him of paving the way for fascism in America; and deemed him “one of the most prolific liars our species has produced.”
Harris — who
argued in an October debate with conservative commentator Ben Shapiro that Kamala Harris was the optimal choice in the 2024 presidential election — still appears to be having trouble coping with Trump’s popularity and reelection over 120 days into the president’s second term.
‘I would rather have a president in a coma where the duties of the presidency are executed by a committee of just normal people, right.’
Indeed, the atheist intellectual
suggested during the May 23 episode of his “Making Sense” podcast that the efforts to cover up former President Joe Biden’s mental decline — efforts recently acknowledged by Jake Tapper, a longtime proponent of the false competency narrative — were problematic but potentially warranted, or at the very least understandable, in the face of an “awful choice.”
RELATED: Media cover-up unravels: Biden’s mental struggles confirmed in damning leaked tapes
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Harris admitted that he would have preferred the coverup to have succeeded, telling his manager Jaron Lowenstein, “I would prefer a comatose president to the president we now have.”
“Even that is preferable to me — and to, I think, many Democrats — than having someone who we consider to be genuinely evil … genuinely 100% purposed to serving himself in the office of the presidency,” continued the atheist. “I would rather have a president in a coma where the duties of the presidency are executed by a committee of just normal people, right.”
‘Hunter Biden literally could have had the corpses of children in his basement.’
Harris presented his preferred option of a cabal of unelected insiders usurping the powers of the democratically-elected president as a hypothetical; however, it appears to have been, at least in effect, more or less the reality of the Biden presidency in its final months.
After all, staffers and family members reportedly were making decisions on Biden’s behalf while radicals in his orbit allegedly used his signature to advance their own agendas.
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While Harris’ admission that he would prefer rule by an unelected committee is likely proof enough that he suffers from the so-called “Trump Derangement Syndrome” that Republican lawmakers now
want the National Institutes of Health to study, Harris appears to have provided ample material for a diagnosis.
For instance, Harris
suggested in 2022 that the media was responsible for preventing Trump from retaking power, even if that meant censoring the truth about the Hunter Biden laptop.
“Listen, I don’t care what’s in Hunter Biden’s laptop,” Harris said. “I mean, at that point, Hunter Biden literally could have had the corpses of children in his basement, I would not have cared.”
While acknowledging the media had suppressed the Hunter Biden laptop story and that there indeed was a “leftwing conspiracy to deny the presidency to Donald Trump,” Harris said “it was warranted.”
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Southern Poverty Law Center attacks Turning Point USA with ‘cheap smear’ in latest hysterical ‘extremism’ report
Liberal activists and their fellow travelers in business, government, and media frequently cite the Southern Poverty Law Center as an authority on what qualifies as a hate group or an extremist organization.
That’s despite — or because of — the SPLC’s heavy left-wing bias, the frequency with which it smears law-abiding conservatives as “extremists,” and its link to alleged domestic terrorism.
‘First, they wanted you to affirm, and then they wanted you to celebrate, and then they wanted you to participate.’
Exuding liberal sanctimony with an air of legitimacy helps keep the SPLC — a nonprofit sued numerous times for defamation, accused by one former staffer of exaggerating hate to “bilk” donors, and given an F-rating by Charity Watch — awash in cash.
After all, what’s not to like when the SPLC largely fundraises on the premise that it is “exposing hate and injustice”?
True to form, the SPLC smeared agential conservatives in its latest annual hate and extremism report.
This time around, the smear merchants focused their attack on Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA, characterizing it as a pro-Christian extremist group with an “authoritarian vision for the country that threatens the foundation of our democracy.”
But Kirk wasn’t having it, responding in a statement that “the SPLC has added Turning Point to their ridiculous ‘hate group’ list, right next to the KKK and neo-Nazis, a cheap smear from a washed-up org that’s been fleecing scared grandmas for decades.”
“Their game plan? Scare financial institutions into debanking us, pressure schools to cancel us, and demonize us so some unhinged lunatic feels justified targeting us,” continued Kirk. “But it’s 2025, and nobody with a functioning brain buys their garbage anymore. The SPLC is a laughingstock, a hollowed-out husk of an organization that’s been exposed as a grift time and time again.”
According to the SPLC — whose recent top targets include Chaya Raichik of Libs of TikTok fame and the parental rights advocacy group Moms for Liberty — TPUSA is “emblematic” of the American political right’s supposed embrace of “aggressive state and federal power to enforce a social order rooted in white supremacy” against a backdrop of “patriarchal Christian supremacy dedicated to eroding the value of inclusive democracy and public institutions.”
RELATED: Own the hate: Why patriots should wear the ‘hate group’ smear with pride
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When trying to make the case that TPUSA somehow is an extremist outfit or at the very least extremist-adjacent, SPLC contributor Rachael Fugardi, aided by a pair of DEI–credentialed researchers, noted that Kirk:
dared to link the health of liberty in America to the religiosity of its people;
suggested that Democrats love what God hates;
championed motherhood and suggested women should get married and start having children at a younger age;
highlighted that in the case of non-straight activism, “First, they wanted you to affirm, and then they wanted you to celebrate,
and then they wanted you to participate. And if you don’t, they are
willing to destroy your life”;
suggested that Americans should buy weapons and ammunition; and
warned that “native born Americans are being replaced by foreigners.”
The report also clutched pearls over TPUSA’s supposed encouragement of “parents to be fearful the government was harming their children in schools” and its criticism of critical race theory and LGBT propaganda in the classroom.
‘DEI narratives can engender a hostile attribution bias and heighten racial suspicion, prejudicial attitudes, authoritarian policing, and support for punitive behaviors.’
This desperate attempt on the part of the SPLC to paint Kirk and TPUSA as extreme might have less to do with the conservatives’ views and more to do with their political effectiveness in changing minds and curbing the abuses of the left — as well as their alignment with President Donald Trump.
TPUSA videos notched billions of views in the lead-up to the 2024 election — and it was at this precise time that its members were engaging young Americans on college campuses across the country and promoting Trump. That momentum and engagement still have not tapered off.
Kirk stressed on X, “Being on their list is a badge of honor. It means they’re terrified that we’re so effective. Keep crying, SPLC — America’s done with your scam.”
While evidently worried about TPUSA, the SPLC also warned of the “merging of anti-immigration and anti-LGBTQ+ activism with fear of demographic displacement” and framed efforts to dismantle the racist DEI regime as a campaign to “whitewash American society and protect white supremacy.”
Yet, a study published late last year by the Network Contagion Research Institute and Rutgers University concluded that “DEI narratives can engender a hostile attribution bias and heighten racial suspicion, prejudicial attitudes, authoritarian policing, and support for punitive behaviors in the absence of evidence for a transgression deserving punishment.”
RELATED: Damning study reveals what DEI does to people — and unsurprisingly, it’s really bad
Race-obsessive activist Ibram Kendi, originally Ibram Henry Rogers. Photo by Tommaso Boddi/Getty Images for Netflix
Having evidently missed or ignored this damning insight into the divisive and dangerous nature of DEI, the SPLC claimed that DEI initiatives “are essential in ensuring pluralism, reducing inequities that spur division, and promoting democracy.”
Working off the basis that DEI is necessary — and necessarily good — the leftist outfit attacked those attempting to eliminate it, including Moms for Liberty, normalcy advocate Robby Starbuck, Republican states and officials, and Manhattan Institute senior fellow Christopher Rufo.
The SPLC also conducted a number of drive-by hits in its annual report, deeming, for instance, the Christian legal advocacy group Alliance Defending Freedom a “hate group” and suggesting that reports indicating the Obama administration worked to debank conservative clients was somehow a “false narrative.”
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‘Duck Dynasty’ star Phil Robertson started at QB over Terry Bradshaw in college — but quit to become a duck hunter
Since the passing of Phil Robertson, an outpouring of love — and stories — have surfaced that show just how truly fascinating the entrepreneur’s life was.
For instance, the patriarch of the “Duck Dynasty” family was a college football star with the potential for a pro career. That’s right. According to CBS Sports, Robertson started at quarterback for two years at Louisiana Tech University in 1966 and 1967.
‘He quit because he knew his passion was duck hunting, and he knew my passion was football.’
But perhaps even more interesting is that Robertson in college actually started over Terry Bradshaw, who would go on to become a legendary, four-time Super Bowl-winning signal caller for the Pittsburgh Steelers.
In fact, Bradshaw told a Fox Sports panel years ago that if it were not for Robinson quitting football with a year of NCAA eligibility left, he never would have gotten the starting role at Louisiana Tech.
“If he hadn’t — I hate to say quit, but that’s what he did. He quit because he knew his passion was duck hunting, and he knew my passion was football. And he left, and that’s how I got the starting job,” Bradshaw said. “I did not beat him out.”
Bradshaw has told stories over the years about how Robertson would emerge from the woods before practice wearing “Levi jeans and a T-shirt.”
“On [those clothes] was either duck feathers, guts from a squirrel, [or] blood from some varmints somewhere,” Bradshaw recalled.
RELATED: ‘A living example of what God can do’: Phil Robertson remembered
Phil Robertson participates in pre-game ceremonies for the Duck Commander Independence Bowl between the South Carolina Gamecocks and the Miami Hurricanes at Independence Stadium, Dec. 27, 2014, in Shreveport, Louisiana. Photo by Stacy Revere/Getty Images
Bradshaw and Robertson reunited for an interview in 2013, nearly 50 years after playing together. During the sit down, Robertson remarked that it was the first time he had seen Bradshaw since he quit football.
“This is my first return trip to Louisiana Tech,” Robertson said. “Literally, since I saw you in the locker room saying, ‘Go be an NFL star, I’m going out to the ducks.'”
The captivating discussion had Bradshaw asking the outdoorsman why he decided to leave a sport he was so good at. Despite Robertson totaling 12 touchdowns and 34 interceptions in college, he also threw for 2,237 yards and had the potential to go pro, according to CBS Sports.
“Why did you leave? Why did you not come back?” Bradshaw asked.
“You had something that I did not have,” Robertson explained. “You had the desire to excel in the game of football. And I really had the passion for the old mallard ducks.”
After again recalling Robertson being covered in duck feathers and squirrel guts, Bradshaw laughed at how the future “Duck Dynasty” star’s departure benefited both men.
Robertson then concluded, “[This] proves the point, Bradshaw. A man will do a lot for a duck. Ducks are doing great.”
RELATED: Whitlock: ESPN broadcaster Ryan Clark symbolizes the end of the Charles Barkley-Terry Bradshaw era
Jimmy Johnson coaches the Dallas Cowboys on 17th January 1993. Photo by Otto Greule Jr/Allsport/Getty Images
During the Fox Sports panel discussion, former NFL head coach Jimmy Johnson — also a Super Bowl winner at the helm of the Dallas Cowboys — recalled he had the benefit of coaching at Louisiana Tech when both quarterbacks were there. Johnson noted how talented and impressive both players were, joining Bradshaw in his admiration for Robertson.
Bradshaw added regarding Robertson: “He’s such a sweet guy, such a really sweet guy. We had so much fun laughing and talking about old times.”
RELATED: Phil Robertson’s 79th birthday request might be the funniest thing that’s happened this year
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‘This was my innocence’: 15-year-old exposes AI’s horrifying threat to girls
As a freshman in high school, the last thing Elliston Berry expected was to see AI-generated nude deepfakes of herself floating around — but unfortunately, that’s exactly what happened.
“I woke up with messages from my friend notifying me that these images of me were going around,” Berry tells BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey on “Relatable.” “It was terrifying. We didn’t know what to do; I was embarrassed to tell my parents. It was really, really scary.”
“Thankfully, the photo was an Instagram photo. So everyone that has followed my Instagram knows the original picture, and obviously, my mom keeps up with all my social media, so she recognizes the original photo and she was like, ‘I know this isn’t real,’” Berry explains.
However, while Berry and her parents took action immediately, it didn’t undo the harm that all her classmates seeing the image caused her.
“This was my innocence. This was a nude photo of me, and I was a freshman, I was 14 years old, and everyone had seen this of me, and I was terrified,” she says.
Her mother was understandably equally disturbed.
“I’m at that point looking at her picture, and then the nude picture, and I’m going, ‘This is child pornography,’ and ‘what is happening here.’ You know, her high school’s over 2,400 students, so I’m like this is going around,” Berry’s mother says. “Just the magnitude of that.”
Her parents were quickly able to find the account that was distributing the photos, but they couldn’t determine who was behind the account.
“The account that was sending these photos was texting people from my school saying awful things,” Berry explains, “and kind of bullying us and tormenting us and just overall wanting to ruin us.”
“And he was sending these out to our entire school,” she continues. “It was terrible. No one knew what to do. People I wasn’t friends with were receiving these photos.”
The student behind the account then started sending threatening messages that he was doing this because he wanted to “ruin” these girls and “go out with a bang.”
“So, then, in today’s world, I’m calling the school going, ‘This could be a threat to the entire population of our school. You need to do something about this,’” Berry’s mother explains.
Then the school had a lockdown drill on a Friday — which terrified Berry even more.
“The one good thing that happened out of it was that while they were on lockdown, this kid decided to go online to his account and on school Wi-Fi start posting pictures, more of the girls. So at that point, they were able to catch him,” Berry’s mother tells Stuckey.
“If he hadn’t done that, I don’t know that we would have ever caught him,” she adds.
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10 wounded in shooting on charter boat near South Carolina coast, police say
Police in South Carolina said 10 people were wounded in a shooting on a charter boat Sunday night in Little River, a beach enclave about a half hour northeast of Myrtle Beach.
The Horry County Police Department added that the most serious cases involve those in critical but stable condition at area hospitals. One other person was injured in the incident but not by gunfire, police said.
‘When they got off the boat, they just started shooting each other.’
Police said its investigation so far indicates the shooting was an isolated event that resulted from an altercation during a private Memorial Day weekend gathering on a charter boat, and there is currently no associated risk to the community.
Police added that detectives are working to identify the person or persons responsible for the shooting.
Image source: Horry County (S.C.) Police Department
Police first posted about the shooting at 9:30 p.m., noting that it took place on Watson Avenue. Later that night police said at 11 people were taken to area hospitals, adding that they received reports about others arriving at area hospitals in personal vehicles.
A local businessman told NBC News passengers aboard the boat had just docked at a marina when shooting commenced.
“When they got off the boat, they just started shooting each other,” Harold Wiegel, a partner of Myrtle Beach Adventures, told news network.
Wiegel — whose son lives near the marina and heard the shooting — told NBC News the boat in question is the Hurricane and is operated by Little River Fishing Fleet.
A person who answered a phone Monday at Little River Fishing Fleet confirmed to NBC News that charter customers aboard the Hurricane were involved in the incident but declined to provide further details.
Image source: Horry County (S.C.) Police Department
An online flyer advertised a Sunday party with a DJ on a three-hour cruise ending at 9 p.m., the Associated Press said. A woman who answered a phone number on the flyer early Monday told the AP she was upset about seeing her friends get shot and then said she didn’t want to talk further and hung up.
In addition, a North Myrtle Beach police officer responding to the shooting was wounded in the leg when his gun accidentally fired, NBC News reported, citing Myrtle Beach police in a separate statement.
The officer was stabilized at a hospital, the department added to the news network.
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Woke ’60 Minutes’ host Scott Pelley claims diversity is now ‘illegal’ in progressive rant at Wake Forest commencement
CBS News and “60 Minutes” host Scott Pelley delivered a speech to university graduates that was pro-free speech and seemingly against President Donald Trump’s administration.
The 67-year-old spoke at Wake Forest University’s Commencement on May 19 in what was an incredibly performative address, discussing fascism, free speech, and even Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
‘Diversity is now described as illegal. Equity is to be shunned. Inclusion is a dirty word.’
After several jokes bombed with the audience of heat stroke-adjacent graduates, the crowd cooked in the 84-degree weather as Pelley flamboyantly raved about his work in astronomy, his travel to the United Kingdom, and his interview with the Ukrainian leader.
Pelley then warned onlookers that many would not like what he had to say before delving into commentary about how the “sacred rule of law is under attack” in the United States.
“Journalism is under attack. Universities are under attack. Freedom of speech is under attack, and insidious fear is reaching through our schools, our businesses, our homes, and into our private thoughts,” he said.
The reporter then seemed to direct his words at Trump and his administration, albeit without naming the sitting president.
RELATED: It’s a crime to lie or insult a politician online in Germany, prosecutors tell ’60 Minutes’
“The fear to speak in America,” Pelley said, emphasizing the audacity of the idea.
Waving his arms in the air and gesturing as if he were in a Broadway play, Pelley accurately stated that “power can rewrite history with grotesque, false narratives.”
“They can make criminals heroes, and heroes criminals. Power can change the definition of the words we use to describe reality,” he continued.
Then, revealing his progressive bias, Pelley claimed that “diversity is now described as illegal. Equity is to be shunned. Inclusion is a dirty word.”
The Texan added, “This is an old playbook, my friends. There’s nothing new in this.”
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President Donald Trump addresses graduates at West Point in Michie Stadium, May 24, 2025. Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images
In response to a clip of the speech, Fox News reporter Guy Benson pointed out that “60 Minutes” aired a glowing segment about Germany’s anti-free speech policies in February, noting that it included “ZERO dissenting voices” and not even “one quote against censorship.”
During the segment, CBS host Sharyn Alfonsi asked a panel of German lawyers if it was a crime in their country to insult someone in public.
“Yes. Yes. It is,” was their reply; they also agreed it was a crime to insult someone online.
Josephine Ballon, one of the prosecutors, also said, “Without boundaries, a very small group of people can rely on endless freedom to say anything they want, while everyone else is scared and intimidated.”
Pelley’s remarks at Wake Forest could not be categorized as anti-free speech though, and actually mirrored a typical pro-America diatribe.
“Your country needs you and needs you today,” Pelley told the audience. “America works well when we listen to those we disagree with … and have common ground and compromise.”
However, the host’s words included a progressive twist at almost every turn — and perverted the reality of who or what is standing in the way of true free speech.
“One thing we can all agree on, one thing at least,” he said. “America is at her best when everyone is included.”
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Radical Seattle mayor smears Christians after leftists physically attacked prayer rally attendees — even cops got clobbered
Pro-life Christians held a prayer event at Cal Anderson Park in Seattle, Washington, over the weekend.
But the viewpoints expressed at the Mayday USA event — in support of the “sanctity of human life, the sacrality of biological gender, the importance of the nuclear family, and the right to freedom of speech and religion” — proved intolerable not only to the leftist radicals whose violent response prompted police to shut down the event early but also to the city’s Democratic mayor who subsequently smeared the Christian organizers as bigots.
‘Today’s far-right rally was held here for this very reason — to provoke a reaction by promoting beliefs that are inherently opposed to our city’s values, in the heart of Seattle’s most prominent LGBTQ+ neighborhood.’
The purpose of the Mayday USA tour — which is linked to the “#DontMessWithOurKids movement” — is to “offer prayer and resources to help post-abortive men and women, trafficking victims, those who desire freedom from same-sex attraction, and those who are struggling with sexual and drug addictions throughout their restoration process.”
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Ahead of Saturday’s main event — which featured speeches, musical performances, and prayer — there were free haircuts for kids and bicycle giveaways. Roughly 500 people attended the prayer rally, reported the Seattle Times.
However, hundreds of leftists — including members of the groups Radical Women, Puget Sound Mobilization for Reproductive Justice, Freedom Socialist Party, Organized Workers for Labor Solidarity — also showed up. But they weren’t there to pray.
The leftists — later thanked by Democratic Mayor Bruce Harrell — circulated a post claiming event organizers were pushing “fascist ‘family values,'” were waging a “war on trans & queer folk,” and were somehow linked to a “racist Christian identity movement,” as well as to President Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and Project 2025.
While the leftists’ stated goal was to send the message that “bigotry is not welcome here,” it appears their aim actually was to shut down Mayday USA.
Seattle Police swooped into action, making numerous arrests after leftists protesting the Christian prayer event turned to violence.
According to the Seattle Police Department, officers initially intervened after witnesses observed “multiple people inside one group throw items at the opposing group” around 1:30 p.m.
‘Seattle is proud of our reputation as a welcoming, inclusive city for LGBTQ+ communities.’
What’s more, while officers were taking violent individuals into custody, additional radicals physically attacked police. One officer injured during the ensuing scuffle was taken to hospital for treatment.
Just before 5 p.m. local time, the SPD announced on X that it requested backup from the Washington State Patrol.
Police said they charged 22 individuals with assault and obstruction and took them to King County Jail. A juvenile also was arrested for obstruction but later was cut loose.
RELATED: Seattle to ditch anti-cop initiatives that transformed city into crime haven
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While leftists appeared to have initiated the violence, the Democrat mayor — who admitted to “displaying” a gun amid a 1996 dispute with a pregnant woman over a parking spot — reserved his fury for the peaceful Christians whom law enforcement protected.
“Seattle is proud of our reputation as a welcoming, inclusive city for LGBTQ+ communities, and we stand with our trans neighbors when they face bigotry and injustice,” Harrell said in a statement Saturday. “Today’s far-right rally was held here for this very reason — to provoke a reaction by promoting beliefs that are inherently opposed to our city’s values, in the heart of Seattle’s most prominent LGBTQ+ neighborhood.”
‘We are just warming up.’
Harrell, who’s presently campaigning for reelection, suggested further that the Christian organizers were questioning the “humanity of trans people and those who have been historically marginalized.”
After suggesting that the leftist violence was the result of anarchist infiltrators, Harrell expressed gratitude for those who peacefully protested the event and indicated that he was directing Seattle Parks and Recreation to “review all of the circumstances of this application to understand whether there were legal location alternatives or other adjustments that could have been pursued.”
“In the face of an extreme right-wing national effort to attack our trans and LGBTQ+ communities, Seattle will continue to stand unwavering in our embrace of diversity, love for our neighbors, and commitment to justice and fairness,” added the mayor whose city has a 1-rating on the Neighborhood Scout crime index; a 100-rating is the safest.
Jenny Donnelly — host of the event and founder of the Christian prayer organization Her Voice Mvmt — blasted the mayor over his mischaracterizations.
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Donnelly noted that her team had: worked with the parks department for weeks; originally requested an alternate location but “were told no and given Cal Anderson Park”; cooperated with police and ended their event 2.5-hours early due to the leftist violence; and had not come to “attack” anyone but “stayed in [their] permitted area, worshipped, and did not engage any of the counter protestors.”
The Seattle Police Officers Guild said it welcomes a mayoral review of the parks department’s decision to authorize a permit for Cal Anderson Park — not because the Christian families were somehow undeserving but because “this park is commonly known as the heart of ANTIFA land.”
“We have no doubt that this city decision, as naïve or deliberate as it was, put police officers in an untenable predicament,” the guild said in a statement.
“A riot started in Cal Anderson Park in Seattle formerly known as the CHOP zone. Why?” wrote evangelist Ross Johnston, a co-host of the event. “The church showed up outside to worship Jesus and preach the gospel! Let me make it clear, we are just warming up and WE AIN’T BACKING DOWN.”
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Comparative advantage was built on patriotism. That’s gone.
In a recent Financial Times column, economist Burton Malkiel slammed President Trump’s tariffs as economically “foolish,” arguing they violate the supposed universal truth of comparative advantage. He’s wrong — on both the economics and the reality.
First, comparative advantage only applies when nations trade goods for goods. Today, the U.S. trades goods for assets and debt. That alone breaks the model. Second, comparative advantage only holds when capital stays put. But in the real world — our world — capital moves. Factories relocate, labor follows, and production shifts across borders. That’s not a flaw in the theory. It’s a fatal contradiction.
America doesn’t need more academic theory. It needs factories. It needs jobs. It needs to win again.
Malkiel either doesn’t understand these limitations — or he does and hopes you don’t.
Ignoring the fine print
Comparative advantage, a theory made famous by David Ricardo in his 1817 work “On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation,” says countries should produce what they’re best at and trade for the rest. This specialization, Ricardo argued, makes everyone richer by boosting global efficiency.
Malkiel trots out the textbook example: If Britain and France each devote 100 hours to making cloth and wine, both benefit more by specializing — Britain in cloth, France in wine — and trading. Total production rises, and both countries gain.
That’s the theory. It’s clean, tidy, and wrong — at least in the modern world.
Ricardo himself acknowledged the theory only works when countries trade goods for goods. If one country, like the United States, trades away past and future production — assets and debt — in exchange for foreign-made goods, comparative advantage fails.
When trade isn’t backed by production, it doesn’t encourage specialization. It incentivizes offshoring. In Ricardo’s own words: “It would undoubtedly be advantageous to the capitalists of England that the wine and cloth should both be made in Portugal.”
In other words, once capital moves, the model collapses. Malkiel conveniently ignores that Ricardo flagged this problem over 200 years ago.
Ricardo also assumed that capitalists would stay loyal to their country. “Most men of property,” he wrote, “will be satisfied with a low rate of profits in their own country.” But what happens when they’re not? What happens when loyalty gives way to margin-chasing?
You get modern America.
Ricardo’s world is gone
When Ricardo wrote, moving capital across borders was almost impossible. Machinery couldn’t be exported. Tariffs hovered above 50%. Capital markets barely functioned. Transportation was slow and expensive. Endemic warfare prevented a large-scale commodity trade. Ricardo’s world had walls. Comparative advantage worked because it couldn’t be easily gamed.
But after his death, many of those barriers fell. By the mid-19th century, British capital was pouring into overseas markets. In 1815, Britain had £10 million invested abroad. A decade later, it topped £100 million. By 1914, Britain held more than a third of its national wealth overseas — while domestic investment cratered.
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That same trend now defines America’s trajectory. Since 1974, the United States has run a trade deficit every single year. The cumulative value: $25 trillion. We paid for it by selling assets and IOUs. As a result, more than 60,000 factories closed, and seven million well-paying manufacturing jobs vanished.
And what did we get in return? Cheaper toasters. Pricier patriotism.
Tariffs provide the path back
Malkiel says tariffs violate economic law. But tariffs helped build American prosperity in the first place. They protected domestic industry. They ensured investment stayed here, not in Shanghai or Shenzhen. They gave workers stable, high-paying jobs — and gave communities a chance to thrive.
Today, tariffs offer the best chance to reverse the offshoring spiral. They don’t reject trade. They demand fair terms. They recognize that production equals power — and that giving away your manufacturing base in the name of theoretical efficiency leads to real-world decline.
Free trade zealots preach like high priests of a failed faith. They chant comparative advantage like it’s economic scripture. But America doesn’t need more academic theory. It needs factories. It needs jobs. It needs to win again.
And tariffs — not another foolish lecture from the Financial Times — offer the clearest way back.
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‘A living example of what God can do’: Phil Robertson remembered
An outpouring of love and admiration has followed the passing of “Duck Dynasty” television star and devout Christian Phil Robertson at the age of 79.
Robertson’s daughter-in-law Korie Robertson on Sunday announced his passing in an Instagram post from the family, which reads in part, “We celebrate today that our father, husband, and grandfather, Phil Robertson, is now with the Lord.”
‘He was a bright light for the world to see.’
The “Duck Dynasty” reality series on the A&E network followed Robertson’s family’s life as duck hunters in Louisiana. He was later featured on “In the Woods with Phil” on CRTV. The fan-favorite also appeared on “Unashamed with the Robertson Family” on BlazeTV.
Jase Robertson on Sunday noted on X that “my dad has gone to be with the Lord today! He will be missed, but we know he is in good hands, and our family is good because God is very good! We will see him again!” Jase’s farewell message received 3 million views.
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Korie Robertson’s Instagram post also said the family will first hold a private service but would soon announce details about a public celebration of his life.
Robertson’s faith-focused leadership drew admiration from many, and several U.S. politicians posted touching tributes after his passing.
“Phil Robertson was a living example of what God can do in all of our lives if we follow Him,” said Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R). “He was a bright light for the world to see. Bryan and I are praying for the whole Robertson crew tonight.”
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) late Sunday night on X paid tribute to the “great Phil Robertson,” saying he “loved Jesus” and was “utterly fearless.”
“One of my fondest memories was duck hunting with Phil—he was the best shot I ever met,” Cruz added.
U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on X offered prayers to the Robertson family, while former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson on X described the “genuine sense of faith and fellowship” he experienced around Robertson. Carson called the feeling “something that’s all too rare these days.”
BlazeTV’s own Sara Gonzales on Sunday shared a heartfelt memory about the Vivian, Louisiana, native.
Gonzales said Robertson gave her and her husband “beautiful marriage advice” before he “read scripture, and then prayed over us.”
Conservative commentator Benny Johnson shared Robertson’s speech from a rally for President Donald Trump in 2020. Lasting just seven seconds, Robertson had a simple message: “I got it down to this. If you’re pro-God and pro-America and pro-good,and pro-duck huntin’, that’s all I want!”
Entrepreneur and Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk shared perhaps the most detailed message following Robertson’s passing. Kirk admired Robertson, calling him an “American icon” who grew up in an impoverished household without electricity or a toilet but nevertheless went on to become a “brilliant entrepreneur.”
Kirk added that Robertson married his high school sweetheart, and the two remained together for almost 60 years.
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Robertson’s wife, Marsha Kay Carroway Robertson — better known as “Miss Kay” — was a focal point in the “Duck Dynasty” page’s farewell tribute to Phil.
On top of referring to Robertson as a “hunting industry pioneer and the patriarch of the beloved Robertson family,” the “Duck Dynasty” franchise featured a video in which Robertson said to his wife, “You are my best friend, and I love you dearly, and I’m gonna be with you for the long haul, ’til they put me in the ground.”
The couple raised four sons and had 16 grandchildren.
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‘We can eat happiness, or we can eat stress and violence’: Regenerative farmer explains intersection of food, soil, and joy
If you’ve been hearing the term “regenerative farming” a lot lately, it’s because the method has soared in popularity in recent years, especially in the United States. From Big Food giants, including Walmart, Pepsi, and General Mills, to individuals seeking to produce their own food, the nation is steadily moving toward this sustainable system that addresses some of the biggest threats to both agriculture and people. By adopting this holistic approach, farmers can address soil degradation and biodiversity loss that harm their farms, while also reducing reliance on chemical fertilizers, animal hormones, and food additives that pose threats to people and animals.
On a recent episode of “Back to the People,” Nicole Shanahan interviewed author, farmer, and regenerative farming advocate Joel Salatin to get a better understanding of how this holistic system benefits everyone involved.
Salatin spent his early years on his parents’ farm in Venezuela. However, when their chickens, which were vastly healthier and more hygienic than the local farmers’ stock, began dominating the market, the community accused their family of “witchcraft and voodoo” and drove them out.
“So we fled the back door, and machine guns came in the front door,” he tells Nicole.
Their family came back to the United States and began Polyface Farms, a diversified, multispecies regenerative farm in Virginia, which Salatin still operates today.
Unfortunately, the persecution followed them home. Instead of superstitious locals, today Salatin faces threats from the “industrial agriculture system that views life from a mechanical standpoint.”
“I’ve been called a bioterrorist and a Typhoid Mary and a starvation advocate” because “we don’t vaccinate; we don’t medicate; we’re using compost instead of chemical fertilizers; we’re moving the animals around on the pasture instead of just leaving them in one field all the time; the chickens are outside where they can get fresh air and sunshine and exercise,” he explains.
He tells Nicole he’s embraced the moniker “the lunatic farmer.” If being a lunatic means you’re stewarding God’s creation well, the insult is actually a badge of honor.
“We are stewards of a niche of God’s creation that is unbelievably beautiful, complex, relationally oriented, and symbiotic,” he says. “One of the problems in mainline industrial agriculture today, I think, is a general kind of underlying, almost unspoken philosophy that nature’s against us and nature is a reluctant partner that I have to beat into submission and dominate.”
This “wrestling, contested kind of relationship” with nature, however, is unnecessary, and that’s what regenerative farming understands that Big Food and Big Ag don’t. When we try to control nature with chemicals, we’re causing problems not only in the environment but also in our own bodies.
“We are routinely ingesting things that are foreign to our microbiome,” says Salatin.
The billions of microbes in our stomachs and digestive tract, he explains, are essentially “first cousins” to the “biome in the soil, to the biata in the soil.”
“If you look at human skin and you look at soil and you do a cutaway side profile … they almost look identical,” he explains. “What we’re feeding our internal village of microbiomes needs to be something that they are familiar with, that they understand, and they don’t understand Coca-Cola and Velveeta cheese.”
But it’s not just soil and humans who benefit from regenerative farming. Livestock fairs remarkably better, too. Emphasis on rotational grazing that mimics natural herd movements and using natural alternatives to antibiotics, hormones, and chemical dewormers results in healthier, happier animals.
“We’ve learned over the many years, especially from our gourmet chefs, that all of our meats cook about 15% to 20% faster than regular conventional factory-farm stuff,” says Salatin.
The disparity is likely due to differences in adrenaline levels.
“Most of the livestock in the U.S. live in very stressful environments, where their whole life they’re drip, drip, drip, dripping adrenaline, which tightens everything up. Our animals are happy; they never secrete adrenaline,” Salatin explains.
“We can eat happiness, or we can eat stress and violence.”
To hear more about Salatin’s story and regenerative farming, watch the episode above.
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FBI arrests Colorado man accused of Trump assassination threats, US embassy firebombing attempt in Israel
A 28-year-old Colorado native is in custody after allegedly threatening to assassinate President Donald Trump and attempting to firebomb the branch office of the U.S. embassy in Tel Aviv, Israel.
FBI agents arrested Joseph Neumeyer, a dual U.S. and German citizen, at John F. Kennedy International Airport on Sunday after Israel returned him to the U.S.
‘Death to Trump. Death to America.’
“This despicable and violent behavior will not be tolerated at home or abroad, and the FBI, working with our partners, will bring him to face justice for his dangerous actions,” FBI Director Kash Patel said in a statement.
The criminal complaint filed in the Eastern District of New York indicated that Neumeyer made no secret online of his hatred for Trump and other members of his administration.
For instance, on March 22, Neumeyer allegedly wrote in three separate messages, “We are killing Trump and Musk now”; “I will hunt you down and kill you both. White House”; and “Death to Trump.”
Two days later, Neumeyer allegedly wrote on Facebook, “To The United States Department of Justice[:] The former President has several hours to resign or certain death.”
Photo by Tom Brenner For The Washington Post via Getty Images
In case there were any remaining doubts about the nature or target of his animus, the Colorado native allegedly wrote on March 31, “Death to Trump. Death to America.”
But the radical apparently was keen to do more than recycle extremist rhetoric online.
FBI Special Agent Byron Cody noted in the affidavit that Neumeyer traveled to Toronto, Canada, in February, then departed for Israel in late April. The following month, Neumeyer allegedly noted on Facebook that he planned to “burn down the embassy in Tel Aviv,” adding, “Death to America, death to Americans, and f**k the west.”
On at least one occasion, Neumeyer allegedly used the hashtag, “#martyrofisrael.”
According to the complaint, Neumeyer traveled to the embassy branch office on May 19 carrying a backpack containing three Molotov cocktails. As he approached the embassy office, he allegedly spat on a guard, then said, “F**k you” in English several times when confronted.
‘Let his arrest carry an unmistakable message.’
In the ensuing scuffle, the guard grabbed the backpack containing what Cody characterized as improvised incendiary devices; however, the suspect managed to flee the scene.
Police recovered three bottles; at least one had a cloth protruding from its neck. They apparently contained ethanol.
Law enforcement were able to track the suspect to a nearby hotel using surveillance video. When confronted, Neumeyer allegedly identified himself as the individual who spat at the guard and “stated, in sum and substance, that his backpack contained ‘Molotov cocktail bottles,'” said the complaint.
Neumeyer was subsequently arrested.
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The Department of Justice indicated that Neumeyer has been charged with attempting to destroy, by means of fire or explosive, the embassy branch office, and faces a maximum of 20 years in prison and a maximum fine of $250,000 if convicted.
Patel and Attorney General Pam Bondi also noted that Neumeyer is charged with making threats to the president.
“This defendant is charged with planning a devastating attack targeting our embassy in Israel, threatening death to Americans, and President Trump’s life,” said Bondi. “The Department will not tolerate such violence and will prosecute this defendant to the fullest extent of the law.”
FBI Assistant Director in Charge Jensen said in a statement, “Let his arrest carry an unmistakable message: The FBI and our partners will aggressively pursue those who attempt to harm U.S. citizens and interests abroad.”
Patel noted on X, “He will now face justice.”
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Lawmaker who visited El Salvador to spring MS-13 gang member attacks Ashli Babbitt as a ‘domestic terrorist’
A 28-year-old second-term Democrat congressman from Florida launched the latest Democrat attack on Ashli Babbitt May 19, calling the late 14-year Air Force veteran a “domestic terrorist” who “attempted to overthrow our government” at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
Maxwell Alejandro Frost, who represents Florida’s 10th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives, posted his statements on X. He was responding to an article in Rolling Stone on the alleged settlement of a $30 million wrongful-death lawsuit brought by Judicial Watch on behalf of Aaron Babbitt of San Diego and his late wife’s estate.
‘I didn’t get a settlement. I didn’t get a bonus.’
“Ashli Babbitt was a domestic terrorist who attempted to overthrow our government via a violent insurrection at our nation’s Capitol,” Frost wrote. “The administration agreeing to pay her family $5 million of taxpayer money is disgraceful.”
Frost’s description was reminiscent of a controversial FBI Domestic Terrorism Symbols Guide produced by the Biden administration, which claimed “militia violent extremists” consider Babbitt a “martyr.”
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Rep. Maxwell Alejandro Frost (D-Fla.) speaks at a rally to free Kilmar Abrego Garcia at Lafayette Park near the White House on May 1, 2025.Photo by Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images
The Rolling Stone article repeated factual errors from the original Washington Post piece that disclosed the alleged settlement amount at less than $5 million. That figure has not been confirmed, as the agreement is not yet final, attorneys said.
“According to the Post, about a third of the settlement will go to attorneys fees and compensation for the involved conservative groups, including Judicial Watch,” Rolling Stone wrote.
This error was made and widely repeated by corporate media, despite May 12 federal court testimony by Babbitt attorney Robert Sticht stating that Judicial Watch would not receive any fees in the still-unsigned “settlement in principle.”
“And just so the court knows for the record and all the press who may be on the telephone, Judicial Watch does not a get fee out of this settlement,” Sticht told U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes, who proceeded to scold him for speaking to the press listening on the dial-in audio line.
Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton re-emphasized the point May 19 on X: “Contrary to initial WPOST report, @JudicialWatch is not getting a third (or any portion) of any settlement. We are representing Ashli’s family pro bono!”
The Rolling Stone article repeated another error made by the Washington Post, claiming Babbitt was shot in the neck. According to the autopsy done by the D.C. Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, Babbitt was shot in the left anterior shoulder with a single bullet from Capitol Police Lt. Michael L. Byrd’s 0.40-caliber Glock 22 service pistol.
Judicial Watch said Frost “is well known for self-absorbed antics to gain media attention, even when it does not involve his constituents or the area he was elected to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives.”
Sought release of MS-13 member
Most recently, Frost traveled to El Salvador seeking the release of the deported illegal alien Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an alleged member of the violent Mara Salvatrucha “MS-13” gang whom U.S. law enforcement has tied to human trafficking. Garcia’s wife filed a restraining order against him for punching and scratching her and ripping off her shirt, according to Prince George’s County, Maryland, court records.
In his nascent political career, Frost worked on the failed 2016 presidential campaign of Hillary Rodham Clinton, then went to work for socialist Vermont U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I) and later worked for the American Civil Liberties Union. Frost was 25 when first elected to the House, representing parts of Orange County, Florida, around Orlando.
Photos by Aaron Babbitt, Jayden X, Judicial Watch, and Sam Montoya
As word emerged of a possible settlement in the wrongful-death lawsuit, the knives came out against Babbitt from the left.
Retiring Capitol Police Chief J. Thomas Manger circulated a statement May 2 on department letterhead stating he was “extremely disappointed” and “completely” disagrees with the U.S. Department of Justice decision to settle the civil suit. He described Babbitt as “a woman who attacked the U.S. Capitol.”
‘I will take as many of you out as I can!’
Disgraced former Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn stepped up the political rhetoric, opining on his 189,000-subscriber Substack that Babbitt chanted about hanging then-Vice President Mike Pence. He said she was “not a hero” but an “insurrectionist.”
There is no evidence that Babbitt had anything to do with chants about the vice president, according to video analysis of Babbitt’s path to the Capitol and up to the House entrance.
“I didn’t get a settlement. I didn’t get a bonus,” Dunn complained on Substack. “I didn’t even get a thank-you from many of the people who benefited from our sacrifice. I got threats. I got questioned. I got dragged through hearings and the court of public opinion. I’m still fighting to be heard and to have my full story respected.”
Dunn, a darling of the corporate press and its go-to source for all things about Jan. 6, never discusses the long list of lies and exaggerations he tells about his actions and behavior on Jan. 6.
Blaze News investigative reporter Steve Baker has chronicled Dunn’s losing battle with the truth in a series of videos, “A Day in the Life of Harry Dunn.”
Among the more damning disclosures in the videos is that Dunn and former Capitol Police Special Agent David Lazarus gave false testimony in the first Oath Keepers trial that ran from Sept. 27 to Nov. 29, 2022.
Both men described an alleged angry confrontation with members of the Oath Keepers that never took place. Security video showed that at the time of the alleged confrontation, Lazarus wasn’t even in the Capitol, and by the time he reached Dunn, the Oath Keepers had exited the building.
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A group of Oath Keepers encountered Dunn at 2:44 p.m. in the Small House Rotunda on the second floor of the Capitol. Dunn was engaged in a an almost frantic shouting match with protesters. In one exchange, Dunn said, “I will take as many of you out as I can before you get to me!” according to Oath Keeper Kenneth Harrelson. Protesters were heard on video calling Dunn a “bully with a badge” and asking him if he planned to “kill us all.”
Oath Keepers stood in front of Dunn with their backs to him, pushing angry protesters away, video showed. He falsely told them that police officers were being carted away on stretchers across Capitol grounds.
In his first interview with the FBI in May 2021, Dunn said he allowed the Oath Keepers to stand guard in front of him. But in August 2021, the FBI called him in again and he changed his story, now claiming the interaction was strictly negative and no one helped him in any way.
Given the conflicting stories, Dunn claimed under oath that his negative encounter with men dressed in battle fatigues, ostensibly the Oath Keepers, took place one floor below, in the Crypt. Baker’s video investigation showed, however, that no Oath Keepers were in the Crypt during the entire period.
Defense attorney Brad Geyer, who represented Oath Keeper Harrelson at the trial, said the false testimony warranted a “a reversal of the convictions.” However, U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta took no action after the alleged perjury was revealed.
The FBI Domestic Terrorism Symbols Guide, which called Ashli Babbitt a “martyr” for violent extremists, was widely condemned for describing the Betsy Ross flag and the “Don’t Tread on Me” Gadsden flag as terrorism symbols.FBI
Dunn never physically engaged with any rioters and lied about his whereabouts throughout the day, video showed. He apparently fabricated a story about a crowd of “20, 30, 40, as many as 50” protesters, led by a Hispanic woman wearing a “pink MAGA sweatshirt,” chanting the N-word at him in the Capitol.
While his fellow officers were battling to clear the Rotunda just after 3 p.m., Dunn stood off in a side hallway chatting with a female officer. His mask and uniform were not soaked with pepper spray as he claimed, and he didn’t engage in “hand-to-hand combat” with rioters, Baker’s investigation found.
Dunn also lied about lending lifesaving aid to protester Rosanne Boyland, helping to carry her lifeless body to an area outside the first-floor office of House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.). Dunn’s colleague, Capitol Police Sgt. Aquilino Gonell, also lied about Dunn’s role, claiming the 6’7″ private first class came down the steep stairs from the Crypt to the basement and helped carry Boyland.
Metropolitan Police Department bodycam proves, however, that Dunn never came down the stairs. When the cart carrying Boyland reached the top of the stairs, Dunn was standing behind other officers at least 15 feet away. He never approached the makeshift gurney carrying Boyland and followed rescuers from a distance.
His story about Boyland wearing a blue hoodie that he grabbed to get hold of and lift Boyland never happened. Her hoodie was lost before she was dragged into the Capitol. During extensive lifesaving efforts by Capitol Police Officer Connor Rhodes, U.S. Park Police medics, and MPD officers, Boyland was mostly topless as officers performed CPR and applied automated defibrillator shock pads.
Despite the devastating evidence of Dunn’s duplicity, the media continue to feature him, refusing to fact-check his claims and failing to produce video or other proof backing up Dunn’s stories about Jan. 6.
Facts ignored by the left
The two things the ongoing attacks on Babbitt have in common is that they are heavy on hyperbole and narrative, but devoid of facts and evidence.
Close examination of security video, bodycam video, and footage shot by journalists and other bystanders shows that Babbitt tried to prevent and stop rioting that broke out in the hallway outside the Speaker’s Lobby. She chastised three USCP officers guarding the doorway to “call f**king help” as they stood doing nothing as one wild agitator almost single-handedly created riot conditions.
Babbitt did not riot. She did not vandalize the building or harm anyone. Yet media have for more than four years assailed her as a “rioter” and “insurrectionist” who was part of a violent mob.
Babbitt, a former military policewoman, did the job the Capitol Police refused to do. She grabbed rioter Zachary Alam, spun him around, and punched him in the face, knocking off his glasses. That put an end to his spree of chaos, as Babbitt jumped up into the broken-out sidelight window and was immediately shot to death by USCP Lt. Michael L. Byrd.
Ashli Babbitt punches rioter Zachary Jordan Alam in the nose after he smashed out several windows in the entrance to the Speaker’s Lobby at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Babbitt was fatally shot seconds later.
Blaze News graphic from Sam Montoya photograph. Used with permission.
Alam has admitted it was his intent to climb into the window himself and that Babbitt’s actions saved his life at the cost of her own.
“Two individuals dislodged the glass panels in the lobby doors and the right door sidelight,” Judicial Watch wrote in a May 23 news release. “Lt. Byrd, the incident commander for the House that day, shot the unarmed Babbitt as she raised herself up into the opening of the right door sidelight.
“Byrd was not in uniform, did not identify himself as a police officer or otherwise make his presence known to Babbitt, nor did he give her any warnings or commands before shooting her dead,” Judicial Watch said.
Frost did not discuss Lt. Byrd’s significant disciplinary history that includes reckless handling of his department-issued sidearm, shooting into a fleeing vehicle while his neighbor was in the line of fire, berating a Montgomery County Police Department officer working security at a Maryland high school football game, and abandoning his post in the Speaker’s office for a cloakroom card game, then lying about it to internal affairs investigators, Blaze News learned.
“Frost fails to even mention Byrd’s unsettling history as a law enforcement officer, instead disgracing the memory of a deceased patriot who served her country,” Judicial Watch said. “Combined with the ardent defense of a wife-beating MS-13 gangbanger, the congressman has recently displayed appalling behavior unbecoming of an elected official.”
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‘So that others may live’: The true meaning of the holiday
My last “beer and hot dogs” Memorial Day was in May 2001. Twenty-four years later, I can barely get through the day.
For the American warfighter who has known the real cost of combat, Memorial Day isn’t limited to a single 24-hour tribute. It echoes every day of the year. The pain never takes a holiday.
It was never supposed to be about burgers and beer. It was always a memorial for the fallen.
It’s more than two decades of wearing bracelets engraved with the names of fallen brothers and sisters. It’s Veterans Day becoming a second Memorial Day as good memories get swallowed by grief.
It’s text threads turning into late-night interventions when a buddy admits he’s thinking about ending his life.
Memorial Day is the culmination of all that — but the meaning has been lost in a culture desperate to “move on” and pretend it never happened.
I don’t blame Americans who fall into that mindset. I used to be one of them. But that doesn’t mean it isn’t a problem.
Casualties of war
Life in America has become easy — too easy. Yes, some struggle more than others. There’s real hardship out there. But compared to the rest of the world, this country has it good. And that comfort has come at a cost: ritual, reflection, and remembrance have all but vanished.
I’ve come to appreciate the role of ritual through my own family. I was raised Protestant and married into a Catholic family. I’ve watched my wife’s family center their lives around ritual in a way that grounds them each Sunday and deepens the meaning of holidays like Christmas and Easter. It’s something I’ve grown to admire.
Ritual gives us a connection to meaning. And every year, in the days leading up to Memorial Day — usually without realizing it — I find myself revisiting a newspaper story headlined “Remembering a hero: A fallen Marine and son.”
You’ve probably seen the photo.
Christian Golczynski accepts the American flag.Photo by U.S. Army
A young boy, Christian Golczynski, accepts the American flag folded over his father’s coffin. The Marine colonel kneels. The boy’s lip quivers. He fights to stay strong for the dad who will never come home.
That photograph wrecks me every time. And it’s become my ritual.
It reminds me not only of those lost in combat but of the staggering sacrifice carried by their families. We all have a connection to this — whether we realize it or not.
Wars at home and abroad
I married my wife on May 19, 2001, just one week before Memorial Day. We rushed the wedding because I was set to deploy in June. We just celebrated our 24th anniversary.
At the time, I had no idea what war would demand of us. As we sailed out that summer with 1st Battalion, 1st Marines, I wasn’t thinking about sacrifice. But I got my first lesson in the weight of it just weeks later.
Two faces woke me up in my bunk — my captain and gunnery sergeant.
“Corporal Buttrill,” they said, “we regret to inform you that your wife just had a miscarriage.”
The war hadn’t begun yet, but my young family was already under fire.
That year nearly destroyed our marriage. Communication was rare. Pre-9/11 Navy life meant scratchy phone calls if you had a calling card and could endure 100 people eavesdropping while you waited your turn. Email was new and unreliable. My stepfather had to coach my wife through using the computer to send me a message.
Then, the planes hit the towers.
I was in Australia at the time, enjoying liberty after joint exercises with the Australian marines. Shore patrol suddenly burst into the bars, rounding up every U.S. Marine and sailor.
Back on deck, our commander laid it out:
“Men … the day of infamy for our fathers and grandfathers was December 7, 1941. Today, September 11, 2001, will be known as our day of infamy.”
We were going to war.
Most of us had enlisted in peacetime. I just wanted to pay off college loans and see the world before settling down. I wasn’t expecting war. But to war we went. Our expeditionary unit became the first conventional ground unit into Afghanistan.
I served with the finest men and women I’ve ever known.
But the toll of that service was immense. Some of it we expected. Much of it we didn’t. Families broke apart. Young marriages crumbled under the pressure. The casualties of war don’t stop at the battlefield.
Find your ritual
My marriage survived. Barely. After flying out of Afghanistan, I sprinted to a phone bank at an Army base in Doha. I called my wife. I didn’t walk back out for three hours. That call cost me $750. But it saved my family. Many weren’t so lucky.
I share this because the sacrifice doesn’t end with the fallen. War claims minds, memories, relationships. It breaks people in ways no headline could ever capture.
When I think about Memorial Day, I reflect on my own experience in the War on Terror. But I also think about the American giants who came before us — those who stormed Normandy, held the line in Korea, braved the jungles of Vietnam. Many never returned. Their families were left behind to rebuild shattered lives.
Some military units carry a motto: So That Others May Live.
Think about that.
This Memorial Day, we remember those who didn’t just live by those words — they proved them.
It was never supposed to be about burgers and beer. It was always a memorial for the fallen.
As I write this, I’m looking at that photo of Christian Golczynski. I see his trembling lip, his clenched jaw, and the weight on his shoulders. And I remember. I remember the friends who didn’t come home. I remember the cost that families still bear.
That’s my ritual. On this Memorial Day, find yours.
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Gen Z addicted to skipping work — 34% have accepted a job offer but never showed up
Gen Z is seriously lacking in career ambition, according to a 2025 study related to job applications and employment.
The study compared the employment choices of different generations and found some disturbing trends among those born between 1997 and 2012, typically referred to as Generation Z.
‘Is it any wonder that ambition is falling? Young people are disengaged and feeling abandoned.’
The job habits, career aspirations, and willingness to work remotely were analyzed for 1,000 workers in Britain, and analysts found that across the board, 53% of respondents would choose to work remotely even if it meant they had no chance of being promoted.
Another 51% said they would take a pay cut if they were allowed to work from home as much as they wanted.
Shockingly, if forced to work full-time at their job site, 66% said they would quit.
The survey found that Gen Z in particular has a chronic issue with purposely avoiding work.
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Over one-third of Gen Z respondents said that they have participated in the trend known as “career catfishing.”
This entails accepting a job offer from an employer, but then not showing up to work on the first day, or at all. The 34% of Gen Z who said they have done this was almost double the overall average of workers who had participated in the trend, which stood at 18%.
The survey by CV Genius showed that in comparison to other generations, 80% of Gen Z said they had been compelled by increasing cost-of-living expenses to change jobs or relocate. For Millennials, that number was 76%, but only 64% for Gen X and just 38% for Baby Boomers.
Gen Z workers were also 35% more likely to be actively searching for better-paying jobs than Boomers were. Gen Z was three times more likely than Boomers to be seeking a job in a different city, as well.
A little more than a quarter (26%) of Gen Z do want to start their own businesses, however, which topped all other age groups.
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English reporter Lewis Brackpool told Blaze News these trends are indicative of a greater problem with his country and that the country has been “hollowed out” through a steady decline overseen by the ruling class.
“Is it any wonder that ambition is falling? Young people are disengaged and feeling abandoned, and the indigenous population is being priced out, relocating internally, or emigrating entirely.”
Brackpool pointed to mass migration as another issue that prioritizes the needs of corporations and investment firms over those of “local businesses or homegrown entrepreneurs.”
“Stealth taxation, bureaucratic overreach, and unelected climate targets have been an economic and cultural disaster.”
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BOMBSHELL: Senator PROVES Biden administration’s loyalty to pharma
Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson (R) dropped a bombshell report about the Biden administration’s knowledge of the COVID-19 vaccine side effects — and what officials didn’t do to fix the problem.
“After facing four years of the Biden administration’s efforts to undermine the public’s access to information, my oversight work, I immediately issued a subpoena to HHS when I became chairman of this committee,” Johnson said.
“The subpoena records I’m releasing today, which are discussed in the interim report, do not contain FOIA redactions and will finally provide the public a more complete understanding of the Biden administration’s awareness of the risks of myocarditis following COVID-19 injection,” he continued.
According to his records, Israeli health officials notified the CDC on February 28, 2021, of “large reports of myocarditis particularly in young people following the administration of the Pfizer vaccine.”
Then, on April 12, 2021, a DOD consultant raised concerns to the CDC and FDA officials about their “ability to monitor and track cardiac-related adverse events.” Around the same time, Johnson reported that “CDC officials discussed safety signals for myocarditis” with mRNA vaccines based on DOD and Israeli data.
The response from the government was to do nothing.
“By the end of April 2021, just four months into COVID injection, Vaers was already reporting 2,926 deaths worldwide within 30 days of injection, with 46% of those deaths occurring on day zero, one, or two following injection,” Johnson explained.
Johnson went on to explain that he was being censored when he attempted to talk about it, and when he finally had a meeting with the head of the NIH, Dr. Francis Collins, he asked about the deaths.
Collins reportedly admitted that six deaths were caused by the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, but then told Johnson of the other few thousand, “Senator, people die.”
BlazeTV host Steve Deace is horrified.
“If you were given complete choice and autonomy in this transaction,” Deace says, “you could just look at it that way and say, ‘Well, hey, I’m in a high-risk group for COVID, 92% chance, and within that, I won’t have any adverse event.’ Then you can look at the individual strata and say, ‘Well, how many people died, how many people were hospitalized, how many people had a debilitating condition that has continued on?’”
“But were we treated that way? Were we treated as individuals so we can make such decisions and calculations?” Deace asks, answering, “We were not treated that way. We were treated like numbers.”
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The helicopter went down in Gia Dinh. The grief never left.
Although my own family never lost a loved one in war, my childhood best friend, “Buddy,” did. His uncle Jack was killed in Vietnam in 1967. More specifically, Buddy’s mother — my “emergency backup mom” growing up — lost her kid brother in that war. She remains part of my life to this day.
Buddy was too young at the time to remember Jack or the news of his death. But Jack’s picture hung on the wall of their house, and his memory quietly lingered. The family held him in reverence.
Grandfather didn’t just want to remember Jack — he needed to believe his son’s sacrifice mattered.
As the 1970s turned into the 1980s, Jack began to feel like a figure from a distant past — rarely discussed except on Memorial Day and increasingly removed from the rhythm of everyday life.
Then, in the early 1990s, our two families planned a multigenerational beach vacation on the Gulf Coast. Buddy and I were now young adults. His grandparents — Jack’s parents — joined us from out of state.
In that rented beach house, I finally understood the depth of their loss.
Twenty-five years after losing his only son, Buddy’s grandfather still talked about Jack often. He told stories about Jack’s strength of character, his patriotism, and how much he would have loved to be with us. He said Jack would have been a great father. He wished Buddy had cousins — the kids Jack never lived to father — playing with us on the beach.
One morning, as Buddy, my dad, and I packed up for a fishing trip, Grandfather told us that Jack had loved to fish. He would have joined us, if only he could have.
Each night at supper, Grandfather bowed his head and thanked God for the years they had with Jack. He prayed that Jack would remain in God’s care until the family could one day be reunited in heaven.
He also talked about the war. About the helicopter shot down in Gia Dinh Province. About the impossible task of finding meaning in that loss. He didn’t just want to remember Jack — he needed to believe his son’s sacrifice mattered.
Buddy’s grandmother cried often during that trip. The grief never left her, not even after 25 years. It stayed with her until the day she died. I pray she and her husband are now reunited with Jack. Buddy’s mother still mourns the brother she lost 58 years ago.
We are blessed to live in a country where men like Jack give everything they have — willingly — for a cause greater than themselves. May God comfort those they left behind. And may He give us the wisdom and courage to build a world where fewer families must endure such loss.
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Phil Robertson passes away at 79
“Duck Dynasty” star Phil Robertson has passed away at the age of 79.
Robertson’s daughter-in-law Korie Robertson on Sunday announced his passing in an Instagram post.
‘Thank you for the love and prayers of so many whose lives have been impacted by his life saved by grace, his bold faith, and by his desire to tell everyone who would listen the Good News of Jesus.’
Robertson was a devout Christian and a loving husband, father, and grandfather. “Duck Dynasty” was a hit A&E reality television series that chronicled Robertson’s family.
Korie Robertson’s post from the family read:
We celebrate today that our father, husband, and grandfather, Phil Robertson, is now with the Lord. He reminded us often of the words of Paul, “you do not grieve like those who have no hope. For we believe that Jesus died and rose again, and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in him.”
Thank you for the love and prayers of so many whose lives have been impacted by his life saved by grace, his bold faith, and by his desire to tell everyone who would listen the Good News of Jesus. We are grateful for his life on earth and will continue the legacy of love for God and love for others until we see him again.
In addition to “Duck Dynasty,” Phil Robertson was part of the Blaze Media family. His show “In the Woods with Phil” aired on CRTV and then Blaze Media. In addition he appeared on “Unashamed with the Robertson Family” on BlazeTV.
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How Joe Rogan dismantled the Big Bang with one sentence — and made atheists squirm
Many people sneer at Christ’s resurrection yet swallow the Big Bang whole. This odd fact is not lost on Joe Rogan.
On a recent episode of his podcast, the modern-day Renaissance man
delivered one of those offhand remarks that stick.
There’s a hunger again for something real and permanent, something that won’t update to Version 2.0 in six months.
“People will be incredulous about the resurrection of Jesus Christ,” he said, “yet they’re convinced that the entire universe was smaller than the head of a pin, and for no reason that anybody’s adequately explained to me … instantaneously became everything?”
It wasn’t a sermon or even a statement of belief. It was, however, a reminder of how absurd “rational” ideas can sound when you say them out loud.
But these are the times we live in, where absurdity reigns supreme. What used to be “God said, ‘Let there be light’” is now “A singularity inflated with no cause.” Same mystery. Same unprovable leap. But only one gets you mocked at dinner parties. Physics hasn’t given us a grand unifying theory. It hasn’t solved consciousness. It hasn’t even explained gravity properly. String theory, dark matter, and multiverses aren’t answers. They’re sci-fi with equations. Quantum mechanics can predict probabilities but not causes. Cosmology plays with infinities it can’t test.
Somehow,
we’re expected to accept all this on trust — you know, because it’s peer-reviewed.
The James Webb Telescope can show us light from 13 billion years ago, but not what happens when a human dies. It can zoom in on galaxies, but not on meaning. It dazzles, but it
doesn’t deliver. Not really.
And evolutionary biology? Bret Weinstein tries to use it to explain awe, sacredness, and communion.
On Tucker Carlson’s show,
Weinstein tried to use natural selection to make sense of the supernatural. But it didn’t work. He squirmed, stalled, and face-planted. Because, after all, the soul isn’t an adaptation, and meaning isn’t a side effect. Moreover, he repeatedly leaned on the law of parsimony — the idea that the simplest explanation is usually right — to explain why humans seek God and kneel before things we can’t quantify.
Weinstein, who seems like a nice enough fellow, seems to forget that wonder
isn’t something you pin down with logic — it’s something that pins
you.
Try using Darwin to explain why a man drives six hours just to sit in silence next to his brother, who’s falling apart; or why a man stays with his wife after the third miscarriage; or why a parent gives up a kidney to a child who may not survive the
year. You can’t, because you can’t chart love, loyalty, or devotion on a fitness curve. You can’t explain self-sacrifice in terms of gene preservation and expect to be taken seriously by anyone who’s actually suffered.
When belief is banished, substitutes always appear: simulation theory, the multiverse, and emerging properties.
“We might be living in a video game” isn’t edgy; it’s just spirituality with training wheels.
I’ll go one step farther: Atheism doesn’t exist.
The reason why is obvious: Everyone worships something.
There’s no such thing as not believing. There are just new liturgies, new gods, and new robes. For some, it’s “The Science” or transgenderism and the supposed fluidity of biology. For others, it’s a black hole spinning at the galaxy’s center, speaking a language no human will ever understand.
But don’t call it faith — because faith is for peasants. This is “science.” This is “truth.” This is “reality.”
That’s the fashion now, or at least, it was — until very recently.
Something is shifting. Young people across America — yes, even in blue cities — are
starting to look past the algorithms and the nihilism. They’ve seen what secular modernity has to offer: sex with no intimacy, food with no nutrition, careers with no meaning, bodies with no spirit. The dopamine hits don’t land like they used to. The apps offer nothing of substance. The rituals of progress — DEI seminars, TikTok therapy, oat milk lattes — can’t fill the aching void.
So they’re turning back. Not to politics or to self-help, but to Christ. It’s happening — quietly and organically. Bible study groups are forming in places that once would have mocked them. Churches are filling — some of them ancient and beautiful, others run-down and barely lit.
There’s a hunger again for something real and permanent, something that won’t update to Version 2.0 in six months.
You see it with the 20-somethings, many of whom are porn-poisoned, fatherless, medicated, and highly anxious. Now, they’re clutching Bibles like they are lifesavers. And for many, they are. They’ve tried everything else. Everything Silicon Valley sold them. Everything academia promised. Everything the New York Times said would liberate them.
Science gave them information, but not wisdom. Progress gave them speed, but not direction. Screens gave them access, but not intimacy. The brain was fed. The heart, however, was starved.
Now, after all that progress, they’re lonelier than ever — with more therapists than priests, more diagnoses than confessions, more likes than love. But now they’re coming home because what people want isn’t more clever “laws” or overly complex jargon. They want connection and transcendence.
No particle accelerator will ever deliver that.
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DC Jewish museum shooter’s marxist anti-American past EXPOSED
On May 21, two Israeli Embassy diplomats, Yaron Lischinsky, 30, and Sarah Milgrim, 26, a soon-to-be-engaged couple, were fatally shot outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., as they were leaving a Young Diplomats Reception hosted by the American Jewish Committee, where they were ironically discussing how to send more aid to Gaza.
The suspect, 31-year-old Chicago native Elias Rodriguez, allegedly paced outside the museum, approached a group of four, and opened fire with a handgun, killing both Lischinsky and Milgrim. According to reports, he shouted, “Free, free Palestine” and “I did it for Gaza.”
Rodriguez has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder, murder of foreign officials, causing death with a firearm, and discharging a firearm during a crime of violence. The FBI and D.C. police are investigating the shooting as a hate crime and act of terrorism.
“Let me just paint the scene for you,” says Glenn Beck. “He comes out, and he has an H&K 9mm pistol. He shoots it 21 times at these two — 21 times! That’s rage. He then reloads as Milgrim, the girl, is trying to crawl away. … He reloads and shoots her more.”
Should we be shocked by this heinous act of terrorism?
As more and more disturbing information about Rodriguez’s background comes to light, the answer to that question is no — this isn’t shocking at all.
Rodriguez “has ties to a radical left-wing group — Party for Socialism and Liberation” — an American communist political party that identifies as Marxist-Leninist and advocates for a socialist revolution to overthrow capitalism.
Further, “law enforcement sources have told the New York Post that he was a regular fixture at protests for causes, including the 2014 police shooting of teen Laquan McDonald, Black Lives Matter, and more. He has recently been at all the rallies opposing the war in Gaza,” says Glenn.
Rodriguez’s GoFundMe page, which he started in 2017, aimed to raise money so he could attend “the People’s Congress of Resistance, which was a leftist gathering in Washington D.C. that rallied under the slogan ‘stand against imperialism, down with the warfare state.”’
“In other words, destroy America,” translates Glenn.
The page also featured a testimonial about how, at age 11, his father’s Iraq War deployment and return with war souvenirs, including an Iraqi flag patch and a magazine pouch, sparked his opposition to U.S. military actions, shaping his radical worldview.
When the FBI stormed Rodriguez’s house, they found a variety of signs, including one that read “Justice for Wadea,” which refers to Wadea Al-Fayoume, a 6-year-old Palestinian-American boy killed in a 2023 hate crime in Illinois, as well as a Hello Kitty sign.
Rodriguez had an active online presence, too. He posted messages praising Luigi Mangione, the alleged murderer of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, and phrases like “Death to America” and “Death to Israel.” After Trump’s election win, he posted, “Don’t blame me, I voted for Hamas.” In December of 2024, he posted, “Violence does not have to happen but if it does then it should.”
“Stupidity doesn’t have to happen, but when it does, it should,” mocks Glenn.
To hear more about Rodriguez’s shady background, watch the episode above.
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It’s way past time to ban pit bulls
Let’s start with the obvious: I love dogs. I’ve had them as pets for my entire life, and they really do become part of your family. I tear up thinking about Hemingway, a tenacious Westie and my best friend, and Biscuit, a magnificent Great Pyrenees, both of whom have passed away. Dogs are beautiful. Dogs are loyal. Dogs make humans better.
But pit bulls? Enough already. We need to stop pretending this isn’t a problem. This week we saw yet another horrific attack in which a pit bull sent a family of four to the hospital in
Minneapolis.
In 2023 alone, pit bulls were responsible for 78% of all fatal dog attacks.
Pit bulls — or, if you want to split hairs like a lawyer in a cheap suit, “pit bull-type dogs,” including the American Pit Bull Terrier, American Staffordshire Terrier, and Staffordshire Bull Terrier — account for a terrifying share of serious dog attacks in this country. And I’m not talking about a nip at the mailman’s calf or a Chihuahua snapping at a child pulling its tail. I’m talking about hospital visits. Reconstructive surgery. Coffins.
Here’s the reality: Between 2005 and 2020, pit bulls were responsible for 67% of all dog bite-related deaths in the United States, according to
DogsBite.org. That’s 380 deaths. Let that sink in. That’s more than two-thirds of fatal attacks from a breed that makes up an estimated 6% of the total U.S. dog population.
In 2023 alone, pit bulls were responsible for
78% of all fatal dog attacks. It’s a pattern, not a coincidence.
The apologists come next: “It’s the owner, not the breed.” That’s the refrain — the trite excuse of the well-meaning urbanite who’s never seen a mauled kid. Sure, some pit bulls are sweet, some lions are tame, and some meth dealers go to church. But as humans, we don’t regulate for the exceptions. We regulate the pattern — and the pattern here is undeniable.
These dogs were bred for violence — quite literally. Bull-baiting, bear-baiting, dogfighting. These were blood-sport animals, selected for jaw strength, aggression, and a drive that doesn’t shut off. They’re not just strong — they’re biologically wired to hold and shake. A Lab bites and lets go. A pit bull clamps and doesn’t stop until a shotgun is used. Ask any vet — the damage a pit does isn’t just physical. It’s anatomical carnage.
According to the
American Veterinary Medical Association, while “breed is not a reliable predictor of dangerous behavior,” studies do show that pit bull-type dogs are disproportionately involved in severe and fatal attacks. The Centers for Disease Control stopped publishing breed-specific fatality data in 1998, likely because the backlash wasn’t worth it. Independent data continues to accumulate, however, and it doesn’t look good.
So who’s keeping these dogs?
You might assume it would be ex-cons with illegal kennels and dogfighting rings. But these days, it’s yoga moms and guys who brew their own kombucha. Somehow, the pit bull has undergone a rebrand — from backyard killer to misunderstood underdog. Blame social media. Blame the rescue industrial complex. Blame that viral post from your friend with the “pibble” wearing a Halloween costume.
RELATED: Ban the breed? Allie Beth Stuckey says pit bulls are too dangerous to be pets
Animal shelters are overrun with the breed, and well-meaning yuppies are “rescuing” them. It’s like adopting a kid, only to find out he’s actually a 22-year-old MS-13 member.
In 2022, over
5,300 U.S. Postal Service employees were bitten by dogs, with pit bulls topping the list of offending breeds. Pediatric hospitals report that children under 9 compose a growing share of dog attack victims, often bitten in the head or neck. The emotional trauma can last a lifetime. But hey — your Instagram reel of “Zeus” licking peanut butter off a spoon got 30,000 likes, so I guess it’s all worth it.
We ban all kinds of things in America. Lawn darts. Raw milk. Kinder Eggs. But somehow, we won’t touch pit bulls. The reasons are a sentimental attachment to these canine thugs and a culture that equates feelings with truth. And, of course, a fear of being called prejudiced — against a dog breed, no less.
But public policy shouldn’t run on sentiment. It should run on data. On risk. On whether a 5-year-old can walk down a sidewalk without losing half her face.
I’m not calling for a dog holocaust. But if you’re going to bring a living weapon into a crowded urban neighborhood, maybe we should pause. Maybe we need strict breed-specific legislation, as is common in the U.K., France, Denmark, and even parts of Canada. Maybe some things don’t belong in apartments or parks full of toddlers.
It’s not heartless to say that. It’s compassionate. It’s sane.
Dogs are incredible. They’ve been our partners for thousands of years. In fact, anthropological theory posits that domesticating wolves saved humans from
extinction during the Ice Age. But not all partnerships are created equal. Some breeds were forged for companionship. Others were forged for war. Pretending they’re the same because it makes us feel good is how people, especially children, get mauled or, God forbid, killed.
You want a dog? Great. Get a mutt. Get a spaniel. Get a Greyhound — they’re fast, they’re sweet, they sleep 18 hours a day. Just don’t gaslight the rest of us into pretending your 70-pound muscle missile with a vice-grip jaw is “just misunderstood.”
Some things don’t belong in polite society. And pit bulls are one of them.
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