"But recently, during the LA riots, the left went completely crazy as the entire Democrat Party and California state officials sided with violent protesters and illegal aliens."
A little something different and fun for the weekend, some good humor from writer Dave Barry – Ed
Socialism’s Return: A Familiar Mistake in a New Suit
There was a time — not so long ago — when socialism’s failures were considered a matter of historical record. From the ashes of the Soviet Union to the unraveling of Venezuela, central planning and collectivist economics had earned their place in the “ideas we’ve tried and abandoned” file. And yet, here we are — watching it reemerge on American soil, dressed not in drab uniforms but in hashtags, slogans, and campaign platforms.
This isn’t a fringe movement. It’s a deliberate reframing of socialism as compassion rather than control. Today’s version promises free college, free healthcare, and guaranteed income — with little mention of cost, accountability, or consequences. These appeals are emotionally potent but economically hollow.
Worse still, the new socialism conflates equality of opportunity with equality of outcome — a shift that undermines the very ethos of American liberty. What begins as wealth redistribution often ends in thought regulation. In the name of equity, individual achievement becomes suspect, and dependence institutionalized.
The cultural institutions meant to defend liberty — the press, the university, civic education — too often amplify these ideas without critique. The result is a generation unfamiliar with the consequences of centralized power.
The answer is not reactionary outrage, but clarity: a renewed commitment to constitutional principles, personal responsibility, and historical truth. Liberty does not sustain itself. It must be taught, understood, and defended — every generation.
-Ed
In the grand theater of 21st-century power politics, forget tanks and tariffs for a moment — the real war is being fought in classrooms and laboratories.
China now churns out over 4.7 million STEM graduates each year, a feat of technocratic central planning that would make even the ghost of Khrushchev blink. The U.S.? A respectable but comparatively quaint 800,000 — many of whom are headed not to particle accelerators, but to startups building the next viral sandwich app.
While America freestyles its way through an education system held together by duct tape and district boards, China’s is a precision-guided pipeline, calibrated to feed engineers directly into AI labs, chip foundries, and space programs. It’s not subtle — but it’s working.
And here’s the kicker: technical literacy among China’s industrial workforce stands near 60%, versus an estimated 35% in the U.S., where the idea of vocational training is often treated as a kind of educational exile.
Of course, America still leads in frontier innovation, much of it powered by imported brains. But when the visa dries up and the curriculum leans more on “critical feelings” than critical thinking, one starts to wonder how long the edge can hold.
Because make no mistake: the next arms race won’t be fought with missiles — it’ll be coded, soldered, and spun up on silicon.
-Rick Wagner
"The usual yardsticks don’t apply. President Trump isn’t trying to run Washington better than other politicians, he’s setting out to remake it."
"The organizing principles that have defined the Democratic Party since the 1930s are now exhausted and near the grave."
In case you missed it. It really is worth watching-Ed
Tom Hanks, Margaret Brennan, and the European Ministers—Reveal It All-Victor Davis Hanson
"Three recent but completely unrelated events illustrate the deranged hatred of Donald Trump and his supporters continuing now even into a second decade. And yet the venom only further marginalizes the left."
Yes, there is a Mexican state-cartel alliance
"The shock for the informed is not that Trump declared the Mexican state a narco-regime, but that it didn’t happen years ago"
President Trump’s ‘First Hundred Hours’
"His rapid actions are meant to change the nation’s direction and underscore that change"
Woke DEI + Green Nihilism = Dresden in California-Victor Davis Hanson
"Add it all up, and the woke socialist state has been eagerly deindustrializing, decivilizing, and retribalizing its way into what is now a veritable peacetime Dresden on the Pacific."
"They have established precedents, if ever again followed, will destroy the republic as we have known it."
California Announces Mass Deportation Of U.S. Citizens
Babylon Bee Reports—SACRAMENTO, CA — In an effort to crack down on the invasive influence of American culture, the state of California announced that come January, it will commence mass deportation of U.S.
The Paradox of Administrative Growth in Declining Sectors
When it comes to the curious phenomenon of administrative growth amid the ruins of shrinking sectors, It is a tale as old as bureaucratic time: shrinking relevance matched not by austerity but by a fevered proliferation of committees, compliance officers, and PowerPoint presentations.
Northcote Parkinson, an astute observer of the bureaucratic condition, famously remarked that "work expands to fill the time available for its completion." In a declining sector, the administrators do not retreat, pruning their numbers to match reduced demand. Instead, they conjure new initiatives, oversight panels, and layers of protocol to justify their continued relevance.
As the productive engine sputters, administrators reallocate dwindling resources into tasks that, while busy-sounding, are functionally inert: compliance tracking, endless restructuring, or auditing the auditors.
The real work—the building of things or the teaching of students, is overloaded by a disproportionate cost of the administrative middle managers monitoring it all.
As operational budgets dry up, resources are redirected to fortify the administrative body itself. These entities will lobby for their importance, rebrand their missions, or create entirely new mandates to justify their continued existence. Bureaucratic structures are as permanent as ancient ruins, but far less picturesque.
As a sector declines, administrators often claim a disproportionate share of remaining resources, often dressed in the language of oversight or strategic necessity. The result is an absurd ratio of administrators to actual producers
This is an inefficiency spiral, a kind of slow-motion collapse of a sector’s core mission. An empire-building instinct baked into the DNA of administrative entities. And it ends, not with a bang but with an overstaffed compliance review.
-The Political Viking
“They need to educate themselves,” Homan said of these recalcitrant officials. “They need to review this: Title 8 U.S.C. § 1324 — read about that and don’t cross that line. Because it is a felony to harbor or conceal an illegal alien from ICE. Read the statute. Don’t cross that line.”
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