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https://amgreatness.com/2025/10/25/21st-century-america-raging-against-the-wrong-machine/

One of the most popular and unintentionally hilarious bands in rock’s post-grunge, nu-metal era (the mid-to-late 1990s) was Rage Against the Machine, a Los Angeles-based quartet that was formed in 1991 and became globally famous in 1995 and 1996. The band—fronted by lead singer Zack de la Rocha and renowned guitarist Tom Morello—was popular because it was loud, funky, and nonconformist. It was unintentionally hilarious because it was “nonconformist” in the most conformist ways possible while rebelling against a peaceful and prosperous nation, largely lacking in major conflicts.

The decade of the 1990s, you may recall, was something of a golden era in American history. After a very mild recession in 1992, the economy grew by an average of better than 4% per year over the remainder of the decade. Unemployment fell over the course of those years from 8% to 4%. The stock market boomed, and nearly half of all Americans enjoyed the benefits of that boom, with the expansion of 401(k) plans pushing market participation to record highs. Productivity accelerated rapidly as computers became ubiquitous and the internet blossomed.

Meanwhile, the entire world was at peace. The Soviet Union and its Evil Empire had fallen. The United States stood alone as the world’s hyperpower. Global conflict was so meager that the Clinton administration had to invent conflicts in which to participate, even as the president himself bemoaned the fact that history had denied him the opportunity to be a “great” leader. By the end of the decade, the combination of economic growth and cuts in defense spending enabled the federal government to balance its budget for the first time in three decades.

All seemed right with the world.

But not to Zack de la Rocha and Tom Morello. De la Rocha, the son of a celebrated artist/muralist and a PhD in anthropology, was raised in the heart of beautiful and sunny Orange County, California, at the historic height of the Golden State’s own golden era. Morello, in turn, grew up in leafy Libertyville, Illinois, the son of a schoolteacher and the (admittedly, largely absent) Kenyan ambassador to the United Nations. Morello attended and graduated from Harvard before moving to Los Angeles, where he worked, for a time, as an exotic dancer.

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/22000/iryna-zarutska-murder

The attack, lightning-fast and captured on surveillance video, shocked many, not merely because it was yet another terrible homicide, but because it has forced Americans to confront the failure of institutions meant to protect them — the innocent — as well as the cultural paralysis that prevents ordinary people from intervening, and the ideological narratives that try to erase both motive and responsibility.

Multiple reports relate that as he exited the train after the murder, he said, “I got that white girl.” These words, if confirmed by law enforcement, speak to a motive. At a minimum, they reflect the lens through which many now see such events — not only as homicidal acts by dangerously unstable people, but as anti-white racist attacks that our culture will bend over backwards not to name.

[A] responsible system would never have put him back among commuters in the first place.

Zarutska’s murder — and the murders of Laken Riley, Jocelyn Nungaray, Rachel Morin, Kayla Hamilton, and, most recently, Logan Federico, among others — were preventable. They happened because a constellation of decisions — judicial, bureaucratic, cultural — favored the ideology of leniency and the comfort of excuses over the duty to protect the innocent.

“Bang! Dead. Gone. Why? Because Alexander Devante Dickey — who was arrested 39 Goddamn times, 25 felonies — was on the street,” Stephen Federico, Logan Federico’s father, testified before the US House Judiciary Committee.

These youngsters are ignored by the political class to a degree that is almost criminal itself – after all youngsters do not vote. There never seem to be sufficient funds seriously to address problems of mental health. What our leaders, sadly, appear to be building are conveyor belts from probation to homicide.

It is not cruel to confine a dangerous, mentally ill man to a secure hospital. It is cruel to return him to a city train with a knife in his pocket and a world of demons in his head.

One can care about mental health while also insisting that dangerous people be confined. One can care about civil liberties while also admitting that leniency can kill.

In elite discourse, naming or even speaking of anti-white hatred is now the ultimate taboo. It violates the moral arithmetic of a worldview that assigns all blame in a single direction.

[T]he public are entitled to request that, when in doubt regarding to whom to afford compassion — the suspect or the public — in an ideal world it would be both, but in the real world, there is a case to be made for protecting the public.

If compassion for the accused is not balanced by protection for the public, it is complicity.

This double standard is not, regrettably, a figment of partisan imagination. It is a feature of a media ecosystem in which narrative precedes fact. The victims who count are those who confirm the story that powerful institutions already want to tell. Everyone else is an inconvenience. In the case of Zarutska, the media’s hedging confirmed a suspicion deeply rooted in the American mind: that in the newsroom’s moral calculus, and in a reverse-racism, some lives are still more equal than others.

https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/10/23/hakeem-jeffries-vows-to-criminalize-white-house-ballroom-donors-n4945181

Trump Derangement Syndrome is going around again, and this week, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries showed he’s caught a bad case. On MSNBC, Jeffries went on a tirade threatening legal investigations — not against criminals, not against foreign agents, but against private Americans who dared to donate to President Trump’s White House ballroom project, accusing them — without evidence — of corruption and warning of investigations to come.

“More likely this is part of what Donald Trump has been doing since day one of his presidency,” Jeffries claimed, “running the largest pay-to-play scheme in the history of the country and probably soliciting, uh, donations from people who’ve got business, uh, before the United States government.”

Jeffries went on to promise that the matter “will” be investigated, insisting, “All of this will have to be uncovered. It will. And these people are gonna be held accountable, uh, no matter how long it takes.”

He closed with a thinly veiled threat aimed at Trump’s supporters and donors: “That’s gonna be the reality of the situation, and that’s our warning to all of these people participating, uh, in this scheming to manipulate taxpayer dollars and, of course, to destroy the people’s house. The White House, uh, belongs to the American people. It doesn’t belong to Donald Trump.”

https://issuesinsights.com/2025/10/24/dems-hysterical-fits-over-trumps-white-house-ballroom-remodel-shows-theres-no-bottom-to-tds/

Of all the things that Democrats have tried to tar President Donald Trump with, none is as petty, stupid and inconsequential as the current flap over remodeling the East Wing of the White House. But since Dems shut down the government, they have nothing else to do these days – apart from inciting their far-left followers to commit violence.

These are dangerous times in the world, both abroad and here in the U.S.

And yet, here’s California’s too-slick Gov. Gavin Newsom’s comment: “He’s literally destroying the White House.“

No, he’s “literally” not “destroying” the White House. He’s remodeling it. As anyone who has added a room or built a patio will tell you.

Nor, per Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut, is it “absolutely illegal” for Trump to build a ballroom on the little-used East Wing

Don’t believe it? See the image below. To call this “destroying the White House” or any such inanity isn’t even adjacent to the truth.

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm-plus/how-the-left-justifies-its-hypocrisy/

The left’s double standard is increasingly evident these days, and no matter how often it gets remarked upon, the notice and ridicule never stops leftists from indulging in it. For years, leftists energetically pursued lawfare against Donald Trump and his supporters, trashing statutes of limitations, creating special rules ex post facto, stretching misdemeanors into felonies, and fabricating evidence outright in an all-out effort to destroy him politically and personally, but when Trump strikes back with entirely lawful and justified investigations and prosecutions of some of the lower level perpetrators of these crimes, he is a fascist dictator in the making, weaponizing the justice system against his political opponents.

This is not dissimilar from the left’s taste for hateful rhetoric and even increasingly open incitement to violence, contrasted with its outrage and indignation over even the mildest dissenting voice, which supposedly makes leftists, particularly on college and university campuses, feel as if they are in danger, or at least claim to do so. PJ Media Managing Editor Chris Queen reported that at Davidson College in North Carolina, students have recently “faced harassment and threats from Davidson for expressing the truth that there are only two genders and one cannot change one’s biology.” Leftist students also freely distributed on campus a pamphlet entitled ““International Intifada: An urgent call to participate in the colonizer’s execution.”

However, when two patriotic Davidson students dared to try to distribute my pamphlet “The Five Myths About Israel Perpetrated by the Pro-Hamas Left,” Davidson officials stopped them, saying that the presence of my pamphlet on campus made them feel “unsafe.” Sure it did. Leftists proffer this flaming hypocrisy without blinking an eye, and doesn’t budge an inch when any patriot dares to take notice.

This eye-popping lack of self-awareness goes back, like so much of contemporary leftist practice, to the founder of Soviet Russia, V. I. Lenin himself. When the Bolsheviks took power in Russia, Lenin instituted a reign of terror, as far-left regimes always do, in order to terrorize the populace into submission. When critics accused him of engaging in wanton murder and leaving behind all standards of morality, Lenin readily agreed, explaining that when his minions murdered people, it was good and right, because they were the forces of justice:

https://amgreatness.com/2025/10/23/who-are-the-real-kings/

So-called King, Donald Trump, ran in two contested Republican primaries.

He ran three times in a general election.

He was elected twice, and his party recently won a Republican Congress.

In contrast, in 2020, Joe Biden did not run a typical campaign.

He avoided the public, staying ensconced in his basement. He outsourced his campaign to Democratic politicos, donors, and a sycophantic media.

No red state ever sought to remove Joe Biden or Kamala Harris from their 2024 ballots. In contrast, twenty-five blue states attempted to take Trump off their ballots.

In 2021, Joe Biden’s DOJ and FBI raided then-former-President Trump’s home. They found only 102 classified documents among some 14,000 seized, but nevertheless indicted him.

There was no such SWAT raid on Biden’s multiple repositories of illegally removed classified documents.

All were in less secure places than at Mar-a-Lago. Biden removed them over the course of three decades with impunity. At the time, unlike Trump, he had no presidential prerogatives to declassify them.

Special counsel Robert Hur found Biden culpable for the removal of these files but declined to prosecute, claiming that he was too enfeebled to stand trial.

In 2024, the same backroom donors and politicos who had conspired to ensure Biden was the 2020 nominee now, against his wishes, in coup-like fashion, removed him from his own reelection ticket.

Within 48 hours and without a delegate vote, they crowned Kamala Harris as the presumed nominee. Queen Harris had not received a single delegate vote in her disastrous 2020 primary run.

Donald Trump, in 2020, did not sic his Department of Justice on his rival, Joe Biden.

Nor during his presidency did his Department of Justice indict any past or future political opponent or ex-president.

In contrast, Kingly Joe Biden’s White House helped coordinate 91 indictments of his past and future presidential rival, ex-president Donald Trump.

A mere three days after Trump announced his reelection bid on November 15, 2022, Jack Smith was coincidentally appointed special prosecutor of Trump.

https://goudsmit.pundicity.com/29042/the-problem-with-terrorism-is-terror

 goudsmit.pundicity.com  and website: lindagoudsmit.com 

What is terrorism? The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition defines terrorism for us.

terrorism /tĕr′ə-rĭz″əm/

noun

1. The use of violence or the threat of violence, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political goals.

2. The act of terrorizing, or state of being terrorized; a mode of government by terror or intimidation.

3. The practise of coercing governments to accede to political demands by committing violence on civilian targets; any similar use of violence to achieve goals.

4. The deliberate commission of an act of violence to create an emotional response through the suffering of the victims in the furtherance of a political or social agenda.

5. Violence against civilians to achieve military or political objectives.

6. A psychological strategy of war for gaining political or religious ends by deliberately creating a climate of fear among the population of a state.

7. The calculated use of violence (or the threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimidation or coercion or instilling fear.

Words matter. The distinguishing feature of terrorism is that it targets civilian populations. The history of warfare was forever changed by the acceptance of civilians as military targets in the Middle East. Islam is not a religion like any other. Islam is a theocracy. It is a supremacist, expansionist, binary, sociopolitical replacement ideology with a religious foundation. Islam distinguishes itself in its founding 7th-century doctrinal text, the Qur’an, as the only “religion” on the planet that advances genocide against non-believers––Jews, Christians, and Zoroastrians. For 1400 years Muslims have been taught that there will only be peace on Earth when all the world is Muslim, that means after the establishment of a global Islamic caliphate.