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Today, when I enter a public building or a store where the lighting is dim, I am immediately transported to the depressing life we lived under communist rule. The immediate reaction is to exit the building. My entire childhood, grandma’s house, six miles from the biggest refinery in the south, was illuminated by an anemic oil lamp. Years later, their village finally got electricity. A 40 W bulb was dangling from the ceiling, too weak and inefficient to even light up grandma’s small bedroom. Things and people inside looked yellow and sickly. The six-mile road from the city to the village remained a gravel road until the communists were dethroned.

Who are the so-called Democratic Socialists of America and their fellow travelers? While it is difficult to generalize, many current and would-be socialist officeholders share several common traits. Most of them represent a relatively small slice of American life. Almost all are urban, with little knowledge of small-town or rural existence. Their world is subways, buses, high-rises, Uber, taxis, and proximity to corporate, academic, and financial institutions—yet often with little understanding of where their food, fuel, water, or everyday goods originate, or where their waste and sewage ultimately go. Their worldview is shaped more by consumption than production, as though goods simply arrive in and depart from cities on autopilot.

Rael Jean Isaac, a wide-ranging polemicist who took on topics as diverse as global warming, radical left groups, Israel and its neighbors, and homelessness, passed away on June 25th. Apart from several books, her writings appeared in National Review, American Spectator, Commentary, and other journals of the time. Rather than summarize, I will list here some techniques those writings demonstrate about the fun side of investigative writing, which Isaac used to skewer left wing movements. Lesson 1: Show examples of an argument taken to absurd lengths. In her book on the Global Warming movement “Roosters of the Apocalypse”, Rael can’t resist telling you this story:

Imagine being so consumed by hatred for Donald Trump and his immigration agenda that you would hand a full pardon to a man who sexually assaulted a 10-year-old girl for four years, just to keep him from being deported. You do not have to imagine it. Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D-Minn.) actually did it. Last month, Walz pardoned Tou Lue Vang, a 42-year-old illegal immigrant convicted of first-degree criminal sexual conduct, wiping his record clean and shielding him from deportation to Laos. It’s bad enough that the pardon erased Vang's conviction entirely, but what makes it worse is that Walz did it to rescue him from the consequences that Trump's immigration enforcement

Pete Buttigieg’s harrowing swatting story from last week is now coming under scrutiny, suggesting he may not be telling the entire truth. As TGP’s Jordan Conradson reported, Buttigieg claims he was swatted this week by Child Protective Service agents and separated from his four-year-old twins. Buttigieg ran to Substack to write a column about the incident. Describing himself as “bewildered and troubled,” Buttigieg said that “the CPS worker told me something that made my stomach turn: I was not to be alone around the children, at least until the interview took place the next day.” After a “sleepless night,” he says, the officers

An unarmed man was fatally shot in a broad daylight ambush during a dispute over a parking spot at a North Lauderdale Walmart on Tuesday. 62-year-old Bart Diguglielmo was shot by a woman during an argument over a parking space. The unidentified shooter is claiming self-defense. Diguglielmo was not armed. Diguglielmo’s family said he was a Christian man and a decorated veteran who served in Desert Storm in the Army National Guard. The shooting was captured on a Tesla cam and cell phone camera. NBC Miami reported: A man who was shot by a woman during what authorities said was a dispute over a parking space at a North Lauderdale Walmart has died, officials said.

Rom Braslavski is a former Israeli hostage held in Gaza. He was working as a security guard at the Nova music festival during the October 7 massacre as an active-duty soldier on leave from the Logistics Corps. In captivity he was tortured and assaulted. In the video below he is informed by an Israeli security official that his chief tormentor in captivity — a member of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad — has been sent to his allotted virgins in the sky. (X) The Times of Israel reports the story here, the Jerusalem Post here. The Post story adds: “The military also said that Abd al-Aal commanded

Idaho has decided the death penalty shouldn't depend on a drug company, a missing vein, or a supply chain nobody wants to talk about. As of Wednesday, the state has now made the firing squad its primary method of execution. Lethal injection remains available as a backup, but Idaho has moved the rifle ahead of the needle because the old system has become slow, fragile, and legally tangled. From Newsmax: The state spent more than $1 million on the project, including rifles for volunteer marksmen. The move comes as states continue searching for alternatives after repeated problems with lethal injection and recent legal challenges involving nitrogen gas executions.

As I watched Wednesday night’s FIFA World Cup game between the United States and Bosnia and Herzegovina, I thought to myself, this is why so many Americans don’t love soccer. Disallowed goals, overly dramatic performances following minor injuries — and a bullshot red card that threatened to pull victory from the hands of the Americans. By the end, though, I was a believer as the team pulled together and thrashed out an epic 2-0 victory, despite being a man down for over 36 minutes. (X) The red card is so devastating because not only does it result in the penalized player being kicked out, but

As we've written before, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) simply cannot stop himself from putting his foot in his mouth, something we saw most recently with his reaction to the Supreme Court ruling on Tuesday that "we hold that the States may maintain women’s and girls’ sports for biological females." RedState reported on Walz's predictable reaction, which was to tweet that "As the Supreme Court says states can be cruel to trans kids, my message is clear: Here in Minnesota, we stand with and value our trans neighbors and youth." A number of Minnesota Republicans blasted back, including state Senator Julia Coleman (Carver County), who wrote in part, " What’s cruel

Well, it looks as if Kamala Harris is indeed planning to run for president in 2028, and that she is counting on the Democrat Party’s rapidly growing Marxist wing to propel her into the White House. Yes, it could mean the end of the United States as a free nation, particularly given the Biden regime’s taste for authoritarianism (hounding the social media giants to silence COVID dissidents, trying to establish a Disinformation Governance Board, treating pro-lifers as if they were terrorists, etc.). About that, Harris has never shown any concern, and now she seems more focused on the pursuit of raw power

Western Europe has been sweltering under a heat wave, and quite a few people have died as a result. The heat wave is unusual, but the phenomenon isn’t: every year, lots of Europeans die from extremes of heat and cold, far more than in the United States. And European climate deaths vastly exceed deaths in the U.S. from gun homicides, which many Europeans like to decry. A sane response to death and discomfort due to heat would be to promote air conditioning. But that isn’t what is happening in the U.K., where air conditioning is often illegal, or in France, where calls for more air conditioning are being resisted