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Frank always has high ground up in his ivory tower @leh-nerd skin-erd .

The Israel / Gaza conflict is over for now. The hostages have returned and a tentative peace is holding. Hamas, who have been hiding in civilian clothing behind their women, have suddenly come out and are now executing Palestinians. Some are executed for 'collaboration' with Israel, others in clan power struggles. The question on a lot of people's minds is where are all the super-vocal Western voices now? You know, those who were so upset about the 'genocide' they stormed campus building, tore down Israeli hostage posters and constantly demonstrated for 'Ceasefire Now' with neatly preprinted placards. Hamas are executing Palestinians in the street… where are the placards??? where are the virtue signaling celebrities??? https://twitchy.com/gordon-k/2025/10/14/hamas-killing-palestinians-west-yawns-n2420351

ANALYSIS: TRUE. Public Health Destroyed Its Own Credibility Long Before RFK Jr. Arrived. FTA: We need spend little time remembering the unscientific, patronizing and erroneous advice and dictums issued from the medical and scientific establishment regarding the coronavirus during the pandemic. Social distancing, masks, school and business closures — almost all of it was unnecessary. These totalitarian measures saved relatively few lives, cost our nation trillions of dollars, and imperiled the educational and social development of an entire generation. Yet who, exactly, has admitted their errors or paid any serious price for their disastrous “expert advice” and “recommendations”? The unflappable and unrepentant Anthony Fauci has paid no price for his errors, nor has former Planned Parenthood president and WaPo contributor Leanna Wen. Admittedly, I myself am a bit hesitant when it comes to RFK Jr.’s medical assessments and recommendations, which also seem to sometimes lack sufficient evidence and rely more on foregone conclusions about the harmful effects of certain drugs or foods than unbiased, longitudinal research. That said, to accuse him of eroding public distrust in our nation’s medical establishment is risible. RFK Jr. didn’t vitiate the medical establishment’s reputation. They did it to themselves. Much more at the link: https://thefederalist.com/2025/10/15/public-health-destroyed-its-own-credibility-long-before-rfk-jr-arrived/

Sorry, Democrats, You Can't Shame Us Into Submission Anymore They say that desperation is the world's worst cologne. And the Democrat Party is more drenched in it right now than that one guy in the club back in the '80s who used an entire bottle of Drakkar Noir every Saturday night. If you missed it yesterday, Politico tried to throw a Hail Mary to Jay Jones and the other Democrats who refuse to disavow his murder fantasies by leaking some group chat messages from some young, college Republicans. I am not here to defend the things those young kids said in private (some of the messages were pretty ugly), but, as Vice President JD Vance noted last night, nothing in those leaked messages even remotely approached what Jones repeatedly said to another Virginia legislator about how he dreamed of seeing Republicans and their children dead. https://twitchy.com/grateful-calvin/2025/10/15/sorry-democrats-you-cant-shame-us-into-submission-anymore-n2420376

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🎶"One bad apple don't spoil the whole bunch" 🎵 -- Jackson 5 Your turn.

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The Absurdity of #NOKINGS David Strom I absolutely, positively understand why liberals dislike Donald Trump's policies. He is, after all, reversing so many of the policies they love, and they have every right to object to them. But seriously, folks, get a grip. Donald Trump is not trying to be a king, and your biggest complaint is that he is actually enforcing immigration laws passed by Congress, which your preferred president did everything to subvert. The great martyr to freedom most celebrated by liberals in the media is a wife-beating human trafficker who may, or may not, be deported after a long, drawn-out legal process. Sure, there are clashes in the streets between ICE officers and Antifa activists, but those are on Antifa. A U.S. senator was briefly handcuffed because he charged the Secretary of Homeland Security while concealing his identity as a Senator (he revealed his identity AFTER he was detained). When there is a legal dispute about a presidential action, the courts get their say--and, usually, the Supreme Court eventually rules in favor of the president. The images we see from Pravda are enough to incite outrage, of course, and the carefully curated stories are designed to bring tears to the eyes of the emotionally incontinent. I wrote about the prevalence of the sob story over the full story yesterday. Propagandists are good at that sort of thing. But the #NOKINGS shtick? Come on. If Donald Trump were a king, there would be no court battles. There would be no government shutdown. The Senate Democrats wouldn't be able to put roadblocks in Trump's way. The courts wouldn't be in a position to even delay, let alone deny a presidential diktat. It is all so tiresome. As tiresome as the newfound ability to diagnose senility in presidents. Democrats who solemnly assured us that Joe Biden was sharp as a tack are now screaming to high heaven that Donald Trump is mentally and physically incapable of being the president. As many have noted, the Democrats are the party of the third-rate theater kids who believe that being overly dramatic is the same as being convincing. And, admittedly, there is a segment of the population who are touched by the drama. https://hotair.com/david-strom/2025/10/15/the-absurdity-of-nokings-n3807855

Now the Big Question — Will Hamas Beg to Be Finished Off ? “Perhaps Hamas leaders don’t have the internet and are completely unaware of how Israel and President Trump have said this is going to play out if they run afoul of the plan. Israel is going to systematically destroy what remains of the organization, and President Trump has promised the full blessing of the United States in its efforts to do so.” https://pjmedia.com/stephen-kruiser/2025/10/15/the-morning-briefing-now-the-big-question-will-hamas-beg-to-be-finished-off-n4944857

President Trump posthumously awarded Kirk with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Here’s How You Know That Dems Own This Shutdown I & I Editorial Board October 15, 2025 Those who follow the news might have noticed something different about the current government shutdown, which is now entering its third week. Namely, the lack of horror stories that usually accompany shutdowns. Anyone want to guess why that is? Consider what the news media were reporting when the government shut down for more than a month starting in late 2018 – the result of a fight over funding for the border wall. Then, the public was treated to headlines such as: “The Government Shutdown Is ‘Life And Death’ For Low-Wage Subcontractors Who Likely Won’t Be Repaid For Lost Time” “How The Shutdown Is Reaching A Breaking Point “ “Delayed Tax Refunds. Missed Federal Paychecks. The Shutdown’s Pain Keeps Growing” “Government Shutdown Leaves Workers Reeling: ‘We Seem To Be Pawns’” “How The Federal Shutdown Is Affecting Health Programs” “Fallout Grows As Partial Government Shutdown Drags On” As with most shutdowns, the press raced to record the trauma of national parks closing, with headlines such as: “National Parks Are Overflowing With Poop Thanks To The Government Shutdown.” This time around, we’re being told things like: “Governors Tap State Funds To Keep Some National Parks Open During The Government Shutdown.” Back then, air travelers were warned to fear for their lives: “Travel industry fears damage from a long government shutdown” “’Every day it gets less safe to fly’: air travelers begin to feel effects of shutdown” This time, the press has spent its time reassuring passengers that their flights won’t get canceled because “commercial flights will continue to operate and airline employees will not be impacted.” Even the fact that the Trump administration is using the shutdown to fire federal workers – which team Trump thought would pressure Democrats to cave – seems to be getting short shrift. So why the blasé attitude by the mainstream press about this shutdown? Because this one is 100% caused by Democrats, who refused to pass a bill to keep the government open unless Republicans agree to spend hundreds of billions on health care subsidies for wealthier Americans and illegal immigrants. During that 2018-19 shutdown, all those horror stories in the news made sure to pin the blame on Republicans for the shutdown – which is exactly how Democrats wanted it told. This time around, the strategy appears to be to downplay the supposed harm of a shutdown while muddying the Democrats’ responsibility for it. And the press is once again taking its marching orders from the party’s leaders. https://issuesinsights.com/2025/10/15/heres-how-you-know-that-dems-own-this-shutdown/ .

US blows up 6th Venezuelan drug boat in past month, killing 6 more ‘narcoterrorists' by Steven Nelson President Trump posted a video Tuesday afternoon showing the US military bombing another alleged Venezuelan drug boat, killing its six occupants. “Under my Standing Authorities as Commander-in-Chief, this morning, the Secretary of War, ordered a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel affiliated with a Designated Terrorist Organization (DTO) conducting narcotrafficking in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility — just off the Coast of Venezuela,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “Intelligence confirmed the vessel was trafficking narcotics, was associated with illicit narcoterrorist networks, and was transiting along a known DTO route. The strike was conducted in International Waters, and six male narcoterrorists aboard the vessel were killed in the strike. https://nypost.com/2025/10/14/us-news/us-blows-up-6th-venezuelan-drug-boat-killing-6-narcoterrorists-trump/

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Follow up: PA Governor's Mansion Arsonist Pleads Guilty, Learns Sentence Ward Clark On Tuesday, the accused firebomber of Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro's official residence entered a plea of guilty and received his sentence: 25 to 50 years in prison. Balmer reportedly gave as the reason for his attack the governor's support for Israel and that nation's pursuit of a military solution in Gaza. At the hearing, prosecutors displayed video of the attack. (at the link) What's troubling about this case is that it's another in a disturbing series of politically-motivated crimes of violence. Fortunately, Governor Shapiro, his wife, his children, and their guests were not seriously harmed; this could have gone much worse, and it would appear to have been Cody Balmer's intent that they were much worse, as he admitted, in his statement of intent to attack the governor with a hammer, had he encountered him. Governor Shapiro is a Democrat, but this kind of thing is not a partisan matter. We should all abhor this kind of politically-based violence. Unfortunately, one side seems more and more likely by the day to call for just this kind of thing. https://redstate.com/wardclark/2025/10/14/new-pa-governors-mansion-arsonist-pleads-guilty-learns-sentence-n2195053