My far too expensive Philadelphia Inquirer subscription. I could use a senior citizen’s discount right about now.
I’m going to miss shopping at Target
Now that Target has announced a rollback of its diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, I don’t know if I’ll ever step back inside.
Monday was World Holocaust Remembrance Day, and the Turner Classic Movies Channel played the movie Exodus, the not entirely by-the-book movie inspired by Leon Uris’ historical fiction novel of the same name. I am rereading that book, which is on my Kindle stack, these evenings, and have thus far resisted the temptation to spend $66.63, plus $3.00 for shipping, to buy the International Collectors Library hardcover version. 
Naturally, The Philadelphia Inquirer’s hard-left columnist tried to use it to slam President Donald Trump’s policy of enforcing our immigration laws:
In New York, the Center for Jewish History opened up a three-month special exhibit that completely recreates the cramped, secret attic annex where the Amsterdam teen Anne Frank hid with her family and other Jews for two years and wrote her famous diary, before dying of typhus in a concentration camp at age 15. It recaptures the place where, 82 years ago this month, Frank wrote: ”Terrible things are happening outside. At any time of night and day, poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes … Families are torn apart: men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find their parents have disappeared.”
In Chicago, terrible things are happening right now, as federal agents and police roam working-class blocks to carry out the initial raids of the mass deportation of undocumented immigrants that new President Donald Trump promised his voters in the 2024 campaign. Once again, people targeted by their country as undesirables are hiding in attics or cowering in basements, hoping to avoid a knock on the door. Continue reading
I have been saying for years now that the Israelis should have expelled every last ‘Palestinian’ from Judea, Samaria, and Gaza following the 1967 conquest of the territory. It would have been a humanitarian disaster, but it would have been over 57½ years ago, leaving the Arabs with a chance to build their lives again without being under Israeli occupation, and Israel with shortened, more defensible borders.
Now it seems that President Donald Trump has caught up with me! From The Wall Street Journal: Continue reading
My Twitter feed was filled with images of the Patriot Front marching at Fridays March for Life in Washington, DC. Much of it was condemnatory, and a lot of conservatives were repeating the meme that these were “Feds,” by which they meant federal law enforcement officers, rather than real civilians. I can see, at least in appearance, why people might conclude that. Robert Stacy McCain addressed that issue in “Is the ‘Patriot Front’ a Fed PsyOp?” He cited the very liberal Southern Poverty Law Center, a group which hates all things conservative, normal, and moral, telling us:
Like other hate and extremist groups, the need to recruit and grow their members makes PF a target for antifascist activists who attempt to infiltrate white nationalist groups to expose and disrupt their activities. Since 2018, antifascist activists have infiltrated PF at least five times, which has led to journalist and activist networks obtaining thousands of documents, including internal chat logs, audio and video recordings, and photographs. The laxed operational security measures of PF that are responsible for these infiltrations led to the identification of more than 130 current and former members since 2019.
I have always held that if someone wants to buy a plug-in electric vehicle, if he can afford one, he has every right to do so. Alas, Our Betters in the former Biden Administration — and I do so love referring to it as the former Biden Administration! — thought that no, it ought not to be a matter of personal choice or preference, but that people should eventually be required to buy a plug-in electric vehicle. Our American left are pro-choice on exactly one thing.
Trump ended the EV mandate. Here’s what it means for the auto industry.
The transition to electric vehicles is a years-long process that is already underway and faces fierce competition from abroad.
Be aware, when you read Adam Parkhomenko’s tweet, screen captured at the left, that his Twitter biography states that he is a “Dem Strategist. Dad to Cameron, Paxton, Moose and Simba. Former DNC National Field Director, Hillary advisor and more.”
The distinguished Mr Parkhomenko is upset, angry, waxing wroth, because President Donald Trump is ending DEI, the “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” programs that the Federal government has been using to base hiring and promotions not on ability or job performance, but whether a prospective candidate is a member of an Accredited Victim Group™.
In the 2003 decision Grutter v Bollinger, Associate Justice Sandra Day O’Connor said that Affirmative Action plans had to come to an end, that the ‘exception’ the Supreme Court allowed to the 14th Amendment required an end date, and that the Court anticipated that, 25 years from then, they’d expect to see all accomplished, and Affirmative Action ended. Continue reading
Pavel Trofimovich Morozov (Па́вел Трофи́мович Моро́зов) was a supposed hero of the Soviet Union:
In 1932, at the age of 13, Morozov reported his father to the political police (GPU). Supposedly, Morozov’s father, Trofim, the chairman of the Gerasimovka Village Soviet, had been “forging documents and selling them to the bandits and enemies of the Soviet State” (as the sentence read). Trofim Morozov was sentenced to ten years in a labour camp, where his sentence was changed to death, which was fulfilled. However, Pavlik’s family did not take kindly to his reporting his father and on 3 September of that year, his uncle, grandfather, grandmother, and a cousin murdered him, along with his younger brother. All of them except the uncle were rounded up by the GPU and sentenced to “the highest measure of social defense” – execution by a firing squad.
Thousands of telegrams from all over the Soviet Union urged the judge to show no mercy for Pavlik’s killers. The Soviet government declared Pavlik Morozov a glorious martyr who had been murdered by reactionaries. Statues of him were built, and numerous schools and youth groups were named in his honour. An opera and numerous songs were written about him. The Gerasimovka school that Morozov attended, became a shrine, and children from all over the Soviet Union went on school excursions to visit it.
The entire story may have been a fabrication by the Soviet Communist Party under Josef Vissarionovich Stalin, yet another of the typical propaganda stories. Who, after all, could imagine a 13-year-old denouncing his own father to the police? Continue reading
Also see: William Teach, “Bummer: Illegals Start Self Deporting Ahead Of Trump
Immigration advocates brace for Trump’s Day 1 deportation orders that could target 47,000 in Philadelphia
President-elect Donald Trump has promised mass deportations. That could include thousands of people living in Philadelphia.