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Navy Joan Roberts is probably better off with her father being absent Perhaps the current generation of young adults are going to do things better

In the 1960s, I was the boy who was embarrassed about growing up without a father in small-town Mt Sterling, Kentucky. Divorce was far less common at the time, and all of the kids I knew in Mt Sterling Elementary School had fathers, or at least the ones about whom I knew anything about their families. I was the outlier!

My mother moved us to Mt Sterling because her sister had been able to get her a job. Our family, from Antioch, California, with a detour to Portland, Maine, my mother’s hometown, was completely unknown to the people there, and naturally no one had seen or heard of my father; there was no knowledge of him whatsoever, no knowledge that he had completely abandoned his wife and three children, so it could have been, at least for the townspeople, a question of whether it was somehow my mother’s fault. If you think that’s strange, it wouldn’t be to the mind of a nine-year-old boy with a girl’s first name, and the first one wearing glasses to boot. I at least think I can understand what life must be like for almost eight-year-old Navy Joan Roberts, growing up without her father, Hunter Biden.

Oh, there are certainly differences: my sisters and I grew up poor, because good jobs for women were rare in the sixties, and my father saw child support as more of an option than an obligation; men could get away with that far more at the time. My mother worked hard and struggled, in ways that it has taken the responsibilities of adulthood to make me understand now. Young Miss Roberts, and her mother Lunden Roberts, aren’t having to struggle too much financially, because her father has been hit with very substantial child support payments, but it’s also public knowledge that the younger Miss Roberts is a bastard, something that, as a child, I only feared people might think of me, and the fact that the older Miss Roberts was working as a stripper undoubtedly has many people thinking poorly of her. I guess that she was doing what she had to do to keep a roof over her head.

At a time when the Biden family ought to be slipping back into obscurity, former First Lady Jill Biden is back in the headlines as she has to do a tour to sell her book View from the East Wing: A Memoir. The problem for the tour is that Dr Biden has been denying that she saw in her husband what any wife should have noticed: that he was in serious mental decline, and her stories as she makes the rounds of talk shows have been shifting and never sounding truthful.

ABC’s ‘The View’ is a place for journolism, not journalism, but it is also a place in which the hostesses sometimes go off-script, and things like Dr Biden’s paean for her stepson get broadcast without critical thinking. Critical thinking is then applied from outside, as the former First Lady’s effusive praise of her wastrel stepson gets hammered from outside. President Biden finally acknowledged the young Miss Roberts as his granddaughter, though to my knowledge Dr Biden never did.

She’s certainly never been invited to family get-togethers, but the younger Mr Biden had married Melissa Cohen not long after his daughter was born, so such would be pretty awkward. Mr Biden knew that he had knocked up the elder Miss Roberts before he married someone else.

I have to confess here: I do not understand family relationships these days. My wife and I had been married, married for a few years, before our children were born, and after 47 years, we’re still married. I just don’t get men fathering children without the least regard for marrying the mothers or rearing their children. I suppose the things I saw so negatively when I was a child are commonplace now, and perhaps children growing up today without their fathers around just see it as normal, and hardly different from a bunch of the other children they know.

Our great, Christian society and culture has lost something. Now discussions are about “body counts,” how many people you’ve screwed, and, as much as it would horrify the lovely Amanda Marcotte, the fact that men trying to rack up high body counts for themselves are also ruling out women with high body counts as potential wives, even though women don’t get to rack up high body counts without men going right along with it.

But there is hope! Britain’s very leftist The Guardian reported that ‘millennials’ are not ‘hooking up’ for random sex as much as previous generations. A Google search for current generation having less sex turned up many more such articles, though several were hidden behind paywalls.

Along similar lines, we have reported on the slow growth of the Catholic Church, the faith that President Biden and his wife have professed, a faith which does not support contraception and abortion the way Miss Marcotte does, a faith which encourages personal responsibility and the confession of sins. Our good friends on the left hated people like Charlie Kirk for stressing such to college students, and the previously mentioned 48-year-old Miss Marcotte sees three married Republican women getting pregnant at about the same time through conspiracy theory eyes rather than more conservative women actually having more babies. She really, really, really doesn’t want the next generation of young adults to disapprove of her view about life and marriage and sex.

It will take more time to see how this all plays out, but perhaps, just perhaps, we are seeing a more conservative social and cultural movement among Americans.

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No matter how much you hate the credentialed media, you do not hate them enough! After covering up stories on Joe Biden's health, the left are speculating about every bump and bruise on President Trump

The first rule of holes is that when you find yourself in one, stop digging. In the case of former First Lady, Dr Jill Biden, it works out to: when you keep saying stupid stuff, and can’t get out of your own way on it, just stop talking.

But, alas! when she’s on the hook to sell her book, View from the East Wing: A Memoir, she’s got to keep on keeping on, she’s got to keep making those appearances, got to keep talking, and got to keep deep throating her doubtlessly well-pedicured feet.

Why, I have to ask, would anyone pay the cover price of $32.00, $28.42 for Amazon Prime members, for a book of nothing but lies. At every stop she makes, with every word she says, we get the message: she’s just not telling the truth. But Simon & Schuster is paying her several million bucks, the exact amount undisclosed, so she has a contract to keep running her mouth.

The book hasn’t been well-received. CNN’s Jake Tapper, the well-connected Washington journalist who knew everybody who was anybody in Washington, wrote with Alex ThompsonOriginal Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again, told us all how they were shocked, shocked! that Mr Biden’s aides helped to cover up the 46th President’s decline, now has an article showing on CNN’s subscribers’ only page entitled “Jill Biden’s rosy if not blindfolded ‘View from the East Wing’.” I guess that he’s trying to seem like a real journalist again, rather than the shill for the Democratic Party he was during the four-year interregnum between President Trump’s two terms. The Wall Street Journal‘s review by Kara Voght was just simping, and reading the review makes me wonder if she actually read the book itself, rather than some Cliff’s Notes version of it. Alexandra Jacobs review in The New York Times might have had the most damning with faint praise line of all, “The general vibe is more popovers in Woman’s Day than popping off in Politico.”

It’s almost as though the talking point had been sent out. Once everybody saw, on June 27, 2024, what we evil, reich-wing conservatives had been saying all along, that President Biden was becoming more and more out of it mentally, our good friends on the left decided that they had to attack President Trump’s health. The very lovely Amanda Marcotte has gone all-out conspiracy theorist on the subject:

Why MAGA buys Trump’s perfect health lie

Cultish devotion leads Republicans to see Trump as more god-like than human

by Amanda Marcotte | Monday, June 1, 2026 | 6:45 AM EDT

“When it happens” — the phrase became a meme almost overnight, as Troy Farah recently observed, in no small part because, even in our attention-addled age, people understand what it means. Donald Trump, who turns 80 this month, is not well, which has led to waves of speculation about his health and, at times, even rumors that he has died.

What great journalism in that first paragraph! Miss Marcotte gave us three citations via hyperlink, all of which lead back to Salon, the hard-left ezine for which she writes. The article is illustrated with a photo of the President’s left hand, with a visible bruise, and the caption, “Speculation continues to rise about the state of Donald Trump’s physical and mental health.” I’m not certain how a bruise on his hand leads to “speculation” about his “mental health.”

The president regularly nods off on camera during public meetings. He appeared to nap during the May 27 Cabinet meeting, even though his appointees were competing with each other to offer empty flattery, which is usually his favorite activity. His hands are not only covered in bruises, but they have also started to swell alarmingly. While he struggles to stay awake during the day, the president is often up at odd hours of the night, raving incoherently on Truth Social while obsessively reposting artificial intelligence-generated memes that frame him as heroic. He’s had at least two surprise trips to the “dentist” this year — even though the White House has its own fully equipped dental suite. On May 26, Trump had his third “annual” exam in 13 months at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, after which he posted, “Everything checked out PERFECTLY.”

This is almost certainly a lie, though how big of one remains to be seen. People in perfect health don’t have swollen and bruised hands or the water balloon-sized ankles Trump sometimes sports. Even the White House communications staff has tacitly admitted that something is going on, though all they will say is Trump has chronic venous insufficiency, a conveniently benign condition. There is zero reason to trust Trump or his staff; they lie constantly about nearly everything. This includes false explanations about the president’s health, because the White House keeps insisting he’s merely blinking in photos with his eyes closed, when anyone who watches the videos can see his eyes are shut for long stints of time, and not just milliseconds.

While I certainly cannot speak for the President, I do sometimes close my eyes when I am concentrating, including concentrating on what I am hearing, something not uncommon among those of us who are partially deaf.

But Miss Marcotte is ramping up for the conclusion she wants readers to draw: that the physical ailments of a man who will turn 80 twelve days from now indicate a mental ailment as well. After all, Mr Biden was losing his marbles when he was in his 80s, so why shouldn’t the same be true of President Trump?

Dr. Jonathan Reiner of The George Washington University, who was former vice president Dick Cheney’s cardiologist, told CNN that Trump is showing symptoms of chronic insomnia, which “is a severe illness that can result in an increase in risk of dementia” and a “decrease in cognitive effects” that “increases your cardiac risk of having a heart attack or developing congestive heart failure.” It appears that the president has undergone multiple cognitive tests, because Trump, who seems to confuse them with IQ tests, keeps bragging about how he was told him he had “aced” them. Such exams are typically given when doctors suspect cognitive decline, as journalist Jim Acosta underscored recently by taking the test himself, which involves drawing a cube or identifying common animals.

As a part of my annual Medicare examination — I’m 73 years old — I got the simple cognitive test, mine being to draw a circle and then add the hours of a clock on the face. Being the snarky guy that I am, I made it a 24-hour clock face, just to amuse the nurse, and I’m wondering how today’s generation, familiar almost entirely with digital clocks, will do. 🙂

But it’s amusing: the left want to do something, do anything to get rid of President Trump. The only evidence they have of cognitive problems for the President is that they are outraged by the decisions he takes. Yet if President Trump does fail to complete his term, for whatever reason, Vice President J D Vance then becomes President — something I currently hope he does on January 20, 2029 — and they’ll hate Mr Vance, who is only 41 years old, just as much as they do Mr Trump.

Godwin’s law, “As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one,” amuses here. The younger President Bush was “literally Hitler,” which was conveniently ignored when President Trump also became Hitler during his first term, and during the four years in the wilderness, before his triumphal return to Washington. If Mr Vance becomes President, will we see yet another reductio ad Hitlerum applied to him.

Miss Marcotte has already expressed her wish for the Vances to divorce.

There actually is a mental problem rampant among our friends on the left, called Trump Derangement Syndrome. There were a lot of things conservatives disliked about President Biden and his four years in office, but if there were any stories about wild-eyed conservatives saying things about the President on social media that got them fired, I missed them. Chaya Raichik and her Libs of TikTok became hugely successful for quoting what the left were saying about themselves, and even today (supposedly) educated professionals have lost jobs and professional accreditations for posting really stupid stuff about wanting to kill the President and members of the Administration. Conservatives haven’t proven themselves to be that deranged!

That mental problem was never on greater display than the four years of the Biden Administration. Our friends on the left kept assuring us that everything was just fine with Mr Biden, he was sharp as a tack, always on top of his game, pretty much exactly what his loving wife was saying about him. Contrast that with today, and every little bruise on the President’s hand leads the media to speculate that he’s at death’s door, with exactly zero evidence of such.

About his health? The fact is that we do not really know, but we do know that he’s twelve days shy of his 80th birthday, he’s visibly overweight, and despite his many years of wealth, he prefers to eat pure junk. It’s been long reported that he wants his steaks well done, and with ketchup, which is, to my mind, his only impeachable offense. If the man did suddenly die, I wouldn’t be terribly surprised. What I’m not going to do, however, is speculate blindly and aimlessly, and I’m not going to stop telling the truth.

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Just how early on did the Democratic staffers realize that Joe Biden was sinking into dementia?

This site has reported, several times, on the anti-Catholic bias of the Democratic Party, including the actions of the federal government investigating “radical traditionalist Catholics”, and that FBI Director Christopher Wray lied under oath about the extent of the program.

President Biden was very famously Catholic, frequently attending Mass, even though his policies on transgenderism and prenatal infanticide were very much opposed to the teachings of the Church he claimed to follow, so one would think that officials in his Administration would use a bit of caution when attacking the Catholic Church as an institution, and Catholics in general. Still, the investigations referenced above occurred in early 2023, two years into Mr Biden’s term in office.

But now we have this, from Robert Stacy McCain’s old newspaper, The Washington Times:

Biden DOJ fantasized about prosecuting habit-wearing nuns

By Susan Ferrechio | Thursday, April 30, 2026

Justice Department prosecutors under the Biden administration exchanged texts relishing the chance to prosecute Catholic nuns — particularly traditional nuns “who still wear the head habit.”

One of the prosecutors is now running for the U.S. House as a Democrat in Virginia’s newly carved 7th Congressional District.

Oops! That “newly carved” district under Governess Spanberger’s gerrymandering scheme has been put on hold by the courts.

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles E. Grassley, Iowa Republican, released documents about the anti-Catholic targeting. He released texts exchanged in 2021 between two prosecutors for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia.

The same prosecutors later joined special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation and prosecution of President Trump.

The texts date back to the weeks after the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol, when the Justice Department began an unprecedented investigation to prosecute people who were on the Capitol grounds or inside the building that day.

Think about that. Department of Justice lawyers thinking about prosecuting Catholic nuns over the Capitol kerfuffle, nuns who did not enter the Capitol building itself, only a few weeks into the term of that famously Catholic president. Any new Administration lawyers ought to have had some real pause in going after nuns, unless they already knew that the President was a doddering old fool.

In a February 2021 text, Assistant U.S. Attorney Molly Gaston wrote to a colleague that she had spotted nuns “near the oath keepers” in a New York Times photo of the Capitol riot.

“I would like to take a special assignment of finding and prosecuting them,” she wrote to J.P. Cooney, then chief of the D.C. U.S. Attorney’s Office’s Fraud, Public Corruption and Civil Rights Section.

“I’m with you,” he responded, “although I’d like to prosecute any nun who still wears the head habit.”

Ms. Gaston responded, “hahaha.”

“There was also a catholic priest in there,” Mr. Cooney added to the exchange. “He came to perform exorcisms. He has been suspended by his diocese, it’s somewhere in the Midwest, I think.”

Hat tip to The Western Journal for the link to the Times.

This is about the weaponization of government law enforcement agencies against believing Catholics. I’m old enough to remember the exchange between Center For American Progress fellow John Halpin and Hillary Clinton’s communications director Jennifer Palmieri, in the e-mails hacked by Wikileaks:

Mr Halpin: Many of the most powerful elements of the conservative movement are all Catholic (many converts) …they must be attracted to the systematic thought and severely backwards gender relations.

Miss Palmieri: I imagine they think it is the most socially acceptable politically conservative religion. Their rich friends wouldn’t understand if they became evangelicals.

Of course, Mr Halpin and Miss Palmieri thought that their conversation was confidential, and wouldn’t be made public, but I hold that we should trust people when they tell us who they are. Miss Palmeiri stated that she didn’t recognize the e-mail and that she is, herself, Catholic, but I suspect that she and all of the others on the political left are Catholics like Joe Biden, Democrats first and Catholics a distant, distant second.

The insiders in Mrs Clinton’s campaign weren’t worried about Joe Biden, who was then the outgoing Vice President, and with his choice not to run for President in 2016, they probably thought that he was done with politics, and anticipated eight glorious years imposing Mrs Clinton’s policies. We have Donald Trump to thank for preventing that! But that doesn’t explain how the Department of Justice was thinking about going after Catholics, and actually surveilling “radical traditionalist Catholics” as potentially “racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists,” after Mr Biden became President, unless they planned to either keep such secret from the Oval Office, or believed the President too mentally disconnected, as early as his first months in office, to do anything about it. After all, these kinds of things would be seriously career-limiting moves under any other circumstances.

We’ve all seen the expressions that other Democrats and the credentialed media — please pardon that redundancy — tell us that they were shocked, shocked! to find out that the President of the United States was in serious mental decline. But it’s clear that they knew, they all knew, and the evidence is coming out slowly that they probably knew from the very start.

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No matter how much you hate the credentialed media, you do not hate them enough!

You know, I get it: everyone wants to keep his job, no matter how royally he f(ornicated) up! As we have previously noted, the credentialed media have been trying their d(arnedest) to blame their almost total lack of coverage of thankfully former President Joe Biden’s declining physical and mental health not on their own failures to be actual journalists, but on Mr Biden’s inner circle and staff of paid flunkies to tell them the truth. How naïve do the reporters and editors have to be to think that people whose jobs and positions depended on Mr Biden remaining in office would tell other people that their boss was losing it?

Well, apparently the Editorial Board of The Washington Post want you to think that they were stunned by events!

If Biden was too frail for his job, voters should have been informed

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Covering their own asses! The credentialed media are blaming everybody but themselves for their own failures

It has been a few days since journolists Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson published their book Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again, blaming everybody in Mr Biden’s administration for the elderly President’s decision to run for re-election despite his failing mental status. Continue reading →

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No matter how much you hate the credentialed media, you do not hate them enough! Only a fool would believe that the credentialed media didn't know about President Biden's descent into dementia

Jake Tapper, the lead Washington anchor for CNN, and Senior White House correspondent for ABC News before that, is a very well connected man in Washington media circles. He knows everybody who’s anybody, and everybody who’s anybody in DC knows him. With a guesstimated net worth of $20 million, he gets invited to all of the great parties.

Perhaps that $20 mil just isn’t enough for him, because any he’s been taking heroic measures to try to save his journalistic reputation. Too bad that no one with any sense, any sense at all, would believe that a journolist — and you can see the reason I spell it that way — as well connected as Mr Tapper was wholly unaware that President Joe Biden was slowly losing his marbles.

And here he goes again, this time in the pages of The New Yorker:

How Joe Biden Handed the Presidency to Donald Trump

At a fateful event last summer, Barack Obama, George Clooney, and others were stunned by Biden’s weakness and confusion. Why did he and his advisers decide to conceal his condition from the public and campaign for reëlection?

by Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson | Tuesday, May 13, 2025

President Joe Biden got out of bed the day after the 2024 election convinced that he had been wronged. The élites, the Democratic officials, the media, Nancy Pelosi, Barack Obama—they shouldn’t have pushed him out of the race. If he had stayed in, he would have beaten Donald Trump. That’s what the polls suggested, he would say again and again. Continue reading →

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Thank you, Jill Biden! We owe Dr Biden a debt of gratitude which can never be fully repaid: she helped save this country from having the kook from California in the White House!

Golly gee willikers gee whiz! Vice President Kamala Harris couldn’t have lost to Orange Man Bad, so someone must have sabotaged her!

Our good friends on the left were stunned, shocked, aghast, appalled that Kamala Harris Emhoff lost the 2024 election to then former President Donald Trump, and they keep looking for reasons why it happened. But the one thing that they just can’t bring themselves to consider is the notion that she was simply a rotten candidate. Continue reading →

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Sometimes you just have to be an [insert slang term for the rectum here] to do things right Joe Biden was a very sympathetic President . . . and that led to Donald Trump being elected again!

I check Bluesky so you don’t have to because it sometimes leads me to interesting things. I saw this skeet from The Philadelphia Inquirer’s hard-left columnist Will Bunch, which he did not post on Twitter, leading me to an article in the UK’s The Guardian.

Canada intercepts people trying to cross border in ‘incredibly cold’ conditions

Nine Venezuelans including children found by police in Alberta with a second group apprehended in Manitoba

by Leyland Cecco | Friday, February 7, 2025 | 6:30 AM EST

More than a dozen people have been caught making the hazardous crossing into Canada, renewing focus on the closely watched – and seasonally perilous – border with the United States.

Police in Alberta this week intercepted two groups attempting to cross into Canada illegally, including one which included five children who were ill-prepared for the cold which can plunge as low as -30C (-22F) at this time of year. Continue reading →

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Why didn’t the press play its “adversarial role” when it came to Joe Biden?

Our regular readers — both of them — know that I am very much attached to the idea of print newspapers, despite them being slightly updated 18th century technology. I delivered newspapers as a teenager, and with my seriously degraded hearing, watching the news on television is difficult for me; even with close captioning, which is usually poor on live broadcasts, I can miss things. With the printed word, even though by printed I mean words on my computer monitor, not actual paper, I don’t miss much, and if there is a point on which I was confused, I can go back and read it again, to make certain I understood what was written.

So, quite naturally, I was reeled in by this story, that Rob Flaherty, the former deputy campaign manager for Vice President Kamala Harris’s 2024 presidential campaign, claimed there was “just no value” in candidates speaking to mainstream newspapers like The New York Times or Washington Post. Naturally, my mind went to the complaints by people like The Philadelphia Inquirer’s hard left columnist Will Bunch that newspapers specifically, and the credentialed media in general, were not hard enough on former and now future President Donald Trump.

But then came a second paragraph, which destroyed my preconceived notion of what the article was going to say: Continue reading →