The Morning Report — 7/ 6 /26

Good morning kids. I hope you all had a wonderful, blessed and relaxing July Fourth Independence Day holiday weekend. In spite of all the challenges, and in reality existential threats that we face from those who seek to deprive us of that which our Founding Fathers fought and bequeathed to us 250 years ago, we're still here, keeping the faith and the flame of liberty alive as best we can. Sadly, the greatest existential threat that we face is from our mortal enemy from within. Our alleged fellow citizens of the left who in point of fact — considering their actions over our history and their perveted beliefs bout the legitimacy of our history, heritage not just since 1776 but the past 2,000 years of it — constitute a foreign national entity that exists within our midst.

No great mystery as to how we got here.

“A combination of laziness, yes, and the liberal indoctrination that has been taking place in our education system for far too long,” Leavitt argued on X about the factors leading to the far left’s rise. “There are far-left educators pumping students’ heads with garbage, convincing them that hard work and sacrifice won’t pay off down the road because they want them totally reliant on the government instead,” she wrote... “As the President has correctly warned, ‘communism is the enemy of free people everywhere. It is the enemy of the Constitution. Above all, it is the enemy of July 4, 1776.’ ” During her interview with Watters, Leavitt warned that a full-blown “communist revolution” was unfolding in Congress and called communism “the biggest threat” to America in 250 years. . . Trump warned about the rise of communism during his addresses at Mount Rushmore and the National Mall for Independence Day. “Our warriors did not fight communism on battlefields across the world only to have that menace rear its ugly head right back here in America. We’re not going to let it happen,” he vowed Saturday.

This madness did not happen overnight but has metastasized over the course of several decades. While this cancer certainly existed 50 years ago at the time of the bicentennial, for the most part it was not in evidence from what I recall and the July Fourth holiday that year was even more patriotic and celebratory across the board than in any years before or since. And yet the Left is still on the march, and unless there really is a drastic sea change in our culture, I have a dread of what will happen in the coming years.

Switching gears for now, as CBD and I kvetched about on the last episode of the podcast, linked here and somewhere in the sidebar as well as on the popular outlets listed at the bottom of this post . . .

it's hot outside. In case you missed it, it's summertime. It gets unbearably hot especially when one has no air conditioning.

Well, air conditioning is both a crime against the planet and white supremacist!

During his inaugural speech on Jan. 1, Mayor Zohran Mamdani declared, “We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.”It certainly feels warm these days. As temperatures climbed during the heat wave that blanketed much of the eastern United States, the mayor took to social media with a familiar message from the government. “New York: it’s hot out there, and the power grid is working overtime to keep us cool,” he tweeted. “Set your AC to 78 degrees, turn off lights/electronics you’re not using, and unplug what you can.” This is the real face of the political left: Individual comfort and convenience should be subordinated to collective priorities, with government officials deciding how much energy ordinary people ought to consume. Over the pond in Europe, we are seeing the effects of that warm glow of collectivism in full force. Decades of climate policy, energy restrictions and cultural hostility toward air conditioning have left millions of Europeans sweltering without one of the greatest public health innovations of the modern age.

They are trying to stay cool with fire trucks spraying water in public squares and parks. Even hospitals and the homes of medically fragile individuals are overheating. It is hard to imagine a clearer illustration of the cruelty of collectivism in practice.

A healthy group of neighbors has decided that one disabled man’s ability to breathe comfortably matters less than preserving their preferred aesthetic and soundscape. They insist they are acting for the common good. The person who bears the greatest burden is the one least capable of bearing it.

And the price is being counted in bodies.

The only reliably cool buildings in parts of Paris are its morgues. Funeral homes and mortuaries in and around the French capital have been overwhelmed in recent weeks, with some running out of refrigerated space for the dead. France recorded roughly 1,000 excess deaths during the peak of the heat wave, most of them among the elderly.

well, I guess I wasn't shifting gears at all. It's a scam, a sham and a dodge to steal our freedom and destroy the engine that built the prosperity that fueled American greatness creating the greatest and freest society in history. For that, it must be destroyed

As Europe and much of North America endured record heat in recent days, headlines quickly appeared claiming that the heat wave was "virtually impossible" without human-caused climate change.

To many readers, that sounds like a conclusion drawn directly from observations. It is not. It is the product of a branch of climate research known as extreme weather attribution, which relies heavily on computer models rather than direct measurements.

This was not an isolated claim. Whenever a major storm, wildfire, flood, or heat wave occurs, similar headlines soon follow. We are told that climate change made an event "twice as likely," "35 times more likely," or even "virtually impossible" without human influence. These figures are widely repeated by politicians, journalists, and activists as though they were direct scientific observations. . . This does not mean that climate never changes. Of course it does. Earth's climate has always changed. The question is whether modern attribution studies can confidently separate natural variability from human influence to the extraordinary degree claimed.

Have a good day,

The UNITED STATES of AMERICA AT 250
• Roger Kimball: On the 250th anniversary of the Declaration, America’s story is cast as either triumphant inheritance or unfinished grievance, with no neutral ground in between.
  A Tale of Two Countries
  
• Thad McCotter: American self-government endures only when citizens first govern themselves, making virtue—not politics—the foundation of a free republic.
  A Semiquincentennial Psalm
  
• To love America is not to deny its flaws but to cherish its capacity for renewal. Love, in this sense, demands honesty. It requires memory. And it carries responsibility.
  To America, with Love: In Honor of Her 250th Birthday
  
• A Hillsdale documentary brings our origin story to life.
  Revolutionary America – the Movie
  
• America and Britain have often argued, but we have also shown the world that former adversaries can become allies without pretending the past never happened.
  Dear America, Happy 250th. No Hard Feelings!
  
• In a late-night speech capping the semiquincentennial anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, President Donald Trump invoked familiar themes of patriotism, bravery, and sacrifice to declare that the story of the United States of America is worth cherishing while being far from over.
  Trump Marshals Americans, Defiant ‘Spirit Of 1776’ In Speech Celebrating US’s 250th Birthday
  
• “America is not a country that had a revolution, but a revolution that has a country...Colonial American radicals faced greater peril.”
  The New World’s Declaration of Independence from the Old
  
• Let us listen to the words of the Declaration of Independence again.
  Why Do We Celebrate July 4?
  
• American taverns became rooms where our founders could leave without making every disagreement permanent.
  The American Revolution Was Fought And Won In Neighborhood Bars
  
• These films remind us who we are. Not because America is perfect, but because America knows tomorrow can be better than today.
  These 6 great films reveal the optimism of the American national character
  
• Commemorating 250 years as a nation, we naturally reflect on Thomas Jefferson’s soaring words—but we should remember that it was George Washington’s deeds that led America to victory.
  America’s Indispensable Man
  
• That is the version of July 4 most people recognize: flags out front, kids running around, food everywhere, and somebody inevitably arguing over food.
  Americans Celebrate the 250th With Pride (not that "pride" - jjs)
  
• Fifty years ago, America knew how to celebrate.
  Remembering the Tall Ships and the Bicentennial

  "DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST/GLOBALIST BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY

• The growing number of H-1B renewals underscores the program’s vast scale beyond the annual visa cap, with significant negative implications for American workers, whose labor loses more value the more immigrants employers can import to work in their place. Critics of the H-1B program argue that the high number of renewals and exemption loopholes undermine the purpose of the cap.
  H-1B Visa Renewals on Track to Hit Record High Despite Trump Admin’s Efforts to Tighten Program.
  
• Trump v. Barbara may ultimately come to be remembered not as the final word on birthplace citizenship but as another constitutional detour waiting to be corrected.
  SCOTUS Birthplace Citizenship Decision Is John Roberts’ Roe v. Wade
  
• Bon should not have been in this country. He flew into the United States through Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport in July 2024, courtesy of Joe Biden's “humanitarian” parole program. The Department of Homeland Security later denied his bid for Temporary Protected Status. By June 2025, DHS had pulled his parole and told him to get out. He didn't go. Instead, he kept driving trucks on American highways.
  Illegal Immigrant Kills Pennsylvania State Trooper. Guess Who Let Him Into the Country.

  THE IRAN CONFLICT, "PEACE DEAL" (aftermath??)

• How Iran’s repurposed American military jets have weathered the MidEast war.
  Air Duels With Disco-Era Planes
  * * * * *

• A Washington Free Beacon survey found that likely Republican primary voters favor a close U.S.-Israel relationship and military action against Iran
  GOP Primary Voters Remain Deeply Supportive of Israel, Poll Finds

  ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS, HEZBOLLAH . . . AND LEFTISTS. . . The U.N... AND HISTORY

• 1,000 new homes slated for the region’s reconstruction efforts.
  Israel: Gaza Border Communities Rebound, Adding 5,000 Residents Since October 7 Attack
  
• Relying entirely on “facts” fed to them by Hamas.
  Three-Man UN Commission Falsely Accuses Israel of Deliberately Killing Children in Gaza

  CIVIL WAR 2.0, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION

• Polls show an unbridgeable divide between the American Left and Right.
  The Patriotism Gap
  
• There’s actually a small window of time to completely break the Left, and this opportunity will not come again.
  Asymmetric Lawfare
  
• "They built the empire. It's called the empire of liberty,"
  They Hate America and They Know Nothing About It
  
• Words are cheap. Deeds are not.
  If the Land Was Stolen, Give It Back
  
• “Now it’s 250 years and I feel similarly. I feel like there’s nothing more appropriate than having a conversation tonight about 250 years of resistance,” he added, according to a clip from Manhattan Institute investigative analyst Stu Smith:
  WATCH — Leftist Bill Ayers, Princeton Professor: ‘F**k the USA’ During Fourth of July ‘250 Years of Resistance’ Event

  THE GREAT SOMALIAN SIMOLEON SWINDLE

• If Somalis are proud of Somalia, why are they refugees?
  The Somali Refugee Hoax is Still Going On

  DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
  
  

• It’s pretty clear that all of New York’s big fiscal problems can be traced back to socialism.
  Mamdani Is Telling A Brazen Lie About ‘Capitalist Mismanagement’ Of New York

  WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM

• And he will likely get it.
  Maryland Imam Calls for Blood
  
• What was not warranted was the reflexive rush to an Islamophobia narrative built on selective facts, by officials who knew, or should have known better.
  Mamdani, Tish James Push Mosque Islamophobia Claim But Leave Something Out
  
• Clearly, 'Islamophobia' is the problem here.
  Islamist Group Linked to Al Qaeda Demands UK Ban Movie Over ‘Islamophobia’
  
• Islamism, Western suicide, and the prophets of Eurabia.
  The Third Wave
  
• Egypt was once predominantly Christian until..... (MECCA Make Egypt Coptic Christian Again! jjs)
  No Christian Footballers Allowed on Egypt’s National Team in FIFA World Cup

  OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY, PLUS VARIOUS & SUNDRY GODLESS HEATHENS

• One author thinks she has found the answer.
  Why Do Jews Keep Voting for Leftists Who Hate Them?

  FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH

• There was no doubt whatsoever that what he was saying was true, and that thirty-five years after the end of the Cold War, communism is indeed resurgent in the U.S. The establishment media confirmed this by falling easily back into its old Cold War habit of sneering at foes of communism as if patriots were fabricating the threat entirely, or at very least wildly exaggerating it in order to advance their own agenda.
  Trump's Mount Rushmore Speech Outrages the Media Like Nothing Since the Days of Reagan
  * * * * *

• America won't beat China by banning AI. We'll win by building the world's best open models and letting innovation—not government—lead the way.
  Don’t Ban Open Source AI. Beat China With It.

  
  RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM

• “It is my Great Honor to have just signed Pardons for six people who were persecuted by the Biden (junta), and were in, or being sent to, prison, for ‘fixing their car,’” Trump wrote. “While I know this sounds ridiculous, it is nevertheless a fact, and part of the Weaponization and Stupidity that our Country had to endure during four long years of Sleepy Joe Biden. I AM SETTING THEM ALL FREE, RIGHT NOW!”
  Trump Pardons Defendants Convicted in Clean Air Act Cases, Cites ‘Right to Repair’
  
• This is the real face of the political left: Individual comfort and convenience should be subordinated to collective priorities, with government officials deciding how much energy ordinary people ought to consume. Over the pond in Europe, we are seeing the effects of that warm glow of collectivism in full force. Decades of climate policy, energy restrictions and cultural hostility toward air conditioning have left millions of Europeans sweltering without one of the greatest public health innovations of the modern age.
  America learned long ago that air-conditioning saves lives. Why does Europe remain so stubborn about it?
  
• As Europe and much of North America endured record heat, headlines quickly appeared claiming that the heat wave was "virtually impossible" without human-caused climate change. Really?
  Climate Change Blamed in Heat Waves: Science or Simulation?
  
• Though far from utopia, the world of 2026 is characterized by conditions that support human flourishing more than ever before.
  An Imperfect World That Is Better Than Ever

  CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY

• Fairfax County prosecutor Steve Descano has an extensive history of handing out cushy plea deals eligible for sealing
  How Virginia’s New Clean Slate Law—and a Soros Prosecutor’s Mishaps—Could Hide Admitted Child Molester’s Criminal Case

  EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT

• Leftists will scream that studying Scripture in public schools is unconstitutional, but is it really?
  Texas Brings the Bible Back into Schools
  
• Outrage over the Texas State School Board of Education’s requirement that the Bible be included in the K-12 curriculum isn’t just anti-God, it speaks to a lack of understanding of what made the West great.
  Outrage Over Texas Teaching The Bible Is Anti-Intellectual
  
• Academics in ivory towers have risen magnificently to the challenge of scrapping every visible vestige of DEI while mastering the art of rebranding. 
  DEI's academic makeover
  
• Turek opposed bills prohibiting DEI offices and mandatory DEI courses in Iowa universities and K-12 schools
  Iowa's Josh Turek, Self-Described 'Common-Sense Moderate Democrat,' Voted To Protect Race-Based DEI Programs in Iowa Schools
  
• And then the unnamed lunatic sues.
  Dartmouth Business School Turns Down an Antisemitic Lunatic
  
• “To know America is to love America. When only 1 in 4 of our nation’s eighth graders is proficient in civics, that’s a failure we cannot afford to accept,” Savannah Newhouse, Education Department Press Secretary...
  Here’s How State, Federal Governments Promote Patriotic Civic Education

  ABORTION

• The Pro-Life movement keeps trying soft approaches to end abortion, but the only thing that will stop the slaughter is for women to know they, personally, are at risk.
  Pro-Lifers Must Recognize That Abortion Stops Only If Women Face Consequences

  DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY, INSANITY

• "Weaponized government to settle personal scores"
  Bill Clinton Accuses Trump of His Own Crimes
  
• According to the Napa County Sheriff’s Office, the crash occurred around 2:30 p.m. on Yount Street in Yountville. Deputies said an unattended vehicle parked along the roadway sustained heavy rear-end damage.
  Paul Pelosi Under Investigation After Alleged Hit-and-Run in Napa County

  POLITICS

• Ugandan-born, socialism-loving New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has emerged as a “kingmaker” in the Democrat party, says one pundit.
  Mamdomino Theory: Democrats Struggle to Contain the Spread of Communism in Their Party
  
• McMorrow declined to immediately endorse either of her rivals, Democrat Michigan Rep. Haley Stevens and Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, a left-wing candidate backed by socialist Independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and Democrat New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Other Democrats, however, fear El-Sayed might lose in the general election.
  Struggling Michigan Democrat Mallory McMorrow Drops Out Of Senate Primary Race With Surging Leftist
  
• Communist radicals are mobilizing to sweep elections in 2028. Here’s what Republicans need to do to save the country.
  How to Beat Back the Democratic Socialists
  
• This fallacious way of thinking is as old as philosophy itself.
  How The Left’s Rejection Of Reality Backfired On A Progressive Champion
  
• Today's socialists aren't reviving Marx—they're replacing faith with politics and promising comfort instead of freedom.
  The New Socialists and What They Say about America
  
• Like a wifebeater, their love is nothing but conditional, and it comes with a lot of pain attached, not for them, but for the object of the “love.”
  A chart reveals Democrats as the wifebeaters of American politics
  
• “A combination of laziness, yes, and the liberal indoctrination that has been taking place in our education system for far too long,” Leavitt argued on X about the factors leading to the far left’s rise. “There are far-left educators pumping students’ heads with garbage, convincing them that hard work and sacrifice won’t pay off down the road because they want them totally reliant on the government instead,” she wrote.
  Karoline Leavitt has a theory on why her generation is going ‘communist’

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

• The pastor, Ezra Jin Mingri is the founder of Beijing’s Zion Church and was one of 18 church leaders arrested in what an NBC News report described as “China’s largest crackdowns on a single religious congregation in decades.”
  China Releases Pastor Two Months After President Trump Advocated for His Release with Xi Jinping

  HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE

• Despite early alarm and intense media coverage, the incident followed a predictable course for a rare zoonotic pathogen rather than escalating into a broader public health crisis.
  Hantavirus Outbreak Connected to Cruise Ship is Officially Over
  
• President Donald Trump unveiled an executive order in March establishing a new task force focused on eliminating fraud nationwide. The order states in part that ongoing “failure to ensure sufficient Federal oversight to prevent fraud, waste, and abuse has allowed irresponsible State politicians to increase Federal spending in their own States, which has contributed to inflation for healthcare services, housing, utilities, and groceries.” (RELATED: ‘Plagued By Fraud’: RFK Jr, Dr Oz Say More Than 1 Million People Without Social Security Numbers Enrolled In Obamacare)
  Trump Vowed To Root Out Fraud In Healthcare. How’s It Going?

  CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

• The accompanying slideshow featured LEGO minifigures recounting coming-out experiences, including one character attending a Pride parade and another depicting a male character proposing to his boyfriend.
  LEGO Faces Backlash Over Pride-Themed Content Aimed at Kids
  
• Why $100 books might not be so bad.
  The Luxury Book Boom Nobody Saw Coming
  
• Christian Toto: Angel Studios and Wonder Project deliver All-American treat, tease sequel
  Patriotic ‘Young Washington’ Draws Huge Crowd on Nation’s Birthday

  HITHER & YON

• Folarin Balogun, the dynamic U.S. striker who’s scored a goal in each of the three matches he’s played in this World Cup, will play against Belgium in Monday’s massive Round of 16 showdown.
  How US Soccer got Folarin Balogun’s suspension overturned — including Trump’s phone call
  
• Bottle caps, harmonicas, pocket watches, and other historic artifacts are being reclassified as Native American funerary objects.
  History Reburied
  
• I surmise that Christopher Gadsden’s Don’t Tread On Me banner is much more sophisticated than we previously thought.
  The Color Of Contagion

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