Sunday, July 5, 2026

13:48.  The disparate impact is our greatest weapon against merit.  It is our greatest weapon against excellence and it is an abuse of the spirit of our civil rights laws, which was to say we're going to allow everybody to reach their highest potential.  We ban discrimination, but we do not ban excellence.  We do not ban high expectations. We want all people to reach the same level of competence.  We're not going to have two standards of achievement: one for a particular race, another for another race.  One for a particular sex, another for a different sex.  We are going to have a single level of excellence in this society, and that is how we're going to move forward.  

14:35.  Reporter:  There is a deliberate effort to hire more people from more diverse backgrounds to work as paramedics and EMTs.

You're also may be putting people's lives at risk.  

American nationals attended a funeral event for Khamenei in Tehran on July 4, per MEMRI. American Communist Party official Christopher Helali: "I am here to defend Iran."

from Trevor Loudon on Jackson Hinkle,

We've exposed Gabbard's role in the February 19, 2023 "Rage Against The War Machine" rally, alongside her supporters Scott Ritter and Jackson Hinkle, who push for the destruction of the West through Aleksandr Dugin's "Multipolarity" vision.
Scott Ritter and Jackson Hinkle (and Hinkle comrade Haz Al Din, also a member of the "American Communist Party" Plenary Committee) have been associated with Caleb Maupin and his events. On December 2, 2023, Scott Ritter addressed Caleb Maupin's Center for Political Innovation's national convention, where he loudly supported Hamas to a standing ovation. "I don't Condemn Hamas, I support Hamas!" Tulsi Gabbard's connections are a clear endorsement of anti-Western ideologies.
Does that hammer and sickle send up any red flags?

HERBERT CALDERON: Scenes from the Wild West in Newport Beach this evening, which led to the city shutting all its businesses down around Newport pier up to PCH. Not one bar is open tonight in this part of Newport.

Out of towners?   

Thank you to S. Martinez for this tweet. 

Saturday, July 4, 2026

Heather MacDonald / Crime Stats Don't Lie.  Why Are We Ignoring Them?  Episode 53