European left-wing activist arrested for sexually harassing minor

About a week ago, this disturbing report from the Barkai district came up:

A European left-wing activist was arrested on Saturday near the Barkai neighborhood at the entrance to the settlement of Carmel in Judea and Samaria, following an incident in which he was filmed clinging to a 10-year-old Jewish boy in a manner that raised suspicion of sexual harassment. The boy's father filed a complaint with the police, and the suspect was detained at the scene until officers arrived. He was then arrested and taken in for questioning.

The incident began when three children, ages 10 to 12, made their way from the settlement of Carmel toward the Barkai neighborhood. About 50 meters (164 feet) from the neighborhood, the children encountered Palestinians and foreign left-wing activists who were in the area, and at some point, the group began to obstruct their path. During the confrontation, the suspect was filmed clinging to the 10-year-old boy, in a manner that led to suspicion of sexual harassment.

Residents of the neighborhood, who noticed what was happening and the children's distress, arrived at the scene and detained the suspect until security forces arrived. Police arrested him, and the boy's father filed a formal complaint. [...]

Following the incident, Eliram Azulay, head of the South Hebron Hills Regional Council, criticized the activity of these activists in the area. "We have been experiencing a long period of provocations from anti-Israel activists who live near the Barkai neighborhood and try every way possible to disrupt residents' daily routine," he said. He added, "This time, it's a dangerous and criminal red line that must not be met with silence. Harming children is a serious crime, and we expect the Israel Police and the justice system to enforce the full severity of the law against the attacker, without compromise."

This only confirms why said activists are siding with the Islamofascists there - because they agree with the beliefs of the Religion of Peace. The offender should be imprisoned and exiled permanently for what he committed.

Melissa Gilbert continues to flub

The actress who stupidly continues to defend her disgraced husband Timothy Busfield, despite the serious accusations of sexual abuse he's facing, supposedly defended child performers, and only wound up receiving criticism from Megyn Kelly:

In the wake of the allegations against her husband, Gilbert, 62, who played Laura Ingalls in LHOTP, has publicly spoken out in defense of Busfield. She also more recently posted an emotional PSA about protecting child actors following the death of Hayden Panettiere at 36. "Enough is enough," she declared on Substack, pointing to the deaths of Panettiere, Michelle Trachtenberg, and Daveigh Chase as a sign that "something is very, very wrong."

Kelly, 55, was not impressed. On The Megyn Kelly Show, the former Fox News host claimed, "She's gotta offer her 2 cents because it's very important to Melissa Gilbert to be seen as a champion of women, even though she's not."

Additionally, Kelly shot down the idea that mobile phones are to blame for the deaths of former child actresses.

"It appears to be thanks to people like your husband, who you are defending," Kelly said. "She's standing by him even on the host of women who have come forward. She was asked by George Stephanopoulos on Good Morning America whether she was aware of the litany of women who have come forward against him. OK, it's not just one or two. By my count, it is… at least seven who have come forward."

Kelly continued, "This woman, the gull. Like, how ever do we get to this point where women are being seriously abused — why don't you ask Timothy, Melissa? He could really help us out. Oh, wait. You don't give a s***about anything involving him. It's just something that you don't have any connection to that you would like to condemn. That's not how it works. You're going to have to sit this one out, Mel."

Even if this doesn't involve exactly the same topics and offenses Busfield was accused of committing, Gilbert has no business taking the moral high ground so long as she remains the creep's leading defender and apologist, and so, she again screws up classically. Such a disgraceful woman indeed, and she continues to destroy her legacy playing roles like Laura Ingalls Wilder on the 1974-84 Little House on the Prairie TV show. Perhaps it really is best if we all stuck to the original books instead.

Earlier, it was noted regarding the TV show When Calls the Heart that:

Gilbert's departure from the show might have less to do with "budget issues" than indicated, though. The announcement comes as her husband, actor and director Timothy Busfield, faces sexual abuse allegations in Albuquerque, New Mexico, after an alleged incident occurred on set while Busfield was directing a TV show between 2022 and 2023. "When Calls the Heart" is no stranger to scandals, including some behind-the-scenes details that only true fans of the show know after spending so much time in Hope Valley, so Hallmark might be trying to avoid another one with Gilbert's sudden departure.

Here's also some news about how Gilbert's wallet's been emptied based on her willingness to finance Busfield's legal bills. If they go broke, they'll deserve it. Something's wrong alright, and it's Gilbert's vehement refusal to be a realist. That kind of position is not a good example for wives to set.

Tucker Carlson gives his backing to Abdul el-Sayed

The phony "conservative" news host is perhaps unshockingly giving his support to the Muslim senate candidate for the Democrats in Michigan:

Democrats may be dealing with a socialist insurgency, but conservatives have their own, different in scale, perhaps, but no less concerning.

Former conservative Tucker Carlson, who still commands a loyal right-wing audience, joined forces with Saagar Enjeti, a former White House correspondent for the Daily Caller turned right-wing commentator, to effectively endorse Michigan socialist Abdul El-Sayed for Senate over Republican Mike Rogers. The duo tore into Rogers as “the most pro-Israel neocon” in existence, as they also mocked him for losing Michigan in the same year Trump carried the state in 2024.

While Carlson accuses everyone else of being obsessed with Israel, it’s a topic he clearly can’t get enough of.

“He's basically a tool of Israel in the Intel agency,” the former Fox News host said of Rogers. “How would you run someone like that?”

I think I've heard enough. Carlson continues to be unbearable, and if he believes Israel's bad, then he clearly also considers the whole of Europe illegitimate too. An utterly disgraceful, overly obsessed man who should never have been a news host to begin with.

Update: making matters worse is that vice president J.D Vance won't disavow his "friendship" with Carlson.

Haredi extremists threaten a secular school in Kiryat Yovel neighborhood

As though it weren't bad enough they were blocking buses and other traffic, now ultra-Orthodox extremists in one of Jerusalem's neighborhoods are vandalizing a secular school, prompting police to provide security:

Police have decided to provide security for a new secular school opening today in Jerusalem’s Kiryat Yovel neighborhood, after ultra-Orthodox extremists protested last night against “immodesty” in the capital, Hebrew media reports say.

Dozens arrived outside the school, scrawled “Stop the immodesty” on the walls, covered windows with stickers with slogans against enlisting in the IDF, and left paint and trash near the entrance gate, according to the Ynet news site.

The report cites a notice sent by the school to parents, saying that due to the vandalism, police are set to secure the area tonight and in the morning as students arrive.

Today is the first day of the school year, and the first-ever day of studies for this particular school.

Many of these extremists, no doubt, are pulling their abominations to damage the conservative movement in Israel, for the sake of leftists, and to bring down the government, all under the confidence the public will scapegoat rightists. What those monsters who trespassed on the school property did was offensive, and they must be found and arrested, and kept away from the school grounds entirely.

Will Ofer Winter's new party damage the right-wing coalition?

That's what some are worried about:

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday again warned that Ofer Winter’s new People of Israel party could cost the outgoing right-wing coalition essential seats if it runs alone in the upcoming election, urging Winter to meet with him and address the issue.

Netanyahu’s concerns came as he has so far been unsuccessful in his efforts to unite parties in his bloc ahead of a September 8 deadline to finalize slates before the October 27 election, risking votes backing him as prime minister being wasted if one or more of the smaller parties fail to cross the electoral threshold.

“I’m concerned that this party could do one of two things: either waste votes or cause one of the parties I mentioned to fall [below the electoral threshold],” the prime minister said during an appearance on the pro-Netanyahu Channel 14.

Netanyahu asserted that Winter was drawing almost no support from voters backing rivals B’Yachad chair Naftali Bennett or Yisrael Beytenu chair Avigdor Lieberman and urged him to coordinate with the broader right-wing camp.

“I say to Winter: Let’s meet, let’s talk. Immediately. To prevent a situation in which a party like this brings down the bloc,” Netanyahu said, while also confirming reports that the two have already met to discuss the issue. According to those reports, Winter refused the premier’s request to coordinate.

Winter rejected Netanyahu’s comments, saying in a statement that his party is “part of the right-wing camp” but “doesn’t work for anyone — only for the people of Israel.”

I think it's a shame if Winter's not cooperating. What if he ends up causing the kind of damage a bad lot like Naftali Bennett did a number of years ago? I'd like to think his entry into politics is a welcome one, but if he's splitting the right, that's not a good omen, and he may end up being blamed for bringing down the government for the sake of a left-wing one, which we do not need even now.

Kathy Hochul's dhimmitude

From Front Page, we discover this very atrocious scene where, shortly before the memorial for September 11, 2001, New York's governor, Kathy Hochul, wears a hijab at a meeting with Muslim leaders:

A self-described feminist voluntarily wearing a hijab to not offend/arouse Muslim men

Oh, the irony pic.twitter.com/tYOUmerqbx

— Riley Gaines (@Riley_Gaines_) August 30, 2026

Hochul, supposedly a feminist, has effectively sold out women this way. She could wear a Catholic nun's wimple and it'd still be wrong. It would also be inappropriate for her to wear the clothes of a Haredi/ultra-Orthodox woman. Does she also intend to approve of Islamic leaders attending the 911 Memorial the week after next? That's also wrong. Tragically, despite all this, she'll possibly be reelected to office if she runs again. Or worse, an actual Muslim will run for NY governor and be elected just like Zohran Mamdani was for NYC. This is truly awful.

Daughters of late Shas rabbi pan the party

Two daughters of the late rabbi Ovadia Yosef, the founding spiritual leader of Shas, have accused the party of abandoning their father's path:

Rabbi Ovadia Yosef’s daughters, Rivka Chikotai and Adina Bar-Shalom, sharply criticized the Shas leadership in an interview with Channel 12 News, claiming that the party has abandoned their father’s path and legacy.

The interview came amid the Attorney General’s decision not to allow state funding for the memorial marking Rabbi Ovadia’s passing, citing its proximity to the elections and concerns that the event could become an election rally.

Chikotai said the decision does not prevent the family from holding the memorial, but only from having it funded by the state. “All that is happening is that they won’t fund, at the state’s expense, a memorial that will turn into an election rally," she said.

The only problem here is, the late rabbi himself had a very lenient view on the Oslo accords that brought about the disasters we've seen since, including October 7, 2023. Ovadia Yosef was no hero, and truly, what legacy does he have based on that? His aides certainly exploited him for very poor purposes.

Interestingly enough though:

She also described what she said were difficulties faced by the rabbi’s daughters when visiting their father’s grave.

“We are daughters, so they put up a partition and keep the women far away. When we want to come and light a candle for our father, they don’t let us because we are women," she said.

Chikotai stressed that she grew up in a home where sons and daughters were treated equally. She recalled that family members drank from the Kiddush cup according to age, “not according to sons and daughters at all." When she encountered a different custom in her husband’s family, she said, she changed it.

Bar-Shalom claimed that Shas underwent a change following their father’s death.

“They changed the path," she said, arguing that the party now places greater emphasis on religious observance while neglecting “the mitzvah of treating one’s fellow man." She also accused the party of adopting characteristics associated with Ashkenazi, Lithuanian and Hasidic religious communities.

Chikotai said she believes the distancing from her father’s legacy began as early as the week he died. According to her, her husband, Yaakov, was not allowed to deliver a eulogy for Rabbi Ovadia because he wears a knitted kippah, despite being the rabbi’s son-in-law.

Chikotai said her children serve in the IDF and recalled her father’s pride in them.

“I even remember the pictures of Rabbi Ovadia, how he hugged the grandson who received an IDF award for excellence. How proud he was," she said.

The sisters also addressed Rabbi Ovadia’s position on military service. They said their father blessed Rivka’s children and sent them to hesder yeshivas. When they consulted him, he told them, “Go to hesder yeshivas. That is your path."

Even so, from what I remember myself, there were very bad things he did that damaged morale, and while some of that may be the fault of his aides, it still speaks poorly of him. His failure to recognize the validity of people like rabbi David Stav did more harm than good.

Regarding Shas chairman Aryeh Deri, Adina said she no longer has a relationship with him. She said that since he closed the college founded by her father, she has not spoken to him, adding that the sisters had restrained themselves for years and refrained from speaking publicly about the matter.

Bar-Shalom said their mother, Rabbanit Margalit, also disliked Deri and would leave the room whenever he entered.

According to Bar-Shalom, her mother called Deri “a hypocrite" and “a swindler," and she claimed that their father had also used those descriptions in the past.

Chikotai was asked why, after years of remaining silent, the two sisters decided to speak publicly.

“They finally drove us crazy. We couldn't take it anymore," she said, adding that she had hesitated before agreeing to the interview.

At the end of the interview, Chikotai claimed that people she meets on the street tell her they know the Shas leadership is not good, but continue to vote for the party because of her father.

She said her father would not want them to vote for a party that does not follow his path.

I do wonder - will any of those Shas party loyalists who didn't think for themselves before be willing to do so now? I know there's a new party being formed named HaTzibur HaHaredi, by a politician named Moti Leitner, that's more favorable to Haredis who want to serve in the IDF, and it's to be hoped the Shas electorate will be willing to consider them instead. What Shas has been up to under Deri in particular was absolutely terrible, and serious change is needed. And also careful security for polling stations during the elections, because there have been attempts to sabotage challengers in the past, and that was wrong. That too needs to be mended.

Hasan Piker desecrates the memory of Charlie Kirk

Daniel McCarthy reports the far-left Islamist Piker has been stirring up hatefests against the late Kirk, who was murdered last year by a LGBT practitioner:

Hasan Piker is deeply envious of Charlie Kirk.

The hard-left influencer debated Kirk in 2017 and was set to do so again before Kirk was murdered last year.

Yet now Piker is going around mocking Kirk’s assassination, leading a crowd last weekend, during his live podcast tour, in a sarcastic singalong of an AI-generated song called “We Are Charlie Kirk.”

“We are Charlie Kirk, we carry the flame. We’ll fight for the Gospel, we’ll honor his name,” Piker sang off-key, the crowd howling along, while the celebrity socialist’s co-hosts guffawed and waved their arms in the air.

This wasn’t satirizing a political opponent—Kirk has been dead nearly a year.

Why make him the subject of this derision?

It’s because Piker knows his audience, and they’re not looking for thoughtful politics. They want a hatefest.

Readers of George Orwell’s “Nineteen Eighty-Four” might remember the totalitarian leftist party that runs the dystopian state in that novel regularly held events called a “Two Minutes Hate” to whip up hostility against the regime’s enemies.

Piker has improved on that—his podcast and live events like this offer more than an hour’s hate.

And nobody stirs the Piker crowd into a frenzy like Charlie Kirk.

The slain Turning Point USA founder represents everything they’re against, and not just because he was a widely successful conservative organizer who won young Americans away from socialism on the unfriendly campuses where he spoke—and where he ultimately died for his beliefs.

Very disturbing indeed. And this is whom the far-left embraces today? A very bad omen for the USA, and everywhere else. Will Kirk's family sue Piker for this? They should. What Piker's doing is deeply offensive.

Zohran Mamdani is hostile to Hindus

Here's another example of the hostilities NYC's first Muslim mayor is espousing:

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who is Muslim, said he would not support a Hindu event in Manhattan where the leader of the group that is the ideological parent of India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will speak.

Asked if the event featuring Mohan Bhagwat, head of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), should be canceled, he ripped the party’s “exclusionary vision,” declaring, “I don’t support the rally, but I don’t know if the city has any jurisdiction to cancel a private event. The vision of India that I was taught by my family and one that I grew up being very familiar with was of a pluralistic society of a secular republic that believed in the belonging of each and every person who was from India. And it has been incredibly troubling to see the rise of a movement that is predicated on an exclusionary vision.”

This is just the latest play in Mamdani’s predictable playbook, seemingly derived from an endless urge to rip into anything he deems anti-Muslim while ignoring history.

Mamdani’s sudden posture as a defender of secular pluralism ignores a long, brutal history that has included centuries of documented evidence of violent persecution of Hindus by Islamic conquerors and movements. From the medieval raids of Mahmud of Ghazni targeting iconic Hindu temples to the bloody 1921 Moplah Rebellion in Malabar and the 1946 Direct Action Day massacres, history is replete with chapters of targeted anti-Hindu aggression.

This is just as abominable as Mamdani's hostility to pro-Israel sources. It's chilling to think what he'll say next about Armenia. Mamdani continues to be a humiliation for everybody sensible, and again, it's chilling to think of the high probability he'll be reelected in a few years.

What else did Milo Yiannopoulos do wrong?

A gay provocoteur who was supposedly a "conservative" has since broken the law on immigration in the USA, and has been deported. Based on what else is told here about Yiannapoulous, he was asking for it:

Disgraced British provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Thursday and will remain in custody pending deportation, the Department of Homeland Security announced Friday.

Yiannopoulos, a 41-year-old British citizen, was arrested at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport. DHS said he legally entered the United States through New York City on May 14, 2019, but overstayed his visa.

An immigration judge issued Yiannopoulos a final order of removal on July 22 after he failed to appear for an immigration hearing, according to DHS. [...]

TMZ first reported that immigration officers had apprehended Yiannopoulos at the airport ahead of a Kanye West concert scheduled for Friday night in New Orleans.

Yiannopoulos previously served as West’s chief of staff and political director. The former Breitbart News editor also served as an unpaid summer intern for former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene in 2022.

Yiannopoulos’ career collapsed in 2017 after footage surfaced in which he argued that relationships between older men and younger boys could be a positive “coming-of-age” experience.

He stated that such relationships could “help those young boys discover who they are and give them security and safety and provide them with love and a reliable sort of rock, where they can’t speak to their parents.”

That same year, footage surfaced of Yiannopoulos in 2016 singing at a Dallas bar as members of the crowd gave Nazi salutes. The bar’s owner said the staff began removing the group once the “Neo-Nazi type stuff” started, saying the establishment did not condone it.

Those vile statements of his involving children were repulsive, and it was humiliatingly bad what he did. How couldn't we have seen through this chalatan to begin with? He even recently indicated he was kowtowing to Islam, and that spoke volumes too. Taylor Greene's also a bad lot, and why isn't it shocking he'd work as an intern for her?

Anyway, it looks like he's already been shipped back to Britain, and may never have a chance to return to the USA. He really was useless for the conservative movement, and if he was trying to humiliate it in the long run, he sure did quite a job in that context. Maybe he should now languish in a prison cell, based on what he said about young boys, and his drivel is more than reason enough to fully ostracize him.

911 Families continue opposition to having Mamdani attend memorial service

Here's another article about 911 Families opposed to having a repulsive figure like Zohran Mamdani attending the memorial service this coming month. Here's some history of a woman who lost her husband in the attack:

Monica Iken and her husband Michael Patrick Iken were set to celebrate the second anniversary of their meeting on September 9, 2001.

The newlyweds – married 11 months prior – parted on that Tuesday morning with Michael heading to his work as a bond broker in the South Tower of the World Trade Center in NYC.

“He kissed me goodbye and said, ‘I love you; I’ll see you later.’”

A few hours later, Michael called Monica from his office and told her to turn on the television. She thought this was strange, as bond traders are the busiest in the mornings and he would not normally call until the afternoon.

“I did, and I saw this gaping hole and that a plane hit the building [the North Tower],” she recalled in a conversation with The Jerusalem Post. “He told me: ‘Everything is fine, everything is okay. They said to stay where we are. Don’t worry.’”

“Then he said, ‘I’ve got to go. I’ll call you back.’ He called me back a few minutes later and said, ‘Listen, you’ve got to call the family and friends; they keep calling me here, and there’s a lot going on.’”

Monica pulled up the phone book while still watching the TV and listening to her husband, who still sounded calm.

“I have the phone book in my left hand and the phone in the right hand, and I literally see this thing come out of the corner of the screen on the right side, like a giant jumbo jet.”

“I thought: ‘There’s no way.’ Nothing was registering. When you see something like that, your brain is not computing. I literally watched [the plane] hit the [South] Tower, and I was frozen in space because he worked in tower two on the 84th floor.”

Monica said she kept thinking Michael would get out, because his best friend did. But by September 12, she said, her “nightmare had begun.”

“To this day, I have no remains,” she told the Post. “I have nothing ... not even a ring, not even an ID, nothing.”

“I had to digest that I was newly married, trying to have a baby, and he went to work but was never coming home. And even though we went down to look for him and we did all those things, the reality was – I knew he was gone.”

Monica starts NGO, September's Mission to preserve site

After Michael was killed, Monica became concerned with the idea that the city may build over the site of all the fallen. This prompted her to start her NGO, September’s Mission.

It was founded with the primary objective of working with public and private partnerships to secure the acreage of the World Trade Center site and ensure “that we do not build over dead people in America.”

Of the approximately 16-acre site of the former World Trade Center complex, Monica and her fellow advocates managed to secure half of the site for the Ground Zero memorial.

“The good news is I have a place to go to honor my husband,” she continued. “His birthday is on September 8, so I go there on September 8. He will be 62 this September. We celebrate every year.”

“As long as I’m alive, I go to the memorial, and we sit by his name, and we have merlot, his favorite thing, and we celebrate life instead of death,” Monica said.

“He took his last breath there, his last step, and for me, that is a sacred and hallowed space. I thank God every day for that place, because if I didn’t have that place to go, I would never have survived the nightmare,” she continued.

September mission's second objective is working with families of those killed and advocating for them to receive whatever they need.

“I help them with mental health and educational programming. I do a lot of things behind the scenes,” Monica remarked.

She doesn’t take a salary, and uses her own funds to keep the organization running.

Because of her work with September’s Mission, Monica is very involved emotionally and practically with the families, so when the discussion came up in recent months about New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s planned attendance at the memorial, Monica’s main concern was how the families will feel about that.

“It’s not political for me. He’s our mayor. I’m a New Yorker. It’s more about the fact that this is our time, and the people who should be there are the ones representing that time with us and were a part of that time,” she said.

“I don’t know where he stands exactly, but he doesn’t seem to be on the same page,” Monika continued, adding that she felt that Mamdani was somewhat connected to the people who “murdered our loved ones.”

“If I go to a funeral and the murderer comes, I don’t think that’s acceptable. And I’m not saying he is a murderer. I’m just saying that he wasn’t involved. I think he needs to just respect us and let us have our time, and then he can do whatever he wants.”

Mamdani should not be attending the memorial service, and he also shouldn't be working as mayor. And we must hope he won't be anywhere near the memorial site come the week of the tragedy next month.

America before the dhimmitude propaganda took hold

Tim Rice tells about how the USA got to where it is now with Islam having taken hold in the quarter century since September 11, 2001:

It’s popular among a certain sort to point out that Islam has always been a fact of American life — Thomas Jefferson owned a Koran, don’t you know — but that’s not really true. Before 9/11, Islam was only tangentially relevant in American life. As recently as 1993, the journalist Robert Kaplan was still using the term “Moslems,” which feels like “Boer” or “Hottentot” or something else we left in the 19th century.

But on September 11, 2001, Islam and America collided, and the former has been on a speedrun in our country ever since.

It’s fascinating but not entirely surprising that an Islamic terror attack on the United States somehow led to the rapid mainstreaming of radical Islam in this country. Countries tend to import bits of former enemies’ cultures, like how we all drive Hondas and the Japanese love baseball. But the acceptance of even the most vile and un-American forms of Islam was hastened by the liberal obsession with fighting “Islamophobia” during the War on Terror, an arguably good intention that paved the road down which folks like Abdul El-Sayed now trod.

Our problem is not a lack of awareness necessarily — consumers of conservative media at least are familiar with things like the footwashing station in the Dallas-Fort Worth airport and the semi-autonomous Muslim town in Texas. The problem is that even those of us paying attention don’t appreciate how quickly we got here.

As we approach the 25th anniversary of 9/11, consider the scandal that rocked the 10th: the planned construction of an Islamic community center blocks away from the site of the terrorist attack. Dubbed the “Ground Zero Mosque,” the project was almost universally derided. Howard Dean said the project was “a real affront to people who lost their lives” on 9/11, while then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid called for the builders to pick a different site.

It’s hard to imagine Democrats reacting that way now, and that’s a problem. But even in 2011, things had gotten away from us. Reid and Dean broke with President Barack Obama, who defended the project. Obama may not be a secret Kenyan Muslim, but he sure did his best to make criticizing Islam socially unacceptable.

Even years before, both Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan were already enabling footholds, and there were alleged conservatives who were just as hostile as some leftists to the whole notion of daring to speak negatively about the Religion of Peace. Tucker Carlson's quite possibly one of those. Many of these same people are more than utterly willing to call even 911 Families "bigots and xenophobes", and in the past quarter century, I remember a man from Titusville, PA, claiming to be a teacher, who said that while he may not call a kid whose firefighting father died in the WTC tragedy a bigot, he would be perfectly willing to say he was wrong to come within even miles of saying anything negative about the Religion of Peace. Its makes no difference whether somebody's willing to employ crude language or not, what's offensive there is that somebody in a position of "education" is basically saying survivors of 911 and their families have no moral authority and are systematically forbidden to address serious issues like these in any way, shape or form. And it should be noted the man I speak of later embraced a book laced with anti-American metaphors that minimized sexual violence. That man, to my knowledge, died 4 years ago at just 57 years old, of an illness, but the damage people like him did to morale and unity is stunning. And that people like him were willing to support books with repulsive viewpoints speaks volumes.

I've thought at times about what Rice says on the high liklihood the Democrats today wouldn't say a word against building a mosque near Ground Zero. And the election of Zohran Mamdani to mayoral office in NYC is additionally chilling, because it speaks volumes about what kind of electorate now resides in the Big Apple, and not just Muslims themselves. It also makes clear how many non-Muslim leftists now reside in a burg I myself never felt much attachment to, and that spells serious trouble going forward. Especially if they reelect Mamdani in the next few years.