Happy Easter from Trump, not from England King

The King of England is the formal head of the Anglican Church, so I would expect him to make a positive Easter message. Nope. He put out a Mohammedan Ramadan message instead.

Here is Pres. Trump's Easter message:

This Easter Sunday, the First Lady and I join with Christians all across our Nation and around the world in rejoicing in the Resurrection of Jesus Christ, whose triumph over sin and victory over death secured the promise of redemption and the hope of eternal life for all who believe in Him as Lord and Savior.

Sunday, we proclaim with joy that Christ has risen, a new creation has been ushered in, and evil and death have been conquered forever through the unmatched power of God’s sacrificial love.

When Jesus Christ rose from His earthly tomb on Easter morning, He restored our grace, washed our sins, and reconciled humanity with God—fulfilling the ancient prophecy that “He was pierced for our sins, crushed for our iniquity … by His wounds we were healed.” His suffering won our victory, His love brings us life, and His Resurrection is our everlasting hope.

As we rejoice in this Easter season, we are reminded that the life of Jesus Christ and the truths of the Gospel have inspired our way of life and our national identity for 250 years. From the Christian patriots who won and secured our liberty on the battlefield and every generation since, the love of Christ has unfailingly guided our Nation through calm waters and dark storms.

We pray that this celebration of the Resurrection strengthens our faith, enriches our lives, and reawakens our souls. We offer prayers of adoration and thanksgiving for the countless blessings God has bestowed upon our Nation. We acknowledge that, through Christ’s redeeming sacrifice, in the words of Holy Scripture, “Death is swallowed up in victory.” Above all, we echo with tremendous joy those sacred words that have given life, hope, and purpose to Christians for thousands of years: He is risen.

Happy Easter!

A Jewish paper reports:

Photos of the new king wearing his royal kippah, facts about his circumcision and his relationship with rabbis abound. ...

There is much to tout in terms of the new king’s devotion to Judaism. Another delightful photo is of him donning his kippah, which was first sighted at the installation of Britain’s current Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mervis in 2013. Charles was the first member of the royal family to attend an installation of a chief rabbi. ...

King Charles III, along with thousands of British Jews, was circumcised by Rabbi Jacob Snowman, a physician and one of London’s leading mohelim, or ritual circumcisers. The queen requested Snowman, who was well known in the London community.

The London Telegraph says: How the King became the Jewish community’s greatest ally. There is no surer way to show that you are symbolically owned by the Jews -- get circumcized by a rabbi.

France wants Electoral Bans on Wrongthinkers

France news:

French President Emmanuel Macron Friday denounced what he described as an "anti-Semitic hydra" that had crept into "every crack" of society as he commemorated Ilan Halimi, a French Jewish man tortured to death in 2006. ...

"In 20 years, and despite the resolute efforts of our police officers, gendarmes, judges, teachers and elected officials, the anti-Semitic hydra has kept advancing," Macron said.

That crime was committed by a gang of Africans. No, there has been no resolute effort to keep Hohammedans or Africans out of Paris.

He also attacked what he described as "far-left antisemitism", saying it "rivals that of the far right", and "anti-Semitism that uses the mask of anti-Zionism to advance quietly".

Macron also said he wanted "mandatory electoral bans" for officials guilty of "anti-Semitic, racist, and discriminatory acts and remarks".

France is being invaded by Mohammedans and Africans, and its response is to abolish free speech.

Suicidal Empathy

Wikipedia:

Suicidal empathy is a purported phenomenon in which excessive, misdirected and pathological forms of empathy are claimed to be destructive for the party that exhibits it. This is often claimed to happen through prioritizing compassion, understanding and empathy over logic, and long-term consequences. There is no support for this concept in psychology, and its proponents are not psychologists or sociologists. This phrase was coined by professor of evolutionary psychology Gad Saad.

The phrase "suicidal empathy" is commonly used by culture warriors, right-wing figures, and Christian nationalists to condemn empathy towards groups such as immigrants and racial minorities, often in association with the Great Replacement conspiracy theory.[1][2] It has been referred to as a "right-wing buzzword" by The Bulwark.[3] ...

In a 2025 interview with podcaster Joe Rogan, Elon Musk uses the phrase "civilizational suicidal empathy" to refer to what he believes is the corrosion of American culture.[8] According to Musk, suicidal empathy refers to "weaponized" empathy to bring about political and policy modifications.[9][10][11]

I guess the editors do not want anyone using the term. It says psychologists do not use the term, and that the term was coined by a psychologist!

This was on display at the Supreme Court yesterday, as it was argued that birth tourists and illegal alien children should automatically become citizen because of some Civil War Reconstruction language.

Bill Maher believes in Space Aliens

Comedian and political pundit Bill Maher made a 2008 movie Religulous, making fun of religion. So he qualifies as a hard-headed atheist.

Last week he gave a tv monologue on how he now believes that we are being visited by space aliens.

If at this point you don’t believe aliens are here and observing us, maybe you’re the conspiracy theorist. They're here, they came in a sphere, get used to it.

The evidence is some of the new UFO/UAP videos that have been released.

Yes, I think a space alien invasion is as ridiculous as the religions he mocks.

Separately, Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder says We pretty much have evidence for life in other solar systems. This is based on finding signatures of non-equilibrium compounds in alien planet atmospheres.

Maybe Maher is just making a joke. Some comments:

It’s clear that Maher, like me, doesn’t believe that these aliens and their craft really exist. He’s just using the notion to criticize what’s wrong with America. If craft and aliens did exist, and we possess crashed ships and alien bodies, then somehow there has been a massive conspiracy to hide it by both Democratic and Republican governments—as well as by the press— to cover up the greatest news story in the history of humanity.

[reply] Bill Maher genuinely seems to believe in aliens—he’s not just entertaining the idea. He appears to be as convinced of their existence as he is that COVID originated from a lab leak. He has interviewed the creator of the documentary Disclosure twice — once on Real Time and once on Club Random — and was very supportive in both conversations. In a previous Overtime segment, he was also asked about Area 51 and suggested that the government is hiding evidence of extraterrestrial life. In my personal opinion Maher has been smoking too much weed.

(The first comment was retracted here.)

I am coming around to a view where it is meaningless to talk about what others believe it. I cannot judge Maher's sincerity, nor can I be sure whether he is joking. And I don't think it makes a difference.

Nor can I say whether Pres. Trump believes in God, or whether Richard Dawkins is really an atheist. It is much better to judge people based on their actions.

Lots of people have weird beliefs. I am inclined to think that if someone has some very wacky belief, like space alien visitors, then all his other opinions should be discounted. But this leaves me discounting everyone.

Another example of this is free will. Many educated people say they do not believe in free will. To me, that reduces them to a mindless automaton, or to a schizophrenic following voices in his head. When they give opinions while denying free will, they are literally saying that the opinions are not their own. But it is also possible that they believe in free will, and only deny it because of some defect in their mental logic.

Today is Cesar Chavez Day in California

It has been renamed:

California lawmakers voted Thursday to rename César Chavez Day as Farmworkers Day in an effort to reconcile the Latino labor icon's legacy with explosive sexual abuse allegations before the state holiday on March 31.

I listened to the NY Times podcast on this, and the accusations come from women who kept quiet for 50-60 years. Chavez has been dead for 30 years. The main accuser was angry that she had been kicked out of the Chavez organization for being a heroin addict, and for bringing heroin to others. There was no corroboration of any of the accusations.

I am not trying to defend Chavez. I am merely saying that there is no way to know what happened 50 years ago. We do not even have Chavez's side of the story. I tend to doubt heroin addicts, and those who wait until they cannot be contradicted. But believe what you want.

Canada Schools Teach Paganism

Physics professor Larry Krauss writes:

In the early 2000s, I spent much of my time over the course of several years fighting the incursion of religion into science classes in the United States. ...

We were very successful, culminating in a famous court case in Dover, Pennsylvania, where a local school board had tried to replace a high school science text with an intelligent design textbook. After testimony from numerous scientists, the judge wrote a remarkable 139-page judgement describing ID as religion, rather than science, and therefore not appropriate for discussion in high school science classes.

Actually the judge did not write it. The ACLU wrote it, and the judge rubber-stamped it. The decision relied on the Lemon Test, which has since been reversed by the US Supreme Court. The judgment no longer has value.

You may wonder how religious fundamentalism could so effectively creep into the curriculum in a progressive place like British Columbia. The answer is simple. The religious nonsense being inserted into the curriculum has nothing to do with Christian fundamentalism; rather, it is Indigenous religious nonsense. And in the current climate, Indigenous “knowledge” is held to a different standard from scientific knowledge — or, rather, to no standard at all.

The B.C. Curriculum resorts to a phrase that was utilised by the New Zealand government when they too distorted the high school science curriculum in that country by arguing that Indigenous “Ways of Knowing” should be taught alongside conventional science and treated as an equally valid way of understanding how the world works.

The Catholic Church and the other mainstream Christian churches teach regular science, and not the stuff he complains about.

UN Vote demands Slave Trade Reparations

AP reports:

The U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday adopted a resolution declaring the trafficking of enslaved Africans “the gravest crime against humanity” and calling for reparations as “a concrete step towards remedying historical wrongs.” ...

The vote in the 193-member world body was 123-3, with 52 abstentions. Argentina, Israel and the United States were the three members voting against the resolution. The United Kingdom and all 27 members of the European Union were among those that abstained.

The USA Constitution did abolish the slave trade. So the slave trade was a crime in the 1800s. An amendment later abolished slavery itself.

The Africans were enslaved by other Africans, and sold to international slave traders. So maybe Africa should pay reparations.

See The case against reparations for slavery and colonialism, by Coel Hellier. It details the absurdities on many levels.

But didn't the USA profit from the slave trade? No, it did not. The slave trade was an economic disaster for the USA. The USA would be much richer if it never happened.

And the USA has been paying trillions of dollars in reparations already. Collectively Black Americans get much more in government mandated benefits than the taxes they pay.

For annother view, see The Four Kinds of Black Americans-Andre Williams. He has some harsh advice for his fellow Blacks.

Democrat Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal has called for the USA to pay reparations to illegal aliens, because they have been traumatized by ICE enforcement.

Academia cannot Tolerate linking Race and IQ

Maarten Boudry writes:

Two separate statements have recently been issued by members of Ghent University, in Belgium, calling on the university to rescind the appointment of Nathan Cofnas as a postdoctoral researcher. One claims that his views “violate the university’s code of ethics and are morally beneath contempt”.

Cofnas is hated for this:

Any realistic path to victory over wokism requires widespread acceptance of hereditarianism among the elites. As I explained in “Why We Need to Talk about the Right’s Stupidity Problem,” wokism is what follows from taking the equality thesis seriously, given a background of Christian morality. If all races and sexes have the same innate distributions of psychological traits, disparities in socioeconomic status must be due to environmental factors. In practice, that means differences in outcome favoring whites or men will be attributed to past or present white racism or sexism. This triggers an all-consuming crusade against the hidden forces of discrimination. That’s what wokism is. Smart people are disproportionately attracted to the woke left because the mainstream right accepts the equality thesis but fails to recognize its implications. Woke law and woke institutions are primarily effects rather than causes of elites being woke. Undermining the equality thesis destroys the intellectual basis of wokism and gives the elites a reason to join the right.

According to this paywalled article, Cofnas is threatened with arrest in Belgium.

This is all taboo. Here is the logic. Some people are more intelligent than others. Intelligence is measured by IQ tests. All evolved human traits must be heritable. Numerous studies have shown IQ to be heritable. Heritable traits are very likely to have average differences over groups. Race is real and measurable. Self-identified race is nearly always the same as that identified by DNA tests. There are likely to be racial and sex differences in IQ, with a largely genetic origin.

This information could be used to justify discrimination.

Often this is addressed by attributing differences to culture or discrimination. If so, there could be some legal remedy. But those remedies have never worked.

So the response is to deny that race exists. Or deny that IQ exists. Or deny that human genetic differences exist. Or prohibit anyone from talking about the subject.

AI LLMs are already Sentient

New Quillette essay:

Most of today’s “artificial intelligence” is better described as artificial autocomplete than artificial mind. Large language models are vast pattern-recognisers: they have learned statistical regularities in text, and they are extremely good at reproducing them.

As neuroscientist Christof Koch points out, tools like ChatGPT, Anthropic, and Perplexity can only “regurgitate what other people” have written.

The AI LLMs have more intelligence that the people making these comments.

Artificial general intelligence has been achieved. The latest models are smarter than any individual human.

How to Label a Criminal Illegal Alien

Apparently newspapers have to be sensitive about how they describe killers.

Yahoo News reports:

The Loyola Phoenix, the student newspaper of Loyola University Chicago, has issued an editor’s note apologizing for an Instagram post calling the alleged killer of 18-year-old student Sheridan Gorman an "illegal immigrant."

"On March 23, a post on The Phoenix’s Instagram page carried the following headline: ‘Immigrant Man Charged in Murder of Sheridan Gorman, DHS Involved,’" the editor’s note, posted below a Sunday article about Gorman’s murder, read.

"That headline didn’t reflect the most important elements in the story, and it was taken down minutes later to prevent any further harm to affected community members," the editor’s note continued.

"Additionally, in the body of the original post, we described the man who was charged as an ‘illegal immigrant,’ using language provided by the Department of Homeland Security," it went on. "That language does not align with Associated Press style, nor does it align with the values of this newspaper."

A Sunday press release from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) called the alleged killer, identified as Jose Medina-Medina, a criminal illegal alien from Venezuela.

So the editor is lying about using DHS language, as it called him a criminal illegal alien.

I actually agree with avoiding the term "illegal immigrant". An immigrant is someone who comes to the USA on an immigrant visa, or is a naturalized citizen, or is in the process. Most of those called illegal immigrant entered the SUA illegally, or on some other visa. It would be better to call them illegal aliens, or deportable foreigners, or something like that.

Update: This story got covered on White Liberal News Repeat After Us ep 143.

Tucker Carlson Accused of Heresy

Rich Lowry of National Review today posted Why is Tucker Carlson promoting a Christian heresy?

The supposed heresy is Marcionism, an ancient obscure dispute about what books should be included in the Bible. Marcion like Paul, but not the Old Testament.

It is amusing to see political attention to old theological disputes. Apparently National Review sees its mission as policing right-wingers, and stopping them from annoying the Jews.

Carlson has become anti-war, much to the annoyance of Pres. Trump and pro-Israel factions. But I do not see that he said anything supporting Marcionism.

Carlson is simply taking the mainstream Christian view that the Gospels supersede the Old Testament. He disagrees with those who say Christianity is subordinate to Judaism.

Nelson Mandela Ruined South Africa

A South African explains You Were Lied to About Nelson Mandela.

The short version is that he was a Communist terrorist, and turning power over to him destroyed the country.

While puncturing heroes, check out The Helen Keller story doesn't add up. She was not evil like Mandela, but her story is surely exaggerated.

Covid-19 may have Started in California

There is still a lot of attention to the origin of covid-19, but one thing puzzles me. Everyone says it started in Wuhan China, and spread to California in late Jan. 2020. The Wikipedia article on Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in California says:

The following is a timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in California.
2020
January–February
On January 26, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirmed the first case in California, the third case in the U.S. The person, a man in his 50s, who had returned from travel to Wuhan, China, was released from the hospital in Orange County on February 1 in good condition to in-home isolation.

And yet the Red Cross published proof that it was in California in 2019:

A study by the American Red Cross and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), entitled “Serologic testing of U.S. blood donations to identify SARS-CoV-2 reactive antibodies: December 2019-January 2020,” was recently published in the Clinical Infectious Diseases journal. This study aimed to determine when the virus might have first appeared in the United States by using archived samples from routine blood donations collected by the Red Cross. The non-identifiable blood samples used in the study—from donors in nine states between Dec. 13, 2019 and Jan. 17, 2020—demonstrate one way that blood donation helps scientific research.

In the U.S., the first COVID-19 infection was reported on January 19, 2020 in a traveler returning from China. These study results show that it’s possible COVID-19 may have been present in the U.S. in December 2019, earlier than previously recognized.

The findings of this study indicate that that it is possible the virus that causes COVID-19 may have been present in California, Oregon, and Washington as early as Dec. 13-16, 2019, and in Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts, Michigan, Rhode Island, and Wisconsin as early as Dec. 30, 2019 - Jan. 17, 2020.

Here is the published paper.

I asked an AI LLM why the authorities promote a Wuhan China origin theory, in spite of this evidence. It gave these arguments for the prevailing wisdom:

The China health authorities genome-sequenced the virus, while the California authorities did not.

The covid-19 antibodies were only found in 2% of the Jan. 2019 California samples, indicating it was not yet widespread.

The California samples were anonymized by the time they got to the Red Cross, so there was no followup on symptoms.

Many medical papers blame racoon dogs and other animals at the Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan China.

Studies in journals like Science, Cell, and Nature (including molecular clock analyses) consistently place the origin in Wuhan, with circulation undetected for at most ~1–2 months before the December cluster.

Nobody noticed excess hospital cases or deaths in California in Dec. 2019.

People were traveling out of China at the time, not into China.

I do not see how any of this rebuts a California origin theory. Yes, everyone wanted to blame that Wuhan animal market, but we now know that there was a conspiracy to cover up the possibility of a Wuhan Lab leak.

People were certainly traveling from California to China. Apple computer alone was sending dozens of managers back and forth everyday.

China was much better at responding to the epidemic than the USA. Yes, they did testing while the USA dithered.

I was in California at the time, and people certainly did notice the outbreak of an unusually bad flu-like virus.

All this does not prove covid-19 started in California. Maybe it started somewhere else, spread to California, and spread to Wuhan. There is some evidence of a Wuhan lab leak, and some are convinced by that. Maybe it started with a Wuhan lab leak in Oct. 2019, spread to California, and back to Wuhan. That would be consistent with the genomic papers.

But I think it does prove that the official timeline is wrong. Covid-19 was in California in 2019. It also proves that those who blame China for not responding faster to the epidemic are also wrong. China acted much more promptly than California.

The 2019 California outbreak was blamed on the flu. By Feb. 2020, nothing was blamed on the flu, and all flu-like symptoms were blamed on covid-19. The flu disappeared from official reports.

This makes no sense to me. Covid-19 was a flu-like virus. It could have been called the 2019 flu, but for political reasons. Some flu viruses are worse than others. Covid-19 was particular bad on elderly people with multiple comorbidities, like diabetes and obesity. We should have just called it the flu, and tried to protect the elderly.

There are a lot of covid-19 controversies that were never fully resolved. Did the virus come from pangolin/bat, or a lab leak. If a lab leak, was it accident or deliberate. And was the virus made worse by "gain of function" research. Why was all the advice so bad, regarding hand-washing, masks, social distancing, etc. Why were the schools shut down. Why was the vaccine info so bad. Why don't we have answers, six years later.

Besides all that, no one is even asking about the California outbreak. How is that the covid-19 was so serious that California closed the beaches, but the Dec. 2019 outbreak, whether it was covid-19 or something else, was completely ignored.

Half of Immigrants on Welfare

The argument is often made that immigrants are good for the USA economy. But a new study shows:

Of households headed by non-citizens, 47 percent use one or more traditional welfare programs. This rises to 54 percent when eligibility for payments from the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) or the Additional Child Tax Credit are added. The corresponding figures for U.S.-born households are 28 percent and 31 percent.

The immigrants are parasites. Your tax money is funding them.

Senate Votes on Girls Sports being for Girls

The USA Senate just voted on this bill:

Section 901 of the Education Amendments of 1972 (20 U.S.C. 1681) is amended by adding at the end the following:

``(d)(1) It shall be a violation of subsection (a) for a recipient of Federal funds who operates, sponsors, or facilitates athletic programs or activities to permit a person whose sex is male to participate in an athletic program or activity that is designated for women or girls.

``(2) For purposes of this subsection, sex shall be recognized based solely on a person's reproductive biology and genetics at birth.''.

All Republicans voted Yes, and all Democrats No, so it dies by a Democrat filibuster.

Apparently this defines our political divide more than anything else. For at least a century, there was universal agreement that girls sports were for females. Now it is down to Pres. Trump and his supporters.

People are allowed different views on the war, taxes, and other subjects. But politicians have to stick to the party line on this. Future historians will have a hard time explaining why anyone wanted boys to play girls sports.

More Black Roles Coming

A big budget movie version of Homer's Odyssey will soon be released, and the rumor is that a Black Kenyan Mexican will play Helen of Troy. The producers will only say that she is on the movie.

They have confirmed that a half-Black actress will play the goddess of wisdom, Athena.

I did not watch the Oscars, but I read that they gave some prizes to Black and anti-White movies.

A new video asks: Why aren't characters iconic anymore? It is a good explanation of how modern movies do not work anymore.

See the video Hollywood's PATHETIC Blackwashing of History, for how Netflix distorts history, or this Nature article.

Shakespeare to be Decolonized

The London Daily Mail reports:

William Shakespeare's birthplace will be de-colonised over fears that portraying his success as the 'greatest' playwright 'benefits the ideology of white European supremacy'. ...

It comes amid an ongoing backlash against the writer. Some productions of his works have been slapped with trigger warnings for misogyny, racism and 'problematic radicalised dynamics' that link whiteness to beauty.

In 2022, a research project between the trust and Dr Helen Hopkins at the University of Birmingham postulated that the idea of Shakespeare's 'universal' genius 'benefits the ideology of white European supremacy'.

This is because European culture is portrayed as the standard for high art and the playwright as a symbol of British 'superiority', according to The Telegraph. ...

'Shakespeare's works are full of problematic, outdated ideas, with plenty of misogyny, racism, homophobia, classism, anti-Semitism and misogynoir,' she wrote, with the last word referring to a hatred of black women.

I did not know there was a word for not liking Black women.

Yes, the study of great works of literature, art, science, math, architecture, etc. is all to the benefit of White supremacism.

Sweden and Germany go Anti-Democracy

Swedes believe that America is no longer a democracy:

Democratic backsliding is advancing in the developed world. The annual report from Sweden’s V-Dem Institute leaves no room for doubt: almost a quarter of the world experienced democratic backsliding, or a shift towards autocratization, in 2025, and six of the 10 newly regressive countries identified in the research are located in Europe and North America, including G-7 powers such as Italy, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

But the most unsettling conclusion reached by the Swedish institute is that the United States — once a proud beacon of the more or less free world — is no longer a liberal democracy and is now on a par with countries like Hungary or Turkey, thanks to President Donald Trump.

No, this is crazy. Polls in the USA and most of Europe show that big majorities believe that they are getting too many immigrants. And yet the countries that try to limit immigration are those accused of losing democracy.

Tweet:

Berlin has just imposed INSANE immigration quotas on the judiciary system.

Now 40% of candidates for judges and prosecutors must have an immigrant origin.

Is that so they can just let all the migrant criminals off easily without any repercussions at all?

How the hell is this not a systematic version of racial replacement of Germans?

Do the Germans ever plan on fighting back?

6:32 AM · Mar 18, 2026 · 745.1K Views

Don't the Germans have any pride in who they are? It appears that the government wants Germany to be ruled by foreigners.

This is not democracy. I very much doubt that the people want this.

No Harmful Ideologies of the Sex Binary

Biology professor Jerry Coyne writes:

Ecology Letters, which I thought was a reasonably respectable journal, has now accepted a “viewpoint” article arguing that there is no consensus on biological sex, and that a definition based on gamete size—a consensus if ever there was one—is just viable as “multivariate” definition that incorporates a combination of chromosomes, genetics, and morphology.

They’re wrong and misguided in many ways, ...

But they add that the “rigorous research” they propose be done “also challenges simplistic and harmful ideologies of the sex binary”.

One of the paper's more ridiculous arguments is that female hummingbirds sometimes have bright colors, making them look more like male birds. No, bird colors do not refute sex being binary.

The Plot for World Domination

Wyatt Peterson writes:

The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion, that controversial document which came to light in the early 20th century, continues to prove extraordinarily prescient. ...

The basis for the claim that the Protocols are a ‘forgery’ dates back to 1920, when Jewish journalist Lucien Wolf penned an article for a Jewish Board of Deputies newsletter claiming that the text is a plagiary of the mid-19th century works of Maurice Joly and Hermann Goedsche.[5]

I guess that when the Jews plotted to take over the world, they plagiarized the plan from some other group planning to take over the world.

No, I do not take the book's authenticity seriously. It is just amusing to compare what was written to what has unfolded.

Ariana Grande may be an Impostor

Is Ariana Grande for real?

It used to be that you could spot an AI fake image by counting the fingers. Now the AI image generators are much better, and they get the fingers right. But Vogue published a picture of her with six fingers on her left hand!

She used to be a pretty girl, but now she looks like the wicked witch she played in a movie. I do not know whether it is the extreme weight loss or all the ugly tattoos or maybe some plastic surgery, but she looks like a freak.

The Decline of Hollywood

Bloomberg posts Why Hollywood Is Facing a Very Unhappy Ending. Maybe it is coincidence, but this New Rule: Oscars So Wrong | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO) explains that Hollywood went woke about ten years ago, and has been flooding us with anti-White and queer propaganda.

Supposedly Hollywood was making up for a long history of racism, but actually Blacks had been overrepresented in movies and even in the Oscars.

At any rate, it appears that AI generated Youtube videos are replacing movie theater blockbusters.

The Rise and Fall of TED Talks

A new video explains:

What happened to TED? How did one of the most influential idea platforms in the world go from cultural authority to internet punchline?

This video explores The rise and fall of TED, from its founding in 1984 by Richard Saul Wurman as an elite intellectual gathering for technology, entertainment, and design, to its explosive global growth under Chris Anderson and the Sapling Foundation. After TED put its talks online for free in 2006, including Sir Ken Robinson’s legendary lecture on creativity, the brand crossed 1 billion views and became a defining force in internet culture.

But scale changed everything.

Through the launch of TEDx in 2009, more than 44,000 events and 233,000 talks flooded the internet. The tight curation that once made TED a trusted brand weakened. Pseudoscience slipped through. Elizabeth Holmes pitched Theranos on a TED stage. A comedian exposed the lack of oversight with a fake, absurd talk. Meanwhile, flagship conference tickets climbed to $12,500 and $25,000 donor tiers, shifting perception from ideas-first to elite networking.

This Company Name documentary-style business breakdown analyzes how format rigidity, over-scaling, brand dilution, changing attention spans, and political controversy reshaped TED’s reputation. As long-form podcasts and short-form TikTok content reshaped media consumption, TED’s 18-minute format became stuck in the middle.

For founders, operators, and entrepreneurs, this is a case study in platform strategy, brand trust, and the hidden risks of growth. The story of TED is not just about conferences — it’s about curation, scarcity, and what happens when distribution outpaces quality control.

That is all true, but there is another factor not mentioned. The Ted Talks are Leftist propaganda.

TED has a diversity of speakers, so you might expect a diversity of views. Nope. There has never been a right-wing speaker. No speaker is pro-Trump, pro-Brexit, pro-Christianity, or pro-MAGA. Many are non-political, but the political views are all globalist and leftist.

There are still a lot of good Ted Talks, freely available online. They always have very polished deliveries. Just remember that you are getting leftist propaganda.

The Silicon Valley AI Tyrants

Online comment:

I care deeply about the existential risks posed by AI, which is a primary reason why I voted for Trump over Biden, who had no clear plan surrounding AI alignment.

The companies and the tech gurus creating AI will become enormously wealthy and powerful, beyond our wildest dreams.

This is why it horrifies me—terrifies me—that control of this nascent super-technology is in the hands of woke leftist radicals.

Think about how powerful AI could be. And think about the reality that the software engineers and tech nerds who control it are woke leftists who are confused about what gender they are, have “polycules” (vomit), think white straight males are responsible for all the evil in the world, think age-gap relationships are evil, think America is a settler colonialist state, think Christianity is wrong and evil, want to force experimental dangerous vaccines on everyone, want to mutilate confused young women and men by brainwashing them into thinking they’re the other gender, want to blanket the country in “gay pride” flags and valorize anal sex between males as beautiful while condemning normal straight men.

This is the set of values which rules Silicon Valley. And Silicon Valley is now controlling the most powerful (potential) technology in the history of the human race. It is awful. It is utterly terrifying. For a technology as transformative and powerful as AI, we CANNOT allow it to be controlled by these communist freaks.

Thus, nationalizing all these companies is the best possible choice. Better for AI to progress slower, as long as it remains under sane and reasonable leadership, instead of woke freaks in Silicon Valley.

This is on the blog of a Jewish ex-Openai researcher/professor. He is a big Trump-hater, but also very much in favor of Trump's pro-Israel policies. He sometimes complains about the Left canceling him because he only agrees with them 98% of the time.

Openai and Anthopic talk a lot about how AI LLMs will take over all our lives, but not to worry because they have some engineers working on alignment. No thanks. I do not want their alignment.

NYC Mayor Sides with Islamic Terrorist

Newsweek reports:

New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani wrote on X Sunday: "Yesterday, white supremacist Jake Lang organized a protest outside Gracie Mansion rooted in bigotry and racism. Such hate has no place in New York City. It is an affront to our city’s values and the unity that defines who we are. What followed was even more disturbing. Violence at a protest is never acceptable. The attempt to use an explosive device and hurt others is not only criminal, it is reprehensible and the antithesis of who we are. ...

No, he does not speak for "who we are". He is a Mohammedan born in Uganda to Asian-Indian parents.

The bomber shouted Allahu Akbar, meaning the Islam god is greater than the Christian God.

Lang was protesting the Islamification of New York. He is notable for being a pardoned J6 protester, but not for being a White supremacist.

More and more, I am see immigrant politicians stake their positions on being anti-White. You would think that a mayor could denounce a bomber without coupling it to an anti-White statement.

Most of the news reports about this incident tried to blame the anti-Islam protest for the bombs. No, the bombers were Mohammedan immigrants, trying to kill Whites.

Update: CNN had to delete this post:

“Two Pennsylvania teenagers crossed into New York City Saturday morning for what could’ve been a normal day enjoying the city during abnormally warm weather,”

“But in less than an hour, their lives would drastically change as the pair would be arrested for throwing homemade bombs.”

No, they were not Penn. teenagers. They are ISIS terrorists trying to bomb Christians.

OpenAI and Anthropic are Menaces to Humanity

Openai and Anthropic brag that their AI LLMs will soon have AGI, and they will essentially take over thw world and disrupt 100s of millions of jobs. And they must be trusted to do it safely and responsibly.

See this podcast on why Sam Altman should not be trusted for anything.

The head of Anthropic is almost as annoying as the head of Openai. His main argument is not that he is opposed to autonomous weapons, but that Claude is not sufficiently reliable yet. How does he know?

3 USA F-15s were shot down by friendly fire. Was that error by a human or an autonomous system? They are not telling us. Either way, an AI LLM might be able to improve what we have, and Amodei has no clue.

Here is his lawsuit against the War Dept, and an amicus brief from Openai and Google researchers. The brief argues:

Every smartphone continuously broadcasts location data to carriers and dozens of applications. Credit and debit cards generate a timestamped record of nearly every commercial transaction Americans make. Social media platforms log not just what people post, but what they read, how long they browse, and what they posted before deleting it. Employers, insurers, and data brokers have assembled behavioral profiles on most American adults that are already, in many cases, available for government purchase without a warrant. What does not yet exist is the AI layer that transforms this sprawling, fragmented data landscape into a unified, real-time surveillance apparatus. Today, these streams are siloed, inconsistent, and require significant human effort to connect. From our vantage point at frontier AI labs, we understand that an AI system used for mass surveillance could dissolve those silos, correlating face recognition data with location history, transaction records, social graphs, and behavioral patterns across hundreds of millions of people simultaneously.

The mere existence of such a capability in government hands — even if never activated against a specific individual — changes the character of public life in a democracy.

That is a description of the Google business model. It collects that data to use AI to make 100s of billions of dollars targeting ads, effectively selling mass surveilance data to marketers.

The Google brief complaint is not that such AI systems exist, but that they might end up on government hands. I am much more worried about what private companies are doing with such systems.

The brief also argues:

. A child’s tricycle can physically be driven on an interstate, but we do not allow it because of the risks of using the technology in that environment. Mass domestic surveillance and autonomous lethal weapons systems are the equivalently reckless domain for today’s frontier models. The considered judgment, shared widely across the AI development community, is that these applications of current AI technology carry risks so severe, and threaten harm so impossible to repair after the fact, that some kind of guardrails — whether contractual or technical — are necessary to constrain them in the absence of robust, genuinely effective governance frameworks.

The analogy to a child's tricycle is weird. A tricycle is not a dangerous technology, except that it gets in the way of other vehicles. I would expect an analogy about a toxic chemical truck on the highway, or something like that. No one worries about tricycles.

I do not think that there is any such consensus in the AI development community. They worry about AI LLMs taking over the world, or releasing dangerous info like bomb-making recipes, or tricking people into doing foolish things. They do not worry about military units doing their jobs more efficiently.

Openai and Anthropic are both planning to go public this year, with a combined market value of about a trillion dollars. And yet they run by lunatics with untenable business models. There has never been a situation before with so much at stake with such flaky companies.

Conflict of interest disclosure: Anthropic has promised to pay me $3000 to compensate for training Claude on a pirated copy of my book.

The Corrected Signs of the Zodiac

SciAm explains:

Astrology is currently experiencing a remarkable renaissance—especially on social media, ...

Toward the end of the fifth century B.C.E., Babylonian astronomers divided the ecliptic into 12 equal sections of 30 degrees each, analogous to their calendar’s 12 months of 30 days each. In doing so, they developed the first known astronomical coordinate system. They assigned each section a constellation located in the night sky along the ecliptic at that time of the year.

The language of Astrology leads people to believe that if their sign was Aries, then Aries would be visible overhead on their birthday.

This is wrong for a couple of reasons. If Aries is your sign, then the Sun would be blocking that constellation on your birthday. So you would not see it because of the brightness of the Sun. It is also wrong because the Earth has shifted, and so the alignment of the stars, in the last 3000 years. Also, there are 13 signs of the Zodiac.

The above article tells you the true calendar of the constellations.

Criminals are Born That Way

It is common to attribute crime to poverty, absent fathers, or poor education. Someone will notice that a lot of prisoners were fatherless, and decude that huge social problems could be solved encouraging fathers or funding school programs. Maybe, but it does not follow.

This essay explains:

The Blank Slate, the idea that differences in human personality and behaviour are entirely the result of that person’s experiences earlier in life, is utterly dominant in swathes of the social sciences, including sociology, criminology, and anthropology. Left-leaning academics adhere to the blank slate because it implies that humans are fully malleable. If a person’s behaviour, good or bad, is entirely the result of how they have been treated, then one can fix all of society’s problems by re-engineering society to give everyone an idyllic upbringing and so produce a utopia. Indeed, the failure to have done that already can only be attributed to the iniquity of the capitalists who thus need to be overthrown and deposed.

We’ve known for decades that this is utterly wrong. By far the biggest influence on a person’s personality and behavioural traits is their genes [1]. Twin studies, corroborated and supported by adoption studies and other types of study, tell us that about 50% of the variation in behavioural traits is attributable to differences in genes. Everything else – including biological randomness in embryonic development, the influences of families, schools and communities, and all the other influences and experiences specific to each person – only adds up to the other 50% [2].

The heritability of criminality is about 40–50%, which means that whether or not a child is likely to grow up to have a criminal record depends primarily on the genes he was born with, and less than that on his upbringing and childhood environment [3]. So why is this totally ignored in most discussions of the causes of crime?

Last month, a fatherless Canadian male transgender dropout shot and killed 6 in a school. It seems obvious that a deranged mom and a missing dad were major causes. Probably so. But we cannot know for sure in an individual case. We can research this by aggregated cases and measuring statistics. When that is done, the genetic causes are apparent, and the others are not.

European Civilizatoin required many Centuries

Hot tweet:

.@StephenM : "The West only achieved the place that it did in human history because it spent previous centuries eradicating the criminal elements within it’s territories. The West that we came to know that had the great music and architecture and science and the most powerful economy had spent centuries previous to that establishing order first."

He has made this point before. Europe executed mayb 1-2% of its population every generation for centuries.

Elon Musk retweeted this:

Stephen Miller is 100% right here

The high culture that made the West so superior to everywhere else on Earth only came because Western Europe executed ~1% of each generation for centuries

In weeding the crime gene out of the population through centuries of capital punishment for everything from larceny to murder, Western Europe made itself a paradise, and blossomed into the greatest high civilization the world has ever seen over the 18th and 19th centuries

So, as he said, "The West only achieved the place that it did in human history because it spent previous centuries eradicating the criminal elements within it’s territories. The West that we came to know that had the great music and architecture and science and the most powerful economy had spent centuries previous to that establishing order first."

That is 100% true. High civilization requires order, and requires the pruning of the tree of civilization to achieve it

So it was a eugenics program that worked. Or maybe you will attribute the changes to Christianity, or legal institutions.

Regardless, it took many centuries to make the European and American people what they are today. There are no known shortcuts. It cannot be done with immigrants.

Texas Politician turns out to be a Nut

Democrat James Talarico just won a Texas primary against a radical Black woman, and the news media treats him as a moderate. He is not.

The NY Post reports:

“White skin gives me and every white American immunity from the virus,” Talarico’s full post read. “But we spread it wherever we go—through our words, our actions, and our systems. We don’t have to be showing symptoms—like a white hood or a Confederate flag—to be contagious.”

I do not know what this means.

The goofiest stuff is that he talks about religion a lot, and has weird beliefs.

Justifying the Iran War

Why are we at war with Iran? To end its nuclear program? To get its oil? To improve the human rights of its citizens? To stop Iran from exporting terrorism?

Unfortunately, the Trump administration has made statements implying that Israel started this war, and we have to be on its side.

There is another reason that people do not want to say. Iran was becoming a China puppet, and maybe this war is to limit China's allies and oil supply.

The NY Post has an op-ed:

Beijing’s slick sales pitches convinced the Iranians to spend their oil billions buying China’s military and telecommunications equipment — like the “state-of-the-art” radar systems that now lie in smoldering ruins after failing to detect the incoming American airstrikes.

But the decapitation of Iran’s leadership and the destruction of its Chinese-made defense arsenal aren’t the worst of Beijing’s Middle East woes.

It goes on to argue that China is the real long-term threat. We are afraid to fight China directly, so we have proxy wars.

See also this interview.

Meet a UK Health Ambassador

Athika Ahmed is a member of the Cardiff and Vale Health Youth Board and said her Bangladeshi heritage and traditional values are partly what inspired her to get involved with the Youth Board and aspire to become a doctor. 

Athika Ahmed is a 23-year-old health ambassador in Wales, known for her advocacy in women's health and her efforts to educate young people about health issues.

Athika Ahmed is a medical student at Cardiff University and has been involved in health advocacy since she was 16 years old. She has worked as a health ambassador, focusing on raising awareness about women's health issues, including endometriosis, menopause, and menstrual health. Her work aims to break the stigma surrounding these topics, particularly among young Muslim girls, and to promote better health education in schools.

This looks like a joke, but it is not. This is Britain today.

Nigeria is Repopulating the World

The world is not prepared for this reality. Soon Africans will be taking over the world, and using up all the resources.

California Schools Overruled

Some conservatives announce:

U.S. Supreme Court Delivers Historic, Groundbreaking Victory for Parental Rights, Dismantles California’s Secret Gender Transition Regime

Supreme Court rules that California cannot hide children’s gender transitions from parents; landmark decision protects parental rights nationwide

It was amazing that California had a policy of secretly transgendering minor students, and concealing it from the parents.

The 6-3 Supreme Court decision is here.

The USA was not Founded on Judaism

If this were a Jew, I would say it is understandable that someone thinks that his religion is more important than others. But it is almost certainly a Christian Zionist, as no Jew would make this diagram.

You might say the USA was founded on Christianity, as well as the Roman Empire, Greek philosophy, English Magna Carta and common law, and many other European influences. But not Judaism. The founders paid no attention to Judaism, except to reject it. Even Israel gets its political system from Britain, not Judaism.

Here is Mike Huckabee defending Christian Zionism, and attacking his Tucker Carlson interview. He defines it as following Jesus and also believe the Jews have been brought to their homeland in fulfillment of Scripture. He claims that recent Catholic Popes have been Christian Zionists.

I asked an AI LLM if he is correct:

No, Mike Huckabee's recent claim that several recent Catholic Popes were **Christian Zionists** is not accurate. Christian Zionism is a theological and political viewpoint primarily associated with evangelical Protestantism (especially in the U.S.), which interprets biblical prophecies as requiring support for the modern State of Israel as a fulfillment of God's promises to the Jewish people, often tied to end-times eschatology. It typically affirms that the Jewish people have a divine right to the land, sometimes extending to expansive biblical borders.

The Catholic Church, including under recent Popes like John Paul II, Benedict XVI, and Francis, has explicitly rejected a theological basis for Zionism—that is, the idea that the modern State of Israel fulfills biblical prophecy or that Jews have a divine scriptural right to exclusive sovereignty over the Holy Land. The Church views the ancient covenants with the Jewish people as irrevocable (per Romans 11 and Vatican II's Nostra Aetate), affirms the Jewish people's enduring bond with God, and supports Israel's right to exist securely as a modern state on political and humanitarian grounds (e.g., self-determination, safety from antisemitism). However, this is not rooted in Christian Zionist theology.

Recent Popes have:
- Supported a two-state solution for Israel and Palestine.
- Recognized both Israel (diplomatic relations in 1993 under John Paul II) and Palestine (agreements in 2000 and 2015 under John Paul II and Francis).
- Advocated for justice, peace, and reconciliation for all in the region, including Palestinian Christians.

The heads of churches in the Holy Land (including Catholic leaders) have repeatedly condemned Christian Zionism as a "damaging ideology" that harms Christian unity and the local Christian presence, as in statements from 2006 and January 2026.

Huckabee, as a self-described Christian Zionist and U.S. Ambassador to Israel, made statements in January 2026 defending the term and questioning why any Christian wouldn't be a Zionist, in response to those church leaders' criticisms. He has expressed bewilderment that not all Christians share this view, but this reflects his evangelical perspective, not Catholic teaching.

Your impression that Catholics historically wanted the Holy Land for Christians aligns with pre-20th-century views (e.g., during the Crusades or earlier papal opposition to Zionism, partly due to concerns over holy sites and Christian communities). But modern Catholic policy prioritizes peace, dialogue, protection of holy places for all faiths, and rights for Palestinians (including Christians) alongside Israel's security—without endorsing Christian Zionist theology.

In short, while recent Popes have supported Israel's existence and condemned antisemitism, they are not Christian Zionists in the sense Huckabee uses the term. The claim appears to be an overreach or misunderstanding from a Protestant evangelical viewpoint.

The bizarre thing to me is that Huckabee seems to not even understand why a Christian would not be a Zionist. Here is a hint: Christianity and Judaism are two different religions.

He is the USA ambassador to Israel. Most Americans are pro-Israel, but do not buy into his theology.

An orthodox Jew law professor has posted another rant on how Catholics must not be permitted to say that Jews killed Jesus or to reject Zionism. He says the Catholic faith has been corrupted by the world's oldest hatred. No, this is crazy anti-Christian hatred. Jews like to tell stories about how they are supposedly being persecuted. They are not. Jews are the most privileged people in the world.

I see that Jews have just outbid Netflix to buy Warner Bros. Discovery. This keeps more of the mainstream media under Jewish control. See this video, if you doubt that the buyers are loyal to Israel.

Medical Societies Flip on Transgenderism

I have posted many times on how the major medical organizations have been corrupted, especially on political and LGBTQIA issues.

Now a NY Times op-ed announces:

As GLAAD puts it on its website, “Every major medical association supports health care for transgender people and youth as safe and lifesaving.” But something confounding has happened in the last few weeks: Cracks have appeared in the supposed wall of consensus. ...

The next day, the American Medical Association — which has long approved of such procedures — announced that “in the absence of clear evidence, the A.M.A. agrees with A.S.P.S. that surgical interventions in minors should be generally deferred to adulthood.” ...

The documents, separated by about a year and a half (and, perhaps as significantly, one presidential election), straightforwardly contradict each other. The A.P.A. in 2024 argued that there is a “comprehensive body of psychological and medical research supporting the positive impact of gender-affirming treatments” for individuals “across the life span.” But in 2025, the group argued that “psychologists do not make broad claims about treatment effectiveness.”

What changed? Was there new evidence?

No, the biggest change was the election of Donald Trump.

There were a lot of complaints about the President's State of the Union address. But the Trump 47 Presidency has been a return to sanity. Someday people will wonder about how the world went so crazy about transgenderism and other issues.

Update: The NY Times reports that the world's most wanted criminal was captured and killed in Mexico, largely as a result of Trump administration intelligence and pressure.

Carlson Questions Christian Zionist

Tucker Carlson interviewed Mike Huckabee, and they argued about whether today's Jews have a legitimate Biblical claim to control the nation of Israel. There were two parts to this: whether today's Jews are the same people as those in the Bible, and whether a historical background entitles people to political power today. Huckabee is a Christian Zionist who believes the Jews have a Biblical right to Israel and surrounding areas.

Most mainstream Christian Catholics and Protestants regard Christian Zionism as a heresy.

Matters of ancestry are usually settled by DNA, but DNA tests are illegal in Israel, with certain exceptions, such as court orders and medical screening. DNA tests can used to help prove that a Jew is entitled to Israel citizenship. Regular consumer DNA tests are illegal, as in Germany and France. They are cheap and legal in the rest of the world.

It baffles me how the people of those three countries can put up with such a ban. Everyone should have a right to know who he is. DNA gives identifying info that cannot be obtained in any other way.

In France and Germany, the purpose of the ban is to cover up a mother's infidelity. In Israel, the ban is also to cover up many Jews not really having Jewish ancestry.

Update: The UK BBC tries to explain Carlson:

6:52 Well, the thing that Tucker, and he did this at Fox, too. Um he's he's doing this still. He he's very good at taking fringe ideas, ideas that exist on the far far far far right often times, you know, on the internet. Um, taking those ideas and smuggling them into the mainstream and presenting them in such a way he makes them more palatable. ...

the 7:22 most sort of famous instance of this is the great replacement theory. this idea that um elites, oftentimes Jews, are bringing immigrants into the United States to replace white voters and therefore support the Democratic party. I mean, this is this is a theory that has been bumping around on the far far far right for for decades.

Not far far far far right. An obvious fact.

Islamic Subjugation or Dogs

Tweet:

Muslim preacher who lives in San Diego, California:

"Islam will enter every house. Their children will be Muslim, let them yap all they want. If you fight Islam, I will fight you. Muslim bans won't stop us."

Islam has been saying this for a millennium.

Jewish Congressman Fine tweeted:

"If they force us to choose, the choice between dogs and Muslims is not a difficult one."

He defends it:

“Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is one of many who called this, quote, ‘one of the most disgusting statements’ she’d ever seen. Congressman, I’d just like to give you an opportunity to respond to the congresswoman there.”

The congressman replied:

Well, I appreciate that. Look, here’s my view. It’s not enough for Democrats to think anyone who wants to come here illegally should be able to do that. They also think they should be able to get whatever free stuff they want. Now they are demanding that we change our values and how we live as Americans. My post is in response to a major Muslim leader saying dogs should be forbidden from New York City because to some Muslims it bothers them. Well, if they’re gonna make us choose between our dogs and them going home, the choice is easy and people should know Democrats like AOC are saying, “We are going to get rid of your dogs.” Americans need to keep that in mind when they go to vote in November.

Another Jim Watson Obituary

From an obituary of the famous biochemist Jim Watson:

In the late 1990s, Watson gave seminars, notably at the University of California Berkeley, where he expanded on research on the hormone POMC and related peptides and made inappropriate and incorrect observations about women. In October 2007, he made racist remarks about the intelligence of people of African descent, and, damagingly for his fellow employees at CSHL, stated that while he hoped that everyone was equal, “people who have to deal with black employees find this not true.” The CSHL Board of Trustees dissociated the institute from Watson’s comments, and he was forced to step down from his administrative position as Chancellor. The matter resurfaced in January 2019 when Watson was asked if his views on race and intelligence had changed. His answer was unequivocal: “No, not at all.” The Laboratory’s response was immediate, relieving him of all his emeritus titles. Watson and his family, however, continued to live on the CSHL campus.

A reader comments:

But was it necessarily bigotry? Might he have seen himself as making a best-efforts and good-faith evaluation of the evidence, and following that evidence, even if it leads to an unpopular and heretical conclusion?

If the reply would be along the lines that, no, the evidence showing he was wrong is so available and clear cut that no good-faith scientist could arrive at his conclusions, so it must have been bigotry, then could someone do the world a favour and point everyone at the available and clear-cut evidence showing he was wrong? (Note that the various denunciations of him don’t actually do that, they just denounce him.)

If there were a reliable scientific study proving Watson wrong, then the reviews would cite it.

Watson could be shown wrong if intelligence is not real, or if it is not measurable, or if all groups have the same average scores. But IQ is measurable, and group averages could be significantly different.

There still could be multiple explanations for those differences. One reason for disagreement is that differences attributable to identified genes are much smaller that what is indicated by twin studies. I do not know whether Watson took a stand on this, but he was an enthusiast of genetic explanations, so he was probably inclined in that direction.

Regardless, no makes any specific criticisms of Watson. They just call him a racist.

New CNN Special on Christian Nationalism

CNN reports:

The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper, a six-time Emmy® Award-winning CNN Original, returns with “The Rise of Christian Nationalism” with CNN Anchor and Chief Investigative Correspondent Pamela Brown premiering Sunday, February 22 at 8pm ET/PT. The hour will stream on demand the next day for subscribers of CNN’s streaming offering.

In this hour, Brown examines the growing influence of Christian nationalism, an ideology rooted in the belief that the United States was founded as a Christian nation and that its laws and institutions should reflect Christian values.

Good. It defines the term. It is not an attempt to radically change American government, but to affirm its history.

A previous CNN story:

Many Trump administration actions have blurred the lines between church and state. In the days before Kirk was assassinated at Utah Valley University, Trump delivered a speech at the privately funded Museum of the Bible in Washington, DC, where he promised to protect prayer in public schools through forthcoming guidance from the Department of Education.

“To have a great nation, you have to have religion,” Trump said. “I believe that so strongly. There has to be something after we go through all of this — and that something is God.”

A federal court just upheld a Louisiana law requiring the display of the Ten Commandments in the schools.

Plaintiffs present no historical evidence that remotely suggests that our Founders would have regarded a passive display of the Ten Commandments as an impermissible “establishment of religion.” ...

Plaintiffs present no historical evidence that remotely suggests that our Founders would have regarded a passive display of the Ten Commandments as an impermissible “establishment of religion.” U.S. Const. amend I. See, e.g., Kennedy, 597 U.S. at 537 & n.5 (noting the “hallmarks of religious establishments the framers sought to prohibit when they adopted the First Amendment”) (citing, inter alia, Shurtleff v. City of Boston, 596 U.S. 243, 285–86 (2022) (Gorsuch, J., concurring)). To the contrary, our Nation’s history proves precisely the opposite.

Our Nation’s Founders didn’t just permit religion in education — they presumed that there would be religion in education. Indeed, our Founders firmly believed that our Constitution wouldn’t work without a religious people.

John Adams famously observed that “[o]ur Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” John Adams, Letter to the Massachusetts Militia (Oct. 11, 1798). John Jay similarly wrote that “Providence has been pleased to give this one connected country, to one united people, . . . professing the same religion, attached to the same principles of government.” The Federalist No. 2, at 9 (John Jay) (J. Cooke ed. 1961). The Massachusetts Declaration of Rights, contained in the 1780 Massachusetts Constitution, proclaimed that “the happiness of a people, and the good order and preservation of civil government, essentially depend upon piety, religion and morality.” Mass. Const. pt. I, art. III.

Given the centrality of religion in our Founders’ conception of good citizenship, it’s not surprising that religion was a cornerstone of American education from the beginning. The First Congress understood religious instruction to be a necessary element of education, providing in the Northwest Ordinance of 1789 that “[r]eligion, morality, and knowledge, being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged.” 1 Stat. 50, 52 (1789).1

Those founders did not necessarily agree about their religious views, but they all believed in Christian education.

New Wuthering Heights Movie

The 1847 novel Wuthering Heights is considered one of the great English novels, and a 2007 British poll presented it as the greatest love story of all time. Now it has been made into a 2026 movie.

I have not seen it, but you should be warned. It is a porno movie. The female lead is a 35-year-old woman playing a teenager. None of the characters are likeable.

It is not really a love story. A girl falls for a bad boy, and cannot forget him even after she marries a much better man.

I thought that these stories of reckless female loyalties were a more modern phenomenon, but apparently female readers have been eating this up since at least 1847. The book does not have the porno scenes, but it does have Heathcliff being a nasty guy.

King has Prince Andrew Arrested

The Jeffrey Epstein madness continues. The King of England had his brother arrested:

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, the younger brother of Britain’s King Charles III, was arrested on his 66th birthday following revelations about the former prince’s relationship with the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

After an early morning police raid at his home in Sandringham, Mountbatten-Windsor became the first member of the UK royal family to be arrested in modern history.

His arrest – on suspicion of misconduct in public office – prompted Charles to express his “deepest concern,” while stressing that “the law must take its course.”

After spending more than 10 hours in a police station in Norfolk, near his new home, Mountbatten-Windsor was released “under investigation” late Thursday evening and pictured leaving a police station.

So there is no charge, and no specific allegation. The potential sentence is life in prison.

They did not disclose what led to Andrew’s arrest, but previously said they were assessing whether he shared confidential information with Epstein during his decade as a UK trade envoy.

The royal, who was then the Duke of York, was forced to step down from his role in 2011 over his friendship with Epstein, who had been convicted in 2008 for soliciting prostitution from a minor.

The former prince has denied all accusations against him and insisted he never witnessed or suspected any of the behavior of which Epstein is accused.

Are you kidding? This is like the N. Korea dictator having his uncle executed.

Maybe the prince should not have been friends with an American Jew who had once solicited a 17-year-old prostitute. But this is a crazy overreaction.