By Paul Homewood . h/t Philip Bratby .     Excited by reports of a late June heatwave to make up for the achingly familiar blustery showers that are expected to dominate the first couple of weeks of summer? Don’t be.

Sorry for the lack of warning about dropping the Comment of the Week again—it is temporary. I was busy and lost track of it last week, making it unlikely I’d get things in order in time for (last) Monday Morning. This

https://townhall.com/columnists/horacecooper/2024/06/01/living-in-a-free-society-is-not-a-passive-endeavor-n2639748#google_vignette For years, the progressive Left, ambitious self-serving politicians, and the elites of the administrative state have chipped away at the American dream, the promise of opportunity, and the shared reverence for the founding principles of our society that once propelled

https://swtotd.blogspot.com/ “’Let the jury consider the verdict,’ the King said, for about the twentieth time that day. ‘No, no!’ said the Queen. ‘Sentence first – verdict afterwards.’” Alice in Wonderland, 1946 (my copy) Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) While the charges against Donald

https://www.city-journal.org/article/in-portland-the-intifada-begins-in-kindergarten Portland, Oregon, has earned its reputation as America’s most radical city. Its public school system was an early proponent of left-wing racialism and has long pushed students toward political activism. As with the death of George Floyd four years ago,

https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/06/06/anthony-fauci-has-made-a-mockery-of-science/ In Uncontrolled Spread, Scott Gottlieb, former US Food and Drug Administration commissioner, observed that the six-foot social-distancing rule was ‘probably the single most costly intervention’ recommended by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that ‘was consistently applied

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/it-turns-out-hamas-wont-just-commit-suicide/ One week ago, Joe Biden revealed the details of an Israeli cease-fire proposal (to which the Israelis seemed conspicuously cold) that he said held out the promise of a “better ‘day after’ in Gaza without Hamas in power” (to which

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/a-new-medical-coalition-rebuts-the-propriety-of-gender-affirming-care/?utm_source=recirc-desktop&utm_ It took too many years, but finally some countries in Europe are pushing back against so-called gender-affirming care that promotes irreversible body-altering interventions to gender-confused children and adolescents. Meanwhile, the thoroughly researched and soberly written Cass Review — authored by

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/06/remembering_d_day_s_freedom_fighters.html It is hard to believe that eighty years have passed since American, British, and Canadian troops landed at Normandy and fought their way across fortified beaches covered in German mines and barbed wire fences.  What a nightmare it must have been