Posts on Saturday, August 1, 2026

We had to look twice at this headline in the New York Times to believe it. “In Trump’s Economy, Job Gains Go to Women. That’s Not an Entirely Good Thing.” Huh? Is the Times complaining that men are being shut out of the workforce? Maybe the subhead will clear things up? Nope. It says “Despite the administration’s best attempts, the diminishing status of many American jobs is driving a spike in women’s employment.” “Best attempts”? At what? Driving down women’s employment? Is that really something the Trump administration has been putting its “best efforts” to achieve?

The first was that Pedro Sánchez, Spain’s hard-socialist president, announced that illegal aliens in Spain who applied for legal status would receive it. The second was that the leftist Supreme Court announced that, while those who entered Spain over a land border could instantly be turned away, those who entered through a waterway would instantly be registered as asylum seekers, entitled to a full hearing. Spain’s geography and the shared coastline between Morocco, Ceuta, and Melilla made the outcome obvious.

A Bermuda-flagged tanker carrying liquefied natural gas through the Strait of Hormuz was reportedly struck by a missile Saturday, while US embassies in the region began urging Americans to leave the Middle East. The Gaslog Shanghai LNG ship sustained damage to its engine room, rendering it inoperable off the Omani coast, Bloomberg reported, citing security intelligence sources. The UK Maritime Trade Operations also alerted that a vessel was struck in the same location overnight Saturday, though the agency did not identify the ship.

The Democratic Socialists of America don’t like being called communists, though many members might echo the sentiment of leftist influencer Hasan Piker when he says, “I don’t have an issue with an end goal of communism.” Yet, however the group self-identifies, its agenda is openly revolutionary. Its plans call for, among other things, abolishing the United States Senate and making the executive branch and the Supreme Court subservient to the House of Representatives. Like many a revolutionary organ, the DSA acts as a party within a party, and it increasingly represents the youth wing of the Democrats.

The most recent reports indicate the number of Moroccan and sub-Saharan migrants that have collapsed the town of Ceuta, Spain (North Africa enclave) has now risen to 60,000 with some leaving due to hunger while replacements are arriving. Obviously in a city of 80,000 Spanish residents, the arrival of 60,000 migrants in 24-hours would create immediate chaos; worsening as the military aged males become increasingly hungry and desperate. Images and videos showing street riots, stabbings and rampant looting are all over social media platforms.

The movement to ban Mayor Zohran Mamdani from this year’s 9/11 memorial ceremony at Ground Zero — marking the 25th anniversary of New York City’s darkest day — is mounting. In less than three weeks, more than 62,000 people have signed the Change.org petition demanding Hizzoner skip the solemn event. The mayor’s past remarks and associations with people openly hostile to the U.S. or scornful of the worst terror attack in American history has made his planned attendance a lightning rod for criticism, but he’s so far brushed off the growing chorus and pledges to be there.The petition lists many reasons for wanting to exclude Mamdani,

California Gov. Gavin Newsom allowed a select group of journalists to view his tax returns from 2021 through 2024 at his office on Thursday afternoon, and what's been reported about their contents so far isn't good for the 2028 presidential hopeful. According to reports from multiple outlets invited to view the returns, the Newsoms' income hasn't increased since the last time his returns were released, but Jennifer Siebel Newsom's for-profit company, Girls Club Entertainment, lost money all four years and didn't pay her a salary in 2023 or 2024.

A suspended state representative in Georgia has pleaded guilty in federal court to unemployment fraud dealings made during the COVID-19 pandemic era. Sharon Henderson, the third official in a string of Georgia Democrats to plead guilty, admitted to fraudulent unemployment dealings resulting from the 2020 pandemic, collecting a total of $17,811. “While running for and holding political office, Representative Henderson was fleecing taxpayers, lying to steal money from federal programs intended to help people who lost their jobs due to the pandemic,” U.S. Attorney Theodore Hertzberg said in a press release. “Her prosecution and conviction demonstrate that elected officials who enrich themselves through fraud will be held accountable for violating the public’s trust.”

They're having quite a battle for the Democratic nomination in the Senate race in Michigan. The far-leftists are all in for former Wayne County health department director Abdul El-Sayed, while the more establishment Democrats are backing Rep. Haley Stevens (MI-11). Neither of them is good, as their recent debate showed. As we reported, El-Sayed has the lead in the polls. However, the polls also indicate that the Republican candidate, former Rep. Mike Rogers, would do better against him. However, El-Sayed has been acting like he has the nomination in a walk. And he went after AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee), daring them to "come for me."

Almost immediately after tens of thousands of Africans invaded the Spanish city of Ceuta, all hell broke loose, with chaos flooding the streets. As The Gateway Pundit reported, European leaders are panicking over the chaos, with Spain’s Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez declaring that Spain is “under attack” after more than 50,000 Africans poured across the small city’s border. The world is finally getting a wake-up call– years after watching tens of millions of violent criminals flood the United States to rape and pillage our country. Video from the invasion on Thursday shows the thousands of military-aged African migrants, all men, pouring across the wide-open border.

Sometimes a story gets buried not because editors conspire against it, but because the news cycle has room for only one crisis at a time. This year the big news has been the Iran war. But even accounting for competing headlines, the silence around a genuinely consequential development is telling. And that is the story of India’s explicit rejection of the global net zero movement. India has walked away from its bid to host the COP33 UN climate conference, and the world’s climate press has treated it as a footnote rather than the signal it is. India had spent years projecting a rising voice in the development of climate policy,

In Terminello v. City of Chicago (1949), Supreme Court Associate Justice Robert Jackson wrote: "The choice is not between order and liberty. It is between liberty with order and anarchy without either. There is danger that, if the court does not temper its doctrinaire logic with a little practical wisdom, it will convert the constitutional Bill of Rights into a suicide pact." It has also been said that some Muslims don’t want to kill infidels. They just want other Muslims to do it for them. There are certainly Muslims that don’t want to kill anyone, nor do they want other Muslims to kill anyone. The horror of it is they’re

Seattle being Seattle, it was only a matter of time before a simple show of support for biological reality in women's sports sparked backlash. On Tuesday night, before the Indiana Fever faced the Seattle Storm, dozens rallied outside Climate Pledge Arena in support of Fever guard Sophie Cunningham. She had recently spoken out in favor of keeping men's sports separate from women's, a view rooted in basic biology and fairness. The fans carried signs and wore shirts affirming that stance. Inside the arena, two 16-year-old girls holding signs that read "Thank you Sophie for speaking up for girls" found themselves targeted.

Nearly one in five Americans identifies as Catholic, yet many dioceses across the country have closed or consolidated parishes this year due to declining mass attendance, fewer people taking priestly vocations and rising maintenance costs. The most intense reductions are occurring primarily in the Midwest and Northeast, specifically in Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island.

Call it pleading the thrift. Hunter Biden claimed under oath earlier this year that he's so broke he doesn't even own a car or a cellphone, and said his family is too strapped for cash to help him pay off millions in unpaid legal bills. The former first son painted a bleak picture of his own and of Biden family finances during a Feb. 9 deposition in his legal battle with powerhouse law firm Winston Taylor, which sued Biden in June 2025 for allegedly stiffing the firm out of $17 million accrued from representing Biden in federal criminal cases, congressional investigations, and defamation lawsuits Biden brought against his enemies.

Tens of thousands of migrants, mostly young men, descended on Ceuta on Thursday, with shocking video showing people walking, swimming and scrambling over barriers into Spanish territory as Moroccan border guards appeared unable to stop them On Friday it was estimated that up to 60,000 Moroccans had arrived in Ceuta in the past 24 hours, encouraged by a ruling from Spain’s supreme court that those who swam into the city could not immediately be turned back. … Groups of young men were seen wandering the territory’s streets, looking for food and water. The beaches were covered in floats, rubber rings and discarded clothing.

You know that feeling that parents get when their kids are in another part of the house "playing" and are being entirely too quiet? There's always some sort of calamity or destruction awaiting discovery by mom or dad. That's the feeling Virginia conservatives have had after Democrat Gov. Abigail Spanberger's first six calamitous months in office. She's been staying suspiciously under the radar of late after getting the judicial smackdown on her attempts to gerrymander the congressional map and outlaw the sale of "automatic weapons" and high-capacity magazines. Sure, she's been on social media patting herself on the back and taking credit for things that —

Spanish Transport Minister Óscar Puente fueled online claims blaming Israel for Spain’s migrant crisis in the North African enclave of Ceuta on Friday after Israeli U.N. Ambassador Danny Danon criticized Madrid’s handling of the border emergency, escalating an already tense diplomatic dispute between Jerusalem and Spain. The exchange followed Danon’s criticism of Spain after Madrid declared a state of emergency and deployed military forces to Ceuta following an unprecedented surge of migrants crossing into the Spanish enclave from neighboring Morocco. Puente’s cryptic response helped fuel conspiracy theories circulating on Spanish social media alleging Israel — and in some cases the United States — was behind the crisis.

Spain’s border is being overrun by migrants, and it is a dramatic reminder of how things could be again in the United States. On Thursday, dramatic images and videos began to emerge from the city of Ceuta, which sits on the Moroccan border. Thousands of young men could be seen crowding beaches, pushing through gates, whooping and hollering in excitement as they made their way into Spain. Here are a few dramatic examples posted on social media. The number of migrants pouring into Ceuta really is astounding. The seaside town is home to about 80,000 people. Nearly that many appeared to have poured in over the last few days.

They gave him the Zo-ld shoulder. Mayor Zohran Mamdani was snubbed from eulogizing Army Sgt. Angel Sarah Rampersad at the fallen soldier’s Queens funeral Friday — and the embarrassing scene unfolded in real time as he fumed while waiting in vain to give his speech, sources revealed. Mamdani, who was relegated to the fourth row in the Ozone Park church, appeared to be reviewing his planned remarks on an iPad while Gov. Kathy Hochul and other dignitaries, including Queens Borough President Donovan Richards, were called to speak, a source in attendance said. “They kept calling names and then he was never called,” the source said.