News and Views: August 2, 2025

When The Gods of the Copybook Headings Smile 

In recent years, I’ve sometimes invoked Rudyard Kipling’s The Gods of the Copybook Headings, usually when something goes wrong because people did something obviously stupid.

   Well, to be fair, that’s the main subject of the poem: how being entranced by popular but dumb ideas leads to destruction. But there’s another side to it. When you do things that are simple and obvious — and, often, traditional — you can do pretty well.

   And we’re seeing that illustrated, at home and abroad

   At home, the allegedly insoluble illegal immigration problem is being solved, via the simple and obvious, and traditional, approach of policing the borders and deporting people who are here illegally.

   We were told that the problem was hugely difficult, and would require complicated bipartisan legislation from Congress. Nope. All that was needed was a very simple policy: Don’t let them in, and kick them out if they’re already here. From this change, various other allegedly difficult problems began to resolve: Housing prices, crime, employment for American workers, and even L.A. traffic (!) show signs of improvement. Even the federal deficit is under less pressure, as benefits are cut.

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Record Setting Oldest Baby Ever Proves Pro-Life Stance True (VIDEO) The oldest baby ever was just born after being frozen as an embryo for thirty years.

  While there are ethical concerns surrounding IVF, his story highlights and personifies the undeniable truth that human life begins at the moment of conception. Image

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'Deliberately avoiding them': How Big Tech quietly locks out Americans  The evidence is overwhelming that companies like Meta, Apple, Microsoft, Google and others, despite consistently lobbying for more foreign-worker visas on the basis of a so-called "talent shortage," are fully capable of finding qualified Americans when they are actually required to recruit them.

   Indeed, when employers go to such lengths to avoid recruiting qualified U.S. workers, even under a program like PERM that explicitly requires a good-faith labor market test, their own actions contradict claims of a shortage. The evidence suggests it is not that they can't find qualified Americans, it's that they are deliberately avoiding them.

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NYC: Islamic Shia procession held recently along the Hudson waterfront has sparked alarm after footage emerged showing participants deliberately zooming in on the World Trade Center The flags, the chants, and most importantly, the camera’s lingering gaze upon the World Trade Center are all part of what many are now calling a “soft jihad” — a nonviolent but deliberate assertion of ideological dominance. Not with bombs, but with symbolism. Not through force, but through infiltration of narrative, geography, and national memory.
   This is psychological warfare. A visual siege.

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Hochul Claims a ‘Lot of Alignment’ With Radical Mamdani 

Of course, pro-Hamas Mamdani isn’t the only member of this duo who’s part of a death cult. Hochul this year infamously shielded a doctor accused of illegally providing abortion pills used in the forced abortion of a Louisiana teen’s baby from legal repercussions. Not only that, New York has been enforcing socialistic policies for years now, hence the exodus of wealthy people and businesses from the state (which will certainly increase if Mamdani is elected). It really isn’t a surprise Hochul and Mamdani would find common ground. Screenshot

 

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Buyer’s Remorse: Nantucket Officials Rue Aggravating Offshore Wind Projecthttps://t.co/QG2nVd8zFy

— Washington Free Beacon (@FreeBeacon) August 1, 2025

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China uses "dark fleet" to buy oil from Iran and evade U.S. sanctions in international waters  A CBS News investigation has revealed that China is still secretly buying Iranian oil and evading U.S. sanctions by using what's known as a "dark fleet" to transfer oil from ship to ship in the middle of the sea.

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The Week In Pictures: Sweeney Bod Edition 

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