“When critics suggest potential illnesses President Donald Trump might have, they point to evidence of a possible ailment. They notice bruises on his hands, swollen joints, dozing off during televised meetings, and his rambling, disjointed speeches. However, they never identify the one hallmark of a serious illness that he had shown even before he became president. It is a mental condition officially defined and diagnosed by the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders as Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD).” (12/23/25)
“Antisemitism is on the upswing in the United States and around the world. Although antisemitism has a long tradition on the European right, the communists under Stalin were also very antisemitic. That’s why so many Russian Jews immigrated to Israel. What is surprising is the recent increase in antisemitism on the progressive left – particularly on college campuses. The explanation, I believe, lies in ‘woke’ ideology. By one widely respected measure, America is the most individualistic country in the world. Geert Hofstede, who pioneered the study of the subject, defines individualism as ‘a cultural orientation in which people see themselves primarily as independent individuals rather than as members of tight, cohesive groups.’ They also see others that way. That undoubtedly explains why America is the most successful melting pot in the world.” (12/23/25)
“The US on-line edition of the Mirror recently published an article about the infamous NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) map showing cities and areas that will be inundated in the year 2100. Don’t worry if it is too small to see exactly what areas are covered. Except for a very few areas right on the coast in Northern California and Oregon, and in Maine, they claim it is all gonna be underwater. (Yep, plus much of the Mississippi Valley, not shown.) Unless, of course, we bow down to government and stop driving our cars and trucks, stop flying, stop heating our houses about 55 in winter or below 85 in summer. And always charge our phones and tablets with solar panels. While of course, paying more and more taxes, and otherwise start behaving like the peasants that Pharaoh let Joseph squeeze.” (12/22/25)
“From the moment you saw the speaker lineup at Turning Point USA’s year-end conference, the biggest national event for the organization since the assassination of its founder, Charlie Kirk, you could see the trouble waiting to happen. No, the group did not book podcaster Candace Owens, who has spun a seemingly endless variety of conspiracy theories around Kirk’s murder, insisting that the alleged assassin, Tyler Robinson, was merely a pawn of larger, more sinister forces. (In early October, Owens claimed that Kirk appeared to her in a dream and told her ‘that he was betrayed.’ It is very difficult to corroborate her sources.) But Turning Point did invite big-name podcasters such as Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly, who have steadfastly refused to utter a critical word about Owens’s unhinged rants and unfounded accusations.” (12/22/25)
“President Trump and his administration have recently lost numerous court cases, raising questions about the qualifications of his legal team. While I am not a lawyer, I believe one civil case involving his Mar-a-Lago estate could have been won if he had a competent economist on his team. President Trump was accused not of violence or theft, but of assigning a higher value to his own property than government officials and expert witnesses deem acceptable. If we scrupulously examine this court case in essence, we can see that it touches upon the main problem that occupied the minds of economists of the past, namely, what value is and how it is determined.” (12/22/25)
“If you’re a little too online, you likely know that Marco Rubio as a teenager made extra cash working for his late brother-in-law Orlando Cicilia. The business imported and sold exotic animals as a front for moving nearly a half million pounds of cocaine and marijuana. It was later said, when kingpin Mario Tabraue became a main character on the monstrously popular documentary series Tiger King, that the cocaine was actually stuffed into the bodies of vipers and boa constrictors, though an 80-page indictment of the enterprise makes no mention of that, and Tabraue has been known to sue those who accuse him of animal cruelty. ‘I dealt to support my animal habit,’ Tabraue humbly told the Netflix documentarians about the drug ring that imported and distributed $79 million worth of drugs between 1976 and 1987. It was Rubio’s job, the current secretary of state wrote in his memoir, to clean the cages.” (12/23/25)
“Evita Duffy-Alfonso, the pregnant daughter of Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy, tore into TSA last week over the abuse she suffered prior to a recent flight. Writing on X on Thursday, she called for abolishing TSA: ‘I nearly missed my flight this morning after the TSA made me wait 15 minutes for a pat-down because I’m pregnant and didn’t feel like getting radiation exposure from their body scanner. The agents were passive-aggressive, rude, and tried to pressure me and another pregnant woman into just walking through the scanner because it’s ‘safe.’ … Duffy-Alfonso’s condemnation of TSA is refreshing regardless of whether it spurs the Trump administration to repent. But the outrage that her comment evoked on Twitter does raise the question: How many Trump voters abandoned their opposition to unleashing federal agencies after Trump was back in the Oval Office?” (12/22/25)
Source: Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression
by William Harris
“On college campuses across the country, students and administrators are debating bans on Fizz, a mobile app that lets users within a particular community — such as a college or university — communicate anonymously. Some view Fizz as a source of bullying and other unwelcome content. Yet many students see Fizz — founded by two Stanford dropouts who felt their campus lacked opportunities to build community during the COVID-19 pandemic — as a source of vital connection. … The practical stakes of banning anonymous forums from campus are high. Cutting off access to online platforms doesn’t only silence offensive comments — it restricts the tools students use to speak, organize, and mobilize around political and social causes, in ways that are often faster and more powerful than offline alternatives. Consistent with their right to speak anonymously, students possess the First Amendment freedom to assemble and receive information through both online platforms and offline media.” (12/22/25)
“Ending wars and creating lasting peace are rarely easy, and it usually requires an outright victory by one side (followed by a reasonable settlement that discourages the losers from trying to reverse the results) or mutual recognition that nothing is to be gained by continuing the fighting. In the latter case, both sides must accept that they are not going to get everything they want and focus instead on obtaining enough of what they need to be satisfied. In either case, however, a host of details need to be worked out …. Ideally, a peace agreement will also point the way to long-term reconciliation, a process that typically takes a long time. Evenhanded third-party mediators can facilitate all these steps and help guarantee that an agreement sticks. Trump is a poor peacemaker because he and his team ignore all these requirements.” (12/22/25)
