Maggie's Farm

Still have post-apocalyptic-looking, and smelling, skies today. Thanks, Canada.

 Toxic Wildfire Smoke Begins To Disrupt Local Economic Activity As GOP Senator Readies Canada Sanctions Bill

 Lawyer Says He Was ‘Manic’ When He Purchased $5.5M Cape Cod Home Teetering on Cliff and Seeks Release from Mortgage

 Expecting Tenants to Pay Rent Regarded as “Violence”

 Trump Is Right About Voting Machines - And if you doubt that, just ask Obama-Appointed Judge Amy Totenberg.

 Democratic strategist James Carville blasts major news networks for not carrying Trump speech

 Democrats Are Panicking and Scrambling to Hide Something Big

 Democrats Far Outraising Republicans in Key Senate Races

 Victor Davis Hanson: Why Mamdani Wants to Erase Europeans From New York’s Immigration History

 Dark day for the UK as Andy Burnham doubles down on disaster

Korcula is not a primitive island these days, but some of the restaurants have simple menus - usually in English:

 The World Cup face-off between Messi and Yamal was always meant to be — and I can’t wait to watch it play out like a movie finale

 Only 1 in 10 Ivy League trustees is Republican, Yale has none

 Taxing Your Way to Socialism - The dream of Islamic socialist Zoran Mamdani to sell the American electorate the supposed miracles of socialism has come to an end.

 Socialism As Royal Road to Fraud - Nobody's watching the store

 How do we explain the Democratic Socialists’ platform? Does it come from nature? Does it come from nurture? Or is it just nuts?

 How Did We Get Graham Platner, Anyway? The Answer Is the Problem.

 Los Angeles Spent $60 Million on Nithya Raman Plan to Get Homeless People Off the Street – It Has Housed THREE UNITS

 The Maine Dem Senate Debate Could Be Summed Up in Seven Words

 New Republic Says Scott Bessent Is to Blame for His Attempted Assassination

 CBS cuts away from Trump’s election fraud speech — as ABC and NBC refused to air it on TV

 Election Security: What Did Trump Say?

 There Are Two Distinct Reasons Why Democrats and the Media Lost Their Minds Over Trump’s Speech Tonight

 I Chaired Canada's Human Rights Tribunal. Here's What I Saw. 

U.S. Targets Iranian Regime’s Logistical Network, Striking Bridges and Airport

Our sky is yellow 

The 10,000 steps fairy tale 

 Regarding Energy, the Left Wants Us to Live Smaller Lives. Americans Don’t Do That

There's an effective way to treat drug addiction — but you may not like it

 The rush to ban Central Park horse carriages is the true cruelty

 Seizing the Day - Will Trump invoke the Guarantee Clause to impose election integrity? A prediction.

 Joisey on the Ropes - Lots more great material for Da Boss's next album. 

 The International Court of Justice’s Climate Power Grab

 U. Chicago Law School bans phones, laptops from classrooms ‘in response to AI’

 Academics persist in being the ’20’ on the ’80-20′ issue of trans women in female sports

 Is There Any End to The Atlantic ’s “End-ism” Fetish?

It's called "doom porn" 

 Mamdani Bum-Rushes NYC Voters Into Their 'FO' Phase

 Millionaires are Fleeing New York — Taking $11 Billion in Tax Revenue With Them

 Graham Platner and the Rationalization of Everything

"Red Scare"? Actually The Communist Resurgence In The Democratic Party Is Very Real

 Children Confiscated From Christian Parents in Sweden

The genetics of the colors of warblers 

 Wealthy Americans Prefer This Grocery Chain Over Any Other, Survey Finds: Costco

 Canadian government APOLOGIZES for creating national parks, calls them a 'colonial injustice'

 Birth Tourism In Texas

 Mamdani’s Rogue Diplomacy with Iran May Be His Worst Move Yet

 DC Medical Examiner Releases Preliminary Findings After Lindsey Graham’s Sudden Death

Liberal White Women Are in a State of Despair Over Maine's Graham Platner

 How Did We Get Graham Platner, Anyway? The Answer Is the Problem.

 No Democrat Has the Brains or Courage to Not Be Crazy

VDH:  The Ungrateful Urban Class Turning Into the New Democratic Socialist Party

 DSA commies aim to take over the Democratic Party — just as they captured . . . the DSA itself

 ‘He’s Gonna Flip’: John Fetterman’s Latest Campaign Move Sparks Alarm On the Left

Matthew 13:1-9, 18-2 - The parable of the sower and the seed

13:1 That same day Jesus went out of the house and sat beside the sea.

13:2 Such great crowds gathered around him that he got into a boat and sat there, while the whole crowd stood on the beach.

13:3 And he told them many things in parables, saying: "Listen! A sower went out to sow.

13:4 And as he sowed, some seeds fell on a path, and the birds came and ate them up.

13:5 Other seeds fell on rocky ground, where they did not have much soil, and they sprang up quickly, since they had no depth of soil.

13:6 But when the sun rose, they were scorched, and since they had no root, they withered away.

13:7 Other seeds fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked them.

13:8 Other seeds fell on good soil and brought forth grain, some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.

13:9 If you have ears, hear!"

13:18 "Hear, then, the parable of the sower.

13:19 When anyone hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what is sown in the heart; this is what was sown on the path.

13:20 As for what was sown on rocky ground, this is the one who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy,

13:21 yet such a person has no root but endures only for a while, and when trouble or persecution arises on account of the word, that person immediately falls away.

13:22 As for what was sown among thorns, this is the one who hears the word, but the cares of this age and the lure of wealth choke the word, and it yields nothing.

13:23 But as for what was sown on good soil, this is the one who hears the word and understands it, who indeed bears fruit and yields in one case a hundredfold, in another sixty, and in another thirty."

Discover how to cook authentic italian appetizers with our classic and easy recipes!

Trump Accounts are free money. Don't let politics stop you.

Good politics, interesting idea, but... 

 Trump Accounts Teach Children to Save; Democrats Want Free Money Instead

Good. 

 America’s Factory Floor Is Still Its Greatest Superpower

 When your broker wears boots and a Western hat - There’s a new stock market in town, and that town isn’t NYC.

Fauci: The Public Servant from Hell

 Tennessee Train Conductor Fired After Triggering Woke Passengers With Epic July 4 Message

 CNN Mistakes Online Parody Account for Real GOP Politician in Mitch McConnell Health Story

 Believe all tattoos

 Trump ditches new Air Force One in Turkey, stoking Iran threat fears: ‘I’m number one on the kill list’

 On the Left, Dogma Beats Reality

 My Platner Prediction Just Came True. Here’s What’s Next — Including the Death of the Dems' Brand.

 Elon Musk’s SpaceX Is Coming for Your 401(k), and the Left Is Going to Hate This

A medical school without grades and ranking

 5 Rules for Ocean Swimming, According to an Ironman

 The Women Who Help People Die

 The government is pulling student loan money from worthless college degree programs — and it’s about time

 New York Teachers’ Unions Latest Lawsuit to Limit School Choice

‘The View’ Co-Host Sunny Hostin Says American Flags Make Her Feel ‘Unsafe’ 

 What Makes A Person Become A Communist?

 The Summer I Turned Patriot

 “Human Dumping Ground”: Seattle’s Socialist Mayor Faces Revolt from the Communities She Promised to Protect

 Germany’s Suicide Is A Warning To The West

Photo from ours to theirs, in some scenic island cove off the coast of Croatia last month:

The Indispensable President - REVIEW: 'American Patriarch: The Life of George Washington' by H.W. Brands

More Amazing Flyovers in DC - With Bonus Media Meltdown

The Guardian still dislikes Trump 

Why the Left Really Hates Trump’s America 250 Celebration

Teaching Immigrants the Bill of Rights

Haitians in Massachusetts Assimilate Into Democrat Base by Not Working

Trump's Mount Rushmore Speech Outrages the Media Like Nothing Since the Days of Reagan

Canada Gov Celebrates July 4th By Threatening to Prosecute Speech - Liberals argue that Canada proves the American Revolution wasn't needed.

Scientific American Sold as Publisher Divests Itself of the Bud Light of Science Journals

Mamdani officials scramble to ease concerns about public supermarkets — but local business leaders aren’t buying it

Mamdani Rent Freeze Will Effectively Take 40% of NYC Apartments off the Market

“Decolonize the Settler State of Minnesota”

PBS News Is Wrong, Climate Change Is Not Causing Georgia’s Drought

International climate bureaucracies are retreating from their original worst-case scenarios.

The World View Of The Supreme Court's Liberal Bloc

First $1 Billion, Now $50 Million: Khanna Says Wealth Tax "Must Not Stop At Billionaires"

UCL lecturer: Muslim women feel ‘unsafe, marginalized, out of place’ on college campuses 

'Thought People Hated Him': Trump Surprised Iranians Are Crying At Khamenei's Funeral Amid Massive Turnout

UK Government's Shocking Bid To Rig YouTube Algorithm To Force-Feed BBC Propaganda

Last night a "cold" front passed through the sweltering Northeast. Between 9 and 10:30, a line of angry thunderstorms made big noise and tree-crushing winds. Wonderful.

Those storms were competing with fireworks from all around, including local backyards, when there was a break in the lightning and rain. That battle went on for over an hour. I'd say Nature won.

NOAA has a childlike explanation of thunderstorms. 

When heat waves occur (up here, meaning over 90 F/32 C for a few days) people over 60 can have trouble because the human body's thermoregulation becomes weaker. Heat Stroke is a medical emergency, and Heat Exhaustion should be attended to. 

Song of Solomon 2:8-13

2:8 The voice of my beloved! Look, he comes, leaping upon the mountains, bounding over the hills.

2:9 My beloved is like a gazelle or a young stag. Look, there he stands behind our wall, gazing in at the windows, looking through the lattice.

2:10 My beloved speaks and says to me: "Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away,

2:11 for now the winter is past, the rain is over and gone.

2:12 The flowers appear on the earth; the time of singing has come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land.

2:13 The fig tree puts forth its figs, and the vines are in blossom; they give forth fragrance. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.

Or 250th if you prefer. A republic, if you can keep it.

Two things I have noticed this week:

- A fresh awareness of how large this country is,  full of so many subcultures. 

- The pleasure World Cup visitors take in exploring a US which their media looks down on.

America at 250: When You Get Ordinary Americans Away From the Noise, We Still Agree on the Basics. Well, most of us.

After 53 years, the FAA wants to bring back civilian supersonic flight

No, Virginia, Heat Waves are Not More Common

The Fall and Rise of Screwworm

UMass center focuses on ‘heart-centered’ science, connections with ‘inanimate’ beings

VDH:  Who Really Are These New Democratic Socialists and Their Fellow Travelers? The new socialist movement claims to speak for ordinary Americans, but its leaders often come from the very elite institutions they criticize.

Can Europe Be Saved?

In July 1776, Congress proclaimed independence—and George Washington prepared an army to defend it.

These people having fun in Texas. How do they eat this much?

New Novel Plasters the Elite New York Art World

When the POTATUS Student Loan Chickens Come Home to Roost

Bill Maher, Liberalism’s Apostate

Controversially, The Supreme Court Rules For Common Sense: Taibbi

People Are Starting to Notice That the Alleged "Working Class Populist Socialist" Uprising on the Left Is Made Up Exclusively of College-Educted Rich Leisure-Class Nepo Babies and NGO Sucklers

 The Roberts Requirement – Pregnancy Tests for U.S. Travel Visas

A Huge Scandal Breaks Out In Spain: 400,000 “Refugees” Claiming Refugee Status DON’T EVEN LIVE IN SPAIN!