Myth Makers

America needs its myths:

Every functional society had a mythos—an ethos based on myth. In antiquity, Mesopotamians, Greeks and Norsemen had a long list of rather unruly gods. These, in turn, provided stories to inculcate values and bind that society together. More recently, the rise of the nation-state combined many local groups, transferring the mythos from the city or tribe to the country at large. For example, the “Kalevala” was an ancient epic among the people of Karelia in the borderlands of Russia and Finland. Its translation into modern form was the basis of Finland’s identity after centuries of being ruled by her neighbors. The United States offered a special challenge, since it comprised citizens of different nations, faiths and civic ideals. As the people weren’t connected by blood, soil or even language, we focused on the few ideals we did share. The Declaration of Independence outlined several of these beliefs, the Constitution codified them and storytellers demonstrated how they could work in the real world. Young girls were weaned on tales of Betsy Ross and Molly Pitcher, while boys compared Nathan Hale’s bravery to Benedict Arnold’s treason. Our early unifying myths included the shared struggle of the American Revolution (even though many stayed on the sidelines) and the superhuman virtues of our Founding Fathers (despite their human flaws). As that generation passed from the scene, we focused on promulgating our “new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.” Through relentless migration to the west, we would enlighten the whole continent with our superior ideals. .... As you can see, a national mythos isn’t a static canon but a living tradition. Mythical stories are not necessarily false, but symbolic. Their purpose is to point toward truths about human character, national aspiration and communal destiny. Where history is prose, myth is poetry. Unlike ancient myths, the American mythos wasn’t about demigods, but average men and women overcoming fate and fortune to achieve greatness. The Pilgrims’ first Thanksgiving, George Washington chopping down the cherry tree and Paul Revere’s ride fed into our creation myth. Daniel Boone’s trailblazing, Abraham Lincoln’s log cabin and the ability of impoverished kids to become Vanderbilts and Carnegies fleshed out the narrative further. These stories explained how our nation was formed, created a pantheon to look up to and provided an ideal for citizens to strive toward. They focused not on our differences, but on our commonalities, unifying radically different groups into a cohesive whole. This grand American mythos showed us what we think about ourselves and who we aspire to be.

When the myth becomes legend, print the legend...

Fake Russians

It was fake all along:

Miranda Devine at The New York Post reported: The review identified “multiple procedural anomalies” that undermined the credibility of the ICA, including “a highly compressed production timeline, stringent compartmentation, and excessive involvement of agency heads.” It also questioned the exclusion of key intelligence agencies and said media leaks may have influenced analysts to conform to a false narrative of Trump-Russia collusion. “The rushed timeline to publish both classified and unclassified versions before the presidential transition raised questions about a potential political motive behind the White House tasking and timeline.” The review found that Brennan directed the compilation of the ICA, and that his, Comey’s and Clapper’s “direct engagement in the ICA’s development was highly unusual in both scope and intensity” and ”risked stifling analytic debate.” Investigative reporter Paul Sperry reported back in February that John Ratcliffe was already talking about how the factual evidence did not support John Brennan’s explosive Trump-Russia assessment.

The Russians that weren't there...

Border Boost

The 51st state caves again:

The bill includes measures to deny refugee hearings to migrants who have already been in the country for over a year, retroactive to June 2020, and requires asylum seekers arriving between official ports of entry to file within 14 days.These changes come after U.S. President Donald Trump expressed displeasure over illegal immigrants and fentanyl crossing America’s northern border due to lax Canadian policies. Despite fighting the recent Canadian federal elections on a platform of “standing up” to Trump, Carney’s governing is seemingly being brought to heel by him—having already agreed to suspend a digital sales tax that the America First leader took issue with.Canadian Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree admitted in a press conference that Bill C-2 was shaped in part by Trump’s expectations. “There are elements that will strengthen [our] relationships with the United States,” he said. “There were a number of elements in the bill that have been irritants for the US, so we are addressing some of those issues.”

No border battle, eh?

British Breakup

The UK is headed for war within:

Puppet People

Meet the puppet masters:

In a wide-ranging exclusive interview with Fox News Digital, Lindy Li, a former DNC fundraiser and National Finance Committee member, detailed her front-row seat to Biden's presidency and the people who pulled the strings behind the scenes. "[Biden is] definitely complicit, but there were a lot of people behind him, like puppet masters. [Former first lady Jill Biden] very much knew what she was doing. What she did was absolutely elder abuse. There is no question in my mind," Li said. Last week, House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., issued a subpoena to Anthony Bernal, former assistant to the president and senior advisor to the first lady, to appear for a July 16 deposition. "They deny the cover-up, but I had a front-row seat watching it happen. People like Anthony Bernal. I saw him running the White House like he was in charge, like he was a king. It's just so amazing now to see him dodge a subpoena and completely dodge accountability. He can run, but he can't hide. His name is going to go down in infamy forever," Li told Fox News Digital.

You can't hide your strings...

Bad Irish

Karma is a jail sentence:

Ireland and Sutton were both found guilty of a string of sexual crimes against children, including voyeurism, arranging commission of a child sex offense, and “possession and distribution of prohibited images of children.” On Monday, Judge Patricia Lees said that Ireland “took advantage” of the 12-year-old boy. “Far from finding that repugnant, you found that exciting, and sought to do it again,” she said. Ireland was sentenced to 24 years for the rape, as well as a further 6 years on “extended license,” often part of an extended sentence for offenders deemed a significant risk to the public. Sutton was sentenced to four-and-a-half years for making inappropriate images of children and the possession of an extreme pornographic image.

Pride goeth before a huge fall...

Winning Signs

Even CNN admits Trump is doing well:

Games Over

UPenn ends sexism:

What will future people say when they observe the decade in which America lost its mind and pretended that men were women and women were men? It’s one thing to fall for a mistaken theory of illness, such as the old belief that sickness came from imbalanced “humors.” It’s understandable to get it wrong on illness, since it took microscopes and scientific progress to figure out that microbes and germs were behind our ailments. But we can’t say that about the lunatic belief in transgenderism that has kept this country captive for ten years. More than half the adult population in the western world believed, or claimed in public to believe, that if a man says “I feel as though I’m a woman,” that this statement made him an actual woman. That cutting off your genitals and wearing false breasts made you a woman. Or that mortifying your flesh and creating a necrotic facsimile of the male organ somehow made that woman “a man.” This is a mistaken belief of a much higher order. It infected every level of our culture from local government all the to the feds. President Joe Biden even rewrote long standing legislation that protects girls in sports (Title IX) to demand that schools and colleges treat boys who claim to be girls as actual girls. Famous institutions like the University of Pennsylvania allowed full-on obvious men, like one Will Thomas, to compete on the women’s swimming team. It even gave him awards for beating “other women” in the competition. That ends now, thanks to President Trump. He has pressured UPenn into taking it all back. Every single bit of it. And, they have to make it right with the female college students they screwed while catering to perverts like Thomas.

He's no longer part of their team...

USAID DOA

USAID is dead, and the usual suspects have a sad:

Rubio made the announcement in a Tuesday statement, saying USAID had for decades failed to ensure the programs it funded actually supported America's interests. The State Department will take over foreign assistance programs beginning July 1, he said. "Beyond creating a globe-spanning NGO industrial complex at taxpayer expense, USAID has little to show since the end of the Cold War. Development objectives have rarely been met, instability has often worsened, and anti-American sentiment has only grown," Rubio wrote. "This era of government-sanctioned inefficiency has officially come to an end. Under the Trump Administration, we will finally have a foreign funding mission in America that prioritizes our national interests. As of July 1st, USAID will officially cease to implement foreign assistance. Foreign assistance programs that align with administration policies—and which advance American interests—will be administered by the State Department, where they will be delivered with more accountability, strategy, and efficiency," he continued.

The more trump wins, the more they lose...

Red Election

The Chinese were here:

The FBI “suppressed intelligence” of alleged Chinese Communist Party (CCP) interference in the 2020 election, including the production of ‘”tens of thousands’ of fraudulent drivers’ licenses to manufacture mail-in votes for then-presidential candidate Joe Biden,” according to a press release. “These records smack of political decision-making and prove the Wray-led FBI to be a deeply broken institution. Ahead of a high-stakes election happening amid an unprecedented global pandemic, the FBI turned its back on its national security mission,” Grassley said. “One way or the other, intelligence must be fully investigated to determine whether it’s true, or if it’s just smoke and mirrors. Chris Wray’s FBI wasn’t looking out for the American people – it was looking to save its own image.” Grassley released the documents after FBI Director Kash Patel declassified them and sent them to the Senate. The apparent proof of a conspiracy to protect Wray come after Patel in June declassified documents further detailing the attempt from the CCP to produce the fake IDs to be used as validation of mail-in ballots and rig the 2020 election for Biden, as The Federalist reported.

Where the real collusion was...

College Crunch

College isn't all that:

How are schools doing at inculcating actual, you know, knowledge? Not so well. In a recent study, Richard Arum and Josipa Aroksa found there’s not a lot of learning going on: 45% of students “did not demonstrate any significant improvement in learning” over the first two years of college; 36% failed to show any improvement over four years. The reason: Courses aren’t very rigorous, and not much is required of students.

It's easy to be indoctrinated...

Redshirt LInes

DC declares ownership of its kids:

The crackdown comes despite outcry earlier this year from parents seeking to delay their children’s entrance into Lafayette Elementary School’s first grade. The school told parents they were implementing a strict age cut-off date for children allowed to attend kindergarten. Any child aged 6 years old by September 30 would be required to attend first grade, officials said, according to WJLA, even if they had not attended kindergarten. “I can’t believe that we’re in this position,” parent Avra Siegel said in March. Some districts, including New York City and Chicago public schools, have already banned the practice, while states such as Oklahoma have placed restrictions on redshirting, preventing parents from enrolling their children in schools a year later if the student has a late summer birth date or poses developmental concerns.

You will attend or else...

Aid Era

USAID is officially dead:

In March, Rubio announced that 83% of USAID programs were being canceled and the agency’s remaining work would be folded into the State Department. “This era of government-sanctioned inefficiency has officially come to an end,” Rubio said in a lengthy statement on Tuesday. The Daily Signal depends on the support of readers like you. Donate now “Foreign assistance programs that align with administration policies—and which advance American interests—will be administered by the State Department, where they will be delivered with more accountability, strategy, and efficiency,” Rubio said. USAID was first established in 1961 and viewed as a form of diplomacy, but over time, Rubio says, “USAID marketed its programs as a charity, rather than instruments of American foreign policy intended to advance our national interests.”

Charity doesn't always begin at home...

Euro Strip

Populism is verboten in Europe:

In Germany, the European Union’s most populous country and top economy, only the Federal Constitutional Court can ban a political party, requiring a two-thirds majority of its Justices. If successful, a ban would dissolve the party, confiscate its assets, and outlaw its symbols and logos. Efforts to re-establish a banned party under a similar name would also be prohibited.The legal push comes amid growing support for the AfD, particularly in eastern Germany, where recent elections have shown the party gaining significant traction. A recent survey placed the AfD at 32 percent, ahead of the SPD by nine points. Critics argue that the SPD is attempting to ban its political rival rather than compete with it democratically.The move follows the designation of the AfD as an extremist group by Germany’s intelligence agency, the Bundesamt für Verfassungschutz (BfV), which enabled increased surveillance of the party. Critics, including X CEO Elon Musk, have condemned the proposed ban, labeling it “an extreme attack on democracy.” Newly elected Chancellor Friedrich Merz, of the notionally conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU), formerly led by Angela Merkel, conceded, “Ten million AfD voters—you can’t ban them. You have to engage with them factually and on substance.”

The Left doesn't have any substance...

Doctor AI

The AI will see you now:

Mustafa Suleyman, who formed an AI health unit for the tech giant last year, told Financial Times for an interview published Monday that the company is nearing "AI models that are not just a little bit better, but dramatically better, than human performance: faster, cheaper, and four times more accurate." The Microsoft AI Diagnostic Orchestrator, or "MAI-DxO," he added, will be "truly transformative." The new system is the first initiative emerging from the AI unit, which Suleyman formed by poaching staff from DeepMind, a research lab he co-founded. Google now owns DeepMind. Suleyman, the chief executive of Microsoft AI, said that the system's trial is a step on the way to "medical superintelligence," which would both help solve staffing issues and long waiting times for health systems.

They write better, too...

Chinese Connections

Chinese collusion exposed:

The Fox News Digital exclusive was headlined, "FBI blocked probe into alleged Chinese 2020 election meddling to protect Wray from fallout" with the subheadline reading, "documents show The FBI recalled reporting on allegations CCP manufactured fake driver's licenses to be shipped to US to help individuals cast fraudulent ballots for Biden because it contradicted Wray testimony." Wray testified to Congress that "the FBI had not seen any coordinated voter fraud ahead of the 2020 election," Fox reported. Around the same time — before Wray testified — the Chinese scheme to conjure fake IDs to get mail-in ballots for their U.S. allies had been reported by FBI agents to the brass. Though the information may not have been persuasive to at least one intelligence analyst, why did somebody order the documents to be destroyed? You can't hate these people enough. Fox Digital put it this way: The FBI recalled that reporting, though, Sept. 25, 2020 — just a day after Wray testified before Congress that the FBI had not seen any coordinated voter fraud ahead of the 2020 election. The FBI, at the time, had recalled that report "in order to re-interview the source." It also directed "recipients" of the original report to "destroy all copies of the original report and remove the original report from all computer holdings." But Patel, this week, declassified additional documents, including records relating to the re-interview of the source, and communications between FBI officials at the time discussing the decision-making behind the recall and its decision not to republish the intelligence reporting. Obviously, not all the documents were destroyed because evidence of the smoking gun was found, declassified, and turned over to Sen. Charles Grassley's Judiciary Committee, which is investigating. After Fox News Digital's story was published, Grassley sent out a howler on X. According [to] FBI records FBI HQ SUPPRESSED INTEL [about] alleged Chinese interference in 2020 election [to] avoid embarrassing Chris Wray who made conflicting testimony [to] Congress FBI's job = perform due diligence [without] politics in mind. Under Chris Wray's [leadership] the FBI FAILED its mission. And he thanked the new FBI Director, Kash Patel, for declassifying the documents.

The truth is out...

Pay Day

He really wants your money:

Mamdani is unapologetic about language in his plan that would tax “whiter” neighborhoods at higher rates:

"It's not driven by race….I'm just naming things as they are." pic.twitter.com/Dnrtij9BxH

— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) June 29, 2025

Blue Bottom

They're still not popular:

Just 27% of registered voters said they approve of how congressional Democrats are performing in office, down from 39% in Feb. 2024, according to the survey. Meanwhile, the poll found that 58% of voters said they disapprove of congressional Democrats’ leadership, and 15% said they were unsure. Democrats had almost evenly split views on how Democratic leaders in Congress are doing in office, with 44% saying they approve and 43% saying they disapprove, according to the poll. Of those surveyed, 36%, including 73% of Republicans, said they approved of how congressional Republicans are doing in office, up from 26% in 2024. Additionally, 52% said they disapprove of congressional Republicans’ leadership, while 12% said they were unsure, according to the survey.

Blues could learn a few things from Reds...