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If Hollywood Lets Taika Waititi Ruin 'Judge Dredd' I May Set Things On Fire

My happiest memory of the 1980s is discovering Judge Dredd. Before Sylvester Stallone removed the iconic helmet to reveal his famous face, blowing his chance to start up a film franchise, Dredd was a comic book superhero with a difference. For unlike the…

7 months ago · 5 likes · Matt Osborne

Vincent Deboni Explains How South Africa Got Sick With Gender Ideology

Vincent Deboni, a South African-born therapist living in Sweden, works with detransitioners “transcending gender,” in his words. We had a wide-ranging, far-reaching, and ultimately mind-blowing conversation about ideology, doctrine, and the hero’s journey as the cure for young men in a society sickened by genderwoo…

7 months ago · Matt Osborne

If Stephen Colbert's Show Lost $40-50 Million A Year Then No Wonder It's Gone

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert lost $40 million a year, according to the New York Post. A New York Times article reports the losses at $50 million a year. Of the people who still watch the show, “only 219,000 of those viewers—roughly 9%—fell within the coveted 18-49 demographic, a critical group for advertisers,” reports…

7 months ago · 6 likes · Matt Osborne

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How The Camel Conquered The Early Muslim World From India To Spain

For their own reasons, majorities of the fundamentalists of Islam and the sectarian critics of Islam both maintain that faith alone made the Arab conquests possible; they merely disagree whether the faith of Islam is itself good. This narrative has little material evidence to support it and is in reality a metaphysical disagreement that cannot be resolved by any scientific historical method…

7 months ago · 1 like · Matt Osborne

Rahm Emanuel Still In Denial: Genderwoo 'Not The Dominant Issue' For Him

On the one hand, Rahm Emanuel appreciates how cancel culture has hurt the Democratic Party, telling Megyn Kelly that voters respond to “authenticity” rather than authority. He seems to understand that genderwoo in the classroom, the gym, the pool, and on the track is a massive political loser for Democrats. Asked whether men can become women, Emanuel an…

7 months ago · Matt Osborne

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Pride Goeth Before The Fall Of Gender

“Can a man become a woman? Not — no…

7 months ago · Matt Osborne

Bonfire Of The Hollywood Vanities

Pedro Pascal is the perfect avatar of the postmodern, post-Harvey Weinstein Hollywood fetish for non-toxic masculinity and girlboss ‘empowerment’ narratives. He confirms it with every interview. He will not be quiet about his fringe political views or his hatred of J.K. Rowling. He consciously embraces and emulates loudmouth Rachel Zeigler of the late, ill-fated…

7 months ago · 8 likes · 1 comment · Matt Osborne

The Books In Mahmoud v Taylor Are Absolute Trash On Their Own Terms

T.Q. Townsend is “a book nerd,” in her own words. Her podcast specializes in childrens’ literature. In a recent video version of her podcast on YouTube, Townsend read the nine books at the center of the recent Supreme Court ruling, Mahmoud v. Taylor, to see what the fuss was about…

7 months ago · Matt Osborne

Miles Yardley And The Detransition Wave

“They very quickly put me on hormones without really any discernment,” Miles Yardley tells The New York Post of his medical transition at the age of fifteen. “Looking back, if I were a doctor, I would think this is a much larger decision than the kid thinks that it is.” Indeed. None of us is the same person we were twelve years ago, so how on earth is a 15-year-old supposed to ‘know who they really are’ in the future, when they will be 27, like Yardley…

7 months ago · 6 likes · Matt Osborne

Are The Trump Tariffs Actually Working?

According to the US Treasury Department, American taxpayers enjoyed a revenue surplus of $27 billion in June, sharply rising after a $316 billion deficit in May. It was a 13% increase in receipts over the same month in 2024. Jeff Cox explains at CNBC…

7 months ago · Matt Osborne

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The Wild Rumors About Xi Jinping And The CCP Are Just Brand Management

It has been clear for months that something is going on in China. But what? Rumors of change have been rampant. Xi Jinping, President of the People’s Republic of China, was said to have lost power in a bloodless coup; he was under house arrest, and being forced from office this September; a meeting of the politburo in June turned into a struggle session, with a tearful confession from Xi, who had to miss the BRICS summit in July because he is no longer allowed to leave the country. And so on…

7 months ago · Matt Osborne

The FTC Wants Your Information On 'Trans' Medical Fraud. All Of The Fraud

The Federal Trade Commission has published an appeal to the public for information related to potential fraud in ‘gender medicine’. While the FTC is mainly interested in pediatric cases, they are accepting information related to potential fraud perpetrated on adults as well. The deadline is 26 September 2025…

7 months ago · 1 like · 1 comment · Matt Osborne

Fantastic Flops: The Best Marvel Film Of The Year Is A Box Office Loser

Put away the champagne. Fantastic Four: First Steps took in just $118 million at the domestic box office over the weekend, underperforming Superman’s opening. It was not at all the result that Disney-owned Marvel Studios wanted. “Especially not after the previous two MCU releases this year underperformed,” Mark Hughes…

7 months ago · 1 like · Matt Osborne

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Ukraine Is Systematically Shutting Down Russia's Transportation Network

Long-range strike drones reportedly hit a fuel and lubricants depot, an equipment train, and the Dvoynaya traction substation at the station in Orlovsky village on the Salsk railway, last night. “Tankers, tracks, and buildings are burning,” according…

7 months ago · Matt Osborne

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Stop Talking About Regime Change In Iran

I am already tired of seeing Reza Pahlavi celebrated as the new shah of Iran. He will never live long enough to see the inside of the country again. The regime is not going anywhere for him, and he has no real domestic support base to speak of. Former president Mir-Hossein Mousavi too…

7 months ago · Matt Osborne

'Fantastic Four' Box Office Crashes

Box office receipts show that the new Fantastic Four: First Steps is falling behind its competition. “This Monday haul falls short of DC Studios’ Superman, which grossed $12.9 million on its first Monday, July 14, 2025,” Marvin Montanaro reports. In fact, the film is now doing worse than the worst recent releases from Marvel…

7 months ago · 7 likes · Matt Osborne

Beauty Is Back, Boys

I will spare the reader a highlight reel of intersectional feminists melting down on TikTok about white supremacy. I have nothing original to add to the commentary on American Eagle baiting ‘progressives’ in order to sell blue jeans and make a billion dollars. I just feel the need to mark this occasion…

7 months ago · 3 likes · Matt Osborne

Prosecution Of 'Non-Affirming' Dad Ends In Exoneration By Human Services Judge

Minnesota Human Services Judge William B. Madsen has recommended Sherburne County CPS reverse its finding that Brent Bowlby maltreated a minor by mental injury. Madsen’s findings are an absolute embarassment to CPS officials at the County Government Center…

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How To Defend Taiwan

Tinian Island, the last American-owned stop on the way to the South China Sea, is being restored to service. What started in the 21st century as a partial reclamation program has turned into a full-blown airbase rebuilding frenzy 80 years after the end of the war it was first built to win…

6 months ago · 2 likes

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Notes From The Latest Indo-Pak Dust-Up

The endless India-Pakistan conflict is not at all a proxy war for anyone else’s larger conflict, as the hodgepodge arsenals of both combatants bear witness. During the Second Kashmmir War in1965, Pakistani pilots in American F-86 Sabres tangled with Indians flying British Folland Gnats, while both the Pakistani Air Force (PAF) and Indian Air Force (IAF) used Canberra bombers, though they were made in two different countries…

6 months ago · 1 like · Matt Osborne

The Real Gender Communism Has Not Been Tried Yet

“Zohran is literally attempting to do what conservatives say we want to do, which is provide gender affirming care to anyone who wants it for free,” Daniel Goulden told the Socialism 2025 conference last month in Chicago. “We're gonna fly people in and pay for their hotel rooms…

6 months ago · Matt Osborne

The Mar-a-Lago Doctrine Emerges

In a series of posts starting in April, I have attempted to analyze the Trump administration tariff campaign on its own terms. Rather than propagandize the tariffs, as too many influencers do these days, I have tried to understand the intended influence of the tariffs on the economy against the actual outcome. I figure that is fair…

6 months ago · 2 likes · Matt Osborne

Jamie Reed On The Moscow Rules Of The Gender Clinic Whistleblower

In 2023, Jamie Reed blew the whistle on the Washington University Transgender Center and its arrangement with Planned Parenthood to create as many ‘trans kids’ as possible. She has become a tireless advocate for a complete end to the gender industry and reversal of all its policy captures. Her heroism has cost her almost everything, starting with her faith in the system…

6 months ago · Matt Osborne and Jamie Reed

The Kings Of Old Media Are Dead, Long Live The Kings

When was the last time you saw a headline about Howard Stern? His antics were news, once upon a time. In fact, I think that last time he got my attention was in 2006, when he moved his show onto SiriusXM. At the time, his contract terms — $100 million a year for five years — were new…

6 months ago · 1 like · Matt Osborne

Gina Carano Destroys The Cancel Culture Death Star

Gina Carano, the former MMA fighter who portrayed Cara Dune, the most popular character on the Disney+ streaming series The Mandalorian, has settled her lawsuit with Disney and Lucasfilm…

6 months ago · 10 likes · Matt Osborne

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Russia's Economy Is Going Off The Rails

Russian business news website RBC is reporting that railroad employees in the heart of the country started taking two days’ unpaid leave per month in July because RZD, the state railroad company, is having trouble making payroll…

6 months ago · Matt Osborne

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The Derelict Will Always Be With Us

The stone steps beneath the elegant wrought iron gates in the church doorway had become a hangout for vagrant men. A missionary church is not the sort of place you would expect to turn away people who are sleeping outdoors, but I suspect the smell overpowered Christian charity…

6 months ago · Matt Osborne

The Genderwoo Activists Are Changing Their Story On Detransition Now

Dr. Kinnon R. MacKinnon, a transgender scholar studying transgender “care” at York University in Toronto, has admitted in a New York Times op-ed that detransition rates are much higher than the oft-quoted figure of one percent…

6 months ago · 41 likes · 2 comments · Matt Osborne

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Why China Might Choose Another War Than Taiwan

“Over the past decade, the CCP has refined a highly nationalistic historical narrative that emphasizes past injustices inflicted by foreign powers on China,” Mark Metcalf writes in a 2020 article about the ‘Century of Humiliation’. Beginning with Chairman Mao’s first speech as master of China in 1949, it is a view of history in which China is the whole world’s victim…

6 months ago · 3 likes · Matt Osborne

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Hyperpartisan Engagement And Mental Health In MAGA World Today

During July, the polling Firm Echelon Insights “found a rise in the proportion of Trump supporters backing U.S. aid to Ukraine compared with when the president returned to the White House in January,” according to Newsweek. When asked, “Do you support or oppose Donald Trump's decision to continue giving weapons to Ukraine for the conflict with Russia?” no less than “65 percent of Trump voters backed the provision of arms to Ukraine, almost three times the 22 percent who opposed the move…

6 months ago · Matt Osborne

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How The 'Trans Kids' Were Invented

Brunskell-Evans, Heather and Moore, Michele. Inventing Transgender Children and Young People. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019…

6 months ago · 4 likes · Matt Osborne

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The Daily Beast Tries To Sink The Bismarck

“Previously a reporter at the Daily Mail,” Sarah Ewall-Wice “covered the White House, Capitol Hill, and was on the road with the Kamala Harris campaign,” reads her bio at The Daily Beast. “She also worked at CBS News, where she covered politics through the lens of economics and was an embed in the 2020 campaign…

6 months ago · Matt Osborne

'Red Sonja' To Make Hollywood See Red This Weekend

Michael J. Bassett is the director of the new Red Sonja movie out this weekend. He has also been a ‘transwoman’ named M.J. Bassett ever since his “coming out” in 2017. Tasha Huo is a screenwriter with a background in shelter management and a career in video games. Together, they have turned another boy-brand comic book into a failed franchise film with a girlboss in the leading role, the phenomenon that has all but destroyed Hollywood. Slow clap…

6 months ago · 3 likes · Matt Osborne

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