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Sep 08, 2026

I am just getting back in the swing of things after a three-week slowdown for a slipped disc that made it impossible to do much writing, or much of anything at all. The grand plans I had for August have been delayed into September.

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Forget 'Gender Dysphoria': Almost All The Hormonal 'Gender Medicine' Is Billing Fraud

Everyone can stop talking about ‘gender dysphoria’ now. The term is largely irrelevant to questions about kids and puberty blockers and hormones, anymore, because hardly anyone is actually billing for coverage under that diagnosis…

2 months ago · 4 likes · Matt Osborne

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Why Democrats Are In Disarray

CNN is reporting on a “midterm war” in the Democratic Party over the rise of Democratic Socialism…

2 months ago · Matt Osborne

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Was Venezuela Payback For Havana Syndrome?

Early on the morning of 3 January 2026, at least 32 Cuban guards around Nicolás Maduro were reportedly incapacitated by a weapon that American forces were using for the very first time…

2 months ago · 1 like

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'White Supremacy Culture' At The Smithsonian

During a hearing by the House Oversight Committee yesterday, Rep. Brandon Gill of Texas grilled Anthea M. Hartig, director of the Smithsonian National Museum of American History since 2019. She is the tenth director in the history of the museum and its first female director since it opened in 1964…

2 months ago · Matt Osborne

The Vibe Shift Is Real

“Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules”, Saul Alinsky advised. Rep. Brandon Gill of Texas made American Bar Association (ABA) President Michelle A. Behnke live up to her own set of rules in a House Oversight Committee hearing, “The Future of DEI in Law School Accreditation and the Legal Profession”, yesterday…

2 months ago · Matt Osborne

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The Wildberries Option

Ukraine has surpassed Russia in the scale of their long-range strike capabilities. Successive, overlapping campaigns have created gas lines in Russia, swept the Sea of Azov clear of Russian ships, hammered logistics, and in recent days has expanded to Wildberries warehouses…

a month ago · Matt Osborne

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Why 'The Odyssey' Discourse Is Not Over Yet

The Odyssey needs a solid …

a month ago · 3 likes · Matt Osborne

Why Oregon Has So Many Kids On Hormones

Oregon’s Intermountain Education Service District fired social worker Roderick E. Theis II in November 2023 for the crime of displaying the books He is He, She is She, and Johnny the Walrus in his La Grande Middle School office. Last week, a divided federal appeals court ruled that Theis was not protected by the First Amendment when he showed the books to students who asked to see them…

a month ago · 2 likes · Matt Osborne

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Pride Goeth Before The Fall Of Civilizations

Abdul Rahman Toufic Ballout, a man of Lebanese descent born in Berlin, plowed a vehicle into a crowd outside a Pride event at the Tiergarten on Saturday night. Ballout exited the vehicle, a white Citröen Space Tourer, and stabbed bystanders before fleeing the scene. One woman was reported killed and 29 people injured…

a month ago · Matt Osborne

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On The Women Of Toulouse And The Trebuchet That Killed Simon de Montfort

“[T]here was in the town a [siege engine] built by a carpenter and dragged with its platform from St. Sernin”, writes the anonymous author of Chanson de la Croisade Albigeoise, or Song of the Cathar Wars. “This was worked by noblewomen, by little girls and men’s wives, and now a stone arrived just where it was needed and struck Count Simon on his steel helmet, shattering his eyes, brains, back teeth, forehead and jaw. Bleeding and black, the count dropped dead on the ground…

a month ago · Matt Osborne

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There Is 'Nothing Left' Of The Progressive Movement That Delivered Obamacare

“Most of the people I encountered in progressive politics, but especially in the criminal justice reform space, came from extremely privileged backgrounds”, Evan Barker writes in her memoir. Barker found that “personal wealth insulated them against the consequences of the policies they promoted…

a month ago · Matt Osborne

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Maine Democrats Cannot Find A Normal Guy To Run Against Susan Collins

Journalist Steve Robinson of Maine Wire has reported that Troy Jackson, the Democratic Party’s replacement candidate for Graham Platner, lives in a common law relationship with his second cousin, Lana M. Pelletier. The relationship has been an open secret in the tiny town of Allagash, where they live. The couple has two adult children…

a month ago · 5 likes · Matt Osborne

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We Have To Talk About Liberalism And The Leftist Mental Health Crisis In America

Francesca Hong, a failed restaurateur and Democratic nominee for governor in Wisconsin, had a mental breakdown at 18. “ I didn’t actually walk at my high school graduation because I had been hospitalized for a week at a child psychiatric hospital”, she told…

a month ago · 16 likes · Matt Osborne

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The Closer Is Coming

It all feels so familiar because it is familiar, by now. The president calls a timeout for negotiations at the behest of the Saudis, Qataris, and Pakistanis with planes in the air. Then Iran denies any negotiations…

a month ago · 1 like · Matt Osborne

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Sophie Cunningham Is Pointing To The Death Of The Irony That Is Men In Women's Sports

“The problem is that the grown-ups in the room have turned into cowards, and they are all running away from the fantasists”, Sir Trevor Phillips said in an interview with The Telegraph last week. “When I was a student, one of the things we fought for was that women could operate independently of men. Now, according to this new fantasy world, the one thing women cannot do is decide when they want to be separate from men. It’s not just outrageous, it’s insane.” Or: ironic…

a month ago · 24 likes · 1 comment · Matt Osborne

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A Bloody Slave Rebellion That Broke An Empire

Islam did not experience a straightforward or unified progress. The Abbasid caliphate and its capital Baghdad had existed for over a century, surviving defeats and challenges, when the Zanj rebelled in what is today southern Iraq and southwestern Iran, devastating the imperial plantation economy…

a month ago · 3 likes · Matt Osborne

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Why America Cannot Spend Our Way Out Of The Public Education Crisis

Chances are that you have encountered the argument that the Department of War should be downsized, so that schools can have the money. According to this logic, the only thing that can solve the crisis of public education is an infinite supply of money. When we value schoolteachers enough to pay them more than defense contractors, all of our social ills will be solved…

a month ago · 2 likes · Matt Osborne

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Democrats Lose When They Skip Oppo Research

Stick a fork in Abdul El-Sayed. He is done. He hates football. He hates the 4th of July. He hates the 2nd Amendment. Normal Michiganders will not vote for someone who hates everything they love. Mike Rogers just has to stand still and act normal to win handily in November. So goes the hand-wringing, anyway. Who knows, they could be right…

a month ago · Matt Osborne

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The Artillery Park Of Jeanne D'Arc

During the 19th century, French nationalism and widespread literacy developed a mass interest in medieval history and national heroes, with Joan of Arc foremost among the latter. Images of French history appeared regularly in popular publications and posters of the time. As one might expect, artists tended to romanticize their reconstructions of medieval sieges in a contemporary mode, though they turned to the historical texts for their material. Arsenals still held examples of obsolete weapons to serve as models. Here and there lay remains of medieval fortifications to inspect…

a month ago · 1 like · Matt Osborne

'A Case Of Transphobia': Crybullies Campaign Against The Rights Of Women In Brazil

In 2025, Brazilian feminist activist and graphic designer Isabella Cêpa received political asylum in Europe because she faced years in prison for online comments that offended transgender politician Érika Hilton. Cêpa became the world’s first gender critical political refugee and an embarrassment to Brazil, which had proudly overcome its authoritarian past…

25 days ago · 11 likes · Matt Osborne

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On The Slow Self-Destruction Of The University

Nobel Prize recipient Dr. James Watson, the discoverer of the DNA double helix, was a genius in the true sense of that word. Still, Watson was destroyed personally and professionally for saying out loud that intelligence has a genetic variability linked to what we call ‘race’. In the western academy, it is a thoughtcrime to notice that genetic variation produces more or less desirable traits in human beings, or that evolutionary time in different environments will produce a variety of traits…

22 days ago · Matt Osborne

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Iran Is Going Down Exactly Like I Said It Would

On Tuesday of this week, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps fired two missiles towards the territory of the United Arab Emirates. Both missiles were aimed at marine traffic and fell into the sea without effect, one inside and one outside the boundaries of the Emirates. In retaliation, the UAE suspended all banking and commercial trading with Iran, essentially cutting off one-third of Iran’s foreign economic activity…

17 days ago · 2 likes · Matt Osborne

Why Rob Bonta Is Killing Hollywood

Archaeology will perhaps wonder, millennia hence, just what gods the people of southern California worshipped at a certain hill overlooking the former urban skyline. Based on the needle hazards they find in the destruction layer, those future scientists will likely speculate that worshippers all used intravenous drugs during some sort of mass pilgrimage…

11 days ago · Matt Osborne

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No One Has Dredged A New Channel Through Hormuz. ‘Milk Run’ Tankers Made Iran Mad

Last Friday, a YouTube content creator named Matt Morse started a fake news cascade when he reported that a new passage had been dredged in the Strait of Hormuz. In fact, the passage between the Fakk al Asad peninsula and the island of Bab Musandam has been charted for many centuries, and powered vessels use it all the time, including the present hostilities…

6 days ago · 1 like

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On The Scrupulosity Of Socialist Youth Cadres

Emotional healing is the latest form of fascism. Getting over your trauma, or coping with your problems, makes you a literal Nazi, according to Rev. Jinzu Minna Jain, pronouns they/them…

21 hours ago · 5 likes

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