[American Thinker] As a psychologist, I have tried to understand the phenomenon of what is casually termed “crazy liberal women,” or “AWFLs” (Affluent White Female Liberals) — those obnoxious, shrieking, irrational, intensively hateful, intrusive women whose mouths are a verbal sewer and who are forever drawing attention to themselves. One cannot view the women of The View, for example, without recognizing that there is something seriously wrong with them.
I may be able to shed some light on these creatures, but we should first examine some instances where they manifest their irrationality.
The appearance of these bizarre women and others like them, with their COEXIST bumper stickers, has been noted by sane individuals, with one writer calling them “a plague upon Western society.” Not a hyperbole. After all, it’s hard not to notice them, nor their corrosive effect on society. (For example, Laura Helmuth as editor in chief of Scientific American, Kathleen Kennedy at Disney, and Susan Goldberg at National Geographic).
One of the things about them that is interesting to me, as a psychologist, is their utter lack of self-awareness as to how bizarrely they act, even when it is patently self-destructive, as with those women with suicidal empathy. In the rare instances they do become aware, it is a painful experience. Phyllis Chesler, a prominent feminist and psychologist, admitted that many of her fellow activists who were the giants of second-wave feminism were insane — not flaky, but clinically psychotic (think Andrea Dworkin). Long before I became aware of Chesler, I came to the same conclusion on reading the writings in feminist journals; they were unquestionably the ramblings of psychotic persons. Along the same line, look at FEMEN, a group of French liberal women who demonstrate topless, put on a Hitler moustache, and give the Nazi salute while shrieking — all this as a demonstration against imagined Nazism.
Just think back on the Brett Kavanaugh hearings. They are the women who suddenly “remember” having been raped 20 years ago by some prominent conservative.
Whether one excludes “persons of color” or not from the equation, the majority of persons in DIE are Affluent White Female Liberals. The job description dovetails with the female instinct for sticking their noses into other people’s business, for telling others how to behave, and for nagging.
And then there are the apolitical “Karens” — women who are likewise, aggressive, obnoxious, irrational, shrieking, and intrusive. Unlike the AWFLs, they have become something of a joke. Yet their similarity is striking.
However, there is one branch of this phenomenon that is not as blatantly dramatic, or rather is not as loud. Think of the proliferation of female teachers seducing their students. Think of those Western women who have converted to the anti-woman, oppressive Islamic religion. Think of the countless cases of where a woman falsely accused men of rape (some still rotting in prison). Think of the mostly single mothers who turn their children into transgender.
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They are more depressed, are more obsessed with politics, are more anxious, and have more negative emotions.
Getting obsessed with politics can be depressing, especially if you live in a blue state.
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Women who went through the indoctrination centers (colleges) tend to find it more difficult to find a good partner. Over 50 percent of liberal women self-report having a mental illness.
Been watching reruns of the old TV show Cheers on one of the streaming platforms. It's striking how closely the character of the cocktail waitress Diane Chambers, played by Shelly Long, resembles that statement from the article. College seems to be a common thread in these stories. Not only is it a monumental waste of time and money but it also seems to cause a great deal of confusion. Diane certainly didn't need college to become a cocktail waitress. Whoever wrote those episodes had some good insight.
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[Bearing Arms] Self-defense is a human right, and the right to keep and bear arms is one that belongs to we the people regardless of our faith, color, and creed. A raging lefty has the same right to own an AR-15 as a rock-ribbed conservative, a Catholic has the same right to carry a handgun as a Protestant, and no matter if you identify as a man, woman, or wolfkin, you've got the right to protect yourself and your loved ones with a firearm.
We've seen the growing diversity of gun owners in the United States over the past couple of decades, and I'm pleased that trend appears to be continuing. And just as we talk about an individual right to keep and bear arms, the decision to become a gun owner is an individual one as well.
It's also one that Dr. Adam Fuller, the Clayman Professor of Jewish Studies and Associate Professor of Political Science at Youngstown State University and author of The Armed Jew: The Case for Jewish Gun Ownership, hopes that others of the Jewish faith will make.
Fuller recently spoke to honors students at Yeshiva University in New York about his book, as well as why he decided to start exercising his Second Amendment rights in recent years.
[Dawn] THE bloodshed continues unabated. On Wednesday, at least 12 coppers were martyred in the line of duty in KP. Ten lives were lost in an ambush in Kohat while a police party was returning from a clearance operation, and two more were martyred in Swabi when a police patrol came under fire.
Separately, an explosive-laden pickup slammed into the main gate of a cop shoppe in Dera Ismail Khan ... the Pearl of Pashtunistan ... , but the attack was promptly repelled. Thankfully, no police casualties were reported in the latter incident. Still, a dozen lives lost in a single day and at least a dozen more injured and hospitalised is a heavy toll for a provincial police force engaged in a relentless, fierce fight against gunnies threatening the state’s writ every day. The Kohat ambush, in particular, appears to have been a major security incident. By police accounts, a team that conducted a joint operation with the civil administration against illegal gold mining in the Darbukach area was returning after completing its objectives when it was ambushed by what appears to have been a very large group. At least 18 attackers were killed as the police fought back.
Official data shows that police fatalities and injuries in the first half of this year alone had doubled from the year before. The number of attacks, on the other hand, had risen by 34pc. The data suggests that attacks on police have become increasingly deadly, and, coupled with shortfalls in personnel, arms and necessary equipment, the KP police are increasingly vulnerable as they play a frontline role in ongoing operations against terrorists.
Though October saw a marked improvement in the number of attacks compared to just a month earlier, the three incidents on Wednesday underline how fragile those gains can be if the police are not strengthened while the state has the upper hand. After the centre took control of the province, it bears full responsibility for the police’s protection. The new administration appointed to oversee KP’s affairs must immediately ensure that the provincial security forces receive all the funds they have requested and fill vacant posts on an urgent basis. It must ensure armoured vehicles, protective equipment, night-vision devices and better weapons are supplied to frontline personnel, and that intelligence and army backup are available during police operations in high-risk areas.
[AT] How years of relentless, one-sided reporting turned Israel from David into Goliath—and made the good guys the villains of the story.
“…there’s a great dislike, incredibly, for Israel.” — Donald Trump (11/8/26)
It’s pretty clear that the president thinks one of the reasons the Republicans performed so poorly in the midterms is a growing anti-Israel shift in our country.
But instead of sharing the bad news, he should be telling us why that is the case. It’s not fake news. It is what fake news has created. Fake news has molded a narrative of Middle East good guys and bad guys and turned Israel into the dreaded “bad guy.” And make no mistake, perception is everything.
Hollywood was very good at pushing the “good guy, bad guy” narrative, too. Think of their cowboy films. They even had their own special way of telling moviegoers who the good guys were. They gave them white hats!
Today’s world news media caters very much to the same childish thought process: play the good guys-versus-bad-guys game, and make sure the public knows who the good guys are and who to root for.
So how did the media succeed in transforming Israel into the bad guy? Over the course of many years, they made the Mideast conflict about Israel versus the Palestinians, rather than placing that conflict within the wider context of Israel versus many adversaries. It was methodical, relentless reporting with tunnel vision. That’s how the media changed the narrative. That’s how Israel became the much maligned bully on the block. How good guy David became bad guy Goliath.
I’m not trying to solve Israel’s public relations problem. It seems beyond repair. The mantra “Palestinian victimhood at the hands of Israel” has become the new world gospel, and I don’t see it going away. We in the Jewish community are told that properly educating the public and even some of our own diaspora is our best bet for the future. But good luck with that. Who wants to be educated when they have already embraced the simplistic narrative they get on the news every day?
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"it's the Media, Stupid", not just Israel, but most things now.
I wonder sometimes what this country if we had a honest, ethical media instead of the partisan hacks on both sides
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] In the latest episode of Photo Evidence, host Catherine Barnwell pores over years of satellite images of Iran's Taleghan 2 military facility, one of the suspected homes of the Islamic Republic's nuclear weapons programme.
Taleghan 2 sits inside the vast Parchin military complex, around 20 miles southeast of Tehran. The complex has been repeatedly bombed since 2024.
The facility was built in the early 2000s as part of the infamous Amad Plan, Iran's secret programme to develop a nuclear warhead. Tehran has always denied the plan existed.
Under Barack Obama's 2015 nuclear deal, Iran agreed to a ban on exactly this kind of weapons research. But that deal has since collapsed, and satellite images taken since 2024 have captured a string of strange developments at Taleghan 2.
Israel flattened the building in October 2024. Iran rebuilt it and buried the new bunker under concrete and earth, only for Israel to strike it again in March 2026.
Barnwell shows how Iran is rebuilding the facility once again, and speculates on what the Islamic Republic could be hiding inside.
'Satellite imagery showed Iran beginning repair work at the site,' she explained.
'Iran erected a massive tarpaulin canopy over the entire damaged buried structure, completely obscuring the work taking place beneath it from aerial and satellite observation.
'Presumably, this is intended to conceal what is happening beneath it, including the potential movement of new testing equipment back into the facility.
'One of the biggest questions is whether Iran is replacing the high explosive containment vessel believed to have been destroyed in the March strikes.
'In 2018, when Israel's Mossad seized Iran's secret nuclear archive, the documents and photographs recovered included evidence relating directly to Taleghan 2 in 2003.
'One of the most significant pieces of equipment documented in the archive was a small cylindrical steel vessel installed inside Taleghan 2 to contain high explosive experiments.
'The vessel was used for what are known as cold tests. In these experiments, scientists use conventional explosives to compress uranium proxies, allowing scientists to study the mechanics of a nuclear implosion without triggering a nuclear explosion.
'It is the mandatory final step to engineering a functional nuclear warhead.'
Not only does Barnwell's research pose troubling questions about Iran's current designs on a nuclear weapon, but it also suggests the Middle Eastern nation was conducting nuclear weapons research despite commitments to the contrary.
That same archive revealed that Iran never truly scrapped its programme, with leaders ordering the work split up and hidden in 2003.
'The files revealed that Taleghan 2 was never fully abandoned after 2003, and that experiments on nuclear explosives had continued under tighter secrecy throughout the 2000s and 2010s,' Barnwell explained.
'Crucially, the archive exposed that in mid 2003, Iranian leadership ordered the programme to be divided rather than destroyed.
'They quietly moved the sensitive research into a covert track, dispersing scientists across universities and front organisations so the dual-use data generated at places like Taleghan could keep moving forward under academic cover.
'However, in the months leading up to 2024, intelligence declassifications showed that Iran took that expertise off ice, quietly returning to the undeclared Taleghan 2 facility to resume top-secret active explosive research.'
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Shia Muslims use this type of language to boast about missile capability, why wouldnt they be developing nuclear warheads? Pinky swear.
IRGC: Iranian forces are launching missiles equipped with two-ton warheads at targets 1,500 kilometers away, the IRGC deputy commander said, warning that any threat against the country would be met with an immediate, effective and deterrent response without geographical limitations.
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Oh, come off it. How many times has Trump said that all that stuff was obliterated? And how many times has US intelligence (Tulsi for one) said that they are not working on a nuclear weapon?
[FOX] Foundation Future Robotics, an Eric Trump-backed robotics company, became the first company to deploy humanoid robots to a combat zone when it sent its Phantom MK 1 robots to Ukraine in February.
Now in talks to ship more MK 1 units to Israel, expanding its war theater footprint, Foundation co-founder Mike LeBlanc sees a near future in which the majority of warfighting is done by robots.
"In the next five to 10 years, I would expect that humanoids, ground vehicles, drones, will be doing most of the major fighting, with humans really only doing special forces, special operations, small surgical operations on the side," LeBlanc, a former Marine Corps officer with three tours of duty in the Middle East, told Fox News Digital in an exclusive interview.
LeBlanc stressed that, while robotics companies have been creating both warfare drones and household humanoid robots, Foundation is the first company to create humanoid robots specifically for warfare.
The MK 1 units deployed to Ukraine have a roughly 88-pound carrying capacity, making their best fit in combat situations one of a supplementary role, assisting human soldiers with ordnance, munitions loading, manual labor and other ancillary tasks.
However, LeBlanc explained that the units were simply a "proof of concept" for the broader application of humanoid robots in war, claiming that Foundation is already close to shipping out the MK 2.
"It is 6 feet tall, 185 pounds, as I say, created in my own image," LeBlanc joked.
"But this thing is ready to engage by making small and medium machine guns, by engaging with enemies.
"The Mark II is going to be the biggest, fastest, strongest humanoid on the market. This robot is already able to pick me up. So, it's a much larger payload than anybody else. That allows us to do heavy industrial work, but it also lets us set up heavy machine guns, bullfrogs, etc.," LeBlanc told Fox News Digital.
LeBlanc said Ukraine will likely be the first place the MK 2 is deployed, a fitting testing ground, he explained, as the war between Ukraine and Russia is largely being fought by machines already.
"In Ukraine, robots are very much a question of today and today's battlefield," LeBlanc explained.
He then marveled at how quickly the combat environment has shifted, contrasting today’s battlefield with those he engaged in during his tours of duty.
"It's amazing how quickly things change. I was in Afghanistan in 2012, and then again in 2013. And, at that time, they would have very small drones that it was almost like you were looking through a toilet paper roll," LeBlanc told Fox News Digital.
"It was a very small supplementary tool. Today, when you go to Ukraine, it's actually drones first that are doing the fighting and the humans that are the small supplement," he said.
Still, LeBlanc did not see a future in which humans would become obsolete in warfare.
"I don't think you'll ever see a battlefield where you have no humans," he said. Check your network.
"I was just in New York at a fancy restaurant, and, you know, even there, the waiter had to come by because our table was unbalanced, and he put some napkins in the bottom to make sure that it didn't wobble," he said.
"We are a species of workarounds, and that's what has made humans so incredible is that we can adapt to just about any situation. And, so, I think that it's unlikely that we'll see a battlefield without any humans, but we should drastically see that number drop."
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
