This week, a professor from the Ivy League’s Columbia University was nominated for a prestigious National Book Award for writing a book called "A Dead White: An Argument Against White Paint." LOL.
[Federalist] The midterms are less than a month away. On Nov. 3, Americans will go back to the ballot box and choose between two paths. One is focused on a revitalized appreciation of America’s civic heritage, and the other is still determined to redefine what America is and has been for the last 250 years. The modern Democrat Party has, by all accounts, embraced the idea of postnationalism and views America’s history, Founding Fathers, and institutions as bad.
You don’t need to look very far to see where this kind of policy leads. Just north of the 49th parallel, Canada, where I live, has experimented with the same type of policies. Then-Prime Minister Justin Trudeau once referred to Canada as "the world’s first postnational state," and what has happened since has been a disaster. Canada is struggling to define and assert itself in the face of a world that is ever-changing and unkind.
If the United States embraces an ethos of postnationalism, it too will render itself impotent. That is why, under no circumstances, can Americans give ground to those who would undermine the institutions that uphold the country you and your forefathers built. America must have a strong economy backed by a stronger military to exert real power on the world stage and thus ensure American primacy and hegemony. Celebrating the Founding Fathers and their struggle against the elements as they colonized a vast, once sparsely populated landmass is necessary for your continued survival — not because these stories or institutions provide nostalgia or patriotism, but because they are the mechanisms by which you exert your existence.
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Single party rule always, always, fails. CA, NYC and others are living proof of how single parties become oligarchs and the people suffer. I dont really think it matter what party, left, right, communist, anarchists, the end state is predictable.
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[Reuters] President Donald Trump suggested to a crowd of his supporters in Nebraska that Iran could "take out" a major US city like Los Angeles or San Diego, drawing a swift rebuke from California's Democratic leaders and some fellow Republicans.
Trump, speaking at a political rally in the state's farm belt on Monday, discussed American wartime economic sacrifices and said he was determined to "see a tremendous victory, because it verifies all the things we did."
"And again, remember, with the war, it's just artificial, it's a little bit high, it's a small price to pay," he told the crowd in Grand Island, Nebraska, apparently referring to rising prices of fuel, fertilizer and other products attributed to energy market disruptions from the war.
"It's a small price to pay for keeping the world safe, for keeping our country safe. They could take out a city. Let 'em take out Los Angeles, let 'em take out San Diego. This is a very small price to pay, and it's going to be over with very soon," he said.
"It's essentially almost over with," Trump went on. "But it's going to end very soon, and it's going to end one way or the other."
On Tuesday, the White House dismissed criticism of the remark. "The media freakout over President Trump’s comments is not rooted in reality. He was clearly stating US cities would have been threatened if a nuclear Iran hadn't been stopped," White House Director of Communications Steven Cheung said in a social media post. "America is safer because of the President. Iran has no nuclear, no navy, no air force, and no money."
Trump has shrugged off cost-of-living concerns stemming from the Iran conflict before, and he previously downplayed his concerns about the potential for Iran or its allies to launch an attack on US soil.
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Don't forget Seattle and Portland. Especially Redmond.
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Of course the Democrats and their media lackeys are making a big deal out of some offhand remark that they can take out of context and portray the guy as a mad man. I don't recall them having much to say when Obama sent, what was it, $400 billion in cash loaded onto pallets to the Mad Mullahs. How did that work?
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[PJ] The last month has been filled with holidays, but with Simchat Torah on this past Saturday night, the cycle is finished, and life returns to a more regular schedule. May we, and all of America and Israel, be blessed with good health, prosperity, joy, wisdom, love, and peace.
But peace is often not found so easily, and Israel must always be prepared, given that it is still surrounded by neighbors who do not recognize the inherent right of the Jewish people to have their own sovereign nation of Israel on their ancestral homeland.
Which is why the Israel Naval Force is becoming even stronger with the delivery of its sixth submarine, something Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke about on Sunday at Ashdod Naval Base. Warning that the maritime arena has become an "international battlefield," he cited threats around the Strait of Hormuz and Bab el-Mandeb and said Israel will protect its ports, shipping routes and Mediterranean waters. "Above and below the surface, I intend for Israel to be one of the world’s leaders in this field of warfare," Netanyahu said.
Warfare with ships and subs is one type, but the terrorist attacks are still dangerous, as we saw this past week with the attempted hijacking. Officials, after investigation and interrogation, have determined that the would-be hijacker intended to fly the plane into Israeli territory and ultimately crash the plane at Ben Gurion Airport to create a mass chaotic event. What the hijacker did not realize was that the courageous pilot had already sent the code to Israeli officials that there was a hijacking going on, and had the hijacker crossed the Jordanian border, the plane would have been shot down upon entering Israel's airspace (jets were already up in the air).
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And shooting down an airliner full of passenger might, might, get a pass from some of us here in America, but Israel would have lost on the world stage for it. Its a sad reality with todays press and politics that terrorists have the full upper hand in the worlds information operations and most governments bend to the will of the press.
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but Israel would have lost on the world stage for it
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when Harry Truman ignored the advise from State and approved America's vote in the UN to form Israel?
And then President Truman refused to sell or give any arms to the newJewish state, assuming that it would quickly be overrun by the fiveArab armies already lined up on its borders, who would kill all the Jews as promised. One possible conclusion is that he did it to annoy Britain, which was not at all willing to give up the Palestine Mandate, given to it by the Leqgue of Nations specifically to prepare the Jews for self-rule in a territory that originally included what is now Jordan and Judea and Samaria/the West Bank as well as everything inside the Green Line.
[FOX] The American Hospital Association is pushing back on a Blue Cross Blue Shield Association report that linked hospitals’ growing use of artificial intelligence-enabled documentation tools to higher healthcare spending, arguing the analysis does not prove AI is driving improper billing.
The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association estimated that coding-related changes resulted in $942 million in additional spending for participating Blue plans between 2023 and 2025 as hospitals increasingly classified patients as having more complex conditions.
But the AHA said Monday that the analysis lacks critical context and does not establish that hospitals incorrectly coded patients or that AI tools were responsible for the changes.
“The central question is not whether hospitals are reporting more diagnoses,” the AHA said. “The question is whether the patient’s medical record supports those diagnoses.”
The hospital group argued that Americans are living longer with more chronic conditions, while lower-acuity procedures have increasingly shifted from hospitals to outpatient settings. That leaves hospitals treating a greater concentration of seriously ill and medically complex patients, according to the AHA.
AI-enabled documentation technology, the group said, can help clinicians identify and record conditions that may previously have been underreported while reducing administrative burdens and providing a fuller picture of patients’ health.
The AHA also challenged the methodology behind the insurer group's conclusions, saying the BCBSA analysis did not review underlying medical records to determine whether diagnoses were supported and did not appear to identify which claims actually involved AI tools rather than traditional coding practices.
“Without answering those questions, the analysis does not demonstrate that hospitals coded patients incorrectly,” the AHA said. “It may simply reflect more complete documentation of increasingly complex patients.”
The AHA further argued that the $942 million estimate should be viewed in the context of overall healthcare spending, contending that increased inpatient coding intensity represents only a small portion of broader growth in commercial healthcare costs.
The dispute comes as hospitals and insurers increasingly deploy AI across healthcare, raising questions about how the technology could affect everything from patient care and administrative workloads to billing and healthcare costs.
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.
BREAKING: Israel says pilot tried to hijack flydubai flight to Tel Aviv that diverted, landed in Saudi Arabia
