Wednesday's tabs are full of whoooaaaahhh ...
Sen. Elissa Slotkin went on TV last Sunday and claimed that National Guardsmen were going to start shooting at American civilians.
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) November 26, 2025
The opposite turned out to be true. pic.twitter.com/FwHzWU2Mqq
Ed: The Seditious Six have much to answer for. They did not incite this kind of response in the legal sense, but in the moral sense, they and the other progressive demagogues who spent the last few months shrieking about "fascism" painted targets on these soldiers. Be sure to read Beege's live coverage of this story from earlier today.
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Niall Ferguson at The Free Press: In a public address on Friday evening, President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Ukraine faced an agonizing dilemma: “either the loss of our dignity or the risk of losing a key partner,” i.e., the United States. These words implicitly accepted that Kyiv could not reject the 28-point document but would try to modify it into something more tolerable. “Yes, we are made of steel,” he said, “[b]ut any metal, even the strongest, can give way.” That is code for: We cannot fight this war for much longer.
The result of the apparently fraught U.S.-Ukrainian negotiations in Geneva was a revised 19-point plan. I have not seen this document, but it reportedly leaves a number of the hard issues—e.g., territorial cessions—to a future meeting between Presidents Trump and Zelensky. Sergiy Kyslytsya, Ukraine’s first deputy foreign minister, told the Financial Times: “Very few things are left from the original version.” According to another report, under pressure from European leaders, the questions of NATO membership for Ukraine and NATO involvement in the post-war security arrangements have also been removed. At this rate, we may end up with several documents.
My concern at this point is that these efforts to improve the terms of the deal run the risk of scuttling it altogether with the Russians. There are two related questions: How many concessions should Ukraine have to make to secure an end to the hostilities? And what will it take to persuade Putin to drop his original maximalist war aims?
Ed: This is the smartest analysis I've yet read on the efforts to bring the war to a halt. Ferguson and I do not completely align on solutions, but we both agree that maximalism on either side is entirely unrealistic and flat-out unachievable, as nearly four years of war have already proven. Ferguson believes the new US sanctions may do more than 28- or 19-point plans to end the war. Read it all.
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Democrats are the gallbladder sludge of the American body politic. They are simply out of their minds.
— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) November 26, 2025
“Hair discrimination” law takes the cake. https://t.co/T3VhGBjEmg
Ed: Hair discrimination? Is this really the biggest problem that Pennsylvania faces? Or is this just the biggest potential windfall for trial attorneys in the Keystone State? I ask this as a potential member of the grievance group for hair discrimination ... or maybe scalp discrimination, in my case.
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Fox Business: Cracker Barrel CEO Julie Masino described feeling as though she was "fired by America" in an interview last week following the backlash over the restaurant's controversial remodeling design.
Masino discussed her leadership role with The Blaze’s Glenn Beck on Thursday, a position Beck noted she still holds despite the controversy.
"This is probably very unfair to ask you. Were you surprised you weren't fired?" he asked.
"Um, I feel like I've been fired by America," Masino said with a laugh.
Ed: But was she fired by America over her hair? Actually, Masino saved her job by recognizing the error and correcting it in time. It could have been a lot worse had she held out or doubled down on stupid. The real problem for Cracker Barrel wasn't its look, but its food quality, which has seriously declined over several years.
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Nick’s exactly right. America’s future will be won or lost on political decisions about family formation. If we spend 3% on Defense, we should be spending 6% on the very goods worth defending. This must be the animating center of the New Right’s governing philosophy for decades. https://t.co/w2gus911Nw
— Chad Pecknold (@ccpecknold) November 26, 2025
Ed: This is correct. The culture wars are animating, but good governance depends on a smart agenda aimed at bolstering the family and its place in the economy. The biggest part of that is solving the housing cost crisis, and that means creating a lot more supply than we have now.
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Free Beacon: Amid a historic spike in anti-Semitism, liberal billionaire George Soros is bankrolling an education company that provides a "curriculum on anti-Semitism" to students from kindergarten to college. The organization, PARCEO, is led by anti-Israel activists who claim many allegations of anti-Semitism are "fabricated" and used to silence pro-Palestinian activists.
Open Society Foundations (OSF) gave $50,000 last year to the New York-based PARCEO to develop its "Curriculum on Antisemitism from a Framework of Collective Liberation," according to OSF’s grants database.
The revelation about OSF's role sheds new light on a curriculum that has stirred controversy at some public schools in New York and California. Jewish faculty at New York City’s High School for Community Leadership, for example, complained the curriculum presented a "one-sided indoctrination" about the Israel-Hamas war, according to the New York Post.
Ed: So much for "no oligarchs," eh? "Collective liberation" apparently casts Jews as occupiers in Israel rather than the indigenous people of the region from as long as 3500 years ago – as opposed to the Arab colonizers that swept through the Levant 1300 years ago. The "Palestinians" are Arab colonizers, along with the Arabian descendants that dominate North Africa. I am not at all surprised to see Soros pushing this ahistorical, radical-Leftist nonsense.
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ICYMI: @DefendingEd obtained internal NEA documents showing the union’s upcoming training doesn’t focus on academics, but on attacking Republicans as “racist and transphobic,” pushing race-class-gender narratives, and promoting gender-transition guides for staff. pic.twitter.com/us2QmIc5ub
— Nicki Neily (@nickineily) November 24, 2025
Ed: I wonder where the money originates for this, too. It wouldn't surprise me to see OSF in the cash flow. The full article can be found at this link.
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WSJ: The food company has been at the center of a controversy in recent days after a former employee leaked a tape of the executive. In the recording, vice president of information technology Martin Bally allegedly made racist comments and said Campbell’s made “highly processed food” for “poor people.”
Campbell’s said Wednesday that, after a review, it believed the voice on the recording was Bally’s. He was no longer employed at the company as of Tuesday.
“The comments were vulgar, offensive and false, and we apologize for the hurt they have caused,” the company said.
Ed: But what did his hair look like? It's amazing to me that anyone who reaches that level within a large corporation like Campbells would be stupid enough to say something like this out loud. But them I remember Alyssa Heinerscheid, and ... well ...
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ICE operation in St. Paul leads to arrest of criminal illegal alien, DHS says
— Alpha News (@AlphaNews) November 26, 2025
After the federal operation concluded, St. Paul Police Chief Axel Henry shockingly encouraged city residents to show up at similar operations and monitor them.
"That was not a peaceful protest; that… pic.twitter.com/juXEGTP6IK
"That was not a peaceful protest; that was an organized mob set on causing chaos," a pastor of a nearby church told Alpha News.
Ed: Why would Chief Henry ask civilians to do that? Why not dispatch his own officers to observe and report on those operations? Answer: He wants to put civilians in harm's way just to score political points.
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DHS: Today, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced the arrest of John Wilson Bennett and Mark Booth Bennett, both United States citizens, for planning to carry out attacks against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.
On November 17, 2025, DHS alongside the Virginia Beach Police Department launched an investigation after an off-duty Norfolk, Virginia police officer overheard John Wilson Bennett, and his brother Mark Booth Bennett, discussing plans to “kill police officers and ICE agents.” Mark Bennett was also overheard saying he was planning to meet with likeminded individuals in Las Vegas, Nevada, to purchase firearms with explosive rounds to carry out the attacks.
Ed: Insanity. Sheer insanity.
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Democrats will:
— Matt Van Swol (@mattvanswol) November 26, 2025
a) call federal agents the Gestapo
b) call President Trump, "Hitler"
c) call America, "1940s Germany"
...and then pretend to be shocked when this happens pic.twitter.com/DnjTDTUdEb
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Jonathan Turley: The Harvard Club of New York is being accused of censorship after abruptly cancelling a book event featuring famed Harvard professor Alan Dershowitz. In a statement, Dershowitz says that invitations were sent out and the event was approaching when he was suddenly told that the Harvard Club would have none of it. He blamed his representation of President Donald Trump for the cancellation.
For a club that bills itself as offering “unique experiences,” it appears that hearing from opposing or different views is not one of them.
Dershowitz has been associated with Harvard for over 60 years and remains one of its best known law faculty members.
Ed: Harvard only wants unique experiences that suit the tastes of its unique snowflakes. Shame on them for snubbing one of their most celebrated – and interesting – intellects.
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This video does a great job at showing a major brick in the wall that causes so many boys to end up with a deep hatred of school and teachers.
— Andy RedBeard (@AndyTheRedBeard) November 26, 2025
It shouldn't be "don't talk to me like a child"
It should be "don't talk to children with psychopathic contempt either" https://t.co/iSjRLcg5Fh
Ed: "They are who they are." Indeed they are, which is why people should leave AWFLs in the "calm down corner." (Via Twitchy)
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Thanksgiving health advice from WaPo: The warm fuzzy feeling you get from a delicious holiday meal can be quickly eclipsed by the gassy one that follows. Fortunately, gastroenterologists have an old trick for this: Take a fart walk.
I recommend trying a leisurely walk until you start to feel better. But, in theory, any mild physical activity works. Controlled experiments have found that even gentle cycling is more than sufficient to relieve trapped gas.
Ed: Or have someone pull your finger. But even if a fart walk doesn't help your disposition much, your momentary absence likely will improve matters greatly for the friends and family spending time with you after Thanksgiving dinner. (Yes, this is serious advice from an actual MD, so maybe give it a try.)
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What are you grateful for this Thanksgiving?
— John Ondrasik (@johnondrasik) November 26, 2025
Ed: I'm grateful for friends like John. And for readers like you!
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