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🚨 HOLY CRAP! Sec. Marco Rubio just got a MASSIVE standing ovation in Germany after he told Europe we need to move back toward Christianity and against 3rd world migration
— Alex West Q (@RealAlexWest_Q) July 16, 2026
Marco is CRUSHING it and the whole world sees it! 🔥
We LOVE MARCO. 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/MT6S9ieZK0
Ed: Western civilization is grounded on Greek, Roman, and Judeo-Christian foundations. We have spent nearly a century attempting to deny all of these in the cult of cultural relativism and "diversity." Marco Rubio's argument is long overdue. We can be hospitable to the immigrant who moves to become part of our culture, but we do not owe hospitality to waves of migrants seeking to displace our culture. Nor do we owe apologies for defending the intellectual, moral, theological, and cultural foundations on which our civilization stands.
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NY Post: A top Missouri prosecutor was booted for having an affair with an illegal migrant her office was probing for sex assault — and because she slept with two other men in glaring conflicts of interest, too, court papers allege.
Disgraced Ray County Prosecutor Camille Johnston was yanked from her position Thursday when a judge signed off on Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway’s petition laying out a slew of misconduct allegations against her during her three and a half years in office, Hanaway announced.
Johnston — an elected official who took office Jan. 1, 2023 — compromised the integrity of her office for three men she had affairs with, Hanaway alleged.
In the most egregious case, Johnston helped her former live-in boyfriend — a Mexican national who had been in the US illegally since 2019 — go on the lam to evade arrest on sexual-assault allegations that same year, according to court papers filed by Hanaway.
Ed: I had assumed that this would be a woke-ish large urban county, but it's on the outskirts of Kansas City. It's not just the affairs either, Missouri AG Hanaway alleges. Not surprisingly, Hanaway accuses Johnston of abusive treatment of staff, too.
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Not much has changed. pic.twitter.com/3TOI1Gls8d https://t.co/SlpZQfZ61S
— AG (@AGHamilton29) July 18, 2026
Ed: It's not really about policies, or even ideology. It's about power. The DSA will take it by any means necessary, which is why they stuck with a violent Nazi-tatted Kik creeper until it became impossible to salvage his candidacy.
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ABC News: Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi said on Saturday Iran has suspended its commitments to the MOU and accused the U.S. of violating the agreement reached between the two countries last month.
Iran is not implementing its commitments and is “busy defending the country," Gharibabadi said in televised comments carried on Iranian semi-official news agency Fars.
Iran’s ambassador to Pakistan Reza Amiri Moghadam said in a social media post on Saturday that the U.S. interpreted the Memorandum of Understanding “contrary to its terms and gained control over parts of Strait Hormuz to obtain what it couldn't in the battlefield."
Ed: Does the G in IRGC stand for "gaslighting"? The IRGC never complied with the MOU. They insisted on interfering with traffic through the Strait, and attacking occasionally when the US Navy sent shipping through international waters. What's next – a statement announcing suspension of tithing to the Catholic Church?
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Isn't it interesting that you can be in alliance with certain people for years, even decades, & then you find yourself at odds on an issue that you would never have considered was a wedge issue or that would rear its head. Then again, I believed "Never Again," meant Never again.
— David Limbaugh (@DavidLimbaugh) July 18, 2026
Ed: Apparently, "never again" meant "until the Jews make handy targets again" for a lot more people than I or David suspected. Some of those are on the fringe Right, but a lot more of them are getting mainstreamed into the Left and the Democrat Party. The October 7 massacres turned into a shocking reveal of this movement, in which the perpetrators got embraced and the victims pilloried in the American public square. It's an absolute disgrace. Speaking of which ...
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3 years ago if you told me @TuckerCarlson would be slobbering over the most evil antisemitic psychopaths on the planet I would have had you admitted into an insane asylum. (Where he and waters should both be comfortably numbed) https://t.co/7sjwks0X6f
— John Ondrasik (@johnondrasik) July 18, 2026
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John Hinderaker at Power Line: The New York Post headlines: “Mamdani desperately seeking legal loophole to arrest Benjamin Netanyahu when Israel PM visits NYC. ...
One obvious problem: the United States doesn’t recognize the International Criminal Court. So it is hard to see how the NYPD can be enlisted to arrest the Israeli Prime Minister. But the Mayor says he is working on it:
“Whatever the law allows me to do in New York City, that’s what we will do,” he said.
Ed: I know the Logan Act has been toothless for two centuries, but Mamdani's attempts to conduct his own foreign policy out of Gracie Mansion may cross the line far enough to consider prosecution under it. Mamdani has no authority to breach diplomatic immunity granted by the State Department, and most certainly has no authority to accept a writ from an international organization the US refuses to recognize.
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The Boston Globe’s headline: “She came to Boston for a Noah Kahan concert. Now she’s in ICE custody”
— Clown World ™ 🤡 (@ClownWorld) July 18, 2026
The actual story: she missed a 2017 immigration court hearing, which triggered an outstanding removal order years ago
The concert isn’t why she’s in custody. The removal order… pic.twitter.com/KPEeT4b5ln
The concert isn’t why she’s in custody. The removal order is.
Ed: Do you think for a hot second that the Globe would have used the headline, "He went to the garage to go pick up some cheese, now he's in FBI custody" for Whitey Bulger back in the day? Of course not. As Clown World notes, this woman absconded on her immigration hearing and had a warrant out for her arrest. She's avoided it for nine years already. Who gives a damn what she wanted to do when she was caught?
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The Alien Terrorist Removal Court has existed but lain dormant since 1996 until Wednesday, when acting AG Blanche certified a classified submission to the court.
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) July 18, 2026
The judge asked for a "more thoughtful" submission by July 22.https://t.co/b5ohJ6hhvA pic.twitter.com/eVvvvgU92O
Ed: Why has it "lain dormant" for 30 years? It may not be constitutionally workable. Read on.
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Andrew McCarthy at NRO: The Justice Department has made the first application to the Alien Terrorist Removal Court (ATRC) in that tribunal’s 30-year history. The alien the government is trying to remove from the United States has not been identified. The chief judge of the court has held a hearing at which she heard legal arguments (no evidentiary hearing has been held to this point) and was apparently unimpressed by the DOJ’s presentation.
Let’s back up. As I’ve related over the years (most extensively in a memoir, Willful Blindness), my terrorist prosecution of the Blind Sheikh (Omar Abdel Rahman) and his jihadist cell in the New York metropolitan area, culminating in a lengthy 1995 trial, exposed significant weaknesses in federal counterterrorism law. (The trial centered on the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and a subsequent, thankfully foiled plot to bomb New York City landmarks.) While the post-9/11 PATRIOT Act gets most of historians’ attention, the most consequential legislation in this regard was the 1996 Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA). There were many vital counterterrorism improvements – e.g., criminal laws criminalizing terrorism conspiracies and material support to foreign terrorist organization, immigration laws facilitating the removal and exclusion of aliens connected to terrorist activities, etc.
There were also some innovations that were sufficiently dicey, constitutionally speaking, that they never really got out of the starting blocks. Among these is the ATRC (codified at Sections 1531 et seq., of Title 8 U.S. Code – the immigration laws).
Ed: This is a fascinating analysis from one of the pre-eminent experts on the subject matter. Andy thinks the law may not be workable at all, but it's not surprising to see this DoJ and administration pressure-test it. If it holds up, it will provide the fast-track removals of threats as Congress intended. If not, the unnamed target of this removal will still face other methods of expulsion. Perhaps Congress should take another look to clean up the statute so more use can be made of it.
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Hunter Biden claims the biggest problem in Washington DC is the city is run by a “closeted gay mafia.”
— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) July 18, 2026
“I know for certain, and I’m not kidding now…there is this closeted gay mafia, largely Republican, that exists in Washington DC.” pic.twitter.com/RIrT4D2EZj
Ed: Let's count all the ways in which this Hunter statement is off the rails. First off, DC being run by Republicans? Bwa-hahahahahaha. How long as Hunter been around our nation's capital? Then, why would a "gay Mafia" exist in the GOP? Wouldn't it fit far more naturally in the Democrat Party? Finally, the notion that Hunter knows anything, let alone for "certain," assumes facts that have never been in evidence. Maybe Hunter needs a sobriety check, or just a brain scan.
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The Hollywood Reporter: Starring Matt Damon as the heroic Odysseus, the epic feature is fending off competition with $51.2 million on Friday from 3,900 North American screens, including Thursday previews. Earning an A CinemaScore from audiences, the film is eyeing a $120 million-plus frame, which would make it 2026’s biggest live-action opening, with only Toy Story 5 ($159 million) and The Super Mario Galaxy Movie ($131 million) debuting above it. The Odyssey is also set to claim the top R-rated opening of the year and Universal’s highest weekend launch ever for an R-rated movie.
Globally, The Odyssey appears headed for $257.8 million for the summer weekend, with $137.3 million from 73 international markets.
This marks an even stronger start than initially projected for the film, which has a production budget of $250 million, as the studio was targeting a domestic opening in the mid-$80 million to $100 million range.
Ed: Sometimes controversy can drown a film, such as with the Snow White remake. And sometimes controversy amplifies turnout. Nolan's reputation probably accounts for the direction this took.
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The extremely white line to see Bernie, AOC and Abdul, in Detroit right now. pic.twitter.com/9niYdubNoy
— David Marcus (@BlueBoxDave) July 18, 2026
Ed: How do we Karen thee? Let us count the Karens ...
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Last night's lyric: "Play That Funky Music" by Wild Cherry.
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