Chris Ohlmeyer

@iowahawkblog Diamond Grill. Akron, OH 1935

OK, I need recs for a new (to me) survivor pre-1960 steakhouse to visit. I've done Keen's, Pietro's, Gallagher's in NYC Gene & Georgetti's in Chicago Musso & Frank, Smoke House, Dresden in LA Brennan's, Commander's Place in New Orleans St Elmo, Indianapolis

it takes its place of honor next to the vintage Mountain Dew sign

"In order to stop the U.S. government from defending our borders, checking IDs, and removing people who don't have a right to be here, we must set up a border, check IDs, and remove people who we don't want here."

@NonGMOPureBlood @allenanalysis It always reminds me of the line from Shawshank.

The Western liberal media is ignoring the Iranian uprising because explaining it would force an admission it is desperate to avoid: the Iranian people are rebelling against Islam itself, and that fact shatters the moral framework through which these institutions understand the world. Ideally, to cover an uprising is not just to show crowds and slogans. It requires answering a basic question: why are people risking death? In Iran, the answer is simple and unavoidable. The people are rising up because the Islamic Republic of Iran has spent decades suffocating every aspect of life—speech, work, family, art, women, and economic survival—under a clerical system that treats liberty as a crime. There is no way to tell that story without confronting the nature of the regime. Western media refuses to do so because it has fundamentally misunderstood Islam. Or worse, it has chosen not to understand it. Islam, in Western progressive discourse, has been racialized. It is treated not as a belief system or a political ideology, but as a stand-in for race or ethnicity. Criticizing Islam is framed as an attack on “brown people,” Arabs, or “the Middle East,” as if Islam were a skin color rather than a doctrine. This confusion is rooted in historical illiteracy. Western liberal media routinely collapses entire civilizations into a single stereotype: “all Middle Easterners are Arabs,” “all Arabs are Muslim,” and “all Muslims are a monolithic, oppressed identity group by white European colonizers.” Iranians disappear entirely in this framework. Their language, history, and culture—Persian, not Arab; ancient, not colonial; distinct, not interchangeable—are erased. By treating Islam as a racial identity rather than an ideology, Western media strips millions of people of their ability to reject it. Iranian protesters become unintelligible. Their rebellion cannot be processed without breaking the rule that Islam must not be criticized. So instead of listening to Iranians, the media speaks over them—or ignores them entirely. There is another reason the Iranian uprising is so threatening to Western media is economic issues. As you know, Iran is not only a religious dictatorship. It is a centrally controlled, state-dominated economy where markets are strangled, private enterprise is criminalized or co-opted, and economic survival depends on proximity to political power. Decades of price controls, subsidies, nationalization, and bureaucratic micromanagement have obliterated the middle class and entrenched corruption as the only functional system. The result is not equality or justice. It is poverty, stagnation, and dependence on government’s dark void of empty promises. Covering Iran honestly would require acknowledging that these policies are harmful. They have been tried. They have failed. Catastrophically. This is deeply inconvenient for Western media institutions that routinely promote expansive state control, centralized economic planning, and technocratic governance as morally enlightened alternatives to liberal capitalism. Iran demonstrates where such systems lead when insulated from accountability and enforced by ideology. It shows that when the state controls livelihoods, non-conformity becomes existentially dangerous. That lesson cannot be acknowledged without undermining the moral authority of those who advocate similar ideas in softer language. Western liberal media prefers not to hear this. Acknowledging it would require abandoning the lazy moral categories that dominate modern discourse: oppressor and oppressed, colonizer and colonized, white and non-white. Iranian protesters do not fit. They show that authoritarianism is not a Western invention imposed from outside, but something many societies are actively trying to escape. That is what terrifies Western liberal media. And that is why the Iranian people are being ignored. So the silence continues.

I came to America to escape people who talk like this. “Having a different relationship to property” is communist code for ownership being conditional and political. It is the same idea that destroyed entire societies, now rebranded with softer language and moral smugness. Property rights are not optional. They are the operating system of a free society. Every serious economist in history agrees on one point: incentives matter. Ayn Rand said it perfectly: “You can ignore reality, but you cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.” Housing is expensive because activists and politicians make building illegal, slow, and politically toxic. Fixing supply is hard. Attacking ownership is easy. That is why failed thinkers always choose the latter. I have more respect for flat earthers than communists. Flat earthers are harmless, and everyone agrees they are idiots. Communism keeps getting recycled as virtue despite its body count and total record of failure. Communists, democratic socialists, or whatever they like to call themselves nowadays are society’s most dangerous idiots, especially when they are elected into positions of power. I lived under collective property. It meant decay, shortages, corruption, and people pretending to work while the system pretended to function. I did not come to America to hear these ideas again, dressed up as justice. I came here because this country understood something rare: freedom requires ownership. I have seen how this ends. It never ends well.

Keep telling me a 3 Loss Alabama team should have been in over Notre Dame… 😂 Frauds and everyone knew it. Rigged for the SEC. Absolute joke a 3 loss team can even get in

@EstesPga Clearly

Targeting?

Whoops! Fulton County admits 315,000 early votes were counted in 2020 that weren’t witnessed and sworn to, in violation of the law. But it’s even worse. The machine seals were broken during the live election and the results from early voting were printed out on machines that did not tabulate the votes. Why? Because they knew they didn’t have enough votes to overcome President Trump’s landslide. So they had to fabricate the results. thefederalist.com/2025/12/17/ful…

@EstesPga Yup. I thought going to six was answer. But now we are having magic tricks on CFP show between 2 and 3 loss teams.

Here’s what the #CFBPlayoff SHOULD look like: Oregon(5) Texas Tech(4) OU(8) IU(1) Ole Miss(6) Georgia(3) A&M(7) Ohio State(2) See how easy that was. 😊

@physicsgeek @RossDellenger Or the game on Saturday night? Take your pick. Bookend blowouts.

@RossDellenger x.com/BenScottSteven…

Yurachek says he charged the committee to watch the replay of the Miami-Notre Dame game from Week 1.

@danorlovsky7 This year it’s about quality wins and H2H not who are the best teams at the end of the season and certainly not about bad losses. I know it’s confusing because five minutes ago it was who are the best teams who have a chance to win, who would be favored in matchups.

Bama hasn’t played great in 5 weeks and got thoroughly beat Saturday

Not surprised that Alabama is first team to go 9-3 in FBS games to make playoff. They always time it well w/ evolving metrics. Made it in 2017 their H2H loss didn’t matter but Auburn’s SEChamp loss did. In 2023 13-0 FSU’s ugly win over top 15 Lou enough to let #BackdoorBama in.

@JML_ACC 100 percent. And same team is always the beneficiary. Not surprising they’re the first team with 9 FBS wins and 3 FBS Losses in the championship bracket.

Think about it. Alabama didn’t move at all after getting smoked last night. While the other losers of the Conference Championships did. FSU beat a 10 win Top 15 team with their 3rd string quarterback in the Conference Championship and was left out. They never fixed a thing. The problem is still there.

@CFBKings Don’t forget their FCS win over Eastern Illinois on patty cake Saturday in November. (I know you are showing FBS)

Alabama’s last five FBS games: Beat 4-8 South Carolina by 7 Beat 7-5 LSU by 11 Lost to Oklahoma at home Beat 5-7 Auburn by 7 Lost to Georgia by 21 They haven’t beaten a current Top 25 team in 63 days.

@TheHerd @colincowherd @CanesFootball They didn’t play enough FBS teams and it’s their own fault

@schadjoe On a last second field goal???

Wow “(Miami) kicked Notre Dame’s ass in the game.” - Nick Saban

I’m so sick of the @NDFootball vs Miami argument — let’s stay grounded in what’s actually true — not feelings, not conference politics, not just “but head-to-head.” Just straight facts. Yes, Miami beat Notre Dame 27–24 in Week 1. Nobody is denying that. But the playoff isn’t about who looked good in August — it’s about who was better over 12 full games and who actually earned a playoff spot. Now look at the entire résumé: Notre Dame has 10 FBS wins. Miami has 9 FBS wins and an FCS win. Those are not the same. Notre Dame’s two losses came to ranked, playoff-level teams (Miami and Texas A&M). Miami’s two losses came to unranked conference opponents (Louisville and SMU). Again — very different résumés. Notre Dame has zero bad losses, two ranked wins, and played the stronger schedule based on total opponent FBS wins (ND: 75 | Miami: 69). ND also won all 10 games by double digits — dominance from start to finish. Here’s the part nobody can debate: Every major poll and ranking system has Notre Dame ahead of Miami. • CFP: ND 10 | Miami 12 • AP: ND 9 | Miami 12 • Coaches: ND 9 | Miami 12 • FPI: ND top 3 • SP+: ND top 5 • FEI: ND top 5 • Sagarin: ND top 5 There isn’t a single analytic system — human or computer — that ranks Miami above Notre Dame. Miami finished third in the ACC and didn’t reach the title game. Notre Dame finished with a top-10 national profile and top-5 efficiency numbers. And here’s the key part — straight from the CFP committee chair: Notre Dame and Miami were compared directly… and Notre Dame STILL came out ahead — even after head-to-head. Why? Because the committee evaluates the entire season, not one Saturday in August. Notre Dame checks every single playoff box. Miami doesn’t check half of them — and they do NOT deserve to be in over Notre Dame. Notre Dame has: • More FBS wins • No bad losses • Two ranked wins • A stronger overall résumé • Real statistical balance • All double-digit victories • Better opponents • Top-10 placement in every human poll • Top-5 numbers in every major efficiency system • A résumé the committee already confirmed is stronger Miami: • Played an FCS team • Has two unranked losses • Has one ranked win • Finished 3rd in the ACC • Trails Notre Dame in every category that matters And here is the truth no one can twist: There is not a single factual category where Miami has a better playoff résumé than Notre Dame — not one. Head-to-head matters, but only as one piece of the full puzzle. And when you zoom out, it’s obvious: Notre Dame belongs in the CFP. Miami does NOT deserve to be in over Notre Dame. Period. #GoIrish

@schadjoe Notre Dame’s two games outside power 4 are wins over the mountain west conference champion, and the number 23 team in the nation. Miami played Bethune Cookman and South Florida. Miami only has nine FBS wins. Weird I haven’t seen that on any graphic.???

“If you’re a Notre Dame fan you’ve got some concerns” about Miami if BYU loses, says Kirk Herbstreit

@timprister They only have 9 FBS wins. It’s not the same. Miami is out.

Here is my “controversial” stance. If #NotreDame had beaten Miami & both were now 10-2 & only 1 could go to the playoffs, it definitely should be ND. But Miami beat ND& losses to solid 8-4 SMU/8-4 Louisville aren’t nearly bad enough to erase Miami beating ND. Purely a FB stance

@Brett_McMurphy Notre Dame has 10 FBS wins. Miami 9. Game over.

Pitt’s Pat Narduzzi has played both Miami & Notre Dame. I asked him who should get a playoff berth b/w the two? “Miami. They’re both tough & imposing, but Miami is powerful up front & plays a really physical brand of football.” on3.com/news/pat-nardu…