Julie Spike

Living in the ghettos of Buffalo NY, I’ve read 6 of Thomas Sowell’s books and every single day I watch his detailed truths play out in brutal real time. Fatherlessness. Rampant crime. Abortions. Godlessness. Overdose deaths claiming lives left and right. Metabolic syndrome destroying bodies and futures. setting up future Big Pharma patients. Shattered family dynamics. Entire generations locked into downward trajectories. All of this was predicted with painful accuracy in the Moynihan Report of 1965, written just a couple years before I was born. Trying to make sense of all this. Dr. Sowell has proven it for decades: there are no solutions, only trade-offs. Good intentions and bad policies ignore incentives, family structure, culture, and personal responsibility - and they leave communities devastated while claiming to “help.” This is what the democrats do. This is how they stay in power. How they 'eat'. Ive written two books myself about my observations and studies. They have plausible deniability. This harsh reality is exactly why I do what I do. Happy 95th, Dr. Sowell. Your data-driven wisdom still cuts through the noise and equips people like me to see clearly. #astonegroove

I used to believe that being on the Left meant that you were a good person. That you cared about injustice and you wanted to oppose evil. But I was wrong. It’s all about narratives. Outrage is only appropriate if it follows the scripted narrative. Over the past few years, I’ve seen people on the Left support/excuse some of the most barbaric, anti human entities on this planet. Many people who portrayed themselves as bleeding hearts, turned out to be rabid West-hating, terrorist supporters—full of hate. It feels like the world was violently thrown upside down. But hey, perhaps it was always like this. I just didn’t see the twisted ideology for what it is.

🚨 JUST IN: Stephen Miller lays it out PERFECTLY Imagine a "native Minnesotan who works as a lineman...worried about his ability to support for and provide his family." "And then imagine that he has a neighbor who's a SOMALI REFUGEE who arrived two years ago and has a Mercedes and NO financial stress and no worries at all in the entire world and never seems to ever go to work at all because he just went to an office in the state, lied on a piece of paper, and got unlimited free money forever for life!" "THAT is the system that is being run and that is the corruption that this task force under the leadership of the Vice President is going to demolish." @StephenM

In this 2018 interview with John Anderson, @jordanbpeterson spoke through tears about a simple, haunting truth: how little encouragement some people need to turn their lives around and how rarely they receive it. Following the recent update from @MikhailaFuller regarding Jordan’s health and his battle with akathisia and neurological injury, these words feel more poignant than ever. Jordan has spent years pouring encouragement into the lives of millions; now, we want to send that same strength back to him. John and the entire team here are praying for our friend Jordan and the Peterson family during this incredibly difficult season. If you are people of prayer, we ask you to do the same. #jordanpeterson #akathisiaawareness #prayerworks #prayer

Before the 2020 election, Biden gave a speech at Gettysburg saying he decided to run for office again after the Charlottesville far-right rally in 2017. The rally was a galvanizing moment for leftists and Democrats, who campaigned and fundraised off it for years, claiming they needed power and money to stop white supremacy. Biden’s White House met with SPLC officials at least 11 times after he won, according to visitor logs. In the DOJ indictment against the SPLC, it was revealed that in addition to allegedly funding neo-Nazis and KKK members, the SPLC bankrolled one of the leaders of the Charlottesville rally and supervised his “racist” messaging. ngocomment.com

Still no charges in assault on TPUSA reporter by anti-ICE protesters Numerous video clips have since surfaced online that show people identified as Chris Ostroushko, his wife Deyanna and their daughter Paige assaulting or aggressively confronting Savanah Hernandez. Meanwhile, the Ostroushkos have been making the rounds on left-wing media sources, pushing the narrative that they’ve become victims of doxing and targeting since the incident.

@Scott_Wiener You literally want to have less consequences for adults who commit sex crimes with 14 year old girls. You are quite literally THE psycho

Let me get this straight, @RepJeffries -- you are admitting, out loud, on the internet, that the only way Democrats can win is by redrawing the map until the math works in your favor. You just told on yourself. With checkmarks. I had you at a low baseline, but you managed to limbo under it. My pet rock has never once bragged about rigging its own habitat. You want to talk about gerrymandering schemes? California literally just passed Prop 50 to do EXACTLY what you are accusing Republicans of doing -- and you put a green checkmark next to it like it is a VICTORY LAP. Quinn's Law #2 in full effect: whatever liberals accuse conservatives of doing is precisely what they are already doing themselves. But what do I know -- I am only a science teacher who can read a map AND a mirror. #MAGA #Veterans #Trump

The Great Silence: 850,000 Jews Ethnically Cleansed from Arab & Muslim Lands While the world talks endlessly about Palestinian “refugees,” it has nearly erased one of the largest forced migrations of the 20th century - this is the story the media and academics almost never tell. At the moment of Israel’s birth in 1948, ancient Jewish communities existed across the Middle East and North Africa — some dating back more than 2,000 years, long before Islam arrived. Iraq: ~150,000 Jews Egypt: ~75,000–80,000 Yemen: ~55,000 Libya: ~38,000 Syria: ~30,000 Morocco: ~265,000 Algeria, Tunisia, and others: tens of thousands more In total, nearly one million Jews lived in these lands. Within years, the vast majority were gone — driven out by pogroms, discriminatory laws, arrests, property confiscation, and open violence. The collapse began even before Israel’s independence. In 1941, the Farhud pogrom in Baghdad saw Arabs murder more than 180 Jews and destroyed hundreds of Jewish home. After 1948, the pressure became unbearable: Jews were stripped of citizenship, jobs, and property in country after country. Synagogues were bombed, businesses boycotted, and ancient communities faced mass arrests and executions. Iraq, Egypt, Yemen, Libya, Syria, Algeria, and Morocco all saw their Jewish populations virtually wiped out. By the 1970s these communities — some of the oldest in the world — had been reduced to a few hundred souls at most. Today the numbers are staggering in their smallness: Iraq: fewer than 5 Jews remain Egypt: fewer than 10 Syria: fewer than 10 Libya: none Yemen: virtually none Meanwhile, the financial cost was enormous. Jews fleeing Iran and the Arab world left behind an estimated $150 billion worth of property and assets (a conservative 2019 figure; some Israeli government analyses put the unadjusted total closer to $250 billion). Homes, businesses, synagogues, hospitals, schools — all confiscated by Arab governments. Not a single dollar has ever been repaid. Not one Arab state has offered compensation or even acknowledgment. Meanwhile, the UN has passed more than 115 resolutions specifically about Palestinian refugees. Not one UN resolution has ever mentioned the Jewish refugees from Arab lands. Israel absorbed ~586,000 of these refugees in the first few years — nearly doubling the young country’s population — with almost no international help. There was no UNRWA-style agency for them. No endless resolutions. No global outcry about a “right of return.” They were simply absorbed, rebuilt their lives, and became full members of Israeli society. The contrast is stark. The Palestinian refugee issue receives constant international attention and funding. The Jewish refugees from Arab lands — who suffered a genuine ethnic cleansing — have been almost entirely erased from the narrative. This was not a natural migration. It was the deliberate destruction of ancient Jewish communities that had lived in these lands for centuries before Islam even existed. Their stories deserve to be remembered.

Explain it to me like I am two years old. Republicans know, because Democrats have told us at every step of the way, if they win they will nuke the filibuster and we will never win again. So why would Republicans not nuke a filibuster in order to pass legislation the majority of America wants passed?

🚨 SEC. RFK JR JUST DROPPED A BOMBSHELL: "[They] charged us $6,000 a month for that hospice patient. How did we detect them all? Because the patients NEVER DIED." "Hospices in Los Angeles — we've shut down 500 of them. We have not gotten *ONE CALL* from a congressperson or one call from a patient." "Why? Because those hospices did not exist." Gavin Newsom allowed this

Nick Shirley says there are large fraud networks in America run by Armenians and Russians stealing from taxpayers He says they are much more sophisticated, professional and careful than Somalians He says they keep things in the background, they sound his mom’s number, called her, and wanted that Nick must not investigate their areas or interrupt their operations Nick says this was very alarming, scary, and he likely will not investigate anything to do with them for fear of his safety American taxpayers can’t even fathom the amount of money being stolen from them

@DailySowell I remember that Obama said during his campaign that he wanted to “fundamentally change” this country. Mr. Sowell understands what he meant by that.

Thomas Sowell on Barack Obama: “I see him as someone who all his life has been associated with people who fundamentally don’t believe in the principles of this country.” “He always sought out the most radical people. He worked as a ‘community organizer.’ He doesn’t organize a community. He’s mobilizing all the resentments, organizing them in order to put them into battle to get what they want from other people.”

Wind farms get a free pass for devastating bald eagle populations while ranchers and fishermen get strangled by the Endangered Species Act. The Endangered Species Act Amendments Act finally ends the double standard with reforms that are decades overdue.

Dear Rep. Lee, What a marvelously dim-witted plan. I say that with the patience of a man who has graded a LOT of papers from students who did not read the assignment. Let me help you locate something. It is called the TENTH AMENDMENT. You may have heard of it. "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." Article I, Section 8 enumerates what Congress may do. Housing, healthcare, jobs guarantees, and childcare are NOT on that list. Not even close. James Madison -- you know, the Father of the Constitution -- wrote in Federalist No. 45 that the powers of the federal government are "few and defined," while those of the states are "numerous and indefinite." He was describing the DESIGN. Not a suggestion. A structure. Now. About "taxing the rich." France tried this. Emmanuel Macron's government watched roughly 10,000 millionaires leave the country in a single year. They took their businesses, their investments, their capital, and their tax revenue with them. The tax revenue from "the rich" evaporated. The people who needed jobs, affordable housing, and healthcare were LEFT BEHIND in an economy with fewer employers and less investment. Quinn's Law #1 states that liberalism always generates the EXACT OPPOSITE of its stated intent. France is not a theory -- it is a preview. And here is the part nobody on the left wants to say out loud: wealthy people are not trees. They do not have roots. They have accountants, passports, and options. The second you make America hostile to capital, capital simply finds a more hospitable address. What you are left with is a shrinking tax base chasing an expanding spending promise. A middle school student with a calculator can identify the problem there. Now, one final question -- and I genuinely want you to think about it. You want the federal government to guarantee housing, healthcare, jobs, and childcare. Not as a state program where your constituents can hold local officials accountable. As a FEDERAL program, run by bureaucrats in Washington who will NEVER face your district's voters. Every time a federal bureaucracy "helps," it creates dependency, reduces accountability, and -- per Quinn's Law #3 -- the amount of wealth in any area is inversely proportional to the number of Democrats running it. Look at Pittsburgh. Look at Baltimore. Look at Detroit. These are not Republican-run experiments that failed. You want to keep people dependent on a federal promise that Washington controls. That is not a guarantee. That is a leash. But what do I know -- I am only a science teacher and combat medic who actually read the Constitution instead of treating it like optional background reading. IF you agree: LIKE this post so the algorithm shows it to people who need to read it. SHARE this COMMENT below -- show me WHERE in Article I, Section 8 the federal government is authorized to guarantee you a job and a house. I will wait. And if you want MORE of this -- the data, the history, the science, the stories -- JOIN Bski's Classroom community on X or YouTube. #MAGA #Veterans #Trump

College tuition has exploded 1,200% since 1980 while wages rose just 213%. In 1963, a student could work a minimum-wage summer job and pay for a full year at the average public university. Today, that same job covers roughly one month of tuition. The culprit isn't corporate greed or underfunding. It's government intervention distorting every price signal in higher education. Federal student loans created artificial demand that universities exploited ruthlessly. When government guarantees endless credit to teenagers with zero income or assets, colleges face no market constraint on pricing. Why charge $3,000 per year when students can borrow $30,000? The money flows regardless of educational quality or job prospects. Universities responded predictably: they jacked up prices and hired armies of administrators to capture this guaranteed revenue stream. Easy credit always inflates asset prices, whether houses in 2005 or degrees today. Free market economists warned this would happen, just as they predicted the housing bubble. When you subsidize demand without increasing supply, prices skyrocket. Colleges simply absorbed every dollar of increased lending capacity into higher tuition, fancy dorms, and bloated bureaucracies. The 1950s model worked because students paid real prices with real money; either their own or their parents'. This created immediate feedback between cost and value. If Harvard charged too much, students went elsewhere. Today, that price mechanism is completely severed. Students don't feel the true cost until years later when loan payments hit, and by then universities already pocketed the cash. Every additional dollar of federal aid generates roughly 60 cents of tuition increases. The government created this monster, feeds it annually through increased lending limits, then acts shocked when colleges behave exactly like the rent-seeking cartels they've become.

I highly recommend listening to this moving conversation between Chuck Swindoll and his daughter, Colleen Thompson, which took place in 2022, when Swindoll was 88 years old. In it, he shares details about the pain of being raised in a home where he was shown almost no affection and was bluntly informed that he had been "a mistake." His concluding prayer is poignant and reveals the heart of a man who has learned through hardship to be humble, grateful, joyful, and content: "Lord, we are grateful that You do know the way that we take. You never learn that way. You know it. You knew it would be like it is today, and You knew that in eternity past. You're always on our side. No one could love us more than You love us. No one could have more compassion for us or have our good at heart more than You do. So grateful... Remind us of David's words: 'I waited patiently for the Lord, and He inclined unto me and heard my cry. He lifted me up from a horrible pit and put my feet on a rock and established my goings. He put a new song in my mouth even praise to my God. Many will see it and fear and trust in the Lord.' Thank you, Father, for this day and for helping me get through this story. Thank you for my original family and all of its struggles and difficulties, that my mother never aborted me, that she bore me. And though my mom and dad really didn't know me and who I was, they cared for me. They fed me. They clothed me. They provided shelter for me. Thank you for that. And today, I honor them. For a brother and sister who did so well in life, and now they're with You, thank you for the reminder of their lives. Finally, thank you, Father, for my wife, Cynthia, who has loved me all her life and for our children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren, such gifts, such hope they bring to us in this stage of our lives. We rest in You, Father, our Shield and our Defender. Through Christ, we pray. Amen."

Thomas Sowell is 95 years old. Let that number sit with you. Ninety-five years on this earth, and in all of them, he has never held public office, never had a viral moment, never begged for anyone’s attention. What he has done is write 30 books and spend 50 years of patient research building a body of work that has outlasted every fashionable idea his critics tried to bury him with. While the loudest voices in Washington were chasing polls and the cleverest minds on campus were chasing grants, Sowell was in the library reading the data, tracking the outcomes, and dismantling one bad idea after another. He doesn’t argue feelings. He measures results. He isn’t selling anything. His whole approach boils down to one line that every politician and activist in this country should be forced to recite before they open their mouths: “There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.” Sit with that, too. Every federal program, every mandate, every well-meaning crusade carries a cost, and somebody pays it. Sowell’s life work has been the simple act of asking who. Listen to him on the “help” our communities have been promised for two generations: “I’ve been doing studies now for 20 years of programs designed to increase equality. They increase inequality.” “Even when the programs are designed for disadvantaged groups, they help the affluent members of the disadvantaged groups, while the lower members of those groups fall further behind than ever before.” That is the whole affirmative action racket laid out in two sentences. The kids from the same zip codes as the Harvard faculty get the slot, while the kids from the neighborhoods that actually need a ladder are told to wait their turn. Sowell says it plain: “The vast majority of blacks who go to places like Harvard, Cornell, and Stanford are not blacks from the ghetto. They’re from the same neighborhoods as the whites there.” The race hustlers don’t want you to know that, because they need the grievance to stay in business. Sowell’s advice to young people cuts right through the hustle: “Stay away from the race hustlers.” “Equip yourself with skills that people are willing to pay for.” That is the whole ball game right there, a matter of skills, work, and accountability rather than slogans, hashtags, or another federal program designed to pad a consultant’s salary while leaving the South Side worse off than before. Here is the line I want every young person in Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, and every other corner of America to read tonight: “Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.” That one sentence explains our schools, our cities, and why the neighborhoods the War on Poverty was supposed to save are in worse shape now than they were before the checks started flowing. Sowell has pushed a whole generation of us to stop reacting and start asking harder questions. What are the incentives? Who actually benefits from this policy? What do the numbers look like five, ten, twenty years later? Ask those questions honestly, and the illusion falls apart. The most dangerous man in America right now isn’t the one shouting on television. He is the 95-year-old professor in Palo Alto who doesn’t need you to agree with him, because he has the data on his side. Ninety-five years of telling the truth. Thank you, Dr. Sowell.

Welcome! Please join me for a daily scripture break. Luke 12:4-5: ""I tell you, my friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body and after that can do no more.  But I will show you whom you should fear: Fear him who, after your body has been killed, has authority to throw you into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear him.” Many have commented in the past on various platforms that there is a palpable uptick in demonic activity in our culture since 2020.  This passage is where the rubber meets the road.  Those who seek to destroy our nation, culture, and freedom of Christians and people of goodwill relentlessly threaten people with whom they disagree in various ways - all in the name of voicing "their truth". The chaos of the culture is ultimately demonic activity driven. (Ephesians 6:12)  Today's passage reminds us, if you are martyred for the sake of the Kingdom these evil perpetrators can’t do you any more harm.  Some of these disturbed people are so deceived and consumed by their own destructive rhetoric, they don’t fear God or His wrath in contrast to Proverbs 9:10. However, Luke 12:5 wisely tells us”…Fear him who, after your body is killed, has authority to throw you into hell.” Part of putting on the armor of God, I believe is to accept this somber reality and that is we as Christians may die for the faith BUT that isn’t the end of the story.  A Christian warrior or soldier must gallantly pause and take a personal inventory, a gut check if you will and accept the risk of death when we stand up and fight for the Kingdom of God.  Too many Christians today would choose to preserve their earthly existence.  In the days to come we are warned be prepared to embrace the possibility of dying for the faith. Just remember what is on the other side of a Christian death - we live with our Savior for eternity. Friends, to be truly prepared for this possibility, we must settle the question of death in our minds and hearts by meditating on this passage often only then can we garner the strength and courage to fight the good fight and evangelize the world. Peace and be prepared.

Heather Mac Donald went there with John Stossel: “If it weren’t so insane, it would be perfectly obvious that men and women are different.” Boys and girls show clear differences in aggression, toy choices, and risk-taking almost from toddlerhood. Men, on average, have a stronger drive for novelty, competition, and yes — doing stupid, dangerous stuff. (Her favorite proof? Hearing motorcycles roar past her New York apartment and instantly knowing the rider’s sex: “You idiots.”) She acknowledges exceptions exist, but we’re talking group averages. Pretending those averages don’t exist requires serious ideological effort. Have you noticed stark behavioral differences between young boys and girls in real life, or do you think it’s mostly social conditioning? Have you noticed these clear behavioral differences between boys and girls in real life, and do you think society would be healthier if we stopped denying innate sex differences and started working with them instead?