We know that people do not value things that come easily. This is especially true when it comes to people — villains like Andrew Tate coldly manipulate women in order to pimp them out. To Tate, a woman is not an object of love. She is instead merely a potential source of revenue.

Tate is in good company in human history. The Torah tells us that a king should not acquire too many wives, because “it will remove his heart.” When we commoditize other people, we become heartless. Or as Gasset (channeling Balzac and Kierkegaard) is credited as saying: “He who loves one woman has known them all. He who loves many women has known none.”

In my chorus, there is a young guy who thinks he’s a gal. He’s a Second Bass.

Last night he came to first rehearsal for the Christmas concert.  He was wearing a pleated skirt and wore his hair below shoulder length and dyed bright blue. He had little breasts showing beneath his shirt or sweater, or perhaps the appearance of breasts created by a padded bra.

We lost the war to transform Afghanistan and the Arab world.  Our leadership class still refuses to accept the truth that the Islamist ideologues continue to make material and ideological war upon us and our allies. We cannot bear to fully accept that Iran is making war in Yemen, Lebanon, Gaza, Ukraine, and Syria with plans to attack other targets–including us.

We are not permitted to notice, much less discuss, the fundamental problems of trying to integrate Muslim populations into secular Western culture.

Fifty-one present and former intelligence officials have signed a report that stories of disturbing behavior by illegal aliens in Springfield, OH and Aurora, CO are consistent with Russian disinformation.  Bill Kristol has suggested that these towns may not even exist.

The Aurora, Colorado story of local officials surrendering buildings to Venezuelan gangs has been given professional MSM treatment–mandatory silence until it goes away. However, the story of Haitians eating cats has been much harder to suppress from social media and has sparked enormous pushback from the Harris-Walz campaign and its media surrogates.  I suspect this is because their internal polling has confirmed Sen. Vance’s observation that their core constituency really is the single cat lady demographic.  Additionally, liberals actually care about whales, cats and puppies rather than the poor and minorities they only pretend to like.

We are less than a month away from the first anniversary of Hamas’s bloody breach of a cease-fire, which launched war in Gaza. This war should have ended months ago with a decisive win by Israel, and would have done so if not for the interventions of the Biden-Harris administration. By putting all the pressure on Israel to reach a cease-fire on just about any terms, so long as they are acceptable to Hamas, the Democrats have strengthened Hamas’s bargaining position while delaying an end to the conflict.

Representative of the administration’s mindset is the latest apologia for the Biden-Harris regime, written by Thomas Friedman in the New York Times, grandly titled “How Netanyahu Is Trying to Save Himself, Elect Trump, and Defeat Harris.” This hit piece begins by accusing Benjamin Netanyahu of dragging out negotiations with Hamas over the release of the hostages, and purports to hold him accountable for the death of six Israeli hostages (one with dual American citizenship) who were shot in the head by Hamas leaders. Later in his essay, Friedman does briefly refer to the real villain of the situation, Yahya Sinwar, as a “murderous Islamo-Fascist leader” to make the point that it is “also” (along with Netanyahu) in Sinwar’s interest to prolong the war for two ends: first, to create massive strains in the now fragile US-Israel alliance, and second, to provoke internal discord in Israel.