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Steve MacDonald 
If you live in New England, and maybe this is true everywhere, you can’t trust the weather forecast more than a day or two out. The joke in the northeast is that if you don’t like the weather, wait five minutes. And it’s all fun and games until you talk about climate change – by … Read more
The UK media is a few cans short of a six-pack. Not the sharpest knife in the drawer? Has a few loose screws. But they’ve got a lot of company. The institutional media is top-heavy with virtue signaling idiots, but the UK press has to be a lot more careful. In England, they arrest you, … Read more
Welcome to the Monday after a bizarre and unpleasant week that took a surprisingly positive turn. The world, as they say, goes on, but not unchanged, it would seem, and that includes people, groups, nations, and memes. . . . . . . . . . Monday is our “lite” meme day (only about thirty). … Read more
Free speech needs protecting, but we have to accept that it is not absolute. It is also critical to grasp, as a reminder, that private entities are not bound by it. Actual defamation is not protected, nor is demonstrable incitement to violence. This last bit is crucial as regards the celebratory social updates, as well … Read more
Numerous polls and studies and research and you know the deal, have come out over the past fifteen years, telling us “college students” oppose free speech. Many still do, and often believe violence is a suitable means for silencing opposing political speech. It’s not very American of them. The founding fathers would likely have them … Read more
If you have apples and oranges, no sensible person will try to tell you neither of them is a fruit, but neither can either one be the other. An apple cannot be an orange, nor an orange an apple. This does not prevent someone from claiming otherwise, but the claim does not make it so. … Read more
For two months, U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani’s bobblehead was a prominent feature next to the sacrificial altars of Planned Parenthood supporters. After Congress passed the One Big Beautiful Bill defunding Planned Parenthood, which President Trump signed, the Obama appointee decided it was unconstitutional. For reasons only her law school and law professors can unravel, … Read more
Threatening broadcast licenses is a bad idea As much as I would like to see biased networks with news divisions pretending to be unbiased get what’s coming to them, the continued threats by the Trump Administration and the Federal Communications Commission are beginning to bother me. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Brendan Carr said in an … Read more
Remembering includes the reasons for living, and one of them, just ask Turning Point US, which has produced plenty of them, is memes.
MACDONALD: “Expose Charlie’s Murderers” Website, Shares Content From Those Celebrating political Violence
Timberlane School District teacher Ed Tinney is so brave. Speaking truth to power. It’s true. He reportedly had himself a little rant over on Facebook about justice and rights and stuff and junk at the end of which the English teacher said, “And yeah, I’m glad he’s dead.” Poor Ed. Life is so unfair. He’s … Read more
harlie Kirk was shot in the neck at an event in Utah.
From Steve’s Substack – 9-10-2025 You already know what happened. An unknown assailant assassinated Charlie Kirk in Utah. The original “suspect” was not the shooter, and as Ian and Rita remind us over at the Bugscuffle Gazette, 72-Hour Rule, folks. Nothing that comes out in the first 48 to 72 hours should be taken at face … Read more
It has become a maxim inside the political cage match. If you want to start a fight, ask about affordable housing. The “housing Crisis,” real or imagined, was injected into the collective consciousness. Some blame boomers, others blame banks (or sinister global evils like Blackrock), as legislators dance around the fire tossing gasoline on it … Read more
We’ve got forty memes to help you get over the hump, no matter what size yours happens to be (this week).. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . … Read more
On August 4th, the VA announced that it would extend approvals on a list of treatments performed by third-party vendors up to a year. Where approvals had been limited to 90 or 180 days, one would now be good for twelve months. The Department of Veterans Affairs today announced it will improve Veterans’ access to … Read more
The left has been loading up on illegals to give blue areas more members of Congress for whom they’d love these licensed non-citizens to vote.
I was born in Massachusetts, and nothing about any of these new flag choices reminds me of Massachusetts
You can’t live free in a state that has allowed its judiciary to self-regulate, to literally police itself, alongside the power to make rules with the force of law. New Hampshire’s courts are a nightmare and the last place anyone wants to find themselves, especially in Family Court. There is a lack of accountability and … Read more
The US Department of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have been undermining public health for decades. Still, a majority of Americans would have never noticed if not for the response to COVID. No one should trust their judgment or guidance, and the Trump Administration has tasked Robert F. … Read more