A jury on Thursday convicted the man who broke into former U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's San Francisco home seeking to hold her hostage and attacked her husband with a hammer of federal charges of attempted kidnapping and assault.

To see so many rabid protests in favor of Palestinians, against not just Israel but Jews in general, and to buy into the anti-American narrative that is a major subtext of those protests, is to recognize a mass contagion, a mental virus, a pathology so dark that an observer can’t know exactly how much of it is malevolence and how much is sheer lunacy.

Fewer than 48 hours after more than a quarter-million pro-Israel protesters staged a stunning and peaceful gathering, reportedly the largest pro-Israel gathering in history and the largest gathering of Jews since Mount Sinai, the second shoe dropped. The pro-Hamas harem of intersectional oppression Olympians, outright bigoted Islamists, and trust fund slacktivists coalesced on the Democratic National Committee headquarters in a demonstration that devolved into, shall we say, a proper insurrection.

Nikki Haley likes to show that she is an assertive politician. She gained favor with many voters because she wasn’t afraid to voice her opinions and give terse and snarky responses during the recent GOP debates. Haley’s supporters have said such tactics show that she is a “fighter” and won’t back down on political topics. However, as the saying goes, “actions speak louder than words,” and Haley’s actions don’t reinforce her wannabe tough, fighter persona.

More and more people are using the Chinese spyware/propaganda app TikTok to get their news, in case the fact that it is spyware isn’t considered a good enough reason to ban the app entirely.

Liberal politicians and journalists in the Donald Trump era have tried to disguise their own ideology as non-ideological by saying that their side was simply the side of “democracy.”