Poland is the new West Germany. That’s just reality speaking

The richest man in America signed a document that could have gotten him hanged, and when someone sneered that he was safe because no one would know which Charles Carroll to come for, he picked up the pen and told the British exactly where to find him. His name was Charles Carroll, and the colonies were crawling with men who shared it. His own father was Charles Carroll of Annapolis. So when the Declaration of Independence came to him for signing in 1776, a delegate made a cruel little joke. He said Carroll risked nothing by signing. There were so many Charles Carrolls that the King's men would never know which one to hang. Carroll didn't argue. He leaned over the page and added three words to his signature: "of Carrollton." The name of his estate. His address. He was the only signer in the entire room who wrote down where he lived, and he did it on purpose, so that if the British wanted to come hang the traitor, they would know exactly which door to knock on. That is who Charles Carroll of Carrollton was. Here is what makes the moment even sharper. He was not a man with little to lose. He was the single wealthiest man in the thirteen colonies and the largest private landowner among them. While George Washington and John Hancock get talked about as rich men, it was Carroll who topped them all. When he signed, he was wagering the biggest personal fortune in America against a noose. And he was the last man anyone would have expected to be there at all. Carroll was Catholic. In colonial Maryland, a colony founded as a Catholic refuge that had since turned on its own, Catholics could not vote. They could not hold public office. They could not worship in public. The most educated, wealthiest man in America was, in the eyes of the law, a second-class subject barred from the very government he was helping to create. He had spent seventeen years being educated by Jesuits in France and spoke five languages fluently, and back home he still could not legally cast a ballot. So he became the only Catholic to sign the Declaration of Independence, putting his name on a revolution that he hoped would build a country with room for men like him. That was its own enormous bet, made by a man the existing system had already shut out. Then he simply outlived everyone. Thomas Jefferson and John Adams both died on the same astonishing day, July 4, 1826, exactly fifty years after the Declaration. When they were gone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton was the last living signer left on earth. For six more years he was the final human link to that room in Philadelphia, the last hand that had signed, a living relic of the founding that ordinary Americans traveled to see and shake. He finally died in November 1832 at the age of ninety-five, fifty-six years after he wrote his address on a treason document and dared the empire to come find him. The richest man in America. The only Catholic. The last one standing. He had more to lose than any of them, every legal reason to stay quiet, and he signed his full address anyway. We remember the names we were handed in school. We forget the man who made sure his couldn't be mistaken for anyone else's. Which Founding Father do you think history shortchanged the most?

Announcement — Yoram Hazony Appointed a Trustee of the Heritage Foundation The Edmund Burke Foundation congratulates our chairman, Dr. Yoram Hazony, on his appointment to The Heritage Foundation’s Board of Trustees. His scholarship and leadership have been central to the renewal of national conservatism in the United States and across the West, helping shape conservative thought and public debate on nationhood, religion, constitutional government, and the family, among other subjects. We are pleased and grateful to see his work recognized in this way and look forward to many more years of close collaboration with our friends at the Heritage Foundation.

Heritage is proud to announce the election of four distinguished leaders to our Board of Trustees: Lawrence Blanford, @yhazony, @MZHemingway, and J.C. Huizenga. These new trustees bring deep expertise spanning business leadership, corporate governance, journalism, and political philosophy, further strengthening Heritage’s stewardship at a decisive moment for the Conservative movement and the republic.

The danger of A.I. begins when man starts treating the human person as a problem to optimize. In Magnifica Humanitas, Pope Leo XIV turns to Gandalf’s counsel from The Return of the King: “Uprooting the evil in the fields that we know.” Tolkien understood the temptation of power. His villains always want control. Sauron wants domination. Saruman wants machinery, speed, efficiency, and command over living things. His mind becomes “metal and wheels.” His heroes move differently. Sam tends a garden. Aragorn heals. Gandalf guides. Frodo carries a burden no army can carry for him. They never master the world. They serve the part of the world entrusted to them. That is the moral question in the age of A.I. Will technology serve the human person, or will the human person be reshaped to serve the machine? Pope Leo’s warning lands because the machine age always begins with promises. More speed. More power. More comfort. More control. Then one day, people find that work, speech, memory, art, war, and even judgment have been handed over to systems with no soul. Tolkien saw this clearly. The machine becomes dangerous when it stops being a tool and becomes a hunger. The answer begins with stewardship. You do not need to master every tide of history but you do need to guard your own field. Your family. Your words. Your work. Your conscience. Your community. Your responsibility toward those who will inherit the earth after you. The machine can calculate. Only the human person can love, repent, protect, sacrifice, and remember. The future will belong to those who refuse to trade their soul for convenience.

NEW — The four new Heritage Foundation board members are: - Mollie Hemingway - Yoram Hazony - J.C. Huizenga - Lawrence (Larry) Blanford First in @thehill: thehill.com/homenews/5897587…

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The holy words of John Paul II, pronounced in Vienna on the mountain from which the Christian cavalry charge began that swept away the Muslim invaders, contradict the politicians and imam-priests who tell us that violence is never justifiable, not even in self-defense, and that we have always lived in physical and spiritual communion with Muslims. On the anniversary of the decisive battle, the Pope said: "Three hundred years ago, a great and decisive battle began here... I wish to emphasize the great significance of this moment, recalling the victory of Polish arms and the Christian coalition of European countries under the leadership of King John III Sobieski. This is an event that saved the culture and Christianity of Europe, deeply ingrained in its history. It decided its destiny. Sobieski was thinking precisely this when he announced the victory to the Pope with the words: 'Venimus, vidimus, Deus vicit'." The church on the Kahlenberg reminds us that even the liberators were aware that their success depended on heaven's help. They did not want to begin the fight without first imploring God's help. And this imploration followed them into battle: 'Jesus and Mary, help us!' Yes, trust in Mary's powerful intercession heartened those peoples threatened in those countries by fear. This convinced them even more to attribute the victory to her maternal mediation; This September 12th of each year is dedicated to her, on the feast of Mary. It was a gift for me to be able to celebrate the anniversary of the #Liberation here! @ccpecknold @gjpappin @Anna_unbound @D_Tarczynski @EwaZajaczkowska

Finnish scientists trucked in real forest dirt and grass and laid it over the gravel at four daycare yards. They let the kids dig around in it for a month. The blood tests came back with changes the researchers hadn’t expected to see so fast or so clear. The study ran at ten daycares in two Finnish cities with 75 kids aged three to five. Four of the yards got the forest treatment: about a tennis court worth of soil and grass laid over the gravel, plus planters and peat blocks the kids could dig and climb on. Three others stuck with their normal gravel yards. The last three were daycares where the kids were already visiting real forests every day. After one month, the variety of bacteria living on the kids’ skin shot up, and the kind that helps train the skin’s immune defenses jumped the most. Their gut bacteria started to look like the gut bacteria of the forest-visiting kids. Their blood showed more of the immune cells whose job is to keep the body from freaking out at harmless stuff like pollen and peanuts, and overall inflammation dropped. The kids on the plain gravel yards showed none of this. Childhood asthma in the US doubled between 1980 and 1995. Food allergies in kids jumped 50 percent between 1997 and 2011, then jumped another 50 percent between 2007 and 2021. And peanut allergies in one-year-olds tripled between 2001 and 2017. The Finnish researchers think one of the reasons is simple: kids today don’t get dirty enough. 37 percent of American preschoolers now spend an hour or less outside on a normal weekday. Their immune systems are getting trained in environments stripped of the bacteria humans have always lived around. Aki Sinkkonen, who led the study, put it in plain words: “It would be best if children could play in puddles and everyone could dig organic soil.” The Finnish government is now helping pay for daycares across the country to make the same changes.

Europe claims that its lawsuit against X over bluechecks is about consumer deception: that if the ☑️ merely means “user paid,” the platform should not suggest some other imprimatur. But a key force at play, here, is foreign governments’ desire to control who commands credibility, even on American platforms.

Belgium, like the rest of the EU, succumbed to the totalitarian temptation, as predicted by the brilliant Ryszard Legutko. Indeed, why do we still call Belgium a democracy when the exercise of free speech lands speakers in prison, or when peaceful gatherings, such as NatCon conferences, that bring together democratically elected politicians, intellectuals, civil society leaders, and journalists, have to fight in Brussels courts to defend their constitutionally-protected right to assemble. @ADFIntl @ADFLegal @yhazony @willchamberlain @NatConTalk @jerzKwasniewski

Je sais pas si les médias vont se pencher longuement sur ce tremblement de terre en Pologne ! En Pologne, les maires sont élus pour 5 ans, mais les citoyens peuvent les révoquer avant la fin du mandat grâce à un référendum local d’initiative citoyenne ! Perso je trouve cela fantastique. Pour cela il faut récolter les signatures d’au moins 10 % des électeurs inscrits de la commune. Or dans l'ancienne capitale de la Pologne, Cracovie, ville de plus de 800.000 habitants, un vote pour virer le maire s'est tenu. Les principaux reproches fait au Maire Aleksander Miszalski élu en 2024 : 1. Zone de transport propre sur le mode du Green Deal de l'UE : restrictions sévères sur les voitures dans le centre qui a amené une colère des automobilistes et commerçants. (Nos ZFE à nous). 2. Gestion financière : dettes, primes folles pour les dirigeants d’entreprises municipales. (copinage classique des gauchistes). 3. Parades LGBT : Miszalski est pro-LGBT (il a même participé à la première parade de Cracovie en tant que maire). Dans une ville catholique et conservatrice, ça passe mal pour une partie de la population. Et bien le vote a été sans appel ! 97,93% pour le virer ! Chiffre énorme qui démontre que les peuples ne veulent pas des idées de l'UE ! On devrait tous pouvoir faire pareil !!

Der EuGH hat in Zusammenwirkung mit der EU-Kommission fast unbemerkt von der Öffentlichkeit mal eben die souveränen Rechte der Mitgliedsstaaten beendet. In einem Urteil (Urt. v. 21.04.2026, Az. C-769/22)hat der EuGH der EU-Kommission eine Generalermächtigung erteilt, die Programmsätze des Art. 2 EU-Vertrag als Eingriffsgrundlage für Sanktionsverfahren zu nutzen. Die Beteiligungsverpflichtungen des EU-Parlamentes und des Europäischen Staates wurden weggewischt, ebenso wie die Quoten (Einstimmigkeit)Die Verfassungsidentität des Art. 4 wurde mitbeerdig. Die EU-Kommission kann jetzt mit diesen unbestimmten Rechtsbegriffen des Art. 2, deren Auslegung dem EuGH obliegt, jedes Gesetz und jede Wahl in den Mitgliedsstaaten verbieten. Das ist ein Quantensprung in Richtung eines totalitären europäischen Superstaats – ein europäischer Richterstaat, in dem die Demokratie zur Farce wird.

Je veux présenter mes excuses, au nom des Français, pour avoir enfanté la French Theory (qui a enfanté la pire des merdes idéologiques : le wokisme). Nous avons donné au monde Descartes, Pascal, Tocqueville. Et puis, dans les ruines intellectuelles de l'après-68, nous avons donné Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze. Trois hommes brillants qui ont fabriqué, dans l'élégance de notre langue, l'arme idéologique qui paralyse aujourd'hui l'Occident. Il faut comprendre ce qu'ils ont fait. Foucault a enseigné que la vérité n'existe pas, qu'il n'y a que des rapports de pouvoir déguisés en savoir. Que la science, la raison, la justice, l'institution médicale, l'école, la prison, la sexualité, tout n'est qu'une mise en scène de la domination. Derrida a enseigné que les textes n'ont pas de sens stable, que tout signifiant glisse, que toute lecture est une trahison, que l'auteur est mort et que le lecteur règne. Deleuze a enseigné qu'il fallait préférer le rhizome à l'arbre, le nomade au sédentaire, le désir à la loi, le devenir à l'être, la différence à l'identité. Pris isolément, ce sont des thèses discutables. Combinées, exportées, vulgarisées, elles forment un système. Et ce système est un poison. Car voici ce qui s'est passé. Ces textes, illisibles en France, ont traversé l'Atlantique. Les départements de Yale, de Berkeley, de Columbia les ont absorbés dans les années 80. Ils y ont trouvé un terreau qui n'existait pas chez nous : le puritanisme américain, sa culpabilité raciale, son obsession identitaire. La French Theory s'est mariée à ce substrat, et l'enfant de ce mariage s'appelle le wokisme. Judith Butler lit Foucault et invente le genre performatif. Edward Said lit Foucault et invente le post-colonialisme académique. Kimberlé Crenshaw hérite du cadre et invente l'intersectionnalité. À chaque étape, la matrice est française : il n'y a pas de vérité, il n'y a que du pouvoir, donc toute hiérarchie est suspecte, toute institution est oppressive, toute norme est violence, toute identité est construite donc négociable, toute majorité est coupable. Voilà comment trois philosophes parisiens, qui n'ont probablement jamais imaginé leurs conséquences pratiques, ont fourni le logiciel d'exploitation à une génération entière d'activistes, de bureaucrates universitaires, de DRH, de journalistes, de législateurs. Voilà comment on a obtenu une civilisation qui ne sait plus dire si une femme est une femme, si sa propre histoire mérite d'être défendue, si le mérite existe, si la vérité se distingue de l'opinion. C'est de la merde pour une raison simple, et il faut la dire calmement. Une civilisation se tient debout sur trois piliers : la croyance qu'il existe une vérité accessible à la raison, la croyance qu'il existe un bien distinct du mal, la croyance qu'il existe un héritage à transmettre. La French Theory a entrepris de dynamiter les trois. Pas par méchanceté. Par jeu intellectuel, par fascination du soupçon, par haine de la bourgeoisie qui les avait nourris. Mais le résultat est là. Une génération entière a appris à déconstruire et n'a jamais appris à construire. Une génération entière sait soupçonner et ne sait plus admirer. Une génération entière voit le pouvoir partout et la beauté nulle part. Je m'excuse parce que nous, Français, avons une responsabilité particulière. C'est notre langue, nos universités, nos éditeurs, notre prestige qui ont donné à ce nihilisme son emballage chic. Sans la légitimité de la Sorbonne et de Vincennes, ces idées n'auraient jamais traversé l'océan. Nous avons exporté le doute comme d'autres exportent des armes. Ce qui se construit maintenant, en silicon valley, dans les labos d'IA, dans les startups, dans les ateliers, dans tous les lieux où des gens fabriquent encore des choses au lieu de les déconstruire, c'est la réponse. Une civilisation se reconstruit par les bâtisseurs, pas par les commentateurs. Par ceux qui croient que la vérité existe et qu'elle vaut qu'on s'y consacre. Par ceux qui assument une hiérarchie du beau, du vrai, du bon, et qui n'ont pas honte de la transmettre. Alors pardon. Et au travail.

Elon Musk just defended America better than every politician in Washington combined. Musk: “After World War 2, the US could have basically taken over the world and any country. Like we got nukes, nobody else got nukes. We don’t even have to lose soldiers. Which country do you want?” One nation on earth held a weapon nobody else had. Total dominance. Zero competition. No risk of retaliation. Every empire in history that held that kind of advantage used it. Rome. The Mongols. The British. The Ottomans. They conquered until they collapsed. America had a bigger advantage than all of them combined. And it rebuilt the countries it just defeated. Musk: “The United States actually helped rebuild countries. So it helped rebuild Europe, it helped rebuild Japan. This is very unusual behavior, almost unprecedented.” Almost unprecedented? It had never happened before. Not once in 5,000 years of recorded history. The Marshall Plan wasn’t foreign aid. It was the most radical act of restraint any superpower ever committed. America turned its enemies into allies. Turned rubble into economies. Turned surrender into partnership. Germany went from ashes to the economic engine of Europe in a generation. Japan went from unconditional surrender to the third largest economy on earth. Three years after the war, America was flying food into Berlin. A city in the heart of the nation that just tried to destroy it. That’s not policy. That’s a civilization deciding what it is at the exact moment it has the power to be anything. You’re being told a story right now. That America is the villain of history. You hear it everywhere. Media. Universities. Social platforms. Musk: “There’s always like, well America’s done bad things. Well of course America’s done bad things, but one needs to look at the whole track record.” Every nation on earth has dark chapters. Every single one. The difference is what a country does when nobody can stop it. And when nobody could stop America, it fed its enemies and rebuilt their cities. Musk: “The history of China suggests that China is not acquisitive. Meaning they’re not going to go out and invade a whole bunch of countries.” Probably right. China has historically built walls, not fleets. But the real question isn’t about borders anymore. We’re approaching a moment that mirrors 1945 in ways nobody has fully processed yet. AI is going to give a handful of people a power advantage that makes nuclear monopoly look quaint. If someone is going to hold that kind of power, who do you want it to be? The country that conquered when it could? Or the one that rebuilt when it didn’t have to? Every alliance. Every trade route. Every economy. Billions lifted out of poverty. All of it traces back to one act of restraint that had never been done before. And carries no guarantee of being repeated. The most powerful thing America ever did wasn’t building the bomb. It was what it didn’t do after.

Dla Opinii Wirtualnej Polski o Zbigniewie Ziobro i Marcinie Romanowskim w USA. Oraz o pomyśle ich ekstradycji do Polski, który niektóry już snują. Najpierw smaczek: podstawą dla ewentualnych procedur ekstradycyjnych byłaby polsko-amerykańska umowa o ekstradycji z 9 czerwca 2006 r. Z polskiej strony umowę podpisał jako minister sprawiedliwości… Zbigniew Ziobro. A teraz kopiuję z tekstu o kilku kluczowych wątkach, które muszą się pojawić, jeśli wniosek będzie procedował - bo musi - amerykański sąd federalny: "Pierwsze: przyznanie polskim politykom azylu na Węgrzech i zapowiedź zwycięzcy w wyborach nad Dunajem, jeszcze przed objęciem urzędu premiera oraz poza wszelkimi procedurami, że tę decyzję zmieni. Po drugie, w przypadku Marcina Romanowskiego Interpol odmówił przyznania tzw. czerwonej noty w sprawie międzynarodowego ścigania. Uzasadnienie takich decyzji nie jest publikowane, ale powodem odmowy jest sprzeczność z "duchem Powszechnej Deklaracji Praw Człowieka" lub istnienie przeszkody "o charakterze politycznym, wojskowym, religijnym lub rasowym" (art. 2 i 3 Statutu Interpolu). Po trzecie, sąd i amerykańskie władze zapewne usłyszałyby sporo o sytuacji w polskim wymiarze sprawiedliwości i prokuraturze. A już konkretniej i w kontekście ściągania polskich polityków - o sposobie nominowania prokuratorów Prokuratury Krajowej, o odwołaniu sędziego Dariusza Łubowskiego po uchyleniu przez niego europejskiego nakazu aresztowania wobec Marcina Romanowskiego, o enuncjacjach ministra sprawiedliwości ws. użycia samochodowego bagażnika do przewozu osób. Mógłbym kontynuować. Jest wreszcie okoliczność, którą nazwę ambicjonalną. Urzędnicy państwa są pamiętliwi ("pamięć instytucjonalna") w sprawach, w których spotkała ich odmowa, traktowana jako afront. Przed laty Amerykanie chcieli ekstradycji z Polski Romana Polańskiego ściganego pod zarzutem gwałtu. Polskie sądy odmówiły. W krakowskim Sądzie Okręgowym o niedopuszczalności wydania orzekł w 2015 r. sędzia Dariusz Mazur, obecnie wiceminister sprćawiedliwości." Całość w linku wiadomosci.wp.pl/emocjonujac…

The new Hungarian government led by Péter Magyar is clear: it does not want to abandon Russian energy. Within the EU, many expected the defeat of the Kremlin’s ally Orbán, to mark a turning point for Russian energy in Europe. However, the reality suggests that is not the case 🧵

Looks like the energy prices are putting pressure on Africa pretty quickly - populations are starting to move. The Hungarian government tore up the hardline migration stance the exact same day. Budapest will soon have the same problems as the other EU capitals. Sad. 🇭🇺🇪🇺

Hungary, envy of other European countries for refusing migrant-settlers from outside the EU under Viktor Orban - opposing this EU policy - is now caving in: Anita Orban, deputy PM and most likely a US agent, said that to stop financial punishment from Brussels - a campaign promise of her party - requires allowing asylum seekers arriving at Hungary’s borders to enter. (Admitting what her party leader, now the new PM, had denied before the election). She claimed what happened in other EU countries was "not mass immigration" but "mutual assistance among member states facing significant migratory pressure through accepting a limited number of migrants..."! Do Hungarian voters feel betrayed? I know many fans of Peter Magyar said before the election that the anti-immigration stance was Viktor Orban's best policy and his opposition would continue it. An election lie. Predictably. dailynewshungary.com/anita-o…

Terrible.