VIDEO: Farewell then, Stephen Colbert

Winning the war against fake news and the controlled media!

CBS News Radio (previously known as CBS Radio News), historically a part of the CBS Radio network, was a radio network that at its peak provided its version of the news to more than 1000 radio stations throughout the United States. 

Note Walt's use of the past tense. Yesterday evening, the network, owned by Paramount Skydance Corporation and its predecessors, pulled the plug... hit the kill switch... on CBS News Radio. So today we have two fewer woke, anti-Trump voices to tell us not to believe what we can see with our own eyes.

But wait (as Vince Offer used to say), there's more! Other voices of the lickspittle media are teetering on the brink. Since the beginning of 2026, along with the cuts at CBS, the Washington Post also laid off a third of its staff. The Associated Press offered buyouts to over 120 journalists. And CBS parent company Paramount has also acquired the Clinton News Network, aka CNN.

Ted Johnson, politics and media editor for entertainment trade publication Deadline. opined that "all of these news sources have been kind of overshadowed by the growth of opinion voices, whether that's in podcasts or on cable news or in streaming. He did not explain why people have simply stopped listening to "legacy" news outlets.

True Signs Dept.: Catholic Faith summarized in four words

An assiduous reader sent us this one but didn't disclose the location of this Holy Trinity Church. (There are so many!) Anyone who knows the address is asked to put it in the comments box, which will open if you click on the headline.

Bill Bryson: Britain ideal place for Communism

Thirty years ago, in Notes From A Small Island, Bill Bryson, the most famous British writer ever to come from Des Moines IA, had this to say about the suitability of Not-so-great Britain for the Communist social experiment.

It has long seemed to me unfortunate...that such an important experiment in social organization [as Communism] was left to the Russians when the British would have managed it so much better. All those things that are necessary to the successful implementation of a rigorous socialist system are...second nature to the British. 

For a start, they like going without. They are great at pulling together, particularly in the face of adversity, for a perceived common good. 

They will queue patiently for indefinite periods and accept with rare fortitude the imposition of rationing, bland diets and sudden inconvenient shortages of staple goods, as anyone who has ever looked for bread at a supermarket on a Saturday afternoon will know. 

They are comfortable with faceless bureaucracies and, as Mrs. Thatcher proved, tolerant of dictatorships. They will wait uncomplainingly for years for an operation or the delivery of a household appliance. 

They have a natural gift for making excellent jokes about authority without seriously challenging it, and they derive universal satisfaction from the sight of the rich and powerful brought low. Most of those above the age of twenty-five already dress like [east Europeans]. 

The conditions, in a word, are right.

Roughly a year after Mr Bryson's highly recommendable book appeared, Sir Anthony Charles Lynton "Tony" Bliar ascended to the leadership of the Labour half of the Uniparty* and became Prime Minister of the Disunitede Kingdom. Evidently he had read the book, for he did his damndest to turn Britain, if not Red, then deep Pinko.

He failed, of course, because Margaret Thatcher had made it politically impossible to renationalize the steel industry, railways, etc., and not enough Third World migrants -- legal and otherwise -- had been "welcomed" to the green and septic isle to complete the transition to totalitarianism.

Fast forward to July of 2024 when British voters, having tired of a succession of feckless and inept "Conservative" governments, gave the Labourites 411 seats in a general election, whereupon the equally feckless and inept King Charles III invited Sir Keir Starmer (to be played in the movie by Sir Michael Palin) to form the next government and lead Britain down the People's Path to, errr... thingy... you know....

The Starmer government quickly set new records for incompetence, DEI, and geneeral wokeness in the face of common sense. Of 122 ministers appointed by the New Dear Leader, 18 have resigned, 1 has been dismissed, and 20 have left to spend more time with their families. [These figures are from Wikipedia, so should be taken cum grano salis. Ed.]

Given the opportunity a couple of weeks ago to show buyer's remorse, the British electorate gave Sir Keir's Labour Party (and, it must be said, the "Conservatives" as well) a rirhgt thrashing in a local elections bloodbath which saw it routed on English councils, and destroyed in Wales and Scotland. See *"Uniparty politics FAILS in UK...", WWW 10/5/26.

Does this mean that Bill Bryson was wrong? I think not. It's just that his timing was off. If Sir Keir can somehow cling to power through one more election [I'll take that bet. Ed.], he and his Pinko friends may yet reduce No-longer-great Britain to the level which prompted Mr Bryson to  write what he did. IMHO, Britain is fecked (as the Irish say) but I don't expect to be proven right until... maybe this fall!

Pass this on to your liberal friends (?)

VIDEO: Amelia is back with "Remigration Airways"

The folly of talking to liberals

Ed. here. We are experiencing technical difficulties. We hope to post something more substantial as soon as we can find a 16-year-old Chinese kid to fix our system.

109 years ago today, this happened...

Today, May 13th, is the Feast of Our Lady of Fatima. On this day in 1917, three shepherd children --Lúcia dos Santos (10) and her cousins Francisco Marto (9) and Jacinta Marto (7) -- saw the Blessed Virgin Mary in Cova da Iria, near Fátima, Portugal. She appeared as a "lady brighter than the sun," holding a rosary, and entrusted the children with a message from Heaven.

The Three Seers (as the children became known) were leading their flock out from Aljustrel on the morning of the 13th of May, the feast of Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament. They passed Fátima, where the parish church and cemetery were located, and proceeded a kilometer or so north to the slopes of the Cova. Here they allowed their sheep to graze as they played in the pasture studded with a few oak trees.

After having had their lunch about noon they decided to pray a rosary, although in a somewhat truncated fashion, saying only the first words of each prayer. Shortly, they were startled by what they later described as "lightning in a clear sky." Thinking that a storm might be approaching they debated whether they should take the sheep and go home. Preparing to do so they were again surprised by a strange light.

"We began to go down the slope driving the sheep towards the road," Lúcia said. "When we were half-way down, near a holm oak there [still standing there today, encircled by an iron fence], we saw another flash of lightning, and after a few steps we saw on a holm oak [a small one lower on the hillside] a lady dressed in white, shining brighter than the sun, giving out rays of clear and intense light, just like a crystal goblet full of pure water when the fiery sun passes through it.

"We stopped astounded by the Apparition. We were so near that we were in the light that encircled her, or which she radiated, perhaps a meter and a half away [4-5 feet]. The lady said, 'Please don't be afraid of me, I'm not going to harm you.'"

Lúcia responded for all three, as she would throughout the apparitions, "Where are you from?" The Lady answered, "I come from heaven."

The Lady wore a pure white mantle, edged with gold and which fell to her feet. In her hands the beads of a rosary shone like stars, with its crucifix the most radiant gem of all. Still, Lúcia felt no fear. The Lady's presence produced in her only gladness and confident joy.

"And what do you want of me?", Lúcia asked. The Lady said, "I want you to return here on the thirteenth of each month for the next six months, and at the very same hour. Later I shall tell you who I am, and what it is that I most desire. And I shall return here yet a seventh time."

"And shall I go to heaven?", asked Lúcia. "Yes, you will," said the Lady. 

"And Jacinta?" "She will go too."

"And Francisco?" "Francisco, too, my dear, but he will first have many Rosaries to say." For a few moments the Lady looked at Francisco with compassion, tinged with a little sadness. 

Lúcia then remembered some friends who had died. "Is Maria Neves in heaven?" "Yes, she is."  

"And Amelia?" "She is in purgatory."

"Will you offer yourselves to God, and bear all the sufferings He sends you? In atonement for all the sins that offend Him? And for the conversion of sinners?"

"Oh, we will, we will!" 

"Then you will have a great deal to suffer, but the grace of God will be with you and will strengthen you."  

Lúcia relates that as the Lady pronounced these words, she opened her hands, and "we were bathed in a heavenly light that appeared to come directly from her hands. The light's reality cut into our hearts and our souls, and we knew somehow that this light was God, and we could see ourselves embraced in it."

By an interior impulse of grace we fell to our knees, repeating in our hearts: "Oh, Holy Trinity, we adore You. My God, my God, I love You in the Blessed Sacrament." 

The children remained kneeling in the flood of this wondrous light, until the Lady spoke again, mentioning the war in Europe, of which they had little or no knowledge. "Say the Rosary every day, to bring peace to the world and an end to the war."  

After that she began to rise slowly in the direction of the east, until she disappeared in the immense distance. The light that encircles Her seemed to make a way amidst the stars. Lúcia said, "that is why we sometimes said we had seen the heavens open."

Jacinta Marto and her brother Francisco were canonized as a saint by Pope Francis on 13 May 2017, the 100th anniversary of the First Apparition of Our Lady of Fatima. They are the youngest non-martyr saints in the history of the Catholic Church. Lucia dos Santos (aka nSister Lúcia of Fátima) has not yet been canonized, but was declared Venerable by Pope Francis on 22 June 2023. This recognition of her "heroic virtues" is a significant step in the Church's canonization process.