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The remarkable thing about this is the casual dehumanization of the perpetrator. She's like a park ranger talking about an endangered species of wild animal, and was just doing what that species does when somebody invades its protected habitat https://t.co/LkL4dADLJc
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) March 23, 2026
Ed: This is not an attitude limited only to the death of Sheridan Gorman in Democrat controlled jurisdictions. It's not even limited to violent crimes committed by illegal aliens. It's the typical progressive response to crime victims in general. It's just more despicable in these specific circumstances.
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NBC 5 via PJM: In a statement, Gorman's family rejected any suggestion that Sheridan’s actions contributed to what occurred.
“We acknowledge the arrest of the individual accused of taking our daughter’s life and thank the Chicago Police Department, Area Three Detectives, and all those involved in the investigation who worked quickly to identify and apprehend him. Their efforts matter. But this is not justice—it is the first step toward it," the statement read in part. “What Sheridan was doing that night—walking with friends near her campus—was normal. It was safe. It is what students do every day. We will not allow this to be dismissed as ‘wrong place, wrong time.’ This was not random misfortune. This was a violent and preventable act.”
The family also addressed information released by federal authorities regarding the accused’s prior encounters with the system.
“We are gravely disappointed by the policies and failures that allowed this individual to remain in a position to commit this crime. When systems fail—whether through release decisions, lack of coordination, or unwillingness to act—the consequences are not abstract. They are real. And in our case, they are permanent.," the statement continued.
Ed: We should expect safety in public spaces. What made them unsafe and ultimately deadly for Ms. Gorman were policies deliberately adopted by Democrats in Chicago, in Illinois, and in Washington DC during the Biden Regency. We cannot prevent all crime with rational policies in a free society, but we can certainly act to keep criminals off the streets and illegal aliens out of the country. Had we done EITHER of those two tasks successfully, Sheridan would still be alive.
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Hang on… Chicago wants to attract more tourists. It has created a marketing campaign to do that; and, in order to fund it, the city is… making it more expensive to stay in Chicago by raising taxes on hotel rooms? Do I have that right? https://t.co/GJk9aa36bc
— Rafael A. Mangual (@Rafa_Mangual) March 24, 2026
Ed: That's not even the worst aspect of this decision. They're hiking taxes and making Chicago more expensive with no added value to it as a destination. Its leadership shrugs off violent crime by known criminals as just part of the Chi-Town experience, while raising prices to spend time and money in a deadlier environment. The Gormans sent their daughter to get educated in Chicago and its politicians can't even be bothered to be bothered by her murder.
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Fox News: Viewers of CNN and MS NOW are being kept in the dark about the illegal immigrant accused of murdering 18-year-old Loyola University Chicago student Sheridan Gorman.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) confirmed on Sunday that the suspect, Jose Medina-Medina, is "a Venezuelan criminal illegal alien" who was apprehended by the U.S. Border Patrol and released into the country under the Biden administration in 2023. Medina-Medina was released again one month later after being arrested for shoplifting.
CNN and MS NOW have ignored the story through Tuesday morning, according to network transcripts via Grabien Media, as well as their website search results.
Ed: Quelle surprise. The Protection Racket Media is already giving the murder of Sheridan Gorman the "local story" treatment.
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Scott Jennings just set a BEAR TRAP on CNN, and Miles Taylor walked RIGHT into it.
— Overton (@overton_news) March 24, 2026
Taylor was spiraling over President Trump’s actions in Iran when @ScottJenningsKY hit him with the one question that unraveled his ENTIRE narrative.
JENNINGS: “Miles, do you think that the… pic.twitter.com/iZwAplcJhf
JENNINGS: “Miles, do you think that the Ayatollah prefers his life under Obama or under Trump?”
Taylor froze, laughed awkwardly.
TAYLOR: “Well…look….” [Silence]
JENNINGS: “Probably Obama, yes?”
TAYLOR: “The Ayatollah’s dead...”
Jennings stared into the camera and smiled.
JENNINGS: “There you go! You heard it here first.”
By the time Taylor realized what had just hit him, it was far too late.
Ed: For those who don't recall, Taylor was the low-level Homeland Security official in Trump's first term, writing op-eds in the New York Times as "Anonymous," a supposedly senior administration official. Here's a flashback ...
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—@ChrisCuomo to @MilesTaylorUSA: "You lied to us....Why should CNN keep you on the payroll after lying like that?" pic.twitter.com/T4kzZ8zKJM
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) October 29, 2020
CUOMO: All right. First, what matters most, certainly to me, you lied to us, Miles. You were asked in August, if you were “Anonymous,” here on CNN, with Anderson Cooper and you said “No.” Now, why should CNN keep you on the payroll after lying like that?
Ed: It's been five years and CNN still hasn't answered that question. Taylor didn't just lie to CNN, but to the NYT as well, selling himself as a senior administration official while serving as a deputy chief of staff at DHS ... hardly an inner-circle position. Maybe that's why Jennings got the best of him so easily.
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WSJ: The Pentagon is planning to deploy about 3,000 soldiers from the Army’s elite 82nd Airborne Division to the Middle East to support operations against Iran, according to two U.S. officials, with a written order expected in the coming hours.
Officials cautioned that a decision to put boots on the ground in Iran hasn’t been made. But deploying the 82nd opens the door to President Trump for several strategic options.
Ed: Trump is assembling the larger chessboard for the next phase. I suspect that the five-day pause on the ultimatum is a cover for this part of his war plans. And I suspect the Iranians know it too.
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CONFIRMED: Iran confirms that senior Basij commander Azim Esmaili has been killed in Tehran, reportedly in a U.S.–Israeli strike targeting the regime’s internal security leadership. Iranian and regional sources say Esmaili — deputy to the commander of the Basij militia linked to… pic.twitter.com/Le2o9ndZby
— Mossad Commentary (@MOSSADil) March 24, 2026
Ed: Meanwhile, the rest of the war keeps proceeding.
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Politico: As more Americans, including many Republicans, grow alarmed about the U.S.-Israel war with Iran, one person has largely escaped the backlash: Marco Rubio.
President Donald Trump is getting most of the heat. Vice President JD Vance and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth have also drawn ample scrutiny for their positions.
Rubio’s political star, meanwhile, is on the rise in the GOP, while many Democrats have stayed relatively quiet about his failures. This is especially notable because Rubio, alongside serving as secretary of State, has spent nearly a year acting as Trump’s national security adviser.
Ed: What "failures"? In less than four weeks, the US and Israel have completely destroyed Iran's navy and air force, killed most of its top leadership, demolished much of its industrial base, and demonstrated the futility of its deterrents while exposing the regime's lies about its ballistic missile programs. This is the most lopsided war between major combatants in human history. Politico assumes all of this means the war is lost.
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Trump: "If you read the papers, you'd think we're tied, you'd think we're in a tough battle. We're roaming free over Tehran. The city. Tehran. As opposed to Iran. We can do whatever we want. Today, we were gonna have the privilege of shooting down a very big electric generation… pic.twitter.com/nUNIKPNMK3
— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) March 24, 2026
Ed: We're in a turkey shoot. Today's media would turn Midway into a defeat and would be writing about losing the war on June 7, 1944. As Andrew Malcolm and I discuss in our podcast today, the media has created the first three-week quagmire in military history.
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Reuters: Britain’s King Charles III has agreed to become the patron of one of the country’s largest Jewish charities, it said on Tuesday, a day after a suspected antisemitic arson attack in north London.
The Community Security Trust, which advises Britain’s estimated 280,000 Jews on security matters, said the king had accepted its invitation to be its patron, reflecting the monarch’s “longstanding commitment to promoting tolerance, inclusion and interfaith understanding.”
The patronage was not a direct response to the arson attack and Charles, who is titular head of the Church of England, has a long history of meeting with different faith leaders and promoting interfaith dialogue.
Ed: Maybe not, but it certainly is timely – and in today's London and England, brave. I'm not the biggest fan of the monarchy generally or King Charles III specifically, but kudos to him for stepping up at this moment especially. He could have just said nothing.
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Vincent Geloso at the Daily Economy: But this is also where it becomes clear that Paul Ehrlich lost the argument. Consider the case of a carbon tax. Its justification rests on the idea that pricing pollution changes behavior and encourages innovation — not that humans are parasites, but that they respond to incentives. The premise is cooperation, not coercion born of scarcity panic.
All of these perspectives share a crucial assumption: humans are capable of solving problems. Environmental outcomes depend on incentives and institutions, not on reducing the number of “mouths.” In that sense, even Ehrlich’s opponents across the ideological spectrum converge on a common conclusion: humans are not parasites, but the ultimate resource.
This was not always the case. Environmental movements from the 1940s through the 1970s were far more receptive to Paul Ehrlich’s view. Many on the left and the right accepted his core premise, and for a time it was dominant. Today, it is not merely contested; it has largely been abandoned, even by those who neither cite nor sympathize with Julian Simon.
This is the real defeat of Ehrlich — even where one could think he had the most support, he lost ground. His core premises have been largely abandoned by all except the most extreme. In a way, Ehrlich died well after his ideas did.
Ed: Excellent essay, well worth reading in full. Ehrlich was a malignant force, promoting a radical culture of death. Unfortunately, his influence continues despite the clear failure of his arguments.
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🚨 EXCLUSIVE FROM TEHRAN: “You took all the money, and now your soldiers are suffering because there are no salaries. Give back what you stole.”
— C14 News Israel | EN (@c14israel) March 24, 2026
These are remarks by Iran's Speaker of the Parliament, Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf, obtained by Senior Iran Analyst Dror Balazada… pic.twitter.com/71AOOzpe3e
Ed: Take this with an appropriate level of skepticism, but this is precisely what the pressure of negotiations could produce – a power struggle that could collapse the regime, or force the regular military to intervene. Ghalibaf is a hardliner with close contacts with the IRGC, but it's survival time in Tehran now.
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Jim Treacher: The word “woke” has become so overused that I don’t know what it’s supposed to mean anymore, but I do know that diversity, inclusion, and equity are very poor substitutes for good storytelling. You can’t guilt-trip a mass audience into showing up for your shoddy product by calling them bigots.
It’s time to just let Trek die. This September will mark the 60th anniversary of the very first episode, which seems like a good place to bookend it.
You lived long, Star Trek. And you certainly prospered.
Now drop dead.
Ed: Or at least boldly go where no one has gone before, rather than just parking yourself at Saved By The Bell.
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