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Re: Musk and the Metastatic Woke Mind Virus

“Apparently, too many young people are stuck in perpetual adolescence, probably because their parents are in the same adolescent rut.” —California

“These people have too much time on their hands and get sucked into weird behavior, and their parents are just as nuts. The explosion of therapists is much like the explosion of prescription drugs — a diagnosis and treatment for everything. In my youth, church was our moral barometer and it worked for life. ‘Weird’ is not the new normal! It is still, and will always be, WEIRD.” —Illinois

“I have been a psychiatrist for 30 years, and let me just say, this assessment of the woke virus is spot on.” —Massachusetts

Re: The End of Disparate Impact?

“George W. Bush nailed the cause of disparate test results a quarter-century ago when he decried ‘the soft bigotry of low expectations.’ It’s easier to tell a low-achieving child that ‘systemic racism’ is what holds him back than to push him to apply himself to learning and gaining useful skills, but it harms the child. Parents and teachers should expect diligence and demand best-effort performance from all of their children and students and set good moral standards instead of allowing race-based self-pity.” —Minnesota

Re: The Reddening of the Golden State

“I’d sometimes wondered if there weren’t still actual normal people in California who just never got press coverage because they weren’t socialist nutjobs like all the celebs and media types. It’s good to know there are in fact at least some regular Californians who can comprehend that their state is fast becoming another failed experiment in Soviet-style government and the only way to change that is to stop voting for the same leftists every election. It’s about time, and more power to them!” —Pennsylvania

Re: SCOTUS Upholds Ghost Gun Regulations

“What is the purpose of requiring serial numbers on ghost guns? How do they plan to serialize the millions of ghost guns already built? And how do they plan to track them since an actual gun registry isn’t legal? This sounds like a plan to push rope uphill! Prior to serial numbers being required on guns, millions of factory-built firearms were made and sold without records of the sales.” —Massachusetts

“In the underworld, the main effect of this ruling will be some increase in business for black-market gunmakers. In legitimate business, it invades the privacy of law-abiding persons who have no wish for others to know what they own. And what if somebody figures out how to adapt parts of a power nailer to make a firearm? Will the manufacturer be required to put serial numbers on those parts and register as a firearms maker, even though that is not its intended business? Justice Thomas is right.” —Minnesota

Re: Losing Religion

“The bland softness of ‘seeker-sensitive’ churches is perhaps why people are shifting somewhat to traditional churches that bend less with the times, such as Orthodox and traditionalist Catholics. It’s not why I switched (my Southern Baptist church had solid preaching, though the praise and worship songs they were increasingly singing in place of hymns weren’t really my cup of tea), but it’s why many do.” —Maryland

“Great comments. As a Catholic, I still believe in God, but it was the leadership of the church that let me down. The popes now apparently publicly declare their fear of climate change and are politicizing from the pulpit. I cannot accept this, nor can I condone a non-scientist with that much power making these types of statements. While I remain steadfastly Catholic, I cannot support a church, financially or otherwise, with this kind of leadership. Thus, I remain a Roman Catholic Christian but from a distance.” —Colorado

Re: Musk & Co. Demystify DOGE

“A number of historians have compiled markers of national decline and noted that when a nation has too many of these markers, its failure is almost inevitable. These include chronic indebtedness and inflation, a rejection of moral standards, large-scale dependence on government handouts, corruption, and violent factionalism. If DOGE can reverse the financial mismanagement of government, and the people return to God and His word, we may indeed see a revolutionary pullback from destruction.” —Minnesota

Re: Trump Admin Stops Kowtowing to the Climate Cult

“Thank God the climate change religion is now where it should be: outside of our government! Climate change does exist, and has existed since God created everything, but human beings do not have any significant impact on it. Not one of their predictions has come true. It’s a false cult religion — nothing else.” —Alabama

Re: China: The Bane of Modern Civilization

“Very timely article. Just a week or so ago, our government acknowledged that unexplained drones over our military bases are actually from hostile powers. So why do we allow China to buy farmland near so many of our military sites? How do we allow this to happen and continue? What will it take to wake us up and make us squarely face the threat?” —North Carolina