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July 05, 2026

U.S.S. Clinton

Timothy Birdnow

Does former President Bill Clinton deserve to have a naval ship named after him?

Maybe this vessel would do him justice:

This ship needs to be purchased by the U.S. Navy and recommissioned the U.S.S. Clinton.

Oh, and the Taiwanese operated Panamanian flagged vessel is named the Ever Given. Fitting for a man who is forever givin' it to any woman he can grab.

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Chris Murphy Says the Democrats will End the Filibuster when They get Power

Timothy Birdnow

I don't know why the Republicans can't figure out that the Democrats are going to do this as soon as they are in power.

Top Democrat Vows To Kill Filibuster As Trump Unveils Strategy To Secure GOP Victories For A Century

Dem. Senator Chris Murphy admitted they are plotting this on the Nobody Knows Anything podcast.

Republicans in the Senate have resisted eradicating the filibuster out of some misplaced sense of "tradition". But the filibuster is not written into the Constitution nor is it a venerable ancient rule going back to the beginning; the filibuster was an accident from it's inception.

Aaron Burr accidentally created it when he was cleaning up unused Senate rules. One was a time limit on debate by Senators similar to the one in the House. This made it possible to continue to speak indefinitely - and thus simply gum up the works of the Senate, preventing a vote.

So it wasn't even a rule put in place - just a result of eliminating other rules.

It was named after the Dutch word vrijbuiter meaning pirate because you were essentially commandeering the ship of state and stealing it.

It wasn't until the 1840's when Henry Clay sought to limit Senate debate and the Senate thretened to debate that rule change indefinitely that it started using it extensively that the filibuster became anything other than a curiosity.

But always it had to be someone actually speaking. In later years they would often read from the telephone book.

Cloture was put in place in 1917 to allow an end to debate. Because cloture required a 2/3 vote it was very rare; in the subsequent forty years it was only invoked five times.

Strom Thermond held the record for a talking filibuster - 24 hours and 18 minutes. The old windbag had stamina, I must say. His record was finally broke by Corey "Spartacus" Booker who yacked for a solid 25 hours without pausing for breath.

In '75 cluture was lowered from 2/3 to 3/5ths.

The Senate also made a rule change in the seventies that created a "two track" system so that a filibuster didn't stop ALL Senate business so other business could be conducted.

This had the unintended side-effect of creating the Zombie filibuster where bills could simply be set aside for a time rather than tie up Senate business. The end result was that it was possible to just filibuster one bill by saying you were going to filibuster it - and thus simply force it to be removed from senate business.

If the Senate wants to keep the filibuster out of a sense of tradition they should rescind the two track system and force a talking filibuster again.

The Democrats will do this at a minimum, and if the talking filibuster is reimposed and the GOP starts filibustering they will remove even that. They have shown time and time again that tradition and good manners mean nothing to them - only power matters.

Sadly the GOP in the Senate still thinks these are reasonable people and they won't launch the birds against the Republicans. They are living in the past. Or they want what Democrats are pushing but fear angering their voters.

Politics is a blood sport. If you aren't willing to draw blood you don't belong in the game.

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Travesty of Justice in Birmingham, U.K.

Timothy Birdnow

Lesser Britain has gone nuts.

Here is a video of an incident in Birmingham where a bunch of black men assault a white guy and when police show up they throw the white guy against a wall and arrest him - and let the assailants walk away without even questioning them.

This video is going viral and the Birmingham police, after making outrageous lies about the incident, then changing their story to even admit the white guys was a victim, are continuing to try to prosecute him and even made an appeal to the public not to share this video "so justice may be carried out". Justice for whom exactly? It's so this guy will get railroaded and the department not embarrassed.

Everyone needs to share this abomination. Britain has gone mad with this DEI stuff. A few weeks back there was an incident where an Asian fellow stabbed a white guy in the gut and the cops showed up. The Asian guy said the white guy was making racial slurs - so they arrested the white guy who was laying on the ground dying of his wounds! The cuffed him as he was bleeding out.

Being white in Britain is a crime now.

Police are taught that whites are automatically the oppressors and always in the wrong in any altercation. The minorities there have figured that out, that they won't be charged or blamed in any way so they are now just acting with impunity. Why not? There will be no repercussions, no matter what they do.

A nation that represses it's own people will not survive, nor should it. And if there is ever an argument for defund the police it is this; the Birmingham police should be defunded and disbanded and they need to start from scratch. Clearly the wrong people work there - and they are being indoctrinated in a bad way.

BTW the cop who throws this poor guy against the wall appears a bit dusky herself...

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Paul Pelosi's Crackup

Timothy Birdnow

Old Hammertoe Pelosi was charged with hit and run in Napa.

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Paul Pelosi Charged In Napa Hit And Run After Striking Parked Car [WATCH]Paul Pelosi Charged In Napa Hit And Run After Striking Parked Car

Yes, Nancy Pelosi's AC/DC hubby, the man who was beaten with a hammer by a half naked dude in his own home, was three sheets to the wind and cracked up his car. (I suppose if you have to come home to Nancy anyone would ne three sheets to the wind much of the time.)

Authorities say that an alcohol test came back negative. Sure it did. If you believe that I have a nice bridge that crosses the strait at the Golden Gate.

While Pelosi was arrested the Sheriff's department has yet to determine if they will file charges, even though he clearly hit another car and left the scene of an accident. Now why would they do that? For the same reason they would find no alcohol was involved, methinks.

There are two sets of laws in America and Pelosi gets to enjoy the more lenient of the two.

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July 04, 2026

And the Heat Goes On

This from meteorologist Christ Martz:

On today's date in 1901, over half of the U.S. was at or above 90°F and nearly 9% of the land area was at least 100°F. The same weather occurring this week occurred exactly 125 years ago, but according to most climate alarmists, it was just weather in 1901, but this week's three-day event is undeniable proof that we are facing a climate catastrophe.

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In Congress, July 4, 1776

In Congress, July 4, 1776

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.

He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:

For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:

For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.

He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.

He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.

Georgia

Button Gwinnett

Lyman Hall

George Walton

North Carolina

William Hooper

Joseph Hewes

John Penn

South Carolina

Edward Rutledge

Thomas Heyward, Jr.

Thomas Lynch, Jr.

Arthur Middleton

Massachusetts

John Hancock

Maryland

Samuel Chase

William Paca

Thomas Stone

Charles Carroll of Carrollton

Virginia

George Wythe

Richard Henry Lee

Thomas Jefferson

Benjamin Harrison

Thomas Nelson, Jr.

Francis Lightfoot Lee

Carter Braxton

Pennsylvania

Robert Morris

Benjamin Rush

Benjamin Franklin

John Morton

George Clymer

James Smith

George Taylor

James Wilson

George Ross

Delaware

Caesar Rodney

George Read

Thomas McKean

New York

William Floyd

Philip Livingston

Francis Lewis

Lewis Morris

New Jersey

Richard Stockton

John Witherspoon

Francis Hopkinson

John Hart

Abraham Clark

New Hampshire

Josiah Bartlett

William Whipple

Massachusetts

Samuel Adams

John Adams

Robert Treat Paine

Elbridge Gerry

Rhode Island

Stephen Hopkins

William Ellery

Connecticut

Roger Sherman

Samuel Huntington

William Williams

Oliver Wolcott

New Hampshire

Matthew Thornton

Read Jefferson's original draft:

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The America that Was

Timothy Birdnow

An excellent piece by Tyler Durden. He nails it.

Would The Founders Still Recognize Their Republic?

The answer, of course, is a resounding "NO!" The America as it was founded is as dead as the Parthian Empire. Sadly it's mostly a memory.

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The Winds of the American Revolution

Timothy Birdnow

A Revolution in Search of a Country

This is a decent essay, although I quibble with a bit of it. While it is true that there was revolutionary fever all over the West with the Enlightenment following on the heels of the Protestant Reformation (itself a revolution) the United States was a revolution that was essentially conservative in nature; it wanted to preserve the status quo while Britain began a very aggressive effort to reform the way the colonies were managed by the mother country.

Prior to the French and Indian War the British were pretty hands-off the colonies; they ran their own affairs and liked it that way. But the British were quite displeased with the colonial support they received during the war and they decided, since they had to leave troops in the colonies permanently, naturally wanted a firmer hand. The British back home also were angry about having to shoulder the cost of the war, which benefitted the colonials who were exempt from the taxes to pay for it. So Brain moved from a policy of salutary neglect to one where they were more active and where the colonies would be taxed.

Pissed everyone off.

In the process the British made a number of foolish mistakes by not treating the colonials with the same deference they did British born citizens. They suspended some of their rights. They taxed them even though they had no representatives in Parliament. They stationed troops in private domiciles without permission. They cracked down on smugglers who tried to dodge the new taxes.

So America rebelled to restore what she had known before the war with the French.

Also, America had been settled by very religious people who left England so they could be left alone to worship as they pleased. The American revolution may not have been openly religious as the Continental Army was diverse as was Congress, but at the core of it there was a religious fever, as sense that they were the modern version of the Macchabees, or of King David. In many ways it was a REJECTION of the Liberalism that was sweeping Europe at the time.

THAT is why America did not descend into a reign of terror as did France after their revolution. We had a diverse nation which had been wise enough to let everyone run their own affairs. If you lived in Rhode Island you worried about Rhode Island while the folks down yonder in Old Virginnie took care of themselves. And you worshipped your way and let those folks worship in theirs. That was quite different from the French revolution which tried to stamp out religion entirely and forced everyone to follow the revolutionary standard or enjoy your head rolling in a basket - or a fun-filled vacation in the Bastille.

See, they were trying to remake Man. We were trying to restore him. They rejected God and we embraced HIm. World of difference.

This essay also speaks much about "free labor" and says the rise of the Bourgeois class made that possible. Fair enough, but I would argue in America it had little to do with a CLASS so much as with the fact there was so much cheap land to be had that every man could be a squire on his own estate if he were ambitious enough. Most Americans were business owners - farms, blacksmiths, dry goods, etc. Americans were ALL Bourgeois and the laborers were temporary; they all had ambitions of being business owners themselves as soon as they could raise the capital. That is why America needed immigrants then; too much work, too few hands. And it was why slavery was attractive for a time.

And it was the hunger for land that helped precipitate the Revolution. The British put the Ohio territory off-limits to settlement after the French and Indian war, largely to protect the Indians, many of whom had settled there to get away from the increasingly anglo east coast. But the colonists wanted that land because everyone who came here wanted land. There was considerable anger at the crown for not allowing the settlement of the Ohio territory.

This was quite different from the European version of the revolution, in which the more crowded Europeans had to acquire what they wanted by killing those who had it and taking it away. It was quite a bit different (even though Americans did kill Indians, it was often over land that was lying fallow for years, decades even but which the Indians claimed because they occasionally hunted there but never developed.)

At any rate this is an interesting essay. As I say I have some quibbles with it but it's worth reading.

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America Speaks English! Or it Should

Timothy Birdnow

Trump "In America we speak English!"

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/07/watch-america-we-speak-english-trump-declares-english/

We need to make English our national language. Right now we don't have one.

I would point out American is the second largest Spanish speaking country on Earth, just behind Mexico. If our culture is to survive that has to change; it was built on Anglo culture and we will lose that if we are absorbed by Latin America.

I also want to see an end to this increasing use of the metric system in this country. More and more we hear "meters" or "klicks" or "kilos" on television and in public entertainment, and that is to get us used to metric so they can backdoor it in. In fact they've already backdoored it in and in many places (like the U.S. military) metric is the standard measurement system in place. In America we are supposed to say yards, miles, Fahrenheit, pounds, etc.

If Europe or the Canadians don't like it tough.

When you give us stuff like that, your language and your cultural things, you give up your country. That is the whole point; to make the world one and thus create the great New World Order with the U.N. as an ubergovenment and socialism as the world economic system. Break the old countries with immigration and standardize everything and then the Great Human Empire will form.

Nuts to that!

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Is Consciousness a Function of Brain Alone?

Timothy Birdnow

The problem with this is that the study's authors do not have a definition of consciousness and think it merely a biproduct of material order. This certainly flies in the face of Christian religious beliefs that consciousness is a thing tied to an immaterial soul.

We know from near death experiences (NDE's) that people experience out of body episodes where their consciousness has varying degrees of interactions with the world and with other places. That strongly suggests consciousness is NOT a biproduct of a vastly complex brain but rather that the vastly complex brain is a biproduct of a far more complex soul. By putting the cart before the horse these researchers are simply speculating wildly.

These researchers simply ignore NDE's and they do so out of fear they will lose their street creds as scientists. But NDE's are ubiquitous, universal, and cannot be ignored as phenomenon. If these researchers were truly honest brokers and wanted to take an honest look at consciousness they would take this into account. NDE's are absolutely about consciousness even if you do not believe they are evidence of life after death. Many NDE folks have heard and seen things that they should not have in their condition and placement in hospitals or whatnot.

The authors of this study appeal to a rather tired principle - the Copernican Principle. Once we realized the Earth revolved around the sun and not the other way around science became absolutely determined to show we had no special place whatsoever. Yes, physically we do not; our planet is a rather minor one in a vast universe, and we are out in the mid-latitude of our galaxy, a typical helical spire type. But that does not change some fundamental facts.

As far as we can tell there is no life in the solar system except here. There may be microbes elsewhere, or even floating critters in the gas giants, but nothing conscious. And we have the Fermi Paradox; there is no credible evidence of life around other stars, especially intelligent life. WE are actively trying to contact anyone out there with no luck. IF there were intelligent life out there we should pick up a radio transmission, or find a candy bar wrapper or Big Mac box somewhere on Earth that a careless visitor dropped. We have yet to find any such things.

And the Copernican Principle is crap anyway. Earth is quite unique.

First, nine out of every ten stars are red dwarfs, which are largely unsuited to life as we know it. They have very strong solar winds which strip atmospheres from terrestrial type planets. Those planets would have to be very close to such stars and so would be airless. And most are flare suns, meaning high levels of radiation would scour life from their surfaces. Maybe some life could live underground but it's doubtful you'd find intelligence there.

Second, the Earth's sun is very stable as stars go, being a .4 variable, meaning it very rarely misbehaves. That is very rare.

Third, from what we know about exoplanetary systems, most stars have "hot Jupiters" in close orbits. This gobbles up a lot of terrestrial matter and it also makes the host star flare a lot. And what ends up happening is "super Earth's form in the sweet spot where temperatures are right and Earth-sized planets tend to form too far out. They are iceball planets. Granted, it's possible life could form on a superEarth but it would be quite squat and low to the ground. It seems less likely life would flourish on such a world - and it seems likely the high gravity would mean a much denser atmosphere, a Venusian type atmosphere.

Then too the Earth has a full planet orbiting her. The Moon stabilizes the Earth;'s axial tilt. Without it our planet would suffer ferocious winds and any life would have to be in the seas or low to the ground. It is doubtful sea life would develop high technology; they ca't use fire in the depths. And it would be hard to make fire with hurricane winds blowing. Fire is the most fundamental tool humanity has and ever has had.

The moon also gives us tides which help mix the oceans. Without tides we likely would see huge algae blooms that would choke out much of the life. And it gives us light at night.

Except for the dwarf planets of Pluto and Charon the Earth's moon is wholly unique in our solar system and as far as we know in the galaxy in general.

Our position in the galaxy is unique too; we are far enough out to not be cooked by radiation but well protected by the galactic magnetic field.

So we are not a "garden variety" world as my old astronomy textbook claimed. We have many unique attributes that made life - and intelligence - possible.

And we've never found any evidence of aliens. It may be they communicate in a different way - say, using gravity waves. But we've watched for such things and have not found anything to suggest they are. Certainly they aren't broadcasting anything on the radio bands. There should be a top forty station on, say, Tau Ceti that we should pick up. We don't. They would pick up OUR broadcasts though.

Me, I suspect consciousness transcends our human bodies, which are a reflection of our consciousness as opposed to the creator of it, and I further think if there IS alien life out there it is either just simple organisms, mindless, or if they are intelligent they are, like us, the children of God, made in God's image as are we.

So, did Jesus visit them and offer them salvation too? Or are they in need of Christ?

Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle wrote Footfall and delved into this question. In the end the aliens were in need of Christ's salvation same as we, and their attempt to conquer us was God's providence to offer that salvation to them. They lost the war when they decided to replace God with themselves on the theory that we lacked someone to lead us and invented a fiction of such a leader. One of the aliens asked "are you sure this God of which they speak is a fiction?" and the other one said "He must be or He would not tolerate our attacking His people". In the end He did not.

The aliens were seen as a punishment on Mankind.

At any rate I am of the opinion that this study simply fails because it makes assumptions which are not provable and which are probably wrong. Not that alien intelligence is impossible, and especially not that life is impossible in other forms, but that consciousness is something defined by the brain or some other thinking structure. That is the real hubris of our modern era, and it is the true violation of the Copernican Principle.

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1976 vs. 2026: A Tale of Two Birthdays

By Selwyn Duke

A man may look back 50 years, at an old birthday picture, and lament lost innocence and youthful vigor. So can people look back a half century on their land and wistfully observe what was and is no more. In America’s case, on our 250^th birthday, some may note that while we no longer call ourselves "these United States” but, rather, "this United States,” we’re now more divided than ever.

In fact, even patriotism itself now takes on the flavor of an ideological position, observers may say.

American Thinker (AT) made this point Friday, contrasting the United States’ bicentennial (1976) with her 250^th birthday this year. The site writes that in

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Trump is No Lincoln

Timothy Birdnow

Orson Scott Card is the author of the wildly popular Ender's Game S-F saga:

Orson Scott Card

@orsonscottcard

Our current Civil War:

I must point out that in 2016 a President was elected who was immediately rejected by a certain portion of the population and by state and local governments. They brought criminal legal action against Trump and impeached him before he'd even had a chance to do anything, and accused him of being a dictator and the death of democracy — though it was they who rejected a lawful election and threw the Constitution out the window. Sanctuary laws in defiance of federal authority are in every case the equivalent of besieging and firing on Ft. Sumter.

When Trump won reelection in 2024, the rebels doubled down on their secession from the Union by passing laws against federal officers enforcing federal law within their sanctuary purview, all the time claiming that Trump was oppressing THEM by taking completely proper actions. So by rejecting the results of the election, they are in open rebellion.

And if you say "Trump is no Lincoln” you'd be right. Trump has not arrested and charged with treason the deniers and rejectors of federal authority, including mayors and governors who threaten to prosecute federal officers for enforcing the law. Trump has been far more restrained than Lincoln ever was — though the defiance of the Constitution is no less egregious. Sanctuary laws are exactly the same as secession — a declaration that the federal government has no authority here. They have declared war against the President and openly abused him as has not been done to a President since Lincoln. But the President has not sent federal troops to arrest those publicly guilty of sedition and treason, and take over the defiant government bodies and throw them in jail. They claim to fear Trump's officers — while they are the ones who suppress free speech and try to adjust campaign laws so as to prevent the candidates they oppose from being on the ballot. California doesn't even pretend to be a democracy anymore … but Trump stays his hand.

So, true — he is no Lincoln. He has been infinitely lenient in dealing with people and governments that are in open rebellion against the federal government because the wrong guy made it into the White House.

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Not So Temporary Protected Status After All

Timothy Birdnow

28 percent of Haitians in the U.S. under Temporary Protected Status were homeowners.

Doesn't sound very temporary to me.

We should not allow foreign nationals to buy property. They should either have to be citizens or permanent residents to do so.

Mexico, after losing Texas to American settlers, made it illegal for foreigners to own property there. You can lease property for up to 99 years but it cannot be sold to anyone but a Mexican citizen. If it's good enough for Mexico it should be good enough for the U.S., which is being invaded by Mexico, and Central America, and Venezuela, and Haiti, and China, and everyone else on Earth.

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God Bless America

Timothy Birdnow

Tokyo, a city the United States firebombed into near oblivion during the Second World War and which we then rebuilt while completely dominating it, has put on a spectacular display to honor their victorious foes turned best friend on this, the 260th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence and formal founding of our country.

Yes, the Japanese are more enthusiastic about the United States of America than are many if not most Democrats.

This contrasts sharply with Zohran Momdani, New York City mayor and Marxist/Islamist, who trashed America and American values on this milestone birthday of the country, a country he desperately wants to change into just another socialist hellhole.

For one thing the New Years ball was dropped in Times Square, the first time in history it has done so on a day other than New Years. THAT should have been a huge event. New York City was a major part of the Revolution with battles fought by Washington to hold then retake the city and as a result it should have been front-and-center in the celebrations. But Momdani signed an executive order that forbade any celebrations that would eclipse the World Cup, an internationalist (just what a Marxist would love) event, so the ball drop was limited to ticket holders who had to pay a lot of money to get in to watch it. Reporters on the scene last night said the crowd was very reserved an unenthusiastic - just what Momdani wanted. What should have been a huge celebration was a giant misfire by design.

To add insult to injury Menshevik Momdani sat at George Washington's desk to smear our country:

Mamdani said, while seated at George Washington’s presidential desk, with recently naturalized U.S. citizen immigrants surrounding him, "You each hold a special power, the power to determine what America means.”

"The powerful have always known their answer,” he continued. "America, in their view, is an arena of supremacy where only a select few are allowed freedom, where not all are created equal.”

Uh, if only a select few are allowed freedom in America why were these immigrants who surrounded him present? Did these folks feel they had to MUCH freedom in their former lands and came her for more control and order?

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"America, they will tell you, belongs only to those with the right accent or the right shade of skin. The rest of us, they insist, should be grateful for merely being allowed to visit,” he added.

We have allowed millions of immigrants in and since 1965 have emphasized non-whites. Few white people have immigrated from Europe since; most come from Latin America and Africa although we have plenty of Chinese coming in now and Momdani's own ancestors come from an Islamic country.

The ingrate continues:

Mamdani continued, "As we mark 250 years, what do we see? We see a city of contradictions within a nation of contradictions. We see the wealthiest country in the history of the world, one where children go to sleep hungry, while the world’s first trillionaire hungers for more.”

"We see a nation whose immense wealth has been built by those with calloused, dirt-streaked hands. Those who toil on factory floors and chisel into stone, and we see a nation that has allowed so much of that wealth to be held instead in the soft hands of a precious few,” the mayor added.

Children are not going to sleep hungry except where they have lousy parents who don't feed them. Food is available all over. And if it is not whose fault is that? If it is too expensive why is that? It's because of inflation, an inflation caused largely by Democrat policies which drove the prices up. Overspending led to the printing of more money which led to inflation. High energy prices make farming and transporting food more expensive. These were all the policies of people like Zohran Momdani, then he wants to blame the "rich" for it. Maybe he should start with, say, Bernie Sanders who is a millionaire but preaches socialism and pushes policies that drive prices up.

Every nation on Earth has soil-stained hands and factories and people chiseling into the Earth; the U.S. isn't unique. But in the U.S. that is not the inevitable fate of those who labor in that fashion - they can and often do transcend the manual labor and use their talents to better their position. Many CEO's of corporations started as exactly this. America is a nation where such jobs are just the floor and the ladder is wide and open. Other nations don't offer that, which is why people all want to come here. And where does Momdani think all this wealth has come from? Other countries have these sweat and soil soaked hands too but we have so much more. Now why does this pinhead think THAT is?

In America you can just do things without asking permission from some government bureaucrat. In most foreign nations if you want to work as your own boss you have to ask permission, get permits, and give the government their cut. In America you can grab a lawnmower, knock on a door and get cash for cutting a guy's lawn and that is that. Yeah; you are supposed to pay taxes on what you earn but of course everyone cheats a bit on that if they are paid cash. But you can make a living cutting lawns, or painting, or doing all sorts of labor without asking some damned government agency for permission.

In fact in most foreign countries there are underground economies (like in New York with the sale of "loosie" cigarettes) which operate outside of the law. Most Third World countries couldn't survive without the underground economy, and socialist countries ALL need them to survive. You buy contraband in places like Cuba - you don't buy stuff from the official markets. It's the only way you can get stuff. And you steal what you find unguarded so you can sell it on the black market for the stuff you need. In Cuba workers are paid with a government script that is worthless and workers say "if you are going to pretend to pay us we'll pretend to work" and so they do nothing most of the time on their jobs but then use those jobs to steal stuff - cement, garden plants, hoses, stationary, whatever - and sell that on the black market.

We don't really have a black market to speak of in the U.S. except for expensive stuff that is stolen and illicit drugs. It's a very small black market. We don't need one because people can provide for themselves.

Of course Momdani misses the whole point of America and American freedom. It's not about our wealth or our power or our natural resources; other places have the same natural resources. For instance, everyone thought Argentina would be the next U.S. back in the early 20th century and it never happened. Argentina has land that is every bit as blessed as America's. What Argentina had was a socialist government run by Juan Peron and his followers. They were fascists and their economic policies destroyed the Argentine economy.

What makes America great is not her wealth nor her power but the core beliefs that motivated this country, beliefs codified in the Declaration of Independence and our Constitution. It was the belief that we have inalienable rights granted to each and every person by God Himself, not privileges granted by government. All our rights, all the rights codified in the Constitution, flow from that and so do many other rights not specifically enumerated (and the Tenth Amendment says that is so) - such as the right to private enterprise. Ours is the only Constitution in the world that spells out a very limited scope for our government and says what that government may not do. Most constitutions around the world are packed with all sorts of things that the government has to do and assumes government is in charge of everyone's lives. America assumes you are in charge of your own life and that government is merely there to protect you from predatory people so you can exercise your rights in peace and security. Huge difference.

Of course, Momdani, being a socialist, thinks government is there to take care of people rather than protect them. He wants interventionism to make the world "fair" instead of making the world open for opportunity. You cannot create a fair world; in making things better for some you must hurt others.

Monty Python's Flying Circus had a sketch "Dennis Moore" which illustrated it perfectly. Moore was a Robin Hood type who wanted to make a faiar economic order. So he "steals from the rich and gives to the poor" as the show sang in a catchy tune. But in the end he stole so much from the rich they were reduced to sitting around in underwear with nothing while the poor were living in opulent hovels, rich tapestries on lthe walls, golden silverware, crystal goblets, and they were ungrateful that Moore could only bring them a couple of spoons. The sketch ends with the song "he steals from the poor and gives to the rich...stupid bitch" at which point Moore says "this redistribution of wealth is trickier than I thought". In the end he stops a stagecoach and makes the travelers take everything out of their pockets "you don't have one of these so you get this, and you don't have this so take that..."

You can't make a just economic and social order in a fallen world. The best you can do is free everyone up to pursue success and prosperity on their own terms. That is what America did. That is NOT what socialists like Momdani want to do, and it's why so many once prosperous nations because hellholes. Socialism is absolutely antithetical to America.

Momdani's problem is he lacks humility and he lacks humility because he does not believe in the Judeo-Christian God. I don't know if he believes in Allah or not, but Allah is not Yahweh and civil rights are not divinely ordained in Islam, but rather the public is simply under Sharia law and do not have rights but rather are subject to the power of the rulers ordained by Allah. It's a very, very different way of viewing the world.

So either way Momdani is anti-American in his core. Japan is more American than is he.

Freedom is always just one generation away from extinction. We've forgotten who we are, why our country is great, why everyone wants to come here. I was watching a man on the street thing on Fox (or was it Newsmax? Don't remember) where they were asking why America is great. Nobody got the answer right. Most said "capitalism" or "we care about our neighbors" or whatnot. That is all wrong. We are great because, as de Toqueville is alleged to have said, because we used to be good. At the center of America was a solid moral core steeped in our deep faith in God and Jesus Christ. That is why we had rights in the first place; we recognized them as coming from this God in whom we trusted. From those rights flowed every blessing which made America great. It had little to do with us except that we humbled ourselves and put ourselves under the Law of God. We sought God's face. We stopped doing that some time ago and while people in the interior still do to a degree certainly the coasts have become completely apostate. They are neither hot nor cold towards God - they are indifferent. In the Book of Revelation when Jesus is addressing the Church of Laodecia He says "I wish you were hot or cold, but since you are neither I will spew you from my mouth". That is what will happen to America if we continue down this path. The rise of socialists in the Democratic Party is the rise of our own undoing for our apostacy.

Momdani is a bad leader. God gives nations the leadership they deserve. Certainly New York city has come to be another spiritual Babylon. God has given it what it deserves. Babylon became a cautionary tale to the rest of the world. Hopefully New York will be a cautionary tale to the rest of the United States.

So to sum up, what makes America great? The Lord Almighty. God bless America!

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July 03, 2026

MK Ultra Never Ended?

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MK Ultra: still crazy after all these years:

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I believe this opening statement by Anna Paulina Luna will go down in history.

MK Ultra is REAL and the CIA committed Crimes Against Humanity with it.

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MK Ultra was the CIA program to brainwash people using LSD and behavior modification and hypnosis. The Unibomber came out of that program. So did Boston crime boss Whitey Bulger.

It was allegedly stopped but this suggests it continued on. I believe that, and I believe they have perhaps found ways to program people to do what they want. I know we are close to having technology that could control minds.

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Coincidence: Jewish Community has Power Cut

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Under socialism you always have blackouts and restricted power. It didn't take long for Momdani to cause a blackout. But this is interesting because when Con Edison had to make some folks swelter in the near record heat it was a Jewish neighborhood that got their power cut.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2026/07/02/mamdani-the-fraud-new-york-cuts-power-during-heat-wave-to-bronx-jewish-neighborhood/

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Riverdale has a large Jewish community. Momdani is a Muslim Marxist.

How long will it be before a bunch of thugs go into some Jewish neighborhoods like in Blazing Saddles:

Taggart: I got it. I got it.

Hedley Lamarr: You do?

Taggart: We'll work up a "Number 6" on 'em.

Hedley: "Number 6"? I'm afraid I'm not familiar with that one...

Taggart: Well, that's where we go a-ridin' into town, a whampin' and whompin' every livin' thing that moves within an inch of its life. Except the women folks, of course.

Hedley: You spare the women?

Taggart: NAW. We rape the shit out of them at the Number 6 Dance later on.

Hedley: Marvelous.

And the police will just happen to find it hard to martial their forces to stop them.

Once you start singling out some eventually you wind up actively going after them. That is where this may well lead.

If I were Jewish I'd seriously consider moving out of the Big Apple. It's now the Poisoned Apple.

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Coincidence: Jewish Community has Power Cut

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Riverdale has a large Jewish community. Momdani is a Muslim Marxist.

How long will it be before a bunch of thugs go into some Jewish neighborhoods like in Blazing Saddles:

Taggart: I got it. I got it.

Hedley Lamarr: You do?

Taggart: We'll work up a "Number 6" on 'em.

Hedley: "Number 6"? I'm afraid I'm not familiar with that one...

Taggart: Well, that's where we go a-ridin' into town, a whampin' and whompin' every livin' thing that moves within an inch of its life. Except the women folks, of course.

Hedley: You spare the women?

Taggart: NAW. We rape the shit out of them at the Number 6 Dance later on.

Hedley: Marvelous.

And the police will just happen to find it hard to martial their forces to stop them.

Once you start singling out some eventually you wind up actively going after them. That is where this may well lead.

If I were Jewish I'd seriously consider moving out of the Big Apple. It's now the Poisoned Apple.

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Who's Tearing America Apart?

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He might well be right but for reasons diametrically opposed to the ones he believes.

At 250, Morning Joe’s Haass Warns: America’s Democracy May Not Survive Next 5-10 Years!

The Left is growing increasingly militant and rebellious and many leftist states may well try to secede if they can't take the country over at the ballot box - which also is a possibility as they are winning elections with radical nutjobs.

They have successfully hollowed out our institutions and now they are furious because Trump threw a monkey wrench in their drive towards the glorious socialist revolution. That's why they are so mad and hate Trump so much; they thought they had won it all and then Trump came along to dismantle some of what they had built and thus push off the worker's paradise for a while.

America is increasingly divided and whose fault is that? Certainly not Trump's, who is just taking us back to the early days of Barack Obama,not even back to Bush II.

No, it's the Left's fault because they refused to accept Trump as a legitimate President when he beat Hillary Clinton and they tried desperately to destroy him. That failed so now they are willing to destroy the whole country, I suspect.

Here's what the oracle of Dufi had to say:

LLIE GEIST: So Richard, we are two days away from the Fourth of July and the official 250th birthday of the United States of America, all the celebration that will come with it across the country.

I'm curious, just given your long understanding, and experience with history across several presidents, about where you feel we are right now on this 250th birthday?

RICHARD HAASS: Well, look, the great news is, we made it. Democracy is tough. We're the world's oldest democracy, so that's an impressive accomplishment. I think the Founders would have been pleasantly surprised if they had been told, 250 years later we'd be celebrating.

But the honest news is, our democracy is not in great shape. Coming back now, we remember the president talking about 401k's, Willie. Well, if they were a measure of American democracy, it would have suffered a significant correction over, over recent years.

Checks and balances are not working in any way like James Madison set out in the Federalist Papers. You have the abuse of the pardon power. We've been talking about the, the corruption and the lack of accountability of people in office. We have a president going to war without the, involvement of the American people or the Congress, talking about rigged elections. You know, it's a long list.

So I think, and the lesson we all ought to take from this, is not to be sanguine. So yeah, we can celebrate the 250th, but it's got to be a really sober celebration.

We've got to think, what do we do to make sure we still have a democracy to celebrate, not just in another 250 years—how about in five years or, or ten years?

What do we have to do to strengthen the resilience? Cause we've learned that democracy is, is not guaranteed. That so much depends upon the character of the people in government, whether it's the president or those in Congress. And I would just say we have a, a shortage of that these days.

So American democracy is vulnerable. So I actually think we need to have a serious conversation about what do we need to do to, to strengthen it.

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First, America is not a "democracy" but a democratic limited republic. I hate that we've let them trick the American People into thinking we are a democracy. The Founders hated and feared democracy.

Second, who abused pardon powers? Not only did Biden pardon his own son (who was obviously guilty of crimes that may well have gone back to Mr. Biden himself) but he pardoned just about everyone he could, including Anthony Fauci, who may well turn out to be the greatest mass murderer in human history.

All Trump did was pardon J6 folks who had been given unduly harsh sentences by over-aggressive prosecutions solely for political reasons.

I notice he doesn't mention the abuses of power by the Biden camp, such as shadow banning us on social media or the many political prosecutions of Biden opponents.

Presidents have been granted war powers and almost every President since Eisenhower have used them. I notice this numbskull doesn't mention Obama's use of military power in Lebanon, for instance.

What is this stupidity about "checks and balances"? We've got them in spades and Trump has repeatedly been delayed by court orders that eventually were overturned because they were always extra-constitutional, just ways of slowing Trump down. Congress has supported their guy too, whic is entirely within the purview of how America is supposed to work - the Republicans won, the Democrats lost. That is how "democracy" work chum!

And since when is holding the opinion the election was stolen (which it was) illegal? I thought we had a First Amendment in this country.

It is the twisting of facts by the Left to attempt to make Trump, who has been quite fastidious in following the law, into a lawless monster by people like this that is tearing the nation apart. It is the legacy media creating the rift, not Trump, and not MAGA.

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Daughters of the Revolution Goes Trans

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I guess the Continental Army had a bunch of men in dresses then? Maybe it was a kind of chorus line of dancing transvestites and the British died laughing!

Daughters Of The American Revolution Leader Threatens Members For Speaking Out In Favor Of Women

Yes, the leadership of the DAR is cancelling anyone who doesn't want dudes in dresses to invade what is a women-only group.

The Left bespoils EVERYTHING!

From the Federalist:

After the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) rejected a resolution defining "woman” as "born female,” the head of the Texas branch of DAR sent out an email threatening those who speak out against the decision. The vote on the resolution, held at Memorial Continental Hall in Washington, D.C. during DAR’s 135th Continental Congress, was 1,481 to 984.

"Please note that giving interviews to the press on National Society governance matters is a serious violation of NSDAR policy, which could result in disciplinary action against a member,” DAR Texas Regent Susan Johnston said in an email obtained by The Federalist.

So the very freedom of speech that the Revolutionaries fought for is not allowed in an organization ostensibly for "daughters of the Revolution". In other words they are trying to create a new revolution. I guess it's the October one, or Mayday they celebrate then?

The article continues:

Despite Storage’s clear ideological leanings, Johnston insisted that she is the only acceptable spokesperson for the organization. She continued: "Before you accept the claim that DAR’s leaders are corrupt, political, ‘woke,’ or otherwise harmful to our organization, take a few minutes to study the issue yourself. The world is not simply good versus evil, and the truth rarely lies at the extremes.”

This seems to call out the Daughters Advocating for Restoration, who chose the colors black and white to represent their side "to represent the spiritual battle that we’re in — the dark vs. the light — good vs. evil,” according to their website.

Almost all of the Founding Fathers were devout Christians and made no bones about it. America was founded on Christian principles and Biblical admonitions. You can read it for yourself; don't take my word for it. (America wasn't founded as a theocratic nation and we had freedom of religion because we had multiple Christian sects that wanted to be left alone, but the guiding principles that founded our laws came from the Bible and every state had something about Christianity in it's charter and almost all legislatures started session with prayers.)

Here is a collection of quotes by Founding Fathers about Christianity. It was the rock upon which this nation was built.

Now 1Cornthians 6:9 says that homosexuals and the effeminate (trans) shall not inherit the Kingdom of Heaven. This comports with other passages in the Bible.

"Male and female He created them" it says quite plainly. Saying you are "trans" is a denial of this claim. Gen.1:26-27 There is no mention of a spectrum; it's clear.

1 Corinthians 11:14–15 and Deuteronomy 22:5 both say it's wrong, with Deuteronomy being quite explicit about how it is an abomination. Death by stoning is the assumed punishment, as that was what was called for in most cases where God said something was abhorrent.

Our bodies are temples for the Holy Spirit and thus cannot be mistakes (1 Corinthians 6:19-20).

Christianity makes it plain that we are triune - Soul, Spirit, and body (1 Thessalonians 5:23). That means our bodies are more are not malleable to our will. See also Philippians 1:20. Our bodies are not our own; they belong to God.

The Founders understood all this and they would be horrified to learn an organization for women that celebrated the Revolution was going in this direction.

Imagine Washington's reaction if some dudes showed up in high heels and long skirts with their hair coiffured and volunteered for service; he's be truly shocked. So why is it o.k. for some dudes to prance about in women's clothing and demand entry into the DAR?

The Left befouls everything, and this is no exception. Members of the DAR should break off and form their own organization if they can't take this back from the radicals who have risen to power.

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