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March 27, 2026

Dem's Won't Win the Midterms, the GOP Will Lose Them

Timothy Birdnow

R. Emmett Tyrell argues the GOP is flubbing the next election and that they should be calling for the elimination of the TSA entirely.

As Tyrell points out, the TSA was one of the demands made by none other than Chuck U. Schumer after 911, that a unionized federal bureaucracy be created to take over what airports had traditionally done with private security. And the TSA does "security theatre" as he calls it. He's right; they do not catch any more terrorists than did the old private screeners but simply make it more difficult and inconvenient and embarrassing to fly. They do full body cavity searches to elderly grandmothers while ignoring military age Middle Eastern men, all in the name of "equity". The private guys can do better, and some airports never went with the TSA and actually do fine.

Tyrell is right; Trump should talk about eliminating the TSA now. He at least should talk about how the Democrats refuse to fund it while we're at war with a major sponsor of terrorism. Make the People think about THAT.

I would argue the Democrats WANT a terrorist attack so they an blame Donald J. Trump.

He observes:

And there aren’t many — any — wins to brag about right now. (Congressional wins he means.)

That’s what’s creating the perception that the midterms will be a disaster, even though the Democrats are the true disaster.

That's right; the GOP is not fulfilling it's contract with the nation and especially not with MAGA and the public is quick to fire such as they and try someone else, even if fearing the new folks will be worse. Americans are sick to death of inaction by our government and want them to wake from their tax-fueled slumber at any cost.

Lethargy by the Party breeds lethargy from the base, while the Democrats are energized, much like the demons after their fall from Heaven in Milon's immortal poem. Independents see that and are attracted to the passion; these are the unthinking folks, the low information voters, who don't understand the vicissitudes of politics but know they want someone who will take action. It's the same thing that gave Germany Hitler, or Italy Mussolini, or Russia Lenin. JUST DO SOMETHING! The Democrats will do the wrong thing but the LoFo Voto won't know.

If the GOP doesn't awaken soon they will zombie-walk their way into minority status and all will crash down. But then that is the goal of John Thune and his mentor Mitch "the long game" McConnell all along - to undermine MAGA and kill it so the rightful rulers of the GOP can return to suck up the money and bask in the power without doing anything of substance.

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Jed Babbin Asks What 's the Plan in Iran, Stan?

Timothy Birdnow

Jed Babbin asks what our definition of victory is in Iran.

Jed is a former assistant Secretary of Defense (War) during the Reagan years and is someone whose opinion is not to be taken lightly, but in this instance I think he's wrong.

For example, Jed argue:

"But no one — not even the son of the late Shah — has been able to establish a new government, even one in exile. Mr. Trump has made many pleas to the Iranian people to rise up but they are still too afraid of the regime to do so."

But that is NOT what Mr. Trump said - he said specifically for the Iranians to NOT take action until our military campaign is concluded then he welcomes them to move. He specifically asked them not to while the bombs were dropping.

He is correct that no one group has been able to take control of the country but he sees that as a bad thing while I see it as a good thing; it means the old regime is no longer unified and in charge. I believe Trump has been negotiating with one faction while another wants to continue the war. Which faction will win out? Probably the ones who remain alive after all is said and done. Now which faction do you suppose that will be?

He's also right that Iran continues to launch missile and drone strikes on Israel but again, what does that tell us? Every time they launch these weapons they no longer have them in their arsenal, and the bombing has likely taken out their ability to produce new ones. What this tells us is Iran was far better armed than they let on and there was a reason for that. They had those weapons for offensive capabilities, which means so they could attack their neighbors. Those were not for defense.

We all know that Iran surprised us with the missile attack on Diego Garcia, which was twice as far as their missiles could supposedly reach; they lied to us about their missile range. Now they could hit Paris or perhaps even London with their longer range missiles and once they had nukes small enough to mount on such they would pose a serious threat to Europe. In nuclear strategy it's not what someone has so much as what someone could have. That's how strategic thinking went all through the Cold War and it helped prevent a thermonuclear war.

He says:

"So where do we go from here? It is pretty clear that we will have to deploy ground troops to really end the ayatollahs’ regime. About 5,000 more Marines and sailors are on the way to Iran. If the Marines are landed their small force will not be capable of removing the regime without help from the Iranian people."

With all due respect to someone with superior expertise, I don't see why. Jed assumes the Iranian People aren't going to do the job, but eventually the survivors of the regime will not be able to project any power and there will be a vacuum in Iran, to be filled by new people. It may take too much time, and that is a political problem and not a military one, but troops in Iran would still have no clear objective (except maybe to capture and remove nuclear material) while the bombing campaign has specific, clear objectives - kill the Iranian leadership, degrade their military capabilities, and demoralize them. Send in troops and all you get are a bunch of guys wandering around, just prime for booby traps and guerilla warfare.

Once we get the Strait of Hormuz open, and that is likely what Trump is doing with this contingent of paratroopers and the like coming in, trying to take Kharg island and thus paralyze the Iranian oil industry while at the same time helping to open the Strait, then Iran can be completely strangled economically. They will run out of weapons, there is no question. And their leadership is all too busy enjoying 72 virgins and a mule to be able to fight back effectively.

You do know that we have not touched Iran's basic infrastructure yet and we could go there well before we launch a physical invasion of the country. Trump is trying to take out the leadership but leave the nation intact.

I think Trump has been quite clear on his aims; finish off the nuclear program, drive the Mullah-ocracy out of power, and end Iran's support for terrorism worldwide. He's largely accomplished the second goal, although the Revolutionary government is still in power in theory. And Israel is accomplishing the latter, bombing Hizbollah into the last century. Getting the Iranian nuclear material out of the country is going to be the toughest problem, but we've certainly degraded their program and there is every reason to believe a lot of that nuclear material they possessed could have been damaged by the bombing.

Jed makes a good argument but I think he's just wrong.

For the record, years ago Jed and I had a long e-mail argument over the "war on terror" that was initiated by him after I left a comment on one of his American Spectator articles. He devoted a LOT of time arguing with me over it and I took that as an honor as he obviously had great respect for my opinion, just some schlub babbling in a comments section. I have to admit I did not win the debate (although I don't think I lost it) because Jed was GOOD and really knew his stuff. But he's pretty much an isolationist, was then and remains so today.

I think there is something to not wanting to get tangled up in all sorts of conflicts (and as you all know I'm for staying out of the Ukraine dustup), but there are times you simply have to act. This is one of them. It's always been one of them with Iran and we kicked the issue down the road far too long. At some point you run out of road. That's where we are now.

I agree; Trump should address the nation and give us his game plan. But Trump doesn't want to do that because he's read Sun Tzu and knows a good commander is unpredictable and confusing to his enemies and Trump has not just the Iranians as enemies but the Democrats and media too and he dare not give away his strategy. Trump's thinking on this is sound. But it's costing the GOP with the American People.

And if we lose in the upcoming elections we lose EVERYTHING. Trump will be investigated repeatedly, will be impeached again and again, and will lose funding for everything he tries to do. Trump needs to shore up popular support and he needs to nail this sucker down and leave triumphant. I think he can do it but I think he may find himself unduly delayed, and that isn't going to be helpful for the midterms.

So hopefully Jed is wrong and my rather sunny assessment is correct. I'm not a military guy, nor am I a Middle Eastern/Iranian guy. My main area of study in college was Russia, which is largely out of the picture in all this.

I sure do know how to pick my fights, don't I? Me, a former Real Estate guy who was trained in Russian Affairs and Scientific Translation up against a former undersecretary of Defense under the great Ronald Reagan.

God I hope and pray I am right.

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March 26, 2026

Dem Steals Millions, Media Uninterested

Timothy Birdnow

Florida Democrat Congresswoman Sheila Cherfilus McCormick Stole $5 million from FEMA relief and all we got from the media is this lousy tee-shirt.

She spent the money to get herself re-elected.

Not one single peep from the corporate media.

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One Flew Over the Coup Coup's Nest

Timothy Birdnow

The same CIA scumbag was behind both the "Russian election interference" smear and the "Trump pressured Ukraine to prosecute a political rival's kid" claim which led to Mr. Trump's impeachment.

Big News: House Intel Committee Releases Hidden Transcript of Inspector General Michael Atkinson

The analyst who produced the lies in both reports was - Eric Ciaramella.

And he was allowed to file the latter charge anonymously, something never allowed before by the rules of the intelligence community. They changed the rules. Intelligence Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson was the guy who authorized that rule change and the report on Atkinson was spiked by the impeachment committee as "classified" so as not to release the name of the "whistleblower". Had America known this whistleblower was the same guy in both cases, and he worked previously for John Brennan, there could not have been an impeachment; everyone would know it was a political hit.

Atkinson admitted before a closed-door hearing in questioning by John Ratcliffe, now CIA Director, that Cinnabun, er, Ciaramella lied about several key aspects of the report. But that remained classified - until now.

Adam Schiff used the rules to hide all of this from public view - and even from the view of Congress outside of his committee.

But with this committee now under Republican control and with a Republican Administration they are willing to declassify, and Tulsi Gabbard has the task of going through the documents to make sure they aren't leaking things that need to be kept secret. Beyond that we should have them soon.

In the end this was a coup attempt and hopefully at least Schiff will go down over it.

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Civilizational Vandalism

Timothy Birdnow

The British plan to "decolonize" Shakespeare's birthplace to make it less Western Civilizationy and more "incluside".

You can't make this stuff up!

Shakespeare is the epitome of Western Civilizational values and it was his very universal understanding that is what made him great - and Western Civilization is great because of his ideas and the ideas of like-minded people whom we have elevated. Ideas like "diversity" and "inclusiveness" came out of the works of such as Shakespeare (just read Othello) and would never have appeared in any non-Western thinker's work.

The trust that manages the place decided Shakespeare was too much an old white dude to be promoted by them:

It comes amid an ongoing backlash against the writer. Some productions of his works have been slappwarnings for misogyny, racism and 'problematic radicalised dynamics' that link whiteness to beauty.

In 2022, a research project between the trust and Dr Helen Hopkins at the University of Birmingham postulated that the idea of Shakespeare's 'universal' genius 'benefits the ideology of white European supremacy'.

This is because European culture is portrayed as the standard for high art and the playwright as a symbol of British 'superiority', according to The Telegraph.

The project said this narrative has caused harm, and advised that the trust stop saying Shakespeare was the 'greatest' but part of a community of 'equal and different' writers globally.

So a trust dedicated to Shakespeare want to demote the great poet and playwrite because, well, he's just too white and Eurocentric. This is rather like the Pope saying Jesus was too Jewish, or too white and heterosexual.

The article continues:

Shakespeare's Birthplace Trust later received funding from the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation, which finances projects that boost diversity and inclusion.

Some of its organised events celebrated Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore, and a Romeo and Juliet-inspired Bollywood dance workshop.

The trust also promised to remove offensive language from its collections.

So when Iago calls Othello "thick lip" I suppose we are going to remove that because it's not Inclusive enough? Even though Iago's attitude toward Othello was intended to show him to be the bad guy.

So they call Shakespeare "outdated and offensive"; isn't that for the public to decide? If DEI is so all-fired popular why hide the older thinking? Why not let the people decide?

Because they are trying to change society in a fundamental way and they want to erase anything that shows there WAS another way of thinking. This is an attempt at mind control. The Soviets did this after the Bolshevik revolution in Russia; simply erased the past. George Orwell spoke of this. So too did Aldous Huxley. Erasing the past is what tyrants do.

Shakespeare is a tough nut for them to crack. He is unquestionably the greatest figure in literary history so they have to go at this slowly and methodically. Start subtly editing his prose. Restrict the teaching of Shakespeare in schools. Take things dedicated to him and use that as a platform for their own ideas. Little by little erase the Great Bard and eventually he will be forgotten entirely.

That is the plan and that is what they are doing here. They are dissing the guy in his own house.

The Left are nothing but civilizational vandals.

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A New Hope: Criminal Referral for the James Gang

Timothy Birdnow

A new criminal referral against Letitia "I will get Trump" James.

From See B.S. News:

Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte said in a letter Wednesday to prosecutors in Florida that James may have falsified information on her homeowner's insurance application to a Ft. Lauderdale-based company, Universal Property Insurance.

This is good; by sending it to Florida this gets the case out of the extremely biased New York, where there is a chance that justice might be served rather than the case being a referendum on Donald Trump. We could see a fair trial.

James belongs behind bars. So does Alvin Bragg. So does Jack Smith. So does John Brennan and James Comey and Fani Willis.

This is a good start. Well begun is half done!

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Uganda Stands with Israel

Timothy Birdnow

Uganda stands with Israel!

Muhoozi Kainerugaba

@mkainerugaba

We want the war in the Middle East to end now. The world is tired of it. But any talk of destroying or defeating Israel will bring us into the war. On the side of Israel!

11:04 AM · Mar 25, 2026

Ugandan Chief of Defense Forces General Muhoozi Kainerugaba

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Paging Nick Shirley to Pa.

Timothy Birdnow

Philadelphia's Soros-funded DA Larry Krasner has made open threats against ICE agents for doing their jobs:

"I will put you in handcuffs and I will put you in a courtroom, and if necessary, I will put you in a jail cell…”

I guess he has never heard of the Supremacy Clause in the U.S. Constitution.

If he is simply saying he will not tolerate illegal activity by ICE, well duh? Their employers won't either dufus! Of course that's not what he's saying - he's saying he's going to be looking for an excuse to prosecute them and put them in jail.

Two can play at that game Mr. Krasner; we can start watching you to see if you are speeding, check your tax returns, look at your mortgage applications, etc. if you want to go this route.

That is the reason why in times past the Left dared not weaponize the law; it is a two edged sword that can cut you if you wield it inappropriately. But the Left came to believe they had won and started weaponizing the law because they figured they were safe from it themselves. And that was a fair bet as our side does not want to weaponize the law and it is with great distaste we are even discussing doing so.

But the aggressors set the rules of engagement in any war, and they have crossed the Rubicon. The only way to deal with a creep like this Krasner is to apply their own standards to them. We've got to start using lawfare against them as they do us.

It's Mutual Assured Destruction; make the price so high nobody dares go that way again. Then and only then can we have detente.

We should start with a guy like this to make our point. Nick Shirley we need you in Pa. now.

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8th Circuit Overturns Stupid Immigration Ruling

Timothy Birdnow

The Eighth Circuit just ruled that immigration officials may indeed arrest and hold without bond any illegal alien anywhere in the United States:

Nick Sortor

@nicksortor

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BREAKING: The 8th Circuit Court of Appeals has OVERTURNED an activist judge’s ruling that PREVENTED ICE from holding illegals without bond during deportation proceedings

This is a HUGE win for ICE and deportations

SEND THEM ALL BACK!

Saying the can only be detained at the border is like saying you can only detain a bank robber outside of the bank he robbed; it's patently ridiculous and the judge who issued the ruling needs to be punished in some fashion.

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The Ukrainians Conspired with Biden to Steal Taxpayer Cash for Screwless Joe's Re-election

TimTimothy Birdnow

ThUkrainians were colluding with the Biden camp to fund his re-election campaign with laundered taxpayer dollars, according to intercepted communications.

JohJohn Solomon dishes:

intelligence intercepted Ukrainian government communications discussing a plot to route hundreds of millions of American tax dollars earmarked for clean energy in the war-torn country and move them to the United States to enrich then-President Joe Biden’s 2024 re-election campaign and the Democratic National Committee, according to a declassified intelligence report summarizing the intercepts that was obtained by Just the News.

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard recently learned of the intercepts and has asked the U.S. Agency for International Development officials to scour for records to see if the plot actually was carried out and whether a criminal referral should be made to the FBI.

Naturally this money for "green energy" went through USAID.

The article stresses how there seemed to be a lack of curiosity by the previous DOJ over what was clearly a serious crime. But why should they? I am pretty certain this kind of thing has been going on for decades now. That explains why the Democrats are always flush with cash every election cycle. I'm sure everyone just yawned "business as usual then".

The article continues:

"The Ukrainian Government and unspecified U.S. Government personnel, through USAID in Kyiv, reportedly developed a plan that would provide hundreds of millions of US taxpayer dollars to fund an infrastructure project for Ukraine that would be used as a cover to send approximately 90% of funds allocated to the DNC to fund Joe Biden’s reelection campaign,” the declassified summary of the intercepts stated.

"They were confident the project would be funded initially, even though at some time in the future the project would be disapproved as unnecessary. At this time, the money would already be allocated and impossible to return or use for a different purpose,” the report added.

By law foreigners may not donate money to campaigns in the United States.

The "Russian collusion" accusations against Donald Trump were pure chutzpah; the Democrats were the ones colluding with a foreign power to subvert the elections and so in the grand old fashion they accused Trump of doing what they themselves were doing. Classic move.

We should have known this. The Clinton Foundation, for instance, was receiving a LOT of money from the Ukrainians before her 2016 defeat by Trump, who let it go as an olive branch to the Democrats. He never should have but he was still naive and thought they would accept the fact they lost and take it graciously. Foolish. But then Trump was not an inside-the-beltway guy and didn't know the political class was worse than the Mafia in terms of ruthlessness.

At any rate the article goes on to say the Ukrainians who hired Hunter Biden called it "poluchili" which is a Russian slang for paying tribute to a mafioso. Poluchil is a Russian word meaning "to receive". In other words they were paying a tax to Biden for his support.

Like I said, Washington is worse than the Mafia.

At any rate the Trump Administration seems poised to break the funding machine that has given the Democrats so much power over the years - if they only follow through. Pam Bondi talks a good game but we haven't seen many prosecutions from her office. That needs to change. Hopefully heads will roll over this.

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March 25, 2026

Spygate Worse than We Thought

Timothy Birdnow

The spying on Kash Patel and Suzie Wiles was worse than we were led to believe.

https://thefederalist.com/2026/03/24/new-docs-jack-smiths-arctic-frost-lawfare-against-patel-gop-was-worse-than-originally-thought/

Oh, and our old friend James "Bozo" Boasberg was right in the thick of it.

I won't go into details here; read the article yourself.

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Newsom Threatens Journalists over Somali Daycare

Timothy Birdnow

What of the First Amendment Gavin?

Gov. Newsom Threatens Arrest for Investigating Somali Daycare Fraud

The Constitution trumps any local civil rights legislation you schemed up.

And why aren't YOU investigating this yourself? Could it be you and your party have profited handily from this?

What do you have to hide Governor?

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A Moon Base and Nuclear Mars Probe

Timothy Birdnow

I've long called for a moonbase. Actually, what we need is industry on the moon, not just a research base, and no doubt NASA will fail in that; most of their plans are temporary most of the time. We need an actual lunar colony, a permanent place that does more than research but acts as a construction hub for building more stuff on the moon and harvesting materials for building orbital stations and the like. It is far easier to launch things from the moon than from the Earth.

NASA Plans Moon Base and Nuclear Powered Mars Mission

NASA lacks imagination. We built the space station, for instance, using the least imaginative design with no gravity, something the original designs envisioned. Yes, it made it cheaper (you would have to spin a station pretty fast - around ninety miles an hour - to have Earth-normal gravity, but you don't need that much).

As was said by Robert Zubrin (I think) if God didn't intend for Man to go to space He wouldn't have put a planet 240,000 miles above our heads. He was right.

As for this Mars probe, we do need to harness nuclear power for deep space exploration. Right now we use chemical rockets and inertia to get to Mars, which takes too damned long. I'm not sure what type of nuclear propulsion they intend - the article was unclear.

There are several types. There is the Nerva K, which uses a nuclear reactor to superheat plasma for a very hot and fast rocket. We've never built that. Then there is the Orion, and we have actually built non-nuclear prototypes back in the fifties and early sixties. That uses atomic bombs - you chuck an atom bomb under the spacecraft and the detonation moves you FAST! The Orion was a true interplanetary drive, capable of getting to Mars in just a month or two. And it is capable of lifting over a million pounds off the Earth. But international treaties, particularly the Outer Space Treaty, made nukes in orbit illegal, so the program was shelved. There are undoubtedly other types of nuclear propulsion too, but most are illegal because of the dangers of the rocket exploding on lift off and spewing nuclear material hither and yon.

But we are going to need a nuclear drive if we want to reach the planets while we're still young. The Juno mission to Jupiter took 5 years, for instance; we simply have to do better, especially with manned missions. Granted New Horizons took 405 days, much faster than Juno, but that's still over a year. The most expensive and difficult part of space travel are consumables - air, water, food. You cannot dilly dally too long without running out of those. A probe need carry none of that.

So we're going to need a drive that is faster than a chemical rocket.

At any rate I like what I am hearing. We really, really need to settle on the moon.

The moon has problems though; you don't have very much water there, for instance. And the moon is not protected by any magnetic field, neither the Earth's nor it's own (which it is lacking) so interplanetary and even interstellar radiation pummels the old rock ceaselessly. We will have to build underground to protect against radiation, and particularly against solar flares. We can have some surface habitats for temporary use but you have to get your heinie underground damned quick when a flare is detected. Better to build underground.

Which we could do in a lava flow tube. Such tubes exist on Earth but are small - usually just a few dozen yards at most and maybe five feet wide if you are lucky. On the Moon, with the low gravity and no water or air, these tubes grow hundreds of miles long and dozens of miles wide. And their temperature is a constant comfortable -50 degrees, far warmer than the minus 250 of the surface at night and far cooler than the 200 plus temperatures of the lunar day. With no air in the tube it would be easy to heat up a shelter inside that tube to a comfortable temperature.

The lunar Rilles - those radial spokes coming off large craters - are collapsed lava flow tubes.

We could also build domes over craters and cover them with lunar regolith.

At any rate we'd have unlimited free solar power during the day, and if we settle at the poles we would have it permanently. Night time could use stored power, and perhaps solar power satellites in orbit, and even a nuclear reactor. "Renewable" energy aka solar is far, far more reliable in a place with no air.

As for air, we can bake it right out of the rocks. Plenty of oxygen there. Not much in the way of nitrogen but I don't doubt we could solve that. One way would be to use helium, which is, well, not plentiful but abundant enough on the moon (and would be a great export as helium is getting scarce here on Earth and has become quite pricey.) Of course everyone will sound like Donald Duck...

The only thing we can't simulate is gravity, and it's unclear how people will fare long-term in low gravity. It may be we can't live our whole lives in it at all, even with a heavy exercise regimen. And we don't know if it's possible to conceive a child in low gravity, and if we do we don't know if that child will develop normally. It may wind up deformed terribly.

That's why we need to go, to find out.

It would be a shame if we couldn't live on the moon, but then there is always space living. Build big habitats and rotate them for Earth normal gravity. The radiation thing will be tricky, but I suspect we can solve that. We could use the moon as a mine and construction hq for a space colony. Gerard O'Neil, professor at MIT, devised his O'Neil colonies with his students. Forty mile long beer cans with window openings along the long axis. There are other designs; the Bernal Sphere, which would be a globe with varying gravity in different parts of it, the Stanford Torus, which is basically the design of the space station in 2001: a Space Odyssey. There are even designs that look like tops.

We don't know if we can do any of this until we try. But we need to try because we need to expand beyond the Earth. Eventually something horrible will happen; a major asteroid strike, a huge solar flare, a black hole wandering into the solar system, etc. We need to be spread out enough to survive.

So a hearty cheer for NASA for starting this off. Let us hope they don't screw it up with international partners and not getting private industry involved. We need Musk there. We don't need the Russkies or Chicoms or the useless Europeans.

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Iran Breaks Ceasefire

Timothy Birdnow

Iran hasn't learned their lesson yet.

Iran Rejects U.S. Diplomatic Push, Expands Strikes on Israel, Gulf States

The problem is we don't know who is running the country and while the people we are talking to may have good intentions the other factions can just do as they please. I suspect Iran has no central government any longer.

That doesn't mean we should stop the bombing.

I wouldn't put too much stock in Iranian promises not to pursue a nuclear weapon. I suspect they will try harder than ever now.

As everyone is aware by now, Trump sent a large continent of paratroopers to the region, probably with the intent of taking Kharg Island. He doesn't want to just burn it out because he wants to be able to rebuild the Iranian economy after the war. I don't know about the wisdom of that strategy; the Iranians themselves might well torch the island with our troops on it. And since Trump promised no boots on the ground he would be shown to be an oath-breaker, a politically dangerous label.

I'm not sure what the President's plan is, but he's playing a dangerous game. I hope he knows what he is doing.

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The Democratic Base

Timothy Birdnow

End Wokeness

@EndWokeness

Senator Chris Murphy: "The people we care about most, the undocumented migrants"

He actually said that

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The ICE have it!

Timothy Birdnow

He's not wrong.

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Trump put ICE in the airports and the lines melted away.

I opposed the creation of the TSA in the first place and still think it largely a useless agency. Why don't we just dissolve it and go back to the way things had been done? There was no "systemic failure" by screeners at airports that led to 911; we simply took private screeners out and replaced them with union government types.

Maybe we can do better. Maybe ICE should be expanded and this could be part of their mission.

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CA Sheriff Refuses to End Vote Audit

Timothy Birdnow

It appears that the Democrats cheated in the special election to decide if the state legislature should be allowed to do redistricting, and one sheriff has seized 650,000 ballots to prove it.

State Democrats are furious and demand he stand down.

Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco took action after his office received multiple complaints about excess ballots - as many as 45,000 - and so to stop the authorities from "disappearing" them he seized all questionable ballots and will do a count in his own office.

The state attorney general office has moved to stop this count on the grounds the Sheriff's department "lacks expertise".

What expertise? You look at a ballot, you match it to a name, and you're done. It's hardly rocket science.

At any rate sheriff Bianco is a Republican running for governor, so he does have a vested interest. But that will not alter basic arithmetic. The question is does the vote count match the recorded votes?

It's hard to argue with third grade math.

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Oil Refinery Explosion in Texas

Timothy Birdnow

Sabotage?

Texas oil refinery explosion sends smoke into air, residents advised to shelter in place

Was this the work of Iran?

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Dem Blames Girl for Being Murdered

Timothy Birdnow

Yeah, and all those women Bill Cosby drugged and then raped had taken advantage of HIM too!

Lawmaker Drops Jaws by Blaming Woman Allegedly Murdered by Illegal, Says She 'Might Have Startled' Him - And It Gets Worse from There

Why would someone freak out when an 18 college gitl appeared?

This was clearly intentional.

Where are all the feminists now?

"The kids were out doing normal things people do in the neighborhood,” Hadden said of Gorman and her friends, "and it sounds like this might have been a wrong place, wrong time, running into a person who had a gun, and they might have startled this person at the end of the pier unintentionally.”

Chicago Alderchick Maria Haddon, Democrat.

BTW I remember the murder of the Kerry sisters in 1991. They were two young girls who went on the abandoned Chain of Rocks bridge (near where I grew up) with their male cousin to read a poem the girls had written on the bridge (everyone put graffiti all over the bridge, which is why it wound up in the movie Escape from New York). Thugs threw the cousin off the bridge into the Mississippi river, then raped and tossed the girls off. To this day there are liberal Democrats working to get the remaining thug off for this heinous crime because, well, they were black and the victims were white.

My mother had taught both of those girls when they were young, by the way.

The girls had written a poem about racial injustice and a plea for racial tolerance, and that was what they went to look at this terrible night. They had passed these thugs and, not wanting to play into racial stereotypes, did not take any defensive action, not even fleeing. It cost them teir lives.

The point is if you see any stranger after dark you had best proceed with caution. This girl who was murdered may not have done so. BUT this illegal alien who murdered her should never have been here in the first place and the fact a Democrat alderwoman would try to find a justification for what he did speaks volumes.

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