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September 01, 2026

Medieval America

Timothy Birdnow

VDH nails it in his discussion about the Medeivalization of the modern world and the regressivism that is at the root of what we are doing.

I won't excerpt it; too many good points. You need to read it for yourself. But I will make a few observations of my own about how we are now in the new Middle Ages.

Serfdom was common during the Medieval period. Unlike slavery where a person is simply owned outright, a serf was technically not owned by his Lord but he still couldn't leave his job without permission and he had to give a percentage of what he earned to the Lord in return for said Lord's protection.

We have serfdom now. If someone comes here under a H1B visa they have to work for their employer and may not simply leave their job lest they be deported. They are serfs, bound to a protecting Lord. Oh, they may wear white shirts and ties to work rather than sackcloth but it is the same principle.

And, as in the Middle Ages, serfs drove the wages of free men down considerably as they worked for far less.

In fact during that period it was worse to be a free man than a serf and there is much literature singing the praises of serfdom over freedom. You had military protection from the Lord. You could go to his castle and hide when the Norsemen came. The Lord owed you fealty so if you had a crop failure and couldn't feed your family he would be obliged to send you welfare. If you had trouble with your neighbor he would adjudicate.

Sound familiar? Sounds very much like the Democratic Party of today.

And the Lords were forever seeking to expand their holdings, and often did so at the expense of the freemen who worked their own land. They would lend money to these small holding farmers at usurious rates and then foreclose on them - much like what we see corporations doing to small farmers in America today.

And there were endless rules and regulations coming down from the King and from the nobility which squeezed the independent merchants and farmers.

The Middle Ages was also a time of mass immigration, be it the Danes who invaded and settled in England or the English themselves - children of Anglos and Saxons who drove out the aboriginal Britons, driving them into the western mountains of Wales. You had Normans who came with the second sons of almost every country in Europe, who conquered and settled. Of course. These illegal aliens fundamentally transformed Britain from a Germanic kingdom into what it would become. An Englishman from the year 1000 wouldn't be able to make heads or tails of what we say and we wouldn't understand them either.

And during this period the Church owned much of the land and ran it for the benefit of Rome, just as now the government owns much of the land and runs it for the benefit of Washington.

It was a time of vast corruption, which ultimately led to the Protestant Reformation. Today we live in a society of vast corruption.

They also didn't understand wealth, thinking it was just precious metals and gems. Today we don't understand wealth, thinking it is just an idea and we can create it by printing money.

At any rate we are very much living in a modern Middle Age, and indeed we will be in a Dark Age as the technology slips away after the big collapse comes, which will be soon as the nations of the Earth are going to all go bankrupt in a few years.

Science will continue just as it did in the Medieval period but it will work differently. No more government funding (in the Middle Ages it was Church funding primarily).

And they had the Inquisition to enforce conformity with their doctrines just as we have DEI being enforced by Antifa and BLM and the Southern Poverty Law Center and the l like.

At any rate all I can see when I look at the Democrats are fat, drunken Feudal lords sitting on thrones and jesters in their silly costumes (think AOC or Ilham Omar) entertaining the hanger-on courtesans.

Welcome to Medieval America!

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Yes, There is One True Faith

Timothy Birdnow

Christopher Chantrill pens a piece at American Thinker about the rise of Islam and modern thinking that starts out great, but he degenerates into a moral relativism that I find shocking from so lucid a thinker.

Moral relativism is what is killing our society.

In his article Chantrill states:

I say that there has never been a saving faith that has the answer to life, the universe, everything, and there never will, and I believe that the beginning of wisdom is to understand this, and yet to live your life in confidence and courage and faith that things will turn out all right. And if things don’t turn out well for you, maybe they will turn out well for your children. I believe that the source of all problems is the real Termptation: to reduce life to a single faith and diminish humans into obedient followers of a Great Leader, be he mortal or demonic or divine."

This after he correctly states that Islam and Leftism are faiths that people adopt to provide certitude to their chaotic lives.

Now I agree with this to a point, but again, he is advocating a kind of relativism that is the fundamental cause of what we are experiencing now. Relativism is what gives us "my truth" as opposed to an objective "The Truth". Relativism is what allows a man to shave his legs and put on a wig and call himself Nancy - and then play in the WNBA.

Chris complains about apocalyptic thinking, and he's got a point, but there are good things that come out of apocalyptic thinking. Many good Christians found salvation out of fear of the End Times, no question. It looms over all of humanity, just as does death. We don't like to think about death because we know it's coming for us but we will think about the apocalypse because it MAY happen, and in our lifetime, but it also may not.

It's not apocalypse doctrine that is the problem; it's human response to it.

The Muslims believe it's coming and that Islam will end triumphant and that dude who fell down the well will climb back out (the 12th Imam) and restore paradise. Jews believe in it too, even though Jews tend not to believe in Heaven or any of the Christian doctrines. They think the Messiah will come at the end and put them into a place of world power. (Actually they probably will be in a position of SPIRITUAL power as the last believers after the Great Tribulation has purged all the secular Jews.) Christians believe Christ will return as King and judge the unrighteous.

Secularists borrowed this from their religious neighbors because it was useful and they believe that, as Marx said, after socialism is triumphant the state will wither away and we'll all live in a paradise where it's share and share alike and you will own nothing and be happy forever. But that faith isn't even backed up by any sort of God, just the false god they created out of government.

I would argue one of these visions is right and the others wrong. I would further argue that even the ones who are right probably get some of it wrong. It's like science; different scientists can look at a thing with different theories and look for evidence to find out which one is correct. In the end the truth comes out. Newton believed light was composed of particles, Huygens thought it was a wave. Einstein combined the two and we now know light is composed of particles that move in a wave. I think the apocalypse is similar.

At any rate I think Chris is retreating to a relativism that is damaging to society and is what caused us to wind up in this predicament in the first place.

Nietzche argued that Wester philosophy and science would eventually die because it would begin challenging it's fundamental assumptions, that logic and reason and experimentation can explain reality. He was a nihilist, believing in nothing in the end. He went mad. But he wasn't wrong; that's exactly what science has now done - taken away our belief in a concrete reality and now everyone is a god unto himself, blessed be my name! Well, it's a lonely and pretty miserable thing to be a god. That is best left to the expert. Don't try that at home kids!

Chris is right in that the way we should live our lives is in accepting uncertainty - that is trust in God. But being uncertain in our lives does not equate being uncertain in our faith, in who we are and what we believe. That way lies ennui and destruction.

Islam and Leftism are flip sides of the same coin; they are both aspects of the rebellion against Christ and both have their roots in Christianity. Islam was nothing but a rewarming of a number of heresies that were suppressed by the Orthodox Church and the Byzantine Empire. It was composed of Manicheans, Mithraists, Arians, and other heretical sects that promoted heretical doctrines. Muhammed gave them a way to force their views on the majority and I do mean force. And it's goal was always to break traditional Christianity (and along with it Judaism, which they may hate even worse because it is older and they knew Islam was an upstart).

Leftism was likewise. Many of the 17th century philosophe's were haters of Christianity, which they believed was just a fairy tale which kept societal progress retarded. It is claim, for instance, that David Hume said on his deathbed that his one regret was that he hadn't destroyed Christianity. This while the man was about to meet his maker.

The 19th century was an age of rebellion and there were revolutions everywhere, across Europe and in the Americas. The French were particularly egregious and they had the "cult of reason" featuring a nude prostitute and had people dressed as monks and nuns marching along behind her. There was a real hatred for all things Christian.

It was against this backdrop that Jean Jacques Rousseau wrote his The Social Contract in which he advocated making the People, the collective will replace God and the State replace the church. Both Fascism and Communism were born in this. Communism simply focused less on the national aspects while Fascism emphasized the quasi-spiritual mysticism of the People. But they both came from the same poisoned tree.

And they continued to grow ever since. Islam is their brother in the spirit of rebellion, no question, and that is why the two are kissing cousins today.

But it's all ultimately a rebellion against Christ ans His Church. Nothing more.

It is interesting to note that the LIberal movement was born in the 18th century, on the heels of the Protestant Reformation. It was, shall we say, the afterbirth. Protestantism rebelled against the Catholic Church (and for good reason - the Catholic Church had grown very corrupt) and the Liberals just took the next logical step. The Protestants showed them how to do it, how to use propaganda and the printing press and other such tools. I am not dissing Protestantism (as I said, there were good reasons) but Protestantism succeeded by using techniques that the Left would eventually adopt and improve upon.

Islam has learned from them and is using the same tactics and their are growing because they offer what is lacking in modern Christianity - fire in the belly. Most people don't care about Christianity anymore because it's so milquetoast and boring and lifeless. It is that way because the upper echelon in the Church thinks that is what will draw in people, not offending anyone. They are the perfect enablers for DEI and the other crazy stuff coming out of the Left because they prefer friendship with the world to obedience to God.

At any rate Christianity is the Diet Coke of religions - just one calorie. At least that is true these days in the mainline churches.

But it is the true path for a variety of reasons. Don't understand it? You aren't supposed to; how can you understand a God who created everything but understand the faith dedicated to Him? Think the Trinity doesn't make sense? Why should it? Don't like the fact Jesus got beat to a pulp then executed? Why should God Himself not suffer as do we? The other faiths are just rewarmed human ideas about earthly things. Islam is about sexual lust and food and enjoying life and fighting. That is the kind of religion a human being creates - not God.

At any rate I think Chris misses the boat at the end of this. We have to understand there is a true and false, right and wrong. Dismiss that at your peril.

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How We Got Here

Timothy Birdnow

I wrote this in response to a post by a Facebook friend but I lost his post before I could pop this up. Oh well; I'll post it here:

For two hundred years Christianity was attacked by the forces of the Left and it retreated from the onslaught of modernity. Free love, which was a reaction to Victorian prudishness, eventually led to the sexual revolution as new technology made pregnancy appear less likely (given the number of out-of-wedlock births since one must dispute that belief) and so sexual mores of any kind simply disappeared in the rush to orgasm anywhere and any time. Automobiles made it easy for youths to escape the arms of their parents and, coupled with the rise of new cultural ideas gleaned from the integration of society and the rise of new media like transistor radios picking up FM a whole new culture was born, sex and drug-riddled and in stark opposition to traditional Judeo-Christian values.

This was the revolution in society the Left had long dreamt of. Their previous efforts to remake society in places like Russia had failed because socialism is a gangster economic and political system and it destroys wealth.

Of course the Soviets encouraged the rising libertinism in the West because they knew it would destroy our culture.

Well, they fell apart first but we're not too far behind them. Everyone is living for today and letting tomorrow worry about tomorrow. And the Christian faith (and the more conservative Jewish) is a feckless, impotent institution now, more worried about their tax exempt status than about actually speaking the Truth. Most churches are. Few actually believe anymore and there is a vacuum.

Nature abhors a vacuum. Islam is stepping into that.

The Left had hoped their socialist ideology would offer the spiritual sustenance people seek and it has to a large degree - that's why so many young people are on board the socialist crazy train. But Islam does likewise and Islam offers something Socialism can't - eternal life. Or so it promises.

Christianity offers that too but Christianity is so Boomer in the young minds, such old man stuff. And they are right; the churches hardly ever talk about anything important. That's why Traditional Catholicism, for instance, is the only branch that is growing; they offer fire and brimstone, solid, meaty, hot faith. The Novus Ordo Church (as the Traditionalists call it) is pale and weak and whiney.

Our current dilemma is caused by the power vacuum left by the decline of Christianity. There is an empty hole where in people's hearts.

That's why Mussolini invented Fascism; to put a spiritual spin on politics. Fascism appeals to the spiritual nature of Man and offers a competing vision to Christianity. The People are God and the government the Church. But it is unsatisfactory and in the end it failed, although the modern Left is chock-full of Fascist spirituality.

So you are dead right; the vacuum left in our society had to be filled by something, and that something is a very, very bad thing indeed.

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August 31, 2026

Iceland Votes to Not Restart E.U. Talks

Timothy Birdnow

Iceland says to the E.U. (in their best Elaine voice from Seinfeld) GET OUT!

Iceland Rejects Restarting EU Accession Talks

Given the restrictive draconian regulations of the E.U. why would anyone want to be a member?

NATO I can understand; you get military protection. But the E.U.? If Iceland were to join they would come in and tell the Icelanders how much fish they could catch or how much fleece they could make from sheep and how much they could charge for wool.

I am surprised though; as crazy as Iceland is I didn't think they had the good sense to see a bad deal when it bit them.

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Was Jesus' Tomb Found?

Timothy Birdnow

Was the tomb of Jesus finally found? It may be so.

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The James Gang

Timothy Birdnow

Here is the smoking gun showing Letitia James targeted people and used lawfare rather than prosecuted criminal acts because they were crimes.

Yes, James' office instructed prosecutors to go after anyone even remotely associated with Trump.

When is this puta going to face justice? There has to be a way to move any charges and her trial out of that shithole New York.

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Ugh Canada: Canucks Threaten Shutting Down St. Lawrence Seaway

Timothy Birdnow

The Canadians are going nuts. They now want to shut down the St. Lawrence Seaway to U.S. traffic.

As Tyler Durden observes:

Whatever may have happened to convince Carney to walk away from the best tariff deal that was offered to any country, the aftermath has stirred plenty of Canadian citizens into a hostile frenzy. One is reminded of Scrappy Doo, yipping and yapping and nipping at the heals of a much larger opponent in the delusion that this will accomplish something.

In the meantime, 33% of Canada's GDP relies on exports and 78% of those exports rely on US markets. Furthermore, there are no practical alternatives. Without a near-term deal with the US, Canada faces severe recession, or worse. Canadian officials and the public have not yet come to accept this reality. They have been busy conjuring ways to "hurt" the US, but these tactics are based on an ignorance of the bigger picture.

For example, Canadian officials recommended shutting off electric supplies to the US eastern seaboard. However, Canada provides less than 1% of all US electricity. Meaning, they have no leverage.

They also called for a shutdown of oil exports to the US, but the US is a net exporter of oil and the largest oil producer in the world. Going without Canadian oil would cause prices to rise, but it would not do the kind of damage they are hoping for. Trump's latest landmark deal with Venezuela will mitigate any potential supply disruptions from Canada.

Plus, 70% of Canadian oil traveling from Alberta to Ontario uses pipelines that cross into US territory (the Enbridge Mainline). It would be a disaster for them to escalate.

This brings us to the newest ingenious idea from Canadian leftists, which is to shut down US access to the St. Lawrence Seaway from the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean. Or, increase tolls to crippling levels at the various Canadian controlled locks.

Crazy Canucks. Don't they realize we can do that to? We could blockade the Seaway at it's mouth. Is the Canadian navy going to sink our ships? With their mighty navy of 25 warships?

But it doesn't stop there; we could deny Canadians access to the Panama canal. I wonder how they'd like having to round the Horne or go all the way through Suez.

Canada has a limited number of ports on the mainland while we have a lot of them. They are more vulnerable than are we.

And the seaway goes through canals on U.S. soil as well.

FTA:

There is a problem with this plan, though. First, Canada already charges tolls at these locks and has done so for decades.

On the other hand, the US also controls at least two locks on the same waterway which Canadian ships use regularly. The US government waived collection of tolls on the seaway back in 1986. Meaning Canada is the only country that collects tolls, but this could be easily changed. If Canada tried to charge higher tolls or block access, the US could to do the same, and the US has the actual military resources to enforce such measures.

By extension, if Canada tried to initiate a wider resource war against the US, their oil pipelines going through the US could be cut off. Once again, Canada simply has no economic leverage. The sooner they accept this, the sooner they can avoid a painful economic decline.

And if it comes to pipeline shut-downs it may well see Alberta quit the Dominion and join the United States; they can ill afford such a disruption of their economy.

So good luck to scrappy Doo-right here. This will blow up in their donut-eating faces!

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Two Bag Jackson-Brown

Timothy Birdnow

With a puss like hers why wouldn't she?

It’s 2026… So Why Is Kentaji Brown Jackson Still Wearing a Mask?

Not to be outdone Kathy Ho-kul covered her coyote ugly facewith a hijab.

Why are liberal Democratic women in such a hurry to cover their faces? Why did Adam and Even cover themselves with fig leaves? Something to hide.

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Republicans Panicking Over Polls

Timothy Birdnow

I caught this - Sen. John Kennedy was warning we may lose in the Texas Senate race if there isn't a large infusion of cash.

Speaking on Fox News Kennedy said the cupboard is bare and there is a desperate need for cash going into the home stretch in the race between Republican Ken Paxton and James "the Nutty Pastor" Talarico.

Talarico has seriously outraised Paxton.

But what Kennedy didn't tell us is that the Republican National Committee has not given one thin dime to Paxton. They are angry he beat out their buddy Cornhole, er, Cornyn and so want him to fail. Then when he loses they will say "we told you he couldn't win" when he could have and would have had they given him any support at all.

At any rate what has Sen. Kennedy's panties in a bunch is a Real Clear Politics poll showing Paxton losing - and the GOP losing in eight other battleground states.

I've long warned about the polls at this point in time and in fact have another article about their uselessness and bias below. But the RCP poll is especially egregious because it is a compilation of polls and it includes obviously partisan polling in it's statistical group.

Don't believe this. These polls are way oversampling Democrats right now, most of whom sit at home and answer phone surveys, unlike their working Republican counterparts.

These polls are going to change as the election draws near.

But Kennedy is right to call for help; we can't take anything for granted or the Revolution is over. If the Democrats take control of either chamber of Congress then there is no hope of legislatively changing anything at all and the swing votes in the GOP become more important than ever (jerks like Lisa Murkowski). We need every seat we can get. And Texas is absolutely a must. Plus Paxton will be a great Senator, as good as Ted Cruz.

So send Paxton or any other Republican the money (don't send it to the RNC) and get out and vote!

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Gruesome Newsom Implements Sharia, Dhimmitude in California

Timothy Birdnow

Gavin Nuisance Newsom is going full Muzzie as he prepared to perform the clear act of Dhimmitude and sign legislation making two Muslim religious days state holidays.

https://thepostmillennial.com/california-moves-closer-to-making-two-muslim-holy-days-official-state-holidays

THIS is what the Gruesome Newsom wants for the whole of America - Sharia law.

If Noose-'em wants to live under Sharia he should move to the UAE or some such. This is America.

BTW does he give Christians Good Friday off? Christmas, yes, but that's as much a secular holiday as a religious one. (For the record I checked and Christians are forced to work on Good Friday - the holiest day in all of Christendom.)

What a hypocritical POS.

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Poll Dance

Timothy Birdnow

Writing in American Thinker J.R. Dunn looks at the preposterous nature of the polls and how they cheat to steal elections.

I've long made this same, self-evident argument but it bears repeating. Dunn quotes a new study showing how the polls are way out there in the summer months, only to tighten near the end to not lose their credibility.

Dunn rightly argues this is to depress Republicans, who watch these polls with despair. And while he doesn't make this argument I do; it's to create a bandwagon for those who haven't yet chosen a side. All the cool kids are doing it!

The polls were and remain a tool for the Left to manipulate the voters. They have no intention of actually reflecting public opinion.

My wife worked as a pollster and when she took the job she thought it was to get an accurate survey. She was quickly disabused of that notion.

In fact, she was supposed to encourage voting and she had a call at 6:59 on election night and her boss jumped in "we can get you to the polls" and he dispatched a driver. That seven O'clock closing time didn't matter!

The point is they were all Democrats at her place of employment and their job was not about finding out what people thought but in converting them or encouraging them to get out and pull that lever for the D.

And so many, especially the intellectual wing of the GOP, falls for it every time, like Charlie Brown and that football.

Polls are lies - always remember that. They are there to dispirit you and to manipulate you. Remember you are not alone and not going to lose.

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Legacies and Forgiveness

Timothy Birdnow

I can attest to that!

While American blacks worship Africa, many Africans have disdain for American blacks

I worked with a man from Eritrea who thought exactly that. He once asked me why American blacks hated white people and the U.S. and I had to give a twenty minute lecture on the legacy of slavery, on the government's "War on Poverty" and a host of other socio-economic things that go into black anger. He couldn't grasp it.

As he said, in Africa white people are very welcome because they bring money. And we have what all of them only dream about in terms of freedom and wealth and a good life.

In fact, when the poor guy wanted to get married he didn't want to marry an African American because, well, he just didn't care for them much. His option was to either marry a white woman or go back to his homeland for a wife. He chose the latter and came home with a very lovely young lady.

Sadly, on his visit to the country of his birth he caught a parasite and it nearly killed him - that's what Africa has to offer. The poor man had to have no fewer than FIVE organ transplants as whatever this nasty bug was it ate up his insides. His doctors had to fly in a specialist from Eritrea to help them treat the infestation - they had no idea what to do about this.

It ended well for my friend (who was always happy and smiling and joking - a great guy) as his wife had a baby and the last I heard he was doing great. He had to move out of state to be close to his doctors though. He would have died in all likelihood had he not lived in the United States of America.

American blacks had traditional grievances, no question. But those times have changed yet they cling to their anger at this country. Why? Well, it's natural enough. They built a subculture where they could live as they chose and it was ultimately built on the predication that our society was unjust, and that thinking persists today. Giving up old grievances is tough. And admitting you won and the struggle that defined your existence is over can be even tougher.

I have no doubt Hell is full of people who wouldn't let go of their grievances. Purgatory too, if you believe in that (as do I). But I get it; it's very hard sometimes.

Black people had four hundred years of slavery that shaped their cultural traditions and beliefs. Times have changed but not the psychological trauma of it all.

But as the Apostle Paul said "when I was a child I thought like a child, reasoned like a child, but when I became a man I put away childish things". This was not just about children growing up but about all of us, every last one of us, growing past the angers and disappointments and sleights that inform our thinking. We have to forgive and forget. Move on - it's over.

That is what the black community desperately needs to do. They need to fix concrete problems - out of wedlock births, the gang culture, drugs, etc. and many if not all of this was wished on them by white liberals, it is true. But they have to grow past this stuff. As Obi Wan (or was it Yoda) said to Luke Skywalker "let go of your anger...don't give in to hate". Easier said than done, certainly, and I struggle with my own issues on that.

But we all need to grow. My Eritrean friend would have understood what I'm saying perfectly. He was lucky since he wasn't here in the old days and didn't endure the bad things. He sees this with eyes that are clear.

So should we all.

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Bowlinng with Kim Jong-Un

Timothy Birdnow

Here is a look at Kim Jong-Un and how he maintains power. An interesting read.

I agree; North Korea needs to be managed, not invaded or attacked. Any military solution to the Nork problem should be a very last resort as it would be a tough, tough fight no matter how you do it. Granted, the day may come when it will be necessary but let's hope that day is long in the future. Eventually times will change and hopefully the old guard will finally go away. I wish we could help the North Korean People but that just isn't possible now.

Korea has mountainous, hard to invade terrain and people who are hard as nails thanks to the Kim family's kind ministrations. And they've got the weapons, notably drones and of course they have the Big One. Any military operation would face extraordinary hardship and could lead to the loss of a city or two.

So it's best we leave it alone for now - as long as it doesn't do something drastic, like attack Japan. Then all bets are off.

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Trump's Muhammed Ali President's List

Timothy Birdnow

Recently President Trump reposted (to much wailing and gnashing of teeth) a list of the best and worst presidents, with himself at the top (naturally enough for him). It was just an o.k. list; it put Woodrow Wilson in the "great" category when he belonged in the worst, for instance, and also put F. D. Roosevelt in there as well. But it was o.k. It put both Biden and Obama at the bottom.

Wilson was a terrible President - he was the model used by Benito Mussolini, by Mussolini's own admission. Il Duce was a huge fan and it is rightly said Wilson was the proto-fascist. Wilson imposed draconian regulatory schemes and even required businesses and others to hang signs saying they agreed with his policies under penalty of fines and arrest. And he campaigned for re-election as "the man who kept us out of war" then immediately began pushing for U.S. entry into WWI. William Jennings Bryan, then Secretary of State, resigned in disgust over Wilson's enthusiastic pro-British policies. And after the war Wilson created the League of Nations and used this idea to justify the humiliation of Germany at Versailles under the theory that the League would fix it later. It fixed it alright - by giving the world Hitler. Wilson thought himself the creator of a New World Order.

This list also put Calvin Coolidge as a poor President, which is utterly daft. Coolidge was one of the very best; a man who cut taxes, reduced the madness of Wilsonism, and steered the country in peace and prosperity. It was only after Herbert Hoover took over (who belongs in the bottom tier) that the economy fell apart.

At any rate there is an American Thinker article that puts this in perspective and I largely agree with it, although he argues Abraham Lincoln should be at the top and I disagree.

Lincoln was a transformative President, no question, and he held the Union together, but it must be remembered that it was the election of Lincoln that triggered secession in the first place. Not his fault, granted, but one must consider other matters about Lincoln that were less savory.

For instance he suspended the writ of Habeas Corpus and jailed anyone who criticized him or his policies. Journalists languished in prison for months as a result of Lincoln's censorship. The Supreme Court solidly rebuked him for it, I might add.

And Lincoln was a big fat cheater. He let Nevada in as a state prior to his re-election because Nevada was solid Lincoln country and he waived the rules that kept Nevada out just so he could tip the balance. Also, it should be pointed out that polls (such as they were then) showed Lincoln was going to lose his re-election bid but he won and there were all sorts of reports of vote fraud, people filling out multiple ballots for Mr. Lincoln.

Also there is a core Constitutional reason to dislike Lincoln. Nowhere in the Constitution does it say states may not leave. It is hinted at but not said openly, and if it had the Union would never have been created in the first place. But there is something in the Constitution that says they may leave - it's the Tenth Amendment. The Tenth Amendment was put into the Constitution for just this very reason. It says that all powers not EXPRESSLY granted to the new federal government were reserved to the states or the people. The power to forcibly hold any state in the Union against their will is not expressly granted. The Supremacy Clause is overruled by the Tenth Amendment, which Lincoln simply ignored.

Lincoln was clever enough to wait for South Carolina to fire on Ft. Sumpter and thus his was not a military attack on a state but on a foreign nation which had attacked the U.S. (Of course the hypocrisy of this is striking; Lincoln's argument all along was that this was a rebellious province and not an independent country) and that justified a military response. (South Carolina argued the fort was occupied territory of theirs, and they had the better claim in that regard.)

Anyway I would argue Lincoln does not belong in the top tier for those reasons.

I also think Andrew Johnson almost always gets a bad shake. Johnson actually was a very good President at a very bad time. Yes, he was a southerner, one who remained loyal to the Union (he had been a Congressman who refused to get up and leave as all his compatriots did upon secession) and he did in fact love the Union. He loved ALL of the Union.

What Johnson did was simply try to implement Lincoln's plan for reconstruction, which was far more lenient than what the Radical Republicans sought. He had everything ready, including the new Congressmen from the fallen Confederate states at the Capitol steps. The Radical Republicans barred their entry, then declared their elections null and void and eventually stripped all Southerners of their franchise - except later the blacks, whom they gave the vote just to spite the white Southerners.

They also forced on Johnson an unconstitutional law "The Tenure of Office Act" so Johnson couldn't fire any of Lincon's old appointees. He did, and in fact it led to a standoff where Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, who Johnson fired for undermining his reconstruction policies, barricaded himself in the State Department building and had to be removed forcibly after a standoff of about ten days. This prompted Congress to impeach Johnson with no fewer than twenty charges, all of them bogus except his violation of the Tenure of Office Act. Johnson was acquitted by one vote and that Senator actually had to go into hiding to protect his life after. The Supreme Court eventually rules the act unconstitutional as Congress has no authority over the executive branch.

Had Johnson been from, say, Pennsylvania he would have had no trouble. It was just that that he came from Tennessee.

Anyway, go to the American Thinker article to see the whole list and judge for yourself. I would repost it but it won't format correctly for me.

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Who Will Rule the Farmlands?

Timothy Birdnow

How "Green Energy" is wrecking the environment.

New York’s New Solar Religion Is Absolutely Devastating To Wildlife, Farmland

New York Governor Kathy "Hokum" Hockel is forcing giant solar farms on the residents or rural communities against their will, disrupting wildlife habitats and making prime farmland unusable for crops.

At some point there is going to be resistance, with vandalism striking these pyramids honoring the gods of green. I'm afraid we're going to see a "resistance movement" that makes it a point to wreck these things. We are going to turn good people into criminals, alas.

The Daily Caller dishes on the dimwittery:

New York is tearing up rural communities, wiping out wildlife sanctuaries, and burying prime agricultural soil under solar installation in the name of green energy. The root of this campaign is New York’s Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA) of 2019, which demands that renewable sources supply 70% of the state’s electricity, that greenhouse gas emissions fall 40% below 1990 levels, and that the state build at least 3,000 megawatts of storage.

The footprint of the 18 solar power plants is staggering. The Cider Solar Farm in Genesee County will cover 4,000 acres, and the Ridge View Solar Farm in Niagara County will take another 2,000. Both were pushed through over the strong objections of the people who farm.

And the folks who will suffer from this have no voice, being drowned out by the liberals in NYC and Albany and other blue communities in the Empire State. It's just shoved down their throats.

The article continues:

Then came a rebuke from Washington. U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin, and Small Business Administration head Kelly Loeffler jointly challenged New York’s approval of solar projects on productive farmland, criticizing the state for not applying federal standards in evaluating its farmland.

And here is the contradiction that should embarrass every official who signed off on the policy. Hochul announced a moratorium of up to a year on new data centers that draw more than 50 megawatts, which typically occupy 15 to 40 acres. Meanwhile, New York has already parked solar complexes on approximately 11,000 acres of federally certified prime farmland and wildlife habitats.

Centuries ago, South American civilizations offered land, crops, and sometimes human lives to appease gods they believed controlled the climate. New York has updated the ritual for a modern audience. It has built altars of solar farms and appointed a priesthood of bureaucrats who redact the evidence of their policies’ destruction.

Years ago there was a southern Missouri farmer who had his grain sequestered by the government. Eventually he just took some equipment to the silo and broke in and took all his grain out. It was bankrupting him. He became a hero to the people of Missouri and ran for Congress, coming close to winning (he was running against a long time Republican incumbent who was very popular and I'm glad he lost because he ran as a DEMOCRATS - spit!)

The farming community in New York may make a similar raid on these solar farms. Wayne Cryts broke into that silo (the grain elevator owners were in bankruptcy and "their" assets seized) forcibly and took what was his. How long before the farmers take back what is theirs in New York?

Could anyone blame them?

This is bigger than just some farmland in New York; it is a war being waged by the Demo-Left against the rural communities. Country folk have a culture that is different from the city, and is usually quite a bit more conservative. The Left hates that - they can't get control of people who are self-sufficient.

I would add Marx and Engels promoted the concept first; they understood the importance of controlling the farms and the people who can make do on the land. One of the things they promoted was blurring the distinction between city and countryside. They wanted the whole world to be a cityscape, with all it's problems and congestion, so they could control the whole country, not just the cities.

Mao won his revolution against the Nationalists in China because he ruled the countryside while the Quomintang ruled the cities. Guess who won? Mao could starve the enemy out, and attack from any direction. Chiang Kai-Shek could do nothing but huddle in his cities and wait for the attacks.

So control of the countryside is vital to final victory and the Left knows it. We own the countryside. This policy by Hochul is as much about destroying the powerbase of the opposition (us) as much as anything.

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The Greens Have Fallen but They Will Rise Again

Timothy Birdnow

"War's very object is victory, not prolonged indecision. In war there is no substitute for victory."

Gen. Douglas MacArthur

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We seem to have won, or at least are winning with enough to have made this issue toxic to voters.

Another quote from the great General sums it up:

"It was close; but that's the way it is in war. You win or lose, live or die — and the difference is just an eyelash."

But I disagree with Tyler Durden in his claim the propaganda started with the Green New Deal back in 2919. On the contrary the propaganda started even before the creation of the IPCC, but metastasized with that corrupt and useless body in 1988.

I should know; I've been fighting with them long enough.

But it did get a huge push from the Green New Deal, no question.

So what was it that slaid the Sky Dragon? People all over knew it for the gaslighting it was, and had the facts to back it up. I still get into Facebook groups where the fighting is fast and furious and people on our side bring the data - and while there are some very good people arguing FOR global warming they are in a losing position and usually have to resort to mockery and sneers - because the facts are not with them.

Which is quite a feat as the information is very hard to find on a web search. Google and the other search engines censor it, and if you find what you want it's usually on page eight or ten. A web search will get you a lot of pages of the same thing - climate alarmism, and it's usually different sources putting up the same content from the same sources.

But the Truth will out, at least in this. The subject is becoming toxic.

Why? Well, the Left pushed too hard too fast.

Remember what was going on in 2019; the pandemic was breaking and the Expert Class was telling us to do all sorts of crazy things, like social distancing. They shut down churches but kept the bars open. They stopped baseball games but said you were safe if you went to a Black Lives Matter protest. They made everyone get the clot shot. Elderly died alone because they would not let the families see them.

I read an article in Psychology Today arguing the pandemic would restore trust in experts and institutions, a trust that had been waning since the days of Obama, certainly, and actually well before. People forget Ronald Reagan often railed against the liberal news media.

But the pandemic did the opposite; people could see for themselves how much they were being lied to, and why. It exposed the gaslighting. And they pushed climate change alarmism right alongside of the pandemic.

Suddenly the "crazy" skeptics didn't look so foolish. And when it became obvious we had arguments rooted deeply in science and not just politics or superstition it became even more obvious - especially since the media flatly refused to even have on "denier" scientists, some of the top people in the field. It was clear there was a propaganda war.

Well, they oversold their product and now they are in the political wilderness; climate alarmism is a toxin politically and they are running away from it. Rightly so; Americans care about other things than a miniscule rise in a trace gas that actually helps plants grow.

But that may change over time. This war is not won. Young children have been taught this from birth and the schools have brainwashed them into believing the world is going to end because of it, that they have no future. It's no doubt part of why young adults, the Gen. Z crowd, aren't marrying and having children - they see no point in it since we're all doomed anyway. (Oddly enough these same types reject the idea of settling on other planets like Mars as they say we'll just "dirty them up like we did the Earth" when there is nothing but rocks to dirty.)

These kids are the future and the Left knows they won their hearts and minds on this issue. They can wait.

And I won't be here forever. My war with Climate Kookery will end when I'm fertilizing the flowers, and most of those who are realists are a bit older and they will one day be gone. The only way we can save thd day permanently is by making sure our knowledge is passed on, and that grows difficult as the internet and other information sources are centralized. It's one of the reasons I hate data centers so much - it's part of the centralization of information.

Anyway we should enjoy our triumph while it lasts. We held back the tide, but tomorrow night it will ris again.

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August 30, 2026

Funding Subverts Climate Science

This from Meteorologist Christ Martz:

Climate alarmists claim that it is a myth and/or conspiracy theory that scientists have to toe the mainstream narrative in order to get grant money from funding agencies like the NSF, get their research published in prestigious journals, and remain employed in academia.

But it’s not a myth; it’s a FACT.

The late Dr. William Gray was invited to a global warming meeting in Washington, D.C. by then-U.S. Vice President Al Gore in 1993. Gray told Gore that he’d attend, but he didn’t agree with Gore’s climate views, and soon after, Gray’s funding for climate research was cut.

Dr. Patrick Brown admitted that he and his coauthors left out "the full truth” in a paper on wildfires to get it published in Nature. That is, they knew the editors wanted a storyline that blamed climate warming for increased fire risk and not an examination of forest management and ignition sources.

I also personally know (and am friends with) two meteorologists who are university employees who cannot speak their minds on the issue because they’d be fired for openly expressing skepticism of the narrative of doom.

That’s why almost everyone who does speak freely on the skeptic side is older and/or retired.

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August 29, 2026

The Name Game

This cometh from Ken Blackwell:

To whom it bothers:

Lake America is not a rebrand. It is a correction . . .

The lake just remembered who it always belonged to: the U.S.A.

Canada, you don’t get to run a trade surplus off the U.S., hide behind our military, and then lecture us about diplomacy because we renamed our own lake.

The predictable Liberal response: "You can’t just rename a lake!” . . . After they spent a decade renaming everything else in American life. Holidays, sports teams, syrup bottles, mountains, military bases, ice cream, and half the dictionary.

Here is the record they hope you forgot.

THE MAP AND THE CALENDAR:

✅ Columbus Day ➡️ Indigenous Peoples’ Day.

✅ Mount McKinley ➡️ Denali.

✅ Lake Calhoun ➡️ Bde Maka Ska.

✅ Squaw Valley ➡️ Palisades Tahoe.

✅ Jefferson Davis Highway ➡️ Richmond Highway.

OUR MILITARY BASES:

✅ Fort Bragg ➡️ Fort Liberty.

✅ Fort Benning ➡️ Fort Moore.

✅ Fort Hood ➡️ Fort Cavazos.

SPORTS:

✅ Washington Redskins ➡️ Washington Commanders.

✅ Cleveland Indians ➡️ Cleveland Guardians. Chief Wahoo got canceled first.

✅ North Dakota Fighting Sioux ➡️ Fighting Hawks, after the NCAA turned the screws.

✅ Illinois retired Chief Illiniwek under the same NCAA pressure.

✅ Valparaiso Crusaders ➡️ Beacons.

YOUR PANTRY:

✅ Aunt Jemima ➡️ Pearl Milling Company.

✅ Uncle Ben’s ➡️ Ben’s Original.

✅ Eskimo Pie ➡️ Edy’s Pie.

✅ Cream of Wheat kept the box but erased the chef.

✅ Land O’Lakes removed the Indian and kept the land.

✅ Mr. Potato Head ➡️ Potato Head.

OUR INSTITUTIONS:

✅ Boy Scouts of America ➡️ Scouting America.

✅ Yale’s Calhoun College ➡️ Grace Hopper College.

✅ Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School ➡️ the School of Public and International Affairs.

✅ Dixie State University ➡️ Utah Tech University.

THE DICTIONARY ITSELF:

✅ Manhole ➡️ maintenance hole.

✅ Master bedroom ➡️ primary bedroom.

✅ Mentally ill ➡️ non binary.

✅ Blacklist ➡️ blocklist.

✅ Felon ➡️ justice-involved person.

✅ Illegal alien ➡️ undocumented noncitizen.

✅ Women ➡️ birthing persons.

✅ Hispanic ➡️ Latinx, a word Hispanic Americans never asked for and still refuse to use.

And the list goes on and on and on.

They spent a decade teaching the country that names can be changed to fit the values of the people in charge.

God Bless Lake America!

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Donkey Con: Democrats Give Trump Tariff Authority, Skulk Out of Town

Timothy Birdnow

Democrats, after railing against tariffs, quietly gave him the authority to impose them in return for hard sanctions against Russia. Apparently, since they believe tariffs are so bad for the American People, the Democrats care more about the Ukrainian People than they do their own American constituents.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/democrats-hand-trump-one-power-spent-years-fighting

In fact the Democrats know the tariffs are necessary and proper and in fact a tax increase - something long cherished by the party that never saw a dime they didn't want nine cents from. And they hate Russia for reasons that escape us as Putin is exactly the kind of guy they would love to see in power in the United States. I'm sure they would love for President Trump to be fed a polonium cocktail from Mr. Putin's private bar. So one wonders why they despise the Russkies so much.

Could it be they had a lot of skeletons to bury in the boneyards of Ukraine and Russia would out them? We know Hillary was up to her hairy armpits with the Ukrainians, and so was Slow Joe Biden's son, who got a high paying job on the board of a corporation where he did nothing and knew nothing about it. Oh, and the Ukrainians fired the prosecutor who was investigating old Hunter when Joe put out the call. Oh, and they tried to impeach Mr. Trump based on HIS phone call to the Ukrainians where he demanded an end to corruption there (a dog whistle, the Donks said). There is something involved in this the Democrats REALLY fear; such hatred is not born of rational distaste for what Russia did in invading. They have something to hide.

And the Russians are rejecting the whole New World Order scheme, something near and dear to the Progressive Socialists hearts. Not that what the Roooskies offer is any better, mind you, but it is more old fashioned - purely a "might makes right" sort of thing. I prefer that to the Internationalists sneaking around behind our backs and then inserting knives. The Russian way is at least honest enough to admit they want to stab us. The Klaus Schwab's of this world smile and shake our hands while plotting to betray us.

Anyway the Democrats cared more for their Ukrainians buddies than about protecting Americans from what they claim is a terrible injustice. Shows what hypocrites they truly are.

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