March 17, 2026
The Civilizational Divide
Timothy Birdnow
This from Michael W. Smith:
Christianity’s inside-out moral order produced the American system of liberty. Islam’s outside-in structure of social enforcement points in the opposite direction—conflict is increasingly unavoidable.
MICHAEL SMITH
MAR 13
Over the past couple of decades, I have written several essays about the incompatibility of Islam—both as a religion and as a culture—to the US Constitution and to the predominant culture of America. Stimulated by the recent spate of attacks by Islamist terrorists, what follows is a revisiting of those topics.
For many years I have argued that Christianity—more than any other religion—is uniquely compatible with individual liberty. That compatibility is not accidental. It arises from Christianity’s fundamental structure: it is a religion primarily concerned with the transformation of the individual heart.
Christianity begins with the individual. It calls upon men and women to govern themselves morally before attempting to govern others. Christ’s words in Matthew 18:20—"For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them”—capture the voluntary nature of the Christian community. Believers gather by choice. Faith is accepted voluntarily, and it may be rejected voluntarily. Christianity assumes that human beings possess free will and that God expects them to exercise it.
This inside-out moral structure aligns naturally with the American political tradition. The Founders built a system of self-government on the assumption that citizens possess the capacity for moral self-restraint. They handed the people the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution and essentially said: these are the principles; now govern yourselves accordingly.
American liberty presumes that individuals can regulate their own conduct without constant external force.
This is precisely where the divide between Christianity and Islam becomes stark.
Islam, historically and doctrinally, operates on the opposite model. Where Christianity seeks transformation through voluntary belief, Islam seeks conformity through legal and social enforcement. The concept of sharia is not simply a spiritual code but a comprehensive legal framework intended to govern personal conduct, family life, commerce, and political authority.
In societies where Islam dominates politically, religious authorities enforce compliance through legal penalties, social pressure, and in many cases outright coercion. The individual is not primarily responsible for governing his own conscience; the surrounding system governs him.
Christianity governs from the inside out. Islam governs from the outside in.
A similar outside-in impulse can be seen in modern political ideologies that distrust individual autonomy. Progressive statism and twentieth-century communism both rely heavily on centralized authority to impose social conformity. While progressivism and Islam differ dramatically on many social questions, they share a common assumption: that individuals cannot be trusted to organize their own moral lives and must instead be shaped through external systems of enforcement.
This shared impulse helps explain an otherwise strange political alliance. Progressive movements often display hostility toward traditional Christianity while showing remarkable tolerance—even sympathy—for Islamist political movements. Christianity places limits on power by emphasizing individual conscience; both Islam and progressive statism are far more comfortable with using political authority to reshape society.
But the deeper issue is civilizational rather than theological.
The endless argument over whether Islam is good, bad, or misunderstood misses the central question. Debating the relative virtues of religions without a standard of judgment is like arguing about whether Ford, General Motors, or Dodge makes the best pickup truck: everyone has opinions, but no one agrees on the criteria.
The real question is this: Is a given religion or culture compatible with the American constitutional order?
America is not an undefined abstraction. Its character is clearly articulated in the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Federalist Papers. These documents establish a political system grounded in natural rights, limited government, and the sovereignty of the individual citizen.
Everything else in American public life flows from those foundations.
Historically, the United States welcomed immigrants not so they could recreate the societies they left behind but so they could participate in something new. The promise of America was that individuals could escape the constraints of their old political systems and join a society organized around liberty.
That promise always carried an expectation: assimilation.
For most of American history, immigrants understood that expectation clearly. They might preserve aspects of language, food, or family tradition, but their political loyalty and cultural orientation shifted toward the American constitutional order. They did not arrive intending to recreate the institutions they had fled.
In the past half-century that expectation has weakened dramatically. The rise of the "hyphenated American” has produced communities that attempt to maintain parallel cultural systems inside the United States, sometimes including legal and religious practices that conflict directly with the principles of the Constitution.
Islam presents a particularly serious challenge in this regard.
The American political order grew out of a Judeo-Christian moral framework that emphasizes the dignity of the individual and limits on state authority. While the Constitution establishes no official religion, the philosophical assumptions underlying the American founding were unmistakably shaped by that tradition.
Islam contributed nothing unique to those foundations. At the time of America’s founding, Islamic societies were generally understood in the West as hierarchical political systems shaped by tribal conflict and dynastic rule rather than constitutional liberty. The religious framework of Islam addressed the needs of those societies, not the requirements of a republic grounded in individual rights.
This difference matters.
A nation can absorb many cultural influences, but it cannot survive the introduction of ideologies that reject its core principles. Diversity of experience can strengthen a society when those experiences contribute to a shared national purpose. But diversity of incompatible purposes produces fragmentation and conflict.
Assimilation therefore remains essential.
Immigrants who come to the United States must ultimately accept the supremacy of the American constitutional order over any competing political or religious system. That principle does not forbid Muslims from becoming Americans. It simply means that when conflicts arise between Islamic doctrine and American law, American law prevails.
Those who come to the United States seeking freedom and opportunity are welcome. But those who arrive determined to recreate the political and cultural systems they left behind misunderstand the country they have entered.
America is not merely a place. It is a civilization built upon specific ideas about liberty, rights, and self-government.
If newcomers wish to share in that inheritance, they must accept those ideas.
If they wish to replace them, they should look elsewhere.
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Happy St. Patrick's Day
Timothy Birdnow
Top 'O the morning to yah!
As today is St. Patrick's day I thought I'd post this article explaining how the "wearin O the Green" got started.
Turns out St. Patrick's color was blue and so was Ireland's until the Irish rebellion against the British in 1798 led to the adopting of green as the official color of free Ireland. The Ulstermen - Irish who were descended from Scotsmen that the English settled in Northern Ireland - had orange as their color. Ultermen are also known sometimes as Scots-Irish and they were the first Irish to settle in the New World. Ulstermen hated the Catholics who came after the potato famine, btw, and were no small part of the lampooning and abuse of Irish settlers who were to come later.
At any rate the wearin' O the Green was more a political and religious statement than anything else.
And as for drinking large quantities of ale or whiskey? That was pretty much an American thing; the Irish do not celebrate St. Patrick's Day in that fashion by and large. It's more a feast day for a saint.
But why not? The Church doesn't even have St. Patrick's Day as an official feast anymore.
BTW corned beef and cabbage are not an Irish repast at all. The Irish eat a lot of fish and mutton. Germans ate corned beef and cabbage and when the Irish immigrated to the U.S. they were poor and it was cheap and they learned it from their German neighbors. There is an interesting scene in the movie The Devil's Own where Harrison Ford's family is eating corned beef and cabbage in honor of Brad Pitt, who is an (unbeknownst to them) Irish terrorist who will be staying with them. He asks what it is and they are dumbfounded; they thought that was what Irish people ate. It's what THEY ate and they were Irish Americans.
At any rate Green as the color of Ireland is not an ancient and venerable tradition.
One more thing; St. Patrick was himself Welch and not Irish. He was kidnapped as a boy and enslaved to an Irish warlord. Eventually he was able to leave and went home but he felt the finger of God on his heart and returned to Ireland to preach the Gospel to them. He pretty much single-handedly converted the Irish to Christianity. There is no evidence he liked ale any more than the next man (everyone drank it though since water was usually bad) and they didn't even HAVE whiskey back then. It was either imported wine or ale or mead from honey. So a celebration in Ireland would feature those things.
St. Patrick first arrived in Ireland in 432 a.d., by the way. Ireland's society completely collapsed as Ireland was plunged into total darkness in 536 thanks to a volcanic eruption in Iceland and it remained so for three years, destroying the society that had been there. This was followed the next century by the plague of 664 which began with a total solar eclipse and decimated the country.
Ireland was always a very unlucky place which is what "the luck of the Irish" means; they were forever beset by disasters, especially at critical times in their history. The Black Death in the 14th century was particularly terrible in Ireland. And we all remember the potato crop failure of the nineteenth century which led to the great diaspora of Irish who had to flee or die.
So Ireland has had a rough, bitter history since St. Patrick appeared, yet she has always remained faithful to the teaching of their patron. Or had until recently anyway.
So enjoy the day; eat, drink, be merry, dance a jig, pinch a drunk who isn't wearing green, and otherwise make a spectacle of yourself. But remember why you are doing so.
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Paul Ehrich Reduces His Carbon Footprint
Timothy Birdnow
Paul Ehrlich, the goofball academic who wrote The Population Bomb and The Population Explosion has put his money where his mouth was, kindly removing himself from the horrible impact of overpopulation.
Ehrlich was one of the most dangerous and destructive intellectuals of his age. Sadly his legacy continues to reverberate down the corridores of post-modern thought. Most on the Left ultimately still buy into his view that overpopulation will destroy all life on Earth. Global warming is an issue primarily because of Ehrlich; it emphasized climate damage from industrial activity but in the end the presupposition is there are too many people who NEED stuff and who move about making this "carbon pollution". Without Ehrlich we would never have had the whole climate War of the Worlds scare in the first place. And abortion would have been much harder to implement without the specter of overpopulation. In fact most of the neo-fascist agenda of the modern Left is predicated on the fear of overpopulation.
Ehrlich was a sloppy researcher, a vain and shallow fellow who bought himself the spotlight at terrible cost to others.
China's one child policy is easily traced back to Ehrlich's Malthusian theory, for instance.
Ehrlich caught on during the seventies when there was an apocalyptic mood in the Western world and he offered a doomsday vision that essentially said more children mean our extinction. This led to determined efforts to reduce our population growth, which in turn led to a deficit of people to pay taxes and do the work that previous generations had. This in turn led to the idea of using mass migration from the Third World to "do the work Americans (or Europeans or Aussies) Just Won't Do" and it is why the Western world is now being overrun by barbarians from shithole countries, and many of these immigrants hate us and plot our overthrow. This was the fruit of Ehrlich.
So I won't be shedding too many tears for this man. His life's labor bore horribly rotten fruit.
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Megyn Kelly's Medical Judgment
Timothy Birdnow
I suppose she would know, given her extensive research on such matters:
Megyn Kelly
@megynkelly
Micropenis Mark
@marklevinshow
thinks he has the monopoly on lewd. He tweets about me obsessively in the crudest, nastiest terms possible. Literally more than some stalkers I’ve had arrested. He doesn’t like it when women like me fight back. Bc of his micropenis.
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Poor Megyn Kelly. An emotionally unhinged, lewd, and petulant wreck. She’s completely revealed and destroyed herself. She’s everything people say she is, but much worse. Never an intelligent, thoughtful, or substantive comment. Utterly toxic.
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Iran Threatens that Fellow Who Took Over for Nixon
Timothy Birdnow
Would anyone notice if Gerald Ford disappeared?
I know; it's the aircraft carrier, not the Bob Newhartesque former President. I assume he's dead; it's hard to tell and always was.
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Europeans Won't Help in Hormuz
Timothy Birdnow
Germany was eager for our help when the Soviets threatened their security. Now they want to flip us the bird and expect us to not punish them.
And we rescued the rest of the Euroweenies during WWII yet they can't return the favor.
We need to start pulling our military bases out of these countries. And maybe impose some high tariffs on them for it. And maybe limit the oil we send them.
The closure of the Strait of Hormuz hurts Europe far more than it hurts the U.S.
For far too long Europe has acted as if the United States was a paid servant and not a benefactor. Time they learned otherwise.
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Iranian Girl's Soccer Team has Second Thoughts
Timothy Birdnow
Why? The Mullahs hold their families hostage, after all.
Also, Austalia was saying initially they were going to deport them back to Iran. So Australia is a fair-weather friend at best and they are probably in danger of being killed there. May as well rejoin their team and hope the regime falls before they get home.
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Cuba's Electric Grid Collapses
Timothy Birdnow
Acyn@AcynCNN: Breaking news. Cuba's electrical grid has suffered a complete and total collapse. This is according to the country's power operator. It's the first nationwide blackout since the US effectively shut off the flow of oil to Cuba
Cuba is now officially in the nineteenth century.
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U.S. Intelligence Hid Fact China has Our Voter Database
Timothy Birdnow
U.S. intelligence has known since 2020 that the Chinese had hacked our voter databases and probably interfered with our elections.
Joe Biden profited from any such interference, I might add.
This from John Solomon at Just the News:
"[Redacted] Chinese intelligence officials analyzed multiple U.S. states' [Redacted] election voter registration data, [Redacted] to conduct public opinion analysis on the 2020 US general election,” stated a once highly classified April 2020 National Intelligence Council memo entitled "Cyber Operations Enabling Expansive Authoritarianism."
You can read that document here.
FileNICM-Declassified-Cyber-Operations-Enabling-Expansive-Digital-Authoritarianism-20200407--2022.pdfThat memo, heavily redacted and quietly declassified by the Biden administration two years after it was written, has escaped most public notice.
That means six years later that the U.S. intelligence community has yet to fully inform the American people or the Congress on the breadth of evidence it possesses of China’s actions, how Beijing got the data, and what operations it has taken or contemplated.
The gap in public knowledge is particularly politically sensitive as the Senate this week debates a new election security bill that is a top priority for President Donald Trump. Officials told Just the News that Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and CIA Director John Ratcliffe are working to declassify a potentially explosive tranche of documents showing what China did, and who in U.S. government knew and when.
So while the American media was accusing Trump of all manner of fake crimes there was a real effort to tamper with our election and even now nobody knows about it. Disgraceful.
The Republican in Congress have long sought voter data to determine just how extensive vote fraud is in America and has been denied that information, but China has it.
The only good reason to not let the public know about this is because the intelligence community knows it will seriously impact upcoming elections as well as lead to sweeping reforms in their services. In other words, they fear getting caught asleep at the wheel - or worse.
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Rats Fleeing the Ship of State
Timothy Birdnow
Kent is dishonest.
Here is the text of his letter to Trump:
President Trump, After much reflection, I have decided to resign from my position as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, effective today. I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.
I support the values and the foreign policies that you campaigned on in 2016, 2020, 2024, which you enacted in your first term. Until June of 2025, you understood that the wars in the Middle East were a trap that robbed America of the precious lives of our patriots and depleted the wealth and prosperity of our nation. In your first administration, you understood better than any modern President how to decisively apply military power without getting us drawn into never-ending wars. You demonstrated this by killing Qasam Solamani and by defeating ISIS. Early in this administration, high-ranking Israeli officials and influential members of the American media deployed a misinformation campaign that wholly undermined your America First platform and sowed pro-war sentiments to encourage a war with Iran. This echo chamber was used to deceive you into believing that Iran posed an imminent threat to the United States, and that should you strike now, there was a clear path to a swift victory. This was a lie and is the same tactic the Israelis used to draw us into the disastrous Iraq war that cost our nation the lives of thousands of our best men and women. We cannot make this mistake again. As a veteran who deployed to combat 11 times and as a Gold Star husband who lost my beloved wife Shannon in a war manufactured by Israel, I cannot support sending the next generation off to fight and die in a war that serves no benefit to the American people nor justifies the cost of American lives. I pray that you will reflect upon what we are doing in Iran, and who we are doing it for. The time for bold action is now. You can reverse course and chart a new path for our nation, or you can allow us to slip further toward decline and chaos. You hold the cards. It was an honor to serve in your administration and to serve our great nation.
Joseph KentDirector, National Counterterrorism Center
First, Iran tried to assassinate President Trump which is in fact an act of war. That alone justifies our attack on the rogue terrorist state.
Second they have always been at war with us ands in fact DID pose an immanent threat to us as they were attacking our interests around the region and it was pretty clear they planned to attack us in our homeland. Why were so many illegal aliens coming here from Iran?
And they themselves said they had 11 nuclear weapons or at least enough enriched uranium for 11 devices anyway and they refused to negotiate to end their nuclear program. I would say that makes for a fairly immanent threat.
Oh I know; people will say "they were just lying to make themselves look tough" and maybe they were, but could the President really risk that?
Some boasts have to be taken seriously.
Third, Kent can't possibly believe Trump can be pressured into doing something he knows is wrong. Trump is the one man who makes up his own mind. Nobody forces that guy's hand. There is no way Trump would be convinced or tricked by Netanyahu or the Jewish lobby in America. It was a politically dangerous gamble in the first place and Trump is not a fool.
He says:
"In your first administration, you understood better than any modern President how to decisively apply military power without getting us drawn into never-ending wars. You demonstrated this by killing Qasam Solamani and by defeating ISIS."
So how is this qualitatively any different than those actions? Trump's attacks on Iran do not feature a single American on the ground inside Iran. It is the exact same principle being applies, just on a larger scale. If Kent thought it a good way to handle affairs then why does he complain now?
Finally, do notice the anti-semitism being displayed by Kent in claiming the Israelis aka Jews tricked Bush into going into Iraq and that they and the media tricked Trump for the same reasons. This is just absurd; Bush wanted to go into Iraq to clean up the mess his father left, who went into Iraq to liberate Kuwait, which Iraq had illegally invaded. Say what you will but it had nothing to do with Israel. Israel did their own dirty work, destroying Saddam Hussein's nuclear program, for instance. They didn't need us and they didn't ask us to invade. That decision was entirely George W. Bush's and this decision is entirely Donald J. Trump's. And Trump is right; we could not afford to kick this can down the road any further.
Kent is the one using media talking points here, not Donald Trump, not Pete Hegseth, and not anyone in the Administration.
Had Kent come to the President and tendered his resignation quietly I would perhaps give him credit, but he did this quite publicly to embarrass the President and his Administration and give fodder to the mecia and the Democrats. We've seen this sort of behavior before, during the first Trump Administration when fair-weather friends suddenly jumped ship because they thought the political winds were shifting and they wanted to be on the winning side. I fear that is what Kent is doing here. Going public in this fashion was guaranteed to buy him good press and invitations on the Sunday news talk shows.
He is setting himself up for a political run, or at least a job at CNN.
I would add the U.S. has invaded other countries for less. Remember te peacekeepers in Somalia? The Iranian regime murdered 40,000 of it's own citizens - a horrible massacre by any standard. The people are ready to revolt and are a. fearful of being killed by the Mullahs and b. were told by President Trump to stay home and avoid the bombing. Fear of the Mullahs will wane as most of the Mullahs are now room temperature, and when the bombing ends the People may well rise up. This is as humane a war as we've ever encountered. clearly meeting Augustine's definition of a just war.
Kent knows all this, and if not he should never have been in the position he was in. Sometimes you have no choice but fight a war, and sometimes it is quite prudent to not wait until you lose, say, ten million citizens when Iran nuked New York City (although we'd at least have gotten rid of Momdani).
I for one am glad this guy has left the Administration.
I get it; we don't want to keep fighting endless wars. I don't and am on record opposing any involvement in Ukraine, for instance. But these guys regularly chant "death to America" and have been attacking us and our interests since 1979. At some point you have to fight. In the Islamic world someone who just overlooks being attacked is a coward and that only invites more attacks. I have little doubt many in the Middle East hold us in complete contempt because we won't fight - and we think we can "win hearts an minds" by building schools and hospitals. We see that as benevolence - they see it as cravenness. They see that as our trying to buy them off.
That is what Obama tried. That is what Bush tried. That is what the autopen tried. It doesn't work.
There is no way to deal with a bully but beat him senseless. Iran was and remains a bully. If Kent knew anything about a schoolyard or a battlefield he would know that.
This tweet says it all:
Cynical Publius
@CynicalPublius
So the head of the "National Counterterrorism Center" is mad because we've taken out the direct sponsor of most of global terrorism over the past 50 years?
Make it make sense.
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Judge Issues Injunction against HHS Vax Schedule
Timothy Birdnow
The Judiciary is completely out of control.
This is a case that had no business being heard at all; it falls well outside of the purview of the court system. This is a political matter and the authority to put out a vaccine schedule lies with the Executive branch. There should be no right at all for judicial review.
I suppose it's good we are finding out about all these activist judges; they have had to tip their hands during this administration. Otherwise they would have pretended to be judges rather than activists and then would have done far more damage because people would think them unbiased rather than partisan hacks.
Let me ask a simple question; if all Kennedy was doing was revising the schedule of RECOMMENDED vaccinations how is that a matter for the court? It's not like he's saying kids can't have the extra vaccinations if their parents want them, just that this is a list of vaccines that Health and Human Services recommends. So why did the American Academy of Pediatrics file suit in the first place? They could still recommend those vaccinations themselves and there is nothing Kennedy could do to prevent that.
It's because this outfit wants to COMPEL these vaccinations using the force of law, or at least the prestige of the CDC.
That is why this court should have dismissed this case when it was filed. If nothing else the American Academy of Pediatrics lacked standing; they cannot show that they were injured by this schedule change. They might disagree with the decision and are entirely free to say so, bt how were they actually injured by this? That is the very definition of lacking standing. Given how often courts deny Conservative cases for lack of standing (like vote fraud cases where voters are said to lack standing) you would think they would be cognizant of the double standard.
I would add the American Medical Association and the March of Dines and the Autism Foundation as well as other groups already said they were going to disregard the advisory from HHS and the CDC, so why was this case adjudicated at all?
This judge also has stopped Kennedy from appointing a number of people to an advisory board for vaccinations, so it is again a case of the judiciary legislating from the bench. This judge has no authority over who Kennedy appoints to an advisory board.
In addition this clown of a judge has overturned other recommendations by the Kennedy camp, such as not giving newborns hepatitis vaccinations.
Where was this creepy cracker judge when Joe Biden was implementing Covid vaccination mandates aka forcing people to take an untested drug which could permanently ruin their health or even kill them? This was entirely against the will of some people yet this judge didn't utter a peep. For that matter, Biden increased the vaccination schedule's for children too and we heard nothing about how he had no legal right to do it. But try to scale it back and suddenly it's Lexington and Concord time.
Oh, did I mention that the judge in question is U.S. District Judge Brian E. Murphy, a Biden appointee and a guy who has imposed his will on the Administration over the rule of law in times past? Murphy was recommended by Fauxcahontas herself - Elizabeth Warren - for this post. He was approved by the Senate in a straight party lie vote.
Murphy is a judge in Massachusetts yet he is issuing a nationwide injunction in violation of the U.S. Supreme Court.
This is the jackass who issued an injunction stopping the Trump administration from deporting illegal aliens to third party countries. He was slapped down by the Supreme Court in a rather harshly worded ruling.
Sadly there is no way to punish openly partisan jerks like this. We desperately need a mechanism to recall judges who overstep their authority.
I have little doubt the Administration will win on appeal eventually - though it will probably wind up at the Supreme Court.
What the Trump Administration should do is obey the ruling ONLY IN Massachusetts and publish separate guidelines for this judge's jurisdiction only until the appeal goes through. They should tell him to go to hell when he tries to cite them with contempt. SCOTUS was quite clear on these national injunctions.
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Rosie Comes to the GOP: The Deranged "Trump Staged It" Crowd
Timothy Birdnow
I always knew this guy was a big poseur.
From the article:
Now, however, as Trump has made numerous decisions in his second term that have run afoul of his MAGA supporters, an increasing number of them have also begun to cast doubt on the official narrative surrounding his assassination attempt. One of the most prominent names so far has been far-right pundit and influencer, Milo Yiannopoulos.
"I hate myself for thinking it but dude that s——t wasn't real," Yiannopoulos wrote in a recent post to X, responding to another similarly skeptical user. "There was no assassination attempt. It didn't happen. I'm sorry it just didn't."
"As we learn more about the scam filled life of Donald Trump, why isn't there a serious investigation into the staged 'assassination' attempt in Butler, PA," another X anti-Trump Republican X user wrote in a post. "THAT was the moment when Trump stole the 2024 election. Get after it investigative journalists! America deserves the truth!"
"I’ve never re-watched this clip until now," Hannah Cox, a self-described libertarian-conservative and president of BASEDPolitics, wrote in response to another user sharing a clip of the attempt from a news broadcast. "Look at the people behind him and their reactions. No one on earth would sit there like that after a public shooting broke out. Compare this to the crowd and people around Charlie Kirk when he’s shot."
I've always believed Milo Yiannopoulos was a man more out for his own aggrandizement than a true patriot. And since his fifteen minutes of fame are up he's desperate to get back in the limelight - even if it means threatening to destroy the coalition that has given us the means to save the Republic.
Like him or hate him Trump is our best hope, nay, our only hope.
But I'd like these geniuses, especially that Hannah Montana chick, to explain how this was a staged shooting when a guy behind Trump was hit and killed right there on stage. You can't possibly argue HE was faking it.
Guys like Yawnie are ultimately moles, burrowed into the fabric of the Conservative movement with evil intent. I don't know if he is consciously trying to wreck the movement or if he is just so vain and self-seeking that he is willing to wreck it for his own benefit, but either way he's a parasite hoping to make his mark at the expense of his movement, his party, and his country.
This is why we have so much trouble holding a coalition together; people like this gain prominence (largely because they are great self-promoters) and they sow the seeds of discord and doubt and acrimony. Men of true virtue are pushed out by such. Dante had several places for such in his Inferno, among them the pit of the flatterers who gained an easy life at the expense of those who would have done good. One also could look to Antenorra, the lowest pit of Hell for some.
At any rate the guy's fame is over and he needs to exit the stage. Of course this article was written almost entirely to sow discord and start infighting where there is little happening now.
Sadly a number of Conservatives - especially the paleos who want us to pretend the outside world does not exist and the Neocon RINO wing who want to go back to the "free trade" which made them rich and the interventionist policies which made the munitions industry rich and empowered the diplomat class - hate Trump for what he is doing, and that largely because they know what he is doing can and is working. Success proves the utter bankruptcy of the last fifty years of poicy and shows that these oh-so-wise leaders never did intend to help America so much as themselves.
These people are as deranged as Rosie O'Donnell and the other people who believe Bush staged 911
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Giant Somali Drug Bust
Timothy Birdnow
The Somali corruption just keeps getting worse and worse.
You know the authorities HAD to be aware this was happening.
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March 16, 2026
How the GOP Made it Worse to be White
Timothy Birdnow
How the GOP's efforts to promote color blindness in hiring and school admissions cost only white people when it all came down to ending racial discrimination.
The reforms made to establish "color blindness" merely switched the favored racial status from Black/Latino to Asian while maintaining the Black/Latino favoritism.
The article points to Harvard admissions, which simply took more Asians and fewer whites even though the university itself admits that under a fair assessment the whites would be the lion's share of admissions.
The GOP is a feckless, hapless bunch, ever stepping on their own Johnsons. Sadly there is nobody advocating for the white community any more, even as the whites are slipping out of power in an America increasingly colorized.
Will the new majority, once they have it, be as kind as the supposedly racist white people? I rather doubt it.
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The Oily Silk Road
Timothy Birdnow
This guy's not wrong.
Most Americans know very little about central Asia and the Caucasus and that is a shame because it is of growing importance.
The U.S. has long had ties to two nations in the region - Armenia and Georgia. We have long sought to build oil and gas pipelines to get central Asian oil and gas to Europe while bypassing both Russia and Iran. The Russian invasion of Georgia back in 2008 was intended to prevent the cozy relationship between Georgia and the U.S./NATO and to stop Georgia from building pipelines. The first thing the Russians did was bomb the Mozdok-Tbilisi natural gas pipeline at the outset of the war.
Azerbaijan is a pro-western republic, even though it is primarily Shia Muslim. The U.S. has had limited diplomatic relations with Azerbaijan and that since the 1992 Freedom Support Act restricts aid to Azerbaijan. That outdated law needs some serious reform but we are still stuck in this Clinton-era mindset.
At any rate Israel is a close ally of Azerbaijan and supported them in their recent war with Armenia (you'd think they'd be allies since both suffered attempts at genocide against them but the Armenians and Israelis appear to genuinely dislike each-other.)
The Chicoms know all this and will pivot away from Iran if it suits them - and right now it does. This oily silk road between the fields in Asia and Europe is a critical energy corridor and the Chinese are going to need it. While there is an alliance between Russia and China there has never been any love lost between the two and China no more wants to be dependent on Russia than do the Europeans. So the Chinese need this trade route - not just for oil but for other things the Euroweenies want.
We should get our foot in the door now in the region. It is a much neglected but important area that is of critical importance to the flow of oil and gas, and it illustrates how to reform the Islamic world, particularly how Iran should and could be run.
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Alexandria on the Tigris
Timothy Birdnow
Amazing; a city founded by Alexander the Great has just been discovered.
Alexander on the Tigris was long thought a legend but archaeologists have recently unearthed the long lost city
The city was founded in the fourth century B.C. on the Tigris river in what is now Iraq. The Tigris river's channel changed, leaving the city high and dry (literally) and it withered. By the third century A.D. it was pretty much gone.
The city is extraordinarily well preserved. It was two and a half square miles in area - huge as ancient cities went.
At any rate we live in exciting times.
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The Convenient Illness of Jair Bolsonaro
Timothy Birdnow
Pnuemlnia, or was he being poisoned?
This article falsely claims Bolsonaro is serving time in prison for a coup attempt. This is a lie; he's a political prisoner who is serving time in prison for protesting a stolen election just as President Trump did. The only thing is the Bolshevik who took power was able to make this accusation against Bolsonaro and had the power to make it stick in Brazil.
This is a reprint of an Ass Press, er Associated Press story.
I wish Donald Trump would take steps to get Bolsonaro out. I'm sure there is some leverage he can apply to force Brazil's hand.
At any rate his death would be most convenient for the ruling Bolsheviks. I wouldn't be at all surprised if he isn't being poisoned.
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The Agony of "The Feet"
Timothy Birdnow
I didn't know Michelle Obama was in the Buckeye state!
This information comes from the Bigfoot Society, proving that people have waaayy too much free time on their hands.
Don't know about Bigfoot but certainly Moosechelle has been elusive these days.
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Don't Let the Door Hit You...
Timothy Birdnow
Check it out; Marco Rubio is streamlining the process to renounce your citizenship.
In an effort to squeeze very penny he could out of American expats Barack Obama increased the fee to renounce citizenship from $450 to $2350 in order to force former Americans to pay a ridiculously high Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA). Obama raised taxes on expatriated folks to prevent the rich from offshoring their bank accounts and thus deprive him of money he could swindle the productive out of to buy votes.
So Rubio is trying to streamline the renunciation process (it now takes multiple reviews and permission) and wants to lower the cost back to $450.
Renouncing your citizenship should not cost you a penny, frankly. Getting it back should be what is difficult.
At any rate this will make it more attractive to the Hollywood screwballs and others who think America sucks, and hopefully we can waive a fond farewell to the people who hate half of their fellow citizens. If you don't want to be a citizen then get out.
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Iran Blinking on Strait of Hormuz
Timothy Birdnow
I've said it all along; if the Strait of Hormuz is closed to shipping the Iranians will be hurt worse than anyone else. Closure does as much a disservice to Iran as it does to the United States - maybe more so. Iran's chief export moves primarily through that strait.
Yes, the airstrikes on Kharg Island and Trump's unwillingness to back down have given the Iranians pause, but I suspect they are starting to realize this closure hurts them more than it helps them. And in the process it infuriates their Arab neighbors based in the Gulf of Arabia.
Actually there is no good reason NOT to burn out the island, which is the nerve center for Iran's oil industry. We can ship the crude elsewhere for refining.
The idea of building a canal to bypass the Strait of Hormuz has been kicked around for decades. For instance, Dubai thought to do it back in 2008 but the cost is prohibitive and it would only have value in times of war. There would be no profit for such a canal in peacetime.
The canal would need to stretch `112 miles and travel over the Hajar mountains, moving ships with locks. Since oil tankers are ridiculously heavy and large the task would be daunting - and very expensive.
Another option is building a pipeline and offloading the ships in the Gulf. Abu Dhabi has the Habshan Fujaira pipeline to move oil from the Gulf to the Indian Ocean, but it's like trying to feed an elephant with an eyedropper. A much larger pipeline is needed. But of course you have the same problem; it's economically impractical during peacetime.
So it looks like the Strait of Hormuz is going to be the lifeline of energy into the forseeable future. It's too bad because this gives Iran enormous power if they choose to exercise it. Of course, as I say, it is a double edged simitar for Iran as closing the strait hurts them as much or more than it hurts anyone else.
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