April 03, 2026
Gas Blues in the Blue States
Timothy Birdnow
Almost all of the states with the highest oil and gas prices are Democrat.
So this war in Iran disproportionately impacts the Donkeys, who have raised taxes ridiculously high on fuel and now are paying the price.
Voters generally don't care who is to blame so much as who is in power and they will blame the Democrats in the upcoming election cycle, or enough of them will anyway.
The West Coast, Illinois, New York, Nevada, top the list of blue or purple. Only Arizona, which itself is purple and not red, and Florida are seeing high gas prices (along with Alaska and Hawaii but they are both special cases).
Of course everyone is seeing higher prices and that is a problem politically. But the other states will likely recover (and so too will Florida) well before the midterms, while the People's Republics will see a big lag as they continue to abuse the oil and gas producers.
A point to ponder about all this too is that we have yet to ramp up production to meet the need. Saudi Arabia barely increased production despite the crisis, and if they do ramp up their production there will be a noticeable drop in prices (right now they are skimming off the top, profiting from the high prices, but when it becomes obvious the crisis is about to pass they will want to grab what they can at higher rates and so ramp up production by a considerable amount.) And of course the U.S. is working to increase production, something very hard for us as our drilling requires a much more complex process and needs infrastructure for that - and it was basically halted under the Biden Administration. It will still be some time before we can cover the loss.
This spike is temporary, much like the oil price spike under George H.W. Bush during the first Gulf War. It came down and it will again.
High oil and gas prices are invariably a coefficient of bad policy or conditions outside of our control. Historically bad policy has caused it and that's what we are seeing play out in the Blue States now.
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Vance Suspends Hundreds of Medical Facilities for Fraud
Timothy Birdnow
J.D. Vance and his task force have suspended 221 hospices and other providers in California for fraud, with many more on the way.
Previously 70 providers had been suspended in the Las Angelas area. The rest of these are also in the city of the angels.
This sort of thig is exactly why we put the Trump Administration in office.
Meanwhile Pam Bondi was sacked as AG. I suspect there is a link between these two events.
Bondi reminds me of Tom Hagen in The Godfather "you're not a wartime consigliere". She's a good lawyer and faithful but not up for this sordid business. We need a pirate now, a Blackbeard, and not a William Bligh (who was actually too soft despite what they movies portray).
Stopping all the graft and corruption is also the way to right the ship of state, which has been mired in all this corruption. I have little doubt the Democrats get a taste of every penny that is stolen in California, in Minnesota, in Ohio, in Virginia etc.
This more than anything is why the Democrats so hate Donald Trump; he's doing what no previous Administration had ever done, which is go directly after the funding of the Democrat machine.
The last guy to do something like this was Grover Cleveland and they despised him too.
So getting Bondi out and bringing charges against these corruptocrats will defund the enemy just when they need money most.
People need to go to jail. Party of why Trump's numbers aren't where we would like (he should be beloved right now) is because of this failure to go after criminal behavior by the Democrats (and some Republicans too). People look at that and think "meet the new boss, same as the old boss" and so lump Mr. Trump in with all the rest, who protected the Establishment and set rules that were fundamentally different than the rules Americans lived under.
A big part of Trump's appeal was that he was an outsider, and he kept his promises. He has to do this or be seen as reneging on what he assured the American People. Oh, and it's good politics too.
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April 02, 2026
Carville Threatens Trump's Family
Timothy Birdnow
James Carville wants to go after Donald Trump's family if the Democrats take power in November.
Donald Trump had better take this seriously ands go after people like James Carville and his stupid Jack-faced kids.
I wonder if that's not why he sacked Biondi as AG; she wasn't going aggressively enough after the Democrats who plan another round of attacks on the President and his family.
Most of the more thoughtful Republicans excuse Biondi because "she couldn't get a conviction in court". But what would Democrats do? They would keep filing cases and forcing the enemy to respond, to waste resources, to waste time. "The prosecution is the punishment" they say. We need to go after them in an identical way, even if we lose the case. Drag their names through the mud and make them waste millions on attorneys and the like.
I know most of these cases wind up having to be filed in D.C. but try to find a way, any way, to file them in friendly courts outside of the power base of the Democrats. (Now we know why it's important to win the judgeships and to get a President who picks good ones.)
At any rate the Democrats are going to get very, very nasty if they regain power this fall. We need to make it clear that if they do this they will face the wrath of the Lord.
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GOP Surrenders Again
Timothy Birdnow
So Mike Johnson earns my nickname for him "tiny" as he surrenders and promotes a bill identical to the crap sandwich that John Thune negotiated in a backroom deal just a short while ago.]https://www.foxnews.com/politics/senate-passes-bill-fund-most-dhs-after-house-gop-caves
What is the point of electing Republicans if they don't have the stones to go the distance? Why were they worried about this when the Democrats weren't?
The GOP is nothing but a bunch of ball-less wonders.
Saul Alinsky said that if you push a negative long and hard enough it will break through and become a positive. That's what the Democrats did here. And on the flip side of this Sun Tzu said that opportunities multiply as they are seized and the corollary is they dry up when you let them slide by. The GOP has never understood that standing firm opens many doors for you but surrendering leaves you with few options.
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The Chosen (for Such a Time as These)
Jack Kemp (not the politician):
This is a short video posted below.. The speaker is obviously from India and he speaks of saving the Jews, but as Pres. Trump said this evening that he is saving all of us in the United States and around the world from the barbarity of the Iranian Mullas' plans and actions..
The Islamists have a saying, "First the Saturday People" (Jews with a Sabbath on Saturday). "Then the Sunday People" (Christians). That's who the Iranian regime wants to kill.
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April 01, 2026
Starmer Wants Back in E.U.
Timothy Birdnow
Here is an interesting post that touches on something important. British Prime Minister Keir Stammer, er, Starmer is talking about de-Brexiting because he's ruined the British relationship with the U.S. over the Iran war and now wants to cozy up to Europe.
In other words he's going to use this crisis to get what he has wanted all along.
The British upper class loved the E.U. and was angry about having to leave that corrupt and useless body. They schemed to keep Britain in the Great Harlot before Brexit and are still scheming to get Britain back in. This despite the fact a majority of British citizens do not want to rejoin the oppressive and bureaucratic nightmare on the continent.
I say if Starmer wants to rejoin the E.U. let him; it will only finish what he and his cronies on the Left started in Lesser Britain.
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A Mossy Little Ruling
Timothy Birdnow
A federal judge has ruled Trump's defunding NPR/PBS is unconstitutional in a largely symbolic win for the Demo-Left.
It is largely a symbolic victory because Congress has defunded those leftist rags and there is no way the judiciary can compel Congress to fund them.
But it sets a precedent, a bad one. For one thing, the reasoning is terrible; they are saying government cannot violate the First Amendment rights of these "news" organizations, but how is this violating their first amendment rights? These outfits - and they aren't news agencies but rather propaganda outlets - are not being told what they can or cannot say, but rather that they have no right to stick their grubby paws in the pockets of taxpayers. Trump just told them they couldn't get any more free money. That is in no way a First Amendment issue. If One America News were getting federal subsidies and Joe Biden had cut them off none of us would dream of suing on that basis.
Oh,, the black robed jackass who made this ruling is Randolph Moss, an Obama appointee. Bet you didn't see that coming, did you?
This will probably be overturned on appeal, if the Trump Administration chooses to bother with it. They should; this strikes at the heart of the Executive Branch's authority to utilize funds wisely.
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Dem Mayor wants to Remove Mural of Murdered Ukrainian Immigrant
Timothy Birdnow
An illegal immigrant with a lengthy criminal record stabbed an Ukrainian immigrant to death on a Charlotte light rail car and this sparked an artist in Providence, Rhode Island to make a big mural to honor Iryna Zarutska. Only problem is the mayor of Providence - the "honorable" Brett Smiley - wants it taken down as "divisive".
That's how little the Democrats care about victims of crime and victims of illegal aliens.
The mural is right outside a gay nightclub and is perhaps offensive to the patrons there.
At any rate the mayor is trying to take this thing down, which is an appeal for stricter laws and is backed by Elon Musk.
Smiley had this to say about it:
"The murder of the individual depicted in this mural was a devastating tragedy, but the misguided, isolating intent of those funding murals like the one across the county is divisive and does not represent Providence,”
How so? It is merely a picture of Iryna. How is this "isolating"? Being murdered was pretty isolating for her, and no doubt her poor mother, both of whom immigrated from Ukraine to be safe from the war there.
So all the professed love of the Democrats is a farce; immigrants are only there for the benefits that can be derived by the Democrats. Oh, and since they were WHITE immigrants that automatically makes them bad.
This Smiley face fellow should be ashamed of himself.
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Italy Denies U.S. Permission to Land in Sicily
Timothy Birdnow
So Italy just dissed us, refusing their NATO ally and friend and benefactor permission to land bombers in Sicily. This is a pretty stunning, brazen betrayal by a nation that was liberated with American blood and which to the present day relies on American military power to keep it safe.
We sought permission to land our bombers at the "Hub of the Med" Sigonella airbase and were refused permission by Italian authorities.
Considering we pay the lion's share of NATO it sure doesn't seem we're getting our money's worth. President Trump has made suggestions we may want to rethink our whole participation in NATO, an organization that was created to contain the Soviet Union, a nation that no longer exists.
Spain has also pulled this on us, denying us use of their airspace. And Britain was thinking about it but Trump made it clear our number one ally wouldn't be permitted to screw us in that fashion.
With friends like these...
Although we built this base we lease it from the Italians. And the contract stipulates we get permission from Rome for any actual warfare activities (as opposed to routine stuff). European countries all want American military bases because they bring a lot of American dollars into their economies. But when we need to actually USE the bases we get pushback like this. Maybe it's time to simply pull out of many of these European countries? Frankly, I think we should probably think about pulling out of NATO; it will collapse if we were to leave. We can make a new coalition "of the willing" to service our needs without carrying the deabeats. Deadbeats like Italy.
Italy is now saying that any request to use Italian airspace should be debated in Parliament first.
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Trump's Plan to Attend SCOTUS Triggers Van Jones
Timothy Birdnow
"First of all, Donald Trump is doing the wrong thing at the wrong time in the wrong place for the wrong reason, as usual. The President of the United States has no business being in the Supreme Court. We have a separation of powers for a reason. It’s not just unprecedented, it’s unwise, it’s unbecoming, and it’s unfair for someone who appointed people to the bench to be sitting there mad dogging them, trying to get his way. This is a terrible idea. It’s a terrible argument.”
Van Jones, who enthusiastically supported Barack Obama, the man who showed up at SCOTUS to bully the justices into approving Obamacare:
@CharlesleeTX1911@Charles07788205Really now???"Presidents who have attended oral arguments at the U.S. Supreme Court:
John Quincy Adams (6th President)He attended oral arguments multiple times while he was President (1825–1829).He continued attending even after leaving office, as he served in the House of Representatives.
Abraham Lincoln (16th President)Lincoln attended oral arguments at least once as President (in 1860, before his inauguration, and again during his presidency).
Franklin D. Roosevelt (32nd President)FDR attended oral arguments on at least one occasion.
William Howard Taft (27th President)Taft attended several times — both as President and later as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court (the only person to hold both offices).
Modern Presidents:
No modern President (from Truman onward) has attended a Supreme Court oral argument while in office, with one notable exception:Barack Obama attended oral arguments once as President on March 26, 2012, for the landmark case NFIB v. Sebelius (the Obamacare case). He sat in the VIP section with his Solicitor General."
There is a special designated seating area for the President in the SCOTUS hearing chamber.
I don't recall hearing Van Jones complain about that at the time.
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Judge Spanks California
Timothy Birdnow
It's high time the legal games be punished.
The judge - Roger Benitez - multiplied the fine because the defendants who happen to be the State of California played all sorts of games, refiling a request for dismissal just one day after the judge denied their motion and otherwise making jackasses of themselves to stretch this out in the hopes of exhausting the Thomas Moore Society, the plaintiffs.
If courts would do this more often we'd waste a lot less time and money. Courts are already backed up because of frivolous lawsuits and legalistic maneuvers designed to pump up billable hours and deny justice by financially exhausting one party. It's time that sort of nonsense ended.
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Kagan Spanks Brown Jackson
Timothy Birdnow
Elena Kagan, no Conservative, slammed Katanji Brown Jackson for her insane opinion over the Colorado conversion-therapy ban.
From Fox News:
Kagan joined the eight justices in finding that the Colorado government erred in regulating Chiles' practice because the state used a 2019 law that only banned therapists from counseling minors if the therapy entailed advising them on how to resist becoming transgender or gay. That amounted to restricting one viewpoint, in violation of the First Amendment, the majority said.
Kagan said that if the law were "content-based" rather than "viewpoint-based," it would present less of a free speech problem.
"Because the State has suppressed one side of a debate, while aiding the other, the constitutional issue is straightforward," Kagan said. "It would, however, be less so if the law under review was content-based but viewpoint neutral."
That pretty much sums it up; the state cannot suppress counseling on a controversial issue as opposed to "content based" aka if the medical professional was advocating some novel treatment that has no basis in science. But that's not what talk therapy is doing, and so people have the right to express a viewpoint when engaging in what is essentially a conversation.
This couldn't be clearer - except to Brown Jackson who is about as sharp as a feather. Even a low wattage bulb like Kagan can see that.
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March 31, 2026
SCOTUS Overturns Colorado Law Prohibiting Conversion Therapy
Timothy Birdnow
Well this is certainly good news!
Government has no right to stop parents or the kids themselves from seeking counseling to change what they themselves do not want. Would the state of Colorado ban alcoholism treatment? Basically "conversion therapy" is alcoholism treatment for sexual disorders.
Maybe we should have a celebration of alcoholism then? Make it a legal right, an identity that is celebrated? Maybe we should force drunks into women's locker rooms? Maybe we should exempt them from DWI laws because "they were born that way"?
Actually Federal law makes it a crime to discriminate against drunks; you can't refuse to rent to an alcoholic, for instance. So the Left has actually sought to implement that, although that was a tough sell.
Liberals be crazy.
At any rate this thing was shot down by a whopping 8 to 1 vote, with only the insane idiot Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson voting to allow Colorado to infringe the right to freedom of speech (which is what this law did). Brown argued it was Colorado's right to "regulate healthcare" and that justified suspending the First Amendment. (That woman should never have been on ANY court, not just SCOTUS.)
Conversion therapy is talk therapy and not negative reinforcemet. There is no punishment for "slipping" as some alcohol treatment programs employ. (These programs often use a drug that makes the alcoholic deathly ill if he even smells alcohol to condition him to fear and loath booze.)
No therapist would risk the punishments for violating this law if it stood, meaning they could not discuss body issues unless advocating for gender reassignment aka transing the kids.
Naturally LGBTQ groups were horrified; it means fewer perverts to swell their ranks.
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12 Time More Cold Deaths than Heat Deaths
Timothy Birdnow
The Gang Green is on record saying the planet is getting hotter and that this will lead to more heat deaths.
I guess it's "cold because it's hot" as Judah Cohen and the rest of the nitwits claim.
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Climate Change isn't Raising Chicago Insurance Premiums - Liberalism is
Timothy Birdnow
And don't forget ever rising taxes and the increasingly dangerous criminal climate in the Windy City.
It's more expensive to insure properties in the Land of Lincoln, Winkin' and Nod.
FromWattsupwiththat:
A recent article at the Chicago Sun Times (CST) claims that "Climate change is fueling a surge in Illinois home insurance premiums,” via increases in severe weather. This is false. Severe weather is not getting worse in Illinois, so it cannot be the driver for insurance costs. Other factors, like increasing home values and inflation, are driving insurance rates higher.
The article is sponsored by the environment focused media group Grist, so there is already an incentive to inflate the climate angle and downplay the more important reasons why insurance costs are rising in already-expensive Illinois. Those other reasons are mentioned briefly in the post, "the value of a home, the cost of the materials needed to rebuild it, and even the credit scores of the homeowner,” all impact insurance costs, but the CST insists that really climate change is the main problem.
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Another Day, Another Trump Bashing Article in the Wall Street Journal
Timothy Birdnow
What a total load of diaper pudding!
It’s a fundamental democratic question: Does he represent voters or himself?
Let me see; Mr. Trump faced being sent to prison (and still might be), and his company lost vast sums of money, including a judgment that cost him three quarters of a billion dollars, and he almost lost his life in one of two assassination attempts.
Sorry, but you cannot possible make this case with a straight face in light of what Trump has sacrificed for America.
Meanwhile his policies are all in line with what the majority of Americans want and asked him to do.
Also, if we are to go there, what about the war in Iran? Trump does not stand to benefit from that personally at all, but rather this could lose Congress in the next election which will mean Trump's impeachment and possibly eventually his imprisonment (like Bolsonaro in Brazil). How is Trump "profiting" from any of this?
The Wall Street Urinal is precisely that these days - nothing but "Orange Man Bad".
At the beginning of this article the author suggests Trump will cut a deal as if that is a bad thing. Trump ALWAYS cuts deals if his opponents are willing. But he drives a hard bargain. And if he didn't cut a deal he would be accused by people like this author of being rigid and stubborn and "not having the temperament to lead".
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Robots to Take McDonalds
Timothy Birdnow
In 1968 Science Fiction writer Larry Niven wrote "Intent to Deceive", a short story about an all-robot restaurant that malfunctions in a big way, leading to the inevitable demise of one of the characters as he attempts to flee through the kitchen.
That's what I thought about when I read this:
We all have wondered about the amount of actual beef in a Big Mac in times past; now we may REALLY have to worry about that!
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The Liberal Hate Machine
Timothy Birdnow
Tim Graham looks at the reasons why PBS should be not just defunded but lose their broadcast licenses.
I caught part of this fauxcumentary; it dragged out every imaginable shibboleth against Conservatives that it could stuff into such a film.
Of course this little teleplay failed to address the many black and Latino folks who voted for Trump. How could they when the "MAGA Media Machine" was preaching hatred for blacks and Latinos?
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Senate to go for the Whole Enchilada?
Timothy Birdnow
Who here believes for a minute the GOP in the Senate will go to the mat like this? The feckless Senate Republicans haven't got the 'nards for this.
Bill Melugin@BillMelugin_NEW: Sen. John Hoeven (R-ND) tells reporters GOP didn’t introduce the House passed DHS funding bill via unanimous consent today because Sen. Coons (D-DE) was here to object/kill it.
I asked why not at least try and let Dems kill it?
Hoeven indicated they may try to get consensus before the Senate reconvenes on Thursday & may try it then.
BUT….
Hoeven also indicated Senate Republicans are done negotiating with Democrats & he wants to pivot instead to passing 3 years of DHS funding via reconciliation, which wouldn’t require Dem votes.
"We're taking this off the table, that that's enough of this with the Democrats,” Hoeven said.
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