March 25, 2026
Spygate Worse than We Thought
Timothy Birdnow
The spying on Kash Patel and Suzie Wiles was worse than we were led to believe.
Oh, and our old friend James "Bozo" Boasberg was right in the thick of it.
I won't go into details here; read the article yourself.
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Newsom Threatens Journalists over Somali Daycare
Timothy Birdnow
What of the First Amendment Gavin?
The Constitution trumps any local civil rights legislation you schemed up.
And why aren't YOU investigating this yourself? Could it be you and your party have profited handily from this?
What do you have to hide Governor?
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A Moon Base and Nuclear Mars Probe
Timothy Birdnow
I've long called for a moonbase. Actually, what we need is industry on the moon, not just a research base, and no doubt NASA will fail in that; most of their plans are temporary most of the time. We need an actual lunar colony, a permanent place that does more than research but acts as a construction hub for building more stuff on the moon and harvesting materials for building orbital stations and the like. It is far easier to launch things from the moon than from the Earth.
NASA lacks imagination. We built the space station, for instance, using the least imaginative design with no gravity, something the original designs envisioned. Yes, it made it cheaper (you would have to spin a station pretty fast - around ninety miles an hour - to have Earth-normal gravity, but you don't need that much).
As was said by Robert Zubrin (I think) if God didn't intend for Man to go to space He wouldn't have put a planet 240,000 miles above our heads. He was right.
As for this Mars probe, we do need to harness nuclear power for deep space exploration. Right now we use chemical rockets and inertia to get to Mars, which takes too damned long. I'm not sure what type of nuclear propulsion they intend - the article was unclear.
There are several types. There is the Nerva K, which uses a nuclear reactor to superheat plasma for a very hot and fast rocket. We've never built that. Then there is the Orion, and we have actually built non-nuclear prototypes back in the fifties and early sixties. That uses atomic bombs - you chuck an atom bomb under the spacecraft and the detonation moves you FAST! The Orion was a true interplanetary drive, capable of getting to Mars in just a month or two. And it is capable of lifting over a million pounds off the Earth. But international treaties, particularly the Outer Space Treaty, made nukes in orbit illegal, so the program was shelved. There are undoubtedly other types of nuclear propulsion too, but most are illegal because of the dangers of the rocket exploding on lift off and spewing nuclear material hither and yon.
But we are going to need a nuclear drive if we want to reach the planets while we're still young. The Juno mission to Jupiter took 5 years, for instance; we simply have to do better, especially with manned missions. Granted New Horizons took 405 days, much faster than Juno, but that's still over a year. The most expensive and difficult part of space travel are consumables - air, water, food. You cannot dilly dally too long without running out of those. A probe need carry none of that.
So we're going to need a drive that is faster than a chemical rocket.
At any rate I like what I am hearing. We really, really need to settle on the moon.
The moon has problems though; you don't have very much water there, for instance. And the moon is not protected by any magnetic field, neither the Earth's nor it's own (which it is lacking) so interplanetary and even interstellar radiation pummels the old rock ceaselessly. We will have to build underground to protect against radiation, and particularly against solar flares. We can have some surface habitats for temporary use but you have to get your heinie underground damned quick when a flare is detected. Better to build underground.
Which we could do in a lava flow tube. Such tubes exist on Earth but are small - usually just a few dozen yards at most and maybe five feet wide if you are lucky. On the Moon, with the low gravity and no water or air, these tubes grow hundreds of miles long and dozens of miles wide. And their temperature is a constant comfortable -50 degrees, far warmer than the minus 250 of the surface at night and far cooler than the 200 plus temperatures of the lunar day. With no air in the tube it would be easy to heat up a shelter inside that tube to a comfortable temperature.
The lunar Rilles - those radial spokes coming off large craters - are collapsed lava flow tubes.
We could also build domes over craters and cover them with lunar regolith.
At any rate we'd have unlimited free solar power during the day, and if we settle at the poles we would have it permanently. Night time could use stored power, and perhaps solar power satellites in orbit, and even a nuclear reactor. "Renewable" energy aka solar is far, far more reliable in a place with no air.
As for air, we can bake it right out of the rocks. Plenty of oxygen there. Not much in the way of nitrogen but I don't doubt we could solve that. One way would be to use helium, which is, well, not plentiful but abundant enough on the moon (and would be a great export as helium is getting scarce here on Earth and has become quite pricey.) Of course everyone will sound like Donald Duck...
The only thing we can't simulate is gravity, and it's unclear how people will fare long-term in low gravity. It may be we can't live our whole lives in it at all, even with a heavy exercise regimen. And we don't know if it's possible to conceive a child in low gravity, and if we do we don't know if that child will develop normally. It may wind up deformed terribly.
That's why we need to go, to find out.
It would be a shame if we couldn't live on the moon, but then there is always space living. Build big habitats and rotate them for Earth normal gravity. The radiation thing will be tricky, but I suspect we can solve that. We could use the moon as a mine and construction hq for a space colony. Gerard O'Neil, professor at MIT, devised his O'Neil colonies with his students. Forty mile long beer cans with window openings along the long axis. There are other designs; the Bernal Sphere, which would be a globe with varying gravity in different parts of it, the Stanford Torus, which is basically the design of the space station in 2001: a Space Odyssey. There are even designs that look like tops.
We don't know if we can do any of this until we try. But we need to try because we need to expand beyond the Earth. Eventually something horrible will happen; a major asteroid strike, a huge solar flare, a black hole wandering into the solar system, etc. We need to be spread out enough to survive.
So a hearty cheer for NASA for starting this off. Let us hope they don't screw it up with international partners and not getting private industry involved. We need Musk there. We don't need the Russkies or Chicoms or the useless Europeans.
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Iran Breaks Ceasefire
Timothy Birdnow
Iran hasn't learned their lesson yet.
The problem is we don't know who is running the country and while the people we are talking to may have good intentions the other factions can just do as they please. I suspect Iran has no central government any longer.
That doesn't mean we should stop the bombing.
I wouldn't put too much stock in Iranian promises not to pursue a nuclear weapon. I suspect they will try harder than ever now.
As everyone is aware by now, Trump sent a large continent of paratroopers to the region, probably with the intent of taking Kharg Island. He doesn't want to just burn it out because he wants to be able to rebuild the Iranian economy after the war. I don't know about the wisdom of that strategy; the Iranians themselves might well torch the island with our troops on it. And since Trump promised no boots on the ground he would be shown to be an oath-breaker, a politically dangerous label.
I'm not sure what the President's plan is, but he's playing a dangerous game. I hope he knows what he is doing.
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The Democratic Base
Timothy Birdnow
End Wokeness
@EndWokeness
Senator Chris Murphy: "The people we care about most, the undocumented migrants"
He actually said that
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The ICE have it!
Timothy Birdnow
He's not wrong.
Trump put ICE in the airports and the lines melted away.
I opposed the creation of the TSA in the first place and still think it largely a useless agency. Why don't we just dissolve it and go back to the way things had been done? There was no "systemic failure" by screeners at airports that led to 911; we simply took private screeners out and replaced them with union government types.
Maybe we can do better. Maybe ICE should be expanded and this could be part of their mission.
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CA Sheriff Refuses to End Vote Audit
Timothy Birdnow
It appears that the Democrats cheated in the special election to decide if the state legislature should be allowed to do redistricting, and one sheriff has seized 650,000 ballots to prove it.
State Democrats are furious and demand he stand down.
Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco took action after his office received multiple complaints about excess ballots - as many as 45,000 - and so to stop the authorities from "disappearing" them he seized all questionable ballots and will do a count in his own office.
The state attorney general office has moved to stop this count on the grounds the Sheriff's department "lacks expertise".
What expertise? You look at a ballot, you match it to a name, and you're done. It's hardly rocket science.
At any rate sheriff Bianco is a Republican running for governor, so he does have a vested interest. But that will not alter basic arithmetic. The question is does the vote count match the recorded votes?
It's hard to argue with third grade math.
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Oil Refinery Explosion in Texas
Timothy Birdnow
Sabotage?
Was this the work of Iran?
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Dem Blames Girl for Being Murdered
Timothy Birdnow
Yeah, and all those women Bill Cosby drugged and then raped had taken advantage of HIM too!
Why would someone freak out when an 18 college gitl appeared?
This was clearly intentional.
Where are all the feminists now?
"The kids were out doing normal things people do in the neighborhood,” Hadden said of Gorman and her friends, "and it sounds like this might have been a wrong place, wrong time, running into a person who had a gun, and they might have startled this person at the end of the pier unintentionally.”
Chicago Alderchick Maria Haddon, Democrat.
BTW I remember the murder of the Kerry sisters in 1991. They were two young girls who went on the abandoned Chain of Rocks bridge (near where I grew up) with their male cousin to read a poem the girls had written on the bridge (everyone put graffiti all over the bridge, which is why it wound up in the movie Escape from New York). Thugs threw the cousin off the bridge into the Mississippi river, then raped and tossed the girls off. To this day there are liberal Democrats working to get the remaining thug off for this heinous crime because, well, they were black and the victims were white.
My mother had taught both of those girls when they were young, by the way.
The girls had written a poem about racial injustice and a plea for racial tolerance, and that was what they went to look at this terrible night. They had passed these thugs and, not wanting to play into racial stereotypes, did not take any defensive action, not even fleeing. It cost them teir lives.
The point is if you see any stranger after dark you had best proceed with caution. This girl who was murdered may not have done so. BUT this illegal alien who murdered her should never have been here in the first place and the fact a Democrat alderwoman would try to find a justification for what he did speaks volumes.
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March 24, 2026
Suck on this Gang Green
Timothy Birdnow
Alaska and Canada have been freezing this winter, with Fairbanks experiencing the second coldest winter it has had since 1904-5.
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Boston Colleges Defy Trump, Act as Sanctuaries
Timothy Birdnow
And yet these institutions are still receiving federal dollars.
The Hall of Shame includes:
Harvard (who else), MIT, Boston University, UMASS Boston, and Suffolk University.
Time for these schools to lose any and all funding from taxpayers, and to get a pledge from the Trump Administration not to hire any graduates from these schools.
If you want to openly break the law there must be a penalty paid.
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MAGA Sitting Out CPAC
Timothy Birdnow
Donald Trump will not be attending CPAC this year, nor will any of his higher level people.
I suspect it's a security matter more than anything else; Trump faces a real threat from Iranian assassins, as do his top people (like Vance).
CPAC doesn't have the prestige it once had either, and Trump could find it more effective to campaign elsewhere rather than there. Too many RINO Republicans run CPAC.
The article theorizes that big monied interests, especially since the Schlapps took over, have made the event over-commercialized, favoring the RINO wing.
Steve Bannon and Ted Cruz appear to be the only MAGA conservatives who will appear. Most of the rest are foreign or not potential candidates for the Presidency in '28.
It's too bad; CPAC was once a force to be reckoned with, and you had to have a good showing there to have any hope of winning the Presidency. But chasing dollars has led it to become irrelevant.
So Trump certainly has no reason to risk his life by going there, especially during a war with an enemy who likes to skulk around in bushes waiting to murder you when you aren't looking.
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Dildoes for Jesus
Timothy Birdnow
Anglicanism is as dead as the country of Lesser Britain.
Protestia@Protestia·Mar 21Anglican priestess is partnering with a sex-shop to give away hundreds of free vibrators, and then donating any profits from her affiliation to Planned Parenthood.
This randy woman checks all the boxes too; she's a black female priestess in the Anglican church. I wonder if she's a lesbian as well.
At any rate a sane church would excommunicate her or at least defrock her. But the Anglicans lost their sanity some time ago.
It's funny; I don't remember Jesus and the Apostles selling adult marital aids to raise cash when they walked the Earth, and I don't recall them helping to pay for abortions...
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Muchscum Ritter has Short Eyes
Timothy Birdnow
Remember Scott Ritter? He was the obnoxious UNSCUM member who had his fifteen minutes of fame for saying Bush lied about weapons of mass destruction after he and his people said they were there.
Well, Ritter blew his career up and now we know he went to jail for having a little quirk.
He liked 'em young.
Mr. Ritter after a trial in which the jurors were forced to watch Mr. Ritter masturbating to photos of 14 year old kids naked. And he sent those photos of himself TO those 14 year old kids.
Daniel Friedman@DanFriedman81The reason former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter is now doing fringe podcasts is that his career was destroyed after he went to prison for being a pedophile.
Ritter sent videos of himself masturbating to 14 year-old girls. He had to sit in court while the jury watched those videos.
More and more it appears you have to be some sort of pervert to get ahead in Washington.
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Democrats Demand Voer I.D. for Rest of the World
Timothy Birdnow
Very interesting; the Democrats run an international agency, funded with taxpayer dollars, that teaches other countries about the importance of voter I.D.
Stacey Abrams, Tom Daschle, and a host of other has-been Donkeys run this operation which, among other things, pushes for voter I.D. overseas.
Interesting; yet they demand we have none here. Now why do you suppose that is?
I've had to produce a photo I.D. to visit my brother in the hospital. Every time - and they reproduce my picture on a nametag I have to wear - all just to see my own brother. But minorities are too stupid to figure out how to get an I.D. to vote, yes sir!
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Columbia Prof Convicted of Slavery
Timothy Birdnow
A Columbia University professor and U.N. judge was convicted of modern slavery for enslaving a young woman she hired to work as a maid.
Lydia Mugambe was a Ugandan lawyer and former judge who worked for the U.N. She was a fellow at Columbia.
These are the kinds of people hired by major universities in the U.S. and elsewhere. They are also the kind of people who have always inhabited the United Nations.
Why does anyone still listen to the major universities these days?
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Honest Journalism? No Such Thing with Mainstream Media
Timothy Birdnow
Fired CBS News reporter Scott McFarlane has joined the leftist and Democrat-associated Meidas Touch network.
After going on and on about his not becoming an editorialist but staying an "enterprise journalist" whatever that means he says;
"It’s important when we underscore how significant this moment is, this moment of unique political toxicity and unique political danger.
"MeidasTouch and I have long shared this same philosophy — you don’t platform lies. You don’t platform conspiracy theories. And you don’t allow for the whitewashing of history.”
I fail to see the distinction. It sounds pretty much to me like he's going to give his own opinions, only he's not honest enough to admit that's what he's doing.
Of course this could be any member of the media. McFarlane is just one of many who lie about being "honest journalists".
There is no honesty in modern journalism. The only honest journalists are in the alternate media.
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March 23, 2026
It's Good to be an Illegal Alien
Timothy Birdnow
Another day, another alien corruption story.
It seems every last illegal alien has their hand in the taxpayer till.
I remember Phil Collins famously sang "it's no fun being an illegal alien" He couldn't have been more wrong!
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The Paraguayan Miracle
Timothy Birdnow
How Paraguay, the once poor and disregarded South American country, embraced Trumpism and the Texas model and is now the hottest property in Latin America.
They cut taxes, cut regulations, embraced a "Paraguay first" model, and the rest and now they are booming.
This was never rocket science; we all know how to make an economy flourish and how to kill it. But politics is more religion than philosophical system and for decades a lie has blinded so many of our leaders - and the rest were blinded by ambition and greed.
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Swamp Still Full of Fetid Waters
Timothy Birdnow
Brian Joondeph looks at the quagmire in Washington and especially at Kash "what's the rush" Patel's failure to move on prosecutions.
Brian is right and while Patel and the rest may be following a legally prudent course of action they are failing to keep a core campaign promise - and this is infuriating the base of the party. At some point there has to be an accounting or this stuff (like the raid on Mar-a-Lago and the investigations of Trump) will just return when the Democrats get back in power (which becomes more likely the longer Patel and the rest foot drag.)
As Michael Corleone said in The Godfather "today we settle all Family business". Yet strangely that isn't happening.
Trump probably doesn't want to; he's probably been told by the GOP his agenda is finished if he pursues justice, so he will probably wait until after the election of '28 for the cases to be filed. I get it and understand Trump usually knows what he is doing, but that doesn't mean I like it.
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