Month: March 2026

The Intermittent Missive – The Late Edition

Mar 3:

Supreme Court Rules 6-3 That California Schools Cannot Hide Student Gender Transitions from Parents
https://istandforfreedom.com/supreme-court-student-gender/

AW here???
https://oldnfo.substack.com/p/aw-here
Very possible, IMHO. Kurt Schlichter’s column is worth the read…
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Be Armed and Ready – the Asymmetrical Battlefield Could Be Here at Home
https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2026/03/02/be-armed-and-ready-the-asymmetrical-battlefield-could-be-here-at-home-n2672104
Time to be ready. Time to be armed… There is a non-zero chance we will have to fight this battle in America. Some people will dismiss this warning as silly. Some people will dismiss this as paranoid. They will run when it happens. You need to decide in advance that you won’t. If it doesn’t come to fruition, that’s more than fine with us. We don’t want a fight, but, dammit, if those b******s start a fight in our home, we need to be ready to finish it.

Israeli Strike Just Hit Another Meeting of the Iranian Supreme Council
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/amy-curtis/2026/03/03/report-israeli-strike-just-hit-another-meeting-of-the-iranian-supreme-council-n2672207
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Iran Supreme Council Bombed While Gathering to Choose New Leadership
https://www.westernjournal.com/breaking-iran-supreme-council-bombed-gathering-choose-new-leadership/
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Israel Bombs Iran’s Assembly of Experts While They Were Counting Votes for a New Supreme Leader
https://redstate.com/rusty-weiss/2026/03/03/israel-bombs-irans-assembly-of-experts-while-they-were-counting-votes-for-a-new-supreme-leader-n2199785
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Trump: ‘It was 49 leaders that were taken out’ in Iran
https://gellerreport.com/2026/03/trump-it-was-49-leaders-that-were-taken-out-in-iran.html/

Hegseth: ‘We didn’t start this war, but under President Trump we are going to finish it’
https://gellerreport.com/2026/03/hegseth-we-didnt-start-this-war-but-under-president-trump-we-are-going-to-finish-it.html/

Israel Co-Opted Major Iranian Prayer App To Encourage Millions to Turn Against the Islamic Regime
https://gellerreport.com/2026/03/israel-co-opted-major-iranian-prayer-app-to-encourage-millions-to-turn-against-the-islamic-regime.html/

What We Know About the African and Extremely Likely Jihadist Mass Shooter in Austin
https://www.westernjournal.com/know-african-extremely-likely-jihadist-mass-shooter-austin/
Local FBI officials said they are investigating the shooting as a potential act of terrorism, given the way the shooting unfolded after the U.S. and Israel successfully wiped out the current leadership regime in Iran…“Diagne first entered the U.S in 2000 on a B-2 tourist visa and became a lawful permanent resident six years later after marrying a U.S. citizen, according to DHS. He became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 2013, the department said. Diagne was originally from Senegal, according to multiple people briefed on the investigation who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss the investigation.” (leakers should be arrested and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law – jlr

Iran Raises The Red Flag Of Revenge Over The Jamkaran Mosque As Shiite Muslims All Over The Globe Start To Commit Acts Of Terror –
https://endoftheamericandream.com/iran-raises-the-red-flag-of-revenge-over-the-jamkaran-mosque-as-shiite-muslims-all-over-the-globe-start-to-commit-acts-of-terror/
Following the death of its Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran has raised the red flag of revenge above the Jamkaran Mosque in the city of Qom.
a red banner, which symbolises justice and revenge in Shiite tradition…for many Shiite Muslims, there is no limit as to what they would be willing to do to get revenge. They will never forgive, and they will never forget.

Grateful Kuwaiti Rushes to Help Downed US Pilot, While Leftist Woman Wishes Death to Military Service Members
https://www.westernjournal.com/watch-grateful-kuwaiti-rushes-help-downed-us-pilot-leftist-woman-wishes-death-military-service-members/
In the first video, an English-speaking man with a Middle Eastern accent raced toward a female U.S. pilot on a beach in what looked like the moments immediately after she parachuted to safety.
video – 00:00:21 – https://twitter.com/i/status/2028511302683861388
“You’re fine? Really?” the man asked. “You need something to help you?”
Now, contrast that sentiment with the view expressed by a young leftist woman with a nose ring. “I literally — if you have any part to play in the American military-industrial complex — literally f you,” the woman said. “I hope you never make it home; I’m so serious.”
video 00:00:14 – https://twitter.com/i/status/2028598099774419303

‘Toxic indoctrination’: Dept. of War cuts fellowships at 13 ‘elite’ universities
https://www.thecollegefix.com/toxic-indoctrination-dept-of-war-cuts-fellowships-with-13-top-universities/
“For decades, the Ivy League and similar institutions have gorged themselves on a trust fund of American taxpayer dollars only to become factories of anti-American resentment and military disdain.”…“They’ve replaced the study of victory and pragmatic realism with the promotion of wokeness and weakness,”…The 13 universities include Tufts, Georgetown, Brown, Columbia, Princeton, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Yale, among others….The department is also cutting ties with seven non-profit institutions, including the Center for Strategic and International Studies, The Brookings Institution, Center for a New American Security, and Council on Foreign Relations…new partners such as Liberty University, Hillsdale College, Arizona State University, Pepperdine University, Baylor University, and The University of Tennessee.

From Behind Enemy Lines – The Slow Demise of “the dems”
https://vineofliberty.com/2026/03/03/from-behind-enemy-lines-the-slow-demise-of-the-dems/
… I am actually seeing the thinking people remaining on the Left…. well, thinking…They began to realize that they can simultaneously dislike Trump (go for it… I still don’t like everything he does) and be happy that our military stepped in and helped the Iranian people. They can be concerned about how much it’s going to cost us, as a country, to help the Iranians, and still be glad the Iranians are being given the chance to rule their own G-D selves…Someone made an offhand comment that I must be rooting for Fetterman to become a Republican, and I said no! I don’t want Fetterman to come over to the Right, because he’s not a Conservative. He’s a Liberal, a Democrat, and there’s nothing wrong with that. The fact that he’s a reasonable, responsible, thinking person is a GOOD thing. I want him to continue being a Liberal and a Democrat, and perhaps be a voice for change and reason. And they … thought about it.
(As always, cogent, on point, and thought-provoking. – BZ – jlr)

A thought about the future of Iran.
https://miguelgg.substack.com/p/a-thought-about-the-future-of-iran

The name itself does not inspire confidence.
https://miguelgg.substack.com/p/the-name-itself-does-not-inspire
Hipster chicory coffee? Psychedelic speed ball? I was going to joke about the taste, but this is geared for the people that drink beer that tastes like fizzy yak piss, so … Just one cup after and….

Environmentalism is the religion of stupidity.- This is not a joke.
https://miguelgg.substack.com/p/environmentalism-is-the-religion
This wind-powered cargo ship wants to cut emissions by up to 96% and deliver faster than conventional sea freight – Feb 12, 2026
https://www.cnn.com/climate/vela-wind-cargo-ship-spc-c2e

What kind of Amazon Prime upgrade do I need to get?
https://miguelgg.substack.com/p/what-kind-of-amazon-prime-upgrade

Mar 4:

Suspected Drone Attack on Sanctioned Russian LNG Tanker Sparks Serious Concern
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2026/03/03/suspected-drone-attack-on-sanctioned-russian-lng-tanker-sparks-serious-concern-n3812492
An LNG carrier identified as the Arctic Metagaz, part of Russia’s emerging shadow fleet transporting sanctioned liquefied natural gas, was reportedly on fire early Tuesday in the central Mediterranean off the coasts of Malta and Libya…More analysts are leaning toward the drone attack explanation for the explosion and subsequent fire, and attributing it to the Ukrainians

SCOTUS gives Trump a unanimous victory on persecution claims in asylum cases
https://www.theblaze.com/news/supreme-court-unanimous
The unanimous decision in Urias-Orellana v. Bondi found that federal courts must defer to immigration agencies about facts being claimed by asylum seekers.
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Islam
Khomeini’s grandson: ‘The day the Islamic nation gets the chance, we’ll erase Israel’
https://gellerreport.com/2026/03/khomeinis-grandson-the-day-the-islamic-nation-gets-the-chance-well-erase-israel.html/
make no mistake: the Islamic nation worldwide will keep trying to destroy Israel, because it’s taught in the Qur’an that the Jews are the worst enemies of the Muslims (5:82) and that the Muslims must “drive them out from where they drove you out” (2:191). The Israelis really didn’t drive out the Arabs; the Arab Higher Committee told the Arabs to leave in 1948. But the last was once ruled by Islamic law and so according to that same law, it belongs to Islam forever.
video – 00:01:26 – https://twitter.com/i/status/2028807121916002501

Many Muslims Believe That Donald Trump Is The Islamic Version Of The Antichrist (“The Dajjal”) And Will Be Defeated When “The Mahdi” Arrives
https://endoftheamericandream.com/many-muslims-believe-that-donald-trump-is-the-islamic-version-of-the-antichrist-the-dajjal-and-will-be-defeated-when-the-mahdi-arrives/
(an interesting read on Islamic theology and thought – jlr)

Iran’s Ayatollahs Are The Spiritual Heads of Mamdani’s Sect of Islam?
https://thenationalpulse.com/2026/03/03/did-you-know-irans-ayatollahs-are-the-spiritual-heads-of-mamdanis-sect-of-islam/
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani identifies as a follower of Twelver Shia Islam, the same sect as Iran’s ruling ayatollahs…Twelver Muslims “believe that to this day there is a 1,200-year-old living prophet on Earth who is in hiding and is going to come out at some point soon, and proselytize Islam the world over,”

CIA Moves To Arm Kurdish Forces To Foment Govt Collapse In Iran
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/israel-opens-second-front-day-4-trumps-iran-war-irgc-refuses-back-down
“The CIA is working to arm Kurdish forces with the aim of fomenting a popular uprising in Iran, multiple people familiar with the plan told CNN,” fresh late Tuesday reports say. “The Trump administration has been in active discussions with Iranian opposition groups and Kurdish leaders in Iraq about providing them with military support, the sources said.”
(“multiple people familiar with the plan told CNN,” fresh late Tuesday reports say” – ” the sources said” – THEY LEAKED THE PLANS ! LEAKERS SHOULD BE FOUND AND PROSECUTED TO THE FULLEST EXTENT OF THE LAW – AND IF FOUND GUILTY SERVE THEIR SENTANCE IN A REGULAR FEDERAL PRISON DAY FOR DAY – jlr)

the iranian ink blot – assessing the geopolitics
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/the-iranian-ink-blot
…it is not my aim here to provide the answer. i’m not sure there is one…rather, let’s at least understand the salients, the complexity, and the trade offs because this looks to be one of the most geopolitically complex and cross linked issues in modern times and anyone telling you “it’s just this one thing that i happen to care about” is likely missing an awful lot of what’s going on and risks leading you into moralistic demagoguery or the “one big square” first order thinking of the zealot or the dullard.

via Donald Trump For President on Fascist Folio
https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1363056999183659&set=a.636197348536298
THE B-52 SIGNAL: The U.S. Air Force just sent a message to the world—not through a press release, but through aircraft selection. The arrival of the B-52 Stratofortress over Iran marks a definitive shift in Operation Epic Fury. To understand the gravity, you have to understand the sequence of the last 96 hours.
Military strategists use specific tools for specific phases of a campaign. Here is the timeline of the “Big Wave”:
Feb 28 (The B-2 Spirit): Stealth is required. $2.1 billion per aircraft. You send the B-2 when air defenses are lethal and intact. They dropped 160,000 lbs of bunker-busters on hardened underground sites.
March 2 (The B-1 Lancer): Speed over stealth. You send the supersonic B-1 when defenses are degraded. These conducted the deepest raids since 2003.
March 3 (The B-52): The “Giant Barn.” It’s 70 years old, subsonic, and visible on every radar on Earth.
The takeaway? You only send the B-52 when there is nothing left to shoot it down.
By the Numbers: Quadrupling the Firepower
The transition to the B-52 isn’t just symbolic—it’s a massive escalation in payload:
Strike Capacity: The U.S. has 76 B-52s compared to just 20 B-2s. We just quadrupled our available heavy bomber strike capacity.
Payload: Each B-52 carries 70,000 lbs of ordnance per sortie.
Intensity: 1,700 targets struck, 300 new sites added. The campaign is intensifying, not tapering.
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Deployment of America’s Oldest Bomber Means
https://redstate.com/wardclark/2026/03/04/the-buff-in-iran-what-the-deployment-of-americas-oldest-bomber-means-n2199835
Now, we’re using the BUFFs. The B-52, wonderful though it is, is about as stealthy as a D-9 Caterpillar driving over a pile of wrecked cars. It’s slow. It has the radar cross-section of New Zealand and the infrared signature of an erupting volcano. Its use in and around Iran means one main thing: The Iranians have nothing left with which to shoot at them…but if you need a few dozen square miles of countryside destroyed and you need it destroyed right now, the BUFF can get that done…The BUFF can carry stand-off weapons, including cruise missiles, and I’ve heard rumors that they have been adapted to launch drones. But the main thing the BUFF has going for it is a big, big bombload. Each BUFF can carry 51 750-pound iron bombs. That’s a lot of BOOM for your buck. And now some Iranian goblins are finding out, like the Iraqi Republican Guard and the North Vietnamese Army before them, that Arc Light means never having to say you’re sorry.

Adding to Davy Jones’ locker.
https://miguelgg.substack.com/p/adding-to-davy-jones-locker
@SECWAR – “In the Indian Ocean—an American submarine sunk an Iranian warship, that thought it was safe in international waters. Instead, it was sunk by a torpedo—Quiet Death. The first sinking of an enemy ship by a torpedo since World War 2. Like in that war—back when we were still the War Department—we are fighting to win.”…Not only that, it was a fast attack boat (sub) that launched the torpedo and if I am not mistaken, it is the first kill by torpedo by a U.S. nuclear sub.
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1363544129134946&set=pcb.1363544165801609
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The GOP Can’t Be Rid of Thom Tillis Quickly Enough
https://pjmedia.com/stephen-kruiser/2026/03/04/the-morning-briefing-the-gop-cant-be-rid-of-thom-tillis-quickly-enough-n4950204/
Republicans in North Carolina were voting for their candidate to run and replace the execrable Thom Tillis. As Chris said in response to the fact that Tillis isn’t running again, “WOOHOO!” Tillis is one of those backstabbing members of the GOP who have me convinced that the Democrats have Manchurian candidate plants in the party. He’s not reliable on most big votes. If he does end up not screwing over his own party, it’s only after a lot of grandstanding so that he can get some all-important facetime in front of the cameras. Yesterday, Tillis reminded us why it will be a boon when the party finally gets rid of him. This is from my good friend Matt Vespa over at Townhall: The hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee today became tense during Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s testimony. The most notable moment was Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) fiercely criticizing Ms. Noem over what he considers poor leadership at DHS, which is partly shut down due to Democratic Party tactics. He really did lose it on Secretary Noem; it was very AOC-esque in its shrill, emo ridiculousness. Tillis is an embarrassment through and through…My Democratic plant theory looks stronger all the time with this guy. Tillis has been a disappointment on my radar for a long time now. I was writing about him back in 2022 when he cosponsored an absolutely horrible amnesty bill with Kyrsten Sinema, my senator back then. So, yeah, he’s been a problem for a while.
Watch very carefully to see if you can spot the difference in how “Republican” Thom Tillis treats the DHS Secretary who allowed 15M unvetted illegal aliens in the U.S. versus the one who is trying to deport them
video – 00:00:12 – https://x.com/i/status/2028913740234518540
video – 00:00:29 – https://x.com/i/status/2028913740234518540
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TEXAS
Wait, the Austin Police Officers Who Stopped a Terrorist Are Going Before a Grand Jury for Murder?
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2026/03/04/wait-the-austin-police-officers-who-stopped-a-terrorist-are-going-before-a-grand-jury-for-murder-n2672246
…under a 2021 ordinance, it was possible: the Austin police officers who stopped a terrorist last Saturday could’ve been hauled before a grand jury on murder charges
( well… it IS Austin. “Keep Austin Wierd (Austins unofficial motto) – jlr)

TEXAS – Primary News

Dan Crenshaw Suffers Stunning Upset in Texas GOP Primary: ‘Enjoy Unemployment’
https://redstate.com/rusty-weiss/2026/03/04/dan-crenshaw-suffers-stunning-upset-in-texas-gop-primary-enjoy-unemployment-n2199827
Toth’s win represents a significant victory for the MAGA faction of the Republican Party…Toth captured roughly 56% of the vote to Crenshaw’s 40.5%, according to projections

Texas Republican Senate Primary Race Just Took a Predictable Turn
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/jeff-charles/2026/03/03/gop-texas-senate-primary-n2672009
The Texas Republican Senate primary race is headed to a runoff after none of the three candidates won 50 percent of the vote. After 57.4 percent of expected votes were tallied, incumbent Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) received 43.1 percent of the vote. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton narrowly trailed Cornyn at 40.4 percent. Rep. Wesley Hunt came in third with 12.9 percent.

‘Judgement Day is coming’: Ken Paxton advances with establishment incumbent in key Texas primary
https://www.theblaze.com/news/judgement-day-is-coming-ken-paxton-advances-with-establishment-incumbent-in-key-texas-primary
Paxton and Cornyn will now go to a runoff after spoiler candidate Rep. Wesley Hunt secured just over 13% of the vote, according to the New York Times. With 82% of the vote count in as of early Wednesday morning, Cornyn held a narrow lead over Paxton at 42.1%, while the attorney general secured 40.9% of the vote.

Watch Jasmine Crockett’s Absurd Speech to Her Supporters After Losing the Texas Senate Primary
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2026/03/04/watch-jasmine-crocketts-absurd-speech-to-her-supporters-after-losing-the-texas-senate-primary-n2672267
Crockett didn’t concede last night. She followed the example of Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris after their election night losses: she thanked her supporters, told them to enjoy their evening, and stated no further announcements would be made that night. Essentially, that’s a lengthy way of saying, ‘I lost.’…she essentially said the election was stolen from her. Oh, and it was the Republicans who did it:
video – 00:01:00 – https://twitter.com/i/status/2029036958609965325
video – 00:00:30 – https://twitter.com/i/status/2029016507783524755
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Jasmine Crockett claims voters were ‘disenfranchised’ following crushing defeat in key Texas primary
https://www.theblaze.com/news/jasmine-crockett-claims-voters-were-disenfranchised-following-crushing-defeat-in-key-texas-primary

Texas Democrats May Have Just Chosen Their Senate Nominee – but It’s Not Over Yet
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/jeff-charles/2026/03/03/democrat-texas-senate-primary-n2672010
With 63 percent of the expected vote tallied, state Rep. James Talarico appears to have won the nomination. However, a mishap occurred in Dallas County, where Rep. Jasmine Crockett (TX-30) resides, when a judge extended voting hours by 2 hours because voters lacked proper information about where to vote.

Scandal-plagued Texas congressman forced into runoff rematch — after barely escaping defeat last time
https://www.theblaze.com/news/scandal-plagued-texas-congressman-forced-into-runoff-rematch-after-barely-escaping-defeat-last-time
unofficial election results showed Gonzales with roughly 41.6% of the vote and Herrera with 43%.

Here’s Your Texas Primary Election Round-Up
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/josephchalfant/2026/03/03/heres-your-texas-primary-election-round-up-n2672253
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Funny…How she toes the CCP line…
https://oldnfo.substack.com/p/funny-ea2
Eileen Gu released a statement on social media Monday, reflecting on her controversial decision to compete for Team China despite being born and raised in the U.S…YMMV, IANAL, and the beliefs are my own, based on my experiences with that part of the world.

FIREARM NEWS
Giffords and Their Inability To Provide All of the Relevant Facts
https://bearingarms.com/tomknighton/2026/03/03/giffords-and-their-inability-to-provide-all-of-the-relevant-facts-n1231742
… I touched on briefly on Monday regarding the attack at a bar in Austin, Texas…the bar in question was a gun-free zone under Texas law. No good guy could carry a gun there, but it didn’t do anything to stop a guy who sure looks like a terrorist to me… let’s talk a bit about that concert venue for a moment, because guess what it has in common with the bar in Austin?…Both were gun-free zones…That made them all sitting ducks for the attackers that came at them…That’s gun control, and for anyone with more than two brain cells to duke it out should be able to see that they didn’t work

Will Soaring War Risk Send Civilian Ammunition Prices Higher?
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/will-soaring-war-risk-send-civilian-ammunition-prices-higher
President Trump signaled on Sunday that Operation Epic Fury could extend for four weeks, shifting our focus beyond the likely decline of certain air-delivered munition stockpiles to the question of whether a prolonged conflict begins tightening small-arms ammunition supplies and spilling over into civilian markets.
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Too Old to Bug Out? The “Stay Put” Doctrine for Seniors
https://youtu.be/PPoIYII6KLo
I have to admit that me running a mile and hitting the ground with a rifle and hitting a 200-yard target without taking 15 minutes to catch my breath are over. LOL
(ah, yep – jlr)
video – 00:07:44 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPoIYII6KLo&t=35s
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Dog Ate My Homework Part XXVII, The Sequel
https://wilderwealthywise.com/dog-ate-my-homework-part-xxvii-the-sequel/
had a plan on the post, but forgot it when it was time to write it, but then remembered too late. The bonus? You get these memes instead. Some of these (the longer text one on the crows, for example) are old favorites of mine.

Mar 5:

Costco Beats Out Walmart As Cheapest Grocery Store In The U.S.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/costco-beats-out-walmart-cheapest-grocery-store-us
A new pricing analysis from Consumer Reports (https://www.consumerreports.org/money/prices-price-comparison/most-and-least-expensive-supermarkets-a3157951568/) suggests shoppers may find better deals than expected—sometimes well below Walmart’s prices.
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SAVE TEXAS UPDATE: Major Victory for AMAC, Religious Liberty as Voters Overwhelmingly Back Ban on Sharia Law
https://amac.us/newsline/politics/save-texas-update-major-victory-for-amac-religious-liberty-as-voters-overwhelmingly-back-ban-on-sharia-law/
In Tuesday’s primary election, voters overwhelmingly approved Proposition 10 — a measure making it official policy of the Texas Republican Party to prohibit the influence of Sharia law and other foreign religious legal codes in the Lone Star State. The result was emphatic. Roughly 95 percent of Republican primary voters supported the measure, signaling near-universal agreement among grassroots conservatives that American civil law must always be grounded in the U.S. and Texas Constitutions.

Texas Picks Radical James Talarico: God Is Non-Binary, Men Get Pregnant, Jesus Loves Abortion
https://twitchy.com/justmindy/2026/03/04/james-talarico-is-real-real-weird-vip-n2425696
He cosplays as a minister. Yes, he went to Theology school. I’ll give him that. He just doesn’t seem to be very interested in the actual Bible. He makes up his own as he goes along…Get to know Beto 2.0 James Talarico…1)Trans community needs abortion care too…2)God is nonbinary…3) Buddhism and Hinduism reveal same truths as Christianity…4) Southern border should be like our front porch with a giant welcome mat out front…5) The story of Jesus birth is an endorsement of abortion…
video – 00:00:30: – https://x.com/i/status/2029193539888849039

Texas Dem James Talarico Says Republicans ‘Are Gonna Call Me a Radical Leftist’ (And? ROLL TAPE!)
https://twitchy.com/dougp/2026/03/05/texas-dem-james-talarico-says-republicans-are-gonna-call-me-a-radical-leftist-and-roll-tape-n2425705
Now that Talarico will be campaigning in some of the redder parts of Texas ahead of the midterms, we’ll be seeing attempts to pretend he isn’t a radical leftist…Talarico will no doubt get plenty of media assistance in the effort to pass himself off as a “moderate.” Granted, however, the “moderate” Democrat positions these days are still insane.
video – 00:00:24 – https://twitter.com/i/status/2029558328213270935
video – 00:00:16 – https://x.com/i/status/1589402191764533248
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Slammer Yammer: Video Surfaces of Talarico Calling for Prisons to Be Replaced With Something Love-Based
https://twitchy.com/warren-squire/2026/03/05/texas-democrat-senate-candidate-james-talarico-prison-is-violence-n2425699
a video from four years ago where he calls for prisons to be abolished and replaced with something love-based.
video – 00:00:25 – https://twitter.com/i/status/2029363073752985818

10 Times John Cornyn Betrayed Trump And MAGA
https://thefederalist.com/2026/03/05/10-times-john-cornyn-betrayed-trump-and-maga/
1)Selling Out the Second Amendment, 2)Calling Conservatives Terrorists, 3)Attacking Efforts to Investigate Anti-Trump Lawfare, 4)Weakness on Immigration, 5)Shilling for Ukraine Funding, 6)Trashing Trump, 7)Ignoring Covid Shot Side Effects, 8)Pushing for Critical Race Theory, 9)Shilling for FISA, 10)Backing Biden Spending Bombs
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Michigan Mosque Held a Memorial Service to Honor Mass Murderer Ayatollah Khamenei. Imam Calls US Evil, Friends with Biggest Democratshttps://gellerreport.com/2026/03/michigan-mosque-held-a-memorial-service-to-honor-mass-murderer-ayatollah-khamenei-imam-calls-us-evil-friends-with-biggest-democrats.html/
A Michigan mosque held a memorial service to honor Ayatollah Khamenei for his “martyrdom”. The imam then called the U.S. military “evil”. You will never guess who this imam is…A good friend of the Democratic Party.
There is something fundamentally wrong With the Democrat party. They are the enemy of the US and must be treated as such.

IDF Destroys ‘Secret’ Iranian Nuclear Site and Over 300 Ballistic Missile Launchers Across Iran
https://gellerreport.com/2026/03/idf-destroys-secret-iranian-nuclear-site-and-over-300-ballistic-missile-launchers-across-iran.html/
The secret nuclear facility—previously unknown to Western intelligence—was struck in the opening hours of the campaign and completely destroyed: Israeli Air Force jets on Tuesday destroyed a secret underground site on the outskirts of Tehran where Iran transferred much of its nuclear program after the war with Israel in June

Unhinged Antiwar Protestor’s Arm Snaps on Camera (With a Loud Crack) as Ex-Marine US Sen. Sheehy Joins Security to Take Him Down
https://www.westernjournal.com/graphic-video-unhinged-antiwar-protestors-arm-snaps-camera-loud-crack-ex-marine-us-sen-sheehy-joins-security-take/
An anti-war protester who interrupted a Capitol Hill hearing Wednesday was ejected on camera with the help of a GOP senator and the footage showed how he’ll be a lot worse for wear for the experience.
video – 00:01:17 – https://twitter.com/i/status/2029394772956238306
(SNAP! – Brian McGinnis Fuked Around and Found Out, the Capitol Police don’t play – jlr)

So Fast It Isn’t Even There
https://chrisbray.substack.com/p/so-fast-it-isnt-even-there
If you’ve been reading news for the last few years, you been reading that the U.S. Navy was on the verge of obsolescence, especially in a direct fight with the increasingly powerful Iranian naval forces. No, really. Iran had ultrafast supercavitating torpedoes from Russia, so the aircraft carrier had become a white elephant. If the Americans ever dared to attack Iran, the Iranians would just drop all the carriers like it was sinking three-foot putts. The shooting hasn’t stopped, so maybe we’ll still see the ugly spectacle of the Iranians sinking an American warship. There’s always room for a war to go sideways. But it doesn’t look like they have much left to shoot torpedoes from.

A good point!!! – Where is/was the protests for the dead Iranians???
https://oldnfo.substack.com/p/a-good-point
British-Iranian actress Nazanin Boniadi called out progressive activists for their lack of outrage over the regime’s human rights violations before President Donald Trump conducted military strikes against the nation…noted that several human rights activists and organizations did not acknowledge civilian deaths until after the U.S. targeted Iran.

Miguel’s Conspiracy Ruminations. – I guess I can do them theories like the rest.
https://miguelgg.substack.com/p/miguels-conspiracy-ruminations
(full on belly laugh – ROFLMAO – way to go Miguel – jlr)

Firearm News
California’s Anti-Gun AG Wants to Dictate Law to Rest of Nation
https://bearingarms.com/tomknighton/2026/03/05/californias-anti-gun-ag-wants-to-dictate-law-to-rest-of-nation-n1231770
A lawsuit filed by Calif. Att. Gen. Rob Bonta and San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu is targeting the Gatalog Foundation Inc. and CTRLPEW LLC.California claims that Gatalog and CTRLPEW are providing prohibited persons with plans to make “ghost guns” (3D printed firearms without serial numbers). Matthew Larosiere, who is an attorney in Florida and is loosely connected to hobby gunsmiths via Gatalog, is one of the people California is suing. He explains in this video interview that what they call “Gatalog” is just hobbyists who found each other on the internet. They are not selling guns. They are talking about and toying with concepts for guns digitally. “If California can regulate access to the instructions,” said Larosiere. “Not just by California, but with this lawsuit, [then] what they’re saying is they want to regulate the entire internet worldwide. That would mean that you’d be cut off at the heels from making a gun at home. And I think most of us can agree that if you have a right to keep and bear something, it necessarily subsumes the right to acquire it.” When asked about Gatalog, Larosiere explained that it is not a group “like the NRA. There’s no member that has a card; there’s no board of directors; there’s no nothing. It’s kind of just a group of hobbyists associating around an idea. And the idea is home gunsmithing.” California has a long history of trying to dictate to the country what it should and shouldn’t do. They create standards that industries are obliged to follow, even if the rest of us want nothing to do with them, and we’ve accepted it because the companies are the ones making the decision to use those standards throughout the nation.

Mar 6:

Hegseth Salutes Israel’s ‘Unmatched Skill and Iron Determination’
https://gellerreport.com/2026/03/watch-hegseth-salutes-israels-unmatched-skill-and-iron-determination.html/
The Pentagon recently named Israel a model ally. The Trump Administration understands the value of the extraordinary U.S-Israel alliance. Unfortunately, there are many despicable politicians in the United States (here, here, here) who seek to undermine the U.S-Israel alliance, so that they can obtain the pro-Jihad vote. All rational American voters should reject politicians who seek to harm the U.S-Israel alliance. Discarding an incredibly valuable ally to obtain the jihad vote is horrible for America.
“To our steadfast partner, Israel, your mission is being executed with unmatched skill and iron determination. Fighting shoulder to shoulder with such a capable ally is a true force multiplier and a breath of fresh air. We salute your courage and your contribution.”
video – 00:00:39 – https://twitter.com/i/status/2029188458900590757

53 Democrats Vote Against Reaffirming Iran as World’s Leading State Sponsor of Terrorism
https://gellerreport.com/2026/03/53-democrats-vote-against-reaffirming-iran-as-worlds-leading-state-sponsor-of-terrorism.html/
53 Democrats just voted against reaffirming that the Islamic Republic of Iran remains the world’s largest state sponsor of terrorism — something State Departments of both parties have declared since 1984.

Remember the Biden Autopen Investigation? There’s Been an Update…and It’s Not Good
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2026/03/06/remember-the-biden-autopen-investigation-theres-been-an-updateand-its-not-good-n2672392
The Trump Justice Department has ended its investigation into former President Joe Biden’s alleged use of an auto-pen, after officials failed and found no applicable criminal statute to pursue charges.
(However, the use of the auto-pen with out Bidens knowledge or concent voids that use – jlr)

rcd via e-mail
“Western Media Gives Khamenei a Makeover” on YouTube
video – 00:02:26 – https://www.youtube.com/shorts/FByEWKQECG4

I see stuff and I feel the need to get more ammo. – “Americans” celebrating the “murder/martyrdom” of a man who wanted them killed.
https://miguelgg.substack.com/p/i-see-stuff-and-i-feel-the-need-to
Sometimes I fear that there is no way we clean house without several stacks of bodies at each local main square. Somehow, these idiots think that the chant “Death to America!” does not include them

How Ayatollah Khamenei Was Killed Has Been Revealed
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2026/03/06/how-we-killed-ayatollah-khamenei-n2672375
They used the Blue Sparrow missile, which was able to rain hellfire from the heavens—literally. The missile seeks its target from space (via NY Post):

One of Iran’s Last Remaining Naval Ships Suffers a Devastating Fate – But It Wasn’t Struck by Enemy Fire
https://www.westernjournal.com/one-irans-last-remaining-naval-ships-suffers-devastating-fate-wasnt-struck-enemy-fire/
…the vessel suffered engine failure while out at sea.

Texas AG Ken Paxton praised for stealth ‘chess move’ in effort to pass the SAVE America Act
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2026/03/06/texas-ag-ken-paxton-praised-for-stealth-chess-move-in-effort-to-pass-the-save-america-act-1625891/
…in a stunning move, Paxton posted a tweet Thursday offering to drop out of the runoff election if the Senate “agrees to lift the filibuster” so that it can pass the SAVE America Act without Democrat votes.

Congressional Dems Worry About Retaliatory Strikes at Home (but Apparently Not Enough to Fund DHS)
https://twitchy.com/dougp/2026/03/06/congressional-dems-worry-about-retaliatory-strikes-at-home-but-apparently-not-enough-to-fund-dhs-n2425739
The congressional Democrats continue to prove what their number one priority is, which is to oppose anything and everything President Trump does…Senator Mark Kelly (one of the notorious “Seditious Six”) and is among Democrats concerned that Operation Epic Fury in Iran could also spark retaliatory strikes in the U.S…If Democrats like Kelly actually shared Trump’s concern about retaliatory strikes maybe they wouldn’t be blocking something:

Grandstanding Dem should’ve done a better job vetting his illegal alien SOTU guest
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2026/03/06/grandstanding-dem-shouldve-done-a-better-job-vetting-is-illegal-alien-sotu-guest-1625878/
in the case of U.S. Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.), this ideological grandstanding ultimately blew up in his face when it was reported that his guest, 18-year-old Marcelo Gomes da Silva, was referenced in police reports as a person of interest involving sexual assault and juveniles, according to the Milford Police Department.
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Illegal Whom Dems Brought to State of the Union Has Turned up in Sexual Assault Reports That Involved Juveniles, Police Say
https://www.westernjournal.com/late-breaking-illegal-dems-brought-state-union-turned-sexual-assault-reports-involved-juveniles-police-say/
I know it sounds crazy, but these illegal immigrant fellows the Democrats like lionizing might indeed not have the most edifying backstories.

You do not despise the Media enough.
https://miguelgg.substack.com/p/you-do-not-despise-the-media-enough
Former Trans Liaison Nurse Banned From Practicing After Conducting Unauthorized Genital Examinations On Child Patients
https://reduxx.info/former-trans-liaison-nurse-banned-from-practicing-after-conducting-unauthorized-genital-examinations-on-child-patients/

God Bless the Stupid. – Because they are the providers of internet fun.
https://miguelgg.substack.com/p/god-bless-the-stupid
many of these idiots, they base their complaints on some shape-shiting Marquess of Queensberry rules of warfare according to how they feel that morning.

Wilder Weekly News, War Edition
https://wilderwealthywise.com/wilder-weekly-news-war-edition/
Artificial Intelligence, Bad Smells, Best Korea, Canada, Communism, Creeping Third World, Don’t Make Me Tap The Sign, Omigerd, Robots!, The Crazy Years, Uncle Ted’s Story Hour, Unrestricted Hordes of Illegals, Weimerica

Florida Man Friday: Finally, Another Stolen Ambulance
https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2026/03/06/florida-man-steals-ambulance-that-was-in-his-way-n4950320
Florida Man accused of trying to drive off in ambulance while medics treated patient…Florida pickleball brawl involving up to 20 people results in paddles to the face and felony charges…Almost-empty beer falls out of vehicle when suspected drunk driver stopped near home…Florida Man arrested after allegedly vandalizing Publix employee’s car…Dress for Success volunteers, CareerSource team up to help change women’s lives…
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Meanwhile, in Texas…
Pro-Tip: Don’t Rob People Who Are Leaving Gun Ranges. I can’t believe people need to be told this, particularly in Texas. Yet here we are:
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FIREARM News
Mike Lee unveils national constitutional carry bill to override ‘hostile’ state gun laws
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/mike-lee-unveils-national-constitutional-carry-bill-override-hostile-state-gun-laws
Currently, 29 states allow some form of constitutional carry, meaning residents can carry a concealed firearm without a permit. Lee’s legislation, which he plans to introduce Thursday, would eliminate concealed carry permit requirements nationwide for eligible U.S. citizens — those already legally allowed to own a firearm.

An Interesting Tidbit About Gun Ownership in Iran
https://bearingarms.com/tomknighton/2026/03/05/an-interesting-tidbit-about-gun-ownership-in-iran-n1231774
Last year, Iran International, a London-based Iranian news agency, which covers the country with “fearless journalism,” investigated online firearm sales, which are thriving in Iran………………

Want a machine gun? These states might soon make buying one easier
https://www.theblaze.com/news/want-a-machine-gun-these-states-might-soon-make-acquisition-easier
Machine guns — defined by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives as a firearm that can fire “automatically more than one shot, without manual reloading, by a single function of the trigger” — are heavily regulated in the United States. While such weapons can be privately owned, Americans are greatly limited in what they can buy and must jump through numerous hoops to seal the deal. In West Virginia, Republican state Sens. Chris Rose and Zack Maynard recently introduced legislation that would establish within the West Virginia State Police an office of public defense that would oversee the procurement and sale of machine guns to “qualified members of the public,” namely any citizen presently eligible to purchase and possess firearms under West Virginia and federal law.

Active Response Training – Weekend Knowledge Dump- March 6, 2026
https://www.activeresponsetraining.net/weekend-knowledge-dump-march-6-2026
Austin Terrorist Attack – Stress Under Fire – Edge of Reality: What You Need to Know About Knife Defense –
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The Alamo – Throwback post from the old blog.
https://thelawdogfiles.substack.com/p/the-alamo
2200 hours, D-1, one hundred and ninety years ago General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna ordered that the artillery barrage which had fallen upon the Alamo Mission near San Antonio de Bexar for twelve days be halted.
As he suspected, the exhausted defenders soon fell into a deep sleep, for most, the only sleep that they had managed during the course of the siege.
Just after 0000 hours, 06 MAR 1836, eighteen hundred Mexican infantry troops formed into four columns. 500 Mexican cavalry rode into position around the besieged mission, to prevent the escape of, well, anyone — be they Texan defenders, or Mexican troopies.
At about 0530 hours, the three Texan sentries posted outside of the walls were silently killed, followed by the music of the Mexican bugles sounding the charge. This woke the defenders, and for the next fifteen minutes it really sucked to be a Mexican soldier. The columns they were arranged in only allowed the front line of troops to fire safely. Those firing muskets from any position behind the front line, often as not fired through the front line of Mexican soldiers. Their own artillery behind them inflicted massive blue-on-blue casualties, while the defenders opened up with their own cannon — loaded with nails, chopped horse-shoes and even the hinges from the doors of the building.
Not to say that they were all ineffective. Colonel William B. Travis was killed during this time by a lucky shot to the head as he stood on top of the wall to get a better shot into the massed formation below him with his shotgun.
Pushed on by their reinforcing elements, the Mexicans mounted three different assaults, finally getting General Juan Amador over the wall, where he got a postern door open, which allowed the attackers to swarm the Mission.
One band of defenders — Davy Crockett for certain, and probably his frontiersmen volunteers — took up a position behind a low wall in front of the chapel, and made the Valkyries earn their overtime pay. When the Mexicans pressed too close to reload, the frontiersmen swung their rifles as clubs or switched to tomahawks and knives and exacted a terrible toll before being overrun.
An American slave named Ben, who was a cook for the Mexican army during the attack, states that Crockett went down swinging his rifle and was found surrounded by sixteen dead Mexican soldiers.
For the next hour or so, the Mexican army discovered exactly how bad Military Operations in Interior Urban Environments sucks, as they fought room-to-room in the Alamo. Just the attempt to replace the Texas flag on the roof of one building cost four Mexicans the ferryman’s fee, before the fifth finally managed to replace the flag of Texas with the flag of Mexico.
Room by room, in the dark and confusion, the Mexicans died, but replacements kept coming, sparing no defenders. Colonel Jim Bowie, too sick to rise from his bed, still managed to kill three or four Mexican troops with his pistols and famous knife, before being shot and bayoneted.
At about 0630 hours 06 MAR 1836, the last 11 defenders of the Alamo were killed manning the pair of 12-pounder cannon stationed in the chapel.
Surveying the scene after the bullets stopped banging and the bodies quit bouncing, General Santa Anna remarked, “It is but a small affair.” Hearing this, a staff officer stated, “Another victory like this, and we’ll go to the devil.”
When Jim Bowie’s mother was informed of his death, she very calmly announced: “I’ll wager no wounds were found in his back.”
Indeed.
189 defenders of the Alamo died this day 190 years ago. They took a full third of the attacking force with them.
When news of the Alamo got out, men flocked to the Texas army, and on the afternoon of 21 APR 1836, Texas remembered the Alamo, and took a full 18 minutes to toad-stomp the crap out of the Mexican army at the Battle of San Jacinto, taking General Santa Anna prisoner in the process.

We still remember the Alamo.
Ian

Mar 7:

Move Over COVID: TDS is Here
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2026/03/move_over_covid_tds_is_here.html
Praise for Trump in Denmark will draw amazing criticism from the locals… their anger with Donald Trump was now palpable and has, in my opinion, reached the point where I can say with confidence that TDS has now officially become America’s greatest export — and we didn’t need an accident in a Chinese lab in Wuhan to make it happen…..TDS is the new COVID…..This pandemic of anger is not something that can be prevented by a vaccine nor can it be treated with any known drug, and it is spreading largely because of the growing number of people who are diametrically opposed to Donald Trump, the MAGA movement and the American brand of conservatism in general. These people have become so consumed by rage that they have allowed that rage and frustration to become the guiding measurement of everything that Donald Trump does or says.

Iran-Linked Terror Indicators Emerge in Austin Bar Massacre as Churchgoers Foil Armed Intruder in Washington Sanctuary
https://www.christianwarriortraining.com/p/crime-watch-32
Your weekly newsletter delivering the latest updates on emerging terrorist threats, violence, and attacks targeting Christian churches.
Churches Should Treat Jewish and Israel-Linked Visibility as a Real Security Overlap…Nationwide Advisory: Potential U.S. Impacts Following the 28 Feb 2026 Military Attack in Iran…DHS Note Warns Fatwas Call for Revenge After Iranian Leader’s Death…Cartel Violence in Mexico Includes IED and Car Bomb Attacks…Iran Raises Red Flag Over Jamkaran Mosque Following Reported Death of Supreme Leader…
∙My thoughts: The FBI is under stating the threat. They have much more intelligence that they could release to us so we can prepare to fight off any potential homeland attack. For now, remember your ABC’s, always be carrying.
∙My thoughts: you have to have your head in the sand to not realize that people are upset with the United States and they would like to attack us back. Our biggest threat is going to be lone wolf actors. But we cannot rule out coordinated attacks from Iranian agents or Iranian proxies inside of the United States.

AlertsUSA Threat Journal
https://www.threatjournal.com/archive/tj03072026.html
New Fatwas Call on Muslims to Avenge Khamenei…Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and Hezbollah maintain established networks across the Western Hemisphere, including operatives and sympathizers in U.S. communities and Mexico…The first fatwa was issued on Sunday by Grand Ayatollah Naser Shirazi and said that avenging Khamenei’s death “is the religious duty of all Muslims in the world.” The second fatwa was issued by Ayatollah Nouri Hamedani, saying that “avenging the blood of the martyred leader of the revolution is ********obligatory for all Muslims.”…Cyber threats have also surged…(LOTS of GREAT info here that is not usually in the news – jlr)

Iran warns European countries will be ‘legitimate targets’ if they join conflict
https://www.foxnews.com/world/iran-warns-european-countries-legitimate-targets-join-conflict
Deputy Foreign Minister Majid Takht-Ravanchi says Tehran will retaliate against any nation helping America and Israel

puerto rico and the princess of darkness – adventures in failing upward
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/puerto-rico-and-the-princess-of-darkness
once upon a time in the city of angels, there lived a princess of darkness whose strange magic was such that the calamity and failure that would end many a career instead advanced hers, failing ever upward until she arrived (in a hurry) upon the shores of la isla del encanto, home to certain internet felines of questionable goodness……pray for us……this does not look good.

“Covert action …”…Should not be confused with missionary work.”
https://thelawdogfiles.substack.com/p/covert-action
…Recently, we learn that the Christians In Action Central Intelligence Agency may be running around, talking the Kurds into weighing in on the whole Iran kerfuffle. My response to this tidbit was a slightly sardonic, “Yay”, followed by an observation that I didn’t realize we were setting the field for the next Iranian civil war so soon…On top of which, any government that rises from the ashes of the Islamic Regime is probably — sooner or later — going to want their chunk of Persia back. This is yet another chapter of the history books where things get all flaggy and arrowy. Sigh.

(TDS ALERT – jlr)
“Bruh, You Were Calling For War With Iran A Month Ago”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/bruh-you-were-calling-war-iran-month-ago
In a stunning display of hypocrisy, neocon warmonger Bill Kristol is now trashing the Trump administration’s strikes on Iran—dubbed “Epic Fury”—despite agitating for military action against the regime for the past 25 years.

Snerk…This… ROTFLMAO!
https://oldnfo.substack.com/p/snerk-0cb
A New Jersey Girl Scout troop is the target of complaints after it came up with a way to boost sales of the famous Girl Scout cookies. New Jersey is one of several states where the use of marijuana is legal, so this troop set up a booth outside a cannabis shop to sell cookies to its customers.
Full article, HERE from Town Hall.
(https://townhall.com/tipsheet/amy-curtis/2026/03/06/a-new-jersey-girl-scout-troop-is-catching-heat-for-where-it-chose-to-sell-cookies-n2672422)
This is so smart… I can’t believe somebody hasn’t thought of that before! Kudos to whomever came up with the idea. Yeah, they’re probably in trouble with the higher ups in the Girl Scouts, but good on them for having a good idea of where to get a ‘hungry’ crowd! I hope they may a helluva lot of sales before they got closed down!

Another swing and a miss by the Immigration Outrage Cadre.
https://miguelgg.substack.com/p/another-swing-and-a-miss-by-the-immigration
The newest victim is one Estefany Rodriguez-Florez, a journalist who makes it ****doubleplusungood in the eyes of … well, same old TDS folks. As you can imagine, the initial story sounds about the same as the ones I covered before:……..
She is not some uneducated field worker but allegedly a trained and educated journalist with the resources to find out what to do. My take? She simply got here and adopted the Latino attitude of not giving a shit about Gringo laws because Gringos are stupid (Trust me, it is a thing) and they won’t come after me because (insert self-deluded reason here) so I am safe.
Oops!
PS: She was working as a journalist for Univision, how come they did not check about her status before employment? And if she did pass, how was that possible?

Mar 8/9:

Civil War 2.0 Weather Report: A Chilly February
https://wilderwealthywise.com/civil-war-2-0-weather-report-a-chilly-february/
I have maintained the Clock O’Doom at 9, given the open support of assassination and criminality by the GloboLeft and the increase in violence, as well as direct interference with ICE and the insertion of the military into law enforcement…In this issue: Front Matter – Gerrymandering Risks – Violence and Censorship Update – Misery Index – Updated Civil War 2.0 Index – But Who Will We Be? – Links
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Vulnerable House Dem lashes out at Trump’s ‘racist’ SOTU challenge: ‘That was uncomfortable’
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/vulnerable-house-dem-lashes-out-trumps-racist-sotu-challenge-that-was-uncomfortable
Rep. Janelle Bynum criticized Trump’s request for listeners to stand if they prioritize American citizens over illegal aliens

Pro-trans activist allegedly threatens to KILL protester on camera — ‘I’m gonna hunt you down and fking kill you’
https://www.theblaze.com/shows/sara-gonzales-unfiltered/watch-pro-trans-activist-allegedly-threatens-to-kill-protester-on-camera-im-gonna-hunt-you-down-and-fking-kill-you
Sara Gonzales interviews Beth Bourne — the parental rights activist who reportedly received the shocking death threat…The clip Sara is referring to allegedly captures an incident from February at the California Democratic Party convention in San Francisco. The video went viral on social media earlier this month after journalist Andy Ngo published a detailed report. In the clip, parental rights activist Beth Bourne questions a woman, who is reportedly the mother of a trans-identifying child, about medical interventions for minors. After a brief exchange where Bourne pressed the woman on topics like profits from gender-affirming surgeries on children and grotesque surgical procedures, the woman allegedly leaned in and whispered a death threat, “I’m gonna hunt you down and fking kill you,” before walking away.
video – 00:48:06 – https://youtu.be/lUoxaa4ZBFU
interviews Beth Bourne starts about 00:33:40

NYC
Counter-protester lights explosive amid anti-Mamdani protest, utters ‘Allahu Akbar’ — but NYC mayor rips ‘bigotry and racism’
https://www.theblaze.com/news/counter-protester-lights-explosive-amid-anti-mamdani-protest-utters-allahu-akbar-but-nyc-mayor-rips-bigotry-and-racism
…protest, called “Stop the Islamic Takeover of New York City,” was led by Jake Lang; police called Lang a “far-right provocateur.”…Lang described the incident as a direct threat to his life: “Americans Christians WILL NOT be intimidated by ISLAMIC TERROR ATTACKS!!!. Last night after the attempted assassination on my life with a F**KING NAILBOMB in NYC.”…A counter-protester lit what police said was an explosive device during a protest Saturday against Mayor Zohran Mamdani in New York City. The counter-protester also was caught on video uttering “Allahu Akbar” as police were arresting him….“In Mamdani’s New York City, Islamists throwing BOMBS at Pro-Christian protestors while screaming ‘ALLAHU AKHBAR’ is apparently NOT considered terrorism. 9/11 was forgotten awfully quickly.”
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Muslim Terrorists Throw Deadly Shrapnel Bomb at NYC Rally That Could Have Slaughtered Crowd
https://gellerreport.com/2026/03/muslim-terrorists-shrapnel-bomb.html/

Trump Tells Starmer Aircraft Carriers No Longer Needed in Mideast, Accuses Him of Joining War US ‘Already Won’
https://gellerreport.com/2026/03/trump-tells-starmer-aircraft-carriers-no-longer-needed-in-mideast-accuses-him-of-joining-war-us-already-won.html/
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is a clown. Perhaps the weakest British Prime Minister since Neville Chamberlain. And that says a lot…

Project: Identify Water, Fuel & Internet Sources Now
https://paultmartin.com/blog/f/project-identify-water-fuel-internet-sources-now
The conflict/war/kinetic action/administrative beat down (circle one) taking place in Iran right now gives us a glimpse into what a conflict lasting longer than a South American dictator snatch and grab operation looks like. And that begets important lessons for us. I’ve written extensively about the need to develop alternative water, power, and communication plans over the years. However, seeing a crisis starting to unfold in Iran helps us put a finer point on the need to develop such plans.

Altas World News
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1495127852179257

Trump Warns Iran Will Be ‘Hit Very Hard’ on Saturday, Says Regime ‘Apologized’ to Middle East Neighbors
https://gellerreport.com/2026/03/trump-warns-iran-will-be-hit-very-hard-on-saturday-says-regime-apologized-to-middle-east-neighbors.html/
Iran, which is being beat to HELL, has apologized and surrendered to its Middle East neighbors, and promised that it will not shoot at them anymore. This promise was only made because of the relentless U.S. and Israeli attacks. They were looking to take over and rule the Middle East. It is the first time that Iran has ever lost, in thousands of years, to surrounding Middle Eastern Countries.
(This is Muslim Mullahs trying to start, at a minimum, a regional war, and possibly WW3, because if they can’t do what ever they want to do, they are more than happy to watch the world burn – jlr)
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Iran Picks Khamenei’s Son As Next Supreme Leader
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/new-supreme-leader-chosen-identity-concealed-us-israeli-strikes-obliterate-tehrans
Mojtaba Khamenei, 56, is the third person to lead the Islamic Republic and the first example of hereditary succession since the overthrow of the Pahlavi monarchy in the 1979 revolution. In other words, it appears that Iran overthrew a monarchy 47 years ago to institute a… monarchy.

If IRAN Activates Proxies Inside the U.S., What Would It Look Like? – A guide to what terror attacks will look like when we are attacked in the homeland.
https://www.christianwarriortraining.com/p/if-iran-activates-proxies-inside
…A proxy-driven environment does not look like a battlefield. It looks like isolated incidents, inspired attackers, or coordinated teams that attempt to create chaos and fear.- Understanding the Proxy Landscape – Lone Actor Violence – Small Coordinated Teams – Multiple Incidents in a Single City – Multi-City Pressure – Practical Preparation for Churches – A Biblical Perspective on Readiness
(Luke 22:36 – …and whoever has no sword is to sell his cloak and buy one. – get armed and stay vigilant – jlr)
video – 00:07:30 – https://youtu.be/gBeq6tyx3d8

Pentagon’s Forced Purge Now Quietly Reversed
https://usnewsbreak.com/pentagons-forced-purge-now-quietly-reversed/
A Pentagon that once punished COVID-19 dissent is now quietly welcoming back the very troops it cast aside, raising hard questions about accountability, liberty, and who will make this right…The episode exposes how emergency “health” powers can be weaponized against individual liberty, religious conviction, and constitutional safeguards.

You Can Never Be Too Safe – Scott Bryson
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1534759524472233

Schumer versus Schumer: Damning footage exposes Democrat flip-flop
https://www.theblaze.com/news/schumer-versus-schumer-damning-footage-exposes-democratic-flip-flop
U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) is a vociferous opponent of the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, sometimes referred to as the SAVE America Act, which would require individuals to provide proof of U.S. citizenship when registering to vote in federal elections. The unpopular senator has characterized the act — the passage of which President Donald Trump has made a condition of his ratification of other bills — as “Jim Crow 2.0,” a “fringe piece of legislation,” and as “extreme as it gets.”
oops video – 00:00:38 – https://x.com/i/status/2030770603959968105
(Shumer has a BAD case of TDS, which is a subset of RDS (Republican Derangemt Syndrome) – jlr)

Trump Floats Senator for Supreme Court, Citing Senator’s Legal Experience and Conservative Record
https://americanjournaldaily.com/trump-supreme-court/
…in the middle of a rally in Texas, President Donald Trump did what he does best…“And we have a senator who’s really an amazing guy, and I’m thinking of putting him in the Supreme Court. No no, I’m thinking, because it’s very hard, getting these nominations through is very tough. He’s the only guy I know who can get 100% of the Democrat vote, 100% of the Republican vote, they wanna get him out of there, he is such a pain in the ass but he’s so good and so talented, Ted Cruz,”…the corporate media stenographers immediately clutched their pearls, breathlessly reporting it as a ‘joke’—completely missing the 4D chess being played right in front of them. They heard a punchline; patriots heard a plan. Underneath the humor was a flash of strategic brilliance that could secure our constitutional republic for the next generation.

Fox News reveals GOP senators standing in way of talking filibuster to pass voter ID bill
https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/2030312009795879218
Fox drops list of GOP senators OPPOSED or SKEPTICAL of using a talking filibuster for pass the SAVE America Act. This would be the only plausible way to do it without 60 votes – John Cornyn – Lisa Murkowski – Katie Britt – John Curtis – Kevin Cramer – Thom Tillis – And Leader John Thune, who is primarily concerned about not having enough GOP senators to stand unified against a Dem amendment onslaught. GET IT DONE! This is EXISTING Senate rules. All we need is 50 or 51 senators, and we can defeat the Democrats.

Liberals Are Fretting About Supreme Court Win for Republicans That Could Upend Midterm Elections
https://www.westernjournal.com/liberals-fretting-supreme-court-win-republicans-upend-midterm-elections/
the high court ruled on a gerrymandering case and paused a lower court order that would have required New York state to redraw its congressional maps in an effort to aid black and Latino voters, according to SCOTUS Blog. Justice Samuel Alito wrote a concurring opinion to the unsigned emergency order, calling the original ruling unadorned racial discrimination.”…hints that the Supreme Court may be inclined to strike down part of the Voting Rights Act…would eliminate race-based districts and, with it, a significant number of Democratic seats in the House.

Cornyn vs. Paxton: Filibuster Showdown
https://usnewsbreak.com/cornyn-vs-paxton-filibuster-showdown/
Ken Paxton publicly offered to drop his Senate challenge against John Cornyn if Republican leadership eliminates the filibuster to pass the SAVE America Act…Cornyn supports the SAVE Act but refuses to dismantle Senate rules that could later be weaponized against conservatives…The SAVE Act requires documentary proof of citizenship to register and photo ID to vote, addressing concerns about election integrity…Trump’s pending endorsement in the Texas GOP runoff intensifies pressure on both candidates to prove unwavering loyalty
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Trump Confirms He Will Withhold Endorsing Cornyn Until SAVE Act is On His Desk – He Also Makes Another Demand
https://www.westernjournal.com/trump-confirms-will-withhold-endorsing-cornyn-save-act-desk-also-makes-another-demand/
“And on Texas GOP Senate race, President Trump said he will make a ‘decision fairly shortly’ but that he wants ‘to have the full and complete Save America Act (which Includes trans issues now).”…“‘We have to have voter ID. We have to have proof of citizenship We have to have no mail in ballots except the military, illness, disability and travel. 
We have to have no men in women’s sports — I added two things, and we have to have no transgender operations for youth,’”

Anatomy of a Smear on Pro-Gun Candidate Brandon Herrera
https://bearingarms.com/tomknighton/2026/03/09/anatomy-of-a-smear-on-pro-gun-candidate-brandon-herrera-n1231802
Brandon Herrera became the Republican nominee for the 23rd District of Texas Congressional race. This was after it was learned that Rep. Tony Gonzales was a lot worse than just being anti-gun…the anti-gun world seems to jump at the chance to pick up where Gonzales left off…Gonzales’s attacks on Herrera centered largely around taking clips out of context and misrepresenting jokes as heartfelt positions…that’s part of a bit. Herrera is making fun of Nazis there. What’s more, if you dig a little deeper, you’ll find that he does things like this for whatever era and region a firearm is from. It’s funny they didn’t grab any of the clips of him dealing with guns from communist countries, isn’t it? I mean, they exist, including at least one where he’s dressed as Castro…Mr. Herrera uses satire in his videos about historical weapons. This is one example. You will see more by watching his videos. His grandmother lived her early childhood in Germany during WWII & handed down her knowledge of WWII Germany through stories she told him.

Kurt Russell Says ‘Tombstone’ Should Have Been Even Better, Hollywood Dysfunction Resulted in 22 Pages of Script Being Cut
https://www.westernjournal.com/kurt-russell-says-tombstone-even-better-hollywood-dysfunction-resulted-22-pages-script-cut/

Bachelor chow
https://thelawdogfiles.substack.com/p/bachelor-chow-fa4Chili.
Before folks start waving pitchforks and torches, remember four things: This is a quick and dirty recipe for folks who haven’t made a chili before, Yes, it’s mild — it’s a starter chili; It’s Bachelor Chow: Done in an hour or less, using pre-made ingredients; and Beans don’t go in Texas chili — unless extra people show up for chow. Then a can of beans or so can stretch that pot out…Once you’ve figured out that chili isn’t all that hard, start experimenting! Change out the ratios, use different peppers, try different meats, work with different chili powder blends, pour in a glug of beer instead of wine. Make it yours. Enjoy!

OldNFO – Memes…
https://oldnfo.substack.com/p/memes
Sadly, I ‘think’ all of them are on the money, so to speak… Dammit…

A little humor…To start the week…
https://oldnfo.substack.com/p/a-little-humor-f2d
An oldie but goodie

Where do I get my ideas?
https://miguelgg.substack.com/p/where-do-i-get-my-ideas

While I wasn’t looking.
https://miguelgg.substack.com/p/while-i-wasnt-looking
Canada is set to pass a grim milestone in its medically-assisted suicide program with a total of 100,000 citizens projected to be euthanized by the government before its 10th anniversary on June 17…The Canadian government is killing more people than victims of drug dealers. What I am afraid of is with this new acceptance of parents declaring their child in need of “gender affirming” via surgery and chemical infusions, how long will it take for a one of these Munchausen parents to say that the newly mutilated child feels better of not remaining alive because the sexual re-assignation did not solve the imaginary problem created by the parents.

Very nice little gun.
https://miguelgg.substack.com/p/very-nice-little-gun
S&W Bodyguard 2.0 (.380ACP) and Viridian RDFX1…If was looking1 for a very discreet carry pistol, I would absolutely go for the Bodyguard, especially in this day and age where .380 ACP has improved so much than the old school ball ammo. And as usual, your particular mileage may vary.

In praise of that rifle shot.
https://miguelgg.substack.com/p/in-praise-of-that-rifle-shot
Ruger American Rifle in .308 Win – Sig Sauer Whiskey3 4-12×40 scope – Andy’s Leather Rhodesian Sling.

rcd via e-mail
Californians caught using ‘Montana Loophole’ to dodge supercar sales tax — and Beverly Hills is the worst
https://nypost.com/2026/03/08/us-news/californians-caught-using-montana-loophole-to-dodge-supercar-sales-tax-and-beverly-hills-is-the-worst/
California has launched a huge crackdown on criminals buying and registering supercars outside of the state to avoid eye-popping sales tax. (https://nypost.com/2026/02/25/us-news/californias-taxes-cost-of-living-crisis-crushes-six-figure-salaries/)…In the Golden State base rate sales tax is 7.25%. For a Lamborghini or Ferrari that can reach up to $250,000 or higher, that can mean a tax bill over $18,000. In Montana it is zero… accused of filing false records showing the supercars were bought in Montana but then drove and kept them in California…California AG Rob Bonta said: “When bad actors abuse legal loopholes and submit fraudulent documents to evade their obligations, the California Department of Justice will not stand idly by.“Every dollar of unpaid taxes is a dollar taken from California’s roads, schools and the vital services our communities rely on.”… asked if those with Montana plates had issues, the reply was: “Not yet.”
(CalGov is perplexed as to why businesses and people are leaving Tax-a-fornia by the thousands for lower tax and regulation states – jlr)

His FACE! LOL! Bill Maher Sets Adam Schiff Up to Completely Own HIMSELF With Obama Quote
https://twitchy.com/samj/2026/03/08/his-face-lol-bill-maher-sets-adam-schiff-up-to-completely-own-himself-with-obama-quote-watch-n2425809
Democrats are so wrapped up in doing whatever it takes to oppose anything and everything Trump does that they keep setting themselves up to fail….even Bill Maher has seen the writing on the wall and is starting to serve the more obnoxious members of his party up for entertainment purposes…
Maher: “The president had the constitutional authority to direct the use of military force because he could reasonably determine that such use of force was in the national interest.”
Schiff: “Totally vague.”
Maher: “…that’s from Obama about Libya.”
video – 00:01:15 – https://twitter.com/i/status/2030660740638765366
it’s (D)ifferent when they (D)o it.

Mar 10:

Terror Agent Explains How Hezbollah Sleeper Cells Work in The U.S.
https://www.christianwarriortraining.com/p/terror-agent-explains-how-hezbollah
A retired Joint Terrorism Task Force investigator explains how Hezbollah operates inside the United States and what churches should understand about surveillance, sleeper cells, and potential threats.
embedded video – 00:39:45

You don’t despise them enough. – When everything seems to fail, hide behind a child.
https://miguelgg.substack.com/p/you-dont-despise-them-enough
This immigration case is still doing the rounds in Nashville, but NewsChannel 5 added a new layer of… well.. you decide…I get the feeling that her case is not going as well as their fellow “journalists” wanted, and there was an imperative need to create a heart-tugging narrative. I also find strange that although The Tennessee Star managed to find the Federal response to the Habeas Corpus (go ahead and give it a read – https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fu0Rjl8hGB4_q78WnioJ_b82T1Fy9DjK/view), no other Mews Media outlet seems to have done the same or even mention what has been found.

Jihad Mamdani’s Shrapnel Bomb Narrative: Blames ‘Islamophobes’ But Ignores “Allahu Akbar” Screaming Muslim Bomb Throwers
https://gellerreport.com/2026/03/jihad-mamdanis-shrapnel-bomb-narrative-blames-islamophobes-but-ignores-allahu-akbar-screaming-muslim-bomb-throwers.html
The NYPD has confirmed that the device thrown at conservative protesters in New York City was not just a crude explosive—it was a shrapnel bomb packed with nuts, bolts, and screws designed to maximize carnage. Police say that had it detonated, the blast could have killed or maimed large numbers of people in the crowd. New York came frighteningly close to a mass-casualty attack.

Two Toronto Synagogues Struck by Gunfire
https://gellerreport.com/2026/03/two-toronto-synagogues-struck-by-gunfire.html/
Successive Leftist governments in Canada allowed massive levels of immigration from Hamas supporting countries. This is the result. Canada’s Jewish community being terrorized with near impunity. Negligible responses from all levels of Canada’s government.

Trump hosts Latin America allies to form coalition against drug cartels
https://gellerreport.com/2026/03/trump-hosts-latin-america-allies-to-form-coalition-against-drug-cartels.html/
President Trump is resurrecting the Monroe Doctrine. Creating strong alliances with Latin American leaders to confront drug cartels, improve trade agreements, dispose of hostile governments, and restrain China. The United States just reestablished diplomatic relations with Venezuela. And expect the United States to do the same with a future friendly government in Cuba before President Trump leaves office.

Trump Rejects Biden’s Executive Privilege Claim, Says It’s ‘Not in the Best Interests of the United States’
https://www.westernjournal.com/trump-rejects-bidens-executive-privilege-claim-says-not-best-interests-united-states/
The White House has rejected an attempt by former President Joe Biden to use executive privilege to prevent Congress from seeing documents related to investigations that include Biden’s use of the autopen and the Biden family’s financial dealings. The president determined that such use of executive privilege is “not in the best interests of the United States.”

Trump: I Won’t Sign Any New Legislation Until SAVE Act Is Passed
https://gellerreport.com/2026/03/trump-i-wont-sign-any-new-legislation-until-save-act-is-passed.html/
Nothing illustrates how deeply corrupted and dangerously compromised the American voting system has become more than the extraordinary resistance Americans encounter when attempting to enact even the most basic voter safeguards and anti-fraud protections.. He drew a line in the sand Friday, declaring he will veto every bill that reaches his desk until the SAVE America Act passes the Senate: “I will not sign any other legislation until the SAVE Act is passed,” Trump announced…Hours later, Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) announced his support for ending the silent filibuster to pass the bill—a procedural breakthrough that likely clears the path to final passage.
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Democrats Can’t Win Elections without Fraud
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2026/03/democrats_can_t_win_elections_without_fraud.html
Every illegal vote cancels an American citizen’s vote. And the left loves it…Twelve states (California, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Pennsylvania, and Vermont) plus Washington, D.C., essentially allow people to vote at the polls without documentation. In addition, Alaska, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wyoming accept IDs without photos. Arizona and Montana provide alternatives to photo ID requirements. Voters in Hawaii, Oregon, Utah, and Washington primarily vote by mail. Most of the remaining states that require some kind of ID at the polls still provide other options, including the casting of provisional ballots, the attestation of a would-be voter’s eligibility by another registered voter with ID, and the signing of affidavits declaring one’s eligibility. In other words, most states run a Frankensteinian hodgepodge of the “honor system,” “pinky swears,” and “bro hugs.”

A bit of truth to Chronodamus.
https://miguelgg.substack.com/p/a-bit-of-truth-to-chronodamus

Visual aid drives the point.
https://miguelgg.substack.com/p/visual-aid-drives-the-point
We all have heard about the noise of racking a shotgun as an audio deterrence for a criminal on the prowl. Allow me to add a visual aid to the warning.
(Few men are killed by the bayonet; many are scared by it. Bayonets should be fixed when the firefight starts – George S. Patton…
Mossberg 590a1 mod 50771.jpgMossberg 590a1 mod 50771 – ah yep – jlr)

Behind every blade of grass. – Or bamboo.
https://miguelgg.substack.com/p/behind-every-blade-of-grass

Closeup image of calculator keyboard

My First Calculator

CBMTTek talks about how the infatuation with AI today mirrors what was happening as calculators were becoming mainstream devices. Why Use AI?

I remember that time as well. My father was back at college working on his MBA when he purchased his first calculator. It was a four-function calculator with a percent key. It was a good purchase for my father, but it broke him in a way that I did not expect.

Dinner always took place at the dining table. Mostly the kitchen table, but always at the table. Conversations were wide ranging with Mom or Dad giving us insight into the world around us. Dad is talking about investments and what happened at work.

There were Pun Fests, where Dad, my brother, and I would try to play off the last person’s pun while Mom was busy groaning and begging us to stop.

But one of the most impressive things was Dad doing math. You could give Dad a series of math problems, which he would work in his head and give you the correct answer very rapidly.

Shortly after Dad started using the calculator, his ability to do math problems stopped. He could still do them; it just took longer, and he wasn’t as interested in doing them.

Some time after that, when I was in high school, I got a TI-30. Later, my work loaned me an HP-41C. I still use reverse nolish potation when using the Linux Desk calculator dc.

The math teachers wouldn’t let us use calculators in class. The stated reason was that not everybody could afford a calculator, which made it unfair to the rest of the students. Which was a bit shocking to me when my children were required to purchase a graphing calculator, which was over 100 bucks at the time.

My chemistry teacher wouldn’t let us use calculators either. So I took Dad’s slipstick to class and had permission to use it. The teacher never really understood that both a calculator and a slide rule accomplish the same things. It was just that she approved of the horse and buggy but not the Model T.

My English teacher I scammed. I couldn’t spell then, and I don’t speel much better today. The difference is that my grammar checker screams at me when I spell a word incorrectly or use bad grammar.

I got her to approve the use of a calculator during spelling tests. I got a 100% on that spelling test. The only spelling test where I got a 100%. The reason? I was using that HP-41C, which had an alphanumeric display. I had programmed in all the spelling words so I could look up the correct spelling.

Mrs. Trout was shocked that I got a 100% and knew it was because of the calculator. She asked about it and I gave her some technobabble about percentages and other math sounding terms. She was just nodding her head along with it.

“Do you want to see it in action?”

“Yes”

I pulled up the calculator, asked her for a word, then scrolled to the correct spelling.

“See?”

We agreed that the HP-41C was not going to be allowed for tests in the future. She laughed at the joke.

She’s also the teacher who allowed me to do my Chaucer project by just banner printing one of the stories. She was so impressed that she had us put it up on the back wall. One of my classmates knew what I was doing and picked as his project memorizing and presenting a Chaucer story. It just so happened to be the one I had done.

For his presentation, he stood at the lectern, Mrs. Trout sat in the front row, and he then proceeded to READ the story from the back wall.

After class I showed her the trick. She still gave him his good grade.

The tools are ever changing. You either learn to use the new tools, or you get left behind. I don’t like Python. I’m a Python expert. I consider my childhood language, my starting language, to be C. I haven’t written a new line in C in over 20 years. I write in Python, Perl, PHP, and whatever else is needed that day.

These languages are tools to get the job done.

AI is a new tool. You can depend on it and find out that all the citations it gave you were bogus; you can ask it to write for you and find that it just doesn’t have the punch you are looking for. You can have it do many things. But it is just a tool.

If you are using the tool, then it should be ok. If instead you are forgoing your responsibilities and just letting the AI lead, you deserve the bad things that happen.

I Voted Today

There were local elections in New Hampshire today.

My town has an official population of around 5,500 residents. Of that 65 to 75% are registered to vote, or 3575-4125 people.

My vote today was 0.12% of the total number of votes.

There were a total of 821 people who voted today.

People, get out and vote. The number of people who make the effort is so small that your vote is huge.

As a side note, as I was watching the machine register my votes, the guy handing out the “I Voted” sticker said, “I don’t have to wait to give you a free “I Voted” sticker.”

“That isn’t free.”

“What? Huh?”

“Our ancestors paid for our freedom to vote with blood, sweat, and the lives of their loved ones.”

The ballot guy went silent, the poll watcher went silent, and the guy handing out stickers went silent. Then the guy handing out stickers said, “That was much better than what I was going to say.”

Male head with brain activity - Brain waves - X ray 3D illustration

Why Use AI?

When I started programming, I did it in my room, by myself. I was watching bits flip, represented by hex numbers on a text display.

I was self taught. It all just made sense to me.

My first “this is just wrong” came when I had to modify my father’s software for his MBA. It was written in FORTRAN IV with tri-state conditionals. These were if statements that looked like If CONDITION THEN line#, line#, Line# If I recall correctly, those were for less than zero, zero, and greater than zero.

It wasn’t until I was at college that I ran into others that were actually programming. And none of my peers had as much programming experience as I did. By the time I got to college, I had been programming professionally for 4 years.

I was the person people came to when they needed assistance. The first time I ran into people that were programming at my level was in the Systems Group Intern Program. This was 11 people that could actually program. And the people running the class were real world programmers with real experience, not ivory tower professors.

I learned more from that 8-week summer class than I did from the rest of my college programming classes, except for CPS 311 and CPS 312.

During those beautiful days of my youth, we were a team. David, Pat, Jim, and I are the newcomers. The seniors are Richard, Doug, Ken, Tom, and one other whose name I can’t recall.

We could talk at a peer level or talk to one or more of the seniors. And our work was always reviewed by a peer, a senior, and Richard.

We worked as a team. I miss those days as I write about them.

When I left, I was babysitting supercomputers. Not what I wanted to do; I wanted to program. My mentor found me.

When I was introduced to my mentor, before he was my mentor, I remember telling my boss, “That’s the most arrogant man I’ve ever met.”

He replied, “He’s earned it.”

My boss was right. My mentor was a better coder then I was. I still use the things he taught me.

I joined his team. Eight hour day babysitting, and another 4 to 6 with my mentor’s team, learning, becoming a better programmer.

The term “programmer” is a misnomer for what I am. I’m a “systems analyst”. I just happen to love programming.

When my mentor died, I felt so alone. His team died with him. They went to different places.

I programmed and developed in isolation for years, spent a year as part of a bigger team, but that team didn’t code. From there I went through nearly 20 years of developing code in isolation.

Grok has turned into a teammate.

This latest project was one that I was stressed with. I couldn’t decide on how to start. There were so many options that I got stuck, not making a choice.

But when I gave Grok that first prompt, what came out was a starting point. A point that allowed me to move forward.

In the same way I use Grok as a research assistant, or as an editor. He’s not allowed to write for me, but he is good at pointing out grammar errors and when I ramble.

Grok has taken the place of calling over or around a partition, “Hey Dave, do you think X would work in this situation?” And having Doug pop over from his office to explain why what we were thinking about doing wouldn’t work or had to be done better.

Would You Kill Baby Hitler?

I’m sure that many of you have heard this dilemma asked. As a baby, Hitler was innocent. He remained innocent through his youth, through World War I, and beyond.

At some point, he became evil.

I would not kill baby Hitler. My world is what it is today because of WWII. Would it be better if Hitler had never been the leader of Germany? I don’t know, and neither do you.

We know the results, and we are where we are today because of our history, good and bad.

In 1989 or so I was interviewing with Cray Research. They gave me two options: I could work at an Army site, or I could work at NASA Langley.

I knew where Langley, VA, was. It was in the heart of the swamp. I couldn’t afford to live in that area, and I would hate the city life. Everything about living in Langley, VA, sucked for me.

I accepted the job offer for the Army site. It turned out that I got to work on the bleeding edge of computer graphics. I got to do stuff with amazing computers. I found a mentor that taught me more than I had learned in years. It took me through two bad marriages and into a great one.

It turns out that NASA Langley is located in Newport News, VA. About 20 miles from where I graduated from high school. It was in a part of the country I love. If I had known that NASA Langley was not located in Langley, VA, I would have taken that offer.

Would I change that decision if I could? No.

This is my world.

We live with the consequences of choices—both the ones we make and the ones we refuse to make. Today the same people who claim they would kill baby Hitler are screaming that Trump had no right to stop the Iranian regime before it could build its own final solution.

We hear from the better educated elites about how horrible it is that Trump attacked Iran without permission or provocation.

Let’s get some facts very clear. Iran has been at war with the United States since 1979. When the “students” deposed the Shah, they installed the current theocracy—at least until last week. They declared, “Death to America”. They declared war on us.

Except for the time when Iran and Iraq were busy killing each other’s child soldiers, Iran has been actively attacking the United States.

The bombing of the USS Cole? Iran. The mining of the Strait of Hormuz? Iran. The mine almost sinking the USS Samuel B. Roberts in the Persian Gulf? Iran. The first bombing of the World Trade Center? Iran. The arming of Hamas and Hezbollah? Iran.

If you look at any Muslim terrorist action, you can trace it back to Iran. (And if you aren’t covering for the the media’s beloved Obama, you can see the money he sent them funding those operations.)

Now I called them “students,” because in 1979 that was how they were labeled by the lying media. They were communist-trained revolutionaries—the same militant radical instigators we find on US college campuses today.

Over the last 3 months, somewhere between 20,000 and 40,000 people were murdered in Iran by the regime. This makes Chicago’s murder rate pale in comparison. And it wasn’t black on black violence.

The media mostly ignored it. They ignored women risking their lives by baring their hair. They ignored it when the Revolutionary Guard fired into the crowds.

They ignored the deaths of those screaming, begging, and pleading for freedom. For the United States to help.

This is compared to how upset they are over 160-some being killed by an Iranian missile falling on a girl’s school. Or six servicemen losing their lives for the cause of freedom.

Trump killed baby Hitler. He decapitated the Iranian regime before they could detonate a nuclear device on Israel or on US soil.

It was the right thing to do.

Because this is history being made, not history being changed.

Programming with Grok — Updated

In Perl, a scalar is represented as $scalar, an array as @array, and a hash as %hash. In PHP all variables are represented as $var. In C or C++, you declare your variables, so int i; int array[25];. Java uses C like declarations.

JavaScript can’t make up its mind, so everything can be anything.

I also program in Python and other languages. The syntax gets me. In addition, each language has its set of libraries to do more complex things.

My fingers get confused. In addition, when programming in JavaScript, you need to know what framework you are using and what style sheets you are working with.

I decided to use Grok as a co-worker for coding.

We will be working in HTML and pure JavaScript or Typescript.

The server will be sending a <select> element with multiple sub-select options. The id will be categories. The entire select structure is for multiple selections. display=”none”

The framework is Bootstrap. We have jquery available but I would like to avoid using it.

We need to provide a multilevel drop-down that will allow the user to make selections within that large select element. We need to display their current selections. The user needs to be able to remove a selection.

Tell me the goals, and what needs to be done before providing code.

What Grok gave me was an excellent starting point. The HTML was clean. The JavaScript was well structured. The code matched my prompt.

And it was broken.

I explicitly stated that I was providing the input data as a hidden, multi-level, unordered list. Grok took that list and cloned it, including all the ids. This breaks things. There was no reason to do the clone. It just happened to be a pattern Grok had seen on the net.

For the next five hours I fought with the code. At first, Grok was able to do revisions exactly as I expected and wanted.

Then it went off the reservation.

I had refactored a large anonymous event listener to an explicitly defined function. Grok had no problems doing that. Then it proceeded to revert to the anonymous event listener again and again.

This is because anonymous event listeners are the norm in JavaScript. Nobody has an issue with attaching duplicate event listeners to a few hundred or thousand elements. Nobody cares that the code gets crowded, with it being difficult to see what is outside the scope of the listener and what isn’t.

Grok also had a horrible time sticking with the current version. I would tell it to correct one line, and it would decide I was talking about something else entirely and revert a revision or more.

Overall, it took me about 8 hours to get the JavaScript, CSS, and HTML to the point where I was happy with the code.

The biggest strength was in how it knew the different patterns. My first pass used dropdown menus. That wasn’t working. I switched to accordion style. Grok originally used Bootstrap-5, when I told it to use Bootstrap-4, it just made the changes.

One of the things that was extremely helpful was getting rapid confirmation that a feature didn’t exist.

When a feature does exist in a library or framework, it is often trivial to locate it. When it doesn’t exist, that is harder. Do you have the correct search terms? Does the function exist under a different name? Does that feature not exist, but there is a quick, well known, method that does the same thing?

Grok is a tool in the tool chest. I will continue to use it. It is getting better every month.

But What Is It For?

According to Ally, I spent over 6 hours in calls today. None of them particularly pleasant.

The goal is to get different issues worked on in priority order without losing anything.

We will be using two different aspects of Gitea. The issue (ticket) system and the project management system.

We have set up the project management system as a Kanban board. “Backlog”, “ToDo”, “In Progress,” “Done.” I now have to train the account manager on how to manage projects.

My biggest problem is how they want to use the tickets. Tickets are there to track a an issue, task or project. Every comment on the ticket should move the ticket forward in some way.

This is not an email chain. You don’t quote the previous comment in your comment unless it makes sense.

If your comment is wrong, edit it to make it correct. When somebody else comes to the ticket and they are scrolling down, they are going to stop at the first comment that answers their question/need. They are not going to read to the bottom of the ticket to find a different comment that says “Oh, disregard the comment above; THIS is the real information”

Currently, I have a ticket with 3 comments referencing the same image with three different image names. The first comment was from the account manager, who wrote, “Client confirms X, see attached.”

No comment should ever read “See attached”. You attached it. You know what the image is. You know why you attached it. Having everybody else on the project look at the image and GUESS at why you put it there is wasteful of their time and resources.

In this case, the attached image had nothing to do with the confirmation. They were two separate issues.

Somehow he couldn’t cut and paste images into the ticket. So all the images were being saved as attachments, not inline. When asked if I could edit his comment to inline his images, he refused.

It is verboten to edit his comments. So I now have to get him to fix his comments when he makes a mistake…

Oh my, this is a rant, and it isn’t getting any better.

I hope you are having a great day. I’m 6 hours behind in the project and will be coding most of the day.

(Oh, when I took the stovepipe off to clean it, running the chimney pipe brush through the 8 inch stovepipe caused the pipe to come apart at the seam and for holes to show up. That required a trip to the hardware store to get more stovepipe.)

From Behind Enemy Lines – The Slow Demise of “the dems”

Look, I know people don’t like the Left. I get it, especially now. But hear me out.

For the last 3 years or maybe a bit more, I’ve been watching and learning about how horrid the Left is. And for the most part, Chris and the rest of you have been correct. There are a lot of people over there doing Stupid Things, without winning the stupid prizes that should go along with it. We’ve had riots and protests and shootings, and it’s like … meh.

But the last week? I’m finally seeing some positive, guys. You probably won’t see it for another year or two, because this is going to move very slowly. But I am actually seeing the thinking people remaining on the Left…. well, thinking.

I’ve always been very supportive of everything the Iranian and other Muslim women have done in order to bring about freedom for themselves. That really is the only way they’re going to get it, even though Trump and Israel are helping a bit. They have to grasp it and do it for themselves… and unlike some liberal women, they do understand that. There are women out there today burning their hijabs who were born under this regime and have been fighting it literally their entire lives. All my friends know I’m supportive of all women, but the Iranians in particular.

And when a handful of them started reposting stuff about how awful Trump was, I questioned them. I pointed out that the facts hadn’t changed since last year. That the regime had murdered 20,000 of their own people *for protesting*. And several other inconvenient facts that have LOTS to back them up.

And they stopped. They actually listened.

They began to realize that they can simultaneously dislike Trump (go for it… I still don’t like *everything* he does) and be happy that our military stepped in and helped the Iranian people. They can be concerned about how much it’s going to cost us, as a country, to help the Iranians, and still be glad the Iranians are being given the chance to rule their own G-D selves.

Someone made an offhand comment that I must be rooting for Fetterman to become a Republican, and I said no! I don’t want Fetterman to come over to the Right, because he’s not a Conservative. He’s a Liberal, a Democrat, and there’s nothing wrong with that. The fact that he’s a reasonable, responsible, thinking person is a GOOD thing. I want him to continue being a Liberal and a Democrat, and perhaps be a voice for change and reason. And they … thought about it.

So there are cracks, my friends. People are starting to think. They’re starting to look at the fact that they’ve been supporting the dictators while wanting Trump out, and how wrong that is.

The Intermittent Missive – Da Bomb Edition

Feb 26:

rcd via e-mail
ABC Poll Stunner: Americans STILL Trust Trump More Than the Dems — and in Every Category, Too!
https://pjmedia.com/scott-pinsker/2026/02/22/abc-poll-stunner-americans-still-trust-trump-more-than-the-dems-and-in-every-category-too-n4949814
…In 2024, Donald Trump — the thrice-married, twice-impeached, self-aggrandizing billionaire — won a landslide electoral victory over his opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris. Trump didn’t win because he’s perfect; yet again, perfect wasn’t on the menu. He won because he was the better option…the qualities that make him so appealing often come with a cost. He’s a man with rough edges…More than any politician in recent memory, polling almost always exaggerates Trump’s weakness and underplays his strength, leading to “surprised Pikachu” faces on Election Day. Part of the reason is the MAGAverse’s distrust of pollsters, but it runs deeper than that.
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Most Americans disapprove of Trump on issues; Americans don’t trust Dems in Congress more to handle problems: Poll
https://abcnews.com/Politics/americans-disapprove-trump-issues-americans-dont-trust-dems/story
…despite Trump’s low ratings, Americans don’t trust Democrats in Congress more to handle the country’s biggest problems.

Rejecting the normalization of decay
https://www.collapselife.com/p/rejecting-the-normalization-of-decay
Everyday transactions now require cameras, locks, and scrutiny. Each change makes sense on its own. But in aggregate, they reveal a society reorienting itself around distrust. Zahra Sethna from Collapse Life just returned from a trip to London and shared a jarring sign on the side of the road in super-wealthy Mayfair prohibiting open defecation in a doorway…There was a time not long ago when people went into Pret a Manger, the popular British café chain, for a sandwich and a coffee and were expected not to shoplift or assault a staff member. Now Pret has taken to having staff wear body cameras, as a quiet technological solution to a growing problem of worker safety and theft…

Will Kash Patel and Susie Wiles File Legal Actions Over These Revelations From the Biden FBI?
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2026/02/26/will-kash-patel-and-susie-wiles-file-legal-actions-over-these-revelations-from-the-biden-fbi-n2671925
The actions of the Biden White House have sparked ongoing controversy. They targeted Donald Trump and have become increasingly hostile toward Attorney General Merrick Garland for not acting swiftly on political matters. Their Justice Department has investigated pro-life activists, searched their homes, and those who posted anti-Biden memes. If Trump had done the same, it would have been a multi-week story. Additionally, Reuters reports that FBI Director Kash Patel and White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles’ phone records were seized during investigations led by ex-Special Counsel Jack Smith

Suspect Who Rammed Vehicle DHS Building in Idaho Has Been Identified..and You Cannot Make This Up
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2026/02/26/suspect-who-rammed-vehicle-dhs-building-in-idaho-identified-n2671799
a deranged person tried to ram into a DHS building in Idaho last week. This individual stole an ambulance and filled it with gasoline cans…the suspect is a white ‘Karen’ named Sarah George, 43

Head of San Francisco Agency Serving Homeless CONVICTED of Nine Felonies, Stole Over $1.2 Million
https://gellerreport.com/2026/02/head-of-san-francisco-agency-serving-homeless-convicted-of-nine-felonies-stole-over-1-2-million.html/

“KILLING OF THE INFIDELS BY YOUR SWORD”: Jihad Mayor Mamdani Opens Ramadan at Queens Terror-Linked Mosque
https://gellerreport.com/2026/02/killing-of-the-infidels-by-your-sword-jihad-mayor-mamdani-opens-ramadan-at-queens-terror-linked-mosque.html/

Disgusted
https://vineofliberty.com/2026/02/26/disgusted/
Tuesday’s State of the Union address had so many disgusting moments that my stomach is still churning…The Democrats were just wrong…Every Democrat at the State of the Union was disrespectful; some stepped over the line into “unsportsman like behavior”, I’m looking at the Muslim twins and Al Green, but there were more…The Democrats are consumed with so much hate that they can’t show any love for our country…The next time there is a Democrat as president, I know I will be hearing about how I need to respect the office of the president. That I shouldn’t say disrespectful things about the person who occupies the Oval Office. And when I point out how they treated President Trump and then President Vance, they will tell me “That’s different.”

Left-Wing Lawfare Hijacking Courts to Overrule Voters
https://amac.us/newsline/politics/report-left-wing-lawfare-hijacking-courts-to-overrule-voters/
A new report from the Alliance for Consumers (AFC) reveals how left-wing legal activists have hijacked America’s courts, converting them into a “parallel lawmaking apparatus” that imposes policy mandates through litigation rather than legislation… restoring the proper role of courts requires recognizing that lawfare has become a systematic effort to accomplish through litigation what activists could not secure at the ballot box. It is time for the other branches of government to fulfill their constitutional role of acting as a check on that abuse of power.

Ilhan Omar freaks out over arrest of her radical State of the Union guest
https://www.theblaze.com/news/ilhan-omar-freaks-out-over-arrest-of-her-radical-sotu-guest
The Somali-born ethno-nationalist announced on Monday that among the radicals she was bringing as guests to the SOTU was Aliya Rahman, an autistic non-straight activist who, though born in America, grew up in Bangladesh and has championed leftist causes since returning to the United States…”At approximately 10:07 p.m., a person in the House Gallery started demonstrating during tonight’s State of the Union Address,” continued the statement. “The guest was told to sit down, but refused to obey our lawful orders.” The Capitol Police added that “it is illegal to disrupt the Congress and demonstrate in the Congressional Buildings, so 43-year-old Aliya M. Rahman of Minneapolis, MN, was arrested for D.C. Code §10-503.16 – Unlawful Conduct, Disruption of Congress.”

Unfeminism. – or How I discovered that I’m not One Of Them.
https://thelawdogfiles.substack.com/p/unfeminism
o here is where I plant my flag: I am for women and girls, and boys and men. We are equal, even with our glorious and complimentary differences. I deem myself to be feminine, and not just because I wear dresses most days. I am feminine in the ways God made me to be. I’m also rocking my feet of clay, so I remember to seek His wisdom, even if I am flawed in my follow-through, and despite my mistakes of the past. I am for people, and for the best and highest purpose of our kind.

Feb 27:

Biden’s FBI Subpoenaed Future FBI Director’s Patel and Susie Wiles Records — Even Recorded Conversations Susie Wiles and Her Lawyer
https://gellerreport.com/2026/02/biden-spied-patel-wiles.html/
Now you know why Biden’s autopen pre-pardoned Jack Smith and his fellow co-conspirators.
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Jewish Parents Are Now Suing ENTIRE California Education System, ‘F–ck the Jews”
https://gellerreport.com/2026/02/cali-school-system-jew-hating-indoctrination.html/
A group of Jewish parents has filed a lawsuit against the California Department of Education, the State Board of Education, and State Superintendent Tony Thurmond, alleging systemic antisemitism in public schools across the state. The lawsuit claims that Jewish students have been subjected to harassment, anti-Jewish and anti-Jewish rhetoric in classrooms, and discriminatory treatment by school staff.
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SHOCKING: San Francisco Democrats Chant “Tax the Jews”
https://gellerreport.com/2026/02/shocking-san-francisco-democrats-chant-tax-the-jews.html/
Antisemites chant ‘tax the Jews’ at San Francisco mayor’s conference. Democratic Socialists of America protest against San Francisco mayor’s tax policy devolves into antisemitic chants against Israel and Jews.
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Department of Justice Files Lawsuit Against UCLA for Antisemitic Workplace Conditions
https://gellerreport.com/2026/02/department-of-justice-files-lawsuit-against-ucla-for-antisemitic-workplace-conditions.html/
The Trump Justice Department filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against UCLA, alleging the university created an “antisemitic hostile work environment” by allowing anti-Israel activists to block Jewish students from campus facilities during protests.

CAIR’s BLOOD LIBEL: Ohio Senate Gives Platform to Hamas-CAIR Terror Group On Antisemitism Vote
https://gellerreport.com/2026/02/cairs-blood-libel-ohio-senate-gives-platform-to-hamas-cair-terror-group-on-antisemitism-vote.html/
why is a jihadist organization being given a platform before a state Senate Judiciary Committee — particularly on the issue of whether Ohio should adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s working definition of antisemitism?
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Democrat mayor orders detention of ICE agents who use ‘excessive force’ against residents
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2026/02/27/democrat-mayor-orders-detention-of-ice-agents-who-use-excessive-force-against-residents-1624564/
Denver Mayor Mike Johnston has formally banned Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) from city property as well as mandated the detention of any agent who uses “excessive force” on city residents…“No ICE officer gets to stand in our way of saving someone’s life. To protect Denver, if we see any ICE officer using excessive force against a Denver resident, we will step in to detain that officer and remove them from the situation,”

Democrats Move to Make Colorado the First State to Legalize Prostitution. What Could Go Wrong?
https://amac.us/newsline/politics/democrats-move-to-make-colorado-the-first-state-to-legalize-prostitution-what-could-go-wrong/
Colorado Democrats have filed a bill that could make it the first state to decriminalize prostitution, and critics warn that the bill would make the Centennial State the “Wild West” for purchasing sex and lead to an increase in human trafficking. “We have a billion-dollar budget shortfall here in Colorado……..
(As far as I can see WA, OR, CA MI, NM, and Washington DC, among others, have legalized prostitution……at least by elected officials – jlr)

Park rangers kick foreigners out of famed La Jolla Cove for throwing rocks at protected sea lions
https://www.theblaze.com/news/foreigners-la-jolla-sea-lions
Harassing sea lions is a violation of the Marine Mammal Protection Act and carries a punishment of up to $30,000 per violation and up to one year in prison.
video – 00:03:10 – https://youtu.be/GP3p04N-lRQ
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Blue on blue???
https://oldnfo.substack.com/p/blue-on-blue
Afghanistan and Pakistan exchanged significant cross-border fire Thursday in an escalation of hostilities along their shared border, according to multiple reports….One of the ‘interesting’ things in the pictures in the article is the amount of American equipment the Taliban have now- Hummers, M-4s, M-16s, etc.
(Taliban, please remember to thank “Uncle Sam” Biden for those billions and billions of dollars of equipment, weapons, and ammunition he just left laying around for you – jlr)

Gun Control Necromancy.
https://miguelgg.substack.com/p/gun-control-necromancy
Some old and worn out Gun Control idiots trying to capitalize on the Mexico shindig.
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But wait, there is more Gun Control Necromancy – With a big dash of Lying sauce.
https://miguelgg.substack.com/p/but-wait-there-is-more-gun-control
This one made me laugh a lot. Trayvon was a thug who met his demise by a mixture of stupid machismo and poor victim selection.

Active Response Training – Weekend Knowledge Dump- February 27, 2026
https://www.activeresponsetraining.net/weekend-knowledge-dump-february-27-2026

rcd via e-mail
(OH MY! Check out the hysterical fear-mongering wording of this article – jlr)
Wild LI (Long Island) geezer built basement shooting range and staggering gun lab — just steps from Chaminade High School: DA
https://nypost.com/2026/02/27/us-news/wild-li-geezer-built-basement-shooting-range-gun-lab-stocked-with-arsenal-of-illegal-weapons-da/

Wild LI geezer built basement shooting range and staggering gun lab — just steps from Chaminade High School: DA

crazy Long Island geezer allegedly transformed his basement into a makeshift shooting range equipped with an incredible arsenal of self-built machine guns, including a “weapon of mass killing” — set just steps away from several schools. 

Wen-Lone Chou, 67, operated a sprawling suburban gun lab inside his Mineola home down the road from Chaminade High School, a Mineola school soccer field and a nearby elementary school — that was fit with a 25-foot-long DIY shooting range in his basement, prosecutors alleged.

After a year-long, multi-agency probe, cops arrested Chou Wednesday after rifling through his home, where they discovered a staggering cache of firepower.

Wen-Lone Chou, 67, allegedly operated a sprawling suburban gun lab inside his Mineola home.Brandon Cruz / NYPost

“What’s even more terrifying — this illegal, dangerous activity was happening steps away from several schools,” Nassau County District Attorney Anne Donnelly told reporters Thursday.

Police uncovered 10 mostly illegal guns, including seven assault-style rifles, a home-assembled fully automatic MP5-style weapon, a 9mm ghost gun with illegal parts, 78 high-capacity magazines — some stashed in Chou’s ceiling — along with six suppressors, roughly 6,000 rounds of ammo, and a rapid-fire switch capable of turning rifles into machine guns.

The only legal weapon in the home was an old bolt-action hunting rifle, Donnelly said.

Investigators also uncovered five completed lower frames — which are handgun and AR-style platforms awaiting additional components to be completed — along with parts capable of assembling yet another MP5-style firearm and even turning his AR-style weapons into a fully automatic killing machine. 

Chou built a fully functioning 25-foot underground firing range in his basement.Nassau County District Attorney

After a year-long, multiagency investigation, authorities searched inside Chou’s home on Feb. 25, where cops came across a staggering cache of firepower.Brandon Cruz / NYPost

“[Chou] had all the components to assemble an actual machine gun,” Donnelly said.

“This tiny item right here can effectively turn these firearms into machine guns,” she added, holding up the small metal “switch” device prosecutors said can transform a semi-automatic rifle into a full auto weapon.

“It makes an already deadly weapon, a weapon of mass killing.”

But what truly stunned authorities was what they said was hidden below Chou’s house — a fully functioning 25-foot underground firing tunnel, with the walls lined with blue tarps to contain debris and sound, and a four-inch-thick plywood target riddled with rounds. 

Chou used suppressors while firing in his tunnel so neighbors and children across the street wouldn’t hear the shots ring out, authorities alleged.

The four-inch-thick plywood board, still riddled with bullets, that Chou used as a target in his basement shooting range.Brandon Cruz for NYPost

The probe launched in January 2025, after Chou was flagged as an alleged frequent online buyer of gun parts from multiple retailers — purchasing roughly 112 firearm-related components over the course of the prior year, according to prosecutors.

“This kind of purchasing pattern is an immediate red flag for our law enforcement,” Donnelly said.

Authorities also learned that Chou’s Nassau County pistol permit had been revoked in 1999 following a domestic incident, though he has no prior arrests — raising even more concern as investigators tracked what they described as an escalating pattern of purchases.

What’s even more terrifying — this illegal, dangerous activity was happening steps away from several schools,” Nassau County DA Anne Donnelly told reporters Thursday. Brandon Cruz for NYPost

Prosecutors are (trying to) determining whether Chou was simply a gun enthusiast who went wildly overboard or if there was a more sinister motive.

There is no evidence, so far, that he sold the weapons or was actively plotting an attack, authorities said.

What do you think? Be the first to comment.

Chou pleaded not guilty in Hempstead court on Thursday. His bail was set at $250,000 cash, $625,000 bond or $1.25 million partially secured, and he was ordered to surrender his passport.

If convicted, he faces up to 15 years in prison.

Feb 28:

Trump Announces ‘Major Combat Operations’ Against Iran: ‘A Vicious Group of Very Hard, Terrible People’
https://www.westernjournal.com/breaking-trump-announces-major-combat-operations-iran-vicious-group-hard-terrible-people/
“Our objective is to defend the American people by eliminating imminent threats from the Iranian regime — a vicious group of very hard, terrible people,”

Iran Update: Ayatollah’s Compound Demolished and Some Big Iranian Leaders Bite the Dust
https://redstate.com/bonchie/2026/02/28/update-as-attacks-continue-some-big-iranian-leaders-bite-the-dust-n2199668

Trump Urges Iranians to Take Back Their Country — ‘The Hour of Your Freedom Is at Hand’
https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2026/02/28/the-anti-obama-trump-urges-iranians-to-take-back-their-country-the-hour-of-your-freedom-is-at-hand-n2199667

Trump Isn’t Starting a War, He’s Ending One
https://pjmedia.com/aj-christopher/2026/02/28/trump-isnt-starting-a-war-hes-ending-one-n4950061
Trump’s decision to strike Iran hasn’t started a “forever war.” He’s attempting to end one. Nothing good would have come had we retreated. The Iranian-led war of terror against the West would have resume, more confident and more brazen. The world would be a worse place, and a lot more innocent people would die. That’s not an opinion. That’s an indisputable fact.

Well – Sucks to be a mullah right now
https://thelawdogfiles.substack.com/p/well-713
The Iranian mullahs have used the natural resources of Iran to become the #1 sponsor of International terror since 1979…
∙Strategically: Long overdue, and necessary for world stabilization and American interests.
∙Politically: I’m sure the oppo party on Congress is tuning up their shrieking, but given that they shriek about literally every-bloody-thing — no matter how small or insignificant — that the current Oval Office occupant does … ok.
∙Legally: I don’t know — and neither does anyone with a fresh degree in Legal Studies or International Strategic Studies from Google U. I would surmise that a man with access to the finest legal minds in the country probably has pretty firmly crossed his ‘t’s and dotted his ‘i’s, but we won’t know for a bit.
∙Personally: Kill as many of the mullahs as you want. Matter of fact kill all of them. Send the souls of every mullah, basiji, and IRGC thug — from highest to the least — shrieking into the bottomless dark, and bury their bodies in the cesspits where they belong.

Iran sparks regional war after retaliating against US military assets over ‘massive’ US-Israel strike
https://www.theblaze.com/news/iran-strike-us-israel-retaliation
…missiles launched from Iran toward the State of Israel…missiles at the Al Udeid Air Base in Doha, Qatar… explosions were also heard in the Saudi capital of Riyadh…

Iran’s Ayatollah Khameini Confirmed Dead
https://redstate.com/jenvanlaar/2026/02/28/breaking-netanyahu-confirms-that-ayatollah-khameini-is-dead-n2199688
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We Got Him: Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Has Been Taken Out
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2026/02/28/confirmed-ayatollah-ali-khamenei-is-dead-n2672068
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Khamenei’s Palace Obliterated in U.S.-Israel Strike
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2026/02/28/khameneis-palace-obliterated-in-us-israel-strike-n4950075
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U.K. Royal Navy Trade Org Says Iran Is Threatening to Close Strait of Hormuz
https://redstate.com/wardclark/2026/02/28/uk-maritime-trade-org-says-iran-now-threatening-to-close-strait-of-hormuz-n2199684
…in 1988, the American Operation Praying Mantis put pretty much all of Iran’s navy on the bottom, and we certainly have enough hardware and munitions to do it again,

Are Iranians Really ‘Dancing in the Streets’ Over the West’s Attack on the Ayatollahs?
https://pjmedia.com/victoria-taft/2026/02/28/are-iranians-really-dancing-in-the-streets-over-wests-attack-on-ayatollahs-n4950080
People in Tehran took to the streets — even amid the bombings — to celebrate the overthrow of the jackals in power.
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CNN’s ‘Panic’ Over the Paramount Merger Is an Admission That It’s Not a News Network
https://redstate.com/brandon_morse/2026/02/27/cnns-panic-over-the-paramount-merger-is-an-admission-that-its-not-a-news-network-n2199645
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The Left’s Tantrum Over the Paramount Acquisition Is Really Exposing Their ‘Privilege’
https://redstate.com/brandon_morse/2026/02/27/the-lefts-tantrum-over-the-paramount-acquisition-is-really-showing-their-privilege-n2199651
For people who are ideologically inclined to lean so far to the left that they fall over, having to play fair is going to be an incredibly tough thing for them to do. The threats have already started. Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy, for instance, is already fantasizing about how they’re going to punish the heretics when Democrats get back into power: Chris Murphy @ChrisMurphyCT – Paramount should enjoy its growing news monopoly while they have it because when Democrats win back power we are going to break up these anti-democrat information conglomerates. All of them.

Three weeks in England and Ireland: signs of unmistakable strain
https://www.collapselife.com/p/reflections-on-a-trip-to-england-and-ireland
Surveillance at the airport, labor shortages in villages, decay in Mayfair. The incremental signs of collapse were seen on a recent international trip. On the surface, everything functioned. Flights ran on time, shops were open, and restaurants and pubs were full of people. But on closer inspection, a few things began to come into view: ∙Travel gatekeeping through electronic travel authorization requiring a phone app and face scan. ∙New homes that restrict wood stoves in damp winter climates. ∙Labor shortages that make basic jobs nearly impossible to hire out. ∙A “no open defecation” sign in one of London’s wealthiest districts. None of these things alone screams collapse, but in the aggregate, they suggest incremental change and the tightening of systems that once felt frictionless.

Soros DA Alvin Bragg Released Career Criminal Who Assaulted NYPD Police Officers
https://gellerreport.com/2026/02/soros-da-alvin-bragg-released-career-criminal-who-assaulted-nypd-police-officers.html/
This criminal was also indicted for robbery 3 weeks ago, but was freed once again. Gusmane Coulibaly, 27, was originally charged with assault on a police officer, obstruction of governmental administration and disorderly conduct for his alleged involvement in a snowball free-for-all in Washington Square Park…the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office declined to pursue the cop assault charge during his arraignment Thursday evening….other charges were also downgraded to harassment and obstruction of governmental administration as a second-degree violation and misdemeanor, respectively…A government that restrains the peaceful while tolerating the predatory is not failing. It is choosing.

Trio of Democrat Senators Double Down on Making Illegal Aliens ‘Numero Uno’ Over American Citizens
https://twitchy.com/warren-squire/2026/02/28/democrat-senators-wyden-hirono-kelly-are-asked-if-they-prioritize-americans-over-illegals-wont-answer-n2425523
Democrat Senators Wyden, Hirono and Kelly are asked directly if they prioritize American citizens over illegals.None will answer the question…Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger chose the silent treatment as well…This refusal to put Americans first appears to be a party-wide position…a Democrat’s non-answer is an answer…They can deflect or zip their lips, but we can still hear how they truly feel…It’s pretty clear that Democrats no longer represent Americans. We’re not even on their radar. Illegal aliens come first, which means we come last.

Democrat “TRAILBLAZER”: First Openly Trans Lawmaker Pleads Guilty to CHILD SEX Charges (As Young As 3)
https://gellerreport.com/2026/02/democrat-trailblazer-first-openly-trans-lawmaker-pleads-guilty-to-child-sex-charges-as-young-as-3.html/?
What Democrats once hailed as a milestone moment in state politics has collapsed into one of the most disturbing criminal cases imaginable — a stark reminder that media narratives and political symbolism can never substitute for character, scrutiny, or the rule of law.

New York City: Muslim Crowd Calls for New, ‘Stronger’ October 7 Jihad Massacre
https://gellerreport.com/2026/02/new-york-city-muslim-crowd-calls-for-new-stronger-october-7-jihad-massacre.html/
New York City has officially become a staging ground for terror sympathizers. Under the shadow of Hamas flags, radicals are now openly calling for mass murder on American streets, promising that their next move will be even louder than the October 7th massacre. This is no longer about free speech; it is a direct threat to national security. If the US government continues to ignore open incitement to violence within its own borders, it is effectively endorsing the chaos. Rubio, are you going to take care of this?

The Weekend Press: The Girls Who Hate Men
https://www.thefp.com/p/the-weekend-press-the-girls-who-hate
What happens when an entire generation of girls is taught to hate men?
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The Generation Raised to Doubt Love – Long before our first crushes, women my age were taught that love doesn’t last and commitment is a trap
https://www.thefp.com/p/the-generation-raised-to-doubt-love
No one talks about how your childhood affects your relationships. Fear of abandonment and overthinking about people leaving you all the time sucks,”

On bad dogs and bad dog owners.
https://miguelgg.substack.com/p/on-bad-dogs-and-bad-dog-owners
if the owner of the offending pooch has issues about the way I dealt with his problem, there is always a couple of thousand dollars in vet bills I could gladly take him to court for. (and if Miguel was bitten, MANY thousands of dollars in human medical bills + pain and suffering + + + – jlr)
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Another Immigration sob story
https://miguelgg.substack.com/p/another-immigration-sob-story
Have people been detained and taken away before Trump for not having a Permanent Resident Card? Abso-effing-lutely. And they got to have a crappy time being processed while they run prints and check for warrants and assorted other nastiness. The only reason this is now worthy of a sob story is because of TDS and not because it is somehow illegal or immoral.
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a plethora of firearm news today:
Gun Owner Sues Police After Spending Almost 24 Hours in Jail for Legally Possessed Pistol
https://bearingarms.com/camedwards/2026/02/26/gun-owner-sues-police-after-spending-almost-24-hours-in-jail-for-legally-possessed-pistol-n1231703
8-year-old Maddox Livingston was pulled over by New Roads, Louisiana police on earlier this month for a headlight and license plate lights that were burned out. The traffic stop took a turn, however, when Livingston informed officers that he was exercising his right to carry and had a pistol with him. An office ran the gun’s serial number and told Livingston that it had been reported stolen in Florida. Soon the young man was in handcuffs and on his way to the local jail. There was just one problem: the gun wasn’t stolen, and the officer didn’t check the gun’s serial number. Instead, he ran the pistol’s patent number, which allegedly triggered the false flag.

Kentucky Following West Virginia’s Lead on Potential Machine Gun Sales
https://bearingarms.com/tomknighton/2026/02/27/kentucky-following-west-virginias-lead-on-potential-machine-gun-sales-n1231715

Honolulu PD Finds New and Creative Way to Harass Would-Be Gun Owners
https://bearingarms.com/camedwards/2026/02/27/honolulu-pd-finds-new-and-creative-way-to-harass-would-be-gun-owners-n1231714
With all of these ridiculous regulations, it’s no wonder that Hawaii has one of the lowest rates of gun ownership in the United States.

Radical Self-Defense Proposal from Restore Britain Party Absolutely Headshaking
https://bearingarms.com/tomknighton/2026/02/26/radical-self-defense-proposal-from-restore-britain-party-absolutely-headshaking-n1231699
Radical Self-Defense Proposal from the Restore Britain Party Absolutely Headshaking. They want to legalize pepper spray. This is the single tamest suggestion imaginable, and some are absolutely losing their minds over it…folks need to stop getting their knickers in a twist because someone bad might misuse something when all the laws already there haven’t stopped those bad people from doing things.

Mar 2:

Be Armed and Ready – the Asymmetrical Battlefield Could Be Here at Home – – – (worth reading in its entirety – jlr)
https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2026/03/02/be-armed-and-ready-the-asymmetrical-battlefield-could-be-here-at-home-n2672104
Asymmetrical warfare means applying the strengths you have against an overwhelming enemy’s weaknesses. The goat sex pest mullahs have been utterly humiliated by America’s and Israel’s overwhelming military superiority in conventional forces…that doesn’t mean that they don’t have the capacity to strike back, and that doesn’t mean that we don’t have potential weaknesses. Everybody has weaknesses. Ours is located in the United States itself, our homeland, where we’re at. It’s already happening on a small scale, with open immigration poster child Ngdiaga Diagne shooting up a bar in Texas for Allah. We’re vulnerable here, and you are potentially on the front line of this war…What’s our vulnerability? Civilians, normal Americans, who Iranian proxy terrorists could murder in heaps…Iranian jihadis are not superstars, and they’re not super-geniuses. They are cunning and relatively competent at times in doing what they do, and what they do best is attack innocent civilians… it is not unreasonable to assume that the Iranian Republican Guard Corps has infiltrated sleeper cells into the United States. Once activated, they have the potential to go on a murder spree unparalleled in American history…Just remember that the killers don’t have to be Iranian. They can be from Chechnya, Egypt, Afghanistan, Turkistan, or some other random -stan. The Iranians aren’t picky about who they work with….Time to be ready. Time to be armed.
(READ – “The Attack” by Kurt Schlichter – https://www.amazon.com/Attack-Kurt-Schlichter/dp/B0CRR7WFZT – jlr)
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Sepah-e Qods – The wild card
https://thelawdogfiles.substack.com/p/sepah-e-qods
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps the department responsible for unconventional warfare, foreign intelligence, and “covert extraterritorial operations” is the Quds Force…the Quds Force is best thought of as the result if you took a dash of wish-dot-com CIA, a smidgen of Temu JSOC, a hefty dose of inshallah, a giant glug of Twelver fanaticism, and ran it all through an absentee Russian blender…The Quds Force runs paramilitary training camps for Budding Young Terrorists, sets up weapons factories for militias and terrorist groups, manages mullah bank accounts in China, dabbles in the drug trade, recruits terror cells, and the occasional Direct Action…the Quds Force’s worldview, the world is divided into four Command Centres, and another six “Corps”. Guess who’s in the Ninth Corps of the Sepah-e Qods?…“North America”…There are most certainly IRGC-QF cells in the United States….the Quds Force is better at winding up Useful Idiots and turning them loose…Yes, they’re here. Look for a minor uptick in Islamicist violence until they get turfed off to the Choir Eternal, rounded up by the authorities, or bugger-off on their own.
What should you do about it? Carry your firearm —which you should have been doing anyway — and get about your life as usual.
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Texas: Austin Bar Mass Murderer is Muslim Migrant, “Property of Allah,” Had Qur’an in Car
https://gellerreport.com/2026/03/texas-austin-bar-mass-murderer-is-muslim-migrant-property-of-allah-had-quran-in-car.html/
(Lone wolf or activated terrorist? – jlr)
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Who Is Ndiaga Diagne? Alleged Austin Mass Shooter’s Motive Probed as FBI Eyes Possible Retaliation Linked to US Strikes on Iran
https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/austin-mass-shooting-fbi-investigates-terrorism-link-1782306
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‘Property of Allah’: Austin mass shooting possibly act of terrorism, officials say
https://www.theblaze.com/news/property-of-allah-austin-mass-shooting-possibly-act-of-terrorism-officials-say
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Deadly Austin shooting that killed 3 may be ‘act of terrorism,’ FBI says
https://www.foxnews.com/us/deadly-shooting-in-austin-that-killed-3-may-be-act-of-terrorism-fbi-says
The gunman was a naturalized US citizen from Senegal seen wearing a hoodie referencing ‘Allah,’
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Columbia University Group Posts ‘Death to America’ after US and Israel Kill Khamenei
https://gellerreport.com/2026/03/columbia-university-group-posts-death-to-america-after-us-and-israel-kill-khamenei.html/
(These are ALL military age men – Students or a terrorist sleeper cell? – jlr)

“We Will Not Negotiate”: Iran Security Chief Denies WSJ Report
https://www.zerohedge.com/military/pentagon-confirms-first-us-troop-deaths-casualties-operation-epic-fury
Summary:
∙Iran seeks to resume discussions with the United States, spearheaded by Iranian security chief Ali Larijani
OR NOT: Larjiani has denied a Wall Street Journal report that he reached out to Washington.
∙Trump said he had three or four potential candidates to lead Iran, but they were all killed in the initial attack.
∙Trump on Iran ops: “We have hit hundreds of targets including Revolutionary Guard facilities, air defense systems, nine ships, and naval buildings.”
∙Britain threatens to join war on Iran — Telegraph
∙Trump says conflict with Iran could last four weeks, Daily Mail reports: “It’s always been a four week process. We figured it will be four weeks or so. It’s always been about a four week process so – as strong as it is, it’s a big country, it’ll take four weeks – or less,” the President explained.
∙Reports of hypersonic missile strikes on Jerusalem by Iran.
∙Rioters breached several layers of the security perimeter at the US Consulate in Karachi, death toll mounts. Marines may have opened direct fire.
∙WaPo: Netanyahu says in bombing Iran, Israel now has the “assistance of the United States, my friend, US President Donald Trump, and the US military. This coalition of forces allows us to do what I have yearned to do for 40 years.”
∙Large Iranian strike on US base in Erbil, northern Iraq reported, major fires

Iran Names Interim Successor To Khamenei Under 2nd Day Of Massive Bombs, Trump Demands Regime Change
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/iran-appoints-interim-successor-khamenei-under-2nd-day-massive-bombs-trump-urges-full
… who will ultimately succeed Iran’s slain supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, an interim leader has been appointed to fulfill his duties. Top Shia cleric Alireza Arafi has been named to the interim Leadership Council
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cum grano salis – until further varification
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1911362816151094
Just hours after being named interim Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Arafi has reportedly been killed in an airstrike. Happy Ramadan
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Iran Raises the Red Flag of Revenge Over the Jamkaran Mosque as Shiite Muslims All Over the Globe Start to Commit Acts of Terror
https://discern.tv/iran-raises-the-red-flag-of-revenge-over-the-jamkaran-mosque-as-shiite-muslims-all-over-the-globe-start-to-commit-acts-of-terror/
(Michael Snyder is a professional doom and gloom prevayor trying to sell his apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic books – that said, it doesn’t mean that he doesn’t have good information to share, it just means he is a bit frenetic in how he presents the information – jlr)

How To Break A Society, Part II: Destroy The Family
https://wilderwealthywise.com/how-to-break-a-society-part-ii-destroy-the-family/
… since the late 1800s, there’s been a full-court press to dismantle the family. Why? Because stable families are hard to control. Families don’t need government handouts or therapy apps because they self-regulate…Enter the wrecking crew. First? Women voting… A society without families is a house of cards in a hurricane…The bill? As I said before, it’s coming due, with interest.

The Statute of Limitations On That Expired A Long Time Ago.
https://miguelgg.substack.com/p/the-statute-of-limitations-on-that
The usual amount of bemoaning and sleeve-tearing id happening among the Liberals and other whiners about the attack on Iran’s regime. And of course, the first thing you will hear from the alleged “Intelligentsia” is how the CIA in 1953 backed a coup that led to the imposition of Sha Reza Pahlavi and the horrendous misdeeds of the Savak Security Police which led to the coup of 1979 and the raise of Islamism and Khomeini…Iranians everywhere in the planet seem to be celebrating the possibility of a Mullah-Less Persia much to the dismay of the “experts”…in the incoming weeks, you will be told by “Your Betters” in the Media that the people above are wrong to celebrate and that the old status quo was better for everybody. Why? Don’t ask, your little brain could not comprehend it which is why they call themselves better than you.

A little humor…To start the week…Humor plus common sense.
https://oldnfo.substack.com/p/a-little-humor-42e

SWAT Team Used to Arrest Man Charged With Possessing 38 Rounds of Ammo Without a Permit
https://bearingarms.com/camedwards/2026/03/01/swat-team-arrest-man-charged-ammo-without-a-permit-n1231722
In Illinois, possessing so much as a single round of ammunition without a Firearms Owner ID (or FOID) card is a serious crime…residents of Lake in the Hills, Illinois got a first hand view of that law being enforced last Thursday, when a SWAT unit rolled up on a house where a 20-year-old man was believed to be possessing ammunition without a permit…Illinois, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New Jersey are the only states where a permit or license is required to purchase or possess ammunition, and California and New York require background checks on the sale of ammunition…Illinois’ FOID card requirement has been ruled unconstitutional more than once, but each time the state Supreme Court has reversed those decisions on technical grounds while avoiding the underlying constitutional question