The Oasis for
Rational Conservatives

The Amazon’s Pantanal
Serengeti Birthing Safari
Wheeler Expeditions
Member Discussions
Article Archives
L i k e U s ! ! !
TTP Merchandise

Victor Davis Hanson

WHAT MADE THE DEMOCRAT PARTY GO CRAZY?

The answer was not Trump alone.

Indeed, irony abounds when Democrats resonate with the claims of the vestigial Never Trumpers that the MAGA movement “hijacked” the Republican Party.

In characteristic projectionist fashion, the left is simply falsely attributing to their opposition the very hijacking that hit the Democrat Party.

But while the public knows how the left/Democrat agenda is imploding, they are confused over why the Democrat Party is hellbent on such nihilist missions.

Why did Democrats become unrecognizable to the middle class, and who is responsible for their collective self-destruction?

There are four root causes of the wreckage of the Democrat Party.

Read more...

THE MYTHS THAT MADE PUTIN’S WAR

The remains of a burnt-out Russian tank in a vegetable garden in Velyka Dymerka, Kyiv

[My A Short History of Russia was first written for President Reagan and his National Security Council in January 1985, first published on TTP in March 2004, and as an Archive in February 2024 to expose Putin’s myth of Russia’s history in his interview with Tucker Carlson.  Here is distinguished historian Timothy Snyder exposing that myth on a much deeper level.]

Vladimir Putin, the author of the worst war of our century, believes that an ancient priestly chronicle sanctifies the endless bloodshed. The truth about that work of art, The Tale of Bygone Years, helps us to see the truth about Russia’s war.

Its hero, the Danish chieftain Rørek, leads us to another work of art, Shakespeare’s Hamlet. We will need the art to get at the tragedy.  Putin is a cynical man, a master of  post-truth politics. But at the bottom of the deepest cynicism can often be found one very naive idea.

Putin’s is that Russia has an ancient, unbroken and holy past that includes Ukraine.

The Tale, a hodgepodge assembled by medieval Kyiv monks in the early 1100s, became for him a kind of prophecy. In a pre-invasion text of his own and in a long interview with Tucker Carlson last year, Putin presents the life of Rørek as the starting point of a sacred history in which Russia, 900 years later, must invade Ukraine.

Read more...

BLENDING IN

John Bolton Eludes FBI By Blending Into A Herd Of Walruses

BETHESDA, MD — Federal agents raided the home of former National Security Advisor John Bolton on Friday as part of a security probe involving classified documents. Unfortunately, the whereabouts of Bolton were currently unknown, as it was believed that he escaped by blending in with a nearby herd of walruses.

"I didn't know there were so many walruses in Maryland. Now we'll never find him!" FBI Director Kash Patel was heard saying at the scene. "Walruses. This job never gets any easier."

Walruses are not native to Bethesda, where Bolton's primary residence is located, on account of them being marine mammals that live near the ocean. But, according to sources, Bolton always keeps a herd of walruses nearby in case he needs to disappear.

Bolton has had a long and controversial career in government with scandals related to Vietnam War draft avoidance, Iran-Contra, planning coups in foreign countries, and being the product of Russian experiments to create the world's first human/walrus hybrid. Sources said it was only logical that he would keep a group of the marine mammals around as part of an elaborate escape plan.

Agents canvassing Bolton's neighborhood reportedly met with a witness who claimed that the former U.S. ambassador was home just minutes prior to the raid and was tipped off by a nearby seagull. "I've got to vamoose!" Bolton was allegedly heard saying as he dove into the nearby herd, also called a haul-out, of walruses and began barking. "Arf-arf! To the ocean, my brothers!"

At publishing time, John Bolton had been recovered from the gill net of a fisherman's trawler and was being transported to Washington, D.C. for questioning.

~ Babylon Bee reporting

Read more...

WHAT IS THE DEMOCRAT ALTERNATIVE TO TRUMP?

The Pavlovian Left goes berserk at the mere prospect of each new Trump initiative.

Its escalating reactive venom and hysteria are calibrated to the success of Trump’s latest policy.

Yet the new hard-left Democratic Party offers no counter-agenda to explain its furor.  Still less do Democrats attempt bipartisan efforts to craft shared legislation.

Under the Biden administration, over 10 million illegal aliens flooded the country, sometimes 10,000 a day at the southern border. More than half a million criminals swarmed in.

Yet now there is essentially zero illegal immigration and over 100,000 criminal aliens deported. 1.6 million who entered illegally have voluntarily gone home. Yet the left has fought the enforcement of immigration law tooth and nail.

Do they believe that it is lawful and moral to break immigration law but immoral and illegal to enforce it?

What is their solution?

Read more...

COMEY BEING A TEENAGE SWIFTIE EXPLAINS WHAT DEMOCRATS REALLY ARE

James Comey, the 64-year-old former FBI director who was one of the most prominent players in the Russia Hoax, outed himself the other day: He’s a Taylor Swift fan, a Swiftie.

And he’s not just someone who says, “Her tunes are catchy.” Oh, no. Comey finds deep meaning in Taylor Swift’s music. It speaks to him—and the fact that it does explains a great deal about the man and his Democrat party politics.

Swift was, and is, what young girls and leftist women want to be: so gorgeous that their emotional mess doesn’t matter. In many ways, Swift is the avatar of a generational ideology that’s stuck in high school and junior high school: emotional, immature, and, when it comes to the girls, incredibly vicious.

Moreover, girls that age are devious, given to backstabbing, whether through truth or lies (but usually through the latter, not the former).

Those traits, incidentally, are the same traits that the Democrat party embraced when Trump was elected: emotional, immature, and incredibly vicious, including embracing partial truths and flat-out lies in their rush to destroy him.

Read more...

THOUSANDS OF UNACCOMPANIED ALIEN CHILDREN PLACED WITH UNVETTED SPONSORS UNDER BIDEN

The counties of origin for, and number of, unaccompanied alien children who entered the U.S. from fiscal years 2021-2024 (left chart) and from fiscal year 2025 (beginning Oct., 1, 2024) through June 5, 2025 (right chart). (Office of Refugee Resettlement)

The counties of origin for, and number of, unaccompanied alien children who entered the U.S. from fiscal years 2021-2024 (left chart) and from fiscal year 2025 (beginning Oct., 1, 2024) through June 5, 2025 (right chart). (Office of Refugee Resettlement)

The Biden administration placed thousands of illegal alien children in the care of unvetted sponsors, according to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley.

The Iowa Republican has released Department of Health and Human Services data showing that during President Joe Biden’s administration, over 11,000 unaccompanied alien children were placed with unvetted sponsors who were not the children’s parents or legal guardians. Additionally, no home visits were conducted for over 79,000 illegal immigrant children.

Moreover, some children were “allowed to be placed with sponsors who were actually smugglers and sex traffickers,” according to the HHS.  “My oversight continues to expose disturbing evidence that the Biden-Harris administration turned a blind eye to tens of thousands of kids who needed proper supervision and care,” Grassley said in a statement.

“It’s appalling to prioritize speed and optics over the safety and well-being of children,” the senator continued.

Read more...

MELANIA TRUMP’S LETTER TO PUTIN STANDS UP FOR ABDUCTED CHILDREN

melaniatrumpOne of the darkest chapters of Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine will be his regime’s systematic abduction of Ukrainian children.

Last week, first lady Melania Trump delivered a letter to Putin during the Alaska summit, appealing to him on behalf of these children. In it, she reminded the Russian dictator that “every child shares the same quiet dreams in their hearts … of love, possibility and safety from danger.” Her letter avoided politics, but made the clear point that abducting children is an act of barbarism that cannot be tolerated.

Ukraine has documented nearly 20,000 kidnapped children, though the true number could be many times higher.

These boys and girls are not just displaced — they are forced into Russian families, indoctrinated with propaganda, punished for speaking their native tongue, and in some cases subjected to military training. Reports have even exposed online “catalogs” where children are sorted by eye color or hair color for adoption in Russia.

This is not wartime collateral damage, but a deliberate campaign to erase a nation by erasing its children.

Read more...

GAVIN NEWSOM VOWS TO DOUBLE CALIFORNIA’S VIOLENT CRIME IF TRUMP DOESN’T STOP CLEANING UP DC

SACRAMENTO, CA — In his ongoing public sparring with the Trump administration over its agenda, Governor Gavin Newsom vowed to double California's violent crime rate if President Donald Trump refused to stop cleaning up Washington, D.C.

Acting as a constant and vocal opponent to Trump's policies, Newsom took things up a notch this week by promising to offset any progress Trump might make in his attempt to crack down on crime in the nation's capital by promoting even more violent crime in the Golden State.

"If Trump insists on lowering crime in D.C., then we're going to commit crimes even harder here in California," Newsom said in a video statement on social media.

"We simply cannot allow him to get away with fundamentally changing the fabric of our nation by protecting innocent, law-abiding citizens from violent crime in our major cities. This ‘crackdown' on violent crime is a crackdown on America itself. Here in California, we're committed to spearheading the increase of murders, rapes, assaults, robberies, and all the other horrible crimes Trump seems to be dead-set on eliminating.

Join me in standing up to Trump and his fascist agenda to make American cities safer."

Newsom reportedly set up a special task force to come up with a plan to increase violent crime in the state if Trump followed through on his promise to curb crime in Washington, D.C., including supplying criminals with the tools and resources they need to carry out their abominable acts.

"I'm here to help," Newsom continued. "I've been a friend to criminals my whole career, and I'm proud to stand by them against President Trump's dangerous policies to promote safety."

At publishing time, Newsom was last seen carjacking an old lady's vehicle in downtown Sacramento.

~ Babylon Bee reporting.

Read more...

A LEGACY ERASED — UNHAPPY BIRTHDAY, GEORGE SOROS

This is not the picture of a happy man. Born on August 12, 1930,  George Soros turned 95 ereyesterday, and for his birthday present America brought him the annihilation of his legacy.

Soros has been known for two things: making money and spending it on political influence. Over the last few years, he has handed over control of his empire to his son, Alex, and Alex Soros is proving delightfully unable to do either of those things successfully.

First, Alex ruined his reputation for making money. George was once known as “the man who broke the bank of England,” famous for making $1 billion in one day by sniffing out arbitrage opportunities in currency exchange markets.

Taking control of Soros Fund Management, Alex became the man who broke the bank of Soros. Alex is as talented at making billions vanish as George was at making them appear, but maybe he inherited some of his dad’s skill for political maneuvering and network building?

Nope. He’s a failure at that too.

Read more...

TRUMP-PUTIN ALASKA SUMMIT: CEASEFIRE ONLY

This Friday’s high-stakes meeting between President Donald Trump and Russia’s Vladimir Putin in Alaska could bring real relief to Ukraine – but only if it stays laser-focused on one goal: an enforceable ceasefire. No redraw of the map. No "land for peace" concessions that reward Moscow’s aggression and punish Ukrainian sovereignty.

A United Front

Over the weekend, Vice President JD Vance convened a secure call with European and Ukrainian officials. The message from allied capitals was blunt: halt the fighting first, then negotiate the rest – without giving up an inch of Ukrainian land. European leaders have repeated it publicly: "Peace cannot be decided without Ukraine".

Why Now Matters

On the ground, the war’s toll is rising. Russia is pushing hard in Donetsk and Luhansk, pounding civilian infrastructure and displacing thousands. Ukrainian officials report hundreds of daily clashes, rising casualties, and failing power and water systems. A ceasefire won’t end the war, but it would stop the bloodshed and open humanitarian corridors.

Putin Under Pressure

Read more...

THE QUIET POWER OF KINDNESS

small-acts-of-kindnessFor some, happiness is a word that conjures up visions of selfish people concerned only with their own pleasure; but this sort of hedonistic approach to happiness is a recipe for serial bursts of pleasure at the expense of long-term happiness.

When I speak of happiness, I am describing a much richer concept; more akin to what the ancient Greeks called eudaimonia or “success at being human.”

One of the central elements for living well is how we relate to other people. In this regard, happiness is literally the opposite of self-centeredness or self-absorption.

In fact, contrary to many Las Vegas advertisements or Hollywood-lifestyle fantasies, self-absorption is a key ingredient for depression, and single-minded focus on personal pleasure is a recipe for long-term misery.

So here’s the single most effective thing we can do to get an immediate and significant boost to our genuine happiness – and to set the stage for a deeper, long-term happiness as well.

Read more...

AN HONEST HOUSE? THE END OF RACIAL GERRYMANDERS

Is the US Supreme Court about to disenfranchise black Americans and other racial minority voters?

You would think so, given the hysterical hyperbole found in the progressive press. “The Supreme Court Prepares to End Voting Rights As We Know Them,” shrieks the headline in the Left-wing journal Mother Jones.

Is the Republican majority on the Supreme Court really about to strike down or eviscerate the Voting Rights Act of 1965? Will the Court legalize the outlawed methods used by Southern segregationists to deny the right to vote to black Americans, like literacy tests and poll taxes?

Of course not. The occasion of these alarms is the willingness of the Court to consider a Louisiana case – Louisiana v Callais -- involving the use of race by state legislatures in drawing congressional districts.

What is at issue is the question of whether the half-century-old practice of racial gerrymandering – drawing congressional districts in such a way as to elect representatives of a particular race to the House of Representatives – is compatible with the Voting Rights Act or the US constitution.

Read more...

IS RUSSIA FALLING APART?

is-russia-falling-apartRussian officials are sounding increasingly alarmed and even paranoid in their public statements about the future of their country. Most notably, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov claimed in September of last year that Western governments have assembled a coalition of at least fifty countries in order to dismember Russia.

What may appear to be political paranoia or an attempt to mobilize citizens behind the regime is not necessarily based on imagined enemies. It reveals the official realization that numerous negative trends are converging on Russia and that the current regime, and even the state itself, may be running out of time.

Three overarching fears preoccupy Russian officialdom: losing the war, economic collapse, and state fracture. The prospect of all three simultaneously occurring soon looms on the horizon.

Read more...

HOW DEMOCRATS RIG ELECTIONS AND CALL IT DEMOCRACY

Stephen Cobert humiliates Illinois Gov Pritzker on Tuesday (8/05)

Stephen Cobert humiliates Illinois Gov Pritzker on Tuesday (8/05)

The Democrat Party is in political free fall. Their approval ratings are sinking, their coalition is cracking, and the message they once rode to power no longer works. A recent Wall Street Journal poll found 63% of Americans now view the party unfavorably — the worst numbers the poll has recorded in three decades.

This wasn’t sudden. Democrats saw their decline coming — and instead of changing course, they rigged the system to survive it.

After the 2020 census, Democrat-run states didn’t redraw their maps — they obliterated them. Republican districts were axed. Competitive seats were split. What replaced them were Democrat fortresses, designed to shield the party from the voters they’d lost.

And they did all of it with a straight face — insisting it was about “equity” and “representation.” It was a con. They used woke buzzwords to rubber-stamp power grabs. They redrew the lines while lecturing the rest of the country about democracy.

No state exposes that hypocrisy more than Illinois.  So blatant that Stephen Colbert ridiculed its governor on national television for it.

Read more...

THE BRITISH PEOPLE ARE STARTING TO STAND UP TO THEIR FASCIST GOVERNMENT

Britain’s Labor government is in trouble: Its program of massive third-world immigration from places like Pakistan and Somalia is wildly, overwhelmingly unpopular.

But that’s not the real problem.

The real problem is that despite the best efforts of Prime Minister Keir Starmer and his leftist captive media, Britons themselves have discovered just how unpopular it is.

You might think that’s absurd — if mass immigration is unpopular, how can everyone not know it?  Everyone doesn’t know it because the government has been policing speech about immigration.

You see, Britain has no First Amendment, an inviolate right to free speech.  Result?  Any criticism of open borders, lax enforcement or — worst of all — immigrant crime has been punished as “racist” and “hate speech” by the Starmer regime. It’s “Islamophobic,” you see.

Read more...

SOUR GRAPES AND UGLY LEFTIST WOMEN

sour-grapes-1What in the world happened to these beautiful girls who so grotesquely uglified themselves on purpose? These four are examples of so many more. 

We’ve all heard Aesop’s story since we were kids:

“Driven by hunger, a fox tried to reach some grapes hanging high on the vine but was unable to, although he leaped with all his strength. As he went away, the fox remarked, “Oh, you aren't even ripe yet! I don’t need any sour grapes.” — Aesop, ca. 600 BC.

The Fox and the Sour Grapes is one of the oldest fables in Western culture: When we can’t have something, we often devalue the object of our desire to lessen our sense of loss.

That fable reminds me of Democrat women, so many of whom have embraced a self-imposed ugliness and hatred for the family. It’s likely that they’ve done so because they live in a world where husbands and family are impossible. Sour, ugly grapes are the only option.

Read more...

THE REVEAL OF HOW DEMOCRATS PULLED OFF THE GREATEST POLITICAL TRICK IN HISTORY

The Conjurer (1502), Hieronymus Bosch

Washington has been  rocked by new releases in the declassification of material related to the origins of the Russian investigation. The material shows further evidence of a secret plan by the Clinton campaign to use the FBI and media to spread a false claim that Donald Trump was a Russian asset.

With this material, the public is finally seeing how officials and reporters set into motion what may be the greatest hoax ever perpetrated in American politics. There never was a Russian collusion conspiracy.

This is the emerging story of the real Russian conspiracy to manufacture a false narrative that succeeded in devouring much of the first term of the Trump Administration.

What is emerging in these documents is a political illusion carefully constructed by government officials and a willing media. The brilliance of the trick was getting reporters to buy into the illusion; to own it like members of an audience called to the stage by an illusionist.

The effort closely followed the three steps of the classic magic trick: The Pledge, The Turn, and The Prestige.

Read more...

DOJ DEALS CHINA A CRUSHING BLOW AND DEMS HATE IT

The Bondi Justice Department just dropped a bombshell on Beijing, and it’s about time.

The DOJ recently greenlit theHewlitt-Packard (HPE)-Juniper telecom merger, which may create a company big and strong enough to finally end the reign of terror of Huawei, the Chinese Communist Party-backed tech giant whose goal is global domination of everything from 5G to AI and enterprise networking.

Ten days after President Trump’s inauguration, an interim antitrust chief — acting before President Trump’s core DOJ team was confirmed — tried to block the HPE-Juniper merger.

Why the U-turn?

Well, according to an Axios report that was published last Wednesday (7/30), U.S. intelligence officials (Gabbard & Ratcliffe) warned Trump’s DOJ that this merger was critical to stopping Huawei. Here’s why.

Read more...

AWKWARD! OBAMA, HILLARY HIRE SAME HITMAN TO KILL EACH OTHER

U.S. — In an awkward turn of events, former President Barack Obama and former presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton reportedly hired the same hitman to kill each other.

The two political figures were allegedly compelled to target each other as more information related to the Trump-Russia collusion hoax was declassified by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, who claims the two were complicit in a coup to undermine the Trump presidency.

This prompted the pair to allegedly target the other in a desperate attempt to tie off any loose ends.

The matter became known when a hitman working under the pseudonym "Vinny Black" received near-simultaneous calls from each to kill the other. "I got calls from both of them within minutes of each other," Black explained. "I've accepted jobs from both of them without question in the past — they are powerful people, you don't want to refuse them — but it was awkward when I realized that they wanted to kill each other."

Black, Obama, and Clinton found themselves in a three-way pickle. "I couldn't cancel the contracts, since they'd just hire another hitman to kill me," Black explained. "And I can't kill them both, since there wouldn't be anyone left to pay me."

In the end, Black said he was able to settle the conflict and postpone any bloodshed without any deaths by simply explaining the situation to Obama and Clinton.

At publishing time, the body of Vinny Black had reportedly been found dumped in a ditch on the outskirts of Washington, D.C., with authorities quickly ruling his death a suicide.

Read more...

THE WAR ON HOT WOMEN: WHY THE WOKE MOB HATES SYDNEY SWEENEY

It’s the Woke Mob’s latest insanity – an ad for blue jeans excoriated for promoting Whiteness making it “Nazi propaganda.”  Leading the charge is MSNBC producer Hannah Holland, writing on Wednesday (7/29):

So let’s cut the nonsense: liberal women aren’t mad at Sydney Sweeney because she’s "setting women back." That’s just the excuse they’re throwing around because they don’t want to admit the truth.

They’re mad because she’s young, hot, White, and blonde. And they're mad that corporations are finally waking up to the truth: that the American people are done with woke!

Read more...

RUSSIA’S PERPETUAL WARS

putnsperpetualwar

During the USSR’s 73 years of existence, the list of wars it waged is enormous—a total of 25, including conflicts in the Caucasus, the Baltic states, Finland, Poland, Germany, Japan, Afghanistan, Spain, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia.

After the collapse of the Soviet empire, Russia’s predatory mindset did not vanish. Since 1991, Russia has continued to exist in a state of permanent war: Georgia, Chechnya, Syria, and now the most senseless war of all—against Ukraine.

A natural question arises: why?

Looking for a rational explanation is pointless. Russia has always acted irrationally, without any clear benefit and almost always to its detriment.

The root of all its imperial wars should perhaps be studied through the lens of psychology or even psychiatry. My aim is much simpler: to draw attention to the ultimate goal of Russia’s current war against Ukraine.

Read more...

THE DEMOCRAT PARTY BECOMES THE GRAVEYARD OF PROGRESSIVE MISADVENTURES

the-democrat-party

Sometime after the election of Barack Obama in 2008, the American Left began exploring, then embracing, and finally enacting agendas that proved not only unhinged and unworkable but also fatal to the left-wing project itself.

How did the party so alienate the middle classes when it once professed it was the sole party and protector of those in-between? How did the Democrat Congress sink to a 16 percent approval rating in a current liberal Quinnipiac University poll? How could 63 percent of registered voters view the Democrats unfavorably in a recent Wall Street Journal poll?

In sum: despise the middle class, then lose elections. Let’s itemize what the Dems have done to achieve this.

Read more...

THUNDER WITHOUT SOUND: MELANIA TRUMP’S SILENT COMMAND

There’s a rare kind of elegance that doesn’t come from handlers, stylists, or algorithms. It comes from knowing who you are before the world decides who you should be.

Melania Trump didn’t arrive in Washington looking to be molded. She arrived whole. A woman who had already survived a communist upbringing, brutal fashion circuits, and tabloid cruelty, which meant she didn’t need America’s approval.

And that’s precisely why they couldn’t look away.

While others in the political orbit begged for the spotlight, Melania Trump did something that felt borderline rebellious: She stood still. She didn’t chase applause. She didn’t retweet compliments. She didn’t apologize for being herself.

She's thunder without sound.

Read more...

HOW TRUMP IS BURSTING THE BUREAUCRATS’ DC BUBBLE ONE AGENCY AT A TIME

A hallmark of President Donald Trump’s second term is that he’s not just promoting his own policies — he’s looking to shake up the American power structure from top to bottom.

Step by step, he is undermining or destroying the left’s decades-old program to achieve total dominance of government and politics through its control of money and institutions.

That’s what Trump is up to with his plan to move much of the federal bureaucracy out of the Washington, DC, area and into the rest of the country.

In doing so, he’s infuriating federal bureaucrats leading cushy lives in DC and its suburbs, close to the centers of power — and close to the various contractors and lobby groups that can be expected to offer them well-padded post-retirement jobs.

Here’s a host of good things this will achieve.

Read more...

WILL NEW DOGE AI BREAK DEEP STATE POWER?

Image by Grok

The Deep State is a budget-busting, bureaucratic tyranny, crushing capitalist meritocracy and social values. It is a self-directed, out-of-control monster that fights MAGA tooth and claw.

However, the brilliant computer “nerds” of Elon Musk’s Department Of Governmental Efficiency are already using the first version of their Artificial Intelligence software tool with the goal of eliminating at least 50% of federal regulation -- swift, massive deregulation across the federal government.

DOGE has developed this initial, primitive, tool to evaluate what we can think of as the internal rationality of federal regulations. If half of them can be eliminated because they are out of date, redundant, or mutually conflictive, that suggests that half of what bureaucrats do is useless waste.

This is huge. A main source of Deep State’s bureaucratic power is writing the federal regulations that describe how to apply and implement laws passed by Congress.

Note that this scale of information is beyond the ability of a single mind, or team of minds, to read, absorb, and comprehend. Only AI level software can hope to deal with this massive blob of unrationalized data.

An AI software program that identifies redundant and conflicting regulations, and maybe justifies eliminating half of them, is, effectively, a regulation weed-whacker against a leftist bureaucracy.

Read more...

HULK HOGAN MAKES SURPRISE ENTRANCE IN HEAVEN TO CHALLENGE JACOB TO WRESTLING MATCH

HEAVEN — What began as a regular day in Heaven was quickly turned upside-down, as legendary sports entertainment icon Hulk Hogan made a surprise entrance to challenge Jacob to a wrestling match.

Jacob, long regarded as the most experienced and intimidating wrestler in the Bible, was reportedly standing in the heavenly ring and speaking to a large crowd of his fans when Hogan's "Real American" theme music blared over the speakers, heralding the arrival of the Hulkster.

"Oh my! What's this? Can it be? It is! It's Hulk Hogan!" an angelic commentator said as Hogan walked to the ring. "What's he doing here? Is he here to issue a challenge to Jacob? Hold on to your hats, folks!"

Hogan made his way through the smoke, lights, and pyro before stepping into the ring, ripping off his shirt, and staring down Jacob. "Lemme tell ya somethin', brother!" the Hulkster said to the roar of the crowd. "All my life, I've been hearing about what a bad dude you were back in the day, man. They said you wrestled with God, brother. Well, now that the Hulkster has arrived, it's time to step up to the challenge. Let's do it, Jacob! You and me, right here, tonight, brother!"

The crowd roared in excitement as Jacob paused to look out into the crowd before slowly shaking Hogan's hand. "You want some, Hogan? You got it!" the patriarch replied.

Over the deafening cheers of the crowd, Hogan promised to give Jacob a fight he'd never forget. "Whatcha gonna do, brother," he asked, "when Hulk Hogan, these 24-inch pythons, and all my heavenly Hulkamaniacs run wild on you?!"

At publishing time, fans and commentators were speculating that while Hogan may have a size and weight advantage in the matchup, Jacob was likely to try to use his patented ladder as a weapon to gain the upper hand.

~ Babylon Bee reporting.

Read more...

THE ENEMY WITHIN: THE BILLION DOLLAR CHINESE GROW HOUSE INDUSTRY

the-enemy-within-the-billion-dollarIt’s a billion-dollar industry, illegal and controlled by Chinese mafia networks in quiet rural and suburban neighborhoods across America.

If that weren’t concerning enough, it also involves drugs, money laundering, illegal immigration, slave labor, and the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) extensive influence in the American heartland.

Earlier this month, a major FBI bust of a grow house network in New England was reported with details of the massive scale of marijuana production used to generate profits routed back to China. Boston Herald (7/09): Feds Take Down Chinese-Operated Grow Home Network In Massachusetts, Maine

It’s frankly shocking to read the July 8 DOJ Indictment of seven Chinese nationals for conspiracy to produce and distribute illegal marijuana through a network of grow houses. They were also charged with money laundering and smuggling illegal aliens for cheap labor at the grow operations.

Note: Definition of a Marijuana Grow House is appended below.

Read more...

AMERICA DESERVES BETTER THAN A CRACKED-OUT CLOWN CAR DEMOCRAT PARTY

America deserves better than the degenerate propaganda machine that passes for “elite” journalism. We deserve better than the evil “cracked-out clown car” the Democrat Party has become.

The New York Times and the Washington Post all but ignored DNI Tulsi Gabbard’s bombshell press conference yesterday (Wednesday 7/23), at which she announced that she had sent criminal referrals to the DOJ and FBI implicating former President Barack Obama and his national security team in the “seditious conspiracy” of the Russia collusion hoax.

As time goes on, and more evidence is painstakingly chipped out of hiding, we see just how rotten the apex Democrats are: Obama, Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden.

No wonder their party is a shambles: “Constipated. Leaderless. Confused. A cracked-out clown car. Divided,” wrote veteran Democrat strategist James Carville in the Times this week, warning of an impending “civil war” between whatever is left of the moderate rump and the parasitical radical faction that is sucking the party dry.

Read more...

RUSSIA’S SUMMER OF DOUBT AND FOREBODING

Ukraine drone attacks on Moscow and all over Russia are a regular occurrence now.

No wonder, then, that the fourth summer of Moscow’s war against Ukraine has brought feelings of tiredness and hopelessness, rather than the usual seasonal optimism, to Russia.

The spring expectations of a probable cessation of hostilities are gone, and the messages from the Kremlin about the firm determination to stay the course aimed at subjugating Ukraine undercut the longing for a normal life.

Opinion polls cannot fully capture this shift in public mood, particularly when conducted by “foreign agents.” They still indicate a decline in feelings of pride and hope, however, and an increase in indifference and fear (Levada Center, July 18).

Read more...

PROTECT YOUR DEUCE — ASSEMBLING EVERY DAY EMERGENCY SUPPLIES

deucewild_survivalkit1aEnd of the world scenarios are bad enough to consider.  You have the entire nature of the American social and legal contract hinging on the outcome of every election.  You can’t bend down to get anything without asking the people behind you who they voted for.

It is true that aliens, Al Qaeda, or just your nutty neighbors may attack in the middle of the day and plunge you into a Battle Los Angeles situation, but the more likely scenario is that some ridiculously common issue is going to have you sweating and going wee-wee-wee-all-the-way-home before the apocalypse happens.

Today, we’re going to talk about that.

Read more...

THIS MAKES WATERGATE LOOK LIKE AMATEUR HOUR

notabovelaw_vidscrnshtIn recent days, new evidence has emerged showing that the Obama administration intentionally manipulated and politicized intelligence to advance the Russian collusion hoax — despite conflicting assessments from within the intelligence community itself.

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has accused former President Barack Obama of orchestrating a “manufactured, politicized piece of intelligence” to undermine Donald Trump’s presidency before it began. A cache of over 100 declassified documents that her office released includes a December 2016 President’s Daily Brief reportedly confirming that Russia had neither the intent nor capability to alter the outcome of the 2016 election.

According to Gabbard, Obama’s political appointees deliberately suppressed that document. The next day, Obama convened a National Security Council meeting and instructed top intelligence officials, including James Clapper, John Brennan, James Comey, and Susan Rice, to produce an assessment that would support a predetermined conclusion: that Russia interfered in the election to help Trump.

The emerging narrative makes Watergate look like amateur hour.

Read more...

THE WAR BETWEEN TRUMP’S CHEMOTHERAPY AND BIDEN’S CANCER

Dr. Trump will see you now

Dr. Trump will see you now

Chemotherapy can be a life-saving though sometimes toxic effort to eliminate lethal cancer cells before they kill the patient. As such, it can serve as a bitter metaphor for the often-controversial efforts of the Trump administration to undo the metastasizing damage caused by the Biden administration.

The Democrats and their media, however, wish to convince America that the remedy for four years of catastrophe is worse than the catastrophe itself.

Take the border. It was literally destroyed over the last four years. After welcoming in some three million illegal aliens per year—none with legal permission, health audits, or criminal background checks—there was no sign that the then-current or a second Biden administration was ever going to stop radically altering the demography of the U.S.

It was apparently not enough for Biden and his puppeteers that there were a record 50-million-plus foreign-born U.S. residents, comprising nearly 16 percent of the population, among them likely more than 30 million illegal aliens. What number would have been sufficient for a putative eight-year Biden administration—40, 50, or 70 million illegal aliens?

Read more...

A MALTESE ODYSSEY

The Sleeping Goddess of Malta ca. 3500 BC

The Sleeping Goddess of Malta ca. 3500 BC

Preface by Jack. The Sleeping Goddess carved by the ancient megalithic people of Malta close to six thousand years ago has an entrancingly soothing beauty, symbolic of Malta itself.  Richard Bangs has been a dear friend of mine for over 40 years. In addition to being the world’s foremost river explorer, he is a gifted composer of poetic prose.  Richard will be co-leading with Rebel and me our Magic of Malta exploration this coming November. This is possibly the most beautiful description of Malta ever written.

There are places that murmur with the ghosts of time. There are places that sing with the laughter of the present. And then, there is Malta—a sun-dappled jewel adrift in the Mediterranean, a stage where the drama of civilization has played out for over 7,000 years.

Malta doesn’t simply invite you; it summons you. It’s a clarion call to the curious, the seekers, the wanderers who wish to touch the pulse of history and the poetry of place.

Malta is not merely a speck on the map. It is a living palimpsest, a manuscript written and rewritten by the hands of empires and dreamers.

Malta is the island that seduced myth itself. Homer, that old spinner of tales, cast Odysseus upon these shores, held captive by the enchantress Calypso for seven languid years. And who could blame him for lingering? Malta is more than a waypoint; it is a spell, a place that holds you fast.

Read more...

TRUMP MAY SMASH APART THE AXIS OF EVIL

US President Donald Trump’s very public volte face in his attitude towards Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin is aimed at forcing the Kremlin to end the war in Ukraine.

Another consequence, though, of the package of measures Trump announced this week is that it could end the toxic alliance of despotic regimes that has formed with the specific goal of targeting the West.

Trump’s mounting frustration with Putin’s refusal to take Washington’s ceasefire plan seriously has led the American leader to authorize a new arms package for Ukraine – including Patriot air defense systems. He is also threatening to impose punitive tariffs on any country that continues to do business with Putin’s repressive regime if no agreement to end the war is reached within 50 days.

And it is the latter measure, with talk in Washington of tariffs ranging from 100-500 per cent, that will send alarm bells ringing in Beijing, Pyongyang and Tehran about the wisdom of maintaining ties with Putin.

Read more...

BIDEN’S AUTOPEN PARDONS — WHO GOT RICH SELLING THEM?

Much has been written about the enormous scandal involving the Biden administration’s cover-up of Joe Biden’s dementia.

His senility was obvious when he ran for president in 2020, but was covered up by the manufactured COVID pandemic. He was even then an easily manipulated fool/tool of the far left from the moment he took control of the presidency.

Now we know that he was never an acting president.   He was the radical left’s frontman.

What is pathetic is that his handlers ever thought for even one moment that putting him before the public was wise.  The man was a disaster of monumental proportions.  Consider that satanic, scarlet speech he spewed in Philadelphia as if he were the devil incarnate.  He sort of was.

Back to the autopen.

Read more...

LISTEN TO PRESIDENT TRUMP: WE MUST FOCUS ON PRIORITIES TO SAVE OUR NATION

On Sunday (7/13), we relived that horrific yet awesome moment one year ago, when God’s Millimeter Miracle saved our President’s life, then captured by the most iconic photo of our day, he stood defiantly to challenge us all to Fight! Fight! Fight! to save and preserve our country.

We must rise to that challenge.

Politics and governing are generally not complicated. It is often shaded to appear complicated or confusing by those looking to push their own agendas, cash in, or both.

The politics and governing of today are filled with irrefutable certainties. 24 hours in a day; about 15 months to the most crucial midterm election of our lifetimes; a majority of the mainstream media – national, local, and even international – working with their allies in the Democrat Party, academia, science, medicine, and entertainment to continually smear and destroy the most transformative President in U.S. history along with his MAGA movement.

A large percentage of the Deep State still imbedded in the federal government and our three-letter agencies seeking to sabotage the agenda of the President; a small percentage in the federal government and our three-letter agencies desperately trying to help the President save our nation from within while protecting it from our enemies; and a finite – and precious -- amount of energy left to accomplish the task.

We all know how much real-world experience holds significance.  Occasionally, it can mean everything.

Read more...

BREAKING VLAD

NY Post today, July 15, 2025

NY Post today, July 15, 2025

Hooray! President Donald Trump’s decision to send “billions of dollars” worth of weapons to Ukraine via NATO could prove a game-changer in Kyiv’s 40-month-old war against Russian aggression.

POTUS  on Monday (7/14) also announced 100% “secondary tariffs” targeting Moscow if it fails to agree to a cease-fire within 50 days.

It’s a terrific combination.

Russia’s been stepping up its attacks civilian areas, while the sanctions could break Russia’s economy.

In addition to defensive systems,  Ukraine will also get offensive weapons, including long-range missiles that can reach far into Russia territory, Axios reports. The Russian public, and Putin himself, will feel the consequences.

Best of all, NATO countries will be paying the bill — with proceeds going to US manufacturers for weapons they produce. Sweet.

Read more...

WHY THE LEFT FROM NORMAL DEMS TO ANTIFA HAVE LOST THEIR COLLECTIVE MINDS

left-their-mindsAcross the political left, from orthodox Democrats to Antifa in the streets, the opposition to President Trump has lost its collective mind.

A selection of examples:

* The House minority leader and now-self-styled tough guy, New York Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, poses with a baseball bat to show how dangerous he is in opposing Trump’s budget bill.

* Jeffries harangued Congress for eight hours; New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker went on for 25 — both to no effect.

* Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) hit the rally trail in private jets to rail about oligarchs, omitting that the ultra-rich are not only mostly leftists but also the funders of the Democratic Party.

* Democrats in Congress make bizarre videos, featuring profanity like f*** or s***. On other occasions, they scream and interrupt Congress.

And we’re just getting started...

Read more...

GAVIN NEWSOM DECLARES CALIFORNIA A SANCTUARY STATE FOR CHILD SLAVERY

SACRAMENTO, CA — In the latest front on his war against the Trump administration's immigration policies, Governor Gavin Newsom officially declared California a sanctuary state for child slavery.

The announcement followed on the heels of Newsom expressing outrage over ICE launching operations to rescue unaccompanied minor immigrants from working in California's marijuana fields, with the governor seeking to provide child slavers with a safe place to do their business.

"It's our duty to provide a place for child slaves to work without fear," Newsom told reporters. "Here in California, we still look to build a bright future, where child slavery can flourish without the dark cloud of interference from the federal government. I will continue to stand up boldly on behalf of child traffickers everywhere. As long as I'm governor, California is the place for child slavery."

One child trafficker who spoke under the condition of remaining anonymous was relieved by Newsom's announcement. "It's great to hear," he said. "It's getting more and more difficult to find places where we can set up shop and really traffic some kidnapped children. Thanks to Gavin Newsom, we can keep fighting to sell these kids for good prices and get rich off of doing horrible things. Thank you, Governor Newsom."

The Association of Child Slave Traffickers also gave Newsom's declaration its enthusiastic approval.

At publishing time, Newsom announced that any ICE agent who agreed to stop their immigration enforcement operations would receive a free child slave.

~ Babylon Bee reporting

Read more...

WHY I BELIEVE PATEL AND BONGINO ON THE EPSTEIN CASE

A quick visit to my Wikipedia page will confirm, “Jack Cashill is an American author, blogger and conspiracy theorist.”

Yet, as I wrote here two months ago, I turned down a serious offer to co-author a book on Jeffrey Epstein, and this after a month of research and several proposal drafts.

I have no doubt that Jeffrey Epstein was an evil pervert. Where I lacked confidence is that I could prove Epstein kept a client list or that he used his videos to blackmail prominent individuals, let alone that one of those individuals orchestrated Epstein’s murder.

I do have confidence, however, in the integrity of FBI Director Kash Patel and Assistant Director Dan Bongino.

Read more...