Essence of Evil

The totalitarian theocrats who enslave Iran kill women for being mal-veiled. These mad mullahs foment violence against Sunni Muslims, and are absolutely determined to obliterate the Jewish State, yet nobody suggests trying them in the Hague. 

A Moral Inversion

Since the Shah was deposed, Iran has emerged as the leading sponsor of terror worldwide. The Islamic Republic orchestrated not just one but two bombings on Jewish targets in Argentina. Without the support and approval of Iran, the massacre of Jews on October 7, 2023 could not have taken place. Tehran is instrumental in not only jihad but for providing support for Russia's aggression continuing in the Ukraine. The mad mullahs have absolutely stifled human rights within Iran, yet it is Israel that is being demonized across the globe, particularly on US colleges. Do the young minds not know any of these facts? Do they care that they are on the side of evil? 

Time to Fold?

Do you really think Israel is going to continue to allow genocidal enemies to rape, abduct, and murder? Do you believe the Jewish State will simply absorb hit after hit with missiles, rockets, and drones? Do you contend that Jews will permit themselves to be bullied and chased off campus in a manner not seen since Hitler? If you do, you do not know Jews, and will soon see that you have another thing coming. 

A Winning Hand?

The theocratic overlords enslaving Iran are bound to prevail if the world keeps condemning the Jewish State for trying to protect Israelis. It seems to the rest of the world that Israel can do no right and Tehran no wrong. Still, I do not see the Jews allowing themselves to be willing led passively to the slaughter again, no matter what the rest of humanity thinks. 

Are You Kidding?

The side that is winning elections by "questionable" means will never do anything to ensure that elections are conducted on the straight and narrow. Glenn Beck aired a good program Wednesday that showed how vote tallies might be manipulated and elections compromised but kept saying that this was "not a partisan issue". Beck declared Republicans and DemocRATS want straight elections where the results are trusted. I think one party he mentioned definitely only wants to win, no matter the means. That would be Joe Biden's side folks. 

Trial of Century?

What is happening in New York with Alvin Bragg and President Trump is of small consequence, a nuisance case, entirely without merit, and only brought to interfere in the upcoming election. The consequential court proceeding is the one before the United States Supreme Court. That one will establish whether Presidents in America are able to preside anymore, because without immunity, you have diminished, in fact crippled the Office ever thereafter. 

All Just Lies

Biden was portrayed as a nice guy. He was "lunch bucket Joe", a regular dude, just a bit smarter. In reality, Biden is a greedy, mean-spirited serial liar, who values nothing beyond enriching his close circle and perpetuating his own power.

Order from Chaos

Even with COVID, America was more peaceful with Donald Trump as President. Biden with his reverse Midas Touch has sullied everything. I yearn for the days when all we had to fear was mean Tweets. Peaceful streets and quiet universities are manifestly better than the anarchy facing the United States now. 

Eat More Brain

The repetitive chanting mob at US universities reminds me of zombies. They seem like zombies who need to "eat more brain" because they certainly appear to lack gray matter of their own. 

The Tumbling Towers

Hamas is no different than the al-Qaeda murderers of September 11, 2001. The terrorists that attacked Israel on October 7, 2023 murdered wantonly, just as the bin Laden boys killed indiscriminately in their flight-borne orgy of blood and fire. The mindless mobs on campus are not simply assailing the Jewish State but freedom itself in favor of the submission that is Sharia (whether they are aware of it or not is of no consequence). They are Hitler Youth and Mao's Little Red Book robots rolled into one. 

Perfect Palestinian People?

Israel is widely accused of killing "innocent Palestinians" and even the Jewish State's primary benefactor America is insisting the IDF present a plan to protect civilians in Rafah before any action is launched there. In the first instance, an argument must be made challenging the "innocence" of the folks who inflicted the worst mass casualty event on Jews since the Holocaust. Are there Arabs in Gaza who did not participate in the October 7, 2023 outrage? Certainly, just as there were Germans who did not march into Poland in 1939 or blitz London until the last V1 and V2 missiles stopped raining down. It is utterly irrelevant that a side that has initiated unprovoked and bloody aggression against a peaceful neighbor has members in it who are not actively participating in ongoing massacres. It is enough that they do not stop the murderers in their midst from attacking innocent Israels while hiding behind them as witting shields that they make themselves a legitimate target. That and the fact that these so-called "civilians" cheered on and abetted October 7 (and many even entered Israel to loot, rape, and murder though they were not part of any particular terrorist group), and that to this moment, though they know the location of terrorists and the hostages they are holding, these noncombatants would rather die than help Israel save kidnapped Jews. Palestinians are so distrusted by their Arab brothers that even Egypt with its long border on Gaza will not allow Palestinians into their territory because wherever Palestinians go, they become a destabilizing and hostile element that stabs their hosts in the back. 

A Pin Prick

I am not certain that the slight retaliation the IDF inflicted on Iran was wise, tactically or strategically. By engaging in such a minor sortie, Israel may not have demonstrated strength and enhanced deterrence, but just the opposite. I do not think fear struck the hearts of the mad mullahs after such a limited response to the bold-faced aggression of Iran. 

Everybody Blames Israel

Outside of the Jewish State, virtually every world power judges Israel to be the culprit in the Middle East. Notwithstanding that since the Shah was overthrown, Iran has made it their goal to destroy the "Zionist Entity" as a start to bringing on End Times and seeing the "Great Satan" (America) fall. Israel did not capture a US Embassy and hold Americans hostage for years. The Islamic Republic did that, just as Tehran has orchestrated a proxy war against Israel and gave blessing and support to the massacre of Jews on October 7, 2023. The true and only bugbear that keeps the region boiling is Iran, and Israel had to respond to restore any deterrence before the mad mullahs started to believe they could nuke Tel Aviv with no consequence. 

Separate the Aid

Most Americans at this point do not care about the Ukraine. They either never did, and did not want American resources squandered there, or they recognized how wrong Putin's aggression was, but now see much of the US money sent there vanished in a black hole of unaccountable corruption. Many in America still want Israel helped at this time of great peril for the Jewish State, and also would like enough US support delivered to Taiwan to preempt any invasion by Red China. It is largely only the Ukraine that folks think has seen too much of our help diverted away from fighting Russia already. There should be clean bills for Taiwan and Israel and a stand alone vote for Kyiv because voters here now recognize the endemic waste and graft there. 

Not by Sufferance

Jews have not fared well traditionally when they relied on others for their security. The survival of the State of Israel can never be contingent on the whims of allies. The IDF must answer Iran's overt aggression, or certainly, that sort of attack will be repeated, expanded, and eventually involve a nuclear weapon fired by the Islamic Republic. 

Not "Pro Palestinian"

I keep hearing journalists intoning "pro-Palestinian protesters blocked a bridge" or "demonstrators in support of Palestine pulled down hostage posters". These rioters are not for the Palestinians but are certainly against the existence of a Jewish State. How could someone who wants the so-called "Palestinian people" under the control of bloody-handed and corrupt Hamas be for anything but tyranny and murder, just as supporting the mad mullahs of the Islamic Republic is an act against the people of Iran? Man's natural yearning for freedom extends to Persians, Kurds, and Arabs. If you support terrorists and theocrats, you are an enemy of humanity. 

Hold Israel Back?

If Israel does not remove Iran's nuclear capacity now, those arms will soon wipe the Jewish State from the map. It only takes one nuke hitting Tel Aviv, and there is World War III and no survivable state for the Jews in the Middle East. 

A Panicked World

The globe teeters on the edge of World War III, after Iran, which has been covertly attacking Israel since the fall of the Shah through proxies, has just openly launched drones and missiles against the Jewish State. This blunder by the Islamic Republic gives ample justification for the free nations of the world to take out Iran's nuclear capacity before it too is turned on Israel. 

Need Knife Control?

At least five people were murdered in a shopping mall in Australia by a knife-wielding assailant before he was shot dead by a female officer. Perhaps it is time to consider laws banning possession of knives outside of homes, or "common sense" laws requiring every facility where people might gather to strip search anyone who enters for potential weapons (sarcasm intended). 

Whither Goes Kentucky?

In the South, Alabama football and Kentucky basketball have reigned supreme. I do not believe Mark Pope as the new head coach at UK will attract as many one and dones to the program the way Calipari did, but that might actually improve the on court success of the team. Pope does not seem like a genius tactician either but still might win more than the Wildcats have managed in recent seasons. 

Matter of Priorities

If abortion is more important to you than feeding your family, you have some miserable values. If you vote this cycle to preserve access to abortion over reversing the decline of America, you should examine your heart and head. 

Just a Theory

I was born and raised in Nashville, Tennessee and always wondered at the caliber of some of our street performers. Why would an authentic virtuoso be performing for change in a cup and perhaps a few dollar bills, while someone less talented scored a million dollar album deal?  I have after more than half a century come to the conclusion I had long suspected that it really is who you know, who you are related to, and/or who you are able to hire to represent you. There are tremendous talents working in a riverboat show for three thousand dollars a month and going to a food bank to feed their families, while a lesser performer strikes it big using Auto-tune, Pro tools, and MIDI to disguise all the flaws they have and enhance their listenability. Life is not fair, and neither is the music industry. 

My Fearless Forecast

I predict rain some days, clear skies on others, and no connection whatsoever between eclipses and man-caused climate change. On-air "talent" claiming men cause eclipses are morons. 

Witness a Dynasty

Connecticut men's basketball is a dynasty in the making. Unless Tracy McGrady in his prime comes back now and suits up for Purdue, the Boilermakers are boiled. We had a powerhouse in Kentucky under Rupp, and a colossus that will never be equaled in UCLA with Wooden, and we must include the Huskies under Hurley in this rare and distinguished list. 

Beware Fake Glasses

Apparently, some unscrupulous people have sold fake solar eclipse glasses. If you look at the event wearing nonfunctional glasses that provide little or no protection, your vision could be damaged. You could even potentially be blinded. Please confirm your glasses are real and work before looking into the sun! 

A Football School

The University of Alabama's men's basketball squad had a great run this season. They advanced to the Final Four for the first time in the history of the program, before they were thrashed by defending national champion Connecticut, from a school that is the Pabst Blue Ribbon of state universities. I will bet U Conn could not have duplicated that effort against the Tide on the football field. 

Vision to Prosper

Joe Biden clearly possesses the "vision to prosper"  by whatever means in his own life and the lives of his family members but lacks the ability or even the desire to translate that more broadly to the nation and the American People. The Biden family members around Joe certainly gained from their connection to Joe but that did not help work-a-day folks here in the slightest. In fact, the venality of the Biden clan seems to have harmed the country but greatly benefited some East European oligarchs and the leaders of Red China. 

Know Your Friends

Biden was sorta, kinda a Zionist until it exacted what he perceived to be a cost, that being support for DemocRATS among Arab and Muslim American voters, who like their brethren in the Middle East, largely want to see Israel erased from the world and the  Jewish People murdered or subjugated. Crooked, fading Joe could have stood by his principles if he had any and discouraged further terrorism the world over by declaring loudly and boldly that America stands foursquare with the Jewish State in her efforts to stamp out terrorism and recover the Israelis still being held hostage in Gaza, but Biden didn't do that. He stabbed the only real democracy in the region in the back, the only place that shares anything remotely like American values in the back at the time of their greatest peril. The Biden regime continues to empower the Islamic Republic of Iran at the same time Netanyahu is publicly slapped down for trying to save Israel. It is a tragedy aid workers and civilians are killed but all the responsibility for a shooting war even happening redounds solely on the murderous terrorists who Pearl Harbored the Jewish State on October 7, 2023. Biden should have laid the blame only there, demanded Hamas capitulate, and that the captives held in Gaza be immediately released and that the Terrorists capitulate unconditionally. Biden is proving himself to be a foe of freedom and an enemy to Jews. 

More Professional Policing

Some members of law enforcement in the United States lack sufficient training. When deputies shoot a girl running away from her kidnapper numerous times, it is a reflection of gross incompetence. You end up with a hysteria when one officer has discharged his weapon, and the rest join in, without any legitimate reason for any firing in the first place. Then, you just had a mentally distressed teen threatening to harm himself after locking himself in a bathroom with a knife. You don't deconflict that situation by breaking into the room and opening fire on an unstable person. These events could largely be averted with more thorough training. 

Cataclysm Without Warning

A massive earthquake struck Taiwan yesterday leaving at least seven dead. That sort of event is largely unpredictable. Construction codes may create buildings where occupants have a better chance of survival, but even if people were warned that a huge tremor was about to strike, more folks might be killed in the resultant panic to escape structures by crushing or even falls, that the advance knowledge of the quake about to happen might cause more harm than good. 

A Tornado Warning

In areas prone to tornadoes, regulations should be passed requiring trailer parks to have storm shelters, perhaps one for every four occupied units, wherein the cost of initial installation and later maintenance could be split between the owner of the facility and the tenants. All too often deaths that could otherwise have been prevented when these storms hit mobile home parks, but residents had no safe(r) place to go. The bit of advance warning weather detection technology gives us now in many cases is great but meaningless if no shelter is available in a particularly exposed community. 

Why Burn Bibles?

In a town near Nashville, the city I was born in and where I have spent the majority of my life, some heathen burned a trailer full of Bibles, at Easter! What sort of devil would do this? What message in Holy Script did this moron find offensive? Is nothing sacred anymore?