Are We Puppets?

The Left has done much through its media manipulation arm that comprises almost all dinosaur press and sadly much of social media to dispirit us to tamp down the Republican vote. They have generated "fake" polls to demoralize us into not believing it is even worth going out to cast a ballot. We maintain agency and the means to influence the direction of our governance. Do not let the radicals fool you. Save our nation by voting on Tuesday. 

Nominally Gun Free

Have you ever noticed that most mass shootings occur in places where guns are "banned"? Some people just won't obey a sign, I guess. 

The Incomparable One

When Paul "Bear" Bryant retired as Alabama's football coach, he left with a record that was thought would never be equaled, let alone surpassed. There is no doubt that Bryant remains in the pantheon of coaching greats; yet his tally of championships was in fact eclipsed by Nick Saban. In sport as in life "never" is too long a time to be an apt predictor. 

Running on Time?

Sanchez, the socialist leader of Spain can't seem to make the trains run on time but has managed to have them run into each other, twice now, with fatal effect. Sanchez has turned a beautiful and ordered European nation into a Third World hellhole. 

Israel Election Deadlock

Neither the Netanyahu faction nor the anti-Netanyahu side won sufficient votes to form a government without some sort of coalition drawn in part from the other side. One of the few non-ceremonial duties of Israeli President Isaac Herzog is to pick who will first have a chance to form a government, and due to Herzog's longstanding animus toward Bibi, I am virtually certain that Herzog will give the anti-Netanyahu forces the first crack. These Leftists will try to join with the Arab parties to oust Netanyahu. I pray they fail, because it will weaken the Jewish State immeasurably if Netanyahu is removed in favor of appeasers and Arabs who do not have the best interests of Jews at heart. 

Reformation Not Likely

Just as many were killed at one time in the Catholic Church for "heresy", Islam has had potential reformers rise up, but they tend to be quickly and permanently silenced by the most devoted Muslims who are determined that their faith and practice never be altered. Those who are fanatics in their devotion to Mohammad will broach no compromise either within their religion or with those they consider infidels. 

Trouble with Islam

Many Muslims are perfectly nice, reasonable people. They are hard working and honest and do not want to harm anyone. They are NOT the problem. Some of the most devoted Muslims believe it is their moral obligation to convert by the sword, and to punish and eliminate anyone who disagrees with the way they believe, because those "infidels" are at war with Allah (G-d Himself). There can't be any accommodation of these fanatics because they fervently adhere to their highest religious duty which is to convert or kill us. I and others have contended that a reformation is necessary within Islam to "coexist" with Muslims, but only Muslims have the potential to ever achieve this change, that may well never happen. 

The Paris Game

The NFL was wrong to schedule a football game in a country beset by riots. If the pros wanted to play in a violent city, they could have just left the Raiders in Oakland. After all, even in roiled France, the thugs have not been stealing journalists' cameras at gunpoint yet. 

Street Near You

If you live in Europe, the violence you are witnessing in France will soon be visiting you, that is unless you are in Poland or Hungary, where the Muslim invaders have largely been kept out. If you are in America, you are lucky that not that many of the illegals that the Biden regime welcomed in are Muslims. 

The France Violence

I read today that one was killed and four injured in a shooting in Paris. It is sadly clear that French leadership does not know how to stop the spiraling violence or lacks the will to make the country safe again. 

The Straight Skinny

The entire edifice of the DemocRAT Party is built on deceit. If you want a criminal enterprise controlling your destiny, vote DemocRAT. If you want freedom and the ability to plot your own course to tomorrow, go to the polls and vote Republican. Vote like your liberty depends on it because it does! 

An Inflection Point

The looming election will have consequence that reverberate across time. Either we remain a nation of law and order and stand by our Founding Values, or we are set upon by abolish police and prison radicals who want to end the institutions that have governed us for generations. The contrast is a sharp one. If you are for freedom and prosperity vote Republican; otherwise, the disintegration of America begins. 

Our Civic Duty

Even if you think all the candidates are skunks, go out and vote. Just pick the one you think stinks the least. 

First, Restore Order

France is ablaze. It is not the whole country but significant portions of major cities where chaos reigns. It is NOT disaffected "students" roiling the street. It is Arabs and Africans, largely Muslim, doing so, with some recent entries into France among the rioters, but disturbingly also the children and grandchildren of Algerian, Tunisian, Moroccan, and sub-Saharan Africans who established family in France decades ago, some having left colonies of France generations back. yet their progeny are on the street destroying the nation that welcomed their grandparents. Are there Communists and anarchists involved? Certainly, but most "rebels" are Muslims, some acting as opportunists simply taking advantage of a chance to loot, but the more politically aware using it as a demonstration of dominance to show French whose families have always been there that they are no longer of consequence and that Islam is the real power now.  It will take lethal force to calm the street. I do not believe the French government as currently constituted has the will to do what is necessary to end the "revolution". 

Lose Them All?

My hometown Tennessee Titans might not be the worst team in professional football, but it is sadly undeniable that they are among the worst teams ever in the NFL. They did manage to beat a woeful Colts team today, but only managed to generate a single offensive touchdown. That proved to be enough as Daniel Jones played like Daniel Jones, which makes it extremely tough for Indianapolis. 

The South Shakes

The earth will quake today in Knoxville as the football team from the University of Alabama, a dreaded rival, comes rolling in to face the home-standing Volunteers. The Crimson Tide arrive seeing red as they feel (with justification) that the officiating crew took a win away from them against the Georgia Bulldogs. They seem to be the superior team on paper to Tennessee, but playing at home should give the Big Orange a bit of a boost. With each team already suffering a loss, a second defeat will definitely end national and conference title hopes, while the winner can still hope to be in the championship mix. As a lifelong Tennessean who has had friends and a relative play football for the Vols, I hope my side shocks the world and delivers another "L" to the boys from Tuscaloosa. 

Dodgers Are Done

I was rooting for Los Angeles. Mookie Betts is from my hometown. They just could not overcome the Brewers, who are a complete team this year and are hot at the perfect time this season. Hats off to Milwaukee. They earned their wins. 

Dodgers Are Down

The Los Angeles powerhouse that won the last two World Series seems to be out of juice. Of course not having Shohei Ohtani, arguably the greatest all-around player since Babe Ruth, healthy has slowed the Dodgers down, but on paper, they still seem extremely formidable. Unfortunately for LA, the games are being contested on the baseball diamond and not a piece of paper, and the Brewers are pounding them. Each game has its own momentum, so Los Angeles may certainly come alive in Game Four to avoid the sweep, but it will be a miracle if the ailing Dodgers somehow put together four wins in a row. 

Question of Costs

Does anyone remember those days of yore when Faded Joe was the nominal President, and the puppeteers pulling his strings and running (ruining) our nation were doing all they could to force us into "Green" energy by limiting our access to and surging the prices of fossil fuels while saying nuclear, the low cost alternative, was forbidden because of a whole cloth China Syndrome fear? I remember, and does anybody have an inkling of what everything would cost if we were suffering through nuclear winter after Iran nuked Tel Aviv or was merely using their newly acquired atomic weapons to blackmail Riyadh and extort the other oil=producing states of the Middle East? 

Stop This Ride

Apparently, actress Selma Blair had some sort of issue in the vehicle in which she was being transported. If that happens on a train or bus, generally you can pull a designated cord and be permitted off, Unfortunately for Selma that does not work on airplanes, and she may well have taken her last commercial flight.