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Transgender-Affirming Specialist Ignores Reality

The tweet from Slate simply said, “The GOP’s most dangerous new policy just forced my family out of our home. I’m afraid they’re not done with us yet,” with a stock image of two blond children putting suitcases into the back of a suburban mother’s SUV. Naturally, I wondered what policy of the evil, reich-wing Donald Trump was kicking them out: families losing their homes because an illegal immigrant father had been picked up and kicked out, or a now former government employee losing her job and no longer being able to live in a high-cost subdivision in northern Virginia. But no, that wasn’t what it was. Rather, some #woke[1]From Wikipedia: Woke (/ˈwoʊk/) as a political term of African-American origin refers to a perceived awareness of issues concerning social justice and racial justice. It is derived from … Continue reading (supposed) adult pissed off because she couldn’t ‘transition’ her son or daughter into another sex.

The GOP’s Anti-Trans Crusade Already Forced Me to Move My Family. I’m Still Not Sure We’re Safe.

We thought our new state would be a haven after the last one turned on us. But I know the signs, and they aren’t looking good.

By Kalen D. Zeiger | Tuesday, March 10, 2026 | 11:04 AM

In May of 2020, my family moved so I could attend a clinical mental health doctorate program at the University of Iowa. I remember being so excited about the program’s LGBTQ Counseling Clinic, where I would be the assistant director and where I would get to focus on providing much-needed therapeutic care for queer folks. It was the deciding factor for me on what program I ended up attending.

At that time, I would never have predicted that the same clinic that had drawn me to Iowa would no longer exist when my family would be forced to flee the state in 2025.

I first read the article on my tablet, loaded via the tweet, while still in bed early this morning, but, of course, I needed my desktop to be able to write about it. That’s when I found out that Slate had the article hidden behind the paywall for a non-first visit. Undeterred, I Google searched for it elsewhere, and found it here as well.

At the beginning of our Iowa adventure, my kids were 9 and 12, and the plan was to stay at least until our oldest graduated from high school in 2026, if not longer. A few years into our time in the Hawkeye State, my oldest child came to us because they wanted to start on puberty blockers, since they were trans, and wanted to delay bodily changes that didn’t match their gender. When my child first came out, I was worried that because I’m a trans clinician who works in gender-affirming mental health care, others would assume my child’s choices were influenced by me. I was very careful to make sure they knew that whether to pursue gender-affirming care was entirely their own choice. The most important thing was that they knew we loved them and that we would support whatever choice they made.

Really? Dr Zeiger claims that such was entirely “their” own choice, but one thing is clear: having a mother who “works in gender-affirming mental health care” doesn’t exactly lead to a parent telling a child the truth, that no amount of hormones or surgeries can actually change a boy into a girl or vice versa.

By early 2023, my 15-year-old was sure they wanted to start puberty blockers, so we followed the World Professional Association for Transgender Health standards to get them started, including getting a letter of support from a doctorate-level mental health clinician after a thorough evaluation. At first, my child felt relief and joy; they were glowing, and so happy that they could do something to slow the changes to their body that did not feel congruent with who they actually are. But that lightness would soon be crushed by a statewide ban on care for transgender minors.

Note that this was 2023, and while the author is blaming all of this on Donald Trump, he was not President at the time, and at the time, it appeared improbable that he’d ever be President again. Federal and state prosecutors were seeking some way, any way, to lock him up and keep him from ever running for President again. In 2023, Joe Biden was President and he and his woke staffers were pushing every possible means of supporting the cockamamie notion the girls could be boys and boys could be girls.

Kalen Zeiger, from Psychology Today.

The fact that children would be denied medically necessary, age-appropriate care did not matter to the fact that children would be denied medically necessary, age-appropriate care did not matter to the Iowa legislators who passed the ban. It did not matter to Iowa legislators that this ban didn’t change the fact that my child was trans—something I think they believe (or at least hope) they can control. It did not matter that this ban meant my child would have to wait three more years to access a well-researched, basic standard of care supported by multiple professional organizations, including the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Psychological Association, the Endocrine Society, and more. It also did not matter that this ban means my child will have to undergo far more expensive and invasive procedures down the road than they would have if they had been able to stay on puberty blockers at 15. After years of unnecessary stress and pain, that child started gender-affirming care the week after they turned 18.” target=”_blank”>Iowa legislators who passed the ban. It did not matter to Iowa legislators that this ban didn’t change the fact that my child was trans—something I think they believe (or at least hope) they can control. It did not matter that this ban meant my child would have to wait three more years to access a well-researched, basic standard of care supported by multiple professional organizations, including the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Psychological Association, the Endocrine Society, and more. It also did not matter that this ban means my child will have to undergo far more expensive and invasive procedures down the road than they would have if they had been able to stay on puberty blockers at 15. After years of unnecessary stress and pain, that child started gender-affirming care the week after they turned 18.

In the summer of 2025, we were packing our bags yet again. Less than a month after my child was finally able to access trans care, my two kids and I moved to Colorado. I had just spent the last five years completing a Ph.D. in Couple and Family Therapy and a Master of Arts in Educational Measurement and Statistics. My now-18-year-old, a summer baby, had one more year of high school left. Where originally we wanted to make sure they were not moved mid-high-school, we now desperately did not want them coming of age in the state whose legislature had just voted to roll back civil rights protections from trans people like them and myself, including the right to be free from discrimination when it comes to education, employment, housing, and existing in public.

There’s a lot more in the article, and I don’t want to quote it all, but note from that final paragraph, in which Dr Zeiger referred to rolling back civil rights protections from trans people “like them and myself.”

Dr Zeiger was very careful in her article to avoid any indications of whether she was male or female, whether her “partner” or “spouse” was male or female, and whether her child was biologically male or female, though it’s obvious from her professional photographs that the author was born female. I haven’t seen any photos of her now 18 or 19-year-old child, but if it is obvious that Dr Zeiger is biologically female, regardless of how she chooses to present herself, and the guy at the right is male, regardless of his clothing, hair, and earrings, one would hope that the author told her child that “they” would almost certainly be recognized as “their” biological sex rather than the sex “they” pretended to be.

Try a little experiment the next time you are out driving or walking around. When you see an adult 80 yards away, a person with his back turned to you and wearing just blue jeans and a shirt, can you tell if that person is male or female just from that? If your eyesight is good, of course you can, because males and females are built differently. Males are normally taller than females, but proportionally women have longer legs and shorter upper bodies than men. The ability to distinguish between sexes of their own species is something that every bird, every reptile, and every mammal has instinctively; only liberal humans have managed to ‘educate’ that ability out of themselves.

Henry Berg-Brousseau is seen with his politician mother Karen, father Bob, a marketing director, and sister Rachael, a rabbi. Photo from the Daily Mail. Click to enlarge.

We previously noted, in December of 2022, the suicide of “Henry” Berg-Brousseau, the daughter of Kentucky state Senator Karen Berg, who thought that she really was a man. She was given every opportunity, with a supportive father and quack physician mother, and apparently supportive friends.

But I included a photo of the Berg-Brousseau family. In it, “Henry” — I have been unable to find her real name — is shown, seemingly shorter than her mother and sister, and certainly shorter than her father, as well as significantly overweight. Were she an actual boy who grew up that way, “he’d” have been the last picked for a team in Phys Ed, and been dateless as high school girls, real girls, would have rejected “him” for more masculine guys. As an adult, she might somehow ‘pass’ as a male, if no one asked any questions, but she’d have been the least impressive of ‘guys’.

Dr Berg claimed that Miss Berg-Brousseau believed that she was at risk, I assume from violence, walking out in public, but, in the end, the person from whom she wasn’t safe was not evil tormenters, but from herself. Had she been an actual boy who grew up to look the way she looked, she’d have had to get used to the kinds of insults that all boys growing up not masculine enough hear. But Dr Berg wants to blame her daughter’s suicide on people who recognize that her “transgender son” was actually her daughter, and refused to lie about it.

The truth is simple: no matter that the Kinks sang that girls can be boys and boys can be girls, it’s simply not true. As “a Ph.D. in Couple and Family Therapy and a Master of Arts in Educational Measurement and Statistics,” Dr Zeiger ought to be able to recognize that, but as a female who thinks she’s male, she has subordinated reality to what she apparently wants. Normal people just don’t do that.

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Woke (/ˈwoʊk/) as a political term of African-American origin refers to a perceived awareness of issues concerning social justice and racial justice. It is derived from the African-American Vernacular English expression “stay woke“, whose grammatical aspect refers to a continuing awareness of these issues. By the late 2010s, woke had been adopted as a more generic slang term broadly associated with left-wing politics and cultural issues (with the terms woke culture and woke politics also being used). It has been the subject of memes and ironic usage. Its widespread use since 2014 is a result of the Black Lives Matter movement.

I shall confess to sometimes “ironic usage” of the term. To put it bluntly, I think that the ‘woke’ are just boneheadedly stupid.
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Why are so many violent haters of Western civilization themselves children of wealth and privilege?

The Philadelphia Inquirer published photos of the homes of the two Bucks County, Pennsylvania, ‘men’ charged with throwing homemade bombs at a protest outside of Gracie Mansion, the mayor’s official residence, in New York City. To the left is the newspaper’s photo of the Clymer Street home of 19-year-old Ibrahim Kayumi. It did not take too much effort to look up that house, and then check Zillow, the real estate website, to find that the six-bedroom, five-bathroom, 5,816 ft² home has an estimated value of $2,238,200. Built in 2018, Zillow guesstimates it has a rental value of $6,611 per month.[1]I did not link the Zillow information because I do not wish to specify the exact house, and possibly cause problems for Mr Kayumi’s parents, at least no more problems than they already have.

The four-bedroom, four-bathroom, 3,217 ft² home shown as being Emir Balat’s is Zillow listed with a guesstimated value of $668,000. Not quite in Mr Kayumi’s league, but still well-to-do enough in a well-to-do neighborhood.

It would seem that young Messrs Kayumi and Balat were not exactly children of poverty.

Two Bucks County men who said they were inspired by ISIS charged with having bombs at violent Gracie Mansion protest, police say

Emir Balat, 18, of Langhorne, and Ibrahim Kayumi, 19, of Newtown, were charged with use of a weapon of mass destruction and related crimes.

by Jesse Bunch, Ellie Rushing, and Maggie Prosser | Sunday, March 8, 2026 | 8:42 PM EDT | Updated: Monday, March 9, 2026 | 5:29 PM EDT

Two Bucks County men arrested for attempting to detonate homemade bombs at a protest outside Gracie Mansion in Manhattan over the weekend said they were inspired by ISIS, court documents show.

Emir Balat, 18, and Ibrahim Kayumi, 19, were charged with use of a weapon of mass destruction, attempting to support a foreign terrorist organization, and related crimes by federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York, according to documents unsealed Monday afternoon.

Balat, of Langhorne, threw an improvised explosive device and a smoking projectile toward a group of people who gathered Saturday afternoon for a demonstration planned by far-right provocateur Jake Lang called “Stop the Islamic Takeover of New York City,” said New York Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch.

Kayumi, of Newtown, helped Balat, she said, handing him a second explosive device that, like the first bomb, did not detonate, and no one was injured.

Did you catch that? The headline itself states that Messrs Balat and Kayumi were “inspired by ISIS,” but it is Jake long who is described as a “far-right provocateur.” Provocateur is defined as someone who provokes other people to take rash actions or break the law. Reporters Jesse Bunch, Ellie Rushing, and Maggie Prosser have, by the use of that description, placed blame on Jake Long for the crimes of the actual (alleged) criminals.

Federal prosecutors say that after their arrests, Balat and Kayumi made multiple references to the Islamic State, a trans-national Jihadist network that has claimed responsibility for a range of global terrorist attacks.

Also see: Nina Bookout, “Gracie Mansion Bombers Pledged To ISIS And Wanted Maximum Carnage“

Balat wrote on a piece of paper that he “pledge[d] allegience [sic] to the Islamic State,” according to the charging document.

Balat told investigators he wanted to carry out an attack “even bigger” than the Boston Marathon bombing, which he noted had resulted in “only three deaths,” the document said.

After Balat was taken into custody, the document said, he told NYPD officers from the back of a police vehicle that “this isn’t a religion that just stands when people talk about the blessed name of the prophet. … We take action!”

There’s a lot more at the original.

All of this leads me to think back to loony Luigi Mangioni, the (alleged) killer of Brian Thompson, the Chief Executive Officer of United Heaththcare. He, too, was a child of privilege, attending a tony, private, male-only high school, and then the University of Pennsylvania, an exclusive Ivy League college. Where the pro-‘Palestinian’ protesters at the not-so-exclusive University of Kentucky were able to protest peaceably and then leave, the sit-ins and break-ins and harassment of Jewish students seem to have primarily been on our Ivy League campuses. The children of privilege, benefitting from the fruits of their parents’ work and Western civilization in general are the ones who seem most to hate Western civilization. Why are so many violent haters of Western civilization themselves children of wealth and privilege? From the two ISIS-inspired Bucks County idiots, to loony Luigi, to the privileged and pampered denizens of Columbia and Penn and Hahvahd, the radicals are supporting people from cultures who would happily slit their throats.

Remember: many of the protests occurred before Donald Trump won re-election.

What kind of education are these students receiving that they somehow think that they can have their laptops and cell phones and $6.00 lattes from Starbucks when they support tearing down the capitalist Western civilization societies which provide such benefits, to do what, enjoy the squalor of the vast majority of the Muslims living in non-OPEC Middle Eastern nations or sub-Saharan Africa?

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Cosplaying the revolution

With Hamas’ October 7th attack on unarmed civilians and residents just north of Gaza, we quickly saw the highly educated but boneheadedly ignorant protests in support of the ‘Palestinians’ and hatred of the Jooooos on our college campuses. They wore masks to hide their identities, to try to avoid negative consequences from their stupidity, and the black-and-white ‘Palestinian’ keffiyehs were all over the place. There were even a couple of hunger strikes, but the one thing I never saw was any of these brave, brave people actually picking up a rifle and heading to Gaza to fight the Israelis.

They were cosplaying revolutionaries without doing anything really radical like fighting.

Well, now we’ve found a brave revolutionary who was willing to fight and kill:

Teen who killed parents to fund Trump assassination attempt gets life in prison

Nikita Casap, 18, pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree intentional homicide in connection with the shooting deaths of his mother and stepfather in 2025.

By Todd Richmond • The Associated Press • Friday, March 6, 2026 • Updated on March 6, 2026 • 9:02 AM

A Wisconsin teenager who killed his parents and stole their money to fund his plan to kill President Donald Trump with a bomb dropped from a drone was sentenced to life in prison on Thursday.

Nikita Casap, 18, pleaded guilty in January to two counts of first-degree intentional homicide in Waukesha County Circuit Court in connection with the shooting deaths of his mother, Tatiana Casap, and stepfather, Donald Mayer, in 2025. Prosecutors dropped seven other charges in a plea deal, including two counts of hiding a corpse and theft.

First-degree intentional homicide carries a mandatory life sentence. The only question as Judge Ralph Ramirez began the sentencing hearing Thursday afternoon was whether he would make Casap eligible for parole at some point.

Calling Casap’s offenses “horrific” and “inexplicable,” Ramirez ultimately handed down two life sentences with no chance at extended supervision, the term the Wisconsin criminal justice system uses for parole. The judge said he didn’t have a “crystal ball” that would tell him when Casap would change, if ever.

I suppose that the dropped charges don’t matter, inasmuch he pleaded guilty to crimes which carry a mandatory life sentence! Judge Ramirez chose to make the sentence as being one without the possibility of parole, and though the Judge didn’t specifically say so, one of the primary considerations had to be because young Mr Casap is just plain stupid. If you read the linked article, you’ll see that he was falling for scams throughout the process.

Federal authorities have accused Casap of planning his parents’ murders, buying a drone and explosives and sharing his plans with others, including a Russian speaker. They said in a federal search warrant that he wrote a manifesto calling for Trump’s assassination and was in touch with others about his plot to overthrow the U.S. government.

I wonder how many of the other leftist haters fantasize about assassinating the President.

It was the last line in the article that really caught my attention:

“I thought I was part of a revolution,” (Mr Casap) said. “I thought I was part of a war. I told myself bad things had to happen.”

Yeah, he was a brave, brave revolutionary, one brave enough to kill. Kill his parents, that is, kill people who trusted him, kill people who weren’t trying to defend themselves in the “war” he thought he was fighting.

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Welfare for the well-to-do

On Boxing Day of 2023, I noted an article in The Wall Street Journal concerning investors souring on electric vehicle charging companies. In plug in electric vehicles are the wave of the future, why would investors not be moving into, rather than out of, such companies? Note that the original article was from December of 2023, when Joe Biden was securely in the Oval Office, and Donald Trump appeared to be headed for the big house far more probably than the White House.

The Journal included a photo that I am reproducing under Fair Use rules, because it illustrates something I’ve said before. I have seen, at the Wawa at the junction of Interstate 78 and Pennsylvania Route 61, six very new looking Tesla charging stations, none of which were in use, while what looked like twelve gasoline pump alleys were full, with other cars lined up to refuel when the vehicles ahead of them in line pulled out. The Journal photo shows twelve Tesla chargers, with only one in use.

The particular station I’ve mentioned is along busy I-78, and is roughly halfway between Allentown and the state capital of Harrisburg, but the specific area isn’t in a city of any size, making it easy in, easy out.

Plus, it’s at a Wawa, which means great coffee! 🙂 And you’ll need that great coffee if your car’s battery is down too much, and you have to spend an hour recharging.

So now we come to Chester County. The Philadelphia Inquirer noted that electric vehicles are expensive, but that Chester County has the highest median income in the Commonwealth, so it is unsurprising that there are a lot of people there who have purchased such automobiles. But it also seems that the wealthy people there want welfare for the well-to-do:

Chester County has more than 9,000 EVs. Now it wants to build more public electric vehicle charging stations

Through a federal grant program, the county wants to address day-to-day charging needs.

by Brooke Schultz | Saturday, March 7, 2026 | 5:01 AM EST

Chester County, home to one of the largest numbers of electric vehicles in the state, hopes to grow its footprint of public charging stations.

Through the federally funded National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure program, administered through the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, the county is looking to build up its community-based public EV charging stations for people who have or want an electric vehicle but do not have a charging station installed at home.

Funding from the program flows directly to municipalities or other applicants for EV chargers. PennDot expects to fund more than 100 projects through the grant.

It builds on an initial federally funded project under the same program, which sought to place charging stations every 50 miles along the major travel corridors to address long drives across the state. Through that program, Chester County projects received $3.2 million.

So, more of our tax dollars going to, as we previously reported, private companies to build for-profit public car charging stations. Those were not even government loans, but outright grants.

Chester County’s proposal would increase the number of public chargers speckled around the county, from workplaces to businesses, giving drivers a place to charge their cars as part of their day-to-day routines.

Chester County, which has both densely packed development and rolling agricultural pockets, saw its rates of EV ownership double between 2022 and 2024, with more than 9,000 EVs registered in the county in the state’s most recent data. The county is behind only Montgomery in overall EV registrations in the southeastern part of the state.

Really? More than 9,000 plug-in electric vehicles? The latest Census Bureau figures, July 1, 20245, show Chester County with a population of 560,745 souls, so 9,000 would be 1.61% of the county’s total population.

The math indicates another problem. Most EV owners recharge their cars overnight in their garages, something most Chester County EV owners would already have. With more than 9,000 EVs registered in the county, and most charged overnight at home, how many actual customers would a public EV charging station actually see in a day there?

“Things are pretty spread out, and with the infrastructure that we have in place right now, other modes of transportation that are carbon-free or less carbon intensive than single-occupancy vehicles are not as viable here as they are in other places that are more dense,” said Rachael Griffith, sustainability director for the Chester County Planning Commission. “If we’re looking at a lower carbon future for our transportation network, EVs are really a great option for that here in our land-use setting. Building out the network of EV chargers is really the way that we incentivize that.”

So, one well-paid government employee wants to direct taxpayer dollars to directly benefit the more well-to-do people of her county. Got it!

I have no objection to people buying plug-in electric vehicles, and no objection to private businesses investing in and building public car chargers for profit, but I have to ask: why should the government, at any level, be subsidizing the building of private businesses? Tesla (TSLA) built thousands of public chargers for their vehicles as part of their sales pitch, and helped make Elon Musk the wealthiest man in the world; as of this publication, Mr Musk has an estimated net worth of $834.8 billion, 3.38 times the net worth of Google founder Larry Page, the second wealthiest man. If it helped make Mr Musk that wealthy, it ought to do the same for other investors.

The policy of sending federal tax dollars to states, to give to private companies to build for-profit EV charging stations was an idea under President Biden, and, as usual, his ideas and policies — or those promulgated by his young staffers — were bad ones. If there is a demand for public EV charging stations, private investors will fill it. If there is insufficient demand for such, then there’s no reason to waste our tax dollars on it.

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The War Powers Resolution of 1973 and Iran

Representative Thomas Massie (R-KY 4th District) and Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) are Republicans, but they are also two of the very few libertarians (not Libertarians) elected to Congress. Both have long opposed wars, and are definitely not neocons, and both sponsored concurrent resolutions to force President Trump to pull back military forces from any conflict in Iran.

Some conservatives regard them as squishes, but the Democrats don’t like them either! Mr Massie faces a primary challenge in this year’s elections, and the President doesn’t like him, but Senator Paul’s seat is not up for election this year.

Under the War Powers Resolution of 1973 (50 USC §1541-1550), the President has sixty days to remove American military forces from areas in which hostilities reasonably may occur unless specifically authorized by Congress to stay longer. The President has an additional thirty days to do so if he certifies that the extra time is needed to pull out forces in a safe and orderly manner.(§1544(a))

Mr Massie tweeted, after the concurrent resolution narrowly failed in the House, “(S)adly we’ve now abdicated that responsibility,” but that isn’t quite accurate; under the law, the troops still have to come home by 60 to 90 days after the beginning of the strikes against the Islamic Republic, without Congress having to do a single thing.

The War Powers Resolution was passed over President Nixon’s veto, when it hadn’t received a veto-proof margin on initial passage, because a few more Democrats, specifically including Representative Bella Abzug of New York, changed their votes as a means of increasing the pressure to impeach Mr Nixon; those additional Democrats had initially voted against the bill, claiming it gave the President expanded war powers, rather than restricting them.

The votes in the House and Senate were consistent with the law, which gave Congress the power to require an earlier exit(§1544(b) via a concurrent resolution, something the President cannot veto. The resolutions failed in both the House and Senate, meaning that unless they try another concurrent resolution, President Trump still has to withdraw military forces within the sixty (or ninety) day window, without any further action by Congress.

I agree with this! While I am very pleased that the mad mullahs and their henchmen have been sent to their 72 bacha bazi boys, I was not thrilled that the United States took military action; I would much rather have seen the Persian people overthrow the government on their own.

Vizzini once said, “You fell victim to one of the classic blunders – the most famous of which is ‘never get involved in a land war in Asia’ – but only slightly less well-known is this: ‘Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line’!” It’s a good thing that the Iranian government has been shattered, but we now need to leave it up to the Persian people to set up a new one. Our military forces should go in and destroy every Iranian nuclear facility utterly, and that’s all.

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#TrumpDerangementSyndrome I can understand not liking the way the Iranian government was struck, but it boggles my mind than any sane person can be sad about it.

As I have previously noted, I was not in favor of the United States launching the attack on Iran; I most certainly wanted the clerical government to fall, and freedom to come to that country, but I wanted the people of Iran to do the job, not have is do so. That said, it is very heartening that so many of the Iranian leadership have been sent to Jahannam and their 72 bacha bazi boys. It’s far too early to know what kind of government will arise from the attack, and leading people like the New Republic’s Michael Tomasky, who admits to proceeding from a position that he “consider(s) Trump a walking malignancy in virtually every imaginable way, a cruel charlatan and sociopath who has done untold damage to the nation and world over the years,” to write that it’s improbable that things will eventually turn out decently.

But at some point you have to wonder about the Westerners demonstrating in support of the now late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and the oppressive Iranian government. Under the mad clerics, Iran was sponsoring anti-Western and especially anti-Jewish terrorism anywhere they could. The October 7th massacre was launched by Hamas, but they could only do so due to the monetary and war materiel support they received from Iran. Iran wanted the war to hold up the movement of Saudi Arabia to sign on to the Abraham Accords, because the last thing the mullahs wanted was peace between Israel and the Arab nations. Are American liberals so consumed with #TrumpDerangementSyndrome that they’d rather see girls executed for being raped, women slain for not wearing the hijab properly, and homosexuals publicly hanged by construction cranes than President Trump get a major foreign policy win?

Yes, of course that’s a rhetorical question; that’s exactly how some of our leftists feel. If Mr Trump cured cancer, they’d combitch that he was putting doctors and nurses out of work. Our left have become so stupid that they are going to support people who would happily kill them as long as those people are opposed to Western civilization. They use their freedom of speech and of the press to disseminate views in support of people and governments which would deny them freedom of speech and of the press.

The left try to tell us that they are just so much smarter than we evil, reich-wing conservatives, so much more educated, yet it seems that, today at least, when Mr Trump is in office at least, that they are a dumb as a box of rocks. I can understand not liking the way the Iranian government was struck, but it boggles my mind than any sane person can be sad about it.

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World War III Watch: Maybe this wasn’t the best idea

No, I don’t think this will result in World War III, despite my headline and stock illustration, but wars do not always turn out quite the way you expect. Der Führer certainly didn’t expect Germany to have been virtually destroyed, Hideki Tojo did not expect Japan to be utterly defeated and bombed to smoking ruins, and Vladimir Putin is still shaking his ugly head over the fact that Ukraine wasn’t conquered in four short weeks.

Did our campaign in Vietnam save the South from the scourges of Communism? Saddam Hussein was sent to Jahannam, but is Iraq the liberal democracy that the younger President Bush envisioned? The war in Afghanistan was necessary, to go after Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda, but, after twenty years of fighting, while al Qaeda was virtually destroyed, the Taliban still run that country.

Two things can be true at the same time:

  1. The Iranian government is a cabal of scum and a plague against the civilized world; and
  2. The United States should not have attacked Iran to depose that government.

The people of Iran were already revolting, and though we cannot know whether they would have succeeded, the United States and Israel striking Iran can only lend credence to the claims of the mad mullahs that the uprisings in Iran were created and coordinated by the Great Satan. While the attacks might destroy the government, they are less likely to create a new government which will be that friendly toward Western civilization.

Iran was already suffering through real poverty, and a crippling drought. The very strained water systems in Iran could easily be damaged or destroyed in military strikes, possibly leading to the very civilians we support dying of thirst.

Though there are times when war is necessary, it is still a very bad thing.

We in the United States have too antiseptic a view of war. Even the wars we lost or in which we were stalemated, while we lost men and machines, there were no strikes on the United States itself. We have two very broad oceans which have protected us from war coming to American soil itself, while we have the ability to strike nations half a world away. We lost 58,220 soldiers in Vietnam, a tragedy for their families and them, but the United States wasn’t struck by the Viet Cong, because they couldn’t. The last war on our soil was our own Civil War, which ended 161 years ago; no one alive today remembers that war.

But wars are not antiseptic for those countries in which war rages. Ukraine has not yet been defeated, but has suffered tremendous losses in not only soldiers and civilians, but in the infrastructure which enables a country to survive and prosper. The damage to Israel has been slight, due in significant part to their defensive technology, bit some has occurred. For the Palestinians, I do not know just what they expected after the October 7th attack, but surely they did not expect the Hell they received.

We need to look at what happens to other nations when war happens on their soil, and realize that eventually it could happen to us.

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The utter idiocy of anti-Semitism Anti-Semitism has no place among real Catholics

Carrie Prejean Boller is a very attractive young lady with a very ugly soul. She claims to be a Roman Catholic, but I have to ask: is her Bible just one of those small New Testaments that the Gideons leave in hotel nightstands? Does she cover her ears during the first reading on Sunday Mass, which is normally from the Old Testament, the ancient Jewish scriptures? Does she sit there stone-faced during the responsorial psalm, the works primarily of David, King of Israel and Judah? What does she do when most American Catholic parishes sing Oh come, oh, come, Emmanuel at the beginning of Advent?

She even depicted herself as St Joan of Arc, though, amusingly enough, she had images of Jesus and Mary, who were both Jews, in the background.

I don’t know how often she attends Mass, but she at least tweeted support when the late Charlie Kirk talked about his family going to Mass every week.

But there she is, ranting about “Zionists” and “Zios”, and supporting the Palestinians who, if they actually achieved the Islamist government they want, would put her into chattel sex slavery to a much older Muslim man, assuming that they didn’t just slit her throat.

Christianity does not exist without Judaism! The majority of our Bible are the ancient Jewish scriptures, which give us the laws of God and the prophesies of the Messiah being sent to us, foretold by Jewish prophets. Jesus himself was Jewish, born into a Jewish family, and teaching in synagogues. If Miss Boller take communion, receives the Body and Blood of Jesus in the Eucharist, she is imitating Jesus and the Apostles as they gathered together for a Passover meal!

There is, however, more than just religion involved in this. Israel is our easternmost bastion of Western civilization, of freedom, democracy, religious tolerance, and free enterprise. Miss Boller can rage and rant about the Jooooos all she wants on Twitter — I refuse to call it 𝕏 — because she enjoys the freedom of speech and of the press that the West provides. It’s not just those freedoms, but the existence of technology almost entirely developed in the West, including in Israel, that gives her the means to express her opinions beyond her physical circle of friends. From the first printing press, to the development of radio, and then television, and that internet thingy that Al Gore invented, she is benefitting from the technology developed in the West. Biz Stone, one of the four creators of Twitter, which she uses to attack Jews, is himself Jewish.

If she uses a cellular phone, she is using technology that was in significant part developed in Israel. If she has been vaccinated for polio, she has been kept safe by one of the two vaccines, both of which were developed by Jews.

Anti-Semitism has no place in the developed world, because so much of what has made us the modern world was developed by people of Jewish heritage. And anti-Semitism has no place in the Catholicism she claims.

The Israel she hates so much? I have been, all too briefly, to Jerusalem, I have gone to Mass in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, I have been to the Mount of Olives and the Garden of Gethsemane, I have walked the Via Dolorosa, all things important to Catholics, and all things protected and preserved by Israel.

The Muslims she champions? ISIS destroyed ancient relics in Syria and Iraq, because they considered them idolatrous, while the Taliban of Afghanistan destroyed several ancient sites and a library, for the same reasons. If the Islamists won in the Holy Land, if they drove the Jews into the sea, there is no particular reason to believe that they would be any less destructive of Christian sites.

But I just saw where she called Candace Owens brave, simply more proof that she hates the Jooooos.

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The absolute insanity of “sanctuary” policies It seems that none of the credentialed media wanted to report on this

You know, I get it: some of our good friends on the left really, really think that the people who came to the United States seeking a better life are, at heart, good people, who should be allowed to stay in the United States and contribute to our culture, society, and economy. But even if that is the way you feel, does it make sense to try to shield this man from Immigration and Customs Enforcement?

The Enforcement and Removal Operations Philadelphia office tweeted:

On Feb. 11, @EROPhiladelphia arrested Ibrahim George Kallon, an illegal alien from Sierra Leone in C/O (Corrections Officer — DRP) training at DelCo (Delaware County, Pennsylvania — DRP) Prison. In 2025, Kallon was charged w/ rape, IDSI, sexual assault and false imprisonment. @DelCoPa released him without alerting ICE! Now in our custody!

One of my Philadelphia friends, who goes by the nom de guerre Stinky Feat, responded to ERO Philadelphia’s tweet with this information:

🚨 I’m told that this illegal alien and accused rapist so graciously had their bail decreased to ONE DOLLAR immediately after ICE agents attempted to take him into federal custody and were denied 🚨 This is what @delcotimes should be reporting on if true

According to court documents, the image of which my good friend provided, Mr Kallon was arrested on June 21, 2025, with bail set at $250,000, a hardly excessive amount for someone charged with Forcible Rape, Title 18 §3121(a)(1), a first-degree felony in the Keystone State, which carries a sentence of greater than ten and up to twenty years in prison.

Mr Kallon was unable to make that bail, and, as an early Christmas present, on December 4, 2025, his bail was reduced to $100,000, with a required 10% to be posted to get him out of the hoosegow. He apparently could not make that, either, but then, on February 5th, his bail was reduced to $1.00, one stinking dollar, and he was released, released without notifying ICE that an illegal immigrant charged with false imprisonment and forcible rape was set free.

Fortunately, ERO was able to apprehend this alleged rapist.

Site searches of both the Delaware County Daily Times and The Philadelphia Inquirer returned nothing on the case. A google search returned nothing more than has been documented here. It seems that none of the credentialed media chose to report on this.

But really, who in their right mind, even someone who doesn’t support President Trump’s immigration policies, would set someone like Mr Kallon loose like that? This isn’t a case of a hard-working construction worker who got busted because he had a headlight burned out and no driver’s license, but a man accused of forcible rape!

I could understand a policy which attempted to shield the decent people, but policies to not report an illegal immigrant who is a real criminal to ICE? How does that make sense, other than the left hating President Trump more than they care about American citizens.