War Rages On

Sure Hope The Donald holds an Ace.

Tough sledding. So much negativity. Securing nuke-enriched uranium stocks likely needs ground troops. A big No-No to Americans even though - to date - we've lost only 13 lives. Of the 300 injured, 250 plus have been patched up and already returned to duty.

Still very hard to see how this gets resolved with all strategic boxes ticked. The Mullahs and their very well paid military thugs seems to have an inexhaustible supply of figureheads ready to step up.

It sure would help if the whole country was on board and our so-called NATO allies. Snowflake Europeans get way more benefit from Hormuz than we do. Don't people know you maintain a military and allies for a reason such as its occasional use? (Again, Trump's instincts were right. Can't trust, mustn't rely on NATO. At least got most to pay their way.)

Every president since George W. Bush has explicitly stated that Iran cannot have nuclear weapons. Whether all the presidents since W meant what they said, they all said it. President Trump said it, too, but he alone had the will.

Since late December, the nut jobs atop Iran have confirmed to anyone with a grade-school grasp of world affairs that it is a pervasively malevolent regime. Not only did Ayatollah Khamenei not get the message from last June’s destructive strikes, he did exactly what an unbalanced fanatic would do: Double down on getting nukes while racing to build a missile arsenal and ordering the murder of thousands of his own citizens. Then shooting his missiles at everyone in range. Even Muslim bros.

If you don't think these sickos would send a nuke our way, I've got a bridge...

It's Just So Fr'cken Simple

I know the Mullahs got rich and have million $ residences worldwide. I know the IRGC is livin' the good life. But it would be so simple to end this thing. Give up the nukes. Stop funding terrorism worldwide. Leave Hormuz alone, which is an international waterway in the first place. Go live in those palatial compounds and let your people live in peace.

But everybody understands that.

A Model Worth Considering

Florida Chamber of Commerce just reported that more than $4 million in wealth migrates to the state every single hour, and it is close to surpassing Australia as the world's 14th-largest economy.

Despite having 4 million more residents than New York, Florida’s annual state budget is typically half that of the Empire State’s. Additionally, state lawmakers have fast-tracked legislative plans that would provide a path to zero property tax.

State also has a 50-year low on its crime rate.

High taxes and crime do not equal high quality, as evidenced by Florida’s top-tier education rankings.

Florida has ranked #1 in public higher education 10 years in a row.

If I were running for Governor of NY, CA, MN, IL etc. I know where I'd be looking for a plan.

Watch out JD and Marco, Ronnie's coming.

The Practice of Changing Reality

This slogan was coined by Chinese Leader Mao Zedong. It refers to spending billions to twist the perceptions of citizens in the West (and other democratic-leaning nations) to believe their governments are on the WRONG side of what's good for them. This practice is rampant today - especially here at home. From sleeper cells, to spies in our government, defense contractors, tech companies and university labs to professors in major US universities on the payrolls of China and Iran.

Of course, George Soros with his multifaceted "non-profits" is the poster boy for these nefarious activities. But a new face has arisen. Neville Roy Singham. An American-born, China-based tech tycoon, Singham, turns activism into propaganda and then propaganda into political and psychological weapons.

Eleven U.S. nonprofit organizations form a core hub of Singham's work that pumps pro-China, anti-America propaganda into the world, with a total of about $401 million flowing from Singham and his network into these organizations.

Fox previously documented $278 million that flowed directly from Singham into organizations that specifically "sow

discord" in the U.S.

Bet the Chi-coms wouldn't stand for this. Putin would have you poisoned or just tossed from a balcony.

Who'da Thunk?

Can you imagine the NYT's allowing one of its columnists, Bret Stephens, to utter such unpatriotic heresy?

"I am not blind to the Trump administration’s failures in planning, particularly its unwillingness to make a stronger public case for war and get more allies on our side before the campaign began," Stephens wrote. "Still, if past generations could see how well this war has gone compared with the ones they were compelled to fight at a frightening cost, they would marvel at their posterity’s comparative good fortune. They would marvel, too, at our inability to appreciate the advantages we now possess."

Wonder if Stephens reads Al Jazeera.

Is This How They Really Think?

I'm referring to Liberals and the LSM, of course. Sheridan Gorman is the 18 year old University of Chicago Loyola student shot in the back by illegal immigrant, Jose Medina - in the country illegally from Venezuela. Medina was arrested in 2023 but did not show up for his hearing and has been in the wind ever since. Of course in Sanctuary Chicago, illegals are not detained for being here against the law.

When asked to comment, Chicago alderman, Maria Haddon said it might actually have been Gorman's fault. In Ms. Haddon's twisted view, Ms. Gorman and her friends might have startled Medina, who was hiding behind a lighthouse on the pier where Gorman and friends went to watch the northern lights. So it's apparently understandable that Medina might jump out and shoot Ms. Gorman in the back. After all, isn't that the normal reaction to being surprised?

Mayor Brandon Johnson continuously reminds us that we cannot incarcerate our way out of violence. Well, Mr. Mayor, turns out actually we can. If most all violent criminals are locked up (or deported), violence does indeed go down - precipitously. But that's not he sees it. The Free Press reports Illinois has already paid $1 billion to ex-gang members to stop crime in Chicago. Called CVI - Community Violence Intervention.

Wonder if they sent it on pallets?

Meanwhile that lunatic Eric Swalwell is running to replace the U Haul Gov in the Wildfire State. Swalwell has a plan. "ICE get lost. If Democrats take control of the house we should strip out all your funding from the root to the stem. I want to abolish ICE."

Here's An Endorsement I Bet You Didn't See Coming.

Remember Tiffany Henyard? Voted America's worst mayor for robbing her constituents in Dolton, IL. Then she moved to Georgia where - get this - she's running again for government office.

Turns out she JUST ENDORSED Trump's use of the National Guard to support LEOs. Henyard said, "At this time, I am calling on Governor JB Pritzker and Mayor Brandon Johnson to seriously reconsider federal assistance from President Donald J. Trump to help address this crisis and better protect the residents of Illinois, particularly in Chicago. Across the country, communities that have welcomed federal support have experienced measurable reductions in crime. Cities such as Memphis, Tennessee; Washington, D.C. and New Orleans, Louisiana during the 2026 Mardi Gras period have all seen positive outcomes through collaboration efforts."

What prompted this defection? Her father got shot in the neck in Chicago.

Affordability Crisis - Who's Really to Blame?

Sure inflation skyrocketed under Sleepy. But it's come down drastically. Gas before the war was inching toward $2.50 a gallon. Jobs are coming back to America. Stock market and real estate values have been strong creating downstream inherited wealth.

Has anybody bothered to consider it might be our own habits that are causing the crunch?

Behaviors like...

• Wanting to live in the most expensive places when income can't support.

• Buying daily on whims from Amazon, Facebook, EBay.

• Going on premium vacations - multiple times a year.

• Paying scalper prices for sporting events, concerts.

• Limiting out on credit cards

How is that we have this crisis in affordability but...

• Airports are packed?

• Sport events and concerts are sold out despite astronomical ticket prices?

• Hotels are overbooked?

• Restaurant reservations have to be made a month in advance?

The Blame Game Is Getting Old. We’ve spent the last few years pointing fingers at:

• Inflation

• Fuel prices

• Corporations

• Interest rates

• "Greedy pricing"

Maybe, just maybe we need to look in the mirror. Maybe this craving for instant gratification is what's draining our pocketbooks. Maybe it's time for some of those old fashioned practices like...budgeting, paying down credit cards, saving to invest. Nah. Let's just blame Trump.

One Big Mac with Fries Coming Up

But wait. Who's the server? Yup a robot. Test going on at McDonalds in Shanghai. Worker shortage? Think not.

Still lots of bugs to iron out. You've seen those buggy delivery bots, right? Well last week, in Chicago, two crashed into bus shelters shattering the glass and sending shards in every direction..

And you want a self driving car?

Duh

The International Olympic Committee finally got around to banning transgenders from competing in women's sports.

Sportscaster Bob Costas praised the IOC policy change saying, "Common sense is not transphobic". Exactly, when is the last time you heard about a woman transitioning to man and knocking down a triple double in the NBA?

Spain - NATO BFF

Closes airspace to US military planes. Calls war "profoundly illegal and profoundly unjust"

Windy City in the News Again.

Chicago's public schools stand as a monument to bureaucratic inertia and misplaced priorities, where vast sums of taxpayer money vanish into underutilized buildings while student outcomes plummet. Frederick Douglass Academy High School exemplifies the dysfunction. Built to accommodate 1,008 students, the school now enrolls just 27, yet it remains open with 28 full-time employees – more staff than children. A one-to-one staff-to-student ratio is a luxury that even private schools can’t offer, but here it yields zero academic progress.

In 2024, operational spending at Douglass exceeded $93,000 per student, and that figure excludes capital outlay and debt service, pushing total expenditures even higher. Despite this lavish funding, the latest state data from 2024 reveal not a single 11th grade student proficient in math or reading.

Douglass is no outlier in Chicago Public Schools. At least 255 school buildings are underutilized, representing more than half of the district's standalone public schools. Among those, 145 are more than half empty, and 24 operate at over 75% vacancy. These ghost schools drain resources that could transform education elsewhere. In case you're wondering, this is not a demographic transition issue. This is flat out absenteeism.

Still Has More Majors

But El Tigre's DUI arrests are catching up. Too bad he doesn't have the net worth to swing a full time driver or even Uber. All these injuries, surgeries...maybe not all due to lifting weights and golf swings. Rollovers hurt too.

Could it be? Common sense prevails.

58% of nations worldwide now have a national ban on mobile phones in schools - 114 countries. The expansion has been rapid. Less than 1 in 4 countries (24%) had bans in June 2023, when it was first monitored. By early 2025 this had risen to 40%, and by March 2026 that share is almost 20 percentage point higher. Highest % of bans are in Asia and Europe. US lags, which is no surprise..

Always insisted on no phones at dinner table and thought it DOWNTIGHT RUDE to be in someone's company and be scrolling. Now we have proof "glued to the screen" has numerous nefarious consequences. Negatively impacts learning skills and exposes kids to all manner of BAD things. Not only the unfiltered internet with its propaganda and porn, but bullying and talking with strangers. Wonder how much screen time has to do with the "alleged" explosion in ADHD diagnoses?

I say - ride on. How about no one under the age of 13 can have one? Or at least an automatic shut off after one hour of scrolling per day. At minimum, parents should have their kid's PW and be monitoring.

Behind the Scenes.

Slowly but inexorably it's happening.

Big business is pulling back from LGBTQ corporate rankings in dramatic one-year slide. Only 131 companies submitted data to the HRC Corporate Equality Index this year, down from 377 in 2025.

How to Destroy a Nation (America)

One of many sources CME consults is Senator Ted Cruz's podcast, The Verdict. Now I consider Cruz to be intelligent, insightful and the biggest braggadocio since Barack. Every other word is "I". I did this, I said that, I wrote this. Still he does provide insight to what's really going on in Congress.

In a query posed this week by Cruz's co-host, Ben Ferguson, to Chat GPT, the AI-source was asked...How does one destroy a nation without military intervention or war. CGPT delineated 8 steps:

1. Economic mismanagement - runaway spending, onerous debt, high inflation, overregulation;

2. Breakdown on law and order - not enforcing the nation's laws;

3. Weak/inconsistent leadership - policy reversals, politicization, capitulation abroad;

4. Erosion of institutions - the courts, the military, the police, elections;

5. Cultural & Social Division;

6. Education decline;

7. Energy & Infrastructure neglect;

8. Reliance on Adversaries - for supply chains, energy, key minerals, manufacturing.

Spot on, eh? Sound familiar? Obviously somebody input the Democratic playbook. Newfound respect for AI. Scary,

scary.

Now, to be precise, CGPT didn't exactly frame its answer as a "How To". Rather it sought to "explain the internal weaknesses that historically cause a country to decline." You say Po-tah-to, I say Po-tay-to.

Shutdown Confused?

If you're anything like me you are completely befuddled by what's going on in DC that is causing Shutdown fever. Will try to unwrap a bit:

• In December we had the longest government shutdown in US history (43 days) caused by the Democrats because (essentially) the Republicans wouldn't agree to extend Covid-based health insurance subsidies. 750,000 government workers were furloughed. Paychecks delayed, service interrupted, yaddy, yaddy. Congress kept getting paid though. Eventually the can was kicked down the road to late January as the main issues were not resolved.

• Sure enough we are now mired in another shutdown, which has eclipsed last year's. Funnily (not really) the lynchpin of last year's fiasco, handouts of bogus insurance subsidies, is not even on the screen. This time it's ICE and DHS. Dems are refusing to fund as they want drastic concessions. So, when the nation is at great risk from sleeper cells and terrorist acts, the Democrats cut off Homeland Security at the knees.

• Caught in the crossfire are FEMA, the Coast Guard, TSA, Secret Service and the departments of Cyber and Bioterrorism.

• Now things get complicated. Bills are flying back and forth between the House and Senate. Rhetoric is more heated than ever before. Hatred of President Trump is oozing from Democrat leaders Schumer and Jeffries.

  
  

A True Unicorn

Talk about a needle in haystack. A rare kernel of honesty by a liberal.

Fellow liberal Justice Elena Kagan criticized Justice Ketanji-Brown Jackson for failing to acknowledge case law that governs when speech can be regulated in the medical field, marking a rare public break between two justices typically aligned in cases centered on high-profile cultural issues. 

"Justice Jackson’s dissenting opinion claims that this is a small, or even nonexistent, category," Kagan wrote in a footnote of a concurring opinion, which Justice Sonia Sotomayor joined. "But even her own opinion, when listing laws supposedly put at risk today, offers quite a few examples." Whatever that means.

Kagan, an Obama appointee, said Jackson’s view "rests on reimagining—and in that way collapsing—the well-settled distinction between viewpoint-based and other content-based speech restrictions."

I mean this just doesn't happen. Lefties stick together like white on rice. They make the "blue wall" seem porous.

Red Beats Blue...again

Apparently, RED states far outpace Blue States in reliance on clean energy. Four of the top five states using solar power are Red. Led by Texas and Florida. Texas leads in wind too.

Why? Because when something makes sense, business does it - pure and simple. Good ole common sense. Don't need Joe Biden to shove it down the throat. Or Kamala or Gavin.

Libs would have us believe that blue states are responsible for most renewable energy. But red states — guided by leaders who believe in capitalism and the free market — understand that investing in solar, wind and battery storage can be smart.  Another vote for keeping government out of the marketplace.

Where Your Taxpayer Dollars Go

Besides government shutdowns, green energy boondoggles, anti ICE protests and a plethora of other anti-American crusades, your heart will be warmed to know your government officials do take time to "see the world".

Aaron Ford, Nevada AG and Democratic candidate for governor spent 400 days traveling and over $400,000 since taking office. No doubt his trips to Martha's Vineyard and Cabo San Lucas have paid big dividends for the taxpayers of Nevada. He spent 137 days out of state in 2024 alone.

Another gubernatorial hopeful, moron Eric Swalwell of California, D-Rep CA, is also a world traveler. He took at least six trips to Doha backed by Qatar-linked sponsors from 2020 through 2024. Swalwell returned to Qatar repeatedly over multiple years, even after he was slammed for taking an $84,000 trip to the Gulf emirate in 2021.

Wonder if like Tucker he has a condo there too. Man, I gotta get me a Qatar hookup.

Capacity Outweighs Inventory

Military stockpiles were thin to begin with after years of Obama/Biden neglect. Add in Ukraine and now Iran and things verge on dire. But here's the real problem. Production capability. We lack the infrastructure to ramp up quickly and stay ramped up. From shipbuilding to interceptor missiles to pretty much everything else. And that's not counting R&D.

Just like we squandered our edge in energy and rare earth minerals, this is what happens when you go woke and spend all your money propping up DEI, illegal immigration and green energy. Talk about dereliction of government.

When the only choice of responsible leaders is to rebuild these cornerstones of our nation's survival, they gets slammed for increasing the debt. Reagan did and now Trump. Dummies don't want to acknowledge it's not simply a matter of running up the debt. What you're spending on matters most.

Disgusted? Delighted?

Will end this version on a lighter but also sicko note. Byron Noem, ex-husband of former DHS head and Governor of ND, Kristi, was caught in a no no - Bimbofication. (Say whaaat?)

Apparently ex-Hubby By sent hundreds of messages to a cross-dressing website in which the father of three appeared in hot pink underwear, wearing a skin-colored shirt with large, faux breasts worn underneath. Sick? Probably. Weird? Oh yeah.

Both Democrats and Republicans profess disgust. But imagine if Kristi and By were Democrats. He'd of struck gold! The LGBTQs would give a standing ovation. He'd be appointed Assistant Deputy of "something". For sure, for sure.

Delighted? Disgusted? Depends on which party you hang with. Me - mildly amused if that.

Here's hoping for good news tonight.