Michigan Democratic Party Goes Full Progressive Islamist

And you should never go Full Progressive Islamist.

It's a Red-Green alliance all the way now for Michigan's Democratic Party.

The Party voted to have Hasan Makled, a Hezbollah-supporting anti-semite for the Board of Regents at the University of Michigan, removing seated Michigan Jewish Democrat Jordan Acker.

The Detroit News: Finley: Michigan Democrats use convention to embrace antisemitism

Michigan's Democratic Party then went on to endorse Abdul El-Sayed for US Senate - the same Abdul El-Sayed who has Hasan Piker campaigning for him and won;t disavow Piker for saying the USA deserved 9/11, and who didn't want to talk about the death of the dictator Khamenei as it might upset his constituents, and who hand-waved away the attack on Temple Israel by saying, similar to Ilhan Omar's some people did something, that hurt people can hurt people.

The convention, while having a whole bunch of Palestinian flags flying had an almost complete lack of American flags present - the only one seen was being carried by a lone pro-Israel Democrat who had both an American and an Israeli flag. 

Even some Jewish Democrats are finally waking up as to how far the Overton Window has shifted and that the Michgian Democrat Party is now the party of progressive socialism, Islam, and antisemitism:  Lakoom: The only Israel supporters on the Floor.

The Michigan Democratic Party is now outright in support of Hezbollah, Hamas, and Iran.

This ain't your parent's Democratic Party.  Heck, it is not even America's anymore. 

Yesterday It Was 39 Degrees Out And Even Snowed A Bit

In other words, perfect weather for the first USPSA match of the season.

This would be a classifier match with 7 classifier stages and a field course in the shoot house.

So I showed up to the range in jacket and sweater, checked in, and started wandering the stages 

Kinda chilly, but at least the ground on the range was only soggy but not a complete morass of mud.

Spencer, Tosh, Jason, and Steve soon arrived and we then checked out some stages together and then gathered for the shooters' meeting.  

I was RO for our squad and we had two people who had never shot USPSA before on the squad. So after a pretty detailed safety briefing, and going over the basic range commands we got started.

First stage was the shoot house which was pretty straightforward except for one potential 180 trap, and a lot of fun.

Then we started going through the classifiers.

Quite a nice variety with new classifiers I;ve never shot before and the El Presidente for a classic touch.

Lots of fun.  

I did find out the mage pouches I had on my belt didn't quite hold the PDP magazines securely while running.  This resulted in them falling out as I ran to the next shooting position, which got some damp sand/dirt in them. I brushed them off and got what I thought was all the dirt out.

Not so much. This would be a problem on the next classifier stage

I was zooming through the next classifier which had 3 strings with reloads in the first two strings.  On String One I was zipping along did an great mag change, all Alphas and was doing great.

Then string 2.

I reloaded with a mag that had a bit of the gunky sand stuck that had worked its way down in between the top and second round in the magazine and the second and third rounds, stopping the gun twice, and messing up my score nicely.

On the upside, it allegedly made me look really good by immediately acting to clear the sequential jams and taking remedial action to get the gun back in shooting order.

First failure of the PDP and I really can't blame the gun.  Others had similar fun experiences, with even Glocks jamming due to the dirt clumping into the mags.

Annoying enough, when I got home and stripped the mags down to clean them, there was no dirt left inside.  Those two clumps were it. Weird.

It was a fun match and I got in over 12,000 steps chasing after shooters on the stages, especially the fun stages where they started up front with targets and have to run up-range to get to the next array.   A little cardio workout and sprint to stay ahead of them was very much in order.

So I was all sorts of tired by the end of it.  Spencer, Tosh, Jason,  Steve, and I all then went together to a Coney for a quick late lunch and headed off.

The scores came out and I finished in the middle of the pack of competitors and behind Tosh but ahead of  Spencer,  Jason,  and Steve - by three points in the case of Steve, and eight points on the case of Jason so we're all pretty darn close performance-wise at the moment. A fun time with a great bunch of shooters.

Not a bad start to the shooting season, but I certainly can use more practice and need to get to the range more. 

Dam Trouble

What happens when you have 20 inches of snow pack quickly melting and days of non-stop heavy rain at the same time?

A really bad time for a lot of dams in Northern Michigan, and for the people living near them. 

The Detroit News: Northern Michigan lake drained after dam failure in Alcona County

The Detroit News: Residents told to evacuate downstream of west Michigan dam

The Detroit News: Cheboygan River remains less than 5 inches from top of dam. Friday updates

Dams with their spillways fully open are still not keeping up with the water, leading to the risks of the dams failing and evacuation warnings and orders have gone out.

Bridges are also at risk of failing with two already having failed: 15 Michigan bridges close, 2 fail as flooding concerns mount 

The views of the massive volumes of water coming out the spillways and still not keeping up with the flood is rather wild to see:

There's lots of homes being flooded and roads being washed out by the force of all the flood water. 

the Detroit News: Northern Michigan lakeshore, homes surrounded by water after flooding

Thankfully, no one had been reported to have been hurt of killed by the flooding and hopefully and in following evacuation orders that will continue to be the case,  It's still a massive and terrible blow to people there having their homes and property destroyed.

The Detroit News: Michigan faces new road challenges from 'historic weather challenge'

It's quite bad up there, but with luck the rains will let up and allow for the dams to catch up with the water flow and avert further damage.

Gun Controller Advocates' Projection

Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax was touted as  a "Gun Safety Champion" and feted by Giffords.   Gun Safety Champion is gun control advocate speak for Gun Banner.

He was the decisive vote for Virginia's Red Flag Law, a law that was touted as reducing violence with firearms by confiscating them from those suspected of potentially being a danger to themselves or others with them - a with a lack of proper due process to boot.

In short, he was a major advocate for gun bans under the guise of gun control.

And he just shot and murdered his wife before killing himself.

Bearing Arms: Former Lt. Governor and Giffords 'Gun Safety Champion' Kills Wife, Self in Northern Virginia

If his murder of his wife wasn't such a stupid and unforgivable criminal waste, one might almost be amused at the irony of his actions. 

Gun banners once again projecting their own homicidal violence onto the law abiding rest of us.

One should note that all of the laws that  Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax passed, every single one of them, did nothing to stop him from murdering his wife and then offing himself.

If A Fine Is A Tax for Doing Bad . . .

Then a Tax is a fine for doing good.

With it being tax day, I did good enough, and as a result had to write a check to the IRS as I under-withheld due to doing better this year than last year.

A pity that Election Day isn't April 16, when everyone's tax returns are fresh in their minds.  

Anything Progressives Don't Like Is Genocide!

Progressives, that word just does not mean what you think it means.

Juno News: NDP MP Leah Gazan’s “MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+ genocide” sparks widespread mockery 

In the latest example of the cheapening of the term genocide, Leah Gazan of the New Democratic Party of Canada and Member of Parliament had this bit of nonsense to say:

“They provided $0 to deal with the ongoing genocide of MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+. Rates of violence are increasing, and the PM is turning a blind eye.”

First, before we even get to the ridiculous acronym, there is no ongoing genocide of "MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+" in Canada, as in none, nada, zero.

Words mean things (or at least they used to) and there simply is no genocide going on, no matter how much people want to feel  that  "MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+" are not just special but win the victim Olympics by virtue of simply being "MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+" and then claiming they're suffering form a genocide.

Again, for those in the back, and members of the NDP, there is no systematic and widespread extermination or attempted extermination of a national, racial, religious, or ethnic group, nor any systematic and widespread  extermination or attempted extermination to wipe out MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+ from Canada, and it likely wouldn't be considered a genocide even if there was such, as the acronyms are not a and there is not a national, racial, religious, or ethnic group but a hodge-podge of people mainly defined by their sexual proclivities and interests. 

A government not providing funding to government programs to do your preferred government things, or to NGOs to do NGO things that you want is not a genocide.

Much like the progressives' false claims of a Genocide in Gaza, this cry of Genocide is simply untrue and does not conform to the facts nor to reality.

Now, on to the ridiculous acronym and further showing why there isn't an ongoing genocide of the multiple people and personalities that make up MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+, and boy, there are a lot of them.  As, after all, the acronym stands for:  Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two‑Spirit (a term that is used by some First Nations to describe people who embody both masculine and feminine spirits), Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning, Intersex, and Asexual people.

At least it constitutes that until another interest group can get added or new special group identified. 

First, the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two‑Spirit are not missing nor murdered as part of some ongoing official or unofficial scheme, or plan.

The majority of murdered and/or missing indigenous women and girls in Canada sadly tend to be disappeared or killed in one of two main ways: 

One, by other indigenous persons in acts of domestic violence; and 

Two, by engaging in the sex trade, whether willingly or not and experiencing a violent end as a result or disappearing either voluntarily or not and ending up in other cities to participate (willingly or not) in the sex trade, The majority of those who become the murdered or missing in the "MMIWG" tend to be associated with the sex trade, again whether voluntarily or not.

It's certainly very ugly and not acceptable, but it is not a genocide.

You Make That Deal? I'd Make That Deal!

A Somali has culturally enriched Minnesota by stealing at least $11 million dollars from the state's Medicaid program and was caught doing so.

He was given a choice at his arraignment:  

1. Pay $50k in bail money and surrender his passport; or

2.  Pay $150k and keep his passport.

Being a criminal but not a complete idiot, Abdirashid Ismail Said chose option #2, and promptly took his passport and fled with the country with the stolen $11 million dollars.

American Wire: $11M Medicaid fraud suspect flees US after judge lets him post bail, keep passport

I'd make that deal, how about you, you make that deal? I don't blame ya! Damn good deal!

That he was given such a deal is a sad commentary on the state of the justice system and judges in Minessota.   I mean, they clearly cannot do math, and have never heard of game theory at all.

A Convenient Scandal: Swalwell, The Media, and the California Democratic Shakeout

Democrats and the mainstream media have a rather incestuous relationship, where they benefit and cover for each other.

Now that the Democrats need to whittle down the field of potential Democrats running for governor of California due to the jungle primary system that they created, Eric Swalwell has to go.

You see, California Democrats instituted a jungle primary where the top vote-getters, regardless of party end up on the ballot.

The idea behind the jungle primary was to eliminate Republicans as candidates for office.

However, with such a large field of Democrats running this time, with none of them willing to conceded, this has created the potential for the unthinkable - the two Republican candidates may end up being the sole survivors of the primary with the larges share of the primary vote.

The Democrats can't have that. Would seriously upset the one-party apple cart.

So, the Democratic field of candidates must be reduced and if they won't leave, willingly, conditions must be arranged to make them drop out.

PJ Media: The Morning Briefing: Eric Swalwell's Gubernatorial Bid Gets Hit By the #MeToo Train

So, and funny how that happens, credible allegations of serious sexual assaults that happened over many years, on the part of Swalwell have suddenly and most conveniently surfaced now. 

It knocks him out and serves as a message pour encourager les autres  that if there's dirt on them and they're not a star of the party, they may want to step back.

So why reference the media?  Because the Democrats and the mainstream media both knew about his activities, and both covered it up so long as he was a party member in good standing:

 

Yep, this reporter is stating Swalwell's behavior towards women was known - since 2013 - yet neither he, nor other reporters, nor the Party, breathed not a word of it or gave it any coverage til now when it is politically convenient to do so. 

Democrats talk about a War on Women and they sure are fighting the War on Women all right - on the women. 

The Dems are cosplaying with Handmaid's outfits while tolerating sexual harassment and outright assaults on women so long as the perpetrators have  (D) behind their name, and the media both covers it --and covers it up -- for them.

Mamdani Bans Times Square Public Celebration of America's 250th Anniversary

meaww.com: Fact Check: Did Zohran Mamdani ban celebrations for America’s 250th anniversary in Times Square?

The answer is yes, yes he did.

The fact that the reason given is that there is insufficient police resources to protect the celebration is most convenient indeed -- considering it is his deliberate budgetary decisions reducing police resources. 

A special Times Square ball drop for America’s 250th birthday will still happen, but most people won’t be able to attend in person. Organizers confirmed that the event will take place at midnight on July 3, even after Mayor Zohran Mamdani introduced an emergency rule that limits many public events during the FIFA World Cup period in New York City. 

Rather pathetic, that.  

Mamdani has over $165 million to spend on funding for legal defense for illegal immigrants, but can't be bothered  and claims the city cannot afford to protect a celebration of America for Americans.

One of America's leading cities, indeed one that considers itself to BE the leading city, will not be holding a public celebration of this nation's 250th Anniversary.

Quite pathetic, but quite in character for Mayor Mamdani. 

Democrats Have Syed Enough

Democrat candidate for US Senate Abdul El-Sayed not only will not discuss the death of Ayatollah Khamenei as it might upset some of his supporters he also won't disavow Hasan Piker, an anti-American and Anti-Semitic piece of garbage - who he is touring with on his campaign.

The Detroit News: Abdul El-Sayed, Hasan Piker target critics, Iran war at Michigan events

Abdul El-Sayed has steadfastly refused to disavow Piker, who has said, among many other things, that the United states "deserved" the 9-11 attack.

Politico: Michigan Senate candidate El-Sayed declines to disavow Hasan Piker’s past comments

 What should have been an easy lay-up to try and lie to voters that he is a moderate, but El-Sayed was having none of it.

In short, he's a Democratic progressive candidate who hates America - but hey, he's claiming to offer free Healthcare, so credulous and traitorous Democrats will love him for it. 

In other news, yet another progressive Michigan Democrat candidate, Amir Makled, running for University of Michigan Board of Regents, was caught extolling terrorist group Hezbollah and making anti-Semitic comments on his Twitter feed:  The Detroit News: University of Michigan regent hopeful deleted posts praising Hezbollah leaders.

Democrats having lost the average American, are having dalliances with decidedly anti-American, anti-liberal and Islamic elements. 

This is a rather bad look for the opposition party to be consorting with supporters of anti-American terrorist groups. It's a sad commentary on how far the Democrats have fallen off the deep end and gone from a party of and for America to one being a home for and supporting the enemies of America.

Apparently For Iran, Ceasefire Doesn't Mean What We Consider Ceasefire To Mean

Often the Arabs and Iranians will say one thing in English for foreign consumption while saying the opposite in their native language. Or say ne thing while acting the opposite.

Right after the ceasefire was announced, Iran launched missiles at both Israel and the gulf states.

Mirror: Iran fires missiles at Israel minutes after Donald Trump's war ceasefire

CNBC:  Gulf countries scramble to intercept missiles hours into U.S.-Iran ceasefire agreement

 It is, of course, possible that the Iranians took ceasefire to mean "No attacks on us, but we can attack others", which tends to be par for the course for the type.

We will see if this was a last-minute barrage so Iran can claim they got the last salvo in, or if the ceasefire breaks down due to continuing Iranian violations.

Justice Sotomayor Must Be Happy That

She is now certifiably not the dumbest justice sitting on the Supreme Court:

 Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson steals that prize from Sotomayor, easily.

The Federalist: Justice Jackson’s ‘Turning Japanese’ Argument Is So Dumb It Stuns

One may hope, but certainly not expect, that the Democrats have learned not to use DEI as a selection criteria for picking Supreme Court justice candidates in the future. 

Michigan Wins!

Michigan wins the NCAA Basketball Championship!

 Quite a tight game, and fun to watch them beat the U Conn Huskies. 

You Really Can't Hate The Mainstream Media Enough

The New York Post:  NPR didn’t quote a single member of Michigan synagogue after attack — but interviewed terrorist’s pals in Lebanon

They didn't bother interviewing those who were there, including the security guards who stopped the attack, the teachers, or all the responders who risked their lives to make sure no further attackers were in the burning building and all children were safely extracted from it. 

Nope, they instead sent a reporter all the way to Lebanon  to talk to Hezbollah sympathizers and members about the attack. 

One might note that NPR still receives taxpayer dollars to propagandize against America and Americans. 

Something ought to be done about that. 

It's Passover, So It's Time For Matzah Brei

Since you can't eat leavened bread during Passover, and this morning I wanted a good breakfast, it was time to make Martzah Brei.  Think french toast but with matzah rather than bread.

First, you break up the sheets of matzah, 2 sheets per person or more if you're very hungry.

 Next, soak the broken up matzah in water for about 5-10 minutes until soft.

 

 Once the matzah has soaked, dump it into a strainer to drain the excess water. Beat one egg per sheet of matzah in the bowl very well as the matzah sits in the strainer. Then pour the matzah from the strainer back into the bowl onto the eggs and keep stirring until the egg is all absorbed.

Heat up a frying pan with some oil or butter (or both) and keep flipping the matzah until it is no longer soggy and gets nice and crunchy but nor burned.

 Serve with powdered sugar or maple syrup, or both.

 And enjoy a traditional Passover breakfast.

Layers Of Fact-Checking Excellence At The New York Times

The New York Times headline speaks volumes as to the lack of general knowledge of today's journalists:

Well that "North American Treaty Organization" is a NATO that truly Needs America To Operate.

Then again the actual NATO also Needs America To Operate.

Verily, as Ben Rhodes stated regarding journalists and whether they know anything:   “Now they don’t. They call us to explain to them what’s happening in Moscow and Cairo. Most of the outlets are reporting on world events from Washington. The average reporter we talk to is 27 years old, and their only reporting experience consists of being around political campaigns. That’s a sea change. They literally know nothing.”

Ben, of course, used that lack of knowledge to manipulate the journalists to sell Obama's ridiculous and dangerous foreign policy - leading to much of the current troubles with Iran today. 

Indeed, the journalists of the New York Times know nothing and have forgotten nothing. 

Happy Passover To My Jewish Readers And A Wish For Good Friday And Easter To My Christian Readers

Happy Passover to my Jewish readers.  Two Seders later (one Wednesday night for the first night, and another yesterday for the second),  and we are well into celebrating Passover now.

With the attacks on Jews worldwide, including right here in West Bloomfield, this festival of freedom is even more meaningful today.

To my Christian readers, may you have a peaceful Good Friday and a happy Easter celebration. 

Yep, You’re Doing Just Great

The No Kings protest can indeed be described, to reference the Bard as “All sound and fury signifying nothing”.

We will note that America has not had a king since 1776, and still does not. So I suppose the progressives can go home and congratulate themselves on a job well done today.

After all, with the close of their latest tantrum, we still have no king. Nor do we have an Ayatollah nor dictators for that matter — but these same protesters rather support the ayatollahs and the dictatorship in Cuba now don’t they?

Anyway job well done yelling that we do not have a king. A great success, I’m sure, as we did not have a king before the protest nor during the protest, nor after. 

 

Senator Chris Murphy Says The Quiet Part Out Loud

Democrats are for illegal immigrants over Americans every darn time. Now they’re saying so out loud. 

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT): “The people we care about most, the undocumented Americans that are in this country.”

Amazing how the Democrats time and time again will butn this country down to stop immigration enforcement and prevent the removal of illegal aliens including murderers, rapists and scum, all to the detriment of American citizens.

It seems the Democrats took the saying dissolve the people and elect another as a how-to guide. 

 

Where All The Students Are Above Average

In the continued inflation of American education, it is now admitted that students are getting higher grades on their college entrance classes for less effort and knowledge.

Education Next: The Dumbing Down of Advanced Placement Tests

The College Board, the agency in charge of the AP program, admits its questions are easier and passing scores have been lowered on key tests like the English Language exam. They justify the easier tests as an adjustment to a less demanding curriculum in high school and lowered expectations by colleges and universities. In other words, AP is simply adapting to a broad decline in educational standards.

Or to simplify: Grade inflation comes to the AP college admission tests.

Meanwhile, education costs continue to outpace inflation with lesser results.

While prevailing wisdom is that throwing more money at a problem leads to better results, Mississippi now leads in reading scores with funding per pupil far below states with far higher per pupil spending. That is, of course, because the money spent per pupil wasn't actually reaching the pupils.

The increase in Mississippi were due not to more dollars thrown at the problem but to reforms that focused on real results.

It is more than past time to stop inflating grades and dumbing-down tests and instead focus on actual reforms in our public schools.  How about we stop just throwing money at administrators, bureaucrats, and teacher's unions and getting the same results and instead focus on reforms that work?

Maybe, as a modest suggestion, how about less DEI for kids and more learn to read for starters?

Bury That Lede There Detroit Free Press

The Detroit Free Press: Eid celebrated by thousands in Michigan as war abroad dampens mood

Thousands of Muslims across Michigan celebrated Friday, March 20, the Eid al-Fitr holiday, marking the end of Ramadan, a month of spiritual reflection and fasting marred by wars abroad this year that affected many in metro Detroit. 

Nice job Detroit Free Press on skipping right past the elephant in the article: three Islamic terrorist attacks in the United states during Ramadan, including one in metro Detroit a few short days ago. 

No mention at all of that rather important local event, that most certainly "affected many in metro Detroit" funny, that. 

Meanwhile, the 2026 Ramadan Hostility Scoreboard includes a worldwide total of at least 133 Islamic terrorist attacks with 499 people murdered in those terrorist attacks.

No other religion has quite the reputation and track record for annually going out and committing murder during their proclaimed holy days. 

Iran Lied Yet Again

Remember how Obama giving Iran billions under a deal that specifically not limit Iran's ballistic missile development? 

Remember how in addition to claiming they weren't developing nuclear weapons they swore their ballistic missile program was restricted to a  range of 2,000 km?  

Good times, those. 

Anyone actually believed them was a credulous idiot, because yet again, not surprising anyone who knows about the Iranian regime, they lied. 

They just launched two missiles at Diego Garcia, 4,000 km away.

While the two missiles failed to hit their targets, this is a their revealing a capability they had sworn they were not devleoping. 

Fox News: Trump proven right on Iran's long-range missile capability as regime targets US-UK base, experts say

This officially puts Iran into the Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile Club, and they now have missiles that can reach Paris, London and Berlin.  Hopefully that is a wake up call to European powers, and yet another reaosn to ensure the Mullahs do not remain in power.

Who Controls The Past Controls The Future

So a former patron saint of the Democrats, Cesar Chavez, a historic labor and union leader feted and revered by the Democrat, with statues and streets named in his honor, is getting the Damnatio Memoriae treatment. This is complete with statues of him being covered up pending removal from their plinths.

Why now? After all, the allegations of his sexual improprieties date from the 1960s and 1970s, but as a famous Democrat and his usefulness of his legacy to the Democrats for both the Hispanic and union votes, he's gotten a complete pass. 

Until now.

A couple possible reasons:

 1. His very well-known stance against illegal immigration and its depressing legal workers wages is becoming very politically inconvenient at this time. Chavez was not just against illegal immigration, he was vociferously against it, even ordering the beating of the heck out of illegals who moved in on his farm workers union labor and reduced their wages - even forming his own "Border Patrol" to turn them back- and not with gentle processing, either.

This is just Democrats putting illegal immigrants above Americans as usual, and rewriting history to claim they have always supported the "undocumented".  

2. One of his descendants, Julie Chavez Rodriguez is one of the éminence grise, the powers behind the throne, of the Democrat party.  Her credentials include being a former campaign manager for Kamala Harris's 2024 presidential campaign, right after being a campaign manager in President Joe Biden's 2024 re-election campaign. She was also working behind the scenes for President Obama and has come up through the farm union - with its prior stance against illegal immigration. 

It is quite possible that there is some internecine struggle for power inside the Democrat party, and someone wants her gone, and is attacking her by attacking her grandfather's legacy.

For whatever reason, the Democrats are proceeding apace with airbrushing Cesar Chavez from Democrat political history. 

Temple Israel Attack Aftermath

There's now videos online of the various police agencies clearing the synagogue and rescuing children from the school that were there at the time of the attack. 

Unlike the Cowards of Broward or the Unqualified of Uvalde, they went about aggressively clearing the building and rescuing everyone, and ensuring everyone was taken out of the burning building. While they knew the attacker was dead at that time, having been pinned by the security guards leading him to shoot himself,  the police didn't know if there were any other attackers still there and they searched and cleared the entire building. 

They did a great job, got everyone out at serious risk to themselves, with quite a number of them suffering from smoke inhalation as they put their lives on the line to save innocents,  and  make sure everyone was out.

In short, the responding police agencies did their jobs, and did them well.

The pictures of the interior show the extensive damage from the fire.

The Detroit News:  Temple Israel shows inside of synagogue in aftermath of attack.

It's going to be quite some time before the synagogue can be used again and it needs to be extensively repaired and renovated. 

When Even Al Jazeera Says It

Then mayhaps the US is indeed winning, and decisively winning,  the current conflict with Iran.

Al Jazeera: The US-Israeli strategy against Iran is working. Here is why

For Al Jazeera, the Qatari, pro-Iranian media to publish this piece means things are likely going very, very, well for the US in this conflict - so much so that the results can't be hidden:

- Top Iranian leadership dead and successors keep getting eliminated as they get announced

- Achieving Air Superiority on the way to Air Supremacy in the skies over Iran

- Iranian nuclear, weapons, and command and control and communication sites getting worked over repeatedly.

- Dismantling of Iran's air defense network, touted as some of the finest Russian and Chinese technology available.

- Sinking Iran's Navy wherever it can be found including it's mine-layers.

- Reducing Iran's ballistic missile and drone attacks by 90% so far 

 -Now playing whack-a-Basiji thug in the streets on demand via drone. Iranian citizens are reporting locations of Basiji checkpoints, and the US and Israel send drones over to whack them and thus save civilian lives from those thugs.

The Democrats and the Mainstream media both want the USA to lose and Trump to suffer a defeat in time to boost the Democrat's chances for the midterms.   Party over country for them, every time.

In short by any metric the US and Israel are winning, and are on the way to winning decisively.  Don't let the Democrats and the Media tell you otherwise.

Victor Davis Hanson puts it rather succinctly: Victor Davis Hanson: This Is A Surreal War, What Is Actually Happening In Iran Is Not Being Reported

Well worth a watch, that.  In short don't be misled by claims that 2 weeks in we're somehow in a "forever war" and Iran is winning.  It is not. But Iran's regime and the Left and the media are desperately hoping a propaganda campaign can save them and deal a defeat to President Trump, America, and Israel in spite of the facts on the ground and in the air.

Still No Word From Megan Rapinoe

Of the members of the Iranian women's Soccer Team who originally were going to seek asylum in Australia or the USA rather than return to Iran, all but three have reversed that decision and will be returning to Iran, where they will likely be killed for publicly daring to defect, not to mention removing their hijabs.

CBS News: 3 more members of Iran women's soccer team change course, decline to accept asylum in Australia

Have your families remaining behind in Iran being threatened with death or worse by the regime if you do not return will do that to you. 

Meanwhile, Megan Rapinoe, that "champion" of women's issues and soccer, who is all for men participating as women in women's sports, and who has "most stunningly and bravely" called out the US men's hockey team for celebrating their victory, apparently can't be bothered to publicly support real women in her own sport who are in very real danger.

Fox News: Piers Morgan rips Megan Rapinoe as 'hypocritical' over silence on Iranian women's soccer team

Then again, the left and progressives have been remarkably silent, if not outright supportive of the Iranian regime, so it is not really a surprise. 

Three Attacks. Three States. Democrats Still No On DHS Funding.

There were three Islamic terrorist attacks in the past week.

One in New York.

One in Virginia.

One in Michigan.

And all six Democrat senators from these states have uniformly continued to refuse to vote for funding the Department of Homeland Security.  

Verily, they have learned nothing and forgotten nothing.

CBS News:  Senate fails again to advance funding for DHS as tempers flare over stalemate

Only Democrat Senator Fetterman had the basic common sense among Democrats to vote for funding DHS.

The Democrats are once again prioritizing illegal aliens over Americans. 

Sunday Range Trip

Given recent events, there was more of a rationale to get to the range and get better.

Met up with Tosh at the range. It was in the low 30s and breezy, 

I had just put a new suppressor on the PS90 , so I took it to the range and got some trigger time in.

It's a Polonium K, replacing the SilencerCo Hybrid 46 that is going to be used on another rifle.  

The Polonium K is both thinner and smaller than the 46 and took only two days of ATFE processing from start to finish (compared to the 46's over a year to get approved) and no tax. Thank you President Trump!

It looks much better on the PS90 than the 46, and given the suppressor bore size, suppresses better than the 46.

 

 

I'm quite happy with it, makes the PS90 package footprint even smaller, and the PS90 keeps running like a champ.

After some rifle and PDW fun, we got on to practice with pistols.

I ran the Walther PDP, and it ran through all the drills without any issues. 

All drills were done from concealment and given the weather we had on rather heavy sweatshirts for the drills. 

We started with the single shot from concealment to the 7 yard A-zone drill.

I definitely had some rust to shake off.  I was getting hits in around 1.5-1.4 seconds once I settled in, with some much higher times as well.

We then did the 3&2 drill and I did better with that  getting under 3 seconds pretty regularly and some runs under 2.5 which was good.

Then on to Bill Drills.  I was able to get under 3.0 seconds which was good, and I'm still chasing the sub 2 second time - from afar.

For the final drill,  the one shot from concealment to an A-Zone at 25 yards we ended with a bang.  My best times were two at 1.60 seconds, and generally I was around 1.78-1.70 on average, which was pretty happy-making for me.

Tosh, by comparison, was averaging a fast 1.65, and had a couple at 1.6, and one at a blazing fast 1.35 seconds which is fantastic. The man can shoot.

A most challenging bit of practice, and it just points out I've got lots to work on to improve.

Active Shooting Attack At Temple Israel In West Bloomfield

So far details are sketchy, but police are warning that there has been an active shooting  and vehicle ramming attack at Temple Israel in West Bloomfield.

Schools in the area went into lock-down and there is a heavy police response, as it should be.

The Detroit News:  Active shooter incident at West Bloomfield Twp. synagogue

 Waiting on more details, but its unlikely to be the Amish, just saying.

Update 2:36pm:  A fire was caused by the vehicle ramming attack, and the shooter has now apparently been effectively engaged and is now deceased. 

Update 8:46pm:  Attacker was stopped and killed by Armed security.

And, exactly as predicted it was not the Amish.

Attacker is Ayman Ghazali of Dearborn Heights and he's an expatriate from Lebanon, likely with ties to Hezbollah. 

FBI has described it as a targeted attack against the Jewish community. No kidding. 

Mug Him Again!

There was a joke, coincidentally told first in New York City, about a liberal judge, known for being soft on criminals and giving them light sentences for crimes due to, in his mind, that they were just misunderstood victims of society.  

This judge related during a presentation on his lenient sentencing policies that he had just been mugged on the way to the same presentation.

"Not to worry", he told the approving progressive crowd, "this unfortunate mugging will not change how I rule from the bench!".

An old lady in the crowd then yelled "Mug Him Again!". 

When the Islamists threw their bombs at the Gracie Mansion, there was a similar but absolutely real display of progressive suicidal empathy.

During the demonstration,  a man, Walter Masterson, who happens to be a far-left comedian (which is kinda fitting but he's not particularly funny) with a megaphone on the pro-Islamist side of the demonstration, had in fine progressive leftist fashion just piously announced: 

"as a born and raised New Yorker, we welcome everyone into this city"

Just as he said that, "Pennsylvania teenager"  Emir Balat threw a bomb right over his head, complete with an  "Allahu Akbar" which apparently, per leftists,  is Arabic for "Thank you for your welcoming feelings":

Masterson ducked. 

Has this experience changed Mr. Masterson's outlook on welcoming jihadists to the city of New York at all?

No, it has not. Instead he proudly stated the event has not changed his leftists outlook at all, and he "didn’t become a xenophobic bigot” from the experience.

Thank goodness for that.

In short, he has learned nothing from it. 

An impressive display of leftist suicidal empathy. 

Maybe throw a bomb over his head again? 

No Matter How Much You Disdain The Mainstream Media

It's probably Not Enough.

After the attempted bombing in new York City of an anti-Islamic demonstration by two Islamists, the mainstream media hasn't just bent over backwards but twisted themselves in knots to obfuscate, downplay, confuse, cover-up and outright lie about the attack.

CNN started off by depicting the two Muslim attackers as "Pennsylvania men" who just happened to be going to New York City but whose trajectory somehow took a dark turn:

 No mention at all of them yelling "Allahu Akbar" prior to throwing the devices, and in reading the glowing description of them, you would think they threw the bomb as part of an anti-Muslim protest rather than AT an "anti-Muslim protest". No mention of them making the ISIS Islamic salute after they were captured, either.

CNN then doubled down, as noted by Instapundit, reporting falsely that the bomb was thrown at Muslim Mayor of New York Mamdani. 

If your news source is CNN, you have simply no clue as to the actual facts of this occurrence (and likely any other news of import that a journo would not wish to shade to favor progressives or Islamists), at all. 

The Misjudgment And Misbehavior Of The Millennial Attorney

As you might gather from the headline, my opposing counsel on a case is not just a new attorney but a millennial new attorney.

She unfortunately is living up to, if not proving the negative stereotypes about millennials. 

She represents two clients: Child 1 and Child 2, the children of the sister of my client.

The sister, who has passed away, was the conservator for the mother.

Sister and Child 1 during the conservatorship, provably proceeded to embezzle or misappropriate over $100,000 from the mother's accounts and hide that  until the sister's death and the mother's death soon thereafter. We don't think Child 23 had anything to do with it.

My client, the son of the deceased mother, discovered the misappropriations when he became the estate's personal representative.

In short, he offers to divide up the estate with the children of the deceased sister receiving a share equal to his minus the 100,000 they have already taken.

Rather a fair offer, that.

Our Millennial Attorney declared that to be mean, and such an offer was "threatening".

No kidding.

Since then, she has refused and failed to respond to emails, including discussing potential resolution of the case and  emails from the court mediator.

Mediator sent out an email in early February for dates in March for the mediation, as there is a mediation cut off date of March 20, and we had proposed March 12.

Our Millennial Attorney does not respond at all.

March rolls around and millennial attorney has still not responded so I send out an email at the start of last week asking if March 12 is going forward.

Millennial Attorney finally responds that March 12 won't work and asks for dates in April - past the mediation cutoff date.

Mediator gives some April dates and I reply with some matching dates, noting the scheduling order now needs to be changed. 

Millennial Attorney does not respond at all to either of us.

I email Millennial Attorney asking her to draft up a stipulated amendment to the scheduling order as we're now going to be late due to her delays.

Millennial Attorney does not respond. 

I also email Millennial Attorney about accepting service on a related complaint against Child 1 and deceased sister for the misappropriation.

Millennial Attorney does not respond. 

Yep, she is freaking ghosting me. 

Millennial Attorney also does not answer discovery requests I had sent to her in January.   This hoses her client nicely as she didn't respond to Request for Admissions which means they are deemed admitted.  Oops on her part, as this will certainly help at trial.

I have to, and do a motion to compel her to answer the interrogatories and document requests and file it with the court. And I ask for sanctions.

I expect she may answer that, likely a day to two before the hearing so I can't get a reply brief in. 

Again today, I email her with all the outstanding issues:  The mediation, changing the scheduling order dates, and if she is accepting service for the complaint and asked her for the courtesy of a reply.

I'm not holding my breath waiting for an answer. 

Sigh. 

Progressives Protesting Against Their Own Progressive Interest

So what leads women who dress up like this:

To protest in support of the Islamic mullah-led government of Iran, that makes women dress up like this:

 Heck, how do you explain how progressive Calla Walsh, a former campaign worker for  Senator Elizabeth Warren can get on stage in Iran, complete with the obligatory hijab, and on live Iranian TV recite "Death to America". ?

She is progressively propagandizing for a regime that, among other heinous things, requires women protestors seeking freedom to be raped before they are executed to prevent them under Islamic law from going to heaven, which they would if they died as virgins? 

These progressive women are quite simply fantasizing when they claim the government under President Trump and Republicans is a burgeoning theocracy that will force them to wear the snazzy red outfits.  Not going to happen.

Indeed, the Trump administration is taking active steps to free women currently trapped under the material of such similar outfits in Iran, far beyond the platitudes and lack of action of the progressives and prior Democratic leadership both. 

At the same time this is going on, these progressive women protest on behalf of a Islamic regime that, by any metric, abuses women in a fashion even the fictional wankers of the women's fantasy that run the theocracy in the Handmaid's Tale would find repugnant.

How to square that circle? 

It's basically a combination of fantasy, ignorance, and the Red-Green progressive alliance.

After all, with the fall of the Soviet Union, it looked to progressives that western civilization was in its ascendancy and communism and its promise of socialist paradise just wasn't going to happen.

So instead, they sought out support of regimes and peoples that while anti-progressive by word, act and ideology, stood the best chance of destroying western civilization that these progressives had convinced themselves was the source of all evil.

This is how you get progressive LGBT-ers protesting on behalf of peoples and regimes that think that the best LGBTer is one who is given a flying lesson - off a multi-story building. And it is how you get women protesting on behalf of regimes and ideologies that, if these same women were under their control that regime would systematically strip them of their rights including their rights to protest.

Never mind that women and indeed all mankind have never been freer than they are now in places where western civilization is ascendant. The progressive believe it is a hellhole where any moment now they will be forced into handmaid's suits and a socialist paradise waits around the corner if they just protest enough.

The Socialist Paradise they work for never actually arrives mind you, and if it does it inevitably fails in hunger and poverty, and is discarded by them as not a real "Socialist Paradise".  Progressives then try out the next one to lay their hopes upon.

So why the Red-Green alliance?  

Well, Islam is the only force, aside from Communist China, that right now has a real capability of tearing down western civilization, especially if the progressives in positions of power give it a helping hand with open immigration,  protection of it from criticism, and giving Islamism a free rein in their countries.

Somehow, the progressive figure, just like the gnome underpants theory of value, that if they stuff in enough Islamists, it will bring down western civilization and then lead to a socialist paradise where the enlightened progressives end up on top like white saviors to lead the unwashed Islamic hordes to paradise.

This cunning plan of the progressives has holes in it, a lot of them, to say the least.  

It doesn't have a good track record. Indeed the progressive leftists in Iran who supported the overthrow of the Shah by the Ayatollahs were among some of the first to be executed by the regime of the Ayatollahs.

But the plan is what they've got, even as it lacks any logical consistency, and it explains the rather inexplicable love the progressives have for people that are decidedly the very definition of UN-progressive.

Also, this irony of progressive women demonstrating in favor of regimes that are decidedly un-progressive towards women is not just found in the United States: Daily Mail: Ironic moment women's rights activists swear and jeer at protesters demonstrating against Iranian regime... which has brutally oppressed women for decades

MrGarabaldi over at My Daily Kona also chose today to write about the Red Green alliance.  

In The UK, When The Data Goes Against Your Progressive Preferences

You stick with the progressive preferences, and ignore the data.  

At least that is what the UK, under Two-Tier Kier Starmer, has  decided to do.

The Labour Party of the United Kingdom's own report shows that:

Islamists are responsible for three-quarters of the police’s counterterror workload and 94 per cent of all terror-related deaths in the past 25 years. The plan also rejects calls, predominantly from British Muslims, for blasphemy laws in the UK.

And what has the Labour Party government decided to do about it?

They've decided to appoint an anti-Islamophobia Tsar and further crack down on people being "divisive"  when it comes to Islam, LGBTs (and there's a fine paradox right there), or simply not reflecting Labour Party progressive preferences.

The Spectator: Revealed: Britain to get Islamophobia tsar.

No, Don't Do That

Stupid decisions by stupid people often lead to completely avoidable tragedies.

WXYZ Detroit: Detroit mother charged for unsafe storage of weapon after six-year-old killed in accidental shooting

Detroit mom decided to go to a restaurant and left her five, yes five, children ages 2 through 11 years old in her car, along with a firearm that was simply shoved under her seat and into the restaurant she went.

Left to themselves, the 11-year-old then retrieved the firearm and shot and killed the 6-year-old. 

Do not leave an unsecured firearm, shoved under the front seat, which is not a good idea even if alone, and especially not where kids can get it.

The mom should have had the firearm on her person, or at the very least taken all her kids into the restaurant with her and not left them alone in the vehicle.

But, she likely couldn't take the firearm in to the restaurant with her, as while the reporting is confused, it appears she was a felon in possession at the time, as she's been charged with 4 counts of felony firearm as in addition to the gun left in the car, other firearms were also found at her house. 

Tonya Charisse-Annie Johnson, 41, has been charged with:

• Firearms — Safe Storage Violations — Premises Under Individual's Control — Minor Present and Inflicted Death upon Self or Another
• Three counts of Second-Degree Child Abuse
• Four counts of Felony Firearm

In short, be responsible and do not leave your firearms where they are readily accessible to unsupervised children.

F-35 Scores Its First Air-To-Air Kill

An Israeli F-35 Lightning II has shot down an Iranian Yak-130 over Tehran.

The Times Of Israel: In world 1st, Israeli F-35 shoots down Iranian jet in air-to-air combat over Tehran

This successful air-to-air kill for the F-35I marks the first time the F-35 has shot down another manned aircraft in combat so it is now 1-0.  

Yes, the Yak-130 is a light attack aircraft and jet trainer, but it is capable of air to air combat, and a kill is a kill.

This is just a first in a hopefully long string of air-to-air successes for the F-35.

Why Is Iran Regretting Using The Metric System?

Because they've lost a Kilo. 

TWZ.Com: One Of Iran’s Most Advanced Wacky Catamaran Warships Sunk In Epic Fury 

The single Kilo class submarine, Iran’s most advanced, which was docked at the base, also appears to have been sunk, and a large scorch mark sits next to where it was tied-up pier-side. U.S. Central Command confirmed it had targeted the “most operational Iranian submarine” in ongoing strikes last night.

In addition to the sinking of the Kilo, the other historic news, also submarine related, is that we now have an active-in-service US Navy Warship, other than the USS Constitution, that has destroyed an enemy warship:

FoxNews: US submarine sinks Iranian warship by torpedo in a first since World War II.

In addition to that milestone, the submarine successfully sinking the Iranian frigate marks the first time since the Falklands War, when the HMS Conqueror sank the ARA General Belgrano, that a nuclear submarine has torpedoed and sank an enemy vessel. 

The Imam Within

Yep, Imam Mohammad Elahi, from the Islamic House of Wisdom in Dearborn is, true to form, busily praising the now deceased Iranian dictator Ayatollah Khamenei and condemning America and the US military as evil.

Memri:   Dearborn Heights Shi’ite Imam Mohammad Ali Elahi EulogizesIranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei 

Imam Elahi is very much of the Mullah's regime.  

Prior to his travel to America to propogandize on behalf of the Islamic regime, he was appointed the head Imam to the Iranian navy- as the regular navy was insuficiently zealously Islamic - in other words he was the religious zampolit for the Mullahs. He's very much a Shia twelver true believer and believes and backs the Islamic theocracy in Iran, and propagandizes on the regime's behalf here.

He's also rather popular among Democrats seeking the Islamic vote. Is he also acting as a conduit or connection between Democrat pols and the Islamic regime?  Who knows?

So, the interesting question is: Why is a known member of the Iranian Mullah's regime and propagandist for same free to unrestrictedly spread this hostile foreign regime's propaganda in America and proselytize on its behalf and their apocalyptic fanatical religion while we are in a state of open hostilities with said regime?

The Catch And Release Of Illegal Alien Criminals Kills Yet Again

The illegal alien, Abdul Jalloh, that is the center of this story was arrested not once, not twice, not three times, but THIRTY times.

Before he was released yet again to stab Stephanie Minter to death in Virginia.

Because Virginia is not just soft on crime, but it also doesn't turn over illegal criminals to ICE even when there was already an order issued for their removal from the country . . . in 2020.

NBC 4: How Fairfax County bus stop stabbing suspect avoided jail and deportation

So, how much longer will people put up with sanctuary states and cities letting illegal criminals keep going free until they kill someone? 

Virginia under Dem Gov Spanberger is doubling down on the policy, and Democrat Congress-critters have already demonstrated that they do not support American Citizens over illegal alien criminals.

AWFULs, while supporting such sanctuary state and city policies, are very much in the pool of victims from the failure to deport criminals under these  polices they support. 

Must be something about AWFULs and not understanding the concept of consequences from the support of these virtue-signalling policies.

The Motive May Never Be Known

The killer wore a sweatshirt that said "Property of Allah".

He also had an Islamic Republic of Iran flag t-shirt on under the sweatshirt. 

CBS News: Texas gunman wore "Property of Allah" hoodie, Iran flag T-shirt during attack

This clearly means his motive may never be known. It is a Complete mystery.

Indeed, per the FBI,  the Bureau is searching hard for a possible motive and possible link to terrorism for this Islamic immigrant.

The Detroit News:  FBI probes Texas mass shooting for terrorism link

I daresay Director Kash Patel needs to remove Agent Magoo and his fellow Biden-era agents that can't identify Islamic terrorism  --when it is literally on the killer's shirt -- from the investigation.

Iran's Mullahs Getting Massively Mauled

Its now confirmed that Khamenei and a whole host of the upper echelon of the Mullah's government in Iran have indeed been sent to meet their maker.

Included in that host is former President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad who had repressed his own people harshly, and announced that he would wipe Israel off the map. He has himself now been wiped off the map.  Poetic justice, that. 

The Israeli and American action against Iran seems to be focused on decapitating the despotic regime in order to assist the people of Iran change their regime to a less oppressive one, and also eliminating Iran as a regional threat and source of world terrorism. 

This is all to the good. 

The Detroit News: U.S. strikes over 1,000 Iranian targets, military says

So far, 9 ships of Iran's navy have been sunk with the sinking of the remainder pending. 

The Detroit News: U.S. sinking Iran's Navy, Trump says

Meanwhile, protesters, here in America who can be counted on to protest against the USA are at it yet again, exchanging their Venezuelan flags for Iranian ones.  

These protestors regularly protest claiming that the USA is a despotic, theocratic, and anti-woman country (quick note - by any objective measure it is not any of those), are now busy protesting against the USA on behalf of what IS objectively a despotic,  theocratic, and anti-woman regime.

Meanwhile, the people of Iran are cheering the attacks against the Mullahs, demonstrating in the streets in support of the attacks, and shedding their theocraticaly-mandated-on-pain-of-death hijabs.

Iranians in the USA are similarly grateful for the actions to help end the theocratic regime. 

Funny, that. 

Bye Bye Khamenei?

Reports, so far unconfirmed, is that Ayatollah Khamanei has gone on to meet his appointment with judgment for his multitude of evil deeds, both to his own citizens, and to people around the world.

Times of Israel:  Israeli TV report, citing unnamed Israeli sources: Growing indications that Khamenei killed.

The Iranian regime seems to have been effectively decapitated in the initial Israeli strike, and the US strikes are cleaning up hitting Iranian command and control centers.  The Iranians are currently reacting by firing blindly, attacking the gulf states that were effectively neutral in this conflict until Iran started dropping missiles and drone attacks on them.

If this gives the Iranian people a chance to overthrow their despotic regime, which has just this year killed over 36,500 of its own people, this is a very good thing and an opportunity to stop the number one regime sponsoring terrorism through the Middle East and the world.

In Between Her World Travels, Social Media Shows, And Planning To Run For President

Someone might want to remind Gretchen Whitmer that she is still (unfortunately for us) governor of the state of Michigan.

The Detroit News: 'Big Gretch out?' Michigan needs a governor who's still in.

Then again, she may do best running away from her record here rather than running on it.

The results of her governorship makes that rather clear.

In Michigan under "Big Gretch" Whitmer, literacy and education scores have declined,  economic growth has gone down, and yet the state budget has steadily increased by 57% during her term in office, far in excess of the rate of inflation.

Now at $88.1 billion compared to the $56 Billion before she came into office, the budget now spends almost $9,000 per resident of this state. Even worse, it now spends around $21,487 per each and every one of the 4.1 million Michigan taxpayers actually paying for it - and not much to show in results for this excess and excessive spending either.

Well, Waddiya Know?

Yet again, The "International Community" and the Gazans have been caught lying.

A fellow named Fadi Al-Waddiya was killed in an Israeli strike.

Israel noted he was a enemy combatant at the time. 

Doctors Without Borders immediately decried the strike, claiming Waddiya was just one of their medics and a family man.

Well, waddiya know, it turns out that Palestinian Islamic Jihad has now confirmed that Fadi Al-Waddiya was indeed the deputy commander of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s manufacturing unit when he wasn't moonlighting for Doctors Without Borders.

Doctors Without Borders was shocked, simply shocked, on hearing the news - and refuses to allow a vetting of their local staff for terrorist ties.

Commentary:  Get Used to Saying It: ‘Israel Was Right Again’.

SOTU, So Good

President Trump's showmanship and brashness was fully on display last night.

From the honoring of the US Hockey team to the the well-deserved publicly made awards for valor and gallantry to heroes assembled in the visitors' galley, it hit all the right notes, with a little over the top boasting that we have come to expect from President Trump.

The energy he had giving a very long speech certainly gives an indication of his continued fitness as President, and gives lie to the idea that he is tired or incapable of holding office as was his predecessor at this stage,the SOTU showed a very clear divide between Democrats and the rest of the country.

The State of The Union address yet again publicly and firmly put the Democrats on the 20% side of 80/20 issues.

The Democrats simply could not support the idea that they should represent the interests if Americans over illegal immigrants - and everyone watching saw that quite clearly.

That the Democrats could not stand and honor those who lost their lives to illegal alien criminals, and to criminals released on no-cash-bail and Democrat soft-on-crime policies was also clearly seen. 

From Rashida Tlaib's F___k ICE! badge, which was very classy; to Ilhan Omar getting all out of sorts when the $18 billion in Somali Fraud in Minnesota was pointed out, to Al Green's acting out and getting ejected yet again, the Democrat's performative outbursts for their base likely made their base happy, and turned everyone else off about them if they were watching.

Not all Democrats showed up in white as had been previously announced as a form of protest, but some did.  Democrats have a habit of dressing in all white for protesting major political events.  Perhaps someone pointed out the optics of doing so this time would be less than optimal.   No pointy hats on the Dems this time, thankfully.

In short Trump, while being bombastic firmly fixed the Dems on multiple issues as being out of step with ordinary Americans - and got coverage for many issues the Dems would rather be swept under the rug. 

The speech was overall very good, albeit overly long, with an energetic and optimistic look ahead for the country -- and it properly honored numerous American heroes. 

Muslim Grooming Gangs Now In Canada

The ongoing scandal of multiple Muslim grooming gang scandals in the United Kingdom continues.

Now Muslim Grooming gangs may be spreading to Canada.

The Toronto Sun: WARMINGTON: 15-year-old boy charged by Peel cops in human trafficking of girls as young as 11

The perpetrators have, as one might have expected good Canadian "suburban youth" names: Mohamad Omar Al-Saleh, Mustafa Abdo and Yousif Al-Gburi. 

Import the third world and all that. 

Unlike in the UK, at least the police in Peel Region seem to be actually enforcing the law against the perpetrators rather than either ignoring or outright aiding and abetting it.  

I will note Peel Regional Police tend to have a positive reputation as hard chargers and solid law enforcement, and it is good to see them going after these scum.

Woe Canada!

It's bad enough that Canada lost both Women's and Men's Olympic hockey to the USA.

 But Canadians woke up to read in the Globe and Mail that their entire  country's economy has dropped below that of .  .  .  Alabama.

You know, Alabama, a place Canadians with insecurity complexes as to their place in the world looked down their noses at as backward, uncultured, and everything that was not as "good"and enlightened as Canada.

 The Globe and Mail: Out of nowhere, Canada became poorer than Alabama. How is that possible?

The wakeup call was so ugly the Globe and Mail even had to change the headline on their website, even as the http: remains the same, to soften the blow. 

It now reads: How Canada became poorer than Alabama

Note that the Globe and Mail is to Canada what The New York Times is to the US - the newspaper written for, and read by the country's bien pensant elites.  

For them to have to report on this ugly truth had to be rather uncomfortable. 

11 years of Liberal one-party rule, corruption, and socialistic economic decision-making will do that for you. 

But keep those elbows up Canada!  You're doing just great. 

This Should Not Be Controversial

But I'm sure it will be.

 Flying: FAA Orders Merit-Based Hiring at Airlines

In what it framed as a reversal of Biden-era policies, the FAA on Friday said it will require commercial airlines to commit to “merit-based hiring” for pilots.

The directive comes in the form of an “operations specification.” To comply, Part 121 carriers must certify that their hiring process for pilots is exclusively based on merit, as demonstrated by experience, technical aptitude, and other factors. The operations specification takes effect 30 days from February 13.

That merit was not the only and sole consideration the entire time is a sad commentary on the progressives woke-addled DEI-craziness that has been badly affecting safety.

Given some recent major aircraft accidents had DEI-oriented practices as a factor, such a return to only merit-based hiring is rather refreshing and indeed there should never have been a departure from a purely merit-based approach.

More On California's High-Speed Train Corruption

Not only is the corruption and over-spending in the California high speed rail project bad enough that it is at 135 Billion dollars in spending with no tangible results -- from a budget that was supposed to be 10 billion dollars total for the project when it was announced in 2009 with no end in sight.

It's now bad enough that the Democrats in California are pushing a law to make the  news of how corrupt the high-speed rail project has been, and continues to be, a secret from Californians.

Daniel Greenfield:  California Politicians Propose Law Hiding Corruption from the Public

 You could say the California Democrats are running a train on the residents of California, and you wouldn't be wrong.

Oh, and if you're not reading Daniel Greenfield on a regular basis, you are missing out.

What Is It About Democrats And Choo-Choo Trains?

I suspect it is mainly about the opportunity for grift, massive government spending, control, and land speculation not to mention lots of make-work jobs for their supporters.

Our current Secretary of State and Democrat candidate for governor Jocelyn Benson is jumping on the train bandwagon.

 Bridge Michigan: Jocelyn Benson wants to bring high-speed rail to Michigan. What would it take?'

Democrats' high-speed rail programs have led to utter failure and the lack of real results. 

The massive spending as can been seen with high-speed trains to nowhere in California with over 17 billion spent without accountability, and not a track even laid in years, and a budget that has already gone over by 200% has been a massive failure - except that failure has been a boon for Democrat bureaucrats and grifters.

 It sure looks like Michigan Democrats want a similar failure here so they can get a piece of that high-speed massive wasteful spending pie.