“And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.”

My father spent a year in Korea during the war and, after that, he spent another year in occupied Japan. He lived in a pup tent for nearly his entire two years overseas. The year in Japan, even though he was no longer in combat, he spent traveling the backroads mapping and measuring bridges. So he lived in his pup tent, sleeping most nights beside some country road somewhere.

To my lefty friends:

You tout your noble “anti-racist” sentiments while endorsing ideological nonsense that has stoked racial divisions and fostered separatism unlike anything seen since the 1950s.  Cities burn, crime is soaring, inner-city education is cratering and race hucksters are buying mansions but your Personal Wonderfulness is out front for all to see.

As I watched the current political crisis play out, I thought about an episode of “Saturday Night Live” back in 1976 (when SNL was still worth watching).  This particular episode featured Lily Tomlin in her role as Ernestine the switchboard operator.  The skit begins with Ernestine being in an actual mainframe computer room (I guessed the computer was an IBM System 360, Model/40).

Ernestine: A gracious hello.  Here at the Phone Company, we handle eighty-four billion calls a year serving everyone from presidents and kings to the scum of the earth.  So we realize that, every so often, you can’t get an operator, or for no apparent reason your phone goes out of order, or perhaps you get charged for a call you don’t make.  (At this point, she reaches into the card reader, grabs a stack of cards and throws them into the air.) We don’t care!

In the 1912 Presidential election, Democrat Woodrow Wilson ran against an incumbent Republican President (William Howard Taft) and a former Republican President (Teddy Roosevelt).  With the Republican vote split, Wilson won the Presidency with 42% of the vote.  When he ran for re-election in 1916, his opponent (Republican Charles Evans Hughes) was declared the victor of the race.  Wilson had lost his re-election bid.  But a week after the election, California found some more ballots somewhere, and surprisingly enough, most of them were for Wilson.  So a week after the election, California changed its election results to favor Wilson (by 3,806 votes), which then flipped the Electoral College in favor of Wilson.

In the 2000 Presidential Election, Republican George W. Bush ran against Democrat Al Gore (Gore famously focused his campaign on the theme, ‘strengthening the American family’).  Bush was declared the victor, but Florida was close.  So the recounts began.  And strangely enough, each recount resulted in more votes for Gore.  The media ran story after story about the recounts, wondering how many votes Gore would pick up in this next recount.  Strangely enough, the media never considered the possibility that Bush might gain some votes.  The Supreme Court ended this process before Florida could find enough votes for Gore to win, and Bush was named President.

In the 2020 Presidential Election, Republican incumbent President Donald Trump ran against Joe Biden (seen in the adjacent picture speaking to a roaring crowd, brimming with enthusiasm).  The day after the election, the victor had not yet been decided because several states were still counting ballots for some reason.  Trump was leading in most of them, though, and it appeared that he would win the presidency.  But surprisingly enough, Biden came from behind in just enough of those states to win the Electoral College.

The Los Angeles Unified School District shared a video Saturday to their Instagram account, offering guidance on proper usage of “preferred pronouns.  I really don’t recommend that you look at the article or the video, it is heartbreaking and sickening.  But I suggest you must read the article to know what is being spoon fed  Shovel Fed  Intravenous Drip on Steroids fed into the malleable grey mush of our children’s heads.

@jennastocker wrote a very poignant post recently about our past being quite innocent, perhaps naive, and that sense of innocence being lost for today’s children.  Spoiled. Rotten. Not the children, the culture.

Kevin McCarthy announced that AG Garland clear his calendar and preserve his documents.

Given the widespread history of  wiping servers with a cloth, 30,000 missing emails, phones smashed with hammers, FBI intentionally wiped phones, Secret Service deleting their texts as part of an “equipment update”;  what are the chances that the SWAMP has not already purged any and all incriminating evidence of their foul deeds? What a joke.

One way or another, Trump’s DoJ did not raid Hillary.  And specifically, I mean that either he didn’t order the DoJ to turn her vodka cave upside-down, or the DoJ refused to do it because reasons.

Either Trump was a better, more moral President than Biden, or the mutiny and coup against Trump was real — or both.  But it cannot be the case that neither claim is true.

Summer’s the season for learning, people are less busy… so today I’m happy to introduce you to a friend, Prof. Clifford Bates, who has several series of videos interpreting the classics of political philosophy to benefit his fellow countrymen. Nothing’s more American than lifelong learning, so this is your opportunity to study one or more of the following, gratis:

• Machiavelli’s Prince
• Sun Tzu’s The Art of War
• Plato’s Apology of Socrates

This last has just finished and Prof. Bates is already announcing a project to start soon: Reading Thucydides’ famous history of the war between the Spartans and the Athenians. So if you ever wanted to read the most famous book of history with a serious scholar guiding you, this is your chance!

With their unconscionable raid on Trump’s home at Mar-a-Lago, the Totalitarian Police-State Democrats have put front and center the question “Do we want America to be a Police State?” It is now the number one issue for the upcoming midterm elections and perhaps for every election from here on out; that is, if we are still allowed free elections.

Forget about Roe v. Wade. Forget that there may be many an empty shelf come November with huge job losses and gut-wrenching high inflation. None of that matters when you live under a dictatorship, and the Democrats with their Mar-a-Lago raid have made it very clear they want to turn America into a dictatorship.

For decades our government only grew no matter how we voted. We took the scraps of trash tax cuts as major wins. And that was about it, folks. The cost of living went up. The good jobs got handed to the Chinese. And we spent 60 years talking about the size of government without cutting a penny or an inch. People notice all talk and no action.

The FBI and DoJ have weighed the GOP in the balance and find it lacking. They have made the bet that it is all bark and no bite. After all, the GOP never held the IRS accountable for molesting their constituents. No one got prosecuted. No serious investigation took place. The GOP never got to the bottom of Benghazi. No one got prosecuted. No serious investigation took place. General ‘never won a war’ LGBT activist Milley never got held accountable for telling the  Chicoms he would warn them first if an order came from the president against them. The Clintons never got investigated for the endless corruption they have been engaged in. Pay for play, wiping classified information under subpoena, selling pardons.  That’s not including the mention of the relationship Bill had with Epstein and his bevy of underage sex slaves.

By the rude bridge that arched the flood,
Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled,
Here once the embattled farmers stood,
And fired the shot heard round the world.

The foe long since in silence slept;
Alike the conqueror silent sleeps;
And Time the ruined bridge has swept;
Down the dark stream which seaward creeps.

I think this is a really, really big deal.  The party in power is using the power of the government they now control to destroy their political adversaries.  Oh my God.  This has my head spinning, a bit.  Here’s a few thoughts that have come to mind in the 10 minutes since I heard about the FBI raid:

1. Oh my God.
2. They didn’t raid the Clintons or the Bidens, despite their obvious criminal activities.  The Democrats in our government know that this is an obvious double standard, which will be quickly pointed out by many.  I find it terrifying that they don’t care.  They apparently feel that it no longer matters what anyone thinks.  As if elections don’t matter anymore.  I wonder if they’re right?
3. This is an open threat to anyone who might consider criticizing a Democrat, anywhere.  We can destroy a President of the United States.  We can certainly destroy you.
4. I suspect that popular support for Mr. Trump running for President again just jumped.  By a lot.
5. I also suspect that the FBI knows that this will make Mr. Trump more popular and will broaden his support.  They wouldn’t do this, unless they thought they could control elections.
6. It’s possible (although unlikely, I think) that Mr. Trump goaded the FBI into raiding his home somehow.  Appeared to withhold evidence, that he could later show that they already had, or something like that.  He may have wanted this showdown, to elevate his popular support.  Again, I doubt that, but I suppose it’s possible.
7. I used to laugh at people who predicted that America would break up into two or more countries in the near future.  Then, I didn’t laugh, but I still thought that was insane.  Now, I see no other way to save something that is vaguely like America.  Lord help us.
8. The problem is that that will never happen.  It’s just impossible, I think.  But once our government can select its own leaders, and persecute its political opponents, then that fundamentally changes the relationship between citizens and their government.  Once government has that much power, it cannot be changed except by force.  Which, again, I just cannot imagine happening.
9. It will be interesting to see who defends Mr. Trump.  We’re about to learn a great deal about various Republican leaders.  I suspect that we won’t like what we learn.
10. This is a really big deal.  Oh my God, oh my God, oh my God…