Good morning kids. First up today, I note with a great deal of sadness the passing of David Horowitz. His personal story, from radical red diaper baby to an indefatigable warrior in the cause of liberty and truth and a champion of Western and American values is one I've always marveled at as it does give hope for future generations. His writings as well as his websites, Frontpage Mag and DiscovertheNetworks are invaluable resources, and I hope his contributors and staff will keep them going.
David Horowitz was one of the towering intellects and most perceptive thinkers of the late twentieth century and early twenty-first; he was also a man of unusual courage and remarkable vision. Though few people today realize it, David Horowitz was also one of the most influential people of our time, as he was one of the first leftists of any prominence to leave the leftist ranks and become a stalwart warrior for freedom.
Multitudes followed in his wake, often without realizing who it was who had blazed the trail for them. We are all in his debt not only for blazing that trial, but for the fact that after he established himself as a voice for freedom, sound values, and patriotism, David Horowitz spearheaded efforts to seize the intellectual and moral initiative from the left, and to articulate a vision for an America that really is the land of the free and the home of the brave.
After decades of the left’s cultural hegemony, David Horowitz played a massive role in establishing a large-scale movement of American patriots who refused to accept the claims of self-anointed “progressives” that their victory was inevitable, that they were on the right side of history, and that surrender was wiser than resistance. Today, that movement is broad-based, and one of its foremost exponents is in the Oval Office. Trump himself called Horowitz his “great friend.”
Godspeed and Rest in Peace David Horowitz. May his memory be for a blessing and here's hoping his life and legacy can help others blinded by Leftism make the scales fall from their eyes and see the light.
Elsewhere, in kind of surprising turn of events in my new home state of Wisconsin, the radical leftist controlled state's supreme court actually did this:
In its two-page order, the court said it was acting to protect public confidence in Wisconsin courts during the criminal proceedings against Dugan. The order noted that the court was acting on its own initiative and was not responding to a request from anyone. Liberal justices control the court 4-3.
“It is ordered … that Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah C. Dugan is temporarily prohibited from exercising the powers of a circuit court judge in the state of Wisconsin, effective the date of this order and until further order of the court,” the justices wrote.
Dugan’s attorney, Craig Mastantuono, had no immediate comment. A state court spokesperson said that a reserve judge began filling in for Dugan on Monday for an indefinite period.
Kind of interesting phraseology considering hat that Leftist line is that Trump is trampling on the constitution and due process and that illegal aliens are being deported illegally or lawlessly or whatever crock of shit line they're spouting. After all, if Trump is literally Hitler, than it goes that any and every illegal alien is the moral equivalent of Anne Frank and so there is nothing that is beyond the pale in protecting these little darling rapists, murderers drug- and human-traffickers from being sent back to whence they came.
They may be insane whacko Leftists but even they must understand that the vast majority of sane American people are looking at what the Democrats are doing and are repulsed by it.
Immigration policy, the intentionally erased border and the bloodshed and destruction it wrought is the key issue that propelled Donald Trump to a massive landslide victory last November. And his first 100 days have been nothing short of spectacular, on this issue and on many others, regardless of the what the bullshit polls and propagandists claim.
- The Border is Closing—Fast
Day One, the new Trump Department of Homeland Security—under the iron will of Secretary Kristi Noem—reinstated Remain in Mexico, revoked Biden’s reckless parole authority abuses, and began mass processing of illegal entrants for immediate deportation. Border apprehensions have dropped 41% since January. Trump didn’t need 100 days to act—he needed one. And construction has resumed on key wall segments. ICE raids are back. Sanctuary cities are sweating. And the asylum loopholes are slamming shut.
- Energy Independence, Round Two . .
. . . 3. America First is Back on the World Stage . .
- The Administrative State is in Free Fall . .
(And on and on and on). . . But let’s not be fooled: the regime that tried to bury him, that tried to bury us, is still fully operational. The sabotage, the leaks, the censorship, the media gaslighting—it’s all still active.
So we stay active too. Show up. Speak up. Push back. Share the truth. Flood the zone with facts. And above all—stand with the only man in Washington who’s kept every word he’s ever given us.
Trump is proving once again: America can be great when it’s led with strength, clarity, and conviction.
He’s keeping his word. Let’s help him finish the work.
On a separate note, for those old enough to remember, on this day 50 years ago, the Republic of South Vietnam fell after the North Vietnamese army, in complete contravention to the peace deal negotiated by Richard Nixon two years earlier was ripped to shreds and invaded the south and rolled into Saigon. Of course, and once again, the traitorous Democrat party tied Gerald Ford's hands and prevented or scared him into not carrying out our treaty obligations by defending South Vietnam. A political third rail but alas, by allowing the North to roll over the South, it engendered a genocidal communist wave that envelope much of southeast asia, including Cambodia which resulted in the mass murder in the killing fields of several million people.
Of course our involvement in Vietnam and the resulting insane foreign policy of waging wars not to win but to beef up the stock portfolios of the Nancy Pelosi and DIck Cheney set is a legacy of our involvement, to say nothing of 57,000 deadAmericans who perished for nothing. God bless each and every one of them and for all who came home and many who suffered and still suffer because of their service.
Fifty years have not eclipsed the tragedy of April 30, 1975, the day on which Saigon and all South Vietnam fell to invading communist forces. Most recently, it was invoked in comparison to the calamitous departure of American troops from Afghanistan, which also had the appearance of a rout. Were the two events points along the same continuum of folly? . . If there is a “lesson of Vietnam,” it is that there can be no half-waging of war, for it guarantees “prolonged indecision.” The brutal acts that victory requires are why war must be absolutely the last resort. Furthermore, the American people can only be asked to make the sacrifice of war in their own vital interest, not as an act of benefaction to someone else. Identifying that interest may not be simple, in the absence of actual attack on the United States, but it is the first prerequisite.
The legacy of the Vietnam War, for all its tragedy and folly, lies also in the example of heroism and devotion set by fighting men, under the most unfavorable circumstances and without the recompense of ultimate victory. “Was there a man dismayed?/ Not though the soldier knew/ Someone had blundered.” Let the devotion of those who fought in a noble cause as much as the awful result be remembered a half century later.
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