Not A War Of Choice

Trump will soon be gone and whenever a Democrat takes the White House again, expect another Biden, Harris or a Hollywood, MSNOW or CNN acceptable leader to take over America's foreign policy. Then our faithful ally, Israel will once again be alone just as Britain and Churchill had the axe of Naziism looming over them. Tunnel Dweller

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"Iran is the only regime in the world that wants nuclear weapons for the purpose of using them. That’s what this war is about." 

"Despite the wailing and gnashing of teeth from the Democrat-media complex, the war with Iran is not a war of choice in any practical sense. If anything, the current operations represent the end of the great pretending, since Iran has long been at war with us, keeping their attacks just low enough in intensity or with just enough plausible deniability to allow for the continuance of that pretending.

"Iran is the single most committed and least deterrable enemy of the United States, and was developing ever more lethal means to inflict grave harm.

"Democrats and their media allies who mostly know better are calling operations against Iran a war of choice for political gain. It is only a war of choice if you are okay with Iran using proxies to continually kill Americans, or if you are cool with a smuggled nuclear bomb one day going off in Washington D.C., New York, or Tel Aviv.

"We have fought plenty of wars of choice in recent history. In 2010, General David Petraeus, then CENTCOM commander, admitted that what kept him up at night was worrying about Iran.

"So, one year later, we got serious about the threat and attacked…Libya. We left Iran to continue killing Americans while we toppled the secular government of Libya, converting it to an Islamist one, and kicking off a disruptive civil war that still rages beneath the surface.

"The media adored the “we came, we saw, he died” war since it was overseen by Democrats and made no strategic sense. Not only was that a war of choice, but we were openly acting against our own interests, removing a pragmatic and reformed authoritarian secular government in favor of an Islamist one that would be far harder to deter.

"The second Iraq war was also a war of choice, removing a secular strongman in favor of an Islamist government that further empowered Iran, while handing them a killing field to target Americans.

"Iran is simply a different beast, a radical Islamist regime that sees it as their mission to bring about the apocalypse and the revelation of the Twelfth Imam.

"Most Americans are blissfully unaware of just how effective Iran has been at killing Americans." . . .   More...

"My hope is that we finish the job now or set the conditions for the regime’s fall before the inmates are back in charge in D.C. We need to remove the remnants of the nuke-committed regime from the board before the future is reduced to ashes in a torrent of mushroom clouds."

Fed-up Justice Alito just leveled 5 humiliating insults at Justice Jackson in withering majority opinion - here's the list

MSNOW, "The View" and Joy Reid will be infuriated.

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Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, confirmed to the Supreme Court in 2022, has long since worn out her welcome. Indeed, add Justice Samuel Alito to the list of people fed up with former President Joe Biden's Supreme Court DEI appointment.

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 . . . "Two paragraphs later, Alito noted Jackson's complaint that waiving the usual 32-day delay creates an "appearance of partiality."

"But the dissent does not explain why its insistence on unthinking compliance with Rule 45.3’s default rule does not create the appearance of partiality (by running out the clock) on behalf of those who may find it politically advantageous to have the election occur under the unconstitutional map," Alito wrote.

"Then, Alito denounced Jackson's absurd "principles give way to power" claim as "a groundless and utterly irresponsible charge."

" 'Unthinking," "groundless," and "utterly irresponsible" -- that's three more words or phrases one rarely sees in justices' responses to one another.

"As for Jackson's claim that the Supreme Court had unshackled itself from constraints, Alito had an answer for that, too.

"'It is the dissent’s rhetoric that lacks restraint," he concluded.

"All things considered, it was a remarkable but wholly unsurprising response from Alito.

"After all, Jackson has reportedly left even liberal colleagues Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor periodically frustrated.

"Likewise, in June 2025, the nominally conservative Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who sometimes votes with the liberal minority, gave Jackson a stinging rebuke by accusing her of "embracing an imperial Judiciary."

"Indeed, Jackson does not understand either the Constitution or its purpose. She once worried, for instance, that the First Amendment, designed to constrain the government, might actually constrain the government.

"Biden appointed Jackson because she is a black woman. He might have appointed any number of capable black female jurists. But he appointed her.

"In other words, this is what happens when liberals prioritize skin color."

Exposing The Great Green Grift

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. . . "People are beginning to realize that the entire scheme has had no connection to the climate and is inextricably connected to aggregating political power, social dominance, and piles of money for the left." . . .

"As much as $16 trillion has been spent worldwide to defeat global warming. It could have been twice that and it would never be enough because the climate hustlers need to keep the dollars rolling in to line their own pockets. Now we finally have an Environmental Protection Agency chief who’s exposing the racket.

"Testifying last week before a Senate committee, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin told lawmakers that the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, a $27 billion stash that was created through the Biden administration’s Inflation Reduction Act, is a con. His office found that money that was supposed to have some environmental benefit has been funneled “to former Obama and Biden officials” as well as Democratic donors

“ 'The conflicts of interest that we saw … the amount of self-dealing, the unqualified recipients … (the) Climate United Fund CEO was a special assistant in the Office of Management and Budget during the Obama-Biden administration … they received $6.9 billion,” said Zeldin, who, as a rational skeptic of the climate narrative, is finally the right man for the job.

"He also told the committee that a Biden-Harris climate adviser served on the board of the Coalition for Green Capital, joining in 2023 while the organization was applying for federal funds. He reported, as well, that the Power Forward Communities chief executive ran Fannie Mae during the Obama-Biden administration.

“'If we had 10 more minutes,” said Zeldin, “I could just go through conflicts of interest.”

"One assumes it might take more than 10 minutes. The global warming scare has been an ongoing grift, a bursting slush fund for the political left for some time.

"After the hearing, Zeldin continued his most-welcome broadside, posting on X that he was “done with the likes of AOC, Al Gore, John Kerry, and the rest of the lying cabal that make stupid climate predictions, plunder tens of billions of tax dollars, enrich their well-connected allies, and are committed to strangulating out of existence entire sectors of our economy.”

"He finished by declaring, “The GREEN NEW SCAM is DEAD!!!”

"We hope so. We’ve been trying to kill it for nearly three decades, and at times it felt we were nearly alone. We weren’t. We’ve had allies whom we relied on. But the overwhelming storyline that had become widely accepted as undeniable fact was a fire hose of misinformation, exaggerations, implausible assumptions, scientific fraud, tall tales, and outright lies that overshadowed the truth." . . . More...

Spirit Airlines Shuts Down, First Major Failure of a Major US Airline in Decade

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"This is not better for travelers. This is not better for pricing. This is not better for competition.” Secretary Sean Duffy

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"Spirit Airlines, known for its ultra-low-cost flights, abruptly halted its operations over the weekend, grounding flights nationwide and leaving passengers stranded and nearly 17,000 workers unemployed.

"Axios reports that the company’s demise after 33 years in business marks the first death of a major US airline in decades and comes after two bankruptcies and a failed attempt to secure a $500 million government bailout.

"Spirit CEO Dave Davis said in a statement, “For more than 30 years, Spirit Airlines has played a pioneering role in making travel more accessible and bringing people together while driving affordability across the industry.”

"Davis cited the “sudden and sustained” rise in fuel prices in recent weeks as having left the company no other alternatives but to wind down their operations, noting that, “Sustaining the business required hundreds of millions of additional dollars of liquidity that Spirit simply does not have and could not procure.”

"According to Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Spirit flew about one in 33 domestic miles in the 12-month period ending in February, making it the eighth largest US carrier during the period, just behind Frontier and ahead of SkyWest.

"Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy said the airline’s demise can be traced to a proposed merger between JetBlue and Spirit that was blocked by the Biden administration.

Biden-Buttigieg could have prevented Spirit Airlines from shutting down

But the AIRLINES and @POTUS’ administration have moved with grace together to help passengers and employees get through this and avoid disaster— Secretary Sean Duffy (@SecDuffy) May 3, 2026

"Duffy told Fox News, “They bragged and said this was a victory for U.S. travelers who deserve lower prices and better choices. This is not better for travelers. This is not better for pricing. This is not better for competition.” . . . More...

Elizabeth Warren 1, Spirit Airlines 0

 The Morning Briefing: Elizabeth Warren's Commie Dreams Just Killed 17,000 Jobs – PJ Media

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Another victim of the Democrats.  . . . "President Trump tried but failed to engineer a $500 million dollar bailout. Government bailouts are anathema in principle to free markets, but in this case it can be argued that government obstructionism made Spirit’s desperate push for the bailout inevitable.

"During its death spiral, Spirit abandoned 90 routes and dropped from 23,000 jobs in 2023 to about 7500 as of a week ago. Now, zero. Meanwhile, the upper management of American, Delta, Southwest, and United Airlines are likely (quietly) grateful to Senator Warren and her Massachusetts constituents, who continue to stick with her through thick and thin."

Elizabeth Warren Gets Wrecked by Community Notes for Trying to Spin Spirit Airlines Comments – RedState

Warren was shredded on X for her shameless spin.

What was marvelous was that she then got wrecked with a couple of savage Community Notes, which didn't let her get away with that contradiction. They reminded her how she called it a "Biden win for flyers," but now, with the shutdown, there were fewer flights and less competition.

Safe to say, she was ratioed into oblivion. " . . . More...

UPDATE: Elizabeth Warren Proudly Displays Scalp Of Spirit Airlines | Babylon Bee

 Warren blames Spirit Airlines closure on Iran war after advocating against JetBlue-Spirit merger | Just The News  

“The 14,000 employees at Spirit who’ve lost their job loss, the travelers who will now pay higher fares, and the shareholders and debt holders who have been wiped out can thank Elizabeth Warren,” Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio) wrote on X on Saturday. “Electing left politicians, who have ZERO business experience, has consequences.”

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz reposted a critical Warren post and wrote, “Stunning.” . . . 

..."I've warned for months that a  @JetBlue - @SpiritAirlines  merger would have led to fewer flights and higher fares. @JusticeATR  and @USDOT were right to stand up for consumers and fight against runaway airline consolidation," she wrote on X. "This is a Biden win for flyers!"... 

UPDATE:  2023 Video: Buttigieg Brags of Helping Kill Spirit Airlines, JetBlue Merger  Posted by Izengabe 

 "I don't think America has ever had a more incompetent Secretary of Transportation than Mayor Pete."

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The Greatest Threat Is the Solution

 The American Conservative

"A better idea is to accept the fact that no new regulation can prevent bad things from ever happening, and the best we can do is lock up criminals, not allow other countries’ criminals to immigrate here, and ask Democrats to drop the Tourette’s syndrome whenever they talk about Trump."

 "The main question I have about Donald Trump’s latest attempted assassin, Cole Tomas Allen—a teacher, naturally—is: I wonder whether he was a fair grader to Trump supporters?

"One question I don’t have is whether some new security protocol could stop random nuts from doing insane things in a country of 340 million people.

"Every journalist who was at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner seems to be writing pieces saying, first, that they were at the dinner; second, they really, really were at the dinner—that was them sitting next to the energy secretary!—and third, that they noticed the lax security at the time.

"Do not blame Democrats and the media for activating unstable personalities with their nonstop hysterical denunciations of President Donald Trump, provably a member of the Waffen SS! To mention just a few of the lovely sobriquets they’ve given the president:

"fascist (former Vice President Kamala Harris, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Reps. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) and Ed Markey (D-MA), Trump’s first White House chief of staff John Kelly, Trump’s first Joint Chiefs chairman, Mark Milley—“fascist to the core”—MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, NPR, etc.);

"Nazi (Hillary Clinton, the former President Joe Biden, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker, Tim Walz, MSNBC, CNN, The New York Times, the Guardian, etc.);

"racist (Biden, Harris, Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY); former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Reps. Jerry Nadler (D-NY), Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Jasmine Crockett (D-TX), Yvette Clarke (D-NY), Frederica Wilson (D-FL), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Don Lemon, Rachel Maddow—“openly racist president”—the Washington Post’s Eugene Robinson, the New York Times’ David Leonhardt; the New Yorker’s John Cassidy, CNN, MSNBC, The Guardian, etc.).

"And so on.

"Just tighten up security around the man they describe as a mortal threat to humanity. Noticeably, none of the proposed security measures would have stopped Allen. 

"The Atlantic’s Shane Harris wrote that over “the many years I have been a guest”—the rest of the piece is just filler—“I can’t recall anyone giving my invitation more than a passing glance.” Similarly, the BBC’s Gary O’Donoghue complained that, “the man on the door outside only took a cursory look at my ticket from what must have been six feet away.”

"A closer examination of the tickets might have kept out striving, second-rate journalists hoping to sneak into the posh event, but wouldn’t have stopped Allen, who was staying at the hotel.

"Harris also noted that “no one has asked to see my identification.” No one even asked for my embossed business cards which I had printed at Smythson of Bond Street.

"That wouldn’t have stopped Allen, either. He had an ID, and he didn’t have a record. (Which is actually pretty impressive, considering that, according to liberals, black people don’t know how to get IDs.)

"Attendees did have to walk through magnetometers, which Allen could not do, principally because he was carrying a 12-gauge pump-action Mossberg shotgun, a .38 semiautomatic pistol, and three knives. Rest assured, Secret Service agents may have trouble with roofs, but they are trained to look for men sprinting past them with small arsenals." . . . More...

THE GREATEST THREAT IS THE SOLUTION

  Ann Coulter   

". . . the best we can do is lock up criminals, not allow other countries’ criminals to immigrate here, and ask Democrats to drop the Tourette’s syndrome whenever they talk about Trump.

"The main question I have about Donald Trump’s latest attempted assassin, Cole Tomas Allen — a teacher, naturally — is: I wonder if he was a fair grader to Trump supporters?

"One question I don’t have is whether some new security protocol could stop random nuts from doing insane things in a country of 340 million people.

"Every journalist who was at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner seems to be writing pieces saying, first, that they were at the dinner; second, they really, really were at the dinner — that was them sitting next to the energy secretary! — and third, that they noticed the lax security at the time.

"Do NOT blame Democrats and the media for activating unstable personalities with their nonstop hysterical denunciations of President Trump, provably a member of the Waffen SS! To mention just a few of the lovely sobriquets they’ve given the president:

— fascist (former Vice President Kamala Harris, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Reps. Jamie Raskin, Ayanna Pressley and Ed Markey, Trump’s first White House chief of staff John Kelly, Trump’s first Joint Chiefs chairman, Mark Milley — “fascist to the core” — MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, NPR, etc.);

—Nazi (Hillary Clinton, former President Joe Biden, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, Tim Walz, MSNBC, CNN, The New York Times, The Guardian, etc.);

— racist (Biden, Harris, Sens. Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Kirsten Gillibrand; former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Reps. Jerry Nadler, Ilhan Omar, Jasmine Crockett, Yvette Clarke, Frederica Wilson, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Don Lemon, Rachel Maddow — “openly racist president” — The Washington Post’s Eugene Robinson, The New York Times’ David Leonhardt; The New Yorker’s John Cassidy, CNN, MSNBC, The Guardian, etc.).

"And so on.

"Just tighten up security around the man they describe as a mortal threat to humanity. Noticeably, none of the proposed security measures would have stopped Allen.

"Atlantic writer Shane Harris wrote that over “the many years I have been a guest” — the rest of the piece is just filler — “I can’t recall anyone giving my invitation more than a passing glance.” Similarly, the BBC’s Gary O’Donoghue complained that, “the man on the door outside only took a cursory look at my ticket from what must have been six feet away.”

"A closer examination of the tickets might have kept out striving, second-rate journalists hoping to sneak into the posh event, but wouldn’t have stopped Allen, who was staying at the hotel." . . .More...

Reparations aren’t about justice. They’re an act of revenge

 Douglas Murray  

The people who push for reparations in America today claim to be doing so in the name of racial harmony. In fact, it’s hard to imagine anything more likely to put a bomb under race relations in this country. It has become just another tool of vengeance in the fevered anti-Western, anti-American spirit of our age. 

"Ten years ago, the idea of “reparations” sat on the political fringes in America. The question of whether or not compensation should once have been paid to former slaves had died out.  Not least because by the start of the 21st century, no one in America had actually suffered from slavery. The country was a century and a half away from the bloody civil war it had fought over the issue.

"But there’s a tendency in our own age which does not allow wounds to mend or heal. Indeed, there is a movement that locates long-healed wounds in order to rip them open again. And then complain about the hurt caused to themselves.

''In 2014, the writer Ta-Nehisi Coates wrote an essay in The Atlantic making “The Case for Reparations.” In recent times, few articles have had more impact. The issue of reparations began to be picked up by the radical left and then made its way to the political center. By the time of the Democratic primaries in 2020 all of the party’s candidates were willing to talk about the issue. Some, including Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren, expressed support for some form of reparations. Such candidates pointed to the disparity between average household wealth in white families and black families in America.

"Once the Democrats were in power, one of the first things they did in Congress was apply pressure on President Biden to set up a commission to study reparations for black Americans both for slavery and for “systemic racism” — a guilty verdict that was already in." . . .

Others also see this as a route to justice. In 2020, San Francisco passed the CAREN Act, which made it a hate crime to make a “racially motivated” 911 call against a black person “without reasonable suspicion of a crime.” The name comes from the derogatory term “Karen,” which in recent years has come to mean a white woman with entitled energy. The act makes it a potential crime to call the cops on a person who is black and makes white people doing so have to wonder whether it will be they who the police take in for questioning. It is also noteworthy, in passing, that in the current era, racial slurs are actually cool and can be written into law so long as the people they demean are white women." 

 As in the "I got that white girl", said by a man who should have been locked up but was repeatedly set free.

Toddler-Like Law Students Should Leave America for a Real Education

 Teresa R. Manning › American Greatness 

"Worse, law students are supposed to be preparing for the legal profession and the justice system, where words, debate, and argument should replace physical threats, intimidation, and incivility. Yet law students increasingly reject discourse in favor of shout downs." 

"Last week, UCLA law students shouted profanities, held signs with graphic obscenities, and booed a Department of Homeland Security attorney invited to campus to speak by the law school’s Federalist Society chapter. Video shows a crowded hallway where students scream at the lawyer when he arrives and then continue howling and jeering in the lecture room, which has perhaps 50 students, plus a few older attendees as well as security guards in back. Students also hold up vulgar signs—“F–k You Loser” “How’s Trump’s C–k Taste?”—and make vulgar gestures while grinning and giggling. They slouch, put their feet on desks, stand up and sit down repeatedly, and let their phones ring to disrupt the presentation. The older audience members look annoyed and exasperated.

"What a zoo.

"This circus atmosphere sadly confirms the anti-intellectual wasteland that much of American higher education has become, with law schools no exception. Many seem more fit for spoiled toddlers than serious students.

"Unfortunately, the temper tantrum shout down seems almost a new normal in much of American legal education: In 2022, law students at Yale blew horns, stomped their feet, and shouted obscenities at Alliance Defending Freedom counsel Kristen Waggoner and Yale law professor Kate Stith, who was trying to moderate the event—which was on free speech, no less—and who told the students to “grow up.” Then again, in 2023, Judge Kyle Duncan of the Fifth Circuit tried to speak at Stanford Law School but was similarly heckled by angry students—who called him a racist, of course—and was then even scolded by a school administrator who not only did not bring order but said she was uncomfortable with the judge’s presence, not with the presence of angry, frothing students. Similar law school incidents have occurred at Cornell, Georgetown, the City University of New York, and the University of California Hastings.

"When will Congress and state legislatures stop funding these insane asylums masquerading as places of learning?" . . .   More...

Teresa R. Manning is Policy Director at the National Association of Scholars, President of the Virginia Association of Scholars, and a former law professor at Virginia’s Scalia Law School, George Mason University. 

Can Harvard Be Reformed? › Daniel Oliver   

"Harvard’s gatekeepers tout resumes but hide convictions, revealing an elite more committed to ideological conformity than to intellectual honesty." 

. . . "J. B. Pritzker (the brother of a Board of Overseers member) called Trump a “wannabe dictator.” Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., described the Trump administration as a “totalitarian regime.” He also called legislation tied to Trump a “moral abomination.” Former President Joe Biden said, “Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic.” Liz Cheney, former congresswoman from Wyoming, said, “There has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump.” Senator Bernie Sanders, Socialist, Vt., called Trump “the most dangerous president in modern American history.” Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., called Trump “a domestic enemy of the Constitution.” And of course, there are more.

"​"Can America survive if prominent politicians keep spreading that sort of hate throughout the land?" . . .

Daniel Oliver (H ’61–64) is Chairman Emeritus of the Board of the Education and Research Institute and a Director of Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy in Pasadena, Calif. In addition to serving as Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission under President Reagan, he was Executive Editor and subsequently Chairman of the Board of William F. Buckley Jr.’s National Review.

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"Dartmouth College president Sian Beilock is not afraid to say why she believes American universities have lost the public’s trust. (Caleb Kenna/The New York Times/Redux)

"Better late than never, the toniest institutions in higher education are coming around to the realization that “echo chambers do not produce the best teaching, research, or scholarship,” as a Yale University report put it earlier this month. Today, we have two looks at the Ivies’ about-face." . . .