A competent, professional FBI comes last after a Democrat FBI.

 

Kash Patel Confirmed as FBI Director Despite Democrat Protestations ..."Both Lisa Murkowski (R-Ala.) and Susan Collins (Maine) voted against Patel, but he won support from every other Republican, including Sen. Mitch McConnell (Ky.) who has voted against a number  of Trump’s key nominees.

"Patel previously worked as a staffer on Capitol Hill, where he helped expose the Russia collusion hoax, and in the first Trump administration, where he was Senior director of counterterrorism at National Security Council (NSC). Before that, he worked as a federal prosecutor in Washington and a federal public defender in Florida.

"A group of five Democrat Senate Judiciary members, led by ranking member Sen. Richard Durbin (D-Ill.), held a news conference outside FBI headquarters earlier in the day to voice their opposition to Patel.

"Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) was mocked on social media for his overwrought remarks.

" 'Kash Patel, mark my words, will cause evil in this building behind us, and Republicans who vote for him will rue that day,” Whitehouse declared. a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said on Thursday morning outside the FBI headquarters.

"Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) whined that Patel could not be trusted and lacked the integrity to be FBI Director.

" '“We know that. Our Republican colleagues know that. “The only qualification he has to be FBI director is when everyone else in the first Trump administration said no, I won’t do that, that crosses moral, ethical and legal lines, Kash Patel said sign me up,'” Schiff added." . . .

Now that he’s confirmed, Kash Patel has a Herculean task ahead of him 

. . ."However, I must say that I continue to hold that the country is not as divided as it seems. For one thing, I believe that many of Biden’s votes were fraudulent, thanks to mail-in balloting and other shenanigans. That means that Trump’s margin of victory was much wider than the numbers seemingly show." . . . 

These Democrats below will be no help. They want Joe Biden back. A competent, professional FBI comes last after a Democrat FBI. TD

 

Terrorist Bragged He ‘Killed 10 Jews with My Own Hands’; Did he include these babies?

 Prime Minister Netanyahu commented on the announcement in language that seems inadequate to the psychopathology of Islamist terrorism. Words fail: 

The Hamas monsters handed over the body of a Gazan woman instead of Shiri Bibas. They will pay the full price for violating the agreement. Hamas has once again proven its utter depravity, not only murdering innocent children but desecrating the dignity of the victims with cynical deception. They must be completely eliminated. Israel has every right to ensure that justice is served, and that no terrorist responsible for these atrocities escapes the consequences.

How most Israelis must feel right now.

Terrorist Bragged He ‘Killed 10 Jews with My Own Hands’ in Call to Parents During Hamas Onslaught

Netanyahu’s humiliation(s)  "Earlier this week, when the casket was opened, the Israelis all too quickly realized their promised (dead) hostage, Shiri Bibas – mother of two red-headed cherubs, a dead infant and a dead toddler – was not there with her babies.  In defiance of the ceasefire agreement, an unidentified corpse took her place. " . . .

. . ." While there is blame enough to go around – the surprise attack on Oct. 7 that killed 1,200 civilians and took 250 civilian hostages – was a huge embarrassment to Prime Minister Netanyahu.  However, before he could deal with that, he had a war to win against Hamas in Gaza.  He knew that only by eradicating Hamas root-and-branch could he win that war.  Initially, Biden said what Israel wanted – and expected – to hear.  The U.S. would support whatever Israel needed to do to destroy Hamas.  

"However, Netanyahu didn’t know that this promise would last maybe a week before being “abridged” by a feckless Biden. 

"This put the Israeli PM in a horrific position.  Soon, military supplies were being slow-walked, as Biden’s fecklessness metastasized, enforcing his demands that Israel embrace cease-fires rather than eradication.  

"Then came this latest humiliation.  Instead of a promised (dead) hostage, Hamas sent along a “ringer,” yet another “in your face” from Hamas.  And while Trump has been working at “warp speed” to undo all the damage Biden created in all aspects of governance and security, at least when Trump – reacting to this blatant breach of the cease-fire forced on Israel by Biden – promised Israel our full support, Netanyahu has reason to believe it.

"Whatever happens next, Netanyahu knows that Trump won’t put up with this any more than will Israel. 

"Clearly, the only way to stop Hamas is to, as I said, eradicate it “root and branch.' ” 

Hamas Terrorists Brutally Murdered Bibas Toddlers With Their ‘Bare Hands,’ IDF Says

"Hamas terrorists brutally murdered two toddlers, Ariel and Kfir Bibas, with their “bare hands” in November 2023 while the Israeli children were held captive in Gaza, the Israel Defense Forces revealed on Friday."

“Ariel and Kfir Bibas were murdered by terrorists in cold blood,” IDF spokesman Daniel Hagari said in a statement. “The terrorists did not shoot the two young boys—they killed them with their bare hands. Afterwards, they committed horrific acts to cover up these atrocities" . . .

To the western left once more: "tell me again, who did you call Nazis?"

The Missing Corpse    "We need someone of Freud’s intelligence to write a book on the psychopathology of Islamist terrorism. Rather than producing the fourth hostage corpse — right there we have a couple of symptoms — it turns out that Hamas substituted the corpse of a random non-hostage in lieu of that of Mrs. Bibas yesterday.

"At the moment Mrs. Bibas is unaccounted for. I infer that her kidnappers have murdered Mrs. Bibas, as they did the Bibas boys, but I’m beyond the limit of my insight into the psychopathology of Islamist terrorism.

"Just as a reminder, Hamas had announced the return of Mrs. Bibas’s corpse along with that of her beautiful boys, Ariel and Kfir. Ariel wanted to be a superhero. In the photo below the brothers are both in Batman garb as Ariel hugs Kfir. He was a loving big brother."

 . . .Hamas terrorists looked in the eyes of 9-month-old Kfir and 4-year-old Ariel and decided to murder them.  Kfir never took his first steps. Ariel never made it to first grade.  This is Hamas. A genocidal terrorist organization. pic.twitter.com/2WxjE7O9qV

— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) February 21, 2025

Hamas thugs brutally ‘killed Bibas boys with their bare hands’, Israel says 

Argus Hamilton's Rogue Report

 Jewish World Review   • Psychology Today published a nationwide poll in which Americans were asked to rate the nation's most self-centered, narcissistic cities. To no one's surprise, L.A. rated the most narcissistic city in America. I know a homeless guy in West Hollywood who has only one tooth, and he just had it whitened.

• The Weather Channel reported blizzards across the Upper South Tuesday when the Polar Vortex swept east. CBS News reported a truck full of eggs crashed on the freeway near Joplin and spilled thousands of eggs on the road. The Pacific Palisades fire is now the second-most expensive disaster ever.

• USA Today reports WalMart shoppers are meeting on Twitter to complain about self-checkout registers. It's the supply chain slowdowns that really aggravate me. I just hate it whenever WalMart doesn't have what I want to buy, and I have to go home, take off my pajamas, shower and go to Target.

• DNC Chairman Ken Martin embarked on a five-city tour this week to speak to party workers and fire up the base for the 2022(SP?) midterms. The Atlantic just published a study showing that Republicans are having a lot more children today than Democrats. The tide turned when Elon Musk switched parties.

Woman of The View

• The Women of the View blamed the Trump administration budget cuts for a near disaster at the Toronto Airport Monday. A Delta Airlines passenger jet flipped upside down upon landing on the runway, and air traffic controllers in the tower had only one thing to say. Damn those Australian pilots!

• Delta's successful upside-down landing in Toronto Monday resulted in everyone walking off the plane safely. You can't spook seasoned travelers. Every day, thousands of people fly through Will Rogers Airport in Oklahoma City and it's the only airport named after somebody killed in a plane wreck.

• German officials told CBS 60 Minutes it's now against German law to make fun of government officials. Police in Berlin were rushed to the scene on Tuesday when a mad man fired 17 political jokes into a shopping mall crowd in Germany. He's been sentenced to 6-9 months of prison shower sex jokes.

• Barack Obama embarks on a paid speaking engagement tour this spring that begins at Hamilton College in Upstate New York. I think it sadly points to our nation's lingering racism that he still has to speak behind bulletproof glass. Just because he's black doesn't mean he's going to shoot anybody.

• President Trump and Elon Musk laid out their plans during an hour-long interview with Sean Hannity of Fox News Tuesday night. During the interview, Musk revealed that his goal is to send people to Mars. If nothing else, I think we can all agree Elon is the most creative serial killer of all time.

• The New York Post reported video of a Tesla self-driving Cybertruck suddenly veering into an oncoming traffic lane during a practice run. The Tesla optics get even worse. Police in Beverly Hills report that raccoons are crawling into parked Tesla Cybertrucks at night, thinking they are dumpsters.

• President Trump was reported to be planning to meet with Russia's Vladimir Putin this month to try to end the Ukraine War. The hounds will still be at his heels. Trump could end the war and win the Nobel Peace Prize and House Democrats would say he's out to destroy the U.S. defense industry.

• The White House asked Ukraine to partner with the U.S. in its rare minerals business to pay the U.S. back the $500 billion in military aid. One of those rare minerals is titanium, necessary to keep U.S. missiles hard while they're in the air. If that doesn't work, Playboy is back on the newsstands this month.

• Coach Bill Belichick, 73, was pictured last week with his 23-year-old girlfriend Jordan Hudson wearing an engagement ring. This is off-season gold for comedians. No one wants to say Bill is too old to be dating a 23-year-old girl, but the first time Bill defeated the Lions, he was a gladiator in Rome."

Tom Hanks, Margaret Brennan, and the European Ministers -- Reveal It All

 Victor Davis Hanson 

"Sometimes Trump haters prove to be his best allies. Their venom shows us they either lack common sense or intelligence or both. Such was the case with Tom Hanks, Margaret Brennen, and the European ministers."

"Three recent but completely unrelated events illustrate the deranged hatred of President Donald Trump and his supporters continuing now even into a second decade. And yet the venom only further marginalizes the left.

"In its too-long 50th anniversary spectacle, Saturday Night Live offered a skit in which marquee actor Tom Hanks did an impression of what the left thinks is a supposedly Neanderthal Trump supporter.

"The episode was NBC's tele-version of the recent Obama-Hillary Clinton-Biden vocabulary of cheap MAGA disparagement: clingers, deplorables, irredeemables, chumps, dregs, semi-fascists, and ultra-MAGAs.

"Most of those stereotyped props were evident in Hanks' character. He was wearing a red MAGA hat (real and not the fake versions of Jussie Smollett's wild and sinister imagination).

"Hanks sounded off as a superstitious evangelical, a slow-speaking Southern twanger, and a poorly dressed slob.

"And of course, the SNL writers insisted that he play the gratuitous racist. So, Hanks, as a clueless Black Jeopardy contestant, initially refused to even shake the hand of the African-American, assumed intellectually and morally superior, game show host.

"We are supposed to believe the Hanks caricature is in contrast with progressives -- usually represented in society as the bi-coastal enlightened, well-spoken, and snappily dressed." . . .

Democratic Senator Sure Looks Like He's Asking for Violence Against Trump, Musk

Tom Knighton

"I suspect those who heed Markey's words as an invitation to violence are going to have a very bad time. That blood will also be on Markey's hands."

"The American Revolution wasn't exactly a love fest. We didn't talk our way into independence. We shot red coats in the face. We tried to talk, of course, but the British weren't interested in listening, so we did what we had to do.

"The American Civil War was a fight to end slavery and preserve the nation. It was a violent fight. Yankees and Rebs shot each other and destroyed entire cities, and in the end, the task was accomplished.

"So when someone like Sen. Ed Markey invokes those two wars as "revolutions" and then calls for a new one, one has every right to believe violence is, at a minimum, not off the table.

"And that's exactly what Markey did.

Standing outside in snow-covered Boston with a bullhorn adorned with leftist stickers, including one saying "Black Lives Matter," the senator spoke about the start of the American Revolution, and other similar "revolutions," including one against Trump and Musk. "This is the city of revolutionaries, from the American Revolution, to create checks and balances in the United States Constitution so that we did not have a dictator, a king, the way those way those colonists were living under it!" The crowd could be heard agreeing enthusiastically.

"And they fought, all along Massachusetts Avenue, all coming out, the minutemen and women to say, 'no taxation without representation!'" As Markey continued, his remarks were momentarily drowned out by cheers from the crowd. "The American Revolution started here," he went on to remind. "The revolution of abolitionism started here, the revolution of the suffragette movement started here, the revolution of same-sex marriage started here, the revolution against the war in Vietnam started here, the revolution against Donald Trump and Elon Musk, it starts here," the senator emphasized. 

 . . . Full article here...

Tom Knighton is a Navy veteran, a former newspaperman, a novelist, and a blogger and lifetime shooter. He lives with his family in Southwest Georgia.

California Eyes Takeover of Oil Refineries

 The American Spectator; "In its latest move to echo Venezuela, California’s energy commission touts government control of the state’s once-booming petroleum industry."  

“Running a refinery requires expertise, efficiency, and adaptability — qualities not typically associated with government-run enterprises.”

"Fresh on the heels of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s emergency legislative session that blamed corporate greed and price gouging for the state’s absurdly high gasoline prices, the state is seriously considering a government takeover of the state’s refineries. I kid you not.

"If you think gas prices are high under the state’s absurdly regulated market-based system, just imagine what they’ll be under this scenario. California’s leaders don’t want us driving anyway, so then they could just raise prices at will — rather than indirectly through taxes and regulations — and force us into short-range electric vehicles. And California isn’t exactly known for efficiently operating anything. But at least oil refinery workers will get great pensions.

"This possibility isn’t from the musings of paranoid conservatives. 

“ 'Russia. China. Venezuela. Iran. More than a dozen countries make gasoline at state-owned refineries. Could California be next on the list?” asked the Los Angeles Times in an article this week. “California policymakers are considering state ownership of one or more oil refineries, one item on a list of options presented by the California Energy Commission to ensure steady gas supplies as oil companies pull back from the refinery business in the state.”

"Right after that special session resulted in the passage of a pointless and symbolic new law forcing refineries to maintain larger oil reserves, Phillips 66 announced its plan to shutter its Los Angeles operations and eliminate a total of 900 jobs (employees and contractors). “With the long-term sustainability of our Los Angeles Refinery uncertain and affected by market dynamics, we are working with leading land development firms to evaluate the future use of our unique and strategically located properties,” the company’s CEO said. 

"In August, Chevron — a company that has operated continually in California since 1879 — announced that it would move its corporate headquarters to Texas. California officials offered snarky responses. A spokesperson for Gavin Newsom said the governor wasn’t surprised and that “We’re proud of California’s place as the leading creator of clean energy jobs — a critical part of our diverse, innovative and vibrant economy.” Blah, blah, blah.

Toxic RINO Susan Collins Is a “NO” on Kash Patel, Trashes Him Ahead of Confirmation Vote

 The Gateway Pundit   

Susan Collins had no problem confirming Joe Biden’s radical political nominees. In fact, Collins is the top aisle-crosser and brags about her breaking the ranks to help the Democrats.

Toxic RINO Senator Susan Collins (ME) on Thursday morning announced she is a “no” vote on Kash Patel.

"The Senate will vote to confirm Kash Patel as FBI Director on Thursday. Senator Collins came out against Kash Patel just hours before the vote.

"Senator Collins said her decision to vote against Kash Patel comes after a flood of firings and resignations at the Justice Department.
“The nomination of Kash Patel to serve as Director of the FBI comes to the Senate against the backdrop of recent personnel actions at the Department of Justice, including the resignations of several career federal prosecutors who felt they were being instructed to act in a manner inconsistent with their ethical obligations,” Susan Collins said. “In addition, a questionnaire has been sent to thousands of FBI employees regarding their involvement

"Collins said she will voting ‘no’ on Patel’s confirmation because of his “politically charged statements.”

" 'In this context, there is a compelling need for an FBI Director who is decidedly apolitical. While Mr. Patel has had 16 years of dedicated public service, his time over the past four years has been characterized by high profile and aggressive political activity. Mr. Patel has made numerous politically charged statements in his book and elsewhere discrediting the work of the FBI, the very institution he has been nominated to lead. These statements, in conjunction with the questionnaire sent to thousands of FBI employees, cast doubt on Mr. Patel’s ability to advance the FBI’s law enforcement mission in a way that is free from the appearance of political motivation.” . . .

Did You See How Hamas Returned the Remains of the Murdered Bibas Children?

 Townhall  

"ISRAEL has demanded Hamas thugs face "hell" after they put on a twisted parade using the locked coffins of four killed hostages. The remains of the youngest Israeli hostage Kfir, 2, his mum Shiri, 33 and older brother Ariel, 5 were among those released today." . . .Youtube

Even I, who said Hamas was evil, never imagined it would parade the body of the Bibas children out in a public spectacle, in mislabeled coffins with locks that don’t open. pic.twitter.com/8ZBe1SW9qR

— Eylon Levy (@EylonALevy) February 20, 2025

style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">"The murdered hostages included a woman and her two young children and an elderly journalist. The victims were identified as Shiri Bibas, 32, and her children, Ariel and Kfir. The children were four years old and nine months old, respectively. The journalist was 83-year-old Oded Lifshitz.

"Video footage circulating on social media showed the terrorists parading black coffins containing the remains through the Gaza Strip, making a macabre spectacle of the matter." . . .

"The four coffins were placed on a stage in front of a crowd of Palestinians. A large banner showing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu depicted as a vampire was displayed in the background. The image shows blood dripping from his fangs with a picture of the deceased hostages superimposed on his chest."

Terrorist group Hamas on Thursday turned over the remains of four Israeli hostages it kidnapped during its surprise attack on October 7, 2023.  

The details of the exchange elicited outrage from across the globe as it put the terrorist organization’s brutality on full display.

 Hamas is pure evil. Parading an elderly man and a mother and her children in locked coffins with no keys. Creating a propaganda stage for an audience to celebrate. Hamas leadership screwed up thinking this would gain favor. Israelis will never forget this… pic.twitter.com/0ue5qJGoPA

— Kevin Youkilis (@GreekGodOfHops) February 20, 2025

Education Department Slashes $600 Million In Funding For ‘Social Justice Activism’ Teacher Training

The Federalist   

These training programs are designed to ensure that teachers obsess over race and gender as the top qualities upon which to judge others, and then eventually weave that thinking into curriculums, classroom discussion, and policies.

"The U.S. Department of Education announced Monday it cut over $600 million in grants spent on training teachers in “social justice activism,” critical race theory, and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) ideology.

"The grants were used to fund institutions and nonprofits involved in training teachers on concepts like “anti-racism” and claims about white privilege and white supremacy. The grants also helped fund discriminatory staff recruiting strategies that targeted candidates based on their race.

" 'It’s hard to overstate how radical these teacher trainings are — we are talking about forcing teachers to talk about their race at work, asking educators to ‘take personal and institutional responsibility for systemic inequities,’ promoting abolitionist teaching practices and defining equity as equal outcomes,” Erika Sanzi, director of outreach for Parents Defending Education, said in a press release. “And not for nothing but all we see are declining outcomes for the students that these trainings purport to help most.”

"The Department of Education noted several of the trainings — meant for future classroom teachers — the grants funded, including “Requiring practitioners to take personal and institutional responsibility for systemic inequities (e.g., racism) and critically reassess their own practices,” and “Receiving professional development workshops and equity training on topics such as ‘Building Cultural Competence,’ ‘Dismantling Racial Bias’ and ‘Centering Equity in the Classroom.'”

"Other trainings were aimed at “building historical and sociopolitical understandings of race and racism to interrupt racial marginalization and oppression of students in planning instruction relationship building discipline and assessment” and “acknowledging and responding to systemic forms of oppression and inequity, including racism, ableism, ‘gender-based’ discrimination, homophobia, and ageism.”

What is Students for Justice in Palestine, the Hamas-supporting Anti-Israel Group Being Banned on College Campuses?

 AJC  

A Shameful Ad Signed by Jews in the New York Times: How a Holocaust Happens

Phyllis Chesler; Substack 

 We are commanded to pray for all our people on the Day of Atonement. Oh, I do not want to have to pray for these signatories on Yom Kippur. I do not want to take any responsibility for their shameful display. 

NY Post

"It's all happening just as I knew it would--but all the shiny, happy, people did not want to see it. They still don't. As someone said about the Holocaust: It started slowly and then it happened all at once.

First, little things happened--well, they were not so little but they were little enough so that most people did not really notice them. Not all the medical forms demanded that you identify yourself as male, female, bisexual, non-binary, gay, queer, or transgender--until they all did, seemingly at once. Not every public, hospital, or school bathroom was renamed for any and all humans--until they all were.

"Not every Jewish or pro-Israel student was harassed, demonized, forced to flee the campus mobs--until far too many were.

"Jewish or pro-Israel psychotherapists and psychoanalysts were not all blackballed if they were suspected of having pro-Israel positions, only some were--until it became clear that there actual blacklists were being circulated and more and more fine analysts found their names on them.

"Not every pro-Israel or pro-science (and thus anti-transgender) academic lost coveted lecture dates, promotions, tenure, publishing contracts, invitations to appear at prestigious journals--until they all did.

"As for the feminists? Still-existing feminist bookstores and Women's Studies Programs stopped welcoming a feminist's work slowly, and then across the board, if the feminist in question was not solidly on board with intersectional feminism; i.e. was not pro-transgender and anti-Israel--and if his or her main areas of study were not about racism, Western colonialism, Western imperialism, and all things queer, all things Palestine.

"As for myself--I was purged from a feminist listserv group long ago, perhaps in 2004, and was forced to exit another professional psychology group over the subject of Israel/Palestine. To stay or to go from dangerous places has always been a Jewish dilemma--well, as they say, it may start with the Jews but it never ends with us. Dissidents, apostates, infidels--all, all have had to flee for their lives from where they were born or grew up or have lived all their lives.

"Those who critiqued Islam/Islamism, terrorism, and Jihad were not only dis-invited and defamed, their lectures were interrupted, mobs moved against them quite menacingly, they increasingly needed police protection or they were escorted out, mid-sentence, for their own protection. It began slowly--I both experienced it and saw it happen to others, at first, one by one--but soon enough this became the norm.

"Famed Nobel Laureates signed petitions and ads demonizing only Israel. At first, there were not that many and they did not appear all at once. Now--they do." . . .

29 Celebrities Who Have Spoken Out For Palestine

Musk’s Attack on Waste, Fraud and Abuse Threatens Status Quo

Ann Coulter  

"Then there was Hillary Clinton, who was put in charge of remaking America’s entire health care system. She wasn’t confirmed; her only authority came from being the president’s wife." . . .

"Desperate to protect government employees who are paid upward of $100,000 a year to surf porn all day (or do something even more disgusting, like funnel money to USAID), Democrats are beside themselves about Elon Musk. His Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) clearly violates the very letter and spirit of government work.

"Fourteen states and dozens of “civil servants” (useless government employees) have sued to stop this madman. Luckily for the media, there are stables of law professors ready to assure the public that the lawsuits are based on solid legal theories, just like the Russian collusion investigation, Alvin Bragg’s criminal prosecution of Donald Trump, Colorado’s attempt to keep Trump off the ballot and so on.

"The gist of their argument is that Musk has been given enormous power and therefore requires Senate confirmation.

"What kind of president would give massive authority to an adviser who hasn’t been confirmed by the Senate? Only every Democratic president who’s ever lived.

"The difference is that their advisers are unconfirmed because they’re progressive lunatics who couldn’t be confirmed in a million years. The other difference is the Democrats’ unconfirmed advisers proceed to do things the American people don’t want and didn’t ask for — as opposed to Musk, who is doing something the voters definitely do want and did ask for.

"Neither voters nor the Senate voted for Soviet spy Alger Hiss to be President Franklin Roosevelt’s top adviser. But he sat at the president’s side at Yalta, as FDR cheerfully condemned tens of millions of people to live under communism.

"(Just think of the havoc Musk could wreak!)"

"Then there was Hillary Clinton, who was put in charge of remaking America’s entire health care system. She wasn’t confirmed; her only authority came from being the president’s wife. Hillary promptly hired the unconfirmed and unconfirmable Ira Magaziner, and together, they assembled a “task force” with more than 600 members, who not only weren’t confirmed, but whose names were hidden from the public. (Many, it later turned out, had a financial interest in the plan.) . . .