Pretty Boy Becomes Ugly; The next plank in Gavin Newsom’s campaign platform — antisemitism.

  The American Spectator | USA News and Politics  

"God help us when this magnificent state, God’s gift to mankind, has become a bastion of hate."

 "Your humble servant, Ben Stein, has been a citizen of the Golden State since 1972. It was then that I moved to Santa Cruz and taught for a brief while at the spectacular campus of UC, Santa Cruz. There are not enough words to say how magnificent that campus was in those days. I was introduced to it by my dear friend from Yale Law School, Chris Wilson.

"He and his wife and my wife and I drove to an overlook at Cowell College and stared at the Bay of Monterey. I swore I would return. Sure enough, thanks to my film school professor, Stanley Kauffmann, I got a job teaching about the political and economic content of entertainment movies at College V just months later. The scenery was so perfect that my heart stopped the first hundred times I walked across the foot bridges going across the campus.

"Sadly, I left the College V world after a student put up a huge Nazi swastika made of tables and chairs in the college dining hall. I complained about it to the College V top dog, James B. Hall. He responded with a nasty, antisemitic letter to the student in question. I asked him to apologize to me and to the students of College V, many of whom were Jewish. He doubled down with an even more bitterly antisemitic letter about me.

"I left and went back to my native Washington, D.C. There, I soon went to work for Mr. Nixon as a speechwriter. That’s another story.

"Anyway, I have now lived and worked in sunny Cal since June 30, 1976, as a script writer, novelist, economist, lawyer, law teacher, and expert witness. I love California. I love the weather and the climate and pretty much everything else.

"But I do not like at all the exploding antisemitism in the air. It has been here for a LONG time. But now, with Israel and the USA trying to stop the Iranian hate/murder regime, and the antisemites all over the left side of the state, I am moved to anger and fear.

"The most awful part of it is Gavin Newsom, our governor. He is now speaking out in hate phrases against Israel. Israel is the most urgent, most powerful enemy that the Islamic genocide architects face. Mr. Newsom is urging Americans to stop Israel from defending itself. He calls Israel hate names and phrases and urges Americans not to allow Israel the weapons it needs to defend itself. This is done to help Newsom get to the top of the heap of the Democrat party, which has become ever more racist day by day." . . .

This will be ugly: California Democrats prepare to jack up gas prices again

Apparently good looks can take you a long way with liberal press.

Democrat party leaders make an ugly spectacle of themselves at Jesse Jackson’s funeral

 Andrea Widburg   

On the other hand, Jackson’s memorial was the perfect send-off for a man who hitched his wagon to Martin Luther King’s star—a star that won the nation’s soul by pointing to America’s future as a colorblind meritocracy—and then spent decades reducing that message to a Democrat party platform of race-hustling redistribution.

"In 2002, Senator Paul Wellstone, a leftist senator from Minnesota, died in a plane crash. His funeral made national headlines, not because it was a solemn and beautiful service honoring a great man (that is, a memorial like Charlie Kirk’s), but because it turned into a raging Democrat political rally. The funeral was so vile that Wellstone’s staff had to apologize for what happened.

"That was then. Now, of course, it’s de rigueur to turn memorials for well-known Democrats into political rallies, so Jesse Jackson’s memorial was no exception.

"Barack Obama, the man who ran in 2008 on uniting America, used the opportunity to launch a brutal attack on MAGA. Always trailing in someone else’s shadow, Kamala Harris did the same. Joe Biden, meanwhile, used the opportunity to tell everyone in attendance that they were stupid. For once in his life, Biden may have been right, although he abandoned his “smart” credentials when he forgot about Clarence Thomas.

"Looking at Jesse Jackson’s career, despite his allegedly telling his family that he wanted a non-political funeral, the memorial was a fitting capstone to a man who traded in racial ugliness for decades. Jackson was also a forerunner of today’s overt antisemitism on the left.

"Barack Obama (who arrived without Michelle, who couldn’t be bothered to honor a party icon) couldn’t say enough about how wonderful Jackson...er, scratch that. Couldn’t say enough about how vile MAGA is—and please note how the Hawaii-born Obama, who went from one high-end white school to another, intermittently mimics the cadence of a black Alabama preacher. These people are so fake." . . .

Joe Biden openly lies and says he appointed the first black Supreme Court justice at Jesse Jackson's funeral.

Fact check: The first black Supreme Court justice was Thurgood Marshall in 1967.
Biden is famous for trying to remove Justice Clarence Thomas from being approved to… pic.twitter.com/2kzdQxvL2I

— J (@JayTC53) March 6, 2026

Iran's weapons are increasingly becoming missiles with nowhere to go.

 Shanaka Anslem Perera   

The missiles still exist in tunnels and caches across Iran. They are increasingly becoming missiles with nowhere to go.

"oooooh! Up in smoke!

 

"Everyone is counting Iran’s missiles. They are counting the wrong thing. "The number that determines the outcome of this war is not 2,000 or 2,500 or 3,000. Those are pre-war missile inventory estimates and they are now largely irrelevant. The number that determines the outcome is the one that moved from 504 to 29 in five days. "On Day 1 of Operation Epic Fury, Iran fired 504 ballistic missiles and drones across the Gulf theater. On Day 5, the number was 29. That is a 94 percent collapse in daily launch volume in less than a week. Not because Iran ran out of missiles. Because Iran ran out of the thing that launches them. "Launchers." . . .

. . . "Iran’s missile doctrine was built on volume and simultaneity. The mass salvo, hundreds of missiles launched in coordinated waves from dispersed platforms designed to overwhelm Iron Dome and US Patriot batteries by saturating their intercept capacity, is the only mechanism by which Iran’s missile force constitutes a genuine strategic threat to Israel. A degraded launcher pool that can produce 29 fires per day is not a mass salvo capability. It is a harassment capability. The two are not the same threat in any meaningful military sense." . . .

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The HORRORS of Ayatollah Khomeinis Execution Methods

American Thinker

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s murderous history of tyranny as Iran’s supreme leader   "Iran’s eliminated tyrant Ayatollah Ali Khamenei spent nearly 37 years as the Islamic Republic’s supreme leader, overseeing a murderous, oppressive regime with more than 30,000 state-sponsored executions under his watch.

"The 86-year-old tyrannical cleric – who assumed control over the Islamic Republic of Iran in June 1989 — has been widely condemned over the past few decades for violating human rights, sky-high execution rates, violently suppressing protests and mass discrimination.

"He has crushed a slew of nationwide demonstrations, including protests in 2022 supporting Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian woman who died after being arrested for allegedly violating strict hijab rules.

"There were 2,201 people executed last year under Khamenei’s rule — the most grisly yearly total under his regime. It continued a decades-long tradition of discriminating against religious minorities, same-sex couples, women – and anyone who criticized the government, according to the National Council of Resistance of Iran.

"And he ordered the deaths of as many as 10,000 protesters or more who hit the streets in recent months to demand change." . . .More...

 

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's murderous history of tyranny as Iran's supreme leader  

"Ruhollah Khomeini, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Ruhollah Khomeini Successor

"When Ayatollah Khomeini took power, many Iranians believed a new era of justice had begun. But what followed instead was a decade where executions became one of the most powerful tools of the state. From rooftop firing squads, to public crane hangings, to secret mass executions, the system moved fast and showed little mercy.

"In today's video we look at The HORRORS of Ayatollah Khomeini's Execution Methods Warning REAL FOOTAGE... Keep watching to see Ruhollah Khomeini, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Ruhollah Khomeini Successor" . . .

 Ronald Reagan on Iran

Savannah Guthrie Makes Emotional Return to ‘Today’ Set Over a Month After Mother Nancy’s Disappearance

Inquisitr  

"Savannah, who became a co-anchor of the Today show in 2012, stepped away from the broadcast shortly after her mother’s disappearance. Her last appearance on the show was on January 30."

"Savannah Guthrie, who stepped away from the Today show recently, made an emotional return to the studio. This marks her first visit to the sets of the show after the disappearance of her mother, Nancy Guthrie, more than a month ago.

According to the Irish Star, the 54-year-old television journalist was seen meeting colleagues at Studio 1A inside Rockefeller Center in New York City on Thursday, March 5. Visuals showed that Savannah appeared emotional during the visit, sharing hugs and quiet conversations with staff members who have continued hosting the popular morning show in her absence.

The return of the TV presenter was confirmed by NBC on the program’s official Instagram page. The caption read, “Savannah Guthrie stopped by the studio the morning of March 5 to be with and thank her TODAY colleagues. While she plans to return to the show on air, she remains focused right now supporting her family and working to help bring Nancy Guthrie home.” . .  More...

A spokesperson said she thanked colleagues during the visit but remains focused on supporting her family and efforts to bring her mother home.

Flashback Friday: That Time Talarico Demanded An Abortion Clinic in Every Federal Office

  HotAir  

However, Talarico apparently thinks that the federal government has jurisdiction to abort babies, along with the executive authority to just make abortion providers into federal employees to protect them from state enforcement of abortion restrictions.

 

Is James Talarico’s Texas win a sign of a rising religious left?

"Last September, the progressive Texas Tribune gleefully wondered whether James Talarico's leftist take on Christianity would translate from "online sensation" to a Senate campaign. Be careful what you wish for. Now that Talarico has beaten Jasmine Crockett for the Democrat nomination in Texas, the erstwhile seminarian's "progressive take on Christianity" has already become a big part of the Senate campaign.

"As the Tribune noted in last year's sunny profile, Talarico took a particular interest into recasting Christianity around the progressive's one and only sacrament:

In the Book of Luke, the Austin Democrat noted, Mary has a vision from God that she’s going to give birth to a baby who will bring down the powerful from their thrones. But, critically, before she becomes pregnant, Talarico said, an angel “asks Mary if this is something she wants to do, and she says, ‘if it is God’s will, let it be done.’”

“To me, that is an affirmation in one of our most central stories that creation has to be done with consent. You cannot force someone to create,” Talarico, an aspiring Presbyterian minister and U.S. senator, told Rogan, arguing “the idea that there is a set Christian orthodoxy on the issue of abortion is just not rooted in Scripture.”

He went on to accuse the religious right of prioritizing abortion bans and “control” of pregnant mothers, rather than reducing miscarriages and protecting children through expanded health care access.

“I think that’s what we see across this Christian nationalist movement,” Talarico said. “This is religion at its worst: trying to control people and what they do.”  

"Ahem. I've covered this before, but once again, Talarico is confusing conjugal consent before conception with abortion afterward. There is no biblical support for the idea that Mary's fiat was still conditional afterward." . . .More...

Indiana Judge Rules That Abortion Is a Religious Sacrament...Seriously, She Did – HotAir

Iranian Simps Brand Torpedo Attack a 'War Crime' - They're Idiots and Here's Why

 Streiff – RedState

. . . "This was a stinging blow to an Iranian navy that had already been reduced to nothingness by the U.S. air campaign. It was a sign that Iranian ships were not safe even outside the Persian Gulf and Straits of Hormuz. It was a warning that Iranian military assets anywhere in the world were fair game, and the Department of War was not going to play the sad old game we've practiced since the Korean War of granting our enemies sanctuaries where we refuse to attack them.

"But, as predictable as night following day, was the left claiming the attack was a "war crime." Since Trump came into office, every military action has been declared a "war crime." Operation Midnight Hammer was a war crime. Snatching Maduro was a war crime. Chastising Iran was a war crime. And so, of course, sinking an enemy warship also had to be a war crime.

"This tweet on X by the Soros-sponsored "DropSiteNews" is probably the most succinct roundup of all the allegations. "  . . . (TD regrets the language)

"Let's take this item by item as though we were not dealing with a lunatic.

1. There is no evidence that the ship was unarmed, and a lot of evidence that it was. This image of Dena during Milan 2026 shows its SAM launchers loaded.

"This promotional site for Milan 2026 also shows Dena with loaded SAM tubes. Plus, it says, "During the sea phase, exercises such as aircraft carrier operations, anti-submarine warfare, air defense, naval gunnery, search and rescue operations, and multinational tactical maneuvers will be conducted." This implies shooting at stuff.

"None of that matters because being out of ammo doesn't get you a "get-out-of-jail-free" card, and any country stupid enough to send a warship to sea without ammo deserves whatever befalls it." . . .   Full article with links here.

Streiff is a former infantry officer, CGSC grad and Army Operations Center alumnus. Also an amateur historian (Colonial America) and a dabbler in historical fiction.

James Woods and Adam Corolla Put a Mushroom Cloud Over Serial Liar Adam Schiff and His Media Accomplices

  Twitchy 

 The Trump administration is exposing Barack Obama and his administration's Russian Collusion Hoax, along with the Democrats like Adam Schiff who helped push the lie.

"Back when Adam Schiff was in the House of Representatives it was already abundantly clear that he was a shameless serial liar, and unfortunately enough voters in California deemed that worthy of a promotion to the U.S. Senate, where he continues to shovel BS on a daily basis.

"One of Schiff's biggest whoppers was about Trump and "Russia collusion," and Barack Obama was one of the Democrats behind of all that:

Sam went into detail about that in this story last summer.

Adam Corolla interviewed James Woods this week and both went nuclear on the senator who was called "the worst human being in America" (video via @WesternLensman). Watch:

.@RealJamesWoods and @adamcarolla shred Adam Schiff and his legacy media accomplices for running the Russia Collusion Hoax:
Woods: “The worst human being in America is a man named Adam Schiff."
"He promoted that Russia hoax...and all of the media were in lockstep with all the… pic.twitter.com/xinLlpURwL

— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) March 6, 2026

Reform California Submits 1.35 Million Signatures to Place Voter ID Initiative on 2026 Ballot

 California Globe   

"DeMaio vows that the grassroots effort will bring this energy to races in the fall: ‘This is what Democracy looks like’ '

"In a significant push for election integrity, Reform California Chairman and State Assemblyman Carl DeMaio (R-San Diego) announced on Tuesday that his organization has collected and is submitting over 1.0 million signatures to qualify a Voter ID initiative for the November 2026 ballot. The initiative, which aims to require photo identification for in-person voting, citizenship verification for voter registration, and enhanced safeguards against non-citizen voting, represents a major grassroots effort to address long-standing concerns about California’s election processes.

"DeMaio shared the milestone via a post on X (formerly Twitter), stating, “1.0M Signatures! Yesterday and today in each of the 58 counties in California, we are turning in signatures to force a vote on the CA Voter ID Initiative! We got it on the ballot, but now we need to PASS IT!” He urged supporters to join the campaign through Reform California’s website. The announcement was accompanied by photos of petition boxes and supporters at various county registrar offices, underscoring the statewide scope of the signature drive.

"In a conversation with the California Globe, DeMaio highlighted that the over 18,000 grassroots volunteers are “going to stay the course” to “bring change and reform in California to the ballot box.”

“ 'Voter ID is a bipartisan issue and common sense. The only people who don’t want it is politicians. The fewer voters that show up in an election, the less expensive their campaigns are. They want to use every opportunity to divide us by partisan lines. But the majority of voters  want Voter ID. The politicians never give us what we want–they are not acting on 70 percent of what voters want,” DeMaio charged." . . .More...

Megan Barth is the Executive Editor of The California Globe and former, founding editor of the Nevada Globe. Specializing in investigative reporting, her work has appeared in national and local news. The highlights of her career include interviewing President Donald Trump, Vice President J.D. Vance, and FBI Director Kash Patel. When she isn’t editing, writing, or talking, you can find her hiking and relaxing in Northern Nevada.

President Trump: 'No Deal with Iran Except Unconditional Surrender'

'Unconditional Surrender' Grant; the Civil War in America:  “Sir, Yours of this date proposing Armistice, and appointment of Commissioners, to settle terms of Capitulation is just received. No terms except an unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works.” U.S. Grant, commanding

 Sundance - The Last Refuge  "The U.S. and Israel have been targeting deep underground missile sites within Iran, with strong success.  Iranian counterstrikes, missile & drone launches are down 80 to 90 percent according to Pentagon officials.

Additionally, the Israeli military has reported they dismantled an underground bunker system in Tehran used by regime leadership.  Originally the bunker was used by slain Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei underneath the leadership compound in central Tehran.  The bunker was targeted by 50 Israeli fighter jets and subsequently destroyed.

President Trump announced via Truth Social that he will not seek any terms with Iran other than unconditional surrender.

. . . "Meanwhile, in a somewhat predictable move, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has announced the U.S. will lift some sanctions on Russian oil exports in order to mitigate shortfalls.  India will be permitted to purchase additional Russian oil for use in their refineries.  The gasoline end products will then be sold into the market.

. . . "What seems very likely is that Bessent, Rubio and Trump have a plan.   If there’s one person in U.S. politics who understands how to use oil to financially mitigate any geopolitical impacts, it’s President Trump.

"Keep an eye on Russia.  Ignore the western media narratives and look for direct source information on Russian oil activity."

Iranian Political Prisoner Shuts Down CNN Lib Guest Over Operation Epic Fury  . . . "Some CNN liberals were trying to sell this narrative that this operation is chaos or something regarding what Operation Epic Fury is, which is pedantic, and got shut down by a former Iranian political prisoner, Kian Tajbakhsh, who shut down the liberals on the panel over what’s really happening. He added that the US was already at war with Iran—it started when extremists stormed the embassy in 1979. He also added that the regime itself felt it was at war with the US since then. Liberal guest Ashely Allison lobbed her talking points, which got intercepted by Tajbakhsh. Overton clipped the lecture: " “He said we believe we are at war with the United States.”

Ex-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says Trump needs to 'take care' of Iran for good

 NY Post   

“Iran demonstrated that it probably wasn’t possible to deter their tentacles-like Hamas. I’m quite certain that October 7 with Hamas couldn’t have happened without Iranian training and equipment and even maybe planning,” Rice said.

"Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice urged President Trump to “take care of Iran for good,” praising the bold military action — Operation Epic Fury — that resulted in the death of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.

“Iran has been at war with us for at least 47 years,” Rice said during an appearance on Fox News’ “Special Report” on Wednesday. “If you ask people about Iraq, what was the source of many of our casualties in Iraq, you’ll get estimates as high as 75 or 80% of them were due to Iranian-made roadside bombs.”

"Rice, 71, argued the main objective of the attacks was to immobilize the tyrannical Iranian regime before it could counterattack.

"“If you can render Iran essentially incapable of military action against us and against our allies, that’s worthy, and I think what they’re trying to do is to neuter Iran as a military power in the region,” she said.

"Rice, the former chief diplomat during George W. Bush’s second term, pointed out that the Iranian regime has built up forces in surrounding Middle Eastern countries working as terror proxies for Tehran.

" 'They also have developed the military capability to reach outside the boundaries of Iran, including Hezbollah and Hamas, which they both arm and equip,” Rice said.

" 'To say that this regime was not a threat … it’s ahistorical,” Rice said. “They have been a threat for a long time.” . . .  More

The Iranian regime's dead end choice | The Jerusalem Post

. . . "With this reported choice, the regime is proving what Israel has long known: It has no intention of ever abandoning its destructive doctrine: Death to America, and death to Israel.

"Nor is this solely Israel’s and the US’s concern. As it demonstrated by firing hundreds of missiles at multiple Gulf states since Saturday, the Iranian regime does not care what stands in its way." . . .

Nice room you're in. Be a shame if something happened to it.

I believe we've seen that same raised clenched-fist done by angry Democrat voters on American campuses in support of - as here in Iran - destruction of Israel and America.  TD

Why are so many young black men so quick to anger, to lash out and kill?

 Huckleberries in the Hood - American Thinker   

"They have implemented policies that have replaced black fathers with Uncle Sam.  The results of those policies are manifested in the actions of the huckleberries in every hood across America."

Dreamstime

. . . "It certainly isn’t police in the neighborhoods.  If nothing else, blacks want more police presence in the hood.  And it certainly isn’t white “racism.”  If anything, black murder and crime were much lower before the Civil Rights movement, when white racism against blacks really did exist.

"No doubt there are many reasons for the violence.  However, far and away, the single largest contributing factor is lack of fathers in the home.  Every research study clearly shows a direct link between fathers not in the home and negative outcomes of the children.  Children raised in fatherless homes are likely to be less educated (the kids drop out of school), multiple times more likely to go to prison (without an education, the kids resort to crime), four times more likely to be raised in poverty (two incomes are better than one), and much more likely to have behavioral issues — low self-esteem, delinquent behavior, mood disorders, get in with the wrong crowd, unable to resolve conflicts, and the like.

"The behavior issues should surprise no one.  Without a responsible male role model, young males never learn how to resolve simple disagreements.  Also, a young child often blames himself if his father abandons the family with thoughts such as “Daddy left because he doesn’t like me.”  Imagine the guilt a child bears when abandoned by a parent.  He simply doesn’t understand adult dynamics and internalizes that abandonment.  With low self-esteem, young girls become sexually promiscuous, leading to babies being born to very young girls and boys joining gangs to find a sense of belonging.  And the cycle repeats — gang-bangers (some as young as fourteen) get women pregnant, end up in prison, and their children are raised fatherless.  Sadly, about 75% of black children are born to unmarried women, and about 66% of black children are raised in single-parent households, the vast majority of those by single women.

"To understand the dynamics of both parents, all one has to do is observe the differences between how most women interact with children versus men.  The mother asks the child, “Johnny, do you want to eat your carrots?”  Of course, he says, “No!,” and the father firmly says, “You’re sitting here until you eat those carrots.”  When disciplining, the woman tells the child, three or four times, to do something.  The man sternly says, “Look at me when I’m talking.  Do you want a whooping?  Then do what you’re told.”  Mothers and fathers both contribute to the whole child." . . .