Islam; the choice of New Yorkers

 May we assume Columbia U. people love Mamdani as the catalyst of their new culture? TD

NYC's First Lady Exposed Approving of Suicide Attack Propaganda, Plane Hijackers, and Outrageous Attacks on US Troops | The Gateway Pundit | by Samuel Short, The Western Journal  . . . "Mamdani has had his own controversies.

"Earlier this month, he attended an iftar — a breaking of the Ramadan fast — hosted by the Fire Department of New York Islamic Society.

"The event created a stir when Muslim prayer mats were placed in front of a memorial for firefighters who lost their lives in 9/11." . . .

‘Caliph’ Mamdani breaks Ramadan fast with violent Muslim criminals at Rikers Island prison  . . . “We clearly know he doesn’t like us. He’s already made his stance clear on that. Even after we get clear extensive video of the guy trying to knife the police officers in Queens, he visited the criminal’s family in that case too!,” raged the police veteran. He was referring to Mamdani last month visiting the family of Jabez Chakraborty, the man shot by a police officer in Queens as he attacked the cop and his partner with a 13-inch carving knife." . . .

MUST SEE! “New York, New York” Comrade Mamdani’s lawless, Islamofascist city that never sleeps   . . . "However, a former Muslim, Danny Burmawi, explained that this is primarily a tool for asserting political dominance rather than fulfilling religious devotion.  “As long as Islam is categorized as a religion, exclusively a religion, then there’s nothing New Yorkers can do.”

"Burmawi believes these broadcasts from mosques should be compared to if communists broadcast political messages through loudspeakers, which are not allowed in New York City neighborhoods. Many are asking what can be done to ensure most New Yorkers can live their lives in peace, without being disturbed by the Muslim call to prayer.

Burmawi believes the answer will not come from their new mayor, who is both a Muslim and a declared Democratic Socialist." . . .  Watch Burmawi speak.

Ramadan in Turin

. . . "In the Italian city of Turin — with the help of local government and the Catholic Church — public and ecclesiastical spaces are being taken over by Muslims celebrating the end of Ramadan with mass prayer.

"This is “Interfaith” in action. In the same way, Christians can go to Mecca or Riyadh and celebrate Easter in public spaces, right? Right?

"Just try it and see what happens. '

Meanwhile, Mayor Mamdani is using the official New York City Mayor X account to promote Islam.

Petition seeks to rename San Fran’s Cesar Chavez Street for Chuck Norris

 Greg Richter - American Thinker

OK, so that’s not the best Chuck Norris joke ever written. But one San Francisco firefighter and former candidate for District 7 supervisor isn’t kidding around with his petition to rename the city’s Cesar Chavez Street as Chuck Norris Boulevard.

Stephen Martin-Pinto posted the effort to his X account, including renderings of the current street sign bearing the name of the actor and martial arts expert, who died last week at age 86.

"The legacy of Chavez, the labor leader who died in the early 1990s, has come under fire in recent days as allegations of sexual misconduct involving women and young girls have emerged. His name is ubiquitous across California on school buildings, parades and elsewhere, but efforts have quickly been launched to distance institutions from Chavez amid the allegations.

"Still, a proudly liberal city like San Francisco is unlikely to embrace renaming the street for Norris, who backed conservative and Christian causes and supported President Donald Trump. And the closest tie he appears to have had to the city was his 1974 martial-arts film Slaughter in San Francisco.

"Unlike Norris, Chavez had an established civic footprint in San Francisco: the city renamed Army Street for him in 1995, and for years also honored him with a parade, a school, and a student center — even if his strongest personal ties were elsewhere in California." . . .

Bad war coverage, bad ratings - TV audiences down 42% from the Persian Gulf War

Don Surber  

"It is not that the television shows today are terrible bad. They are horribly bad. Especially the news. Instead of dumping reporters, dump the panelists."

Western Lensman: “They’re attempting to turn their anchors into on-air podcasters. Things are getting desperate over at CNN.”

"The second-biggest loser in Operation Epic Fury is the American news media. The demolition of Iran’s military saw no major spike in TV news show ratings—in part because the attack began in the wee hours of a Saturday morning, but mainly it was due to the failure of TV news to retain its credibility as a reliable and impartial source of information

"When the workweek began on March 2, TV evening news ratings rose slightly for the week. ABC’s World News Tonight averaged 8.901 million viewers a night, NBC Nightly News averaged 6.898 million, and CBS Evening News averaged 4.117 million.

"The next week viewership dropped.

"ABC averaged 8.478 million viewers a night, NBC averaged 6.514 million, and CBS averaged 3.845 million total viewers. CBS managed to have a smaller viewership than it did a year ago. The audiences for the other two were up slightly.

"Bari Weiss is worth every penny they pay her—if she makes minimum wage.

"Elon Musk, meanwhile, said X broke a record in engagements on the first day of Epic Fury, a record users broke the next day.

"These audiences pale compared to the Persian Gulf War.

"35 years ago, when the Persian Gulf War began, ABC alone drew 13 million viewers.

"In all, the big three networks drew more than 32 million viewers with CNN adding another 10.8 million viewers." . . .More...

How US & Israel Tracked Down Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's Secret Compound

 AiTelly

Democrat Texas Senate Candidate James Talarico Claims Illegal Aliens are More Patriotic Than Americans

The Gateway Pundit   Patriotic toward which nation?

"Democrat Texas Senate nominee James Talarico is catching heat after declaring that illegal immigrants were his “most patriotic” students when he worked as a public school teacher.

"In a recent live interview on The Bulwark Podcast with host Tim Miller, Talarico boasted about his time teaching in San Antonio and how illegal aliens were more patriotic than Americans.

“'Before I was a politician, I was a public school teacher in San Antonio, Texas, on the west side of the city, and I taught a lot of undocumented students, and those students tended to be my most patriotic students,” Talarico claimed.

"Talarico didn’t stop there. He doubled down, claiming these illegal aliens “understood something about this country that a lot of us who are native born forget,” calling America “the land of opportunity” and “the place where dreams come true.”

"The liberal candidate added that they “believed in this country, even when this country didn’t believe in them,” while ripping Trump-era immigration policies as “immoral” and “unconscionable” for “terrorizing my former students and their families.” . . .More

Kathy Hochul sort of says: 'Oops'

 Many now use "Democrat" instead of "Democratic" for the party led by Roosevelt, Truman and -with crossed fingers - JFK that we once respected and voted for. (Though Roosevelt sadly became a Stalin groupie). I see in them a total rejection of anything democratic. TD

Mike McDaniel - American Thinker  

"Blakeman is promising to cut taxes and make New York affordable. He’s not insulting the rich and telling them to leave. Those are, by New York standards, crazy ideas, but they’re so crazy they just might work."

Cartoons That Bite

"The Democrat Party is infamous for its economic illiteracy fueled by its compulsion to ignore and/or denigrate anyone who understands basic economics, like Margaret Thatcher who said the trouble with socialism is you always run out of other people’s money. This collective brain tumor causes Democrats like Hochul to say and do things guaranteed to cause financial disaster. Things like this:

The comments are a far cry from Hochul’s much-derided remarks from her 2022 election campaign where she ripped her GOP opponent, Rep. Lee Zeldin, as well as then-Dutchess County Executive Marc Molinaro and President Trump, telling them and other New York Republicans to scram.

“Trump and Zeldin and Molinaro – just jump on a bus and head down to Florida where you belong. OK? Get out of town. Because you don’t represent our values,” Hochul said at the time.

Well. Wealthy New Yorkers, people who run businesses employing thousands, all of whom contribute to the tax base of a state facing a $27.5 billion dollar budget deficit, which will surely be exacerbated by New York City Mayor Zhoran Mamdani’s full communist economic illiteracy—never go full communist--took Hochul’s arrogant advice.  Mamdani is chasing out NYC’s billionaires, millionaires and folks who can’t afford the Big, rotten Apple anymore, and wants Hochul to bail him out." . . .  More...

Mike McDaniel is a USAF veteran, classically trained musician, Japanese and European fencer, life-long athlete, firearm instructor, retired police officer and high school and college English teacher. He is a published author and blogger. 

Today’s news about Iran’s attack on Diego Garcia proves Trump was right

"Unless every European leader is stupid beyond stupid, Europe just had a “come to Jesus” moment."

 Andrea Widburg - American Thinker

"Like Carthage before it, Iran delenda est (that is, Iran must be destroyed). The world will be much safer and happier when a non-Muslim Persia arises from Iran’s ashes." 

"Yesterday, Iran fired two ballistic missiles at Diego Garcia, a joint US-UK base. Both missed, but one got near the target. The attack is significant because it proves that Trump was absolutely right that this war needed to be fought, and fought sooner, rather than later.

Diego Garcia has been in the news of late, so it made a nice, symbolic target to prove Trump’s point.

The base is located in the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean, 2,500 miles due south of Mumbai. The islands are “only” 1,250 miles northeast of Mauritius, a dot in the Indian Ocean, due east of Madagascar. For very complicated reasons, Mauritius has laid claim to those islands, which have long been under British control.

In May 2025, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s government announced that it would transfer the Chagos Islands back to Mauritius. Trump strongly objected, saying that the islands, which house Diego Garcia, still have strategic value. Obviously, he was already thinking ahead to its value vis-à-vis Iran, and his objections were so powerful that, this February, Britain delayed the transfer.

However, although it delayed transferring the islands to Mauritius, the British government didn’t want the U.S. to use the base in the war against Iran. It eventually announced that the U.S. could only use the base “defensively.”

Defensiveness arrived yesterday:" . . . 

"In other words, Iran just proved that it can attack every country within a 4,000 km radius of it. Imagine if those missiles weren’t armed with conventional warheads but were, instead, nuclear-tipped? Given Iran’s apocalyptic jihadism, it would control almost half the planet."

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It Is Time To publicly Heal An American Patriot Whose Name Was Dragged Through The Mud: LTG Michael T. Flynn (US Army, Retired)

  American Free News Network 

 "Which is how it came to be that Trump had to Pardon an innocent man. Trump still needs to find a way to recognize Mike and make him whole: it is not too late." 

. . . "I wrote a series of articles about Mike Flynn when he released his documentary about his railroading by the Obama Administration that continued long after President Trump took office.

"I did so because having met with and worked with my fellow Rhode Islander, I knew a little bit about what he had done in his military career and I found it disgusting and ridiculous that he was being singled out to be punished for the obvious offense of zealously supporting Donald J. Trump and getting caught up in the vitriol that many in that orbit drew from all quarters of the LSMBTGA.

"Mike was never made whole again after the criminal proceedings that about bankrupted him, forcing him to sell his home. The treatment of Flynn is a cautionary tale about the Trump orbit where many of those who stepped up to help have been manhandled, lawfared and broken financially by the deep state swamp: democrats-demonrats-all.

"People like Mike should be made whole somehow. If it happened to Trump he would sue the pants off of the FBI and DOJ and Obama: Trump can afford it.

"Whereas Mike-even after the charges were dropped because of the malfeasance of his lawyers-Covington and Burling (Michael Chertoff)-best that money can buy-and the DOJ prosecution team, as well as the FBI, had to be pardoned by Trump when Judge Emmit Sullivan refused to drop the case and actually appointed a lawyer to represent the court to continue the trial after the charges were dropped by DOJ.

"Putting Mike in the nebulous position of continuing to pay for the lawyers and rolling the dice-being an innocent man who was in the precarious position where if he continued to fight in court against Sullivan-who had the bagels to refer to Mike at one point in the proceedings as a traitor-lucky that Flynn did not kick his cowardly, big mouthed arse-and Sullivan ran out the clock with continuations that lapsed into a new administration-and it turned out to be Biden-then new DOJ Merrick Garland could reopen the case and continue to bankrupt Flynn through legal and court fees to an unknown end.

"There was no there, there to the Flynn railroading. The FBI didn’t finalize the official 302 of his interviews until weeks after it was conducted: it was finalized by lawyer Lisa Page-who was not part of the interview. The FBI had the transcript of his discussions with Kislyak all along: the future National Security Advisor conducting business with a key US concern. The word sanctions was never mentioned in the discussion.

"VP Mike Pence seemed only too anxious to turn on Flynn when he was being played by Sally Yates with seeming disregard for the facts: the dinosaur/Logan Act, really? GTFO here.  

"And-of course-we now know that the declaration of persona non grata status to kick the Russian diplomats out of the US for election interference was made up, President Obama donkey dung nonsense: the plan hatched 9 December 2016 to cover the arse of Team Obama-who as of that date-lacked a predicate for such an action that had to be created by the slap dash Intelligence Community Assessment on Russian interference choreographed by Brennan later that month.

"Flynn was never an agent of a foreign government due to his status as a subcontractor to a firm that was registered. The work was in support of NATO ally Turkey. Regardless, his very expensive lawyers convinced him to file FARA paperwork, anyway-just to cover his butt-and that-like everything else-was leaked to the LSMBTGA as if it was an admission of guilt.

"His lawyers failed to advise him that the DOJ had offered a plea deal. What he eventually pled to was a drug deal, stop beating your wife ruse in an attempt to prevent the Feds from going after his son." . . .  More...

Senate Democrats Kill Trump-Backed Amendment to Ban Men from Women’s Sports – For the FOURTH Time

 The Gateway Pundit | by Cassandra MacDonald   

Democrats’ obstruction keeps the door open for biological males to dominate women’s sports, take scholarships, and invade locker rooms, all under the banner of “inclusion.”

"Senate Democrats once again blocked a common-sense Republican amendment that would have protected women’s and girls’ sports from biological males competing as transgender athletes.

"On Saturday, the Senate voted 49-41 along strict party lines to kill the amendment to the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act.

"The measure needed 60 votes to advance and failed, marking the fourth time Democrats have shot down identical protections.

🚨 BREAKING: Senate Democrats just BLOCKED legislation to ban men in women’s sports, 49-41

The amendment would have added the Trump-backed provision blocking federal funds to schools letting males compete in women’s sports. pic.twitter.com/ej8xczEqLT

— John John Jnr (@kikolara23) March 21, 2026

"The amendment, known as the Protection for Women and Girls in Sports Act, was sponsored by Sens. Tommy Tuberville and Marsha Blackburn. It would have barred federally funded schools and programs from allowing biological males, those identifying as transgender women or girls, to compete in female sports categories.". . .    More...

Gavin Newsom's 10 Biggest Accomplishments

 The Parodigal Child: Babylon Bee   

"The Babylon Bee put together the following list of achievements to give the governor his due:

1. Defying all expectations, he learned to read: So brave.

2. Successfully ran multiple billionaires out of the state: Who wants people with vast resources, ingenuity, and entrepreneurial spirit in their state?

3. Drastically lowered crime rates by just not prosecuting anything anymore: There's no crime if nobody is a criminal.

4. Helped keep the struggling French Laundry restaurant afloat during the pandemic: Singlehandedly saving a small business.

5. Cleared out a ton of clutter in the Pacific Palisades: Got rid of a ton of those old houses and trees and whatever.

6. Reduced the homeless population by -400%: The math doesn't lie.

7. Made California's education system 03rd overall: Sorry, it's that dyslexia again. It's 30th overall.

8. Increased the state's oil production: It's all in his hair, but it still counts.

9. Mentored the greatest politician California ever produced, Kamala Harris: Thank you for helping make her what she is today.

10. Did not ban satire: He tried, but he didn't. So that's an accomplishment, kind of." . . .

Deranged Tucker Carlson backstabs Trump

 Douglas Murray  

"In politics, it is often the people who you think have your back who end up stabbing you there.

"Nobody knows that better than Donald Trump, who has been stabbed in the back more times than Julius Caesar — yet has still survived.

"This week, part of the noisy right-wing online podcast-sphere again turned on the president.

"Leading the virtual charge, again, was Trump’s one-time cheerleader, Tucker Carlson.

"There was a time when Carlson was fully Team Trump.

"Carlson often appeared at Trump rallies as part of the warmup act.

"But in the past year, he has tried to lead the MAGA base away from Trump and down a very dark path.

"Fortunately, the Trump base hasn’t followed him there.

"The president’s strong Middle East policy seems to have particularly deranged his one-time supporter.

"While the president has advocated a strong defense of America’s regional allies, Carlson has spent 100% of his time trying to turn the MAGA base against Israel and in favor of Islamist regimes.

"His podcast has become a remorseless roll call of Holocaust deniers, antisemites, Islamic extremists and World War II revisionists.

"While attacking Trump, Carlson eagerly softball-interviews people who love both Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin.

"Quite an achievement.

Undermining

"While accusing everyone else of being obsessed with Israel, Carlson has obsessed about nothing else.

"While saying “We’re not allowed to talk about Jews,” he has talked about nothing but Jews.

"This obsession has culminated in a total derangement over the president’s Iran policy.

"Carlson and other people in the right-wing podcast-sphere pretend to be confused by the president acting to stop the mullahs from getting an atomic bomb.

"At one and the same time, they say Iran was never seeking nuclear weapons. And that Iran has the right to nuclear weapons." . . .More...

So much for Arkies being welcoming

Daily Wire 

"Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the governor of Arkansas and former White House press secretary, says she was having lunch with two mom friends at a restaurant called The Croissanterie in Little Rock when the owner kicked them out. Her presence at the restaurant, the owner told the governor, made the employees feel “threatened and uncomfortable” because of her political views. As they left, she was given the middle finger."

. . . "Sanders politely left the restaurant; she later left the administration, returned to Arkansas, and was elected governor in 2022. The Red Hen permanently closed in 2023." . . .

Peeling back the layers on Gov. Sanders' Croissanterie debacle - Arkansas Times

. . . "The Croissanterie released a lengthier statement, which includes more details such as the fact that Sanders’ posse arrived unannounced, overstayed the 90-minute table limit and lingered for a bit after she was asked to depart. Here’s the statement in full:

When Governor Sanders arrived unannounced, staff served her and her party without interruption.

As her security presence became more visible in the dining room, some employees and guests expressed discomfort. After the party completed their meal, a member of the security detail was quietly asked to help conclude the visit in line with our standard 90-minute table policy.

The request was not immediately received, and the party remained for an additional period before departing without incident once communication was established.

We want to be clear: there was no disruption in the restaurant. Claims that an employee made an inappropriate gesture are incorrect—it was a customer, and the situation has been addressed.

This was not a decision made lightly. We chose to prioritize the comfort of our staff and guests while continuing to provide service respectfully and without escalation.

"If you’ve ever been to The Croissanterie, you know it gets busy there. And, if you’ve ever worked in a restaurant, you likely know that they lose money when tables stay for an extended period and new customers can’t be seated. " . . .

Since we looked at both sides of this issue, perhaps a scholarly examination of the patrons giving them obscene gestures as they left would be in order. TD