Tributes Pour In as Conservatives Remember Charlie Kirk on First Anniversary of Assassination: ‘We’re Lucky to Have Had Him’

Mediaite  

"Charlie Kirk had a unique gift for articulating the good — the goodness of family, faith, and America. One year ago today, he was killed for it. Secretary Marco Rubio"

"Social media has been full of tributes from conservatives for Charlie Kirk on the one-year anniversary of his assassination, including from the White House.

""One year ago, we tragically lost a fearless patriot. A champion for freedom and for our country. Charlie Kirk changed the course of American history. His courage, conviction, and love of country will never be forgotten," reads a statement from the White House.

"They also released a video titled "America Misses Charlie Kirk," which included Kirk's famous "FREEDOM" t-shirt hanging on a clothes line while audio of him from various events plays out." . . .

"Kirk was shot and killed on September 10, 2025 at Utah Valley University during a Turning Point USA event. Accused killer Tyler Robinson has pleaded not guilty to all seven charges against him and is awaiting a trial date.

"Turning Point USA also marked the anniversary with multiple statements. They will be holding a ceremony in remembrance on Kirk on Thursday evening at Utah Valley University. It begins at 8:30 p.m. EST and airs the same night President Donald Trump will be speaking at the second time of his Dallas GOP midterm convention. The Kirk event has earned some protests from students." . . .More.

Liberals Again Celebrate Charlie Kirk’s Assassination, Proving We Can Never Let Them Regain Power   

"It was put on full display last year when my friend Charlie Kirk was brutally assassinated in front of thousands of onlookers, streamed live to millions of Americans. And immediately after this repulsive act of terrorism, millions of liberals began gleefully celebrating. TikTok dances, Halloween costumes, graphic memes, songs, and even video games — millions of “ordinary” liberals took immense pleasure in mocking the murder of a man who wanted nothing more than to peacefully debate ideas." 

Beijing paid the bill. Jihadis wrote the script. Hollywood supplied the useful idiots

 Washington Examiner   

"Hollywood supplied the faces. Beijing's money built the stage. Jihadis wrote the script. It is long past time Washington stopped treating the show as spontaneous."

It's hard to wish the entertainment industry well.

"On Thursday, an Oscar winner, an Emmy winner, a New York City Council member, and a Democratic congressional nominee sat down on First Avenue. Around them marched communists bankrolled from Shanghai, Islamist-aligned activists, and protesters waving the flag of a terrorist organization. They called it a stand for peace. It was the Red-Green alliance on parade, and Washington should treat it as the influence operation it is.

"A federal grand jury in Manhattan is examining Neville Roy Singham's money. Singham is a Shanghai-based tech mogul whose nonprofit network members of Congress accuse of advancing the interests of the Chinese Communist Party. On Thursday, that network's street machine delivered Hollywood's biggest names to the curb.

"Susan Sarandon, Hannah Einbinder, Caleb Hearon, and Chelsea Manning, [Debra Winger] were led away in zip ties. Cynthia Nixon, Elliot Page, Julien Baker, and Lucy Dacus joined them in the street. These performative activists had political company. Democratic congressional nominee Darializa Avila Chevalier, New York City Council member Chi Osse, and activist Linda Sarsour were also arrested, and Brad Lander, another Democratic congressional nominee, joined the protest.

"New York's own mayor set the stage. Zohran Mamdani, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, has spent months branding Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a war criminal on television and social media. He even promised to have the New York Police Department arrest him under an International Criminal Court warrant, a power he never had and later admitted he lacked. It was theater for the manipulated masses, and on Thursday, the street performed the sequel.

"This was a coalition, not one group's protest. The sit-in was run by Jewish Voice for Peace, an organization that is neither Jewish nor for peace, with co-sponsors including the DSA, the Palestinian Youth Movement, and New York's Muslim American Society chapter. The larger march was led by the Palestinian Youth Movement and the People's Forum, which has received $22 million from Singham. The Party for Socialism and Liberation arrived with wagons of professionally printed signs. Code Pink co-founder Medea Benjamin was on the street. Her fellow co-founder, Jodie Evans, is married to Singham." . . .More.

The High Priests of Performative Goodness | The American Spectator

"Sacrifice nothing, feel everything, blame capitalism — and never admit you were wrong."

"They sleep soundly because they spend vast sums telling the world just how immensely virtuous they are. That is precisely the specialty of people like António Guterres. Unfortunately, I can never be like them; I shall remain an insomniac for the rest of my life, for personally, I prefer a good war to a bad peace. And I feel not the slightest need to explain to the world whether I am a good man or the most despicable creature on earth."   More.

WW2: Every Position Inside a 10-Man B-17 Ranked From Safest to Deadliest

Inside the Steel

"Inside the Steel goes inside the tanks of the Second World War to tell the part of the story most histories skip: what daily life was actually like for the men sealed inside them. How they ate with shells stacked around their knees. How they slept in shifts under the hull. How they stayed warm, stayed sane, and got out when the armour finally failed. "Every episode is built from crew memoirs, veteran interviews, after-action reports and period technical manuals, then told as one continuous story rather than a list of facts. Some moments are dramatised to bring those accounts to life, but the machines, the conditions and the events come from the historical record. "If you want to know what the war felt like from three feet behind the armour, subscribe — new documentaries are posted regularly. "Which crew position would you have taken? Driver, gunner, loader, radio operator, or commander? Tell me in the comments.

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The Terrifying Truth About the B-17’s Ball Turret Gunners   . . . "He could not stand, kneel or turn around. His parachute stayed outside, in the aircraft. If the hydraulics failed and the guns froze pointing down, the door was blocked by the ground. And if the aircraft came home without its landing gear, he was the one problem nobody on board could solve.

A poem written in 1945 fixed that job in the public mind as the deadliest in the war. The Army Air Forces' own casualty survey said something completely different — and this video goes through their numbers. Also here: the man who fell twenty-two thousand feet without a parachute and lived to be eighty-four; why the turret had a maximum height for the man inside it; why the Liberator's version was worse; and why, by the end of the war, the turrets were coming off the aircraft altogether.

Lindsay Clancy's Lawyer Just Crossed a Line With the Holdout Juror

 Matt Margolis – PJ Media 

. . . "Reddington hasn't asked to comb through the phone records of the 11 jurors who sided with his client. He wants the one holdout's texts, calls, and data, and nobody else's. If Sullivan grants that request, the message to future jurors is unmistakable. Vote the wrong way, and your private life becomes evidence." 

"When a Massachusetts jury deadlocked in Lindsay Clancy's murder trial, her defense team went hunting for someone to blame, and it zeroed in on the one juror who refused to find her not guilty.

"Clancy’s lawyer argued that severe postpartum psychosis made her not guilty by reason of insanity for brutally murdering her three young children. Prosecutors told a different story. They pointed out how Clancy planned the killings in advance and even schemed to get her husband out of the house long enough to carry out the murders. One juror, Michael Desronvil, a hero in my book, refused to call that insanity. His vote deadlocked the jury, and Judge William Sullivan declared a mistrial earlier this month.

"Now Clancy’s defense attorney, Kevin Reddington, wants Desronvil investigated. His motion asks Sullivan to look into whether Desronvil gave inaccurate answers during jury selection and claims he used his cellphone during deliberations. Reddington also wants the judge to order Desronvil's phone carrier to hand over call and text records for every day of deliberations. He also wants Desronvil forced to surrender his phone to a "neutral examiner" who would dig through its data.

"Think about the implications of this. A private citizen answers a jury summons, sits through a gut-wrenching trial about three dead children, votes his conscience, and his reward is not only being forced into hiding, but also having the defense lawyer demand access to his phone.

"Reddington's case leans heavily on fellow juror Nick Dargie, who told ABC News in an interview that Desronvil ignored the other panelists and scrolled on his phone during deliberations. However, according to Desronvil, he was hardly the only one looking at a screen." . . . More.

Student Who Put El-Sayed on the Spot at Town Hall on IRGC Hits Him Even More in Interview

Nick Arama – RedState  

"Dashti said he thought it was because a lot of El-Sayed's supporters were supportive of these institutions and the Iranian regime, and "he doesn't want to alienate them." 

"Democrat U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed was put on the spot by a young student during a town hall at the University of Michigan. 

"The student, Iman Dashti, has family in Iran, and he told El-Sayed about some of the horrors they had been through. Dashti asked a couple of simple questions. First, he asked about El-Sayed's statement on holding back on any criticism of the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei because it might make people in Dearborn sad. Then, secondly, Dashti asked if El-Sayed would condemn the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

"El-Sayed didn't do either. Now, Dashti has done an interview with Fox's The Will Cain Show, explaining what he thought of El-Sayed's answer. [He begins speaking at about the one-minute mark.] . . .

. . . "But then Dashti realized El-Sayed hadn't actually answered the questions; that it was a "terrible answer." Dashti pointed out to host Will Cain how El-Sayed never condemned the IRGC, didn't answer about Khamenei, and never said he stood with the Persian people, "the one thing I asked him to say." 

"'It's unbelievable. You know, you can be charismatic. You can say the right things. You can weave and duck. But he didn't answer the question. And I think it's a huge mask-off moment for Abdul," Iman said. 

"As Cain noted, El-Sayed said he stood up for democracy-seeking people around the world, and yet he wouldn't address the specific issue Dashti asked him to: condemning the IRGC. 

"Dashti nuked him, "I could not have given him an easier layup. I mean, it's so simple. Just say it. Just say you're against the world's largest sponsor of terror. Just say you're against the government that has killed hundreds of thousands of Persians. And Americans. But he didn't.'"  . . .

Report: Male Athletes Have Taken More Than 2,293 Gold Medals From Women

Concerned Women for America Legislative Action Committee: “How many more women and girls will be subjected to an uneven playing field?”

Legal Insurrection

. . . "CWALAC’s research discovered the following:

• Trans-identifying males have stolen over 2,293 gold medals from women and girls in the United States, pushing each rightful champion down to second place.
• Trans-identifying male athletes have stolen over $501,498 in prize money from women in professional sports.
• In California alone, over 611 women and girls have taken silver below a male allowed to compete in the women’s category.
• Trans-identifying males have competed in more than 14,301 female sport events, amateur and professional.

“It is shockingly unfair for biological women to have to compete against trans-identifying men,” said Penny Nance, CEO and President of CWALAC. “Our research finding that trans-identifying males have stolen over 2,293 gold medals from women in the United States is an outrage. Biological men have distinct advantages over biological women. This reality not only puts women in harm’s way, but it eliminates opportunities for biological women to earn a living and win competitions. Congress must act to protect biological women.”

"CWALAC found increases in all of those categories since its July 2025 report.

“How many more women and girls will be subjected to an uneven playing field?” demanded Nance. “It’s time to put an end to this inherent unfairness and protect women’s sports.”

"CWALAC also used data compiled from HeCheated, a program that tracks everything male athletes have stolen from female athletes." . . .More.

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass says 'we don't need an election on November 3rd'

How can a country exist as a nation and world leader when its people repeatedly select such morons as leaders?  TD

Eric Utter-American Thinker  

The California governor's race, she asserts, 'is over.'

Babylon Bee

 "Los Angeles Mayor Karen (‘Largemouth’) Bass recently joined repulsive ex-ESPN personalities Jemele Hill and Cari Champion on something called the ‘Flagrant and Funny’ podcast to talk about her reelection campaign, the runoff, and the Palisades and Altadena fires.

"She breezily, confidently, and snarkily dismissed the state’s governor race like the Biden administration dismissed thoughts of border control. (And like she dismisses concerns about her role in the aforementioned fires.)

"This most karen of Karens stated of Californians, “All They needed to see was the ‘R’ behind his name. That’s why the governors’ race right now is over. Our governor’s name is Xavier Becerra. You don’t need an election on November 3rd. A Republican cannot win in this state!”

"From the same people who lecture us on "our democracy."

"How about focusing on your own race and the SQUALOR in your city, Karen! 

"Sieg Heil! 

"So, Californians are so intolerant, close-minded, unwelcoming, and exclusionary that they won’t even consider voting for anyone with an ‘R’ behind their name?

"Amazing. She claimed that the governor’s race “is over” and that Xavier Becerra has effectively already won? And that the upcoming election isn’t needed, because “a Republican cannot win” in California?

"The fix is in?" . . . More.

James Talarico’s Strange Religion

The American Spectator

“'Whether or not Jesus existed doesn’t really matter to me,” said one of the pastors at his church."

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"Over the past day, the Daily Wire and the Blaze published twin interviews showing two pastors at Texas Senate candidate James Talarico’s home church, St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, disavowing Jesus Christ and Christianity in shockingly blunt terms.

"The first, from the Daily Wire, features the “nonbinary and lesbian” Rev. Babs Miller.

"“Whether or not Jesus existed doesn’t really matter to me,” she said. “The fact remains that that message that was delivered by someone named Jesus, supposedly, and it could have all been made up for all I know.”

"While the Rev. Babs maintained epistemic uncertainty as to Christ’s existence — “We have no way of knowing if Jesus really existed any more than we do of knowing that the original Buddha existed” — she was confident enough in His lack of love for us so as to conclude that He “didn’t die to save our sins.”

"Quite clearly, much of the reason the Rev. Miller proclaims herself to be a pastor is that she is titillated by doing so while at the same time mocking God and His Church.

"If the “nonbinary” pastor’s statements are unbelievably outrageous, the head pastor’s comments — obtained by the Blaze — are even more so.

"The video interview starts off with the Rev. Jim Rigby (whom James Talarico has referred to as one of “the biggest influences on [him] as a Christian, as a human being”) being asked if he believes in the virgin birth.

"His answer was clear: “I don’t.” . . .

"“I don’t believe in a progressive or conservative Christianity; I believe in a biblical Christianity,” Talarico also told the Times. “My faith is rooted in Scripture and the teachings of Jesus Christ.”

"But a man who has chosen to make St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church his home church has in fact entered into a world that is hardly Christian. It is a place that professes a different religion, one where the existence of Christ is unknowable and all human spiritualities are equivalent made-up mythologies that attempt to understand man’s role in the cosmos. Each person is understood to be, as Rigby put it, “a child of the stars” — and not, in fact, a child of God.

"James Talarico wants to make his “Christianity” the center of his Senate campaign. But this is very much not Christianity at all.

"When you claim Christ’s Incarnation proves we should be able to murder unborn children, you can no longer claim to belong to His Church." . . .

Ellie Gardey Holmes is Reporter and Associate Editor at The American Spectator. . . . She is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame, where she studied political science, philosophy, and journalism. Ellie has previously written for the Daily Caller, College Fix, and Irish Rover. 

How about a new White House press pool?

 How about a new White House press pool? - American Thinker  . . . "Imagine a more respectful press pool, without the jackals that normally use these meetings to undercut the president, and by extension, America.

"Again, the American media have worked hand and glove with the Democrats for more than a generation. They are not a free and fair press, but the tip-of-the-spear of Democrat party narrative-crafting apparatus." . . .

Uncle Paul's Parodies

UPDATE 9/23: Judge Declines to Immediately Block White House Ban of 3 News Outlets | The Epoch Times

That included CNN’s reporting “top-secret” details related to the construction of a new White House bunker and Politico’s reporting that officials were considering lifting sanctions on Russia, even though the Trump administration has actually intensified sanctions on Russia, according to the letters.

 President Trump Didn’t ‘Defy’ Judge’s Order to Restore White House Access to CNN, Politico and MSNOW – Here’s What REALLY Happened * The Gateway Pundit * by Cristina Laila

CNN, MSNOW, Politico, allowed back in White House after Trump media ban ruling – The Hill

"Journalists for CNN, MS NOW and Politico were allowed back onto White House grounds Thursday, hours after a judge ruled in the outlets’ favor following President Trump’s decision to ban the media organizations from the building last week. The networks reported on air that their reporters and photographers were initially denied access early Thursday but were allowed into the building after attorneys for the companies petitioned a judge urging him to compel the White House to respond to their requests for re-entry."

Should MSNOW Be Trusted for Straight News or Opinionat...  "MSNOW is broadly categorized by professional media-watchers as a left-leaning outlet whose mix of news and opinion makes it stronger as a source of opinionated coverage than as an uncompromisingly neutral daily news feed; watchdogs cite recurring editorial slant and mixed factual reliability while the channel remains a significant player in cable ratings [1][2][3][4]. Viewers seeking straightforward, neutral headlines should treat MSNOW like a partisan outlet and cross-check critical claims; those seeking analysis and progressive framing will find the channel delivers what it promises [5][6].". . . 

For consumers deciding whether to use MSNOW as a primary source, the pragmatic approach is to combine it with outlets of varied ideological slants and fact-checking tools to triangulate truth rather than assuming MSNOW provides fully straight, unopinionated news [2][4].

2025: MSNBC gets mercilessly mocked over new MS NOW name: 'Most Surely No One Watching'   . . . "Left-leaning cable channel MSNBC – home to Rachel Maddow and other Trump-bashing anchors – was derided on Monday for the worst rebrand since New Coke after announcing a name change to MS NOW.

"The head-scratching acronym for My Source News Opinion World was mercilessly mocked. Social media users quipped the ratings-challenged network’s new name stands for “Majorly Skewed News Overly Woke” or “Most Surely No One Watching.” . . . 

Individualism Versus Collectivism is on the Ballot in November

Defeating democratic socialists is imperative.

American Greatness   

• "In a modern capitalist economy, hundreds of thousands of enterprises produce millions of distinct products—far too complex for any administrative body to allocate rationally . . .Without market prices, planners have no way to know what is genuinely scarce and what is abundant, so they cannot plan well even granting them the best of intentions."

"Six years ago, the rise of the “Bernie bros” supporting avowed socialist candidate Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) raised the question of whether decades of soft indoctrination about the “horrors” of capitalism by the Democrat-media complex and the oft-promised but never delivered benefits of socialism had finally produced enough voters willing to elect their way out of free enterprise.

"Fortunately, that didn’t happen. However, in 2026 the evidence supporting that question is harder to wave away. A self-described democratic socialist now runs City Hall in the nation’s largest city, and a slate of Democratic Socialists of America-endorsed candidates is on ballots nationwide for Congress, statehouses, and mayor’s offices. The question is no longer academic. It is on the ballot on November 3.

"Zohran Mamdani’s November 2025 victory in the New York City mayoral race was the biggest win for the DSA since Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s 2018 upset,
built on a platform of rent freezes, city-owned grocery stores, free buses, and steep new taxes on the wealthy. DSA leaders have called it proof that “democratic socialist ideas are very popular.”

"Heading into the midterms, at least eleven DSA-aligned candidates are running for offices from Colorado to Rhode Island, Ocasio-Cortez just won her own House primary with 87 percent of the vote, and Rashida Tlaib is on the ballot again in Michigan. Even sympathetic Democrat strategists are nervous about the label. One Third Way official has even conceded that socialism hands Republicans “a pretty potent set of weapons” in competitive races. A CBS News poll found only 22 percent of Democrats actually support socialist economic positions, which tells you the argument inside the Party is far from settled.

"That makes this exactly the moment to make the case against socialism from the outside, too. Most of the pushback on socialism is economic or historical, and both cases are strong. However, there is a different argument, rooted in older and more fundamental conflict between individualism and collectivism, that should be carefully considered by all Americans before going to the polls this year.

"The purpose of this article is to educate, inform, and proselytize against socialism in all its forms." . . .  More.

Invisible American Lasers Now Destroying Iranian Weapons and Infrastructure

 Ward Clark   

"The Pentagon and the military contractors have been experimenting with laser weapons for some time now. But we are now seeing them used in the field against real targets, and the initial indications are that they are working." 

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"Technology is a great force multiplier. We learned that, and our Iraqi opponents learned that, in 1991, in Operation Desert Storm, which was one of the first well-publicized mass uses of smart-weapons. We are still seeing that proved true today, with the use of high-tech weapons against Iran in the Strait of Hormuz and in Iran itself.

Now, in the latest example of Iran's lessons in "you had no idea who you were messing with," American forces are using powerful infrared lasers to target Iranian weapons and equipment. 

The US military has been deploying lasers in the Strait of Hormuz to knock out regime hardware, taking out “drones and incoming cruise missiles at a much lower cost than using more expensive kinetic weapons like missiles,” the Department of War recently confirmed.

The US project to harness laser power has been 50 years in the making and outstrips the capabilities of any other military on Earth.

“We can very specifically track and target drones and put the spot exactly where we want it, [in order] to disable its sensors or kill [i.e. explode] the drone itself,” Mark Neice, president of Directed Energy Consultants, which works with the military, told The Post.

The best part is the control system.

Somewhat surprisingly, the laser weapons are operated by soldiers using reconfigured Xbox game console controllers.

“The video games industry figured out what the best controller was and now the US military is saying, ‘Well, why reinvent the wheel with a specialized control system where you can just use an Xbox controller or something really similar to do the job?'” . . . More.

 Ward Clark hails from Alaska’s Susitna Valley, where he maintains his rural household in one of America’s last free places.