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Daily Broadside | Israel Retaliates Against Iran—Sort Of

Who had the start of World War III on their 2024 bingo card?

Israel carried out limited strikes in Iran early Friday in retaliation for Tehran firing a barrage of missiles and drones at Israel late Saturday. 

Fox News Digital has confirmed there have been explosions in Isfahan province where Natanz is located though it is not clear whether it has been hit. Natanz is the site of one of Iran’s nuclear facilities, though state television has described all sites in the area as “fully safe.” 

A well-placed military source has told Fox that the strike was “limited.” Sources familiar said the U.S. was not involved and there was pre-notification to the U.S. from the Israelis. 

Pentagon officials have not confirmed the strike. The White House and the National Security Council (NSC) have declined to comment on the unfolding situation. 

The attack was “limited” by the United States, no doubt, who accepted a few missiles lobbed into the interior of Iran. But this administration has been trying to manage both sides of this conflict, apparently green-lighting Iran’s first-ever direct attack on Israel over the weekend, and now urging Israel not to retaliate but *wink, wink* approving of a “limited” strike.

Israel no doubt has the capacity and the will to destroy any of its neighbors should it choose to. Iran’s weak attack did almost no damage and looked pathetic in the face of Israel’s multi-layered defensive systems.

This newly opened direct front in the Middle East between Israel and Iran is pulling Israeli attention away from the unfinished job in Gaza, where they still have to deliver the final blow to the Hamas terrorists who attacked Israel back on October 7.

Be praying that this tit-for-tat doesn’t escalate into a full blown war.

Israel had said it would retaliate against Iran’s weekend attack, which involved hundreds of drones and missiles, in response to a suspected Israeli strike on its embassy compound in Syria. Most of the Iranian drones and missiles were downed before reaching Israeli territory.

Analysts and observers have raised concerns about the risks of the Israel-Gaza war spreading into the rest of the region.

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi had warned Israel before Friday’s strike that Tehran would deliver a “severe response” to any attack on its territory.

Iran told the United Nations Security Council on Thursday that Israel “must be compelled to stop any further military adventurism against our interests” as the U.N. secretary-general warned that the Middle East was in a “moment of maximum peril.”

Have a good weekend.

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Daily Broadside | Time to Dump Mike Johnson

I’m calling your attention to a rather long article because when Mike Johnson was selected as House Speaker after Kevin McCarthy’s ouster last year, I was impressed and thought he looked like a good (though surprising!) choice.

In retrospect, I got taken. We all did.

Johnson professes to be a conservative Christian whose worldview is based on the Bible (i.e. Judeo-Christian values), he used to work for the Alliance Defending Freedom (lots of work on freedom of religion cases), and one of the first things he did was ask the Republican caucus to pray with him.

All encouraging, but in the time he’s been Speaker he’s been indistinguishable from a Democrat when it comes to political will. He’s proven to be a major disappointment to conservatives and like-minded Republicans (and some Democrats) and, frankly, I’m embarrassed that I was so easily lured by his Christian credentials and my dutiful assumption they would translate into a wise and Christ-centered use of power.

I had to learn (again!) that it may look like a duck, talk like a duck and walk like a duck, but that doesn’t mean it’s going to govern like a duck.

Now Johnson is being told he should resign before he’s forced out, as reported in this exclusive Breitbart story.

Exclusive – MTG on Mike Johnson Speakership: ‘It’s Over – He’s Just the Only One Who Hasn’t Acknowledged It’

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) told Breitbart News exclusively that she is prepared to force House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) out of his position with a vote to vacate the chair if the Speaker does not willingly resign the position.

“Yes, I am willing to force it,” Greene told Breitbart News in a lengthy exclusive interview on Tuesday afternoon where she explained her plan to remove Johnson and get a real Republican Speaker in his place. “The reality for Mike Johnson that he just is not accepting or refusing to accept, publicly at least, is whether it happens two weeks from now, two months from now, or in the next majority, he will not be Speaker. He just will not be. There may be only two of us public right now. But he does not have the support of the conference at all. There may be people who might not vote to vacate him right now, but they will never vote for him to be Speaker next Congress. There are two large factions in the conference against his speakership.”

Lots of people see MTG as a nuisance, a political gadfly. She’s a huge Trump supporter and supported Kevin McLuntz before he was removed as Speaker. But I’m with her on this one.

A major development on Tuesday was that Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), an influential conservative who sits on the powerful House Rules Committee, publicly joined Greene’s effort, saying he is cosponsoring her motion to vacate the chair. During a closed-door Republican conference meeting, Massie told Johnson to his face — in front of the entire House GOP conference — that he must resign or face the same fate his predecessor, now former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, did last year with a motion to vacate vote. Massie told Johnson, and later told reporters, that if Johnson does not agree to resign willingly he will likely lose even more votes than McCarthy did if and when the motion to vacate is called. Johnson responded to Massie in conference, and then later at a press conference, saying he will not resign — echoing what his spokesman Raj Shah told Breitbart News late last week when pressure began severely ramping up after Johnson was the deciding vote to kill an amendment to the renewal of section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) that would have required the federal government obtain a warrant to engage in surveillance of American citizens. Johnson’s FISA ploy did provide such warrant protections only for members of Congress — protections that Johnson did not deem necessary for hundreds of millions of Americans not currently serving in the United States Congress.

I can’t reproduce the entire article for you, so I encourage you to go read the whole thing. Here’s what I’ll leave you with:

“From what I understand people were kind of down about it, or just ‘uh, not again’ because that three-and-a-half weeks was so painful for our conference and a lot of these Republicans don’t ever want to rock the boat or change the status quo,” Greene said. “That’s the whole problem. That’s why the Democrats keep winning and the Republicans keep losing, because Republicans never fight, because it’s uncomfortable, and Republicans never want to rock the boat. They just want to show up here in Washington and do their committee hearings and pass their legislation that they can hopefully get signed into law and hang it on their wall and then go back to their district and do whatever they do. But no one is ever taking the important and strategic steps to save our country. I’ll give you some examples. Out on social media today, there was an explosive report about an NGO that is passing out flyers to illegals encouraging them to vote for Joe Biden in the election. Everyone here, at the NRCC, our Republican conference, and many others, they’re busy practically measuring the drapes for the White House right now and totally convinced that Trump is going to win the election and ‘Marjorie, that’s when we’ll fix everything. We’ll do it then.’ But I’m going to tell you right now, I think that’s the worst possible mindset to be in. The Democrats are going to do everything possible to try to stop President Trump. They’re trying to put him in jail for the rest of his life right now. They’re going to do anything they can to make sure he does not win. So why in the world would our side just go along assuming that we’re going to win the White House and that’s when we’re going to stop all the millions of people invading our country and the terrorists coming across and the cartels bringing drugs and murdering our people and Americans being raped and murdered and killed, and the list goes on, and Americans being spied on through FISA? How do we sit there and look at ourselves in the mirror if we go ‘oh we’ll fix it when Trump comes back’? I don’t even think we deserve Republican voters voting for us if that’s our attitude. Here’s my biggest argument: If this is the state of mind of Republicans and Republican leaders, excluding President Trump, President Trump’s only on the ballot one more time — in November. Whether he wins or loses, what will the state of the Republican Party be after Trump? I’m going to argue strongly that Republicans in Congress and Republican leaders have not done anything to earn Republican votes for us to ever control the Republican majority ever again in the future. The only reason people will be voting for Republicans going forward is because they’re voting against Democrats. That is a very bad position to be in in the future.”

She’s right.

Time to dump Johnson.

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Daily Broadside | Congress to Vote On Strongly Worded Document To Combat Foreign Invasion Over Southern Border

I’ve got a number for you today: 16 million.

Speaker Johnson Says 16 Million Illegal Immigrants Entered America Under Biden’s Watch
‘This is a disastrous situation,’ Mr. Johnson said. ‘It’s a catastrophe that was caused by intentional policy choices.’

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said Wednesday that official figures of around 9 million grossly underestimate the number of illegal immigrants who have entered the United States since President Joe Biden took office, and that he believes the true number is closer to 16 million.

Keep in mind that the official number of illegal aliens in America has been “11 million” for years. That doesn’t mean that the number is accurate — it most certainly isn’t — but Johnson’s number is roughly 150 percent more than what the government admits in its official reports.

So that puts us at 27 million illegal aliens based on “best guess” estimates. And the number is most certainly much, much higher than that.

Mr. Johnson made the remarks while speaking at a press conference on Capitol Hill on April 10, during which he announced plans for a vote later in the day on a resolution condemning the Biden administration’s “open border” policies.

“Since Joe Biden went into the Oval Office, it began on day one, they began to open that border wide,” the speaker said.

Oh noes! Not a “resolution” that does absolutely nothing to rein in this out-of-control communist government or that passes a law funding a border wall. Nope. Nosiree! But if you need 95 BILLION dollars to fund a war in Ukraine or to provide military funding for other countries, we’re all over it!

Otherwise, we’ll continue issuing strongly-worded letters and meaningless resolutions to show off our conservative cred as we troll you guys with how tough we are.

Remember, this is the Mike Johnson who just cast the tie-breaking vote kill the FISA warrant requirement and to “reauthorize the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Section 702 warrantless surveillance authority for two more years.” This is the Mike Johnson who brokered an appropriations deal with Democrats “that cleared Congress last month to fund the government for fiscal year 2024,” and the “Democrats got everything they want[ed] in the spending.”

All of which led Rand Paul to say, “I’m not so sure there’s a difference between him being in charge and Dems being in charge.”

Right.

While our do-nothing UniParty Congress votes on “resolutions” that nobody will read or pay attention to (except historians sifting through the ashes of our country in the future), the Catastrophe-in-Chief just expanded a “temporary amnesty” to 1.2 million more foreigners squatting in our country.

Nearly 1.2 million foreign nationals are safe from deportation thanks to President Biden’s expansion of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) eligibility. 

This is a move Biden has taken since he came into office. He has added several countries to the TPS list. For example, almost half a million Venezuelans received expanded amnesty protection in 2021. Biden’s record has surpassed previous levels of expanding amnesty for foreign nationals, increasing the foreign-born population in the United States to a record high of an estimate of over 51 million. That surpasses previous levels that go back to 1970. 

According to the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), the numbers are staggering. Since Biden took office, the number has increased by 6.4 million. 

“The foreign-born share of the U.S. population has more than tripled since 1970, nearly doubled since 1990, and is up 40 percent just since 2000,” CIS researchers wrote.

“Since President Biden took office in January 2021, the foreign-born population has grown by 6.4 million — larger than the individual populations of 33 states.”

These people hate us. The people in Washington, I mean. I suppose the hordes of illegals hate us too, but for different reasons.

From another part of the forest comes this unsurprising news:

Hey, I thought illegals voting was a racist conspiracy theory!

It’s amazing how all these conspiracy theories that us tin-foil-hatted-bitter-clinger-MAGA-nationalist-white-supremacist-racist-cis-normative-deplorables believe KEEP PROVING TRUE.

Anyway, here’s some of that sweet cultural enrichment that these swarming illegals bring to our land.

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Daily Broadside | Israel Proves It Can Handle What the Mullahs in Iran Throw At Them—But for How Long?

So … did anything happen over the weekend?

Sirens blared across Israel on Saturday night as hundreds of drones and missiles launched from Iran reached Israel. Drones and missiles were also reportedly launched from Yemen and other countries around the region.

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The IDF has updated that the full Iranian attack consisted of over 300 threats, of which 100 were ballistic missiles launched from Iran. Another 30 cruise missiles were launched from the Islamic Republic, along with drones. There were also two rounds of rockets, around 40 total, fired on Israel from Lebanon, with Israel responding with counterattacks in close to real-time.

None of the drones or cruise missiles entered Israeli airspace. IDF spokesperson Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari noted that only a small number of  ballistic missiles penetrated the Jewish state’s airspace.

Almost all interceptions have been by aircraft, David’s Sling, or the Arrow missile systems. The Iron Dome, which defends well against Hamas and Hezbollah’s simple rockets, is less relevant for drones and fancier long-range missiles.

Fortunately Israel, along with her partners including the U.S., Great Britain, France, and other unnamed parties, were able to defend against “99%” of the hostile projectiles launched against the Middle East’s only democracy.

Israel managed to shoot down 99% of the 300 deadly suicide drones and missiles that Iran launched at the Jewish state on Saturday night using an advanced air defense system known as David’s Sling — in addition to an array of other anti-missile capabilities.

Israel also had help from the US, the UK and an unlikely Arab ally.

Not a single drone or cruise missile fired by Iran and its proxies made it through, according to Israeli media. And only a few of Iran’s more advanced ballistic missiles struck Israel.

Despite facing a direct attack from Iran for the first time in modern history, Israel appears to have suffered very little damage, and only one casualty is known so far — a 7-year-old Bedouin girl.

What we’re looking at is one of the most advanced defensive arrays in world history. Israel, because of its existential imperative to survive in the lion’s den of the Middle East, has developed one of the most impressive defensive military systems in the world; even better, perhaps, than what the U.S. can field.

The attack is a response to the killing of top Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commander Mohammad Reza Zahedi, the death of whom Iran blames Israel.

More importantly, the attack is a direct result of the Biden junta’s jumbled messaging about Israel’s right to self defense and their idiotic pacification of Iran. Of course, they don’t see it that way. They blame—wait for it—Donald J. Trump.

Bream pressed Kirby about the Biden administration’s policies to permit waivers on sanctions and unfreezing assets vis-à-vis Iran. Last month, the Biden administration re-approved a sanctions waiver to permit Iraq to purchase energy from Iran, effectively allowing the state-sponsor of terrorism to access $10 billion. Kirby had said at the time the money would not go to its “mullahs.”

“Could this administration have been tougher on Iran? Did it sense an opening?” Bream asked. 

“It’s hard to take a look at what President Biden has done and say that we have somehow gone soft on Iran,” Kirby responded. “It was the previous administration that decided to get us out of the Iran deal. And now Iran is so much dramatically closer to a potential nuclear weapon capability than they were before Mr. Trump was elected.”

That Donald Trump, guys. Out of office for almost four years, and the impact he’s had on this administration. I mean, he’s made it so hard for them to govern.

It’s not hard to believe that this gang of incompetent wokesters hastens to blame the prior administration which has been out of power since January 2020. Blame-shifting is their go-to tactic, especially since all Brandon can do is wag his finger and cough up “don’t” as though Iran has any respect for him at all. He’s all pose and no substance, one of the weakest “leaders” we’ve ever had at the helm of this nation.

Bream pressed Kirby again on whether the White House was soft on Iran, and he again blamed Trump’s foreign policy. 

“Is it not fair to say, though, that there have been moves by this administration that have opened up cash and other opportunities for them, which we know are fungible in ways that are not helping the Iranian people but are benefiting the elites and people there who chant ‘Death to America?,'” Bream asked. 

Kirby responded by saying, “The additional funds that have been made available to Iran due to the sanctions relief program that the Trump administration put in place, can only be used for humanitarian goods. It doesn’t go to the regime. And the idea that the regime was somehow felt like they were freed up to support these proxies because of that. It just doesn’t comport with the fact that they have been supporting these proxies for years.” 

For now Israel has withheld a retaliatory response, influenced in part by a call that Biden had with Netanyahu. But there are calls for Israel to attack Iran directly. One publicationn called for Israel to go on the offensive.

The IDF spokesperson said rightly when referring to those who use ballistic missiles as not planning a “moderate attack,” but intending to hit hard. Ballistic missiles, after all, are like a declaration of war.

This could be the run up to World War III. It’s clear that power centers are shifting and the mullahs are growing bolder. They know what is true about any attack, even against an enemy as well prepared defensively as is Israel: the target has to be lucky all the time. Terrorists only have to be lucky once.

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Daily Broadside | OJ Simpson Dies and Leaves Behind A Racially Divided Nation in His Wake

I was going to write about the flood of illegal aliens again today, but the death of O.J. Simpson was announced yesterday and I can’t let the moment pass without saying something about it.

Simpson, a former NFL running back and celebrated TV personality, died after a long battle with cancer. He was 76. Despite his celebrity, he is most well known for the infamous “Trial of the Century” in which he was tried and acquitted for the brutal murder of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ron Goldman. Some years later he was found guilty of an unrelated armed robbery and kidnapping and sentenced to 33 years in prison. He served nine before being released in 2017.

Simpson was my first sports hero. He already played for the NFL’s Buffalo Bills (1969–1977) when my parents moved our family to upstate New York. The Bills were my team and OJ—”The Juice!”—was my favorite player as my budding awareness of sports in general, and football in particular, took flight.

I remember being fascinated by his raw athleticism on the field and my friends and I would trade stories and talk smack about how great he was. He was the first running back to rush for 2,000 yards in one season (1973). I remember buying a pair of athletic shoes that looked like the shoes he wore on game day. The number 32 was an icon for me long before I moved to Chicago where its reverse (23) was even more iconic (Michael Jordan).

But his association with the murder of his ex-wife ruined the admiration I had for him. It was clear to me and to the country as a whole that Simpson was the murderer. The judge allowed the trial to be televised, and it became obvious that while the trial was about whether or not the accused was guilty of the crime, the black public was watching it as a soap opera about race.

Blacks were hoping he would be acquitted not because he didn’t commit the crime, but because he was black. I wanted him convicted because I was sure he had committed the murders.

I remember where I was—in an office, at a counter by myself, where a small radio was relaying the news—when the jury returned a verdict of “not guilty.” I couldn’t believe it. But what was truly astounding was the glee with which the verdict was greeted by (mostly) blacks.

They cheered. They celebrated. It was as if they had won something.

It’s one thing to believe he’s not guilty and breathe a sigh of relief when it’s over, but it’s quite another thing to cheer and celebrate as though Simpson had just completed his record 2,000-yard season. A woman and her friend had been murdered—and nobody seemed to care about that part, even when it was transparently clear that Simpson had done it.

Remarkably, years later we finally got a look at the truth behind the incomprehensible verdict when one of the jurors admitted that they knew Simpson killed Nicole and Ron, but were determined to acquit Simpson for revenge.

She says it was payback for the acquittal of four LAPD officers who beat Rodney King in March1991, which led to the Los Angeles riots of 1992.

The black jurors, instead of doing their duty as American citizens, decided that they’d use their power to let a murderer go free.

To get even with whitey.

She and the rest of the jurors should be ashamed of themselves. But they’re not.

Personally, I think we can draw a straight line from the OJ Simpson case to the racial conflict we are experiencing today.

Have a good weekend.

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Daily Broadside | Donald Trump Isn’t A Hardline Pro-Life Candidate, But I’ll Still Vote for Him

On Monday president-in-exile Donald J. Trump posted a video in which he affirmed IVF (in vitro fertilization) but declined to endorse a federal abortion ban. Instead, he said that the issue should be left to the states.

Many pro-life conservatives were severely disappointed by his announcement, especially since he had said he would sign a federal ban on abortion during his previous administration.

As a 2016 presidential candidate, Trump embraced a federal abortion ban as he sought to consolidate Republican support for his unexpected ascension to GOP nominee. He sent a letter to anti-abortion leaders committing to signing legislation that would have criminalized abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, with exceptions for instances in which the life of the mother is at risk or cases involving rape or incest.

President of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, Marjorie Dannenfelser, issued a statement typical of the pro-life response.

“We are deeply disappointed in President Trump’s position. Unborn children and their mothers deserve national protections and national advocacy from the brutality of the abortion industry. The Dobbs decision clearly allows both states and Congress to act.

“Saying the issue is ‘back to the states’ cedes the national debate to the Democrats who are working relentlessly to enact legislation mandating abortion throughout all nine months of pregnancy. If successful, they will wipe out states’ rights.

A bit stronger was the statement from LiveAction, the pro-life advocacy organization founded and led by Lila Rose.

Killing babies is always wrong. President Trump is not a pro-life candidate. He’s far less pro-abortion than Biden, but he supports killing some preborn children and will even make that his position in an attempt to get pro-abortion votes. 

President Trump also says that abortion should come down to the “will of the people.” It is not right for democratic societies to vote on the fundamental rights of unpopular minorities. There is no more unpopular minority today than preborn Americans. Abortion is not about the “will of the people,” it’s about respecting the human right that we are endowed with by our creator. Our rights come from God, not the government. Those rights do not change because of the circumstances of our conception. Children conceived in rape do not deserve to be killed. Children conceived in IVF do not deserve to be killed, frozen indefinitely or subjected to lethal science experiments.

President Trump’s position also stands in opposition to the GOP platform, which has for decades advanced the idea that the federal government has a vigorous role in protecting children from abortion.

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That position represents the views of the vast majority of Republican voters and supporters of former President Trump. It is tragic that President Trump is abandoning this long-held Republican position. President Trump’s new position is not leadership; it’s a stab in the back against his supporters. With a leader like this, the GOP has little hope of making meaningful progress to protect preborn children. President Trump’s mistake will also make it more challenging for the pro-life movement to win statewide referendums. 

Human life begins at fertilization, and this is the true pro-life position. Human life deserves protection from the moment life begins. 

Personally, I am in full agreement with the position on abortion in both statements. Human beings should not be executed in the womb because they’re inconvenient or for any other reason.

But I’m also sympathetic to the political realities facing Trump. In order to get a federal ban or even some federal restriction on abortion, we have to win the presidency, along with the House and Senate. To win office, Trump has to attract as many voters as he possibly can (without totally selling out). If the margin is too small, the Democrats will cheat again and win. (They’ll cheat no matter what.)

I particularly liked the tone set by Tony Perkins, president of the pro-life Family Research Council, in his response (read the whole thing).

Trump is not a perfect candidate. Ironically, he’s the closest “choice” we have to a pro-life president. Let’s not forget his nominations of Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Barrett, who sent Roe to the ash heap of history. He deserves our thanks for that.

Would I like a hardline pro-life candidate to vote for? Yes. Do I have one on the ballot come November? It’s not looking like it.

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Daily Broadside | Surprise! Black Pressure Groups Want Destroyed Francis Scott Key Bridge Renamed

Well, that didn’t take long.

African American groups call for ditching ‘racist’ Francis Scott Key, naming new bridge after late congressman

A coalition of African American groups in Maryland is pushing for Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge to be renamed once reconstructed over what they say is racism connected to Key’s legacy. 

The Caucus of African American Leaders of Anne Arundel County recently voted unanimously to call for changing the names of two bridges in Maryland, including the Key Bridge, and will lobby Democratic Gov. Wes Moore and the state’s Democrat-controlled General Assembly on the proposal, the Baltimore Banner first reported Tuesday. The bridge collapsed in late March when a cargo ship struck a support beam. 

The coalition includes groups such as an NAACP chapter and the National Coalition of 100 Black Women, which wants the replacement bridge to be renamed in honor of the late Rep. Parren Mitchell, the first African American elected to the U.S. House from the state of Maryland. Mitchell was also a civil rights pioneer as the first Black graduate student admitted to the University of Maryland.

We haven’t even found all the bodies yet, but don’t let that stand in the way of your grievance activism.

A spokesperson for the Caucus of African American Leaders told Fox News Digital they believe “public structures and buildings that taxpayers pay for shouldn’t be named in honor of people who owned slaves.”

It may come as no surprise that I, as a taxpayer, believe that naming “public structures and buildings that taxpayers pay for” shouldn’t be held hostage by one group that has a chip on its shoulder.

As a lawyer, Francis Scott Key helped black Marylanders sue for freedom prior to emancipation. Yet the grievance mongers smear Key with his alleged later views on slavery.

They also quote Key as having said Black Americans are “a distinct and inferior race of people, which all experience proves to be the greatest evil that afflicts a community,” which has received pushback as an “erroneous” quote from the Star Spangled Banner Foundation. 

“A racist quote attributed to Francis Scott Key, the author of the lyrics to ‘The Star-Spangled Banner,’ has been circulating in news articles and blog posts,” the foundation wrote in 2020. “Incorrectly credited to Key as a first-person expression of his attitudes about race in the United States, the quote asserts that free Blacks are “a distinct and inferior race of people, which all experience proves to be the greatest evil that afflicts a community.”

“The quote is taken from page 40 of Jefferson Morley’s generally insightful 2012 book Snow-Storm in August: Washington City, Francis Scott Key, and the Forgotten Race Riot of 1835),” the foundation continued. “Morley, in turn, cites as his sole source a quote in the 1937 biography Francis Scott Key: Life and Times by Edward S. Delaplaine. This biography is the source of confusion as to the quote’s speaker.”

Be that as it may, this push to rename the bridge after an obscure black Marylander really comes as no surprise, especially after the destruction of nationally-important statues over the last few years, including of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. Francis Scott Key is a national figure who contributed to our national identity by authoring the national anthem. But with professional and college sports teams either kneeling or not showing up for the playing of the national anthem, cancelling the anthem’s author is just the next step in smothering our historic national identity.

I can only assume that the black Americans behind this and other efforts to replace recognition of white Americans (like General Robert E. Lee, and presidents George Washington and Thomas Jefferson) with recognition of black Americans think that this somehow fixes past injustices.

It doesn’t, because it can’t.

Whatever isolation black Americans feel, removing and replacing white national historic figures with obscure black figures only furthers that isolation. I know nothing of “Rep. Parren Mitchell, the first African American elected to the U.S. House from the state of Maryland” and I’d wager that very few blacks know who he is, either. Instead of us all, blacks and whites, being bound by the national anthem and its author—who, by the way, was born in Frederick County, Maryland, and lived most of his life there—blacks in Maryland will reject that commonality and replace it with a black man only a few of them know.

Their prerogative. Maryland will reject one of their sons, known for writing our national anthem, for another son, a “first black,” i.e. based solely on race.

Stupid.

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Daily Broadside | Sunny Hostin Eclipsed By (Brighter?) Minds On Eclipse of Sun

There was a lot of oompah-oompah leading up to yesterday’s solar eclipse. Where I live the moon covered 92 percent of the sun, so our favorite star was a thin crescent and didn’t go completely dark.

Still, a solar eclipse produces a bit of a spooky atmosphere. The world is there, in color, and it’s clearly daylight, but it’s like looking through a screen door. Everything has sort of a gray hue to it.

One of the littles was present along the path of totality and experienced the mid-day darkness.

Some Christians speculated that this solar eclipse finished the “X” across America that was started by the last solar eclipse seven years ago and is a sign of impending judgment for our nation. Scripture does say that one of the purposes of the heavenly bodies is to provide “signs.”

And God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night. And let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days and years. Genesis 1:14

Of course, this is great fun for skeptics and CHINOs (CHristians In Name Only).

Hostin’s unhinged conspiracy theories may have been the wildest, but they were not the first during the episode. Faux conservative Alyssa Farah Griffin rhetorically scoffed at the idea that the Friday earthquake in New Jersey was a sign that Jesus was returning, but suggested former President Trump’s gold club had something to do with it:

So, what’s kind of crazy is with the earthquake on Friday and then the eclipse today, people are having all sorts of conspiracies about the end of the world. And then I read online that the earthquake epicenter was actually at Bedminster in New Jersey. Fun fact. So it originated with Trump.

Hostin, a self-proclaimed devout Catholic, laughed about how their studio makeup artist “put on her coat” and “ran down the hallway” during the earthquake saying “Jesus is coming” and “the rapture is here.”

She also bloviated about how it was the first time in 100 years that two different cicada broods were emerging for their mating seasons at the same time.

Apparently, all the pieces were on the table and only Hostin was smart enough to put them together, and “climate change” was the answer. “All those things together would maybe lead one to believe that either climate change exists, or something is really going on,” she proclaimed.

You knew things were bad when Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg were the voices of reason.

“Except earthquakes are not at the mercy of climate change. It’s underground. It can’t,” Behar pushed back. But Hostin wouldn’t listen to reason. “How about the warming of the planet?” she huffed in what she seemingly thought was a checkmate, without evidence of how it would cause earthquakes miles below the earth’s surface.

“No, it happens. And the eclipse, they’ve known about the eclipse coming because eclipses happen and they actually can say when these things are going to happen,” Goldberg argued.

“The View” is the last place to go to get an opinion or news (which are often the same thing with them). But the absolute lack of self-awareness in mocking believers for thinking Jesus is coming and then demonstrating your sheer ignorance of how the earth and the planets work is astonishing, even for “The View.”

The only explanation is that she’s an indoctrinated climate change cultist.

Nobody can be that … um, what’s the word … clueless? Although at this point, given the state of our world, I’m ready to believe that anything is possible.

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Daily Broadside | US Muslims Pressure Biden Who Pressures Israel Who May Be Bending. But I Hope Not

It’s been a bit since I’ve addressed the situation in Israel, now in its seventh month. You might recall that I’m unambiguously in support of Israel’s war on Hamas in the Gaza strip. Hamas is the evil terrorist squad that launched the massacre against Israeli civilians on October 7 last year, killing some 1,200 innocents, while raping women, shooting children, and baking infants in ovens, then abducting hundreds more civilians as hostages.

My view is that if you’re going to provoke a war, you don’t get to cry about the beating you get in return. That view is not shared by Brandon and the puppeteers who pull his strings, or by the Muslim communities who now live here in large enough numbers to make their anti-American voices heard.

Muslim protestors chant ‘death to America, death to Israel’ at rally in Michigan’s Dearborn after city was branded Jihad capital of the U.S by WSJ

  • Protestors gathered to honor Al-Quds Day, an international day to express support for Palestine
  • ‘The chant “death to Israel” has become the most logical chant shouted across the world today,’ one activist said
  • Dearborn was deemed ‘America’s jihad capital’ in an op-ed earlier this year

Chants of ‘death to America!’ and ‘death to Israel!’ erupted during a protest in a Michigan city branded the county’s ‘jihad capital’ by a Wall Street Journal columnist.

Demonstrators gathered in the city on Sunday in commemoration of Al-Quds Day, an international day to express support for Palestine and oppose the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories.

The protest came six days after seven aid workers from World Central Kitchen were killed by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza.

Video shared by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) shows Tarek Bazzi, a local activist, delivering remarks at a podium as chants of ‘death to America!’ sound in the background. 

‘It’s not just Genocide Joe that has to go,’ Bazzi said in reference to President Biden. 

‘It is the entire system that has to go. Any system that would allow such atrocities and such devilry to happen, and would support it – such a system does not deserve to exist on God’s Earth.’

I’m surprised Merrick’s Gestapo isn’t all over this. Sounds kind of insurrectioney to me.

A decade ago I was echoing warnings that allowing Muslims to resettle here would result in hot spots with Muslim majority rule that would clash with American civic values and long-standing history and traditions. Islam, to which Muslims adhere, is not a benevolent religion that just wants to practice their beliefs in peace. To be clear, many individual Muslims do, but Islam is an entire socio-political religious system—a religious-political-cultural ideology—whose goal is to so dominate the world that all non-Muslims will either convert or live in subjugation to it. Indeed, Islam is Arabic for submission and the word “Muslim” means one who submits.

What you’re seeing in Dearborn is a localized manifestation of the broad dominance they will eventually achieve, here and around the world. Pew Research published a report in which they project that,

In the United States, Christians will decline from more than three-quarters of the population in 2010 to two-thirds in 2050, and Judaism will no longer be the largest non-Christian religion. Muslims will be more numerous in the U.S. than people who identify as Jewish on the basis of religion.

This is the bed that your leaders have made and you will be made to lie in it.

Back to Israel. The IDF has withdrawn almost all troops from southern Gaza.

Israel withdrew more troops from southern Gaza on April 7, leaving only a single division in the area as the country faces growing pressure from the United States and internationally to improve humanitarian conditions in the region.

“Today, Sunday April 7th, the IDF’s 98th commando division has concluded its mission in Khan Yunis. The division left the Gaza strip in order to recuperate and prepare for future operations,” the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in a statement. “A significant force led by the 162nd division and the Nahal brigade continues to operate in the Gaza strip, and will preserve the IDF’s freedom of action and its ability to conduct precise intelligence-based operations.”

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The troop withdrawal comes as Israel is under increased pressure from the United States. [So-called] president Joe Biden has demanded an improvement in humanitarian conditions in Gaza and called on Israel to work toward a cease-fire, saying further U.S. support will depend on that. The United States is a major supplier of arms to Israel’s military.

President Biden has also urged leaders of Egypt and Qatar to pressure the Hamas terrorist group to agree to a cease-fire and arrive at a hostage deal ahead of a fresh round of talks in Cairo.

Our Fool in Chief is pandering to the Muslim enclaves in Michigan and Minnesota and anywhere else in the U.S. to get their votes in November. Sacrificing Israel on the altar of anti-Semitism to the radical Islamists is of no concern to him, since making Iran a nuclear power in the Middle East is obviously one of his goals.

Israel, on the other hand, is fighting an existential battle for its life. It’s embarrassing that the U.S. is trying to sandbag its efforts.

However, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu remains firm in his commitment to destroy Hamas.

Rafah, a city where about 1.5 million Palestinians have come seeking refuge from other parts of Gaza, is a key point of conflict between Israel and the Biden administration. President Biden has asked Israel to not conduct military incursions in Rafah, warning that doing so would be crossing a “red line.”

However, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said during a cabinet meeting last month that “no international pressure will stop Israel” from achieving its military goals.

“If we stop the war now before achieving all of its goals, the meaning is that Israel had lost the war and we will not allow this,” he said.

Good.

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Daily Broadside | However Much You Despise This Administration, It’s Not Enough

The latest gaslighting project to smear Trump just dropped from the Biden administration junta.

Terrible, right!?! Trump called immigrants “ANIMALS”!

Except he didn’t.

Here’s what he actually said.

Dems love to change the focus to the FEEEEELings of the animals who committed these crimes. They want to nitpick words and insults while ignoring the murder of innocent Americans by the criminals allowed to be in this country as a result of the anti-American policies the Dems design, implement and support.

CNN of course picked up and amplified the lie.

Don’t let them change the subject. Keep the focus on the blood that they have on their hands.