Monthly Archives: December 2024

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The Broadside | The Biggest Scandal of the American Presidency

It’s December 31, the last day of 2024—a year that, like all others, will never be again. And, later tonight, we’ll welcome 2025.

Only 21 days until the next major holiday: Trump’s second inauguration. Thankfully, that will also be the last of the disastrous Biden Residency.

Up until Brandon, the worst president in US history was the 39th, James Earl “Jimmy” Carter, who died Sunday at age 100. While he was a life-long Baptist and taught Sunday School at his home church, he was decidedly anti-Semitic and no friend of Israel. Yes, he worked a peace deal with Israel and Egypt (the Camp David Accords) but he meddled in the Middle East and Far East, was friend to Yassir Arafat of the PLO and Hafez al-Assad of Syria and denied that Trump won the election in 2016 because of Russia, Russia, Russia. I won’t belabor the point, but Carter was not a good president, and apart from his humanitarian work with Habitat for Humanity, which was admirable, he wasn’t a great former president, either. For good summaries, read here and here.

Fortunately for him, Carter will go down as only the second-worst president in history, saved from the top spot by Joe Biden and, according to the internal polling of me, myself and I, followed by Barack Hussein Obama and Woodrow Wilson.

The nasty, blithering fool who heads the Biden crime family will leave office with instability in the Middle East (Israel, Iran, Syria and Lebanon), central Asia (Russia and Ukraine) and the Far East (China and Taiwan); inflation and a failing economy, along with a self-induced foreign invasion at home; and his personal and political corruption as one of the most venal reprobates to ever hold office.

The only reason Biden survived as he has is because his family, his administration and the press all covered up and denied his frail physical shell and lack of mental cognition for all four years of his “presidency.”

Got that? All four years, as the Wall Street Journal’s extensive December exposé reported. The bottom line is that at no time was Joe Biden mentally fit for the presidency, and the Democrats all LIED TO US ABOUT IT.

Your Democrat party, America!

I’ve said for years that lying is the Democrats’ native language. It’s like what Jesus said to the Pharisees in John 8:44:

You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

The cover up and denial of Joe Biden’s mental incapacity has got to be the greatest scandal of the American presidency in the history of our republic. We “elect” a man to lead our country, but a cabal of unelected officials have run us into the ground over the last four years. Biden was a cypher, an empty suit, a poser, a figurehead, a distraction. He was “president” in title only.

There should be a scorched earth investigation and heads should roll so that this never happens again.

But there won’t be any repercussions. Congress will shrug and go on their way, even though they were lied to for four years straight. Even though we could see with our own eyes that Biden wasn’t fit.

Our most recent national nightmare is about to be over. Biden will go off to the beach, where he’s spent 40 percent of his Residency, and enjoy his ice cream, bought with the millions he got from the Chinese, Russians and Ukrainians.

And Trump will be sworn in on January 20th, 2025, to begin the work of cleaning up the mess left by the most anti-American administration in history.

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The Broadside | Discovery of Ancient “Purely Christian” Inscription Resets Historical Clock

Happy Christmas Eve!

As we approach Christmas, here’s a not unrelated story that helps trace the spread of Christianity from the Middle East into Europe.

Archaeologists have uncovered a groundbreaking artifact in a 3rd-century Roman grave near Frankfurt, Germany, which provides the earliest archaeological evidence of Christianity north of the Alps. The artifact, a silver amulet known as the “Frankfurt Silver Inscription,” dates back to approximately 230-270 CE and predates previously known Christian artifacts from this region by nearly 50 years.

Remember that Jesus was crucified and rose again around 30 A.D., so this is only 200-240 years after that event. That’s less time than the United States has been a country.

The silver amulet was found during a 2017-2018 excavation of a Roman cemetery in the Heilmannstraße area, the site of the ancient Roman city of Nida. The burial ground, which contained 127 graves, was notable for its unusually high proportion of inhumation burials—a practice uncommon in other Roman cemeteries in Frankfurt. Among these graves, one stood out: the resting place of a man aged 35-45 years. Alongside grave goods such as an incense burner and pottery, archaeologists discovered a small rolled silver foil beneath the man’s chin. The amulet, likely worn on a ribbon around the neck, is classified as a phylactery—a container designed to protect the wearer through its contents.

Illustration by Dave Olsson. Map courtesy of Google Maps (c) 2024.

The inscription referred to was on a 1.4 inch-wide wafer-thin rolled silver foil that was kept inside the amulet. Due to its age and condition, it was not possible to unroll it, so the archaeologists used advanced computer tomography technology to digitally unroll it.

Translated into English, the inscription reads:

(In the name?) of Saint Titus.
Holy, holy, holy!
In the name of Jesus Christ, Son of God!
The Lord of the world
resists to the best of his [ability?]
all seizures(?)/setbacks(?).
The god(?) grants well-being
Admission.
This rescue device(?) protects
the person who
surrenders to the will
of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God,
since before Jesus Christ
bend all knees: the heavenly ones,
the earthly and
the subterranean, and every tongue
confess (to Jesus Christ).

The inscription is “purely Christian,” unusual for the time because it refers to no other deity or religion other than Christianity. Titus was a disciple of the Apostle Paul, and at the end of the inscription is a near-literal quotation from Paul’s letter to the Philippians (2:10-11).

Typically, amulets from this era contained a blend of Christian, Jewish, and pagan elements. However, the absence of references to Yahweh, angels, or pagan deities in this inscription underscores its exclusively Christian nature. This uniqueness not only highlights the wearer’s devotion but also raises questions about the role of Christianity in Nida, a city that was once a cultural and administrative hub of Roman Germania.

Up until this discovery, “Historical sources had hinted at Christian communities in Gaul and Upper Germania as early as the late 2nd century, but tangible proof north of the Alps was previously limited to the 4th century.”

We know that Paul got as far west as Rome (it’s where he was martyred under Nero in about 64 AD). He intended to go to Spain (see Romans 15:24) but we have no confirmation that he actually got there. The amulet was found directly north of Rome, across the Alps.

Constantine the Great issued the Edict of Milan made Christian worship legal. This amulet and inscription pre-dates such Roman tolerance, meaning that the man who wore it was courageous and devoted in what could still be a hostile climate.

The history of Christianity (and of Christ, himself) is often filled with controversy. Yet no archaeological find has ever disproved the scriptures. In fact, archaeological discoveries have only confirmed what the Bible claims.

This find is just one of thousands that help us understand the rise and spread of the Christian faith.

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The Broadside | Your GOP “Representatives” Just Tried to Stab You in the Back

Speaker Johnson was all set to put forward a three-month Continuing Resolution that is crammed full of things Americans didn’t vote for, including the Global Engagement Center (GEC), which has been illegally censoring conservatives for years. He was literally ready to give them more money and another year of life so they’d be in place when Trump took office.

You know what else was in there? A pay raise for members of Congress. But not a cost-of-living adjustment, or some “merit” increase (LOL). No, they were going to give themselves a FORTY-PERCENT RAISE.

These criminal do-nothings work a part-time job and were ready to make themselves millionaires over their time of service by jumping their pay from the current $174,000/yr. to $243,000/yr.

For what!?!

All these cretins do is hold ineffective hearings (basically show trials without any convictions), make speeches that no one listens to, and write strongly worded letters.

Can anyone tell me what positive legislation they’ve crafted recently to give me more freedom and let me keep more of my money?

Anyone?

Bueller?

In a statement shared with the Washington Examiner, House Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-LA) office defended the GEC provision.

“Speaker Johnson has killed multiple efforts to pass a 5-year reauthorization of the GEC during the past year, including as recently as the National Defense Authorization Act last week,” a spokesperson for Johnson said. “This bill ensures the incoming Trump Administration has the maximum ability and authority to determine how to handle the office, its authorities, and funding.”

According to a congressional source familiar with the matter, the GEC provision was a demand from Senate Democrats in exchange for Republicans getting a provision aiming to protect small businesses from certain fines approved by the Biden administration under a bill called the Corporate Transparency Act.

Fortunately, president-elect Trump, vice-president-elect Vance, Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy all called them out and it looks like the bill is dead. That’s a good thing, because our elected representatives—and “we the people”—are beginning to realize that it won’t be business as usual anymore.

We’re tired of getting ripped off and told to shut up by swamp creatures.

This guy gets it:

Throw Speaker Johnson out—he’s a weak leader. We need a bulldog with a spine like Trump in that chair.

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The Broadside | So What if the Christian School Shooter Was Trans?

Note that I’m not saying she is … was … trans. I’m just saying that there seems to be an attitude that it shouldn’t matter.

There was speculation Monday that the shooter was transgender, although other sources disputed the claim. Some said she had an “online obsession with school shooters.”

Barnes insisted that he doesn’t care whether Rupnow was transgender, as some reports indicated. It’s not important, he said, when asked by a leftist reporter about “misinformation” online. The Madison journalist effectively wagged her finger at parental rights group for claiming the shooter was transgender, “which is a reaction that we see across the country linked with mass shootings to claim that trans people are dangerous.”

Barnes, a far-left police chief in one of the most LGBTQ agenda-pushing cities in America, said he wished people would “leave their own personal biases out of this.”

“I don’t know whether Natalie was transgender or not and quite frankly I don’t think that’s even important. I don’t think that’s important at all,” the chief told reporters at an evening press conference. “I don’t think that whatever happened today has anything to do with how she or he or they my [sic] have wanted to identify …”

Barnes subsequently acknowledged that Rupnow’s gender identity “is something that may come out later.”

Ackshully, it might matter a wee bit. Even id she wasn’t, at least three recent school shootings were carried out by trans-identifying persons.

Seventeen-year-old Dylan Butler killed one and injured five at Perry High School in Iowa on January 4, 2024 before killing himself. According to reports he was trans/genderfluid, used the pronouns he/they, and “loved” trans kids.

28-year-old Audrey Elizabeth Hale killed six at a private Christian school in Tennessee on March 27, 2023. She was transgender and wanted to be called “Aiden” and to be referred to by male pronouns. She was shot and killed by responding officers.

Sixteen-year-old Maya McKinney killed one student and injured eight others at STEM School Highlands Ranch in Colorado on May 7, 2019. She identified as male, went by “Alec” and targeted classmates who she claimed bullied her because she was transgender.

So, yeah, my immediate thought when I heard about the shooting was to wonder if it was a transgender student. And I won’t apologize for thinking that, no matter how much the Leftists scold me for my “bias.”

It’s not without cause.

What we know about 15-year-old Natalie Rupnow is that she went by “Sam” or Samantha, she idolized the German industrial rock band KMFDM (also idolized by Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold of the Columbine High School massacre), had an interest in mass shootings, had “a long, disturbing online history of being obsessed with school shooters and death [and] used the moniker “crossixir” online,” and somehow got a 9mm pistol (for her birthday!) that she used to carry out her attack.

Andy Ngo says Natalie “did not identify as trans.”

I don’t have screengrabs, so I won’t name the publication, but I could swear that the text of a report I read after the shooting originally said, “himself” and then it changed to “themself” and then the entire sentence disappeared in which those words had appeared.

The investigation is still ongoing, but I won’t be surprised if we learn that she was sexually confused and/or mentally unstable.

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The Broadside | Our Employees in Washington Refuse to Tell Us What They Know About Drones

These mysterious drones shut down NY airport runways last week.

The New York Post reported Saturday that Hochul said pretty much what everyone is thinking: “This has gone too far.” She issued these words of wisdom after the drones forced the shutdown of the runway at Stewart International Airport, which is right outside of Newburgh, New York, and “services both commercial and military flights.”

Stewart International Airport is also “adjacent to a New York Air National Guard base, where the 105th Airlift Wing is stationed.” If you think that Stewart Airport is nevertheless small potatoes, note also that the drones have recently flown over both LaGuardia International Airport in New York City and Newark Liberty International Airport, although they haven’t shut down the runways at either. At least not yet.

At Stewart, the runways were closed for just over an hour, according to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, “following a report from the FAA about a drone sighting at the airport,” and “there were no impacts to flight operations during the closure,” so relax, you dronephobe.

What gasses me is that the people we pay to protect us from external (and internal) national threats have not been forthcoming about what these drones are.

The sightings have put intense pressure on federal agencies to provide more information about the aircraft, as officials have urged calm and emphasized there is no evidence suggesting the sightings pose a security threat.

“I want to assure the American public that we are on it,” Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week.”

Oh, goody. They’re ON IT.

This is the same guy who assured “the American public” that our southern border was secure. Totally secure. Never better.

I don’t know about you, but I’m relieved!

The FBI and DHS said in a joint statement Thursday there is “no evidence at this time that the reported drone sightings pose a national security or public safety threat or have a foreign nexus.”

So, they know that there’s no evidence of a national security or public safety threat? How? How do they know that they don’t pose such threats?

Do they know where they’re coming from? Do they know who’s controlling them? Do they know why they’re flying over New Jersey and other east coast states?

If they know they don’t pose any threats, then they must know more about them than they’re telling us. And they aren’t saying anything about them that will put us at ease. They’re being vague and evasive in their comments.

I don’t trust these people with my life and health.

Even Chuck Shoooomer is cranky about the drones.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said he’s asking DHS to deploy special detection systems that use 360-degree technology to detect drones.

“If the technology exists for a drone to make it up into the sky, there certainly is the technology that can track the craft with precision and determine what the heck is going on,” Schumer said Sunday while discussing the technology.

For once I agree with the guy.

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The Broadside | Trump is TIME’s Person of the Year and Big Deal

How could it have been anyone else?

It could’ve been someone else, but Trump so dominated the political and cultural landscape, culminating in his landslide (yes, it was a landslide, and don’t let anyone tell you it wasn’t) election that had TIME chosen anyone else, their bias would’ve been glaringly obvious.

And they can’t be glaringly obvious about their anti-American, progressive worldview. It only works when it’s subtle.

Trump’s political rebirth is unparalleled in American history. His first term ended in disgrace, with his attempts to overturn the 2020 election results culminating in the attack on the U.S. Capitol. He was shunned by most party officials when he announced his candidacy in late 2022 amid multiple criminal investigations. Little more than a year later, Trump cleared the Republican field, clinching one of the fastest contested presidential primaries in history. He spent six weeks during the general election in a New York City courtroom, the first former President to be convicted of a crime—a fact that did little to dampen his support. An assassin’s bullet missed his skull by less than an inch at a rally in Butler, Pa., in July. Over the next four months, he beat not one but two Democratic opponents, swept all seven swing states, and became the first Republican to win the popular vote in 20 years. He has realigned American politics, remaking the GOP and leaving Democrats reckoning with what went awry.

Trump has a ready explanation for his improbable resurrection. He even has a name for its climactic final act. “I called it 72 Days of Fury,” he says as the interview gets under way. “We hit the nerve of the country. The country was angry.” It wasn’t just the MAGA faithful. Trump harnessed deep national discontent about the economy, immigration, and cultural issues. His grievances resonated with suburban moms and retirees, Latino and Black men, young voters and tech edgelords. While Democrats estimated that most of the country wanted a President who would uphold the norms of liberal democracy, Trump saw a nation ready to smash them, tapping into a growing sense that the system was rigged.

If America was craving change, it is about to see how much Trump can deliver. He ran on a strongman vision, proposing to deport migrants by the millions, dismantle parts of the federal government, seek revenge against his political adversaries, and dismantle institutions that millions of people see as censorious and corrupt. “He understands the cultural zeitgeists,” says his 2016 campaign manager Kellyanne Conway, who remains a close adviser. “Donald Trump is a complicated person with simple ideas, and way too many politicians are the exact opposite.”

You can tell in those three paragraphs that the TIME writers hated writing any of it. It goes on like that for thousands of words.

TIME magazine has been an irrelevant leftist rag for the last thirty years. I used to subscribe to it in my twenties but over time noticed that it wasn’t objectively reporting “news” but offering opinion disguised as “news.” I dropped my subscription after that and never looked back.

The only good thing about this year’s “award” is that TIME was forced to give it to Trump.

Have a good weekend.

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The Broadside | Alleged CEO Assassin Arrested and Charged With Murder

Yesterday I titled my post “Hit Man Still Unidentified and Still At Large” and said I expected to “turn on the news and there will be an announcement that they’ve captured the ‘person of interest’ and have brought him in for questioning.”

After I posted that thought, the ‘person of interest’ was spotted, arrested, and charged with murdering UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson later that day.

The man detained by police in Pennsylvania in connection with the shock slaying of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson has been identified as Luigi Mangione.

Mangione, 26, is an ‘anti-capitalist’ Ivy League graduate. He was taken into custody after a McDonald’s employee in Altoona, around 100 miles east of Pittsburgh, believed they recognized him as the gunman.

He reportedly had a 3D-printed ghost gun similar to the one used in the Wednesday morning murder, along with a gun silencer, a manifesto, and four fake IDs when he was arrested by cops.

Stop me if you’ve heard this before: college students, including the rich ones at Ivy League schools, are often radicalized by their professors and turned into progressive anti-capitalists who believe socialism hasn’t been tried hard enough yet.

The suspected gunman reportedly referenced UnitedHealthcare in the handwritten document found on him.

Luigi Mangione mentioned the $515.93 billion company in his manifesto noting the size of the company and how much money it makes, a senior law enforcement offical who saw the document told the New York Times.

In the 262-word handwritten manifesto, Mangione said as UnitedHealthcare’s market capitalization has grown, American life expectancy has not.

The document condemned companies that ‘continue to abuse our country for immense profit because the American public has allowed them to get away with it.

He reportedly wrote that acted alone and that he was self-funded.

‘To save you a lengthy investigation, I state plainly that I wasn’t working with anyone,’ Mangione said.

‘These parasites had it coming. I do apologize for any strife and trauma, but it had to be done.’

Note that he blames you and me—”the American public”—for letting companies make immense profits. I don’t disagree that the healthcare corporations “abuse our country for immense profit,” but they’ve been allowed to by political elites, not “the American public.”

Obamacare is the most egregious of the offending sprockets in the healthcare insurance machine that rules doctors and patients. That’s a Democrat invention that conservatives vehemently opposed.

But killing CEOs isn’t the answer. Dismantling the healthcare insurance industry is.

His motive is believed to be tied to the behemoth US healthcare industry’s treatment of a sick relative or even himself, sources said.

As I wrote yesterday, the most likely motive for the execution was personal. That seems to have had something to do with the shooting, but it also seems clear from the manifesto and Mangione’s anti-capitalist rage that the financial disparity between the very rich executives of a very rich enterprise and the “victims” of their ‘larceny’ was also a factor.

The tech ace and onetime prep-school valedictorian was taken into custody by local cops after the worker at the fast-food joint called 911 Monday morning, authorities said.

“He was sitting there eating,’’ NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny told reporters of Mangione.
Mangione was wearing a blue medical mask and “a beanie’’ and staring at his silver laptop on the table, with a backpack on the floor next to him, when two Altoona cops approached him, authorities said.

The officers asked him to take off his mask — and immediately confirmed he was the sought-after slay suspect, officials said.

I’m glad they caught the guy and I hope they put him away for a thousand years for the cold-blooded murder of Brian Thompson. But I also hope that the killing, while reprehensible and indefensible, might nonetheless focus attention on the power of the healthcare giants and force some kind of reckoning.

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The Broadside | Hit Man Still Unidentified and Still At Large

Sounds like maybe they know who he is.

When asked why the NYPD is not releasing the name of the person of interest, Cardinale said the public is on a need to know basis and that right now, there are certain elements of this case they do not need to know.

“They’re giving as much as they can without compromising a case that once he is caught needs to move forward and get a conviction. So they can not, just for the sake of putting it out there to the public, blow their case before it’s even formed,” Cardinale said.

If they know who he is, why haven’t they issued an APB? I mean, get everybody looking for the guy.

Instead, we’re entering day six without an arrest or much new information. When it first happened, I thought it could be one of three things, in decreasing likelihood:

  1. It’s a personal beef with UnitedHealthcare, but not necessarily CEO Brian Thompson. Something like a denied claim or coverage for a family member.
  2. It has to do with a Department of Justice investigation alleging that Thompson and three other executives engaged in insider trading.
  3. It had to do with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. being nominated to run the Department of Health and Human Services and he knew something that needed to be kept quiet.

After staying current with most of what’s out there about the hit, I think it’s the first. If it was a contract killing, we wouldn’t have seen the shooter, or he would’ve taken greater pains to make sure he wasn’t seen. I don’t think if it was a contract hit that the hitman would’ve chosen to get away on a … bike. Not a professional’s MO. Plus, the killer dropped live rounds on scene with the words, “Deny,” “Defend,” and “Depose” inscribed on them.

He’s sending a message. A contract killer doesn’t do that.

But there’s no doubt that whoever this guy is, he put plenty of thought into it.

“I’m still not convinced that this is somebody who just happened to be, you know, upon him on that morning. I think he had intimate knowledge of where Mr. Thompson would be at that hour. Now, how did he get that knowledge? That is the big million-dollar question right now,” Cardinale said. “He’s leaving these clues, he’s discarding it, he planned it from the beginning.”

That’s my question. How did the killer know to wait right where he did, right at that time in the morning? Makes me wonder if he’s an employee or ex-employee of UHC, or if he had inside contacts. And if not, how did he get his information?

More curious, how has he been able to stay a step ahead of the authorities? I sort of expect that I’m going to turn on the news and there will be an announcement that they’ve captured the “person of interest” and have brought him in for questioning.

That’s the internal tension we all live with, right? We want to know who it is and why he did it. It’s what keeps us glued to the news.

It’s a true whodunit.

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The Broadside | Nobody Trusted “My Word as a Biden” Except the Left. And Now He’s Burned Them

The main topic of conversation since Sunday is Joe Biden’s blanket pardon of his son, Hunter, after telling us all several times over the last year that he wouldn’t. It’s a fitting end to his entire mendacious career of deceit and grift, pardoning himself and his family for the criminal enterprise they’ve run for his 50-plus years in office.

The Right never believed Biden’s claim while the Left swallowed it hook, line and sinker in order to seize the moral high ground. “See, this is what a law-and-order president is like.”

“It’s all about the contrast.” Sure.

Now the MSDNCNNBCBS mouthpieces are clutching their pearls in horror and have no good answers.

You can bet that there are a lot more pardons to come. The Left is already calling for him to issue pre-emptive pardons, in the spirit of what he did for Huntie, to men like Merrick Garland and Alejandro Mayorkas and Anthony Fauci. For what, we can only imagine.

“Persecute.” The irony. Why do they all need pardons, Keith?

The bigger question I have is, how can a president “pardon” a conviction that hasn’t yet been made? If such a “pardon” is legal, can Biden issue a blanket “pardon” for all 40 million illegals in the country going back to 1980 and forward to January 19, 2025?

This site explains the power of pardons.

Article II, Section 2, Clause 1:

The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States; he may require the Opinion, in writing, of the principal Officer in each of the executive Departments, upon any Subject relating to the Duties of their respective Offices, and he shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment.

The Constitution establishes the President’s authority to grant clemency, encompassing not only pardons of individuals but several other forms of relief from criminal punishment as well. The power, which has historical roots in early English law, has been recognized by the Supreme Court as quite broad. In the 1886 case Ex parte Garland, the Court referred to the President’s authority to pardon as unlimited except in cases of impeachment, extending to every offence known to the law and able to be exercised either before legal proceedings are taken, or during their pendency, or after conviction and judgment. Much later, the Court wrote that the broad power conferred in the Constitution gives the President plenary authority to ‘forgive’ [a] convicted person in part or entirely, to reduce a penalty in terms of a specified number of years, or to alter it with certain conditions.

So, a president is granted the power to pardon anyone, for anything, at any time, as long as it is a federal matter and is not a matter of impeachment.

Trump will most certainly pardon all J6 prisoners. But here’s the difference: Biden is pardoning Hunter for what are clear violations of established law, including gun charges, use of drugs, possible sexual offenses with underage girls, and acting as bagman for his influence-peddling father. Trump, on the other hand, will pardon J6ers for trumped-up charges and disproportional sentences that clearly abuse the legal code and their rights as American citizens.

I can’t wait until Brandon, the senile corrupt moron, is out of office.