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Daily Broadside | Someone Just Leaked the Nashville Shooter’s Manifesto

Or at least part of it.

Back in March of this year a troubled young woman who pretended she was a man walked into a Christian school in Nashville and gunned down six people, including three kids, before being taken out by a responding officer. The killer was identified as Audrey Hale, a 28-year-old former student of the school.

After the massacre, rumors of a “manifesto” that detailed why she had done what she had began circulating. Demands to publish the manifesto were put off with “active investigation” excuses and it eventually became clear that the authorities had no intention of releasing whatever writings they had from Audrey.

Nashville Council member Courtney Johnston told The Post the FBI has already ruled the manifesto would not be released in its entirety. 

“What I was told is, her manifesto was a blueprint on total destruction, and it was so, so detailed at the level of what she had planned,” she said, when reached by phone.

“That document in the wrong person’s hands would be astronomically dangerous,” she added.

She said she believed part of Hale’s writings would come out but that “the vast, overwhelming majority of it,” presented too much of a danger to the public.

Indeed they have “come out.” Apparently someone has had enough of the regime’s suppression of this document.

Louder with Crowder is publishing three pages of the long-awaited Nashville transgender mass shooter’s manifesto. These pages of the manifesto were exclusively obtained by MugClub Undercover.

The never-before-seen manifesto details how Audrey Hale planned to carry out the targeted massacre.

In the pages reviewed and corroborated by MugClub Undercover, Hale said she hoped to have a “high death count” and wanted to “kill” kids with “white privileges.”

A mentally unbalanced white woman who believes in the woke slur of “white privilege.” A detailed list was offered earlier on in the article:

  • The manifesto detailed thoughts Hale had leading up to what was referred to as “DEATH DAY”, as well as a timeline in which the shooting would take place.
  • Audrey Hale: “Can’t believe I’m doing this, but I’m ready…I hope my victims aren’t.”
  • Hale: “I hope I have a high death count.”
  • Hale: “Kill those kids!!!”
  • Hale: “going to fancy private schools with those fancy khakis + sports backpacks w/ their daddies mustangs + convertibles.”
  • Hale: “Wanna kill all you little crackers!!! Bunch of little faggots w/ your white privileges”• Hale: There were several times I could have been caught especially b—ack in the summer of 2021.
  • Hale: “It might be 10 minutes tops. It might be 3-7. Its gunna go quick.”

Taking this alleged manifesto at face value, I’m struck by the depth of hatred over superficial qualities that indicate “white privilege.” She writes about “going to fancy private schools with those fancy khakis + sports backpacks w/ their daddies mustangs + convertibles.”

Fancy khakis? Sports backpacks? Sports cars?

That sounds a lot like self-pity and envy. It’s the kind of thing a high-schooler would say when trying to insult someone who is elevated on the social ladder. By “fancy” she probably means “expensive” or “name brand” since khakis aren’t particularly “fancy.”

The Covenant School, where she was a student, is a private Christian school, serving Pre-K through 6th Grade students. Tuition ranges from $7,250 to $16,500 per student per school year. Not inexpensive, but scholarships and other financial aid is available.

Audrey was able to enroll back when she was a little kid. Was she, too, “privileged”?

We still don’t know why she chose her former school as her target. If she attended there through sixth grade, she would’ve been 11 or 12 years old. At the time of the shooting, she was 28. That’s a 16-year differential.

Was she holding onto some slight or victimization from her time there? Was she blaming the school’s overt affirmation of faith in Jesus Christ for her sexual confusion?

Her woke demonization of “white privilege” hardly applies to 6th graders or younger students. How many of them are driving daddy’s car to school?

Whatever her motivation, it’s clear she wanted to kill children, white people, and the Christians at The Covenant School.

So why suppress the manifesto? Because you’re supposed to see the protected classes as victims. It won’t do for you to have evidence that there are, in fact, hateful spiteful woke people who harbor murderous intentions before they carry them out. That would leave the regime looking like it’s hiding something—like their implicit support for hateful, spiteful killers.

WSMV has confirmed that the images are from the killer’s notebooks.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) – The images leaked on social media Monday morning are confirmed to belong to The Covenant School Shooter, a source told WSMV4 Chief Investigator Jeremy Finley.

On Monday morning, a political commentator released documents he said were related to The Covenant School shooting in Nashville.

Steven Crowder, host of “Louder with Crowder,” released three photos of writings in notebooks. Crowder claims they are images of the shooter’s writings. Now, a source has confirmed to WSMV4 that those images are indeed from the shooter.

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Daily Broadside | Our Vets Deserve Our Thanks

Hope you all had a nice weekend.

On Saturday I attended a Veteran’s Appreciation Night put on by my local church fellowship and sponsored by local VFW posts. We had vets from the Army, Air Force, Navy, Marines and Coast Guard.

The program included the singing of the national anthem, a dinner, some light musical entertainment, a comedienne, a raffle, and the offer of hope found in Jesus Christ.

But the whole night started with the entrance. Every veteran who walked in the door was greeted with a reception line of volunteers from the church, who cheered, applauded, waved American flags and shook their hand as they walked a red carpet to the registration table, where they had their photo taken by a red, white and blue balloon arch, and then were escorted to their table by other volunteers.

As part of the greeting committee, I got to shake hands with many of the vets, but a highlight was shaking hands with a sprightly 101-year-old WWII veteran and thanking him for his service.

Do you realize it’s been 78 years since the end of World War II? According to US Department of Veterans Affairs, only 119,550 Americans who served in WWII are currently alive. Even the youngest enlisted men, knowing some snuck in at age 16 or 17, would be in their 90s now.

I was there with my wife to host, meaning that I would wait on the guests seated at my assigned table. As it turned out, only one vet and his wife sat at my table. Because there weren’t any other guests for that table, I was invited to have dinner with them so they weren’t stranded by themselves.

Denny (not his real name) was a Navy vet who had always wanted to serve in the armed forces. He enlisted before he graduated from high school, then spent 10 years in the service. He now works for the DOJ. I asked him if he was busy tracking “white supremacists” like me, and he laughed. No, that’s not what he does.

When I asked him how he got to the appreciation dinner, he said that his neighbor is also a veteran and had attended the dinner last year. It was so good, he said, that he kept badgering Denny to attend this year. I asked him if he ever attended an appreciation night like this and he said no.

Unfortunately, I didn’t get to ask him how he enjoyed the evening when it was all over; I was busy cleaning up with the rest of the volunteers when he and his wife left. I hope it was enjoyable for them.

The idea behind the event is to truly appreciate our vets. We live in polarized times, when our military is being wrecked by social experimentation, our war heroes are being “cancelled,” our past and present military engagements are being criticized, and our veterans have been abused by government incompetence.

We forget that our veterans are people who were asked or who volunteered to serve our country and often faced dreadful circumstances in which they had to engage in terrible acts that perhaps defeated our enemies, but that some carried home in their psyches.

To thank a 100-year-old man who served in our military is not to approve of what he did or didn’t do. I didn’t get to have a conversation with him, so I don’t know his rank or where he was deployed or what sort of experience he had. For all I know, he was a clerk in a general’s office in Topeka, Kansas.

My appreciation is to recognize that he performed a noble act, that he took on a role that put “country” before himself, that he put himself at risk on behalf of those who couldn’t. Many of our vets never made it home, having made the ultimate sacrifice. That could have been him, and I deeply appreciate the courage it took to expose himself to that risk on behalf of a country to which he pledged his loyalty.

A “country” isn’t some amorphous entity. A country is citizens like you and me. Every veteran who served in the military did so on behalf of the people who make up the country.

I’ve made it a personal commitment to thank our servicemen and women. While many of them aren’t looking for thanks, I can see that it’s meaningful to them when they are thanked.

I encourage you to thank a vet this Veteran’s Day, November 11.

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Daily Broadside | John, Paul, George and Ringo Play Together One More Time

Welcome to November. I don’t know what it’s like where you are, but on October 31 we had flurries that actually became blizzard-like for about 10 minutes during the afternoon with strong winds and the snow blowing sideways across the front of the house.

I hope that’s not a taste of what this winter will be like.

On October 5, 1962, a single called “Love Me Do” hit record stores in England.

It was the debut 45 by the Beatles – though, at the time, that name didn’t mean much to many English fans outside of Manchester and their native Liverpool. (The band’s frequent performances at the Star Club in Hamburg had already won them a devoted following in Germany, however.) The song was a surprise hit, rising to Number 17 on one of the many weekly charts around the U.K., a strong enough showing to convince EMI they had made a smart bet in signing the Beatles. 

Paul McCartney began writing “Love Me Do” a few years earlier, in 1958, when he was playing hooky from school at age 16. Soon afterwards, he sat down with John Lennon to flesh it out. “It was completely co-written,” McCartney later said. “It might have been my original idea, but some of them really were 50-50s, and I think that one was. It was just Lennon and McCartney sitting down without either of us having a particularly original idea.”

Lennon had a slightly different recollection of events. “‘Love Me Do’ is Paul’s song,” he said in 1980. “Let me think. I might have helped with the middle eight, but I couldn’t swear to it. I do know he had the song around, in Hamburg, even, way, way before we were songwriters.”

The Beatles, as we all know, went on to become the biggest and most influential rock ‘n’ roll band of all time. Their catalogue of hits included “I Want to Hold Your Hand,” “All You Need is Love,” “Get Back,” “Yesterday,” “Eight Days A Week,” “Cant’ Buy Me Love,” “I Saw Her Standing There,” “Twist and Shout,” “Help,” “A Hard’s Day Night,” “Penny Lane,” and their masterpiece watershed album, “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.”

They wrote and recorded all of that, and much, much more, from October 1962 to April 1970—just 7 years—when they broke up and went their separate ways. They were all still in their twenties.

Now, 61 years after they released their first single, and long after both John Lennon (1980) and George Harrison (2001) died, comes a new song featuring all of The Beatles.

The song started as a demo that John had recorded and that Yoko Ono had given to George. But whereas they were able to record “Free As A Bird” and “Real Love” from similar cassette demos, “Now And Then” presented a bigger challenge because they couldn’t separate John’s voice from the piano he played on while recording the demo.

After giving it a few tries, they gave up.

It wasn’t until Peter Jackson developed the software to separate vocals, voices and instruments during the creation of the documentary, “Get Back,” that an opportunity presented itself to complete “Now And Then.” They had John’s voice, George’s guitar and backing vocals, and Paul and Ringo took the pieces and added their parts including bass, drums, vocals, and some strings.

What they produced is a meloncholy, down beat tune. Yet with John’s soulful vocals and the harmonies added by Paul and George, it sounds like … The Beatles.

It’s astonishing that more than a generation later, the surviving half of the band were able to perform, once more, with their missing bandmates.

According to Paul McCartney, this is the last Beatles song. There are no more recordings. It truly is The End.

Have a good weekend.

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Daily Broadside | Even Now The Search for Noah’s Ark Continues

In the Bible is a story that almost everybody is familiar with.

11 Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight and was full of violence. 12 God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways. 13 So God said to Noah, “I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth. 14 So make yourself an ark of cypress wood; make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out. 15 This is how you are to build it: The ark is to be three hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide and thirty cubits high. 16 Make a roof for it, leaving below the roof an opening one cubit high all around. Put a door in the side of the ark and make lower, middle and upper decks. 17 I am going to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy all life under the heavens, every creature that has the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will perish. 18 But I will establish my covenant with you, and you will enter the ark—you and your sons and your wife and your sons’ wives with you. 19 You are to bring into the ark two of all living creatures, male and female, to keep them alive with you. 20 Two of every kind of bird, of every kind of animal and of every kind of creature that moves along the ground will come to you to be kept alive. 21 You are to take every kind of food that is to be eaten and store it away as food for you and for them.” 22 Noah did everything just as God commanded him. (Genesis 6:11-22 NIV)

All three theistic religions — Judaism, Christianity, and Islam — include the story of the flood, and flood stories are found in nearly every culture. Atheists argue that this means there’s nothing special about the account in Genesis because that just means as humanity spread out, they carried the “myth” with them. Then the “myth” took on a life of its own and was embellished with each culture’s priorities.

But a nearly universally existing “flood” account doesn’t prove a myth. The obvious question is that if every culture has an account of a worldwide flood, couldn’t that instead point to some kind of ancient cataclysmic event? (By the way, the primary meaning of cataclysm is “flood.”)

At least one study seems to suggest that there is a common event being remembered, and that the original account is to be found in the Bible:

Strickling concluded from his study of flood legends from all over the world that “nearly all” flood accounts “are variations of the theme in the biblical account … however, a statistical analysis indicates the purity of the biblical account and reveals evidence of subsequence [sic] upheavals having corrupted in varying degrees all other accounts” [53, p. 152]. Among the similarities that Strickling found include a favored family was saved in thirty-two of the flood accounts, and in twenty-one survival was due to a “boat” of some type. He concluded that a correlation exists between them in the following areas: 1) survival by boat, 2) a forewarning, 3) one flood only, and 4) preservation of non-human types of life such as animals. The same correspondence with the biblical account is also found in world wide-creation accounts.

Among the aspects of the early history of the world found in Genesis and the flood that also appear in many or most creation stories are the confusion of tongues at Babel. Syrian, Sumerian, Greek, Babylonian, Chinese, Persian and even the Estonian, Irish, American Indian, Toltec and Cholulan creation stories all include a variant of the flood story. In the American Indian tradition the flood causes “universal destruction” because the world grew “extremely sinful” [37]. Warshofsky notes regarding the great flood that “with variations” the

biblical account of a great, universal flood is part of the mythology and legend of almost every culture on earth. Even people living far from the sea—the Hopi Indians in the American Southwest, the Incas high in the Peruvian Andes—have legends of a great flood … covering the tops of the mountains and wiping out virtually all life on earth [56, p. 129, emphasis mine].

I bring all of this up because there has been an enduring fascination with Noah’s ark and whether the biblical account is true or not. The most recent report I’ve seen comes from just a couple of days ago.

Scientists have placed humans at the site of what is believed to be the “ruins of Noah’s Ark,” in the eastern mountains of Turkey.

The findings, released earlier this week, of rock and soil samples determined that “clayey materials, marine materials and seafood” were present in the area between 5500 and 3000 BC, according to the Turkish newspaper Hürriyet.

The study is comprised of three Turkish and American universities that have been investigating the theory of the site since 2021.

It certainly looks like a boat. What’s also fascinating is that the structure pictured above corresponds to the dimensions of the ark as described in Genesis 6:

The size and shape of the formation correlate with the dimensions of what the ark is said to be in the Bible Book of Genesis, a “length of three hundred cubits, its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits.”

In the Bible readings, God commanded Noah, a 600-year-old father of three, to build the ark and fill it with two of every animal before a global flood hit.

The Durupinar site is 18 miles south of the Greater Mount Ararat summit, which the Book of Genesis states is where the ark came to rest on the seventh month and seventeenth day.

There have been many other claims of finding the remains of the ark frozen in the snow and ice on Mt. Ararat, none of which have been conclusive, but many of which are consistent in what they describe: a very large, dark rectangular object sticking out of the ice and resembling a barge.

That description does not fit the object nor the location being discussed in the Post article. However, the very next sentence in the article does reflect the skeptics:

The holy texts of three major religions, Christianity, Judaism and Islam all have references to Noah and the ark, but scientists have yet to determine the authenticity of the stories.

You see, we have to wait for SCIENCE to validate scripture in order for it to have any credibility. Just like SCIENCE validated the COVID-19 vaccines and boosters. Which means we’ll have to wait for Dr. Fauxchi, who is the SCIENCE, to weigh in.

JK! Some of us are willing to look at the rest of the Scriptures and, seeing that they are reliable, trust that the stories of creation, the flood and, say, the Tower of Babel, are true. After all, both Jesus and Peter referred to the account of Noah as though it really happened:

36 “But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. 37 As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. 38 For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; 39 and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away.” (Jesus in Matthew 24:36-39)

18 For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit. 19 After being made alive, he went and made proclamation to the imprisoned spirits— 20 to those who were disobedient long ago when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built. In it only a few people, eight in all, were saved through water, 21 and this water symbolizes baptism that now saves you also.” (1 Peter 3:18-21)

4 For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but sent them to hell, putting them in chains of darkness to be held for judgment; 5 if he did not spare the ancient world when he brought the flood on its ungodly people, but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others…” (2 Peter 2:4-5)

If Jesus and Peter spoke of it as a real-world event, then I trust that it did, in fact, happen. It’s fun to speculate along with the explorers and researhers what might come from their investigations.

Even if they were to prove that there is some kind of giant ship-like structure, however, it still wouldn’t be enough to convince the atheists, who would explain it away as not “proving” anything about the existence of God or the reliability of the Bible because you couldn’t conclusively prove that the structure was in fact “Noah’s.”

Even so, it’s amazing that after 5,000 years, there’s still interest in trying to discover whether or not the remnants of Noah’s ark still exist.

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Daily Broadside | “First the Saturday People, Then the Sunday People.” Why Israel Must Defeat Hamas

Circling back to the issue of Israel and Hamas, Bibi Netanyahu announced that Israel, after three weeks of preparation, has entered the “second stage” of their plan to wipe out Hamas.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday announced that his forces have entered the “second stage” of its war with the terrorist group Hamas, calling the fight a “second War of Independence.” 

“The war inside the Gaza Strip will be long and difficult, and we are prepared for it,” Netanyahu said during a press conference in the evening, local time. “This is our second War of Independence.”

“We will fight for the defense of the homeland,” he continued. “We will fight and not retreat. We will fight on land, sea and in the air. We will destroy the enemy above ground, and underground. We will fight and win.”

I, for one, am glad to hear his resolve. There can be no waffling on whether or not to destroy Hamas. They are a recognized terrorist organization. They committed unspeakable atrocities on October 7 against innocent, civilians.

Hamas is inhuman, bestial, barbaric, cruel, brutish, primative, unrestrained, unrepentant, savage, sadistic. There can be no quarter taken, and none can be given.

Of course the usual suspects are calling for a cease-fire.

Netanyahu spoke at the end of a difficult week for Israel, with more discussion and frustration on both sides of the conflict as some world leaders called for a humanitarian pause or a ceasefire. The United Nations voted on several motions and passed one calling for a ceasefire, which Israel outright rejected and labeled “despicable.” 

The UN was founded in the wake of the Holocaust. If I had my way, the U.S. would withdraw from the UN and kick them out of our country. They’ve outlived their usefulness.

Fortunately, Bibi stood firm.

Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu flatly rejected calls for a cease-fire in comments to the press on Monday.

Netanyahu compared the October 7 massacre by Hamas to the Pearl Harbor and 9-11 attacks on the U.S., saying Israel is equally justified in retaliating against Hamas terrorists in Gaza. He went on to say that Israel will continue its war against Hamas “until victory.”

“Calls for a cease-fire are calls for Israel to surrender to Hamas, to surrender to terrorism, to surrender to barbarism. That will not happen,” Netanyahu said.

“Ladies and gentlement, the Bible says that there is a time for peace and a time for war. This is a time for war. A war for our common future,” he continued. “Today we draw a line between the forces of civilization and the forces of barbarism. It is a time for everyone to decide where they stand. Israel will stand against the forces of barbarism until victory. I hope and pray that civilized nations everywhere will back this fight.”

Israeli forces entered the second stage of their conflict with Hamas this week, greatly expanding ground operations within the Gaza strip. Military officials have warned that the war will be long and difficult.

I agree with him that this is a time for war — against a savage, primative death cult that wants no less than the eradication of the Jews and of Israel as a nation. You can’t reason with fanatical, irrational, ideologically-blinded hatred.

Hamas and some portion of their civilian population hate Israel so much that they won’t let their own people out of Gaza. Israel has been warning the people in the north of Gaza to leave, to move south. But Hamas wants to make “martyrs” of them all: young, old, men, women, children. All for the glory of dying in service to Allah. When I say it’s a death cult, I mean it.

And if you think this is just a “Jewish” problem, you might want to think again. An Islamist slogan is “First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people.” First they destroy the Jews, then they destroy all the Christians. Israel is the “Little Satan” (Jews) but the United States is the “Great Satan” (the Christians).

They are coming for us. As the last three weeks have demonstrated, there are plenty of them in our country due to our insane immigration policies and our open southern border. Don’t think there isn’t great hatred just waiting for its moment to strike.

After the Holocaust, the world declared “Never Again.” Unbelievably, we are at a moment when that declaration is being stress-tested.

The intent of the Islamic jihadists is clear and Hamas is the most high-profile expression of it at the moment, just as ISIS was a decade ago. If you stand for “never again,” as I do, you understand why Isreal can’t dialogue with people like this. You must take the fight to them, destroy them and make sure that any survivors never forget “never again.”

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Daily Broadside | Mike Johnson is the Left’s Worst Nightmare

Ever have one of those weeks that didn’t go as planned? I mean, really didn’t go as planned? I had one of those last week. A number of things I’ve been managing all became priorities and I’ve been dealing with a chronic neck issue that flared up.

The topper was that as I sat down to write my Friday post, the hosting service I used was unavailable because of an upgrade. They probably sent me an email letting me know I wouldn’t be able to logon and I probably missed it.

Anyway.

So the House finally picked a speaker and it’s Mike Johnson. Mike Johnson?

Who’s Mike Johnson?

Mike Johnson is an evangelical Christian and conservative politician who places his deep faith at the center of his life.

Religious conservatives cheered Johnson’s election Wednesday, after which he brought his Bible to the rostrum before taking the oath of office. “The Bible is very clear that God is the one that raises up those in authority … each of you, all of us,” he said.

“Someone asked me today in the media, ‘People are curious, what does Mike Johnson think about any issue?’” Johnson said Thursday in a Fox News interview. “I said, ’Well, go pick up a Bible off your shelf and read it. That’s my worldview.’”

Johnson was formerly an attorney and spokesman (2002 – 2010) for Alliance Defense Fund, known today as Alliance Defending Freedom, a conservative legal advocacy group that bills itself as “the world’s largest legal organization committed to protecting religious freedom, free speech, the sanctity of life, marriage and family, and parental rights.”

Is Johnson the real deal for Christian conservativs? He sure sounds like it.

The Left is going apoplectic over his election as speaker.

Far left Mother Jones:

Parker, a longtime advocate for LGBTQ rights, was lobbying against Johnson’s bill, titled the “Marriage and Conscience Act” on behalf of queer and progressive state interest groups who saw it as a license to discriminate. But even as he worked at odds with the legislator, he felt Johnson cultivating a friendly relationship with him. Johnson would phone Parker to inform him of plans to promote the bill or speak to reporters about it, and end conversations by calling him his “brother in Christ.” “We communicated constantly, enough that I felt a genuine personal affinity for him while he was doing something that could have been very bad for myself and my community,” Parker, now deputy director of Out Boulder County, says. “That’s when I knew that he was a very talented politician. And I think that’s terrifying.”

Oh noes! Christians who genuinely love me as a person are only “talented” politicians who seduce me into a “friendly relationship”! I’m helpless against their powers of concern for me!

The New York Times:

“Speaker Johnson really does provide a near-perfect example of all the different elements of Christian nationalism,” said Andrew Whitehead, a sociologist at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. He said those included insisting on traditionalist family structures, “being comfortable with authoritarian social control and doing away with democratic values.”

“Being comfortable with authoritarian social control and doing away with democratic values”? Wow, project much?

Rolling Stone:

Johnson comes with quite a resume. He defended Donald Trump at both of his impeachment hearings, helped plot the Jan. 6 attempted coup, and holds hardline positions on everything from abortion to LGBTQ rights. He worked for the ADF from 2002 until 2010, penning op-eds against marriage equality and endorsing briefs filed by the ADF meant to criminalize sexual activity between consenting adults.

Not conforming with Leftist dogma is holding “hardline postions on everything.”

NBC “News”:

Kelley Robinson, president of the Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest LGBTQ advocacy group, said Johnson would be “the most anti-equality” speaker in U.S. history.

“This is a choice that will be a stain on the record of everyone who voted for him,” Robinson said in a statement Wednesday. “Johnson is someone who doesn’t hesitate to express his disdain for the LGTBQ+ community from the rooftops and then introduces legislation that seeks to erase us from society.”

ABC “News”:

In a 2016 interview that has recently resurfaced, Johnson contends that “we don’t live in a democracy” because America is a constitutional republic.

“And the founders set that up because they followed the biblical admonition on what a civil society is supposed to look like.”

Well, first of all, he’s right — we’re a constitutional republic. This isn’t a question except among the weenies who pretend to journalism. Johnson doesn’t have to “contend” or argue that fact, unless you’re an ignorant mouthpiece for the Democrats who just repeats the literal lie that the U.S. is a “democracy.”

And second, I’d rather live in the civil society that our founders created, as opposed to the one that the cultural Marxists have supplanted us with, having turned a true civil society into a literal shithole experience in places like San Francisco. So I don’t see the problem with his statements.

But of course, ignorant congressmen do. From the same article:

No, you shrill alarmist, Iran is what a theocracy looks like.

So Mike Johnson is charged with being anti-LGTBQ+, anti-abortion, pro-2A, pro-traditional household, pro-Founders, pro-constitutional republic, pro-Trump, pro-prayer, pro-Bible, and a “talented politician.”

Your terms are acceptable. May he live long and honor God.

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Daily Broadside | Incisive Analysis About ME Conflict with “Tucker on X”

A short post this morning as I am running behind on some other priorities. Nonetheless, I can’t recommend strongly enough that you take some time to listen to Tucker’s conversation with Col. Douglas Macgregor about the situation in the Middle East and its threat to the U.S. He covers how this conflict will likely become not just a regional war but a World War, our economic and military weakness, and how our open southern border has placed us at tremendous risk.

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Daily Broadside | The Situation in the Middle East is Volatile

Is the current eruption of violence and conflict in the Middle East a prelude to World War III?

The United States sees the prospect of a significant escalation in attacks on its troops in the Middle East and of Iran seeking to widen the war between Israel and the Hamas terrorist group, the top U.S. diplomat and defense officials said on Sunday.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said that the United States did not want to see the conflict spread and that recent U.S. deployments to the region were designed to prevent this.

“This is not what we want, not what we’re looking for. We don’t want escalation,” Mr. Blinken told NBC News on Sunday. “We don’t want to see our forces or our personnel come under fire. But if that happens, we’re ready for it.”

Of course, no one can predict the future except God. But there are great risks with the coming fight in Gaza. Israel has already warned both Hezbollah and their state-sponsor Iran to stay out of it.

Israel’s military spokesman, Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, said the country had increased airstrikes across Gaza to hit targets that would reduce the risk to troops in the next stage of the war.

Fears of a widening war grew as Israeli warplanes struck targets across Gaza, two airports in Syria and a mosque in the occupied West Bank allegedly used by militants.

Israel has traded fire with Hezbollah militants since the war began, and tensions are soaring in the West Bank, where Israeli forces have battled militants in refugee camps and carried out two airstrikes in recent days.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told troops in northern Israel that if Hezbollah launches a war, “it will make the mistake of its life. We will cripple it with a force it cannot even imagine, and the consequences for it and the Lebanese state will be devastating.”

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Israel repeated its calls for people to leave northern Gaza, including by dropping leaflets from the air. It estimated 700,000 have already fled. But hundreds of thousands remain. That would raise the risk of mass civilian casualties in any ground offensive.

Israeli military officials say Hamas’ infrastructure and underground tunnels are concentrated in Gaza City, in the north, and that the next stage of the offensive will include unprecedented force there. Israel says it wants to crush Hamas. Officials have also spoken of carving out a buffer zone to keep Palestinians from approaching the border, though they have given no details.

“Unprecedented force.” That means ratcheting up the power of the munitions and engaging in curb-stomping violence. Israel has also been attacking in Syria to prevent engagement there.

Syrian state media, meanwhile, reported that Israeli airstrikes hit the international airports in the capital, Damascus, and the northern city of Aleppo, killing one person and putting the runways out of service.

Israel has carried out several strikes in Syria since the war began. Israel rarely acknowledges individual strikes, but says it acts to prevent Hezbollah and other militants from bringing in arms from Iran, which also supports Hamas.

And if Iran refuses to stand down?

Israel last night vowed to cut off ‘the head of the snake’ and launch a military attack against Iran if Tehran-backed terror group Hezbollah joins the war.

In an exclusive interview with The Mail on Sunday, Nir Barkat, Israel’s Minister of Economy, warned that Iran’s Ayatollahs will be ‘wiped off the face of the earth’ should Hezbollah, their proxy terror group in Lebanon, attack Israel.

His incendiary comments raise the grave spectre of a rapidly escalating regional conflict and come ahead of an expected Israeli ground invasion of the Gaza Strip to ‘annihilate’ Hamas.

How could Israel wipe Iran off the face of the earth?

Nuclear weapons, my friends.

Israel has a three-stage plan for their war on Hamas.

Israel’s Defense Minister Yoav Gallant laid out Israel’s war aims in three stages while speaking to the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on Friday.

The war against Hamas was unavoidable and a “war of no choice,” Gallant told the committee members.

He went on to give an overview of the army’s operations so far, before presenting his strategic aims for the war, which will be reached in three stages.

“We are in the first phase, in which a military campaign is taking place with [air]strikes and later with a [ground] maneuver with the purpose of destroying operatives and damaging infrastructure in order to defeat and destroy Hamas,” Gallant said.

“The second phase will be an intermediate phase, continuing the fighting at a lower intensity and eliminating pockets of resistance.”

“The third phase will be the creation of a new security regime in the Gaza Strip, the removal of Israel’s responsibility for daily life there, and the creation of a new security reality for the citizens of Israel and the residents of the surrounding area,” Gallant explained.

Big changes are coming both there, and potentially here in America. We’re already seeing a surge in Jewish citizens arming themselves.

Firearm instructors and Jewish security groups across the country say they have been flooded with new clientele since Hamas assaulted Israel on Oct. 7. And gun shop owners in Florida say they have seen more Jews purchase firearms in recent weeks than ever before. 

“We’ve definitely seen a tremendous increase in religious Jewish people, Orthodox people, purchasing firearms,” said David Kowalsky, who owns Florida Gun Store in the town of Hollywood, and also offers firearms training classes. “I’ve seen a surge in interest in individual training as well as group training.”

For those of you who cheered the ouster of a president who kept us out of any new wars because of his MeAn TwEeTs, congratulations on your choice. Your adults are back in charge, baby!

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Daily Broadside | Where Is the Earth-Shattering Ka-Boom?

That about sums it up for me as I wait for the Israeli offensive against the medieval barbarian bloodsoaked Jew-hating terrorists in the Gaza strip. Where the heck is the earth-shattering Ka-Boom!?

Speaking from her home in Israel, Glick said, “We are in danger of losing … sovereign control over our military.”

She then presented what sources told her really happened when secretary of state Tony Blinken met with Israel’s war cabinet on Monday.

“From what came out of the meeting, Tony Blinken wasn’t trying to help Israel at all. What he was doing was demanding that Israel enable resupply to Gaza, the euphemism of which is ‘humanitarian aid.’” She continued to say that Blinken threatened to withhold American war materiel from Israel, such as bunker buster bombs and regular ordinance.

And Israel didn’t just decide to invite Biden. His administration demanded that Israel invite him, she said, adding, “I don’t know; ask his presidential campaign.”

While Israel’s forces have been being held in limbo at the Gaza border, those charged with carrying out the mission began demanding they be allowed to go in. They cited difficulties in maintaining the readiness and morale of troops as well as a loss of the momentum they had after the October 7 massacre. Glick said that lapse in time also allowed the international media to turn on Israel. “We have all these Hamas supporters throughout the Western world who are feeling empowered, and not unreasonably given the backing they’re receiving from the media.”

Most disturbingly, Glick said commanders at the southern border were told, “We can’t do anything until Biden leaves. So that Biden is literally acting as a human shield for Hamas — so long as he hasn’t arrived yet, and hasn’t left yet, their terror state is going to be free from invasion.”

Our own illegitimate junta, installed by the anti-American institutions in our country, is undermining Israel’s resolve to decapitate Hamas. Our own United States’ extreme leftist political Marxist administration is protecting Hamas, not Israel.

What a humiliation for us. What a humiliation for Israel.

She continued to stress that demands to get humanitarian aid to Gaza are demands to resupply Hamas because they control every person and inch of land in Gaza…

Making matters worse, the U.S. said they would supply Israel with the bombs, but they weren’t allowed to use them against the missile launching sites — i.e., the UNRWA schools and hospitals.

It is well known that “Hamas military headquarters have been, for years, located under Shifa Hospital,” Glick said.

What Glick described about Blinken’s demands amounted to extortion: if Israel didn’t open up a humanitarian corridor — i.e., allow Hamas to be resupplied — the U.S. wouldn’t provide the bunker buster bombs and the ordinance for Israel’s fighter jets. Without those things, IDF ground forces would likely be slaughtered like the victims of October 7.

Adding insult to injury, Glick’s sources said the U.S. told Israel they weren’t allowed to “open up a war” with Lebanon despite being bombed from Hezb’allah in the north…

In a rare emotional monologue, she pointed out what we’ve known all along: the United States has been arming and funding the enemies of Israel.  (Glick doesn’t gloss over Obama’s contribution to this mess, either.)

So much for a strong alliance with the only democracy in the Middle East. So much for blunting Iran’s hegemony in the region. As J.J. Sefton wrote in a similar post yesterday, “‘We fully stand behind Israel’ Joey Sponge-Brain S***s-Pants declared without a dementia freeze. Yeah, Biden is standing behind Israel ready to shove it off a cliff.”

You know why? Because the Biden administration is saturated with pro-Iranian officials left over from the Obama administration. And not only that, there are actual Iranian spies that have been “discovered” in this administration.

The Biden administration’s now-suspended Iran envoy Robert Malley helped to fund, support, and direct an Iranian intelligence operation designed to influence the United States and allied governments, according to a trove of purloined Iranian government emails. The emails, which were reported on by veteran Wall Street Journal correspondent Jay Solomon, writing in Semafor, and by Iran International, the London-based émigré opposition outlet which is the most widely read independent news source inside Iran, were published last week after being extensively verified over a period of several months by the two outlets. They showed that Malley had helped to infiltrate an Iranian agent of influence named Ariane Tabatabai into some of the most sensitive positions in the U.S. government—first at the State Department and now the Pentagon, where she has been serving as chief of staff for the assistant secretary of defense for special operations, Christopher Maier.

We’ve allowed men and women who are infected with an anti-American and pro-Islamic values to not only infiltrate but wholly govern United States policy toward the East. This, my friends, IS NOT WHO WE ARE, to borrow a phrase.

But it’s what we’ve become.

While Israel waits for Brandon to stumble up the stairs of Air Force One and get his ice cream before being tucked into bed for the flight home, Hamas has had time to regroup, spread out the hostages, and exfiltrate any leaders they want to survive the expected Israeli onslaught to Iran. Iran has had time to position its proxies in Lebanon and Syria, and prepare itself to attack should it think Israel goes too far.

The analysts are right — Israel has lost the momentum, doubts have begun to creep in, the adrenaline has ebbed, and the enemy has had time to dig in.

Maybe by the time you read this, the assault has begun. Maybe not.

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.

Have a good weekend.

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Daily Broadside | Israel Must Utterly Destroy the Life of Hamas

As we watch events unfolding in Israel, waiting for the ground offensive to begin, waiting on whether Hamas will release hostages in return for a ceasefire (nah), waiting to see if Iran will intervene or conduct a “preemptive strike,” waiting to see if two American aircraft carrier strike groups will deter Iran or Hezbollah in Lebanon, I’ve been mulling over where I stand on the issue.

Bottom line for me is this: Israel must totally and utterly annihilate Hamas. They have to go in and destroy the ability of Hamas to attack, regroup or reconstitute itself in any way, shape or form.

I can hear the cries of horror as readers react. “Sure, but what about all the innocent Palestinian women and children? What about the elderly Palestinians and those who don’t support Hamas? What about proportionality? How can you support such bloodshed?”

Here’s my position: Hamas chose this.

Hamas is a terrorist organization. Their attack on Israel wasn’t an act of “war,” it was an act of terrorism. They indiscriminately murdered men, women, children and the elderly in cold blood. And they didn’t just kill them; they tortured them and desecrated their bodies. The committed atrocities against their neighbors simply because their neighbors are Jews.

What they did was indefensible. I don’t care what excuses are made for their savage slaughter of innocent Israeli citizens. They may have grievances with Israel, but civilization is not required to tolerate their barbarism. Hamas has proven that it is incapable of moderating itself; it’s time to eliminate them.

As far as the women and children go — it is a terrible thing to kill the defenseless, even if they are members of the enemy. I do not advocate for the killing of civilians and if it can be avoided, it should be.

But Hamas does not show that level of concern for their own people. They deliberately position their weapons of war in civilian buildings and neighborhoods in order to create a moral dilemma for civilized nations when it comes to killing innocent: Wipe out the terrorists and take innocent lives with them, or allow the terrorists to survive in order to avoid civilian deaths?

In this case, I place that responsibility squarely on the terrorists. Hamas are the violent enforcers of a religious death cult, and the wives and children of Palestinians are indoctrinated to hate Jews. I don’t want to see impressionable children used as pawns or human shields, but I don’t want the terrorists to survive and launch more attacks.

It’s an imperfect metaphor, but I once discovered that paper wasps had built a nest under the eaves of my garage. There were three larvae in the nest and two adults caring for them. They aren’t a particularly aggressive insect, but will attack if they feel threatened. So I ventured out there with my wasp and hornet spray and gave them a maximum dose, killing both the adults and the larvae. Why the kids? Easy—nest building and attacking is in their nature, and I didn’t want them to grow up and be a threat to me or my family (or any other family). I wanted to completely annihilate them, and I did.

Not only so, but in this post by Rev. Donald Sensing, he argues that Israel is not only battling a physical army of psychopaths, they’re battling an ideology, which can survive physical defeat.

Having formed a “unity government” for the war, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has stated clearly that the permanent end of Hamas as the principal war aim. That this objective requires a land invasion of Gaza is also clear. But what can it take to destroy Hamas? Netanyahu has said that killing its terrorists fighters is a specific goal, but Hamas is not merely an organization. It is also an ideology. How does Israel end with not only the present Hamas organization destroyed, but also the ideology?

He goes on to write that both the American Civil War and World War II provide examples of how to achieve the end of Hamas. First, the Civil War:

After more than two years of indecisive, though bloody fighting, the Union’s strategy took a linchpin turn when Gen. U.S. Grant was appointed commander of the US Army and he unleashed Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman to invade the South. Sherman stated his goal very plainly.

“War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.”

“This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war.”

Sherman’s tactics were ruthless, but they did do what he set out to do. His and Grant’s maneuvers and battlefield victories made it very plain not only to the Confederacy’s leadership (especially Gen. R.E. Lee) that they could not win the war, it was also crystal clear to ordinary men and women throughout the South, including those never actually touched by the fighting. Slavery was ended by the war and it is worth noting also that no state has attempted to secede since then. 

Then, the objective of the Allies in World War II:

One of the preludes to the massive landings on Normandy’s beaches to “enter the continent or Europe” in 1944 was sustained, large-scale aerial bombing of Germany by American and British aircraft. As the war went on and German (and Japanese) resistance failed to slacken, President Roosevelt decided that the German and Japanese peoples must realize after the war that not only had their armed forces been defeated: the entire nation, as a nation, had been beaten. He and Churchill were well aware that German militarism had survived World War I because its apologists had successfully propagated the myth that the Kaiser’s army had not really been defeated, it had been “stabbed in the back” by disloyal factions at home.

Hence, wrote Roosevelt in a letter to Secretary of War Henry Stimson,

It is of utmost importance that every person in Germany should realize that this time Germany is a defeated nation. . . . The fact that they are a defeated nation, collectively and individually, must be so impressed upon them that they will hesitate to start any new war.

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One notes that Japan and Germany have been well behaved since 1945. But we also have to note that massive, destructive bombing was alone not the reason. It was simply impossible for either country’s armed forces to claim that they had prevailed, or at least held their own, on the field of battle. German and Japanese orphans, widows and grieving parents were in almost every other household, and a lie that their armed forces had not really lost could not possibly have found legs to stand on.

Hamas and the civilians who support them (at least 90% of the population) must be made to see, to feel, to know that they are thoroughly and utterly defeated. They must be made to see that abhorrent tactics they displayed on October 7 will be answered with overwhelming force, and that such savagery will not be tolerated in this world. They must be made to experience “the hard hand of war” and their defeat “must be so impressed upon them” that they spend the next 20 years recovering from their experience.

I am with Israel and pray that God gives them the victory over their enemies.