Summer Is Fleeting

It’s hard to process the fact that it’s mid-July already. It’s definitely time to stop and smell the roses.

And remind ourselves that the madness demonstrated by leftists on a daily basis is of their own making.

My sincere advice: grab some tomatoes at their peak, some basil (hopefully from your garden),

grill up some halloumi and call it a day.

Or if you’re a  carnivore make this summer sausage tomato and zucchini bake.

Maybe throw in a loaf of crusty bread and a bottle of vino. Summer is fleeting, after all.

Happy Birthday America

Remember this Harvard “study” from 2011 that led to headlines like these all around the country? 

Fourth of July Celebrators More Likely to Become Republicans

July 4th patriotic celebrations create more Republicans, Harvard study warns

Oh no! Another right-wing nut in the making!

Mamas, please don’t let your babies grow up to Marxists. Take them to a 4th of July celebration as often as you can, no matter where, no matter when.

I hope you all have a wonderful 4th of July celebration and enjoy all your presents.

 

P.S. That 2011 Harvard “study” that taught every leftist in America to rebuke the 4th of July should tell you everything you need to know about leftists, “studies,” and higher education at institutes like Harvard.

 

 

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The Art of the Real

President Trump would never ask you to do something he wouldn't do himself, whether it’s driving a garbage truck or flipping burgers.

So per the DOGE request Mr. President, list 5 things you accomplished last week:

Closed the border; zero illegal crossings

Brokered the end of the bloody 30 year war between Rwanda and the Congo

Obliterated Iran’s nuclear program and negotiated a cease fire between Iran and Israel

Won his Supreme Court case regarding birthright citizenship which states definitively that federal judges have no authority to issue universal injunctions.

Confirmed NATO members commitment to a 3.5% of GDP contribution and an increase in spending on their own defense

Extra credit:

Gas hits 4 year low

Stack Market hits all time high

The Senate advances the Big Beautiful Bill

We really don’t deserve Trump.

FAFO

 

And of course the Democrats object to America making the world safer.  We live in strange times. Pray for our troops. Pray for our president. Pray for us.

Happy Father’s Day

Happy Father’s Day to all our fathers out there! 

To dads everywhere, for all the invaluable knowledge they pass on to their children.

 

 

 

Maybe wrong, but never in doubt.

Ego Tripping

Finally we’ve run into someone who’s even less filtered with his tweets than Donald Trump.

I get why Elon is upset and I guess he thought he could change the legislative process by sheer power of  will.  He’s not into delayed gratification and clearly not used to taking no for an answer. Trump on the other hand is all too familiar with “no” and accordingly has structured his Big Beautiful Bill as a budget reconciliation that requires only 51 votes vs. the usual 60 and limits debate to 20 hours. There are restrictions as to what can be included in a reconciliation bill but let’s not get lost in the weeds. Suffice it to say that in order to get the tax cuts, the border funding and economic growth and investment incentives certain things had to go. I guess Musk doesn't trust that Trump can or will get additional cuts codified with future legislation. I don’t know if I do either the way the Republicans are, but it’s what we can get for now; as they say, it is what it is. I’ll take it as  down payment.

As the infamous Frank Underwood noted in House of Cards: “Proximity to power deludes some into thinking they wield it.”  When Elon realized it does not he got himself into a snit. Trump is a pragmatist and knows what he can get, Musk is a visionary who sees what is needed. We need both so I hope they patch this up, but I doubt they will. Egos, you know.

We’re All Literally Hitler Now

Here’s a shocking headline: “Anti-Semitism on the rise in America” The propaganda machine is working and the useful idiots are filling their role as planned.

Who could have predicted where Antifa, the “antifascist” terror group, would end up? They are about as antifascist as they are anarchists. If we had a functioning media everybody would know that.

Since Hollywood seems short on creativity these days I have a thought: instead of another (woke) reboot, remake or sequel to movies like Ghostbusters, Shrek, Top Gun, Mission Impossible or any of the Marvel comic books, how about an un-woke remake of something like The Diary of Ann Frank. Instead of all the histrionic, hyperbolic bloviating about Trump being literally Hitler it would be wise to educate the younger generations what actual tyranny, genocide and evil always results in.

And remember, despite the left’s insistence otherwise, the only person who is “literally Hitler” is Hitler.

Memorial Day Observed 2025

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few." —Winston Churchill

As we do on this day each year, we pause to remember the men and women who died fighting for our freedom.

We stand by humbly, gratefully, silently, to honor their sacrifice.

We remember…

We mourn for those lost…

And we mourn for those they’ve left behind…

As we reflect once again on the the steep price of freedom.

By all means, enjoy your picnics, parades and celebrations today – it is a holiday after all. But do pause to remember and honor all the brave Americans across the centuries who have sacrificed their lives in the fight against tyrants, tyrannies and terrorists; the enemies of freedom who will always be amongst us and will always be a threat to liberty. God willing, America will always be there to vanquish freedom’s adversaries. 

Wishing all a tranquil, thoughtful and reflective Memorial Day this year.

As we do on this day each year, we pause to remember the men and women who died fighting for our freedom.

We stand by humbly, gratefully, silently, to honor their sacrifice.

Originally posted Memorial Day 2018

And because Lantern posts this every Memorial Day but is not able to this year, I’ll post it for him:

In Flanders Fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.