William Sullivan
THE TIDE HAS FINALLY TURNED AGAINST SCIENTIFIC ATHEISM
On a recent podcast episode, Joe Rogan and his guest Cody Tucker found themselves in a discussion that was clearly skeptical of the atheistic consensus among prominent thinkers of the past few generations.
That atheistic consensus generally states that the following is true. There was obviously once a Great Nothingness that suddenly became our universe and the existence of everything within it -- and all of this happened for no reason whatsoever.
Rogan asks a question that every person has likely asked themselves countless times, “wouldn’t it be crazy if there wasn’t something at some point in time? That seems even crazier than [to think] there has always been something.”
He's not wrong.
To believe that nothing suddenly became everything for no reason whatsoever is an act of pure faith based upon no observable data.
What’s more, the proclamation itself an act of heresy for scientific atheists.
THE MOST IMPORTANT MOMENT
A marriage, a friendship, a close family relationship… all of our important relationships are built on countless moments, innumerable interactions that either build qualities of trust, joy, and respect - or undermine those qualities.
Today I want to show you what is arguably the most important moment for building a trusting, satisfying, loving relationship.
We can often think that what makes a difference in a romantic relationship, or our relationship with our kids, or other friends and relatives, are the big things; the romantic getaway for the weekend, or the great gift that we buy.
…but there is a moment that packs more leverage, more meaning, and more potential for doing good – or harm – than almost any other:
CURSE YOU, RED BARON – UNDERSTANDING MODERN AIR COMBAT
Following my article on the India versus Pakistan long range air battle, I decided to make a deeper dive into the subject of air superiority to give TTP readers some better context for what that article discussed, and also to discuss air combat more broadly.
Between old movies and a lack of public information, one might assume that air warfare now might be similar to that of World War Two.
America’s sixth-generation fighter, the F-47, is rumored to be costing up to $300 million dollars for a single aircraft.
That’s on par with a small warship in cost. We have already planned sales of it to allies to make it cheaper, i.e. production of more of these planes lowers costs (?)
Now of all times, Americans need a working knowledge of this subject.
What is all this stuff?
How does it work?
Why does it matter?
Is air combat like those movies?
Why is it so expensive?
And will Snoopy ever beat the Red Baron?
First, let’s talk about “airspace.”
THE GRAND DECEPTION OF ISLAM AS A RELIGION OF PEACE
A database search of 12 million books published in the 300 years before 9/11 reveals only one instance of the phrase “Islam is a religion of peace.”
It appears in fiction and is spoken by Ayatollah Mahmoud Haji Daryaei, an Iranian leader in Tom Clancy’s thriller titled Executive Orders.
But the dangerous notion that Islam is peaceful has been so frequently reiterated by world leaders, clerics, and the liberal media-academia complex that it has taken on the status of COWDUNG—a facetious near-acronym for ‘conventional wisdom of the dominant group.’
Denying 1,400 years of history, these apologists would have us believe that extremist Islam is a perversion.
Their sanitized version presents Islam’s prime motif of violent jihad—or religious war against infidels—as an individual’s “inner struggle” for spiritual growth.
To expose these falsehoods—which have circled the globe before the truth even got out of bed—conservative authors Tommy Robinson and Peter McLoughlin wrote Mohammed’s Koran: Why Muslims Kill for Islam.
In light of Robinson’s early release from a British prison a few days ago, an overview of this important book seems fitting.
The key to understanding what the Koran signifies to Muslims is naskh….
TRUMP AND GOP TAKE AIM AT THE “JUDICIAL COUP”
As one anonymous and unelected judge after another rules against the Trump agenda, Republicans must decide whether they want to abide by the will of the American people.
If Tren de Aragua gang members aren’t “alien enemies” of the United States, aren’t able to be deported by the American president under the ancient Alien Enemies Act, then language itself has lost its meaning. But that’s the world we’re living in.
In a way, it shouldn’t surprise us. The Left, after all, has been at war with the language — and at war with reality — for decades.
Indeed, they insist that men can become pregnant, that women can only be described by biologists, that pedophiles are merely minor-attracted persons, and that last year’s version of Joe Biden was the best Biden ever.
Nor should the current judicial war against Donald Trump surprise any of us. All throughout his first term, Trump and his agenda were sabotaged from within by entrenched deep-state leftists and by old-guard establishment Republicans.
In this second term, though, with Trump having remade the Republican Party and having cleaned up the executive branch, the attacks are coming from without — from the third and supposedly coequal branch of government that Thomas Jefferson once presciently warned could become despotic: the judicial branch.
Since his inauguration, Trump has been busy trying to unscrew the mess bequeathed him by four years of the Autopen Presidency, but he’s been opposed at nearly every turn — from mass-deporting illegal aliens to ending birthright citizenship to trimming down our grotesquely bloated federal government to imposing tariffs on predatory trading partners — by lower-court judges and, in some cases, by the very Supreme Court justices that he nominated for the bench.
REAWAKENING THE NUCLEAR GIANT
For openers, kudos to President Donald Trump for his leadership on addressing this heretofore missing piece of the energy puzzle.
Incomprehensibly, the preceding administration embarked on a quixotic mission to eliminate the use of fossil fuels, while simultaneously ignoring our single safe, abundant, and non-polluting means of generating electricity.
Somehow, in the midst of ongoing firestorms on immigration, trade, taxes, and two wars, Trump still manages to attend to other important matters that have been lost in the shuffle.
Some call it chaos, but we should be happy to have a president with the stamina to keep so many balls in the air.
Will Trump’s blitz of actions get nuclear power back on track?
The only way to answer that question is to understand how we got so far off track so quickly and so completely.
Why did we suddenly stop building nuclear plants?
It’s a complicated picture with numerous parts and pieces. But in my opinion, it all boils down to one root cause: the realization by prospective investors that nuclear power’s opponents, with sufficient legal and political support, can render a new, multibillion-dollar facility unusable.
If that seems implausible, consider the fate of the Shoreham Nuclear Power Plant, the poster child for anti-nuclear activism.
HALF-FULL REPORT 05/30/25
The Collapse of Russia’s Sacellum
There’s smoke rising in the Vatican, and it’s not from frankincense. It is the signal flare of a geopolitical shift. Pope Leo III’s inauguration, wrapped in Eastern rites and Greek chants, was a direct challenge to Russia’s spiritual monopoly. The Vatican isn’t reaching across the aisle—it’s drawing a blade. By deploying the Filioque-neutral Augustinian tradition, Rome is constructing a theological bridge to Constantinople, creating the conditions for a historic reunification of Eastern and Western Christianity. If a Vatican III comes, it will dismantle Moscow’s global claim to Orthodox leadership.
Russia, meanwhile, is no longer a player—it is the battlefield. The Ukraine invasion was a strategic misfire that backfired spectacularly. NATO stiffened. Ukraine became a tech-driven kill zone. Sanctions cracked the fossil economy. Tensions simmer in Tatarstan and the Caucasus. Moscow’s church-state fusion, once a pillar of national unity, is now a fault line of ethnic and sectarian unrest.
Moscow thought it could sacralize its power through Orthodoxy. Instead, it has bound itself to a Church now under Vatican pressure. Patriarch Kirill is a Kremlin mouthpiece in robes, and the Orthodox world is splintering. The Ecumenical Patriarchate already broke ranks. Rome is playing for centuries; Russia is bleeding years.
The sacellum, or the sacred heart of civilization, always falls first. Russia’s is crumbling. America’s flickered dimly under Biden but now grows brighter. China’s, wounded but still standing, is watching. This isn’t about incense and vestments. It’s about civilizational control. The altar is now the battlefield and the very pillars of legitimacy beneath the Russian state are giving a metaphysical shrug.
RUSSIA’S HYBRID WARFARE TACTICS TARGET THE BALTICS
On May 9, 2024, a fire broke out at an IKEA warehouse in Vilnius, Lithuania (Lrytas, May 20, 2024). Subsequent investigations revealed that the arson was orchestrated by Russia’s military intelligence agency, the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces (GRU), and that the suspects were also planning similar attacks in Latvia (LRT, March 17).
The Lithuanian Prosecutor General’s Office classified the incident as an act of terrorism aimed at intimidating the societies of Lithuania and pressuring them to reduce support for Ukraine (LRT, March 17).
Russia’s hybrid warfare strategy extends beyond its war against Ukraine as it also targets other European frontline states through influence operations, election interference, and intimidation.
The Baltic States—Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania—are targeted by Russian hybrid tactics as a daily reality and direct challenge to their sovereignty.
Historically, Moscow has used political, economic, energy, and cyber tactics to undermine the Baltics.
Recent efforts, however, are markedly more aggressive, particularly as they involve military pressure.
Understanding the origins of Russia’s hybrid strategy is crucial to recognizing its evolving influence in the region.
NEW BLOOD TEST SCREENS FOR 1000S OF RARE INHERITED DISEASES AT ONCE
A new rapid blood test for newborns could potentially detect genetic mutations linked to thousands of rare diseases all at once, greatly improving on current inefficient detection methods, according to a study to be presented Monday.
The new test developed by Australian scientists has proven highly accurate in identifying gene mutations associated with many rare, inherited diseases, all from just a minimally invasive blood sample taken from infants and children, the authors say.
The study, being unveiled at the European Human Genetics Conference in Milan, Italy, demonstrated that a single, untargeted test capable of analyzing 8,000 human proteins at once was able to correctly identify 83% of people with confirmed rare, inherited diseases.
The "proteomics" test was also able to differentiate between parental carriers of the mutations, who only have one copy of the defective gene, and the affected child, who carries two copies.
Those encouraging results are raising hopes for a new era in which screening infants and children for suspected inherited rare diseases can be accomplished quickly and efficiently for the first time, and that testing can be extended to many more of the estimated 300 million people worldwide affected by these genetic mutations.
Testing for suspected inherited diseases has traditionally been a time-consuming, costly and sometimes painful process that required different procedures for different suspected mutations. But that paradigm could be about to change, the study's lead author says.
Daniella Hock, a senior postdoctoral researcher at the University of Melbourne, told UPI that if the test is implemented in clinical labs, "it can potentially replace multiple functional tests. This can potentially reduce the diagnostic time for patients and families and healthcare costs.
"The test only requires only 1 milliliter of blood from infants, and results can be achieved in less than three days for urgent cases," she said.
ON PEACE, COMMERCE, AND TRUMP’S FOREIGN POLICY
The antidote to war is not peace.
The antidote to war is commerce.
This concept of cultivating peace by fostering commerce traces its roots back to Montesquieu and the Enlightenment.
The thought is that increasing commerce leads to shared interests, recognition of the rule of law, and growing prosperity, all of which preclude armed conflict.
At the end of WWII, the U.S. realized that only America, with about fifty percent of the global GDP, could reignite the fires of international trade, production, and competition.
In league with its wartime allies, agreements like Bretton Woods were executed and multilateral regulatory and monitoring organizations like the WTO were established.
With its enormous financial, military, and market clout, America was able to get the flywheel of global commerce moving again.
It worked, of course.
In 1945, global GDP was approximately $1T, while today it is about $117T.
Even better, the percent of the world’s population living in extreme poverty shrank from fifty-five percent to less than ten percent today.
These epic improvements are all due to the expansion of global commerce and free markets, driven by the U.S. sharing its markets, finances, and enforcement power.
But we still have war….it’s obvious to the casual observer that the outstanding component of the Trump Administration’s foreign policy is increasing commerce…
THE BOWIE KNIFE
September 19, 1827- near Natchez, Mississippi.
It was a time where personal honor was worth more than life, and slights to it could be deadly.
Several men came to a sandbar in the Mississippi River as a result of such a slight—for a duel, where two aggrieved men would settle their differences with violence—in this case, with black powder pistols. The main contestants had “seconds,” who were essentially referees for the duel. One of those seconds this day was a Kentucky-born and Louisiana-raised slave trader, land speculator, businessman, farmer, adventurer, and international man of mystery named James Bowie.
What would happen on this date would change how the new Americans fought and would give the new nation one of its first, and iconic, weapons.
THE DEMOCRAT PARTY’S DEATH SPIRAL IS EVEN WORSE THAN WE THOUGHT
Make no mistake about it: The Democratic Party is facing an existential crisis that even their media allies can't spin anymore.
The New York Times, the crown jewel of the liberal media establishment, just published a devastating analysis showing how the Democrats' supposed stronghold on American politics has crumbled under the MAGA movement.
While Democrats continue their tired routine of Trump-bashing and pretending to care about working Americans, the numbers tell a completely different story.
The Times' analysis reveals a political earthquake that's reshaping the electoral landscape, and it's not in the Democrats' favor.
“All told, Mr. Trump has increased the Republican Party's share of the presidential vote in each election he's been on the ballot in close to half the counties in America — 1,433 in all. It is a staggering political achievement, especially considering that Mr. Trump was defeated in the second of those three races, in 2020. By contrast, Democrats have steadily expanded their vote share in those three elections in only 57 of the nation’s 3,100-plus counties.”
In the 2024 election, six times as many counties shifted toward the GOP as toward the Democrats. While 435 counties trended more Democratic compared to 2012, 2,678 moved more Republican—by an even larger average margin of 13.3 points versus 8.8 for Democrats.That's not just a loss; that's a political bloodbath.
THE JUSTICES MUST AT LONG LAST DEAL WITH “CHRONIC INJUNCTIVITIS”
This week, the Supreme Court continued to deliberate over what to do with the growing number of national or universal injunctions issued by federal district courts against the Trump Administration.
The court has long failed to address the problem, and what I call “chronic injunctivitis” is now raging across the court system.
Justices have only worsened the condition with conflicting and at times incomprehensible opinions.
Both Democratic and Republican presidents have long argued that federal judges are out of control in issuing national injunctions that freeze the entire executive branch for years on a given policy.
For presidents, you have to effectively sweep the district courts 677-to-0 if you want to be able to carry out controversial measures.
Any one judge can halt the entire government.
Under President Barack Obama, Justice Elena Kagan expressed outrage over the injunctions in public comments at Northwestern University School of Law.
Kagan lashed out at the obvious “forum shopping” by then conservative advocates to get before favorable courts, insisting “It just cannot be right that one district judge can stop a nationwide policy in its tracks and leave it stopped for the years it takes to go through the normal [appellate] process.”
In his first term, Trump faced a more than 450 percent increase in the number of such injunctions over the number issued under Obama — a rise from 12 to 64.
The number then went down to just 14 under former President Joe Biden.
With Trump back in office, district courts have now outstripped that record and may surpass the total from the first term in the first year.
ARE CHINA’S ECONOMIC FLAWS IRREPARABLE?
China is the original riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. A country striving for modernity but feudal in its treatment of its citizens, Beijing's economic identity is a combination of Communist orthodoxy and crony capitalism.
As you might expect, the two don't work well together.
On the outside of the riddle, China is booming, the people are subservient and happy, and the government is looking to the future with confidence. This is the picture the Chinese Communists paint for the world to see. The reality is much different.
China is being crushed by debt, has become dependent on high levels of debt, and has created a humongous bubble in several sectors, like housing and household goods.
One noted Chinese economist says, “Basically, China’s economy is all built on speculation and everything is over-leveraged.” Yet it's not just the debt that's pulling China down. It’s much worse than that.
FRUCTOSE AND MENTAL FITNESS
TTP’s Live Long and Prosper column is dedicated to the memory of Durk who wrote as Skye on TTP for many years. Here we discuss why Durk and his life-long partner/wife Sandy used fructose – pure natural fruit sugar – in their formulas.
Pure fructose is very different from the abhorrent “high-fructose corn syrup” (HFCS) which is in so many processed foods and drinks. HFCS has a high and unhealthy “glycemic index” of 68, meaning it causes a fast release of insulin. Habitual intake of high glycemic index foods and drinks is a principal cause of diabetes.
Pure fructose, on the other hand, has a glycemic index of 20, lower than lentils at 30. A very healthy sugar!
When formulating Lift™ and Mind™, Durk and Sandy didn’t select ingredients for convenience or flavor—they chose each component based on how it could optimize brain chemistry and energy metabolism. Fructose was no exception.
DIRTY COP COMEY
Former FBI boss James Comey posted an image of seashells forming “86 47” but quickly claimed, “I didn’t realize some folks associate those numbers with violence. It never occurred to me but I oppose violence of any kind so I took the post down.” The Secret Service has good reason to take it as a threat.
“86” is code for “get rid of,” quite possibly in a permanent way. Comey knew exactly what he was doing, Trump said, that the “dirty cop” was calling for the assassination of the president. Comey was aware that Trump had survived two assassination attempts and was lobbying for another. As the people should know, the FBI is also in the “86” business.
In August of 2023, an FBI SWAT team shot and killed Craig Robertson, a 75-year-old woodworker for threats against Joe Biden he allegedly made on the internet. Threats to the president are normally handled by the Secret Service, but this was an FBI operation all the way.
James Comey made no statement or post on the killing that anybody can find. As he had to know, deadly force is a longstanding FBI practice.
THE FBI WASHINGTON HEADQUARTERS WON’T BE MISSED
Current FBI Director Kash Patel is closing down the agency’s Washington, DC, mothership office and moving at least 1,500 employees out of the DC area to regional offices. The decision was not just Patel’s.
During the Biden Administration, it was determined that the 50-year-old Hoover building headquarters was structurally decrepit. More germanely, no prior FBI director had ever explained why nearly a third of the FBI workforce was centered in offices in Washington, far from where most of the serious crime in America occurs.
The news is welcome for reasons well beyond the safety of agents in an apparently unsafe headquarters.
It is no exaggeration to state that most of the FBI scandals of the last decade were born in the Hoover building headquarters, suggesting that the agency had long become top-heavy, politically weaponized, and deeply embedded in and compromised by the Washington apparat. Here is a summary of the last ten years of FBI corruption.
THE INDIA-PAKISTAN AIR BATTLE WHERE NEITHER SIDE SAW THE OTHER
[Deuce has outdone himself with this astounding description of one of the largest air battles in modern history that few understand, Thanks to Deuce, TTPers now do – JW]
India and Pakistan made history this month. With some of the latest fighters and missiles, they engaged in an air battle that was the largest of its kind since the Second World War.
What made this battle even more unique was the fighting happened entirely in what we call “BVR” or “beyond-visual-range” combat.
This form of combat is rarely talked about because a lot of the tactics, techniques, and procedures are secret. Whereas traditional air-to-air “dog fighting” is based on maneuver and bringing the guns or short-range guided missiles of an aircraft to bear on the other first, BVR fighting pits aircraft radars and their guided missiles against enemy aircraft and their electronic counter-measures to those missiles at much longer ranges.
What we know of this air battle is gleaned from publicly available sources. Early in the morning of May 7th, 2025, India launched “Operation Sindoor” in response to a terrorist attack that originated from Pakistani territory and, according to India, was aided and abetted by them. The attack consisted of missile and drone attacks on Pakistani ground targets. As a result of this, up to one hundred and twenty-five aircraft from both sides fought each other in the air for approximately one hour…..
THE MAHA POPE
In what must be the week's best fun news story, we learn that the new pope, Leo XIV, formerly Cardinal Robert Prevost, is a fitness fanatic.
His personal trainer and the founder of his gym had details for the Italian press about how then-Cardinal Prevost worked out at their local gym in Rome, running on the cardio machines and bench pressing like anyone else in his plain gym clothes, putting in those hours to keep himself fit, sound mind, sound spirit, sound body, in a piece since picked up by Catholic News Agency:
“The then-Cardinal Prevost — who, as is well known, is also a tennis player — spent his free time on the cardio machines, his favorite exercise. He sometimes also used the stationary bikes and treadmills designed to improve cardiovascular endurance and burn calories.
Omega Gym founder Alessandro Tamburlani related, ‘He was a person like so many other members. He dressed like everyone else, in simple gym clothes’.”
So in other words, he was just a dude, going to the gym to keep fit, same as millions of others do. Pope Leo is MAHA – RFKII should have been with Rubio and Vance when they met him in the Vatican last Sunday.
DEMOCRATS CONFUSED BY LEGAL IMMIGRANTS WHO LOVE AMERICA
U.S. — Democrat onlookers were baffled at the unusual sight of a group of immigrants arriving in the United States legally while waving patriotic American flags.
A group of 59 Afrikaners escaped persecution in South Africa and arrived in Washington this week. Upon touching down, they were seen celebrating with American flags and big smiles. Sources confirmed they have no plans to destroy America.
"Wait, I'm confused. They don't hate America?" said one Democrat immigration activist. "Why are we even letting them in? This is weird."
"Wait. They don't actually love America, do they? Oh no..."
After further research, it was confirmed that the newly arrived migrants were neither Mexican cartel members nor Jihadis sworn to wage holy war against the United States, but instead mostly middle-class families escaping persecution in South Africa.
"This is a blatant misuse of America's immigration system," said another Liberal. "America will never be destroyed at this rate. This proves once and for all that Trump is Hitler."
At publishing time, Democrats found themselves even more confused after ICE deported several hundred illegal immigrants who hate America.
~ Babylon Bee reporting
PUTIN IS A DEAD MAN WALKING
Russian despot Vladimir Putin is a “dead man walking” who rarely steps foot outside the Kremlin, British military experts have claimed. Little wonder Putin A No-Show At Ukraine War Talks In Turkey Today (5/15).putin is afraid to fly to Istanbul – the SBU knows exactly why. pic.twitter.com/lYDkaCit9f
— Jürgen Nauditt 🇩🇪🇺🇦 (@jurgen_nauditt) May 15, 2025
The health of Putin, 72, has long been suspected to be deteriorating with his increasing age, and now experts have said that his brutal invasion of Ukraine has sapped much of his remaining energy.
Former commander of the UK’s Joint Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Regiment, Colonel Hamish de Bretton-Gordon, told the Mirror:
“There are analysts, people who know better than I, who believe Putin is now a dead man walking, a spent force whose war in Ukraine will cause his end.”
Bruce Jones, one of the UK’s leading analysts of Russia, added:
“Things never end democratically in Russia and the situation is bad for Putin. He has had people killed for years and some in his military have already been dealt with in such a way - he knows the way this goes for a leader in Moscow who is not making good decisions. So he is probably right to be paranoid.”
And Colonel Richard Kemp, former commander of UK forces in Afghanistan, added:
SUPREME COURT SET TO END ERA OF NATIONWIDE JUDICIAL INJUNCTIONS?
On Thursday (5/15), the Supreme Court is set to hear arguments in a consolidated case, Trump v. CASA, which challenges lower court rulings that blocked President Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship for children born in the U.S. to illegal immigrants.
Despite the constitutional authority granted to the executive branch on immigration matters, three district judges issued sweeping nationwide injunctions halting the order. Now, the highest court may have the chance to rein in judicial overreach and restore balance between the branches of government.
Even Newsweek seems to believe that the court will side with the Trump administration. Further, in recent years, some justices have expressed criticism of universal injunctions.
WEAPONS WE WISH WE HAD THAT WE DON’T – BROWN NOTE
One might say that there is a special place in the souls of men for “super weapons.”
Often novel, thought of by someone other than an engineer, chemist, or other scientist, and either made of or powered by the elusive element “Unobtainium”, it is these items that make us enjoy Saturday afternoons at the theater and fuel revenge fantasies involving our ex-paramours or the people holding up the checkout line or ahead of us in traffic.
Of course, some of them are decidedly grim—such as the Death Star’s super laser or The Flying Guillotine. Then there are the others… such as “Brown Note.”
This elusive device, rumored to exist somewhere yet repeatedly debunked by various scientists and reporters (which further confirms it’s real, of course) has plopped—er, popped, in and out of the public discourse for several years now. Recently, it got a tremendous Charmin-squeeze thanks to the Internet doing what it always does best; promoting half truths and conspiracy theories.
It takes the three-year old’s nightmare (or at least, the nightmare of the parent of the three-year-old) and extends it across all domains of the battlespace to leverage asymmetric victory in conflicts ranging from all-out war to the West’s current favorite— “high intensity peace”.
THE DEMOCRATS’ DEMONIC HATRED OF THEIR FELLOW AMERICANS
Somewhere between 10 million and 12 million illegal aliens were invited into the United States by the Biden administration.
As far as logistics go, former President Joe Biden could not flee Afghanistan without getting 13 Marines killed and abandoning to the terrorist Taliban $50 billion in munitions, a billion-dollar embassy and a $300 million retrofitted huge airbase.
But Biden and his handlers proved far more logistically capable when their target was fellow Americans.
After all, they somehow managed to stop the congressionally approved continuance of the border wall, subvert federal immigration law, emasculate the border patrol and ensure that millions of people around the world could simply walk into the US illegally, unaudited and with impunity.
Why did Biden or his puppeteers do something so anarchic, so injurious to their fellow Americans?
WILL TRUMP SUSPEND HABEAS CORPUS FOR ILLEGALS?
Will Americans soon witness President Trump’s issuance of an executive order suspending habeas corpus for criminal aliens and American enemies who have participated in an invasion against the United States, and who have chosen to remain in our country against the rule of law?
The writ of habeas corpus goes back to 500 B.C. and is a legal action which allows a prisoner to challenge the authority of the jailer to continue holding him. The legal term habeas corpus literally means “you should have the body” in Latin.
This legal privilege allows incarcerated citizens to seek relief from unlawful confinement as outlined in the Suspension Clause of the U.S. Constitution: “The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it.”
The privilege of the writ of Habeas Corpus has been suspended four times: in areas that were in rebellion during the American Civil War; in eleven South Carolina counties that were under threat by the Ku Klux Klan during Reconstruction; in two provinces of the Philippines during an insurrection in 1905 when the Philippines were a U.S. territory; and in Hawaii subsequent to the bombing of Pearl Harbor by the Empire of Japan.
In suspending the writ, Trump would be following in the footsteps of Abe Lincoln, who suspended habeas corpus as a war power to protect the Union when the public safety required it.
HALF-FULL REPORT 05/09/25
The Yankees Beat the Padres,
The Return of Moral Clarity, and The Gathering Storm
Mother’s Day is Sunday, May 11. Happy Mother's Day to the women who raise warriors, build nations, and love without limits. Your strength shapes the world.
The world just got a little more serious. From the Vatican to the South China Sea, the old guard is waking up.
In Rome, a member of the Augustinian Order from Chicago, Cardinal Robert Prevost, educated at Villanova University, is now Pope Leo XIV. Not a bureaucrat. Not a compromise candidate. A theologian forged in virtue ethics and raised in the ruins of a collapsing republic. Think Augustine with a passport and a spine. He wasn’t elected to make peace with the culture. He was elected to call it to judgment.
Gregorian chant is making a comeback, not as nostalgia but as spiritual warfare. The new pope doesn’t believe in neutrality. He sees the City of God and the City of Man, and he has already chosen sides. Don’t be surprised when he names the CCP as a spiritual evil. Don’t be surprised if he calls for Vatican III to clarify doctrine, fortify the faithful, and draw the line against totalitarian lies.
Meanwhile, the old Axis of Evil is back only this time with better branding. China just struck oil in stolen waters and is using it to bankroll its assault on the U.S.-led order. Their buddies in Moscow and Tehran are watching their influence slip as Beijing builds energy independence and flexes power.
India and Pakistan are once again toeing the edge of nuclear conflict, with Kashmir as the eternal fuse. And in the West? America and the U.K. finally remembered how to shake hands with a trade deal that might just mean something if we can keep our moral footing.
This isn’t business as usual. This is a spiritual, moral, and geopolitical reckoning. The Yankees beat the Padres, but the real game’s just starting. And this time, it’s for keeps.
Stay tuned. The world just hit chapter one of a new book.
A CONFRONTATION WITH THE ROGUE JUDICIARY
Revolutions rarely spring into action without notice. The American Revolution was many years in the making. The Boston Massacre occurred in 1773, not 1776. Many of the longstanding oppressive measures that drove the colonists to revolt in 1776 are catalogued in the Declaration of Independence. As onerous as they were, yet only when the oppression was no longer “sufferable” were the people driven to their last recourse: revolution.
President Trump has been besieged by federal, state, and local judges, even during his campaign. New York State issued what amounts to a bill of attainder against him, not only crafting a special application of law, in which there were no victims, and designed to prosecute only him, but also assigning to a judge the role of real estate assessor, with the threat of imprisonment in a notorious state penitentiary. This case, among others, was widely seen as clearly intended only to prevent the re-election of Donald Trump.
A different sort of revolution has been building up in the United States, against a different kind of tyranny: the tyranny of radical leftist judges. It was only a matter of time before there was outright defiance of those judges. In one case, federal judge Boasberg complained that his order to turn around deportation airplanes already in flight was ignored.
Now there has been an escalation in that buildup.
WHITE HOUSE CHIEF OF STAFF SUES CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT
[Stephen Miller is the founder of America First Legal and is currently Chief of Staff of the Trump White House.]
Stephen Miller’s America First Legal (AFL) has filed a bombshell lawsuit against Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., in his capacity as Presiding Officer of the Judicial Conference of the United States, and Robert J. Conrad, Director of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts.
The lawsuit accuses the powerful duo of running what AFL describes as an “unconstitutional shadow agency” and violating federal transparency laws.
The lawsuit, filed on April 22, slams the Judicial Conference of the United States and its administrative arm—both overseen by Chief Justice Roberts—as rogue “executive agencies” that have collaborated with far-left lawmakers to wage lawfare against conservative Supreme Court justices.
According to the lawsuit viewed by The Gateway Pundit:
HOW GROUPS BRING OUT THE BEST IN PEOPLE… AND THE WORST
“Like I always say, there's no "I" in team. There's a "me" though, if you jumble it up.”
- Hugh Laurie as Dr. Gregory House
One of the essential qualities that makes us human is the way that we work together in groups. Understanding how to bring out our best within a group can make the difference between success or failure, personally, professionally, and financially.
You see it in sports teams, in musical groups, in work groups… when highly skilled individuals bring their best, and cooperate with each other, they create a level of excellence that’s unparalleled.
One player is a great shooter, another is exceptional at defense, another sets up plays, another, though not exceptional at any one thing, is uncanny in his ability to get the team to work together and connect well.
You also see the downside when an individual, no matter how skilled they are, can’t or won’t work together for the good of the group as a whole. One prima dona who hogs the ball, or a virtuoso soloist who has no emotional connection with his bandmates.
But the most common negative is when members of a group merge into a single blob, undifferentiated, following the momentum of wherever the group happens to be heading. Nobody stands out, nobody brings their unique talents and abilities, they all ooze together like a bland smoothie of humanity.
TRUMP’S PLAN FOR ALCATRAZ IS ABSOLUTE GENIUS
Donald Trump has announced that he’s reopening Alcatraz as a federal prison for the worst of the worst in America. I couldn’t be more delighted, because it’s a wonderful idea at both practical and symbolic levels.
Trump made the announcement on Truth Social:
REBUILD, AND OPEN ALCATRAZ! For too long, America has been plagued by vicious, violent, and repeat Criminal Offenders, the dregs of society, who will never contribute anything other than Misery and Suffering. When we were a more serious Nation, in times past, we did not hesitate to lock up the most dangerous criminals, and keep them far away from anyone they could harm. That’s the way it’s supposed to be. No longer will we tolerate these Serial Offenders who spread filth, bloodshed, and mayhem on our streets. That is why, today, I am directing the Bureau of Prisons, together with the Department of Justice, FBI, and Homeland Security, to reopen a substantially enlarged and rebuilt ALCATRAZ, to house America’s most ruthless and violent Offenders. We will no longer be held hostage to criminals, thugs, and Judges that are afraid to do their job and allow us to remove criminals, who came into our Country illegally. The reopening of ALCATRAZ will serve as a symbol of Law, Order, and JUSTICE. We will, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
FROM ONE FAKE LEFT-WING HYSTERIA TO THE NEXT
The decade-old age of fables like Russian collusion, laptop disinformation, or the pangolin/bat cause of COVID is not over; it is just hitting midstream.
For much of April, amid stock downturns, in the classical paranoid style, we were assured by the Wall Street Journal news reporters and the liberal press that Trump had either a) guaranteed an inevitable recession, b) engineered a losing trade war he likely regretted, c) crashed the stock market, d) lost his once majority favorability ratings, e) mostly had a failed first 100 days, or f) all of the above.
Some of us thought these diagnoses and prognoses were absurd. How in mediis rebus, during a radical counterrevolution never quite seen before, could anyone issue such bleak predictions? Would these same observers have said the U.S. was doomed to lose World War II after the bleak first five months of mostly failure in the Pacific, or North Africa, after the utter U.S. army disaster at the Kasserine Pass?
JOE BIDEN ARRESTED FOR HARBORING 11 MILLION ILLEGAL ALIENS
REHOBOTH BEACH, DE — Former President Joe Biden was placed under arrest today for harboring just over eleven million illegal immigrants.
Following the arrest of a judge in Wisconsin for attempting to help an illegal immigrant evade capture, Biden was arrested and charged with the same crime but "times eleven million."
"We're pretty sure it's a record," said FBI Director Kash Patel, after announcing the arrest. "Incredibly, this man apparently committed all eleven million crimes in the span of just four years. That's over five crimes per minute for four years straight, assuming he never slept. And, we have reason to believe this man slept about 16 hours per day. It's a crime spree like no other."
According to sources, Biden will plead innocent, claiming that he has no recollection of bringing in eleven million illegal aliens or doing anything else of note over the past four years.
"Ask anyone - I've been at the beach for the past four years, minding my own business," said Biden. "I've got hundreds of witnesses saying I've been right here under this umbrella, sipping margaritas and baking in the sun since 2012. It wasn't me, Jack."
At publishing time, the FBI had entered day three of reading all eleven million criminal charges in court against Biden.
~ Babylon Bee reporting
WHEN THE CHILDREN ARE GONE
🚨 ELON MUSK: "There's a lot of things that I worry about. The birth rate is very low in almost every country and unless that changes, civilization will disappear. America had the lowest birth rate ever. That was last year. Humanity is dying." pic.twitter.com/E6XiKDwdV3
— DogeDesigner (@cb_doge) March 28, 2025
How do we measure the success of a civilization?
How long your civilization lasts is indeed an important measure of its success. What makes it last? More people, people who identify with and are members of the civilization. To have that, you need an environment that promotes the creation and proper socialization of new members, meaning children, women having children. This is done through cohesive family units.
And in this area, we not only see America’s challenge, but its weakness and its probable catalyst for destruction if the national ship is not righted.
THE VIRTUE OF HAPPINESS
A human life that is happy is not a trivial matter of being lucky, of getting what we want; of pleasant pastimes or the absence of responsibilities or pain. A human life that is happy is an accomplishment; a triumphant, sometimes even a heroic creation.
Some of the most deeply and genuinely happy people I’ve known have overcome tremendous physical or psychological hardships to get there. As with any big, long term project, it takes work; it’s complicated and time consuming - more like a great symphony of harmony and counterpoint than a simple catchy jingle.
To create a life that is truly happy over time takes discipline, passion, and courage. A happy moment can be a matter of luck; a happy life requires virtue.
CANADA HAS JUST MADE A CATASTROPHIC MISTAKE
How foolish are Canadian voters? They have just kept a politically inexperienced prime minister and largely discredited Liberal minority government in power because of their frustration with a US president.
That, in a nutshell, is what happened in Monday’s election yesterday (4/28) in the Great White North.
Liberal Mark Carney barely proposed any original ideas during the campaign, preferring to maintain Trudeau-era policies and steal proposals from the Conservatives. His long-standing support for far-Left policies such as net zero climate solutions and a fixation on wealth inequality never came to the forefront during this campaign, for obvious reasons.
Conservative Pierre Poilievre, in contrast, believes in lower taxes, smaller government and more individual rights and freedoms. He wanted to tackle the affordability crisis caused by the Liberals, and to bring down the high costs of food, housing, energy and more for Canadians and their families.
Poilievre was the superior choice for Prime Minister. Now he’s not even in Parliament, having lost his seat yesterday. What happened?
77 MILLION AMERICANS VOTED FOR TRUMP — AFTER 100 DAYS ONLY 2% REGRET
I realize this may blow Democrats' minds, but 100 days into President Donald Trump’s second term, almost all of the millions of Americans who cast their vote for him are still happy they did.
And Trump has not been twiddling his thumbs in these first months back in the Oval Office.
There’s plenty to like or dislike, from his large number of executive orders to his federal cost-cutting bonanza with Tesla CEO Elon Musk.
So, it’s telling that a recent poll shows the vast majority of Trump supporters would vote for him again now, if given the opportunity for a do-over.
And significantly more people are happy with the direction of the country now than they were before Trump took office. The gap between those who think the country is on the wrong track and those who think it's on the right track has shrunk from 36 points in November to fewer than 12 now.
Trump is delivering on what he said he would do, and, for the vastly most part, his voters appreciate it.
MS-13 ADDED TO LGBTQ ACRONYM
U.S. — In yet another step toward the advancement of protections for all people groups, activists announced today that MS-13 had officially been added to the LGBTQ+ acronym to ensure that the rights of violent foreign gang members were recognized.
Civil rights groups hailed the announcement as a significant step forward in the ongoing crusade to see MS-13 gang members be given their rightful place in society among other persecuted groups after decades of mistreatment and ostracism.
"MS-13 gang members are some of the most oppressed and vulnerable in our society," said LGBTQMS-13 activist Cherise Hargrave. "For far too long, we have been forced to watch brave MS-13 gang members get shunned and shamed, with people demanding that they hide who they truly are. No more! It's time for MS-13 members to be celebrated for their valuable and important contributions to our world."
Members of the dangerous gang welcomed the news. "It's about time," said Enrique Marquez, who has eight murders on his resume. "I have lived every day of the last 10 years in fear of being arrested, deported, and held accountable for the vicious acts I commit on a regular basis. Now, I can be a proud member of the LGBTQMS-13 community."
Sources said production had begun on a new flag that would add MS-13 symbols and a black teardrop tattoo emblem to the LGBTQ banner, and that Los Angeles would host the first MS-13 Pride Parade later this year.
At publishing time, all Democrat Members of Congress who have joined the Congressional MS-13 Caucus are expected to march in the parade.
~ Babylon Bee reporting
POTUS OUTFOXES PRO-ILLEGAL ALIEN FEDERAL JUDGE
How cool is this?
POTUS and Team Trump have pulled off an incredibly creative move to humiliate an activist judge trying to stop them from deporting dangerous illegal aliens.
As Axios reported, Team Trump revealed yesterday (4/23) how they managed to avoid violating a federal judge’s restraining order barring them from deporting certain illegals.
U.S. District Court Judge Brian E. Murphy, a Biden appointee, ordered the Trump administration to ensure that people with final removal orders have a chance to argue that deportation to a country other than their own could jeopardize their safety.
The Trump White House, though, exploited a loophole in the ruling and deported several illegal aliens anyway. It turns out Murphy’s order only applied to the Department of Homeland Security, not any other federal agencies.
TRUMP’S DEAL WOULD PLUNGE THE WORLD INTO WAR
“Ukraine will not legally recognize the occupation of Crimea. There’s nothing to talk about here. This is against our constitution.” –Volodymyr Zelensky in response to Trump’s plan, Kyiv, April 22.
Surrender, capitulation, betrayal, appeasement, abandonment. These are the words that better describe the egregious apology of a peace deal that the Trump administration is currently hawking around Europe.
For, rather than attempting to address the fundamental causes of the conflict – namely Russia’s unprovoked invasion of a sovereign state – Trump and his band of fellow travellers have reached the perverse conclusion that the best way to achieve peace in Ukraine is by rewarding Russian president Vladimir Putin for his blatant act of military aggression.
That certainly seems to be the essence of the terms presented in the one-page document given to Western diplomats meeting in London on Tuesday (4/22).
It proposes allowing Putin to keep nearly all the Ukrainian territory he has seized since launching his initial invasion of Ukraine in 2014, while giving the Ukrainians – who are unquestionably the innocent party in the conflict – next to nothing in return.
PREPARING FOR CHINA’S NEW PERIOD OF THE WARRING STATES
“The empire, long divided, must unite; long united, must divide. Thus has it ever been.” — The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, circa 1400, attributed to Luo Guanzhong.
At some point, Xi’s Chinese Communist Party will either 1) productively address America’s trade grievances, 2) start military action that risks global thermonuclear war, or 3) itself collapse and throw China into chaos.
The first two possibilities have been discussed broadly elsewhere, but let’s think through scenario three because it seems this is Trump’s goal. Trump has backed Xi into a corner and here’s why Xi’s options are bad.