DEMOCRATS ARE SAYING “THERE NEEDS TO BE BLOOD!”
House Democrats are getting torched by their own base - and some of their constituents are literally suggesting they light a match. Shocker, we know - from the party that held nationwide riots over George Floyd (though 'mostly peaceful' of course), tried to assassinate Donald Trump and Steve Scalise, and put Rand Paul in the hospital.
Liberal activists are confronting Democrat lawmakers in town halls, office meetings, and online, demanding they ditch political niceties and start “fighting dirty” — even if it means getting hurt, arrested, or worse.
“There is fear and despair and anger among our voters that puts us in a different position where we can't keep following norms of decorum anymore,” one House Democrat admitted to Axios, as Dems face a mounting tidal wave of frustration from within their own ranks.
In candid interviews with over two dozen House Democrats, Axios found a theme of rage and a dangerous appetite for violence.
PUTIN HAS PUSHED TRUMP TOO FAR
If he is as upset as his expletives suggest, the Russians need to be concerned. What has really changed is that Trump knows his air power can easily penetrate Russian air defenses following the attacks on Iran’s nuclear weapons program.
The Russian president might not live on potatoes but most of the country does, and with the price of spuds rising and Russian sons returning in over a thousand boxes a day, this is the very time President Trump must turn the screw and force Putin to negotiate for peace.
It is now the US president who holds all the aces.
THE CHRISTIAN KNIGHTS OF MALTA
They look real, don’t they? Ready to defend their Christian land with their lives. We are in the Palace Armory Museum of Malta, where you realize there is no nation on earth more proud of their Christian heritage. It was on Malta in 1565 that a few thousand Christian Knights led by 70 year-old Jean de Vallette defeated in utter humiliation a massive horde of Moslem Ottomans led by Suleiman the Magnificent.
In seeking to use Malta as his launchpad to conquer all of Christian Europe, Suleiman was bitter in defeat: “This cursed island is like a barrier interposed between us and our possessions,” believing that Allah ordained all Christian lands need be taken for Islam by the sword.
Vallette knew what he and his Knights faced: “It is the great battle of the Cross and the Koran which is now to be fought. A formidable army of infidels is at the point of invading our island.”
The incredibly heroic saga of the Knights’ victory is told in The Siege of Malta, on TTP since 2009. What’s critical to understand now is that, after 5½ centuries, the Maltese people are just as proud of their history and Christian heritage as ever.
Come with me in early November to meet them, to make this history a part of your life, and experience The Magic of Malta. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #264 photo ©Jack Wheeler)
ELON’S FOOLISH IDEA
Has Elon Musk gone off the deep end yet again?
Until a few days ago, we thought he had established a cautious truce with President Trump, having apologized for all the awful things he said about the man who had given him a major role in government, estranging their relationship significantly.
Ostensibly, it was all supposedly over the passage in Congress of Trump's budget, known as the Big Beautiful Bill.
It's true that federal spending did increase with its passage and should not have, but it wasn't a massive expansion. It contained critical tax cuts, money for immigration enforcement, money for defense and other important spending.
Nevertheless, Musk was incensed, as if this was the first time he ever heard of it, his ego wounded because it seemingly negated his DOGE work (it didn't so long as DOGE remains in place as it does), and now he says he wants to start a third party, presumably to challenge Trump's party as well as the leftists.
WITH LEBANON ENDING HEZBOLLAH, PEACE LOOKS POSSIBLE IN THE MIDDLE EAST
When we look back on the 1980s, a decade characterized by renewed Western strength and prosperity after the malaise of the 1970s, many of us think of three towering figures: Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, and Pope John Paul II.
These three people were committed to individual liberty, both political and spiritual, and they provided the economic, military, and moral impetus for that amazing decade, a decade that ended with the collapse of the once formidable—indeed, seemingly unbeatable—Soviet Union.
When I look at the world today, I’m beginning to wonder whether, in place of the Trio of Titans in the 1980s, the third decade of the 21st century will bring us the Dynamic Duo of Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu.
Working in tandem in the last few months, these months have brought about the military downfall of Iran and its proxy armies (Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis), even as we’re witnessing the resurgence of the Abraham Accords, which will bring Israel into the fold of its Arab-Muslim Middle Eastern neighbors.
GGANTIJA
The small European island country of Malta in the Mediterranean south of Sicily and close to the north coast of Africa is where civilization emerged from the Stone Age.
The story begins over 7,000 years ago, when a handful of Stone Age tribes in Sicily rafted 55 miles south to land on the twin islands of Gozo and Malta. They lived in caves, then huts, fished, hunted, farmed with primitive tools for they had no metal – and over a period of more than a thousand years taught themselves how to construct massive buildings of stone.
This is the Temple of Ggantija (zhee-gan-tee-zha). Built almost 6,000 years ago (around 3600 BC), it is the oldest free-standing structure in the world. It is older than the pyramids in Egypt by a thousand years, older than Stonehenge by 15 centuries. The enormous stones weighing several tons were cut from the limestone bedrock with tools of stone and antler horn for they had no metal, and moved using small round-cut rocks as ball bearings for they had no wheels.
These folks figured out all by themselves how to build this and other massive stone temples to their gods and goddesses so many millennia ago. Nobody taught them. They were the first. Come with Rebel and me to experience this yourself on our Magic of Malta this coming early November. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #166 photo ©Jack Wheeler)
THE SIEGE OF MALTA
Valletta, Fort St. Elmo in foreground
[This Monday’s Archive was originally published in TTP on December 4, 2009. Malta is, for me, the world’s most interesting island. This essay helps to explain why. All the photos are mine © Jack Wheeler save for the one above. And note – in the TTP side bar you now find The Magic Of Malta: join your fellow TTPers and come with me and Rebel to explore Malta early this November.]
TTP, December 4, 2009
Valletta, Malta. This small European island country in the Mediterranean south of Sicily and close to the north coast of Africa is where civilization emerged from the Stone Age. It is where Western Civilization was saved from being conquered by Islam.
The story is both ancient and is at the vanguard of the future. Come and meet the heroic Christian people of Malta.
FREEDOM’S BIRTHDAY 2025
July 4th is Freedom’s Birthday. My suggestion is, amidst the fireworks and barbeques and flag-waving fun – all of which are great – that you take the time to feel good about America.
Take the time to read the Declaration of Independence aloud with your family.
We Americans are privileged to live in one of history’s supreme moments. We Americans are participants in one of history’s greatest civilizations in its prime.
Someday in some future epoch, history will have moved on, and there will be distant centuries between that time and the American Era. People will then look upon America as we do upon ancient Egypt or Greece, and will do so with the same wonder and awe.
I suggest you look upon America with that wonder and awe now.
FLASHBACK FRIDAY: BRANDON AT THE TAJ
August 1993, Taj Mahal, Agra, India. I took my son Brandon here for his 10th birthday. Here is one supremely happy boy. One of the greatest gifts you can give your children or grandchildren is to take them on a great adventure, to explore the world with them. And it is one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself. It is a bonding experience that will last all of your life and theirs. Never pass up the opportunity, search for the opportunity instead. This is life-enrichment at its best. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #272 photo ©Jack Wheeler)
HOW 9 POLITICIANS ARE CELEBRATING THIS 4TH OF JULY
It's birthday time once again for the greatest nation on earth: America. Everybody likes to celebrate 'Murica a little differently - here are how nine famous politicians are planning to mark the 4th of July this year:
- Chuck Schumer: Murdering 26 people with undercooked beef. Tradition is tradition.
- AOC: Weeping outside of Alligator Alcatraz: Heroic.
- Ron DeSantis: Turning loose highly trained alligators armed with lasers to hunt down anyone who comes near Alligator Alcatraz: Uh-oh.
- JD Vance: Killing off a rival world leader: U-S-A! U-S-A!
- Joe Biden: Hanging Christmas decorations: Aw, Joe.
- Thomas Massie: Going to some super-secret meeting Trump invited him to in a CIA detention cell: Have fun, Tom.
- JB Pritzker: Hot dog eating contest: Followed by a burger eating contest, lamb shank eating contest, entire baby pig eating contest, pie eating contest, and tub of Crisco eating contest.
- Zohran Mamdani: Dumping Jews into the harbor: A true patriot.
- President Trump: Carving his own face into Mount Rushmore while riding a bald eagle: Glorious!
Our great and wise leaders are doing it right this Independence Day.
~ Babylon Bee reporting