Saturday, February 28, 2026
We're Wrecking the Islamic Republic
Everyone (including the Iranians) seems to accept that Khamenei is dead, along with many other regime leaders. That’s great. U.S. and Israeli sources say they expect the bombing campaign to last for several weeks, so hopefully there will be enough degradation of the regime and its military to allow a civilian takeover. We will see.
Allegiance
To this crowd, Gu is actually a success story. Perhaps that’s why the corporate press is fawning over her despite her allegiance to an American adversary. She’s the embodiment of the America they promote: an economic zone where citizens of the world can enrich themselves with zero loyalties attached. As Mike Pence put it, “cheap goods are a big part of” the American dream.
But if you understand that the American dream is not about economic enrichment, but rather the freedom to live virtuously and to secure that freedom for posterity by participating in self-government, you understand that Eileen Gu is a failed American and a traitor. Being born in San Francisco did not make her American, in any meaningful sense, any more than wanting to earn more money or being tired, poor, and huddled turns masses of economic migrants into Americans.
America is a heritage descended from the greatest civilizations of the world, refined on the frontier, and dedicated to man’s freedom to dutifully live as he ought. She has gladly welcomed many who seek the same goal — like the family of Alysa Liu, an American Olympic figure skater whose father fled the same country Gu represents. But wanting to enrich yourself doesn’t make you an American, and it’s time to stop humoring the pretense that it does. The proof is in the person of Eileen Gu.
Paging Karen Hughes
One of the most idiotic arguments of the century has been the claim that Islam is a religion of peace.
Whatever else you can associate Islam with, and I have quite a few ideas that I need not discuss right now, "peace" is not high on the list.
Immigration Issues
The Trump administration is looking at the issues implicated in Ilhan Omar’s naturalization. That is what is to be inferred from Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon’s comments in the video clip below: “It’s a truism of immigration law that if you commit fraud in the course of obtaining your citizenship…if you lie about your marriage status on which your citizenship depends or you’re familial status or what have you, if you fake any of those documents or you lie that’s a grounds for denaturalization and so I think it’s been credibly alleged that there are serious questions about the circumstances of the paperwork around that naturalization. I’ll just leave it at that.”
The implication of Ms. Dhillon’s remarks seems obvious to me. The Trump administration’s investigation of Omar’s “immigration issues” is news. If the time ever comes when those issues are made public, the weeping and wailing will be deafening. We can only hope that the day comes soon.
Truth
Other than going all nuclear, there is no “net-zero strategy” that will not cause costs to explode and make basic industries unsustainable.
Why?
The Democratic Party wants every single illegal alien who is now present in the U.S. to stay here forever. The obvious question is: why? On what possible theory is this a good thing for the American people?
Coal Isn't Going Away
Of all the dumb things liberals say, one of the dumbest is the claim that China is getting ahead of us on “green” energy. Look at all the solar panels and wind turbines China is manufacturing, liberals say. Sure: they make them and sell them to suckers in the West. When it comes to fueling their own industry, China relies on coal.
Easy Choice
But we are talking about giving up our beloved pets for people who immigrated here of their own free will. They chose to come to a dog culture, and are now demanding that we give in to their demands.
Screw that. If we have to choose between barbarians and our dogs, the choice is easy.
And:
Congressman Randy Fine, in response to Kiswani, said out loud what most of us were thinking and whispering under our breath: if we have to choose between giving up our dogs and giving up the opportunity for our communities being strengthened through Muslim diversity, we would choose to keep the dogs and say goodbye to the Muslims.
This of course caused a firestorm, with the Democrats howling in outrage at this racist comment. Except, what exactly is racist about it? It's not like we are forcing Muslims to get dogs or leave; we are just saying, "if you don't like dogs, go back to where you came from." Trust me, the majority of Americans didn't ask to be swamped by Muslim immigrants, and find it quite rich that they are asking us to adapt to them rather than the opposite.
Rubio '28
Speaking of the presidency: Rubio’s Munich speech reminds us why he is the best leader for the Republican Party, post-Trump. JD Vance is an immensely talented guy, but he lacks Rubio’s lifelong honing of a coherent conservative philosophy, and, even more important, Rubio’s moral compass. There are many who believe that Providence has intervened on America’s behalf at critical moments in our history. I think that a Rubio presidency could be another in that line of providential interventions.
Leftist Imports
But migrants in the 21st century sure spend a lot of time telling people who either have invited them in or tolerated their illegal entry how awful we are, and how much our society sucks. It's a strange complaint, given how much effort they or their parents made to escape the craphole country they fled from.
While it is easy to resent them for their ingratitude, we should also notice that, for the most part, they are merely parroting the line that anti-Western elites have been preaching from Mount Olympus. You could find any of the litany of complaints being hurled at us by migrants being taught to university students and being preached and practiced in elite institutions through DEI programs.
No Limiting Principle
Advocates of wide-open immigration policy never answer the most basic question: how much is enough? Or, put another way, how much is too much? Is there any limiting principle? If every Nicaraguan decides he or she would be better off in the U.S., do we throw out the welcome mat?
Apparently so. If a Democrat wins the presidency in 2028, things could get really, really crowded.
Go Our Separate Ways?
How did we get to this pass? And what is the path forward? Honestly, I think it is hard to see how those of us who support the rule of law can continue to share a country with those who do not—a group that now numbers close to half of our population. What possible basis for a common citizenship is there, between us and them? I don’t think there is one.
Semi-Secession
I think that what Walz, Jacob Frey, Amy Klobuchar and the rest have in mind is semi-secession: as long as Republicans control the national government, Minnesota will be a law unto itself, accepting dollars from Washington but obeying only those laws with which they agree. When the Democrats are back in charge, their semi-secession will end, at least temporarily.
Importing Violent Crime
Tennessee has a little over two percent of the U.S. population, so, assuming Tennessee’s illegals are no more violent than the norm, that would translate to something like 100,000 violent offenses, 2,000 murders, and so on. There were about 14,000 or 15,000 murders in the U.S. in 2025, so illegals probably accounted for around 1/7 of them. These are the people whom the Democratic Party is determined to keep within our borders. One might reasonably ask why.
And, from Beege Welborn:
What is conveniently overlooked every time one of these types sanctimoniously intones the memorized line is the fact that had that illegal miscreant not been here at all, as it was meant to be, there would have been no crime at all to discuss.
That's the crux of the problem.
Not that they supposedly commit fewer crimes than the citizen population, but that they are here in the first place to do so, period.
The Soft Sciences
Results like these don’t invalidate science, of course. But the “social sciences” are not really scientific. Data are data, but when it comes to social science, we are never going to have Newton’s laws of motion, or Kepler’s laws of planetary motion. Social “science” inherently resides in the zone of controversy, and should always be taken with 50 or 60 grains of salt.
Opt For Reality
So Klobuchar is the odds-on favorite to be elected governor in November. Still, I have my doubts. If Walz was yanked from the race because he was likely to lose, and Klobuchar fails to draw any distinction between herself and her predecessor, a failed buffoon, isn’t she vulnerable? If the Republicans nominate a strong candidate—and they have several possibilities, by my count—Minnesota voters may well opt for reality, as opposed to a ginned-up far-left narrative.
Correlations
Liberals, for years, have told us that the flood of illegal immigrants (ahem/ undocumented workers /ahem) was a boon to our economy and to the American middle class. They do the jobs Americans won't do, pay taxes, and make our lives more affordable.
Some of us noticed that with the steady flow and the recent flood of illegal immigrants, certain necessities became ever more expensive. While the cost of maids and lawn care services for the upper classes was kept down, housing costs exploded. It's almost as if there was a correlation between these things.
Similarly, a shocking thing happened to the murder rate. During the surge in immigration and the corresponding increase in the "criminal justice reform" and "defund the police" movement, the murder rate (and other crimes) soared dramatically, but under Trump, even with those liberals running major cities, the murder rate dropped like a rock.
