Highlights of the News

ITEM 1: Heavy reported 5,000 people attended Trump's rally on Saturday night in Commerce, Georgia, population 7,387.

Liz Harrington said attendance was 25,000 to 35,000.

Meanwhile, the New York Daily News reported, "Biden shares pizza lunch with GI's near Ukraine front line."

Ukraine front line? They were in Poland.

And as for sharing pizza, well he sat at their table if that counts.

This is so painful.
God bless these troops.
Eating and speaking with Joe Biden is the most difficult military assignment they will ever be given.

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— Benny (@bennyjohnson) March 26, 2022

ITEM 2: The National Post gushed, "Reformed Toronto 18 terror plotter given green light to become a licensed lawyer.

"Saad Gaya 'made terrible mistakes as a young man. His long and hard journey back deserves recognition,' Ontario's Law Society Tribunal decided."

Eric Utter reported, "In 2006, Saad Gaya — and more than a dozen other radical Islamists — planned to detonate bombs throughout Toronto, Canada’s largest city. Blessedly, the plot was foiled in a national security operation. Gaya was arrested while unloading what he believed to be ammonium nitrate for making truck bombs. The al-Qaeda-inspired plot was purportedly to target the Toronto Stock Exchange, the Parliament, Canada’s spy agency, and a military base, among other venues. Gaya and his accomplices planned to take political hostages. And behead various Canadian leaders including the Prime Minister.

"In 2009, Gaya pleaded guilty to the commission of an offense for a terrorist group. He was sentenced to serve 18 years in prison. However, he was released on parole after only 10 years, finishing his sentence in 2020. Not bad for a guy that was involved with a plot to blow up bombs all over a metropolis of 6.2 million souls and decapitate its leaders."

In Canada, people honking horns to protest a draconian government edict is an attempted coup, but people who try to blow up parliament and behead leaders are just committing mistakes.

Youthful indiscretions, you might say.

Who knows? Someday a Democrat just may nominate Gaya to the Supreme Court. First openly Muslim justice and all that jazz.

ITEM 3: Democrats are beating their war drums. A regime change is coming, a la Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan...

Democrats need a war to save the midterms. Look for the invasion to begin on the first anniversary of Biden's abrupt surrender of Afghanistan. He wants a do-over.

Or maybe it will be June 22. That's when Napoleon invaded Russia in 1812. That's when Hitler invaded Russia in 1941. Starting a war with Russia when summer begins assures that you won't be bogged down there in winter.

Always bear in mind that what they call Biden's gaffes are when he gets ahead of the narrative.

Meanwhile, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said of regime change, "That’s not for Biden to decide. The president of Russia is elected by Russians."

Russians decide? How backward. In America the postman decides.

ITEM 4: Newsweek reported, "Several orchestras have recently announced changes to their concert programs, removing the legendary Romantic-era composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky from their lineups amid the Russian war on Ukraine.

"Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine at the end of February, and several large companies and corporations have since cut ties with Russia in response. Even more support for Ukraine has been shown as citizens across the world have personally boycotted Russian-based goods or services, but some internet users say that the banning of 19th-century classical music might be taking it a step too far.

"On Wednesday, Wales' Cardiff Philharmonic Orchestra announced it would be removing Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture from a March 18 concert."

I cannot think of a time when we need the 1812 Overture more.

Even Chuck Berry would agree.

ITEM 5: RT reported, "The switch to rubles for gas payments, announced earlier this week by Russian President Vladimir Putin, would force the European Union to circumvent its own anti-Russia sanctions if it wants to keep the gas flowing in, Germany’s Der Spiegel reported, citing economy experts.

"According to Düsseldorf economist Jens Südekum, in order to pay for gas deliveries, Europe would have to buy rubles from the Central Bank of Russia, which earlier this month was placed on an EU sanctions list. The measure prohibits any financial transactions between the Russian financial regulator and EU."

Gasoline is now 424 rubles a gallon in Poca, comrade.

ITEM 6: Americans For Tax Reform reported, "Tax hike violates Manchin promise to WV voters: 'I can’t look the people in West Virginia in the eye and ask them to pay a penny more until I know we’re running this government efficiently.'

"Moderate Democrat Senator Joe Manchin wants to impose a $1 trillion tax increase, according to an Axios scoop."

Just like he promised to repeal Obamacare.

ITEM 7: NBC reported that its poll showed Biden's approval fell to 40%.

55% disapprove.

The story said, "Asked which one issue — reducing inflation and improving the economy, or working to end the war in Ukraine — should be Biden’s top priority, 68% picked inflation/economy, versus 29% who picked the war in Ukraine."

All that huffing and puffing and war propaganda by the media hasn't sold America on war! war! war!

Yet.

ITEM 8: Via Gateway Pundit, Blueprint Polling gives Trump a 10-point lead in Nevada, a state he failed to take in his first two presidential races.

The Donald's lead is 10 points among whites.

19 points among Hispanics.

45 points among Asians.

Democrats keep saying Republicans are the "white" party and doomed to fail as the nation diversifies.

Looks like Hispanics and Asians are not going to be slaves to the Democrat Party.

ITEM 9: BPR reported, "Following months of hype, CNN is rolling out its new streaming service with the official launch of CNN+ which will become available on April 28 but something very noticeable is missing from the promo, prized hire Chris Wallace who isn’t among the network personalities featured in the video."

He was a Zucker hire.

The new management realized he belongs on CNN-minus because the ratings for his show on Fox rose after he left.

ITEM 10: The Pseudonymous Doomberg wrote, "The coming crash in global food supply will be driven by a similar phenomenon across virtually every input into farming – they are all spiking to historic highs simultaneously, supply availability is diminishing across the spectrum, and the time to reverse the worst of the upcoming consequences is rapidly running short.

"Other than that, things are great.

"We begin with the price of fertilizer, which has been soaring to record highs across the globe. Key sources of nitrogen, potassium, and phosphorous – important inputs into soil fertility, crop yield, and plant maintenance – have all gone vertical. Ammonia is derived directly from natural gas, and the price of natural gas outside of the US has gone vertical. It's no surprise that the price of ammonia has tripled over the past twelve months. Belarus is the third-largest supplier of potash in the world and its state-owned miner, Belaruskali, declared force majeure after sanctions were imposed by the US and Europe. The number two supplier of potash globally? Russia. Perhaps front-running the Russian move on Ukraine, China halted phosphate exports last fall in an effort to ensure adequate domestic supply."

The war in Ukraine aside, shutting down the economy as part of a pandemic panic carries a horrific price. Biden cannot print money fast enough to cover the costs.

The Putin-Zelensky pissing match doesn't help. And Biden's foolish economic sanctions have compounded the damage from the Russo-Ukraine War.

ITEM 11: The College Fix reported, "The FBI remains very tight-lipped about its investigation into a plethora of bomb threats targeting historically black colleges and universities in recent months.

"In comments during a recent Congressional Oversight Committee, as well as in a statement to The College Fix, the agency provided scant details on the suspects or their precise motives.

"An unnamed law enforcement official, cited in numerous news reports last month, said the FBI is looking at six tech-savvy juveniles who appear to be racially motivated."

I smell a hoax.

I'm sure readers Smollett too.

ITEM 12: Reuters reported, "Zurich Insurance has removed its Z logo from social media after the letter became a symbol of support in Russia for Moscow's invasion of Ukraine."

That'll show Putin we mean business.

Look for the cancel culture to go after Zorro, the fox of cunning and free, because he makes the sign of the Z.

ITEM 13: Sundance reported, "It is always worth a brief reminder when looking at statements from foreign politicians under the influence of the U.S. government via the state department, that all messaging – even messaging that seems provocative, is coordinated by the alignment of interests. The process of promoting a mutually beneficial reality is especially important when reviewing any current statements from Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky.

"There is no sunlight between the agenda of Zelensky and the agenda of the U.S. State department. There are times when the U.S. government will ask their ideological policy partner, Zelensky, to be intentionally antagonistic toward the U.S. because the U.S. government is coordinating an internal pressure campaign.  It is all part of the carefully crafted propaganda campaign for domestic consumption.

"In today’s example the State Dept. wants Zelensky to keep up public pressure, via ever increasingly desperate demands of the United States for more military engagement.  The State Dept. (CIA) use the media to create the desperation and hero narrative.  The hero begs for help, the media claim the U.S. government isn’t doing enough. Public pressure builds, and then the U.S. government gets to do what they have wanted to do, which was the purpose of asking Zelensky to maintain the pressure with increased frustration.  Wash – Rinse – Repeat.  That’s how the game is played."

The fog of war covers many sins, including the graft Hunter collected from those biolabs in Ukraine. 

ITEM 14: The New York Post reported, "The 14-year-old boy who fell to his death from an Orlando amusement park ride asked the friend strapped in next to him to tell his parents he loved them in case [I don’t make it down,' according to his devastated father."

He was 6-foot-5, 345 pounds, and could have played left tackle for the Jets.

There is no way he should have been on that ride. Where were the park's managers? Where were the parents?

ITEM 15: In an interview with Variety, Sally Field lashed out at Texas Governor Greg Abbott and Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida for rolling back abortions.

She said, "Those men who are doing that, and they’re mostly male governors who are doing it, are so backward, so ignorant and really just power hungry. I think it’s criminal. They’re so wanting to roll back the achievements and important progress for women, for blacks, for the LGBTQ community. I can’t say enough horrible things about what I feel about those men. If you see them coming toward me, those two governors specifically, lead me out of the way because I cannot be responsible for what I would do."

Her anger is misdirected. She had an abortion at 17. The man she should be angry at is the guy who impregnated her.

Abbott is 64, DeSantis 43. That child would have been 57 (maybe 58) by now and could have been a liberal governor.

But she later had three sons and has grandchildren. God bless her -- with some anger management classes.

ITEM 16: The Hill reported, "Former CIA Director David Petraeus on Sunday called Mariupol a Ukrainian Alamo that ultimately 'looks as if it’s going to have to collapse.'

He said, "It's fighting to the last defender and pinning down multiple Russian battalions, and doing so very heroically, but ultimately it looks as if it’s going to have to collapse. It’s going to be taken.

"And when it does, that is a moment of some peril for Ukraine because now that port can be used by the Russians."

Texas lost the Alamo. It lost many battles. Santa Anna had Sam Houston on the run. Then came the Battle of San Jacinto. Texas attacked during the siesta and caught Santa Anna with his pants down.

Remember the Alamo, sure. But catch them while they are napping.

BREAKING OPINION: Zelensky is almost as big a jerk as Putin.

They could have done this a month ago
No NATO, have Donbas
But nooooooooo. Zelensky had to prove his manhood. https://t.co/mMDflIhRAb

— Don Surber (@donsurber) March 28, 2022

Almost.

4 million displaced persons.

Thousands died.

Billions in damage.

And yet both men will walk away winners.

ITEM 17: The Daily Mail reported, "A Russian soldier has handed himself and his tank over to Ukrainian troops for a reward of $10,000 (£7,500) and a chance at Ukrainian citizenship.

"Misha, one of alleged war criminal Vladimir Putin's invading soldiers, surrendered in a T-72B3 main battle tank after his two other crewmates escaped home and his commanding officer threatened to shoot him.

"Ukrainian Minister of Internal Affairs Victor Andrusiv said Misha had contacted Ukraine's national police by phone and arranged a place to meet."

Sure, it is war propaganda, but I love it.

100,000 Russian solders times $10,000 is $1 billion. That's way cheaper than arming the Ukes up to the gills.

Alas, there is no kickback mechanism in paying off soldiers to get the support of the politicians.

ITEM 18: American Wire reported, "One step closer to giving men the Pill! Contraceptive tablet can prevent 99% of pregnancies, trial finds."

You know what they call a woman who trusts a man to take the pill, don't you?

Mommy.

ITEM 19: NYT sobbed, "Brittney Griner Doing Well in Prison, U.S. Says, but Is No Closer to Release."

Flashback to July 27, 2020, when Yahoo reported, "Brittney Griner didn’t take the floor for the national anthem during the Phoenix Mercury’s debut in the WNBA bubble on Saturday.

"Don’t expect her to do so moving forward.

"The Mercury center and 2019 league MVP runner-up told reporters on a video call Monday that the WNBA should stop playing the anthem this season."

Enjoy Patrioticheskaya Pesnya, sweetie.

ITEM 20: A reader wrote, "In his speech in Poland, apparently Biden said, 'For God’s sake, this man cannot be allowed to remain in power.' I hope Biden was talking about himself."

That cracked me up.

ITEM 21: Democrats are floating a billionaire's tax.

Let the Jeff Bezos crowd and the Democrats they elected duke it out.

I have my own worries.

ITEM 22: The New York Post reported, "Chris Rock got the bejesus slapped out of him by none other than Will Smith at the 2022 Oscars. After Rock joked that he couldn’t wait to see Smith’s [bald] wife Jada Pinkett Smith in GI Jane 2, Smith ran onto the stage at Dolby Theatre and hit Rock in the face. The audio was cut and censored for several seconds but captions indicated that the King Richard star said 'keep my wife’s name out of your f***ing mouth.' Audio from the uncensored Australian broadcast appears to confirm this."

Guess that crossover episode of Fresh Prince of Bel Air and Everybody Hates Chris will never be made now.

ITEM 23: Forbes reported, "LeBron James Is The Most Hated Player In The NBA, According To Twitter."

Did he marry Kim Kardashian while I wasn't looking?

FINALLY, let's start the week off right with Ronald Reagan.