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THE SULTAN ASTRONOMER

ancient-observatory You’re looking at something historically and scientifically astonishing.  It is what remains of an astronomical observatory built 600 years ago – in 1420 – by a Sultan in Central Asia who loved science and mathematics more than war and conquest.

Born Mirzo Taraghay, he is known to history as Ulugh Beg (“Great Ruler,” 1394-1449).

Grandson of the nomadic conqueror Tamerlane (1336-1405) who devoted his life to war upon other peoples as did his ancestor Genghiz Khan, Ulugh Beg ruled over Sultanate of Turan, known to the Romans as Transoxiana – the land between Central Asia’s two great rivers, the Oxus (now the Amu Darya) and the Jaxartes (the Syr Darya), from his capital of Samarkand.

It was in Samarkand, the most fabled oasis of the Silk Road, that Ulugh Beg built his circular observatory, three stories high of white marble.

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NO COMPLACENCY – AND NO BEING GASLIGHTED EITHER

Slow Joe Biden held a news conference Tuesday (6/30). As you can see, it was hilarious.

Journalistic toadies tossed him softball questions that had been pre-cleared with Biden’s staff. He still screwed it up, lapsing into incoherence several times during the 28-minute presser.

After this debacle, it may be another 89 days before Biden emerges from his basement again.  Gaslighting between now and election day will be surreal.

The leftist narrative most at odds with reality is that Slow Joe can beat President Trump.

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WHAT WOKE WHITES DON’T UNDERSTAND ABOUT BLACKS

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Before I begin, let me introduce myself:

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Yep, I’m not white, I’m a black guy born and raised in Indiana, now living in Chicago.  Okay, let’s get started.

This month’s protests started out as a black movement against police brutality, but they have a different look now. In many cases, whites have taken over. They apologize for their “white privilege” and, in at least one case, wash black people’s feet to expiate their collective sins.

Celebrities, athletes and corporate America followed suit. Why?  To find out, I had to hear what whites were saying.

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IT’S TRUMP’S CHOICE TO WIN OR LOSE

trumps-choiceThe 2020 election will be decided in the fall by swing voters in ten or 15 states. Prior to the COVID-19 outbreak, those voters were leaning to reelect President Trump, largely on the powers of incumbency and a near-record vibrant economy.

Then came the contagion, the lockdown, the recession, and the collective madness of looting and arson, which in turn led to the present anarchy of statue toppling, cancel culture, name-changing, and McCarthyism 2.0.

Of course, a president is blamed for chaos on his watch even if he did not create the chaos. He either stops it and is praised as a winner or, like Jimmy Carter during the Iran hostage crisis of 1979-1980, is written off as a loser.

The hour of reckoning is here and either Trump will crush the lawlessness and win the swing voters to his side, or he will listen to the trimmers [Jared Kushner, anyone?] and lose the country.

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AMERICA, WE ARE LEAVING

travis-yates-leavingThis is the hardest thing I have written.

I grew up in a law enforcement family. My father worked his way up to the rank to Captain at the Ft. Smith, Arkansas Police Department. As I kid I remember going with him on Friday to pick up his check and I was in awe of these super heroes he worked around.

They were funny and fun to be around. Men and women of all races all with the same mission, to make the community safer.  After college, I was proud to become a police officer myself.  27 years has passed and if you would have told me the condition of law enforcement today, I would have never believed you.

It’s not that law enforcement has changed for the worse but everything around it has.  This why we are leaving, America.  You’ll soon be on your own.

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IS TRUMP FIGHTING BACK?

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Starting to fight back

Support for President Trump among older white voters is declining, polls indicate.

I suspect such slippage as there has been is chiefly because many older Americans share the view of Tucker Carlson and some other conservative pundits that the president isn’t doing enough to protect us from the Marxist mobs.

If you do not protect (your people) – or worse than that, if you seem that you can’t be bothered to protect them, then you’re done,” Carlson said in a monologue after the rioting in Washington D.C.

Watching arrogant, ignorant punks and thugs loot and burn and tear down national monuments with apparent impunity fills me with rage. I’d love to see cops wade into these mobs with truncheons swinging, crack some skulls.

But as my rage subsides, I remember this…

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HALF-FULL REPORT 06/26/20

swastika-carpetThe most heinous perversion of symbolic art in world history is that of the Swastika – Sanskrit for “the goodness of existence.”  This Roman mosaic in Tarragona, Spain, is 2,000 years old, yet the Swastika is far older – carved onto mammoth ivory by Ice Age hunters in Ukraine 12,000 years ago.

Why from time immemorial has it represented eternity, prosperity, the centeredness of all that is?  Look up into the sky on a clear dark night.  All people have studied the heavens for eons.  You could always know where you were by finding North, for the two front stars of what we call the Big Dipper point to it – always.

The Greeks called it Mega Arktikos, the Great Bear – why we call Far North the Arctic today.  The ancients saw the Bear every year rotating around Celestial North – now occupied by Polaris, the North Star – through all four seasons, while all the stars in the sky circled around it every night.  What do you see in this depiction of that seasonal rotation?

Here we go with another HFR mind-blow!

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“LOGIC IS AN ENEMY AND TRUTH IS A MENACE”

This is the opening narration of an episode of The Twilight Zone in 1961, written by Rod Serling.  It was called "The Obsolete Man."  Indeed.  He knew the left's mantra: "Logic is an enemy and truth is a menace."

Watching it today is a stark reminder that what we Americans are experiencing, the violence that is tormenting Democrat-run cities throughout America, is not particularly new.  The totalitarian left has forever been trying to eliminate those of us who rage against the dying of the light.

Serling was beyond prescient when he wrote the screenplay for this episode.  He was a true visionary.  He somehow envisioned the future we now inhabit — an era in which those who "have a mind" are deemed obsolete.

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AMERICA’S CASTRATED GENERALS AND CUCKOLDED EXPERTS

castrated-jim-mattisIf Donald J. Trump is re-elected to a second term as president, will that victory finally be enough to break the back of a military and policy “elite” who have surrendered to the anti-American mobs and the Democrat Party who made them possible?

It’s a good question.  Here’s more.

Who does our military serve?

Are they subordinated to some ineffable “conventional wisdom” about justice and racial harmony? Do they march to the beat of a “politically correct” agenda defined by the organizations like Black Lives Matter, Antifa, or to the nostrums of ivy league grandees?

Or are they under the command of the citizen America elects to hold the rank of their commander-in-chief?

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EXPLAINING TRUMP’S CHESHIRE CAT GRIN ON SEATTLE

trump-cheshire-cat-grinIt’s certainly frustrating to watch a pack of reeking leftist scumbags declare a portion of an American city an “autonomous zone” – what is it with Democrats and their secession fetish? – but do not get frustrated because Donald Trump has not sent the 101st Airborne in to powerwash the human grunge from Seattle’s feces-bedecked streets.

That’s what the Democrats want. And Trump – a better strategic thinker than all the media geniuses, hack politicians, and Afghan War-losing generals who cry about him – is not only not going to give them the victory they crave. He’s going to jam their cheesy plan down their throats.

The libs’ plan to win in November corresponds to Trump’s plan to crush them yet again. Here’s how and here’s why.  You’re going to enjoy this.

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CONSERVATIVE GUTLESS WONDERS

BLM/Antifa proto-hominids attack Jackson statue (6/22)
BLM/Antifa proto-hominids attack Jackson statue (6/22)

When I see the images from Lafayette Square on Monday night (6/22) I keep wondering, where are the conservative leaders who have said so much and done so little to defend our history?

It was a multi-ethnic group of working class DC cops who stood guard protecting Andy Jackson’s statue, their facemasks flecked with the spittle from woke white women. Being taunted by woke white men with man buns. And getting called a traitor to their race.

What I want to see right now more than anything is elected officials and community leaders who are willing and ready to link arms with these cops and physically take part in cleaning up this mess and defying the mob.

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DEFUND THE THOUGHT POLICE

defund-thought-policeDue process is not the strong suit of mobs. Neither is nuance, open discussion, or disagreement.

These inherent defects should be painfully obvious as mobs pull down statues, seize sections of cities, and demand the public approach them on bended knee, literally. Anyone who dares push back, perhaps with a mild tweet saying “All lives matter,” faces immediate censure.

In this perilous environment, the most frenzied voices do more than dominate the public square. They monopolize it by silencing dissent. They have received full-throated support from the tech giants that control electronic discussion and the media giants determined to shape the narrative rather than report the news.

The “thought police” are on patrol and ever-vigilant, twirling the twin batons of guilt and moral superiority.  They need to be defunded.

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WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE MADNESS ENDS?

extreme-monumental-stupidityWhen something cannot go on, it certainly will not go on. But what are the symptoms of what cannot go on and when?

There are two historic red lines and our revolution is getting close to both.

When Normal People Grow Weary 

One is when “average” people, both white and nonwhite, who identify neither with Left nor Right, woke nor unwoke, become frightened or appalled by the violence and the anarchy—and thus finally move to dismantle the guillotine as the razor increasingly starts haircutting friends, idols, and compatriots.

Their verdict can be known either by demonstrating themselves, boycotting, voting, or massive civil disobedience. At some point, tonight’s looting rioting hero on on CNN, becomes tomorrow’s commonplace, unnoticed felon.

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