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TRIUMPH OF CHRISTIAN HEROISM

Dr. Jack Wheeler April 13, 2026

This is where is started in 722, the Holy Cave of Covadonga, where the Virgin Mary told Christian Knights to reconquer their country stolen from them by Moslem invaders.

This is where it ended in 1492, where the last remaining Moslem ruler, Boabdil of Granada, surrendered to King Ferdinand of Aragon and Queen Isabella of Castile.

It took 780 years for generation upon generation of Christian Knights to fulfill their pledge to Holy Mary. This October, Rebel and I with your fellow TTPers will retrace and relive from start to finish this epic triumph of Christian heroism known as The Reconquista.

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All the details, descriptions, and photos are here: Triumph of Christianity: The Reconquista of Spain - October 9-19, 2026 .

EUROPE HAS A NEW LEADER

Dr. Jack Wheeler April 13, 2026

[This Monday’s Archive was first published in TTP on March 25, 2016. The ten years that elapsed since that date and that of yesterday (April 12, 2026) are vivid testimony to how power corrupts so much that an inspiring advocate of freedom can become an advocate of crushing it. There is irony in the title given the events of yesterday.]

TTP, March 25, 2016

In May of 1989, I had a cup of coffee with a young man in a café in Nickelsdorf, Austria.

In his mid-twenties, he had crossed an unguarded section of the border with Hungary just two hundred yards away to meet me. There was mud on his shoes from the fields he had crossed.

He was a founder of an Anti-Communist freedom movement in Budapest called Fidesz (the Hungarian acronym for Alliance of Young Democrats). Since 1983, I had made it my business to meet people such as him.

AS CHINA FALTERS, MEXICO RISES

Rod D. Martin April 14, 2026

China is losing its grip on global manufacturing, and one of the biggest new winners is Mexico.

That does not make Mexico a rival in the way it did China.

North America is reorganizing around American power at exactly the moment China is becoming older, costlier, riskier, and weaker.

Mexico is rising not against the United States, but because it is plugging itself more deeply into the only industrial system on Earth that is actually positioned to win.

The sheer size of the bilateral relationship is remarkable. U.S. goods trade with Mexico reached $872.8 billion in 2025, with U.S. exports at $338.0 billion and imports at $534.9 billion.

In 2023, Mexico replaced China as America’s largest source of imports, a position China had held for twenty years.

That’s a quiet revolution. For years, the world economy rested on a simple arrangement: America consumed, China manufactured, and the foreign policy class pretended this was both permanent and wise.

It was neither.

IRAN – A LONGER VIEW

Victor Davis Hanson April 16, 2026

The prognosis of the Iran war is now so couched in politics and so warped by the American Left that the public has grown tired and wants it all to go away.

But in truth, the situation is so fluid that any accurate prediction is impossible.

Yet there is good reason to believe in an eventual outcome quite favorable to the U.S. and one far better than the status quo ante bellum.

The Strait of Hormuz

Prior to President Donald Trump’s most recent announcement that the United States would first blockade and then reopen and control traffic through the Strait, only a few ships were going through, mostly those aligned with Iran, opposed to the U.S., or neutral.

Thus, the Strait was disrupted to a far greater degree than during Iran’s earlier efforts at closure during the “Tanker War” phase of the Iran-Iraq War, as well as its chronic harassment of shipping in 2018-19. And now?

If Trump quickly clears and secures control of the Strait, and if allowable traffic reaches, say, 60-70 percent of prewar levels and if the U.S. avoids a full-scale war, instead responding disproportionately to any renewed Iranian attempts to close it — then, within one to two months, oil prices will begin to taper off.

The American challenge with the war is not military but political.

TRUMP, IRAN, AND THE THEATER OF MORAL PANIC

Roger Kimball April 15, 2026

Pearl clutchers of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your credibility.

A week ago, on Easter Sunday — Easter Sunday, forsooth! — President Trump horrified delicate souls by issuing this minatory post on Truth Social:

“Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the F–kin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell – JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah.”

Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. That meanie used a bad word, called the Iranian mullahs “crazy bastards,” and taunted them by saying, “Praise be to Allah.” How disrespectful can you get?

There was worse to come. On Tuesday, as zero hour approached, President Trump went whole hog.

“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will.”

Oh, oh, oh! Can you believe it? He just threatened to destroy the storied civilization of Persia, Cyrus the Great, Darius, and the Achaemenid Empire! The collective knickers of the anti-Trump establishment were twisted tight. . . . The frenzied knot of moralizing mouthpieces competed mightily to show the world how lustrous their consciences were.

UGLIFICATION AS CONTROL – THE ASSAULT ON BEAUTY

Jamie K. Wilson April 14, 2026

This morning at 4 am, something not unusual (for me) happened: I woke with an insight after falling asleep mid-chapter reading C.S. Lewis’s Space Trilogy.

Ransom, his main character, was based on J.R.R. Tolkien, and I had been having a conversation with Professor Tolkien in my sleep.

What I wrote down was this: Triptych: Wealth. Power. Beauty.

These are the three things humans desire. Beauty is generally within our reach. Wealth and power must be worked for but are achievable in our great Western civilization. And these are precisely the things that socialist and Marxist movements, or indeed any ideology that seeks control over others, work to destroy.

It’s not that they hate the good and the beautiful so much as that the desire to dominate is more powerful. In The Lord of the Rings, Sauron and Saruman knew that domination of others is easiest when people are hungry, diminished, and surrounded by the drab and the ugly.

Of the three, I am most fascinated by beauty.

Power and Wealth

Everyone knows about the first panel, wealth. As socialism creeps into a system, we see more and more confiscation of wealth: progressive taxation, expensive regulatory tangles, redistributionism, and equity.

Promises of fairness harden into, as the hobbits in “The Scouring of the Shire” discovered, the powerful gathering far more than is ever shared back out. The ordinary man is “given” just enough to stay fed but hungry, kept dependent upon the government.

A HAPPY LIFE IS NOT PERFECT HAPPINESS

Joel Wade April 16, 2026

There’s a great misunderstanding about what it means to live a happy life, and it can be summed up in the popular symbol of the smiley face.

Now, I like to smile. I love feeling that kind of glowing, delighted state of emotional bliss.

It’s wonderful to be full of joy and love and laughter. But feeling those things doesn’t in and of itself make for a happy life; and just because you don’t happen to feel them in the moment doesn’t mean you are unhappy.

In fact, if simply feeling those emotions all the time was what constituted happiness, then it would be a simple matter to find the right combination of drugs that would perpetually bathe our neurons with joyful chemicals, and we could all be perpetually happy.

But this smiley face view of happiness is not the whole story, at all. And we all know it.

FLASHBACK FRIDAY – QARI BABA

Dr. Jack Wheeler April 17, 2026

Afghanistan, 1984. Yes, that’s me with the legendary Qari Baba, Commander of the Harakat Mujahaddin waging a war of liberation against the Red Army of the Soviet Union – and my dear friend. I told him he looked like a combination of Genghiz Khan and Buddha, and he couldn’t stop laughing. We had so many extraordinary experiences together – like blowing up the Soviet High Command of Bala Hissar in Ghazni.

After the war was won with the final Soviet retreat in February, 1989, Qari Baba became the Governor of Ghazi Province. Then Pakistani Intelligence (ISI) created the Taliban to seize control of the country. Qari Baba had to take up arms anew against them. In March of 2006, he was assassinated by a Taliban hit team on orders from the ISI. I will never ever forget him. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #111 photo ©Jack Wheeler)

FLOWER HIGHWAYS, FLOWER TRAILS

Dr. Jack Wheeler April 16, 2026

For miles and miles, the roads in the Azores Islands are lined with flowers on both sides. Even the foot paths and trails are strewn with flowers.

As you know, I’ve been to every country in the world. I know of no place on earth more beautiful, more flower strewn, more peaceful, serene, and safe than Portugal’s island paradises of Madeira and the Azores in the Atlantic. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #196 photo ©Jack Wheeler)

THE PORTUGUESE RIVIERA

Dr. Jack Wheeler April 15, 2026

A cliff-top fishing village on the Italian Riviera? Nope, Azenhas do Mar – Watermills of the Sea – is on the Portuguese Riviera. This is a magic place of fairy tale castles, thousand year-old fortresses, luxury boutique hotels, fabulous food, great wine, gorgeous beaches, and postcard-perfect scenery everywhere.

The Portuguese people are among the kindest in Europe, while Portugal is one of the safest countries in the world. Of all the planet’s First World countries, it’s hard to find one more friendly, calm, and welcoming than here.

Who’s the pretty girl? Lucky me – she’s my wife Rebel, mother of our two grown sons, my business partner, and my best friend. We’ve had a home here for many years. Rebel loves Portugal so much she taught herself to be fluent in Portuguese. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #123 Photo ©Jack Wheeler)

EVEREST BASE CAMP

Dr. Jack Wheeler April 14, 2026

I’m at 17,500 feet with the Khumbu Ice Fall behind me. To the left in the photo is the West Shoulder of Everest, to the right is a flank of Nuptse. Climbers begin from where I am to ascend the Icefall, thousands of gigantic ice blocks all shifting and moving, reaching Camp I at the top, up a steep glacier-filled valley called the Western Cwm to Camp II, up the even steeper face of Lhotse that adjoins Everest to Camp III, then on to the saddle between Lhotse and Everest called the South Col at Camp IV. To summit, they start at night up the Southeast Ridge hoping to beat the crowd standing in line at the summit ridge.

The irony of being at “EBC” where I am is that you never see Everest itself – it’s hidden behind the West Shoulder. Unless you’re a climber doing all the above, the only way to see the world’s highest mountain is on one our Himalaya Helicopter Expeditions (HHE). We fly over the Khumbu Ice Fall and into the Western Cwm where we see the entire Southwest Face of Everest from summit (29,028 feet) to base and the entire face of Lhotse as well. There are no words adequate to describe the experience. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #267 photo ©Jack Wheeler)

NEWSOM REINSTATES DEATH PENALTY FOR ANYONE CAUGHT INVESTIGATING FRAUD

ToThePoint April 17, 2026

SACRAMENTO, CA — California Governor Gavin Newsom announced on Friday that he would be signing a law reinstating the death penalty for anyone caught investigating fraud in the state.

"We cannot let this happen, not here," Newsom told the press. "Investigating fraud is not just immoral, it's evil and steals taxpayer dollars from hardworking fraudsters. Not on my watch, man."

The announcement came after investigative journalist Nick Shirley revealed massive amounts of fraud in California, primarily in the healthcare industry. State officials were outraged to learn that fraud investigations were going on right under their noses and vowed to prosecute anyone trying to expose government waste in the Golden State.

"We will prosecute anyone investigating fraud, and I propose they be sentenced to death," Newsom elaborated. "We would never consider executing someone for murder or rape or anything like that. But investigating fraud is too depraved. It must be met with the harshest penalty."

State officials announced that they were committed to rooting out any hint of fraud investigations and announced plans to dedicate significant resources to their hunt.

At publishing time, Newsom announced that Nick Shirley had been arrested and would be hanged in the California Capitol at dawn.

~ Babylon Bee reporting.

HALF-FULL REPORT 04/10/26

Dr. Jack Wheeler April 10, 2026

Overmorrow, Sunday April 12, Hungarian voters will overwhelmingly choose Magyar over Orban. The first question is: will Orban accept defeat, or will he refuse? Odds are on the latter.

The second question is: will the crowds cheering for Magyar filling towns and cities all over the country be so large that Orban will fire up the document shredders, instead of ordering his police to fire upon the celebrants? Let’s really hope the odds are on the former.

Polls in Hungary have consistently shown Magyar ahead of Orban, but in the last few days they simply exploded in his favor. As of today (4/10), Polymarket odds are Magyar 71%/Orban 29%; Magyar’s TISZA (Respect & Freedom) Party to win Parliament majority 77%, Orban’s Fidesz 24%.

What just happened to cause this? JD Vance.

Lot’s more to come in this HFR – saddle up for a great ride!

TRUMP DERANGEMENT IS ALL THE DEMOCRATS HAVE

Victor Davis Hanson April 6, 2026

[This Monday’s Archive was originally in TTP on June 30, 2017. There’s a saying, “The more things change, the more they remain the same.” This saying may describe the Democrats better than any other. Nine years later, four of which they controlled, and it’s STILL All Trump, All the Time. Enjoy this trip down memory lane while you consider what Trump has accomplished in the last year and a bit!]

TTP, June 30, 2017

If they weren’t trying to destroy the president, Democrats would have to focus on an agenda most Americans don’t support.

By 1968, voters had tired of the failed Great Society of Lyndon Johnson. Four years later, the 1972 Nixon reelection re-emphasized that a doubled-down McGovern liberalism was even less of a viable agenda.

In that context, in 1974, obsessing on Watergate and a demonized Nixon were wise liberal alternatives to running on a positive left-wing vision, given the growing conservative backlash of the 1970s. After Watergate and the Ford pardon, Jimmy Carter squeaked to a close victory and a one-term presidency — before the country tired of his strident liberalism poorly cloaked in conservative clothing.

Given this historical reminder, the current efforts at Trump character assassination may be the best — or only — progressive pathway back to political power. Here is why – in excruciating (for Democrats) detail.

THE A-10 “SEA-HOG”

Rod D. Martin April 7, 2026

BRRRRRT! The sound U.S. troops love to hear is now a nightmare for sailors on board Iranian IRGC fast attack boats in the Strait of Hormuz.

The A-10 Warthog, everyone’s longtime favorite tank killer, has been repurposed as a boat buster. And the results are stunning.

According to Air Force Gen. Dan “Razin” Caine, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, U.S. forces have destroyed more than 120 naval vessels, including many fast attack boats, plus another 44 mine layers.

The A-10 is the star of the show, flying low and slow, using its devastating 30mm gun to turn IRGC fast boats into scrap metal. And as we speak, more A-10s are on their way to the Gulf.

The irony is rich. For years, the United States Air Force has been trying to kill the A-10. Congress has consistently refused to let it.

The pilots who actually fly the thing have always loved it, while the theory class in Washington has treated it like an embarrassing relic: too slow, too ugly, too specialized, too 1970s, too insufficiently “transformational.”

Yet here we are. The “obsolete” A-10 is back in combat, back in demand, and back where reality always sends it when the stakes are high and the target is hard: at the point of friction, where the enemy is real, the battlespace is messy, and elegant abstractions go to die.

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