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Saturday, February 21, 2026
This brilliant cartoon of Ben Garrison, which he entitled China’s Great Wall of Murder, goes a long way in explaining why the Chinese Communist Party is the greatest enemy of the entire world, not just America.
Garrison pokes fun at Xi as Winnie the Pooh (banned in China for making fun of the resemblance) at the controls of the CCP Dragon, but is deadly serious otherwise. For the Red Chinese Dragon is even more evil than this. To see why, we’ll visit the Health Ministry of Spain.
Then we’ll discuss the collapse of the Vax Mandate, the inspiring court victory of a heroic young man, and have fun too. Here we go!
The Kyle Rittenhouse trial is an important moment in American culture, because this isn’t just about Kyle Rittenhouse. In a sense, Antifa is also on trial. So is the narrative that the media has been peddling for months, not just about Rittenhouse, but also so many other things it lies about.
For me, the unacknowledged heroes of the Rittenhouse case are the intrepid videographers who were on the scene recording what was taking place on the street. Without them, Rittenhouse would probably be facing a real risk of being convicted for double murder.
Why? Because he’s dealing with a dishonest prosecutor, who doesn’t hesitate to say things he knows are misleading; dishonest detectives, who don’t hesitate to twist the truth; and a dishonest media, which has been brazenly lying about what happened between Rittenhouse and his combatants for a whole year.
The Left is addicted to projection—the psycho-political syndrome of attributing all of one’s own sins to one’s opponents.
The Woke apparently do this out of some Freudian effort to square the circle of their own guilt or sense of privilege, by fobbing off their own fearful realities onto others. It is the atheist version of confession or medieval penance.
Here we examine four examples, the Privileged condemning privilege; the Colluders investing collusion; Election Denialists becoming denialist; Racists being racist. How did they get this way?
When Kamala Harris considers movie titles that make people think of her, she probably goes straight to “Wonder Woman.” I have news for her: Every time she opens her mouth, people are wondering, “What Planet Are You From?”
It’s pretty clear everyone in the White House hates her and is blame-leaking to every reporter around in hopes of emerging from this explosion in the stink-bomb factory without carrying any failure fragrance.
All politicians blather, but Harrisblather is like an air salad with vapor croutons and nullity dressing. She went all the way to France to offer insights like, “We must together. Work together. To see where we are. Where we are headed, where we are going and our vision for where we should be.”
Where did she learn to talk like this? Every time she speaks, it’s like watching Wile E. Coyote’s feet keep spinning madly even after he’s run off the cliff.
As we wait to see what our commie-fascist ruling class has planned for us next, this might be a good time to pull out Gregory H. Stanton's "Ten Stages of Genocide" as a helpful reminder for keeping track of how things are "progressing" (pun intended).
Stanton, an academic and the founder of Genocide Watch, organized a sobering list of red-flag actions undertaken by governments over the last century on their way to committing mass murder. See if any of them rings any bells with how supposedly "free" governments are behaving today.
Start counting…
G.K. Chesterton — 'When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.' Why Wokeism is a religion:
Why have an “unusually large number of professional and amateur soccer players collapsed recently”? Something to do with getting vaxxed perhaps?
German Newspaper Highlights “Unusually Large” Number of Soccer Players Who Have Collapsed Recently
The wheels are coming off the publics' trust in Xiden, too. Note this is a poll by left-wing Politico:
Poll: Majority of Voters Believe Joe Biden Is Untrustworthy, Dishonest, Incapable
Fifty years ago – August 1971 – I was able to climb the Great Pyramid of Cheops all the way to the top. 450 feet high, 4,000 years old, the only one of the original Seven Wonders of the World to still exist, it was my first time in Egypt and I had to give it a go.
Of course, this is illegal. So I waited near sunset and all the tourists had gone, walked around to the northwest corner hidden from most views where there was one lonely guard. I gave him 20 Egyptian pounds which made him very happy, and up I went. Each block at the bottom is about five feet tall and gets smaller as you climb, with over 200 stone layers or “courses” base to apex. The top is flat, about 10-foot square – the limestone casing reaching a point gone long ago.
I was a philosophy doctoral student back then, so I sat down, took out from my daypack Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, and read my idol’s wisdom in the light of the setting sun. It was a sunset I’ll never forget, too mesmerized by the moment to take a picture. The photo is of me taken recently where I began my climb of decades ago. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #126 Photo ©Jack Wheeler)
Bangaram Atoll, Laccadive Islands, India. The “Lacquered” islands or Laccadives are legendary for the glossiness of the Indian Ocean surrounding them. There are three dozen of these coral atolls over 150 miles off the coast of southwest India – but moorkh Indian bureaucrats insist on calling them “Lakshadweep,” Sanskrit for “100,000. Go figure.
Paintings of the French Impressionists of the 19th century merged dreams and reality. Here that is for real. The beauty in the Laccadives can be so astonishing that it seems surreal – like when the ocean and sky merge into one in a palette of pastels straight from the brush of Monet. Come to Bangaram and you’ll find yourself living inside a painting. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #172 photo ©Jack Wheeler)
Santo Antão island, Cape Verde. The world’s best moonshine, which the islanders call grogue, is made here. There are ten islands comprising the country of Cape Verde, some 400 miles off the West African coast of Senegal in the Atlantic Ocean. For hundreds of years, Cape Verdeans have been making grogue but the folks like the fellow here on Santo Antão have perfected it.
You’ll find their stills out in the sugar cane fields, where they put the cane in to a press called a trapiche, then cook down the molasses in an old oil drum into a clear distilled rum that’s up to 140 proof or more. This fellow is pouring me a sample to taste in a coconut shell. You have to be really careful because it’s so smooth and silky it goes down like water – making it very easy to get quickly wasted.
If you like it – which of course you will – he’ll pour fresh grogue into an empty plastic liter water bottle and sell it to you for six bucks. People are always partying in Cape Verde, and why not with all this grogue. They don’t mix it with anything except some lime juice and an ice cube. Really fantastic. Come to Cape Verde and have great time yourself! (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #171 photo ©Jack Wheeler)
Dar al-Hajar, the Rock Palace, was built by Yemen’s ruler, Imam Yahya Muhammad Hamiddin (1869-1948), atop a rock pinnacle as his summer residence. It lies in a valley about 10 miles outside Yemen’s capital of Sana’a. While an iconic example of Yemeni architecture, it’s impossible to visit now with civil war raging in the country. Someday we’ll be able to safely return to Yemen again. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #143 Photo ©Jack Wheeler)
Toledo, Spain. As you drive up the hill upon which this ancient city sits, at the city’s entrance you are greeted by this statue. It is of King Alfonso VI of León and Castile (1040-1109) holding his sword as the Christian cross symbolizing his liberating Toledo from Moslem rule.
The sword has been the symbol of Toledo for over two millennia. In 193 BC, Romans founded the city as Toletum, where their blacksmiths developed a process of making swords of layered steel with different carbon contents, known to history as “Toledo steel,” the finest in the world for millennia until the hi-tech methods of today.
With Fall of Rome, Christian Visigoths ruled Spain from their capital here at Toledo – known as “Holy Toledo,” the center of a flourishing Christian civilization for 300 years until it was overrun by Moslems spreading Islam from Africa in the early 700s.
It was Alfonso VI who liberated Toledo from the Moslems in 1085. It was his great-grandson, Alfonso VIII (1155-1214) who led 30,000 knights in a surprise attack on 200,000 Moslems at the Plains of Tolosa in 1212 to destroy Moslem rule in Spain.
Today, Toledo is a small town of some 50,000, charming, historic, and peaceful. It’s one of the special places we’ll visit exploring Holy Spain this coming March. Hope you’ll be with us. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #170 photo ©Jack Wheeler)
With no doubt, absolutely the coolest governor in America is Florida’s Ron DeSantis. His website, rondesantis.com, offers a storefront with a variety of items for sale like t-shirts, etc. This week, a new product was introduced: a pair of golf balls. Yes, Florida’s Governor Has a Pair!
And enjoy the video ad with rocking music. How awesome is that? DeSantis has a pair, indeed.
For the second time – the first was in HFR 08/28/20 – Kyle Rittenhouse is the HFR Hero of the Week.
First a quick summation. The first BLM rioter chased after Kyle yelling threats and was grabbing his rifle barrel (shown by the soot on his hand in the autopsy photos and verified by witness testimony) when Kyle shot him dead in the head. The second chased after Kyle, knocked him down with a skateboard and was grabbing his rifle when Kyle shot him dead in the chest. The third pulled a loaded pistol and was aiming it at Kyle when Kyle blew his gun arm half off.
Your first conclusion is these three in attacking a guy with an AR-15 are clear Darwin Awardees, doing humanity a favor by getting removed from the gene pool. Good job, Kyle.
There’s a lot in this HFR, which closes with a video and quotes from an extraordinary speech by America’s heroic president. Oh, and don’t miss the advice on how to rid your body of those ghastly vax spike proteins if you’ve been vaxxed.
Today, all American patriots celebrate the founding of our country’s most fabled fighting force, the United States Marines, at the historic Tun Tavern in Philadelphia 246 years ago.
As a token of this celebration, I’d like to tell you a little known story of USMC history -- how John Wayne saved the Marine Corps. Not in a movie but in real life.
Then we’ll go to Iwo Jima and the memorial atop Mount Suribachi. We’ll close with a tribute to those who have always been at the tip of America’s protective spear.
