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FROM ONE FAKE LEFT-WING HYSTERIA TO THE NEXT

The decade-old age of fables like Russian collusion, laptop disinformation, or the pangolin/bat cause of COVID is not over; it is just hitting midstream.

For much of April, amid stock downturns, in the classical paranoid style, we were assured by the Wall Street Journal news reporters and the liberal press that Trump had either a) guaranteed an inevitable recession, b) engineered a losing trade war he likely regretted, c) crashed the stock market, d) lost his once majority favorability ratings, e) mostly had a failed first 100 days, or f) all of the above.

Some of us thought these diagnoses and prognoses were absurd. How in mediis rebus, during a radical counterrevolution never quite seen before, could anyone issue such bleak predictions? Would these same observers have said the U.S. was doomed to lose World War II after the bleak first five months of mostly failure in the Pacific, or North Africa, after the utter U.S. army disaster at the Kasserine Pass?

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WHITE HOUSE CHIEF OF STAFF SUES CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT

[Stephen Miller is the founder of America First Legal and is currently Chief of Staff of the Trump White House.]

Stephen Miller’s America First Legal (AFL) has filed a bombshell lawsuit against Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., in his capacity as Presiding Officer of the Judicial Conference of the United States, and Robert J. Conrad, Director of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts.

The lawsuit accuses the powerful duo of running what AFL describes as an “unconstitutional shadow agency” and violating federal transparency laws.

The lawsuit, filed on April 22, slams the Judicial Conference of the United States and its administrative arm—both overseen by Chief Justice Roberts—as rogue “executive agencies” that have collaborated with far-left lawmakers to wage lawfare against conservative Supreme Court justices.

According to the lawsuit viewed by The Gateway Pundit:

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A CONFRONTATION WITH THE ROGUE JUDICIARY

rogue-judges_powerRevolutions rarely spring into action without notice.  The American Revolution was many years in the making.  The Boston Massacre occurred in 1773, not 1776.  Many of the longstanding oppressive measures that drove the colonists to revolt in 1776 are catalogued in the Declaration of Independence.  As onerous as they were, yet only when the oppression was no longer “sufferable” were the people driven to their last recourse: revolution.

President Trump has been besieged by federal, state, and local judges, even during his campaign.  New York State issued what amounts to a bill of attainder against him, not only crafting a special application of law, in which there were no victims, and designed to prosecute only him, but also assigning to a judge the role of real estate assessor, with the threat of imprisonment in a notorious state penitentiary.  This case, among others, was widely seen as clearly intended only to prevent the re-election of Donald Trump.

A different sort of revolution has been building up in the United States, against a different kind of tyranny: the tyranny of radical leftist judges.  It was only a matter of time before there was outright defiance of those judges.  In one case, federal judge Boasberg complained that his order to turn around deportation airplanes already in flight was ignored.

Now there has been an escalation in that buildup.

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TRUMP’S PLAN FOR ALCATRAZ IS ABSOLUTE GENIUS

Donald Trump has announced that he’s reopening Alcatraz as a federal prison for the worst of the worst in America. I couldn’t be more delighted, because it’s a wonderful idea at both practical and symbolic levels.

Trump made the announcement on Truth Social:

REBUILD, AND OPEN ALCATRAZ! For too long, America has been plagued by vicious, violent, and repeat Criminal Offenders, the dregs of society, who will never contribute anything other than Misery and Suffering. When we were a more serious Nation, in times past, we did not hesitate to lock up the most dangerous criminals, and keep them far away from anyone they could harm. That’s the way it’s supposed to be. No longer will we tolerate these Serial Offenders who spread filth, bloodshed, and mayhem on our streets. That is why, today, I am directing the Bureau of Prisons, together with the Department of Justice, FBI, and Homeland Security, to reopen a substantially enlarged and rebuilt ALCATRAZ, to house America’s most ruthless and violent Offenders. We will no longer be held hostage to criminals, thugs, and Judges that are afraid to do their job and allow us to remove criminals, who came into our Country illegally. The reopening of ALCATRAZ will serve as a symbol of Law, Order, and JUSTICE. We will, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

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HOW GROUPS BRING OUT THE BEST IN PEOPLE… AND THE WORST

“Like I always say, there's no "I" in team. There's a "me" though, if you jumble it up.”

- Hugh Laurie as Dr. Gregory House

One of the essential qualities that makes us human is the way that we work together in groups. Understanding how to bring out our best within a group can make the difference between success or failure, personally, professionally, and financially.

You see it in sports teams, in musical groups, in work groups… when highly skilled individuals bring their best, and cooperate with each other, they create a level of excellence that’s unparalleled.

One player is a great shooter, another is exceptional at defense, another sets up plays, another, though not exceptional at any one thing, is uncanny in his ability to get the team to work together and connect well.

You also see the downside when an individual, no matter how skilled they are, can’t or won’t work together for the good of the group as a whole. One prima dona who hogs the ball, or a virtuoso soloist who has no emotional connection with his bandmates.

But the most common negative is when members of a group merge into a single blob, undifferentiated, following the momentum of wherever the group happens to be heading. Nobody stands out, nobody brings their unique talents and abilities, they all ooze together like a bland smoothie of humanity.

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FLASHBACK FRIDAY – AFGHANISTAN 1984

afghan-jackI showed this picture to my mother after my latest sojourn with the Afghan Mujahaddin fighting the Soviet Union and she didn’t see anything unusual. She didn’t recognize her own son standing in the middle. Good thing – if I had been caught by the KGB or Spetsnaz, it would have been, ahh… unpleasant. I was there with the “Muj” at least a dozen times until they defeated the Soviet Red Army in early 1989 – which led to the Fall of the Berlin Wall eight months later and the extinction of the Soviet Union itself by the end of 1991. It was one of the most thrilling – and consequential – adventures of modern times. (photo ©Jack Wheeler)

Jack Wheeler is Escape Artist’s World Exploration Expert. He is the founder of Wheeler Expeditions at WheelerExpeditions.com

 

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THE SUPERTREE GARDEN

gardens-by-the-bayThe world’s most spectacular nature park is the 130-acre Gardens by the Bay in Singapore. In the gigantic greenhouse of the Flower Dome, virtually every rare flower on earth flourishes in abundance, while the Cloud Forest is a wonderland of tropical waterfalls seemingly falling out of the sky high above.

Dominating the park are the 160-foot high Supertrees, towering vertical gardens covered in orchids, ferns, vines, and exotic plants. There are elevated canopies and walkways between them. Exploring the astonishing display of hi-tech botanical artistry and genius that is Gardens by the Bay is absolutely awe-inspiring.

TTPer Cassowary was kind enough to guide me through the park as Singapore is his home. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #102 photo ©Jack Weeler)

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THE GOLDEN MADRASA

golden-madrasaThe Golden Madrasa or College of Tilla-Kori was built by Samarkand ruler Yalangtush Bakhadur in the 1650s to house and teach the best and brightest students of his realm. It stands at the center of the wondrous Registan public square complex of the Silk Road oasis city of Samarkand, known to the ancient Greeks as Marakanda.

It was centuries old when Alexander conquered it in 329 BC. For a thousand years as Central Asia’s great entrepot on the Silk Road between China and the Mediterranean, it was a cosmopolitan center for Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Zoroastrianism, and Nestorian Christianity. Incorporated into the Islamic world in the 700s, sacked by Genghiz Khan in 1220, rebuilt by the time Marco Polo in 1272 described it as “a large and splendid city,” Tamerlane made it his capital in 1370.

I was first in Samarkand to stand astonished at the Registan in 1963. Seeing it now, far more impressively preserved than in the Soviet days, made me gasp – especially how Tilla-Kori is once again lavishly decorated with gold. You’ll gasp too should you ever be fortunate enough to come here. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #223 photo ©Jack Wheeler)

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THE STONE TURTLE OF GENGHIS KHAN

genghis-turtle800 hundred years ago in 1221, Genghis Khan established the capital of the Mongol Empire he created at a place called Karakorum in the grasslands of central Mongolia. It became a city of palaces, temples, and mansions of the Mongol nobility, a place of fabulous wealth that left Marco Polo in awe when he visited in in the 1270s.

When Mongol rule over China ended a hundred years later, the Chinese rulers of the Ming Dynasty ordered Karakorum razed to the ground with all evidence of its existence obliterated. All that was left was this solitary stone turtle lying in mute witness to the glories of what was here once and is no more. Known as the Stone Turtle of Genghis Khan, it’s all there is for you to try and imagine the magnificence of the past amidst what is now an empty wilderness. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #149 Photo ©Jack Wheeler)

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THE ROCK PALACE OF YEMEN

rock-palace 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)

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HALF-FULL REPORT 05/02/25

Wednesday April 30

It’s now a cliché that corporate America is focused only on the next quarterly report, or politicians are too gutless to do what it takes to actually solve a problem for the short term public outrage it would cause – far safer just to keep kicking all the problem cans down an endless road.

Trump wants to stomp America’s problem cans into the ground, solve them, dig a hole and bury them, and is willing to risk public ire megaphoned by the Dems and their media.  If nothing else, this is what will make T47 a truly historic presidency.

The President is challenging the American people straight up to forego immediate gratification and resultant demand for punishment of politicians who don’t provide it, and support instead what needs to be done to solve problems preventing a far better future for our country. Here are two examples this week.

You are going to love this HFR. Jump right on in – the water’s warm and comfy.

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COMMIE DAY 2025

joyful-may-day fascist-commie-day It’s May 1st, May Day, so it’s appropriate that we revisit “Commie Day,” first published on May 4, 2018. It provides an epic, albeit revolting, example of how the American Left has always been immorally deranged, from 138 years ago (at least) to today.

For millennia, especially in Europe, the First of May was a happy, joyful celebration of life after winter, with dancing around a Maypole and crowning a pretty girl with flowers as Queen of May.

I grew up in California. When we were kids, my sisters would always get up early to pick flowers, and leave them in a basket at the front door for Mom, our family’s Queen of May.

Today is a national holiday in Germany, as it is in over 30 other countries in Europe and dozens of other countries around the world. But not as May Day.

Instead, it’s called International Workers Day. Since it was the invention of Communists in 1889, it should be called Commie Day. Only Communists could take an innocent celebration of springtime and turn it into celebration of murder, terrorism, hate, and envy.

Here’s the story. For it begins not in Europe but in America.

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THE MOSLEM MYTH OF JERUSALEM

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Mohammed’s “Night Journey”

[This Monday’s TTP Archives feature was originally published on December 3, 2003. "From the river to the sea," the Palestinian battle cry that woke Wikipedia describes as an Arabic "focus on freedom," is based on the lie that Jerusalem is one of the holy sites of Islam. While the libs weep over Israel's "aggression" against the Palestinians "who just want peace," let's take another look at the evidence for the Moslem claim]

It is a commonplace in a story or article about the Arab-Israeli conflict that mentions Jerusalem to repeat the Moslem mantra that “Jerusalem is the third holiest city in all Islam, next to Mecca and Medina.”

You’ve heard this innumerable times — but how come? Just why is Jerusalem so important to not just Jews and Christians but Moslems as well?

The reason is one single line in the Koran.  If it can be shown by Islamic scholars that it has been misinterpreted, then Jerusalem ceases to be a holy city to Islam.

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WATER AND YOUR BRAIN

Afghan Mujahaddin Commander Adam Khan Photo ©Jack Wheeler
Afghan Mujahaddin Commander Adam Khan
_Photo by ©Jack Wheeler

[I’m stepping in for Greg & Michelle in this week’s Live Long & Prosper column.  As you know, LL&P is dedicated to the memory of Durk Pearson, TTP’s Skye.  The information below is based on conversations I had with Durk. ---JW]

Ghazni, Afghanistan, August 1984.  With my beard, turban, and shalwar kameez tunic and trousers I looked like just another Afghan guy walking with my Mujahaddin friends into the city.  We were scouting out how the attack, led by my friend commander Adam Khan, would be made that night on the Soviet high command atop the Bala Hissar fortress in the city center.

It was risky for there were Soviet and Communist government lookouts and guardposts everywhere – and I was in serious trouble.  I felt weak, confused, on the verge of falling down, and knew I would jeopardize my life and those with me if discovered.  I realized what was wrong.

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