Advent, America – The jury has found Daniel Penny, the man who rescued subway riders in New York from a deranged man threatening to kill them, not guilty of causing the man’s death. Just like clockwork, BLM is threatening to riot and randomly kill white folks. BLM has become the photographic negative of the 1850’s white southerner railing against uppity opponents who threaten his privilege – while encouraging his friends to grab some rope.
There is a reason why, historically, minority factions have sought integration and peace while members of some majority factions have sought supremacy. The numbers simply don’t work for a minority faction to impose their dreams of supremacy on a society. At best, they can get by for a time by the indulgence of majority guilt over past offenses. When they become the offenders and that guilt evaporates, the jig is up. For every fist they throw they will find six or seven thrown back at them. Then it is game over. BLM is about to find that very predictable reality out, very quickly.
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Some have asked me who we should be rooting for in the Syrian Civil War (that has come to an inflection point, if not an actual end). It has been a fight between the forces of the brutally murderous dictator, Bashar al-Assad, and a bunch if ISIS wannabes. This is like a battle between Ted Bundy and John Wayne Gacy: we can only be rooting for both to lose.
Assad was further empowered when Barack Obama’s red line turned out to be as forceful as a damp paper towel. Russia came in to fill the vacuum Obama’s fecklessness left and to gain, for itself, a foothold in the Middle East. A murderous dictator with no redeeming qualities has now been evicted from the Middle East and the eviction of Russia from the region has begun as well. (In view of my last column, you might wonder why I consider evicting Russia from the Middle East to be a good thing. My geo-political musings do not involve rooting for anything but a peaceful, Godly world. The Middle East is, for Russia, the seedy underbelly of the globe – full of metaphorical strip joints and opium dens. Best for them to stay home that they not be led into temptation).
Donald Trump already beat ISIS quickly once (and that when the fellow who facilitated its creation, Barack Obama, claimed Trump would need a “magic wand” to get rid of it). I have confidence Trump can do it again – and poor bleeding Syrians will have a chance at a decent life again, after 50 years of tyranny. Can’t tell if it will take root, but with what is coming for Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas, and all the Jihadists when the new American administration is fully seated, it will no longer be a playground for malicious mischief makers to easily slap us – or their own citizens – around any more. And so I say, “Down with Assad, Down with ISIS, Down with Islamic Jihad!”
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Denmark has decided to tax cow farts. I kid you not. It’s part of the globalists’ and climate cultists’ war on farmers. They think that cows eating grass and breaking wind is “bad for the planet.” As a meme on X noted, cows eating grass and breaking wind IS the planet. Might as well argue that fish are bad for the sea.
Conventional environmentalists are lunatics. Of course, as I discovered in my late 20’s. most of what they propose is objectively BAD for the environment. Even worse, they seem to dream of a dead, sterile system frozen in amber where nothing can live or move as their ideal for what the environment should be – like mounting a moose head over the mantle.
Cyclic systems, like our world and the universe it inhabits, do not have a set point. They have acceptable ranges of operation. Conventional environmentalists, without learning much of anything and dummying up a lot of spurious data, are not trying to save the planet; they are trying to kill it – and all living things that inhabit it.
Man was not made for the planet: the planet was made for man – by God. Very soon, we will be making a return to effective stewardship of the great gift God gave us and banishing all those whose toxic schemes seek to “improve” on God’s perfection.
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Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) has apparently seen the light…and will NOT try to advance herself by torpedoing Donald Trump’s nominees. This is not out of the goodness of her heart. She got such blowback that she is in serious danger of being taken out in a primary in 2026. Good.
I am in no mood for any of the weenie Republicans who will vote to confirm any transgender lunatic a Democrat nominates to lecture me on norms and qualifications. They need to confirm all of Trump’s nominees, unless the nominee turns out to be a closet leftist authoritarian, like his first pick to head the DEA. I want all Republican officials to understand that trying to undercut Trump and the will of the people is to be sent to the ash heap.
More than that, almost all Democrats routinely vote against Republican nominees because they are too conservative, too Christian, or too Republican. And yet Republicans turn right around and reward them by voting for their nominees. Enough already! I want Democrats to know that if they are going to treat our nominees like garbage, they will no longer get any help from our people in confirming their nominees. The two-tiered playing field MUST end if we are to thrive as a free republic.
I think the re-opening of Notre Dame Cathedral on Saturday, Dec. 7, 2024 was a profound sign of hope for many people…and many feel a more-than-normal mystical significance to it. Notre Dame was in sad, grimy shape before it caught fire in 2019 – kind of like Christianity in Europe. Now it is gloriously renewed. It is a real renewal, too, not one of those hideous, woke parodies that we are supposed to pretend is edgy and beautiful. Much of the world’s leadership turned up to celebrate the renewal.
It had a unique resonance for me. Twenty-nine years ago, on Dec. 7. 1995, I had what I consider the pivotal visitation of my life. As most of you know, I believe I have had supernatural visions and visitations all my life. Some people believe them, some think they are just the way my peculiar mind processes information, and others dismiss them altogether. I’m not much worried what you think about them – but it is important that you know I take them very seriously. They are the major guideposts in my thinking and analysis of events. I am not a lone ranger. Since 1995 I have submitted to the authority of my director Priests and since I went public in 2013, to my Archbishop, who commissioned a six-month investigation into the matter.
I do not say the visitation on the eve of the Feast Day of the Immaculate Conception was my most important visitation ever. Rather, it signaled a major turning point in my life. It was during this one that my attention was turned decisively away from training and towards what we would soon confront, what God intended, and bringing into stark relief that I must soon make a decision to go forth or to forever forfeit the particular call to help God’s people successfully navigate the greatest storm in salvation history.
I was running a primary campaign for U.S. Senate. It had been a terrible week. I had made the biggest error I ever had in a political campaign, big enough that I worried it might derail the whole thing. It was about seven in the evening, I think (I often tried, but never successfully mapped out when such things began and how long they lasted, except in the most general terms). I was home alone, reading in the front room. I heard a woman call my name and I asked who was there. She called me again and I got up to see who it was. Then she called me a third time and I sat back down thinking, “okay, now I know what this is.” That has stuck with me because, though the visions and visitations are almost the same as normal activities, on only two occasions have I ever failed to immediately know the difference between what is real to me and what is just life in these shadowlands – and this was one of those times.
It was a great dividing moment in my life. I went from primarily a trainee to a recruit on this day…and it was the beginning of a lot of fearful soul-searching and decision making. It annoys me to no end when people who do believe, as I do, that these visions are authentic, think that I have it easy because of them. I am rarely told what to do; rather I am told what the challenges and problems coming are, then directed to figure out an approach to it, using all my mind and heart, spirit and soul, taking full responsibility for what I decide. Sometimes, when I get off track, I am given gentle correction. Most times, I am allowed to stumble and then given grace, with the admonition to learn from my stumbles. It is more terrifyingly hard than anyone can imagine, I think.
I often think that my conversion was going from seeing the world in black and white to seeing it in glorious living color. After that visitation, progressively it was more like experiencing it in 3D in real time…not virtual reality, but actual reality, including the mystical that we so often ignore and are blind to. I was terribly scared for a long time. I thought about how I was just a little fellow, a sinful man, clumsy and prone to stumbles. I learned that, though I can have little confidence in myself and my prowess, if I have complete confidence in The Lord and am docile to Him, even when I disagree with how He does things, I can have absolute confidence that however things look, He will draw the most good from every situation I am involved with. So I have little confidence in me, complete confidence in Him, and walk with confidence and swagger. It was the beginning of a new era for me, one with many battles, failures, and victories ahead, but one in which I walked through some terrible furnaces with deep serenity and ultimate confidence. In the 14th Chapter of the Gospel of John, Jesus says He gives peace to His followers – not as the world offers peace, but a peace that abides whatever circumstances it finds itself in. I have come to know – and try to live – this peace well.
I can’t help but think that the restoration of Notre Dame Cathedral is the glorious return of Our Lady to active, nearly visible intercession in this world. Front and center at the ceremonies was Donald Trump, deferred to by all as leader of the free world – a free world in desperate need of leadership. Trump certainly walks with an often cocky swagger, but the events of the last 10 years and his miraculous survival of the assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania have given him a depth, a compassion, and a resolve that is much greater than he ever had before. At that ceremony I saw the embryonic beginnings of a Pax Americana and the first public appearance of those who will become the heralds of the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart.
I have told you hard truths about bad things to come when most did not want to hear them – and almost all came to pass. Now I tell you a simple truth about good things that have begun, not as a Pollyanna, but because this is what is. It has begun sooner than I expected it – and that is cause for rejoicing, for it says that far more hearts than we know have already turned back towards the Lord. Just as I thought that, I saw that sales of Bibles have jumped by 22 percent this year. I think we have seen the beginning of the glory of the coming of the Lord. Light has pierced the darkness – and it will only grow from here if we keep our shoulders to the plow. Rejoice!
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I was delighted to see that Harmeet Dhillon has been nominated to be the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights at the DOJ. Dhillon is David Daleiden’s lawyer and a great champion of civil rights for all – including conservatives and people of faith who have been trampled on this last decade. I have met Dhillon in passing several times. Daleiden and I speak of her frequently. She is a champion.
Coming from California, a state which routinely and callously stomps on the most basic civil rights, it gives me great hope that the Golden State may recover its luster despite the screaming depredations of so many of its officials.
America is on its way back. We are so back!
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