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MAMA CHEETAH

mama-cheetahThe Serengeti, March 2025. Mama Cheetah has two cubs to feed and protect – her mate is long gone, she and her cubs are alone. She must find something for them and herself to eat – but can’t be on the hunt for long, as hungry hyenas and jackals would love to eat her cubs.  And when she comes back with a fresh kill like a small gazelle, they all must eat it quickly before a skulk of jackals shows up to steal it.

It’s wonderful to watch how she cares for the cubs, giving them tongue baths, letting them (more…)

THE PROBLEM OF STATE

[This Monday’s Archive was originally published on April 21, 2004, 21 years ago.  Two days ago (7/12), DNI Tulsi Gabbard stated,  “The Deep State is fighting us every step of the way, in every single federal agency.” Nowhere is the Deep State more deeply embedded than the State Department. 21 years ago, I pined that “someday, hopefully soon, we’ll get a pro-America State Department.”  Now, at long long last, with Rubio’s Mass Firings at the State Department (7/12), that someday is finally arriving.]

TTP, April 21, 2004

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Historians and commentators often refer to “The Reagan Doctrine” as the policy or strategy of “The Reagan Administration” to support anti-Soviet freedom fighters and dismantle the Soviet Empire.

The reality was that there was a continual war within the Reagan Administration between advocates of the Reagan Doctrine and those opposed to it (more…)

FLASHBACK FRIDAY – CLIMBING MOUNT OLYMPUS

mount-olympusAugust, 1971. Here is where the Ancient Greeks believed their 12 Olympian Gods lived, on the summit of the highest peak of Olympus – Mytikas at 9,571ft/2,918m. There are 52 jagged prominences of Olympus, but if you want to commune with Zeus, Apollo, Aphrodite, Athena and the rest, this is where you go.

It takes just two days: morning drive from Athens (4 hrs) to Litochoro, then the roadhead at Priona (2,500ft). Afternoon hike of some 3 hours through pretty pine forests to the comfortable Spilios Agapitos refuge (6,700ft) for dinner and a bunk bed overnight. You’re up at dawn (more…)

GAVIN NEWSOM DECLARES CALIFORNIA A SANCTUARY STATE FOR CHILD SLAVERY

SACRAMENTO, CA — In the latest front on his war against the Trump administration’s immigration policies, Governor Gavin Newsom officially declared California a sanctuary state for child slavery.

The announcement followed on the heels of Newsom expressing outrage over ICE launching operations to rescue unaccompanied minor immigrants from working in California’s marijuana fields, with the governor seeking to provide child slavers with a safe place to do their business.

“It’s our duty to provide a place for child slaves to work without fear,” Newsom told reporters. “Here in California, we still look to build a bright future, where child (more…)

HALF-FULL REPORT 07/11/25


Two giant American flags paid for by POTUS himself now fly at the White House, not just the teeny-weeny rooftop one.  They symbolize the love our POTUS along with all American patriots have for their country.

We have a lot of ground to cover in this (more…)

THE WATERFALLS OF KUANG SI

kuang-siIn the jungles of Laos less than 20 miles from the Laotian Royal Capital of Luang Prabang, you will find the entrancing waterfalls of Kuang Si. Multi-layered cascades of emerald green pure water pour into a series of pools ideal for swimming. The warm sun filters through the dark green jungle canopy. The laughter of Laotian children combined with that of the rushing waters adds to a unique serenity. Here is a place that will wash away all your woes. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #185 photo ©Jack Wheeler)

WHY I BELIEVE PATEL AND BONGINO ON THE EPSTEIN CASE

A quick visit to my Wikipedia page will confirm, “Jack Cashill is an American author, blogger and conspiracy theorist.”

If a “conspiracy theorist” is someone who exposes conspiracies, I will proudly accept the title. I broke the story that Bill Ayers helped Barack Obama write Dreams from My Father, I exposed the role of Enron in the likely murder of Ron Brown, and I wrote the definitive book on TWA Flight 800—more on this to come before the July 17 anniversary.

 

Yet, as I wrote here two months ago, I turned down a serious offer to co-author a (more…)

TRUMP HAS FOUND A WAY TO CUT OUT CHINA

Donald Trump is opening up a new frontier in his trade war.

Despite striking a pact with China last month, the US president is threatening to reignite tensions with Beijing by entangling the entirety of Asia in a sprawling web of tariff deals.

Even with fresh levies imposed on Japan and South Korea, Trump is racing to land a string of agreements across the continent, including with Indonesia, Thailand and Cambodia.

If he pulls that off, he will build a cage around Xi Jinping’s ability to use Asian markets to prop up Beijing’s strained export-driven economy.

“What we are witnessing (more…)

THE HYPOGEUM OF MALTA

hypogeumThe extraordinary rock-cut necropolis known as the Hypogeum (hi-po-gee-um) is the only prehistoric underground temple in the world. For over a thousand years (3500-2500 BC), the temple and burial complex (eventually housing 7,000 skeletons) was carved out and down – dozens of chambers, with rock-cut replicas of above-ground temples including simulated corbelled roofs. (A corbelled roof uses stone slabs that progressively overlap each other until the room is roofed over.)

The Megalthic Maltese learned to cut from the limestone bedrock with tools of stone and antler horn for they had no metal. These folks figured out (more…)

DEMOCRATS ARE SAYING “THERE NEEDS TO BE BLOOD!”

House Democrats are getting torched by their own base – and some of their constituents are literally suggesting they light a match. Shocker, we know – from the party that held nationwide riots over George Floyd (though ‘mostly peaceful’ of course), tried to assassinate Donald Trump and Steve Scalise, and put Rand Paul in the hospital.

Liberal activists are confronting Democrat lawmakers in town halls, office meetings, and online, demanding they ditch political niceties and start “fighting dirty” — even if it means getting hurt, arrested, or worse.

“There is fear and despair and anger among our voters that puts (more…)

PUTIN HAS PUSHED TRUMP TOO FAR

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President Trump at last has realized that Putin has been playing him for a fool and in an extraordinary, colorful outburst yesterday (7/08), has accused the Russian president of feeding him “bullsh-t”.

Trump appeared to be hoodwinked for far too long but suddenly understand that all the positive chat from Putin is designed to create inertia in the president’s thought processes.

Trump might be the thickest-skinned politician on the planet. If he is as upset as his expletives suggest, the Russians need to be concerned. What has really changed is that Trump knows his air power can easily penetrate Russian (more…)

THE CHRISTIAN KNIGHTS OF MALTA

christian-knights-of-maltaThey look real, don’t they?  Ready to defend their Christian land with their lives.  We are in the Palace Armory Museum of Malta, where you realize there is no nation on earth more proud of their Christian heritage.  It was on Malta in 1565 that a few thousand Christian Knights led by 70 year-old Jean de Vallette defeated in utter humiliation a massive horde of Moslem Ottomans led by Suleiman the Magnificent.

In seeking to use Malta as his launchpad to conquer all of Christian Europe, Suleiman was bitter in defeat: “This cursed island is like a barrier interposed (more…)

ELON’S FOOLISH IDEA

Has Elon Musk gone off the deep end yet again?

Until a few days ago, we thought he had established a cautious truce with President Trump, having apologized for all the awful things he said about the man who had given him a major role in government, estranging their relationship significantly.

Ostensibly, it was all supposedly over the passage in Congress of Trump’s budget, known as the Big Beautiful Bill.

It’s true that federal spending did increase with its passage and should not have, but it wasn’t a massive expansion. It contained critical tax cuts, money for immigration enforcement, money for defense (more…)

WITH LEBANON ENDING HEZBOLLAH, PEACE LOOKS POSSIBLE IN THE MIDDLE EAST

When we look back on the 1980s, a decade characterized by renewed Western strength and prosperity after the malaise of the 1970s, many of us think of three towering figures: Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, and Pope John Paul II.

These three people were committed to individual liberty, both political and spiritual, and they provided the economic, military, and moral impetus for that amazing decade, a decade that ended with the collapse of the once formidable—indeed, seemingly unbeatable—Soviet Union.

When I look at the world today, I’m beginning to wonder whether, in place of the Trio of Titans in the 1980s, (more…)

GGANTIJA

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The small European island country of Malta in the Mediterranean south of Sicily and close to the north coast of Africa is where civilization emerged from the Stone Age.

The story begins over 7,000 years ago, when a handful of Stone Age tribes in Sicily rafted 55 miles south to land on the twin islands of Gozo and Malta.  They lived in caves, then huts, fished, hunted, farmed with primitive tools for they had no metal – and over a period of more than a thousand years taught themselves how to construct massive buildings of stone.

This is the Temple (more…)