P&D Geopolitics Editon: The World As I See It

By Rich Kozlovich

Here are some of my observations regarding the geopolitical events over the last two weeks.  

First, the tension between China and Taiwan never ceases.  Recently the Taiwanese Coast Gruad used water cannons of Chinese fishing vessel infringing in their territorial waters near Pratas Island.   

There's a diplomatic row between South Korea and Ukraine over the swap of 2 North Korean prisoners of war to South Korea.  According to South Korean President Lee this was supposed to be done in secret, and Zelenskyy (correct spelling) reneged on that agreement.  Ukraine is calling this a "misunderstanding", everyone else is calling it betrayal.  Given Zelenskyy is foundationally corrupt, I'm not surprised, but I have wonder what was going on in his mind.  What does he think he gained from betraying South Korea's trust.  I don't think he's the brightest pebble in the brook.  

Voter fraud is a political pandemic and now India's opposition parties are launching protests over the ruling party's manipulation of voter lists in order to favor the ruling Prime Minister's party.  One of the things I think we fail to understand is India does not have a united culture, nor was it a united natioln until the British took it over and united all the little independent kingdoms into a single nation.  That never really took, any more than it took with Europeans and the EU.  And just like the EU the historical bickering and resentment is the foundational social paradigm in India. 

We're not seeing much about the issues regarding the conflict going on in Ethiopia, which never seems to ever go away, and potentially impact what goes on in the Red Sea. Currently Ethiopia is at war with the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) in the Northern region of Ethiopia.  I find this whole affair convoluted and confusing as Eritrea was allegedly upset over an agreement that prevented the  elimination of the TPLF, and yet Ethiopia accused them of supporting at least seven armed groups, including the TPLF in order to weaken and/or destabilize Ethiopia's government.  Now Eritrea has broken off diplomatic relations with since Ethiopia intended to close the Eritrean embassy and expel their diplomats.  Ethiopia's military has captured the Tigrayan capital of Mekelle  and it 's expected Eritrean troops will enter the picture potentially triggering open war between them.  At least that was the case as of two weeks ago.

The U.S. is diverting $52 million dollars of military aid from Europe and the Middle East to Latin and South America in order to lend support to the conservative governments taking hold there, which is understandable since the foundational social paradigm in Latin and South America is for leftists to murder, riot, rebel and destroy in an effort to take by force what was taken from them by the people's choice to kick them to the curb.  And guess what?  The Democrats are really upset over that claiming that's eroding trust from our "allies" in Europe and the Middle East.  With allies like them, who needs enemies?  

If find so many things Trump does to be confusing, but one pattern emerges.  He's willing to "forcefully leverage the economic and security dependencies of both allies and adversaries in pursuit of its strategic goals."  Remember, Russia is the country on which he's imposed sanctions on over Russia unjustified was with Ukraine. Now, Putin's planning an "energy offensive" against Ukraine "to cripple electricity, heating and water supplies in Kyiv, Kharkiv and Odesa by targeting substations supporting European electricity imports, hydroelectric plants, nuclear plants' grid connections and municipal utilities." 

Profits from Russian energy is the life blood of the Russian economy, and yet he's cut a deal with Putin to buy "Russian diesel fuel and ease energy sanctions to combat soaring U.S. and global fuel prices", and yet he's imposing trader restrictions on Russia over the Ukraine war, he's cracking down on what's designated as a "Russia-linked A7 Network as a transnational criminal organization to sever a major financial and payment lifeline used by Iran to evade sanctions."

At the same time he's saying the The U.S. and Israel Should Close Aviation Sanctions Loopholes on Russia and Iran with "Leonid Baratz arguing that the Treasury should designate Aeroflot and Red Wings, a Russian airline that still flies to Tel Aviv, and that Israel should close Ben Gurion Airport to it."  

We're capable of being a totally energy independent nation and yet we need to have the other G-7 nation members release up to "100 million barrels of crude oil, diesel over the next four months".  Other than Canada, how can an almost totally energy dependent France, Germany, Italy, the UK and Japan have that much fuel? 

The Middle East is a lit stick of dynamite; but then again, what's new? Now it's just new players with old schemes taking different sides, which in the Middle East is like having breakfast everyday.  Saudi Arabia is being attacked by the Houthi, an Iranian backed terrorist group, and now Yemen's civil war has intensified since Saudi Arabia and their partners have upped their efforts to destroy the Houthi.  

The Kurds want their own nation, and as a result they're are at war with everyone, including Syria, and that's not going away any time soon, Armenian and Azerbaijan looks like their peace talks are about to become undone.  Previously they agreed to "stop all fighting forever, open up commerce, travel and diplomatic relations, and respect each other’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.” Now Azerbaijan is demanding.... demanding mind you..... concession that borders on ridiculous.  And we're shocked? 

European governments suffer from suicidal delusions on immigration, but maybe that will start to change.  The European Parliament  Adopts Landmark Resolution Targeting Islamist Infiltration demanding "tighter checks on EU money and a request that governments consider placing Muslim Brotherhood-linked groups on the EU terrorist list."  Has the riots in France had anything to do with this.  I have to wonder if France is the trigger that will set this off.  However, as Charles de Gaulle once noted: "Even I can't keep the French from being French", and I really have to  wonder if the French are capable of dealing with this.  

 

What I'm Reading

By Rich Kozlovich

Democrats and all others who embrace leftist's agendas have some problems with their moral compasses. None of them point north.  

Let's start with their inability to fix anything, mostly because they broke everything, so they simply ignore the consequences of their actions falling back on their time honored Kyrie Eleison: It's not my fault, it's not my fault, it's not my fault, Amen!  

• Somali gangs: Old News, but also a growing problem This problem has been going on for at least 15 years. Why are we just learning about it now? 

They're ahead in the polls, and the polls keep predicting there's going to be a blue wave all across the nation, but given what's going on I have difficulty believing that.  

As I watch the commentaries on this I keep coming back to the 1968 Democrat convention and how all that rioting shook the nation and Nixon won in a landslide. I remember when Newt Gingrich offered the Contract With America in 1994 and everyone laughed and was sure the Democrats would hold the House. They lost.

Unfortunately, while Gingrich could speak well, and usually but not always think well, he failed to do well.....regularly.  Which has been a genetic disorder among Republicans forever.  The difference now is demographics, educational corruption, and media propaganda is worse than it was then, but I still think there’s a “silent majority” out there the left has badly scared, and scared people will do what’s in their won best interests.

Charles do Gaulle once said even he can’t stop the French from being French, and Trump can’t stop the Republicans from being Republicans, but I think in spite of the Republicans, the Republicans will hold Congress. One reason I think that is because in adversarial confrontations such as occurred in recent debates, they don't do well.   

Letitia James is the incumbent Attorney General for the State of New York and is running against Saritha Komatireddy.   In a recent debate between them James got crushed with Komatireddy noting that under her watch crime is up, homelessness is up, New York is not safe under Leticia James, and New York is the worst in the nation in prosecuting fraud.  Furthermore she states all this is as a result of her obsession with national politics resulting in a failure to "rein in lawlessness and Medicare fraud".  

When James was asked to name a predecessor she admired, she was incapable of dong so, with Komatireddy explaining, “she only admires herself.”  James' fall back position?  Komatireddy was Trump's puppet!   Injecting Trump in some way into the conversation is always the fall back position when they're incapable of defending their positions or the outcome of those positions.  James was crushed and yet the polls show she's ahead 52% to 39%.  How can candidates that are so obviously incompetent and corrupt be ahead in the polls?  

 In the Michigan Senate campaign debate between Abdul El-Sayed and Mike Rogers, Rogers brutalized El- Sayed leaving no stone unturned.  El-Sayed showed his true colors when he refused to say whether Iran or Israel posed the greater threat.  His answer?  “That’s a ridiculous question", no that's a ridiculous answer, as Israel hasn't killed any Americans, whereas Muslim terrorists supported by Iran has killed hundreds of Americans over the last sixty years, constantly chants death to America, and has threatened the world with nuclear war.  His answer was a deliberate evasion clearly demonstrating  his moral compass points in one direction; support of worldwide Islamic supremacy

And he's ahead in the polls.  Really?

It's pretty much confirmed (although his staff keep claiming otherwise) Talarico went missing for a couple of weeks because he was in a mental institution is Ohio, yet it's being claimed the race between Republican Texas AG Ken Paxton is tight and Talarico is ahead in the polls, with Democrats insisting he can turn Texas blue, even getting support from Willie Nelson, which demonstrates long term marijuana use impairs cognitive ability. 

The left hates Jews, they've demonstrated that over and over again ever since the French Revolution, and has demonstrated that hate with every socialist movement ever since, whether they're religious or secular Jews, including Jews who support all things left, including support and justification of Islamic violence, and their condemnation of Israel.  Now, these self hating Jews are shocked... shocked it tell you....  to discover the left hates them also.   I think that called cognitive dissonance.

• Documentary explores how Israel was demonized after Oct. 7: ‘Didn't happen overnight

In yesterdays edition of What I'm Reading I discuss Navi Pillay being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, for hating Israel and Jews in general, which she shares with Yasser Arafat.  An award choice that Hamas Is thrilled about.  Wow, that's a shocker.  Well, it really is true, birds of a feather flock together. 

But there's no end to who the left hates.  It turns out they hate Columbus and Italians also.  They've plundered and defaced statues of Christopher Columbus all over the nation, Mamdani removed Little Italy from the map of New York City, and NYC Councilwoman has blasted Mamdani over praising a left wing communist congressman tying that praise to Italian Heritage Month.  

Education in America is a snare and a racket, as graduate schools of education aren't turning out teachers, they're turning out propagandists for leftist ideologies that are destroying traditional values. 

They concluded that these education programs are an effort to not just indoctrinate teachers but get prospective educators to discuss “racial politics, gender politics, sexual identity, transgenderism, ahistorical anti-American history, and culturally revolutionary ideas with children as young as five or six years old.

We're seeing the impact of that destructive indoctrination everywhere.  The Daughters of the American Revolution has disbanded their Texas chapter for insisting only real women can be members, claiming their views are "not to be suitable for inclusion in the bylaws and not to be in the best interest of the Society.”  Imagine that.  

Observations From the Back Row

By Rich Kozlovich

Mamdani is not comfortable recognizing Israel as it has a hierarchy of citizenship based on religion, unlike Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Qatar, Iraq, Iran, Yemen, Turkey, and the United Arab Emirates, who would like for America to elect Democrats (Islamist's) versus Republicans in order to hasten America's death.  However, they explain when they say "Death to America" they don't mean Americans, not counting those 3000 Americans who died on 911.  That's just political showboating by conservatives.   

It's interesting that Muslim terrorists say they love death by get angry when they're killed.  When they start a war they call it jihad.  When they lose a war they call it genocide.   After this latest effort by a Muslim pilot who tried to crash a plane it's been decided a new security measure must be implemented.  Everyone will eat bacon before flying.  

Conservatives want to eliminate the Department of Education, and the Democrats are outraged since that may end up causing children to become too smart to vote for Democrats, which is why Democrats want to remove the Thinker statue as bad symbolism.   Since lowering academic standards is a sure fire to get a lot of people graduated while failing to deliver meaningful jobs, these kids who want to learn math, science, English, in order to be able to get a real job, buy a house, start a family, have far too much attitude, and need to "check their white privilege".

Did you ever wonder why you argue with anyone who voted for Joe Biden? These are the same people who call Trump's border czar a racist and a Nazi, but he's the same man who Obama gave a medal to for deporting 900,000 illegal aliens.  Vaccine ID cards are good, voter ID is bad.  

Computer models, the garbage in garbage out type, claim that global warming will put California underwater, which then we might feed it other date that shows global warming might do some bad things also.  

Does gender really matter?  Well, there's a reason why we can't we get milk from bulls, eggs from roosters, and babies from men.  

We're told retailers are greedy swine, but the average profit margin in the retail market runs between 2% and 5%.  The government's average sale tax runs between 6% and 9%.   

 

 

What I'm Reading

By Rich Kozlovich 

Let's start with the Middle East because I find it really interesting how Iran really knows how to win friends and influence people, as now their cats paws, the Houthi, are attacking Iran's neighbors.  At some point you had to know this was going to happen. Iran wants to totally dominate the Middle East and destroy western civilization, and Trump has not only put their schemes on hold, the continued existence of their government is in question.  Iran follows the Shia version of Islam and many of it's neighbors are Sunni, which means both consider the other to be apostate, and the Koran demands apostates be put to death.  

So, Iran's terrorist pals, the Houthi, who they've been funding for years, is happy to do that as they attacked an airport in Saudi Arabia using "cruise missiles, ballistic missiles, and explosive-laden drones to target civilian and infrastructure sites" killing 12 and injuring over 300 civilians, some in critical condition.  This was the third attack, and Saudi Arabia plans on doing something about it, which I wouldn't give too much credibility to that statement.  Will Trump act on this?  We'll see.   

•  Houthi Missile Strikes Saudi Arabian Airport, Resulting in 'Mass Casualty Incident'

Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan have signed a defense agreement and Saudi Arabia is now asking Turkey for military aid.  Turkey says they're going to have to take a vote on that.  Imagine that.  

I've covered the Christa Pike death penalty failure in my post, This Week in The News.  Now she's been released from the hospital, "and is now at Deborah K. Johnson Rehabilitation Center where she has been housed for more than 30 years. She is grateful to the first responders and her medical team for their care in these extraordinary circumstances. She is continuing to receive medical care at the prison, and we will continue to track her recovery.”'  Does anyone besides me think this is insane?  Will there be another effort to put her to death after doing so much to keep her alive?  I'm betting the answer will be .. NO!.  

President Trump has filed a petition with SCOTUS to revive a RICO Lawsuit against Hillary, Comey and others, over the Russian Hoax scheme.  A federal judge appointed by Bill Clinton not only threw it out originally, he fined Trump a million dollars for daring to file such a suit.  

"Lower courts have protected the Clinton machine and the Deep State operatives who orchestrated the greatest political hoax in American history while punishing the victim of their scheme with nearly $1 million in sanctions."

Is there any doubt in any sane person's mind the courts are out of control, and the judiciary is filled with political hacks?  A man with a lengthy criminal record having stabbed two seven year old boys in 2003 has now stabbed a young mother and her baby, who is now fighting for her life, in a totally random attack while she waited on a street corner for her other children to come out of school.  

What did the courts find in 2003?  He was "mentally incompetent" and was hospitalized for years, however:

Rhode Island law allows hospitalization for treatment aimed at restoring competency, with periodic court review. But the criminal charges must be dismissed once a person’s commitment reaches two-thirds of the maximum possible prison term for the most serious charge.

So, under state law he had to be released, and has again attempted to murder an innocent defenseless young victim.  Insanity laws do not protect the innocent, it protects the guilty, and often the guilty who are the most vile.  

Is Europe on the verge of a massive restructuring? And does it appear France may be the trigger for that? Muslim and leftist rioters are out of control and have made it clear they have no intention of stopping, which is absolute proof of two things.  Massive welfare states fail because these losers can never be satisfied,  and multiculturalism is a disaster, which is a warning for America.  These French riots have cost over $33 million dollars and caused the arrest of "nearly 7,000", and it's my guess that number isn't nearly as high as it should be, and if the government wants to stop this they need to treat if for what it is, a civil war, and the French army needs to be deployed right now   

These rioters claim to be upset at the condition of France's schools, so the burned down the schools, right along with:

.......... "public buses and fire trucks.....they have looted shops and stalked and preyed on women walking alone.  They have attacked strangers with fireworks, mortars, and hydrochloric acid.  They have beaten numerous teachers, doused some in gasoline, and set a few on fire.  They have injured hundreds of law enforcement officers and firefighters, as well as students who want nothing to do with the mayhem.  One witness to the destruction described the scene as “total anarchy” and “total war.”...The perpetrators/revolutionary soldiers are young, but most are not white. They appear Middle Eastern or North African..... 

One murderous group kicked and beat a young female police officer for sport....... “The image of this young policewoman, pursued by a pack howling its hatred, thrown to the ground and assaulted, is unbearable.”  ...... In another incident, attackers wearing masks and hoods chased, knocked down, and beat a police officer until he was unconscious.  The masked revolutionaries continued to kick the unconscious officer in the head and nearly killed him.  The local police union described the attempted murder bluntly: “This is no longer anti-cop hatred.  IT IS A HUNT FOR COPS.”.....

Due to the suicidal actions of Western governments, the enemy is already inside the gates (and most likely receiving taxpayer-funded food, stipends, and housing).

This civil war is being prompted by Muslim terrorists and leftist radicals and let's not be delusional, in spite of the claims of the media, this is not spontaneous!  It's organized just like the Antifa/BLM riots in the United States.  France is dying and it's leaders are directly responsible, and this contagion is spreading!  Now, with Antifa infusion, these leftist extremists have spread their influence to Belgium, and this Muslim violence against western civilization is worldwide.  

• Muslim Mob Burns Christian’s Home and Pharmacy in Pakistan; Scores of Families Flee

An Australian pastor says he's being targeted by Muslim radicals for daring to promote Christianity to Muslims.  In a Muslim controlled nation that can result in the death penalty, and I've not seen one Hollywood celebrity speak out against that.  

Recently ICE shot a an illegal alien who is a member of an alien criminal gang.  He's a dangerous man

....[who has] had a previous conviction for grand larceny. In addition, his record includes multiple arrests for assault, robbery, possession of drugs, and weapons charges. DHS stated he is a member of the violent Trinitarios gang — the same gang that shot and brutally killed a CBP officer in 2024.

 He has also been arrested and released in the past because of New York's sanctuary policies, and yet we're seeing "spontaneous" protests against ICE demanding his release.  Hollywood dimwit, Ellen Barkin, says ICE should be burnt to the ground.  How dare they try and protect the people of New York?  Now another incompetent political hack masquerading as a judge who was appointed by Obama is blocking this criminals'  deportation.  Of course Mamdani just had to throw gasoline on the fire claiming  “This is an unconscionable and incredibly serious situation", and again demanded ICE be abolished, and that illegal migrants are ‘New Yorkers’.  But he also said the horrors perpetrated by Hamas was because ‘Israel made them do it’".  

•  Mamdani’s Latest ICE Victim Committed Armed Robbery, Threatened Neighbor w/Machete

Mamdani spent two hours on the phone with Trump insisting this man should be released from ICE custody.  Trump said he'll agree as long as the NYPD keeps him arrested. Mamdani refused.   Why would anyone talk for two hours with a nitwit like Mamdani?  How do real New Yorkers feel about this illegal alien? They think he's ‘nothing else but trash’!  Well, you elected trash, you should expect trash.

What's interesting is no matter how far left Mamdani goes, Democratic Socialists are outraged at Mamdani because he's not far left enough.  

The Nobel Peace Prize for 2026 has been awarded to a far left radical antisemitic South African judge, who has been complicit in genocide, with the Nobel Prize committee once again disgracing itself "by electing a toad. Any questions that the award is increasingly irrelevant and useless? How bad could they get?"  Needles to say Jewish leaders are outraged saying:

[they picked a] “bigot who built a career around inventing and propagating blood libels against the Jewish State."    

Trump is a bit peeved at this pick noting what he’s done including settling 8 wars. Personally, if in a moment of clarity they nominated him what I would like for him to tell them to shove it, as they’re a corrupt laughing stock and a disgrace. “What good are honors from such people?”

 

This Week in The News

By Rich Kozlovich

There are some stories that so hot every news site I visit is running articles on them.  The reason why is they kinda follow the time honored journalistic thinking of ...."if it bleeds it leads"! Of in other words, the more emotion the story elicits, or the more outrageous it is, the more it will be reported on.

Let's start with the failed execution of Christa Pike.  Why did the execution fail?   You can blame the leftists for that.  They've been fighting the death penalty for decades saying it violated the 8th Amendment against cruel and unusual punishment.  It's interesting the founding fathers who wrote that amendment didn't believe that, but the Supreme Court decided in 1972 to legislate from the bench and proclaim the death penalty was cruel and unusual punishment.   While they backed away from that four years later, these political hacks in black robes didn't entirely give up.  

"In 1977, the court banned the death penalty for rapists of adult women. In 1986, it did the same for the mentally insane. In 2002, the court added those with intellectual disabilities to the list. In 2005, the court ended capital punishment for those who were minors at the time of the crime. And in 2008, the court did the same for child rapists."

 None of which has any Constitutional foundation for their rulings.  

The left then attacked the means of execution, and now chemical companies simply refuse to manufacture compounds that do the job effectively any longer.   The real story?  It's taken 31 years after she and her boyfriend perpetrated a horrible absolutely provable torture and murder against an innocent 19 year old women to execute this woman.  

Then there's the public execution of Nidal Hasan.  You remember him don't you?   He's the secret jihadist who was a major and a physician in the United States Army who shot and murdered 13 people, injuring 32 others at Fort Hood, and you have to wonder how many more of them are out there?  

He's being executed publicly by firing squad, which Vance says he won't watch, and neither will I, but again, here's the real story, it's only taken 17 years to bring him to justice. Of course Hillary Clinton is outraged calling his public execution barbaric, right along with the "usual suspects" in the totalitarian state of Hollywood where antisemitic celebrities rally in support of Hamas, who murdered, tortured, raped and perpetrated horrors on innocent unarmed civilians, and recorded it to the cheers and adulation of Muslims worldwide.  

Here is a long list of celebrities who are acting out Hamas’ screenplay by calling for freedom for convicted terrorist Marwan Barghouti. Among them are Cate Blanchett, Tilda Swinton, Daniel Brühl, Rebecca Hall, Zawe Ashton, Tatiana Maslany, May Calamawy, Emma Corrin, Kingsley Ben-Adir, Ian McKellen, Brian Cox, Riz Ahmed, Elliot Page, Benedict Cumberbatch, Hugo Weaving, Dan Stevens, Rob Delaney, and Jason Flemyng.

If Islamist’s were to take over the nation these dingle berries would be among the first executed. Hollywood lives in an intellectual and moral bubble filled with cognitive dissonance, easily disputed “facts” and logical fallacies. If these people really believe the things they’re saying, then they’re certifiable.   The totalitarian left not only redefines words to fit their obsession of the day, they make them up, and they’re so ambiguous they can be redefined at any given time to their advantage. 

Here's one story I've not really commented on because the longer it goes... the bigger it grows.... and the more outrageous it becomes.   Cornell’s Jane Doe’s Damning Texts Revealed Called Night of Drug-Fueled Sex ’Gang Bang’ ’Our Body Our Choice’.  But have no fear, that paragon of personal and public integrity, New York Attorney General Letitia James, is heading up the investigation.... and will do so without bias of any kind.  And we really believe she has no bias... Right!

Finally, where did Talarico go?  There's been a lot of verbiage about the disappearance of  the Democrat party's candidate for the Senate from Texas, wackadoodle James Talarico, who hasn't been seen since September 26, with some wondering if he's been captured by extraterrestrial aliens.  I don't think so as he may be their ambassador.   However, ‘The View’ is sure he's going to turn Texas blue by winning that Senate seat.  Well... that must be encouraging to conservatives since I don't know when the The View was ever right.  Just like when during the Biden administration Whoopie declared Jill Biden was a great doctor and should be made Surgeon General.... in spite of the fact her "doctorate" was in education.  James Talarico, please call home.

Christa Pike is Angry, and So To Should Society

By Rich Kozlovich

Christa Pike is now 50 and was going to be executed by firing squad because her attorneys claim her 8th amendment rights against cruel and unusual punishment would be violated by execution via lethal injection.  So she was getting a firing squad and was demanding ..... demanding mind you.....an all-woman firing squad for her execution.   

Her attorneys attempted to get her off with an insanity plea..... where did I hear that before?  But here's what's really nuts.  It's taken 31 years to execute this lunatic, and then it was decided she'd be executed via lethal injection, which failed.. twice... and she survived.  She was then taken to a hospital and put on life support, and she's been revived.  Why?  Why in the world would they put a person to be executed on life support? 

Daniel Flynn over at American Spectator noted:

Christa Pike's lawyer describes her as "angry" in the wake of her surviving her scheduled execution. Years ago, as chronicled in a back page piece in the print American Spectator, I felt every emotion but anger when the nursing home that eight hours earlier had announced my dad" death suddenly announced him alive. "She is angry and confused about everything right now," attorney Randy Spivey told reporters. "She is very aware that the state tried to execute her."  Does not her anger predate her botched execution? 

 

She tortured and murdered a young woman, and succumbed to a dark-arts fascination with Satan, 31 years ago. One does not walk down that path by embodying The Partridge Family"  "Come on, Get Happy" theme song, after all. When one cheats death, anger does not strike as the appropriate emotion. But regulating emotions does not rank as a strong suit of death row denizens.

 

Perhaps we should review what she did. 

 

She decided because Colleen Slemmer waved at her boyfriend she was trying to steal him from her, so, she lured her to a secluded location, along with her boy friend, and beat her to death.  While Slemmer begged for her life Pike slashed her with a box cutter carving a pentagram in her chest while still alive, she also used a meat cleaver in this murder.  With a large chunk of asphalt she smashed her head and took a piece of Slemmer's skull as a "souvenir."   A horror that according to investigators lasted for 30 minutes.  

 

Pike got the death penalty and her boyfriend who was a year younger that Pike, 17, got life without parole.  How does being 17 make a monster murderer less culpable than being 18 in such a vile act?   And now "Republican Governor Bill Lee has canceled all executions for 2026 and ordered an investigation",   Make no mistake, her attorney's are claiming she's “endured punishment greater than any other person in the history of the American death penalty”, and want her sentence commuted, which will most likely happen.  But I think it fair to ask what form of penalty could be more cruel than the horrors Pike and her boyfriend perpetrated on Colleen Slemmer?

 

If there's any anger that should be displayed it should be the public's anger at the state's incompetence, and the insanity of the American system of justice in these cases.  Thirty one years to execute this women in what was an open and shut case.   It’s clear there are people who will never stop committing crimes irrespective of the penalty, but it’s also clear…. at least to me…..the death penalty is essential for good social order, especially when the evidence is so profound as to the guilt of the perpetrator as it is in this case.   As British Prime Minister Gladstone said in 1868,  "Justice delayed is justice denied."  Nothing's changed.

 

Update, 10/10/26:

The Left Has Made It Harder to Kill Christa Pike. She Must Die Anyway. - But the only reason there are botched executions today is because of the Left’s decades long legal crusade to intentionally throw sand in the gears of the execution process — over the objection of a majority of Americans, who have long favored capital punishment. In the 1960s, activist NAACP lawyers launched a campaign to challenge the death penalty on grounds of “systemic racial bias.” (Sound familiar?) 

They argued the death penalty constitutes “cruel and unusual punishment” under the Eighth Amendment.The culmination came in 1972, when the Supreme Court ludicrously held that, as a practical matter, the death penalty is unconstitutional. Following massive backlash, the court walked that back only four years later.   But the legal battle was only beginning.

In 1977, the court banned the death penalty for rapists of adult women. In 1986, it did the same for the mentally insane. In 2002, the court added those with intellectual disabilities to the list. In 2005, the court ended capital punishment for those who were minors at the time of the crime. And in 2008, the court did the same for child rapists.   None of this is based in constitutional interpretation. It’s all legislation from the bench.

 The Left has also waged war on lethal injection drug “cocktails,” similarly accusing the execution method of constituting a “cruel and unusual punishment.” Activists lost their first Supreme Court challenge in 2008. They narrowly lost again in the 2015 case that sparked Scalia’s ire, and in a similar case from 2019.

But where the activists have failed in the courts, they have succeeded elsewhere. Chemical companies have stopped manufacturing traditional lethal injection drugs. That’s why we have the current “cocktails,” and the corresponding litigation, that we do.

It’s all part of a concerted effort to end the death penalty — whether by judicial kill shot or by chemical fiat.  This is all absurd........

Observations From the Back Row

By Rich Kozlovich 

Well, another week has flown by and Power Line has published their weekly, "The Week In Pictures," edition.  As I've said in the past for some reason I can't copy and paste most of their pictures so here's my take on some of what they've presented, along with some observations of my own.  

Let's start out with these cartoons triggered by the account of Israeli passengers preventing a fanatical Muslim co-pilot from deliberately crashing the plane. 

1. Hostile Israeli Passengers Violently Assault Peaceful Co-pilot During a Routine Vertical Landing! 
2. Israelis Attack Muslim Pilot! 
3. The Scariest Sentence in the English Language "Hello, This is Your Pilot Mohammad Speaking," 
4. Co-Pilots Must Not Stab the Pilot. If you have a problem with the pilot, you do not have the right to stab him.  Stabbing the pilot is a serious crime. 

As a result of this airlines are offering a new premium seating option that allows you to sit next to Israelis for protection.  

 

The donkey has been the logo of the Democrat party since the 1828 election campaign of Andrew Jackson.    His opponents labeled him a jackass.   Well, modern democrats have refined that image to reflect their current views from supporting slavery to supporting what can only be described as cognitive dissonance.  

 

Democrats insist the Republican party is trying to destroy "our Democracy" by prevent voters in America's graveyards from voting.  How about these thoughts for the leftist mindset of double standards and cognitive dissonance?

1. If abortion is health care then ICE is a travel agency.    
2. Kristi Noem shot a dog that was killing her neighbor’s chickens and bit here and got wall to wall outrage.  
3. Lindsay Clancy strangled her three kids and got pink rallies plus a one million dollar gofundme.   

Britain is relieved to discover the van involved in the Fairford terror plot was filled with explosives instead of Israeli avocados, and protesters were on hand to insist these refugees were welcome.  The British government has issued an apology for whatever these nice Muslim men were doing.  After all, in spite of all those explosives in the van perhaps they were just going for a drive, and were stopped because they being racially profiled. 

 

Getting things right is important, but what happens when we fail in priorities?  We'll stop sports events to review a play over and over again to make sure the officials made the right call, and yet insist there's no needs to verify a "voter" is actually a citizen and who they say they are to vote for the highest officials in the land.  Does that seem like an issue with priorities to anyone besides me?  

 

We're seeing immigrants.... many of which are here illegally.......  who left their countries to come to America because their countries were social sewers.  Now they're waving the flags of their former countries protesting against any restrictions on immigration and demanding America stop deporting them to their original nations they left because they clearly must have hated it.  Now they're demanding we must be more tolerant, inclusive and open minded, working to turn America into the same kind of social sewers they left, so that it would be easier for America to be conquered.  What could go wrong?  

Readers, Please Pass This Editorial To All Your Friends

By I & I Editorial Board October 7, 2026 Add comment

By now it’s obvious that the Democrats and their communications team that is also known as the legacy media are going to use the last month before the midterm elections to push the idea that were in a slump and Republicans need to be thrown out of office because it’s Donald Trump’s economy.

• On Sept. 26, House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries claimed that “Republican policies have tanked the economy” and the American people are aware of it. “Time for dramatic change,” he added.
• In July, Jeffries claimed “far too many” Americans “can barely survive” because “people are drowning in this failed Trump economy.”
• That same month, a USA Today opinion piece declared that Trump “fears accountability” in regard to “affordability” and “looks very much like a man without a plan to improve the economy.”
• The Atlantic more recently told us that “affordability” is the “new word” that Trump hates.

Clearly the strategy is working. A few months ago, Axios insisted that Trump is trying “to sell an economy voters aren’t buying.” The Associated Press reported last week that “Most Americans blame Trump for high prices as his economic approval hits new low, AP-NORC poll shows.” Web searches are filled with links to stories about voters turning on Trump due to the economy.

Yet prices and economic struggles are almost without exception created by Democrats’ tax heavy and regulate hard policies. The air is filled with noxious lies from the left that travel across the country while the truth is smothered.

The Democratic Party-media complex of course has done this before — in 1992 when Bill Clinton centered his challenge to incumbent President George H.W. Bush on his claim that the economy leading up to the election was the worst “in 50 years.” As we said about three weeks ago, it was true that Bush’s term hit a rough patch that began in July 1990. The recession, though, “ended in March 1991,” according to the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Please read that again. The downturn ended in March 1991, and the economy began to grow again. Not March 1992. Nor March 1993. The economy was expanding when Clinton was calling it the worst in a half century, and the media merrily went along for the so obviously disingenuous “I feel your pain” ride to the White House.

The truth this time around shows that during Trump’s second term, with Republicans controlling both chambers of Congress, inflation “has been 2.9%, which is 41% below the 5% average under (Joe) Biden and 55% below the 6.5% average under Biden while Democrats controlled both the House and Senate,” according to Just Facts.

Meanwhile, real median household income “grew from $85,210 to $87,460 during the first year of Trump’s second term, or by 2.6%, which is 445% higher than the average annual growth rate of 0.5% under Biden,” and the poverty rate is the lowest ever recorded in our nation’s history.

Real median household income is also at the best mark in our history, says tech entrepreneur and futurist Rod Martin, who adds that “the Atlanta Fed estimates that the economy is growing at an incredible 5% annual rate. That’s after years of Democrats promising us that 1.6% was ‘the new normal.’ It’s also after barely more than a year and a half of Trump back in office.”

Martin further points out that child poverty is now at 13.4%, “the lowest official rate ever recorded,” Hispanic poverty has fallen to a record low of 13.9%, and “real weekly earnings for blue-collar manufacturing workers are up 4.1% since January 2025” while “construction workers’ earnings are up an even higher 5%.”

Fox host Laura Ingraham recently reported that in one year of the second Trump administration, personal income grew more than in the four years that Joe Biden zombied his way through his (thank God) single term. Economist Larry Kudlow called it “the greatest story never told.” That’s because the media don’t want it to be told. The press will do nearly anything to see Democrats elected, and that almost always includes shading the truth and letting the Democrats lie without challenge and without consequence.

Voters need to know. Please spread the word.

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2026 Election: Are the Polls Out of Whack?

By Rich Kozlovich

 Okay, let's start out with fact many pollsters have already concluded the House will go Democrat, with a 93% chance of taking control, and the Senate is a bit of a toss up, including Texas, with the Democrats running Talarico for the Senate.  I doubt that will happen in spite of previous claims he's ahead in the polls.  The man is strange and weird... and that's being kind... as I outline in my Talarico commentaries.  But what if the Democrats had run a candidate that didn't look so strange and weird?  

Texas' demographics has changing dramatically, and is continuing to change.  It has the largest Muslim population in the nation, which will most likely be a 100% Democrat vote. A huge Hispanic population, most of whom seem to vote Democrat, as they've turned most of the major cities over the Democrat party.  Then there's the masses of people from California who are moving there, and based on what these leftists did to Colorado when they moved there, Texas will turn blue soon. 

 The GOP is in a panic and pouring millions into contests that were once considered easy wins.  Even in Ohio where Republicans are running John Husted for the Senate against former senator Sherrod Brown running against him.  As bad as Brown lost his seat to solid conservative Bernie Moreno, he actually has a chance against Husted as there are legitimate corruption issues being thrown up about him and First Energy, along with Governor De Wine who appointed Husted to fill the seat vacated by now Vice President Vance.  

But Moreno wasn't the Republican party's pick.  They supported RINO's just like De Wine, and I would put Husted in that category.  Brown just might win, and if so, there just might be a shakeup in Ohio's Republican leadership.  

Pollster are so often wrong, and they're wrong because they're functionally dishonest, and I've not believed in polls for decades.  However, Frank Luntz doesn't think the Democrats will win, but I've always thought he was as reliable as Karl Rove with his idiotic chalk board predictions, not to mention the patently obvious fact the Republican is functionally dysfunctional, and their ability to snatch defeat out of the jaws of victory is legendary.  

One has to wonder what's wrong with their minds?  So many of them sound like Democrats on the economy.... and of course blaming Trump for inflation.  Yet the economy is something they should be embracing, and running on.  

1. Bond Market Under Trump ‘Best Performing in the World’
2. Bessent Explains America’s Unsung Start-Up Boom
3. Trumponomics triumphs in US jobs report — just in time for the midterms 
4. Trump Economic Advisor Christopher Phelan: Jobs Gains Under Trump Higher than 77 Bloomberg Economists’ Projections 
5.  Data Shows The Economy Is Clearly Running Hot 
6. Capital Spending Boom Lifts US Manufacturing Beyond AI 
7. Trump announces plans for largest steel plant in U.S. history to be built in Iowa 
8.  Federal workforce has shrunk by more than 336,000 bureaucrats since Trump took office 
9. Is The GOP Failing To Sell Trump’s Economic Gains? I&I/TIPP Po
10. Hamburger was more expensive under Obama. So was gasoline 
11. Bessent: Trump Outperforming Expectations from Skeptics Creating Hundreds of Thousands of Manufacturing Jobs
12. WH Economic Advisor Phelan: Trump Transforming U.S. into ‘Oil-Producing Superpower’
13.  Unemployment Rate Among Non-College Grads Reaches One of Lowest Points this Century
14. A Booming Economy: Who Cares? 

Why aren't the Republicans making the comparisons between Democrat and Republican economic outcomes?  Let's take a look at that great Democrat spending hero, LBJ and his Great Society programs:

We observe that trillions of dollars have been spent on myriad social causes, and yet…

• Poverty and malnutrition still exist
• Reading and writing skills have deteriorated, not improved
• Politicians earning $200K per year can have a net worth of $80 million or more
• Despite a virtually unlimited military budget, we have not won a war since 1945
• Untold thousands of NGOs and consultants have flourished on your tax dollars
• In the face of uncontrolled expenditure, America’s health is not great

SO…use your best inductive reasoning, and ask yourselves what we got for all these federal expenditures—based on your overtaxed dollars. That’s why DOGE’s forced day of reckoning scares so many corrupt insiders.

Why aren't the Republicans constantly highlighting all of this?  Why aren't the Republicans highlighting the corruption and rampant fraud .... massively rampant fraud.... being perpetrated in Democrat controlled states and cities?  

I think the answer to much of what I've presented here can be answered in this commentary, Americans Are Too Brain-Dead To Vote Smart — The GOP Is Too Spineless to Educate Them. 

Update:  

• American Voters Are So Ignorant, It’s Almost Funny - The latest national poll I collaborated on with Patrick Basham of the Democracy Institute (DI) should leave any serious person angry. Among 1,500 likely voters surveyed Sept. 21–23, 46 percent trust Democrats to better control inflation. Only 42 percent trust Republicans. Blame for high prices split 47 percent toward President Donald J. Trump, and 47 percent toward President Joe Biden. Asked whether Trump and Republicans have done their best on the economy, 51 percent said no and 44 percent said yes. If prices on everyday items plummeted, 53 percent said they would be more likely to vote Republican and 43 percent said no.  Those numbers are accurate, but absurd........ 
• The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps Just Endorsed Democrats in the Midterms - The Republicans should make this an ad and run it 24/7 from now until Election Day. The IRGC published a letter to American voters, urging them to vote against President Trump and Republicans in November............That letter really sounds like it could be a DNC memo, doesn't it? The IRGC also took a leaf from the Left's playbook and tried to spin the meaning of "Death to America.".......