THE SECWAR WE NEED:
Ship captain who traveled with Pete Hegseth here.
When we toured the nation’s next supercarrier together and sat down to lunch with the crew, every eye in the room tracked Pete.
It wasn’t electric. It wasn’t rhetoric. It was reciprocity.
Everyone from the seaman recruits to… https://t.co/WJmoUJL8PC
— John Ʌ Konrad V (@johnkonrad) April 27, 2026
I CAN SEND A MESSAGE TO NEWSOM IN JUST TWO WORDS: Gas station owner speaks for every Californian with four-word message to Gavin Newsom — as another hike looms.
“Adding insult to injury,” Dave Bohorquez, a local gas station owner told ABC 10. “We are just holding on, hoping to ride through it.”
The comment points to a looming July 1 hike in California’s gas tax — an annual increase tied to inflation — set to hit drivers already paying among the highest prices in the country.
Across California, gas prices hovered around $5.93 a gallon Sunday morning — well above the national average of $4.09 — even after a temporary easing of global oil tensions tied to Iran.
Gooder and harder, California.
I’D LOVE TO SAY HE’S JUST BEING PARANOID, BUT…:
The biggest problem to prosecuting Cole Alan isn’t the evidence, it’s the fact that the DC jury pool would agree with his manifesto
They’d just be upset he failed
— Jack Posobiec (@JackPosobiec) April 27, 2026
MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: No Conspiracy Required. “They just amp up the rhetorical pressure, 24/7/365, until somebody pops.”
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REMEMBER, WHEN DEMS SAY “MY DEMOCRACY,” THEY REALLY MEAN “OUR MOB VIOLENCE”:
The whole point of taking a vote and having an election is to prevent violence. Leftists are sore losers who have decided they will reject any outcome and escalate to violence if they cannot rig the process in their favor. https://t.co/7zkOE8c38x
— Fugitive Caesar (@ThomBrady5) April 27, 2026
OUT WHERE THE BUSSES DON’T RUN:
Former Fox News anchor and current Fox News contributor Brit Hume concisely nails the condition of the Democratic Party in comments compiled by Michael Rothman on X: “The Democratic Party has drifted farther to the left than I’ve ever seen. They are out where the buses don’t run.”
“Conservatives tend to be proud to be Americans, no matter who is in office. But liberals in this country have gone sour on America. They’ve given up on America. They’re rooting against America.”
“Out Where the Busses Don’t Run” was the title of one of Miami Vice’s best second season episodes. Network TV has gone far downhill in the decades since: Kimmel Mocks Melania’s ‘Glow Like an Expectant Widow’ in Fake WHCD Roast – Just Days Before Real Shooting.
If Greg Gutfeld "joked" about Barak Obama being assassinated with Michelle in the audience…. https://t.co/npy0EuKNdZ
— John Ondrasik (@johnondrasik) April 27, 2026
UPDATE: Melania Trump breaks silence on ‘coward’ Jimmy Kimmel’s ‘hateful and violent’ skit and calls on ABC to fire him. “‘People like Kimmel shouldn’t have the opportunity to enter our homes each evening to spread hate,’ she continued. ‘A coward, Kimmel hides behind ABC because he knows the network will keep running cover to protect him. Enough is enough. It is time for ABC to take a stand. How many times will ABC’s leadership enable Kimmel’s atrocious behavior at the expense of our community,’ Melania concluded.”
WHAT A GUY: Trump dodges another gunman, unbowed but grounded: ‘Not going to deter me.’
First he wanted to return to the White House Correspondents’ Dinner before it was canceled, hoping to send a signal to a nation gripped by political vitriol and shaken by recent assassinations — from Charlie Kirk to Minnesota legislators – that “sick people” cannot “change the fabric” of the United States.
Then he quickly posted on social media a photo of the gunman – a 31-year-old from California armed with a shotgun, a handgun and knives. The image showed him handcuffed and stripped to his waist after his attack was foiled. There was no accident in the message: a failed shooter laid prostate, face-down and now harmless on the ground.
“This thug that attacked our Constitution, they seem to think he was a lone wolf, and I feel that too” Trump said. “My impression is he was a lone wolf, whack job. … These are crazy people, and they have to be dealt with.”
Three whack jobs in less than two years gives the impression that whack jobs are mainstream.
INTELLECTUAL TOXIC WASTE: The ripple effect of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s ‘paying sources to stoke racial hatred.’
FRAUD ALL THE WAY DOWN:
New homeless shelters are sprouting up all across New York City
“We're finding that it nearly $10,000 per unit, per month.”
Shelters are being discovered being paid the full amount regardless of if the beds are being used
“This is the 15th homeless shelter in Greenwood… pic.twitter.com/jSznnCaiq1
— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) April 25, 2026
AND DEMS ARE ALL-IN:
China's military strategy to defeat America is based around encouraging Democrats to deindustrialize America, regulate AI, handcuff the American military with rules of engagement, and cripple young white men with DEI racial discrimination. https://t.co/UkBBwBI1gT
— Fugitive Caesar (@ThomBrady5) April 27, 2026
SPACE: SpaceX launching powerful Falcon Heavy rocket for 1st time in 18 months on April 27. “A Falcon Heavy topped with the huge ViaSat-3 F3 communications satellite will launch from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Monday (April 27), during an 85-minute window that opens at 10:21 a.m. EDT (1421 GMT).”
HE IS THE VERY MODEL OF A MODERN-DAY DEM:
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Leftist Lunatics and Gun—Free Zones Are a Dangerous Combo. “No one on the left is going to stop with the smears and the violence-inducing rhetoric about President Trump. The Secret Service does a great job but I still have my suspicions about some of the Swamp people and whether they have the president’s safety prioritized highly enough, especially higher up the food chain.”
NEVER MIND THAT WE HAVE THE LOWEST VIOLENT CRIME RATE IN A CENTURY: Media Finger America’s ‘Gun Culture’ In Apportioning Blame for Latest Assassination Attempt.
The problem is leftist violence culture. We should probably subject that to strict controls.
NOT A BAD IDEA: Secret Service ‘needs to reconsider’ Trump-Vance joint appearances after WHCA gala shooting.
Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas) said Sunday that the Secret Service should “reconsider” whether President Trump and Vice President Vance attend the same events in the wake of Saturday’s shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) dinner.
“The takeaway I got was that the line of succession,” McCaul, who attended the Washington event, told host Dana Bash on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
“You had the president and the vice president at the head table, both of them together, and [House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La)]. Had an explosive device gone off, you would have knocked out the president, vice president, Speaker. The three in line of succession,” the Texas Republican noted.
When Bash asked McCaul whether he was saying that those three should not be in public together, he replied, “I think the Secret Service needs to reconsider having both the president and vice president together.”
Related:
We changed hotels at the last minute yesterday, and booked a room at the Hilton at 3p.
I was never asked for a key, but could’ve produced one from a different city. Also never asked for ID, and waltzed through the lobby and lower ballroom areas like I owned the place.
Only saw… https://t.co/AsyWZtL0NH
— Kennedy (@KennedyNation) April 26, 2026
An even better idea would be if the Secret Service tightened the damn perimeter.
THIS:
Nailed it:
"The Democratic Party has created monsters among them. Democrats need to come to terms with what they have produced…
"The right has its own version of this derangement effect, not to diminish this being a problem on both sides. But while the right’s problem is in… https://t.co/21u7hVXrjk
— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) April 27, 2026
MUCH APPRECIATED: Again, Fetterman Breaks Ranks After the Third Attempt on Trump’s Life.
ICYMI: A LAWYER READER MESSAGES: “I have not seen any updates from Lucas or anyone else on your blog, but the for your benefit, the Supreme Court of Virginia is going to hear argument on the redistricting fight Monday, April 27th, this coming Monday at 9AM. There is a link on the Supreme court of Virginia’s web page. Thanks.”
The link for the oral argument is here.
WHEN THEY TELL YOU WHO THEY ARE…:
Making light of another assassination attempt on a President by our local Democrat Party is as disgraceful as it is unsurprising.
This is exactly the kind of rhetoric that contributes to a climate where these attacks continue to happen, and frankly, it’s why my staff and I take… pic.twitter.com/ZvpIVW0inx
— Congressman Greg Steube (@RepGregSteube) April 26, 2026
…believe them.
SUZY WEISS: My Takeaway from the WHCD? Dudes Rock.
When I got up soon after, I was shuffled to the front of the room to get to my sister, Bari, by a security guard who cleared a path for me through the confusion. Everyone was reeling, but the men were also another thing: They were activated. And I’m not talking here about the obvious heroes of the evening: the law enforcement professionals, and the Secret Service, one of whom was shot by the would-be assassin as he leaped toward the gunshots. Others, with guns at the ready, hustled officials out of the room. They acted nobly. But they weren’t the only ones.
The lobbyist David Urban was nearly glowing, telling us how he went to West Point, served in the 101st, and that he simply wasn’t about to let anything bad happen to us. I believed him. (And so did Bari, who was shielded by him at the front of the room like I was by Elliot in the back.)
Aaron MacLean—who was caught on camera during the pandemonium looking about as shaken as a person who really couldn’t decide if they wanted chicken or fish—was talking protocols, perimeters, and numbers with ease. How many seconds did it take for security to get Trump out of the building and to The Beast, the presidential limo? How many yards away was the shooter from the doors, and how long will it take to figure out what exactly happened?
Many of the men had hands on hips, surveying the room and counting tables, doors, and exits, nodding along to a distinctly male tune. Behind their eyes, you could glimpse the multiplication of tables by people per table, division by minutes, then seconds, accounting for escalator bottlenecks. MacLean was a Marine, and among many veterans in the room for whom, it seemed, a primal stopwatch had been started the second they saw, literally, that the big guns had come out. Immediately, they became situationally aware.
That’s the “toxic masculinity” the left keeps trying to suppress.
It’s a good piece from Weiss, and well worth giving up my email address to read the whole thing.
Related thoughts here from Sarah Anderson.
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