Civil War 2 Would Be Very, Bad

I am seeing leftists on X claiming that the assassination attempt by Friendly Federal Assassin was another setup by the Secret Service to make Trump look like a victim (like the Mossad assassination of Charlie Kirk) and we should think about how the Spanish Civil War went.

The first part is insane. Trump had a bullet hole in his ear. At that distance, even a skilled sniper would have had no way to make a non-lethal shot like that. There is a picture one of the press got that shows a bullet was in the air. This was not a blood packet. (The idea that Mossad would kill an evangelical Christian makes that first seem almost believable.)

Yes. There are groups that need to look at the Spanish Civil War and think hard. The left keeps yelling Trump is a pedophile, a rapist, and Russian agent, makes emotionally unstable people go off the deep end. I am not thrilled at some of the reactions to this madness. "Better Franco than Stalin." 

The Left need to reduce their screaming to actual policy disputes not bizarre conspiracy theories. A successful assassination will take us one step closer to civil war. 

They will be nothing stirring or heroic about it. Cutting off blue city water, power, and food would be easy. In a couple weeks, savages will have worked their way into the sophisticated suburbs and they will not just be looting Whole Foods.

I have no question that Democrats will tell their pets to go and take what they want elsewhere. The bloodshed when they reach the rural borders will be awful. There will be trauma for the defenders. 

Overseas, America in civil war will lead to invasion of Taiwan, Western Europe and war between China and the Australian/Filipino/Japan alliance..

We really do not want to go there. We need to hope that Democrats just accept that welfare state looting exposed in Minnesota, California, and Seattle is over; some of them may need to get jobs.

Yes, Promoting False Claims Unhinges "Lone Wolves"

 4/26/26 CBS News:

The White House Correspondents' Dinner shooting suspect wrote a "manifesto" that stated he planned to target Trump administration officials, "prioritized from highest-ranking to lowest," according to a copy obtained by CBS News. 

Cole Allen, 31, wrote that law enforcement, hotel employees and guests weren't his intended targets Q2but that he would still attack them to get to the administration, adding: "I really hope it doesn't come to that."

As if going into an event secured by local police and Secret Service would not lead to this. It appears that his family were not crazy.

Law enforcement sources told CBS News that Allen's brother, alarmed by the email he and other family members received, called police in Connecticut to alert them Saturday night.

 Other accounts of his manifesto are pedophile claims about Trump, claims that the journalists who dropping them know are bogus but it is politics as usual for the left until they get their way 

The Proposed Change in Post Office Regulations on Mailing Handguns

The official request for comments is here.

My comment:.

To: PCFederalRegister pcfederalregister@usps.gov

Subject: Shipping Firearms

Please make this change. I am moving to Tennessee from Idaho later this year. I am going to fly there. Being able to mail my handguns to myself greatly simplifies the process. Common carriers require you to obtain the services of FFLs in both states as well as paying the common carrier. That the Mailing of Firearms Act (1927) was passed for the express purpose of disarming blacks just adds to its absurdity

Gunsmith Eastern Tennessee?

The move is complicating because of guns. I can theoretically mail long guns to myself at a new address in Tennessee. But if we sell here before buying there, that will not work. I can mail long guns to myself c/o of a third party. I can mail long guns to a gunsmith for repair. A gunsmith to whom I can mail them ("clean my guns") would solve the problem. Does anyone know a gunsmith in eastern Tennessee that they trust?

More Blue Corruption in Social Services

4/24/26 ZeroHedge:

U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) is facing fresh accusations after Republicans flagged her reported push to direct more than $1 million in federal taxpayer funds to a small Somali-led nonprofit whose listed project address matches a Minneapolis restaurant.

The nonprofit, Generation Hope MN, describes itself as providing addiction recovery services, peer support, job training, and mental health support for the East African community. The address tied to Omar’s earmark request - 326 Cedar Ave S / 411 Cedar Ave S - matches Sagal Restaurant and Coffee, a Somali eatery. Conservative investigator Angela Rose documented the site in a video, using Google Street View archives and on-site footage to show minimal or no clinic signage over years, with the building primarily operating as a restaurant. The owner has confirmed Generation Hope uses upstairs space in the multi-tenant property, but critics highlighted the optics amid Minnesota’s fraud history. ..

Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) and other Republicans flagged multiple concerns: the restaurant address, three directors listing the same residential home address in filings, and the organization’s limited demonstrated capacity for large-scale treatment services. House Republicans stripped the earmark from a FY2026 spending package in January 2026. GOP senators later requested a formal DOJ fraud investigation into Generation Hope MN.

I wonder hown much of that million plus was going into Rep. Omar's pocket.  4/18/26 New York Post:

 Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar blamed an accounting “discrepancy” for errors in a financial disclosure that listed her net worth at up to $30 million – while doubling down that she is not a millionaire, a report said. 

She says it is more like $95,000. I have a pretty clear picture of my net wealth. I would never accidentally misstate my net wealth as $50 million.

Yes, Racism Remains a Problem in Some Parts of America

 4/23/26 The College Fix:

A petition launched by a freshman at Harvard University argues that campus leaders’ efforts to reform grade inflation at the Ivy League institution is racist.

The lobbying comes as a Harvard faculty consider capping the number of A grades they give out in each class. That proposal came after a report published last fall found that 60 percent of all undergraduate grades are now As.

The petition calls on Harvard to reject the proposed reforms, arguing they are “flawed” and “racially harmful in effect.”

“We center racism as a core concern, contending that although the policy is framed as neutral ‘differentiation,’ it functions as a system of ranking and sorting that mirrors and reinforces existing racial and socioeconomic hierarchies,” the petition states.

Yes, this guy is arguing that BiPOCs can't make it without grade inflation. In 1955, you could find Americans who believed that blacks lacked the intelligence to compete with whites. In the 19th century, even many abolitionists supported returning blacks to Africa (one that most had never seen) because they were thought unlikely to be able to compete on equal basis with whites.

Now, if this student wanted to argue that kids coming from poverty were going to have trouble competing, that might be an interesting argument, but not every BiPOC is coming from poverty and there are white Harvard students who also come from poverty and underprivileged backgrounds.  (At least I hope so; there are plenty of J.D. Vances out there.) But no, this/student is playing the white supremacist tune, saying every black is inferior.

Some People Are Painfully Tone-Deaf

4/23/26 Daily Caller:

A Virginia state senator told colleagues he understands rural America because he grew up watching “The Dukes of Hazzard.”

Democratic state Sen. Lamont Bagby made the claim during a floor debate on the state’s gerrymandering amendment, according to video posted by WJLA reporter Nick Minock. Bagby pushed back on Republicans who argued Democrats have no grasp of rural life.

“I grew up watching the Waltons. I grew up with Opie. I even watched the Dukes of Hazzard. I think I know a little bit about rural America,” Bagby said, apparently referencing “The Waltons” and “The Andy Griffith Show” alongside the hit CBS series. He then rattled off characters from urban-set sitcoms to argue he fights for all Virginians. “I’m not just here for Theo. I’m not just here for Arnold or Willis. I’m here for Opie, John Boy. Blossom, Topanga.”