On Saturday evening, an assailant breached a security checkpoint near the White House Correspondents Dinner and shot a Secret Service agent. The agent, whose vest caught the bullet, is doing well.
The president and first lady were evacuated safely and the shooter was apprehended.
We all know that if the president had been a Democrat, the leftists would be screaming for gun control.
Instead, they’re mourning the fact that the shooter only managed to wound a Secret Service agent.
Minocqua Brewing in Madison, Wisconsin, has been promising “free beer all day” the moment someone kills President Trump. The owner of this brewery, Kirk Bangstad, is running for state office as a Democrat. He sells t-shirts and hoodies saying, “I wish it was free beer day at Minocqua Brewing Company,” “FDT,” “Abolish ICE,” and “Do your part. Punch a NAZI in the face.”
Vincent Hawkins, an ER nurse and anti-ICE organizer, is organizing a GoFundMe account for the shooter. “I’m sure it’ll hit $10 million.”
DAILY PRAYER: Dear Lord, May your kingdom come over the whole world under the staff of the Good Shepherd, Jesus Christ. Amen. Alleluia.
AMERICAN HISTORY: On April 26, 1933, Carol Burnett was born in San Antonio, Texas.
CATHOLIC: [6:31] – This is worth your time and prayerful reflection.
EVERYDAY HEROES: In April 2018, a man was threatening to jump from an overpass onto the I-696 freeway in Detroit. Michigan State Police contacted nearby truck drivers via dispatch. Thirteen semi-truck drivers responded, parking their rigs side by side beneath the bridge. The truckers stayed in position for hours while negotiators talked to the man, who eventually allowed himself to be taken to a hospital for help.
FBI: On Monday, Cuba deported Eri “Rose” Ethington (42) and his/”her” lover, Carly Ann “Blue” Crosby (32), both of Cache County, Utah. Upon landing in the United States, the FBI transported them to Richmond, Virginia, for arraignment. The remainder of their case will be handled in Salt Lake City. The two have been charged with International Parental Kidnapping for stealing Ethington’s 10-year-old son from his custodial parent and taking him to Havana to have his boy parts removed.
IRAN: [12:05] – Updates on the Strait of Hormuz and other war news.
LIFE: Nearly four years ago, the Biden FBI sent an armed goon squad to arrest Catholic pro-life activist Mark Houck in front of his wife and seven children. He was acquitted and this week won a settlement of more than $1 million from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). Sadly, We The People will be paying that bill. The people actually responsible will have to wait for eternal judgment to face any consequences.
SEAN OF THE SOUTH: Sean Dietrich reminds me of Garrison Keillor and Bailey White. Grok says that most of the short stories he posts at “Sean of the South” are “true or very closely based on true events and real people.” I hope you’ll click on the link below and find out how “Which Color Do You Want?” ends.
SHEEPLE: CLICK https://x.com/VladTheInflator/status/2047693369032470773 [1:02] to hear Kaitlin Bennett gently explain to a student activist how he is being a hypocrite. I once had a VERY sincere young woman ask for my signature on a climate action petition. I kindly gave her a few facts and suggested she should find out what the other side is saying before promoting a cause. She teared up and speed walked off my property.
SPLC: [16:07] – Federal filings show the Obama Foundation gave the Soros-connected Tides Foundation $1 million in 2022 and 2023 each. According to the NY Post, this money was donated to the Obama Foundation to build the Obama Presidential Center. Instead it was funneled via Tides to the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), which used some of it to finance white supremacist groups. The SPLC then used the existence of these groups to raise funds to help them in their “fight” against racial hatred and violence.
@Smatterchuboy commented, “There are so many things JD Vance can be thankful for in his life. You’ve just pointed out another one.”
@StillHere1976 commented, “Yeah, a guy who overcame coming from a very humble background, serves in the U.S. Marine Corps, honorably, went on to get a law degree from Yale, went on to successes in that field, then became a U.S. Senator, now VP of the U.S.? What a nightmare!“
For the record, Usha Vance is a first generation American of Telugu Indian immigrant parents. She was graduated with a B.A. (History) from Yale University and with a J.D. from Yale Law School. Before joining a law firm, she served as a law clerk for several senior federal judges, including Chief Justice John Roberts. Her husband calls her one of the smartest people he has ever known. I think it’s obvious in the photo above how she feels about him.
VIRGINIA: CLICK https://x.com/NickMinock/status/2047349930478522849/video/1 [1:06] to hear Democratic state Sen. Lamont Bagby say that conservative Virginians shouldn’t worry that Democrats like him can’t understand rural America because, “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.”
DAILY PRAYER: Unending praise be to You, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit! Amen! Alleluia!
AMERICAN HISTORY: On April 25, 1959, the St. Lawrence Seaway opened, connecting the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean. The first proposals for a deep waterway linking the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes were considered in the 1890s. It took more than a half-century to turn the ideas into reality with construction being nearly as ambitious as the Panama Canal project.
DEMOCRATS: Iran’s political, religious, and military leadership are all dead, their navy, air force, and missile launchers are toast, and they’ve lost control of the Strait of Hormuz. Only in fevered Democrat brains like Hakeem Jeffries’ does this add up to “a stronger position” than before.
EDUCATION: I had trouble with 7×8= and 8×8=, so borrowed the flash cards. I remember sitting in bed, flipping between them, saying “56, 64, 56, 64” over and over. To this day, when I encounter 8×8=, I do “56, 64” in my head. LOL
HYPOCRITES: I asked Grok for sex jokes these three have told about Trump. There were a lot, most of them too gross to repeat on this venue.
Jimmy Kimmel: “The president didn’t want me to tell any jokes about him tonight, but he also didn’t want to pay me $130,000 to shut up. So, here we are. Sorry, mushroom d**k.”
Jimmy Fallon: “In her testimony, Stormy talked about seeing Trump in his satin pajamas, spanking him with a magazine, and having unprotected sex.” He paused, then added with a wince: “Yep, Stormy said they had unprotected sex. Trump was like, ‘The hush money was supposed to be my protection.’”
Stephen Colbert: Frequently joked about Trump dozing in court during salacious testimony and punned on the trial being in “the city that never sleeps… with Stormy Daniels.”
I then asked Grok for jokes any of these three have told about Eric Swalwell’s sexual activities.
“Here’s a straightforward answer on jokes from Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, or Jimmy Kimmel about Eric Swalwell’s alleged sexual activities. There are essentially none that have been publicly documented or aired on their shows.”
MAINE: Platner is leading the US Senate race in Maine, meaning that the same Democrats who were horrified by Pete Hegseth’s “Nazi” tattoos and Elon Musk’s “Nazi” salute are totally unconcerned by Graham Platner’s ink and gesture.
MEDIA: CLICK https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/2047708403795955942 [:51] to hear the pathetic decision of jerknalists over Trump’s decision to finally, for the first time, attend the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. It’s not like we needed any more evidence of their rampant bias, but here it is.
MILITARY: CLICK https://x.com/REVWUTRUTH/status/2047661796396302626 [:50] to hear SecDef Hegseth answer “a very TMZ question.” My response is this: THANK YOU! My brother got sent to a war we weren’t 100% committed to winning. My kids got sent to wars that everybody now says were “stupid.” I still have two kids in uniform. It gives me tremendous comfort knowing Trump and Hegseth are in charge.
MYTH BUSTER: The political party switch myth refers to the misconception that the Democratic and Republican parties switched ideologies in the mid-20th century, particularly regarding race and civil rights. The Republican Party was founded specifically to end slavery, which was supported by the Democratic Party. Democrats started the Civil War, established the Ku Klux Klan, and opposed the Civil Rights Movement. Modern-day liberals like to claim the parties somehow switched places on these issues in the 1960s. What really happened is that racist Democrats changed their strategies for suppressing and controlling black participation in our political and economic systems.
S&G: From June 1 through June 4, Israel will host Israel will host the biggest LGBTQ festival the Middle East has ever seen. Organizers plan to convert the area into a temporary city with 15 hotels, beach venues, a central performance stage and nonstop programming. The venue? The Dead Sea, where Sodom and Gomorrah used to be.
STUPID PEOPLE: If her vagina is making noises, she probably has a yeast infection and should see a doctor.
TRUMP: CLICK https://x.com/GuntherEagleman/status/2047397605974720615 [3:11] to hear him explain how much $$ he saved We The People $298 million. Government bureaucrats wanted $300 million and 3+ years to rip up the famous reflecting pool. Trump said hell no. He called in pool experts and had them scrub, seal, and seal it. Total cost: $2 million. Not gonna hold my breath waiting on the legacy media to report this.
GRAMMY NOTES: I am really enjoying having adult offspring. In a recent group family email, one of our dear daughters offered her sister the following advice. “Take a day to war game what those options might look like and develop some courses of action to consider. Weigh pros and cons. Walk through the possibilities now and really lay out – if this, then that. Might make a future decision (if needed) easier to make.” Such a smart girl we raised! :-)<3
DAILY PRAYER: Grant us Your peace to the eternal glory of Your name. Amen.
AMERICAN HISTORY: On April 24, 1990, Space Shuttle Discovery blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, carrying the $1.5 billion Hubble Space Telescope.
BUDGET: [16:43] – Update on the second Schumer Shutdown.
FAFO: A night in jail for assaulting a federal officer? Check. Fired? As one commenter noted, “If she were at work, then she probably had a Walmart vest on and was, therefore, representing Walmart.” So, also check.
HHS: Sec. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. had to answer dumb questions from low IQ Democrat senators.
IRAN: [10:29] – On April 22, Iranian forces fired on two commercial vessels near the Strait of Hormuz. One ship was damaged, but no crew members were harmed. They and a third ship may have been seized by the IRGC. Trump said he did not view the incidents as a violation of the current ceasefire, because the vessels did not belong to the United States or Israel.
MEDIA: Why does the media always ask Ivanka Trump about the way her father treats women, but they never ask Chelsea Clinton the same question?
STUPID PEOPLE: CLICK https://x.com/NickFondacaro/status/2046975390128697679 [1:01] to hear Sunny Hostin (The View) say the war in Iran “is estimated to have already cost us $50 billion. $50 billion, which is more money than this country has spent since World War II.” To date, we have spent roughly $188 billion on the war in Ukraine.
CLICK https://x.com/Jamesjonesik8/status/2047303168145723503 [2:17] to hear Jessica Tarlov (Fox) insist that RFK Jr. is denying people access to the COVID jab. She’s wrong. It’s available at major pharmacies like CVS, Walgreens, and others, as well as clinics and some doctor’s offices. In most states, no prescription is required.
VIRGINIA: [14:31] – Dr. Steve talks about the redistricting war and where he sees them going. Spoiler Alert: It’s beautiful!
GRAMMY NOTES: One of my precious offspring wrote this to me yesterday. “It has been so hard for me to raise children so far away from [home]. Every little holiday, every school activity, there is a small part of me missing from the joy – right where I wish my parents could be enjoying their grandbabies.” I need a tissue.
On April 1, Dearest went to the post office to mail our grandson his birthday present. I had pre-printed the label; he went to the desk to fill out the customs form and get it weighed. As of today, the package still had not arrived at its destination in Europe, so I logged into the USPS to check the tracking history. I’m thinking we should’ve waited until April 2 to mail it!
Local Post Office in Central NY:
Arrived April 1 @ 4:02 pm
Departed April 2 @ 7:41 am
Northwestern Regional Facility in Rochester, New York:
Arrived April 2 @ 7:57 pm
Departed April 3 @ 12:41 am
USPS Facility, Rochester NY:
Arrived April 3 @ 12:55 am
Departed April 4 @ 7:43 am
International Distribution Center in Chicago IL:
Departed April 4 @ 7:43 am (same moment it departed Rochester)
Arrived April 4 @ 7:43 am (same moment again)
Departed April 5 @ 6:49 pm
Departed April 6 @ 3:40 pm
Departed April 7 @ 2:00 am (some people just can’t leave a party)
Network Distribution Center in Warrendale PA:
Arrived April 7 @ 1:18 pm (two minutes before departing Chicago?)
Departed April 8 @ 5:00 am
International Distribution Center in Chicago IL:
Arrived April 8 @ 12:50 pm
Departed April 9 @ 8:20 am
Arrived April 9 @ 8:21 am
Departed April 9 @ 8:21 am (could you people try and hit the right buttons?!)
Departed April 9 @ 8:40 pm
Departed April 13 @ 1:12 am
Departed April 13 @ 6:12 pm
Departed April 14 @ 7:13 am (arrived twice, departed six times?!)
Avondale, AZ 85323:
Arrived April 16 @ 7:28 pm
Departed April 16 @ 7:53 pm
This package is supposed to be going to Europe! How did it end up in ARIZONA?!
Phoenix AZ Distribution Center:
Arrived April 16 @ 11:02 pm
In Transit to Next Facility @ April 18, 2026
Syracuse NY Distribution Center:
Arrived April 19 @ 12:22 pm
Northwestern Regional Facility in Rochester, New York:
Arrived April 20 @ 11:57 am
Processing Exception: April 20 @ 3:17 pm
Syracuse NY Distribution Center:
Departed April 22 @ 12:54 pm
Northwestern Regional Facility in Rochester, New York:
Processing Exception: April 22 @ 1:28 pm
Departed April 23 @ 2:50 am
Syracuse NY Distribution Center:
Arrived April 23 @ 4:44 am
Twenty-two days to go nowhere … sigh.
I called the local PO and she said she’d try to “get a picture of it and give you a buzz back.” ::sigh:: I’d be less dismayed if I’d just bought him something I could easily replace, but the fact is that I spent a lot of hours making his gift. Also, his birthday was on the tenth. :-(““
LATER: PO lady called back quite quickly and reported that somebody managed to lose the customs form, so the package is coming back here. “It should be delivered to your house in a couple of days.” Oh goodie! So we get to start all over again!
DAILY PRAYER: Dear Lord, Strengthen us in our faith and teach us to pray. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.
AMERICAN HISTORY: On April 23, 1635, Boston Latin School opened its door. Puritan colonists particularly wanted their children to be able to read and understand the Bible, so the curriculum centered on religion, Latin, and classic literature. Harvard University was founded the year after Boston Latin, in part so that “Boston Latin’s graduates would have somewhere to go.” Five of the men who signed the Declaration of Independence attended Boston Latin, which 390 years later is still in operation.
EVERYDAY HEROES: In 1943, during a mission over Burma during World War II, the crew of a B-24 had to bail out and deploy their chutes. Several Japanese pilots circled back to strafe the parachuting airmen. Baggett played dead as a fighter approached, then, when the Japanese pilot slowed down and opened his canopy to inspect him, he shot and killed him. After landing, Baggett was captured and spent two years as a prisoner of war before being liberated in 1945.
LEBANON: IDF soldiers fighting Hezbollah in southern Lebanon decided to destroy the corpus on a large outdoor crucifix belonging to Lebanese Christians in the town of Debel. One did the damage, a second filmed it, and six others stood by. Their superiors have publicly apologized, punished the soldiers, and replaced the crucifix with a better one .
CLICK https://x.com/AFpost/status/2045971171410370852 to see a video being circulated in regard to the recent incident, but it’s obviously not the same crucifix. Commenters say this one was destroyed by Muslims in Lebanon on Christmas.
SPLC: [10:30] – A grand jury has indicted the far-left Southern Poverty Law Center for paying fascists and racists to do bad things to fuel their fund-raising propaganda regarding right-wing extremism. IOW, actual white supremacist groups were in such short supply that lefties had to fund their own.
VIRGINIA: A new congressional map would give Democrats control of all but one district. A day after the deceptively worded referendum passed, a judge ruled it unconstitutional. Spanberger’s administration is filing an appeal.
This is the very definition of “democracy”, a form of government in which even a slim majority can totally disenfranchise the minority. This is precisely why our Founding Fathers established a “constitutional republic”,not a “democracy.”
DAILY PRAYER: Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with you. Blessed are you among women and blessed is the fruit of your womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen.
AMERICAN HISTORY: On April 22, 1878, the White House hosted its first official Easter Egg Roll.
CALIFORNICATION: On April 15, the California Supreme Court disbarred attorney John Eastman. The California State Bar claims Eastman, who represented Donald Trump on several legal challenges related to the 2020 election, knowingly peddled unlawful strategies to overturn a legitimate election. Eastman plans to seek review by the U.S. Supreme Court.
CATHOLIC: The Catholic Just War Theory is a doctrine that outlines the conditions under which war can be morally justified. It requires that the damage inflicted by the aggressor must be lasting and grave, all other means of resolution must be impractical, there must be serious prospects of success, and the use of arms must not produce greater evils than those being eliminated.
ISLAMISM: On the evening of August 19, 1978, four Shiite Islamist militants entered the Cinema Rex in Abadan, Iran, doused the structure, lobby and exits with flammable liquid, exited, barred the doors, then set the building on fire. Between 377 and 470 people burned to death for the “crime” of watching a movie. Several of the perpetrators, who had been allied with the revolutionaries who would take over Iran the following year, went on to become members of the post-revolution Iranian parliament.
LEO vs DONALD: There is a long, but worth it article at the link below presenting the (Catholic) author’s conclusion that the feud was nothing more nor less than a Democrat psyop. “The pope didn’t say any of it, not in the context of Trump and Iran.”
CLICK https://x.com/RNCResearch/status/2046259095166996721 [:58] to hear Sarah Trone Garriott, a Lutheran minister and Democrat running for Congress in Iowa’s 3rd District, describe the wedding she officiated for a couple of Satanists.
DELAWARE: For over a century, Delaware has been the preferred home for corporations, but that has changed under Deep Blue Democrat rule. More than 60 public companies have moved or are fleeing Delaware for more business-friendly states such as Texas, Florida, and Nevada.
HEALTH: On April 18, President Donald Trump signed an executive order that removes legal impediments preventing American researchers, scientists, physicians, and clinicians from properly studying the benefits of psychedelic drugs on mental illness.
SPIRITUAL WARFARE: Andrew Klavan writes, “Pacifism, if it is not suicidal, is just straight up wicked. It simply shunts the moral responsibility of waging war onto another man’s shoulders.” Click the link to read the rest of “Talking Nonsense in the Name of God.” It’s worth your time.
CATHOLIC: [4:14] – Grok reports that the most common pronunciation for “ex cathedra” is eks kuh-THEE-druh, though some Americans go with eks KATH-i-druh. Rarely, some may use the pure classical Latin pronunciation (eks ka-TAY-drah).
CIVILIZATIONAL COSMOCRACY: [14:29] – It’s well worth your time to listen carefully to understand what “CIVCOSM” means and how it coheres all of Trump’s foreign policies.
CLIMATE: When the Mascots were here, they visited the Museum of the Earth. I’m going through the photos and noticed this one. Have any of they global warming alarmists heard that “We Still Live In The Ice Age”?
OTTERS: CLICK https://x.com/awkwardgoogle/status/2045567264208937326 [:32] to watch otters get ice cubes for picking up their toys. After watching this, I asked Grok, “Do otters like ice cubes?” Grok informed me that otters enjoy tossing, sliding, wrestling, hoarding, or chasing ice cubes, which helps keep them mentally and physically stimulated. Eating ice also helps hydrate them. Zookeepers often freeze treats, like fish or crab, inside the cubes, because chewing ice helps scrape plaque off their teeth and keeps their gums healthy. Naturally, I had to got to YouTube and google “otters ice.” Lots of hits. I posted only one.
STUPID PEOPLE: “Trump is the reason gas isn’t 24 cents a gallon like it was before 1973.” When will this reign of terror end?!
GRAMMY NOTES: Actually, the point of the lid and base rugs are there for the women who approach toilets backwards and clean the bathroom floor. The lid rug forces the lid back down. The base rug catches man-pee before it ruins the floor.
DAILY PRAYER: Dear Lord, Help us to follow the Savior with a right spirit and with true understanding. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.
AMERICAN HISTORY: On April 19, 1775, American colonists battled British troops at Lexington and Concord. These were the first military actions of the Revolutionary War.
CALIFORNICATION: In a move to demonstrate their commitment to tolerance and transparency, the California Assembly’s Judiciary Committee just voted 11-2 to make investigative journalism illegal. The bill specifically protects “immigrant service centers” like fake Somali daycares or Los Angeles hospice centers from legitimate journalists by classifying them as “harassers.”
CATHOLIC: “Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. For example, if a Catholic were to be at odds with the Holy Father on the application of capital punishment or on the decision to wage war, he would not for that reason be considered unworthy to present himself to receive Holy Communion. While the Church exhorts civil authorities to seek peace, not war, and to exercise discretion and mercy in imposing punishment on criminals, it may still be permissible to take up arms to repel an aggressor or to have recourse to capital punishment. There may be a legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not however with regard to abortion and euthanasia.” — Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (later Pope Benedict XVI), emphasis mine
CHICOMS: A Hong Kong court has handed down a one-year prison sentence to a Falun Gong practitioner who criticized the Chinese communist regime’s forced organ harvesting on social media.
FRAUD: A federal watchdog estimates that, from fiscal years 2018 through 2022, the government lost between $233 billion and $521 billion annually to fraud. That’s half a trillion dollars! Every freakin’ year!
Programs that provided the easiest access for thieves have been COVID relief and social programs that provide food, housing, and health care.
EYE ROLL: Last year, Rep. Ilhan Omar filed documents with Congress saying she was worth between $6 million and $30 million. Now that her sudden rise in assets has triggered an investigation, she is claiming it was just an accounting error. Her “real” worth is actually less than $100,000.
Translation: Please stop looking into Ilhan’s finances, because she’s definitely not at all tied to the rampant Somali fraud in Minnesota.
Also: Get a forensic accountant on this thing and find out where she hid the big bucks.
IRAN: CLICK https://x.com/AndrewKolvet/status/2044851662398083129 [:23] to hear Trump’s reply when a reporter asked, “Iran is going to execute four more protesters, including the first woman protester. What do you tell Iran?”
Iranian authorities have sentenced four protesters to death in connection with the January 2026 anti-government protests. They are Bita Hemmati (female), Mohammadreza Majidi-Asl (her husband), Behrouz Zamaninejad, and Kourosh Zamaninejad.
NEWSCUM: Gavin Newsom used $1,561,875 in donations to his campaign PAC to purchase tens of thousands of copies of his new book, “Young Man in a Hurry: A Memoir of Discovery.” The book purchase was by far the biggest expenditure for his federal PAC in the first quarter of 2026. They also accounted for two-thirds of the book’s total print sales.
POPE LEO IV: After Islamic Moors sacked St. Peter’s Basilica in 846, Pope Leo IV had stout walls builr around the Vatican to protect it from further assaults.
Jesus Enrique Rosas notes that Pope Leo XIV now “sits comfortably sipping tea behind those same medieval walls … telling the rest of the West to be ‘less fearful; of Islam. That those who push back against messages like this are simply talking from a bigoted view of immigration, and aren’t true Christians. … If the walls are good enough for the Pope, why aren’t they allowed for everyone else?”
POPE LEO XIV: If this were true, St. Catherine of Siena wouldn’t be a revered Doctor of the Church. In case you are unfamiliar with her story, Catherine famously criticized Pope Gregory XI for years about living in Avignon, France, nagging him repeatedly to return the papal offices to Rome, which he did in January 1377.
TOLERANCE: A pro-LGBT group based in Provo, UT, had a fundraiser at a location about 20 minutes from where Charlie Kirk was assassinated less than a year ago. The images above are from the products they were offering for sale.
GRAMMY NOTES: I just want to take a moment to show off how gorgeous our forsythia bush is this year!
SHORTS:
CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Ws9CJW-cFLw [2:25] to hear from the Best Neighbors Ever (except possibly for the couple that lives across the street from us, who are totally awesome)!
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