Sunday, September 14, 2025

Pilots, Other Professionals Who Mocked Charlie Kirk’s Assassination Get Grounded

A number of commercial pilots and other professionals who cheered or mocked the assassination of Charlie Kirk have been fired. 

Those pilots worked for American Air and Delta.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy posted: 

"American Airlines pilots who were caught celebrating the assassination of Charlie Kirk have been immediately grounded and removed from service by @AmericanAir.

This behavior is disgusting and they should be fired.

Any company responsible for the safety of the traveling public cannot tolerate that behavior.

We heal as a country when we send the message that glorifying political violence is COMPLETELY UNACCEPTABLE!

A Delta pilot was also fired.

Kirk came to the college campus to debate. He'd been debating since he started Turning Point USA at age 18 in a garage. He skipped college and grew that company to found chapters on college campuses nationwide. 

Only hours and days after the public assassination of Kirk by an extremists, many sprinted to social media to declare a political win or chase clout using Kirk's murder. 

A Financial aid advisor at Iowa State University responded to Kirk's muder, saying  “This jackass got what was coming and I’m happy he’s rotting in hell”.

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Iowa State University hasn't responded to a request for comment. 

Also this weekend, a Michigan Office Depot refused to print posters for a Charlie Kirk vigil. The employees called the poster "propaganda."

Those employees were fired after the viral video, Office Depot told Townhall in an email. 

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"As confirmed in our public statement, we are deeply concerned by the unfortunate customer experience that occurred at Store 3382 in Portage, Michigan. The behavior displayed by our associate is completely unacceptable and insensitive, violates our company policies, and does not reflect the values we uphold at Office Depot. On behalf of the Company, we sincerely apologize for this regrettable situation.

"Upon learning of the incident, we immediately reached out to the customer to address their concerns and seek to fulfill their order to their satisfaction. We also launched an immediate internal review and, as a result, the associate involved is no longer with the organization.  We continue to aggressively investigate the matter and will take action where appropriate."

"We are committed to reinforcing training with all team members to ensure our standards of respect, integrity, and customer service are upheld at every location. Our customers and communities deserve nothing less."

Some people who posted hateful things about Kirk work or worked for hospitals. 

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Archaeology Proves King David a Historical Figure at Bible Museum in D.C.

 

A secular news article prompted those studies. But today’s was inspired by a press release headlined: “Museum of the Bible to Display Earliest Historical Reference to King David, the Tel Dan Stele.”

Note a crucial archaeological difference between the Jesus boat and the Tel Dan Stele. The “Jesus boat” is unproven to be the exact boat mentioned in the Gospel accounts, but it COULD BE based on its first-century date, size, and location. However, the Tel Dan Stele is authentic—a 3,000-year-old basalt fragment with inscriptions that reference Old Testament accounts of biblical characters. But both discoveries explain why I am such a huge fan of biblical archaeology.

This exciting field consistently confirms or aligns with God’s Word. My previous studies discussed evidence for Noah’s Ark in Vol. 259 and burnt offerings in Vol. 126. Best of all, we can expect new technologies and changing climate conditions to facilitate the discovery of more ancient artifacts and ruins, keeping the Bible alive, relevant, and real. 

Now, let’s return to the Museum of the Bible’s new exhibit and its significance for faith readers. The press release quotes Chief Curatorial Officer Bobby Duke: 

“The Tel Dan Stele is one of the most significant discoveries made in biblical archaeology. Until its discovery, some academics questioned the validity of King David as a historical figure. For the first time in history, we have an inscription outside of the Bible that directly references the dynasty of David and confirms Old Testament accounts.” 

After inquiring about the newly opened exhibit, a museum spokesperson said that “feedback for the House of David exhibit has been positive so far. Guests are delighted by the Tel Dan Stele’s authenticity and how it represents an important figure in the Bible.”

My loyal readers know that I frequently write about King David and have a special affinity for his Psalms. Check out the recent second annual “Psalm Summer” series featuring Volumes 274, 275, 281, and 282.

David connected with God through genuine human emotions. Thus, I never thought he could be a fictional character. David was honest about his flaws. He was a talented sinner and leader who suffered and triumphed. No matter the circumstances, he loved the Lord and prophesied about the Messiah. Therefore, seeing physical proof of David’s existence can be a reason for doubters and non-believers to reconsider their stance; read the Bible to learn about him and his relationship with God.

Here is more about the Tel Dan Stele. It was discovered in 1993 and is owned by the Israel Antiquities Authority. They created an exhibit, which is on display at the Museum of the Bible at no charge, beginning this month and running through November 3, 2025.

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Carved in Hebrew, the most prominent inscription on the Tel Dan Stele is “House of David,” a “Judahite title used 26 times in the Hebrew Bible” (Old Testament), according to the Armstrong Institute of Biblical Archaeology.  The description continues:

“The wider inscription, describing the deaths of kings Jehoram of Israel and Ahaziah of Judah during battle against Hazael, fits alongside the account in 2 Kings 9. Really, though, the details of the inscription are overshadowed by the single line, ‘House of David.’”

That leads me to ask a critical question: Why is King David’s proven existence important to your faith in Jesus Christ? Answer: Not only is David the second most influential person in the Old Testament (after Moses), but more importantly, he is a foundational link in the messianic lineage that concludes with Jesus Christ.   

It is by divine design that the first chapter in the first book of the New Testament is the Gospel of Matthew. The primary purpose of his Gospel was to convince Jewish readers that Jesus was their Messiah. So, no better way than to begin with “The Genealogy of Jesus the Messiah.” David’s part of the lineage reads: 

“..and Jesse the father of King David. David was the father of Solomon, whose mother had been Uriah’s wife..” (Matthew 1:6). Since David lived then, in all likelihood, so did all who followed him, ending with:

“..and Jacob the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary, and Mary was the mother of Jesus who is called the Messiah” (Matthew 1:16).

I am well aware that “Joseph, the husband of Mary,” is not Jesus’s father by DNA. Still, many Old Testament messianic prophecies reference David or his lineage to Jesus. For example, Isaiah’s prophecy in Chapter 11 is subtitled “The branch of Jesse.” It begins with “a shoot will come up from the stump of Jesse” (Isaiah 11:1).  

Then the prophet Jeremiah wrote about the David-related Messiah in Chapter 23:

“The days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, a King who will reign wisely and do what is just and right in the land. In his days Judah will be saved and Israel will live in safety. This is the name by which he will be called: The Lord Our Righteous Savior” (Jeremiah 23: 5-6).

Also, numerous times in the New Testament, Jesus was referred to as “Son of David.” Most prominently on Palm Sunday:

“The crowds that went ahead of him and those that followed shouted, ‘Hosanna to the Son of David!’ ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!’ ‘Hosanna in the highest heaven!’ When Jesus entered Jerusalem, the whole city was stirred and asked, ‘Who is this?’ The crowds answered, ‘This is Jesus, the prophet from Nazareth in Galilee’” (Matthew 21:9-11).

And now you know why physical proof of David is so compelling to your belief in and love for Jesus Christ.

If you live in or plan to visit Washington, D.C., before November 3, try to stop by the Museum of the Bible. Your faith will grow when you see 3,000-year-old evidence that King David, who established the House of David and fathered King Solomon, was a real person connected to Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior, the Jewish Messiah. 

Hosanna to the Son of David!  Amen!

Maher Calls Bible 'Wicked'; Ben Shapiro Reminds Him He Was Born on Biblical Third Base

 

Just days after the assassination of conservative leader Charlie Kirk, comedian and atheist Bill Maher took aim at the Bible itself, calling it “full of nonsense and wickedness.” The timing of the remarks, coming amid a national outpouring of grief for a man who championed faith and virtue, didn’t go unnoticed.

Maher made the comments during a discussion with Ben Shapiro. When pressed on his sweeping condemnation of Scripture, Maher doubled down, claiming “the Bible’s for slavery.”

But Shapiro, in classic form, dismantled the argument—not with rage, but with reason.

“If that’s the case,” Shapiro asked, “then why do you and I agree on morality like 87.5 percent of the time? I’m a Jew; you’re an atheist.”

Maher had no clear answer.

Shapiro continued: “We grew up in a Western society that has several thousand years of Biblical history behind it. So you can think you hit that triple and you formed your own morality, but the reality is you were born morally on third base.”

The crowd erupted in applause, clearly siding with Shapiro's point.

And it’s a point that resonates even more now—after Kirk, a vocal advocate for the moral foundation of the West, was murdered in cold blood on a college campus while defending those very principles.

For years, the Left has mocked faith as outdated, oppressive, or irrelevant. But when morality unmoored from faith produces political violence, censorship, and moral confusion, even atheists like Maher end up relying on the very moral framework they claim to reject.

Charlie Kirk understood that Western civilization didn’t build itself—and it won’t defend itself if the next generation is taught that the Bible is “wicked.” That’s why he fought so hard to bring truth back to campuses.

And now, in a moment when his death should have prompted sober reflection, Maher chose instead to ridicule the very foundation that allowed him to sit comfortably in a free society, debating morality without fear. Shapiro’s response is a reminder: the freedoms we enjoy, the values we share, and even the moral instincts we take for granted—those didn’t come from nowhere. They came from somewhere. And they came at a cost.

The ‘Progressive’ Left – The ‘Democratic’ Party – Has Shown You Exactly Who They Are

 

When Andrew Breitbart died, someone I knew responded to my Facebook post about it with a nasty celebration of it. When I responded that he was actually a good friend of mine and told that person not only where they could go straight to, but what they could do to themselves on the way, I quickly received a phone call from them apologizing. They “hadn’t realized” that I was actually friends with him, as if that made them being a sociopathic asshole cheering someone’s death simply because they wouldn’t conform to the politics the “tolerant” left, somehow better. We’ve seen this again, but even more so, with the assassination of Charlie Kirk. When someone shows you who they are, believe them.


I let it slide with Andrew, the guy was young and I’d never really experienced anything like that before, so I was forgiving and wrote it off as an anomaly. Plus, I think Andrew would’ve laughed at the idea that he was still exposing “tolerant leftists” for the intolerant pieces of garbage they are, even in death.

While Andrew being in a better place was a comfort, that never overrides the sadness of losing a friend. While I can’t say I was good friends with Charlie Kirk, there was very little daylight on policies between him, me and millions upon millions of Americans who mostly want to be lef alone by the vacuous left. But the nature of “progressivism” is to not leave anyone alone – it demands obedience, not only of actions but of thought.

We refuse to obey, we refuse to conform, and they killed Charlie for it.

Yes, the shooter pulled the trigger, but every MSNBC guest to called a conservative a fascist carved their letters into the bullet casing. Every elected and media Democrat who chose to dehumanize rather than debate, looked through that scope. Every single person on the left who knew better, who saw this coming but found the inciting rhetoric politically useful and easier than making an argument for their positions steadied that killer’s hand. They all did this because they knew this was down the road they were traveling and did nothing to stop it.

There isn’t a single Democrat, before Charlie’s assassination, who stood up to their party and said, “Hey, everyone who disagrees with you isn’t a fascist Nazi monster trying to kill people.” Not one. And there isn’t a conservative commentor, columnist or pundit who doesn’t get regular threats from these same, unhinged people. Those cheering Charlie’s murder would cheer yours too – you either have that in you or you do not.

I love the people who say things like “That’s what you get when you put hate in the world.” I shudder to think what their concept of love is if, in the aftermath of a murder of a human being who did nothing but speak words they didn’t like, they think they’re spreading anything close to love. From Eric Swalwell to Jasmine Crockett, Rachel Maddow to Joe Biden, there is enough blood for every leftist’s hands. Many of them have suffered losses – the despicable Jamie Raskin had a son who killed himself, and yet he’s out there cheerleading for violence and murder…right up until they got it.

Now they’re all, “This isn’t good” and “Political violence is wrong.” Too late. They did this.

Their army of drones are still celebrating Charlie’s killing and not one of them has forcefully called them; told the radicals to go to Hell and they aren’t welcome in their party. The closest thing to criticism of those ghouls you see is a lament that publicly celebrating is “bad for the party.”

“Don’t do that, it hurts the party” is a poor excuse for decency, but when you don’t have any in you a poor excuse is the best you can muster.

People I’ve known for years have exposed themselves as monsters it never occurred to me that they could be. There is something about the progressive ideology that perverts the mind. The father of 2 isn’t’ even in the ground yet and they’re writing pieces like, “If Kirk was a victim of a pernicious culture of violence in America, it also must be acknowledged he was an author of that culture.” (Don’t worry, you can click the link – it’s to a third-party paywall bypassing website that doesn’t give them any ad money.)

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If the author of that piece were to be assassinated while pumping gas, is it cool if we cheer? I don’t know him, nor do I care that he exists, so the end of that existence on Earth doesn’t matter to me. Still, I wouldn’t because I’m not a piece of shit like he is. Nancy Pelosi will die, as will Joe Biden, should we be picking our musical selections to dance on their graves to? No. If someone pulled a Luigi Mangione on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on the street one day, should people celebrate that “she had it coming” because she was different from us politically? Hell no.

Yet, these very same people and the people who follow them would do it to you, me and everyone on our side in a heartbeat. If you think your friend or family member who is glad Charlie is dead wouldn’t do the same if you were killed, you haven’t been paying attention. If they insist they wouldn’t because the “know you,” that makes it even worse – it shows them to be sociopaths who have to problem with the concept of murder over politics, they just don’t want it too close to home.

The concept is the problem. Their politics are the problem.

Have you noticed how all of these garbage people aren’t quoting Charlie Kirk’s actual words or posting videos of him engaging in debates, they simply declare him to be anti-this, that or the other thing. “He’s a this kind of -phobe,” or “that kind of -ist.” They don’t quote him because they never actually listened to him, they only heard him in quick MSNBC soundbites and half-quotes out of someone else’s mouth.

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The New York Times exemplified this when they had to issue the following correction to an article trying to smear him. “A correction was made on Sept. 11, 2025: An earlier version of this article described incorrectly an antisemitic statement that Charlie Kirk had made on an episode of his podcast. He was quoting a statement from a post on social media and went on to critique it. It was not his own statement.”

They didn’t bother to look because they were told Charlie was an anti-Semite, just like all of those people were told he was some kind of monster or another and didn’t bother to check for themselves. Democrats are not known for verifying things…or thinking.

Democrats never bother to look, they simply obey. They outsource responsibility for their problems and the “solution” to them. And they create problems for everyone else because they insist others obey too. If they were only hell-bent on creating their hellscape world for themselves, no one would care. But like Harvey Weinstein, they insist on trying to force their desires on everyone.

A majority of Americans said no. Charlie Kirk said no and they murdered him for it. Will he be the last person murdered by a radicalized Democrat? Of course not.

I’ve been writing for the better part of a decade about how the Democratic Party establishment was walking a fine line between keeping their followers simmering in an emotional frenzy and hoping they didn’t boil over into a full blood thirty murder frenzy. That’s where they are now. Seemingly normal people cheering murder for the “crime” of thinking how you do; for voting how you do. Do you really think they’d act differently if it were you? How could you ever trust these people again? How could you trust them around your children knowing they’ve expressed joy over Charlie’s kids growing up without him?

The left is a cancer on the country, and cancer kills. We’ve always said that when someone

shows you who they are, believe them. They’ve shown you who they are, believe them. More importantly, beat them. At the ballot box and in life.

Someday they will wake up and realize the monsters they’ve become, and they’ll try to move past it. Never let them forget. The website CharliesMurderers.com is cataloging every sick thing they’ve put out in the world about this murder, complete with their faces, names and employers when they can find it. Make them famous, and make them unemployable.

If they wake up from their rage hangover and try to pretend they didn’t do something shameful, let that website be the herpes that follows them around. The “regrets” over consequences are already starting, may it haunt them until they truly know, accept and change from the horrors they are.

Unless and until then, and maybe even after that, to hell with them.

There’s much more to say on this, and this is probably horribly rambling and disorganized because of the rawness of it all. I just don’t care right now; there will be time for clarity of thought later. In the meantime, let’s win.

The ‘4 Horsemen of the Western Civilization Apocalypse’ Have Arrived

 

Europe is in a turmoil. The government of France fell in the sense that the prime minister was just relieved. There’s alternative governments from the mainstream socialist European model in most of Eastern Europe and Italy and the Netherlands. There’s political unrest in Ireland and Britain.

What’s going on?

The same thing is happening here. I would call it the “Four Horsemen of the Western Civilizational Apocalypse.” In other words, Europe and the United States, and kindred Western countries, are facing four self-inflicted wounds.

The first is what I would call green madness. That is, an elite in all of these Western countries felt that they were at the end of history, they were gonna create heaven on Earth, and they started to dismantle nuclear power, oil-generated power, coal power, and in substitution, subsidized very inefficient and unreliable solar and wind. They stopped producing oil and natural gas.

And the result of this is that their electricity and fuel costs skyrocketed, making them uncompetitive and destroying the viability of the middle classes that are now in revolt.

In the case of Germany, it’s a former shell of itself. It was once the powerhouse of Europe. Its energy costs are three to four times those of the United States.

A second horseman of this apocalypse are borders.

Remember, former German Chancellor Angela Merkel said, “Yes we can. We can let in a million people from the Middle East.”

But in Britain, in France, in the Netherlands, in Italy, in Greece, and in Germany, the influx of millions of people from the Middle East—poor, often without language facility, coming illegally without legal sanction, without skills, without capital, and with ideas and values that are antithetical to the Western enlightenment—are not assimilating. They’re not acculturating. They’re not integrating at a sufficient pace to avoid social turmoil. The host has not been able or is unwilling to acculturate them into European values.

The result is the populations of these countries are almost 15% to 16% Islamic refugees that are not part of the body politic. And there is social tension, it’s unsustainable as far as the entitlement cost to these host countries, and it doesn’t bode well.

So, we have to restore borders in the West, so to speak.

There’s another problem, maybe even graver, and that’s—I would call it demographic suicide.

The fertility rate is only 1.4 in Europe, and it’s not much better here in the United States, 1.6. We have adopted a lifestyle that suggests that there’s nothing unique or it should not be privileged, that two-parent household with two to three children. That was the basis of Western civilization, and it was necessary for a 2.1 fertility rate to reproduce the culture.

But when you’re down to 1.4 or 1.6, the population is shrinking and ossifying and aging, and there’s not enough young people to support the older people in their retirement.

So, a pension crisis is looming in all these countries, and the result of it is they must, for sufficient labor needs, open their borders and bring in people—often with contrary values to their own—who don’t, as I said earlier, do not assimilate. But if these countries in the West do not reproduce themselves, then history suggests they’re doomed.

There’s a final one, and that is diversity, equity, inclusion. This is the idea that particular peoples, who identify tribally, should be given exemption or preferences from the body politic.

In other words, in the United States, if you claim you’re not white—and that’s a very problematic matter. That’s why I said “claim,” because of the rise of inner marriage and multiracialism. But nevertheless, it’s a very archaic idea that you identify by your superficial appearance rather than the content of your character.

But when you start to provide exemptions from people, or give them preferences and admissions and hiring and retention and tenure, or you suggest that people of a particular superficial appearance shall be given exemptions from law, the consequences of crime, or the consequences of failing to meet expectations of schools, then you’ve created—whether you like it or not—the beginnings of tribalism. And tribalism is inconsistent with the Western Enlightenment, as we see in Europe and as we see in the United States.

I’d like to finish by saying these can be corrected. These Four Horsemen of the Western Apocalypse can be driven out. It’s because they were self-inflicted in suicidal fashion.

All we have to say is: “We’re going to go back to a commonsense policy about energy. We’re gonna secure our borders and have legal-only immigration. We’re gonna encourage two-parent families, nuclear families, to have two children or three children. And we’re going to start to assess people not by their superficial appearance, but as individuals.”