"Tippecanoe and Tyler too?" "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead"? "Let's roll"?

No, I don't believe there's a lot of mystery here. In spite of the Rhode Island authorities' reticence about mentioning what the shooter at Brown University shouted before he began his deadly work, witnesses have not been so shy: "Providence Police Chief Evades Questions, Refuses to Say What Brown Shooter Shouted Before Opening Fire as Reports Indicate He Yelled 'Allahu Akbar'".

Question of the day

 

How does a 24-year old Muslim male who is known to the government for being affiliated with ISIS get to possess not one, but SIX firearms, in a country where guns are essentially banned?

— Tom Bevan (@TomBevanRCP) December 15, 2025

Related:  Describe invasion without using the word "invasion". 

Josh Shapiro's critical mistake

Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro has not learned the key lesson about Muslim clerics: listen to what they say to their own within the security of their mosques, not what they say in public to ecumenical groups: "Gov. Shapiro Shows Up, Speaks at Radical Imam Thanksgiving".

The speeches were innocuous, including the one made by Imam Bilaal, who called for “spreading the peace.” Yet, recent speeches made by Bilaal have been anything but peaceful. 

Following the October 7 Hamas massacre in Israel, Bilaal appeared repeatedly at anti-Israel rallies. One, a December 10, 2023 demonstration outside the Pennsylvania State Capitol, Bilaal prayed for Allah to “liberate… Jerusalem, Gaza and Philistine” and denounced world leaders, including Americans, for “contributing to this genocide.” The watchdog group Canary Mission described the rally as “pro-Hamas,” as speakers promoted “resistance” and chanted for Israel’s destruction.

Days later, Bilaal headlined a “Gala for Gaza” fundraiser, where he attacked what he called “the Zionist lobby” and pushed conspiratorial claims. At the 2025 “Gala for Gaza,” Bilaal called for “complete liberation of Gaza and Philistine.” Both galas were sponsored by Human Appeal, an organization alleged of having deep ties to Hamas.

If government officials want to meekly offer their own throats to assassins, that's one thing. I hope Shapiro's constituents draw the line somewhere short of this when it comes to themselves.

And now, a word from our sponsor

 

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"In Wake of Islamic Terror Attack, Australian PM Albanese Warns of Rising Threat of What?"

🚨 WTF?! After Islamic terrorists KILLED 15 people in Australia, the prime minister warns about "right-wing extremist groups"

You've GOT to be kidding me.

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— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) December 15, 2025

He must be talking about the Kangaroo Klux Klan.

The real reason, of course...

 ...is that they want to carry out their work in an opaque bubble, safe from the scrutiny of parents and other taxpayers: "Publicly posting course syllabi will harm North Carolina’s universities".

The University is supposed to be a place where there is a free exchange of ideas, learning, and conversations that develop critical thinking. This is essential for growing a healthy workforce in North Carolina. Publicly posting course syllabi will stifle this free exchange of ideas and lead to safety concerns for campus communities.

Publicly posting required course content and course objectives can lead to the weaponization of this information. This will produce a chilling effect where faculty feel pressure to self-censor the content of their courses to avoid being pulled into the political spotlight. As a result, students will be exposed to a smaller range of viewpoints, which is antithetical to the UNC system’s own “Equality Policy.” Students need to be exposed to a range of ideas so that they can develop their own thoughts and opinions.

I guess the "free exchange of ideas, learning and conversations" is supposed to be a closed system, is that it? The tax-paying part of society shouldn't have any say so in what constitutes a quality education? And I have to laugh when contemporary professors talk of their fear that "students will be exposed to a smaller range of viewpoints". Somehow, I do not think they are worried about the extinction of conservative viewpoints, which are becoming impossible to hear on many college campuses because of the the threat of violence by "progressives"; more likely, it is the burgeoning fields of toxic, left-wing fantasy that they seek to protect, to insulate from oversight, their mission too often being to indoctrinate, rather than educate. 

Always beware of people, especially in an academic environment, who argue against transparency. 

I thought we were done with this

I was surprised to find out that three Americans were killed in Syria as a result of a Muslim terrorist attack: "3 Americans Just Died for Syria". God have mercy on their souls.

Why were they there? And although I generally trust Trump on foreign policy matters, I don't get his playing nice with Syria's new ruler. Wheels within wheels, I suppose, but I doubt that the families of the two dead National Guardsmen and their civilian interpreter are going to be content with an amorphous generality like that.