Start Together, Finish Together: Love Is Easy, Everything Else is Hard.

3:42 a.m.—Three hours before sunrise. Sarah and I are awake. Sort of. We begin our marathon route in the hamlet of Manitou Springs, a town where everything is organic, even the Subaru exhaust.

We start our journey alone, in front of the little courthouse, the official starting line of the Pikes Peak Marathon. Before we begin running, we hug each other tightly.

“We’re doing this,” we say before we sprint off into the silent streets.

Shockingly Underreported News and Commentary for the Week of 30 August

This is the fifth post in the ongoing weekly feature that highlights news and commentary on important geopolitical, cultural, and economic issues that the Democrat-media complex buries because they expose the hypocrisies associated with the continuing Marxist-Democrat narrative. Everything is properly sourced and linked for follow-up reading, whether from legacy media, independent sources, or social media.

Here we go!

Michigan Adds Another Felony Because You Used an iPhone

I learned something while sitting on a Michigan jury that sent me down one hell of a rabbit hole: Michigan can separately criminalize using a computer to commit a crime. In 2026, when your phone, truck, watch, bank, doorbell and possibly your toaster are computers, that starts sounding suspiciously like an enhancement for breathing oxygen while committing a crime.

PART I — Eden: God’s Dwelling, Humanity’s Calling, and the Story We Flattened Into a Coloring Book

Most Christians think Eden was a perfect, universal paradise. But Genesis never claims that. The Bible says God “planted a garden in Eden” (Gen. 2:8), a sacred space inside a larger region. Ezekiel calls it “the mountain of God” (Ezek. 28:13–14). Eden was God’s dwelling place, not a global utopia. Only inside Eden did God walk with humanity (Gen. 3:8). Outside the garden lay the rest of the earth—good, but not yet sacred space. The story starts with geographic holiness, not widespread perfection.

Baghdad NYT: ‘A More Confident Iran Emerges After Six Months of War With the U.S.’

That was the headline in the New York Times. The sub-headline read, “New intelligence reports have assessed that Iran now has a far better understanding of its capabilities and the limits of U.S. power.”

Fact-check: Well, yes if you consider they now realize their capabilities are nada, non-existent, zilch. The Persian Army has more power and it disappeared in a sandstorm west of Thebes 2,551 years ago.

9-11: 25 Years of Valor and Fatal Foolishness

9/11/2001: What A Difference 24 Years Make!!!

The Muslim terror attack on 9-11 brought a fleeting moment of WW2-like national unity. A week later, I wrote the first and best op ed of the 1000 plus to follow: “One Front, Two Wars”. Our Homeland is one front where the Great U.S. Culture War and the War between Western Civilization and a resurgent Islam that breeds radicals and rage are fought.

I knew ”the adrenaline cocktail of shock, fear and anger intoxicates only for a season”.

Artisan Forgiveness: Running Up Dad’s Mountain

Morning in Manitou Springs, Colorado. My sister and I have a rental cabin located near the base of Pikes Peak. I am sitting on a picnic table outside our cabin, drinking crappy instant coffee, finishing my third chocolate bar.

My sister brought the chocolate. It’s artisan chocolate. She is asleep in the cabin right now. She’s not going to be happy when she awakes and finds out I’ve eaten all her fancy chocolate. I will undergo one of her famous improvised gender reassignment operations.

A Title Can Make You the Boss. It Cannot Make You a Leader.

I’ve seen it happen more times than I can count.

Someone works hard, gets results, and finally receives the promotion they’ve been chasing. They get a new office, a new title, and maybe even a shiny new nameplate on the door.

And somewhere along the way, they make a dangerous assumption: Now I’m a leader.

Not necessarily.

NEW DETAILS: US ramps up pressure on Iran over nuclear program

National security and military analyst Dr. Rebecca Grant joined ‘Fox & Friends First’ to discuss why she believes Iran is at a ‘dead end’ with the U.S. and the latest on the war in Ukraine after U.S. envoys met with Putin and Zelenskyy. #foxnews #iran #world #news #trump

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Dad’s Permanent Trailer Plate Has Entered the Surveillance State

Dad thought “permanent trailer plate” meant permanent. Government apparently meant, “until you buy another trailer, peasant.” For generations, recycling an old trailer plate was the kind of technically-wrong rural economics nobody noticed unless a cop had an actual reason to look. Today, cameras, databases, and algorithms potentially can notice—and remember—things no human officer ever would have bothered with.

That raises a bigger question than Dad’s Great Trailer Plate Crime Spree: **When technology makes it possible for government to notice nearly everything, should it?**

‘SUPER WOKE’: Harvard relies on the ‘MEMORY OF A REPUTATION,’ journalist says

New York Post columnist Karol Markowicz discusses college costs surpassing $100,000 a year at 15 schools, projected enrollment declines and the two colleges she says are off-limits for her children on ‘Varney & Co.’ #foxbusiness #varney 0:07 — COLLEGE COSTS SOAR PAST $100,000 A YEAR 0:34 — COLLEGES FACE BACKLASH OVER DEI SPENDING 1:15 — …

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Trump Administration National Security and Foreign Policy Accomplishments: October 2025 – July 2026

President Trump remains focused on delivering his 2024 campaign promises with lightning speed. This is Part II of a two-part series that summarizes Trump administration accomplishments since October 2025. An article last November covered the accomplishments during the first nine months here.

Working Behind Enemy Lines, Tale #110: Multiculturalism Is Code For Getting Rid Of White People

In my area it is very white working class. The woke local authority starting recruiting directly from Africa! Try interviewing white rural families when they don’t understand a word you’re saying, and then go back and tell the manager (me) that the family were racist and non compliant!