Rod Stayner 🇺🇸

And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. 1 Corinthians 13:13. Catholic, husband, and father of 3. Hoosier

[Rod Stayner 🇺🇸 @RodStayner]

“Freedom of speech is a principal pillar of a free government: When this support is taken away, the constitution of a free society is dissolved, and tyranny is erected on its ruins.”

— Benjamin Franklin

[Sgt. Mark Fusetti (Retired) @MarkFusetti]

For a fucking phone!!!!! Animals!!!

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

This was Louis Erebia's widow today. We do not have to live like this.

[Casey Hendrickson 🎙 Syndicated Radio Host @caseythehost]

In 2004, Republican Dino Rossi won the Washington gubernatorial election. He then won the recount. His Democrat opponent demanded a hand recount. Suddenly, magically, she had more votes. Rossi demanded another recount after having won the election and first recount. The court said no. They were able to get their candidate over the hump and shut it down.

Los Angeles is just the latest in a long line of shit fraud.

We all know what we just witnessed happen to @spencerpratt.

[Lt. Governor Micah Beckwith @LGMicahBeckwith]

Michael Hicks’ column is a perfect example of why so many Americans have lost confidence in higher education and the political class surrounding it.

Hicks wants Hoosiers to believe there is nothing to worry about when it comes to the influence of Islam and Sharia-inspired ideology in the West. That argument ignores both history and present reality. Across Europe, citizens have watched parallel societies emerge, free speech curtailed, religious tensions rise, and governments struggle to integrate large populations whose values often conflict with the historic foundations of Western civilization.

What is truly remarkable is that a tenured professor at a taxpayer-supported university making $250,000/year can write an entire opinion piece attacking those who raise concerns while refusing to seriously engage with the historical record. Since the days of Muhammad in Medina, Islamic political thought has not merely been religious in nature; it has contained legal, governmental, and societal dimensions. To suggest that concerns about Sharia or Islamic political influence are simply irrational fears is not scholarship, it’s ideological advocacy.

Ball State University should be asked why one of its most prominent professors appears more interested in ridiculing dissenting viewpoints than engaging in honest debate. Universities are supposed to be places where ideas are tested, not where politically fashionable narratives are protected from scrutiny.

Ideas have consequences, and bad ideas have victims. History is filled with examples of leaders and intellectuals who dismissed legitimate concerns until it was too late. Hoosiers deserve a serious discussion about preserving the principles that built Western civilization - constitutional government, religious liberty, individual rights, and the rule of law, not lectures from academics who seem intent on caricaturing anyone who disagrees with them.

The question isn’t whether Hoosiers should hate Muslims. They should not. The question is whether Americans are willing to honestly examine ideologies that conflict with the constitutional order and cultural foundations of this nation. Refusing to have that conversation doesn’t make the problem disappear. It only guarantees that others will have it for us.

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

Say His Name: Louis Erebia (56)

Husband, father, and grandfather. Killed in Houston by repeat felon London Hogin on Saturday.

Hogan was on probation for assault.

[Katie Pavlich @KatiePavlich]

They shot and killed this kid over his cell phone. Evil rot. Taking a young life over a phone.

[Save Heritage Indiana @HeritageIndiana]

@PaleoGOP Indiana schools had 95,962 English learners in 2024. According to Indianapolis Public Schools, each costs $16,144 to instruct.

About $1.5 billion annually.

If it costs $30K to help someone get sober, that could help 50,000 Hoosiers annually.

[Rod Stayner 🇺🇸 @RodStayner]

Yikes

[LanceMcAlister @LanceMcAlister]

Putting losing in perspective....

The #Reds have not finished better than 3rd place in the NL Central for 13 consecutive seasons:

3rd-4th-3rd-4th-3rd-3rd-4th-5th-5th-5th-5th-4th-3rd.

They have finished better than 3rd place just three times over the last 26 seasons: 1st 2012, 1st 2010, 2nd 2000.

NL Central division finishes since 2000:
1st place: 2 (2010, 2012)
2nd place: 1 (2000)
3rd place: 8
4th place: 8
5th place: 7

They have gone 12 consecutive seasons without winning more than 83 games.

They have just eight winning seasons over the last 26 years.

Forget winning a World Series, forget winning a playoff series, forget a winning season, forget making the playoffs....the Reds can't even compete in their own division. A division with markets like Pittsburgh, St. Louis and Milwaukee.

[Rod Stayner 🇺🇸 @RodStayner]

@CzyzakJakub @CatholicArena Well he was born in America and is a US citizen; maybe I should have been clearer in my post and said “American born.”

[Rod Stayner 🇺🇸 @RodStayner]

Way to give it to her.

[Insurrection Barbie @DefiyantlyFree]

California

Before 2016 law changes: Elections resolved on election night or within days. Republicans won seats, held seats, results were stable.

2016: Democrats pass ballot harvesting and universal mail ballot laws. Signed by Democratic governor.

2018 onward: Every close race follows the same script. Republican leads on election night. Slow count begins. Lead shrinks daily. Republican loses weeks later.

Seven House seats in 2018 alone. All the same pattern. All in one direction. Never reversed.

Since 2018, there hasn’t been one single race where the slow counting of votes didn’t take away a Republican victory by the end.

[Voices of WW2 @VoicesofWW2]

The idea was brilliant. The execution was catastrophic.

Allied planners knew that the men hitting the beaches of Normandy would be cut apart without armor support in those first critical minutes. The solution was the DD tank. The Duplex Drive Sherman. A standard 33-ton Sherman tank fitted with a collapsible canvas flotation screen and two small propellers bolted to the rear. Raise the screen, drop into the water, swim to shore, lower the screen, start shooting. Tanks arriving with the first wave, ahead of the infantry, suppressing German positions before the ramps even dropped.

The concept worked perfectly in testing. The designers had one requirement: waves no higher than one foot.

On the morning of June 6th, 1944, the waves off Omaha Beach were six feet high.

Nobody stopped the launch.

At 5:40 AM, the 741st Tank Battalion began dropping their DD tanks into the English Channel, six thousand yards from shore. More than three miles of open water, in seas that were six times rougher than the tanks were designed to handle. The first tank hit the water. The canvas screen, designed to hold the weight of a Sherman afloat, was immediately overwhelmed. Waves crashed over the top. Water flooded in. The tank went down.

Then another. Then another.

The canvas screens collapsed like paper bags in the swell. Tanks that had been designed to float became 33-ton anchors the moment they hit the water. Crews inside had seconds. Some got out through the hatches. Many did not. The tanks took them straight to the bottom of the English Channel.

Some crews managed to get a radio signal out as their tank went under, warning the following units not to launch. The warnings either did not get through or came too late.

29 DD tanks were launched by the 741st Tank Battalion that morning. 27 sank before reaching the beach. The entire left flank of Omaha Beach, where the 1st Infantry Division was assaulting, had five tanks to support it. Five. Against fortified German positions housing hundreds of machine guns, 88mm guns, and mortars zeroed on every inch of that sand.

The infantry arrived first. Alone.

What happened next at Omaha Beach, the 2,400 casualties, the slaughter in the first ten minutes, the near-total destruction of Company A, is inseparable from the loss of those tanks. They were supposed to be there. They were supposed to be firing at German positions while the ramps were still closed. Instead they were on the bottom of the Channel with their crews.

The story of the 743rd Tank Battalion makes it worse.

The 743rd was assigned to the western sector of Omaha Beach. Their LCT flotilla commander looked at the sea conditions that morning, looked at the waves, and made a different decision. He refused to launch his tanks into the water. Instead he drove his LCTs directly onto the beach and dropped the ramps in the shallows. The tanks rolled off onto sand.

Nine tanks were knocked out by German fire during the assault. But they were there. They were fighting. The infantry had armor.

At Utah Beach, the sea was calmer, protected from the prevailing winds. 28 of 32 DD tanks launched there made it ashore. The infantry had support. Utah Beach cost 197 casualties. Omaha cost 2,400.

The sunken tanks of the 741st Tank Battalion still lie on the bottom of the English Channel off Omaha Beach. They have never been raised. Divers have visited them. Inside some of the wrecks, they found what they expected.

They are still there today, 82 years later, three miles off the coast of Normandy, on the bottom of the sea.

Today is June 6th.

Remember them.

[Robby Starbuck @robbystarbuck]

Can anyone point me to a time where a third place candidate (3 days AFTER an election) suddenly has a surge where they start winning 1st place in every new drop by winning 40% of the votes in the batch? Try not to name a third world country. This is getting absolutely absurd.

[Michael Knowles @michaeljknowles]

So he threw him in a medical waste bin instead.

[NotKennyRogers @NotKennyRogers]

Just a bunch of toxically masculine Christian Nationalists walking directly into Nazi machine gun fire to help save the world.

This is yet another reason why I will always be proud to be an American.

[Mark Warner 🇺🇸🇮🇱 @mwarner95]

It’s disgusting watching some Indy residents either trash or make fun of Carmel Mayor @SueFinkam on her calling out the spreading of crime across the region.

When a lot of the counties around Indy have over 60% of the population in their jails from Marion County with multiple arrest records from…yep, you guessed it, Marion County.

At least Mayor Finkam spoke up! @RickFOP86, Johnson County Sheriff Duane Burgess and many others have been speaking out on this for several years! While most Indy Dems and some smug inner city residents have been calling them whiners.

Here is an idea, pull your heads out of the clouds and admit that crime is a major issue and it needs addressed by all the leaders!

[Rod Stayner 🇺🇸 @RodStayner]

Accurate description of Michael Hicks!

[CoachTrump @trump_coach]

@HicksCBER

[3generboiler @3generboiler_1]

@HicksCBER The Amish helped rebuild NC after the floods there .. and they voted in large numbers for .. Donald Trump.

Your legacy? Your work? Plaguing the minds of young people to question everything which is right and just. You disgrace the uniform

[Brandon Harnish @PaleoGOP]

The rumor going around is exactly what you’d expect. Awaiting confirmation.