History & Comment for September 12, 2025

A look at historical and current events on this day, comment and humor so dry it would make a camel thirsty. 

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This is history and comment for Friday the 12th of September 2025. By now unless you're living under a rock your newsfeed is filled with stories of Charlie Kirk. Earlier in the week, some of you may have never heard of Charlie. He's been around the last decade. he was barely in college when he broke on the national scene. The one thing that I think we have to say is he was one of the most articulate people to come on the public stage maybe in the last 50 years. He could carry on a detailed conversation about biblical topics but yet he wasn't religious per se. He was somewhere between religious and political. He melded the two topics into an explanation of why American Society is what it is

There are a few points that we need to look at very closely. while we're looking at the points we need to look at the counterpoints and who is making them. The first thing that should be at the top of every American's list is it is abhorrent to commit violence.  Violence does not answer any problem, that is almost a universal point. The only exception we might look at is war and some would make the point there also.

What should be shocking to any American regardless of your political bent is the reactions we have seen, and it's coming from the left, let's just be honest. As the story was breaking one commentator on MSNBC begins almost rejoicing. There is no case where we should be rejoicing the violent death of any human. The guy got fired very quickly. He wasn't alone, buried in the news is maybe a half dozen people who have come out publicly saying things like Charlie deserved it or it was a good thing that he was taken out.  They have been fired. It’s just not realistic in a civil society to react that way. I don't care how much you like or dislike the person it is not civil to celebrate their death.

The next point that came up almost as quickly was the normal call from the left,  “we need more gun control” Let’s look at this very carefully. The reports are the rifle was a 30-06 bolt action hunting rifle. It was not some high-powered assault rifle. A single bullet, that takes a manual action to load the next. The shooter got off one round. Reports are it was from 200 meters away, 600 feet, that is an expert shot.   

We do not yet know much about the shooter, from the surveillance video he is a young man in his 20s, clean cut. One that would not really stand out too much on a college campus. From the distance and angle I think it's reasonable to draw the conclusion that he is an expert with guns. It would be very unusual for someone of this political bent, but we may find that he has military training. Just the precision of a single fatal shot would suggest high-level military-type training.

Those are just the top-level details.  The narrative you're getting on the mainstream media is that Charlie Kirk was a right-wing extremist. Folks, that is not correct. Charlie Kirk was not an extremist he was not a hate monger. Was he divisive? Maybe. The point is, the positions he articulated were consistent with the judeo-christian worldview and America, circa 1945, 1950 even into the 60s . What has changed is not that the right has become radicalized and moved farther to their extreme, but in fact the left has moved that far to the left. We can call it socialist, we can call it Marxist, we can call it communist, they have moved that far left. 

We need to make a point here discussing the left versus right, Democrat versus Republican and those two are largely synonymous. The Democrats are the left the Republicans are the right. If you look at the country, if you study your history, going back to even the constitutional period. The South fought tooth and nail to protect their slaves. That point influenced nearly every national political debate from the late 1700s through the civil war, almost 100 years.

Let me ask is keeping one man in slavery a left or right issue?    That point was the difference between the republicans and Democrats in 1860. And that election resulted in a violent reaction.  The left did not get their way and went to war.   

There was another issue in the reconstruction period the South had a large population of now freed slaves who had little education and were the victim of southern hostility. The southern plantation owners had their livelihood destroyed and we're not willing to give political power, certainly not equal political power to this new group of people.  We could very well argue that the immediate emancipation of the southern slave population was one of the cruelest events in American history. Slavery needed abolishing but the way it happened was probably detrimental.  The blacks certainly had skills what they did not have was the education nor the social skills to immediately assimilate into the southern population. 

In this stewpot of social upheaval you see the rise of groups like the klu Klux Klan, folks that was purely southern Democrats.  Through the end of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century you see Jim Crow laws and all sorts of discrimination to keep the black population in fear. If you look at the civil rights era in the 1960s it was outright thuggery. The southern power brokers were almost exclusively Democrats who were going to use violence to keep the population in check and assert their political will.  

I tell that lengthy bit of history to make a point, violence has always been the realm of the left, to assert their political will. They cannot win a debate. When their ideas are articulated they are easy to prove wrong or at lease not in best interest of society.     

The second accompanying point to that bit of civil war history is that they are notorious for flipping the narrative. They will resort to violence and immediately turn it around and try to paint it as the Republicans or the folks on the right are the violent extremists. This happened in the civil war it's happening today almost daily in the narrative.

This is a detailed topic and I am running out of time.    Consider what are the American ideals things like family, small government, self-reliance and individual liberty.  Then consider which party wants to uphold those. And who is perpetrating and suggesting violence.   The Media will try to tell you it is the extreme right, When in fact it is almost universally the folks on the left that are perpetrating the violence. We talked the other day of George Orwell and new speak, where the narrative is being flipped. It's also a biblical concept that says good will be called evil and evil will be called good. We see this daily in the mainstream media. They are counting on the lack of education of the masses to spin an untrue narrative. 

It is not the right that are fascist, if you study what fascism is, it is the left. It is not the right wing that are being violent it is the left.  The mainstream media wants to claim that the left, Have the better ideas and are they are  nonviolent. That they just want open discourse. Charlie Kirk made a long career of holding open debates in a very articulate and controlled manner. And for that, the left hated him with a passion.

There is a breaking story the the shooter has been arrested. He a 22-year-old, from and upper middle-class family in Utah.    This is insanely sad that a very normal, kid with his life ahead of him decided to act out in such a horrendous manner.   It begs so many questions.  First and foremost,   how did he come to take those actions?   What was his motives and how did he see that as rational?