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The Real Democrat Autopsy They Can’t and Won’t Release
Saturday, May 30th, 2026April 2026 Tygrrrr Express Texas and Washington speaking schedule
Wednesday, April 1st, 2026Thursday, April 2, 2026 — Republican Women’s Club of Katy, Texas at 10:30am. Palacio Maria, 21728 Highland Knolls, Katy, TX 77450
Friday, April 3, 2026 — Clear Creek Republican Women in League City, Texas. Lunch. 11:15am. La Brisa Mexican Grille 501 N Wesley Drive, League City, Texas
Monday, April 6, 2026 — Golden Triangle Republican Women in Beaumont, Texas. 11am. MCM Elegante Hotel. 2355 I-10, Beaumont, TX 77705
Tuesday, April 14, 2026 — Eastside Republican Club in Seattle, Washington. Evening.
Thursday, April 16, 2026 — Evergreen Republican Women near Seattle, Washington. 6pm. Shawn O’Donnell’s Irish Restaurant & Pub. 122 128th St SE, Everett, WA 98208
Monday, April 20, 2026 — Bothel Republican Women near Seattle, Washington. 11:30am. Judith Finney
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Regime change in Iran, Minneapolis and Harvard NOW!
Thursday, March 12th, 2026Regime change in Iran, Minneapolis and Harvard NOW!
2026 quickly put 2025 to bed. 2025 began with a terrorist attack in New Orleans and ended with the terrorist attack in Bondi Beach, Australia. God forbid innocent Americans enjoy Bourbon Street or innocent Jews celebrate Hanukkah without being murdered. Next time will be elsewhere. Innocents will grieve. Nothing will change.
Wrong. Things can change. Change just requires a global iron will nonexistent since George W. Bush, Tony Blair, Jose Aznar and John Howard led the Anglosphere. The Taliban and al Qaeda were routed. Saddam Hussein was removed from Earth. Barbarians were on the run.
Yet given a chance to finish Islamist Jihadists, the world blinked. The Madrid bombing cowed Spaniards into electing a leftist peacenik. Australia replaced John Howard. Americans rejected war hero John McCain in favor of leftist faculty lounge academic Barack Hussein Obama. England’s Labour Party descended into madness, led by anti-Semite Jeremy Corbyn.
It is long past time to admit the Neocons were right about virtually everything. The way to stop innocent people from being murdered is to take the fight to the enemies. With Islamists, drug traffickers, human traffickers and their enablers, diplomacy is useless. Force is the only solution.
Let leftists and Ron Paul stoners melt down. They had their chance on the world stage. They failed. It was time to bring back the adults and eliminate threats to the civilized world.
The adults began 2026 by laying down the law within the bounds of international law. Trump blew up drug boats and seized Venezuelan oil tankers. He ousted and captured Venezuela’s Nicholas Maduro, a drug lord who illegally seized power. Maduro’s Fentanyl killed many more innocent Americans than Osama bin Laden’s al Qaeda. Secretary of State Marco Rubio had every right to send a third world drug thug a militarized hug. The holiday greeting was “Dear Narco…Love, Marco.”
The message was clear. To make America and the civilized world safer, send the diplomats to bed. Let the adults handle things. Venezuela is proof that force works.
Regime change is the only answer.
Go beyond Venezuela. Enact regime change in Iran. All the mullahs must go. Taking out Ayatollah Khamenei and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad must be only the beginning. President Donald Trump can stop pursuing a Nobel Peace Prize he will never receive. His peace agreements will mean little if the world’s worst global sponsor of terrorism survives. For reasons only he knows, Trump was reluctant to finish off Iran’s mullahs. He must embrace his successful Venezuela policy clearly in Iran. At the very least, let Israel finish the job. Every day the mullahs rule Iran is a foreign policy problem. For all Trump gets right, the world will go up in flames if he does not get the biggest foreign policy problem right. War against Iran is a giant step in the right direction.
Beyond Iran, regime change is necessary in Minneapolis. Stop buckling to false accusations of racism, sexism and Islamophobia. Minneapolis is drowning in corruption that directly affects public safety. Widespread fraud showed evidence of money-laundering that funded Islamist groups in Somalia and elsewhere. The federal government must crack down hard on Minneapolis. Hand down RICO indictments. ICE has largely left, but they can always return and make massive numbers of arrests. If a sitting congresswoman after a fair trial is convicted, strip her citizenship and deport her. Send a message to every elected official with Islamist or other terrorist ties. Deporting Ilhan Omar would have Ayatollah Mamdani quaking in his wife’s designer boots. Innocent Muslims will have nothing to fear. The guilty should fear every day they infect this planet.
Finally, accomplish regime change at Harvard and other Ivy League Universities. These colleges charge parents hundreds of thousands of dollars in exchange for turning America’s children into America-hating lunatics. Self-policing failed. The First Amendment does not give universities a right to create a new generation of violent revolutionaries. The federal government must use extreme measures to combat extremism. Rogue university presidents must be deposed. If they resist, shut these colleges down.
Shut them down. Under the George W. Bush Doctrine, any entity that shelters, harbors or finances terrorism is as guilty as the terrorists themselves. Guilty universities must be financially decapitated. Campuses can protect Jews or cease to exist.
Islamist terrorists are murdering Jews while Narco terrorists endanger all Americans. Money from Iran and Minneapolis funds global terrorism. Money from Iran, China and Qatar funds American university curriculums, which creates more domestic terrorists. This new Axis of Evil must be strangled financially and politically.
Beyond their presidents, all members of Iran, Minneapolis and Harvard’s leadership must be replaced. Forcible regime change is the only way Americans can have a chance at safety.
To non-Jews in America wondering why we cannot just focus on America, wake up. Islamists and other terrorists are already coming for us all. Europe is finished. America can stand up against terrorists or embrace isolationism and eventually fall to the Caliphate.
To Jews under siege, stock up on guns and ammo. Happy Purim and early Passover.
Renee Good Was Bad and Alex Pretti Was Ugly
Wednesday, March 11th, 2026Renee Good Was Bad and Alex Pretti Was Ugly
Operation Metro Surge officially ended. The Minneapolis operation removed 4,000 violent criminals off the streets, but Democrats remain determined to descend into third world lawlessness. It is imperative to cut through the fog and deliver real truth. This means understanding who is committing violence, and more importantly, why. Liberals are the new Palestinians. Like Palestinians, liberals resort to violence because they cannot and will not accept that their opponents have a right to exist.
Palestinians turned their own people into suicide bombers. Democrats emulated this violence. Weaponizing a vehicle was once unheard of outside of Gaza. Now Democrats create martyrs to distract from their own bad behavior.
Two recent leftist martyrs were Renee Good and Alexander Pretti.
Ms. Good was shot dead by an ICE agent after injuring him with her car. The same zealots who glorify the supposed poor, oppressed Gaza suicide bombers rushed to defend Good. She was a lesbian, as if that is a valid criminal defense position. She was a poet. She could have been a poet, a puppet, a pauper, a Piper Parebo, a Parker Posey, or a Porky or Petunia Pig. Platitudes about her being peaceful are positively preposterous.
Whether she intentionally tried to hit the officer with her car remains irrelevant. She was violent before ever moving her car forward. Once she shifted in reverse before going forward, she was already defying a lawful order to exit her car. Long before reversal, her initial behavior was violent. She used her car to deliberately impede law enforcement.
Contrary to leftist la-la-land lunatics, blocking traffic is violent, not peaceful. Picture a fire truck racing to extinguish a blaze. Imagine a police officer transporting a shooting victim to the hospital. Think about an EMT desperately trying to get a pregnant woman suffering complications to the maternity ward. Now see innocent people die and decide if blocking traffic is harmless. Precious seconds can separate healthy births from miscarriages and an operating table patient recovering or coding.
Thoughtless leftists happily sacrifice pawns in their desperate rage. Alex Pretti was a nurse, a supposedly holy untouchable. Nurse Ratchet was also a nurse. So were unvaccinated nurses liberals cast out like garbage from jobs they loved. Somehow one nurse deserves a free pass for violence. Pretti had a history of ugly behavior. The Second Amendment allows private citizens to own guns, but violent felons can lose rights. One week before being shot, Pretti engaged in violence toward ICE officers. He went to the violence well once too often, and his luck ran dry.
Good and Pretti are plankton. Big fish are fomenting violence. Leftists and Islamists are again united in tactics and strategy. For Gaza Muslims, the end game is overthrowing Israel’s government and expelling all Jews. For leftists in Minnesota and other blue states, the goal is overthrowing Trump’s government and making it impossible for conservatives and Republicans to ever govern again.
This leftist Initifada is sophisticated. Democrats start by importing massive numbers of illegal immigrants. Taxpayer dollars are then funneled through various organizations to new migrants, who in return illegally vote Democrat. Some money is funneled overseas to Somali and other foreign terrorist groups. Democrats and Islamists work hand in glove to wash, rinse and repeat the cycle of money and power. President Donald Trump is the enemy for trying to break this corrupt criminal enterprise.
Governor Tim Walz, Mayor Jacob Frey and Attorney General Keith Ellison are up to their eyeballs in this fraud scandal that siphoned billions of taxpayer dollars to illegal causes and entities. All roads appear to lead to Congresswoman Ilhan Omar. She controls the Minneapolis voting bloc and therefore the state. Frey and Walz are terrified of criticizing her because she is black and Muslim.
To cover up financial crimes, Omar Democrats use physical violence to stymie and bully investigators and law enforcement agents. Like Israel’s IDF just trying to prevent murdered Jews, ICE in America is trying to prevent murder victims. Like Palestinians who start conflicts and then cry victim, blue state liberals are willing to die to protect their narrative, their ideology, and their violent crimes committed in furtherance of their goals.
This is war. When dealing with zealots, diplomacy is useless. The IDF needed to burn Gaza to the ground until Hamas and Hezbollah were broken. The Trump administration needed to bring more force, not less. They needed as many law enforcement personnel necessary to crush the Minnesota Democrat Intifada. If that meant a bad time for Good or getting ugly on Pretti, so be it. Democrats started this war and refuse to stop. At some point Republicans must finally have the guts to finish the job with as much force as legally necessary to permanently break the resistance and restore law and order.
Anti-Jewish violence requires a forceful response
Tuesday, March 10th, 2026Anti-Jewish violence requires a forceful response
Anti-Jewish violence in 2025 saw deadly attacks on Jews in Washington, D.C., Boulder, Colorado, Syracuse, New York, Manchester, England, Bondi Beach, Australia, and other areas. Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro had his home torched while he and his family slept. 10 days in, hope for a safer 2026 climate was quashed. Terror against Jews continues unabated, including campus attacks at MIT and Brown.
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is somehow worse than expected. An antisemitic mob stormed a Jewish neighborhood shouting “We support Hamas.”
The only synagogue in Jackson, Mississippi , Beth Israel was attacked and rendered unusable. Chabad Lubavitch global headquarters in Brooklyn, New York was attacked by a mentally deranged individual.
These events will keep happening until forceful actions are taken to stop them.
Some actions will make politically liberal Jews uncomfortable, but times change. So must they.
For starters, Jews must acquire mass wealth and power. Get rich. Power follows money. Political power requires economic power. Too many Jews enter low-paying industries including education and social work. We have enough bleeding hearts. Jews need to dominate Wall Street, technology, medicine, and yes, big oil. We need corporate lawyers, not legal aid attorneys. The down-trodden can find other help. Right now, we Jews are the down-trodden. Maximum political power will end the days when one George Floyd matters more than an entire people of Jews. Jews must be more powerful throughout America than Pennsylvania Catholics, Minnesota Somali Muslims and San Francisco gays combined.
That is the macro picture. The micro picture means Jews embracing America’s gun culture. Those firebombing synagogues are terrorists, and dead terrorists don’t become recidivists. Every synagogue must budget for 24-hour private security. If that means skimping on alcohol, so be it. Congregants must be well-trained in guns.
Jews must vote for politicians who will guarantee Jewish safety. This means spending city funds on cameras on all streets within 1,000 yards of any synagogue. Many Democrats need the votes of Jew-haters to get elected. That must change. If internal reform fails, liberal Jews must swallow hard and vote Republican. This beats dying. Dead people are useless in advancing social causes.
Most importantly, the coddling of violent criminals must end. Law enforcement agencies must be strengthened, not weakened. Return law and order. Crack down hard on those who impede law and order, including the professional rioter class who are no friends of Jews.
Until Jews are safe, nobody else deserves safety.
Candle-light vigils only benefit those selling candles. If we can seize Venezuelan oil tankers and eliminate Iranian mullahs, surely we can seize people sheltering, harboring and financing domestic anti-Jewish activities. When enough of these terrorists are imprisoned or executed, the terrorism will stop. Everything else is surrender to the next antisemitic attack.
Let’s start by saving Beth Israel. Give the congregation whatever they need to rebuild stronger and better.
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Carrie Prejean fails to understand religion, geopolitics, and virtually everything else
Tuesday, March 10th, 2026Carrie Prejean fails to understand religion, geopolitics, and virtually everything else
In 2009, the Miss USA runner-up was about to be stripped of her Miss California title. Carrie Prejean violated pageant rules by participating in a sex tape. Miss USA pageant owner Donald Trump, an avid golfer, gifted Prejean a mulligan.
Miss Prejean wasted her second chance, skipping mandatory pageant activities. She was terminated for cause, losing her crown.
After public humiliation, Prejean married NFL quarterback Kyle Boller, started a family, and wisely went relatively quiet. Despite being bullied more than anyone outside of Monica Lewinsky, Prejean remained dignified. In person, she was warm and gracious. My own experiences can attest to her kind, caring nature. Her father Wil was an exceptionally good man, a stable rock. His daughter could have achieved her happy ending.
Sadly, she reentered the spotlight and squandered an opportunity to do good. President Trump named her to his 2026 commission on antisemitism. She showed up to a hearing wearing a “Palestine” flag pin. She grilled a witness about a mythical Gaza “genocide” that has been thoroughly debunked. Trump, who’s eldest daughter Ivanka is Orthodox Jewish, had heard enough. Despite a personal distaste for firing people, Trump added Prejean to the exclusive Omarosa Manigault club of people he fired at least twice.
This time, Prejean did not go gently into that good night. The same social media that made her a bullying victim helped her become a bully. She unleashed online tirades against Israel and Zionists.
She is out of mulligans. Understanding why a 38-year-old spouts off on topics she knows nothing about is pointless. What matters is swiftly rebutting her combination of idiocy, ignorance and ugliness.
Prejean does not understand Judaism or Zionism. Ant-Zionism is 100% Jew-hatred, to the consternation of those using anti-Zionism as a convenient fig leaf. Zionism is the right of Jews to live in the Jewish state of Israel. Zionism is the heart of Jewish existence. Anti-Zionism defines a hostility toward Jewish existence.
Prejean does not understand the Middle East or Arab-Israeli conflict. “Palestine” is fictional. “Palestinians” are displaced Egyptian and Jordanian Arabs. These Arabs have no unique language, culture, currency, history or archeology. Before 1964, they never existed. “Gaza” and the “West Bank” are part of Judea and Samaria. Historical evidence shows Jews lived there over 3,000 years ago. Jews currently in Israel are direct descendants of original Jewish lineage.
Prejean’s attacks on Jews directly stems from her April, 2026 conversion from Protestantism to Catholicism. Sadly, Prejean fails to even understand her own newfound faith. Just as Islamists pervert Islam, her virulent fringe strain of Catholicism perverts Catholicism. Pope John Paul II epitomized doctrinaire Catholicism. He officially condemned antisemitism as a sin, calling Jews “elder brothers.” Pope Leo XIV stated that the Church “does not tolerate anti-Semitism and fights against it, on the basis of the Gospel itself.”
Pontiffs aside, nobody is more Catholic than Catholic League President Bill Donohue. Mr. Donohue has fought anti-Catholic bigotry for over 30 years. Anyone unfairly attacking Catholics faces his swift wrath. His comments regarding Prejean were unequivocal. “She does not run a Catholic organization, has no Catholic credentials as an author or instructor, and indeed represents no one but herself. For her to say, without qualification, that ‘Catholics do not embrace Zionism,’ is presumptuous and arrogant.”
True Catholics understand Nostra Aetete (In our time). This seminal 1965 declaration from the Second Vatican Council transformed the Catholic Church’s relationship with non-Christian religions, emphasizing unity, love, and mutual respect.
If Prejean’s Catholicism is sincere, she has two stark choices. She can spiral down into rage, hate and madness. Conversely, she can stop wasting chances her former boss gave her and truly change. She should start by sitting down with Ivanka and just listening. Ivanka is bright and poised. She can educate Prejean about Judaism, Zionism, history, geopolitics, and even help Prejean become a better Philosemitic Catholic.
Liberating Venezuela is good for Israel and Jews
Sunday, January 11th, 2026Liberating Venezuela is good for Israel and Jews
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54 Happy Memories Upon Turning 54
Friday, January 9th, 202654 Happy Memories Upon Turning 54
1.) Every moment I ever spent with my grandparents. They are gone now, but I had all four of them when I graduated college and three of them when I turned 30. I am blessed.
2.) January 9, 1977 — The Oakland Raiders won the Super Bowl on my fifth birthday. I saw the logo and became a Raider for life.
3.) August 15, 1980 — Smokey and the Bandit II came out. I saw the original and the sequel and became a lifelong fan of the Bandit and the Snowman.
4.) January 22, 1984 — The Raiders won their third Super Bowl. I still remember telling the kids at school the next day one simple message. “Just win baby!”
5.) January 21, 1985 — I had my Bar Mitzvah, the Jewish passage into manhood. My Orthodox Rabbi grandfather led the ceremony.
6.) July 13, 1990 — I watched Bill Murray in “Quick Change” for the first of over 100 times. This movie is true New York, and Murray remains a national hero.
7.) August 26, 1990 — I flew from New York to Los Angeles for college. I immediately fell in love with this city and never left.
8.) September 26, 1990 — I joined the campus radio station and developed my lifelong love of radio.
9.) May 10, 1992 — I wrote my first song. 70 more would follow.
10.) January 9, 1994 — The Raiders won a playoff game over arch rival Denver on my 22nd birthday. We all had a big party to celebrate afterward at 1950s Cafe Ed Debevic’s.
11.) June 14, 1994 — The New York Rangers won the NHL Stanley Cup and ended the 54 year curse.
12.) September 13, 1994 — I passed the Series 7 stockbroker’s exam. At that moment I was now a professional.
13.) June 1, 1997 — I saw my friend doing something on a computer that seemed different. He was in a chat room. It was my first time using the Internet.
14.) July 4, 1999 — My friends and I crashed an Independence Day party on the beach and escaped moments before police busted up the party.
15.) September 23, 1999 — I finally got my driver’s license. I never needed one before.
16.) December 31, 1999 — Ringing in the Millennium in Las Vegas.
17.) March 1, 2000 — I flew from Los Angeles to New Orleans for Mardi Gras 2000. I still have my Calvin and Hobbes t-shirt, “Life is short. Party naked. Mardi Gras 2000.”
18.) February 13, 2003 — I watched the movie “Old School.” I will forever thank Vince Vaughn, Will Ferrell and “The Godfather” Luke Wilson for inspiring me at age 31 to finally start going to Florida for Spring Break. Years of South Beach, Miami revelry ensued at the Clevelander and Ocean’s 10.
19.) March 14, 2003 — I flew to Singapore and Thailand and got to experience five days of beauty in each country. I met the Jewish communities of both nations.
20.) November 4, 2003 — NFL Network was born. Finally, a television channel worth watching existed.
21.) November 2, 2004 — Enjoying the 2004 election with my closest friends.
22.) February 12, 2006 — I flew from Los Angeles to Hawaii. I met the Jewish community of Honolulu and attended my first NFL Pro Bowl. I met ESPN’s Chris Berman.
23.) April 28, 2006 — I flew from Los Angeles to New York and went to Radio City Music Hall. For the first time, I got to attend the NFL Draft and meet a bunch of great football heroes.
24.) August 4, 2006 — I flew from Los Angeles to Ohio and drove to Canton. I visited the Pro Football Hall of Fame, saw the induction ceremony featuring John Madden, and attended the Pro Football Hall of Fame Game.
25.) March 11, 2007 — I Started a blog called the Tygrrrr Express. That column somehow turned into five books and a national speaking career.
26.) September 11, 2007 — On the sixth anniversary of the attacks, I flew from Los Angeles to New York and then drove to Great Adventure in New Jersey. I attended Sean Hannity’s Freedom Concert and saw New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani light up the crowd.
27.) October 17, 2007 — I joined Facebook. Between that and Twitter, I have met many good people, increased book sales, and built my business.
28.) February 2, 2008 — I flew from Los Angeles to Phoenix and attended my first Super Bowl. The New York Giants shocked the previously unbeaten New England Patriots.
29.) March 30, 2008 — My friend adopted a child from Guatemala. On this day “the boy” turned one. Being “Unca Eric” is the best job in the world.
30.) May 13, 2008 — I flew from Los Angeles to Washington, DC. I attended the Republican Jewish Coalition Leadership Conference and met Dr. Charles Krauthammer.
31.) August 6, 2008 — I flew from Los Angeles to Israel and spent a week in the Holy Land.
32.) August 30, 2008 — I flew from Los Angeles to Minneapolis for my first Republican Convention. For a week, friends and I slept in a sports bar. It was like being Norm Peterson from “Cheers.”
33.) April 5, 2009 — My first book “Ideological Bigotry” was published.
34.) September 1, 2009 — I left Wall Street after 15 years and began my career as a full-time professional speaker.
35.) November 11, 2009 — I flew from Los Angeles to Galveston and spoke at the Texas Federation of Republican Women Convention. I made TFRW and other lifelong friends in the Lone Star State.
36.) March 11, 2010 — I flew from Los Angeles to Oklahoma City to speak at the National Federation of Republican Women Spring Conference. That launched me nationally since the NFRW run the world.
37.) May 1, 2011 — In Aiken, South Carolina, I saw the news that Osama bin Laden was killed. That night I told my very best political joke. “Osama bin Laden is now burning underground with 72 Helen Thomases.” It was the bookend to my very first political joke. “Never rely on a Palestinian GPS tracker. I took one wrong turn, ended up at a cemetery, and a sinister voice said, ‘You have reached your final destination!’ I got so angry I threw the thing out the window, which was good because 5 seconds later it exploded.”
38.) February 9, 2013 — I met Vice President Dick Cheney and spoke in front of him at a dinner.
39.) September 25, 2013 — I spoke to a Tea Party group in Hays, Kansas. At that moment, I had officially spoken in all 50 states.
40.) November 4, 2014 — I spoke at an election night party in New Jersey.
41.) March 20, 2015 — After writing four political comedy books, I finished my first religious comedy book “Jewish Lunacy.” This allowed me to move beyond political speaking into religious speaking.
42.) May 12, 2015 — I met President George W. Bush and shook his hand.
43.) November 8, 2016 — Enjoyed a raucous election night party in Raleigh, North Carolina. I knocked on a bunch of doors and got to know the Chabad community of Raleigh.
44.) Any woman whoever let me play with her yummy bouncies or at least was nice enough to send me pictures of them.
45.) January 9, 2018 — On my 46th birthday, the return of Chucky as Jon Gruden returns to the Black Hole to rejoin the Raiders. Like me, Gruden has unfinished business.
46.) November 9, 2018 — I met Angela Lansbury in Beverly Hills and got my picture taken with her. She remains one of the most talented people in the history of entertainment.
47.) 2019 was the year I branch out beyond books and into t-shirts. I started with 2 or 3 designs in 2017 and 2018. By the end of 2019 I had 49 mostly original t-shirt designs. Now I have over 250 mostly original designs. My best seller remains “Stop judging women by their tops. #BackSidesMatter!”
48.) 2020 was a brutal year for so many people because of a global pandemic. Yet thank God I was healthy and in better financial condition than previous years. On January 9, 2021, I watched the NFL Wildcard playoffs with friends. Normally there would be 2 games as has been the case for the last 30 years. Yet for the first time, there were 3 games, with 3 more to occur on January 10th. I watched football all day and had a great day with people who matter to me. I was besieged with well-wishes from hundreds of people by text, phone call and social media. My birthday evening capped with a special someone. I am blessed as can be to have had such a great birthday.
49.) August 9, 2021 — Rabbi Yaakov Perman of Chabad Leawood, Kansas helped me put on Tefillin. At that moment, I had finally put on Tefillin in all 50 states.
50.) On February 14, 2022, I achieved the American dream that I thought was forever beyond my reached. I finally bought a home. I own a condo in North Miami, Florida.
51.) On August 14, 2022, I achieved another dream that I thought would never happen. After a life of bachelorhood, I got married. She is a Republican Jewish brunette.
52.) On April 7, 2023, I purchased my second home, a condo in Aventura, 4 miles from the first home in North Miami in South Florida.
53) November 5, 2024 — History repeated itself. I worked hard in North Carolina to get President Trump reelected. This time I was in Charlotte. I got to know the Chabad community of the Carolinas. Their Chabad House in Charlotte has a kosher restaurant on site. I was able to knock on doors during the day, attend evening prayers and dinner in synagogue, and return to door knocking. The very last door I knocked on was next door to the Chabad House. The election afterparty was fantastic.
54) January 5, 2026 — Only 4 days ago, my seventh and newest book came out. “250 Reasons to Love America” is my heartfelt tribute to this beautiful red, white and blue beacon of freedom and exceptionalism. On my birthday, buy my book(s and t-shirts)!
I would like to thank my parents for raising me right and Angela Lansbury’s JB Fletcher of “Murder, She Wrote” for catching murderers and making the world safer. An honorable mention goes to Selwyn “The Commissioner” Patterson of “Death in Paradise,” a murder mystery show my parents introduced me to that I love watching with them.
Anything I could possibly wish for has already been granted. Between my parents, my wife, and the best friends a guy could possibly ask for, I am truly blessed.
eric @ Tygrrrr Express
2026…We…can…do…this
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2026…We…can…do…this
What the heck is that beeping sound?
(Knocks the phone off the hook, keeps banging the snooze alarm)
A voice tells me it’s my pager. My pager is black, so finding it in the dark is the needle in the haystack equivalent. A lucky smack knocks it against the wall, where it may or may not have shattered. The beeping continues. Why does anyone need a pager anymore anyway?
Who the heck is texting me at this ungodly hour of…(either 7 a.m., 1 p.m., or 1 a.m. …it looks blurry)?
Oh, no. It is 5 a.m., and my first radio interview of the New Year is with the morning man of an East Coast station. Time to pretend to sound coherent and go back to sleep. Oh no, wait, that radio interview was several years ago.
Great, happy wishes for the new year. Thanks. Whoever you are, it is too early to talk to you.
One year the person on the telephone insisted it was 1 p.m. After explaining to them that they were on the East Coast, and that 1 p.m. EST is 10 a.m. in Los Angeles, they grew impatient. They knew how to tell time, and that it was 4 p.m. EST, hence 1 p.m. my time.
Sure, getting up and writing my column is an option. It’s a new year, and starting the year off with a flurry of brilliance might be helpful. Forget it. This column is recycled from years ago. It’s also hours late. That is what happens when people get no sleep because of stressful December football games followed by New Year’s Eve revelry.
Election 2026? The first person to talk politics gets blistered in my column … tomorrow.
Bowl games? There is DVR. Besides, does anybody care who wins the Poulan Weed Eater Bowl, the Lack of Insight.com Bowl, the Fishbowl, the RU486 Morning After Bowl, The California Metrosexual Pride Bowl, or any other game that may or may not be made up?
Speaking of the morning after, does anybody remember the David Byrne Talking Heads song from the movie “Less than Zero? (which the temperature feels like right now in some parts of the country. No wonder I live in this insane city of LA)” The song is called “Once In A Lifetime.”
“This is not my beautiful house. This is not my beautiful wife. What have I done? How did I get here?”
It then occurs to me that the beeping sounds are the voices in my head telling me I am too old, even at 53, to stay out this late. Even without alcohol, exhaustion has set in.
Get out of bed? Work calls in (whenever) hours. Better rest up before my tyrant of a boss complains. Such is the life of the self-employed.
Get up now? Somehow stagger to the shower, get dressed, make it out of my condo to go … where?
The stores are closed. Maybe they are open. Too tired to find out.
My birthday is in just over a week. Time to pace myself.
Work on my website? All that takes is staggering to my couch. Oh, no. My IT guy has not finished it yet. Oh, wait, he did years ago. I clicked on the wrong site.
Go on Jdate and search for women? Not a bad idea, except it is too tiring to check their Adams Apples. This is not the year for a boyfriend, and am not sure that my eyes can tell the difference right now. Besides, Jdate is so 2014. Now it is Tinder, JSwipe and JCrush. Oh, wait. I got married in 2022. I don’t even know if Internet dating is stll a thing.
Shop on eBay? No. bad idea. Buying stuff when not at full capacity is problematic. Who needs another mountain goat? Dang creature gets his horns in my hide. Not a comfy way to wake up. Calm down boy, you’ll get some straw to graze on upon my waking up.
Work on my record album? Although again, world, just because my hair is long, that does not mean my band exists. The best instrument is the triangle, because that tells me lunch is ready. My hair is getting long again. I could work on that, although I didn’t do much. I sat. It grew.
Ahh, yes, lunch. Get up and eat something. My microwave is slow, and a five minute microwave dinner takes almost 15 minutes. Read the paper? It is cold outside my building where the stand is, and it only takes coins. Reading the paper online is tiring, and my printer is not working. At least the lifestyle section makes a great placemat for eating. Oh, wait. That stand does not exist anymore. Reading the paper online it is.
Staying in bed for only a couple more hours until (whatever the big and little hands say) would allow me to stay up all night and be totally exhausted for work tomorrow. Again, my boss is a tyrant.
Running errands … not gonna happen.
Every morning, a four word prayer starts my day. My elbows are used to try and leverage them against my bed to prop me up. Placing my alarm clock on the other side of the room failed, since ripping the cord out of the wall solved that problem.
As for the Jewish brunette who stole the covers, her voice was not a problem last night, although if she opens her trap today she will receive a more caustic reception than usual.
Oh wait, she already left. Here is a note. “Tried to wake you, but that was a losing battle. By the way, you have nothing but soda in your fridge. Talk to you soon.” oh, wait, I think that happened over a decade ago.
There are also potato chips in my fridge as well. Why they are there remains a mystery, but it saves having to remember which cabinet they are in. One-stop shopping is the way to go.
Besides, combing my hair for her was enough. Not doing it this morning, proud “retrosexual” that is me.
At least having the decency to say some morning prayers would be appropriate.
“Hey God…those people I pray for every night…yeah those people, the same ones…look after them again.”
Back to sleep, despite every attempt to wake up. The home phone is turned off, the cell is off as well, and the pager is still shattered, in addition to being disconnected years ago.
There may have been a car crash outside my building followed by 911 calls and sirens, but telling everybody to “keep it down,” solved that problem. A brief nightmare of me being late for work was averted when I realized my location to me was known if necessary.
Four televisions in the living room, and none in the bedroom. Who thought that up? Oh yeah, a television in the bedroom would promote laziness. Besides, trying to figure out which remote to use would cause me to break them all as if they were my pager.
Ok, here it is. Come on, elbows, do your stuff. Rise, young lad, rise! Awaken thy exhausted tired eyes!
Why is God shouting? Oh wait, that is my over-dramatization of God.
Time to set the alarm now to avoid missing work tomorrow. Where was it thrown? Threw it? Oh, screw it.
Ok, time for my four word prayer. It has gotten me this incredibly terribly far. Time to contemplate getting out of bed.
“We…can…do…this.”
Happy 2026 all. Except for the person who woke me up earlier. Whoever you are, I still can’t stand you, even though you are doing me a favor.
Ten hours and 16 bowl games later, there is only one thing left to do.
Time for a nap. Happy 2026.
Zzzzz.
eric
The Top 10 Powerful Bald White Guys (PBWGs) of 2025
Sunday, December 28th, 2025The Top 10 Powerful Bald White Guys (PBWGs) of 2025
This list is dedicated to the late radio host Austin Hill. He was a great guy who left us far too soon. He loved this list and gave it more attention than it ever deserved. May he never be forgotten.
This list was inspired by Dann Florek, who played Police Captain Donald Cragen on the “Law & Order” franchises for nearly three decades.
Jeff Bezos did not make the list. He is no longer the richest man in the world or the CEO of Amazon. Being rich is not the same as being powerful. Bring powerful requires doing things.
Kevin O’Leary did not make the list. Mr. Wonderful is still wonderful, but he seems to be more interested in collecting designer watches than truly being a PBWG.
Prince William just missed the cut. While most of the Royal Family are useless dilettantes, Prince William and his wife seem to be in the tradition of the late Queen Elizabeth. William appears genuinely committed to public service. He seems to be a loyal husband and doting father. He ha stayed free of scandal. Nevertheless, with everything going on in the world, he cannot be a top PBWG until he becomes King.
With that, here are the Top 10 PBWGs of 2025
10.) Bruce Willis and Rob Reiner— This is a heartbreaking one to write. Both of these men had legions of fans and suffered cruel fates. Reiner and his wife were murdered on Hanukkah by their own drug-addicted son. Willis is still alive, but a shell of his former self. He is suffering from a cruel form of dementia called aphasia. He has largely retreated from public view. Willis was a lifelong Republican and Reiner was a die hard Democrat. Yet they both achieved international fame. They both succeeded as television actors before branching out. Willis became a movie star and musician who played the harmonica. Reiner became a movie director. For their respective bodies of work, they both deserve lifetime achievement awards. May their families take solace in their being PBWGs.
9.) Joe Rogan — He has the top podcast in America. People trust him because he is seen as a straight shooter. He asks questions that nobody else seems willing to ask. He is not politically ideological in either direction. He wants to hear arguments and let his listeners decide for themselves. He is truly one of the last open-minded hosts around. His interview with Donald Trump combined with Kamala Harris avoiding his program played a major role in Trump winning back the White House. Rogan has come a long way since Newsradio.
8.) Minnesota Governor Tim Walz — This Elmer Fudd doofus almost became Vice President. Now he is embroiled in a massive corruption scandal. Apparently Somali Muslims in Minneapolis fraudulently received taxpayer dollars and laundered that money to foreign terrorists overseas. Normally this would get a politician indicted, but being a PBWG has its privileges. So does being a liberal. For being a PBWG and having the politically correct leftist politics, Walz will get a free pass under the Jon Corzine doctrine. To be fair, Corzine worked at Goldman Sachs, which is an automatic free pass for all conduct. So he had 3 privilege cards while Walz has only two. Walz is determined to fail upward, and will skyrocket up this list if he wins the presidency.
7.) Howard Lutnick — The Trump administration’s Commerce Secretary was the former head of Cantor Fitzgerald. That was the firm that lost 658 employees on September 11th, 2001. Lutnick will is a unique Commerce secretary. Unlike previous Republican Commerce Secretaries, Lutnick is pro-tariff. Lutnick is the first Commerce Secretary who is navigating cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin. Lutnick is pro-crypto. He would rank higher, but he seems to be a symbolic figurehead who just follows presidential orders. Lutnick really wanted to be Treasury Secretary, and he seems less influential than Scott Bessent.
6.) Brendan Carr — Trump’s FCC Chair has turned the FCC from a leftist anti-freedom organization into one where all ideological viewpoints truly are allowed. Carr successfully repealed the purposely and dishonestly named net neutrality laws that were anything but neutral. Design to force liberal speech on everyone and suppress conservative speech, Carr defeated that anti-freedom scourge. Carr has waged war on DEI practices that allow talentless people to rise above their abilities solely due to their skin color or sexual orientation.
5.) Russell Vought — Trump’s OMB Director held the job in the first administration as well. He has kept his foot on the gas. Not one to shy away from a fight, Vought has taken sledgehammer to the Elizabeth Warren inspired and utterly useless Consumer Financial Protections Bureau. He also closed out the corrupt US Aid program. Vought has become a conservative hero for his dedication to trying to smash the bloated federal civil service bureaucracy and the increasingly corrupt and unconstitutional administrative state. With Elon Musk returning to Tesla full-time, Vought is also in charge of the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE
4.) David Solomon — Normally the Head Sled at Golden Sachs is the top PBWG because Goldman Sachs runs the world. Goldman Sachs has a history of flitting in between corporate power and government power. Jon Corzine, Hank Paulson, and Lloyd Blankfein are all former Goldman Sachs PBWG top dogs. Solomon initially missed out on the top spot due to tough economic times, war raging across the world, and an anti-Wall Street climate. Yet in 2024, happy days returned. That allowed Solomon to be last year’s Top PBWG.. In 2025, the stock market hit an all time high. Goldman Sachs now has its usual level of undue influence over the government. The company that is too big to fail with executives who are too big to jail escaped scrutiny during financial meltdowns. They are not going to lose power when Wall Street is making money hand over fist. Yet major political events prevented Solomon from winning the top PBWG spot back to back.
3.) Tom Homan — The Trump administration began with a promise a decade ago to crack down hard on illegal immigration. Homan came out of retirement to fulfill that promise. Despite threats to his family and himself, Homan has refused to back down. He has brought law and order to cities where crime was out of control. As Homan has reminded us, it did not take an act of Congress to restore public trust and safety. It only took a president firmly committed to those things. Trump has unleashed Homan, and Homan has unleashed the gates of hell on drug traffickers and other violent felons.
2.) Stephen Miller — As fantastic as Homan is, Trump’s deputy policy advisor Miller wants to go even further. Homan is dedicated to removing all violent felons in America illegally. Miller seeks to remove every single illegal immigrant. Illegal immigration is a crime. As the Minneapolis corruption scandal shows, the consequences of illegal immigration extend far beyond America’s recently porous borders. Miller and Trump have a mind meld just like former PBWG Ben Rhodes had with Barack Obama. Yet while Rhodes was dedicated to subverting the law, Miller is obsessed with enforcing it.
Normally, Homan and miller would be competing with Solomon for the top spot. Yet 2025 brought one event that up-ended the entire PBWG list.
As said every year, this list was inspired by Dann Forek’s Captain Donald Cragen. In the 27th season opener of Law & Order Special Victims Unit, it was revealed that Captain Cragen had died of natural causes.Since Actor Dann Florek is very much alive, it is time to give him the richly deserved lifetime achievement award. Unlike Willis and Reiner, it is not too late for shower praise on Florek for his lifetime contribution to PBWGs everywhere.
1.) Dann Florek — The man repeatedly barked that “One Police Plaza is all over my @ss!” His scenes with PBWG Superior Chief of Detectives were standard. He’d say “Chief.” The Chief would reply “Don.” That was enough to convey the messages without small talk. Every PBWG owes Florek’s Captain Cragen a debt of gratitude Guys who not only get the job done bu took authoritative while doing so are a treasure. If people saw Florek on the street, they would just assume he was in senior management somewhere getting things done and looking tough doing it.
While Florek inspired this list, the death of Cragen means Florek may never be on his own list again, much less topping it.Yet real men leave a legacy that lasts beyond their own life. Cragen’s subordinate Detective Elliott Stabler now has his own program, Law & Order Organized Crime. Just as Stabler made rage proud, folliclely challenged actor Chris Meloni will make Florek proud. May Stabler carry on Cragen’s PBWG legacy for years to come.
A toast to Captain Donald Cragen, who will be missed but forever a PBWG. Extend that toast to Dann Florek, who gave rage his stern PBWG personality.