I have a friend who works in the security sector. He always plays Red Team - so let's call him Reddy. His job is to look at systems, understand them, and then dream up ways to exploit and compromise them.

I recently asked for his opinion on the SAVE Act. No surprise, like the overwhelming majority of Americans, he is all for it - but his reasoning was less about preventing individual illegal aliens from voting but about reversing a deliberate systemic compromise of election system integrity by Democrats over the last two decades.

Reddy thinks Blue State voting systems are deliberately designed to enable fraud on an industrial scale, and California's electoral system is the model at or near full maturity.

He contends (and I agree with his analysis) that Democrats in California and their allied NGOs have successfully built up a huge bank of false registrations and jiggered their ballot handling and counting rules so they can always "find" enough votes on election night, or even after, (when they know the margins) to make sure they never lose.

Someday there is going to be a movie made about this rescue mission in Iran.

But man, what a morale booster for our military to know that the Secretary of War and Commander-in-Chief will blow up $300 million worth of our own military aircraft to rescue one US soldier.

No man left behind!

God bless our troops!

Military personnel matter to President Trump. At $300 million a troop the 1.3 million people in uniform means they are worth 390 trillion dollars (a million times a million is a trillion).

To Joe Biden, they were worth nothing.

He left 13 behind to die in Afghanistan and he looked at his watch repeatedly when their bodies came home.

But for a moment, look at our military’s rescue through the eyes of the enemy.

Iran had two men downed inside Iran and somehow its military was unable to find them, while the military from a nation thousands of miles away rescued them. It was like a groundball going through a fielder’s legs and costing his team a World Series game.

The rescue feels like victory because it is.

"Now, these are not routine operations. They were high-risk, high-stakes missions conducted in the heart of enemy territory.

"This was not just barely into Iran. This was deep into Iran, involving coordinated strikes to suppress threats, deception tactics to protect our teams, and full synchronization across air, ground, and special operations.

"The Iranians are still asking themselves right now, how did the Americans do this?"

Of the first mission, Hegseth said:

"The first mission, the first of two, was an audacious daylight thunder run right up the middle.

"It was authorized in less than two hours from that pilot going down, when we knew where he was, and it was authorized in the middle of the night because anybody that’s worked for this man knows he’s up in the middle of the night." //

"I looked up at my screen when the final mission was complete inside our SCIF, our secure facility.

"And we have a running VTC, a running coordination cell, and the top of it read 45 hours and 56 minutes.

"For 45 hours and 56 minutes, we held that call open for coordination.

"From the moment our pilots went down, our mission was unblinking.

"The call never dropped.

"The meeting never stopped.

"The planning never ceased."