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America’s Crime Problem
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There has always been and always will be some degree of crime in America. Not everyone is taught right from wrong or respect for other people’s things. However, crime in America has increased due to the number of people who have come here who have not assimilated and have no respect for western culture. On Saturday, The Conservative Review posted an article about crime in America.
The article reports:
New Department of Justice data shows that the vast majority of violent crimes committed by noncitizens are being committed by illegal aliens, not legal residents — and BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey, alongside her brother, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Texas Justin Simmons, believes this needs to change.
“A few weeks ago, they released stats for fiscal 2025. And one of the stats in there said that of the 66,000 people sentenced in the United States, 28,000 were noncitizens. Now, not 28,000 were illegal aliens because there’s a difference. You can be a resident alien and have legal status here,” Simmons explains.
“So 28,000 were noncitizens, but of those 28,000, 91.6% were illegal aliens,” he says. “Now, I will say, most of those illegal aliens were charged with those immigration offenses we talked about earlier, illegal entry, illegal re-entry.”
The article notes:
“You can just imagine how much money we would have saved if we didn’t have to incarcerate all those folks who have broken the laws of the United States, who have shown their unwillingness to follow the laws of the United States upon entering the country,” he adds.
Stuckey points out that among the charges are “murder, manslaughter, sex abuse, child sex abuse.”
“The vast majority of those heinous crimes among the noncitizens are being committed by the illegal aliens,” she says.
“Most of the most heinous ones, stalking, harassing, kidnapping, drug trafficking, the vast majority of those are being committed by these illegal aliens, which just shows how dangerous the situation is,” she continues.
“It’s a human rights issue.”
America was founded on a Judeo-Christian legal code. The Ten Commandments are the basis for that code. Regardless of the efforts of some on the political left to remove the Ten Commandments from the public square, they remain as the basis of our society. Other countries do not necessarily have that foundation. When large numbers of people from other cultures enter America, it is very hard for them to be absorbed into our culture. Bringing small groups of immigrants legally into the country allows those immigrants to assimilate and become valued members of our society.
Common Sense From A Superior Court Judge
Voting irregularities and voting rules seem to be a topic of conversation right now–even in states that are not necessarily in the news. North Carolina is one of those states.
On Friday, NewsBusters reported:
Democrats’ bid to skirt previous court decisions in order to allow people who have never lived in North Carolina (“never residents”) to continue voting in the state was slapped down by Superior Court Judge Hoyt Tessener in a ruling released this week.
A North Carolina law allowing “never residents” to cast ballots in the state for federal elections violates undisputed court rulings, Judge Tessener ruled in his decision.
“Never residents” are adults born outside the United States whose parents or guardians once lived in the state.
In March of this year, the Republican National Committee (RNC) and the North Carolina Republican Party filed a court challenge to the state law on the grounds that precedent already prohibited “never residents” from voting in the state and that North Carolina can’t legally carve out an exemption for federal elections.
Last year, the state’s Board of Elections issued guidance stating they people who never lived in North Carolina could vote for federal elections as if they were legal residents there.
The Democratic National Committee (DNC), as an Intervenor-Defendant, joined with the North Carolina State Board of Elections to oppose the challenge to the law, calling it an effort to “disenfranchise” voters. The Democrats also argued that one element of the case should be transferred to a three-judge panel.
Judge Tessener rejected all of the Democrats’ claims, granting Republicans’ motion for summary judgement and noting that the issue had already been decided by previous court rulings:
In 2024, NC legislators passed a law shifting oversight of the State Board of Elections to the Office of the State Auditor. This has resulted in cleaning up the voter rolls and taking steps to insure election integrity. The Democrats opposed this shift because the State Auditor is a Republican with a reputation for cleaning up questionable practices in spending and other areas within the state. I suspect we will see similar lawsuits and court decisions are we head for the mid-term elections.
Voting With Your Feet
A state other than New York and New Jersey is about to lose a company because of its political policies.
On Thursday, Bearing Arms reported the following:
If the firearm industry is as massive as anti-gunners claim, then politicians should be wary about passing gun control. After all, even a little bit of it might be enough to drive the industry from your state entirely, taking jobs and other economic benefits with it.
In fact, we’ve seen something of an exodus from many anti-gun states as companies decided to not just leave places hostile toward their businesses, but that are also trying to make it easier for them to be sued for the actions of third parties.
Now, with Virginia’s anti-gun cabal calling the shots in the Old Dominion State, at least one company has decided to move from there to just a few miles down the road from me in Southwest Georgia.
The article notes:
Thomasville is a beautiful community filled with Victorian homes and a long history of really doing Christmas in style, and now they’re home to a small firearm manufacturer that makes a pretty interesting handgun.
The Rideout Arsenal Dragon is a semi-auto handgun with a ridiculously low bore axis. This apparently reduces muzzle rise and lets you get off follow-up shots much quicker. It’s not an inexpensive handgun, but it’s an interesting one, and it’ll be made close to home, which is nice for yours truly.
And, honestly, I absolutely understand why they’d make the move. The Dragon, which isn’t on the market just yet, it seems, features a standard magazine capacity well above what Virginia now tolerates, with the company’s site listing it as 20+1 or 17+1 depending on the configuration. Why build a gun in a state where your own employees couldn’t carry it as it was intended to be carried?
Here in the Peach State, we hold no such restrictions on magazine capacity.
Elections have consequences. Thank God we live in a country where we are free to move from one state to another.
From my friends at Power Line Blog:
Finding The Children
During the Biden administration, approximately 450,000 children who crossed the border unaccompanied went missing. Those children were either sex trafficked or put in work situations that amounted to slavery. The Trump administration is focused on finding and rescuing those children. So far, they have located and rescued about 150,000.
On Thursday, The Daily Signal posted an article about the search for those missing children.
The article reports:
Nearly 90,000 unidentified children facing sexual abuse will finally be helped thanks to House Republicans funding the largest investment to fight child exploitation and trafficking.
A provision included in the newly passed Department of Homeland Security funding bill will allow 200 new investigators to identify victims of child sexual abuse.
“Right now, 89,000 unidentified image series of children being sexually abused have been seen by law enforcement—but these children have yet to be identified and are still waiting to be found due to resource and manpower shortages,” Tim Tebow, founder and chairman of the Tim Tebow Foundation, said.
“Today, we acted. I am grateful to our congressional leaders for getting this lifesaving legislation over the finish line, and to the law enforcement who never stop fighting for these kids,” Tebow continued.
House Republicans passed the $70 billion party-line budget bill, the Secure America Act, to fully fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection. The bill passed Tuesday night, 214–212, with all Republicans voting “yes” and all Democrats voting “no.”
The Renewed Hope Act was included to allocate $108.5 million to hire 200 additional victim identification analysts, forensic analysts, and investigators to identify unknown children seen in sexual images. Now they can be located, and future potential child victims can be safeguarded.
The article notes:
Tebow credited multiple members who helped author this legislation, including Democrat Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut and Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida, Jamie Raskin of Maryland, Lucy McBath of Georgia, and Madeleine Dean of Pennsylvania, all of whom decided to vote against the final passage due to it being connected to ICE funding.
What in the world has happened to the Democrat party?
Ignoring The People They Are Supposed To Represent
President Trump was elected by a large margin. There are numerous people in America who suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome, but even they have to admit that their pocketbooks have done better under President Trump than President Biden and that America is now the number one economy in the world. The President has worked hard at relieving some of the tax burden on working Americans and at removing regulations that strangle the American economy. He has done this mainly through Executive Orders–Congress has not really been very helpful.
On Friday, Just the News reported:
President Donald Trump has issued 266 executive orders in his second term but only 70 have been codified into law, according to Mark Meadows, a White House chief of staff in the first Trump administration and a former North Carolina GOP congressman.
“That’s a start, but Congress needs to double the effort!!!” Meadows wrote in a post on X this week, noting that 196 of Trump’s Executive Orders were not yet codified into law.
Unless Executive Orders are codified into law, they can be undone by the next President.
The article notes:
The most recent executive orders by Trump include strengthening customs enforcement, eliminating bureaucratic processes when removing senior federal workers for misconduct or poor performance, both issued on June 3, and an order promoting advanced artificial intelligence innovation and security, issued on June 2.
Tennessee GOP Rep. Tim Burchett reposted Meadow’s post in agreement with the former congressman’s argument.
“I have filed 20 bills dealing with @realDonaldTrump executive orders. Some were covered in the BBB,” he wrote in the repost, referring to the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. “We need some guts.”
These are things that the majority of Americans support.
The article concludes:
There has also been considerable backlash to the executive order restricting the distribution of mail-in ballots by the U.S. Postal Service, with all 23 Democratic state attorneys general urging the court to block the order, and condemning it as unconstitutional voter suppression in a case now before the federal court in Boston.
Some of Trump’s executive orders that have become law include the GENIUS Act, aimed at protecting America’s financial system from illicit activity, and the White-House-led Task Force to Eliminate Fraud (Executive Order 14395), which legally modifies how federal benefits are administered under the False Claims Act.
Congress has become an elite club that ignores American voters. We need to vote the club members out of office!
A Novel Approach
On Wednesday, Breitbart posted an article about the ongoing construction of the border wall between America and Mexico.
The article reports:
The Department of Homeland Security is “ahead of schedule and… below budget on building the border wall” from California’s beaches to the Texas coast, says Rodney Scott, the nation’s top border patrol leader.
A government project that is below budget and ahead of schedule?! I didn’t even think that was legal!
The article notes:
“We’ll have the entire system — to include a secondary barrier in places we need it, the water barrier in the Rio Grande River, and the [monitoring] technology that was paid for by OB3 [One Big Beautiful Bill Act] — done by July 2028,” he told Mark Krikorian, director of the Center for Immigration Studies.
The article concludes:
Biden’s agents were pro-migration progressives, said Scott:
They literally just had a completely different perspective on the world. They didn’t see America as a place to preserve or to protect or to put first. They saw it as a place to provide freebies to other people from anywhere around the world.
I told them, many other people told them, we put it in writing, we showed them historically when certain things had taken place and [when] there was no [legal] consequence to illegal immigration, what would happen.
More so — and I want everybody to understand this — it’s not [just] about illegal immigration. We, I, explained to them in detail how the cartels depend upon illegal immigration to distract and overwhelm law enforcement [at the border], so that they can get the second wave of — whether it be people, narcotics, or anybody willing to pay extra to avoid a law enforcement officer — [through].
“We showed the Biden administration facts and evidence of how that happens, how [the cartels] work it out, and they didn’t care,” Scott said.
Hundreds of thousands of Americans — and thousands of migrants — were killed by drugs and crime in Biden’s administration.
“This administration cares, and we shut it off immediately,” said Scott.
Read that last sentence again and consider it when you vote in November.
College? Yes or No
Author: R. Alan Harrop, Ph.D.
Graduation from an accredited four year college has been the aspiration of many high school students; although when I attended high school in the 1960s, it was rarely achieved. About 15% of my high school senior class went on to attend college. Over the years, the percentage of high school students attending college has gone up dramatically. In fact, it has become an expectation for the majority. Recently however, many people have begun to question not only the importance of college but whether the disadvantages outweigh the advantages. Let’s take a look.
Historically, college was a place where students would achieve what was called a classical education. That included studying history, cultural heritage and languages, science and mathematics. Many of the early colleges were affiliated with specific religions and included religious instruction as part of the curriculum. Training for specific career skills was infrequent. Gradually the focus of colleges shifted more towards career-path learning such as medicine, engineering, and teaching. A review of common college majors today shows an overwhelming number of college majors, many of which have no specific connection to a particular career. Consequently, many college graduates do not find that they qualify for a specific career or profession when they graduate. Given the increasing cost of college, are these students getting a fair return for their investment?
Nationally, the average cost of private, four-year college tuition is now over $35,000 per year. Public colleges average about $12,000 per year. Cost of room and board, fees and books can add considerably to this cost. Also, since the average student now takes six years to graduate, the actual expense can be much greater. The debt of the average graduate in 2024 was $37,000, with of course many owing much more. The total student debt in this country is now about $1.7 trillion dollars, which is more than the total credit card debt of all Americans. Much of this debt is due to tuition increases that have risen at a rate greatly above inflation and the ease at which government student loans are made available to students encouraging borrowing.
A major concern for many parents is whether attending college is resulting in the indoctrination of their children with leftist/woke ideology. A Gallop poll showed that 48% of college professors were registered Democrats and 6% were registered Republicans. Given these percentages, it is highly likely that the overwhelming number of non-party registered professors also learn sharply to the Left.
Recently, it was revealed that 31% of the students at Harvard were from foreign countries whose values vary dramatically from traditional Americans. Other colleges may not have quite so high percentages of foreign students; however, the 1.1 million foreign students in this country are going somewhere. By the way, of the 1.1 million, Chinese students account for 400.000. The point is that our students are being exposed to influences that may not be consistent with our values and beliefs. The recent rise of anti-Semitism on college campuses shows the result.
The bottom line is that the decision to send a child to college is no longer as simple and straight forward as it once was. Unless a student is seeking a specific career path, parents and students alike should consider alternatives such as community colleges and specific skill training, which for many will produce a better outcome at less cost.
This Looks Better Than My House!
This is a picture of the chicken coop that JD Vance and his wife have put in at his official residence at the US Naval Observatory.
An article at Yahoo News posted on Thursday describes it as:
The new henhouse has been designed to mirror the Victorian-style residence where vice-presidents have lived for decades.
Featuring a round turret, green door and faux slate roof, the white structure is surrounded by gravel and potted plants and sits within a fenced enclosure with views of the national cathedral.
I love having real people in charge in Washington. Just for the record, I have a friend with a chicken named Feather Locklear and another one named Hennifer Lopez.
The article at Yahoo News reports:
The coop was donated by Carolina Coops, a company based in North Carolina that is known for its “premium” chicken houses and has a large social media following. It was built without taxpayer money, according to a source familiar with the project.
“It’s something I thought was amazing to do for this country,” said Matthew DuBoise, the company’s owner and founder. “It’s a place of history and a place of significance.”
…According to a spokesman, Mr Vance plans to help care for the chickens personally, while his children have already named the newly arrived chicks.
Once fully grown, the hens are expected to provide eggs for the vice-president’s family and others living and working at the Naval Observatory.
Backyard chickens have enjoyed a resurgence in popularity across the US in recent years.
The article concludes:
The Vances are also following a tradition of leaving their own mark on the vice-presidential residence.
Mr Biden added a heritage garden during his time as vice-president for the Obama administration and Karen Pence, the wife of Donald Trump’s vice-president during his first term, introduced beehives to the grounds.
Kamala Harris redecorated parts of the house, including the library.
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Protesting To Save Your Nation
The United Kingdom is experiencing some unrest as a result of its unlimited immigration policy. They are in danger of losing their culture, losing the ability to be safe on their streets, and losing their concept of law and order.
On Thursday, CBN News reported:
A 30-year-old man from Sudan appeared in a Belfast court Wednesday charged with attempted murder over a stabbing attack that left a man seriously injured and triggered anti-immigrant violence in several parts of Northern Ireland.
Hadi Alodid, 30, was ordered held in jail after an appearance by video in Belfast Magistrates’ Court, where a detective said he blinded Stephen Ogilvie in the left eye during the knife attack. He was also charged with possessing a knife and threatening to kill a radiographer while being treated for a hand injury after the assault.
When police arrived at the crime scene, they found Alodid on the man, armed with a kitchen knife, the detective said. Alodid later told hospital staff: “I’ve killed someone, I don’t know if they are dead,” and said, “I will kill you.”
He refused legal representation through an Arabic interpreter and did not enter a plea.
The court appearance followed a night of violence in which masked men set fire to several homes they believed to house immigrants, burned trash bins, torched a Belfast bus and pelted police with objects. Firefighters rescued several people from burning homes.
I understand the frustration of the Irish even though I do not agree with their actions.
The article concludes:
The border is a highly sensitive issue. Allowing the free flow of people is a major pillar of the peace process that largely ended decades of violence known as “The Troubles.” The conflict involving Irish Republican and British Loyalist militants and U.K. security forces left almost 3,600 people dead before a 1998 peace accord.
Much of Tuesday’s violence took place in working-class areas where former paramilitary groups still hold considerable sway over the streets.
Last week a separate case of a university student who was stabbed to death in Southampton, England, in December was seized on by activists and U.S. Vice President JD Vance, who blamed immigration for the violence. Some British politicians objected to that.
Henry Nowak, who was white, was killed by Vickrum Digwa, a Sikh who falsely claimed to police that he was the victim of a racist assault by Nowak. When police officers arrived, they initially treated the wounded Nowak as a suspect before noticing his injury and trying to resuscitate him.
Digwa was convicted of murder for stabbing Nowak with a Sikh dagger and sentenced last week to life in prison with a minimum 21-year term. The case has spurred heated debates about policing and race, and a protest over Nowak’s death turned violent, with some attacking police with chairs and rocks. Several people were charged with violent disorder.
The Continuing Saga Of California Elections
On Thursday, Townhall posted an article about some of the questionable practices that are coming to light about the current California elections.
The article reports:
California elections are chaotic. Los Angeles mayoral candidate Nithya Raman cried on election night after losing. Then, the mail-in ballots arrived, and now she and incumbent Karen Bass are heading to a runoff. Republican Spencer Pratt didn’t make it; he was leading until the mail-in ballots came in. This always sparks controversy and fascination: the election results and what seem like Democratic adjustments after all the votes from election day are counted. Now, there are reports from those on Skid Row claiming they were paid to vote for Bass or Raman (via NY Post):
A series of shocking videos show homeless residents on Los Angeles’ Skid Row claiming they were paid to vote for Mayor Karen Bass and councilwoman Nithya Raman.
The California Post obtained copies of the videos after they were published Tuesday on the TikTok account LaneNeedsSpencerPratt.
The footage, recorded near 7th Street and Flower Street in downtown Los Angeles on Tuesday morning, has since been provided to the Department of Justice. It also follows The Post’s revelations that thousands of homeless voters were registered to shelters where they didn’t live.
One shelter in Venice, where 185 Raman voters were registered, received $600,000 from taxpayers care of the socialist Raman.
In one of the clips, a man who calls himself Kevin Shepherd, claimed he received $4 to vote for Bass.
[…]
“They gave you an optional choice,” Shepherd claimed, alleging the was offered $2 but negotiated for a higher payment and ultimately received $4.
Shepherd further claimed he completed a mail-in ballot for Bass and deposited it in a ballot box.
Skid Row resident, Rene Johnson, 39, also claimed she received $5 after being told to vote for Bass.
Johnson said she supported Bass, but told the creator she was still unclear about some of the forms she had completed.
“But, you know, at the time, I didn’t know that that was going on,” she said.
Please follow the link above to read the rest of the article. People need to go to jail for bribing voters. Otherwise, this will continue.
Changing The Rules To Create Equality–Not Equity
Equality in hiring means hiring the person who is best qualified for the position. Equity means hiring people based on criteria other than their qualifications supposedly to level the playing field.
On Thursday, American Greatness posted an article about some changes that are being made to the hiring practices in the Department of War.
The article reports:
The Justice Department concluded Tuesday that a key Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) interpretation of federal employment law is unconstitutional, arguing that it pressures employers to consider race when making hiring decisions.
The opinion, issued by the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) and challenges the concept of disparate-impact liability under Title VII, which allows employers to face legal consequences when neutral employment policies disproportionately affect groups protected by race, sex or other classifications.
While the opinion does not carry the force of a court ruling, it could significantly influence how federal agencies approach workplace discrimination cases and may make it more difficult for employees to bring certain claims against employers.In an unusual move, the Justice Department announced the opinion jointly with the EEOC.
T. Elliot Gaiser, assistant attorney general for the Office of Legal Counsel, argued that the current interpretation of disparate-impact liability creates pressure on employers to make race-conscious decisions in order to avoid lawsuits.
“The fundamental problem is that disparate-impact liability tends to incent—and even coerce—employers to make race-based decisions to avoid liability or the threat of liability,” Gaiser wrote.
“By pressuring employers to take race-based actions in the name of proactively addressing potential statistical disparities, disparate-impact liability allows the government to engage in race discrimination indirectly,” he added.
The opinion is the latest step in the Trump administration’s effort to dismantle progressive diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives and other policies officials claim have encouraged discrimination under the guise of promoting equality.
If a soldier is tasked with defending his fellow soldiers in battle, I want him to be the smartest, best-trained, most qualified soldier available I really don’t care about his race, religion, color or sex life.
The Stalling Is Going To End Shortly
President Trump is running out of patience with the Iranians in the peace negotiations. It has become obvious that the Iranians really don’t want to negotiate–they just want to hold out until the midterm elections hoping that by that time the war will no longer have the support of the American voters.
On Thursday, The New York Post reported:
President Trump said he is readying new strikes on Iranian infrastructure — after warning that the Islamic Republic will “have to pay the price” for taking “too long” to negotiate a peace deal.
The commander-in-chief said he is “getting close to ordering new strikes against Iranian power plants and bridges” in a phone call with Fox News’ chief foreign correspondent Trey Yingst on Wednesday.
Trump also accused Iran in the phone call of “tapping the United States along when it comes to the negotiating process.”
The current cease-fire has not been two impressive–everyone has continued their drone strikes, only somewhat less frequently.
The article notes:
It came as the president took to Truth Social to warn of retaliatory strikes against Iran following the shooting down of a US Apache helicopter on Monday near the Strait of Hormuz.
“They’ve taken too long to negotiate a deal that would have been great for them, now they will have to pay the price!!!” Trump wrote in a thunderous post Wednesday morning, after stating that the country’s military infrastructure and leadership were in disarray.
“Iran’s Military is a complete and total mess. Much of it, like their Navy and Air Force, doesn’t even exist anymore – They have been completely defeated. Iran is all talk and no action. The Bully of the Middle East is DEAD!!! ” he added.
It really is time to end Iran’s funding of terror in the Middle East. If we need to destroy Iran’s infrastructure to do that, I am okay with that.
Trying To Get The SAVE Act Passed
If you weren’t already convinced that America needs the SAVE Act to insure honest elections, watching the elections in California should convince you. However, John Thune seems to be having a lot of difficulty getting the SAVE Act passed. I am not sure how much of that difficulty he is actually creating.
On Tuesday (updated Wednesday), Just the News posted an article about a suggestion by Senator Marsha Blackburn on how to breakup the logjam.
The article reports:
Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., is reviving an idea to end the current Senate parliamentarian’s blockade on the Save America Act election integrity law: enact a term limit for the position.
Blackburn told Just the News on Tuesday her legislation from a year ago to set term limits for the parliamentarian was gaining renewed steam as the GOP voter base stews over the chamber’s inability to pass President Donald Trump’s signature election law, imposing voter ID in citizenship checks.
“Now, when it comes to the parliamentarian, last year you had Senators Tuberville, Marshall, and I who filed a bill that called for term limits on the parliamentarian. And this is a discussion that has popped back up because of some of the decisions of the parliamentarian,” Blackburn told the Just the News, No Noise television show.
“I think it’s appropriate to term limit the parliamentarian,” she added. “You know, you have different positions, different assigned, and different offices that are term limited, whether it’s serving as on the Fed, or whether it’s serving on certain commissions, or in certain appointments, and we think it’s appropriate that the parliamentarian be someone that is term limited also.”
As Trump has pressed Senate Majority Leader John Thune to fire Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough, Blackburn said more senators have rallied around the idea of her legislation.
The SAVE Act is supported by over 80 percent of Americans (including Democrats and unaffiliated voters). If the Senate does not represent the voters, who does the Senate represent?
When The Veneer Begins To Crack
Bill Gates can easily be described as one of the most successful entrepreneurs in America today. Some of us are very grateful for the computer consistency provided by Microsoft. I love the fact that this blog works essentially the same way as Microsoft Word. However, recent events have revealed a side of Bill Gates that seems to be anything but wholesome.
On Wednesday, Coffee and Covid included Bill Gates in its daily news update.
The article on Bill Gates reminds us:
Last week, the same Wall Street Journal reported, “Bill Gates Spent Years Crafting His Image. Now It’s Cracking.” The Journal published this story mere days before Gates’s closed-door testimony before the House Oversight Committee, which is today. If you want to believe the timing was coincidental, fine. Not me.
Gates’ carefully stage-managed agreement to testify voluntarily (without cameras) focuses on his connections with everyone’s favorite International Mystery Man, the late Jeffrey Epstein. Gates is taking it seriously. He hired attorney Jake Greenberg, the Oversight Committee’s former chief investigations counsel, to advise him.
Among other things, DOJ’s documents and Epstein’s calendar entries show numerous meetings with Gates starting in 2011, which is three years after Epstein’s 2008 conviction for soliciting a minor. Why was Gates repeatedly meeting with a convicted sex offender, starting three years post-conviction?
The WSJ article tells us, in so many words, that Bill Gates is a big fat phony. And they exposed him right before he was set to testify.
Please follow the link to read the entire article. The article reminds us of how carefully Bill Gates has crafted his image over the years–the article notes that he has spent more money on public relations than most major corporations. The article also reminds us that now that the NGOs are being defunded, Bill Gates has lost a lot of his influence.
The section of the article on Bill Gates concludes:
It is unquestionably true that, in normal times, men with Gates’ money and political connections are devilishly hard to convict. But, as we have seen, these are not normal times. And Bill’s political support network is winking out like stars on a cloudy night as the thunderstorm moves in.
Finally, as a brief coda, consider all the other libidinous billionaires, high-profile political types, and swamp co-critters who are currently squirming in the same broad net as Gates. Reid Hoffman, Larry Summers, Leon Black, Marc Andreessen, Eric Schmidt, and the whole Pritzker network, just to name a few. It is so easy to forget how much karma is suddenly and relentlessly flowing upstream toward the funders and facilitators of vast human misery during the pandemic.
And all of it has happened recently, since the Epstein disclosures. Not just progress this time. It’s much progress.
Bill Gates is innocent of any crimes until proven guilty, but if he is guilty of criminal behavior, we need equal justice under the law.
This Seems Totally Logical
On Monday, CBS News posted an article about the Trump administration’s effort to revoke the citizenship of 17 U.S. citizens accused of immigration fraud.
The article reports:
Officials said the move represents the largest-ever effort by the U.S. government to use its denaturalization powers, which were rarely invoked before President Trump returned to the White House last year with promises to launch a historic deportation blitz. Between 1990 and 2017, the Justice Department filed an average of just 11 legal complaints per year seeking to denaturalize American citizens, historical figures indicate.
Federal law has long allowed the government to try to denaturalize foreign-born U.S. citizens who officials believe committed fraud to obtain their citizenship, such as by concealing information, like criminal conduct, on their immigration applications. But the process has been historically lengthy, complex and seldom exercised, requiring officials to persuade judges to strip naturalized citizens of their citizenship in civil or criminal proceedings in federal court.
The Trump administration has sought to vastly escalate denaturalization efforts as part of its larger crackdown on illegal and legal immigration. In 2025, the Justice Department broadened the categories of naturalized citizens who should be prioritized for denaturalization. Last month, officials announced a dozen denaturalization cases, at the time the largest such effort in years.
Some of the 17 citizens targeted in the latest denaturalization campaign were convicted of violent or serious crimes, including sex offenses against children. Others were convicted of fraud crimes or accused of committing immigration fraud.
Why in the world would we want people who lied to get into America and then committed other crimes to stay here? If we put them in jail (where they belong for their crimes), we have to support them. Why not send them back to the countries they came from?
The article concludes:
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said the Trump administration would “continue to use every lawful avenue to denaturalize and remove aliens.”
“American citizenship is a privilege, and it must be earned honestly. If you come here, break our laws, and lie in your immigration proceedings, you forfeit that privilege,” Mullin said.
The denaturalization process allows the targeted citizens to challenge the government’s filings to try to retain their citizenship. If U.S. citizens are denaturalized, they return to their prior immigration status, typically as permanent U.S. residents, and lose all the legal benefits of American citizenship, including protection from deportation.
Character should matter when granting citizenship.
Questions About California’s Voter Rolls
On Monday, The Gateway Pundit posted an article about a report by Nick Shirley on California’s voter rolls. There are some serious questions about the current elections for Mayor of Los Angeles and Governor of California that may never be answered, but the discoveries of Nick Shirley are very interesting.
The article reports:
This is the Democrat Party’s idea of “secure” elections in their one-party utopia.
Investigative reporter Nick Shirley — the same journalist whose explosive February 2026 video we reported on here at The Gateway Pundit — knocking on doors and exposing the rotting corpse of the state’s Democrat-controlled election system, and the latest clip is pure fire.
Meet Doris. She lives in California. According to the California Secretary of State’s own voter rolls, she is 126 years old and has cast ballots in 51 elections.
There’s just one small problem.
Doris is not 126 years old. She was born in 1940. That makes her roughly 86 years old. She’s never voted in 51 elections. And when Nick Shirley showed up at her door to ask about it, she was stunned.
Nick Shirley and his team went straight to the address listed on the official rolls to confirm what the Democrat-run bureaucracy is hiding.
The article includes the interaction between Nick Shirley and Doris. She states that she did not vote in 51 elections. I think it may be long past time to clean up California’s voter rolls. Congress also needs to pass the SAVE America Act to try to keep our elections honest.
I trust the current California election about as much as I trust gas station sushi!
A Bad Week For Fairfax County Schools
On Saturday, WTOP News reported three legal cases against Fairfax County School employees.
The article reports:
Three Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) employees were arrested or charged in unrelated criminal investigations announced by Fairfax County police this week, including allegations involving inappropriate contact with a student, embezzlement and theft.
The most serious offense involves a Langley High School teacher accused of inappropriate conduct with a student.
Police said the investigation began June 2 after concerns were reported to the School Resource Officer (SRO). Detectives later determined that Matthew Thorsen, 38, from Reston, a math teacher at Langley High School, had engaged in unlawful and inappropriate contact with a student.
He was arrested June 4 and charged with three counts of Indecent Liberties by Custodian and one count of Using a Communication Device to Solicit a Minor. He is being held without bond. FCPS placed him on administrative leave after being notified of the allegations, according to police.
…In a separate case, police charged a Hayfield Secondary School Finance Technician for embezzling more than $40,000 from the school.
…A third investigation involved the alleged theft of woodworking tools from Chantilly High School.
Police said school administrators alerted the SRO on May 29 after learning an employee, Trevor Papavasiliou, 34, from Culpeper, had taken $1,200 worth of tools from a woodworking classroom.
He turned himself in June 4.
Following the investigation, Papavasiliou was charged with Grand Larceny. The school has suspended him from his position.
The cases are unrelated, but Fairfax County police announced the trio of arrests and charges involving school employees on the same day.
Thank you to the police for keeping our schools safe and dealing with employee misconduct. This article illustrates the vital role that School Resource Officers play.
Changes In The Military Chaplaincy
On June 4th, Military.com posted an article about the changes made to the military’s recognized religion list.
The article reports:
Military.com has learned that the Department of Defense, for the first time in almost 10 years, has dramatically reduced its number of recognized religious faiths and belief systems by approximately 180.
“The new list will provide chaplains with clear, readily available information that will better enable them to anticipate the religious support needs of service members and to provide religious support activities that align with service members’ personal faith and practices,” Tata wrote.
He added that members will not be limited to the list of “religious affiliation codes” when selecting information for their dog tags. The revised list, according to documents obtained by Military.com, includes Agnostics, Buddhists, Hindus, Islam (Muslims), Judaism, Sikh, and a wide range of Christian-based groups like Baptists, Catholics, Lutherans and Methodists.
…This restructuring of faith codes, which help identify service members as well as the military in planning for appropriated religious coverage to include them, has now excluded minority faith/worldview groups including Atheists, Asatru, Deists, Druids, Eckankar, Heathens, Humanists, Magick, New Age churches, Pagan, Rosicrucianism, Shaman, Spiritualists, Troth, Unitarian Universalists and various Wiccans.
The First Amendment prevents a government-sponsored religion; it provides freedom for Americans to worship as they please. That being said, however, America was founded on a Judeo-Christian legal system and was at one point declared a Christian nation by the Supreme Court. Some of the religions no longer recognized involve practices that are illegal in the United States–such as animal sacrifice.
I think this move will make life much easier for military chaplains.
Shouldn’t Every State Be Required To Pass An Audit?
On Sunday, The Daily Signal posted an article about an audit of states that was done to verify billions of dollars in unemployment spending, Medicaid payments, and pension obligations in federally-funded programs. Needless to say, some states had problematic results.
The article reports:
The findings in the 2026 Financial Transparency Score report, released by the government watchdog Truth in Accounting, found that 13 states failed to earn clean audit opinions. The report comes as the Trump administration is cracking down on how states are spending federal dollars.
The organization used data from annual comprehensive financial reports, or ACFRs, produced by each state as a requirement for getting federal funding.
The biggest culprits of the unlucky 13 states, according to the analysis, were Delaware and Georgia, as auditors were unable to obtain enough evidence to issue an opinion at all. This is a “disclaimer” in audit terms.
…Arizona’s audit identified one of the more striking problems cited by the Truth in Accounting report.
“Arizona was unable to substantiate much of its financial statements, including a discrepancy of $231.1 million between the Arizona Department of Economic Security’s cash balance and its bank records,” the report says, citing the state’s 2023 ACFR.
…California’s most recent ACFR, which reviewed the state’s finances for 2024, found the state had to correct $1.4 billion in prior-year accounting errors, a previously unreported $950 million in loans, and a $196.5 billion unrestricted deficit driven by pension and retiree obligations. It further had to note that the state’s Medicaid system helped create an $11.8 billion budget shortfall.
The 2025 state budget act partially addressed the Medicaid shortfall; one measure included an enrollment freeze, H.D. Palmer, spokesman for the California Department of Finance, told the Daily Signal.
Palmer added that the administration directed the Labor and Workforce Development Agency to assess potential concepts to pay down the outstanding unemployment insurance loan balance. Regarding the $196.5 billion in unrestricted debt, Palmer said it is mostly for pensions.
…In Alaska, auditors reported that the state’s Medicaid payment-processing system relies on outside contractors. However, it says the state failed to obtain independent assurance that the contractors’ financial controls were functioning effectively during fiscal year 2024.
You get the picture. Please follow the link to the article to get the rest of the list.
Broken-Window Theory On A Federal Level
In 1994, Rudy Giuliani became Mayor of New York City. The prior Mayor was David Dinkins who became Mayor in 1990. In the early 1990’s the crime rate in New York City was staggering. There were 2,245 murders, over 100,000 robberies, and over 200,000 burglaries (source here). When Rudy Giuliani was elected, he instituted a broken-window policy.
Basically, the broken-window theory says that visible signs of disorder and neglect lead to more serious crimes. It supports the enforcement of laws preventing broken windows and other seemingly minor crimes to deter more serious crimes.
By the end of the 1990’s, New York City was one of the safest cities in the nation.
On Sunday, The American Thinker posted an article suggesting we use the broken-window policy in the Department of Justice.
The article notes:
The left is outraged that Trump is seeking retribution. Duh! Retribution is a key component of the crime-punishment equation. The punishment must be severe enough to deter future crimes. That the left continues to attack our right of self-governance proves that the punishment has not reached adequate severity — yet.
The left insists that the DoJ is not Donald Trump’s tool to use against his enemies. We know that — Merrick Garland isn’t the attorney general anymore. The Trump DoJ is actually going after our enemies — those who attacked our constitutional republic. The left attacked our institutions of law and order and must be held accountable — or there will be no law or order.
When a law enforcement officer is attacked, the system reacts far more energetically than it would for other assaults. That’s because an attack on a police officer is an attack on the institution we have commissioned to maintain social order.
When an ICE agent was struck in Washington, D.C., it wasn’t one guy hitting another guy with a sub sandwich. It was a citizen giving “we the people” the finger by attacking our agent.
When E. Jean Carroll sued Donald Trump, it wasn’t a ditz with a bad memory trying to get a windfall from a billionaire with a big mouth. It was part of a planned conspiracy to undermine our right to choose our leadership.
When James Comey posted “86 47,” it wasn’t an innocent photo of sea shells. It was a threat against our president, using the same symbolism violent protestors are using to call for his murder. The fact that there have already been numerous attempts against on the president’s life makes Comey’s posting all the more egregious.
The article concludes:
Rudy Giuliani used the “broken window” strategy to clean up the mess that the Dems had made of New York City. He punished delinquents for misdemeanors to deter them from becoming felons. It worked.
Is the DoJ using Giuliani’s strategy in its pursuit of Comey and Carroll, or are they just pieces of a much bigger strategy?
As silly as James Comey’s posting was, it was an illegal implied threat against a president. Carroll’s alleged perjury was an illegal undermining of our justice system. Both acts had a shared objective of preventing Trump from being our president. That makes both offenses something far more important — recent acts of an ongoing conspiracy. As such, Comey and Carroll have reset the statute of limitations for all acts of the conspiracy that came before them.
Now the conspirators are faced with the necessary consequences of their actions — without a statute of limitations shield. James Comey, John Brennen, James Clapper, Letitia James, Fani Willis, Jack Smith, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, and numerous others must be held to account for the crime-punishment ledger to balance. Their combined offenses undermined our right to free and fair (i.e., honestly informed) elections, and all should be treated as such.
Perhaps prosecution of the Comey and Carroll “window breakers” will lead to the eventual downfall of the traitorous conspirators.
Using a broken-window policy may be the only way to stop the weaponization of the Justice Department in the future.
Say It Isn’t So
On Friday, Yahoo News posted a frightening article.
The article states:
For decades, the idea of a four-door Ford Mustang has lived mostly in fan renderings and online debates. Purists usually rejected the concept outright, while others wondered why Ford never tried building an American performance sedan around the Mustang formula.
Now, the idea suddenly appears far more realistic. A recent Ford trademark filing for the name “Mach 4,” combined with comments from executives and earlier dealer leaks, strongly suggests the company is seriously exploring a four-door Mustang sedan.
Unlike the all-electric Mustang Mach-E crossover, this rumored model could return to traditional internal-combustion performance. If the speculation proves accurate, Ford may finally deliver a rear-wheel-drive muscle sedan powered by a V8 engine.
The timing is particularly interesting because most automakers are abandoning the segment entirely. Dodge killed the Charger and Chrysler 300 as traditional V8 sedans, Chevrolet discontinued the SS years ago, and imported performance sedans continue getting more expensive. That leaves a potential opening Ford may be eager to exploit.
…The biggest clue comes directly from Ford’s recent trademark activity. Earlier this year, the company filed for the “Mach 4” name through the United States Patent and Trademark Office, covering both gasoline and electric automobiles.
That filing immediately reignited speculation surrounding a Mustang sedan. The name itself seems intentionally designed to connect a four-door model to the existing Mustang lineup while distinguishing it from the Mach-E crossover.
Trademark filings do not automatically guarantee production plans, but automakers rarely spend time protecting names without at least considering future use. Combined with other recent developments, the filing carries much more weight than a random rumor circulating online.
Don’t do it, Ford. The electric Mustang lost the look of a Mustang. Putting another door on will only further dilute the brand. I drive a 2010 Mustang convertible, and I love the lines of the car. There isn’t enough room in the backseat for anyone over 3 feet tall, so why do they need a door?
The Exodus Continues
On Wednesday, Breitbart posted an article about another large company leaving New Jersey.
The article reports:
Samsung plans to its relocate its U.S. headquarters to Plano, Texas, which will cost New Jersey roughly 1,000 jobs.
The South Korean tech giant said this week that it would move its headquarters out of Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, to its campus in Plano, Texas, less than one year after it celebrated the opening of a new headquarters in Bergen County, New Jersey.
The transition will be completed by the end of the year, according to Samsung. Samsung has been in Bergen County for roughly three decades and operated its Ridgefield Park headquarters from the early 1990s before moving to Englewood Cliffs in 2025.
“Samsung Electronics America Inc. is undergoing a business transformation designed to better position our organization for long-term growth and future success,” Samsung said.
“As part of this effort, we are relocating our US headquarters from New Jersey to our existing campus in Plano, Texas, building on our 30-year presence in the state,” it continued in a statement.
Samsung has yet to say if it will completely abandon the New Jersey location, which exceeds 300,000 square feet.
The article concludes:
Will Hild, the executive director of Consumers’ Research, said in a statement:
Samsung’s decision to reincorporate in Texas is just the latest example of a seismic shift taking place in the business landscape. Pro-growth states like Texas that actually want companies to succeed are proving to be powerful magnets for businesses being crushed by radical policies and politicians in places like New Jersey, New York and California. Notably, in addition to keeping taxes low and regulation light relative to their competitors, Texas has taken groundbreaking steps to protect businesses incorporated there from molestation by rogue woke actors like Proxy Advisors. By making this sensible move, Samsung and other companies are demonstrating that they’re done being battered by far-left government hacks and woke Wall Street firms and will fight to put the interests of their investors and customers first.
He added, “Consumers Research applauds these firms and hopes more are encouraged to follow.”
If New Jersey wants companies to remain in their state, they need to reconsider who they are electing to office.
Save America: Public Safety
Author: R. Alan Harrop, Ph.D.
This is the latest article of a series on issues critical to the survival of our nation as we have known it as we celebrate America’s 250th Anniversary. The topic of public safety is of concern to all Americans and especially to me, since I spent my career as a psychologist in the North Carolina Department of Correction. One of the requirements of correctional psychologists is to assist in determining which inmates are reasonable risks for release back into society and which should stay in prison. This article summarizes some of the essential facts that effect crime and that decision process.
Like many essential things in our country’s history, it is important to look back and see what has worked and what hasn’t. As most people realize, the crime in Democrat run cities and states exceeds that in most more conservatively run places. Let’s examine why. First, it is important to realize that a very high percentage of crimes are committed by a very small percentage of the population. For example, about 1% of the population commits about 65% of all crimes. Violent crimes are committed by 3% to 5% of the population. Second, 3% to 5% of specific neighborhoods account for over 50% of all crimes of violence. Clearly places you want to avoid if you can. Third, offenders commit many more crimes than those for which they are arrested. Active criminals commit an average of 9 to 17 offenses per year when free in society. Very rarely is a criminal arrested the first time he commits a crime. Think of it as a profession or career, because that’s what it is to the typical criminal. Going to prison is seen by most criminals as a price they have to pay occasionally so they can return to their profession. Fourth, criminal continuity is very common, with most delinquent criminals going on to become adult criminals, while non-delinquent juveniles remain noncriminal all of their lives. Fifth, most criminals when released from prison go on to commit more crimes. For example, 68% of released prisoners are rearrested within 3 years of release, and 82% within 5 years of release. Not very encouraging. You may recall that Governor Cooper released 3500 prisoners before their sentences were completed ostensibly due to the COVID virus. Based on the data above showing an average of 9 to 17 offenses committed each year, the Governor’s ill- advised release accounted for approximately 31,000 to 60,000 crimes. So much for concern about public safety Governor! Sixth, criminals are most likely to commit crimes at the highest rate in early adulthood; and Seventh, the individuals committing the most crimes are those who are members of criminal gangs.
OK, so what do we do about it? It would be great if we could ensure that all children are raised by two parents who instill a conscience that respects right from wrong, and good from evil. Obviously, this is not happening to those who become criminals. Since we cannot control conscience development, the best option is swift arrest, conviction and incarceration. Incarceration not to rehabilitate, which is rare, but rather to remove from society as long as the law allows. The idea of not prosecuting (like in California), suspended sentences and early parole are all threats to public safety. Sentences should increase as the criminal shows a pattern of continued criminal activity. Remember, for every arrest that results in a sentence, the criminal is committing many more that go undetected. It should also be remembered that the dichotomy of property versus violent offenders is not supported by the facts. Many property offenders also commit many acts of personal violence since both types of crime reflect the lack of a moral conscience and no sense of empathy for others.
Instead of reducing sentences, we should go back to the 1980s where sentences were longer and more certain. Incarceration during the young adult ages of criminals has the greatest impact on improving public safety. So, the next time you hear a district attorney, judge or politician talk about reducing what they consider the high incarceration rate in this country, you will know what to do and how to vote. The safety of the citizens should take precedence over sympathy for the criminal.