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When Judges Get Political
On Friday, John Hinderaker posted an article at Power Line Blog about a recent judge’s decision regarding the ballroom President Trump is constructing at the White House.
The article reports:
In an earlier era, improving the East Wing of the White House by adding an underground secure area and an above-ground facility large enough to host significant international social events, and that includes bathrooms–something now lacking when such events take place in tents on the White House lawn–might have been uncontroversial. But Democrats fanatically oppose anything the Trump administration attempts to do, so they have tried to halt construction of the East Wing ballroom.
Today a three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered the Trump administration to cease all construction of the ballroom, while allowing construction of the secure underground area to go ahead. You can read the Court’s opinions here. The majority opinion was written by Patricia Millett, an Obama appointee, and Bradley Garcia, a Biden appointee. Judge Neomi Rao, a Trump appointee, dissented.
The majority opinion goes on just about forever, 101 pages, but doesn’t seem particularly persuasive. The threshold issue is standing. The plaintiff in the case is the National Trust for Historic Preservation, but that organization has nothing to do with the White House grounds, which are under the jurisdiction of the National Park Service. The Trust claims to have standing to sue because it has a member who occasionally walks past the White House and thinks she will consider the new ballroom to be aesthetically unpleasant. This strikes me as just about the weakest possible reed on which to hang a standing claim.
The article concludes:
Past presidents have made various repairs and improvements to the White House without specific Congressional authorization, but the majority dismisses these instances as “anomalies.” One imagines that in past eras–that is, eras not dominated by the Democratic Party’s insane hatred of Donald Trump–much-needed improvements to the White House grounds would have proceeded by consensus. But these days, there is no consensus on anything, and everything is a federal case.
The Supreme Court will have the opportunity to resolve this dispute, if it chooses to do so. Meanwhile, construction of the ballroom will stand idle and potentially exposed to the elements.
Hopefully this case will get to the U.S. Supreme Court quickly before the structure of the exposed building succumbs to black mold and other consequences of being left exposed.
Numbers You Probably Aren’t Hearing In The News
On Wednesday, Breitbart posted an article about some of the economic numbers President Trump cited in a recent speech in Nevada. He is reciting those numbers because the majority of the press is ignoring them.
The article reports:
President Donald Trump touted the results of his economic policies in Las Vegas on Wednesday, including 40,000 new jobs for Nevadans since his second term began.
Trump highlighted his administration’s economic wins in the Silver State and nationally while delivering remarks at Red Rock Casino.
…“Here in Nevada, we’ve created over 40,000 new jobs and lifted nearly 100,000 Nevadans off of food stamps,” he said. ” And they don’t want to be on food stamps, because they’ve got new jobs. They’ve got jobs. They don’t need food stamps.”
He then noted that more Americans are working now than ever before.
“Last month, inflation dropped at the fastest rate it’s dropped in many years, and… so the biggest thing for this whole thing: more Americans are working in the United States right now than at any point in the history of our country,” he added.
…Trump also touted his No Tax on Tips policy, which became law through the One Big Beautiful Bill, where workers, beginning this past April, can deduct up to $25,000 of their tipped income. The policy is particularly beneficial in the Silver State, where many work as waiters, waitresses, bartenders, and in other tipped professions.
…No Tax on Tips was one of several novel tax policies Trump and Congressional Republicans created in the One Big Beautiful Bill. Others include an up to $12,500 deduction for overtime pay, a tax deduction of up to $10,000 for interest paid on loans for cars assembled in the United States, and Social Security deductions for certain seniors.
One family, in which all members benefited from aspects of the One Big Beautiful Bill, joined Trump on stage. Sandra, a waitress, and her husband Brad, a Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Officer, saved thousands thanks to No Tax on Tips and overtime, while their children each have Trump Accounts, which were also established in the legislation.
Elections really do matter. A waitress and a police officer are not rich. Both are very valuable to American society. The tax cuts in the One Big Beautiful Bill helped average Americans–they did not go to the rich as the Democrats have claimed. Voting for a Democrat right now is taking a financial risk!
The Federal Bureau Of Investigation As A Political Force
On Wednesday, John Hinderaker at Power Line Blog posted an article about the recent revelations about Russiagate. There really should be some people who were in our government during the first Trump administration (and slightly before) that should be sitting in a jail cell.
The article reports:
For a number of years, perhaps continuing to the present, the FBI was a covert arm of the Democratic Party. This is a huge scandal, the depths of which have not yet been plumbed. Today more emails were released by the federal government, showing that in 2017, while Donald Trump was president, the FBI opened an investigation into whether Trump–the person to whom the FBI reports–was a Russian agent.
The question is absurd on its face. The whole “Russia” claim came from the fake Steele dossier that was paid for by the Democratic National Committee and the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign. By the time the 2017 investigation was opened, the FBI knew that the Steele dossier was a fraud.
Moreover, the most important thing any U.S. president can do to help the Russians is to suppress production of American oil and gas, as Barack Obama did. The most important thing any U.S. president can do to hurt the Russians is to promote production of American oil and gas, as President Trump did. The idea of Trump as “Russian agent” was idiotic from the start.
The article includes links to the documents that authorized the investigation into President Trump and various X posts that provide further information. Please follow the link to read the entire article.
The article concludes:
I continue to think that the FBI is capable of doing good work, as it did in the Minnesota fraud investigation. But the extent of the partisan corruption that has come to light in recent years requires that we re-think both the structure of that agency and the scope of its powers.
Good idea.
Washington Continues To Ignore The Voters
It’s bad enough that 80 percent of Americans support the SAVE Act, and the Republican Congress can’t seem to get it passed, but Congress is not the only group in Washington that is ignoring the will of the voters.
On Tuesday, The Daily Caller reported:
As voters head into the midterm elections, they’ll be looking at how the GOP has delivered on its mandates, especially its clear directive on immigration.
Voters elected President Donald Trump on a platform centered on large-scale removals of illegal immigrants and an end to the Biden-era open border policies. The influx of millions of illegal immigrants placed significant strain on almost every aspect of American lives, from housing to jobs. The electorate rejected this and demanded a fundamental reversal. Instead, Congress and members of the Trump administration consistently push for moderation rather than the much-needed intensity of the original agenda.
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Sec. Markwayne Mullin has disappointed large segments of the president’s political base. While he publicly affirms support for the voter mandate of mass deportations, his operational decisions reveal a more restrained approach.
The Daily Caller notes:
It’s been two years since Trump came back into office. Members of his own administration have said that at least 20 million illegal immigrants came in under the Biden years. Even if the administration’s claim that 3 million illegal immigrants have been removed either by deportation or self-deportation since 2025 is correct, that number is not nearly enough to make a difference in relieving the hardship Americans face because of their presence.
Additionally, if Republicans fail to maintain control of Congress after the midterm elections, the number of removals will be significantly hindered by an oppositional Democratic Party. Knowing that the base is begging for action, one would assume that elected Republicans would be doing everything in their power to show voters that they are working to deliver on their promise for mass deportations. Instead, Utah Republican Sen. John Curtis, among others, continues to advance legislation that would create legal pathways to residency for illegal immigrants.
Washington truly is a swamp. Unless we manage to remove the rotting bureaucracy, we will never see forward progress on immigration, the budget deficits, or any of the other issues Americans care about.
The Important Numbers That Are Not Being Reported
On Monday, The Conservative Treehouse posted an article about some important economic data that is not being widely reported.
The article reports:
What we can take away from the Institute for Supply Management (ISM) index on manufacturing [Data Here]: overall, the U.S. manufacturing sector is continuing to expand significantly. The current index of 55.6 percent in July is 2.3 percentage points above the June figure and the highest reading since May 2022 (55.9 percent), when we were trying to recover from the COVID-19 shutdowns and supply chain problems.
…Overall, companies wanting to make products in the United States are expanding the manufacturing sector. However, they are running into a problem when trying to source the component goods and/or raw materials. The resource goods they need are constantly in a status of flux and the prices are unstable.
For large companies their supply chain management can deal with the short inventory issue through various sourcing networks using multiple suppliers. However, for smaller companies this is frustrating.
The manufacturing system is a network of complex suppliers who make component materials needed for the core product. In order to get really successful, the smaller manufacturing component goods need to start up inside the USA just like the larger companies who are producing a finished product.
This is why even during a manufacturing surge we end up importing a lot of goods on the front end of the transition. Absent a domestic supplier, industrial component products are heavily imported in order to manufacture the finished durable good.
It takes time, well, technically its never been tried – so, no one is sure, but it takes time for all of the component manufacturing to establish inside the USA in order to feed the component parts to the various manufacturers who depend on the sub-sourcing. This is the period we are in at the moment, and prices are fluctuating as people try to get their arms around costs here and abroad.
When the free market is allowed to be free, it creates growth and prosperity. Putting a businessman in the White House is what was needed to start moving America back to the free market instead of crony capitalism. Think carefully when you vote in November. Your economic future depends on it.
This Is NOT The Way To Solve The Problem
On Tuesday, The Daily Signal posted an article about the Biden administration’s strategy to track the fentanyl shipments that were coming into America and bring a bigger criminal case against traffickers.
The article reports:
A third whistleblower came forward about a Biden-era operation involving alleged massive shipments of fentanyl into the United States that federal agents were told to track and not seize.
The U.S. Justice Department is conducting an internal probe of the operation that critics say likely led to numerous deaths. The most recent whistleblower complaint details a November 2022 fentanyl delivery from Arizona to New Mexico where Drug Enforcement Administration agents were told to monitor the shipment but not arrest anyone.
“Agents believe the courier made a minimum of at least five large deliveries over the following months, each time bringing 50,000-100,000 fentanyl pills and 20-40 pounds of methamphetamine per trip,” the complaint says. “The DEA did not arrest the courier until June 2023; at that time, agents found him with 19 kilograms of methamphetamine and 7 kilograms of fentanyl.” According to the DEA, as few as 2 milligrams of fentanyl can be lethal depending on a person’s body size and tolerance, and 1 kilogram of fentanyl has the potential to kill 500,000 people.
The new complaint also notes that during a training session, one DEA agent dismissed concerns about the operation, saying, “We walk fentanyl,” but adding that federal prosecutors were aware of it.
The complaint comes after the U.S. Justice Department’s Office of Inspector General interviewed two other whistleblowers—former DEA Special Agent David Howell and financial investigator Kevin Small, who worked as a contractor for the DEA’s Albuquerque office—on Friday and Monday, respectively.
The article explains the theory behind the actions:
Howell was the first to blow the whistle on the operation, alleging that the DEA allowed hundreds of thousands of fentanyl pills into New Mexico because Justice Department prosecutors wanted to track the shipments and bring a bigger criminal case against traffickers. Former U.S. Attorney for the District of New Mexico Alex Uballez oversaw the program, Howell said. Uballez publicly defended the operation, telling The Associated Press it saved lives, was key to intelligence gathering on drug traffickers, and that “the bigger fish are worth catching.”
I don’t think that the people who lost loved ones because of fentanyl would agree with that strategy.
Becoming Supply Chain Independent In The Modern World
On Tuesday, David Blackmon posted an article at Substack about America expanding its production of rare earth metals.
The article reports:
The United States is finally starting to dig itself out of a rare earth metals hole it spent decades digging. The effort got a boost on July 29, when Energy Fuels announced that construction has begun on a commercial-scale expansion at its White Mesa Mill in Utah. The expansion of the only fully licensed and operating conventional uranium processing facility in the United States, will enable the plant to produce heavy rare earth oxides at meaningful volumes. This key event, along with other developments in the U.S. and allied nations like Australia, represent concrete steps toward breaking China’s chokehold on the materials that power everything from electric vehicle motors and humanoid robots to advanced weapons systems and data centers.
Heavy rare earths are the severe pinch point in current Western permanent magnet supply chains. These elements give high-performance magnets the coercivity and heat resistance needed for smaller, lighter, and more powerful motors. Energy Fuels already has commercial capacity for up to 1,000 tons per year of separated neodymium-praseodymium (NdPr) oxide, the lighter rare earths that form the bulk of most magnets. The new circuits will add roughly 20 tons of terbium, 120 tons of dysprosium, 140 tons of samarium, 20 tons of europium, and 140 tons of gadolinium annually, with terbium and dysprosium online by the end of 2027 and the rest by the end of 2028.
This is one of those articles I don’t claim to understand. However, I remember what it was like trying to buy a car in 2022. Because Covid had so totally disrupted the supply chain, the wait time for some cars was ridiculous, and there were surcharges on the purchase of almost all cars. America not only needs to be energy independent, we need to be rare earth independent, drug independent, and self sufficient in every way possible. Trade with other countries is fine–depending on other countries that may not have our best interests at heart for things that are essential to our survival is not fine.
ID To Buy Groceries But Not To Vote
On Monday, Red State posted an article about New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s proposed grocery stores. Initially the grocery stores were to require identification to prove you were a New York resident, but evidently that has changed (possibly due to public reaction–needing an ID to buy groceries but not to vote was a bridge too far).
On Monday, The New York Post reported:
Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s promised city-owned grocery stores won’t require ID from shoppers, his administration confirmed Monday — allowing non-New Yorkers to take advantage of the discounted goods.
The five planned taxpayer-subsidized stores — which are set to sell a “core basket of goods” at 30% below retail prices — will offer a free, voluntary membership card program, though documents show it will not require a residency check.
Mamdani administration officials revealed the membership program last week when facing questions from reporters about how they’d stop bad actors from buying in bulk and taking advantage of the deals on offer.
Red State notes:
Now, if you’re like Marty McFly and you’re saying “I’ve seen this one, this is classic!” that’s because government-run stores used to be a thing.
Way back in the Soviet Union. If you missed that one because you went to a government-run school, you’re in luck.
Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev provided an iconic moment in Cold War history when his first encounter with an American grocery store was a jolting experience.
That’s because communist-run grocery stores were nearly barren of basic foodstuffs due to the inability of the state planners to manage supply and demand.
A few years later, this scene was recreated when Soviet cosmonaut Gherman Titov toured a San Francisco Safeway.
We could place bets on how long it will take the city-run grocery store to fail and how much it will eventually cost New York City taxpayers. The sad part of this is that the prices in the store will undercut the local merchants and drive them out of business. Eventually there will be no grocery stores in New York City. Unfortunately, Mayor Mamdani does not understand or chooses not to understand the free market.
From my friends at The Patriot Post:
The Supreme Court Upholds Consequences For Terrorism
On Tuesday, The Daily Signal posted an article about a recent U.S. Supreme Court action that ruled in favor of holding terrorists accountable.
The article reports:
The Palestinian Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority lost again at the Supreme Court, this time in their effort to stop a settlement to pay American victims of attacks.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Monday signed an order rejecting an emergency application from the Palestinian authorities to stop a $656 million judgment in favor of Americans killed or wounded in Israel. The victims were injured or killed in attacks in Jerusalem in the early 2000s that killed 33 people and wounded hundreds.
The Palestinian Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority argued in court filings that making the payments to victims and their families would destabilize government services in the West Bank, The Associated Press reported. They also have argued that the cases shouldn’t be allowed in American courts.
The victims and their families have claimed Palestinian agents were either involved in the attacks or incited them.
The first judgment in favor of the victims was awarded in 2015, but it was reversed on appeal when the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals determined that U.S. courts lacked jurisdiction. The Supreme Court initially rejected the plaintiffs’ appeal in 2018.
The plaintiffs then sued under the revised Anti-Terrorism Act, a 1992 law updated in 2019 to allow the victims of the Palestinian attacks to seek damages in federal courts.
This is a valid weapon against terrorism. As long as the Palestinian authority has the money to pay the families of terrorists killed in suicide attacks, the attacks will continue. Unfortunately, the culture of the Palestinian authority encourages those attacks by honoring the people who carry them out. However, sometimes bad things decrease when they begin costing the people who do them serious money.
How To Deal With Fraud Properly
On Tuesday, The Conservative Treehouse posted an article about Medicare and Medicaid fraud in Pennsylvania.
The article reports:
The DOJ Fraud Division, U.S. Attorney’s Office, and Pennsylvania Attorney General today announced criminal charges against 19 defendants, including owners and employees of home care companies, for their alleged participation in various fraud schemes involving over four million dollars in claims to Medicare and Medicaid.
The Pennsylvania Attorney General also announced a plea agreement involving the final defendant in a previously-charged 21 defendant case involving over $1.7 million in claims.
Assistant Attorney General Colin M. McDonald of the Justice Department’s National Fraud Enforcement Division, Dr. Mehmet Oz, Administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, U.S. Attorney David Metcalf for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, and senior federal and state officials hold a press conference announcing a significant health care fraud takedown and a new Anti-Fraud Initiative in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
To emphasize the scope of the fraud in California and New York Dr Oz notes, “the number one job in the entire state is personal care services.”
The Press Release from the Department of Justice notes:
Acting Assistant Chief Miriam Glaser Dauermann, Health Care Fraud Trial Attorneys Paul J. Koob and Carla Jordan-Detamore, and Eastern District of Pennsylvania Health Care Fraud Chief Anthony Scicchitano, Deputy Chief Paul Shapiro, and Counsel to the U.S. Attorney Sara Solow, led and coordinated the cases charged in today’s Takedown, together with the FBI, HHS, DEA, IRS, and state and local law enforcement partners. Trial Attorneys Paul J. Koob and Carla Jordan-Detamore, Assistant U.S. Attorneys Sara Solow, Paul Shapiro, Angella Middleton, Alisa Shver, Jessica Rice and Megan Curran, and Pennsylvania Deputy Attorneys General Benjamin McKenna, Susann Shore, Jonathan Clymer and Jacob Gordin are prosecuting the cases being announced today.
On April 7, the Department of Justice announced the creation of the Fraud Division. The Fraud Division is laser-focused on investigating and prosecuting those who commit fraud against the American people. The Department’s work to combat fraud supports President Trump’s Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, a whole-of-government effort chaired by Vice President J.D. Vance to eliminate fraud, waste, and abuse within Federal benefit programs.
When people start going to jail for their crimes, the level of crime will slowly decrease.
We Used To Have Candidates Who Loved America
On Tuesday, The New York Post posted an article about Francesca Hong, a candidate for Governor of Wisconsin.
The article reports:
A socialist Dem running for Wisconsin governor became visibly uncomfortable and served up a word salad when asked whether she still stands by her call to “cancel Thanksgiving” because it is “celebrating colonialism.”
At the height of the Covid pandemic, Francesca Hong, who is the frontrunner to become the Democratic nominee in America’s Dairyland, said that the beloved holiday needs to be scrapped, and that America “should have done this in 1621.”
She added: “If it takes a worldwide pandemic for us to realize we should stop celebrating colonialism and the original superspreader event that killed Indegenous [sic] folx [sic] and women so be it.”
First of all, let’s take another look at the events surrounding Thanksgiving. The land the Pilgrims settled in had been the territory of the Patuxet Indians, a large tribe that had murdered every white man who had landed on the shores of Massachusetts. Four years before the Pilgrims arrived, the Patuxet tribe had been wiped out by a mysterious plague, killing everyone in the tribe. The neighboring Indians stayed away from the area because they were convinced that some supernatural spirit had killed the Patuxets. Squanto, a member of the tribe who had been sold into slavery, was in Spain or England when his tribe was wiped out. When he got back to Massachusetts and found that his tribe was gone, through a series of events he decided to help the Pilgrims survive in their new land. The Indians and the Pilgrims lived in peace for a number of years. The celebration of Thanksgiving was part of that peace. Unfortunately, that peace did not last, partially due to a cultural problem regarding the purchase of land, but initially there was peace.
The article notes:
CNN’s Kaitlan Collins asked Hong point-blank Monday whether she really believes that, and the democratic socialist uncorked with a bizarre 46-second response in which she made no effort to deny that she still wants to throw out the turkey.
I’m a chef, and one of the first meals that I made that was for the community when i was 16 was a Thanksgiving meal. I always think my hospitality background and owning a restaurant for 7-8 years, that bringing folks around the table to share conversation and build community is always a good thing.
But Thanksgiving is also a time that’s incredibly painful for many people in our communities. So I think there I wanted to make sure people understood there are multiple views, but views can evolve.
And the position I’m running for right now — and I think my background as a chef will actually help me become a better governor that’s able to bring more people to the table.
Oddly enough, Thanksgiving is a time when many charity organizations reach out and make sure that needy families in their communities receive a good meal.
Please follow the link to read the entire article. This lady does not seem to understand or want to celebrate the holidays and traditions that Americans celebrate.
People Saved Thanks To An Armed Citizen
On Monday, Fox News posted an article about the Saturday shooting at an In-N-Out Burger in Twin Falls, Idaho.
The article reports:
Police are still working to determine why a 24-year-old gunman opened fire at a crowded In-N-Out Burger in Twin Falls, Idaho, killing three people and wounding seven others before taking his own life after taking fire from a bystander and an off-duty Idaho state trooper.
Twin Falls Police Chief Matthew Hicks said Sunday that investigators were confident Chad Williams acted alone in Saturday’s attack, but detectives had not yet established a motive or fully traced his movements before the shooting.
“We believe their actions helped drive the suspect away from the scene, preventing further casualties,” Hicks said of an armed citizen and officer who returned fire. “We want to take a moment and commend the actions of the off-duty officer and the citizen, and their heroic action to stop this incident.”
…Authorities said seven people were injured. Two remained in critical condition Sunday, three were listed as stable and two had been treated and released from a hospital.
Officials said both fired at Williams during what authorities described as a chaotic and fast-moving attack, diverting his attention from the restaurant as customers and employees fled.
When an evil person with evil intentions begins shooting innocent people, it may take minutes for the police or other authorities to arrive. An armed civilian population is the quickest way to stop the shooter.
The Government Is Not The Answer–It Is A Major Part Of The Problem!
On Sunday, The Center Square posted an article about the discussion prompted by the closure of seven Save A Lot grocery stores on Chicago’s South and West sides.
The article reports:
The closure of seven Save A Lot grocery stores on Chicago’s South and West sides has renewed debate over whether government subsidies can effectively address food access in underserved neighborhoods, with one free-market policy expert arguing the shutdowns highlight the limits of public intervention.
The stores, operated by Yellow Banana, closed after Save A Lot ended its operating agreement with the company, citing financial challenges that included a sharp decline in SNAP purchases.
Chicago had invested $13.5 million to renovate six of the seven locations as part of an effort to expand grocery access in neighborhoods often described as food deserts.
Nicole Huyer, a researcher with the Heritage Foundation, said the closures were “the predictable outcome of bad policy.”
“Dumping millions upon millions of dollars into these stores without addressing the root causes of grocery unaffordability, like city regulations, high taxes, even crime, without addressing those things, just dumping more money into artificially inflating these grocery stores, it’s not going to solve the problem,” Huyer told The Center Square.
So what would it take to keep grocery stores in major cities open? First of all, how does the crime rate in these cities impact the profit margin of the stores? What is the cost of insuring these stores against theft, vandalism, etc.? How does the city treat the criminals who steal from or vandalize these stores? Are the criminals punished enough to keep them off the street and discourage other criminal activity? How would simply dealing with the crime rate in these areas affect the ability of these stores to stay open? What is the tax rate in these cities? What tax incentives might encourage grocery stores to locate in these cities? The only government interventions that might even be remotely helpful in keeping grocery stores in major cities would be better law enforcement, punishment for crimes committed, and possible tax incentives. Simply throwing money at the problem will NOT work.
The article concludes:
She (Nicole Huyer, a researcher with the Heritage Foundation) argued that crime, taxes and regulations can discourage grocery operators from investing in particular neighborhoods.
“Rather than the city going in and having a city-owned or operated grocery store, the first step should be addressing the root causes,” Huyer said. “The government just dumping millions of dollars into a city-run public option isn’t going to really address the problem. You’re just going to waste taxpayer dollars in the process.”
Huyer also cited examples of publicly supported grocery projects in places such as Kansas City and Baldwin, Florida, as evidence that government involvement has struggled to produce lasting success.
The free market works when it is allowed to.
Fighting For Your Religious Freedom
For whatever reason, liberal politicians seem to be intent on going after the Little Sisters of the Poor. In Little Sisters of the Poor v. Pennsylvania, the Supreme Court in 2020 upheld a federal rule protecting the Little Sisters and other religious groups from the federal government’s contraceptive mandate. But Pennsylvania and New Jersey continued to fight in court to strip the Little Sisters of that protection. Now the Little Sisters of the Poor and another group of Catholic nuns and healthcare providers are being sued by New York State over New York’s assisted suicide law.
On Sunday, Townhall reported:
Back on July 20, Townhall reported that a group of Catholic nuns and healthcare providers in New York had filed suit against the state over its assisted suicide law, one that would force those religious groups to inform patients of “end-of-life options,” including assisted suicide.
The group included the Little Sisters of the Poor, the Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne, the Carmelite Sisters for the Aged and Infirm, and the Diocese of Rockville Centre and Catholic Health, a network of Long Island hospitals. Now a court has granted them relief from the state’s assisted suicide law, at least temporarily.
The ruling prohibits the state from forcing these Catholics from participating in the assisted suicide law until their lawsuit is heard in court.
The article concludes:
Remember, these nuns take care of the sick and dying without compensation. It is part of their calling and their faith, and the state of New York wants to stop them from doing this—punishing sick and dying people in the process.
We’ll see what happens when the lawsuit has its day in court. It’s possible the courts side with the state, setting up another Supreme Court battle.
The attacks on our freedom of religion should not be taken lightly. These nuns are standing up for all Americans in the effort to preserve what our Founding Fathers created and Americans in multiple generations have died for.
From my friends at Hot Air:
The Risk Of Ignoring The Voters
The mid-term elections are rapidly approaching. The Democrat party is moving left; the Republican party isn’t currently moving anything. I understand that lobbyists and corporations have a lot of money to throw into campaign coffers, but they don’t necessarily match the power or the will of the voters.
President Trump was elected by a significant margin because of his agenda. Even if you dislike the person he seems to be, you can’t argue that he loves America and wants America to prosper. You also have to admit that as a businessman—not a politician—he is not part of the Washington elite. That is one of many reasons the Washington elite sees him as a threat and does not want him to succeed.
The voters who elected President Trump want his policies passed by Congress. About 80 percent of Americans support the SAVE Act. Why can’t the supposed Republican majority in the Senate get it passed?
The Republicans hold a 53 to 45-seat majority in the Senate. If they can’t pass something that 80 percent of Americans approve of, what good are they? Why should I vote for a Republican if they don’t act like Republicans once they get into office?
According to Google, the majority of voters in Maine support the SAVE Act. Representative Susan Collins has voted against it. She may win her election because the Democrat party in Maine seems to have a problem finding a reasonable candidate to oppose her, but who is she representing?
Money from big donors may fill campaign coffers, but if the voters do their own research on the candidates and then get out and vote, they can overcome that money and elect Congressmen who actually represent them. Voters need to turn out for the primary elections that determine who the candidates will be.
Two of the reasons for voter apathy are that voters don’t believe that their votes matter (their representatives don’t listen to them), and that voters don’t believe our elections are secure. The SAVE Act addresses the concern of election integrity. The SAVE Act will make our elections more secure. By not voting for it, Congressmen are saying that they want the ability to cheat.
Sad News
On July 29, The Center for Security Policy posted an article remembering Sam Faddis. I first became aware of Sam Faddis through an online course on the history of the American intelligence community posted by Hillsdale College. He was a true patriot.
The article reports:
Charles “Sam” Faddis, retired CIA operations officer, author, national security commentator, and senior editor of AND Magazine, passed away quietly on the evening of July 25, 2026, at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP) in Philadelphia. He was 68 years old.
Born on May 23, 1958, at Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland, Sam was the son of career U.S. Navy officer James Morris Faddis and Violet Knighton Tucker Faddis. He graduated from The Johns Hopkins University with a degree in political science and earned his law degree from the University of Maryland School of Law. He later served as a U.S. Army Armor and Judge Advocate General’s Corps officer, rising to the rank of Captain, and worked as an Assistant Attorney General for the State of Washington before joining the Central Intelligence Agency.
Sam spent approximately twenty years as a clandestine operations officer with the CIA’s Directorate of Operations. His assignments took him across the Middle East, South Asia, and Europe. In 2002, he led the first CIA team into northern Iraq nearly nine months ahead of the 2003 invasion, working with Kurdish forces under extremely difficult conditions. He later served as chief of the Counterterrorism Center’s Weapons of Mass Destruction unit, responsible for tracking terrorist efforts to acquire nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons. He ran sources, conducted covert action, and operated at the highest levels of the Intelligence Community and Department of Defense.
The article concludes:
Sam Faddis dedicated his life to the defense of the United States — first in uniform, then in the shadows of the clandestine service, and finally as a public advocate for truth and accountability. He will be deeply missed.
AND Magazine (which he was the senior editor of) posted:
In his post-government years, Sam continued to render invaluable service to America, notably through his intrepid and fearless reporting at AND Magazine, speeches and countless appearances on programs like “War Room” and “Securing America.”
He pulled no punches and lit the way for constructive-course corrections on national security policy, election integrity and accountability for those responsible for often treacherous deviations.
America needs Sam Faddis now more than ever, and the CPDC is resolved to carry on his legacy of steadfast love of country and resolute determination to defeat its enemies.
Sam Faddis wrote the book BEYOND REPAIR about the problems within the American intelligence community. I highly recommend reading it.
Avoiding Future Prosecution
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) was one of the unindicted co-conspirators named in the Holy Land Foundation Trial. For more information on the Holy Land Foundation Trial use the search engine at the top right hand corner of this page. You can find one article here that explains part of why the trial is still important.
On Sunday, PJ Media reported the following:
The Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has been named a terrorist organization in Texas and Florida, and this is not just a symbolic gesture; it could, in fact, have far-reaching implications. But the unsavory gang of traitors, saboteurs and jihad enablers that calls itself a “leading advocate for justice and mutual understanding” is working energetically to protect its assets, albeit in ways that are, not surprisingly, questionable at best.
A recent Middle East Forum (MEF) exposé revealed that back on Nov. 26, 2025, with no announcement or publicity of any kind, CAIR transferred ownership of its national headquarters building at 453 New Jersey Avenue SE in Washington, D.C. from the Washington Trust Foundation, which the deed says was “formerly known as the Council on American-Islamic Relations,” to the Sage Foundation. Sage Foundation paid the princely sum of ten bucks for this valuable property, which is within walking distance of the Capitol.
The Sage Foundation had existed for six months, as it was incorporated on May 13, 2025. And even now, what exactly the Sage Foundation is remains shrouded in mystery, for it “has no known federal tax determination, no filed Form 990, no stated charitable purpose, and a District status of ‘Active – Not in Good Standing’ — it never filed its first required report.”
The article notes:
Despite the fact that there is no information as to who exactly is involved in it, the Sage Foundation took over ownership of CAIR’s headquarters for the price of a single Hamilton. Sage, however, is not the sole owner. On February 13, 2026, Sage transferred 45% of the ownership of the building to the North American Islamic Trust (NAIT) for $4,000,000, “more than the District values the entire parcel.”
NAIT has designated the building a waqf property, such that Sage Foundation “shall not sell, convey, hypothecate, finance, encumber or otherwise dispose of” it without written approval from NAIT. A waqf is property that is designated for Islamic use, and cannot casually be sold to someone who will use it for non-Islamic purposes.
Investigative journalist Larry Estavan explains: “NAIT is not just another nonprofit. It is one of the most important Islamic property-holding institutions in America, and has long been criticized for its historical Muslim Brotherhood connections. NAIT’s own materials describe its waqf system as a way of placing Islamic community properties into a perpetual trust, so that they remain dedicated to Islamic purposes.”
If we want to get terrorist organizations out of America and cut off their money, we are going to have to move more quickly.
Working Together To Eliminate Fraud
On Friday, The Daily Caller posted an article about seven states that have signed a data-sharing agreement with the Department of Justice aimed at rooting out fraud.
The article reports:
Across the seven states, officials have uncovered roughly $350 million in alleged fraud, according to information shared with the Daily Caller. Under the Memorandum of Understanding signed Thursday, the states will give the DOJ access to “publicly available corporate registration and public benefits payment data held by these state agencies.” It is data officials said will help the department spot fraud patterns faster.
Colin McDonald, assistant attorney general for the Department of Justice’s National Fraud Enforcement Division, met with dozens of state officials before his press conference to discuss their work and how the federal government could better support it. The Daily Caller was the only outlet allowed in the room.
“To state partners here and across the country is this: the fraud division and our U.S. attorneys’ offices are ready to help you scale your efforts to strengthen your cases and deliver results for the taxpayers of America,” McDonald said at a press conference following the roundtable.
“Your partnership with us is the antidote to the fraud epidemic facing our nation. And my message to the fraudsters is this: Our team is getting bigger, our resolve is getting stronger, and your time is getting shorter,” he added.
The article concludes:
The administration’s focus on fraud came after YouTuber Nick Shirley exposed nearly a dozen Somali-run daycare centers in Minnesota that were not actually providing services.
The Trump White House later launched a task force dedicated to rooting out fraud across the country. The effort has been led by Vice President JD Vance, who McDonald reports to in his newly created position.
“The fraud-fighting team assembled here today is resolved to work together to break those cycles and bring the fraudsters out into the light,” McDonald said Thursday.
“When federal prosecutors work with state agencies to share leads, data, strategy, the American people win. Better intelligence, better cases, better training, more money returned to victims, and more fraudsters behind bars where they belong,” he continued.
If you want the fraudulent use of our tax dollars to end, you need to vote for Republicans for Congress. How many years has this fraud gone on without any administration willing to do anything about it? Do you really believe a Democrat Congress will allow these investigations to continue?
Another Reason To Leave The United Nations
I have reported on parts of this story before, but the hindering of the investigation is a new twist.
Om Thursday, The Washington Free Beacon reported the following:
Multiple U.N. relief agencies continue to stonewall a U.S. probe into their ties to Hamas, withholding key documents and other information that could reveal their employees as affiliates of the terror group, according to U.S. officials and diplomats briefed on the matter.
The ongoing standoff between federal investigators and the United Nations is causing tensions at a time when the international organization is facing intense U.S. pressure to shutter the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), the largest relief organization in Gaza, which critics say is fully infiltrated and controlled by Hamas.
…The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) inspector general’s office, a statutorily independent law enforcement entity separate from the largely defunct USAID, in December 2025 sent letters to six separate U.N. agencies that purport to do humanitarian work in Gaza. The letters asked these groups to name all their employees “who worked on U.S.-government funded awards” and provide their contact information and “date and place of birth.” The office also asked the agencies to detail their “interactions with Hamas,” among other requests that went largely unanswered, the Free Beacon first reported in April.
More than three months later, none of the six organizations have furnished the full list of documents requested by the USAID inspector general, a source briefed on the USAID inspector general’s investigation confirmed to the Free Beacon.
“This administration will not allow the U.N. to evade accountability in its handling of U.S. taxpayer dollars,” a senior State Department official told the Free Beacon. “The UN’s failure to cooperate with the USAID IG investigation into Hamas diversion and interference of aid to Gaza is totally unacceptable.”
Reports from the hostages taken into Gaza during the October 7th attack on Israel have stated that their captors ate food supplied by UNRWA while denying food to the hostages. October 7th should have shown us that there cannot ever be a two-state solution in the Middle East. Before October 7th, there essentially was a two-state solution. As long as the HAMAS Charter calls for the destruction of Israel and as long as the schools in the Gaza strip teach and encourage their children to become martyrs while killing Israelis, there will be no peace.
Saving America: Voting
Author: R. Alan Harrop, Ph.D.
The essence of a constitutional republic is the right of the people to select their representatives through voting. The process of voting has changed rather significantly since the founding of this great republic. Originally only property owners were permitted to vote since it was assumed that they would have the greatest interest and investment in doing what was best for the nation. All citizens are now allowed to vote, including women and ages 18 and above. What has changed even more, especially in the recent past, is the process by which votes are cast and counted. Some of these changes have been problematic and have created doubt about the integrity of the voting. A recent example of this problem is the California primary that took almost thirty days to certify the outcome the election. This is unacceptable.
President Trump has been adamant about the potential fraud. Not only are illegals being allowed to vote (as recently reported in New Jersey), but there are ongoing problems with mail-in ballots that are particularly vulnerable to fraud. In other countries such as France, there were so many problems with mail-in ballots that they have returned to voting only on election day and in person. Unfortunately, President Trump’s efforts to return confidence to the voting process through the so-called “Save Act” have been blocked in the Senate by contrarians like Senator Tom Tillis, (and essentially the entire Democrat Party). President Trump is being forced to use his administrative authority over the U.S. Postal Service in an effort to control mail-in ballots, but even this effort has been resisted by the Democrat controlled states who filed a lawsuit to block this effort. That lawsuit has yet to play out in the federal courts. This raises the question of why the Democrat Party is doing all they can to block efforts to ensure the integrity of elections. Perhaps they want to cheat. Could be.
In every election in the recent past we are told that the fate of the nation is at stake. The coming election in November is no exception. President Abraham Lincoln once famously said that if America was to be destroyed it would not be by a foreign enemy, but rather from within; with the citizens being the cause of that destruction. The issue we are increasingly facing is the threat from anti-American Marxists who are determined to fundamentally change this country to a communist country. There was a time in this country where no politician would dare to propose such an ideology, especially since we fought several wars to resist communism around the world, including the Korean War and Vietnam. The brave men and women who fought and died resisting communism will have died in vain if we now allow America to become a Marxist/communist country.
Alarmingly, we see this happening in many places (including New York City) where communist immigrants from other countries are increasingly receiving voter support and winning elections. This is no longer a fringe group that we can afford to dismiss or ignore. It will be at our own peril if we do. We have to face the fact that many of our younger citizens have been brainwashed by leftist professors into believing that socialism/communism is acceptable. This in spite of the historical fact that no communist country has ever been economically successful or has provided the freedoms that we take for granted in America.
The problem is the failure of true patriots to vote. In the 2024 election, only approximately 65% of eligible voters bothered to vote. In non-presidential elections the totals are even more dismal. For example, in 2022 in Craven County only 50.4% of eligible voters actually voted. Not acceptable! It is particularly important that conservative leaning counties get out the vote to offset the voting in leftist urban areas like Raleigh, Durham, Asheville and Charlotte.
So how do we motivate conservative voters? First, everyone who voted for President Trump in 2024 (which in Craven County was 59.6%, must be made to realize that if the Democrats control the House and/or Senate it will be nothing but impeachment hearings and blocking everything President Trump tries to accomplish. A Democrat Congress will also make every effort to eliminate all President Trump has accomplished and return to the disastrous policies of the Biden presidency. Second, the voters must realize that the Democrat Party is being taken over by the Marxist extremists who will do everything to destroy this country. As President Reagan frequently said, “ Freedom is always one generation from extinction.” WE CANNOT ALLOW THIS TO HAPPEN!
Each of us must fight to preserve our country. It is our turn. Join the efforts of your precinct and county GOP to get out the vote. Make phone calls. Knock on doors. If we fail, the brave men and women who died for our country will have died in vain. We will have betrayed them.
From my friends at Power Line Blog:
Providing Practical Information
I have heard mixed opinions about Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., but I have to say he is focused on making Americans healthier. I may disagree with a lot of his politics, but I love the information he is putting out on nutrition, food additives, etc.
On Friday, American Greatness posted an article about RFK Jr.’s latest venture.
The article reports:
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. debuted a new cooking series Thursday aimed at showing American families that nutritious meals can cost less than a fast food run, part of the Trump administration’s Make America Healthy Again push.
“The Real Food Show” premiered July 30 on YouTube and the HHS website, offering recipes built around whole, minimally processed ingredients such as protein, full-fat dairy, fruits, vegetables and whole grains, the standards set out in the 2026 Dietary Guidelines for Americans. The show promises meals priced under $5 per serving whenever possible, along with simple techniques meant to save families time and money.
Kennedy told USA Today he wanted to counter criticism that followed the January release of the updated dietary guidelines, which some argued would put healthy eating out of reach for ordinary Americans.
“When we published the dietary guidelines, there was immediately sort of a good reaction, but also a little trepidation from the public and from critics saying that this food is a lot more expensive than the ultra-processed food that we’ve been eating,” Kennedy said. “And that’s not true.”
Kennedy argued the real cost comparison favors home cooking over drive-thru convenience. “Fast food is not less expensive,” he said. “That meal costs $12 to $14. People can eat a lot cheaper at home and a lot better food. But many Americans have forgotten how to cook. It’s becoming a lost art.”
Many Americans are totally unschooled in nutritional information. I have learned more than I want to know about nutrition because of the amount of Celiac disease and gluten intolerance in my family. Anyone raising children needs to be aware of the chemicals and other additives in the food they are feeding their family. It is interesting to read the ingredients label on a box of American children’s cereal and then read the ingredients on the same product sold overseas. For example, it was a shock to me to find out that there was gluten in soy sauce and in some powdered drink mixes.I fully support what RFK Jr. is doing.