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Let’s Enjoy Our 250th Birthday Year
On Sunday, the Freedom 250 Grand Prix was held in Washington, D.C. As someone who enjoys car racing, I think it was amazing. The formula one cars are awesome to watch.
On Sunday, The Daily Caller posted an article detailing some of the planning that went into the race.
The article reports:
For the first time ever, some of the streets of downtown Washington were transformed, albeit temporarily, into a racetrack as it hosted the Freedom 250 Grand Prix, which included competitions for both IndyCar and the recently resurrected International Race of Champions (IROC). The races, organized by the Trump administration-linked Freedom 250, was the latest Washington-based celebration planned in honor of the 250th anniversary of American independence.
…Patriotism indeed appeared to be the theme of the weekend-long extravaganza which featured two ticketed — but at no cost — viewing areas on each side of the track aptly named “Stars” and “Stripes.” Concession stands — which did feature priced menu offerings — likewise bore names including “Red White & BBQ,” “Freedom Grill,” and “Checkered Faves,” with the latter being a nod to the flag race officials wave to signal a victor. Queueing guests also waited their turn to pose in front of the life-size “FREEDOM 250” and “USA 250” signs set up on the Mall.
“Freedom doesn’t ring, it revs,” declared a large sign visible on a building along the direction the drivers sped.
The article notes that the preparation was extensive:
D.C. officials had to weld more than 200 manhole covers shut in order to avoid any flying away with the traffic over them going nearly ten times its usual speed, Denker said, according to The Associated Press. Nearly one in four of these manholes also required silicone fittings so the road was not too bumpy for the drivers.
Even with all the extra preparation needed for the race to take place, at least one element could not be controlled: the weather. A light drizzle, however, did not stop fans from filling the bleachers at 9:00 a.m. Saturday just to see Palou, Newgarden, and company practice on the wet pavement.
Americans need to take the time to relax and enjoy the fact the we have existed as a free country for 250 years. I think this race was a wonderful idea.
Sunlight Is The Best Disinfectant, So Let’s Close The Shades!
On Sunday, The Gateway Pundit posted an article about a California law recently signed by Governor Gavin Newsom.
The article reports:
The formerly great state of California took a giant step toward becoming a complete leftist dictatorship with a new law that completely destroys the 1st Amendment.
As The New York Post reported, Governor Gavin Newsom officially signed the “Stop Nick Shirley Act” into law on Saturday. This comes just days after a leftist operative interrupted an interview the independent journalist was conducting at the State Capitol and launched a disgusting and bizarre personal attack against him.
The legislation, which officially takes effect on October 1, 2027, passed the Senate on Tuesday and cleared the state Assembly on Wednesday.
The “Stop Nick Shirley Act” was introduced by Assemblywoman Mia Bonta, who is married to California’s far-left Attorney General, Rob Bonta. AB 2624 claims to expand California’s “Safe at Home” confidentiality program to safeguard “immigration support service providers” from harassment.
But in reality, this is a disgusting Democrat power grab designed to silence brave conservative citizen journalists like Shirley who expose the rampant fraud bleeding American taxpayers dry in government-funded immigrant service centers.
For example, Shirley has exposed over $110 million in alleged Somali-run daycare fraud in Minnesota — empty “learning centers” billing taxpayers while no children were present.
He then followed up with a shocking exposé on California daycare and hospice fraud schemes. This included ghost operations in Los Angeles tied to massive looting of Medi-Cal and Medicare.
Nick Shirley has a lot of nerve uncovering Medi-Cal and Medicare fraud in California. This law is specifically designed to stop him for exposing any more fraud.
The article notes:
As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, this fascist law states that anyone who takes photos, records video, or posts information online revealing the faces or locations of workers at these mass-migration, non-profit entities faces catastrophic consequences:
• A minimum $4,000 to $10,000 fine per violation
• Imprisonment and criminal misdemeanor charges
• Forced content takedown orders
I hope Nick Shirley sues California and the case makes its way to the Supreme Court.
How Not To Hold An Election
As if ranked-choice voting were not confusing enough, Alaska has added a new wrinkle to its current primary election.
On August 24th, The Federalist reported:
If you want to know what a “rigged” election looks like, look no further than the U.S. Senate primary race still underway in Alaska. As of this writing, the Republican incumbent Sen. Dan Sullivan trails Mary Peltola, a Democrat and former member of the House, by about 5 points.
Some 30,000 votes are still uncounted, but it won’t change the fundamentals going into the November general election thanks to Alaska’s insane and fraudulent ranked-choice voting regime. In Alaska, the primary purpose of ranked-choice voting (or RCV) is to prevent conservative Republicans from winning statewide office and to keep Sen. Lisa Murkowski in Washington.
The article notes:
In this election cycle it has produced not just embarrassment but straightforward rigging in the form of the “Decoy Dan” spectacle. Daniel J. Sullivan, a retired teacher who has never before run for office and was not a registered Republican until two days before filing his candidate declaration, managed to get on the primary ballot and capture 2.4 percent of the vote, coming in third and guaranteeing him a place on the ballot in the general election.
Decoy Dan is a fraudster propped up by Democrat Party operatives and support. As The New York Times just reported, veteran Democrat consultant Amber Lee has been assisting the fake Sullivan in his bid to trick Alaskan voters into voting for the wrong candidate. Make no mistake, the entire purpose of this man’s candidacy is to siphon votes away from Sen. Sullivan by confusing voters. He even initially tried to register with the Alaska Division of Elections as “Dan S. Sullivan,” adopting the incumbent’s middle initial so that the two names would appear identical on the ballot. He then created a website that was markedly similar (in format, color scheme, etc.) to Sen. Sullivan’s reelection site.
Unless the voters do their research, the corruption in Alaska will continue. The cure for this is voters who understand which candidate is which and who only mark one name on the ranked-choice voting ballot.
Saving American Lives
The Trump administration has done a good job securing our southern border, but there is still much work to be done to keep dangerous drugs out of America. But there is good news.
On Friday, Breitbart reported:
Special agents with Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) seized enough fentanyl to kill 8 million Americans during a bust last month in Newark, New Jersey, Breitbart News has learned. The drugs were in the possession of members of the Trinitarios gang, a violent gang made up of Dominican-Americans.
Agents with HSI Newark executed search warrants last month, leading to the arrest of two Trinitarios gang members who have been charged with conspiracy to distribute and possession with intent to distribute controlled substances, possession with intent to distribute fentanyl and cocaine, and maintaining a drug-involved premises.
In the search, federal officials told Breitbart News that agents seized 16 kilograms of fentanyl, over a kilogram of heroin laced with fentanyl, about 900 grams of cocaine, and a firearm with a large-capacity magazine that contained 51 rounds of ammunition.
For perspective, just one kilogram of fentanyl can kill up to 500,000 people.
Officials said that many of the drugs found in the bust were hidden in a trap cabinet that could only be opened using a remote key fob.
The article concludes:
“HSI special agents stand on the front lines of the fight against fentanyl, working tirelessly with our Homeland Security Task Force partners to disrupt the criminal networks that traffic this deadly poison into our communities,” HSI Executive Associate Director John Condon said. “Their dedication, skill, and courage are putting dangerous drug dealers behind bars while saving American lives. Every seizure, every arrest, and every investigation reflects HSI’s unwavering commitment to taking deadly drugs off our streets.”
Likewise, HSI agents, as well as agents with the Homeland Security Task Force (HSTF) and the U.S. Postal Inspector Service (USPIS), discovered that nearly 80 pounds of methamphetamine and one kilogram of fentanyl were purchased through undercover operations.
This month, federal agents and the Iowa Division of Narcotics Enforcement arrested those involved with the purchases, and a search resulted in the seizure of almost $1.4 million in drug profits.
We need to find a way to deal with the demand, but until then, getting dangerous drugs off the street is a good start.
Is The Response More Significant Than The Trial?
In Plymouth, Massachusetts the trial of Lindsay Clancy has been going on for about a month. Lindsay Clancy is charged with three counts of first-degree murder in the 2023 deaths of her children. The defense is claiming that postpartum psychosis caused her to kill the children. I am not unsympathetic to postpartum mental issues, but three children are dead.
On Friday, Zero Hedge reported:
A mob of liberal women decked out in pink is taking to the streets in front of the Plymouth Superior Courthouse in Plymouth, Massachusetts for a rally in support of Lindsay Clancy during her ongoing murder trial. The group, which is often accused of being “terminally online”, has been invading social media discussions for weeks to inject arguments in defense of Clancy, who confessed to the murder of her three helpless children.
Now, these women (and a few beta husbands) are going offline and showing up en masse to explain why Lindsay Clancy should go free.
She has confessed to the murders. She was on numerous drugs that were supposed to help her with her mental issues. She had reached out to family members and the medical community screaming for help. She bears sole responsibility for the murders, but how many trained professionals and others failed her along the way?
I do not want to see Lindsay Clancy go free. I want her either in a mental institution or in jail. There are three dead children as a result of her decisions whether or not she was in her right mind when she made those decisions. Do we value the lives of those children?
Jail may not be the right place–a mental institution might be. I do not want Lindsay Clancy to be living a normal life after this crime.
The article notes:
The postpartum argument is held up as if it is proof of innocence, but in reality, it suggests that the person is even more dangerous than a typical criminal. If an otherwise unassuming woman has the ability to appear absolutely normal and insinuate herself into the lives of others, only to become a bloodthirsty murderer of children at the flip of a switch, then she can never be trusted to enter back into society ever again. She can never be trusted to have children or go near children again.
The punishment should be more severe, not less. This is why America used to have a large network of mental hospitals, to keep people like this locked away for good. Instead, liberal ideology has created an environment in which criminals with the right identity are treated with more empathy than their victims.
If this continues for much longer, it will mean the downfall of western civilization.
The Lindsay Clancy trial has also become another focal point for what many now call a “plague” on the internet: Amateur Detective Wine-Moms (ADWMs).
Conspiracy theories on social media, spread by these same women, assert that Lindsay Clancy is actually a “patsy” and that her husband is the killer. Even though numerous pieces of evidence including surveillance footage and cell phone tracking shows Clancy’s husband at a local CVS pharmacy at the time of the murder, these women have read hundreds of true crime novels and think they are better investigators than the authorities involved.
It will be interesting to see what the verdict on this trial is.
This Is An Assimilation Problem
Legal immigration is a good thing when the people coming here want to become part of America and contribute to the growth of America. Coming here to import the customs of the place you left is not a good idea. Immigrants need to respect their heritage but understand that some aspects of that heritage may not be appropriate in America.
On Saturday, The New York Post reported:
A Dunkin’ employee was filmed washing his feet at a kitchen sink at the chain’s location aboard a Staten Island Ferry — prompting a city Health Department investigation, The Post has learned.
An eyewitness spotted the employee lifting his tootsies and using sink water to wash his feet behind the counter and immediately began filming the stomach-churning scene, calling it “disgusting.”
The footage — posted to TikTok Aug. 11 before it quickly spread across other social media platforms — shows the worker standing in front of the sink on what appears to be an Islamic prayer rug as he suds up his feet.
…The man appears to have been practicing wudu, the Islamic ritual of ablution performed before prayer.
It involves washing specific parts of the body — including the hands, face, arms and feet — in a prescribed sequence as an act of purification.
Muslims commonly perform wudu before the five daily prayers, known as salah, and it can also be performed before other religious activities, including handling or reading the Quran.
The article concludes:
“Religion or not, washing your feet a few inches away from the food area is wild. There has to be a better way. Mamdani, find this man a better religious accommodation,” one commenter wrote.
The Health Department told The Post in a statement, “The NYC Health Department promotes the safety of food served in the city’s restaurants so New Yorkers and visitors can dine without fear of becoming ill. Restaurants are required to follow food safety requirements,” while NYC DOT said it “is reviewing and will take appropriate action.”
Dunkin’ has not responded to The Post’s inquiries.
As someone who once held ServSafe Certification, I can assure you that this is NOT acceptable behavior.
From my friends at The Patriot Post:
Always Be Prepared
On Thursday, The Daily Caller posted an article that illustrates the necessity of being prepared to defend yourself.
The article reports:
The debate about gun control takes up so much bandwidth that we forget the Second Amendment isn’t just about owning and carrying guns – it’s about “the right to keep and bear arms” – and one carjacker found that out the hard way.
The Sunday incident occurred when a teenager tried to force an older Lyft driver to give up her car at knifepoint, WJLA, a Washington, D.C., TV Station, reported. However, the driver feigned compliance, but instead of handing over her key, she retrieved a can of pepper spray given to her by her father and sprayed the carjacker in the face.
“I reach over and I grab the bear spray and I sprayed him and I took out the knife and I started juking with the knife, then I opened the door and I fell out,” the driver, identified as “Angie,” said in an interview that aired Monday evening. “He grabbed the knife and then I sprayed him again. He ran and he came back again and he reached in the car to take my phone.”
“When he went to take my phone, I put my body on top of him and we start to fight,” Angie continued. “I saw him drop the knife. I started punching him in his leg. He somehow pushed over me and he got up and he ran away.”
A neighbor witnessed the incident and called 911, WJLA reported. The carjacker was later taken into custody, still suffering from the effects of the bear spray.
Thank God that the Lyft driver had the can of pepper spray. Hopefully the teenager will be charged with a crime and tried as an adult.
The Nanny State Strikes Again
On Tuesday, Fox Business posted an article about new regulations about tire purchases in California.
The article reports:
California regulators on Monday approved new rules that will restrict which replacement tires can be sold across the state in an effort to meet energy-efficiency standards.
The new regulations, unanimously adopted by the California Energy Commission (CEC), will phase out tires that fail to meet these standards — a move that could restrict a large portion of the tires currently available to drivers.
“This ultimately is about protecting consumers,” said David Hochschild, Chairman of the California Energy Commission, as reported by KCRA-TV. “I see this as sheltering the public from higher costs in the long run.”
…The new rules target rolling resistance: the amount of energy it takes for a tire to roll down a road. Lower rolling resistance allows vehicles to consume less gasoline or electricity.
While factory-installed tires on new vehicles typically feature low rolling resistance, drivers often replace them with cheaper, less efficient tires. The new rules aim to ensure that replacement tires maintain energy efficiency levels similar to those of original factory tires.
As long as the tires I put on my car are safe, the state has no business telling me what those tires should be. It would be interesting to check the campaign donations to the people who passed this bill. The tires now required evidently are more expensive than the tires people normally buy. There are also some questions as to the performance of the required tires in inclement weather. What is the profit margin on these tires? What campaign donations have the companies who manufacture these tires recently made? I hate to be cynical, but eighteen years of research for rightwinggranny.com has taught me that regulations often happen for reasons other than those stated.
So Exactly What Has The Trump Administration Accomplished?
On Thursday, American Greatness posted an article listing the domestic policy accomplishments of the Trump administration from October 2025 to the present.
The major highlight of the list was the One Big Beautiful Bill:
The signature domestic accomplishment of the fall and winter was not a new law, but the rollout of the law already signed—H.R. 1, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), which Trump signed on July 4, 2025. Most of its individual-side provisions took effect January 1, 2026, and by the bill’s one-year anniversary the effects were measurable. The law permanently locked in the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act rates and the doubled standard deduction, which—absent the OBBBA—would have expired at the end of 2025 and triggered a tax increase on most households. The Tax Foundation estimated the average American taxpayer would see a federal tax cut of roughly $3,752 in 2026, with every state benefiting to some degree.
The bill also delivered on specific 2024 campaign promises: no tax on tips (roughly 7 million workers claimed the deduction) and no tax on overtime (28 million claimants), an increased SALT deduction cap, a $6,000 senior deduction, and reform of Medicaid and SNAP.
Other accomplishments:
The Department of Government Efficiency continued its work despite the litigation and congressional friction noted in that earlier article, with claimed savings pushing toward the quarter-trillion-dollar mark and continued federal workforce attrition through hiring freezes, return-to-office mandates, and automation of processes like federal retirement filing. A rescissions package and impoundment actions targeted programs the administration deemed wasteful, while fraud investigations expanded into state-level abuse of federal benefit programs, including a high-profile Minnesota probe.
…HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s MAHA Commission moved from its September 2025 strategy document (120-plus initiatives) into implementation. The FDA continued working with industry toward eliminating petroleum-based synthetic dyes like Red 40 and Yellow 5 from the food supply by the end of 2026 and is closing the “GRAS loophole” that let food companies self-certify novel additives as safe without FDA review. USDA and HHS released updated Dietary Guidelines for Americans emphasizing whole foods, and the $50 billion Rural Health Transformation Program (created in the OBBBA) began funding rural hospitals and MAHA-aligned state policy, including support for regenerative agriculture practices.
Please follow the link above to read the entire article. Other accomplishments mentioned include gaining control of the southern border, appointing judges who believe in the U.S. Constitution, lowering crime in several major cities, and creating a manufacturing boom in America.
Let’s Not Give Money Away To People Who Are Here Illegally
On Wednesday, The New York Post posted an article about a new rule put in place by the Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) that tightens the requirements for the adoption, child, American opportunity, and earned income tax credits so that only US citizens, US nationals, and qualified aliens can get them.
The article reports:
“Under President Trump, the days of illegal aliens collecting taxpayer-funded benefits are over. The federal law is clear, and Treasury is enforcing it,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in a statement.
“American taxpayers should not be forced to foot the bill for benefits going to those who are barred by law from receiving them. These proposed regulations end the abuse, protect the integrity of the tax system, and put Americans first.”
Those four tax credits are refundable, which means people with a larger credit than the taxes they owe get a refund from Uncle Sam.
The administration’s new rule specifically targets the refunded portion of those tax credits. They would still be allowed to use the credits to offset their federal income tax liability.
Nearly 1 million people would be ineligible for the “refunded portion of the affected refundable individual income tax credits” due to the rule change, the Trump administration has estimated.
The estimated savings for taxpayers is $3 billion. That is not pocket change. This is just one of many efforts to shrink the amount of money that the federal government bureaucracy spends.
This May Turn Out To Be A Very Mixed Blessing
On Tuesday, Just The News posted an article about the significant drop in what Americans are paying for prescription drugs.
The article reports:
President Donald Trump’s Most Favored Nation policies and TrumpRx platform have produced the largest annual drop in U.S. prescription drug prices in over 60 years, the steepest since 1963, according to the administration. The update follows years of price increases across much of the sector which had Americans footing the bill for other nations’ usage.
“Without even twisting an arm, without trying to pass a new bill, he [Trump] brought all these players together with TrumpRX to lower the cost of prescription drugs, and he continues to do that because this guy understands leverage. He understands the bully pulpit,” Rep. Jimmy Patronis, R-Fla., told Just The News.
TrumpRx has already generated $700 million in patient savings. GLP-1 drugs that previously exceeded $1,000 monthly now start at $149; many other high-cost medications (insulin, inhalers, fertility drugs, cholesterol treatments) have fallen 50–90%. Prescription prices are down 3.9% since Trump took office and have declined every month of 2026.
Nonprescription drugs fell 2.4% and medical-care commodities 2.7% over the past year.
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) also locked in more than $10 billion in pharmaceutical savings this fiscal year, with hundreds of billions projected long-term. The administration states this is the first time a president has actually lowered prescription drug prices.
…Americans have long paid substantially higher prices for brand-name prescription drugs than patients in other developed countries—often three to four times as much, according to RAND analyses of 2022 data comparing the U.S. to 33 OECD nations.
The high prices that Americans pay finance the extensive medical research that takes place in America. The government being involved in any aspect of medicine should be troublesome for Americans. The free market works best. The cost of medical coverage was lower and the choices of medical insurance coverage was better before the government got involved. I am not opposed to Americans paying less for prescription drugs, but I want to make sure that we still leave room to pay for the research to develop new and better drugs.
From my friends at The Patriot Post:
There Is A Difference Between Creating An Incident And Reporting On An Incident
On Tuesday, The Daily Signal posted an article about the church invasion charges against former CNN anchor Don Lemon and independent journalist Georgia Fort. Major media outlets have joined an amicus brief urging a court to dismiss the charges.
The article reports:
Forty-five media outlets and nonprofit organizations joined the brief, including The Associated Press, Dow Jones (which owns The Wall Street Journal), MS NOW, The New York Times, The NewsGuild, PEN America, ProPublica, Slate, and The Washington Post.
Lemon and Fort stand accused of violating federal civil rights laws for their alleged activity in the invasion of Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota, on Jan. 18, protesting the pastor who works for Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
The Justice Department brought charges against Lemon and Fort under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act and the Ku Klux Klan Act, claiming they took part in the agitation that violated congregants’ civil rights. Lemon and Fort have said they were present at the invasion in their capacity as journalists.
The amicus brief, led by the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, argues that if Lemon and Fort are convicted, “federal law would be within arm’s reach of prosecutors to muzzle reporting in the public interest.” Magistrate Judge Douglas Micko of the U.S. District of Minnesota added the brief to the court record Monday.
The article notes:
Agitators, who said they targeted Cities Church because one of its pastors works for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, allegedly stood up in the middle of a service, refused to leave when asked, blocked members of the congregation from getting to their children, and chanted, “Who shut this down? We shut this down!”
The indictment notes that Lemon livestreamed the planning meeting before the church takeover, but he told his audience he was leaving out key details to avoid revealing the target beforehand. It also claims Lemon said “the whole point” of the activity was “to disrupt” the service. It further accuses Lemon of confronting the church’s pastor, refusing to leave when asked, and obstructing churchgoers as they left the building.
The indictment presents fewer concrete claims about Fort’s alleged involvement in the agitation. It alleges that she confronted the pastor and that she blocked a minivan from leaving the church’s parking lot by conducting an interview in front of it.
The actions of Don Lemon were not reporting and are not protected by the First Amendment. As soon as you block someone from exercising their right to participate in a religious service, you have broken the law. I hope the people involved in this protest, which involved trespassing if they stayed after they were asked to leave, are punished for their actions. This was not a protest–it was unlawful activity.
When The Punishment DOES NOT Fit The Crime
On Tuesday, Yahoo News posted an article about Abdinasir Mahamed Abshir, 34, of Lakeville, Minnesota.
The article reports:
A Minnesota man whose food site received more than $5.4 million after falsely claiming to serve about 1.6 million meals to children has been sentenced to 6½ years in federal prison.
Abdinasir Mahamed Abshir, 34, of Lakeville, received a 78-month sentence on Aug. 18 for wire fraud in the massive Feeding Our Future case, according to the latest reporting from FOX 9.
But the fraud itself was not the only conduct that affected his punishment. While another Feeding Our Future trial was underway in February 2025, Abshir approached a cooperating witness who was preparing to testify and asked the man to go into a courthouse bathroom with him to talk.
Abshir later acknowledged that the encounter amounted to obstruction of justice through attempted witness tampering. At sentencing, U.S. District Judge Nancy E. Brasel said the courthouse conduct was a primary reason for the 78-month term.
According to an article posted at Power Line Blog on Tuesday:
Abdinasir Abshir, Feeding Our Future defendant No. 10 (out of 80), was sentenced to 6-and-a-half years in federal prison in a hearing this afternoon. He was ordered to repay the more than $2 million he personally took out of the scheme.
Where do the taxpayers go to get the rest of the $5.4 million?
Yahoo News reports:
Abshir transferred millions of dollars from Horseed Management to himself and other people involved in the scheme. Some of the money went to Calikamin Enterprise, another shell company Abshir created. He also used fraud proceeds to purchase a 2021 Range Rover, which federal authorities seized for forfeiture.
Prosecutors say Abshir paid more than $100,000 in bribes and kickbacks to Abdikerm Eidleh, a Feeding Our Future employee, in exchange for helping sponsor and facilitate Stigma-Free Mankato’s participation in the federal nutrition program.
Feeding Our Future received nearly $420,000 in administrative fees for sponsoring the site, according to the Justice Department. Abshir also paid $5,750 into a GoFundMe account created for Feeding Our Future in December 2021.
I am not impressed with the sentencing. Six and a half years in prison is not enough of a penalty for that amount of criminal activity or to deter someone else from committing a similar crime.
The Search For Voter Integrity
On Monday, The Federalist posted an article about California’s lack of ability to determine how many noncitizens have been removed from its voting rolls or the lack of a policy to investing illegal voting.
The article reports:
For years, Americans have been told that concerns about noncitizens voting are a myth, a right-wing talking point unworthy of serious attention. California’s own secretary of state and attorney general have proven otherwise, however, not by admitting the state has no idea whether, or how often, it’s even happening, but by indicating the state isn’t bothering to track it.
A few weeks ago, the ACLJ (American Center For Law & Justice) submitted two California Public Records Act (CPRA) requests — one to the California secretary of state and one to Attorney General Rob Bonta’s office — seeking records on how the state maintains the integrity of its voter rolls. The Attorney General’s Office took an extension, ultimately responding on Aug. 10.
The Secretary of State’s Office responded first, but refused to provide any records responsive to our request. According to its answer, the statewide voter registration system simply “does not contain” a specific cancellation reason for non-citizenship. In other words, the state cannot tell us how many noncitizens have ever been removed from its voter rolls — because it doesn’t keep that information at all.
The article concludes:
It’s also worth noting that California doesn’t require proof of citizenship or lawful presence for a certain category of driver’s license, AB 60 — the same kind of licensing pathway that triggered New Jersey’s noncitizen voter roll problem. And driver’s licenses are used to establish identity.
The ACLJ isn’t done here. We’re pressing for the records that California’s DOJ says it’s still reviewing, and depending on what — or what isn’t — in that response, our options range from further legal demands to potential litigation for noncompliance with state and federal recordkeeping laws.
The California Secretary of State’s Office has now told the country that it doesn’t know how many noncitizens have been removed from its voter rolls, and the Attorney General’s Office admitted that it has no formal policy for investigating illegal voting when it’s reported. That’s not a technicality. That’s a transparency failure in need of further investigation.
This is no way to run a state!
Avoiding Clean Voter Rolls
When I was a young child, for a short while I lived in Jersey City. I didn’t understand at the time when my parents made jokes about people sometime around October every election year going through the cemeteries with pens and clipboards to register the people there to vote. I have a better understanding of that now.
On Tuesday, The Daily Signal reported:
North Carolina’s Democrat Gov. Josh Stein vetoed an election law reform that requires the state to cross-check voter registration rolls with death records.
The governor vetoed House Bill 958 in the battleground state, which would also reduce the number of early voting days in certain elections and grant the state auditor new powers to review election results.
Republican lawmakers have enough votes to override Stein’s veto, according to WSOC Charlotte. The bill passed along party lines.
Critics of the legislation contend it would hinder transparency for campaign finance and potentially lead to the purging of eligible voters from voter rolls. The bill allows candidates to disclose fewer donations on contributions, loans, and expenditures, increasing the required amount for reporting from $1,000 to $3,000.
“Rather than make your life better, they want to make it harder for you to hold them accountable for their failures,” Stein said Monday of the bill’s GOP supporters, WRALRaleigh reported.
“They would rather change the rules of our elections to secure advantage than to do the work that the voters expect, which is to improve people’s lives,” the governor added.
Republicans have argued that the governor is making elections less secure with his veto, WRAL reported.
So changing the rules of our elections so that dead people don’t vote doesn’t improve people’s lives? How does dead people voting help us in any way?
The article concludes:
Under the legislation, the state and county boards of elections would be required to remove ineligible voters from voter rolls and update addresses of eligible voters. They can enter into data-sharing agreements with other states to cross-check voting records.
The bill would also allow “any registered voter” to challenge the legitimacy of a vote or a voter’s registration. A decision made by the county board may be appealed to the Superior Court in the county where the challenge originated.
Early votes cast in-person must be counted at the time polls close on Election Day. The bill stipulates that if a voter lacks photo ID, he or she will get a provisional ballot.
The bill further bans foreign nationals from donating to a referendum campaign. Numerous other states have banned direct and indirect foreign contributions on ballot measures in recent years.
The only reason to leave dead people on the voter rolls is so you can cheat!
Trump Report Card: Economy
Author: R. Alan Harrop, Ph.D
In a previous article, I stressed the fact that the essence of a true representative republic is elected officials doing what they promised to do while campaigning. That article listed numerous effective actions President Trump has taken to prevent illegal immigration. This article will examine the actions the Trump administration has taken to strengthen the economy.
President Trump’s pledge to “Make America Great Again” is clearly seen in many actions he has taken in his second term. First, he removed the barriers against oil and natural gas exploration and production enacted by the Biden administration. There has been a 55% increase in oil and natural gas drilling permits on public land since Trump’s inauguration. In 2025, U.S. energy production reached record levels, including a record 714 million barrels of crude oil from offshore sites. As a result, the United States is the largest producer of energy in the world. At the same time, the Trump administration has canceled billions of dollars in grants for so-called green energy projects and requirements. The result is a fulfilled campaign promise to ensure abundant energy availability for our nation and eliminate dependence on any other country.
Second, the Trump administration has effectively reduced excessive government regulations that have been stifling economic growth in this country. For every new regulation, Trump requires each federal agency to eliminate ten existing regulations. In addition, his administration has, unlike the Biden administration that significantly increased the federal workforce, reduced the federal workforce by over 60,000 jobs, saving the taxpayers over $2 billion every year. As a result of these and other efforts, the stock market is at an all-time high and inflation is down considerably compared to the Biden administration.
Third, President Trump has taken significant steps to fulfill his promise to return manufacturing to the U.S. No country can be safe, secure, and prosperous when dependent on other countries for essential manufactured products. He has used tariffs and the threat of tariffs as well as other incentives to increase domestic production. Countries like China have been taking advantage of unfair trade policies for decades. We saw a prime example of the problem this can cause during the Covid crisis when essential medical supplies had to be purchased from abroad. As a result of his strong stance on trade negotiations, billions of dollars are being re-directed to manufacturing (with a resulting increase in jobs) in this country. Remember, most leftist Democrats support the concept of a global economy not the American economy. Many states have experienced a significant increase in manufacturing investment as a result of Trump’s actions including North Carolina, which has a projected increase of approximately $140 billion in manufacturing.
Fourth, the Trump administration has been focused on directly helping the American worker and taxpayers. The administration recently announced a program to expand commercial truck driver training for American citizens and curtail the use of many non-English speaking immigrants operating commercial vehicles. Also, importantly, President Trump pushed Congress to pass federal tax reductions such as no tax on tips, overtime, and social security benefits. It is estimated that these changes will save the average taxpayer up to $10,000 per year.
As a result of these and other policy actions, the U.S. economy is strong. While the conflict with Iran is preventing the cost of fuel from dropping as much as the Trump administration had planned, the objective of eliminating the nuclear threat from the world’s greatest sponsor of terrorism is a price the world must pay to ensure safety and security for this and future generations. President Trump has not only kept his campaign promises concerning the economy, he has demonstrated the effectiveness of a free market economy rather than the big government centralized control advocated by the Marxist left.
It is up to patriotic Americans to recognize these achievements and get out and vote to continue them.
The Joys Of Sending Your Child To An Ivy League College
For the academic year 2024-2025, the undergraduate tuition at Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus is $20,644 for Pennsylvania residents and $41,790 for out-of-state students. Parents who send their children there expect them to get a good education and a good start on their adult life. That isn’t always what happens.
On Monday, The Daily Caller posted an article about some recent charges brought against students at Penn State.
The article reports:
Fourteen people ran a cocaine operation out of two Penn State fraternity houses, supplying the drug to fellow students for roughly two years, Pennsylvania prosecutors alleged Monday.
Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday announced the charges alongside the State College Police Department, according to his office.
Thirteen of those accused attended Penn State at or near the time of the alleged activity in 2023 and 2024, and the remaining defendant is the father of a student, charged with tampering with evidence and obstructing the probe. Sunday’s office later confirmed that at least four of those charged are current students.
Agostino Abbatiello and Thomas Robinson supplied the group with drugs, traveling to Philadelphia and New York to bring back large amounts of cocaine, the attorney general’s office said. Members and pledges of Delta Upsilon and Sigma Chi then cut and bagged the drug at the two houses before selling it to classmates.
“This was a coordinated and highly-profitable drug-trafficking crew revolving around two senior members of the fraternities, other fraternity brothers, and pledges,” Sunday said in a statement released by his office. “In fact, according to the evidence uncovered, cutting and packaging cocaine was, for some pledges, an indoctrination into the fraternities.”
…Abbatiello, Robinson, Mohammed Hurabi and Lars Zeepvat face felony counts of corrupt organizations, conspiracy and dealing in proceeds of unlawful activity, according to the attorney general’s office. Robert Zanolla is charged with felony conspiracy and criminal use of a communication facility. Eight others face misdemeanors. Paul Robinson, the student’s father, allegedly hid a safe holding drugs and cash.
One of the fraternities involved has been placed on interim suspension. The other was never recognized by the college.
The article does not indicate whether all members of the fraternities were involved in the activities, but this case should make parents very aware of what can go on in our colleges. Hug your children and watch them closely!
From my friends at Townhall:
Voting With Your Feet
On Monday, The Gateway Pundit posted an article about another major corporation leaving California for Texas.
The article reports:
Hil Davis, the CEO of Digital Brands Group based in California, shared his blunt reasoning for moving his company’s headquarters to Round Rock, Texas. Davis told Fox News Digital, “Doing business in the state of California sucks.”
The Round Rock Chamber announced the move in a press release.
“Founded in California and known for its innovative approach to blending apparel brands with e-commerce technology and data-driven consumer solutions, Digital Brands Group’s relocation marks a significant win for economic development in Round Rock.”
“The company’s move reflects the accelerating trend of growth-oriented companies choosing Texas for its business-friendly environment, skilled workforce, and strategic position in Central Texas.”
“We are thankful to move to Texas, a business-friendly state, from California. We believe the operating environment and cost of business is significantly better, while also creating a higher quality of life and lower cost of living for employees. We are excited to build our corporate headquarters in Round Rock, especially as we move into our next phase of growth,” Davis added.
The article quotes Fox News:
Davis pointed to California’s high cost of living, long employee commutes and the rising cost of doing business, including defending against lawsuits.
“You start to add all those things up,” he said. “It doesn’t work. It doesn’t make sense. It’s too hard.”
The relocation comes as California wrestles with a much bigger question about whether the state’s costs, taxes and regulations are driving away the businesses and wealthy residents it relies on.
That debate has intensified around a proposed one-time tax of up to 5% on Californians worth more than $1 billion.
California has brought this on itself. One of the most beautiful states in the union has created an environment where the cost of living and the cost of doing business have skyrocketed. A business needs to go to where the cost of doing business is reasonable and the cost of living for its employees is reasonable. California currently meets neither of those two requirements. It remains to be seen if the state can change enough politically to avoid the economic disaster that is currently in its future.
Exactly What Are The Democrat Policies?
On Monday, The Federalist posted an article about some recent policies voted on by the Democrat National Committee (DNC) Resolutions Committee.
The article reports:
When the accomplice media tell you that there is such a thing as a “moderate” wing of the Democratic Party, remember what the Democratic National Committee did on August 15, 2026. And remember that November’s midterm elections come down to the sane versus the insane on the ballot.
In an effort to offer voters varying degrees of insanity, the DNC on Saturday staked out two positions on U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement: A resolution seeking to abolish ICE, and another looking to gut it. Each measure passed unanimously by voice vote during the committee’s summer meeting in Austin, Texas.
…The DNC Resolutions Committee advanced the motion (25-12) late last week urging “Democratic members of Congress to craft legislation abolishing ICE and enacting immigration reform that provides pathways to citizenship, protects workers, and ensures dignity for all impacted people,” according to Common Dreams, a left-wing nonprofit “news” organization founded by Dem operative Craig Brown.
In a lame attempt to soften the abolishment proposal, the Resolutions Committee backed a separate advisory resolution calling for “concrete reforms” to ICE.
Neither resolution is binding. The final DNC platform will be set at the 2028 Democratic National Committee Convention in August 2028, in a leftist-led city yet to be selected.
The immigration debate is becoming tiresome. You are not a racist because you want people to come to America to work and add to the country. You are not a racist because you believe that people should follow the law in coming here. You are not a racist because you believe that laws regarding illegal entry into America should be enforced. These used to be mainstream ideas.
The article concludes:
Now a Democratic Party that has been commandeered by the radical left wants to abolish ICE. They can’t pretend they don’t want to do that any longer. They just passed a resolution spelling out their intentions.
“Instead of trying to abolish ICE, Democrats should be thanking ICE law enforcement officers for putting their lives on the line to arrest and remove murderers, rapists, pedophiles, and gang members from American communities,” the White House said in statement.
“Many of these criminals were released from jails by Democrat radical politicians. President Trump’s efforts to remove criminal illegal aliens from American communities is already delivering results including the lowest murder rate in 125 years.”
Trump Report Card
Author: R. Alan Harrop, Ph.D.
All politicians make promises while on the campaign trail. Some of them reflect their true beliefs, while some are made to increase voter support. Various presidents have been guilty of the same hypocrisy. Because of the campaign promises candidates make that they have no intention or ability to fulfil, the power of the people to control the government and ultimately their freedom is undermined. This coming election in November is crucial to the continuation of the policies enacted by President Trump. The Democrats have already promised to undo many, if not all, of the positive actions of the Trump administration through overrides of his executive orders and by curtailing his power by bringing spurious impeachment charges as they did in his first term.
It is time that we examine the actions the Trump administration has taken to “make America great again.” The people who voted for Trump in 2024 must understand what he has done to fulfill his promises and return America to the principles and policies that not only reflect our founding principles but made this country successful. Conservative voters need this information so that they are motivated to get out and vote in numbers that ensure the effectiveness of the Trump administration for the next two years. This, and subsequent articles, are intended to summarize the important positive actions that President Trump has taken to implement the policies he promised to the American people.
In politics, there are people we can classify as revolutionists because their goal is to change the way America is governed. For example, President Barack Obama stated on many occasions that his goal was to fundamentally transform America. Communist New York City Mayor Mamdani has set about accomplishing the same thing. President Donald Trump is actually a counter-revolutionary since his objective is to return this country to its founding principles and policies and then maintain those policies. It is important to remember the distinction between revolutionary and counter-revolutionary since we are clearly facing the greatest internal threat of communism in our history.
Let us start off with border security and see how President Trump is doing. No country can long survive with large numbers of immigrants, both legal and illegal, who do not share the essential principles and beliefs of the host country. History has repeatedly shown this to be true. What is happening currently in many European countries is further proof. Marxists do not believe in the idea of independent countries/nations and are seeking global governance with no effective borders. This has always been the goal of communism. President Trump has a different view and has taken steps to implement his policies. First, he put a stop to the Biden administration’s restrictions on ICE agents to perform their duties. They are now once again not only able to stop illegal immigrants from entering this country, but are arresting and deporting them at high rates. As a result, there have been over 700,000 deportations and over 1,300,000 self-deportations. Instead of seeing caravans of illegals swamping our southern border, the tide has turned and many are choosing to leave on their own. The word is out to the world that we no longer have open borders. The Biden administration lied about their ability to close the border and said they could do nothing without changes in the laws.
Second, the Trump administration has taken action to terminate the temporary protected status granted to over 300,000 Haitians allowed into this country by the Biden administration. This action by the Trump administration was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court by a 6-3 majority opinion.
Third, President Biden not only stopped the construction of the southern border wall, he sold off the material already purchased for its completion for pennies on the dollar. President Trump re-started the construction of the border wall which when completed will extend across the entire 1,954 miles between our country and Mexico.
Fourth, President Trump has taken action to stop “tourists” and other temporary visitors from having babies who, as a result of being born on U.S. soil, are granted immediate citizenship. His effort has been made more difficult by the ridiculous Supreme Court ruling allowing this practice to continue. Congress needs to step up to the plate and support President Trump’s efforts to curtail this so-called birthright citizenship which is being exploited by China. This amendment to the Constitution was intended to ensure that children of slaves after the Civil War were granted citizenship. The Amendment was never intended to allow anyone visiting in this country to have children granted citizenship if they are born here.
There are many other actions that the Trump administration has taken to secure our borders as he promised. He has fulfilled his campaign pledge. The election in November will determine whether these actions favored by the voters who elected President Trump will be retained permanently. We must get out the vote!
One Result Of The Big Beautiful Bill
On Saturday, Just the News posted an article about the impact of the One Big Beautiful Bill on Americans’ tax refunds.
The article reports:
The Internal Revenue Service issued $296 billion in refunds during the 2026 filing season, a 17% increase from the previous year, as millions of Americans benefited from President Donald Trump’s signature tax law, according to a new Government Accountability Office report.
The increase represented $43 billion more in refunds than the IRS had issued during the 2025 filing season for tax year 2024. The average refund also increased by $333, or 11%, compared with the previous year, according to the full report.
The GAO attributed the larger refunds, in part, to millions of taxpayers claiming new deductions created by recent tax law changes in Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBB), including provisions allowing deductions for qualified tips and overtime.
The IRS also issued more refunds overall, sending out more than 8 million additional refunds compared with 2025.
The increase in refunds came as the agency faced delays affecting taxpayers who received their money by paper check.
The article notes the advantage of filing electronically and receiving your return electronically:
Still, taxpayers who had filed paper returns or relied on paper refund checks had faced significant delays.
“Most paper check refunds were delayed by weeks,” the GAO reported, as the IRS had moved toward issuing refunds primarily through direct deposit.
The IRS sent approximately 4.2 million notices to taxpayers by early May asking them to provide bank account information to allow for electronic delivery of their refunds.
Taxpayers who had not responded were told they would receive a paper check after six weeks.
As a result, the number of paper-check refunds issued by early April had plunged more than 80%, from about 2.8 million in 2025 to roughly 493,000 in 2026. Those who had received paper checks waited an average of 36 days, compared with 13 days the previous year.
The GAO found that the IRS had therefore taken about three times longer to issue paper-check refunds than it had in 2025.
Taxpayers using direct deposit generally avoided the worst of the delays.
According to the report, nine out of 10 refunds issued through direct deposit had arrived within 21 days.
According to Artificial Intelligence, this is who pays taxes in America:
In the U.S., the top 1% of earners, who make over $663,164, paid approximately 40.4% of federal income taxes in 2022, while the top 50% of earners contributed about 97% of total federal income taxes.
Federal Tax Contributions by Income Group
Understanding the distribution of federal tax payments reveals significant disparities.
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- Top 1% — They earned 22.2% of total Adjusted Gross Income (AGI) and paid 42.3% of federal income taxes.
- Top 50% — This group accounted for 97% of all federal individual income taxes.
- Bottom 50% — They contributed only 3% of federal income taxes.
- Top 5% — In 2023, they paid over $1.27 trillion in income taxes, about 60% of the total.
- Progressive Tax System — High-income earners pay higher average tax rates, emphasizing the system’s progressive nature.
Whenever someone tells you that the rich don’t pay their fair share, show them these numbers.