Monthly Archives: April 2025

Rescuing The Children Impacted By The Open Border

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On Tuesday, The New York Post reported that Homeland Security agents in California rescued two teenage migrant sisters who were sex trafficked after they came across the southern border as unaccompanied minors.

The article reports:

It’s the latest effort by the Trump administration to track down more than 320,000 migrant children who went missing under President Joe Biden’s watch — kids whom whistleblowers have warned are vulnerable to exploitation.

Special agents with Homeland Security Investigations saved the girls, ages 16 and 18, Saturday from captivity at a hotel in West Covina, California, where Christopher Ramirez was allegedly “pimping” the young sisters out, sources told The Post.

Cops with the West Covina Police Department initially found the girls and arrested Ramirez on local charges.

The feds are still looking for co-conspirators who helped move the migrant girls, who are from Honduras, from Texas to California and forced them into prostitution, sources said.

The article concludes:

The Trump administration recently found that approved migrant sponsors were providing fake or doctored photos in their applications to HHS.

Tara Rodas, who became a whistleblower on the issue after she was recruited as a federal government employee to help HHS with an influx of migrant kids in 2021, told The Post that “targeting criminal sponsors is a simple yet powerful tool” the Trump administration can use to “save the children.”

“By targeting fraudulent sponsors, the Trump administration is sending a powerful message to predators who commit crimes against children,” she said.

Of the 320,000 missing migrant kids, 291,000 were released into the US and never given a date to appear in immigration court — meaning there is no way to track their whereabouts, according to the 14-page report — which tracked a period from October 2018 to September 2023.

Another 32,000 children were released with hearing dates but then failed to show up to their immigration hearings.

All of these children need to be located, assuming they are still alive. What happened at America’s southern border under the Biden administration was a disgrace. The cartels got richer, and innocent people paid the price.

Actions Have Consequences

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The idea of renewable energy sounds wonderful–sunlight should be endless, and wind should be endless. Unfortunately, the sun does not shine all of the time, and the wind does not blow all of the time. That could (and did) create a problem.

On Tuesday, Breitbart reported the following:

Spain’s power network has remained silent on the actual cause of Europe’s worst power blackout in a generation, but has acknowledged that it is “very possible” that a problem with solar power systems may have contributed to the failure.

A freak weather incident was blamed on Monday for a massive power cut that affected the entire Iberian Peninsula, depriving Spain and Portugal of electricity. However, this narrative was quickly questioned by energy industry insiders, and Spain’s national energy company now acknowledges that renewable power failure may have been a contributing factor.

Red Eléctrica (RE), the national energy grid firm, has stated that it has ruled out a cyberattack and insists, “We were able to conclude that there was indeed no intrusion into Red Eléctrica’s control system,” despite the national counter-terrorism prosecutor ordering an inquiry. Judge José Luis Calama has given RE and the national cyber-security centre ten days to compile initial reports into the sabotage hypothesis, reports El País.

While the Spanish media is today full of the effects of yesterday’s total blackout, with 150,000 having to be rescued from underground trains trapped in tunnels and whole areas, including hospitals, left without water as the electric-powered pumps fell silent, the public unable to buy food and drink unless they had ready cash to hand, and telephone and internet networks being rendered non-functional, less is being said about how the crisis began.

The article notes:

A report on the importance of inertia in a functioning power grid cited by Porter in turn quoted the United Kingdom’s National Grid Electricity System Operator, who explained in 2022: “Operating the system with low inertia will continue to represent a key operational challenge into the future and we will need to ensure we improve our understanding of the challenges this will bring”.

That report, published by a supplier of clutches for power stations, noted: “Renewable generation is increasingly displacing conventional generation in the generation mix, reducing the amount of heavy, rotating turbines on the grid and therefore the amount of inertia they provide.”

These fragilities are not unknown to the electricity industry, and much has been written on the challenges of transition to renewable power. Yet Bloomberg’s Blas wrote just last week that it has only been comparatively recently that the green energy lobby has even acknowledged such problems, having taken the position in the past that any criticism of green energy systems was motivated by cynicism and ideological opposition, rather than what he called “electricity realism” and real concern about grid resilience.

…Naturally, political attention throughout Europe has turned to the Iberian blackout, particularly as left-leaning governments strive to catch up with Spain in what they call decarbonising their own energy grids. In the United Kingdom, where the government says it wants to reach “Net Zero carbon emissions” by 2050 and wants to achieve this without importing slave-labour-linked solar panels from China, Green Great Reset sceptics have spoken out on the need for a pause and rethink in the light of this week’s events.

Brexit’s Nigel Farage, who is already styling himself as a Prime Minister in waiting and who is cruising towards what pollsters say may be a convincing election victory in nationwide local government contests this week, said on Tuesday morning that “the power outage in Spain is a warning”. The United Kingdom is dangerously reliant on foreign energy imports, he said, stating: “This net zero madness must end”.

Things that work in theory don’t always work in practice.

The Name For This Proposed Law Was Pure Brilliance

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Insider trading by Congress has been a problem for a long time. It is one of the ways that a person can enter Congress with a net worth of about $800,000 and become a multi-millionaire in a few years. There have been a few efforts to end insider trading in Congress, but oddly enough those efforts have been voted down.

On Tuesday, Townhall posted an article about the latest effort to end Congressional insider trading.

The article reports:

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) is again turning up the heat on Washington corruption by reintroducing the “PELOSI Act,” a bold effort to ban members of Congress and their spouses from trading individual stocks. Named after former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), whose financial dealings have long raised questions, the bill directly targets the insider privilege, allowing lawmakers to profit off the markets while shaping policy.

This week, Hawley reintroduced the Preventing Elected Leaders from Owning Securities and Investments (PELOSI) Act, which would ban members of Congress from trading or holding individual stocks. The senator argued that lawmakers should prioritize serving their constituents, not profiting from stock trading using insider information. He said that the act would help restore public trust in the government.

Hawley first introduced the act in 2023, but it stalled under President Joe Biden’s administration. With President Donald Trump back in office, the legislation is gaining traction. Trump has pledged to “absolutely” sign the bill if it reaches his desk, stating he “watched Nancy Pelosi get rich through insider information.”

The PELOSI Act would prohibit members of Congress and their spouses from buying, selling, or holding individual stocks while in office. However, they would still be allowed to invest in diversified mutual funds, ETFs, or U.S. Treasury bonds. Lawmakers would have 180 days to comply with the law, and those who fail to do so would be required to forfeit any stock profits to the U.S. Treasury and could face fines from congressional ethics committees.

The Republicans hold majorities in both the House and the Senate. There is no excuse for not getting this done.

This Seems A Little Uneven

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Recently I posted an article about a Minneapolis man who vandalized at least six Teslas. The Hennepin County Attorney’s Office decided not to seek criminal charges against the man and instead chose to “seek diversion.” (Article here)

However, on Friday, Legal Insurrection posted an article about how the County Attorney’s Office handled a similar case.

The article reports:

On Monday, the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office announced that it would not seek criminal charges against Dylan Adams, 33, a fiscal policy analyst for Minnesota’s Department of Human Services, who allegedly keyed six Teslas and caused more than $20,000 in damage. According to HCAO, because Adams was a first-time offender, he would instead be placed into a diversion program. He would pay for the cost of the repairs and still be able to keep his job.

At the time of Adams’ arrest, FOX 9 reported that police considered each of the six incidents a felony, noting that the damage to each Tesla exceeded $1,000, meeting the threshold for felony vandalism in every case. (I wrote about this story here.)

…County Attorney Mary Moriarty’s decision to let Adams escape criminal charges sparked shock and indignation among fair-minded Americans.

But when news broke on the very same day that she had charged a 19-year-old woman with a felony for keying a coworker’s car, that indignation turned to outrage. Understandably, the Soros-backed prosecutor now finds herself at the center of a firestorm.

…Like Adams, this young woman has no previous criminal record. The Minnesota Star Tribune reported:

She was charged with first-degree felony property damage on Monday after she allegedly keyed her coworker’s car at the White Castle in Brooklyn Park. The damage to the car was estimated at $7,000. She is due to make her first court appearance in two weeks.

Attorney Mary Moriarty is an elected official. As much as I think she is a totally biased attorney who is not correctly doing the job she was elected to, that decision is up to the voters. Her current term ends in January 2027. It is up to the voters to decide if she will serve another term.

How To Destabilize A Country

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There are several steps to destabilizing a country, and we are watching many of them being used in America now.

The most obvious way to destabilize a country is to destroy its primary unifying factor. In the case of America, that factor is the Judeo-Christian values that this nation was founded upon. Those values include the idea of family and sexual morality, both of which are currently being undercut by many of our political leaders. The two-parent family, which is the foundation for a stable society, has been under attack for a long time in America. In 1968, about 60.0 million (85%) U.S. children under 18 lived with two parents. By 2020, although this living arrangement continued to be the most common for children, the number of children living with two parents had slipped to 51.3 million (70%). Less than two-fifths of Black children were living with two married parents in 2020. These children were most likely to live with their mothers only, with nearly half living in this arrangement in 2020. The easiest way to counter this destabilizing factor is to stay married and to take your children to church regularly.

Another way to destabilize a country is to remove respect for those who enforce the laws of the country or to ignore the concept of equal justice for all. That problem was rampant during the Biden administration and still continues to some degree today. Respect for the law and those who enforce it needs to be taught. Teach your children that the police are there to protect them.

Importing large groups of people from countries with different values or customs also creates a problem—if people come to America in large groups, it is harder for them to assimilate. They tend to stay within their groups, and that also limits their success. Years ago, I was privileged to meet a group of people who had come to America and formed a community in Massachusetts. Because they had formed their own isolated community, they had not learned very much English. Because of that, people with degrees in Physics, Chemistry, and those who had completed medical school were working on assembly lines in local factories. If large groups from other countries enter as a group and do not assimilate, they often will find themselves dependent on government programs for food and other necessities. The Cloward-Pivan Strategy, developed in 1966 by two American sociologists and political activists, was a plan to facilitate a “political crisis” by overloading the welfare system via an increase in welfare claims, forcing the federal government to create a system of guaranteed minimum income. This would redistribute income through the federal government. The idea was to collapse the current system and bring in socialism. Controlled immigration is the solution to this problem.

Another way to destabilize a country is to fail to teach its children an accurate picture of the history of the country and that despite some flaws, it is worth defending. A country that fails to teach its children patriotism will fail. A country also needs to have high academic standards for its children, and it needs to reward achievement. Success should be based on merit—not anything else. It’s time to get our schools back to teaching the skills students need to learn to be successful when they graduate. Let’s get back to the basics.

The future of America is in our hands. We can choose to be part of the problem or part of the solution. All political parties and the people who support them need to work together to make America the country our Founding Fathers envisioned.

Much Ado About Nothing

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The mainstream media is so desperate to destroy President Trump’s second term, they really don’t care how many lies they have to tell to do it. Obviously, one of the major liars is The New York Times.

On Monday, The Western Journal posted an article about The New York Times’ latest attack on President Trump.

The article at The Western Journal reports:

The New York Times, along with multiple other outlets, chastised President Donald Trump for allegedly breaking the Vatican’s dress code for Pope Francis’s funeral on Saturday.

The featured image of their story was cropped in such a way as to suggest that Trump was the only leader in a blue suit at the event.

The Times’ chief fashion critic, Vanessa Friedman, wrote that President Emmanuel Macron of France, Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Great Britain, and Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni of Italy all wore black.

This is the picture The New York Times ran:

This is the picture of the entire group:

I see a number of blue suits in the crowd.

One Financial Impact Of Illegal Immigration

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On Friday, Breitbart posted an article about the medical cost of illegal immigration in Texas.

The article reports:

Texas taxpayers paid nearly $122 million to provide Healthcare to illegal migrants in November alone, says the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC).

The Texas HSHC is reporting that the costs to the state for health care for illegal migrants has topped $121.8 million in unpaid care in just the month of November alone. And that estimate is probably low.

In its report, the HHSC reported that non-citizens utilized hospitals in the Lone Star State more than 31,000 time during November of last year.

The data was taken from the state’s new reporting requirements mandated by an executive order that went into effect last August.

“The executive order directs Texas hospitals to provide HHSC quarterly reports on patients who are not lawfully present in the U.S.,” the report noted, “including the number of inpatient discharges, emergency department visits, and the cost of care provided to these patients.”

However, the estimate of expenses is probably low because the data is predicated on the number of patients who answer questions about their immigration status on hospital intake forms and some migrants won’t answer the questions.

The article notes”

Still, this is the first report of its kind in Texas and if every month is similar going forward, the yearly total would approach $1.46 billion per year.

American (or Texas) taxpayers simply cannot afford that.

I am not opposed to people receiving medical care when they need it, but we all know that when something is free, it tends to be overused or abused. I wonder how much of the care received should have been in a hospital or could have been taken care of in a much less expensive setting. That being said, people who are here illegally need to be sent back to where they came from to receive medical care. Or, the countries they came from need to pay the bill.

The Latest Fake Sob Story

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On Sunday, Red State posted an article about the latest sob story currently making the rounds about deporting illegal aliens. Responding to the crocodile tears being shed about a two-year old being deported, Secretary of State Marco Rubio decided to share the story of a similar incident.

The article reports:

Democrats seem to think the way to go after the Trump administration is to attack their moves regarding illegal aliens. But that’s one of the areas where he has the most approval. Instead, it’s Democrats attaching themselves to 80/20 issues on the 20 side, as they’re doing in the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia and the arrest of the judge in Wisconsin for allegedly helping an illegal alien evade ICE agents.

Now there’s another case that’s making the media rounds. You may have seen the headlines blaring about a two-year-old American citizen being deported. The judge in the case raised questions about “due process” — seemingly, the leftist word of the month.

But of course, as with all these stories, there’s more to it than that. Secretary of State Marco Rubio addressed that and a similar case involving a four-year-old and a seven-year-old. Appearing on NBC’s “Meet the Press” Sunday, he nuked the misleading framing:

“Three U.S. citizens ages 4, 7, and 2 were not deported — their mothers, who were illegally in this country, were deported. The children went with their mothers!” Rubio declared. Nothing is preventing the children from coming back into the country, he explained. 

Are these the same Democrats that on April 22, 2000, arrested six-year-old Elian Gonzalez at gunpoint at his uncle’s home where he was hiding in a closet? We have all seen the picture:

Spare me your crocodile tears!

The article concludes:

The children can come back, the family can work out whatever arrangements they want for them; if they have family here, that’s up to the families.

The judge has scheduled a hearing for May 16 to address any questions in the case of the two-year-old, so that will ultimately be determined. I imagine there will be further process in the other case as well, to investigate if there were any issues.

But the media, of course, was skipping over the context, yet again.

Hearing The Truth Is Not Always Pleasant

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On April 23rd, The Western Journal posted an article about a podcaster, Tim Pool, asking his first question during a White House press briefing. Tim Pool is a 39-year-old podcaster who is described as a “you tuber – journalist.” He is considered right-wing by the mainstream media. His website is timcast.com. Now that the White House Press Conferences are including a wider variety of media, Tim Pool is in attendance.

The article reports:

For those of you wondering why there needed to be a new media seat in the White House press briefing room, leave it to podcaster Tim Pool to elucidate with his first ever question at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

In case you haven’t been keeping up with one of the legacy media’s biggest outrages at the second Donald Trump administration, one of the many changes the press office has made is to include a spot for a “new media” representative during media briefings — “a catchall category that the administration said would include podcasters, social media influencers and other creators of ‘news-related content,’” The New York Times reported in January, a move which they said was part of a series of changes that would upend what it called the “delicate journalistic ecosystem of the White House’s James S. Brady Press Briefing Room.”

And, just to put a finer point on it, here were some of the “new media” participants as per the Times; open and proud liberals didn’t have their sympathies noted, while others were listed as being from “right-wing media,” “right-wing podcast[s]” or “right-wing video platform[s].”

The left never identifies themselves as left-wing. It’s up to the public to figure that out!

This was the question Tim Pool asked:

“Many of the news organization that are represented in this room have marched in lock step on false narratives, such as the ‘very fine people’ hoax, the Covington smear, and now what’s being called the ‘Maryland man’ hoax — where an MS-13 gang member, adjudicated by two different judges, I believe, is just simply being referred to as a ‘Maryland man’ over and over again,” Pool began when called upon by White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt.

“In an effort from the White House to expand access to new companies, you’ve created this ‘new media’ seat. So I’m wondering if you can comment on — following this expansion, you’ve had numerous outlets disparage the companies that you’ve had sit here, as well as the reporters” featured, he added.

“I’m wondering if you can comment on that unprofessional behavior, as well as elaborate on if there’s any plans to expand access to new companies.”

The article continues with the answer:

Leavitt (Karoline Leavitt), barely suppressing a smile, said, “We certainly welcome diverse viewpoints,” which was part of the reason behind the fact “there’s many new faces in this room.”

“We welcome unbiased journalists who really care about the truth and the facts and accuracy,” she continued, noting how the “Maryland father” story — the Kilmar Abrego Garcia deportation, where a man with a history of gang affiliation and brushes with the law that was in the country illegally was sent back to his home country — had been distorted beyond belief. (Abrego Garcia is a “Maryland father” in the same way that Che Guevara was an “Argentine physician” — technically true, but wholly extraneous.)

I think future press briefings are going to be fun! I think the “delicate journalistic ecosystem of the White House’s James S. Brady Press Briefing Room” has been upended.

Creating Efficiency By Tossing Out The Trash

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On Saturday, Hot Air posted an article that explains why a lot of the Washington deep state would really like to get rid of Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. He has begun to drain the swamp. Of course when you drain the swamp, you expose some pretty unsavory animals.

The article reports:

Everyone who has been serving on Department of Defense advisory committees is to be thanked for their service and told that said service ‘is concluded‘ aka ‘out of a cushy post.’

The article includes a screenshot of the letter sent to the committee members.

The article continues:

Of course, there’s going to be all sorts of caterwauling about the move. But just like the programs that Biden initiated that now it seems Trump cannot undo, there is precedent for this as well.

While press releases call it a ‘tit-for-tat,’ they also acknowledge that lumpy Lloyd Austin removed every Trump appointee and then some serving on a committee from their chairs. 

We need to remember that last sentence when the media starts caterwauling.

The article notes:

…The Pentagon’s bloated advisory panels have ballooned to 41 groups—many duplicative or focused on political pet projects rather than warfighting readiness. Since 2021, these committees cost taxpayers over $220M annually while producing bureaucratic inertia. The Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services alone burned $8.7M last fiscal year debating gender initiatives instead of lethality. 

Realigning resources means cutting dead weight—like Susan Rice’s seat pushing DEI dogma—to prioritize missile defense modernization and countering China’s naval expansion. The Department of Government Efficiency’s $160B savings blueprint proves real reform starts with axing non-essential programs. 

Advisory boards shouldn’t be retirement perks for political allies—they should deliver battlefield advantage.

…The Defense Policy Board (DPB) has always been packed with long-term D.C. establishment insiders and power brokers and was targeted by recently fired adviser Dan Caldwell, who accused it of being the source of the leaks for which he took the blame. Caldwell claimed that the board is chock to the brim with anti-Trump members who are resistant to any changes the president, and by extension his SecDef, wants made.

Maybe when this is all over, we can go back to winning wars. We haven’t won a war since World War II (with the exception of the invasion of Grenada).

Making Schools Work

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On Friday, The Daily Caller posted an article about what has happened in the Mississippi schools since 2013, when they were ranked the second-worst state in fourth-grade reading to first in the country in 2024.

The article reports:

Republican Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves detailed how conservative education reform led his state’s school system to achieve some of the best outcomes in the country, a phenomenon dubbed the “Mississippi Miracle,” in an exclusive interview with the Daily Caller.

The Associated Press in 2023 referred to the state’s skyrocketing test scores for fourth graders as the “Mississippi Miracle,” explaining, “Mississippi went from being ranked the second-worst state in 2013 for fourth-grade reading to 21st in 2022.”

An updated National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) report card from 2024 shows Mississippi leading the nation in demographic-adjusted 4th- and 8th-grade scores and it went viral on social media.

…Reeves credits getting “back to the basics” for his state’s soaring educational outcomes. In 2013, while Reeves was serving as lieutenant governor, Mississippi passed sweeping education reform legislation, including the “Third Grade Reading Gate,” mandating that schools hold back children who don’t meet certain reading standards before the end of third grade. The state reintroduced phonics — teaching students to sound out words — in its reading education and spent $15 million a year on reading coaches.

The percentage of students who both failed the test and were held back from advancing to the third grade decreased from 9% in 2019 to 6.5% in 2023.

“The other side went crazy … they said, ‘well, we’re going to have to hold back half of our students,’” Reeves recalled. “No, we raised the level of expectations and Mississippians did what Mississippians do — they rose up and they met those increased expectations.”

The article concludes:

“By the way, our high school graduation rates during this time have risen from 72% of our kids graduated from high school to, last year, 89.9% of our kids are graduating high school,” Reeves added.

In addition to the new testing requirements, Mississippi also added new charter schools, created an Educational Savings Account (ESA) program for parents of children with disabilities so they can put their children in programs designed to meet their needs, and followed Florida in providing letter grade ratings for public schools.

“It’s really not a miracle at all,” the governor asserted. “It’s really a result of conservative reforms implemented in public education — they’re making a huge difference for kids.”

We need this in North Carolina.

Who Is Supposed To Run The Country?

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On Friday, The Gateway Pundit posted an article about the current Constitutional crisis the political left believes we are in.

The article reports:

Scott Jennings, the lone voice of reason on CNN, recently pointed out that activist judges who are being ‘shopped’ by Democrats are bringing the United States towards a real Constitutional crisis as they continually interfere with what should be the president’s job.

Jennings goes so far as to suggest that if this continues, that Congress may have to intervene.

He also says, correctly, that what these judges are doing is a political ploy. It’s a direct effort to try to run out the clock on Trump’s presidency, just like they did with lawfare during Trump’s first term.

Scott Jennings stated:

Now, I do think that these individual district court judges that are being selectively shocked by people who oppose the president, trying to issue nationwide injunctions and stop the president from governing, I think that’s a real problem. I mean, it’s a constitutional crisis, in my opinion, for these individual district court judges to try to tie up Donald Trump. I mean, it’s obvious what they’re trying to do, which is to run out the clock until he’s no longer in office.”

“It’s sort of what the Democrats did the first time around,” Jennings continued. “They don’t want him to be able to govern.

Somehow these courts were not issuing nationwide injunctions when President Obama created DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) or when President Biden forgave student loans he had no power to forgive.

It is a disgrace that both the Republicans in Congress and the Supreme Court seem unable to find a way to stop this absurdity. If the district courts are not put back in their lane quickly, this will happen every time a President they do not approve of is elected. That is not the government our Founding Fathers created.

A Short History Lesson

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The Democrat party is asking that every person who is in America be given a court trial before they are deported. I assume that includes major criminals as well as those who simply broke the law getting here. The Democrats have not always felt that way.

On Friday, Jack Cashill posted an article at Substack reminding us of some not-so-distant history. The article deals with the case of six-year-old Elian Gonzalez, whose mother died while trying to bring him to America. Elian was found floating in an inner tube on Thanksgiving Day, 1999, by two fishermen who rescued him and brought him to his relatives in Miami. Because the Clinton administration was trying to be nice to Fidel Castro (to prevent Castro from sending criminals to America), the administration immediately took action to take Elian away from his American relatives.

The article reports:

On Easter Saturday, April 22, 2000, heavily armed federal agents seized six-year-old Elian Gonzalez at gunpoint from a closet in his uncle’s Miami home where he had been hiding.

…Almost from day one the Clinton White House did everything in its power—and outside its power—to send Elian back to Cuba. Google AI, an aggregator of mainstream reporting, sums up the case:

“Attorney General Janet Reno and later the Attorney General of the United States, Eric Holder, disagreed with a court ruling and the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) determination regarding the case. They determined that Elian should be returned to his father in Cuba, overriding the court and INS’s decisions. Specifically, Holder later claimed he didn’t need a court order to make this decision, stating that he believed the court and INS rulings were invalid.” Overriding? Didn’t need a court order? Invalid? Interesting.

Not surprisingly, Holder, who was Reno’s Deputy Attorney General, has a much softer spot in his heart for MS-13 gangbanger Kilmar Abrego Garcia than he did for Elian. Speaking with MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, he called Trump’s treatment of Garcia “disgusting, shameful.” This new found champion of due process urged viewers to “stand up and fight now,” adding, “There’s a treadmill that we’re potentially getting on here that could result in the erosion of rights for American citizens.”

The article concludes:

Until April 22, 2000, Gore was the odds-on favorite to win the presidency. In 1996, Clinton had won Florida by a comfortable margin. Gore expected to do the same, but the raid on Elian’s Miami home reminded those Cuban-Americans drifting to the left that Democrats were not necessarily their friends.

The shift in their vote gave George W. Bush just enough margin to be declared the winner by the U.S. Supreme Court. If I remember right, the Democrats did not exactly applaud that bit of due process, now did they?

The history of the Democrats is that they would send a young child back to a country run by a tyrannical dictator and keep a proven gang member in America. It makes no sense to me.

Please follow the link above to read the entire article. The maneuvering that the Clinton administration was willing to go through to deport Elian is amazing.

The Law Only Counts Sometimes

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On Friday, Breitbart posted an article about a recent comment by Wisconsin State Representative Ryan Clancy (D).

The article reports:

On Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “OutFront,” Wisconsin State Rep. Ryan Clancy (D) stated that Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan “didn’t obstruct justice. She obstructed fascism” because all the ICE agents had was an administrative warrant, which he argued don’t mean anything.

Clancy said, “[W]e’re talking about an administrative warrant. We’re talking about something that ICE puts together internally. It’s like me walking around with a note in my pocket saying, Rep. Clancy can do whatever he wants. I do have one of those, but it doesn’t mean anything, right? They did not present an actual warrant signed by an actual judge. So Judge Dugan was in her rights in doing what she did, she didn’t obstruct justice. She obstructed fascism in this case.”

He further stated that even if there was a judicial warrant, “it does not make sense, we should not have ICE agents in a protected space like a courtroom, any more than you’d want ICE agents going into an operating room or a classroom.

We used to think it was a good idea to arrest people who broke the law regardless of their physical location. If a bank robber is hiding in a church, should the police arrest him there? Does it matter what kind of a warrant they may or may not have?

It is amazing to me the lengths the current Democrat party will go to protect the imaginary civil rights of non-citizens. Somehow they were much less concerned with the rights of the people who walked through the Capitol building on January 6th, 2021. The majority of the people who walked through those doors after the police invited them in were denied their civil rights. There are accounts of beatings and other mistreatment. Where was the ACLU and the Democrat party? I don’t remember hearing from them at the time.

The War Against School Choice

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Author: R. Alan Harrop, Ph.D

The Left is at it again:  opposing anything and everything that allows people to exercise their guaranteed right to freedom of choice for themselves and their families. This effort to create an all-powerful and controlling government is an essential part of the Marxist playbook–to substitute the government for the family and individual liberty. I am referring to what is currently happening in the North Carolina General Assembly (GA). At the beginning of each legislative session, legislators have the opportunity to introduce what amounts to large numbers of bills that they would like to become law in the state. Several bills have been introduced that if enacted would impact significantly on school choice here in North Carolina.   Let’s take a look.

Over the past several years, the Republicans who have controlled both the Senate and the House have enacted legislation that has greatly expanded the freedom of parents to select the school of their choice for their children. This has been primarily through the so-called Opportunity Scholarship Program, which provides stipends to parents (who apply for the money) that can be applied to help pay for private school tuition and related expenses. Due to income limits and limited funding for the program, not all parents who apply receive the stipends.

As could have been anticipated, the Left is up in arms about this program because it enables parents to remove their children from government controlled public schools. Never forget, that all autocratic governments throughout history have always insisted on controlling public schools and what they teach. This is how they stay in power:  indoctrinating the children. Some recent examples are Diversity Equity Inclusion (DEI); teaching that America is a racist country; teaching that everyone is free to choose their own gender; and biological men competing against women in sports. Parents want the freedom to choose schools that teach the values and principles they believe in and not this leftist woke ideology. They also want their children to attend schools that are successful in teaching basic academic skills, which many of the government run public schools fail to do. By the way, there is nothing in the U.S. or N.C. constitutions that require children to attend only government-run public schools. There are, however, groups like Public Schools First N.C. and the N.C. Teachers’ Association that want to do away with parent’s right to choose the school their children attend. Governor Josh Stein also appears to be against school choice.

Here are a few items in this year’s General Assembly that should concern all conservatives who believe in school choice. First, there are a couple of bills that seek to raise teacher pay. Importantly, however, none of these bills so far include any requirement that pay increases be linked to the job performance of the teachers. Given the fact that many children are failing to meet minimum grade requirements for reading and math, teacher pay should, to the greatest extent possible, be linked to the demonstrated effectiveness of the teachers in improving the educational achievement of their students. Otherwise, where is the incentive to improve teaching effectiveness? Second, Senate Bill 744, would place a number of extreme, government controls on private schools such as:  annual audits of their finances by the state treasurer’s office; requiring that a minimum of 50% of teachers in privates schools be certified by the state; private schools will not be permitted to raise their tuition by more than 5% a year; and private schools (including church affiliated) cannot select students based on their religion or stated gender. This would prevent all girls or all boys schools, and also require, for example, a Jewish school to admit Muslims students.

Lastly, a bill introduced, which I strongly favor, to allow homeschool parents to apply for an Opportunity Scholarship stipend has finally been introduced. Homeschool parents pay as much taxes to support education in North Carolina as any other parent; and in addition, make significant financial sacrifice in order to teach their children themselves, which is a basic freedom of our country. But who is opposed to this fair and equitable bill? The usual leftist suspects I mentioned above.

If you believe in school choice, now is the time to let your elected legislators know. In truth, the best solution to the school choice issue is to grant parents a set amount of money to be used for them to homeschool, or select a public, charter or private school for their children. All schools would then be treated equally as far as funding is concerned. Accountability for student learning should be the same for all types of schools consisting of standardized testing for strictly academic subjects. The money awarded should be independent of income level and guaranteed every year without having to enter a lottery to get the stipend. There are other states who handle school choice in the manner. North Carolina needs to do so also.

Here Comes The Sunlight

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On Friday, Just the News posted an article about the attempts to kneecap President Trump during his first term of office. Obviously, there Washington bureaucracy is attempting to do that again, but I hopeful that they will not be successful this time.

The article reports:

Newly-declassified memos written by disgraced FBI official Andrew McCabe shine new light on how he kept the Trump-Russia collusion hoax investigation alive during a critical period in the first half of 2017 before he got it handed off to a special counsel.

The eight memos penned by McCabe, most of which had never been released until earlier this month, span his discussions and meetings (including with President Donald Trump) held from January 24, 2017 to May 21, 2017 — a critical time period ranging from just before the FBI sprung an interview on retired Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn to just after Robert Mueller was appointed special counsel. The memos were more fully declassified through efforts by Trump and FBI Director Kash Patel earlier this month.

McCabe was a stalwart ally of since-fired FBI Director James Comey, coordinated closely with since-fired FBI special agent Peter Strzok on the launch and the conduct of the flawed and politicized Crossfire Hurricane investigation, and relied heavily upon disgraced FBI lawyer Lisa Page as his close confidante.

That really isn’t news, but the fact that the misbehavior is not being documented is important. Hopefully there will be consequences for using the FBI for political purposes. If not, it will happen again.

The article concludes:

Grassley and Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., sent a letter to Durham (Special Counsel John Durham) in 2023 pressing him on his investigation of the Trump-Russia investigators, noting that “it seems odd that individuals [such as McCabe] would be allowed to avoid fully cooperating with your office, particularly given your authority to compel testimony and records.”

Durham said McCabe “declined to be interviewed” by him. According to Durham’s report, Strzok opened Crossfire Hurricane “immediately” and did so “at the direction of” McCabe. FBI agent Jennifer Boone said that McCabe was “heavily involved in all aspects of the investigation” into Trump and Russia, and a DOJ attorney said that McCabe was pushing the Justice Department “to get this going.”

The Durham report concluded that “the FBI was not able to corroborate a single substantive allegation contained in the Steele Reports” and that “the FISA on Carter Page would not have been authorized without the Steele reporting.”

“I don’t have any respect for that report or its author,” McCabe said of Durham and his report on a George Mason University podcast in July 2023. “It was flawed and politically motivated from the very beginning.”

Please follow the link to read the entire article. It is long, but worth the read. It is a sordid tale of unelected people in our government trying to subvert an elected President. The people involved should face serious consequences for their actions.

Common Sense Has Arrived

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Hamas has worked very hard to turn public opinion against Israel despite the horrific attack of October 7th of last year. The United Nations has worked very hard to ignore the role that some employees of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) played in that attack. Well, justice may be coming for the victims of that attack.

On April 25th, Power Line Blog reported:

It would be easy to miss today’s good news, which comes via the Trump Department of Justice. The headline of the Jewish Chronicle spells it out: “US scraps Unrwa’s legal immunity in major reversal of Biden-era policy.” Subhead: “The decision could see the UN agency, which has been accused of employing Hamas operatives, hit with significant claims from the relatives of terror victims.”

…The X feed of Professor Eugene Kontorovich has helpful background and reflection on this change of policy. He comments: “UNRWA’s funding from primary donors Germany, France, EU, Sweden, Norway is going to dry up fast when they understand every cent is going to be needed to pay damages to Jewish victims.” So let it be written, so let it be done.

Professor Kontorovich also cites his own September 2024 New York Post column (with Mark Goldfeder) “Outrage as US DOJ defends UN staffers who collaborated in Hamas’ terror.”

Let the lawsuits begin! My only concern is that America funds a large portion of the United Nation’s budget–in 2023, America paid $13 billion to the United Nations (in my mind, that is one place spending could be cut totally). I don’t want to see American taxpayers having to pay the lawsuits against the United Nations. It would be nice to see the United Nations’ funding dry up completely. The have never been the instrument of peace that they supposedly set out to be.

Sometimes Criminals Are The Best Detectives In A Fraud Case

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I spent my teenage years living in central New Jersey. I remember the “Crazy Eddie” commercials. Crazy Eddie was a consumer electronics chain in the metropolitan New York City area. The company was owned by Eddie and Sam M. Antar. Eventually the company went public. Eddie and Sam began cooking the company’s books in order to increase the value of the stock. Eventually they got caught. Eddie was charged with securities fraud and insider trading; he fled the country. Sam agreed to testify if he was granted immunity.

An article posted at Hot Air on Tuesday reports:

Since 2009, Sam Antar has been a forensic accountant, working with federal and local law enforcement agencies, teaching them what to look for in paperwork – and where to look for paperwork – as well as digging on his own time into waste, fraud, and abuse, always on the hunt for white collar crime.

He is a man on a mission.

And way back in February, while going through the records from Letitia James’ ‘luxury campaign spending,‘ as he calls it, Sam came across some wonky-looking personal finance filings. Things weren’t adding up to the eagle-eyed Antar.

In February, the White Collar Fraud website reported:

After our recent investigations exposed New York Attorney General Letitia James’ pattern of luxury campaign spending and creative accounting, a deeper examination of her personal financial disclosures reveals troubling new questions about her property holdings and financial reporting.

The same pattern of obscured luxury that characterized her campaign spending now emerges in her personal financial statements, starting with a Virginia investment property that seems to defy financial logic. Purchased in August 2020, James values the single-family home at “$100,000 to under $150,000” in her 2023 financial disclosure. Yet somehow, this same property carries mortgages totaling up to $400,000 – potentially more than twice its declared value.

The article at Hot Air concludes:

Now, Antar’s work has everyone swarming James’ life in the files, and what they’re uncovering is astonishing in its blatant gaming of the system.

And as Antar says, James didn’t do this by herself – she had to have help.

Who is going to squeal to save themselves?

The tenants who live in the Brooklyn building that isn’t supposed to have tenants are speaking up, and that is really looking awkward all around for James.

…When a guy’s already done time for legendary crazy, there’s not much he’s going to worry about when he’s on the right trail of wrongdoing.

This is gonna be sumpthin’ to see.

This is not the first time someone convicted of a white-collar crime has wound up doing investigative work for the government, and based on the many times that has been successful, I suspect it won’t be the last.

When The Deep State Is Confronted, It Fights Back

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On Tuesday, Townhall posted an article about the current deep-state-generated controversy surrounding Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.

The article notes:

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Tuesday sent a clear message to leakers in the Pentagon. He suggested that those who gave internal information to the media could be subject to prosecution.

One of the problems in the first Trump administration was leaks from various government agencies to the press. The leaks were designed to block the President’s agenda and prevent him from doing his job. Unfortunately, that is still going on and will continue until there are serious consequences to leakers.

The article continues:

The defense secretary further stated, “We take the classification of information, very important.”

Hegseth confirmed that several senior staffers had been fired because they were suspected of leaking information. “It was the result of an investigation … sufficient evidence to believe that they or others near them were party to leaking,” he said.

The secretary alleged that the staffers who lost their jobs were retaliating by slamming him in the press. “Disgruntled former employees are peddling things to try to save their ass,” he told Kilmeade.

The secretary further explained that the leaks are still under investigation and that the DoD could refer the matter to the Department of Justice. “When that evidence is gathered sufficiently … those people will be prosecuted, if necessary,” he said.

Oddly enough, the attacks on Secretary Hegseth intensified after the leakers were fired. Those who want to destroy the Trump presidency are not happy that one of their weapons has been removed.

The article concludes:

Meanwhile, Democrats are making as much use of the controversies as possible. Several Democratic lawmakers have called for Hegseth to resign. Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE) became the first Republican to call for the defense secretary’s firing during an interview with Politico.

“If it’s true that he had another [Signal] chat with his family, about the missions against the Houthis, it’s totally unacceptable,” Bacon said, referring to a New York Times report suggesting that Hegseth shared sensitive information with family members.

Still, President Trump has stood by Hegseth and expressed confidence in his ability to do his job. The administration recently squashed an NPR report claiming that the president is looking to replace Hegseth, calling it “fake news.”

I hope Secretary Hegseth successfully rides this out. We need a few leakers to suffer serious consequences for their actions in order for the leaking to stop.

The View From the Lair

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It’s Time

All during the Brandon Despondency, the Marxists cried, “We MUST have comprehensive immigration reform to control the border.” Now that PDJT has comprehensively stamped “LIES” on that wail, that mantra is never heard. Why not? Do they not really want comprehensive immigration reform? (Actually, no they don’t.)

What they wanted is to fulfill Obozo’s pledge to “fundamentally transform this country.” What the Marxists really want is to transform this country into one resembling Cuba. Or North Korea. Or Venezuela.

A country of destitute peasants toiling in slavery at the whim of their Marxist masters. With AOC, Chuck Scheamer and David CameraHogg as the Tyrants in Charge. But now that they no longer have the congressional or presidential advantage, they are not so strangely silent.

But I think that it IS time. With at least the House poised to pass judicial restraint bills to rein in the out-of-control leftist judges – remember when Chief Justice Roberts declared to PDJT that “There are no liberal judges or conservative judges, just judges?” – yeah, right! – now is the time to make judicial reform and comprehensive immigration reform part of the same package.

It can be simple: If you entered into this country without benefit of legal standing, then you are an illegal. Brandon’s “pardon” scheme, while legal, is still an administrative slight of hand. None of those individuals received the proper vetting described as appropriate for entry into this country.

I don’t recall the inscription on the Statue of Liberty describing “all your criminals, your diseased, your terrorists, your murdering gangbangers yearning to slaughter and remain free.” That, of course is the Marxists’ version of it. Anything to get more potential “supporters” into this country in order to destroy it.

I have a suggestion for Sen. Van Hollen: If you want Abrigo Garcia back into this country so bad then:

A: He stays in YOUR house.

B: You become personally responsible for his upkeep and personally liable for any possibly illegal actions he may perpetrate, both criminally and civilly.

C: You put up $5 million cash bond to cover any damages he may incur.

If you want him back that badly, then you can use a Go Fund Me account for the cash, with each donor sharing the legal responsibility.

This reform can include “the Dreamers,” although it is conceivable (though I wouldn’t care for it) that anyone brought in by their parents before their 16th birthday could apply for citizenship after a 10-year waiting period, to begin upon application.

Otherwise, NO benefits of any sort or amount. And that includes free health care under the COBRA provisions.

Don’t like it – LEAVE!

The citizens didn’t invite you. Resident Brandon and his Merry Marxists did.

GO HOME!

ciao,

The Snark,

What Do You Want Your Children Reading?

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What do you want your children reading, and should you have a say in the books introduced in their classrooms?

On Tuesday, Breitbart reported:

The U.S. Supreme Court is hearing arguments Tuesday over the religious rights of parents in Maryland to remove their children from elementary school classes using storybooks with LGBTQ characters.

The case is the latest dispute involving religion to come before the conservative-led court. The justices have repeatedly endorsed claims of religious discrimination in recent years.

The Montgomery County public schools, in suburban Washington, D.C., introduced the storybooks as part of an effort to better reflect the district’s diverse population.

Parents sued after the school system stopped allowing them to pull their kids from lessons that included the books. The parents argue that public schools cannot force kids to participate in instruction that violates their faith, and they pointed to the opt-out provisions in sex education classes.

The schools said allowing children to opt out of the lessons had become disruptive. Lower courts backed the schools, prompting the parents’ appeal to the Supreme Court.

Five books are at issue in the high court case, touching on the same themes found in classic stories that include Snow White, Cinderella and Peter Pan, the school system’s lawyers wrote.

In “Prince and Knight,” two men fall in love after they rescue the kingdom, and each other. In “Uncle Bobby’s Wedding,” a niece worries that her uncle will not have as much time for her after he gets married. His partner is a man.

“Love, Violet” deals with a girl’s anxiety about giving a valentine to another girl. “Born Ready” is the story of a transgender boy’s decision to share his gender identity with his family and the world. “Intersection Allies” describes nine characters of varying backgrounds, including one who is gender-fluid.

I might be a whole lot more sympathetic to the school’s case if I thought they were actually teaching the children things like arithmetic and classical literature instead of this garbage. In elementary school there are much better things for children to read.

This case is part of the ongoing battle over whether parents or the state are in charge of children. The case is also one of many reasons attendance in public schools in declining in favor of homeschooling and private schools. If schools do not want to lose the majority of their students, they will stop this nonsense.

The Change From Politics To Law Enforcement

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On Tuesday, Townhall posted an article about the difference in priorities between the Biden Department of Justice and the Trump Department of Justice.

The article notes:

Don’t tell Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), but on April 17, the Department of Justice released detailed evidence demonstrating how Kilmar Armando Abrego García—whom Sen. Van Hollen and his fellow Democrats falsely portrayed as an innocent “Maryland father”—is not only an illegal immigrant but also a violent member of the brutal MS-13 gang. The Department of Homeland Security also provided court documents showing that García’s wife had previously sought a domestic violence restraining order against him, accusing him of assault and other forms of abuse. It’s the clearest sign yet that the adults are back in charge of protecting America’s homeland, and that’s great for America’s safety.

This degree of coordination between the DOJ and DHS under Trump’s leadership stands in sharp contrast to the Biden administration, when both agencies worked together to advance the Biden administration’s radical political agenda instead of protecting public safety.

…Secretary Mayorkas stopped construction on Trump’s border wall and kept ICE and Border Patrol from doing their jobs. When the surge in border crossings Biden specifically asked for became a political liability for Democrats, he and Attorney General Merrick Garland coordinated to massively expand Temporary Protected Status (TPS) and create the CHNV program, paroling hundreds of thousands of unvetted migrants into the U.S. interior ­— complete with an app to streamline the process.

Things weren’t any better at Biden’s DOJ. Garland presided over a DOJ that targeted Catholic parishes, inflated domestic extremism statistics, and labeled concerned parents as potential terrorists. Peaceful pro-life activists were arrested at gunpoint, while left-wing extremists who threatened Supreme Court justices or firebombed crisis pregnancy centers were ignored.

The article concludes:

Now, that’s changing. Trump’s team is showing the country what it looks like when the DOJ and DHS return to their core mission of protecting American citizens.

They’re working together to go after real threats—not parents, not pro-lifers, not credit card companies. But violent gang members, abusers, and foreign nationals who break our laws and endanger our communities.

Restoring credibility and functionality to these agencies after four years of abuse is a significant step in rebuilding trust with the American people.

Real justice means enforcing the law fairly, consistently, and with the goal of public safety. And for the first time in four years, that’s finally happening.

It will be interesting to see how a Justice Department focused on dealing with actual crimes will impact the crime statistics for 2025.

Paying The Price For Challenging The Status Quo

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Recently, some Pentagon officials were fired for leaking to the press. Another official resigned after allegedly not getting the position he wanted. Then, even more recently, there were calls for the Secretary of Defense to step down. Is it too much to assume that all of these events are related?

On Tuesday, The Federalist reported:

Within hours of one another, The New York Times and Politico dropped hit pieces on Sunday against the Pentagon chief. The pieces were apparently aimed at undermining his leadership of America’s military. While the former used anonymous sources to try and revive the media’s “Signalgate” dud, the latter ran an op-ed from a former Defense Department spokesman — who resigned last week after evidently failing to get the Pentagon job he wanted — alleging “total chaos” at the agency under Hegseth’s direction.

NPR decided to join the pile-on, publishing a piece on Monday containing allegations from an unnamed “U.S. official” that the White House “has begun the process of looking for a new leader at the Pentagon to replace Pete Hegseth.” The White House quickly shot down the claim.

The articles were published on the heels of a major shake-up at the Pentagon last week, which saw the dismissal of several high-level advisers over claims of unauthorized leaking. The officials have since denied the allegations.

The article notes:

Democrats and their buddies in the corporate press spent the entirety of last week fomenting outrage about the Trump administration’s deportation of a Salvadoran national with alleged ties to MS-13 back to El Salvador. Without a drop of shame, these propagandists characterized this alleged wife-beater as just a “Maryland man,” with Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., even going as far as to travel to El Salvador to meet the deported noncitizen.

For a party with record-low favorability ratings among the American people, running to the defense of an illegal alien credibly accused of being affiliated with a deadly gang isn’t exactly great optics. It’s clear Democrats needed a narrative change fast, and their media allies’ new anti-Hegseth blitz represented the perfect off-ramp.

Second, and more important, the D.C. establishment’s continued campaign to oust Hegseth comes from its fervent opposition to the much-needed change he’s bringing to the Pentagon.

For years, the Defense Department has operated within the best interests of the agency’s higher-ups and D.C.’s notorious defense-industrial complex. While high-ranking officials used their coveted positions of influence to advance neo-Marxist ideologies throughout the Pentagon and defense contractors got rich off of America’s military involvement in nonsensical overseas conflicts, rank-and-file service members’ needs were ignored, the country’s military infrastructure crumbled, and the priority of winning wars went out the window.

The article lists the accomplishments of Secretary Hegseth:

Since taking over the reins at the DOD, Hegseth has overseen a noticeable rise in military recruiting, eliminated divisive and destructive DEI ideology, restored standards to military service, scrapped the Pentagon’s immoral and illegal Biden-era abortion policy, ended racist affirmative action policies at U.S. military academies, directed military assets to protect America’s borders, carried out strikes on Houthi terrorists, and more.

Secretary Hegseth is where America needs him to be.

The First 100 Days

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On Monday, Breitbart posted an interview of Hugh Hewitt on the subject of President Trump’s first 100 days. Hugh Hewitt is a Salem Radio Network host. He is also a lawyer a former official in the Reagan administration, the former president and CEO of the Richard Nixon Foundation, a law professor at Chapman University School of Law, a former columnist for The Washington Post, and a regular political commentator on Fox News.

The article reports:

As April 30 approaches — the date that marks President Donald Trump’s first 100 days in office — establishment media conservative commentator Hugh Hewitt sat down with PragerU CEO Marissa Streit to examine the start of the president’s second term, noting that he is “amused by the people who say [Trump] is reckless,” given that in reality, the president is “determined” to reestablish basic concepts of the U.S. Constitution that have been “abandoned” by the left.

“I am amused by the people who say he’s reckless,” Hewitt said told Streit, adding, “He is determined to force through the courts challenges to the basic structure of the constitution that were abandoned in the progressive era and then left far behind during the New Deal.”

“The three great expansions of the government occurs with Woodrow Wilson, FDR, and LBJ,” Hewitt explained. “That’s 100 years of growth, and 100 years of abusing the original design of the constitution, which is small, limited, enumerated powers.”

“To get that back, [President Trump]’s launched a thousand ships,” he added. “Even if ten of them make it to the other side, we’ll be in a much better position.”

“Right now, we’re in the trifecta: a Republican president who’s aligned with the House and the Senate,” Hewitt noted. “And when you’re in the trifecta, you can get two — and some people argue, three — reconciliations through.”

Hewitt elaborated:

The first reconciliation, which is moving its way through, is the extension of the Trump tax cuts, and their refinement: no tax on tips and a couple other things. Energy production relief, defense buildup of $150 billion, and the fourth part is the border wall — border security. That, we’ll eventually get through.

Then there will be more opportunities. If they are smart, they will focus on empowering the executive to take control of the executive branch, meaning that independent agencies are no longer “independent.” They can move fast, they can break things, they can change regulations.

Please follow the link above to read the entire article. Hugh Hewitt’s assessment of the current situation and the things to come is very insightful.