Monthly Archives: December 2025

Wasn’t Anyone Paying Attention?

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On Friday, American Greatness posted an article related to the Somali fraud in Minnesota.

The article reports:

A TSA whistleblower has come forward to say she routinely witnessed Somalian immigrants flying out of Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport carrying suitcases stuffed with millions of dollars of cash and fake passports.

“It seemed so lackadaisical that these people could get through the airport with all that cash,” the former TSA agent told Alpha News reporter Liz Collin, this week. “Time after time after time. It wasn’t a one time thing.”

She said “it was frustrating to see it when I was a TSA agent and it’s certainly frustrating now watching this state’s administration.”

During a press conference in St. Paul, Friday, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz (D) attempted to downplay the massive amount of fraud that has been perpetrated by his state’s Somali community.

…She (the whistleblower) added that it “really blew her mind” because they were always able to get through the checkpoints.

“Typically, what would happen is a law enforcement officer would come, check their credentials,” she told Collin, adding that it wouldn’t be too difficult to identify them now because there is a paper trail of their travels, as well as surveillance video.

“Their I.D.s were always documented and probably their plane tickets as well,” she explained. “So there is a trail of that out there.”

The whistleblower estimated that in the five years she was a TSA agent at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport at least “a billion dollars went through the airport.”

The former agent said in one instance, a Somali man has a carry on bag “filled with brand new passports,” lamenting that “he was allowed to go through the checkpoint.”

We are less than a year into the Trump administration and this corruption is now coming to light. Where was the Biden administration during their four years in office? How did they miss this (or did they)?

Will She Be Held Accountable?

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On Thursday, the United States Attorney’s Office, Western District of Oklahoma posted  a Press Release about a federal grand jury Indictment against TASHELLA SHERI AMORE DICKERSON, Executive Director of Black Lives Matter OKC (BLMOKC).

The Press Release reports:

A federal grand jury Indictment has been unsealed, charging TASHELLA SHERI AMORE DICKERSON, 52, of Oklahoma City, with wire fraud and money laundering, announced U.S. Attorney Robert J. Troester.

According to the Indictment, beginning in at least 2016, Dickerson served as the Executive Director of Black Lives Matter OKC (BLMOKC). As Executive Director, Dickerson had access to BLMOKC’s bank, PayPal, and Cash App accounts.

The Indictment alleges that, although BLMOKC was not a registered tax-exempt organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, it accepted charitable donations through its affiliation with the Alliance for Global Justice (AFGJ), based in Arizona. AFGJ served as a fiscal sponsor to BLMOKC and required BLMOKC to use its funds only as permitted by Section 501(c)(3). AFGJ also required BLMOKC to fully account upon request for the disbursement of all funds received and prohibited BLMOKC from using its funds to purchase real estate without AFGJ’s consent.

Beginning in late spring 2020, BLMOKC raised funds to support its social justice mission from online donors, as well as from national bail funds. In total, BLMOKC raised more than $5.6 million, which included grants from national bail funds, including the Community Justice Exchange, Massachusetts Bail Fund, and Minnesota Freedom Fund. Most of those funds were routed through AFGJ, as fiscal sponsor, to BLMOKC.

According to the Indictment, BLMOKC was supposed to use these national bail fund grants to post pretrial bail for individuals arrested in connection with protests for racial justice after the death of George Floyd. When bail funds were returned to BLMOKC, the national bail funds sometimes allowed BLMOKC to keep all or a portion of the grant funding to establish a revolving bail fund, or for BLMOKC’s social justice mission, as permitted by Section 501(c)(3).

Despite the stated purpose of the money raised, and the terms and conditions of the grants, the Indictment alleges that beginning in June 2020 and continuing through at least October 2025, Dickerson embezzled funds from BLMOKC’s accounts for her personal benefit.  The Indictment alleges Dickerson deposited at least $3.15 million in returned bail checks into her personal accounts, rather than into BLMOKC’s accounts. Among other things, Dickerson then used these funds to pay for:

    • recreational travel to Jamaica and the Dominican Republic for herself and her associates;
    • tens of thousands of dollars in retail shopping;
    • at least $50,000 in food and grocery deliveries for herself and her children;
    • a personal vehicle registered in her name; and
    • six real properties in Oklahoma City deeded in her own name or in the name Equity International, LLC, an entity she exclusively controlled.

It always amazes me when people who claim to be collecting money to help those less fortunate decide to use the money to further their own lifestyle.

Know The Facts Before You Support A Cause

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Our college campuses are full of people stating and protesting for a Palestinian state. Somehow they miss the subtlety of the fact that Gaza was turned over to the Arabs in 2005, removing all Jewish settlers from the area. Gaza, in fact, became a Palestinian state in 2005. Their actions before and during October 7th indicate that they are not yet ready to become a peaceful state.

AI provides some highlights in the history of Gaza:

To understand when Gaza began firing rockets at Israel, consider the following key events:

First Major Incidents (2001): Rocket fire from Gaza into Israel began in the early 2000s, notably escalating in 2001.

Second Intifada (2000-2005): The Second Intifada saw increased violence, including rocket attacks as a form of resistance.

Hamas Takeover (2007): After Hamas took control of Gaza in 2007, rocket attacks intensified significantly.

Operation Cast Lead (2008-2009): A major military conflict that highlighted the ongoing rocket fire from Gaza into Israel.

Frequent Escalations (2010s): Throughout the 2010s, there were numerous escalations with periodic rocket fire, especially during conflicts in 2012 and 2014.

Recent Conflicts (2021): The May 2021 conflict saw a significant increase in rocket fire from Gaza, marking one of the most intense escalations in recent years.

These are the actions of the people who want their own country. Would America tolerate a country like that on its own border?

On Thursday, Legal Insurrection reported the following:

The 19-year-old Israeli hostage, Noa Marciano, was murdered by a doctor in Gaza’s Shifa hospital, her father Avi Marciano disclosed in a social media post.

Noa, who Palestinian terrorists abducted from a kibbutz on October 7, 2023, was taken to Gaza City’s Shifa Hospital after sustaining minor ‘non-life-threatening’ injuries. Weeks after her abduction, and with Israeli troops advancing in the area, a Palestinian doctor “injected air into her vein,” Noa’s father said.

…Noa’s murder by Shifa’s medical staff was recorded on camera, showing a doctor injecting air into her veins while she pleaded for mercy. Avi Marciano “learned of his daughter’s death in Hamas captivity through a video of her last moments shared with him on Telegram,” the Jerusalem Post reported Thursday. The “footage of a medical professional lethally injecting air into her veins after she was taken to Shifa Hospital in Gaza,” the newspaper added.

Noa, a resident of the central Israeli city of Modi’in, held the rank of Corporal and served as an observation soldier in Israel’s Border Defense Force’s 414 Unit.

Days after Noa’s murder, the Israeli military managed to recover her body in a raid on the Hamas-controlled hospital. Her father’s revelations are consistent with the Israeli military’s assessment made last summer. In early July 2024, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in a statement that the Shifa hospital “was used by Hamas for murder(ing)” her.

The people who murdered her need to be arrested and tried for murder. No culture where this behavior is acceptable should be allowed to become a country!

Policies Have Consequences

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On Thursday, The Epoch Times posted an article about America’s trade deficit in September.

The article reports:

President Donald Trump’s tariffs helped shrink the U.S. trade deficit to its lowest monthly level in more than five years, according to new data released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis on Dec. 11.

The U.S. goods and services trade deficit narrowed by 10.9 percent in September to $52.8 billion—the lowest monthly deficit since June 2020—down from $59.3 billion registered in August.

Economists polled by Reuters had forecast a September trade deficit of $63.3 billion.

The article notes:

Trump’s tariffs helped narrow the trade gap with other major U.S. trading partners, including China and India.

The goods deficit with China tumbled by $4 billion to $11.4 billion in September. Exports climbed by 0.2 percent to $8.8 billion, while imports fell by $3.9 billion to $20.1 billion.

The United States’ merchandise deficit with India also narrowed by about $1.8 billion to $3.05 billion.

U.S. and Indian delegations have been engaged in negotiations to iron out a bilateral trade agreement.

The article concludes:

Updated projections from the Congressional Budget Office suggest that enacted tariffs this year will generate $2.5 trillion of revenue, excluding dynamic effects. This is down from the August estimate of $3.3 trillion.

There is still uncertainty, Congressional Budget Office Director Phillip Swagel said.

“The United States has not implemented increases in tariffs of this size in many decades, so there is little empirical evidence to guide our estimates of their long-term effects,” Swagel said in a Nov. 20 report. “Consumers and businesses could be more or less responsive to increases in tariffs of this size, which would cause trade and revenues to diverge from projected amounts.”

The overall average effective tariff rate is 16.8 percent, the highest rate since 1935, according to The Budget Lab at Yale.

When America began, the government was funded by tariffs. At that point the government was following the U.S. Constitution and had not yet become the bloated mess that it is today. The federal government was limited to doing the things the U.S. Constitution allowed it to do. That is not the case today. We can’t just slash and burn the bureaucracy without serious consequences, but we can institute the cuts that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) identified. The tariffs can help with the deficit, and cutting spending could help with the deficit. We need to unelect the people who are fighting the tariffs and the spending cuts.

By The Numbers

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The following chart was posted on Facebook by Dennis Michael Lynch:

This is not acceptable. There is no guarantee that the people receiving these benefits are American citizens despite the fact that American taxpayers are paying for these benefits. Why are we giving money to illegal aliens when we still have homeless Americans?

According to a website called legalclarity.org:

Federal law, primarily the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA), makes individuals without a “qualified” immigration status ineligible for most major federal benefit programs. This prohibition means undocumented immigrants cannot access a wide range of federally funded, means-tested assistance intended to support low-income families and individuals.

…The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) is accessible regardless of immigration status. WIC provides food assistance, nutrition education, and healthcare referrals to low-income pregnant, postpartum, and breastfeeding women, and to infants and children up to age five at nutritional risk. Eligibility is based on these criteria and income levels, not U.S. citizenship.

I don’t want anyone to starve to death, but I believe American citizens should have priority status. That priority status includes the American taxpayer that is paying for the benefits people who are not here legally are receiving. We cannot support the world even if it chooses to come here.

Qatar’s Interest In America

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Qatar is a very questionable friend. They have been one of the major sponsors of terrorism in the Middle East for years. They have housed terrorist leaders to protect them. They have always played both sides of the coin.

On Tuesday, The Washington Free Beacon reported:

A veteran producer at CNN now serves as a registered foreign agent for the Qatar Foundation working to “elevate and promote” the regime-led nonprofit “within U.S. media,” federal disclosures reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon show.

Monika Plocienniczak joined CNN as an associate producer in 2010, shortly after she graduated with a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University. She left the network five years later to work in the public relations industry, eventually joining the New York-based firm RF Binder as a managing director in December 2023.

It was then that Plocienniczak registered as a foreign agent representing the Qatar Foundation. In her federal disclosure, which is active through October 2026, Plocienniczak says she provides “work related to media outreach and engagement to elevate and promote the public profile of Qatar Foundation within U.S. media around its three core mission areas: education, research, and community development.”

The Qatar Foundation has paid RF Binder at least $460,000 since Plocienniczak registered as its agent, according to the firm’s semi-annual statements. The most recent of those disclosures covers a six-month period ending on April 30, meaning Qatar has likely paid the firm more in the second half of 2025.

RF Binder has also filed scores of disclosures—including as recently as September—that show emails the firm sent U.S. media outlets on behalf of the Qatar Foundation. They present Qatari professors, doctors, and “businessmen” as “experts” who are available to speak on topics like “propaganda on social media in the Gulf region,” the “startup ecosystem in Doha,” “Donald Trump’s election win,” and “the Israel-Hamas conflict, Israel-Hezbollah conflict, and regional repercussions.”

Some of those “experts”—like Mehran Kamrava, a Georgetown University in Qatar professor who has accused Israel of showing a “pattern of systematic killing” in Gaza—were subsequently quoted by outlets like the Washington Post and Bloomberg. CNN featured a Qatar-endorsed “expert,” Hamad Bin Khalifa University professor Sultan Barakat, in a December 2023 segment titled “Concerns over how the Israel-Hamas war is impacting the region.” Barakat said that “Iran does not seek conflict with the United States,” but “Netanyahu does.”

Please follow the link to read the entire article. The mainstream media is questionable enough without being influenced by foreign countries that support terrorism.

Dealing With The Entire Problem

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On Wednesday, Legal Insurrection posted an article about America’s seizure of a tanker on the coasts of Venezuela. The article explains some of the reasons behind the taking of the tanker.

The article reports:

Today, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Homeland Security Investigations, and the United States Coast Guard, with support from the Department of War, executed a seizure warrant for a crude oil tanker used to transport sanctioned oil from Venezuela and Iran. For multiple years, the oil tanker has been sanctioned by the United States due to its involvement in an illicit oil shipping network supporting foreign terrorist organizations. This seizure, completed off the coast of Venezuela, was conducted safely and securely—and our investigation alongside the Department of Homeland Security to prevent the transport of sanctioned oil continues.

The article quotes Axios:

Zoom in: The U.S. has sanctioned Venezuela’s oil company for years, but this vessel was seized because it was on the U.S. Treasury Department’s “Specially Designated Nationals” list for allegedly violating other sanctions, providing the justification for it to be seized.

    • The vessel is known as a VLCC, or Very Large Crude Carrier, capable of transporting as much as 320,000 deadweight tons of crude, two sources with direct knowledge said.
    • The exact details of the seizure, first reported by Bloomberg, are unclear and administration officials could not be reached for comment.

The article concludes:

Then there’s Cuba, the home of the oil on the tanker.

As Marc Caputo at Axios pointed out, Cuba is an ally of Venezuela and a U.S. adversary.

The system in place is corrupt because of course:

Havana sells Venezuelan crude on the black market, chiefly to Asian markets that ultimately feed China.

    • The crude oil is handled by a grandson of Raul Castro, the former leader of Cuba and brother of longtime dictator Fidel Castro, the insiders say.
    • In addition to splitting the profits with Venezuela, Cuba supplies intelligence services and agents who protect Maduro.
    • “This is a twofer: we’re going after Maduro’s bank account and the Cubans that keep him in power,” one of the sources said.

According to the National Archives:

While the Monroe Doctrine’s message was designed to keep European powers out of the Western Hemisphere, Roosevelt would strengthen its meaning to justify sending the United States into other countries of the Western Hemisphere. As a result, U.S. Marines were sent into Santo Domingo in 1904, Nicaragua in 1911, and Haiti in 1915, ostensibly to keep the Europeans out. Other Latin American nations viewed these interventions with misgiving, and relations between the “great Colossus of the North” and its southern neighbors remained strained for many years.

In 1962, the Monroe Doctrine was invoked symbolically when the Soviet Union began to build missile-launching sites in Cuba. With the support of the Organization of American States, President John F. Kennedy threw a naval and air quarantine around the island. After several tense days, the Soviet Union agreed to withdraw the missiles and dismantle the sites. Subsequently, the United States dismantled several of its obsolete air and missile bases in Turkey.

The Monroe Doctrine needs to be enforced, both for America’s safety and for the protection of other free nations in our hemisphere.

This Might Be One Of The Problems With Our Government

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On Tuesday, The Center Square posted an article about the political spending of government unions.

The article reports:

(The Center Square) – Government unions across the country spent more than $900 million during the 2023-2024 election cycle, according to a new report.

The Commonwealth Foundation’s most recent report found the top four public sector unions: the National Education Association, American Federation of Teachers, Service Employees International Union and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees spent over $915 million on politics during the 2023-2024 cycle.

The unions spent $755 million on federal elections and policies while their state affiliates spent $160 million on state races and policies. California, Illinois, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and Washington saw the highest amount spent on state races with a total of $105 million of union spending.

Almost $650 million came from union members’ dues, which makes up more than 85% of what the unions spent on national politics. The remaining amount of money came from the unions’ political action committees.

Did the people paying the union dues agree on where the money should be spent? I doubt it.

The article notes:

The report found that 95.8% of donations for state-level candidates went toward Democrats. On the federal level, 98.8% of union donations went to Democrats.

The four unions donated $5 million to President Joe Biden’s campaign, according to the report. Biden was eventually replaced by Vice President Kamala Harris. 

When looking at the state breakdown, Illinois’ public sector union officials spent $29.9 million, more than what union officials spent in any other state. In 2023, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson received more than $5.5 million from the government employee unions, according to the report.

Followed by the spending in Illinois, union officials spent $25.8 million on political initiatives in California; $18.6 million in Washington; $17.9 million in Massachusetts; and $12.8 million in Pennsylvania.

“Workers deserve to know how their hard-earned money is spent by their union leaders. Union influence across the nation should be earned through member participation, not by shady back-door money shuffling through PACs and affiliated group contributions,” Osborne (David Osborne, senior director of Labor Policy for the Commonwealth Foundation) said.

First of all, government workers should not have unions. Secondly, union dues should not be used for political purposes. If members want to donate to political causes, they should be free to do so, but dues should not be used politically without the consent of the members paying them.

We Have Found The Corruption. Why Are The Villains Still Free?

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We have found the corruption and law breaking in the Obama and Biden administrations. So far I don’t recall seeing anyone wearing an orange jumpsuit. Why do you think that is? I think we might have a clue.

On Tuesday, The Washington Post reported the following:

Justice Department lawyers said Tuesday that a recent ruling barring their access to key evidence has effectively crippled their efforts to reindict former FBI director James B. Comey, two weeks after their original case against him was dismissed.

The concession came in a court filing urging a federal judge in Washington to lift a temporary order she imposed Saturday restricting the government’s ability to review or use emails and other electronic communications seized as part of an investigation more than five years ago involving Comey confidante Daniel Richman.

Richman’s records had played a central role in the Justice Department’s effort to indict Comey on charges he lied during a 2020 congressional hearing about authorizing Richman to leak information to the media — allegations Comey has denied. Tuesday’s court filing raised new questions about prosecutors’ ability to pursue their case against the former FBI director.

Richman, a Columbia University law professor who briefly represented Comey as his attorney in 2017, has argued that the Justice Department’s current use of those files violates his constitutional rights. Justice Department officials wrote Tuesday that without access to the communications between the two men the government is “effectively enjoined … from investigating or prosecuting Comey.”

The article concludes:

The FBI originally obtained Richman’s emails and text messages in 2019 and 2020 as part of a different inquiry into whether Comey had disclosed classified information to the media through Richman on Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server. That investigation was closed without charges.

Richman, in his request to Kollar-Kotelly last week, said prosecutors in that first probe had seized and analyzed more of his messages than the initial search warrants allowed and then unlawfully held onto them for years.

In an order Tuesday, Kollar-Kotelly granted Richman’s attorneys and the Justice Department until Wednesday to brief her on whether she should allow the government access to Richman’s emails again for the limited purpose of arguing whether the government should be permanently blocked from using them.

If the Department of Justice can’t put people in jail for breaking the law, we need a new Department of Justice. We have seen tons of evidence against various people who violated their oath of office and the culprits are still walking around free. That is infuriating, particularly after Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro both did jail time for lesser offenses.

Sunlight Is The Best Disinfectant

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On Tuesday, CNBC reported that a New York federal judge ordered the unsealing of grand jury materials related to the criminal prosecution of Ghislaine Maxwell.

The article reports:

A New York federal judge on Tuesday ordered the unsealing of grand jury materials and other documents related to the prosecution of Ghislaine Maxwell, the British socialite convicted in 2021 of procuring underage girls to be sexually abused by Jeffrey Epstein.

Judge Paul Engelmayer’s order came at the request of the Department of Justice, which cited the Epstein Files Transparency Act that Congress passed last month.

The act mandates that the DOJ disclose investigative material about Epstein, a former friend of President Donald Trump who killed himself in jail in August 2019, weeks after being arrested on federal child sex trafficking charges.

Maxwell is serving a 20-year prison term for her conviction.

Grand jury materials are normally permanently sealed by law.

Because of that, Engelmayer denied the DOJ’s initial request over the summer to unseal grand jury materials in Maxwell’s case.

In his order on Tuesday, the judge noted that the Epstein files “Act does not explicitly refer to grand jury materials.”

But, Englemayer added, “The Court nonetheless holds — again in agreement with DOJ — that the Act textually covers the grand jury materials in this case.”

The article concludes:

Although he granted the DOJ’s request to unseal the materials, the judge slapped prosecutors for again not giving notice to Maxwell’s and Epstein’s victims before asking that the materials be made public.

“In its two rounds of applications to this Court to disclose records, DOJ, although paying lip service to Maxwell’s and Epstein’s victims, has not treated them with the solicitude they deserve,” Engelmayer wrote.

“In applying on November 24, 2025 for leave to release records pursuant to the Act, DOJ again acted without notice to Maxwell’s and Epstein’s victims,” the judge wrote.

“The Court … were compelled again to direct DOJ forthwith to notify these victims of its latest motion, and to set a deadline for victims’ submissions.

I really don’t care how much of this is made public–I just want to see the people involved in the illegal actions go to jail.

What’s In A Name?

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The Trump administration is dealing with the problem of drugs coming into America by stopping the shipments close to the source. Essentially that means blowing up the drug boats as they head this way. Recently there was a controversy about a second shot fired at a drug boat as the survivors tried to radio for help to save their cargo. They were stopped mid-transmission (as well they should have been). I don’t mean to sound harsh, but I don’t think a slap on the wrist in the American court system would have any impact–blowing up the boats and the crews has impact. There are, however, some people in our government who see this very differently. Their use of language gymnastics is close to laughable.

On Monday, Townhall reported:

Operation Southern Spear is taking out narco-terrorists in the Caribbean. Democrats have a problem with this, though not any of the terrorists Barack Obama wiped out through drone strikes—500 total during his presidency, and yes, civilians were killed. Americans were on these kill lists. Yet, Democrats and the media are trying to frame this campaign as some illegal war seen out of Tom Clancy’s Clear and Present Danger. It’s not, and these aren’t sailors on a day trip, guys. Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) tossed out a new phrase for these narco-terrorists: “shipwrecked survivors.”

This campaign has hilariously been dubbed “boatgate” by the Left, since we blew up a narco boat twice. The first strike killed some terrorists and disabled the craft, while the second wiped out the remaining terrorists. They were trying to signal for assistance. Either way, the strikes will continue as they did last week. Even with ‘boatgate’ becoming a national story, the Pentagon blew up another narco boat. However, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth admitted that fewer narco boats are taking to sea since we’re turning them into ashtrays.

How many people who have lost loved ones due to the drugs being brought into America by these boats are willing to let the boats continue their routes unhindered?

Suspicions Are Being Confirmed

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On Monday, PJ Media posted an article about another whistleblower who has come forth from the Maduro regime with stories of purposeful gang placements in America, election fraud and bought Congressmen. This confirms what we have heard from a previous whistleblower, but it is NOT good news. Please follow the link to read the entire article.

It is a long article, but here are a few of the highlights:

As of Monday evening, another former Maduro insider has come forward with a similar letter, which was also provided to the Dallas Express.

Former Major General Cliver Antonio Alcalá Cordones was a high-ranking commander in Venezuela’s armed forces who served under Hugo Chávez, and at one point in time he was more powerful than even Maduro within the Chávez government. He was on the U.S. radar for drug trafficking and related crimes for quite a while, but after Chávez died he and the Maduro regime eventually parted ways. He moved to Colombia, began staging a halfhearted anti-Maduro coup with some various U.S. contractors, and by 2020 gave up and turned himself in to U.S. authorities, agreeing to cooperate with them.

…After Chávez’s death in 2013 and Nicolás Maduro’s assumption of power, I requested my retirement from the army despite offers to continue, because I was unwilling to serve under his command. It was very clear to me that a criminal gang leader was taking power. From that moment on, it became public knowledge that I became a staunch opponent of the dictator Maduro.

With his political consolidation, the prison-based criminal structures were strengthened under his control: there were direct communications from the prisons to him, with Potro Álvarez acting as the facilitator of links with prison leaders; instructions were even given to those leaders to control inmates’ votes in elections, while criminals came and went to commit crimes and the prisons functioned as weapons and other illegal elements’ depots.

Some of those criminals—including corrupt union leaders linked to a Chinese-funded Aragua– Carabobo railway project—form part of the group now known as Tren de Aragua, which has been used by Maduro for his criminal purposes ever since.

Nicolás Maduro, trained and formed in Cuba, used these criminal schemes from the prisons for personal gain, replicating practices he learned in that country. Nicolás Maduro’s government exported this criminal organization to other countries, including the United States of America.

The article quotes the letter from Major General Cliver Antonio Alcalá Cordones:

Electoral Frauds

In the electoral sphere, Army General Carlos Quintero—a member of Venezuelan military intelligence—and current vice president of the National Electoral Council (CNE) has been responsible for committing electoral fraud. General Quintero was the engineer in charge of Venezuela’s Smartmatic electoral technology used to carry out the frauds. Most elections in Venezuela have been manipulated by Maduro’s government. I am aware of the use of parallel Smartmatic voting systems to alter results, especially in locaGons without opposition party representatives, making irregularities difficult to detect. This is the same technology used in other countries including USA by the company Smartmatic. The controllers of this entire system are the siblings Jorge and Delcy Rodríguez.

Please read the entire article.

A Step In The Right Direction

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On Monday, Just the News posted an article about a recent ruling in Florida.

The article reports:

Florida GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Monday that his state has formally designated the Muslim Brotherhood and the Council on American-Islamic Relations as foreign terrorist organizations, following a similar move by Texas. 

Texas became the first state to label the groups as foreign terrorist organizations last month, which forbids both organizations and their affiliates from purchasing or acquiring land in Texas and allows increased enforcement against the groups.

DeSantis said the new designation is in effect “immediately.” 

“Florida is designating the Muslim Brotherhood and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) as foreign terrorist organizations,” he wrote on X. “Florida agencies are hereby directed to undertake all lawful measures to prevent unlawful activities by these organizations, including denying privileges or resources to anyone providing material support.”

If you are not aware of the reasons behind this designation, please go to this link and read the attached document. This designation should have happened right after the Holy Land Foundation Trial. America had all the evidence it needed.

It will be interesting to see if there are court challenges to this.

Dealing with Narco-Terrorists

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Author: R. Alan Harrop, Ph.D.

Not unexpectedly, the leftist Democrats are attacking the Trump administration for their military strikes on drug traffickers attempting to bring deadly drugs into our country. As usual, the Democrats side with the criminals and fail to protect American citizens–just like defunding the police and allowing criminals with up to 70 prior arrests to roam our streets. Fortunately, we have a President who is living up to his promise to protect American citizens. Democrats also continue to resist the efforts of ICE to remove illegal migrants, many of which have prior criminal histories, from our country. Remember that in the 1950s, President Eisenhower deported over 3 million illegals from our country with little or no resistance.

The latest fiasco is the Democrat’s efforts to label Secretary Pete Hegseth as a “War Criminal” based on inaccurate information about an attack on a narco-terrorist boat bringing drugs into our country. The common-sense question you need to ask is whether we have the right to defend our borders from the smuggling of deadly drugs into our country. The answer is obvious to me–especially in light of the thousands of our citizens who have died from these illegal drugs. If another country were using bombs or bullets to kill our citizens, we would know what to do. The fact that the cartels are using illegal and lethal drugs resulting in the same outcome should be considered an attack on our country.

Venezuela, run by Nicolas Maduro, is a communist country aligned with our adversaries Russia, China, and Cuba. Maduro was defeated in the last election, but defied the will of the people of Venezuela and continued in power. Over eight million people have fled from Venezuela during his regime, many of whom have entered our country illegally. Venezuela is one of the largest producers of illegal drugs smuggled into our country and is responsible for the death of thousands of Americans. Given these facts, it is clear to any rational person that Venezuela is a threat to our security. In retaliation, President Trump authorized attacks on these narco-terrorists in September. Narco-terrorists do not qualify for treatment as legitimate combat soldiers under the Geneva Convention during wartime, since they are not members of the legitimate military of a country with whom we are at war, but rather should be considered what they are: terrorists. In order to quality for treatment under the Geneva Convention a combatant must be in uniform and a member of an organized military unit.

By aligning himself with our communist adversaries, Maduro has turned Venezuela from a prosperous country reasonably aligned with our country to a threat in our hemisphere. They have immense oil reserves which should not continue to supply and support our adversaries. The Monroe Doctrine, in place since the early years of our country, clearly states that foreign countries that pose a threat to our security should not be allowed to infiltrate our hemisphere. The Biden administration, as usual, was oblivious to the threat and allowed the situation in Venezuela to deteriorate. President Trump is taking corrective action.

As far as attacking terrorists goes, it should be remembered that President Obama authorized drone strikes and other targeted attacks on known terrorists, killing over an estimated five hundred people some of whom were women and children. The Democrats and the liberal media were silent at the time. Now, since they see a chance to discredit President Trump and his administration, the Democrats and liberal media act shocked and are defending the very criminals who are bringing deadly drugs into our country. If the Democrats had a majority in Congress, they would undoubtedly be pursuing another impeachment of President Trump.

The situation with drugs in our country reminds me of the problem that China experienced in the early part of the last century when many of their citizens were addicted to and dying from opium abuse. They effectively dealt with the serious threat to their national security by implementing the death penalty for suppliers and dealers of opium. Harsh penalties for drug suppliers were effective and always are.
President Trump is once again fulfilling his promise to support and defend the citizens of the United States. He deserves our support.

One Problem With ObamaCare

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On Monday, The Federalist posted an article about the problem of fraud in the ObamaCare subsidies.

The article reports:

In recent months, these pages have recounted myriad reports of fraud in Medicaid and on the Obamacare Exchanges. The Congressional Budget Office and others have noted millions of potentially erroneous or fraudulent enrollees, who are receiving tens of billions of dollars in taxpayer-funded subsidies.

On Wednesday, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) added to the reports pouring in. Its preliminary analysis raised additional questions about fraud relating to Exchange subsidies, providing yet another reason for Congress not to extend the enhanced Covid-era subsidy regime that expires at the end of the month. 

…During the last plan year, GAO noted that “we either were not requested to provide the federal Marketplace [i.e., Exchange] with documentation or generally did not provide what was requested, yet our four fictitious applicants received subsidized coverage for November and December 2024.” In one example, the federal Exchange sent a letter that “confirmed the applicant’s income based on documentation we submitted,” even though GAO had not sent any such documentation.

This year, GAO said the Exchange “initially approved coverage for 19 of our 20 fictitious applicants,” with the only exception being “when the broker we were working with stopped responding to us.” In another case, the Exchange cut off coverage after the fictitious enrollee did not provide citizenship documentation. But in total, nine months into the plan year in September, “coverage for 18 [of 20] fictitious enrollees remained active,” totaling over $10,000 per month in taxpayer subsidies paid to insurers on behalf of nonexistent enrollees.

One example of fraud:

In 2023, a total of 58,000 Social Security numbers received subsidies yet also matched Social Security Administration death data. These instances included more than 7,000 numbers “where the reported date of death occurred prior to enrollment” in the Exchange, and more than 19,000 numbers where “matches had different names and dates of birth” between the Exchange database and the Social Security Administration database, a potential sign of “synthetic identity fraud.”

The article concludes:

Regardless, lawmakers should not spend another $350 billion (plus interest) throwing good taxpayer money after bad, even as one government report after another shows Exchange-related fraud remains out of control. After incurring more than $38 trillion in debt, Washington should finally realize it has run out of other people’s money to spend on such profligacy.

It is past time to make the subsidies go away and find a better way to do healthcare.

I Don’t Think Everyone Is On The Same Page

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On Sunday, Breitbart posted an article about the quest for peace in Gaza.

The article reports:

Hamas leader Khaled Mashal declared that “the resistance and its weapons are our honor and glory” and that “the battle is not over,” boasting that rights are won “at the recruitment office, not the U.N. Security Council” — a declaration that directly contradicts President Donald Trump’s 20-point Gaza peace plan and celebrates the October 7 “Al-Aqsa Flood” massacre as a turning point to push Israel off “our homeland” and the international stage.

I don’t believe you can make peace with people who celebrate the events of October 7.

The article notes:

Speaking Saturday by video to the “Pledge to Jerusalem” conference in Istanbul, the head of Hamas abroad used a keynote address carried on Al Jazeera to lay out an uncompromising roadmap that flatly rejects the core elements of President Donald Trump’s 20-point Gaza peace plan — disarmament, an international stabilization force, and Hamas’s removal from power — even as the terror group moves toward Phase Two of the U.S.-brokered ceasefire it ostensibly accepted two months ago.

Notice that he was in Istanbul–not in Gaza. That seems to be the pattern of Hamas leadership–they stay away from the war zone.

The article also reports:

He urged the wider Islamic “ummah” to commit to “the liberation of Jerusalem as the banner and symbol of freeing Palestine,” including the “cleansing” of the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the “reclaiming” of Islamic and Christian holy sites, framing Gaza as the vanguard that launched the “Al-Aqsa Flood” massacre in 2023 and “turned into the pride of the nation and the conscience of nations.”

In remarks highlighted by multiple Israeli outlets, Mashal explicitly rejected any “guardianship, mandate and re-occupation” over Gaza, the West Bank, or “all of Palestine,” insisting that Palestinians “need protection, not guardians” and that “the Palestinian is the one who governs himself and decides for himself.”

Unfortunately, I believe the only path to peace in Gaza has to include the end of Hamas and its leadership.

Undoing Some Of The Damage

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On Sunday, Red State posted an article about the rescue of many of the children who went missing after coming across America’s border as unaccompanied minors.

The article reports:

Border Czar Tom Homan has been given a tough job to do. His part in fixing four years of incompetence and outright refusal to enforce immigration law would be enough to make Hercules take pause. But Mr. Homan and those working with him are getting it done.

In his latest, Mr. Homan, in an interview on Fox News, added another statistic to his growing list: Over 62,000 children redeemed from captivity.

The article quotes Mr. Homan:

I look at the numbers every day. On Friday I looked at the numbers. There’s over 62,000 children, found by the Trump administration. Children that weren’t even being looked for under the Biden administration. President Trump saved over 62,000 children’s lives. Some of these children were in sex trafficking, we found some were in forced labor. Some were being mistreated in, to… I can’t even discuss some of the mistreatment we found out about. President Trump proves, again, why he’s the greatest president in my lifetime. Over 62,000 children rescued by President Trump. Again, children that were ignored and weren’t being looked for, under President Biden. 

The article concludes:

The contrast here couldn’t be more stark. The Biden administration, with an empty chair at its head and who-knows-who making the actual decisions, seemed determined to allow in everyone, legally, illegally; it made no difference. There have been allegations of disappearing children for years, but during the Biden (or the autopen, who knows) term, nothing much was done about them. Now we’re finding them, and in some cases, as Tom Homan notes above, what these kids have suffered is bad enough that he won’t even discuss it on air.

That’s what the presidency of Joe Biden will have as its legacy. And, it’s not impossible that the damage done by the guy who posed as the 46th president may never be completely rectified. But there’s no excuse for not trying, at least, if you’re not a Democrat. In that case, there are many excuses for not trying.

The Biden administration added millions to the income of the cartels. The Trump administration is destroying a lot of their drug profit at its source.

By The Grace Of God, Mistakes Were Made

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The following post was posted on December 7th last year. It is worth rereading.

Eighty-three years ago, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. It was a surprise attack which occurred before Japan actually delivered a declaration of war to the United States. On that day, Japanese airplanes destroyed nearly 20 American naval vessels, including eight battleships, and over 300 airplanes. However, the Japanese made a few mistakes in their attack which allowed America to fight back after the attack. The obvious mistake is that they awakened the sleeping giant that was America’s manufacturing strength. The other mistakes had to do with their military planning.

According to the Pearl Harbor website, these are the major mistakes the Japanese made at Pearl Harbor:

1. The Shallow Waters of Pearl Harbor

One issue with attacking the ships lined up at Battleship Row was that the water wasn’t deep enough to hinder relief efforts. That meant the Japanese fleet would have to completely destroy the vessels to ensure they wouldn’t be able to return to service.

Of the eight battleships attacked on December 7th, only the USS Utah and USS Arizona were unsalvageable, meaning that the Japanese fleet failed in its objective of crippling the US Navy. By February of 1942, the first of the damaged battleships returned to service in the fight in the Pacific.

2. Missing Targets

That quiet Sunday morning in December of 1941 was carefully chosen by Japan’s Navy. The surprise attack was effective in that many sailors were on leave. A major flaw with the choice of that date, however, was that some of the highest-value targets—the American aircraft carriers—were absent from the Pearl Harbor.

The USS Lexington, USS Enterprise, and USS Saratoga were on missions that kept them at sea on the day of the attack. Though the Enterprise was scheduled to return the night before the attack, dangerous weather conditions delayed her return by a day.

3. Fuel Tanks at Pearl Harbor, October 1941

The battleships were far from the only vital target at Pearl Harbor. While the Japanese planes also targeted nearby airfields, they failed to pay any attention to other important assets. The dry docks in the harbor and the fuel depots were largely ignored by Japan’s assault force and both proved imperative in the relief, rescue, and repair efforts that followed.

As we remember that day, we also need to remember that by the grace of God, our nation was spared a devastating defeat.

Not Surprising!

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On Thursday, The Washington Free Beacon posted an article about a recent statement by New York State Governor Kathy Hochul (D.)

The article reports:

New York governor Kathy Hochul (D.), who has long insisted that she will not increase taxes, is reportedly moving toward supporting tax hikes following the victory of socialist New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani.

Hochul is now reconsidering “a position she had treated as nonnegotiable all year,” Politico reported Thursday. While she told Fox 5 on Wednesday that she still opposes raising income taxes, “everything else seems to be on the table,” with state officials “quietly discussing a potential corporate tax rate increase,” according to Politico. Mamdani has proposed raising the state’s corporate tax rate to 11.5 percent, which would make it the highest in the country.

The article concludes:

In addition to Mamdani, Hochul is also facing a challenge from within her own administration, as Lieutenant Governor Antonio Delgado is primarying her from the left. “Left-leaning activists, including the Working Families Party, have threatened to back Delgado—who supports higher taxes on rich New Yorkers—in the primary,” Politico reported.

Socialist state assemblywoman Jessica González-Rojas welcomed Hochul’s shift toward higher taxes, though she suggested that the move may come out of political expedience.

Hochul “sees the writing on the wall in the way people turned out in droves in supporting Mamdani,” González-Rojas said.

The party infighting could complicate Hochul’s reelection bid even more. Polls have found mixed results on a hypothetical matchup between Hochul and her likely Republican challenger, Rep. Elise Stefanik. A poll last month found Hochul with a double-digit lead, while an October poll found that Hochul was “deeply vulnerable” and had only a 5-point lead. The October poll also found that when likely voters heard of each candidate’s background, including Hochul’s endorsement of Mamdani, Stefanik took the lead.

I am not sure that this is the way to win votes. As the taxes go up, voters will probably choose to leave New York. This results in a lower tax base and a need to raise taxes even more.  I just hope the people leaving New York and moving to red states leave their blue state policies at home.

The Obstruction Tactics Are Becoming Less Effective

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President Trump has an amazing learning curve. During his first administration, the Washington swamp pretty much controlled things. This time–not so much.

On Thursday, The Daily Caller reported:

Republicans will confirm a bloc of eight dozen Trump nominees as soon as next week following an attempted blockade by Senate Democrats.

Republican leadership planned Thursday to kick-off the procedural process to confirm 88 of President Donald Trump’s nominees in a bloc vote, but were initially thwarted by Democratic Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet, who challenged the package for violating Senate rules. When Republicans refiled the package later on Thursday, the conference included an additional nine nominees, bringing the total to nearly 100.

Democrats blocked the group package because Sara Bailey — one of President Donald Trump’s nominees included in the package — was not eligible to be included.

When Republicans went nuclear in September to streamline the confirmation process over Democrats’ fierce objections, the conference did not allow cabinet-level positions or judicial appointments to be confirmed in a group package.

Bailey, a former Fox News contributor, has been tapped to serve as director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, which is a senior-level position on par with a cabinet secretary.

…The new package includes former Republican New York Rep. Anthony D’Esposito, who has been appointed to serve as inspector general of the Department of Labor. Thirteen U.S. attorney nominees and dozens of lower-level executive branch nominees are also teed up for confirmation.

The article concludes:

The Senate has confirmed 314 civilian nominees as of Thursday evening, according to a tally by the Senate Republican Communications Center.

The 97-member bloc would bring the Senate to more than 410 civilian confirmations in the first year of Trump’s second term.

“That far outstrips total confirmations by this point in President Biden’s term, and in President Trump’s first term as well,” Thune said Thursday.

Thune also said that Senate Republicans have virtually cleared the nominations backlog. Before Republicans changed Senate precedent to allow for certain nominees to be confirmed in groups, more than 150 of the president’s picks were awaiting floor consideration.

The Senate approved a 48-member nominations package in September and an additional 108 of the president’s picks in a single group vote in October.

Bennet celebrated his short-lived blockade of Trump’s nominees Thursday before Republicans added more individuals to the resolution.

“I will not allow unqualified nominees, this White House, or the President to undermine the rule of law and our national security,” the Colorado Democrat wrote in a statement posted to social media.

It would be really nice if Congress would stop playing politics and do their job!