Monthly Archives: April 2026

We May Finally Learn The Truth

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In July of 2016, Seth Rich was killed in Washington, D.C. His death was reported as a robbery gone wrong, but there were things that just didn’t make sense from the beginning. The lack of transparency by the D.C. Metro Police added to the feeling that something was being covered up. Well, it is still being covered up, but there are a number of investigative reporters who are still on the case.

NOTE: The following is from a source I am not familiar with, but the information does agree with things I am familiar with.

On April 4th, Joe Hoft reported:

Attorney Ty Clevenger has been working on the Seth Rich case for a decade. The Deep State actors running the government continue to stall and defy court orders, and Clevenger continues to demand justice.

It is believed that Seth Rich is a pivotal key to the Russia Collusion coup attempt of the first Trump Administration.

The Deep State DOJ and FBI have gone through extreme efforts to cover up any information they have on Seth Rich.  Rich is who many believe transferred DNC emails to WikiLeaks during the 2016 election.  He was a Bernie fan who worked in the DNC at that time.  He was reportedly upset with what the DNC was doing to Bernie.  On July 10, 2016, Rich was found shot in the back due to what law enforcement labeled a burglary, and yet his wallet, phone, and watch were left on his person.  This is at the time WikiLeaks began dropping damaging DNC emails that showed the inner workings of the Hillary campaign.

The article notes:

The FBI has just filed a motion to REJECT @Ty_Clevenger ’s discovery requests in the Seth Rich FOIA case.

The FBI filed a motion for a protective order seeking to quash the plaintiff’s broad discovery requests served on March 4, 2026, arguing that discovery is generally disfavored and inappropriate in FOIA litigation absent evidence of bad faith, which the court has repeatedly found lacking in prior rulings.

The motion contends that the interrogatories and requests for production are overbroad, irrelevant to the underlying FOIA claims, unduly burdensome, and disproportionate, requesting the court to prohibit further discovery without its prior leave.

It is time the information was made public and the people responsible for the crime and the coverup were held accountable.

These Are The Refugees We Need

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On Monday, John Hinderaker at Power Line Blog posted an article about the refugees from South Africa who came to America because of the violence against white farmers in that country.

The article includes an X post about the refugees. It states:

Known a few South Africans recently arrived in America, Afrikaner and English. Uniformly, they’ve said, what a joy just to be able to walk around freely. Without fear of attack. One young South African guy, when I raised the security issue, just blurted out, “I had a gun put to my head.”

A South African woman said an American told her, we have home invasions in this country, too. She asked, how many people do you know who have been home invaded? None, he said. I don’t know anyone who hasn’t had a home invasion, she told him. Her elderly parents were tied up at gunpoint. She was grateful they were only robbed.

My Afrikaner exGF carried a gun as a young woman out on the town. Explained cheerfully, you don’t stop for red lights in South Africa. That’s where they’re waiting for you.

Welcome to America. More immigration like this please. Afrikaners just want to work. Contribute. And you can rely on them in all things. Especially should it come to a fight.

They have settled in and begun farming and contributing to American life. This is what happens when you bring in immigrants who are compatible with American culture and are willing to assimilate.

Stopping A Bad Idea In Its Tracks

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On Monday, The Maine Morning Star posted an article about a recent decision by the Maine Supreme Court.

The article reports:

The Supreme Judicial Court ruled Monday that a bill to expand ranked choice voting to general elections for governor, state representative and state senator would violate the Maine Constitution. 

“Because of the Maine Constitution’s language, there are strong and convincing reasons that LD 1666 is unconstitutional, and we conclude that the presumption of constitutionality has been overcome,” the justices stated in a unanimous opinion. 

The bill passed initial votes in the Maine Senate and House of Representatives, but was tabled in the upper chamber while awaiting the ruling from the court. The court’s ruling is advisory, but Gov. Janet Mills previously said she opposed the legislation, but would be interested in the court’s ruling.

The article notes:

However, the League of Women Voters of Maine — which has been advocating for ranked choice voting in Maine since initially passed by referendum in 2016 — said they disagreed with the court’s assessment.

“We continue to hold the legal perspective that ranked choice voting is lawful within the framework of Maine’s Constitution,” said executive director Chrissy Hart. “RCV is the best method in Maine to elect candidates that receive broad support, and RCV has long been popular among Maine voters. While the justices’ opinion is disappointing, it will not stop us from advocating for the will of the people and fighting for what they approved in the 2016 referendum.”

Ranked choice voting is confusing and does not necessarily elect the person who gets the majority of the votes.

Ballotpedia posted a chart explaining how this could happen:

Click here to see the chart more clearly.

Depending on how voters mark their ballots, under ranked choice voting, a candidate who was the second or third choice of voters can easily win an election. This is not progress, it is confusion designed to create chaos.

What Hypocrisy?

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On Sunday, Legal Insurrection posted an article about the grand opening of the President Obama Presidential Center.

The article reports:

Former President Barack Obama is warning that requiring proof of citizenship to vote would “disenfranchise millions,” but eligibility for tickets to his presidential center’s grand opening is limited to U.S. citizens and lawful residents and requires identity verification to claim the prize.

Obama weighed in this week against the Republican-backed SAVE Act, which would require documented proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote in federal elections. He framed the proposal as a direct threat to voter access and urged Americans to oppose it, calling it unnecessary and harmful to participation.

“Republicans are still trying to pass the SAVE Act—a bill that would make it harder to vote and disenfranchise millions of Americans.” 

Other Democrats echoed that argument, saying the measure would impose documentation burdens that many Americans do not readily have access to, including passports, birth certificates, or other records used to verify citizenship, particularly among lower-income and older populations. 

At the same time, the sweepstakes tied to the opening of the Obama Presidential Center lays out firm eligibility requirements. The official terms limit entry to “United States citizens and lawful permanent U.S. residents,” excluding anyone who does not meet those criteria.

Winners are also required to provide identifying documentation, including taxpayer identification information, and must clear security screenings and verification protocols before attending the event, consistent with standard procedures for high-profile public gatherings.

Those conditions are not incidental. Access depends on legal status and the ability to confirm identity through official records, with eligibility rules clearly defined in advance of the event.

Unfortunately, this is typical of some of our Democrat party members. Photo id is generally needed to get into some of their events, yet they don’t see the necessity of having photo id to exercise your right to vote.

Laws Have Consequences

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On Monday, The Washington Free Beacon posted an article about a Colorado healthcare program that began in 2005.

The article reports:

A Colorado program launched in 2025 to provide taxpayer-funded health care to illegal immigrant “pregnant persons” and children is costing seven times more than expected. The program, which was estimated to cost less than $15 million but has ballooned in costs to nearly $105 million this fiscal year, has emerged as a sore spot as the state grapples with a $1.5 billion budget shortfall that could lead to deep cuts to Medicaid and other programs for citizens.

Two of the Democrats who supported the program in the Colorado legislature are now seeking a promotion to the House of Representatives.

Democratic lawmakers, including former state representative Shannon Bird, one of the candidates vying to represent Colorado’s Eighth Congressional District, passed a law in 2022 to create the Cover All Coloradans program. It provides state-funded health care for “pregnant persons” and children who would qualify for Medicaid if they weren’t illegal immigrants. Fiscal analysts estimated at the time that the program would draw 3,700 enrollees at a cost of $14.7 million to the state.

But the illegal immigrant population in Colorado spiked as the law passed, rising from 160,000 in 2021 to more than 200,000 in 2025, according to the Pew Research Center. Costs for the Cover All Coloradans program increased sixfold to $104.5 million to Colorado taxpayers after 28,000 immigrants enrolled in the program when it launched in 2025, the Colorado Sun reported.

Free stuff is expensive!

The article notes:

Colorado’s Democratic House speaker Julie McCluskie, the lead sponsor of the Cover All Coloradans program in 2022, said there have been “unanticipated impacts” to the illegal immigrant health care program since its launch last year.

“At the time we made budget decisions — whether it was during the pandemic, following the pandemic — we made those decisions based on the forecasts in front of us,” McCluskie told the Sun.

We don’t need more fiscally irresponsible people in the U.S. House!

One Aspect Of Birthright Citizen That I Haven’t Heard From The Supreme Court

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Certain words have legal definitions. One of those words in the Fourteenth Amendment has not yet been mentioned (to my knowledge) in the debate over birthright citizenship.

On Monday, The Federalist reported:

This week, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Trump v. Barbara, the most consequential immigration case in decades. The case was brought by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on behalf of a Honduran national challenging President Trump’s executive order denying citizenship to children born to illegal immigrants and tourists with temporary visas. The question posed was whether the 14th Amendment’s Citizenship Clause guarantees automatic citizenship to every child born on American soil, no matter who the parents are or why they are in the United States.

The article notes:

Much of the debate has focused on whether a child is “subject to the jurisdiction” of the United States. But one word in the Citizenship Clause has largely escaped scrutiny: reside.

Here is the clause in full:

“All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.”

Perhaps because it comes at the end, it has been treated as an afterthought, but careful reading shows how central the term “reside” is. The clause does not say “are born,” “are physically present,” or “pass through on a tourist visa.” Citizenship is granted only to those who actually “reside,” establishing a precondition for the clause’s application, with “reside” carrying a consistent legal meaning across many areas of American law, including taxes, jury duty, voting, school enrollment, in-state tuition, and family law. It refers to an established, settled presence, in other words, a place where you actually live.

The article concludes:

Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito will almost certainly follow the text. They have the intellectual consistency to apply the plain meaning of the clause, certainly with respect to birth tourists who do not “reside” in the United States, and likely to illegal immigrants as well.

The remaining four, John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Neil Gorsuch, and Amy Coney Barrett, are in play, and no matter how much one tries to read the tea leaves, we do not know what they will do.

Whatever the outcome, at a minimum, the court should acknowledge that birth tourism is not covered by the 14th Amendment. All it takes is reading one sentence to the end and applying a word everyone understands. If the court cannot hold that line, if five justices cannot agree that a tourist is not a resident, then the words of the Constitution mean nothing.

The outcome of this case will play a major role in determining what our country looks like in eighteen years. Many of the babies that are American citizens because of Chinese birth tourism will be coming to America to establish their right to vote and voting per their instructions from the Chinese Communist part. That does not bode well.

Some Random Thoughts And X Posts About The Rescue Of American Airmen

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On April 6th, Hot Air posted an article about the rescue of the two American airmen shot down over Iran. The article included a lot of X posts that illustrated the difference between some America’s view of the rescue and the European view of the rescue.

My favorite quote from the article was a statement by Former CENTCOM commander Ret. Gen. Frank McKenzie, who PERFECTLY described the situation– “It takes a year to build an aircraft — and it takes 200 YEARS to build a military tradition where you don’t leave anybody behind!”

The article included the following X post:

The article notes:

As soon as the news broke of the downed F-15, a massive divide became evident: Trump’s opponents, to a person, shouted that this was proof that the United States was losing, that Iran had the upper hand, and, worst of all, a creeping sense that some of these people felt absolute glee.

…Not all, of course. It is never all, but the overwhelming sentiment seemed to be satisfaction, and even a creeping hope that Iran would capture our pilot and WSO. And when the pilot was recovered, the intensity of the left’s seeming hope that the WSO’s fate would be determined by Iran was…disturbing.

This is another X post from the article:

I am not sure if we can ever bridge the divide that we see developing in western civilization. We have not had to defend our civilization in this generation, and I am not sure we will be able to defend it if we are called to do so.

Food For Thought

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On Friday, The Daily Wire posted an article about the recent attempt to explode an IED at MacDill Air Force Base Visitor’s Center in Tampa.

The article reports:

A man and a woman who entered the United States illegally three decades ago were arrested by the Department of Homeland Security after their children brought an explosive device to a military base, The Daily Wire can first report.

Qiu Qin Zou and Jia Zhang Zheng illegally entered the United States in the ’90s, were denied asylum, but remained in the country for several decades, The Daily Wire has learned. They had two children as they illegally resided in the country — Ann Mary Zheng and Alen Zheng.

Last week, the Department of Justice charged 27-year-old Ann Zheng with her part in attempting to explode an IED at MacDill Air Force Base Visitor’s Center in Tampa.  She was arrested as she returned to the United States from China, where authorities believe her brother remains.

DHS arrested the duo’s parents on March 18 for illegal entry.

Qiu Qin Zou and Jia Zhang Zheng remain in ICE custody. They had applied for asylum in 1993 but their applications were denied by an immigration judge, who ordered their removal from the U.S. in 1998. DHS says that the Board of Immigration Appeals repeatedly denied their attempts to have their case reopened. Despite this, they remained in the United States for decades.

The arrests come as the Supreme Court mulls President Donald Trump’s executive order banning birthright citizenship.

“Automatically granting citizenship to children of illegal aliens born in the U.S. is based on a historically inaccurate interpretation of the Citizenship Clause and poses a major national security risk,” argued Acting Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis.

“That reality became apparent last week when two U.S.-born children of Chinese illegal aliens were indicted for planting a potentially deadly explosive device outside MacDill Air Force Base in Florida,” Bis explained. “This incident underscores the severe national security threat that illegal immigration and birthright citizenship pose to the United States.”

Under the current interpretation of birthright citizenship, Ann Mary Zheng is an American citizen. How many other people who were born in America due to ‘birth tourism’ are here with loyalties to countries that seek to destroy America?

Sometimes the best argument for changing a law is the consequences of that law.

Justice Sometimes Takes A While

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On Friday, Fox News reported that all charges against Center for Medical Progress founder David Daleiden have been dismissed.

The article reports:

A California judge on Wednesday cleared the final legal hurdle in the long-running prosecution of a pro-life activist who alleged in undercover videos that abortion providers were illegally profiting from fetal tissue.

“As promised, the final charge has been DISMISSED and the case completely expunged— —after a couple months’ administrative delay, and a truly bizarre last-minute ‘April Fool’s’ attempt by @PPFA and @NatAbortionFed to overturn the State’s agreement,” Center for Medical Progress founder David Daleiden tweeted on Wednesday, including a previous statement made on the reached settlement.

Daleiden, who alongside undercover journalist Sandra Merritt, faced 15 charges filed by California Attorney General Xavier Becerra in 2017. The charges stemmed from an investigation prompted by former California Attorney General Harris’ office, who left her position as state attorney general in January 2017 after being elected to the U.S. Senate.

…On Wednesday, San Francisco County Judge Brian Ferrall dropped the last charge against Daleiden and expunged the case. 

In a statement made last year, Daleiden said that the end of “the lawfare launched by Kamala Harris [is] a huge victory for my investigative reporting for the public’s right to know the truth about Planned Parenthood’s sale of aborted baby body parts.”

The article notes:

The release of the videos pushed the Senate Judiciary Committee to call the Department of Justice to investigate Planned Parenthood Federation of America. No charges were ever brought against the nation’s largest abortion provider.

Daleiden was sued by Planned Parenthood for damages and was ordered in 2019 to pay $2.4 million in damages and more than $13 million in attorney’s fees.

So exposing the fact that Planned Parenthood was selling aborted baby body parts was more of a crime than selling the body parts. I don’t know if Planned Parenthood is still selling aborted baby body parts, but there was ample evidence at the time of the lawfare against David Daleiden that they were.

What Is The Plan?

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On Friday, Fred Fleitz posted an article at American Greatness about President Trump’s goals in the Iran war.

The article includes Fred Fleitz’s background in national security:

Fred Fleitz previously served as National Security Council chief of staff, a CIA analyst, and a House Intelligence Committee staff member. He is the vice chair of the America First Policy Institute’s Center for American Security. He is the author of “North Korea, Nuclear Brinkmanship, and the Oval Office,” to be released by Texas A&M Press on April 7, 2026.

The article reports:

Somehow, I received an invitation to the White House to watch President Trump’s prime-time address to the nation on Wednesday evening, where he laid out his endgame strategy for the Iran War. In addition to observing the strong camaraderie between Trump’s cabinet members, I saw the president in great form, confidently articulating the war’s goals and achievements and how he is keeping his promise to the American people to end this conflict in a few weeks so it does not become a quagmire or an endless war.

The president spoke about the overwhelming strength of the American military and how the war is a decisive and historic U.S. victory. Just one month after launching Operation Epic Fury, Trump explained how the U.S. and Israel shattered Iran’s nuclear weapons program, crippled its war machine, and stripped the mullahs of their ability to bully the Middle East and the world.

President Trump spoke about how Operation Epic Fury devastated Iran’s nuclear infrastructure, ballistic missile programs, air defenses, navy, and command structure. Key nuclear facilities have been reduced to rubble. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ terror networks and proxy armies have been decimated. So has Iran’s ability to project power across the Middle East or threaten our allies with drones and missiles.

The article concludes:

Most importantly, President Trump stressed that the short-term economic costs of Operation Epic Fury are worth it because dealing with the global threat from Iran’s Islamist terrorist regime is an investment for our children’s and grandchildren’s future. So instead of kicking the Iran problem down the road to the next president, Trump is dealing with it now.

That’s the kind of decisive leadership America voted for.

Please follow the link above to read the entire article.

How Is The Economy Doing?

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There is a lot of concern in some circles about how the war in Iran is impacting certain areas of the American economy. Well, we are starting to get some answers to that question.

On Friday, Zero Hedge reported:

We titled our nonfarm payroll preview post “a substantial bounce” and boy were we right: with consensus expecting a material rebound from February’s negative print (which was revised as usual worse, from -92K to -133K), what the BLS reported instead was a huge beat to expectations of a 65K increase, with March jobs reportedly rising by 178K, the biggest increase since December 2024.

The article continues:

A few additional highlights from the report:

  • The number of long-term unemployed (those jobless for 27 weeks or more) changed little at 1.8 million in March but is up by 322,000 over the year. The long-term unemployed accounted for 25.4 percent of all unemployed people in March. 
  • Both the labor force participation rate, at 61.9 percent, and the employment-population ratio, at 59.2 percent, both at multiyear lows 
  • The number of people employed part time for economic reasons, at 4.5 million, changed little in March. These individuals would have preferred full-time employment but were working part time because their hours had been reduced or they were unable to find full-time jobs. 
  • The number of people not in the labor force who currently want a job changed little at 6.0 million in March. These individuals were not counted as unemployed because they were not actively looking for work during the 4 weeks preceding the survey or were unavailable to take a job. 
  • Among those not in the labor force who wanted a job, the number of people marginally attached to the labor force increased by 325,000 in March to 1.9 million. These individuals wanted and were available for work and had looked for a job sometime in the prior 12 months but had not looked for work in the 4 weeks preceding the survey.
  • The number of discouraged workers, a subset of the marginally attached who believed that no jobs were available for them, increased by 144,000 in March to 510,000. 

The impact of the war in Iran on employment numbers is yet to be seen. The impact on the price of gas at the pump is not appreciated, but hopefully will be in the short range.

It’s Amazing That Anyone Actually Believes The Mainstream Media

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We are currently living in a very strange world. An overwhelming majority of Americans want voter ID for elections, and Congress can’t seem to pass it. The Democrats are campaigning on the policy of impeaching President Trump as soon as they gain control of Congress, and many Democrats are saying that we shouldn’t even sell Israel defensive weapons. Other than anti-Israel and anti-Trump, what are their policies? Meanwhile, the press keeps telling us that President Trump’s popularity has sunk to a new low. So what is the truth?

On Thursday, Power Line Blog reported:

Every day I see a headline like these: from The Hill newspaper this morning,

Trump approval rating hits new low as Iran war squeezes economy.

“New low.” The Hill headline from yesterday read,

Trump losing support from core supporters as approval drops to record low in new polling.

“Record low.” The Tuesday headline in The Hill reads,

Nate Silver on recent polling: Trump has ‘profound problems’

On Monday, The Hill told us,

Donald Trump approval rating dipped to a new low.

“New low.” Every day a new poll. Every day a new low, or a record low. Based on this trend, I would expect to find Trump’s approval rating to be hovering between negative 300 percent and negative 400 percent.

So I looked at today’s Rasmussen Reports, daily approval poll: 46-52. Not great, a little underwater, but a record low? A new low?

In Rasmussen, Trump has stayed in a fairly narrow approval range of 44 to 48 percent since the beginning of the first government shutdown last October.

The article concludes:

Other services, like Morning Consult, have Trump numbers steady or the Daily Mail actually improving during March.

But you are supposed to take the daily drumbeat as proof that no one approves of Trump.

Why does anyone believe these people?

The Media Bias Is Not Only How News Is Reported But What Is Left Out

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On Thursday, Newsbusters posted an article about the lack of mainstream media reporting on the California hospice fraud scandal.

The article reports:

The Elitist Media’s evening newscasts have shown that they have a hard time reporting on counteragenda items that expose blue states to accusations of incompetence or malfeasance. News related to public assistance fraud is especially rare among the nightlies, as is demonstrated by the latest news out of California.

Watch as the CBS Evening News is the sole evening newscast to report on the massive early morning raid carried out by the FBI in Covina, California: 

The article includes a video of that raid. Remember how many news crews were there when Roger Stone’s house was attacked and he was taken prisoner and brought to jail?

The New York Post reports:

The home of a husband and wife who own a Southern California hospice accused of committing $7 million in fraud was raided by FBI agents in conjunction with Health and Human Services early Thursday morning.

The raid is one of several that took place as part of a massive federal effort to address widespread fraud in the state in coordination with Vice President JD Vance’s Fraud Taskforce — and the California Post was there.

…Dr. Mehmet Oz, the Administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, was on the scene as well and said the couple created a hospice in their daughter’s name and bilked millions of dollars from taxpayers.

“Since 2022, there have been allegations, but for four years, what seems to be typical in California, nothing was done,” he said.

Their hospice had a mortality rate of just 2.3% over the last five years, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).

The article concludes:

You would think that having the head of CMS present at the raid might be an indicator of newsworthiness and seriousness. But no. And, of course, the CBS item made no mention of the raid’s relation to the anti-fraud effort spearheaded by Vice President JD Vance.

All of this notwithstanding, CBS’s 32 seconds on the raid are 32 seconds more than ABC and NBC combined. The Elitist Media’s insistence on pretending that government assistance fraud doesn’t exist is but one of many reasons why the American People have lost trust in the media.

If you rely on the mainstream media for your news, you are not only misinformed–you are uninformed.

Who Paid For The Protest?

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On Saturday, Fox News posted an article about the No Kings protests that happened in various places around America. Anyone who watched any of the protests was bound to notice that the signs were pre-printed. Who paid for the signs and where did they come from?

The article reports:

A network of about 500 groups with an estimated $3 billion in combined annual revenues is behind the coordinated nationwide “No Kings” protest Saturday, including communist groups who are using the day to call for a “revolution,” according to a Fox Digital News investigation. 

According to a copy of the permit for the “flagship” march in St. Paul, Minn., Indivisible, a national well-heeled Democratic political advocacy organization funded by billionaire George Soros, is the lead coordinator for the protest.

But Fox News Digital has also identified key participation by a network of radical socialist and communist organizations funded by Neville Roy Singham, an American tech tycoon and avowed communist living in China.

Over nearly a decade, Singham has financed a constellation of activist institutions that promote revolutionary socialist politics and frequently collaborate in protest campaigns, including the People’s Forum in New York, the Party for Socialism and Liberation, the ANSWER Coalition and CodePink, whose co-founder Jodie Evans is married to Singham. These groups work closely with the Freedom Road Socialist Organization.

They are all sending members to the protests and one group said they plan to bring a message of “revolution” to the protests.

On Friday evening, at the corner of N. Fremont Avenue and N. 37th Avenue in Minneapolis, members of the Twin Cities chapter of the Party for Socialism and Liberation packed a car with stacks of bright red protest signs they had prepared at the Dream Shop for Saturday’s demonstrations. They are part of the Singham network and co-sponsors of the St. Paul protest.

It seems ironic to me that people who used the free market system of America to get rich now want to destroy that system.

The article notes:

The network’s messaging for the #NoKings echoes Singham’s own rhetoric describing the United States as a form of “fascism” and advocating organizing strategies rooted in Mao Zedong’s doctrine of a “People’s War,” which calls for revolutionary movements to embed themselves inside broader political struggles and radicalize them from within.

I wish the protestors could spend some time in countries that live under communism to see what it is really like.

Solving Problems

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Before you are able to solve a problem, it’s a good idea to find the source of the problem. If you are unable to acknowledge the source, chances are you won’t be able to solve the problem! That is the place some of the leaders of European countries find themselves in relation to supplying energy to their countries.

On Wednesday, The Conservative Treehouse reported:

They stopped their oil and gas exploration. They chose to chase ‘net zero’ academic pontifications. They closed their refining operations. They took apart their coal-fired electricity plants. They disassembled their nuclear power capabilities. Then, the absolute cherry on the proverbial cake, they voted to stop purchasing oil and gas from Russia.

The EU is now in the Find Out stage of their FAFO positioning.

Gasoline prices have skyrocketed. The last shipments of jet fuel have arrived. Major airline carriers are cancelling flights due to lack of fuel. Faster than the EU can organize meetings to discuss their position, EU destined LNG shipments have diverted to southeast Asia and India as the ASEAN nations bid higher purchase prices for the vessels literally on the water.

The article quotes EU Politico:

“Germany’s Friedrich Merz warns the economic fallout from the war in Iran is on track to rival that of the Covid pandemic or the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

[…] With the war in Iran threatening to choke off energy flows for the foreseeable future, Europe is facing a supply shock that promises to cripple manufacturing, ground airlines, hike up the price of food, spike borrowing costs and send inflation spiraling back to crisis levels.

As the last tankers carrying fossil fuels from the Persian Gulf pull into European ports, the scale of what is about to hit seems to be dawning on the continent’s leaders.

“I’m living with the reality of this war and its consequences 24 hours a day,” Italian Defense Minister Guido Crosetto told the La Repubblica newspaper. “I’m forced to know things that don’t let me sleep.” The conflict could last “years,” Christine Lagarde, the president of the European Central Bank, warned in an interview with the Economist last week. The long-term effects, she added, are “probably beyond what we can imagine at the moment.”

The war in Iran is not their problem–their own refusal to develop their own fossil fuel resources is their problem. Thank God for President Trump and his American energy independence agenda! We can help them out, but we can’t do everything for them.

Avoiding Ground Troops

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On Tuesday, Breitbart posted an article about a recent bombing attack on Iran.

The article reports:

The recent massive U.S. strike near Iran’s central city of Isfahan likely sought to render Tehran’s remaining highly enriched uranium stockpile inaccessible by burying it deep underground — a strategy that would negate the need for a prolonged and risky U.S. ground operation to extract the material, according to an Israeli military analyst writing Tuesday.

Writing in Ynet on Tuesday, Israeli military analyst Ron Ben-Yishai — a veteran Yediot Ahronot correspondent and Israel Prize recipient — assessed that the strike reflects a deliberate U.S. effort to neutralize Iran’s enriched uranium stockpile by entombing it beneath rock, soil, and collapsed tunnel infrastructure rather than attempting to remove it by force.

The article notes:

Ben-Yishai said recent discussions had centered on two possible ways of addressing the stockpile: a ground operation to extract it from Iran or a negotiated arrangement under which Tehran would transfer it abroad.

He suggested the first option would be extraordinarily difficult.

A ground operation, he wrote, would likely require more than 1,000 troops, the establishment of airstrips at sites such as Natanz and Isfahan to sustain the force, and heavy engineering equipment capable of opening sealed tunnels — all while exposing U.S. personnel to casualties and requiring a sustained American military presence inside Iran.

The alternative, he argued, is to neutralize the uranium by burying it so thoroughly that Iran would need at least a year to locate and recover it, buying the United States and Israel time to detect and disrupt any such effort.

In Ben-Yishai’s telling, that appears to be the course Washington chose.

“It can be assessed with reasonable confidence,” he wrote, that the United States opted to bury the material rather than attempt a ground extraction or rely on Iranian cooperation. He said U.S. forces struck the area surrounding the uranium storage site at Natanz in March and likely carried out a similar operation overnight in Isfahan.

The article concludes:

Most importantly, Ben-Yishai wrote, U.S. operational activity points to a decision to bury the enriched material rather than undertake the kind of prolonged ground mission that would have required a sustained American military presence on Iranian soil.

That, he suggested, may be precisely why Trump chose to publicize the footage.

Trump has also suggested the broader campaign may be nearing its conclusion, saying Tuesday the United States is “ahead of schedule” and has largely eliminated Iran’s military capabilities, adding in separate remarks that “we won’t have to be there much longer” as U.S. forces continue targeting what remains of Tehran’s offensive infrastructure.

I don’t want to see  American ground troops in Iran. Hopefully we can destroy enough of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard and police force to allow the Iranians to take back their country. I have no idea who the next leader of Iran should be, but it needs to be someone who promotes freedom for everyone.

Why Are We In NATO?

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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was founded on 4 April 1949. Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom and the United States signed the treaty. Since its founding, Greece, West Germany, Turkey, Spain, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Albania, Croatia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Finland and Sweden have joined. Since its founding, no country has left the organization.

On April 1, The Conservative Treehouse posted an article about NATO’s current actions.

The article reports:

The U.S. supports our NATO posture in Europe in part because it provides us with strategic military bases and operations that are considered vital to our national interests. However, as outlined in the Iran conflict, when we need to use those strategic bases the NATO member states withdraw previous permissions. France has blocked us from flying over their airspace, Spain and Italy have said the U.S. cannot use our military bases on their soil for operations. The U.K has refused to protect and/or escort their own energy assets.

The NATO membership is now a one-way street where they demand our military protection, but Europe blocks us from using our own military assets for our independent operations.

Europe, while hiding behind the NATO protection skirt of the U.S, is simultaneously telling the U.S. what we can and cannot do with our own military. Secretary Rubio and President Trump are now confronting this very visible one-way benefit head on.

The article includes the following video:

America has been protecting Europe since World War II. Our military bases there boost the local economies. The decision of some of the NATO counties to deny the use of bases in their countries to deal with the threat of Iran makes it very hard to justify our continued membership in the organization. I think Europe needs to understand the threat posed to them by Iran (if Iran’s missiles can reach Diego Garcia, they can reach Europe) and help with the war effort. Europe is much more dependent on the Strait of Hormuz for its oil than America is. It’s time for the NATO nations to step up to the plate. Otherwise, why should America be a member?

Protecting The First Amendement

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On Tuesday, The Daily Signal posted an article about a recent Supreme Court case involving free speech.

The article reports:

The Supreme Court held in an 8-1 ruling on Tuesday that a Colorado ban on “conversion therapy” for counselors unlawfully regulates speech and is viewpoint discrimination. 

Justice Neil Gorsuch, a President Donald Trump appointee, issued the majority opinion. Justices Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor—both appointees of President Barack Obama—issued concurring opinions. 

Only Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson—an appointee of President Joe Biden—dissented. 

The Chiles v. Salazar case involved a challenge to a Colorado law that allows licensed counselors to address issues of sexuality and gender only from the state’s approved perspective. 

Kaley Chiles, a Christian licensed counselor in Colorado Springs, used what is called “talk therapy” with patients who voluntarily sought her help. These included minors who said they struggled with issues related to sexuality and gender, and who wanted their behavior to be in accordance with their sex and their religious faith.

In the majority opinion, Gorsuch wrote the state law “prescribes what views she [Chiles] may and may not express.”

“As applied to Ms. Chiles, Colorado’s law regulates the content of her speech and goes further to prescribe what views she may and may not express, discriminating on the basis of viewpoint,” Gorsuch wrote in the majority opinion.

The article concludes:

The opinion stated that the government cannot label speech as conduct, as in Chiles’ case it constituted treatment. The opinion added that the “First Amendment is no word game.”

“The fact that the state’s viewpoint regulation falls only on licensed health care professionals does not change the equation,” Gorsuch wrote.

This case deals with an attack on counselors who hold a Biblical worldview on sexuality. In many cases homosexuality can be related to childhood trauma or family dysfunction. If a homosexual person wants to leave that lifestyle, they should be free to find a counselor who will help them along that journey. If an adolescent is confused about their gender identify and his parents want to find a counselor who will help them walk through adolescence with the gender he was born with, the parents should be free to find that counselor. Some of the things counselors are telling our teenage children are not helpful in the long run.

The Truth Is Seeping Out

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On Monday, Just the News posted an article about the lawfare used against President Trump. I need to mention that Just the News is one of the few news sites right now that is doing unbiased investigative reporting.

The article reports:

What did he know and when did he know it? That’s a question former Biden Attorney General Merrick Garland may soon face as the size and scope of Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith’s dragnet to criminally prosecute Donald Trump comes into fuller focus.

Evidence released in the past week by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley shows Smith’s team prepared a briefing memo in January 2023 – as the presidential race between then-President Joe Biden and Trump was heating up – which alerted Garland that prosecutors were obtaining the communications of as many as a dozen Trump private lawyers and allies and Congress. 

The memo made clear that those gatherings were being done despite legitimate claims the lawyers and members of Congress may have for attorney-client and Debate and Speech Clause privileges. 

The “AG BRIEFING” document by Smith’s office – dated Jan. 13, 2023 – provided Garland and his office with deep insights into the anti-Trump special counsel’s ongoing inquiry, and its future plans.

The documents were released this month by Grassley, an Iowa Republican, in coordination with Wisconsin GOP Sen. Ron Johnson, chairman of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, and Texas GOP Sen. Ted Cruz, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Federal Courts.

Garland’s intimate knowledge of Smith’s inquiry comes as little surprise. 

Recent evidence also shows that Garland, then-Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco, and then-FBI Director Christopher Wray signed off on the launch of the so-called “Arctic Frost” inquiry into Trump related to the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot. 

Garland also said he “personally approved the decision to seek a search warrant” for the FBI’s unprecedented raid of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in 2022. The Biden White House was also directly linked to the classified documents investigation into Trump, despite its denials, records show.

Jack Smith does not have a great track record–his case against the former Republican governor of Virginia, Bob McDonnell was overturned by the Supreme Court 8-0. How often does the Supreme Court agree on anything?

Please follow the link to read the entire article. It is becoming clear that the government was weaponized against President Trump. The people responsible need to go to jail.

Why Was This Woman Not In Jail?

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On Tuesday, Townhall reported that a pregnant Charlotte, North Carolina, woman was stabbed while taking her child out of the car in the Harris Teeter parking lot.

The article reports:

The victim said she had never seen the woman before and had no idea why she was attacked, but she and her unborn child are okay.

That attacker was identified as Marvina Hardy, who was arrested in Florida with the assistance of the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division, Florida Highway Patrol, and Florida law enforcement.

…It turns out Hardy has a lengthy criminal record with dozens of prior arrests and charges.

…Hardy, who also goes by Marvina Hardy-Butler, is in custody in Flagler County, Florida, awaiting extradition to North Carolina.

The article includes the following X Post:

Part of our crime problem in America is illegal immigrants, but another major part of our crime problem is judges and laws that allow repeat offenders back out on the streets where they can continue to break the law.