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ID To Buy Groceries But Not To Vote

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On Monday, Red State posted an article about New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s proposed grocery stores. Initially the grocery stores were to require identification to prove you were a New York resident, but evidently that has changed (possibly due to public reaction–needing an ID to buy groceries but not to vote was a bridge too far).

On Monday, The New York Post reported:

Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s promised city-owned grocery stores won’t require ID from shoppers, his administration confirmed Monday — allowing non-New Yorkers to take advantage of the discounted goods.

The five planned taxpayer-subsidized stores — which are set to sell a “core basket of goods” at 30% below retail prices — will offer a free, voluntary membership card program, though documents show it will not require a residency check.

Mamdani administration officials revealed the membership program last week when facing questions from reporters about how they’d stop bad actors from buying in bulk and taking advantage of the deals on offer.

Red State notes:

Now, if you’re like Marty McFly and you’re saying “I’ve seen this one, this is classic!” that’s because government-run stores used to be a thing. 

Way back in the Soviet Union. If you missed that one because you went to a government-run school, you’re in luck.

Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev provided an iconic moment in Cold War history when his first encounter with an American grocery store was a jolting experience.

That’s because communist-run grocery stores were nearly barren of basic foodstuffs due to the inability of the state planners to manage supply and demand.

A few years later, this scene was recreated when Soviet cosmonaut Gherman Titov toured a San Francisco Safeway.

We could place bets on how long it will take the city-run grocery store to fail and how much it will eventually cost New York City taxpayers. The sad part of this is that the prices in the store will undercut the local merchants and drive them out of business. Eventually there will be no grocery stores in New York City. Unfortunately, Mayor Mamdani does not understand or chooses not to understand the free market.

I’m Not In Favor Of Vigilante Justice, But…

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On Sunday, Red State posted an article about one of Israel’s responses to the attacks of October 7, 2023.

The article reports:

In the aftermath of the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre that left 11 Israeli coaches and athletes dead at the hands of Black September terrorists (bonus question: the Palestinians and which other nation were involved in “Black September?”), Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir unleashed Operation Spring of Youth, a raid on Palestine Liberation Organization camps in Lebanon that killed over 50 terrorists. She also went after the Munich massacre organizers. Operation Wrath of God unleashed Mossad hit squads on Black September terrorists cowering in Europe, under the illusion they were safe there. This operation continued until its final hit on February 14, 1988, in Cyprus. Between nine and 11 key Munich planners and facilitators were ultimately killed, with slop-over from the targeted hits bringing the score to around 20. The operation was marred by the Lillehammer Affair where the wrong guy was killed, but as Napoleon said, you can’t make an omelet without whacking Arabs…I mean breaking eggs.

Many years ago, I had the privilege of meeting a member of the 1972 Israeli Olympic Fencing Team who was not killed in the massacre and hearing his story. There were a few members of the team that were not taken to the airport, and they survived. They spent the rest of their lives caring for the wives and children who were left behind.

The article notes:

According to Israeli media, Israel has killed no fewer than 2,561 of the around 3,000 terrorists who crossed from Gaza into Israel on October 7. About 1,000 of these were killed in traditional combat with the IDF. The remainder got their one-way trip to Hell courtesy of a secretive unit called Nili. Nili was formed shortly after the October 7 attack and given the mission of tracking down every single terrorist who invaded Israel on October 7. The name Nili is an acronym for a biblical phrase (1 Samuel 15:29) that translates as “the Eternal One of Israel will not lie.” It is composed of elements of Shin Bet, Israel’s internal security and counterintelligence service, which operates directly under the Prime Minister, and the Israel Defense Forces. 

I am not a fan of vigilant justice, but where would Israel go to hold those responsible for October 7th accountable? The United Nations only recently fired the members of UNRWA that were involved in the attack–fired–nothing more. The United Nations has always been more likely to condemn Israel for responding to an attack than to condemn the attacker. The World Court is not any better. Sadly, Israel is the only country likely to hold terrorists accountable when they attack Israel.

Good News From Colorado

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On Monday, Red State posted an article about the release of Tina Peters from prison in Colorado.

The article reports:

Tina Peters is free.

The 70-year-old former Colorado elections clerk was released Monday following Gov. Jared Polis’ May commutation of her nine-year sentence on felony charges for her role in breaching the county’s election voting systems and equipment in 2021. She was concerned that there were irregularities in the 2020 presidential election, where Joe Biden received a mind-bending 81 million votes despite campaigning mostly from his basement.

…Although the mainstream media constantly refers to her as an “election denier,” and many Democrats portray her as the personification of evil, it was nice to see a Dem actually speaking up for free speech and against prosecutorial overreach:

In an interview with 9NEWS’ Kyle Clark, Polis said he commuted Peters’ sentence because he felt she was oversentenced for expressing inaccurate, but constitutionally protected views.

“She committed a crime. What’s an issue here is how long the sentence is,” Polis said. “I agree with the appeals court that in the sentencing hearing, the judge incorrectly looked at and considered her bizarre viewpoints, her speech, and held her speech against her.”

According to a Just the News article from November 2021:

Peters said in August at a news conference, “The Mesa County Clerk and Recorder’s office directed her staff to turn off the video surveillance of the voting equipment,” CBS 4 Denver reported.

Peters explained that she had copied files on the voting machines for security before the update was made.

“I was concerned they were going to delete important election files, I did a backup image before and after they did that,” Peters told the news outlet.

She alleges that the images showed numerous voter files were removed during the update and her job was to supervise the files.

In October, Peters was prohibited by a Mesa County judge from overseeing the county’s election in a ruling on a lawsuit filed by Griswold, according to Colorado Politics.

I don’t know if the corruption Tina Peters exposed will ever be dealt with, but at least she is free.

Yes, Iran Was Very Near To Having Ten Nuclear Bombs

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On Monday, Red State posted an article about a “60 Minutes” report that confirms the risk of continuing to negotiate with Iran without eliminating its nuclear program.

The article reports:

We heard a lot from the Democrats and media when the Trump administration launched Operation Epic Fury, arguing that there was no real threat. 

Now, there’s a story from “60 Minutes” that actually points to how real the threat was because of the concern about the highly enriched uranium (HEU).

60 Minutes posted on X:

It’s believed Iran currently has enough HEU to eventually make 10 atomic bombs. But international inspectors have not been allowed to verify Iran’s stockpile since last June, when the U.S. and Israel struck three nuclear sites.

The article notes:

Dr. Matthew Bunn, a Harvard Kennedy School professor and former White House nuclear advisor, said that almost 1000 pounds would be “enough material, if you enrich it just a little bit more, for 10-11 nuclear bombs.” 

He also explained how “Iran has been lying about its nuclear weapons effort for over 20 years now.” He said their claim that they weren’t working on pursuing a weapon was a lie. 

…Now, the “60 Minutes” story speaks about a prior operation to secure HEU in Kazakhstan. It seemed to be pushing the merits of cooperation to secure it, versus a military operation. That’s all well and good if you have a cooperative or trustworthy country, which you don’t in Iran. They had on Vice Admiral Robert Harward, who was a deputy commander of U.S. Central Command. He said that if you tried to seize it, it could take weeks and take a lot of personnel on the ground. 

But it would be a lot more challenging, one would think, if you just let it go unchecked, didn’t deal with the problem, and the unhinged regime with the terrorist proxies used it. 

Iran wants nuclear weapons in order to insure that the current regime stays in power. They have seen what  has happened to some dictatorships who don’t have nuclear power. I seriously doubt anything acceptable will come from the current negotiations–the Iranian Republican Guard and the political types can’t even agree on their talking points.

Removing Things American Drivers Hate

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On Wednesday, Red State posted an article about the automatic start-stop technology in vehicles installed during the Obama administration. The feature is annoying at best. The technology gives me flashbacks of my high school days when I was driving a 1954 Lincoln Capri with a carburetor problem. The best way to get the car to idle properly was to open up the hood and put a board in to warm it up while the board held something down and even then you couldn’t be sure it wouldn’t stall out when you stopped.

The article reports:

The Trump administration is eliminating Obama-era off-cycle credits that incentivized automakers to install automatic start-stop technology in vehicles, effectively killing what many drivers consider one of the most annoying features of newer models.

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin highlighted the victory on Wednesday — building on the February repeal of the 2009 Endangerment Finding — while sharing a Wall Street Journal article highlighting drivers celebrating ‘the demise of the most hated feature in their cars.’

Zeldin mocked the technology as an Obama administration climate zealot “participation trophy.”

“The start/stop concept in vehicles is almost universally DESPISED. So, the Trump EPA has now REMOVED the ridiculous climate participation trophy the Obama Admin created to get this hated feature installed,” he wrote on X. “The incentives for manufacturers to make your car die at every red light and stop sign have now been ELIMINATED!”

The Journal reports that a significant percentage — 58 percent — of new gasoline non-hybrid cars had these universally despised systems installed by 2024.

Why were these systems installed?

In October 2012, the Obama EPA finalized the “2017 and Later Model Year Light-Duty Vehicle Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Corporate Average Fuel Economy Standards” rule. 

As part of that package, the agency created “off-cycle credits” — a regulatory incentive that allowed automakers to earn compliance points toward stricter GHG emissions standards by installing certain fuel-saving technologies. Automatic engine start-stop systems were explicitly eligible for these credits. 

Adoption by manufacturers rose sharply after those credits kicked in, from less than 1% of new gasoline non-hybrid models in 2012 to the aforementioned 58% in 2024.

Never mind that real-world fuel savings proved modest and inconsistent at best — many studies showed only marginal gains in typical driving, especially once frustrated owners simply turned the system off or dealt with the annoying restarts.

In a 2011 White House press release, the administration touted the upcoming fuel economy standards, saying they should “spur manufacturers to increasingly explore electric technologies such as start/stop, hybrids, plug-in hybrids, and electric vehicles.”

They should have explored it, realized nobody liked it, and killed it with fire. 

Fortunately, Zeldin and the EPA are doing just that. Figuratively, of course.

No more forcing gimmicks on the public under the guise of environmental virtue.

Thank God my husband’s car has an easily accessible switch that turns this feature off. My current car is, thankfully, too old to have this feature!

The Laffer Curve At Work

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This is the Laffer Curve:

The Laffer Curve is being illustrated in America as blue states increase their taxes, their population leaves, and red states who are reducing their taxes are gaining population.

On Wednesday, Red State reported:

Blue states are pushing new taxes on high earners as billions in income and thousands of taxpayers move to red states.

In California, New York, Washington, and Michigan, lawmakers are advancing proposals and ballot efforts aimed at top earners. Washington is advancing a tax on income over $1 million, while California is pushing a tax on billionaire net worth. Other states are weighing similar plans, including taxes on residents who leave and widening the scope of income taxation.

IRS migration data from 2022-2023 shows California lost nearly $12 billion in taxable income in a single year, while New York lost $9.9 billion. Florida gained $20.5 billion, and Texas gained $5.5 billion as taxpayers moved and took their income with them.

California lost roughly 230,000 residents over the same period, while lower-tax states gained both population and income at the same time.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) acknowledged the shift, as RedState previously reported:

“Maybe the first step should be go down to Palm Beach and see who you can bring back home because our tax base has been eroded.”

These proposals assume high earners will stay and absorb higher rates. The migration data shows otherwise.

JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon has warned about New York’s tax structure:

“New York City has much going for it… but it also has the highest city and state corporate taxes and the highest individual income taxes.” 

Business leaders have been warning about this shift for years, pointing to rising costs, regulatory pressure, and tax burdens that make long-term investment harder to justify in high-tax states compared to lower-cost alternatives, especially as relocation becomes easier for both individuals and corporations.

The article concludes:

Those taxpayers contribute more than income tax revenue. They invest, build companies, hire workers, and drive the economic activity that state budgets depend on. When they leave, the loss does not stay at the top. It spreads across the tax base.

That creates another problem. Budgets built around a shrinking group become harder to sustain, yet the response has often been to raise rates further or expand who gets taxed as the base narrows.

Higher rates aren’t capturing that revenue. They’re driving it out.

A smart businessman will operate his business in the place with the lowest overhead. Taxes are part of that overhead. Businessmen do not become successful by being stupid.

The Law Of Unintended Consequences In Action

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On Wednesday, Red State posted an article about an unanticipated waste problem in America.

The article reports:

America has a quickly growing waste problem. I’m talking about how to dispose of or treat the vast, rapidly increasing amount of waste tied to the wind and solar energy, which the federal and various state governments have obsessed over, subsidized, and mandated.

…Many wind turbines and solar panels are nearing the end of their useful life, or have already been replaced early, as new, more efficient panels and more powerful turbines become available. In addition, emergency situations are causing further waste, such as hailstorm damage in Texas in 2024. More recently, damage in Indiana and Illinois, where vast industrial solar facilities were destroyed by storms, including hail and tornadoes, took the facilities offline and created a clean-up problem. Nearby residents and communities have expressed concern about potentially toxic chemicals leaching from the shattered panels.

Recycling solar panels is challenging and expensive. It costs $30 to recycle a solar panel, to recover between $3 and $8 worth of minerals, metal, and glass. By contrast, it costs approximately $1 per panel to ship used panels to a landfill, and slightly more to ship inefficient used panels for reuse in developing countries overseas, shifting the waste problems elsewhere.

Because of the economics, less than one in 10 solar panels is recycled. With millions more panels being installed each year, the problem is growing, as was recently recognized in studies published by the London School of Economics in the Harvard Business Review (HBR).

How can it be considered green energy when it leaves such a mess?

The article concludes:

Closing landfills early because there is no more room in the pit or pile is expensive, requiring communities to find new landfills or other ways to dispose of waste. Setting aside so much space in public landfills is making less sense to local governments.

That has led wind and solar profiteers to a different “solution,” piling up decommissioned turbines and solar panels on open land. Thousands of acres are covered by turbines and panels left to decompose over time, with unknown environmental impact, on land useful for purposes other than wind and solar junkyards. This controversial practice has resulted in an increasing number of state and local governments imposing restrictions on the renewable energy industry’s growing number of unregulated piles of unsightly, chemical-laced waste.

The LSE article and the HBR analysis identify the problem, but their solution, forcing wind and solar companies to take back and recycle all their waste, is economically and politically unrealistic. It doesn’t make recycling cheaper, and the costs borne by the companies will simply be passed onto ratepayers and the public. This will make the energy affordability crisis Americans are rightly incensed about even worse. Making rising power bills even more expensive is not a winning electoral message for politicians, I suspect.

Government subsidies and mandates created the renewable waste problem. The solution is not more expensive, misguided government mandates or subsidies, but ending wind and solar incentives and mandates, which are responsible for the huge waste stream.

As of now, the current state of green energy is not green.

Working Together To Protect The Strait Of Hormuz

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On Sunday, Red State posted an article about the plans to keep the Strait of Hormuz open.

The article reports:

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte appeared on “Face the Nation” to talk about the Strait of Hormuz and the threats from Iran.

Rutte explained that the good news was that 22 countries were coming together to make sure that the Strait of Hormuz was free. He explained they’d always gotten things achieved before, as when President Donald Trump had gotten things like the NATO allies to pay their 5 percent share, which helped to provide for greater defense. He said he was “absolutely convinced” they could do the job when it came to Iran.

Most of the 22 are NATO countries. Others involved also included Japan, Korea, Australia, New Zealand, the United Arab Emirates, and Bahrain. “So we are now planning the military people and others amongst this group of 22 nations and with the U.S.,” Rutte said.

…Rutte followed Waltz (U.N. Ambassador Mike Waltz) and spoke about Iran targeting Diego Garcia with two intermediate-range ballistic missiles (IRBM). The targeting of an island 2,500 miles away from Iran suggested that they could potentially hit European capitals and U.S. bases in Europe. Iran had previously denied having such capability, but Trump warned they had it.

The article concludes:

Rutte said they were looking at the facts to confirm the capability, but he said if this was true, that was more evidence that Trump’s decision to take out Iran’s ballistic missile capability and the nuclear capability was “crucial.” He explained that if Iran had the missile and nuclear capability, that would be an “existential threat” to everyone in the region and the stability of the world.

“I really hope the American people will be with him because he’s doing this to make the whole world safer,” Rutte said. That part really ticked off some Europeans on social media when he took up for Trump and said he was right. But Rutte has shown in the past he’s not afraid to stick up for what Trump is trying to achieve, just as he did when Trump was trying to get other NATO nations to pay their share of the defense costs.

Because of President Trump’s energy policies, American oil does not depend on the Strait of Hormuz. It is an indication of America’s generosity that it is willing to help the countries that are dependent on the Strait put together a coalition to keep the Strait open.

Seems A Little Ungrateful

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It is very disheartening to some Americans that when the members of the  North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) were asked to help secure the Strait of Hormuz they seemed disinterested. America has been the main funder and defender of NATO since it was formed, and the lack of support for America in ending Iranian terrorism was disappointing. However, things happen, and NATO members seem to be changing their tune.

On Wednesday, Red State reported:

As we reported, President Donald Trump asked our NATO allies and others to help contribute to a coalition of escort ships to help ensure safe passage in the Strait of Hormuz.

But he was rebuffed by some of the NATO allies, like Germany, who said that they didn’t start the military action, so why should they be involved? These are some of the same folks who thought the United States should pay endlessly for Ukraine, despite that not being “our war.’

They had a bit of a karmic wake-up call when the hotel where their European Union Advisory Mission is housed was hit by an Iran-backed drone in Baghdad.

But now Trump is also calling their bluff, because the bottom line is that the U.S. ships very little through the Strait — it’s far more important to others. So Trump posted on Truth Social that if allies want to play the weak-kneed weasel game, maybe the U.S. should just not provide any escorts, and just let the countries that use it be responsible for it.

The article notes:

“I have been in contact with many allies,” Rutte (NATO SecGen Mark Rutte) said during a NATO exercise in Norway.

“We all agree, of course, that Strait has to open up again. And what I know is that allies are working together, discussing how to do that, what is the best way to do it. They’re working on that collectively to find a way forward.”

Rutte also explained the ballistic missile and nuclear capability had been “severely degraded.”

Gee, what happened to “We didn’t start it”? Sounds like Trump shamed them into movement. Rutte gets Trump, so he knows they have to pony up.

Others are showing up some of our European allies. As we reported, India is providing warships to protect their own ships; it is one of the biggest shippers through the Strait, along with China.

…The United Arab Emirates may join a U.S.-led effort to protect shipping in the Strait of Hormuz after Iran all but shut the vital waterway to ships as Tehran wages war with Israel and ‌the United States, a senior Emirati official said on Tuesday.

Anwar Gargash, the diplomatic adviser to the UAE president, said talks were ongoing and no formal plan had been agreed, but that “big countries” in Asia, the Middle East, and Europe bore responsibility for ensuring the flow of trade and energy.

Iran has made a number of strategic mistakes during this war. One of those mistakes was attacking their neighbors who were attempting to remain neutral. I see good things in the future for the people of Iran, but not so good things in the future for the current leaders of Iran.

Will This Impact The Midterm Elections?

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The government has been partially shut down for about a month now. The place that shutdown has been very obvious and very detrimental to traveling Americans is at airport security lines. The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is currently working without pay as is the Department of Homeland Security which oversees the TSA. It’s not a good idea to have an unfunded Department of Homeland Security during a war with a country that has a reputation for terrorism.

On Sunday, Red State reported:

The partial Shutdown of the government has now been going on for almost a month as Democrats refuse to budge on their demands for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement reforms. Although ICE is fully funded due to the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, other departments like the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) are not, leaving the nation at risk of attack and creating travel nightmares at the airports.

On Sunday, Airlines for America posted the following on X:

I realize the fine print is hard to read, but basically the letter representing the largest U.S. passenger and cargo carriers stresses the importance of paying federal aviation workers, including TSA officers, U.S. Customs clearance officers and air traffic controllers, during government shutdowns.

The article notes:

Although the Democrats are trying to paint the partial shutdown as a cause of Republican intransigence, the fault lies squarely at their feet. With their not ready for prime time demands, they’re acting like they won the House, the Senate, and the Oval Office in 2024 — but they lost all three.

As former President Barack Obama snottily told GOP lawmakers in 2009, soon after taking office, “elections have consequences.” Instead of remembering that maxim, the Dems are acting like children who didn’t get their way and took the ball home. It would just be political theater, but in this case, it’s directly endangering Americans, as we’ve experienced multiple terror attacks since U.S. operations against Iran commenced.

To kneecap the Department of Homeland Security at this time over disputes about one specific department is a dereliction of duty.

The CEOs continued, saying that this kind of gamesmanship should never occur again when it comes to air travel…

The article concludes:

The GOP should remind voters of the Democrats’ shenanigans every single day until November 3.

I agree.

With Friends Like These…

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It has long been understood that the purpose of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) was to bring American military might into the picture if Europe was attacked. There really wasn’t much point in bringing European military might into the picture if America was attacked because Europe doesn’t have a lot of military might. So America was the big brother ready to fight off the bully. Under President Trump, European nations have done better at paying their share of their defense, but generally America has footed the bill. You would think that they might appreciate the protection. Obviously, they do not.

On March 6th, Red State reported:

Does being an European “ally” of America even mean anything anymore? That’s a valid question after several NATO nations not only initially denied the use of their military bases during Operation Epic Fury, the ongoing attack on Iran, but also offered tacit support for the Islamic regime.

The article includes an X post that includes a statement from Spain’s Prime Minister:

Spain’s far-left Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez on the US and Israel military operation in Iran: “Today more than ever, it is essential to remember that one can be against a hateful regime and at the same time be against an unjustified, dangerous military intervention outside of international law. […] That is where Spain will be, and that is where I believe the whole of the European Union should be.”

The article notes:

Given Spain’s history over the last century or so, it wasn’t exactly surprising that they’d take the side of Islamic fascists over the country that pays for their defense. The Western European country once again fell woefully short of its NATO spending requirements in 2025 while continuing to expand its welfare state, a dynamic that has been allowed to exist for far too long.

You’d expect better from the United Kingdom, though. Well, at least up until fairly recently. After all, the Brits are supposedly America’s closest, most reliable ally. Yet, in a stunning move, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer denied the use of his country’s military bases for logistical support. Further, he refused to mobilize any forces for defensive operations in the weeks before Iran’s missile and drone barrages began.

That proved disastrous, with several Gulf allies lambasting Starmer for hanging them out to dry, even as hundreds of thousands of British nationals were coming under attack.

The article concludes:

I’m going to be frank. The United States can not have a “closest ally” that can’t even be counted on to provide defensive support from ballistic missiles because they are too busy arguing over the finer points of something as irrelevant as “international law.” At no point did the Trump administration ask Starmer to participate in the offensive attacks on Iran. All that was requested was help in suppressing the Islamic regime’s attacks on civilians. That the UK didn’t immediately oblige and instead spent days playing politics, even as the missiles fell, is a damning indictment of a once special relationship. 

Never mind that the Brits have allowed their once world-leading navy to waste away into a mostly dry-docked, ineffectual fleet. To the extent that they could even launch defensive assets, such as destroyers with anti-ballistic missile systems, that ability remains severely restricted. 

This isn’t complicated, in my view. If you’re a NATO nation that suckles at the teat of the American taxpayer for your defense needs while you blow all your money on social programs, there should be an expectation that you do the bare minimum when we ask for assistance. If that’s not going to happen, then it’s time to start reassessing some of these alliances. 

Western civilization is on its deathbed in Europe and England.

Looking At The Big Picture

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Despite what his enemies tell us, President Trump is a very smart man. The backing of the Israeli attack on Iran is a major step toward American national security because of its impact on China’s fuel supply. President Trump may have just prevented an Chinese attack on Taiwan.

On March 3, Red State reported:

President Donald Trump’s latest attack on Iran takes a big economic bite out of one of America’s chief rivals: China.

Over the span of two months, the Trump administration has removed the leaders of two countries that both shared China as their most important crude oil customer. Although China buys oil from nations all across the Middle East, Iran was second only to Saudi Arabia as its supplier last year, according to a POLITICO analysis of data provided by market research firm Kpler.

Almost all of Iran’s exported oil, and more than half of Venezuela’s, went last year to China, which remained one of the only purchasers of goods from the two heavily sanctioned nations. The two countries combined represented some 17 percent of China’s overall oil purchases — a meaningful share for the world’s largest importer of crude oil.

The Chinese Foreign Ministry on Saturday said it was “highly concerned” by the attacks on Iran and called for an end to the war. The squeeze on China’s energy supply also comes just weeks before Trump is slated to hold a summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping.

…Iran has a single use beyond supplying cut-rate oil to China’s economy, that is to provide a distraction to the U.S. Iranian operations effectively handed us defeats in two wars. Iranian explosive-formed penetrators killed hundreds of American soldiers and Marines. Iran’s sponsorship of Lebanese Hezbollah and the Houthis has created conflict and disrupted international trade. In case of a real war, a nuclear-armed Iran could create a massive distraction to any U.S. effort in the Indo-Pacific and put the Suez Canal as well as Gulf oil fields at risk.

We are in the early stage of a rollback of Chinese influence. From an oil perspective, Venezuela and Iran account for 17 percent of China’s oil imports. Not much you say. Making up that oil volume at below-market rates is difficult. Add to that the fact that the supply of Russian oil smuggled by “dark fleet” tankers is also coming to an end. President Trump and India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi have agreed that India will stop buying bootleg Russian oil. In fact, only three weeks ago, India seized a tanker carrying Russian oil; Indian Coast Guard Seizes Three Sanctioned ‘Dark Fleet’ Tankers Carrying Illegal Iranian Oil…to India – RedState. This has caused a significant disruption in the supply of Russian oil to China.

Please follow the link above to read the entire article. The implications of the fall of the current government of Iran are wide-ranging.

I Guess Beauty Is In The Eyes Of The Beholder

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On Tuesday, Red State posted an article about the ongoing construction of President Obama’s Presidential Library. It truly is an eyesore.

The article reports:

The Obama Presidential Center has taken plenty of heat, mostly because it’s one of the ugliest buildings humanity has ever produced. Soviet architects would be in awe of the brutalist, menacing design of the $850 million ode to the 44th president.

But what some have termed a “Klingon prison” just got weirder and, if possible, less attractive with the addition of a colossal display on its sides with words from the former president’s 2015 speech in Selma, Alabama. It might be inspiring — if you could actually read it:

The article includes the following:

The article continues:

“Not the ideal design.” Well, that’s certainly a contestant for understatement of the year. “I gave up after developing a headache three lines from the top,” one commenter noted.

It’s not a traditional presidential library — the physical archives won’t even be stored there, as is usually the case. Instead, the National Archives will manage them off-site and make digital versions available to the public. Its real purpose is to act as some sort of monumental community organizing project.

One person posted the following on X:

The Library is expected to open in June.

Just Say “No”

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On January 16th, Red State posted an article about the ongoing negotiations between the U.S. and Iran. Iran is feeling the impact of the sanctions imposed by the Trump administration and is looking for relief.

The article reports:

Iran is now signaling a desire to play “Let’s Make a Deal” with the United States, acknowledging that they will “discuss” their nuclear ambitions of the United States eases back on sanctions. Bear in mind, this is the largest state sponsor of Islamic terrorism in the world, here, trying to get America to back off.

The New York Post reports:

Iran is prepared to “discuss” its nuclear program if the US is ready to lift some of its crippling sanctions on the regime in exchange, the country’s deputy foreign minister said over the weekend.

Majid Takht-Ravanchi, Tehran’s deputy foreign minister, argued that the ball is “in America’s court to prove that they want to do a deal” and predicted the two sides will make progress if the US is sincere.

“We are ready to discuss this and other issues related to our program if they are ready to talk about sanctions,” Takht-Ravanchi told the BBC Sunday.

Takht-Ravanchi didn’t specify how much relief Iran would expect in order to make concessions on its atomic program.

The article concludes:

These people cannot be trusted. Any deal they agree to isn’t worth the paper it is printed on. Iran has been a blight on the planet for far too long, and the Iranian people, the ones who have been in the streets demanding change, protesting the mullahs even at the cost of their own lives, deserve better. Over 7,000 Iranians have died in these protests. That loss can’t be for nothing. The mullahs have to go. Iran has to rejoin the community of civilized nations.

We can’t do it for the Iranian people. But we sure can put a steel umbrella over their heads while they get the job done, and President Trump looks to be moving resources to the region to do just that.

If we loosen the sanctions, the Iranian people will never be free. They have to fight for their freedom, but our sanctions can help them in that fight.

Who Votes In America’s Elections?

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On Monday, Red State posted an article about some voting irregularities in California.

The article reports:

Over the weekend a video clip posted by RNC Research of the Sheriff of San Joaquin County saying, “You’re able to register and cast a vote if you don’t live in the country,” and stating that a Pakistani citizen voted in a California election went viral.

Many social media users were wondering if this actually happened and if what he said about the “honor system” of registering to vote online in California is correct; yes, it did, and yes, he’s correct. Shakir Khan, a Pakistani immigrant and now-former city councilman from Lodi, California, was arrested in February, 2023 and charged with 14 felonies related to election fraud. RedState covered the news at that time; the original story can be viewed here. Khan pleaded no contest to those charges in January 2024, but recently made a motion to have that plea set aside and is petitioning the court for mental health diversion.

The article details the story:

  • During a raid of Khan’s home in October 2020 on unrelated charges, officials observed a stash of 41 sealed and completed mail ballots for the 2020 presidential election. Due to CA’s ballot harvesting laws the ballots were not seized, but investigators photographed the ballots and documented their findings.
  • In the fall of 2021, officials noticed 70 people were registered to vote at one address in Lodi, which they recognized as Khan’s.
  • Sheriff’s investigators determined that Khan had used the state’s online voter registration system to re-register existing California voters from other districts to his address, and at least a few non-citizens living in foreign countries (including his brother in Pakistan) to vote using his address, email address, or phone number.
  • Investigators reviewed the ballot return envelopes from ballots cast in the 2020 general election, which had been maintained by the Registrar, and found that many of those tied to Khan’s address all had the same handwriting on the outside.
  • In October 2022, officials found more than a dozen unopened ballots for the mid-term election, none of them addressed to Khan and many not sent to his address, at his home.
  • Officials also found Khan’s nomination form for his city council candidacy, and determined that numerous signatures on it were forged.
  • Khan forced voters whose information he’d hijacked to vote for him and for Joe Biden, either by filling them out himself or threatening the voter.
  • When Khan heard that investigators were speaking to people he’d fraudulently registered to vote, he posted a video to TikTok to threaten and intimidate them.

The article notes:

While both the San Joaquin County Sheriff and the Registrar stated that there were potential federal election laws broken by Mr. Khan, the Biden Department of Justice was completely uninterested in pursuing any charges. And California’s Department of Justice, led by scandal-ridden Attorney General Rob Bonta, has been more focused on preventing Huntington Beach from enacting a voter ID requirement than ensuring that this immigrant population receive justice after being threatened by this thug.

This is the reason we need the SAVE Act!

When Common Sense Takes A Vacation

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Why anyone thought the current technology of electric cars was going to make them practical, I don’t know. There may be a future for electric cars, but the technology will have to improve significantly. The latest example of one of the major problems occurred in Vermont.

On Friday, Red State reported:

Prepare to be shocked, folks! 

Another planet-saving environmental solution foisted on the populace by all-seeing bureaucrats has turned into an expensive failure. The latest boondoggle is playing out in the upper New England area, where once again the “experts” in all things ecological lacked logic. 

A brand new fleet of EV buses, touted energetically last summer, has been brought to a halt in the frigid climes, frozen in place, if you will. This is all because the geniuses behind this globe-preserving mandate were incapable of divining that conditions in the area could quite possibly impact their harp seal-snuggling directives. The manufacturer, Green Mountain Transit of Montpelier, no less, did not anticipate this climate challenge.

It turns out the problem is twofold. The batteries that power these conveyances need temperatures above the 40-degree range to be charged, so naturally, these buses were deemed an ideal solution for the metropolitan region that can go months without cresting that lofty thermal bar. Additionally, these batteries have been found to pose a fire hazard, which could actually be both a problem and a solution in the tundra-like conditions.

As a result, the buses are now snow collection rigs in the parking lot, and the company is cutting routes and trimming schedules, a reality that runs contrary to the company’s tagline of “Getting you where you need to go!” It is just amazing to see a Vermont enterprise being rendered obsolete by Vermont weather. 

The article concludes:

The brilliant emergency solution was to either park the buses inside warehouses with the heat running all night, while the remaining ones had to be parked outside with the engines idling to keep the wondrous gas from turning to gel. So this new required fuel option, designed to save the planet, led to the need to burn twice as much, as well as consuming heating oil for the garages. Somewhere, baby penguin chicks were languishing due to cement-head decisions made by the inflated enviro-egos of these officials.

Part of me wants to sit back and just let these political hippies endure the problems of their own creation, but there exists a pre-pubescent reality with these fiascos – inevitably, we have to bail them out. Sure, it is one thing to let them marinate in their own quagmire, but they always end up needing tax dollars to remedy their failed science experiments. 

Maybe we should deliver to them the studies on greenhouse emissions that result from operating the presses at the National Mint. Maybe then we could say, “Sorry, can’t cut checks for you folks – we are too worried about the impacts on the ozone.” Then they could all concoct a new solution for their city, while they are huddled for warmth around the glow of a battery fire.

Anyone who has ever spent a winter in New England could have seen this coming!

Let’s Talk About The Children

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When Nancy Pelosi was Speaker of the House, we constantly heard about laws that were ‘for the children.’ Actually most of the laws she supported put the children in debt before they were born, but that’s another story. The Trump administration has done a number of things ‘for the children,’ but there is one that is very important.

On Friday, Red State reported:

One of the more horrible aspects of the mass illegal immigration that was allowed to fester under the presidency of Joe Biden and whoever was running the autopen was the number of unaccompanied illegal alien children that went missing. Most estimates place the number at 300,000. Until recently, we didn’t know what had become of those children.

Now, we have nearly half of them back. On Friday, Border Czar Tom “The Hammer” Homan took a few moments off from staring down ICE protestors in Minneapolis to take note of this on his official X account.

On Friday, Tom Homan posted this on X:

This is happening because it is a priority of the Trump administration. It was not a priority during the Biden administration (possibly they were aiding and abetting it). Many of the people that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) is attempting to deport are involved in gang activity, drug smuggling, and child trafficking. They are not the people you want living in your neighborhood. Please consider that when watching the protests.

Who Are We Sharing The Road With?

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On Sunday, Red State posted a story about two truckers who were in America illegally and were smuggling drugs.

The article reports:

Indian illegal alien truck drivers aren’t just killing Americans with their reckless driving; they’re running drugs nationwide, too.

Gupreet Singh of Fresno, CA, and Jasveer Singh of Santa Clara, CA were arrested in Putnam County, Indiana on Saturday on a charge of dealing narcotics after over 300 pounds of cocaine were found in the sleeper berth of the semi tractor-trailer during a routine DOT inspection. Now those both those drugs and the truckers are off the street, and both Mr. Singhs are subject to ICE deportation holds.

…That cocaine is estimated to have a street value of $7 million, and was headed from Joplin, Missouri, to Richmond, Indiana.

According to the Indiana State Police, the investigation and seizure was conducted by a full-time interdiction trooper from the Drug Enforcement Section; ISP Superintendent Anthony Scott said full-time interdiction patrols “work to keep illegal drugs off the road and out of our communities.”

Indiana is also partnering with ICE to keep illegal aliens driving commercial vehicles off the highways. During a joint operation conducted by ISP and ICE last fall in the northwestern part of the state, 223 illegal aliens were arrested, “including 146 truck drivers. Many of those arrested had criminal records such as driving under the influence, assault, child abuse, burglary and drug trafficking, according to the governor’s office.”

It’s great that we caught these two and got them off the streets, but who gave them the drugs to transport? Getting them off the street is helpful, but finding the source of the drugs would be fantastic!

Saving Taxpayers’ Money

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On Friday, Red State posted an article about the closing of the J. Edgar Hoover FBI Headquarters building.

The article reports:

On Friday, FBI Director Kash Patel took to X to announce the official shuttering of the J. Edgar Hoover FBI Headquarters building. Patel first made this announcement in May during an interview on Fox News’ Sunday Morning Futures program with Maria Bartiromo. Since Congress holds the power of the purse to designate what happens with federal buildings, Patel cleared the proper channels in order to finally execute his plan.

The article notes:

December 26: Shutting down the Hoover Building.

After more than 20 years of failed attempts, we finalized a plan to permanently close the FBI’s Hoover headquarters and move the workforce into a safe, modern facility. Working directly with President Trump and Congress, we accomplished what no one else could.

When we arrived, taxpayers were about to be on the hook for nearly $5 billion for a new headquarters that wouldn’t open until 2035. We scrapped that plan. Instead, we selected the already-existing Reagan Building, saving billions and allowing the transition to begin immediately with required safety and infrastructure upgrades already underway. Once complete, most of the HQ FBI workforce will move in, and the rest are continuing in our ongoing push to put more manpower in the field, where they will remain.

This decision puts resources where they belong: defending the homeland, crushing violent crime, and protecting national security. It delivers better tools for today’s FBI workforce at a fraction of the cost.

The Hoover Building will be shut down permanently.

This is what happens when the President is a businessman and a builder. The article also notes that plans are in the works to move much of the FBI personnel to Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, AL. Hopefully, moving a large portion of the FBI out of Washington, D.C., will help the agents and leadership avoid getting tangled up in the deep state.

There Is Rampant Fraud In Government Programs

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We have all been hearing about the fraud in Minnesota–food stamp fraud, college loan fraud, etc., but Minnesota is not an isolated example.

On Thursday, Red State reported (quoting a New York Post article):

The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is investigating whether Colorado providers helped nearly 3,000 people swindle taxpayer money from Uncle Sam, The Post has learned.

The investigation comes after an internal HUD audit found that benefits were granted to 221 dead people, while another 87 were otherwise ineligible.

The department also said that another 2,519 beneficiaries will need to undergo additional verification.

“From deceased tenants to individuals receiving HUD housing benefits who were never supposed to, the Department has questions for HUD-supported housing providers in Colorado, and we expect prompt answers and enforcement action,” a HUD spokesperson told The Post.

The apparent fraud took place in most of the Rocky Mountain State’s 59 public housing agencies (PHAs) and was particularly pronounced in the Denver Housing Authority, a source said.

HUD officials are set to demand PHAs perform additional verification of beneficiaries and remove both deceased tenants and ineligible beneficiaries from their rolls.

The New York Post article states:

HUD has also been scrutinizing other states.

Earlier this week, the Washington Examiner reported that the department plans to dispatch investigators to Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minn., to assess the state of housing programs there.

While the Minneapolis Public Housing Authority spends about $108 million a year on housing assistance, St. Paul only spends $46 million.

HUD’s plans to send staff to Minnesota comes against the backdrop of the $1 billion Feeding Our Future fraud scandal that has roiled the state and follows Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations focused on the Twin Cities.

The article at Red State concludes:

What is it with these blue cities? Something in the water?

It’s more likely that these kinds of things are going on because the fraudsters have gotten away with it doing it for so long. In Colorado, so the housing providers have to pay back any benefits wrongly received. Fine, fine. But what about the people who lied? Who cheated the taxpayers out of billions?

Until there are some publicized trials and prison sentences, this kind of fraud will just keep happening. It looks like some people in Minnesota may be going to jail; that, at least, is a start.

Until we start putting people in orange jumpsuits, the fraud will continue.

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.

A Terrorist Attack Avoided

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On Tuesday, Red State posted an article about a foiled terrorist attack at the University of Delaware.

The article reports:

From the looks of it, this one could have been bad — really bad. Cops stopped a car that was in the park after hours in Wilmington, Delaware, in late November, and when the driver refused to exit the vehicle, officers detained him. What they found next was truly scary:

The article quotes and ABC News Chicago article:

Police searched the Tacoma and found several items inside, including a loaded handgun, extended magazines, body armor, a laptop and binoculars.

They also found a notebook, which allegedly contained notes on warfare techniques, assault plans, and a diagram of the University of Delaware Police Department.

…According to police, the notebook also mentioned a member of the University of Delaware Police Department by name and included a drawing of the department’s building with entry and exit points.

Federal authorities were contacted and searched his home, where they allegedly found a handgun equipped with an illegal “switch” to convert it into a machine gun.

…Within the vehicle, officers discovered a firearm, ammunition, and a composition notebook. In the handwritten notebook, Khan discussed additional weapons and firearms, how they could be used in an attack, and how law enforcement detection could be avoided once an attack was carried out.

The article notes:

The Department of Justice issued a statement saying that Khan faces serious charges:

The criminal complaint charges Khan with possessing a machinegun. If convicted of the charge, Khan faces a maximum penalty of 10 years of imprisonment. If Khan is ultimately convicted, a federal district court judge will determine any sentence after taking into account the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors.

The ongoing investigation is being conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the New Castle County Police Department. Assistant U.S. Attorneys Samuel S. Frey and Kevin P. Pierce, and Criminal Chief Carly A. Hudson, are prosecuting the case.

The article concludes:

It looks like we came close to experiencing another tragic terrorist attack in this country by a seemingly unhinged individual. Great work by the heroes of the New Castle County Police Department, who made sure that didn’t happen.

I hope this individual spends a lot of time as a guest of the federal government.

Preserving American Law

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America is supposed to be a melting pot. It’s not supposed to be a place where a group of people from somewhere else travel here en masse and set up their own little fiefdom with their own laws. We have seen that movie in Europe, and bad things have happened.

On Monday, Red State posted an article about an honor killing in the Netherlands.

The article reports:

In May of 2024, 18-year-old Ryan Al Najjar, a native of Syria, went missing in the Netherlands. Six days after she was reported missing, her body was found in a lake in the northern part of the country. Her hands and feet were bound. That is a horrific enough story by itself, but here is where things go terribly wrong. Al Najjar’s father and brothers are now being prosecuted for her murder and could face up to 25 years in prison. But the worst part was the brothers’ defense of the murder upon being arrested: Honor killings are just “part of their culture.” 

Sadly, the reason for the heinous crime is not new or unheard of. Ryan Al Najjar’s father and brothers believed that her lifestyle was “too Western” and was bringing dishonor on the family. She had refused to wear a veil in public and had posted a TikTok video of herself wearing make-up but no head covering. Authorities believe that her brothers, Mohamed and Muhanad, may have lured her to Rotterdam, where they took her to a secluded location. Her father, Khaled, then joined his sons in Al Najjar’s murder. Dutch prosecutors are seeking a 25-year sentence for Al Najjar’s father, who immediately fled to Syria, and will be tried in absentia, leaving his sons holding the bag for the killing. Both brothers say they were not involved and claim that Khaled carried out the murder alone.

So, how have Europe’s multiculturalism policies, which have allowed millions of Middle Eastern immigrants into European countries, worked out? As of November 2024, roughly 900 “no-go zones” existed across Europe. Neighborhoods where, if you are a woman, gay, Jewish, or just not part of the ethnic community, you might want to think twice about going into. Closer to home, in Dearborn, Michigan, a city with a majority Muslim population, non-Muslim residents complained at a recent city council meeting that a local mosque is using an outdoor loudspeaker for daily calls to prayer, often beginning at 5:30 a.m.

There have been honor killings in America and there has been female genital mutilation (FGM) in America. Both are acceptable under Sharia Law. As of August 2023, 41 States currently have laws against FGM. We need to require immigrants to assimilate within a reasonable amount of time. If they choose not to, they need to leave.

The Latest Proposal

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On Friday, Senator Schumer offered to open the government if the Republicans would agree to his demands. That is not exactly what he said, but that is the essence of it–I will release the hostages if you will give me what I want. That’s hardly a reasonable request.

On Friday, Red State posted an article that included Senator Kennedy from Louisiana’s response.

The article reports:

Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) had a savage response to his fellow Democrat leader, Sen. Chuck Schumer (NY), offering to reopen the government, and said it involves needing “bail money” if God were to give him strength rather than patience after hearing it.

On Friday, Schumer announced his proposal, in which he said that he and his Democrat colleagues would agree to reopen the government if, and only if, the Republicans extended COVID-19-era Obama-care subsidies for another year, and then they could sit down to negotiate with the GOP to deal with healthcare costs.

…”What Senator Schumer is suggesting is that we do the dumbest thing possible that won’t work. Stupid should hurt more.” “[Schumer’s proposal] means we would have to take $35B of taxpayer money and give it directly to health insurance companies without any commitment of lowering premiums.”

The article concludes:

“I’ve voted more than a dozen times to fund the government—but many politicians are too scared of pressure from socialists to do the right thing,” Kennedy wrote. “I think a missing paycheck would make them grow a spine.”

Kennedy might be right that when Democrats see zero paychecks, like Air Traffic Controllers have experienced, they might snap out of this insanity.

Senator Kennedy has proposed a law that Congress would not get paid while the government is shut down. Good idea.

You Would Have More Leverage If You Won More Elections

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Our system of government is set up on the principle of checks and balances. The Senate chose to add the filibuster to make sure that whichever party was in the minority would have some say in the laws that were being made. However, I really don’t think the purpose of the filibuster was to allow the whichever party was in the minority to shut down the government.

On Tuesday, Red State reported:

Senator Chris Coons (D-DE) just became the second Democrat to say the quiet part out loud as he admitted the Schumer shutdown is “very unpleasant” but the “only moment of leverage” his party has.

You don’t have leverage because the people did not vote for your policies!

The article notes:

“Frankly, this is our only moment of leverage, and although a very unpleasant tool to use, it’s gotten us focused on what we have to do to change direction on health care,” Coons said, referencing the Democrats’ lie about how millions of Americans would be thrown off healthcare in the coming years. 

But here’s what Coons doesn’t say. The Democrat forgot to explain that the shutdown is because Republicans won’t give billions to fund healthcare for illegal aliens. 

In a post from our sister site Townhall.com, it noted that Coons’ leverage comment is truly disgusting given the fact that “42 million Americans are going to go hungry and lose SNAP benefits this weekend… so Dems can have ‘leverage.'”

Democrat House Minority Whip Katherine Clark (MA-05) was the first one in her party to admit that the suffering of Americans was giving Democrats “leverage,” RedState reported.

If I were not a lady, I would tell them what they could do with their leverage.

The article concludes:

During his appearance on Fox News Tuesday afternoon, Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) reacted to Coons’ comment and said Democrats think they are playing a “political game,” but it’s not.

“They’re looking at this like it’s some sort of political game,” Thune said. “Where there are winners and losers of the political game. Whereas, we look at this as real impacts on real families and people in this country.”

“It becomes more real and the consequences become more real over time,” he added. “I mean, what they just said, they said the quiet part out loud. These people are looking at this as a political game, Martha [McCallum], and it’s not.”

When someone admits the truth, Americans would be wise to listen. They are playing a game with you — you are expendable as long as they get their way.

Voters, please take some of these Democrats out of office during the midterms.