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Two Much-Needed Reforms

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On Wednesday, The Daily Caller posted an article about H.Res. 500, introduced in 2025, would require criminal background checks for House employees by the Capitol Police and public disclosure of recent foreign government payments, contracts, or citizenship. Not surprisingly, it remains stalled in committee despite repeated calls for a floor vote.

The article reports:

Since its founding, the U.S. Congress, the institution that writes the laws governing the world’s leading superpower, has operated with shockingly lax standards.

Republican Florida Rep. Kat Cammack and House Speaker Mike Johnson are debating whether members’ staff should undergo routine criminal background checks and whether lawmakers should be barred from romantic or sexual relationships with the very people who draft, research, and shepherd the vast majority of legislation that shapes American life. While the two aren’t running their issues as a combined package, they should be because together they make up a glaring national security and institutional integrity failure.

The article notes:

Former Democratic California Sen. Dianne Feinstein employed a staffer for nearly 20 years as her San Francisco driver and Asian-American community liaison. He even attended Chinese consulate functions on her behalf. The FBI eventually informed her that he was reporting to China’s Ministry of State Security. She chaired the Senate Intelligence Committee at the time. Investigators concluded he passed no classified material. Even journalist James O’Keefe, with zero access to classified information, has found out more just from fake dates in D.C. Americans are just supposed to accept that there was a breach in security that lasted two decades, but nothing important was ever relayed to China. He was apparently a very terrible spy.

Former California Rep. Eric Swalwell infamously fell victim to the classic “honeypot” situation with Fang Fang, a suspected Chinese intelligence operative, who assisted him with fundraising, helped place an intern in his office, and maintained close personal contact. Swalwell denied any wrongdoing after the FBI issued a defensive briefing in 2015, and she allegedly fled back to China.

More recently, a staffer on the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party was reportedly offered cash for insights on sensitive topics like rare-earth minerals and Venezuela. Separately, reports of declassified files have highlighted a former member allegedly placing interns acting as foreign agents into other offices.

This needs to be corrected as soon as possible.

That Doesn’t Sound Like A British Name

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On Thursday, The Daily Caller reported that Muhammad was the top baby name in England and Wales in 2025 (for the third year in a row). Normally, the most popular name in a country would not qualify as news, but this represents a demographic shift in Britain that may very easily become a problem for the British.

The article reports:

There are around 4 million Muslims living the UK, representing 6% of the nation’s population, the Muslim Council of Britain reported March 2025. Muslims reportedly accounted for around 32% of the UK’s population growth between 2011-2021.

Lowe released “The Rape Gang Inquiry Report” in June. The report alleged that some young Muslim men would befriend, kidnap, drug, and rape girls as young as 11, often forcing those they impregnated into getting abortions. This occurred in nearly 40% of the UK’s local authority districts, according to the report

The Britain leader Rupert Lowe has formed a group called Restore Britain to fight the Islamification of Britain. 

Islam is not compatible with western culture. Westerners do not believe it is acceptable to kill or harass people who do not share your faith. Westerners do not believe it is acceptable to sexually assault a woman because she is not wearing a hijab. Westerners do not believe that any woman who is not a Muslim is fair game for sexual abuse. Sharia law does not give women rights–a women accused of adultery can be stoned regardless of the evidence. Under Sharia law, husbands are allowed to beat their wives. None of this is compatible with the law in western culture.

Letting large numbers of people who do not share your culture into your country all at once is a recipe for cultural suicide. If immigrants are not willing to assimilate, they should not be welcomed. We are currently watching the death of England as we know it.

When The Sentence Doesn’t Fit The Crime

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On Wednesday, The Daily Caller posted an article about the sentencing of Loay Abdel Fattah Alnaji, who at the time of his crime worked as a professor at Moorpark College in California.

The article reports:

A California college professor who admitted to killing an elderly demonstrator with a megaphone will spend about a year in county jail, far less than the prison term prosecutors sought.

A judge sentenced Loay Abdel Fattah Alnaji, 53, to one year in Ventura County Jail plus two years of felony probation, the Ventura County District Attorney’s Office (VCDAO) announced June 30. He had pleaded guilty in May to felony involuntary manslaughter as well as felony battery causing serious bodily injury in the 2023 death of 69-year-old Paul Kessler. Alnaji further admitted that he personally caused great bodily harm and confessed to the two aggravating factors of his use of a weapon and the vulnerability of his victim, according to the DA’s office. Alnaji worked as a professor at Moorpark College at the time of the incident, KTLA5 reported.

The killing traces back to November 2023, when rival protesters gathered around a month after the outbreak of the Israel-Gaza war, the outlet reported. Kessler stood with the pro-Israel group while Alnaji was with the pro-Palestinian protesters. Prosecutors said a verbal dispute between Alnaji and Kessler turned physical and Alnaji brought the megaphone down on Kessler’s head. The 69-year-old dropped to the pavement and struck his head, and Alnaji did not flee, according to the DA’s office. He dialed 911 and talked to investigators. Kessler died from his injuries, and deputies arrested Alnaji days afterward, according to the VCDAO.

I suppose it is nice that Alnaji did not flee the scene; however, he hit a man over the head and the man died as a result of that blow. I don’t think a one-year sentence is appropriate. I wonder if the sentence would have been different if he had accidentally killed the man under other circumstances. I can’t help but believe that there is some serious politics involved in this sentence.

The article concludes:

District Attorney Erik Nasarenko responded to the sentence. “Mr. Kessler lost his life in a violent attack that took him from his family and his wife of 43 years,” he said. “Given the circumstances of this case and the death that resulted, we believe a state prison commitment was the appropriate and just sentence.”

Ventura County Superior Court Judge Derek Malan handed Alnaji the deal, The Forward reported. A trial had loomed just days away, with Alnaji facing up to four years behind bars. His lawyer, Ron Bamieh, told the Ventura County Star that Malan saw the case as “two old guys had a dispute and an accident happened.”

Jewish advocacy groups took aim at the sentencing. “It exposes major flaws in the criminal justice system that need to be addressed,” Gerard Filitti, senior counsel at the Lawfare Project, told the Jewish News Syndicate, saying prosecutors did not pursue a hate crime charge.

The outlet identified Kessler as Jewish. Moorpark College placed Alnaji on administrative leave after officials took him into custody and he subsequently bailed himself out, according to the Forward.

Common Sense From Senator Fetterman

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On Saturday, The Daily Caller posted an article about some recent comments from Senator John Fetterman about the current state of the Democrat party. The world has turned upside down when John Fetterman and James Carville are the only Democrats telling the truth about what is happening in their party.

The article reports:

Fetterman tore into the socialist wing now ascending in Democratic ranks, though he told the New York Post this week he has no intention of bolting, for the moment. “I said months ago, I said the Democratic Party is becoming an orgy of socialism. These recent elections vindicate my description,” he told the outlet after Democratic Socialists of America candidates swept three New York House primaries.

Those Tuesday contests reshuffled the party’s New York delegation. Former city Comptroller Brad Lander unseated Rep. Dan Goldman in the 10th District, while doctoral student Darializa Avila Chevalier ousted Rep. Adriano Espaillat in the 13th, according to Roll Call. State Assemblywoman Claire Valdez captured the open 7th District seat. DSA backed two of the three, and all are favored to win in November given how blue their districts run.

Fetterman reserved his sharpest words for Avila Chevalier. “She wants to abolish the border, abolish prisons. That is a deeply disturbed individual,” he told the New York Post.

It should be mentioned that only 15 percent of New Yorkers voted in their primary elections–these results do not necessarily represent the views of a majority of New Yorkers. They might, but that is not a given. It will be interesting to see what percentage of New Yorkers turn out to vote for these candidates in November.

The article concludes:

A party switch remains on the table. “Even if I changed my party, my votes or views wouldn’t change,” he told the New York Post, pointing to a May column where he branded himself an independent voice.

His standing back home looks shaky. A Philadelphia Inquirer/Suffolk University poll of city residents pegged his favorability at 24 percent against a 43 percent unfavorable rating, far below Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro’s 62 percent, the Inquirer reported.

The pressure may not ease. Chris Rabb, a self-described democratic socialist who won a Philadelphia House primary this spring, is already floated as a 2028 challenger.

A lot can change in two years.

An Interesting Coincidence

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On Monday, The Daily Caller posted an article about a very interesting coincidence involving the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) spending cuts (the elimination of U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).

The article reports:

Following the Trump administration’s aggressive restructuring of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), a striking pattern emerged across Latin America. Left-wing governments, long dominant in several countries, suddenly stopped winning national elections.

Center-right and conservative presidential candidates have swept to victory in Bolivia, Chile, Honduras, Costa Rica, Peru, and Colombia since Trump ordered the cancellation of the bulk of USAID’s programs. While it’s normal to see some political pendulum swinging, the speed and uniformity of the recent shift, coinciding with President Donald Trump neutering USAID’s democracy and governance funding apparatus, raise uncomfortable questions.

The article notes:

A substantial portion of these now-canceled contracts fell under the Democracy, Human Rights, and Governance (DRG) portfolio. These initiatives funded election support, legislative strengthening, local governance reforms, anti-corruption efforts, independent media, civil society capacity-building, and human rights advocacy. In short, this funding often helps prop up left-leaning social agendas in foreign countries.

Daily Signal’s Tyler O’Neil testified during the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform in February 2025 that USAID had “troubling ties to the Left’s dark money network.”

“USAID spent millions propping up the Marxist ideology of ‘diversity, equity, and inclusion;’ the unfair and divisive transgender orthodoxy; and the climate alarmist movement,” O’Neil said, adding that “Some of these grants arguably undermine America’s standing in the world.”

We were supplying people with the rope to hang us!

The article concludes:

Traditionally conservative countries don’t typically elect far-left ideological candidates on their own. The U.S. saw the same thing happen here. In just two generations, the U.S. went from an overwhelmingly conservative nation to throwing PRIDE festivals with stripper poles for kids.

This wasn’t an organic shift in culture. It took the full weight of the major institutions (education, government, entertainment, etc.) to make this even somewhat socially acceptable. Thankfully, the pendulum is swinging back to reality. Americans are less tolerant of these behaviors than they were over the last decade, when support for them peaked.

Something structural shifted in Latin America when the Trump administration neutered USAID, and it can’t be ignored. As in the U.S., voter discontent with left-leaning governance found its voice again when it didn’t have to battle upstream against American funding. As a result, right-leaning and populist governments will have a chance to correct some of the damage that has been done.

Ironically, ending USAID payments may be part of the solution to the large numbers of people trying to sneak into America illegally.

Finding The Fraud

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On Monday, The Daily Caller posted an article about the White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud. They seem to be taking their work seriously and are doing a good job. The orange jumpsuits are coming. On Thursday, Fox News reported that the former leader of a Minnesota nonprofit was reportedly sentenced Thursday to nearly 42 years in prison for orchestrating a $250 million pandemic relief fraud scheme.

The Daily Caller reported:

The White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud — quarterbacked by Vance — hit the ground running this year. After uncovering massive fraud in Minnesota, the task force and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) paused over $250 million in Medicaid funding to the state. “People are billing the government millions, tens of million, billions of dollars, saying they are providing a service, but there’s no actual confirmation,” Vance explained.

In just three months, the team has “uncovered tens of billions of dollars in defrauded taxpayer money, prosecuted dozens of fraudsters, and stopped billions in suspicious payments,” said Vance. The VP then added: “we’re just getting started.” He wasn’t kidding

Just last week, Dr. Mehmet Oz — the administrator for CMS — announced that his agency had identified nearly 800 suspected fraudulent providers of hospice and home health care services in the Los Angeles, California, area alone, resulting in over $1.4 billion of potentially fraudulent payments. When CMS cut off all 800 providers, fewer than 20 even attempted to contest the move, Oz reported. “Unbelievable. So at least 780 are not even trying to claim that they’re not fraudulent,” Vance exclaimed. “It’s just completely insane.”

The article concludes:

And Vance has the weapons to execute the mission. The Trump administration just launched a brand new National Fraud Enforcement Division at DOJ in April, led by Assistant Attorney General Colin McDonald. In an unusual arrangement, demonstrating how aggressively Trump and Vance want to crack down on the fraudsters, McDonald reports directly to the vice president via the anti-fraud task force.

The division has been hard at work, hitting a $50 million Medicare fraud scheme in Los Angeles and executing 22 search warrants against fraudulent day care centers in Minnesota, including the infamous “Quality Learing Center.”

In just a few short months, the task force has unearthed massive amounts of fraud by utilizing a robust and effective whole-of-government approach.

Vice President Vance’s task force has proven it’s a serious effort which is producing real results. If they can keep pace over the coming months and years, the wins are only going to pile up. All Americans should be proud that this administration is finally looking out for their tax dollars.

I am thoroughly impressed by Vice-President Vance. I don’t know if it’s his Marine training that aids him in getting things done or something else, but this is a wonderful change from Kamala Harris as the Border Czar.

Gen Z Is Finding Hope

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Gen Z consists of people born roughly between 1997 and 2012. They are between 14 and 29 years old. They have navigated Covid, and many of them were alive on 9/11, although they might not remember that event unless they lost someone they loved. They have navigated school closings, church closings, and missed significant milestones in growing up–senior proms, school athletics, graduation ceremonies, band and choir concerts, etc. They were forced into remote learning. They have seen a lot of challenges. Their response to those challenges is encouraging.

On Sunday, The Daily Caller reported:

Thousands of Christians flooded the National Mall on Sunday to attend Rededicate 250, an opportunity to publicly pray and worship in Washington alongside their fellow Americans ahead of the nation’s Semiquincentennial.

Among them were 22-year-old Anthony Gross and 26-year-old Kate DePetro, who have seen firsthand the resurgence of faith in even the most secular cities, especially among America’s youth.

Gen Z has been regarded as the “anxious generation,” so it’s no wonder they are flocking to Christianity. Gross and DePetro have had a front row seat to this revival with their viral “Pizza to Pews” meetups in New York City, where young Catholics gather for a slice before attending mass in the middle of Manhattan.

“It happened very authentically,” DePetro told the Daily Caller. “Anthony and I, when he lived in New York, both went to the wonderful Church of St. Joseph’s, and I was at church alone. He walked in, asked to sit with me, and then our pew just started to grow.”

“We were thinking about how there must be other people within the church who are either sitting alone or maybe don’t go because they don’t want to sit alone, or maybe they are young people who want to get back into their faith but don’t know where to start,” DePetro added. “So we just threw a pizza party for our church and put it on social media, and the turnout has been incredible.”

The article concludes:

With more and more young Americans finding their faith in Christ, it is notable that the Catholic Church in particular has seen a surge in Gen Z attendees and converts.

“We need to search for something,” Gross told the Caller. “Purpose, meaning, belonging. And the purest form of that is turning back to God. And I do think the structure and tradition of Catholicism is very appealing.”

“I think there’s real momentum right now in our generation, and turning back to God, it’s a beautiful thing,” DePetro said.

It is a beautiful thing.

About That Kill Switch

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On Monday, The Daily Caller posted an article about a mandate that every 2027 model car have a kill switch. The mandate was included in the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. I am willing to bet that at least half of the Congress that voted for that bill had no idea that mandate was in the bill. Efforts to kill the mandate have failed so far.

The article reports:

Congress quietly passed an Orwellian regulation during former President Joe Biden’s term requiring all new cars to feature a “kill switch,” raising the alarm among some Republicans — but not all of them.

Republicans like Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie, Texas Rep. Chip Roy, and Pennsylvania Rep. Scott Perry have led the charge in the House to scrap the invasive regulation, calling it “impractical” and “Orwellian.” Yet in the most recent January vote to reverse the regulation, 57 Republicans joined nearly every Democrat to mandate that every 2027 model car have a kill switch.

This feature would use technology to assess the driver’s performance and determine whether they are impaired. If the car determines the driver is unfit to be behind the wheel, the kill switch would shut the car off, raising concerns about safety, surveillance, and implementation.

The article notes:d

One of the most powerful lobbying groups responsible for pushing the regulation is Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD), a non-profit founded in 1980 by Candace Lightner after her 13-year-old daughter was killed by a drunk driver.

Although the regulation is intended to minimize tragedies caused by drunk driving, lawmakers have raised concerns about its actual implementation. The language is technology-neutral, meaning it’s up to the car manufacturer to design and install a range of systems like sensors that assess driving, cameras that track the driver’s eyes, and self-driving software.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) also proposed several technologies to assess if a driver is impaired, including a touch sensor that measures alcohol concentration using a touchpad on the car’s steering wheel or ignition switch. This sensor uses infrared spectroscopy to detect alcohol concentration in the capillary blood in the skin of the driver’s hand.

There is also talk of sensors that measure whether a driver is stressed. Imagine the following scenario: you are in the woods hunting, and a bear decides to chase you. You run to your car, hoping to drive away from the situation. You car’s sensors say you are stressed and will not allow you to start the car. You sit in the car as the bear tears the car apart to get to you. That doesn’t sound like a good thing.

Something Simmering Beneath The Surface In The Senate Race

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North Carolina will be voting for a new Senator in November. The former Governor Roy Cooper is running for that seat against Michael Whatley, who is not as well known in the state. The campaign is already getting very nasty. One group has gone after Michael Whatley because of his appointment of Harvey West to serve in various roles in the North Carolina Republican party. (source here) However, Roy Cooper is much more vulnerable for attacks because of his behavior as Governor during the Covid epidemic. Most of us remember that many of our constitutional rights were trampled. Among other things, pastors and family members were blocked from visiting dying relatives and parishioners, and churches were closed while other things remained open.

On Sunday, The Daily Caller reported:

The public still has unanswered questions about Democratic North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein securing early release for an untold number of criminals before his term.

Former Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper drew criticism since 2021 for the COVID-19-inspired inmate releases that Stein’s office negotiated while he was Cooper’s attorney general. Stein’s office played a crucial role by capitulating to leftist criminal reform groups who sued in 2020 over the pandemic’s effect on prisons, but he skated to the governor’s mansion in the 2024 elections without enduring as much controversy.

The list of inmates getting released included at least 51 parole-eligible criminals serving life sentences for murder and sex offenses, The Charlotte Observer reported. State officials under Cooper and Stein chose 3,500 inmates to release six months after the settlement, though they have been unclear about whose sentences the settlement actually shortened versus those who were slated for release regardless of the lawsuit.

Copper and Stein’s list captured national attention after surveillance footage was released in September that showed a man — identified as repeat arrestee Decarlos Brown Jr. — fatally stabbing 23-year-old Iryna Zarutska on a Charlotte train. The state included Brown on its list of 3,500 releases before his latest arrest, but later claimed that his armed robbery sentence was set to end anyway, meaning he was not released early.

An upcoming GOP-led investigation state lawmakers announced in April could bring unwanted attention on the COVID settlement for the widely popular governor, whom The Washington Post called “the brightest star” for Democrats to run for president in 2028.

Please follow the link above to read the entire article. I would like to point out that Harvey West has served his time and was interacting with adults in the roles he was appointed to. Some of the criminals Roy Cooper let out were violent and should have remained in jail.

It is no secret to North Carolina that both Roy Cooper and Josh Stein are soft on crime. It remains to be seen if that will impact the Senate election.

Americans Voting With Their Feet

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On Sunday, The Daily Caller posted an article about the migration of Americans within America.

The article reports:

South Carolina came out as the fastest-growing state in the country, even as Democrat-led cities on both coasts continue hemorrhaging residents at striking rates.

Between July 2024 and July 2025, 66,622 more Americans relocated to South Carolina than left it, driving a 1.5% population increase that outpaced every other state, , Fox News reported.

Federal data reinforces the scale of the shift. The U.S. Census Bureau reported that national population growth slowed to just 0.5% during the same window, the weakest annual increase since the pandemic era. Five states actually shrank: California, Hawaii, New Mexico, Vermont and West Virginia. Idaho and North Carolina trailed South Carolina at 1.4% and 1.3% growth, respectively. (RELATED: Mayor Mamdani Says Exodus From New York Is Just Your Imagination)

New York City lost 114,000 more residents to other parts of the country than it gained last year, according to a Citizens Budget Commission study cited by Fox News. International arrivals to the city collapsed by 70% over the same period, erasing the demographic cushion that long masked domestic departures.

Los Angeles County took the heaviest numeric hit of any county in the nation, shedding 53,421 residents between mid-2024 and mid-2025, according to Census Bureau. The county’s population has dropped from roughly 10 million in 2020 to 9.7 million today. San Francisco, despite an artificial intelligence hiring surge, still sits below its pre-pandemic population, Fox News reported.

The article concludes:

…The National Taxpayers Union Foundation found in an April 7, 2026, study that Texas now adds a new taxpayer every four minutes and 40 seconds, surpassing Florida in 2022. Florida still leads the country in income migration, pulling in roughly $36.1 billion in net annual income, according to the Florida Chamber of Commerce.

The fastest-growing counties in America now sit clustered across Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina, the Census Bureau confirmed.

Companies are moving to states where their cost of doing business is lower, and the workforce is following them. Salaries in some of these states may be lower, but the cost of living is also significantly lower.

This Is Going To Get Interesting

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When Martin Luther King, Jr., gave his famous I Have A Dream Speech at the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963, he stated, “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” Somehow the professional racists in our country have forgotten that concept.

On Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court ordered Louisiana to redraw its congressional map because the map was drawn along racial lines.

On Wednesday, The Daily Caller reported:

The United States Supreme Court has knocked another peg out of the legalized racism instituted by progressive election law, ordering Louisiana to redraw its congressional map in a landmark voting rights decision.

On Wednesday, the Court dealt a blow to a key provision of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, siding with Louisiana Republicans and President Donald Trump’s administration by blocking an electoral map that created a second majority-black congressional district.

In a 6–3 decision, the justices upheld a lower court ruling that found the map unconstitutional. The dispute centered on whether the districts amounted to race-based gerrymandering, with the lower court concluding that race played too large a role in how the map was drawn — violating the Constitution’s guarantee of equal protection.

The article concludes:

The stakes extend well beyond Louisiana. Historically, the party that controls the White House tends to lose House seats in midterm elections. With Republicans holding a narrow majority, any shift in how districts are drawn could play a significant role in determining control of the chamber.

The ruling follows years of legal battles over Louisiana’s congressional map and broader disputes over race-based redistricting, which critics argue amounts to legalized racism, while supporters say it is necessary to ensure fair representation under the Voting Rights Act.

Following the 2020 census, Republican lawmakers redrew the state’s map so that black voters made up a majority in just one district, despite accounting for roughly one-third of the population. In 2022, a group of black voters filed a lawsuit under the Voting Rights Act, arguing the map diluted their political influence by concentrating many black voters into a single district while spreading others across the remaining districts.

Can we please get to the point where we vote for candidates because of their qualifications and their ability to do the job–not for any other reason? I would also like to mention that gerrymandering has become a national sport. The New England states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut range from about 35 to 48 percent Republican. They do not have one Republican representative in the U.S. House of Representatives. Congressional districts need to reflect the voters in their state.

A Step In The Right Direction

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On Wednesday, The Daily Caller posted an article about the new anti-fraud task force headed by Vice-President J.D. Vance.

The article reports:

Vice President JD Vance’s new anti-fraud task force has identified nearly $6.3 billion in government contracts that are going to potentially fraudulent businesses, the Daily Caller learned early Wednesday.

The task force, alongside the General Services Administration (GSA), are beginning to send out letters to nearly 400 businesses with government contracts that they believe could be fraudulent, administration officials told the Caller. There were 895 contracts given to 392 businesses for a total of $6.3 billion, the officials explained, with $3 billion still left to be rewarded.

The businesses will have 30 days to prove to the task force that they have a physical address and are legitimate. The letters will come from the executive director of the anti-fraud task force Scott Brady and GSA Administrator Edward Forst, who one senior administration official said has been instrumental in helping identify the potential fraudulent contracts.

The article notes:

Vance and his new team convened for the first time March 27. Colin McDonald, the assistant attorney general for National Fraud Enforcement, was sworn in April 1.

…The vice president previously said the task force will also be investigating Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar for alleged immigration fraud.

“So we actually think that Ilhan Omar definitely committed immigration fraud against the United States of America,” the vice president told conservative personality Benny Johnson in an interview. “And I talked to [White House deputy chief of staff] Stephen Miller about this actually recently. We’re trying to look at what the remedies are.”

“That’s the thing that we’re trying to figure out is what are the legal remedies now that we know that she’s committed immigration fraud? How do you go after her? How do you investigate her? How do you actually do the thing? How do you build the case necessary to get some justice for the American people?” he added. “There’s a related issue, Benny, which is she has been at the center of a lot of the worst fraudsters in the Somali community.”

I wonder if we could balance the federal budget by eliminating fraud.

Plans For Creating A Country Within A Country Have Been Stopped

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On Monday, The Daily Caller posted an article about the plans to create a Muslim-only community in Texas. Thanks to investigative reporting, public involvement, and the work of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, the plans have been cancelled.

The article reports:

Developers and local officials canceled a proposal for a new Muslim-based city in rural Texas, according to Republican Rep. Lance Gooden, after a Daily Caller investigation reported on the plans and subsequent meetings.

Kaufman County, Texas, residents became aware in early February that a potential city was going to be built in their backyard and accused local officials of being very secretive about the deal. The Daily Caller report, and locals’ allegations that the project was an unlawful attempt to establish a “sharia city,” led Attorney General Ken Paxton to announce Feb. 9 that his office launched a formal investigation.

The proposed massive “sustainable city” development was set to accommodate up to 20,000 foreign nationals in an unincorporated area of Kaufman County, according to preliminary plans. The potential developer was SEE Holding, a UAE-based, privately held global holding group headquartered in Dubai, apparently focused on sustainability and spearheading a net-zero emissions future.

How long would it take for this community to become a ‘no-go zone’? The community planned its own education system to educate children in the ways of Islam and Sharia Law. Sharia Law is in total conflict with U.S. law on many issues–the legal rights of women under the law, honor killings, divorce law, witnesses in trials, etc. If someone wants to live in America, they need to be willing to assimilate and conform to American law. There is nothing wrong with celebrating your heritage, but if you are here, your loyalty needs to be with America.

Rules For Thee And For Me

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On Friday, The Daily Caller posted an article about a law passed in the Senate that would exempt lawmakers from special treatment at airport security lines–lawmakers would have to wait in line just like everyone else.

The article reports:

The Senate passed a bill to end lawmakers’ special privileges to bypass airport security lines late Thursday night while security personnel continue to manage hours-long lines while working without pay through a partial government shutdown.

The End Special Treatment for Congress at Airports Act was introduced by Republican Texas Sen. John Cornyn and approved by unanimous consent because no senators were present on the floor to object to the legislation. The bill passed as the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) shutdown prepared to enter its 35th day — tied for the second-longest in American history — with Transportation Security Administration (TSA) workers struggling to manage a surge in spring break travelers.

…“Maybe, just maybe, if Congress has to live under the same laws that everybody else does, it will motivate us to get our work done. In other words to fund the [DHS],” Cornyn said on the Senate floor Thursday night. “So no American, no air traveler will have to suffer the disruption and tribulations that many, many travelers are having to experience now. It’s not too much to expect that Congress will be subject to the rules as everybody else.”

…The legislation now awaits passage in the House, and then would go to President Donald Trump’s desk for signature. The TSA is an agency of the DHS.

I hope this law is passed in the House and signed into law in as short a time as possible!

The article concludes:

Air travel worker unions, airlines have called on Congress to resolve differences and restore funding as stress mounts on workers, and TSA specifically called on Democrats to stop withholding their votes to end the shutdown.

“The shutdown is having very real consequences, and hardworking federal aviation workers, the airline industry and our passengers are being used as a political football once again. This is simply unacceptable and un-American,” Airlines for America president and CEO Chris Sununu, a former Republican governor of New Hampshire, said in a statement.

Cornyn is currently locked in an extremely expensive runoff primary contest against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton that President Donald Trump and Cornyn’s Senate counterpart, Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, have chosen to stay out of. Trump said he will make an endorsement soon, and Paxton said he will drop out of the race if the Senate passes the SAVE America Act. Soon after, Cornyn advocated to eliminate the Senate’s 60-vote filibuster threshold despite defending the protective measure in 2022.

No Democrat who continues to vote for this shutdown should be re-elected!

Now Is Not The Time To Leave DHS Unfunded

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On March 13th, The Daily Caller posted an article about one Democrat Senator who is now willing to vote with the Republicans to end the partial government shutdown. It only took a terrorist attack in her home state for her to change her mind.

The article reports:

Democratic Michigan Sen. Elissa Slotkin changed her tune on funding the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Friday after a Lebanese national attacked a Metro Detroit synagogue.

DHS identified the deceased suspect who attacked the Temple Israel in West Bloomfield, Michigan, as Ayman Mohamed Ghazali, a Lebanese native who became a U.S. citizen in 2016. Slotkin, who voted in favor of continuing the partial shutdown of DHS on Thursday, said during a press conference that DHS needs to be funded because it is an “essential” agency.

The article concludes:

Democratic Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman was the only member of his party to support the full-year appropriations bill for DHS.

Ghazali allegedly rammed his vehicle into the synagogue in West Bloomfield while several explosives were in the trunk. He then engaged in gunfire with the building’s security team, which caused him to die at the scene, Oakland County Sheriff Mike Bouchard said Thursday. The vehicle caught fire after “something ignited” inside.

The partial shutdown has caused lengthy lines at airports during the spring break travel season, which prompted the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to call on Democrats to end the shutdown. The partial shutdown marks the third time TSA employees have worked without pay in nearly six months.

We have had a number of violent ‘incidents’ in the past few weeks. I don’t know whether any of them would have been stopped by having a funded Department of Homeland Security, but I think it is necessary to admit that right now is a really good time to stop playing games and fund that department.

What Are We Teaching Our Children?

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On Thursday, The Daily Caller posted an article about a father who protested his son’s being taken out of school to attend an anti-ICE rally.

The article reports:

A father who posted a video of himself pulling his son out of a “walkout” protesting operations by United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) tore into the Highline School Board in Washington state on Wednesday.

Hundreds of students in the Seattle-area school district took part in the Feb. 2 walkout, some of whose parents backed the protest, according to the Seattle Times. Vance Glawe, who drove to the protest to pull his son, a seventh-grade student at Cascade Middle School, out of the event, confronted members of the school board with fiery remarks during his two-minute address.

“My name is Vance Glawe and on the afternoon of February 2, 2026, my 14 year old child called me. He was not at school. He was not sick. He was in the middle of White Center, Washington, in the middle of a protest that was organized for his middle school,” Glawe told the members of the board during their Wednesday meeting in video that went viral when it was posted on X by LibsofTikTok.

The article concludes:

Glawe also set up a GiveSendGo fundraiser for legal expenses and to relocate, saying his son was receiving threats for his videos.

“I’m going to need some help with legal fees and relocation since I am now receiving death threats and I don’t feel my son is safe in this area anymore,” Glawe said on the page. Glawe added in a Feb. 4 update, “I cannot bring my son back to school because kids are threatening to jump my son because of my video.”

I have been told that some schools are having parents sign a blanket permission slip at the beginning of the year that allows the school to take the children on field trips. In the age of dinosaurs when I was in school, a field trip meant going to a museum, a zoo, a planetarium, etc. I guess it has a whole different meaning now. If you are a parent, don’t sign that slip–ask for individual slips for each trip!

The Other Side Of Green Energy

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On Monday, The Daily Caller posted an article that illustrates the other side of green energy. The push for green energy has always reminded me of the search for a perpetual motion machine–it’s a great idea–it just doesn’t work. The sun does not always shine, there isn’t always wind, and batteries have to store electricity somehow. There is also the matter of what’s involved in the manufacture of electric cars, windmills and solar panels. There is also the matter of safe disposal of green energy items once they wear out.

The article reports:

Texas filed a lawsuit against a wind turbine recycling company, alleging it illegally dumped thousands of turbine blades and parts across the state.

Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton announced Thursday that the state is suing Global Fiberglass Solutions, Inc. and several affiliated entities. According to the lawsuit, the company was contracted by multiple firms to break down and recycle wind turbine components, but instead dumped roughly 3,000 turbine blades — or 487,000 cubic yards of solid waste — at two disposal sites.

“Illegal disposal of wind turbines hurts our land and will never be permitted under my watch,” Paxton said in a statement. “Just because the radical left calls something a ‘green industry’ does not give any company a free pass to harm Texas countryside, break our laws, and leave Texans to deal with the negative impacts.”

Under Texas law, recycling facilities must process at least 75% of the material they receive each year to avoid being classified as waste disposal sites. State officials allege Global Fiberglass Solutions has never met that threshold since beginning operations in 2017.

The article concludes:

Countries across Europe that heavily invested in wind energy are now confronting growing volumes of discarded turbine components. One town in Scotland is struggling with blade waste, while countries such as Germany, Spain, and Italy have been forced to invest in recycling after committing to large-scale wind expansion.

Europe will need to dismantle roughly 14,000 wind turbines by 2030, leaving it with 44,000 to 66,000 tons of unrecyclable blade waste, according to WindEurope.

While the Biden administration strongly promoted wind development, the Trump administration has moved to rein in the heavily subsidized industry. In July, the Department of the Interior announced it would end “preferential treatment” for the wind industry, and in December, it paused leases for five large offshore wind projects, citing national security concerns.

Things that work beautifully in theory don’t always work as well in practice.

We’ve Seen This Show Before

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Remember the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest (CHOP), in Portland, Oregon, in 2020? Well, the protesters in Minneapolis are doing the same thing.

On Saturday, The Daily Caller reported: 

Left-wing rioters erected barricades in the streets of Minneapolis after Border Patrol agents fatally shot a man in possession of a gun Saturday.

Alex Pretti, 37, was killed during what a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) statement described as a “targeted” enforcement operation at 9:05 a.m. local time, triggering riots. Jorge Ventura, reporting for the Daily Caller News Foundation (DCNF), posted video of one such barricade made with dumpsters and trash cans Saturday afternoon.

“Protesters have blocked and barricaded multiple streets near the shooting, many people from out of town are starting to arrive here in Minneapolis and despite the massive amounts of tear gas used by authorities, the crowd is only getting bigger,” Ventura says.

Ventura told the DCNF that Minneapolis police and the Minnesota State Patrol “are letting them take to the streets” and not making any effort to remove the barricades. The Minneapolis Police Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the DCNF.

The article concludes:

ICE deployed hundreds of agents into the Minneapolis area to target illegal immigrants from Somalia following reports of welfare fraud in Minnesota by City Journal in November. Some of the proceeds from the scams reportedly went to the Somalia-based radical Islamic terrorist group, al-Shabaab.

President Donald Trump declared an end to Temporary Protected Status for Somalis in the state Nov. 22. Democratic Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey was then moved to announce during a Dec. 7.on Minneapolis-area TV station WCCO that Minneapolis police would not cooperate with federal immigration enforcement operations.

It is time for this to stop. It is no longer a peaceful protest when protesters are carrying guns, attacking federal law enforcement, and blocking streets. Just as the federal government used force to segregate southern schools, they need to use force now. Officials who refuse to enforce the law need to be removed.

Just a note–notice that we are not currently hearing anything about the Somali fraud. Do you believe that is just a coincidence?

Understanding The Value Of A Team

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On Wednesday, The Daily Caller posted an article about a recent decision by the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals regarding Washington state.

The article reports:

A federal court handed Washington state Christians a major legal victory by allowing churches to exclusively hire members of their own faith for jobs beyond strictly ministerial roles in one of the least religious states in the country.

The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals rejected Washington state’s interpretation of its Washington Law Against Discrimination (WLAD) in a unanimous ruling. The Yakima Union Gospel Mission can prefer and hire “co-religionists for non-ministerial roles.”

As any corporate executive can tell you, a corporation (or company) functions best when everyone has the same goals. That rule also applies to churches and ministries. Division in the ranks can easily derail any program.

The article notes:

The WLAD “prohibits employment discrimination based on several protected grounds, including sexual orientation,” according to the ruling’s summary. However, Union Gospel required workers to abide by Christian beliefs and practices regarding abstinence from sexual relations outside of marriage between a man and woman. The organization sued, alleging the WLAD violated its First Amendment protection under the Religion Clauses, a claim the court agreed with.

“Today’s ruling is especially significant because it answers an under-explored First Amendment question: Does a religious organization’s right to hire fellow believers extend to all staff positions, or only to ‘ministerial’ ones?” said Kristen Waggoner, head of Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), which represented Union Gospel. “In what we believe to be the first federal appellate court ruling of its kind, the Ninth Circuit explicitly held that the First Amendment protects faith-based hiring for all staff — not just ministerial employees.”

The article concludes:

A 2024 Pew Research study found Washington state was tied with New York as the 37th least religious state in the U.S., with only 25% of Washingtonians considering themselves “very religious,” according to MyNorthwest.

Only 51% of Washington residents identified themselves as Christians, with 38% of Washington adults claiming they had no ties to any faith, MyNorthwest reported.

Although Union Gospel aims to hire those who share its religious beliefs, no discrimination or moral requirements are placed on recipients of its aid, according to the AFD press release.

Letting Children Freeze For The Sake Of Your Agenda

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It is generally common knowledge that batteries do not respond well to cold weather. They tend to lose their charge quickly. That is one of many reasons I am skeptical about electric cars and electric school busses in areas of the country that have real winter. Well, my skepticism has been proved to be warranted.

On Monday, The Daily Caller reported:

This is a classic example of bureaucratic blindness to unintended consequences and projects that might sound rational in theory but end up absurd in practice.

New York has mandated that all school bus purchases must be entirely electric by 2027, citing cleaner air, “better academic outcomes,” a quieter, more peaceful ride for students and staff, among other seemingly bogus reasons. Now that schools across the state are making the transition, one school district in western New York, the Lake Shore Central School District, is confronting a downside: heating.

WIVB News 4, a local news outlet in Erie County, New York, has received several calls from parents alleging that their kids come home freezing cold because drivers turn down or completely turn off the heat to save energy for the electric engines.

“The heaters on the bus run off the same electricity as the bus itself,” Scott Ziobro, a local parent, told the outlet. “They were told that it drains the battery capacity of the bus itself.”

…Another parent said an electric bus broke down, leaving kids stranded in the cold.

“The bus broke down en route,” parent Chris Lampman told the outlet. “They deployed a substitute bus, and the bus was more than 30 minutes late. My son stood outside for over 35 minutes waiting for a bus that wasn’t coming. Some of those kids are on there for upwards of a half hour or more while the bus makes its route. There’s no reason that the kids should freeze for all that time.”

The people who make the rules need to be subject to them. Let’s make every legislator or school board member who supported the electric buses ride them to work!

The Democrats Used To Be For Working Americans

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On Thursday, The Daily Caller posted an article about a lawsuit filed by a coalition of Democrat-led states to block President Trump’s $100,000 fee on new H-1B visas. In addition to bringing money into America, the fee will help open up technology jobs for Americans. Many of these jobs are currently being filled by the visa recipients because the recipients demand a far lower salary than American workers. Also, a large number of the recipients send money back to their home countries so that the money they earn never goes back into the American economy.

The article reports:

A coalition of Democrat-led states announced a lawsuit earlier in December to block the Trump administration’s $100,000 fee on new H-1B visas, claiming that U.S. employers are in need of the “highly skilled” labor provided by the H-1B visa system. American tech workers — many of whom are unable to find employment or have left the industry entirely out of frustration — say the lawsuit is the latest sign that the Democrat Party is no longer representative of the everyday working man.

“This is liberal states itching to ‘stand up to Trump,’ married by convenience to the Indian lobby and Big Business,” John, a cybersecurity professional in the Seattle area who has struggled to land a job for a year, told the the Daily Caller News Foundation about the lawsuit. John said Democrat claims about labor shortages in higher education are “crap” and that American citizens could “easily” be hired for these positions.

Like all five of the current and former tech workers who spoke to the DCNF, John wished to only go by his first name out of fear of reprisal from potential employers.

The article concludes:

“These corporations buy these politicians to bring in this cheap foreign cheap foreign labor, illegal and legal, to depress American wages,” Joseph continued. “It’s a worker issue, not a MAGA issue, so that’s the biggest thing.”

Sean O’Brien’s speech at the 2024 Republican National Convention was a pivotal moment cited by Joseph and the other American workers who spoke to the DCNF about the changing political landscape. As president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, the largest labor union on the continent, O’Brien made history as the first union leader to address the GOP convention and has since forged closer ties with national Republicans.

Many struggling tech workers said they aren’t looking for handouts from either party, but simply want political leaders to give them a chance to earn an honest day’s work.

“The H-1B program was created in order to cheapen the value of tech labor,” Riley, who left the tech industry entirely due to issues finding work, told the DCNF. “We’ve never had a shortage of tech labor in the United States, and so I don’t see the program continuing to be a good thing.”

The corporations bought the politicians, and the politicians did what was right for the corporations–not what was right for the country.

The Obstruction Tactics Are Becoming Less Effective

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

On Thursday, The Daily Caller reported:

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

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

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

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

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

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

The article concludes:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It’s The Economy, Stupid!

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On Friday, The Daily Caller posted an article featuring some comments by Hugh Hewitt on how the Republicans need to frame the 2026 midterm elections. Currently, the Democrat word of the day is ‘affordability,’ but what the Democrats fail to realize is that for the working American, affordability is improving.

The article reports:

“I think if the message remains ‘Affordability decides elections,’ Republicans are going to like next November because most prices depend upon energy. And the energy production policies that you saw Secretary [Chris] Wright refer to there and Secretary Burgum over at Interior, are bringing the cost of oil and gas down,” Hewitt told host Bret Baier. “I was in Fort Worth this week. Gas costs $2.55 in Fort Worth this week. I was kind of surprised at how low it is. In the Beltway it’s about $3.50. And out in California, it’s almost $5, $5.50 on average, depends on where you live. But it’s going down.”

The national average for regular gasoline fell below $3 this week for the first time in four years, settling at $2.99 since Tuesday. Analysts say weaker demand, cheaper winter-blend fuel and lower crude prices near $60 a barrel are all driving the decline.

The article concludes:

“So we are bringing prices down. Way down. Beef is coming down now. We have done certain magic. Beef is coming down. We inherited horrible prices. We inherited, really, the worst, again, the worst inflation in history. We inherited that. When I came in, that was what he had, and we fixed inflation. And we fixed almost everything if you want to know the truth, including eight wars. We got one to go, including eight wars,” the president said.

After Democrats scored a string of prominent victories in November, Deputy Chief of Staff James Blair told Politico that Republicans would redirect their messaging toward affordability ahead of the midterms. Blair said Trump knows economic recoveries aren’t instantaneous but believes the underlying indicators are improving.

“The president is very keyed into what’s going on, and he recognizes, like anybody, that it takes time to do an economic turnaround, but all the fundamentals are there, and I think you’ll see him be very, very focused on prices and cost of living,” Blair told the outlet.

How many Americans had more money in their pockets to spend of Christmas this year?

This Is Upsetting

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In recent articles, I have mentioned the concept of a color revolution. A color revolution generally includes protest-driven political upheaval aimed at replacing the current government. Many of these revolutions are actually named after a color that is used as the name and symbol of the revolution (for example, the 2004 Orange Revolution in Ukraine, the 2005 Cedar Revolution in Lebanon). Generally speaking, the results of these revolutions were not positive in the long run. A lot of recent events in America are following the sequence of a color revolution.

On Saturday, The Daily Caller posted an article about a recent protest against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) agents in New York City.

The article reports:

Rioters in New York City attempted to block U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents from leaving a parking garage Saturday, leading to at least 18 arrests.

As many as 200 people gathered outside, piling garbage and blocking the entrance to the garage with their bodies, The New York Times reported. New York Police Department Commissioner Jessica Tisch blamed ICE for the clash with the protesters, claiming the shows of force by federal agents placed police officers, citizens and the agents at risk, according to the New York Post.

The media has worked very hard to demonize ICE and the people who support their work. They have also demonized the police and the National Guard who are helping ICE and helping maintain order in some of our larger cities. One result of this is the recent murder of a young National Guardsman. Another result is the people protesting ICE. When did individual Americans have the right to decide which laws of our country should be enforced and which laws should be ignored? The real meaning of ‘illegal’ is ‘illegal.’

Now is the time to be aware of everything that is going on around you and not to participate in anything that undermines law enforcement in America. We all need to be part of the solution–not part of the problem.

Returning To Their Roots

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The root of the Christian Church is the Bible. However, sometimes the church gets caught up in the culture and wanders from its roots. It is always good news when the church speaks out about things in the culture that conflict with Biblical teaching. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) recently spoke out on one of those issues.

On Thursday, The Daily Caller reported:

Members of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) voted Wednesday in Baltimore, Maryland, to ban the use of transgender medical procedures in Catholic hospitals across the nation.

Although most Catholic hospitals were already not offering such procedures, the change became permanent as the bishops issued an “authoritative guidance” for the healthcare facilities, according to the National Catholic Reporter (NCR). They approved an updated text for the Ethics and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services in a vote with 206 in favor, 8 voting no and 7 abstaining.

Part III of the text tells Catholic healthcare providers not to offer interventions “that aim to transform sexual characteristics of a human body into those of the opposite sex,” according to the NCR.

The directive instructs workers to “employ all appropriate resources to mitigate the suffering of those who experience gender incongruence or gender dysphoria,” while respecting “the fundamental order of the human body.”

The article concludes:

“Let us not fall into the sin of trying to replace the Creator. We are creatures, and not omnipotent,” Francis (Pope Francis) continued. “Creation is prior to us and must be received as a gift. At the same time, we are called to protect our humanity, and this means, in the first place, accepting it and respecting it as it was created.”

The Catholic Health Association of the United States said it will review the directives and called them consistent with its policy, noting 1 in 7 U.S. patients receive care from a Catholic hospital daily, according to a statement .

“Catholic providers will continue to welcome those who seek medical care from us and identify as transgender,” the statement continues. “We will continue to treat these individuals with dignity and respect, which is consistent with Catholic social teaching and our moral obligation to serve everyone, particularly those who are marginalized.”

All of us need to treat everyone who is transgender with respect. We also need to realize that encouraging someone to transition is encouraging them to do something that will have permanent consequences.