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How Not To Hold An Election

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As if ranked-choice voting were not confusing enough, Alaska has added a new wrinkle to its current primary election.

On August 24th, The Federalist reported:

If you want to know what a “rigged” election looks like, look no further than the U.S. Senate primary race still underway in Alaska. As of this writing, the Republican incumbent Sen. Dan Sullivan trails Mary Peltola, a Democrat and former member of the House, by about 5 points.

Some 30,000 votes are still uncounted, but it won’t change the fundamentals going into the November general election thanks to Alaska’s insane and fraudulent ranked-choice voting regime. In Alaska, the primary purpose of ranked-choice voting (or RCV) is to prevent conservative Republicans from winning statewide office and to keep Sen. Lisa Murkowski in Washington.

The article notes:

In this election cycle it has produced not just embarrassment but straightforward rigging in the form of the “Decoy Dan” spectacle. Daniel J. Sullivan, a retired teacher who has never before run for office and was not a registered Republican until two days before filing his candidate declaration, managed to get on the primary ballot and capture 2.4 percent of the vote, coming in third and guaranteeing him a place on the ballot in the general election.

Decoy Dan is a fraudster propped up by Democrat Party operatives and support. As The New York Times just reported, veteran Democrat consultant Amber Lee has been assisting the fake Sullivan in his bid to trick Alaskan voters into voting for the wrong candidate. Make no mistake, the entire purpose of this man’s candidacy is to siphon votes away from Sen. Sullivan by confusing voters. He even initially tried to register with the Alaska Division of Elections as “Dan S. Sullivan,” adopting the incumbent’s middle initial so that the two names would appear identical on the ballot. He then created a website that was markedly similar (in format, color scheme, etc.) to Sen. Sullivan’s reelection site.

Unless the voters do their research, the corruption in Alaska will continue. The cure for this is voters who understand which candidate is which and who only mark one name on the ranked-choice voting ballot.

The Search For Voter Integrity

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On Monday, The Federalist posted an article about California’s lack of ability to determine how many noncitizens have been removed from its voting rolls or the lack of a policy to investing illegal voting.

The article reports:

For years, Americans have been told that concerns about noncitizens voting are a myth, a right-wing talking point unworthy of serious attention. California’s own secretary of state and attorney general have proven otherwise, however, not by admitting the state has no idea whether, or how often, it’s even happening, but by indicating the state isn’t bothering to track it.

A few weeks ago, the ACLJ (American Center For Law & Justice) submitted two California Public Records Act (CPRA) requests — one to the California secretary of state and one to Attorney General Rob Bonta’s office — seeking records on how the state maintains the integrity of its voter rolls. The Attorney General’s Office took an extension, ultimately responding on Aug. 10.

The Secretary of State’s Office responded first, but refused to provide any records responsive to our request. According to its answer, the statewide voter registration system simply “does not contain” a specific cancellation reason for non-citizenship. In other words, the state cannot tell us how many noncitizens have ever been removed from its voter rolls — because it doesn’t keep that information at all.

The article concludes:

It’s also worth noting that California doesn’t require proof of citizenship or lawful presence for a certain category of driver’s license, AB 60 — the same kind of licensing pathway that triggered New Jersey’s noncitizen voter roll problem. And driver’s licenses are used to establish identity.

The ACLJ isn’t done here. We’re pressing for the records that California’s DOJ says it’s still reviewing, and depending on what — or what isn’t — in that response, our options range from further legal demands to potential litigation for noncompliance with state and federal recordkeeping laws.

The California Secretary of State’s Office has now told the country that it doesn’t know how many noncitizens have been removed from its voter rolls, and the Attorney General’s Office admitted that it has no formal policy for investigating illegal voting when it’s reported. That’s not a technicality. That’s a transparency failure in need of further investigation.

This is no way to run a state!

Exactly What Are The Democrat Policies?

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On Monday, The Federalist posted an article about some recent policies voted on by the Democrat National Committee (DNC) Resolutions Committee.

The article reports:

When the accomplice media tell you that there is such a thing as a “moderate” wing of the Democratic Party,  remember what the Democratic National Committee did on August 15, 2026. And remember that November’s midterm elections come down to the sane versus the insane on the ballot. 

In an effort to offer voters varying degrees of insanity, the DNC on Saturday staked out two positions on U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement: A resolution seeking to abolish ICE, and another looking to gut it. Each measure passed unanimously by voice vote during the committee’s summer meeting in Austin, Texas. 

…The DNC Resolutions Committee advanced the motion (25-12) late last week urging “Democratic members of Congress to craft legislation abolishing ICE and enacting immigration reform that provides pathways to citizenship, protects workers, and ensures dignity for all impacted people,” according to Common Dreams, a left-wing nonprofit “news” organization founded by Dem operative Craig Brown. 

In a lame attempt to soften the abolishment proposal, the Resolutions Committee backed a separate advisory resolution calling for “concrete reforms” to ICE. 

Neither resolution is binding. The final DNC platform will be set at the 2028 Democratic National Committee Convention in August 2028, in a leftist-led city yet to be selected. 

The immigration debate is becoming tiresome. You are not a racist because you want people to come to America to work and add to the country. You are not a racist because you believe that people should follow the law in coming here. You are not a racist because you believe that laws regarding illegal entry into America should be enforced. These used to be mainstream ideas.

The article concludes:

Now a Democratic Party that has been commandeered by the radical left wants to abolish ICE. They can’t pretend they don’t want to do that any longer. They just passed a resolution spelling out their intentions.

“Instead of trying to abolish ICE, Democrats should be thanking ICE law enforcement officers for putting their lives on the line to arrest and remove murderers, rapists, pedophiles, and gang members from American communities,” the White House said in statement.

“Many of these criminals were released from jails by Democrat radical politicians. President Trump’s efforts to remove criminal illegal aliens from American communities is already delivering results including the lowest murder rate in 125 years.”

The Courts Battle It Out With The President

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On August 12, The Federalist posted an article about a recent decision by a three-judge panel for the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals.

The article reports:

A federal appellate court handed the Trump administration a win on Tuesday in its bid to fast-track the deportation of paroled foreign nationals brought in the United States by former President Biden.

In its per curiam ruling, a three-judge panel for the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals vacated a lower court blockade against the Department of Homeland Security’s directives suggesting officials use expedited removal to speedily deport migrants. The decision throws out an August 2025 ruling by Biden-appointed District Judge Jia Cobb, who claimed that the migrants “played by the rules” and the federal government subsequently “changed the game.”

…According to The Washington Times, paroling foreign nationals into the country “became a loophole to the usual border controls” under the Biden administration. The Democrat president reportedly allowed in “Afghans, Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, Ukrainians and Venezuelans who flew into the U.S., plus a large swath of other migrants who reached the U.S.-Mexico border and preregistered their arrival.”

A former immigration judge told the outlet that the prior administration paroled an estimated 2.9 million migrants during its four years in power.

In its Tuesday decision, the D.C. Circuit held that the plaintiffs suing the Trump administration over its bid to expeditiously remove the migrants lacked standing to challenge the government’s directives. There were no noted dissents.

The article concludes:

Tuesday’s ruling is the latest legal win for the Trump administration in its bid to remove foreign nationals from the United States.

In June, the D.C. Circuit overturned a separate injunction by Cobb that attempted to block the government’s bid to expand the expedited removal process to increase the deportation of illegal aliens throughout the country. That decision came days before the Supreme Court sided with the administration in its efforts to end Temporary Protected Status for hundreds of thousands of noncitizens registered under the program.

A country that does not have borders is not a country.

The Democrat Playbook On Handling Scandals

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Most of us have heard or watched some of the Congressional testimony of Dr. Fauci. It remains to be seen if he will be held responsible for the damage he did to Americans during the Covid crisis. In case you have forgotten–younger students missed a lot of social interactions that were crucial to their development, older students missed rites of passage–senior proms, graduations, families missed being with dying relatives, contagious patients were sent into nursing homes, etc. No one has been held accountable. It is very possible that no one will be held accountable. The Democrats have a playbook on handling scandals. Evidently, Dr. Fauci has read that playbook.

On Friday, The Federalist reported:

Back in the political Pleistocene, a slippery American president who was known as “Slick Willie” slogged through scandal after scandal, often in the company of his amoral and tone-deaf grifter wife. Perpetually embroiled in controversy because of their own behavior, this shameless couple developed a set of reliable techniques for the management of uncomfortable questions.

The Wall Street Journal columnist Kimberly Strassel famously described this set of techniques as “The Clinton Scandal Manual,” and the steps were predictable. First you muddy the paper trail by delaying the release of documents or misplacing the records of the scandal. This slows down the arrival of accountability, and forces your critics to engage in a long effort to untangle the threads of your poor choices.

…So then comes the big finish: When critics have been talking about the same scandal for a long time, because of your delaying tactics and the hidden paper trail, transition to the frustrated sigh: Why are we still talking about this old news? Isn’t it time to move on?

Delay, delay, delay / dismiss the scandal as old news.

I am reading Facebook posts proclaiming Fauci a hero. I half wonder if he wrote them himself, but I understand that people have short memories and if you weren’t directly impacted by his actions, his duplicity might not be an issue for you. However, understand that if you want representatives who actually follow the U.S. Constitution, you need to vote very carefully in November.

Changing The Rules On Student Visas

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On Sunday, The Federalist posted an article about some changes President Trump is making to the student visa program.

The article reports:

A new rule the Trump administration published earlier this month is finally addressing the flood of foreign students at U.S. universities plagued by anti-American ideology. Half a million of these students are illegal aliens, while more than a million additional college students are here on student visas, overwhelmingly from non-Western countries having political systems unlike or opposed to ours.

Trump has just ended this racket. Under a new rule issued by Trump’s Department of Homeland Security, most new F-1 students will receive visas that expire after a fixed period of time, usually four years. This puts healthy pressure on universities and students to reach the finish line as scheduled, rather than dawdle indefinitely in the academic cocoon. The average length of time in graduate studies has ballooned to more than seven years for a Ph.D., which harmfully causes students to delay having families and finding employment.

For half a century foreigners could enter graduate programs and take many years, far more than four, to complete their doctoral programs while remaining in the U.S. without any deadline to leave. The F-1 visa program has been allowing foreigners to remain on visas here for the “duration of their status” at their university, with no time limit.

…Trump’s regulatory changes also restrict transfers by foreigners from one university to another while here. Restrictions are being imposed on foreigners switching academic programs within their schools, too. “An F-1 student at any level below the graduate degree level may not change programs or educational objectives, i.e. majors or educational levels, within the first academic year of a program of study, unless an exception is authorized,” the rule states. The new rule takes effect on Sept. 15 of this year.

The article ends on an interesting note:

Even before the new rule takes effect, universities are complaining about a decline in international students in graduate programs, which they attribute to Trump’s occasional travel bans and freezing of some federal grants. The drop in K-12 enrollment (which is mostly due to the declining birth rate) means there will be fewer American students in the pipeline for universities in the future.

But the problem isn’t travel bans or Trump’s new rule ending decade-long stints in college. Universities have only themselves to blame if there is a shortage of American students. Left-wing political ideology dominant at universities leans strongly against child-rearing. If more students are wanted for the future, then there should be more encouragement now by academia for Americans to have and raise their children.

Free Speech Rights For Lawyers

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On Monday, The Federalist posted an article written by Jay Sekulow and Jordan Sekulow about the disbarment of conservative lawyer John Eastman. John Eastman has an impressive background–he is a former professor and deal at Chapman University School of Law. He has run for political office in California, and he is a former law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.

The article reports:

Shortly after our personal representation of President Trump in his impeachment acquittal before the U.S. Senate, we warned about what we saw coming. The left was preparing to go after conservative lawyers. Now that unfortunately has come to pass, and it’s exactly what the American Center for Law and Justice is preparing to challenge at the U.S. Supreme Court.

The ACLJ is representing Professor John Eastman, a former Trump attorney, in a forthcoming cert petition to the Supreme Court of the United States challenging his disbarment by the state of California.

In the wake of the 2020 election, Eastman, a constitutional scholar and former law school dean, represented President Trump in a number of election-related challenges involving issues upon which no court had weighed in. He was thereafter disbarred by the California Bar following disciplinary proceedings arising from his legal advice, public advocacy, court filings, and speeches regarding the 2020 presidential election. That decision was erroneously upheld by the California Supreme Court.

No court sanctioned Eastman for any of his legal positions, yet the California Bar disbarred him anyway. In essence, Eastman was disbarred for exercising his free speech rights and providing legal counsel to President Trump in the aftermath of the election.

If a state can disbar a conservative attorney for his advocacy — his free speech — by retroactively labeling that advocacy as professional misconduct, then the left will be empowered to wage lawfare against every conservative attorney with whom they disagree.

The article notes:

The implications extend far beyond Eastman. Every attorney who represents a controversial client, advances a novel constitutional theory, or challenges prevailing legal orthodoxy has an interest in ensuring that professional discipline is not used to chill protected advocacy. Today’s unpopular argument may become tomorrow’s accepted precedent. The Constitution protects the freedom to make those arguments in the first place.

Free speech is protected by the U.S. Constitution. Some of the people on the political left need to remember that.

What The Democratic Resistance To The Save Act Is Really About

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On Wednesday, The Federalist posted an article about the SAVE Act, which has been stalled in Congress for more than a year (after passing the House of Representatives). Roughly 80 percent of Americans of both parties support the bill, but Congress does not seem to be listening to the voters.

The article reports:

So why has almost every Democrat in the House voted against it, and why is every Democrat in the Senate blocking the bill from reaching the floor for an up or down vote? 

Slotkin (Senator Elissa Slotkin, D-Michigan) explained what we’ve known for some time: Democrats are much more concerned about making it easier to vote than they are about making it hard to cheat. Democrats, as Slotkin unwittingly noted, lose elections when elections are secured. 

“The other thing that we blocked yesterday was the SAVE Act,” the liberal said to a burst of applause. “[The act] would literally allow this administration to rig our democracy so that it would be hard for any Democrat in any state to win an election.”

Why would insuring the legality of every vote make it hard for Democrats to win elections? Insuring that only American citizens vote in American elections is not rigging elections–it is insuring that the votes of legal citizens are not cancelled out by the votes of people who have no right to vote.

The article notes:

The Republican-controlled House has passed the SAVE Act on party-line votes on three separate occasions. The bill, however, has languished in the Senate thanks to a Democrat filibuster and some RINOs refusal to fight it. 

As an X account named Just Call Me Jaded summed it up, “If you vote for the people who think you are too dumb to get an ID you are proving their point.” 

The (false) argument is that married women would not be able to vote because their name was not the same as it was on their birth certificate. That’s really odd. I had no problem changing my name on my driver’s license or my social security account when I got married. I think I could prove who I am to the voter registration people.

This Makes My Head Hurt

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On Tuesday, The Federalist posted an article about a recent decision by D.C. District Court Judge Sparkle Sooknanan. The Judge is from Trinidad and Tobago.

The article reports:

D.C. District Court Judge Sparkle Sooknanan, who is from Trinidad and Tobago, blocked the Trump administration from using an updated database called the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) system in order to ensure that only American citizens vote in American elections.

Sooknanan became a U.S. citizen in 2009, but seemingly still retains citizenship in Trinidad and Tobago, which she said she would only renounce “if required by law.” As Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., pointed out, “If judges can stop Presidents, they should not also be citizens of foreign nations.”

The judge argued that because the database can sometimes have outdated information — for example, if someone obtained citizenship more recently than the last available information — the whole enterprise of making sure noncitizens cannot vote in American elections should be thrown out.

The article concludes:

Before becoming a federal judge, Sooknanan was a key Biden Justice Department official who pressed to go after parents the Biden administration deemed “domestic terrorists” for being concerned about what their children were learning in public schools across the country.

“Import third-world people, put them in power, watch your country start resembling their homelands,” Greg Bovino, former commander-at-large of the U.S. Border Patrol, said of Sooknanan. “Mass deportations now, before the next 100 million illegals we have here have anchor babies lock it in.”

We already have proof that thousands of people who are not citizens have voted in our elections. If one person were not allowed to vote because of the time of the information, that would be unfortunate, but not as unfortunate as thousands of American voters having their votes cancelled out by illegal votes. We have an integrity problem with our elections. In some places it is worse than in others. This judge should be protecting election integrity–not protecting election fraud.

Saving Taxpayer Money By Educating Doctors

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On June 15th, The Federalist posted an article about Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s push to prioritize nutrition education in medical training. You really are what you eat, and the American diet is anything but healthy.

The article reports:

Under the leadership of Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., nutrition education will now be prioritized in U.S. medical organizations through a new initiative to equip doctors to tackle America’s burgeoning health crisis. This joint effort of both the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Education aims to raise the standards of nutritional education for a variety of the nation’s foremost medical organizations, including medical schools and hospitals. In addition to the 54 medical schools that have previously vowed to implement a minimum of 40 hours of nutrition education, 19 more schools voluntarily agreed to do so, signing the Nutrition Education Pledge, HHS announced Monday. This growing initiative will affect more than 52,000 medical students in 36 states.

Kennedy has spearheaded the initiative as a way to help combat America’s chronic disease crisis. America has a comparatively high rate of chronic illness, with conditions such as obesity, diabetes, and heart disease ranking among some of the nation’s leading causes of death. Many of these diseases are caused by a combination of factors, such as lifestyle choices and poor exercise. However, one of the major factors leading to chronic illness is poor nutrition.

“Poor diets are the primary driver of America’s chronic disease epidemic,” Kennedy stated Monday. “Today’s announcement reflects the shifting landscape toward placing nutrition and prevention at the core of patient health.”

The article notes:

Battling chronic disease won’t just save HHS money; it will also save on the entire nation’s medical costs, giving much needed relief to taxpayers. America spends about $5.3 trillion on health care per year. From the budget, more than $4.5 trillion goes to chronic diseases and mental health care. Cardiovascular diseases directly cost America’s healthcare system $223.2 billion annually, with that number slated to hit $2 trillion within the next 25 years.

It is going to be interesting to watch this play out. Secretary Kennedy is right, but Americans are addicted to fast food and unhealthy diets. It will be interesting to see if that addiction can be broken.

The Story Just Keeps Falling Apart

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This week E. Jean Carroll was in the news again. She is the person who has accused President Trump of raping her in a department store dressing room although she can’t remember when. She claims the incident took place in late 1995 or early 1996. A defendant has no way of coming up with an alibi if the supposed victim can’t remember when the crime took place. If she could remember the date, the President could show the court his planner from that date. I suspect that is the reason she can’t remember the date.I am amazed that this case even made it to court. Why were there no store clerks or people near the dressing room that heard the commotion?

On Friday, The Federalist posted an article about the case.

Here are a few highlights:

CNN reported that the investigation is centered on whether Carroll committed perjury. Prosecutors, CNN said, are focusing on a deposition Carroll provided in 2022 in which she said she received no outside funding for her lawsuit. Despite her testimony, it turns out billionaire Democrat donor Reid Hoffman paid some of her legal fees and expenses.

…Carroll accused Trump of raping her in a Bergdorf Goodman and then sued him for defamation when he denied it in 2019. Carroll notably declined to press criminal charges against Trump because, according to her, she “would find it disrespectful to the women who are down on the border who are being raped around the clock.” Carroll then filed a second lawsuit in 2022 after the state of New York temporarily changed a statute of limitations law.

…Ultimately, Trump was held liable for merely denying the allegation. After Carroll’s allegations went public in 2019, Trump released a statement in which he categorically denied even meeting Carroll.

“She is trying to sell a new book; that should indicate her motivation,” Trump said. “It should be sold in the fiction section. Shame on those who make up false stories of assault to try to get publicity for themselves or sell a book or carry out a political agenda.”

The article concludes:

To recap: A known anti-Trump Democrat mega-donor financed a lawsuit built on allegations by a woman who couldn’t remember the year of the purported assault, and a state changed its laws to facilitate the lawfare — all to assassinate the character of a sitting president who was punished for maintaining his innocence.

I hope at some point this case winds up in a court where the judge has some common sense and throws the whole thing out.

Fair And Needed

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On Thursday, The Federalist posted an article about President Trump’s proposed 1776 Fund, which some Congressmen and some liberal judges are trying to block.

The article reports:

The Trump v. IRS settlement announced May 18 created a $1.776 billion compensation pool — already dubbed the “1776 Fund” — to provide redress for victims of the political weaponization of our government institutions. Drawn from the U.S. Treasury’s permanent Judgment Fund, the money will compensate Americans who believe they were targeted for political, personal, or ideological reasons. The fund is open to any U.S. person or entity with no partisan test, though President Trump, his sons, and the Trump Organization are explicitly barred from payouts. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche has described it as a mechanism to hear claims from those subjected to “lawfare and weaponization” by the prior administration.

As the fund is being discussed, many of us are starting to realize the depth and scope of the Biden administration’s use of the government to destroy its political opponents.

The article notes:

The scale of the targeting is now public. The Senate Judiciary Committee has revealed that in then-Special Counsel Jack Smith’s “Arctic Frost” operation 197 secret subpoenas were issued to 34 individuals and 163 businesses seeking records on at least 430 Republican individuals and entities. Targets included election integrity analysts, private citizens, elected officials, and attorneys. Many subpoenas carried nondisclosure and gag orders, so victims often learned years later they had been placed under surveillance.  

…The roughly 430 Republican individuals and entities targeted in the Arctic Frost operation were placed under secret subpoenas and gag orders without their knowledge, often only learning years later that they had been swept up in the dragnet. Parallel civil litigation often amplified the toll. Defendants in cases like Fair Fight v. True the Vote and parallel voter-challenge lawsuits in Pennsylvania and Michigan faced massive defense costs and uncertainty while the Biden DOJ actively supported the opposing side. Those harms — financial, professional, and physical — cannot be dismissed as collateral damage. They are the predictable result of weaponizing government levers of power against lawful activity.

The article concludes:

Democrats established and defended the rules that allowed expansive use of the Judgment Fund. Republicans are now using those same rules to compensate victims of the weaponization those rules enabled.

Restitution today is necessary. Prevention tomorrow is imperative. Government power must never again be turned on lawful private citizens doing the work of democracy — challenging voter rolls, researching election integrity, or petitioning officials for redress of grievances. Only then will the machinery of justice serve all Americans equally.

Equal justice under the law used to be an American principle. It needs to be re-established.

Learning From Past Mistakes

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On Tuesday, The Federalist posted an article about the work requirements added to Medicaid in the One Big Beautiful Bill.

The article reports:

President Ronald Reagan famously embraced the Russian proverb “Trust, but verify” during negotiations with the Soviet Union over nuclear arms reductions. Reagan understood that when there are incentives to cheat, verification is essential.

That same principle applies to government welfare programs, including the forthcoming Medicaid work requirements. In the Working Families Tax Cut Act — also known as the One Big Beautiful Bill — Congress required able-bodied, working-age adults to work, volunteer, or participate in job training to receive Medicaid unless they qualify for an exemption. More than 80 percent of Americans support such requirements.

…Unfortunately, some states are gearing up to permit applicants (or intermediaries enrolling them on their behalf) to self-attest to meeting the requirements or qualifying for an exemption. These states would permit applicants to simply check a box without verification.

Failing to verify applicant information has led to widespread improper enrollment and fraud in other programs. The massive improper enrollment in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) proves that when the government weakens verification standards, including through self-attestation, improper enrollment rises dramatically.

The article concludes:

This year, the Trump administration has rightly targeted fraud and reversed Biden policies that enabled improper ACA enrollment to skyrocket. Allowing self-attestation in Medicaid would return us to the Biden administration’s policy failures. The American people overwhelmingly support commonsense work requirements for able-bodied adults receiving welfare benefits, not policies that can be so easily gamed. When spending other people’s money on other people, verification — not blind trust — is the prudent policy.

It does no good to pass a law with a work requirement if you don’t enforce the work requirement. Not verifying the work requirement will simply open the door for more of the massive fraud that has been uncovered by Vice-President J.D. Vance’s anti-fraud task force.

The Warning In The Vote

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On Wednesday, The Federalist posted an article about the results of the Indiana primary elections. Five of the seven state senators who opposed the redistricting of the state lost in their primary elections. One election was too close to call, and one of the senators who opposed redistricting won his election. The voters supported the candidates President Trump endorsed–not the establishment Republicans. This should be a lesson to all of the Republicans in the Senate–listen to the people–pass the SAVE Act.

The Federalist reports:

Indiana conservatives just sent a message to RINOs everywhere: FAFO. These voters are mad as hell and they’re not going to vote for spineless Republicans anymore.

Hopefully GOP senators performing in the failure theater production of “debating” the SAVE America Act heard Indiana’s message loud and clear.

Most of the Republican Indiana state Senate candidates endorsed by President Donald Trump won primary races Tuesday against incumbents who voted with Democrats to stop a congressional redistricting bill. As of late Tuesday evening, The New York Times election results showed challengers picked up at least five of the seven state Senate seats targeted by Trump and allied conservatives groups. Republican primary voters rejected politicians standing on “fairness” principles while Democrats employ every weapon in their political arsenal to wrest back control of the U.S. House. 

Indiana Sen. Jim Banks helped drive the campaign to oust the incumbents who helped kill a mid-decade redrawing of the red state’s congressional maps. The redistricting plan, urged by Trump, would have given Republicans two additional seats in a House of Representatives with a razor-thin GOP majority.

“Everyone in Indiana politics should have learned an important lesson today: President Trump is the single most popular Republican among Hoosier voters,” Banks said in a statement. “Indiana is a conservative state, and we deserve conservatives in our State Senate who have a pulse on Republican voters.” 

Ideally, the makeup of the Congressional delegation from each state should reflect the makeup of the voters in that state. Unfortunately, that doesn’t seem to be the case. As much as I don’t like the Republicans redistricting to gain U.S. House seats, I don’t like what the Democrats have done with U.S. House districts in the past either. Why do the six New England states have no Republicans in the U.S. House? That is unfair. Until the Democrats stop creating districts in odd shapes to get Democrats elected, I am unwilling to condemn the Republicans for doing the same thing.

Sometimes A Big Tent Is Nothing More Than A Site For A Brawl

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Establishment Republicans are always expressing their desire for a ‘big tent’ where everyone is welcome. Maybe they should consider who they are inviting in. Some of the Republicans are so offended by the fact that President Trump is President (he is not one of their club) that they are willing to throw the country to the wolves to get him out of office. We all understand that if the Democrats win Congress in the mid-term elections, President Trump will be impeached and all of the positive things that he has done for the average American will go away. Congress has not passed into law most of his Executive Orders, and those Orders will go away–energy independence will be one of them. But the Establishment Republicans don’t care about that, and they are working hard to make sure they lose the mid-term elections.

On Wednesday, The Federalist reported:

You almost have to admire how far some Republicans are willing to go to lose the 2026 midterms — and ultimately, the country.

Throughout their recent two-week vacation, several GOP lawmakers have been making the media rounds to tout “bipartisan” legislation they claim will finally solve America’s broken immigration system. There’s just one teensy-weensy important detail that somehow gets brushed aside: The bill would allow millions of illegal aliens to continue living in the United States.

Sponsored by Reps. Maria Elvira Salazar, R-Fla., Mike Lawler, R-N.Y., and other lawmakers, the so-called DIGNIDAD (Dignity) Act permits “certain long-term undocumented immigrants to earn legal status, without amnesty or a path to citizenship” so that foreign nationals who broke U.S. immigration law can have an “opportunity,” according to a Salazar press release. The measure would notably create a “Dignity Program,” which the Florida congresswoman’s office described as a “7-year earned legal status program allowing undocumented immigrants to live and work legally, with renewable status based on good conduct and restitution.”

The article notes:

Such a proposal isn’t just asinine because it cripples America’s sovereignty and long-term survival as a nation. It’s also incredibly moronic from a political standpoint.

Aside from the “One Big Beautiful Bill” that they never effectively sold to voters, Republicans have virtually nothing to show for their congressional majorities. The Senate GOP still hasn’t passed the SAVE America Act, rogue judges continue to go unpunished, many of Trump’s executive orders haven’t been codified into law, and other conservative priorities remain untouched.

So, exactly what are voters — including those who identify as Republicans — supposed to vote for this fall? Amnesty? More GOP obstruction of the conservative policies they were promised but are now told aren’t possible with Republican majorities?

The Grand Old Party doesn’t have an answer — and it shows.

I don’t know if the Republicans are stupid or just want to lose.

This Could Become A Dangerous Trend

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On Thursday, The Federalist posted an article about Finland’s standards for ‘hate speech.’

The article reports:

In a decision released this morning, Finland’s supreme court voted 3-2 to convict a bishop and a member of parliament for publishing a pamphlet explaining Christian theology about sexual differences. The decision could tacitly ban orthodox Christianity in Finland by banning Christians from speaking about what the Bible clearly says.

Bishop Juhana Pohjola and Member of Parliament Paivi Rasanen face thousands of euros in fines and their challenged Christian speech “removed from public access and destroyed,” the court ordered, unless they successfully appeal to the European Court of Human Rights. If they appeal, the case could affect speech and conscience rights worldwide.

…The ruling is the latest in a growing pattern of anti-Christian speech repression spreading across formerly Christian European countries. England now jails more people per day for alleged speech crimes than Vladimir Putin’s Russia, according to a former U.S. ambassador, even imprisoning and prosecuting people for praying silently on public property.

The article concludes:

Last year, the Trump State Department tweeted that the prosecution of Rasanen was “baseless.” In 2021, members of Congress asked the U.S. Commission on International Human Rights to sanction Finland over this case, and human rights advocates asked the U.S. Treasury secretary to sanction Finland for violating human rights with this prosecution.

President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance have also publicly rebuked Europe over its increasing speech repression, but those policies have not abated.

The right to free speech in Europe has been eroding for a some time. In October 2018, I posted an article about Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff who was charged with hate speech for teaching a course about Mohammad that included identifying him as a pedophile (story here).

The policy of denying free speech will come to America unless we are alert enough to stop it. The concept of ‘hate speech’ is not compatible with the concept of free speech. The main problem is that ‘hate speech’ is in the eye of the beholder. What Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff said was true, but that did not stop it from being considered hate speech.

The Need For Orange Jumpsuits

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On Thursday, The Federalist posted an article about Robert Mueller and Russiagate. Because of the declassification of records from that time period, we now know that Russiagate was simply a plan to kneecap the first Trump administration. We can also observe that although many laws were broken, no one has been held accountable. (for further information on the corruption of Robert Mueller, see here. Some of us in Massachusetts remember him well.)

The Federalist reports:

The recent passing of former FBI Director and Special Counsel Robert Mueller has spawned predictably fawning coverage from America’s broken media. But lost in this fetish fest is any real acknowledgement of the incalculable damage Mueller’s invasive Trump-Russia collusion scam did to the country — and more importantly, how none of its key players faced any accountability for it.

To better understand the egregiousness of it all requires delving back into the scheme’s origins.

At the time, a 2016 presidential matchup between former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and real estate billionaire Donald Trump may have seemed a bit unorthodox when compared to the typical national elections Americans were accustomed to. Little did the public realize that this sentiment extended far beyond normal politics, and that the prospects of a Trump presidency were something the D.C. establishment was not willing to tolerate — not Clinton herself, and certainly not the U.S. intel apparatus.

The article concludes:

America cannot successfully move past the Russia collusion hoax until its founders and lawbreaking participants receive the legal reckoning they deserve. They and their antics did indescribable harm to the republic and the country’s democratic process that we’re still grappling with years later.

Mueller may be gone, but the destruction he left in his wake is beyond measure. Americans are right to demand justice for what he and his team did to the country. And until they get it, they have no reason to waiver in that desire.

Please follow the link to read the entire article. Unless the people who willingly broke laws and took away innocent people’s civil rights are brought to justice, equal justice under the law will not truly exist in America.

The Camel’s Nose Is Under The Tent

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On Friday, The Federalist posted an article about some of the changes Mayor Mamdani is making to New York City law.

The article reports:

At New York City’s Interfaith Breakfast last week, Mayor Zohran Mamdani did not merely criticize federal immigration enforcement — he reframed it as a religious and moral transgression. Invoking the Islamic doctrine of hijra, he urged New Yorkers to “stand alongside the stranger” in permanent, unqualified solidarity, elevating prophetic example above constitutional sovereignty. 

“Islam [is] a religion built upon a narrative of migration,” Mamdani declared. “The story of the Hijra reminds us that Prophet Muhammad … was a stranger too, who fled Mecca and was welcomed in Medina.” He then universalized the narrative into a binding civic command: “The obligation is upon us all … to look out for the stranger.” 

I have no problem looking out for the stranger who came to America legally and has committed any crimes.

The article notes:

In this framework, federal enforcement is not lawful authority but cruelty. Immigration officers become “masked agents, paid by our own tax dollars,” who “violate the Constitution and visit terror upon our neighbors.”  

“If these are not attacks upon the stranger among us, what is?” Mamdani asked. “There is no reforming something so rotten and base.” 

This is an inversion of moral authority. 

Mass migration is framed as a moral and civilizational imperative, demanding compassion and openness, while serious pushback on enforcement is recast as intolerant, unjust, or even xenophobic. This framing mirrors elements of the Muslim Brotherhood’s doctrine of tamkeen (institutional entrenchment) outlined in strategic writings such as the 1991 Explanatory Memorandum and the 1982 Project, which describe a phased civilizational strategy built on population presence, parallel institutions, resistance to full assimilation, and long-term influence over policy, law, and public narrative.  

The article concludes:

Mamdani’s speech illustrates that process in motion. The same pattern produced Europe’s parallel societies and no-go zones, where enforcement became politically untouchable. It is now visible in American cities, where sanctuary expansion renders borders symbolic and law selectively optional.

This is not compassion. It is the systematic replacement of citizenship with dependency, sovereignty with moral coercion, and a nation bound by law with tribes bound by grievance — abandoning the Naturalization Oath’s demand for “true faith and allegiance” to the Constitution.

Someone who supports Sharia Law cannot have an allegiance to the U.S. Constitution–the two legal codes conflict. There is also the issue of taqiyya which essentially says that is is permissible under Islam to lie to an infidel in order to advance the cause of Islam.

Wake up, America!

Missing?

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On Friday, The Federalist posted an article about a recent problem with the voter fraud investigation in Fulton County, Georgia.

The article reports:

A 2020 election scandal in Fulton County, Georgia’s most populous county, continues to grow with new details revealed in a State Election Board (SEB) meeting last Wednesday — and now, a week later, with an FBI raid seeking election documents from the county. 

Fulton County was notoriously plagued with issues like long lines and voting machine malfunctions in the 2020 primary election, problems The New York Times described as “a full-scale meltdown.” The problems continued through November’s Election Day and beyond, prompting concerns about votes being counted without proper supervision, among other things. The county’s repeated failures in 2020 so degraded trust in Fulton County’s ability to administer elections that the election director was forced to resign.

Now, members of the State Election Board have raised new concerns about the county’s administration of the 2020 election, revealing in last week’s meeting that the “tapes” used to verify that ballot counters started their counts at zero may be missing.

When a ballot scanner is used to count ballots, election officials must start the process by printing and signing a “zero tape,” which confirms the count started at zero. After counting ballots on the ballot scanner, officials must print and sign a closing tape, which confirms the final vote tally from that machine. In December, an attorney for Fulton County admitted that the county failed to sign off on more than 100 “tabulator tapes” — equivalent to about 315,000 votes — from early voting in the 2020 election. That admission was prompted by a complaint that was investigated by Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger’s office.

The article concludes:

State law only requires the secretary of state to retain election documents for 24 months past the election, and local governments only retain “records related to the process of computing, tallying, and canvassing the vote” for two years, according to the Georgia Archives.

But, as Johnston noted in last week’s meeting, the complaint was submitted in early 2022, “well within the 24-month period.”

On Wednesday, a week after the SEB meeting, the FBI executed a search warrant at the Fulton County election office. According to election attorney Cleta Mitchell, the search warrant included “zero tapes” from the 2020 general election.

Meanwhile, the board is left with few answers. It’s unclear whether the tapes ever made it out of Fulton County, if they were signed, or even if they exist at all. If they do exist, they may have been handled properly but thrown away in the years since 2020. They could even still be filed away somewhere, where investigators have been unable to track them down. No one seems able to provide a paper trail.

The people responsible for the fraud probably figured that time would run out before their activities were discovered. Obviously, that is not the case. Hopefully, there will be enough trials and convictions to discourage anyone else from attempting to steal an election.

A Refusal To Admit The Obvious

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On Wednesday, The Federalist posted an article about the ongoing discussion of the integrity of the 2020 election in Fulton County, Georgia.

The article reports:

At the center of that effort in Georgia was Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger. He repeatedly assured voters there were no problems — no violations, no misconduct, nothing to see — publicly stating there was “no sign of widespread fraud” during Georgia’s election process, refuting claims of irregularities in a letter to Congress, and again asserting that officials had not found systemic fraud.

…But just last month, Fulton County — Georgia’s most populous county — admitted that approximately 315,000 early ballots in the 2020 election were counted without the required poll worker signatures, a clear and direct violation of state regulations. County officials have further acknowledged they do not dispute that those ballots were improperly certified.

The article notes that Secretary of State Raffensperger has not cooperated with the investigation:

In December, the U.S. Department of Justice sued Georgia, seeking access to voter registration records amid concerns about whether the state is complying with federal election laws meant to prevent voter fraud and ensure only lawful votes are counted. According to the Justice Department, those records are necessary to evaluate compliance with the National Voter Registration Act, the Help America Vote Act, and the Civil Rights Act of 1960.

Raffensperger has refused to provide the records, arguing that doing so would require releasing sensitive personal information — a claim the Justice Department disputes, noting that federal law permits review of voter rolls with appropriate safeguards in place.

The article concludes:

Federal officials have been explicit about the consequences of refusing transparency. “At this Department of Justice, we will not permit states to jeopardize the integrity and effectiveness of elections by refusing to abide by our federal election laws. If states will not fulfill their duty to protect the integrity of the ballot, we will,” said Dhillon.

President Trump was right to demand answers. The American people were right to ask questions. And Georgia deserves accountability — which Raffensperger must finally face.

It seems like almost a give that the 2020 presidential election was stolen. We can’t undo that. The question is whether or not anyone will ever be held accountable.

Your Tax Dollars At Work

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The level of fraud in government programs is astonishing. Every day we read about another scandal involving the government’s ‘safety net.’ Many of us are wondering how much of our tax dollars are funding fraud rather than a ‘safety net.’

On Wednesday, The Federalist reported:

The ongoing scandal regarding Minnesota’s welfare-industrial complex demonstrates the extent to which government-created graft has “hidden” in front of the nation’s noses for not just years but decades. Another report released just before Christmas illustrates the depths of those fraudulent payments.

Last summer, I wrote here about a report by Louisiana’s legislative auditor highlighting nearly $10 million in Medicaid payments that state made on behalf of deceased beneficiaries between February 2019 and last March. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the most recent report shows that this type of government waste and abuse — or, depending on one’s perspective, fraud by insurance companies, who receive payments for “covering” dead people — occurs with regularity nationwide.

The report came from the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General (OIG) and covered payments made to Medicaid managed care organizations from July 2021 through June 2022. The report arises because in most (but not all) cases, state Medicaid agencies do not directly administer benefits (i.e., pay doctors and hospitals who treat beneficiaries). Instead, they contract with managed care organizations and pay insurers a capitated (i.e., per-person) amount every month for that coverage. That dynamic represents a clear opportunity for fraud: If no one reports the beneficiary as deceased, the insurer will get paid to “cover” that person indefinitely.

The article notes:

A footnote in the report demonstrated how this type of abuse is a choice that states consciously make. OIG noted that “Connecticut, Maine, Mississippi, Nebraska, South Dakota, and Wyoming had no capitation payments with a service date after the month of the enrollee’s death.” In other words, these six states all imposed proper safeguards to ensure that Medicaid dollars did not go to dead beneficiaries, while 35 other states did not, leading to the improper payments. (The remaining states did not have significant amounts of capitated payments to managed care organizations and therefore would not face this type of fraud.)

It’s time for all states to put in place laws that protect taxpayer money. The government should not be paying money to dead people!

Holding The Line

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On January 12th, The Federalist posted an article about the reaction to President Trump’s statement about being flexible about using federal funds to fund abortion. This may be an issue where Republicans actually demonstrate having a spine.

The article reports:

Less than one week after President Donald Trump appeared to encourage congressional Republicans to put the annually passed congressional restriction on taxpayer-funded abortion on the chopping block, the White House is walking back his comments and members of the Senate GOP who looked like they might cave with Trump are committing to holding the line on the Hyde Amendment.

For nearly 50 years, the legislative provision barring taxpayer-funded elective abortions, including through federal healthcare programs such as Medicaid, was a nonnegotiable for Republicans who claim to belong to the pro-life party. Congress’ latest fight over whether to extend Obamacare, however, put the Hyde Amendment in the line of fire from both Democrats, who have had it out for Hyde for years, and the GOP alike.

The first call from inside the house came last week, when Trump urged GOP representatives to “be a little flexible on Hyde.”

The article concludes:

The Federalist also asked the White House early last week to clarify Trump’s comments and position on the Hyde Amendment, especially considering his historic support for making it permanent, but did not receive a response. On Friday, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt appeared to walk back Trump’s declaration. She told The Daily Signal that “The president did not change the administration’s policy” on prohibiting taxpayer-funded abortion and pointed to his 2024 executive order demanding Hyde Amendment enforcement.

“What the president was saying yesterday was Republicans, and frankly Democrats, too, need to show a little bit more flexibility so we can actually get something done with respect to the issue of health care,” Leavitt added.

Using federal funds to fund abortion is a bad idea. First of all, it devalues life. We have enough scientific evidence now to know that a baby is a baby when it is conceived–it is not a blob of tissue, it is not any other animal–it is a baby. I don’t think we will ever reach a point where abortion is illegal in all fifty states, but we can stop the federal government from funding it.

I Told You So Just Doesn’t Cut It

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This post is based on an article posted at The Federalist on December 23. Obviously, I am a bit late to the game, but it is an important article.

The article reports:

Fulton County, Georgia, recently made an admission that should have commanded national attention. During a hearing before the Georgia State Election Board, county officials acknowledged that approximately 315,000 early ballots cast in the 2020 presidential election were unlawfully certified yet were nonetheless included in Georgia’s final, official results, in a race Joe Biden was officially declared to have won by just 11,779 votes.

The admission arose from a challenge filed by David Cross, an election integrity activist, who alleged that Fulton County violated Georgia election law in its handling of early voting. Under state statute, each ballot scanner is required to produce tabulation tapes at the close of voting, and poll workers must sign those tapes to certify the reported totals. These signed tapes are not merely an administrative safeguard. They are central to determining whether the vote count itself is legitimate.

So I guess that phone call from President Trump to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger was justified! However, that is not the point.

The article concludes:

Cross, whose persistence brought these revelations to light, has asked the State Election Board to decertify Fulton County’s 2020 advanced voting results for the historical record. His request is not aimed at changing past outcomes. We cannot undo the fact that for four years Joe Biden was president. But an official acknowledgment that Fulton County’s vote certification, and by extension the Georgia outcome, was invalid would place a permanent mark on the deliberate misconduct of those responsible and the institutional failure that enabled it, while reinforcing the principle that election law is not optional.

If the State Election Board declines to act, this episode may quietly fade from memory, leaving nothing to prevent it from happening again. Democracies do not fail when rules are broken. They fail when no one is held accountable.

Let’s put the people in jail who were responsible for this fraud, and let’s have an honest election this year and in 2028!

The Truth Comes Out

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On December 23, The Federalist posted an article about the corruption in Georgia during the 2020 election.

The article reports:

Fulton County, Georgia, recently made an admission that should have commanded national attention. During a hearing before the Georgia State Election Board, county officials acknowledged that approximately 315,000 early ballots cast in the 2020 presidential election were unlawfully certified yet were nonetheless included in Georgia’s final, official results, in a race Joe Biden was officially declared to have won by just 11,779 votes.

The admission arose from a challenge filed by David Cross, an election integrity activist, who alleged that Fulton County violated Georgia election law in its handling of early voting. Under state statute, each ballot scanner is required to produce tabulation tapes at the close of voting, and poll workers must sign those tapes to certify the reported totals. These signed tapes are not merely an administrative safeguard. They are central to determining whether the vote count itself is legitimate.

I am not saying that all of the questionable ballots were case for Joe Biden, but isn’t it interesting that it took over 300,000 questionable votes to defeat President Trump.

The article notes:

On Jan. 2, 2021, Trump called Raffensperger (Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger) to discuss the irregularities in Fulton County, mentioning the county no fewer than 14 times during the call and stating flatly that it was “totally corrupt.” Trump cited estimates of “250 to 300,000 ballots” that had been “dropped mysteriously into the rolls,” repeatedly noting that Fulton County had never been “checked.” In light of what has now been formally admitted, those claims read less like hyperbole and more like an uncannily accurate description of what actually occurred.

Rather than taking those concerns seriously as questions of whether the law had actually been followed, Raffensperger dismissed them outright, insisting that “we do have an accurate election.” What he did not disclose was that his chief of staff, Jordan Fuchs, was secretly recording the conversation in violation of the law, as The Federalist’s Mollie Hemingway reported last year. Immediately after the call, Fuchs leaked the tape to The Washington Post, where, the very next day, it was selectively framed to create the now-infamous narrative that Trump had pressured Raffensperger to “find 11,780 votes.”

The article concludes:

If the State Election Board declines to act, this episode may quietly fade from memory, leaving nothing to prevent it from happening again. Democracies do not fail when rules are broken. They fail when no one is held accountable.

The state needs to make restitution to all of the people who were financially destroyed by the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) case brought against the people who challenged the integrity of the Georgia election.

Should We Forgive The Student Loans Of People Who Don’t Exist?

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On Tuesday, The Federalist posted an article about another scandal in Minnesota involving government funds.

The article reports:

In Minnesota, home to the largest population of Somali immigrants in the U.S. and the site of numerous fraud investigations, fraudsters received $12.5 million in student loan and education grant money, according to a letter Education Secretary Linda McMahon sent to Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.

The letter calls on Walz to resign, and states that a new fraud prevention system at the department has found over $1 billion in “attempted financial aid theft,” including by international fraud rings and artificial intelligence (AI) bots.

“[Y]our careless lack of oversight and abuse of the welfare system has attracted fraudsters from around the world, especially from Somalia, to establish a beachhead of criminality in our country,” McMahon wrote. “As President Trump put it, you have turned Minnesota into a ‘fraudulent hub of money laundering activity.’”

It is disturbing to me that international bad actors are taking advantage of the lack of accountability in spending American taxpayer money.

The article concludes:

In June, the Department of Education announced a “nationwide effort to eliminate identity theft and fraud in the federal student aid programs for the fall 2025 semester,” and a requirement for institutions of higher education to verify “certain first-time applicants who are enrolled in the summer term,” as an immediate effort to combat fraud.

“Federal Student Aid (FSA) data indicates that the rate of fraud through stolen identities, particularly involving technologically advanced fraud rings, has reached a level that imperils the federal student assistance programs,” the department stated at the time.

Another obvious safeguard, also announced by the Education Department in June, required first-time student aid applicants to “present, either in person or on a live video conference, an unexpired, valid, government-issued photo identification to an institutionally authorized individual and the institution must preserve a copy of this documentation.”

As the department has noted, the Biden administration removed verification capabilities for student loans and “diverted resources from fraud prevention toward its illegal loan forgiveness efforts,” opening the door for massive fraud.

I think it is time to turn the student loan program back to the states and back to private banks. I suspect that will end a lot of the fraud. Private business will always do a better job than the government. Note that it is the people from private industry put in place by President Trump that are finding the fraud.