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Where Was The Investigation?

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On Wednesday, Townhall posted an article about a young lady named Katie, who was visiting friends at the University of Illinois when the vehicle she was riding in was struck from behind at nearly 80 miles per hour by an intoxicated driver. Two young women were killed. Three others suffered devastating injuries.

The article reports:

According to court records, the driver had previously been removed from the United States, illegally reentered the country, and ultimately obtained an Illinois driver’s license before the crash.

Whether one supports or opposes Illinois’ immigration policies is beside the point.

Those facts alone should have prompted obvious questions inside state government.

How did someone previously removed from the United States obtain an Illinois driver’s license?

Were Illinois’ credentialing standards adequate?

Were existing safeguards followed?

If they were, should they now be strengthened?

If they weren’t, why not?

Should Illinois review the policies that made this possible?

Judicial Watch filed a Freedom of Information Act request concerning the death of Katie.

The article notes:

According to Judicial Watch’s review of the Governor’s FOIA response, there was virtually no evidence that Katie’s death prompted that kind of inquiry.

The most revealing part of the Governor’s files wasn’t what they contained. It was what they appeared to lack: any meaningful curiosity about how Illinois might prevent another family from experiencing the same loss.

That absence speaks louder than any press release.

The article concludes:

Every aviation disaster is investigated.

Every bridge collapse is examined.

Every major industrial accident is reviewed so future lives can be saved.

Government should hold itself to the same standard.

Its first responsibility is not to defend an ideology.

Its first responsibility is to pursue the truth, even when that truth is politically inconvenient.

Especially then.

Every morning I wake up knowing my daughter never will.

I have accepted that my grief is mine to carry.

What I cannot accept is the possibility that Illinois government moved on before it ever stopped to ask what happened—or whether another family could be spared.

Katie deserved more than condolences.

She deserved a government curious enough to ask how this happened…

courageous enough to examine whether its own policies played a role…

and humble enough to change them if they did.

Every Illinois family deserves that.

Katie’s death was not investigated because the questions it would expose would reveal how warped our past immigration and deportation policies have been.

Will The Facts Matter?

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Last night President Trump gave a speech about the problem of election fraud in America. Many of us who follow the non-mainstream media were familiar with most of the examples he cited about election fraud.

This is the chart of which networks carried the speech:

Somehow I don’t trust CBS’s fact-checking.

On Thursday, Just the News posted an article about the dangers of China hacking into our voter data base.

The article notes:

President Donald Trump announced in a speech on Thursday that China has compromised more than 200 million voter registration entries affecting 18 states, citing newly declassified U.S. Intelligence Community records compiled by the Government Transparency Task Force created in May. 

The findings triggered a review by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) of voter registration systems. In that review, the agencies outlined exactly how this exposed data could be exploited. 

The report warned that foreign countries, specifically China and Russia, have consistently targeted these state voter registration databases over the last decade.

“The impact of the breaches is not limited to ‘undermining confidence’ or ‘spreading false claims’ but the data itself could be used months or years after the breach to alter voter registration information,” the agencies wrote. “​​The real threat is what can be done with the stolen data.”

On Thursday, Townhall also posted an article detailing some of the information in the newly declassified documents. I strongly suggest following the link to read the documents.

The most disturbing thing to me is that the information about the data breach and possible fraudulent activities by China was left out of the daily Presidential briefing by people who decided their decisions on national security issues were more important than those of a duly-elected President.

People who dislike the President will ignore this information. The only way that exposing this fraud will be useful is if the people responsible for the fraud and the people responsible for keeping the information from the President go to jail.

Misplaced Blame

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Aside from the Quran instructing Muslims to kill the infidels, there are a number of rules that Muslims and Muslim countries follow. One rule is a total intolerance for homosexuality. I am not talking about a simple objection to the lifestyle–I am talking about public hangings and throwing people off of rooftops. In America, all of us may not support the lifestyle, but I think we understand that we don’t murder people for it. Evidently, some people who booked a cruise did not understand Islamic law. They suffered the consequences.

On Monday, Townhall posted an article about a cruise of gay men whose ship was denied entry in Turkey and Egypt. Had they been better informed, they would not have been surprised by this.

The article reports:

Unfortunately, Turkish authorities canceled the stop, citing ‘moral standards’ and ‘family values’ as grounds. Leftists were outraged, including singer and actress Patti LuPone, who was scheduled to perform on the ship.

The cruise said the Scarlet Lady would instead dock in Egypt and stop in Cairo. That stop was canceled by Egyptian authorities on similar grounds. This was not a shock to this writer, who was just in Egypt in June. In fact, you’re not allowed to have ‘transgender’ markers on your passport, or Egypt will deny you entry into the country.

Cruise organizers claim they made the stops last year with no issues.

Now, the LGBTQ+ crowd has decided to blame President Trump for the choices made by Turkey and Egypt.

“As a gay man, it’s just really hard to hear. I know that this kind of prejudice is not new to these kind of countries and obviously I don’t wanna go anywhere that shares those kinds of views,” the man said. “But you just can’t help but feel that with this current administration, people around the world feel more emboldened to do these kinds of things. And it’s just really awful.

The article notes:

That’s what Islam always was, what it is, and what it always will be. President Trump didn’t ’embolden’ them. In fact, President Trump supported gay marriage before Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton jumped on that bandwagon.

And it’s important gays who aren’t radical Leftists realize what the radical Left is enabling here. Islam is not kind to gays, and with Islamists gaining hold in the U.K. and U.S., it will end badly for the LGBTQ+ community.

Gays for Palestine is one of the most naive groups in the world. If they lived in a Muslim country, they would be hung or thrown off of a building. Having a gay pride parade in Gaza would result in the participants being gunned down. In Israel the parade would be allowed. I think the LGBTQ+ community is on the wrong side of the fence on this one.

Standing Up For Patriotism

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On Friday, Townhall posted an article about a misguided disciplinary action against some of our National Guard pilots.

The article reports:

Earlier, Townhall reported that several South Carolina National Guard Pilots were suspended after they conducted a flyover at a beach. The eight pilots made the pass during the Salute from the Shore Airshow, celebrating Independence Day.

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth caught wind of the disciplinary action and vowed to fix the issue.

Sean Parnell, Assistant to the Secretary of War, posted an update this morning, writing, “Effective immediately, the suspension of all involved South Carolina pilots has been lifted. Carry on, Patriots.”

Lifting the suspension implies that it is okay to be a patriot. I am sure the people on the beach loved the flyover.

The article includes videos of the people on the beach cheering on the pilots. Americans have the right to be patriotic. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth just affirmed that right!

Where Some Of Our Tax Money Has Gone

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On Saturday, Townhall posted an article about a recent federal court case in Central Islip, New York.

The article reports:

Two people were indicted earlier this week in federal court in Central Islip on charges of committing healthcare fraud and conspiracy to defraud the U.S. 

Saad Aziz, 52, of New York, and Zabed Chowdhury, aka “Jared,” 49, of Lake Ronkonkoma, New York, were charged with conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud, health care fraud, conspiracy to defraud the United States and pay healthcare kickbacks, paying health care kickbacks, and money laundering conspiracy.  

The defendants allegedly offered and paid healthcare kickbacks and submitted fraudulent claims to Medicaid for ambulette services to medical appointments that were not performed, or the costs were artificially inflated.  

The defendants were previously charged by complaint and will be arraigned at a later date.

The article notes:

The defendants also systematically inflated their Medicaid reimbursements.  Although numerous addiction treatment centers on Long Island were available to beneficiaries, the defendants directed beneficiaries to request transportation to addiction treatment centers in New York City and to provide false pickup or drop-off addresses so they could bill Medicaid for longer, more expensive trips.  Through this scheme, the defendants submitted more than $18 million in claims for rides exceeding 75 miles and, overall, fraudulently billed Medicaid more than $35 million.

…If convicted of the charges, the defendants each face up to 20 years in prison, and restitution and forfeiture of at least $35 million, including several real properties and 15 bank accounts.

The article concludes:

The government’s case is being handled by the Criminal Section of the Office’s Long Island Division.  Assistant United States Attorney Adam R. Toporovsky is in charge of the prosecution, with assistance from Paralegal Specialist Janelle Robinson.  Assistant United States Attorney Madeline O’Connor of the Office’s Asset Forfeiture Section is handling forfeiture matters.

On April 7, 2026, the Department of Justice announced the creation of the National Fraud Enforcement Division (Fraud Division). The Fraud Division is focused on investigating and prosecuting those who commit fraud against the American people.

How much taxpayer money could be saved by better oversight of benefit spending?

Freddie Goes To The White House

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I have thoroughly enjoyed reading the posts of the Europeans visiting America for the World Cup Soccer matches. Their impressions of America and their comments about what they saw on the news about America vs. what America actually is like were very interesting. One of the people who posted his journey on X was a German named Freddie. Unfortunately, Freddie de-activated his X account. He posted at Instagram to explain why:

“Hey everyone, just wanted to let you know why I deactivated my account,” he wrote. “1. This was the plan all along even before we started the World Cup trip. 2. Too many people seem to have a problem with us having a genuinely good time here in the country, and this is ruining the fun a bit for us because we really just wanted to document our road-trip and never expected that people would have a problem with it.”

But the story has a happy ending!

On Thursday, Townhall reported:

Even though Leftist trolls forced Freddy, the German World Cup tourist, to delete his X account, our favorite football fan is still enjoying his time in America. This is a great way to show him the best of America, despite the social media trouble.

Special Presidential Envoy Nick Adams shared the news and a statement on X.

Here’s what the statement says:

I arranged a visit to the White House for Freddy, the viral FIFA World Cup tourist from Germany, to cap off what has been an epic FIFA World Cup visit to the United States.

Despite the hateful and angry radical Left’s vicious attempts to doxx Freddy, launch personal attacks, and intimidate him into submission, ultimately forcing him to delete his social media accounts to protect his peace and safety, the West Wing visit will still take place.

Freddy’s only ‘crime’ was loving America and documenting his travels in a completely non-partisan way. This is what they do. They try to scare and silence anyone who doesn’t conform.

As the Special Presidential Envoy for Tourism, I am proud that Freddy enjoyed his trip here. I refused to let the radical Left turn something positive for our country into another victory for their politics of hate.

In the true spirit of 250, I lifted Freddy up and made sure their mob tactics would not win. The visit will go ahead as planned.

America remains open for business and open to visitors who simply want to experience the greatest country on Earth. We will never let the mob dictate who gets to enjoy it.

This is the spirit of America!

It Really Is Time For This To End

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According to Townhall, the Iranians have walked out on negotiations in Switzerland. Other sources say the talks are ongoing. The supposed  walkout is in objection to Israel defending itself from Hezbollah attacks. The article also noted that Qatar’s intermediary ignored Vance’s attempt to shake hands with him, more than suggesting that Qatar is acting on behalf of Iran at this stage. That shouldn’t come as a surprise–if Iran is the number one sponsor of world terrorism, then Qatar is the number two sponsor. There are also varying reports on whether or not Iran has closed the Strait of Hormuz. I will say that President Trump has a whole lot more patience than I do.

On Saturday, The Independent Journal Review reported:

Iran announced Saturday it will close the Strait of Hormuz, accusing Israel of launching strikes in Lebanon in violation of a ceasefire which had just taken effect.

The Israeli strikes took place hours after the ceasefire with the Hezbollah terror group took effect Friday at 4:00 p.m. local time, Reuters reported, citing Lebanese Civil Defense. The strikes preceded an announcement by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps that ships should not attempt to cross the Strait of Hormuz, Iranian state media outlet Seraph News reported.

Iran claimed the Israeli strikes violated the memorandum of understanding between the United States and Iran, which called for an immediate halt to hostilities between Iran, Lebanon, the United States, and U.S. allies.

Israel, meanwhile, claimed Hezbollah fired more than 50 projectiles at Israeli forces in southern Lebanon overnight, Reuters reported, citing an unnamed Israeli military official.

“Israel wants to attack Hezbollah, and they also are happy to screw up the ceasefire,” Defense Priorities Policy Director Benjamin Friedman told the Daily Caller News Foundation (DCNF). “They pushed us into the war, and they want us to continue it, even if it tanks the global economy.”

The strikes killed 16 people and injured 12 others, the Lebanese Civil Defense wrote in a Saturday post to X.

It really is time to turn the bombers loose and totally defeat Iran. Peace is not possible any other way.

Finding The Fraud

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On Friday, Townhall posted an article about the amount of fraud the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is finding in federal programs.

The article reports:

The Trump administration continues to crack down on waste, fraud, and abuse in federal welfare programs, as the Secretary of Agriculture revealed that over the past year, hundreds of thousands of instances of alleged SNAP fraud have been uncovered across the country. The majority of those instances, she said, have come from red states that have been eager to partner with the federal government to help ensure fraud is rooted out of their systems. Blue states, on the other hand, have been more reluctant to allow the federal government to review their programs.

The article includes the following X post:

This is the link to the post:

https://x.com/SecRollins/status/2067750726034448433?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E2067750726034448433%7Ctwgr%5Ec3bdeca2e4761dd46bd281d2bb268dee8015bfe0%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftownhall.com%2Ftipsheet%2Fdmitri-bolt%2F2026%2F06%2F19%2Fthe-trump-admin-continues-to-crack-down-on-fraud-n2678006

The article concludes:

She (Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins) went on to praise Vice President JD Vance’s leadership in the White House Fraud Task Force, as the Trump administration has made rooting out waste, fraud, and abuse a central priority.

“The vice president has done a remarkable job of leading the fraud task force. And he and our other senior team has said the more fraud we can root out, the more we can protect those who really need these programs, but also protect the taxpayer and ensure that we’re doing everything we can to finally balance the budget,” Rollins added. “The federal government’s footprint has significantly shrunk. I read that the government is about the same size today as it was in the 1960s, which is a remarkable achievement as we move people from welfare to work. But this fraud is a really big component of that.”

Just ending the fraud in government spending will put us much closer to balancing the federal budget.

The Continuing Saga Of California Elections

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On Thursday, Townhall posted an article about some of the questionable practices that are coming to light about the current California elections.

The article reports:

California elections are chaotic. Los Angeles mayoral candidate Nithya Raman cried on election night after losing. Then, the mail-in ballots arrived, and now she and incumbent Karen Bass are heading to a runoff. Republican Spencer Pratt didn’t make it; he was leading until the mail-in ballots came in. This always sparks controversy and fascination: the election results and what seem like Democratic adjustments after all the votes from election day are counted. Now, there are reports from those on Skid Row claiming they were paid to vote for Bass or Raman (via NY Post):

A series of shocking videos show homeless residents on Los Angeles’ Skid Row claiming they were paid to vote for Mayor Karen Bass and councilwoman Nithya Raman.

The California Post obtained copies of the videos after they were published Tuesday on the TikTok account LaneNeedsSpencerPratt.

The footage, recorded near 7th Street and Flower Street in downtown Los Angeles on Tuesday morning, has since been provided to the Department of Justice. It also follows The Post’s revelations that thousands of homeless voters were registered to shelters where they didn’t live.

One shelter in Venice, where 185 Raman voters were registered, received $600,000 from taxpayers care of the socialist Raman.

In one of the clips, a man who calls himself Kevin Shepherd, claimed he received $4 to vote for Bass.

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“They gave you an optional choice,” Shepherd claimed, alleging the was offered $2 but negotiated for a higher payment and ultimately received $4.

Shepherd further claimed he completed a mail-in ballot for Bass and deposited it in a ballot box.

Skid Row resident, Rene Johnson, 39, also claimed she received $5 after being told to vote for Bass.

Johnson said she supported Bass, but told the creator she was still unclear about some of the forms she had completed.

“But, you know, at the time, I didn’t know that that was going on,” she said.

Please follow the link above to read the rest of the article. People need to go to jail for bribing voters. Otherwise, this will continue.

Confronting Fake News

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On Tuesday, Townhall posted an article about President Trump’s debunking some recent fake news.

The article reports:

President Donald Trump went scorched earth on reports that the Iranian regime cut off contact with the U.S. over Israel’s recent military action against Hezbollah in Lebanon.

In a post on Truth Social, the president wrote, “Fake News Reports that the Islamic Republic of Iran, and the U.S.A., stopped speaking a few days ago are false and erroneous.”

This is what the President posted on Truth Social:

The conversations between us have been going on continuously, including four days ago, three days ago, two days ago, one day ago, and today. Where they lead, one never knows, but as I told Iran, “It’s time, one way or another, for you to make a Deal. You’ve been doing this for 47 years, and it cannot be allowed to go on any longer!”

The Iranian state media has claimed that Iran suspended the talks because of Israel’s activities in Lebanon.

The article notes:

However, he (President Trump) also stressed that he had not heard this directly from the regime and posited that the reports were meant for media outlets to pick up. Trump on Tuesday said he believes Washington and Tehran could come to an agreement that would reopen the Strait of Hormuz while pushing Iran toward giving up its nuclear program.

…Trump has consistently demanded that Iran abandon its stockpile of highly enriched uranium, material that can be used to manufacture nuclear weapons. Iran has rejected full concessions on the nuclear matter, but expressed willingness to draw down its program in exchange for the lifting of sanctions and other demands.

Meanwhile, Americans are dealing with heightened gas prices as a result of Iran’s blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, which it started shortly after the war started.

It really is time for this to be over, one way or the other.

Private Sector Growth

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Under President Biden, according to AI, 300,000 federal jobs were added. Almost 40 per cent of those jobs were in the State Department or the Department of Health and Human Services (source here). Although a certain amount of federal jobs are necessary, they do not add a lot to the overall economy. President Trump has taken a different approach–shrinking the federal government and increasing jobs in the private sector.

On Friday, Townhall reported:

President Trump revealed at Federal Reserve Chair nominee Kevin Warsh’s confirmation hearing that “100 percent” of the new jobs created since 2025 have been in the private sector, as the Trump administration has sought to root out unnecessary bureaucrats within the federal government.

The article concludes:

This comes as Kevin Warsh is set to be confirmed to lead the Federal Reserve on Friday, with the Trump administration hoping to install someone willing to cut interest rates. The previous chair, Jerome Powell, found himself at odds with the president as he declined to lower rates amid concerns over the economy, including persistent inflation and slowing job growth. 

In an unusual move, Powell announced he will remain on the Fed’s Board of Governors, an unprecedented step not taken in nearly 80 years, citing concerns over the Fed’s independence.

I hate to be cynical, but I think Jerome Powell is staying on to make sure that the corruption in the remodeling process of the headquarters stays hidden.

About That New York City Budget Deficit…

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New York City Mayor Mamdani has claimed that he has solved New York City’s budget problem without raising taxes. Great! But let’s look at the small print.

On May 15th, Townhall reported:

Being a socialist means never having to understand how things in the real world work. That includes math, apparently, as New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani demonstrated yesterday. He announced he’d managed to miraculously close the city’s gaping budget deficit simply by “taxing the rich” and not cutting services.

That’s a lie, of course. The deficit was closed by delaying city contributions to the pension fun (good luck in retirement, city workers!) and a massive taxpayer bailout from Albany. That means Mamdani got the money from working class New Yorkers, and not “the rich.”

But his socialist supporters fell for it, hook, line, and sinker.

On May 12th, The New York Post posted a list of the increased charges to average New Yorkers to help balance the budget:

As every parent of a teenager has stated at least once, “Money does not grow on trees.” Socialism is expensive.

The New York Post notes:

The Department of Veterans’ Services is also ready to slash unspecified veteran events to save a measly $60,000, and Sanitation is expecting to cancel a battery disposal program to the tune of $353,000.

Under the “savings” plan, officials merely re-estimated revenue they believed would be more accurate, including counting on millions of dollars more for handgun licenses, permit applications to the Landmark Preservation Commission and Taxi and Limousine Commission license renewal fees.

The lion’s share of savings stems from the Department of Education, leaning heavily on vaguely defined “cost containment.”

About $149.5 million this fiscal year is expected to be saved from “improved financial controls,” while an eye-popping $922 million would be saved next year, which would be driven by “improved financial control,” including $30.3 million in procurement “reform.”

Mamdani, during a Tuesday press conference announcing his first budget, insisted his team searched “for every efficiency and savings we can find.”

“It is evidence of a new era of government in our city, one that can balance both ambition and fiscal responsibility, one that can invest in housing, child care, libraries, parks, schools and climate resiliency, while also cutting waste and finding efficiencies,” he said.

I just hope that when Mayor Mamdani goes to President Trump for a bailout, President Trump reacts the same way President Ford did when New York City asked for a bailout in 1975. President Ford said that while there might be risk and some temporary fluctuations in the financial markets, the greater risk to the American people was “provid[ing] a Federal blank check for the leaders of New York City” and not pushing for a “long-run solution to the city’s problems.”

I guess New York City is still looking for that long-run solution.

Refusing To Learn From History

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Minneapolis raised its minimum wage to $15 an hour in 2017. I have previously posted articles about the results of increasing the minimum wage (here and here). Those of us who understand economics knew exactly what the results of that increase would be. Unfortunately, the writers for The Minnesota Star Tribune had no idea.

A Townhall article from Tuesday quotes The Minnesota Star Tribune (Townhall added the emphasis_:

When the Minneapolis City Council approved a controversial $15 minimum wage in 2017, no one knew what would happen next.

Workers and business owners made dueling predictions of boom or bust that would result from the citywide wage hike. Cities with similar policies were still phasing in the $15 minimum, so it was impossible to say who was right.

Nearly a decade later, businesses in Minneapolis and St. Paul — which passed its own similar law in 2018 — say they’re stretched thinner than ever, and both cities have lost thousands of jobs.

Pressure on the hospitality industry is particularly acute. Restaurants and other leisure-related businesses say shrinking margins have left them less able to weather economic shocks, such as the federal immigration crackdown that forced many to temporarily close this winter.

The Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, which has studied the effects of the $15 minimum wage in Minneapolis since 2018, recently reported minimum wage policies have resulted in higher hourly pay but fewer available hours and positions. That has meant lower earnings: Between 2017 and 2021, the average decline in wage earnings across all industries was 1% in Minneapolis and about 2% in St. Paul. The research controlled for the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and unrest after George Floyd’s murder in 2020.

The article at Townhall notes:

We all knew exactly what would happen. Because we have years of minimum wage hikes that demonstrate the same pattern.

You don’t have to be a genius to predict that despite the empirical evidence that minimum wage hikes don’t help workers, more cities and states will implement them in the near future.

When Medicine Becomes Totally About Money

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On Wednesday, Townhall posted an article that illustrates what happens which the practice of medicine becomes more about money than about helping people.

In the Wikipedia (general accurate on this sort of thing) entry about the Hippocratic Oath it says:

“First do no harm”

Main article: Primum non nocere

Although it is often said that “First do no harm” (Latin: Primum non nocere) is a part of the original Hippocratic oath, no such phrase from which “First” or “Primum” can be translated appears in the text of the original oath, although a similar intention is vowed by, “I will abstain from all intentional wrong-doing and harm”. Another related phrase is found in Epidemics, Book I, of the Hippocratic school: “Practice two things in your dealings with disease: either help or do not harm the patient”[18] and it likely took shape from longstanding popular nonmedical expression.[19]

In the early days of the Oath, it was understood that the Oath was not in favor of either abortion of euthanasia. However, the current medical profession seems to have overlooked that fact.

Townhall reported:

Critics of government-approved “assisted suicide” programs have warned for years that such programs are a slippery slope to wholesale euthanasia at the hands of the state. In Canada, the Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) program now euthanizes more people per capita than there are gun deaths in America and more people than dogs. Those people include those with eating disorders, depression, and autism, as well as veterans, the poor, and the chronically ill who can’t get treatment under Canada’s failing socialized medicine system. These people do not have terminal illnesses, which was the selling point of MAiD, remember. They’re just inconvenient, and it’s cheaper for the state to kill them than provide support services.

Every single dire prediction made about MAiD has come true, and Canada is poised to offer the service to infants and children, too.

But they’re not the outlier here. In Switzerland, a woman who lost her son was euthanized. She was reportedly a perfectly healthy 56-year-old woman who needed counseling and support.

Instead, she was killed.

Please follow the link to read the entire article. It is heartbreaking. This is a lady who could have lived a happy, productive life with the proper counseling and emotional support.

The Culture Of Violence

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On Sunday, Townhall posted an article about a school shooting stopped by the Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office.

The article reports:

A Virginian transgender substitute teacher has been arrested for planning to commit a “murder spree” at a local school, the New York Post reported on Friday.

Police took Hadyn Dollery, a 19-year old male who identifies as a female, into custody after he bragged about his plot online and made references to a “kill list” over Discord. His target is said to have been John Champe High School in Aldie, Virginia near the Washington, D.C. area.

He had been considered a “nonlicensed substitute” in the 2025 to 2026 school year, but his information was removed from the school district’s database shortly following his arrest, according to the Post.

Authorities say that they learned of the thwarted attack due to a tip received by the police department’s Safe2Talk app.

I don’t like to put the blame on a specific community, but the numbers are adding up. I am very glad this man was arrested before he could carry out his plans. I have stated before–mixing testosterone with PMS is not a good idea. It might be a better idea to deal with transgender people by finding the underlying issue in their transgenderism and dealing with that rather than simply applying drugs and surgery without really knowing the motive behind the desire to transition.

The Double Standard Is Still With Us

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On Monday, Townhall posted an article about John Eastman being disbarred by the California Supreme Court. In 2024, a judge on California’s State Bar Court ordered John Eastman’s disbarment, but the decision was appealed. In the meantime, John Eastman was suspended from practicing law.

The article reports:

The California Supreme Court officially disbarred President Donald Trump’s former attorney, John Eastman, last week over his work assisting Trump to dispute the 2020 election results. Eastman merely provided options for Trump to consider in a legal memo — some of which would have resulted in Joe Biden winning the election — and drafted and filed a brief for him in the election challenge Texas v. Pennsylvania. In contrast, none of the attorneys involved in the 2000 election challenge representing Al Gore over “hanging chads” in Florida were disciplined.

John Eastman’s background is impressive. He is the founding director of the Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence, a public-interest law firm affiliated with the Claremont Institute. He is a former professor and former professor and former dean at Chapman University School of Law. He is also a former law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. At one point he was a frequent guest on the Hugh Hewitt radio show discussing the law and current issues. He is a very clear thinking lawyer. He is a man I would love to see on the Supreme Court. He should not have been disbarred, and I am sure the decision will be appealed.

The article concludes:

Other leftist attorneys around the country are also getting free passes from state bars. Marc Elias, working with Perkins Coie, paid Fusion GPS to produce the Steele dossier and concealed the payment structure in FEC filings. The FEC fined the DNC and Clinton campaign for misreporting the payments as legal services. Special Counsel John Durham prosecuted Michael Sussmann for lying to the FBI about whether he was representing the Clinton campaign. Sussmann was later acquitted. Andrew Weissmann aggressively prosecuted Arthur Andersen, destroying the company, but the Supreme Court unanimously overturned the conviction. Critics accused Weissman of Brady violations — failing to disclose exculpatory evidence to the defense and eliciting false testimony from a key government witness. Other witnesses testified that they felt pressured by the prosecution.

The disbarment of Eastman has set a terrible precedent. The law has been used to punish people merely for practicing their profession. Fortunately, the adults on the U.S. Supreme Court are likely to take his appeal. Although they only accept about 80 cases a year, they favor high-profile cases. This issue personally relates to them as lawyers, and Eastman is widely considered the top constitutional scholar on the right.

We have a lot of work to do to clean up our justice system.

Go, Grandma!

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In today’s world, many elderly people live alone. Their families generally check on them on a regular basis. Sometimes those checks have interesting results.

On Thursday, Townhall reported:

When West Lake, Ohio police got a call for a welfare check on a 91-year-old grandmother, they feared the worst. Both the family and the authorities tried to call the woman but were unable to reach her. The woman was part of the city’s ‘Are You Okay?’ program, where participants agree to get a daily welfare check call, and she wasn’t answering those, either.

Police showed up at her house to find her garage partially open and her car in the garage. When they entered the home, however, they found a plot twist they did not expect.

That unnamed grandma was alive and well, but so deeply engrossed in beating her personal record on a video game that she was simply ignoring all attempts to reach her.

News 5 Cleveland shared some of the police bodycam footage of the welfare check.

This is the link to the video:

https://x.com/JakeSucky/status/2044468294267125895?s=20

The article does not mention whether or not she broke her personal record! Go, Grandma!

Undermining The American Republic

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America is a Representative Republic. We send people to Washington to represent us. The Electoral College gives less populated states a voice in presidential elections. Without the Electoral College, America would be governed by the people elected by New York, California, Massachusetts, Texas, Pennsylvania, and Illinois. Of those states, only one is economically strong and relatively well-governed. Only one of those states has people moving to it and not out of it. The Electoral College protects us from taking the voice away from Americans in smaller states. But some people want us to be permanently governed by the people who ruined the states mentioned above.

On Tuesday, Townhall reported:

In another move to capture power, Virginia Democrats have signed the state onto the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, an agreement to award the state’s electoral votes to the presidential candidate who wins the popular vote even if the state would have otherwise granted its electoral votes to the other candidate.

So, Virginia doesn’t care how the residents of the state voted.

The article notes:

The legislation only comes into play in the event that the candidate who received the popular vote would not win the presidential election through the Electoral College. In such an event, the states who made up the compact would instead choose to act as unfaithful electors. To clarify: this new law blatantly disenfranchises Virginian citizens.

The article concludes:

They had not dreamed of a scenario in which Republicans could win the popular vote once again. 2024 was surely a hiccup, but ultimately didn’t factor into anything as Trump took the Electoral College as well. Instead, this is simply an attempt to prevent a Republican from laying claim to the presidency by winning the Electoral College while not receiving the popular vote.

Signatories currently make up 222 votes, with another 45 votes from states with outstanding attempts to enact the measure. Only 270 are needed for the popular vote to reign supreme, and with Democrats working tirelessly to allow illegals to vote in our elections, the danger is real.

The work to secure American elections continues to become more vital as Democrats across the country attempt to seize power.

This needs to be declared unconstitutional.

The Bloom Is Off The Rose

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What approval ratings indicate is subject to debate, but it’s interesting to see how some elected officials’ poll numbers have changed since they were elected. Zohran Mandani was elected with about 50 percent of the vote. He currently has a 47-35% favorability rating. It should also be noted that New York voters support raising personal income taxes on New York City residents who make at least $1 million by a 54-29% margin. (source here). The favorability ratings for Abigail Spanberger have also dropped.

On Tuesday, Townhall reported:

Well… well… well, Abigail Spanberger lied. She’s a Democrat. You don’t need to convince me that she was bad news. I didn’t vote for her, but many Virginians did. She won by a 15-point landslide in the 2025 elections, which also saw a total lunatic, who wishes death upon his political rivals and their families, rise to the attorney general’s office. People in this state are idiots.

So, she campaigned as a centrist when we all knew she was a radical leftist, and then her party introduced an avalanche of tax hikes and other nonsense. The result: a landslide win turned into an approval rating that’s in the 40s a few months into her term (via WaPo): 

Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger’s approval rating stands at 47 percent two months into the Democrat’s term, with 46 percent of voters disapproving and 7 percent expressing no opinion in a Washington Post-Schar School poll.

Spanberger won in a 15-point landslide last year after touting her reputation for bipartisanship built on three terms representing a conservative-leaning district in Congress. But her current ratings reflect sharp polarization among Virginia voters in their views of the state’s first female governor.

Nothing she has done should come as a surprise. In the past ten years, Democrats have made no secret of who they are–open borders, higher taxes, political redistricting, ignoring the Second Amendment, etc. I just hope Virginia can survive four years of Governor Spanberger. It is good news that in Virginia Governors cannot serve consecutive terms, so even if the voters love her, she cannot run for re-election in 2029.

Why Was This Woman Not In Jail?

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

The article reports:

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

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

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

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

The article includes the following X Post:

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

Good News For Taxpayers And Pro-Life Americans

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On Friday, Townhall posted an article about the legal challenges by Planned Parenthood to the ban on taxpayer money being used to fund abortion.

The article reports:

When President Trump signed the “Big Beautiful Bill” on July 4, 2025, cutting off federal Medicaid reimbursements to large abortion providers under Section 71113, the abortion industry immediately launched a coordinated, multi-front legal assault to force the money to keep flowing. The ACLJ jumped into the fight on Day One – and never looked back.

…Planned Parenthood filed suit in the Massachusetts federal district court within days of the bill’s passage. When the district judge granted two sweeping preliminary injunctions – claiming the defunding violated Planned Parenthood’s First Amendment rights – we filed four amicus briefs fighting back, including urging the First Circuit to issue an emergency stay. The First Circuit granted the stay on September 11, cutting off Planned Parenthood’s funding while the case proceeded – and later issued a unanimous landmark ruling upholding Section 71113 in its entirety and vacating both injunctions. Win.

Maine Family Planning opened a second legal front in Maine federal district court. We filed amicus briefs there at both the district and appellate levels arguing that no court can force Congress to spend money it specifically voted not to spend. The district court denied their injunction entirely, and after the First Circuit’s decisive ruling in the Planned Parenthood case, Maine Family Planning abandoned its appeal altogether and stipulated to dismissal. Win.

Even as those cases were resolved, California organized a coalition of 22 states to file their own lawsuit – California et al. v. HHS – seeking to reimpose Planned Parenthood funding across their jurisdictions. We filed our seventh amicus brief there, and the First Circuit handed California a decisive defeat, granting a stay that allowed Section 71113 to take effect even in the plaintiff states. With no viable legal theory remaining, the coalition has now dismissed its own case, seeing the writing on the wall. Win.

The article concludes:

As monumental as today’s victory is, Section 71113 of the “Big Beautiful Bill” cuts off Planned Parenthood’s Medicaid funding for one year. The abortion lobby will regroup. The only way to make this permanent is through Congress. The ACLJ will be at the forefront of that fight, just as we have been at every stage of this one.

I don’t know if we will ever be able to end legal abortion, but at least we can stop the taxpayers being forced to pay for it.

This Is No Way To Treat Voters

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On Wednesday, Townhall posted an article about the continuing partial shutdown of the government. This is a government shutdown brought about by petulant Democrats who have decided that they want to control how the Executive Branch administers border control and immigration enforcement. At the present time, Congress is not inconvenienced by the long lines at the airport because people who serve in Congress are immediately escorted to the front of the line. They don’t have to deal with the consequences of their actions. But it gets worse.

This was posted on X:

It should not be to goal of elected officials to make the people who elected them hurt!

Another X post included in the article:

The article concludes:

Whoever told the Democrats that this was a winning strategy doesn’t understand the American people. With the exception of the Leftist loon fringe, most of us do not approve of being used as political pawns, and we do not like it when the Democrats inflict pain on us for their gain.

More than that, after years of seeing illegal immigrants kill our citizens, increase crime in our cities, and flout American laws, we’re not going to look kindly on returning to the policies of the Biden years.

This will backfire on Democrats.

No Democrat who has supported this shutdown deserves your vote in November.

The Media Mocks A Really Good Idea

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In the age of smart phones and people addicted to them, we have lost the art of inter-generational communication. How many people under the age of 30 can communicate with anyone over the age of 50? One of the reasons we have lost this art is that we have given up eating dinner as a family. In the age of dinosaurs when I was raising my children, we made every effort to have dinner together every night. As the children got older, that was more of a challenge–high school sports, part-time jobs, etc., but we still made the effort. Our children’s friends were sometimes invited also. There were discussions about school, work, events in the neighborhood, etc. The topics didn’t really matter–what mattered was that everyone was included and everyone was heard.

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., has suggested that bringing back eating dinner together as a family would help strengthen our families and communities. I agree.

On March 9th, Townhall posted an article about this idea.

The article reports:

It’s honestly amazing what some outlets will say just to get a headline.

Secretary Kennedy recently gave a speech about families eating meals together and strengthening their communities — and The Daily Beast somehow turned that into “RFK Jr. Gives Bonkers ‘Anti-Demons’ Health Advice.”

Wish I was kidding. Apparently, encouraging people to spend time with their families is now controversial.

Secretary Kennedy’s message about the strength of community and the importance of sharing meals together should surprise absolutely no one. Like much of his and President Trump’s platform, it’s rooted in something (seemingly) fairly radical these days: common sense.

But common sense doesn’t generate clicks like outrage does. Because let’s be honest for a moment here…

It’s not bonkers to say we’re in a cultural — even spiritual — battle right now.

It’s not bonkers to say that spending more time with your community is good for your health.

It’s not bonkers to want kids spending less time glued to their phones and more time interacting with actual humans.

And it’s certainly not bonkers to suggest that families sitting down to eat together might actually matter. In fact, the research backs it up.

He also mentions that a lot of us need to learn how to cook. That might be true also.

Please follow the link to read the entire article. RFK, Jr., has some good ideas.

When Someone Doesn’t Follow The Script

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One of the rules for trial lawyers is never ask a question you don’t already know the answer to. Generally, the left-wing media also follows that rule, but sometimes they get answers they are not prepared for.

On March 6th, Townhall reported on one example of a very quick ‘cut to commercial’:

Kian Tajbakhsh appeared on CNN last night to discuss the Iranian operation. It wasn’t confrontational like Scott Jennings, Kevin O’Leary, or Ben Ferguson; he simply presented facts. He should know, as a former political prisoner. We discussed how liberals are trying to frame Operation Epic Fury as a new endless war, but it’s not new: Iran has considered itself at war with the United States since the Iranian Revolution. Tajbakhsh was present when officials stated this—we’ve been at war with the Islamic Republic since 1979.

This is the quote that caused a very quick cut to commercial:

TAJBAKHSH: “What happened with President Obama, I’ll just say this very quickly.”

“And I was in the State Department in the 2000s when we implored the Bush administration not to restrict the engagement with Iran simply to the nuclear file.”

“What happened with president Obama is that, for better or worse — and I’m not going to litigate that here — he decided that given the four big problems that have always been on American objectives with Iran, that is enrichment, ballistic missiles, proxies and democracy inside Iran, that he would put all the last three aside and focus only on the nuclear deal.”

“Now, I’m not going to say that was good or bad. I don’t think it was a great idea, but what we have seen and this is also maybe controversial and I think a lot of my liberal friends are going to hate me for this…”

“Is that unfortunately you can draw a straight line from the 2015 nuclear deal to October 7th.”

“I think that what the Trump administration is—”

PHILLIP: “We…we…we do have to go to a break here.”

TAJBAKHSH: “Okay.”

Thank you, President Trump, for putting an end to a terrorist state that unfortunately had the money to export its terrorism.

When The Predator Becomes The Prey

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On Saturday, Townhall posted an article which might explain President Trump’s decision to attack Iran on Friday night.

The article reports:

Now we have more information on why the strikes happened today, from Salem Radio host and CNN contributor Scott Jennings. Jennings is reporting that intelligence indicated Iran was planning strikes on U.S. military and civilian targets in the region, which would have resulted in mass casualties.

The article quotes a CNN report:

A senior administration official said today that they believed Iran was preparing to potentially launch preemptive missile strikes, a factor that influenced President Donald Trump’s decision to initiate military action.

“We had indicators that they intended to use it potentially, preemptively, but if not, if not simultaneous, against with any actions against them, immediately against us,” the senior administration official added. “And the president decided he was not going to sit back and allow America’s forces in the region to absorb attacks from conventional missiles.”

“We are not going to be held hostage by them, and we are not going to let them hit us first, because it would have substantially increased the risk to our troops in the region and to our allies,” the official added.

However, a source familiar with the intelligence contradicted that assertion to CNN, saying that there were no indications that the Iranians planned to strike US forces or assets first — unless they were attacked by Israel or the US.

Given the choice between having civilians and American military killed by a regime that murdered thousands of its own people in cold blood and ending that regime, I choose ending that regime. Iran has been at war with America since 1979, when they began chanting “Death to America.” We have ignored those chants for too long. We have allowed the women of Iran to live as non-persons for a long time. Where are the feminists?

I commend President Trump for taking much-needed action. I pray that the people of Iran will finally be free.

Just a note–much of the military hardware Iran was using to protect itself came from Russia and China. The same was true for Venezuela. Are Russia and China not giving their allies their best technology, or are they both not as advanced as we thought? It’s too late now, but if I were aligned with either Russia or China, I would be asking them for better air defenses!