DECEMBER 4, 2025

“The word advent means ‘expectation.’  What advent can do for us is create a sense of hope.”

–Louie Giglio.

The Trump Administration is terminating China Joe’s high fuel mileage standards for automobiles. GOOD-BYE excessive government regulation. HELLO affordable automobiles!

President Trump pardoned Representative Henry Cueller (D. Tx.), who was facing federal criminal bribery charges, brought by the China Joe Administration. There was a belief that China Joe was having Representative Cueller prosecuted in retaliation for his criticism of China Joe’s immigration policies.

U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins announced that States that refused to provide requested data about food stamps programs would not receive federal funds. Do you understand that, Tampon Tim (D. Mn.)? If you want to fund Somali fraud, then use your State dollars, but federal taxpayers will not subsidize your schemes.

Matt Van Epps (R. Tn.) won a special election on Tuesday to replace retired Representative Mark Green (R. Tn.) He bested Aftyn Behn (D. Tn.), who was famous for stating how much she hated the Congressional district she wanted to represent. Following her concession telephone call to Mr. Van Epps, Aftyn Behn told supporters:

“I called the Congressman-elect, Matt Van Epps, and I had one question for him.  What will define what happens next?  Do not let the Affordable Care Act subsidies expire.  Do not raise health care costs for working families in Tennessee.”

Someone needs to tell Aftyn Behn that she lost the election. The voters rejected her views.

The Democrats–including Aftyn Behn–continue to push for Obamacare subsidies, thus revealing the lie that the Affordable Care Act is “affordable”. Obamacare has distorted the health insurance, and the health care markets, raising costs for all Americans. What are the prime movers of these market distortions? Guaranteed coverage, no matter the applicant’s health, community rating, which prevents insurers from treating applicants differently, and mandated benefits, requiring consumers to purchase coverage that they neither need nor want.

Obamacare is the perfect example of what happens when you have politicians insert themselves into the markets. The Democrats who pushed through Obamacare were not insurance executives or doctors. They were–mostly–not even people who ever held private sector jobs. Rather, they were power hungry politicians who know better than their constituents what people want, need, or can afford.

And never forget; Obamacare as originally intended was mandatory. Unless you were a federal elected official or bureaucrat. Those people were exempt from their own policies, just like the Politburo members in the former Soviet Union.

The brouhaha over the narco-terrorist boats in the Caribbean Sea is just so much performative political posturing. These are stateless ships, flying no flags of registration. They are pirate ships, and the ships and their sailors are not entitled to any protections under any laws, domestic or international. They are pirates/terrorists. Remember that when you hear a Democrat or a talking head (but I repeat myself) scream “war crimes”.

“What is disturbing is that there are Democrats out there who apparently look at these bad guys flooding the country with illegal drugs that cause these drug overdoses, and think that the president and Secretary Hegseth are the problem because they are stopping the bad guys.

Safe to say, the Democrats’ appalling laxity on this issue effectively encourages massive drug overdoses in America for Americans.  And the Democrats’ answer as to how to stop this drug war is not only nowhere to be seen but is effectively allowing the problem — and the overdoses — to continue.”

–Jeffrey Lord, The American Spectator (December 2, 2025).

Only in the United States could the President and the Secretary of War actually take decisive action to prevent our enemies from harming Americans in this country, and then be accused of committing “war crimes” by the Democrats. Sigh We have issues.

Reverend Phillip Phaneuf, of North Chili United Methodist Church in Rochester, New York announced that he was transitioning to become a woman, and hereafter he was asexual. Sigh. Reverend Phaneuf is a cross dresser. He will remain a man. Because it is biologically impossible for a man to become a woman.

You would think that a man of the cloth would know that man cannot become woman. It is The Bible’s first book, Genesis. Perhaps Reverend Phaneuf should rethink his profession.

In Evanston, Illinois, the Lake Street Church erected a Nativity scene. That is not unusual at this time of year, EXCEPT; the Baby Jesus has zip tied hands, Mary and Joseph are wearing gas masks, and there are Roman soldiers, dressed as ICE agents. Sigh. The Lake Street Church does not embrace The Gospels. The Lake Street Church embraces radical progressive politics instead.

A Brooklyn, New York middle-school principal denied a parent’s request to have a Holocaust survivor speak to students about antisemitism — saying the victim’s pro-Israel views are not appropriate for a public school. Of course she did. How dare a parent suggest that a survivor of a horrific historical event be allowed to speak!

Jose Francisco Jovel, a career criminal, was arrested for heaving Molotov cocktails at the ICE detention center in Los Angeles, California. He might have done serious damage to the building and its personnel if he had bothered to light the cocktails first.

“These companies engineered a public health crisis, they profited handsomely, and now they need to take responsibility for the harm they have caused.”

–San Francisco, California City Attorney David Chiu.

The city of San Francisco sued Kraft, Mondelez, Coca-Cola and other makers of ultra-processed foods on Tuesday, accusing them of knowingly sickening California residents with addictive and harmful products.

City Attorney David Chiu filed the lawsuit in San Francisco Superior Court, alleging that the companies employed tactics similar to those used by the tobacco industry to design and market products intended to addict consumers. The lawsuit accuses the companies of violating California laws on public nuisance and deceptive marketing.

This is just another government shakedown of the private sector. If you do not want to drink a Coke with your Kraft Mac-N-Cheese, then don’t.

As an aside, who does not like Kraft Mac-N-Cheese? Seriously. It is delicious.

Frank informs me that after 76 years, Short Sugars restaurant in Reidsville, North Carolina has closed for good. This is a crime against humanity! The shabby looking restaurant served up some of the best pork barbecue, hush puppies, and slaw in the world. In fact, in 1982, their barbecue was judged the best in the world. President Reagan loved Short Sugars’ barbecue, and served it at The White House. And their hot dogs! Gosh they served good hot dogs! This is just a very sad development. In fact, it is the worst thing to happen to Southern cuisine since Rumley’s closed in Martinsville, Virginia.

On his way to the airport to board a private plane for Baton Rouge, Louisiana, former University of Mississippi head football coach Lane Kiffin lamented that the school would not permit him to coach the team in the post-season, claiming that the players wanted him to have that opportunity. Not so fast, my friends; to a man, the Ole Miss football players have denied making any such request. Lane Kiffin is a disloyal liar.

Claude, an albino alligator, who resided in San Francisco at the California Academy of Sciences, has died at age 30. R. I. P.

“Change your thoughts and you change your world.’

–Dr. Norman Vincent Peale.

GFK