DECEMBER 5, 2025

“Advent, this powerful liturgical season that we are beginning, invites us to pause in silence to understand a presence.  It is an invitation to understand that the individual events of the day are hints that God is giving us, signs of the attention he has for each one of us.”

–Pope Benedict XVI.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested a Virginia man in connection with the pipe bombs found at the Republican and Democrat National Committees’ headquarters on January 6, 2021. Hmmm. What prevented the China Joe Administration from arresting this suspect?

Congressional Democrats are pushing for a $25.00 minimum hourly wage. Please explain where in the Constitution the federal government has the power to establish wages that the private market must pay. We’ll wait.

Besides the legal issues concerning the minimum wage, there are solid economic reasons why the perfect minimum wage is $0.00. Freedom means that people be allowed to buy or sell labor at a market price, unfettered by government regulation. Some jobs are not worth an artificial minimum wage, and historically, raising the minimum wage causes unemployment. Why do you think that there are self-checkout stations in retail stores now? Why is McDonald’s experimenting with robotic cooks? Outside of Oregon and New Jersey, when was the last time you pulled into a full service gas station?

Minimum wages also adversely impact the unskilled, particularly young people. Teenagers used to gain valuable skills and experience working in grocery stores, restaurants, and other retail outlets. No more. The minimum wage has priced them out of the labor market, meaning that high school graduates will have never held a job, learning those things that only employment can teach.

The minimum wage is unconstitutional, and illegal. It is an economically illiterate solution to a problem that does not exist. It should be abolished at both the federal and State levels. Now.

“What needs to be said that isn’t being said enough in our press over the last 24 hours is that the President of the United States said a blatantly, obviously racist thing in the Cabinet meeting on Tuesday when he said what he said about Somali immigrants in this country. 

That they don’t contribute anything, that they’re not of value.  In no normal world should the President of the United States of America ever, ever say something like that to the American people or even say it privately.  I mean, if the President of the United States says it privately, it means he’s a bad person and we should get rid of him.

But to me, that was an impeachable moment.  There have been so many impeachable moments since Donald Trump has come back to the White House, but to blatantly say something as racist and as hateful and as nasty and cruel and mean-spirited as what he said yesterday.  The impeachment proceedings should begin right now.  But of course, they won’t.”

–former CNN correspondent Jim Acosta, trying desperately to become relevant.

President Trump said nothing racist about Somalis. He expressed his opinion, one with which The Observations agrees. Somalis are contributing nothing to this country; they are a drain. The only reason that Somalis were ever admitted to this country is because they are black. And that is truly racist.

Immigration should be about making the United States stronger. We are not a repository for those suffering in the Third World. If you bring the Third World here, here becomes the Third World.

Senator Mark Warner (D. Va.) is calling for the uniformed military to “save us from this President [Trump].” My gosh, the man is calling for a coup d’etat! Shades of Seven Days in May!

Mark Warner has never held a real job. He is a creature of government, and he is not very good at government. What he is good at is twisting the law to preserve his own power. Typical Democrat.

Representative Pramila Jayapal (D. Wa.) is introducing a bill that would prevent ICE from detaining illegal aliens, instead requiring the aliens’ release into the interior of the country on their own recognizance. The bill would extend special protections to asylum seekers, pregnant women, mentally ill people, people fleeing “gender violence”, disabled people, people over 60 years, LGBTQ++ individuals . . . blah, blah, blah. The bill would also require taxpayers to finance lawyers to represent illegal aliens present in this country, or aliens seeking to enter this country. The bill has 123 Democrat member co-sponsors. Because Democrats love illegal aliens more than the citizens of this country.

Representative Jasmine Crockett (D. Tx.) has a lien against her Dallas, Texas condominium for $3,047.79, due to her refusal to pay her HOA dues. Deadbeat!

Representative Ilhan Omar (D. Mn.) said that companies that were not “sufficiently anti-Trump” must pay a “costly price”. What in the world does that mean?

“I think what happened, um, is that, you know, when you have these, kind of, new programs that are, um, designed to, uh, help people you are often times relying on third parties to be able to facilitate, and I just think that a lot of the COVID programs . . . were set up so quickly that a lot of the guardrails did not get created.”

–Representative Ilhan Omar trying to excuse her Somali brethren for their fraudulent actions and theft of government monies. You see, it was the government’s fault for not preventing the fraud in the first place!

The Minneapolis, Minnesota police chief called on residents to call 911 in response to observing any ICE raids or operations in the city. What is he proposing; that his officers arrest ICE agents for performing their duties?

The California Attorney General called on citizens to photograph and film ICE agents in the performance of their duties, and upload those images to a State website. Again, for what purpose? Nothing good.

In Dedham, Massachusetts, St. Sussana Catholic Church is displaying a Nativity scene with an empty manger. Next to the manger, a sign bears the message “ICE was here”. Sigh.

In Virginia there will be no “dry” jurisdictions whereby local authorities can ban retail sales of marijuana. Why? Shouldn’t the people of, say, Henry County be able to ban retail marijuana sales? Not according to General Assembly Democrats. No, according to the Democrats’ wisdom, the entire Commonwealth must smell like a head shop, or a street in New York City. Sigh.

Jaguar fired Chief Executive Creativity Officer Gerry McGovern after the company suffered a 97.5% sales drop following his rebrand, including the showcasing of androgynous characters in television advertisements, instead of actual automobiles. What took so long?

In-N-Out Burger is opening 4 new locations soon in Tennessee, including Franklin, Antioch, Murfreesboro, and Lebanon. We Virginians continue to wait impatiently for our own In-N-Out locations. I cannot keep commuting to LAX to get my In-N-Out Burger fix.

Venezuela has agreed to resume accepting deportation flights from the United States of its citizens. Send ’em all back!

Guitarist Steve Cropper, who performed with Booker T. & the MG’s, has died at age 84. R. I. P.

“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”

– Mark Twain

GFK