DECEMBER 16, 2025

“Through the tender mercy of our God, the dawn from on high will break upon us, to give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.”

–Luke 1:78-79.

The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit stayed District Court Judge Boasberg’s criminal contempt proceedings against the Trump Administration. Again.

What is it going to take for the U.S. House of Representatives to impeach, and the Senate to convict, Judge Boasberg, and remove him from office? What?

The San Diego, California Unified School District is teaching students at all grade levels that there are 9 genders, and 28 sexual orientations. In the face of well-deserved criticism, the District’s Superintendent insists that the schools teach students what they need to know to be successful in later life. Uh, huh.

During a recent episode of the California Governor’s podcast:

Governor Hair Gel (D. Ca.)           “I think this notion of toxicity in masculinity needs to be separated, and I think it’s been conflated, and I think we’re gonna have to work on that a little bit.  And I think, look, there is a crisis . . . .”

Governor Tampon Tim (D. Mn.) “I think some of us scare ’em.  I think I scare them a little bit.  It’s why they spend so much time on me.”

Yes, yes, yes. Republicans are very scared of Governor Jazz Hands’s masculinity.

There are 220 billionaires living in California. Apparently State legislators are concerned that these folks might leave California, so precautions must be taken. There is pending a proposed wealth tax, by which anyone living in California in 2025, and who decides to move out of the Golden State, must pay a 5% wealth tax to the State. Surely that is unconstitutional. It certainly is immoral, and tyrannical. And it is economically stupid.

How long do you think it will take before the California legislature applies the wealth tax to mere millionaires? Or to anyone else? Assuredly not long. California is a failed State.

In Moorhead, Minnesota, a 13 year old student at Horizon Middle School was arrested after being found in possession of more than 1,500 fentanyl pills. Oh, my gosh! What in the world is going on?

“It’s not law abiding citizens.  If that were the case, there’s a lot of white men who should be holding a lot of white men accountable for the crimes they have committed.  Each community’s got this in their own midst, but to blame them [Somalis] and say that they should have been responsible for stopping it — I think that’s a pretty hard reach.  I think we continue to educate folks about why they shouldn’t commit crimes.  You would hope that it’s being taught both at home and at schools and in our society.  But no, I think this idea that the Somali community is to blame for this because they didn’t do more — I think that’s how we got into this.”

–Governor Tampon Tim (D. Mn.).

What in the hell is he talking about?  I do not know.  And I doubt he does either.

Democrat Minnesota State legislators are opposing proposed legislation to allow women to purchase a gun immediately for self-defense. Currently, Minnesota requires a 30 day waiting period between the purchase and delivery of a firearm. What is a woman subjected to domestic abuse supposed to do for those 30 days? Move to Florida? This is insane!

Minnesota State legislators also wish to require all prospective gun owners to undergo extensive and expensive training before receiving a firearm. Again, this is wrong.

The right to keep and bear arms is a right, not a privilege. Rights are not subject to waiting periods and training requirements. You don’t have to take a class in penmanship or diction in order to exercise the right to free expression. You do not have to get a government license for permission to attend worship services. You need not need permission to secure a lawyer to represent you in a criminal proceeding. Rights are given by God, not by man, not by government, not by the Minnesota State legislature.

But, but, but . . . is it not true that all rights are subject to limitations? Who told you that? An elected official? Of course that is what they would say. They do not care to be subservient to The Almighty.

Mecklenburg County [North Carolina] Sheriff Garry McFadden (D.) does not like to jail violent criminals. He claims that community outreach and monitoring are superior tools. Besides, jailing violent criminals creates jail overcrowding, and dangerous work for corrections staff. Sigh. Note to Sheriff McFadden: Jailing violent criminals is your job. If you want to engage in community outreach, go find a job as a social worker.

Chicago, Illinois is levying a multitude of new taxes in 2026, including a reinstatement of a “corporate head tax” whereby companies with 100 or more employees pay a monthly tax per employee. Chicago abolished the corporate head tax years ago when it failed to raise money due to employers either moving out of the city, or reducing payrolls. Nevertheless, Chicago’s clueless Mayor Brandon Johnson (D.) insists that there is no evidence that the corporate head tax is a “job killer”.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania’s art board has voted to return the iconic statue of fictional boxer Rocky Balboa to the top of the Philadelphia Art Museum’s stairs. It is about time!

Washington, D.C. Police Chief Pamela Smith resigned suddenly. Now we know why. It seems that the DEI hire resigned in disgrace when it came to light that crime statistics were falsified to show dramatically lower crime rates, at her specific direction.

Remember when the mainstream media went nuts over the deployment of National Guard troops to D.C., claiming that crime was at a “30 year low”? We told you that they were lying. And they were.

Actress Amanda Seyfried thinks that socialism is “gorgeous”, and that it just means that we are “supposed to take care of each other”. Clearly this woman attended a public high school after 1980, and has not a clue what socialism actually is in practice. Perhaps she should watch documentaries of life in the Soviet Union, and be forced to visit Cuba, North Korea, and Venezuela.

Australia’s Prime Minister called for stricter gun control in the wake of the Sydney mass shooting at a Hannukah celebration. More gun control in a country where it is virtually impossible to own a gun is not the answer. Guns did not murder those Jewish celebrants. Hate did. Anti-Semitism did. Allowing the immigration of radicalized Muslims who refuse to assimilate did. Until Australia addresses the true causes of this violence, nothing will change. It will only get worse.

The Observations has written before, and does so again today, that Islam is incompatible with Western Civilization and Western values. We also question whether Islam is truly a religion. It is our view that Islam is a radical political structure and view, intent on conquest, and the elimination of Western Civilization, Christianity, and Judaism. This is evident throughout history, to the present day.

But we do not have to go as far back as the Crusades, or the Moorish occupation of Spain, to illustrate the violence perpetrated by Muslims against the West. We can look at the Muslim invasion of Europe and the United States, where they establish ghettoes where they live, refusing all assimilation. Let us examine the following non-exhaustive list of Muslim violence in near modern times:

The Nice Attack = Muslim
The Paris Attacks = Muslims
The Shoe Bomber = Muslim
The Orlando attack = Muslim
The Beltway Snipers = Muslims
The Fort Hood Shooter = Muslim
The Underwear Bomber = Muslim
The Westminster Attack = Muslim
The 2005 Bali Bombings = Muslims
The murder of Lee Rigby = Muslims
The U.S.S. Cole Bombers = Muslims
The London Bridge Attack = Muslims
The Madrid Train Bombers = Muslims
The Charlie Hebdo Attacks = Muslims
The San Bernardino Attacks = Muslims
The Surabaya bombings = Muslims
The Minnesota Mall stabbings = Muslim
The 7/7 bombers = Muslims
The Moscow Theatre Attackers = Muslims
The Boston Marathon Bombers = Muslims
The Ankara Airport Attack = Muslims
The Manchester Arena bombing = Muslim
The Pan-Am #103 Bombers = Muslims
The Iranian Embassy Takeover = Muslims
The Air France Hijackers = Muslims
The 2002 Bali Nightclub = Muslims
The Batta Meena Attacks = Muslims
The Beirut Embassy bombers = Muslims
The Libyan U.S. Embassy Attack = Muslims
The Yazidi Massacre of 2014 = Muslims
The Beheading of French priest = Muslims
The Buenos Aires bombers = Muslims
The Israeli Olympic Team = Muslims
The Kenyan U.S Embassy = Muslims
The Khobar Towers Bombers = Muslims
The Beirut Marine bombers = Muslims
The Besian School Attackers = Muslims
The First WTC bombers = Muslims
The Beheading of Daniel Pearl = Muslims
The Achille Lauro Hijackers = Muslims
The Bombay Attackers = Muslims
The 9/11 hijackers = Muslims

Add to this list the shootings at Brown University in Rhode Island, and at the Hannukah celebration in Sydney. Also, yesterday the FBI announced the arrest of 4 Muslims who were plotting to ignite bombs in Los Angeles, California.

When will this end? More importantly, what are we–the West–going to do to bring this to an end?

Permitting the immigration of Muslims into the United States and other Western countries must end. Pressuring Israel, and demanding the establishment of a “Palestinian” State must end. Coddling hostile Islamic regimes such as Iran must end.

It is not a call for a war on Muslims to simply observe that, generally speaking, Muslims cannot peacefully co-exist in Western countries with Christians and Jews. They cannot. In human marriage relationships, we have long recognized the concept of divorce as a solution to a couple who simply cannot live together. This is no different. Let the Muslims co-exist in their own societies, while lovers of freedom, liberty, and Western values, Christians and Jews, live and co-exist in their own societies. Otherwise, the violence will only get worse. And since the West so far has been reluctant to engage, Islam will be the winner in this clash of civilizations.

By the way; yes, I know that the man who stopped the Sydney massacre by tackling one of the gunmen was a Muslim immigrant. The exception does not make the rule.

“Someone who says I am against abortion but in agreement with the inhuman treatment of immigrants in the United States, I don’t know if that’s pro life.”

–Pope Leo.

Vatican City is a completely walled city, with high, impenetrable walls.  Access is through few controlled entrances, and the entire city is patrolled by heavily armed Swiss Guards.  The unauthorized entry into Vatican City is a serious crime, which is strictly enforced.  So with all due respect, the Pope is a hypocrite.

“But then, they always blame America first.”

–former United Nations Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick, speaking at the 1984 Republican National Convention in Dallas, Texas.

Democrats want the United States involved in the Ukrainian/Russian war, even though the United States maintains no treaty relationships with Ukraine, and Ukraine is of no strategic interest to the United States. Democrats are opposed to the United States military bombing drug boats transporting narcotics that kill Americans, in the Western Hemisphere, America’s backyard, and actually enforcing international sanctions by seizing tankers carrying sanctioned oil. Why?

Democrats were opposed to enforcing sanctions on Iran, and the United States’ bombing of that country’s nuclear weapon facilities. Democrats are sympathetic to the Arabs who daily threaten Israel’s very existence, and demand that the so-called “Palestinians” receive their own State, even though Israel is America’s closest ally in the Middle East, and the only functioning free society in that part of the world. Why?

Democrats do not want to drill for oil in the United States, but are willing to depend upon foreign countries run by Islamic dictators for our oil needs. Democrats are opposed to American companies selling natural gas to European countries, and are perfectly content with requiring those same European countries to rely on Russia for their oil and natural gas needs, providing Russia with the hard currency necessary to prosecute its war against Ukraine. Why?

The Observations could go on and on with these examples, but the central question is always “why”? Why do Democrats maintain these contradictory positions? It is very simple. Democrats oppose everything that is good for America, and support everything that is good for foreign Leftist movements and countries.

Do you think we are being too harsh? Well consider this; whose side were Democrats on during The Cold War, America’s or the Soviet Union’s? Who did the Democrats support, the communist North Vietnam, or U.S. aligned South Vietnam? Did the Democrats support the freedom loving Contras, or the Soviet aligned Sandinistas in Nicaragua? How about Cuba? Nothing has changed since then. The Blame America First crowd is firmly ensconced in the Democrat Party.

“F**k all the [Heisman Trophy] voters.”

–Vanderbilt quarterback Diego Pavia.

Apparently, Diego Pavia is upset that he did not win the Heisman Trophy this year.

Actor/Director Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele, were found dead, murdered in their Los Angeles, California home. Police have arrested their son, Nick, for the murders. Horrific. R. I. P.

Actor Anthony Geary, who played the character, Luke, on ABC’s General Hospital, has died at age 78. R. I. P.

“Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.”
– Booker T. Washington.

GFK