“Hope is the word that God has given to us for this season of Advent.”
–Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Holland Koontz came home yesterday evening, courtesy of American Airlines. English and I are so blessed and pleased to have our daughter home for Christmas! And so is Dudley!
President Trump announced that he had designated Venezuela as a “terrorist organization”. He also imposed a naval blockade against the country.
The President addressed the nation last evening. I did not watch, as I wanted to spend time with Holland, English, and Dudley. But Dru watched, and he will be updating me. Dru is a huuuuuuuge fan of President Trump!
President Trump is suing the British Broadcasting Corporation for $10 billion for libel. That is a lot of money. And British Members of Parliament are not pleased. Which is not surprising, since politicians are used to lying without consequences.
A Washington, D.C. federal judge refused to halt construction of the President’s proposed ballroom. Will wonders never cease?
The United States Senate Judiciary Committee released internal FBI documents which demonstrate that agents did not believe that they had probable cause to search Mar A Lago for classified documents. The documents further demonstrate that the agents’ professional view held no weight with Attorney General Merrick Garland, or Special Counsel Jack Smith. China Joe was driving this process, seeking to take out his primary political rival.
“These are terrorist organizations that are poisoning our streets. The President has the authority to do so. The argument is, is this too close to our shores? Does anybody doubt that these are terrorist organizations? Does anybody have a question about these being terrorist organizations? What’s the difference between Obama attacking these individuals when they were deemed terrorist organizations in the Middle versus the ones that are here right now poisoning our streets?”
–Senator Markwayne Mullins (R. Ok.), pushing back at Democrats’ criticism of the U. S. military’s attacks on drug running boats in the Caribbean Sea.
Former National Security Advisor John Bolton is advising Ukraine to ignore President Trump’s efforts to end the war with Russia, and to lower the draft age from 25-18, in order to get more men into the military. Sadly, John Bolton is a delusional warmonger who cares less for Ukraine than his own vision of a “New World Order”.
Speaker Mike Johnson (R. La.) announced that there would no House of Representatives vote on renewing the expiring emergency Obamacare subsidies this year. GOOD! But moderate Republicans are angry. They want to vote with the Democrats to push this through, even though the subsidies were always temporary, and even though Obamacare is a failed system, and even though we do not have the money to pay for these subsidies. The moderate Republicans should be thanking Speaker Mike Johnson for saving them from their own worst instincts.
Representative Ilhan Omar (D. Mn.) claimed that ICE agents pulled over her son because he was brown skinned. Hmmm. There is no record of ICE agents stopping her son. No records, no videos, no nothing. An “undocumented” stop! Sigh. It seems that the Representative from Mogadishu is making it up again. Anti-American b**ch (rhymes with witch).
Representative Omar’s son was stopped by law enforcement. He received a citation for a traffic violation by Minneapolis police. Is that “racist”? Or is her son not “above the law”?
In downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota, crime is so bad that McDonald’s restaurants’ doors are locked during business hours, and that entry to order and consume food is monitored closely. Wow. When you need to permission to order a Big Mac, things are really bad.
Cardinal Timothy Dolan, head of the Catholic Archdiocese of New York, is resigning, having reached the mandatory retirement age of 75. Well done, faithful servant. Well done, indeed.
“What we know already is, as part of the investigation, is it goes to motive and what is being investigated, as the commissioner has said, is that it would appear, there’s evidence that this was inspired by a terrorist organization, by ISIS.
Now, some of the evidence which has been procured, including the presence of Islamic State flags in the vehicle that has been seized, are a part of that.
Radical perversion of Islam is absolutely a problem. It is something that has been identified globally as a problem as well. ISIS was created by an evil ideology that has been called out not just by the Australian government but globally as well.”
–Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, finally recognizing what the rest of the world already knew.
The thing is, though, what these terrorists did isn’t a radical perversion of Islam. It’s what Islam has been for centuries, and weak leaders like Albanese think they can somehow change it by “understanding” Islamists and integrating Muslims into western civilization. It’s been almost 50 years since the mullahs took over in Iran, and almost 25 years since 9/11, and the problem of Islamist violence has only gotten exponentially worse. And still, leftists like Albanese will claim that Islam is the religion of peace and that if we just strengthen gun control laws and outlaw free speech everything will be just fine.
But it won’t be, and Islamists won’t stop with slaughtering Jews.
“Some of the things President Trump has said and done lead me to believe he is a president who is racist, who is misogynistic, and who is Islamophobic. And I’ll go further. I think he’s somebody who is anti-Muslim as well. My concern about when President Trump says some of the things he does is he normalizes and brings to the mainstream views that I think are unacceptable.”
–London, England Mayor Sadiq Khan, blaming President Trump for the spate of violent Islamic attacks.
President Trump is not “racist”. President Trump is not “misogynistic”. There is no such thing as Islamophobia. And it is a bit rich for a Muslim to blame all the recent Muslim violence on a Christian man. The Muslims are not the victims here.
Speaking of which; when are Representatives Ilhan Omar (D. Mn.) and Rashida Tlaib (D. Mi.) going to condemn the Muslim violence? How about Attorney General Keith Ellison (D. Mn.)? Or New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani (D.)? WHEN?!?!?
Congratulations to professional golfer Scottie Scheffler on winning the Jack Nicklaus award as the tour’s player of the year in 2025. He was the obvious choice.
Washington Post columnist Robert Samuelson has died at age 79. R. I. P.
Former Oakland Raiders head football coach Mike White has died at age 89. He also coached at his alma mater Cal, and led Illinois to a Big Ten title and a Rose Bowl appearance. R. I. P.
Actor Gil Gerard, best known for his role as Buck Rogers, has died at age 82. R. I. P.
“Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.”
– Albert Einstein.
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