HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO HOLLAND KOONTZ! What a long, strange trip it has been!
Our little girl turns 21 today. Where has all the time gone?
She is down in Dallas this morning. I do not think that she has actually spent her birthday at home in 8 years. She went off to boarding school [St. Timothy’s School] at age 13, and then to college [Southern Methodist]. All this time, she has acquitted herself well, and managed to face trials and tribulations, accomplishments, victories, and celebrations, with an aplomb and grace that I am certain I did not possess at her age. She must have learned it from her Mother.
Holland is an adult today, and she should be very proud of herself. English and I are.
When did we begin naming snowstorms? And why? What’s next, naming April showers? Sigh. We are a little fragile and obsessed.
It is official; the United States is out of the United Nations World Health Organization! Woo hoo! Now let us get out of the United Nations altogether.
Trump Administration immigration advisor Tom Homan fired a warning shot at Governor Abigail Spanberger (D. Va.). She can try and make Virginia into a “sanctuary jurisdiction”, but ICE is not going away. If you want the Commonwealth to resemble Minneapolis, go ahead. Make Tom Homan’s day.
“I just spoke with the White House after another horrific shooting by federal agents this morning. Minnesota has had it. This is sickening. The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.”
–Governor Tampon Tim (D. Mn.).
A U.S. Border Patrol agent shot and killed a demonstrator in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The man was waving a handgun, and had 2 extra magazines on his person. The agents ordered the man to put down the gun, and he refused. His death is tragic, but predictable. Because the man was endangering others. The shooting was entirely justified, based on the known facts.
And the shooting is due, in part, to the refusal of Minnesota officials–Governor Jazz Hands, Mayor Frey (D.), the police chief, and others–who have encouraged the demonstrators, and refused to cooperate with federal law officers in the enforcement of federal law.
What the Democrats of South Carolina did back then is essentially what the Democrats of Minneapolis are doing today, fomenting a 21st century nullification crisis by making it nearly impossible to enforce federal immigration law in the territory under their jurisdiction. Trump, who has ordered 1,500 active-duty troops stationed in Alaska to prepare for a possible deployment to Minnesota, is well within his rights (and within historical precedent) to respond in the same vein as [President] Jackson did to what amounts to a nullification crisis.
Indeed, the whole point of so-called sanctuary laws is to make it difficult or impossible to enforce federal immigration laws — to nullify them. Sanctuary policies like the ones operative in Minneapolis (and many other Democrat-controlled cities) prohibit state and local law enforcement from working with federal immigration authorities.
The lawless encouragement by Democrat leaders reflects a blatant disregard for managing our borders, for removing criminal illegal aliens from the street, and for protecting ICE and our citizens from the agitators’ hysterical behavior.
Adopting the position of sanctuary cities is an abuse of the federalist system; our federal sovereignty and national security are at stake. The federal government must be allowed to implement immigration law, and take actions against any state to stop this abhorrent, illegal, and unconstitutional mayhem.
Maybe it’s time for State leaders to be charged with obstruction of justice, or worse.
Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes (D.) suggested that illegal aliens would be justified in firing upon ICE agents under Arizona’s “stand your ground law”. Are you kidding me? The Arizona Attorney General is instigating illegal aliens to shoot federal law enforcement agents! This is outrageous!
Illegal aliens have no right to “stand [their] ground”; they are not supposed to be on this “ground”. And why do illegal aliens have guns? And why would you encourage anyone to open fire on federal law enforcement? Are you trying to get people killed?
Actually, yes. The Democrats do want people to be killed. That is, if it serves them politically.
“Mahmoud Khalil is a New Yorker. He should remain in New York City. I see this attack on him as part of a larger attack on the freedom of speech that is especially pronounced when it comes to the use of that speech to stand up for policy to human rights.”
–Comrade Mayor Zohran Mamdani, expressing his outrage at the U.S.’s deportation of pro-Hamas agitator Mahmoud Khalil.
No. He is not a “New Yorker”. He is Syrian. He is being deported to Algeria. Because his visa was revoked. Good-bye!
Virginia General Assembly Democrats are pushing legislation to prohibit ICE from enforcing federal law within 40 feet of election polling places. Now why would Democrats want to protect polling places from ICE enforcement? Hmmm.
Even if the bill passes, it is unenforceable, and unconstitutional. It’s called the federal “Supremacy Clause”.
Virginia General Assembly Democrats are pushing to eliminate mandatory minimum sentences for the commission and conviction of violent crimes such as rape and murder. Their constituents are demanding it.
“It’s really mind-boggling, Mr. Speaker, that we continue to say 2020 as if the new normal of 2026 is not bonkers compared to where we thought our country would be and that some of us refuse to let others take us so far back that some of us would still be in chains. And with that, Mr. Speaker, I exuberantly, exuberantly support House Bill 1384 and the appropriation that comes with it in order to offset the cost to our localities.”
–Virginia General Assembly Delegate Marcia Price (D. Newport News), explaining that if Virginia Democrats do not amend the Constitution to permit partisan gerrymandering, then Republicans will reinstitute slavery.
What is “mind-boggling” is that Democrats say such stupid claptrap. And it is not just the feckless woman from Hampton Roads. Representative James Clyburn (D. S.C.) said virtually the same thing on the news the other day. And what is more “mind-boggling” is that mainstream media does not push back, report, comment, or call out such stupid comments. Because . . . Orange Man Bad.
Virginia’s criminal Attorney General, Jay Jones, is seeking to withdraw from the settlement reached with the federal government over the Commonwealth’s granting illegal aliens in-State tuition assistance. Of course he is. Defying the law is a Jay Jones hallmark.
Episcopal Bishop Mariann Budde of the D.C. Diocese traveled to Minneapolis, Minnesota, demanding that ICE quit “occupying” the city and State. Hmmm. ICE is enforcing the laws of this country. I am pretty sure that Scripture calls on man to abide by the laws of the governing authorities.
Meanwhile, at the very same time Bishop Budde was protesting the removal of illegal aliens in Minneapolis, there was another protest about a mile away from the Washington Cathedral, in Washington, D.C. Those protestors were there to march for life, and to peacefully call for the sanctity of life, the importance of families, and an end to abortion, which is the murder of an unborn child. Too bad Bishop Budde could not have been there, standing up for Biblical principles. She was too busy supporting criminals, more than 1,000 miles away from her flock. Innocent children will just have to wait.
McDonald’s restaurants are introducing 4 new menu items:
Hot Honey Sausage Egg Biscuit;
Hot Honey McCrispy Sandwich;
Bacon Hot Honey McCrispy Sandwich; and,
Hot Honey Snack Wrap.
Patrons are also able to order Hot Honey Sauce dip with any menu item.
The Super Bowl is set, featuring the New England Patriots against the Seattle Seahawks. Let the battle begin.
The Super Bowl halftime show, produced by Jay Z, and highlighting Bad Bunny, will showcase LGBTQ++ themes, including drag queens, and “trans”. Disgusting. I will not watch it.
Legendary San Francisco 49ers quarterback John Brodie has died at age 90. R. I. P.
Former Philadelphia Eagles defensive lineman, Kevin Johnson, has died at age 55. Sadly, the former NFL player was homeless, and was stabbed by person(s) unknown in Los Angeles, California. His body was found on the street. R. I. P.
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