“The hardness of the butter is directly proportional to the softness of the bread.”
–The Tao Of Frank.
The Trump/Kennedy Center has no “Black History Month” events scheduled. And?
After July 4, the Trump/Kennedy Center will close for 2 years. The Center will undergo extensive capital renovations. Democrats are unhappy. They prefer the Center remain a dilapidated dump, than let President Trump renovate it.
Representative Pramila Jayapal (D. Wa.) suggested that Democrats would abolish ICE as soon as they reclaim Congressional majorities. Vote accordingly.
Congressional Republicans want to attach legislation to the proposed short term funding for the federal government that would mandate citizenship verification for, and voter ID by, voters. Senator Charles Schumer (D. N.Y.) is apoplectic, insisting that such legislation is dead on arrival in the Senate. Now why would that be? Why don’t Democrats want to ensure voters are U.S. citizens? Why don’t Democrats want voters to prove their identities with a photo ID? Hmmmm.
New York City Comrade Mayor Mamdani named Stanley Richards Commissioner of the city’s Department of Corrections. Mr. Richards is a felon who served prison time for violent robberies.
New York State Court Judge Sheridan Jack-Browne (D.) allowed a wanted illegal alien with a history of violent sexual crimes to escape ICE agents. The judge possessed a valid federal arrest warrant for the illegal alien, but allowed him to exit the courtroom via a back door. Sigh.
Wasn’t a Wisconsin State Court judge recently convicted of a felony for similar behavior? Why yes, yes she was!
“Toothless virtue signaling rhetoric like this has already cost two people their lives. The concept of pitting two armed law enforcement agencies against each other is ludicrous, and will not happen. I will not allow SPOG members to be used as political pawns.”
–Seattle Police Officers Guild President Mike Solan, reacting to Seattle’s Socialist Mayor Katie Wilson’s (D.) directive that the police department track ICE agents operating in Seattle.
Mayor Wilson wants Seattle’s policemen to not only track ICE agents’ daily moves, but prepare detailed reports, and share those reports with anti-ICE organizations, in order to allow those organizations’ members to follow ICE agents, and disrupt their operations. This is pure insanity.
Chicago, Illinois Mayor Brandon Johnson (D.) signed an executive order, directing the Chicago police to investigate and document every ICE agent interaction with illegal aliens. He urged police to refer ICE agents to the State’s Attorney for prosecution of State crimes.
Mr. Liam Conejo Ramos is the illegal alien who abandoned his 5 year old son in Minneapolis, Minnesota, while attempting to evade arrest by ICE. Readers will recall that the child’s mother refused to assume custody of her son, so ICE reunited the boy with his father in detention. Mr. Ramos is subject to a final deportation order. But federal district judge Fred Biery ordered the release of Mr. Ramos and his son, back into the United States. Judge Biery–a Bill Clinton appointee–chastised ICE agents, the Department of Justice, and the Department of Homeland Security, everyone but the illegal alien who abandoned his son. Judge Biery cited the Declaration of Independence, news reports, The Bible, everything but U.S. federal law. Indeed, Judge Biery had to ignore U.S. law to reach his decision.
Judge Biery is a disgrace to the judiciary. The Department of Justice is appealing his order.
“I have met so many Hindus, Buddhists, Sikh Jews, Muslims, atheists, agnostics who are more Christ-like than some of the Christians I serve with in the Texas legislature. It is about how you treat other people.”
–Texas State Representative James Talarico (D.).
Mr. Talarico is a pastor who wants to be a United States Senator. He has a habit of making outrageously stupid comments, such as his claim that God is “non-binary”. And now he wants Texans to believe that atheists, among others, are more Christian than Christians.
“. . . it took Abigail Spanberger, the new Governor, about 15 minutes to return Virginia to la-la land. She had campaigned on “affordability” but rejoined the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, a climate-change scam that will raise everyone’s utility bills. She introduced a 3.8 percent “net investment tax” on individuals, trusts and estates. She stopped cooperating with ICE in deporting illegal aliens. She said abortion was A-OK, right up to the moment of birth (why stop there?). She reinstituted DEI programs throughout the government and the state’s educational system. She undid reforms to the state’s voting system, making it easier for Democrats to “massage” the vote tally. And that’s just the tip of the proverbial deep-state iceberg.”
–Roger Kimball, “The Deep State Vampire”, published in The American Spectator (February 2, 2026).
The American Taliban is back again. Virginia State Senator Adam Ebbin (D. Alexandria) is sponsoring a bill to remove 3 statues — one of Confederate General Stonewall Jackson, one of Gov. William “Extra Billy” Smith, a former Confederate general, and another of Confederate Dr. Hunter Holmes McGuire — from Capitol Square. He said it was embarrassing to have his constituents walk by these statues when they visited Richmond.
Virginia’s history, including its forebears, is not embarrassing. What’s embarrassing is this carpetbagger poofter from New York is trashing our history. Today’s Democrats will leave behind only destruction. There will be no statues erected to commemorate Mr. Ebbin, Coonman, Jay Jones, Abigail Spanberger, et al.
More than 154 Episcopal bishops signed a letter calling on the Trump Administration to retreat from enforcing U.S. immigration law. Uh, no. Indeed, HELL NO!
It would be nice if these 154 Episcopal bishops spent more effort preparing for The Lenten Season, than practicing Democrat Pary politics. Really nice.
Ireland is a historically Catholic country, where infant baptism is the normal practice. So why would former Irish President Mary McAleese come out and condemn infant baptism, a tenet of the Catholic faith? Mrs. McAleese was baptized as an infant, and she claims that the practice of infant baptism imposes heavy burdens upon children, restricts their choices, and is done without consent. Mrs. McAleese wants baptism to occur only with the consent of the child. Which, obviously, would eliminate the Catholic Church’s direction on infant baptism.
The United Nations is facing imminent financial collapse and will run out of money by July if countries did not pay their annual dues that amount to billions of dollars. Senior U.N. officials say that if the cash runs out, the agency would be forced to shut down its landmark headquarters in New York by August. The U.N. Security Council, a 15-member body responsible for maintaining international peace and stability, convenes its meetings at U.N. headquarters. It would also have to cancel the annual General Assembly gathering of world leaders held in September and shut the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, which responds to global emergencies like conflicts and natural disasters.
We can only hope. Please, please let the United Nations go broke.
Great Britain’s Labour Party is exploring imposing “15 minute city limits”. What that means is that the government determines that you can access whatever you need within a 15 minute walking perimeter (need, not want) of your home, and therefore would restrict you from driving within that perimeter. And of course, if you violate that restriction, fines, imprisonment, and automobile confiscations will follow.
WARNING TO AMERICANS! Do not think that government planners in this country do not, or would not, implement a similar scheme. I have sat in on meetings where our “betters” in Washington, D.C. have discussed such plans. Tyranny.
The United States and India reached an agreement where both countries would lower tariffs and trade barriers. WOO HOO! WINNING!
Former Dallas Cowboys running back Scott Laidlaw has died at age 72. R. I. P.
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