The remaining living Israeli hostages were released yesterday. After 738 days in a living Hell, they were reunited with their families. Thanks Be To God!

The Observations was, and remains, skeptical that Hamas would adhere to President Trump’s peace plan. And it might not. History suggests that it will not. But yesterday, and today, and the days going forward are more glorious now that the hostages are freed.

President Trump addressed the Israeli Knesset, and was warmly received, hailed as a giant in Jewish history. The President in turn thanked Prime Minister Netanyahu for his steadfast leadership, and the Israeli people for their strength and fortitude.

We now face either peace in the Middle East, or a pause in violence in the Middle East. Only Time will tell.

But only America could have brokered this diplomatic achievement. And only President Trump, who shattered conventional wisdom, and worked tirelessly to stop the killing and for the hostages’ freedom, could have pulled this off, at this time.

Think of it. Only 2 years ago, Iran was on the verge of acquiring a nuclear weapon. Hezbollah was ascendent in Lebanon, Syria was a hotbed of violence, and Hamas was raining down terror on Israel from Gaza. China Joe was hellbent on restraining Israel, and emboldening its enemies.

Today, Iran’s nuclear program has been destroyed. Hezbollah has been muzzled, Syria underwent regime change, and Hamas appears to have surrendered. Only President Trump, working with Prime Minister Netanyahu, could have accomplished this monumental change of events.

Former Secretary of State Antony Blinken credited China Joe with laying the groundwork for the hostages’ release, and the current ceasefire. Outrageous! That man is a serial liar, and really too stupid to live.

If China Joe were still President, the hostages would still be held in tunnels, and Hamas would be in Jerusalem. Good grief.

Antony Blinken further beclowned himself, announcing that now was the time for a “2 State solution”. No. Wrong. What a foolish idea. This is what comes of a man who spent considerable time in his life living in France.

Great Britain also sought to take credit for the peace in Gaza. Great Britain had nothing to do with what occurred in Gaza. No European country did. In fact, the European surrender monkeys did their best to derail any possibility of peace by appeasing the terrorists.

CNN’s Christiane Amanpour claims that the Israeli hostages were treated better than the Gazans. In what world does this crazed anti-Semite looney tune live?

The Washington Post cites itself as a beacon for democracy. It further claims to be the authoritative source for news on the workings of our federal government and the important policy choices facing Americans. So what is 1 Post reporter working on? She is contacting members of Congress to ascertain if they, and their staffs, will be getting the Kung Fu Flu booster shot. That is real cutting edge journalism!

In New York City, Mrs. Zohran Mamdani, publicly mourned the death of a Hamas propagandist. There is peace in the Holy Land, and the wife of the leading mayoral candidate mourns over the death of a terrorist. BUT IT GETS WORSE! Zohran Mamdani spent the day fundraising for the United Nations Works and Relief Agency. Readers will remember that UNWRA employed Hamas terrorists as a cover for their activities. Sigh.

Mrs. Mamdani’s husband has been receiving foreign cash as campaign contributions. This is against the law. The donors are Middle East Muslims. So far, the candidate has not committed to returning the illegal donations.

Rutgers University students are petitioning the school Administration to disband the local Turning Point USA chapter, because it promotes “hate speech” and “incited violence against our community”. The petition implores the Administration to ban Turning Point USA in order to restore “diversity” and “inclusiveness” at the school. Ah, the irony!

The University of Tennessee-Chattanooga Student Government Association blocked the establishment of a Turning Point USA chapter at the school. UTC administrators wisely overruled the students, avoiding a sure fire loser of a lawsuit.

In Dallas, Texas, Keona Hampton shot and killed Cecilia Simpson. Mrs. Simpson failed to properly thank Miss Hampton for holding a door open for her at a retail store, so Miss Hampton followed Mrs. Simpson to PetSmart, and gunned her down in righteous retribution.

For almost 70 years, the Martinsville, Virginia Kiwanis Club has held semi-annual Pancake Breakfasts, which serves as a fundraiser for charitable, largely child focused, endeavors. It is a beloved community tradition, which typically attracts around 3,000 patrons willing to pay $10.00 for pancakes, sausage, and a beverage.

“We’ve had people that would bring eggs and wanted us to cook eggs on the griddle.  Yeah, we’re not going to do that.”

–Kiwanis Club member, and pancake chef, Gary Collins.

The Martinsville Kiwanis Pancake Breakfast makes sense; pancakes, sausage, and coffee or water. That is a pancake breakfast. And I emphasize the obvious, because pancake breakfasts in Northern Virginia are quite different.

In Northern Virginia, pancake breakfasts feature biscuits, potatoes, bacon, fried apples, scrambled eggs, and sausage gravy. Pancakes are an afterthought. It makes no sense.

The sausage in Southside Virginia is flavorful, with just a little kick of spice. It is delicious. In Northern Virginia, if the sausage were any blander, you would be eating cream of wheat.

The Martinsville Kiwanis Club does pancake breakfasts right. As for all the other stuff that Northern Virginia organizations include in their pancake breakfasts, Gary Collins is right; “we’re not going to do that.”

HAPPY 90th BIRTHDAY to The Texas Inn in Lynchburg, Virginia. The iconic grill has been serving chili, hot dogs, and hamburgers to all comers, from businessmen to factory workers to drunken college students. A favorite sandwich is the Cheesy Western, which is a cheeseburger with a fried egg. Open 24 hours a day, The Texas Inn is a must visit place. Just do not ask for ketchup. There is no ketchup at The Texas Inn, and its employees do not take kindly to being asked for the condiment. Enjoy the mustard.

A British judge sentenced an Ethiopian illegal alien who was found guilty of multiple rapes to 1 year in jail. That same judge sentenced arrested and charged protestors against, and for, illegal alien rapists being coddled, to more than 2 years in prison for creating a public disturbance. Sigh.

The British National Trust is installing vegan feminine hygiene products in men’s restrooms. Our English cousins have now officially achieved Peak Stupid.

During Morning Mass at St. Peter’s Basilica in The Vatican, a man approached The Alter of Confession and urinated on it. Just when you thought people could not be more depraved and vile in their behaviors . . . .

THe NFL’s Tennessee Titans fired head coach Brian Callahan. And the University of Alabama-Birmingham fired head football coach Trent Dilfer. Firings in college and professional football are an occupational hazard.

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“Each October, Americans confront a paradox.  We commemorate Christopher Columbus, a man long hailed as the greatest explorer of the Age of Discovery, while increasingly vilifying him as a symbol of colonial oppression.  Statues fall, cities rename streets, and Columbus Day gives way to Indigenous Peoples’ Day.  But beneath this cultural shift lies a deeper philosophical question: Are we judging the past fairly?

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Civilization evolves.  What was once accepted (e.g., slavery, patriarchy, and conquest) is now condemned.  That evolution is a triumph of human conscience.  But it also demands humility.  We must remember that history is not a courtroom.  It is a mirror. In Columbus’s reflection, we see both the darkness we’ve outgrown and the light that led us forward.

This is not a call to ignore the suffering his voyages unleashed.  It is a call to balance.  To acknowledge both the courage and the cost.  To teach our children not just what happened, but why it mattered.  And to resist the urge to flatten history into caricature.

Columbus was a man of his time.  His greatness lay in his daring.  His flaws lay in his humanity.  And his legacy, like all legacies, deserves truth, not moral absolutism.

Today, I invite you to pause, not to celebrate blindly, nor to condemn reflexively, but to reflect.  To reflect on a man whose voyage changed the course of history, and whose legacy now stands at the crossroads of admiration and accusation.”

–Christian Vezilj, The American Thinker (October 12, 2025).

The New Kent County, Virginia Commonwealth Attorney is investigating Jay Jones’s community service performance as a result of his reckless driving conviction for driving 116 mph in a 65 mph zone. The Observations reported previously that Jay Jones reported 500 hours for working on his own Political Action Committee, raising money for himself. That is a “no no” under the law.

The polls in Virginia are tightening. If trends continue, the Republicans have a very good chance of retaining their Statewide offices. Let us hope!

The House of Representatives will not meet again this week. What would be the point, as Senate Democrats refuse to fund the federal government?

By the way, the clean Continuing Resolution passed by the House keeps spending at China Joe Administration levels. Yet the Democrats want more.

Senator Charles Schumer (D. N.Y.) said that “every day [of the federal government shutdown] gets better for us”. It is all politics to the Democrats. There is not a principled one of them.

Democrats are insistent that the subsidies for Obamacare must be reinstated. No, they do not.

First, these particular subsidies were implemented only during the former Current Unpleasantness, as an emergency measure. The Current Unpleasantness is over. And the legislation ending these subsidies is the Inflation Reduction Act, a law passed and signed only by Democrats. Democrats ended these subsidies.

Second, these subsidies are not going to “needy” Americans. Some of them are. But some of these subsidies are going to individuals earning as much as $600,000.00 a year.

Third, these subsidies are masking the true costs of Obamacare. Remember, Obamacare’s official name is “The Affordable Health Care Act”. If health care is so “affordable”, why are subsidies needed? Because Obamacare made health insurance less, not more, affordable. Costs for policies under Obamacare have skyrocketed, because the legislation distorts the insurance market.

Fourth, these subsidies are not going to individuals, they are going to insurance companies.

Fifth, a very small portion of the population will be affected by the loss of these subsidies. The subsidies only affect about 1.6 million people, out of a total population of 350 million. Should a country that is $38 trillion in debt really be spending $500,000,000.00 to subsidize health insurance for 1.6 million people?

Sixth, who is subsidizing your health care? Answer: No one.

Seventh, where in the Constitution does it mention the provision of health care for the people? Where?

The Democrats inflicted the American people with Obamacare. Let them bear the burden of its failures, or let the Republicans fix it. Those are the options.

So what are Senate Democrats going to do this week to open the federal government. Nothing. Indeed, Senate Democrats are in Napa, California, meeting at the Hotel Yountville, where rooms let for up to $1,100.00 per night. They are going to enjoy a lovely wine dinner, and tour a vineyard. Just down the road is a fantastic golf course. The Democrats are hard at work. But not for the American people.

Senators Adam Schiff (D. Ca.) and Tim Kaine (D. Va.) are pushing for the Congress to ban President Trump’s use of force against Venezuelan drug dealers trying to smuggle drugs into the United States. Because Democrats are always on the side of America’s enemies.

The United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit ruled that the Trump Administration could federalize the National Guard, but not deploy it, in Illinois. The Court is trying to have it both ways. It cannot sit on the fence forever.

A federal judge in Washington, D.C. ruled that the Trump Administration could not withhold funds from programs promoting “trans” therapies and conversions, claiming that there was no science supporting that “trans” was harmful to individuals. Naturally, the judge is an Obama appointee.

“Roses are red.  Violets are blue.  No one is above the law.  Even when you think the rules don’t apply to you.  Happy Valentine’s Day!”

–New York Attorney General Letitia James, posting on social media, taunting Donald Trump before the court banned his family from conducting business in New York State for 3 years.

A federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia indicted New York Attorney General Letitia James for bank fraud. Ah! That is such as a shame!

Naturally the Democrats and the mainstream media (but I repeat myself) are agog that anyone would pursue criminal charges against a . . . Democrat! That is just not done. No one is above the law! Unless there is a “D” beside their name.

Former Ambassador and National Security Advisor John Bolton is next. The Left has always hated John Bolton. If he is indicted, expect a new found love and respect to emerge. Because, . . Orange Man Bad.

A munitions factory exploded and burned to the ground in Tennessee. There were no survivors. Tragic.

The Texas State government ordered the removal of crosswalks that were painted other than with white lines. A rainbow flag painted crosswalk in Houston was removed, and painted according to law. The City of Houston government repainted the crosswalk with the rainbow flag. The Texas Department of Transportation removed the rainbow flag–AGAIN–and repainted the crosswalk according to law. PAY ATTENTION HOUSTON!

The University of Minnesota student Democrats took umbrage at a remembrance for Charlie Kirk. So they celebrated “Saint” George Floyd instead. We are sure that makes sense for them.

Chef Sergio Garcia lived for decades in the United States, and was well acquainted with former President George W. Bush, for whom he often provided catered meals, both in and out of The White House. Now Chef Garcia has been deported. Twice. Because he is an illegal alien.

McDonald’s restaurants are bringing back “Boo Buckets”, which are great for trick or treating. Available when you purchase a Happy Meal.

Orvis, a beloved retailer of outdoor sporting equipment for 169 years, is shuttering 36 locations. Oh, my!

Canterbury Cathedral, a 6th century English Cathedral, and the home of The Church of England, is covered by graffiti. This was not vandalism. No, the desecration of the center of Anglicanism was done at the invitation of the Church of England’s hierarchy. Church stewards explained that they wanted to give voice to “marginalized communities”. Good grief!

Canterbury Cathedral is where “turbulent priest” Thomas Becket was run through with swords and hacked to death for standing up to tyrannical rule, and where he is entombed still today.  Canterbury Cathedral, where the Black Prince, a paragon of knightly chivalry and one of Western civilization’s greatest military commanders, also finds his resting place.  Canterbury Cathedral boasts some of the most intricate and oldest stained glass windows in the world.  Canterbury Cathedral, which houses one of William Shakespeare’s rarest works, and is a building whose history is greatly entwined with that of the Magna Carta, one of the humanity’s most significant documents.  Canterbury Cathedral is an iconic historical and religious treasure.  But to its stewards, Canterbury Cathedral is a mere surface to deface with punkish tags to bring attention to “marginalized communities” in England. 

Real Englanders, Brits by blood and spirit, with an undying love for their culture and home, are beyond fed up with what the Dean of Canterbury calls “marginalized communities.”  These “marginalized communities” are parasitic, they’re destroying the cohesion of England and the nation’s society, and they’re given preferential treatment by the government, that’s ostensibly, representing the English people.  If you demand deportation for the third-world savages turning England into a third-world Muslim hellhole, Prime Minister Keir Starmer will “fight” you with everything he has.

As it turns out, these individuals who resonate with graffiti and vandalism aren’t so “marginalized” after all.

Progressives really have an extraordinary ability to turn something unbelievably precious and beautiful into utter trash—how can you make Canterbury Cathedral look like a derelict warehouse in an inner city, or resemble a dirty freight train car?  This “is a coordinated effort to demoralize all of Christendom.”  It is a humiliation ritual for Westerners, and in particular, the Christians.

Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado won The Nobel Peace Prize. She then dedicated the prize to the Venezuelan people and to Donald Trump for his support for freedom for the Venezuelan people, and for all peoples around the world. The Left is not pleased.

The refs robbed Auburn, and the Georgia Bulldogs took advantage of the theft. Alabama got by Missouri. LSU beat South Carolina. Texas won The Red River Rivalry, upsetting Oklahoma. The Sooners should be embarrassed. Texas A&M beat Florida. Ole Miss struggled with Washington State.

SMU rolled over Stanford. Georgia Tech won. Wake Forest dominated Oregon State in Corvallis, resulting in the firing of Oregon State’s head coach. Clemson beat Boston College. Florida State lost to Pitt in Tallahassee.

UNC head coach Bill Belichick is telling folks that he is not going anywhere. Apparently he thinks that he can build the Tarheels into a football power. We shall see.

South Florida beat North Texas State. Rocky is inconsolable. Tulane beat East Carolina. Army and Navy both won.

Air Force lost to UNLV. Wyoming beat San Jose State. Colorado State beat Fresno State. Boise State, San Diego State, and Hawaii won.

Texas Tech beat Kansas. Kansas State beat TCU. BYU got by Arizona. Utah beat Arizona State. Coach Prime’s Buffaloes defeated Iowa State.

Ohio State thumped Illinois. Indiana upset Oregon in Eugene. USC beat Michigan. The Trojans are just teasing their fans now. Maryland’s collapse continued, as they lost to Nebraska. Northwestern beat Penn State, which earned head coach James Franklin his termination. Stick a fork in the Nittany Lions, they are done. Just as we predicted at the beginning of the season.

Brown and UPenn won. Harvard beat the Cornell anti-Semites. Princeton and Columbia lost.

Craig Heist, longtime Washington, D.C./Baltimore, Maryland sportscaster, has died at age 66. R. I. P.

John Lodge, singer for the Moody Blues, has died at age 82. R. I. P.

Actress Diane Keaton has died at age 79. R. I. P.

Former Boston Red Sox outfielder Mike Greenwell has died at age 62. R. I. P.

Sister Jean Delores Schmidt, chaplain for the University of Loyola-Chicago basketball team, has died at age 106. R. I. P.

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GOOD MORNING MEGHAN! Best wishes for your continued happiness, and many blessings on your marriage. English, Holland, and I wish your family well!

Meghan is Frank’s beautiful daughter. The proud father is traveling to Florida for this joyous family occasion. Travel safely, Frank!

“On balance, he‘s a better person to be attorney general.”

–Representative Nancy Pelosi (D. Ca.), endorsing Virginia Attorney General Candidate Jay Jones, a man who fantasizes about murdering his political opponents. Also, a convicted criminal.

The Democrat Party is the party of violence. If they lose power, if they do not get their way politically, they will resort to violence, including murder, to achieve their objectives. The Democrat Party are the real fascists and authoritarians.

Monday is Columbus Day (observed).  It is NOT “Indigenous Peoples Day”, no matter what officials in D.C., Alexandria, Los Angeles, Baltimore, and San Francisco proclaim.  IT.  IS. COLUMBUS DAY.

As every child knows, “In 1492, Columbus sailed the Ocean blue”.  It was a bold expedition, taken at a time when many believed the Earth to be flat, in an attempt to find a western route to India.  Instead of landing in India, Columbus arrived at an island that is now part of the Bahamas.  He discovered the “New World”, lands previously unknown to the “Old World”. 

The significance of Columbus’s voyages cannot be understated.  He opened up the America’s to European exploration and colonization, a process which naturally resulted in the establishment of, first, the Jamestown Colony, and eventually, the 13 English colonies and the United States of America.

By contrast, the “indigenous peoples” (aka Indians), accomplished . . . nothing.  The Observations is not being harsh in noting that the Indian tribes were savages.  They practiced human sacrifices, practiced slavery, worshipped pagan idols, engaged in endless wars with other tribes, raping women and scalping and murdering enemy prisoners, and figuratively speaking, raped the land, as they had no knowledge of conservation and wise land stewardship.  They were uneducated nomads, barely subsisting.  They established no societies or countries.  They were squatters on unsettled continents.

Now if this edition of The Observations were to leak to the usual suspects, no doubt I would be burned at the stake by the outraged mob.  Just like the indigenous peoples would have done all those years ago.  But that the American Taliban would inflict such a crime would not change history.  Facts are facts.  And it is a fact that Columbus was a consequential man who accomplished great things.  Monday we celebrate Christopher Columbus.

You realize, of course, that if our public schools still taught history, all Americans would know this. But . . . .

President Trump signed a Columbus Day proclamation, praising the “Admiral of the Seas”. That is what American Presidents used to do.

One hundred fifty five (155) years ago this coming Sunday [October 12], Robert Edward Lee died of pneumonia.  Over the previous 5 years, General Lee had transitioned into President Lee, leading the struggling Washington College in Lexington, Virginia, and placing it on solid ground.  Having spurned the many lucrative offers from businesses all over the United States following the conclusion of The Late Unpleasantness, Robert E. Lee accepted the offer from Washington College’s Board of Trustees to become its president.  For the next 5 years, Robert E. Lee worked tirelessly at improving the school devastated by the War, attracting students from the entire country, as well as donors interested in supporting the school.  He founded the College’s law and journalism schools, created the Honor System, and built what was  known as Lee Chapel (until The American Taliban struck in 2022).  Upon his death, President Lee was buried beneath the Chapel, adjacent to his office, which remains today as he left it 154 years ago.

Robert E. Lee is best known for his leadership during The Late Unpleasantness.  But his greatest legacy and effect is that which he had on “his boys”, the students that matriculated and attended Washington College, and those who came after to Washington & Lee University.  We, “his boys”, all aspire to replicate his example, knowing all the time we shall fall far short.

Robert E. Lee was a great American, a great Virginian, and a great man.  We can all take a lesson from the example he set while on this Earth.  R. I. P.

You realize, of course, that if our public schools still taught history, all Americans would know this. But . . . .

The federal government being shut down, it is not releasing economic data. But into this void, private companies are stepping in, and releasing economic data, far more accurate than that of the federal government. Super! So why exactly do we need federal agencies to exist to provide this data, when the private sector can do it better and cheaper?

The United States Court of Appeals paused a Portland, Oregon federal district judge’s order preventing the federalization and deployment of the National Guard in that city, in order to execute federal law. The Court of Appeals allowed the federalization of the National Guard, but did not permit its deployment pending further review. The district judge’s ruling is going to be overturned. It was always incorrect, as a matter of law.

The Washington Post published an article about “Lavender relationships”, where a homosexual is married to a heterosexual. The article prattles on how this is the new thing. Sigh. Just when I thought it was safe to read the Post again.

“My wife [fellow Pride Kel-So co-founder Shaina Dreyson] and I both grew up in Keller and had no idea for the longest time that there’s such a huge LGBTQ+ community within Keller despite this area being so conservative.  We didn’t have any visibility here, but now we’re providing it to the community . . . It was very beautiful and we’re still processing how incredible the festival was.”

–Pride Festival co-founder April Dreyson.  April thinks that she is married.  She is not.

In Keller, Texas, St. Martin-In-The-Fields Episcopal Church hosted a “Pride Festival”. They wanted to hold it close to “National Coming Out Day.” Lovely.

It is one thing for a church to be open to sinners. For we are all sinners. It is quite another for a church to celebrate sin. And in this case, St. Martin-In-The-Fields celebrated 2 sins, pride and homosexuality. Sigh. No wonder the pews are empty on Sundays. And every other day.

Sonoma County, California is instituting a mask mandate in anticipation of the upcoming flu season. Hmmmm. Ordinary citizens must wear a mask, but ICE agents are [presumbably] banned from wearing masks. Fascinating.

California Governor Gavin Newsom (D.) bloviated on and on about “climate change”, and the dangers it posed to Californians. As one of his examples, he cited the Pacific Palisades fire. Uh, Governor Hair Gel? THe Pacific Palisades fire was started intentionally by a man. “Climate change” had nothing to do with it.

And not just any man. It seems that the suspect in the Pacific Palisades fire is an environmental extremist, a “climate change” activist, and . . . a Democrat. Go figure.

Pro-Hamas agitators rioted in downtown Boston, Massachusetts, resulting in property destruction, injuries, and arrests. Apparently the terrorist supporters do not care for President Trump’s proposed peace deal.

The Wall Street Journal ran a hit piece on UNC head football coach Bill Belichick, speculating that he would not last the season. Huh. As a reminder, I am no fan of Bill Belichick. But it seems a bit harsh to blame Carolina’s faltering season entirely on him. After all, there is Jordan Hudson. And Mack Brown. And the fickle fans who are always ready to declare a basketball season over if the team loses to UVA. No, Bill Belichick finishes the season, and he will return next season. Maybe by then UNC fans will have learned a little patience.

The New York Yankees are out of the MLB playoffs, and that hurts Robert. Which makes me angry. Right now I hate the Yankees.

The Seattle Mariners are still in it. Win for Nathan!

Susan Newman, actress and daughter of actor Paul Newman, has died at age 72. R. I. P.

Joan Kennedy, beleaguered wife of Senator Edward Kennedy, has died at age 89. R. I. P.

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Virginia Attorney General candidate Jay Jones (D.) cancelled a fundraiser to be held at the home of author David Baldacci, and refunded all the attendees’ donations. Whoa! When was the last time a politician gave money back?

And is there anyone out there who did not realize that David Baldacci was a Leftist? Anyone?

The FBI agents who assisted Special Counsel Jack Smith in spying on Republican Senators? FIRED!

“He’s nervous as a pregnant nun about losing his reelection to the socialist wing of his party, led by Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez, which is in control.”

–Senator John Kennedy (R. La.), commenting on why Senator Charles Schumer (D. N.Y.) refuses to permit Democrats to reopen the federal government. 

One of the overlooked Democrat demands in return for funding the federal government is that the provision of subsidies for “gender affirming care” (i.e. genital mutiliation surgery) for adults and children. No. No, no, no, and HELL NO!

Since the Senate has nothing else to do, given the Democrats’ refusal to fund the federal government, Republicans confirmed 107 Trump nominees that the Democrats had been blocking. That will frost their flakes.

Former Federal Bureau Of Investigation Director James Comey was arraigned in federal court in Alexandria, Virginia yesterday. He plead not guilty to the Indictment.

The problem with arraignments is that occur first thing in the morning, as they are the first order of business on the docket. And unless you live in Alexandria, getting to the federal court is really inconvenient.

A China Joe appointed federal judge in Maryland sentenced the would be assassin of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh and his family to just 8 years in prison. Judge Deborah Boardman said that Nicholas Roske’s transition to Sopie Roske made him less a danger to society. She actually gave a vicious would be killer a lighter sentence because he was “trans”. And Judge Boardman was upset that the United States refused to refer to him as “her”, and by his now preferred name. She was also upset that the Bureau of Prisons refused to place Nicholas Roske–A MAN!–in a women’s penal facility. The United States Department of Justice is appealing the sentence.

Understand that? If you are committed to being “trans”, you get a lesser punishment. It is almost a get out of jail free card.

“Because there is so much about this moment that is trying to make people feel like they’ve lost their minds, when in fact these mothaf*kas are crazy!”

–Commiela, commenting on the Trump Administration, as she continues her book tour.

Stay classy, Commiela.

Has anyone actually bought a copy of Commiela’s book? Read it? Probably not.

The Washington Post claims that there is no evidence that Chicago authorities are failing to protect ICE agents. We guess that those Chicago Police dispatch recordings where officers are instructed to not assist ICE agents is fake. And the Chicago Police union’s statement denouncing the standing order for officers not to assist ICE agents is fake too.

The corpulent and always irritated Katie Porter (D. Ca.) melted down in the middle of a CBS News interview. Katie Porter is running for Governor in The Golden State in 2028, and lost her patience when the interviewer asked her how she planned to appeal to the 40% of California voters who support President Trump. Miss Porter exploded, and terminated the interview, calling the question “adversarial”.

A Florida man has been arrested and charged with starting the Pacific Palisides fires in Los Angeles this past January. Hundreds were left homeless and 12 were killed as a result of the fires.

California Governor Gavin Newsom (D.) vetoed a bill that would have raised wages for State firefighters. BUT, Governor Newsom has no problem spending $300 million to amend the State Constitution to allow California respond to Texas’s redistricting efforts. Priorities.

At Oklahoma State University, a member of the Student Government Association gave a tribute to the late Charlie Kirk, wearing a Turning Point USA hat that Charlie Kirk had given him. Naturally, the student was reprimanded by a faculty member, who complained that the hat and the student’s remarks were “triggering”.

“This is a man who’s suffering dementia.  This is a man who has something stuck in his head.  He can’t get it out of his head.  He doesn’t read.  He doesn’t know anything that’s up to date.  It’s just something in the recesses of his brain that is effectuating to have him call out these cities.  And then, unfortunately, he has the power of the military, the power of the federal government to do his bidding, and that’s what he’s doing.”

–Governor J. B. Pritzker (D. Ill.), whining about President Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops to protect ICE facilities and personnel.

Yes. President Trump is demented. Because he wants to enforce the law, while Illinois officials seek to obstruct the law’s enforcement. Because he wants to protect federal agents doing their jobs, while Illinois officials refuse to protect federal agents doing their jobs. Because he wants to protect the citizens of Chicago from gang violence and illegal aliens’ criminal activities. Meanwhile, according to Governor Pritzker, there is no out of control violence in Chicago, and China Joe was mentally fit to be President.

There is no out of control violence in Chicago? Since 2016, in Chicago, Illinois alone, 36,000 people have been shot. Sorry Governor Pritzker, but that is out of control violence.

Does any reader doubt that if a Democrat President sent in the National Guard to confiscate citizens’ guns, that Democrat Governors such as J. B. Pritzker, as well as the mainstream media, would be cheering him on? And denoucing the resistance against federal authorities? Anyone? Anyone?

The difference between illegal aliens and guns is that Americans maintain a right to keep and bear arms. No illegal alien has a right to be present in the United States.

Federal incentives for purchasing electric vehicles have expired. In the run up to the expiration, sales of EVs skyrocketed, making up around 10% of all new vehicle purchases. Now that the incentives no longer exist, look for sales to retreat to about 2-3%. And look for automobile manufacturers to start building cars consumers actually want.

Hopefully Mercedes Benz will begin exporting diesels to the United States again, during my lifetime. You cannot beat a diesel engine for efficiency, and durability.

Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups are America’s favorite Halloween candy. Huh. What about Snickers and Kit Kat?

The relics of St. Francis of Assisi, one of the most beloved saints in history, will be put on display in Italy next year.  The relics will be on display at the Basilica of Saint Francis in Assisi from Feb. 22 to March 22, 2026, during which time Francis’ body will be moved from its tomb in the crypt and placed at the foot of the papal altar in the lower church of the Basilica. 

“This appointment abandons global Anglicans, as the Church of England has chosen a leader who will further divide an already split Communion.”

–Statement Issued By The Global Anglican Future Conference, expressing the organization’s disappointment over the choice of Sally Mullaley as the next Archbishop of Canterbury.

Country singer Zach Bryan is not handling the backlash to his anti-ICE, anti-American songs. He admits that he is “scared”, and suggests that his fans just do not “understand” his new work. He’s sorry you’re stupid. Sounds like a male Dixie Chick.

Arizona Cardinals head coach John Gannon was fined $100,000.00 after he hit a player who dropped the football just prior to crossing the goal line, costing the Cardinals the game.

“I’m from the U.S.  I love my country.  And if you don’t like the United States, just get your ass out of here and don’t come over here.”

–National Football League Hall of Famer and former Los Angeles Rams [and SMU] running back, Eric Dickerson, reacting to the news that Bad Bunney will perform at the Super Bowl halftime show.

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“If those guys [Republicans] die before me, I will go to their funerals to piss on their graves to send them out awash in something.”

–Virginia Attorney General candidate Jay Jones (D.), who may be the most vile, foul mouthed Democrat in the United States.  And that is saying something!  

Why won’t Jay Jones abandon his campaign? Because power over his fellow citizens is the most important thing in his life. Because he feels superior to his fellow citizens, and dismisses their concerns over his evil and inexcusable behavior. Because not one fellow Democrat has, or will, call for him to step aside. Not one.

Where are Virginia’s 2 all so pious U.S. Senators, Mark Warner (D.) and Tim Kaine (D.), who are always lecturing Republicans on decorum, civility, etc.? As quiet as church mice. Both Senators donated significant funds to Jay Jones. They are supporting him, because they want power for their party.

I grew up in a family of Democrats (very conservative Democrats!). Decency towards your political opponents, your fellow citizens, heck all people, was practiced and expected. I cannot imagine the Virginia Democrats of the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, and even the 1990s (the early ’90s) tolerating even a portion of Jay Jones’s behavior.

Today things are different. Ambition, power, and control are everything to the radical Socialists that have taken over the Democrat Party. Until these people are smashed and destroyed (politically, figuratively, not literally), things will not improve. They will only get worse.

If Virginia voters reward the Democrat ticket, from Governor down to delegates, given this horrible behavior, they will rue the day. I am hopeful, but not confident, that justice and decency will prevail on November 3.

The Virginia Fraternal Order of Police called on Jay Jones to abandon his campaign. GOOD!

“I will not bankroll schools that sell out their students . . . and surrender their academic freedom.”

–Governor Gavin Newsom, announcing that he will withhold billions of dollars in funding from any school that cooperates with the Trump Administration.

The Trump Administration proposed a Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education. It was an invitation extended to 9 of our country’s most selective universities, including in the State of California. The Compact conditioned future federal funding on academic freedom, stopping racial discrimination in admissions and hiring, prohibiting men from playing in women’s sports, thus upholding federal law, and making college more affordable. That is what Governor Hair Gel objects to in his statement.

The federal Centers for Disease Control recommends against getting the Kung Fu Flu “vaccines”. Because they are not vaccines. They do not prevent you from catching the Kung Fu Flu.

Under China Joe and Attorney General Merrick Garland, Special Counsel Jack Smith spied on Republican members of Congress. The federal government monitored telephone calls of Congressional members who questioned or voted against the certification of the 2020 presidential elections. WOW! This makes Watergate look like an ice cream social at the Methodist Church.

“When we get into power next time, we damn well better make sure that D.C. is a state, that Puerto Rico is a state, that we eliminate the filibuster rule, right?  We get rid of all these antiquated rules that sure in the past made sense, but right now, with what we’re dealing with in this country, and we have a fascist regime, trying to destroy our democracy, we cannot abide by those rules anymore.  We can’t be the only party with one hand tied behind our back.” When we get in power – and we will get in power – we’re going to win in ’26, we’re going to win in ’25, and when we are in power we don’t play by that antiquated playbook anymore.  We go in there and do exactly what we want and what we said we were going to do to fight for people.”

–Democrat National Committee Chairman Ken Martin.  Because more of the same that the American people rejected in 2024 will surely be successful in 2026.

Chicago, Illinois Mayor Brandon Johnson (D.) established “ICE Free Zones”, in an effort to thwart efforts to arrest and deport illegal aliens. That is going to be an epic fail; we settled this question in 1865.

The Chicago Police Department is refusing to permit officers to respond to violent situations involving ICE agents. Police dispatch recordings confirm that the order has come down from the top that police are to stand down and not assist ICE agents in distress.

Federal agents arrested Chicago gang leader Juan Espinoza Martinez, charging him with murder for hire. Mr. Martinez offered a $10,000 reward for the murder of the local Border Patrol Commander.

Chicago and the State of Illinois are suing the federal government to stop the deployment of National Guard troops in the city, claiming that the situation is not dire, and troops are unnecessary. The Complaint further states that any violence is the result of ICE agents enforcing federal law. How absurd!

A federal judge also found it absurd. The judge declined to enjoin the Trump Administration from sending National Guard troops to Chicago.

Chicago’s St. Paul and the Redeemer Episcopal Church parishioners are upset that a member of their congregation–an illegal alien–has been arrested, and is being held for deportation. They are protesting at ICE facilities, claiming that the enforcement of the law is unjust. Of course they are.

New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani (D.) admitted that while he was studying in Egypt, he saw women protesting for their rights taken aside, beaten, and raped. And he did not lift a finger to intervene, stop the madness, or alert authorities. This is the man who wants to lead New York.

Country singer Zach Bryan released a new song, condemning ICE, the enforcement of our nation’s laws, and the Trump Administration. Interesting career move. Will ditch digging be in his future?

On ABC’s The View, Whoopi Goldberg urged all Americans to darken their skin, speak with a Spanish accent, and then approach ICE agents to test if they are arrested. She never misses an opportunity to bash our country, or to be a complete a$$.

The elderly man brutally attacked and victimized by Mark Sanchez has filed a civil lawsuit against the soon to be former FOX Sports broadcaster. Hmmm. Just when will FOX Sports get around to firing him?

Yesterday was the 2nd anniversary of Hamas’s horrific attack upon Israel. Hamas commemorated the occasion by firing missiles into Southern Israel from Gaza.

In the United States, the anti-Semite Amen crowd gathered across the country in front of Israeli consulates, protesting Israel’s actions in Gaza. Useful idiots for the terrorists.

In the category of useful idiots, New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani (D.) issued a statement blaming Israel for the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023. New York Democrats must be so proud.

The United Kingdom’s Green Party wants to abolish “private landlordism”. Tenants would be given first right to buy when a landlord sells, with their “total rent paid discounted” and government-backed financing provided. Local Town Councils would be given second right to buy.  Rent controls would be imposed. And evictions for non-payment of rent would not occur. It would be the abolition of the right to private property.

What the Left wants to impose in Great Britain is abominable. But do not think it cannot happen here, because many aspects already are present in the United States. The Left has never met a regulation that it did not wish to impose.

Declassified CIA documents demonstrate that Ukranian government officials were convinced that then Vice-President China Joe, Hunter, and other Biden family members, were engaged in corrupt activities in that country. He was. Thanks for telling us.

“I don’t fault the players; I fault the leadership that created this toxic environment.  There’s an individualistic mindset.  The boys are young, and they are feeding into it.”

–Anonymous parent of a University of North Carolina football player, who is apparently no fan of head coach Bill Belichick.

The Observations is no fan of either UNC or Bill Belichick. But to blame the football team’s horrendous play on Belichick is a stretch. Yes, he’s the coach, and yes, he is responsible, ultimately. But frankly some of the Carolina players ought to be wearing skirts out there on the gridiron. Perhaps the anonymous parent’s son is one of them. And it is not like Mack Brown left Belichick a championship team, or anything like close to it.

You know; is it possible that anonymous parent was not referring to Bill Belichick at all, but rather, Jordan Hudson? That would make much more sense.

Wyatt Durrette, VMI ’61, W&L ’64L, Virginia lawyer, former Republican candidate for Attorney General and Governor, has died at age 87. R. I. P.

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IT REALLY SHOULD NOT BE THIS HARD. In Portland, Oregon, a federal judge ruled that the federal government could not federalize the Oregon National Guard in order to protect the local ICE Detention Facility. The judge found that the protests were “mostly peaceful”. The facts belie this finding. For more than 100 nights, anti-ICE protestors have surrounded the ICE Detention Facility, hurled rocks and Molotov cocktails, assaulted ICE employees and agents, followed ICE employees and agents leaving the facility to go home, and vandalized the facility. Last weekend the Portland police arrested a reporter covering the violence for creating a disturbance. The “disturbance” was that the demonstrators were beating the reporter, and destroying his recording equipment. The Portland police did not arrest a single demonstrator.

In response, the President ordered 300 California National Guard troops to deploy to Portland to protect the ICE Detention facility. Governor Gavin Newsom (D. Ca.) sued, and that very same judge ruled that the President could not deploy any troops to Portland, as the protests were “mostly peaceful”, and the Portland police had the matter well in hand.

The Portland police do not have the matter well in hand. The protests are not “mostly peaceful”. There is an active rebellion going on in Portland, against federal authority. This federal district judge has decided that she has the wisdom, knowledge, and the authority to determine whether it is appropriate to use troops to protect federal property. She does not. She has exceeded her authority.

So while Portland burns, and federal authority is challenged, we wait on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit to intervene. But we should not have to wait. IT REALLY SHOULD NOT BE THIS HARD.

Representative Hakeem Jeffries (D. N.Y.) challenged House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson (R. La.) to a televised prime time debate on the federal government shutdown. Why? All Democrats know is performative politics. No substance whatsoever.

The Democrats want to funnel welfare benefits to illegal aliens. It is in their counter-legislation. The Democrats want to keep funding at pandemic levels. The Democrats want to subsidize insurance companies. The Democrats want to to fund PBS and National Public Radio. The Democrats are for bigger, socialist government. They are not on the side of the American people.

Representative Eric Swalwell (D. Ca.) told CNN that when the Democrat Party regains power, it will target everyone and every institution that worked with, or supported, President Trump. This includes private citizens. This includes you.

“He [Virginia Attorney General Candidate Jay Jones (D.)] should probably be forced to drop out of the race.”

–MSNBC Morning Joe Host Joe Scarborough.

You know when you are a Democrat and have lost MSNBC, you are doomed. Maybe Jay Jones should not be fantasizing about death to his political colleagues and their families. What an evil SOB!

But there’s more! Jay Jones was engaged in a conversation over the doctrine of qualified immunity for policemen. That Jay Jones is against qualified immunity is not, in itself, disqualifying. But his reasoning certainly he is, as he said “Well, maybe if a few of them [police] died, that they would move on, not shooting people, not killing people.” Jay Jones is a vile, disgusting man. He should not be elected to public office. He really has no place in polite society. He should just go away.

Virginia gubernatorial candidate Abigail Spanberger (D.) taught at a Saudi Arabian run private school in Northern Virginia, post 9-11. The school was attended by Muslims, only, taught students to revile “infidels” (non-Muslims), and many of the students’ parents were Hamas members. When asked about this, Abigail Spanberger said she “was proud” of her work at this school. Oh, my. Vote accordingly.

New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani (D.) vowed to eliminate the “gifted and talented” program in New York City public schools. Mr. Mamdani thinks the programs are “elitist”, “racist”, and “insufficiently inclusive”. He prefers a socialist, “one size fits all” program where each student receives an equally lousy education.

New Jersey gubernatorial candidate Mikie Sherrill (D.) told a reporter that she could not imagine anyone eating a pork roll, because they are “gross”. Oh, my. Pork rolls are a New Jersey favorite, often consumed at breakfast. She might as well have been campaigning in eastern North Carolina and proclaiming that barbecue was best served with ketchup. MAJOR GAFFE!

In March 2024, 3 Muslims vandalized a protestant church in Dallas, Texas, with graffitti, motivated by their hatred of Israel, and the church’s support of Israel and Jews. Prosecutors filed criminal charges, with a “hate crime” enhancement. Now the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) is demanding that the criminal charges be dismissed, as they violate the defendants’ 1st Amendment rights. CAIR argues that the defendants’ attack on the protestant church was motivated by their love of Islam, and that it was a part of their free exercise of religion. CAIR also argues that the defendants’ maintain a 1st Amendment right to vandalize the church with graffitti, as it is how they express their views. WOW!

Ian Roberts, the illegal alien who was, before his arrest, the Superintendent of the Des Moines, Iowa public schools, lied about having a PhD. Worse, it seems that Mr. Roberts has quite a lengthy criminal record, not just related to immigration. Apparently Mr. Roberts committed many violent crimes in the United States, and back in his native Guyana, was a member of a government sanctioned gang called “The Death Squad”. Can you imagine what crimes The Death Squad committed?

Still, the Democrat controlled Des Moines school board supports Mr. Roberts, and does not want him deported. We would ask who vetted Mr. Roberts before hiring him. But the better question seems to be who in the world voted for these school board members?

Amazon owns the James Bond movies franchise, and so far that new ownership is not serving fans well. Amazon has been dithering on who will be the next James Bond, with much discussion on “diversity” (how about a black, trans dwarf?). But the latest machinations are just plain silly. Apparently Amazon thinks James Bond is too violent, and has air brushed all images of guns from the movies’ promotional materials, including the iconic movie posters. So what is Bond going to do, talk Blofeld into abandoning his evil schemes?

Former USC and New York Jets quarterback Mark Sanchez was stabbed in Indianapolis, Indiana over the weekend. Mr. Sanchez was in town to broadcast for FOX Sports, an NFL game. Mr. Sanchez initially told police he was attacked by a man in an alley, wielding a knife. That may be a half truth. What actually appears to have happened is that Mark Sanchez left a local bar, drunk, and wandered into an alley where an elderly man was loading used restaurant grease onto a truck. For some unexplained reason, Mark Sanchez took great umbrage at the truck being parked in the alley, and he then attacked the elderly man. The elderly man tried to fight him off, to no avail, so he stabbed Mark Sanchez with his knife. Mark Sanchez wandered off, bleeding, and was eventually taken to an Indianapolis hospital. Where he was arrested. Mark Sanchez beat this elderly man bloody, for no apparent reason, causing serious bodily harm to the man, who remains in the hospital himself. The elderly man is facing a long and painful recovery. Mark Sanchez is facing multiple criminal felony charges.

Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones is under investigation by the NFL for his conduct during the Cowboys/Jets football game on Sunday. It appears that Jerry Jones thought it amusing to flip his middle finger at a bunch of Jets fans. How very rude! What a jerk!

ESPN benched sports analyst Paul Finebaum, a conservative Republican, for his comments about how Charlie Kirk was an inspiration to him. Meanwhile ESPN sports analyst Stephen A. Smith, a liberal Democrat, is going strong at the network. Hmmmm.

Bad Bunny, the anti-American rapper from Puerto Rico (a part of the United States), who is designated to perform at the Super Bowl’s halftime show, went on Saturday Night Live, and advised the audience that they had 4 months to learn Spanish, in anticipation of his half time show. No. In the United States, we speak English. I do not need to learn Spanish. And I already know how to change the channel. Which I will do, if I actually watch the Super Bowl.

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GOOD MORNING HOLLAND KOONTZ! Thank you for taking good care of your Mother!

English returned last night from Dallas, Texas. She flew down on Friday evening to visit Holland. The 2 of them bopped around SMU, Boulevarding before the game with Syracuse, and then cheering on the Mustangs to victory. The merriment continued on through Saturday night, and into Sunday morning, before English finally boarded her American Airlines flight back to Northern Virginia.

Dudley and I spent a pleasant enough weekend together. He was not pleased at English’s absence, but he soon enough realized that there were perks associated with being nice to me. Who says you cannot teach an old dog new tricks?

The Schumer Sombrero Shutdown of the federal government continues. May it do so for a long period of time.

But The Observations is not betting all its chips on The Stupid Party. Republicans have an uncanny ability to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson (R. La.) has postponed any House votes until October 14. This might be a good sign.

Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought is cancelling $8 billion of “green new deal” spending on B.S. projects. WINNING!

Did you know that Kilmar Abrego Garcia, illegal alien, wife beater, human trafficker, and MS-13 gang member, qualifies for Obamacare subsidies? THIS is who Congressional Democrats are fighting to protect in the federal government shutdown!

It seems, however, that Abrego Garcia will not get the opportunity to receive Obamacare subsidies, and his late, meritless bid for “asylum” has been denied, and his deportation order upheld.

Senator Christopher Van Hollen (D. Md.) is pushing a Congressional resolution to force the President to recognize a “Palestinian State”. Why? What is the point, to reward terrorists? Sigh. How about this; the United States recognizes a “Palestinian State”, and we agree to place it in Montgomery County, Prince George’s County, and Baltimore City, Maryland. We then wall it off, but require Senator Van Hollen and his pals to remain living in this area. There you go!

“I also just don’t understand why we’re blaming the Democrats for Republicans lying at the highest levels of office.  They have the biggest megaphone.  They have TV networks that repeat the lies and say things on those networks with no consequence and the things they say are violent, okay?  So they’re not only repeating the lies but adding to this coarseness and there’s no consequence to it, and we’re blaming the Democrats?  We’re blaming the Democrats for this.  What exactly are the Democrats supposed to do?”

–MSNBC Morning Joe co-host Mika Brzezinski, blaming Republicans for the federal government shutdown.

Mika’s husband, Joe Scarborough immediately interrupted, screaming at her. Not to defend Republicans, but to lambast Democrats for not fighting hard enough.

Joe Scarborough used to be a Republican Representative from Florida. He has since left the Republican party, but asserts to anyone listening that he is “still a conservative”. Joe Scarborough is not a “conservative”. He never was. He was also an opportunist, with very flexible views. And no principles.

CNN’s Kaitlin Collins is outraged that Republicans are not taking Democrats’ criticisms against the memes being put out by The White House. The 1st meme shows Hakeem Jeffries wearing a sombrero and a Frito Bandito moustache. It is not “racist”, it is funny. Even funnier is the latest meme which portrays Donald Trump as the frontman for the band Blue Oyster Cult, playing a rendition of the song Don’t Fear The Reaper. J.D. Vance is playing the drums, and Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought is the Grim Reaper, moving through Washington, D.C. cutting spending and government programs. You should go on the internet and view it. It will give you a chuckle.

And that is the problem. Democrats have no sense of humor. Representative Hakeem Jeffries said that the memes prove that Republicans are not taking the shutdown seriously. No. It proves that the Republicans are not taking you seriously. Lighten up, Francis!

“And one of the reasons they’re so serious about it is that, if you go back before the 20th century, there were no income taxes.  There were no regulations on business.  You could earn as much money as you want, leave 100% of it to your children with no taxes.  That’s the world they want back.

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I mean, one of the things that, you know, people say is alarmist to say, but it is just true, is that we are in a fascist moment.  And what that means is a right-wing, white nationalist, white supremacist moment that is centered around hierarchy.”

–former MSNBC host, serial liar, and racist Joy Reid.

If wanting to eliminate federal income taxes and business regulations makes one a fascist, then count me in!

The Washington Post has hired 3 conservative columnists to join its editorial board–Kate Andrews of The Spectator, Dominic Pino of National Review, and Carine Hajjar of the Boston Globe. That will frost the Leftists’ flakes!

Bari Weiss, formerly of The New York Times, will now head up CBS News. The Leftists forced Ms. Weiss out after she did not sufficiently toe the “progressive” line. And now? Revenge is a dish best served cold.

Sean Combs had scheduled several interviews for next week, confident his lawyers would get him released from custody. He will have to place those plans on hold, as a federal judge sentenced him to 4 years in prison on his federal convictions. Let justice be served.

New York State will lose its Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae offices. That’s a shame.

For more than 100 consecutive nights, the ICE detention facility in Portland, Oregon has been besieged by violent ANTIFA attacks. Local police were either instructed or were unable to provide any assistance to the federal facility.

In Broadview, Illinois, riots at the ICE detention facility forced the deployment of State and local police, to protect the facility and federal agents. My goodness!

But that is not going to last. Broadview’s Police Chief is vowing to use bulldozers to destroy a fence ICE erected around its detention facility to protect the facility, its employees, and the detainees. Broadview’s Police Chief is decidedly anti-ICE.

As is reflected by Broadview’s municipal leadership, who denied entry to a municipal building to federal officials. The federal officials wished merely to use the restroom facilities. They were told to go to a gas station.

Over the weekend in Broadview, 10 cars, some occupied by armed indviduals, surrounded ICE vehicles, rammed 1 ICE vehicle, and boxed the ICE vehicles in, preventing them from moving. An ICE agent opened fire, and wounded a woman armed with an AK-47.

“When this person is committing six or seven crimes, I don’t know his or her story.  Maybe they were abused as a child.  Maybe they’re hungry.  But my remedy is to find their life story to see how we can help.  First, I have no desire to put them in jail, but I need to protect you, and that’s the calibration that we have.”

–Seattle, Washington Mayor Bruce Harrell (D.), explaining why he opposes a “punitive” criminal justice system.

How do you respond to such nonsense? Other than voting against this imbecile?

Georgiann Davis is an associate professor at The University of New Mexico. She penned an op/ed for The Los Angeles Times where she revealed that she is “intersex”, and was concerned that she might have to teach “the lie that there were only 2 sexes”. Oh, my! Professor Davis ought to be more concerned about her Obamacare policy covering her obvious mental illness.

In Indianapolis, Indiana, a man with 99 previous criminal arrests was released from pretrial detention after being charged with attempted murder. The Democrat prosecutor then reduced the attempted murder charge to assault. Outrageous.

Interestingly enough, the Indiana man did not serve any time incarcerated as a result of 99 previous arrests and convictions. Not a day. And it seems that he will serve no time as a result of #100.

“We have to fight.  We are not going to concede this democracy to the efforts of tyranny.  We are not going to concede the rights that we have in this country to protect every single citizen.  We are going to fight.  This is an act of civil disobedience that we are going to keep up and make sure that your voices continue throughout Virginia, all throughout the country.”

–Ghazala Hashmi (D.), candidate for Virginia Lt. Governor.

Mrs. Hashmi is a radical, anti-Semitic, Leftist Muslim who appears to be running more against President Trump, than her GOP opponent.  She made her comments before a faux tombstone of the United States Constitution, and an American flag flying upside down, in a sign of distress.

“Three people, two bullets

Gilbert, hitler, and pol pot

Gilbert gets two bullets to the head”

–Jay Jones, Democrat candidate for Virginia Attorney General.

Now what could possibly have caused Jay Jones to fantasize about killing Todd Gilbert (R. Shenandoah), then the Speaker of the House of Delegates. He also expressed a desire that Todd Gilbert’s children be murdered also. Well, he was upset that Speaker Gilbert issued condolences on the passing of a Democrat delegate. Mr. Jones was infuriated that a Republican would dare be kind to a tragedy of a member of the opposing party. So he texted the above quote to another delegate, Carrie Coyner. Just despicable.

Did Virginia Democrat gubernatorial candidate Abigail Spanberger condemn Jay Jones specifically, or call on him to drop out of the race? Why, no. No she did not. Because just days earlier, Abigail Spanberger called on her supporters to “fuel the rage”, and resist the Republican agenda.

“We cannot love God, whom we cannot see, while despising his creatures.  Nor can we call ourselves disciples of Jesus Christ without participating in his outlook on creation and his care for all that is fragile and wounded.”

–Pope Leo, dismissing critics of “climate change”.

Pope Leo attended some kind of pagan “climate justice” program. That is weird enough. But while there, Pope Leo blessed a melting block of ice, supposedly representing the advancement of “global warming”.

One would think that the Pope of all people would know that man cannot destroy God’s creation. One would think that the Pope of all people would recognize the “climate change” hoax as the hubristic, Leftist scam that it is. One would think.

NOTE TO POPE LEO: There is more–not less–ice at both the North and South Poles. We are not destroying the planet.

Harvard University has hired drag queen “LaWhore Vagistan” as a visiting professor, teaching in the Studies of Gender and Sexuality department. Sigh. English and I are so happy that Holland did not even consider attending Harvard University.

Sadly, Professor LaWhore Vagistan has a tenured position at Tufts University, where he teaches similar courses. He is also a frequent competitor on television’s RuPaul’s Drag Races. My goodness!

The Church of England announced that Sally Mullally will be the next Archbishop of Canterbury. Good golly Bob! What, LaWhore Vagistan was not available?

Sally Mullally is Exhibit A as to why churches are empty on Sundays. She is “pro-choice”, pro same sex unions, and pro “trans”. She is hell bent on changing the Church to meet secular wants and desires, as opposed to spreading God’s Word. How much modernity can the Church take before it is no longer “the Church”. She is a terrible choice.

Kentucky Fried Chicken announced it was bringing back its Original Honey Barbecue Sauce. I do not care.

AOL dial up internet is no more. The end of an era.

Just in time for the upcoming holidays, Little Debbie is introducing a coffee creamer that tastes like its Christmas Tree Cakes. Rufe, you should try this in your coffee.

“Sadly all vegans are now banned from Fyre (for mental health reasons).

We thank you for your understanding. Xx.”

–sign on the front door of a restaurant, Fyre, in Perth, Australia.

I want to go eat at that restaurant in Perth. Everyday for a month.

We can report that Greta Thunberg is safe and sound as she again tried to illegally enter Gaza by boat. Wouldn’t it just be easier to fly into Tel Aviv?

A British citizen, of Syrian origin, drove his automobile into a crowd gathered in front of a synagogue in Manchester, England. After mowing down some pedestrians, the man leaped out of the car, and rushed to the synagogue, slashing worshippers with a knife, all while wearing a suicide bomb vest. Responding police shot the man dead. Sigh. The “religion of peace” at work.

In London, England, Moussa Kadri attempted to stab a man who had publicly burned a copy of the Koran. Kadri shouted “I’m going to kill you” as he jabbed at the man, and later told the police that he was just out to “protect my religion.” Mr. Kadri was released from custody with no charges pending. The stabbing victim, however, was criminally charged with intending to cause harm to Islam. Wow. Is it any coincidence that the British Minister of Justice is a Muslim?

Hamas’s military chief has rejected President Trump’s peace plan for Gaza. This will not end well. For Hamas.

Hamas’s leadership seems to be of a different mind, and has promised to release the remaining 48 Israeli hostages, 20 living, 28 dead. Maybe. Maybe not. Hamas also wants to continue to negotiate terms. No hostages, no leverage.

UNLEASH ISRAEL NOW!

Sanae Tackaichi is set to become Japan’s first female Prime Minister. The heck with that, as her sex is wholly unimportant. What matters is that she is conservative, and an ardent admirer of the late British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. WOO HOO!

BOMBS AWAY! Another Venezuelan drug trafficking boat sits at the bottom of the sea.

Lower federal courts ruled that President Trump could not strip China Joe’s deportation amnesty from Venezuelan illegal aliens. The United States Supreme Court disagreed. So, out they go! WINNING!

ESPN’s College Game Day was at Alabama for the Vanderbilt/Alabama football game. It did not help Vanderbilt, as Alabama won. Roll Tide! Florida beat Texas in The Swamp. Arch Manning is so overrated. Mississippi State hung tough, but ultimately Texas A&M wore it down. Georgia downed Kentucky. Oklahoma beat the Little Sisters of the Poor.

Washington & Lee University beat Hampden Sydney. WOO HOO!

Sadly for all Generals, W&L sports are not televised. ESPN would rather air the WNBA.

Clemson got tired of losing, and took out its frustrations on North Carolina. Unbelievably, Virginia won a road game at Louisville! Duke pounded Cal. SMU beat Syracuse. Wake Forest won. Miami dominated Florida State.

UCLA beat Penn State. Penn State is done, stick a fork in them. Ohio State beat Minnesota. Maryland began its traditional October swoon, giving up a 20 point lead and losing to Washington. Michigan beat Wisconsin, and Illinois beat Purdue.

San Diego State beat Colorado State. Wyoming lost to UNLV. Fresno State beat Nevada. Boise State lost to Notre Dame. Air Force lost to Navy.

The Wyoming game was very entertaining. It was played on a snow covered field, and but for a lousy officiating call, Wyoming was on the comeback trail. Still, all in all, a great college footbal experience.

BYU downed West Virginia. Texas Tech beat Houston. Cincinnati beat Iowa State. Coach Prime’s Buffaloes lost to TCU.

Princeton beat Columbia. Colgate beat Cornell’s anti-Semites. UPenn beat Dartmouth, and Lehigh beat Yale. Brown beat Rhode Island.

Chimpanzee researcher Jane Goodall has died at age 91. R. I. P.

Yardbirds co-founder Chris Dreja has died at age 79. R. I. P.

Rabbi Dov Fisher, lawyer, legal scholar, Jewish scholar, author, columnist, conservative, and great American patriot, has died. Yehi Zichro Baruch (May His Memory Be A Blessing). R. I. P.

Syracuse University basketball great Lawrence Moten has died at age 53. R. I. P.

John Coyne, speechwriter for President Richard Nixon, has died at age 90. R. I. P.

GFK

The silliness in Washington, D.C. continues. It is times like this that I wish I lived somewhere else.

On the other hand, with a government shutdown, there is less traffic. That alone is worth tolerating the silliness. And if we are fortunate, maybe some of these Democrat bureaucrats will abandon Northern Virginia for their ancestral lands of New York, Connecticut, and Massachusetts.

Today I am sharing 2 articles with you. The first article, from The Wall Street Journal, identifies the cause of the shutdown, and the importance of the Republicans not caving into Democrat pressure. The second article is from The Washington Times, where columnist Don Feder discusses Democrat rhetoric. Both of these articles are timely, well written, and provide insight to the issues of the day. I hope you find them informative.

The Government Shutdown Stakes for the GOP

Will the party extend pandemic ObamaCare subsidies that enrich health insurers?

As we write this, Washington seems headed toward the ritual melodrama of a government shutdown. But the stakes in this case are about more than political gamesmanship. Democrats are manufacturing a panic over ObamaCare subsidies that will test if Republicans have any stomach to curb runaway entitlements.

Democrats are warning of higher premiums if the GOP doesn’t extend turbocharged ObamaCare subsidies that expire at the end of the year. GOP leaders are already hinting that they are open to negotiating, and some are floating ideas that would give Democrats much of what they want. “I don’t love the policy, OK?” Speaker Mike Johnson said recently. “But I understand the political realities.” Oh, oh.

Mr. Johnson is correct that the subsidies are bad policy, though it would help if Republicans told the public the reasons. The super-charged subsidies first passed in 2021 for a Covid-19 emergency that ended long ago. Democrats juiced the subsidies for everyone, while also opening up the spigot to those earning above 400% of the poverty line.

Democrats set a 2025 expiration date to make the Inflation Reduction Act look less expensive over a 10-year budget window but fully expecting that Congress would extend the subsidies again. No Republican voted for that bill, but now some are too frightened to let the super-subsidies expire.

Despite what you may read, letting them expire wouldn’t gut the Affordable Care Act. Someone at 100% of the poverty line would still on average pay merely $3.45 a week in premiums for the cheapest middle-tier plan, according to Brian Blase of Paragon Health Institute and Trevor Carlsen of the Foundation for Government Accountability (FGA). Taxpayers would still pay 98% of the premium.

The cost would run roughly $52 a week for a person at 250% of the poverty line, with taxpayers picking up more than two-thirds of the premium. These are reasonable contributions to a health plan, as most people who get insurance from private employers understand. Nearly three in four ObamaCare enrollees are below this income level.

Making these plans “free” has allowed insurers to get paid for people who may not even know they’re enrolled. Some 40% of those in fully subsidized plans had zero claims in 2024, Paragon and the FGA estimate, a number that can’t be explained merely by healthy people not using their insurance.

Democrats don’t mention that the sweetened subsidies are attracting more Americans to the ObamaCare exchanges from better employer coverage. Messrs. Blase and Carlsen cite Congressional Budget Office data estimating that the expanded subsidies would reduce employment-based coverage by four million people. Do Republicans want to endorse that cost transfer to taxpayers?

Extending the subsidies would cost roughly $450 billion over a decade, even if Congress disguises the cost with another phony expiration date. The Trump Administration is wasting its time cutting a few billion dollars in foreign aid if it acquiesces to a half-a-trillion-dollar transfer to health insurers.

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The GOP in Congress could at least try to talk about giving Americans more and better health insurance choices. The Trump Administration recently announced new rules letting more people purchase a less expensive catastrophic plan on the exchanges, versus only those under age 30 now. It’s a start—not that President Trump ever talks about it.

Republicans fear the politics of healthcare and are nervous about defending their changes to Medicaid in their big budget bill. One certainty: Ratifying ObamaCare subsidies won’t defuse those attacks.

Democrats want to make extension of the subsidies the price for reopening the government. But every

Republican has voted to keep the government open, while Democrats are voting against funding it.

Many Republicans voted for Mr. Trump’s tax bill in June in part because he promised to restrain future spending. Giving Democrats some of their half-a-trillion-dollar subsidy demand would betray that promise.

—The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board (October 1, 2025).

Democrats shout fascist while behaving like Brownshirts

Ugly accusations are getting people killed

Louisiana Gov. Huey Long, Democrat and Depression-era populist, predicted in 1935, “When fascism comes to America, it will come under the guise of anti-fascism.” This prophecy is coming true before our eyes.

This year, Democrats are calling everyone who disagrees with them a Nazi or a fascist while facilitating evil.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz charges that President Trump is “a fascist to his core.” Former Vice President Kamala Harris agrees. Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the silver-tongued Rep. Jasmine Crockett, who calls Mr. Trump a “Temu Hitler,” are among the Democrats who have twisted reality to reach the preposterous conclusion that the twice-elected president of the United States is Der Fuhrer.

Not just Mr. Trump but also his supporters are smeared in this ugly fashion.

President Biden warned that “MAGA Republicans” are “a threat to democracy,” during a 2022

Independence Hall extravaganza eerily reminiscent of the 1930s Nuremberg rallies, with its lurid lighting.

Charlie Kirk’s assassin wrote on one of his bullet casings: “Hey fascist! Catch!” Like Kirk, fascists were famous for their eagerness to debate critics.

As a clone of Adolf Hitler, Mr. Trump fails miserably. The president never tried to sabotage the democratic process, unlike Democrats, who worked to keep his name off the ballot in several states in 2024 and used lawfare to keep him off the campaign trail. Mr. Trump doesn’t ignore the courts, unlike his predecessor, who proceeded with student loan forgiveness after the Supreme Court told him it was unconstitutional.

Unlike so many other of our recent presidents, Mr. Trump kept his oath of office by securing the border, after 6.7 million entered illegally under Mr. Biden.

By declaring antifa a major terrorist organization, Mr. Trump is moving decisively against a gang that poses the same threat to America that the brownshirts did to Weimar Germany.

Antifa goons attack police and immigration officials, beat opponents and turn our cities into war zones.

Another leftist insurrection was the 2020 riots (20 dead, $2 billion in property damage), which the president’s critics either ignored or applauded.

The left is following a script that was written in the 1930s, when communists started calling their opponents fascists and presenting themselves as the only alternative to fascism.

In reality, the two ideologies are first cousins. Both reject capitalism for a planned economy. (Not for nothing were the Nazis called the National Socialists.) Each believed the interests of the individual must be subordinated to the collective.

Italy’s fascist dictator, Benito Mussolini, declared: “Everything within the state. Nothing outside the state. Nothing against the state.” President Franklin D. Roosevelt, a liberal icon, admired Il Duce until Mussolini became an ally of Hitler.

Mr. Trump wants to reduce the size and scope of government. He wants less taxes and regulation and more private control of the economy, the very opposite of fascism.

So, the MAGA crowd are Nazis, huh? Nazis who support private ownership of firearms? On coming to power, Hitler confiscated guns from his enemies. Former Rep. Beto O’Rourke (Hell yes, we’re going to take your AR-15”) would have made a great Gauleiter.

I’m afraid the left has us dead to rights.

We’re Nazis who want less government, Nazis who believe parents should control their children’s education and Nazis who support Israel and abhor antisemitism. Hitler would have had us expelled from the National Socialist Party.

The Nazis and communists weren’t polar opposites but rather rival gangs that started from the same premises.

Democrats think conservatives are fascists because they don’t understand fascism and never understood us.

We are the true heirs of Democrats such as Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson and Harry Truman. The most visible Democrat in America today is socialist candidate for New York mayor Zohram Mamdani, a Marxist who wants to “globalize the intifada.”

Democrats have become the party of statism, group rights and lawlessness, while conservatives remain true to the principles of the Founding Fathers.

At a memorial for Charlie Kirk, Erika Kirk said she forgave her husband’s killer. Fascists are all about forgiveness.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom says immigration enforcement agents act like the Gestapo. Last week, a gunman shot up a U.S. immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in Dallas, killing one detainee and wounding two others. Assaults on ICE agents are up more than 1,000% over the same period last year.

If they had any decency, Democrats would stop the insane name-calling. Loose accusations of fascism are getting people killed.

–Don Feder, The Washington Times (September 28, 2025).

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“The most likely outcome [of the federal government shutdown] is that Democrats will come to regret having just walked into a trap.”

—Washington Post Editorial Board (October 1, 2025).

The federal government has shut down, and it is all the Democrats’ fault. Representative Hakeem Jeffries (D. N.Y.) and Senator Charles Schumer (D. N.Y.) are leading the gang that could not shoot straight. Clowns!

The Left is all consumed by the fact that the Secretary of War issued orders to the military’s flag officers at a joint meeting in Quantico, Virginia. Too expensive, they sneered (since when is costs of government spending a Leftist concern?). Who is the Secretary of War do dictate to these flag officers (he is their boss, speaking for the Commander in Chief)? He is a racist and a misogynist! He does not follow the science, since he dismisses our country’s biggest enemy, climate change! Our favorite criticism came from The Washington Post columnist Karen Tumulty who wrote that Secretary Hegseth wanted to return to the days of the Tailhook Scandal. Funny, nowhere in his remarks was that mentioned.

The truth is that under Presidents George W. Bush, Obama, and China Joe, the military was transformed into a politically correct structure, where women could serve in combat, men could wear dresses, promotions were based on immutable characteristics, as opposed to merit, and where every Leftist socialist experiment could be implemented. The military celebrated “Pride Month”, for goodness sakes!

Now under President Trump, the United States military will return to a warrior culture, and its core mission of protecting our country. The military will now kill our enemies and break things, instead of having bake sales where commendations are awarded for the best rainbow flag decorated cupcakes.

Senator Cory Booker (D. N.J.) whined that President Trump’s language against Democrats was “dangerous” and put “lives in danger”. Oh, wow! “Literally Hitler, fascist, authoritarian, dictator, totalitarian”, etc., etc. are all terms hurled at the President specifically, and at Republicans generally, by Democrats. Leftists have shot at President Trump twice, and murdered Charlie Kirk. No MAGA supporter has taken a shot at Democrats. So sit down and shut up, Spartacus!

The China Joe Administration instructed the Transportation Security Administration to place Americans on the “No Fly List”, or to subject them to heightened scrutiny in security lines, where those Americans resisted or protested mask mandates during the former Current Unpleasantness. But Trump is the “threat to our democracy”.

The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ordered a rehearing, en banc, of a decision blocking the deportation of Venezuelan gang members under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798. This is good news, as it appears that a majority of the appeals court disagrees with the decision.

A federal judge in Boston, Massachusetts ruled that the Trump Administration illegally targeted anti-Semitic, pro-Hamas aliens for deportation, calling it a violation of their “free speech” rights. Never mind the intimidation and threats against Jewish students, faculty, and the destruction of private property on college campuses. We must allow foreigners–guests in our country–to behave as badly as they want. Good grief!

“This president is an unstable human being, and it’s right for this moment to check him.  And we’re calling on Congress to do its job.”

–Chicago, Illinois Mayor Brandon Johnson (D.), expressing his outrage over 300 ICE agents rounding up illegal aliens in the Southside of Chicago.

Oklahoma’s highway patrol partnered with ICE and arrested 120 illegal aliens who were operating as over the road truck drivers. Thank you, China Joe.

One of the worst discoveries in the Oklahoma operation was the finding of New York State Commercial Drivers Licenses which were issued to “No Name Given”. That is right. In New York State, if you do not have supporting paperwork, they still give you the CDL, and simply stamp “No Name Given” on the license. More than 20% of issued New York State CDLs are to “No Name Given”. What are we doing in this country?

Virginia Attorney General candidate Jay Jones (D.) was convicted of reckless driving, 116 mph in a 65 mph zone. Mr. Jones called it a “mistake”, and said that he paid his fine and served over 500 hours of community service. That’s interesting; where did Mr. Jones give 500 hours of his time? At his own political action committee, that’s where. Sigh.

America’s Team has dismissed Manager Brian Snitker from his role, bumping him up into an executive advisory role. Hmmm. I don’t think this is the best idea. Under Snitker, over 10 seasons the Braves won a World Series title, 6 NL East titles, and made the playoffs as a wild card in another season. Only Managers Bobby Cox and Frank Selee have produced more wins for the Braves.

As a consolation, Brian Snitker will be inducted into the Braves Hall of Fame. Well, there’s that.

Lalley Weymouth, journalist and socialite, daughter of the late Washington Post publisher and owner, Katherine Graham, has died at age 86. R. I. P.

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“There is no season when such pleasant and sunny spots may be lighted on, and produce so pleasant an effect on the feelings, as now in October.”

—Nathaniel Hawthorne.

“Yet, I can face the winter with calm. I suppose I had forgotten what it was really like. I had been thinking of the winter as a horrid wet, dreary time fit only for professional football. Now I can see other things—crisp and sparkling days, long pleasant evenings, cheery fires. Good work shall be done this winter. Life shall be lived well. The end of the summer is not the end of the world. Here’s to October . . . .”

—A.A. Milne, A Word for Autumn.

The Democrats are infuriated that the Republicans will not add $1.5 trillion in more spending to the House passed continuing resolution. They visibly tremble with rage, accusing Republicans of wanting a federal government shutdown, and to strip millions of Americans of healthcare. The Democrats are full of it.

First, there have been no cuts to Medicaid. Medicaid spending is actually increasing. What has changed about Medicaid is that 1) illegal aliens are no longer to receive it; and, 2) able bodied Americans have got to go to work, instead of lying on the couch in their parents’ basement watching Oprah.

Second, the Democrats are lying about Republicans eliminating Obamacare subsidies. These subsidies were part of emergency Covid pandemic spending. There is no more pandemic. Moreover, the Inflation Reduction Act, passed by the Democrats, with no Republican votes, is the legislation that eliminated these Obamacare subsidies. Stated differently, Democrats killed the subsidies, and they are lying to the American people that the Republicans did it.

Why should some subsidize others’ healthcare? Where is that in the Constitution?

Oh. And the Democrats are also demanding the funding of National Public Radio and Television. Please notice that no one on cable news is telling you about this demand. Hmmm.

BRING ON THE GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

President Trump gave Hamas a choice, accept his peace plan, or Israel finishes the job of obliterating the terrorist organization. A rejection is likely coming. Hamas never misses an opportunity to miss an opportunity.

Secretary of War Hegseth met with the military’s flag officers yesterday, informing them that strict military standards were returning, there were going to be no more “fat generals and admirals”, racial quotas were gone, as is “woke culture”. The U.S. military’s purpose is to kill our enemies and break things. It sounds as if it will be returning to its historical roots.

“The idea that you could turn the clock back and try to recreate a world that never was dominated by, you know, let’s say it: white men of a certain persuasion, a certain religion, a certain point of view, a certain ideology, it’s just doing such damage to what we should be aiming for.”

–Hillary Clinton.

Why won’t she just go away? She is such an awful person.

Three (3) members of Congress, Representatives Summer Lee, Ayanna Presley, and Yvette Clark–Democrats all–publicly mourned the death of cop killer and communist Joane Chesimard. So too did the Chicago Public Schools Teachers Union. These are all people who refused to say a kind word about Charlie Kirk following his assassination. But let a murderer die, and . . . it’s just so sad. Very, very sad.

Dover, New Jersey Mayor James P. Dodd (D.) is backing the Republican gubernatorial candidate in this year’s election. Mayor Dodd says he is tired of crime, high taxes, sanctuary policies for illegal aliens, and other Democrat positions. GOOD FOR HIM!

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is celebrating the anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party’s founding. What in the world . . . .

Mao Tse Tung’s Cultural Revolution was a campaign to rid China of “capitalist roaders” and enforce ideological purity.  The CCP branded landlords, intellectuals, and traditionalists as enemies and dehumanized them through propaganda.  Fueled by slogans like “to rebel is justified,” the Red Guards conducted “struggle sessions,” where they publicly shamed and tortured victims like the writer Lao She, who was beaten and possibly murdered.  Many zealots were recruited from colleges and universities by their instructors.  Ironically, many of those same professors were later targeted by the very students they had recruited.  In Guangxi, zealots took this vilification to grotesque extremes, going so far as to engage in cannibalism.  These acts were not spontaneous, but orchestrated.  Traditional culture was annihilated, Confucian temples were torn down, Buddhist relics burned, and opera banned as bourgeois.

The CCP’s rhetoric justified the violence, framing capitalists as subhuman threats, leading to massacres like Dao County’s 9,000 killings.  This systemic dehumanization left China scarred, with institutions hollowed out and a “lost generation” exiled to re-education camps.

Some of that sounds disturbingly familiar.  Although we haven’t seen incidents of cannibalism, or people being tortured and murdered in public, we are seeing college students attacking their Jewish classmates.  We’ve seen Democrat party leaders and media influencers openly calling for violence against members of law enforcement, conservatives, and Republicans, calling them “fascists,” “Nazis,” and threats to democracy using “Gestapo-like tactics.”  Some Democrats have called for Trump-supporters to be sent to re-education camps.  Maxine Waters urged supporters to publicly confront Trump officials, while Kamala Harris praised “mostly peaceful” riots that caused billions in damages and dozens of deaths.  Jesse Kelly likened Democrat rhetoric to jihadi programming, warning that it primes followers for violence.  The White House blamed Democrats’ “Gestapo” rhetoric for a 1,000% surge in assaults on federal agents.  Legacy media outlets like CNN and MSNBC continually frame conservatives as dangerous, much like how CCP propaganda vilified capitalists.  China’s suppression of dissent created echo chambers that fueled division, much like what passes for news programming on legacy media outlets.

–Kevin Finn, The American Thinker (September 30, 2025).

New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani (D.) missed yet another opportunity to condemn Hamas and its terrorism. Why keep asking him? He clearly is pro-terrorist. He is a Muslim commie, for goodness sakes! He hates Jews. And America.

“We are witnessing a comprehensive governmental assault designed to produce fear and terror among millions of men and women, who have through their presence in our nation been nurturing precisely the religious, cultural, communitarian and familial bonds that are most frayed and most valuable at this moment in our country’s history.”

–Cardinal Robert McElroy.

Cardinal Robert McElroy, Archbishop of the Catholic Diocese of Washington, D.C., called President Trump’s immigration policies a “governmental assault” upon illegal aliens. A little hyperbolic, don’t you think? The illegal aliens are not nurturing this country. They are not supposed to be in this country. The President is enforcing the law. Which is his job. It’s a shame that previous Presidents did not do their jobs.

Former CNN host Don Lemon blames “white men” for all the nation’s troubles. Hmmm. This is what happens when you lose your job and stare at a screen all day. Your brain rots. Do not let his happen to you.

The return of Jimmy Kimmel Live! to the airwaves was a huge success. For 2 days. Since then, the show has lost 64% of its audience. Because Jimmy Kimmel is neither funny nor interesting.

Iran agreed to accept the deportation and repatriation of 120 Iranians who illegally entered the United States. It is a start. WINNING!

The National Football League chose rapper Bad Bunny to headline its Super Bowl halftime show. Horrible decision. Who listens to Bad Bunny? And the man hates America, calls American sovereignty over Puerto Rico “colonialism”, wishes death on ICE agents, and is for open borders. Can the NFL not find an American loving patriot to headline the halftime show?

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