Sunday, May 18, 2025

It’s All Out There

We live in a world of double-edged swords and mixed blessings; foremost amongst them is the fact that a relative universe of information is available to each and every one of us.  The internet has truly uncorked the eternal bottle of wisdom that had once been available to the few who had keys to the wine cellar.  What do we do with this new-found privilege?  Do we embrace EMPOWERMENT or do we become SHEEP?

 

There is no excuse for being uninformed.  There is no excuse for being narrow or close-minded when there are so many intelligent writers on either side of most arguments.  So pull up your anchors, float around a bit, and see where the currents might take you….

 

Equality, equal opportunity, respect for all, and the inherent right to dignity…these are simple principles and do not need to be over thought nor reinvented.  They stand well on their own; as in C..O..N..S..T..I..T..U..T..I..O..N.

 

 https://freebeacon.com/culture/assessing-the-wreckage-of-affirmative-action/

 

https://amgreatness.com/2025/05/17/uniformity-inequity-and-exclusion/

 

And here are the effects of over thinking and reinvention…

 

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/05/alex-kuengs-story.php

 

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/05/minneapolis-5-years-later-ny-post-edition.php

 

We have allowed idealism and unrealistic fantasies to drive many of our national institutions in directions that are far from their fundamental purposes.  A prime example is national education…

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/the-bias-in-this-government-funded-scholarship-program-must-stop/

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/college-leaders-should-stop-spouting-off-on-political-issues/

 

https://www.city-journal.org/article/harvard-university-empowering-black-leaders-seminar-race-trump

 

http://jewishworldreview.com/michael/barone051625.php

 

https://www.city-journal.org/article/david-zweig-abundance-of-caution-book-pandemic-school-closures

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/what-is-becoming-of-college-sports/

 

One Big Beautiful Bill!  If only it were that simple.  Congressional Republicans are just like Congressional Democrats; they spend too much money.  Many of us might prefer their spending priorities, but that does not change the fact that they are fiscal cowards and simply refuse to face the harsh reality of federal deficits and debt. 

 

https://reason.com/2025/05/14/republican-reconciliation-package-will-lead-to-3-trillion-annual-deficits/

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/2025/05/republicans-should-stay-the-course-on-reducing-medicaid-spending/

 

This is my U.S. Representative speaking… https://www.wsj.com/opinion/a-common-sense-budget-reconciliation-bill-house-energy-and-commerce-committee-d8ab0d71?st=wJavUz

 

Foreign policy and national defense…Is there anyone out there who cannot accept the fact that the Biden Administration left dumpster fires in these areas?  What America has been doing for the last couple of decades IS NOT WORKING.  Let’s give the Trump Administration a chance to try something different and turn this thing around.

 

https://thefederalist.com/2025/05/14/trumps-riyadh-speech-heralds-the-end-of-failed-neocon-foreign-policy/

 

https://americanmind.org/salvo/countering-chinas-eurasian-bloc-is-our-real-challenge/

 

https://americanmind.org/salvo/low-trust-military/

 

https://americanmind.org/salvo/spring-cleaning-at-foggy-bottom/

 

Do we have a conservative majority on the Supreme Court of the United States or…do we have a 3-judge liberal bloc, a 3-judge conservative bloc, and a 3-judge “which way is the wind blowing at the moment” bloc?  Over the next year, I suspect we will find the answer to that question.

 

https://jonathanturley.org/2025/05/15/a-modest-request-the-supreme-court-hears-challenge-to-national-or-universal-injunctions/

 

https://reason.com/2025/05/15/the-supreme-court-may-rule-for-trump-on-nationwide-injunctions-but-probably-not-on-birthright-citizenship/

 

https://thefederalist.com/2025/05/13/even-if-scotus-gives-trump-a-win-on-birthright-citizenship-it-will-not-end-partisan-lawfare/

 

There were many disturbing things about the mental capacity of Joe Biden and his ability to serve as president.  To me, the most disturbing of all was not the effort to hide his mental challenges; it was the fact that some “unidentified person or persons” were actually serving as our unelected president.  That mystery needs to be solved.

 

https://thefederalist.com/2025/05/15/ny-times-publisher-laughably-claims-his-paper-reported-deeply-on-bidens-decline-it-did-the-exact-opposite/

 

https://jonathanturley.org/2025/05/17/for-posteritys-sake-why-the-biden-hur-tapes-is-a-virtual-racketeering-indictment/

 

Never forget: https://freebeacon.com/media/watch-democrats-who-praised-joe-bidens-mental-sharpness-dont-want-to-rehash-the-past/

 

We are witnessing a remarkable contrast in governing between the past Biden Administration and the current Trump Administration.  The difference in approach…and hopefully, results…is nothing short of refreshing.

 

The way it was… https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2025/05/15/wasting_away_in_wind-and-solarville_1110296.html

 

The way it is…

https://amgreatness.com/2025/05/15/the-real-first-100-days/

Sunday, May 11, 2025

It’s All About Control

Who has it?  Who wants it?  How much is enough?  How much is too much?  Once you get it, can you handle it?  Once obtained, how do you relinquish it?  Can we share it with others?  Can we share it with others with whom we disagree?  Where does our control end and someone else’s control begin?  These are many of the questions about control that we grapple with on a daily basis and discover…to our dismay…that hard and fast answers are hard to come by.

 

For those whose lives are centered on faith, there is an acceptance that all things are the will of God.  How we deal with that will on an individual basis is the true test of our worth and the quest for our salvation.  But the everlasting question remains foremost in our thoughts: What exactly is the dynamic between God’s will and my free will?  That is a question that we must all answer in our own time and our own way.

 

In a subordinate sense, and unfortunately a more prevailing fashion, there is the very real and tumultuous debate about political control…how it is gained and how it is used.  I use the term political not so much in a partisan sense (although that clearly applies to a major portion of it), but in a broader sense that takes into account the various psychological and emotional methods we all use to try and influence others to bend in our direction.  We all practice and experience this in our daily lives.  We live it with our families and friends; we contend with this in our workplaces; we struggle with this in our own psyche when making personal and private decisions.  The use…and abuse…of political power in this world can be a powerful force for good and alas, it can be a Machiavellian force for evil.  

 

Learning to cope and deal responsibly with control, both the control we possess and the control we exist within, is something that we should learn from infancy through adulthood.  Each of us must walk our own paths in this effort because reality dictates that control is not evenly distributed throughout our species.  Some have an abundance of it from an early age and many spend a lifetime without any semblance of it whatsoever. 

 

Complicating the equation even further is the reality that control is both real and perceived.  Being able to clearly discern these elements and their respective amounts in each situation is oftentimes the key to effective and responsible use of control.  Fundamental to this mix is figuring out precisely what degree of control we have and what degree of control is exercised by others.  This is easy to say, but hard to figure out.  Some have a knack for understanding the situation and realizing the best ways to manage it; they are good at reading the room.  Others (c’est mois) spend their entire lives wondering who the hell is in control. 

 

For each of us, learning to deal with the control element in our lives will turn out to be an eternal challenge populated with victories, defeats, celebrations, confusion, and embarrassments.  Most of us will never truly master the art of control, but we eventually learn how to effectively cope with the science aspect of it.  Coming to terms with control is part of survival in today’s world.  You can buy into it; you can fight it; you can adopt a philosophy of submission to it….but we must all deal with it. 

 

Here’s the deal: Those who hold the power possess the control.  Ergo: We had best be damned careful about who we put in power.  Because those people…especially the ones who actively seek the power…make a living of reading the room and have pretty much mastered the art of control.  To a very large extent…our nation, culture, and society is at their mercy.  Heck…I suppose the world is at their mercy.  So…how is that control being used these days?

 

So many of our once-prestigious awards have been exposed as frauds and trivialized to a point of irrelevance…

 

https://freebeacon.com/media/what-vibe-shift-pulitzer-prize-board-affirms-medias-obsession-with-woke-politics/

 

Once again, I bring your attention to national education.  Nothing is more important for our children…

 

https://amgreatness.com/2025/05/11/its-time-to-end-federal-control-of-education-and-restore-parental-authority/

 

https://amgreatness.com/2025/05/08/school-choice-update-the-good-the-bad-and-the-controversial/

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/the-fading-allure-of-the-college-degree/

 

The global political situation is a dumpster fire and it is an extreme challenge to figure out where it is burning the hottest…

 

The environment: https://amgreatness.com/2025/05/07/principles-of-new-environmentalism/

 

International trade: https://mrctv.org/blog/craig-bannister/farmers-say-trumps-tariffs-will-yield-long-term-growth-despite-media-attempts

 

American foreign policy…

 

https://amgreatness.com/2025/05/10/why-regime-change-in-iran-is-becoming-inevitable/

 

https://www.newsmax.com/world/globaltalk/steve-witkoff-iran-u-s/2025/05/09/id/1210343/

 

https://freebeacon.com/columns/why-the-kashmir-crisis-matters-to-us/

 

https://nypost.com/2025/05/10/us-news/trump-says-india-pakistan-agree-to-cease-fire-after-talks-mediated-by-us/

 

https://justthenews.com/world/zelensky-says-hes-ready-meet-putin-turkey

 

https://justthenews.com/government/diplomacy/china-distress-protests-economic-stimulus-reveal-pressure-us-tariffs

 

https://nypost.com/2025/05/11/world-news/us-and-china-have-hammered-out-a-trade-deal-us-trade-representative-says/

 

And then of course…there are the Democrats, the Congress, and the Courts…

 

https://amgreatness.com/2025/05/08/would-the-left-finally-explain-the-inexplicable/

 

https://thefederalist.com/2025/05/08/what-is-the-point-of-having-a-gop-congress/

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/bench-memos/the-judicial-appointment-train-is-leaving-the-station/

 

 

Monday, May 5, 2025

The New DEI

That would be the Donald Trump Administration, the issue of national Education, and the continuing conundrum of Immigration.  These are certainly three of the hottest topics swirling about the nation these days and are no doubt areas that need to be addressed sooner rather than later.  Let’s approach them one at a time.

 

Much as the issue of abortion was essentially returned to the individual states to regulate, so might the issue of education be similarly redirected.  There needs to be a very honest and open debate about the necessity and possible extent of federal government involvement in education.  It is an issue that very possibly should be/will be left to each state to regulate, manage, and finance.  Rather than some elitists in WDC deciding that their one size should fit all, it might make more sense to allow individual communities, counties, and states to model an education system that reflects their priorities and concerns.  

Perhaps there is a federal role to provide a large and general template for fundamental educational goals and targets; but under any circumstance, that role should be relatively minor in the overall picture and provide little more than a forum for national support.  One thing is for certain: the education of our children and young adults needs to return to its basic function and ditch the nanny-state, social, political, and idealistic symptoms that appear to have contaminated it.

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/pino-lets-cut-all-federal-funding-for-higher-education/

 

https://amgreatness.com/2025/05/04/332062/

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/rally-to-defy-trump-drives-a-wedge-through-higher-ed/

 

https://justthenews.com/government/security/columbia-student-mohsen-mahdawi-released-bail-dhs-detention-tells-trump-not

 

https://freebeacon.com/campus/scathing-harvard-report-details-pervasive-anti-semitism-driven-by-politicized-instruction/

 

https://freebeacon.com/campus/harvard-quietly-trained-members-of-chinese-paramilitary-organization-after-the-us-sanctioned-it-over-uyghur-genocide/

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/how-to-change-the-ideological-imbalance-on-college-faculties/

 

https://amgreatness.com/2025/04/30/education-battles-get-national-attention/

 

https://jamesgmartin.center/2025/05/ohio-embraces-student-success/

 

It would appear that our southern border is now secure and a plan is well-initiated to keep it that way.  And even though there is a good deal of debate about how to remove criminal illegal aliens from our country; there seems to be a strong consensus that they do need to be removed. 

The much larger and more pertinent question is how we deal with the millions of illegal aliens that will remain in America, even if we manage to remove most of the criminal elements of that category.  National immigration reform must flow from Congress; it must be bipartisan in nature; it must address the current millions of peaceable illegal aliens currently here; and it must provide a blueprint for the long-term management of a responsible, practical, reasonable, thoughtful, and compassionate national immigration program. 

 

https://amgreatness.com/2025/04/27/congress-must-repair-bidens-destructive-immigration-policies/

 

https://reason.com/2025/04/25/trumps-understanding-of-due-process-is-just-as-farcical-as-his-definition-of-alien-enemies/

 

https://americanmind.org/features/from-illegal-immigrants-to-republican-voters/measured-not-mass-deportations/

 

https://jonathanturley.org/2025/05/03/squatter-syndrome-how-the-inefficiencies-of-our-legal-system-is-making-a-mockery-of-our-immigration-laws/

 

https://americanmind.org/features/from-illegal-immigrants-to-republican-voters/on-immigration-neither-cruelty-nor-capitulation-is-warranted/

 

After eight years of an Obama presidential devolution, followed by a four-year period of bald-faced political sabotage during the first Trump term, and then leading to a debilitating and painfully-long single term by Joe Biden…our nation found itself in a very poor condition with very few good choices for improvement.  There is pretty strong agreement on many things that need to be ended and disposed of…but those are the relatively simple parts of the equation.  The bigger challenge lies in a line from a Matchbox Twenty song that goes “…and I don’t know how to get it back to good”.  

Extraordinary messes require extraordinary remedies.  The Donald Trump Administration has some common sense policy ideals, some very loud and abrasive personalities, and several unconventional approaches to governing.  But the simple fact is this might very well be the extraordinary approach it takes to fix the terrible mess left by Joe Biden.  Trump gets four years; the clock is ticking; big plans are being laid and announced….results had best begin to show up real soon.

 

https://www.city-journal.org/article/donald-trump-allure-election-assassination-attempt

 

Here’s a piece I wrote a little past the halfway point of the first Trump presidency.  I’m not sure a lot has changed since then: https://centerlineright.blogspot.com/search?q=the+chaos+theory

 

https://jonathanturley.org/2025/04/30/the-first-100-days-the-method-behind-the-madness-in-court-challenges/#more-231330

 

https://reason.com/2025/05/03/what-if-the-president-doesnt-want-to-spend-money/

 

https://americanrefugees.substack.com/p/we-should-all-be-rooting-for-rubio

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/2025/04/a-circular-firing-squad-at-the-pentagon/

 

https://justthenews.com/government/white-house/federal-workers-paid-taxpayers-openly-defying-trump-agenda-will-voters

 

https://www.newsmax.com/finance/streettalk/federal-employees-telework-jobs-report/2025/05/03/id/1209416/

 

Just when you think the mainstream media has sunk to its lowest unethical, unprofessional, politically-biased, and progressively idealistic point…they somehow seem to sink even further.  There is a very real question today as to whether or not a respectable, informed, professional, bipartisan, and popular mainstream media collective can once again coalesce around sound and ethical journalistic standards and assume its role as the Fourth Estate of our culture and society.  That hope is fading away quickly.

 

https://nypost.com/2025/05/03/opinion/michael-goodwin-the-left-wing-media-creates-false-allegations-with-trump-back-in-the-oval-office/

 

https://thefederalist.com/2025/05/02/the-downfall-of-60-minutes-and-the-biggest-media-scandal-youve-never-heard-of/

 

https://jonathanturley.org/2025/05/05/231365/

 

https://jonathanturley.org/2025/05/04/cbs-nominated-for-emmy-for-the-editing-of-controversial-harris-interview/

 

https://www.racket.news/p/in-profile-about-john-fetterman-new

 

And here are three quick hits on the way out the door…

 

Beware the cherry-picking methods of trumpeting bad/good economic news.  It is much like the scripture…context means everything.

 

https://mrctv.org/blog/craig-bannister/1st-quarter-gdp-report-contains-good-news-despite-drop-analysts-explain

 

Perhaps the greatest lasting impacts of presidents are the federal judges they appoint and leave behind when they depart from the White House.  If you doubt this, just consider the heartburn being thrust upon the Trump Administration by the rogue progressive judges across the land.

 

https://americanmind.org/salvo/four-tests-for-trumps-judicial-nominees/

 

I am 72 years old and smack dab in the middle of the Boomer Class.  I found this article extremely interesting.

 

https://amgreatness.com/2025/04/30/the-boomer-apocalypse/

 

Saturday, April 26, 2025

“If You Don’t Stand for Something…

…You’ll Fall for Anything”.  Thus goes the quote from Alexander Hamilton.  I am not sure what Hamilton had in mind when he said this; some say he meant it to encourage a moral compass and a path of conviction.  I would like to apply it to a recent political phenomenon.  We have all known people in our lives that have no principles, exhibit no core beliefs, and tend to go wherever the wind blows them.  These same groups of people are typically the ones who seldom choose to make the hard decisions when situations demand such…but are always the first in line to bitch and moan when the decisions that are made begin to be implemented.  Surrendering to this type of defeatist mindset is what the Democrat Party and their cohorts have resorted to when dealing with Donald Trump.  Their favorite road these days is the “path of least resistance”.

 

Another aspect of hollow and disloyal political opposition is when one party hunts and pursues an opportunity…any opportunity…to stand up and shout “Gotcha”…or to snidely snicker and say “I told you so” at every drop of the hat.  You know what I am talking about here…the type of personality that spends most its existence looking foolish, inept, and impotent.  Yet when that perfect storm arrives and they bask in the moment of making a correct prediction or choice…they prance around like it is perfectly normal for them to be omnipotent, wise beyond description, and sooo much better than everyone else.  They act like this one success story is business as usual, when it is as rare as bipartisan legislation. 

 

You often see this type of behavior in sports…mostly at the professional level.  It rears its ridiculous head when a linebacker makes a good, clean, routine tackle…but it happens to occur eight yards past the line of scrimmage.  Yeah, you made a great tackle…but why are you styling and posterizing when you gave up an eight yard gain?  Openly celebrating normal, expected, or even subpar performance is not a great leadership quality; nor is it a great character trait.  What this type of “me first behavior” fosters is a lowering of standards.  It makes a mockery of truly great performances or actions and it pushes qualitative standards towards mediocrity.

 

The recent nonsensical and looney tunes actions by the liberal and progressive elements in our culture, society, and government are graphic examples of these behavioral demonstrations.  Unable to satisfy themselves with attacking Donald Trump on his many legitimate flaws and poor decisions, they repeatedly persist in going completely over the top and excessively ravage him on grounds that effectively remove any legitimacy in their criticisms.  They are like little liberal chicken littles or overly-emotional boys who are constantly crying wolf.  Their continual and predictable irrational rhetoric erodes their credibility and essentially makes them caricatures of their most foolish selves.  I’m talking about dark woke and the notion that filling up their public commentary with coarse and vile cursing will somehow make them authentic.  I’m talking about making an MS13 hood who just happens to be an illegal alien a poster child for your due process campaign.  I’m talking about insisting on inserting naked male adolescents into girl’s locker rooms and showers and then pretending that you are the party of women’s rights.  I’m talking about the rank hypocrisy of a dual-justice system…one for Democrats and one for everybody else.  The Democrat Party we are witnessing today is quite reliable; unfortunately, it is reliably stupid.

 

I am a big fan of University of Kentucky football; but that entails a high component of long suffering, requires the ability to repeatedly cope with crushing defeats, and fosters the eternal optimism that despite no concrete reason to believe such…the next season will be so much better than the last one.  The UK Wildcat’s football program has for decades enjoyed a preeminent position in the state of Kentucky.  There is no professional football in Kentucky.  And while it is true that the University of Louisville has had its moments of national success and brief dominance over UK, the simple fact is the clear majority of state fans support UK football over all others.  University of Kentucky football has long taken this support for granted.  Oh sure, they acknowledge the fan base and make a big show of how the program is progressing from year to year and coach to coach; but that does not change the fact that after all this time, they still remain a very mediocre college football program.  And yet so many football fans in Kentucky continue to support them with their loyalty, their time, and their money.

 

Part of this fan-based longevity can be attributed to that rare occurrence when a perfect storm strikes and UK football wins a game that they had no expectation of winning.  They upset a much better team and the joy from that single victory is parlayed into many seasons of fund raising, program promotion, and flag waving.  It is very much like the excessive celebrations of the mediocre plays I mentioned earlier in this piece.  In September of 2024, UK defeated an Ole Miss team that was ranked no. 6 nationally and was likely headed for the College Football Playoffs.  It took a perfect combination of selected great plays, selected poor plays, arrogant attitude by a superior team, and pure dumb luck for UK to pull off this upset.  But they did it…and that win helped to take the bitter edge off of a 2024 season record with an overall line of 4 wins and 8 losses; an SEC record of 1 and 7.  Somehow…someway…this one win was sufficient for the university to claim progress and growth in their football program and look to the coming season with optimism.  Blind loyalty is easily sustained with thin gruel.

 

The Democrat Party is desperately looking for their Ole Miss victory.  They are looking in fake news hoaxes; they are looking in character assassinations of Trump appointees; they are looking in cringe-worthy posturing for voter support; and they are looking for lawfare victories in the judicial system.  They cannot resist their knee-jerk condemnations of anything Trumpian, be it positive or negative.  Trump is inside their heads, he is living there rent-free, and they are playing on his home field.  What they need to be looking for is first, a moderate leader who can recapture the common sense of some past Blue-Dog Democrat policy ideals and secondly, the discretion to condemn Trump when he deserves it and yet co-operate with him in word and deed when what he does is clearly and practically positive. 

 

Today’s Democrat Party and liberal/progressives in general stand for nothing that is substantial, reasonable, nor seriously thought-provoking.  Thus, they are falling for the lunacy of its radical members such as the crude ravings of Jasmine Crockett, the bizarre nationwide Bernie/AOC tour, and the public infantile display of blue state governors and progressively-rogue federal judges.  Only a fool would predict any kind of long-term political outcomes; but I feel pretty confident in saying that if this bunch of radicals keeps looking for their Ole Miss win in these places…they are going to be sorely disappointed.   

 

The SEC is the Murderer’s Row of college football; it ain’t beanbag.  Look…UK football fans don’t mind losing the games we are supposed to lose; that is talent speaking.  What creates the heartburn is consistently losing the games we are supposed to win; that is bad coaching.  The Democrat Party is experiencing both a shortage of talent and bad coaching/leadership.  That is one mixed-up political recipe.  But the truly pathetic aspect of the whole deal is the occasional realization that we are being played for fools and we simply go along with it.  Hey Democrats…does that sound familiar?  Now…onto the news.

 

The Russia-Ukraine war is an historic tragedy unfolding before our eyes on a daily basis.  Trying to strike the balance between fairness, legality, reality, and emotion is a very high bar indeed.  We can only hope and pray for a solution soon.

 

https://justthenews.com/accountability/russia-and-ukraine-scandals/russia-ukraine-peace-talks-will-end-if-no-progress-made

 

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/04/ending-the-russia-ukraine-war.php

 

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/north-america/how-europe-can-deter-russia

 

https://www.newsmax.com/world/globaltalk/ukraine-war-russia/2025/04/26/id/1208405/

 

Joe Biden left Donald Trump and the world a dumpster fire of foreign policy and global conflict.  There are many areas of concern and all are important.  The challenge will be prioritizing them and tending to them all simultaneously.

 

https://amgreatness.com/2025/04/25/trumps-bold-diplomacy-on-the-ukraine-war-and-iranian-nuclear-program/

 

I suspect this might be the end game for this issue: https://freebeacon.com/national-security/waste-that-s-t-in-interview-with-free-beacon-fetterman-tells-trump-to-dump-iran-talks-and-destroy-tehrans-nuclear-facilities/

 

https://freebeacon.com/national-security/a-communist-islamist-axis-puts-india-and-america-in-its-crosshairs/

 

As if foreign policy and global challenges weren’t enough, the Trump Administration has a myriad of domestic issues that it is grappling with. 

 

https://nypost.com/2025/04/22/opinion/trump-hit-the-ground-running-but-a-botched-deportation-and-several-other-missteps-will-test-his-leadership/

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/carnival-of-fools/its-easy-to-wing-it-until-you-actually-have-to-fly/

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/2025/04/defunding-of-pbs-and-npr-is-long-overdue/

 

https://mrctv.org/blog/craig-bannister/three-pronged-plan-compel-npr-pbs-cpb-audits-provided-legislators-coalition

 

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/04/the-supreme-court-wades-in.php

 

https://jonathanturley.org/2025/04/24/npr-abrego-garcia-was-living-quietly-in-maryland-before-he-was-deported/#more-231097

 

There is a strong and powerful contingent in this world that aggressively supports censorship.  It is here in America, it is pervasive in Europe, it exists in England, and there are pockets of it all across the planet.  It is a movement that must be opposed.

 

https://thefederalist.com/2025/04/16/rubio-to-protect-free-speech-the-censorship-industrial-complex-must-be-dismantled/

 

https://thefederalist.com/2025/04/23/trumps-next-target-in-dismantling-the-censorship-complex-is-cisa/

 

https://jonathanturley.org/2025/04/23/back-with-a-vengeance-former-biden-disinformation-governance-board-chief-chief-nina-jankowicz-tells-european-union-to-oppose-the-united-states/

 

The Trump Administration wants to move our national education system away from DEI, progressive/liberal social engineering, and increasing political activism.  This is a battle that they must win.  American education must return to its basic purpose and essential learning principles.

 

https://amgreatness.com/2025/04/21/do-elite-universities-really-wish-to-fight-the-federal-government/

 

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/04/harvard-meet-bob-jones.php

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/trump-vs-harvard-a-negotiated-solution/

 

https://jonathanturley.org/2025/04/21/crimson-chide-harvard-makes-the-case-against-itself/#more-230923

 

https://reason.com/2025/04/23/harvard-university-should-emulate-hillsdale-college-and-cut-ties-with-the-government/

 

https://amgreatness.com/2025/04/17/will-harvard-go-full-hillsdale/

 

The memory capacity of Democrats is extremely limited and they seem to think that condition applies to all other Americans.  They are hypocrites to the max, especially when it comes to law and order.  The essential element to constitutional law and order is equal treatment for all citizens…period.  The liberal/progressive elements in our society and culture either do not understand this or simply refuse to accept it.

 

https://www.city-journal.org/article/trump-memo-federal-agencies-supreme-court-rulings

 

http://jewishworldreview.com/0425/hanson042525.php

 

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/04/our-rogue-judges.php

 

https://mrctv.org/blog/craig-bannister/dems-demand-due-process-illegals-obama-deported-83-without-judge

 

The rumor is that this woman is going to run a third time for Georgia governor.  Why not when it pays so well…

 

https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2025/04/16/the_remarkable_rags-to-riches_story_of_stacey_abrams_1103954.html

 

https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2025/04/16/epa_mega-grant_has_stacey_abrams_fingerprints_all_over_it_1104253.html

 

https://nypost.com/2025/04/24/opinion/minnesota-das-woke-two-tier-justice-prizes-tesla-violence/?utm_campaign=nypost_opinion

 

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/04/diverted.php

 

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/04/tesla-vandal-blowback.php

 

https://jonathanturley.org/2025/04/20/triggered-by-teslas-the-left-rationalizes-political-violence-as-the-fault-of-the-right/#more-230959

 

https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/convicted-fbi-lawyer-who-boasberg-let-skate-more-deeply-involved-crossfire

 

Four quick hits on the way out the door; things that make you go hmmmm…

 

https://amgreatness.com/2025/04/19/the-failure-of-the-expert-classagain/

 

https://jamesgmartin.center/2025/04/is-trump-destroying-science-or-saving-it/

 

https://amgreatness.com/2025/04/20/tariffs-an-economic-tool-and-a-reality-check/

 

https://reason.com/2025/04/17/in-12-years-this-40-billion-high-speed-rail-line-in-texas-has-not-laid-a-single-foot-of-track/

 

 

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