Sen. Nass on the Evers-Vos Deal

Retiring (dammit!!) Sen. Nass does NOT like the Vos-Evers-Whatshisname deal, and he has good reasons.

... Prior to potential passage of Evers-Vos II, the state is already looking at a structural deficit of $580 million in the next biennium even if all $2.3 billion shows up by June 30, 2027.  If Evers-Vos II were to become law, it could increase the starting structural deficit in 2027-29 biennium to in excess of $1 billion....

Nass doesn't say so, but at the very best, it's a trap no matter which candidate becomes Governor next term.  $1BN is a very big hole.

... there are no binding reforms to address the increasingly poor performance in math and reading by students statewide.  And more shockingly, it looks as though Evers 400-year veto increasing property taxes annually remains in state law....

Never will be, either.  None of the players gives a flying fig about the children.

Here's the hammerblow line--which tells you all you need to know:

 

As of now, I can’t support another bad deal cut by leaders that will never face the voters again.”

Yup. 

The Deadline, Mr. Trump

 If this were Hannity, you'd hear his little "Tick Tock" noises.  But Hannity doesn't have the balls to try that these days, does he?

 

Agenda Items for Tiffany

It is understood that there are ZERO bare-knuckle Republicans in Wisconsin.  That includes Tom Tiffany.

But wouldn't it be fun if Tiffany enhanced his agenda as follows:

...If you vote for open borders, then you get all the immigrants..... If you vote for data centers, then you get one built in your town. If you vote for windmills, they get built near your house. If you vote to release the crazies from the asylums, you get the homeless shelters in your neighborhoods. If you vote for the early release of violent offenders, then they are released in your town....

Trump made a laughingstock of the Hamptons crowd back in Trump I.

Tiffany could do the same for Madison, Whitefish Bay, and Shorewood--not to mention River Hills, Wauwatosa, and the eastern half of Elm Grove.

Obama, Brennan, Biden. "Cleansing" and Murder

For context:  Obama is still running the Democrat Party, and all their works, and all their pomps.

A consulting firm headed by John Brennan breached State Department passport files.  At the time, Brennan was working as an "unpaid adviser" to Obama's campaign.

Since the penetrated files were those of Obama's opponents, it looked like one thing.

But it was another.

  ...federal investigators maintained that the target of the illegal activity was [actually] Senator Barack Obama’s passport file.   It does not take a stretch to come to the conclusion this was for the sole purpose of cleansing records of information that would jeopardize Obama’s candidacy.    As many people speculated at the time, the breach of the passport records of the other candidates was merely to create confusion.

...Passport files include an applicant’s name, gender, social security number, date and place of birth, and passport number. Additional information may include birth certificates, naturalization certificates, or oaths of allegiance for U.S. born persons who adopted the citizenship of a foreign country as minors. ...

Some of that stuff might be VERY interesting to voters prior to the election, no?

So that's Brennan and Obama.  What about Biden??

 ...the oversight agency that would be investigating the breach [was]The Senate Foreign Relations Committee [which] oversees the State Department.

...Senator Joe Biden was the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee when the breach would be investigated....

Are you getting it yet?

There's more:  this time, an ObamaCide!!!

 ...State Department employee, Lieutenant Quarles Harris, Jr. who had the passport access, apparently was the guy who penetrated the database and scrubbed the records.  Harris was killed – April 18th, 2008.

Yes, Lieutenant Harris decided to cooperate with the FBI who were investigating the break-in.   Soon after his cooperation became a matter of record, his body was discovered in his parked car; he had been shot twice in the head, likely a “suicide”....

Just as likely as Epstein's "suicide." 

How Long Has John Brennan Been a Slimeball?

 Apparently, he has been a slimeball for a long, long, time.

 ....John O. Brennan, Obama’s then top terrorism and intelligence adviser, was the owner of The Analysis Corp.  The company was cited in March 2008 for penetrating the files of presidential candidates Barack Obama, Hillary Rodham Clinton, and John McCain in the State Department’s passport office.

At the time of the breach, John Brennan was working as an unpaid adviser to the Obama campaign. ...

Naturally, Brennan denied any knowledge and fired some poor bastard.  He didn't know nuttin'.  

Recall that Brennan was a spook for 25 years, briefly as Chief of Station in Saudi Arabia and as the #2 guy in that outfit--which more and more looks like where he got the majority of his Slimeball Graduate Degree.

So we know Brennan (a Communist voter) has been a slimeball since at least '08.

At the very least. 

The Left's Next Move?

We've seen this in a couple of places.

...even moderate Dems are now talking about seizing their next available chance to pack the US Supreme Court, grant statehood to DC and Puerto Rico simply to gain them four safe Senate seats and abolish the Senate filibuster — and so lock in progressive power forever. ...

'Locked-in power forever' is what the King of England's family thought they had back in the 1700's.

"Forever" ain't a thing on Earth.

The Rats Are Jumping Off the (War) Ship

 Maybe Vox' assessment is correct, and maybe not.

But somebody in Israel is pointing the Fickle Finger of Fate directly at Donald Trump.

That's their story and they're sticking to it. 

It's Still Trump vs. Globalist Slime

We are extremely unhappy about Trump's adventures in Israel's war.  We are NOT pleased with his support of S702 renewal.  And he cannot seem to find the VETO pen for Congressional bedwetting spending.

Be that as it may, he remains the bulwark between the Obozo/Starmer/Soros Statist Combine and--frankly--a lot of the world's population, especially that of the US.

 

"Mr Clean" Obama Was Swimming in Sewage

 As usual, Sundance & Co. present the goods, aided by one of the MOST honest peeps in Government:  Gabbard.

Too long to excerpt, but when I headlined that Obama was swimming in the sewage of his regime, I was not kidding.

No, he won't be held accountable. 

"Intelligence"? Nope. Try Again

In reading an article about the Census Bureau's jiggering of the '20 Census, we encountered an error about States which lost representation; the list did not include Wisconsin.

To double-check our creaky memory (was it '10 or '20?) I went to the DuckDuckGo AI.

That was wrong:    

"Wisconsin lost one congressional seat due to redistricting following the 2020 census, which reduced its representation in the U.S. House from eight to seven districts"

Yah, nope.

Wisconsin has EIGHT Districts.  Spakovsky's essay:

... Due to population decreases, seven states each lost one congressional seat: California, Illinois, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia...

Summarily:  the Census Bureau is worse than AI.  AI is worse than creaky memory.

So "Progress" is not all that it's cracked up to be.  Remember that. 

 

Ukie War Over??

In remarks which will come as a surprise to certain conspiracy theorists:

 ...Russia's Tsar Vladimir Putin, speaking to reporters, indicated that the war was "nearing completion." It's a completion that, if it happens, will end a conflict that has killed, by most estimates, 1.8 million people, making it the biggest European conflict since 1945. ...

(The smarmy twit who wrote the story refers to Putin as "Tsar" to diss Putin and the Russians, of course.  The "OCEANIA RUSSIA IS ALWAYS THE ENEMY" gang lives!)

If the war ends, the US taxpayer will only have to support one obnoxious little dictator. 

RELATED:

... Recent polling by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology in January indicates that 72 percent of Ukrainians trust former Commander-in-Chief Valeriy Zaluzhny and 70 percent trust former intelligence chief and current Zelensky chief of staff Kyrylo Budanov, while only 62 percent trust Zelensky—and the latter number has continued to fall. By April, Zelensky’s number was 58 percent. Only 28 percent of Ukrainians say they want to see Zelensky stay on as president after the war....

... An ongoing corruption scandal isn’t making life easier for Ukraine’s president. At the end of 2025, Ukraine’s National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU), in cooperation with the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO) charged multiple high-level people, including members of Zelensky’s inner circle, in a $100 million kickback scheme involving energy contracts....

Zelenskiy will be lucky to escape Ukraine alive.  My guess is that he will become the newest poster boy for "FAFO" before the end of '27. 

More Minnesota Mysteries

Of course you should be suspicious.  It's Minnesota.

America First Legal, a conservative legal group, has obtained records from the Minnesota Secretary of State showing thousands of Minnesotans used the state's “vouching” system to bypass voter ID while registering or updating their information during recent election cycles....

... Minnesota’s Election Day Registration process allows registered voters or certain residential facility employees to verify another voter’s residency in place of standard identification or proof-of-address documents....

What could go wrong?

 ...According to the data released by AFL, almost 18,900 Election Day registrations in 2024 involved the use of vouching. 

Of those, 13,441 were updates to existing voter registrations, while 5,457 involved new voter registrations.

The records also showed 10,278 voter registrations or updates using vouching during the 2022 election cycle, including 2,215 new registrations. 

In 2020, the state recorded 17,616 vouched-for Election Day registrations or updates, including 5,069 new registrations, the data showed....

Not surprising that Presidential years were about double the mid-terms. 

The fun starts here:

 ...AFL said it tried to get more information from the secretary of state’s office, including data showing whether voters were vouched for by private citizens or residential facility employees, lists of authorized facility staff, and records involving alleged fraudulent or suspicious activity connected to the system.

According to AFL, the secretary of state’s office responded that it “does not record or maintain data on vouching method,” and in several categories replied that there was “no data responsive” to the request....

Like we said:  "What could go wrong?"

Is it possible that Minnesota will out-election-fraud the All-Time Legend ILLINOIS?? 

 

Fuentes, Epps: Feds? SPLC?

 This makes sense.  The FEEBS planted two insurrectionists for the J6 event.  (Yes, they planted more, but these two stand out for the reasons you'll see at the link.)

One decided that he's too old for further 'adventures'; that would be Epps.

The other, Fuentes, kinda liked the money and clicks, so he continues his little game.  Who knows?  Maybe SPLC was stuffing his bank account, too.

 

Refinery Problems.......Sabotage??

Another refinery suffered an explosion yesterday.

That's on top of "problems" at the Joliet BP (Standard Oil) refinery, which came after a Houston-area refinery had an explosion and fire.

ZeroHedge speculates that the problems are a result of continuous high-volume processing.

Maybe.

Also "maybe"?  Sabotage. 

Yes, You Are the Targets

 Denninger explains a recent scare.

 Remember the "scare" a few weeks back when a "new AI Model" was suddenly "restricted" from anyone except "certain trusted people" because it was analyzing codebases and finding serious security problems that had, in some cases, existed for a decade or more?...

So........YOU cannot buy or use this "model" of AI to find serious security problems in--for example--Facebook, TikTok, LinkedIn, or X.  You also cannot repair such problems.  Only 'trusted peeps' can do so.

Ten years' worth of unsecured data.  Hmmmm.

 ....Was the problem there the entire decade prior?  Why yes it was.  The problem is the presumption: Nobody else had surfaced that for themselves without the AI and had been exploiting it; why, the only way to find it was the AI!

No it wasn't, and odds are no that's not the truth at all.  In fact reality is likely that plenty of smart people did know and deliberately did not disclose and fix it.  Why not?  Well that's obvious, right?...

He easily eliminates 'black hat' hackers; they hack for money, and would have monetized the info a long time ago.

Who remains?

 ...Who has effectively-unlimited resources, employs people to do such things and doesn't need a financial motive to exploit what they find because they have other motives and the capacity to obtain the resources by taking them from others, all "legally"?

Well, duh.

So why the uproar?

Because that tool democratized the discovery of same and thus will and does drive a fix for said problems which instantly and permanently cuts off their exploitation by everyone, including said infinitely and "lawfully"-funded entities.

That said tool was attempted to be "restricted" tells you precisely who these firms that develop said tools actually work for and their actual intent and it is not to benefit you or anyone else in the general public.  And by the way that attempt was, did and always will fail because the United States is not the only nation with smart people, lots of computers and said effectively-infinite resources....

Do you have ANY remaining doubt about the uses of S702?  

And do you have ANY remaining foolish thought that "other State actors"--are whiling away their time improving roads, bridges, and processes for the benefit of the public?

Plan accordingly.  More Ammo would be a good first move. 

Who's Losing This Damned War?

It is reported that the 'one-page' cease-fire agreement with Iran--still not ratified by both sides--is thus:

 

1. Iran committing to a moratorium on uranium enrichment

2. The US lifting its sanctions and releasing billions in frozen Iranian funds

3. Both sides lifting restrictions around transit through the Strait of Hormuz.

4. A 12-15 year duration on Iran’s moratorium on uranium enrichment

5. An end to the war and the beginning of a 30-day negotiation period

K.  So they keep the uranium that the US failed to snatch; they get their money back; sanctions will go away; and Hormuz opens up again.

Wait...........wait.........

Didn't Trump tell us that Iran MUST give up all its enriched uranium (the stuff that was "obliterated" but not really "obliterated")?  Didn't Trump tell us that Iran could NEVER enrich uranium?  Didn't Trump spit on Obama's laughable agreement?

Inquiring minds, and all that. 

IDF Attacks St. George Procession in Bethlehem

Apparently Netanyahu & Co. ignored the Pope's message about unjust wars.

 Israeli military forces assaulted Palestinian Christians celebrating the Feast of St. George on Tuesday evening in the town that bears the saint’s name in Arabic — al-Khader — just south of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank.

Hundreds of Christians — and Muslims who also venerate the saint — had gathered around the historic 16th-century Greek Orthodox Monastery of St. George for prayers, religious services and traditional rituals, which include barefoot processions from Bethlehem.

According to multiple local sources, a convoy of Israeli army vehicles suddenly stormed the old quarter of al-Khader, where the monastery stands. Heavily armed soldiers fired barrages of tear gas canisters and stun (concussion/sound) grenades in the vicinity of the pilgrims. The sudden barrage triggered panic and a stampede as people rushed for shelter inside the monastery and nearby buildings....

Smooth move, Netanyahu.

Next?  Israel will issue a statement averring that the participants in this religious procession were actually Palestinian terrorists. Trump--no longer able to simply back out of Israel's war on Persia--will state that he ripped Netanyahu a new one, but will keep supporting this crap.

Don't believe that Israel is deliberately dropping land mines into the peace process?

 

“One credible signal that peace talks are actually proceeding is this massive airstrike that Israel carried out on Beirut just now,” [Ryan] Grim said on Wednesday. “Whenever you’re getting closer to an agreement, you usually tend to see the Israeli military ramp up its violence.”

Iran has always maintained that the ceasefire covers the entire regional war, including Israel’s military campaign in Lebanon. That’s why Israel massively escalated violence in Lebanon after the ceasefire was announced—to sabotage the truce—and in Grim’s view, it’s why Israel attacked Beirut on Wednesday amid new reports of progress in negotiations.

VERY smooth move, Netanyahu. You smacked up the Christians AND kept the US in your war.

The Lethality of Iran.....Really???

The author of this piece hopes that your are stone-cold ignorant of numbers which put this into perspective.

...Most Americans are blissfully unaware of just how effective Iran has been at killing Americans. The official number of Americans killed in Iraq by Iranian-backed militias is 603. Tack on 47 more Americans killed in the Iran-backed Hamas attack on Israel in 2023. The number of slain Americans is probably well north of a thousand at this point since Iran has effectively been at war with the United States for the better part of a half century. ...

Our sympathy goes to the families of those 1,000 who were killed over the last 40+ years.

1,000.

LAST YEAR, 33,000 Americans were killed by other Americans (or illegal aliens) on US highways.

LAST YEAR, 15,000 Americans were killed by other Americans (or illegal aliens) all across the country.

Maybe if US troops were not planted in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, UAE, Saudi Arabia.............Who knows?  Iran might be naming another "Great Satan." 

Follow the (LARGE) Money.....

 There is a good deal of finger-pointing goin' on about several recent futures trades on petroleum, the most recent being a $950 million short resulting in a $125 million profit.

 The common theme of the finger-pointing?

It's a TRUMP crony or TRUMP insider or TRUMP relative.

Almost as though TRUMP is just another BIDEN, eh?

Reality check:  there are likely at least 2 dozen people who know what's going on with the Iran negotiations.  SOME of them are Trump people.

Others live in Pakistan, Israel, and Iran--and perhaps in any of the Arab States.

Rest assured that Bessent is combing through SWIFT transactions.  In fact, he may already know who the perp(s) are, but is holding off.

It could be Netanyahu, ya'know. 

 

"Intel Community" vs. US Voters

 Never forget that Marco Rubio is an "intel community" insider.

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has spurred an investigation into evidence that spy agencies tried to conceal U.S. election vulnerabilities, including whistle-blower claims that a CIA officer was asked to alter evidence of China meddling and that President Donald Trump and Congress were intentionally kept in the dark about concerns involving China and Venezuela, according to unclassified memos reviewed by Just the News....

... The National Intelligence Council concluded in 2020 that China had hacked or gained access to several state voter registration databases, but that information was hidden from the American public, state election officials, and Congress. The new memos reviewed by Just the News cite evidence that China may have gained access to between 12 and 18 states' voter registration databases in 2020 alone, an infiltration far larger than previously acknowledged....

 ...The ODNI is currently in possession of allegations made by one or more intelligence officers arguing that foreign interference efforts by China were de-emphasized or omitted entirely from final analytic assessments, kept out of the President’s Daily Brief, or PDB, or hidden from congressional oversight, according to documents reviewed by Just the News. 

These actions within the IC were taken in an alleged effort to undercut Trump’s 2020 reelection campaign and resist his China-related policies, according to the memos reviewed by Just the News....

This is the "intel community" which wants S702 permission to spy on YOU without a warrant. 

 

Is Wisconsin Next?

The fable of "completely accurate and transparent" election processes just took a body-blow in Fulton County, GA.

... Within the last few days, the Department of Justice —now under Todd Blanche’s management— issued a grand jury subpoena to the Fulton County Board of Registration and Elections. The DOJ is asking for something fairly straightforward: the names, addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses of the roughly 3,000 election workers and volunteers who touched the ballots in 2020....

As Childers makes clear, this is a nuclear bomb.  

(As an aside, the MAGA contempt for Georgia's (R) Governor at that time, and for his (R) Secretary of State, is fully justified, no matter what Eric Erickson says about their totes-angelic qualities.) 

There are five other States which deserve an anal exam:  Nevada, Arizona, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.

Nothing would be more pleasing than to see the arrogant b***h who runs the WEC, along with that arrogant and pompous (D) lawyer on the WEC commission, go to Club Fed for 5-10 or longer.

Could it happen?  You can bet that the above people are having angst-attacks over the news. 

S&P: Fuel Price Goes Up, STAYS Up

 Remember Trump's dictum that fuel prices drive inflation (or deflation)?

You may find out the very hard way that he is correct.

 

...S&P Global Energy, in a recent analysis, said the oil market now features two things that theoretically should not happen in parallel: a decline in inventories and a drop in demand.

As S&P Global Energy said in the analysis, those “seemingly contradictory developments occurring in tandem shows that the full severity of the greatest supply disruption in history is yet to come.”...

... “While there have been significant impacts to date, the oil market has remained somewhat cushioned from the full impact of the loss of 15 million barrels per day in supply,” Jim Burkhard, S&P Global Energy’s vice president and global head of crude oil research, said in the report. “That the cumulative supply loss is now approaching 1 billion barrels is a staggering figure that inventories cannot cover indefinitely. An inevitable market reckoning is coming.” ...

OK.  So what's the bottom line?

 ....“S&P Global Energy expects that, if Hormuz were to be reopened, it would take an additional seven months at minimum to fully restore upstream production, assuming no permanent damage and supply chains operate smoothly,” the report said. “A recovery could take longer if there is damage to ports or other transport and loading infrastructure. The longer the strait remains closed, the more likely the supply crisis extends into late 2026 and into 2027.”

Burkhard’s warning to consumers was ominous. “What is a tremendous curtailment of demand is still being outstripped by the loss of supply,” he said. “That means that higher crude oil and refined product prices are still to come.”...

Lovely.  Just f'n lovely. 

Obama's Marriage Excuse? "Trump Did It"

 We can think of 1,000 reasons that the Obama marriage 'has tensions.'

None of them involve Trump.

But Barky sez it's all Trump, all the time.

OK, Barky. 

Big Mike did not comment. 

Why the SPLC Is Dead Meat

Lengthy, often tongue-in-cheek, essay on Why the SPLC Is Dead Meat.

HINT:  It is NOT the fact that they were paying informants.

SPLC is gone.  Too bad.  So sad. 

InfoSlop About Food Stamps. Again.

The InfoSlop passed on by "news" outlets is a sight to behold.

Here's the InfoSlop lede:

 Nearly 4.3 million Americans stopped receiving SNAP benefits from January 2025 through January 2026, largely because of new requirements put in place by Republicans when they passed the massive tax cut bill last year, experts say. 

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, also known as food stamps, has seen a 10% decrease in the number of participants since President Donald Trump took office for a second term....

And blah blah blah quote some professor blah blah food expensive blah blah Trumpf!!! ......you know the drill.

Maybe you noticed the adjective "Americans" in the above?  Good.

Because lots of NON-AMERICANS were taking food from ACTUAL AMERICANS.

 

At least 1.7 million non-citizens are receiving SNAP benefits (Source)

USDA data shows that about 10.6 percent of all SNAP recipients are foreign-born, and 3.3 percent are non-citizens who are not naturalized...

Having your fat ass on American soil does not make you an "American."  

Of course, there is the trickery-and-deceit angle which is in play here.

 ...If a household has a U.S.-born child, that child can qualify the household for SNAP. Benefits issued for the child feed the entire household. This is how many mixed-status households legally receive SNAP. In that regard, having a single child citizen (anchor baby) provides many welfare benefits to entire families of illegal or undocumented immigrants.

The statement that illegal immigrants do not receive SNAP is merely a talking point based on the letter of the law, but the reality is that benefits can still support households that include people who are not citizens....

Let's review, class:

1)  Food Stamps are often claimed by NON-citizens who dropped an 'anchor baby.'  The stamps then feed an entire family in "need."

2)  That family is "in need" because someone is not working or has a lousy job.  Why?  Because they are ILLEGALS and/or they are 'shadow' workers.

3)  Do not believe what you read, see, or hear on "news" unless you cannot find info which calls it into question--obviously a skill not possessed by "news" writers.

Class dismissed. 

 

Ted Cruz on Defense re: Israel's War

This is a war that Cruz loved.  The tone here?

Defensive.

 ...Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) stated that the conflict with Iran “will be over. It will be over in a matter of months.”

Cruz began by saying that things will “wrap up in time.”

He added, “[I]n terms of gas prices, you go back a couple of years under Joe Biden, and gas prices were about six bucks a gallon. President Trump and the Republicans in Congress came in, and we dropped it in half, to about three bucks a gallon, that was a massive savings. Now, any time you have a military conflict in the Middle East, that’s going to have an upward pressure on gas prices. So, gas prices have risen to about four, four-and-a-half bucks a gallon. So, about — it’s gone up about halfway from the distance it fell. That being said, this conflict will be over. It will be over in a matter of months. And when it is over, if we can have anything like a stable regime in Iran, that will have a long-term, major downward pressure on gas prices. But, more importantly, look, the Iranian regime is the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism, they’ve killed nearly 1,000 Americans. The president is acting to keep people safe. ...

Yah, well, ALL wars "wrap up in time."  Wasn't this one a 6-week "excursion", Ted?

Beyond that, did you notice that "Trump and Republicans" reduced the price of gasoline, which implies that Trump and Republicans should be given a pass on increasing it by fighting someone else's war?  Hmmmm?

Perhaps if the US did not have military bases all over the Middle East, Americans would not have a target on their backs, either, Teddy. 

"So What?" Is the Correct Response to Ace/Deace

Much as we enjoy Ace's place for news and spicy opinions, we are suspicious of this effort:

 Via Instapundit, reports that the pope is a woke buffoon and leftwing culture warrior have been proven 100% true, by his own actions....

Gee, Ace.  You don't like the Pope, or do you just post obnoxious crap because that's what New York City people do?

Ace goes on to quote someone named Deace.  Whoever he is, he is all up in a lather:

... This was not a dreamer. Evelio originally came here from El Salvador illegally as a grown man in 1990. He had already been deported at least once before. Soon after his arrival, he was granted TPS because of the civil war back home. Eventually learned English and became a US citizen in 2006. His is a sympathetic case from a bygone era when most of America thought we could look the other way at such things given the overall prosperous state of things.

But we are not now in that era.

Our national debt is now over 1,000% higher than it was when Evelio first arrived. Illegal immigration has swelled over 300%. Whole industries have replaced the American-born family man with illegal aliens. The amount of school children who only speak Spanish has doubled since 1990. The median age of a first time home buyer in 1990 was 28-30, while today it is 41. It was twice as likely a 30-year old man would be married with children in 1990 compared to now.

Barely 2% of West Virginia is Hispanic. Barely 1% of the state speaks Spanish. This is a purely political appointment by a woke pope trying to shoehorn his open borders agenda into a state Trump has won by 40 points three times. There's nothing prophetic here, but it's all shamefully political. An open borders agenda the pope himself isn't forced to abide by, because Vatican City has strict enforcement policies and walls. This is like if MSNBC picked offices in the church, all the while never allowing the illegals in Martha's Vineyard where their primetime hosts spend their summers....

The proper response to Pp. Leo's appointment?

So What?

Deace is a Huckabee/Cruz "Christian."  Those are the Israel-Firsters, if you need reminding.

It is not a stretch to say that Deace's intent here is to fire up the Know-Nothing/anti-Catholic crowd, and perhaps persuade some Catholics that the Pope is anti-American or sumpin'sumpin'. He is not the first of the Huckabee/Cruz/Levin persuasion to attack the Church, and he won't be the last.

Maybe he thinks that Catholics blindly follow whatever their Bishop says regarding politics, in the way that some people blindly follow Rabbi Schneerson, or Dispensationalists long for the Battle of Megiddo. 

But in reality, about 95% of Catholics in any Diocese will never MEET their Bishop, much less follow that Bishop's political inclinations, unless those inclinations are eminently sensible.  

Deace is excusably ignorant of that fact, but one hopes that his little rant is not a mark of deeply-held anti-Catholicism. There's plenty of that available in the Levin/Hannity/Cruz crowd--the ones who will follow Rabbi Schneerson into any war, so long as Israel asks them.   

Does Deace seriously want to be one of them? 

 

Mail-Order Murder Is Dangerous(!)

The Left wails and snorts over the ban on Mifepristone.

That's because the Left doesn't give a rip about life--whether pre-born, or that of the mom.

 

...There is substantial evidence of the drug’s dangers. A groundbreaking study by the Ethics and Public Policy Center last year examined data from nearly 900,000 drug-induced abortions and concluded, “10.93 percent of women experience sepsis, infection, hemorrhaging, or another serious adverse event within 45 days following a mifepristone abortion.” Further, the EPPC researchers found that “the real-world rate of serious adverse effects following mifepristone abortions is at least 22 times as high as the summary figure of ‘less than 0.5 percent’ in clinical trials reported on the drug label.”...

Death and destruction, like lying, is a Biden thing. 

Is Trump Lying, or Mis-informed?

Israel's war is going to get VERY expensive if this keeps up.  DD interviewed a petroleum-markets guy, who had the following to say:

 ... I don’t know why the energy secretary, Chris Wright, is just not doing his job. [Refers to chart from the first week of April.] What we can see here is that the United States is a net importer of oil. It’s axiomatic—an importer of oil is in no position to export oil. We import 6.3 million barrels, mostly medium and heavy grades of crude. Our refineries love that stuff. We produce a lot of this really light stuff because of the shale plays. We export 4 million barrels of that [light stuff] per day. 6 - 4 leaves you two. So, we’re a net importer of oil. That’s point one in this story. And point two is that if we are exporting oil, where is that coming from? What we’re doing is we’re taking our strategic petroleum reserve and we’re exporting that to the world. So, we are technically a net exporter of oil this past week, but that’s because we’re dipping into our inventories. There’s only so long you can do that before you have to stop doing that....

IOW, the Breitbart headlines are.......wrong.

But that's not all.

 ...It’s pretty clear now that official sources have been monkeying around in what’s called the oil futures market. And big traders all over the world have been saying that someone just steps in and dumps huge amounts of oil all at once. What’s happening is somebody is coming in and seeking to set the price. In a single one minute trading window you might see as much as five or six million barrels of oil suddenly get sold, boom! and they’re highly coordinated with these press releases that come out, usually on a Monday or Friday, usually with some mysterious front-running by somebody which nobody’s investigating. But somebody knows these market-moving things are coming and they’re ready for that. And so that’s been the game. It’s been happening for a while, but it’s going to have a real cost....

Look up "Maiden Lane" for similar games--that time, from the Fed.

That trader's commentary verges on apocalypse if Israel's War continues.  Can it be that bad?

Ask Jamie Dimon about the debt. 

But that's not all.

The Duran's guest talks 'severe recession' if not the "D" word.

Israel's War may be apocalyptic, after all.  Think that Cruz and Huckabee will be happy?? 

 

Democrat Talking Points Are The Vices

It's easy to discern a Democrat.  They espouse Vices, which--as you know--take one to Hell.

Envy is their biggie.  Every time they say "the rich", or screech at the sky over "millionaires and billionaires", they pay homage to Satan.  Cyprian of Carthage had something to say about envy:

 .... the devil was the first who both perished (himself) and destroyed (others). He who was sustained in angelic majesty, he who was accepted and beloved of God, when he beheld man made in the image of God, broke forth into jealousy with malevolent envy— not hurling down another by the instinct of his jealousy before he himself was first hurled down by jealousy, captive before he takes captive, ruined before he ruins others. While, at the instigation of jealousy, he robs man of the grace of immortality conferred, he himself has lost that which he had previously been. How great an evil is that, beloved brethren, whereby an angel fell, whereby that lofty and illustrious grandeur could be defrauded and overthrown, whereby he who deceived was himself deceived! Thenceforth envy rages on the earth, in that he who is about to perish by jealousy obeys the author of his ruin, imitating the devil in his jealousy; as it is written, "But through envy of the devil death entered into the world." Therefore they who are on his side imitate him. ...

Democrat platforms also espouse other Vices.  They like Lust, for example; it starts one on the path to abortion, a Democrat sacrament although there are plenty of Republicans on that path, too.  Then there's Sloth.  Democrats love sloth; it gives them a large chunk of their voter base (see, e.g., Section 8, Medicaid, Food Stamps).  Pride?  Sure!!  All Democrats are virtue-filled, in contrast to eeeeeeeevil Republicans.  They virtue-signal every. damn. day.  And if you think Greed is only a Republican problem, let's remind you of Nancy Pelosi's remarkable stock portfolio, or almost any "non-profit" funded by USAID.  Anger makes the list, too.  It usually leads to violence, as even Maher has observed.

They're not mere "talking points."  They are very useful for leading this country to Hell. 

 

 

AP Provides Propaganda ....

This is amusing, except that some people will actually believe the AP version of the US Constitution.

 

When a federal judge shot down a Trump administration policy of holding immigrants without bond last December, it seemed like a serious blow to the president's mass deportation effort.

Instead, a top Justice Department official insisted the ruling wasn't binding, and the administration continued denying detainees around the country a chance for release.

By February, the district court judge, Sunshine Sykes, was fed up. Sykes, a nominee of President Joe Biden, accused Trump officials in a ruling that month of seeking “to erode any semblance of separation of powers,” adding that they could “only do so in a world where the Constitution does not exist.”...

Dear Sunshine:

Article Two, Sentence One of the US Constitution gives the President ALL executive (managerial) powers regarding immigration policy.  ALL of them.

By the way, Article Three gives the Courts ZERO executive (managerial) powers over immigration policy.  

This is a POLICY issue, not a legislative issue.  And it most certainly is NOT a judicial issue.

You can try blowing Sunshine up anyone's ass, honey.  But not anyone who has read the Constitution.  

Tucker vs. Wood on Iran. Hmmmmm

We have seen L. Todd Wood's work.  He appears to be well-informed.

So when he tells you that Tucker (whom he admires) dialed a Wrong Number, you should pay attention.

 

...I have followed Tucker Carlson for years, and have generally agreed with much of his work. I especially applauded his work on the lies behind the Ukraine war, ... ending the Ukraine war is a passion of mine, so I was especially thankful to Tucker for having me on.

Second, I have been against any war with Iran for some time, vocally so. However, now that we are in it, I want an outcome that is good for the United States and my children's future. I don't believe American ground forces in any size would be a benefit in Iran. There would be many casualties, and I'm not sure they could be effective in achieving President Trump's goals. Besides, they simply aren't needed (there is already a capable force on the ground)....

 The parenthesized phrase is key.

 

...That is why I am confused over Tucker's recent support for the Iranian regime, and his denigration of the Iranian Resistance, The People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI), also known as Mojahedin-e-Khalq (MEK), which I know well.

I was contacted in 2018 while writing for The Washington Times by the MEK's offshore political arm, the National Council of Resistance in Iran, or the NCRI. Over the last decade, I have spent much time with them, and took the time to learn their history, and their story....

 

....There is one thing that Tucker said that I completely agree with -- they are feared by the regime. In fact, the MEK is the only organization the regime fears. So much so, that there is a global propaganda campaign against them in the Western press, and successive U.S. and E.U. administrations. The words used on Tucker's show -- assassin, violent, cultish, etc. are exactly the words used by the Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) and the U.K. press. I have seen these lies spewed about them for years.

I believe Tucker has been duped into that campaign by the MOIS, or their allies....

Hmmmm.

Wood insinuates that England--or maybe even Israel--is behind the smearing of MEK.  

Wood testifies that MEK is actually a bunch of peaceful Muslims.  Think about the implications of that for a moment; if there are "peaceful" Muslims, a lot of DOOM DOOM DOOM predictions will collapse.  Hmmmmm.

Anyhow, read the essay at the link.  It's worth knowing.