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Having mused upon it, now a week since the election, I think that there were three things involving President Donald Trump that impacted voting not going his way…

First, there is Trump’s behavior. Since being inaugurated for his second term he hasn’t been acting as presidential as he did during his first. He’s been too determined to put his name on as much as he can this time around. Trump 1.0 wasn’t like that. Trump 2.0 is acting more like a pharaoh of old. Perhaps he’s fearful of the mortality that he is facing as much as any of us do. Truly great men are simply good men, they are content to let history judge them and let the chips fall where they may. Trump in the past couple of years has not been doing that. That more than anything else of the man himself might be what brought about ...

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By now everyone knows what happened yesterday.  Actor and filmmaker Rob Reiner, and his wife Michele, were found stabbed to death in their mansion in California.  It seems that it was none other than Reiner’s son who was the murderer.

It was a horrific thing by any measure.  And today President Donald Trump, who had long been a target of Reiner’s ire, released a statement about the deaths of the couple.  I won’t post it all here, Lord knows it’s all over the place tonight.  But to put it short: Trump blamed Reiner’s “Trump Derangement Syndrome” for causing his murder.

Rob Reiner and Donald Trump (photo credit: MSNBC)

The more I think about what President Trump said about Rob Reiner, the more it disgusts me.  I understand that Reiner hated Trump’s guts but that’s no excuse whatsoever for what the sitting President of the United States said.  Trump should have ...

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I’m reading a number of stories regarding churches turning their nativity scenes into political statements about immigration agents enforcing the laws.  Namely, these churches are replacing Mary, Joseph and the infant Jesus with signs saying “ICE was here”.  At least one church went all the way and has ICE agents surrounding the crèche with zip ties and weapons drawn.

Photo credit: Matthew McDonald

I would not want to visit these churches, because they are demonstrating that they have no grasp of scripture at all.

Here’s the truth of the matter: Jesus and his parents were never refugees or immigrants.  Joseph took his wife to Bethlehem because that was their hometown, and they had to take part in a census that had been ordered by Caesar.  They may not have been fully citizens of Rome (few in Roman territory were) but they were certainly 100% legal residents of the empire. ...

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There has been much wailing and gnashing of teeth this past week about the latest antics of President Donald Trump.  The East Wing of the White House has been effectively destroyed, to make way for a new ball room.

Here’s the way the White House complex looked prior to the demolition of the East Wing:

The East Wing only dates back to the 1940s.  It really hasn’t done too terribly much, to be honest.  It’s become more or less the province of the first lady, though that’s never been a designated official capacity.  The East Wing can’t honestly be said to be part of the truly historic and traditional White House grounds.  And the White House has never been a static location anyway.  It’s been added to, remodeled and renovated almost since its beginnings more than two centuries ago.  America has grown and evolved (ideally for the better) and the ...

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I’m only making this post because what I’ve been observing since yesterday especially has become so prevalent and provocative, it practically demands being noted.

For sake of those years and decades from now who won’t know what I’m talking about (because it will have been long forgotten), today is the day when a second “No Kings” protest is being had across the country.  This is going to be the latest in a series of allegedly “home-grown activism” by leftists who can’t stop being bitter because President Donald Trump won the 2024 election over Kamala Harris (thank God she wasn’t elected).
I could say much about the events scheduled for today.  About how they are not “organic” at all but are being organized and funded by evil men like George Soros.  I could note that these “protests” will do absolutely nothing because they are in the end about nothing.  They
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Colbert and Trump in happier times (2015)

Stephen Colbert can stamp his feet all he wants about CBS ending his late-night show.  He can scream and tantrum to his heart’s content.  But in the end the loss of The Late Show is squarely on him.  And the rest of the “talent” on late at night would do well to learn from his example.

Here’s the secret to success at television after the eleven o’clock news.  Most people do not want the last thing that they allow into their minds before going to bed be unrelenting bitterness.  Late-night hosts like Johnny Carson, and Jay Leno after him, knew that people at that hour wanted one last shot of laughter to end their day on.  And those hosts provided that.  Viewers tuned in, got a good chuckle, and wound up going to sleep feeling that however rotten the day had been, ...

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Someone asked me what do I think about it now coming out that Barack Obama, in the closing days of his presidency, conspired with several others to sabotage the incoming administration of Donald Trump.  There is a lot of evidence now that this indeed happened and if it did, then a lot of people including Obama deserve to go to jail.

It won’t happen.

I’m old enough to recognize a rigged game when I see it.  And that is what the Trump Administration is facing.  Nobody is going to be arrested.  There may be indictments but they won’t go anywhere.  And even if they did, there is going to never be a “guilty” verdict from a jury from the District of Columbia.  Washington is a company town, practically everyone there is on the payroll of that company.  The corruption has long taken too much root.

There may be some ...

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There is both jubilation and lamentation abounding tonight following Congress’s approval of President Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill”.  Personally, I have some mixed feelings about it.  I’m not going to let the shrill hysteria coming from some quarters persuade me that it’s an entirely bad thing though.

I think the thing I’ve heard most from those opposing the budget is that it’s going to starve “millions” of people.  And that it’s going to deprive many others of necessary medication.

Well, let’s see what someone who has in times past been on government assistance for food, and medicine, and has worked in the public sector as a mental health professional, has to say about the “One Big Beautiful Bill”.  You ready for this?  Because you may not be expecting what I’m about to speak about it.

Okay, here we go…

The public food assistance is horribly abused.  A lot of people ...

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This is a good day to be a sensible American.

This morning the Supreme Court handed down some rulings and I was looking forward to seeing how they would go.  I am not disappointed at all.

Mahmoud v. Taylor is the case out of Maryland involving parents who wanted to opt out of having their children exposed to homosexual material in public school.  The justices went 6 to 3 in favor of the parents.  It’s a magnificent win for parental rights regarding their children.

It should have been a unanimous ruling though.  I’m going to be looking for the minority opinion.  As many would guess the three dissenting justices were Kagan, Sotomayor, and “I don’t know what a woman is” Brown.

And then there is the situation involving the Trump Administration and all of those federal judges who have been hitting the president with nationwide injunctions, effectively keeping ...

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Over the weekend I watched Gettysburg, the 1993 Civil War epic film about the Battle of Gettysburg.  It’s one of my most favorite historical films, although at more than four hours long it’s really not one I can afford enough time to watch often.  But for some reason or another I felt led to see it again.

Maybe I sensed that I was needing to watch it anew.  That the time was coming soon to bring it up in conversation.  That opportunity comes tonight, after reading how President Donald Trump is restoring the name of seven military bases back to their original names that honored Confederate officers from the Civil War.  The bases had been re-named by the Biden administration to be more “neutral” or “politically correct”.  The venerated Fort Bragg became the vacuous-sounding “Fort Liberty”, f’rinstance.

Now, to be accurate about it, the Trump Administration is not ...

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