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DELTA: CLICK https://twitter.com/gregg_re/status/1749835450804576370 [:53] to hear the pilots and air traffic controllers talk about this. It never ceases to amaze me how calm these people are. “If you look out your windows, you can see the Grand Canyon” comes out in just the same deadpan voice as “One of our tires just fell off and rolled down the runway.

J6: We all know by now how deeply committed Democrats are to transparency (coughillarycough) and preserving federal documents (coughbidencough). So color me shocked to learn that the Dems running the J6 Kangaroo Committee encrypted and deleted 117 files before Republicans could take over the majority in the House.

OHIO: CLICK https://twitter.com/FoxNews/status/1749101959934591006 [:52] to see the sheriff of Trumbull County, Ohio, arrest Commissioner Niki Frenchko, the lone Republican (and only female) on the County Board of Commissioners.

At one of the Weekly Commissioners’ Public Workshops back in 2022, Frenchko read a letter written by the mother of a man who had died while in Trumbull County’s jail. The mother said her son had not received adequate healthcare while he was locked up. Apparently, Frenchko made the sheriff uncomfortable, because the next thing she knew, she was being dragged off in handcuffs for “being disruptive at a public meeting.”

On Wednesday, federal Judge J. Philip Calabrese ruled that the arrest had (surprise!) violated the First Amendment. Here in America, we do not arrest our political opponents, the judge wrote. “This case tests that longstanding norm as well as our Constitution’s robust protections for free speech that allow us to criticize our representatives and public officials.

“Without question, the disruption that led to Commissioner Frenchko’s removal and arrest was her speech itself. And not just any speech. The speech of an elected official, delivered at a public meeting, addressing a matter of public concern. Speech that communicated a message disfavored by those in power. Speech highly critical of another elected official.

Judge Calabrese also said that qualified immunity did not apply to those named in her lawsuit, meaning she can sue them for monetary damages. I hope she takes them to the cleaners, cuz you know what Deputy Frank says. “Warnings don’t work.”

TRUDEAU: The Federal Court of Canada has declared that the Trudeau government’s use of the Emergencies Act during the 2022 trucker convoy in Ottawa violated the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

GRAMMY NOTES: I grew up in Ithaca, NY, home of Cornell University which is both built on a steep hill and reputed to have more foreign students than any other American university. EVERY winter was like this!

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/a4rCmCoero4 to see why we should embrace gender differences.

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