When Democrats claim that President Trump cannot use military force without prior authorization from Congress, they are either ignoring the Constitution or pretending not to understand it.
Article II, Section 2 of the United States Constitution makes the President the Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy. That authority is operational, immediate, and independent. It does not require Congress to issue a declaration of war before the President can act to defend American interests.
The Supreme Court settled this question in The Prize Cases. The Court held that when hostilities arise, the President is not only authorized but obligated to respond without waiting for Congress. A declaration of war recognizes a condition — it does not create the President’s power to repel force.
Congress has the power to declare war under Article I, Section 8. That is a political recognition of sustained, formal war between sovereigns. It is not a prerequisite for tactical, defensive, or limited military engagement. If it were, every modern president since World War II would have acted unconstitutionally — including Democrat presidents.
The War Powers Resolution of 1973 requires notification within 48 hours and sets a 60-day framework absent authorization. It does not strip the President of the authority to initiate force. It regulates reporting and duration. Every president — Republican and Democrat — has exercised military authority under Article II while navigating that statute.
Let’s be honest about the politics.
When a Republican occupies the Oval Office, Democrats suddenly rediscover “Congressional authorization.” When a Democrat orders airstrikes in Libya, conducts drone campaigns across sovereign borders, or expands military footprints abroad, the outrage quiets down.
This pattern is not constitutional principle. It is partisan positioning — particularly with midterm elections approaching, when energizing the base matters more than institutional consistency.
The President does not need a declaration of war to protect the United States.
He has the authority.
He has the duty.
And history, statute, and Supreme Court precedent support that reality.
If critics claim otherwise, the burden is on them to explain why their argument did not apply to administrations of their own party. CLICK https://x.com/TVNewsNow/status/2028476224134173068 [:16] to hear then-Speaker Pelosi affirm that POTUS did not need authorization to bomb Libya.
DAILY PRAYER: Dear Lord, We surrender today into Your hands and ask You to guide every step we take. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.
AMERICAN HISTORY: On March 1, 1971, a bomb exploded in the Capitol building in Washington, D.C., causing an estimated $300,000 in damage. The Weather Underground claimed responsibility. In his 2001 memoir, Fugitive Days, former Weatherman and long-time Obama supporter, Bill Ayers, claimed he had been involved.
The “Weathermen” were a radical, violent faction of the Marxist Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). The group, which favored arson and bombings as a means of protesting what they perceived to be wrong with American society, detonated bombs at the U.S. State Department and at the Pentagon, as well as dozens of other sites across the U.S. Their bombs were always preceded by telephoned warnings and the only casualties were three of their own who were killed while make explosives in 1969.
Photo: Workers sift through bomb debris. In today’s dollars, the damages cost taxpayers more than $2 million to repair.
DEMOCRATS: “We have now entered the phase of Trump’s presidency where Democrats take sides with an Islamic dictatorship.” – @4thOfJuly365
LENTEN MEDITATION: “You were wrong, Buck. You didn’t see God on a street corner today.I did.” Click the link to read “The Invisible Man” by Sean of the South.
PRAYER for OUR NATION: Dear Lord, Raise up new leaders in Iran that will allow Christianity to be preached and practiced without prejudice. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.
TRANS: Former New Hampshire state Rep. Stacie Laughton was lauded as the first openly transgender person to be elected to a state legislature. After his former partner, Lindsay Groves, admitted taking sexually explicit photos of male and female children, ages 3 to 5 years, at the Massachusetts day care where she worked and sending them to Laughton, he pleaded guilty. Officials say Laughton asked Groves for the photos and the two exchanged more than 10,000 text messages about them, then showed them to other adults. In one of the texts, Laughton allegedly wrote about having oral sex with a girl, only to have Groves note, “She’s not even 3 yet.” Laughton replied, “Do you think God would be OK with me being a minister?” to which Groves replied, “I think God will be OK with all of that.” Laughton was supposed to have been sentenced on February 12, 2026, but the details have not been made public.
WOKEISM: Kinda sounds like imperialism – i.e., using power/influence to impose culture, language, religion, or laws on another nation’s population.
GRAMMY NOTES: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/boDF5FLIzXw [1:49] to hear why you should never assume that no news is good news. – I had upper and lower GI ‘oscopy exams, after which the doctor told me everything was fine. His report went to my primary who never mentioned it. I still had problems and, because I had been very unhappy with the way the first office treated me, I asked for a referral to a different gastro office. At my intake, the PA looked up the ‘oscopy report and images and told me they showed I had a hiatal hernia, esophageal erosion, and bowel impaction! I’m still not sure how any of that adds up to “fine.” I worked with her for 6 months to get my digestion working properly. When I asked my primary why he hadn’t told me I had esophageal erosion, he looked genuinely shocked and quickly called up the test results on his computer. He had never looked at them, but had just taken the “everything was fine” summary at face value.
DAILY PRAYER: Dear Lord, We pray for unity, understanding, and the strength to continue the fight for justice and equality. Help us to carry on Dr. King’s legacy and bring about the world he dreamed of. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.
AMERICAN HISTORY: Civil Rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. was born on January 15, 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia. A Baptist minister, King sought equality for all Americans and fought for peaceful solutions to racial issues.
EDUCATION: The Chicago Teachers Union is largest in the nation. It recently pushed out an ad promoting a tax hike on millionaires and billionaires. There were only 2 things wrong with it. 1. The ultra-wealthy (top 0.1%) already pay 33.4% (i.e., far more than their “fair share”) of all the taxes in this country. 2. Governor is spelled wrong. Since those are both fact-based, one might have hoped the TEACHERS union would have done better!
CLICK https://x.com/Breaking911/status/2011168148431716737 [1:34] to hear President Trump declare that, “starting February 1st, we’re not making any payments to Sanctuary Cities or states having sanctuary cities…because they do everything possible to protect criminals at the expense of American Citizens, and it breeds fraud and crime.”
Grok says the following states have sanctuary cities: California, Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington. In addition, Hawaii and Maryland have statewide sanctuary policies.
MEDIA: CLICK https://x.com/Thevictoria76/status/2011092812151079180 [2:13] to hear what Paul Harvey used to call “the rest of the story” in regards to claims on the Slime Stream Media that ICE agents are abusing their powers.
PRAYER for OUR NATION: Dear Lord, Please bind the demons driving these insane protests and bring peace and sanity back to our civic discourse. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.
SOMALIA: The Trump administration has decided to end temporary protection for Somali nationals in the United States. This “temporary” status has existed since 1991.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem says, “Country conditions in Somalia have improved to the point that it no longer meets the law’s requirement for Temporary Protected Status. Further, allowing Somali nationals to remain temporarily in the United States is contrary to our national interests. We are putting Americans first.”
There are 2,471 Somali nationals in the United States under the status, also known as TPS. Another 1,383 are in the country with pending TPS applications. They’re all supposed to go home before St. Patrick’s Day.
TDS: CLICK https://x.com/jayplemons/status/2010849545945571664 [1:13] to hear Greg Gutfeld make a really interesting point about what he calls “Trump Derangement Addiction.” I agree. And I think there are two key factors. One is that anger generates adrenaline, which in it self is addictive. The other is that anger blocks other emotions, like sadness, so if you’re unhappy with your life, being perpetually angry is a way of self-medicating.
WHITE WOMEN: CLICK https://x.com/PhilHollowayEsq/status/2011246547087081923 [:11] to see liberal white women protesting something or other. The poster asks, “Here again, I can’t understand the extreme hyperemotional, quivering, shaking, quaking, vitriolic screaming behavior. Is there a psychiatrist out there that can explain this?” Best response: “Joe Rogan said it best ‘the least connected, most lost people; he knows, often turning ideologies into their ‘God; in religion’s absence, making them ‘more rigid in their perspectives.’ The absence of God in these people’s lives has taken a toll.”
SHORTS:
CLICK https://x.com/V_Lady2024/status/2011160156231418214 [:56] to enjoy hearing a conservative white woman report on what happened in her small Minnesota town when ICE agents arrested someone at the grocery store! LOL
DAILY PRAYER: We adore You and we praise You, O Christ, Because by Your holy cross, You have redeemed the world. Amen. Alleluia!
2A: Here is another example of why liberals should not be allowed to make gun policy. This leftie cartoonist is so ignorant, he showed a revolver ejecting brass. Yeah, no.
AMERICAN HISTORY: On January 14, 1943, Allied leaders met in Casablanca, Morocco, for a high-stakes conference that set the direction of the war in Europe and beyond. What was decided would influence battles, alliances, and the meaning of victory itself.
HEALTH: [10:28] – Many years ago, our doctor told us to stop eating anything that had an ingredient in it we couldn’t pronounce or define. I have found that a useful tool for choosing which foods are “real” vs. which ones are “too processed.”
HUMAN HATERS: CLICK https://x.com/akafaceUS/status/2010475053964546253 to watch what happened when a crazy liberal woman refused to move aside for a man whose wife was in active labor. Blocking one car … which is still running … would not have benefit the planet one iota, but it could have had serious consequences for this mother and child. The climate whack job’s actions served to prove only one thing, which is that Dr. Patrick Moore is 100% correct. Climate activists are anti-human.
HYPOCRISY: Four years ago, Democrats supported incarcerating American citizens who refused to have an experimental drug injected into their bodies. Today, these same Democrats are screaming in protest at the idea of criminal illegal aliens being incarcerated.
ID: CLICK https://x.com/Milajoy/status/2010604349299589560 [:25] to hear a grown man wearing a playing card costume get a taste of the red pill over voter ID. I’m thinking that people who are too stupid and/or lazy to get a photo ID should not be allowed to vote.
FYI: Every U.S. state offers non-driver photo ID cards (also commonly called state ID cards, non-driver’s licenses, or identification cards). These are government-issued photo IDs provided by each state’s department of motor vehicles (DMV) or equivalent agency, designed for residents who do not drive or need an alternative to a driver’s license.
PRAYER for OUR NATION: Dear Lord, Have mercy on the soul of Your servant Scott and grant him Your salvation. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.
SCOTT ADAMS: RIP. [12:05] – On a personal note, after years in business, one of my brothers went back to college and got a PhD, then taught at Cornell. He often used Dilbert cartoons to illustrate points.
GRAMMY NOTES: My quilter’s heart approves this message.
DAILY PRAYER: Dear Lord, Grant us each the graces we need to perform the unique tasks You assign us. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.
BIDEN: Just a little (cringe) flashback to what Jill did when she was the FLOTUS in charge of Christmas at the White House.
EVERYDAY HEROES: “Your body might break at times, but as long as your spirit doesn’t break, you’ll get through it, and get creative and find a way.” [25:12] – Amy Purdy lost both her lower legs when she was 19 years old. She went on to become a champion snowboarder and, in 2014, competed on Dancing with the Stars. Five years later, she suffered a massive blood clot in one leg that made it impossible for her to use a prosthetic.
“She lived for 20 years with her biological legs, another 20 years with prosthetic legs, and now she’s staring down the next two decades knowing new challenges lie ahead. ‘How do I want to live the next 20 years of my life?’ she asks. “I want to make sure that I’m fully taking care of myself and I’m thinking more of sustainability and longevity and health and wellness versus just accomplishing everything I can.’”
JUDICIAL ACTIVISM: [11:19] – More winning! Biden lost more than 50% of his SCOTUS cases; Trump has been winning more than 90%.
LIFE: Last year, New York Attorney General Letitia James sued 11 pro-life pregnancy centers for allegedly spreading false and misleading information in violation of state business fraud laws. The Alliance Defending Freedom represented the centers’ right to inform women about abortion pill reversal.
Yesterday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit ruled in favor of the pro-life centers, saying the First Amendment clearly protects their right to speak and their clients’ right to hear about this potentially life-saving option.
MIRACLE MINUTE: [7:40] – I was privileged to hear the testimony of an elderly lady in our parish who had kept her Lourdes miracle a secret for 13 years, lest the cancer return. It never did.
PRAYER for OUR NATION: Dear Lord, Keep our eyes on the Real Reason for the Season! In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.
SCIENCE: FDA commissioner Dr. Marty Makary says that Pfizer’s experimental mRNA influenza vaccine will not receive approval because it showed “zero benefit” in trials.
“We’re not just going to rubber stamp new products that don’t work, that fail in a clinical trial. It makes a mockery of science.”
TRANSPORTATION: The Transportation Department has removed 3,000 commercial driver license training providers from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s Training Provider Registry government licensure requirements. An additional 4,500 training providers have been put on notice for possible noncompliance.
GRAMMY NOTES: [3:37] – Mama Buzz sent this video to me with the following, which I do not recall ever hearing about before! “Reminds me of the independent first grader I was on the first day… yup, an old veteran at the busses, got on the wrong bus because they had CHANGED THE ORDER from the year before! It wasn’t just me. One of the kids who also went to Bonnie’s and was a year ahead of me also got on that bus. Rather than being some of the first kids off like we normally would, we had to ride the entire bus route and then got dropped off .”
DAILY PRAYER: Hail Mary, Full of grace, The Lord is with Thee. Blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen.
CATHOLIC HOSPITALS: On Wednesday, U.S. Bishops officially banned gender transition treatment at Catholic hospitals. Bishops will have autonomy in putting the new directives into law for their dioceses. More than one in seven patients in the U.S. are treated each day at Catholic hospitals. In some areas, Catholic hospitals are the only medical centers available.
CROCKETT: One of the Left’s Trump-hating darlings has just been outed for the elitist fraud she is. Federal Election Commission filings show that Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX-39) has spent nearly $75,000 on luxury hotels, transportation and security this year. While “representing” her Dallas constituents, she found it necessary to stay at luxury hotels and use limousine services to visit Martha’s Vineyard, Chicago, New York City, Las Vegas, San Francisco, and Los Angeles.
EVERYDAY HEROES: “Am I gonna be alone?” Amy said to me the first night I took her. I grew up with little money and a loud house. When my mama passed, I helped raise my cousins. I learned early—family means staying. Years later, I started volunteering at a youth center. That’s where I met Amy, quiet and careful with her twin brothers, Micah and Miles. When I finished my foster classes, Amy was the first to move in. One night, she told me about their baby sister, Laila, placed in another foster home, almost adopted. The next morning, I called the agency. A week later, I met the couple and asked them to let the kids stay together. They agreed. Four beds. Four toothbrushes. One house is finally whole. At court, Amy looked up and said, “We don’t gotta pack anymore.”
HISTORY: During the Great Depression, widespread layoffs hit nearly every profession, including journalism. Women reporters were especially vulnerable, often the first to be dismissed when newsrooms downsized. Eleanor Roosevelt, recognizing this imbalance, took an extraordinary step: she began hosting her own press conferences, but with one condition, only female journalists could attend.
This wasn’t just symbolic. By creating a space where women had exclusive access to the First Lady’s insights and announcements, Roosevelt made their presence essential to news coverage. Editors were forced to keep women on staff if they wanted access to her briefings, effectively shielding dozens from unemployment and elevating their professional standing.
Beyond economic survival, Roosevelt’s move reshaped the role of women in media. Her press conferences became a platform for discussing social justice, civil rights, and women’s issues, topics often sidelined in mainstream coverage. In doing so, she didn’t just protect jobs; she expanded the scope and influence of women’s voices in American journalism.
ICE: On November 4 in Los Angeles, CA, ICE officers arrested Victoria Sorocean, an illegal alien wanted in her home country for premeditated murder committed with exceptional cruelty. Sorocean and an accomplice beat the victim with a stick and electrical cable before throwing the victim out a ninth-floor window. In 2013, she fled to the U.S. to avoid prison.
ICE had her in custody during the Biden administration, yet despite her murder conviction, they released her to roam free in American neighborhoods, as they did so many other criminals. Not this time. She will remain in ICE custody until she can be returned to Moldova.
SMH: Then-Rep. Duffy resigned from his position after his ninth child was born with health complications requiring open-heart surgery. By resigning rather than taking leave, he sacrificed his salary, opened up the position for someone else to take over and actually do the work, and had to find a new line of work that allowed him to spend more time with his family.
Then-TransSec Buttigieg took maternity leave after delivery of the surrogate twins he and his husband had purchased. During his time at home, he continued to draw a salary while nobody was doing his job. At the end of his leave, he returned to his job at full pay.
SOCIALISM: I saw this on Facebook – “The Left’s favorite catchphrase is ‘Tax the rich’ not ‘help the poor’ because their ideology is based on envy and resentment.”
TRANSPO: On Nov. 10, Biden’s TransSec, Pete Buttigieg, posted to X – “Why is Trump going after America’s air traffic controllers, today of all days? It’s one more way to distract from his decision to increase your health insurance premiums.” CLICK https://x.com/SecDuffy/status/1988447535996760492 [:44] to hear Trump’s TransSec, Sean Duffy, respond.
Posted on the thread by @xLEGUS – “South Bend resident here! When Pete was mayor, there were literally potholes large enough to plant trees in, but I agree, none exist large enough to hide all of his failures. It was great for South Bend when Pete left, unfortunately, very bad for the country!”
Posted on the thread by @iamchrisbryant – “I actually was an air traffic controller- Pete shut down towers and centers during the pandemic and tried to make Western NC a no-fly zone. Hardly commendable performance.”
GRAMMY NOTES: This week, my 75-year-old husband got to climb two ladders to put storm windows back in the two windows we use for a/c. We’re looking into getting a couple of mini splits when/if Trump sends us that tariff bonus.
I asked Grok, “What would it take for women in the USA to lose the right to vote?” The extensive answer is below.
For women in the USA to lose the right to vote, a constitutional amendment would be required to repeal or modify the 19th Amendment, which grants women suffrage. This process is deliberately difficult and involves the following steps:
Proposal: A constitutional amendment must be proposed either by a two-thirds vote in both the House of Representatives and the Senate or by a constitutional convention called by two-thirds of state legislatures (34 out of 50 states). The convention method has never been used.
Ratification: The proposed amendment must then be ratified by three-fourths of the states (38 out of 50), either through state legislatures or state ratifying conventions, as specified by Congress.
Key Considerations:
Legal and Political Barriers: The 19th Amendment, ratified in 1920, is entrenched in U.S. law. Any attempt to repeal it would face significant opposition, as voting rights are a cornerstone of democratic principles. Courts, including the Supreme Court, would likely scrutinize any legislation or actions restricting voting rights under existing constitutional protections, such as the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment.
Practical Challenges: Public opinion strongly supports universal suffrage. Mobilizing the required supermajorities in Congress or among states to propose and ratify such a change would be nearly impossible given current political and cultural norms. Women make up roughly half the electorate, and their voting power would influence lawmakers against supporting such a measure.
Historical Precedent: No constitutional amendment granting rights has ever been repealed. The closest example is the 21st Amendment, which repealed Prohibition (18th Amendment), but that addressed a policy issue, not a fundamental right.
Hypothetical Scenarios:
Extreme Political Shift: A drastic change in political ideology, such as the rise of an authoritarian regime or a supermajority of lawmakers opposed to women’s suffrage, would be necessary. This would require a level of political upheaval unprecedented in modern U.S. history.
State-Level Restrictions: States could attempt to restrict voting access through laws (e.g., voter ID requirements, felony disenfranchisement, or gerrymandering), but these would not explicitly target women’s right to vote and would likely face legal challenges under federal law, including the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Judicial Overreach: A Supreme Court ruling reinterpreting the 19th Amendment in a way that undermines its protections could theoretically occur, but this is highly unlikely given precedent and the amendment’s clear language.
Conclusion: Repealing women’s right to vote would require an extraordinary and improbable combination of legislative, judicial, and societal changes. It would face massive resistance, legal challenges, and public backlash, making it effectively unattainable under current conditions.
DAILY PRAYER: Dear Lord, Bless our children with all the graces they need to become truly holy. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.
1A: CLICK https://x.com/FoxNews/status/1960495188352045143 [:23] to see a man who claims to be a veteran “challenge” Trump’s recent executive order by burning a flag near the White House. He shouted into his bullhorn, “Burning this flag as a protest to that illegal fascist president that sits in that house. … There’s a First Amendment right to burn the American flag. No president can make a law, period.”
He was arrested, not for peaceful protest by flag burning, but because he set a fire in a public park outside a designated area. As for making a law, Trump did no such thing. He merely encouraged prosecutors to apply to flag burning the SCOTUS ruling that speech intended to incite violence is not protected under the First Amendment.
BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP: The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals recent rulin in Moncada v. Blinken could strengthen Trump’s efforts to stop illegals from dropping their so-called “anchor babies” on U.S. soil.
The case involved the son of a Nicaraguan diplomat who had assumed he was a citizen, because he was born here. When he applied for a passport, they told him he wasn’t eligible, because his father had had full diplomatic immunity. The court ruled that he is not a U.S. citizen, because IOW, he and his family had not been “subject to the jurisdiction” of the United States at the time of his birth.
Being “subject to the jurisdiction” means being under the complete legal authority of the U.S. government, including its laws, courts, and regulations. In United States v. Wong Kim Ark (1898), the Supreme Court ruled that the U.S.-born child of parents who were legal residents, though not citizens, was himself a citizen.
The question remains if those who are here illegally qualify as “subject to the jurisdiction” or not. IRS, anyone?
CABINET CLIPS: [5:05] – I asked Grok to explain Rubio’s joke about having four jobs. “The remark highlights Rubio’s unprecedented accumulation of high-level roles in the Trump administration, stemming from a series of appointments and interim assignments since his confirmation as Secretary of State in January 2025.The four jobs Rubio referenced are:
Secretary of State: Rubio’s primary Cabinet position, confirmed unanimously by the Senate (99-0) on January 20, 2025. He leads the U.S. Department of State, overseeing foreign policy, diplomacy, and international relations.
Interim (Acting) National Security Adviser: Appointed in May 2025 after President Trump removed Mike Waltz from the role amid a scandal involving unsecured communications (known as “Signalgate”). This position involves advising the president on national security matters and coordinating the National Security Council.
Acting Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID): Assumed in February 2025 as part of efforts to restructure and reduce the agency’s operations, including a freeze on foreign aid and significant staff cuts. USAID handles U.S. foreign aid and development assistance programs.
Acting Archivist of the United States (National Archives and Records Administration – NARA): Also taken on in February 2025 following the dismissal of the previous archivist, Colleen Shogan, in what was described as an act of retribution related to past investigations into Trump’s handling of classified documents. This role oversees the preservation and management of federal records.
CRACKER BARREL: If you’ve been following the brouhaha about the logo, here’s the latest. The new logo is kaputski. After the corporation lost over $143 million in market value, the bigwigs decided the old guy and his barrel should return.
FBI: Operation Take Back America/Operation Summer Heat is targeting cartels and criminal organizations threatening our communities. On Tuesday, the FBI-Athens Middle Georgia Safe Streets Gang Task Force charged seventeen alleged gang members trafficking in violence and drugs. LEOs seized a grenade launcher, 26 firearms (including 12 rifles), $900K+ in drugs & cash, 26 kg of cocaine, 1.7 kg fentanyl, meth, crack, and more. A grenade launcher?!
NIMBY: Bethel, CT, is a wealthy community that voted for Harris in 2024. Its residents are fighting tooth and nail to keep affordable housing out of their neighborhoods.
DAILY PRAYER: Dear Lord, Confuse every enemy attack and send it back to sender. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.
BIDEN: [5:27] – Did you ever notice how often KJP et al. spoke of “the president” or “this president” with such sincerity? It makes me wonder if they were really talking to Obama and genuinely believed he was THE president.
BOLTON: [8:01] – On August 22, 2025, at about 7 a.m., FBI agents raided John Bolton’s home in Bethesda, Maryland. The word on the street is they had a warrant to search for classified documents. The Epoch Times said, “The FBI did not provide a substantive reply in response to an inquiry”, but noted FBI Director Kash Patel had posted on X, “NO ONE is above the law … @FBI agents on mission” and that FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino, had shared this, writing, “Public corruption will not be tolerated.” Attorney General Pam Bondi wrote on X, “America’s safety isn’t negotiable. Justice will be pursued. Always.”
CALIFORNICATION: In the 2024 presidential election, nearly 40% of California voters chose Trump; fewer than 20% of California’s seats in the U.S. House of Representatives are filled by Republicans. But never mind all that! Democrats rule California and they want more! On August 21, Gov. Newsom on Aug. 21 signed a legislative package to put a measure on the Nov. 4 ballot that would redraw the state’s congressional map to redraw the boundaries for five of those nine seats, to give each of them a greater share of Democrat voters.
FLORIDA: CLICK https://x.com/nicksortor/status/1958583144636195231 [1:24] to see Harjinder Singh, the illegal trucker who killed 3 people on August 13, get extradited from California. Florida did not issue an arrest warrant until August 15. Singh flew from Florida to California on the 14th and was apprehended by U.S. Marshals on August 16 without incident. He agreed to be transferred back to Florida to face charges. CLICK https://x.com/SplitMethod/status/1958628510169538841 [:22] to see video filmed by someone who drove by the accident Singh caused.
MEDIA: [3:23] – The White House Bureau Chief for the Washington Post reveals their agenda is not informing voters. Donald Trump owned the Miss Universe Organization (which includes Miss Universe, Miss USA and Miss Teen) from 1996 to 2015.
PARTY DEMOGRAPHICS: Between the 2020 and 2024 elections, in the 30 states (and D.C.) that allow voter registrations by party, Democrats lost about 2.1 million registered voters while Republicans gained about 2.4 million.
CLICK https://x.com/WesternLensman/status/1958191652243198082 [1:18] to hear what Joe Scarborough’s guest, Molly Jong-Fast, says is the reason. As Napoleon Bonaparte said, “Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”
PEACE TALKS: I remember when Democrats cheered because Obama said he would talk to ANY world leader without preconditions. But Trump talks to Putin and they yell, “Russia is our enemy!! How DARE he talk to Putin?!“
RUSSIA vs UKRAINE: Not long after Putin met with Trump in Alaska, the Russian army launched one of its largest overnight strikes since the war began. More than six hundred drones, ballistic and cruise missiles landed on Ukraine, killing one, injuring dozens and destroying an American-owned electronics company less than an hour from two NATO borders.
SCOTUS: The Supremes voted 5–4 on Aug. 21 to allow the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to cancel hundreds of millions of dollars in research grants linked to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. The Trump administration argued that National Institutes of Health grants conflict with the president’s policy goals.
TRANS: OMG interview with Vanessa Savidge [1:34:20] – Vanessa Sivadge thought she’d found her dream job as a pediatric nurse at the nation’s top children’s hospital. Instead, she says she watched doctors steer healthy kids into gender transitions, prescribing powerful drugs, billing taxpayers, and hiding it from the public.
Out of her concern for the kids, she spoke anonymously in 2023 with journalist Christopher Rufo about the hospital having publicly claimed to have shut down the transgender medicine program, yet said it was continuing. Approximately two months after that interview, two FBI agents, Paul Nixon and David McBride, came to her home, identifying her as a “person of interest” in an investigation related to a whistleblower who had exposed the program, alleging a violation of federal privacy laws (HIPAA).
She claimed the agents intimidated her, stating they would “make life difficult” for her if she was protecting the leaker and suggested she was “not safe” at work, implying someone at her workplace had given her name to the FBI. Doorbell camera footage shared by Rufo captured the agents at her door, asking to speak with her about “some of the things that have been going on at [her] work lately.”
I am gobsmacked that those two FBI agents showed up on official business wearing jeans and casual shirts.
GRAMMY NOTES: Aidan Perry, a young Florida man, survived being shot in the chest because a cross pendant his dad gave him last Christmas deflected the bullet. [4:35] – When my brother was in Vietnam, he was shot in the torso by a sniper. The bullet did massive damage, his recovery was long, and he has had some lifelong health issues as a result. But what the bullet did not do was kill him. The surgeon who removed the bullet said that, based on its trajectory, it should have gone straight through his heart. The surgeon said it had not hit anything that could have deflected it. It just altered course inside my brother’s chest and went around his heart!
DAILY PRAYER: Dear Lord, Thank You for saving me! Amen.
D.C.: Democrat leadership is on the wrong side of this one. [4:53] – Since the National Guard went to D.C., 48 homeless encampments have also been removed and 465 criminals have been arrested for parole violation, assault with a deadly weapon, assault on federal law enforcement officer, stabbing, robbery, attempted murder, and murder. At least one of those arrested is a member of MS-13.
EVERYDAY HERO: [2:03] – Very proactive 6-year-old!
HEALTH: Recreational water users should assume that Naegleria fowleri is present in warm freshwater across the United States. While infection remains very rare, cases recently have occurred in California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri, Indiana, Minnesota, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Nebraska, Iowa, Maryland. I’m guessing the uptick is due to the extremely hot weather we’ve been having. More people swimming in warmer than usual water.
TAXES: A new economic analysis that estimates taxpayers will see an average $3,752 tax cut in 2026, due to provisions in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
GRAMMY NOTES: Mama Buzz sent this to me. The ladies chit chat about being moms to adults who are dating for the first 9:45. The meaty stuff about “What if I don’t like my body?” begins there and it’s well worth your time.
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