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No sooner had the House Energy and Commerce Committee kicked off its markup of the GOP’s “big, beautiful bill” than protesters descended upon the proceedings. U.S. Capitol Police was forced to quickly arrest 25 people and remove several protesters in wheelchairs from the hearing room amid chants of “no cuts to Medicaid” and “waste, fraud and abuse my ass.”

Is anybody in doubt that Democrats organized this thing?

Committee Chair Brett Guthrie (R-Ky.) repeatedly pounded his gavel and said that “disruption of Congressional business is a violation of law and is a criminal offense.”

Democrats don’t care … unless it’s Republicans or “MAGA” doing it.

“People feel very strongly because they know they’re losing their health care,” said ranking member Frank Pallone (D-N.J)., asking police not to arrest protesters if possible. “Many of them are disabled and I don’t want to see them further hurt with their disability in the process of being arrested.”

Once again, Democrats insist on their rent-a-mob people being allowed to break the law with impunity.

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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., warned the Trump administration against arresting Democrat lawmakers who have been accused of assaulting federal immigration officers at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Newark, New Jersey, calling it a “red line.”

“They know better than to go down that road,” Jeffries told reporters at the Capitol on Tuesday, The Hill reported.

Jeffries was responding to Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin, who told CNN over the weekend that there will “likely be more arrests coming” after Friday’s protests led to the arrests of several people, including Newark Democrat Mayor Ras Baraka.

Dramacrats have depended for decades on getting away with breaking the law during their performances and virtue-signaling. I think they’re gonna find that Trump and his people don’t play that game any more.

Say it with me: No One Is Above The Law.

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Bill Glahn has been chronicling the insurrection that took place in Newark on Friday. A similar, if smaller-scale, insurrection occurred in Worcester, Massachusetts on the same day.

In the Worcester rebellion, a mob of around 25 people tried to impede ICE and local authorities, who were arresting an illegal alien wanted for assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and assault and battery on a pregnant victim. The mob was incited by a Democratic Party officeholder, Etel Haxhiaj. Haxhiaj and other members of the mob assaulted police officers and ICE agents.

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The Border Patrol posted footage of a massive processing facility on the southern border that has been dismantled, but just a few months ago was heaving with thousands of illegal aliens, proving conclusively that the flow could have been stopped at any time.

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Mark Halperin reports on what is likely the real reason behind Joe Biden’s return to the public spotlight in recent days, which some have suggested is an attempt to “fight back” against damning revelations about his cognitive decline. “Biden, Inc., needs a source of revenue,” he said, citing a source familiar with the Biden family. “The trough is empty, the spigot has shut down. They need a way to get back in the game to make big money to have the grandchildren fed and clothed and flown first class.” Joe and his wife, Dr. Jill Biden, are both working on books that no one will want to read. (A Jill Biden biography released in 2022 sold just 250 copies in its first week.) Joe’s debut on the paid speaking circuit did not go well, and most Democrats want nothing to do with him, for obvious reasons. “The country would be better served if he rode off into the sunset,” one Democrat operative told Politico last month.

Most Americans would agree that what’s happening to the Bidens is painfully tragic and unfair. That explains why Jill Biden was so desperate to stay in the White House, her husband’s dementia be damned. The Biden family went from living large to begging for pardons to stay out of prison. Biden’s exit from the political arena means his son, Hunter, and brother, Jim, no longer have anything of value to offer the world. The prospects for maintaining the “lavish lifestyle” to which the Bidens have grown accustomed are not especially bright, Halperin said, noting that Hunter “does not have great earning capacity” these days. The degenerate crackhead admitted in court that he’s struggling with “significant” debts due the decline in “sales” of his “artwork,” which have failed to cover his hefty child support bill for the daughter he denied was his while (falsely) denouncing her mother as a common prostitute he didn’t remember sleeping with.

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Illinois and Chicago politicians have made a mess of opportunities for blacks in Chicago. In preparation for my Chicago Tonight’s Black Voices appearance last week – more on that later – I pulled together several key facts on how Chicago blacks were fairing vs. the nation’s other big cities. The data, straight from the U.S. Census or the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, is dismal.

Chicago is stuck in a vicious spiral, where too much spending has led to too much debt, including massive pension debts. Taxes, as a result, have become increasingly punitive. Pile on top of that failing schools and crime, and that’s chased out people and businesses, driving down job creation and investment. Based on the data, minorities are paying a big price relative to their peers in other big cities.

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“What I didn’t like about becoming famous overnight,” Mallory McMorrow writes in her new book Hate Won’t Win: Find Your Power and Leave This Place Better Than You Found It, “is that you might assume that I had always done this, that somehow it came naturally.”

Unless you’re a journalist or a celebrity (or some other form of partisan Democrat who obsessively follows politics), you’re probably wondering: Who the hell is Mallory McMorrow??? And why is she famous???

McMorrow is a two-term state senator from Michigan and a former Hot Wheels designer for Mattel. She was filled with “rage” after Donald Trump beat Hillary Clinton in 2016, so she started writing mean postcards to Betsy DeVos, the secretary of education. When that didn’t work, she decided to run for office. In 2022, she became a liberal superstar after a Republican colleague accused her of trying to “groom” children. The angsty five-minute speech McMorrow gave in response, which the author proudly dubs “The Speech,” was a rousing defense of Democratic efforts to prevent the removal of overly sexualized content from kindergarten classrooms. It was the primal scream of a “straight, white, Christian, married, suburban mom” who refused to let “hate win.” It was profound. “The room froze as those words hit the towering walls of the chamber like shots out of a cannon,” McMorrow recalls with Obamaesque self-pride. Naturally, this sent thrills up the legs of MSNBC employees and viewers alike. “I felt it in my soul,” Jonathan Capehart gushed.

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They’s be fools if they didn’t.

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Three congressional Democrats who scuffled with law enforcement officials at a New Jersey ICE facility may face arrests and criminal charges, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

Wouldn’t that be refreshing? Say it with me: “Nobody is above the law!”

Babylon Bee.

n a heroic move that sacrificed his own resources, Senator Bernie Sanders announced that he had bought yet another house to make sure the rich people don’t get all of them.

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As is, indeed, Bernies whole schtick.

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Democratic Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett is facing backlash after images on social media appeared to show the left-wing firebrand cutting the line in front of passengers in wheelchairs while boarding a flight in Atlanta over the weekend.

Republican House Conference chair Lisa McClain posted the images on her personal campaign account Sunday, arguing Crockett was “abusing her power” by boarding in front of the passengers with disabilities. McClain’s post comes after Crockett called Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbot, who is paralyzed from the waist down and uses a wheelchair, “Governor Hot Wheels” while speaking at an LGBT advocacy event in Los Angeles in March.

Crockett, who is viewed by some in the media as a rising star within the Democratic Party, has frequently courted controversy during her time in Congress through attacks on President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans that have at times contained profanity.

“SPOTTED Jasmine Crockett with a taxpayer-funded police escort, cutting everyone in line—even making DISABLED people wait,” McClain wrote on X. “Nothing to see here, just the next leader of the Democrats, abusing her power!”

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Rep. Derrick Van Orden, R-Wis., postponed a town hall planned for Wednesday after a “credible threat made against his wife, children and grandchildren.”

The Left always reaches for violence first.

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A big problem arrived in Fulton County district attorney Fani Willis’s email inbox on the afternoon of Nov. 16, 2021.

It was a legal notice from an attorney representing Amanda Timpson, a former member of Willis’s executive staff who had been blowing the whistle on the district attorney’s office for allegedly trying to mishandle federal grant funds. Willis, the eight-page letter stated, had violated a slew of whistleblower protection laws when she reassigned Timpson to serve as a glorified file clerk following a brief meeting in July 2021 in which the district attorney refused to hear Timpson’s allegations. Timpson believed she had grounds for a lawsuit against Willis, but was willing to drop the matter in return for a modest severance package and a positive letter of recommendation from the district attorney.

Willis had other ideas.

The Foundry.

Thursday, April 24, was a day like any other day—the sun came up, the sun went down, and President Donald Trump was hit with at least three nationwide injunctions by federal district court judges.

That’s just the way it goes if you are a president who wants to take back America from the entrenched left-wing bureaucracy and restore common sense to government before it is too late.

The danger of the bureaucracy was predicted by Julien Benda in his 1927 book “The Treason of the Clerks,” which warned of the danger of the intellectual class adopting political passions that had previously been the sole domain of the masses. We see this most distinctly today in the federal bureaucracy, which I dare say has the greatest concentration of degree-holders from Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia (and the like) of any sector in the nation, other than the incestuous universities themselves.

The treason that Benda described was the loss of independence of thought and dispassionate reason by intellectuals, and the accompanying subservience of intellect to political passions.

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We may be well past 100 days into the Donald Trump presidency, but Democrats are still hard at work doing postmortems on why they lost so profoundly in the 2024 election. While some high-profile Democrats like Gavin Newsom have rightly acknowledged many of the issues that plagued their party during the last cycle, others continue to appear oblivious.

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Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has dropped all charges against seven pro-Palestinian protesters arrested last year on the University of Michigan Diag.

The seven were facing misdemeanor charges of trespassing as well as felony charges of resisting and obstructing police. The defendants in the cases were: Oliver Kozler, Samantha Lewis, Henry MacKeen-Shapiro, Michael Mueller, Asad Siddiqui, Avi Tachna-Fram and Rhiannon Willow. All seven had pleaded not guilty.

The group hugged each other, smiled and posed for a group photo with their attorneys in the courtroom after learning the news.

“I told you, it’s a great day,” Lewis said to the others, when their lawyers entered the courtroom from a meeting in the judge’s chambers.

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The Trump administration’s Justice Department has opened a civil rights investigation into the Minneapolis-area Hennepin County Attorney’s Office (HCAO) for racial-biased policy to consider race in giving plea deals to defendants.

The Foundry.

During his first 100 days in office, President Donald Trump acted with unprecedented speed to make major changes in government policies and root out the pervasive waste, fraud, and diversity, equity, and inclusion poisoning our government and its programs. Still, he was hampered by a handful of biased judges who abused their authority to keep him from implementing the policies the American people voted for.

Jurisdiction is limited to the federal districts where the hundreds of district court judges reside. However, some of these judges arrogantly assert that they can override the president in areas of core executive branch competency and issue sweeping injunctions that affect the entire nation. They even claim they can act on behalf of people who aren’t parties in the cases before them.

These judicial tyrants seem to believe that the Constitution gives them more power than the president to make decisions on the size of the federal government, how it spends its money, and whom it can hire and fire. They say they have a right to overrule the president’s national security judgment on issues that affect our relations with foreign governments, our military readiness, and the safety of the public from unchecked illegal immigration.

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Eduardo Flores Ruiz, 30, was locked up in the Ozaukee County Jail awaiting further court action as of April 30.

He is accused of injuring three people in a recent domestic dispute, online records show.

The Mexico native is the defendant whom Judge Hannah Dugan is accused of assisting in an April 18 incident at the Milwaukee County Circuit Court.

Flores Ruiz appeared at the court for a hearing on that date, but it didn’t proceed, federal authorities say, after Dugan allegedly took actions to thwart Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers who were poised to arrest the defendant and begin deportation proceedings.

Federal officials accuse the judge of helping Flores Ruiz and his lawyer to exit through a restricted-use door. Officers, however, were able to arrest him after a foot chase outside the courthouse.

He was previously deported to his home country in 2013, before being accused in the domestic violence case that was assigned to Dugan, officials said.

The Foundry.

It appears the legacy media and the Democrat (I repeat myself) narrative about the deported El Salvadoran “Maryland dad” is reaching its endgame as more information about his behavior comes to light.

According to multiple reports, House Democrat Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries has privately told fellow Democrats to stop taking junkets down to El Salvador to visit the deported man in prison to perform supposed “welfare checks.” Jeffries has denied the report, but it wouldn’t be surprising.

In case you’ve been living under a rock, this long saga is about Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an alleged MS-13 gang member who was deported back to his home country as the Trump administration prioritizes deporting illegal aliens who are convicted criminals and gang members.

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With results as you see them.

The Foundry.

New York Attorney General Letitia James—already facing a federal criminal referral—now faces a potential state probe regarding her reporting of properties she owns in Virginia.

America First Legal, a conservative government watchdog, filed a bar complaint against James with the New York Committee on Professional Standards, seeking an investigation into the statements made in a criminal referral the Federal Housing Finance Agency sent to the U.S. Justice Department.

Long prominent in New York politics, James became a national figure when her office sued and won against then-former President Donald Trump when he was out of office and running for another term in 2024. She alleged Trump’s companies falsified information to obtain loans.

I dislike the term ‘watchdog’, which implies a degree of official sanction that rarely exists. I can’t think of a better one, though, for people who specialize in snooping on other people who may be doing something they don’t like; God knows there are enough of them on the Left, each and every one of which is called a ‘watchdog’ by the Narrative Media. My wife calls such people ‘Gladys’, the old busybody who is always peering out from behind the curtains at doings in the neighborhood of which she might disapprove–I guess the current tag is ‘Karen’.

Still, I’m glad that somebody is keeping an eye on James, who has shown a very Democrat devotion to abusing her office in pursuit of people she (and the people who vote for her) dislike.

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The Democratic National Committee will consider a challenge to youth activist David Hogg’s election as vice chair, following allegations that the February vote “discriminated against three women of color candidates.”

Kalyn Free, a Native American activist and longtime Democratic Party operative, filed a complaint weeks after her loss to Hogg, arguing she lost a “fatally flawed election that violated the DNC Charter and discriminated against three women of color candidates” and calling for “two new vice chair elections,” Semafor reported.

The DNC notified its members on Monday that it will meet virtually on May 12 to consider Free’s challenge.

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Violent youth crime is on the rise in the nation’s capital, but the Washington, D.C., attorney general’s office is focused on something else: doling out massive contracts to well-connected plaintiffs’ attorneys firms to sue left-wing bugaboos.

Since 2019, the D.C. attorney general’s office has awarded several lucrative contingency fee contracts to Edelson PC to help file consumer fraud lawsuits against prominent corporations—legal efforts that conservative watchdog groups say are designed to achieve left-wing policy wins at a nationwide scale. That includes a contract worth up to $170 million to help the attorney general’s office sue the manufacturers of PFAS chemicals, and a 2023 contract worth up to $55 million to help the district sue Facebook and other social media companies. And there’s one person at the center of many of the cases: former D.C. assistant deputy attorney general Jimmy Rock, a Democratic donor who left his taxpayer-funded post in late 2022 to head up Edelson’s new office in the nation’s capital.

Pursuing left-wing consumer fraud litigation is the sort of work Rock did when he managed the D.C. attorney general’s Public Advocacy Division, where he was the lead attorney in a January 2020 lawsuit against the Trump inaugural committee for allegedly overpaying Trump’s hotels for accommodations during the 2017 inauguration. Rock also represented the D.C. attorney general’s office in a 2018 lawsuit that sought to hold Facebook accountable for allegedly misusing user data during the 2016 elections. That lawsuit is on appeal after a D.C. judge ruled against the district attorney in 2023.

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Washington, D.C., mayor Muriel Bowser (D.) lied about a $61,000 trip she took to Qatar, which she said was funded by two different U.S. organizations. The Hamas-harboring Middle Eastern nation actually funded the trip, according to a new report.

Bowser’s office initially claimed her December 2023 trip to the Qatari capital city of Doha was funded by the D.C. Chamber of Commerce before changing its story and saying the U.S. Conference of Mayors paid for the trip. Both claims are false, local station WJLA/ABC7 reported Monday. In reality, Qatar covered $61,930 in travel expenses for Bowser and four staff members, according to a letter from Qatar to the mayor’s office that WJLA obtained through a FOIA request.

The mayor failed to record the trip with the District of Columbia or sign a donation agreement, both of which are required by law, even though Qatar referred to the trip as an “in-kind donation,” according to WJLA. Now, two years after Bowser visited Qatar, her office plans to file a donation agreement, reaching out to Qatari officials in February for “a breakdown of the expenses the Qatari Government paid for.”

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A long way from COVID….

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The second Donald Trump administration continues to ferret out racial favoritism in education and the federal workforce, and there is plenty to be found. The administration is now turning to K-12 classrooms and already has a good model to use for its latest order to end race-based quotas in school discipline.

On Wednesday, the White House issued an executive order on discipline, rejecting educators’ use of racial quotas when they mete out suspensions or expulsions among students. Such quotas have generated much discussion since President Barack Obama endorsed their use in 2014.

At the time, the Obama administration informed school personnel nationwide that if more minority students faced suspension or expulsion (called “exclusionary discipline”) than white students in their schools, the administration could open a civil rights investigation—regardless of the egregiousness of the student behavior and the appropriateness of the discipline.

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For only $27, you can buy a ‘Tax the Rich’ t-shirt and help an elderly progressive millionaire fly around the country to campaign against the oligarchy from the luxury of a private jet.

Sen. Bernie Sanders has been touring the country on his ‘Fighting Oligarchy Tour’ in which the elderly senator and assorted socialist sidekicks like AOC hold rallies in liberal areas to denounce big business…while doing some pretty big business.

Earlier this year, Sen. Bernie Sanders, who is 83 years old, filed to run for reelection in 2030 to be able to take office at the age of 89, and hold it until he is well in his mid 90s. Aspiring to spend nearly half a century in the halls of Congress would seem like evidence of oligarchy.

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Can you say ‘oligarch’? I’m sure you can….

The Foundry.

Once in a blue moon, you run across a statistic or record that is mind-boggling. Some are amazing, like Alex Ovechkin’s 895 goals or Serena Williams’ 23 Grand Slam singles titles. But others are disturbing, like the fact that in Washington, D.C., between 2018 and 2022, only 1.7% of people arrested for carrying a pistol without a license were sentenced to prison.

This dismal record comes from the District of Columbia Sentencing Commission, which analyzed arrest and sentencing trends in the District’s Superior Court for carrying a pistol without a license.

Before unpacking how and why only 97 of the 5,558 adult arrests that contained at least one charge for carrying a firearm without a license ended up in prison, let’s step back and look at the bigger picture in the nation’s capital—the astronomical homicide rate—and connect the dots between that rate and guns.

According to the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department, firearms are used in approximately 77% of all homicides in Washington, D.C. Knives come in a distant second place at 14%.

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Wisconsin Circuit Judge Monica Isham is threatening to refuse to hold court because of the arrest of Milwaukee Judge Hannah Dugan.

“Guidance requested or I Refuse to Hold Court,” an email she sent after Dugan’s arrest to all Wisconsin state judges says. WRN exclusively obtained the email from a recipient on April 26.

“I have no intention of allowing anyone to be taken out of my courtroom by ICE and sent to a concentration camp, especially without due process, as BOTH of the constitutions we swore to support requires. Should I start raising bail money?” Isham wrote.

She hasn’t threatened to hold her breath yet, but that may be on the agenda.

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“This is not normal.” Those words from Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., are undeniably true after the arrest of Wisconsin Judge Hannah Dugan. However, the reason it is not normal is far more debatable. Dugan is accused of becoming a lawbreaker in seeking to obstruct an effort to arrest a man wanted by federal authorities. If true, that is manifestly not “normal.”

As soon as the news of the arrest was reported, Democrats declared another constitutional crisis. Klobuchar added that the arrest “is a drastic move threatening the rule of law” and a “grave step and undermines our system of checks and balances.”

That is a curious claim unless Klobuchar believes that the officers are lying. If not, Klobuchar is suggesting that a judge should be allowed (or at least not held accountable) for actively shielding a wanted person and facilitating their evasion of law enforcement.

What is Not Normal is not arresting a judge; what is Not Normal is a judge thinking it okay to break the law.

Say it with me now: NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW.

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Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson came under fire from local Jewish leaders after he wore a keffiyeh, or a traditional Palestinian headscarf, to a public event this week.

The Chicago chapter of the Council on American–Islamic Relations posted a picture of Johnson with its executive director, Ahmed Rehab, at an event to mark Arab Heritage Month. In it, Johnson, who was elected in 2023, is wearing a black-and-white keffiyeh.

“Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson (appropriately) commemorated Arab Heritage Month this week. Arab Heritage should be honored and celebrated,” Rabbi Ari Hart of Skokie Valley Agudath Jacob Synagogue wrote on Facebook. “But would it not be possible [to] commemorate Arab Heritage without wearing the symbol that millions of Jews around the world saw worn to celebrate the murder, rape and kidnapping of October 7th?”

‘Arab Heritage Month’? What’s next, KKK Heritage Month?

Victor Davis Hanson.

I think you’re all aware—you who are religious or maybe secular—you’re all aware of a force in the universe that what comes around goes around.

Or in classical mythology and Greek and Roman studies, there was the goddess Nemesis that pays back hubris or arrogance. I think in Eastern philosophy and religion the term is “karma.” And in the New Testament it is: ”Do unto others as you would like them to do unto you.”

But there is something innate to the human condition that you should not go in one direction in excess because there’s a force in the universe that corrects us and brings us back to the middle, what we call in classical terms the golden mean. Nothing too much. Know yourself.

Karma can be a bitch.

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A Judeo-Christian law firm will finally get its day in court after Michigan’s Democrat attorney general targeted it when launching a “Hate Crimes Unit” in 2019.

Attorney General Dana Nessel and then-Michigan Department of Civil Rights Executive Director Agustin Arbulu announced the Hate Crimes Unit in 2019, which would “fight against hate crimes and the many hate groups … in our state.” The announcement referenced the work of the Southern Poverty Law Center, which brands mainstream conservative and Christian groups “hate groups,” putting them on a map with chapters of the Ku Klux Klan.

The law firm American Freedom Law Center, which the SPLC brands an “anti-Muslim hate group” for its claims that traditional Islam supports jihad, filed a lawsuit challenging what the law firm called the state’s “Orwellian” violation of its First Amendment rights, and after initial proceedings, the case has been delayed since 2021.

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Hint: Badly.

New York Post.

On the most recent episode of “IMO with Michelle Obama & Craig Robinson,” the podcast she co-hosts with her brother, she shed light on her much-publicized absences from both President Jimmy Carter’s Jan. 9 funeral and President Trump’s Jan. 20 inauguration.

The former first lady played hooky because she’s taking some me time, baby!

When it came to Trump’s swearing-in, she admitted she had sartorially sabotaged herself. Michelle — a three-time Vogue cover model and darling of the fashion world who could have any designer clothing on demand — claimed she just couldn’t find the right outfit.

UK Independent.

Immigration authorities raided a former New Mexico judge’s home, where they accused him of harboring an alleged Tren de Aragua gang member, and took him into custody.

Former Dona Ana County Magistrate Judge Joel Cano, 67, and his wife, Nancy Cano, 68, were arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcementx Thursday after a tipster claimed that undocumented migrants associated with the Venezuelan gang were staying at their home. The couple has been charged with tampering with evidence, jail records show.

The investigation began in January 2025 after ICE received an anonymous tip that “an illegal alien from Venezuela and a suspected member of a criminal gang, was residing with other illegal aliens in the United States” at the judge’s home in Las Cruces and was in possession of firearms, according to court filings.

UPDATE: New Mexico Supreme Court says Judge Joel Cano can never hold office in the state again

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Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan was charged April 25 with two felonies for her role in helping an undocumented immigrant avoid arrest after he appeared in her courtroom.

According to a 13-page complaint, Dugan, 65, is accused of obstruction a U.S. agency and concealing an individual to prevent an arrest.

Specifically, the complaint says Dugan assisted Eduardo Flores-Ruiz, a Mexican immigrant, avoid being arrested by federal immigration officials at the Milwaukee County Courthouse after he appeared in her courtroom for a pre-trial conference on April 18. Flores-Ruiz is facing three misdemeanor battery counts.

Two federal agents eventually chased Flores-Ruiz down outside the courthouse and apprehended him at the intersection of West State Street and 10th Street downtown, according to the complaint.

Democrat justice.

Victor Davis Hanson.

Since 2021, the Left has waged a veritable war against the American legal system in a variety of ways.

One serial target of Democrats and the Left has been the Supreme Court.

In 2020, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., spoke to an angry throng of pro-abortion protesters assembled at the very doors of the court chambers.

He threatened two of the justices, Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch, by name. Schumer yelled to the volatile crowd that the justices’ views would make them “reap the whirlwind,” and the two would not know what “hit” them.

In the ensuing months, protesters mobbed some of the conservative justices’ homes—likely committing felonies. The sympathetic Biden Justice Department chose not to follow the law, and so did nothing—although eventually a would-be assassin turned up.

Former President Joe Biden himself bragged that he would try to ignore the Supreme Court ruling banning his arbitrary cancellation of billions of dollars in student loans. Indeed, he boasted, “The Supreme Court blocked it, but that didn’t stop me.”

In response, no one on the Left ever complained about endangering the “rule of law” or Biden as “a dictator.”

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Federal regulations imposed by the Biden administration reached costs of $2.16 trillion in 2024, generating a “hidden regulatory tax” of more than $16,000 on U.S. households, according to a study released Thursday by the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI).

CEI’s study, titled “Ten Thousand Commandments,” said the $16,016 in regulatory costs consumes 16% of income and 21% of household expenses.

The report found that then-President Joe Biden reversed “even modest liberalizations” of regulation from President Donald Trump’s first administration. Biden “changed the Office of Management and Budget’s mission away from oversight and toward the promotion of the administration’s regulatory initiatives,” the report said.

The perfect Democrat tax: It harms ordinary people without any benefit to the government.

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A surprising number of federal bureaucrats who work in Washington, D.C., plan to oppose President Donald Trump from within the government—a deep state taking shape in his second term.

D.C.-based bureaucrats are split along partisan lines, with Republicans planning to support the president and Democrats planning to oppose him, according to an RMG Research survey commissioned by the Napolitan Institute to coincide with Trump’s first 100 days in office. A whopping 75% of bureaucrats who voted for Vice President Kamala Harris in November say they would disobey a lawful Trump order if they consider it bad policy.

In a refreshing change from Trump’s first term, Republicans in the government largely plan to support the president, the survey finds. This means the Trump 47 deep state phenomenon falls along partisan lines, as opposed to the Trump 45 deep state, in which many Republicans joined Democrats.

While this partisan divide reflects the polarization in the electorate, it still seems remarkable that people who work for the government plan to undermine the president from within his own administration.

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Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) humiliated herself on Sunday when asked if she regretted her repeated praise of former President Joe Biden’s mental fitness, which continued until the moment he dropped out of the race. “I said what I believed to be true,” Warren said during an interview with liberal podcaster Sam Fragoso. “Look, he was sharp, he was on his feet. I saw him [at a] live event, I had meetings with him a couple of times … the question is, what are we gonna do now?”

Warren, who is best known for pretending to be Native American, was almost certainly lying.

Oh, ya think?

From the moment Biden shuffled on stage at the CNN debate and bragged about beating Medicare in June 2024, there has been a steady stream of revelations about all the Democrats who were (privately) concerned or even shocked by the extent of Biden’s cognitive decline since taking office in 2021. They didn’t say anything at the time, obviously, because they didn’t want to anger the president—a notoriously vindictive narcissist—and they didn’t want to help Donald Trump by validating his attacks on Biden’s fitness for office. Two recently published books—Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House by Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes, and Uncharted: How Trump Beat Biden, Harris, and the Odds in the Wildest Campaign in History by Chris Whipple—shed even more light on the Democratic Party’s abject failure to stop Biden from running for reelection, even though many believed he was too old and cognitively impaired to serve another four years.

The New Neo.

At some point during the 20th century in America, racism became the biggest sin or at least one of them. This may have occurred during the 1960s, to the best of my recollection. But at any rate it occurred – and the Democrats, who had previously been upholding and institutionalizing racism (especially in the South) managed to pin the “racist” label on the GOP. How that occurred is a long story, but the gist of it can be found here.

Once that was done, by the time Obama campaigned for president he was escalating into what I called “playing the pre-emptive race card” (I describe it in this post, with links there to earlier posts of mine). Obama specialized in accusations of racism against the GOP opposition before any had occurred, and also of redefining all criticism of himself or his policies as racist. That seemed a real turning point to me.

Once it became racist to criticize him in any way, the idea spread that criticizing any black Democrat was racist. Strangely, that “racist” accusation didn’t apply when Democrats criticized black people on the right, because by definition those conservative Republicans were allying themselves with racists and were therefore race traitors and fair game.

Once all of that was established, when the Tea Party movement – which had zero to do with racism – came into being, it was also labeled racist.

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A Minnesota prosecutor is allowing state employee Dylan Adams to skirt criminal charges for vandalizing Tesla cars and causing more than $20,000 in damages, even after surveillance footage caught Adams vandalizing the vehicles.

While police described the video as clear evidence that Adams committed felony-level vandalism, Hennepin county attorney Mary Moriarty (D.) declined to charge the 33-year-old, a program consultant at Democratic governor Tim Walz’s Department of Human Services. Surveillance footage shows Adams keying six parked Teslas and stripping their paint—just weeks after Walz mocked the electric car company, saying that watching Tesla stock fall gave him “a little boost during the day.”

Adams is not a political appointee, a Walz administration spokesperson said.

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Arizona Democratic Party chairman Robert Branscomb II accused his party’s U.S. senators of trying to intimidate and coerce him, prompting sharp rebukes from state and federal officials and pointing to a deep rupture in the state party.

Branscomb alleged in a Saturday morning email to party members that Arizona senators Mark Kelly and Ruben Gallego, both Democrats, “threatened” and “intimidated” him after he appointed an executive director who is not their preferred choice. According to Branscomb, one of the senators vowed to “no longer support or participate in state party fundraising,” while the other told Branscomb to reverse the decision or “face consequences.”

Within hours, Arizona’s Democratic officials—in a statement sent by party vice chair Aaron Marquez—fired back. The senators—along with Governor Katie Hobbs, Secretary of State Adrian Fontes, and Attorney General Kris Mayes—said that “the Chair has lost our trust” and slammed Branscomb’s accusation as “the kind of bad-faith response we’ve come to expect from leadership,” according to Arizona’s 12News.