A Reminder
If Vice President Kamala Harris and Governor Tim Walz had won the election, the border would be open, no illegal aliens would be deported, and Iran would have nuclear weapons.
By a very narrow margin—50% to 48%—American voters chose Donald Trump and JD Vance, who campaigned on closing the border, deporting illegals, and preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.
The Pentagon’s Request
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth confirmed yesterday that the Pentagon is asking the White House to request $200 billion in supplemental funding to replenish the weapons used in the conflict with Iran. This is essential for our troops.
But there are indications that no Senate Democrat, with the possible exception of John Fetterman, will support it in a regular appropriation needing 60 votes. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) said, “The best way to end this war, protect our troops, save civilian lives, and rein in a lawless administration is to cut off funding. I’m a hell no.”
If that’s their attitude, it may open the door for another reconciliation bill that only needs a simple majority to pass. Perhaps Republicans could add other measures to the reconciliation package, like a voter ID law.
Force them to vote. Every senator and every representative needs to be put on the record. Those who vote no must be forced to explain why they refused to fund weapons for our troops while they are in combat. And let me produce the ads we will use in the campaign.
King’s Compromise
Maine Senator Angus King, a trans independent (that’s a Democrat who identifies as “independent”), has proposed a compromise for fully funding the Department of Homeland Security: unmask our federal immigration police in exchange for harsh penalties on doxing them. While I can see the potential attractiveness of King’s proposal, I’m skeptical.
As it is, existing laws against assaulting federal officers aren’t being adequately enforced. Doxing usually involves online harassment, threats, and hate directed at the agents and their families, including their children.
As disgusting as that may be, the courts would likely strike down severe penalties for doxing as unconstitutional restrictions on speech.
If internal GOP polling shows the public is blaming Democrats for the continued shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security, Republicans should hammer that message relentlessly.
They should send activists to major airports with flyers explaining that they are standing in absurdly long lines because Democrats refuse to fund our airport police. Everyone standing in line for hours and hours at the Atlanta airport should be given a card indicating how their Democrat senators have voted on Homeland Security funding.
Questions For Comey
Federal prosecutors have some questions for fired FBI Director James Comey. He has been issued a subpoena in the ongoing federal investigation into a “grand conspiracy” against President Trump dating back to the Russia collusion hoax and the 2016 campaign.
Normally, it would be virtually impossible to prosecute anyone for something done in 2016. The statute of limitations on most related crimes is generally five years. But this is not a typical investigation.
A “grand conspiracy” case suggests a continual series of related crimes stretching through the Obama administration, the first Trump administration, and into the Biden administration. Thus, the statute of limitations did not start running until January of 2025, when Biden’s term ended and President Trump’s second term began.
It is important to note that this investigation is being run by federal prosecutors in South Florida, not Washington, D.C., or the Eastern District of Virginia. Juries in those Democrat-dominated jurisdictions have refused to return indictments in several cases brought by the Trump Justice Department.
Speaking of grand conspiracies, we learned more this week about the intelligence community’s efforts to withhold information about communist China’s meddling in the 2020 election in support of Joe Biden.
As one Deep State analyst put it, “I don’t want my intelligence going to the White House where it will be used by that vulgarian in the Oval Office to support policies against China with which I personally disagree.”
So, the Deep State faked intelligence about Russia interfering in the 2016 election to smear Trump and then hid intelligence about communist China interfering in the 2020 election to defeat Trump. Let that sink in!
Talarico’s Tall Tales
During an interview this week, Texas State Representative James Talarico declared that illegal alien students in our public schools are the “most patriotic.” What is he talking about? The people marching in the streets for free education and amnesty while carrying the flags of the countries they left?
This reflects a broader trend in the Democrat Party, especially among its rising generation: they just don’t like American citizens. They get upset when Americans chant “USA! USA!” And they can’t believe that American citizens keep rejecting them at the ballot box, which is why Democrats oppose the Save America Act and voter ID. They want illegal aliens to vote for them.
Talarico is being portrayed as a “moderate,” but he’s a habitual liar and an extremist. The only difference between Talarico and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is his moderate tone and demeanor. Ideologically, he’s just as far-left, if not more so.
March Madness
College basketball fans were stunned last night as the 12-seed High Point University Panthers defeated 5-seed University of Wisconsin Badgers 83 to 82. It was an incredible game!
High Point University (HPU) in North Carolina has Methodist roots and describes itself as a multi-faith community offering a values-based education. The HPU motto is “Nothing Without Divine Light,” and their guiding principle is “God, Family, Country.”
Panthers guard Chase Johnston (a three-point specialist who hadn’t made a single two-point basket all season) delivered the game-winning two-point shot in a fast-break layup with 11.7 seconds left on the clock. After the game, Johnston said:
“First and foremost, I want to give all glory to my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. We’re a group of guys built on John 15:13 [“Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.”] We serve each other. We love each other. We’d die for each other.”
Johnston also had Acts 20:24 on the back of his shoes, which reads, “However, I consider my life worth nothing to me; my only aim is to finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me—the task of testifying to the good news of God’s grace.”
With all apologies to our friends in Wisconsin, the Panthers-Badgers game was a remarkable opportunity to display the Christian faith. Millions of basketball fans heard the Gospel last night.
Tyrants Of Tolerance
Last week, Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders and her friends were ordered to leave the Croissanterie bakery and cafe in Little Rock. The owners, staff, and customers are “heavily invested” in the LGBTQ alphabet movement. They claimed her presence made employees and customers feel “threatened.”
There’s a tendency for people to say, “Oh, those snowflakes are afraid of being around people who disagree with them.” No, that’s not it. They aren’t snowflakes. They are tyrants. This is what their impulse is, and this is how they operate.
The movement that is the loudest and most aggressive in its demands for tolerance is one of the most intolerant movements in America. When they hold power, they make normal life for the rest of us impossible: raising our children by our values, eating in public, hosting events, expressing opinions, holding jobs, or being caregivers.
Historical footnote: All the way back in 2019, then-Trump White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders went to the Red Hen restaurant in Lexington, Virginia. She was ordered to leave because the owner claimed her presence was making the staff uncomfortable.
Now, she’s governor of Arkansas, and the Red Hen had to shut its doors. It’s not smart politics to run a tyrannical restaurant, and it’s not smart business either.
Defending Faith, Family, & Freedom
In my latest Defending Faith, Family, & Freedom podcast for the James Dobson Family Institute, I examine the growing effort to impose Sharia law on various communities across the country.
Good News
- The Trump administration warned all 50 states that children may not be removed from their homes just because parents refuse to “affirm” a child’s gender delusions.
- California activists submitted 1.3 million signatures—800,000 more than needed—to put a voter ID law on the November ballot.
- Indiana Gov. Mike Braun signed legislation protecting the religious liberty of Christians seeking to become foster parents.
- A Tennessee teacher punished for refusing to read LGBTQ-themed books to his first-grade class has had his record cleared.
- West Virginia residents will vote this November on a constitutional amendment ensuring that only U.S. citizens are qualified to vote in elections.
- Several NATO allies and Japan issued a joint statement expressing their “readiness to contribute” to ensuring safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz. President Trump’s pressure may have worked after all.