P&D Today, and The World as I See It!

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History is Everything, and Everything is to be Questioned.

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By Rich Kozlovich 

In today's edition I have one commentary of my own P&D Geopolitics Edition and three other offerings by others.  

1. Rabbis for Appeasing Hamas By Daniel Greenfield
2. The Clock is Ticking By Robin Itzler
3. STCI 2025: Winners and Losers in State Tax Policy By Dan Mitchell

Now For the World as I See It.

It's my view the UK is on the verge of an explosion, and the far left tyrannous anti free speech, anti freedom government of Prime Minister Starmer is heading into the toilet.  Daniel Greenfield posted this article yesterday “The Moment I Stepped Off the Plane… Five Armed Police Officers Were Waiting”, and no it wasn't Daniel Greenfield it was a Brit comedy writer, who had the audacity for daring to "tweet" something leftists didn't like.   The article went on to say:

“British police arrest more than 30 people a day for online posts”. London’s Met Police, who have been at the center of some of the worst speech abuses, maintain a secretive operation monitoring social media leading to almost immediate arrests. The Met Police arrested a staggering 5,332 people in 9 years for speech and 1,700 speech arrests in 2023 alone making London into its own speech gulag......... 

The author goes on to note you're free to "support Hamas. You can chant that the UK will be Muslim. You can call for the murder of anti-migration protesters", and that's okay, but make any negative comment about transgenderism or Islam, and you're in trouble, even arrested and interrogated like someone who committed an actual crime. 

• Europe Is a Powder Keg - And Europeans will have to fight if they want to survive. Americans who don’t spend time in Europe might not fully appreciate what a powder keg the Old World has become.  However bad social relations in the United States now are, they are at least an order of magnitude worse on the other side of the Atlantic.  European self-hatred is dissolving traditional cultural bonds.  Mass immigration is compounding age-old rivalries.  Europe is one spark away from exploding.

There is a far left trend emerging among America's "allies".  South Korea seems to be morphing into a communist state and the ruling party has created what they're calling a “Special Court for Rebellion” with an effort to destroy judicial independence.  The article went on to share the events unfolding in South Korea, and China's involvement.  It would appear the time for America to walk away from the Korean peninsula may be just on the horizon.    

If you wonder how American education became such a mess, stop wondering, and blame the teacher's unions.  They're not about reading, writing, and arithmetic, they're all about far left wing insanity.  Two Largest Teachers Unions in U.S. Funneled $43.5 Million to Left-Wing Groups.

“It is clear that the teachers unions’ priorities are advancing far-left politics and radical social justice issues, not the education of children,".........“This is a slap in the face to families and teachers who want to focus on helping students improve their reading and math skills. It is time that Congress acts to stop this obscene redistribution of public monies to advance left-wing identity politics.” 

According to the report, the unions funneled a combined $1.5 million to left-wing and dark-money groups such as the Tides Network, Sixteen-Thirty Fund, New Venture Fund, and Future Forward, a pro-Kamala Harris group..........“they are appeasing the radical base of union members by advocating for men in women’s sports, transitioning minors, antisemitism and other radical ideological stances.”...........[and this is] the “tip of the iceberg...........

The leftist contamination has no boundaries, as traditional authors are shunned in higher education in favor of radical leftist authors in college.  It's time to end public employee unions, especially teacher's unions, and end all funding to academia.  

There's no such thing as election fraud, except for that Canadian guy who illegally voted for 20 years, and this former Milwaukee Police Community Relations Director who illegally voted a mere 12 times.  

The federal judiciary is filled with far left wing political hacks, and I'm beginning to wonder if those few in the judiciary who really are concerned about the rule of law is getting fed up with them.  Judge Chutkan, another out of control Obamanite,  has been a far left wing nutroll from the beginning, and ruled Trump can't decide where billions of dollars in grant money goes.  Well, the Appeals Court disagreed, and excoriated Judge Chutkan saying:

“We conclude the district court abused its discretion in issuing the injunction. The grantees are not likely to succeed on the merits because their claims are essentially contractual, and therefore jurisdiction lies exclusively in the Court of Federal Claims. And while the district court had jurisdiction over the grantees’ constitutional claim, that claim is meritless. Moreover, the equities strongly favor the government, which on behalf of the public must ensure the proper oversight and management of this multi-billion-dollar fund. Accordingly, we vacate the injunction,” 

Point to remember.  The two judges that overturned this ruling were Trump appointees, and the dissenting judge was an Obama appointee.  

 

I love these EU nutrolls.   Belgium has decided they will support a Palestinian State provided Hamas releases all their hostages, and give up all ruling power in Gaza.   They're delusional, and Belgium is slowing being consumed by Islam.   

• A Palestinian State is a Threat to All of Us - Recognizing a Palestinian state means legitimizing terror, undermining allies, and surrendering Western civilization to those sworn to destroy it...............I agree with Dutch conservative leader Geert Wilders, Argentine President Javier Milei, and our own DNI Tulsi Gabbard. Israel’s fight against Hamas and Islamic Jihad is the fight of Western Civilization, of Truth vs. Error, of Freedom vs. Tyranny, and of Self-Determination vs. Despotism. Their fight is our fight, and we should not shrink from supporting Israel’s eradication of Islamic jihad in our world and in our time............
• Was This Treason By Palestinian Group? -A speaker at the People’s Conference for Palestine in Detroit, Michigan, gave step-by-step instructions Friday for radicals to use to target shipments of critical U.S. military equipment used in the F-35 fighter jet.  Aisha Nizar, an organizer with the Palestinian Youth Movement, called for a global demand for an arms embargo, setting their sights on the U.S. military and commercial shipping companies, while expanding on the “Mask off Maersk” campaign the group pushed over the last year.......
• ‘Palestine’ is a Terror State. No One From There Should Be Coming Here -  There were all sorts of debates about the list of places on the ‘Muslim travel ban’ and whether they pose a threat, but there’s zero debate about one place. Anyone who claims to be from ‘Palestine’ and presents a passport to that effect is coming out of an actual bona fide terrorist state, a place where the vast majority celebrates, funds and supports Islamic terrorist attacks. The two governing authorities, Hamas and the PLO, are terrorist groups who spend little time trying to hide it. It’s also a place where the majority polled as being in favor of Osama bin Laden.
• While leftist Jews attack Israel for having the audacity to defend their people and their nation against homicidal maniacs, the IDF begins ground operation in Gaza City.  Make sure to see Daniel Greenfield's article on this. 

 The clock is ticking on the out of control crime in America's major cities, and the Democrat leadership, as Trump has forced them to openly defend criminals and their behavior by demanding Trump abandon any attempt to stop crime in their cities and states. As crime surges in his major cities Governor Pritzker, who has no solutions, says: “Look, big cities have crime… but let’s just pay attention to what President Trump is doing".  Okay, we'll come back to that.   

Chicago Mayor Johnson,  who has allowed crime to skyrocket, says Trump is reprehensible and he's trampling our Constitution, and he also has no solutions, other than to call for an uprising against the Trump administration, with Charlie Kirk saying,We're not going to tolerate urban crime anymore,  and he saying Trump should call the Mayor of Chicago's bluff.  As for Washington DC, what a turn around.   The mayor of DC has done a 180 degree turn around and now wants federal law enforcement indefinitely, and to answer Governor Pritzker, that's what Trump is doing. 

1.  I Live in DC. Crime Is Finally Down–Thanks to Trump 
2. Most Democrats Say Crime Major Problem In Large Cities, Oppose Sending National Guard: AP-NORC Poll 
3. Don't forget the local judges The real issue is judges who play soft justice, releasing people back to commit crimes again.

Finally, the Deep State is never dead, as the Army Corp of Engineers has decided a puddle on Idaho couple’s 4.7-acre rural property is a "federally regulated wetland, claiming a small, sometimes soggy depression in their otherwise flat, dry land is “part of” a “navigable” waterway and thus subject to federal regulation under the 1972 Clean Water Act."  That's been hashed for years and the first Trump administration supposedly ended this kind of insanity.  It's time the Army Corp of Engineers was purged.  

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Life is About Patterns and Circles. Patterns of behavior,
and the Social Circles Promoting That Behavior.

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