P&D and The Week That Was

Truth is the Sublime Convergence of History and Reality

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De Omnibus Dubitandum, (Everything is to be questioned!)

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By Rich Kozlovich

  

When this deal with Hamas was publicized and the particulars were announced I said this deal stinks and is filled with poison pills.   That was day one.  And the reason Hamas signed on is they were on the verge of being destroyed, and they desperately needed a cease fire, and wanted the IDF out of Gaza in order to reorganized and continue their terrorism. It was a typical Islamic deception. And even after they murdered their fellow Gazans, their population still supports the things Hamas does and stands for.

Why? Because that’s Islam, and it’s been the pattern of Islam for all of it’s history, and it boggles my mind Trump, Vance, and others fail to see this and understand there are only two things Muslims understand and respect. Power, and the willingness to use it.

And here we are…. the stench of this deal hangs in the air, and clings to everyone involved. A failure that should have been obvious to the most casual observer. A failure that even the bug man predicted. If the bug man could predict this…. from day one…. there’s no excuse for anyone not seeing this outcome. Doesn’t anyone ever read history books before they make these decisions?

Is there any doubt the federal judiciary is out of control?   The Constitution gives the Congress the power to determine the jurisdiction of the judiciary, not SCOTUS, not the Appeals courts, and most certainly not the District courts.... The CONGRESS.  Is there any doubt the Congress is failing to do it's job?  At least two federal courts have ordered the Trump administration to pay SNAP benefits in spite of the shut down using "contingency funds", which is most likely outside the administrations legal authority.  

But think about this.

1. When did the courts decide they had the legal authority over Congressional spending?Decades ago.  
2. Where in the Constitution does it give them that authority?  Nowhere!
3. Is there a law passed by Congress that gives them that authority?  No!

They gave themselves that authority, and the Congress has failed to call them to task.  They use arguments that failing to pay SNAP benefits hurts the public.  Okay, that's clearly true but that's the responsibility of the Congress and the Administration, not the judiciary.  They're turning their opinions in to law, and that just can't go on.  

1. Federal Judge Weighs Forcing USDA to Pay SNAP Benefits Despite Shutdown
2. Judge orders involuntary work without pay
3. Judges Order Trump Admin to Fund SNAP — There's Just One Problem

In another case a judge has decided Trump can’t require proof of citizenship for voters, in effect this ruling  favors Democrats and their history of voter fraud, on a massive scale.  The judge ruled:

 

Trump cannot unilaterally change federal election procedures. “Because our Constitution assigns responsibility for election regulation to the States and to Congress, this Court holds that the President lacks the authority to direct such changes.....
 

And while the Constitution doesn't directly give the President the authority to make such changes, yet federal law prevents foreigners from voting in federal elections. Who's supposed to enforce that law?  Only the Executive branch has the power of enforcement, and the courts have no authority to prevent that.   Also, in spite of the claim Trump would be "disenfranchising Americans, and especially women and service members,” that's more twisted leftist logic since if they're not citizens, they're not Americans.    

 

Again we find another Judge who has disqualified a US Attorney based on federal law that says if a "permanent U.S. attorney is not nominated by the president and confirmed by the Senate within 120 days, federal district court judges can appoint their own interim judges until the vacancy is filled."  Where does it say that in the Constitution?  Nowhere.   What the Constitution says is only the President of the United states can appoint officials, not the judiciary.

 

Then we have Arctic Frost: the FBI’s MAGA dragnet to destroy Trump, which was an illegal conspiracy involving former illegal special prosecutor, Jack Smith and the Democrats.  But it gets worse. 

 

“The Biden Justice Department signed off on issuing subpoenas for the phone records of at least nine U.S. senators. Twenty percent of the Republicans in the United States Senate were the target of this fishing expedition. They did so in complete contravention of the Constitution—of separation of powers, of the Speech and Debate Clause, of free speech, of basic rights of privacy."

 It turns out it was that rogue activist, Judge Boasberg, who authorized that, and Ted Cruz is demanding his impeachment.  As Daniel Greenfield notes this judge authorized secretly bugging Ted Cruz to stop him from ‘destroying evidence’, and authorized access to his private phone records and forbidding ATT from alerting he and the rest.  Evidence?  What crimes was he supposed to be involved in?  Apparently none, it was an illegal fishing expedition, and as Greenfield notes: "A million times worse than Watergate."

• Blackburn: Arctic Frost Spying ‘a Violation’ of 1st, 4th Amendments, Separation of Powers

Which brings me to my point.  There's a pattern here.  Why are all these judges making rulings that are sure to be overturned? All these rulings eats up time.  Time federal prosecutors need to follow up on the actual criminal activities of the Obama/Biden administration personnel, Democrat politicians, and those funding the violence breaking out against law enforcement.  These kind of investigations are RICO investigations, and they're time consuming, and it takes time to replace the purged the corrupt DOJ and the FBI deep staters, and there's more that need purged.  

I have five old commentaries in this edition.  Someone has been going back years and hitting some of my old articles, and it appears they're passing them along, and as I went back to read them I thought.... they're pretty good, and prescient, so I republished them.   There are eleven by other authors including one by Jack Cashill which he graciously allowed by to publish.  I highly recommend subscribing to his substack site. 

P&D is coming to a close this year, in the meanwhile, enjoy.

Best wishes,

Rich  

My Commentaries 

1. Nothing Is Ever As It Appears In China: Military Intimidation
2. Why Doesn't The Precautionary Principle Apply Here?
3. The Left Hijacks Language to Promote the Unspeakable
4. Carthage Must Be Destroyed!
5. George Stephanopoulos is a Left Wing Operative and Not a Real Journalist: I'm Shocked, Shocked I Tell You! 

Commentaries 

1. The October I Owned the October Surprise By Jack Cashill
2. Chelsea Clinton Should Have Stayed Out Of It By Susan Daniels
3. What Happened to Climate Change, the "Existential Threat" of our Time? By John Droz
4. Media Balance Newsletter for October 27, 2025
5. ‘Palestinian’ Statehood is America’s Longest Nation Building Project Daniel Greenfield
6. Dem Officials are Incentivizing Anti-ICE Violence
7. Soros, Funders of Domestic Terrorism, Form 'Coalition' Against Fed Investigations
8. Defund Mamdani By Robin Itzler
9. Magical Thinking Is Why Socialists Get Everything Wrong By Francis Menton.
10. The New York Times And The Approaching New York Mayoral Election
11. Part V: Yes, Taxes Change Behavior By Dan Mitchell

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