Democrat Rolls Out Trump Impeachment – And It Did Not Go Well

The wrong person at the wrong time, and party leaders are cringing.

By Graham J Noble Apr 30, 2025 @ Liberty Nation News, Tags: Articles, Opinion, Politics

 

From the moment the 2024 presidential election was called for Donald Trump, it was only a matter of time, once he took office, until Democrats again started talking about impeachment. On April 28, Rep. Shri Thanedar (D-MI) revealed he had filed no less than seven articles of impeachment against the president. The roll-out did not go well, and, indeed, another impeachment seems like pure desperation for a flailing, directionless, and effectively leaderless party.

To be clear, this writer does not think it is tasteful to ridicule others for their appearance or accent. Nevertheless, it is hard to fathom why House Democrats allowed Thanedar to move ahead with this course of action and especially to post a video to X announcing his articles of impeachment.

According to his congressional web pages, Thanedar was born into poverty in southern India. He gained undergraduate and master’s degrees in chemistry, later emigrating to the United States, where he completed his PhD. He ran successful pharmaceutical businesses before getting into politics. Today, Thanedar represents Michigan’s 13th Congressional District.

A rags-to-riches story, then. An American dream narrative. One cannot help but admire the congressman for that.

Impeachment or Improv?

But optics are everything in politics – perhaps now more than ever in today’s bitterly partisan America. Thanedar has an almost unfeasibly thick mop of hair and an accent so thick that, if one only heard his voice without knowing his ethnicity, one could be forgiven for thinking he was parodying the denizens of his homeland. Surely even the most hardcore progressives who would love to see Trump impeached yet again would have been biting their tongues.

Thanedar’s video had some X users wondering if this was a Saturday Night Live skit. This may seem inappropriate to some, perhaps, but the honorable gentleman from Michigan was just not the one to make this grave announcement.

By vowing to impeach Trump even before he took office in 2017 and then staging two theatrical efforts during Trump’s first term, House Democrats had already rendered impeachment hollow and gratuitous. Thanedar did not add any much-needed gravitas with his delivery, which reminded one of a Daily Show comedian.

It did not help matters that the congressman did nothing but reel off just about every anti-Trump soundbite used repeatedly by many Democrats and others on the left for the past eight years.

The seven articles of impeachment – that are going nowhere unless and until Democrats take control of the House of Representatives in 2027 – are as follows:

1. Obstruction of Justice and Abuse of Executive Power
2. Usurpation of Appropriations Power
3. Abuse of Trade Powers and International Aggression
4. Violation of First Amendment Rights
5. Creation of an Unlawful Office
6. Bribery and Corruption
7. Tyrannical Overreach

Democrats Ponder the Pitfalls

Rep. Peter Aguilar (D-CA), who chairs the House Democratic Caucus, brushed aside the idea. After observing that impeachment “is, at times, a tool that can be used,” Aguilar, not in so many words, acknowledged the futility of using it unless Democrats could be sure of a conviction in the Senate. He told reporters on Capitol Hill, “[W]e don’t have any confidence that House and Senate Republicans would do their jobs. And so this is not an exercise that we’re willing to undertake.”

Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) was less obtuse. “We’re going to win elections,” he told the Washington Examiner. “We’re not playing those stupid politics. Next question.”

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DC’s most well-known left-leaning paper reports that top Democrats inside the Beltway are unwilling to discuss impeachment. That may be because they realize that even if they win the House in next year’s midterms, they are unlikely to win the Senate – much less have the votes they would need to remove President Trump.

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There could be another reason. Democrats are already feeling the weight of historically low approval ratings. That may well be tied to the fact that, since January, they have made it abundantly clear to the American people that the party is focused entirely on stopping the Trump agenda – the very thing he was elected to pursue – and not at all on doing anything constructive for American citizens.

For Democratic lawmakers, there is also the danger that if they push articles of impeachment now, they will be signaling to voters that impeachment proceedings are a certainty – should they win a House majority in 2026. Despite a recent slew of polls that, at first glance, suggest America has abandoned Trump, his policies, notwithstanding the jitters over tariffs, are still popular. In that light, how many voters are going to pull the lever for Democrats? Perhaps only those who have less interest in progress than in seeing the president punished for doing the things he was elected to do.

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The Worldwide Threat of the CCP: Part I

By Rich Kozlovich, Tags: My China Commentaries

 

The Trouble With Tribbles, for Star Trek fans the title is familiar and so is the story.  For those not familiar with the story it was an episode where, tribbles, a small, furry, gentle, cute, cooing, lovable species slow-moving that eats.....a lot.....and reproduces... a lot.  In fact, they're born pregnant, which is kicked around a bit in later episodes, but when undeterred, the end result always ends in complete disaster for any world they infest.    

So, this piece is about immigration?  Actually, there could be a commentary using this as the foundation, but no, it's not about immigration, legal or illegal.  It's about China, one of the most disruptive and evil forces in the world, leaving devastation in it's wake.  China consumes and destroys, just like the tribbles, only China isn't warm and cuddly, it's a ravenous dragon that Trump intends to tame, since China isn't just an adversary, it's a threat to western civilization. Actually, China is a threat to civilized behavior, as I will be showing over the coming days.

China's constantly interfering in the affairs of everyone, but especially America, and the reason why is they want to rule the world.  Since Nixon and Kissinger opened China up to world trade  they've been actively moving in that direction, and America has been funding that effort, until now.   Now it ends.

They're not the economic giant everyone thinks they are.  They're national debt is huge, their real estate crisis has yet to be resolved as far as I can tell, their banking system is seriously flawed, their economic schemes are now based of Maoist thinking, their Belt and Road Initiative is failing because when the nations who signed on finally realize it's a debt trap to enforce their will on those nations, they walk away, so that's been an abject failure, and it seems likely there's no way China can collect of those debts. 

They use slave labor, they're stealing intellectual property, especially dealing with advanced technology, they're committing genocide, they attacking religions, they're intimidating their neighbors with military threats, their GDP is the equivalent to Iraq, Botswana, or even the Dominican Republic.  They have a serious demographic problem, and all this is having an accumulative impact, and that impact is hitting them right where it hurts with Trump's tariffs.  

Unlike China, who opening demands communists ignore international law in favor of China's demands, western civilization is capable of maintaining order in the midst of chaos based on the west's willingness to make rules and enforce them, at times reluctantly, and always with a lot of kicking and screaming, but that's the strength of western civilization, and that strength emanates from the power of American capitalism, and the fact America is the only force for freedom in the world.  As the Canada Free Press banner says:  "Because without America, there is no free world."  With all of America's many flaws there are a number of things this nation got right. 

1. Strong capital markets.  Which the left is trying to destroy with taxes and regulation.
   
2. Rule of law, which is now being tested by the actions of corrupt rogue judges and prosecutors.
3. Amazing technological advancements, which nations like China and Russia work diligently to steal with help from traitors in academia.
   
4. The ability to have a stable society even with the massively diverse ethnic groups in America, which is now also being tested and used by leftists to created disharmony and destroy America.
5. And the most important component of American culture is  that everyone "is endowed by their creator with unalienable rights, of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness".   That's the foundational historical and social paradigm of American culture and success, and the rest of the world just can't understand that, and the left is having a problem destroying that.  Americans just don't like being told what to do.

For a nation to be stable it needs to be able to do six things.  

1. It must be able to feed itself.
2. Fuel itself.
3. Arm itself.
4. Defend itself.
5. Create it's own internal market.
6. Pay off it's national debt.  

China can only to three of those things.  It has no internal market so strong it can sustain their spending, especially their military spending.  China has a lot of coal, but almost no oil. And it cannot pay off it's national debt. 

China needs to be confronted over they're infiltration of businesses, academia, they're spying, even setting up "secret police stations" to intimidate and threaten Chinese who've immigrated to America, many of whom are now American citizens.  They're funding propaganda against America, funding criminal organizations bringing in illegal drugs, they're funding terrorist movements, they're funding demonstrations against the administration, actually against anything that represents traditional values, and they're being aided by a lot of American leftists.  We used to call that treason, and it needs to be called that again, and China whines Trump is bullying them.

This is the first in a series.  I've saved a ton of articles covering 33 Word pages, dealing with:

1. American Treason 
2. Asian Response
3. Belt and Road Initiatives
4. BRICS
5. Corruption
6. Demographics 
7. Economics
8. Europe
9. False Friendship 
10. Horrors of the CCP
11. International Investments
12. International Trouble Makers, Bullies, and Thieves. 
13. Latin and South America
14. Military 
15. Russia
16. Spying
17. Taiwan
18. Tariffs, Trade Wars, Rare Earth, and Consequences, and finally
19. Xi himself. 

This series will cover all that and more.

David Horowitz Taught Conservatives How to Fight

By Daniel Greenfield @ Sultan Knish Blog

 

In the weeks before David Horowitz’s passing, he wrote an article and finished another book. In and out of the hospital, he would call me on the phone to relay another idea for a series or another article about the Left. When we worked together on an article about the leftist fifth column, he was exhausted and I told him we could work on it next week. There would be time. He sighed skeptically, knowing perhaps what we only know now, but also with a note of relief.

I was wrong. He was right.

But of all my mistakes, it was the most understandable. David Horowitz first came down with cancer after 9/11. He wrote about that in ‘The End of Time’. He continued fighting cancer and writing about his experiences facing death in ‘A Point in Time: The Search for Redemption in This Life and the Next‘. He nearly died in 2015 and wrote about that in ‘You’re Going to Be Dead One Day: A Love Story’ and then collected all three together in ‘Mortality and Faith’ in 2019.

David Horowitz fought off cancer for almost a quarter of a century. Even when he went into a coma and the doctors expected him to pass right away, he held on for nearly a week.

The one thing that David would never do is give up.

His superhuman endurance was not physical, it was a matter of conviction. Long after his body had failed, he kept going, writing, thinking, arguing and above all else… fighting.

In his final op-ed, ‘The Biggest Lie of All’, published weeks before his death, David reproved Republicans for underestimating Democrats and the Left. That had been his overriding theme since joining and redefining the conservative movement. “Republicans,” he would tell me over and over again, “don’t understand how to fight.” But that’s no longer entirely true. And much of that is due to him. The passing of David Horowitz is an incalculable loss, but he lived long enough to see the movement he had helped recreate become an actual fighting force.

David Horowitz dismissed the Republican country club circuit for not understanding the enemy. Faced with a movement that seemed clueless about the scope of the Left, he became its ‘Alinsky’, helping spread awareness of ‘Rules for Radicals’ and laying out the tactics and principles for a conservative revolution. Horowitz was dismissive of the think-tanks, many of which later proved to be rotten with Never Trumpers. The Freedom Center, he would say, “is not a think-tank, it’s a battle tank.” David was a great thinker, but he was an even greater warrior.

Horowitz officially made his break when the Reagan Revolution came along because it was his first glimpse of a Republican Party that was willing to fight the Left. David Horowitz was ready for the fight, but too few Republicans were. David Horowitz didn’t just shock liberals when he left their movement, he shocked many Republicans with tactics that they thought were too harsh.

When David Horowitz took the war to college campuses not just with speeches, but by naming and shaming the radical professors and student activists, Republicans feared being accused of McCarthyism. Horowitz, a red-diaper baby, not only dismissed neurotic fears of being called names by leftists, he welcomed the confrontation and was eager to debate them anywhere.

While many Republicans pursued respectability politics and corporate sponsors, Horowitz built the Center for the Study of Popular Culture, and later the David Horowitz Freedom Center, into the epicenter of a new movement that would later evolve into MAGA. But David was MAGA before there was a MAGA and without the movement he helped build, it might never have come into being.

“Since its formation in 1988, the Freedom Center has helped cultivate a generation of political warriors seeking to upend the Washington establishment. These warriors include some of the most powerful and influential figures in the Trump administration,” the Washington Post wrote in 2017 and urged the IRS to investigate the Center. (The resulting investigation aimed at crippling the Center went on for six years. It only finally concluded shortly before David’s death.)

President Trump’s 2024 victory robbed the Freedom Center’s 2024 Restoration Weekend of some key guests, including Vice President J.D. Vance and the attorney general nominee (Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth however drove four hours to be there.) What made the Weekends so special was that they brought together a rising conservative movement. Not the establishment movement, but a movement as revolutionary and pugnacious as Horowitz.

The Post’s accusation that David Horowitz was the secret mastermind behind the Trump administration was wrong. Horowitz was no mastermind, he was a visionary. He didn’t tell politicians what to do, he taught them how to fight. And he told them not to be ashamed of fighting and broke the moral blackmail and suicidal empathy burned into them by the Left.

Before the Republican Party was ready for Trump, David Horowitz had to teach them how to call the Left by its right names. Traitors. Insurrectionists. The Enemy Within. And he taught them to hit as hard as possible. Leftist institutions didn’t need to be debated, but destroyed. This was not an argument to be settled on a CNN panel, but a war that would end in survival or destruction.

The tragedy is not just that he’s gone, but that he’s missing out on seeing his vision come to life.

David Horowitz had called for defunding the universities. Now President Trump is defunding them. After over a generation of fighting the campus wars, David is not here to see federal law enforcement arresting the student activists who threw things at him and threatened his life. Leftists, he argued, were insurrectionists. Now the Trump administration is considering invoking the Insurrection Act. He had called for a working class minority populist conservative coalition.

Now it’s here.

“Why are Republicans so self-destructively polite? Why do they fail to see, or to identify their opponents as the criminals they are?” he demanded. Now the politeness is finally done with.

David Horowitz paved the way for this victory. He held on just long enough to see President Trump’s first 100 days in office. And as a family man frustrated at times by the gaps between the worldview of his children and his own, he lived long enough to see his son support Trump.

David passed away with the fruits of his lifelong work unfolding all around him. The David Horowitz Freedom Center is the battle tank that will carry it forward. His ideas, his fighting spirit and his determination to never give up lives on within us. Like him, we pull no punches, we tell hard truths and we take on the enemy within. David lived long enough to see America win a great victory over the forces that had brought it to the brink of destruction, but he would have been the first to tell us that the war isn’t over and that the real battle is about to begin.

Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine. Click here to subscribe to my articles. And click here to support my work with a donation.  Thank you for reading.

 

Trump Tariffs Are Crushing China

The stare-down between Trump and Xi Jinping is causing major damage to the Chinese economy.

By Tim Donner | May 1, 2025 @ Liberty Nation News, Tags: Articles, Opinion, Politics

When one country exports five times as many goods as its trading partner, it stands to reason that it will, at least theoretically, be hurt five times as much by a trade war. That is the logic behind President Donald Trump’s tariff regime, amounting to a full-court press on Chinese President Xi Jinping. And while Xi has done a tit-for-tat to date, escalating Chinese tariffs on the United States every time Trump has raised the ante, it may well be just a matter of time until Xi is forced to back down. Otherwise, he could face a recession or a depression in his increasingly rattled nation.

Trump and Xi’s Tit-for-Tat Tariffs

As Trump ratcheted up tariffs on China to a higher level than on any other nation, as much as 145%, Xi has responded with retaliatory levies of 125%. While American consumers will pay a price for this trade standoff in the short run through higher prices and supply shortages, the cost will be relatively moderate compared to the toll it will take on a Chinese economy that, unlike the United States, is heavily dependent on exports.

The Port of Los Angeles, which receives about 40% of imported goods from Asia, reports that such products are down 10% from the same time last year. And that percentage may well increase as the Trump-Xi stare-down continues. This could lead to thinning inventories on shelves for American consumers. But in China, where manufacturing is the key to its export economy, new export orders have fallen to the lowest level since 2022, when the country was still in the throes of the COVID-19 pandemic. Factory activity in China has dropped to its lowest level in two years – this in a country already suffering from a gross excess of empty property.

As The Wall Street Journal put it, “Trump’s eye-watering tariffs on Chinese imports are starting to squeeze the engine room of China’s economy.”

Many, if not most, knowledgeable observers believe that, while Trump is out to restructure tariffs and non-tariff trade barriers across the board, his real target all along has been China. Evidence of this is that Trump has given every other country that pledges to negotiate on tariffs a 90-day pause, but his levies on China remain in place. And it is likely that limiting trade with China will be a central demand in the Trump administration’s negotiations with America’s other trading partners.

Trump’s Long-Standing Mission

None of this should come as a surprise. Long before he became president, in fact for about four decades, Trump railed against the weakness of American leaders in dealing with the Chinese, saying they were ripping us off while Congress and presidents, out of fear or ineptitude, refused to take meaningful steps to level a wildly uneven playing field. As the leader of the Free World for a second time, he is now finally in a position to do something about it. He had already hit China with controversial tariffs in his first term, which worked to a greater degree than critics expected and were kept in place by Joe Biden.

How damaging have these tariffs been to the Xi regime? Gordon Chang, a longtime expert on China and a senior fellow with the Gatestone Institute, said on the Fox Business Channel Monday (April 28) that he believes something is “very, very wrong” in Beijing right now. More specifically, Chang detects what he calls Xi’s “end-of-regime” conduct:

“At a time when China needs friends because it’s not selling goods to the US, it is going out of its way to antagonize not just the Philippines, not just Taiwan, but also South Korea and Australia … this is end-of-regime conduct, because Xi Jinping, he can’t appear to be giving in to the US.”

Xi is well aware that, in the end, his country has considerably more at stake than the United States in the ongoing trade war. But it is also true that in a Communist state with one-party rule, he is far less beholden to his people than Trump is in our constitutional republic with its checks, balances, and biennial elections. While Trump appears intent on staying the course, predicting China will eventually “eat” the tariffs, various Chinese officials are calling the United States a “bully” and saying China “will never kneel down before Washington.” Indeed, this trade war is showing few signs of surrender on either side. But, on the matter of which man will blink first, it is safe to say that Xi Jinping has a lot more to lose than Donald Trump.

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P&D Geopolitics Edition, Russia, Ukraine, and Donald Trump, Part III

Today the KGB, in all it's manifestations over the last 100 years, has now outlived communism and Russia is no longer a state with a security service, instead the security service has a state. 

By Rich Kozlovich, Tags

In December a Russian general was assassinated, and six days ago another Russian general was assassinated, very near Moscow, and it's not being done by the Russians, not their style when dealing with internal conflicts.  That's why they have gulags and work camps.  These were vehicle detonations and most likely done remotely.  

This might be viewed a small thing in the overall picture, but I see this in a different light.  I think it's a very large small thing, and is a foundational insight into the Russian military, their internal security is deteriorating, and I've stated in the past it seems likely to me there's a Claus von Stauffenberg cabal in their military.  As I read this I wondered if this isn't a subtle evidence of that being so, as it seems this required inside information.   Just a thought... as I said... subtle evidence. 

There are two camps in the Russian hierarchy, the war mongers who insist on fighting until total victory is attained, because like all criminals, they just can give up on the con.  They insistent on clinging to the fallacious argument NATO and Europe, with support from America, are now, and have been on the verge of attacking Russia.  The ridiculous "depth of defense" argument that's been used to justify their unwarranted attack on Ukraine by Russia.  I'll tell you what, we'll come back to that.

Then there's the group who sees reality and recognizes they need peace as a matter of practicality.  This was has cost them hundreds of thousands of young men who will no longer be around to contribute to their population, which has a serious demographic problem.  Ten years ago it was estimated by 2040 ethnic Russians would be a minority in their own nation.  That drop in the Russian ethnic demographic has now been speeded up - a lot.   

Russia has seven defensive gaps they must defend, and ten years ago they only had enough manpower to fully man three of them.  Now their manpower level is so bad there are now mercenaries from 48 nations with boots on the ground including N. Korea and China, seriously exposing the Russian military isn't a bear.   They're so desperate they've duped poor young Indian nationals desperate for foreign employment into fighting in Ukraine. In fact this war has turned into a meat grinder. A riot broke out over this in Krasnodar and their desertion problem is real.

The economics of this war is killing them and they want a restoration of economic stability and a return of international investments, but they don't want to make any concession until they conquer more territory. 

According to Ekaterina Zolotova, an expert analyst for Geopolitical, that's a reflection of the Russian mentality overall.   The majority want peace, a minority wants war, but a huge majority of all Russians insist there should be no concessions or minimal concessions.  That's Putin's conundrum. 

The drop in the price of oil and U.S. sanctions has caused Putin serious budget issues.  Central Asian nations that were former USSR republics are now doing more business with China, who is even wanting to fund building a small nuke power plant in one of these nations, and that's a pattern that won't end when this war is over.  

China's cut a "comprehensive strategic partnership" deal with Azerbaijan involving travel, trade, science, energy and...get this... tourism.   But here's the kicker.  They're agreeing to affirm mutual support for sovereignty and territorial integrity.   How far will that range?  As for right now Azerbaijan agrees that Taiwan is part of China and China agrees to support Azerbaijan in their conflict with Nagoya-Karabakh.   Didn't even know there was such a thing did you, but this is a major small conflict on Russia's border that's been going on for years, and one that Russia can't resolve due to this Ukraine war.  Azerbaijan is on the west cost of the Caspian Sea, right in Russia's back yard, and China is stepping in where Russia has failed.   Russians can't even manufacture their military needs, so China does, and has been doing so for some time.

Even Pakistan is involving themselves in the Russian sphere of influence, and truth be told, Putin needs to worry far more about China than NATO or the U.S.

Back to the "Depth of Defense" big lie.  In February Putin predicted Trump was going to make Europe's leaders ‘Bend at His Feet’ saying:

“They just don’t like Trump. They forgot him actively, really interfered in political life, in the election process of the United States. And then they were confused when Trump suddenly won,” Putin said. “But I assure you, Trump with his character, persistence, he will restore order pretty quickly. And all of them, you’ll see, it will happen quickly, soon, all of them will stand at the master’s feet and gently wag their tails.”

Why is that important?  It's a tacit acknowledgement that Putin understood who and what these European NATO "leaders" were and had to know they had no plans, desires, or ability to attack Russia.  

There have been prominent writers who claim Putin doesn't bluff, I think that's a load of horsepucky.  I've paid a lot of attention to him over the years, and read a lot of Russian history, and he's still practicing what Russian communists have been practicing since they took over, it's called maskirovka, a masquerade.  

The Russians always bluff unless they have an overwhelming advantage where there's no need bluff in order to get their way, then they just use the hammer.  Just like when the USSR crushed the Hungarian Revolution in 1956, or the Czech revolt known as the Prague Spring in 1968, where nothing could have stopped Soviet troops from overwhelming those nations.   That's not the case now, and what advantage he had has dissipated massively, at many levels.

Russia was considered the number two military nation in the world, which has been fighting a war against the 22nd military nation in the world for three years, but he's not going to launch nuclear weapons against Ukraine.  He can't take the risk of retaliation, and NATO is now aware of how dangerous Putin is, and is talking retaliation, which makes you wonder from where they're getting their natural gas now, and do they really want Warsaw or Berlin to become a nuclear waste land?  

But Putin really doesn't want Moscow to become one either, and I don't believe he will take that chance.  I also believe he's facing some internal political issues that scares him. Is there a Claus von Stauffenberg cabal within his military?  Absolutely!  Historically, being Caesar is the scariest most dangerous job in the world, or in this case Czar, without the religious trappings.  

There's always a Stauffenberg cabal, look at what happened to the American military establishment.  Would they take action if he attempted to use nukes?  I think so.  He's not the chess player we thought he was, but that's when he was dealing with nitwits like Obama, but I also don't think he's that stupid either. He's not really all that smart, he's just clever.  Even if there's no retaliation the international consequences will be massive.  He's already destroyed Ukraine far beyond his economic ability to rebuild it, and nukes would merely make it worse, so where's the victory? 

He's failed to defeat Ukraine in three years, and it's clear Russia's military, and especially it's military leadership are not all that after all.  Bad leadership, bad training, bad strategy, poor logistics, terrible planning, lousy intelligence, and stupid arrogant conclusions, all of which has been the problem with Russia for 125 years, going back to the the 1904 Russo/Japanese war, which Russia lost, and then WWI, which they lost.  They only defeated Germany in WWII because Germany was overstretched.... way over stretched....  and America provided much needed hardware, especially the Dodge truck.  

It's been said the Dodge truck saved the Soviet Union, as that allowed Stalin to quickly transport men and material around the country, which he was incapable of doing before that.  Horse cart supply lines don't cut it. If Germany had finished off England first, and hadn't declared war on America, Russia would have lost, badly, even with the 30 divisions he had stashed in Eastern Russia to repel a feared Japanese invasion.

This war has exposed just how fragile Russia is economically, industrially, and domestically.  As a result,  Putin's international credibly is in the toilet, and he needs for this war to go away.  He also needs to come out looking good, or at least not as the loser, since in Russia failed leaders aren't well tolerated, and I've no doubt, given the murderous thug he's been, he legitimately fears for his continued existence.  

He also knows France and others are talking about putting boots on the ground, and Trump didn't want to keep funding Ukraine any longer.  He clearly needs Trump to work some diplomatic magic as he did with the Abrahamic Accords, and that will have to be a multinational agreement that binds Russia to Ukrainian protection, which will require an entire restructuring of Ukraine's government.  Good luck with that, as each time they seem to reach an agreement one or both parties reneges, and Trump made it clear he's had it and is more than willing to walk away. 

But now Trump has allegedly cut a deal with Zalenskyy over mining in Ukraine, as a result, a fund would be created out of that to rebuild Ukraine and Trump is partially ending his ban on military hardware.  A lot of military hardware.   Fifty billion dollars worth of military hardware, so we'll see what happens, but make no mistake about this.  There are no good guys in this war, only one worse guy, and that's Putin.

Let's Talk About Hannah Dugan, and a Judiciary That's Out of Control

By Rich Kozlovich

 

There's been a big uproar over Wisconsin state judge Hannah Dugan over her being arrested by the federal government for her complicity in aiding and abetting the escape or an illegal alien, one with a criminal record.  

First, unlike some claims ICE didn't' barge into her courtroom.  They waited in the hall for the case before Dugan and this criminal to be over before arresting him.  When she found out she huffed and puffed he way out into the hall and chastising them demanding what right they had to arrest this man without an arrest warrant, and to gain time to aid his escape:

......she instructed the agents to obtain a judicial warrant for Ruiz's arrest, which bought time, ultimately leading to the great escape. Federal agents later caught Ruiz, and Judge Dugan was arrested later.

An administrative warrant isn't the same as an arrest warrant.  But, when observing someone committing a crime the police are arresting people daily without a warrant, and if someone is here illegally, by their very presence they're committing a crime, in point of fact, a felony, and since she helped him to escape, that's a crime, and it's punishable by law:

Per 8 U.S.C. § 1324:........(1)(A) Any person who—.........(iii) knowing or in reckless disregard of the fact that an alien has come to, entered, or remains in the United States in violation of law, conceals, harbors, or shields from detection, or attempts to conceal, harbor, or shield from detection, such alien in any place, including any building or any means of transportation;.........shall be punished as provided in subparagraph (B).

According to subparagraph (B), the consequences are steep: Since Dugan presumably acted not for financial gain, which could mean up to 10 years in prison, but for other reasons (e.g., fighting imaginary “Nazis”), she faces fines or up to five years in prison, or both.

April 28, 2025 by Silvio Canto, Jr. writes instead of enforcing the nation's laws judges are acting like immigration activists.  Through their decisions and actions they are in effect writing de facto new immigration "laws".  Unwritten laws based on their personal morality.  Laws no legislature in the nation ever passed.  And in Wisconsin Hannah Dugan isn't an anomaly, she's part of a philosophical cabal, as another Milwaukee County judge joins rebellion.  After all, these laws were written by some old white guys in some dusty old document from the 18th century, and they're far more noble and far wiser being guided by a higher cause.  So, in the universal leftist mind set, that justifies viewing laws actually passed by Congress as meaningless, and can be ignored, and even usurped.   Isn't that a form of insurrection?  Just a thought.

 

Only the Trump administration disagrees.  AG Bondi intends to prosecute these judges who are in violation federal law in their attempt to obstruct the efforts of the Trump administration.  And she needs to look at the governors of these states also.

What's been the reaction from the left? While touting the phrase, “no one is above the law", which no Democrat really believes when it comes to .... well.... Democrats, and those criminals they wish to protect.  Dem Rep. Moore says a judge’s control is ‘bigger, and that “jurists ought to be able to have control of their courtroom, and localities should not be pressured into executing and assisting ICE, and I think that’s the bigger question.”   What a load of clabber, and when asked if Judge Dugan should be required to follow the law she evades answering with more clabber:

“Well, you know what, this is not fair to ask me that question, because she has not had her day in court yet to litigate and to defend herself vigorously, which I think she will do. What you’re asking me to do is…to sort of not go along with what I believe is — because I think that ICE ought to operate and they ought to do it clearly, outside of her — not outside her courtroom, but maybe on the street, where they arrested him on the street was the appropriate place. They should not even have been in the courthouse as far as I’m concerned. And so, to say that they can arrest you in the cafeteria of the hospital, but not in your hospital room, this is slicing and dicing it in such a way where the Justice Department is determined to intimidate the judiciary. And I think that we need to fight back.”

It's interesting, that's not the way they viewed the staged arrests by the FBI of Trump supporters in recent years with swat team early morning arrests of totally non-violent old men forcing a hand cuffed perp walk with the Pravda media there waiting to film it.    

 

Milwaukee’s mayor, Cavalier Johnson, says it's just wrong for Trump to enforce the law and to  scare innocent illegal aliens, implying what Dugan did was the right thing to do.   Did he actually say "innocent illegal aliens"?  If they're here illegally, they're not innocent, they're criminals.  

It appears the entire body of government in Wisconsin is infected with this insanity, as Wisconsin Rep.: Dugan says, what Hannah Dugan did is "what all of us will be called to do in the days and weeks and months to come, and it’s standing up for people in our community that are being targeted by the Trump regime”, and Wisconsin's lawless governor issues guidelines to shield illegal aliens from ICE agents. 

Democrats chose a hill to die on—they will defend the last violent, human-trafficking Central American gangbanger escape from ICE no matter what the cost. According to documents leaked by conservative radio host Dan O'Donnell, a Department of Administration (DOA) memo dated April 18 lays out explicit steps for Wisconsin state workers to follow when ICE agents arrive at government buildings. Instead of cooperating with federal immigration enforcement, employees are being told to stonewall — refuse to answer questions, deny access to files, and even demand agents leave if no attorney is available.

What about Democrat governors around the nation?  Arizona Gov. Hobbs has vetoed a  bill that requires the police to cooperate with ICE, which matters little because there's federal law that requires state law enforcement to cooperate, and at some point I'm convinced the Trump administration will start invoking and enforcing that law, which means legislators, governors, and law enforcement people might be arrested.   Governors like Illinois Governor JB Pritzker who declares “The State of Illinois will Stand Up for the Rule of Law”.

Then we have that giant intellect, Chris Christie, who says while Judge Dugan over stepped her bounds, but she shouldn't be put in jail.  Over stepped her bounds? So that's what it's called with someone helps criminals to escape law enforcement?  Remarkable!

 

Then there's Judge Andrew Napolitano, who went over to the dark side years ago, says Trump overreached with this arrest, calling it a, ‘Jihad Against Judges’, decrying administrative warrants, and saying he thinks this judge has immunity.  Well, that's not a universal view, and apparently she also thinks she's not immune since Dugan has added a former Bush solicitor general to her high priced defense team.  Who's funding that?

Jonathan Turley seems to think it's "out-of-control judges, not FBI, appear to have crossed 'red line', and a black robe doesn't make one immune from the rule of law".   A Yale law professor thinks the arrest is legitimate.  The Wisconsin state Supreme Court, a very liberal court, has temporarily pulled this judge from the bench, with former Governor Scott Walker saying:  "It is time for the members of the Wisconsin State Legislature to vote to remove her from office."

The complaint is the Trump administration is doing this to send a message.  Good, and in point of fact, Congress Should Expand Scope of Expedited Removals to Include Mass Deportation.

As for calling this arrest a "jihad against the judiciary", here's who threw down the gauntlet.  

1. 220 lawsuits in 100 Days: Trump Administration Faces Unprecedented Legal Blitz
2. Biden-Appointed Judge Blocks Border Patrol from Arresting Suspected Illegal Aliens Without Warrants    
3. Exclusive—Reps. Jim Jordan & Brian Mast: Rogue Judges Are Out to Stop Trump’s America First Agenda 
4. Another Stops Trump from Ending Taxpayer-Funded Lawyers for Migrants

This is a battle that's been long overdue, and now that gauntlet has been picked up by an administration willing to do battle.  

One more thing.  It's long past time former Biden and Obama administration officials faced the consequences for the crimes they committed while in office, including Mayorkas! For murder.

 

Time, History, Truth, and Pope Francis

By Rich Kozlovich

Since Pope Francis died there's been a lot of accolades, and a lot of condemnations.  The conventional wisdom is to not speak ill of the dead, and I get that. But time, history, and truth are on the same side, and history will not be kind to this Pope. Speaking truth about the dead isn’t speaking ill. It’s just the truth. 

One thing we absolutely know, wherever he got his views, the Pope didn't get many of his ideas from reading the Bible, or from traditional Catholic teachings and doctrine, instead he promoted "evolving" doctrine. How can there ever be a "true" doctrine if it's constantly evolving? 

We know he was on board with Marxists, the Chinese communists, Muslims, global warmists, open immigrationists, and he hated capitalism and America.  Under his tutelage church leaders have even openly flirted with homosexuality, and abortion, which official church teaching absolutely condemns.  

Judging his final dispensation is way above my pay grade, nor is it my job, or anyone else's for that matter.  My job is gathering and dispensing information based on history, facts, and logic, and putting together in some logical, coherent, and rational order, and, I think I do that well.  So, I'm not going to editorialize beyond this as I think the links below tell the history of Pope Francis clearly and succinctly.  Then you can decide what you will.

Abortion

1. Vatican Chief Praises Italy’s Law Legalizing Abortion as a ‘Pillar of Society’
2. Mother Earth - Pregnant Mothers
3. Vatican think-tank becomes hotbed for pro-abortionists
4. U.S. Bishops: Abortion Is a Horrible Evil, But Not Unforgivable
5. Pope Francis Slams ‘Very Strong Reactionary Attitude’ Among U.S. Catholics
6. Sacred Heart University Set to Host Pro-Abortion Nun as Commencement Speaker
7. Pelosi, the Pope, and Pachamam
8. Nancy Pelosi Receives Holy Communion at Papal Mass in Vatican
9. Woke Pope Welcomes Pelosi to the Vatican – Just 2 Weeks After She Passed Most Radical Pro-Abortion Bill in History
10.  Are They Catholics, or Are They Heretics?

America, Capitalism, and World Economics

1. Pope Francis effectively admits it: He really, really hates Americans
2. More Economic Illiteracy from Pope Francis
3. Pope Francis Appoints Archbishop Who Urged Resistance to Trump  
4. Trump-Bashing Pope Francis Refuses to Bash Putin for Ukraine War
5. Correcting Pope Francis…Again 
6. Pope Francis Rejects Prosperity for Developing Nations

Accusations of Apostasy/Heresy

1. Archbishop Vigano: Is a Schism on the Horizon?
2. Pope Benedict who it's claimed he's "bitterly disappointed" by Francis
3. Biden, Barron and Bergoglio: Rockin’ the Post-Catholic World
4. The Next Pope Should at Least be Catholic
5. Francis: The Apostate Pope 
6. Pope Francis Names First Woman to Head Major Vatican Office 
7. SSPX Supports Vatican Charge that Archbishop Viganò is “Schismatic”
8. Vatican excommunicates Viganò, but where's the housecleaning on the left?
9. Pope Francis and the Left’s March to the Papacy
10. Pope apologizes for 'evil committed by so many Christians'
11. Pope Francis Begs Forgiveness for ‘Evil’ Committed Against Indigenous Canadians  
12. The Great Impasse
13. Globalist Pope Francis: Suppressing the Heritage of the Catholic Church
14. Behold The Vatican’s New Messiah And All Bow Down At His Clay Feet
15.  Arbp. Vigano: Pope Francis is Teaching 'Blatant Heresy ... a Terrible Blasphemy'
16.  Archbishop Jan Lenga: Pope Francis is 'Usurper and Heretic,' 'Leading the World Astray'
17.  The Swamp Reaches the Vatican – Even the Pope is a Marxist 
18. U.S. Priest to Pope: 'I am Wearied From Being Scorned and Demonized by You'
19.  U.S. Cardinal: Document for Upcoming Vatican Synod 'Is an Apostasy'

China/Marxism

1. Chinese Communists Install New Bishop of Shanghai Without Vatican Approval
2.  Hong Kong Court Convicts Cardinal Zen for Pro-Democracy Support 
3.  Pope Francis and the Left’s March to the Papacy
4.  Marxist Pope Francis Abandons Freedom Activist Cardinal Joseph Zen, for His Red Chinese Allies
5. Vatican-Beijing Accord on Chinese Catholics Extended: ‘Mistake’ to Compromise Faith for Communists, Pompeo Says
6. Pope Francis: Not Fair to Call China ‘Undemocratic’
7.  Vatican Apologizes for Catholic Missionaries in China, Calls on Communist “Bishops” to Rule the Chinese Church
8. Pope Francis' Deal With Communist China Did Not Work  
9. Vatican Whistleblower Archbishop Viganò Tells Bannon Why Trump’s Leadership Key to Defeated Deep State, Deep Church & Pope Francis’ Alliance with Red China 
10.  Cardinal Zen: 'Rome No Longer Dares to Criticize the Chinese Government'
11.  Why is the Vatican standing up for the Venezuelan dictatorship?
12.  Vatican (Briefly) Commemorates Cuba's Stalinist Revolution

Environmentalism, Global Warming

1. Pope Sings the Praises of Obama’s Global Warming Agenda
2. How a controversial letter from Pope Francis shaped climate politics and the Biden 2020 campaign
   
3. His Holiness Pope Francis is Misleading People on Climate Change
4. Global Warming? The Pope is Wrong 
5. The Climate Skeptic’s Guide To Pope Francis’ U.S. Visit: Talking Points About The Pope and Global Warming
6.  Global Warming Hoax: Now We Know And They Can’t Stop Us From Knowing
7.  Pope Francis Decries ‘Environmental Decay’ in Peace Message
8.  Pope Francis Laments ‘Mother Earth Violated and Devastated’.  
9. Pope Francis: 'In the Name of God, I Ask the Great Extractive Industries…to Stop Poisoning Food and People’
10. How a controversial letter from Pope Francis shaped climate politics and the Biden 2020 campaign.

Homosexuality

1. Pope Francis who made a gay rights advocate a Cardinal
2. Paths to God and Pope Francis
3. Jesuit Father James Martin: Church Would Be ‘Immeasurably Poorer’ Without Gay Priests
4. Vatican Reverses Ban on Blessing Gay Couples
5.  Seminaries Can Admit Gay Men, Vatican Says, if They're Celibate
6.  More than half of Jesuit Catholic universities promote 'Pride Month'
7.  Archdiocese of Chicago priest blesses same-sex couple, asks if they ‘recommit’ themselves ‘as holy spouses’
   
8. Jesuit University to Host Annual ‘Drag’ Show Friday
9. Pope Francis Names 3 Pro-Gay Prelates to Vatican Doctrinal Office

Open Immigration

1. Archbishop: Catholics Rebelling Against Church’s Pro-Migration Policies
2. On migrants, perhaps the pope can have a word with his Venezuelan pal Nicolas Maduro
3. D.C. Cardinal: Mass Deportation of Illegals ‘Incompatible with Catholic Doctrine’
4. Pope blames illegal migration to capitalist countries ... on capitalism

Islam

1. The Pope's Genocide Cowardice    
2. All Religions Are a Path to Reach God   
3. Vatican Papal Academy Sells Out the Virgin Mary for Muhammad
4.  Vatican: The Shadow Islamic State
5.  Robert Spencer: Pope Says God Wants Catholic/Muslim Fraternity

 

Trump Impeachment Syndrome

By Rich Kozlovich

Let's talk about Rep. Shri Thanedar, another Democrat who seemingly has gone over the sanity cliff suffering from the Trump Impeachment Syndrome, and mental condition predicated on Trump Derangement Syndrome.  Or does he have other motives behind his actions? 

Andrea Widburg, one of my favorite writers, published this article yesterday, The man behind the newest Articles of Impeachment against Trump, saying, "he’s a colorful character, and I don’t mean that in a good way."

Rep. Shri Thanedar is not alone in this mental disorder.  Georgia Sen. Jon Ossoff told a town hall crowd that Trump “has already exceeded any prior standard for impeachment” because of his meme coin contest, and Little Chuckie Schumer, who apparently thinks he's still the majority leader in the Senate is on board.  

 

Andrea goes on to list Thanedar's claims that justify impeaching Trump, and they're all nonsense, just as all the other impeachment scams the Democrats promoted.  

 

But the hits just keep right on coming.  

 

It appears he has some serious financial issues, potentially involving fraud.   Wow! A corrupt Democrat politician trying to hide his corruption by trying to destroy someone else. Imagine that. I keep seeing this pattern and wonder if it ever occurred to them if they’d just keep their mouths shut no one would have noticed? This failed pattern of thinking is ubiquitous among all on the left. All now thinkers.  All failures at long range thinking.  All embracing the con. 

• The New Dem Hero: Rep. Shri Thanedar Accused Animal Abuser

 If Joe Biden hadn’t become President would all of his crime family corruption come to light?    If Letitia James hadn't been such a disgrace as New York's Attorney General would her corruption have come to light?  Would Fani Willis have been exposed for her corruption?  And the pattern plays out over and over again.

Will the Pravda media take notice of all this?  Nah, they've ignored the financial dealings of the Clinton clan for decades, but crossed every "t" and dotted every "i" involving anything Trump was involved with.  If a legitimate investigation was held I'm guessing..... just guessing mind you ......  the big difference would be Trump would be found innocent and the Clinton's would be in jail.

Andrea quoted Saul Alinsky saying: 

in his Rules for Radicals, warned that “A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.” Democrats would do well to heed that advice when it comes to Donald Trump. Having unsuccessfully tried twice to impeach him, they’re still invested in impeachment.

What this may really be all about a "political move and more of a fundraising stunt and a way to deflect attention from possibly problematic financial moves", and he's potentially facing a serious challenge in his district in the next election, which lends credibility to that thinking.    

Here's more about his shady character and actions, along with a host of other "ethnic" politicians who are trying to turn America into the countries they left. 

David Horowitz R.I.P.

We are very saddened to announce the passing of our Center’s founder – a giant in the conservative liberty movement for over 40 years.

April 30, 2025 by Frontpage Editors @ Front Page Magazine

Editor's Note:  I've not asked for nor have I received permission to publish this announcement, but I think it needs the broadest distribution possible.  If the Frontpage administration objects, I will delete it.   RK

On behalf of the David Horowitz Freedom Center, we are very saddened to announce the passing of the Center’s founder, David Horowitz. After a lengthy battle with cancer, David passed yesterday at the age of 86.

The Freedom Center’s founder and guiding force was a relentless conservative warrior who survived a previous brush with death (chronicled in his book Mortality and Faith), confrontations with the Black Panthers, campus radicals, government investigations, death threats, and hate campaigns, some led by his former friends and allies, without ever considering giving up or letting up. Nothing short of the end that comes for us all could silence his voice. He continued writing, working, and steering the Center to the very last; his final article, “The Biggest Lie of All,” appeared earlier this month.

Although he was a giant in the conservative liberty movement for over 40 years, David was raised a Marxist and was one of the leading intellectuals of the New Left movement at Berkeley in the 1960’s. But David, along with his writing partner and Freedom Center co-founder Peter Collier, eventually had a political epiphany and joined the side of freedom in the early 1980‘s. They committed the second half of their lives and work warning Americans of the dangers of the Progressives whose intellectual roots and totalitarian aims they understood better than many Leftists themselves.

David’s legacy is vast and the number of people that he inspired, mentored, and impacted is incalculable. That we live in a world today where there is a fighting chance of defeating the Leftist utopians who would enslave us is due in no small measure to the rare courage and unflagging passion that exemplified David’s work these past 40 years.

Over the years, David became something of a Saul Alinsky for the conservative movement, shaking a complacent Right out of its sleep and reinventing it as a war machine, laying out the strategies and principles for defeating the Left in too many bestselling books, articles, and pamphlets to count.

David’s message to the conservative movement was that it needed to abandon its habit of embracing noble failure and instead fight to win. Indeed, Donald Trump’s MAGA movement was shaped and guided by David and his disciples like Stephen Miller. And while his passing is an incalculable loss, David lived long enough to see his ideas and tactics become the heart and soul of a new movement to take back America.

David Horowitz, 1939-2025. Requiescat in pace.

First 100 Days of Trump Upends the Left

With little more to do than shout, sing, and swear, the left finds itself in disarray.

By Leesa K. Donner | Apr 29, 2025 @ Liberty Nation News, Tags: Articles, Opinion, Politics

Disrupter, firebrand, or provocateur – call him what you will – but in the first 100 days of his second and last term, President Donald Trump has shaken and stirred American progressives to their core. His commanding presence is not for the faint of heart, as he proceeds at breakneck speed to fulfill his campaign promises. Today (April 29), which marks the 100th day of his presidency, is cause for reflection. And unsurprisingly, satisfaction with his priorities, projects, and plans has fallen along party lines.

Tariffs, immigration, and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) headline the start of Trump’s second time around as commander-in-chief, and all three have caused hysteria on the left – and that’s not an exaggeration. Progressives have been reduced to firebombing Tesla dealerships, keying cars, assaulting Tesla owners, and more.

 

The reason for this appears to be the leadership of billionaire Elon Musk, who stands at the helm of DOGE. The fact that Musk was a former darling of the left seems to be lost on them, as is the reality that their actions signal what — that they support government waste, fraud, and abuse?

At this writing, the website DOGE.gov reports $160 billion in savings from a “Combination of asset sales, contract/lease cancellations and renegotiations, fraud and improper payment deletion, grant cancellations, interest savings, programmatic changes, regulatory savings, and workforce reductions.” According to DOGE calculations, the bottom line is a saving of almost a thousand dollars per taxpayer. That the left finds this reason to protest is unfathomable.

100 Days of Immigration Reform

The first few months of the Trump presidency have demonstrated – beyond any reasonable doubt – that the United States was never in need of additional immigration legislation to defend US borders, but rather a chief executive who had the courage to enforce the laws already on the books. Many Americans intuitively knew this, but somehow it got drowned out by all the Swamp noise. So how has the president performed thus far?

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Border Czar Tom Homan, not one to be trifled with, asserted yesterday, “Well, today as I’m standing here, we have the most secure border in the history of this nation and the numbers prove it.” 

Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters in the White House briefing room yesterday that illegal immigration has been down 95% in March of this year compared to 2024. She also reported that more than 85 miles of a new “border barrier” is now in various stages of construction, with “75 additional miles of temporary barriers across the southern border.” Both Homan and Leavitt maintain this massive reduction in crossings has severely limited fentanyl distribution in the United States, and deaths of women and children trying to make their way across the southern border have been almost entirely eliminated.

The progressive response to the crackdown on illegal immigration has been the rabid defense of one suspected MS-13 gang member who lived in Maryland. This sparked a coalition of Democratic lawmakers to travel to El Salvador seeking the release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Their chief aim was to return him to the United States. Yet another example of tone-deaf hysteria, considering roughly three-quarters of Americans support the removal of illegal gang members from US shores.

Tick-Tock, It’s Tariff Time

Perhaps the most controversial move in his first 100 days has been Trump’s ratcheting up US tariffs worldwide. It’s a policy in its early stages that needs time to play out. And this is what has many so jittery, especially on Wall Street. Still, the president is moving forward with renegotiating long-standing unfair trade deals one country at a time. Where this change in policy lands could be Trump’s most significant victory or his most agonizing defeat. However, it is a necessary move for the future of US economic stability and the one systemic economic problem that no other president has been able to rectify. The simple truth is that the United States is bathed in red ink, mired in an untenable situation that cannot last much longer.

The economy, immigration, and government spending make up the trifecta of Trump’s first 100 days in office. Changes are coming fast and furious, and the chaos of such large-scale shifts in US policy has reduced the left to ironic and, many maintain, laughable actions. The legacy media still stands athwart these presidential priorities, bashing them daily with front-page headlines and negative political analysis.

Remarkably, the president does not seem to care. He’s acting very much like a man on a mission who will not be diverted from what he believes is right for the United States and what he contends Americans voted for when they put him back into the Oval Office against all odds. But, above all, President Trump’s first 100 days have been a wild ride, and if the past is prologue, tough days lie ahead for the status quo and those who support it.

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