Trump May Cancel Habeas Corpus Over SCOTUS Injunction Cases

Will President Trump join Lincoln and Clinton in restricting court access?  

By Scott D. Cosenza, Esq. | May 11, 2025 @ Liberty Nation News, Tags: Articles, Law, Opinion, Politics

The Constitution gives the president the power to suspend a key protection afforded to those seized by the government. Stymied by multiple nationwide injunctions initiated by district court judges, President Trump may now institute that power on the eve of an oddball Supreme Court case set for argument on Thursday, May 15th. The administration has sort of given the High Court an ultimatum: rein in the lower courts, or habeas protections will go away.

Habeas corpus refers to the power of courts to demand that the executive produce a detainee or prisoner before the Court to challenge the deprivation of liberty. Thomas Jefferson wrote: “The Habeas corpus secures every man here, alien or citizen, against everything which is not law, whatever shape it may assume.” Absent this power, courts and petitioners would be toothless before the executive power to deprive anyone of their liberty, no matter the law or the Constitution. Yet, the Constitution itself says the president can suspend habeas – in certain circumstances:

“The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it.”

The current controversy concerns President Trump’s day-one executive order on birthright citizenship – denying US citizenship to those whose parents were in the country illegally when they were born. Three district court judges implemented nationwide bans on administration efforts to execute Trump’s order. At his latest cabinet meeting, a reporter asked him if he had “spoken to his team about ways to mitigate this.” Trump seemed to make a point of not using the words habeas corpus or discussing eliminating access to the right at the time. Instead, he said: “There is one way that has been used very successfully by three presidents – all highly respected – but we hope that we don’t have to go that route.”

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That coy discussion has gone by the wayside. White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller told a press gaggle Friday that suspending habeas corpus is “an option we’re actively looking at” and “a lot of it depends on whether the courts do the right thing or not.” Nationwide injunctions issued by district courts have become a problem at the forefront of the federal judiciary since Trump’s first term. They were exceedingly rare before 2016. According to a study published in the Harvard Law Review, however, over 50% of all such injunctions issued since 1963 have been against the Trump administration. The president asked the Supreme Court for an emergency review of three injunctions, and it said yes. His petition reads:

“The government comes to this Court with a ‘modest’ request: while the parties litigate weighty merits questions, the Court should ‘restrict the scope’ of multiple preliminary injunctions that ‘purpor[t] to cover every person in the country,’ limiting those injunctions to parties actually within the courts’ power.”

The Supreme Court will hear consolidated arguments in Trump v. Casa, Trump v. Washington, and Trump v. New Jersey at 10 a.m. on Thursday, May 15th. They have allotted one hour for the arguments, thusly – 30 minutes for Solicitor General D. John Sauer, arguing for the Trump administration, and 15 minutes each for N.J. Attorney General Jeremy M. Feigenbaum and Kelsi B. Corkran, both arguing to keep the injunctions in place. All three advocates served as Supreme Court clerks. Sauer for Justice Antonin Scalia, Feigenbaum for Justice Elena Kagan, and Ms. Corkran, the Supreme Court Director at a Georgetown law institute, clerked for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

A decision is expected by July.

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Observations From the Back Row

By Rich Kozlovich

Where did federal district judges get the idea they were in charge of the nation's immigration polices?  First of all, illegal aliens are all ..... all.... criminals because entering the nation illegally is a felony, so deportation should be an automatic.  The only due process they merit is to determine if they're here legally or not.  If not, that ends due process and goes right to deportation.   Federal courts are even demanding illegal aliens who are known members of criminal gangs with have a history of serious crimes be returned to the United States. 

Americans are now second class citizens in their own country in favor of illegal migrants costing taxpayers billions.  In fact, we're now seeing judges and governors openly breaking the law protecting them and attempting to prevent deporting them.  

• Clinton Judge Halts Deportation of Suspected Tren de Aragua Gang Members Under Alien Enemies Act, Orders Them Released
• Another Milwaukee County Judge Joins Rebellion, Floats “New Courthouse Policies” in Response to Radical Judge Vowing to Shield Illegals from ICE Agents
• Lock Him Up:  Lawless Wisconsin Governor Issues Guidelines to State Employees to Shield Illegal Aliens from ICE Agents
• Gov. Tony Evers Helps Illegal Aliens to Avoid Ice
• Illinois Governor JB Pritzker Announces Punitive Actions Against El Salvador in Defense of Deported MS-13 Illegal Alien – “The State of Illinois will Stand Up for the Rule of Law”

This is all part and parcel of Joe Biden's scheme to assure unending control of America by the Democrat party.  He allowed hundreds of thousands to swarm over the border and then shipped them inland as quickly as possible never to be seen again, with a due process scheme that would take ten years.  In the meanwhile they're having children.  Then the left claims since they now have children who are America citizens they can't be deported.  Wrong, they can be deported, and taking their children with them isn't like Nazis sending children to the gas chambers.  

• Update: 5:40 PM: 'Unsecured a border ON PURPOSE': Watch Tom Homan erupt on Biden's national treachery - "Joe Biden was the first president in the history of this nation who came into office and unsecured a border on purpose"...........
  

This wasn't an original idea by Joe Biden, if he ever had one, and it's now clear he had no idea what was going on in his administration.  It turns out there were three auto-pens in the White House, and the far left staff controlled all three.   This has been in the works for decades.  It's the Cloward-Piven scheme to destroy the nation by creating a massive welfare state then over loading and collapsing the system in order to create a crisis so grave it would justify overturning the Constitution and imposing a tyrannical system of socialism on America.   These illegal alien schemes are the perfect fit to that corrupt treasonous scheme.

The Canada Free Press asked why Trump is the focus in their election instead of the Liberal party’s scandalous mismanagement?  The author points out "Canadians have long hated any Republican in power, having been conditioned to do so by a longstanding Marxist media", with writer after writer pointing out leftists are ruining Canada.  Well, apparently Canadians like being ruined because within three hours of the polls closing they called the election for the leftists who are there now, globalist tyrants all.   All of whom want to pick a fight with Trump.  Good luck with that Canada. 

And we want to make Canada America’s fifty-first state why?  They refuse to control their borders, crime is rampant, everything costs more there, their health care system is a mess, rights as we know them do not exist in Canada and their citizens are abused by their government, free speech is punished, Canada is not a free nation.  Not to mention the fact there would end up being so many more leftists in the Congress conservatives would never gain control again.  Canadians are not Americans and it's fairly clear their frozen country is a banana republic. 

Finally, these globalists who go into apoplectic hysteria over people flying from one destination to another claiming the world will burn up into a cinder if that's not stopped, are all flying to Davos, in private jets, for the meeting of the World Economic Forum, to which USAID gave $68 million dollars.

Bernie Sanders, a long time advocate of climate change tyranny, along with AOC, traveled all around the nation.... in a private jet..... to express their outrage at the rich.  And she wants to be President of the United States.  A young energetic bartender who, like Bernie Sanders, wants to be one of the rich she hates.  Imagine that!

 

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Judiciary Supremacy is a Myth

By Rich Kozlovich, Tags: There's No Such Thing as a Government Shutdown

 

Judicial activist's are at war with the Constitution's separation of powers, and it's time to bring this to an end.  Finally after all this insanity by rogue judges, Trump has told them to shove it.  We'll come back to that.

Federal judges have claimed that the White House can’t mange the bureaucracy, can't offer buyouts to federal employees, can’t fire political appointees from the previous administrations, can’t pause funding, can’t cut funds to government programs, can’t change formulas allocating government grants and also can’t remove transgender ideology from government websites or the military installed by its predecessors, and cannot under any circumstances end the vast corruption that defines the Administrative State.  

The only court the Constitution creates is the Supreme Court, the rest are all creations of Congress, and they can get rid of those if they choose.  When you read about how this came about it almost seems like it was an after thought to most of them. Clearly lacking insight and vision.

As a result the other huge mistake the Founder made was not defining the duties, responsibilities, and boundaries for the Supreme Court, and then by giving them lifetime appointments that allowed them to determine what they were, and if there were any on their own. I doubt most of the Founders ever dreamed it would all get so big, and so fast.

If you notice no one in the Trump administration seems to be panicking. No hysterics and emotionally ineffective hyperventilating, so, I’m of the opinion Trump and Co. knew this was going to happen, perhaps hoping it would happen, setting the judiciary up for a Constitutional confrontation. The federal judiciary has been a loose cannon since the 1803 Marbury v. Madison ruling,  and now it’s almost completely out of control, and to the point the general public is seeing them for who and what they are, and the public doesn’t like it, many fearing the courts threaten the existence of the Republic.

The Constitution says the Congress determines the jurisdiction of the federal judiciary, not the judiciary

This is the opportunity to push Congress to exercise their Constitutional authority to start restricting the federal judiciary’s activist judges, and more importantly pass a Constitutional Amendment that does two things. Ends lifetime appointments, and do what the founders failed to do…. define the role of the judiciary, and with consequences for failing to stay within the boundaries of those definitions.   And any Constitutional Amendment that fixes this should include a provision that all federal judges must be natural born citizens.

As I stated, the only court the Constitution creates is the Supreme Court, and when you read about how this came about it almost seems like it was an after thought to most of them. Clearly lacking insight and vision.

The idea behind lifetime appointments was to ensure their independence and not be impacted by politics.  That has been an abject failure almost from the beginning, and in the last 100 years it’s been a dismal failure, one that’s been tolerated by the Congress.

The courts gave themselves that power, not the Constitution. The Constitution says it’s the Congress that determines their jurisdiction, and the failure of the Congress to stop so much of what has gone on doesn’t make the federal judiciary’s actions successful, or right, it merely shows how gutless Congress is.

When the founders put this in the Constitution those who opposed it warned the very things we’re seeing right now was going to happen, and they were right, as people will always be people, and people need boundaries to hold them in check.

• I recommend reading Mark Levin’s book, Men in Black: How the Supreme Court Is Destroying America

 The federal judiciary after the Supreme Courts Marbury v. Madison decision in 1803 has morphed into an almost entirely political institution that just occasionally rules harmoniously with the Constitution.  

The federal judiciary is filled with political hacks, and if you ever watched some of the judiciary hearings for those who are nominated, especially when Senator John Kennedy is questioning them, you can easily conclude most of them are not the brightest pebbles in the brook, and they're dishonest.  

There's a nautical phrase, "may you have follows seas", which means may the waves move in the same direction as the ship, and I'm of the opinion that's what will be happening in the federal judiciary.  Not for all, because some are blatantly corrupt and incompetent ideologues, and we can't replace them without their consent.  That needs to be changed.

Everyone on the left is relying on the courts to ignore the Constitution to stop Trump’s “restoration to normality”, and this is the hill conservatives need to die on by challenging the myth of judicial supremacy, and better yet....again pass a Constitutional Amendment to fix the founder’s greatest Constitutional error; lifetime appointments for the federal judiciary. 

The Constitution says the supreme commander of America's military is the President of the United States.  The judiciary thinks they are!

Follow the money: 10 Dem-appointed judges blocking Trump 'They are trying to make it hard for the administration to pursue its agenda' - Federal judges ruling against President Donald Trump's recent executive actions have been almost entirely appointees of his two Democrat predecessors. Some were previously activists, others were steeped in Democrat politics, and one is a former clerk for then-Judge Sonia Sotomayor. These judges have issued rulings to block Trump's policies on immigration, federal spending, the Department of Government Efficiency, and other matters....

 

After all the lawfare corruption and the outrageous behavior of the federal courts does any sane person in America have faith in the judiciary?  This is a war, and it's going to get messy.  

Trump is draining the swamp, and the courts are telling him they don't approve, and are making decisions to prevent that.  Blatant judicial overreach”, illegally seizing power to block Trump's Constitutionally mandated responsibilities.   All of which is no only illegal it's  unprecedented.   All this is nothing short of a national conspiracy by the left to thwart Trump's agenda by flooding the courts with lawsuits.  

 

Trump Executive Order: Those Who Challenge His Policies in Court Are FINANCIALLY LIABLE When They Lose.

 

One of the most egregious of these radical judges is U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson, and she's decided the bureaucracy controls the Executive branch, not the President of the United States.

DOGE

If the President of the United States appoints someone to undertake some task, that's his right and responsibility under Article II of the Constitution, and this argument these DOGE employees don't have the proper security clearances is horsepucky. The intimate authority on security clearances is the President of the United states. If says their cleared, they're cleared, and he doesn't need confirmation or permission from the FBI or anyone else. Most assuredly he doesn't need permission from the federal judiciary. 

DOGE has exposed amazing levels of waste, and the corruption by the Administrative State is so bad,it makes the 19th century’s patronage system look good.  In spite of that the federal judiciary says none of that matters.

• Federal judge blocks OPM from sharing data with DOGE. -A federal judge in Maryland has blocked the Department of Education and Office of Personnel Management from sharing the personal information of plaintiffs in a lawsuit against the Trump administration with Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency. ...
• Judge Rules Against DOGE Access to Personal Data -A federal judge temporarily barred the Department of Government Efficiency from gaining access to sensitive employee information held by the Office of Personnel Management and the Education Department, reports Reuters. OPM is essentially the HR department of the government, notes Politico, which calls the ruling by US District Judge Deborah Boardman in Maryland "the most wide-ranging block on DOGE's activities to date." Unless overturned, it could seriously crimp Musk's team. The judge is an appointee of former President Biden.......
• Judge Blocks Education Department, OPM From Sharing Data With DOGE  The judge, however, denied a request to prevent the U.S. Treasury Department from sharing information with DOGE employees. A federal judge on Feb. 24 blocked two agencies from sharing sensitive information with Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) staff. “The U.S. Department of Education; Denise L. Carter, the Acting Secretary of Education; and their officers, agents, servants, employees, and attorneys are ENJOINED from disclosing the personally identifiable information of the plaintiffs and the members of the plaintiff organizations to any DOGE affiliates,” U.S. District Judge Deborah L. Boardman wrote in a 33-page order............
• US judge blocks Musk’s cost-cutting team from Treasury data - A US judge issued an emergency order early Saturday blocking Elon Musk’s government reform team from accessing personal and financial data for millions of Americans stored at the Treasury Department, court documents showed.

How dare the President appoint people to carry out his orders demanding information and accountability?  The message from the judiciary?  Let the corruption continue. 

HIRING AND FIRING

I've tried to save articles dealing with all the issues the defines the problems between the Judicial and the Executive  branches of government.  One of the arguments from the courts is these people he's firing had terms of office, and they're right.  But they didn't have immunity to firing.  If the President of the United States feels they need fired, they're fired, irrespective if their term in office hasn't finished yet.  

The President of the United States is the Executive, and those decisions are his alone.  The courts have no jurisdiction, and even if Congress were to pass a law that tried to make those appointments permanent and a President signed off on that, none of that changes the Constitution which declares that the "executive power is vested in the President."  

Any law passed by Congress does not obviate what's laid out in the Constitution, and they've been trying to do that for decades, the right to bear arms is just one of many examples.  

Judge Blocks Trump’s Firing of Head of Office of Special Counsel - A federal judge has ruled against President Donald Trump’s firing of Hampton Dellinger, head of a federal watchdog agency, in the first ruling on a case that will test the scope of presidential power, after the Trump administration’s petition to the Supreme Court to fast-track the case was knocked back.

Until now I’ve felt impeachment of federal judges was just a waste of time, even Jefferson noted to get the required two thirds vote in the Senate was going to make it almost impossible, and that was when the Congress was far more harmonious, and much, much smaller.  I now think that’s a worthwhile endeavor, not because I think the Senate will concur, but because it will force transparency on how these misfits are abusing their positions, and the Constitution.  Hopefully that will create impetus for a Constitutional Amendment that ends lifetime appointments to the judiciary.

• Yet Another Biden-Appointed Judge Sabotages Trump - A radical Biden-appointed federal judge on Wednesday ruled President Trump does not have the authority to fire a member of the Federal Labor Relations Board..
• Obama-Appointed Judge Reinstates Biden Appointee After Trump Fired Her -A federal judge has just permanently reinstated a Joe Biden appointee to her job in the federal government after President Trump fired her from the Merit Systems Protection Board. The MSPB is “the primary agency used by civil servants to file complaints within the federal government,” and Cathy Harris is the chair of that board. She was confirmed by the Senate in 2022 and she has a 7-year term...... Also Here....
• Corrupt Obama-Appointed Judge Extends Order Reinstating Hampton Dellinger, a Fired Traitor Joe Holdover - Update: President Trump urged the US Supreme Court to intervene. “In short, a fired Special Counsel is wielding executive power, over the elected Executive’s objection, to halt employment decisions made by other executive agencies. The MSPB, the entity that respondent argues is responsible for supervising him, is deferring to his stay requests so long as the requests are rational. The MSPB, moreover, is being led by a Chairman who has herself been fired by the President, only to be reinstated by a district court,” Trump’s Acting Solicitor General Sarah Harris said in a petition to the Supreme Court
• Federal Judge Rules Against Trump's Firing of Head of Special Counsel - A federal judge has ruled that President Donald Trump's decision to fire the head of the special counsel investigation was unlawful. The judge's decision comes after legal challenges surrounding the dismissal, marking a significant development in ongoing legal proceedings. 
• Trump DOJ Hits Back After Corrupt Obama Judge Rehires Biden-Appointed Labor Board Leader Gwynne Wilcox - The DC Circuit Court of Appeals ordered Wilcox to file a response by Tuesday and the Trump DOJ must reply by Thursday. The Trump Justice Department on Monday filed an emergency motion for a stay pending appeal after a corrupt Obama judge reinstated a Biden-appointed labor board leader.
• U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson Rules the Bureaucracy Controls the Executive Branch, Not the President - Not unexpectedly, U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson has ruled that unelected bureaucrat, Hampton Dellinger, the U.S. Office of Special Counsel head has more unilateral power within the executive branch of government than President Donald Trump. [RULING pdf HERE].......
• Mr. Chief Justice, please spank Judge Amy - Too many liberal judges seeking some attention or trying to confront the Trump White House...Here we go again. Another liberal activist judge needs a "legal" spanking. Yes, I wrote "legal" so that I don't get a visit from whoever protects the judges.........another federal judge has misread the U.S. Constitution. They think that Article 2 only exists when a Democrat is in The White House. Let's check the story: Not unexpectedly, U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson has ruled that unelected bureaucrat, Hampton Dellinger, the U.S. Office of Special Counsel head has more unilateral power within the executive branch of government than President Donald Trump.

IMMIGRATION 

In spite of the nation's laws governing immigration, which falls in the domain of the legislature and the executive, the courts have decided the Constitution is all wrong, they know better, and it's time for the nation to finally understand it's up to them to make the nation's laws, because they don't like the laws that Congress passed. 

•  Judge Block Trump's Suspension of Refugee System - A federal judge in Seattle blocked President Trump's suspension of the nation's refugee admissions system on Tuesday, saying that while the president has broad authority over who comes into the country, he cannot nullify the law passed by Congress establishing the program. ..........
• Obama Judge Blocks Trump Admin From Conducting ICE Raids at Some Churches - A federal judge on Monday blocked the Trump Administration from conducting ICE raids at some places of worship. US District Judge Theodore Chuang, an Obama appointee, blocked ICE raids on the churches, which filed a lawsuit against the Trump Administration....
• Another Leftists Judge May Face Consequences for Trying to Sabotage Trump’s Agenda - Calls are growing for a judicial opponent of President Donald Trump to face consequences after blocking significant parts of his agenda this month.A Rhode Island judge overseeing one of the latest legal challenges against Trump was condemned on Tuesday by GOP Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-GA), who said the ruling by District Judge John McConnell is “hurting the American people” more than the president.............

SPENDING

Article I of the Constitution states:  

All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and a House of Representatives.” The Constitution first vests all federal legislative powers in a representative bicameral Congress.  

Nowhere does it give the Judiciary legislative power.  The budget process belongs to the Congress, with confirmation by the President.  Nowhere in the Constitution does the Judiciary have a say in that matter, although they've usurped that on a regular basis.

• Follow the money: 10 Dem-appointed judges blocking Trump 'They are trying to make it hard for the administration to pursue its agenda' - Federal judges ruling against President Donald Trump's recent executive actions have been almost entirely appointees of his two Democrat predecessors. Some were previously activists, others were steeped in Democrat politics, and one is a former clerk for then-Judge Sonia Sotomayor. These judges have issued rulings to block Trump's policies on immigration, federal spending, the Department of Government Efficiency, and other matters....
• Meet Amir Ali: The Far-Left, Anti-Cop, BLM Supporting Biden Judge Forcing Trump to Fund USAID Grants - The foreign-born judge behind a ruling forcing President Donald J. Trump to authorize around $2 billion in payments from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to several non-governmental organizations (NGOs) is a Canadian-American jurist. United States District Court Judge Amir Ali, who serves on the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, was one of the last appointees named by former President Joe Biden, becoming the first Arab American Muslim on the federal bench........
•  Biden-Appointed Judge Dresses Down DOJ Lawyers Over USAID Disbursement, Orders Trump Admin to Pay Foreign Aid Contracts - A Biden-appointed judge on Tuesday blasted DOJ lawyers over USAID disbursement and ordered the Trump Administration to pay the foreign contracts by 11:59 pm on Wednesday evening. Earlier this month, US District Judge for the District Court of Columbia, Amir Ali, a Biden appointee, temporarily blocked President Trump from cancelling foreign aid contracts.........
• Racist Judge Jack McConnell, Who Halted President Trump’s Temporary Spending Freeze, Received Over $100 Million in Government Funding for His NGO -  Well, this is interesting. What a surprise. Dirty Judge Jack McConnell, who believes he was recently elected US president, halted President Trump’s current spending freeze. But Judge McConnell is not some innocent bystander. Judge McConnell’s organization has received $117.6 million in government funding in total (ending in 2023). Maybe that’s why he wanted the money to keep flowing. He’s expecting several more million this year!..........

Even the Supreme Court has fallen victim to the insanity on spending,  Supreme Court Says Trump Admin. Must Pay $2 Billion in USAID Funds, here, here, here, here, and it didn't set well with four of the justices.  You may find this article interesting, How powerful is the Supreme Court?

Well, none of this is sitting well with a lot of people.   Articles of Impeachment are being filed, but that's a hard row to hoe but I think it's worth the time in order to publicly expose what they're doing is illegal.  This idea has been floated but it would still be an exposure solution, not a final solution.  It might be worthwhile for the Congress to hold hearings calling all these misfits before them and making them explain their decisions.  This article asks an amazingly pertinent question. If the Supreme Court Is Going to Ignore the Constitution, Trump Should Ignore the Supreme Court.

Finally, and as we've watched this playing out you knew it had to come,  President Trump Signs an Order That He Will Ignore All Lower Court Rulings Until SCOTUS Rules on the Constitutionality of Activist Judges.  Now the ball is in SCOTUS' court.  

Update:    

• Trump throws down the gauntlet to the out-of-control federal district court judges *UPDATED* -During his first administration, federal district court judges—that is, people whom the American people did not elect—used preliminary injunctions and temporary restraining orders, to grind the Trump administration’s domestic policies to a halt. They’re doing the same thing in his second administration, but Trump has a new plan, and it’s a darn good one. He’s relying on the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure to insist that courts must comply with the requirement that a court may issue a preliminary or temporary injunction only if the plaintiff provides security first........... With the judges’ help, the activists have been ” functionally inserting themselves into the executive policy making process and therefore undermining the democratic process.”

P&D and The Week That Was

Truth is the Sublime Convergence of History and Reality

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By Rich Kozlovich

 

This week it was reported that China launched a new sixth generation jet fighter, and it appears its impressive, and most likely with stolen technology.  Well, so what?  

As Francis Menton points out in his article about the the eventual consequences of socialist central planning nations, (they all end up in the crapper, make sure to read about Cuba and Venezuela) and notes China's economics is all smoke, mirrors, with massive unpayable debt, bad investments, and incredibly bad economic planning.  Not only are they attempting to justify their failures, they're doubling down on them, which will lead to the same thing that destroyed the Soviet Union.  The Russians, with their idiotic economic schemes tried to compete militarily with the United States and still fund the needs of their people.   They couldn't and they went broke.

The fact is China is already broke, and modern high tech military equipment is massively expensive to develop, even if that technology was stolen, massively expensive to build, and massively expensive to maintain, and ...... they're broke.  And when Trump starts blasting them with greater economic sanctions, he may actually be able to undo what Nixon wrought, which was opening China up to world trade.  As a result, western civilization has been financing China's efforts to destroy western civilization, and the big corporations are willing participants to that destruction totally committed to profits irrespective of the long term negative consequences, and their corrupt allies in government support them.  As allies, big corporations are ..... on their best days ..... leaky vessels.  On their worst days, they're traitors, and so are their supporters.  

In years gone by it was reported that "seven in 10 young Americans are ineligible to serve in the military. For a quarter of those, the reason is they are too fat. Military groups argue these numbers show Congress should not retreat from the fight to implement new nutrition standards in schools".   Hogwash.  Let’s get real.  It’s still all about calories in and calories out.  If kids don’t exercise they get fat…. period.  

 The next time you drive past a public baseball diamond notice what’s there.  No one!  In days gone by they were played on daily…every day!  Now the kids watch television, play games on computers…that’s especially a problem… and phones to jabber on or text to with their friends all day, none of which burns any real calories.  Let’s get this – people are going to do what they want to do, and real leadership is encouraging people to do what they should and help them do what they would.  Central planning is a waste of money, along with editorial blathering and hand wringing.   

America's courts are in dire need of purging, as is easily demonstrated in this Iowa Supreme Court case, which threw out the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution. So, how is that to be accomplished?  Purging law schools of the freaks teaching there, and that can be done by revoking their university credentials to teach for unacceptable practices, end all funding of any kind including student loans, publicly state no graduate will be hired from these universities, such as to the federal government, and place restrictions on any law firm that does hire them.  And suing them for.... whatever works.... after all, they made up the rules of the game, and now should have to live with them, and it appears that Harvard has gotten the message. 

Is Trump having second thoughts about Speaker Johnson?  If not, perhaps he should take a look at the latest polls that show a huge percentage of the Republican base want him gone as being totally untrustworthy. 

I recently read an article that claimed fixing the government's economics problems was impossible due to programs like, but not exclusive to, Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, and the arguments were profound....and they were wrong.   

The federal government has, as of 2013, assets of over 150 trillion dollars.  They could wipe out the nation debt, saving just under a trillion dollars in interest payments, return the trillions they stole from Social Security, sell off the landmass in America owned by the federal government (to the tune of almost 25 percent) allowing for capitalization of that land, reduce idiotic regulations which would turn America capitalism loose like a force of nature.   Social Security could be privatized, and based on how it's been terribly mismanaged it should be. The massive levels of corruption and incompetence in all these programs which has made all this so expensive can be addressed and fixed, and that fix starts with reduction the federal government by 80%.  That's doable, and would be done without impacting the economic health of the nation, if anything, it will improve the nation's economic health. 

Take a look at what the federal government is wasting the tax payers money on. 

1. ‘Orwellian’: Rand Paul Festivus Report Shows Feds Spent Millions Torturing Cats
2. Rand Paul Festivus Report Highlights More than $1 Trillion in Waste: Millions Spent on Paraguayan Border Security, Lonely Rat Cocaine Studies

Trump thinks Canada should become America's 51st state, and there's been a lot of talk about that, with a lot of Canadian kickback, but it also appears.... and I use the word appears deliberately ....Some Canadians actually like Trump's idea of annexing Canada to the U.S.  Well, here was my thoughts on that.  

First, Canada is like France, their right is like our RINO's only more left, and if their ten provinces come as separate states, that means 20 more leftist Senators and untold leftist Members of Congress. Wow! What a great idea, what could possibly go wrong? 

One commenter said: What you don't understand is that most of Canada, like most of the population in our loony leftist-"led" states, isn't loony leftists.  I responded saying: Really? Wow! They must really have a serious problem with voter fraud in Canada! Right? 

I have a friend who retired to Colorado, which was a once reliable Red state until all the far left nitwits from California moved there to escape the disaster they created in California and then quickly instituted the insanity they fled in Colorado.  Outside of Colorado's major cities my friend says the people may be even more conservative than me, but the cities have the numbers.  The same is true in Oregon, and the exact same thing would happen with Canada. 

Bird flu has been confirmed, and it appears this one has..... watch out now.... here it comes..... mutations.  And we should be shocked this virus is just like every other virus in the ability to change?  Will the bird flu mutate to be able to attack people. Given the history of virus's the answer is it's quite probably.  The real question is will the government attempt to impose  tyrannous control over society as they did with covid, which was not only a bust, it was totally  fraudulent and corrupt, which I  from the start of all that.    

The only thing I didn't know at the beginning was these were not vaccines, they're gene manipulating chemical compounds that are now having, and will have, a massively negative impact on human health for decades, and I pointed that out as soon as I became aware of it. 

So, the question everyone should be asking is this. If the bugman knew this how could all these professionals not know it?  One more disaster this caused.  My old man's morning breakfast group couldn't meet an McDonalds any longer, and since then some have passed and no one thinks the price is worth going any longer.   Let's face it, If Fast Food Isn’t Fast, Hot, Cheap and Good Tasting - It’s Not Worth It, and that was eleven years go.

Today I have five commentaries of my own and two dealing with the collapse of Europe, which again, I predicted this ten years ago.  These two deal with the UK and France, but next week I will be covering more of these nations.  Europe is doomed, demographically, economically, and philosophically, because it's bereft of any stable moral foundation.  And socialism isn't stable in any form.   I listed an old one first as I think that lays important foundation for the rest, so read it first.

Best wishes, Rich

My Commentaries

1. "A Stranger in Town", 1943 
   
2. France, The 2024 Election, and The Collapse.
3. The UK, The 2024 Election, and The Collapse.
4. The Unraveling of Barack Obama
5. Everything is "The Basics"

Special Link

1. My 15-Year-Old Daughter Died. I Recently Found A Box Of Hers — And What Was Inside Left Me Shaken. Story by Jacqueline Dooley

Commentaries

1. Open Borders America: Migrants Flock to ‘The Beast’ Train By Kelli Ballard
2. “Plaintiff somehow equates use of an improper social security number as a disqualifying event…” By Susan Daniels
3. The Slow, Painful, and Imminent Demise of DEI By Tim Donner
4. Absolute vs Relative Risk By John Droz
5. Media Balance Newsletter (December 23, 2024)
6. After Obama By Daniel Greenfield
7. White House Islamophobia Strategy Says Muslims Were the Real Victims of Oct 7th  By Daniel Greenfield
8. Everything in the Middle East Means the Opposite  By Daniel Greenfield
9. Ireland is Committing Genocide Against Itself  By Daniel Greenfield
10. America and Around the World By Robin Itzler
11. Have Yourself a Very Biden Christmas By Robin Itzler
12. The War That Has Yet to be Won: Voter Fraud! By Robin Itzler
13. Hello World: It's Time to Wake Up! By Robin Itzler
14. End Of Year World Socialism Round-Up: Cuba, China, Venezuela By Francis Menton
15. More Reasons For Cautious Optimism About The Demise Of The Green Energy Fantasy By Francis Menton
16. Ranking Biden on Economic Policy: A Track Record of Failure By Dan Mitchell
17. Assessing Javier Milei, the World’s Best Leader: Part VI By Dan Mitchell
18. Assessing Javier Milei, the World’s Best Leader: Part VII By Dan Mitchell
19. A Last-Minute Contestant for Politician of the Year By Dan Mitchell
20. Great News on Social Security Reform* By Dan Mitchell
21. Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall, Which State Has the Most Pension Debt of All? By Dan Mitchell
22. Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall, Which City Has the Most Pension Debt of All? By Dan Mitchell
23. Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall, Which State Has the Most OPEB Debt of All? By Dan Mitchell
24. Is Big Government Popular? By Dan Mitchell
25. HFI24: Switzerland Stays Number One By Dan Mitchell
26. Academic Research Estimating the Laffer Curve By Dan Mitchell
27. Cautious Optimism On The Demise Of The Green Energy Fantasy By Dan Mitchell
28. No Smiles Without Tears By Sarah Nagle
29. Next, You’ll Tell Me You Gave Away the Panama Canal By Dave Patterson

Permanent Links

1. 45 Communist Goals to Destroy America as Listed in the 1963 Congressional Record
2. My Seven Rules of Geopolitics
3. The John Boyd Legion of Honor

No matter what anyone says, you can’t marginalize the truth!  You can suppress it, you can ignore it, you can avoid it, you can attempt to undermine it, you can attempt to subvert it, you can attempt to organize against it, you can even laugh at it, but if we have the courage and the fortitude to stand and confront the lies, irrespective of the personal costs, the truth will stand the test of time, because truth and time are on the same side.

Constant as the North Star