Trump Should Have Spoken at Climate Week NYC 2025

Tom Harris | Sep 30, 2025 

 

“If you don’t get away from this green scam, your country is going to fail,” President Donald Trump told delegates in his speech to the United Nations General Assembly (GA) last week. It is a shame the president was not a speaker at this year’s Climate Week NYC, which wrapped up on Sunday, as he would have given them much needed relief from the steady drumbeat of alarmism heard during the weeklong gabfest.

Besides criticizing the UN’s failure to work to end conflicts and properly deal with immigration issues, the president focused on the climate change swindle promoted by the U.N. and nations around the world. He highlighted dire climate predictions made decades ago that have not come to pass, giving an example: “another UN official stated in 1989 that within a decade, entire nations could be wiped off the map by global warming,” adding correctly, “Not happening.” He emphasized how global cooling used to be the concern, then global warming, now “climate change,” creating “the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world.” 

Trump also criticized other countries’ green energy policies, explaining how they are wasting money trying to reduce their “carbon footprint” at the expense of lost jobs and closed factories. “The carbon footprint is a hoax,” he bluntly, and correctly, told the GA.

In stark contrast, 2.5 miles away in Manhattan, Simon Stiell, Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC, the primary UN climate body, told Climate Week NYC 2025: 

“The clean energy transition is booming across almost all major economies and hit 2 trillion dollars last year alone…Meanwhile, climate disasters are hitting every economy and society harder every year. So, we need to step it up. And we need to step it up fast [to avoid catastrophe].”

At the Freshfields energy summit, a high-profile event held during this year’s Climate Week NYC, leaders agreed that coal must be “rapidly retired in developed economies” by 2035 to meet pathways aligned with the Paris Agreement. That developing countries account for nearly 80 percent of global coal consumption (as of 2024) didn’t seem to bother them. China, which alone consumes 58 percent of the world’s coal — more than the rest of the world combined, has made it clear they are going to continue to build coal fired power stations no matter what. In the first half of 2025 alone, China commissioned 21 GW of coal power, about 25 new coal-fired power plants — the most for that period since 2016. When it comes to China and developing countries, the tone shifts from rapid retirement of dependable coal plants in the west to respect for “energy sovereignty” and “national priorities” for Asia. If sovereignty is sacred, it should be respected universally, but the fact that it isn’t demonstrates yet another way China is gaming the system.

Tim Lenton, Professor of Earth System Science at University of Exeter and keynote speaker at Climate Week, chimed in,

“We need decisive mandates for the end of fossil fuel technologies that are going to be the crucial thing to stimulate the clean technologies we need.” Specifically, he wants to “Phase out of coal power stations in developed nations by 2035…mandating no petrol and diesel car sales from 2035…all heating appliances for buildings being heat pumps from 2035, and all trucks to be electric powered from 2040.” 

If this were to actually happen, it would be an unmitigated disaster for businesses and consumers alike. Trump illustrated this well when he told the GA that European electricity bills are now “two to three times higher than the United States, and our bills are coming way down.” Yet, this is only a preview of massive costs to come if Europe continues to replace inexpensive, dependable conventional power with costly, unreliable wind and solar power.

In his 2021 brief for Canada’s House of Commons, Robert Lyman, economist and Principal of ENTRANS Policy Research Group, and former director general, environmental affairs, at Transport Canada, said, “The cost to electrify the U.S. economy would translate into annual cost increases of at least U.S. $5,000 per household” and that “annual consumer expenditures for energy would roughly double.” That doesn’t even take into account the loss of energy security with increased vulnerability to blackouts and brownouts. 

For instance, Texas, the state with the most wind power, also had the greatest number of blackouts between 2000 and 2023. California, the state with the most solar power, had the third most blackouts. Dr. H. Sterling Burnett, senior fellow on environmental policy for The Heartland Institute, said “wind and solar power are particularly unsuited for a large power grid because they work only when the weather conditions are just right.” 

Trump was also right to call out EU politicians for leading their citizens to a health disaster. He pointed out how the U.S. has about 1,300 heat-related deaths annually, while Europe has more than 175,000, caused in large part by the high costs of electricity that prevents people from air-conditioning their homes. The population of Europe is only just over twice that of the U.S., so this means that the chances of a person dying due to the heat in Europe is 62 times that in America. 

Over the past week, New York City showcased the stark contrast between a climate realist president and those advocating overhauling our entire energy infrastructure to address a problem that only exists in the imagination of uninformed activists. Bravo President Trump!

Tom Harris is executive director of Ottawa, Canada-based International Climate Science Coalition.

Western Stupidity and the Two State Solution

By Rich Kozlovich

 Over a large part of my life this idea of a two state solution involving Israel and so-called Palestinians has been touted over and over again.  Thirty years ago it was thought possible by a substantial number of Israeli's.   Then the riots, the relentless acts of terror, bombs being exploded in public places, missile attacks killing civilians indiscriminately.  This idea of "land for peace" has turned into an abject failure, and the Two-State Solution Died on October 7, as it was clear any independent Islamic state within Israel's borders was nothing more than a staging area for Israel's enemies to attack and destroy Israel. 

Western liberals, and even conservatives, embraced the two state concept, but the Muslims never wanted a separate state with Israel, they wanted Israel destroyed.  That should have been obvious to the most casual observer, yet these “leaders” still won’t abandon that idiotic idea. Why? Because they understand the only real solution is for Israel to kick out these Arabs who claim they’re Palestinians just as the surrounding Arab nations have done in the past, and they’re unwilling to embrace that truth.

The only answer is Hamas must be destroyed, Gaza must become completely occupied, then filled with Israeli settlements and become a permanent part of Israel, and kick out any so-called Palestinians, just like their Arab Muslim “brothers” have done all over the Middle East, and that includes the West Bank. Anything else is a capitulation to terrorists monsters.

Let's start with the incontestable fact that the true peacemaker among the world's leaders is Donald Trump, and United Nations really is a "hive of scum and villainy", and then proceed to the insanity being promoted by western "leaders" proclaiming they will recognize a Palestinian state. 

• The U.N. Betrays Its Own Charter with Premature Palestine Recognition  No Palestinian Membership Application Has Passed Muster in the U.N. Security Council, Rendering Statehood a Legal and Political Impossibility.....
• Emmanuel Macron, who has never been the brightest pebble in the brook, you can't negotiate with terrorists, and now the Netherlands is banning two Israeli officials over Gaza “rhetoric”. 
• Prime minister Starmer is threatening to also recognize Palestine if Netanyahu doesn’t take “substantive measures” in Gaza, whatever the heck that means, except as an open ended platform for “substantive” demands that will never end.
• Canada’s Recognition of a Palestinian State Betrays Western Values - Canada is preparing to recognize a Palestinian state at the United Nations as early as September 2025. Prime Minister Mark Carney has framed the decision as both a moral obligation and a diplomatic necessity. In reality, it represents a sharp break from Canada’s democratic principles—and a betrayal of its closest ally, the United States......
• Australia to recognise Palestinian state in September -  Australia will recognise a Palestinian state at the UN General Assembly in September, following similar moves by the UK, France and Canada, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has said. Albanese said Australia received commitments from the Palestinian Authority (PA) including to demilitarise, hold general elections and continue to recognise Israel's right to exist. "A two-state solution is humanity's best hope to break the cycle of violence in the Middle East and to bring an end to the conflict, suffering and starvation in Gaza,"............ 

The man actually said "A two-state solution is humanity's best hope to break the cycle of violence in the Middle East and to bring an end to the conflict, suffering and starvation in Gaza."  It really is true, you can't fix stupid.  

• The Eurabian Push for a Hamas State -  The hostility toward Israel in Europe is matched only by the enthusiasm for establishing a Palestinian state controlled by Hamas. Leading this effort is France: President Emmanuel Macron announced on July 25 that his country would recognize a Palestinian state later this year. Knesset member Dan Illouz rightly opposed such a state as “a gift to the terrorists of October 7.” Four days later, at a U.N. conference, France and Saudi Arabia led the New York Declaration, aiming for a “tangible, time-bound and irreversible” step toward the creation of Palestine. The 26-page document, a study in mendacious one-sidedness, is the latest sign of Europe’s anti-Israel sentiment, which has been prevalent since the founding of the Jewish state........
• The Mirage of Palestinian Statehood – On the face of it, winning international recognition would seem to be a victory for Palestinian diplomacy—a strategic success won despite battlefield defeat at the hands of Israel. Many have criticized the Canadian, French, and British on these same grounds, arguing that recognition is effectively rewarding Hamas, granting them what they wanted despite the fact that they started the most recent war with their bloody incursion into Israel in October 2023. .........Whatever violence may or may not be legitimate in establishing national independence, we can be sure that violence that establishes fictional states—states whose only existence is on the NGO conference circuit—is not only morally reprehensible but also politically futile. .....
• Ambassador Huckabee Blasts Weak European Leaders Backing Hamas  Hamas is a doomsday terrorist organization. It will never surrender so long as one member is still alive.   "There is one reason there is suffering in Gaza, it's the same reason that 1200 people were massacred on October the 7th. It's the same reason that 250 people were taken hostage, 50 of them continue to be held hostage and tortured and that's because of Hamas. They are a terror organization and they've acted like it," Huckabee said during an interview with Fox News over the weekend, blasting weak European politicians. "All of this time, Israel has done everything it can. They've made I don't know ow many offers in order to get the hostages out, to end this." "Hamas always walks away, always says no,"

Perhaps they need to start reading the history between Europe and Islam.  Europe’s Forgotten Enslavement: The Brutal Islamic Slave Raids That Captured Millions. That’s who they were, that’s who they are, and that’s who they will always be. After almost 1500 years of incontestable history why is that so hard to get?

• World Rewards Hamas for Its Atrocities 

All of these nations are heavily infected with Islamists, and soon Israel will be the least of their concerns. Also, Trump said Macron’s views are meaningless, and that goes for the rest of them also. Trump has tamed their egos and made it clear, Europe no longer counts, it's a second rate continent working dilligently to become a third rate continent with a dead culture.  If they keep allowing unrestricted Islamic immigration, Europe will no longer exist as we know Europe, and there will be three Islamic nations with nuclear weapons. Iran, France, and the UK.

 

They are in point of fact rewarding terrorism, and by their demands they're creating standards that will prevent winning wars against monsters, totally losing sight of this one incontrovertible fact that what happens in Gaza won't stay in Gaza.

  

To quote a man who calls himself Granpa: 

All the shouting about a two-state solution is, as from Macbeth: “"It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.” 

 One final thought about the UN.  They're stunned, stunned I tell you, to find the Taliban oppress women.  Imagine that, and these are leaders?  How can anyone be so ignorant and  so stupid?  How can anyone take anything anyone that ignorant and stupid seriously?  Then again, maybe their lying.  Not much of a recommendation.

Calculating America’s Lead over Europe

By Dan Mitchell May 14, 2025 @ International Liberty

There’s an enormous amount of data showing that people in the United States enjoy much higher livings standards than Europeans.

That’s not too surprising since most European governments have adopted large-sized welfare states while Americans are (comparatively!) lucky in that we have a medium-sized welfare state.

That’s all very straightforward and uncontroversial.

What’s not completely clear, however, is whether the United States has a growing economic advantage.

I’ve cited several data sources showing that America is expanding its lead over Europe. And I saw this tweet today that included a chart making the same point.

Since I’m patriotic (in the proper sense), I like seeing this kind of data. I want everyone to get richer, but I can’t resist wanting Americans to do better than everyone else.

That being said, my guy instinct is that there’s something quirky in the data. Simply stated, I question whether France, Germany, and U.K. were almost as rich as the United States in 2008. And I also question whether we’ve grown that much faster than those nations since then.

So I decided to check the Maddison database.

Lo and behold, this chart (all numbers in this case based on inflation-adjusted 2011 dollars) shows that my skepticism is warranted. The United States has always enjoyed an economic advantage, but the lead is not expanding at a rapid rate.

However, I admit to some misgivings about this chart, especially when looking at Germany’s comparatively strong economic performance.

My gut instinct is that policy has significantly deteriorated in recent years (more spending and green energy), so I wouldn’t expect Germany to out-perform the U.K. and France.

So I decided to look at the IMF’s big database.

Interestingly, the IMF’s data is much closer to the World Bank data in the first chart.

Though there are differences. The World Bank numbers preposterously showed France ahead of the U.S. in one year, while the IMF numbers (almost as preposterously) show occasional leads for Germany and the United Kingdom.

The bottom line is that I don’t know which numbers are most accurate. Maybe somewhere in between all three data sources.

Regardless, all of the numbers lead to the same conclusion, which is that it would be very smart for the U.S. to avoid becoming more like Europe.  Which is why yesterday’s column was so critical of Senator Josh Hawley.

P.S. I am willing for America to become more like one European nation. And I would like to copy the economic policy of a certain Asian nation.

P.P.S. If you want to laugh at European statism, click here.

 

Have The Intermittent Energy Blackouts Begun?

April 28, 2025 Francis Menton @ Manhattan Contrarian 

Today there have been widespread electricity blackouts across Europe, beginning in Spain and Portugal in the early afternoon (local time), and then spreading to other countries including France, Andorra, Belgium and the Netherlands. Is this related to the increasing penetration of intermittent generation from wind and solar facilities?

For years, many in the climate skeptic community have warned that expansion of intermittent renewable electricity generation on the grid will, sooner or later, lead to frequent blackouts. The reason for the warning is easy to understand: The grid has some rather exacting operational requirements that the intermittent renewable generation technologies cannot fulfill. Primary among these requirements are, first, minute-by-minute matching of electricity supply with electricity demand and, second, grid-wide synchronization of the frequency of the alternating current. When wind and solar provided relatively small portions of the electricity consumed, other generation sources, particularly thermal (fossil fuel) and hydro, would fulfill these requirements. But as wind and solar come to dominate generation, the problems become much more difficult to solve.

Here at Manhattan Contrarian, I have mostly steered clear of covering this topic. Although I think I understand the main issues, I am certainly not a grid engineer. And there are many smart people who are engineers and who have the job of “balancing” the grid to keep it consistently up and running in the face of the challenges of intermittent wind and solar generation. Maybe they can succeed. I doubt it. But I definitely have wanted to avoid “crying wolf,” predicting over and over that frequent blackouts are imminent, only to find that the engineers have come up with solutions that seem to work reasonably well.

As of this writing, it does not appear that a definitive cause (or causes) of today’s blackouts has been established. However, there is every reason to think that the increasing penetration of wind and solar generation in Spain is the most important part of the problem. Here are links to some articles that have appeared so far today: this one from the Daily Mail at 8:41 AM EDT (which would be 2:41 PM in Spain); this one from Yahoo News at 10:21 AM EDT (4:21 PM in Spain); and this one from Climate Change Dispatch (no time indicated, but based on a paywalled piece from the Telegraph, with a time stamp of 3:21 BST).

According to the piece in the Daily Mail, Spain’s state electricity network operator, known as Red Electric, reported that today’s problem began with “‘a very strong oscillation’ in the electrical network [that] caused Spain’s power system to ‘disconnect from the European system.’” On the question of the initial cause of the “oscillation,” there is only speculation. Proposed causes range from “extreme temperature variations along very high-voltage power lines in Spain,” to a hacking attack.

But whatever the initial cause of the “oscillation,” what is clear is that the Spanish system then lacked the ability to respond sufficiently to keep the power on. Why? The Daily Mail puts forth a very plausible explanation of grid instability resulting from heavy reliance on wind and solar generation. The Mail attributes the theory to “some analysts” (unnamed):

[S]ome analysts have suggested that the Spanish grid operator's reliance on renewable energy sources to supply the majority of the nation's electricity could have led to the blackout. Traditional generators, like coal and hydroelectric plants or gas turbines, are connected directly to the grid via heavy spinning machines.  

When turned on, these massive machines are in constant motion and the inertia created by their weight and momentum acts like a shock absorber, helping to insulate the grid against a sudden disturbance - for example, in the event of a transmission failure.  Solar and wind power do not provide the natural inertia generated by these so-called 'spinning machines', leaving the grid more vulnerable to disruptions and subsequent oscillations in the electrical frequency.

Just before the blackout hit, it seems that solar facilities were generating over 60% of Spain’s electricity:

At 12:30pm local time today - five minutes before the widespread blackouts occurred - solar power was generating some 60% of Spain's electricity. . . .

But how about wind generation? This is from the Yahoo News piece:

Spain has one of Europe’s highest proportions of renewable energy, providing about 56pc of the nation’s electricity. More than half of its renewables comes from wind with the rest from solar and other sources. That means Spain’s electricity supplies are increasingly reliant on the weather delivering enough wind to balance its grid. For much of the last 24 hours, that wind has been largely missing. The website Windy.com, for example, shows wind speeds of 2-3mph, leaving the country reliant on solar energy and old gas-fired power stations.

So when the “oscillation” occurred, what is going to keep the grid steady on its 50 Hz frequency? From Michael Schellenberger today on X:

[A]ll of Europe appears to have been seconds away a continent-wide blackout. The grid frequency across continental Europe plunged to 49.85 hertz — just a hair above the red-line collapse threshold. The normal operating frequency for Europe’s power grid is 50.00 Hz, kept with an extremely tight margin of ±0.1 Hz. Anything outside ±0.2 Hz triggers major emergency actions. If the frequency had fallen just another 0.3 Hz — below 49.5 Hz — Europe could have suffered a system-wide cascading blackout.

The bottom line is that there were multi-hour blackouts in many places today. A random “oscillation” of some sort, which could have been easily handled in a world of fossil fuel power plants, became a huge problem when wind and solar generators could not respond to it appropriately. And so people were stuck for hours in elevators or subway trains; traffic lights went dark; banking and cell phone networks stopped working; and so forth. But within a few hours all of those were back in business.

So was this really a big deal? As Schellenberger points out, with just “a hair” more frequency variation it could have been far worse. Will that happen some time soon? I’m not going to pretend I know. But I do know that the electricity system in most of Europe and many U.S. states is in the hands of crazed fanatics who have no idea what they are doing. My own bet would be that there are many far worse blackouts to come, until this idiotic “net zero” thing is abandoned.

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By Rich Kozlovich

I consider Victor Davis Hanson to be the premiere historian in America. There are a lot of really excellent historians in the nation, but history is a story, he has a quality so many of the rest lack. He tells a great story.    He asks if you wanted to destroy American, how would you go about it?  Then he gives you the answer by describing the disastrous polices of Joe Biden and the Democrats for the last four years, but he also lays the blame on Republicans, and rightly so.   This didn't just start in 2020, but the last four years was like comparing a runny nose with terminal cancer.   Make sure to watch his video. 

You Gotta Admit That Trump Is Packing Some Major Cajones  - Literally. Remember, if a Republican doesn’t win in 2028, the lawfare is back on and squared. His enemies tried to bankrupt him with lawsuits that would’ve been laughed out of the courts had the defendant not been Donald J. Trump. His enemies tried to frame him and throw him in jail for the rest of his life. When that didn’t work, they tried to kill him. Twice. 

His enemies managed to blow his ear lobe off and murder an innocent man who got in the way. Then the next one tried to do it with a rifle only because he couldn’t come up with the Stinger missile he wanted to get from his Ukrainian buddies.  Talk about high stakes. But Trump doesn’t care. Move over, honey badger. President 47 is in the house, and no Schiffs are given..........

But we need to appreciate the risk our President is taking to Make America Great Again. Trump is risking everything. We know because they’ve already tried to kill him, twice, and about half of them think killing him would be a great idea. That means that for President Trump, this is literally a matter of life and death, and the most awesome and inspiring thing is that he just doesn’t care..........

Last week, Senator Corey Booker "set a new record by delivering the longest speech ever in the history of the Senate", and the accolades poured in from the left.   The fact is, they can throw all the accolades at him they please, but the reality is the man talked for 25 hours and said nothing. How do I know that? Show me one quote the media, or his misfit colleagues keep repeating? Not one. 

 

Winston Churchill’s “I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat” speech lasted minutes, and that phrase has been quoted for over eighty years.   Standing in front of the Brandenburg Gate in 1987 Ronald Reagan said, ”Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall”, and it's been quoted ever since.   In 2018 Cory Booker said, “I am Spartacus”, and everyone laughed!   It's only quoted as proof he's an egomaniacal dolt, for which he’s now presented unquestioned confirmation. 

One commenter at American thinker said:

Quick! Someone post at least five things he said in those 25 hours’ worth repeating or that will go into a “Great quotes of politicians” book. His 25 hours was like camping out in the pasture with the jackass’s and cattle, a lot of noise that amounts to nothing. 

Yes, Booker is Democrat presidential timber for sure, right along with the rest of the Democrat bench.  Gavin Newsom, AOC, Buttigieg, Tampon Timmy Walz, Rahm Emanuel, Kamala Harris, and now it appears Jasmine Crockett is being thrown into the mix.   Senator John Kennedy says he thinks AOC is the leader of the Democrat party now, and he also thinks she's the reason why they put directions on shampoo bottles.  It gets better.  In spite of the influence AOC now has in the party, it's felt it will be Kamala in 2028.  Ya just gotta see the humor in that.  But nonetheless, it's being reported the machinery is already in the works, "but the moment she’s challenged she’ll fall apart again and primary voters will be reminded of what a lousy candidate she is and not want to take the risk."

This Rust Belt Revival piece was a good article, wisely outlining what society really wants: 

‘They want good jobs. They want their kids to do better than they do. They want to own a home. They want to pay down their debt. This isn’t hard.”  

And you’re right, it isn’t that hard to understand, if one wants to understand. Machiavelli noted almost 500 years ago the one foundational truth these elites keep ignoring.   Everything is the basics, the masses just want security. Why do they ignore it? Because the elites want “more”, and don’t care what the masses want or need.   Just like Henry Kissinger and his acolyte Klaus Schwab, who thinks there should be a world government that’s run like China, and in his case, run by China.  Their delusional ideology caused them to make decisions that are so destructive, it will take decades to overcome, and some may never entirely be overcome.

What about Greenland and Denmark?  This was an interesting article which described the unjustified arrogant thinking of the European elite, which has been going on since America was founded. Constantly looking down their noses at America, and entirely too many American leaders seeking their approval.  was a Anglophile, and like Teddy Roosevelt believed in two concepts:  "l'etat se moi", I am the state, and the Constitution is an impediment to human progress.

While publicly proclaiming he was not going to get America involved in WWI, in the background he was doing everything he could to make that happen.  America's involvement turned the tide against Germany because all of Europe was running out of young men to throw up against machine gun emplacements, and the added American demographic, rightly or wrongly, doomed Germany.   That laid the foundation for WWII, and the cold war.  

As the years went by I got sick of hearing "America's allies abroad" don't like this or don't like that.  And I really got sick of hearing these nitwits saying: “when will America learn” this or “when will America learn” that. Learn from who? These European failures?   

America's allies abroad are now and have always been leaky vessels, money grubbing, ungrateful, incompetent failures that only exist because America spent thousands of gallons of blood and trillions of dollars saving them - militarily and economically - and that economic number goes into multiple trillions of dollars as a result of the Bretton Woods thinking. Yet, with their idiotic globalist economic policies, compounded with their multiculturalism, green, and immigration policies, they’ve thrown that away.

Many Americans have recognized who and what European leadership is really all about, and have been tired of their arrogant stupidity for decades.  Make no mistake, I really don’t care what Denmark, a nation with a population of 5.947 million thinks. In Ohio we have 11.88 million, and we think much better than Denmark, or Europe as a whole for that matter.  Europe is doomed, and good riddance, they’ve been leech on America for over 100 years, and that ends now, but Greenland is an issue that can’t and won’t go away. 

 

Truman should have taken it over during WWII, since Germany conquered Denmark, thus it longer existed as an independent nation, and had no say in anything.  They surrendered and had no government in exile.  In spite of the fact Truman was an avid history buff, he was always over his head when it came to geopolitics.

A third Trump term? This is all deliberate Trump hyperbole, and it just ain’t gonna happen. He does love to stir up the pot though. What’s strange is the more he does it the better he look. This could be an edition of Ripley’s Believe it or Not. 

More information is being rolled out about the corruption of the Deep State, especially the FBI.  The conspiracy theorists were right, federal agents were most likely involved in January 6 "Riots:", and the official version of events seriously need to be answered, and the fact is there needs to be a serious investigation nationally as to why the police stand and do nothing while Antifa thugs violently attack conservative students at UC Davis.  Who's responsible for this?  There needs to be lawsuits filed, right along with criminal charges, and officials need to be fired.  

The number of rulings from SCOTUS and these rogue district court justices has been coming fast and furious, and this one, The Supreme Court affirms Justice Boasberg lacked jurisdiction over Trump's deportation decision under the Alien Enemies act.  This ruling is a mixed bag, and it’s time to fix this by Congress passing a law stating the judiciary has exceeded it’s Constitution authority and has no jurisdiction in this matter, and are now in the process of doing so.  They also need to state this law cannot be reviewed by the courts, which the Congress has the right to do, and has done so in the past.    

All this clabber by the federal judiciary is blatant nonsense.  There’s only one thing that needs to be determined about these migrants, and that is if they’re here illegally or not. If they're here illegally then they’re alien criminals and they have no rights under the Constitution, and deportation should be automatic with absolutely no redress from the courts. 

I find this decision by SCOTUS most baffling.   Supreme Court Orders US to Facilitate Return of Alleged El Salvadoran MS-13 Gang Member Kilmar Abrego Garcia.   The man was here illegally, which in itself should be enough to justify his deportation.  His M13 cohorts identified him as a high ranking gang member and yet SCOTUS ruled unanimously..... unanimously mind you......  he has to be returned!  What am I missing here?  First, these judges have absolutely no jurisdiction over the foreign nations to where these criminals have been deported. Secondly, just exactly how does SCOTUS think they can force the government to enact their decision? 

All of which becomes even more convoluted since now Mahmoud Khalil, who was a leading figure in antisemitic pro Hamas campus riots, and who adamantly hates America can be deported, and he's outraged at this "injustice".  Imagine that!   He lost even though he was defended by high priced lawyers who tried to shop this case to a friendly judge, but SCOTUS has ruled that can't be done now.  To quote Dan Rather:  "Questions remain".  Such as who funded those lawyers? 

For decades the judiciary has been taking more power than the founding fathers ever intended, or the Constitution allows, but now they’ve become out of control revolutionaries, and that has to be stopped, and stopped now. This is a window of opportunity, and it’s not taken advantage of that window may close and may never open again, along with ending all this vile lawfare activity, in which it seems abundantly clear, these judges are complicit in this corruption of the rule of law.  All of which is right out of the leftists playbook for the imposition of tyranny, and the goal of destroying individual rights in favor of absolute control of society practiced by Hitler, Stalin, Mao, and every tyrant that ever lived.   

• Anti-Trump lawfare: yes, it's a conspiracy - It seems certain federal district judges have no such powers.  Federal judges across the country are being cherry picked in a jurisdiction shopping scheme in furtherance of Democrat’s lawfare campaign against President Trump. Its goal is to use Democrat judges who can be relied upon to ignore the Constitution and the law in favor of imposing Democrat policy, subverting Trump’s legitimate Article II powers. In essence, district court judges are imposing their Democrat political preferences, appointing themselves president. In so doing, they’re preventing President Trump from exercising his Constitutional powers and enacting the will of the voters.

Read "Into the Whirlwind", chapter six of Tony Judt’s Postwar, A History of Europe since 1945, if you want to see just how vile and monstrous these lunatics can twist and warp the law, the prosecutors, and the courts. 

This week I have seven articles of my own, and twenty three other commentaries, and I've added a fifth permanent link regarding the national debt, and a sixth for wisdom's sake.  Last week my computer was in the shop so there was no P&D and The Week That Was.  I still wished to highlight the articles for that week and went back and posted an updated P&D for that week, with five articles of my own and seventeen by others, enjoy!

Have a great weekend, and best wishes to all persons of good will and honest heart. 

Rich 

My Commentaries

1. If It's Green, It's Not Gold
2. An Anchor in an Un-anchored World
3. America's “Fifth Column”
4. It's Time to Smell the Horsepucky
5. Truth Will Very Patiently Wait For Us
6. What Does It Mean To Be a Leftist?
7. Pathways and Stepping Stones

Commentaries

1. An Explosion of Green Lies By Alan Caruba
2. The Brumation of Barack Obama - Part 2 By Susan Daniels
3. The Big Reveal: Biden Was Even More Addled Than We Thought By Tim Donner
4. Critically Thinking about Stealing US Elections By John Droz, Jr.
5. My Way or the Highway: How Trump Makes World Leaders Play Ball By James Fite
6. My Way or the Highway: How Trump Makes World Leaders Play Ball By James Fite
7. Democrats and Republicans Were For Tariffs Before They Were Against Them. Or Vice Versa.  Daniel Greenfield
8. Sixth Wave Feminism Daniel Greenfield
9. Thirty Years Ago Israel Deported Hamas. The World Made Israel Take It Back Daniel Greenfield
10. Thousands of Scientists Contest the Climate Scare, Part II, By Tom Harris
11. Debunking the Climate Change Consensus – Part 1 By Tom Harris
12. Thought For the Week By Robin Itzler
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Observations From the Back Row, With News and Views For March 28, 2025

By Rich Kozlovich Tags:

I've been reading how Disney's Snow White is such a Woke disaster, it will lose tens of million s of dollars, and this has been the pattern at Disney for a long time.  I ended my TV subscription a long time ago, and they destroyed the Star Wars franchise, again losing millions, and raised prices at their amusement parks to make up for that, and are now losing visitors. 

What boggles the mind is their continued crusade to push all this Woke stuff in spite of failure after failure, and now, it's my opinion, we’re going to see the public become much more open about why they hate all this stuff. Calling them by whatever negative epithet is of the moment is going to bounce off people because the alternative media has exposed the consequences of “Wokeness” and people are fast coming to the conclusion they just don’t care what these leftists think, what they do, or what they say.   

Culture is king, and we have to wonder if we're now seeing a cultural shift.  It's being claimed the Gen Z generation is one of the most conservative generations because they've suffered the consequences of Woke, and don't like it.  But I have reservations about all these young college educated people. 

When doing man on the street interviews, and in the last one I saw was students on the beach, and they're asked fundamental questions about history and government, they're stunningly ignorant.  They don't know who fought in the Revolutionary War, they don't know who the Vice President is, they don't know how many jurists sit on the Supreme court, and the list goes on and on..... embarrassingly on and on... and these are college students.  That should concern everyone.  

With Trump and Putin talking about some sort of solution to Ukraine, and future economic issues, guess who's the most concerned?  China!  

I used to shake my head and roll my eyes at all the rhetoric about how China and Russia were now big buddies, but they have history, and that history hasn't been pleasant, correspondingly they never trusted each other before and they don't now.  I used to wonder if these journalists ever read a history book, but this kind of clabber was coming from geopolitical specialists also, demonstrating preconceptualism is a mental disorder, a disorder Henry Kissinger suffered from. 

When the dust settles the Russians are gong to be in need of a major fix to their economy, and that can't come from China, but S. Korea and Japan deals may be on the table, which also would concern China since Japan has stated a desire to take on more defensive responsibilities in the region, with U.S. approval.  

But real economic benefits will have to come from America, and that whole potential scares Xi.  But make no mistake, Russia needs this war to end or their economic situation will become so bad they won't be able to catch up to either China or the U.S.  Putin has put forward a plan for Ukraine to put under UN management, with some interesting initiatives, and that won't happen either, but it shows his desperation, and the geopolitical world sees it for what it is. 

The other mostly unspoken truth about Russia is it's demographic pyramid, it's a mess.  Ten years go it was estimated by 2040 ethnic Russians will be a minority in their own nation, and statistically there are less men than women, and with the massive loses in this war it's even worse.  Russian history is replete with wars, starvation, and gulags, and serious cultural problems involving alcoholism, AIDS, and mental illness.  The foundational cultural paradigm in Russia is suffering, and how to overcome it.  That history will never go away, the rest is potentially fixable. 

One of the things that's emerged economically out of the Russo/Ukrainian War is how nations found alternative sources for their needs.  Once that happens, no one is willing to go back to "the olden days", as now these nations have a greater degree of autonomy, and they like it.

Ukraine is insisting European nations contribute boots on the ground to fight Russia, and on the front line.  That's not playing well as they've only offered peace keeping forces after the war is over, which is the usual double talk and virtual signaling by Europe's "leaders".  

News and Views For March 28, 2025

Democrats

‘The New York Times Created Castro’ - During an interview with Kengor on Wednesday’s edition of The Alex Marlow Show podcast, Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow highlighted Kengor’s PragerU video on Cuba’s communist dictator Fidel Castro..........“A couple of things jumped out at me in your PragerU video on Castro,” Marlow said. “The New York Times created Castro, I had never thought of it that way.”.........

Editor's Note:  For those interested, please view by Humberto Fontova file, where he outlines all of this and much, much more, including JFK's corruption in preserving Castro, the embrace of media stars and Hollywood celebrities.  All this has been known for years, and suppressed for years by the Pravda media, academia, and the Democrat party.  RK

Quote of the day - The quote of the day comes via EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin Congratulations to Mr. Zeldin on the quote of the day: “I have terminated the $2 BILLION Biden EPA grant to this Stacey Abrams-linked NGO. The DOJ/FBI are investigating and the money has been frozen. It is insane that the Biden Admin would give $2B to an organization that previously only received $100!”...........

Alex Marlow with PragerU’s Dr. Paul Kengor: Democrats ‘Gave Us Pol Pot’ - During an interview with Kengor on Wednesday’s edition of The Alex Marlow Show podcast, Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow highlighted Kengor’s PragerU video on Pol Pot, which Marlow said confirmed his understanding that “the Democrats basically gave us Pol Pot.”....“Democrat policies led to his rise and thus widespread death,” ......

Well, That's How You Know the Dems Knew Biden Was in Rough Shape -  It’s now an open secret: everyone knew that Joe Biden was cooked—even Democrats. We’ve seen Joe’s deterioration in real-time, whereas the liberal media and the president’s allies manufactured this lie that the former president’s mental and physical health was top-notch. That Potemkin village collapsed when Donald Trump bulldozed Biden in the June debate on CNN. Worse, Trump didn’t have to do much; Biden was slow, slurred, and stupid......... Once booted off the 2024 ticket, Joe and his cronies made sure they could do everything they could to hamstring Kamala Harris.............What a selfish clown. Did he wreck things for Kamala? No. She wasn’t an upgrade. Harris was younger but just as stupid and incapable of doing media hits without coming off as totally insane........

 

Major DEI Non-Profit Files For Bankruptcy After Bosses Allegedly Stole Millions in

 

Donor Funds - A major DEI non-profit has filed for bankruptcy after its bosses allegedly stole millions in donor funds. The National Diversity Council (NDC)l filed for bankruptcy earlier this month after its board members filed a lawsuit accusing founder R. Dennis Kennedy and other top employees of siphoning off millions in funds for their own benefit. The lawsuit states:.........

House Handily Defeats Anti-Israel Amendments From Rashida Tlaib- Thursday was a bad day for Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), a particularly anti-Israel member of the Squad. The House passed the DETERRENT Act, also known as the Defending Education Transparency and Ending Rogue Regimes Engaging in Nefarious Transactions Act, which was introduced by Rep. Michael Baumgartner (R-WA). It did so without Tlaib without in favor, though, and without either of her two amendments included in the bill. ..............

Karen Bass' Destroyed Text Messages Have Miraculously Reappeared - Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is still reeling from the massive wildfires that engulfed the county in January. It’s likely going to be labeled the costliest natural disaster in American history, with damage estimates ranging from $164-250-plus billion. Ms. Bass was not in Los Angeles when the fires broke out on January 7. She wasn’t even in the United States. The mayor was partying in Ghana, celebrating the president’s inauguration, which hardly seems appropriate, especially since this trip was taxpayer-funded. Bass promised she’d never leave the country during her time in the mayor’s office............

NPR CEO's Testimony on Capitol Hill Yesterday Was a Disaster -This might be one of my favorite Congressional hearing exchanges of all time -- or at least within recent memory.  It features Republican Congressman Brandon Gill, a freshman from Texas, and the CEO of National Public Radio, Katherine Maher.  We'll get there, but before we proceed any further, please recall that this is the same Katherine Maher whose long virtual trail of woke, partisan, knee-jerk social media posts caused a stir after she was tapped to take the helm of taxpayer-funded NPR last year.  This clip has also made the rounds, in which she laments our society's "reverence for the truth" as a "distraction" and obstacle to making progress and "getting important things done."  In the hearing yesterday, she tried to claim these comments have been taken out of context, but her point seems fairly straightforward here, and it's certainly interesting coming from someone who leads a newsroom:...........

• The New York Times Defends Their PR Partners at NPR and PBS
• NPR CEO Falsely Claims She “Has No Editorial Role”
• Karoline Maher shoots herself, and NPR, in the foot 
  

Fired Biden Holdover Hampton Dellinger Takes Another Loss with Appeals Court’s Latest Order - A federal appeals court on Thursday responded to fired special counsel Hampton Dellinger’s request to dismiss his case as moot after he withdrew his litigation earlier this month.President Trump fired Hampton Dellinger, the Special Counsel for the Office of Special Counsel last month, however, the Biden holdover continued to fight Trump in court and was successful because the case was assigned to a corrupt Obama judge.  The appeals court previously granted a motion to stay Judge Amy Berman Jackson’s order reinstating the Biden holdover.  Following the ruling from the DC Circuit Court, Hampton Dellinger said he was ending his legal fight with Trump............

DOGE

DOGE Says 315,000 Credit Cards Have Been Canceled, Limited by Federal Agencies - The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) said about 315,000 government credit cards have been canceled or limited by various federal agencies under a cost-savings program.  The Elon Musk-affiliated group wrote in a post on Tuesday that “up to [approximately] 315,000 credit cards” were canceled by a number of federal agencies, an increase from about 298,000 cancelations as of Sunday. DOGE said this was after a five-week “pilot program” was undertaken.  Credit card cancelations this week impacted agencies including the Departments of Homeland Security, Interior, Commerce, Treasury, State, Housing and Urban Development, Health and Human Services, Education, Agriculture, and Labor.........

 

Fort Knox? Gold cams! - Let’s face it—we’ve all got the gold bug. When President Trump announced recently that he would conduct an audit of the Fort Knox gold reserve, it was all anyone could talk about.  A friend asked if I thought the gold was still there. I would like to think so. I would like to think military discipline didn’t completely erode under the Obama and Biden administrations. However, time, technology, and the cleverness of rats mitigate against it.  A gold bar weighs 27.5 pounds. How easy would it be to counterfeit a bar, skim-coat it with some gold, and then swap it out for the real thing on the shelf? That’s what some folks imagine has happened. Others think that the physical gold has been lent out, sold, and replaced with worthless currency or just 1s and 0s in some government account......

 

Europe

New report: Netherlands is now euthanizing minors -Medical murder comes for the disabled children. Again. I mean, we’ve been here before, but for some reason, a sizable enough portion of the population refuses to heed the words commonly attributed to Spanish thinker, George Santayana: “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it,” and so we traditionalists, “clinging to” (as Barack Obama might derogatorily say) life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, are left to scream into the void about how today it’s the retarded kids, tomorrow it’s us.

My Take -  Leftism believes in nothing except hate, greed, envy, lust, and the desire to hold power over their fellow man, and more than willing to use violence to tear down anything that stands in it’s way.   All that Hitler stood for and promoted is being embraced in Europe.  As a result, the flawed values of leftism has contaminated the thinking of Europe, and every aspect of European life. Europe is lost, and will really be what Bismarck called it, a geographical designation. And unless something dramatically changes, it will be conquered by Islam.  RK

The UK’s Immigration Nightmare If Keir Starmer continues to sink in the polls, and if the Conservatives return to power, Robert Jenrick will then become the Minister of State for Justice. Whatever happens, his voice and views on the suicidal immigration policy now in place in the UK must be heard and heeded. You can find out more about […]

UK: Illegal English Channel crossings soar to ‘record high’ despite repeated government promises to stop them - The UK government issued a statement in response to the boat crossings: We all want to end dangerous small boat crossings, which threaten lives and undermine our border security.  The people-smuggling gangs do not care if the vulnerable people they exploit live or die, as long as they pay. We will stop at nothing to […]

UK Employee Fired for Calling Hamas Killers ‘Disgusting’ Robert likes to call the UK “shattered, staggering, dhimmi Britain.” I’ve always thought that an exaggeration, but the evidence keeps piling up that he is right. The latest horror story is about an employee of the Severn Trent Water Supply, Damon Joshua, a sewage worker who, on October 7, 2024, as part of a social […]

The EU’s New High Representative for Foreign Affairs Kaja Kallas’ Old Mistakes Things are looking up for Israel at the EU. The anti-Israel Josep Borrell is now gone. He has just now been replaced as the EU’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy by Kaja Kallas, the former president of Estonia known for her warm attitude toward Israel. However, despite her personal warmth, Ms. Kallas […]

Israel, the EU, and the Perils of a ‘Proportionate Response’ - The new EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Kaja Kallas, is repeating some of the errors and falsehoods of her predecessor, Josep Borrell: “New EU High Representative Kaja Kallas makes the same old mistakes,” Elder of Ziyon, March 25, 2025: True to form, Josep Borrell criticized and condemned Israel’s escalation in Lebanon […]

Government Incompetence

Report: Medicaid Misspent $4.3 Billion in Duplicate Payments-Taxpayers spent at least $4.3 billion over a three-year period covering the same Medicaid patients twice, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. Medicaid paid health insurance companies for hundreds of thousands of patients who signed up for the program in two or more separate states. This happened when a patient moved to a............

Immigration

Visas for Terrorists, No Visas for Israelis - Opposing the deportation of campus terrorists isn’t about free speech. It’s about supporting terrorists. After the Trump administration moved to deport foreign campus terrorist supporters, including Momodou Taal, who had urged student protesters to take their cue from Hamas and tweeted “absolutely anyone the US calls an enemy is my friend”, there was outrage from the Left. […]

Chicago: Muslim cop vandalizes rabbi’s car, is not fired from the force or even disciplined If a Jewish cop had vandalized a Muslim cleric’s car, do you think the police would have been slow to fire him? Also, we would be inundated with propaganda about “Islamophobia.” But this gets little notice. EXCLUSIVE: Chicago Police Officer Mohammed Khan was caught kicking an elderly rabbi’s car.

Islam

India: Muslim gang kidnaps and tortures Hindu man for talking to a Muslim woman The Qur’an forbids Muslim women to marry “idolaters”: “Do not marry idolatresses until they believe, for indeed, a believing slave woman is better than an idolatress, even though she pleases you. And do not give your daughters in marriage to idolaters until they believe, for indeed, a believing slave is better than an idolater, even […]

Iran: Senior ayatollah tells US that Iranian people ‘will wipe you off the face of history and politics’ Meanwhile, in the U.S., prominent “influencers” tell us that Iran, which is working on developing nuclear weapons, is no threat to the U.S., and that only “the Jews” are insisting otherwise in order to advance the cause of a “Greater Israel” in the Middle East. The only people who could believe this are those who 

Hamas funded Columbia protesters, bragged to hostages about their ‘American operatives’ It was obvious from the beginning that the student protesters were tools of Hamas. Now it turns out that they were actually an arm of Hamas. This supports, of course, the idea that those among them who are not U.S. citizens should be deported. “Columbia activists worked with Hamas, captors told rescued hostage Shlomi Ziv,” […]

Mahmoud Khalil Hid His Work with UNRWA Mahmoud Khalil turns out to have been far more than the innocent student protester — not a leader, but just one among so many — whom he pretends to be. More on the latest news about Mahmoud Khalil can be found here: “US says Columbia student Mahmoud Khalil hid UNRWA work,” Reuters, March 24, 2025: The […]

Middle East

Iran and Turkey call on global community to ‘stop Israel’s crimes in region’ - Days ago, Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, issued calls for protesters in the US and Europe to stop the Israeli military in Gaza. Turkey has joined Iran in accusing Israel of “crimes” in the region against the Gaza Strip, Lebanon, Yemen, and Syria. These are specific areas where Hamas, Hizballah, and the Houthis have all […]

The IDF’s Latest Blow Against the Jihadists in Gaza The British journalist Brendan O’Neill reports on the IDF’s recent renewal of fighting in Gaza, where it has devastated what remained of Hamas’ leadership, and on how the Western media, instead of celebrating, has been denouncing Israel for this achievement. More on O’Neill’s furious reaction to that media coverage can be found here: “Why don’t […]

Hamas Won't Like What the Justice Department Just Did  - The Justice Department on Thursday announced that it has disrupted a scheme to finance terrorist group Hamas. The DOJ seized a little over $200,000 in cryptocurrency that was supposed to go toward funding Hamas,............U.S. Attorney Edward R. Martin Jr. explained that the seizures “show that this office will search high and low for every cent of money going to fund Hamas” and said the terrorist group “is responsible for the deaths of many U.S. and Israeli nationals.”..........

Rockets to Roses: Israel’s bizarre trade cycle with Aza - In a striking twist of economic irony, “Israel” proper finds itself caught in a peculiar recycling cycle-of-trade with Aza (“Gaza” is the Arab name, but Aza is part of the Land of Israel).  Israel offers (and allows in) steel, food, gas, and free electricity to the Jew-haters in the client state of Aza, which in turn uses these resources to manufacture rockets.  Those rockets are then fired back at Israeli residents, where their fragments (if safe) are repurposed into… Judaica. Yes, really......Excuse me, I need to go duck.  Another economic boom incoming!......

 

Signalgate

 

A Reporter Asked AG Bondi About the Signal Story During an MS-13 Presser. He Didn't Expect This Answer. - Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel oversaw a successful law enforcement raid that captured one of the nation’s top leaders of the gang MS-13. This person, 24 years old, had been in the gang for ten years and quickly sharked his way to the top. Based on the documents recovered upon his arrest, he was one of the prominent leaders of this criminal operation. This individual was arrested by federal agents yesterday.........

What Are Dems Trying to Say Regarding the NSA's Secret Sex Chat Fiasco and This Signal Story?- This Signal story involving Pete Hegseth, Michael Waltz, and other top Trump officials has Democrats licking their chops over nothing. This story isn’t going anywhere, and no one is getting fired. So, scream into the void; we’re moving on. It was an unforced error as Waltz, or someone on his staff, accidentally added The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg into this chat on the encrypted messenger app. Goldberg alleges secret anti-Houthi war plans were divulged. They were not, but the media is going to peddle a lie because the chats were real—their contents are the subject of exaggeration....

 

The Liberal Media Is SIGNALing a lot of Bullcrap Right Now- Only liberal America could be more upset over an encrypted messenger app slip-up than a shambolic exit from Afghanistan that got Americans killed. Democrats think they smell blood in the water, as the media-manufactured fallout from the leaked Signal chat story continues to make the Left all giddy over nothing. .........

 

The Passing Signal Psychodrama - How does this blunder rank with prior diplomatic and military screw-ups?  When we finally learn the full melodrama of the so-called Signal 1-2 day “scandal” of inviting a leftwing, Trump-despising, Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg onto a supposedly secure conference list, involving most of the top Trump security officials, lots of questions need asking and answering.  Most importantly, who exactly had Goldberg’s private number, and ostensibly (in error [?]) could have possibly inserted it into the cleared list of participants in the discussions? Why Goldberg, rather than some random person of some 345 million Americans?...........

 

My Take - The above article was written by Victor Davis Hanson, and as usual he has great insights, and ..... great questions.... questions I've asked, and would love to see answers to them, especially on how this "journalist" got on that list in the first place.  It's been claimed this was a "mistake" by a staffer, and I have no doubt a staffer is responsible, but I questioned whether this was a "mistake" from the beginning.  One thing was clear to me from the beginning, and this was a nothing burger from a corrupt media, and Democrats with the integrity of scorpions.     RK

• Keep Dreaming! Mark Kelly: If Hegseth Doesn’t Resign, Trump Should Fire Him

Voter Rights  

 

Supreme Court Grapples With Louisiana Voting Rights Act Case - The Supreme Court on March 24 grappled with a much-litigated racial gerrymandering case from Louisiana involving two consolidated cases: Louisiana v. Callais and Robinson v. Callais. Gerrymandering refers to the manipulation of electoral district boundaries to benefit a particular party or constituency......

Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Race-Tinged Louisiana Electoral Dispute - The Supreme Court decided on Nov. 4 to hear a racial gerrymandering case from Louisiana.  Gerrymandering is the manipulation of electoral district boundaries to favor a particular party or constituency. The case will not be heard in time for the Nov. 5 presidential and congressional elections...........

 

My Take - As you read this it becomes clear there's not one iota of racial discrimination on the part of the Louisiana legislature.  The racial discrimination is entirely from the Democrat party, race hustlers, and the federal judicial system.