Half the Field

The NCAA Tournament is down to the Final Four, and the much vaunted Southeastern Conference did not disappoint. Two of the remaining teams are from this best ever conference, with one inevitably reaching the championship game. I would say Florida would be that team, with Auburn's best player Johni Broome battling persistent injuries, that were aggravated during the Final Eight contest against Michigan State. My heart is with Auburn, but my mind is screaming "Gators". 

Kind of Leadership

If Federal judges obstruct the President at every turn as they are doing to Trump, America essentially ends up with a void in leadership. This situation would be different in scope and scale to the Biden regime where there was not an absence of direction, but rather just the case where Americans did not know who was leading. With old Joe's mental decline, it was obviously not him, but it remains in question who was leading the cabal.

Absolutely Powerless Presidency

Do you think our Constitution created a Commander-in-Chief who is not permitted to lead? How about Founding Fathers who conceived of Courts meant to shackle the executive branch? These events did NOT happen. President Trump is not acting as a dictator or king but simply trying to abide by the wishes of the millions of Americans who voted him into office. 

Trust Your Cat?

My mother had a Siamese cat that lived over twenty years. When I was a little boy, this gorgeous animal would come nuzzle me, purring in seemingly absolute contentment. Then this mercurial fellow out of nowhere would nip me with his razor-sharp teeth. Mom would say "that's a Siamese for you", but from my experience, many different breeds of feline will turn on a dime from a loving playmate into a biting nightmare. 

Cowboys and Horses

A stallion might try to kick your head in, but he will be honest about it. Maybe, most riders love their mounts because a steed never lied to anybody. If only people possessed the integrity of equines. 

In On It

The Washington press corps that was covering Biden were part and parcel members of the plot to cover up Joe's mental decline. They accepted submitting their questions in advance in the few venues fading Biden actually answered anything. The reporters knew this practice was NOT normal, and it should have been unacceptable to them, a red flag that something was deeply amiss within the White House, and it should have been reported to the public immediately rather than held back for over three years. A conspiracy of silence was entered into by the dinosaur media that was against journalistic ethics (such as they are) and against the public's interest and even compromised the safety of our nation. America should not have had an empty suit puppet at the helm. Reporters owed it to the country to reveal fading Joe's increasing incapacity. 

Makes No Difference

Whatever was shared intentionally or accidentally about America's attack plans for the Iran-proxy Houthis in Yemen will not alter the course or outcome of the campaign. Our military will simply overpower the seventh-century throwbacks there and the Iranians pulling their strings. 

Best Basketball Conference

An unprecedented fourteen teams out of the sixteen competing in the Southeastern Conference (SEC) secured bids to this season's NCAA men's basketball tournament. We are now down to the final sixteen vying for the trophy, and almost half that have survived and advanced are from the still dominating SEC. It will mean little if a team representing the conference does not win the national title, but so far the league has lived up to the high expectations of the fans. 

Foolish Judicial Coup

Do you think that the people will side with the President who received over seventy-five million votes or the judges who nobody voted into power? Is a "Constitutional crisis" erupting? Quite possibly, but it is NOT Trump who is sparking it. It is the black-robed despots igniting an event they will come to regret. 

Trump the Scofflaw

The President has the duty to protect the nation. If a court or more broadly the Courts enfeeble Trump, then it is his moral obligation to ignore the constraints they are imposing. Will this be a Constitutional crisis? You bet, one caused entirely by an overreaching judiciary. 

Count on Roberts?

Donald Trump is hoping that the United States Supreme Court will quickly rule on the injunctions that Federal judges have imposed on the new administration to restrain action in a manner and scope never heretofore imposed on any American President. Trump should not believe the Chief Justice John Roberts will rule in his favor. Roberts has been called "a conservative jurist", but since he rose to lead the Court, his decisions have been anything but favoring the Right on everything except abortion. I think Roberts will smack down Trump at every opportunity, either because he wants to reserve power for the judiciary and against the executive and legislative branches, or Roberts really deplores Trump and feels for the good of the Nation that he must hem the President in, or as has been speculated, Roberts is the victim of kompromat and must follow the instructions he is receiving. Trump wants rulings soon and to his favor, but he will never get them from the nation's highest court. 

Judicial Activists Flourish

The United States has a pragmatic conservative President trying to restore the nation to a solid foundation. What sort of judge would strive to prevent that? Radical Marxists now inhabit a substantial portion of the Federal judiciary. 

The Powerless Presidency?

Do you think the Founding Fathers envisioned or the Constitution demands an executive branch blocked by the judiciary at every turn? I know what is happening now. It is not Trump who is "out of control", but the so-called "judges" who stymie the President at every step. 

Definitely the Best

John Wooden deserves even more credit than he has received as the greatest collegiate men's basketball coach. Some discount his accomplishments as only happening because of the level of talent UCLA had. Wooden recruited those players and in a clean and scrupulous way. He was not sending anyone envelops of cash that did happen at some major programs. It helped that he had all-time great players on his rosters, but he brought them there and nurtured their innate abilities. Wooden won his initial title before the cavalcade of superstars started coming to his campus. Wooden towers over all the other men's college basketball coaches. 

Built the Wall

Trump has not yet completed the wall at America's border. Activist judges are completing a wall around Trump to block him from governing the United States. He has more injunctions against him than all the previous Presidents combined, twice as many in fact in a few short months as any President who served out full terms, including FDR who was in the highest office over twelve years. Set our President free, so that he may keep the citizens free. 

No More Grace

President Trump is tired of the pirates of Yemen. He will no longer tolerate the terror that has heretofore emanated from the Houthis. This is another stark difference between Biden and whoever was actually running his administration and ruining the world. Trump will not tolerate the Tripolitanian freebooters of our time. The United States Navy and the rest of our powerful forces will smash the jihadist threat into oblivion. 

Humor and Equanimity

We already knew Donald Trump had courage, raising to pump his fist and shout "fight, fight, fight" after having been shot, but yesterday the President demonstrated his sense of composure and immediate forgiveness after a member of the media (presumably accidentally) struck Trump in the face with a microphone. He was momentarily taken aback but did not demand the clumsy boom mike holder be ejected. Trump handled the incident with a poise few could demonstrate.https://x.com/BNODesk/status/1900678131825909875

Higher Tax Threshold

President Trump wants the minimum earnings to be subject to the Federal Income Tax to rise to one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. The DemocRATS give lip service to being for the little gut. Trump actually is. 

Really Against Fascism?

Was the fellow the United States wants to deport just a student activist or an agitator active in promoting terrorism and denying Jewish students their civil rights on and even access to the university that they have paid to attend? This particular individual is important in and of himself but also as part of a broad conspiracy wherein Antifa, Communists, BLM-types, and Black Flag anarchists are all determined not merely to undermine America's support for Israel, but to bring down the United States itself. Should the Columbia instigator be deported? Absolutely, in a sane nation, this practitioner of fascism under another guise would have been kicked out already. 

Freedom's Last Bastion

Glenn Beck is reporting the looming Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) about to be imposed on Europe. The only bulwark left against tyranny is Donald Trump leading the United States. Every other developed country is in the process of abandoning individual rights. CBDC is the real "Mark of the Beast" being foisted on the People, and the last significant temporal force against it is Trump's power. 

Unhinged and Violent

Just a couple of years ago, Elon Musk was viewed as a champion of the Left who was going to save the environment with his electric vehicles. Now, his green-friendly Teslas have been subjected to vandalism and even arson. This is because Musk has made common cause with Donald Trump in an effort to reduce fraud and waste in government. The attacks on Tesla have become so bad that I have heard certain insurance companies are considering not renewing comprehensive policies on Tesla cars and trucks and that Tesla owners might have to purchase liability only plans. The radical fringe is in the grip of lunacy. You don't destroy someone's vehicle that was going to help save the world when she bought it because the manufacturer also happens to want to save our nation. 

Senseless Syria Slaughter

The Islamists who ousted the Assad regime are on a ruthless murder spree in Syria. They are butchering the Alawites from which the Assad clan emerged, but also Christians and Druze. It is incumbent on world bodies and decent people to stop these massacres now! 

Den of Devils

There were good and decent Germans who resisted Hitler every step of the way. Where are the Gazans standing up to Hamas? Where is the Palestinian Sophie Scholl? Has a Bonhoeffer arisen in Gaza to resist evil and advance real and lasting peace? I hope the Trump plan is implemented there so that the area is cleansed of murderous Islamists. 

An Interesting Fellow

My mother and I chatted with a fellow who pulled his Cadillac sedan into a space we wanted at the Green Hills Kroger. His voice had a certain resonance and reminded me of a friend and classmate of Mom's who has sometimes performed with Willie Nelson. Mr. Golden Pipes did not tell us his name at this time, but a half hour later we found ourselves checking out when he did. We were parked bumper to bumper, so we exited together and continued our conversation. Turns out he was a radio host I had been listening to much of my life. Jerry Minshall, it was a pleasure meeting you. You are a great gentleman and raconteur. 

The Criminal Court

Many on the Left were deeply disheartened that Trump installed Amy Coney Barrett as an Associate Justice on the United States Supreme Court. They needn't have worried as apart from abortion, most of her decisions have aligned with the liberal justices, and even on Roe v. Wade her correct interpretation of the Constitution only sent the matter back to the states which have overwhelming gone for the interests of the abortionists, with some estimates saying more pregnancies are being terminated now than before the ruling. Even in the few states that opted against infanticide, the abortifacient trade has surged with "doctors" in Blue States shipping these killing drugs to women in areas where restrictions were placed on abortion clinics. We also are burdened with the so-called "conservative" Chief Justice who it has been speculated since the Obamacare decision has some sort of compromising material hanging over him that has him often voting against original intent, and both these Justices seem determined to bind Trump's hands and keep the Deep State in full operation. 

Hackman's Sad Demise

Nobody alive knows precisely what happened to acting great Gene Hackman and his wife, but my surmise is that he might have died of natural causes and that his wife was so distraught that she took her own life. It has been mentioned they were greatly devoted to each other, and maybe she felt she just could not go on without him. Of course, I initially wondered about carbon monoxide poisoning as had been speculated about in the press, but when tests seemed to rule that out, I thought of a bond so strong scenario. 

Grading the Opposition

There have been Democrats who were great patriots and tremendous forces for good. JFK and Henry "Scoop" Jackson immediately come to mind. Patrick Moynihan made some great points and so did Joe Lieberman. Those Democrats and the ideology that they espoused are all dead, as is the political party they inhabited. It has become the DemocRAT Party composed of Marxists and misfits, sexual deviants and mental cases, and self-serving government employee union members including teachers who put their students last. Their display during the joint session where Trump spoke was odious. These DemocRATS offer nothing to help work-a-day Americans or America- only obstruction. 

The Tariff War

The one aspect of the tariff fight that mystifies me is why are tariffs on Canada and Mexico higher than those on implacable enemy Red China? If one of the rationales for the duties being imposed is Fentanyl, why have lower rates on Beijing where the precursor chemicals are all coming from, rather than our immediate neighbors who are just a pass-through for the evil being inflicted on America by the People's Republic? 

Oscar Against Israel

A documentary few saw or will ever see won an Oscar. It was made by Israelis and "Palestinians". The problem is the coexistence type of "Palestinian" has no authority among his own people, and when it comes down to it, very little constituency among "Palestinians". The "Palestinians" who have reached out for the brotherhood of man notions or genuine steps toward peace tend to be rapidly killed by more radical "Palestinians". The Jews who at this point in time would make a movie with people who want to extinguish the Jewish State are often called "self-loathing"; I would not necessarily say they hate themselves, just other Jews who are striving to survive in a nation under siege that suffered the worst attack on their brethren since the Holocaust on October 7, 2023 and have been struggling to prevent more such massacres ever since then. No, these Jewish filmmakers may not despise themselves but are kapos or court Jews, who will sell out their own People to survive a bit longer or accumulate a bit more for themselves. I will not name their documentary as I have no desire to promote them or it, nor will I ever pay to see any production in which they participate. 

Most Exciting Day

If you are a fan of Southeastern Conference basketball, you must have enjoyed yesterday's contests involving the Tennessee Volunteers and Vanderbilt. The Vols won on a buzzer beater in the tooth and nail rumble against the tough Alabama Crimson Tide team. The hero was somewhat unlikely as he is known as a great defender but not a three point shooter, yet Jahmai Mashack stood up like Reggie Miller at his peak and nailed the thirty foot game winner. The Commodores lagged the Missouri Tigers the entire game until the end, but managed to secure an overtime period that the home team absolutely dominated. Good on both my home state teams. May their stunning successes continue. 

No Moral Obligation

The United States is NOT obliged to defend the borders of the Ukraine. Trump is charged with defending the borders of America. Western Europe is in closer geographic proximity to the Russia war. Since the US saved them in World War II, our European allies have never fully maintained the burden of their own defense. Washington and our taxpayers paid the majority of the costs of protecting Western Europe. Trump is determined that America will not be exploited and that Europe will carry the weight of defending themselves. We do not need to fight Europe's war. Trump is preventing a third world war with his chastening of arrogant little Zelenskyy.