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Here's today's roundup. | REPORT: High School Suspends Student for Supporting the American Flag |
The Baltimore County Public School system reportedly suspended a high school senior this year after he pushed administrators to follow the law and hang American flags in his classrooms.
The student, 18-year-old Parker Jensen, is a Marine Corps enlistee and football team captain. He originally approached his assistant principal in February, then the Baltimore Board of Education in March, when he noticed that two of his classrooms remained flagless despite state law requiring all public school classrooms to display Old Glory. Next thing he knew, his district labeled him "disruptive" and "threatening," suspended him from school, and banned him from the prom.
Would a student asking teachers to hang the LGBTQIA+ pride flag receive such treatment? Of course not. They’d probably wind up on the cover of Time Magazine. Read more.
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Former Judge in Custody After Housing Tren de Aragua Gang Member |
The story of Joel Cano, the New Mexico judge who resigned following the recent capture of a suspected Tren de Aragua gang member at his house, took a new turn on Thursday.
Authorities raided Cano’s home yesterday afternoon and took both him and his wife into custody. The couple allegedly offered 23-year-old Venezuelan national Cristhian Ortega-Lopez the chance to reside in a “casita” on their property after he scaled a barbed-wire fence to break into the United States. Prosecutors also say Cano’s daughter shared her guns with the visitor and allowed him to shoot them for fun.
The enforcement is accusing the judge of evidence tampering, while his wife faces a conspiracy to tamper charge. Homeland Security continues to investigate the case. Read more.
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Illegal Immigrant Attacks Bird, ICE Says Get ‘Em Out |
After months of grueling surgery recovery, a great white heron that reportedly suffered a broken wing at the hands of an illegal immigrant is finally free. He is a free bird.
According to witnesses, Guatemalan national Edgar Valenzuela struck the creature with a large rock in January as it waded at a state park. A Pelican Harbor Seabird Station worker later found the federally protected victim crouched in the grass and bleeding from the right wing. A subsequent X-ray scan revealed multiple fractures.
Police arrested Valenzuela the next month, and prosecutors filed a felony case against him for intentionally wounding the innocent fowl. Officials originally scheduled his next trial hearing for May 27, but he be unable to make it. ICE deported him shortly after his arrest. Read more.
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Obama-Appointed Judge Blocks Trump from Defunding Sanctuary Cities |
Donald Trump has talked about defunding sanctuary cities since the beginning of his political career. It was a rallying cry in 2016, and it remains one today.
The idea makes sense on the most practical level. If city politicians refuse to follow federal law, why should the federal government reward them with juicy taxpayer-funded grants?
U.S. District Judge William Orrick disagrees. He blocked the Trump administration from withholding funds from over a dozen sanctuary jurisdictions on Thursday, arguing that allowing the president to keep his campaign promise could cause the delinquent cities “irreparable harm.”
Irreparable harm? What about the irreparable harm illegal immigration causes American citizens? Abolishing sanctuary cities could significantly subdue such carnage, and defunding them is the way to do it. The Left standing opposed is as damning an indicator of their true motives as any. Read more.
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Another Judge Blocks Proof-of-Citizenship Voting Requirement |
U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly handed Democrats a big win on Thursday, blocking the Trump administration from adding a proof-of-citizenship requirement to the federal voter-registration form.
The ruling derives from numerous liberal lawsuits over the president’s March election-integrity executive order. In addition to the ID proponent, it requires states to remove noncitizens from voter rolls, calls for federal agencies to share data to prosecute election crimes, and grants those agencies access to check state rolls "for consistency with Federal requirements." Kollar-Kotelly did not strike down those provisions.
Rather than rejecting the constitutionality of a proof-of-citizenship requirement, Thursday’s decision revolved around the president’s authority in overseeing elections. It stated that Congress and the states, not the executive branch, have the power to regulate federal elections. Read more.
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Russia Is “Ready to Reach a Deal” |
Steve Witkoff is in Moscow, and a peace deal may be on the horizon.
Top Russian diplomat Sergey Lavrov said on Thursday that his country is open to an agreement to end its war in Ukraine. The comment came hours after Donald Trump blasted Vladimir Putin on Truth Social, saying he was “not happy with the Russian strikes on KYIV.”
“The president of the United States believes, and I think rightly so, that we are moving in the right direction,” Lavrov said during a CBS Face the Nation interview. “The statement by the president mentions a deal, and we are ready to reach a deal.”
The aforementioned Thursday Kyiv attack, one of the largest aerial assaults on the Ukrainian capital in months, killed at least 12 people and injured over 70. Russia pivoting from executing that strike to earnestly seeking peace would be quite the 180. Read more and watch the interview here.
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CHARLIE KIRK: Crackdowns on Israel Criticism Could Fuel Anti-Semitism |
Anti-Semitism is wrong, and it’s good that many of America’s leaders seem to care about preventing its spread. But they may be causing more harm than they realize.
Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk made the potent observation on Thursday that punishing individuals who criticize the Israeli government, which is vastly different from spreading anti-Jewish slander, could accidentally whip people into a hateful frenzy over frustrations about our “special ally’s” disproportionate influence in Washington.
“I actually think it creates more anti-Israel hostility and anti-Semitism when it looks as if such a strong hand of the government is gonna come in,” Kirk said about the Trump administration detaining a doctoral student who penned an op-ed criticizing the Netanyahu government. He prefaced his statement by describing himself as “very pro-Israel,” which is provably true.
Think about what Kirk is saying. It is rooted in basic common sense. Doing something wrong on someone else’s behalf won’t cause people to have sympathy for that party. It will cause them to resent it. That’s not good for anybody.
Read more and hear the comments here.
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Lawn Mower Destroys Entire Home |
A Kentucky family has reportedly lost its home to a fire started by an unlikely source: their lawn mower.
They couldn’t have seen the tragedy coming. As he would on any other Friday, one of the children inconspicuously returned the mower to their garage after giving the lawn a trim before anything seemed out of sorts. Then bang. It went up in flames.
“I ran into the kitchen and could see smoke coming into the kitchen from the garage. I opened the door, and the whole lawn mower was on fire,” the family patriarch recalled. He tried to extinguish the blaze, but it quickly spread throughout the house, causing the building’s complete destruction.
The accident caused no injuries besides “a couple little burns.” The family hopes to begin a new house hunt soon. Read more.
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David Hogg has been a bad boy.
The DNC vice chair, whose pairing of tough-guy intimidation stares and flaccid noodle arms continues to feel highly unnatural, has dominated headlines since announcing his initiative to support primary challengers to “asleep-at-the-wheel” incumbent Democrats. The party establishment, which Hogg rightfully does not care about, is deeply offended by his desire to drive change.
Those ghouls began unleashing their wrath on Thursday, deploying DNC Chair Ken Martin to deliver Hogg a verbal spanking on behalf of the liberal swamp monsters the upstart vice chair seeks to destroy.
His message was simple. If Hogg wants to maintain his post, he must immediately shut up about challenging his party’s almighty dear leaders. Supporting new candidates whom voters might actually like may only be done from the sidelines. How dare you try to upend the old guard. Sit down, son.
Martin claimed his order “is not about shielding incumbents or boosting challengers. It’s about voters’ trust in the party,” while adding that the committee’s “job is to be neutral arbiters.” That explanation does not deserve the time of day.
Regardless of whatever sweet talk officials like Martin come up with, the DNC’s loathing of Hogg’s plan is not about neutral arbitration. It’s about maintaining the status quo. Never forget that Joe Biden, the man the party protected, defended, and lied about until the bitter end, secretly promised rich donors that “nothing would fundamentally change” if they sent him to the White House. That’s what the establishment craves. No fundamental change. Corporate, lobbyist, and neocon rule forever. Hogg wants to fight that, so they’re smacking him down.
Separate from being harmful to the country, this obsessive urge to continuously protect the powerful is an insane electoral strategy. Any attentive observer could tell you that lovingly and unconditionally embracing incumbent Democrats is not in the liberal party’s interest. Only 23% of Americans under 30 approve of those lawmakers, and just 39% of Democrats think their leaders will support the right policies to help the economy. That is not a recipe for winning elections. But they cling to it anyway.
This is the part where Republicans sit back, kick their feet up, and watch their opposition implode. David Hogg’s strategy could potentially hurt the GOP if Democrats would get out of their own way and implement it. But they won’t. Status quo over everything. |
April 25, 2019: Joe Biden launches his presidential campaign. The former senator, vice president, and Iraq War blowhard announced his candidacy in a video titled “America Is An Idea,” in which he claimed to know the Declaration of Independence’s “We hold these truths” line “by heart.” That, of course, was a hilarious hyperbole. He clearly does not know the thing.
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