Border czar Tom Homan’s message for the Pope
Border czar Tom Homan is a lifelong Catholic, but he obviously doesn’t subscribe to the doctrine of papal infallibility.
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Border czar Tom Homan’s message for the Pope
Border czar Tom Homan is a lifelong Catholic, but he obviously doesn’t subscribe to the doctrine of papal infallibility. Homan just suggested that Pope Francis might want to put a sock in it when it comes to his harsh criticism of the Trump Administration for deporting illegal aliens. Homan told Newsmax that the Pope needs to understand that security on the border saves lives. It means fewer women being raped by the cartels, fewer children drowning in the river and fewer Americans dying of fentanyl.
He also pointed out the hypocrisy of Vatican City’s own tight security: “They have a wall around the Vatican. And if you illegally enter the Vatican, the crime is serious — you’ll be charged with a serious crime, be jailed. So he can protect the Vatican where he lives, he can build a wall where he lives, but American people are not allowed that? No.”
Homan suggested that the Pope “ought to stick to the Catholic church and fix that, that’s a mess.”
He couldn’t have been clearer if he’d written down those comments and nailed them to the church door.
Hegseth revokes Gen. Mark Milley’s security clearance
As one of his first actions as Defense Secretary, Pete Hegseth revoked the security clearance and personal security detail of former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff retired Army Gen. Mark Milley. He also ordered the DOD Inspector General to conduct a review into whether Milley should keep his rank as a retired-four star general, due to his actions undermining the chain of command during Trump’s first term.
Milley became one of the rare military heroes of the left with his open defiance of his own commander-in-chief. As you can see from the linked article, he called the President a “fascist,” colluded with Congressional Democrats and other military leaders to undermine his orders, and even reportedly conveyed to China that if Trump ever planned an attack on them, he would warn them in advance. The old-fashioned term for that was “treason.” No wonder Biden gave him one of his blanket pardons.
RELATED: Two pictures that say more than a thousand words. Comparing the medals on a true military hero, Gen. Dwight Eisenhower, to the ostentatious display on Milley’s chest, and comparing their records.
https://instapundit.com/699092/
Most “Democrat” Story of the Day!
Tim Walz went on MSNBC to cry to Rachel Maddow about how it’s been “pure hell” to watch Trump doing what the American people want him to do. Can’t someone please give this man a tissue?...
Quote of the Day!
“If you’re a criminal, you’ll get deported.” – Barack Obama, November 20, 2014
https://x.com/CollinsforTX/status/1883953643369685008
A terrible tragedy
We hope you will join us in praying for the victims and their families in last night’s tragic air crash that occurred when a military helicopter on a training mission got into the flight path of an American Airlines commuter plane landing at Reagan Airport in Washington, DC. There were reportedly three soldiers on the helicopter and four crew members and 60 passengers on the airline. After hours of rescue efforts in the Potomac River, authorities announced that they had found no survivors and were converting to a recovery mission.
This is a breaking story. You’ll want to watch the news channels for updates, or check this page at FoxNews.com for the latest continually-updated bulletins.
https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/military-helicopter-crash-dc-airport
More bad news for the “Trump is a lying liar who lies!” crowd:
A new Rasmussen survey asked Americans who they trust more, Trump or the news media. 44% chose Trump, 41% chose the media and 15% weren’t sure. They need to read this newsletter.
They said this wasn’t happening
Like the Tren de Aragua gang members arrested in Colorado or the COVID lab leak theory, here’s yet another one of those stories we were assured didn’t really exist…
And here’s one of those stories that we hope will very soon no longer exist…
Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s “joint statement”
Sen. Lisa Murkowski issued a “joint statement” with a member of Denmark’s Parliament, opposing Trump’s suggestion of buying Greenland. Or as some might call this, a violation of the Logan Act for colluding with foreign leaders to thwart the foreign policy of the elected US President.
That aside, it’s amusing that Murkowski and PM Aaja Chemnitz suggest a “better path forward,” giving the US what it wants without it buying Greenland, i.e., “From our work on Arctic Parliamentarians, we are certain that U.S. ambitions for national security can be achieved without altering Greenland’s autonomy. We see that in Pittufik Space Base. Dialogue and cooperation can strengthen our ties; diplomacy can pave the way for a relationship and alliance that fulfills our mutual interests.”
Breitbart News adds, “The statement comes after Denmark reportedly boosted Arctic defense spending by $2 billion in response to Trump’s interest in buying Greenland.”
So Trump made what his critics thought was an OUTRAGEOUS suggestion – and now, he’s getting exactly what he really wanted without even having to go through with it. That’s known as “exerting American power,” or “The Art of the Deal.” The fact that some people still don’t recognize this strategy after all these years astounds us.
RELATED: We received a comment from a reader who was upset about Trump’s rhetoric toward Canada, and who was concerned that we didn’t realize how much Canada was doing to stop illegal immigration and fentanyl and feared we didn’t see Canada as America’s friend anymore. Of course, that’s not true. We love Canada and Canadians, and we will fight anyone who says “SCTV” wasn’t the greatest sketch comedy show ever.
(Want more proof? Here’s a digital exclusive, never aired on TV, of Red Green performing on “Huckabee” on TBN)
We just assume that Trump’s sharp language wasn’t aimed at Canadians but at their Prime Minister, who is, thankfully, finally on his way out. As for his hyperbolic talk about Canada becoming the 51st state, we take it the same way we took the “Buy Greenland” proposal: As an over-the-top opening bargain chip to get what he really wanted, which was more border security – and it’s already worked. We have a feeling it will now gradually be forgotten.
Just remember the observation that was made during Trump’s first term: His supporters take what he says seriously, but not literally. His critics take his words literally but not seriously. And look what that’s gotten them.
Updates on J6 pardonees, plus another tragic J6 story you’ve probably never heard
Yesterday, we brought you the story of Matthew Huttle, the J6 pardonee who was shot on an Indiana highway after being pulled over for a traffic stop. Sorry to say, with an investigation underway by the Indiana Highway Department, no new information is being released, but we’ll keep you apprised. We do know an autopsy was completed Monday morning, but at this writing no report has been issued. The name of the officer involved in the shooting has not been released.
But there’s an update concerning U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta’s restriction on J6 defendants --- those whose sentences had been commuted --- needing a court order before visiting the Capitol building. The obstinate Judge Mehta, in response to a petition from Trump’s Justice Department, declined to remove this restriction from their sentencing documents but acknowledged that it will not be enforced.
The wording he used seems like a petty way to sort-of defy Trump while being obliged to go along with his order: “The U.S. Department of Justice’s motion is granted in part and defied in part. The court will not ‘dismiss’ the non-custodial portion of defendants’ sentences, but defendants are no longer bound by the judicially imposed conditions of supervised release.”
Well, if defendants are no longer bound by those conditions, why don’t you just lift them, Judge Mehta?
As we reported earlier in the week, Proud Boys member and J6 defendant Stewart Rhodes had visited the Capitol building to meet with legislators. His visit was in violation of Judge Mehta’s order that “You must not knowingly enter the District of Columbia [!] without first obtaining the permission of the Court. You must not knowingly enter the United States Capitol building or onto surrounding grounds known as Capitol Square.”
One would think DC was the LAST place any of the J6 defendants would want to go. At the same time, Rhodes is a U.S. citizen and should have the right to go to Washington to “the People’s House” and visit his representatives. And now, he’s free to.
This provision had applied to a number of J6 defendants who weren’t pardoned but whose sentences were commuted, including Rhodes, Kelly Meggs, Kenneth Harrelson, Jessica Watkins, Roberto Minuta, Edward Valleho, David Moerchel, and Joseph Hacket. Presumably the fully pardoned ones were not affected.
As FOX NEWS reported, “Mehta had argued that the language for Trump’s pardon of the defendants in question only applied to their terms of imprisonment, and not to the details of their supervised release.”
RELATED: Talking about government officials who want to defy Trump, there were reports that USDA Inspector General Phyllis Fong, one of 17 inspectors general who have been shown the door by President Trump, had to be escorted out by security agents after she refused to leave, writing in a memo that “proper protocol” had not been followed in her firing. However, the USDA denied that security was involved and said she left of her own accord.
As for all the other bureaucrats who are refusing to leave or resign, and who are defiantly vowing to stay in place and “resist” the President’s agenda, Mark Tapscott of PJ Media has five words for them: “The Pendleton Act of 1883.” It’s the law that established the rules of what was then called the Civil Service Commission and is now the Office of Personnel Management (OPM.) It says that that unelected and unaccountable civil servants don’t run the government and boss around the elected President. It works the other way around.
Also, speaking of Mehta, there’s also a story --- perhaps the feel-good story of the day --- about Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram. They just settled a lawsuit with President Trump that requires them to pay him about $25 million, most of which will go towards funding his Presidential library. Trump is going to have a very, very nice library.
This payment is for shutting down Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts for about two years after the January 6 riot. At least CEO Mark Zuckerberg is starting to see which way the wind is blowing. Let’s hope he really understands now where he went wrong.
Of course, the always-proactive Trump never played the victim --- he started his own social media platform, Truth Social, which is now worth billions of dollars.
In addition to Matthew Huttle, there’s been another tragic loss of life for a J6-er, this one in Washington State. It happened last fall but received essentially no media attention; we know of it now thanks to a reader tip yesterday.
Dr. Tamara Towers Parry, 57, died of “multiple gunshot wounds” after answering the door to two people who had come with “papers,” presumably eviction notices. She had reportedly been holding a shotgun when she went to the door of her West Seattle home, but there was no confirmation, at least in the story at SeattleTimesBlog.com, on whether she actually pointed it at anyone. (These were not law enforcement officials and so would not have been wearing bodycams.) Her shotgun was not fired.
Her house had been scheduled for auction two weeks before this and reportedly been sold; it had been in foreclosure over an unpaid balance of $225,000.
But there’s much more to this story, especially when you read between the lines of other reports, like the one in the SEATTLE TIMES. After Dr. Parry’s participation on January 6, her medical license in Washington State was suspended. (Well, that might at least help explain why she couldn’t pay her mortgage and was being evicted from her home.)
The SEATTLE TIMES said she did point her shotgun at the men, but accounts differ. Station FOX 13 reported this more vaguely, saying, “The homeowner exited the house and presented the shotgun” before being shot twice in the torso. She “later died at the scene.”
According to FOX 13, she had also shared this home with her ex-husband. So there had been a divorce as well.
Pictures show that the house had a large U.S. flag hanging from the front window --- perhaps a trigger for some of her Seattle neighbors --- along with the word “QAnon,” which is described in the SEATTLE TIMES as “the name of a far-right conspiracy theory that gained traction online after the 2016 election of former President Donald Trump.” (Note: We have little familiarity with QAnon, which for all we know really is nuts.)
From the SEATTLE TIMES: “A divorce [about 15 months prior to the J6 rally], a multiple sclerosis diagnosis [in 2015], increasing debt and an apparent descent into conspiracy theory marked the final years of Towers Parry’s life.”
She made a video on January 6 in which she described being “pepper sprayed and tear-gassed” and also going into the Capitol. She said, “Compared to what our Founding Fathers did, it’s the least we could do. Joe Biden did not win. He’s hopefully going to prison.”
So far, we haven’t found an account of her arrest for “insurrection.” No FBI raid of her house, and we don’t know why this apparently didn’t happen. But one can just imagine how her participation, documented as it was on video, went over with her medical colleagues in Washington State. According to the SEATTLE TIMES, the video “drew scrutiny to the institutions she was once affiliated with.” Well, of course it did.
According to FOX 13, “After the Capitol insurrection, her actions attracted negative attention in Washington state. Institutions like UW Medicine and Providence Swedish distanced themselves from Towers Parry.”
Here’s a story about that from January 20, 2021, just a few weeks after the riot: “UW Medicine graduate under fire for role in Capitol siege.” It’ll give you some idea of the professional repercussions she faced.
Her ex-husband even brought her involvement in January 6 into his legal proceedings against her: “She has demonstrated that she is unwilling to execute the documents necessary to alleviate me of the debt on the Hudson property,” he wrote in a 2021 court filing. “She has simply chosen to ignore the issue, and instead traveled to Washington, DC, to be part of an uprising to overthrow the government.”
It was five months after that when the Washington Medical Commission health law judge John F. Kuntz indefinitely suspended Parry’s medical license after determining that she had “engaged in unprofessional conduct in violation of state law.” They also had ordered her to undergo medical and mental (!) evaluations, which she did not do.
It’s telling to scroll down through the comments at the West Seattle Blog and see the reactions of the local people, including former patients of the physician they called “Dr. Tammy.” In particular, there were some who remembered her as “a great doctor,” “so loving and caring to all” before she became a “documented and self-proclaimed insurrectionist.” Many were quick to diagnose her with mental illness, blaming MS.
“This violent criminal was a public nuisance,” said one, “whose home was a blight on our community. We should demand that the mayor conduct more sweeps to remove criminals like her before our children are exposed to her filth.”
But here’s one particularly insightful and empathetic post: “...the fed government has practically called anybody involved at the capital protests a domestic terrorist; and she’s obviously ostracized from her community based on people’s comments. Sounds like a person backed into a wall not wanting to give up her home because she’s under attack for thought crimes and called mental for it. Doubt we’ll get the full story.”
The FOX 13 report includes other remarks that show the bias against her, such as this from a neighbor, which we think explains her sad end even more graphically than a gunshot to the chest:
“She was a medical doctor; the family practice and hospitals she worked with had to disassociate themselves from her because of her behavior. Storming the Capitol was not a positive thing to do.”
https://www.fox13seattle.com/news/woman-killed-west-seattle-served-paperwork
A month before the 2024 election, a website called “Crooks & Liars” mentioned her, calling her one of “the sad broken people” who “destroyed their lives for Trump.” Or maybe she was one of the lives that WERE destroyed by others who condemned them for standing up for what they believed. We may never know for sure.
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