1. I was hoping the irascible Democrats would get with the program and vote the shutdown over with the clean CR once their No Kings performance art was over. SNAP (supplemental nutrition assistance program) benefits are threatened if the shutdown moves into November. As I think about this, and I could be wrong, I am thinking that the Democrats may not budge on the issue until after the 11/4/2025 election. The Democrats have zip, zero, jack shit leverage right now, but if they do well on the first Tuesday of November, they might be able to get some wussy members of the Republican Party to cave to a few of their demands. Pay close attention to the Virginia and New Jersey governor races.
2. I had the pleasure of briefly speaking with Charlie Kirk at the Delaware County Republican Party Lincoln Reagan dinner on 8/25/2025. I am a big Charlie Kirk fan and continue to watch his show on Real America’s Voice. I approached Charlie at the dinner and relayed how excited I was that he and many other young people are standing up for Christian family values. I apologized for the “stupid” of my generation – the Baby Boomers. He said to me, “People like you make up for it. Keep up the good fight.”
1. The shutdown continues. I have a friend whose 20 something year old son married last year. This year, the young man and his wife bought their first house. The young man is a civilian employee at Wright Patterson Air Force Base and has been showing up to work and working the last three weeks, but he will have to wait until the shutdown ends in order to receive his pay check. Unfortunately, the holders of the young man’s mortgage (also collector of the young man’s property taxes), car loan, and utility suppliers expect to be paid on time. Now that Democrats have had their photo op/sound bite protest moment, I hope they can get down to actually doing their job to get hundreds of thousands of federal employees paid for doing an honest day’s work.
2. Ohio news. We do have an Ohio redistricting issue playing out at the statehouse. Also, Republicans have proposed legislation that would require all mail-in ballots to be received by the time polls close on election day. Democrats are always moaning about how Republicans are making it so hard for people to vote. Really. In Ohio, voters have roughly four weeks to request, receive, fill out, and mail in a ballot. The ballot should be required to be received by election day. The postal service is no longer a pony express venture. Cincinnati Police Chief Teresa Theetge has been placed on paid administrative leave pending an internal investigation of the effectiveness of her leadership. Remember the Cincinnati brawl three months ago? After I read the story concerning the police chief, I let my fingers do the walking on the internet and sure enough there is a mayoral race in Cincinnati this year. There has been an uptick in violent crime in Cincinnati. Of note, Cincinnati has not had a Republican mayor since 1971. The last time a Republican candidate appeared on the general ballot for a mayoral race was 16 years ago. I guess current Democratic Mayor Aftab Pureval, who is running for reelection against J.D. Vance’s half brother Republican Cory Bowman, is reassuring voters that he is serious about crime. I included two articles below that discuss a heinous crime that occurred in Cleveland, Ohio. The unthinkable crime was committed by 9 and 10 year olds. Please pray for all of those involved in this sordid event. Only God can fix this mess.
3. The Westerville City Schools District – school board race, levy issue. If you live in Delaware County and are in the Westerville City Schools District (WCSD is in both Franklin and Delaware Counties), please read the post below from Concerned Citizens of Westerville which discusses the upcoming income tax levy. I have also included a link to an article about the candidates for the school board.
4. Let’s not let what is happening in Europe happen in the U.S. Tribal Fundamentalist Islam is not compatible with the Judeo-Christian values of Western Civilization. As a side note, Minneapolis has the largest U.S. Somali population. Columbus, Ohio comes in at #2. Wonder how much fraud is going on with social programs involving the Somali community in Columbus? Hmm……
It is time to pray and ask God to guide us in countering the wickedness and evil currently engulfing our country.
Today’s themes are A. the violence that is encouraged and sanctioned by the Marxist members of the Democrat Party and B. the deception perpetrated by the Marxist faction of the Democrat Party which is amplified by the compliant MSM.
1. Jay Jones, candidate for the State of Virginia Attorney General in next month’s general election, has been at the center of an “October Surprise” the last few days. Jones, a Democrat, exchanged text messages with a state Republican three years ago in which he fantasized about murdering the then Virginia House Speaker and stated he wished to see the speaker’s children die in their mother’s arms. He believed that murder was the only way to get Republicans to see and comply with the Democrat position. In addition, the same year the vile text messages were sent, Mr. Jones was convicted of driving recklessly having been clocked at 116 mph. As is so often the case with politicians, he received a sweet heart deal and served no jail time but was ordered to perform community service. Half of his community service hours were spent working on his political campaign. Virginia U.S. Senator Tim Kaine’s opinion sums up the Democrat morality play. Although Senator Kaine finds Jay Jones’ text messages “completely indefensible,” Senator Kaine is going to continue his support of Jay Jones for Virginia Attorney General because the senator has known Mr. Jones for over 25 years and the text messages were “out of character for him.” I wonder if Senator Kaine would be so supportive if there was enough time left to get another Democrat on the ballot.
2. Democrat run Portland, Oregon and Chicago, Illinois. Parts of Portland and Chicago are third world hell holes because Democrats let Antifa and other domestic terrorist groups run wild. If the Marxists weren’t all up in arms about immigration and ICE, then they would just glom on to some other “orange man bad” outrage – remember the 2020 Summer of Love? Governor Kotek of Oregon is blaming anyone physically assaulted by protestors for “antagonizing” the Leftist goon squads and Governor Pritzker is blaming ICE for “just picking up brown and black people.” A blubber butt, white, male, billionaire Democrat Governor talking brown and black makes me smirk at the man’s duplicity.
3. Democrat deceitful shenanigans regarding the shutdown. The Democrats are currently reminding Republicans that undocumented illegal immigrants are not nor have they ever been eligible to receive federal subsidies. This is true. What the Democrats have wily neglected to inform the American taxpayers of is that the Biden autopen signed a multitude of executive orders that bypassed congress and left the taxpayer on the hook by administratively moving individuals who entered the country illegally from an undocumented and thus “illegally present” status to a “legally present” status by granting various types of immigrant parole. The One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB) removed roughly 2.8 million illegal aliens from executive fiat parole status and this is one of the reasons the Democrats won’t sign on to a clean CR. The Democrats want their bill because they want to protect the “legally present” status of the Biden Administration parolees. The Democrat spending bill rescinds subtitle B in Title 7 of the OBBB. Democrats are quite artful magicians in their attempts to fool the American public.
4. On a positive note, Kash Patel cut FBI ties with the Southern Poverty Law Center. Also, Hung Cao was confirmed by the U.S. Senate last week as the U.S. Navy Undersecretary. Undersecretary Cao ran against Tim Kaine last year for a Virginia U.S. Senate seat.
I have two themes running in today’s post. Number 1: if you elect stupid ideologues, you can expect stupid ideology driven results. Number 2: If you support individuals with good old common sense, then you can expect results that echo common sense.
1. The Marxist Democratic Party now owns the current government shutdown.
2. Des Moines, Iowa is Iowa’s largest city and has the state’s largest school district. Although the state is often considered a conservative bastion, it is not. Marxists have been on the move for decades and own the educational establishment. The scandal going on with the Des Moines, Iowa School District is as follows. Last week, ICE arrested the now former superintendent of the district, Dr. Ian Roberts. Agents found a hunting knife, loaded hand gun, and $3,000 cash in Dr. Roberts vehicle after a chase. Dr. Roberts was born in Guyana, South America and last entered the U.S. legally in 1999 on a student visa. Dr. Roberts has not had a valid work authorization since 2020. In May 2024, Dr. Roberts was a no show for his final immigration hearing and a deportation order was handed down. In 2023, the Des Moines School District put out a nationwide search for a superintendent. Dr. Roberts was hired and obtained a license for the job from the Iowa Board of Educational Examiners before his July 2023 start date. Currently, the entertainment is in watching everybody point the finger at everyone else for failure to vet Dr. Roberts properly. The Chair of the Des Moines School Board, Jackie Norris, who is running on the Democratic Ticket for an Iowa U.S. Senate seat next year, has been out and about asking the public to tone down the rhetoric while bloviating about radical empathy and restorative justice. Jackie is a true Woketopia warrior. Additionally, illegal alien Dr. Ian Roberts has been a registered Democratic voter in the State of Maryland since 2012. Didn’t Democrats tell us illegal aliens never vote in federal U.S. elections? Yet again, another conspiracy theory has been proven true.
3. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth rocks. He gathered his top dogs together in D.C. this week and told them how things are. Common sense rules the military. There is now ONE standard for combat readiness and the standard applies equally to everyone. If a woman can perform the physical duties required for combat readiness, then she is one of the team. If she cannot, then she will be reassigned. It’s as simple as that.
4. Gotta love the State of Oklahoma. The Oklahoma State Police partnered with ICE last month conducing an Operation Guardian sweep along Interstate 40 in western Oklahoma. More than 120 illegal aliens were caught driving 18 wheelers with CDL’s issued by sanctuary states. The State of New York managed to issue a CDL with “no name given” inscribed on the line where a name should have appeared.
Update to Monday’s post – Senator Dick Durbin has declined to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award from Cardinal Cupich of the Archdiocese of Chicago at a November fundraising event. The award was causing consternation among both Catholic priests and laity as Senator Durbin is an ardent supporter of abortion. p2d
