VICTORIA TAFT: Another Sneaky Little Secret About the FBI. “Waller believes the FBI could be dispatched with the stroke of a pen by issuing a similar memo signed by Attorney General Pam Bondi.”

ESPECIALLY WHEN TRUMP’S LAWYERING IS SO MUCH BETTER: Sometimes The Battle Is Well Worth The Fight — The Upside To The TRO’s Coming With The Imperial Judiciary.

This isn’t 2017. The nascent Trump Administration isn’t unprepared on both a policy and personnel basis to fight back against the onslaught of lawfare that has been unleashed as was the case 8 years ago.

There has always been a plan this time around.

The Executive Orders (EOs) that are the source of the lawfare now being waged by the Democrats’ Marxist/Progressive allies were carefully written — unlike in 2017 when the new Trump Administration was largely unprepared for the surprising upset of Hillary Clinton.

The EOs that led the way in 2017 — the Travel Ban, Expediting Environmental Review for Critical Infrastructure Projects, etc., — were scattershot, written on the fly, and without having a clear understanding how they would be challenged in courts across the country. . . .

In 2025, the Trump Transition Team had a plan. Dozens of EOs were carefully drafted with a coherent theme — directly attacking the Administrative bureaucracy — the “Resistance” — that strangled his first term in its cradle. There was never any question that the Democrats and the Administrative bureaucracy would rerun the same playbook — charge into federal courts where they knew they would find politically sympathetic judges (GOP did the same to Biden in Texas in 2021) and seek TROs and Injunctions to grind all the new reform efforts to a halt.

But I don’t think the Democrats/Progressives anticipated Elon Musk and his engineer boy-geniuses, nor did they expect that the first target that would take multiple incoming torpedos from DOGE would be the federal programs that have funneled huge sums of money to the left-wing NGOs through a variety of slush funds.

Read the whole thing.

FEAR AND LOATHING ON KALORAMA HEIGHTS:

They’re terrified of the money spigot closing and the accountability spigot opening.

Meanwhile, election-deniers are calling this peaceful transfer of power a “coup,” and declaring today a “national day of action” to oppose it. Sounds insurrection-y to me.

ANOTHER PIG WAR IN THE MAKING?:  Beginning in 1859, the United States and Great Britain fought a war (of sorts) over the boundary between Canada and the United States.  At issue was which country owns the San Juan Islands situated between Vancouver Island (Canada) and the Washington State mainland.

In one of the more comical episodes in military history, “the Pig War”  (as it was called) was triggered by an actual pig who was trespassing onto a farm and helping himself to the tasty tubers he had found there.  The farmer, American Lyman Cutlar, shot and killed the wayward pig, which turned out to be owned by Charles Griffin, a Brit, who worked for the Hudson Bay Company.  “It was eating my potatoes,” Cutlar is rumored to have said.  “It was up to you to keep your potatoes out of my pig,” was Griffin’s (supposed) reply.

When British authorities, claiming jurisdiction over the islands, threatened to arrest Cutlar, a cold war broke out between the two sovereigns.  The 9thInfantry came out to protect America’s territorial claim.  The British dispatched no fewer than five warships.  Though no shots were fired (other than the one that killed poor Porky), it took years to resolve the issue.  Eventually, Kaiser Wilhelm I was called in to decide things.  He declared the islands to be American, and the British, with their usual stiff upper lip, departed the premises.

Why am I bringing this up now? History repeats itself.  According to CBS News, marauding  Canadian “super pigs” are viewed as a threat to American ranchers today.  These very large and not very well-behaved wild hogs are evidently a cross between domestic hogs and wild ones, and they have become quite numerous.  They are already wreaking havoc on Canadian farms and ranches and will do so here as soon as they hit upon the border.

Bottom line?  If President Trump is looking for an excuse to … uh … invade Canada, I think we’ve found it for him.

NORMALLY ON SUNDAYS I DO A POST ON MY BLOG TO PROMOTE INDIE AUTHORS. THIS IS A VERY SPECIAL PROMO POST AND THE BEGINNING OF A WEEK OF SUCH PROMOS:  Book Promo And Vignettes By Luke, Mary Catelli and ‘Nother Mike – Special edition.

You see, because individualists fail to organize, I realized that indie writers on the right were isolated and thought they were alone.  So, I told them to come out, come out, wherever they are, and I’d give them a push. And here we are.

LIFESTYLES OF THE RICH AND OBSCURE: