NEXT, ALL DOUBLE-YOLK EGGS: Swalwell declares ‘all crashes are Trump’s fault’ as he doubles down on plane disaster blame game.
February 17, 2025
MEET THE EMPEROR PENGUIN: Why anybody or any creature would be found in the Antarctic region of the Earth is beyond me, but there are some rather amazing animals there. Regardless of your views on evolution, ID, etc., check out this John 10:10 video on HillFaith detailing the remarkable ways the largest of the multiple Penguin types keeps warm. We do live in a wondrous world, regardless how you think it came to be.
TWO CHINAS:
Rubio’s State Department has changed the content of its fact-sheet on Taiwan from the previous administration:
While still opposing "any unilateral changes to the status quo from either side," it has dropped the phrase "we don’t support Taiwan independence”
🇺🇸🇨🇳🇹🇼 pic.twitter.com/8LNaXNx0fR
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) February 16, 2025
More to come, I’m sure.
WHY DO THEIR OPINIONS MATTER? ‘Manifest Destiny’ on Mars: Trump’s remark stirs up disagreements in astronomy community.
GLENN ALLUDED TO THIS, NOW THE WHOLE STORY: I Can’t Believe This New York Times Headline Is Real.
ONGOING RACIAL DISCRIMINATION BY ‘THE PHD PROJECT”? 11 universities in NC, and many others across America, are paying $3,000-$5,000 a year to be part of a group holding conferences that specifically exclude whites and Asians.
Grutter and the subsequent 25 years of lies about racial preferences has been nearly as destructive to race relations as the previous iteration of “separate but equal.” It’s probably O’Connor’s greatest mistake.
CENSORSHIP ON THE GOVERNMENT’S DIME: National Science Foundation granted George Washington University $5 million to stop ‘misinformation.’
HOW THE MIGHTY HAS FALLEN: Broadcom, TSMC reportedly exploring deals that would split up Intel. “Broadcom is reportedly considering an acquisition of Intel’s chip-design and marketing business, and would want a partner for the company’s manufacturing business, while TSMC is reportedly looking at controlling some or all of Intel’s chip plants, potentially as part of an investor consortium.”
Update: Typos corrected!
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Trump’s Genius for Trolling the Dems Just Keeps Getting Better. “While those of us who voted for Trump are resting comfortably at night now that the adults are back in charge, the Dems are stalking his every move and utterance in search of their next useless tantrum.”
JOHN KASS: Boss Madigan Goes Down. “I opposed the Combine, the insular corruption of Illinois, the crooked lawyers, and especially the corrupt journalism of Springfield and Chicago that fawned over Boss Madigan and other political leaders over the decades, all those Combine jackals and hyenas laughing. It fed hopelessness and profound cynicism of the people.”
Plus: “States like Illinois, California, New York, and Michigan are political cesspools. Yet, they contribute quite a bit to the gross domestic product of the United States. Imagine what the US GDP would be if those states weren’t corrupt cesspools and were trying to empower businesses.”
TRUMP’S SO COLD-HEARTED, FIRING ALL THOSE GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES:
WATCH: Former President Obama once spoke about cutting wasteful spending through sweeping executive action, using tactics similar to those President Trump and DOGE boss @elonmusk are employing today to save taxpayers billions. The difference? This time, Democrats are freaking out pic.twitter.com/6tHsTO5Vjx
— Fox News (@FoxNews) February 16, 2025
REMINDER:
Never ever forget that CA Gov. Gavin Newsom locked down the entire state of 40M Californians for 3 years; he arrested people taking a run outside, and paddle boarding, while he dined in Napa, vacationed in Cabo and Costa Rica, and ordered K-12 school kids and babies to take the… https://t.co/mVlhN312SU
— Katy Grimes (@KATYSaccitizen) February 17, 2025
WHEN IN THE COURSE OF HUMAN EVENTS…:
Al Sharpton:
“Can you imagine if Thomas Jefferson tried to overthrow the government?”
— Ian Jaeger (@IanJaeger29) February 16, 2025
YES:
What’s happening in DC right now is what an actual transfer of power looks like. The political right hasn’t engaged in exercising real authority over the exec branch in so long (eg: we elect GOP presidents who sit atop a thoroughly Democratic infrastructure that undermines them… https://t.co/YBQB79NgCV
— Rachel Bovard (@rachelbovard) February 15, 2025
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.”
ICYMI: Roger Kimball: Trump, Musk, and the Deep State: The Battle Over Transparency Begins. “Trump and Musk are unraveling the deep state’s secrets at record speed, and the left is panicking—wielding emergency orders, judicial overreach, and legal theatrics to stop the exposure.”
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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.
DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES: Fire-Ravaged California Spending Nearly $10 Billion on Health Care for Illegal Aliens.
About 3.4% of the state’s $297 billion budget is spent on the health care of people who aren’t even supposed to be there.
FEAR AND LOATHING ON KALORAMA HEIGHTS:
In a town with only one industry, reducing government is a sacrilegious act. It is one thing to run on reducing government and quite another thing to actually mean it…https://t.co/jYQLE1uhQI
— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) February 16, 2025
The idea of a transfer of power—especially one resulting from (gasp) an election—is terrifying to The Deep State™️ and to The Uniparty™️
Unrivaled, unreviewable, unchecked power is their whole game
And they’re about to lose https://t.co/ClxitjWgaX
— Mike Lee (@BasedMikeLee) February 16, 2025
Worth watching. Klobuchar appears genuinely uncomfortable, even nervous. Also pretty scattered narrative attempt.
Panic from Dems. https://t.co/cRkstlg5zT
— Jeff Carlson (@themarketswork) February 16, 2025
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.
MAKING AMERICANS’ LIVES BETTER INSTEAD OF WORSE: Trump Officially Ends Biden-Era War On American Appliances.
FAIL, BRITANNIA: UK Quran Burner in Jail as His Stabber Is Released on Bail.