Author Archive: Stephen Green

DISPATCHES FROM THE RED ZONES: Second Amendment Tax Holidays…Because Taxing a Constitutional Right is Just Wrong. “Florida’s new Second Amendment sales tax holiday is underway and will last through the end of the year. Firearms and ammunition, along with archery equipment, hunting, fishing and camping supplies, will be exempted from the state’s six percent sales tax. State economists anticipate buyers will save $44.8 million in the Sunshine State.”

REFORM: Trump Posts Support for Rep. Luna’s Stock Trading Ban.

On Monday, Trump shared a short video showing the Republican describing the need for quick action on the ban and called the idea a “MASSIVE WIN!”

Luna has proposed a workaround to advance the ban, which has been left on a slow walk by House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La. Her plan calls for the use of a discharge petition that could force the House to vote on the stock purchase ban.

Trump’s post was supportive of “using a procedural loophole to force a vote.”

Politico reported that Johnson and other Republican leaders have worked hard in recent weeks to water down support for Luna’s plan. Johnson has reportedly lobbied in private that many members of Congress found it necessary to buy and sell stocks to make ends meet, including covering tuition expenses for their children.

My plan is simpler: Any returns congresscritters make in excess of the 7% individual investors hope to earn, tax at 100%.

Paying taxes is patriotic, I’m told.

UM… I SPENT FOUR YEARS REPORTING ON THIS:

But for those just getting the news, that 1.7 million figure ought to go a long way toward explaining why Trump fired Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer — and all the accompanying panic.

Related:

From the replies: “The economy wasn’t in recession; it was just pining for the fjords.”

CONGRESS NEED TO PASS A BIG BEAUTIFUL NATIONAL DO-OVER BILL, ZEROING OUT EVERYTHING CONGRESS DID DURING THE FIRST HALF OF BIDEN’S TERM…

…along with all the executive actions the Constitution allows.

Sadly, we’re probably stuck with the pardons.

THE NEPALESE FOUND THE SOLUTION TO THIS PROBLEM. WHEN WILL THE EUROPEANS?

I mean, it isn’t exactly a new solution — but I did enjoy watching this update.

MOST CORRUPT ADMINISTRATION IN HISTORY:

He had no idea what was going on.

WELL, GOOD: FBI Settles With Biden-Era Whistleblowers. “Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) has openly supported the whistleblowers in question, including Friend and Garret O’Boyle. Grassley celebrated the new settlement as bringing ‘accountability’ and ‘closure’ after ‘intense bureaucratic blowback that caused severe financial and emotional hardship.’ He also encouraged any potential whistleblowers to see him going forward as an ally.”

ANTISOCIAL MEDIA: Meta suppressed children’s safety research, four whistleblowers claim. “According to their claims, Meta changed its policies around researching sensitive topics — like politics, children, gender, race, and harassment — six weeks after whistleblower Frances Haugen leaked internal documents that showed how Meta’s own research found that Instagram can damage teen girls’ mental health. These revelations, which were made public in 2021, kicked off years of hearings in Congress over child safety on the internet, an issue that remains a hot topic in global governments today.”

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Grateful Every Day That We’re Not Dealing With Hillary’s SCOTUS. “It’s time to once again step back and appreciate that we would be in a world of hurt as a nation had President Trump not been so successful in getting conservative justices on the Supreme Court during his first term in office. The unhinged liberals in the judiciary would be winning if it weren’t for that.”

SARAH HOYT’S SHOCKED FACE IS CURLED UP WITH A GOOD BOOK AND A CUP OF TEA: Transgender Covenant School Killer Audrey Hale Included President Donald Trump in ‘Fantasy Murder List.’

The FBI on Monday released to The Tennessee Star more pages from the journals written by Audrey Elizabeth Hale, who killed six at the Covenant School on March 27, 2023. The newly released pages feature an entry where Hale included President Donald Trump on a “fantasy murder list.”

Containing just four names, including two that were redacted by the FBI prior to their release of the journal, Hale included Trump as the first name in her second column of those who she would like to kill, potentially suggesting she added the name after writing a subsequent journal entry.

Hale also included “Creswell Middle Prep,” in an apparent reference to Isiah T. Creswell Middle School, where she played on a school basketball team about a decade prior. She reportedly considered attacking the school, but later determined to attack the Christian elementary school she once attended, fearing she would be accused of racism if she attacked the predominantly black middle school.

The journal which includes the “fantasy murder list” was labeled 2019-2020 by the killer, and Hale dated the preceding page to November 5, 2019, nearly three years after Trump was elected to the White House in 2016.

Hale was indulged instead of treated.

DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES: Local Leaders Go To War With Colorado’s Sanctuary Law After Cop Who Helped ICE Resigns.

One of Colorado’s biggest counties is taking on the state’s “unconstitutional” sanctuary law after it was used to crack down on a sheriff’s deputy who helped federal immigration authorities.

The Board of Mesa County Commissioners is moving forward with its lawsuit against a Democrat-led sanctuary law that prohibits local law enforcement in Colorado from sharing personal information about a foreign national with federal immigration authorities, the Daily Caller News Foundation confirmed. The lawsuit was filed after state officials sued a Mesa County sheriff’s deputy for helping Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and effectively forced him out of the job.

Colorado Democrats in May passed SB 25-276, a bill that prohibits sheriff’s offices and police departments from sharing foreign national’s identifying information with ICE for purposes of assisting in investigations or enforcement matters. Colorado Republicans — a minority in the state legislature — vehemently protested its passage, arguing it incentivizes illegal immigration and risks public safety.

The legislation was among many bills Democrat Gov. Jared Polis has signed and other executive actions he’s taken in recent years that restrict cooperation between local law enforcement and federal immigration authorities. The Department of Justice (DOJ) currently identifies the entire state of Colorado as a sanctuary jurisdiction.

Previously: Gov. Polis insists Colorado is not a sanctuary state.

Polis lies.

IT SEEMS UNLIKELY THEY’LL GET IT: WA teachers plead for more support in dealing with out-of-control students. “Two teachers from the Eastmont School District in East Wenatchee charged with dealing with students with serious behavior challenges told The Center Square that without support from administrators in their building, OSPI rule changes are irrelevant.”

FAIL, BRITANNIA:

FA, MEET FO: Joliet Mom With an Infant Puts and End to a Serial Criminal’s Career. “Don’t mess with a mama bear. That’s a lesson that one of Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s early parolees learned the hard way in Joliet. Serial bad guy Shelby Hurd has had a long history of burglaries and other criminal activity. After an early release thanks to ‘good credits’ he went right back to his old ways. Fortunately for America, during his latest burglary, he brought a screwdriver to a gunfight with a mom who knew how to handle her pistola.”