Liberty & Prosperity Blog

This week, W e T he P eople were given some inspiration through the examples of others. One source of inspiration is Chaya Raichik, the powerhouse behind the Twitter account LibsOfTikTok . Recently, she decided to take a weapon away from those who potentially could imperil her, even to the point of losing her livelihood. Adam Coleman tells the story of why Raichik has put it all on the line for what she thinks is important and right. Coleman wrote "Even in anonymity, there’s the fear your secret will be uncovered, and that secret becomes the main weapon your opposition will threaten to bludgeon you with. Libs of TikTok creator Chaya Raichik decided to disarm her opponents by revealing her identity this week on Fox Nation’s 'Tucker Carlson Today.'" One of the things that strengthened the early TEA Party was that there's strength in numbers. I remember the story of a woman in Manhattan who mustered up the courage to attend a "Tax Day TEA Party" event in M...

DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is doing his best to tell the American people that the border is secure. People aren't buying his BS, partially because he's lost his credibility on securing the border. Simply put, it isn't credible to say that the border is closed when deportations have sharply declined during the Biden administration compared with deportations during the last 2 FYs of the Trump administration. ICE removed 72,177 illegal immigrants in FY 2022, slightly more than the 59,011 deported in FY 2021. Ice deported 185,884 illegal immigrants "in FY 20 (the last full fiscal year of the Trump administration) and 267,258 in FY 2019." This indicates that the Biden administration isn't serious about deporting illegal immigrants, especially considering the fact that 1,734,000+ illegal immigrants crossed the U.S.-Mexico border in FY2021 and another 2,378,000+ illegal immigrants crossed the U.S.-Mexico border in FY2022. FYI- In the first 2 months of FY2023, ...

It's been nice seeing gas prices come down over the last few months, even if that price drop was artificial. Experts knew that the price drop wasn't caused by Joe Biden fixing the problem long-term. Experts knew that it was because the Biden administration took millions of barrels of oil out of our Strategic Petroleum Reserve, aka SPR. Now that the Reserve has been dramatically depleted, the Biden administration can't artificially lower gas prices by withdrawing oil from the SPR. According to Thursday's Flynn Daily Energy Report , " after almost 175 million barrels or so were released from the SPR, US commercial inventories are still about 7% below average and the SPR barrels are at the lowest level since December 1983 at 775,000 million barrels. And while Biden left the door open for more oil releases, the truth is that the SPR has lost its ability to keep prices subdued. Unless the covid wave really causes the world to shut down, the reopening of China puts the ...

If people needed proof that Joe Biden was a climate change warrior, they got it Thursday. That's when the administration sent the omnibus spending bill that's funding the government the rest of this fiscal year to St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands via a private plane. Biden and his family couldn't wait until the bill was properly put together and made suitable for signing. For Biden and his family, they just had to leave Washington, DC for a billionaire's mansion in the U.S. Virgin Islands despite the deadly blizzard that's killed 35+ people in Buffalo, NY. Biden insisted that he and his family couldn't wait to ignore the death and looting in Buffalo, NY. The pollution he created by sending that single plane to his vacation home didn't matter to him. Joe Biden doesn't care. ABC couldn't wait to spin this as a win-win-win for the nation even though it’s a loss on multiple fronts: The legislation, which provides $773 billion for non-defense discret...

Joe Biden's Green New Deal agenda is as foolish as it sounds. It's both aspirational and impossible. That's the gospel according to Steve Milloy's WSJ op-ed that starts by focusing on the slogan "Net-Zero by 2050." Milloy's op-ed is eye-opening on multiple fronts, starting with the cost of putting such a plan in place. It's more than the Biden administration has admitted to by orders of magnitude. According to Milloy's op-ed, "Carbon removal technologies' aren’t possible to scale up, and if they were, it would cost about $1 quadrillion—a million billion dollars —at today’s prices to remove the 1.6 trillion tons of atmospheric carbon dioxide that U.S. climate envoy John Kerry said needs to be sucked 'out of the atmosphere even after we get to net zero.'" That's just the biggest obstacle standing in the way of "Net-Zero by 2050." It isn't the only obstacle. Here’s what else stands in the way of achieving that ...

Elon Musk just sent a shot across the bow of the ship titled Lord Fauci. With just a single tweet, Elon Musk established a new world scientific order . Elon Musk said "New Twitter policy is to follow the science, which necessarily includes reasoned questioning of the science." Evolutionary Behavioral Scientist Gad Saad poked fun at Dr. Fauci, quipping "The science is anything that His Eminence Lord Fauci says it is. His Excellency is science." As much as that stung Dr. Fauci, Musk piled on, saying "Anyone who says that questioning them is questioning science itself cannot be regarded as a scientist." Remember that Musk isn't just Twitter's CEO. He's also the man who started SpaceX, Tesla and Starlink. It's time to lower Dr. Fauci's reputation a few notches. He deserves it. The phrase "Not always right but never in doubt" fits Dr. Fauci perfectly. Fauci's pomposity is only exceeded by his certainty. Remember this infamous d...

We've known for quite a while that government workers aren't the hardest workers in history. Secretary Pete Buttigieg got confirmed as Joe Biden's Transportation Secretary. Shortly after his confirmation and swearing in ceremony, Buttigieg took a 2-month paternity leave of absence while we suffered through supply chain shortages, including the baby formula shortage. As unqualified for the job that Buttigieg is, not to mention how lazy he is, it's stunning how qualified he looks when comparing him to Joe Biden, the first semi-retired U.S. president in history . When Biden isn't vacationing at his beachfront mansion in Rehoboth Beach, DE, he's vacationing in Nantucket, MA, over Thanksgiving. When Biden isn't vacationing at either of those places, he's vacationing in Wilmington, DE. When he isn't vacationing at any of those places, he's ringing in the new year in the Virgin Islands while Buffalo digs out from one of the deadliest blizzards in Buffa...

Apparently, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) thinks that there's an opening on the internet for another iteration of the Babylon Bee. It's apparent based on their statement on the Supreme Court's ruling on Title 42. Listening to Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas's intentionally dishonest statements is bad enough. It's quite another when we're fed that same BS in their official statements. The money paragraph from their statement is " People should not listen to the lies of smugglers who take advantage of vulnerable migrants, putting lives at risk. The border is not open, and we will continue to fully enforce our immigration laws. " The next time that this administration's DHS consistently enforces this nation's immigration laws will be the first time that happens. Bill Melugin reports that "This comes as October and November just saw the highest migrant encounters ever recorded for an Oct/Nov & November saw at least 73,000 known g...

The more outlandish the Russians' demands, the worse shape militarily they appear to be in. According to the Institute for the Study of War, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was interviewed by state-run news agency TASS . During the interview, Lavrov "that Ukraine and the West are 'well aware of Russia’s proposals on the demilitarization and denazification' of Ukrainian-controlled territory and that the Russian military will settle these issues if Ukraine refuses to accept these proposals." ISW explains that "Russian demands for 'demilitarization' aim to eliminate Ukraine’s ability to resist further Russian attacks, while the demands for 'denazification' are tantamount to calls for regime change in Ukraine." That's a steaming pile of chutzpah from Moscow. The Russian military isn't well-positioned to make such demands. It's most likely that these demands are meant to hide the fact that Ukraine is on the offensive against...

Greg Abbott isn't taking the Biden administration's criticism of Abbott's busing of illegal immigrants to sanctuary cities anymore. Today, Gov. Abbott shot back at Democrats who've criticized him for sending a couple busloads of illegal immigrants that the Biden administration had processed, then released onto the streets of El Paso and other Texas cities. Democrats criticized Gov. Abbot for sending some illegal immigrants to VP Harris official home at the Naval Observatory in Washington, DC. Democrats called it "a 'cruel, dangerous, and shameful stunt.'" If that's a "cruel, dangerous, and shameful stunt", what is it when the Biden administration lets thousands of illegal immigrants loose in sub-freezing temperatures in Texas? That's what happened this weekend in Texas according to CBP officials. According to CBP sources for Christmas weekend (12/23-12/25, "16,476 Total Encounters, of which 2,150 were expelled under T42", m...

This past weekend, the nation's power grid was forced into a stare-down with our electrical grid. It wasn't pretty. It never is when propaganda-spin collides with reality and facts. Democrats keep telling us about the virtues of renewables. Conservatives remind people that facts trump ideology. This WSJ editorial isn't gentle with the ideologues: The climate lobby wants to force all homes and buildings to shift to electric heating even though it is less efficient than gas furnaces in frigid weather. When temperatures fall below freezing, heat pumps consume more and more power. "With a generation fleet that is more nat gas heavy than ever before, we are using twice as much gas to heat homes through electricity as we do with gas furnaces," former Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Chairman Pat Wood told Bloomberg. Population growth in the Sun Belt has increased the strain on the grid—even as large numbers of coal and nuclear plants that provide baseload power hav...

It's time to tell our ruling class that their environmental policies suck to high heaven. The Democrats' plan to move toward unreliable power supplies, aka wind and solar, aren't sufficient in cold weather states. It's essential for all states to have abundant, reliable energy supplies at all times. Without that reliability, people's quality of life won't live up to an industrialized nation's standards. Europe is already dealing with this thanks to their ill-advised 'commitment' to renewable energy. Thanks to that ill-advised decision, Europe is burning more coal this year than in previous years. Europe's commitment to green energy has made them major polluters instead of leaders to a cleaner planet. It isn't just Europe whose environmental policies are ill-advised. U.S. environmental policies need a major overhaul, too. Bill Glahn has written this article on the difficulties we're experiencing here in the U.S. It's long past time to...

In the 1990s, conservatives ridiculed Hillary (hereafter HRC) for coining the phrase "Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy. Listening to her with an uncritical ear would've led people to think that the only thing that Republicans thought about was sinister plots against HRC's philandering hubby. According to HRC, it wasn't her husband's fault that women kept throwing themselves at Bill. It was that danged vast right-wing conspiracy. Fast-forward to today. HRC has left the stage, only to be replaced by another generation of spinmeisters who've consistently that the border catastrophe isn't Joe Biden's fault . Karinne Jean-Pierre, aka KJP, insists that it's all Donald Trump's fault. In FY2020, the last year of President Trump's watch, 458,000 illegal immigrants crossed the U.S.-Mexico border. In FY2022, the most recent year under Biden's watch, 2,378,000 illegal immigrants crossed the U.S.-Mexico border. In FY2021, the first year under Biden's w...

Starting with the COVID Pandemic, Nancy Pelosi has ruled our lives by proxy. It doesn't matter that it's wrong. Nancy Pelosi only cares about exercising power. Unlike President Reagan, she doesn't care if legislation makes the United States more prosperous, more secure or more free. In fact, if it meets those criteria (principles?), she likely won't support it. When President Reagan delivered his Evil Empire speech , he mentioned of Alexis de Tocqueville. In his speech, Reagan quoted de Tocqueville as saying "Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits aflame with righteousness did I understand the greatness and the genius of America. America is good. And if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great." The U.S. hasn't just stopped being good. Under Biden, Pelosi and Schumer, they frankly don't give a damn about being holy, upright people. They've failed what might be titled 'the de Tocqueville Test...

Imagine a GOP without sourpusses like Karl Rove and Mitch McConnell. The GOP would be far better off. Better yet, picture a GOP where Rove and McConnell had major attitude adjustments. That'd be better yet. I'm not telling GOP activists something they don't already know. Yesterday, Rove was interviewed by Paul Gigot from the Wall Street Journal Editorial Board. Like McConnell before him, Rove complained that the GOP Senate candidates weren't very good. That's an oft-repeated line that's been repeated 1,000 times too many. I watched the debate between Blake Masters and Mark Kelly. Masters owned Kelly that night. I watched the Walker-Warnock debate. Warnock got owned that night, too. The candidate quality question is mostly a myth. The most important thing that was missing from those totally winnable races was support from McConnell's PAC. After Masters won his only debate with Kelly, McConnell pulled $9,000,000 in advertising from Masters' campaign. I was...

Thank God for Him (literally) sending us His only begotten Son. Each year, I can't wait to read Luke's Gospel, Chapter 2, in the King James Version , aka KJV, to get the fullest picture of the majesty of that night. It reads like this: 6 And so it was, that, while they were there, the days were accomplished that she should be delivered. 7 And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn. 8 And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. 9 And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid. 10 And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. 11 For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord. 12 And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall ...

People have been hoodwinked into thinking that the televised House Select Committee faux hearings are the only investigation into the Jan. 6 mayhem on Capitol Hill. That notion should be dismissed ASAP. According to this report , "The Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs and the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration conducted a bipartisan investigation in the months after the attack. On June 8, 2021, the committees released their findings in a joint staff report (hereinafter, Senate Report)." That investigation has legitimacy because its findings weren't predetermined and professionally produced by Hollywood. Predictably, the Pelosi-picked panel put important things off-limits, starting with interviewing Speaker Pelosi and the then-House Sargeant-At-Arms. Pelosi's approved minions were told that Pelosi and then-House Seargent-At-Arms Paul Irving wouldn't be interviewed. (That's why Pelosi vetoed the selections of Jim Jordan and J...

Let's be honest about the just-passed omnibus spending bill that funds the federal government for the rest of FY2023. There's enough blame to go around for everyone and then some. Sen. Rand Paul isn't on that list. Neither is Sen. Mike Lee. Sen. Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's name is at the top of the list in bold, italicized print. Just like Sen. Sinema isn't an independent, Sen. McConnell isn't a conservative. He's a squish on steroids. Steny Hoyer's name is at the top of the list on the House side. In a statement that sounded like it was extracted from the Onion or the Babylon Bee, Hoyer said "the government funding process is 'unacceptable.'" That's one of the most ridiculous statements I've ever heard. Hoyer is the House majority leader until Jan. 3, 2023. He's the one who schedules votes on the House floor. If he has an objection with the government funding process, he has the juice to make his objections heard. Wh...

Years ago, NGOs and 'charities' like Lutheran Social Services and Catholic Charities made millions of dollars bringing in 'refugees from Somalia, Syria and other Middle East-East African nations. When that cash cow dried up during the Trump administration, those charities must've switched to a different plan to replenish their revenues. Apparently, that's coming in the form of helping resettle illegal immigrants after they're processed by the Biden administration's CBP. It's quite the elaborate-sounding scheme. According to a report from the Heritage Foundation, "the shocking report is a snapshot of the border crisis over the course of just one month and it shows how the mass resettlement of illegal aliens is impacting nearly every congressional district in America." The Democrats' first reply to this report will be to say that it's just another conservative conspiracy theory. After it's verified as gospel fact, they'll say tha...

Clearly, the corporate media has an effect on how people perceive issues. Nowhere is that more apparent than with the issue of immigration. In December's Harvard-Harris Poll , respondents were asked "Do you think the number of monthly border crossings by illegal immigrants has increased, decreased, or stayed the same since President Biden took office?" 64% of respondents said that it had increased, while 15% said it had decreased while 21% said that it had stayed the same. The next question asked "How many border crossing by illegal immigrants do you think are occurring each year?" 16% said that "less than 100,000" had crossed, with 21% saying that "between 100,000 and 250,000" had crossed. Just 18% said that "between 250,000 and 500,000" had crossed illegally. Another 20% said that "between 500,000 and 1,000,000 had crossed illegally." Still another 12% said that "between 1-2 million" had crossed illegally. Just...

Now that the Omnibus spending bill has passed the Senate , it heads to the House of Representatives, where it'll pass, then sent to Joe Biden's office for his signing. Somewhere, a pundit is writing that it's futile to vote for Republicans or Democrats. The logic is that there isn't much of a difference between the 2 parties. Actually, I yearn for the day when we still had 2 viable, vital political parties. Those days are relegated to the history books, I'm afraid. The Democrats aren't into debating anymore. They'd prefer shutting down a debate before it's allowed to start. That's where Cancel Culture started. Cancel Culture started with Democrats accusing Republicans of being racists or being phobic of one sort or another. But I digress. Back to why the Uniparty refuses to let the government shut down. It's just a theory but part of the reason for not letting the federal government shut down is to hide the fact that government is vastly overbloa...

I love it when a hastily thrown together omnibus bill unexpectedly falls apart at the last minute. I hope that's what's happening but I'm not 100% certain it is. Still, I like this situation better than the situation we faced 24 hours ago. If this omnibus bill fails, thank Mike Lee . His consistent insistence for an up-or-down vote to extend Title 42 has Washington scrambling, proving the importance of a smart legislator who's willing to fight. At this point, it's known that there won't be a government shutdown. There's a continuing resolution, aka CR, sitting at the clerk's desk. That isn't what the Democrats want, though. They want their $1.7T spendapalooza, along with policy riders and 7,500+ earmarks. If a CR is passed and sent to Joe Biden, it will be a huge disappointment for Democrats. Next year, they'll have to negotiate with a GOP majority in the House. That's the last thing they wanted. The Senate remained logjammed Thursday over a...

It's long past time for Mitch McConnell to retire, pick up his gold watch and fade away forever. It's painfully obvious that Mitch isn't interested in the American people or he's got a fatal case of DC-itis. Either way, he's got to go. On his radio program, Todd Starnes suggested that Mitch McConnell had intentionally sabotaged the House and Senate Republicans' campaigns in 2022. While I think that isn't credible, I think it's easy to prove that Sen. McConnell is out-of-touch with Americans. I also wonder whether he's willing to play second fiddle to Kevin McCarthy, who will likely become the Speaker come January 3, 2023. That means McCarthy, not McConnell, will be the lead negotiator on budget bills. That's got to eat at Sen. McConnell's ego more than a little bit. McConnell prides himself on being a great negotiator, though I think that's more ego than statistical reality. The reality is that Sen. McConnell is afraid of government shut...

Before the Twitter Files were published, we knew that the FBI had engaged in extensive amounts of corruption. Thank the NYPost's Miranda Devine for that. Summaries are now getting written about what the FBI was involved with. There's a treasure trove of information on the FBI's corruption in the Twitter Files One of the summaries written is this op-ed by George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley. Turley's op-ed does a sterling job of connecting the dots. Turley's op-ed connects the dots that were revealed in Michael Shellenberger's Twitter Files #7. Saying that the FBI is corrupted is understatement. The thing that's now known is that quite a few FBI agents that left the Bureau quickly found employment with Twitter. That's Professor Turley's focus, as it should be. Suffice it to say that there's lots of material to work with. Let's start digging into Professor Turley's op-ed. There's a lot to get to: "They are p...

Martha Raddatz isn't off to a good start this week. She's getting ridiculed by honest journalists for her interview of Greg Abbott, Texas's Republican governor. In that interview, Raddatz accused Gov. Abbott of causing the border crisis. This is almost as bad as Leslie Stahl telling then-President Trump that there wasn't any evidence that government spied on Trump's campaign. With the Twitter Files now confirming Trump's suspicions, Stahl should apologize to Trump. That won't happen because 60 Minutes is infamous for doing hit-job interviews on Republicans. That's 60 Minutes' stock-in-trade, their modus operandi. But I digress. Back to Martha Raddatz's idiotic argument. Apparently, Raddatz thinks that the borders aren't open because Joe Biden and Karinne Jean-Pierre, aka KJP, don't use that term when speaking on that subject. Forget the fact that illegal immigration has spiked from 458,000+ in FY2020 to 2,378,000+ in FY2022. If that isn...

The deeper Musk's reporters dig into the Twitter Files, the more sinister this gets. Thanks to Musk reporter Michael Shellenberger's reporting, we now know that the "FBI’s influence campaign may have been helped by the fact that it was paying Twitter millions of dollars for its staff time. 'I am happy to report we have collected $3,415,323 since October 2019 !' reports an associate of Jim Baker in early 2021." By that time, Baker had left the FBI. On Feb. 10, 2021, an email was sent to Twitter's Jim Baker. It talked about a reimbursement program established by the FBI for Twitter. How did Twitter get this intertwined with the FBI? It's one thing for the FBI to contact social media platforms to help shut down drug cartels, child pornography rings, etc. In those instances, the FBI would likely have to present a warrant to obtain this data. We've also learned that the FBI established a classified briefing for Jim Baker: The FBI set up a classified b...

Democrats are spinning the Biden Border Crisis prior to Title 42 ending Wednesday. Appearing on ABC's This Week, California Democrat Sen. Alex Padilla spun up a Cat-5 storm . Democrats aren't pretending to care about stopping illegal immigration. They're simply trying to let as many illegal immigrants into the country as fast as possible. Sen. Padilla told Raddatz a whopper when he said "The administration has made it clear that while Title 42 is technically lifted, they're ready to put in place a system at the border that keeps them fairer but also more orderly and more safe. " What's he talking about? The border situation is utterly chaotic. There's nothing orderly about it. Apparently, Democrats don't understand that people pick up on the fact that people detect BS like this instantly. According to Democrats, it's the Republicans' fault that they don't have the resources they need to process-and-release illegal immigrants quicker. A...

Adam Schiff calling out misinformation is like an arsonist complaining about fire departments. Schiff is one of the biggest practitioners of spreading misinformation in history. This weekend, Schiff signed onto a letter with Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse to Facebook saying "After each election cycle, social media platforms like Meta often alter or roll back certain misinformation policies, because they are temporary and specific to the election season. Doing so in this current environment, in which election disinformation continuously erodes trust in the integrity of the voting process, would be a tragic mistake. Meta must commit to strong election misinformation policies year-round, as we are still witnessing falsehoods about voting and the prior elections spreading on your platform." That's rich. Why would the American people trust Schiff, the man that told us for years that he'd seen classified information that was more than circumstantial evidence that Trump had collud...

Elon Musk has deleted a tweet in which he criticized Adam Schiff , the notorious liar who currently chairs the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, aka HPSCI, for having too small of a brain. Schiff picked the fight, saying "Elon Musk calls himself a free speech absolutist, to justify turning a blind eye to hatred and bigotry on Twitter. But when journalists report unfavorable news, they are banned without warning. The devotion to free speech is apparently not that absolute. But the hypocrisy is." Musk finished Schiff off, saying of the Democrat "Thankfully, you lose your chairmanship very soon. Your brain is too small." I disagree with Musk's statement that Schiff's brain is too small. Schiff's problem is that he's the most dishonest man in DC. That's quite a feat, especially considering the fact that Joe Biden and KJP live in DC, too. Let's start by admitting that Musk isn't a free speech absolutist. That doesn't mean h...

Saturday, the Minnesota Vikings played their 1,000th game in franchise history. At first, it looked like it'd be like much of their history. In other words, it looked like fans would walk away disappointed. Trailing 33-0 at halftime, Hall of Fame cornerback Patrick Peterson took centerstage in the locker room, saying "You just need five touchdowns. That's nothing." To be honest, I got disgusted with the team at halftime so I switched to some programs I'd recorded the night before. It'd be fair, though, to say that I couldn't stay away. I tuned into the game just in time to see the Vikings stop Indianapolis on 4th-and-1 with 2:19 left in regulation time. On the Vikings first play after the 4th down stop, Kirk Cousins threw a little screen pass to Dalvin Cook. Cook took that short pass, cut to the middle, then turned on the jets. A Colts defender tried tackling him at the Indianapolis 5-yard line but Cook wouldn't be denied, launching himself into the e...