WRONG TALKER: Code talk.

SELF-DEPORTATION WORKS: Woke DOJ lawyers self-deport after being told they have to protect religious liberties.

Heh.

THEY SOWED THE WIND and are now reaping the whirlwind.

Remember Sen. Schumer [D(umb)-NY]'s comments of the steps of the Supreme Court after the Roe v Wade decision?

THE KIDDIES ARE HAVING A TANTRUM and sitting on the Capitol steps discussing how mad they are rather than doing anything.

And there is no adult in sight to supervise them. I think we're seeing the beggining of the end of the Democrat party....

LAWFARE: Can we handle the truth?

Read the whole thing. It's damming.

THEY SHOULDN'T BE ALLOWED OUT WITHOUT A CHAPERONE when liberal gun owners have doubts about being gun owners.

TRUMP RESPONDS (TRANSPARENTLY) TO Time Magazine's loaded questions.

I would have responded (several times) by noting the Biden Administration's many failures to follow the law....

OH, REALLY? Sen. Adam Schiff [D(umb)-CA] claims Republicans are the ones making 'LGBT, trans youth' an issue.

Which party was it that 'invented', then mandated the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion [DEI] nonsense?

PEANUT THE SQUIRREL: Exhibit A for government overreach and often callous treatment of its citizens.

I'd replace 'callous' with 'evil'. The owners have threatened to sue. I hope they did, they win bigly, and further hope that the apparatchiks involved are fired.

TRANSPORTATION SECRETARY SEAN DUFFY: There will be no DEI roads, bridges, or other transportation infrastructure in our America. Period.

In my view there are only two ways to make a progressive activist obey: jail and poverty. Poverty (theirs) is preferable; quit paying them.

TOM KNIGHTON: A short lesson on arrogance in education.

ECO-FREAKS PREDICT LIVING HELL? If you need money and attention you need to scare people.

Stupid people. Of which, thanks to progressive educrats, there are far too many.

QUOTE OF THE DAY:

Now I have to note with joy that, not only has Secretary Noem’s purse been recovered, but it was found in the hands of an illegal immigrant, one who stole her bag as part of a citywide illegal alien crime ring. Boy, you can’t make coincidences like that up. Of all the purses in the world this one guy could have stolen, he had to pick the one owned by the cabinet official most interested in making sure he and his friends never inhale a free breath of air in this country again. I don’t mind one iota.

You have to laugh....

NOW HE WANTS TO GO TO WAR WITH OTHER COUNTRIES WHO DON'T HATE TRUMP? Rep. Jamie Raskin [D-MD]'s comment about what they would do 'when' they get back power is raising eyebrows.

Only eyebrows?

STOP TERRORISM AT ITS SOURCE: Just bomb Iran already.

I suspect the Iranian populace will thank you....

THEY’RE TERRORISTS. MAKE THEM PAY. Columbia University janitors sue protesters who took over Hamilton Hall.

The Columbia University janitors who were held hostage during the violent takeover of a campus building last spring are suing their alleged captors for battery, assault, and conspiracy to violate their civil rights, according to a copy of the suit reviewed exclusively by The Free Press.

The Brandeis Center also filed a federal lawsuit late Friday on behalf of two students, a professor, and a rabbi at the University of California, Los Angeles, alleging that several groups, including National Students for Justice in Palestine, Faculty for Justice in Palestine Network, American Muslims for Palestine, and Westchester People’s Action Coalition, engaged in “a coordinated campaign of egregious acts of racial exclusion, intimidation, and assault” to “intimidate Jewish students, faculty, and staff.”

It's well past time to deeply investigate their funding sources and take them away.

THE WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENTS ASSOCIATION DINNER 2025: The journalists have learned absolutely nothing.

It was linked from Instapundit here, from which I coined the term 'smug pollution'.

NOW YOU KNOW WHY Democrats want to keep illegal immigrants from being deported.

Linked from Instapundit.

TRUMP’S 'BLOODBATH' IN THE DOJ'S CIVIL RIGHTS DIVISION is exactly what voters demanded.

Democrats are upset because it's blue blood that's been spilt.

DEMOCRAT SENATOR goes haywire after judge's arrest, appears to call for violence.

I rather hope the Trump administration tells Democrats pound concrete; sand doesn't do enough damage.

E-VERIFY ENFORCEMENT: mass deportations without ICE enforcement.

Another plus is that self-deportation of non-criminal aliens it would free up ICE to concentrate on criminal aliens. And as Kristi Noem has pointed out, non-criminal self-deportation preserves the right to return legally.

RANDOM THOUGHT: Democrats live in a virtual world; Republicans live in a physical one.

CAN JOURNALISTS SPELL? The headline reads "Man bolts in 'knick of time' from charging polar predator outside hotel." The correct spelling is 'nick of time'. So the answer is 'no'.

KURT SCHLICHTER: The Joe Rogan Experience debate between comic Dave Smith and journalist/author Douglas Murray was great for the Right.

HERE'S THE PERFECT SOLUTION for sending Joe Biden's hordes of illegal voters back home.

IT'S TIME TO MAKE DEMOCRATS choke on a big dose of their own medicine.

These people need to be thrown out of office; it must be made clear that their ideas have no place in a civil society. They are welcome to leave the country along with the people they favor, but individual liberty is the guiding principle in the United States of America. We’ll happily help them pack, I’d even favor subsidizing moving them to whatever leftist Utopia they think they can go to or create, but their fascistic instincts will be squashed here.

I'd pay their airfare, but force them to leave behind any assets derived from U.S. sources.

I PREDICT SHE WON'T BE GOVERNOR MUCH LONGER. Maine Governor Janet Mills digs herself a deeper hole after FAFO stage of DOJ lawsuit begins.

TRUMP SAYS career gov employees working on policy will be fired if they don’t adhere to his agenda.

The civil servants will be reclassified as at-will employees, which will allow the government to be ‘run like a business.

I lean toward making the entire civil service 'at will' employees. The Deep State swamp needs to be drained and and refilled with patriots.

DEAR PRESIDENT KORNBLUTH: MIT alumnus responds to her call to oppose the Trump administration.

It's a bit old, but his message resonates.

FROM TEMPEST IN A TEAPOT to tempest in a clothes closet.

Democrats are always full of tempest.

TODAY’S GOOD NEWS: United States scraps the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees [UNRWA]’s legal immunity in major reversal of Biden-era policy.

JUDGE BLOCKS TRUMP from withholding federal funds from sixteen 'sanctuary' cities and counties.

With respect to these nationwide injunctions, President Trump needs to tell the 'judiciary' to pound sand and refuse to disburse all future funds until the Supreme Court finally speaks.

2025 SPRING LEAVES, WEEK 8: The green has arrived, finally. My annual Poof! day -- when all seems suddenly green -- hasn't arrived quite yet, but it's close.

Here are my two usuals, the pond and fire pit views. Note that while the leaves have yet to fully show, all the trees now have leaves on them. Even across the pond the green is obvious.

Up along our road, the house and yard (such as it is) are awash in color. The iris are blooming spectacularly this year, and the other flowering plants are now showing up. The elephant ear shoots near the fire pit have finally popped up -- for the deer to eat apparently.

From down at the pond what we think are orange-flowered azaleas have bloomed. One of these days I'm going to go down and cut out the brush surrounding them so they won't get choked out and have more room to grow.

Finally, the house from down at the pond. The pictures taken above along the road were taken early Saturday, when the weather was early spring-like cool, misty, and mostly cloudy. These last two were taken later in the afternoon, with the sun shining brightly.

Until next week....

THIS SHOULD GET INTERESTING: President Trump has granted an interview with Jeffrey Goldberg, the notorious editor of The Atlantic who's made a career out of publishing anonymous hit pieces against him.

GOODBYE, SOON-TO-BE-FORMER SEN. OSSOFF [D-GA] Ossoff tells unhinged Karen that he backs Trump impeachment.

'NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW' -- unless you are were a Democrat judge.

IF YOU'RE NOT ANGRY NOW, YOU SOON WILL BE: West Coast, Messed Coast.

MANDATORY OPT IN: How to prevent LGBTQ+ 'grooming' in public schools.

BECAUSE EXPERTS AREN'T: The failure of the expert class.

WANT TO MOVE TO WASHINGTON STATE? I don't think so.

MSNBC SUGGESTS Trump plans to deport African-Americans.

Just to prove he isn't racist, I'd suggest that Trump simply deport MSNBC.

RANDOM THOUGHT: 'Rabbit ears' comes to mind after seeing an online ad for 'haring' aids.

A result of years of progressive education -- a generation unable to spell and too arrogant to spellcheck.

THE REAL HOUSEWIVES OF SPACE from PowerLine's Week in Pictures. My favorite is Elon Musk's response:

There are many more. Go see them.

REP. MAXINE DEXTER [D-OR] is the latest Democrat to visit El Salvador for deported illegal migrant Abrego Garcia. "A legal U.S. resident has had his due process rights ripped away and is now being held indefinitely in a foreign prison," Dexter said in a statement.

He is also an MS-13 gang member, suspected of human trafficking, and with a violent history of abusing his wife. El Salvador should keep him.

FOR HER, MAYBE: The sad trombone blows for Leticia James.

For me, it's a glad trombone....

WHAT THE COMFORT CLASS DOESN’T GET: People with generational wealth control America, but don’t understand it. Here's an example of the bubble-wrapped comfort class.

For those of us acquainted with history -- real history, not its progressive reinterpretation -- it's rather obvious when you think about it.

POST-POSTMODERN AMERICA: Older but a reminder is needed.

THE ANNUAL EARTH DAY CONFLICT REPORT: From bald hedgehogs to witch executions to deadly cereal!

RANDOM THOUGHT ON PROGRESS: Civilization has gone from carving pictographs on cave walls in prehistoric times to emojis on tablet screens today.

UNSUNG HEROES: For the last six months Amish volunteers quietly rebuild devastated North Carolina town.

THE IMPERIAL JUDICIARY: The constitution is not a suicide pact.

It's time for President Trump to tell the judiciary to get off his turf and pound sand.

2025 SPRING LEAVES, WEEK 7: We start again with the usuals -- the pond and the fire pit/barn, both taken from our porch.

Not much has changed since last week. The trees are obviously budding out, but I expected more leaves showing. The tulip magnolia has finally lost its last flower, and is now fully green.

The first dogwood to blossom still has most of its blossoms; but the other two near it now appear to be dead. That's a pity.

Last week the trees across the driveway were just beginning to bud; this week there are leaves. Just beginning, but definitely leaves.

Along the street the flowers are blooming mightily.

Here's one.

Finally a trip down to the pond. It's still mostly bare down there -- the pond is always the last to fill in because it never gets full sun all day. But there is evidence of blooms on the east side -- you can thank daylight saving time....

Until next week. Hopefully more leaves by then.

THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY might save America yet.

If all it takes is sheer stupidity on the part of Democrats, it's a given....

UPDATE: Proof.

MAINSTREAM MEDIA attempts to generate excitement over Blue Origin’s bevy of “glamornauts.”

AMMO GRRRLL ON BARBIE'S RESUME: "Honey, we forgot to have kids."

HOPEFULLY A FUTURE NON-SENATOR: Georgians send a tax day message to Sen. Jon Ossoff [D-GA].

YES: The Tish James I know is a bully and a hypocrite.

RANDOM THOUGHT: Over the past few years it has become increasingly obvious that America badly needs to bring back state mental institutions and involuntary commitment to them.

THIS SIMPLE DOGE ACTION regarding the IRS website login button is what I voted for.

SERIOUSLY? IT WENT THAT WELL? Biden’s return to public speaking went as badly as you’d expect.

THE DEMOCRATS ARE SO DESPERATE they pulled Biden out from under the bus.

THE GRIFT IS STRONG IN THIS ONE. The remarkable rags-to-riches story of Stacey Abrams.

KURT SCHLICHTER: Democrats will always side against normal people. Always.

HEH: Harvard University meet Bob Jones University.

The meeting is soon....

VICTORY GIRLS: Pronouns in your email signature? Might as well send that email to spam.

Journalists are supposed to deal in facts, not fantasy. If you’ve got preferred pronouns parked next to your name and expect the world to play along, you’re signaling that reality isn’t your strong suit. So, no—the White House will not answer your email. I’d applaud them if they would move it to the spam folder.

Want to be taken seriously? It’s simple: drop the pronouns.

Bravo, Karoline Leavitt. That's another White House policy I can will enthusiastically support.

QUESTION ASKED: Will Harvard go full Hillsdale?

Question answered: Of course not; Hillsdale has principles, Harvard does not.

MAINE'S GOV. JANET MILLS [D] threw down the gauntlet by declaring that Maine would not ban transgender athletes in women's sports; the Trump administration has responded by withdrawing education funding and suing for Title IX sex discrimination violations.

MORE ON NEW YORK ATTORNEY GENERAL LETITIA JAMES:

Letitia James finds herself accused of the very same real estate shenanigans she charged Trump with.

The Trump administration refers Letitia James to the Department of Justice for possible prosecution.

I think the relevantphrase is 'hoist by her own petard'.

FIGHTING HARVARD and the other cultural overlords.

It's a longer read, but eminently worthy.

THE EVENING DOCKET (APRIL 15): developments in the numerous (now over 200) active cases involving executive actions taken by the Trump administration.

Since I'm now retired, I try to keep up with the political lawfare. Even so, I'm astounded at the number of cases I've missed.

HUH? The New York Times thinks that it's perfectly okay for China to ship 'a vast array of artifically cheap goods' to America but not okay to send them to Europe, thus weakening local industries in France, Germany, Italy and the rest of the European Union.

The mind boggles....

THEY WENT FOR THE MONEY: Israel hit Hamas where it hurts most.

BUTTER, MEET HOT KNIFE: Trump keeps cutting through media's TDS noise.

Donald Trump is a billionaire and the most powerful man in the world, but he's also a guy you'd want to have a beer with if he drank beer. Some Big Macs and Cokes will have to do.

This explains why he keeps winning.

RED STATE: A few thoughts on Social Security.

As I've posted [several times] before, here are my thoughts on [privatizing] Social Security.

IF THIS IS WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE New York Attorney General Letitia James is in a world of hurt.

MORE: Letitia James can’t really be this stupid -- can she?

FIRED INSUBORDINATE OFFICERS reveal massive U.S. military resentment against elected civilian command.

I wouldn't call it 'massive' since it seems to only be at the senior levels, and not 'massive' even then, but military leadership must learn that they work for us, not themselves.

DAVID HOGG [Harvard 2023] is turning out to be a terrific pick for DNC Vice Chair:

Geico Pig GIFfrom Geico GIFs

Hogg's ascension was the lunatic cherry on top of the DNC Crazy Town sundae. Read -- and enjoy -- the whole thing.

HARVARD FOOLS AROUND, defies Trump over DEI and antisemitism — finds out it's really, really expensive.

Rep. Elise Stefanik [R-NY] and Hillsdale College agree: defund Harvard.

DEMOCRATS HAVE LOST THEIR MINDS over a deported El Salvadorian man.

El Salvador's President should put the kibosh on that by simply denying their visa applications. (He hasn't, but he has publicly said 'no way' to his return.)

TRUMP ADMINISTRATION blocked by federal judge from revoking status of more than 500,000 [illegal] migrants.

Were they were vetted coming in? If not, why should they be vetted going out?

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: What was so different this time about Trump’s election?

INSIDER TRADING: Democrats found their next anti-Trump conspiracy.

SURPRISE, SURPRISE: Cheese-eating surrender monkeys give in to Hamas and the Palestinian Authority.

HOW “TESLA TAKEDOWN” ACTIVISTS fool the public.

HARDBALL: Trump plans to withhold all federal funds from sanctuary cities. [Post is behind a PJMedia VIP firewall.]

REP. LAUREN BOEBERT [R-CO] responds to Democrats opposing the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act.

Bless my colleagues' hearts on the other side of the aisle, using women as a ‘gotcha’ for voting. I’ve never had to bring my birth certificate to prove that I was a registered voter. I have an ID that has a different name than my birth certificate.

Since we're using women as bait here, maybe in the next round of debates they can explain to us exactly what a woman is.

I guess that women won't get to vote until the Democrats figure out who they are....

IT'S TIME FOR MCCONNELL TO GO: Vice President J.D. Vance blasts McConnell's vote against Trump Pentagon nominee: 'Political pettiness'.

NEW CHIEF OF NAVAL OPERATIONS (CNO) WANTS INEXPENSIVE WAYS TO HIT HOUTHIS, and I have some thoughts.

It would certainly take the pressure off a carrier battle group.

SPACE? Katy Perry and 4 other women, return safely from 'spaceflight'.

Blue Origin should be renamed 'Vanity Space' and Texas should be ashamed of having granted them a place to play in the spaceflight sandbox.

TRUMP: Harvard has 'lost its way,' doesn't deserve federal funding.

Cut off all funding. It's a private university, let it pay for its insanity from its own ($55 billion) endowment.

WHEN LEFTIST POLICIES FAIL: New Mexico National Guard deployed to Albuquerque to fight juvenile crime, fentanyl.

CDC SAYS U.S. autism rate continues to rise.

A new study from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that the autism diagnosis rate has increased among US children, continuing a long-term trend that experts have largely attributed to better understanding of and screening for the condition.

Call me cynical if you wish, but this 'news' strikes me as the progressive Left HealthScare^TM industry defining autism down to retain power, funding, and control.

SHE HAS A MIND? Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer explains what was going through her mind when she hid her face in Oval Office.

She didn't want America to see her hypocrisy....

WELCOME TO Philip K. Dick's nightmares.

I UNDERSTAND STARBUCKS MAY BE HIRING: David Hogg's gun control group 'March for our Lives' lays off majority of full-time staff.

THIS STUFF IS SICKENINGLY FAMILIAR: The erosion of my home town. Not just your hometown; all of Amerca.

Linked from Instapundit.

STANFORD ACTIVISTS charged with felonies for building takeover.

Make them suffer. There must be jail time and permanent expulsion.

HEINLEIN'S CRAZY YEARS -- we're living in them.

MESSAGE RECEIVED: Thousands of illegal immigrants leave US voluntarily amid Trump self-deport push.

THE PASSWORD IS: Oligarchy!

Our oligarchy....

YOU GO, GIRL! First illegal alien Muslim city councilor heads to prison on corruption charges.

To jail, that is....

COULD PRESIDENT TRUMP BE ONE OF THEM? Declassified document fuels growing speculation of extraterrestrials among us.

If so, welcome....

WHY WE DON'T NEED CANADA AS A 51ST STATE: Canada's new Prime Minister is as dishonest as the old one.

2025 SPRING LEAVES, WEEK 6: Since the forsythia has fully filled out, today we start with my traditional first two, the pond view followed by the view of the fire pit and barn.

What a difference a week makes. The tulip magnolia now nearly completely blocks the left side of our pond. Along the fire pit, the trees are still not showing leaves, and the ground cover is still mostly dormant. The grass in front of the barn has begun to green up and the plantings along the walkway are more active but I'm still waiting for the elephant ears to show up.

The dogwoods showed up during the week, massivly blooming, and are already in somewhat of a decline as the leaves are beginning to show. Seems like they're in a helluva hurry to start summer....

Looking across and down our 'main drag' it is apparent that the trees have begun to wake up. We're seeing the yellow pollen showing everywhere and it doesn't seem to have peaked yet. Maybe we'll see leaves next week.

Until then....

'SELF-DEPORT' gets my early vote for phrase of the year.

THE POVERTY of the criticism of Trump’s agenda.

Victor Davis Hanson's full post is here.

PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY DOES MATTER: Wanting or not wanting to work in factories doesn't matter.

SQUAD MEMBER JASMINE CROCKETT SAYS U.S. needs illegal immigrants because 'we done picking cotton'.

She wouldn't know a cotton field if she walked through one.

MISSISSIPPI? Guess which states fare best and worst in education.

Phonics beats 'wokeness' every time....

HEINLEIN'S 'CRAZY YEARS' WAS PRESCIENT: There appears to be a naked woman epidemic engulfing air travel.

All he missed was air travel.

A PRO-TRUMP BOAT completely ruined the DC Cherry Blossom Race for hundreds of miserable liberals.

I'm sorry we missed it. When we lived in the D.C. area, we went to see the cherry blossoms nearly every year -- but that was BT (Before Trump).

Keep on mocking them.

IT MUST HAVE BEEN THE CHEESE: The party of gender-confused surrender monkeys.

PROFESSOR SAYS it's incredible that Trump thinks people want to work in factories.

This is rich, for someone who has worked in idiot factories for 25 years.

VODKAPUNDIT: They cleared how many fake voters off the rolls?

THOUSANDS OF PROTESTERS rail against Trump, Elon Musk in nation-wide protests.

I'm betting more than half are being paid to attend.

THE BEST DAY TO GET READY FOR 2026 WAS YESTERDAY; the second best is today.

Keep up the pressure.

EMULATING THEODORE ROOSEVELT: Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth headed off to see if Panama wants the whip or carrot in critical meetings.

BOYCOTTING WALMART? Apparently we're boycotting Walmart this week.

Hell, I've already been there three times this week and never noticed. Neither, apparently, has anyone else.

BARACK OBAMA IS 'DEEPLY CONCERNED' about Trump administation targeting students.

It's called 'deprogramming', Barack.

'MOSTLY PEACEFUL' ROCK SMASHES INTO TESLA, seriously injuring pregnant passenger.

It should be a Babylon Bee headline. Unfortunately it isn't.

SCROLL DOWN to the 'Ready for the memes?' section and enjoy.

CARELESSNESS: How Jeffrey Goldberg got in the Signal group chat.

WE'VE BRED A NGW GENERATION OF NE'ER-DO-WELLS: Gen Z branded as 'the ghosted generation' as dates, colleges and employers keep saying 'no'.

LET THE NARCISSISTIC IDIOT GO: Yale professor flees the U.S. for Canada due to ‘rise in fascism’.

And encourage other narcissistic idiots like him to go as well. Just don't let them return.

YOUR SPEECH IS VIOLENCE. Our (the Left’s) violence is speech.

EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW about the Left.

Linked from a longer Instapundit post here.

BATYA UNGAR-SARGON ON TRUMP'S TARIFFS: Liberation day puts Main Street ahead of Wall Street.

FRED FLINTSTONE CALL YOUR OFFICE: Eternal childhood.

Their back-of-mind idea is to make cars smaller and smaller until they can be pedal-powered....

'PSEUDO-DEMOCRACY': Bernie Sanders is tossing out a new term for today's America.

Yes, it's laughably stupid but they can't use the word 'oligarchy' because that's their goal.

PEOPLE WHO SAY PAYING TAXES IS PATRIOTIC always want to make you pay more.

With emphasis on the word 'you'....

SO THEY'VE FINALLY FIGURED OUT WHAT I'VE KNOWN FOR YEARS? DeepMind has detailed all the ways AGI (artificial general intelligence) could wreck the world.

There are no Three Laws of Robotics ... yet.

EARTH TO PROGRESSIVES: Cancel culture is not going to pay off U.S. debt.

FOR THE RECORD, this is exactly what I voted for.

AGREED! Take prescription drug ads off the air already.

WHY I'M OK BEING A FORMER JPL'er: NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory laid off 900 workers due to budget cuts but hasn't fired its top DEI officer.

My tenure at JPL was in the mid-70's but even then the narcississtic elitism was evident.

SO HELP THEM BURN: The globalist authoritarians are playing with fire.

HOW DO YOU THINK THEY GOT WEALTHY? So many of the wealthy fear an end to the grift.

2025 SPRING LEAVES, WEEK 5: Well, finally, spring is clearly underway.

Only two weeks ago (March 23) our forsythia was mostly yellow, with just a touch of green showing. This week it's full green and about doubled in width. It's not obvious yet in the picture but the trees in the background have begin to bud out.

Across the street though, the budding is evident. And along the fence we had a purple iris show up, and the drift roses along the fence line are appearing to wake up from the winter's nap -- no flowers yet, though.

Our pond view is pretty much the same with the exception that the tulip magnolia has dropped most of it's flowers and is now showing leaves -- lots of leaves. Ground cover (we call them weeds) have begun to pop through the leaf cover.

The view of the barn/fire pit area doesn't seem to have changed that much over the week. The tree tops (out of the picture) have begun to evidence budding, but that's about it.

Finally for this week, the pond and house from water's edge. Obviously not visible in the picture (yet), the trees have begun to show evidence of budding out, so by next week I expect the house to essentially disappear from view

Update: Here are two photos of our dogwood trees, the one on top taken yesterday; the one below it taken this morning.

It's the same picture, taken from a slightly different perspective, showing how fast things are changing in April.

Until next week, then.

NOW WE KNOW — Flailing (failing?) is the Democrats' 2026/2028 election strategy.

ANOTHER WIN FOR PROGRESSIVISM: Seattle mayor reveals $47 million payroll tax deficit as companies flee the Emerald City.

MORE ABOUT WHAT THE DOGEr'S found in their Social Security investigations.

In 2021, 270,000 non-citizens got social security numbers. In 2024, 2.1 million non-citizens got social security numbers. We went in to find fraud and found this....

And it's not just about stealing Social Security benefits -- the Social Security number is a gateway into registering to vote, voting, Medicaid, long-term disability, and so on.

THIS IS your modern Democrat party.

JESSICA TARLOV ASKS; Elon Musk replies.

I WAS A CIA AGENT ... here's where the Ark of the Covenant is hidden.

Hint: The Ark of the Covenant was recovered from Nazi possession in 1936 and is now stored in a 'Top Secret' marked crate in a government warehouse somewhere in America.

ANOTHER REASON PROMOTE SCHOOL CHOICE: Tim Walz fights for 'racial capitalism'.

TRUMP TURNS OFF THE MONEY MACHINE to Princeton University to stop their antisemitic ways.

As I've said before, turn off the money spigot and leave it off for at least a year after they've exhibited the desired changes. Let them use their own money ($34.1 billion endowment in 2024) to fund their (formerly government supported) programs in the meantime.

EXACTLY WHAT I'VE PREDICTED: What is artificial intelligence going to do to our kids?

2028 PREVIEW: Gotta admire Sen. Cory Booker's [D-NJ] commitment to the Democrat base.

RFK'S HHS PURGE HITS ITS STRIDE: Employees locked out and executives sent to Indian reservations.

IT HURTS WHEN THE BOOMERANG COMES HOME TO REST: Brown University student accused of causing 'emotional harm' to non-faculty staff for sending DOGE-like email.

He should have sent it to the faculty as well....

SEN. JOHN KENNEDY [R-LA] tosses a monkey wrench at Federal District Courts trying to block the Trump administration (video here, thanks to Elon Musk).

From the comments, a 'should do' for the President:

Trump should simply write a letter to the SCOTUS, inform them of the practice, that it is unconstitutional, violates separation of powers, offends co-equality of the branches, and he will not recognize federal court jurisdiction to issue orders to the executive branch until they issue an opinion on the matter.

That's more that former President Biden did when he ignored the law....

SEN. CORY BOOKER [D-NJ]: Gun ownership is a privilege and not a right.

A 'privilege' enjoyed by him and his aides. Hypocrite.

DEMOCRATIC SEN. CHRIS COONS [D-DE]: Your 'average middle American' is too stupid to find Greenland on a map.

Replace 'average middle American' with 'average Democrat politician' and the quote would be more accurate. I also blame the Department of Education.

GUN CONTROL REALITY: the case for trans-identified people to own firearms.

THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT and narcissistic poltroons.

Read it and you'll understand the lede above.

NOW I UNDERSTAND why we haven't had any success in contacting Social Security about an error they made three years ago in my wife's social security account: they've been busy registering illegal aliens.

FIND HIM, CONVICT HIM, and sentence him to jail time.

No more of these 'woke' shits skating....

TRUMP ORDER ON SMITHSONIAN to target funds to programs with 'improper ideology'.

Unfortunately Trump's right, and this goes back long before the first Trump administration. My wife and I visited American Indian Museum (on the Mall is DC) within a year or two of its opening in 2004. It was an over-'woke' mess even then. We gave up and walked out.

THREE GROUPS that could have prevented the stench being uncovered by DOGE.

To no one's surprise, all three have significant presence within the bureaucratic deep state.

FULL DISCLOSURE -- I WAS BORN OVERSEAS: Rep. Thomas Massie [R-KY] introduces bill requiring federal candidates to disclose dual citizenship.

So I think I'm going to check to see if I still retain dual citizenship -- just in case....