At what point does a columnist slanting or hiding information to one side become lying through his scummy teeth?

The Philadelphia Inquirer’s communist, oops, sorry, columnist Will Bunch frequently shades the truth, slanting it as far left as he possibly can, but there’s a difference between shading the truth and lying through his scummy teeth.

Mikie Sherrill’s state police riot in Newark is a national disgrace

New Jersey state troopers meant to protect Newark protesters from ICE are violently shredding the First Amendment instead.

by Will Bunch | Sunday, May 31, 2026 | 2:05 PM EDT

When Donald Trump was first elected president in 2016 and the United States began its decade-long spiral into authoritarian madness, there arose a popular meme: Whatever you think you would have done to stop the rise of European fascism in the 1930s, or to end American racial injustice in the 1960s, is what you are doing right now.

Today, a humanitarian tragedy is taking place behind barbed wire and rows of riot cops in the industrial netherlands of Newark, where immigrants snatched by masked agents of American secret police are held in a private lockup called Delaney Hall in squalid conditions — fed rancid food, denied proper medical care, and fearing for their lives.

What are good people doing right now? As news of a detainee hunger strike inside Delaney Hall reached the outside world, a few hundred protesters have made their way toward the gates of the facility run by the for-profit GEO Group — to voice support for the strikers, demand humane treatment, and, for some of them, put their bodies on the line to commit acts of civil disobedience against a human-rights catastrophe on American soil.

Let’s use the same link Mr Bunch used last to see what he meant by “put their bodies on the line to commit acts of civil disobedience.”

Groups of demonstrators, many wearing gas masks and other face coverings, linked arms in a human chain, videos and photos posted on social media show.

The distinguished columnist doesn’t like it when ICE officers wear “face coverings,” but it doesn’t seem to bother him when the mostly peaceful protesters do.

Some used trash cans, old mattresses, umbrellas and other materials as makeshift shields and barricades as they confronted U.S. Immigration Customs Enforcement officers.

Others attempted to block people and vehicles from entering and exiting the building or threw orange traffic cones and other objects in the direction of ICE officers as they taunted them with expletives and vulgar chants.

The ICE officers, many of whom wore helmets and tactical vests, used pepper spray to try and disperse the protesters, according to videos posted to social media. Some used their batons to beat and push back protesters as the officers attempted to clear the roadway for vehicles.

DHS said about six demonstrators were arrested for assaulting law enforcement officers.

The source is WPVI-TV, the ABC owned-and-operated television station in the City of Brotherly Love; it’s not some evil reich-wing source.

Mr Bunch’s subtitle called it “shredding the First Amendment,” so let’s ask: what exactly does the First Amendment say?

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Do throwing “orange traffic cones and other objects in the direction of ICE officers,” attempting “to block people and vehicles from entering and exiting the building,” or using “trash cans, old mattresses, umbrellas and other materials as makeshift shields and barricades” sound like they meet the constitutional standard of assembling peaceably?

Is “assaulting law enforcement officers” part of the right of the people peaceably to assemble?

Mr Bunch again:

So is the New Jersey governor at war with the rogue agency that sends masked goon squads into city streets to grab day laborers or Uber drivers and warehouses them in squalid gulags, and that murdered two citizens on the streets of Minneapolis when they tried to protest? Or is she partnering with them? How long can we remain in denial that 21st century America is a police state with “resistance Democrats” as willing partners?

By “grab day laborers or Uber drivers” the columnist means arresting people in our country illegally. By “they tried to protest,” Mr Bunch means trying to run down ICE agents with her car (Renee Good) and pulling a gun on ICE agents (Alex Pretti). Of course, he doesn’t tell you that part, does he?

At what point, I have to ask, does the columnist slanting or hiding information to one side become lying through his scummy teeth? In my opinion, he’s not just past that point, but well past it.

However, I do agree that we should get rid of these illegal immigrant detention centers. What we should do is deport them immediately upon apprehension, and if they have a case to be made for being allowed to live in the United States, they can make it at the American embassies or consulates in their home countries.

Well, of course he did! As-masculine-as-James-Talarico Tim Walz pardons an illegal immigrant convicted felon to try to save him from deportation

Governor Tim Walz (D-MN), whom we are very, very fortunate is not Vice President of the United States, in his eagerness to protect illegal immigrants, goes out of his way to pardon an illegal with a past felony conviction, to try to keep him from being deported.

From the New York Post:

Tim Walz pardons illegal alien convicted of armed robbery before ICE deportation to Laos

By Peter D’Abrosca, Fox News | Friday, May 29, 2026 | 3:49 AM EDT

Minnesota’s Democratic governor on Wednesday pardoned an illegal alien previously convicted of armed robbery before he could be deported by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

Jai Vang, an illegal alien from Laos, was convicted of aiding and abetting and armed robbery in Hennepin County in 1994, according to FOX 9.

The incident occurred when he was 18 years old.

He served his prison term, and was released back into the United States.

That’s the first problem: after his prison term, he was released back into the United States rather than being deported at that point. That was 1994, when Bill Clinton was President, so it was yet another soft-hearted Democrat who didn’t enforce our immigration laws.

He was arrested by ICE as part of Operation Metro Surge in the Minneapolis area in January, according to a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) release from the time.

So, Minnesota’s as-masculine-as-James-Talarico Governor never saw a reason to pardon Mr Vang and get him on the path to citizenship before, but just left him out on the streets until he wanted to try to resist President Trump’s attempts to actually enforce the laws.

When Gov. Tim Walz learned of Vang’s arrest by the federal government, and that Vang had requested clemency to avoid being deported in June, the governor called a special session of the state’s Board of Pardons’ Clemency Review Commission to ensure the case was reviewed before Vang’s deportation. could be completed.

The Clemency Review Commission, which was joined by Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison and state supreme court Chief Justice Natalie Hudson, voted unanimously to pardon Vang.

Minnesota does not give the governor sole pardon and clemency power; Mr Walz had to take extra measures to get consent from Natalie Hudson and Keith bin Ellison to issue the pardon. Mr bin Ellison was the Attorney General who insisted on more serious charges against former police officer Derek Chauvin, so it isn’t like he is lenient in charges against police officers, only real criminals.

The commission reasoned that Vang hadn’t committed further crimes since he was released from prison, had started a family and owns a local painting business.

Let’s see, Mr Vang, a convicted felon and illegal immigrant, “owns a local painting business.” What are the odds that some or most or even all of Mr Vang’s employees are also here illegally? The Post story doesn’t tell us, but the probability that he did employ other illegals is very high, and ICE should investigate those employees.

During the hearing, Walz inaccurately referred to Vang as a “citizen.”

He said Vang has become a “critical member of the community” since his release from prison.

“I can find no reason how Minnesota will be safer or better if Mr. Vang is deported to a country he has not been to since he was a child. I do not see how it would serve his family, nor the economic interest where we have a taxpaying citizen who is creating job growth and living a life free from any criminal activity,” Walz said.

If there is a demand for Mr Vang’s painting business, that demand would still exist and create the opportunity to fill it by an actual American citizen. We don’t need convicted felons here.

James Talarico: a representative of failing ‘progressive’ Christianity, and a hypocrite to boot Former 'vegan' campaigner now chows down on barbeque to appeal to Texas voters

In a move reminiscent of Democratic congressional candidate Amy McGrath Hnderson being caught on tape, fund raising in Massachusetts for a congressional seat in the Bluegrass State, saying “I am further left, I am more progressive, than anyone in the state of Kentucky,” Texas Democratic Senate nominee was caught on tape saying, in a 2022 state House of Representatives campaign, “I am proud to say that our campaign has officially become a non-meat campaign. We are only buying vegan products from our local vegan businesses.”

Now Mr Talarico is telling us, it ain’t true, ’cause see, I is eating spare ribs and turkey drumsticks.

Battling rumors that he is a sexual neuter or homosexual, the 36-year-old Mr Talarico announced that yes, he has a girlfriend, saying “She is my rock. She is my best friend. I don’t know if I could have gotten through the last six months of this crazy race if she hadn’t been by my side.” She’s been “by (his) side” so much that no one knows who she is or has a photo of her with him.

Oh, we’ll eventually see a name and photo of her, a version of the fake dating books now popular for some reason, but she’s just as likely to be a beard to get him past election day. Continue reading

Amy McGrath Henderson goes 0-for-3! Three strikes, and she should be out!

I originally wrote this on September 25, 2025, but didn’t finish it to my satisfaction, and it has been being ignored in my drafts queue ever since that time. The Bluegrass State held its primary elections, and yes, Amy McGrath Henderson[1]While Mrs Henderson does not have enough respect for her husband to have taken his name, The First Street Journal will not show such similar disrespect. has now gone 0-for-3!

Does Amy McGrath Henderson want to go 0-for-3?

Lt Col Amy McGrath Henderson, USMC (Retired) is nowhere close to Harold Stassen‘s nine presidential campaign attempts, but there are rumors that she is about to become yet another perennial candidate. We have frequently noted the twice-failed Democrat, and have been singularly unimpressed.

Amy McGrath comeback? Former KY Senate candidate said to be considering 2026 run

By Austin Horn | Wednesday, September 24, 2025 | 11:33 AM EDT

Amy McGrath, a former Democratic candidate for both the U.S. House and Senate in Kentucky, may jump in the Senate race in 2026. Continue reading

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1 While Mrs Henderson does not have enough respect for her husband to have taken his name, The First Street Journal will not show such similar disrespect.

They’re dead; what more could be done to them?

There’s some silliness in Earl Ofari Hutchinson’s concluding statement about the San Diego mosque killings:

(Cain) Clark and (Caleb) Vazquez’s hideous rampage almost certainly would have been treated as a murder, charges if they had lived. But in the hands of the Trump DOJ they may well not have been slapped with federal hate crime charges. This glaring laxity is just enough space for the Cains and Vazquez’s of America to run loose.

Uhhh, the killers are stone-cold graveyard dead; there’s not a lot more we could do to them at this point.

Why the San Diego Mosque’s Shooters Continue to Run Loose

Many police departments see hate crime data as a politically loaded minefield, leaving the FBI blind to the true scale of civil rights violence.

by Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Wednesday, May 20, 2026

At a news conference within hours after the shooting rampage at the San Diego Mosque, the San Diego Police Chief said the obvious: “The shooting would be investigated as a hate crime until it’s not.” His add-on, “it’s not,” gave with one hand and took back with the other on the issue of whether the rampage was a hate crime.

The FBI was only marginally less equivocal about whether the shooting was a hate crime. A top official promised to leave no stone unturned and said, “There was definitely hate rhetoric that was involved.” But he also gave with one hand and took back with the other. He quickly added that he did not see the murderous attack as “a specific threat to the mosque.”

The police are usually circumspect in issuing statements like this; is it any surprise that they were so this time?

The irony is that the alleged shooters, Clark Cain and Caleb Vazquez, left little doubt as to why they shot up the mosque. In what’s usual in these kinds of mass killings, the shooters leave a disjointed journal filled with scribblings that spew hate against Blacks, Jews, and Muslims. The pair did the same. If ever there was a smoking gun on a hate motive for the killing, they provided it with their diatribes against Blacks, Jews, and Muslims.

But why should that surprise? Surveys have repeatedly shown that hate crimes, violence, harassment, and threats against Muslims have been almost the norm in many circles. Dozens of neo-Nazis, anti-government, white supremacist groups, and tens of thousands of individuals spew hate with aplomb. The site’s writers lambaste blacks, Jews, gays, and are unabashed in praise of Hitler. They perennially exhort their readers and followers to arm themselves to the teeth against the imagined assault by the federal government on white people’s rights. It was virtually a given that the murders would fire the horde of racists up and ignite a frenzy of debate, speculation, denial, and even veiled acquiescence to the murders.

In reading those two paragraphs, I see no evidence or even allegations of a crime prior to the killings. Their speech was certainly offensive, but offensive speech is part of our freedom of speech. If people’s “scribblings . . . spew hate against Blacks, Jews, and Muslims,” are there not other people spewing hatred of whites and Christians and really normal people in general? Does Mr Hutchinson want the Geheime Staatspolizei to search every computer posting, or perhaps search people’s homes for written journals looking for hate speech? We have reported many times on the FBI under the Biden Administration and Attorney General Merrick Garland surveilling “radical traditionalist Catholics” looking for “domestic violent extremists”, before the program was made public and embarrassment made the FBI shut it down, and even then FBI Director Christopher Wray lied through his scummy teeth about the extent of it.

However, even when the Cains and Vazquezes are known, tracked, monitored, and surveilled, and worse commit hate acts, they often evade full punishment. This has nothing to do with the First Amendment, but rather muddled, confused, and outright lax enforcement and prosecution of hate acts. Even when the FBI and local law enforcement agencies ID them for their propensity for violence, their hands are still tied.

The author keeps mistakenly referring to Cain Clark as Clark Cain.

It’s still early in the investigations, but if Messrs Clark and Vasquez committed any previous crimes, I haven’t yet seen such reported, and I have searched. If either committed offenses as juveniles, those records would have been sealed. News flash: neither the local police nor the FBI can do anything about people who have not yet committed actual crimes.

Another point: while Mr Vasquez was 18, Mr Clark was a minor at 17. Had they survived and been tried for murder, Mr Clark could be sentenced to nothing more than life without the possibility of parole. Mr Vasquez could be sentenced to death, but the Pyrite State has not actually executed anyone for the last twenty years. A ‘hate crime’ rider could do nothing more to them.

ABC Channel 7 reported:

A Sonnenrad patch, depicting a neo-Nazi symbol, and what analysts assess is likely a patch for a militant accelerationist group, are both visible on the plate carrier being worn by the person believed to be Clark, according to sources. Additionally, writings are visible on a gun, including drawings of SS bolts and neo-Nazi insignias, sources said.

According to our good friends on the left, Nazi symbols and signs are not at all disqualifying, at least not when it comes to a Democratic candidate for the United States Senate, but just youthful mistakes.

But it shows you the depth of the problem about which Mr Hutchinson complained. The same Democrats who are willing to forgive Graham Platner’s ‘youthful mistake’ were also willing to surveil devout Catholics who simply preferred the Latin Mass. Mr Hutchinson would, like the FBI surveilling “radical traditionalist Catholics,” criminalize thoughts. Like the movie Minority Report, they want to lock up potential criminals before they’ve committed any crime.

George Conway has #TrumpDerangementSyndrome He isn't the only one

George Conway, who is supposed to be a fairly savvy lawyer, became a strident critic of President Donald Trump at the same time as his much-better-looking wife, Kellyanne Conway, was serving as a Senior Counselor to the President. He was a founder of the Lincoln Project, but, of course, he never knew about one of his co-founders, John Weaver, allegedly sexually harassing 21 young men as part of his dealings with the Project.

Wisely, Mrs Conway dumped her husband in 2023.

In an attempt to become politically relevant again, Mr Conway posted yet another rant on Twitter on Wednesday:

Too many people have accepted Donald Trump’s presidency as “normal.” Too many believe there is nothing we can do, and that we simply need to outlast his term.

Let me be clear: We cannot endure another 32 months with this mendacious, narcissistic, rapist, want to be dictator who is selling us out to the highest bidder.

Not only can we stand up and fight back—we must.

Join our campaign so we can take this fight to Congress to impeach, convict, and remove Trump and his cabinet.

He then included a link sponsored by Act Blue, a fundraising organization for Democrats, for his campaign for Congress, a fundraising site which included not a single link to Mr Conway’s actual campaign. A Google search for his campaign website returned this, which was another fundraising page, but nothing else concerning what he wanted to do in Congress other than attack President Trump. There’s no issues or policies page on his website that I could see.

The House of Representatives impeached President Trump on December 18, 2019, but he was acquitted by the Senate. Then, just a week before his term ended, the House impeached him again, and again the Senate acquitted him. The Democrats realized that Mr Trump might run for President in 2024, and were hoping a conviction would attaint him, making him ineligible to become President again.

Too bad, so sad, must suck to be them!

Mr Conway isn’t the only Democrat running on a platform of impeaching the President, and if the Democrats take control of the House following the 2026 elections, there will certainly be attempts to impeach him for a third time. The Democrats hate him so much, that they might just do it.

But most Republicans support the President, at least to some extent. The Republican senators might have somewhat different views, but the Republican voters, the people to whom the senators ultimately answer, continue to support Mr Trump. There are twenty Republican-held seats up for election in 2026, and most Republicans running strongly support Mr Trump, as do their constituents. With only 47 Democrats and independents aligned with the Democrats in the Senate, they’d have to pick up twenty votes they don’t have now to remove Mr Trump from office. It’s not impossible, but the probabilities are almost vanishingly small. Mr Trump already holds the record for times being impeached and times winning acquittal in impeachment trials.

Impeachment is supposed to be a serious thing, but today’s Democrats are turning it into nothing but mockery.

Some common sense concerning the Louisiana v Callais decision. This might not be quite the result for which Republicans hoped

The two pages of the Congressionally-signed original of the Fourteenth Amendment in the National Archives, written with iron gall ink on parchment. It was last publicly displayed in 2013. As of 2025, it is stored in the research wing of the archives inside a boxed book of Acts of Congress from its 39th session.

Our good friends on the left, who have been so supportive of the Fourteenth Amendment’s provision that “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside” must grant automatic citizenship to the “anchor babies” of people in our country illegally, they have not been nearly as thrilled with the Equal Protection Clause, “No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws,” when that clause says, essentially and throughout dozens of decisions, that Americans may not be treated differently based upon their race. Oh, the left certainly doesn’t want white Americans to be given a legal advantage, but legal “remedies” to “past discrimination” to assist black Americans meet with their approval.

After a Supreme Court ruling that was an affront to history, some states can’t wait to turn back the clock on voting rights | Editorial

After long ago overcoming racist efforts to dilute the power of voters of color, the conservative justices have unreasonably made it more difficult to challenge discriminatory legislative maps.

by The Editorial Board | Monday, May 11, 2026 | 5:01 AM EDT

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. — George Santayana

Perhaps the most frustrating aspect of the U.S. Supreme Court giving its seal of approval to Republican attempts to turn back the clock on voting rights in America is that, after long ago overcoming racist efforts to dilute the power of voters of color, we now see similar vipers slithering past the corroded gates of hell that were supposed to hold them in check.

The court defied reason with an opinion that, in essence, neutered the 1965 Voting Rights Act by ruling government efforts to remedy past racism, which tipped the scales in favor of white political candidates, are also racist — unless those remedies can be tied to specific acts of past discrimination that made them necessary.

The decision has opened the door for states to attempt to invalidate any congressional district lines drawn to favor candidates of color.

Note what appalls The Editorial Board, that they might lose “congressional district lines drawn to favor candidates of color.” The Board are specifically asking for districts which favor non-white candidates. This would be the same Editorial Board which wrote last January:

The president has also successfully lobbied some Republican-controlled states to remake congressional maps to favor the GOP, regardless of their potential illegality. In Texas, the U.S. Supreme Court allowed 2025 redistricting maps to be used for the upcoming election, even as a legal challenge moves forward over racial gerrymandering.

It seems that the Board approve of racial gerrymandering, an attempt to create, again in their words, “congressional district lines drawn to favor candidates of color,” but are diametrically opposed to district boundaries which favor Republicans.

There is a strong bias on the part of the Board. It would seem that black Americans, in their view, can only be represented by black representatives, but if anyone were to suggest that black representatives cannot represent white Americans, they’d be among the first to scream that’s racist. If someone stated that only a white candidate could reasonably represent a majority white district, they’d also claim such was racist.

Conservatives have long fought against the reverse racism which has been used, but electorally, the Louisiana v Callais decision might not be the win they think. Blacks are the Democrats most loyal voting Demographic, frequently giving 90% of their ballots to Democrats. Creating majority black districts had the effect of making neighboring districts safer for Republican candidates. If those majority black districts are phased out, spreading heavily black areas back into other districts, Republican candidates might fare more poorly, and close races more likely to elect the Democratic candidates. The Editorial Board might be appalled if fewer black Democrats were elected, but I’m sure that they’d trade black Democrats for white Democrats if it meant fewer Republicans of any color were in office.

Just how early on did the Democratic staffers realize that Joe Biden was sinking into dementia?

This site has reported, several times, on the anti-Catholic bias of the Democratic Party, including the actions of the federal government investigating “radical traditionalist Catholics”, and that FBI Director Christopher Wray lied under oath about the extent of the program.

President Biden was very famously Catholic, frequently attending Mass, even though his policies on transgenderism and prenatal infanticide were very much opposed to the teachings of the Church he claimed to follow, so one would think that officials in his Administration would use a bit of caution when attacking the Catholic Church as an institution, and Catholics in general. Still, the investigations referenced above occurred in early 2023, two years into Mr Biden’s term in office.

But now we have this, from Robert Stacy McCain’s old newspaper, The Washington Times:

Biden DOJ fantasized about prosecuting habit-wearing nuns

By Susan Ferrechio | Thursday, April 30, 2026

Justice Department prosecutors under the Biden administration exchanged texts relishing the chance to prosecute Catholic nuns — particularly traditional nuns “who still wear the head habit.”

One of the prosecutors is now running for the U.S. House as a Democrat in Virginia’s newly carved 7th Congressional District.

Oops! That “newly carved” district under Governess Spanberger’s gerrymandering scheme has been put on hold by the courts.

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles E. Grassley, Iowa Republican, released documents about the anti-Catholic targeting. He released texts exchanged in 2021 between two prosecutors for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia.

The same prosecutors later joined special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation and prosecution of President Trump.

The texts date back to the weeks after the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol, when the Justice Department began an unprecedented investigation to prosecute people who were on the Capitol grounds or inside the building that day.

Think about that. Department of Justice lawyers thinking about prosecuting Catholic nuns over the Capitol kerfuffle, nuns who did not enter the Capitol building itself, only a few weeks into the term of that famously Catholic president. Any new Administration lawyers ought to have had some real pause in going after nuns, unless they already knew that the President was a doddering old fool.

In a February 2021 text, Assistant U.S. Attorney Molly Gaston wrote to a colleague that she had spotted nuns “near the oath keepers” in a New York Times photo of the Capitol riot.

“I would like to take a special assignment of finding and prosecuting them,” she wrote to J.P. Cooney, then chief of the D.C. U.S. Attorney’s Office’s Fraud, Public Corruption and Civil Rights Section.

“I’m with you,” he responded, “although I’d like to prosecute any nun who still wears the head habit.”

Ms. Gaston responded, “hahaha.”

“There was also a catholic priest in there,” Mr. Cooney added to the exchange. “He came to perform exorcisms. He has been suspended by his diocese, it’s somewhere in the Midwest, I think.”

Hat tip to The Western Journal for the link to the Times.

This is about the weaponization of government law enforcement agencies against believing Catholics. I’m old enough to remember the exchange between Center For American Progress fellow John Halpin and Hillary Clinton’s communications director Jennifer Palmieri, in the e-mails hacked by Wikileaks:

Mr Halpin: Many of the most powerful elements of the conservative movement are all Catholic (many converts) …they must be attracted to the systematic thought and severely backwards gender relations.

Miss Palmieri: I imagine they think it is the most socially acceptable politically conservative religion. Their rich friends wouldn’t understand if they became evangelicals.

Of course, Mr Halpin and Miss Palmieri thought that their conversation was confidential, and wouldn’t be made public, but I hold that we should trust people when they tell us who they are. Miss Palmeiri stated that she didn’t recognize the e-mail and that she is, herself, Catholic, but I suspect that she and all of the others on the political left are Catholics like Joe Biden, Democrats first and Catholics a distant, distant second.

The insiders in Mrs Clinton’s campaign weren’t worried about Joe Biden, who was then the outgoing Vice President, and with his choice not to run for President in 2016, they probably thought that he was done with politics, and anticipated eight glorious years imposing Mrs Clinton’s policies. We have Donald Trump to thank for preventing that! But that doesn’t explain how the Department of Justice was thinking about going after Catholics, and actually surveilling “radical traditionalist Catholics” as potentially “racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists,” after Mr Biden became President, unless they planned to either keep such secret from the Oval Office, or believed the President too mentally disconnected, as early as his first months in office, to do anything about it. After all, these kinds of things would be seriously career-limiting moves under any other circumstances.

We’ve all seen the expressions that other Democrats and the credentialed media — please pardon that redundancy — tell us that they were shocked, shocked! to find out that the President of the United States was in serious mental decline. But it’s clear that they knew, they all knew, and the evidence is coming out slowly that they probably knew from the very start.

A victory for common sense It shouldn't have taken so long

For our good friends on the left, it is an unwritten rule: not only must they be ‘progressive,’ and ‘woke,’ but they must take the furthest left position possible on any issues in any way related to sex, or they will be enabling MAGA and the evil reich-wing conservatives. Thus, beyond all science and reason, they have forced themselves to take the cockamamie position that girls can be boys and boys can be girls.

Vermont is one of our most liberal states, having elected the avowed socialist Bernie Sanders to Congress for decades, but, sha-zamm! it seems that the Constitution applies to them as well:

Vermont pays $566K in damages, legal fees to Christian school it banned from all sports competitions for years

A settlement agreement following mediation was finalized Tuesday after the school was barred from athletics and academic competitions for two years

By Jackson Thompson, Fox News | Tuesday, April 28, 2026 | 7:43 PM EDT

State education agencies in Vermont have paid over $566,000 in damages and legal fees to a Christian school that was banned from all sports and academic competitions for two years after its girls’ basketball team refused to compete against a trans athlete in 2023.

Let me be more explicit than the Fox News story was: the girls’ basketball team refused to compete against a team with a boy claiming he was a girl on it.

A settlement agreement following mediation was finalized on Tuesday that awarded the plaintiffs, including the Mid Vermont Christian School and its law firm Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), the $566,000.

When the school took the issue to the courts, the state and its agencies didn’t fold.

ADF Senior Counsel Dave Cortman told Fox News Digital that he was shocked at how firmly the education authorities in Vermont wouldn’t back down from their sweeping sanction on the small Christian school.

“It’s been surprising how much the state has dug in their heels,” he said. “The arguments they’ve made… even saying your beliefs are wrong…

“Their message was, ‘in order for you to follow your religious beliefs, boys are boys, girls are girls, that would actually violate their nondiscrimination policies.’ So the irony of it was, they were discriminating against religious schools.”

We have noted, dozens of times, the cases of Will Thomas, the male University of Pennsylvania swimmer who decided he is really a girl and competed on the Penn women’s swim team, and Brayden Fleming, the man male pretending to be a woman playing on the San José State University’s women’s volleyball team. It’s simple: males and females are biologically different, in ways that make a difference when it comes to athletics, but our good friends on the left can’t bring themselves to admit that and still hold on to their beliefs that people can just change their ‘gender’ based on their feelings.

I suppose that the decisions of the public schools isn’t surprising given that 199 public schools in Vermont allow staff to hide student trans status from parents, though I will admit that I cannot see how a student, especially a boy trying to become a girl, could conceal such from his parents, unless they are blind, deaf, and dumb.

Well, the leftist leaders of Vermont’s public education system might not be blind or deaf, but they certainly are dumb.