In today’s newsletter, we examine a major Supreme Court decision that will impact November’s midterm elections. Around the world, prospects for ending the conflict with Iran remain uncertain, as Tehran continues demanding concessions. We also look at the controversy surrounding jurors in the Lindsay Clancy trial. Finally, our news briefs include an unusual NFL debut by a Naval Academy graduate and a new report on the treatment of LGBTQ people in Muslim-majority countries.
Iran declared that there will be ** no peace talks until their conditions for the Strait of Hormuz are met**. Meanwhile, Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen launched attacks on three cities in Saudi Arabia, injuring 13 civilians, and the Saudis have begun retaliatory strikes. Saudi leaders vowed that the Houthis, whom the US has designated as terrorists, would be “firmly” dealt with. Kuwait also condemned the Houthis for the attacks.
This reminds us of the situation a couple of months ago, when some critics wanted President Trump to declare victory (the original point being to end Iran’s nuclear threat, which he has) and bug out, leaving Iran’s neighbors, such as Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Israel to deal with a militarily-crippled Iran. All of them have abundant reasons to wipe the Tehran regime off the face of the Earth, but some experts warned that Trump wouldn’t want to risk getting blamed for the results, which would surely be brutal and bloody. At this point, we’d guess that’s a risk that a lot of Americans would be willing to take.
We promised to tell you when the Supreme Court finally ended all the conflicting judicial rulings by making a decision on President Trump’s efforts to prevent fraud in mail-in voting. Well, the SCOTUS finally did it, but not many of you will be happy with their decision.
The SCOTUS declined to lift a federal judge’s nationwide injunction blocking Trump’s executive order that the Post Office develop rules to ensure that mail-in ballots went only to eligible voters. They issued an unsigned order saying that the government was unlikely to succeed on the merits of its challenge to the injunction. This means that the current mail-in voting rules will remain in force for the upcoming midterm elections.
Justice Kavanaugh concurred with the order because it was too late to implement the reforms before November, but he suggested that it could eventually succeed. Justices Alito and Thomas issued a blistering dissent, with Alito writing, “Some of the plaintiffs lack standing, while the remainder are pursuing a claim that this Court has recently called a ‘Hail Mary pass’ that ‘rarely succeeds.’”
While fans of election integrity are no doubt furious and disappointed, maybe it will serve as one more reminder to Republicans to get off the couch and vote as if America’s future depends on it; because now, it does depend on the Republican turnout being larger than the margin of fraud.
That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man; That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, Ephesians 3:16-17
The persecution of the one hold-out juror in the Lindsay Clancy child murder trial just keeps getting worse, as the media have now revealed that he was a black male, which narrowed it down to the point that he could be identified, vilified, doxxed and threatened by the usual crazy violent leftist online mob. ** Then the so-called legitimate media piled on**, digging up and publicizing an accusation of domestic violence against him from five years ago that was dropped.
Say, do you know what really is illegal? Attempting to intimidate, harass or punish a juror. We hope to see charges and lots of very big lawsuits coming soon. That’s a jury we’d LOVE to be on.
And as long as we’re discussing legal misconduct, one of the arrogant female jurors who first went public to attack the lone holdout ** might have inadvertently admitted** that she went into the trial with a predetermined political agenda, not an open mind, which means she should have been disqualified from the beginning.
Over the weekend, a woman was dropped off by Uber outside Kamala Harris’ $8 million Malibu mansion. She was told she couldn’t stay, so she left, but then came back again. Police came to deal with her as a trespasser but didn’t arrest her.
This would ordinarily be a non-story, but ** as Amy Curtis at Towhhall.com points out**, Democrats are constantly telling us that borders are racist, America is on stolen land, and we should abolish police and private property...until a stranger shows up on THEIR private property, and then the gendarmes swarm in. But then, we already learned that lesson when Texas sent a few illegal aliens to the “sanctuary” of Martha’s Vineyard. Martha had no more tolerance for that than Kamala does.
Three of our HP staffers are based in Texas, so they’re being subjected to an onslaught of ads for James Talarico for Senate. Judging by these ads, you’d think he was a conservative, pro-business, anti-tax Christian, rather than an off-puttingly weird leftist and heretic who thinks that God is non-binary and all religions are equal to Jesus in being pathways to God. There are so many jaw-dropping clips floating around that he’s recently had to start renouncing his own quotes, such as his claim that he no longer believes there are six genders. It’s like AOC laughing about how crazy Woke 1.0 was, when her election was a result of it.
Yet somehow, if you listen to the pollsters and liberal pundits, you’d think Texans were in the grip of Talaricomania, and he’s about to turn Texas blue. The inimitable Kurt Schlichter did something they never do – he came to Texas and talked to actual Texans – ** and he’s not buying it**. As always, his comments are as insightful as they are brutally hilarious.
Sample quote, on what he expects the self-deluding Democrats to think on Election night:
“We nominated a vegan, gun-grabbing, woke, anti-capitalist who wants to shut down the fossil-fuel industry and who talks about how God loves abortion and is non-binary, and we did it in Texas, and what the h*** were we thinking?”
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has spent the past few years doing everything possible to signal that he plans to run for President in 2028 short of actually being competent at his current job. Which is why his latest comments to CNN’s Jake Tapper ** were dubbed a bombshell**.
In a weird interview in which the two stood in a Montana river fishing (the show interviews people in settings they allegedly enjoy), Newsom declared that if Kamala Harris decides for a second try at the White House in 2028, he will step aside and not run. Asked to clarify, Newsom insisted, “Of course not. Why would I? I wouldn’t do that to her, I wouldn’t do that to you, I wouldn’t waste everyone’s time. Who needs that?”
Tapper replied with words that interviewers should use far more often with Newsom: “What do you mean? That doesn’t even make sense.” Newson replied that the two Californians share so many supporters that a primary fight between them would be “mutually assured destruction” that “services no greater good.”
We would argue that neither a Harris nor Newsom presidency would serve any greater good, but that never stopped either of them from fantasizing about it. Some analysts say that Newsom is trailing Harris so much in the polls that he’s just looking for a non-embarrassing way to duck out of the race. If that’s not it, then it’s ironic that Newsom’s overdeveloped sense of white male privilege may have compelled him to commit hara-kiri, but we’ll accept any reason that keeps him far away from the White House.
Of course, the bad news for Democrats is that this helps clear the way for another delusional run by Harris, a candidate who becomes less popular the more voters see her and who blew through $1.5 billion in donor money in 15 weeks only to lose every last swing state. Yet according to the latest Real Clear Polling average, she currently leads the Democratic field, which shows how pathetic a field it is.
Personally, we have zero faith in polls, especially so far out from 2028. Our prediction, for what little it’s worth, is that we’ll see a repeat of 2012, where some little-known, hardly qualified wild card candidate is frantically embraced by Democrats desperate to avoid losing with Kamala again, the way they went nuts over Barack Hussein Obama when they thought the only other choice was Hillary Clinton.
Former North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper is now the Democrat Senate candidate, and he’s taking flak for releasing 3500 convicted criminals from prison. But to give him credit, he’s not dodging his record; he’s leaning into it. Asked if he regretted releasing all those criminals as part of a court-ordered settlement, Cooper said if you asked the plaintiffs, ** they wanted him to release even more**.
We’re sure the plaintiffs were upset that anyone was left in prison at all, but that’s not exactly a justification. For perspective, ** meet a few of the sexual predators and child rapists he released**.
The NFL needs more of this: Cincinnati Bengals rookie defensive tackle Landon Robinson, who is a graduate of the US Naval Academy, ** showed up for his first game wearing his dress blue uniform**. Quite an improvement from the days of taking a knee during the National Anthem.
Public Service Announcement for all the “Queers for Palestine” people: ** This is what life is like** for LGBTQ people in a Muslim-majority country. And that’s one of the more tolerant Muslim countries with a non-religious government. In the place you’re defending, they throw gay people off of buildings.
Must-Read Column: ** Derek Hunter of Townhall.com on the ominous meaning** behind leftist politicians declaring that “every child is our child” and that children belong to the “community” and not their parents.
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