Surprise: House Democrats Want Taxpayer Funded Armed Security

By William Teach December 1, 2025 – 10:30 am

Democrats are super happy to disarm you The People, keeping you from protecting yourself, but, for themselves

Democrats push for lawmakers to get armed security

As members of Congress grapple with growing personal threats, top Democrats in the US House are lobbying Republicans to let each lawmaker’s office employ an armed staff member to accompany them in their districts, as well as a law enforcement coordinator.

Rep. Joe Morelle of New York, the top Democrat on the committee in charge of member security, told Semafor that he and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries have discussed pushing House Speaker Mike Johnson and committee chair Bryan Steil, R-Wis., for the additional hiring capacity.

Their push, which includes other priorities, comes as lawmakers gain access to a new $20,000 monthly personal security allowance starting Monday.

The law enforcement coordinator could “try to mitigate [threats] in advance and really do the prep work necessary,” Morelle said, while the armed staff member would be “someone who’s probably a former law enforcement, former military, who meets all the requirements of being able to carry a gun.”

Morelle placed “much of the blame” for the increase in threats to members — which he said have jumped tenfold since 2016 — on President Donald Trump, who most recently instructed the FBI to investigate six congressional Democrats who filmed a social media video telling military members not to follow illegal orders.

Perhaps they shouldn’t have broadcast a video telling service members to refuse orders they “feel” are illegal while blowing off the chain of command, all because they decided to die on the hill of caterwauling about strikes against foreign drug running boats.

Maybe Democrats should exercise their own 2nd Amendment right and carry a firearm.

Sure, Raphael isn’t carrying the gun himself, but, most private citizens cannot afford a private security guard following them around.

Weird, since her Islamist buds in Hamas, Hezbollah, and in Somalia all have guns. She’s not trying to take them away.

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Swiss Nix 50% Tax On The Rich Mean To Fight Climate Doom

By William Teach December 1, 2025 – 7:00 am

Doing Something about ‘climate change’ is always an interesting theoretical conversation, but, once it enters the real world the rational people, and, heck, lots Basic Warmists say “nope

Swiss voters reject tax of up to 50% on large donations or inheritances, fearing exodus of wealthy instead of fighting climate change

In a referendum, over 84% of voters rejected the “citizen service initiative” and none of the country’s 26 cantons, or states, came anywhere near voting in favor. Proposals need a majority of both voters and cantons to pass.

A separate proposal to impose a new national tax on individual donations or inheritances of more than 50 million francs ($62 million) was shot down by more than 78% of voters. The revenues were to be used to fight the impact of climate change and help Switzerland meet its ambitions to have net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. (snip through all the info on the national service plan)

The government also opposed the proposal for a new tax on large donations or inheritances, arguing that approval could prompt some of the wealthiest in Switzerland — an estimated 2,500 people — to move elsewhere. Sums beyond 50 million francs ($62 million) could have been hit with a 50% rate.

$62 million. Seems rather a lot. Are the citizens seeing the downside of all the rich folks leaving and taking their money and businesses with them? Because that is literally all there was to this referendum. And, of course, perhaps they saw that the climate cult would then start lowering that $62 million threshold down and down and down

(The Brussels Times) The tax initiative was introduced by the Young Socialists and aimed to fund climate measures using revenue from taxing inheritances and gifts valued over 50 million Swiss francs (approximately €53 million).

The proposal also sought to apply the tax retroactively to prevent wealthy individuals from moving their assets abroad. It was estimated to affect around 2,500 people, representing the wealthiest 0.03% of the population.

Funny how they always want to tax Other People, but, aren’t willing to pay the piper themselves.

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NY Times Super Concerned Over “College Student” Deported Over Thanksgiving

By William Teach December 1, 2025 – 6:45 am

They’re a little late to this party

5 times. And they waited till the last paragraph for the important stuff

College Student Is Deported During Trip Home for Thanksgiving

A 19-year-old college student was about to board a flight to surprise her family for Thanksgiving when she was detained at Boston Logan International Airport and deported to Honduras two days later, her father and lawyer said on Sunday.

The student, Any Lucia López Belloza, was brought by her parents from Honduras to the United States when she was 7. Her father, Francis López, said in a telephone interview on Sunday that neither Ms. López nor her mother knew there was an order for her deportation.

“When they arrested Any, that’s when they told her,” said Mr. López, a tailor.

Ms. López’s lawyer, Todd Pomerleau, described an opaque process for obtaining information about her case, including the grounds for her deportation.

He said she had been deported in violation of a court order that a federal judge signed on Friday that said Ms. López could not be removed from the United States while her case was pending.

She was arrested on Thursday, transferred to Texas, and deported on Saturday. The judge granted the 72-hour stay on Friday at 6pm. I doubt the system works that fast. They left that part out.

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency told The Boston Globe that an immigration judge had ordered Ms. López deported in 2015, when she was a child. The agency did not respond to a request for comment on Sunday. (snip)

The family emigrated nearly 12 years ago because of the rampant crime and insecurity in San Pedro Sula, Honduras. Mr. López and his wife feared for their daughter as the news was filled every week “with deaths and murders,” he said. “That’s the reason we left.” The family had applied for asylum, he said, but it was denied, and they were never told they had to appeal to avoid a deportation order.

“Emigrated,” ie, came to the US illegally. Asylum was denied. They should all be deported. Instead, we’re treated to sob stories.

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If All You See…

By William Teach November 30, 2025 – 2:07 pm

…is a wonderful low carbon bike offseting the horrible cow produced ice cream, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is This ain’t Hell…, with a post on a Virginia bill aimed at law enforcement face coverings.

It’s bike week

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach November 30, 2025 – 9:15 am

Happy Sunday! Another fine day in Returned America. A nice winter chill in the air, I don’t have to watch the Giants play today which wastes hours, and we’re almost in Christmas season. I think this was actually created by AI, cannot quite read the signature nor find it anywhere else. If AI, it really captures that old pinup spirit

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Jo Nova: The phase-change continues: The Sierra Club loses 60% of members, 350.org is suspended
  2. No Trick Zone: Ecological Impacts Of Offshore WindParks Are Worse Than Expewcted, New Study Finds
  3. American Greatness: Public Schools Are Failing and Parents Are Bailing
  4. Campus Reform: UW–Madison faces federal civil rights complaint over transgender access policy
  5. Chicks On The Right: No Fly Zone! Trump Closes Venezuelan Airspace
  6. Geller Report: Dearborn: Entire Muslim Crowd Chants “Death to America”
  7. IOTW Report: Brooklyn Serial Spitter Targeting White Women Bloodied in Brutal Beatdown After Quick Release from Custody
  8. Jihad Watch: DHS Docs Reveal National Guard Shooter Just the Tip of the Iceberg for Afghan Refugee Jihadis
  9. Klyker: Interesting Pictures with Captions #183 (20 photos)
  10. Knuckledraggin My Life Away: Yeah, I wouldn’t want to tackle him either
  11. Legal Insurrection: Anti-Israel Protesters Attempt to Ruin Black Friday Shopping in New York City
  12. Moonbattery: Biden Judge Weeps After Timely Removal
  13. neo-neocon: You can take the Somalis out of Somalia …
  14. Newsbusters: Liberal Tears! White House Launches ‘Media Offender of the Week’ Page
  15. And last, but, not least, Pacific Pundit has Tampon Tim Walz more than $1 billion fraud for Somali “immigrants” exposed by the left wing New York Times

As always, the full set of pinups can be seen in the Patriotic Pinup category, or over at my Gallery page (nope, that’s gone, the newest Apache killed access, and the program hasn’t been upgraded since 2014, so, most are hosted internally). While we are on pinups, since it is that time of year, have you gotten your Pinups for Vets calendar yet? And don’t forget to check out what I declare to be our War on Women Rule 5 and linky luv posts and things that interest me. I’ve also mostly alphabetized them, makes it easier scrolling the feedreader

Don’t forget to check out all the other great material all the linked blogs have!

Anyone else have a link or hotty-fest going on? Let me know so I can add you to the list. And do you have a favorite blog you can recommend be added to the feedreader?

Two great sites for getting news links are Liberty Daily and Whatafinger.

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Trump To Cancel Let’s Go Brandon’s Autopen EOs

By William Teach November 30, 2025 – 7:00 am

Legitimately, Trump could simply put out an EO listing all the EOs that Biden made that he wants to cancel. Will this be something more flashy?

Trump ‘cancelling’ Biden executive orders signed by autopen

Biden Brain SuckerPresident Donald Trump announced Friday that he was canceling executive orders signed using President Joe Biden’s autopen.

Like other presidents, including Trump, Biden used an autopen to sign certain official documents. Republicans have claimed the autopen was used by the people around Biden to circumvent a mentally declining president.

“Any document signed by Sleepy Joe Biden with the Autopen, which was approximately 92% of them, is hereby terminated, and of no further force or effect,” he wrote on Truth Social. “I am hereby cancelling all Executive Orders, and anything else that was not directly signed by Crooked Joe Biden, because the people who operated the Autopen did so illegally.”

Biden’s team did not immediately respond to a request for comment, but the former president has rejected these claims in the past, saying in June: “Let me be clear: I made the decisions during my presidency.”

“I made the decisions about the pardons, executive orders, legislation, and proclamations,” he said at the time. “Any suggestion that I didn’t is ridiculous and false.”

Surely there is video of Biden being involved in all the EOs, right? Biden had 162, and, really, a lot have died out, like those for Wuhan Flu. The thing is, Trump has already modified and/or rescinded many of Biden’s EOs, which every president has done. Biden did it with Trump EOs. That’s the nature of the business. Like dumping Executive Order 14020, which was really about pushing transgender garbage.

So, which ones get toasted? That’s the question. If not already done, everything on the climate scam and immigration should be killed off. There are many that should be kept, though, Trump could kill them and issue a new EO. I’ll be honest, I just do not get this. If it’s a way to make Biden look bad, just move on. Focus on the economy.

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Your Fault: Massive Climate Earthquakes Brewing Beneath Big Cities

By William Teach November 29, 2025 – 5:39 pm

Well, perhaps all the Warmists in the big cities should have stopped using fossil fuels, gave up meat for bugs, and stopped using so much electricity. Still your fault

Massive climate-induced earthquakes are brewing beneath our biggest cities. Are we prepared?

Astonishingly, earthquakes shake the US state of California around 10,000 times a year, on average – that’s about once every hour.

California’s official nickname is the Golden State, harking back to the mid-19th-century gold rush that saw its population explode in just four years, from 14,000 to a quarter of a million.

But if you’ve ever been lucky enough to visit and felt the ground move beneath your feet, you’ll probably agree that ‘the Earthquake State’ is a far better fit.

None of this should be a surprise given that it hosts the San Andreas Fault, where two of the world’s great tectonic plates – the North American plate to the east and the Pacific plate to the west – meet.

So, the People’s Republic Of California is an earthquake zone, right? Totally natural

When we think about climate change, it’s usually in terms of how the atmosphere and oceans are heating up. The idea that it can also affect the ground beneath our feet seems almost laughable. Nonetheless, it’s true.

For decades, I’ve been researching how the climate can drive deadly geological phenomena, like earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptions, and the evidence is absolutely clear. (snip)

As global heating continues to drive longer and more intense heatwaves, meltwater sourced by accelerated glacier melting and the thawing of permafrost can be expected to increase seismic activity across the world’s high mountain ranges, and the great tracts of permafrost in Canada and Siberia.

As well as raising concerns among those who live in the Mont Blanc region, the Swiss research also holds lessons for any town or city on geological faults that have spawned big quakes in the past; think Tokyo in Japan, and San Francisco and Los Angeles in California. (snip)

The big worry isn’t, as in the Alps, that water will trigger swarms of little quakes, but that the infiltration of water into a fault that’s teetering on the edge of rupturing will set off the ‘big one’.

A seismologist colleague of mine is fond of warning that all that’s needed to trigger a major earthquake at a fault that’s ‘locked and loaded’ is the pressure of a handshake.

Good grief. Earthquakes happen, always have. Was the big 1906 earthquake Your Fault? How much “melting glacier” water is leaking into the San Andreas, which really runs not close to the mountains in California? This is pretty much doomsday cultists manufacturing the end point and then creating “data” to prove it, the very reverse of science. It’s basically “how do we blame earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanic eruptions on ‘climate change’? We’ll say Mankind is at fault then create the data to back it up.”

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If All You See…

By William Teach November 29, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…are horrible Thanksgiving meat leftovers spiking the temperature of the world, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is 357 Magnum, with a post on bad risk management.

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Surprise: Socialism In Bolivia Causes Bread Shortage

By William Teach November 29, 2025 – 10:30 am

This has never happened in a Socialist Paradise, right?

(AP) Venezuelans scrambled to stock up on toilet paper Thursday as fears of a bathroom emergency spread despite the socialist government’s promise to import 50 million rolls.

After years of economic dysfunction, the country has gotten used to shortages of medicines and basic food items like milk and sugar but the scarcity of bathroom tissue has caused unusual alarm.

Oh, wait, sorry, that was Venezuela from 10 years ago

(11Alive) Farmer Luis Garcia has coped with many of the shortages that plague his economically distressed nation: toilet paper, shampoo, sugar. But the latest scarcity is more than Garcia can swallow. Beer.

Oops, also from Socialist Venezuela in 2016

Bolivia’s bread shortage highlights subsidy reform challenge

Shortages of Bolivia’s state-subsidized marraqueta bread roll are creating an early test for newly elected President Rodrigo Paz, as dwindling wheat ?supplies and rising costs squeeze bakers and frustrate consumers.

The frustration from bakers and buyers highlights the political ?risks for Paz, who aims to unwind the subsidy-heavy economic model of his socialist predecessors without angering a population accustomed to ?state support.

Bakers said delays in government-imported flour and other shortages make it difficult to meet demand for the iconic roll, whose price has been fixed for 17 years under the previous socialist government.

Bolivia imports about three-quarters of its wheat, mainly from Argentina.

Customers also complained that the marraqueta, which sells for the equivalent ?of 8 U.S. cents, ?has shrunk to 60 grams (2 ounces), down from 100 grams two years ago. Some shoppers queue for hours.

NYC should be fun under Mamdani, which imports pretty much everything, right? The bread lines should be illuminating.

Years of state-led policies and nationalization under the previous leftist government deterred ?foreign investment and strained public finances in Bolivia, a major producer of natural gas and grains, and the country is now facing one of its worst economic crises in decades.

State-run food agency EMAPA halted flour supplies in September because the government could not pay suppliers on time.

On the flip side, Bolivia is attempting to make moves away from their Socialist (hungry) Paradise, we’ll see if it makes a difference. It’s hard to do when your citizens have become dependent on the government for everything. Might have to simply tear that bandage, which has seen fibers become embedded in the wound (I had that happen with a bad knee scrape one time), right off.

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Supreme Court To Hear Lawsuit Against PRC Over Climate (scam) Disclosure Rules

By William Teach November 29, 2025 – 7:00 am

I’m not sure how I feel about this case being adjudicated at the Supreme Court

Supreme Court Asked To Upend Pollution Rules

California’s sweeping new climate-disclosure mandates have triggered an escalating legal battle now arriving at the U.S. Supreme Court, with business groups asking to temporarily halt two state laws—Senate Bill 253 and Senate Bill 261—that require large companies operating in California to report their greenhouse-gas emissions and climate-related financial risks.

The emergency appeal argues that forcing companies to issue these disclosures violates the First Amendment, setting up a high-stakes dispute over the boundary between state transparency rules and protections against compelled speech.

California’s first-in-the-nation climate disclosure laws have triggered a high-stakes Supreme Court battle that could reshape the reach of state climate policy and the scope of corporate First Amendment rights.

At issue is whether companies can be required to publicly report their emissions and climate-related financial risks, or whether such mandates amount to unconstitutional compelled speech.

The outcome could determine how much climate information businesses must reveal to the public, whether states retain authority to demand transparency on environmental and financial risks, and how far corporations can go in using free-speech claims to block regulatory oversight—setting a precedent with sweeping implications for climate accountability nationwide.

I’m not really buying the 1st Amendment thing, this is really not about free speech or religion or anything else in there. Or in California’s version in their Constitution. But

Opponents argue these disclosures are not mere factual reporting requirements but compelled ideological speech.

The filing further characterizes the laws as part of “California’s open campaign to force companies into the public debate on climate issues and pressure them to alter their behavior.”

The Chamber and its partners assert that the mandates go beyond standard corporate reporting practices.

They argue that the laws require businesses to adopt California’s preferred framing of climate responsibility.

Still doesn’t seem like a free speech issue, but, it sure seems as if the PRC is requiring specific conduct from companies. But, let’s be honest, Government requires many things from companies. Hell, remember that government requires the use of Everify. Does that violate the free speech rights of hard left companies that support illegal aliens?

It should be interesting how this comes out. I gotta say, though, if the companies do not like the intrusive, waste of time cult rules they should leave the PRC in the same way I say fossil fuels companies should get out.

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