Trump Says He Will Sign EO Requiring ID To Vote

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

Well, OK then

Trump says he will require voter ID with executive order

President Donald Trump says he plans to sign an executive order aimed at requiring voter ID in elections across the country.

Trump made the statement on social media late Saturday night, saying he is also seeking other reforms to how U.S. elections take place.

“Voter I.D. Must Be Part of Every Single Vote. NO EXCEPTIONS! I Will Be Doing An Executive Order To That End!!! Also, No Mail-In Voting, Except For Those That Are Very Ill, And The Far Away Military. USE PAPER BALLOTS ONLY!” Trump wrote on Truth Social.

Trump previously attempted to impose voter ID via an executive order earlier this year in a wider election integrity action.

In April, Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia struck down the portions of that order that related to voter identification requirements.

Kollar-Kotelly maintained that Trump did not have the authority to issue such an order, as the Constitution delegates control of election regulations to Congress and states.

I doubt this will survive a legal challenge. It would be great if it did, but, is there anything within federal statute as passed by Congress which allows requiring ID to vote in federal elections and restricting the use of mail-in ballots? I doubt it. It would have to be by pulling unrelated language from other unrelated bills, because it is up to the states to determine both. Some states are pretty strict on voter ID, some are not. Some have the requirement for ID but do not enforce. And there is little chance the federal Congress will be able to pass anything within their Constitutional authority on either.

Nevertheless, requiring voters to provide proof of citizenship remains widely popular among Americans, according to a poll from Gallup taken just before the 2024 elections.

The poll found that 84% of U.S. adults were in favor of requiring voters to show identification and 83% supported requiring proof of citizenship when registering for the first time.

When broken down by party, 67% of Democrats, 84% of Independents and 98% of Republicans were in favor of mandating voter ID. The party breakdown over proof of citizenship was similar, with 66% of Democrats, 84% of Independents and 96% of Republicans supporting the idea.

Legislation could pass the House, but, it’s highly doubtful that anything could make it through the Senate. Dems would use the filibuster which they say they hate when it is used against them.

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Florida Springs Under Danger From Climate Crisis (scam). Oh, And Real Stuff

By William Teach September 1, 2025 – 7:15 am

It’s like the Credentialed Media is required to add ‘climate change’ into everything

Florida’s once-pristine springs threatened by pollution, development and climate change

climate change joke

Seen from the air, a Florida freshwater spring is a bit of liquid heaven, luring humans and wildlife to enjoy its aquamarine cool. With at least 1,000 of them — more than any other state — the springs serve as beaches for large swaths of central and northwestern Florida far from the ocean, with teenagers backflipping from docks and snorkelers peering into the crystalline depths.

But these treasures are under threat from agricultural pollution, rapid development and climate change.

Really, the first two. They’ve survived many Holocene warm and cool periods.

Some places, such as fast-growing Zephyrhills, have paused some construction as it struggles to stay within limits on the drinking water it can withdraw from a vast underground aquifer. Zephyrhills is home to Crystal Springs, source of the bottled water named after the town and several other brands.

Covering an estimated 100,000 square miles, the underground Floridan Aquifer is the source of 90% of the state’s drinking water. Because of the porous nature of the bedrock, millions of gallons of water find their way to the surface in the form of clear, clean springs that, in turn, feed into rivers.

The highest concentration of springs are in Central and North Florida, including most of the 30 “first magnitude” springs — those that discharge at least 65 million gallons of water every day. All but four are considered polluted.

“We just have too much pollution going into the ground and too much water coming out of the ground,” said Ryan Smart, executive director of the nonprofit Florida Springs Council. “And when you get that combination, you end up with springs that are no longer blue and vibrant and full of life.”

And, really, the only sorta mention of ‘climate change’ in the whole story is about the slightly rising seas, which can potentially introduce salt water into the springs. Which is something that has always happened. This just drives me nuts, because you have two real issues, pollution and development, and these cultists feel the need to drag ‘climate change’ into the mix, causing confusion. Screw ‘climate change’, focus on the real problems.

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Judge Sparkle Restricts U.S. From Sending Unaccompanied Minors Back To Their Families For At Least 14 Days

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

Apparently, Democrats do not want children to be reunited with their parents, you know, the same parents who sent the kids on a long, dangerous trip to the U.S. in the hope that once the kids were here the parents would be allowed to come….oh, that’s why Dems want the kids to stay

Judge orders US to halt deportation of hundreds of Guatemalan children

A US judge on Sunday ordered an emergency halt to a plan by the Trump administration to deport a group of nearly 700 unaccompanied Guatemalan children back to their home country after immigrant advocates lawyers called the plan “illegal”.

Attorneys for 10 Guatemalan minors, ages 10 to 17, said in court papers filed late on Saturday that there were reports that planes were set to take off within hours for the Central American country. But a federal judge in Washington said those children couldn’t be deported for at least 14 days, and after a hastily scheduled hearing on Sunday, she enforced that they needed to be taken off the planes and back to the Office of Refugee Resettlement facilities while the legal process plays out.

Judge Sparkle L Sooknanan, a Joe Biden appointee, began the Sunday afternoon hearing by ensuring that the justice department had received her expanded order and that government officials were aware of it. “I do not want there to be any ambiguity,” she said, adding that her ruling applies broadly to Guatemalan minors who arrived in the US without their parents or guardians.

Did you think I was kidding about Judge Sparkle? Unsurprisingly, she’s a DC judge and a liberal woman

Government lawyers, meanwhile, maintained that the children weren’t being deported but rather reunited at the request of their parents or guardians – a claim that the children’s lawyers dispute, at least in some cases.

“I have conflicting narratives from both sides here,” Sooknanan said. She said that what she was hearing from the government lawyers “doesn’t quite line up” with what the children’s advocates had told her.

Similar emergency requests were filed in other parts of the country as well. Attorneys in Arizona and Illinois asked federal judges there to block deportations of unaccompanied minors, underscoring how the fight over the government’s efforts has quickly spread.

They were already boarding planes after a deal with the Guatemalan government, after which they would have been returned to their families. Dems hate that.

Lawyers for the Guatemalan children said the US government doesn’t have the authority to remove the children and is depriving them of due process by preventing them from pursuing asylum claims or immigration relief. Many have active cases in immigration courts, according to the attorneys’ court filing in Washington.

They’re children: they do not get due process. They should be sent back to their parents. How soon till the judge and the whiny-assed Democrats demand that the parents are flown to the U.S. for court?

Anyhow, you just had to know that Judge Sparkle would rule this way. Will she be overruled by an appeals court?

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If All You See…

By William Teach August 31, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…is a hazy day from too much carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Not A Lot Of People Know That, with a post on a net zero airline in disarray.

It’s sundress week.

I’m hoping things are running slightly better. Still getting inundated with bots, but, able to implement a few blocks on them.

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach August 31, 2025 – 10:48 am

Happy Sunday! Another wonderful day in Returned America. The Sun is shining, the birds are singing, and the smell of grilling out (barbecue is a noun in the South) is in the air. This pinup is by Gil Elvgren, with a wee bit of help (I don’t think I’ve used this one before, but, I have well over a 1000 in the hopper).

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Common Cents Blog: Trump Really Has Cleaned Up D.C. – Will They Thank Him!? – Video
  2. Geller Report: Muslim Storms London Church Screaming “Allahu Akbar!,” “KiII the God of the Jews” (VIDEO)
  3. Jihad Watch: Kentucky: Islamic scholar prays that Allah will guide Americans so that US becomes ‘an Islamic country’
  4. Legal Insurrection: Campus Intifada Returns – Frustrated Activists Likely To Lash Out This Fall
  5. Liberty’s Torch: Whither Britain?
  6. Moonbattery: Democrats Fundraise on Transgender Church Murders
  7. neo-neocon: Europeans aren’t happy about the “migrants” – plus they have other troubles
  8. Never Yet Melted: A Major CDC “Public Health Expert” Just Resigned
  9. Pacific Pundit: John Brennan is complaining to MSNBC that his reputation and financials are being negatively impacted by allegations of treason
  10. Sultan Knish: A Billion Dollar Somali Autism Fraud in Minnesota
  11. The First Street Journal: When judges assume executive authority
  12. The Gateway Pundit: New York City Projected to Spend $42,000 Per Student This School Year – And Their Reading and Math Scores Are Terrible
  13. The Last Refuge: Trump on DNI Gabbard: “By the way, she’s coming along, right?”
  14. The Other McCain: KiwiFarms Sues U.K. and It’s Awesome
  15. And last, but, not least, Victory Girls Blog has Media: It’s Only A Little Bit Of Mortgage Fraud

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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Wacko Judge Says Expedited Removal Is Legal Except For Away From The Border

By William Teach August 31, 2025 – 7:00 am

Why? Because Trump is doing this. Seriously, these wackos just reach for reasons to block Trump’s agenda, forgetting that they will be reversed on appeal in most cases

Judge blocks Trump’s broad expansion of expedited removal of migrants

A federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked the Trump administration from rapidly deporting undocumented immigrants detained away from the border without a court hearing, a setback for its mass deportation agenda.

In a 48-page opinion, U.S. District Judge Jia M. Cobb of D.C. wrote that the administration’s new policy in January to broadly expand a process known as “expedited removal” — which had previously been used to deport migrants detained at or near the U.S.-Mexico border — doesn’t provide adequate due process rights to those detained inside the country.

Cobb, in her ruling in a case brought by civil rights groups, wrote that “in defending this skimpy process, the Government makes a truly startling argument: that those who entered the country illegally are entitled to no process under the Fifth Amendment, but instead must accept whatever grace Congress affords them. Were that right, not only noncitizens, but everyone would be at risk.”

Cobb, who was appointed by President Joe Biden, said she was not questioning the constitutionality of the expedited removal statute and its “long-standing application” in border control. But she said that “in applying the statute to a huge group of people living in the interior of the country who have not previously been subject to expedited removal, the Government must afford them due process.”

Good grief. Are they here illegally? Yes? Do liberals say the first offense is a civil offense? Yes? Does the law state that it is a civil offense for which the penalty is a small fine, possibly a short stay in jail, and deportation? Yes. Just because they aren’t near the border doesn’t make them any less of law breakers. Crazy judges.

Previously, expedited removal had only been used for migrants who were stopped within 100 miles of the border and who had been in the country for less than 14 days. Cobb said Friday that the Trump administration can continue to use the policy in those situations.

Here’s the thing: the Supreme Court has already ruled quite specifically that her ruling can only apply to her little fiefdom in D.C. Beyond that, the Trump admin can simply ignore her order, so, if they want to expeditiously remove illegals from Ohio, they can.

Meanwhile

HUD launches crackdown on illegal immigration in public housing: ‘Riding the coattails’

The Trump administration has ordered a nationwide review of public housing in an effort to root out residents who are in the country illegally, according to Housing and Urban Development Secretary Scott Turner announced Friday.

Turner wrote that each Public Housing Authority has 30 days to conduct an audit to ensure that the existing orders are enforced. The department is asking for information about the public housing units, as well as verifiable citizenship or “eligible immigration status.”

“No longer will illegal aliens be able to leave citizenship boxes blank or take advantage of HUD-funded housing, riding the coattails of hardworking American citizens,” Turner wrote.

The U.S. should not be giving them free housing. Really, though, so many of these policies are also designed to deter illegals from coming to the U.S. And, it’s been working.

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Bummer: Trump Admin Cancels A Bunch Of Offshore Wind Projects

By William Teach August 30, 2025 – 3:00 pm

Nothing like building in areas that are prone to tropical systems, winds that exceed wind turbine thresholds, and noreaster’s, eh?

Trump admin cancels $679M for offshore wind projects, including 2 in Hampton Roads

The Transportation Department on Friday canceled $679 million in federal funding for a dozen offshore wind projects, the latest attack by the Trump administration on the reeling U.S. offshore wind industry.

Funding for projects in 11 states was rescinded, including $435 million for a floating wind farm in Northern California and $47 million to boost an offshore wind project in Maryland that the Interior Department has pledged to cancel.

“Wasteful, wind projects are using resources that could otherwise go towards revitalizing America’s maritime industry,” Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said in a statement. “Thanks to President Trump, we are prioritizing real infrastructure improvements over fantasy wind projects that cost much and offer little.” (snip)

Separately, Trump’s Energy Department said Friday it is withdrawing a $716 million loan guarantee approved by the Biden administration to upgrade and expand transmission infrastructure to accommodate a now-threatened offshore wind project in New Jersey. (snip)

The cut includes $39.3 million for the Fairwinds Landing offshore wind and maritime logistics hub at the former Lambert’s Point Docks in Norfolk and another $20 million for improvements at Portsmouth Marine Terminal, which is a staging area for Dominion Energy’s under-construction wind farm off the shore of Virginia Beach.

A million here, a million there, pretty soon you have some real money!

I wonder how much they were going to make off of this? If they want it they can raise the $39.3 million, right? Of course, they and the Biden admin completely and utter blew off the local residents who were dead set against this project, as well as shortcutting environmental impact statements, especially as they apply to whales. Ed Markey is also whining. How much did he stand to make off these projects?

“It’s an attack on our jobs,” Rhode Island Gov. Dan McKee said of the move to stop construction of Revolution Wind. “It’s an attack on our energy. It’s an attack on our families and their ability to pay the bills.”

Patrick Crowley, president of the Rhode Island AFL-CIO, said his union is “going to fight (Trump) every step of the way, no matter how long it takes.”

So, why doesn’t Rhode Island pay for it? How about the RI AFL-CIO raise the money?

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If All You See…

By William Teach August 30, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…is a wonderful low carbon bike, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Campus Reform, with a post on health insurance requirements at Washington colleges causing students to owe thousands.

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Bummer: Trump Admin Revokes Palestinian Visas Ahead Of (worthless) UN Meeting

By William Teach August 30, 2025 – 10:30 am

Well, yeah, why would we allow terrorists into the U.S.? The Biden admin is no longer in charge

US revokes visas of Palestinian president and other officials ahead of UN General Assembly

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has revoked the visas of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and 80 other officials ahead of next month’s annual high-level meeting of the U.N. General Assembly, a step the Palestinian Authority decried as against international law.

A State Department official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss visa issues that are normally confidential, disclosed Friday that Abbas and other officials from the Palestinian Authority were among those affected by new visa restrictions. Palestinian representatives assigned to the U.N. mission, however, were granted exceptions.

The move is the latest in a series of steps the Trump administration has taken to target Palestinians with visa restrictions and comes as the Israeli military declared Gaza’s largest city a combat zone. The State Department also suspended a program that had allowed injured Palestinian children from Gaza to come to the U.S. for medical treatment after a social media outcry by some conservatives.

The State Department said in a statement that Rubio also ordered some new visa applications from Palestinian officials, including those tied to the Palestine Liberation Organization, be denied.

“It is in our national security interests to hold the PLO and PA accountable for not complying with their commitments, and for undermining the prospects for peace,” the statement said.

It said that to be considered partners for peace, the groups “must consistently repudiate terrorism, and end incitement to terrorism in education, as required by U.S. law and as promised by the PLO.”

The PLO was designated a terrorist organization by Congress back in 1987, though there have been presidential waivers since 1988 after they recognized Israel. But, still, a terrorist organization. And they’ve sure been Israel and Jew haters as of late, so, yeah, we do not need them here. And how many in the delegation might be members of the Hamas, a State Dept designated terrorist organization? The Trump admin is not playing with these people, and won’t let them in so they can rail against the U.S. and Israel on US soil.

Pro-Palestinian conference panelist calls US ‘evil,’ urges ‘destroying the idea of America’

A panelist speaking at the “People’s Conference for Palestine” in Detroit on Friday called the United States “an evil country” and expressed a need to “destroy the idea of America in Americans’ heads.”

Speaking on a panel titled “No Weapons for Genocide: The People Demand an Arms Embargo,” Sachin Peddada, a Ph.D. student in economics and research coordinator at Progressive International, repeatedly ripped on the United States as an “empire” motivated by greed.

In response to a question about how Americans can get more involved, Peddada paraphrased a quote by deceased Palestinian author Bassel al-Araj, saying, “The average American will never understand the plight of the Palestinian person because the state of Israel is a carbon copy of the United States.

“And, therefore, the thing to do is to destroy the idea of America in Americans’ heads so that they can see the humanity of everybody outside the warping of American exceptionalism and imperialism and all these evil things.”

There were lots of US and Jew haters at the conference, which goes on through the weekend. I hope Marco Rubio is paying attention, and cancelling the visas of those on one. Too bad he can’t boot out Rashida Tlaib, who was a sponsor of the event.

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Cruise Industry Sues Hawaii Over Tourist Tax

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

Be funny as hell if the cruise ships said “nah, bru, we’re going to change our routes and not bring all those paying customers”

Cruise industry sues to challenge Hawaii’s tourism tax designed to deal with climate change issues

A lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Hawaii imposing a tourist tax to deal with consequences of climate change seeks to stop officials from enforcing the new law on cruise ship passengers.

In the nation’s first such levy to help cope with a warming planet, Hawaii Gov. Josh Green signed legislation in May that raises tax revenue to deal with eroding shorelines, wildfires and other climate problems. Officials estimate the tax will generate nearly $100 million annually.

The levy increases rates on hotel room and vacation rental stays but also imposes a new 11% tax on the gross fares paid by a cruise ship’s passengers, starting next year, prorated for the number of days the vessels are in Hawaii ports. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. court in Honolulu this week, notes the law authorizes counties to collect an additional 3% surcharge, bringing the total to 14% of prorated fares.

“No other State imposes comparable fees — and for good reason: It has been a fundamental principle since the Founding that the navigable waters of the United States are a common resource, not one to be commandeered by individual States for their own parochial revenue-raising interests,” attorneys representing the Cruise Lines International Association wrote in a motion asking a judge to prevent the state and counties from collecting the tax on cruise ships while the lawsuit is pending.

A Honolulu company that provides supplies and provisions to cruise ships, and tour businesses out of Kauai and the Big Island that rely on cruise ship passengers joined the cruise ship association in the lawsuit.

If those ships do not come to Hawaii, that’s a lot of lost revenue to hotels, vehicle rentals, all sorts of tourist spots, those who do the supplies and provisions, and more.

According to the lawsuit, the cruise ship industry draws nearly 300,000 annual visitors to Hawaii, supporting thousands of jobs throughout the state and contributing more than $600 million a year to the economy.

The tax would make Hawaii cruises too expensive, and potential visitors will choose to vacation elsewhere, the lawsuit said.

The ships won’t pay it, they’ll charge more. And cruise ships do bring a small amount of goods to ports. I wonder if the lawyers will note that Hawaii has a large number of airports for airplanes and helicopters? That they have a large number of fossil fueled boats, buses, and motor vehicles? They should offer photos of the governor and members of their general assembly taking fossil fueled vehicles and flights.

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