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Former Arizona Cardinals kicker is running for a US House seat in AZ:

Gone at last! The AP, via PBS, confirms the news, U.S. completes deporting 8 men from various nations to South Sudan after weeks of legal battles. It took nearly two months and two U.S. Supreme Court decisions, but it finally happened. The Associated Press is not happy, Eight men deported from the United States in May and held under guard for weeks at an American military base in the African nation of Djibouti while their legal challenges played out in court have now reached the Trump administration’s intended destination, war-torn South Sudan, a country the State Department advises against travel to due to “crime, kidnapping, and armed conflict.” Did you catch that? South Sudan is not a nice place. These eight “migrants” had all been convicted of violent crimes in the U.S. All eight had “final” orders of removal lodged against them. https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/07/gone-at-last.php

The torn down Christopher Columbus statue outside the Minnesota State Capitol, St. Paul, Minnesota in June 2020 Celebrating Independence From Anti-American History Propaganda The end of the 1619 Project? by Mary Grabar Five years ago, on July 4, 2020, the country was in the midst of waves of rioting. The proximate cause, the match that lit the fire, was the death of a black man, a violent ex-convict, on May 25, with fentanyl and methamphetamines in his system, while in the custody of police. As with the Rodney King incident in 1992, selective footage inspired the looting and murdering mobs. But the tinder had been drying since the previous summer when a special issue of the New York Times Magazine was published on August 18, 2019. Schoolchildren in over 3,500 schools had been imbibing the lessons of its “1619 Project” for just as long. Anti-American historical revisionism added fuel to the flame. The creator of the 1619 Project, Nikole Hannah-Jones, took pride in the fruit of her work, tweeting that it was an “honor” to have the riots named after her 1619 Project. The 2020 riots, in addition to being known as the George Floyd riots, were dubbed “the 1619 riots” by Claremont McKenna College professor Charles Kesler. New York Times columnist Timothy Egan, inveighing against President Trump’s Fourth of July address at Mount Rushmore, called the “protests” a “legacy of rage dating to 1619.” The so-called “protests” by August 22 included almost 570 violent demonstrations in 220 locations, resulting in over two dozen deaths, countless injuries, and upwards of $25 billion in property damage. The murder rate rose by 30 percent in 2020. Oddly, rioters attacked historical monuments and statues, ranging from Thomas Jefferson to Union soldiers to a pioneer woman to a moose. Symbols of the country’s heritage were painted with “1619” and torn down, sometimes on the bodies of raging protestors. At least one was killed. https://spectator.org/celebrating-independence-from-anti-american-history-propaganda/

Well then he is not smart enough to be mayor. Everyone knows the difference between the "Race" check box and the "Place of Birth" check box

'This Is Embarrassing'! The Hill Serves Up an Alternate Universe Hot Take About Trump's Failures In 2017, after Hillary Clinton lost to Donald Trump in the election that made her even angrier and more bitter to this day, depressed libs came up with a planet called "Earth 2" and it was a magical place where Hillary was the president. A form of that sad bit of cope takes place to this very day. The Hill served up an op-ed that caters to the trembling TDS crowd and it's another alternate universe doozy, especially considering what we've seen over the last couple of weeks: And of course yesterday Trump signed the "Big Beautiful Bill." The only "failures" we've seen are all happening on the Left. The Dems have been trying to push some form of their "Trump voters are regretting their support" BS for a few months now and it simply doesn't conform with reality. https://twitchy.com/dougp/2025/07/05/the-hill-serves-up-an-alternate-universe-hot-take-about-americans-turning-on-trump-n2415233

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The People’s Justice The leading intellectual on the Supreme Court, Justice Clarence Thomas, is also the people’s justice. Is that paradoxical? Not to me, it isn’t. We live under the rule of law, which means that we live under the rule of words. Words can, of course, be ambiguous, and applying them to a particular situation can be tricky. But any good-faith effort to apply the laws or the Constitution to a particular case must always begin with a common-sense understanding of the words in question: what they mean to a normal reader. When proponents of the Constitution argued for its adoption, as in the Federalist Papers, they did not say that delegates to state conventions should take it on faith; that it is too hard for a normal person to understand; that only a small priesthood of initiates could tell you what it really means. No: everyone assumed that the language of the Constitution was normal English, and it could be understood by ordinary persons of good intelligence. Again, that doesn’t mean that there could be no disagreement or room for debate, but rather that Americans of good intelligence could engage in those debates on an equal footing. Certainly no one at the time suggested that the words of the Constitution had some arcane meaning that would be “discovered,” and would take our government in a new direction, 100 or 200 years hence. I don’t suppose anyone would have voted to adopt the Constitution if it had been sold on that basis. This is why I have long thought that it would be a good idea to have one or two Supreme Court justices who are not lawyers. These days, most Supreme Court justices are members of a caste who likely have been aiming for a position on the Court since high school. Nothing wrong with that, perhaps, but it would be good to have one or two members of the Court whose experience is different–someone who spent his career in the business world, preferably. All of this is a preface to the following brief clip of Justice Thomas explaining his judicial philosophy as a “textualist.” My comment would be, as a judge, if you are not a textualist, what in the world are you? Thomas has of course expounded on his views many times in various forums, and this brief clip is only a glimpse into his thinking. But, in part because it is brief, I thought it was worth sharing with our readers: https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/07/the-peoples-justice.php

and in a Fourth of July thread 😀 Go out sir, it’s a big beautiful world.

Happy Fourth of July Joe ! 🎆🎇