A New York statute targeting Chick-fil-A for its Christian faith turns American history—and Constitutional law—upside down.  The “Rest Stop Restaurant Act” seeks to compel food service providers to stay open seven days a week in publicly-owned rest areas and other facilities, or be denied contracts to provide services.

This is not merely an attack on the faith of a private business chain; it is an open war against fundamental constitutional liberties.

New York Blue Laws

Historically, American colonies widely implemented “Blue Laws” that forbade trade on the Sabbath day—Sundays.  Blue Laws compelled days of rest: New York banned Sunday sales of goods in 1656, and enacted the first official “state Sabbath law” with the “Statute for Suppressing Immorality” of 1778.  New York now seeks to compel businesses to sell goods on the Sabbath, a sort of Established Church of Mammon.

It is hard to imagine that courts will approve a government’s power to compel business opening hours any more than compel speech (or abortion).  Supreme Court precedent firmly holds the opposite: states can impose a day of tranquil rest. New York is flouting well-established law. In the 1961 seminal case of Braunfeld v. Brown, liberal Justice Earl Warren observed:

[W]e cannot find a State without power … to set one day of the week apart from the others as a day of rest, repose, recreation and tranquillity [sic] — a day when the hectic tempo of everyday existence ceases and a more pleasant atmosphere is created, a day which all members of the family and community have the opportunity to spend and enjoy together, a day on which people may visit friends and relatives who are not available during working days, a day when the weekly laborer may best regenerate himself. This is particularly true in this day and age of increasing state concern with public welfare legislation.

Compelled to Work?

In contrast, New York Democrat Assemblymember Tony Simone argued that allowing a restaurant to be closed is “just not in the public good” and that “not only does Chick-Fil-A have a long, shameful history of opposing LGBTQ rights, it simply makes no sense for them to be a provider of food services in busy travel plazas.”  This openly discriminatory statement follows a previous New York effort to prevent Chick-fil-A from opening facilities at these exact locations!  Despite attacks on the chain by leftist extremists, it remains the most popular fast-food chain in the nation, favored for its outstanding customer service.

This fast-food statute perverts Justice Warren’s concern for public welfare, advocating round-the-clock business over rest.  Instead of boycotting Chick-fil-A for its Christian views, its attackers are demanding it open its doors and earn more profits.  Chick-fil-A has observed the Sabbath since its 1946 founding so that employees can “enjoy a day of rest, be with their families and loved ones, and worship if they choose.”

This sounds much like the value upheld as a legitimate state interest by Justice Warren, who also warned of the potential for abuse:

[W]hen entering the area of religious freedom, we must be fully cognizant of the particular protection that the Constitution has accorded it. Abhorrence of religious persecution and intolerance is a basic part of our heritage.

If the purpose or effect of a law is to impede the observance of one or all religions, or is to discriminate invidiously between religions, that law is constitutionally invalid even though the burden may be characterized as being only indirect.

An Unconstitutional Effort

New York’s insulting effort to compel Sunday openings is constitutionally dead on arrival as it collides headlong into solid legal precedent.  Braunfeld and other precedents banned Jewish merchants from selling their goods on Sunday; now, New York seeks to do the exact reverse.  Justice Warren did not identify a state power to compel commerce, let alone in derogation of established religious practice.  He did, however, roundly and specifically condemn precisely the kind of overt prejudice exhibited by the New York legislators supporting this discriminatory bill.

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In 42 years of practicing law in California, I encountered firsthand what I labeled the BILLIONAIRE-OCRACY. Simply put, California was ruled by a very select and distinct group of very wealthy people who ran all the companies. The faces of the ruling class had names like Willie Brown (the man behind Kamala Harris), Nancy Pelosi, and Gavin Newsom.

But the real power was in Silicon Valley ( Google, Apple, Oracle, Microsoft). Just outside of Reno, the Power Corporations located themselves in an enclave far away from the citizens and installed their control towers. There seemed to be two types: Companies owned by individuals or families and Companies owned by extremely powerful folks like BlackRock and Vanguard. State Street. However you or I viewed it, these folks were extremely powerful, extremely wealthy, and, with little effort, were able to control every aspect of their worlds, including the State and federal governments.

As a trial attorney, I got to know a great deal about this “ruling” class. The fundamental aspect of this “class” is that they believe that they are “ENTITLED” to do whatever they want to do.

ENTITLED is a word that truly should stick in your thoughts. But make sure you clearly define it and understand it as it applies to those folks. It is not what you think. You need a working knowledge of European history-especially the attitudes and beliefs of the then-ruling aristocracy, you know the kings and their “divine” rights attitude.

Here is what I believe is true after interacting with this “class” for 42 years.

Way back in the Middle Ages and continuing well into the 20th century, there grew up in countries like England, France, Italy, etc a ruling class of royalty. They amassed great wealth and power, and they developed the notion that because of their wealth and power, they were superior to the nonwealthy. This superiority was divine- God made them better than the masses, and the evidence of this was their vast wealth and fact of birth.

It is hard to convey to a modern American what this attitude looked like. Our revolutionary ancestors knew it all too well and rebelled against it in 1776. Imagine some individual who, because he was born the son of a Duke or an Earl or a Prince, could walk into your house whenever he pleased, confiscate your money, your food, and even your daughter or son, and do so with impunity because of his superior birth.

Such folks gradually died out as the Industrial Revolution created a new class of powerful and wealthy folks-the Rockefellers, the J P Morgans, and Henry Ford. They could not really claim to be superior by royal birth (in America, at least), but they could claim the same sort of superiority as the former royal figures using modern genetics theory. Charles Darwin gave them their Theory: they were superior to the rest of us because of natural selection. Nature had simply endowed them with superior genes, and because they were chosen by nature to be superior, they were not only wealthy but destined by their genetics to rule society.

Nietzsche came along and caught their fancy-he wrote extensively on the “supermen” who, because of genetic superiority, were destined to rule the world.

Karl Marx, of all people, moved the needle for them as well- people often reflect on how he promoted the thought that the oppressed workers of the world need to revolt and take over. However, he also added that there exists a super race of folks who are needed to “control” and direct the animal urges of the masses. (The head of the WEF recently said that the Chinese model is the best one for the future of mankind. When Xi Jinping came to San Francisco, many of the billionaire class showed up, gave him a standing ovation, and treated him like the “savior” they viewed him as.

In short, to understand the Billionaire class, you have to, I believe, understand that they see themselves as different…genetically superior to you. They see themselves as endowed with superior intellect, superior thoughts, superior bodies, and superior everything – to the point that they see you as being in a different genus and species.

In all of their “I’m better than you” world, there is no thought of America. No thought of the United States Constitution. No thought about Christian values respecting life and the dignity of individuals.

The life-sustaining “force” for them is that they are the BILLIONAIRE-OCRACY,  and they are endowed by natural selection to rule the world.  Everyone else is lower than a snake’s belly in a wheel rut and needs to be eliminated or forced into the slave class.

I remember watching these folks take over California.

They wanted cheap labor; they wanted no unions. The “inferior” middle-class American middle class was an irritation, depriving them of their rightful ruling status. Lawyers asserting the rights of these folks were an abomination and need to be drawn and quartered ( currently, the federal government is writing into almost every new regulation coming out of the various agencies’ criminal penalties on any lawyer counseling or asserting a challenge to the regulations).

“Get rid of them! “they cried out. Replace them with people who work cheaply, do what they are told, and know zero about their rights.  So, they opened the borders and brought in peasants from the hills of Mexico. And they kept them illegal( I knew some who had come to the USA when they were five and at 65 were still illegal) so that constantly these folks were in fear if they did anything the padrone did not like, they would be deported.

And when Ceasar Chavez tried to unionize the farm workers, the billionaires freaked- a Mexican asserting human rights!

The Teamsters came in and crushed him. And then made deal after deal with the “ruling” class. (I represented some farmers in the Imperial Valley and was involved in the Chavez v Teamsters for several years). They wanted to make money off Indian gaming, so they got Arnold Schwarzenegger to agree not to tax the first 2000 slot machines in each casino. They wanted close relations with China as they wanted Chinese money to flow through their companies. And they wanted Chinese laborers to build their devices. So, they arranged for the right people to be elected and made sure those elected folks passed the legislation they needed.

Somewhere along the line, they decided that they just did not need the traditional white men and women who were not billionaires. They wanted compliant people who kept their mouths shut and did what they were told. After all, being genetically superior, they are ENTITLED’ to whatever they want.

So they came up with the “environmental movement” that imposed regulation after regulation on middle Americans and thereby made the cost of living beyond what the middle class could afford. It takes ten years to break ground on any housing based on all the regulations. They passed the “greenhouse Gas emissions laws” that literally stopped all construction of homes until a complete revamp occurred, replacing the single-family dwelling with the Chinese model of high-rise concentrated housing (ten or more 35-story condos all grouped and serviced by public transportation).

They wanted such folks with their “rights” and guns gone. A house I bought in the early 2000 for $450,000 is now $900,000. Meanwhile, the City of Santa Ana, a population bigger than any city in New Hampshire, allows migrants to live in garages so long as there is water (a hose), electricity (an extension cord), and sanitation (a bucket).

I and millions like me left.  I filed too many lawsuits in favor of the illegal immigrants, and they shut me down in the Courts and in my business(One of my best clients called me up one day and told me that the owner had instructed that I could not get any more work because I was not gay and that I had filed too many lawsuits asserting the rights of illegal immigrants.  One judge openly told me that he had to rule against me as he had received pressure from very high-up people who had targeted me for my beliefs in Constitutional rights.

These wealthy folks- the BILLIONAIRE-OCRACY-were very, very successful. Go to Fresno( speaking English is likely to get you shot). Go to Stockton( run by Marxists passing out universal basic income in the heart of the California agricultural empire that feeds the world). Go to Oakland( homelessness is a growth industry).

All the white middle class is either gone, shuddered their businesses, or are living in their cars or RV’s. Meanwhile, the BILLIONAIRE-OCRACY businesses thrive with their cheap labor and their total control along the Chinese business/government model.

Apple, for example, to be able to hire cheap Mexican labor, built a company town adjacent to their ” 5 billion dollar campus” to house the illegals who mow the lawn and cook the meals. Houses in the area sell for over 2 million. Rents for one bedroom are $3500. Making 15 dollars an hour or less means no roof.

To sum up,  the BILLIONAIRE-OCRACY took over California, got rid of all the folks like you and me, and replaced us with a compliant slave class that greeted the Chinese premiere with open and loving arms.

Guess what? They were so successful in California that they wanted to bring what they did to California to the rest of the USA, including New Hampshire.

Joe Biden has served them well. They would love him to return.  For a few measly millions in the Biden family pockets, Biden gives them everything they want- unlimited money flow, Government contracts, and wars they can profit from; but most importantly, he gives them the status they think they deserve: Whatever they want they get. And right now, what they want is a USA where the middle class with its guns, its constitutional rights, and its American freedoms is gone. They want to replace all those middle-class Americans with cheap, compliant labor from any and all places they live in the world.

They made a good start under Obama, and when Trump got elected, they thought, “Hey, he is one of us. He is a billionaire; he has milked the system; he has hobnobbed with all the right people.”

Instead, Trump slammed the BILLIONAIRE-OCRACY. He slammed their viewpoint. He championed the middle class. He brought life back to the Americans born in the USA, and he restored their rights. He denied the billionaires their special privileges.  Most alarming to them, he told them that they were no better nor worse than anybody else. Not genetically superior to anyone. He slammed their scheme to replace all of us with cheap, compliant labor, and he slammed them for sending businesses overseas.

To the BILLIONAIRES, THIS ELECTION IS CLEARLY AN EXISTENTIAL ISSUE- either they are entitled to be the superior class that runs the country, or they are not. And the “are not” scares the crap out of them( the thought that you or I might have a say in our Government scares them no end).

Take a look at the effort to stop Trump. Who is leading it? Who funds it? You cannot watch any TV station or watch any YouTube broadcasts without being bombarded with “I hate Trump” ads.  I am told that these ads have cost more than 350 million. Yet they are relentless. And ostensibly, they are by Republicans or self-described Conservatives. They have now apparently chosen Nikki Haley to be their “stop Trump” savior. She is one of them, after all: illegals are good; China is great; war is needed.  They are pouring huge amounts into her campaign. But who are they?  Her ads are being paid for by three major PACS. If you go and look at who funds those PACs, OMG-its a bunch of Billionaires- the Koch family, the head of PAYPAL, etc. Isn’t this the BILLIONAIRE-OCRACY DOING ITS THING ALL OVER AGAIN? 

I left California to get away from the BILLIONAIRE-OCRACY.  Stupid me-it came to New Hampshire. I have no place left to go. I will be holding a Trump sign at the four corners in Hollis. If you drive by, don’t see the word TRUMP” on my sign; see ” I don’t want the BILLIONAIRE-OCRACY  to finalize the job of destroying my Country because they think they are genetically superior to me – if you feel the same, honk twice.

God bless!

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NH Representatives File Bill To Stop Solar Radiation Modification (SRM) and Other Forms of Weather Engineering Experiments such as Stratospheric Aerosol Injection (SAI) in New Hampshire’s Atmosphere.

Concord, New Hampshire – Two motivated NH House Representatives, Jason Gerhard, Merrimack – District 25, and Kelley Potenza, Strafford – District 19, have introduced “The Clean Atmosphere Preservation Act” NH House Bill HB 1700. The three-page bill establishes regulations to prevent the intentional release of polluting and harmful emissions into New Hampshire’s atmosphere. This bill aims to bring forward a subject many experts have warned us about for years, as well as the necessary transparency for NH citizens so we can educate and unite to stop this destructive environmental onslaught we are experiencing.

“We already have legislation passed in 2021 that should inform the public when this occurs. Unfortunately, that has never occurred in the three years since its passage. It is time to take legislative action to flat out stop this pollution,” stated Rep. Potenza. HB 1700 cites pollution released during cloud seeding or weather modification activities and associated electromagnetic radiation, all defined as pollution by scientists. “Even Verizon and AT&T define what we are referring to as pollution. To be clear, we are not worried about snow-making cannons, since we know what comes out of those, or looking to regulate domestic airplane engine emissions as some have disingenuously suggested,” Rep. Gerhard said.

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In addition to New Hampshire’s existing Weather Modification policy, the Federal Congress is partnering with foreign governments and international organizations such as the United Nations to establish a global governance framework for “mandated” experimentation of Solar Radiation Modification (SRM) and other forms of weather engineering experiments such as Stratospheric Aerosol Injection (SAI) to block sunlight and assist in global cooling. You can find the alarming Congressionally Mandated Research Plan and an Initial Research Governance report at: https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/CongressionallyMandated-Report-on-Solar-Radiation-Modification.pdf.

The types of experimental activities advanced by Washington, DC, which incorporate satellites and space, are like something out of a science fiction movie. According to the Tenth Amendment of The United States Constitution, HB 1700 would prohibit SRM, SAI, cloud seeding, weather modification, and other types of weather experimentation in New Hampshire. “The Clean Atmosphere Preservation Act” safeguards state security and sovereignty and protects the health and safety of our environment, wildlife, agriculture, etc., all while preserving our natural resources.

HB 1700 will be introduced in a House committee public hearing next Tuesday, detailed below. Please contact the committee with your testimony or register your support if you cannot attend in person: https://gencourt.state.nh.us/house/committees/remotetestimony/default.aspx.

Hearing Date: January 16, 2024 Time: 1:30 PM Address: Legislative Office Building, 33 North State Street, Concord, NH 03301 Committee: Science, Technology and Energy (https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/house/committees/committeedetails.aspx?id=15) Room: 302-304 Bill: HB 1700 – an act prohibiting the intentional release of polluting emissions, including cloud seeding, weather modification, excessive electromagnetic radio frequency, and microwave radiation and making penalties for violation of such prohibition.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 12, 2023
Press Release Contact: Representative Kelley Potenza, Strafford – District 19 Email: kelley.potenza@leg.state.nh.us
New Hampshire House of Representatives The General Court of New Hampshire 107 North Main Street Concord, NH 03301

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Don Lemon announced a deal to do a program on X, as have Tulsi Gabbard and some sports guy of whom I’ve never heard, but the addition of Lemon is of most interest. The former CNN critter will provide the left with an excuse to use the platform that Leomn calls “the biggest space for free speech in the world.”

The petty tyrants obsessed with censoring ideas with which they disagree have a problem. They’ve insisted that X, in its Musk-Owned post-government-controlled censorship state, would collapse, die, become a wasteland for hate, and a place for intolerant MAGA Republicans and Nazis as if Nazis don’t have free speech rights in America.

We don’t have to like it, but they do.

These progressive exhortations (in reality) prevent them from having to address how censorious platforms like Facebook and Instagram allow child pornography, pedophile rings, and child sex trafficking but not diverse opinions on the effectiveness of masks, lockdowns, or more invasive chemical interventions.

Laptops owned by Biden’s named Hunter or unsecured servers owned by Clinton’s named Hillary. These subjects are commonly referred to as election interference. And you’d be right to insist on a double standard, two sets of rules, or a two-tiered system of injustice, which the old X (when it was known as Twitter) would have had to filter, alter, shadow-ban, or censor.

And while there might be Nazis and child traffickers on X, it now has Don Lemon, who, regardless of his success there, has opened the door to more capable progressive commentators, all of whom have the right to speak their minds. The Lemon and I won’t agree on much, nor will I find a lot of common ground among most die-hard progressives, but if they flock to X to see Lemon and whoever follows his lead, they’ll need to rethink at least two problems—their hatred for Elon Musk and their position on X and Free Speech.

If it’s anything like the mental health crisis they had with unmasked people during COVID, the online therapy services stand to rake in a fortune.

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Lost in the recent climate summit at COP28 in Dubai was the shift by environmentalists and governments toward a nuclear energy future. Calls to eliminate fossil fuels and cows predominated as usual, and John Kerry demanded that all coal-fired plants be banned. But a very substantial lane change took place as well: nuclear-powered options were granted a seat at the climate table.

Observers of climate summits may be forgiven if they’re confused over the direction the world is being led to combat the alleged climate-change Armageddon – clearly, the attendees are. Envoys to Dubai flew to the summit conspicuously in jets, dined on meat, and condemned China for its coal-fired plants while calling to manufacture more solar panels and EVs – which are heavily dependent on Chinese coal energy. In the shuffle to redistribute energy resources, it is inevitable that relatively cheap and clean nuclear power would eventually poke its head cautiously into the climate fray.

Environmental purists have long scoffed at nuclear power as an ally against greenhouse gas emissions, but it appears the failure of the renewable energy pathways to deliver the promised salvation has induced the climate obsessives to reassess their Utopian objectives. In what is being diplomatically whitewashed as a nuclear “renaissance” rather than an about-face reversal, global and industry leaders are openly embracing the “nuclear option.” An international agreement signed by 22 nations while at COP28 pledged to triple nuclear energy capacity by 2050. Signatories included the US, Canada, Britain, and the UAE, which touted its own massive investments in nuclear reactors at the climate summit.

This dramatic shift in official climate policy may be driven by the recognition of the frightful shortcomings of renewable energy manufacturing or numerous claims that humanity is already past the point of no return from global warming impacts. Yet a forceful reality for conference attendees – and the world – is that China and other nations are proceeding full steam ahead with nuclear capacity. Perhaps Western nations are fathoming the consequences of being left behind on energy.

Greta Thunberg howls against fossil fuels while demanding more renewable manufacturing – dependent on fossil fuels. The one-issue obsession with carbon dioxide has clouded futurist visions to “save” the world, into what may well prove to be a sort of modern collective energy suicide. Banning oil, natural gas, and coal before the alternatives have been created and implemented is dubious policy. Yet the carbon-focus foible means toxic chemicals spewing from Chinese manufacturing plants have been ignored, as have the consequences of shutting down oil and gas production and distribution. Also overlooked are the economic impacts of reckless government spending.

The most dramatic oversight of the climate agenda, though, may be national security. China is an amused partner at the table – pledging climate policy commitments while ramping up coal-fired plants and nuclear power. China views coal as a national security resource, as it has enormous quantities of black gold. It also understands the power and profitability inherent in nuclear energy, and is currently constructing all six types of fourth-generation nuclear reactors determined by an international consortium to be safer than traditional reactors.

Dreams of Utopia invariably crash down with earthly gravitation. Few but the most extremist environmental groups now insist that nuclear power is off the table, especially as new inroads into nuclear fusion are developed. Proponents of climate change action are increasingly coming to terms with the factual reality that renewable energy manufacturing cannot possibly provide the baseload of power the world requires. This leaves nuclear power as not only a viable option, but the planet’s only known hope for anthropogenic rescue from alleged human-caused global warming.

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We can only hope that the other faulty pillars of leftism collapse this year the way the Electric Vehicle market has in the past year. Dealers don’t want them Inventory is backing up, manufacturers are losing billions, and now Hertz is not only not going to buy 100,000 of them, it is dumping many of the EVs it has.

“The elevated costs associated with EVs persisted,” Hertz Chief Executive Officer Stephen Scherr said. “Efforts to wrestle it down proved to be more challenging.”

The company hopes that its decision to sell off 20,000+ electric vehicles better balances “supply against expected demand of EVs,” it said in a regulatory filing.

Morgan Stanley analysts said told Reuters that Hertz’s move should be a warning to the entire auto industry about the reality of the electric vehicle market, that they are not that popular and expectations for their growth need to be significantly reduced.

They cost more to buy, a lot more to insure, are expensive to repair, and, in many cases, are a total loss from what might otherwise be a minor accident. You can’t trust them indoors (or shouldn’t due to lithium battery fire risk). Their advertised range rarely meets expectations. Most EVs will never run on non-fossil fuel electricity, and their manufacture and disposal are less than green.

An EV is a lot like any other high-end status vehicle except that it is an expensive and impractical lifestyle accessory with a government mandate.

A pushy Biden Administration commanded automakers to include them to meet revised efficiency mandates, but consumers are losing interest in an investment of that size given the other cost and reliability concerns. Short of buying it for them, the market has plateaued, and that, too, is a concern. Woke states and municipalities have expanded their taxpayer-funded fleets with these turds, and with new models piling up, Biden could easily propose a bailout that puts taxpayers in double jeopardy. The Feds will fund incentives with your dollars to encourage cities and states to pick up the excess inventory, with taxpayers on the hook again for the higher costs of ownership that is scaring off consumers.

And if you are thinking this might be a good time to get in cheap on a used EV formerly in the possession of Hertz, rethink that. The only thing worse than the EV market is the used EV market – another reason to stay away.

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Whenever I see and listen to Jamie Raskin (D-DE), I feel the need to wash my hands or shower. Raskin is a prototypical slimy politician who can pontificate on any subject and never tell the truth about any of it. He rose to prominence as part of the team that schemed to impeach Donald Trump and never let the facts or truth get in the way of his version. I think Raskin believes if he talks long enough, his listeners will not even remember the question, let alone the accuracy of Raskin’s answer.

Raskin teamed up with Hunter Biden for a dog and pony show during a hearing of the House Oversight Committee. Seeing Biden and Raskin together gave me visions of Raskin holding the camera during Hunter’s famous PornHub videos. They are both such dirty human beings. Appearing with his attorney, Abbe Lowell, Hunter Biden sat silently in the front row as the committee chair and vice-chair delivered opening statements to a hearing dominated by partisan bickering. Hunter was not expected at the hearing, and it was obvious that this event was coordinated between Hunter and Jamie. Both were prepared and had rehearsed their roles. Hunter’s role was to sit stone-faced and say nothing. At the given time, he, Lowell, and Kevin Morris, Hunter’s Sugar Brother, stood in unison and walked out of the proceedings to address the media.

In the meantime, Raskin was playing his part. In a long soliloquy, he told his version of how the Republicans were using Hunter Biden in a long-shot effort to get to Joe Biden. Raskin’s staff held up printed signs highlighting his speech, evidence this was a pre-planned made-for-TV event. The Representatives traded barbs and insults in an exciting session rarely seen in the Capitol. Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) asked, “Who bribed Hunter Biden to be here,” criticizing the surprise appearance. “You are the epitome of white privilege. Coming into the Oversight Committee, spitting in our face, ignoring a congressional subpoena to be deposed. What are you afraid of? You have no balls to come up here,” she said. There were calls for Biden’s immediate arrest and incarceration for defying a Congressional subpoena. When Representative Marjorie Taylor Green (R-GA) spoke, the Biden trio stood and exited, resulting in a verbal beatdown of Biden by Green. Her accusation was that Biden was no match for a strong Conservative woman.

Lowell gave a prepared statement to the media, further reinforcing that this day was choreographed. Biden said little during his visit except for an exchange of words with a FOX reporter. Fox Business’ Hillary Vaughn asked Hunter why he put his father on speakerphone during his meetings. Hunter asked if she had a father and if he ever called her. Vaughn said yes, but never while she was in a business meeting. She landed the punch, and Biden was heard saying she was dangerous.

Hunter Biden is not a good person. We should not judge others, but in Hunter’s case, he has forced that judgment on us. He has not been a good father or husband. He has not been a good son in that he has spent a lifetime profiting from his father’s position and name. He has acted in a fashion to bring shame to the name but shows no remorse. He has extorted millions from foreign countries and companies and helped build a family fortune for his father that the job itself never could. He developed a way to launder millions with a bogus artist career. He has neglected to pay millions in taxes, and at the same time, his father is declaring war on Americans who have done the same. The hypocrisy is palpable. He has defied Congress and is using his father to beat the courts. Hunter Biden is not a good person. He may be winning some battles, but ultimately, he may lose the war. Even his corrupt father may not have enough strings to pull to keep the guilty verdict away from Hunter.

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City Councilor Ali Sekou is suing his City over a new development next to the Mosque he runs. I shared some thoughts on this a few days ago and wondered if the lawsuit to block new housing was about parking spaces. It’s been a few days, and I think it is about parking.

As a reminder, “the IQRA Islamic Society of Greater Concord sits on a piece of property adjacent to the First Congregational Church at 177 N. Main St, in whose lot (some) Mosque attendees are alleged to have parked.” Parking sucks on Main Street, and the Mosque is but one of its many victims, which is where our story takes a new turn (or should I say an old one).

From that Concord resident and reader:

The Concord ZBA approved the Mosque at its August 2, 2017, meeting. The Mosque project requested six zoning variances beginning June 7, 2017. The first variance request states “to permit 16 parking spaces where 251 spaces are required.”

By the time the August 2 meeting came the ZBA decided that only 47 spaces were required and the 16 onsite parking spots were good enough if they could get an easement from the First Congregational Church next door for 31 more parking spots.

The Concord Monitor reported on the August 2nd meeting, stating the next step would be to get Site Plan approval from the Planning Board.

Maybe I’m partial to promoting my guesses, but how is this not about parking?

I’m not clear on any official parking variance – maybe someone can find out if the Concord Planning Board even approached this – but when the church property was sold, that changed the game. The new property owners’ plan to build apartments was also approved with a parking variance (if I recall), so is it inappropriate for the Mosque to complain about parking or traffic or the character of the area when it – assuming my source is correct – went from needing 251 spaces to 47 spaces, 65.95% of which were not even on the Mosque’s property.

The IQRA Islamic Society of Greater Concord has sued, so a lawyer in a robe will get a shot at telling us what it all means when I think we already know. Zoning and Planning rules exist to give zoning and planning board members something to do. That something is approving development, and to hell with the parking and traffic; the Mosque is wasting its money on the lawsuit.

The City isn’t going to do anything about a parking problem the Mosque accepted on a contingency the City was never going to pursue, and even if it did, it was temporary at best. Short of the IQRA Islamic Society of Greater Concord buying that land, it was always temporary, and they didn’t buy it.

If the Mosque thinks it can win because the City owes it parking, they are going to lose.

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Riley Gaines, former NCAA swimmer now advocate of Save Women’s Sports Act, has been very active this week protesting and speaking at the 2024 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Convention in Phoenix, Arizona, to demand that the organization stop discriminating against female athletes by allowing males to compete in women’s sports.

The NCAA celebrates its decision to include transgender women in women’s sports as Progressive and the right decision for college athletics. The results and data prove otherwise and show the NCAA to be more concerned with being WOKE than right on this issue.

At the convention, swimmers Riley Gaines, Paula Scanlan, Kaylee Alons, and volleyball player Macy Petty continue to call on NCAA President Charlie Baker to meet with them to hear how allowing men in women’s sports hurt them. Baker has ignored numerous requests to meet with female athletes against whom the NCAA has discriminated. Gaines is the most visible of these female athletes. She is a 12x All-American swimmer, 5x SEC Champion, and record holder. However, she was denied the individual championship in her senior year at Kentucky when she was beaten by transgender swimmer Lia Thomas, who had competed at Penn for a few years as a male swimmer.

By the conclusion of Thomas’s swimming career at UPenn in 2022, her rank had moved from 65th on the men’s team to 1st on the women’s team in the 500-yard freestyle and 554th on the men’s team to fifth on the women’s team in the 200-yard freestyle. Thomas found the way to become a champion was not to train and work harder but to become a woman and compete as one. I question how she can look in the mirror or hold up her trophy and feel good about the women she cheated in her quest for fame.

34 Lia Thomas athletes compete in women’s collegiate athletics and are supported by the NCAA. They compete in swimming, basketball, soccer, gymnastics, and volleyball. Not only are women being denied championships and scholarships and having future earnings hampered, but they are also being physically hurt. 

From ABC13 News:

RALEIGH, N.C. (TND) — A high school volleyball player who suffered severe head and neck injuries resulting in long-term concussion symptoms after a girl she says is transgender spiked a ball in her face is now speaking out publicly for the first time.

“Due to the North Carolina High School Athletic Association policy allowing biological males to compete against biological females my life has forever been changed,” Payton McNabb, now a senior at Hiwassee Dam High School in Murphy, North Carolina, said during a Thursday committee hearing of the North Carolina state legislature.

McNabb indicated that, to this day, she is still recovering from her injuries and continues to face other health struggles as a result of what happened, such as impaired vision, partial paralysis on the right side of her body, constant headaches, anxiety, and depression. But to the NCAA, this is just the cost of being a Progressive WOKE institution.

To every level-headed, honest, free-thinker, this inclusion of trans-women is wrong. Still, the beliefs and wishes of the masses are no longer the concern of the government, schools, sports governing bodies, or Progressives in general. It will be challenging to correct these bad decisions when the adults regain control of this country. For the young women denied the fruits of their hard work, there will be no justice, and for the Payton Mcnabbs who are physically harmed, there will be no apology.

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Mitch McConnell and his faux-GOP ilk are, as I write this (1/12 10:00 AM), selling out GOP voters on illegal immigration. More specifically, Oklahoma’s faux-GOP Senator Lankford is the figurehead for a plan to essentially amnesty the millions illegals the Biden-Regime has allowed to invade through our Southern border and to legalize future illegal immigration … to the tune of 5,000 per day.

Here is Oklahoma Republican Senator James Lankford Deal for the Southern Border

1) Increase green cards by 50,000/year

2) Work permits for adult children of H-1B holders

3) Immediate work permits to every illegal alien released from custody

4) Taxpayer funded lawyers to… pic.twitter.com/YUI248w8cW

— The Calvin Coolidge Project (@TheCalvinCooli1) January 12, 2024

I’ve warned many times that Americans will cease to exist as we know it once the children of this illegal alien invasion reach voting age. There will be a permanent Democrat majority. It turns out the Left is not willing to wait that long.  Illegals in Arizona can vote in the 2024 Presidential election. Faux News might as well call Arizona for Biden now.

Elon Musk Rightly Says Arizona Doesn’t Verify Federal Voter Citizenship — But The Feds Don’t Let Themhttps://t.co/nHRNkLkZDq

— The Federalist (@FDRLST) January 12, 2024

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