Before and After

Being president of the United States is a tough job.  Presidents age visibly while in office.  Here are examples of before and after pictures of presidents who served two terms in office.

Here is what Biden will look like if he serves two terms as president.

Start Out as You Mean to Go

Juveniles are out of control across our country.  They are organizing on social media and making life impossible for law abiding citizens and business owners. The reason is simple.  Juveniles are not treated like adults when it comes to sentencing. And criminal records are often sealed when they turn 18.

So, not only do kids know they can get away with committing crimes, gangs know it as well. They recruit kids to do their dirty work because they know they will be back out on the street even if they get caught.  These kids grow up for years committing crimes and working for gangs and getting away with it.  What makes anyone think that they will magically stop their criminal behavior when they become 18 and are considered an adult? Why do we not charge these kids as adults and hopefully stop them early before they start their life of crime?

And yes, this will have a disparate effect on minorities.  Get over it.

Put Up or Shut Up

Jose Alba, the New York City bodega worker who stabbed an assailant in self-defense, just testified before a congressional committee. He lost me when he started his statement by saying that he is not supporting Republicans nor blaming Democrats.

If you vote for Democrats you should not be allowed to complain about the following:

Crime

Inflation (including high gas prices)

Ineffective schools and colleges

Men in women’s sports

Violent Protests (including the January 6^th protests)

The mess at the border

Onerous covid related restrictions

I’m tired of people complaining about these issues and then turning around and voting for democrats who are clearly perpetuating these issues.

Leftists Don’t Want to Fix Issues, They Want to Use Issues to get Elected.

Conservatives are giving Al Sharpton credit for saying that progressives need to get tough on crime.   The difference between conservatives who want to get tough on crime and progressives is that conservatives want to stop people from getting killed and/or molested.  Progressives want to start getting tough on crime because they think that high crime rates in progressive cities are hurting their chances of getting elected.

Abortion is another example.  Democrats had the Whitehouse and both houses of congress and could have passed a law making abortion legal across the country but then they couldn’t run on the issue.  Without abortion as an issue to get liberals out to the polls democrats are doomed.

The war on poverty is another issue leftists don’t want to solve.  They need to be able to promise to give people “free” things in name of fighting poverty in order to bribe them for their votes.

Fighting racism is another example.  They need to make everything about race, even promoting fake hate crimes, to keep getting a majority of the black vote.

One more example is global warming.  Leftists claim that global warming will destroy the planet killing billions of people around the globe but are against clean nuclear energy.  Whatever issues they might have with nuclear energy it has to be better than killing billions of people.  Their position only makes sense if they are not really serious about global warming.

This is not an exhaustive list.  Add your examples in the comment section.

Republicans Should Have a Conversation with Democrats about Gun Control – Under One Condition

Republicans should agree to work with Democrats on gun control under one condition; Democrats get tough on people that use a gun during the conduct of a crime or own an illegal gun.

Republicans should refuse to address any efforts to make buying guns legally more difficult until Democrats crack down on people that use guns illegally. A five-year minimum sentence for discharging a gun during the conduct of a crime is a good start.  A lesser minimum sentence should be imposed for brandishing a weapon during the conduct of a crime. Just being caught with an illegal gun should result in jail time.

Also, people that knowingly lie on a gun application should face jail time as well. That means you, Hunter.

“Progressive” Conservatism

 I wrote this in March of 2022 and decided to post it now due to the recent events associated with the election of the new Speaker of the House:

It is time to get serious about reducing the size of the federal government and return to the limited federal power over our lives that our founding fathers envisioned.  To that end I recommend the following “progressive” conservative ideas:

1.       Reduce the power of the federal government over the use of federal land and reduce federal deficits by selling back federal lands to the states. Today the federal government owns and manages roughly 640 million acres of land in the United States, or roughly 28% of the 2.27 billion total land acres.

2.       Codify a more limited definition of “interstate commerce” to reduce the use and abuse of federal power using the regulation of interstate commerce as the pretext. 

3.       Pass a law to clarify that a child born to an illegal immigrant living in the U.S. does not become a U.S. citizen.  Since there was no such thing as an illegal immigrant at the time of the writing of the 14^th amendment, it is possible to argue that such a child is not “subject to the jurisdiction” of the U.S.  Pursue a constitutional amendment if necessary.

4.       Eliminate Omnibus appropriation bills.   Omnibus appropriation bills combine the proposed budgets from the 15 federal departments into one bill which gets a single up or down vote.  Each department should be required to submit budgets and each department’s budget should be voted on individually.  This would not only make each department more accountable; it   would also reduce the need to shut down the entire government when there are budget disputes in congress.

5.       Baseline budgeting should be eliminated.  Federal baseline budgeting assumes a department’s spending will increase every year.  That increase is added to the prior year’s budget to create a new funding baseline.  This baseline increase includes automatic adjustments for inflation and anticipated increases in program participation.  This means the size of the government grows every year without any action required by the congress.  With the current rates of inflation, this is particularly egregious.  Citizens have to deal with the effects of inflation on our budgets when the government just gets more money that then becomes the baseline for future budgets.

6.       Pass a “Clean Bill” law restricting the ability of congressman from adding items to a bill unrelated to the subject of the bill. 

It is time for conservatives to get “progressive”.

Chuck Schumer Broke the Law and Should be Prosecuted.

I think we can all agree that the following video shows Chuck Schumer demonstrating in front of the Supreme Court building housing the Supreme Court of the United States with the intent of influencing the judges’ decisions.

Now read the following law:

18 U.S. Code 1507

“Whoever, with the intent of interfering with, obstructing, or impeding the administration of justice, or with the intent of influencing any judge, juror, witness, or court officer, in the discharge of his duty, pickets or parades in or near a building housing a court of the United States, or in or near a building or residence occupied or used by such a judge, juror, witness, or court officer, or with the intent uses any sound-truck or similar device or resorts to any other demonstration in or near any such building or residence, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned.”

Putting aside the obvious threats to Justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh, which Schumer denies, he still broke the law and should be a convicted felon.  It’s not too late to indict him.