The killing heart                      

The last decade or so has witnessed a heartwarming resurgence of American pride. Tens of millions of common men -- laborers, policemen, honest journalists, and regular Joes from numerous walks of life -- have hefted high the glorious stars and stripes to which generations pledged allegiance.

But recent years also brought into distinct aspect this horrible truth: Millions of our lesser national brethren hunger so mightily for governmental and cultural dominance, they've seized up ugliness with relish.

Their smiley-face, peace sign masks lie on the floor. Visible now are the grotesque visages of those who exalt lawbreaking, treasonous ambitions, and sundry immoralities.

Badness is the ideal. Consider foul phenomena presently poisoning our great nation, at the calculation of Democrat leaders and other sinsister actors:

Openly socialist and communistic notions and candidates populate national conversation. Illegal immigrant crimes -- including murders, rapes, and child predations -- occur alongside celebrations of Christian conservative Charlie Kirk's broad daylight murder, as well as that of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, and the attempts to assassinate President Trump. 

Furthermore, backroom-plotted, barely legal lawfare machinations to sabotage democracy and foil the people's will have seen animation. Cashless bail allows offenders with numerous criminal convictions to lurk anew in American neighborhoods and perpetrate additional offenses, while state and local officials ensure area police are barred from cooperating with federal law enforcement. 

City streets teem with (possibly bankrolled) protesters, assaulting law enforcement with concrete chunks, explosives, and bricks from pallet-stacks mysteriously situated for comfortable access.

Sadly, that list-- to which other vile efforts could easily be appended -- has been joined by a large-scale and despicable outpouring of sympathy for three-time toddler-strangler Lyndsay Clancy.

A sickening push to allow baby-murdering mothers to dance free -- citing mental dishevelment, resulting from the God-given wonder of childbirth -- has begun. Iowa retired columnist Rekha Basu, of the Gannett Corporation-owned, obdurately liberal Des Moines Register, penned an entire missive endorsing such wicked crackpottery.

New 'progressive' exhortations to grant mothers child-killing rights are a logical, albeit horrendous, extension of the dire philosophy undergirding the abortion of millions of babies each year. (Perhaps garroting disquieting husbands will soon also become a woke cause.)

Do not doubt that the same reprobates who promote the above will continue bannering themselves the 'good guys,' virtuous believers in love, peace, and tolerance. 

Of course, no intelligent observer will be fooled, and honest ones will raise the finger of contempt.

Immoral is not moral, nor wrong right, or unfair fair, any more than down is up. 

November's election results will show whether the America of noble tradition will endure as its founders intended, or if moral rot and ideological pestilence settle behind the wheel.

God help us all.

Americans' patriotic hearts allow hate no space

"When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice. The bible tells us 'How good and pleasant it is, when God's people live together in unity.'" - President Donald Trump

It's impossible to imagine anything more conflictive with the noble American ideal of equality than judging a man by the color of his skin. Opportunities for mobility, entreprenurial activity, and political participation must be open to all.

President Trump, like Jefferson and Reagan before him, knows bigotry is antithetical to our exceptional nation's grand disposition.

"Racism is evil," Trump declared, following 2016's Charlottesville rally tragedy. ""And those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs, including the KKK, neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and other hate groups who are repugnant to everything we hold dear as Americans."

Speaking before the 1981 NAACP convention, then-President Ronald Reagan also stated the matter with bracing solidity: "A few isolated groups in the back order of American life still hold perverted notions of what America is all about. Recently, in some places in the nation, there's been a disturbing reoccurence of bigotry and violence. To those individuals who persist in such hateful behavior...You are the ones who are out of step with our society. You are the ones who willfully violate the meaning of the dream that is America. And this country, because it does what it stands for, will not stand for your conduct."

Jefferson's immortal words also bear recollection: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness."

(Jefferson's is a complicated case. Possessed of an intellect of superior quality, he also was a slaveholder. We celebrate him for his immense philosophical contributions, involvement in the authorship of our country's founding documents, and service as vice-president and third president. Honest men acknowledge Jefferson's egregious wrong. But we pay due respect to his far greater salutary attributes and accomplishments. The awful was impermanent, whereas the wonderful has endured.)

By standing in foursquare opposition to hate, and defending America's rightful sovereignty against enemies foreign and domestic, we can make Jefferson's grand values as meaningful as when he took up quill and inscribed them on parchment.

"It is time to remember that old wisdom our soldiers will never forget: that whether we are black, or brown, or white, we all bleed the same red blood of patriots, we all enjoy the same glorious freedoms, and we all salute the same great American flag,"  President Trump once said.

Longtime Democrat voters deserve no pity  

                                          

Among wackdoodlisms promoted by pompous and avowedly socialistic nimrods are Islamic supremacy, government ownership of industries, 'sex-change' mutilizations for toddlers, destruction of the nuclear family unit, contempt for Christianity, and automatic American citizenship for all the world's peoples.

Those howlingly horrible notions are not endorsed by MAGA patriots, it goes without saying. But they are also not personally supported by many aging Democrat voters, who wistfully recall "Together with McGovern" and believe their contemporary partisan resoluteness amounts to carrying forward the torch they took up so very long ago.

Still, veterans of donkey persuasion might as well believe woke imbecilities; by uncritically grasping the D lever, they aid deviants in odious offensives.

For that reason, I feel no sympathy for lifelong Democrat Party supporters. The party to which they pledged allegiance in past decades is gone. And it will never return.

On another hand, career politicians who obediantly cut jigs to whatever tune is played the loudest are whores, and no one respects whores.

Satire turns serious

In a recent public event, 65 year-old Barack Obama stated "80 percent of the world's problems involve [congressional] old men hanging on who are afraid of death and insignificance, and they won't let go." 

66 year-old Former Chicago mayor and White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel endorses mandatory retirement age at 75 for members of Congress, presidents, cabinet officials, and federal judges. 

The bigotry articulated by those influential Democrats is harbored by a mestastisizing woke bloc. But it falls to pieces when subjected to evaluation.

Contentions advanced from that quarter are that 'old' men necessarily hold passe ideas, and their intellectual capacities to comprehend, reason, and exercise sound judgement are uniformly of dubious status.

That's obviously a generalization. Elon Musk hardly deserves the same negative ranking with Joe Biden in the smarts department.

Individuals should be graded on their own merits - not uncritically dismissed wholesale as guilty, based on immutable-characteristic group membership. That's a standard no more applicable to age than to sex, skin color, nationality, or (to point up the foolishness of the proposition) height or hair color.

The next logical step would be banning 'old' men from voting - participating in decisions as to who is elected to office. If the aged are ruled universally inadequate to devise laws, it would follow that they are identically unfit to choose lawmakers.

The 1968 satiric movie Wild in the Streets depicted song "Fourteen or Fight" and the callow, revolutionary crusade it inspired. Voters above 30 were derided as "stiffs" ("stiff with age").

Later, the singer whose song had rallied subversive youth campaigned for president. He cited the group most dangerous to America's national interest.

"Who, after all then, has caused all our troubles? Those who are stiff, baby! Not with love, but with age!"

Decades later, the satire has become serious.

Iowa's DC Larson is the author of That a Man Can Again Stand Up and Ideas Afoot. He counts among freelance credits Daily Caller, The Iowa Standard, American Thinker, and numerous heartland newspapers. His political blog is American Scene Magazine.

Vermin welcome under Democrats' 'big tent' 

For years, left voices great and small proclaimed themselves to be the 'good guys' -- moral, righteous, tolerant. Various phrasings of that message were bandied about in press conferences, and on placards and bumperstickers. 

But since President Trump was first endorsed by American voters in 2016, all the world has learned the falsity of that assertion.

The splenetic hatred of world Jewry intrinsic to Hitler's national socialism rose in Democrat ranks, until it is today openly and unashamedly bannered by headline-lusting firestarters in that party. 

Yet fresh is the Gerald 'nazi tattoo' Platner matter. When that Maine stormtrooper seemed popular, Democrats of high stature leapt to dance with the national socialist devil. 

Even if throwing him under the bus at the 11th hour had always been planned, the ugly truth remains that Schumer, Sanders, Khanna, Pocohantas, Gallego, and a legion of other hooved amoralists -- Washington Democrats' 'Totenkopf caucus' --  endorsed Platner when sun shone. 

That unprincipled exercise will forever damn them in the estimation of honest, good-hearted observers.

(Meanwhile, the machine has yet to be invented that could tabulate the dizzying number of rank-and-file Democrat lever-graspers who hoist wicked propagandists onto their shoulders in the ghastly Parade of Monsters presently befouling American polity.)

Antisemitism, the world's oldest bigotry, is now fancied clever by connivers who once claimed to oppose hate. Embraced today for advantage it might lend toward power acquisition, that vile prejudice is now as likely to turn up in left gatherings as are rainbow insignia.

The hush that followed President John F. Kennedy's 1963 Dallas murder represented all good Americans regardless of party. It was a matter of basic decency. 

But that was then. Today, if a conservative GOP figure fell to a lunatic's bullets, leftists would freestyle on the coffin lid. 

Cartoonishly radical, unAmerican notions may not held by every grassroots Democrat voter. But (and herein can be located the pivotal peril) so intense is their unreasonable hatred of Americans' chosen president, they'd gladly endorse anything contrary. 

Anything.

In days that immediately followed numerous attempts to assassinate President Trump, many famed Democrat officials and show business flakes either blamed the intended victim, disputed the crime's factualness, or twirled noisemakers.

And an online respondent to a Christian Charlie Kirk meme I once circulated sneered: "That didn't turn out too well for him, did it?"

In that morally despicable rejoinder was encapsulated the garbage-hearted maliciousness that actually thrives in the breasts of Democrats who elsewhere thunder counterfeit virtuosity.

A widow and young orphans grieve for an innocent father assassinated solely for political and cultural opinions he held, and for his belief in God. A loyal Democrat found that cause for guffawing.

Nor did that online foulness stand out from the left crowd. Mocking Charlie's murder is widely popular amongst progressives, whether they clog avenues or strut atop rally stages.

The mask has rotted away, eaten by the acids of Democrat Party loathing for President Trump, for America, and for Christianity.

Wickedness, the world now grasps, was the claimed good guys' driver all along.

Many American families have grandfathers and other antecedents who suffered and even died overseas to crush Hitler's socialism and communism. Today's Democrats surely have quite the leg muscles -- how else could they dance on so many graves?

Vote accordingly.

A ghastly reality    

"Here in the United States, the share of left-wing terrorist attacks and plots has risen to levels not seen in decades," Secretary of State Marco Rubio told attendees to his July 16 conference on 'Far-Left Terrorism.'

"In Germany, far-left violence has jumped by more than 40% in just the last year alone," he continued. "In Greece, more than 80% of radical violence is now driven by far-left and anarchist actors."

A recent YouGov poll revealed 25% of "very liberal" U.S. Democrats believe political violence is justifiable. (Polling also found only a meager percentage of Democrats are even proud to be Americans.)

An online meme presently circulating depicts a grave marker bearing the name Trump. 

Ignoring the accelerated spread of politically inspired brutality -- and that it arrives most frequently from the spectrum's left end -- only emboldens criminals.

A July 16 Gateway Pundit article related that Florida former marine, prosecutor, and write-in congressional candidate William Upham had been arrested for declaring President Trump "must be killed" in an online video.

In the same video, Upham charged "Our country is broken," and encouraged viewers to operate in pairs with AK 15s.

"Our country must overthrow President Trump by the violent use of force and kill him," Upham emailed to a journalist.

Last month, a Rochester, New York man was arrested for making numerous online murderous threats against Donald Trump Jr, and members of his family.

Other fresh illustrations include Democrats and other leftists imitating Charlie Kirk's assassination and threatening to "Kirk" political adversaries; celebrations of the anti-Trump gunman who invaded the White House Correspondents Dinner; and subversive medical personnel posting videos calling for Trump's demise and encouraging witholding care from suspected MAGA patients to speed their deaths.

More: Efforts by politicians and activists to forestall deportations of violently criminal illegals; the torrent of sympathetic messages sent toward Luigi Mangioni, the 'alleged' murderer of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson; mobs of professional anti-ICE protesters raining bricks and explosives on police phalanxes; and physical assaults and even murders of law enforcement officers and any citizen perceived to support the President of our United States.

Referring to the numbers regarding international left-wing violence he'd cited, Rubio was adamant. "These are not abstract statistics. Americans have seen what those numbers mean: an all-out assault on our immigration officers, sniper attacks, explosives, armed ambushes, a transgender shooter opening fire on Catholic elementary school students as they pray, his gun marked with slogans like ‘Where is your God now?'”

At this writing, there have been three known attempts on President Trump's own life. And as evidenced above, additional plottings are contrived. 

And that's only American leftists; an Iranian scheme was recently revealed. 

In response to malevolence issuing from grotty precincts, Trump wrote on X that smears hurled his way had "taken politics in our Country to a whole new level of Hatred, Abuse, and Distrust. Because of the Communist Left rhetoric, the bullets are flying, and it will only get worse!"

After years of hearing "Trump is Hitler, MAGA are nazis" slander from numerous media mouthpieces, it's logical that uncritical recipients would think violent actions noble and even of historic import.

Of course, leftists sanctioning morbidness has precedent. For decades, the Democrat Party has championed abortions with absolutely no restrictions on time or reasons. 

Clear-visioned critics term the Democrat Party a "party of death." The ghastly sobriquet is accurate.

America wins bigly               

                                                    

"Two major wins define this week," began a new White House briefing document. "First, jobless levels fell to their lowest level since 1969, a 57-year record that puts the full force of the Trump economic agenda on display."

Further gilding that success is the Trump administration's determination to ensure employment opportunities are exclusively available to American citizens. That's how it should be.

Paychecks legitimately earned by American citizens benefit our economy not only through taxes paid, but by healthy consumer spending. It's what made American businesses thrive, and is a major factor in securing this nation's rank above other world powers. 

The president has steadfastly endorsed e-verify. The practice of verifying job applicants' legal rights to be in this nation -- let alone enjoy employment and profit thereby -- is one Trump supports, as well as levying stiff penalties against unscrupulous employers who would flout American laws and encourage illegality by cultivating lower-paid scofflaw workforces.

(Iowa's elected congressional officials -- all Republicans -- also back e-verify.) 

The White House briefing document also noted: "President Trump secured the Ratepayer Protection Pledge -- a landmark agreement guaranteeing that America's AI dominance is built without sticking consumers with the bill."

By that crucial exercise, our president did away with a major kvetch voiced by AI critics: that related costs would burden tax-payers. Trump now guarantees they won't.

As important as protecting jobs for real Americans and ensuring technological advancement are, the two are hardly lonely on the list of positive moves forward realized by the Trump White House. 

Other wins have been pocketed in police and fire departments' hiring; military recruitment; foreign investments now totaling astronomically; and new factories being built here by formerly internationally located corporations that have returned to these shores.

In concluding his White House Correspondents' Dinner speech, President Trump noted both the progress our country has so far made as a result of America First policies, and world leaders' awestruck recognition: "The King of Saudi Arabia said it. Everyone said almost the same words. 'We thought you were a dead country. We never thought you had a chance. You were never gonna make it back.'

"'And in a period of a year, a period of one year, you made it the hottest country anywhere in the world!'

"We did that together," Trump proclaimed. "It's not just me. We all did it together. We have made America great again, and it's gonna get a lot greater!"

The bloodlusting tolerant

In days that immediately followed (yet another) attempt to assassinate President Trump, numerous famed Democrat officials and show business flakes either blamed the intended victim, disputed the crime's factualness, or twirled noisemakers.

Rep. Jerrold Nadler spat that America's president is the "chief insurrectionist."

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries called for "Maximum warfare - everywhere, all the time!" Slurs Jeffries has slammed our chief executive's way include "fascist, "liar," "hater," and "Hitler."

All-but-forgotten Star Wars actor Mark Hamill posted an AI photo of America's duly-elected president lying, eyes closed, before a tombstone. "If only" was the gruesome wish Luke Skywalker added.

At this writing, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer - historically, an indefatigable source of hysterical and unfounded Trump smearings - has yet to condemn the extreme left shooter.

Steve Schmidt, co-founder of the odious Lincoln Project, spoke to Ben Shapiro's Daily Wire in the aftermath. “He’s a poisonous, venomous man,” Schmidt said of Americans' chosen president.
“He’s an insurrectionist, the foremost domestic enemy of the Constitution in American history. He is a vile and disgusting man, a convicted sex predator, and likely a pedophile."

(Schmidt reportedly left the Lincoln Project in 2021, following revelations that fellow group co-founder, John Weaver, had exploited his status to entice numerous youthful males, including a boy of only 14.)

Thoroughly despicable? Of course. But smears squeaked by high-profile leftists are not the sole indicators of Democrats' moral degradation. Abundant detritus can also be found among the grassroots faithful.

Social media has been lousy with lousiness. "Racist" and "rapist," were common (albeit baseless) epithets, as was "orange MFer."
Scores of personally unpleasant liberals moaned, because President Trump's latest aspiring assassin was not successful. Roaringly repulsive bar and restaurant proprietors sought to cultivate profits by scrambling atop the anti-American poison-vehicle.

Radical rabble have elevated Luigi Mangioni - whose murder of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson was captured on surveillance video - to a folk-hero echelon normally restricted to persons of noble accomplishments.

"Luigi Mangioni murdered a healthcare CEO, and the left fell in love," said Fox News' Jesse Watters in a recent broadcast.

Proudly horrible Democrat Hasan Piker cast Mangioni's murderous crime as justified, per lunatic Marxist "social murder" theory.
Rand Paul's neighbor tackled the Republican senator to the dirt, and cracked Paul's ribs. BLM burned city blocks; physically attacked law enforcement, store owners, and innocent passersby; wrought an estimated $20 billion in nationwide vandalism damage; perpetrated arson; and thronged streets, calling for policemen's mass deaths.

Antifa ragings include thousands of malicious subversives stalking through boulevards - blocking unrelated traffic that might include ambulances - hurling bricks and firebombs at police. Too, they perpetrated last year's shooting outside a Texas ICE facility, violence that wounded one federal agent.

"Any time, any place, punch a Nazi in the face!," runs a popular leftist street chant. Marauders spray paint ACAB (All Cops Are Bastards) on unmanned patrol cars.

Longtime Democrat voters may not hold such vile views, but they might as well. They'll damn near break a leg dashing to the ballot booth to pull the lever for anyone with a D after their name.
Vote blue, no matter who. Regardless of anything they've said. Anything. (Even if they wear a Nazi tattoo.)

That's how Democrat candidates who spew hateful slime, and who respond to political brutalities and rioting by donning party hats, remain in office. Not because all grassroots supporters are themselves vermin, but because they elect those who are, and do so without compunctions.

Perhaps they delude themselves that they're remaining loyal to "the JFK party." The reality they refuse to accept: that party is forever past tense.

Would today's liberals have hopped on the donkey wagon back then, if that party had trumpeted transgenderism, subservience to foreign terrorists, organized harassment of Christians, drag monstrosities reading to toddlers, illegal immigration that takes jobs from American workers, green boondoggles, teachers indoctrinating students with wacky ideologies, and nationwide fraud schemes costing untold millions?

America-despisers have now made three attempts to assassinate President Trump. They shot Reagan. They murdered Charlie Kirk. They shot Steve Scalise. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavenaugh was an intended killer's target.

Elected Democrat Party officials demand law enforcement be defunded. Liberals' pastime is sabotaging ICE enforcement of American laws, including driving into brave agents, lashed by homicidal intent.

Millions of unvetted illegals invaded our country, with Democrat officials' holding open the door. Rapes, child molestation, killings, and other stomach-turning crimes ensued.

Dwarfing all that blood-letting chaos, are Democrats' cheers for tens of millions of healthy babies to be aborted, annually.

Again, rank-and-file liberals may not endorse each act of barbarity, but they undeniably enable them with their votes. When next a woke official panders to violently-rioting simple-wits, blame your neighbor who still has a Hillary sticker on his electric Nissan.

"The 'tolerant bunch,' it turns out, are the most intolerant folks on the planet," Fox News host Laura Ingraham observed, as these words were being typed.

Fish may rot from the head, as goes the axiom, but it's the nether region that ensures decay perpetuation.

'No Kings' wasn't no thing                  

During one episode of AMC's Mad Men, advertising savant Don Draper reassured a client worried about anti-construction protests and press naysayers. The client's project had proceeded on schedule despite loud critics, Don pointed out. Fret not. Because as annoying as the clatter seemed, it had zero practical consequence.

That TV moment was brought to thought by nationwide No Kings protests. They, too, were ear and eye abrasive, but ultimately impotent. All the corporate-churned placards, robotic call-and-response chantings, and subversive spectacles were as nothing.

President Trump remains in the White House; America is (and will always be) the world's leading superpower; domestic and international policies will still be determined by wise heads, rather than noisome brats of all ages and silly descriptions; law enforcement officers (including ICE) continue to enforce duly-passed statutes and safeguard the citizenry; and common sense yet prevails.

Most importantly, God's authority remains America's North Star.

No Kings lackwits would have observers believe our nation's founders were wicked, our culture and legal system irredeemably stained by long-passed and eternally dead injustices, and that President Trump is deceitful and ruinous to American interests.

(Ronald Reagan was a noble chief executive, but he did err in deinstitutionalizing the mad.)

A March 14 Economist report noted "GDP grew at 0.7% in the fourth quarter." Inflation was 3.0%, unemployment just 4.4%. The S&P 500 has risen to 9.6%. And a February CAPS/Harris poll reported 51% of respondents were confident our economy is strong.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt recently cited new IRS and Treasury Department data, that showed the average refund for 2026 tax-filers will be higher than in 2025. Newsweek cited "3, 700.00."

In February, the White House stated "President Donald J. Trump is delivering real, immediate relief to American families struggling with high housing costs as the national median rent falls to its lowest level since 2022."

Also: "This welcome news for renters comes as President Trump's agenda delivers falling mortgage rates (NBC News), record-breaking tax refunds (USA Today, CBS News, the Wall Street Journal, Business Insider, and CNBC), wage increases, and more - with much more relief on the way to make sure all Americans benefit."

Vehicle costs have also declined, giving auto manufacturers their best sales year since 2019 (Bloomberg).

Again, the White House: "Overall, goods-producing workers - the backbone of American industry - are on track to see their real annual earnings rise by $1,300 in President Trump's first full year in office. Mining and logging workers are on track for an increase of $2,000, construction workers are on track for an extra $1,400, and manufacturing workers are on track to gain $1,300."

The Redfin real estate brokerage firm reported mortgage rates dropped down to 6% in February and early March, the lowest rate in three and a half years.

Last December, the Trump administration announced agreements with nine major pharmaceutical companies. Drug companies will now charge U.S. purchasers the same low prices they have charged in foreign nations.

Iranian efforts to cultivate nuclear arms, with which to destroy entire lands of innocents, begged for scorched-earth demolishment. Commander Trump had the sand. And then some.

Of course, the new, grand bloom of patriotism in men's hearts cannot be mechanically gauged. The American mood, though, is now one of bristling pride in our Constitution, ideals, traditions, culture, and global preeminence.

Indications included the roaring throngs that packed candidate Trump's stadium rallies way past overflow, as well as his overwhelming victories in both electoral and popular votes.

Too, our commander in chief maintains impressive support, as verified by CNN and others' polling.

CAPS/Harris turned up 58% of respondents who endorse the principle of requiring proof of citizenship to vote. Other polling companies that registered support for voter ID include The Center Square (71%), Rasmussen (75%), McLaughlin and Associates (77%), Napolitan News Service (81%), Pew (83%), and Gallup (84%).

And reflect upon the return to sanity of President Trump's slamming tight the border and launching long-needed mass-deportations. Benefiting greatly are national security, safe neighborhoods, and efforts to crush drug and sex trafficking into America.

Cultural cohesivness, crucial for the survival of all nations, is again prized in our epic land.

So, ignore the circusy oddballs that milled through boulevards. Organizers claimed 8 million participants - a figure that might impress, except that some 77 million patriots made Trump's victory possible. 

The world still turns, and America will be just fine. Take it from Don Draper.

Trump resistance redux                                                                   

An unintended and negative consequence of President Trump's landslide victory is the emergence of a subversive element, one which seeks to defy American immigration laws. Perhaps they wrongly believe their illicit misdoings are justified by fantasized moral superiority.

One national example is New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy, who implied to a recent interviewer that he and his wife were considering harboring an illegal in their home: "Let's have her live at our house above our garage, and good luck to the feds coming in to try and get her."

Sadly, this canker has also been exemplified here in Iowa.

In January, Waterloo Superintendent of Schools Jared Smith issued an official advisory (in numerous foreign languages) to illegal students. He advised them how to impede American legal authorities. 

Dr. Jared Smith

Can a more anti-American attitude be displayed than one evincing contempt for our nation's legal champions, and for statutes enacted by democratically-elected legislative representatives?

After he'd shoehorned into the letter boilerplate language with which he professed respect for law, Smith boasted: "We will not share student information or grant law enforcement building access unless legally required to do so."

(Last February, accompanied by a Christian pastor friend, this writer braved Waterloo's dangerously frigid temperatures to support Trump in the Iowa caucus; Iowa did favor the Republican candidate. The event was convened in a school. At each desk was a fresh copy of far-left radical Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States," which is fine. Students should consider ideas across the political spectrum. But I wondered whether opposing philosophies enjoyed equal schoolroom visibility.)

"Lastly, get the history books out," counseled former U.S. Representative Dave Nagle (D-IA), in a February 1 essay printed by the Waterloo Courier. (Full disclosure: The Courier has also published numerous pieces by this writer.)

Former U.S. Rep. Dave Nagle (D-IA)

"Study the Underground Railroad," Nagle continued. "For all those who, if given the time, could produce proper papers, pack them in your basement, give them the garage, hide them in your churches so we can organize a proper presentation of their right to be here...That will be your call when the federal government shows up."

Like Murphy, Nagle blatantly advocates challenging law enforcement. He skirts borderline criminality, broadly winking his scofflaw intent.

And that the former U.S. Representative would liken present-day, reprehensible Democrat anarchy to historic moral opposition to slavery is a howling offense deserving of the description 'surfboarding to status atop others' suffering.'

Most recently, Winneshiek County, Iowa Sheriff Dan Marx boasted in a February 4 Facebook post of his intention to do all he could to "block, interfere, and interrupt" ICE agents in the performance of their lawful duties regarding illegal immigration. 

Sheriff Dan Marx

Marx characterized U.S. citizenship laws as "unconstitutional." (Isn't that for the Supreme Court to determine -- and not the lowly "Sanctuary Sheriff" of Winneshiek County?)

Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds directed the accessory-to-crime county official to acquaint himself with a relevant 2018-adopted state law. 

"Specifically, Iowa law provides a sheriff shall not adopt or enforce a policy or take any other action under which the sheriff prohibits or discourages the enforcement of immigration laws," she wrote.

"Iowa law further requires that a sheriff shall not prohibit or discourage a law enforcement officer from assisting or cooperating with a federal immigration officer as reasonable or necessary," the governor continued. "Including providing enforcement assistance."

Gov. Reynolds also spoke of pulling state funding from Winneshiek County. And Iowa Attorney General Brenna Byrd opened an investigation.

Each above-cited wrong recalls former Alabama Governor George Wallace, a Democrat, 'standing in the schoolhouse door' to prevent federal authorities from entering to racially integrate public schools. 

Former Alabama Governor George Wallace, Democrat