60 Minutes, Fake News, and the resentment of oversight

It's reported that Bill Owens, a veteran executive producer of CBS' 60 Minutes, has flounced from the studio in a huff. 

"Over the past months, it has also become clear that I would not be allowed to run the show as I have always run it. To make independent decisions based on what was right for 60 Minutes, right for the audience,” he wrote in a memo obtained by the New York Post.

Scott Pelley, one host of that dreadful show (and a long-time President Trump backbiter) shared his snippy disquiet during a late-April broadcast.

"[CBS owner] Paramount began to supervise our content in new ways," Pelley kvetched. In another moment, he said Owens "felt he lost the independence that honest journalism requires."

Breitbart noted on April 28 that “'60 Minutes' has done tough stories about the Trump administration almost every week since the inauguration in January, many of them reported by Pelley."

Likely a factor in the executive-level decision is Paramount Global's desire to receive Trump administration countenance for a proposed merger with Skydance.

Too, Trump has sued CBS for 60 Minutes' duplicitous editing of a Kamala Harris interview that ran during the campaign. Her response to an early-segment question was surgically extracted and replanted after a later inquiry. The underhanded ambition was to present innocent viewers with a cultivatedly flattering aspect.

(Reports are that the president's suit asks for $20 billion from CBS.)

Per New York Post coverage, Trump said the delusive editing constituted "unlawful and illegal behavior," given the licensing stipulation that the public-interest be served. 

The miserable Scott Pelleys of the Fake News Industry resent like hell anyone reminding them of ethical propriety. Someone's doing so conflicts with propagandists' chosen mission, which is not report what has happened, but instead broadcasting what they want the public to believe had happened. 

Among numerous Democrat-aiding hoaxes legacy media have spread in recent years, as recalled by Breitbart's John Nolte, are:

'Very fine people' praise of racists; Trump slurs U.S. soldiers; police killed on January 6; border agents whipping immigrants; Trump seizing steering-wheel of Beast; Hunter Biden's laptop actually Russian disinformation; Trump advised drinking bleach; 'Bloodbath' threat; and Biden 'sharp as a tack.'

Common when establishment media types spout disdain for alternative commentators is the contention that such voices are not credible, as no trained editor oversees their work.

Pelley's snit illustrates that establishment headline-hurlers do not truly want supervision. When oversight is seriously exercised, imperiling their intended biases, they screech as if scalded.

Florida Democrat Pizzo quits party, media portrayals warped

Crisp indication of legacy media's alliance with the woke Democrat Party was not requested, but appeared on America's doorstep, regardless. 

Last week, reportedly centrist Florida Democrat State Senate leader Jason Pizzo left that increasingly unpopular party. He was reportedly the third elected Florida Democrat to do so in recent weeks, and announced his decision on the senate floor.

Pizzo is now an independent.

The Florida Phoenix quoted him as aptly observing: "[T]he Democratic Party that his father volunteered for when John F. Kennedy ran for president in 1960 was not the same party today."

Pizzo said the party "craves and screams anarchy and then demands amnesty, and that’s not okay. I’ve always been criticized by the far left and the far right, but you know what the small businesses and the hard-working families and the teachers and the cops and the firemen want us to do? Be public servants, not politicians."

The Hill quoted him as remarking: “I belong to, or have belonged to, a party that’s far more concerned at times about pronouns than about property taxes (and) that just wastes so much time and sucks the oxygen and capacity."

The state senator's caustic estimates were not without precedent.

"Pizzo previously criticized Democrats on social media for failing to applaud a 13 year-old boy with brain cancer, DJ Daniel, during President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address," News Nation wrote.

Notably, numerous established press venues did not quote the outgoing state senator's acidic assessment of his erstwhile party, but did made points of parading before their audiences nastiness targeted at Pizzo by Florida Democrat Party Chair Nikki Fried.

"Jason’s failure to build support within our party for a gubernatorial run has led to this final embarrassing temper tantrum. I’d be lying if I said I’m sad to see him go, but I wish him the best of luck in the political wilderness he’s created for himself," she reportedly snarked, in part.

(Under Fried's administration, Democrats already had only a "super-minority" in the state senate, reports hold.)

Marquee outlets that strategically omitted from their coverage Pizzo's enumeration of the Democrat Party's howling negatives, but instead  amplified ineffective party chair Fried's ad hominem broadside, were not acting as objective journalistic operations; rather, as unethical partisans.

Of course, no one needed more proof of their mendacity.

Democrats reveal true colors

The hush that followed President Kennedy's 1963 Dallas murder was a matter of universally shared basic decency. But today, if a conservative figure fell to a lunatic's bullets, progressive Democrats would freestyle on the coffin lid.

Recall that following the attempted assassinations of Donald Trump, ghoulish miscreants in political, entertainment, and media spheres immediately sprang, grinning maws a-drip.

Rather than accepting ballot-box defeats and cultivating better messages and candidates, many Democrats reflect Marxist Che Guevara's odious rantings, as recalled by historians:

"This is a revolution! And a revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motivated by pure hate!"

Online video coverage of anti-Trump/Musk events sometimes portrays participants expressly desirous of their opponents' deaths. It's terrible but true that Guevara's wretched spirit lives, in morally squalid pockets of 2025 America.

Open-borders and sanctuary state and city Democrat officials actively obstruct ICE efforts to safeguard citizens by deporting illegals, including ones guilty of violent crimes against children. The welfare of American citizens is without significance to Democrats whose only lodestar is sick ideology.

California news discloses a health care ballot measure there named for assassin Luigi Mangioni. Months ago, Mangioni stalked United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson and shot him from behind, killing the husband and father of two. The dastardly killer is frequently celebrated by leftists - not despite, but because of his depravity.

In recent months, America has seen a tsunami of politically prompted malicious acts that targeted Tesla owners and dealerships. Among these are vandalism, physical assaults, and large-scale arson. They are terroristic crimes that have as their implicit targets Elon Musk, President Trump, and the over 70 million Americans who buoyed Trump to his proper station at the Resolute Desk.

Upon hearing during a March 11 broadcast that President Trump rightly condemned demolishment and arson of Tesla dealerships as domestic terrorism, MSNBC host Alicia Menendez grabbed up the propagandist's bullhorn: "So, just to be clear, you protest a private company, you are labeled by this administration a domestic terrorist."

Only mentally disheveled subversives and press charlatans would rank purposeful violence and destructiveness as legitimate protest actions. They are not speech manifestations that enjoy constitutional protection. You can express disagreement with others, but you cannot firebomb their businesses from within nightime's cloak.

(Yes, the Boston Tea Party included property destruction. But it challenged oppression by an unelected foreign sovereign; that pivotal circumstance does not exist in contemporary America. Throwing over the checkerboard and traducing laws are not civilized reactions to electoral thumping.)

During the often-savage George Floyd street riots of 2020, police were assaulted, cars were overturned and destroyed by fire, and innocent passersby fell victim to screamed epithets and physical attacks. Some 163 structures, including at least one law enforcement precinct, were destroyed by Molotov Cocktail-hurling thugs. 

Estimates of the cost of those nationwide left-wing rampages ranged from one to two billion tax-payer dollars. Regardless, official Democrat sanction of that lawlessness was illustrated by then-Vice President/presidential candidate Kamala Harris's organization of a donation page for vicious arrestees.

Harris is not the only elected Democrat guilty of countenancing evil. This writer is not aware of any prominent Democrat office-holder who has publicly condemned left-wing violence. As goes the axiom: Silence is complicity.

And that wicked body is again swelled obscenely, when one factors in partisans who do not perpetrate crimes themselves, but are cheered by news of others' violent rioting.

Left-wing agitators, many surely goaded by garbage-hearted professors enamored of Guevara's filth, feel that perpetrating destruction is a justifiable means for ideological promotion.

Hopefully, respect for law and order will return in this Trump era. A good start would be understanding that violence is not legitimate protest.

Truths finally told                                                                  

Set for May 20 issuance, Original Sin, by CNN's Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson of Axios, reportedly discloses how the Biden White House and legacy media quislings strove to conceal the 46th president's fast-ebbing intellectual capacity.

Readers will recall Biden was customarily shielded from inquisitors. Rare contemporaneous remarks he did publicly offer frequently required "clean-up" statements penned by aides.

Footage of Biden's characteristic tumbles, shuffling, wandering, and inexplicable attempts to shake hands with bare air were dismissed as "cheap fakes" by protective newsroom allies.

As commentator Gent Goldstein recently wrote, Tapper himself has soiled hands. He had "spent years downplaying concerns, dismissing critics, and shielding Biden from scrutiny." Tapper repeatedly attributed the debilitated chief executive's verbal stumbles to a supposed "stutter," rather than admitting obvious descent into irrevocable bewilderment.

"The timing of Tapper’s book...suggests an opportunistic cash grab rather than real journalism," Goldstein wrote.

Ron Klain was Biden White House chief of staff, and helped the 46th president prepare for his debate with Trump. In Uncharted: How Trump beat Biden, Harris, and the odds in the wildest campaign in history, author Chris Whipple wrote : "Klain was startled. He'd never seen Biden so exhausted and out of it. Biden was unaware of what was happening in his own campaign. Halfway through the session, Biden excused himself and went off to sit by the pool."

And only some 25 minutes had passed in one debate rehearsal, when Biden announced he was tired and turned in.

But in an Aug. 14 CNN appearance that followed Biden's howlingly execrable debate performance against Trump, Klain dutifully dissimulated to Anderson Cooper: "He's clearly up to the job. He's doing it everyday. He's doing it successfully."

At this writing, Americans still don't know who was operating the White House autopen and signing Biden's name on numerous critical documents.

Though I've never been behind the Washington curtain, I feel safe speculating that Biden's deterioration was for years an open secret, at least among sympathetic politicians and Tapper's fake media comrades.

No disrespect for those suffering mental diminishment is intended here. I do not broach this without personal familiarity.

Like millions of American families, mine was sadly touched by a parent's similar plight. My mother, Jean Russell Larson, authored numerous childrens' books as well as poetic and other writings for adult readers. She taught creative writing at various Iowa colleges.

And I owe her for what authorial skills I can summon.

My mother's eventual dire medical situation made this issue real for me in a torturous way. Because of that tragedy, I regard sufferers with compassion and understanding.

(And being 65, I am not unmindful that such beleaguerment might loom on my own doorstep, one day.) 

But the American presidency is the most powerful institution in the world. Those in that office wield tremendous authority. They conduct international affairs, enter into trade and other treaties, head our country's military, attend to the general welfare, request congressional authorization for warfare, and even have access to nuclear codes.

Such awesome responsibilty requires intellectual lucidity. It is a crime against the American people to entrust authority of that magnitude to a man clearly meandering in the mist of compromised capacity.

Immediately following the debate during which Biden performed so miserably against Trump, an event that illustrated the fact of Biden's lamentable, irreversible dilapidation, I prayed for him. Because, ideological differences aside, he was a fellow human being who was suffering. 

And I asked God to help him.

But not all were compassionate. Primary blame must be accorded Biden's own family members for permitting the abusive spectacle (and profiting from it), as well as Democrat Party operatives that manipulated the inarguably invalid wretch for contemptible purposes. 

Too, Biden supporters who were aware of his obvious handicap (or who at least had sound suspicions) share moral culpability for resultant devastation of America.

We won't know until the May release of Original Sin whether CNN Democrat shill Tapper concedes complicity in the cover-up. Smart money says he won't.

Puzzle posed by longtime Democrat voters           

It is foolish for Americans who've voted Democrat since the 1960s or '70s to persist in doing so, given that today's party bears nearly zero resemblance to the one that first attracted them.

Do they squander precious ballots for reasons of nostalgia, emotion, delusion, or uncritical brand loyalty to a party that has no use for them, save for as useful idiots?

Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen flew to El Salvador on the tax-payer dime, to lavish adoration on recently (rightly) deported illegal immigrant criminal Kilmar Abrego Garcia. 

The senator never met with actual Maryland resident Patty Morin. Her daughter Rachel had tragically been raped and murdered by an illegal immigrant that Van Hollen and other Democrats had essentially given keys to the country.

Van Hollen joined with his Democrat comrades to oppose the Laken Riley bill, named for yet another victim of their brutal illegals. 

Democrats were wholly indifferent to testimony by Garcia's former girlfriend that he had savagely beaten her on numerous occasions. (The old Democrat Party opposed domestic violence. The new version does not.) She was sucessful in obtaining a restraining order against him. 

Liberals' ice-blooded contempt for women's safety did not surprise, given their eagerness to shoehorn biological men into female sports. 

Garcia had broken several other U.S. laws. But Democrats cared not. Nor were they given pause by his having having been found by two immigration judges to be an MS-13 gang-banger. (MS-13 was officially designated as a terrorist organization.)

ICE also determined Garcia was MS-13. As did local police and El Salvador, itself. But Democrats now cast their lots with criminals, not the lawful.

Decades ago, that party championed fine principles like racial unity, women's rights, peace, and the Constitution's guarantee to free speech. 

But today's party prioritizes those issues' diametrical opposites: DEI's poisonous messages of racial determinism and inherent group guilt; transgenderism's perils to girls and women; drowning out opposing speakers with contrived cacophonies; and blocking cameras, lest they capture unconstitutional wrongdoings. 

Are veteran Democrat lever-pullers' principles and ideals reflected by such loathsome phenomena? 

In earlier times, Democrats inveighed against wars. But today, bankrolled by the "industrial war complex" Republican Eisenhower cautioned of, they are mass-killings' loudest boosters and most enthusiastic funders.

In 2025, Democrats desperately seek the favor of wet-eared college subversives, themselves under the thrall of addle-pated professors, and scrambling for barricades to die upon - in the name of the glorious revolution.

Representatives of that party also once championed American pride, blue-collar interests, support for Jews, and the faith that Americans of all colors are unified by national patriotism, not divided by demographics. 

Today, though, such positions are anathema to Democrats. They sneer that America is inherently evil and focus on scant faults, rather than extolling our country's abundant brilliant positives - ones that rendered worldwide betterment. 

Democrats of the past clad themselves in working Americans' garb. Today, though, working-class voters increasingly mass under the Republican tarp (ask Teamster chief Sean O'Brien). They reject Democrat policies that have sent jobs overseas by the millions, devastated entire industries, and done dirt to our economy.

Elected Democrats cater to cash-bag globalist donors like Soros, Cuban, Gates, Zuckerberg, and Betos. (Too, there's the real possibility of foreign bigwigs' under-table Democrat donations.)

American campuses are a-crawl with masked, keffiyeh-wearing anti-semites whose physical attacks, filthy philosophy, and wanton destructiveness are winked at by tax-supported liberal administrators. 

Congressional Democrats, meanwhile, never miss opportunities to vote against Israeli security and deny Jewish interests. The message they broadcast is ugly and requires no extended elucidation.

Longtime Democrat voters may not share such screaming diversions from their own past beliefs. Nevertheless, they do enable them with their ballots. Why are they unbothered by that?

When donkeys cry

Wife-beating El Salvadoran gangster Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was in America illegally, has code for "MS-13" tattooed on his knuckles. But his opportunistic Democrat advocates argue that signifies nothing. By that standard, an eye-mask, striped shirt, and bulging bag with a big dollar sign does not indicate criminality. Maryland Democrat Senator Chris Van Hollen flew to El Salvador at taxpayer cost to commiserate with Abrego Garcia over margaritas. The liberal senator never met with, or even contacted, actual Maryland citizen Patty Morin; her daughter Rachel was assaulted and murdered by one of the illegals Van Hollen and other Democrats had effectively given the keys to our country. The Van Hollen publicity trek was quickly aped by additional Democrats thirsting for camera-time. Still more cynical sojourns may soon transpire. Representative Ayanna Pressley and four other congressional Democrats recently flew to a Louisiana prison, to clap arms about and be photographed with two Israel-hating agitators, including Mahmoud Khalil. Khalil's student Visa was revoked; he lied on his application, a deportable crime. During a 4/23 Hannity broadcast, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller noted acidically: "The Democrat Party has become the party of terrorists and illegal aliens. That is the party of today. Who does it sympathize with? Who does it fight for? Who does it move Heaven and Earth to protect? Illegal alien gang-members and foreign terrorists. "Let's talk just briefly about Tren de Aragua," Miller continued. "The vicious gang that drills holes in people's hands, chops off their fingers, murders them in cold blood. A gang, based on information that has been discovered by FBI, that is even plotting assassination attempts inside the United States of America." Lovely crowd with which liberals have chosen to keep company. Do not stagger back in shock if Democrats attempt construction of a time machine, which could enable them to pose for selfies with Charles Manson.

The Soros secret                                          

Hollywood's John Cusack, producer Larry David, and Harvard Law Professor emeritus Lawrence Tribe are only the latest leftists to deceitfully smear President Donald Trump as comparable to megalomanial National Socialist Adolf Hitler. 

Despite its groundlessness, the Nazi slur is a rhetorical gimcrack favored by loosely wrapped shriekers; they wield it to defame and intimidate ideological adversaries.

This writer submits there is a whale of a difference between the common-sense president and the 1930s genocidal madman Hitler - a vile monster with whose shadow the contemporary Left is tickled to align itself.

Multibillionaire George Soros is a gilded patron of hideous interests like Planned Parenthood, abolition of national borders and sovereignty, and the racial discord urged by scowling separatists. Too, he contributes mightily to Democrat candidates, and is alleged to be among major bankrollers of protests that target President Trump and Elon Musk, and that demand Israel's elimination and champion Hamas terrorists.

A dessicated Mr. Toad, Soros is said to manipulate the world's peoples and international permutations like a reptilian-blooded chess player. His amoral machinations are calculated in a mostly obscured shadowland in which he is safeguarded 24/7 by a kept mercenary army.

Left-wing activists who avail themselves of his largesse are connected, wittingly or not, to actual Nazis of the Third Reich era.

As a 14 year-old during that deplorable interval, Soros pretended to be Christian and accompanied Nazi death-camp guards as they confiscated doomed Jewish prisoners' valuables. Even decades after that shameful, loathsome reality, Soros expressed no compunction.

60 Minutes host Steve Kroft interviewed him for a December 29, 1998 profile.

KROFT: "My understanding is that you went out with this protector of yours who swore that you were his adopted grandson. Went out, in fact, and helped in the confiscation of property from the Jews."

SOROS: "Yes. That's right. Yes."

KROFT: "I mean, that sounds like an experience that would send lots of people to the psychiatric couch for many, many years. Was it difficult?"

SOROS: "No. Not at all, not at all. Maybe as a child, you don't see the connection. But it was - created no problem, at all."

KROFT: "No feeling of guilt?"

SOROS: "No."

KROFT: "For example, 'I'm Jewish and here I am, watching these people go. I could just as easily be there. I should be there.' None of that?"

SOROS: "Well, of course, I could be on the other side, or I could be the one from whom the thing is being taken away. But there was no sense that I shouldn't be there, because that was - well, actually, in a funny way, it's just like in markets. That if I wasn't there - of course, I wasn't doing it, but somebody else would be taking it away, anyhow. 

"And it was the - whether I was there or not, I was only a spectator. The property was being taken away. So I had no role in taking that property. So I had no guilt."

Today, unsurprisingly, the left-wing magnate's Open Societies webpage makes no mention of this despicable truth. Instead, it hails Soros' surviving that horrendous time and burbles about his subsequent determination to better world conditions.

No one can condemn a callow 14 year-old for acting out of self-interest when in a terrifying circumstance. But Soros was of greatly advanced age when speaking to 60 Minutes, and he still evidenced zero conscience.

Because he has long aimed a gushing dollar-hose into subversive Left pockets, though, progressive pretenders at moral scrupulousness never shrink from him.

When next you hear of office-ensconced politicos, entertainment industry quislings, media charlatans, or violent Democrat street-rioters falsely labeling President Trump, Elon Musk, or the millions of MAGA stalwarts as "Nazis," remember with whom those same morally fetid liars disgustingly choose to share bedspace.

Those who live by the sword...

A video depicting animalistic physical violence that vicious internet "comedian" Kypree Taylor perpetrated on his girlfriend is presently making online rounds. I will not post it.

In an Instagram message dated July 1, 2022, Taylor posted a photo of a jail inmate who'd been beaten. The man had been convicted of killing Nipsey Hustle. "Hold em down let me get a turn," Taylor raved. Included was a film clip in which he sneered, "You just need your ass whupped every single day!"

Numerous recent respondents to Taylor's old message asserted he now faces future days filled with identical brutality. Taylor has doubtlessly already realized that, and is no longer cracking wise about behind-bars assaults.

I submit Taylor will not be located at the bottom of the Humanity Barrel. Rather, he digs his nails into that barrel's underside.

Democracy's false friends

Last November, the American majority booted the Democrat Party that holds average folks in contempt. The respect for fairly assessed popular will that Democrats claim would dictate that they accept their loss. But they have not.

Before examining present-day manifestations, though, consider this indicator only recently passed:

After perhaps having been steered to his chair by a bunny-costumed aide or two, and summoning his scant enduring wits, global laughingstock/erstwhile, supposed chief executive Joe Biden announced his (thankful) farewell. He mechanically pronounced sentiments penned by some unknown, stumbling occasionally.

"I know that believing in the idea of America means respecting the institutions that have governed a free society: the presidency, the congress, the courts," the calcified career politico croaked, his nose extending by the syllable.

Fine words. None of which he sincerely held fast. Choreographed lawfare perpetrated with the ambition of crippling his leading electoral competitor (the chosen candidate of most American voters) hardly aligns with such grand speechifying.

(Nor do Democrats' underhanded shenanigans calculated to remove Trump from state ballots. Nor does the unelected, mysterious staffer who forged Biden's name on critical documents by dint of autopen.)

So, pay no heed to Democrats' rhetorical professions of devotion to the democratic ideal. They pretend at rectitude only as cover for their support of left totalitarianism. 

Just as leftist archfiends Mao and Stalin engineered the murders of millions, Democrats enable and cheer millions of infant bodies being cruelly sawed into salable scraps. (Recall, too, that detestable national socialist Adolf Hitler also marched to that drum.)

Founder Thomas Jefferson cautioned about judicial seizing of control in America: Were the Constitution adapted to whatever unelected judges' whims might be, then that vital document would be like "a mere thing of wax, that they could twist and shape into any form they please."

The undemocratic filth of which he spoke now throbs.

"It's incredibly apparent that there is a concerted effort by the far left to judge shop, to pick judges who are clearly acting as partisan activists from the bench in an attempt to derail this president's agenda," White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said, during a March 19 press conference. 

She added: "We will not allow that to happen," and noted some 60 injunctions cobbled by judicial-branch quislings had already been levied against President Trump.

Fox News noted that 125 lawsuits have been brought against the president in what brief time has so far passed in his second term. One word describes those and the frivolous injunctions small-pond magistrates have contrived: Lawfare.

Two nationwide criminal trends presently a-rage in reptilian Democrat precincts are Tesla-related terrorism (vandalism, arson, and destruction of private property, whose true target is effective Trump ally Elon Musk) and "swatting" - the deceitful direction of armed SWAT teams to locations associated with non-criminal ideological adversaries. 

Neither promotes democracy.

Grassroots shock-troops conceal their faces with terrorist head-wraps, and slash and burn Tesla electric vehicles and associated dealerships. These masked monsters are following the fetid teaching of Bill Ayres and other radical cretins, that violence is a morally acceptible tactic for political advancement.

Compare: Republicans reacted to Bud Light's parading garish poofter Dylan Mulvaney by no longer purchasing products. Democrats respond to displeasing circumstances by destroying and attacking. 

Sean Hannity correctly observed during the 3/19 broadcast of his show that Democrats only condemn political violence that doesn't bear their cloven hoof-prints. To this writer's knowledge, no office-holding member of that unfortunate party has condemned nation-spanning maliciousness aimed at Musk.

Additional attestation knocked as this essay was under draft:

Upon learning of an impending review by cost-shearing DOGE representatives, Biden-appointed bureaucrats  - who may or may not have been legitimately productive - literally barricaded themselves in offices. Their dishonorable ambitions were to interfere in governmental investigation of tax dollar-expenditures, and cling to publicly-funded positions of power in defiance of federal authority.

Civil behavior, non-violence, ethical propriety - like democracy itself, those praiseworthy concepts are without import to ideological micreants whose sole desire is unending dominance.

Iowa Sheriff Marx crumbles

It's now reported that Winneshiek County, Iowa Sheriff Dan Marx has crumbled before the prospect of punitive state action. Marx finally removed from his Facebook page a post vowing his office would refuse to cooperate with federal authorities, a stance violative of state law.

Last February 4, Sheriff Marx boasted in a 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. 

Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds directed governmental employee Marx 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 Iowa funding from Winneshiek County. And Iowa Attorney General Brenna Byrd opened an investigation.

Sheriff Marx was instructed to take down his swaggering, scofflaw post. As a governmental employee, he was bound to follow the governor's admonition.

The Sanctuary Sheriff's capitulation indicates that officials hostile to protection of American citizenship legal standards fall away, when justice arrives.

Their wrong-minded intransigence recalls 1960s Alabama Governor George Wallace 'standing in the schoolhouse door' to prevent federal authorities from entering to racially integrate public schools.

Tom Hanks hates you          

It bears remembering that many show-business monkeys earn their status by catering to callow customers. Given that, braying whatever titillates that wet-eared market is probably judicious business reckoning, crucial to currying buyer favor. As goes the saw: The customer is always right.

Some publicly subversive limelighters may seize different levers in the voting-booth's cover.

But the above does not explain Tom Hanks. He hosts Barack Hussein Obama on his yacht in the south of France, and likely is sincere in his foulness.

In early 2016, Hanks said of then-candidate Donald Trump: "I think that man will become president of the United States right around the time that spaceships come down filled with dinosaurs in red capes."

President Trump is now in his second term.

Today's headlines tell of Hanks, on last week's Saturday Night Live 50th anniversary broadcast, mocking the tens of millions of Americans who buoyed Donald Trump to the Resolute Desk. 

Tiresomely, SNL writers and Hanks dragged out the threadbare stereotype of Trump supporters as drawling, white racist hayseeds of minimal intellect.

(An earlier iteration of this false and demeaning depiction was Obama's 2008 dismissal of working-class voters: "[T]hey cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them..." the then-president trumpeted.)

Unfortunately common are entertainment luminaries who evince tremendous talents at their crafts but who, regarding political and cultural matters, seem to have skulls jam-packed with yellowish diarrhea.

Addle-pated though they be, they have no less right to opine on substantive topics than does the present writer. Free speech is a crucial factor in individual liberty, nevermind that most outspoken celebrities tend toward imbecility.

As Vice-President Vance recently declared in Europe: "In Washington, there is a new sheriff in town, and under Donald Trump’s leadership, we may disagree with your views, but we will fight to defend your right to offer it in the public square, agree or disagree."

No one disputes Hollywood subversives' right to spew inanities. Still, one wishes they would heed Laura I.'s admonition: Shut up and sing.

As for Tom Hanks, he should have stayed on that island.

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

Trump victory already benefiting Americans

After four years of anonymous White House functionaries enacting policies from under the shadow of a fast-fading slumberer, America has a bustling leader who maintains our interests uppermost on the list. 

"The golden age of America starts now," President Trump thundered in his inaugural speech.

His assuming of authority was an historic moment, one of magnitude few generations witness. The event was more than a ritualistic function; it signified that America is seizing back its position as the world's number one superpower.

Consider just some crucial victories the people's choice has to his credit, in just his first days behind the Resolute Desk:

- Locating and eliminating wasteful spending of millions of taxpayer dollars, through the Elon Musk-headed Department Of Government Efficiency.

- Billions (if not more) in new investments in our country's economy;

- Rigorous investigations (and potential prosecutions) of scheming politicos who choreographed nationwide lawfare against an electoral adversary;

- January 6 hostages released from years-long, unjust and tortuous imprisonment; 

- Illegal border invasions halved;

- Mass deportations of criminal gangs underway, bringing safety back to American streets;

- Biological males no longer allowed to participate in girls' and women's sports;

- An incoming (at this writing) executive order ridding our military of "transgenders;"

- Children protected from chemical harms and surgical mutilations perpetrated to "transition" the innocents;

- Advocacy of unborn babies' right to life, one manifestation of which is President Trump's nominations of contitutionalists to the judicial bench.

- An executive order barring states' use of federal monies for abortions.

More:

Supposed allies will no longer take advantage of us in trade and defense matters. No more will taxes paid by hard-toiling U.S. citizens be misused to bankroll hostile nations whose peoples chant for our demise, countries that provide abundant support to murderous terrorists. 

And rightly trash-canned are inherently divisive DEI policies and programs that sprang from the pernicious falsity that one's pigmentation or genitalia are primary attributes. 

Our future tax revenues will not be squandered on scholastic indoctrination that encourages hatred of America, of Judaism, of Christianity. 

The antisemitism that has raised its death's head on colleges and universities nationwide is a morally despicable foulness, one to be smited at every turn. President Trump is the best American presidential friend Israel has ever had. His election illustrated Americans' foursquare support of our historic Middle East ally.

Like millions of my fellow citizens, I watched the 47th president's inauguration with satisfaction, pride, and a "happy days are here, again" optimism. It was the culmination of a massive push undertaken nationally by Americans of diverse descriptions to return our country to its foundational principles - like equality, individual liberty, and the God-given right of all men to speak their minds without fear of oppression.

Citizens must now put aside marginal disputes and join together to embrace the unity that is, and has always been, our greatest strength. In President Abraham Lincoln's immortal 1858 words: "A house divided against itself cannot stand."

Of the first attempted assassination of him, in Butler, Pennsylvania, President Trump once remarked: "I was saved by God to make America great, again."

Now, all citizens are benefiting.