So many volunteering for suicide… for what?
When someone is willing to give up his or her life to strike back at a perceived enemy for vengeance, we might write them off as just a loose nut who went over the edge. When either an organized group, or cells of radical believers in some religion or cause, begin recruiting numbers of individuals who allegedly are willing to blow themselves up the media labels them “terrorists” and that seems to explain their behavior, but in fact, it confuses the issue. We first have to define a terrorist, then we need to know what common bond these people have that enables them to willingly make the supreme sacrifice for their beliefs. For the general media, the answer is simple: label them “Islamic radicals” and that is all the explanation that is needed – the boys are headed for a grand afterlife with Allah. Continue reading

More than 2,600 people backed a bill in Olympia to create Education Savings Accounts (ESAs) for low-income and special needs students, but Democrats are already working to kill it. Rep. Travis Couture (R) pointed out that Washington’s public schools are delivering their worst reading and math scores in 30 years, despite some of the highest per-pupil spending in the nation. Naturally, Democrats and their union backers insist on doubling down on this disaster, claiming school choice would somehow harm public schools – because letting parents actually choose is apparently too dangerous. 



UnitedHealthcare has agreed to pay $2.5 million to resolve a class action lawsuit that alleged the company violated a federal law that prevents consumers from receiving robocalls without providing prior consent.
Yes, Trekkies, it’s a play on a movie title from 1982, ‘The Wrath of Khan‘. It seems appropriate because the movie, like the 119th congress, deals with revenge and the overwhelming motivation for retribution in the acquisition of power. You know –
“We built it. We paid for it. It’s ours” were words declared by Ronald Reagan in 1977, not long after leaving the California governor’s office, and that’s the position President Donald J. Trump has recently taken, by and large if not precisely; but Reagan was reluctant to put any real action behind those words after becoming president, whereas Trump has shown he has the determination of will and the spine to do whatever is necessary to protect and defend U.S. interests in the Panama Canal Zone, putting Panamanian President Mulino on notice to this fact.

Employers in the United States who hire undocumented immigrants could now face penalties of up to $5,724 per individual. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published a final rule in the Federal Register today , stating that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is authorized to impose these penalties. This amount represents an increase from the previous maximum of $5,579.
Forth Worth Independent School District is investigating a social media post by a reported substitute teacher. The teacher apparently wrote that US Immigration and Customs Enforcement should visit the school where they work because it has “many students who don’t even speak English.”
Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) joined Fox & Friends on Monday morning and dabbled in some historical revisionism, explaining that he now believes Dr. Anthony Fauci had ulterior motives in trying to limit the spread of Covid-19.
