“Just the tip of the iceberg” is a perfect metaphor for what’s unfolding in Minnesota — a state swamped by over $1 billion in alleged welfare and program fraud, much of it tied to networks in the Somali community.
But Omar isn’t just the tip; she’s quick to cry “racism” whenever the fraud is called out. She’s slammed scrutiny of these schemes as “disgusting” and “vile,” insisting we shouldn’t “blame the lawlessness of an individual on a whole community.” Continue reading
This is what comes from “retiring” sooner than a man should. But truthfully, I must say I’m glad to be far and away removed from the madness of the corporate spinning and endless cycle of psychological bullshit aligned with all the politically correct programs that still persist in the corporate world today – that bullshit that ultimately led to the Woke movement and so many other detrimental and destructive programs across society, that which allowed the Transgendered Movement to grow to mammoth, militant proportions and tried to make the mutilation of children appear to be as ordinary as ordering a piece of apple pie at Mom’s Diner on 41A in Murfreesboro.
I know that in the grand scheme of things, no matter what anyone thinks of me, for better or worse. I am a man of little importance for the most part. And many people might question the reasons I write so prolifically on an entire array of topics, and to them, I say that it is to be certain there is an accounting of some sort left behind for whoever is to follow in this fight for the soul of America… Continue reading
My subtitle is an homage to the movie “A Christmas Story” based on a story by Jean Shepherd to set the tone for my commentary.
We watched this movie last night as part of our ritual viewings of our favorite seasonal movies. It’s based on the humorous writings of author Jean Shepherd; this beloved holiday movie follows the wintry exploits of youngster Ralphie Parker. It opens with a downtown scene about an Indiana town in the 1940s.
– “Downtown Hohman was prepared for its yearly bacchanalia of peace on Earth and goodwill to men.”
“Higbee’s corner window was traditionally a high-water mark of the pre-Christmas season. (The kids crowd around the window, and we soon see inside.) First-nighters, packed earmuff to earmuff, jostled in wonderment before a golden, tinkling display of mechanized, electronic joy.”
Christmas’ meaning has changed drastically over my 74 years, altering my appreciation for this particular holiday as I read and learned to appreciate classic literature and film messages that try to interpret its true meaning. The culmination was my realization of its importance to mankind. Continue reading
The 1962 UPA production of Mr. Magoo’s A Christmas Carol is an unfairly overlooked Christmas classic. This animated 52-minute TV is presented as a Broadway theater extravaganza with songs, dances, and curtain calls, and it really does delve into the true meaning of Christmas.
Magoo, voiced by Jim Backus and created by Millard Kaufmann and John Hubley, is an extremely near-sighted man who stubbornly refuses to accept this reality, causing numerous comical situations that affect everyone around him. In this production, he is Ebenezer Scrooge. Other cast members include Jack Cassidy as Bob Cratchit and Royal Dano as Marley, along with Morey Amsterdam, Joan Gardner, and veteran voice actor Paul Frees.
Image created using AI based on the original illustration to A Christmas Carol.
The show-within-a-show is a brilliant twist on the novel, but modern viewers won’t get it. That’s because many scenes have been cropped or deleted entirely. The deleted original begins with Magoo navigating through busy Manhattan traffic to the theatre, where he’s the star of the musical Christmas Carol. The deleted conclusion shows how Magoo, in trademark fashion, pulled a cord that collapsed all of the background sets. Typically, he emerges unscathed, leaving utter chaos in his wake. Continue reading
So long as the government controls the “public” schools, there are bound to be conflicts over what should be taught there. Only if all schooling is supplied by the free market will the problem end. In a free market, parents can get schools that supply them with the sort of education they want for their children. Continue reading
“He sees you when you’re sleeping.
He knows when you’re awake.
He knows if you’ve been bad or good,
So be good for goodness’ sake.”
— “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town”
For generations, “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town” has been treated as a playful reminder to children to be good because someone, somewhere, is watching.
Today, it reads less like a joke and more like a warning.
The Surveillance State is making a naughty list, and we’re all on it.
Long before Santa’s elves start loading his sleigh with toys for good girls and boys, the government’s surveillance apparatus is already at work – logging your movements, monitoring your messages, tracking your purchases, scanning your face, recording your license plate, and feeding it all into algorithmic systems designed to determine whether you belong on a government watchlist.
Unlike Santa’s naughty list, however, the consequences of landing on the government’s “naughty list” are far more severe than a stocking full of coal. They can include heightened surveillance, loss of privacy, travel restrictions, financial scrutiny, police encounters, or being flagged as a potential threat – often without notice, explanation, or recourse.
This is not fiction. This is not paranoia. Continue reading
(Roman Genn)
It looked for a moment as if Henry Cuellar’s career might be over. The eleven-term congressman from Texas’s Rio Grande Valley had long fought to retain his seat in this overwhelmingly Hispanic region of the state, facing closer margins over the years as the Republicans gained traction among Latino voters during the worst of the Biden-era illegal-immigration crisis. The voters in Cuellar’s district had, for the first time in history, given their votes to a Republican — Donald Trump carried the district 53–46, in a straight reversal of Biden’s 2020 margin. Statewide Texas Republicans altered his district’s shape to make it slightly redder. And on top of it all, Cuellar was indicted in 2024 on twelve federal charges of bribery, conspiracy, and money-laundering. Would this be the end of the popular, but increasingly threatened, incumbent?
Trumpism embraces the best and the worst of two sides of the political aisle, in a frenetic fashion that sometimes supports and defends freedom and liberty while trampling both at other times. It is a pitchfork populism that isn’t really making the reforms to government necessary to take the American people along a path to truly living free, and instead, it is bringing closer to fruition the very thing that so many liberty minded Americans reject – a massive surveillance police state that is on track to remain and grow as an ever more mammoth and intrusive Big Brother/Nanny State, as President Trump cannot seem to divest himself of his statist and globalist inclinations.
In the twilight of the American century, a profound question looms: How can the United States unwind its vast imperial commitments without descending into economic ruin, social dependency, or authoritarian control? The nation’s Founding Fathers envisioned a republic of free individuals, bound by limited government and inalienable rights derived from a higher moral order. Yet, over two centuries, America has morphed into a global hegemon, with a sprawling federal apparatus that often tramples those very principles. From endless foreign entanglements to domestic overreach – exemplified by agencies like the TSA detaining citizens without cause and demanding access to personal devices – the drift toward centralized power has eroded liberty. Continue reading
San Diego Unified School District is under fire for its LGBTQIA+ curriculum which teaches there are nine genders and 30 sexualities
A San Diego school district is under fire for providing a curriculum that teaches young students about nine genders and 30 sexual orientations.
Parents have objected to a slideshow featured on the San Diego Unified Schools (SDUS) website entitled ‘LGBTQIA+ Terms you should know‘.
The resources outlined definitions for nine gender identities including transgender, non-binary, genderfluid and agender. Continue reading
Trump is saying, essentially, “If you don’t want to get hurt, you’ll do what I say“.
Illustration by Paul Spella
The Sunday before the New York City mayoral race, President Donald Trump told New Yorkers he might withhold federal funding if Zohran Mamdani won.
“It’s gonna be hard for me as the president to give a lot of money to New York, because if you have a Communist running New York, all you’re doing is wasting the money you’re sending there,” Trump told CBS’s 60 Minutes. Continue reading
This is one of the takeaway lessons from the recent elections, particularly in New York City.
There a young and inexperienced pro-Islamist and democratic socialist won the mayoral election in part by promising voters goodies like free bus transportation, free childcare, some government grocery stores, and heavier taxes on the rich.
Unable or unwilling to take care of themselves, Zohran Mamdani’s supporters have fallen prey to one of the oldest tricks in the book, dating all the way back to Ancient Rome’s bread and circuses for the masses: They have surrendered liberty and self-reliance for a mess of pottage. Such ignorance of the past, or worse, such willed stupidity, strips away freedom and empowers would-be dictators. Continue reading
America cannot remain on its current trajectory forever, pushing constantly for more growth and more spending as our so-called “leaders” unchain the federal government from any and all real restraint, violating the Constitution even as they put on a good front – talking points and all – of trying to reduce spending and the size of the federal government. They may end one agency, but two more spring up, and although many often refer to our Congress as “the Swamp”, nothing has become more apparent than the fact it’s one big, nasty Sewer that leaves everything it touches covered in political bullshit far and away from anything the people truly ever asked to receive or even wanted.
America was born in defiance. The Revolution was not polite debate in drawing rooms; it was muskets fired at redcoats, pamphlets smuggled through towns, and men willing to risk the gallows for liberty. Thomas Paine captured the spirit when he wrote of the “summer soldier and sunshine patriot” – those who shrink from the hard work of freedom, waiting to reap the rewards after others have bled. Continue reading
Need a few gift ideas before Christmas rolls around? GrrrGraphics is happy to help with your Christmas shopping needs. For 2025, you can’t go wrong with these suggestions!
• It’s Trump Time: Everyone has seen the new Trump watch commercials recently. Well, now there is a special edition offered exclusively by GrrrGraphics, “It’s Deport Time!” Because no matter what time it is in America, it’s always ‘Deport Time.’
• For those who crave attention and want help, the “Jasmine Crockett Wig and Eyelash Set,” which will make you help you achieve that crazy ‘look at me’ style used by Texas wanna-be Senator Crockett. Continue reading
This time of year, everyone – myself included – airs out their favorite Christmas movies, talking about the wholesomeness and meaning and warm fuzzies they bring each time they’re watched. Topping the list are films such as “Home Alone,” “A Christmas Story,” “It’s a Wonderful Life,” and even “A Charlie Brown Christmas.”
One of my favorite Christmas films, however, never makes this list of classics. I suppose that’s not surprising. In fact, most people might say that except for a few scenes at the end of the film, it’s not even a Christmas film at all.
That’s technically true … that is, if one only looks at the surface. Beneath the surface, however, runs the entire message of Christmas – and that’s a message we could especially use this year. Continue reading
When Robert Oppenheimer watched the first atomic bomb detonate in the New Mexico desert on July 16, 1945, the blast confirmed that America had won the race to build a nuclear weapon.
The destructive power of these weapons was extraordinary; the explosion from Oppenheimer’s “Trinity” test unleashed an astonishing 83.7 Terajoules (TJ) of energy from just SIX kilograms of Plutonium-239.
By comparison, a typical power plant in 1945 would have required 9.5 MILLION kilograms of coal to produce a similar amount of energy. Continue reading
Celebrating Christmas during the Vietnam War
There are sons of heroes, gaunt and grim, Who weathered the lean Depression; Their manhood forged on the anvil’s rim, In war’s infernal session. The youth of their day was a righteous flame, Survival, victory, freedom its name; They carried the torch through the smoke and fire, And built the bones of an age entire.
We were babes of the booming years, Fed on promise and plenty; GI Bills and Mickey Mouse cheers, And sitcoms bright and zany. John Wayne, Cooper, Reagan, and Jack, Echoes of battles that never looked back; Purple Hearts and Silver Stars shone, Citizen Soldiers – our fathers’ own.
The limb grew straight from the sturdy tree, The fruit fell close, as fate decreed; Camelot whispered its majesty, And teenage powers knew no need. We were bulletproof, five hundred pounds, Our courage blind, our ideals sound; Led by the Whiz Kids, bright and best, We marched with fervor, hearts possessed. Continue reading
For generations, Americans have believed in a simple promise: that our government is of the people, by the people, and for the people. But today, citizens across the political spectrum feel that this promise has been broken. Both conservatives and progressives agree on one thing: the system is no longer responding to the will of the people.
Our politics are dominated by special interests, corporate money, lobbyists, and entrenched politicians who remain in power for decades. The average voter has been pushed to the sidelines while billion-dollar industries shape our laws, our regulations, and ultimately, our lives.
Reclaiming our country does not require choosing a “side.”
It requires fixing the system itself. Continue reading
The Wrath of God
It truly is amazing what difference a little knowledge, and a great deal of thought, can make upon one’s perceptions, beliefs, and opinions. I can’t remember what grade I was in when this happened, but I do recall having to pick someone from American History to write a short biography about; in essay form. For some reason I chose Andrew Carnegie, the steel magnate who, for a short time, surpassed even J.D. Rockefeller in wealth. Had I known then what I know now I would never have chosen Carnegie to write about; or if I did, I would have been a lot less praising of his achievements. Continue reading
“We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
We now live in a nation where constitutional rights exist in theory, not in practice.
Yet what good are rights on paper when every branch of government is allowed to ignore, circumvent, chip away at or hollow them out in practice?
Two hundred and thirty-four years after the ratification of the Bill of Rights on December 15, 1791, the safeguards meant to shield “We the people” from government abuse are barely recognizable. Continue reading