Monday, November 18, 2024

Save the Date: Christmas Gala -- Tuesday, December 17th



RPV Chairman Rich Anderson is the Guest Speaker at MCRW's Dinner Meeting Tuesday!


Please bring a donation of canned food for the local food pantry.

Immigration Reform Law Institute: IRLI Moves to Enjoin Biden Border Policies

Shows knowingly crashing the border violates constitutional duty to take care

WASHINGTON—On behalf of Texas rancher and veterinarian Michael ("Doc") Vickers, Kinney County, Texas, Kinney County Sheriff Brad Coe, and Atascosa County, Texas, the Immigration Reform Law Institute (IRLI) has filed a motion for a preliminary injunction in a Texas federal district court to shut down the Biden Administration's immigration policies as a failure in its duty, under the Constitution, to take care that the nation's laws be faithfully executed.

 

The motion sets out how the administration, with full knowledge of the likely consequences, has adopted policy after policy that, in concert, have resulted in the biggest influx of illegal aliens into America in our history. This result is the exact opposite of the purpose of federal immigration law, which is operational control of the border, defined as zero illegal entries.

 

When the executive knowingly frustrates the purposes of the laws it is supposed to be enforcing, and adopts policies calculated to achieve the polar opposite of those purposes, it robs Congress of its legislative power, and thus unconstitutionally fails to take care to execute those laws faithfully, the motion shows. In this way, the administration's actions go far beyond mere lax enforcement and rise to the level of a constitutional violation. No prior administration in the history of the Republic has acted, with respect to the laws it was charged with enforcing, the way Biden's has acted under the immigration laws.

 

"By this time, it is glaringly obvious to all that the Biden Administration has deliberately crashed border security in order to flood the country with as many illegal aliens as possible," said Dale L. Wilcox, executive director and general counsel of IRLI. "This is no mere policy failure, or just a violation of statutes, but flagrant disobedience to the Constitution. We hope the court sees Biden's war on the laws he is supposed to be enforcing as the constitutional offense it is, and grants the injunction."

 

The case is Vickers v. Biden, No. 2:24-cv-00169 (S.D. Tex.).

Saturday, November 16, 2024

National Federation of Republican Women: **Mahalo!**

 

A Message from the President

Mahalo!

 


 


We are proud to highlight below, a few of NFRW's members and friends who have been selected or nominated to lead America during President-Elect Donald Trump's administration. We look forward to seeing more of our exceptional leaders step forward to serve our country!












The Family Foundation: These Parents Won't Back Down!

Congressman Bob Good: Congressman Good Update: Developing America’s Workforce

Thank You, Veterans 

On Monday, Americans paused to honor the men and women in uniform who have bravely served our country. We owe a tremendous debt to all of these heroes.  
 
It was a privilege for Tracey and me to attend a Veterans' Day event in Lynchburg, honoring our former service members. Tracey's father served in the Air Force during the Korean War.

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Developing America's Workforce 

This week, I reintroduced my Developing America's Workforce Act which would reinstate the Trump Administration's apprenticeship policies to develop skilled workers for employers and bolster the American economy without piling on more college debt. 

We have seen how colleges and universities are failing our students, saddling them with thousands of dollars in student loans and sending them into the workforce unprepared. My legislation seeks to provide another way—one that avoids an average of $28,000 in college debt, provides a much-needed boost for American employers in desperate need of skilled workers, and strengthens the economy. 
 
The Developing America's Workforce Act will put American workers first and remove bureaucratic hurdles for businesses to develop skilled workers who will make the American economy more productive. 
 
I believe this is a much-needed change for our country. You can read more about the Developing America's Workforce Act here.

FASFA Deadline Reformation  

In 2023, instead of releasing the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) by the traditional deadline of October 1, the Department of Education published a faulty application that was three months late. The next several months were spent fixing numerous technical issues, and this debacle led to a 12 percent reduction in FAFSA form completion.  
 
The Department of Education is unfortunately consistent in their failures, as they also missed the most recent October 1, deadline for the full FAFSA form, just 45 days ago. Before the incompetence of the woke-obsessed Biden-Harris Administration, Congress could trust the Department of Education to complete its required work on time. However, this administration has instead been focused on the illegal and unconstitutional student-loan transfer scheme.
  
I offered an amendment that is now included in the FASFA Deadline Act that requires the Department of Education to certify to Congress one month in advance whether or not the FAFSA form will be ready by the October 1 deadline.  
 
When Congress sets a deadline, we expect it to be followed. If agencies cannot meet that expectation, they need to explain why to the American people. I am pleased that the FASFA Deadline Act passed the House on Friday by a strong bipartisan vote of 381 to 1.

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Our Existential Threat: The National Debt 

Our nation is in $36 TRILLION in debt, with an additional $2 TRILLION deficit being added this past year alone. This is completely unsustainable.  
 
A few days ago, every single Democrat and two-thirds of Republicans voted to add another $200 BILLION in new mandatory spending. It is another example of how Washington is threatening the financial future of our children and grandchildren. 

Much of our federal spending is unjustified, unconstitutional, and truly wasteful. I am pleased that President Trump plans to empower Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to identify ways we can significantly reduce the size and cost of our massive federal bureaucracy.

 

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Thomas D. Klingenstein: Mass Deportations Are Not Enough

By Mark Krikorian


Donald Trump has been given a mandate by the voters to reverse the disastrous anti-borders policy of the Biden/Bush/Obama/Cheney neoliberal uniparty. Whatever the specifics of the "largest deportation effort in American history," there's consensus among conservatives that the gaps – both physical and legal – in our immigration-control system have to be plugged and the millions who've wriggled through those gaps made to return home.


But then what?


Fences, detention centers, repatriation flights, worksite raids, etc. are not immigration policy, but merely the means by which we implement and enforce immigration policy. The policy itself must answer the questions of how many foreigners we should let in to live among us, and how to select them.


And here there is no consensus among this month's winning coalition. If anything, there appears to be the same elite/public gap on immigration in the new Trump coalition as in the bad old days, with the elite favoring continued mass immigration — except that "they have to come legally," as the president-elect has said on more than one occasion.


Voters in general, and Republican voters in particular, tell pollsters again and again that they want lower levels of immigration, both illegal and legal. This is true when they're asked generally whether they want more, less, or the same, and also when they're given the actual level of legal immigration (about 1 million per year) and then presented with alternate levels.


At the same time, many of the leaders of the newly victorious right — most notably President-elect Trump but many others as well — cling to the old GOP immigration cliché of "legal-good/illegal-bad", with the proviso that they take the "illegal bad" part far more seriously than earlier Republican figures, for whom it was little more than boob bait for Bubba.


Trump, for instance, has told supporters in the tech industry that he wants to give green cards to every foreign student graduating from an American institution, including those receiving associate's degrees from community colleges. Meanwhile, Elon Musk has said he wants "greatly expanded" legal immigration and Bill Ackman wants to "open the floodgates" to skilled workers...

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Thursday, November 14, 2024

Gary Bauer: End Of Day - 11-14-24 - Smiles & Fires, Personnel Is Policy, Aiding & Abetting

Smiles & Fires


The photo of Presidents Trump and Biden sitting together and smiling in the Oval Office with a roaring fire behind them is very nice and also a bit of history. In that picture, you can see the 45th president, the 46th president, and the 47th president! It would be interesting to know what both men were thinking.


But I know what was going through my mind as I looked at the raging fire. I wondered how many documents the Biden White House desperately doesn't want the incoming president to see were in that fire and in fires all throughout Washington, D.C.


It is almost impossible to exaggerate the number of Deep State bureaucrats wetting their pants right now. I guarantee they are doing everything they can to obstruct justice.


The appointments President Trump has announced in recent days are sending a clear message to powerful men and women embedded in the CIA, FBI, NSA, Justice Department, Homeland Security, and the Pentagon.


Every appointment Trump has made dealing with that part of the government has been an "in your face" appointment. He's signaling that he is coming after the people who interfered in the 2016 election, the 2020 election, and who tried to destroy him and his presidency.


And Trump is right to do so. It's not "revenge," as Democrats and their media allies will claim. It's cleaning out corruption.




Personnel Is Policy


As we have noted many times before, in Washington, D.C., personnel is policy. The people appointed to key positions can either advance the president's goals or sabotage them. Here's why Trump's appointments are so critical.


Pete Hegseth – The Defense Department, under secretaries Trump appointed, resisted efforts to send troops to protect the border. They'll send our sons and daughters all over the world to secure the borders of countries the vast majority of Americans couldn't name. But they're not interested in protecting the borders of places named "Arizona," "New Mexico," and "Texas." And as I noted yesterday, Hegseth wrote a book about the urgent need to reform our woke military.


John Ratcliffe Before Ratcliffe was elected to Congress, he was a federal prosecutor. He knows illegal activity when he sees it, and he will clean up the CIA, which spied on Trump's campaign. Trump appointed Ratcliffe to a top intelligence position in his first administration, and he did his best to push back against the Deep State's lies that Hunter Biden's laptop was "Russian disinformation."


Tulsi Gabbard – Gabbard served our country in uniform. She knows the costs and sacrifices of war. She was also a victim of the Deep State's vindictiveness. She was put on a TSA watchlist after criticizing the Biden/Harris administration. As director of National Intelligence, she will get our intelligence community to refocus its attention on America's foreign enemies, not American citizens with conservative opinions.


Matt Gaetz – His announcement as attorney general took Washington by surprise, and he is already facing resistance. We'll see how it plays out. But in various committee hearings, he has gone after the Deep State and corruption at the Justice Department more aggressively than most Republicans. (Here, here, and here.) Trump knows that because he saw it.


No matter how congenial everything appeared to be at yesterday's White House meeting, I have no doubt that the same cabal that cooked up the Russia collusion hoax is doing everything it can right now to do it again.


Don't forget that Joe Biden was in that infamous January 2017 Oval Office meeting when Barack Obama, Susan Rice, James Comey, and others plotted how to pursue the Russia collusion investigation against the incoming Trump administration. They all knew it was a total sham, but they were determined to undermine Trump any way they could.


And some forces on the right are resisting Trump, too. A right-leaning publication is warning that Gabbard cannot be trusted with top secret information. Why? It's the same Deep State narrative – she's a threat because she doesn't share their globalist worldview.


Donald Trump deserves to have people in key positions who he can trust to enact his agenda. And so do the voters who elected him.




Aiding & Abetting

 

One reason why we're not talking about the incoming "Harris administration" is on display this week in Athens, Georgia, where the trial of Jose Ibarra is getting underway. Ibarra is the illegal alien from Venezuela who brutally murdered nursing student Laken Riley.


The murderers, rapists, human traffickers, and violent gangs that Biden and Harris essentially welcomed into America are a big reason why Biden and Harris are on their way out of office.


But virtually every day, another elected progressive announces they will defy all efforts by Donald Trump to deport millions of illegal aliens. And yet progressives are puzzled about why they lost the presidency and the Senate.


Let me give them a hint: Their impulse to protect illegal aliens who are hurting American citizens has not changed one bit. They are aiding and abetting horrific and completely preventable crimes, and voters don't like it. (Here and here.)


Sadly, cowardly Republicans are already making excuses for why removing millions of illegal aliens can't be done. It can. Start by removing one criminal alien and just keep at it. There are even ways to get people to voluntarily leave or self-deport.


Any politician on the left who continues aiding and abetting illegal immigration should be defeated in the next election. Any politician on the right who stands in the way of Trump's efforts to get illegal aliens out of the country should be primaried and kicked out of office.



 

Not Over Yet

 

Pennsylvania election officials announced yesterday that they will begin a statewide recount of votes in the tight Senate contest between Republican challenger Dave McCormick, who is leading, and incumbent Democrat Bob Casey, who refuses to concede.


Counties must report the results of the recount by November 27th. In other words, radical leftists have 12 days to steal this Senate seat. And that's why notorious Clinton lawyer Marc Elias is in court demanding that illegal votes be counted. Yes, you read that right – illegal votes.


Pennsylvania progressives are demanding that undated mail-in ballots be counted.


They are demanding that unsigned mail-in ballots be counted.


They are demanding that ballots cast by voters in counties where they don't live be counted.


They are even demanding that ballots cast by non-registered voters be counted.


Too many Republicans keep thinking it's 1950 instead of 2024. They keep saying, "Casey has no path to victory." Oh, yes, he does! He may not have a legal path, but his left-wing allies will definitely find an illegal path.


This is the corrupt system that the left is fighting to force on the entire nation. The overwhelming majority of states that Kamala Harris won do not require a voter ID. Wow! What a coincidence. [Sarcasm alert.]


We have strongly opposed left-wing efforts to nationalize election laws. As a matter of principle, I believe that opposition is the correct position. But when we get power, we can't just pretend like there is no problem with our elections and do nothing.


The Constitution requires that only citizens be allowed to vote. Eight states voted on ballot measures requiring citizenship to vote. All eight passed by an average vote of 73%.


This is a winning issue. Conservatives should pass a national law requiring proof of citizenship when you register to vote and voter ID when you vote. 


Anyone who thinks this would give the left an excuse to pass their own national election laws doesn't get it. They don't need an excuse!


Just as a reminder, progressives forced Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., to keep his name on general election ballots in some states while they worked to kick Green Party candidate Jill Stein off the ballot in other states.


No one on the left was the least bit worried about the gross inconsistency of their argument. They did whatever they could to maintain power.




Culture War & Spiritual War


We have written extensively about the escalating culture war in America. It wasn't that long ago when we were debating the meaning of marriage. Having lost that battle, we're now being forced to debate what a "woman" is and whether men can get pregnant!


But if anyone doubts that we are also in a spiritual war that, in my view, literally involves demons, this story out of Seattle, Washington, should end that debate.


A woman "married" to a "transwoman" (a man pretending to be a woman) got into an argument with her 67 year-old father, who was celebrating the election returns. His daughter, however, was crushed by Trump's victory.


So, she got an ice pickax and stabbed her father, strangled him, bit him, and beat him with the handle. After she finished killing him, she wiped his blood all over her face and then broke all the windows in the house.


When the police arrived, they found her outside celebrating because "she was so happy." She said her murderous rampage was an "act of liberation" and meant to "help people change their attachment to their parents."


Don't tell me this is not demonic.

Thomas D. Klingenstein: Americans Have Rejected DOJ’s Lawfare

By T.J. Harker


The people of this great nation are slow to anger, patient, and inclined to give the benefit of the doubt. They also have an ancient reverence for the rule of law, deferring to its pronouncements in even the most controversial matters. But, for the last eight years, some of the most corrupt, cynical, and treacherous men and women ever to walk the halls of power in Washington, D.C., exploited these admirable traits. I'm speaking, of course, of the leadership and even some of the rank-and-file of the Department of Justice.


Finally, on November 5, the people of the United States of America delivered a late but stunning rebuke to the ruling elite, the Washington bureaucracy, and above all the Department of Justice. Indeed, never in this country's history has such a public and censorious rebuke been delivered so clearly to a single federal agency.


That rebuke makes clear that the Department of Justice has failed totally to meet the high standards of excellence expected by the American people. It has disgraced itself in every respect: wallowing in dishonestytargeting its opponentskid-gloving its allies while hammering its enemiesobliterating legal normsweaponizing the legal systemprosecuting the political opposition, and normalizing lawfare.


In short, the Department of Justice has reached the nadir: it is treacherous and pathetic. And all the world knows it...

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Olivia Gans Turner: Update on Unlimited Abortion Amendment

Pro-abortion Delegates Vote in Committee to
Slip Extreme Abortion Amendment Forward,
Ignoring Public Opposition and Outcry

Yesterday pro-abortion legislators in the House of Delegates passed their extreme Unlimited Abortion Up to Birth Amendment to the Virginia Constitution out of the Privileges and Election Committee.

The committee agenda was not posted for the public to see and comment on until 24 hours before the meeting.  To make matters worse, a last-minute substitute version was introduced at the meeting, denying the chance for legislators or the public to read and study it.

Several Republican members of the Committee raised serious objections over the questionable process, but were ignored. Big thanks to Delegates Todd Gilbert, Israel O'Quinn, Phillip Scott, and Jay Leftwich for voicing opposition and the concerns of many in the room. They reminded all in attendance that we are talking about abortion, which always kills one person, the baby, and often harms the mother.

Public comment was also restricted at the meeting.  Those opposed greatly outnumbered those in favor.  More than 55 people opposed to HJ1 attended in person and 14 online.
Chair Del. Marcia (Cia) Price limited comments to 15 minutes in person and only 5 minutes for those online.

VSHL's team was well represented by Project Director Sarah Dunford, Lobbyist Jennifer Hubert, President Olivia Turner, and Second District Board member Andrew Wells.
The vote was along party lines, 12 to 9, and means that now this radical measure will go straight to the full House of Delegates on Jan 8, 2025, when the new General Assembly session opens.
 

This dreadful amendment is the number one priority of radical members of the General Assemblies and their allies, the abortion businesses of Virginia.
"The deceptively named 'Fundamental Right to Reproductive Freedom' is a dangerous bill that will prevent the people of Virginia from passing any new legislation to provide protection to preborn babies, including laws that will prevent abortions after babies can feel pain in the womb or in the later months of pregnancy.  It could also prohibit passage of laws to protect women from coercion to abort a pregnancy, or to receive much-needed informed consent before an abortion.  It will also threaten parents' right to know before a minor aged daughter can receive an abortion.  There is nothing moderate about this bill," said Olivia Gans Turner, president of VSHL.
When asked by the Chair if the proposed amendment will interfere with the Virginia parental consent law, the official attorney for the Committee admitted that a future court challenge could interpret the requirement as a burden to access to abortion. That is exactly why VSHL has stated that the vague language is anything but harmless.
Several other states where similar amendments have passed, including Kansas, Michigan, and Ohio, have already seen their protective pro-life laws overturned because of the interpretation of these dangerous amendments. Virginia has a longer process, but today's vote will likely push the bill to the floor of the House in the first days of the upcoming 2025 General Assembly and one step closer to putting unborn children and their mothers in even greater danger.
"Amendments like this one are more accurately called the "Unlimited Abortion Up to Birth" and only serve the interests of abortion promoters and businesses.  Virginia has already seen a large jump in the number of abortion facilities and efforts to make the state the abortion capital of the South.  Passage of this amendment will only cement that plan. In the end women and babies will suffer as abortion promoters grow rich," said Gans Turner.
It is essential that pro-life people and all concerned Virginians continue to voice their opposition to this extreme amendment. Please keep sharing the VSHL Action Center link with your family and friends.
VSHL thanks everyone who came to the General Assembly building yesterday, took time to communicate with their legislators, or added comments to the committee website.  There are well over a hundred comments opposing the amendment, outnumbering the pro-amendment ones considerably.