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April 23, 2025

The Morning Report — 4/ 23 /25

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Good morning kids. Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day. For me personally, every day was that day, as my mother of blessed memory survived almost a year in Mauthausen, the labor brigades and then a death march. Despite doing her best to shield me from the memory of her ordeal and by living an upright and joy-filled life as a proud and patriotic American. Both the resurgence of anti-Semitism abroad and most horribly here with the vilification of both Israel supporters and patriotic MAGA boosters as Nazis and racists are sickening in the extreme.


Moving on to the top stories.


It looks as if there's yet another massive wildfire, but this time on the east coast along the New Jersey shore. While much of the state had been under drought conditions, it's way too early to identify a cause. Hopefully the same kind of DEI and Red/Green Enviro-driven incompetence did not add figurative fuel to that fire as it did in Pacific Palisades. That said, Phil Murphy is every bit the insane Leftist as Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass. Not knowing the politics of Ocean County, I hope the local government is staffed by sane and competent leadership. Prayers up for residents and any of you who may be affected to remain safe.


Elsewhere, as VP Vance was on a state visit to India,

Suspected militants fired on a group of tourists in Indian-controlled Kashmir, resulting in multiple fatalities and injuries. . .

. . . “Usha and I extend our condolences to the victims of the devastating terrorist attack in Pahalgam, India.” — Vice President J.D. Vance. . .

. . . On Tuesday, a lethal attack was carried out by suspected militants targeting tourists in the Pahalgam region of Indian-controlled Kashmir. Between 20 and 24 people were killed, with several others sustaining injuries, according to various reports, although an official death toll had not been released as of the time of publication. Pahalgam, known for its scenic meadows and glaciers, attracts substantial tourist numbers yearly.

Vance was in India to help pave the way for a bilateral trade agreement with India and the U.S. It's so far not clear that the attack was supposed to target him or that it was mere coincidence that he was in country. Kashmir has long-been a hotbed of Islamic terror attacks against Hindus, as it is a disputed territory. Meh, what part of the Milky Way, Andromeda and the M-79 star system isn't claimed byMuslims as part of the Islamic ummah?


Speaking of things going up in flames, over here it's the rule of law, where those charged with upholding it are becoming co-conspirators after the fact in acts of domestic terrorism

A Minnesota state employee-turned-terrorist who vandalized multiple Teslas and caused more than $20,000 in damages was let off with barely a slap on the wrist by a woke District Attorney.

Dylan Bryan Adams, a 33-year-old fiscal policy analyst for Tim Walz’s administration, was arrested and charged after police say he keyed about a half a dozen Teslas while walking his dog around his neighborhood. Adams was seen on the Teslas’ cameras keying the vehicles and stripping the paint, just the latest in a string of attacks against privately owned Teslas and their drivers, Tesla dealerships, and even electric charging stations from leftists irate over Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s involvement with the Trump administration.

Adams was caught damaging the vehicles just a few days after Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, Adams' boss, mocked Tesla's falling stock prices during an event.

But despite committing multiple felonies and causing an estimated $21,000 in damage to privately owned vehicles, Hennepin County District Attorney Mary Moriarty decided she won’t be seeking criminal charges to allow Adams to keep his job. Instead, the DA will seek “pre-charge diversion,” an alternative to the criminal justice system that includes things like re-education programs, community service, or mental health treatment. 

And the cops aren’t happy about it.

That's how civil societies devolve into third world shit-holes replete with authoriatarian juntas and even death squads. With individuals like this Kilmar Abrego Garcia as its cadres.


Yet President Trump acting within his authority and oath to defend our nation from all threats foreign and domestic is still "Literally Hitler" for sealing the borders, rounding the Killer Kilmars up and deporting them.


Well, the fish stinks from the head, so to speak. And not to put too fine a point on it but what amounts to insurrection, and it's reflected in the attitude that comes down from the Supreme Court.

“Both the Executive and the Judiciary have an obligation to follow the law.” 

Those thirteen words, penned by Justice Samuel Alito on Holy Saturday, represent the first admission by the judiciary that courts too can wrongly flout the law. 

Justice Alito’s stark acknowledgement concluded his bullet-point evisceration of the Supreme Court’s “unprecedented” command that President Trump not remove a “putative class of detainees” under the Alien Enemies Act. The Supreme Court had entered that order shortly after midnight after the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed an emergency application asking alternatively for an emergency injunction, an immediate administrative injunction, a writ of mandamus, or a stay of removal, to prevent the Trump Administration from removing Venezuelans to El Salvador pursuant to the Alien Enemies Act.

The ACLU’s scattershot request for relief from the Supreme Court came a mere two days after they sued the Trump Administration in a federal court in Texas — and before that court or the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals had an opportunity to rule on the request for an injunction barring the removal of any more aliens to El Salvador. . .

. . . It isn’t difficult to surmise why seven of the justices acquiesced to the demands of the ACLU: They watched the Trump Administration outrun an injunction in the earlier case pending before Judge Boasberg and they likely wanted to ensure there was no repeat.

. . . But the Supreme Court is not an almighty righter of wrongs — real or perceived — as  Marbury v. Madison taught. While best known for establishing the principle of judicial review, the Supreme Court in Marbury also recognized the limits of its power. In that landmark case, the Supreme Court declared that Secretary of State James Madison had illegally refused to deliver William Marbury his judicial commission. But the Supreme Court then refused to provide Marbury a remedy because he had filed suit against Secretary Madison in the Supreme Court and under the Constitution, the Supreme Court lacked original jurisdiction to resolve the case. 


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  • On Tuesday, a lethal attack was carried out by suspected militants targeting tourists in the Pahalgam region of Indian-controlled Kashmir. Between 20 and 24 people were killed, with several others sustaining injuries, according to various reports, although an official death toll had not been released as of the time of publication. Pahalgam, known for its scenic meadows and glaciers, attracts substantial tourist numbers yearly. . . U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance, whose in-laws are Indian, is currently in India, laying the groundwork for a trade deal between the United States and the Hindu-majority nation.
    Terror Attack in India Leaves at Least 20 Dead Amid Vance Visit
  • The fire was just 5% contained by 8 p.m. Tuesday evening.
    Massive Fire Rages In New Jersey; Thousands Evacuated


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