The Morning Report — 12/22/25

Good morning kids. Let's start off with a couple of positive items that surprisingly come from a judiciary that over the years, and especially during and as a direct result of the dawning of the Donald Trump era has devolved into a direct threat to the very foundations of American government and the stability and security of our society.

The Milwaukee County judge on trial for helping a violent illegal immigrant elude federal law enforcement authorities has been convicted on one of the two charges against her. 

A jury late Thursday found Judge Hannah Dugan guilty of felony obstruction but determined there wasn’t enough evidence to convict her on a misdemeanor charge of concealing an individual from arrest. Her attorney told reporters that Dugan will appeal the conviction, a verdict that should serve as a wake-up call to judges who disregard laws they don’t like in the furtherance of judicial activism.

Well of course she'll appeal, since despite my seeing this as a positive sign, given the nature of who occupies far too many a judge's seat in far too many an American courtroom, she might have a shot at winning an appeal. And yet she lost in a Wisconsin court which as we all know, thanks to Madison and Milwaukee is not the conservative bastion that it seemingly ought to be, especially in the eyes of a NYC transplant like me. But be that as it may, here's hoping this criminal is disbarred, disrobed and never gets within 1000 miles of a judges bench except as a defendant, and ultimately serves a lengthy stretch in a federal lockup.

And, speaking of Wisconsin, this decision came down from that state's highest court, that, given its current far-leftist majority is a pleasant surprise:

Earlier this year, on June 5, 2025, the Supreme Court rendered a major victory for religious freedom in Catholic Charities Bureau v. Wisconsin Labor & Industry Review Commission.  In a unanimous judgment authored by Justice Sotomayor, the Court reversed an earlier order in favor of Wisconsin.  The justices reasoned that Wisconsin violated Catholic Charities’ First Amendment rights in denying it a tax exemption because it thought the services provided were not primarily religious insofar as its employees “‘do not proselytize or serve only Catholics’ in the course of performing charitable work.”

On remand, Wisconsin officials ignored the Supreme Court, again denying Catholic Charities’ request for an exemption.  However, on December 15, 2025, in Catholic Charities Bureau v. Wisconsin Labor and Industry Review Commission, on appeal, the state’s high court summarily ruled that Catholic Charities is entitled to the requested exemption from unemployment taxation.  As such, this column reviews Catholic Charities’ judicial history before reflecting on its impact on religious freedom. . .

. . . On December 15, 2025, in Catholic Charities Bureau, Inc. v. Wisconsin Labor and Industry Review Commission, Wisconsin’s highest court summarily ruled that “[i]n light of the Supreme Court’s holding that this court ‘impose[d] a denominational preference’ that does not survive strict scrutiny…we determine that Catholic Charities [and its sub-entities are] eligible for the religious purposes exemption to [state] unemployment taxation. . .

. . . Catholic Charities is noteworthy because members of the Supreme Court, including separationists Justice Sotomayor, author of its unanimous opinion, with fellow separationist Justice Jackson penning a separate concurrence, put aside their ideological differences in rectifying Wisconsin’s having trammeled Catholic Charities’ First Amendment rights. . . In sum, Wisconsin’s Supreme Court finally applied precedent properly in protecting Catholic Charities’ religious freedom rights.  In so doing, Wisconsin’s judges acknowledged that because secular jurists lack the authority, and expertise, to interpret what qualifies as being at the heart of the Catholic Church’s or any other church’s mission, they must defer to the judgments of religious leaders who define their missions.

So smacking down a rogue justice who interfered with federal law enforcement and actually aided and abetted a cviolent criminal evade apprehension and a decision that upholds religious liberty, we are given a couple of things to keep hope alive.

And yet elsewhere in the world as lurker extraordinaire Prof. Victor Davis Hanson notes it is indeed open season on Jews. For sure the ongoing 1,500-year bloody war of genocide waged by Islam is a war on Jews. But there is also a rhetorical war being waged against The Jews which sadly has its roots in racial/religious bigotry that predates the founding of this nation and even way before Islam.

Just a few years ago, it used to be that anti-Semitism was mostly on the left and repugnantly identifiable and condemnable by most. . . The right used to be a unified corrective to left-wing anti-Semitism. It still polls nearly 70 percent in favor of Israel. For a while longer, it is far more likely to condemn anti-Semitic violence than the left. But recently, its own base, in varying degrees, has come full circle and joined the left in its distaste for Israel and Jews in general. . . One hallmark of the new right-wing furor against Jews and Israel is the strange symbiosis they employ. Formerly edgy podcasters become vicarious hosts of virulent anti-Semites. The partnerships are a way of not directly owning up to their toxicity but just “putting it out there.” . . .Candace Owens initially championed Kanye West (“I’m a bit sleepy tonight but when I wake up, I’m going death con 3 On JEWISH PEOPLE."). Then she graduated to expressing her own old anti-Semitic tropes: “There is just a very small ring of specific people who are using the fact that they are Jewish to shield themselves from any criticism. … All Americans should want answers because this appears to be something that is quite sinister.”

Tucker Carlson hosted critics of the U.S. effort against Hitler in World War II and Israel-behind-it conspiracists before escalating to inviting Nick Fuentes on in a mostly friendly manner—which might be attributed to his interview format, except he has attacked fellow conservatives far more than has odious Fuentes.

I have no idea how Carlson and Owens were brought up or arrived at their beliefs about "Jews" or "The Jews?" I assume that both have either inherited/absorbed the beliefs of their parents and families which have been passed on for generations. It's not the world's oldest hatred for no reason. Or, even worse, maybe they engage in this merely for personal gain.

It's a very short walk from Charlie Kirk and 9/11, to the Deicide trope and even believing that Jews use the blood of Christian children to make Passover matzohs.

And that's that, my friends.

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ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY LINKS
• Victor Davis Hanson: As leaders equivocate and extremists unite left and right, open season on Jews spreads across the West—unchecked, unnamed, and certain to grow deadlier.
  Slouching Toward Open Season on Jews

CIVIL WAR 2.0, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
• “Democrat leaders are now vying to outdo each other in such violent ideations. They are fueling a rage addiction to achieve political power. It is a dangerous game…”
  Michigan Senate Candidate Says She’d Hurl Beers at Conservative SCOTUS Justices if She Saw Them
  
• Leftists excuse perpetrators and vilify victims.
  Leftism Promotes Psychological Abuse

  
  "DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY, NEWSOM/DEMOCRAT VIOLENT INSURRECTION RIOTS

• ‘Judges are not above the law. Their core function is to respect the rule of law, not to undermine it,’ attorney Daniel Suhr said. (Shouldn't she be stripped of her law license before serving a lengthy prison sentence?
  Court Finds Milwaukee Judge Hannah Dugan Guilty Of Obstructing ICE

• 'Sanctuary cities' for assaults on federal law enforcement personnel.
  LA Legalizes Assaulting ICE Agents and Stealing Their Vehicle

• The real question is how many illegals are on Medicaid?
  California Dem Officials Urge Illegals to Sign Up for Medicaid by Dec 31

  
  WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM

• Robert Spencer: The real reason some Americans are suspicious of Islam.
  Tucker Carlson Demands That Americans Stop Doing This — But Who’s Doing It?
  
• A scary agenda, paid for by taxpayers, and ignored by the Canadian government.
  Canada: Federal ‘Islamophobia’ Watchdog Hid $80,000 Pro-'Palestine' Grant From Taxpayers
  
• Can you guess what her punishment was?
  In Austria, Muslima Thief Claims Stealing from Non-Muslims is Permitted
  
• “Islam will conquer Europe without firing a shot.”
  The Demographic Lesson of Lebanon

  OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY

• Wisconsin’s judges thought Catholic Charities was not Catholic enough to get a tax exemption. The U.S. Supreme Court weighed in, 9-0.
  Catholic or Not? SCOTUS Smacks Down Lower Court

  BONDI BEACH CHANUKAH BLOODBATH

• From Tehran’s diplomats to online threats, years of ignored warnings culminated in an Iran-linked jihadist attack on Jewish celebrants at Bondi Beach.
  Did Iran Play a Role in the Chanukah Mass Murder in Australia?

• Bondi Beach shattered the lie that antisemitism is merely anti-Israel politics, revealing an older, eliminationist hatred aimed at Jews as Jews, far from any battlefield.
  Blood on the Sand: Australian Massacre Exposes Hollow Core of Anti-Zionism
  
• Grim-faced Albanese and his wife were further jeered with one man yelling out “blood on your hands” joined by a second who cried, “you are not welcome.” Other hecklers could be heard yelling out, “you don’t represent Australia” as he refused a call to apologise to members of the Australian Jewish community for his inaction.
  ‘Shame’ — Leftist Australian PM Anthony Albanese Booed at Bondi Terror Attack Vigil
  
• Proposed restrictions include limiting firearms ownership, stricter licensing, and a mass firearm collection and destruction initiative.
  Australian PM Targets Law-Abiding Gun Owners Following ISIS-Inspired Beach Massacre.

  NATIONAL GUARDSMEN GUNNED DOWN IN DC, by Biden-Imported Islamic Savage

• Rahmanullah Lakanwal, a 29-year-old Afghan national who previously worked with a CIA-backed partner force in Kandahar and entered the U.S. in 2021 through the Biden administration’s Operation Allies Welcome, has been arraigned and is facing charges in the Thanksgiving-week ambush-style shooting that left 20-year-old Spc. Sarah Beckstrom dead and critically injured 24-year-old Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe. 
  George W. Bush Institute Urges Americans to Sympathize with Afghans After D.C. National Guard Attack

  SHAMPEACHMENTS, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION

• His "goods" on Trump haven't stood up to the slightest scrutiny.
  Jack Smith is Clinging to These False Claims to the Bitter End

  DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE

• The power failure left a large swath of the northern part of the city in the dark, beginning with the Richmond and Presidio neighborhoods and areas around Golden Gate Park in the early afternoon before growing in scope and size, the Independent reports.
  Massive San Francisco Power Outage Leaves 130,000 Homes, Businesses in the Dark

• It’s judges like Hannah Dugan who have badly damaged the reputation of our justice system.
  The Dugan conviction is a first step back to judicial sanity
  
• Vermont is heading toward a doom spiral in which tax increases reduce government revenues. Other states should take notice.
  Vermont Drifts Toward a Property-Tax Doom Spiral
  
• Efficient rail moves goods faster, cheaper, and with less environmental strain than trucking, freeing up highways and reducing road maintenance costs for taxpayers.
  Powering America’s new golden age with rail
  
• NYC is in for a world of hurt.
  Hochul Gives Mamdani a Big Boost in His Quest to Drive New York City to Destruction

  CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY

• As many have noticed, America isn’t as safe as it used to be, but each of us can create our own zone of relative safety by staying aware and acting smart.
  Why America Must Relearn Situational Awareness
  
• “So I’m going to the Bible when I say to my haters, [dramatic pause] F you.”
  ‘To My Haters, F YOU!’: DC Police Chief’s Stunning Resignation Speech (another miserable you-know-what Courveh - jjs)
  
• Brady lists give officers a scarlet letter with no opportunity to appeal.
  States Are Denying Cops’ Due-Process Rights

  FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH

• Much of the mainstream news this week has been partisan or devoted to less-than-significant matters.
  This Week’s Underreported News
  
• The decision comes amid a massive network shakeup under Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss, who was chosen to lead CBS News in October after CBS parent company Paramount Skydance acquired the online publication she founded, The Free Press.
  CBS abruptly pulls ‘60 Minutes’ segment on deportees in El Salvador’s CECOT prison as correspondent blasts Bari Weiss
  
• Roger Kimball: As the media frets over Trump’s “fatigue,” he dominates the world stage, confronts woke institutions like the Smithsonian, and proves once again that reality keeps wrecking the anti-Trump narrative.
  Trump Never Sleeps—But the Media Keeps Dreaming
  
• New York Times columnist and PBS News Hour talking head David Brooks loves himself some Stalin and Mao analogies. Back in May, he compared Elon Musk and DOGE to the murderous dictators. This Friday, he compared President Trump, the renaming of the Kennedy Center to the Trump-Kennedy Center, and “gigantic portraits” of Trump to the communist tyrants and claimed it reminded him of the “Stalin era.”
  Brooks Claims 'Gigantic Portraits' Of Trump Remind Him Of 'The Stalin Era' (But Obama's pants crease soiled his panty liner - jjs)

  RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS,

• We are not living through a mass extinction.
  The Eco-Zealots Were Wrong Again

  EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT

• The win at the circuit level comes after the district court sided with the school.
  9th Circuit Protects Professor’s First Amendment Right To Make Fun Of Land Acknowledgments
  
• Block claims to just want to protect children from abuse and neglect, but his nebulous ideas of what that means would put all homeschoolers at risk of being unjustly targeted by government officials.
  Contrary To The New York Times, Homeschooling Is Still A Much Better Alternative To Public Schools
  
• 56% overhead rate funds college administrators under the guise of science grants.
  How Universities Divert Federal Science Grants To DEI And Administrative Bloat
  
• Beth Rivkah High School in Brooklyn exemplifies family values and academic rigor.
  An Educational Jewel in Crown Heights (Don't let Sharpton see this! - jjs)

  SECOND AMENDMENT

• The 32-year-old grandson of President John F. Kennedy is running for the 12th Congressional District seat being vacated by Rep. Jerry Nadler. His proposal, dubbed the “Ricochet Rule,” would impose financial penalties on states that fail to conduct strong background checks for gun buyers, the New York Post reported.
  JFK Grandson Wants To Fine States If Their Guns End Up At NYC Crime Scenes

  
  THE 2020 and SUBSEQUENT ELECTION HEISTS , SHENANIGANS/FRAUD and AFTERMATH

• There should be no excuse why Americans cannot return to a national electoral snapshot, with appropriate procedural guardrails in place, on one day.
  Let’s Return to Election Day

  L'AFFAIRE EPSTEIN

• These pictures show why Epstein was able to make headway into the Clinton inner circle.
  Epstein Photos Show What We Always Knew About Bill Clinton
  
• A rep claimed Bill Clinton was being scapegoated by the Trump administration.
  Bill Clinton Responds To Shocking Photos In Epstein File Dump

  DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY

• After the 2023 Lewiston shooting in Maine, people donated $6.6 million to a charity that then diverted $1.9 million to NGOs, many with Somali connections.
  A Maine charity diverted shooting victim funds to shady, often Somali NGOs
  
• Politics is all about rewarding your supporters for helping you get elected -- with other peoples’ money.
  Somali Fraud equals DEI Hypocrisy equals Climate Scam

  POLITICS

• The DNC buried its 2024 autopsy not because it learned nothing, but because the truth is fatal: Democrats lost by doubling down on the unpopular issues they care about most.
  The Democrats Hide Their Failures, Choosing Instead to Repeat Them
  
• Imagine a Democrat — any Democrat — walking onto a college campus and telling students, “Donald Trump is an existential threat to our democracy. Prove me wrong.”
  The Fatal Flaw in Democrats’ Plan to Create a Left-Wing Turning Point USA

  ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS . . . AND LEFTISTS

• NBC News: “Israeli officials … preparing to brief President Donald Trump about options for attacking” Iran’s ballistic missile program.
  Netanyahu Expected to Brief Trump on Possible Iran Missile Strike During Visit
  
• Why would we spend a dime, let alone $60 billion "to take Gaza residents from tents to penthouses"?
  U.S. to Spend $60B Turning Gaza into ‘High-Tech Metropolis’

• Jihad by injection.
  How a Hamas Doctor Murdered Noa Marciano
  
• The longer Western “experts” ignore the fact that Palestinian authorities routinely repeat that this is a religious war, the longer they will continue to recommend solutions, such as the vaunted two-state solution, that are not solutions at all. If you’ve been misdiagnosed, the medication you’ve been prescribed will not heal you. And that’s the situation today regarding Israel and the Palestinians.
  Gaza Imam Reveals the Key to Understanding the Entire Israeli-'Palestinian' Conflict

  THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"

• Heightened tensions between Russia, Ukraine, and the West, with the EU agreeing on a $100 billion aid package for Kiev, and Russia vowing retaliation for attacks on its tanker fleet.
  Putin Claims Ukraine Unready for Peace as Kiev Strikes Tanker in Mediterranean.
  
• “Investigators are pursuing numerous lines of enquiry regarding the murder. One of these is that the crime was orchestrated by Ukrainian intelligence services,” Petrenko said.
  Russian general Fanil Sarvarov killed by bomb under his car in Moscow

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

• Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem released a video on social media showing a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter landing on the deck of an oil tanker in international waters off the coast of Venezuela. Earlier this month, President Donald Trump declared the government of Venezuela to be a Foreign Terrorist Organization and ordered the complete naval blockade of the country.
  U.S. Snatches Venezuela Oil Tanker in Dark‑Hour Strike on Narco‑Terror Funding
  
• He's done evil acts like this before.
  Cornered rat: Venezuela's dictator reportedly offering a 'bounty' to cartels for a hit on President Trump

• And falsely blames President Trump for “starving thousands.”
  UN Fakes a Famine in Kenya to Save USAID

• Thirty-nine prisoners languish, and no one seems to care.
  A Race against Time in Iran’s Secret Cells

• The ongoing collapse of the German chemical sector signals a political crisis -- one that will not end until this new socialist experiment has completely failed.
  A Collapse in Germany’s Chemical Sector Is a Bad Omen
  
• Cllr Asghar now sits as an Independent on the council, amidst ongoing inquiries into alleged modern slavery.
  UK Politician Resigns Far-Left Green Party Whip After Slavery Arrest.
  
• The China Matrix exposes how America’s China lobby enriched itself, empowered the CCP, and fought Trump’s bid to break a decades-long elite pact against the republic.
  A Servant of Truth Who Knows America’s Enemies: A Review of Lee Smith’s The China Matrix

  HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE

• The message is not complicated. Anthem’s profits are rising because your costs are. And unless policymakers, providers, and the public push back, this model will only spread. Patients will have fewer choices, doctors will have less autonomy, and families will continue to pay more for less.
  This BIG Insurer Is Now Punishing Hospitals for Putting Patients First.
  
• Trump should rethink his support for weed. Increasing the normalization and legalization of pot will only increase our nation’s problems.
  Trump’s Marijuana Executive Order Is Woefully Half-Baked

  ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY

• “Ensuring American Space Superiority” includes a push for Golden Dome missile defense and developing nuclear power deployment capabilities.
  Set Course for 2028, Maximum Impulse: Trump Space Order Targets Artemis Moon Landing and More
  
• “The bulk of STEM funding is not of this nature. . .No one viewed this as working for free. . .An environment of reduced research funding is here to stay.”
  How to Reform Science Funding
  
• Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have detected a bright object in the debris disk that surrounds the nearby star Fomalhaut that wasn’t there previously, suggesting it is a glowing cloud of material left over from the collision of two asteroids.
  Scientists think they have detected a collision in the debris disk surrounding the star Fomalhaut
  
• Its main purpose is as a demonstration project to attract a bigger round of new investment capital, from universities like the ones listed above, for launching a larger private telescope with greater capabilities.
  A new commercial smallsat space telescope is now operational and offering its data to scientists

  FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY

  
  

• PBS: You Need a Medical Degree to Claim Men Can't Become Women
  The PBS News Hour doubled down on its advocacy for transgender surgery for minors on Thursday evening, reacting with condescension and alarm to President Trump’s move to restrict so-called “gender-affirming medical care for minors.” This time PBS paired up with its (former) taxpayer-funded outlet National Public Radio. Co-anchor Amna Nawaz: "The Trump administration today took its most significant moves yet in a wide-ranging effort to restrict gender-affirming medical care for minors."(PBS = Pubic Bullshit - jjs)

  CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

• "You can't wake up and think about people who are just determined to stay mad," Minaj said of her detractors.
  Erika Kirk Brings House Down, Interviews Rapper Nicki Minaj Onstage At AmFest
  
• Christian Toto:'SNL' alum picks up where Ben Shapiro left off at AmFest conservative gathering
  Rob Schneider Roasts ‘Grifter’ Candace Owens
  
• He speaks among people as equals, openly sharing the daily struggles that come with being human in this world.
  Scott Adams is America's patriot

• At Christmas, sentiment rings hollow when policies shrink families, erase unborn children, and protect failing schools—because a nation’s future is measured by how it treats its kids.
  A Christmas Present for the Children of America

• Parents aren’t banning books—they’re pushing back against librarians and the ALA placing explicit sexual content in kids’ hands without consent, then hiding it behind slogans about “freedom to read.”
  Wake Up, Parents: American Library Association Is (Still) Grooming Our Kids
  
• During America’s bicentennial, seven million Americans visited John Wayne’s ‘Freedom Train’ exhibit to celebrate America — but for America’s 250th, legal hurdles threaten to stop the Freedom Train in its tracks.
  Will Amtrak Let The American Freedom Train Roll?
  
• No woke deed goes unpunished.
  Minorities Sue American Airlines for Providing Them With Affirmative Action

  HITHER & YON

• Rob Reiner did for Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) what Ray Kroc did for hamburgers, what Henry Ford did for the automobile, and what Genghis Khan may have done for sexually transmitted diseases; he brought it to the masses. Reiner's tweets weren't informative, clever, or funny; they were over-the-top insulting and, more importantly, accusatory, so much so that an acne-besotted incel from Butler, Penn., might want to take a shot at Trump.
  . . .Was Rob Reiner a Deep State Spook? Roll the Tape...
  
• REVIEW: 'Resurrection' by Leo Tolstoy
  Tolstoy's Last Novel

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