The Skeptic Research Center’s 2024 study of over 3,000 U.S. adults showed majorities of Hispanic (59%), Black (69%), and Asian (55%) women, plus many men in those groups, selected ‘true’ for the statement, compared to lower rates among white respondents. Liberal millennials led at 55%, while even 31% of graduate degree holders agreed; the same group held misconceptions about incomes and college admissions. Slavery existed for millennia worldwide, from ancient Mesopotamia to Africa and the Americas, long before the race-based transatlantic trade driven by Europeans. The findings spotlight gaps in understanding slavery’s global history amid America’s pivotal role in its abolition.

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The average American is politically ignorant.  And, by and large, they have no interest in learning about it.  Just take a look at all the people that hate President Trump–they’re completely and hopelessly mindless, every blessed one of them.  The Artful Dilettante

In spring of 2021, a man visits a small storefront in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He tells the woman at the desk – the business owner– that he wants a nursing degree.

What happens next, captured on undercover video, helps unravel one of the largest healthcare fraud schemes in recent U.S. history, operating heavily in South Florida’s tight-knit Haitian immigrant networks. 

The con secretly recruited and collected money from people who wanted to buy, not earn, nursing diplomas.

Isaac Bledsoe is a federal Special Agent in Charge of the Inspector General’s Miami office at Health and Human Services. He says his agency got onto the fraud through a tip.

“So believe it or not, we had an individual whose family member had reached out to them, asked if they could borrow somewhere around $16,000, that if they had the money, there’s a school in South Florida that will give them a nursing diploma,” Bledsoe recently told Full Measure, in explaining the scheme. 

“So we started off with an undercover immediately, where we had an undercover reach out to one of these schools in South Florida, put themselves out as an individual who has no healthcare background but looking to buy, wants to be a nurse, looking to buy a nursing diploma and ‘what can they do?’”

The video shows the undercover agent talking to fraudster Geralda Adrien about buying a nursing degree with no training or classes required.

“It depends on how ready you are,” Adrien tells the agent who is posing as a wannabe nurse. “Because if you’re ready to go now, I have a way of getting you tested in a school in New York. It is the easiest state for processing. You don’t have to go to New York, you can test here [Florida] but you just get processed through the board of New York.”

Adrien’s companies functioned as brokers for the entire racket, conspiring with the owners and operators of actual accredited Florida nursing schools that issued fraudulent diplomas and transcripts. The undercover agent was able to buy his fake diploma for $16,000.

Bledsoe says the group of fraudsters sold $250 million in fake diplomas across the country to 15,000 “nurses.” Many of them have disappeared into America’s health care system.

Meanwhile, prosecutors say the thieves lived lavishly off their proceeds, using the cash for luxury homes, cars and travel.

Forty-three people have been charged and, so far, all have been convicted. They are serving anywhere from four to six years in prison.

Among those convicted: Adrien; Johanah Napoleon, owner of the Palm Beach School of Nursing; Eunide Sanon, owner of Siena College of Health; and Carleen Noreus, owner of Carleen Health Institute. 

Noreus pleaded guilty mid-trial in June to selling nearly 3,000 diplomas. She was ordered to forfeit nearly $4 million. The others are ordered to give up millions more.

Meantime, the real world fall-out continues. Unqualified nurses treating vulnerable patients – in hospitals, nursing homes, and clinics – a direct threat to patient safety.

Bledsoe says the feds didn’t go after the phony nurses because buying bogus degrees isn’t a federal crime. 

Today, the names of two dozen Florida nursing schools, now shut down, are posted on nursing board websites as states take steps to root out the impersonators and revoke licenses.

Just the News, Sharyl Attkisson

I’ve known and supported President Trump for many years, and I offer these thoughts in the spirit of friendship and concern.

Sometimes the strongest thing a leader can do is say less, listen more, and let his actions speak for themselves. I’m praying for our President, as I hope all Americans will, and I’m asking him to remember the example of Ronald Reagan: humor, courtesy, respect, and a presidential manner even in difficult times.

Mr. President, I say this as a friend. For just a little while, try being quiet. You may be surprised how loudly that silence speaks.

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Jesus is not your campaign surrogate.

By Spyridon Andrews

don’t normally comment on political races, but when I see someone who is as fundamentally full of sh-t as James Talarico, I believe it is my duty to say something about it. James Talarico is now the Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate from Texas, having defeated Jasmine Crockett in the 2026 primary. He has discovered a political instrument more powerful than a Super PAC, more versatile than a focus group, and considerably harder to interview: Jesus Christ. After generations of right-wing Protestant pastors hijacking the message of Jesus and turning him into some kind of political football, you have to hand it to James. After all, he is shameless enough to say, why not me?

Down in the backwater leftist stronghold of Austin, Texas, Talarico is selling progressive politics with a halo. He has shamelessly transformed Jesus into a mouthpiece for leftist progressivism. But that same feeling that we used to get when we watched the PTL Club pervades his aura. I have to hand it to American Protestantism; despite its amazing versatility, it can still make you feel dirty, cheap, and used.

Talarico’s maneuver is a simple one for the simple-minded. He selects biblical passages that he can bastardize and put into the service of leftist progressivism, as if it were a direct command from the Lord Jesus Christ to the White House and the U.S. Senate. Jesus becomes a mouthpiece for the massive expansion of government, open borders and illegal immigration, and NGOs. However, the clarity of his stance rolls into the fog the moment that the fate of an unborn child enters the discussion.

It would be too simple to call him a political whore. But I have to say that hearing him speak makes me nostalgic for Jasmine Crockett. Talarico has shamelessly peddled the God-loves-abortion argument that was vomited out by his professors at the far-left seminary he attended in Austin. Just a quick review of the course catalogue puts the “seminary” in the same political hotbox as any American progressive propaganda center these days. As a survivor of Harvard Divinity School, I can recognize all the usual fluff: Activism and the Old Testament Scriptures, Womanist and Feminist readings of the New Testament, Immigration and the Old Testament, Communication for Ministries of Social Justice. At Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, there is not even a pretense to read the Bible through anything other than a Marxist, feminist lens. The historical texts never stood a chance.

The faculty includes Cynthia Rigby, who is a constructive theologian, as in “makes sh-t up.” I studied under a “constructive theologian” named Gordon Kaufman all the way back in 1980, back when “constructing the concept of God” was an off-the-wall idea posited by professors desperately trying to be provocative to obtain tenure. Now it’s mainstream. It’s the same old eggheads treating the Christian tradition as oppressive and patriarchal and all the usual crap, using a version of analysis that posits that everything they believe now is wonderful, and everyone else in the entirety of human history is simply not as smart or as evolved as they are. It’s aggressively stupid.

One of the other professors over there is a guy named Gregory Cuéllar, whose books include Resacralizing the Other at the US-Mexico Border: A Borderland Hermeneutic and Empire, the British Museum, and the Making of the Biblical Scholar in the Nineteenth Century: Archival Criticism. His research concerns Global Justice within the framework of border enforcement. What the hell any of this has to do with the actual proclamation of Christ, who was decidedly apolitical and steadfastly refused to get into politics, we’ll never know. But Cuéllar, like his colleague Rigby, seems to like to make stuff up.

What is especially loathsome about these seminaries is that they seem to barely read the printed word and have no real interest in what the Gospels actually say. Their efforts have been directed toward “demythologizing” the gospel (Rudolf Bultmann), finding the secular meaning (Paul van Buren), secularizing the message (Harvey Cox, The Secular City), or drawing a picture of God to their liking, literally conjured up from thin air (God the Problem, Gordon Kaufman). Then there are the feminist wackos like Mary Daly, the “theologian” who despised all men, would not accept men into her classroom, and would only refer to God as “Goddess.” For any serious scholar who actually wants to study Augustine, Aquinas, Athanasius, Luther, or the actual Bible, stay the hell away from a mainstream Protestant seminary. They wouldn’t know a Bible if it fell off the shelf and hit them over the head. They haven’t even lifted their heads out of Das Kapital for the last 75 years.

So this helps explain Talarico, who wandered out of this environment into progressive politics, which is tame by comparison. Talarico is what we would call a “liberation” theologian, which means that he accepts as true all the presuppositions of Karl Marx and Lenin and then mixes in a few Bible passages as necessary. We are all supposed to be one big global community with no borders, with a bunch of bureaucrats running everything, splitting everyone’s candy bars into perfectly equal geometric squares so no one person gets more than another, before they are sent back to live in their climate-controlled cube.

The point they miss is that giving to the poor, loving your neighbor, and loving your enemy does not mean that a nation cannot police its borders from drug cartels and rapists who traffic children. I might even agree, as I have written before, that we should find a way to welcome law-abiding, hard-working families into the country in a way that does not penalize those who played by the rules. 

But there is nothing in the Bible that exhorts us to ensure that federal agencies lose contact with hundreds of thousands of unaccompanied minors at the border, some of whom end up involved in sex trafficking or worse. Moreover, I must have missed the part about the Bible prohibiting showing a government ID when voting.

All of this would be enough to call Talarico a fraud and a demagogue, but his argument on abortion is even more astounding for its duplicity and lack of shame. Talarico has now engaged in an acrobatic sleight of hand that advocates a “double consent” on the part of the woman before giving birth. For Talarico, the original sex act is not consent to give birth. How he arrives at this, f-ck if anyone knows. Perhaps in Austin they are still figuring out whether the act of coitus has anything to do with conceiving a child. I suppose that’s entirely possible. No, even after having sex, now the woman has to consent to have the child. The only one in the whole deal who never has a choice is the kid whose life is up in the air while his mother is determining whether to conceive the child or kill him so she won’t have to miss a month or two of yoga.

How does Talarico come to the conclusion that this is “biblical”? Well, in one of the biggest asshole moves of all time, he decides to pollute the story of the Annunciation of the Virgin—one of Christianity’s most sacred narratives—and turn it into a decision point as to whether or not to have an abortion. Because Mary is informed and delighted that she will bear God’s son, Talarico makes the leap to argue that this reaction demonstrates that she “consented” to have God’s son. Luke 1 does contain Mary’s response—“Let it be with me according to your word”—which Christian traditions frequently understand as assent to a divine blessing. The narrative does not say Mary was choosing between continuing or terminating an existing pregnancy, and such a reading is ridiculous. A “divine right to abortion” isn’t even remotely what is offered in the Gospel of Luke. And this interpretation is so extraordinarily half-cocked that I would bet anyone a Starbucks Venti Latte that he heard this kind of idiotic argument from one of his professors over at the seminary.

We could be cruel and say that Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary likely contains no learning, no faith, and no serious Christians. But let’s be charitable and say that it has a roving theological imagination that appears to be uniformly one-directional. Finding a conservative in the place is probably even more difficult than finding a conservative in Austin. Or better yet, they are in the business of trying desperately to translate leftist progressive Marxist politics into the Christian vocabulary. Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary is about as far away from teaching the Christian proclamation of love, life, and sacrifice as the white-shoed preachers who proclaim that the promises of God will make you rich. It is a factory that produces biblically illiterate, historically illiterate arch-leftists who preach a message as alien to Christianity as Mao’s Little Red Book.

I would be remiss if I did not also call out Talarico’s fraudulent claim that he is a champion against billionaire mega-donors and puppet politicians. Despite his claim that it has all been done with $100 donations, there is the little matter of the widely reported $6.2 million his Senate campaign raised in its first 20 days, along with significant outside spending by super PACs supported by wealthy donors. Talarico has accepted donations from the Texas Sands PAC, linked to who else, billionaire arch-abortion advocate and casino owner Miriam Adelson. The Texas Tribune reports that Texas Sands PAC was funded by Adelson; the verified figure is $59,000 from that PAC during Talarico’s 2024 Texas House campaign.

Talarico wants voters to believe that he has rescued Jesus from the Republican Party, but what he really did was recruit Jesus for the Progressive Leftist Democrats, assign him a communications director, and limit his personal appearances to approved campaign stops. Talarico directs Jesus to what desks he wants him to overturn in the Senate, and you can bet it won’t be Chuck Schumer’s. He may be the first candidate in history to turn the Annunciation into an abortion brief, but he won’t be the first candidate who has turned the Gospel into campaign literature. That’s been done before.

This guy is nothing new. He’s just a little sneakier than some of the others.

American Greatness

About Spyridon Andrews

Spyridon (Don) Andrews is a Greek American writer, lawyer, and lifelong jazz musician. In his writing, he draws on his Hellenic roots, as well as his love of Renaissance Humanism. A graduate of Harvard, he writes works that blend history, travel, philosophy, and comedy. Most recently, he wrote Manuel and Me: Looking for the Soul of America in the Heart of Italy.

David ManneyFollow @DavidManne22612, PJ Media

September 18, 2026 3:42 PM

White House Border Czar Tom Homan says there is no plan to send ICE agents sweeping through polling places in November. States including Maine, Michigan, New Mexico, and Oregon are preparing anyway, coordinating with local authorities and attorneys general in case federal immigration officers appear near voting sites.

The preparations come as President Donald Trump has argued that greater federal involvement is needed to protect election integrity, including addressing what he has described as a high potential for fraud.

Trump has made election security a focus ahead of the midterms, including efforts involving mail voting, voter rolls and citizenship verification. The administration has said those measures are intended to prevent unlawful voting and protect election integrity.

The rhetoric around the issue has quickly risen. Homan called the polling-place scenario a fear tactic. Democratic officials and voting-rights groups say their concern is different: even targeted federal enforcement near a polling place could intimidate eligible voters, including naturalized citizens or people in mixed-status families.

The law supplies some important boundaries. Noncitizens generally may not vote in federal elections under 18 U.S.C. § 611. Another federal law, 18 U.S.C. § 592, restricts federal officials from bringing “troops or armed men” to places where elections are being held. The Justice Department’s election-crimes manual also says federal investigators can’t simply be sent into the area surrounding an open polling place.

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So there are two legitimate questions here. One concerns eligibility: who may legally vote? For federal elections, the law limits voting to citizens, subject to narrow statutory exceptions.

The other concerns federal power around polling sites, where existing law puts unusual restrictions on armed federal personnel.

Noncitizen voting does happen, although the available evidence doesn’t establish that it occurs on a widespread scale. On Sept. 4, the Justice Department announced charges against five people in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Wisconsin involving alleged illegal voting or fraudulent registration in the 2022 or 2024 elections. The defendants are presumed innocent unless convicted.

From the U.S. Department of Justice:

“As alleged, these five individuals in New Jersey, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania, including two illegal aliens, stole votes from American citizens when they decided to break the law and undermine our elections,” said FBI Director Kash Patel. “Protecting election integrity for the American people is one of the top priorities for this FBI. Every American citizen has a right to free and fair elections, and we will not hesitate to use all available resources to investigate every credible allegation of election fraud and illegal voting.”

“The crime of illegal voting undermines the integrity of our elections and harms citizens by stealing the power of our votes,” said U.S. Attorney Brian Miller for the Middle District of Pennsylvania. “Illegal voting is not a victimless crime but a serious affront to the principles of our democratic republic. This office will prosecute to the full extent of the law those who illegally vote in federal elections as well as those who facilitate illegal voting.”  

Michigan’s own review supplies the other half of the picture. State officials identified 15 credible cases involving apparent noncitizen voting among more than 5.7 million ballots in the 2024 general election, about 0.00028%. Thirteen were referred for possible prosecution. The offense existed in the state’s review, but it was rare.

The 2020 court record deserves similar care. It’s accurate to say every election challenge was rejected only after judges fully tested the evidence. It’s also inaccurate to say most were dismissed because of lack of standing.

A 2022 review by eight conservative legal figures counted 64 post-election cases. Twenty were dismissed before a merits hearing, 14 were voluntarily withdrawn, and 30 included a hearing on the merits. Standing ended some prominent cases, including Texas v. Pennsylvania, but not a majority.

The sharper question is what happens next. If ICE says polling-place sweeps aren’t planned, public discussion should distinguish speculation from an announced operation. If federal law already limits armed federal activity around polling places, federal officials should also be clear about how targeted enforcement would comply with those restrictions.

Election law already addresses both sides of this argument. Noncitizens may not legally vote in federal elections, and federal agents don’t have unlimited authority around polling places. Keeping those two facts together produces a more accurate debate than pretending illegal voting never occurs or treating an ICE sweep as established government policy when officials say none is planned.

Cuba experienced a total power failure Friday, according to the U.S. Embassy in Havana.

The embassy said the failure was due to the “collapse of Cuba’s electrical grid.”

According to Cuban regime media, the reason for the collapse is under investigation and the timeline to restore power is unknown.”

“All U.S. citizens in Cuba or planning to travel to Cuba should be aware and plan accordingly. There are reports of cellphone and internet outages,” the embassy added, noting that Cuba’s electrical grid is “increasingly unstable,” which has led to “multiple” nationwide power outages in the last few months.

Brie Stimson, Fox

I will never understand how large numbers of seemingly intelligent people got the idea that they were going to save the world by forcing the closure of all the functional parts of the energy system of the U.S. Nor will I ever understand how enough of those people got themselves into positions of sufficient political power to put their wacko energy ideas into effect. And yet, by the time President Joe Biden and his minions had left office in early 2025, such people, operating deep in the administrative state (and with the apparent blessing of a demented President), had managed to impose regulations that, by some time in the 2030s would have, among other things, forced the end of the manufacture and sale of all vehicles except electric vehicles, and forced the closure of all power plants using fossil fuels.

Since taking office in January 2025, President Trump and his people have been actively working to rescind and eliminate this insanity. I have previously reported on many of these actions, for example here and here. Today the EPA took another big step in removing these destructive regulations by finalizing a Rule titled “Partial Repeal of the Carbon Pollution Standards for Fossil Fuel-Fired Electric Generating Units.” The final Rule was published today in the Federal Register at 91 F.R. 58,954; it takes effect 60 days from today, that is, November 16, 2026.

Today’s action is ludicrously complex in its efforts to clear away some of the convoluted regulatory thicket erected by the previous administration. (It was 195 pages long in the standard double-spaced typed format issued a few days ago, in advance of the official Federal Register publication.). The complexity of the rescission is a function of the complexity of the prior actions that it seeks to unwind. Today I’ll try to provide a comprehensible summary of the background, and how the latest action fits into the mix.

It was way back in December 2009, during Barack Obama’s first year as President, that EPA adopted what is known as the Endangerment Finding, purporting to determine that carbon dioxide and other “greenhouse gases” constitute a “danger” to human health and welfare. In the same December 2009 regulatory action, EPA also claimed to find that emissions of these gases from “from new motor vehicles and new motor vehicle engines contribute to the greenhouse gas pollution that threatens public health and welfare.” That finding then formed the basis for the subsequent regulations that initially imposed fuel economy standards on vehicles, and then further imposed emissions mandates that would ratchet down over time until only fully-electric vehicles could be manufactured and sold.

After the December 2009 action, it remained for further regulations to extend the Endangerment Finding to other emissions sources like industry, aircraft, and power plants. As to power plants, the major initiative of the Obama administration was a regulation informally known as the Clean Power Plan, finally imposed in October 2015, during the second half of Obama’s second term. (The official name of the CPP was “Carbon Pollution Emission Guidelines for Existing Stationary Sources: Electric Utility Generating Units.”). The basic structure of the CPP was to set limits on the amounts of CO2 and other GHGs that a power plant could emit, with those limits ratcheting down over the years until, by some point in the late 2030s, it would be impossible for any power plant using fossil fuels to comply. At that point, all fossil fuel power plants would be forced to close.

During President Trump’s first term, EPA attempted to do away with the CPP and replace it with another regulation called the Affordable Clean Energy rule; but that effort got struck down by the D.C. Circuit, thereby seemingly re-instating the CPP pending Supreme Court review. The litigation reached the Supreme Court in 2022, during the Biden presidency, in a case called West Virginia v. EPA. The Supreme Court struck down the CPP as being beyond the authority conferred on EPA by Congress in the Clean Air Act.

But the zealots in the Biden EPA were not going to be deterred by the Supreme Court’s striking down of the CPP, and they looked for another avenue to force the end of electricity generation by fossil fuels. In May 2024 the Biden EPA went final with a Rule with a ridiculously long title but generally referred to as the “Carbon Pollution Standards” for power plants. To avoid the Supreme Court’s West Virginia decision, this regulation took a new approach, which was to declare that the “best system of emissions reduction” (BSER) for a power plant would be to adopt a system of carbon capture and sequestration or storage (CCS), supposedly to capture 90% of the emissions of the power plant.

The problem with CCS is that it is enormously costly and uses up a large fraction of the energy produced by the plant in the effort to capture the emitted CO2. In the limiting case, you can use up all the energy produced by the plant, and still not capture the last bits of the emitted CO2. (I have previously referred to CCS as “a war against the second law of thermodynamics.”)

When the Biden EPA proposed the Carbon Pollution Standards, numerous commenters — including major states like Ohio and West Virginia — pointed out why the standards were technically infeasible. I summarized those comments in this post from August 2023. But EPA went ahead anyway.

EPA’s action today rescinds the Carbon Pollution Standards for existing power plants. In support of its action, EPA basically adopts the infeasibility arguments made in the cited comments of Ohio and West Virginia. Here are some excerpts from the Executive Summary:

The EPA is finalizing the repeal of the emission guidelines for existing fossil fuel-fired steam generating units in their entirety. Specifically, the EPA is finalizing the determination that 90 percent CCS is not the BSER for existing long-term coal-fired steam generating units because 90 percent CCS has not been adequately demonstrated, the costs of 90 percent CCS are not reasonable, and the associated degree of emission limitation is not achievable. In a change from the 2024 CPS, the EPA concludes that previous projects that failed to achieve 90 percent CCS were not a sufficient basis to conclude the technology has been adequately demonstrated. Additionally, the carbon dioxide (CO2) capture, pipeline, and sequestration infrastructure necessary to implement 90 percent CCS for the fleet of existing coal-fired steam generating units does not currently exist and would need to be broadly deployed. Because it is significantly unlikely that the necessary infrastructure for CCS can be deployed by the January 1, 2032 compliance date, the EPA is finalizing the determination that the degree of emission limitation in the 2024 CPS for long-term coal-fired steam generating units is not achievable.

Note that, as with the previous rescission in February 2026 of the Endangerment Finding as to motor vehicle emissions, EPA did not attempt in this rule-making to take on the scientific basis for the claim that human GHG emissions are leading us to some kind of global warming apocalypse. I regard that omission as a lost opportunity. EPA’s 2009 Endangerment Finding rested on a very shaky foundation, most notably claiming to find ongoing warming in a surface temperature record that lacked almost all data for 40% of the earth’s surface (the Southern Hemisphere oceans). It would be great to point out how comically weak were the bases on which this power-hungry agency purported to imposed trillions of dollars in cost on the American people.

Like the February rescission of the EF, this action will undoubtedly quickly proceed to litigation in the D.C. Circuit. Although I would have liked EPA to base its actions on additional arguments besides the ones it has used, I still think its position is strong. Indeed, I can’t even think of what the environmental groups are going to say to the arguments about infeasibility of CCS. There really is no functional economic demonstration of this technology at scale, even today, and there likely never will be. So have at it!

Francis Menton, Manhattan Contrarian

Michael P. Desronvil has at last repsonded to the ideologues trying to subject him to contempt and ridicule. 

J.R. Dunn | September 19, 2026

he lone juror has come in from the cold to shine a much-needed light on the circumstances of the Lindsay Clancy trial, as well as certain media accusations that were tossed his way.

Michael Desronvil went public only days after he was doxxed by Boston-area legacy media and nationwide social media.

Desronvil was blunt in his response to the three jurors who misrepresented his stance during the trial, along with tacitly encouraging individuals attempting to track him down and expose him to ridicule and harassment. From his point of view, the majority of the female jurors were activists who “wanted her [Lindsay Clancy] found not guilty on Day 1.”

None were interested in hearing his interpretation of the evidence presented in court, instead resorting to badgering and nagging. This is easy to accept after seeing their attitudes and rhetoric in the interviews released over the past week.

Desronvil spoke out on Fugitive TV, a notable black political podcast. Host Ray Marcel talked with him on the phone for an hour, and stated that he was “very well spoken, very nice, very kind.” It was also revealed that, along with being a Catholic, Desronvil is a registered Republican. No wonder the feminist jurors lost their minds. (Asmongold commented, “Christ spent forty days in the desert. He spent forty hours with hags.”)

The interview also straightened out a number of accusations thrown his way by media sources while he was incommunicado and unable to defend himself, in particular one insinuation that he was guilty of domestic violence. The truth is that after he was married, Desronvil learned that his wife had lied about her immigration status and was, in fact, an illegal. This put his own legal status in jeopardy, so Desronvil initiated divorce proceedings. It was only then that accusations of abuse began to fly, in a clear act of revenge. The case was later dismissed.

The final irony here: the left supports mass immigration as a strategy in their war against the United States as it exists. Yet here they are attempting to victimize an immigrant from one of the most miserable nations in the hemisphere.

This is only the latest left-wing scheme to publicly blow up in their faces. These people are what Napoleon called “picture painters” – they have a complete picture in their heads as to how things will work out, always perfect to the last detail, and always in their favor. And when it all goes wrong, there’s no Plan B, no workable alternative. It’s always a fiasco, and always somebody else’s fault. 

Do they learn from it? They do not. It’s always on to the next painting, to repeat the same imbecile process all over again.

Our congratulations to Michael P. Desronvil, a brave man and a model immigrant.

American Thinker

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congress held a preemptive state funeral honoring Senator Mitch McConnell on Friday, as the Senate sergeant-at-arms had him lie in state, “just in case.”

The atmosphere in the nation’s capital was somber this week as speakers from both sides of the aisle spoke about McConnell’s undying commitment to Democracy, a commitment, they say, won’t let him die.

“Might as well get it out of the way now,” said Senate Majority Leader John Thune, “We all saw him ‘come back to work’ this week, but let’s be honest… he’s just running on fumes here. That’s why I was the first to recommend having him lie in state in the rotunda. At least he’ll get to enjoy it this way.”

McConnell seemed to be at peace with the decision, with witnesses saying he remained perfectly still while staring blankly at the ceiling. “He seemed happy about it,” one witness said. “He was smiling the whole time.”

When asked to comment on how it felt to be the first person to receive a state funeral prior to death, McConnell said, “…………………”

At publishing time, McConnell’s staff had announced that he had changed his mind about retirement and would instead be seeking re-election in November.

Babylon Bee