Commentary

When I write a blog commenting on a single topic, a number of items end up on my stack of stuff, hopefully to be shared with you later.  Here are a few I thought would be of interest.

Voter Irregularities 

While President Trump continues to be criticized for the “Big Lie” with challenges to the validity of the 2020 presidential election, examples of irregularities continue to surface from various states.

When Michigan’s Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson ignored charges in letters insisting that dead people remained on the state’s voting rolls, the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) filed a lawsuit alleging that nearly 26,000 dead people were still registered to vote.

PILF’s lawsuit alleges that 25,975 potentially deceased registrants are on the rolls; 23,663 of which have been dead for five years or more, 17, 4709 have been dead for at least 10 years, and 3,956 have been dead for at least 20 years.

In Georgia

With Democrats, a lie is just a misspoken statement.  Appearing with Rachel Maddow on MSNBC, Stacey Abrams claimed that she didn’t challenge the outcome of her loss to Gov. Brian Kemp in 2018, and plans to challenge him in 2022.

In an outright insult to the intelligence of the electorate, Abrams wants voters to believe that she didn’t repeatedly challenge the results.

“So, let’s be clear,” she said in 2018, “This is not a speech of concession, because concession means to acknowledge an action is right, true and proper. As a woman of conscience and faith, I cannot concede that.”

But with Maddow, Abrams said, “I did not challenge the outcome of the election. What I said was that the system was not fair.”

What to Think of Christie

You may have heard that former New Jersey governor Chris Christie is conducting a kind of exploratory bid for a run at the presidency in 2024.

“For all the people who say they’re supporters of President Trump, the line begins behind me,” he said, while thinking Trump’s influence is waning.

While Christie likes Trump’s policies, he believes it’s time to drop the claims of a stolen election. “We can no longer talk about the past, no matter where you stand on the issue, no matter where you stand,” he repeats. “It is over.”

Following Christie’s recent speech before the Republican Jewish Coalition in Las Vegas, Trump was obviously unhappy with Christie’s position that the party needs to move on from the past.  Trump reminded his supporters that “Chris left New Jersey with a less than nine percent approval rating – a record low.”

Christie seems to be positioning himself between candidates who embrace Trump without reservation and would never criticize him, and any candidate who sought to capture the Never Trump vote, according to an assessment by Politico.

It’s early folks, but interesting.

New Yorkers Face Higher Utility Costs

Contracts to fuel more than a third of New York City’s electric gid with renewable energy will reportedly raise monthly electricity bills for both upstate and downstate customer ratepayers up to 9.9 percent once the projects are on-line.

The announcement from Governor Kathy Hochul’s office seemed to predict that the decision would make a contribution toward achieving the milestones for greenhouse gas emission reduction, outlined in the state’s 2019 plan to achieve 70 percent renewable energy by 2030 and zero emission electrical supply by 2040.

Not going to happen.

LA Looters Freed

All suspects taken into custody following the smash-and-grab robbery of a Nordstrom store during the Thanksgiving weekend “are out of custody,” said Los Angeles Police Chief Michael Moore, freed “as a result of one juvenile, and the others as result of bailing out or zero bail criteria.”

If a looter can show that he or she is “indigent,” with no visible income or means of support, they walk.

Behind Those Leftist DA’s

Surely, you have been reading about those Democrat district attorneys, who have been releasing criminals into communities to continue their assaults. 

Billionaire Democrat donor George Soros has bankrolled district attorneys in Chicago’s Cook County (Kim Foxx), Los Angeles (George Gascon) and Philadelphia (Larry Krasner), where those arrested have been allowed to walk out of jail on low cash bonds, or in some cases without being charged. He reportedly spent $3 million in seven DA races in 2016, while contributing $28 million on Democrat elections in 2020.

A long-time supporter of Presidents Clinton and Obama, Soros supports the far-left effort to overhaul the criminal justice system favoring criminals over victims.

Whoopi’s Rant

Seemingly unaware that women are just as much involved in the advocacy over pro-life, The View’s co-host, Whoopi Goldberg directed a rant against men with numerous “how dare you’s” over the Supreme Court deliberations on Mississippi’s abortion law.

Remembering Pearl Harbor

Finally … It has been 32 years since my wife and I had the opportunity to visit the USS Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor, and just as we often remind readers to never forget the dastardly Japanese attack of December 7, 1941, we also encourage those who travel to Hawaii to visit the memorial.

The memorial facility is positioned directly over the sunken remains of the Arizona, which can be viewed and photographed as you will note in one of my photographs I have included here.  The ship was bombed and sunk within minutes, taking its crew of 1,177 down with it.

Now, more than ever … may God continue to bless the United States of America.