Commentary

WHILE THE DOJ IS SO OBSESSED with domestic terrorism caused by extremist white supremacists that it has formed a special unit equipped with massive resources to address it, they’ve taken their eye off anti-Semitic threats.

Anti-Semitic attacks have grown since the 2018 killing of 11 people in the Tree of Life synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh.

Questions are being asked how Malik Faisal Akram, a resident of the United Kingdom’s Blackburn area, known for producing terrorists in the past, could arrive at New York’s Kennedy Airport on December 29, 2021 and travel to Texas, where he terrified hostages at a Colleyville synagogue on Saturday.

MORE ON SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY OVER PROFITS – Since my last posting about companies that feel the need to express their “social responsibility” over shareholder profit, another example of political correctness gone wrong has been revealed.

After being hailed as a progressive, forward-thinking responsible retailer, Dick’s Sporting Goods now admits that going woke and kicking guns to the curb cost it (and its shareholders) $250 million in revenue, according to John Boch, writing in The Truth About Guns.

Of course, the gun control crowd couldn’t have cared less, but when the pandemic hit and gun stores were doing business with people willing to stand in line, Dick’s issued pink slips to some 40,000 employees.

Interestingly, Dick’s new socially-conscious “Public Lands” chain sells premium-priced outdoor apparel and gear giving no thought to their petroleum-base.  Wait til the zero-emissions people get wind of that.

THOSE EMPTY STORE SHELVES prove once more how out of touch President Biden is, as it wasn’t but a week or so ago that he said, “the much-predicted crisis didn’t occur.  Shelves are not empty.”

Walmart’s former CEO Bill Simon, who commented on the supply chain problem in October, last week was back on television calling the sight of empty shelves an “unmitigated disaster.”

NO SURPRISE – Nearly half of the illegal immigrants that crossed our southern border during the period March to October last year have failed to report to a local Immigration and Customs Enforcement office within 60 days as directed, according to information Sen. Ron Johnson obtained from Homeland Security.

Of the 104,000 immigrants processed, 47,705 failed to report.

More than a million illegals have been apprehended crossing the border, but thousands of unidentified “gotaways” remain in communities across the nation. Perhaps yours.

THE SUPREME COURT’S DECISION that stopped President Biden’s vaccine mandate in its tracks, has been duly noted, but I wonder how many Americans understand what the administration was up to.  They wanted OSHA, which currently oversees occupational safety and health issues that might be a risk to the safety of workers, to expand its regulatory reach.

The Court merely reminded the administration that the mandate went beyond the boundaries set up for OSHA by Congress and the executive branch.  “It’s so basic that a failure to recognize it is either incompetence or intentional obtuseness,” noted Ed Morrissey, in HotAir.

Leave it to the Washington Post to refer to Texas’ “voting restrictions” in the rejection of hundreds of ballot applications.

Never mind that Texas passed a bill intended to “solidify trust and confidence in the outcome of its elections by masking it easier to vote but harder to cheat.”

Under Texas law, ballot-by-mail applications must include a driver’s license number or the last four digits of a Social Security number.  The identification number is then verified against the applicant’s voter registration record.  If the numbers do not correspond, the new law requires the application be rejected.

Travis County, the fifth-most-populous county and site of the capital in Austin, noted that about half of the 700 mail-in applications were rejected because they failed to meet the new standard, as they contained information that didn’t match the voter data on record.

County clerks in Harris (Houston) and Bexar (San Antonio) counties also reported numbers of rejected applications.

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