Commentary
While I prefer to comment on a single topic in each edition, 24/7 news doesn’t always cooperate. Sometimes I can put a story in my stack of stuff for a future comment, but not today.
With all the rhetoric coming from Minnesota’s Gov. Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Frey that I believe has contributed to the chaos in Minneapolis, with their urging of obstruction against ICE and other government law enforcement officers, I was struck by the truth in this headline:
And strangely enough, it appeared in the leftist Arizona Republic a publication of the left-leaning USA Today. The op-ed was written by Nicole Russell, who claims Minnesota as her home state, currently a resident Of Texas.
Russell notes that ICE is “in a difficult position. Entering the United States illegally is already a crime. If Minnesota law enforcement apprehended more lawbreakers there would be no need for ICE.
“Walz and Frey blame ICE’s tactics for Minnesota’s brewing civil unrest, but in reality, being soft on state and federal crime created the need for ICE to swoop in and enforce them.”
She fails to point out that the “open borders” crowd in Minnesota don’t agree that crossing the border illegally is a crime. And regarding ICE’s tactics, what about the tactics – using cars to block and ram agents, throwing all sorts of objects.
Democrats – Jeffries, Omar Crockett and Tlaib – are among Democrats openly calling to defund or abolish ICE.
Minnesota’s Democrat Sen. Amy Klobuchar, who seems to be walking the fine line between Minnesota Nice and gotta look like I care, has been a bit more restrained, but made little sense saying, “immigration enforcement should be focused on apprehending and prosecuting violent criminals to make our communities safer. These ICE actions are doing the opposite and making our state less safe.”
Further, saying that the tragedy of the Good shooting was “the result of the administration sending federal agents onto our streets against the wishes of local law enforcement, including our respected Police Chief Brian O’Hara,” serves to indicate her support of ill-conceived sanctuary city policing.
Incidentally, Chief O’Hara, with four stars on his shirt and jacket, had a “what am I doing here” look as he stood alongside Mayor Frey. Head down and not a look of support.
Voters supported President Trump’s promise to close the border and his order to round up illegals. Did they think this was going to be easy?
While there are Americans, including Republicans, who think the chaos will hurt the GOP in the midterms. I don’t think so, but if they allow the fools in sanctuary cities and states to control ICE’s orders, they deserve to lose control of the House and Senate. Here’s what Russell wrote: “Democrats upend this at their peril.”
Another Midterm Concern?
As I have said before, most polls should be ignored, especially those that are untimely. For example, the Wall Street Journal headline, “Voters Unhappy About Trump’s Economy,” reporting that “about half of voters said the economy has gotten worse in the past year.”
Trump was right in criticizing the Journal. They know that voters will be seeing a boom in the economy in the first quarters of 2026.
Knee-Jerk Reaction
In a full-page report, Wall Street Journal writers Joshua Chaffin and Katherine Sayre have jumped the gun with their belief that President Trump has lost the support of popular podcaster Joe Rogan. I don’t believe it for a minute.
The claim that the death of Renee Good at the hands of an ICE agent has given Rogan misgivings about Trump’s immigration policies, suggesting a comparison turn of support as in 1968 when Walter Cronkite turned on LBJ.
To think that Rogan sees this as another George Floyd moment is ludicrous.
Rogan is not that shallow. His memorable three-hour conversation with Trump on the eve of the 2024 election gave him an insight to the president’s thinking that cannot be passed off that easily.
Then there’s Greenland
This topic is of special interest to me as I avoided an assignment to then Thule Air Base, a facility of the Strategic Air Command, in the early 1960s. At the time I was assigned to Dow Air Force Base in Maine, which has its icy cold winters.
I was fortunate to be reporting to an officer who liked the job I was doing, who had me removed from the assignment because he didn’t want to lose me. Similarly, he removed me from a transfer order to Goose Bay, Labrador.
There were 17 U.S. bases in Greenland soon after World War II, but Thule, now the Pituffik Space Base, is the only U.S. base in operation there. It’s two-mile-long runway can handle any aircraft.
President Trump recognizes the strategic location of Greenland with his concern that Russia and China have their eyes on it, too.
With Denmark and Greenlanders in opposition to an acquisition by the U.S. perhaps the president will give thought to reestablishing bases there as an alternative. They would welcome that I understand.
And Finally
I couldn’t let pass the remark by Cea Weaver, New Mayor Mamdani’s tenant advocate, about home ownership.
In a social media post, Weaver viewed home ownership as a “collective,” one with “shared equity.”
Mayor Mamdani said he wanted to “Replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.”
Collectivism is a core concept in Marxism, emphasizing the importance of collective ownership and the collective work of workers.
It’s clear. If you are a Democratic Socialist, you espouse communist theory.
.Chew on those topics
May God continue to bless the United States of America.
