Commentary
I know, it’s been a while since I’ve published a commentary. Chalk it up to a medical situation and, of course, Thanksgiving. It doesn’t mean that I haven’t been piling notes on my stack of stuff.
However, before I give you my thoughts on those notes, I would be remiss if I didn’t recognize the milestone day in American history that this edition will appear in my readers’ inbox – December 7, 1941, the day the Japanese attacked our naval forces in Pearl Harbor.
Though too young to personally remember that day, two events remain in my memory bank. The first was listening to Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “date which will live in infamy” speech on a vinyl recording my Dad purchased. The second memory was during a trip to Hawaii my wife and I made in 1989, when we visited the USS Arizona memorial and saw the underwater remains of the ship.
Unfortunately, there are too many Americans who will not know the significance of December 7 in our history. Many of them can be seen at protests yelling “free Palestine,” or assaulting ICE agents doing their duty in preserving our national security.
The “Hate Trump” Movement
Trump Derangement Syndrome lives as President Trump continues to command space in the limited skulls of those on the left. No matter what he says or does, TDS suffers make fools of themselves making outrageous on national television.
Arizona Sen. Mark “Wimpy” Kelly doubled down on his embarrassing social media message urging military service members to refuse illegal orders. While there are rumors of the FBI considering charges of sedition and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth returning Kelly to active duty, forget about it.
The usual Democrats who seek out microphones to attack the Trump administration, were out in force following the briefing on the drug boats targeted in the Caribbean.
Connecticut Rep. Jim Hines raised grave concerns after viewing the video of the September 2, 2025, drone strikes, saying “What I saw in that room was one of the most troubling things I’ve seen in my time in public service.”
Where was Hines, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, when Biden thoroughly screwed up the withdrawal of Afghanistan, and when he allowed millions of illegals – national security risks – to cross the southern border, to name just two more troubling things he seems to ignore.
He wasn’t alone. Former Biden watercarrier Sen. Chris Coons said it would be hard to watch and “not be troubled by it.” Like watching Biden in that debate or when he fell on his face during the Air Force Academy graduation ceremonies?
Then there was Virginia Sen. Mark Warner, calling for Hegseth to resign or urging the president to “remove him at once.”
You realize, of course, that any attack on Hegseth … Noem … Bondi … or any other cabinet member is an attack on Trump.
Going to the Video Tape
While a number of Democrats became unhinged over the Trump administration’s extension of our war on drugs by striking drug-laden boats sailing out of Venezuela and the president’s remarks about land attacks and the removal of President Maduro, Fox News dug into the archives and televised a 1989 speech by the then Senator Joe Biden supporting such action:
“We need to work with an international strike force to hunt drug lords in their homes. Narco terrorists should have no safe haven, they know it. We need decisive action, not a narrow-doomed effort that leads only to a stalemate.
”We talk about America’s drug problem with great concern, yet we fail to grasp its true nature as a major threat to national security.”
Biden may have been right on this issue, but many of us remember the words of former Defense Secretary Bob Gates, who said, “I think he has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades,”
Take Your Pick
FBI Director Kash Patel suggested it was “sheer incompetence” or “negligence” in the Biden handling of the pipe bomber case
The FBI under Biden has been accused of sitting on evidence linked to the Washington DC pipe bomb case sparking Republican fury that the initial investigation was covered up.
Brian Cole, now 30 years of age, was arrested on Thursday, almost five years after he allegedly planted the explosives in the city on the eve of the January 8, riots.
It marked a breakthrough in what had become a cold case.
Trump’s team has wasted no time in attacking Biden, who assumed the presidency just weeks after the devices had been planted.
There was no new evidence or tips. Patel and Assistant Dan Bonginio merely took the files of former FBI director Chris Wray, assigned some fresh blood to the investigation that led to the arrest of Cole.
The eight-page criminal complaint against Cole has been filed, and we now await the usual slow action of Lady Justice.
Back in the News
While Democrats continue to keep the January 6, 2021, events in the news, the BBC is facing a Trump lawsuit over its editing of a documentary that altered his speech on the White House Ellipse to make it seem like he incited the riot at the U.S. Capitol; something the left has falsely declared.
The BBC aired footage of Trump appearing to tell rally-goers: “We’re gonna walk down to the Capitol and I’ll be there with you and we fight. We fight like hell and if you don’t fight like hell, you’re not gonna have a country anymore.”
The clip was spliced together from three separate parts of Trump’s speech with a nearly hour-long gap edited out to make it seem like one fluent sentence.
Trump’s actual remarks were: “We’re gonna walk down, and I’ll be there with you, we’re gonna walk down, we’re gonna walk down any one you want but I think right here, we’re gonna walk down to the Capitol and we’re gonna cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women.”
The BBC edited out the president saying, “I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.”
Words Mean Things
Democrats are using the word “affordability” like they were using “democracy” during the 2024 presidential election, and like then they have no answer to address affordability except to criticize Trump’s economic agenda, which I will be covering for you soon.
May God continue to bless the United States of America.
