A dozen federal judges walk into a bar…

 

By M. Walter

…and start crying into their beer.

That’s what happened over at NBC “News.” A dozen -- anonymous -- federal judges, appointed by both Republican and Democrat presidents, went whining to NBC about how hurt their feelings are that SCOTUS keeps overturning their garbage activist rulings and how it makes them look bad and gosh golly gee can SCOTUS knock it off pleeeeeeeez?

The content of the piece is remarkable for its immaturity. The simple fact that they felt compelled to do this is itself indicative of a lack of impulse control and unworthiness to hold a gavel. They clearly lack the judicial temperament to preside over anything or anyone, though we knew that from their emotionally incontinent rulings.

Ten of the 12 judges who spoke to NBC News said the Supreme Court[’s]… terse decisions leave lower court judges with… a new and concerning effect… validating the Trump administration’s criticisms. A short rebuttal from the Supreme Court, they argue, makes it seem like they did shoddy work and are biased against Trump.

“It is inexcusable,” a judge said of the Supreme Court justices. “They don’t have our backs.”

Got that? The Court is “validating” Trump, and making it “seem like they did shoddy work and are biased against Trump.”

Well, there’s a solution to that: stop doing shoddy work while biased against Trump.

And as to their “backs”? The Court’s job is to have the Constitution’s back, or one might even say the People’s back, not a lower court’s! How do they not know this? Worse, how can they say something so juvenile to a reporter? Who in hell do we have sitting on the federal bench? I might -- might -- expect this from a lowly local judge, in a small town, just getting a gavel for the first time, but even there it would be incredibly damning.

At this level, with jurisdiction over presidents, we need to do better. Much, much better. And part of the blame falls squarely on our limp-wristed, jelly-spined, corrupt RINO senators. They absolutely deserve some of the blame for this pathetic bench. And it starts with the Senate Judiciary Committee. These nominees should never have made it out of committee.

The Supreme Court [one] judge said, is effectively assisting the Trump administration in “undermining the lower courts,” leaving district and appeals court judges “thrown under the bus.”

No. You “undermine the lower courts” with your trash rulings and SCOTUS isn’t throwing you “under the bus,” it’s holding you accountable. This is clearly the problem. They are unused to it. I’d bet a large sum of money these were participation trophy kids whose parents were overwhelmingly invested in their self-esteem.

The Supreme Court, [one] judge said, is effectively endorsing Miller’s claims that the judiciary is trying to subvert the presidency.

“It’s almost like the Supreme Court is saying it is a ‘judicial coup,’” the judge said. [As Trump advisor Stephen Miller has alleged.] Not all judges who were interviewed shared that view. Some were more reluctant to criticize the justices.

The piece goes on with more whining and a few flashes of sanity here and there, but mostly it’s a screed against being called out for their judicial activism, and one can only hope that they get slapped back hard enough and often enough that they rethink their life choices and decide to hang it up and go get a gig on MSNBC where they can’t hurt anything or anybody anymore.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/09/a_dozen_federal_judges_walk_into_a_bar.html

Now Pfizer says Donald Trump should get a Nobel Peace Prize

 

By W.A. Eliot

Albert Bourla, the CEO of Pfizer, says Donald Trump should receive a Nobel Peace Prize for Operation Warp Speed (OWS), which accelerated the process of researching the COVID-19 vaccines and getting them out to the public during the epidemic.  This was right after Trump on Truth Social said,

It is very important that the Drug Companies justify the success of their various Covid Drugs.  Many think they are a miracle that saved Millions of lives.  Others disagree! ... I want the answer, and I want it NOW.  I have been shown information from Pfizer, and others, that is extraordinary, but they never seem to show those results to the public.  Why not???

I’m not sure I understand Trump’s use of CAPITALS, but it’s kind of endearing when he does it.  “I want it NOW” brings back fond memories of Veruca Salt in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.

More importantly, is this the Deep State in action, or is it Pfizer protecting its hide?  Trump says the new world order for vaccines will be evidence-based medicine that can be scrutinized by experts and the public alike, and Pfizer gaslights with talk of a NPP for Trump for something Trump himself is now questioning.  Maybe it’s a devious way to pin the now unpopular and possibly reckless OWS on Trump.  In any case, it’s not at all clear that OWS satisfies the criteria for a NPP, so no worries that the Nobel Prize Committee will feel pressured to give it to Trump.

In any case, I think Trump does better among voters by being deprived of a well deserved NPP.  Not that a NPP is worth much anyway.  Recall Horizon Auto Center in Rockwall, Texas, famously offering a Nobel Peace Prize with every oil change — a brilliant way to mock Barack Obama for being awarded a NPP soon after his taking office for...well, nothing.

Let’s not forget, too, that Pfizer, possibly at the behest of the Biden administration and the public health agencies, announced successful vaccine results (leading to mass distribution of the vaccine) just days after the 2020 election.  If the announcement was intentionally delayed, it may have contributed to Trump losing the election.  Bourla denied any political motivation in the timing.  Was Pfizer willing to delay the publication of the results and hence allegedly life-saving vaccine distribution just to Get Trump, or was it out of fear of retaliation from the Biden administration and its public health agencies out to Get Trump?

Maybe Pfizer knew the vaccine wasn’t very effective anyway, so, given unacceptably high side-effects, it was doing the American public a favor by delaying its own treatment.  Now, that’s worthy of a Nobel Peace Prize. 

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/09/now_pfizer_says_donald_trump_should_get_a_nobel_peace_prize.html

She only (allegedly) threatened to disembowel the president…

 

By Susan Quinn

Just when you think the abuse committed by leftists in the justice system couldn’t get any worse, Washington, D.C. proves you wrong:

What was happening in the criminal case of Nathalie Rose Jones, who was facing charges in Washington, D.C., federal court this summer, wasn’t typical.

A grand jury of D.C. citizens on Tuesday had denied the Justice Department’s request to indict Jones, who was accused of a federal crime for allegedly posting an Instagram threat against President Trump.

Now we’re not talking about your average epithets against the president. Jones went beyond just calling the president a Nazi or terrorist. She traveled all the way to D.C. after allegedly making this threat on Instagram on August 6:

Prosecutors said Jones, 50, of Lafayette, Indiana, posted an Aug. 6 message on Facebook that she was ‘willing to sacrificially kill this POTUS by disemboweling him and cutting out his trachea.’ When Secret Service agents questioned her on Aug. 15, Jones said she hoped to peacefully remove Trump from office but ‘will kill him out at the compound if I have to,’ according to prosecutors. Jones was arrested a day later in Washington, where she joined a protest near the White House.

As the same article also noted:

It is extraordinarily rare for a grand jury to balk at returning an indictment, but it has happened at least seven times in five cases since Trump last month ordered a surge in patrols by federal agents and troops in the District of Columbia.

 

Clearly, a grand jury made up of D.C. residents is making the decision against indictment because they are trying to punish the president; things become clearer when you realize career prosecutors will justify such an anarchical position. Brendan Ballou, a former DOJ lawyer, says as much:

‘Not only have I never heard of this happening, I’ve never heard of a prosecutor who’s heard of this happening,’ said former federal prosecutor Brendan Ballou, who served in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for in D.C. until January 2025.

 

‘This is not the fault of career prosecutors, but rather the office’s failure—again and again—to secure indictments suggests that the [Trump] administration has absolutely destroyed its credibility with jurors,’ Ballou told CBS News.

Apparently to Ballou, the American public deserves a two-tiered justice system because Trump decided to use the National Guard to restore law and order in D.C.

D.C. U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro confirms that this was revenge on the president:

U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro, whom Trump appointed to be the top federal prosecutor for Washington, said a grand jury’s refusal to indict somebody for threatening to kill the president ‘is the essence of a politicized jury.’

‘The system here is broken on many levels,’ Pirro said in a statement. ‘Instead of the outrage that should be engendered by a specific threat to kill the president, the grand jury in DC refuses to even let the judicial process begin. Justice should not depend on politics.’

So we have statements that the grand jury is taking revenge against the president for his decision to help the district with its crime problem. Other sources say the reason for the grand jury ruling isn’t clear. Still others say that the case presented was a weak one.

But perhaps the most disturbing fact can’t be ignored: Jones has a mental illness. She is schizophrenic. And her friends and family say that she has never been violent. And she manages fine, as long as she’s on her medications.

Was she on her medications when she threatened to disembowel the president?

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/09/she_only_allegedly_threatened_to_disembowel_the_president.html

Democrats Smash All Norms of Democracy

 by John Hinderaker

Our Constitution assumes a certain level of good faith on the part of people who participate in public life. It is not a system that can preside over a state of civil war. So throughout our history, there have been unwritten norms of conduct that grow out of a simple imperative: if we want to have a functioning democracy, a certain degree of cooperation between the parties is mandatory.

But in recent years, the Democratic Party has in effect declared a state of war against the rest of us. They have abandoned, one after another, the informal norms that allow our democracy to function. Rather than viewing Republicans as fellow citizens with whom they have disagreements, but with whom they share a common interest in the well-being of our nation, they see Republicans as enemies whose objects are entirely different from theirs and who, therefore, must be fought at every turn.

A case in point is the Democrats’ effort to block President Trump from staffing his administration. Historically, both parties have assumed that a president has the right to staff his administration with nominees of his choosing. Thus, while nominees occasionally have been controversial, routine staff decisions have gone forward without opposition. The Democrats have renounced this tradition, as this chart by the Committee to Unleash Prosperity shows:

Senate Republicans may finally have had enough of unprecedented Democratic obstructionism. The Democrats have required a lengthy process of cloture and final passage votes for every single nominee, grinding the Senate to a halt and keeping hundreds of qualified nominees from getting on the job now well into Trump’s term.

I was on the committee that vetted U.S. Attorney and U.S. Marshal candidates in Minnesota. Our committee made its recommendations in January, and President Trump sent his U.S. Attorney nomination to the Senate in May. It would have been sooner if the Senate had not been backed up with prior nominations. But so far, neither the U.S. Attorney position nor the U.S. Marshal position has been filled. This is the rule, not the exception, around the country.

What to do about the Democrats’ obstructionism?

If Democrats don’t relent and let Trump get his team on the job, Senate Republicans should change the rules to limit the hours of debate and allow multiple nominees to be approved together. Trump deserves to have his team in place.

The Democrats’ conduct would be a scandal if they had a Senate majority. The fact that they are engaging in unprecedented obstructionism when they are in the minority should not be tolerated.

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/09/democrats-smash-all-norms-of-democracy.php

Tim Kaine Tells Americans Their Rights Come From Government

 

Democratic Senator Tim Kaine from Virginia, in a hearing on Wednesday, told the room:

The notion that rights don't come from laws, and don't come from the government, but come from the Creator... That's what the Iranian government believes... So the statement that our rights do not come from our laws or our governments is extremely troubling. 

 

Senator Ted Cruz blasted Senator Kaine's comments.

So, Senator Kaine said in this hearing, that he found it a radical and dangerous notion that you would say our rights came from God and not from government. I just walked into the hearing as he was saying that and I almost fell out of my chair. Because that radical and dangerous notion in his words, is literally the founding principle upon which the United States of America was created. And if you do not believe me, and you made reference to this Mr. Barnes, then you can believe, perhaps the most prominent Virginian to ever serve, Thomas Jefferson who wrote in the Declaration of Independence: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator' not by the government, not by the Democratic National Committee, but by God...

...with certain unalienable Rights.

Our rights don’t come from government or the DNC.

They come from God. @timkaine, I suggest the Dems go back and read the words of our Founding Fathers. pic.twitter.com/QRmhTcbbOH

— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) September 3, 2025

Senator Kaine didn’t misspeak; he simply revealed the chasm between today’s Democratic Party and the very principles that founded this great nation. If believing rights come from a higher power is “troubling,” then Kaine’s quarrel isn’t with Ted Cruz. It’s with Jefferson, Madison, the Declaration, and America herself.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/dmitri-bolt/2025/09/03/senator-tim-kaine-tells-americans-their-rights-come-from-government-n2662725

Dems Run their Mouths into Oblivion at Kennedy Hearing

 by Roger Simon

Watching, to the degree I could bear it, the Senate Finance Committee hearings with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was more like a “new edition of the Spanish Inquisition” (for Kennedy) than it was any kind of remotely enlightening experience.

And this Inquisition failed miserably in its intention, if it was to discredit HHS secretary in some way..

The junior league Torquemada’s—almost exclusively Democrats--display of uncontrolled anger was particularly a head scratcher since most Americans agree our healthcare system has serious problems that need fixing. That Kennedy—a former Democrat himself—is trying to do just that either eludes or outrages them, often both.

The bottom line on our healthcare failure is the rather well known fact that our life expectancy lags at least four years behind a host of peer nations including, among others, Australia, Canada, France, Sweden, the UK, Netherlands and, of course, Japan ( where female life expectancy is six years longer than ours) while we spend the most of any nation on that same healthcare. That’s disgraceful

Other issues abound like the still ongoing debate about the efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines and why many third world countries did better than we did with off-the-shelf medicines, the prices of Big Pharma drugs in general and why they cost more in the US, the astonishing growth of autism that cannot only be ascribed to increased diagnosis, the ubiquitous prescribing of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) for the slightest depression that might cause more harm than good, the epidemic of overweight children amplified by food additives and sugary foods, the escalating number of vaccines, useful and not, given babies. The list is endless, much of it contributing to the initial point that our longevity is shorter.

You would think improving the health of the American people would not be an extreme partisan issue but to the Democrats on the committee it was virtually blood sport. You would also think as professional politicians they would realize this behavior does not play well with the public, but this did not stop them at all.

Worst of an atrocious lot were the tandem of Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders who treated RFK Jr as if he were the second-coming of Attila only to have thrown back in their hypocritical faces that both were recipients of lavish contributions from the very Big Pharma they always claimed was so corrupting.

It was almost funny—only it wasn’t. You had to wonder who the people are who repeatedly elect these obviously phony blowhards and what was wrong with those voters.

Kennedy himself was much the same man that I had interviewed for The Epoch Times well over a year ago now when he was running for president. It was clear to me then he was that rarity in politicians, someone who actually thinks about things at some depth beyond getting elected. I had read his book on Fauci at the time and was impressed with the scholarship. He also had a sense of humor, something that stood him in good stead during these hearings.

It will be interesting if these particular hearings have ramifications beyond the usual meaningless disappearance into the ether after a maximum of twenty-four hours. Maybe, because I am, like RFK Jr, an ex-Dem, I am more sympathetic to him than I should be and maybe that makes me more optimistic than I should be. We shall see.

I do not enjoy spending my time excoriating the likes of Warren and Sanders. They do a sufficient job of inadvertent self-excoriation. It also goes against the message of positivity I hope to convey both on this Substack and in the novel I am near completing.

Trump 47 is an extraordinary moment in American, probably world, history. You have a leader who has surrounded himself with the most superb of allies (Rubio, Vance, Tennant, RFK Jr , among others), trying to do good close to 24 hours a day for the citizens of this country and the people of the world. Recently, that has included finally cleaning up our crime, garbage and homeless-ridden big cities (red state cities as well like New Orleans where the governor welcomes him and one can only hope the dreadful Memphis in my home state) and, with the border effectively shut, stepping up the fight to eliminate the drug cartels and human traffickers, both in our country and on the high seas.

The Democrats don’t like that. They don’t like much of anything. They are almost always, not just at these hearings, mighty angry.

Why, I’m not entirely sure. They call themselves “liberals” and “progressives,” words that I once identified with and make absolutely no sense to me now. The word that does make sense in describing these people is “reactionaries,” one they themselves frequently employed in the old days, largely to keep ideological miscreants in line. It connoted “locked in the past,” which is what they are.

One of Mao’s famous slogans was “breaking with old ideas”. The problem is the Dems are out of them now that woke has made its last trip over the falls in a Cracker Barrel.

Okay, not that funny, but something more significant is going on here. As the Kennedy hearing made clear, this is a war that has nothing to do with the facts or the public good, but only with power. It’s happening in healthcare (where it obviously shouldn’t) and in a variety of other areas.

Complicating matters, it’s not always clear who is on what side in this war. Clarity on that question, with some surprises, can be found at Lee Smith’s compelling new piece at Tablet — The Choice: Trump or Obama.

https://americanrefugees.substack.com/p/dems-run-their-mouths-into-oblivion

Sanders' Outburst at RFK Said the Quiet Part Out Loud

 Senate Democrats were brought to a full froth today, as Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. answered questions about certain tweaks he plans to enact, especially regarding vaccinations. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) inadvertently said the quiet part out loud, which was that everyone on the Senate Finance Committee was, more or less, in the pocket of the pharmaceutical industry (via Associated Press):

A contentious three-hour hearing between U.S. senators and Robert Kennedy Jr. devolved into multiple screaming matches on Thursday as the nation’s health secretary fended off accusations about sweeping changes he’s made to vaccines, health care policy and leadership. 

The oversight hearing in the Senate Finance Committee was a chance for senators to seek answers from Kennedy on recent high-profile departures at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the appointment of vaccine critics to an influential federal advisory committee and changes to COVID-19 vaccine recommendations that will make it harder for many Americans to get the shots. 

Both Democrats and Republicans came out swinging. They questioned whether he would keep his earlier promise that he wouldn’t block vaccines for Americans who wanted them. A frustrated Kennedy dismissed those arguments but also sowed doubt on vaccine safety and effectiveness from the prominent perch on Capitol Hill. 

It was riddled with silliness, but the sticky wicket here is that while you might disagree with Kennedy on vaccines, the other side, the medical establishment, has some stones calling this man a kook. Second, post-COVID, people still hate institutions, and this one was the biggest liar of them all.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2025/09/04/rfk-did-battle-with-senate-dems-today-n2662803