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Trump supports terrorism but will not help the terrorists.

Friday, January 2nd, 2026

Trump supports terrorism but will not help the terrorists. President Trump announced today that if Iran “violently kills peaceful protesters,” the United States would intervene, stating, “We are locked and loaded and ready to go.”   This is not only support for protesters but also encourages protesters as it shows a Superpower’s support for protest actions, which include regime change. It is reported that protesters have  thrown stones at the city’s administrative buildings, including the provincial governor’s office, the mosque,…

Trump v. Illinois and a over-broad reading of the principle of party presentation.

Wednesday, December 24th, 2025

In the very recent Supreme Court decision, Trump v. Illinois, disallowing  the federalizing of the national guard to deploy in Illinois, Trump v. Illinois, a dissenting Justice Alito writes, “If a party passes up what seems to us a promising argument, we do not assume the role of advocate,” Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. wrote in the first paragraph of his 16-page dissent, which was joined by Justice Clarence Thomas. “Instead, we normally decide the questions that the parties choose…

In the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, don’t make small arguments into large arguments.

Sunday, December 14th, 2025

  The American judicial system is an adversarial system. Each side in a legal conflict amasses its evidence and legal argument while challenging the adversary’s evidence and argument. Each side is supposed to be scrupulously honest about its evidence and argument so the fact finder (judge or jury) can make a decision based on all the submitted facts and legal (statutes, regulations, court decisions, agency practice…) support. A result of this, particularly in criminal cases, is for an accused person…

Biden’s immigration failures

Sunday, December 7th, 2025

The New York Times is running an article, “How Biden Ignored Warnings and Lost Americans’ Faith in Immigration” It’s one of those articles that tells the story of the Covid and post-Covid immigration surge at U.S. borders and how the former-president Biden administration was late to stop it. As usual, the article contains a battological section about how Biden was old and couldn’t talk well. A glaringly unexplained sentence in the article was, “Aides stressed that the Biden administration faced…