Evening Sky 8-22-26

Derek Hunter at Townhall.com has a sobering column, warning that President Trump may be failing to understand what he’s dealing with.

As a businessman, he assumes that both sides want to reach a deal that allows them to walk away with something. But the mullahs and military militants running Iran don’t care about making any deal, they only care about maintaining their grip on power.

They’re not afraid of sanctions because they steal their riches off the top and don’t care if their people starve. They also don’t care if Iranians die because they kill their own people by the tens of thousands themselves.

The only way to stop them is a full-on ground war where we send in troops to kill them all.

What do you think? [Derek Hunter] Is he right?

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Liberal lawyer screams at ICE agent

Woke “lawyer" gets in ICE agent's face! - She gets a BRUTAL reality check

“If you get in my face again we’ll have a problem!!”

A deranged “TikTok lawyer” tried to scream in an ICE agent’s face during an enforcement operation. It did not end well for her at all… “If you get in my face again we’ll have a problem!!”

Ballroom can proceed says Chief Justice

Supreme Court Chief Justice Removes Block on White House Ballroom Construction

The order is in place until the justice, or the Supreme Court, rules otherwise.

Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts on Aug. 21 said the Trump administration can proceed with construction of a new White House ballroom.

The lower court order “is hereby stayed pending further order of The Chief Justice or of the Court,” Roberts said.

Chief Justice John Roberts on Friday allowed the White House to continue construction on President Donald Trump's $400 million ballroom project to continue for now, as the Supreme Court considers the Trump administration's emergency request to intervene in lawsuits over the project.

The temporary order comes hours before lower-court rulings would have forced a halt to aboveground construction. The brief, one-page document does not detail Roberts' reasoning or lay out a timeline for a fuller decision from the high court.

A Washington-based judge ordered work to stop because Trump didn't have congressional approval. The decision was signed by Roberts because he oversees appeals of cases filed in the capital.

The Trump administration has scored a series of victories on the high court's emergency docket, though the justices have ruled against some of the president's signature policies after fuller review.

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California school sends kids on trip for Mosque indoctrination

School district sued for sending students on 'field trip' to mosque indoctrination

Accused of violating the law by promoting single religion

With one report calling the situation "another good argument for homeschooling," there is word that parents in the school district in Palo Alto, California, are suing officials because they rounded up children for a "field trip" and then sent them into a Muslim mosque indoctrination session.

According to the Gateway Pundit, the lawsuit is against the Palo Alto Unified School District and Brent Kline, principal of Palo Alto High School.

The charge is that the school's "Social Justice Pathway" turned a class field trip to a Santa Clara mosque into "taxpayer-funded religious indoctrination."

"[T]he District failed to maintain religious neutrality, failed to ensure equal treatment among faiths, failed to protect student privacy, and failed to vet, supervise, and monitor religiously divisive outside speakers during the school-sponsored event," the case allegations include.

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And to think I once lived near there when people were normal. And now we have to concern ourselves with Commissioners in Lake Worth Beach worried about PBSO doing their jobs under the law when it comes to illegal aliens and wearing their body cameras.

Muslim city of Dearborn is lost

'America, we have lost this city': Christian pastor erupts on Muslim town council over pro-Islam bias Sharia

Minister states, 'We will not have it anymore. Enough is enough'

Dearborn, Michigan, has a massive Muslim population. Members of that community, like other groups that have come to America, brought their own agenda, ideologies, beliefs, politics, economy and religion.

But there are concerns that Islam's Sharia law, which governs not just religion for Muslims but everything in their lives, and Sharia's demand that Islam ultimately dominate everyone, including non-Muslims, has caused alarm.

In that city, a Muslim mayor, Abdullah Hammoud, recently told a Christian minister that he was "not welcome here," and then refused to apologize for attacking the resident.

Hammoud's rage was unleashed when a resident objected to officials' decision to rename Warren Avenue in honor of Osama Silbani, who had delivered controversial opinions praising the Muslim terrorists in Hezbollah and Hamas as freedom fighters.

That clash, just a few months ago, had Hammoud blasting the Christian minister as a racist.

It's all about protecting the Illegal with the City Commission

Immigration concerns reshape Lake Worth Beach PBSO deal

A proposed 10-year policing agreement became a three-year proposal Tuesday night after Lake Worth Beach commissioners faced hours of questions about immigration enforcement, transparency and how much control the city would surrender to the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office (PBSO).

Commissioners did not approve the nearly $16 million agreement. Instead, they ordered it rewritten and removed a provision that would have allowed it to renew automatically for additional 10-year terms.

The revised contract could return for a vote Aug. 25.

“I think we go for a three-year contract,” Mayor Betty Resch said. “I think we rewrite this and bring it back with the changes that we’ve talked about tonight.”

That argument followed commissioners into Tuesday’s meeting. About 30 people spoke against the agreement or submitted written comments. Many said PBSO’s participation in the federal 287(g) immigration enforcement program has created fear among residents (a/k/a illegals) and made some people reluctant to call law enforcement for help.

PBSO District 14 Capt. Terrence Carn said the proposed city contract would not expand the agency’s relationship with federal immigration authorities. “PBSO is statutorily obligated to assist our partner law enforcement agencies if and when we’re called upon to provide assistance,” Carn said.

Commissioners wanted body cameras and Narcan training for the park rangers, clearly distinguishable uniforms, bicycle patrols and performance data showing what the program accomplishes and instead of a ten year contract that can roll into another ten years, they want a 3 year contract.

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Abraham Lincoln gets relief-- leading a maritime blockade against Iran

Crime City of Lake Worth Beach

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Evening Sky 8-21-26

Justice Department Drops Case After Admitting It Knew Pool Damage Wasn’t Vandalism. Here’s what should alarm you about this story. It’s not just that the government got it wrong. It’s that they charged a man with a crime while sitting on evidence that proved he didn’t commit it.

The facts are straightforward enough. David Hearn, a former Olympic canoeist, visited the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool on June 19. Federal prosecutors under Jeanine Pirro’s leadership brought charges. They painted him as a vandal who damaged a national monument. Except there’s one problem with that narrative. The pool was already falling apart.

A National Park Service engineer sent an email on June 11, eight days before Hearn’s visit, explaining that the pool’s liner was peeling. The top layer had begun separating because of overspray from the renovation work. The contractor had used polyurea on the perimeter joint, and the stuff was flaking off in strips one to two feet wide.

This wasn’t speculation or hindsight. This was documented fact, shared with Interior Department officials and park service personnel before Hearn ever showed up. [Americanconservatives.com]

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Welcome home Andy Amoroso

Welcome home party for Andy Amoroso

Former city commissioner and owner of the Tacky Tourist on Lake Avenue will return to Lake Worth Beach for the first time on Saturday since suffering a stroke last month.

Dave’s Last Resort owner Dave Palumbo and his wife Sue are having a welcome home Party for Andy tomorrow at Dave's starting at 12:30.

Let's welcome Andy home.

Man threatens Judge Jeanine with assassination

Long Island man arrested for allegedly threatening to shoot U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro

A New York man who allegedly posted videos to X threatening to "put a bullet" in U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro's head, and suggested he might kill President Trump, has been arrested on federal charges.

Daniel Kretsinger, of Hauppauge, New York, was taken into custody August 11 after a federal criminal complaint charged him with transmitting a threat to injure a person across state lines, a charge that carries up to five years in federal prison.

A magistrate judge then released Kretsinger to an inpatient psychiatric treatment program over the government's objection, a decision that drew sharp criticism from Pirro's office.

The case centers on two videos Kretsinger allegedly posted to X on June 30. In one, the New York Post reported, Kretsinger appeared shirtless and visibly agitated, directing profanity-laced threats at Pirro, the top federal prosecutor in the nation's capital.

Kretsinger told investigators he traveled three states looking for Pirro. The federal charge of transmitting a threat to injure a person across state lines carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison.

The criminal complaint was filed earlier in August in the Eastern District of New York. The specific federal statute cited in the charge was not identified in public reporting.

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Modern Warfare - Drones

Pentagon Pours Billions Into Drones

The Pentagon’s next budget bets heavily on drones, with tens of billions aimed at building an autonomous force. The push is the right lesson from modern war, and the open question is whether the Pentagon can buy fast enough to matter.

The fiscal 2027 request devotes about $54 billion to drone development, a central piece of what Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth calls a drive for “UAS domain dominance” by 2027.

It sits inside a $1.15 trillion base defense request, among the largest in modern history, that the Senate Armed Services Committee backed when it marked up its version of the policy bill in June.

The same threat runs both ways. Every dollar spent fielding drones has to be matched by dollars to shoot down the enemy’s, and counter-drone defense is the less glamorous, equally urgent side of the same line item.

Why drones. Ukraine settled the argument. Cheap uncrewed systems have destroyed tanks, ships, and aircraft worth orders of magnitude more, and mass and attrition now beat exquisite platforms in the fights the US is most likely to face.

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National Debt

The U.S. national debt has surpassed $40 trillion for the first time

This marks an historic milestone in a borrowing buildup that has accumulated over generations, through wars, recessions, tax changes, and the expansion of major federal benefit programs under presidents of both parties.

The Treasury Department reported that total public debt outstanding reached about $40.047 trillion Tuesday, according to The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times.

The number is striking, but the more significant measure for economists is debt held by the public — money the federal government owes to investors and other entities outside the federal government.

That figure is approaching the size of the entire U.S. economy, with publicly held debt already exceeding 100% of gross domestic product, according to the Journal.

The $40 trillion figure represents the cumulative result of decades of federal borrowing rather than the policies of any single administration. The United States has carried debt since its founding, when the young nation borrowed heavily to finance the Revolutionary War.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has set a goal of reducing the federal deficit to 3% of GDP by 2028.

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FBI Confronts Swalwell at Airport

FBI Seizes Swalwell’s Phone At Airport – Then Searches His Home

Federal agents seized former Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell’s electronic devices at a California airport before searching his Washington, D.C., home the following day as part of a criminal investigation connected to sexual-assault allegations, according to multiple reports.

Agents confronted Swalwell after he landed at San Francisco International Airport on Saturday and executed a search warrant covering his cellphone and other electronics, sources familiar with the investigation told CNN.

The FBI then executed another warrant at his residence Sunday and removed additional devices or potential evidence.

The searches represent a significant escalation in the legal scrutiny surrounding Swalwell, whose once-promising bid for California governor collapsed before he resigned from Congress in April.

But the weekend operation marks a consequential new stage in a scandal that has already cost him his campaign and his seat in Congress. Federal agents did not merely request an interview: They met Swalwell at an airport, took possession of his electronics and arrived at his home with a judicially authorized warrant.

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Missouri Congressional Map can't be over-turned

A Missouri judge handed President Donald Trump and Republicans a major redistricting victory Wednesday

Voters cannot use the state’s referendum process to overturn congressional maps enacted by the General Assembly

The decision keeps Missouri’s new Republican-friendly congressional boundaries in place for the November general election, preserving a map designed to give the GOP a stronger chance of flipping Democratic U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver’s Kansas City-area seat.

Cole County Circuit Judge Daniel Green ruled that Missouri’s constitutional referendum provisions do not extend to congressional redistricting enacted by lawmakers. He also found that Republican Secretary of State Denny Hoskins acted lawfully when he refused to certify a referendum petition challenging the map.

Green ordered the boundaries to remain “in full force and effect” for the 2026 general election, delivering a clear victory to Hoskins and the Republican organizations that intervened in the case: the Republican National Committee, the National Republican Congressional Committee and the Missouri Republican State Committee.

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Crime City of Lake Worth Beach

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Sunset 8-20-26

Huckabee’s Florida election update shows the Democrat crackup in live fire.

The socialists went one-for-three, but the one win matters: Angie Nixon crushed Alexander Vindman despite being outspent 10-to-1. That is the Democrat Party’s new disease.

The impeachment hero of the MSNBC class got smoked by a race-baiting socialist in Florida. Debbie Wasserman Schultz survived. Jared Moskowitz survived. Vindman did not.

The message is simple: the DSA wing is eating the establishment from inside, and even Florida Democrats are no longer safe from the red plague. [Huckabee]

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Sustained Economic Pressure on Iran

Iran Will Face 'Most Crushing Economic Operation' Ever

President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced what he called the “most crushing economic operation ever taken against any country,” warning that nations, financial institutions, and businesses that help Iran could face severe economic consequences.

“I AM ANNOUNCING THE MOST CRUSHING ECONOMIC OPERATION EVER TAKEN AGAINST ANY COUNTRY,” Trump said in a Truth Social post, according to Reuters.

Trump said the effort would amount to an “ECONOMIC D-DAY” and warned countries against providing Iran with a financial lifeline.

“I am also announcing that any country that allows its financial institutions, businesses, etc. to provide any lifeline to Iran will itself face TREMENDOUS Economic Consequences,” Trump said, according to Reuters.

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