Tribute to Dolly Parton

Dolly was never an industry artifact

She was a mountain child who became an American institution without abrogating her roots, her faith, her femininity, or her good humor.

Her family announced Tuesday that Parton died at 80, closing one of the most singular careers in American entertainment.

She wrote the songs, owned the rights, charmed the cameras, built the empire, and gave away books by the millions. The rhinestones were real. So was the steel. 

Dolly was never an industry artifact. She was a mountain child who became an American institution without abrogating her roots, her faith, her femininity, or her good humor. Her family announced Tuesday that Parton died at 80, closing one of the most singular careers in American entertainment. She wrote the songs, owned the rights, charmed the cameras, built the empire, and gave away books by the millions. The rhinestones were real. So was the steel.

The song that most people associate with Whitney Houston with is I Will Always Love You was actually written by Dolly herself and originally recorded in the 1970’s.

Elvis wanted the song but his manager, the dubious Colonel Tom Parker tried to trick Dolly into giving away her songwriting rights, something that she smartly did not do.

When Whitney Houston made the song a phenomenal chart breaking hit in the 1990’s, Dolly claimed it made her so much money that she could have purchased Graceland. [Nancy Muldoon]

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Evening Sky 8-25-26

L.A. County Pays Illegal Aliens’ Rent Debt After ICE Raids—Using Money Diverted From Wildfire Relief

Los Angeles County turned wildfire relief into an illegal-alien rent bailout. The documents say it plainly: households hit by ICE raids, detentions, and deportations can receive taxpayer-funded housing relief without disclosing immigration status.

Up to $15,000. Up to six months of rent debt. Money originally assembled for fire victims gets redirected to people harmed by federal immigration enforcement.

That is not compassion. That is sanctuary politics with a public checkbook. Citizens lose homes to flames. Illegal aliens get rent erased because ICE did its job. [Luthmann]

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Canada gets new tariff on their Autos

Trump Announces New 50 Percent Tariffs on Canadian Autos

Canada says its counter-tariffs will come into effect on Sept. 8.

His announcement comes after trade talks between Washington and Ottawa collapsed on Aug. 21, with new 50 percent U.S. tariffs on about US$20 billion (CA$28 billion) of Canadian products taking effect on Aug. 22, and Canada vowing to retaliate with its own tariffs.

“Canada has been ripping off the United States of America for years. Their ridiculously high tariffs on our Farmers and farm products has made life impossible for these great American Patriots,” Trump said in a social media post on Aug. 24.

“Build in the U.S. and there are ZERO TARIFFS. Canada will be treated like a State no longer! On Trade, and in other ways, also, they are among the worst Nations in the World to deal with. They feel entitled, and yet, WE DON’T NEED CANADA, THEY NEED US!”

Trump said that starting in the new year, all Canadian cars, trucks, and auto parts will be subject to a 50 percent tariff. Current tariffs on Canadian autos are 25 percent.

The U.S. president also included steel in the new announcement. Canadian steel, along with aluminum and copper, is already tariffed at 50 percent.

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Cut financial ties to Iran or face consequences

Bessent warns the world to cut financial ties to Iran or face US retaliation

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Monday that new U.S. secondary sanctions in the pipeline aim to block all potential sources of revenue for Iran, telling nations to cut economic ties to Tehran or face U.S. retaliation.

Bessent added it’s “no longer acceptable to operate in the gray spaces” of Iran conflict as US threaten sanctions against Tehran’s trade partners.

The treasury secretary did not name what countries could face potential secondary sanctions from the United States, but China, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates are Iran’s largest trade partners.

“Let there be no ambiguity as to the position of the United States,” Bessent said at a Monday afternoon news conference. “An economic engagement of any kind with this murderous regime will expose those responsible to the full reach of American power.”

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Governor Sherrill handed N.J. a loaded weapon in abortion and gender affirming care

Progressive lawmakers have stopped trying to win the argument

Now they will just throw you in jail

The First Amendment used to be non-negotiable. Speak your mind, practice your faith, stand on a public sidewalk with a sign – the government had no business stopping you. But in blue states across America, a quiet revolution is underway.

Instead, they’re criminalizing the people making it. Hold traditional views on life or gender? They don’t want a conversation. They want your mugshot.

And the newest weapon in that arsenal isn’t a social media ban or a corporate boycott. It’s a prison sentence – for the offense of standing outside a medical clinic with a rosary in your hand.

The law stops New Jersey courts and police from helping other states investigate, fine, or arrest patients and doctors for care that is legal in New Jersey.

New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill signed legislation Thursday creating new criminal penalties for people who interfere with patients seeking abortions or sex change procedures, while also shielding New Jersey providers from legal action by other states.

Governor Sherrill and her allies have chosen to put the full power of state government behind abortion while building walls to keep accountability out… That is not compassion. That is blatant extremism.”

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New Jersey mistakenly calls aborton "health care."

Trump on Tucker

'THREE LOSERS, and a pocketful of change!'

Trump erupts on Tucker Carlson and 2 'Republican traitors' amid possible run for president

'The most important thing I can tell you about us is that we are devoted Christians and Trump is not a Christian at all' said one of Trump's losers. (Some people use religious beliefs to feel superior, leading them to judge or condemn others)

Trump said:

"Tucker Carlson just met with Lightweight 'Former' Congressman, Thomas Massie, and Marjorie 'Traitor' Greene, LOSERS ALL!

"Tucker's 'Views' have fallen through the floor, and will only get worse. Nobody cares about him any longer in that he has become totally irrelevant, and happens to be, surprisingly, a very Low I.Q. individual.

He could barely get out of College, and maybe he didn't, but only really dumb people can't make it through that wonderful four year time in life! (He fell behind and failed to graduate with his original class, ultimately finishing his requirements and graduating in absentia. Tucker graduated from Trinity College)

"Tucker wants to run for political office, but he should be required to take a cognitive test. He's got no chance, but could probably take a couple of points away from whatever the Republican ticket happens to be! Tucker is a loser, and always has been!

Fox News fired prime-time host Tucker Carlson in April 2023 due to a combination of legal fallout from the Dominion Voting Systems defamation lawsuit, the exposure of embarrassing and vulgar internal text messages, ongoing discrimination allegations, and friction with network leadership.

Sean Duffy Puts Harvard and Daughter on Notice

Sean Duffy Explains Why Harvard Isn’t an Option for His Daughter

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy lit up the internet after a Department of Transportation sponsored YouTube series, “The Great American Roadtrip,” showed a family talk that many parents will recognize.

Duffy and his daughter Paloma were discussing college plans when she said she would love to attend Harvard University because of its famous academic reputation and her belief that she would get the best education there.

Duffy asked her if she would push him and her mother to let her go if she were accepted, and Paloma said she probably would, adding that if she got in, she felt they “can’t say no.”

That is when Dad delivered the line that sent the elite-school fan club reaching for the smelling salts: “Well, me and mom can say no.”

His point was that he wanted her to arrive at her beliefs honestly, not be force-fed one political lane by a campus culture that conservatives have long seen as far more interested in activism than open debate.

He said the problem is that “they are so good at it,” adding that people can come from a conservative school and a conservative family, only to get “converted and contorted.”

That line hit home for a lot of parents who have watched colleges sell themselves as temples of learning while too often acting like ideological car washes, where students go in with a full set of values and come out polished in the approved shade of progressive gray.

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Sunrise 8-25-26

DSA, barrelling over Democracy

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Evening Sky 8-24-26

A Biden appointee in Manhattan just told the American people that our government lacks the authority to prevent immigrants from countries with high public benefit dependency rates from entering the United States.

Read that again. She’s saying we must accept applicants we know are likely to become financial burdens on American taxpayers, even when our own State Department has identified the risk.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio implemented a policy that any reasonable person would call prudent. The directive covered 75 countries where immigrants historically show high rates of public assistance dependency. Not a travel ban. Not a permanent prohibition. A pause to review individual cases and require additional evidence that applicants wouldn’t immediately jump onto welfare rolls. This isn’t radical. It’s responsible governance.

The Immigration and Nationality Act gives the Secretary of State broad authority over visa issuance but not with this judge.

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"Stop Nick Shirley Act"

Newsom signs bill critics call the 'Stop Nick Shirley Act,' threatening fines and jail for exposing nonprofit immigration workers

California's governor signed a law that could punish anyone who posts information or images of nonprofit immigration workers with fines up to $50,000 and prison time, and critics say it was written to silence one independent journalist.

Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 2624 into law on Saturday, expanding the state's "Safe at Home" program to cover employees of nonprofits that help people navigate the U.S. immigration system.

The bill, introduced in February by Assemblywoman Mia Bonta, an Alameda Democrat, penalizes anyone who distributes or posts information or images of immigration workers in a way that "incites violence or threats." Violators face fines ranging from $10,000 to $50,000, plus sentences from one year in county jail to state prison time.

Republican Assemblyman Carl DeMaio of San Diego coined the nickname that stuck: the "Stop Nick Shirley Act." The bill, he argued, is meant to intimidate people "trying to shine light on bad behavior." The law does not take effect until October 1, 2027, by which point Newsom, limited by term limits, will no longer hold office.

Terry Schanz, chief of staff to Democratic Assemblywoman Tina McKinnor, interrupted Shirley while he was conducting an interview outside the Capitol. Schanz held up a printed flyer and, according to reporting attributed to the New York Post, made a crude public statement about the journalist:

"Did you guys hear that Nick Shirley has a small penis allegedly?"

Schanz earns $17,319 per month in taxpayer-funded compensation. Multiple complaints were filed against him with the legislature's human resources department following the incident. The content of those complaints and the identity of the filers have not been disclosed.

When the government's response to embarrassing journalism is not a rebuttal but a criminal statute, the problem is not the journalist.

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Today's Democrat Party unreconizable

A party that moved past its elder statesmen

Clinton's milestone arrives at a moment when the Democratic Party he helped build looks almost nothing like the one he led. The centrist, business-friendly "New Democrat" brand that carried him to two terms has given way to an activist base that treats his legacy with ambivalence at best.

Clinton himself has acknowledged the tension. He once shrugged off the socialist surge in New York and insisted Democrats were "in good shape", a characterization that even sympathetic observers found generous given the party's internal fractures.

Those fractures have only widened. Figures from media commentators to Senate candidates have openly questioned whether the party's leftward drift has become a structural problem. Bill Maher declared Democrats were being "colonized" by socialists, and candidates in competitive races have echoed progressive rhetoric that would have been unrecognizable in the Clinton era.

Clinton's birthday leaves just one living current or former president under 80: Barack Obama, who turned 65 earlier in August. The other four, Joe Biden at 83, President Donald Trump and George W. Bush both at 80, have all crossed the threshold within weeks of one another, USA TODAY reported.

Jimmy Carter set the longevity record at 100 years and 89 days

Clinton and his fellow octogenarians have a long way to go before they approach the presidential longevity record. Jimmy Carter, who died in late 2024, lived to 100 years and 89 days, the longest-lived president in American history. George H.W. Bush came second at 94 years and 171 days. Gerald Ford was third at 93 years and 165 days.

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Fetterman right again!

Fetterman breaks with progressive allies again, backs Trump's AI agenda and warns China gains from U.S. delay

Sen. John Fetterman is siding with the Trump administration on artificial intelligence development, rejecting calls from his own party's left flank to slow down, and warning that every delay hands China a strategic advantage.

The Pennsylvania Democrat posted on X over the weekend dismissing what he called "AI doomsdaying," sharing a Bloomberg analysis that examined the narrowing U.S. lead over China in AI and the faster pace at which Chinese companies are deploying advanced models. His message was blunt: pulling back on AI development and data center construction doesn't protect Americans, it helps Beijing.

Fox News Digital reported that Fetterman wrote on X:

"AI supremacy and energy dominance underpins our national security. China continues to fuel and benefit from our overreaction. I reject the political pandering and hyperbole over data centers or AI doomsdaying."

That stance puts Fetterman squarely alongside President Trump, who days earlier encouraged governors and local officials at the White House to welcome AI data center construction in their communities.

It also widens the gap between Fetterman and the progressive wing of his own party, a gap that has been growing for months across multiple issues.

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Sammy the Bull believed Comey knew what 86 meant

FBI turned to 'Sammy the Bull' Gravano to ask whether Comey understood mob meaning of '86'

Federal investigators interviewed one of the most notorious mob turncoats in American history to build their case that former FBI Director James Comey knew exactly what "86" meant when he posted it alongside the number "47", and his own defense team's filing may have handed prosecutors a damaging admission.

A sworn affidavit filed by Comey's defense lawyer Patrick Fitzgerald reveals that an FBI case agent called Salvatore "Sammy the Bull" Gravano, the former underboss of the Gambino crime family, on May 8, 2026, to discuss an upcoming interview about Comey's now-deleted Instagram post. During that call, Gravano told the agent he believed Comey "had to know" what the term "86" meant "as it related to killing someone."

Comey faces two federal charges in U.S. District Court in eastern North Carolina: threatening the president and transmitting a threat in interstate commerce. The charges stem from a photo he posted to Instagram in May 2025 showing seashells arranged on a beach to spell out "86 47", a phrase prosecutors say was a reference to killing the 47th president, Donald Trump. The Department of Justice filed the charges in April.

Gravano called the post a 'call for violence', but Fitzgerald filed the affidavit anyway.

In a separate 25-minute recorded interview, Gravano told the FBI that "86" generally means to "get rid of" someone and that to him, as a "gangster," it means "to kill." He went further: Gravano characterized Comey's seashell post as a "call for violence against President Trump," using the blunt phrase "let's kill Trump" to describe what he believed the message conveyed.

The affidavit notes one distinction Gravano drew. He did not claim Comey's post was a statement threatening that Comey would personally kill the president. In Gravano's reading, it was a general incitement, not a direct personal threat.

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The Giveaway Washington Didn't Want You to Notice

Bill Clinton Sabotaged His Own Welfare Law and Illegal Aliens Collected Billions Until Scott Bessent Found It

Joe Biden invited millions of people into this country illegally and handed them your wallet. Now Scott Bessent just found the thirty-year-old scam that made it possible – and the name behind it will make your jaw drop.

What he announced Wednesday saves you $3 billion, and the story of who kept this running should make you furious.

Here is how the con worked.

Four tax credits – the Earned Income Tax Credit, the Child Tax Credit, the American Opportunity Tax Credit, and the Adoption Tax Credit – are refundable. Refundable means if the credit is bigger than what you owe in taxes, the government writes you a check for the difference.

Congress created those credits for struggling American families. The IRS spent decades mailing the checks to anyone who filed, legal status be damned. A 2011 Inspector General report caught the IRS handing out more than $4 billion in refundable tax credits to illegal aliens.

By 2015, a single address was receiving 24,000 ITIN-linked payments – and Inspector General auditors found IRS management was focused solely on processing volume, with no interest in whether the applications were fraudulent.

Clinton Broke the Law He Signed. Trump Is Fixing It. This scam has a specific villain, and his name is Bill Clinton.

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The Brilliant Brandon Gill

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Mosque-Based Troops Are Embedding “Islamic Values” Into Girl Scout Programs Across America. This is institutional capture with merit badges.

Mosque-based Girl Scout troops are using the Girl Scouts banner to teach Islamic values, hijab, prayer, Quranic study, Ramadan observance, Palestine messaging, and mosque outreach to children.

The issue is transparency and mission drift. Parents sign up for Girl Scouts, not religious programming laundered through a national girls’ organization.

If a mosque wants Islamic youth formation, call it that. Do not smuggle it into a trusted civic brand and pretend badges, cookies, and campouts are the story.

SALAM Islamic Center openly advertises its Girl Scout program as providing “Strong Islamic Values.” Its Education page repeats the phrase while listing Girl Scouts alongside the mosque’s weekend school, Quran memorization program, and Islamic-learning center. [Luthmann]

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