Thursday, May 7, 2026

Former Louisiana sheriff indicted after infamous jailbreak

Bing "A year after 10 inmates escaped the Orleans Justice Center, former Orleans Parish Sheriff Susan Hutson faces charges of malfeasance in office and obstruction of justice. NEWSMAX Crime Correspondent Jason Mattera has more on “Wake Up America.'”


Comment; "I am retired law enforcement and this is hilarious. From what I can gather she had zero actual law enforcement experience prior to being elected except for being a watchdog on how police do their jobs. This also does not say much for the voters of Orleans Parish either does it. What Rush Limbaugh used to refer to as "Low Information Voters."

"Hutson voted out of office: October 2025; Orleans Parish voters booted Hutson from office in October 2025, replacing her with Michelle Woodfork, a 30-year New Orleans police officer who rose to become interim NOPD superintendent. Woodfork won the primary outright with 53% of the vote. Hutson garnered 17% of the vote."...

Not A War Of Choice

Trump will soon be gone and whenever a Democrat takes the White House again, expect another Biden, Harris or a Hollywood, MSNOW or CNN acceptable leader to take over America's foreign policy. Then our faithful ally, Israel will once again be alone just as Britain and Churchill had the axe of Naziism looming over them. Tunnel Dweller

Fletch Daniels - American Thinker  

"Iran is the only regime in the world that wants nuclear weapons for the purpose of using them. That’s what this war is about." 


"Despite the wailing and gnashing of teeth from the Democrat-media complex, the war with Iran is not a war of choice in any practical sense. If anything, the current operations represent the end of the great pretending, since Iran has long been at war with us, keeping their attacks just low enough in intensity or with just enough plausible deniability to allow for the continuance of that pretending.

"Iran is the single most committed and least deterrable enemy of the United States, and was developing ever more lethal means to inflict grave harm.

"Democrats and their media allies who mostly know better are calling operations against Iran a war of choice for political gain. It is only a war of choice if you are okay with Iran using proxies to continually kill Americans, or if you are cool with a smuggled nuclear bomb one day going off in Washington D.C., New York, or Tel Aviv.

"We have fought plenty of wars of choice in recent history. In 2010, General David Petraeus, then CENTCOM commander, admitted that what kept him up at night was worrying about Iran.

"So, one year later, we got serious about the threat and attacked…Libya. We left Iran to continue killing Americans while we toppled the secular government of Libya, converting it to an Islamist one, and kicking off a disruptive civil war that still rages beneath the surface.

"The media adored the “we came, we saw, he died” war since it was overseen by Democrats and made no strategic sense. Not only was that a war of choice, but we were openly acting against our own interests, removing a pragmatic and reformed authoritarian secular government in favor of an Islamist one that would be far harder to deter.

"The second Iraq war was also a war of choice, removing a secular strongman in favor of an Islamist government that further empowered Iran, while handing them a killing field to target Americans.

"Iran is simply a different beast, a radical Islamist regime that sees it as their mission to bring about the apocalypse and the revelation of the Twelfth Imam.

"Most Americans are blissfully unaware of just how effective Iran has been at killing Americans." . . .   More...

"My hope is that we finish the job now or set the conditions for the regime’s fall before the inmates are back in charge in D.C. We need to remove the remnants of the nuke-committed regime from the board before the future is reduced to ashes in a torrent of mushroom clouds."

Hate Wars: Luke Skywalker Proves Yet Again That He's No Hero — He's Just Part of a Death Cult

 Bob Hoge – RedState  

"It’s quite ironic that the man who played an ironic rebel, who stood up to tyranny and oppression and fought heroically, now sides firmly with the corrupt Democrat regime that despises law and order and wants to destroy the freest and most noble republic that has ever existed."

"So many Hollywood stars have gotten so gross, lecturing us from awards shows about climate change while jetting around in private planes, talking about peace and love while admitting they despise half the American population, and regularly ruining franchises like Star Wars and Snow White by injecting them full of toxic woke messages.

"Actor Mark Hamill has become a face of the Tinseltown far-left movement and has made himself much more well-known for his pious lectures than he has for his performances. While he was a serviceable Luke Skywalker in numerous Star Wars movies, it was actually the much more dynamic Harrison Ford who rose to superstardom playing Han Solo.

"Hamill has always been somewhat insipid, but now he’s taken his hate to new levels and is openly wishing for death to strike the president of the United States. I have always cared about our country and its leaders, but have never once prayed for the demise of those on the other side. Why? Because it’s sick.

"Once you cross that line, you are no longer a concerned citizen practicing your First Amendment rights and simply voicing your opinion — you have become an evil cog in the progressive machine that is working feverishly to destroy this country. (Trust me, I live in California; I know of what I speak.)" . . .  

Speaking of... The Barack Obama Presidential Center won't be open to the public for another few weeks, but the gift shop is already up and running

. . . "These other books by notable authors ($40) It's always a good time to learn about community organizing and structural racism. Add these fun titles to your child's summer reading list, or get the whole neighborhood involved by starting a book club—in which case you should probably get them on Amazon for half the price." . . .

. . . "This gorgeous lapel pin ($30) This "unique accessory" was designed by Sameera Chukkapalli Holmes, a former NYU professor of ethical leadership and an architect who specializes in sustainability and social equity. It allegedly represents the "intersection of bold design and global leadership."

 More...

The design of the library is referred to as Brutalist architecture: . . . "is an architectural style that emerged during the 1950s in the United Kingdom, among the reconstruction projects of the post-war era. Brutalist buildings are known for minimalist construction showcasing the bare building materials and structural elements over decorative design.] The style commonly makes use of exposed, unpainted concrete or brick, angular geometric shapes and a predominantly monochrome colour palette; other materials, such as steeltimber, and glass, are also featured.

" . . .I suggest this must be the cheapest, fastest way of restoring bombed-out, devastated cities such as Britain and Germany after WW2. A legacy of Adolph Hitler's destruction..

 No! No! I do not call Obama's Library "Nazi"; aren't we all sick of that?  

Mandatory suicide watch for terrorists and assassins

"When a judge offers an apology to a man accused of attempting to assassinate the president, you know something needs to change."

 Monty L. Donohew  

"A 30-day review is more than reasonable for a person charged with the willingness to sacrifice his own life in the taking of others’ lives.  Anything less is an invitation to more evidence lost, more martyrs created, and more condolences to new victims." 


"Last week, a federal magistrate judge in Washington, D.C. offered an apology to the man charged with trying to assassinate President Donald Trump in the middle of the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner.  Cole Tomas Allen, the 31-year-old California man who allegedly stormed a security checkpoint armed with a shotgun and knives on April 25, 2026, had been placed on suicide watch in the D.C. jail.  His lawyers complained that it was “demeaning” and amounted to “functionally solitary confinement.”  The judge, “fascinated and disturbed,” agreed, publicly apologized to the suspect, and ensured that the watch was lifted.  Prosecutors had noted that Allen told investigators he never expected to survive the attack, a detail that should have screamed “high suicide risk” to anyone with common sense.

"Judicial theater that elevates the feelings of a would-be presidential assassin (or his lawyer) over public safety, national security, protection of the accused, and the basic imperative to keep dangerous defendants alive long enough to face accountability is simply unacceptable.  It is time for Congress and state legislatures to enact a clear, narrow mandate: Any individual charged with or credibly suspected of terrorism, attempted assassination of a public official, or mass murder must be placed on continuous suicide watch upon arrest and detention.  No exceptions, no judicial discretion to coddle, and no apologies to the perpetrators.

"The reasons are straightforward and compelling.

"First, suicide in such cases is inherently an obstruction of justice and destruction of evidence.  Suicide destroys evidence — perhaps the only evidence — of conspirators and inciters.  These attacks rarely occur in a vacuum.  Even when the shooter appears to act alone, as authorities currently claim about Allen, digital trails, writings, communications, and potential co-conspirators often exist.  A successful suicide, however, allows the perpetrator to take his secrets to the grave.  It also removes the perpetrator as a possible witness.  Families of victims, investigators, and the American people deserve every scrap of information and every possible witness about and against co-conspirators, those who radicalized the killer, those who provided material support, and those who may have looked the other way.  Allowing a terrorist or assassin to check out early is a permanent loss of evidence, a loss enabled by the state itself."

"Critics will wave the Eighth Amendment (cruel and unusual punishment) and the presumption of innocence.  But suicide watch is not punishment; it is a protective medical and security protocol, not at all different from involuntary psychiatric holds or medical restraints used every day in hospitals and jails for suicidal individuals.  The Supreme Court has long recognized that the state has a compelling interest in preserving the lives of those in its custody, particularly when their deaths could harm public safety or the administration of justice.  Moreover, protecting the life of a person and insulating that person from self-harm is hardly cruel or unusual punishment." . . .  More...

"Licensed to practice law since 1987, Monty has been admitted to practice in Ohio, Missouri, and Illinois and currently practices in Ohio and Missouri. Admitted to practice before the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, and before the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, he is a member of several state and local bar associations, among them being the Ohio State Bar Association,  Missouri Bar Association, Akron Bar Association, and St. Louis County Bar Association." . . . 

The Democratic Party Is Dead, Long Live the Jacobins*!

By the early nineteenth century, the word “Jacobin” had become a warning. It warned about revolutionary extremism and the violence that could follow when ideology replaced law.  

 Victor Davis Hanson › American Greatness  

"Today’s Democratic Party has abandoned its traditional working-class, patriotic roots and embraced a radical Jacobin ideology built on division, coercion, and political extremism."

"For the past century, the agendas of the Democratic Party were predictable. They professed concern for working Americans and supported blue-collar unions.
"Unemployment insurance, a 40-hour work week, disability insurance, and Social Security were their trademarks—often rapidly achieved by growing government bureaucracies and continually raising taxes. Still, many Democrats were socially conservative.
"By the 1970s, Democrats still deplored antisemitism. Party officials had rejected their own segregationists to champion civil rights.
"Presidents like Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, and John F. Kennedy all supported strong defense and military deterrence.
"All that is now passé.
"The only vestigial Democrat left in Congress is Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman, himself roundly despised by Democrat leaders.
"Today, supporting Israel and calling for campuses to stop their institutionalized antisemitism is Democratic political suicide.
"Forty years ago, any Democrat with a Nazi tattoo was political toast; today, he can become the party’s nominee for the Maine Senate race.
"So, the current Democrat Party is no longer truly democratic at all. Its new spirit and methods resemble the radical Jacobin Party of the French Revolution. Today, Democrats claim that if any opponent gives a Roman salute, he is a Nazi—while insisting that one of their own with a Nazi tattoo is not.
"Jacobinism rejects Martin Luther King Jr.’s emphasis on the “content of . . . character.” It instead prefers fixating on “the color of . . . skin.”
"It aims to divide the nation arbitrarily between the noble oppressed and the toxic oppressors.
"So these new Jacobins have institutionalized racially separate college dorms and graduation ceremonies, along with hiring and promoting on the basis of race." . . . More...

*Who were the Jacobins, the ruthless radicals of the French Revolution?  . . . "According to official records, the Reign of Terror resulted in at least 16,500 legal executions by guillotine.

 "An additional 10,000 people died in prisons or through extrajudicial killings.

 Victims included nobles, clergy, Girondins, moderate republicans, and ordinary citizens.

 "Some were convicted after public trials, but many were condemned without defence or evidence." . . .

Letterman defends Colbert—poorly

Don Surber   
"Don’t blame management. Blame the, um, comic for not being funny. In a world with thousands of entertainment choices, people don’t watch Colbert to be insulted. They go elsewhere."


"MAGA Disposed of Stephen Colbert—with help of course from podcasts, Twitter and reruns of Friends, Seinfeld, The Big Bang Theory, and Modern Family because if you are looking for late-night humor, you will not find it on the broadcast networks.
"But on cable, the Antenna channel shows reruns of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. So if you are looking for political humor from the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, there’s that.
"Stephen Colbert’s show will end this month due to his B-2 ratings. They are nearly invisible. David Letterman whined to the New York Times that the new owners at CBS are just closing the show just to suck up to President Trump.
They don’t share the books with me. All of television seems to have been nicked by digital communication and streaming platforms and on and on. TV may be not the money machine it once was. On the other hand, what about the humanity for Stephen and the humanity of people who love him and the humanity for people who still enjoyed that 11:30 respite?
He was dumped because the people selling the network to Skydance said, “Oh no, there’s not going to be any trouble with that guy. We’re going to take care of the show. We’re just going to throw that into the deal. When will the ink on the check dry?” I’m just going to go on record as saying: They’re lying. Let me just add one other thing, Jason. They’re lying weasels.
"NYT community-noted him: “Asked to comment, a spokesman for CBS said, ‘Unequivocally a financial decision.’”
"But Letterman’s libel against Skydance makes the MAGA case that Colbert is a talentless mutt who offers anti-Trump propaganda poorly disguised as a comedy routine." . . . More...

Barack Obama Admits There Is ‘Genuine Tension’ in His Marriage Over Trump and Politics

Megyn Kelly   

 "The former president is also in the news this week for a sit-down he did with Stephen Colbert in which he had the audacity to accuse the Trump administration of weaponizing the justice system when the entire Russia collusion hoax (i.e. OG ‘lawfare’) originated on his watch." 

"Megyn Kelly is joined by Sohrab Ahmari, U.S. editor at Unherd, and Sean Davis, co-founder of The Federalist, to discuss President Barack Obama admitting Michelle’s thoughts on Trump and politics have hurt his marriage, how little Obama actually did during his presidency, Obama having the nerve to complain about politicizing criminal justice, and more."

 

Reader comment: "The Democrat party has become the party of gaslighting and hypocrisy.
Is it any surprise that Jill B., H. Clinton, and M. Obama despise their husbands?
And, their weak husbands let themselves be led around, and insulted by their wives? Karma."

The Federalist’s Sean Davis said the interviews are an unpleasant reminder of what was. “I agree with him, yes, lawfare is awful. It is a cancer on the American republic, and I don’t know if it’s something we can come back from,” Davis said. “[But] he is the one who started it! He gave it its origin story. For this guy to go out there and pretend he had nothing to do with it.”
“I will tell you, between that [Colbert] interview, between The New Yorker article, he had kind of faded away and I had forgotten about how mendacious and unlikable and dishonest he was,” Davis added. “So thank you, Barack, for coming back and reminding all of us why we couldn’t wait to get rid of you.”   More...

Argus Hamilton's Rogue Report

Excerpts from Jewish World Review

  • Coach Bill Belichick, 74, and much younger girlfriend Jordan Hudson, 25, were photographed on the celebrity red carpet at Churchill Downs at the Kentucky Derby Saturday. They were also seen at the betting window. I haven't heard which horse Bill picked but Jordan bet everything on Beneficiary.
  •  The Washington, D.C., judge presiding over the attempted assassination of President Trump case apologized to the shooter in court Monday. We're probably closer to the next attempt than the last one. Trump has been shot at so many times you'd think he was the President of Death Row Record
  • The Secret Service engaged in a shootout with an armed gunman Monday who was spotted about a mile from the White House by cameras. It prompted a fist pump from the president. Trump feels that if his life isn't put in mortal danger every 10 days, he's losing ground to the next James Bond movie.
  • Somali pirates hijacked a United Arab Emirates oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman on Saturday and then demanded a king's ransom for its release. It was ever thus. Back during the 2024 Summer Olympic sailing competition, Australia took the gold, England took the silver and Somalia took the boat.

Wednesday, May 6, 2026

Lawlessness Is a Choice - Imprimis

 Miranda Devine  

"The intense blowback against Trump’s efforts to restore law and order rams home the point that it is a deliberate choice by progressives to preserve lawlessness in their cities. When you think about it, the strategy seems to have paid off, if all you care about is power, since progressives have a generational stranglehold on the cities with the worst crime."

"While being interviewed on a recent podcast, Texas Democrat Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett decided to opine on crime, a topic on which she apparently considers herself to be an expert. Her nutty conclusion was this: “Just because someone has committed a crime, it doesn’t make them a criminal.”

"I can see how this logic would have a wide range of uses for politicians: “Just because someone told a lie, it doesn’t make them a liar”; “Just because someone took a bribe, it doesn’t make them corrupt.” It’s a bit like the thought experiment: “If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?” If a crime is committed and no one is responsible, was there actually a crime at all?

"Of course, it’s nonsense. A criminal is defined precisely as a person who has committed a crime. But when Crockett chooses her own definitions, she is simply echoing a progressive shibboleth that has turned blue cities across the country into lawless hellholes. It holds that people who commit crimes have no agency—that they are helpless victims of circumstance. Therefore, any attempt to hold them accountable by arresting them or putting them in jail is unjust—it further victimizes them.

"The obvious result of this logic is that criminals are emboldened and their real victims become helpless hostages to lawlessness.

"It is a short step from Crockett’s logic to the justification of defunding the police as a way to “make communities safer.” That communities become safer by having fewer police is, of course, a lie, but defunding police is what progressives have been doing since the anti-cop, BLM-Antifa riots of the “Summer of Love” in 2020.

"As a former police reporter, I’ve seen how soft-on-crime policies hurt the very people progressives pretend to care about. It’s precisely the most vulnerable in our big cities who need the most policing and have the least resources to protect themselves from mayhem." . . .More...

How US Captured The Venezuelan President?

AiTelly

"How did they find him? Simple. The CIA tracked his 'Pattern of Life'—what he ate, what he wore, and exactly where he slept. They didn't just guess; they knew. Back in the US, Delta Force built an exact replica of his safe house, rehearsing the raid until they could do it blindfolded. And the blowtorches? Those were for the panic room. Intelligence knew Maduro slept behind bank-vault-style steel doors. The team brought heavy-duty thermal cutters to burn him out. But in the end, speed was their weapon. Operators breached the room so fast, they caught him before he could even lock the door."

Nancy Guthrie bombshell: Experts believe her kidnapper could be dead UPDATED{

 Nancy Guthrie bombshell: Experts believe her kidnapper could be dead

NewsNation’s Brian Entin, who has been covering the case in detail since the start, spoke to former FBI agents and other experts for NewsNation Presents: The Nancy Guthrie Mystery special, which airs tonight, Wednesday, May 6, at 9/8 c, on The CW. 


"As the Nancy Guthrie investigation enters its fourth month, experts continue to share their theories on what might have happened, with some suggesting the alleged abductor may have since been killed.

"NewsNation’s Brian Entin, who has been covering the case in detail since the start, spoke to former FBI agents and other experts for NewsNation Presents: The Nancy Guthrie Mystery special, which airs tonight, Wednesday, May 6, at 9/8 c, on The CW.

"In a roundtable discussion with law enforcement experts, forensic nurse Dr. Ann Burgess suggested that the masked individual seen in Nancy’s doorbell camera footage may have been killed by someone higher up in the operation.

"'So, the person we see at the front door could be dead… killed by someone else… killed by the boss,” Entin asked, per NewsNationNow.

"“By the boss. Right,” Burgess answered. “It was well-planned. They got away with it. And they form a type of case that we’ve never seen before. As far as we know.” . . . 

.Nancy Guthrie Update: Trial Date Set for Fake Ransom Note Writer Derrick Callella . .

UPDATE: Savannah Guthrie abruptly leaves 'Today' mid-show

"Savannah Guthrie suddenly departed midway through the May 6 'Today' broadcast, with her co-anchor Craig Melvin telling viewers that she "had to leave a little early." . . .

April 13h: Surfacing to Observe Holocaust Remembrance Day

Phyllis Chesler Organization

"When Jews are murdered, the world has repeatedly found ways to excuse it, explain it, or ignore it."

 "I have buried myself in reading about the long history of both Catholic and Protestant Jew-hatred for my new book: The Complete and Utter Palestinianization of American Feminism. [emphases mine. TD] It is pretty toxic but absolutely essential reading. However, I am now briefly surfacing. Tonight begins--and earlier today in Israel, it began--the observance of Holocaust Memorial Day. I am sharing with you a very good piece by Dr. Alexander Grobman on how the Arab Muslims of British Mandatory Palestine treated the Jews--and this was before Israel won its sovereignty and long before it won yet another war of self-defense in 1967.

"Once Jewish blood was cheap. To the world, it still is  By Dr. Alex Grobman

"On April 13, 1948, a medical convoy on its way to Hadassah Hospital and The Hebrew University on Mount Scopus was ambushed in Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood. Doctors, nurses, patients, professors, and students-non-combatants on a humanitarian mission-were attacked for hours. Seventy-eight Jews were murdered.

"This was not just a massacre. It was a revelation. It showed how easily Jewish lives could be abandoned, rationalized, and written off. That is why the Hadassah convoy massacre should not be remembered as a tragic footnote from Israel’s War of Independence.

"It should be remembered as part of a much larger and uglier truth:

"When Jews are murdered, the world has repeatedly found ways to excuse it, explain it, or ignore it.

"The irony was grotesque. During World War II, Hadassah Hospital and The Hebrew University made major contributions to the Allied war effort in the Middle East. Hadassah’s staff offered lectures and training to British medical personnel on regional diseases and health threats, including jaundice, dysentery, anemia, high blood pressure, and insect-borne illnesses. The Hebrew University’s Department of Bacteriology and Hygiene produced anti-typhus and anti-dysentery vaccines. Its Zoology Department helped the British avoid cave fever. Its Parasitology Department contributed vital medical expertise.

"Malaria was one of the greatest threats to Allied forces. The British Army established ten anti-malaria units for deployment across the Middle East, Europe, and Asia. Four were commanded by Jewish malaria experts, who helped pioneer the use of aerial pesticides to destroy mosquito breeding grounds." . . . 
 Phyllis Chesler, Ph.D., is an Emerita Professor of Psychology at City University of New York. She is a best-selling author, a legendary feminist leader, and a retired academic and psychotherapist. She has lectured and organized political, legal, religious, and human rights campaigns in the United States, Canada, Europe, Israel, Central Asia, and the Far East.

"This is a clip from the Nova Festival on October 7: A festival of joy, a festival of peace, a #festival of love...and a festival where #Hamas ruthlessly massacred over 260 innocent civilians and kidnapped countless more.