RUTHFULLY YOURS

https://nypost.com/2025/02/02/opinion/trumps-win-was-a-call-for-law-and-order-after-the-dems-constant-demonization-of-the-police/

“Maybe this will end in another week,” sighed the cashier at a CVS store on the Upper East Side, seven days after President Trump’s inauguration. A young male, clutching a black plastic garbage bag, had just darted out the door.”Maybe this will end in another week,” sighed the cashier at a CVS store on the Upper East Side, seven days after President Trump’s inauguration. A young male, clutching a black plastic garbage bag, had just darted out the door.

The thief had wandered the premises unchallenged, despite being a member of the predominant shoplifting demographic and openly carrying a receptacle for his heist. After his rushed escape, no one called the police. The employees knew the precinct’s officers weren’t likely to come — and nothing would happen if they did.

I, meanwhile, had had to summon a clerk to gain access to the store’s calcium pills, locked behind plexiglass shields.

So much for the invidious racial profiling that former Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden routinely accused the country of engaging in.

The cashier nodded wearily toward a rack of batteries in the front of the store — a target of this latest heist — oddly not behind lock and key.

The clerk’s long gray corkscrew curls, beard and heavy Puerto Rican accent did not mark him as a stereotypical Donald Trump voter. Yet here he was, assuming that his reference to “another week” was clear and that I would share his hope for a political sea change.

https://nypost.com/2025/02/02/opinion/trump-is-sending-the-deep-state-to-the-outhouse-as-he-cleans-house-at-the-fbi-and-doj/

It’s galling to hear sleazy Democrats like Rep. Jamie Raskin and self-serving government bureaucrats whine about “due process” as Donald Trump sets about cleaning house in the out-of-control administrative state.

Last time Trump was president, he and his appointees were sabotaged and obstructed by Machiavellian Deep-Staters who perverted concepts such as “due process” into protective shields around wrongdoers and turned them into weapons against their adversaries — that is, anyone trying to carry out the wishes of the democratically elected president.

That won’t be happening again. It’s called democracy.

The FBI raided Trump’s home and rummaged through his wife’s underwear drawer. They tried to lock him up and bankrupt him. They rounded up his supporters and advisers and threw them in jail.

He was forced to spend 60% of his time and tens of millions of dollars fighting the lawfare waged against him.

So don’t talk about “due process” to Trump.

https://amgreatness.com/2025/02/03/the-problems-with-dei-that-frighten-the-public/

The diversity, equity, and inclusion project, often seen as a major element of the so-called “woke” creed along with green fanaticism, keeps popping up as a possible subtext in a variety of recent tragedies.

In the case of the Los Angeles fires, Mayor Karen Bass, who cut the fire department budget, was warned of the mounting fire dangers of the Santa Anna winds and parched brush on surrounding hillsides. No matter—she junketed in Uganda. When furor followed, on cue, her defenders decried a racialist attack on “a black woman.”

Her possible stand-in deputy mayor for “security” was under suspension for allegations that he called in a bomb threat to the Los Angeles city council—a factor mysteriously forgotten.

The fire chief previously was on record mostly for highlighting her DEI agendas rather than emphasizing traditional fire department criteria like response time or keeping fire vehicles running and out of the shop.

One of her deputies had boasted that in emergencies, citizens appreciated most of all that arriving first responders looked like them. (But most people in need worry only whether the first responders seem to know what they are doing.) She further snarked that if women allegedly were not physically able to carry out a man in times of danger, then it was the man’s fault for being in the wrong place.

The Los Angeles water and power czar—culpable for a needlessly dry reservoir that could have provided 117 million gallons to help save Pacific Palisades—was once touted primarily as the first Latina to run such a vital agency. But did that fact matter much to the 18 million people whose very survival depended on deliverable water in the otherwise desert tinderbox of greater Los Angeles?

https://issuesinsights.com/2025/02/03/trumps-executive-orders-have-solid-voter-backing-ii-tipp-poll/

President Trump entered the White House for the second time with a bold agenda, which included a spate of executive orders on a wide range of issues. Even the media had trouble keeping up with the changes. But how was Trump’s flurry of orders received by average Americans? They liked it, with the exception of Democrats, the latest I&I/TIPP Poll shows.

The online I&I/TIPP Poll queried 1,478 adults across the nation on their view of 12 key Trump executive orders, intended to kick-start his second term in office and set a new direction for U.S. policy. The poll has a margin of error of +/-2.6 percentage points.

The question posed was “Do you support or oppose the following executive orders signed by President Donald Trump in his first week in office?” Each question was followed by a description of Trump’s action, with those answering having a choice among the following responses: “Support strongly,” “Support somewhat,” “Oppose somewhat,” “Oppose strongly,” and

Even amid Democrats’ strong doubts, four of the 12 issues managed to receive solid majorities in support.

They included: “Deploy the U.S. military to secure the southern border,” receiving 57% “support,” 33% “oppose; “Ban federal funding for gender identity programs and recognize only biological sex,” 53% support, 36% oppose; “Require federal workers to return to the office full-time,” 56% support, 30% oppose; and “Speed up deportation of illegal immigrants,” 54% support, 35% oppose.

A handful of other Trump moves garnered pluralities, but not absolute majorities.

This group included “End birthright citizenship for children of illegal aliens,” 49% support, 41% oppose; “Declare a national energy emergency to boost oil and gas production, while excluding wind and solar energy,” 46% support, 39% oppose; “Eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs in the federal government,” 45% support, 42% oppose; “Make it easier to fire federal workers by removing job protections,” 44% support, 42% oppose; and “Pause for 75 days on a law banning TikTok,” 44% support, 31% oppose.