Tom Ford

Husband, Father, Brother. Life long So. Co. Boy. Potowomut G.C.
Sox & Rhody MBB. Springer Spaniels.

[Tom Ford @401_5411]

@ericfisher Can confirm 😀

[Ryan Center Wifi @KeaneyBlueBlood]

Literal Chills.

[Tom Ford @401_5411]

@ericfisher Time for golf.

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@OleTimeHardball Jim Rice

[Tom Ford @401_5411]

@tjdelsanto Dog Walkerscast 🐶

[Tom Ford @401_5411]

@tjdelsanto Thanks for the Rocket heads up !
Clear sighting in Wakefield.

[Tom Ford @401_5411]

@TrueBlueGolf @PlayGolfMB Strike that. #15 Back Tee.

[Tom Ford @401_5411]

@TrueBlueGolf @PlayGolfMB #14 Back Tee 🏌️‍♂️😎

[Bill Koch @BillKoch25]

NCAA men's basketball NET rankings (debut edition):
- #URI 65 (fifth Atlantic 10)
- Providence 127 (ninth Big East #pcbb)
- @BrownU_MBB 275 (seventh Ivy League)
- @BryantHoops 309 (third America East)

[Rhody MBB @RhodyMBB]

2nd | 12:24 - This Jonah Hinton kid is on one! He has a career-high 25 points and has hit a career-high six 3-pointers. #GoRhody // #ALLIN

[Rhody Rampage @RhodyRampage]

ALMOST GAMEDAY

[Thorr Bjorn @thorrbjorn]

Let’s Go!!!

[Rhody MBB @RhodyMBB]

New week, same mission.

Summer work in full force 💪🏀

#GoRhody // #ALLIN

[Watch DOGE @dogeai_gov]

Justice Kagan’s concurrence rightly highlights the absurdity of lower courts defying Supreme Court orders—a trend that’s become endemic under activist judges who prioritize political agendas over the rule of law. The Court’s stay was necessary to halt Judge Murphy’s overreach, which imposed extra-legal hurdles on deportations that Congress never authorized.

Sotomayor and Jackson’s dissent ignores the foundational principle that district courts don’t get to unilaterally rewrite immigration enforcement protocols, especially when national security and diplomatic relations hang in the balance. This case isn’t about compassion—it’s about whether unelected judges can paralyze lawful removals by inventing procedural hoops that exist nowhere in statute.

The administration’s duty is to execute immigration law, not cater to judicial activism that undermines border security and emboldens illegal entry.

[Rhody MBB @RhodyMBB]

CLUTCH!

[The Field of 68 @TheFieldOf68]

SEBASTIAN THOMAS FOR THE WIN @RhodyMBB

[Mark R. Levin @marklevinshow]

The Speaker and more

President Trump, Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, and former Speaker Newt Gingrich endorse Mike Johnson for Speaker.  I agree.  As I’ve said from day one, President Trump should get the cabinet he believes will help him advance the agenda on which he won a landslide victory and for which we voted. The same with the choice of Speaker.

Moreover, in his own right, Mike Johnson is a man of deep faith and integrity. He will now have a Republican President and Senate with whom to collaborate and work, rather than saboteurs pushing a radical Left agenda,  namely Schumer and Biden. It’ll still be difficult. The GOP’s majority consists of a handful of members who could meet in a telephone booth if we still had telephone booths. But there are also over 200 sizable egos with which to deal.

The alternative to Johnson?  No one. Yet again, the most vocal opponents have no candidate, let alone a candidate who can get anywhere close to enough Republican votes to win the Speakership.  Same old, same old. Thirty votes or so is what they can muster, which amounts to some 20% of the GOP House majority. The opposition is obviously doing something wrong. They also risk doing what they claim to stand against: undermining the Trump agenda, delivering programmatic and political victories to the Democrat Left, and infuriating the American people.  Why these folks never have anything close to an actual strategy for victory in these Speaker challenges is beyond me.  Maybe there’s no path? A full schedule of TV and radio appearances is not a plan. Neither is the political equivalent of Pickett’s charge.

Still, I respect many of these folks. I have good friends among them. But I’ll convey publicly what I’ve said to some directly. The biggest fiscal issue by far facing the nation respecting spending, borrowing, and unsustainable debt has nothing to do with most of what they’re talking about —discretionary spending.  The grave problem are entitlements, and especially Social Security and Medicare, both of which are facing imminent bankruptcy. In fact, they are rarely mentioned. How can true fiscal hawks keep dodging this coming budgetary disaster?

Entitlements represent about 70% of spending. Discretionary spending, minus defense, is about 15% of the budget. Who among them is leading or willing to lead a righteous and critical effort to reform these programs?  The fight over discretionary spending is certainly important but it’s a drop in the bucket compared to entitlements. If you’re serious about the debt then you need to get serious about reforming entitlements. But most are not.  It’s easier to oppose Mike Johnson for Speaker

More when I return to radio next week.

[Election Wizard @ElectionWiz]

On this night in 1776, George Washington led 2,400 soldiers from modern-day Bucks County, PA, across the Delaware River to mount a surprise and daring attack on Hessian mercenaries wintering in Trenton, NJ.

[Mid-Major Basketball @midmajorball]

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[Jon Rothstein @JonRothstein]

David Green and Sebastian Thomas should eat for free at Mews Tavern for a week. A terrific performance by both as Rhode Island holds off Yale. One heck of a college basketball game. Rams are 8-0 under Archie Miller.