Kerry WithaK 🇺🇸

“Faith and family, not government and bureaucracy, are the center of American life.”

[Cleta Mitchell @CletaMitchell]

Someone asked the other day about the definition of socialism, communism, and Marxism. Ann Landers years ago explained it well! Enjoy!

[Janice Dean @JaniceDean]

There’s not enough out there about the stages of grief you feel after leaving a job. Especially if that career gave you a purpose and an identity…

[Janice Dean @JaniceDean]

My son Matthew put this video montage together for me. He wanted to show me that what I did meant something. How lucky am I to have such a thoughtful son and a beautiful career to look back on. I am blessed. ☀️

[Harman @itsharmanjot]

Your old phone in that drawer is a free 24/7 security camera.

not e-waste. not a paperweight.

Cracked screen, 3 years old, doesn't matter.

Took me 2 minutes to set up and it works better than ring.

Here's exactly how (no subscription, no hardware):

[Sassafrass84 @Sassafrass_84]

Let me say it loud for the retards in the back who keep rewriting history:

President Trump was advised to lock the country down for two weeks to slow the curve. He listened. Republican-led states reopened and got back to work. Democrat-led states stayed shut down for over a year.
Trump repeatedly pleaded with those blue-state governors to reopen their economies. They refused. Their goal was clear: tank the Trump economy so they could blame him for the damage. Millions lost jobs and livelihoods because of it.

Democrat governors chose to send sick COVID patients into nursing homes — a decision that killed thousands of our elderly. That was their choice, not Trump’s.
They lectured him: “Don’t tell me how to run my state, Trump! Don’t overstep your authority!” While encouraging people to snitch on their neighbors for not following the rules.

Operation Warp Speed happened under President Trump. The vaccines were developed a few years prior. Democrats originally scoffed: “I’m not taking a Trump vaccine.”

Then Biden and Democrats stole the election, forced vaccine mandates, and suddenly, it was “safe and effective” — take it or lose your job. Blue states cheered and reopened.

Don’t twist the history. Those of us who lived through 2020-2024 remember exactly what happened.

[Cynthia Holt @Ghostofcynthia]

I've seen my post all over the internet. Time for another repost here.

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

EXCELLENT breakdown of what Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger and 18 other Democrat Governors, including DC, have signed to permanently change how we elected the President of the United States

“Virginia's governor just signed a law that makes your vote for President irrelevant
— On April 13th, governor Spanberger quietly signed HB 965, a bill that joins Virginia to something called the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact.

Here's what that actually means. If Virginia votes one way for president, but the rest of the country goes the other direction, Virginia's electoral votes go with the country, not with who you voted for. Now, the framing they're selling is every vote matters equally, which sounds great, but here's what they're not telling you.

The Electoral college wasn't broken. It was designed specifically to make sure that rural states, small states and communities outside of major cities still had a voice in who becomes president.

Under this compact presidential campaigns would have zero reason to care about Virginia outside of Richmond and Northern Virginia. I mean, why would they? You just hand your votes to wherever New York and California go?

Some legal scholars have argued, the framers of the Constitution explicitly rejected the idea of popular elections for President, and that changing the system requires a constitutional amendment, not a state level workaround.

And here's the part that should bother everyone regardless of party.

As of March, 2026, every single governor who has signed this compact into law has been a Democrat, not one Republican. This wasn't bipartisan reform. This was a party using a legislative shortcut to restructure how presidents get elected without touching the constitution.

We are a republic, not a pure democracy. That distinction matters because pure democracies let 51% of the country permanently ignore the other 49%. Virginia just took a step toward erasing its own voice in national elections, and they did it while nobody was watching.”

[Gunther Eagleman™ @GuntherEagleman]

🚨 President Trump dropped this GEM last night!

[Lily Tang Williams @Lily4Liberty]

2013 NBC exposed China's "birth tourism" scam.

Chinese women fly here to give birth, securing US citizenship for their kids. Then fly home to raise them under CCP rules.

About 1 million of these “Americans” will be back as voters in a few years.

[Michelle Maxwell ™ @MichelleMaxwell]

🎯Justice Thomas Drags Birthright Citizenship Back to Its True Roots – And Exposes the Left's Anchor Baby Scam

Justice Clarence Thomas cut through decades of activist spin during Supreme Court oral arguments on April 1, 2026, in Trump v. Barbara. He forced the debate straight to first principles: the 14th Amendment's Citizenship Clause was never meant to hand out automatic American citizenship to every baby born on U.S. soil, no matter the parents' loyalty or legal status.

Solicitor General D. John Sauer laid it out plain and clear for the Court: "The Citizenship Clause was adopted just after the Civil War to grant citizenship to the newly freed slaves and their children, whose allegiance to the United States had been established by generations of domicile here. It did not grant citizenship to the children of temporary visitors or illegal aliens, who have no such allegiance."

That's the heart of it. The Clause was written to overrule the infamous Dred Scott decision and secure citizenship for freed slaves who lived here permanently and owed full allegiance to America – not to foreign powers, invaders, or birth tourists flying in for a quick passport baby.

Sauer hammered the key language: "Subject to the jurisdiction thereof" means complete political allegiance, not just being subject to our traffic laws or showing up physically. He pointed out that the text even uses "reside," which in the era of the Amendment meant domicile – a permanent home with real ties – not a temporary stay or illegal crossing.

"The newly freed slaves and their children have a relationship of domicile. They do not have a relationship to any foreign power," Sauer explained. People here for generations with true allegiance reinforce the point: jurisdiction is about loyalty, not mere presence or regulatory power. The Framers weren't handing the "priceless gift" of citizenship to anyone dropping a kid on our soil while owing primary allegiance elsewhere.

This is common sense the left has twisted for decades. Trump's executive order simply restores the original meaning – ending the abuse that rewards illegal immigration, chain migration, and birth tourism rackets, especially from countries like China. The 14th Amendment fixed a specific post-Civil War injustice for those with deep roots and undivided loyalty. It was never a blank check for open borders or foreign nationals gaming the system.

Thomas's questions pulled the focus back where it belongs: history, text, and the actual debates around the Amendment. No wonder the left is panicking. If the Court follows the Constitution instead of invented precedents, America's sovereignty gets a fighting chance again. The Framers knew what they were doing. Time to stop pretending otherwise.

[Jonathan Turley @JonathanTurley]

The Hill just posted my column on the possible need for a 28th amendment on citizenship after the Supreme Court rules in Trump v. Barbara. The combination of open borders and open-ended citizenship is an existential threat to this Republic...https://t.co/HBolvWJVP8

[M.A. Rothman @MichaelARothman]

𝐒𝐀𝐔𝐄𝐑 𝐓𝐎 𝐆𝐎𝐑𝐒𝐔𝐂𝐇: 𝐈𝐅 𝐓𝐄𝐌𝐏𝐎𝐑𝐀𝐑𝐘 𝐕𝐈𝐒𝐈𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐒’ 𝐂𝐇𝐈𝐋𝐃𝐑𝐄𝐍 𝐃𝐎𝐍’𝐓 𝐆𝐄𝐓 𝐂𝐈𝐓𝐈𝐙𝐄𝐍𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐏, 𝐈𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐆𝐀𝐋 𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐄𝐍𝐒 𝐇𝐀𝐕𝐄 𝐀𝐍 𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐍 𝐖𝐄𝐀𝐊𝐄𝐑 𝐂𝐀𝐒𝐄

Justice Gorsuch gave Solicitor General Sauer the opening to drive home the strongest version of the administration’s argument — and Sauer delivered.

The exchange centered on a principle of legal interpretation: when lawmakers enact a general rule in response to specific problems, does that rule apply only to the original situations, or does it extend to future ones that fit the same logic?

Sauer’s answer was unambiguous. The recognized exceptions to birthright citizenship — children of foreign ambassadors, children born during hostile occupation — are specific applications of a 𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐩𝐥𝐞: allegiance determines jurisdiction. That principle doesn’t freeze in time.

“𝘐𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘨𝘢𝘭 𝘪𝘮𝘮𝘪𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘥𝘪𝘥 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘦𝘹𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘯. 𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘣𝘭𝘦𝘮 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘦𝘮𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘴 𝘥𝘪𝘥 𝘦𝘹𝘪𝘴𝘵. 𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘴 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 1881 𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘭 1922 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘭𝘺 𝘴𝘢𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘦𝘮𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘭𝘶𝘥𝘦𝘥.”

Then he made the a fortiori case — the argument that if the weaker claim fails, the stronger one must fail too. If children of 𝐥𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐥 𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐬 aren’t automatically citizens, then children of people who 𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐯𝐢𝐨𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐥𝐚𝐰 have an even weaker claim. By the 1880s, immigration restrictions existed. Someone who entered illegally cannot establish domicile — a principle that traces back to the 𝐂𝐨𝐝𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐉𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐚𝐧.

What Sauer is constructing isn’t a narrow workaround. It’s a constitutional framework rooted in text, history, and legal tradition spanning centuries.

𝐀𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐝𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐥𝐞. 𝐍𝐨𝐭 𝐠𝐞𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐡𝐲. 𝐍𝐨𝐭 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐛𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐡.

[M.A. Rothman @MichaelARothman]

𝐌𝐈𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐃𝐀 𝐃𝐄𝐕𝐈𝐍𝐄: "𝐈 𝐃𝐎𝐍'𝐓 𝐑𝐄𝐂𝐎𝐆𝐍𝐈𝐙𝐄 𝐇𝐈𝐌 𝐀𝐍𝐘𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐄"

Miranda Devine was close enough to Tucker Carlson that he asked her to write his biography. She was halfway through it when he left Fox. She was on his show constantly. She knows him.

And she does not recognize what he has become.

Her explanation is worth hearing — because it is charitable, honest, and ultimately more damning than any partisan attack could be.

Tucker started in journalism working for Bill Kristol in the neoconservative world. He was young, charismatic, a gifted writer, great on air. And he believes Kristol used those gifts to prosecute the case for the Iraq War — a war Tucker later concluded was a catastrophic mistake. He had a friend die there. He beats himself up about it constantly.

That guilt is real. That anti-war conviction that grew from it is genuine. And Devine is right that Tucker is not alone — a whole generation of conservatives, Pete Hegseth among them, came out of the Iraq era deeply skeptical of military intervention and the people who sold it to them. I've said as much. The skepticism itself is not the problem.

𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐃𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐞'𝐬 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭 𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠.

At Fox, Tucker had an exceptional team around him. Executive producer Justin Wells — described as first among equals in Fox behind-the-scenes talent. A retinue of genuinely gifted people who took Tucker's immense natural ability and turned it into the number one cable news show in America. You do not achieve that without excellent editorial judgment surrounding you, challenging you, sharpening you.

When Tucker left Fox, he could not keep those people. And now, according to someone who knows him well and has no axe to grind, 𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝.

That word matters. Isolation is how talented people go wrong. It removes the friction that produces good judgment. It removes the trusted voices that say — wait, think about this differently. It removes the editorial check that separates a genuinely great broadcaster from someone platforming whatever confirms his existing worldview.

The Tucker Carlson who was brilliant on Fox was Tucker Carlson plus a world-class team that made him better. The Tucker Carlson who says he is rooting for Iran to win, who praises communist dictators, who questions whether H-m-s is a terrorist organization, who bought a home in Qatar and whose content is distributed by the Muslim Brotherhood — that Tucker Carlson is isolated, nursing a decades-old wound about Iraq, and apparently surrounded by people who tell him what he wants to hear rather than what he needs to hear.

Devine's account does not excuse what Tucker has become. It explains it. And the explanation is in some ways sadder than the simpler version — because it suggests a genuinely talented man who once did great work has been undone not by malice but by isolation, guilt, and the absence of people willing to push back.

𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐝𝐲. 𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐢𝐭 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐚𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐝𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐬.

And there is only one person to blame for what comes out of Tucker's mouth, and that's Tucker himself.

[Right Scope 🇺🇸 @RightScopee]

🚨BREAKING: SecDef Pete Hegseth stares right at the press and goes scorched earth, spelling out their insanity. I could watch this all day.

"You, and I mean specifically YOU, the press, you cheer against Trump so hard, it's in your DNA and in your blood to cheer against Trump, because you want him not to be successful so bad, you have to cheer against the efficacy of these strikes. You have to hope maybe they weren't effective."

"Maybe the way the Trump administration is representative isn't true. So let's take half truths, spun information, leaked information, and then spin it, spin it in every way we can to try to cause doubt and manipulate the mind, the public mind, over whether or not our brave pilots were successful."

"How many stories have been written about how hard it is to, I don't know, fly a plane for 36 hours? Has MSNBC done that story? Has Fox? Have we done the story how hard that is?"

"There are so many aspects of what our brave men and women did that because of the hatred of this press corps are undermined because people are trying to leak and spin that it wasn't successful. It's irresponsible."

"You're undermining the success of incredible B-2 pilots and incredible F-35 pilots and incredible refuelers and incredible air defenders who accomplished their mission."

"How about we talk about how special America is, that only we have these capabilities? I think it's too much to ask, unfortunately, for the fake news. So we're used to that."

Do you firmly support Pete Hegseth on this?

A. Huge Yes
B. No

IF Yes, Give me a THUMBS-UP👍!!

MAKE THIS GO VIRAL ON 𝕏. LET’S GO 👏

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

Bruce Lee explaining the importance of speaking positively about yourself

[Hans Mahncke @HansMahncke]

Barack Obama did a lot of damage as president, but the most destructive act was deliberately wrecking Donald Trump’s first term by masterminding the Russia collusion hoax.

There’s a huge difference between governing poorly and actively sabotaging your successor. A bad president can mismanage and pursue bad policies, but those actions, however misguided, at least come from an electoral mandate. What Obama did went far beyond that. He set a trap designed to cripple the presidency he was handing over. He didn’t just target a political rival, he corroded the office itself.

It was an extraordinary act of political sabotage. Yet remarkably few people even realize the central role Obama played in it.

[Ari Fleischer @AriFleischer]

If you want to know why Donald Trump was elected, watch Barack Obama’s attack speech yesterday at Jesse Jackson’s funeral. As he did throughout his presidency, he created a straw man to describe Republicans as bigots who force the American people to “turn on each other”.

He said similar crap when he was President and the GOP was the party of Bush, McCain and Romney. It’s the language of bitterness and resentment that makes good people recoil to be described that way.

Obama is one of the most divisive figures in US history, except he is celebrated by the MSM because they are partisans. They take sides and loved and protected Obama.

It’s no wonder a tough, no BS, bull in the China shop emerged. That person was a fed up Trump, who broke the MSM by not caring what they thought. He showed Rs they could punch back against the Ds and win. His rise coincided with the welcome birth, at long last, of conservative media which gave voice to the voiceless who had been forced to consume the prejudices of the MSM.

I can’t stand Obama. He was weak, patronizing, condescending and he put America last.

But having listened to him yesterday, I reminded the only good thing he did was help elect President Trump.

[Julie Perry for Congress (VA-10) @Julie4Virginia]

Early voting begins tomorrow! Vote “NO”