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Re: Cali’s Commie Commissar Karen

“As a resident of Los Angeles, thanks for this detailed account of Mayor Bass and her communist sympathies. Regardless of how the mass media portray our city and state, let me assure you that it is a disaster. Bass is Newsom’s ‘little troll,’ and he is going to try to slide into the presidency on his hair gel.” —California

“Whittaker Chambers, David Horowitz, and others demonstrated that ‘once a communist, always a communist’ is a false proposition. But Karen Bass has yet to prove otherwise. Her expression of remorse for eulogizing her Cuban dictator was merely regret that she got caught.” —Minnesota

“Khrushchev said, ‘We will take America without firing a shot. We do not have to invade the U.S. We will destroy you from within.’ They are doing just that. I was just a child when he banged his shoe at the UN, but I will never forget what he said. But I never thought that could happen. Unless we are willing, as the Founding Fathers were, to risk our lives and fortunes to stand against those oppressors of Liberty, we will go down as the most incompetent and stupid people in the world.” —Alabama

“Alexander never wastes words, and his assessment of Zohran Mamdani and Karen Bass is spot on!” —New York

Re: Trump Fights for Peace in Ukraine

“Ending this war is about a lot of things, but the last thing it’s about is Trump. It’s not even about NATO and the EU, which are peeking out from behind Trump hoping he can fix it. He can’t. This is about Zelensky accepting and being able to accomplish the (very difficult) job of selling the loss of at least two oblasts, including Crimea, to his MPs and the Ukrainian populace. At the other end, give Ukraine Article 5 NATO security (at least).” —Oklahoma

Re: Zelensky’s Better White House Visit

“Zelensky learned from past missteps how important it is to kiss the ring … even in the midst of running a country wherein the bodies accumulate daily and where so few are adorned with neck ties or wing tips. Dress codes are of paramount importance. Ergo, shouldn’t we dress down (pun intended) the Saudis, who show up to trillion-dollar business deals in a collection of bedsheets, for lack of suitage? Are they unaware of just how much money they could have made if they had been wearing a proper suit?” —Oklahoma

Re: Most Students Lie to Their Marxist Professors

“When a nation’s educational institutions focus on party lines and frivolous subjects instead of serious intellectual inquiry, their graduates are less prepared to make the technological advances that maintain economic and geopolitical power. Equally perilous is the decline of freedom that goes with the promotion of social covetousness (socialism being one form) and demands that everybody must conform. Our nation has been heading downward. We must reform or replace our schools to reverse that.” —Minnesota

Re: Trump Tokes on Marijuana Downgrade

“It’s legal here, and it’s a fiasco. We have three dispensaries within easy walking distance of our high school, which is very concerning given that the damage to the intellect and judgment has been shown to be permanent when the brain hasn’t fully developed. We have two neighbors in our neighborhood who are seriously mentally ill (one burned his house down), and marijuana was part of their illness. Every pothead I know is not scared of actual threats (like crime in the neighborhood, violent friends, or Democrats) but is afraid of things that don’t threaten him (like God or Republicans). Legalizing pot won’t make friends of potheads; it will just mean that more innocents will have their intellect and judgment damaged.” —California

Re: Illinois Enacts Disturbing Mental Health Screening for Kids

“This is the inevitable result of believing humans are evolved animals and their choices are the result of a balance between instinct and rational thought, with a scale that varies between persons and circumstances. Thus, some persons are able to judge and others must be judged. It’s DEI cloaked in psychobabble to ensure the politically favored retain power, prestige, and privilege. It opposes individual rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness because it removes responsibility. It is a step on the path to dictatorship.” —Missouri

“Don’t forget the ultimate goal of this legislation: to create a paper trail that will ultimately be used to deny gun rights to adults who ‘mis-answered’ subjective and deceptively phrased questions when they were younger.” —West Virginia

“Mental health screening is inherently an invasion of privacy on a deep, emotional level. Common sense would say that it should not be done without cause, especially when a relative stranger is doing it. It is far better to advise parents on identifying mental pathology and the means of preventing it, such as opting out of or countering DEI and other inherently depressing indoctrination.” —Minnesota

Re: Nowhere to Run, Nowhere to Hide

“Nicely explained and well put. Come Home! Some may wonder why there is opposition for man to choose from and how we each take part in the choice Adam and Eve made for us. But it makes sense if we understand God is perfect and knows that in order for justice and mercy to work, His children must choose for themselves. So, to provide redemption through the atonement of Jesus Christ, we experience the test of mortality (not really ‘paying the bill’) for glorious purposes. Again, thanks for a concise explanation of why we need to remember our Heavenly Father, seek His guidance, and trust His Son, Jesus Christ — the source of our liberty, repentance, and redemption — to bring us Home.” —Idaho