The recognition of the fact that Congress has no resources of its own forces us to acknowledge that the only way Congress can give one American one dollar is to first, through intimidation, threats, and coercion, confiscate that dollar from some other American. If a private citizen did the same thing that Congress does, we would call it an immoral act—namely theft. Acts such as theft that are immoral when done privately do not become moral when done collectively. The moral tragedy that has befallen Americans is our belief that it is okay for government to forcibly use one American to serve the purposes of another” ― Walter E. Williams, American Contempt for Liberty
“French economist/philosopher Frederic Bastiat (1801–50) gave a test for immoral government acts: “See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime.” ― Walter E. Williams, American Contempt for Liberty
“There are many farm handouts; but let’s call them what they really are: a form of legalized theft. Essentially, a congressman tells his farm constituency, “Vote for me. I’ll use my office to take another American’s money and give it to you.” ― Walter E. Williams
“Philosopher Johann Wolfgang von Goethe explained that “no one is as hopelessly enslaved as the person who thinks he’s free.” That’s becoming an apt description for Americans who are oblivious to—or ignorant of—the liberties we’ve lost.” ― Walter E. Williams, American Contempt for Liberty
I really want to trust Lindy Li, the high profile 34-tear-old Democratic influencer and fundraiser who switched to Team Trump while votes were still being counted in California.
But I have reservations. And I have one very specific reason why.
In the last two months, Li has been all over the internet. Her breakout interview on the Shawn Ryan show a month ago has garnered more than 3.5 million views and over 30,000 comments. A subsequent interview with Patrick Bet-David netted 2.5 million. As Bet-David noted, “A lot of people want to know, is she straight up, is she real?”
Maybe, maybe not. Li is smart, sweet, charming, and so seemingly vulnerable I feel the urge to adopt her. In the month or so since she has gone rogue, she has revealed more inside dope on the Biden presidency and the Harris campaign than the major media did in the past four years.
As a case in point, Li answered one question that I had asked in these pages a few months ago, one that the major media showed no interest in knowing, namely who persuaded Joe Biden to endorse Kamala Harris.
That endorsement came 27 minutes after Biden announced his withdrawal from the race. As Li casually revealed to Patrick Bet-David, the answer should have been obvious: Rep. Jim Clyburn, the South Carolina kingmaker whose endorsement enabled Biden to win the Democratic nomination in 2020.
Now, here’s what troubles me. In her interviews, Li freely shares the story of her political evolution. She came to the United States from China by way of England when she was five. she interned with Democratic Rep. Joe Sestak when she was 13. She served as class president all four years she was at Princeton. She was moved to run for Congress by the Sandy Hook school shooting on her 22nd birthday. She ran unsuccessfully for Congress at
There is one element of this story that caught my attention, her claim to have interned for Sestak at 13. I covered this race real time. Sestak began his tenure in Congress in 2007 when Li was 16. She made a point of stressing her age. The discrepancy was not casual. Does Li, I wonder, want to distance herself from the way Sestak won that race? He ran against ten-term Republican incumbent Curt Weldon. No one had burrowed more deeply into the intelligence failures and cover-ups of the Clinton administration than Weldon.
In June 2005 Weldon revealed that Clinton attorneys had intervened to stop the “Able Danger” group in the Defense Intelligence Agency from initiating preventive actions against two of the 9/11 terrorists. He had also written the book Countdown to Terror, an exposé of the government’s performance prior to September 11, which won him few friends in the CIA or in the FBI.
When I met with Weldon in late July 2006 to discuss TWA Flight 800, he expressed interest in going deeper still, but he conceded too that the Deep State was working hard to bring him down.
Deep staters had handpicked Sestak, a retired admiral and member of the National Security Council in the Clinton administration, to run against Weldon. The goal was assuredly to prevent him from digging any deeper into the Clinton record.
That record included clues to former National Security Advisor Sandy Berger’s motive for stealing and destroying documents from the National Archives. Weldon was hot on this story as well he should have been.
Indeed, every reporter in Washington should have been wondering how damaging a secret this must have been if a former National Security Advisor were willing to risk his career — and his very freedom — to conceal it.
In 2006, as principal of the lobbying and consulting firm Stonebridge International, the dubious Berger hosted a serious fundraiser for the admiral in Washington. The Sestak donor list read like a who’s who of international skullduggery.
There was, of course, the disgraced Berger. Then there was the disgraced former CIA director, John Deutch, who had signed a criminal plea agreement in connection with his mishandling of national secrets a day before being pardoned by the outgoing President Clinton. One interesting contribution came in from the disgraced Mary O. McCarthy, recently fired from the CIA after failing a polygraph on leaked classified information in regards to CIA prisons overseas.
In addition to the disgraced, there were the dubious and disreputable. Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright gave her fair share, as did Hillary Clinton, Clinton terrorism czar Richard Clarke, former NSA Director Anthony Lake, and former White House Chief of Staff John Podesta, whose leaked emails launched “Pizzagate” and helped sink Hillary in 2016.
In late September 2006, former president Clinton mentioned only one Republican other than George Bush by name in a FOX News rant. “A three-star admiral,” Clinton said unprompted, “who was on my National Security Council staff, who also fought terror, by the way, is running for the seat of Curt Weldon in Pennsylvania.”
In early October 2006 former president Clinton spoke at a rally for Sestak in his suburban Philadelphia district. “I will not make a single stop in this campaign season that means more to me than this one — not one,” former President Bill Clinton told the crowd.
Clinton meant it. “A Sestak victory,” accurately observed the local Delco Times, “would muzzle a Republican congressman who blames Clinton for doing irreparable harm to America’s national security during the 1990s.”
The Deep State played hardball. A week after the Clinton visit, the McClatchy Newspapers’ Washington Bureau broke a story based on two anonymous sources who insisted that Weldon had “traded his political influence for lucrative lobbying and consulting contracts for his daughter.”
On Monday morning October 16, the FBI raided the homes of Weldon’s daughter and a friend, allegedly for fear that documents would be destroyed if they did not do so sooner. By noon of that same day, a group of 20 or so Democrat protesters were protesting outside Weldon’s district office in Upper Darby, carrying matching signs that read, “Caught Red-Handed.”
After raiding the office of Weldon’s daughter, the FBI never spoke to her again. They had accomplished what they needed to, namely sullying the reputation of her father. Some 23 points behind in June, Sestak rolled over Weldon on November 7 and sent the popular 10-term incumbent packing.
Had Li cited any other member of Congress, I would not have raised an eyebrow, but to admit working for Sestak and lying about her age at the time makes me suspicious. The Deep State created Joe Sestak. Could they have groomed Li at an early age to jump ship when the ship needed jumping?
If a double agent, Li is a damned good one.
Jack Cashill’s book, TWA Flight 800: The Crash, The Cover-Up, The Conspiracy, is available in all formats.
Let me start by telling all the white women who are about to read this post that they can yell at me via joe.kinsey@outkick.com.
Really let me have it.
Now, let’s get into this startling data as to what’s happening with American white women who step foot on college campuses and then stay on those campuses for multiple years and then leave with a degree.
In a major shocker, it turns out a staggering number of those white women have an overwhelmingly positive view of Ukraine’s welfare recipient President Zelensky & corporate DEI initiatives.
As OutKick founder Clay Travis put it succinctly, college-educated white women have “gone insane politically.” Zelenskiy ranks at 53% approval among college-educated, white women.
Yes, you’re reading that right, Zelensky is the most popular political person on the planet right now, according to college-educated white women. Depending on who you believe, Ukraine has been given somewhere between $175 BILLION (Congressional record) to $350 BILLION, according to Trump, the Wall Street Journal reports.
To white women, this Zelensky guy is the new Stanley drink cup. Remember when white women would take a bullet at a Target to get some stupid pink Stanley? Now these same women would take a bullet for this Ukrainian twerp and send him their life insurance while stiffing their blue collar husbands.
By the end of that week, Vlody’s approval rating shot up to 67% and turned him into a sympathetic figure among degree-holding American women.
As Patriot Dad pointed out on Twitter, “And they wonder why they can’t find a good man to [marry].”
Throw in white women rooting for DEI and you have all the ingredients for women to stay single and for men to bang away at sex dolls.
The Chinese sex doll makers are even starting to integrate AI to make the dolls interactive. Give it time. It won’t be long until you can program your sex doll to hate Zelensky and DEI initiatives.
Joe Kinsey is the Senior Director of Content of OutKick and the editor of the Morning Screencaps column that examines a variety of stories taking place in real America. Kinsey is also the founder of OutKick’s Thursday Night Mowing League, America’s largest virtual mowing league. Kinsey graduated from University of Toledo.
NEW YORK, March 22. US Presidential Special Envoy Steve Witkoff stated that the status of Crimea, the Donetsk People’s Republic, the Lugansk People’s Republic, as well as the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions, remains the key issue in the Ukrainian conflict.
“I think the largest issue in that conflict are these so-called four regions – Donbass, Crimea, you know the name Lugansk, and there are two others. They’re Russian-speaking. Yep, there have been referendums where the overwhelming majority of the people have indicated that they want to be under Russian rule. Yes, I think that’s the key issue in the conflict. So, that’s the first thing, that when that gets settled, and we’re having very, very positive conversation,” Witkoff told US reporter Tucker Carlson in an interview.
According to Witkoff, “no one wants to talk about it.”
“That’s the elephant in the room. There are constitutional issues within Ukraine as to what they can concede to with regard to giving up territory. The Russians are de facto in control of these territories. The question is, will the world acknowledge that those are Russian territories? Will it end up? Can [Vladimir] Zelensky survive politically, if he acknowledges this, this is the central issue in the conflict,” the special envoy added.
The Donetsk People’s Republic, the Lugansk People’s Republic, the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions became part of Russia following referendums held there on September 23-27, 2022. Crimea and Sevastopol became part of the country after a referendum held in March 2014.
Ever wonder what drives a federal judge to order planes full of illegal immigrants, whom are gang members such as MS13 and Tren De Aragua, to turn back? Maybe it’s because his wife runs a NGO funded by USAID, and his daughter Katherine works for Partners for Justice — a group that serves legal support to those very same criminals, thanks to 76% of their cash flow coming from Uncle Sam! This organization is like an anti-deportation cheer squad and even boasts about having knocked off 5,000 years of prison time since 2018. So, when investigative journalist Laura Loomer started connecting these dots, the judges wife Katherine suddenly ghosted her social media accounts like linked in, faster than a bad Tinder date! This raises a big, blinking ethical alarm. According to the U.S. Judges’ Code of Conduct, judges should recuse themselves if a close relative might benefit from their decisions. Yet here we are, with a judge whose rulings are practically aligned with his daughter’s paycheck. National security? MY arse
My regular readers know that I see a number of left-wing legal writings from day to day. One of the more sane (from time to time) pundits is Ilya Somin of George Mason University. In his latest piece, he bemoans the “Perils of the Unitary Executive Theory.” He begins by saying,
The originalist case for a unitary executive falls apart in an era when many of the powers wielded by the executive branch were not originally supposed to be federal powers in the first place.
For those who didn’t major in Constitutional Law, Somin is referring to Article II, § 1, Sentence 1, which says, “The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America.” That’s pretty simple. And it is, as the Supreme Court loves to say, “Black Letter Law.”
Further, in more words from the Court, it is “unqualified.” That means that all power in the Executive Branch belongs to Donald Trump. No “ifs,” “buts,” or “excepts.” “All” means “all.” Put bluntly, as long as he occupies the White House, every bureaucrat is obligated to do what he says. If you don’t like it, then “You’re fired!”
Image by Andrea Widburg
This isn’t complicated, and as push comes to shove, all the Supreme Court needs to do is look at the language of the Constitution. In every case, Trump wins. Even Somin admits that “he is supposed to have all the power given to the executive branch, except such as is specifically allocated elsewhere in other parts of the Constitution.” The next step is where Somin goes off the rails. He confuses proximate and ultimate causation.
Somin is correct that the Executive branch wields great powers that were not envisioned in the original discussions around the Constitution. In this, he agrees with James Madison in Federalist 41. Madison states that using the general welfare clause (Article I, § 8, Clause 1) to allow the government to “exercise every power which may be alleged to be necessary for the common defense or general welfare” is a “stooping to…a misconstruction.”
Madison goes on to state that logically, the enumerated powers that follow the general welfare clause explain what the clause means. In short, if it’s not in that detailed list after the General Welfare Clause, the federal government isn’t supposed to do it.
When I asked ChatGPT when this changed, it pointed me to United States v. Butler (1936), where the Court said, “The power of Congress to authorize expenditure of public moneys for public purposes is not limited by the direct grants of legislative power found in the Constitution.”
You can take your jaw off the floor now. During the New Deal under FDR, the Supreme Court threw the entire concept of enumerated powers out the window. This was set in concrete with Helvering v. Davis (1937), which explicitly allowed Congress to use the General Welfare Clause to do almost anything it wanted to do with your tax dollars.
As for the President’s management powers, most of the questions are unanswered. Myers v. United States(1926) clarified that the President has the freedom to fire any official he nominated, and the Senate confirmed. Then Humphrey’s Executor v. United States (1935) limited his removal power for certain specific officials. Morrison v. Olson (1988) basically echoed Humphrey’s Executor for Special Counsels. Seila Law v. CFPB (2020) and Bessent v. Dellinger (2025, DC Court of Appeals) have both chipped away at Humphrey’s Executor, and many legal observers are suggesting that the Court is looking for a way to put it six feet under.
What does this all mean for President Trump’s actions to fire lots of bureaucrats? For almost a century, Congress has felt free to create and fund lots of agencies and the cronies to operate them. This becomes a great feedback loop where more bureaucrats discover more “needs” for Congress to answer.
And with little or no pushback from anyone in the White House, the Federal Government and debt have exploded. Then a true outsider showed up. He was stymied by a Swamp more impenetrable and Dismal than he ever imagined. Even his own Vice President has now been proven to be part of the enemy swarm.
But when Donald Trump sat a second time behind the Resolute Desk with Sharpie in hand, DC changed. He can neuter many of his opponents simply by denying them access to classified information. This strips them of access to the corridors of power and rich sinecures due to their privilege.
So, it’s no surprise that they are actively pursuing legal Hail Mary strategies. But those remedies are running headlong into Article II, Section 1. Democrat district judges can try to gum up the works, but the Constitution does not care, and, ultimately, virtually everything will end up in the lap of the Supreme Court, where, contra Professor Somin, Donald Trump possesses plenary power over the management of the Executive Branch.
Ilya Somin has missed the point. Admitting that the President has complete authority over his branch of government would not be a problem if Congress was properly constrained by the Constitution’s enumerated powers. But since a rogue progressive Court ignored the plain history and tradition of the General Welfare Clause, we have a behemoth in DC. When Saint George Trump arrived to slay this dragon, those who benefit from it started screaming. Donald’s Ascalon is the proximal “threat to America” that the Swamp fears when, in fact, the ultimate threat is the Swamp itself.
We must be careful to avoid Professor Somin’s error of mistaking the proximate cause of whatever we fear for the ultimate cause. We can fix a thousand proximate causes, and like Hydra, a new head of the monster will appear. Until we return our government to one of limited, constitutionally enumerated powers, we will not have subdued the threat to our republic.
Washington, D.C. – Department of the Interior Secretary Doug Burgum is taking immediate steps to unleash Alaska’s untapped natural resource potential and support President Donald J. Trump’s vision of American Energy Dominance.
Under the Secretary’s leadership, the Bureau of Land Management will pursue steps to expand opportunities for exploration and development in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska and the Coastal Plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The BLM will also work towards partial revocation of public land withdrawals that will help solidify the path forward for the proposed Ambler Road and Alaska Liquified Natural Gas Pipeline projects.
“It’s time for the U.S. to embrace Alaska’s abundant and largely untapped resources as a pathway to prosperity for the nation, including Alaskans,” said Secretary Burgum. “For far too long, the federal government has created too many barriers to capitalizing on the state’s energy potential. Interior is committed to recognizing the central role the State of Alaska plays in meeting our nation’s energy needs, while providing tremendous economic opportunity for Alaskans.”
In this initial suite of actions to implement Executive Order 14153 and Secretary’s Order 3422, both titled “Unleashing Alaska’s Extraordinary Resource Potential,” the Interior and BLM will pursue:
Reopening up to 82% of the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska available to leasing and expanding energy development opportunities in the approximately 23-million-acre reserve. This plan would balance the Secretary’s responsibilities to provide for oil and gas leasing, exploration and development consistent with the energy needs of the nation and protect important surface resources in the reserve.
Reinstating a program that makes the entire 1.56-million-acre Coastal Plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge available for oil and gas leasing. This program would fulfill Congress’ intent in the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act and advance American Energy Dominance, while maintaining strong protections for important surface resources and uses in the Coastal Plain
Revoking withdrawals along the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Corridor and Dalton Highway north of the Yukon River in order to convey these lands to State of Alaska. This action would help pave the way forward for the proposed Ambler Road and the Alaska Liquified Natural Gas Pipeline project, two projects that stand to increase job opportunities and encourage Alaska’s economic growth.
Earlier this year, President Trump committed to unlocking Alaska’s abundant supply of natural resources for the benefit of Alaskans and the nation, providing economic and national security for many generations to come. Through these actions and more to come, Interior is set to deliver on the President’s promise.
“Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ ‘due process.'” — Buck Sexton
Impeachment would be too mild for the claque of Woke-activist federal judges attempting to nullify the executive branch with hectoring writs against any and all sorts of executive actions. If simply bounced off their benches, they could just take up new careers as NPR legal commentators or transsexual pole-dancers. Rather, what you’ve got here is an obvious seditious conspiracy, plain for all to see, orchestrated by the same legal Nosferatus as RussiaGate, the 2020 election, and the J-6 witch hunt.
The catch is, this time it is discoverable and subject to prosecution because the party running this legal insurrection no longer has its hands on the levers of power in the DOJ and the FBI as it did when they ran the aforementioned ops. And from those two agencies just now should tell you something: namely, that cases are being carefully constructed to finally bring these despicable caitiffs to real and chastening law.
If you want to know one paramount reason for institutional failure in our country, look to the evil enterprise that calls itself “Lawfare.” It originated as a blog launched on September 1, 2010, founded by three key figures: Benjamin Wittes, Jack Goldsmith, and Robert Chesney. Over time it evolved into an activist operation, The Lawfare Institute, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to (cough cough) “Hard National Security Choices,” and run under the shady umbrella of the Brookings Institution.
The point of Lawfare is self-evident in its name: it is an instrument of warfare against a perceived enemy which, for the past decade, has been the political faction led by Mr. Trump, the once-and-current chief executive of the federal government. Mr. Trump is a danger to the bureaucratic arm of the federal government because he has defined it as a racketeering operation and moved decisively to end its depredations. Lawfare is the praetorian guard of the permanent DC bureaucracy, including especially its rogue intel actors, who function as enforcers for the Democratic party that largely staffs the bureaucracy.
Norm Eisen, a Brookings senior fellow, is the chief operational strategist for the Lawfare enterprise. He has been active in all its ops, capers, and mind-f**ks since Mr. Trump came on the scene in 2015 vowing to “drain the swamp” (i.e., end the racketeering). Norm Eisen holds leadership roles in two subsidiary Lawfare orgs: States United Democracy Center and Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW). Eisen’s broader connection stems from his history of orchestrating legal challenges against Mr. Trump — advising the Mueller investigation, drafting impeachment articles, and leading CREW’s 200-plus lawsuits in Mr. Trump’s first term.
Now, following the Biden interregnum, Norm Eisen leverages a network of nonprofits (ACLU, Public Citizen, etc.) and left-leaning judges to file hundreds of new lawsuits to thwart the MAGA clean-up effort under Elon Musk’s DOGE. Tax filings show that CREW’s funding, in part, comes from George Soros’s Open Society Foundations. Item: during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, CREW received $432,000 in Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans from Newtek Small Business, which evolved into a financial holding company after acquiring National Bank of New York City in January 2023, rebranded as Newtek Bank.
The money-laundering through multitudinous foundations, NGOs, and “non-profits” is the essence of the Democratic Party’s racketeering mode in league with federal bureaucracies such as USAID that dispensed billions of dollars to a vast network of activist recipients. Translation: it provides salaries (often six-figures) to party foot-soldiers whose only duties are to move the money through the organizational layers and to be available for such party tasks as ballot harvesting, vote-counting, and organizing riots.
This is the mischief that Mr. Trump seeks to put an end to, and so he must be thwarted at all costs by those whose lifeblood depends on the ongoing rackets. The so-called “Resistance” alliance between the Democratic Party and the bureaucracy seeks to prevent reform by any means necessary. Since they no longer control potent executive agencies such as the DOJ and the FBI for intimidating and punishing their enemies, their only recourse is the federal judiciary and its officers of the courts, that is, lawyers and judges practicing Lawfare.
The federal judges are political appointees, such as John J. McConnell from the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island, who was a personal injury lawyer (i.e., “ambulance chaser”) and major Democratic Party doner, giving nearly $700,000 to party causes, and serving as Rhode Island Democratic State Committee treasurer. Judge McConnell issued a wide-ranging restraining order against the DOGE-advised freeze of federal funding launched in February of this year. McConnell’s daughter, Catherine, is a senior policy advisor at the U.S. Department of Education, appointed by President Joe Biden in 2022. See how that works?
Similarly, James Boasberg, a RussiaGate cast member, and as a presiding judge in the DC federal court in sixty J-6 cases. Independent journalist Laura Loomer alleges that Judge Boasberg’s daughter, Katherine, works for Partners for Justice (PFJ), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that is dedicated to defending “criminal illegal aliens and gang members,” including opposing their deportation, and that it receives significant funding from U.S. government grants, such as those from USAID. Judge Boasberg notoriously issued a restraining order last week against the deportation of Tren de Aragua gang members labeled by the DOJ as a terrorist organization. See how that works?
Now, the difference between Lawfare and the practice of law is that Lawfare trafficks lavishly in lies to do its business in the courts and actual law practice is supposed to be dedicated to ascertaining the truth in matters that come before the courts. Lawfare is grounded in dishonesty — as is its main client, the Democratic Party. That is exactly why Judge James Boasberg went along with FBI Director James Comey’s false warrant applications in the FISA court that enabled the RussiaGate operation to do its dirty business. Thus, the grand orchestrator of the Lawfare enterprise as a whole, Norm Eisen, is a sort of Father-of-Lies.
Remember beyond all this sturm and drang stands an essential principle: the truth is sturdy and untruth is fragile. Like you, I am standing by to see what eventually comes out of the Trump DOJ in the way of cases that might definitively settle this mighty battle between Lawfare and the law.
