Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) this week warned the American people that a Trump nominee for a State Department position was an extremist, cut from the same cloth as the Iranian mullahs and religious extremists.

Riley Barnes, nominated to serve as assistant secretary of State for democracy, human rights and labor, revealed his dangerous proclivities to Kaine in his opening statement when he said that “All men are created equal because our rights come from God, our creator; not from our laws, not from our governments.”

It was a line that should be familiar to any citizen — virtually ripped from the Declaration of Independence, our founding document that is about to celebrate its 250th anniversary.

Yet Kaine offered a very surprising response in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing.

“The notion that rights don’t come from laws and don’t come from the government, but come from the Creator — that’s what the Iranian government believes,” he said. “It’s a theocratic regime that bases its rule on Shia (sic) law and targets Sunnis, Bahá’ís, Jews, Christians, and other religious minorities. They do it because they believe that they understand what natural rights are from their Creator. So, the statement that our rights do not come from our laws or our governments is extremely troubling.”

The idea that laws “come from the government” is the basis of what is called “legal positivism,” which holds that the legitimacy and authority of laws are not based on God or natural law but rather legislation and court decisions.

[TTP:  This isn’t getting much notice in the press, but it is a YUGE win for Trump!]

A federal immigration board said Friday that immigrants who arrived in the United States illegally are ineligible for bond hearings while they challenge deportation proceedings in court.

The decision, rendered by Judge Keith E. Hunsucker at the Board of Immigration Appeals, affirms a previous July order from Todd M. Lyons, acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, who told ICE officers in a memo that such immigrants should be detained “for the duration of their removal proceedings,” which can take months or years.

Lawyers say the policy will apply to millions of immigrants who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border over the past few decades, including under the Biden administration.

President Donald Trump’s greatest achievement within six months was simply ending illegal immigration as we had once known it — without “comprehensive immigration reform” or any other rhetorical trickery.

It remains difficult to find, much less deport, the 10 to 12 million illegal aliens who entered in the last four years.

Those who helped break the law, by design or indifference, now believe it was moral to destroy federal immigration law but immoral to uphold it.

And it is still unclear whether former President Joe Biden’s handlers deliberately sabotaged their own border for political and demographic purposes out of sheer orneriness or utter incompetence.

Many of the left’s cherished totems — massive Green New Deal subsidies, the diversity/equity/inclusion industry, biological males competing in women’s sports, and the USAID revolving door — are either comatose or in their death throes.

The historic drop-off in military recruitment reversed shortly after Trump took office.

Republican voter registration is up, and Democratic registration is down.

Late last week NBC ran a “news” story featuring a dozen disgruntled federal judges whose rulings against various Trump administration policies have been stayed or overturned by the Supreme Court.

These lower court judges, none of whom had the courage to allow NBC to name them in the article, bewailed the failure of SCOTUS to provide sufficient justification for ruling against them.

It’s blindingly obvious, however, that the real issue they are whining about is the Court’s refusal to countenance their usurpation of the President’s Article II powers and frustrate implementation of his agenda.

Upon assuming office, the President signed a number of executive orders involving a variety of issues. Many of these EOs were challenged by lawsuits filed in district courts presided over by activist judges.

Inevitably, these judges issued “universal injunctions” that halted implementation of the EOs nationwide. The administration filed emergency appeals with SCOTUS to ensure these cases received expedited attention.

According to the NBC story, “The Supreme Court has granted Trump administration requests to block lower court rulings in more than 70 percent of cases brought by the administration that were decided via the shadow docket.”  [Cue ominous Darth Vader background audio]

This is Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, radical left woke gay Satanist with his “husband,” who is the now-former CDC (Centers for Disease Control) official leading Big Pharma’s War on MAHA, RFK2 in particular.

Big Pharma is by far the largest and most powerful lobbying power on Capitol Hill.  They are organizing an all-out effort to pressure Kennedy to resign.  Any politician you see calling for his resignation, like Chuck Schumer and Bernie Sanders, is on their payroll. It’s because they are terrified he will expose their corruption.

RFK Jr. is busy disinfecting our health bureaucracy from its capture by the agricultural-medical-pharmaceutical complex.  CDC officials are adopting the Rosie O’Donnell self-deportation option to protest Kennedy’s actions.  Exhibit A is Dr. Demetre Daskalakis (pronouns: he/him/his)’s resignation letter, proudly posted to X.

Right, a guy who calls pregnant women “pregnant people” – meaning he’s a medical doctor claiming that men can get pregnant – says Kennedy is intentionally trying to harm us.  Vaccine manufacturers previously held a monopoly on that vice.

?WOAH: Epstein survivors nod along in AGREEMENT that there is "NOT A LIST" of abusers in the Jeffrey Epstein orbit!

REPORTER: "I know you're working on your own list, but do you believe that Jeffrey Epstein had a list?"

Victims' Rights Attorney Brad Edwards: "Yeah, so there's… pic.twitter.com/5A2DC77vKa

— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) September 3, 2025

Democrats and liberal media have relentlessly politicized the Jeffrey Epstein case because they are more interested in trying to spin it as a Donald Trump scandal than in seeking justice for Epstein’s victims.

This political exploitation is glaringly obvious, given the Democrats’ own silence when they controlled Congress and the White House; they never released the Epstein files they claim are under wraps to protect Trump.

Despite repeated and wild insinuations, there has never been any credible evidence tying Trump to Epstein’s horrific abuses. The whole spectacle has become less about victims and more about Dem “Get Trump” political grandstanding.