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Montco President Judge Told To Protect Children — A hearing for our friend Jody McMahon Wilson was postponed, yesterday, Feb. 11, before Montgomery County, Pa., Judge Virgil B. Walker.
It concerned her long-standing custody battle.
There was some video.
Why is there even a dispute?
Child rights activist Sean Connolly says he has been in contact with President Judge Carolyn T. Carluccio.
A documentarian was on hand to record events and Connolly unveiled evidence that implicates a major cover up.
ingredients on a chewing gum wrapper — William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 2-12-25
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Answer to yesterday’s puzzle: Some people can read War and Peace and come away thinking it’s a simple adventure story. Others can read the ingredients on a chewing gum wrapper and unlock the secrets of the universe.
Noem to Terminate Venezuela TPS
By Joe Guzzardi
The list of misguided federal immigration policies is extensive, making it challenging to identify the most detrimental one. Among the most harmful to U.S. citizens is the H-1B visa program, which has displaced tens of thousands of skilled U.S. IT workers and denied recent college graduates fair access to high-paying, white-collar jobs. While employers claim a shortage of U.S. engineers without supporting evidence, the visa has been continuously issued for over three decades. Carter administration Labor Secretary Ray Marshall called the H-1B visa “the biggest hoax ever perpetrated on the public.”
Optional Practical Training (OPT), another concerning program, lacks congressional approval yet offers employers significant benefits. OPT employees are exempt from payroll tax, providing employers roughly 8% savings per hire. The program has expanded to become the nation’s largest guestworker program, with an estimated 300,000 participants annually—far exceeding the H-1B’s 85,000 cap.
Also prominent in current headlines is Temporary Protected Status (TPS), a quasi-amnesty that under President Joe Biden’s administration expanded to include seventeen nations, including those hostile to the U.S. like Somalia, Syria, and Venezuela.
TPS prevents deportations for 18-month periods and can be renewed indefinitely. Historically, terminating the program has proved challenging. In 2017 and 2018, the first Trump administration announced plans to end TPS designations for El Salvador, Haiti, Honduras, Nepal, and Nicaragua, concluding that conditions in these countries no longer warranted protected status. Honduras and Nicaragua received their original TPS designation 27 years ago following Hurricane Mitch, while El Salvador’s status dates back 24 years to a 2001 earthquake—hardly “temporary” timeframes. However, in June 2023, then-Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas rescinded these terminations and granted 18-month extensions for all five countries. In one of his final official acts, Mayorkas extended Venezuela’s 2023 TPS designation from April 3, 2025, through October 2, 2026.
The new DHS Secretary, Kristi Noem, has given TPS critics hope for reform of the entire program. Of the estimated 600,000 Venezuelan TPS recipients currently living in the U.S., 350,000 will lose their employment authorization documents when their designations expire in April. The remaining 250,000, whose authorizations expire in September, will also see their TPS and employment privileges terminated under Noem’s direction.
The Federal Register’s notice regarding these changes highlighted how TPS has enabled thousands of inadmissible aliens to settle in the U.S., straining local resources and maxing out city shelters, police stations, and aid services. DHS also noted the increased presence of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua (TdA), a state-sponsored transnational criminal organization now active in at least seventeen states.
The notice cited the “potential magnetic effect” of anticipated 18-month extensions on illegal immigration. “The anticipated designation or extension for TPS and resulting benefit to access [work authorization documents] have been pull factors driving Venezuelan nationals to the United States.” Given President Trump’s January 20 executive orders, Secretary Noem determined that extending Venezuela’s 2023 TPS designation “is in fact contrary to the national interest.” DHS noted that while some challenging conditions persist in Venezuela, improvements in the economy, public health, and crime now allow for safe repatriation.
Though the State Department reissued a Level Four “Do Not Travel” Advisory for Venezuela in September 2024, U.S.-Venezuela relations show signs of improvement. Venezuela has agreed to accept deported illegal aliens, including TdA gang members, and President Nicolas Maduro released six American detainees. Over the past decade, more than 7.7 million Venezuelans have fled their country, creating one of the world’s largest migration crises. Regarding DHS’s immigration agenda under her leadership, Noem stated simply: “We’ve just gotten started.”
Joe Guzzardi is an Institute for Sound Public Policy analyst. Contact him at jguzzardi@ifspp.org
Eye of the beholder William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 2-11-25
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Answer to yesterday’s puzzle: Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
Hadassah Feinberg Shapiro Claim Is False – Feinberg, who we have covered, is burning up the internet with claims that Josh Shapiro has been charged with the attempted assassination of President Trump last summer in Butler, Pa.
Sean Connolly, the Montco man, who is leading the expose into Pennsylvania’s feckless and corrupt governor has let us know that Ms. Feinberg’s claims are untrue, and is interfering with the real investigation.
Sean says the Butler Police Department and the Butler barracks of the Pennsylvania State Police have told him that no criminal complaints have been filed against Shapiro.
He says Ms. Feinberg’s recklessness is endangering himself, Leah Hoopes, Greg Stenstrom, and other whistleblowers and victims.
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Answer to yesterday’s puzzle: And he counted it nothing to lay his hands upon Mardochai alone: for he had heard that he was of the nation of the Jews, and he chose rather to destroy all the nation of the Jews
Esther
Quiet room alone William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 2-9-25
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Answer to yesterday’s puzzle: All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone. Blaise Pascal
Universal deceit William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 2-8-25
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Answer to yesterday’s puzzle: In a time of universal deceit – telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
George Orwell (or not)
Here Are The Republican State Committepeople
By Joe Mirarchi
A right- to-know-request seeking the names of the Pennsylvania GOP’s state committeepeople — among other things — brought forth two partial responses.
It is now clear an inner-party election fight is set more like a Championship Boxing Match at the Penn Harris Hotel in Camp Hill, PA. Or even like the Super Bowl LIX matchup in New Orleans, Louisiana, between the Philadelphia Eagles and the Kansas City Chiefs. The elections are now two days away on Saturday, Feb. 9.
The main voting event is for chairman of the board. The contenders are: businessman Bill Bachenberg and State Senator Greg Rothman. The home field advantage goes to Mr. Rothman.
And since that RTK request was issued and received on Feb. 3, the state committee member list became revealed magically by way confidential informants. Other informants of the same stature revealed that on late Feb. 5, the PAGOP’s General Counsel issued a formal statement addressing the validity of any secret or paper ballot option, and the possible suspension of the Bylaws for voting purposes during the coming meeting.
Simply, such options are not consistent with the PAGOP’s Revised Rules and Bylaws. A set of rules and bylaws which are older than the PAGOP nonprofit corporate structure itself. In each circumstance, the informants are now protected by the “reporters’ privilege”.
Adding to the meeting events, Mr. Rothman and Vice Chair Bernie Comfort, who is also running for re-election, announced a last minute, free gala-like event for the PAGOP’s voting State Committee Members. It is located in not one, but two rooms of the same Penn Harris Hotel. The GOP’s regional caucuses will be held there also in the following morning, followed by the elections in the afternoon. The gala is scheduled for Friday evening, right after the GOP Dinner with no end time for the event. It could very well end when the hotel bars close between 2 a.m. and 2:30 a.m less than six hours before the caucuses.
The gala is a private party offering drinks, desserts, and live music. As far as Mr. Bachenberg’s grass roots supporters, they have not been invited. They are not even sure if Mr. Bachenberg is invited.
In light of the forgoing, the anonymous state committee list is attached below. So is the Opinion Statement of the PAGOP general counsel. Even the invitation of Mr. Rothman and Ms. Comfort is attached.
Every registered PA Republican should step up and be heard for these elections–just like they did for President Trump and U.S. Senator Dave McCormick. Now is the time to do so. Their votes are supposed to be for who you want to be elected to lead and fix PA’s GOP and PA.
Email each and every county committee representative on the list for your county. Let them know who you want as your elected officials and why. Then email as many other committee members that you can. Ask your Republican friends and family to do it too. These are statewide matters. They affect and effect every city and county, big and small. They also effect the future lives of your community and family.
Besure you let them know it is time for a change in PA, and that PA should be fixed like President Trump is now fixing America. And think about that latest budget proposed by Governor Shapiro while doing so.
Do you think that Mr. Bachenberg is the proven, Trump-Loyal, and successful businessman who can do that? Or, do you think State Senator Rothman–as a longstanding party-line member–could do better with a set of rules and bylaws that have not been updated in more than ten-years?
Let’s face it, in PA politics things need to be fixed. The next PA fights are quickly approaching. The primary elections and the general elections are on May 20, and Nov. 4, respectively.
In these crucial elections the PAGOP has the chance to rid Philadelphia of its’ extremely liberal Democratic District Attorney Larry Krasner, and to say “No” to retaining three Democratic State Supreme Court Justices who reshaped PA’s Election and Voting Laws while on the Bench.
If removed, Philadelphia can return to Law and Order policies. The court would also return to having Republican Majority in a Commonwealth where almost every branch of government (state and local) are controlled by a now extremely liberal Democratic Party.
With these questions in mind kindly consider if these next fights are ones that should be led by someone who is proven to be loyal to President Trump’s Teams, and not to an old agenda.
It is not just the next four years of Pennsylvania and America that we need to fix, it is our future that we all hope shall go well beyond.
May God Continue to Bless Pennsylvania and America.
Here is the list of state committeepeople:
Below is the opinion regarding the ballot process.
Below is the invitation to the party
Considering The Tenth Amendment
By Bob Small
What does the Tenth Amendment mean?
Constitutional Scholars, of which I am not one, can have discussions about various aspects of the Constitution including the Tenth Amendment. To Quote “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
This led Michael Boldin to start theTenth Amendment Center as we learned about while at The Bill of Rights Banquet. TAC (Tenth Amendment Center) lists various articles but one of the most important,
in our eyes, is the nullification article.
The principles of nullification were first formalized by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison “in the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions of 1798. “This actually was a pre-revolutionary idea;
Congress used nullification as a way to force the UK Parliament to repeal the Stamp Act.
There is further discussion under the Nullification section.
See also A Founding Father in Dissent.
Most recently Maryland Defend the Guard Act Would Set Foundation to …
There is a movement to prevent “the governor from releasing any unit or member into ”active duty combat” unless an official “act of war” was declared.
See their Blog for other examples.
Now it wouldn’t be fair if we didn’t delve into some critics of Michael Boldin and the Tenth Amendment Center. But these critics need their own facts checked.
Media Bias/Fact Check says the the TAC has a “use of strong appeals in wording” to which we’d reply ” well yeah isn’t that what writers do”.
The SPLC (Southern Poverty Law Center) has an article on Michael Boldin. “Michael Boldin is an ideologue who has spent years promoting the idea that states can “nullify” federal legislation they don’t like — the very same argument pushed by defenders of slavery and segregation, and just as baseless now as it was then,” they say.
However, we also have Abortion Rights Ballot Measures Pass in Seven States – which we haven’t found the SPLC railing against.
Let’s leave us with this question; When is states’ rights rights right and when is states’ rights wrong?
