Declaration of Independence

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. - That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.

Sunday, January 4, 2026

What Is on the Supreme Court’s Docket for 2026?

The topic of discussion for this Constitution Monday concerns the U.S. Supreme Court and its decisions. The beginning of a new year marks the countdown to the end of June when the nation’s highest court starts handing down decisions for the cases they heard over the previous months. According to Fred Lucas, “several of the cases in 2026 … revolve around President Donald Trump in the near term but will have far-reaching consequences for future presidents. In his article published at The Daily Signal, Lucas shares “the biggest high court decisions to watch for in 2026.” 

1. Deciding on Men in Women’s Sports

The first major case to be argued in 2026 comes Jan. 13, when justices will hear arguments in combined Idaho and West Virginia cases. The cases of Little v. Hecox and West Virginia v. B.P.J. will affect 25 states with laws preventing biological males from competing in women’s sports.

“These are the cases in which states have banned biological males from competing in women’s sports and that’s a very, very important decision,” Han von Spakovsky, a former senior legal fellow at The Heritage Foundation, told The Daily Signal. “It’s going to affect women and girls in K-12 sports in many different states.”

The arguments could also have federal implications since Trump signed an executive order in February to withhold federal funds from states that allow biological males to play in women’s sports….

2. Tariffs Mark First Test for Emergency Law

The Supreme Court could decide early in 2026 on Trump’s executive action to impose sweeping tariffs, part of his core economic and trade policy….

At issue is whether the president exceeded his executive branch authority by imposing tariffs under the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act, which is intended to address emergencies only. Normally, trade policy, including tariffs, is enacted through legislation in Congress and signed by the president.

This is uncharted waters for the Supreme Court, which has never ruled on how far the International Emergency Economic Powers Act could go, von Spakovsky said….

3. Reversing Birthright Citizenship?

In early December, the high court agreed to hear arguments on Trump’s executive order to end birthright citizenship. Under Trump’s order, agencies would not recognize citizenship for U.S.-born children who do not have at least one parent who is an American citizen.

Birthright citizenship is the view that anyone born in the United States, even a child of illegal immigrants, is automatically a U.S. citizen.

This has the potential to overturn a Supreme Court precedent going back to 1898, when the majority upheld birthright citizenship under the 14 Amendment, which was enacted to grant citizenship to freed slaves after the Civil War….

The point of contention in the case is the phrase, “subject to the jurisdiction thereof,” which Solicitor General D. John Sauer has argued was misinterpreted by the court’s late 19th-century ruling.

4. Scrapping Humphrey’s Executor

In what could be a powerful blow against the deep state, a majority of justices seems poised to reverse the 90-year-old precedent of Humphrey’s Executor.

This specific case regards Trump’s ouster of Federal Trade Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter, but it will affect other federal boards and commissions with members appointed by Republican and Democrat presidents. The members, in theory, operate without political concerns. They serve for a set term until it expires, regardless if a new president of a different party assumes office during that term.

The high court, in the 1935 precedent in Humphrey’s Executor v. United States, ruled Congress could enact laws limiting the power of a president to fire executive officials of an independent agency.

“We are not big fans of executive power, but overturning Humphrey’s Executor will make the president more accountable,” said Berry of the Cato Institute. “The problem with so-called independent executive agencies is that the president can avoid accountability. He can say, the agency did it. The president should be checked by Congress and the courts, not by appointees of the prior president. The framers never had that intent.”

5. Politics and the Federal Reserve

On Jan. 26, justices will hear a case of Trump v. Cook. In an October emergency docket ruling, the court ruled that Federal Reserve Board Governor Lisa Cook could keep her job – for now – after Trump attempted to oust her.

The question in the case is whether a president can fire a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors or whether the organization created in 1913 is independent.

It’s not the same question as the [one] posed in the Humphrey’s Executor matter. Although Kamanar, of the National Legal and Policy Center, anticipates Trump will win the FTC case, he said the Federal Reserve could be viewed as an entirely different institution.

“The Federal Reserve board is different from the SEC, the FTC, or the FEC,” Kamanar said, also referencing the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Federal Election Commission. “The Federal Reserve is funded through the private banks, not by Congress.”

Members of the board are appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate, but Trump’s ouster of Cook marked the first time a president removed a board member.

  

Saturday, January 3, 2026

What Is the Covenant Path and How Do I Get on It?

My Come Follow Me studies for this week took me to the Old Testament in a lesson titled “Introduction to the Old Testament.” The lesson was introduced by the following information. 

When you consider studying the Old Testament [or First Testament of Jesus Christ] this year, how do you feel? Eager? Uncertain? Afraid? All of these emotions are understandable. The Old Testament is one of the oldest collections of writings in the world, and this can make it both exciting and intimidating. These writings come from an ancient culture that can seem foreign and sometimes strange or even uncomfortable. And yet in these writings we see people having experiences that seem familiar. We recognize gospel themes that witness of the divinity of Jesus Christ and His gospel. Yes, people like Abraham, Sarah, Hannah, and Daniel lived lives that, in some ways, were very different from ours. But they also experienced family joy and family discord, moments of faith and moments of uncertainty, and successes and failures – like all of us do. More important, they exercised faith, repented, made covenants, had spiritual experiences, and never gave up on the promise of a Savior. As we learn how God moved in their lives, we also see Him in ours, and we say with the psalmist: “Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path…. Therefore thy servant loveth it” (Psalm 119:105, 140).

As with all Come Follow Me lessons, this one includes several principles, including (1) The Old Testament testifies of Jesus Christ, (2) Jesus Christ is Jehovah in the Old Testament, (3) The Lord restored many “plain and precious things” through Joseph Smith, and (4) The Old Testament helps me understand my covenant relationship with God. This essay will discuss principle #4 about understanding my covenant relationship with God.

The Old Testament is the story of God seeking to make us His “peculiar treasure” by covenant (Exodus 19:5). For that reason, a good way to prepare to read the Old Testament is to learn about covenants – specifically the everlasting covenant God offered to ancient prophets like Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and their posterity.

In the October 2022 General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, President Russell M. Nelson spoke on the topic “The Everlasting Covenant.” He introduced his remarks as follows. 

I have spoken frequently about the importance of the Abrahamic covenant and the gathering of Israel. When we embrace the gospel and are baptized, we take upon ourselves the sacred name of Jesus Christ. Baptism is the gate that leads to becoming joint heirs to all the promises given anciently by the Lord to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and their posterity.

“The new and everlasting covenant” (Doctrine and Covenants 132:6) and the Abrahamic covenant are essentially the same – two ways of phrasing the covenant God made with mortal men and women at different times. The adjective everlasting denotes that this covenant existed before the foundation of the world! The plan laid out in the Grand Council in Heaven included the sobering realization that we would all be cut off from God’s presence. However, God promised that He would provide a Savior who would overcome the consequences of the Fall. God told Adam after his baptism:

“Thou art after the order of him who was without beginning of days or end of years, from all eternity to all eternity.

“Behold, thou art one in me, a son of God; and thus may all become my sons” (Moses 6:67-68).

Adam and Eve accepted the ordinance of baptism and began the process of being one with God. They had entered the covenant path.

When you and I also enter that path, we have a new way of life. We thereby create a relationship with God that allows Him to bless and change us. The covenant path leads us back to Him. If we let God prevail in our lives, that covenant will lead us closer and closer to Him. All covenants are intended to be binding. They create a relationship with everlasting ties.

Once we make a covenant with God, we leave neutral ground forever. God will not abandon His relationship with those who have forged such a bond with Him….

Once you and I have made a covenant with God, our relationship with Him becomes much closer than before our covenant. Now we are bound together. Because of our covenant with God, He will never tire in His efforts to help us, and we will never exhaust His merciful patience with us. Each of us has a special place in God’s heart. He has high hopes for us….

Those who make sacred covenants and keep them are promised eternal life and exaltation, “the greatest of all the gifts of God” (Doctrine and Covenants 14:7). Jesus Christ is the guarantor of those covenants (see Hebrews 7:22; 8:6). Covenant keepers who love God and allow Him to prevail over all other things in their lives make Him the most powerful influence in their lives.

Friday, January 2, 2026

Is Reading Difficult Books Possible for High School Students?

Families are stronger when individual members know how to read, enjoy reading, and can comprehend what they are reading, and strong families strengthen communities, states, and nations. Parents can help their children to develop reading and comprehension skills by introducing books to them at an early age and reading lots of books to them before and after they learn how to read for themselves.

One crucial point about encouraging children to read books: example is the greatest teacher. Parents should set a good example by reading books themselves as well as reading to their children.

I remember my concern with my youngest daughter when she enjoyed picture books more than books with words. When I spoke with her about my concern, I mentioned that words can paint wonderful pictures in our minds. To illustrate what I meant, my daughter and I began to read the first book of a nine-book historical fiction series titled The Work and the Glory. The series tells the story of the early years of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Our reading time became sacred to both of us, and something that we both enjoyed.

By the time we finished the series months later, my daughter was bringing home library books more appropriate for her age. As our children grow older, we can share diverse types of books with them to prepare them for reading and understanding books in high school and college.

Dr. John J. Goyette, vice president and dean emeritus at Thomas Aquinas College, shared his experience in reading a work of William Shakespeare as a 14-year-old freshman in high school. He described his difficulty in understanding the archaic vocabulary, confusing syntax, and the “relentless political maneuvering.” 

But, with the teacher’s help, I fought my way through, page by page, scene by scene, until I not only finished the tragedy, but appreciated it – the powerful rhetoric, the interplay of poetry and prose, the ominous imagery and macabre foreshadowing.

When I was done, I felt as if I’d just scaled Mount Everest, and a lifelong love of literature and learning was born.

Had my teacher assigned only an excerpt from “Julius Caesar” – or a shorter work, such as a sonnet – I wouldn’t have experienced that sense of accomplishment or intellectual growth. I would have suffered the same, initial frustration without attaining that ultimate joy.

Unfortunately, frustration without joy is the norm at most high schools these days, where dispirited teachers coddle students rather than educate them.

A New York Times survey of 2,000 educators, students, and parents finds that most high schoolers read very few, if any, full-length books anymore. Citing a lack of time, short attention spans, and a compulsion to teach to standardized tests, respondents reported that most students were lucky to read one or two books, per year, from beginning to end.

The result is a debased and diminished education.

When it comes to learning, there’s no substitute for reading a difficult book. It’s an unparalleled exercise in what the business world likes to call “deep thinking” – a sustained grappling with complex ideas or problems.

Research shows that long-form reading develops brain connectivity, intellectual stamina, critical thinking, and cognition.

Long books, especially the great ones, are the antidote to the micro-attention spans wrought by social media. For a generation that’s been reared on 30-second videos and 140-character messages, they are more needed than ever.

Generous excerpts, of course, have their place. I teach at a college that studies the Great Books, nearly all in their entirety, yet even we sometimes assign shorter texts and select passages from longer ones. Still, no one would ever claim that the short story, which is necessarily limited in its depth and themes, is literature’s finest form, and excerpts can never take the place of full works.

Pluck a canto from “The Divine Comedy” and you lose the scope of Dante’s epic journey, his character’s development and the recurring themes that shape his masterpiece.

Great poets and novelists present their readers with a complete story – one with a beginning, middle, and end, punctuated by surprises and plot twists. When teachers isolate key portions, they push their own interpretation at the expense of the author’s intended meaning.

At best, excerpting the great works highlights excellent writing, but it nonetheless strips these books of their magnitude and greatness, highlighting style while foregoing substance. Studying just a few pages of “Anna Karenina” or “The Brothers Karamazov” is the literary equivalent of looking at the “Mona Lisa” through a microscope.

We do our high schoolers a disservice by assuming they can no longer handle the quantity or quality of literature routinely read in past generations. When held to high standards, today’s students can – and do – flourish.

Thursday, January 1, 2026

What Resolutions Will You Make This Year?

It is that time of year when most of us consider how we will improve in the next year. Yet, we should be aware that less than 50 percent of people make New Year’s resolutions, and 94% fail to keep their resolutions. This is according to an article written by Tom Griffin and published at The Daily Signal

Griffin quoted Dr. Michelle Rozen’s research about New Year’s resolutions: 30-50 percent of people make resolutions, 94 percent fail to keep them, and 88 percent “fail before the end of January.”

Griffin’s counsel is to “prioritize resolutions that matter.” His counsel reminded me of SMART goals. I have written about them in previous years, so I will summarize information about them, which I will take from an article by Brett Day and titled “The Ultimate Guide to S.M.A.R.T. Goals.” This article is focused on team and business goals, but the following steps apply to all people. 

S.M.A.R.T. goals provide leaders with a framework to create specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and time-bound goals that can help teams finish tasks and projects on time and with desirable outcomes. Setting S.M.A.R.T. goals can help remove uncertainties and guesswork and help ensure projects and tasks are completed within specified time frames – which, in turn, can help eliminate the risk of scope creep.

             S = Specific: Create a clear, concise goal.

M = Measurable: Ensure you can measure progress.

A = Achievable: Ensure you can achieve the goal.

R = Relevant: Is the goal relevant to your life, to your business, etc.

T = Timebound: Make sure your goal has a deadline.

When creating S.M.A.R.T. goals, I recommend writing them down…. You can also quickly organize your goals and determine the resources needed to complete them….

To help build confidence and morale, every S.M.A.R.T. goal win should be celebrated….

I have made only one resolution at this point. However, I have learned through experience that I accomplish more tasks if I set one or two goals, complete them, and then set one or two more goals. This way, I do not feel overwhelmed by my goals AND I can remember them.

Wednesday, December 31, 2025

Why Should We Be Concerned about the Somali Fraud in Minnesota?

On Friday, Nick Shirley, an independent video journalist, released a 42-minute YouTube documentary with details of his undercover work to document the fraud of mostly Somali scammers in Minnesota. This news is everywhere – except in the mainstream news.

Reports are that the scammers took billions of dollars of taxpayer money, probably with the knowledge of someone in the State of Minnesota government. Reports are also sounding about similar fraud taking place in Maine, Ohio, and Washington State.

Those in high federal government offices watched Shirley’s documentary. Vice President JD Vance commented on it on X and praised Shirley for doing more journalistic work than some people who received Pulitzer Prizes. Jarrett Stepman reported on the video as follows. 

The video is certainly worth watching. Among the big findings uncovered is a series of so-called day care centers and other facilities being funded in the state that have no children in them at all.

In one of the most remarkable scenes, Shirley arrived at a location called the “Quality Learing Center.” Yes, “Learing,” which was obviously misspelled. The center had been licensed for 99 children, but none were there. In front of the building, a woman kept shouting, “Don’t open up, ICE.” Shirley informed her that he was merely a journalist, but she ignored him and kept shouting….

This is just the latest in what is without a doubt one of the biggest scandals in American history.

According to some estimates, Somali scammers have taken more money from taxpayers in the last few years than the entire gross domestic product of Somalia.

Also, according to the New York Post, the stolen money “accounts for roughly half of the $18 billion in total federal funs provided to the Minnesota-run services since 2018.”…

Walz and most Democrats seem to be, at most, slightly bothered that they have to talk about this story at all and have tried to make this out to be a “bipartisan” issue that must simply be managed.

But it wasn’t Republicans who run the state of Minnesota, it wasn’t Republicans creating these massive entitlement programs. And while there are Republicans who embrace the kind of open-ended immigration that enabled the Somali fraud scandal, they are at least much less prominent in the age of President Donald Trump.

No, this is a problem created by the Left, one that Democrats are apparently unwilling to confront with any level of urgency.

Let’s take a step back here and get back to the rub of this Somali scammer problem at its source. It’s not just about a broken immigration system with perverse incentives, though we’ve certainly had that.

What the Somali fraudsters did was a matter of greed and crookedness, a replication of the kind of schemes that allow one to get ahead in their homeland. It’s immoral, but easy to understand in a basic sense. It’s the kind of corruption that ruins countries the world over, but it isn’t remarkable.

Now let’s say you really are an old school New Deal Democrat, who believes strongly in the power of government and a robust welfare state. You should be the most enraged by what’s happened, right? After all, these apparently well-meaning programs have become the means by which our modern-day Visigoths have essentially sacked the capital city and turned their programs into a complete mockery of the whole system.

But outrage hasn’t materialized on the Left. If anything, they’re miffed they have to talk about the Somali fraud story at all…..

When Fox News columnist David Marcus went to Minnesota to find out what the feeling was in the state about the whole mess, I think he got to the heart of the matter. He found mostly apathy and indifference from the local liberal voters….

I imagine this apathetic attitude is common among the Democratic Party’s most engaged base voters.

New Deal liberalism is dead. In its place is a warped ideology, a new religion. Many blue state programs have been converted into quasi-religious enterprises, fueling what appears to be virtually unmitigated graft the depth of which we are only beginning to understand.

The government is no longer there to give all Americans a leg up. It’s there to enact an identitarian form of social justice, to sort out the winners and losers of its largesse based on a mystical hierarchy of oppression only fully understood in the inner sanctums of the federally funded ivory tower.

That money was siphoned away by illegal means wasn’t really so terrible according to this thinking. It was just the product of a mandated secular tithe to soothe the modern liberal conscience made no less noble by its seedy application. What the oppressed groups do with the money justly given isn’t the biggest problem, after all….

The real problem right now, so this thinking goes, is that bigoted Americans noticed the scandal and might not be so keen about bringing in waves of more Somalis, who are the real victims here….

This toxic, civilizationally suicidal impulse of misguided, self-destructive “empathy” mixed with self-loathing is costing us far more than the billions of dollars already pillaged from state coffers. In the end, it may cost us everything.

Carlos Garcia reported at The Blaze on the Minnesota fraud. According to Kristi Noem, Secretary of Department of Homeland Security, said that the federal government is investigating the fraud in Minnesota. He also reported the comments of FBI Director Kash Patel that any Somali immigrants who are convicted of fraud could be denaturalized and deported. 

Shirley’s commentary was not the first reported abuse in Minnesota. Patel said on Sunday that “the BI previously dismantled a $250 million fraud scheme involving COVID-19 relief funds intended to provide meals for children in Minnesota.”

In this case, there were 79 indictments with 57 convictions. Several defendants “were charged with crimes ranging from wire fraud to money laundering and conspiracy.” Some defendants tried to subvert justice by bribing “a juror with $120,000 in cash.” One defendant was sentenced to a 10-year term in prison and ordered to pay nearly $48 million in restitution.

Patel described the scheme as the “tip of a very large iceberg,” adding that the FBI would “continue to follow the money and protect children” and that the investigation remains ongoing.

The publication of Shirley’s documentary increased scrutiny into the fraud in Minnesota. Shirley put the blame on Governor Tim Walz, who pushed back saying the state had been cracking down on fraud for years. However, “a group of former state health workers have accused Walz of obstructing efforts to uncover the scams” saying that Walz “is 100% responsible for massive fraud in Minnesota.” They said that they informed Walz “early on, hoping for a partnership in stopping fraud, but no, we got the opposite response.”

Tuesday, December 30, 2025

What Is America’s Creed and Heritage?

There has been some discussion among conservatives recently about what it means to be an American. Is it simply a person living in the United States – legally or illegally? Is it a person who has U.S. citizenship? Is there more to the meaning of being an American?

Thomas Jefferson primarily drafted the Declaration of Independence, and the Continental Congress officially adopted it on July 4, 1776. The Declaration of Independence did exactly what the title states: It declared that the thirteen American colonies were independent from the rule of Britain. The document declared that the United States of America was a sovereign nation and responsible for its own liberty and government.

The United States of America will celebrate its 250th birthday anniversary in 2026. However, the signing of the Declaration of Independence is celebrated every year on July 4, a day known as Independence Day.

Just as the Declaration of Independence declared liberty and independence, it “remains a cornerstone of American values and identity,” according to Daniel McCarthy in an article published at The Daily Signal. The debate about what makes an American continues today, and McCarthy gave his explanation as follows. 

The two extremes in the debate are the “creedal nationalists,” who emphasize America as an idea, and those who boast of being “heritage Americans” with lineages in this country stretching back generations or centuries.

Aren’t long-established families – whose ancestors came over on the Mayflower or fought in the Revolutionary War – more American than relative newcomers?

Absolutely not, say those who insist America is about values, not bloodlines.

For creedal nationalists, an American is defined by belief “in the rule of law, in freedom of conscience and freedom of expression, in colorblind meritocracy, in the U.S. Constitution, in the American dream,” as [Vivek] Ramaswamy wrote in the New York Times Dec. 17.

Ramaswamy’s forebears came from India: Does that make him less American than the descendants of 17th-century English settlers?

The argument isn’t just about history; it’s about immigration today.

Not only does creedal nationalism suppose the country has nothing to fear from immigration on any scale – as long as new arrivals accept the patriotic catechism – it also implies those who oppose large-scale immigration anyway are really un-American.

Yet the creed means different things to different people, and anyone can pretend to believe anything.

Defining a creed is difficult enough for a church – it often leads to schisms.

So the temptation in politics is to make the creed as vague as possible, which translates into making it easy for anyone to qualify as an American.

Ramaswamy specifies in his definition, “a citizen who swears exclusive allegiance to our nation.”

But other creedal nationalists commonly assert that noncitizens who embrace America’s values – or their own, typically liberal values – are better Americans than native citizens whose ideas are in conflict with the creed, or with the way liberals interpret the creed.

On the other hand, “heritage American” is a doubly damaging concept. It needlessly alienates newer Americans while mindlessly elevating older ones….

It’s a notorious fact that many Americans descended from Puritan forefathers are today enthusiastically and aggressively woke.

Just look at the average “No Kings” rally – “heritage Americans” are in abundance, some looking old enough to have watched the Battle of Yorktown in person.

Such “heritage American” institutions as Harvard University and the Episcopal Church certainly don’t hold much hope for conservatives.

Being an American has never meant subscribing to one political party, but that’s the point – much of the “heritage” population and the institutions entrusted to its custody have come to align with a single ideological faction today, one that does not revere the America of old.

At the most basic level, being an American simply means being a citizen, and all citizens are equal – not only as a point of law but as a foundational principle.

[Vice President JD] Vance was utterly clear about this in his interview last weekend with UnHerd’s Sohrb Ahmari: “Whether you got your citizenship an hour ago, or you got your citizenship or your family got citizenship 10 generations ago, we have to treat all Americans equally.”

But Vance’s understanding of heritage bolsters the creed, rather than conflicting with it.

Taken on its own, the creed is abstract and open to endless debate.

Yet regardless of how one understands the creed, an American – of any background, however recent or ancient in this land – should honor the patrimony handed down to us by our ancestors: Our American ancestors, the men and women who originally made this land great, not just our biological ancestors.

America’s heritage is something to which all citizens are heir, regardless of how recently they arrived.

Honoring that heritage is a moral duty of good citizenship.

That doesn’t mean overlooking the sins of America’s past or present – but it does mean expressing gratitude and loyalty to the memory of our national forefathers.

And that, in turn, means being careful about accepting too much immigration or demanding too little in terms of assimilation.

The Americans who built this country bequeathed us not only a Constitution but a culture, which is more than a litany of abstract propositions….

Whenever immigrants and their descendants honor that heritage, they should be honored in turn as dutiful sons and daughters of America.

My definition of an American is an individual who is a U.S. citizen who is willing to work and sacrifice to make America the best that it can be while remaining true to the U.S. Constitution. All other people are freeloaders – trying to get all they can get from America without giving anything in return. Race, religion, color, or sexual orientation do not matter. What matters is what an individual is willing to do to make and keep America as the greatest country in the world.

Monday, December 29, 2025

Who Is Nick Shirley?

My VIP for this week is Nick Shirley, an independent video journalist. Monica Showalter, a seasoned journalist who publishes frequent articles at American Thinker shared the following information about Nick Shirley. She wrote that Shirley  took “his cell phone and a man named David he’s working with, to record and expose massive Somali fraud in Minnesota” – ending with a 42-minute video about the Somali fraud in Minnesota. 

Shirley and his guide, “David” who has done hours of research, take to the streets of Minneapolis on Dec. 26 to ask Somali daycare owners and later, home health care providers, how to enroll someone in their services. They show state data on how many children their daycares serve, as well as millions in federal money received, and find one empty establishment after another, some of them flamingly obvious in their Potemkin operations, with misspelled names, people who say ‘I don’t know’ to every question, people excitedly yelling in Somali, owners unable to give basic information such as price for services, and hangers on filming them with their own cell phone cameras and calling the cops on them for ‘harassment.’

The cops, of course, escorted the two investigative reporters from the premises, unconcerned about the obvious problems with the Potemkin establishments – health care providers without old people, daycare centers without little footprints of kids in the snow, utterly empty of occupants as seen through the glass on a weekday.

They learned that the Somalis notified one another as if in a racket, and many slammed doors in their faces for asking basic questions.

In the most comical moment, a white leftist karen in a keffiyeh appeared seemingly out of nowhere and started shouting behind them to the Somali “day care” owners not open up, that Shirley and David were ICE agents, which suggests a lot of illegal aliens among those taking federal money on false claims of running businesses are actually here illegally, which didn’t come up in the piece….

Shirley and David exposed about $110 million in likely fraud in their day’s work, taking the results to the statehouse, where they were berated by another white karen Democrat wearing a puce jacket with a hall-monitor mien and probably an elected official, who showed no concern whatsoever as to the merit of their claims – of a state that is paying Somalis for fraudulent services and this was just a day’s work….

You can link to Shirley’s video through Showalter’s article. I watched it and was amazed at the blatant fraud. See what you think about it.