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Re: Pardoned J6 Offender Killed in Altercation With Police

“Great summary on why Trump issued the J6 pardons, a decision that has troubled most of us. And before J6 fades away, first, as Mark Alexander wrote last month, ‘Prosecute Michael Byrd for Killing Ashli Babbitt.’” —Utah

“President Trump had no faith in the charges and so he just pardoned almost everyone. Was this the perfect solution? Probably not. Sometimes you have to accept that you get some unintended consequences in order to achieve the overall good. As Alexander noted, the lesser of two bad choices…” —California

“For the record, many of the offenders whom Trump released had already served years without a trial. They already did their time. And this column did a good job of giving the facts about the Democrat double standards on rioting.” —Michigan

“The politically biased Washington, DC, criminal ‘justice’ system is notorious for violating the rights of any defendant with the wrong political views. My understanding is that Trump had not intended to blanket pardon, but after looking at the cases, the violations of the defendants’ rights were so egregious that he pardoned them anyway.” —Arizona

Re: Christians Muddling Immigration

“Generosity results from excess. If you have enough, you can probably share some of the excess. The government does not get to decide when you have enough, and it doesn’t get to choose where the surplus needs to go. Government generosity is just a trick to buy votes and is therefore robbery.” —Washington

Re: Is Trump’s Birthright Citizenship EO A-OK?

“The Supreme Court of the United States must finish ruling on the original interpretation of the 14th Amendment that states, ‘All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.’ Otherwise, the republic will become overwhelmed by a population foreign and hostile to common law.” —North Carolina

Re: Who’s Afraid of Elon Musk?

“Responsible spending is what we expect from our elected representatives. As they seem to be easily distracted from honesty, we need a frequent and thorough audit of their performance. If they resist this accountability, they should go home and send someone else to represent the people. It is about spending the people’s money properly rather than spending it foolishly with no responsibility.” —Washington

“Maybe what they are gnashing their dentures over is that, with hardly trying, this admin is showing how lazy and selfish Congress truly is. Makes lawmakers look bad, and appearances are all they care about. So what if we are in debt up to our eyeballs.” —Montana

Re: Trump’s Agency EO Is the Right Move

“Miller should have taught the press corps on the importance of a free, honest, and impartial press that keeps the three branches of government honest and impartial. I don’t think the Founding Fathers had any thoughts of politics as a career. They had businesses to run and probably did not imagine people not having things more important than their own livelihoods. The press was a part of that whole process. The press, if honest, reports directly to the people and keeps the three branches of government accountable to the people. In America, we’ve lost an honest and impartial press corps and most don’t seem to care. What is being taught in journalism school? To lie so your side wins?” —Nevada

Re: Lori Chavez-DeRemer, a Nod to Big Labor

“Chavez-DeRemer was my legislative representative in Oregon. In order to survive politically in this state, one must tread a fine line between freedom and the Democrat tyrannical rule here. And that is destroying the state. The best evidence is to look at who or what replaced her.” —Oregon

Re: What the Elbridge Colby Fight Means

“Senators have the power to refuse consent to a presidential appointee, even if they are from the president’s party. However, withholding consent should not be for trivial or petty partisan reasons (we know Democrats are not listening). In this case, Senator Tom Cotton should determine whether Mr. Colby is too casual about the prospect of a nuclear-armed Iran, or if he has what he believes to be a viable backup plan if efforts to prevent that scenario fail.” —Minnesota

Re: Fixing the Pentagon

“It seems to me that every individual employee of the federal government, regardless of rank, GSA status, capacity, or location, on January 20, 2025, should have been aware of what might lie ahead. Perhaps they believed that this routine happens every four years, but nothing ever happens; promises are never kept. Fire up the website of U-Haul and start dusting off the luggage! Trump and Vance are in town!” —Virginia

“This was an absolute ‘must’ firing to start the cleanup of the mess Obama and Biden did to our military. CQ Brown’s belief that there should be quotas based on race rather than merit in our pilot forces would lead to disaster in any current or future conflict. His positions on DEI and CRT were truly racist, which makes him a true racist. We do not need that in our military or any organization in our country.” —Texas