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Hooray for Saxony-Anhalt. More need to stand up against illegal immigration.

Commented: Monday, September 7th, 2026 @ 2:11 pm By: Bubba

The youth vote is heavily swinging to anti-immigration populist right parties all over Europe. In France, it is behind Marine LePen and the anti-immigration National Rally, Polls now show LePen far ahead in the first round of France's next election for president, and easily defeating any possible runoff opponent.

Commented: Monday, September 7th, 2026 @ 10:57 am By: borderhawk

A "Woman's Right to Choose," in such extreme circumstances when it pertains to life and death, will always be a subject that will need proper legislation, and further adjudication.

It is a life and death situation.

Commented: Monday, September 7th, 2026 @ 9:18 am By: Stan Deatherage

This is great to see. Maybe Europe is starting to wake up to the cancer of illegal immigration. The mass demonstrations against illegal immigration in Spain and the UK are also encouraging.

Commented: Monday, September 7th, 2026 @ 8:14 am By: Rino Hunter

SD: I agree. The local GOP should have stayed out of the Washington municipal elections. The trouble is that it is even worse than that. It appears the Executive Committee had very little to do with any of it even though the weight of the Party was presented to the public as being behind it.

The people that have been having their way with the local GOP, at least since the 2019 County Convention, had their feathers ruffled at the 2025 Convention when delegates successfully fought for a return to grassroots inclusion on the Executive Committee. The response from the power mongers was to further castrate the Executive Committee and let the unaccountable and shadowy Victory Committee take over the real work while being accountable to no one. It is Victory Committee fingerprints all over the Washington municipal elections.

There are people on the Executive Committee that know better and tried to do better. They were bitterly opposed by the power mongers. It seems a slight majority of the Executive Committee is made up of those that are fine with corruption and some that are too dim witted to know the difference.

A healthy, functioning Executive Committee would not have made the mess in the Washington municipal elections that was made this time around. This is what you get when schemers, egomaniacs, clowns and weaklings run an organization.

Commented: Sunday, September 6th, 2026 @ 9:19 pm By: Van Zant

As a conservative Republican, I voted for the 5 candidates that were recommended by the local Conservative Club. Three were elected. But look...what has it gotten us? Things are as bad as ever. Since then, we have had multiple interim City Managers, a fired city manager, and multiple interim police chiefs, & a still vacant council seat.
The powers-that-be made th current Fire Chief, th interim Police Chief too. That is too much power in one person, & it creates conflicts of interest and an Overwhelming power over Depts of authority, & over th whole of govt, & its pple. What it amounts to is that the powers-that-be wanted to make sure they had a "team-player" in that position. Its almost incestual.

They say: When one suspects corruption, its most likely just incompetence. But incompetence easily turns to corruption, so that is what we hav in Washington. U cant blame th voters, we elected 3 out of the 5 that were recommended. There's a ROT locally, & Stan I do not deserve a sick govt.

Commented: Sunday, September 6th, 2026 @ 1:22 pm By: Washingtonian

JV: I am not MAGA, but I know enough about the history of the world to know these are dangerous times, and we are extremely fortunate to have President Trump at the helm ... Best American president in my lifetime, and yes, I am a Boomer, who remembers the Vietnam War and the Cold War all too well.

Commented: Sunday, September 6th, 2026 @ 9:37 am By: Stan Deatherage

JV, I consider myself a Reagan Republican, not MAGA. I appreciate a lot of what Trump is doing, but I scratch my head at some things. His US senate endorsements in NC and SC are cases in point.

The Iran problem goes all the way back to Jimmy Carter, but during the Reagan era they were not in a position to be much of a threat to us, partly because of Iran and Iraq being at war during a good part of that time.

Here is the fundamental problem. Iran hates us. Its government has led "Death to America" rallies going back to the Carter days. They call us the "Great Satan" and Israel the "Little Satan". A country that is a theocratic dictatorship, calls us the "Great Satan" and constantly proclaims "Death to America" is not one that any sane American would want to have nuclear weapons. Yet Iran is way too close to developing nuclear weapons. Further, the Muslim clique that runs the country is from a cult that believes the world needs to be engulfed in fire in order to bring about the return of the Mahdi, a Muslim religious figure. How better to engulf the world in fire than with nuclear weapons?

Obama and Biden thought they could buy Iran off with lots and lots of cash, but all that did was give Iran resources to build weapons and advance their nuclear ambitions. Iran getting nuclear weapons is a huge danger to our country and to the world. Only those with their heads buried in the sand cannot comprehend that.

One remembers the great Imperial Austrian chancellor von Metternich, who observed a couple of centuries ago that a balance of power peace only worked between true nation-states but could not apply when dealing with a country that was, in his term, an "armed ideology". In his era that was revolutionary and then Napoleonic France. In todays world the Islamo-fascist regime of the Islamic Republic of Iran is an even better example of an "armed ideology".

It is a heck of a serious problem and not one easy to fix. I do give Trump credit for trying. It is something that is going to bite us in the ass if we don't fix it. The Democrats are just irresponsibly playing politics on this issue.

Commented: Saturday, September 5th, 2026 @ 8:34 pm By: Conservative Voter

SD: MAGA is now a full blown cult comprised of Boomers who refuse to both go against the script and question anything said by the President or those directly under him.

Anybody who sends Witkoff and Kushner, two MEGA ZIONISTS, to represent American interests is a friggin' idiot. People, such as those two clowns, have been banned from 109+ countries for a reason.

I'm for America First...not Israel First. I don't search under my bed at night for Commies or sleep in my Trump drawers that were made in China. Again, it's mind-blowing that you older cats, in general but not all of you, seem to ignore what's really going on.

Commented: Saturday, September 5th, 2026 @ 9:39 am By: John Valley

Mayorkas does need to be prosecuted, not only for making a mockery of our immigration laws but for the types of illegal aliens he allowed to pour across the border with his deliberate and intentional malfeasance.

The ultra-violent Venezuelan crime gang Tren de Aragua (TdA) was never present in the US until the traitor Mayorkas opened the border to them. Migrants openly displaying gang tattoos for TdA and the already present Salvadoran violent crime gang MS13 were just waived across the border under Mayorkas. Mayoraas even allowed them to use the "unaccompanied minor" subterfuge to get their gangsters into the US. Now, TdA has even moved its top headquarters from Venezuela to Juarez, Mexico, just across the Rio Grande from Texas.

then there are the Communist Chinese. Mayorkas allowed thousands of military aged men from our biggest geostrategic adversary into the US with no questions asked. Under their communist government, people are not freely allowed to travel without government permission. These Red Chinese interlopers were landed in Peru, put up in a camp ringed with barbed wire and guarded by gun toting sentries run by China in Panama, then sent north for Mayorkas to let them into the US.

This was all intentional. Mayorkas, a lawyer, could not just be stupid enough to not see what he was letting happen. He has committed high treason and needs to be prosecuted for it.

Commented: Saturday, September 5th, 2026 @ 12:02 pm By: Rino Hunter

No about Iran; that is why they have gone to the streets to protest and many have died trying to deserve a modicum of freedom.

Yes, I would name name myself and Hood for being good, decent, honest, and very competent politicians, but we can NOT do it all by ourselves; nor can those other good politicians in local government, and don't you and others in the electorate ever stop to ask yourselves why we, and others have had so little help over the years in limiting the scope of government, and ending corruption.

Obviously, they like that form of government, or they would stop electing those politician who, conversely, are not good, decent, honest, and very competent politicians.

This is not only a problem on Beaufort County's Board of County Commissioners, but a problem with every governing body in Beaufort County ... So tell me where I am wrong to well understand that the electorate is responsible for their government.

Commented: Saturday, September 5th, 2026 @ 12:39 am By: Stan Deatherage