The Supreme Court is hearing a common sense case. We should have some great audio tomorrow.
A domestic terror attack occurs in Mississippi, but no one seems to care. I’ll talk about why this may not be a bad thing.
And Scott Adams, the creator of Dilbert and writer of several books, has died after a short battle with cancer.
This Should Be A Slam Dunk Case
According to the Daily Wire:
Lainey Armistead’s first-ever trip to the Supreme Court will be to watch her own case, a high-stakes legal fight that will determine whether states have the right to keep gender-confused men from dominating women’s sports.
Armistead, a former women’s collegiate soccer player, is fighting for West Virginia’s “Save Women’s Sports” law, which barred transgender-identifying males from participating in women’s sports. The fight over the law will come to a head Tuesday as the Supreme Court hears oral arguments on West Virginia’s law and a similar measure out of Idaho.
“I just am baffled that a girl from Kentucky who went to school and at a smaller school in West Virginia would have the opportunity to be heard,” Armistead told The Daily Wire. “By them taking up this case, they’ve told me and all the other girls that we matter and that we’re important.”
Armistead was the captain of West Virginia State University women’s soccer team and played from 2019-2022 as transgender sports debate intensified across the nation. During that time, the debate rose to a fevered pitch as University of Pennsylvania transgender-identifying male swimmer Lia Thomas won a national championship title in the 500-yard freestyle in March 2022 over female swimmers.
Armistead joined the legal fight to defend West Virginia’s law in September 2021, becoming an intervenor in the case after hearing of female athletes in Connecticut losing to a male athlete competing as a woman.
Where Did This Come From
According to Fox News:
A suspect was in custody Saturday after an apparent arson attack set a Mississippi synagogue ablaze, destroying Torahs and prompting an investigation involving the FBI and the Joint Terrorism Task Force.
The blaze broke out shortly after 3 a.m. at Beth Israel Congregation in Jackson, the state’s largest synagogue. No congregants were injured, officials said.
Photos from the scene showed severe damage to an administrative office and the synagogue’s library, where several Torahs were destroyed or damaged.
Jackson Mayor John Horhn confirmed that a person was taken into custody following an investigation that also included the FBI and the Joint Terrorism Task Force.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/mississippi-synagogue-burned-arson-attack-suspect-custody
More Communist Policiy Disaster
According to the New York Post:
The Seattle police union is slamming the city’s new socialist mayor for apparently issuing a directive halting all open drug use arrests — in favor of promoting a diversion program they say suffers from “suicidal empathy.”
Wilson, 43, a self-proclaimed democratic socialist, ran on a platform of seemingly impossible guarantees — including a promise to “Trump-proof Seattle,” according to her campaign website.
The Seattle Police Officers Guild said it was blindsided by a directive from Wilson’s team to pause open drug use arrests, in a statement issued Sunday.
The union said that an internal memo ordered the police department to funnel related cases through the city’s Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion program, which aims to steer offenders engaged in low-level drug crime away from the criminal justice system.
LEAD seeks to connect alleged drug users with intensive case managers, who typically help their clients with anything from housing to mental illness.
The union blasted her apparent decision as a glaring red flag that will promote societal decay — and claimed LEAD actively supports “suicidal empathy” in its lenient practices.
“Most cops know that the LEAD program supports this ideology, and they don’t want to refer cases. It is a waste of time. We’ve all seen how our streets can be filled with death, decay, blight, and crime when ideology like this infects our city. Now with this resurrected insane direction, death, destruction, and more human suffering will be supercharged,” Mike Solan, the union president, said.
Police Chief Shon Barnes wrote that “new policies and procedures are inevitable” in the wake of “the shifting political landscape our city has grown accustomed to,” in the full memo obtained by KOMO.
The jarring change was “effective immediately,” said Barnes, who also noted that any suspect who refuses to comply with LEAD will still face “traditional prosecutorial measures.”
Wilson, however, denied the union’s bold assertions and claimed in a statement Monday that she hadn’t enforced any policy change.
“You’ll know when I announce a policy change, because I’ll announce a policy change,” she said sarcastically.
Despite the orders laid out in the internal memo, Seattle PD also said “nothing has changed when it comes to police continuing to make drug-related arrests.”
The Post reached out to to the police union for comment.
Wilson’s vision stretches far beyond Seattle’s borders. On the eve of her Jan. 1 inauguration, she shared a post expressing “solidarity” with Somali child care providers in the city who have come under scrutiny amid a day care scandal more than 1,000 miles away in Minnesota.
City leadership, she said, “will not tolerate anyone who is trying to intimidate, harass, or film Somali childcare providers” — prompting the head of the Department of Justice’s civil rights division to remind her that “citizen journalism are NOT HATE CRIMES in America.”
Some Common Sense
According to Fox News:
Though Newsom has publicly supported a progressive tax structure, he said the billionaire tax “makes no sense,” adding that, “It’s really damaging to the state.”
“I have a very specific agenda that I’m trying to follow, and then also [be] very pragmatic about what I don’t know — that is, all the things that come your way that are not on the agenda,” he told Politico. “This is not how I wanted to spend my last year.”
“The good news is the overwhelming opposition to this by others,” Newsom said. “I think it will be defeated, because I think people understand what it does versus what it promotes to do.”
Newsom’s office did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
A spokesperson for Newsom previously told The Wall Street Journal that the governor opposes “state-level wealth taxes” because they drive away affluent residents. At The New York Times DealBook Summit in December 2025, Newsom criticized wealth-tax proposals and emphasized California’s competitive environment, saying states “can’t isolate [themselves] from the 49 others” regarding tax policy.
It’s Ain’t Going to Get Better
According to the New York Post:
More people are fleeing California than any other state — as Golden Staters pack up and head to places like Texas and Florida, according to a new U-Haul analysis.
California ranked dead last for the sixth time in a row on the moving and storage rental company’s list of “growth states.”
The grim news came with a bit of a very small silver lining — the out-migration wasn’t as bad as it could’ve been, the company said in a Monday news release.
Rounding out the bottom five were Illinois (49), New Jersey (48), New York (47) and Massachusetts (46). The bottom five and nine out of 10 worst states for growth are run by Democrat governors while seven went blue in the last presidential election, according to U-Haul.
Meanwhile, seven of the top 10 growth states are run by Republican governors and nine went red in the 2024 presidential election, the analysis said. The top five states for growth were Texas, Florida, North Carolina, Tennessee and South Carolina, according to U-Haul.
RIP Scott
According to the Daily Wire:
Cartoonist Scott Adams, best known for creating the hilariously relatable, satirical comic strip “Dilbert,” has died at the age of 68 following a terminal cancer diagnosis.
Adams’ ex-wife, Shelly Miles, revealed the news via the “Real Coffee With Scott Adams” YouTube show. Miles also shared a “final message” from Adams.
“If you are reading this, things did not go well for me. I have a few things to say before I go. My body failed before my brain,” she read, noting that Adams professed to be “of sound mind” when he wrote the note.
“Many of my Christian friends have asked me to find Jesus before I go. I’m not a believer, but I have to admit the risk-reward calculation for doing so looks so attractive to me, so here I go. I accept Jesus Christ as my Lord and savior and look forward to spending an eternity with Him. The part about me not being a believer should be quickly resolved if I wake up in heaven. I won’t need any more convincing than that. I hope I’m still qualified for entry.”
