Lone Candle
Champion of Truth
Federalism allowed different states to experiment with different ways to do freeways, so we can see what works. It also allowed states to do highways differently based on the qualities of the state.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5ECOsaQgpg
The Trump administration is using dishonest legal tactics to get away with their crusade to gather the medical records of transgender children.
A biased judge defying the law out of ideology or/and partisan bias, is helping the Trump administration and weakening America’s rule of law.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_bl71wDqSs
Texas put a lot of police in schools to combat mass shootings. As a result, police are enforcing routine student discipline, sometimes violently.
Trump is using the power of the government to attack the person who successfully sued Trump for sexually abusing her.
Scores of people were fired for making critical comments of Charlike Kirk or celebrating his murder. Conservatives said they wanted radical free-speech, and yet they hardly speak out about this like they did about rude protests on college campuses during speeches. The disingenuousness and hypocrisy is amazing.
One woman was fired for making a private Facebook post that said, “If you think Charlie Kirk was a wonderful person, we can’t be friends”. I’m not a fan of that kind of attitude. But, it isn’t a reason to fire someone from their job. She was fired because people complained and demanded she be let go…her employer gave in to an anti-free speech mob. I thought only the woke left did this…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzTT6deD9z0
When the Trump administration temporarily cuts certain science funding, some studies can’t just start up again. They require specialized people, equipment, and biological specimens, and those can’t just wait for funding to return. Our knowledge about the world, and the medical benefits some of this knowledge would have led to, have been hurt by these shortsighted actions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCULe4p3-AQ
Utter nonsense. Requiring public schools to post the ten commandments in their classrooms is forcing a particular religion down the throat of every child, using taxpayer funds. It is advocating the value of the Bible over other religions or non-religion. If a Muslim majority school district required every classroom to post lines from the Quran, people would be outraged. Unless the class is literally studying religion or that area of history, posting religious texts is advocating that or those religions and is an act of establishing an official religion.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/texas-can-require-ten-commandments-in-classrooms-us-appeals-court-rules-231531502.html
More empty oil tankers are coming to the US due to the Iran war, but the US can’t produce, refine, and load oil fast enough to fill them. At least not in a timely manner.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGQVhnP0POE
Texas Republicans have the choice between two guys with no principles.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/sen-john-cornyn-flips-filibuster-154153551.html
“As in the Good case, experts in police training and tactics questioned why a federal officer apparently positioned himself in front of Martinez’s vehicle.
“You don’t stand in front of the car, you don’t put yourself in harm’s way,” said Geoffrey Alpert, a police use-of-force expert at the University of South Carolina. He added that there’s never a scenario where it’s justified, “because you don’t know whether this person is going to flee, and if he flees, you could be dead.””
https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/20/us/texas-ruben-ray-martinez-shooting
“The records are part of a tranche of heavily redacted internal documents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement that the nonprofit obtained as part of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit.
Though Martinez’s death on March 15, 2025, was reported by local media outlets at the time, federal and state authorities did not disclose that the shooting involved the team from HSI. In a statement Friday, DHS said the driver who was killed “intentionally ran over a Homeland Security Investigation special agent,” resulting in another agent firing “defensive shots to protect himself, his fellow agents, and the general public.”
The department did not respond to questions about why it had made no media release or other public notification of the officer-involved shooting over the last 11 months.
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The HSI officer who the report says was struck by the vehicle was treated for an unspecified knee injury at a nearby hospital and released.
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Reyes said she first learned her son had been shot by a federal agent, rather than a local police officer, about a week after he was killed. She was contacted by an investigator from the Rangers who she said told her there were videos of the shooting that contradicted the account provided by federal agents. DHS did not immediately respond to an email Friday about the claim that there is video showing a different account.
She said she was told by the investigator that the state report into the shooting was completed in October and that the case would be presented to a grand jury for potential criminal charges.
The Texas Department of Public Safety, which includes the Rangers, said in a statement Friday that the investigation into the shooting is still “active” and declined to offer more information.
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Martinez’s mother said she didn’t believe he would ever intentionally assault a law enforcement officer.
“They didn’t give him a chance,” Reyes said. “It’s so excessive. They could have done anything else besides that. It’s like they shoot first and ask questions later.””
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/texas-man-fatally-shot-federal-232303964.html
“A British graduate who was passionately anti-guns was shot dead by her alcoholic father at his Texas home just hours after they had an argument about Donald Trump, an inquest was told today.”
If the father had not owned a gun, Lucy Harrison would likely be alive today.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/british-graduate-23-was-shot-dead-by-her-father-in-his-texas-home-after-trump-row-inquest-hears/ar-AA1W3gbb?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=698b92b697b4460bb096264bfa928330&ei=14