Publisher’s Positions
No One Should Be Above The Law, Including Liberal Judges
For the entirety of his four years, Joe Biden insisted there was nothing he could do without Congress to fix the problem at our southern border. Donald Trump’s first 100 days as president has put the lie to the test. The fact is Biden and his administration deliberately opened the border and willfully let anyone and everyone into our country in the midst of a pandemic and beyond. Nobody was vetted and the violence wrought by some criminals has caused eternal heartache for too many American families. Biden and his administration deliberately refused to enforce the law. During Trump’s first 100 days in office, the flood of illegals crossing the border has diminished an astonishing 99.99%!
Now some are squalling over the arrest of two judges who violated the law. Leftists in our nation have been telling us time and again, “no one is above the law.” What they mean is Donald Trump is not above the law; anyone who violates it, breaks it or ignores it to virtue signal from the left most certainly is above the law. Look at the state employee in Minnesota who got a tap on the wrist for keying six Teslas. One judge actually walked a wanted illegal alien, a guy who was violent and had allegedly punched a neighbor some 30 times, out a private door to deliberately avoid ICE agents. Judge Dugan broke the law and judges who willfully break the law aren’t fit to administer it to anyone else. She deserves to be arrested and face the consequences of her actions. No one should be above the law, even Democrat judges.
Hey Terry, Knox County Already Has An Ethics Policy
The Knoxville News Sentinel is all heated up about local government ethics and patting Commissioner Terry Hill on the back for bringing up the subject. The Sentinel’s righteousness is, as always, selective. Did you ever read in the Sentinel about any ethical violations by liberal Democrats especially during the Biden administration? And don’t kid yourself, it wasn’t because there was nothing to report. Like CBS, ABC, NBC, CNN and MSNBC, the Sentinel has a skewed view of ethics, government corruption and dishonesty. As far as I could tell, the Sentinel always was well in the middle of the pack of Left-supporting corporate media entities that covered for Joe Biden and perpetuated his dishonesty at every turn, reporters literally standing in front of city blocks in flames to tell us about the “mostly peaceful” protests.
Locally, the Sentinel should be aware that there is an ethics policy provision that requires county commissioners and school board members to make a disclaimer statement that, in essence, they have a potential or perceived conflict but are voting in what they believe the majority of their constituents would have them do. The other side of that coin is the public official recuses himself or herself as Commissioner Angela Russell has rightfully done with her husband being employed by the property assessor. That provision has somehow seemingly been forgotten by some, but it is there and it exists. Terry Hill has appointed herself as the new champion of ethics in county government. However, if my memory serves me correctly, her daughter was employed by the Knox County School system as a “restorative interventionist,” which sounds very much like part of a DEI-type program, while momma served on the Knox County Board of Education. Terry Hill routinely voted on the school budget and for pay raises for employees without, as far as I know, recusing herself or acknowledging her own potential conflict. For years her husband was a lobbyist, as was her son-in-law. As Terry Hill said about Commissioner Russell’s adherence to the current ethics policy, we can’t be sure that everyone would be that ethical.
The Sentinel has not printed, so far as I have seen, a single word about fraud, waste and abuse located by DOGE or the federal government, which speaks volumes about the daily newspaper’s selective righteousness. It does, however, like to bring up cuts in a bloated federal government that have touched someone locally.
The truth is, Terry Hill is still chafed over her public political feud with Betsy Henderson, chair of the Knox County Board of Education. Henderson did acknowledge she was not speaking for the entire board of education when she spoke in support of school vouchers in this past state legislative session in Nashville. Hill has ignored that fact, and she is presently riding her high horse, along with the Sentinel, all in the name of selective ethics.
We Need More Common Sense
Congresswoman Marie Glusenkamp Perez of Washington state made the evidently radical statement that “Americans believe that only U.S. citizens should be determining the outcome of American elections.” Speaking at a town hall, the congresswoman’s statement caused an uproar of cuss words, shouts, boos and hisses, enough to cause Glusenkamp Perez to be hustled out of the meeting for her own safety.
It’s too bad a person can’t take a vaccine for common sense. Too many people seem to have built up an immunity to it.
