HALF-FULL REPORT 08/22/25
Gotta love it. Especially since this report on Wednesday (8/20) is from The New York Times: The Democrat Party Faces a Voter Registration Crisis.
“The Democrat Party is hemorrhaging voters long before they even go to the polls. Of the 30 states that track voter registration by political party, Democrats lost ground to Republicans in every single one between the 2020 and 2024 elections — and often by a lot.
That four-year swing toward the Republicans adds up to 4.5 million voters, a deep political hole that could take years for Democrats to climb out from.
‘I don’t want to say, “The death cycle of the Democrat Party,” but there seems to be no end to this,’ Michael Pruser, director of data science for Decision Desk HQ, told the Times. ‘There is no silver lining or cavalry coming across the hill. This is month after month, year after year’.”
No wonder Dems are hiring rent-a-mobs to protest and fight ICE deportations – cheating with millions of illegal alien votes is their only hope in 2026 and beyond.POTUS is a big boxing and cage fight fan, as you know. He’s more than aware of the maxim, When you have an opponent on the ropes, no letting up, you put him down on the canvas. He’s acting on it…
So much more in this HFR to revel in. And have fun. Like how Omar Fateh looks just like one of those crazed Somali pirates you see in movies. Off we go!
THE WORLD’S MOST UNIQUE BIRD
This is a Hoatzin. I took this picture in the Amazon jungles of Colombia, its native habitat. It has no genetic relationship to any other bird, and thus has its own family, the Opisthocomidae, and its own suborder, the Opisthocomi. Extensive DNA-sequencing demonstrates that “the hoatzin is the last surviving member of a bird line that branched off in its own direction 64 million years ago, shortly after the extinction event that killed the non-avian dinosaurs.”
The Hoatzin is the Dinosaur Bird, the only bird on earth directly descended from the dinosaurs. It makes weird noises – grunts, hisses, groans and croaks – no melodious birdsongs. It emits an awful smell due to its fermentation digestive system, and tastes just as awful so no one hunts it for food. Yet it is distinctively pretty in a hyper-funky way. Spend enough time exploring the Amazon, and you may be lucky to see one. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #186 photo ©Jack Wheeler)
WHAT IS THE DEMOCRAT ALTERNATIVE TO TRUMP?
The Pavlovian Left goes berserk at the mere prospect of each new Trump initiative.
Its escalating reactive venom and hysteria are calibrated to the success of Trump’s latest policy.
Yet the new hard-left Democratic Party offers no counter-agenda to explain its furor. Still less do Democrats attempt bipartisan efforts to craft shared legislation.
Under the Biden administration, over 10 million illegal aliens flooded the country, sometimes 10,000 a day at the southern border. More than half a million criminals swarmed in.
Yet now there is essentially zero illegal immigration and over 100,000 criminal aliens deported. 1.6 million who entered illegally have voluntarily gone home. Yet the left has fought the enforcement of immigration law tooth and nail.
Do they believe that it is lawful and moral to break immigration law but immoral and illegal to enforce it?
What is their solution?
THE POTUS EPIPHANY
NY Post this morning August 21, 2025
Our POTUS is a New Yorker, born and raised. He is an inveterate reader of the New York Post. After absorbing this morning’s cover story, here is what he posted at 9:35am on Truth Social. The President has had an epiphany. What follows is why.
CHRISTIANITY IN KERALA
In 52 AD, St. Thomas the Apostle, one of Jesus’ 12 Disciples, sailed down the Red Sea and across the Arabian Sea to the Malabar Coast of Southwest India to preach the Gospel of Christ. He found a receptive audience among the peaceful fisherfolk in the villages along the coast – so receptive he established a series of churches that still exist today. Some remain small and humble, others like the one above rebuilt with soaring glass and stone.
There are many Christian denominations in the Indian state of Kerala, which has the entire Malabar Coast, from the original St. Thomas Syrian Christians to Catholic, Pentecostal, Charismatic and others. Of Kerala’s 34 million people, at least 20% are Christian. Kerala is a place of relaxing beauty and peaceful serenity. The best way to explore it is via a luxurious houseboat along the many canals or “backwaters” dotted with fishing villages and churches. You’ll be warmly welcomed. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #155, photo ©Jack Wheeler)
COMEY BEING A TEENAGE SWIFTIE EXPLAINS WHAT DEMOCRATS REALLY ARE
James Comey, the 64-year-old former FBI director who was one of the most prominent players in the Russia Hoax, outed himself the other day: He’s a Taylor Swift fan, a Swiftie.
And he’s not just someone who says, “Her tunes are catchy.” Oh, no. Comey finds deep meaning in Taylor Swift’s music. It speaks to him—and the fact that it does explains a great deal about the man and his Democrat party politics.
Swift was, and is, what young girls and leftist women want to be: so gorgeous that their emotional mess doesn’t matter. In many ways, Swift is the avatar of a generational ideology that’s stuck in high school and junior high school: emotional, immature, and, when it comes to the girls, incredibly vicious.
Moreover, girls that age are devious, given to backstabbing, whether through truth or lies (but usually through the latter, not the former).
Those traits, incidentally, are the same traits that the Democrat party embraced when Trump was elected: emotional, immature, and incredibly vicious, including embracing partial truths and flat-out lies in their rush to destroy him.
THOUSANDS OF UNACCOMPANIED ALIEN CHILDREN PLACED WITH UNVETTED SPONSORS UNDER BIDEN
The counties of origin for, and number of, unaccompanied alien children who entered the U.S. from fiscal years 2021-2024 (left chart) and from fiscal year 2025 (beginning Oct., 1, 2024) through June 5, 2025 (right chart). (Office of Refugee Resettlement)
The Biden administration placed thousands of illegal alien children in the care of unvetted sponsors, according to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley.
The Iowa Republican has released Department of Health and Human Services data showing that during President Joe Biden’s administration, over 11,000 unaccompanied alien children were placed with unvetted sponsors who were not the children’s parents or legal guardians. Additionally, no home visits were conducted for over 79,000 illegal immigrant children.
Moreover, some children were “allowed to be placed with sponsors who were actually smugglers and sex traffickers,” according to the HHS. “My oversight continues to expose disturbing evidence that the Biden-Harris administration turned a blind eye to tens of thousands of kids who needed proper supervision and care,” Grassley said in a statement.
“It’s appalling to prioritize speed and optics over the safety and well-being of children,” the senator continued.
THE MOTHER LEATHERBACK
The leatherneck sea turtle is the world’s largest turtle, weighing up to 1500 pounds. This female was about half that. They have an enormous range, all the way from the North Sea to South Africa in the Atlantic, spending their lives at sea eating jellyfish – except when a female comes ashore to her hatching beach and bury her clutch of eggs in the sand above high tide.
Dropping several dozen glistening white golfball-size eggs into a depression scooped out with her flippers, she covers them up with sand, and heads back to sea, never to see them again. More than two months later, the born hatchlings dig out of the sand and wiggle their way into the sea, where the lucky ones survive.
I was able to watch this mommy’s entire egg-birthing process at dawn on a remote beach in the West African country of Gabon. It was such a privilege to witness an act of elemental nature by such an extraordinary creature. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #127 Photo ©Jack Wheeler)
MELANIA TRUMP’S LETTER TO PUTIN STANDS UP FOR ABDUCTED CHILDREN
One of the darkest chapters of Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine will be his regime’s systematic abduction of Ukrainian children.
Last week, first lady Melania Trump delivered a letter to Putin during the Alaska summit, appealing to him on behalf of these children. In it, she reminded the Russian dictator that “every child shares the same quiet dreams in their hearts … of love, possibility and safety from danger.” Her letter avoided politics, but made the clear point that abducting children is an act of barbarism that cannot be tolerated.
Ukraine has documented nearly 20,000 kidnapped children, though the true number could be many times higher.
These boys and girls are not just displaced — they are forced into Russian families, indoctrinated with propaganda, punished for speaking their native tongue, and in some cases subjected to military training. Reports have even exposed online “catalogs” where children are sorted by eye color or hair color for adoption in Russia.
This is not wartime collateral damage, but a deliberate campaign to erase a nation by erasing its children.
EUROPE GOES JOHN WAYNE AND RIDES TO THE RESCUE
That’s because no one else has either. From left to right: European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Finnish President Alexander Stubb, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky, American President Donald Trump. French President Emmanuel Macron, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz. NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte.
The whole world and all its media was stunned as it happened so suddenly with no warning. How? Because of headlines like this on Saturday (8/16):
The fear lay in that key word in the Daily Mail headline, “summoned.” Zelensky would treated with threats, demands, and insults as he was during his infamous visit to the White House last February. Add to that the nothingburger results of the Alaska Summit, no ceasefire, no consequences, just the world’s greatest mass-murdering psychopath treated with red carpet respect.Giorgia Meloni saw the danger and got on the phone Saturday night with Merz and Macron, then all three on a call with Zelensky to propose they accompany him to the White House on Monday. He immediately agreed in enormous relief. Soon Rutte and von der Leyen were on board. By Sunday morning……