Perhaps proving how little I care about opera overall or the Kennedy Center specifically, only in researching this article did I find that the Kennedy Center consists of the following;
A concert hall
Two different theaters
An opera house
Two other minor performance stages
Five different lounge and reception areas (AKA: “Bars“).
Now I find that Rep. Mike Simpson (R-Idaho) has submitted before the House Appropriation Committee that the opera house be renamed, “First Lady Melania Trump Opera House.”
“This is an excellent way to recognize [Melania Trump’s] support and commitment to promoting the arts…”
Yahoo news notes that the Democrats are less than thrilled;
Rep. Chellie Pingree, D-Maine, opposed the change and alleged it’s part of giving Trump power to run the Kennedy Center “with very little oversight” from Congress.
Hmm… just changing the name lessens Congressional oversight? How does that work?
Seen in the video below, the vote was approved 33-25. Just me, but the Democrats voting against this simply reinforces my belief that TDS is real.
More than a few Democrats consider the January 6th incident to be the most violent and dangerous moment in US history. More so than Pearl Harbor; more so than the JFK assassination; more so than 9/11.
By that fevered logic, one would surmise that the completion of the Fresno River Viaduct (of the state-ran high-speed railway plan) is now one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World.
Before I go any further, allow me to rhetorically ask, “Isn’t a ‘state-run’ anything essentially Communism?” Just me, but isn’t building, operating, then maintaining railroads something better left to privately owned railroad companies?
Now back to the topic at hand. Two political topics in regard to California are making the news nation-wide;
Gavin Newsom dipping his toe into the 2028 presidential election.
A microscopic section of the Los Angeles to San Francisco high-speed rail line has finally been completed.
Suffice it to say that I can’t believe the voting population of any state could be more gullible than California Democrats, so I’ll focus on the latter (which proves just how gullible California Democrats really are).
But before I give you the REAL numbers on this high-speed railway boondoggle, allow me to point out just a few facts that the Democrats aren’t ready to share with the world.
Billions going nowhere.
It’s true that when first elected governor, as noted by the official GOP website of the California State Senate in 2018, the Golden State actually had a $10 billion surplus. In 2024, not so much. The same website notes that in 2024, California now has a budget deficit of $45 billion.
Perhaps what’s best known to the American people of how Newsome managed to manage a $55 billion swing to the negative would be the much-vaunted San Francisco to Los Angeles high-speed railway system.
The entire San Francisco to Los Angeles project was initially supposed to be completed by 2020 and cost $33 billion. Today, the Merced-to-Bakersfield segment alone would cost more than the original total. The latest estimate for San Francisco to Los Angeles is $106 billion — more than three times the original cost estimate.
Well, Isn’t that something? If you found the tripling of the price tag as pretty amazing, wait ’til you hear this.
The reliably hard-core Leftie Newsweek magazine has sought to take on a viral social media post that’s hammering the Newsom Administration for supposedly dropping $11 billion on the Fresno River Viaduct section (a mere 1,600 feet) and taking a whopping nine-years to complete.
In a report from Tom Norton, the Newsweek ‘Fact Check’ reporter, his “fact checking” consisted of relying on a website of the California High Speed Rail Authority and also borrowing numbers from the USA Today “fact checkers.”
Here’s what Norton’s intrepid reporting uncovered (according to HIS sources);
The amount of $11 billion is incorrect. The correct total is “about” $2 billion.
The time frame of nine years is also incorrect. The actual time was “three years to build, not nine.”
Hmm… so a 1,600-foot bridge took three-years to build at a cost of $2 billion of taxpayer funds. How interesting.
I did a bit of fact checking myself. For whatever odd reason, Norton failed to take the next step in his “fact checking.” It turns out that the Fresno River Viaduct was built at the following averages;
$1.25 million spent per day.
1.461-feet constructed per day.
Well over a million bucks per day to build a bridge less than 18-inches per day. Seriously… hold your hands roughly 18-inches apart, them imagine 18-inches of anything costing $1.25 million.
Six 1-kilo gold bars laid lengthwise is 18.9-inches. The cost of six kilos of gold – $650,000. That’s half the price of that damn bridge.
We sure are lucky that we have guys like Tom Norton over at Newsweek to give us real news, huh?
Just about everyone is already aware that “The FBI has arrested 10 of the 11 suspects… now face local charges of terrorism, aggravated assault on a public servant with a deadly weapon, or aggravated assault with a deadly weapon against a peace officer” according to an ICE news release.
ICE further reports that “The final suspect is still at large.” Not that any of this is new. In the same press release, it was made known, ” On July 2, a man repeatedly rammed an ICE vehicle with his car in Linda Vista, California, before three activists attacked agents.”
Unfortunately, even though this incident took place on July 4th, this is now considered old news. Even worse, this the non-stop egging-on by Democrat politicians, the attacks on law enforcement are becoming a sick version of normalized.
A bit closer to now, ICE has also released just today, news that a man from the greater Buffalo, NY area has been arrested. Matthew White, 43-years-old, of Jamestown, New York (roughly mid-way between Buffalo, NY, and Erie, PA), was charged with “communicating interstate threats for allegedly making social media posts threatening to kill ICE personnel. In one post, he allegedly threatened to target an individual’s children.”
Yes, you read that last sentence correctly… White threatened to murder this particular ICE agent’s kids (emphasis mine);
On June 4, White voluntarily spoke with investigators and allowed them to extract and copy the contents of his phone. Investigators recovered a number of threatening posts on X, including:
On April 18, White posted, “Kill them all, ICE is the new age gestapo, stop them.”
On April 29, White shared a video clip of Border Czar Tom Homan posted by an X user “America,” and commented, “Then understand that if your ICE agents don’t show proof of identity and a signed warrant, we will kill them.”
In late April, White posted multiple threatening and violent public comments in response to coverage of several ICE arrest operations, including an ICE arrest operation inside a Virginia courthouse that occurred in April 2025. White posted, “I can’t wait to put a bullet into this guy’s brain, but first his children.”
Eswatini, deemed a “Safe third country…” 
America’s manufacturing muscle… 
Whoomp, there’s it is… 
Busted outside of Buffalo…
Haitian woman selling Bonbon tè (AKA: ‘Dirt Cookies‘).