Tex's Place

By Teri Christoph A Biden-appointed federal judge in California has ordered the Trump administration to restart the controversial “green card lottery” program it had suspended following last December’s deadly shootings at Brown University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). U.S. District Judge Jinsook Ohta of the Southern District of California i ssued a preliminary injunction Wednesday that ordered the State Department to move forward with the fiscal year 2027 Diversity Immigrant Visa program. Under Ohta’s order, registration must open by October 18 and remain open through November 19. That gives the Trump administration only a few days to get the system up and running again. NEW: California-based federal judge Jinsook Ohta (Biden appointee) has ruled that the U.S. State Department must reinstate its Diversity Immigrant Visa lottery for fiscal year 2027 by Sunday. The program offers permanent residency in the U.S. to 50,000+ applicants every year, typically f...

By Susie Moore The Supreme Court apparently wasn't finished with the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals after all. On Wednesday, the High Court stepped in for the second time in just over a month to halt a lower court ruling involving the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and discounted political advertising rates. This time, the issue wasn't so much who gets the discount as who gets to decide — and how quickly. And the 4th Circuit's attempt to impose a 48-hour deadline on the FCC didn't exactly sit well with the justices. A Bit of Background Under federal law, broadcasters must offer political candidates their lowest available advertising rates during specified periods before elections. These are known as lowest unit charge (LUC) rates. In March, the FCC's Media Bureau issued a public notice stating that the favorable rates were available not only to political candidates but also to certain joint fundraising committees and political parties engaged in coordina...

By Dan Wos The gun-control lobby’s favorite question: “Why do you need one?” was never a question at all. Somewhere along the way, a very strange idea took hold in American politics: that before you can exercise your Second Amendment rights, you must first persuade anti-gun strangers that you deserve it. You’ve heard the routine. A rifle with a pistol grip? “Why does anyone need that?” A round count above 10? “What are you planning?” Carrying a gun in the grocery store? “Are you expecting a war?” The questions are designed to sound like curiosity, but they’re not. They’re an interrogation, and the person asking has already made sure that you will fail the test. The hidden premise Every version of the “why do you need it” question carries the assumption that “need” is some sort of entry fee or prerequisite for a right. Meet the anti-gunner’s “need” requirement, and maybe you’ll be permitted to keep your freedom. Fail the test, and somehow your rights become invalidated. That premise...

By By Rupa Subramanya Only two years ago, the idea that some Americans were being “debanked,” or cut off from financial institutions after being deemed politically incorrect, extreme, or dangerous, was often dismissed as a conspiracy or an accident. But federal regulators announced on Wednesday that they had reached a very different conclusion: Debanking really did happen. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) said that nine of the nation’s largest banks, as measured by assets, had policies in place between 2020 and 2025 that may have influenced their decisions to “deny or limit access to financial services” to customers or potential customers “based on their political or religious beliefs or lawful business activities.” The findings are based on a yearlong review that included about 50,000 internal bank documents and hundreds of individual bank decisions. Among the banks scrutinized by the OCC are JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Citibank, and Wells Fargo. The ...

By Ben Smith The federal government spent nine years trying to keep a Pennsylvania man disarmed over a decades-old DUI. A federal court just told the government it doesn't have that right. The 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals issued two Second Amendment decisions Tuesday, limiting how the federal government can enforce its lifetime firearms prohibition against people with criminal convictions. The rulings distinguish violent offenders from those whose past crimes provide no evidence that they pose a danger with a firearm.  Edward Williams' trouble with federal gun law came from a 2005 Pennsylvania DUI conviction. Because it was his second offense, the maximum possible sentence was five years. He received a sentence of 90 days to two years, served at home. The longer potential sentence was enough for the feds to prohibit him from possessing a firearm. He even worked at a gun store. But when an attorney informed him in 2015 that his conviction prohibited him from possessing fir...

By Nick Arama There's news of a concerning development involving a possible threat to congressional offices, as well as other addresses nationwide.  According to the FBI, they are now investigating letters "containing suspicious substances that were mailed nationwide, including to some congressional offices on Capitol Hill. BREAKING: FBI confirms to @FoxNews they’re investigating suspicious letters that were sent out nationwide with unknown substances in them, including to some offices on Capitol Hill. FBI spox: “The FBI and U.S. Postal Inspection Service are investigating a series of suspicious mailings sent to various addresses nationwide, including Secretary of State offices and their related election offices. Some of the letters contained an unknown substance and we are working closely with our law enforcement partners to respond to each incident. We are also working with our partners to identify the individual or individuals responsible for the letters. This FBI wil...

By M. D. Kittle New Jersey Democrat Gov. Mikie Sherrill was forced to admit that the Garden State’s dirty voter rolls included 6,600 noncitizens. Democrats insist that noncitizens voting is a nonissue. They’re wrong. And they’re lying.  In the parlance of the autopen president, it’s a big (expletive deleted) deal.  Even one illegally cast ballot robs the rightful vote of legal voter. We’ve seen a lot of robbing of late.  You need look no further than New Jersey . In July, Democrat Gov. Mikie Sherrill was forced to admit that the Garden State’s dirty voter rolls included 6,600 noncitizens that had been registered to vote in 2023 and 2024. Sherrill said about 340 of the foreign nationals went on to vote in elections.  At least those are the numbers the leftist governor gave. She’s been less than cooperative in providing the receipts. GOP lawmakers and activists who pushed Sherrill to disclose New Jersey’s voter registration “glitch” believe there are a lot mor...