https://redstate.com/author/davenj1/feedConservative News & Politicsen-usThu, 23 Apr 2026 18:45:26 -0400<![CDATA[FILE &#8211; In this June 14, 2018, file photo, the FBI seal is seen before a news conference at FBI headquarters in Washington. The FBI is grappling with a seemingly endless cycle of money laundering schemes that law enforcement officials say they’re scrambling to slow through a combination of prosecution and public awareness. Beyond the run-of-the-mill plots, officials say, is a particularly concerning trend involving “money mules.” These are people who, unwittingly or not, use their own bank accounts to move money for criminals for purposes they think are legitimate or even noble. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)]]>Tue, 19 May 2020 11:30:54 -0400<![CDATA[davenj1]]>https://redstate.com/davenj1/2020/05/19/dont-reform-the-fbi-kill-it-n137580<![CDATA[Protesters rally at the State Capitol in Lansing, Mich., Thursday, April 30, 2020. Hoisting American flags and handmade signs, protesters returned to the state Capitol to denounce Gov. Gretchen Whitmer&#8217;s stay-home order and business restrictions due to COVID-19 while lawmakers met to consider extending her emergency declaration hours before it expires. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)]]>Tue, 05 May 2020 11:45:24 -0400<![CDATA[davenj1]]>https://redstate.com/davenj1/2020/05/05/more-questions-than-answers-about-that-wuhan-virus-thingy-n136308<![CDATA[In just two months, governments around the world have seen it within their power to place its citizens under virtual house arrest.  In some places, given all the extra time since you have no job to go to, you cannot even buy some cucumber seeds to plant in your backyard just in case the cucumber supply chain is broken.  We&#8217;ve seen the images of city workers using bulldozers to fill sand in skate parks in some California towns.  The British police have swooped in and broken up family picnics.  Some states even called out their state police to track down people with out-of-state license plates.  And the list can go on and on of some of the silliness done in the name of &#8220;flattening the curve.&#8221;  Unfortunately, no one really figured out how you disentangle from the mess you created once you have flattened the curve.  Instead, fear has overtaken the population and fear opens up opportunities for some of the crazier ideas.]]>Thu, 30 Apr 2020 06:30:09 -0400<![CDATA[davenj1]]>https://redstate.com/davenj1/2020/04/30/from-house-arrest-to-chemical-castration-and-beyond-n135872<![CDATA[Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker speaks at a state Capitol news conference Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2019, in Springfield, Ill., as state Treasurer Michael Frerichs looks on. The Democratic Illinois state officials are offering $100 million in low-interest or interest-free loans to federal workers going without paychecks during a record 33-day government shutdown. (AP Photo/John O&#8217;Connor)]]>Wed, 29 Apr 2020 07:15:18 -0400<![CDATA[davenj1]]>https://redstate.com/davenj1/2020/04/29/dont-cry-for-illinois-or-new-jersey-or-n135763<![CDATA[]]>Fri, 17 Apr 2020 02:00:35 -0400<![CDATA[davenj1]]>https://redstate.com/davenj1/2020/04/17/rediscovering-the-tenth-amendment-n134652<![CDATA[]]>Wed, 08 Apr 2020 07:08:00 -0400<![CDATA[davenj1]]>https://redstate.com/davenj1/2020/04/08/a-truly-bad-scotus-decision-at-age-50-n133787<![CDATA[]]>Sun, 05 Apr 2020 12:45:08 -0400<![CDATA[davenj1]]>https://redstate.com/davenj1/2020/04/05/about-that-richard-burr-insider-trading-scandal-n133481<![CDATA[]]>Wed, 01 Apr 2020 08:31:14 -0400<![CDATA[davenj1]]>https://redstate.com/davenj1/2020/04/01/the-month-in-social-justice-march-2020-n133139<![CDATA[]]>Thu, 26 Mar 2020 13:30:45 -0400<![CDATA[davenj1]]>https://redstate.com/davenj1/2020/03/26/wuhan-virus-has-reached-a-stage-5-catastrophe-n132547<![CDATA[Some say &#8220;it could never happen here.  We have a Constitution that protects us.&#8221;  But panics such as we are witnessing right now over a pandemic have the power to unleash unchecked government power.  Lest we forget, it was major events and panics that created such people as Hitler, Mussolini, Mao, and Stalin as stains on human history.]]>Tue, 24 Mar 2020 08:24:02 -0400<![CDATA[davenj1]]>https://redstate.com/davenj1/2020/03/24/a-mini-version-of-1984-happening-right-now-n132255<![CDATA[]]>Mon, 16 Mar 2020 08:30:57 -0400<![CDATA[davenj1]]>https://redstate.com/davenj1/2020/03/16/the-rise-and-inevitable-fall-of-biden-n131420<![CDATA[]]>Tue, 10 Mar 2020 16:15:07 -0400<![CDATA[davenj1]]>https://redstate.com/davenj1/2020/03/10/why-is-tulsi-gabbard-still-in-the-race-n130841<![CDATA[]]>Tue, 10 Mar 2020 08:59:08 -0400<![CDATA[davenj1]]>https://redstate.com/davenj1/2020/03/10/the-march-supreme-court-oral-argument-cases-n130779<![CDATA[]]>Sat, 07 Mar 2020 06:32:49 -0500<![CDATA[davenj1]]>https://redstate.com/davenj1/2020/03/07/sanity-in-the-desert-sun-n130536<![CDATA[]]>Thu, 05 Mar 2020 09:15:51 -0500<![CDATA[davenj1]]>https://redstate.com/davenj1/2020/03/05/is-biden-surging-or-is-sanders-choking-n130343<![CDATA[The big bad Russians supposedly swayed the 2016 election in favor of Trump, or so the story goes.  Moving between being &#8220;useful idiots&#8221; (in Stalin&#8217;s words) or just plain old fashioned spy accusations, candidates for the highest office have always been the target of these tropes about Russian interference and/or preference for one candidate over another.  There is nothing geopolitically wrong with a foreign nation &#8220;preferring&#8221; one person over another.  Just as we prefer certain potential foreign leaders over others, so too does Russia or any other country when it comes to our potential leaders.  It is what intelligence services do: analyze and assess foreign leaders and then generate preferences.]]>Tue, 03 Mar 2020 09:15:49 -0500<![CDATA[davenj1]]>https://redstate.com/davenj1/2020/03/03/a-history-of-russian-meddling-not-involving-trump-n130120<![CDATA[There is currently a drama unfolding in a courtroom across the ocean in Great Britain.  It is the extradition trial of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.  He would be handed over to US authorities if he loses his extradition trial where he is wanted on charges of &#8220;endangering national security.&#8221;  The specifics of the charges are unknown; we do not know if this goes back to the Bradley &#8220;Call Me Chelsea&#8221; Manning leaks, or if it involves later leaks from an anonymous source that revealed technical abilities of the intelligence community apparatus.  Standing in the middle is, of course, WikiLeaks publishing the DNC emails during the 2016 US presidential campaign.  Regardless, the possibility of a 175-year prison sentence hangs over the head of Assange.]]>Sun, 01 Mar 2020 11:45:05 -0500<![CDATA[davenj1]]>https://redstate.com/davenj1/2020/03/01/the-assange-affair-what-is-trumps-endgame-n129902<![CDATA[Last week, the Senate voted 56-41 in favor of the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act and 53-44 in favor of the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act.  The former would require an abortionist to transfer a child who survived an abortion to a hospital while the latter would have banned abortions after 20 weeks since this is the point where most science concedes the child can feel pain.  This writer is not quite sure of statistics on the number of babies who survive an abortion, but one surmises it is not a very large number.  After all, the abortionists have perfected the art of murder.  Thus, it would send a message that at very least Democrats do not have such a callous disregard for human life (unless they are an illegal immigrant child rapist or killer).  But, they just could not go there.]]>Sun, 01 Mar 2020 10:01:12 -0500<![CDATA[davenj1]]>https://redstate.com/davenj1/2020/03/01/a-democrats-view-of-religious-freedom-n129894<![CDATA[]]>Thu, 27 Feb 2020 12:00:05 -0500<![CDATA[davenj1]]>https://redstate.com/davenj1/2020/02/27/fifteen-progressives-you-probably-never-heard-of-but-should-know-n129659<![CDATA[]]>Thu, 27 Feb 2020 09:30:23 -0500<![CDATA[davenj1]]>https://redstate.com/davenj1/2020/02/27/the-democrats-race-towards-barack-obama-redux-n129653