ICE is working hard
One was a Mexican national with a conviction for trafficking fentanyl who had been jailed in California 67 times, yet still was walking around free in the US.
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“Huckabee” Fix
For this week’s look back at “Huckabee” on TBN, here’s an interview with one of our favorite new country groups, Chapel Hart, followed by their barn-burning performance of “This Girl Likes Fords,” with Tre Corley and the Music City Connection and Mike Huckabee on bass.
Bee Time
Well, you can’t say the Babylon Bee didn’t have plenty of material to work with this week, so let’s see what they did with it…
https://babylonbee.com/news/bidens-teleprompter-assures-nation-it-approved-all-autopen-decisions
https://babylonbee.com/news/gavin-newsom-declares-california-a-sanctuary-state-for-child-slavery
https://babylonbee.com/news/bear-on-california-state-flag-moves-to-texas
https://babylonbee.com/news/cnn-marks-anniversary-of-trump-falling-down-after-loud-popping-noise
https://babylonbee.com/news/St-Peter-Learning-A-Lot-About-The-Bible-From-This-John-MacArthur-Fellow
https://babylonbee.com/news/the-resistance-upset-as-government-gets-smaller
https://babylonbee.com/news/winning-trump-announces-mexican-coke-will-now-be-made-in-america
https://babylonbee.com/news/chip--joanna-gaines-introduce-new-line-of-pride-themed-shiplap
https://babylonbee.com/news/elmo-leads-division-of-panzers-across-polish-border
Retail sales rise in June
In more bad news for those who keep badmouthing the Trump economy and hoping it will come true, the Commerce Department announced Thursday that retail sales rebounded sharply in June. They rose 0.6% from the previous month, while economists expected only a 0.1% rise. Darn, will the winning never end?!
Standing up for American Christians
During his confirmation hearings as US Ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee was grilled by Democrats for allegedly being too pro-Israel. But the Times of Israel reported on some letters that leaked between Amb. Huckabee and the Israeli Interior Minister. They show that Amb. Huckabee will stand up for Trump’s policies and for American Christians who want to visit Israel and that he believes are being hampered in receiving visas.
Note that the Interior Minister’s response didn’t address Huckabee’s specific concerns so much as the way that he expressed them clearly and bluntly, and didn’t observe the typical “talk a lot and say nothing” diplomatic protocol. Yeah, get used to that…
Trump Health Update
The media went crazy over claims that President Trump is ill due to bruises on his hands and swollen ankles. To quell the frenzy, the White House released a statement from his doctor on his health tests, which show he has “chronic venous insufficiency,” a common age-related condition that can be treated with diet, exercise and compression socks, or worst case, surgery.
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-chronic-venous-insufficiency-2100660
We suspect all the media furor over Trump's ankles is really about creating a distraction from Trump's perfect score on his cognitive test. We would also note that when asked about Trump’s health, his doctor didn’t take the Fifth.
ICE is working hard
Despite a federal judge ordering ICE not to stage any arrests in California at places where illegal aliens actually are, ICE raided a Home Depot in Sacramento and arrested at least eight non-citizens. One was a Mexican national with a conviction for trafficking fentanyl who had been jailed in California 67 times, yet still was walking around free in the US.
An outraged Gov. Gavin Newsom fired back, "Trying to escape a court order stopping their reprehensible and illegal racial profiling and illegal arrests in LA, Border Patrol came to Sacramento to spread more of their chaos and fear. They should do their jobs – at the border."
Fact check: They are doing their job at the border, which is why illegal border crossings have dropped to near zero. Now, they have to help ICE do the rest of their job, which is arresting and deporting some of the 10 million or so illegal entrants that Biden let in while blocking the Border Patrol from doing its job. That job is enforcing federal laws passed by bipartisan Congresses and signed into law by Presidents of both parties. It’s called “democracy,” that thing Democrats claim to be protecting.
Also, we tend to think that communities suffer more chaos and fear when murderers, thieves, rapists and drug dealers are allowed to stay on the streets than when they’re removed.
Fake News!
Two talking empty heads on CNN accused President Trump of encouraging racial gerrymandering by saying that Republicans could pick up five House seats in Texas after redistricting. They said so much that was demonstrably false about redistricting, the population breakdown and election laws in Texas that we’ll just let Newsbusters set it all straight.
AND
Here’s Don Surber on how the Wall Street Journal must have known their Trump/Epstein letter was fake and why they might be in deep Schiff if Trump goes through with his threat to sue.
Even Chris Cuomo agrees that the WSJ Trump/Epstein story doesn’t pass the smell test.
Will New Yorkers elect this idiot? Probably.
We get so many stories about the shocking past comments of socialist (some say communist) New York City Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani that we don’t have room to run them all. Suffice to say that more come every day, from him refusing to condemn the slogan, “Globalize the Intifada”…
…to a resurfaced interview clip in which he seems to agree with banning private property and prisons.
To sum up so we don’t have to keep covering this idiot: He’s an inexperienced, vacuous communist and anti-Semite who shouldn’t be within a mile of any levers of power. But he has a (D) next to his name on the ballot, so New Yorkers will probably elect him mayor. If they want any more advice about what to do, they can call the suicide hotline and let the counselors talk them out of it.
News Flash:
The New York Times discovered that it’s bad for someone to think that his political opponents aren’t just wrong, but evil. Of course, they think this was invented by Trump. You know, the guy they’ve been calling “Hitler” since 2016.
https://instapundit.com/732466/
As Ed Driscoll at Instapundit reminds us, it was the late Charles Krauthammer who said, “Conservatives think liberals are stupid. Liberals think conservatives are evil.” He said that in 2002, a good 14 years before Trump entered politics.
Stop The Presses!
A Scottish university study found that chicken soup reduces the severity of acute, respiratory tract infections and shortens the duration of sickness by about 2.5 days. More news: your grandma is also right about your music being “just noise.”
https://www.naturalnews.com/2025-07-17-chicken-soup-proven-to-cut-cold-duration.html
A joker or a midnight toker? You decide.
In a baffling move, rocker Steve Miller has cancelled all his remaining tour dates because of…severe weather? In a statement, Miller said the “combination of extreme heat, unpredictable flooding, tornadoes, hurricanes and massive forest fires” poses too much risk to the band and his fans, so the tour is canceled…“You can blame it on the weather.”
Note from Huckabee Post writer Pat Reeder: I don’t know if this decision arises from him being a joker or a midnight toker, but it’s bizarre. Being a fellow Dallas native, Steve should know that hot weather, tornadoes and flash floods in Texas are NOT signs of “climate change.” They’re just “climate.”
In fact, Laura and I saw him last summer at an open-air venue at Dallas’ Fair Park. It was a great concert; his voice sounded as good as ever, and his guitar work may be even better. But it was Texas in summer, so we were all sweltering, even after dark. My advice: Resume the tour and play venues with air conditioning.
Besides, it’s not as if a small blues/rock band is harming the climate that much. It’s not like a Taylor Swift tour, or Kylie Jenner’s private jet that emits more CO2 than a global warming conference.
We normally don’t consider polls news, but with that caveat, this is intriguing:
New Quinnipiac university polling shows that while 63% of voters disapprove of President Trump’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein issue, his support among Republicans this week actually rose from 86 to 90 percent – perhaps an indication that while they don’t like that one thing, they do like everything else Trump is doing.
Meanwhile, Quinnipiac shows voter approval of Congressional Democrats has plunged to an all-time low of 15%, down there with nails scraping on chalkboards, which is indistinguishable from a Cory Booker filibuster. Even among Democrat voters, only 39% approve of how Congressional Democrats are doing their jobs. Republicans in Congress have only a 34% approval overall, but at least 77% of Republican voters approve of them.
The problem for the Democrats is that some of their party members hate them for caving to violent, leftwing radicals while others hate them for not being radical and violent enough. It’s hard to change things when you’re facing a Hobson’s choice like that. The mature choice would be to do the right thing regardless of the political consequences, but we know that’s not going to happen.
Frankly, we’re amazed that a party that’s taken a stand in favor of protecting illegal alien murderers and rapists while attacking the officers who are trying to arrest them, of sick dudes exposing themselves to women in locker rooms and giving girls concussions on sports fields, and of showing gay porn to third graders and mutilating the genitals of confused teenagers has an approval rating as high as 15%. We’d ask what more they could possibly do to get it down to single digits, but we’re afraid they’d do it. They already support Dr. Fauci, and he tortured puppies!
Okay, believe it or not, here’s some serious advice for the Democrats: Sit down and shut up. Your constant attacks on Trump for fixing the disasters you caused only remind us that when you were in charge, you caused all those disasters. Americans have notoriously short attention spans and memories (thanks, YouTube), but we can still remember seven months ago, when you were in charge and everything stank.
Eventually, Trump will make some mistakes (look at the bad Epstein messaging), and you can capitalize on that. But if you ever want to stage a comeback, you have to shut up long enough for people to forget how truly awful you are at everything.
In the immortal words of Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks, how can we miss you if you won’t go away?
A long confession letter to the FBI
The man accused of shooting two Minnesota lawmakers and their spouses last month (two of the victims died) wrote a long confession letter to the FBI, and it’s now been released. You can read it here:
It’s most likely the deranged screed of a troubled mind, but three things he makes clear: Despite the hopes of some media outlets, he was NOT a Trump supporter…”This was a one-man op,” so he acted alone…And he goes on at some length to try to implicate Gov. Tim Walz in the shootings.
That Dog Won’t Hunt No More:
While the Democrats continue their tired habit of labeling Republicans as racists and white supremacists, Pew Research recently released its analysis of the 2024 election. They found that Trump’s landslide was largely attributable to groups that traditionally voted Democrat abandoning the party to support Trump instead. In particular, Hispanics, blacks and Asians. Time to get a new excuse. Suggestion: This time, try admitting your policies stink.
Good News:
President Trump issued new guidance for federal employees, making it easier to accommodate their religious beliefs. Scott Kupor, head of the Office of Personnel Management, said, “No federal employee should be forced to choose between their faith and their federal service.” Details at the link…
New Study
A new study claims that eating eggs weekly can cut your risk of Alzheimer’s by up to 40%. Making it doubly ironic that Joe Biden made eggs unaffordable.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-14903875/Alzheimers-disease-eggs-choline-study.html
Connie Francis RIP
By “Huckabee” pop culture guru Pat Reeder
I am sad to have to report that Ron Roberts, the head of Connie Francis’ record label, posted on her Facebook page that the singer died Wednesday night at 87. He said Francis would have approved of her fans being the first to know. She had been hospitalized earlier this month with “extreme pain,” but her last Facebook post on July 4th said she was “feeling much better.” However, Roberts said her health began deteriorating after she left the hospital, and she’d been unconscious for two days and “slipped away peacefully.”
https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/connie-francis-pretty-little-baby-singer-dead-87
Francis’ sweet pop vocals and girl-next-door beauty made her an iconic star of the 1950s and early ‘60s as both a singer and actress. She recorded pop, rock, jazz and country songs, and was the first woman to reach #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 with 1960’s “Everybody’s Somebody’s Fool,” and the first woman to score three #1 hits. She sold 200 million records and had 53 hits over her career, including “Stupid Cupid,” her breakthrough “Who’s Sorry Now” and her signature song, “Where the Boys Are,” the theme to the 1960 movie in which she co-starred.
Despite her vast success, Francis survived many terrible life experiences, including rape, 17 involuntary commitments to mental institutions due to misdiagnosed PTSD, four brief failed marriages, surgery that took away her voice for several years, and the murder of her brother George by the mafia. Thankfully, she later recovered her health; staged a successful recording and performing comeback; wrote an autobiography (“Among My Souvenirs”); became an advocate for UNICEF, the USO, the mentally ill and crime victims; and had a happy 18-year relationship with Tony Ferretti until his death in 2022.
Fun Facts: Francis said singer Bobby Darin was the love of her life and her biggest mistake was not marrying him. Her strict Italian father ran Darin off at gunpoint after learning he had suggested they elope.
Her dad is also largely responsible for her massive success. After a string of flops, she was about to be dropped from her label. Her dad had bugged her to record “Who’s Sorry Now” for over a year. She refused, thinking it was a “square” song from the 1920s and the kids on “American Bandstand” would laugh at her. But he said adults knew it and teenagers would dance to it. At what was to have been her final recording session, her dad told her that he would nail her to the microphone if he had to, and if she didn’t record that song, the only way she’d ever be on “American Bandstand” is if she sat on the TV set. She did, and finished it with just seconds left on the tape.
She recalled that it went nowhere for three months, then to her shock, Dick Clark heard it, loved it, and played it on “American Bandstand.” It quickly sold a million copies and made her a worldwide star.
Her real name was Concetta Rosa Maria Franconero. Again, it was her dad who suggested she cut an album in Italian called “Connie Francis Sings Italian Favorites.” Surprisingly, it became her biggest seller and inspired her to record songs in 15 languages. We guess it was hard to stay mad at her dad, even if he did run Bobby Darin off.
RIP Connie…
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