Step Right Up for Impeachment Theater. Red (As in Red China … ) Flags in Nvidia Spy Scandal. Why the Delay in the Charlie Kirk Murder Trial? Social Workers for Revolution! More
What’s first on the to do list for the final session of the 119th Congress? Well, impeaching a Cabinet member, for Pete’s sake.
Or not for Pete’s sake. The Wall Street Journal reports that the House is “barreling” towards a vote on whether to impeach Secretary of War Pete Hegseth. The articles of impeachment were filed by outgoing Republican Rep. Thomas Massie, who was a constant thorn President Trump’s side:
“We’re not indicting [Hegseth] for being bad at his job,” Massie said at a press conference on Monday. “The argument here is that he’s broken laws and he’s violated the Constitution.”
Asked why he was seeking to impeach Hegseth and not the president himself, Massie said impeaching President Trump over war powers was “an impossible hurdle” and Hegseth was “the better target.”
An editorial in the Wall Street Journal addresses what will undoubtedly be “The Hegseth Impeachment Spectacle:”
So much for working together. After their victory last week, House Democrats have decided their first act of statesmanship will be to vote to impeach Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. This is a self-defeating exercise if you want a new Defense chief or an early end to the Iran war.
“I’m a hard yes on the Hegseth resolution,” Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries said over the weekend. …
Mr. Jeffries may think this is a free vote he can give his left-wingers before Democrats take control in January. But voters will see through this and notice that Democrats are more preoccupied with shooting at Mr. Hegseth than bringing the war in Iran to a victorious end.
Hegseth is expected to hold a press conference this morning.
Nvidia CEO Jenson Huang’s relationship with suspected Chinese spy Alice Huang has “spiraled into a national security nightmare.” A Wall Street editorial calls the emerging scandal a “Chinese honeypot lesson” for Nvidia. Nvidia’s “celebrity CEO” apparently missed several glaring red (as in Red China) flags:
Ms. Huang previously worked at a Chinese state-run media company and founded Megaspeed in 2023. Megaspeed was spun off by Chinese video game maker, 7Road Holdings, soon after the Biden team imposed restrictions on AI chip sales to China. Coincidence, comrade? Megaspeed was then sold to a Singapore-based shell company in November 2023.
Soon afterward, Nvidia designated Megaspeed a “Cloud Partner,” which gave it priority access to advanced chips. Press reports say Megaspeed has bought billions of dollars of Nvidia chips, which are hosted in data centers in the Asia-Pacific outside of China.
Mr. Huang has apologized to his family and shareholders. Fox Digital’s Rebecca Grant says he also owes an apology to the United States:
A Chinese assault on Nvidia is scary for Americans because Nvidia holds as much as an 80% market share of the world’s most advanced data center AI chips. Nvidia is the “go-to choice for all the biggest AI software developers,” as explained by Yahoo Finance.
The carelessness is unfathomable. Can you imagine if the CEO of a top U.S. defense company was caught in a close relationship with a suspected Chinese operative? One has to wonder: Does Huang not realize that Nvidia has made him a major national security player and, therefore, a target for espionage?
The New York Post reports “exclusive details” of Huang’s lobbying his “very good friend” President Trump, which included a $25 million contribution to the President’s ballroom project. President Trump said that the FBI is looking into Huang but expressed confidence that nothing criminal would be found.
Meet the woman at the center of the Huang-Huang scandal.
Nobody can accuse the Judge slated to preside over the Charlie Kirk murder trial of a rush towards judgement. Judge Tony Graff has set the trial to begin in summer of 2028. Notice that’s not even next year. Graf set aside 105 trial days—about five months for the trial. Kirk’s family is “disappointed.”
Why the delay? I don’t get it. Maybe Bill Glahn of Powerline does:
On that schedule, the trial will extend through the 2028 election, giving Democrats opportunities to motivate their base by celebrating Kirk’s assassination on the campaign trail.
The other thing I don’t get is why certain people are gleefully obsessed with the murder of a young man whose “sin” was debate. Good on Piers Morgan and Charlamange tha God for slamming Dave Chappelle’s unfunny joke about Kirk’s murder. Erika Kirk—can you imagine how this malice makes her feel?—called the ‘joke’ “disgusting.”
Speaking hate, here’s another good question, posed by Victor Davis Hanson: Why Do They Despise Elon Musk?
In addition to considering the impeachment of Secretary Hegseth, both parties face choosing their new leaders. Both Senate Majority Leader John Thune and Minority Leader Chuck Schumer face possible headwinds. Senators Josh Hawley and Rick Scott have said they will not vote for Senator Thune after the midterm wipeout of the GOP. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, who hopes to be Speaker, ‘faces uncertainty from incoming Democrats.” Republicans will choose between Steve Scalise and Jim Jordan for Minority Leader. Enquiring Minds Want to Know: If elected, will Mr. Jordan finally purchase a coat jacket?
Are you comforted by the thought that social workers are can be dispatched to deal with crises? In,” “Social Work Isn’t Helping Anyone” Pamala Garfield-Jaeger, who trained as a social worker at NYU, writes that social workers are now often trained to bring about social change. She highlights a conference hosted by the Council on Social Work Education that she attended:
The conference was littered with my profession’s power brokers, the deans and educators who run the country’s 600-plus accredited social work schools. And as far as I could tell, I was the only attendee who wasn’t a Marxist intent on destroying Western civilization.
The advertised theme was “rooted in resilience.” After I attended more than a dozen main-stage presentations and breakout sessions, it became obvious that the real message was “overthrow the system.” Individual choices are inconsequential, personal agency doesn’t exist and people are victims of an unjust and illegitimate order that must be destroyed through the forces of politics.
According to those at the conference, the way to foster a better “system” is through the destruction of capitalism and “decolonization.” The latter was the second most popular buzzword I heard at the conference, after “racism.” One professor got weepy, saying she needed to “decenter myself as a white person.” When a speaker at the awards ceremony said the white percentage of the population was dropping, he got massive applause.
Thinking Ahead. In “America’s Future Is in the Classroom,” John J. Miller argues that that winning the next generation is even more important than winning the next election:
Socialists “always run out of other people’s money,” warned Margaret Thatcher. Yet they never seem to run out of other people’s children. That’s why they and their allies continue to enjoy political success, as they did in the Nov. 3 midterm elections.
Winning the next election always matters, but even more important is winning the next generation. Conservatives and other friends of free enterprise must play a long game as they seek to recover from the rout of 2026. Their strategy should include the liberation of America’s schools from state control.
“If we fail to teach our students about historical—and ongoing—oppression and violence under the world’s communist and socialist regimes, we are leaving them vulnerable to the same failed ideas repackaged for the digital age by slick demagogues, slogans, and social media influencers,” wrote Education Secretary Linda McMahon in a letter that called for observing the National Day for the Victims of Communism on Nov. 7.
Presented with facts, students will recoil as they learn about the rotten legacy of the Soviet Union’s gulags and Cambodia’s killing fields as well as China’s lethal campaigns of collectivization and the massacre at Tiananmen Square. “The hammer and sickle should be as known and detested as the swastika,” said Elizabeth Spalding, chairman of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, which offers curriculum materials on the crimes of communism, the freedom movements that have resisted tyranny and more.
School choice, which the majority in the next Congress will try to squelch, is the solution, according to Miller.
