Wisconsin Judge Convicted of Obstructing Arrest of Immigrant Resigns as GOP Threatens Impeachment

By the Associated Press, Josh Funk 

Embattled Wisconsin Judge Hannah Dugan, who was convicted of obstruction last month for helping an immigrant evade federal officers, has sent her resignation letter to the governor.

The letter was sent Saturday. Republicans had been making plans to impeach her ever since her Dec. 19 conviction. A spokesperson for Gov. Tony Evers, a Democrat, said his office received Dugan’s letter, and he would work to fill the vacancy without delay.

Dugan wrote that over the past decade she handled thousands of cases with “a commitment to treat all persons with dignity and respect, to act justly, deliberately and consistently, and to maintain a courtroom with the decorum and safety the public deserves.”

Allen West: Why America has the Second Amendment

It is very disconcerting to me when I see Marxist leftists who have a poor level of reading comprehension. The simplistic words of the Second Amendment of our individual Bill of Rights should not be cause for confusion. Just as a historical reminder, especially as we approach our 250th Independence celebration, the Second Amendment is rooted in the events of 19 April 1775. 

It was on that day that 77 Americans stood on a field in Lexington, Massachusetts, against the greatest military power the world knew at that time. The British regiment was marching inland towards Concord to destroy a weapons manufacturing facility that was supplying the Sons of Liberty. On that day, there was no American Army, Navy, or Marine Corps; matter of fact, there was no America. However, there was an understanding that armed individuals could be free citizens who attain liberty; disarmed individuals can only be subjects.

The militia is every American, not the military. Well-regulated means well-trained, disciplined, and the duty of this well-trained group of citizens is the security of a free State. And what part of “shall not be infringed” is hard to comprehend? Isn’t it rather ironic that the State where armed Americans made a stand against the tyranny of gun control, the beginning of our American Revolution, is now home to the most stringent gun control laws?

Not Dead Yet Files Delaware Lawsuit To Overturn Assisted Suicide Law

By Kelly Israel, 12/11/25 (pictured here).

Not Dead Yet is proud to join Sean Curran and five other organizational plaintiffs (Delaware ADAPT, Freedom Center for Independent Living, United Spinal Association, National Council on Independent Living, Institute for Patients’ Rights) in a lawsuit against health agencies in Delaware and their use of the End of Life Options Act (EOLOA). 

Not Dead Yet opposes assisted suicide laws as blatantly discriminatory and extremely dangerous. These laws treat disabled lives as not worth living and people with disabilities as better off dead. It’s time the citizens of Delaware fought back.  Our lawsuit argues that implementation of Delaware’s assisted suicide law violates the Americans with Disabilities Act and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. Delaware health agencies do so by applying EOLOA and steering patients with certain kinds of disabilities (namely, terminal illnesses) away from suicide prevention services and towards assisted suicide. 

For example, health agencies fail to apply stringent standards for suicide prevention in Delaware to patients with terminal illnesses and instead - by offering them EOLOA - direct these patients to end their own lives. The Americans with Disabilities Act and Rehabilitation Act are clear that this impermissibly treats individuals differently solely on the basis of disability.

Terrorism cancels New Year’s Eve in Paris.

By Daniel Greenfield.

Every year huge crowds gather in Paris at the Champs-Élysées to ring in the new year with fireworks and concerts. Much like the New Year’s Eve parties in Times Square in New York City, the joyous festivities are a key link in the chain of worldwide celebrations of the year to come.  New Year’s has been canceled in Paris. The New Year’s Eve concert was pre-recorded with actors.

No more pretending to be the audience. The fireworks will appear on TV. And there will be no one to count the countdown because the Champs-Élysées has become France’s latest ‘no-go’zone’.  Ten years ago, Mayor Anne Hidalgo of Paris had threatened to sue FOX News for correctly reporting that there were ‘no-go-zones’ in Paris. “The image of Paris has been prejudiced, and the honour of Paris has been prejudiced,” she fumed.  Now, Mayor Hidalgo decided that even with the 6,000 police officers that had been deployed to secure the Paris event last year, the Champs-Élysées could not be protected against Islam.

It began when Interior Minister Laurent Nunez warned that there was a “very high” terrorist threat aimed at Christmas. “Christmas markets are targets of terrorist organizations,” he revealed and cited the previous Strasbourg Christmas market attack in which an Algerian Muslim terrorist with 27 previous convictions had opened fire, killing 5 people and wounding 11 more, and the Berlin Christmas market attack in which a Tunisian Muslim refugee drove a truck into the market killing 11 and wounding 56 people as examples of possible incoming attacks.

Hochul’s Deal Limits Access to Patients with Less than Six Months to Live

By Katelyn Cordero, 12/18/2025 

ALBANY, New York — Gov. Kathy Hochul’s tortured decision to sign legislation that will allow some terminally ill New Yorkers to obtain life-ending medications caps a contentious, decade-long debate over the issue.

But the governor’s move was blasted by the Catholic Church and even sparked blowback from aid-in-dying advocates due to additional restrictions Hochul insisted on adding to the law.

The final deal, which limits access to patients with less than six months to live, includes some controversial safeguards that advocates fought and say will make it the most restrictive such measure in the country. Thirteen states now allow doctors to prescribe life-ending medications for terminally ill patients, with Illinois enacting such legislation last week.

The Catholic governor said she wrestled with the decision for weeks, but ultimately spoke with advocates — some of whom were terminally ill — whose personal stories swayed her to sign the measure.

“I can’t stand here — even as a Catholic — and say I can’t allow someone else to do something that I perhaps would not do. I cannot stand in their way,” Hochul said to POLITICO on Wednesday. “I’m hoping that [our faith leaders] give me some grace to pray for me — as all of them said they would do — as we continue to focus on issues affecting the living.”

Washington State: Man Lures Cops With Fake 9/11 Call, Stabs One

By Robert Spencer, 12/12/25, pictured here.

The jihad attack against Jews who were celebrating Hanukkah at Australia’s Bondi Beach and the ISIS murder of two American servicemen in Syria has brought renewed attention to the ongoing problem of Islamic jihad violence, and as the usual denial, obfuscation, and willful ignorance continue, it looks as if we just got more jihad in Washington state.

King5.com in Washington reported Monday that “a 38-year-old man is accused of making a false 911 call, then stabbing a responding Bellevue Police Department police officer with a kitchen knife on Friday, Dec. 12.” That man is named Mohamed Morray Bangura, which raises yet again the very real possibility that he did all this because his namesake, the prophet of Islam, commanded his followers to “kill them wherever you find them” (Qur’an 2:191, 4:89, 4:91, cf. 9:5).

Bangura seems to have desired to attack some police officers and developed a plan that would enable him to do so; he has accordingly been charged with first-degree and second-degree assault, and as Monday evening, was still in jail on $5 million bail. It seems that last Friday, Bangura called 911 from the Bellevue Transit Center, a bus and light rail station. He gave the 911 dispatcher what is being described as a “fake scenario” and asked that “an officer or two” be sent to the station.

Trump Rule Could Force Washington, Oregon Hospitals to drop Dangerous Youth Gender Treatments

By Seattle Red Staff   

Proposed federal rules from the Trump administration could force hospitals in Washington and Oregon to abandon gender-related medical treatments for minors or risk losing billions in federal funding.

The policy, announced this week by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., [photo above] would cut off Medicare and Medicaid dollars to hospitals that continue offering puberty blockers, hormone therapies, or related interventions for minors. The move comes as so-called gender-affirming care has come under heightened scrutiny for providing therapy that can do more harm than good. The United Kingdom previously all-but banned puberty blockers for children.

According to the New York Times, Medicare and Medicaid together account for about 45 percent of hospital spending nationwide, making compliance less a policy choice than a financial necessity. Hospitals in the Pacific Northwest are especially vulnerable since the states promote so-called gender-affirming care for minors, regardless of how it can harm children.

The Night Australia Died

Rowan Dean

An obscene number of people were shot down in cold blood celebrating a Jewish holiday on the iconic and wonderful Bondi Beach, murdered most likely, by religious fanatics, possibly by people who came, or whose parents came, to this country and imported a toxic, deadly, and poisonous ideology.  

Nobody thought to stop them entering this country.  Nobody thought to question their fitness to be new Australian citizens.

We have seen this story play out in Europe, in Britain, and in the United States.

Many people now have blood on their hands.

Canada Euthanized a Record 16,499 Patients in 2024

A record 16,499 people died by euthanasia in Canada in 2024, accounting for 5.1% of all deaths in the country.

According to the latest report on “medical assistance in dying” (MAiD) from Health Canada released at the end of last month, there was a 6.9% increase in state-assisted deaths in Canada in 2024.

In 2024, although assisted suicide is permitted, in which the person who wishes to end their own life self-administers the lethal substance, there was not a single case of assisted suicide. Instead, every single person who died under Canada’s MAiD programme died by euthanasia. In 2023, there were fewer than five instances of assisted suicide.

There have been a total of 76,475 instances of euthanasia and assisted suicide since they were made legal in Canada in 2016.

NY Governor Kathy Hochul Seeks Changes to ‘Nightmare’ Assisted Suicide Bill

https://dailycitizen.focusonthefamily.com/ny-governor-kathy-hochul-seeks-changes-to-nightmare-assisted-suicide-bill/

New York Governor Kathy Hochul [pictured right] is requesting substantial changes to a “nightmare” bill that would turn New York into a destination state for physician-assisted suicide.

The New York Assembly approved the Medical Aid in Dying Act (AB 136) on April 29 in a 81-67 vote. The state Senate subsequently passed the bill on June 9 in a 35-27 vote.

The bill permits individuals with “an incurable and irreversible illness, with six months or less to live,” to kill themselves with a doctor’s help via a lethal cocktail of drugs.

Importantly, the bill currently contains no residency requirement, allowing terminally ill individuals from out of state to come to New York to end their lives. This provision would essentially ensure all Americans could access physician-assisted suicide.

The New York Alliance Against Assisted Suicide has raised several additional concerns about the legislation, warning the bill would:Allow terminally ill persons to be prescribed lethal drugs without an in-person visit with a physician.
Make New York into an assisted suicide tourism state.
Not require any psychiatric assessment of a person requesting state-sanctioned suicide.
Open the door to future expansions of state-sanctioned deaths, which has occurred in Canada. ....
It’s unclear whether the governor intends to sign the bill if the state Legislature rejects her proposed changes. However, the fact the governor is requesting changes in the first place, rather than rejecting the bill wholesale, may indicate she is leaning towards signing it.

Bob Bellafiore, a spokesperson for the New York State Catholic Conference, said the governor’s proposed amendments are “basically deck chairs on the Titanic.”

“They don’t change the fundamental truth that this bill sanctions suicide, diminishes medicine forever and is guaranteed to lead to tragedies, mistakes and unintended consequences that the governor will be responsible for,” he added.

On December 3, hundreds of concerned New Yorkers gathered across Albany, Tonawanda, Syracuse and Manhattan – with 75 assembling outside the governor’s mansion – for candlelight vigils urging Gov. Hochul to veto the bill.

“New Yorkers are recognizing that assisted suicide isn’t compassion — it’s abandonment,” Jason McGuire, executive director of New York Families Action, told the crowd.

“Our vigil tonight shows that people from every background want the state to choose care, not killing. A sleeping giant is awakening on this issue.”

If you live in New York, please consider contacting the governor, respectfully urging her to veto AB 136. You can also sign the New York State Catholic Conference’s pre-filled message asking Gov. Hochul to veto the bill.

Washington State, State of Emergency

EVERETT WA. — Snohomish County awoke to more rain on Wednesday morning after the second surge of a large atmospheric river hit Tuesday night. County Executive Dave Somers declared a countywide emergency proclamation Tuesday evening, following flood warnings the National Weather Service has issued through the week to areas surrounding the Stillaguamish, Snohomish and Skykomish rivers.

The county is allowed to spend public funds to take “reasonable and prudent” measures to ensure resident safety, the release said. It also waives some administrative requirements to expedite response efforts and directs county departments to mitigate impacts on private and public property.

The Snohomish and Stillaguamish rivers dropped below flood levels Wednesday morning but are expected to surge again throughout Wednesday night and into Thursday. The Skykomish River was at major flood stage as of 9 a.m. Wednesday, and continues to rise through the day, the weather service said.

Check back in for updates as the weather system progresses....

Key developments:

Ex-Minneapolis Officer Files for New Trial

By Stephen Sorace   -Fox News, 

Derek Chauvin [pictured left], the ex-Minneapolis police officer convicted of second-degree murder in the killing of George Floyd, has filed an appeal requesting a new trial.

Chauvin submitted the filing last month in Hennepin County District Court.  In the filing, Chauvin claims his conviction should be vacated, saying flawed medical testimony, misrepresented police training and faulty jury instructions warrant a new trial or evidentiary hearing.

Chauvin disputes the conclusions of four physicians who reviewed a medical examiner’s report on Floyd’s death, insisting they relied on video evidence of Minneapolis police officers restraining Floyd.

Crow Tribe May Expand Membership by Reconsidering Blood Quantum Standard

 "The proposed legislation would alter things so all existing members would be considered as having 100% Crow “blood.”

A proposal by the Crow tribal chair could dramatically change who counts as a Crow tribal member under the “blood quantum” standard, a concept created by White settlers and rooted in assimilation tactics.  Blood quantum refers to the fractional amount of tribal affiliation in an individual’s ancestry. It is central to individual identity and highly controversial. 

Right now, according to the tribe’s enrollment policy, an individual must “possess one-quarter Crow Indian blood” to enroll as a member of the Crow Tribe. The proposed legislation from Chairman Frank Whiteclay would alter things so that all existing members would be considered as having 100% Crow “blood.” That would change the lives not just of the 14,289 enrolled Crow tribal members but also potentially thousands of descendants who would be more likely to qualify as tribal members and receive services.

Tattoo Regret: Wyoming Residents Pay Big Money For Tattoo Removal

Think before you ink.  

That’s the advice of cosmetic laser technicians across Wyoming who erase bad memories of customers who impulsively got tattoos and later regretted them.

“A lot of people will come in and say they are embarrassed by their tattoo,” said Rachel Watson, a technician at Sterling Skin Care Casper. “I tell them don’t be embarrassed, because they were young and dumb, but now have grown up and are trying to get a job and can’t have tattoos.”

Watson treats as many as 25 clients a week. Some of them have been unlucky in love and want tattoos bearing the name of a former spouse or partner eliminated. Others are just dissatisfied with how the tattoo looks.

In the case of face and neck tattoos, some say those hold them back from getting jobs or socializing. Many are also impulsive.

Alex Schadenberg Provides Updated Information Regarding Assisted Suicide

The 2023 Colorado assisted suicide report indicates that assisted suicide poison prescriptions and deaths have continued to rise every year since legalization.

Even though the number of assisted suicide deaths is continually increasing, Colorado Governor Gary Polis signed Senate Bill 24-068, on June 5th, to expand [that] State['s] assisted suicide law. Nearly every state that has legalized assisted suicide has expanded [its] law.

The Colorado assisted suicide report indicate[s] that in 2023 there were 389 lethal poison prescriptions written, which was up by more than 22% from 318 in 2022, 218 in 2021, and 185 in 2020.

The Colorado report [also] indicate[s] that in 2023, 294 of the lethal poison prescriptions were dispensed, which was up by more than 18% from 249 in 2022, 164 in 2021 and 149 in 2020.

The data seems confusing since Colorado collects information on the number of lethal poison prescriptions that are written, and it collects information on the number of lethal poison prescriptions dispensed[,] but it doesn't collect information on how many people actually died by assisted suicide.

International Day of Persons with Disabilities – Part 1.

By Ian McIntosh, Executive Director, Not Dead Yet, 12/03/25, pictured here.

Today is the UN-recognized International Day of Persons with Disabilities with a theme of fostering disability inclusive societies for advancing social progress.

This year's focus on disability inclusivity as the predicate for social development (including economics, employment, social service systems, etc.) feels practically defiant in view of (and certainly at odds with) several international developments this year regarding legalization and expansion of assisted suicide and euthanasia which, rather than promoting inclusivity, sanction elimination of disabled people from society.

Among them, and hot off the federal government presses, Health Canada just five days ago released the Sixth Annual Report on Medical Aid in Dying in Canada. In it, continued and increasing disturbing trends for nonterminal disabled Canadians showcase anything but a disability inclusive society that is advancing social progress.

Diane Coleman Inducted Into New York State Disability Rights Hall of Fame, Class of 2025

In collaboration with the 2025 New York Association on Independent Living’s (NYAIL) statewide conference, the New York State Independent Living Council (NYSILC) held its sixth New York State Disability Rights Hall of Fame awards ceremony and dinner, and Not Dead Yet’s Founder and CEO, Diane Coleman, [pictured right] was the first of the night to be honored with a posthumous award “For lifelong achievements which positively impact people with disabilities in society.”

For those who couldn’t attend the awards ceremony and dinner, the Patients Rights Action Fund’s (PRAF) Executive Director, Matt Vallière, and NDY’s Executive Director, Ian McIntosh, accepted the award on behalf of Diane Coleman who passed away suddenly, last November 1, 2024.

Please find NDY’s acceptance speech and two more photos below: