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Rodney Ellis forged 750,000 ballots in an attempt to steal the election away from Donald Trump — or so say the MAGA-nauts.

Ellis supposedly did this dastardly deed all while running Harris County, which includes Houston.

I asked the alleged perp himself, County Commissioner Ellis, how he could possibly forge three-quarters of a million absentee ballots. At eight seconds per signature, it would take a normal human about 200 years to sign them all.

The Commissioner, an attorney, said, “I’m too lazy to sign hundreds of thousands of ballots. I’d be nuts.”

It would all be a laugh, except for the attempted murder and vigilantes armed with AR-15s at his daughter’s pajama party. It would be a laugh if not for the untold number of Black and Hispanic voters terrorized at ballot dropboxes. A laugh if not for Ken Paxton and his Ku-Kluxxing of the vote.

President Donald Trump delivered a bizarre speech at a campaign event in Tennessee on October 10, 2026, in which he reportedly chanted, “We will kill everyone,” referring to the Iranian people, and said, “Praise be to Allah.”

A U.S. president should never use such reckless and inflammatory language. The office demands judgment, restraint, and respect for human life—not rhetoric that trivializes mass killing or turns international tensions into a spectacle.

Mocking Islam and the nearly two billion Muslims who make up roughly a quarter of the world's population is equally unacceptable. Mimicking the phrase “Praise be to Allah” in a mocking context or referring to Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed as “Mohammad,” raises serious concerns about religious prejudice and Islamophobic rhetoric. No religious community should be demeaned for political entertainment.

The White House has reportedly asked Kimberly Guilfoyle, U.S. Ambassador to Greece, to resign following allegations concerning her conduct. Guilfoyle has denied wrongdoing, and the allegations deserve a fair and thorough examination.

But this situation raises a broader question: Will there be a full investigation into possible misconduct, and will the same standards of accountability apply to everyone in public office?

This brings to mind the recent search of U.S. Representative Ilhan Omar’s home by federal agents as part of an ongoing criminal investigation reportedly related to immigration matters. The Justice Department has confirmed that a court-authorized search warrant was executed, but the specific details of the investigation have not been fully disclosed publicly. Source: AP News

These two cases raise an important question for the American public: Are public officials held to consistent standards of accountability, regardless of their political positions, affiliations, or identities?

You’ve noticed the increasing number of news reports about UAP (unidentified arial phenomenon). On May 8 the Pentagon was ordered to release all files concerning this subject and they have been releasing classified information since then. One piece at a time.

There have even been congressional hearings on the subject with government witnesses giving testimony.

This is happening and it’s not an accident.

We’ve always had evidence that we’re not the only intelligent form of life in the universe (or this dimension). Years of movies and television shows have emotionally prepared us for the official announcement.

We owe it to ourselves to be prepared when the official announcement comes.

I was talking with my neighbor and he had a sad observation.

“It really doesn’t matter,” he said.

“Knowing that there are aliens won’t change the people in charge. The rich and powerful will still want more money and power.”

Tough times ahead for rooftop solar

New residential solar installations are expected to fall 21 percent this year compared to 2025, according to a the recently published SEIA / Wood Mackenzie U.S. Solar Market Insight Report

The causes are no mystery. Last year, the Trump administration signed a measure phasing out the main federal tax credit for rooftop solar — residential buyers had until the end of last year to get projects installed to qualify, while commercial businesses could stretch eligibility well into this year. On top of that action came tariffs on imported panels and components. The one-two punch of vanishing credits and rising equipment costs has had a severe impact on the residential solar market.

Solar installation companies employed about 179,000 people in 2024, and nearly half of them worked on residential systems. Many of those jobs are now at risk.

And this is all happening as solar equipment costs worldwide continue to decline. The median installed price of rooftop solar has fallen from $15.72 a watt in 2001, inflation-adjusted, to $3.62 a watt last year.

If you understand that Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, why read an article focusing on the viewpoints of people who vehemently deny it? I wasn’t sure how to explain why, until I remembered something that screenwriter Frédéric Krivine said when I interviewed him in Paris eight years ago. He was the head scriptwriter of the brilliant film series Un Village Français, dramatizing the Nazi occupation of France during World War Two.

 “People who do horrible things are human beings,” Krivine said. “We have to find a way to talk about them without hiding what they do and without treating them as nonhuman people, nonhuman beings. They are human beings; like us they belong to, we are in, the same species, human species…. It’s humans who kill now everywhere in the world where people are killed. It’s because they are human beings that we have problems – because if they were just extraterrestrial or monsters we could just erase them.”

The lead front page story in the New York Times last week was headlined: “Superpowers Racing to Put Nuclear Reactors on Moon.” The nations involved: the U.S., China and Russia. And there was a subhead: “Experts Warn of Radioactive Risks From a Rocket Mishap or Lunar Meltdown.”

The reporter, Selam Gebrekidan, wrote: “Failures could cause a chain reaction with dire consequences. Falling reactor debris could scatter radioactive material….An explosion or a meltdown on the moon’s surface could risk turning entire regions into no-go zones.”

The extensive story quoted Edward Lyman, director of nuclear power safety at the Union of Concerned Scientists, saying: “There will always be a space race going on, and if you enter nuclear power into that mix, then it could take a potentially more dangerous turn.”

There’s a viral video clip showing a group of wild boars getting caught in a corral trap. When the gate snaps shut the poor animals run around in a panic, searching in vain for an exit.

According to the caption that’s been going around, the trapper waited patiently for five days for the entire sounder to get comfortable enough to take the bait and enter the trap all at once. The gate didn’t close until the final pig walked into the enclosure.

And, yeah. That’s pretty much where we’re at right now.