Frank McHale'sViewpoints
Thursday, February 5, 2026
Stopping Mamdani
Wednesday, February 4, 2026
Democrat Obstruction Is On Full Display
One would think Senators from both parties would have found the $2.5 BILLION overreach by the outgoing Federal Reserve Board Chair, Jerome Powell, to renovate the Fed’s DC headquarters would have bordered on lavish and excessive, if not criminal. Especially, as regular Americans were struggling during the Biden years to make ends meet.
Apparently not.
Democrat Senators are calling Senate Banking Chairman, Tim Scott (R-SC), to delay the nomination proceedings for former Federal Reserve governor Kevin Warsh, President Donald Trump's pick to be the next chair of the US central bank.
Why?
On the pretext that investigations into Lisa Cook and Powell’s alleged misdeeds should be closed.
“We demand that you delay any nomination proceedings for Mr Warsh until after the pretextual criminal investigations involving Chair Powell and Governor Cook have been closed," ranking member Elizabeth Warren and all 10 of her Dem colleagues on the committee wrote.
Again, why?
The investigations should have no bearing on whether Mr Warsh is qualified to serve his designated position. It is a clear attempt by the “Queen of Shrill and Mean” to besmirch his reputation.
“Kevin Warsh’s nomination to the Federal Reserve has been resoundingly endorsed by business and political leaders because his academic credentials, private sector success, and experience on the Fed Board of Governors are unimpeachable," White House spokesman Kush Desai said.
"Democrats should put political games aside and prioritize the well-being of the American people who deserve to finally have confidence in Federal Reserve decision-making.”
If the Democrats had any integrity left, they would refrain from their constant attempts to serve Party over Country. But, this is NOT the Democrat Party of JFK or Truman. Instead, this is the Schumer party of obstruction and hate for anyone not aligned with a Socialist agenda.
A sad day in modern American and Constitutional politics.
Tuesday, February 3, 2026
Spring Has Sprung
Who would have thought it would be in the 40s when Pitchers and Catchers began showing up in Port St Lucie, the Mets Training site, yesterday? And today, actually, may be only a few degrees warmer. Like in the high 50s.
It will be tough to get warmed up, even if Steve Cohen pays for stadium heaters. It has been frigid for the last couple of weeks and is not expected to achieve the “perfect” climate for Spring Training until sometime next week. Probably by February 13.
Officially, pitchers and catchers are supposed to arrive by next Wednesday, but the players looking to make a good first impression learned early on that you don’t get a second chance to make the first. And they all want to give themselves a lead in the race to make it to “the show”.
And when rookies realize that the veterans are still in the hunt for a place on the roster, it is even more incumbent on them to make that extra effort. After all, there will only be twenty-six players heading into the Opening Day festivities.
Suddenly, by Presidents Day everyone will be expected to be present when the team starts its “two-a-day” workouts. And then, by Saturday, February 21, the first pitch of 2026 at 1:10 PM will have been thrown.
Of course, some of the greatest rivalries of all time began right in "Little Old New York" with the Yankees, Giants and Dodgers, and in 1962, the Mets joined the fray. The one-time city rivalry went Coast-to-Coast, even to this day.
Perhaps, as with all new beginnings, our boys will have a better season than last. After all, with Spring, hope “springs” eternal.
Let the games begin!
Monday, February 2, 2026
Time For Another Mid-Winter Escape
First up, of course, is the annual prognostication we have come to know as Groundhog Day. You know, where we expect a rodent to tell us how much winter and cold weather we can expect over the next six weeks. Like that logic exceeds that of the science of Meteorology.
Well, maybe it does, based on the amount of errors the “scientists” seem to make. Right?
The next event would be this coming Sunday, when all of America stops to have their Annual Day of Gluttony… uh, their Super Bowl Parties, sponsored by beer, chips, dips, and other foods we would otherwise shun for their challenge to good and healthy eating habits.
And after we watch about half the game which follows our food-stuffing extravaganza, many of us will pass out on the couch as we become suddenly exhausted from our carb-fest.
Then, during this week, we will turn our sights on the mundane cold which seems to surprise us each year, setting new records all across the country.
Also late this coming Sunday, if all goes according to plan, we will witness the first launch of humans to the moon since the 1970s.
NASA is sending humans back on a path toward the Moon with the Artemis II mission. Launching aboard a Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, as well as Jeremy Hansen from the Canadian Space Agency, will set off to orbit the Moon on a 10-day mission. This will be the first crewed flight of the SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft around the Moon.
Their goal is to verify modern human capabilities in deep space and pave the way for long-term exploration and science on the lunar surface.
And finally, once again, some in the Congress are showing what happens when the children in a family can’t get along. Essentially, it is like one child picks up his marbles and storms home until he gets what he wants, as if to spite everyone else.
It is becoming too tiresome and boring to so many, that perhaps fewer people will play with that child until he finally loses all his friends. Maybe that is what it will take, when others are willing to compromise to get along most of the time.
Not pointing fingers, but everyone knows who it is.
So enjoy your week and watch how it ends as we tune in to “Another Week in America”.
Friday, January 30, 2026
A Violation of Journalistic Integrity
Thursday, January 29, 2026
STOP the Defund ICE Madness
Do you remember way back in the summer of 2020, a mere five year years ago, when another Minnesotan, George Floyd, was killed because he resisted arrest? And became a “martyr” for another liberal cause to defund the police? All because ONE police officer was overtaken by his own zealousness, prejudice or other uncontrolled emotion.
This caused unrequited racial discord that summer and for several years thereafter. Until more reasonable people took control of the narrative.
Until recently.
Now, this month, Minnesota is once again the focus of uncontrolled protests, led by the same Governor, Tim Walz, who seems to conveniently forget he swore to uphold the laws of the United States and the Constitution, to instead lead the new call to defund ICE. You know. The Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, created by the Congress with bipartisan support, under the supervision of the Department Homeland Security.
If you recall, ICE was created in March 2003 as a result of the Homeland Security Act of 2002, which merged the investigative and interior enforcement elements of the former US Customs Service and the Immigration and Naturalization Service. Its mission is to identify, investigate, and eliminate vulnerabilities in the nation's border, economic, transportation, and infrastructure security.
Presidents from both political parties have recognized and acknowledged the importance of this agency to eliminate those people presently in this country illegally, especially those who committed crimes in their home countries or here, since they arrived.
But now, suddenly Democrats and liberals who oppose President Trump’s constitutional responsibility to enforce our immigration laws have grabbed on to the cause to Defund ICE. Which seems to be the cry in so-called sanctuary states and cities who harbor illegal aliens. For various nefarious purposes.
Reasonable Democrats, as well as Republicans and Independents, support the elimination of illegals, especially those with criminal backgrounds. Those who have entered into our country and commit additional heinous crimes against society do not deserve additional “due process”, since none was given to THEIR victims. And there are too many.
It is time to end the insanity to defend these people and send them back to their countries of origin. And prosecute those elected officials who continue to violate their oaths to defend OUR country.
Including both Federal and State representatives and governors, and others, who violate the ConstItution and our laws.