It’s time to address the real problem in America; Mental Illness

Al Ritter

If you talk to any mental health professional, they will tell you that Mental Health Issues are on the rise. Contributing to that rise is the accelerated use of dangerous anti-psychotic drugs which in some cases may actually make the problems worse.

One only needs to look at the warning labels for side effects on some of these drugs to see how dangerous they can be. Now add that to the fact that they may be over prescribed and you can see the danger that may exist in society.

In 1968 a Federal Firearms Act passed that kept people who had a medical Marijuana license from being able to purchase firearms, regardless of what State Law said.

Maybe it is time to pass a Mental Health Law that keeps anyone that has been diagnosed with any sort of Mental Health condition including Gender Dysphoria (known in medical terms as “Gender Identity Disorder DSM 4”.)

Lately the classification is now termed “Gender Incongruence and Gender Dysphoria DSM5.”

Is there a correlation in mass shootings and Transgenderism?

It is reported that 40% of successful and would be school shooters identified as Transgender.

I think that is a pretty alarming statistic, and I’m sure if you followed the trend, you would also find a trail of a history of anti-psychotic drug use.

It’s time we stop ignoring the elephant in the room and explore the mental health implications and not just more gun control.

RFK Jr. on SSRI’s after shooting:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/rfk-jr-blames-gun-violence-183810929.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall

40% claim:

https://www.westernjournal.com/deep-dive-since-2020-roughly-40-successful-school-shooters-trans-trans-suspected-data-shows/?ff_source=email&ff_medium=top-news-alert&ff_campaign=news-alert&ff_content=2025-08-31

additional attacks:

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/08/another-trans-murder-violent-trans-shoots-kills-father/

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/08/media-hides-gender-identity-skews-data-cases-involving/

Words from the shooter's journal:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfDIbBhiB80

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore, where are you?

 Al Ritter

2 Years and 5 months since the destruction of the Francis Scott Key Bridge and STILL not much has been done. Granted the channel was opened for ship traffic but other than that multiple “studies” and proposals have been offered.

Even the demolition isn’t scheduled to be completed until April 2026!

Initial settlements have been made from the Dali’s owner Grace Ocean Private Limited and Synergy Marine Private Limited for $102 million which doesn’t even cover the cost for debris removal.

The cost to rebuild the bridge was estimated last year at $1.7 to $1.9 billion, which most certainly balloon by 2028.

The owners sited a maritime law the “Limitation of Liability Act of 1851” limits them to only a maximum of $43.7 million (just 2% of the damages)

Now to be fair the Federal DOJ and the Maryland AG are pursuing this still in the court system. But my big point in this is the feet dragging in Maryland for the demolition of the remnants of the bridge almost 2 ½ years since the destruction.

What exactly is Gov Moore waiting for? The Federal Government has secured the debris removal funds both by the President and Congress! The debris removal and the rebuilding has to happen no matter what, but putting the citizens out of their way for over 4 years is totally unacceptable.

Read more here:

https://maritime-executive.com/article/baltimore-boxship-s-owner-tries-to-limit-liability-to-44-million

https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/Pages/DCA24MM031.aspx

Gerrymandering: Only good for the party in power?

 Al Ritter

From 2007-2015 then Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley helped to redraw the 2^nd district of Maryland in a gerrymandering move to make it more “Blue.” It was successful and was even upheld in the court system. This area initially was farm areas but was reconfigured to include parts of the city to make the entire district resemble a snake, quite appropriate if you ask me.

I presently live in district 2 and now my representative is none other than Johnny Olszewski, past County Executive of Baltimore County who turned out to be a miserable failure but has now been elevated to US Congressman through this redistricting.

He has never had the farmer’s interest at heart, instead dedicating his attention to additional section 8 housing along the Light Rail areas that run adjacent to the York Rd Corridor.

Maryland has had a super majority in the legislature for years tilted towards the left. Even when past Republican Governor Larry Hogan vetoed one of the bills, it was over ruled by the super majority.

Ok so that was Maryland for the past 19 or so years. Flash forward to right now in the State of Texas.

Gov. Abbott is seeking to redistrict certain areas of Texas, one of which might eliminate Rep Jasmine Crockett’s seat. Now the Republican Texas Legislature lost its super last November, but that doesn’t mean they can’t do redistricting, and the Democrats are livid!

State legislature Democrats are threatening to leave the state to prevent a quorum on the redistricting vote.Gov. Abbott has threatened to have then arrested and charged if they do so.

This showdown will happen soon, but as you recall they tried this political stunt 4 years ago when they didn’t get their way. It would appear as though this time Gov. Abbott isn’t playing around.

What’s good for the goose is good for the gander, be careful what you wish for Democrats!

Read more about O’Malley’s gerrymandering:

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/former-maryland-gov-martin-o-malley-roots-against-gerrymander-he-n861551

Read about Abbott’s threat:

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/08/breaking-gov-abbott-says-he-will-remove-office/

Recent ruling on Maryland Gerrymandering:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9ZET9r1Yy0

Update, Texas Legislature passes motion to arrest Democrats:

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/08/here-we-go-texas-lawmakers-pass-motion-arrest/

AG Ken Paxton issues warning after motion issued by legislature:

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/08/texas-ag-ken-paxton-issues-blistering-statement-slamming/

 Update on the Texas situation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6m9q8LZ1sk

Gov. Wes Moore of MD pushes green agenda despite waning electric supply

Al Ritter

This is nothing new for Democrats, push for renewable energies while eliminating the old sources before the new ones come on line.

Prices are based on supply and demand so when demand increases but supply stays the same or even goes lower, prices get pushed through the roof. Such is the case in Maryland when Gov Moore seeks to shut down two coal fired plants without suitable replacement energy.

What happens in this instance is that Moore in an attempt to appear to be the “Clean Governor” it backfires miserably on the electric customers as electric costs have risen by 1000% since 2023.Now Marylanders are forced to buy electric from out of state from coal fired plants at a premium. It’s all about optics folks, and Moore wants to be seen as the rising star in the Democratic Party.

Moore is also pushing for the wind farm off the coast of Ocean City.

Thankfully the Trump Administration along with the Maryland Freedom Caucus is pushing back on Moore’s crazy “Green Agenda” and told him he will not be shutting down the two coal fired plants until suitable replacement are online.

PJM Interconnection (the electric supplier) is caught in the middle between and unsustainable demand vs supply battle with suppliers and the Governor’s office.

How a State could go from a $5 billion dollar surplus from the last Republican Governor to a $6 billion dollar deficit in almost two years is inconceivable, but that’s what Democrats do, they spend as if nobody has to pay off the credit card. In the words of liberal nationwide,

“Is this what you voted for?”

Update: August 12, 2025 Received an email this morning from BGE

This morning, a power plant experienced an unplanned disconnection from the BGE electric system. BGE is coordinating with the plant’s owner to make any needed repairs as quickly and safely as possible. Additionally, PJM Interconnection is evaluating whether there is enough power in the region.

This event has the potential to cause a temporary power outage this afternoon and evening to protect the grid.

To reduce the potential for an outage we are asking all BGE customers to conserve electricity beginning immediately and through this evening.

Unfortunately, a temporary outage may still be unavoidable. If an outage is necessary we will make every effort to alert you in advance. Thank you for your patience and understanding.

Please consider the following preparation and conservation recommendations:

Preparing for outages

• Store a supply of bottled water and easy-to-prepare, non-perishable foods.
• Charge cell phones, computers, electric vehicles, and other battery-powered electronic equipment.
• Customers with landlines should keep a corded phone to report outages if cell phones lose power.
• Have a flashlight with fresh batteries on each floor of your home.
• Customers requiring refrigeration for medication or electricity for medical equipment should have alternate arrangements in place in the event of an extended power outage.

Conserving Energy

If your health permits:

• Monitor your thermostat.
• Turn on ceiling fans or standalone fans.
• Close blinds, shades, and drapes.
• Delay the use of major, heat-generating household appliances such as ovens, stoves, dishwashers, and dryers.
• Turn off non-essential appliances, electronics, and other devices.

To help conserve energy, BGE announced an emergency PeakRewards^SM Cycling Event earlier today.

Read More Here:

https://foxbaltimore.com/news/local/wes-moores-green-energy-agenda-tested-as-power-prices-jump-more-than-1000-since-2023

https://substack.com/inbox/post/169584297?r=1575tw&triedRedirect

Another reason for skrocketing electric prices in MD:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJ2tqs_vksc

 

Here’s an idea!

 Al Ritter

It won’t be very popular with builders or landscape contractors but it would save the taxpayer billions of dollars maybe even trillions in deportation costs.

Passed into law under President Ronald Reagan the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) of 1986 was signed and put into law.

Every President after sought to reinforce this Act with stricter wording. During Obama’s tenure the wording came down harder than ever. By Executive Actions, he increased I-9 audits, increased employer fines, and pushed for the E-Verification system which focused more on employer accountability.

While I-9 audits rose to a record high under Obama (8000) only minimal numbers of fines were assessed under Obama and even less every President since.

The question that begs an answer….”Why isn’t this law reintroduced and fines given?” The law is already there and the fines can be extensively high, so why not enforce them?

If the employers are fined for illegal hiring practices and illegals can no longer find work, they will self deport.

Read more from Grok 3 AI on the subject here:

https://x.com/i/grok/share/iVeti5NaFDZmF4y5bWw31fYfa

A migrant explains why she came:

https://youtube.com/shorts/gmWjpl7-1yw?si=3grPkoGC2X-Vx7A1

https://youtube.com/shorts/8v9BsPzPh0s?si=Q-TVzYYhMkTUSdHO

When will the 501C’s be Reigned in?

 Al Ritter

We have seen the massive violations of the NGO’s, classified as “Non-Governmental Organizations.”

All these so called NGO’s are under the umbrella of the IRS as non-profit organizations otherwise known as 501c’s.

If ANY of these so called non-profits are receiving governmental funding they should immediately lose their 501c status.

This should be a non-starter, especially those who receive 100% governmental funding through either shell companies or ANYthing tied to a political operation. It shouldn’t matter for which side of the isle they are representing.

Let’s just look at this for what it is, it’s called money laundering plain and simple.

The Government gives them money and the principles of that organization use it as administrative fees and the taxpayer suffers the consequences.

My question is….President Trump, when will you direct the IRS to not only investigate these 501c’s but actually revoke their statuses as non-profits? Let’s cut off the money supply!

Congress needs to change this immediately! If the IRS can approve them, then why can’t they revoke them easily, unless they refuse to file reports in 3 years?

If you want to see how difficult this process is just look here:

https://nonprofitquarterly.org/nonprofits-under-fire-how-the-irs-can-and-cannot-revoke-federal-tax-exempt-status/

https://www.nonprofitpro.com/article/trump-administration-continues-to-target-nonprofits-with-new-executive-memo/

How the GOP is fighting back:

https://apnews.com/article/congress-nonprofits-tax-exempt-terrorism-trump-f9f5cfad4ea64c0745313a0b8a84fccf

The process is not only time consuming but expensive:

https://businesslawtoday.org/2025/05/how-irs-can-and-cannot-revoke-federal-tax-exempt-status/

 

 

Remittances and what it means to the American Economy

Al Ritter

I’ve long been a proponent of taxing remittances. Foreign workers whether in the country legally or not have been depleting our resources for decades.

Most of these workers come from poor countries that offer little in the way of wages, so being an American worker even if paid sub-standard wages here, makes them more money than if they stayed in their home country.

Remittances are wages they earn here and then send back to family members in their home country. This is money that will NEVER return to the United States, never to be spent here to bolster OUR country’s economy.

In a recent article by left leaning Yahoo, they claim that the “Big Beautiful Bill” has already devastated third world countries by eliminating the fraudulently corrupt USAID, and taxing remittances will only make things worse.

I suppose it depends on whether you think our country should be propping up third world countries first, or we should be serving our citizens first. The answer to that was decided by 77 million Americans last November.

Just look at the remittances sent back to Mexico in 2021! $52 BILLION! That’s 4 years ago folks! What do you think that figure is now going back to Mexico?

IMO 3.5% is a joke of a tax on remittances, but it is a start

Read more of Yahoo’s whiny article here:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/millions-around-the-world-rely-on-money-sent-by-family-members-working-in-the-us-trumps-big-beautiful-bill-would-deal-them-a-financial-blow-194516497.html

Why are we even having this discussion?

Al Ritter

It seems that Rep. Maxine Waters didn’t learn a thing from Rep, Lemonica Ivery’s arrest in Newark NJ for assaulting an ICE officer at an immigration center.

If anything it has emboldened the Democratic members of Congress to continually break the law. Waters claimed she was only doing her job as Congressional oversight. What they always fail to mention is a visit to an Immigration Detention Center has to be scheduled in advance and has to be applied for specific members and not just an out of control mob pounding at the gates.

It seems that Maxine tried barging her way into a Federal Building to check on the detention of another illegal alien in Los Angelos.

The left seems to want to frame this whole issue as..”Even if they are illegally and have committed no additional crimes they should be allowed to stay.” The situation goes much deeper than that, the basis of why they are here in the first place is based on felony of illegally entering our country.

The left also believes that these illegal aliens are somehow entitled to all of our (the actual citizens) rights under the law. They also believe that these illegals are entitled to monetary benefits that should only be rightfully given to its citizens.

This is a powder keg waiting to explode. The citizens who have paid their entire lives into the system are rightfully furious with the Democrats.

The Dems are claiming once again how it is a peaceful protest, but it’s funny how blurred the lines are between protest and riot in their eyes…….setting cars on fire is NOT protest!

They elected a man who promised to fix this broken system and restore America to Americans first, not some people who are falsely using the words “asylum seekers.”

Watch Maxine Waters at a California Federal Building:

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/06/fafo-mad-maxine-tries-enter-la-federal-building/

Mad Maxine again today:

https://x.com/Stylzbeats/status/1931774469049315666?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1931774469049315666%7Ctwgr%5E494e5fb6cac3c94c4f40ee5af14a84ac725ff950%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thegatewaypundit.com%2F2025%2F06%2Fwhat-are-you-going-do-shoot-some-kids%2F

 

 

When the Waffle House Customer Mentality Spills into Government

Al Ritter

We all have seen the many battles waged at various Waffle Houses throughout our country posted to You Tube. Sadly this anger exhibited in those melees is spilling into the public arena.

We see it all the time displayed on the main stream media as “protests.” In most situations it’s violence disguised and labeled as something else.

We have become desensitized by violence, not only in our country but around the world. Violence has become normalized in today’s society.

The last place we expect to see this unbridled disrespect to fellow man is in the very people who legislate our laws. Yes I’m talking about our representatives in government.

Listening to the minority speaker in the House Hakeem Jeffries, you would think that Representatives in Congress work under different laws that regular citizens do. He thinks that no law enforcement officer has a right to touch a Congressional Representative.

Yes I’m referring to the ICE Detention Center melee that happened recently. Three Democratic Representatives of Congress and one Democratic Mayor tried to barge their way into an ICE Detention Center unannounced under the guise of Congressional Oversight.

The Mayor was released on a misdemeanor offence of Trespassing although in my opinion he shouldn’t have been, but that isn’t my decision. Rep. Lamonica McIver has been however charged with assaulting a federal ICE officer, and hopefully charges will be forth coming on the other two.

Where has civility gone in society? You never saw this kind of violence and anger in the 50’s, but it’s been slowly building since the 60’s and it needs to stop. Laws are on the books to make society accountable for their actions. But if nobody holds these people accountable the violence will continue.

Watch Videos here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n97hInkO6u4

Waffle House Brawls:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GE7ftunAb7I

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/lVgHy6_pVKU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsquVkslKXg&list=PLGsBKrYc7Bnrq_JraIPv5tPMNiq_s_X8m

 

Law fare and What it Means to the Average Citizen

Al Ritter

Ok first I need to apologize about my absence. A lot of my readers have been concerned by my recent dark thirty.

I have to admit I have been the target of the same law fare that Donald Trump has been the target of but for different reasons.

But that isn’t the end of it. Sadly I fell and have broken my foot. Between the two I have been just hanging low and trying to recover.

In my State of the People’s Republic of Maryland there are two things called Ex-parte orders that result in 99.6 percent of the claims being approved by judges.

The first of these orders are called Domestic Abuse cases, and I can understand how most of them are approved. Mostly because they are family members in fear for their lives from past domestic abuse cases backed up by police reports and eyewitness reports.

The second side of the ex-parte orders have to deal with “Peace Orders” and they deal with people outside the family.

Judges seem to side with the petitioner for fear of not siding on the side of caution. Experience in this in court, I have observed not one in 16 cases on “peace orders” not one case was denied.

So if now you see this as lop sided justice then so do I. Because petitioners don’t have to show any proof of their claims when they make their initial report a court date is given within 7 days. This isn't about "truth" it's about "feelings" of the claimant.

Finding effective legal reasonable representation is nearly impossible in such a short time frame.

Now picture that ANYONE in your county can claim without proof that you are threatening them, and their family, trespassing, and any other claim they see fit.

The Peace Order can only encompass the last 30 days, so you have no recourse to show psychopathic past history.

Are you seeing how one sided this is yet? Now imagine this has been done 3 times so far.

Now picturing after two times and it goes to a third time. The first two have been civil matters but if it goes to a third time it goes to a criminal matter which would entail jail time to the plaintiff.

So the first times don’t require any proof, but the judge sides with the petitioner and the third time involves jail time. Now I am in the third phase.

I know this isn’t anywhere near what Trump has endured in the last 4 years, but I feel just as much violated as he has been.

In my opinion ex-parte orders in the state should only include Domestic Violence but peace orders should be eliminated from civil law or never advance to criminal law.

If the petitioner seeks relief from someone they should have to go through the whole civil court system which would require them to hire an attorney and spend their money to advance their lies with no proof, and that might make the end of their lies.