Judge James R. DePiazza

09/19/2024

A paragraph from Ronald Reagan's farewell speech on January 11, 1989, a prophet of his time!

"I think we have stopped a lot of what needed stopping. And I hope we have once again reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited. There's a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: As government expands, liberty contracts."

Democrats want to expand government, Republicans (on paper) want to reduce it. If we can get the Oval Office, Senate and House back into Republican hands, maybe the Great American Experience can be saved. If we do get it back and they screw it up again, like they did in 2017-2019, I can promise you that I will retire from this office not as a Republican, but as an Independent. Not because I will walk away from the party, but because the party walked away from me!

The entire address deserves a read by all patriots of the United States of America.

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09/19/2024

To continue from yesterday’s post, I want to state that the Republicans aren’t off the hook for our Nation’s demise over the last 60+ years either. From my perspective, it is being destroyed by liberals and conservatives alike. Yes, that is a bold statement, so let me explain.

Every one of us has values that we hold. If we are convicted by those values, then we live out those values in every aspect of our lives. The values should be a natural flow into our political views. That is why I identify with the Republican party, because my values more closely align with the Republican platform; most especially the value of human life/dignity and personal responsibility for one’s own success. However, watching how many in my party behave and treat each other doesn’t mesh very well with my own values. The party has divisions and factions with each trying to destroy the other. I take no part in that! I truly believe that when evil wants to succeed, it creates division, and a house divided against itself cannot stand. Just look at what went on last year with the divisions created over Ken Paxton, Dade Phelan, and Dan Patrick. Even regarding party leadership at the Federal level. It’s sad and destructive!

The term “conservative” has no meaning anymore as it has become the go to word that most all Republican candidates use, it is a relative “buzz” word that means something different to each person who uses it. The way we Republicans treat each other in contested primaries is embarrassing. I made a promise to myself when I decided to run in 2005 that I would keep the focus on myself and what I offer to the position I hold. In seven contested elections I did not berate any of my opponents, regardless of how they treated me. The 2006, 2010 and 2022 elections were the ones that I receive the most personal attacks and chose not to respond in kind. Ironically, the worst attacks hurled at me were from the 2006 and 2010 primaries by the same Republican opponent in both races. My motto was, and still is, if you have to attack, you don’t have enough of your own merits to stand on. The political rhetoric must stop, especially with candidates in the same party! Seven contested races with no losses should be proof that you can win elections without attacking your opponent(s). It’s called civility!

Moving on…I will continue from yesterday that the only descent president we have had since JFK is Ronald Reagan, a former Democrat who transitioned to the Republican party because the Democrats were becoming too liberal for him, especially concerning economic issues. After JFK’s assassination, the Democrats gave us LBJ, who threw us into a deep political war in Vietnam. There was no winning strategy and the country’s moral fiber began to unravel through the 1970’s. George H.W. Bush was a letdown, especially with the way he handled Kuwait. Bush did not finish the job when we freed Kuwait. The Iraqi National Guard were surrendering in droves. Their weapons were confiscated, and they were let go. I distinctly remember the day I was sitting in an iso-shelter at the field training facility I was assigned to with 5 other junior NCO’s when we heard Bush chose to withdraw and not take out Saddam Hussein; the assessment was unanimous, “We’ll be back there again someday” because he didn’t have the fortitude to oust Saddam Hussein from power! Bill Clinton was a disaster; no words are necessary.

Then, Republicans didn’t do much better with George W. Bush thrusting us into a ground war in Afghanistan. In 10 years, the ruthless Soviet Union couldn’t subdue the tribal warfare of the Afghanis. How did Bush assess that our success would be any different? It was an emotional response to the 911 attack without a clear path to victory and “We The People” didn’t have the fortitude to do what was necessary to win that conflict due to the collateral damage that would come with a victory there. While our troops performed superbly, the Russians proved that a ground war in that area was not sustainable. Then, Biden hastily withdraws almost 20 years later putting the Taliban back in control. Bush and Biden are both to blame for that botched war! But I will say it again, our troops performed magnificently under the circumstances and restraints that were handed to them! Lastly, Bush’s “No Child Left Behind” policy was, and still is, a disaster to our country and economy. The Federal Government has no business doing anything that the Constitution doesn’t give it the power to do. Constitutionally, education of our children is each State’s responsibility! Really, it is each parents’ responsibility!

Once the American People gave us Barack Obama, the fragile thread that was holding the Constitution together was cut and chaos unraveled. After 8 years of Obama control, the Republicans gave us Donald Trump. Full disclosure, I was not on the Trump train; Never cared for the man before he ran for office. To me, he is socially inept and not a statesman. However, he was a much better choice for righting the path for the USA than Hillary Clinton was! But what did Congress do? The Republican controlled House and Senate squandered his first 2 years in office because of petty, bruised egos. Those leaders were more of a disappointment to me than the lack of statesmanship in Donald Trump. The blame and responsibility for where we are today is directly correlated with the squandered years of our Republican Representatives and Senators from 2017 to 2019. They had the opportunity to put a rope around the Constitution and restore its value, but they chose to put their personal egos in front of the Constitutional Republic they took an oath to defend! The Republicans could have done great things during those two years but failed in their duty. And for that I am saddened and embarrassed.

As I ended yesterday’s post, will it really matter who wins in November? Our country is so divided, and the Constitution has been so desecrated by both parties, does the Great American Experiment have any ability to continue its existence? Definitely not under Harris! Possibly under Trump. Definitely if we turn from our sinful ways, repent, and bring God back into the fold! “One Nation Under God!”

09/18/2024

237 years ago today, September 17, 1787, the country’s founding documents were signed, and a Constitutional Republic was formed; The Great American Experiment began! As I look at what is going on in our country today, I do wonder if this Constitutional Republic will make it to 250 years. At this point, I even wonder if it will make it to 240 years!

When the Constitution was signed, John Adams said, “Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” If you take the dictionary definition of moral, “of or relating to principles of right and wrong in behavior”, and apply it to today’s society, what was “right and wrong” in 1787 isn’t so straight forward today, moral relativity is the norm now, not absolute right and wrong. Adam’s statement is based on, and should be interpreted by, the morality of his time, not ours! As for a religious people, Adam’s reference was toward the Judeo-Christian values at the time. Those values are now despised and quashed today with the left’s desire not for freedom of religion, but freedom from religion…unless you espouse their “religion” of course.

It is factual and historical that liberals and progressives in the Democrat party are leading the charge in changing our societal mores and values. Barack Obama came right out and said it on October 30, 2008, “We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.” Yes, the USA has been transformed by the Democrat party, but it didn’t start with Barack Obama, I surmise that it started after the assassination of John F. Kennedy with Lyndon B. Johnson as President. The Democrat party fundamentally began changing after JFK was assassinated. The Democrats had patriots like JFK, Harry S. Truman, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson and Grover Cleveland. While some of the policies of those administrations of the 20th century weren’t the best in my opinion, those Presidents, I believe, knew how exceptional the USA was and were proud to be a citizen of the United States of America and what it stood for! Wilson, FDR, and Truman did what was necessary to win and bring to an end our two world wars! Then JFK stood strong and successfully thwarted Khrushchev’s plans to drive the US out of West Berlin and the Soviet’s nuclear build-up in the Cuban missile crisis. He wanted to stay out of Vietnam, an unwinnable war, given the constraints. Where has that Democrat party of JFK gone? Ronald Reagan stated that he didn’t leave the Democrat Party, it left him. He saw where it was going and chose not to follow it. He became the President with the same fortitude as JFK, breaking the iron curtain and ending the Soviet Union’s reign.

Now, the current Democrat leaders have completely shattered JFK’s famous line in his January 20, 1961inaugural address, “And so, my fellow Americans: Ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country.” Today’s Democrat rhetoric is more centered on what your country can do for you, not what you can do for your country. The whole basis of the Constitution is for the government to stay out of the way and let the people make themselves successful by having individual autonomous states guaranteed in the 10th Amendment of the Bill of Rights, which were added to the original document on December 15, 1791 to address concerns of a too-powerful central government. The Democrats today don’t want state sovereignty, they want the Federal Government to control every aspect of our lives…How we think, believe, behave and live our lives. The whole point of the Constitution was to keep the Federal Government out of our affairs, to give us the ability to succeed or fail on our own merits. Kamala Harris made it very clear in last week’s debate that she has changed the JFK line to “Ask not what you can do for your country, ask what your country can do for you.” It is that attitude which will be the nail in the coffin for the Great American Experiment!

To close this post, I am going to make a prediction that I hope and pray is wrong! …It does not matter who wins the 2024 Presidential election, our country will be in chaos either way. How? If Kamala Harris wins, her policies will continue the erosion of the Great American Experiment into nonexistence. If Donald Trump wins, you will see riots and destruction in the streets that will dwarf the riots in 2020, which the states run by Democrats did nothing to stop then, nor will they stop now, thus showing their disregard for law and order. Our First Amendment right is to be able to peaceably protest, not give license to destroy and loot. The First Amendment only prevents congress from making any laws that "abridge the right of the people peaceably to assemble” with the key point PEACEABLY. The Democrat leadership understands that they just don’t care and will continue to do everything they can to “fundamentally transform the United States of America.” And they may just have enough citizens on their side to do that and kill the Great American Experiment. As Ronald Reagan said,

“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.”

Is the “Last Great Hope for Mankind” coming to an end? It seems that Obama, Biden, and Harris are intent on doing so, with the support of so many Americans who want the same. If Kamala Harris becomes the next President of the United States, I believe that I will be spending my sunset years telling my grandchildren “What it was once like in the United States where men were free.” Time will tell...

09/17/2024

For those who equate access to abortion to "reproduction rights," think about this...there is only one way to get pregnant, having s*xual relations with someone of the opposite s*x. You have the right to have s*x or not have s*x..."reproduction rights!" When you choose to have s*x, which the natural consequence is the conception of a new human being, that you didn't want, then you want to abort the life you created. That's not "reproduction rights," that's not taking responsibility for your own choices/behaviors. Let's start being honest with our political rhetoric! Oh, some don't want to be honest, because then they would have to admit they're killing their own flesh and blood for their own self-pleasure!

09/11/2024

Never Forget! As a way to show appreciation to first responders, Striper Express Guide Services on Lake Texoma hosts an annual First Responders Fishing Tournament. I was invited to join Constable Truitt and his Deputies/staff this year. It was an honor to show my appreciation for them and the other first responders who joined them. We walked away with a great haul of bass and witnessed a beautiful lake sunrise.

08/24/2024

For all those down with the Harris-Walz ticket, take time to give this a read from a person who has been where they want to take us.

Here’s a real picture of socialism at its most … social.

07/04/2024

A marquee read: "Democracy Not Tyranny." As we celebrate the 248th year of the birth of our Nation, let us remember that we are not a Democracy, we are a Constitutional Republic and, as John Adams stated, our form of government is only adequate for a moral and religious people. Happy Independence Day USA!

06/24/2024

Today marks the two-year anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, which overturned Roe v. Wade after 49 years.

Take a few minutes to listen to this new release written by songwriter Chris Wallin and sung by 18-year-old country artist Rachel Holt titled "I Was Gonna Be."

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05/27/2024

Jesus died to save our souls and provide us with an opportunity for eternal life.

Our fallen military men and women died to defend our country and its Constitution to provide us our freedom.

Jesus, we should worship and honor everyday for his sacrifice.

Today, , we remember and honor our fallen for theirs, and everyday should respect the flag that draped their coffin, which is the symbol of the freedom they defended.

05/07/2024

Denton County Veterans, join the Denton County Republican Veterans for their monthly meeting on Wednesday 05/15/2024 at Rudy's BBQ in Denton at 630 PM. They will have a special guest Brandon Gill who won the Republican Primary and is running for TX-26 to replace outgoing Senior Representative Dr. Michael Burgess.

04/23/2024

Thank you Denton County Public Facilities for your construction of the security wall at the JP2 court lobby!

04/01/2024

If you suffer from depression, anxiety or other mental health issues, take 15 minutes and listen to Harvard psychiatrist Dr. Georgia Ede. Kids suffering from a hyperactivity disorder? There is an inexpensive cure without drugs too! Her new book, Change Your Diet, Change Your Mind is a must read on how the ultra-processed foods we eat affect the brain.

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03/07/2024

Illegal immigration has been an issue even since the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 and remains one of the most contentious issues today. Even though the Republicans held majorities in the House and Senate while a Republican President was in the White House from 2001-2007 (albeit some flipping during the 107th Congress in 2001-2003) and again from 2017-2019 they didn’t do anything of substance about it. The Democrats had the same from 1993-1995, 2009-2011 and 2021-2023 to do something about it with no resolution also. Where does that leave “We The People?” Well, we’re the ones who keep putting the same people in office who don’t get anything done. So, a logical mind would have to conclude that “We The People” are the ones responsible for the problem! We keep putting the same people in office who have no clue on how to solve the crisis. I recently came across this excerpt from Bill Clinton’s 1995 State of the Union Address. It reads more like something a Republican President would say and I would be hard-pressed to believe that the Democrats today would stand and cheer if Joe Biden put this in his speech tonight!

“All Americans, not only in the states most heavily affected, but in every place in this country, are rightly disturbed by the large numbers of illegal aliens entering our country. The jobs they hold might otherwise be held by citizens or legal immigrants. The public service they use impose burdens on our taxpayers. That's why our administration has moved aggressively to secure our borders more by hiring a record number of new border guards, by deporting twice as many criminal aliens as ever before, by cracking down on illegal hiring, by barring welfare benefits to illegal aliens.

“In the budget I will present to you we will try to do more to speed the deportation of illegal aliens who are arrested for crimes, to better identify illegal aliens in the workplace as recommended by the commission headed by former Congresswoman Barbara Jordan.

“We are a nation of immigrants. But we are also a nation of laws. It is wrong and ultimately self-defeating for a nation of immigrants to permit the kind of abuse of our immigration laws we have seen in recent years, and we must do more to stop it”

03/02/2024

In October 1987 the Air Force sent me to Texas. I never plan on leaving the greatest State in the Union! Happy 188th Independence Day anniversary Texas! ...One State Under God, One and Indivisible!

02/28/2024

This caught my attention in my news feed this morning:

--Social-emotional learning (SEL) has been injected into every facet and grade level in schools, but American children and teens are more anxious and depressed than ever, observes Abigail Shrier in an excerpt of her new book “Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren’t Growing Up.”--

Even though I am no longer a mental heath practitioner, I still keep abreast of the field I received a Master of Education in. I look into current therapeutical approaches and often wonder, "What the heck are they doing and why are they doing that? It doesn't make sense." This book is now on my list to dive into. Here is the book's description:

From the author of Irreversible Damage, an investigation into a mental health industry that is harming, not healing, American children.

In virtually every way that can be measured, Gen Z's mental health is worse than that of previous generations. Youth su***de rates are climbing, antidepressant prescriptions for children are common, and the proliferation of mental health diagnoses has not helped the staggering number of kids who are lonely, lost, sad and fearful of growing up. What's gone wrong with America's youth?
In Bad Therapy, bestselling investigative journalist Abigail Shrier argues that the problem isn't the kids--it's the mental health experts. Drawing on hundreds of interviews with child psychologists, parents, teachers, and young people, Shrier explores the ways the mental health industry has transformed the way we teach, treat, discipline, and even talk to our kids. She reveals that most of the therapeutic approaches have serious side effects and few proven benefits. Among her unsettling findings:
Talk therapy can induce rumination, trapping children in cycles of anxiety and depression
Social Emotional Learning handicaps our most vulnerable children, in both public schools and private
"Gentle parenting" can encourage emotional turbulence - even violence - in children as they lash out, desperate for an adult in charge

Mental health care can be lifesaving when properly applied to children with severe needs, but for the typical child, the cure can be worse than the disease. Bad Therapy is a must-read for anyone questioning why our efforts to bolster America's kids have backfired--and what it will take for parents to lead a turnaround.

02/10/2024

Early voting starts in Texas on February 20th. I typically don’t post on specific races because the code of conduct for judicial officers in Texas prohibits us from publicly endorsing any candidates. I do, however, want to provide some information on a specific race in Denton County, Congressional District 26 being vacated by Congressman Dr. Michael Burgess. Most people are unaware that a candidate doesn’t have to reside in the district to run for a congressional office. While it is lawful to do so, my personal belief is that you should be able to vote for yourself in the office that you are running for. There are 11 candidates vying for this office in the Republican Primary. From my research, I have found that the following 5 candidates are outside the district:

John Huffman, Burt Thakur, Doug Robison, Luisa Del Rosal and Neena Biswas. For me, the only way I would begin to consider these candidates is if there wasn’t a viable candidate who lives in the district, and there are some very viable candidates in that list!

I have found that the following do live in the district:
Vlad De Franceschi, Scott Armey, Brandon Gill, Joel Krause, and Jason Kergosien,

I have found information that Mark Rutledge lives in Little Elm but have not been able to verify it. However, I do believe that the whole of Little Elm is in the 26th Congressional District, so he would be if the information I gathered is correct.

01/26/2024

Naperville, Illinois is a suburb outside of the Chicago. Councilman Josh McBroom made a pitch at a recent city council meeting as they were discussing the surge of migrant arrivals. I was surprised to read about his proposal to address the situation,

“I think we live in a compassionate community. My idea would be … let’s find out who’s willing to help,” he said. “We do have a very affluent community, a lot of big homes.”
“What I would like to do is direct staff to create a sign-up sheet,” McBroom continued, “for individuals who would be willing to house migrant families.”
“And if there’s people that would do that, God bless them,” he added. “I think we need to find out who would be willing to house migrant families.”

In a later interview with Newsmax he stated: “In my community, Biden won by 20 percentage points, we are a deep, deep, blue affluent suburb. This is what people voted for. They voted for open borders. They advertise it in their front lawn with the sign that says “No Human is Illegal. And, I’m not going to mock them. If those are your virtues, okay, we heard it. This is what you voted for.”

I know there are many in the Denton County communities who support open borders, I put the same challenge out to you, open your homes to these people whom you welcome to come into our country illegally…feed them, cloth them, give them a roof over their head.

PM me your name, address, e-mail and phone number and include the number if people you can take in. I will make sure it gets to the appropriate agency that you are willing to help with the crisis such a policy you support created by opening your home to those who are unvetted and in our country illegally.

I am not expecting too many, if any, responses. Why, because too many people support things without thinking through the ramifications, then when called to step up, they step away…yet continue to believe in the failed policy they support.

01/26/2024

Denton County Republican Party has announced its Lincoln-Reagan Dinner on February 17th. It is the week after The Lincoln Cabinet Gala that I posted about on January 6th. For personal reasons I will not be attending either one, but I would not discourage anyone from attending either or both.

2024 Denton County Republican Party Lincoln Reagan Dinner | Guest: Dinesh D'Souza

01/07/2024

Edited 1/7/24 – After publishing this post, I received a call from an elected official who’s spouse is a founding member of The Lincoln Cabinet PAC. He wanted to let me know that a part of my post was inaccurate. After explaining how I arrived to my conclusion he did admit that the Website did not accurately describe the PAC and that he would get with its members to update it. I am taking him at his word that that will happen. The updates to my post based on the information he provided are in brackets…[ ]…in the second, third and last paragraphs.

This posting is for the Republicans in Denton County who have supported the Denton County Republican Party’s (DCRP) Lincoln-Reagan (L-R) Dinner.

I recently got an E-mail invitation to purchase a table and attend a fundraiser dinner. The subject line said, “Denton County Republican Lincoln Cabinet Gala.” I knew the DCRP had a fundraising arm called the Lincoln Cabinet, so first glance I thought it was for the annual L-R Dinner. Turns out, according to its Website (https://thelincolncabinet.com/) this is a Political Action Committee (PAC) started in April 2023. There is nothing on its Website to identify who started it, why the organizers believed it needed to be started, nor who runs the PAC.

[The PAC started when members of the DCRP Lincoln Cabinet were not comfortable with how their money was being spent and stopped their monthly donations. Those individuals began reaching out to the other Lincoln Cabinet members about forming a PAC to support the operations of the DCRP where the money was under more direct control of the donors and not the DCRP County Executive Committee (CEC). All but 2 of the original DCRP Lincoln Cabinet members are donors into The Lincoln Cabinet PAC. He assured me that no monies were taken from the DCRP finances to start the PAC. The former Lincoln Cabinet members are funding the PAC from the donations they previously gave to the DCRP.]

I am thankful that I did my research to realize that this isn’t the DCRP’s annual L-R Dinner because I don’t typically belong to, nor do I typically donate to, any PAC’s, especially those whose specific mission is to endorse and provide financial support to political candidates. We need less politics in our Country now more than ever! I will donate directly to the candidates if I decide to financially support them.

[I was assured that no money from the PAC goes directly to any candidate and that the PAC does not promote or endorse any candidate in the Primary Election. The money from these donors, and any fundraisers for the PAC, is used to help pay the required bills to keep the DCRP running, when needed. If there is additional money available, they plan to promote a “Vote Republican” campaign to assist all Republicans on the General Election ballot.]

The Lincoln Cabinet Gala is on February 10th. While I couldn’t find any information on the Lincoln-Reagan Dinner yet, I was told by a DCRP Precinct Chair that it is scheduled for February 17th with the keynote address by Dinesh D'Souza. I will provide additional details when an official announcement is made.

I am not posting this to dissuade anyone from attending The Lincoln Cabinet Gala; I am posting this to make sure you have an understanding that it is not part of the Denton County Republican Party nor are the funds it raises used to support the DCRP. The money raised will support its causes and the candidates it chooses to endorse.

[The funds are used to support the DCRP monthly expenses. Below is the direct communication I receive after our conversation that he was going to get to The Lincoln Cabinet members to get their website and communications updated. I do hope that happens quickly…

The Denton County Republican Lincoln Cabinet, a TEC-registered PAC formed in April 2023, is a prestigious, limited-membership association of Denton County Republicans. Its members include numerous elected officials from every level of government serving Denton County plus other influential business and community leaders.
The Lincoln Cabinet encourages participation of members in the election process through the contribution of time and money to support the official nominees of the Republican Party in partisan General Elections and also may provide support to the Denton County Republican Party for administrative costs from time-to-time as needed.

The Lincoln Cabinet is independent of the Denton County GOP but was organized by Republicans in Denton County. Funds raised by the Denton County Republican Lincoln Cabinet’s gala will remain in Denton County to be used by the Lincoln Cabinet for the purposes described in the paragraph above. No funds have been transferred from the Denton County GOP to the Lincoln Cabinet. The Lincoln Cabinet's fund balances come from individual donations directly to the Lincoln Cabinet by membership fees and from contributions through the annual Lincoln Cabinet gala event.

The Lincoln Cabinet does not endorse any candidates in the Primary Election, does not spend its money to promote any Primary Election campaigns, and does not give money directly to any candidates even in the General Election. Instead, the Lincoln Cabinet budgets funds as may be available to promote "VOTE REPUBLICAN" initiatives in the General Election to help achieve its goal of 100% Republican Elected Officials in all partisan elected offices across Denton County.]