‘March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb?’

That’s an axiom that often proves true.

With recent high north winds that make it feel colder than it actually is, especially when accompanied by a dust storm reminiscent of the Dust Bowl days, some may question its reliability.

Officially, spring did arrive on Thursday, March 20. To back up the calendar and Old Farmer’s Almanac, I noticed that numerous fruitless pear trees are in full bloom and buds are popping out on some other tree species, if that’s how you identify tree varieties.

Not so with the pecan trees in our front yard. They seem to be the last trees in town to leave their winter dormancy.

I wish I’d never planted them. I love pecans – by themselves or as complements in many dishes – and I always thought it wold be nice to have some available at home.

I didn’t know the trees were so messy. From the sheds from their blooms in spring to their nut husks in the fall, they are a mess. Besides their wood is brittle and they drop limbs liberally whenever the wind picks up.

Also, they don’t produce a large supply of pecans every year like I hoped. Maybe that’s because of my lack of horticultural knowledge.

Anyway, I have come to the conclusion, it’s a lot more economical just to go to the grocery store and buy a bag of pecans when I want them. Note, those at the store are already shelled and cleaned of the bitter, corky material inside them.

On the plus side, pecan trees do increase the abundance of wildlife to watch – especially squirrels and crows in the fall – if you’re into that sort of thing.

Pecan trees also soak up all the fertility in the soil and starve out the lawn grass. It’s not particularly pleasant to mow underneath them, either.

By the way, it takes a pecan tree about seven years to go into production.

Live and learn, huh? I should have asked somebody before I got so excited about establishing my own little pecan orchard.

Left’s latest attempt to kneecap Trump

Griping about pecan trees has kept me away from the subject of an unelected judge halting the reforms of duly elected President Trump.

Kevin McCullough, radio broadcaster and podcast producer in New York, says it’s a move by the unelected deep state to overrule citizen votes.

He cites three examples by black-robed obstructions in a recent column on the Townhall.com site: deporting violent criminal illegal immigrants, halting the work to root out the flagrant corruption and waste in the federal government that allows bureaucrats to profit from their positions and cracking down on federal grants abused by activist organizations masquerading as nonprofit government organizations (NGOs).

He points out these three are part of 15 attempted obstructions since President Trump took office in January.

He said Biden issued 117 executive orders in his first year, none of which was challenged.

Personally, I don’t feel a bit safer with leftwing judges – appointed by Democrats during their years of power – preventing Trump from overturning the garbage enacted by the worst president in the nation’s history.

Who (What) Really Signed Biden Executive Orders

Additionally, there is even the question now of whether Joe Biden even signed those orders. The revelation that an “autopen,” a machine used as an automatic signer, raises the question of an unauthorized individual wielding the signing power.

I had always imagined, Joe’s handlers sitting him down at a desk with a pen and instructing him to sign his name on papers he didn’t understand or even know about.

House Speaker Mike Johnson recently commented that when he had a conversation with Biden and asked him why he signed a certain executive order, Biden told him, “I didn’t sign that.”

The New York Post reported the incident this way: “President Biden displayed no clue whether or not he signed a critical executive order during a conversation last year with Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson, who admitted he left the meeting fearing the nation is in ‘serious trouble.’

“An addled Biden insisted to the Louisiana lawmaker that he never issued the order to freeze new liquid natural gas export permits — even though he signed off on it less than a month earlier.

“Johnson told the Free Press’ Bari Weiss he didn’t believe Biden was lying, but was left to believe the then-81-year-old leader ‘genuinely didn’t know what he had signed.’

“The troubling encounter happened in the Oval Office in early 2024, when the two met to discuss the latest aid package for Ukraine.

“Afterwards, Johnson asked Biden why he had inked an executive order pausing new permits for American liquid natural gas export to European allies — a crucial issue for his constituents in the Bayou State, which in 2023, han- dled 61% of the nation’s LNG exports, according to the US Energy Information Administration.

“‘Why would you do that? Cause you understand we just talked about Ukraine, you understand you are fueling Vladimir Putin’s war machine, because they gotta get their gas from him,’” Johnson said he told Biden.

Biden was stunned, Johnson said.

And the national media or no individual lifted a finger to challenge any of the orders.

McCullough in his column remarked: “Someone, somewhere, please explain to me what law requires America to fund its own destruction. I’ll wait.

The Lawfare Game

“Of course, there is no such law. What we’re seeing is a coordinated legal resistance, engineered by well-funded leftist legal outfits, cheered on by corporate media and rubber- stamped by judges who treat the Constitution as a Choose Your Own Adventure novel. The game is ‘Lawfare,’ an endless stream of lawsuits designed to bog down the administration, tie up policies in court, and hope Trump runs out of time.”

The leftist cabal remains determined to turn a constitutional republic into an oligarchy ruled by them.

McCullough correctly summed up the situation this way: “Trump already faces a hostile media, a corrupt DOJ, and a rabid opposition. Now, unelected judges have decided that the voters’ will is subject to their personal whims. The left couldn’t stop Trump at the ballot box, so now they’re trying to stop him in the courts.”

Roberts Siding With Left

It didn’t help that Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts sided with the leftists on Trump’s proposal to impeach a judge – Obama appointee District Judge James E. Boasberg – who ruled against his deportation plan of violent illegal immigrants.

Roberts said: “For more than two centuries, it has been established that impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision,” Roberts said. “The normal appellate review process exists for that purpose.”

This may be worked out by the time this is in print but Robert’s comment regarding a social media post from Trump described U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg as an unelected “troublemaker and agitator .”

Boasberg had issued an order blocking deportation flights of criminal illegals that Trump was carrying out by invoking authority from an 18th century law.

Trump declined ordering the plane load of illegals, which was over international waters when the order was issued, to return to the U.S.