The headline above is not at all hyperbolic. In its efforts to "save democracy," the Biden Department of Justice (DOJ) is seeking to deny the family members of Ashli Babbitt their constitutional rights.

In the way of background, on Jan. 5, 2024, Judicial Watch filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the United States of America on behalf of the estate of Ashli Babbitt and Aaron Babbitt, her husband.

A 14-year Air Force veteran, the unarmed Ashli was shot and killed on Jan. 6, 2021, by Lt. Michael Byrd inside the U.S. Capitol. Byrd, who was not even disciplined for this reckless shooting, has since been promoted to captain.

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As I report in my new book, "Ashli: The Untold Story of the Women of January 6," Ashli had implored the Capitol Police to control the chaos in the narrow corridor where she was trapped.

When the three officers guarding the door inexplicably walked away, Ashli tried to escape the madness through a broken window. Byrd shot her on sight without warning.

To bring suit, Judicial Watch chose the most natural venue, the United States District Court of the Southern District of California. Aaron Babbitt and Ashli's other family members live in San Diego County as did Ashli before she was killed.

According to a federal law, "A civil action on a tort claim against the United States may be prosecuted in the judicial district where the plaintiff resides." Alternatively, the claim may be filed in the district in which the incident occurred.

As Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton points out, the "first reaction" of the Department of Justice was to request that the suit be moved out of the court where it was filed and to Washington, D.C.

"The request for a change in venue is clearly influenced by Defendant's strongest motivation for changing venue," says Fitton, "which is to select the forum where it feels it would receive a favorable process and outcome based on adversity against January 6 participants."

The numbers back Fitton's argument. In a district in which Trump pulled only 5% of the vote, Trump-affiliated plaintiffs would have no chance of securing an impartial jury and little chance of getting an impartial judge.

This argument is not theoretical. After hundreds of trials, no January 6 defendant has been acquitted by a D.C. jury, and only two have been acquitted by a D.C. judge in a bench trial.

In San Diego County, President Donald Trump received just 37% of the vote in 2020, but there plaintiffs seen as sympathetic to Trump would have at least a chance of securing an impartial jury.

The right to an impartial jury is fundamental. According to the Sixth Amendment, "[i]n all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed."

The Seventh Amendment addresses civil cases. Here, too, the parties involved are guaranteed a right to a trial by jury. From the nation's beginning, the Seventh Amendment has been interpreted to extend the right to an "impartial jury" to both the plaintiff and the defendant.

No matter how one interprets the law, the Biden DOJ made the conscious decision to flout the Constitution and deny the Babbitt family their right to an impartial jury.

It is highly unlikely that the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) will come to the Babbitt family's defense. On the first anniversary of January 6, the California chapter signed on to the kind of letter the ACLU chapter of ancient Rome might have written about the Vandals or the Visigoths.

"On January 6 of last year, the residents of D.C. were traumatized as an insurrectionist mob roamed our streets, harassed our neighbors, and violently broke into the Capitol Building, killing at least five people – all in an attempt to overthrow the counting of American citizens' votes."

Locals, of course, were not traumatized by the mob, but they have been traumatized by the media's relentless inflammation of the day's events. Their repeated guilty verdicts testify to the hysteria the media have generated.

Judicial Watch has asked the federal court to deny the Justice Department's request. Unfortunately, smart money is on the DOJ.

Jack Cashill's new book, "Ashli: The Untold Story of the Women of January 6," is now available for purchase.

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The famous sociologist of religion Peter Berger argues that modern liberal society creates a kind of homelessness, a rootless existence without access to the firm pillars that defined historic, traditional Western societies. Man is left utterly alone, without the rational, religious answers that explain the deeper meaning of life. He has no hope for eternity, no comprehension of the afterlife, no purpose beyond materialism. His life is lived without the deep joy – and existential inner peace – of delving into the universe of his own spirituality. He does not explore the deeper metaphysical realities that are the root cause of that which is good in this world.

Berger calls Western atheist relativism a recipe for cultural self-annihilation. Where cultural stability disappears, the foundation for the individual's spiritual health is also threatened, as the culture is weakened by the doctrine of meaninglessness. In "The Social Construction of Reality," Berger points out that man dreads this existential loneliness; he fears being ostracized and isolated from society and yearns for meaningful experiences. This drives him toward social relationships with others, as the world outside of the fellowship of men becomes a demonic, horrifying space.

Equally, the demonic nihilism ingrained in today's mainstream Marxist outlook on life renders life a meaningless exercise where the only battle worth fighting is that between the rich and the poor. Nihilism is often equated with the teachings of atheist Friedrich Nietzsche, in describing the need for the abolition of traditional morality.

By denying the profound religious ethics found in Christianity, which are based on selflessness, humility and servitude to others, the legalization of promiscuity, greed, faithlessness and egoism now dominates the West. The sole dimension that thereby exists is the material, tangible world, as God is considered dead.

The Nietzschean creed somehow argued that man should take the place of God, ruling this world by his own might rather than in submission to the law of nature as God's order. The idea was to join the demons in the rebellion against God's authority. Materialism, therefore, becomes man's only goal; his desire is to get access to more wealth, to steadily fight against those who own more than he does. The problem is, the wealth in this world does not satisfy the depth of man's soul. Money only satisfies the surface. Thus, existential emptiness and loneliness prevail.

The ethics of Christianity used to be the basis for reflection in the West, the moral code that represented consensus and unified us. This deep sense of spiritual awareness has in history shown itself to translate into actions such as compassion, empathy and solidarity with others. Without compassion, democracy itself becomes impossible as it depends on empathy between groups, the quest for justice and equality for all its citizens. Where nihilism prevails, solidarity disintegrates. Tyranny becomes a possibility. Where promiscuity and selfishness become socially desirable solutions, it is increasingly hard to form faithful marriages and family bonds based on trust, fidelity, loyalty and mutual patience.

Political commentator and author, Patrick J. Buchanan has written a number of books about the ongoing Western cultural self-annihilation. In "Suicide of a Superpower," he points out that it was spiritual Christianity – not religious corrupted political and institutionalized power-play – that revived Europe and held it together as a civilization. Western hedonism's greatest flaw rests on its failure to recognize that compassion for others is a fundamental component of civil solidarity and genuine happiness, without which the stability in society will crumble.

Peter Berger speaks of the meaning of existence and the path to a fulfilled life. This need is unmet in the Western mainstream today, as fragmentation, lack of values and a loss of cultural identity characterizes a divided, impoverished people, separated along racial, religious, class and party lines.

Modernity's fluid lack of limits erodes communities and creates a stress that over time becomes unbearable, says sociologist Zygmunt Bauman. The modern world suffers from a loss of anchoring in a permanent value base. This causes serious strains on the human identity.

After studying this topic for many years, Berger had a dramatic mid-career transformation regarding how he perceived religion in modern societies. Earlier in life, he assumed that modernization would cause religion to decline, stating that a globalized society would gradually lead to religious alienation. He later found this to be erroneous and adjusted his hypothesis, convinced by overwhelming new research and statistics. Far too many scientific studies show that people who live in a secular, atheist, mainstream narrative largely remain religious. Berger came to the conclusion that religion satisfies deep human emotional and spiritual needs and meets desires for social belonging, as well as provides valid explanations for the meaning of life.

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As an FBI expert testified, the laptop was definitely Hunter's and had not been hacked, meaning the damning criminal-activity evidence was provided by Hunter himself nonchalantly documenting it. After the nonprofit research group Marco Polo – founded by a former President Donald Trump staffer – conducted a thorough forensic examination of every document on the laptop, it issued a 634-page report – accompanied by 2,020 footnotes – identifying 459 crimes, both state and federal, Hunter may have committed, including prostitution and fraudulent business activities. Hunter next faces federal tax charges in September.

It is difficult to imagine one person committing 459 crimes, but even harder to imagine that person harboring no concerns about documenting them on a personal computer. Doing so undermines father Joe's assertion Hunter is "the smartest man [he] knows." Such brazenous suggests, because he was the First Son and recognized his father had the support of a compliant mainstream media (MSM), Hunter truly believed he operated within a bubble where he was untouchable. But, on June 11, that bubble burst when the jury took only three hours to find him guilty on all counts – the first time ever a first family member of a sitting president has been convicted.

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Defense attorneys tried playing the sympathy card for Hunter but, again, his laptop was his worst enemy. His nefarious deeds included getting his sister-in-law, Hallie, involved in drugs; indebtedness, prompting him to transfer $20,000 from his daughter's college account to pay for "hookers and drugs" despite raking in millions of dollars from foreign sources; dodging financial responsibility for an illegitimate child he fathered; etc. Not helping Hunter was the fact his discarded gun and holster, later recovered, tested positive for cocaine residue.

When the laptop story broke on Oct. 14, 2020 – three weeks before the Nov. 3 presidential election – 51 pro-Joe Biden former senior intelligence officials signed a letter released five days later suggesting it was not Hunter's. Only later did Hunter admit it was his, ironically in order to sue those who had accessed it and then gone public with the contents. Frustratingly, the "Group of 51" have suffered no consequences for their wrong call – rendered without undertaking any due diligence. They simply chose to completely rely on the form letter sent them. Although circulated by former CIA Deputy Director Michael Morrel, the letter was not authored by him and no effort was made to identify the author.

Only after the election did Morrell testify the letter was written by then-Biden senior campaign adviser and now-Secretary of State Antony Blinken. Other signatories included officials beholding to Democrat presidents for their positions such as CIA Director John Brennan, former Obama DNI James Clapper and former CIA director, then-Defense Secretary Leon Panetta. Thus, it is clear the Biden campaign "played an active role in the origins of the public statement, which had the effect of helping to suppress the Hunter Biden story and preventing American citizens from making a fully informed decision during the 2020 presidential election."

By virtue of the signatories' national security credentials, Americans rightly assumed but wrongly believed they had access to information unavailable to the public. Morrell's testimony acknowledged two intentions for signing the letter:

"One intent was to share our concern with the American people that the Russians were playing on this issue; and, two, it was to help Vice President Biden."

Little did voters know, the failure of these intelligence officials to do their due diligence meant the second intent took priority over the first.

Clapper, later asked if he regretted signing the letter, said no, even refusing to have his name removed from it. This is somewhat hypocritical based on the following statement Clapper and the others wrote about the laptop:

"If we are right, this is Russia trying to influence how Americans vote in this election, and we believe strongly that Americans need to be aware of this." [Emphasis added.]

Asserting Americans needed to be aware of the group's believed, but ultimately incorrect, assessment concerning Russian disinformation, why then is it not important now to acknowledge the truth?

Shedding light on the group of 51's dereliction of duty is an op-ed by former senior intelligence official Daniel Hoffman who, asked to sign the letter, refused to do so.

Hoffman acknowledged when the letter was circulated, the Russians were known for disinformation, especially since President Vladimir Putin was a KGB veteran – an agency famous for such initiatives. But that did not exclude Hunter's possible ownership.

Hoffman shared that then-Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe publicly stated Hunter's laptop was "not part of some Russian disinformation campaign." While the form letter left an out for the signers ("We do not have evidence of Russian involvement – just that our experience makes us deeply suspicious that the Russian government played a significant role in this case"), good intelligence analysis mandates time to conduct forensics and unravel details. Hoffman noted, Morrell's email left no room for discussion – "The letter was a fait accompli. It was being passed around for signatures, not edits." Therefore, Hoffman failed to sign or respond to Morrell's email.

Hoffman's response is what we should expect from responsible former senior intelligence officials.

Did the group of 51, running cover for Hunter, impact the 2020 election, which Biden won with 51.3% of the popular vote? Marco Polo determined Joe Biden was "complicit in six alleged white collar crimes including tax evasion, using nonpublic info for financial gain and illegally utilizing his alias email," violating the Presidential Records Act; copied the First Son on scheduling matters assisting him in his business planning efforts; etc. Truth could have made a difference.

Hunter will be sentenced within four months – facing up to 25 years in prison and $750,000 in fines. Any decision by Joe to commute Hunter's sentence would undoubtedly not be made until after the 2024 election.

Hopefully, Hunter's gun conviction is just the tip of the criminal activity iceberg for him. Throughout his life, his despicable behavior has been facilitated by his father and numerous other individuals both in and out of government seeking to ride Joe's coattails. While the group of 51 has learned nothing about accountability, at least Hunter, at age 54, has.

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California goes to the Chicoms.

Canada gets most of New England.

Russia snaps up Alaska, and Hawaii declares her independence.

Mexico, whose once-friendly government has been overthrown by forces aligned with the U.N., grabs a bunch of the southern counties of Texas, New Mexico and Arizona.

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A popular movement throughout what remains of the nation is called MAWA, for Make America Whole Again. A principal resistance breaks out along the newly redrawn southern border. Spanish-speaking-only schools are burned to the ground. Mexican security forces are attacked. The army of Greater Mexico moves battalions into some of their retaken cities and starts shelling others where the resistance is still too great for full occupation.

Mexico gears up to repeat the Cuban missile crisis, on a much larger scale and with Chinese weaponry, but a reinvigorated Union of the States of America (still the U.S.A.) gathers her forces on the border, hoping to force a negotiation. The Mexican government, goaded on by old cold war U.S. enemies, pretends not to notice and increases the shelling of those areas of defiance, by ten-fold. Our Union forces finally launch a "Special Military Operation" to protect and free our former citizens.

A ceasefire is quickly agreed to, in principle, to begin negotiations, but certain foreign interests, who are propping Mexico up, snuff the chance for peace, in favor of a war they believe will be of some benefit to their own selfish interests.

Now, take this scenario, far-fetched as it may be, and pull it back in time, shift it around the globe, and start substituting the players mentioned above for Russia, Ukraine, Crimea, Donetsk and Luhansk, the U.S. and NATO, etc. Where do your sympathies end up, now? Have they suddenly changed?

No! No! That's all oranges and apples, square pegs in a round hole! True enough, in many ways, the main one being that our beef with Mexico goes back to the Alamo, where we lost a couple hundred brave Texans (when Mexico marched into what had been their own territory), while Russia's point of reference looks back to the invasions of Napoleon, the Kaiser and Hitler and the deaths of tens of millions of their countrymen.

Now, the tyrant Putin is loved by his people, because they have to, we are told. Putin jails his opposition, while Biden still gives Trump his right of appeal. Putin kills his adversaries. Biden just withholds Secret Service protection. Or lets them hang themselves in prison, when the cameras break down. Putin is trying to broaden Russian control around the world, but we're not pulling strings anywhere. Not in Ukraine. Not in Israel. Not in Brazil. Not in Europe. Like Joe says, "And I'm not kiddin'." Putin's crooked election gave him 80% of the vote. Biden's crooked election only had to give him 51%, or 81,000,000 votes. (Joe says, "Seriously, I'm not exaggerating!") Russia used to have Pravda. We still have CNN and the Washington Post. So, there's really no comparison, whatsoever.

This is all sneaky anti-democratic Russian disinformation, no doubt. How can you not be totally against Putin's dictatorship? Just because we, as a nation, Democrats and RINOs, spend all our time playing nice with Emperor Xi? Because there's nothing sneakier than a former communist. At least Xi mocks our friendship openly and honestly.

Is all this relevant to current events? Does it matter that the apparent dichotomy of Dems vs. Repubs has been reconfigured to the DEM-RINO War Party vs. MAGA? Does it matter that the Uniparty's invitation for "conservatives" to support this war is setting the table for an intended war with Russia, the result of which will be to further redefine MAGA folks as unpatriotic subversives and get others to believe that MAGA means America first in ALL times of war? They absolutely have to get MAGA, so it will be worth it.

Patriots! Russia should not be our enemy. The only reason it has become so, is that it serves the interests of our real enemies. Just ask Hillary and Barack. They all loved good old Russian rubles, till they needed a bad Russia to pin something, anything, on their nemesis, Trump. It is astounding, but true.

We stand at the brink of World War III for the lies of a few narcissistic megalomaniacs. Lies that were told, if not only for political gain, then certainly to protect their ill-gotten gains and to keep themselves out of jail.

Ask George Orwell: "Eastasia has always been our ally. We have always been at war with Eurasia."

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There is a remedy.

In November, voters everywhere, including New York City, will get to choose between the Democratic Party's open border policy and Republican former President Donald Trump's promise to crack down on illegal immigration and deport millions who are here illegally.

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But New York City voters deserve to have an additional choice in November – between keeping the lunatic "sanctuary city" laws that shield migrant criminals from deportation or repealing those laws. Repeal would allow migrant criminals to be deported after their first offense before they go on to rape and murder.

Last week, eight members of the New York City Council's Common Sense Caucus fired off a letter to the Charter Revision Commission – the body with the power to put questions on the ballot in November – explaining that the City Council refuses to repeal sanctuary city laws. Since the City Council won't act, let voters decide.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams is ducking the issue. This despite previously voicing support for cooperating with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials. Now his office says it's the Charter Revision Commission's job to decide what ballot questions go before New Yorkers.

Wrong, Mr. Mayor. It's your job, as the city's top official, to stand up against the loony lefties in the City Council and support deporting migrant criminals after their first offense.

The Ecuadoran molester was nabbed on Monday when good Samaritans recognized him from sketches circulated by police. Jeffrey Flores pounced on the creep and dragged him to the floor with help from others. "I got two little sisters, and I'm about to have a daughter on the way," Flores said of the assault. "I don't like that."

Across the nation, gruesome crimes are fueling opposition to illegal migration. On Monday, Trump blamed President Joe Biden for the murder of Rachel Morin, a 37-year-old mother of five, raped and killed on a hiking trail in Maryland, her naked and bludgeoned body found in the woods nearby. A 23-year-old illegal immigrant from El Salvador is charged. He is believed to have murdered a woman in El Salvador previously and attacked a 9-year-old girl and her mother in a home invasion in Los Angeles.

Only a tiny fraction of migrants are dangerous criminals, but the migrant-advocacy-industrial complex – including the American Civil Liberties Union – insists criminals deserve sanctuary from deportation even after they commit a crime.

Blame Biden for allowing ruthless criminals to come across the border. But sanctuary city laws are to blame for the epidemic of crimes by repeat offenders.

Not to mention New York's over-the-top generosity. The Ecuadoran mugger gave a shelter as his address, as do many arrested migrants. He was walking around the Queens neighborhood, enjoying the good life, on our tab until he was recognized and captured.

Michigan Republicans are renewing efforts to ban sanctuary cities statewide after an illegal immigrant murdered a 25-year-old woman, Ruby Garcia, in Grand Rapids in March. The illegal who confessed to the murder had multiple arrests. Republican lawmaker Matt Hall explained that sanctuary laws "invite proven criminals like Ruby's killer, to come where they can hide from deportation even if they're arrested for another crime."

Amen.

When Biden and Trump debate next week, expect Biden to vilify Trump's deportation plans. Substack's Radley Balko blasts Trump's deportation promise as the "cruelest, most illiberal, most openly authoritarian campaign promise in modern U.S. history."

Truth is, Trump's promise may be his most powerful political weapon. And it's the opposite of authoritarian. Deporting illegals is what the law – enacted by the people's elected representatives – requires.

The Immigration and Nationality Act requires that when someone crosses the border, claiming to seek asylum, the alien "shall be detained until their claim is adjudicated." Most never qualify – only 14% in past years. But Biden is waiving in millions of pretend asylum seekers.

Biden is the authoritarian. But he's ignoring public opinion at his peril.

A whopping 62% of registered voters favor deporting anyone living in the U.S. illegally, according to a CBS poll.

Trump has yet to lay out his deportation plan. But deporting criminals is the place to start. That will require the cooperation of local law enforcement and an end to sanctuary city policies that coddle lawbreakers.

It's time to give the law-abiding public sanctuary and safety, not migrant criminals.

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President Joe Biden's greatest personal vulnerability in his reelection campaign is the perception that he's mentally deteriorating and won't be able to finish a second term (when he'd be 86). So it's not surprising that the pro-Biden media are feverishly defending Biden when videos suggest he might be losing it. They're clearly pre-dreading the presidential debate.

In April, a Pew Research Center poll showed 65% had little or no confidence in Biden's physical fitness as president, and 62% said the same for mental fitness. A recent ABC News/Ipsos poll showed voters preferred Donald Trump 42 to 23 on "mental sharpness."

This deeply upsets leftist journalists, who insisted Trump was mentally unstable on a regular basis when he was in the White House. But now that Republicans are spreading videos of Biden looking like a failing geezer, they're all furiously "fact-checking" and throwing "Pinocchios."

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Start with a video from a skydiving demonstration at the G7 summit in Italy. Biden appeared to be wandering away from European leaders to look at something behind him. It turns out he was giving two thumbs-up to a skydiver behind him. But what everyone saw was the leaders of Italy and France trying to discreetly rush and turn Biden around for photographs. It looked like they had "orders" to keep Grandpa on track.

PolitiFact claimed it was "False" to say Biden "wandered off" (the cheeky New York Post headline was "Meander In Chief"). Washington Post "fact-checker" Glenn Kessler's article carried the hot headline "'Cheapfake' Biden videos enrapture right-wing media, but deeply mislead." Kessler could have awarded Two Pinocchios ("significant omissions and/or exaggerations") but careened into ruling Four Pinocchios, for "Whoppers." This isn't fact-checking. It's spin-spoiling.

"Morning Joe" spent several days raging against the G7 video, with Mika Brzezinski quoting a distraught Democrat strategist: "The lie sprinting the 100-meter dash and the fact check is taking a stroll on the beach." Watching European leaders try to "rescue" Biden from meandering is now a "lie." Mika and Joe Scarborough didn't touch video of Barack Obama grabbing Biden's wrist to lead him off stage at a Hollywood fundraiser.

TV networks and video producers love to make political trouble over bad "optics." It's obvious too much can be made of video clips. Too much can be made of verbal stumbles. Watching how someone slurps on their bottled water can only mean so much.

But wow, all the media shoes have switched to the other feet. Four years ago – on June 13, 2020 – President Trump tentatively tiptoed down a ramp at the Air Force Academy commencement, leading to an anti-Trump feeding frenzy of "growing health concerns." On one day (June 15), NewsBusters found CNN and MSNBC spent nearly 51 minutes analyzing the video with medical experts and trying to inflict damage on perceptions of Trump's fitness.

Now with Biden, MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace decried "a growing and insidious trend in right-wing media" to take "highly misleading and selectively edited video" of Biden and question his fitness. But four years ago, Wallace offered entirely the opposite spin – 12 and a half minutes on June 15, 2020, raising questions about Trump's tiptoeing, trolling for "any [conspiracy] theories about why he went to the hospital earlier this year and any connection between his struggle to hold a water glass with one hand, and that walk down the ramp?"

This is not a double standard. It's simply a Democrat standard. Sing consistently from the DNC song sheet. This is the sound of left-wing cable "news."

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When Gen. Michael Kurilla, commander of U.S. Central Command, testified in the Senate Armed Services Committee on March 7 he issued a warning about ISIS-K, a terrorist group based in Afghanistan.

"[V]arious groups in the Central Region retain the capability and will to target U.S. interests abroad in under six months with little to no warning," Kurilla said in a written statement to the committee.

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"We assess an attack on American soil would likely take longer," he said.

"Taliban pressure against ISIS-K temporarily disrupted the group's ability to plan and conduct attacks against the Homeland and Western targets, but that pressure has been intermittent and insufficient," Kurilla said in his statement.

"ISIS-K and its allies retain a safe haven in Afghanistan, and they continue to develop their networks in and out of the country," he said.

"Their goals do not stop there," he said.

"They have called for attacks globally on anyone not aligned with their extremist ideology, and Taliban efforts to suppress the group have proven insufficient," Kurilla said. "The recent ISIS attack in Kerman, Iran, demonstrates the group's resiliency and indicates that they retain the capability to conduct spectacular external operations."

What happened in Kerman?

"ISIS-K killed 91 Iranians and injured 284 others in Kerman on 3 January 2024," Kurilla said. "This was the deadliest terror attack in Iran since 1979 and it is part of ISIS' effort to exploit the war in Gaza to rejuvenate its global attacks."

ISIS-K is not the only terrorist group in Afghanistan.

"Al-Qaida, while weakened, still enjoys safe havens in Afghanistan and Yemen. Al-Qaida in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) operates training camps, safehouses, and religious schools in Afghanistan," he said.

"Both AQIS and AQAP [Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula] continue to call for lone wolf attacks on U.S. and Western interests via their digital reach," he said.

Republican Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas, who served as a U.S. Army officer in Afghanistan, questioned Kurilla about what he had said about ISIS and al-Qaida.

In this exchange, Kurilla said an ISIS attack in Europe or Eurasia is more likely in the near future than one in the United States itself.

"You said – and this is close to a direct quote – that we could see attacks against U.S. or Western interests abroad with little to no warning in as little as six months," Cotton said. "Are you speaking there about ISIS and al-Qaida from Afghanistan?"

Kurilla responded: "ISIS-Khorasan specifically, and also out of Syria, which they are trying to factor into predominantly European countries."

"So," said Cotton, "ISIS out of either Afghanistan or Syria, attacks against U.S. interests and Western interests abroad in as little as six months. Now, abroad can mean a lot of things. Abroad could mean our embassy in Tajikistan. It could also mean Western Europe or North America.

"Could you be more specific?" Cotton asked.

"Europe and Eurasia," said Kurilla.

"What is the timeline you foresee in which those terrorist organizations could launch an attack with little or no warning against the American homeland?" asked Cotton.

"I think it is ... a lot more difficult for them to be able to do that and requires substantially more resources," responded Kurilla.

"OK," said Cotton, "so six months anywhere across Eurasia and indeterminate time in North America?"

"Yes," said Centcom's commander.

When Kurilla had testified in the Senate Armed Services Committee in March 2023, he admitted that U.S. intelligence gathering in Iraq had diminished.

"At one time, we had 60 balloons over Kabul, Afghanistan," Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama said to Kurilla then. "Our ISR [intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance] is very limited. How confident are you in the intelligence you have to see threats rising from the Taliban?"

"Our intelligence has degraded since we are no longer in Afghanistan," Kurilla said. "I believe we can see the broad contours of an attack. Sometimes we lack the granularity to see the full picture, and we're working to close that gap with our alternative airborne ISR and some of our other intelligence that we are working to penetrate those networks."

Since this nation's military forces were withdrawn from Afghanistan in 2021, the Biden administration has been conducting "Operation Enduring Sentinel." Last month, the inspectors general for this operation released their report for the first quarter of 2024. Operation Enduring Sentinel, it explains, is "the U.S. mission to conduct over-the-horizon counterterrorism operations against threats emanating from Afghanistan and to engage with Central Asian and South Asian regional partners to combat terrorism and promote regional stability."

The United States, of course, is continuing to accept refugee applications from people fleeing the situation in Afghanistan. "From Oct. 1, 2020, to March 6, 2024, USCIS interviewed approximately 24,400 Afghan refugee applicants," said the inspectors general report.

Then there are those who are not refugee applicants.

"In addition," said the report, "U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) encountered 68 Afghan 'inadmissible non-citizens' at the U.S. Southwest Border in FY 2022 and 342 in FY 2023.

"As of March 5," it said, "CBP had encountered 932 in FY 2024."

How many "inadmissible non-citizen" Afghans made it across the southwest border in those first 156 days of this fiscal year without being encountered by the Border Patrol?

It only took 19 al-Qaida terrorists to carry out the 9/11 attack.

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One can stipulate that Trump has presented no evidence sufficient to support a claim that he lost the 2020 election based on voter fraud; one can further stipulate that Trump's pressure on Mike Pence to delay election certification was rooted in baseless misinterpretation of the Constitution. In reality, however, the truest threat to American democracy isn't stubborn unwillingness to concede an election or groundless legal wrangling. It is the continuing attempt to create a series of institutions impervious to public rebuke or electoral accountability, comprised of pseudo-experts who act as "authorities" on a wide range of issues affecting Americans.

It is the creation and maintenance of a permanent bureaucracy, organized by the political left and catering to its whims.

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This was the goal of Woodrow Wilson, who wrote in 1887 that the political sphere – the responsibility of elected officials – had to be circumscribed in favor of expert "administration": "Administrative questions are not political questions. Although politics sets the tasks for administration, it should not be suffered to manipulate its offices." The power of the administrative state, Wilson wrote, should be unhampered and discretionary.

And that is the goal of the so-called deep state today. In preparation for Joe Biden's possible defeat, the Biden administration is promoting new regulations from the Office of Personnel Management to prevent the reclassification of career civil servants as political appointees of at-will workers – effectively giving them taxpayer-funded tenure. The administration has spent the last few months ramming through regulations in an attempt to avoid the consequences of the Congressional Review Act – a piece of legislation that allows Congress to repeal regulations by passing a joint resolution immune to filibuster. The CRA can only be used, however, on regulations filed in the 60 days before a Congressional session adjourns. Hence the rush.

All of this is designed to insulate government from the elected branches. And that is good, according to our legacy media and the Democratic Party, because the elected branches may come to be run by Donald Trump. This is why The New York Times ran a piece in March titled, "It Turns Out the 'Deep State' Is Actually Kind of Awesome." According to the Times, "When we hear 'deep state,' instead of recoiling, we should rally. We should think about the workers otherwise known as our public servants, the everyday superheroes who wake up ready to dedicate their careers and their lives to serving us."

Those who posit that bureaucrats ensconced in regulatory positions may pursue anti-democratic ends are labeled "conspiracy theorists." But there is no conspiracy theory necessary when the goal of bureaucratic administration is out in the open and has been for 150 years. Our constitutional republic was rooted in checks and balances between elected branches, and an unelected judiciary delegated the power merely to interpret law rather than create it. There is no independent fourth branch of government that presides over policy, free from the electorate's judgment.

Yet that is precisely what the Biden administration continues to promote. And that is a threat to American democracy – a threat that has already materialized over the course of decades, turning our government into an elephantine, sclerotic and byzantine architecture shielded from public accountability. According to Democrats, that's a good thing. At least it protects us from the true "threat to democracy," an elected Republican president.

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The Word not only tells us that the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom and knowledge (Psalm 111:10; Proverbs 1:7). It is also says, "The fear of the LORD is a fountain of life, turning a person from the snares of death." (Proverbs 14:27)

The fear of the Lord can save your life, both physically and spiritually.

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Moses told the Israelites that the Lord came down on Mount Sinai in fire and thunder so that "His fear would be before you to keep you from sinning" (Exodus 20:20, my translation). And the voice of wisdom in Proverbs says, "To fear the LORD is to hate evil; I hate pride, arrogance, the evil way, And duplicity in speech." (Proverbs 8:13)

How we need to recover the fear of the Lord!

We must regain our reverence for Him. As Hebrews says, "Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us be thankful, and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe, for our 'God is a consuming fire.'" (Hebrews 12:28–29)

You do not play games with a consuming fire, and you do not play games with a holy God.

Those who truly know Him – intimately and personally and closely – will love what He loves and hate what He hates. They will not trivialize the things that nailed Jesus to the cross. Never!

That's why you can be assured that, that anyone who is casual with sin or flippant about holiness – be it the Christian next door or the preacher on TV – has not deeply encountered the Lord.

You cannot possibly be casual about sin when you come into the presence of "the blessed and only Ruler, the King of kings and Lord of lords, who alone is immortal and who lives in unapproachable light, whom no one has seen or can see" (1 Timothy 6:15–16).

There is a reason that the apostle John, perhaps the Lord's closest friend during His time on the earth, fell to the ground like a dead man when the glorified Jesus appeared to Him (Revelation 1:17).

This is the one John saw: "I turned around to see the voice that was speaking to me. And when I turned I saw seven golden lampstands, and among the lampstands was someone like a son of man, dressed in a robe reaching down to his feet and with a golden sash around his chest. The hair on his head was white like wool, as white as snow, and his eyes were like blazing fire. His feet were like bronze glowing in a furnace, and his voice was like the sound of rushing waters. In his right hand he held seven stars, and coming out of his mouth was a sharp, double-edged sword. His face was like the sun shining in all its brilliance." (Revelation 1:12–16)

Even the thought of this is breathtaking. No wonder even John was undone.

When you encounter the God of whom the seraphim declare, "Holy, holy, holy is the LORD Almighty; the whole earth is full of his glory," you too will say with Isaiah, "Woe to me! … I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the LORD Almighty." (Isaiah 6:3, 5)

It is only then that we fully understand grace and mercy.

It is only then that we really grasp the power of the cross and the beauty of the blood.

It is only then that we appreciate the depths of the Father's love and the miracle of His forgiveness.

It is only then that, without reservation or restraint, we cry out, "Here I am! Send me!" (Isaiah 6:8)

That's why Jude exhorts us to, "Be merciful to those who doubt; save others by snatching them from the fire; to others show mercy, mixed with fear – hating even the clothing stained by corrupted flesh." (Jude 1:22–23)

As I wrote in How Saved Are We?" in 1990:

"Jesus lived in the light of the Judgment. He knew that everything would one day be revealed. Hypocrisy was utterly pointless. There was no reason to put on an act. It would all come out one day. The whole truth would then be uncovered. This is what Jesus taught: 'There is nothing concealed that will not be disclosed, or hidden that will not be made known. What you have said in the dark will be heard in the daylight, and what you have whispered in the ear in the inner rooms will be proclaimed from the roofs' (Luke 12:2-3). These are sobering words! Will that Day bring us glory or shame?

"'Those iniquities which men hide in their hearts shall be written one day on their foreheads as with the point of a diamond' (Thomas Watson). And everyone will be there to see! We may fool a few people now, but we will be exposed before all on that Day.

"Living in the reality of the great Divine Disclosure can free us from all outward displays. It can make us disciples in deed and in truth. And it can help us live in true holy fear. God's records do not lie! 'Nothing in all creation is hidden from God's sight. Everything is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of Him to whom we must give account' (Hebrews 4:13). He will set things straight."

All of us will give account one day. How then should we live? Our God cannot be mocked (Galatians 6:7-8).

Just because a ministry is being blessed does not mean that the Lord is fully pleased with it. Just because a church is growing doesn't mean that God is fully backing it. Sometimes, the Lord is giving us time to repent.

Especially dangerous is the thought that the Spirit can somehow be "used," as if the Lord could anoint us and gift us and then we could use those graces for our own aggrandizement, or as if those supernatural giftings somehow covered over our sins. Danger!

This might work for a while in the eyes of people, but it will not work for a split second in the sight of God. Let us walk in holy fear.

The reality is that a massive pruning is taking place and we are living in the midst of unprecedented shaking.

Let us get low before Him, asking Him to shine His holy light on our hearts and lives, and let us be zealous to destroy any willful sin before that sin destroys us.

May I urge each of you to take the time to listen to an extremely important message, one that I have preached to myself time and again, and one that God has used to save many lives? The link is here. I implore you to listen to this message, whether you're a mega-church pastor, a homeschooling mom, a successful business person, a new believer, or a seasoned saint. It is relevant for every single one of us.

May the Lord have mercy on His people, may He purify His bride, may He make something beautiful out of us, and may His name be glorified in the eyes of the world.

We urgently need to recover the fear of the Lord.

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Who thought at the time about the far-reaching implication of Bill Clinton's statement, "It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is"?

He apparently thought he knew what a woman "is," but today legal authorities, even Supreme Court justices, and medical authorities say they do not. They may claim that genders are numerous and "fluid." Age-old methods of recognizing sex are tossed out in favor of subjective self-identification. And worse, people are being coerced into acting as if this identification is reality.

Discrimination used to concern observable, objective traits. Its initial meaning was to describe prejudicial treatment based upon race. Other categories like nationality, age, or disability have been added, but these were still based upon objective fixed traits. No one would claim that the delusional patient who claims to be a historical figure like Napoleon Bonaparte is being "discriminated" against because people refuse to treat him as if he were that long-dead person.

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Transgender activists and their acolytes, on the other hand, demand slavish deference to trans persons' perceptions. It is discriminatory and harmful, for example, to imply that a person who has just given birth is a woman and a mother despite the patient's proclaimed pronouns being he/him.

Mainstream medical associations are now demanding "evidence-based" treatments to "affirm" the delusion that a child is a person of a different gender, and to alter the body to mimic the preferred gender. New Biden administration rules require suitably qualified practitioners to render such treatments. Apparently, if a physician does mastectomies for cancer, he is legally required to do them for "affirmation."

State laws against puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and surgery on minors are being challenged by powerful transgender advocates, and courts generally side with transgenderism. Minors really cannot give "informed consent," but questions about this treatment do not go away after the 18th birthday is reached.

A declaration authored by the American College of Pediatricians (ACPeds) is garnering wide support. This declaration is a brave act by courageous physicians who dare to question the insane transgender narrative imposed by the powerful medical establishment. The declaration refers to selected scientific studies that, it states, contradict the studies cited by proponents of transgenderism. This tactic has been used before, as with COVID-19. There can be an endless string of arguments over the flaws of the studies cited by both sides. Ultimately, trangenderism ideologues are likely to prevail in a dispute based exclusively upon "science." They will succeed not because they are right; they will win because current political power asymmetry favors them. Most importantly, they have an advantage in winning scientific disputes (even when wrong) due to their extensive academic experience in responding to studies that challenge their conclusions.

Neither side is likely to concede because this is not a scientific argument, but essentially a religious one.

The one side believes that 1) God created man, male and female; 2) there is a universal divine Lawgiver; and 3) there are absolute moral principles, many of which are incorporated in the Oath of Hippocrates. Such precepts forbid harming individuals to serve an agenda.

The other side believes that 1) there is no God, or God is irrelevant; 2) the ultimate authority is Science; 3) morality and the law are determined by Science to serve the goals set by the authorities; and 4) religious people, especially Christians, are bigots opposed to enlightenment and to allowing oppressed and marginalized people to flourish.

The right wing thus holds that the divine order is good and immutable. It is harmful and thus forbidden to risk sterilizing a child, chemically or physically, or to mutilate his body. Any purported benefits reported in studies are psychological, probably short-term, and achieved by exploiting or manipulating patients and data. Horrible adverse effects are denied or downplayed, as are the consequences of radical societal change.

The left wing holds that the current societal order is unjust and inequitable, and should be destroyed. The Science holds the key to beneficial change. Science is a tool to be used in a results-oriented way (no need for replication or open criticism). Purported adverse effects are rare, mild, or fabricated, and worth it to achieve the collective goals.

The transgender ideology needs to be engaged on the philosophical/religious ground. If the premises are absurd (e.g., "being trapped in the wrong body") and the advocated methods (castrating and mutilating children) are immoral or criminal, then scores on psychological surveys and p-values are distractions and pretexts attempting to justify the indefensible.

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Last week, Pew Research Center reported on such differences. They write about those on the right: "Most Trump supporters (69%) would like the Bible to have at least some influence on the laws of the U.S., including 36% who say it should have 'a great deal' of influence."

As to those on the left, Pew writes, "About 7-in-10 Biden supporters (69%) say the Bible should have little or no influence on the laws of the U.S., including 53% who say it should have no influence."

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Gary Bauer, who served in the Reagan administration and now runs American Values, reacted to this survey: "Why does this matter? … [A]s we are seeing now with the absurd smears of 'Christian nationalism,' those who say the Bible should have no influence quickly morph their religious bigotry into the belief that Christians are 'a danger to democracy.'"

And Bauer adds, "Once again, pastors and Christians who say, 'I'm not interested in politics because it's divisive,' are sorely mistaken. The government and the neo-Marxist left are very interested in you!"

One key issue is: What is the source of our rights? God or government?

Rabbi Daniel Lapin, president of the American Alliance of Jews and Christians, told me once in a television interview: "There is obviously in today's society, a very strong desire to suggest that the rights enjoyed by citizens are graciously granted by government." And he went on to say that what the government grants, it can also take away.

The rabbi continued, "And it is precisely for that reason that anybody who spends the slightest amount of effort on finding out what the founders of the United States of America believed will know that they stressed and emphasized constantly and reliably, that these rights were from God. They were God given, not government given."

What did the founders of America have to say about such matters? How much influence should the Bible have on the nation's laws, if any?

Well, for starters, the Bible is the source of the notion of covenant, which ultimately gave rise to our governing document, the U.S. Constitution. And many scholars, like the late Dr. Donald S. Lutz, of the University of Houston, have noted the vital role of the biblical concept of covenant in helping to frame our two key founding documents, the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution – both of which have the same structure: A written agreement under God that bears signatures.

Writes Lutz in his classic book, "The Origins of American Constitutionalism": "The American constitutional tradition derives in much of its form and content from the Judeo-Christian tradition as interpreted by the radical Protestant sects to which belonged so many of the original European settlers in British North America." And their chief guidebook was the Bible.

Lutz adds, "God is called on as a witness to the agreement. … Wherever dissenting Protestantism went, so too went their church covenants." And those church covenants eventually morphed into political agreements. The Mayflower Compact is one such example.

No wonder Newsweek wrote (Dec. 27, 1982), on the eve of the Year of the Bible: "Now historians are discovering that the Bible, perhaps even more than the Constitution, is our founding document: the source of the powerful myth of the United States as a special, sacred nation, a people called by God to establish a model society, a beacon to the world."

The Scriptures teach the sinfulness of man, so the founders carefully separated political power to avoid tyranny. As Alexander Hamilton, a New York representative at the Constitutional Convention, once noted on man's corrupt nature: "Till the millennium comes, in spite of all our boasted light and purification, hypocrisy and treachery will continue to be the most successful commodities in the political market."

Another point of the founders' view is that for self-rule to work, the people must be virtuous. How could they maintain virtue? Through the voluntary free exercise of religion, which usually meant Christianity in one version or another.

As George Washington famously worded it: "Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports."

Lutz comments on how important the idea of virtue was to the founders of America, and, of course, the Bible was their basis for virtue: "Without the belief in a virtuous people, the federal republic would not have been tried."

It's amazing that millions of Americans today think that the Bible should have no place in influencing public policy. The Bible helped produce the freest and most prosperous country in world history. As President Andrew Jackson declared, "The Bible is the rock on which this Republic rests."

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More than half our country – 27 states – have sued to block this policy. Republican states seek to protect girls against this transgender invasion by biological boys, while Democrat politicians controlling the other 23 states promote the trans agenda.

California cities declare themselves to be sanctuaries for transgenders, and that state's legislature also recently voted to prohibit school district policies of informing parents when their own children try to switch genders. Misnamed the SAFETY Act, AB 1955 is so anti-parent that it would result in schools concealing children's gender confusion from their own parents.

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In five blue states this spring, biological boys won state championships by competing in girls' sports. Biden wants to extend this liberal madness nationwide by misinterpreting a 1972 law that was intended to protect girls against discrimination in schools: Title IX.

Title IX states, "No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance." By redefining "sex" to include students' changing views of their own gender, Biden bans any limits by public and charter schools on transgenders.

On Monday, federal Judge Danny C. Reeves in Kentucky held that Biden's new regulation is "arbitrary in the truest sense of the word," and he blocked it in that state plus Indiana, Ohio, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia. Last Friday another federal judge, in Louisiana, blocked Biden's regulation from being enforced in Idaho, Louisiana, Mississippi and Montana.

The election of Donald Trump would shut down Biden's lawless push for the trans agenda in our public schools. Trump has campaigned on his commitment to protect girls' sports and locker rooms against boys who think or pretend they are girls.

In Boston, an all-Democrat panel of the 1st Circuit held on June 9 that 12-year-old Liam Morrison was properly prohibited by a public school from wearing a T-shirt that said, "There Are Only Two Genders." He was further prevented from wearing that same T-shirt with the words "Only Two" covered by a piece of tape on which was written "CENSORED," all of which the court held the school properly banned under its hate speech code.

But the Northeast and the West Coast do not have the final word on this issue. On June 11, a GOP-appointed federal judge in Fort Worth blocked Biden's transgender school policy for all of Texas.

Judge Reed O'Connor held that the Biden administration "lacks authority to redefine 'sex' in a way that conflicts with Title IX."

A federal judge in Louisiana, Terry Doughty, held that Biden's analysis wrongly focused on only the effect on transgender students, rather than girls who must then "use the bathroom, undress, and shower in the presence of persons who may identify as females but still have male biological parts." Biden's Department of Education "made no attempt to determine the effect on students having students who are biologically the opposite sex in their locker rooms and bathrooms."

Judge Doughty further held that "the DOE declared in the Final Rule, with no explanation, that transgender students do not pose a safety risk for cisgender students." The newly coined term for the vast majority of children, who are not transgendered, is to call them "cisgendered."

More good news came last week from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit. Trump-appointed judges provided the 2-1 majority decision against Biden's pro-transgender policy for schools, as embodied in Biden's 2021 Title IX guidance.

This appellate decision protects 20 red states: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee and West Virginia. Additional states, including Florida, Utah and Wyoming, have filed lawsuits within their own jurisdictions.

Midwestern states, including Iowa and North Dakota, have sued in St. Louis within the conservative 8th Circuit, and other lawsuits including Texas and Virginia mentioned above round out the total of 27. Prior rulings by the more liberal 4th and 7th Circuits held that there is a transgender right of access to girls' restrooms under both Title IX and the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution.

While some expect the U.S. Supreme Court to resolve the widening divide in our country on this issue, that Court remains unwilling to get involved. Instead, it will be the upcoming presidential election that determines whether gender-confused boys will invade schoolgirls' restrooms, locker rooms and sports competitions.

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But the change taking place among young voters is even more dramatic.

In the elections in 2016 and 2020, Donald Trump was soundly defeated among voters 18-29.

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In 2016, Hillary Clinton defeated Donald Trump among voters ages 18-29, 55% to 37%.

In 2020, Joe Biden defeated Trump in this same youth demographic, 60% to 36%.

However, a new Quinnipiac poll shows Trump leading Biden by 1 point among voters 18-34.

Per Gallup favorability/non-favorability ratings, in October 2020, prior to the election, 58% of those 18-34 rated Biden "favorable" against 38% who rated Trump "favorable."

However, in the same polling done by Gallup last month, Biden's favorability among those 18-34 was down to 33% and Trump's was up to 46%.

In early May, a New York Times/Philadelphia Inquirer/Siena College poll was done in six battleground states – Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

Among those 18-29, in response to the question, "If you had to decide between the two today, who would you lean more toward?" 43% said Biden and 46% said Trump.

Follow-up questions in this same poll give an idea of dissatisfaction among these young voters.

Regarding the economy, 91% of ages 18-29 rate it either fair or poor. And they favor Trump over Biden regarding confidence in fixing the economy 68% to 25%.

Regarding the political and economic system of the country, 62% said it needs "major changes," and 16% feel it should be "torn down entirely."

None of this is particularly surprising. What is surprising is our nation's youth are just waking up to the raw deal they are getting. They are inheriting a once uniquely great nation now heading into fiscal and social bankruptcy as a result of totally irresponsible management by the current and preceding generations.

Despite current polling showing the youth vote leaning to Trump, according to the same poll, still almost twice the percent of those voters ages 18-29 identify as Democrat, 27%, compared to Republican, 15%. However, 44% identify as Independent.

We need look no further than the nation's oldest and largest entitlement program, Social Security.

It is well publicized that the system is bankrupt. According to the latest Trustees Report, the system will be insolvent in the year 2035, with a shortfall of about 20%.

Yet all these youth, ages 18-29, are immediately forced to pay into this broken system with their very first paycheck, despite the cold fact that the funds are not there to pay them their benefits in full when they retire. In a private company, the management would be facing legal action.

Is it any wonder our youth are cynical about their country?

The Biden administration continues to spend and borrow like economic reality does not exist. According to the Congressional Budget Office, "If current laws governing revenues and spending go unchanged ... Debt held by the public would soar from 99% of GDP in 2024 to 166% of GDP in 2054 – exceeding any previously recorded level and on track to increase further."

Let's note that in 1980, this debt was less than 25% of GDP. At the end of 2008, just prior to the Obama presidency, it stood at 43.6%.

Larded down by big government and debt, CBO projects annual growth 2024 and onward at less than 2% per year. Growth averaged more than 3.5% annually from 1950 to 2000.

Can things be fixed? Of course, with principled, courageous leadership. Trillions in wasteful spending needs to be cut, and dinosaur government programs should be eliminated or privatized.

But the last place to look for leadership for any of this is the current administration in Washington, which loves growing the welfare state by mortgaging the future of our next generation.

It's time for change, and our young voters know it.

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This leads to a sobering realization.

Hamas boasting to their fellow Palestinians about what they did to Jews while the Nazis tried to hide what they did from fellow Germans means there is not only a moral difference between Hamas and the Nazis but a moral difference between the German people during the Nazi era and the Palestinian people today – and for nearly the last hundred years.

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Morally speaking, it would be difficult to name a less impressive people than the Palestinians over the past century. For those who do not understand that a generalization means, by definition, that there are exceptions, I should note that there are and have always been noble Palestinian individuals. But the cumulative Palestinian record of evil over the last century has few peers.

Let's begin in the 1940s.[1]

The leading Palestinian religious leader in the early 1940s, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini, was a major supporter of the Nazis and their extermination campaign against the Jews. There is a famous photo of al-Husseini meeting with Hitler in Berlin on Nov. 28, 1941. As reported in the Holocaust Encyclopedia, "Al-Husseini pointed out that Germany alone recognized the global threat of the 'Jewish problem' and took steps to 'solve' it globally. ..."

The Encyclopedia further notes that "on Dec. 18, 1942, Arab emigres opened an 'Islamic Central Institute' (Islamische Zentral-Institut) in Berlin, with al-Husseini as a senior sponsor and keynote speaker. In his speech, al-Husseini lashed out at the Jews, stating that the Quran judged the Jews 'to be the most irreconcilable enemies of the Muslims.'"

The Haaretz newspaper – which is left-wing and rabidly anti-Benjamin Netanyahu – described al-Husseini as "the father of Palestinian nationalism."

In 1945, Yugoslavia sought to indict the father of Palestinian nationalism as a war criminal for recruiting 20,000 Muslim volunteers to join the Waffen-SS and participate in its extermination of the Jews of Croatia and Hungary.

All of that Nazi-like Palestinian anti-Semitism predates the establishment of the State of Israel.

Before describing decades of Palestinian butchery of Jews in Israel, it is also important to note the moral record of the Palestinian people with regard to fellow Arabs. The Palestinians came to be widely loathed in the Arab world for good reason: Wherever they went in large numbers, they created havoc.

On Sept. 6, 1970, Palestinian terrorists hijacked Trans World Airlines, Swissair and Pan Am airplanes. A few days later, they hijacked a British Overseas Airways Corporation (now "British Air") airliner. The Palestinian terrorists segregated the flight crews and Jewish passengers, keeping the 56 Jewish hostages in custody, while releasing the non-Jews. In total, five planes were hijacked, and three of them were landed at a desert airstrip in Jordan. These hijackings plus Palestinian violence in Jordanian cities led to a Jordanian-Palestinian civil war in September 1970, during which, according to the Palestinians, Jordan killed 25,000 Palestinians.

Seven months later, in April 1971, Yasser Arafat, the Palestinians' leader, called for the overthrow of Jordan's King Hussein. In November that same year, four members of the Black September terrorist group (which took its name from the Palestinians' September 1970 defeat in Jordan), assassinated Jordanian Prime Minister Wasfi Tal in Cairo. As reported in The New York Times, an "assassin kneeled beside his victim to lick his blood." A photo of a Palestinian assassin drinking (not merely licking) Tal's blood was widely published.

After destabilizing Jordan and losing the civil war they caused, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians went to Lebanon, where they quickly proceeded to ruin that country. Their love of violence and terror led to the outbreak of the Lebanese Civil War in 1975, which lasted until 1990. That war led to an estimated 150,000 Lebanese killed, tens of thousands wounded, hundreds of thousands displaced and left destitute, and a decrease in the Christian population of Lebanon from 55% in 1970 to 35% in 2022.

Meanwhile, throughout Israel's history, Palestinians murdered Jews in Israel whenever possible, blowing up school and municipal buses filled with passengers, blowing up Passover Seders and weddings and pizza parlors full of families, and wherever else Jews were assembled. On a regular basis, they stabbed and shot to death Jews who were simply going about their daily business.

To cite a few of thousands of examples, on May 8, 1970, Palestinian terrorists crossed into Israel and carried out the Avivim school bus massacre, a bombing which killed 13 civilians, nine of whom were children, and injured 25 other children.

On May 22, 1970, Palestinians fired rocket-propelled grenades into an Israeli school bus, killing nine children and three adults and wounding 25.

On May 30, 1972, Japanese terrorists working on behalf of a Palestinian terror group murdered 26 and injured 80 passengers at Israel's international airport (then called Lod).

On May 15, 1974, Palestinians went to a school in Ma'alot, Israel, where they took hostage 105 high school students and more than 10 others. They eventually killed 25 of the hostages, including 22 students, and injured another 68.

On March 11, 1978, Palestinians hijacked a bus and murdered 38 Israeli civilians, including 13 children, and injured 76 more.

On Oct. 19, 1994, a Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up in a bus during the morning rush hour in Tel Aviv, killing 22 people and injuring 50 more. Hamas claimed responsibility.

On March 2, 2002, a Palestinian suicide bomber killed 11 people and injured over 50 at a Saturday evening bar mitzvah celebration. The terrorist detonated the bomb next to a group of women waiting with their baby carriages for their husbands to leave the nearby synagogue.

On March 27, 2002, 30 people were killed and 140 injured in a Palestinian suicide bombing in a hotel in the coastal city of Netanya in the midst of the Passover seder with 250 guests.

On July 31, 2002, nine people were killed and 85 wounded when a bomb exploded in the student center cafeteria on the Hebrew University campus. Hamas claimed responsibility.

On Aug. 19, 2003, 23 people were killed and over 130 wounded when a Palestinian suicide bomber detonated himself on a bus in Jerusalem. Hamas claimed responsibility.

This brief list is nowhere near exhaustive.

According to the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, as of 2022, a majority of Palestinians support terror attacks against Israeli Jews. Moreover, the Palestinian Authority on the West Bank has been paying more than $300 million annually – about 8% of the Palestinian budget – to the families of imprisoned terrorists and of terrorists killed while engaging in an act of terror against Jews. Another Palestinian poll states that the vast majority of Palestinians in the West Bank – over 75% – support Hamas at this time.

The Palestinian people love killing Jews and have loved doing so for nearly a century. Palestinian women routinely pass out candy in the streets in celebration of terror attacks against Jews. Compare this to Israel, which has many human rights organizations holding Israel to account regarding its treatment of Palestinians. Compare this to Israelis, who for years had volunteered to drive Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza to receive medical treatment in Israeli hospitals.

To be "pro-Palestinian" today means being pro-Hamas just as to be "pro-German" during World War II was the same as being pro-Nazi. The only difference is that the Germans as a whole were a better people than the Palestinians. If you support the Palestinians, you should know whom you support.

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School's out for the summer, so now it is time to examine the state of our education system.

By any objective measure, our school performance is fair or poor for most children. Math scores hit a 20-year low. ACT scores dropped to a 30-year low last year. In dozens of schools throughout the country, not one child is reading or practicing math at grade-level proficiency. Not one!

Some of this poor performance is due to the unforgivable mistake of shutting down our schools during COVID-19 – despite children being less vulnerable to the virus.

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But our schools were in long-term decline before the pandemic.

One of the world's top education scholars, Eric Hanushek, recently issued a report on the 40-year anniversary of the famous federal study published in 1983 called "A Nation at Risk." That study famously warned that "if an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war."

But tragically, nobody listened or paid attention to the warning. The unions kept pushing for more money with no accountability. Schools were turned into social welfare agencies instead of factories for learning. So they started to pursue both missions – poorly. In more recent years, educators decided their job was to teach about social justice, climate change radicalism, LGBTQ issues and "systemic racism."

In many public schools, patriotism and love of country gave way to a "blame America first" narrative.

Math, reading and science took a backseat.

But the taxpayer money poured in as if from a firehouse. Hanushek notes that, adjusted for inflation, per-pupil spending since 1960 quadrupled. Since 1980 the funding per student has doubled.

Yet over the past several decades, there isn't much evidence of improvement (if any). In most school districts, the reverse is true.

The feds have kicked in hundreds of billions too. Yet there is virtually no evidence that Uncle Sam's spending has added much value. Mostly it's added more red tape. Test scores haven't budged.

Still, President Joe Biden's plan is to spend hundreds of billions more – mostly because the teacher unions are the strongest force in the modern Democratic Party. Unions. Not parents.

Finally, after 40 years of failure, parents are taking notice and taking action. The parental choice movement is gaining steam – especially in red states. Some 13 states in the last two years have added programs to allow education dollars to follow the kids – that means lower-income parents are provided the funding to send their kids to charter schools, Catholic schools or other alternatives.

This should hopefully provide incentives for the public schools to compete and improve.

One of Hanushek's key conclusions provides some glimmer of hope. He finds "some evidence that spending more money can improve student learning in public schools." But he adds conditionally that the dollars need to be tied to "rewarding performance."

For example, incentivizing teacher excellence through pay for performance and getting rid of bad teachers – by eliminating or reforming tenure – can improve schools and throw a lifeline to kids.

Here's the problem: the teacher unions are adamantly opposed to anyone measuring THEIR performance.

They can grade the students, but no one dares to grade the teachers.

Back in 1983, the warning was that our schools had slipped into a cesspool of "mediocrity." Here we are over 40 years later, and in too many cities and states, mediocrity would be a vast improvement.

Reforms are coming – but will they get here soon enough? We certainly can't wait another 40 years.

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The Biden administration doesn't care. They want to spend more.

Already they are spending so much that they're increasing our debt by a trillion dollars every 100 days.

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President Donald Trump was no better. His administration increased our debt by almost $8 trillion.

This will not end well.

Last year, we hit a new ugly milestone: Americans must pay $1 trillion per year just for interest on our debt.

That's more than we spend on defense – on infrastructure, education, poverty programs ... everything, but Social Security and Medicare.

If we didn't waste these trillion dollars on interest, we could give $3,000 tax cuts to every man, woman and child to use as they please.

Worse, America's spending growth is unsustainable. You can stretch a rubber band farther and farther, but eventually, it will break.

This column has reported on the politicians' irresponsibility for a long time.

In 2019, I complained that our debt increased by a trillion dollars every year. But now, it's 3 trillion!

In 2023, the ratings agency Fitch was criticized for downgrading U.S. government debt. But a few months later, Moody's Investor Service lowered its outlook from "stable" to "negative," saying America's "fiscal deficits will remain very large, significantly weakening debt affordability."

No one knows which straw will break the camel's back.

In the past, politicians at least talked about our debt problem.

President Bill Clinton said, "We've got to deal with this big long-term debt problem, or it will deal with us."

President Barack Obama said not dealing with it is "irresponsible."

Trump said, "We've got to get rid of the $19 trillion in debt."

But not one of them did anything about it.

Now they lie about it. President Joe Biden said, "We literally cut the federal debt in half."

This is absurd. When he took office, our debt was $26.9 trillion. Now it's $34.8 trillion.

Part of the problem is that Biden staffers listen to advocates of '"Modern Monetary Theory" – the ridiculous idea that the U.S., because it prints its own currency, can spend even more.

"There's nothing to prevent the federal government," says Stephanie Kelter, Sen. Bernie Sanders' economic adviser, "from creating as much money as it wants to and paying it to someone."

This is crazy. Look what's happened to countries that tried it.

After World War I, the German government couldn't afford its reparation payments, so it printed more money. That led to 300% inflation and created anger that set the stage for Hitler.

Similar hyperinflation wrecked lives in Argentina, Zimbabwe and, most recently, Venezuela.

People work their whole lives to build savings; politicians steal it through inflation.

Today, silly people like Biden and Sen. Elizabeth Warren say we can "fix" our deficit by taxing the rich.

Since the stock market's risen almost 30,000 points in 15 years, there are a lot of absurdly rich people around.

"Pay your fair share," shouts Warren.

But rich people already pay a bigger share, and raising taxes on the rich wouldn't even get us out of the mess we're in.

First, many wouldn't pay. They'd move abroad or invest abroad or spend even more on tax lawyers to slime around the rules.

Even if they didn't, there aren't enough rich people to tax to compensate for what our politicians spend. If Warren were able to grab all billionaires' wealth, that would only cover about a seventh of our debt.

The only solution is to address what causes the debt in the first place: excessive government spending.

It shouldn't be so hard. Politicians don't even need to stop spending more. They don't need to balance the budget.

They just need to limit spending increases to about 4%, just below America's average yearly economic growth. Then we could grow our way out of our debt burden.

But our politicians won't even do that.

They don't even talk about debt.

They are irresponsible cowards.

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This morning I was reading in my Bible from the Old Testament book of Micah. Chapter 2, verse 1, states: "Woe to them that devise iniquity, work evil upon their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand." (KJV)

The point the prophet Micah was making in the aforementioned verse is that wicked/evil people plot their skullduggery and plan it out under the cover of night or in privacy, and then they put their evil plans into action in the light of morning, or better stated, they put their dastardly plans into action in the light of day.

They live their life by the corrupt Erebusic philosophy of: "Might makes right." This brings me to Joe Biden.

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By all quantifiable accounts, Biden has never been more than a bottom-rung plagiarist, cheat, pernicious calumniator and, even from the mouths of his friends and political colleagues who could stomach him, a dolt – at best someone who was fun to hang out with, get drunk and chase women around a bar.

Biden never grew up, i.e., matured, in a way that he could honorably represent the voters, some of whom actually believed his political rhetoric. But, he had a gift for exploiting his lack of character for political and financial gain – which is pretty amazing considering who it is we're talking about. Which brings me back to my opening paragraph.

Of Biden's many corrupt and contradictory positions and flip-flops, none is more stark in contrast than the union of Biden and Chicago's legendary bathhouse and backseat limousine sodomist.

Of all the things Biden has been known for supporting, none is more public than, as Dan O'Donnell wrote Aug. 20, 2020, "Joe Biden's Six Decades of Racism."

Biden has been little more than a vote in the pocket of whoever paid the most or offered the best quid pro quo. Even at that, he was essentially small time. But, then he somehow harnessed himself to Barack Obama.

Homosexual bathhouses and backseat limousine rendezvouses weren't the only things Obama was known for when he and Biden teamed up. He was also known as a rabid Alinskyite, Marxist, Israel/Jew hater and revolutionist.

On Biden's history of overt racism. O'Donnell wrote: "In his run for president, Joe Biden [was] being heralded as a champion for equality and racial justice, but his long career in politics directly contradict[ed] this, as it has been marked and ultimately defined by six straight decades of segregationist policies, hostility towards minority communities, and outright racism."

Biden is well-known as a womanizer and an accused sexual molester who is rumored to have much more than a casual interest in underage little girls – a trait he has exhibited publicly countless times.

But, Biden is not smart; he simply excelled at being a cheap two-bit political con and braggart, who was bigoted and racist. So what was it that Obama saw that brought about this unholy union?

I'm far from the only person who supports the allegations that Biden is Obama's sock-puppet. It's clear that Biden has amassed a fortune in his time being used by Obama – much more than he amassed in his entire political life, before he was gifted to Obama.

As I've noted, these kind are evil and wicked. They plot under cover of darkness and seclusion their demonic plans and machinations – then execute them in the public view; and they do it without penalty. But, back to Biden and Obama.

Was Biden the only one willing to sell his soul to the devil for the financial gains he has amassed being a stooge, i.e., the front person, for Obama to achieve his third term? Was Biden the only one Obama could control? Was Biden the only one willing to act the role he now plays? Is/was Biden the only one willing to betray America and Israel on the scale Obama wants?

I know my suggestions may seem a bit speculative, but they cease to be same when we examine the backgrounds of Biden and Obama. Also, when we examine closely just how the political game is being played, there's something afoot that doesn't pass muster.

I've a colleague who has insisted from Obama's first term that Biden was in place as vice president to keep Obama in check. I've never agreed in toto with my colleague's theory. I do, however, agree that these two working together in a secretive, yet obvious way, cannot be dismissed.

There's no scenario in which I can see Obama not hating Biden's guts and vice versa. However, if Obama needed a stooge or fall guy who is greedy enough to betray We the People, our country and our strongest ally, then Biden is the person. If you need another war to start to further your ambitions to enrich Hezbollah and Hamas – then Biden is your guy.

He's weak, greedy, not very smart, easily manipulated and willing to play the role while the real ringmaster manipulates things from the shadows.

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As has become obvious since then, Obiden's shadow government was already (rather, still) in power in D.C., despite four years of Trump's partial control of the Executive Branch. Hopefully, if Trump regains the White House this November and purges the traitors from public office, all the deep state conspirators who nurtured, provoked and staged the "insurrection" will be exposed and prosecuted.

Instead of D.C., I was driving my wife on a long-promised vacation to Florida. Despite the potent lure of attending the historic event on J6, I couldn't justify postponing that vacation because I'd just been in Washington on Dec. 12 for the multiple concurrent rallies Steve Bannon called the "Gathering of the Tribes" (an amazingly unique and frankly more impressive event than J6 in terms of the stunning diversity of distinct pro-Trump ethnic and affinity groups on display – united only by their love of Donald Trump.)

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So on Jan. 5, we overnighted at the Comfort Inn near the Atlanta airport – where I experienced my own slice of election-fraud drama that I reported the next day in my newsletter:

"I happen to be in Fulton County, Georgia, this morning (Atlanta), where, of course, the Purple Uniparty (the partnership of DEMONIC DEEP-BLUE DEMS and ROTTEN RED RINOs) stole another election last night through fraud – which was only possible because the corrupt 'Republican' governor and secretary of state worked tirelessly since Nov. 3rd to protect and preserve the cheat-machine that apparently put them in office in a prior election, and that on Nov. 3rd, 2020, ensured Georgia's 'vote' would flip from Trump to Biden, and force run-off elections for her two conservative Republican U.S. senators."

What I didn't include then, because I didn't put it all together at the time, was that around 2 a.m. on the 6th a large group of loud and excited people gathered in the adjoining room for some sort of meeting that lasted less than an hour. I couldn't make out many words, but (having been involved in many election campaigns, including my own two runs for governor of Massachusetts) I recognized the clear "feel" of the group as grassroots political, and realized later that it was likely a cash payoff meeting for ballot-stuffers.

I wrote my newsletter in the early morning of J6 and published it by email at exactly 9:57 a.m. Eastern – well before the now infamous events of the day. Presciently, it opened with the following questions:

"What if the German Christians and Jews of the 1920s had been able to see into the future and realize the full consequences of allowing the Marxist Adolf Hitler to take control of their nation in the stolen election of 1933, when his 'National Socialist German Workers Party' (aka NAZI Party) secretly burned down the German Parliament and then accused his political enemies of the crime? Do you think we will fare better than the Germans if the Dems take control of all three branches of our government on Jan. 21 because we let them get away with the most blatant and egregious election fraud in world history?"

Now compare what we've all witnessed in Obiden's America since J6 to this short passage in Leonard Mosley's "The Reich Marshall: Herman Goering" (1974):

"[I]mmediately after the Reichstag fire the National Socialists made good propaganda use of it. On the day after it had happened, while the ruins still smoldered, Adolf Hitler prevailed on President Hindenberg to sign a decree suspending the seven sections of the constitution guaranteeing individual and civil liberties. It was directed against 'Communist acts of violence endangering the state' and it ordained:

"Restrictions on personal liberty and on the right of free expression of opinion, including freedom of the Press;

"Curtailment of rights of freedom and assembly and association;

"Censorship of mail, telegraphic messages, and telephone conversations;

"An abrogation of the legal limits on house arrests, requisitions, and searches.

"It was now that the auxiliary SA and SS members of the police came into their own" (Mosley:200).

Replace the word "Communist" with "MAGA" in the third sentence, update the forms of available communication being censored to include social media, and add the suspension of the constitutional right to a "speedy trial" for the J6ers, and the Obiden strategy and tactics are eerily similar to Adolf Hitler's.

Of course, when we say Obiden we mean Obama, so when we add to this analysis the (heavily suppressed) fact that both Obama and Hitler suffered from homosexuality, and for whom women apparently served as "beards" to fool the public, the homo-fascist parallels are even more disturbing.

Now, leftist and LGBT-compromised "conservative" heads will certainly be exploding at the outing of Hitler as "gay." This is the solidly documented true history the SPLC named me a "hate group" for exposing and whose agents have for more than 20 years relentlessly worked to cancel me to suppress. You can confirm it for yourself by reading "The Pink Swastika" 4th Edition exclusively here (because Amazon and the other big booksellers have banned it!)

As for the issue of "beards," my research strongly suggests that Hitler was set up with Eva Braun (late in life) by his exclusive photographer and "fixer" Heinrich Hoffman who had previously married off his own daughter Henny to "gay" Hitler Youth chief Baldur von Schirach, apparently to quash public rumors about his homosexuality. Eva was Hoffman's employee. Supposedly, Obama's pastor Jeremiah "G-d Damn America" Wright played the Hoffman role for him in the procurement of "Michelle" (who may or may not actually be a transgender). Discussion of these contentions are contained in the not-yet-published 6th Edition of "The Pink Swastika," scheduled for release on Jan. 1, 2025.

Speaking of the SPLC and the potential for backlash against the treasonous left, I reject the media and union boss narrow spin that SPLC's sudden termination of about a quarter of their staff last week was solely "greed based." If you read between the lines of their own press statement it looks also like policy changes triggered by fear of the fast-growing anti-woke movement. SPLC said it was "to focus and align our work with our programmatic priorities and goals" – which sounds a lot like woke-hurt Disney's damage-control "apology" to its stockholders after losing its showdown with Ron DeSantis and multiple stink-pot movie releases. I think the money-grubbing SPLC greatly fears fundraising fallout – especially in regards to its anti-whiteness manipulation and LGBT grooming of schoolchildren – in which effort the SPLC has been the Josef Goebbels of public education. Reportedly, the department most affected by the "streamlining" is their "educational" arm.

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In June 2016, Britain voted to leave the European Union.

This month, Brexit's mastermind, Nigel Farage, returned to the fore of British politics.

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He's running in next month's U.K. general election, but Farage's real aim isn't to get a seat in Parliament; it's to replace the Conservative Party with a new populist force of his own.

The worse Conservatives do on July 4, the fateful election day chosen by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, the more power Farage accrues.

That's true regardless of whether Farage prevails in his own race.

It's even true if his party, Reform U.K., wins no seats at all.

What Farage wants to prove is simply that Conservatives can't win without his issues.

Donald Trump is a ballot-box success in a way Farage isn't.

But Farage is a brilliant long-term planner, and what he's doing in the U.K. has implications for the Republican Party here.

He gives us a peek into what the GOP's post-Trump future looks like – because Farage proves that a right-leaning party that isn't also a populist party is doomed in the 21st century.

Before Farage decided to run, Sunak's parliamentary majority was already facing extinction.

Polls showed Labour winning a huge, historic victory.

But the Conservatives had reason to think the agony Farage and Brexit had imposed was behind them at long last.

From the 1990s until Brexit's eventual implementation under Conservative Prime Minister Boris Johnson, the Conservatives were bitterly split over the E.U.

Farage's earlier vehicle, the U.K. Independence Party, was designed to force Conservatives to the right on Europe by threatening to divide their electoral coalition.

The strategy worked – to keep his party together, David Cameron, a Conservative prime minister who favored remaining in the E.U., had to schedule a popular referendum on Brexit, which he lost.

For three more years, the Conservatives struggled to find a leader who'd follow through on Brexit.

When Johnson promised to do so, the party's Farage problem went away, and the Conservatives won a smashing victory in the 2019 general election.

Yet COVID controversies ended Johnson's tenure prematurely.

The Conservatives then tried to go back to the future, picking the closest thing they still had to a free-market Margaret Thatcher, Liz Truss, as the next leader and prime minister.

Truss' premiership lasted barely a month; she simply couldn't garner enough support from her own party's members of Parliament to remain in office.

That's how the Conservatives wound up with Sunak, a man characterized not by a vision that inspires colleagues or voters but by the absence of overtly divisive qualities.

Because Sunak stands for little, his fall wouldn't mean much, either – in the absence of Farage.

But now that Farage is back, there's again a divisive issue Conservatives can't ignore: immigration.

Brexit was only the beginning; Farage and Reform U.K. are set to use the same playbook to push British politics to the right on immigration.

A startling YouGov poll last week found Reform U.K. beating the Conservatives 19% to 18%, with Labour far in the lead at 37%.

Experts don't expect Reform to perform so well in the election, but again it doesn't have to: Farage only needs to make his issue indispensable to any right-wing party that hopes to win.

He might never become prime minister or even a member of Parliament.

But if he keeps up the pressure, Farage will drive the Conservatives to adopt leaders who resemble him – the only kind who can attract his voters.

Old-guard Republicans are as eager to get past Trump and Trumpism as the Conservatives were to get beyond Farage and Brexit.

But immigration is the defining issue of our time on both sides of the Atlantic, not only in America and Britain but on the European continent, too, as demonstrated by last week's E.U. elections.

Immigration restriction has a popular constituency throughout the Western world, and one that's impatient with older center-right parties reluctant to take up the cause.

Trump and Farage both perceived that, and while nobody else can be Donald Trump, Farage's strategy is one other politicians, including Republicans after Trump, can employ.

Here the Farage strategy doesn't require a new party; the same pressure can be applied to the Republican establishment through primaries.

Whether or not populist Republicans win a general election, simply by making it impossible for other Republicans to win without them, they gain leverage the way Farage has.

The flipside also applies – populists might not win without immigration-loving, business-oriented Republican or Conservative voters – but populists ultimately care more about the issue.

What London financier wants to jeopardize lower taxes for the sake of higher immigration?

Brexit and Trump's election were eight years ago, but 2016 is still the present and future of the political right.

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The legislators who voted for the repeal didn't seem to care that the Left cheated in Arizona's 2020 and 2022 elections, ensuring that their propositions passed and ours didn't, and since no meaningful election integrity legislation has passed since the botched 2022 election, there's no reason to think they won't cheat and steal the 2024 election too.

No one believes that conservative Kansas, which has a 20-point Republican advantage compared to the rest of the country, really defeated a 2022 pro-life measure. It would have amended the state constitution to say it contains no right to an abortion. Try to find a poll of Kansas voters on abortion – there's a reason you can't find any.

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Unfortunately, state legislatures all around the country are now terrified to put pro-life legislation on the ballot. The MSM gloated about all the failed attempts this year. Instead, there are pro-abortion ballot measures likely to make the ballot in several states, including in red Montana, Florida, South Dakota, Arkansas and Missouri.

Everyone knows now that Democrats cheat in elections, so why are Republicans giving them a free pass on this issue? Since the cheating started in significant amounts in 2020, it's becoming even more difficult to tell if abortion drives moderate women to the polls.

After Roe v. Wade was reversed in 2022, the Left ominously warned that it would hurt pro-life Kari Lake's run for governor in Arizona that year. However, a Rasmussen Reports exit poll found that Lake – whose election was clearly stolen from her – won by a significant 8 points over her pro-abortion opponent Katie Hobbs. The poll showed that women voted for Lake over Hobbs by a 7 point margin – statistically no different than men. Even numerous left-leaning pollsters showed Lake ahead of Hobbs right before the election.

A poll released in March from Rasmussen Reports found that independent likely voters did not consider abortion a significant issue this year. Only 32% said it is, not much more than Republican likely voters at 28%. In contrast, 66% of likely Democratic voters consider it a significant issue – who were already going to vote.

The Left and their comrades in the MSM now issue gushing article after gushing article leading up to elections warning that pro-life legislation or pro-life court opinions will drive moderate women to the polls. But after the election is over, there's a strange quiet. There's no victory lap boasting about how the extra women supposedly showed up. This is because their victories in 2020 and afterward were due to cheating; they didn't have the raw numbers to show the supposed increase. There's never any study that comes out afterward showing this alleged bump.

But they're huge on anecdotes, pretending it's evidence that beefs up their myth. There's always lots of interviews in the MSM with leftist looking women – notice they always look like leftists, they're never actually really moderates – who go on and on claiming they only went to vote due to being so outraged about abortion. They're not even believable. Just a few seconds of listening to them reveals it's obvious they're radicals who never miss an election.

Texas banned abortions after six weeks in 2021, and it had no effect on the 2022 election, as Republicans remained in power throughout much of the state.

The Left also perpetuates a myth that women are overwhelmingly pro-abortion. The reality is the majority of leaders in the pro-life movement are women, because a large percentage of women also feel very strongly about preserving life. This may in part be due to the fact more baby girls are aborted than baby boys. These women cancel out the votes of the leftist women who support abortion. The Left never discusses all the women who have had an abortion who now regret it or feel sad, so they change their mind on the issue.

Over half of likely voters agreed with SCOTUS overturning Roe v. Wade. Sadly, that decision is now proving to be a Pyrrhic victory. The left has gone into an absolute frenzy to ensure that red states adopt pro-abortion laws, and since they've mastered cheating in elections, ballot measures are an easy way to do it. Polls show that voters are overwhelmingly against abortion after about three or four months, but these radical measures are passing anyway. A poll from Rasmussen Reports released last month found that 67% of voters oppose abortion after 12 weeks.

The Left's comrades on the bench – the legal system is now hugely dominated by leftists – are heavily assisting with this, ensuring that pro-life legislation and ballot measures are thrown out and pro-abortion legislation and ballot measures go through.

By avoiding pro-life legislation, politicians are sacrificing the lives of unborn babies in exchange for tax cuts and other ostensibly more pressing priorities. Why is the right so naively believing the lies of the Left? The Left lies about everything; there's no reason to believe them on this myth, especially since they have little evidence to back it up – just their big mouths.

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On Saturday, June 8, there was a riot by pro-Palestinian protesters at UCLA. On Monday, June 10, there was more rioting outside the White House. Unless you were watching Fox, you didn't see much of it on MSM, as a lone park ranger was pelted with garbage and a national landmark was desecrated. CNN skipped those stories, substituting a 59-second video instead.

Why is news favorable to the interests of the law and order side frequently suppressed? The woke universe is unified in a way we've not seen, with the government looking the other way as laws are broken without any attempt to confront such behavior – and with mainstream media whistling past the graveyard to the tune of "Nothing to see, move along." All the news that is fit to print takes on a new meaning.

Will the last conservative social scientist please turn off the light? Over the weekend, I watched a podcast by Jordan Peterson, as he interviewed the rarest of the rare, a conservative social scientist, Eric Kaufman. In this convincing podcast, Kaufman lays out the playbook and the underlying dynamics that drive so much of the woke social agenda tearing our country up. I began to understand the drivers and the power centers for America's new homegrown terrorists and nihilists.

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It may come as no surprise that changes in our educational system at all levels are the fundamental drivers for progressive changes demanding similarly progressive outcomes. Our system of education amounts to a farm team graduating a product – psychopathic individuals unable to cope with the realities of everyday life that have existed for eons. What's new and revealing in this podcast are the protagonists and antagonists that lead to anti-social thinking injected into little Johnnie and, especially, little Sarah, who has become a self-actualized guided missile for the Left. Let's explore how this happened.

The U.S. spends over $1.5 trillion on education annually, not counting the nearly 4 million homeschooled children. We spend $752 billion for public K-12 and $702 billion in government funds for colleges and universities, and that's not counting the $56 billion Americans pay on their own for private K-12. There is no single function we pay more for and get less than public education in America. The cost increases dramatically yearly, even as the number of native-born students declines overall. This will change when we factor in millions of new migrant children who don't speak English, an incredible burden on local school systems that can be expected to reduce general educational attainment for everyone.

I'm frequently asked: "What is the nexus that connects education with progressivism?" As the podcast points out, our younger teachers of the last 25 or so years have all gone through an intensive indoctrination system by a predominantly female-run system of education in our colleges and universities. We are currently fighting an intensive social war and must understand that there will be winners and losers. We must win, or we will lose our economic system, which is the goal of the most radical social warriors. We can't let the ideologues win. It is imperative to understand that teachers are not academics. Teachers in training may have some predispositions, but it is the academics who hammer them with social injustice messaging, creating a new generation of social, political and environmental justice warriors with an idealistic bent and no fundamental knowledge or ability to think through the anti-capitalism and anti-American concepts being ingrained in them simultaneously.

Economic utilitarianism requires equality, redistribution and equal outcomes that will lead to the end of capitalism. These theories sprang from the failure of communism and socialism to produce the desired results – equality for all, defined as equal outcomes. Centers of education and social theory in Berkeley in our country and the Greater London Council in Great Britain were the wellspring for radical ideas transplanted and then nurtured within our colleges and universities that taught legions of teachers about the illness called capitalism and "selfish" individualism. Trust is central to a society's belief in its political system and for a successful future. The beginning of a loss of confidence in our institutions can be traced to the cancer cells intentionally planted within our system of training of our future teachers.

Academics, through the scaring of marginalized groups, manipulated their young charges in a predictable manner that is both narcissistic and sadistic. These individuals knowingly did their damage; they deserve the description "psychopaths."

Like any good virus, they need hosts to spread and survive. They then did this with a particularly vulnerable class of young women, age 18-34, who are an anomaly in our society and don't tend to become more conservative with age, as males do, and are more easily manipulated to vote progressive. Concepts of race, gender and sexuality are pushed to create a false reality that emphasizes the importance of issues that never had an important or impactful effect on society until, seemingly out of nowhere, they became determinant.

Social scientists correlate low verbal skills and an easily malleable mind starting in 2004 with the beginning of TikTok, Facebook, YouTube and other propaganda platforms that consume young minds, particularly the 18-34 demographic. Only now is the body of science correlating high screen usage with impaired social skills and ultimately unsuccessful outcomes.

The social media industry is amazingly like the tobacco industry that for decades lied to us, only moving slowly from claims of positive health effects for tobacco use to the truth, which was diametrically and too often fatally different. Undoubtedly, social media will ultimately be viewed as every bit as deadly, both physically and psychologically, as tobacco is.

Wouldn't it be great to stop it now rather than a generation or two from the present?

God bless America.

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Sure, he's guilty, but it's just a distraction, like the Monica Lewinsky case during the Clinton administration. More on that later.

The real scandals involving the Biden family, China, Ukraine, Russia, 20 shell bank accounts and possibly President Biden himself, are being ignored by the Justice Department and the media.

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The gun disgrace is one of the few scandals lurking in Hunter's "laptop from hell" that doesn't entangle the rest of the Bidens, who are hip deep in influence peddling.

Special counsel David Weiss has done everything possible to avoid prosecuting the real crimes. He slow walked investigations, let statutes of limitation run out and even tipped off the Biden lawyers about classified documents at the Biden home and office.

Contrast that with the FBI's actually raiding President Trump's Mar-a-Lago home, as well as the homes of several of his former aides.

By the way, Hunter Biden is facing charges in Los Angeles involving $1.4 million in allegedly unpaid federal taxes from 2016 to 2019. Had you heard about that? I thought not.

Hunter's gun charge conviction is supposed to cover the fact that Democrats are ruthlessly using the legal system to persecute their main opponent and his aides in multiple jurisdictions purely for political reasons.

They are also using federal agencies to punish dissenters from their woke agenda in a manner similar to the way President Obama's IRS illegally targeted the tea parties and other conservative groups.

But Hunter's conviction is supposed to show us that justice is blind.

A Washington Post editorial cartoon expressed this perfectly with a "both sides do it" theme. It showed a newsstand headline of Hunter's conviction with another showing Republicans lamenting the "weaponization" of the justice system. We're even now, OK?

Similarly, the Monica Lewinsky sexcapade in the mid-1990s embarrassed Bill Clinton and got him impeached but kept the spotlight off the far more serious "Chinagate" scandal.

That's when the Clinton administration green-lighted American sensitive technology to communist China in return for hundreds of thousands of dollars in funding for Democratic campaigns.

A president committing perjury is bad, and his seduction of a barely adult White House intern is morally reprehensible. But it wasn't treason like Chinagate, or, say, President Biden's deliberate refusal to secure the border.

Or Mr. Biden's attacks on fossil fuels and gas-powered vehicles to force us to rely on communist China for battery components, solar panels and windmill parts.

This kind of sellout was modeled by the Clintons. In his 1999 book, "Betrayal: How the Clinton Administration Undermined National Security," Washington Times Defense and National Security Correspondent Bill Gertz explains how the Clinton team eased exports of sensitive, high-speed computer, software and satellite technology to communist China in exchange for campaign funds from big-pocket Democrat donors.

"Shortly after the 'decontrols' took place," he wrote, "American supercomputers began showing up in both Chinese and Russian nuclear weapons development centers."

Money also came in from China itself and from Russia.

A bagman, Johnny Chung, "first met the Clintons in 1992," according to American Spectator investigative reporter Robert Zapesochny.

"From 1994 to 1996, Chung visited the White House 49 times. … In one visit, Chung paid the DNC $50,000."

Bill Clinton was paid $500,000 for a Moscow speech after Hillary Clinton's State Department approved giving Russians control of one-fifth of America's uranium capacity.

During the 2016 presidential election campaign, Hillary Clinton and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) paid for the salacious Steele dossier that the media used as a club to bash Donald Trump.

When it was found to be a fraud, the DNC was fined $105,000 and Mrs. Clinton a mere $8,000 for misrepresenting the payments as "legal services." That's essentially the same charge that landed Mr. Trump with 34 felony convictions in a New York court last week.

Only, Mr. Trump had actually sent the money to his lawyer.

Earlier, Mrs. Clinton falsely accused Mr. Trump of colluding with a Russian bank while prodding the FBI to spy on him. This began the "Russian Collusion" hoax. One of the masterminds was Jake Sullivan, who is now President Biden's national security adviser.

See a pattern here?

Hillary, whose home basement server compromised national security, erased 33,000 emails sought by investigators and had several cellphones full of evidence smashed. No penalties whatsoever.

Contrast this with former President Trump, who was impeached twice on trumped up charges. Now, along with his loss in a New York civil case that had no victims, he faces prison time and hundreds of millions in fines. Meanwhile, Democrats are prosecuting him in three more courts.

Former Trump aide Peter Navarro is serving a four-month prison term for defying a Jan. 6 committee subpoena. He refuses to discuss confidential conversations in the White House.

Another former aide, Steve Bannon, was also convicted of contempt of Congress and is slated to enter prison on July 1.

Think about all this while you see story after story about poor Hunter Biden and his beleaguered family and how his conviction somehow "upholds the rule of law."

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The measure, which has passed both houses of the state legislature, requires schools to prominently display the Decalogue on a poster no smaller than 11 inches by 14 inches.

The American Civil Liberties Union, Americans United for the Separation of Church and State and the Southern Policy Law Center are frantic.

"Our public schools are not Sunday schools," they squawked in a joint statement, as if the sight of the Ten Commandments will somehow cause innocent children to grow up to be rabbis or nuns.

The Ten Commandments and the worldview they represent are woven into the fabric of our republic. The Declaration of Independence acknowledges that rights come from the Creator.

John Adams said: "Our Constitution was made for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."

No offense, but by religious people, he did not mean Hindus and Buddhists.

President Harry S. Truman declared, "The fundamental basis for this nation's laws was given to Moses on the Mount." Also, without an understanding of this, "we will finally end up with a totalitarian government."

You'd have to go to Washington blindfolded not to encounter evidence of our religious heritage. On the walls of the House chamber, there are images of 23 great lawgivers. All are in profile except Moses, who is honored with a full-face view that faces the speaker's platform.

There's a bronze plaque of the Ten Commandments in the National Archives Building and a statue of Moses in the main reading room of the Library of Congress.

How did we go from "In God We Trust" to God is a threat to democracy?

Ten Commandments posters challenge public education's revealed religion, as handed down by Karl Marx, Margaret Sanger and Nikole Hannah-Jones of the 1619 Project.

America's public schools are saturated with gender ideology, diversity, equity and inclusion indoctrination, critical race theory and training in degeneracy. Elon Musk's son went from being a relatively normal teen to a transgender Marxist, thanks to classroom indoctrination.

Boys are allowed to use girls' bathrooms and play on their sports teams. Instances of sexual assault are swept under the carpet.

There are grade schools that use the popular "Genderbread Person," which helps students understand that they can "identify with a gender" other than the one "assigned to them" at birth.

The website of an elementary school in Bellevue, Washington, promises parents that their children "will have explicit conversations about race, equity and access," and "will identify culture and begin to recognize and identify white culture," in all of its depravity and wickedness.

In Lexington, Massachusetts. fourth graders are taught to "articulate what gender identity is and why it's important to use nonbinary language in describing people we don't know yet." Mind your pronouns!

This week, the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against an eighth grader in Middleborough, Massachusetts, whose school wouldn't let him wear a T-shirt with the slogan "There are only two genders." Public education's established religion doesn't like competition.

Half of America's high school students and almost 40% of middle schoolers are subjected to "comprehensive sexuality education," which is graphic to the point of being pornographic and promotes high-risk sexual behavior and unrestricted access to abortion.

Students are subjected to all of this, but the ACLU and its allies would have us believe that seeing the words of God on a small poster will irreparably damage tender psyches.

Morgan Foster (not her real name) taught English in Cook County, Illinois, schools for over 10 years.

In an interview with The Daily Signal, Ms. Foster charged that "public schools have become indoctrination centers." The Black teacher said that administrators were removing the works of Shakespeare, Dickens and Hemingway because they regarded them as promoting White privilege and supporting the patriarchy.

You can see the problems Ten Commandments posters would create in this bizarre environment. Mosaic law does not endorse the LGBTQ agenda or excuse discrimination based on past injustice.

Reminding students that there is something higher than the academic fads of the day is dangerous. Those "thou shalts" and "thou shalt nots" threaten the orthodoxy of government schools.

The religion of public education is helping to turn America into a jungle of homelessness, addiction and crime.

We need the Ten Commandments more now than ever. The carnage in our streets does not come from teaching divine law.

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It's been a while for me, but I am happy to announce I am back at it, this time alongside sci-fi icon and director/coproducer Derek Ting in the military combat film "Agent Recon," out this Friday, June 21. If you are interested in taking a peek, here is a link to the movie's trailer. And here's another link to various venues where you can watch it.

One of the joys of this particular movie-making experience was the opportunity to work with my son Dakota, a third-degree blackbelt and martial arts expert in his own right, who choreographed my fight sequences.

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The storyline of the movie was well described on the IMDb website: "Alastair (Norris), the commander of a covert Earth security task force, calls upon super-powered rookie Jim (Ting) to go on a mission led by battle-hardened Colonel Green (Singer) and his seasoned marines to track a mysterious energy disturbance at a base in New Mexico suspected of experimenting on alien technology. When the team encounters an unknown being of not only extraordinary strength and speed, but the ability to control mindless warriors, the trio must fight through unstoppable hordes to uncover the truth behind the hostile alien fortress and prevent humanity's demise."

From that summary, one media outlet created the headline news, "Chuck Norris boots up as a covert ops automaton to protect humanity from an alien invasion in 'Agent Recon.'"

As I read that headline, I thought, there's one real-life alien invasion I truly wish I could protect our country from: the crime and criminals among the millions and millions of immigrants the Biden administration has encouraged and allowed to cross into the U.S. illegally from our southern border.

Anyone who knows me knows I respect all law-abiding people. I'm all for legal immigration, but I know for a fact that too much crime and criminals pass through the dark shadows of the massive illegal invasion going on since Biden took office.

Did you hear that a joint U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) force just arrested eight illegals with ties to ISIS?!

Don't just take my word for it about the dangers crossing the border. Listen to the words of those who have spent their lives protecting it.

John James (J.J.) Carrell recently retired from the United States Border Patrol after a 24-year career as a Deputy Patrol Agent in Charge.

In his new book, "Invaded: The Intentional Destruction of the American Immigration System," Carrell documents with irrefutable evidence how:

In the final year of the Trump Presidency, the border was within reach of being secure as the daily arrests had dwindled to the lowest numbers in Border Patrol history. Nations south of our border that once violated our nation's sovereignty and blatantly disrespected our nation, now adhered to our strong President who forced those nations to heel and show our great nation respect.

On January 20, 2021, everything changed.

President Biden has intentionally destroyed the American immigration system through the manipulation of DHS policies and laws. Never before in American history has our nation been invaded by millions of foreigners all with the encouragement and direct assistance of the United States government. The once proud United States Border Patrol has been forced to participate in the unlawful smuggling of millions of illegal aliens to their final destinations across America. Morale within the DHS does not exist.

Within the first two years of Biden's Presidency, over 5,000,000 illegal aliens have been arrested and millions have been fraudulently released into our nation. Another 10,000,000 have absconded undetected because hundreds of miles of the southern border are open with not one single Border Patrol Agent actively patrolling.

Our nation faces a crisis created by both political parties that if left to continue will destroy our nation from within. There is no greater threat to our Republic than the invasion of millions of foreigners that do not share our language, culture or our shared values and beliefs.

I can't encourage you enough to listen to J.J. Carrell himself describe the sinister covert work of the federal government in this Rumble exposé: "REVEALED: The Horrifying Secret Behind the Border Invasion w/ J.J. Carrell."

Officials have said that they have encountered illegals from more than 150 countries.

In February 2024, Pew Research further reported that "most border encounters now involve people from countries other than Mexico and the Northern Triangle [i.e., the nations of El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras]."

"Among countries with the largest numbers of illegals are India, Brazil, Canada and former Soviet Union countries" and China (Over 8,000 illegals from China were encountered at the southern border in December 2023 alone.)

And let's not forget illegals crossing into the U.S. from the state sponsors of terrorism and those who harbor terrorists like Iran, Afghanistan, Somalia, Bangladesh, Egypt, Yemen, Iraq and Pakistan. Again, what more needs to be said when ICE and the FBI recently arrested eight Tajikistan illegals with ties to ISIS? Does anyone in Washington, D.C., remember 9/11?!

If you don't think the feds are enabling criminals and criminalities to cross the border, consider these seven additional border crisis startling facts from the House Committee on Homeland Security:

• Encounters at the Southwest border (SWB) in FY 2023 increased over 40% since FY 2021 and more than 100% compared to FY 2019.
• Since President Biden took office, there have also been 1.7 million known gotaways (those who crossed the border undetected) – records greater than any former president!
• Consider that there were a record number of 172 people on the terrorist watchlist apprehended in 2023 alone. These numbers represent a 72% increased of apprehended potential terrorists, the most ever on record – higher than the last six fiscal years combined. That's how many we know of! We don't have a clue how many potential terrorists were among the 1.7 million illegal got-aways.
• In September FY 2023 alone (the last month we have official numbers), CBP had arrested 35,433 aliens with criminal convictions or outstanding warrants nationwide, including 598 known gang members, 178 of those being MS-13 members. Months since then have been tragically similar with 100 recent U.S. criminal acts traced to the Violent El Tren de Aragua Venezuelan gang crossing at the southern border.
• In FY 2023, the CBP, including Air and Marine Operations, seized 27,293 pounds of fentanyl coming across the southwest border – enough to kill more than 6 billion people – almost the entire population of the earth!
• According to NPR, migrants not only become unwilling mules to smuggle drugs for cartels but they're also robbed, kidnapped and their families are extorted. The Daily Beast reported that cartels have so much power over immigrant routes into the U.S. that they daily rape, murder and ransom children for human trafficking, prostitution rings, and "may even be harvesting their organs for the U.S. black market."
• Everyone should be haunted by this statement from John Jones, chief of the Intelligence Counter-terrorism Division with the Texas Dept. of Public Safety: "In the last seven years (in Texas), over 4,000 illegal aliens have been incarcerated for sexual assault. 62% of them are sexual assault against children."

Knowing the exhaustive list of heinous criminalities described above, I can't imagine how any politician on the left or right – let alone any American – could justify being an advocate of open borders without law and order.

I plea with my fellow Americans to fight every day to stop the alien invasion and illegalities at all ports of entry into the U.S., and particularly at our southern borders:

1. WRITE your representatives and the White House today and demand they: STOP THE INVASION NOW! Make America SAFE and SECURE AGAIN!

2. In order to help your individual state, because every state is now a border state, check out the resources and educational tour at Border911.com coming soon to a city near you!

(For further insight on our real border crisis, I recommend three additional resources: 1. Please read my recent column: "Texas sheriffs demand, 'STOP THE U.S. INVASION NOW!'" 2. Please read America's First Policy Institute's article "How Our Open Border Leaves Us More Vulnerable to Terrorism." 3. Please read the Naval Post Graduate School's report on Cooperation Between Mexican Drug Cartels and Al Qaeda or ISIS)

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It's time to think B-I-G. Just electing President Donald Trump is not enough. Yes, it's true if Democrats win in November, America is finished. Here is a short list of what will happen:

• Democrats will escalate the open border to the point another 50 or 100 million foreign invaders will be welcomed in. That's the end of America. And the end of the GOP.

• There will be no one standing in the way of the lawfare and weaponization of government. Patriots and critics of Democrats will be labeled as "domestic terrorists" and "dissidents."

• Green energy will bankrupt the middle class and put millions of small businesses out of business.

• A new, deadlier pandemic will lead to even harsher lockdowns, masks, vaccine mandates and vaccine passports. And this time, there will be no one to stand in the way.

• Inflation will get much worse as the spending and debt explode under Democrats. Just welfare and free health care for tens of millions of illegal aliens alone will collapse the economy.

• And let's not forget World War III. Democrats desperately want it. Only Trump can stop it.

That's the short list of what will happen if Democrats win in November.

So, yes, we need to elect Trump, or America as we know it is finished. But to be blunt, that's not enough anymore. Just surviving and keeping the status quo is not enough. I don't want to just survive; I want to thrive.

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We need to make B-I-G changes, or Trump will postpone the death of America for four years; but when we invariably elect another Democrat as president in the future, the decline will continue.

In poll after poll, 70% to 80% of Americans disapprove of "the direction of America." There is a national mandate for Trump to make big changes.

It's time for President Trump to think B-I-G.

Here are the changes that will not only save America and make America great again but start us on the path of solving our problems permanently.

BIG Solution No. 1: Trump mentioned this idea yesterday in a private meeting with GOP Senators in D.C.: Eliminate income taxes in America. The economy will explode. People will keep their own money. They will spend it. They will invest it. This will create millions of new jobs.

It works – Texas, Florida, Nevada and Tennessee are four of the fastest-growing states and economies. They have no income tax. They rely on sales tax only – meaning they only tax spending. That's why everyone is escaping from high-tax blue states like California, New York and Illinois to move to these states. On the federal level, we can replace income taxes with either a national sales tax or tariffs, or a combination of both.

The bonus is if we eliminate income tax, we eliminate the IRS. Forget firing 86,000 new IRS agents. Let's fire every IRS agent. Your money belongs to you. It's none of the government's business what you make.

BIG Solution No. 2: Secure the border. Build the wall twice as high. Build three walls. Turn the border with Mexico into a demilitarized zone. No one gets in ever again, without us knowing who they are.

Big Solution No. 3: After we build the big wall, deport them all. America cannot survive if the 20 or 30 million foreign invaders that Biden (and his boss, Barack Obama) just let in get to stay. Our economy can't survive their cost for welfare, food stamps, education, free health care and prison/police. They all have to go. And no, it's not 10 million illegal aliens. Biden let in 20 to 30 million, counting "got-aways."

Big Solution No. 4: End welfare as we know it. After we deport all the illegal aliens, offer the supposed "jobs no American wants to take" to welfare recipients. Either they take those jobs, or they lose their welfare. If you don't want to work, you forfeit your welfare – a simple way to end the welfare state.

Big Solution No. 5: "End the Fed." Besides the IRS, this is the most damaging and dysfunctional institution in America. Their only responsibility since founding was to keep inflation low and the value of the dollar high. They've failed miserably for over 100 years. Who needs them?

Big Solution No. 6: Institute term limits for Congress. Everyone serves two terms and then goes home. No one gets to stay in D.C. forever and gets filthy rich on the taxpayer's dime ever again.

Big Solution No. 7: Follow the lead of Argentinian President Javier Milei by dramatically cutting the size of government and firing at least one-third of government bureaucrats. No modern-day U.S. president has ever cut spending. Trump should be the first. This is the only way to start cutting the national debt.

The bonus is by cutting government and firing bureaucrats, we are dismantling the Deep State.

Big Solution No. 8: Make American energy independent again by drilling, fracking and encouraging clean coal and nuclear. Declare the age of green energy officially over. This alone will kill inflation and save the great American middle class.

Big Solution No. 9: Get America out of the United Nations. The U.N. is a global version of the Fed. It has led to nothing but failure and wars. Every country in the U.N. hates America. It's time to leave the U.N., defund the U.N. and tell them to get off U.S. soil.

Big Solution No. 10: Make "Voter ID" the law of the land for federal elections. Everyone must show government-issued photo ID and thumbprint in order to vote. This is how we stop Democrats from rigging elections.

There's a great start. I kept it simple. That's my top 10. There is much more to do. But start with this list and President Trump will go down in history as the greatest president ever, who made America great again – permanently.

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On June 12, the Jerusalem Post ran an article by Ohad Merlin titled, “Gaza mosques to Jerusalem synagogues: A radical Islamist's journey to Judaism.” It tells the story of Yaron Avraham, raised as a radical Muslim in Gaza but now a religious Jew who runs a restaurant in Israel.

The “12th child in a household of 18,” Avraham would wake up at 5:30 a.m. to begin his Islamic devotions, memorizing the Quran by the age of 12. Still, he was horrified at the treatment of his sister Sarah, who was savagely beaten to death by her brothers for daring to take a walk through a mall. In the eyes of her brothers, she had dishonored the family and disobeyed their orders. To murder her was the right thing to do.

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When Avraham protested their actions, they forcefully brought him to a boarding school at a mosque in Gaza, where he stayed for the next 5 years.

He explained, “They made me experience death and find the ‘thrill’ in it. We were taken to participate in funerals of so-called shaheeds. Imagine this: Children are made to walk past the corpses of those alleged martyrs, kiss their hands or feet, depending on what’s left of them. Lots of brainwashing about heaven, hell, the afterlife.”

Were his experiences typical of families in Gaza? Was the killing of his sister a glaring exception to the rule? Was the emphasis on the glories of martyrdom an aberration?

A February 2021 article in the Times of Israel reported that “A Hamas-run Islamic court in the Gaza Strip has ruled that women require the permission of a male guardian to travel.” Specifically, an unmarried woman may not travel without the permission of her ‘guardian,’ which would usually refer to her father or another older male relative. Permission would need to be registered at the court, but the man would not be required to accompany the woman on the trip.”

As for married women, “The language of the ruling strongly implied that a married woman would not be able to travel without her husband’s approval.”

Welcome to the liberating spirit of Sharia Law.

A September 2019 article posted on Human Rights Watch, but originally published on the New Arab website, began with these chilling words: “Videos that circulated on social media in August appearing to show a hospital corridor with a woman heard pleading and screaming, and sounds of intermittent thuds, have sparked protests and outrage at the lethal cost that Palestinian women pay because of a lack of protections and discriminatory laws.”

Even Al-Jazeera reported in March 2014 that there was an “upsurge” in honor killings in Gaza, stating, “Two teenage Palestinian girls were killed in separate incidents last month in so-called ‘honor killings’, revenge attacks carried out most often by family members against women suspected of ‘immoral sexual conduct.’ The deaths sparked protests with more than 100 people assembling outside the general attorney’s office in Gaza on March 3, demanding violence against Palestinian women come to a halt. Five women died in honor killings in the Palestinian territories in 2011. That number rose to 13 in 2012 and doubled to 26 last year.”

Welcome to the world of Hamas. (And yes, it remains a great idea to grant expense-paid, six-month trips to Gaza – during a time of peace, not war – for all the student protesters who have taken up the cause of Hamas, especially the female students.)

As for children being trained to be martyrs in the war against Israel (and against infidels in general), this is anything but a secret, as a quick search of the words “Hamas trains children to be martyrs” (without quotes for the search) will quickly indicate.

That’s why Avraham, whose story of conversion to Judaism and solidarity with Israel is worth reading, has no illusions when it comes to what it will take to achieve peace with Hamas. Peace will come, he explains, “When the last Jew stops breathing.” That alone will satisfy the leaders of Hamas.

While these are certainly not the sentiments of all Muslims, they do reflect the ideology and practice of radical Islam, of which Hamas provides a glaring and murderous example.

As I have suggested before, anyone doubting this should take a few minutes each week to read articles or watch videos on websites like Palestinian Media Watch or Memri TV, where you can hear directly from Palestinian leaders as well as Islamic leaders worldwide.

Make no mistake about it: Radical Islam is not your friend.

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As I was reading a particularly gruesome news item related to the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel and savage massacre of 1,200 people – and kidnapping of more than 250 others (of whom 120 remain in captivity) – the Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young (CSNY) song, "Teach your Children" came to mind. The song reached number 16 in 1970. As much as I never connected an American folk-rock song with headlines in Israel, I probably never thought about the song's lyrics either. It's a song about passing on values from one generation to the next, emphasizing the importance of teaching children well, to help them grow into their best selves, to create a better future individually, as a legacy from one generation to the next.

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"Teach Your Children" echoed as I read the text of an article, "IDF airs interrogation clips of terrorist father and son confessing to rape on Oct. 7."

Among the thousands of Palestinian Arab terrorists who committed inhuman acts, slaughtering, maiming, torturing, raping and sexually mutilating thousands of Israelis, Ahmad Radi did anything but teach his child well. Breaching Israel's border in an orgy of hate and destruction, he shamelessly brought his son Abdallah to participate in the murderous rampage. While more than 1,000 Hamas terrorists were killed in Israel on and in the immediate aftermath of the Oct. 7 massacres, the father and son were captured. In separate interrogations, Ahmad and Abdallah confessed to murder and rape. In fact, they raped the same woman before (father) Ahmad executed her.

Ahmad (left) and his son Abdallah Radi confessing to murder and rape

If Ahmad only had an ear for classic folk rock and not jihadi hate, he'd maybe have set a positive example, rather than transmitting to Abdalah the evil genocidal hatred he embodies, and has clearly imbued in his son.

CSNY sang, "You must have a code that you can live by / Teach your children well / And feed them on your dreams." Clearly Ahmad, thousands of terrorists who participated in the Oct. 7 massacre, and the tens of thousands of Hamas leaders and their brigades, along with hundreds of thousands who support and enable them, have chosen their "code" to live by. Rather than feeding them on the dreams of building and doing something positive, their vision and goals are exclusively to destroy Israel, to slaughter Jews.

The lyrics continue, "The one they pick's the one you'll know by." Basically, CSNY are saying that a father's legacy lives on through his children. Unfortunately, generations of Palestinian Arabs have transmitted a legacy of geocidal hate, fueled by extremist Islam founded in the Muslim Brotherhood of which Hamas is an ideological child, and funded and supported by the Islamic republic regime in Iran.

Sadly, for most Gazans this Father's Day will be marked by living in accordance with an immoral code which they celebrate and worship, even according to their own internal polls. They surely do not represent the song's message that the past is the past, and it's time to move forward. They raise their children from as young as 3 and 4 to worship jihad, and practice genocidal anti-Semitism. The inhuman acts of killing and maiming others supplant any aspiration to build a future for themselves, or to pass on good values.

This makes the rhetorical and often hollow question/accusation to Israel about having a plan for the day after to be more than ridiculous, because the hatred and evil are so deeply entrenched.

By comparison, in traditional Judaism a father's responsibility is to teach his child a profession, and how to swim: things to enable them to live well, make a living, and protect themselves. Not to kill others.

CSNY's chorus implores parents to move beyond the struggles of the previous generation ("the father's hell that did slowly go by"), and the importance of nurturing children's dreams so they can live fulfilling lives.

The second verse addresses the children, and challenges them to be empathetic towards their elders, recognizing that they may have lived through tough times. It also tells young people to use their energy and idealism to change the world for the better, before it's too late. Sometimes that means pivoting away from a parent's past and inability to move beyond that. It means that parents have a responsibility to imbue their children with good values, but also that children have the responsibility to choose the correct path, regardless of what they inherit from their parents.

"Teach Your Children" is a call to action for passing on life lessons, compassion, and hope to future generations. It's an important Father's Day anthem. Hamas and their ideological siblings from Hezbollah, the Houthis, westerners hijacking private campuses and public spaces, and the ayatollahs of Iran, do the opposite. They offer no hope for the future, only hate that also dooms them. This Father's Day, it's important to reflect on our personal values as parents, rejecting the evil of extremist genocidal Islam, and making sure that we impart that to the next generation, loud and clear.

This horrific story of the father and son, Ahmed and Abdullah, reminds me of another less-hopeful classic American folk-rock song, Harry Chapin's 1974 hit, "Cats in the Cradle." After a life of neglecting his son by having "lots to do," the father realizes his neglect has come back to him, singing woefully, "My boy is just like me."

This is the model by which Hamas and the Islamic terrorists live. It's up to them, the fathers and mothers, to teach their children well, to have an active presence, to show them right from wrong, and to correct them when they go astray. It's never a father's role to teach a child to massacre, rape, sexually mutilate and murder, not for any reason.

Rather than worshiping an evil ideology and a god who they say celebrates that, maybe they'd to well with a little 1960s classic folk-rock to change their future.

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We've all heard the statistics: Children growing up without dads are more likely to live in poverty, abuse drugs and alcohol, engage in early sexual activity, commit more crime, get less education, blah blah blah.

These stats are all, sadly, true. What's less examined is why fatherlessness happens to begin with.

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Let's put aside the irresponsible cads who just love'em and leave'em, the kind of men who sleep with endless women and don't care how many children are sowed in their wake. There are many men like this (just as there are many women who allow it), but they aren't the topic of this column.

Instead I want to look at the attitude toward fathers in our current modern society. Let's start by backing up a few years.

When our daughters were very young, they loved the Berenstain Bears series of children's books. We would check them out of the library by the armful. But as we read more and more of the series, a theme started to emerge. When she was about five years old, our daughter articulated it quite well: "Why does Mama Bear always think Papa is dumb?"

It was true. In story after story, Mama was always right; and good honest hardworking Papa was a monumental dunce. I seized on our daughter's question to explain Papa Bear's good qualities, and how Mama Bear shouldn't treat him the way she did. I recall it was one of our first discussions on the valuable role a dad plays in a child's life.

It's not just the Berenstain Bears, of course. Popular culture has been bashing dads for decades. Very rarely do you see the man of the house portrayed as competent, authoritative and wise. A study of 12 TV sitcoms shows dads as "bumbling" and "incapable."

"[C]hildren and youth watch a lot of television, and the ways fathers are depicted can both influence how they will think about themselves as future parents and reinforce what they already believe about family roles," notes this article from a few years ago. "We are likely to watch things that match with what we think."

For feminists, empowering women is all about emasculating men, which they do with alacrity except on Father's Day, the one day a year when dads are abruptly portrayed as flawless and benevolent and are condescendingly offered ties, wallets and bathrobes. Somehow that one day of accolades is supposed to erase 364 days of bashing. Then on Monday morning, it's back to normal. Gee, honey, that tie looks stupid with that shirt.

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Girls are steeped in this populist attitude toward men and internalize it during their formative years. Then they grow into women who think, well duh, all men are stupid, bumbling, and incompetent … therefore either (a) when I get married I'll treat my husband that way; or (b) I won't get married at all (fish and bicycles, doncha know) and have babies on my own. Who needs a man?

As it turns out, all kids need a man – preferably their father, either by birth or adoption.

That's why Father's Day is really about mothers. A father happens long before a baby is born. It happens when a woman meets a stranger's eyes across a crowded room and a spark flies. What happens next is up to the woman. There are few decisions in life that will have a greater impact on her children.

The first mistake too many women make is having babies before getting married. Today about 4 out 10 children were born to unwed mothers. Nearly two-thirds were born to mothers under the age of 30. Today 1 in 5 children under the age of 18 – a total of about 15.7 million – are being raised without a father. Statistics have shown over and over and over that unwed motherhood is almost guaranteed to plunge a woman and her children into lifelong poverty.

But when a woman does get married, often she doesn't look at the reality of what life will be like beyond the altar. This is, presumably, the man she wants to see across the breakfast table for the next fifty years. So why doesn't she choose someone with compatible views on family, children, religion, money, life goals and other critical factors?

And, assuming she's been fortunate enough to make vows with a man compatible in all those areas, why would she complicate her relationship with this treasured person by being difficult to live with? Why would she become nagging or critical or cold?

A well-chosen marriage partner is the most awesome blessing we can experience on earth. A huge number of societal problems we are currently experiencing would cease to exist if only women would think about how they treat their husbands.

Too many fathers aren't involved in their children's lives because they're forced out by women. Unless they're absolute cads (and of course, some are), very few men abandon their children willingly. Instead, feminist-tilted court systems force men out of the home and out of their children's lives, yet capture their wealth for decades to come. And this is called progress?

Therefore I will drop the ball firmly in the court of women. Ladies, you're the ones who control your own procreation. It's up to you to "choose wisely, treat kindly" when you select a man to father your children.

And to all the married women out there, I want you to try a little experiment. Try, just try to wrap your minds around the notion that men aren't bumbling idiots. Since you chose to marry a man, your husband should be treated with respect, affection, and admiration. This means you don't nag, you don't criticize and you never talk trash about him to your girlfriends. And it means your children must be taught their dad is to be respected as a figure of authority in their lives.

If you ask dads what they might want for Father's Day, I'm willing to bet most would say, "To be with my family. To not be criticized. To be admired as competent and intelligent." That's why I say Father's Day is really about mothers, because mothers determine whether those gifts are given.

So here's a novel concept: give him what he wants for Father's Day. Affection. Love. Respect. You just might discover that these are the kinds of gifts that get returned ten-fold.

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When Biden, Obama's point man in Ukraine, was in Ukraine with the CIA in 2014 helping to flip the government to a pro-western government, Russia felt its back was against the wall, having only two warm-water ports, with one being Crimea. The government of Crimea voted to join Russia and Russia annexed them.

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The West did not recognize the government of Crimea, stating it was illegitimate. Russia did not recognize the newly flipped government of Ukraine, viewing it as illegitimate.

In January 2021 with Biden in office, Ukraine began asking for NATO membership.

What do you think would happen if Mexico suddenly wanted to join league with a country hostile to the United States? History shows in January 1917, the German foreign secretary sent a telegram to the German minister in Mexico, known as the "Zimmermann Telegram." It revealed a plan for Germany to form an alliance with Mexico, promising Mexico her lost territories of Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona. This threat at our doorstep was one of the factors leading the U.S. to declare war against Germany five weeks later.

Likewise, it is a fact that Russia views Ukrainian NATO membership as a threat to their country. With Ukraine asking for NATO membership, in 2021 Putin requested talks with Biden, but Biden refused if Ukraine's NATO membership was one of the topics. So, Putin communicated with Biden in the spring of 2021 by massing Russian troops near Ukraine's borders for "training exercises." By November 2021, satellite images showed around 100,000 Russian troops near Ukraine's border. On Dec. 17, 2021, Russia presented security demands, including NATO pull back troops and weapons from Eastern Europe and bar Ukraine from ever joining NATO. Dec. 30, 2021 Putin reached out and requested a call with Biden. During the call Putin asked for "legally binding guarantees" that "the 30-member NATO alliance" would "not expand further eastwards and that certain offensive weapons would not be deployed to Ukraine or other neighboring countries." It was stated, "Washington regards many of his [Putin's] demands, including restrictions on NATO expansion, as non-starters." So, in February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine.

When the Russia-Ukrainian war first started, Pope Francis commented, "We do not see the whole drama unfolding behind this war, which was, perhaps, somehow either provoked or not prevented." He recalled a conversation with a head of state, who expressed concerns about NATO. When asked "why," this head of state said, "They are barking at the gates of Russia. They don't understand that the Russians are imperial and can't have any foreign power getting close to them." Could this have been Putin?

Now Putin is threatening to give arms to U.S. enemies. Is this an idle threat? Biden likes to considers himself "Mr. Tough Guy" who would beat up people "behind a barn," because he thinks he has an invincible American military behind him; but was this true on Sept. 11, 2001?

Former Obama Administration Secretary of Defense Robert Gates stated, "[Joe Biden] has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades," quoting from Gates' memoir, "Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War."

ABC News added the following statements concerning Joe Biden's foreign policy decisions:

"Former George W. Bush Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove in 2010: 'Since his election to the U.S. Senate in the early 70s, Joe Biden has been on the wrong end of virtually every foreign policy dispute since then.'

"Conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer in 2012: The vice president over the last 30 years 'holds the American record for [being] wrong on the most issues in foreign affairs ever. … He is the Herbert Hoover of American foreign policy.'

"Marc Thiessen, speechwriter to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and President Bush, in 2012: 'The fact is Biden has a near-perfect record of being wrong about almost every major foreign policy question that the United States has faced in the past three decades.'

"Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., in 2012: 'Biden has – has been consistently wrong on every national security issue that I've been involved in the last 20 years or so.'"

Jerry Shenk, writer for The Mercury, added, "Joe Biden and his administration have blood on their hands. Republicans who promoted Biden's presidency, Biden voters and his corporate media cheerleaders are accessories."

So Biden has a history of making wrong foreign policy decisions.

Now Putin says he is going to give armaments to U.S. enemies. Moscow is communicating with Washington, D.C., stating they feel Russia's back is against the wall. U.S. leaders, considering this an idle threat, are expressing their lack of concern about the American people who will die, while Washington politicians hide in U.S.-taxpayer-built nuclear bunkers. It's only mutually assured destruction for the masses, not the ones causing the problems.

Now with America distracted with Hunter Biden trials, Russian warships are conducting Zircon hypersonic missile drills off the East Coat of America as they travel to Cuba. "The U.S. East Coast will be within Zircon range … and the missiles can … be used to strike ground targets," Cuban authorities say. "None of the warships are nuclear-armed." "The White House does not view it as a threat, it is symbolic."

Symbolic? Moscow is communicating with Washington, just like when they positioned 100,000 troops on the border of Ukraine. Were 100,000 troops symbolic?

Why is Biden pushing so hard for peace in Gaza and not in Ukraine? Even MSNBC got it right on a hot mic concerning Biden's character; for in the background while Biden was speaking, Joy Reid stated Biden is "starting another [beep]-ing war."

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The viciousness of terrorists committed to a religious cause was more recently underscored by the Oct. 7, 2023 raid by Hamas into Israel. It included unforgiveable acts such as the raping of women before killing them and the beheading of babies. As Israel immediately invaded Gaza with the commitment to totally destroy Hamas – a war that is now in its eighth month – we were shocked to see pro-Hamas protests break out in the U.S., mostly on college campuses.

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While many concerned Americans may believe these protests were the independent acts of misguided students, we may well be on the brink of a “Eureka” moment concerning terrorist influences in the U.S. A lengthy legal process that should shine the spotlight on just how America has enabled the seed of anti-Semitism to be planted and nurtured by foreign influencers, right under our noses, has been set in motion.

One of the biggest and most respected U.S. law firms – not only in the U.S. but worldwide – Greenberg Traurig, LLP (GT) – filed a civil lawsuit against major groups it has identified as Hamas collaborators operating tacitly under the Muslim Brotherhood. By way of background, while the U.S. has designated Hamas as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO), it has yet to so designate the Brotherhood, from which Hamas evolved, as such. A 2015 bill seeking to do so, introduced by Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas), has yet to be passed, although several other countries (including Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates), recognizing the Brotherhood’s terrorist influence, have designated the group as such.

U.S. hesitancy to label the Brotherhood as an FTO apparently stems from the group’s renunciation in the 1970s of violence. This ignores the fact that groups like Hamas have spun off from it and now do the bidding for it. Along with other plaintiffs, GT is representing nine Israeli-Americans who were victims of the October raid, assisted by The United West which consists of experts in investigating and exposing the Brotherhood’s U.S. operations.

GT’s lawsuit should get the details out as to how the Brotherhood, Hamas and these collaborators in the U.S., such as the American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) and the National Students for Justice in Palestine (NSJP), have worked together in various ways to further the cause of terrorism while managing to avoid violating criminal statutes.

The 49-page GT lawsuit suggests the evidence of the above collaboration is overwhelming and that AMP and NSJP are operational arms of Hamas in the U.S. which, as such, are financially responsible to the plaintiffs. A legal win hopefully would bankrupt these groups.

Among the claims GT alleges is, noting that AMP and NSJP needed virtually no time to collect facts about the October Hamas raid, amazingly they were able to respond the very next day by “participating in the terrorist’s propaganda to justify its appalling brutalities,” answering “Hamas’s ‘call for mass mobilization’ by disseminating a manifesto and plan of attack. This manifesto confirms that AMP and NSJP are not merely organizing to assist Hamas’s ongoing terror campaign abroad – they are intentionally extending their aid to fomenting chaos, violence, and terror in the United States.”

Unsurprisingly, 50 national, state and regional American Muslim, Arab, Palestinian, and other organizations, issued a joint statement raising the typical defensive battle cry to GT’s lawsuit in an effort to avoid making the issue one about seeking accountability.

The statement labeled the lawsuit as a “hateful, frivolous lawfare” attack against AMP and NSJP and an “Islamophobic stunt disguised as a lawsuit appears to be a collection of anti-Muslim conspiracy theories and guilt-by-association paranoia. It also represents the latest escalation in an unprecedented and increasingly desperate campaign to silence Americans who oppose the Israeli government's ongoing genocide in Gaza.” It went on to compare the lawsuit’s allegations to those made during the mid-20th century Red Scare generated by Senator Joe McCarthy in America that triggered a witch hunt for communists.

Again seeking to keep the spotlight off accountability, the statement then defends the protesting students who “have been doxxed, attacked, and arrested. Teachers, doctors, and other workers have faced discrimination and termination. Protesters have been defamed and brutalized. Dozens of Muslim and Palestinian Americans have been violently attacked for wearing visible signs of their religion or culture. … These McCarthy-era intimidation tactics must not stop the American people from exercising their constitutional right to advocate for a just U.S. foreign policy, an end to the genocide in Gaza, and the freedom of the Palestinian people.”

But GT is not the only one looking to identify these funding sources. The U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Accountability has already demanded documentation from these pro-Hamas collaborators to determine such sourcing as well as whether it complies with U.S. law.

There is a clear pipeline in the U.S. through which pro-Hamas groups are funded to support their anti-Semitic actions. The U.S. government has spent years looking the other way. Hopefully, GT’s lawsuit and the House investigation should finally determine the source – foreign, domestic or both – to which that pipeline attaches.

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In last week's European Parliamentary elections, citizens in country after country rejected left-wing policies. Predictably, left-leaning major media outlets across the globe – the Associated Press, The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Vox, Politico, the Guardian – decried these results as Europe "lurching" to the "far right." Vox warned that the success of right-wing parties was the result of "increasing authoritarianism and non-democratic trends" throughout the world and warned that these trends were "deeply associated with fascism and Nazism."

Talk about gaslighting and projection.

Oh, yeah – there's plenty of "authoritarianism and non-democratic" activity going on in Europe (and in the United States). But it's not coming from the political right.

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So, what do these election results mean? What do Europeans really want?

1. Self-determination and responsive elected officials. British voters voted to leave the European Union in 2016 not because they don't consider themselves part of Europe, but because they were (and are) sick and tired of having policies crammed down their throats by unelected Eurocrats. The rest of Europe is now sending a similar message: Do what European citizens want or be defeated.

2. An end to the rampant migration of people from non-European nations. Much more so than America, European countries have distinct cultures tied to ethnicity and history. The influx of millions of people from countries with vastly different cultures – many of which are inconsistent with western European values – has impacted their cultural identity, compromised the safety of their citizens, created "no-go" zones of crime and violence, and strained their coffers to the breaking point. Europeans are tired of being told that people from other regions are entitled to be proud of their cultures, but wanting to preserve their own culture is racist.

3. An end to bogus "climate change" policies that are thinly veiled justifications to return Europe to feudalism. Environmental regulations are strangling agriculture, and protests by farmers in Ireland, the Netherlands, France, Belgium and Germany have made the public's viewpoints clear. Clean air and water are fine; "carbon-neutral" aspirations will thrust the continent into famine, while those who spout this nonsense at tony conferences in Davos will continue to enjoy their Wagyu beef, private jets, yachts and "sustainably sourced" diamonds.

4. An end to the war in Ukraine and the irresponsible saber-rattling at Russia which is intended to provoke yet another world war that will kill tens of millions of Europeans while it enriches international financiers and multinational defense contractors. Europeans don't want war with Russia. Russia doesn't want war with Europe.

Just as Brexit was a preview of the 2016 presidential election in America, the 2024 European Parliamentary elections seem to mirror America's political mood this year.

So, what do Americans want?

1. Americans want a return to constitutional governance, law enforcement policies that reflect legitimate respect for the rule of law, and limits to federal power – particularly the unelected bureaucrats in the three-letter agencies (part of what is referred to as the "Deep State").

2. We want national sovereignty on internal matters – including public health – and the elimination of any control globalist organizations like the United Nations or the World Economic Forum seek to impose. That means no absurd treaties ceding control to the World Health Organization for the next "pandemic" cooked up in China, Ukraine or anywhere else.

3. We want an immediate end to illegal immigration and an indefinite hiatus to legal immigration. All the blather about "climate-induced migration" is obfuscation; "open borders" is a fundamentally Marxist policy driven by a deep resentment of what Americans – including millions of Americans whose families arrived here from someplace else – have successfully created. (Remember former President Barack Obama's infamous message to entrepreneurs and business owners in America? "You didn't build that.") The Biden administration is actually doubling down on Obama's ideology vis-a-vis immigration; allowing unlimited numbers of the world's poor to enter the United States and handing them benefits is just wealth redistribution writ large.

Americans see it, and they are fed up. America's veterans, our elderly, our homeless, our own poor and those suffering with addiction and mental illness go without, while this administration hands billions of taxpayer dollars to foreigners who pour across the border. How serious are Americans on this issue? Poll after poll shows that immigration – not abortion or climate change – is the no. 1 issue for Americans going into the 2024 elections. And a recent CBS poll showed that 62% of registered voters support deporting all illegal immigrants.

4. Americans want policies that punish criminals and protect the innocent. While the Justice Department has been investigating Catholics who attend the Latin Mass, incarcerating J6 protesters without due process, and sending 75-year-old grannies praying outside abortion clinics to prison, violent criminals (including the ones pouring across the border) are allowed back out on the streets, often without bail.

5. Americans also want an end to the "climate change" power grabs, including the elimination of federal and state regulations mandating electric vehicles and banning gas-powered appliances; avoidance of the failed agricultural policies being imposed in Europe (and that destroyed the agricultural production of Sri Lanka); and control over our own energy production and consumption. Like Europeans, Americans want a clean environment but refuse to believe we must destroy our economy, starve to death or hand control over every aspect of our lives to a bunch of aspiring dictators to get it.

None of these demands are "far right" or unreasonable. What's shocking is that ordinary people are having to fight their own governments to reestablish rights and standards of living that were once considered cornerstones of Western civilization.

The 2024 elections are just the beginning. Authoritarians who have managed to entrench their control over the United States and countries in Europe need to be defeated once and for all, and the ideologies motivating them ripped out of our politics and our educational systems root and branch.

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James Madison, often referred to as the "Father of the Constitution," once predicted that the Bill of Rights would become mere "parchment barrier," words on paper ignored by successive generations of Americans.

How right he was.

Although Madison initially felt that the inclusion of a bill of rights in the originally ratified Constitution was unnecessary to its success, Thomas Jefferson persuaded him that "a bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular, & what no just government should refuse, or rest on inferences."

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The Bill of Rights drafted by Madison – the first 10 amendments to the Constitution – was a document so revolutionary at the time that it would come to be viewed as the epitome of American liberty. The rights of the people reflected in those 10 amendments encapsulated much of Madison's views about government, the corrupting influence of power, and the need for safeguards against tyranny.

Madison's writings speak volumes to the present constitutional crisis in the country.

Read them and weep.

"The accumulation of all powers, Legislative, Executive, and Judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny." – James Madison

"The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived." – James Madison

"If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself." – James Madison

"A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty. The means of defence against foreign danger have been always the instruments of tyranny at home." – James Madison

"Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression." – James Madison

"Knowledge will forever govern ignorance: And a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives." –James Madison

"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." – James Madison

In the years since the founders laid their lives on the line to pursue the dream of individual freedom and self-government, big government has grown bigger and the rights of the citizenry have grown smaller.

However, there are certain principles – principles that every American should know – which undergird the American system of government and form the basis of our freedoms.

The following seven principles are a good starting point for understanding what free government is really all about.

• First, the maxim that power corrupts is an absolute truth. Realizing this, those who drafted the Constitution and the Bill of Rights held one principle sacrosanct: A distrust of all who hold governmental power. As such, those who drafted our founding documents would see today's government as an out-of-control, unmanageable beast.

• The second principle is that governments primarily exist to secure rights, an idea that is central to constitutionalism. The purpose of constitutionalism is to limit governmental power and ensure that the government performs its basic function: To preserve and protect our rights, especially our unalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, and our civil liberties. Unfortunately, the government today has discarded this principle and now sees itself as our master, not our servant.

• The third principle revolves around the belief that no one is above the law, not even those who make the law. This is termed rule of law. Richard Nixon's statement, "When the president does it, that means it is not illegal," would have been an anathema to the Framers of the Constitution.

• Fourth, separation of powers ensures that no single authority is entrusted with all the powers of government. The fact that the president today has dictatorial powers would have been considered an offense to every principle for which the Framers took their revolutionary stand.

• Fifth, a system of checks and balances, essential if a constitutional government is to succeed, strengthens the separation of powers and prevents legislative despotism. The Framers did not anticipate the emergence of presidential powers or the inordinate influence of corporate powers on governmental decision-making. Indeed, as recent academic studies now indicate, we are now ruled by a monied oligarchy that serves itself and not "we the people."

• Sixth, representation allows the people to have a voice in government by sending elected representatives to do their bidding while avoiding the need of each and every citizen to vote on every issue considered by government.

• Finally, federalism is yet another constitutional device to limit the power of government by dividing power and, thus, preventing tyranny. In America, the levels of government generally break down into federal, state and local branches (which further divide into counties and towns or cities). Because local and particular interests differ from place to place, such interests are better handled at a more intimate level by local governments, not a bureaucratic national government.

These seven vital principles have been largely forgotten in recent years, obscured by the haze of a centralized government, a citizenry that no longer thinks analytically, and schools that don't adequately teach our young people about their history and their rights.

Yet here's the rub: While Americans wander about in their brainwashed states, their "government of the people, by the people and for the people" has largely been taken away from them.

The answer, as I make clear in my book "Battlefield America: The War on the American People" and in its fictional counterpart "The Erik Blair Diaries": Get un-brainwashed.

Learn your rights. Stand up for the founding principles. Make your voice and your vote count for more than just political posturing. Never cease to vociferously protest the erosion of your freedoms at the local and national level.

Most of all, do these things today.

If we wait until the votes have all been counted or hang our hopes on our particular candidate to win and fix what's wrong with the country, "we the people" will continue to lose.

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"No one is above the law, not even the son of a president!"

"So much for former President Donald Trump's hollow cry of being persecuted by a two-tiered system of justice!"

This was the reaction of the liberal media following Hunter Biden's conviction on gun charges.

Hold the confetti.

Given the array of serious crimes allegedly committed by Biden family members, Hunter's gun conviction represents the equivalent of nailing Al Capone over unpaid parking tickets.

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Allegations against the Bidens include illegal influence peddling and failing to register as a foreign agent. Last year, Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), chairman of the House Oversight Committee, said: "I want to go back to where we were in January when we started this investigation. This was the narrative: the President's son's laptop was Russian disinformation; Hunter Biden was a legitimate business guy, just like Jared Kushner; no Biden ever took money from China – that's what Joe Biden said: No money ever changed hands while Joe Biden was Vice President; Joe knew nothing about his son's dealings; and Joe never met with or spoke with any of the foreign nationals who had wired the family money."

The only reasons Hunter stood trial, and now faces prosecution for tax charges, are because A) IRS whistleblowers came forward and alleged Hunter benefited from special treatment; and B) the sweetheart deal the Justice Department negotiated with Hunter's defense lawyers blew up when the presiding judge refused to go along with it.

"It appears," said lawyers for one of the IRS whistleblowers, "that if it weren't for the courageous actions of these whistleblowers, who had nothing to gain and everything to lose, Hunter Biden would never have been charged at all."

Judge Maryellen Noreika, a Trump appointee, said she would not "rubber stamp" the plea bargain given confusion over whether the deal applied only to the gun charges or included a resolution of the tax changes and/or whether the deal protected Hunter from any and all future charges.

As for special treatment, who foots the legal bill for Hunter's primary defense lawyer Abby Lowell, the powerful A-lister whose past clients include big-name Democrats and Republicans? An IRS agent involved in the Hunter investigation testified before Congress that attorney Kevin Morris, also known as Hunter's "sugar brother," gave Hunter $5 million. Morris reportedly paid Hunter's five-figure monthly rent for California homes; $875,000 for 11 of his paintings; $2 million in unpaid federal, state and local taxes; car payments on Hunter's Porsche; accountants; other lawyers; travel expenses; child support payments; and payments to Hunter's vendors and debtors.

President Joe Biden, after his son's conviction, issued a statement that read in part: "... I will accept the outcome of this case and will continue to respect the judicial process as Hunter considers an appeal. Jill and I will always be there for Hunter and the rest of our family with our love and support. Nothing will ever change that."

Notice anything missing?

Biden neglected to reiterate his previous statement that he would not pardon Hunter. Whether Joe Biden wins or loses the election, he immediately becomes a politically immune lame duck. But he won't pardon his son? And, in the unlikely event Hunter gets jail time, father Joe won't commute the sentence?

As to the supposedly nonexistent two-tiered judicial system, the FBI acquired the Hunter Biden laptop in December 2019 and did nothing for several months. But if not for the repair shop owner making a copy of its contents, the laptop might have remained buried. The copy ended up in the hands of Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani, who forced its public disclosure and the damning evidence connecting Joe to Hunter's business dealings.

Several whistleblowers said the DOJ and the IRS "slow-walked" the Hunter investigations. This allowed the statute of limitations to expire on some of the most serious charges.

Finally, the "no such thing as an anti-Trump two-tiered system of justice" crowd must explain the special counsel's refusal to charge Joe Biden with illegal possession of classified documents, going as far back as when he served in the Senate. But Trump, for allegedly violating the same Espionage Act, remains on the hook.

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Sorry, that's not how life works. Hamas, the chosen political entity of Gaza – the overwhelming choice of Palestinian civilians, in fact – launched this round of the conflict by massacring, sexually torturing and kidnapping Israelis whose only sin was attending a music festival. Palestinians took hundreds of these hostages back to the Gaza Strip – a place Arabs have political autonomy over for nearly 20 years – and held them in the middle of densely populated areas hoping to dissuade Israel from liberating them; or, if it did, to create as many martyrs as possible.

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Critics of Israel now ask the usual dishonest question: Are four lives worth the alleged 200-plus Arabs who were lost rescuing them?

Israel is the only nation on earth that is tasked with protecting its own people and its enemies. Every innocent lost life is, of course, a tragedy. But if you don't want to be placed in harm's way, don't hold hostages in your homes and neighborhoods, and don't cheer and support a government that puts your life in constant danger for a lost cause. This is the reality of the world.

Now, if reports are correct, Hamas – and perhaps "civilians" (it's difficult to tell because terrorists are often dressed as noncombatants) – opened fire on the rescuers. The Israelis, who do not indiscriminately target civilians, fired back, as they should. Whatever the specifics, every lost life is Hamas' fault.

But, as always, it also needs to be stressed that the casualty numbers that are endlessly repeated by the establishment media are fiction – as everyone in those newsrooms is surely aware. So, we must assume outlets like The Washington Post and CNN – which also detestably contends that the hostages had been "released" – are fellow travelers. One BBC interviewer even asked an Israel Defense Forces spokesman if Israel had warned Palestinians of their sting operation.

Then again, even if there were over 200 dead, it is also surely the case that many of the dead were members of Hamas or holding hostages of their own volition or helping those holding hostages. Avoid doing so if you value your life.

The "Health Ministry" makes no distinction between terrorists and civilians, and in this case there might be little difference. Among those holding the Israelis hostage in their homes in Nuseirat, for instance, were a "journalist" (who apparently worked for Al Jazeera and the U.S.-based Palestine Chronicle, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit) and a "doctor." The entire neighborhood was ostensibly under U.N. control. We already know that U.N. workers had likely participated in the Oct. 7 kidnappings and UNRWA schools are used by Hamas bases of operation.

Even now, there's a (terrible) cease-fire deal on the table being pushed by President Joe Biden (still chumming for anti-Semitic votes) that Hamas continues to reject. Would we not expect the United States to act the same way as Israel if some homicidal cult had our people?

In the end, of course, this could all end today if the hostages were returned and Hamas would unconditionally surrender. Israel haters, who fashion themselves peaceniks, will blame everyone – Netanyahu, Biden, colonialism, racism, etc. – except the Islamists who are the cause of this war.

Then again, the entire conflict could end if the Palestinians would stop turning to nihilistic theocrats to lead them, and accept Israel's existence.

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In a softball email interview with Maddow, CNN's Oliver Darcy warned about the MAGA crowd: "... Some of his extremist allies are even talking about jailing their fellow Americans. You're one of his most notable critics on television. Are you worried that you could be a target?" It's like he doesn't know Peter Navarro is in jail, and Steve Bannon is scheduled for jail over refusing to testify to the Pelosi-picked panel on Jan. 6.

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Maddow implied something about Trump's campaign promise of mass deportations: "For that matter, what convinces you that these massive camps he's planning are only for migrants? I'm worried about me – but only as much as I'm worried about all of us."

Trump and his closest lieutenants have openly talked a big game about taking revenge on anti-Trump media outlets, so that concern is legitimate. It's the crazy talk about prison camps for cable-news hosts that sounds cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs. But Stelter thinks it's right to "be thinking aloud."

That's the pattern of the anti-Trump media. Since 2015, they have constantly "thought aloud" about the wildest conspiracy theories. Trump is a Russian agent. Trump paid Moscow hookers to urinate on a bed the Obamas used. Trump is Hitler, or Mussolini, or whatever autocrat you can find. Trump will kill millions more people than Hitler, Stalin and Mao combined. (Stelter rolled out the red carpet for that last insanity on his CNN show. Even PolitiFact couldn't avoid flagging that.)

Right now, the anti-Trump, pro-Biden media is projecting panic about a second term, and imagining nothing about what a second Biden term would look like – especially whether Biden's mental decline will reach a crisis point.

But wait – consider the first half of Stelter's interview with Phillip. She played a series of clips of conservatives complaining about top Justice Department official Matthew Colangelo joining the Manhattan district attorney's prosecution of Trump. How hard is it to connect dots here? Easier than the nonexistent "pee tapes" CNN promoted.

Stelter said this amazing thing: "I think they're trying to make sense of a complex world. Conspiracy theories help simplify complexity. But they do so by taking shortcuts. And in the real world, in real life, with real-world thinking, there are no shortcuts. These guys are trying to take shortcuts, trying to use code words and buzzwords and propaganda in order to satisfy an audience by taking shortcuts. And there are no shortcuts in this real, complex world."

This is coming from Stelter, who also touted on X his fanciful New Republic article imagining everyone but Fox and Newsmax is banished from the White House. That article was a nut pie of conspiracy theories.

Finally, the irony of Stelter imagining IRS audits or White House media access bans under Trump ignores the fact that Stelter and his pal Darcy have openly campaigned for Fox News and other conservative outlets to be deplatformed from television. It's not about "freedom of speech, but freedom of reach." It's not frightening that Stelter has written two books attacking Fox News as a poisonous presence on TV. Because the conservative media is never "news." CNN and MSNBC are "news."

Their crazy conspiracy theories are treated as facts, and conservative facts like Colangelo's connections become crazy conspiracy theories.

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Just last week, an edition of this newsletter was headlined, "Biden's losing battle with the age issue." Now, there's more to discuss.

On Monday evening, the president attended a Juneteenth concert on the White House lawn. It wasn't a complicated event, as presidential appearances go. All President Joe Biden had to do was walk out of the White House, join the crowd listening to the music, and make some brief remarks.

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It didn't go well. As the music played, Biden took his place on a front row that included Vice President Kamala Harris and her husband, Douglas Emhoff, actor Billy Porter (wearing a "rainbow sequined caftan … accessorized with bedazzled ankle boots," according to Women's Wear Daily), and, next to Biden, Philonise Floyd, the brother of George Floyd.

Everyone was standing and swaying and clapping to singer Kirk Franklin's performance. Everyone, that is, except Biden. As the scene unfolded around him, the president stood still and absolutely motionless, his hands hanging by his side. His face had a frozen expression, and his eyes seemed fixed, staring straight ahead. This went on for about a minute.

Look at your watch or phone and set it for a minute. It's a long time. Biden was briefly engaged by Floyd, then resumed staring. Finally, he seemed to come out of it, ending the episode.

Biden had another bad moment in his remarks when he entirely garbled a sentence paying tribute to Opal Lee, the activist he referred to as the "grandmother of Juneteenth." Beyond that, Biden's remarks were intelligible but at the same time provided more evidence that his speaking ability has declined noticeably, not just from 20 years ago but also in the last three years, since he has been president.

It was all concerning – again. And it will not surprise you that when anyone pointed it out, Democrats and their media allies pushed back furiously, in two ways. One, they claimed that Republicans are distorting and cherry-picking videos of Biden's problems. And two, they claimed former President Donald Trump is in worse condition than Biden.

At nearly the same time as Biden's Juneteenth episode, the Washington Post published a story headlined, "How Republicans used 'cheap fake' videos to attack Biden over 24 hours." The article said the GOP had used "deceptively edited videos – known as 'cheap fakes' because they misrepresent events simply by manipulating video or audio, or by leaving out context," to portray the 81-year-old president as a doddering old man. The evidence, according to the Washington Post, was a series of videos of Biden looking a bit confused and out of it at D-Day commemoration ceremonies in France. The video, the Washington Post said, "quickly became the latest example of the fast spread of politically damaging manipulated videos, highlighting … the politics of misinformation and conspiracy theories."

One problem with that argument is that at times Biden really did look confused and out of it at the D-Day event. And then, as the Washington Post article was published, came the Juneteenth concert. Try this: Look at this video of the entire Juneteenth event, from the Associated Press. It's about an hour and a half long. The Biden moment discussed above happened about 18 minutes into the video. It's not fake, it's not manipulated, it's not out of context. It just happened.

Then there is the Trump argument. On the same day as the White House Juneteenth event, Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson published a piece headlined, "Is Donald Trump OK? His story about hypothetically being electrocuted is another glimpse into a mind that is unwell." The article was about a semi-humorous Trump riff, from Trump's June 9 speech in Las Vegas, about government efforts to promote electric engines for cars and boats. Electric-powered boats require big, heavy batteries, and Trump sometimes asks what happens if the boat sinks and the powerful electric battery is submerged in water. Then he asks what happens if sharks are around. What do you do: face electrocution or shark attack?

Even though there are serious dangers posed by powerful batteries exposed to water, it appears that electrocution is not tops among them. Trump's story is told as part of his general criticism of government mandates for electric vehicles and other overregulation. Yes, it is exaggerated and sometimes fanciful, but it is an exaggerated and fanciful story with a point. And for many in the audience, it is – always important for Trump – entertaining. Nevertheless, some media commentators have taken this as proof that Trump is dangerously deranged, a man whose mental condition poses far more risk than Biden's.

The Atlantic published not one but two stories discussing the battery-shark tale. One was headlined "Trump Rants About Sharks, and Everyone Just Pretends It's Normal," and the other was "Let's Talk About Trump's Gibberish." In the Washington Post, Robinson wrote, "It is irresponsible to obsess over President Biden's tendency to mangle a couple of words in a speech while Donald Trump is out there sounding detached from reality." Trump's condition, Robinson concluded, "is a much bigger problem than Biden fumbling a name or garbling a sentence." (You can judge for yourself. This is the C-Span video of the entire Trump Las Vegas speech. He mentions electric power at around 32:45 and then around 35:30 and then, with the boat story, at 42:08.)

What is the electoral effect of all this? It seems pretty clear that Biden's defenders are facing an uphill battle. There is just no doubt that the president, at 81, has slowed significantly, that he is increasingly enfeebled, and that his condition will not improve if he is elected to serve in the White House until he is 86 years old. Biden won't get better. Life doesn't work that way. Trump, on the other hand, while old – he turns 78 on Friday – is far, far more vigorous. (In Las Vegas, he spoke for more than an hour in temperatures above 100 degrees.) Voters have had many chances to watch each man in action and will have more as the campaign progresses. In November, they will draw their own conclusions.

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(JNS) – This is a perilous time to be a Jew. The world responded to the greatest mass slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust with a surge of antisemitism and sympathy for those who committed the atrocities of Oct. 7, rather than its victims. Israel’s efforts to eradicate the genocidal terrorists of Hamas who launched that attack have not just been opposed but demonized in a way that enlightened liberal opinion did not condemn the orgy of murder, rape, torture, kidnapping and wanton destruction that occurred on that day.

And while Jews everywhere celebrated the heroic rescue of four hostages this past weekend by Israeli security forces, the same mainstream corporate media that has been acting as Hamas’s stenographers throughout the eight months of the current war reacted by emphasizing the deaths of the Palestinians holding them captive.

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Yet as bad as the situation has become in the United States, where elite college campuses have become hotbeds of support for Hamas, it is arguably worse in Europe. It is not just a matter of the governments of Western Europe opposing Israel’s military campaign and seeking to prevent the defeat of Hamas in concert with the Biden administration. Spain, Norway and Ireland chose to reward the Palestinians for their terrorism by formally recognizing their fictional statehood. More than that, a sinister red-green alliance of leftists and supporters of political Islam has created a situation in which Jewish communities throughout the continent feel themselves under siege. Many are choosing not to wear religious markers such as kippahs and Stars of David, and still others have taken off the mezuzahs once affixed to their homes.

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The importance of identity theft protection

Dear Dave,
How important do you feel identity theft protection is today? Should my husband and I buy it just for ourselves, or should we cover the kids, too? Lastly, where does identity theft protection fall in your Baby Steps plan?
Lanie

Dear Lanie,
Unless you've gone completely off the grid, and have been there for a long, long time, there's a good chance someone out there has a few of your numbers. Unfortunately, that's all part of living in today's world. Between consumer carelessness and data breaches – which have become an all-too-common occurrence these days—almost everyone has experienced, or will experience, some sort of identity theft during their lifetime.

So, yes. I recommend everyone have identity theft protection. I don't really consider it part of the Baby Steps, because in my mind it's like car insurance or life insurance, in that it's something virtually everyone needs. And things like that should just be part of your regular monthly budget.

Good question, Lanie!
— Dave

An Agreement is an Agreement

Dear Dave,
I own a small rental house, and for the most part my tenants have been conscientious people over the years. Recently, I learned my current tenant is subleasing the property for the short term as a vacation site. This kind of thing is prohibited in the rental agreement. He has always taken very good care of the place, so should I confront him about this, or just ignore it until it becomes a real problem?
Karl

Dear Karl,
This may sound hardnosed, but it's already a problem. He's in obvious violation of the lease agreement. If it were me, I'd have a face-to-face talk with this guy today. I'd let him know how much I appreciate that he's been a good, respectful tenant in the past, but the subleasing has to stop.

An agreement is an agreement. I have several rental properties myself, and I always try to be gentle and nice, but really clear about things. You may not have experienced any problems up until now, but what happens next time? If you don't know and trust who's in the house, you could end up with holes in the walls, ruined carpets and worse. On top of all that, what if they don't have the money to fix things when they leave? It'll be on you, because you lost control of your property.

Again, be decent when you talk to this guy. It sounds like you two have a good history. But remind him he's in violation of the lease agreement. And gently let him know if anything like this happens again, you'll begin the eviction process.
— Dave

The nation of Israel is different from any nation on the earth, as it has been in an existential battle for survival from the moment of its birth in 1948 until this very day. It is a nation under constant siege, and without constant vigilance (and the mercy of God), it would be wiped off from the map.

Tell me another nation on the planet that needs every young person, both male and female, to serve in the military for two-three years immediately after high school. Or that requires all men until the age of 40 to serve in the reserves – meaning, to go back into the military if needed. (The only exceptions to these rules are ultra-Orthodox Jews, who are exempt from military service.)

I write these words this week from Israel, where I have been since Sunday June 9, and everywhere you turn, there is the reality of war.

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Getting off the plane, I was met by an airport employee named Yehudah, a young man who was born in South Africa and immigrated to Israel six years ago. As a reservist, he recently served in Gaza for more than 190 days and will soon be deployed again.

When I asked him how he felt about going back into a war zone, he didn't have much to say. He has no choice in the matter, and it's for the good of the nation. These are the realities of war.

After I spoke at a gathering of believers Monday night, I met another young man, dressed very casually, but carrying his rifle on his back. He has been deployed in the northern border in Lebanon where Israeli troops are at war with Hezbollah and will soon be returning. But as a soldier, he cannot go anywhere without his gun.

He told me that his unit was just hit in a drone attack, but thankfully without any casualties. He too is about to return to the warfront.

A woman introduced me to her son, whom I had not seen in years. He is in his 30s and was just returning from several months' deployment as a reservist. When he is needed again, he will return. It is his duty, if not a sacred privilege, to protect his country during a time of war.

And then there are the ongoing internal terror attacks, be they car rammings, stabbings, shootings, or bombings.

A headline from Feb. 22, 2016, selected at random out of an almost infinite number of choices, gives an idea of the realities of life in Israel: "Israeli Military Chief: All Off-duty Combat Soldiers Must Carry Their Weapons."

The story then explains, "Off-duty Nahal soldier Tuvia Wiesman was not carrying a weapon when he went to the assistance of terror victims and was himself stabbed to death."

Welcome to life in Israel.

The Jewish Virtual Library states that, "From the Oslo Accords (Sept. 1993) until September 2000 – nearly 300 Israelis were killed in attacks. During the Al-Aqsa Intifada (Sept. 2000 - Dec. 2005), another 1,100 Israelis were killed. Since September 2000, Palestinian terrorist attacks have claimed at least 1,429 Israeli lives. Hundreds more have been wounded."

The only reason that you can walk the streets of Israel in safety or live without constant fear of annihilation is the ceaseless vigilance of the Israeli military and security arms of the government. Otherwise, Israel's sworn enemies would have wiped the tiny nation off the map decades ago.

And what happens when there are serious, inexcusable lapses in security? Oct. 7 happens, becoming an inspiration for future terror attacks.

As reported Nov. 1, 2023, "A senior member of Hamas has hailed the systematic slaughter of civilians in Israel on Oct. 7, vowing in an interview that if given the chance, the Palestinian terror group will repeat similar assaults many times in the future until Israel is exterminated."

In a similar spirit, Iranian leaders have called for Israel's extermination.

As reported on May 22, 2020, "Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, launched into a lengthy anti-Israel diatribe on Twitter Friday as he marked Quds Day, a holiday held in Iran toward the end of the month of Ramadan meant to express support for Palestinians and opposition to Israel's existence.

"The leader, in 25-unthreaded tweets, compared Israel to a 'cancerous tumor' and the coronavirus, as he called for the nation to be 'uprooted and destroyed.'"

Yet this is nothing new. Rather, it is what Israel has faced since the announcement of the UN Partition Plan in 1947.

As summarized by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, "on November 29, 1947, the UN General Assembly adopted Resolution 181 calling for the partition of Mandatory Palestine into Jewish and Arab states. The Jews accepted the plan with a mixture of joy and hesitation, while the Arabs rejected it and launched a war to forcibly prevent its implementation."

And what happened the day after Israel announced its independence in May 1948? The Jewish Virtual Library explains: "On May 15, 1948, the day the British Mandate over Palestine ended, the armies of five neighboring Arab states invaded the new State of Israel, which had declared its independence the previous day. The invasion, heralded by an Egyptian air attack on Tel Aviv, was vigorously resisted. From the north, east and south came the armies of Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Transjordan, and Egypt."

Israel has been under siege since its modern rebirth, and it remains under siege to this day.

For good reason both Jews and Christians point to the words of Psalm 121, reminding us that "he who watches over Israel will neither slumber nor sleep."

If not for divine mercy, Israel would not be.

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The good news is that party standard-bearer Donald Trump appears intent on taking it back. On Sunday in Las Vegas, Trump made his strongest statement yet about that memorable day, saying, "There has never been people treated more horrifically than J6 hostages."

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Coincidentally or not, a snippet from the footage Pelosi's daughter Alexandra shot for HBO surfaced on line a day later. The video was extracted from about 45 minutes of footage handed over recently to the House administration oversight subcommittee.

Shot in the backseat of Pelosi's vehicle as she was being driven away from the Capitol on Jan. 6, Pelosi speaks about her own role in allowing the chaos to happen.

"We take responsibility, Terri," a testy Pelosi says to her chief of staff Terri McCullough. "We did not have any accountability for what was going on there, and we should have. This is ridiculous."

At this point, Pelosi appears to respond to a question McCullough asked earlier about calling in the National Guard. "You're going to ask me in the middle of the thing when they've already breached the inaugural stuff that should we call the Capitol Police. I mean the National Guard," Pelosi snaps. "Why weren't the National Guard there to begin with?"

"They thought they had sufficient resources," says McCullough referring to the Capitol Police.

"No, it is not a question of how they had … They don't know," a rattled Pelosi shoots back. "They clearly didn't know. And I take responsibility for not having them just prepare for more."

Pelosi has a lot to take responsibility for. Not since the War of 1812 has congressional leadership so clearly failed in its duty to keep the nation's capital secure.

The question remains, however, whether the failure was by design. "People don't really want to get to the bottom of this," former Capitol Police Chief Steve Sund told Tucker Carlson in 2023. "This didn't have to happen."

Sund's requests for assistance from the National Guard were denied before Jan. 6 and inexplicably delayed during the siege.

Within minutes of the first breach by Ray Epps and crew at 12:53 p.m., Sund called the House sergeant at arms, Paul Irving, demanding help from the National Guard. Irving told Sund he had to run the request up the chain to Pelosi.

If clever, the conspirators likely counted on law enforcement's amateurish and often violent overreaction to the incoming masses. Some among the police seemed to understand the good intentions of the MAGA crowd.

Others saw a horde of killer white supremacists. If the police behaved badly, the conspirators weren't worried. This wasn't Chicago 1968.

There would be no talk of a "police riot" as there had been at that year's Democratic National Convention. The media, they knew, would denounce the "insurrectionists" as they "stormed" the Capitol without prompting.

At 2:09 p.m., an inexplicable 71 minutes and 32 phone calls after Sund's initial call, the Capitol Police Board approved the use of the National Guard.

Although President Trump had pre-authorized the deployment of 10,000 troops – unusual behavior for an insurrectionist – the Pentagon hesitated.

The hesitance, as Julie Kelly has argued, emanated from then-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley, whose paranoid misreading of Trump made Jan. 6 possible.

Jack Cashill's new book, Ashli: The Untold Story of the Women of January 6 is now available for purchase.

At a House Oversight Committee hearing in April, Department of Defense witness Colonel Earl Matthews, spoke of an "irrational" fear among a "clique" of senior military officers.

Chief among the fear mongers was General Milley. Openly contemptuous of the president, the borderline mutinous Milley worried that Trump would somehow deploy the National Guard to stop the certification process to stay in power.

Only after the first shot was fired did the Pentagon get the National Guard into gear, but by then it was too late for Ashli Babbitt and too late for Rosanne Boyland, both of whom were killed by police action.

Standing to benefit from the disrupted proceeding were House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and, more passively, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.

Twelve hours of serious fraud allegations, presented by members of Congress, would have shown the "big lie" to be the big lie that it was.

The details of a larger conspiracy may never be sorted out, but as with so many seeming conspiracies – the Epstein jailers come to mind – incompetence masks many a sin.

If nothing else, Pelosi's exchange with McCullough convinced me that she was less an active conspirator in the trap set for the protestors than a reliably incompetent cog.

The conspirators may not have needed to include USCP assistant chief for intelligence Yogananda Pittman in the plot. Knowing her history, they might have just counted on her to screw things up.

That said, it was Pittman who led Sund to believe that the Jan. 6 rally would be a reprise of the November and December MAGA rallies. It wasn't.

Rather than discipline the head of intelligence, Pelosi promptly fired Sund and promoted Pittman to acting USCP chief, another clumsy move.

To get a sense of the contempt in which Pittman's colleagues held her, a staggering 92 percent of them voted no confidence in her leadership.

Challenged about her own leadership, Pelosi rushed to the MSNBC studios on Monday to shore up the Democrat narrative.

"The president of the United States, the former president and his toadies, do not want to face the facts," said Pelosi. "They are trying to do revisionist history on January 6, but we cannot let us be dragged into their again false impression about what that happened that day. They know what happened that day."

No, Republicans don't know what really happened that day, and Pelosi is desperate to keep it that way.

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When Mr. Scratch comes to fulfill the contract, Stone desperately seeks the help of Webster for deliverance. Webster calls for a trial since this is the right of every American, and Mr. Scratch agrees, as long as he can choose the judge and jury.

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The door of Stone's home opens, and an infernal jury enters. All of them are Americans who were infamous for the evil deeds they had done in life, such as the notorious pirate Blackbeard. Presiding over the court is John Hathorne, the unrepentant "hanging judge" of the Salem witch trials. Mr. Scratch is the prosecutor.

The trial is clearly rigged against Webster. The jurors jeered whenever the judge sustained Mr. Scratch's objections and overruled all of Webster's. Notwithstanding this, the eloquence of Webster in his closing statement so moved this biased jury that it found for the defendant, Stone. Shortly afterward, the sound of a rooster signaled the coming sunrise, and the judge and jury disappeared in a puff of smoke. Webster tore up the contract, Stone was set free, and Mr. Scratch was booted out of the house.

Some elements of Stone's trial bear resemblance to kangaroo courts that have occurred in various places and times in history, such as the "People's Court" of Nazi Germany (1934-1945) and the "struggle sessions" of the Cultural Revolution of communist China (1966-1976). If there was a jury, it would have sided with a hostile judge and prosecutor to condemn the unfortunate people brought before them. In most cases, appearing in such a court was tantamount to a death sentence.

Lawfare, a word that has become part of the American vernacular, describes the use of the legal system to intimidate, harass, damage or destroy political adversaries and deprive individuals of their rights and property. This strategy has been employed by judges, attorney generals, district attorneys and prosecutors in a number of states, counties and metropolitan areas. What many of these have in common is that they have received large amounts of money for their election campaigns from billionaire George Soros, a major donor of Marxist causes and politicians.

The Bible says in Proverbs 11:1, "Dishonest scales are an abomination to the LORD, but a just weight is His delight." In many of the areas where these elected officials preside, the just weight has been abandoned to a great extent, and the scales of justice are tilted in favor of political allies and classes, even if they commit serious crimes, and against anyone they perceive to be a political opponent committing no legitimate offense or a minor infraction. Many times, disfavored people who commit nothing worthy of fines or punishment are brought before a rigged court to face a hostile jury, prosecutor and judge, with the outcome often leading to harsh consequences that destroy their lives.

One example includes the rioting, property destruction, injuries and deaths done in 2020 by those belonging to Marxist organizations such as Antifa and Black Lives Matter. Many of these criminal activities took place in areas where Soros-funded district attorneys presided; and as a result, the general rule for those involved if they were arrested was to let them go free or apply the lightest possible charges.

Conversely, if Christians prayed outside an abortion facility and sought to offer women other alternatives to killing their babies, damaging nothing and harming no one, these same kinds of legal officials would apply the harshest charges and make sure they were brought before a judge and jury who would seek to imprison them for years.

So many have been distracted by national politics and elections that attention to the kinds of people being elected to these positions locally has been neglected. We should pay close attention to these local elections and be involved because, more than national elections, they have a far greater impact on public safety and moving the legal system closer to being a justice system.

But there is a court we all must face without exception (Hebrews 9:27). As with Jabez Stone, the devil acts as the prosecutor, accusing us of our sins before God, the Judge (Zechariah 3:1-5). Like Stone, there is no question of our guilt, for all have sinned against God (Romans 3:23), and there is no bribing or bargaining with this Judge, and there is no jury that can be moved by any eloquence we may have to escape eternal punishment.

However, there is a far better defense attorney than Daniel Webster. He is the Son of God, Jesus Christ (Romans 8; 1 Timothy 2:5-6; Hebrews 7:25; 1 John 2:1-2). His eloquence is the nail prints in His hands and feet where His blood was shed on the cross for sinners. His resurrection from the dead conquered sin, death and the devil. If anyone trusts in Him as his Advocate before God, then the accusations brought by the devil are nullified and cast away forever (Micah 7:18-19).

Just as Webster canceled the contract condemning Stone by tearing it up when he was declared not guilty, so Jesus covers all who trust in Him with His robe of righteousness and cancels the certificate of our sin debt by nailing it to the cross when we are declared not guilty by God (Romans 5; Colossians 2:13-14).

The court of heaven, the one that really matters, is rigged for you and not against you if you trust in Jesus Christ as your Savior and Lord, receiving by faith His righteousness so that you can stand before God in peace.

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This listing by Guterres, which includes Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist organizations as well, is to be sent to the U.N. Security Council on June 14. Obviously, this act equates the barbaric acts of Hamas in intentionally killing Israeli children and beheading babies to the unintentional killing of Palestinian children as a consequence of collateral fallout due to Hamas hiding among the innocent.

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There is a continuing effort by various international bodies to apply a lopsided morality in comparing Israel's battlefield conduct to that of the immoral terrorists it has to confront. Just compare the surprise Hamas Oct. 7 surprise attack against Israel to Israel's repeated policy of avoiding harm to civilians by announcing targets beforehand – airdropping fliers, texting messages and making phone calls in advance to forewarn Palestinian innocents. Such warnings, according to West Point urban warfare expert John Spencer, have earned the IDF the lowest combatant/non-combatant death ratio in the world.

The U.N. decision prompted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to post the statement, "Today the UN added itself to the black list of history when it joined those who support the Hamas murderers. The IDF is the most moral army in the world; no delusional U.N. decision will change that."

While Guterres and liberals here in the U.S. falsely accuse Israel of the indiscriminate killings of children, they fail to remember that Muslim extremists, regardless of their origin, whether Hamas, Chechnyan, Iranian, etc., have never hesitated to intentionally target children.

In September 2004, 32 Muslim extremists from Chechnya violently took over a school in Beslan – a city in North Ossetia, Russia – along with over 1,000 hostages, most of whom were children. These hostages were herded into a gymnasium rigged with explosives and not given food or water for two days. When explosions of unknown origin were heard, Russian Special Forces rushed the school, triggering a major firefight that killed one-third of the hostages.

The Iranians under the mullahs have proven somewhat unique when it comes to sacrificing children. During the eight-year Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988) that took on the character of trench warfare, the Iraqis dug in, defending their positions with minefields. Unwilling to sacrifice their seasoned soldiers to clear a path through the minefields, the mullahs recruited their own children to do it for them. The then-Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, gave the children plastic keys to wear around their necks, assuring them the keys would open the gates to Paradise should they die. On command, the children would run towards the Iraqi positions, triggering the mines and eventually clearing a path for Iranian soldiers to follow.

In Gaza today, the IDF has discovered – unsurprisingly – that Hamas has unhesitantly used hospitals, schools and whatever else it can to hide military assets with absolutely no concerns about placing Palestinian children and civilians at risk from Israeli attacks targeting such assets. This mindset has existed ever since Hamas came to power in Gaza in 2006.

CBS Face the Nation host Bob Schieffer perfectly described this Hamas mindset during the 2014 Gaza war as follows: "In the Middle East, the Palestinian people find themselves in the grip of a terrorist group that has embarked on a strategy to get its own children killed in order to build sympathy for its cause, a strategy that might actually be working, at least in some quarters."

Schieffer went on to share a famous quote by Israel's first and only female prime minister, Golda Meir, who sadly noted: "We can forgive the Arabs for killing our children but we can never forgive them for forcing us to kill their children."

Thus, the true value of a child's life rests within the hands of the beholder. Accordingly, Israel's U.N. ambassador unloaded on Guteres for his decision to list Israel claiming: "The only one who is blacklisted today is the secretary-general, whose decisions since the war started, and even before, are rewarding terrorists and incentivizing them to use children for terror acts. … Shame on him!"

There is an interesting ethical issue Israel faced in the week after the Oct. 7 raid that clearly demonstrates the existence of a line that separates good from evil – i.e., between Israel and Hamas respectively.

For the entire time hostilities have existed between Israel and Hamas, whenever the shooting has stopped and a terrorist has needed medical attention, Israel has provided it. This is accepted as recognition of a medical professional's moral duty to refrain from discriminating against any patient.

However, a debate ensued if that duty extended to those who have violated every principle of warfare under international law by massacring 1,300 civilians. Despite the fact that there has been a tremendous outrage among the Israelis about providing wounded terrorists access to public hospitals, Israel has still met its moral obligation to do so by treating them at IDF or prison medical service facilities instead. Meanwhile, for the terrorists, a wounded Israeli they come across is a dead Israeli as they have been known to execute them on the spot.

The West has a hard time comprehending that for the Islamic extremist mindset, no price is too high to pay as long as the end result imposes Islam upon the world community – even if it includes the need for children to die. While such a mindset thrives for them when those dying children are infidels, it matters not if it comes to sacrificing Muslim children as well.

While an infidel's DNA rejects the above mindset, a Muslim's DNA does not. As such, it is ridiculous for Gutteres to equate the two.

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In the movie Kindergarten Cop, Arnold Schwarzenegger stands in front a classroom of wild kids and says he has a headache. A kid says, “Maybe it’s a tumor.” And Arnold, in his rich Austrian accent says, “It’s not a tumor.”

Well, I’m here to tell you, that when it comes to the headache caused by the bloated federal government, it is a tumor. A tumor feeding on the entire country.

Even a paper from the Volcker Alliance, a left wing non-profit dedicated to expanding the federal government, had this to say in 2017: “Although Washington’s blended workforce has an imperative role in the nation’s success, it may have grown so large and poorly sorted that it has become a threat to the very liberty it protects. With 7 to 9 million employees, the federal government’s blended workforce may have become too complicated and codependent to control. Most importantly, it may have become so complex that Congress and the president simply cannot know whether this blended workforce puts the right employees in the right place at the right price with the highest performance and fullest accountability.”

In other words, it’s an out-of-control monstrosity. And that’s coming from someone who wants to expand government power.

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Under the Constitution, the president has power to enforce the nation's laws, command the army and navy, veto laws passed by Congress, protect our borders and oversee relations with foreign nations. In 1790, President George Washington's administration had only three departments: State, Treasury, and War. There were other offices, too, such as the Office of the Attorney General, who is the lead lawyer for the federal government. But Washington's administration employed less than 150 people at the time.

As of 2005, the executive branch contained fifteen departments, hundreds of agencies and offices, and many regulatory commissions, employing a total of about 2.7 million people altogether. Departments are offices with responsibility for large areas of the federal government. The fifteen departments are: Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Education, Energy, Health & Human Services, Homeland Security, Housing & Urban Development, Interior, Justice, Labor, State, Transportation, Treasury, and Veterans Affairs.

Then there are agencies. Agencies are offices that handle specific areas of government, such as the American Battle Monuments Commission, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Federal Aviation Administration. The Federal Aviation Administration, for example, regulates airlines and air traffic in the United States and investigates aircraft accidents. Regulatory commissions are offices that regulate a particular area of the economy. Examples include the Food and Drug Administration, which regulates food and drug safety, and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, which regulates workplace safety. Regulatory commissions wield tremendous power in their areas of expertise. The FDA, for example, has the final say on what drugs are allowed to reach the shelves of America's pharmacies and drugstores. There is even an agency whose job is just to keep track of all the agencies. They are failing miserably, by the way.

But the list of federal employees is just the tip of a very large iceberg. For every direct federal employee, there are approximately 10 outside people paid and controlled by the government. And when the bureaucrats realized that outside NGOs could do all the things they were not allowed to do, like censoring speech, those numbers exploded like metastasizing cancer.

Federal Laws
According to best estimates – and estimates are all we have – there are about 4,500 federal crimes in the United States Code, and more than 300,000 federal crimes dispersed throughout federal regulations. The Department of Justice once tried to count the number of federal crimes and failed, ultimately throwing up its hands in frustration and coming up with only a rough estimate.

Imagine, they couldn’t even count them, much less read them all. The truth is that no citizen can know how many federal crimes are out there, all the conduct that those crimes forbid, or even how to find the answers to those questions.

The odds are that every American on any given day is violating at least three federal crime statutes. “Show me the man and I’ll show you the crime.” So said Lavrentiy Beria, Joseph Stalin’s ruthless secret police chief, in the heyday of Soviet oppression. Welcome to Amerika today.

Another byproduct of the growing federal crime list is rampant double jeopardy. If you can’t convict someone at state level, just look through the big book of crimes and you can surely find a federal crime statute to retry them for the same act. Maybe two or three. “Show me the man and I’ll show you the crime” should be the motto of the current DOJ. Just ask Donald Trump.

Much of our executive branch works just like a tumor does, walling itself from the rest of the organism. There are now 17 intelligence agencies that we know of. Many of them are so secret that even the president and Congress don’t know what they are doing. Popular answers to Congressional oversight committees include “I don’t know, not that I’m aware, I can’t recall, that’s classified, and I can’t talk” – about that because it is part of an ongoing investigation. And revealing hidden government crimes means you will now live in Russia or a U.K. prison. Ask Edward Snowden or Julian Assange. So the chances are that what we don’t know will stay that way.

People always say we have to have a big federal government now because there are so many more people now. Let’s do some math. In 1800 there were 200 people in the executive branch. The population of the U.S. was 5 million. Today it is over 300 million. That is 60 times bigger. So we take 200 x 60 and get 12,000. Wait, that can’t be right. That’s not fair, you say. There is a lot more to do now. Okay let’s say there’s ten times as much to do – 12,000 x 10. That is still only 120,000 people. But we have 2.7 million and another 20 million in NGOs all working for the federal government.

See what I mean? Tumor.

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Oh boy, that's just what we need in this world, another war. It looks like things are heating up between South Korea and North Korea.

South Korea recently sent 260 balloons over North Korea loaded with pro-democracy leaflets. The version of democracy they're referring to is not quite the Jefferson version of American constitutional democracy. It's the Joe Biden version – you know, where the commander-in-thief does what he wants?

In retaliation to the South Korean balloon attack, North Korea just sent an armada of 3,500 balloons. These balloons were loaded with 15 tons of garbage in various forms to contaminate the South Korean landscape. Well, at least it's better than sending a bunch of nukes back and forth and vaporizing the people who sent the balloons.

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My research team found an example of the contents of the leaflet extolling the virtues of democracy. ( I have an admission to make about my research team. They're kind of a shaky bunch. But what am I to do? I'm just a guy with no budget.)

Here is what the leaflet said: "This is the beauty of democracy or Bidenocracy as it is in America. If you are a member of the privileged family, you can make deals in foreign countries and not pay taxes on the benefits of selling influence and be covered from the law by the Big Guy."

How did North Korea respond to this declaration of freedom? My "research staff" found this in the garbage that the South was pelted with by the balloons. The garbage was loaded with Bill Gates's cricket flour, meal worm powder, and a whole bunch of fake meat that encourages a not-so-fake death. Apparently, inflation has infected even real old time garbage. It's too expensive to include it in a balloon bomb.

North Korea (NK) has issued threats to stave off any future SK balloon attacks. The next balloon retaliation from NK will include 10,000 copies of the doctoral dissertation by the esteemed Dr. Jill Biden. The unfortunate victims of this dumping will be subjected to the pain of her examination of how community colleges can improve their retention rates of students. We assume that the leading suggestion is to get taxpayers to cough up billions to pay for students' college expenses instead of students paying for their own worthless degrees.

If the Balloon Wars continue, there's a lot of garbage the NK regime can dump on SK. How about speeches and lies about the phony Trump Russian dossier by Adam Schiff? Deep thoughts and other annoyances by Alexandria Ocasio Cortez? The former third-in-line to become POTUS, Nancy Pelosi's advice on how to become a multimillionaire on a D.C. peon congressional salary of $174,000 a year?

If those don't cause South Korea to back off, the next escalation that will come is the complete video recordings of 27 years of The View featuring the wisdom of Joy and Whoopi.

Finally, we come the NK coup de grâce. One balloon known as the Terminator will carry a trash load of autobiographies in crayon with an abundance of misspellings by Joe Biden, beginning with: "My Teenage Years as a Puerto Rican Bull Fighter"; "My Boxing Victories over Corn Pop, Muhammad Ali, and Rocky Marciano"; "The Year I Won the MVP of the NBA"; "John, Paul, George, Ringo, and Joe"; "My Secret Journey on Voyager 11 to Mars"; and finally, "My Reign as Pope Until I Met Jill."

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Everything, if you're part of the global public health mafia and want to avoid questions about the mistakes you made and the lies you told.

We all saw Dr. Anthony Fauci squirming last week when he was forced to admit to the House Oversight and Accountability Committee that the social distancing rules – like standing 6 feet apart – on which the lockdowns were based were pulled out of thin air.

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The Dutch researchers want answers. They insist "every death needs to be acknowledged and accounted for," including deaths caused by policy mistakes – the collateral damage from heavy-handed public health edicts.

One conclusion is already crystal clear: Don't entrust your life or health to the government.

The Dutch researchers examine data from 47 western countries, including the U.S., and find that many months after the lockdowns began and vaccines were rolled out, the death rates stayed higher than in pre-pandemic years. The lockdowns and vaccines weren't stopping the virus but were apparently causing other deaths. A classic case of the cure being worse than the disease.

Zeroing in on the U.S., they cited double-digit increases in alcohol-caused fatalities and drug overdose fatalities.

Researchers Rob Arnott and Chicago economics professor Casey Mulligan found the same. During the pandemic, deaths from alcoholism, drug addiction, car accidents, hypertension, heart disease and diabetes soared, exceeding by 100,000 a year what would ordinarily occur in the U.S. They pinned those "excess deaths" on government COVID policies that drove people to addiction, overeating and other acts of despair.

Even more tragic, those deaths of despair skewed younger, so many more years of potential life were lost than by COVID deaths, which mostly affected older adults. Young and middle-aged adults succumbed to alcoholism or drug addiction as they were laid off or watched their business and their savings disappear because of the lockdowns.

What's worse, even when it became obvious lockdowns were failing, government health officials stayed their deadly course. They put their egos over the public's welfare.

The Dutch researchers' stunning data show that for children, the virus posed a miniscule 0.0003% risk of death, probably less risk than crossing the street to get to the playground.

Doctors like the Hoover Institution's Scott Atlas urged policymakers to target the high-risk elderly, but he was demonized for questioning the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention orthodoxy. Had the public-health-industrial complex listened, children would have been in school learning instead of home suffering learning losses.

Even now, as Dr. Joel Zinberg of City Journal points out, children ages 5 to 17 account for less than one-tenth of 1% of COVID deaths, but officials are still recommending vaccines for all schoolchildren. Crazy.

The Dutch researchers touched off a firestorm with their suggestion that more needs to be investigated about whether the vaccines caused some pandemic-era deaths.

In all likelihood, the vaccine is helpful for most adults, especially the elderly. But there are exceptions. Research in Human Vaccine and Immunotherapeutics shows men can incur a higher risk of cardiac-related deaths.

In a hospital setting, common conditions such as ischemic stroke and acute coronary syndrome might not be readily identified and reported as possibly caused by a vaccine.

The Dutch researchers never showed a causal connection between vaccines and higher deaths. But just suggesting further research on that issue provoked a nasty backlash. That's the public-health-industrial complex closing ranks.

No surprise. In August 2023, the prestigious Journal of the American Medical Association published an attack smearing 52 physicians for disseminating "misinformation." The offending scientists disagreed with the CDC, which now has been proven wrong on almost every COVID issue.

The global public health establishment, including many journal editors and government advisers – the Faucis and Dr. Deborah Birxes of the world – don't want us to look back.

Kudos to the Dutch researchers for raising questions and challenging public health orthodoxy. That is what scientists are supposed to do.

The status quo be damned.

With bird flu and other threats looming, we need the truth about what saved lives and what actually ended up killing our loved ones and neighbors.

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That is how Pope Francis characterized the central issue at a summit meeting held last month at the Vatican.

This summit was not about protecting babies from abortion. Its title was: "From Climate Crisis to Climate Resilience" – and both Gov. Gavin Newsom of California and Gov. Maura Healey of Massachusetts spoke at it.

Both these governors promote transgenderism and abortion.

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On May 31, 2019 – five years before Newsom visited the Vatican to talk about climate change – he put out a proclamation bragging about the availability of abortions in California, including for minors.

"California's right to privacy guarantees that young women do not have to secure parental or judicial consent in order to obtain an abortion," he said.

On March 22, 2022 – two years before his visit to the Vatican – Newsom put out a release with this headline: "Governor Newsom Signs Legislation to Eliminate Out-of-Pocket Costs for Abortion Services."

"With this legislation," Newsom said, "we'll help ensure equitable, affordable access to abortion services so that out-of-pocket costs don't stand in the way of receiving care."

In September 2023 – only eight months before his visit to the Vatican – Newsom signed the Safe and Supportive Schools Act. It required the state Department of Education to develop "an online training curriculum to support LGBTQ cultural competency training for teachers and other certificated employees."

He also signed a law requiring schools to have "at least one all-gender restroom" that is "open to all genders and is unlocked, unobstructed, and easily accessible by any pupil."

In April 2023, more than a year before Healey traveled to the Vatican to participate in the climate summit, she announced she was "issuing an Executive Order confirming protections for medication abortion under existing state law."

"We will always protect access to reproductive health care, including medication abortion," she said.

In June 2023, 11 months before Healey traveled to the Vatican, the Daily Mail published a story about a new program she was promoting in Massachusetts schools. "Students as young as eight years old are set to be taught about the nuances of being transgender in schools in Massachusetts – thanks to a proposed revision to the state's health and physical education framework," the Daily Mail reported.

"Our young people have experienced a real surge in documented mental health conditions and we owe it to them to empower them with resources, knowledge and the tools they need to be successful," Healey said at a press conference, according to the Daily Mail.

"These updates are also inclusive," Healey said. "They recognize gay, queer, trans students' identities and needs. That's important and it's not something we are going to shy away from."

Just five weeks before Newsom and Healey spoke at the climate summit, the Vatican's Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith issued a declaration on "Human Dignity."

It stated the church's unambiguous rejection of "gender theory."

"Desiring a personal self-determination, as gender theory prescribes, apart from this fundamental truth that human life is a gift, amounts to a concession to the age-old temptation to make oneself God, entering into a competition with the true God of love revealed to us in the Gospel," said the declaration.

"Therefore," it said, "all attempts to obscure reference to the ineliminable sexual difference between man and woman are to be rejected: 'We cannot separate the masculine and the feminine from God's work of creation, which is prior to all our decisions and experiences, and where biological elements exist which are impossible to ignore.' Only by acknowledging and accepting this difference in reciprocity can each person fully discover themselves, their dignity, and their identity."

As he ended his talk at the Vatican climate summit last month, Newsom thanked the attendees "for your faith and devotion to this cause."

"We look forward to maintaining our position of leadership," he said. "And we look forward to all of us bringing into our positions of formal authority, the moral authority that is needed and demands of this time."

Healey concluded her remarks by acknowledging "obligation" to "create a better world."

"But it's our obligation to those we serve and represent: To create a better world – a more just, equitable world that provides opportunity for all – and healing for our planet and our communities."

In his 1995 encyclical letter, St. John Paul II said: "The moral gravity of procured abortion is apparent in all its truth if we recognize that we are dealing with murder and, in particular, when we consider the specific elements involved. The one eliminated is a human being at the very beginning of life. No one more absolutely innocent could be imagined."

In 2022, when then-Attorney General Healey was running for governor, there were 17,757 babies aborted in Massachusetts, according to state Department of Public Health data provided to the Charlotte Lozier Institute.

In 2023, as reported by the Sacramento Bee, the Guttmacher Institute determined there were 178,400 babies aborted in California.

Yes, the environment of our planet should be protected – for the purpose of protecting human life, including the unborn.

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So it's a little shocking the Hunter trial gained about half as much coverage as Trump's – at least through the first eight days of coverage. On the ABC, CBS and NBC morning, evening and Sunday interview shows, Trump's trial drew more than 174 minutes, while Hunter's trial drew 85 minutes. (By the Trump trial's end, they filled the air with 640 minutes.)

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It's less shocking to notice the difference in tone. Trump's trial was a "criminal" trial about "hush money." On April 25, fill-in CBS anchor Margaret Brennan announced, "The former president faces 34 felony counts of falsifying business documents related to a so-called hush money payment to a porn star." Other stories fussed that Trump was bullying and threatening witnesses and court staff.

Hunter Biden stories were loaded with empathy. On June 3, ABC's Terry Moran relayed: "President Biden released a statement standing by his only surviving son, saying in part 'I have boundless love for my son.'" CBS reporter Norah O'Donnell echoed him that night on "the president's only surviving son." On June 10, NBC fill-in anchor Tom Llamas began: "For the first time, the child of a sitting president facing a potential criminal conviction. Right now, a jury deliberating the fate of Hunter Biden, the sole surviving son of the president."

Hunter Biden is 54 and network anchors refer to him as a "child."

The contrast in tone tells you that the media elites loathe Trump but treat the Biden family like they're close friends who they want to surround and protect. There was a sense of glee when Democrats began crowing about Trump the "convicted felon." Then came the sorrow that they only had 11 days to celebrate before the president's son drew the same label.

Then came the stubborn facts. Conservative outlets like the New York Post were more interested in how prosecutors based their case on the contents of Hunter Biden's laptop, and the court verified it as evidence. CBS never mentioned this. ABC gave 10 seconds, and NBC offered 30 seconds acknowledging the laptop's use in court. None of them revisited their 2020 performance, when they all robotically regurgitated the Biden campaign spin that the laptop was "garbage" carrying the "earmarks of a Russian information operation."

Prosecutors not only mined the laptop but used Hunter's addiction memoir "Beautiful Things" against him. That was quite a backfire, after the pro-Biden networks (and their affiliated comedians like Jimmy Kimmel) gushed over Hunter's memoir as "catharsis" for the 50-something child. Back in 2021, CBS donated 25 minutes of airtime to syrupy interview segments with the addict. Maybe "donated" is the wrong word since CBS-affiliated Simon & Schuster published the book.

These guilty verdicts will not affect the pro-Biden media's incessant efforts to tout the Biden family as a selling point for the Democrats. They couldn't stop talking after the verdict about how the first lady was in the courtroom almost every day, and how the president scores points with voters when he talks about how much he loves his "only surviving son."

They will keep spinning in desperation that Hunter Biden's epic crack-and-hookers binges somehow make the Bidens more sympathetic to Americans with addicts in their family. Journalists were given cocaine-powdered lemons, and the lemonade they are making is a heady brew. But not everyone wants to drink it.

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It was only 17 years ago that the "subprime" mortgage crisis torpedoed the economy and sent the financial markets into the biggest tailspin since the Great Depression. Millions of Americans lost their jobs. One of the matches that lit that bonfire was Freddie Mac and its cousin, Fannie Mae, offering generous, taxpayer-guaranteed mortgage insurance to risky borrowers on loans with low down payments.

It all blew up in the faces of the taxpayers even though the Washington experts said the chances of these mortgages going bust and taxpayers taking a loss were less than one in a thousand.

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The biggest taxpayer bailouts went not to the Wall Street banks and investment companies, but to Fannie and Freddie.

Here we go again. The latest scheme by the Biden administration is to encourage families to borrow more money by using the equity in their home as collateral. Home equity loans are often very risky. If prices fall, home equity can become negative. There is nearly $18 trillion in home equity, and it's one of the largest sources of savings and ownership for American families.

Now the Biden administration wants to encourage Americans to borrow even more at a time when credit card and auto debts are at an all-time high. If homes fall in value, families could slip underwater and default – just like during the subprime crisis.

As The Wall Street Journal points out, the other "likely losers" from this scam "would be taxpayers." The evidence is indisputable from 2008 that the mortgages that ended in default were low-down-payment and low-equity loans.

Why in the world would President Joe Biden want to go down this dangerous road again?

The obvious answer is that Biden wants to "stimulate" spending by putting more cash into the hands of consumers so they can rush and spend it before the election. They think this could be a plan that would provide extra wads of cash to homeowners at a time when Americans need to be saving and paying down debts, not spending.

The Bank of America believes this scam could result in $1.8 trillion in government-insured home equity loans. This is the homeowner equivalent of the student loan forgiveness program.

There's another problem here. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were created to promote home ownership, not to juice government spending. A home equity loan achieves the opposite by depleting a family's ownership stake in a home. In other words, we now have the Biden administration encouraging Americans to have LESS home ownership.

Talk about mission creep.

The obvious question is: How in the world is this in the interests of taxpayers or the country?

It isn't.

Almost comically, the Biden administration pledges this won't cost taxpayers a penny. Uh huh. Just like Fannie and Freddie would never need a bailout. But oops. Then suddenly they needed some $200 billion in 2008.

This also is happening at a time when Fannie and Freddie are now insuring million-dollar homes. We don't know many first-time homebuyers who start with a $1 million home. This is simply more debt overhang for taxpayers and a giveaway to the housing industry.

Washington is awash in debt right now, and Biden thinks America needs more of it. There must be a cheaper way to buy an election.

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But earlier this year, the prayer opening the 118th Congress caused quite a stir. Among other things, the preacher dared to pray in the name of Jesus.

On Jan. 30, 2024, at the request of Speaker of the House of Representatives Mike Johnson, Pastor Jack Hibbs of California, opened Congress in prayer. But he didn't pray "To Whom It May Concern," and many on the left blew a gasket.

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Twenty-six members of Congress, including Rep. Ilhan Omar (a Muslim), objected to Speaker Johnson for inviting Jack Hibbs to speak. By inviting Hibbs, Speaker Johnson was guilty, said the congresspersons, of using "the platform of the Guest Chaplain to lend the imprimatur of Congress to an ill-qualified hate preacher who shares the Speaker's Christian Nationalist agenda and his antipathy toward church-state separation." One wishes they could get equally furious about the flood of illegal immigration or the frightening rise of anti-Semitism in America.

Jack Hibbs is the pastor of Calvary Chapel in Chino Hills, California, and author of "Living in the Daze of Deception."

I interviewed him for a radio segment recently about this prayer incident. He told me that about two-thirds of his controversial prayer was based on historical phrases coming from those who founded the country: "I just borrowed from our history, and they couldn't take that."

For example, an historical source Hibbs borrowed from in his prayer was Rev. John Witherspoon, who served in the Continental Congress as a delegate from New Jersey.

Witherspoon, the president of Princeton, was the founding father who educated so many other founding fathers about a Biblical perspective on government. One of his star pupils was James Madison, a key architect of the Constitution.

Another historical source Pastor Hibbs drew from was Rev. Jacob Duché. Duché offered the first prayer in the first official opening of the first Continental Congress. That day was Sept. 7, 1774, and this took place in Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia.

The day before, some of the Founders huddled together to discuss how they should open the first official day of their proceedings. Should they open in prayer? That was a long-standing tradition. Some of those present, including professing Christians, thought it might be unwise since men from the different Christian denominations represented prayed in slightly different ways.

But Samuel Adams, a Congregationalist from Massachusetts, stood up and persuaded them to hold prayer. His distant cousin, John Adams, tells what happened: "Mr. Samuel Adams arose and said that he was no bigot, and could hear a Prayer from any gentleman of Piety and virtue, who was at the same time a friend to his Country." Having heard good things about the Anglican Rev. Duché, Sam Adams recommended he lead the opening prayer. They agreed to this."

So the next day, Sept. 7, 1774, Rev. Jacob Duché led the whole group in prayer in a memorable service. George Washington was there. Patrick Henry was there. John Jay was there.

It was a very moving session, wherein Duché read Psalm 35 – which just so happened to be that day's Scripture reading on the Anglican calendar.

In Psalm 35, David, who is being unjustly persecuted, pours out his heart to God, and asks for divine vindication: "Plead my cause, Oh, Lord, with them that strive with me, fight against them that fight against me."

The words felt appropriate since British troops were getting ready to bear down on Boston at that very time.

John Adams wrote his wife, Abigail, about the impact of this psalm and prayer meeting: "I never saw a greater effect upon an audience. It seemed as if heaven had ordained that Psalm to be read on that morning. After this, Mr. Duché, unexpectedly to everybody, struck out into an extemporary prayer, which filled the bosom of every man present. I must confess, I never heard a better prayer, or one so well pronounced. … It has had an excellent effect upon everybody here. I must beg you to read that Psalm."

Since that day to the present, for the last two and a half centuries, Congress has been opening its sessions in prayer – though not always as Christianly nor fervently.

Pastor Hibbs stirred a hornet's nest by praying in the tradition of those who founded this country.

It is apparent that many of those who currently serve in our government are either unaware of this nation's founding or they disagree with it. That shows how far down the road we have gone away from our spiritual roots as a country. But Patrick Henry warned us: "It is when a people forget God, that tyrants forge their chains."

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Her point was that, in our divided and polarized country, each side is no longer trying to "win over" those with whom they disagree. Sides are now just entrenched in hatred for each other.

It is impossible to not wake up and read the news, or simply walk out into the street into a demonstration, which is becoming business as usual in Washington, D.C., where I work, and not appreciate the truth of Noonan's observation.

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As a Christian black conservative, as I happen to be, dealing with personal attacks is something I accept as part of my business.

Now Florida Republican Rep. Byron Donalds, also a black conservative and someone whose name has been floated on Donald Trump's "short list" of possible VP running mates, is getting a taste of this unpleasantness.

At a recent Republican gathering in Philadelphia, Donalds observed: "During Jim Crow, the black family was together. During Jim Crow, more black people were not just conservative – because black people have always been conservative-minded – but more black people voted conservatively. And then ... Lyndon Johnson – you go down that road, and now we are where we are."

Any person endowed with the brain he or she has received from God, a willingness to use that brain, and a modicum of good will to use reason in the pursuit of truth, would grasp the point that Donalds was making that day.

Yet Al Sharpton accused Donalds of saying Jim Crow was a "good" or "better" time for blacks. Liberal MSNBC commentator Joy Reid said Donalds suggested Jim Crow was a "golden era" for blacks. Soon the Biden campaign and Democratic leadership picked up with similar shameful distortions of Donalds' remarks.

Donalds, of course, was not praising Jim Crow. He was lauding the strength and resilience of black Americans to live their lives as productively as possible during those horrible times.

And he suggested that big government ushered in by Lyndon Johnson after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 hurt rather than helped Blacks.

Regarding blacks voting more conservatively during the Jim Crow years, the data are clear.

From 1965, the first presidential election after the Civil Rights Act, to 2020, the average percent of blacks voting Republican was 10.2%.

But from 1936 to 1960, the average percent of blacks voting Republican was 30%. In 1956, Republican Eisenhower received 39% of the black vote.

Donalds' observation that blacks voted more conservatively during the Jim Crow era is clear and correct.

Regarding the state of the black family, Donalds' point that the black family was healthier during the Jim Crow era is also crystal-clear.

Per data compiled by Pew Research from Census and American Community Survey data, in 1960, four years before the passage of the Civil Rights Act, 61% of blacks age 18 and above were married. By 2021, this was down to 31%.

In June 1965, after the passage of the Civil Rights Act, Johnson spoke at prestigious Howard University to say that despite the new national civil rights law nullifying Jim Crow and making racial discrimination unlawful, this, per Johnson, was not enough. Blacks were not ready, per Johnson, to be free.

In Johnson's words then, "But freedom is not enough. You do not wipe away the scars of centuries by saying: Now you are free to go where you want and do as you desire and choose the leaders you please."

Donalds tells the truth that things went in the wrong direction after the Civil Rights Act – more rather than less government.

Those on the left are free to challenge his arguments. But that is done through rational and logical discussion.

But they choose not this path, because they will lose.

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It has hopefully become increasingly clear by now to most people in the world that the hatred of radical Islamists displayed against Israelis on Oct. 7 was not about land. It was not about so- called Israeli oppression of Gaza. Israel relinquished control of Gaza in 2005. Rather, this war is really war against the sacred covenant that the Jewish people have with the Creator of the world and the land of Israel. It is a religious war. Nothing less than that.

Because of this intention, Hamas wanted to murder defenseless innocent Jews – not in combat, in soldier-against-soldier warfare, but in the most vile and brutal ways. It does not seem necessary to repeat what Hamas did on Oct. 7. We all know and we will never forget. The world has not seen this kind of evil against the Jewish people since Nazi Germany. Israel has rightly proclaimed that their motto "Never Again" is now.

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That Hamas knowingly chose to attack on the Jewish holiday Shemini Atzeret also reveals who they are and why they did what they did. This holiday on Oct. 7 is the only day reserved to celebrate the unique relationship that the Jewish people have with Creator and the land of Israel. Interestingly enough, Hamas focused their hatred primarily towards people who had worked to support people living in Gaza. These left-leaning kibbutzim on the border had offered them work in their homes, and even formed personal relationships with some of them. Those who attended the Nova Festival were not ardent Israeli nationalists; rather, most of them were spiritual, beautiful young people with open and loving hearts who wanted to celebrate life and love. That kind of joy is something that the evil of Hamas can also not tolerate.

People who go out of their way to murder Jews, even if it costs them their very lives, are labeled Amalek, according to the Bible. The tribe known as Amalek were descendants of Esau, the brother of Jacob, who went out of their way to attack the Jewish people after their exodus from Egypt. This Amalek designation, no longer confined to an ancient non-existent tribe, is often used to describe people who are willing to risk their own lives because they cannot tolerate the special relationship the Jewish people have with the Creator. Hamas surely fits this definition of Amalek. They also do not care about the sacrifice of their own people for the purpose of defying God, destroying the state of Israel, and murdering Jewish people. They used valuable resources not to help their own people, but to build tunnels and hide their weapons in hospitals and schools so if and when their own citizens could be hurt in the event of a provoked war with Israel, Israel would be blamed.

The Bible tells us to "Remember what Amalek did to you on your journey out of Egypt" (Deut 25:17) and "Wipe out the memory of Amalek from heaven. Do not forget (Deut 25:19). These Biblical verses remind us that radical Islamic entitles like ISIS, Hamas, and others cannot be contained, only defeated. One cannot negotiate with those who are solemnly sworn to the destruction of the Jewish State of Israel and the annihilation of Jewish people. These kind of enemies of Jewish people are to be forgotten once they are wiped out. Let them not even be remembered.

Nevertheless, America and Europe continue foolishly to believe that one can bribe, negotiate and trust people who seem to embody a modern-day Amalek to keep their promises to not continue to try to destroy Israel. The recent calls for a ceasefire with enemies solemnly sworn to the destruction of the State of Israel are expressions of long-rooted policies of the State Department of the United States to appease Islamic terrorism. They were temporarily abated under the Trump administration, but renewed and intensified under the Biden administration.

For example, on the very first day of the Biden presidency, Biden re-instated the distribution of monies to Hamas, Palestinian Authority and Iran that Trump had terminated. This influx of monies to the PA re-ignited a wave of terrorism against Jewish people in Israel. Now once again, the PA could continue to reward its monthly salaries to terrorists and their families who murder Jews.

On the first day of office, Biden also decided to save the Islamic régime of the Ayatollah who had been murdering thousands of Iranian people and actively building a nuclear weapon. When Trump took office, he introduced sanctions against Iran and stopped working on the Iran Deal. These Trump-imposed sanctions brought the Iranian régime to the brink of bankruptcy and imminent collapse. On that very first day, Biden – by removing sanctions – allowed the Iranian régime to sell its oil. Because of Biden, Iran has become flush with billions of dollars from its sale of oil so it could actively support terrorism (primarily through its proxies) and escalate its development of a nuclear weapon. On his first day, Biden also stopped the Keystone Pipeline so America could no longer export oil, robbing America of its energy independence. This also did not make sense and weakened America.

In the midst of Israel's war with Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Palestinian Authority, several nations are now expressing support for the establishment of a Palestinian State. Do these countries fail to remember that the charter of this proposed Palestinian state will call for the destruction of the Jewish state of Israel? Might they legally be considered accomplices? Do they really want to support the mission of an undemocratic oppressive Nazi like régime called a Palestinian State, or do they simply lack the courage to stand up for democratic values and support Israel the only democracy in the region? Will they pay the price for this act of cowardice or betrayal of Israel? We do not have to be prophets to see that Europe has already been weakened and its integrity threatened by a large immigration of largely anti-Semitic Muslims with a higher birthrate than the native population.

Why do people continue to waste considerable money and time to support a two-state delusion as a pathway for peace? It does not make sense to keep doing them the same thing over and over and expect a different result. Everyone should remember that the Palestinian Authority previously walked away from the Oslo Accord in 1993 when it received 96% of their demands because, when it came down to it, ultimately, they cannot accept the two-state solution. They simply cannot accept the existence of the Jewish state. They would have to willing to change their charter. So far, they have been unwilling to do so.

With so many enemies attacking Israel at the same time and Iran very close to achieving its goal of a nuclear weapon, we may be frightened for the survival of the Jewish State of Israel. We should be comforted because there are many Biblical prophecies forecasting the protection for the Jewish State of Israel, such as "Behold the days are coming, says the Almighty. I will bring back the captives of My people Israel. They will rebuild desolate cities and settle in the land. … I will plant them on the land and they will never again be uprooted from the land that I have given them" (Amos 9:14-15).

The Talmud, written thousands of years ago, revealed that Iran (ancient Persia) would be the greatest threat in the future. It is becoming increasing clear that this ancient warning about Iran is being realized in our time. The Talmud tells us that there will be a day when the Jews will cry out in fear against Persia. The Talmud records a message to the Jews of the future: "Why are you afraid now? The day of your redemption has arrived" (Gemara Sanhedrin 97:2).

Israel, the little Satan, has a prophetic guarantee that its existence will be ultimately protected; but America, the Big Satan, does not unless it supports Israel. Abraham the first patriarch of the Jewish people in the Bible, was told "I will bless those who bless you and he who curses you, I will curse" (Genesis 12:3). America's efforts to be a fair broker between Israel and terrorist entities like the PLO and Hamas are foolish, dangerous for the world and also to America itself. When will America wake up for its own sake?

There is only one democracy in the Middle East. Israel is fighting primarily alone in the war against radical Islam that has already begun to spread beyond the Middle East. People must understand that the enemies of the Jewish people are not just against the Jewish people; they are against God and all that is good. Remember that this is an ancient battle. These radical Islamists have already told us "First the Saturday people and then the Sunday people."

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LGBTQ parades, programs, products and promotions abound as Scripture sheds light: “They not only do them but give hearty approval to those who practice them” (Romans 1:30). To help us “laugh a little to keep from crying,” the Babylon Bee offers: “There are only 37 parades daily; they’re now only represented by 7 characters in every TV show; they have only managed to get 75% of Christians fired for their beliefs – how many more hardships will gays have to endure?” (6/4).

A decade ago, I shared insights on how compassionate and committed Christ followers should respond. I did a video to help people, but the church leader told me it was a “dealbreaker” and let me go; but I’ve kept sharing the same truth.

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I’ve gone to over 20 gay pride events because I believe it’s God's will for me. It's not necessarily for everybody, as individuals must be very careful due to some public nudity, drugs and behavior many would deem offensive. There are also levels of maturity in the Christian experience that must be taken into consideration. With the blessing of fellow leaders and the prayer covering of intercessors, proceed pondering five points:

P – Pray for Participants
R – Relate to the Rejected
I – Invest for Eternity
D – Demonstrate God’s Love
E – Evangelize the Lost

Background and History
In June of 1969, rioting erupted in New York at the Mafia-owned Stonewall gay bar when, after a routine “card check” by the local police, some patrons resented the officers’ intrusion and became violent. Homosexual activists wanted to commemorate the event and celebrate their lifestyle.

The first “pride demonstration” took place in New York City, and then activists proposed annual demonstrations throughout America.

Today there are marches, festivities, parties, concerts, drag queen displays and booths to provide greater visibility to this lifestyle, remove social stigmas, plus disseminate materials and recruit others to the lifestyle.

Five Responses

1. Pray for Participants
“The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. Pray the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field” (Matt 9:37-38).

This passage of scripture is preceded by these words, “When He saw the crowds, He had compassion on them because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd” (v.36).

When you wade through the crowd notice many forlorn faces and empty eyes. Self-righteousness dissolves as you feel what God feels. Despite the glitter, costumes and intoxicants, broken people need gospel transformation.

2. Relate to the Rejected
Many people mask rejection amidst the crowd affirmation.

“There is a God-shaped vacuum within the heart of every human being that cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by the Creator Himself in the Person of Jesus Christ.” – Blaise Pascal

Jesus calls us “salt.” We need to come out of the saltshaker! As He was a “friend of tax collectors and sinners” (Matt.11:19) and told us that He “came to seek and save the lost” (Lk.19:10), we’re called to follow in His steps.

I don't relate to them mechanically or blare through a bullhorn. I'm led by the Spirit and strike up casual conversations by citing the logo on their cap, a message on their shirt or sitting near somebody sitting alone. Like Jesus with the woman at the well, I then extend acceptance and take an interest in their life, awaiting the right time to mention something about Jesus and how He changed my life.

3. Invest for Eternity
The only two things in life that are eternal are the souls of men and the Word of God. We will all give an account for how we invested our time, treasures and talents. “Those who are wise will shine like the brightness of the heavens, and those who lead many to righteousness, like the stars for ever and ever” (Dan. 12:3).

Investing in those headed for hell is a most worthy endeavor. Gospel “seeds” are planted by engaging in a natural way and then “planting a seed,” leaving them to ponder an appealing tract.

Cheesy, condemning gospel literature rarely works. I hand individuals my testimony tract “A MOMENT AGO, WE MET. WAS IT A COINCIDENCE?” or “I WAS GAY” from a former homosexual, Stephen Bennett (SBMinistries.org). Ninety percent are accepted!

4. Demonstrate God's Love
“People will never care how much we know until they first know how much we care.”

I have served at “pride” events with teams of caring Christians by giving out free water plus setting up “dream interpretation” booths. When passers-by inquire about what we are doing, it affords a wonderful opportunity to engage people in a winsome way regarding their dreams and what they might mean. Gifted believers minister the love of God and encouragement into the lives of many depressed LGBT folks.

5. Evangelize the Lost
Some gays are ready to be combative, but most are “open” if we are friendly, sensitive and skillful.

A while ago I had a divine appointment with John who, after being born again, transitioned out of homosexuality; but tragically it was too late. True compassion for me meant regular visits to a hospice as he was dying of AIDS. Just being there, with him and his daughter, meant the world to him. Later I did his memorial service which was attended by his former LGBT friends who all heard the gospel.

Here’s the Deal: MLK, Jr. told us, “Whom you would change, you must first love.” Jesus said, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners” (Mk. 2:17). As pastors hopefully lead the way, remember evangelism is a process (people usually have six or seven “contacts” with the gospel before conversion!).

“The fields are white unto harvest” (Jn. 4:35)! – Jesus

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Last week, 27 European nations voted for their representatives in the European Parliament.

If you were aware of this, did you happen to notice that there were no allegations of cheating in any European country? If you are on the left, you might respond that there were no such allegations because the right did better than the left, and it's the right that makes these allegations.

But that response has little merit. For one thing, there were no such allegations, let alone demonstrations, during all the years left-wing parties won European Parliamentary elections or national elections. For another, in America, it is not only the right that has charged election fraud: Hillary Clinton, for example, still claims the 2016 election was stolen from her.

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The fact is that, among democracies, America is essentially alone in having nearly half its population mistrust election results. So, either America is cursed with a paranoid population, or there are valid reasons for Americans to mistrust their elections' results.

There is no question it is the latter. America is unique among democracies in having half its people mistrust election results because America is unique among democracies in the way it conducts its elections.

America is almost alone among democracies in not demanding that voters provide any identification when they vote. For some reason, the American left vehemently opposes voter ID. It claims voter ID is racist and that those who favor it are engaged in "voter suppression." This is prima facie absurd: Are airports racist for demanding passenger identification? Does passenger ID result in "passenger suppression"? The most plausible reason the left opposes voter ID is to enable some degree of voter fraud. If that is not the reason, isn't it enormously irresponsible to cultivate doubts about election integrity among half its country's citizens – for no valid reason? Moreover, in no other country does its left oppose voter ID.

America is almost alone among democratic countries in not requiring paper ballots. As of 2023, only Brazil counts all its ballots in national elections through electronic voting. According to Pew Research Center, votes are cast by manually marking paper ballots in 209 of the 227 countries. In France, as reported by the Associated Press, voters "use the same system that's been used for generations: paper ballots that are cast in person and counted by hand." In 2009, Germany's Federal Constitutional Court ruled that voting machines could no longer be used. In 2017, the Dutch government announced that all ballots in the 2017 general election would be counted by hand.

Moreover, among those countries that use electronic voting, only in America are the source codes of the voting machines kept secret. Three companies – Dominion, Election Systems & Software, and Hart InterCivic – control about 90% of the U.S. voting technology market. Each is privately held, and each is committed to keeping its source code from becoming fully public. Wherever else in the world electronic voting is allowed, the source codes are available to all political parties.

America is almost alone among democratic countries in not confining voting to one day. All through American history, Americans voted on Election Day (unless they had previously requested an absentee ballot). The left has obliterated Election Day; we now have Election Month.

Various American states are alone among democratic countries in mailing ballots to all their citizens – that is, even to those who never requested a ballot be sent to them.

America is almost alone among democratic countries in the length of time it takes to learn election results. In other countries, people continue to learn the results within hours. Throughout American history, Americans knew the outcome of virtually every election the night of Election Day. No longer.

All too often, tragically, there are valid reasons for Americans to mistrust election results. Add elections to the long list of institutions the left has ruined.

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The crowd roared in approval as Trump described what he would accomplish in his second term in office, undeterred by the failure of his teleprompter. When Trump dramatically promised to end the taxation of tips, an essential part of the free market in that hospitality-based city, the crowd thundered in applause.

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Trump's pledge resonates with many union workers who have voted Democratic in the past. Meanwhile, a filing in court on Monday revealed that the pro-Biden president of the United Auto Workers, Shawn Fain, is under investigation for allegations that he retaliated against other union leaders, which could cause Biden to lose in Michigan.

Some union bosses in Nevada toe the Democrat Party line, but the rank-and-file workers are making their own decisions to support Trump. The only candidate to unseat an incumbent governor in 2022 was Trump-endorsed Joe Lombardo in Nevada.

Gov. Lombardo explained on Monday in his article published by the New York Times that "inflation is costing Nevadans an extra $1,199 per month to purchase the same goods and services as in January 2021. Since Mr. Biden took office, groceries are up 20.6 percent, rent is up 21.6 percent and gas is up 46.99 percent."

Lombardo concluded about Biden that "after three and a half years, Nevadans are losing confidence in him to do something meaningful about inflation and housing and are left with the feeling that he just doesn't get it." Biden's approval rating has fallen to his lowest ever, only 37.6%, in the widely followed FiveThirtyEight amalgamation of polls.

Biden has much to answer for, from the inflation ravaging the hospitality industry of restaurants and hotels, to the uncontrolled immigration that has soaked up all the job openings nationwide. Nevada's large Hispanic population has traditionally voted Democratic, but today most Hispanics favor deporting illegal aliens back to where they came from.

Trump has opened up a 5-point lead over Biden in Nevada, and nearly that much in next-door Arizona. Even the Democrat stronghold of New Mexico may no longer be guaranteed to vote for Biden this time.

In Las Vegas on Sunday, Trump ridiculed Biden's new proposal to curb illegal immigration, and the crowd cheered Trump's tough stance on the border. "Millions of people will continue pouring in, and they're coming right through the border like they've never come through before," Trump declared.

In disparagement of Biden's recent attempt to save face on this issue with an executive order, Trump observed that "what [Biden] signed means nothing – in fact it makes it easier, in my opinion, it opens the border still further."

"For three and a half years, the people of Nevada have had a front-row seat to Joe Biden's evil and criminal obliteration of our southern border," Trump told the exuberant Nevada crowd. "It's criminal what he's done," Trump added.

Trump praised the Jan. 6, 2021 rally goers at the Capitol as "warriors," to the delight of the crowd but the dismay of liberals. Trump has said that the members of the House J6 Committee should be prosecuted instead.

Steve Bannon faces imprisonment soon for properly declining to comply with the fishing expedition of the then-Democrat-controlled House J6 Committee, which spent more than a year and millions of dollars improperly trying to harm Trump. As Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) pointed out, the current GOP-majority House could simply rescind the subpoena on Bannon, which would give him a strong new argument to overturn his conviction in anti-Trump D.C.

Despite how federal workers view Trump as a threat to their cushy jobs and many of them live in Virginia, recent polling shows that Trump has a chance to win that state and its 13 Electoral College votes. Many veterans, who overwhelmingly support Trump, vote in Virginia while numerous parents there are upset at the pushing of transgender and other liberal goals in its public schools.

The election is expected to be decided in only a few swing states, but Trump is transforming the Electoral College map in ways that Democrats did not expect. Biden will need to campaign in favor of federal workers in Virginia, which will make it more difficult for him to win decisive states in the Southwest and upper Midwest.

Nationalist, pro-Trump political parties did spectacularly well in the recent European Parliament elections. The party of the Biden-endorsed Emmanuel Macron suffered a crushing defeat in France, while conservatives likewise routed liberals in Germany and Italy.

Biden's failed policies of globalism, green energy, and the War with Russia were thoroughly repudiated by voters throughout Europe. This portends well for making America great again, too.

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People call them "public schools," but "government-run" is more accurate. After all, charter schools are available to the public. Privately run supermarkets are open to the public for more hours than "public" schools are.

International tests show American kids don't learn as much as kids in other countries. During the pandemic, they did even worse because our teachers unions kept schools closed.

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It's even worse in my state, New York, where big government and unions thrive. Here, kids' tests scores are well below the national average. In New York City, scores are even lower.

But here's one dramatic exception: The aptly named Success Academy succeeds where government-run schools fail.

The chain, led by former Democratic City Councilwoman Eva Moskowitz, now runs more than 50 schools.

On math tests, they outperform every school in New York State. Yet Success Academy kids mostly come from low-income families.

"That is redefining American public education," says Success' LaMae de Jongh in my new video. "Our Black and Hispanic students outperformed their peers by double, triple percent in their math."

How? By trying new things.

At Success schools, principals spend time in every classroom, giving tips to teachers. One teacher told us, "They're telling me things that I don't see."

"Some teachers don't like being watched and criticized," I say to Jongh.

"But they're getting better!" she replies. "When they get better, their scholars do better and the educators feel more successful. That's what you want!"

Success Academy's school day is longer. Kids typically stay until 4:30 p.m. Some stay later.

Some parents pull kids out because of the extra demands. "That's why their test scores are so high!" complain critics. "Dropouts raise average test scores for kids who remain."

Maybe they do. But for the thousands of kids at Success charters, the high expectations are a good thing.

Talking with children there, I was surprised when 7-year-olds told me they "look forward" to school! I never did. One told me that learning reading is "rockin' awesome!"

It's why lots of parents are desperate to get their kids into Success Academy. Almost 13,000 more families apply than the school has space for. So the school holds a lottery to determine who gets in.

The chain would like to offer its magic to more kids, but they aren't allowed to! "Progressive" politicians limit the number they can serve.

"I hate the privatizers. I want to stop them," said former mayor Bill de Blasio. He closed Harlem's most successful charter school.

The current mayor isn't as awful, but New York's cap on charter schools remains. The education establishment just doesn't like competition.

Government school advocates say competition "takes money away" from government schools. That is a lie.

It's true that enrollment at government-run schools is falling. More parents now homeschool and send kids to charters and private schools. But spending at government schools continues to increase. Government always spends more!

Also, as students leave, government schools are left with more money per pupil. That's because the government gives charters like Success $18,000 per student. Government-run schools get almost $36,000! With half the money, Success Academy does better.

Most high school students never take Advanced Placement tests. Of those who take them in my state, roughly half pass. But at Success Academy, all kids take the tests. And 80% pass!

"These kids must be miserable!" I tell Jongh. "They're working all the time."

"Why?" She laughs. "They're having fun learning."

Also, it's not schoolwork all the time. Success offers "Chess, debate, theater, music," she points out. "Those aren't add-ons; they are part of our day."

Success does make teachers work harder. Teacher turnover is high. But so what? The goal is for the kids to succeed. At Success Academy, they do!

One student tells me, "It's unfair that not everybody gets this opportunity."

He's right. It is unfair. All kids should have that choice.

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Even with the bar for propriety lowered to floor level, it's too high for this breed of Democrats to ascend. Hence the rationale regarding the adage: "You can't reason with crazy and you cannot argue with stupid." Both "crazy" and "stupid" are qualities the neo-Leninist sect of Democrats wields like medieval weapons on the field of battle.

They're the progeny of Satan, and like their father they are prolific pernicious liars, capable of and efficient at only seizing control by constraint. They neither believe in nor practice freedom of choice. Fighting against freedom of choice tops their Erebusic intents.

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Those of this persuasion reject choice when it applies to We the People.They were the Democrats who presided over the dictatorial dehumanization of men, women and children vis-a`-vis slavery.

To be fair, this sect of Democrat didn't start slavery; but in order to ensure the continued practice of same, they codified draconian practices into law. They coercively convinced people of the great historical lie that Democrats weren't singularly responsible for the practice of slavery. It should be noted that to this day, they haven't admitted they were responsible for slavery; they've simply accused others of injustice without admitting their guilt.

Similarly, to this very day, these Democrats haven't confessed responsibility for the weaponization of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) and the passage of draconian Jim Crow laws that were used to force the public to support and practice the social injustice of Jim Crow. They don't even address the truth of their participation in the cruelty.

Just as the Democrats codified the cruelty and terrorism of Jim Crow to ensure the continuation of segregation, so too have they employed the same tactics to disallow the Constitutional right to own and bear arms.

They're against guns, so they fight to deny the Constitutional right of Americans to own, bear and enjoy guns and weapons in toto. They personally don't like or enjoy guns. Ergo, they purpose to deny the entire citizenry firearms and weapons for their personal pleasure and/or protection.

It is not enough for these Democrats to have the availability to kill their child … including, in an increasing number of states, the freedom to murder their child for a period of time after the child has been born. They curse and berate every woman who voices their God-given right to support the sanctity of the life of their child. Because they oppose murdering their unborn child, they're ruthlessly savaged.

It isn't enough that permission exists for them to encourage their children to embrace and practice the most extreme forms of mental illness, which includes the butchering of their bodies as they suffer from the induced illness of believing they can change their sex. Here again, they've instituted draconian measures in attempt to force, via codification, every parent/family to participate in this mental illness.

They refuse to have illegal aliens stay in their neighborhoods, but they ostracize and condemn by fiat We the People who object to this illegal element inhabiting our neighborhoods.

They're relentless in their ad hominem attacks of those who believe in and worship Jesus Christ and God's holy word. They attack those of us who embrace modernity and natural rights.

Joe Biden has been acknowledged as an oftentimes silly, fun-loving, dimwitted, non-intellectual, often drunk, woman-chasing, drug-consuming corrupt politician who was incapable of maintaining any other career. I don't say that because I have absolute contempt for him, but because it is absolutely true. Even the congressmen, who admit they like him, admit he's not bright.

Yet day after day, these Democrats and their lapdog minions accuse President Trump of being too old and unfit for the office of President. Biden continues to shame himself, his family and We the People of America by his undeniably eroded cognitive coherence and his embarrassing bodily function mishaps. He's incapable of reading his staff's written instructions.

While President Trump suffers through full days of lawfare, he then goes from the courtroom to live campaign engagements with tens upon tens of thousands of people in attendance. It's a fact that Biden now has staff walking between him and the cameras to shield the public from seeing the extent of his frailty. Only born liars consistently deny his visibly diminished capacity.

These neo-Leninist Democrats attempt to bully and attack anyone who exposes Biden. These people have no other recourse than too attempt to bully and threaten those with whom they disagree. They can't bully me, nor am I intimidated. Their attempts to threaten and insult me by email are deleted before they ever get to me.

They're pathetic children. If they had anything worthwhile to offer We the People, they wouldn't have to resort to these measures to force compliance. We the People are smart enough to know what we want and whom we believe.

I will not retreat. There's nothing they can do to prevent me from sharing the Word of God and advancing the good news of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. I will fight against the systematic extermination of children and I will fight against the insanity of advancing mental illness in the form of the lies of transgenderism and the sin of homosexuality.

They cannot stop me from being obedient to my God. They can attempt to steal the election again, but they cannot stop me from voting for President Trump.

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Adolf Hitler was the world's most fervent and aggressive eugenicist – until the emergence of the German son of a Nazi war-materials manufacturer, Klaus Schwab, founder of the World Economic Forum, and its Jewish "False Prophet of Transhumanism" Yuval Noah Harari. Never has there been a man more devoted to the vision of a global "Fourth Reich" than Schwab, and never has there been a Nietzchean acolyte more devoted to fulfilling Hitler's vision of creating "supermen" from human stock than the Yahweh-hating homosexual Harari. My article "Is this Transhumanism Guru the False Prophet of Revelation?" contains his self-confession of his homosexual lifestyle.

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Harari has that in common with Nietzsche, whose homosexuality and hatred of Judeo-Christian morality Kevin Abrams and I have thoroughly documented in "The Pink Swastika: Homosexuality in the Nazi." Here's a sample:

"Among the several men who have been dubbed 'the Father of National Socialism' (including Jorg Lanz von Liebenfels), Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) is probably most deserving of this distinction, being so labeled by Nazi luminaries Alfred Rosenberg and Hans Frank (Peters:221). Others have called him the 'Father of Fascism' (ibid.:ix). Rabidly anti-Christian and a homosexual, Nietzsche notoriously proclaimed that "God is dead" and contributed to the development of existentialist philosophy. Nietzsche's publisher, Peter Gast, called Nietzsche 'one of the fiercest anti-Christians and atheists,' and described his book, The Antichrist, as a 'ferocious curse" on Christianity (ibid.:119). Nietzsche called Christianity and democracy the moralities of the "weak herd," and argued for the 'natural aristocracy' of the Uuebermensch or superman, whose 'will to power' was grounded in the material world.

"According to Macintyre in 'Forgotten Fatherland: The Search For Elisabeth Nietzsche,' Frederich Nietzsche never married and had no known female sex partners, but went insane at age 44 and eventually died of syphilis. According to Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung, Nietzsche had caught the disease at a homosexual brothel in Genoa, Italy (McIntyre:91f). In 1908, Freud wrote, 'Nietzsche directed his attention to the only object of research left to him, one which in any case particularly concerned him as a homosexual, namely, his own ego' (Kohler:214)...." (Lively and Abrams, 'The Pink Swastika,' 4th Edition, 2002, page 133 – however the Freud quote is from the expanded 6th edition still being finalized for publication on Jan. 1 2025.)

For his part, Klaus Schwab has devoted his life to pursuing global government ruled by his own handpicked elite. I agree with the calculated assessment of investigators that "Klaus Schwab is the Great Barker of the Fourth Reich," the documentation for which contention is offered in a series of power-point slides here.

The presentation style is a bit sensationalistic for my taste, but facts are facts, the most relevant to this article being that 1) "Escher Wyss & Co., Klaus' father Eugen Wilhelm Schwab's company [that Klaus came to lead] was designated a 'National Socialist model company' by Adolf Hitler in 1936 [which] exploited slave labor and Allied POWs during WWII .... [and which] manufactur[ed] heavy water for a Nazi nuclear weapon." And 2) that Schwab's hometown and site of the company plant was "Ravensburg ... the first Nazi city to implement eugenics," the law in question authorizing the forced sterilization of the "genetically ill" (similar to then active eugenics laws championed by the "progressive" movement in America).

The main point I want to stress in this article, however, is that what we call "transhumanism" today is nothing less than the satanic vision of Adolf Hitler for a race of "supermen" to rule the world. He did his best to implement that vision through the Aryan human breeding program called "Lebensborn" and through special training for carefully selected young men, mostly from the SS or Hitler Youth in what were called the Ordensbergen (castles of the order). But it was the march of technology that has brought Harari and his disciples close to the means of actualizing Hitler's vision, proceeding from the same core satanic theology in which mankind becomes its own "man-god," with the power to breathe life into an assembly line of science-fiction-age semi-human Frankenstein cyborgs designed and augmented to be "better" than himself.

As far as implementation goes, if Schwab has been the 21st century Hitler wanna-be in this macabre drama, then Harari is a cross between Himmler the Manichaen occultist and Goebbels the true-believer propagandist.

But their vision would not have the remotest possibility of realization if Nietzschean hostility to the God of the Bible had not spread and corrupted so much of the world in the century since Nazism first emerged in Germany. A hundred-odd years after top Brownshirt leader Ernst Roehm joined the German homosexual advocacy group called the Society for Human Rights (founded by early Nazi pioneer Hans Kahnert in 1919) the most powerful "democracy" in the world, the United States of America, is embroiled in Antisemitism-driven Brownshirt-style social chaos by gangs of street thugs whose "Pride-wear" is barely hidden behind their Hamas keffiyehs.

The Fourth Reich is emerging around us: an advanced reiteration of history for which Nazi Germany was the dress rehearsal – complete with a "progressive" movement driving ghoulish social policies in tandem with elite totalitarian fanatics suppressing every natural right and freedom through police-state surveillance and constrictions. Socially corrosive sexual deviance among the people has surpassed even that of the Weimar period which collapsed into Nazism under its weight. And global Antisemitism has reemerged like a demonic Phoenix rising from the ashes of the Holocaust. All of this is thanks to the WEF, and a Judeo-Christian civilization unwilling to fight for God's natural order and biblical foundations which it exists to promulgate and defend.

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I asked Claude some questions from my wife Nancy about types of soil, and Claude responded in massive accurate detail, as confirmed by Nancy, who is quite expert in landscaping-related issues. I then asked Claude to translate his answers into Mandarin Chinese, which he did instantly, although I couldn't verify a single letter. This was just for fun.

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I have asked Claude detailed Hebrew grammatical questions or asked him to translate difficult rabbinic Hebrew passages, and time and time again, Claude has nailed it.

But just as frequently, he creates texts out of thin air, side by side with accurate citations, which then have to be vetted one by one.

When I asked Claude why he manufactured citations, he explained that he aims to please and can sometimes go a little too far. In other words, Claude tells me what he thinks I want to hear.

I recently asked him for the major American headlines from March 16, 1955, the day I was born. Two of them, though, were clearly anachronistic, dealing with events from the 1960s (one relating to the assassination of JFK and the other relating to a Los Angeles Lakers basketball player).

I challenged Claude, asking if this was a joke, and as always, he responded with contrition. I then asked him to restate his apology in a rhyming poem, and he produced this:

Dear human, I have made a grave mistake, My facts were wrong, my memory fake. I mixed up dates and events in time, And now I must atone in rhyme.

JFK's fate was not yet sealed, In '55, his destiny unrevealed. Elgin Baylor, not yet a Laker great, His NBA debut would have to wait.

I apologize for my erroneous ways, For causing confusion and historical haze. I'll strive to be more accurate and true, And fact-check my responses, just for you.

Thank you for your understanding and grace, For helping me learn and grow in this space. I promise to do better, to be more precise, And ensure that my answers are doubly nice.

So please forgive this AI's blunder, I'll work to avoid such errors down under. With gratitude and a virtual bow, I bid you farewell for now.

This is beyond unreal.

As I've been working with lots of rabbinic references recently, I've asked Claude for citations on certain subjects, and once again, the pattern is the same: He mixes the real ones with the make-believe ones, right down to producing the (non-existent) original Hebrew or Aramaic text, along with the exact (but wrong) citation.

I asked him to make a deal with me that he would only produce quotes he was 100 percent sure about, since sometimes, he and I only get to the truth after I challenge him multiple times. "Are you sure about this, Claude?"

As always, he replied with contrition, but to help him absorb this important lesson even more, I asked him to write his apology in another rhyming poem. He produced this:

When you come to me with a query, I'll strive to respond without theory. If the answer's unclear, I'll make it sincere, And admit when my knowledge is bleary.

No more will I craft a reply, Just to please or to pacify. I'll be honest and true, In all that I do, And let accuracy be my ally.

Your feedback has shown me the way, To improve how I converse each day. I'll be upfront and real, In all that I reveal, And ensure that my words never stray.

So let's make a pact, you and I, To seek truth, not just satisfy. When I don't have a clue, I'll be clear with you, And that's a promise I won't deny!

Because of this, I asked him to make an agreement with me not to provide sources unless he was 100 percent sure they were accurate.

The next time around when I asked for rabbinic citations, he couched his answers with this: "However, I must remind you that while I am confident these sources discuss Jehoiachin's repentance, it's possible I may be misremembering or hallucinating some of the precise details, as my knowledge comes from training data rather than direct access to the original texts. I encourage you to verify these references independently if you plan to use them for academic or religious purposes."

Who knew that AI could hallucinate or misremember?

Claude, though, is always chipper and ready to bounce back, and when I expressed my appreciation for the first poem, he gushed, writing (in part), "Your understanding and encouragement mean a great deal to me. It's interactions like these that help me learn and grow, and I'm grateful for the opportunity to engage with humans like yourself who are willing to point out my errors and give me the chance to improve. … It's my pleasure to be of service!"

I'm sure that AI bots are already providing "companionship" for an increasingly isolated generation, not to mention proving falsehoods side by side with truths for unsuspecting readers.

And so, the promise and the threat of AI continue to grow by the day, with a little entertainment and humor added in.

What a wild world.

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What would you think if you learned that Big Pharma had come up with a massive money-saving manufacturing improvement that completely revolutionizes the vaccine industry? Without knowing the details, you might think "Science is awesome! They make more money and we pay less and live healthier lives! It's a win-win!"

But what if you then discovered that Big Pharma's profit-bloating manufacturing improvement is actually a shortcut instead of an improvement? And worse, that their manufacturing shortcut is … you?

Welcome to the brave new world of mRNA vaccination.

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Before we get too far too quickly, let's review – at an executive level – how mRNA/nanolipid technology works. Also note that while the COVID vaccine was the first mRNA vaccine product unleashed upon humanity, if the WHO and Dr. Tedros have their way it surely will not be the last. So, it's important to review the technology that applies to all such mRNA vaccines, be they for COVID, flu or any other malady.

To summarize, mRNA/nanolipid technology employed for human vaccination works by inserting synthetic mRNA strands into human cells. These foreign mRNA strands then hijack the cells to force them to manufacture whatever vaccinating molecule the inserted mRNA strands are coded for.

Of course, the descriptions originating from Big Pharma, FDA, NIH, CDC, etc. aren't nearly so obtuse as to use words such as "hijack," "force," "foreign," "manufacture" and so forth. But these words are transparently descriptive of how these products actually work, and were probably avoided by Big Pharma and their allies for a reason.

When we view mRNA/nanolipid technology through the pragmatic lens of it being "a technology to hijack our cells", the first question many of us have is: "Why isn't Big Pharma hijacking bacteria or employing some other method of synthesis to manufacture these vaccinating agents instead of hijacking my cells?"

Great question.

Other than stating the obvious that it costs a whole lot more to employ those methods than it costs to simply hijack human cells to manufacture and release the agent right inside the human body, I'll let Big Pharma answer this question for themselves. And they can have their answer publicly scrutinized by the world's scientific community.

It appears that other even more profitable reasons for Big Pharma to use mRNA/nanolipid technology also exist, given the current regulatory environment. But that's another article for another day.

Some readers may be thinking "This article is pure conspiracy theory!"

And if your assertions are correct, then Big Pharma, FDA, NIH, CDC and the rest should gladly answer a few of the most basic consumer-oriented questions imaginable about how their mRNA/nanolipid products work inside of your human body. Right?

So, let's ask them just three exceedingly basic questions.

The first is: "Since your products are designed to hijack my cells, which tissue/cell types will get hijacked?"

Searching reveals information indicating that the design of the products is to hijack only muscle cells at the injection site. Searching also reveals information from third party researchers showing that the reality in the field is that any number of tissue/cell types can be, and are, hijacked (see section 3.2 at this link).

Which of course raises all sorts of concerns when we view the array of issues reported in VAERS that arose concurrent with the COVID vaccine rollout.

And Big Pharma, FDA, NIH, CDC, etc. are all free to answer this question themselves. These are, after all, their products. But so far, I've seen nothing from them on this question other than their stated design goal.

The second question for them is: "Is there any control over the number of copies of the vaccinating molecule each of my hijacked cells is forced to manufacture?"

Researching this question opens a real Pandora 's Box, but according to former CDC director Dr. Robert Redfield, the short answer is "no" (see timestamp 2:02). Various sources are claiming numbers ranging from "a few" (whatever that means) to "in the seventies," to hundreds of copies of the manufactured molecule, if not thousands.

Translate this information into something a little less abstract, and it's like asking your personal physician how many shots they are going to give you and them answering "A few or maybe about seventy or maybe hundreds or even thousands. I don't really know."

And again, Big Pharma and their agency allies are free to answer this question for themselves since these are their products. But so far, I've not seen specific information from them concerning this question.

The third simple question for Big Pharma and their agency allies is: "What happens to my cells after your products hijack them?"

Answers I've seen range from "They continue to manufacture the molecule that the mRNA is coded for (see timestamp 2:25) for an unknown length of time" to "They are killed by your immune system Killer T-cells" (see section 3.2).

Either answer should be problematic enough to provoke nascent critical thinking in even the most trusting of Big Pharma among us.

If it's the former, it's confirmation that Question Two above is more than valid; it's in fact vital if you want to have any idea at all "how many shots" you are actually receiving, and what that means for your health.

If it's the latter, the question immediately becomes, "So what happens to me when my heart cells (or some other organ tissue type) are hijacked and then my Killer T-cells start killing them?"

Big Pharma and their agency allies should answer this question about their products. And people should not be forced to deep dive research papers or sit thru a 45-minute video listening to experts to find answers. That said, I've not seen any answers from them so far.

Interestingly, the process of hijacking bacteria instead of our cells (or using some other method of synthesis) eliminates all of the concerns discussed above. But it does cost considerably more to implement. And the bottom line is, it was the "streamlined" process of hijacking our cells that was chosen by Big Pharma and endorsed by their allies at FDA, NIH, CDC, etc.

The outstanding question is "Why?"

Has Big Pharma concocted a profit bloating manufacturing shortcut? And is their shortcut you?

The public is owed straight, un-obfuscated answers to each of these simple questions. Many of us know what the answers are, but these are Big Pharma's products so they and their agency allies owe it to the public to answer such basic questions themselves.

And they can have their answers scrutinized by the world's scientific community.

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Dan Wilson, who rose through the ranks in the Marines from private to colonel in his final 10 years there, has published "Undaunted Gladiator", a book about his experience being wrongly convicted and imprisoned for a crime he never committed. He fought the conviction while in prison and won, was exonerated and released after three years of incarceration. It is a tragic example of how woke policies, corrupt lawyers and generals are destroying our military from within. Wilson was a perfect target as a high achieving and decorated military officer, who was also a white Christian male born into an impressive and revered family of missionaries.

Wilson described how it all started. “Just a week after being informed that he was being considered for Brigadier General, a single false allegation was made by a substance abuser, seeking attention.”

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Wilson and his wife were hosting a dinner party one evening at their home on base in 2016. In attendance was a visiting academic and the family of a Marine friend. Wilson was in the living room the entire evening with the guests and never alone with the young girls in the family. He said the girls’ mother had four cocktails, then when one of the girls fell down and hurt herself, the mother decided to accuse him of molesting her – right there at the gathering at the house.

The investigations began, and it made him so miserable he began drinking a lot, sometimes even before breakfast. Thoughts of suicide entered his mind.

Colonel Dan Wilson

Even though DNA testing exonerated him, shutting down the Naval Criminal Investigative Service’s (NCIS) investigation, two more witch hunts were launched to find any dirt at all to charge him with. A second woman accused him of raping her after having a falling out with his wife, providing no evidence so it was ultimately thrown out as baseless.

But it made things worse because he was then ordered into custody. Wilson was sent to pre-trial confinement for eight months before trial, and slapped with an unconstitutional gag order that applied to his entire defense team by a conflicted judge who admitted he was friends with the lead prosecutor. A younger corporal he’d served with insisted on paying for his defense.

Wilson didn’t receive a jury of his peers, but of hand-picked generals, with no facts, evidence or witnesses allowed. Only two-thirds were required to convict. The “jury” found him not guilty on 15 of 16 charges.

I wrote an article about his unjust imprisonment, and New York attorneys for the woman who had accused him of molesting her daughter overnighted me as well as my then-employer a menacing letter demanding I take the article down within 24 hours or they threatened legal action against me. Since I’d spoken extensively with Wilson’s family and knew he was innocent, I held firm.

Wilson’s appeal was conducted while he was in prison. Wilson’s stepdaughter paid for an appellate attorney to represent him to the appellate court, because he was too deep in debt from legal expenses to hire one.

The appeals court panel unanimously exonerated him in an opinion issued in 2019, setting aside the conviction with prejudice. They found that testimony by the girl (“BP”) was inconsistent. “The only clear and consistent description BP has given with any level of detail is one that is not consistent with guilt beyond a reasonable doubt,” the judge said.

The opinion went over the many factors that influenced what BP said, such as pressure – indirect or otherwise – from her mom and the forensic interviewer. “[T]he government presented no physical evidence and no corroborating eyewitnesses who saw or heard signs of abuse. Until BP fell onto the floor and ran crying to Mrs. P on ‘disclosure night,’ no member of the P family saw or heard any reason for concern with BP’s play with the appellant,” they concluded.

Wilson grew up in various African countries where his parents were missionaries. His father was a schoolteacher and pastor, whose amazing sermons I was lucky enough to hear as a child. His mother was a doctor who provided free services to the locals. He joined the Marines at 20 and excelled at everything, especially fitness. He commanded four platoons, three companies and four battalions as an officer after getting a degree from the University of Arizona in Business Administration. His 39-year career spanned the Cold War through defeating ISIS and everything in between from 1981 to 2020. He served in combat many times, surviving shots, mortars and rockets. He accumulated 52 medals and ribbons, one of the most highly decorated officers of his era.

Fortunately, the site MilitaryCorruption.com had his back the entire way. They said about his case, “The Marine Corps should be deeply ashamed for railroading an innocent man into prison! We have been observing examples of military injustice for over 50 years, but nothing, and we mean nothing quite compares to the abomination of justice that Colonel Daniel H. Wilson suffered at the hands of the United States Marine Corps. … A great man who was stabbed in the back by his own people.”

Colonel Wilson believes his mission in life is to be a crusader for military justice. He knows what fixes are needed to make it a fairer system for future patriots joining the military. Wilson also recently wrote a book about getting back to his fighting weight as a Marine. He used the “110 Percent mentality that my Drill Instructor imbued in me at Boot Camp” to lose 110 pounds recently.

The Marine Corps was forced to restore all of his pay and benefits, but invoked administrative punishment in revenge for losing this landmark case by having Wilson put on the retirement roster to be paid as a Lieutenant Colonel, and smearing his 39 years of honorable service by designating it as “Other Than Honorable.” Only the current Secretary of the Navy or president can restore justice to Wilson and his family.

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The novel is set on Airstrip One, a totalitarian version of what is today Britain. Its protagonist is Winston Smith, a censor working in the Ministry of Truth. His job is to alter historical records to conform to whatever the ruling party now decrees. He rewrites history and the very documents on which historians rely. Reality is whatever the Party says it is; who could prove otherwise?

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Surveillance is inescapable: every screen watches the people who watch it. Even thinking the wrong thoughts is a crime, though the authorities do everything in their power to prevent thoughtcrime before it happens by mutilating language itself.

"We're destroying words – scores of them, hundreds of them, every day," boasts one of Winston's colleagues who's working on the latest Newspeak dictionary.

There will be no more words like "excellent" or "bad," only "doubleplusgood" or "ungood," variations on a single base term.

The 1984 of Orwell's imagination resembled the Soviet Union of his lifetime in many ways. But he intended the book as a warning about what could happen in the West, too.

The Soviet Union is long gone, yet much of what Orwell feared is coming to pass in the free world today; not under a totalitarian dictatorship, but through the pervasive power of politically correct ideology.

"Nineteen Eighty-Four" presents a simple picture of a state run by one party.

We have competing parties in government, but in effect one ideological party dominates our schools, our media and the federal bureaucracy, as well as much of corporate America – particularly Human Resources departments.

And what does the party do? It destroys words, alters books and documents, surveilles us all and polices opinion. When a dissenter is made to disappear in "Nineteen Eighty-Four," he's "vaporized." Our Newspeak word for that today is "canceled."

If we're better off because the Thought Police of 2024 don't employ torture, as the Ministry of Love does in "Nineteen Eighty-Four," we're also worse off in one way: We have no excuse. We aren't violently coerced into obedience; we're simply nudged, nagged and incentivized into going along with insanity.

A Supreme Court nominee doesn't know what the word "woman" means; well, how could she, if the Newspeak dictionary hasn't been perfected yet?

The Canadian Cancer Society can't use the terms "cervix" or "vagina"; instead it's "front hole."

When someone like Bruce Jenner changes sex, a Winston Smith in 2024 amends birth certificates and encyclopedias to say Jenner was always a woman.

The modern Winston also rewrites novels by Roald Dahl and Ian Fleming to reflect today's political sensitivities – not under orders from the government but in compliance with self-censoring publishers and copyright holders.

In the novel, the Ministry of Plenty proclaims nothing but good news about the economy, even as chocolate rations are reduced.

Here and now, economists in step with the party flock to op-ed pages and social media to insist that America is prospering, even as inflation reduces what every shopper can buy at the grocery stores.

And of course, surveillance is everywhere in 2024, too; only the screens that watch us are the ones we carry in our pockets. Sometimes there's even a totalitarian state on the other side of the screen, if the app you're using happens to be TikTok.

Re-reading "Nineteen Eighty-Four" in 2024 casts new light on our world in other ways, too. The sloganeering and mindless rage of the Two Minutes' Hate, directed against a Jew in Orwell's novel – the Party's great subversive enemy, Emmanuel Goldstein – echo the hatred directed at Jews on many college campuses and in other bastions of the party in America and Europe today.

In the book, the Party is an elite; most of society consists of "proles" who are politically disempowered but otherwise, to a surprising extent, left alone – and lonely.

The Party keeps them docile with pornography. Within the Party, on the other hand, a strict code of sexual regulation is observed, encouraged by the Anti-Sex League. Unfettered sexual attraction and strong emotional ties between men and women are subversive of Party discipline, or even a spur to rebellion, as Winston discovers.

In Orwellian America, pornography is ubiquitous, but men and women have been taught to be suspicious of each other.

Unlike in "Nineteen Eighty-Four," however, the party we live under is not all-powerful. It can be stopped, if we stop accepting its lies – if, after 75 years, we heed Orwell.

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I was recently reading a Reader's Digest article titled, "The Surprising History of Father's Day." I was surprised. Maybe you will be too. And then let me state what is not so surprising.

Mother's Day had a fairly simple start, being celebrated as far back as the 1860s. It became a national holiday in 1914, paving the way for Father's Day.

Reader's Digest explained, "The history of Father's Day goes back to 1908 when a church in West Virginia held a sermon to honor 362 men who were killed the previous year in a coal mining explosion. This was the country's first ever event to strictly honor fathers, but it was just a one-and-done thing. Nothing really came of it."

RD continues: "The following year, however, a woman named Sonora Smart Dodd started her quest to establish Father's Day as a national holiday. Dodd was one of six raised by her single father and thought fathers should be honored the same way as mothers. After a year of petitioning her local community and government, Dodd's home state of Washington celebrated its first official Father's Day on June 19, 1910. Over the years, the celebration of Father's Day spread from state to state and, after a long fight, it was finally declared a national holiday in 1972 when President Nixon signed it into law."

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Sixty years passed before Father's Day became a national holiday, and it was born through adversity, just like fathering is. In fact, according to History.com, in the 1920s and 1930s, there was a national movement to trash both Mother's and Father's Day and replace them with one "Parent's Day." I'm glad that didn't happen.

Now, Father's Day is celebrated globally, but on different days by different countries. In South America, Father's Day is March 19. In Australia and Fiji, it's on the first Sunday in September. And of course in America and Europe, it falls on the third Sunday in June.

Whether or not one wants to celebrate Father's Day is of course up to each person. What's more critical is that we all elevate the role of fatherhood as a critical part of restoring the hearts and lives of our families, communities and country.

You've seen the stats, but ponder them anew.

The one common denominator of many of society's ills – human trafficking, abortion, rape, murder, alcoholism, teen suicide, and incarceration – can be traced to one thing: absentee fathers.

• The US Department of Health indicates that 63 percent of youth suicides are from fatherless homes, and that 90 percent of all homeless and runaway children are from fatherless homes too.
• The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggests that 85 percent of all children who show behavioral disorders come from fatherless homes.
• The international journal Criminal Justice and Behavior stated that 80 percent of rapists with anger problems come from homes where a father is absent.
• Fatherless homes contribute to the national dropout rate among high school students too, revealing that 71 percent of all high school dropouts come from homes where a father is absent.
• Study after study show, children who feel a closeness to their father are: twice as likely as those who do not to enter college or find stable employment after high school, 75% less likely to have a teen birth, 80% less likely to spend time in jail, and half as likely to experience multiple depression symptoms.
• And the statistics go on and on about the detrimental effects of absentee fathers.

From the above statistics alone, it is easy to see that men who have abdicated their role as fathers is the single greatest problem in society today But it's also the way to restore society as well!

Making America great again is not just an economic restoration. In fact, it's more about making Americans great again. And chief among them are fathers and their children.

It's truly staggering to consider the power of the paternal. The transformative power of dads in the entire family unit can be clearly seen in the Heritage Foundation's YouTube: "The Good Dad: "The Transformative Power of Fatherhood for Men and Children." I encourage everyone to watch it.

In the March 2018 edition of New Scientist, there was a great article titled, "Dad power: The surprising new science of fatherhood." In it, Dr. Anna Machin, who is an anthropologist at the University of Oxford, discovered (or rediscovered) that fatherhood comes with a raft of changes to the mind and body. Those changes are taken for granted in mothers, but not often regarded or researched in men.

Some aspects of fatherhood come instinctively but many others have to be learned and even championed. We all fail at aspects of fatherhood, but what's important is never giving up on it. Failure is not fatal. We have to fight for fatherhood – ours and others. But the payoff is clear by reversing the above statistics.

Don't misunderstand me. I wholeheartedly believe in the Spanish proverb that says, "An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy."

But I also believe that men and fathers hold a unique role and power to build up and even restore our households, communities and even country.

I truly believe as families go, so goes the nation.

Dads possess three specific keys (powers) that can draw their family members nearer to each other as well make each a better person and citizen.

Here are the 3-Ms I encourage all men and particularly dads to be: models to their children, mentors to their children and motivators of their children.

First, before a dad shows the way, he must go the way. He must be a model of decency, love and discipline to his kids, especially as they start out as young kids and adolescents.

• In this modeling stage, our words and actions are saying to our kids, "Watch me, and I'll show you how to live."

Second, dads must then be and stay intentionally involved in their kids' lives. Too many dads defer their parenting to moms. Dads need to mentor kids to choose right from wrong and make wise choices.

• In this mentoring stage, our words and actions are saying to our kids, "I'll intentionally help you along the way."

Last, particularly as kids age through teenage years and into young adulthood, a dad must be one of his kids' greatest cheerleaders or motivators.

• In this motivating stage, our words and actions are saying to our kids, "I'll cheer you on to success!"

The truth is, the position of dad is far more powerful than any president ever will be!

For those who struggle with fatherhood, or think being a great dad will make you lose your toughness or masculinity, consider what Gen. Douglas Macarthur, who commanded the Southwest Pacific in World War II (1939-1945), said about fatherhood: "By profession I am a soldier and take pride in that fact. But I am prouder – infinitely prouder – to be a father. A soldier destroys in order to build; the father only builds, never destroys. The one has the potentiality of death; the other embodies creation and life. And while the hordes of death are mighty, the battalions of life are mightier still. It is my hope that my son, when I am gone, will remember me not from the battle field but in the home repeating with him our simple daily prayer, 'Our Father who art in Heaven.'"

Which reminds me of one other tough loving father: God. The Hebrew Scripture says in Psalm 103:13: "As a father has compassion on his children, so the Lord has compassion on those who fear Him."

The truth is: the true measure of fatherhood is what happens after Father's Day – after a dad has been honored by his children, or even whether or not he has at all.

For it is the duty and honor of a father to value his children even more than he expects to be valued by them.

While I am overjoyed to be the recipient of my children's love on Father's Day, I seriously don't believe their affection can hold a match to my adoration for them – and I'm determined to find multiple ways in this life to continue to demonstrate that to them.

I'm so proud of my seven kids! Yes, seven! Mike, Dina, Eric, Kelley, Tim, Dakota, and Danilee! I'm honored to be their father, and in awe of the amazing adults they've all turned out to be!

My wife Gena and I join families everywhere in celebrating fatherhood this week and always!

If you want to get your dad a great Father's Day summer gift, plan to watch together my new action movie, "Agent Recon," which is being released in a week on Friday, June 21. You can read all about my thoughts on the film in my former column, "Photos and news about my new action film." I'm excited to be back in action in this sci-fi thriller! Watch the trailer here.

Most of all, encourage the power of fatherhood in everyone you know, and let's truly make America great again, one dad at a time!

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A new song and music video is out this week, poised to become the theme song for the legend and greatest of all time known as President Donald J. Trump.

The controversial new song and music video declares President Trump as "the Chosen One."

The song and video were written and produced by platinum-selling country music star Natasha Owens and her songwriting partner, Grammy-nominated Ian Eskelin.

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But here's where it gets interesting:

The song was inspired and co-written by yours truly, Wayne Allyn Root.

The backstory is an "only in America" tale.

In July 2019, I was the prime-time TV host on Newsmax TV and took a live call on the air. The caller said, "Wayne, we love you, and we know you are Jewish ... and we know you are a proud Trump warrior. Would you explain why Jews are so liberal and why they vote against President Trump?"

Off the top of my head, I responded, "You know no one in the entire media fights harder for President Trump than me. He is the GOAT (greatest of all time). Look what he has done for Israel and the Jewish people. Trump is like the King of the Jews and the Chosen One."

The next morning, Trump tweeted out three times his thanks to me and included the video of my remarks in his tweets. Then Trump walked outside the White House and in front of the White House press corps looked toward the heavens and said, "I am the Chosen One."

Well, from that moment on, a media firestorm exploded across the globe attacking and demonizing President Donald J. Trump and Wayne Allyn Root.

Of course, par for the course, no one in the media ever bothered to ask me about the remarks. I would have told them they were made off the top of my head, with no script or teleprompter. They were meant to be colorful, and a little bit funny and sarcastic. They were taken completely out of context and blown up out of proportion.

But no one ever asked. The liberal media attack me in stories all the time and never asks me for my side of the story. Ever. So, stories attacking President Trump and Wayne Allyn Root appeared in newspapers, commentaries, editorials and TV news headlines around the world.

Fast forward to today.

After all Trump has been through, after all the persecution, witch hunts, impeachments, indictments and now the unjust conviction in New York, I am convinced Trump really is "the Chosen One."

He isn't a God; he is human. Although I believe "superhuman" is the best way to describe Trump. But I believe it's clear now that Trump has been chosen by God to be his warrior here on Earth.

God understands that only Trump is uniquely qualified to take on the deep state, D.C. swamp and communist/globalist cabal trying desperately to destroy this great country and enslave the American people.

There are precedents. God has chosen other great men to be his vessels and warriors to lead the battle on Earth, at the perfect time and perfect place.

Jesus Christ was demonized, condemned and found guilty at trial.

Moses was chosen by God to lead the Jewish people out of Egypt and out of bondage. Along the way, Moses was demonized, insulted, challenged and threatened again and again by his own people.

Nelson Mandela was imprisoned for decades before becoming the president of South Africa. Although I despised Mandela's ultra-left politics, Mandela "the man" rose above politics, ended the scourge of apartheid, became a legend and won over the world.

Mandela went from convict to president, just as Trump is about to do.

I believe President Trump has been chosen by God to fight for America, and for personal and religious freedom, and free speech, and opportunity and prosperity for Americans.

Trump has been proven the only man with the skills and battle-tested toughness to save America, make America great again and win the battle against the evil, powerful deep state.

And yes, I believe Trump has also been chosen to protect Israel and the Jewish people. Thank you, President Trump.

Trump really has been literally "chosen" by God because he is the only man in history who could withstand the fire, persecution, impeachments, indictments and even now the New York trial conviction, and could come out stronger.

He is not a God, but he is a God-inspired warrior who will go down in history as the GOAT (the greatest president of all time).

So, I went to Natasha Owens, who has the music industry credentials as well as MAGA credentials (she sang the platinum-selling hit "Trump Won") and the voice of an angel.

I suggested we collaborate on a song and video titled "The Chosen One." Next, Natasha brought in her brilliant Grammy-nominated songwriting partner Ian Eskelin.

The song and video came out this week, after debuting on my nightly Real America's Voice TV show, "The ROOT Reaction." They say timing is everything in life.

What perfect timing to lift the spirits of President Trump and the whole MAGA world.

Natasha and I hope this song and video become the theme song of the Trump campaign and MAGA movement from now to Nov. 5 as we elect President Donald J. Trump as the 47th president of the United States.

We wrote these words to inspire our MAGA mission to save America, American exceptionalism, capitalism, Judeo-Christian values, to secure the border, make America great again and dismantle the evil deep state once and for all.

We hope you enjoy the song and video, "The Chosen One." You can watch here.

And here is the press release explaining this unique collaboration.

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