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What Must Be Said on September 11

September 8, 2026/in Assassination, Commentary, Culture War, Hot Topics, Islam, Islamo-Nazi, Jihad, Radical Islamic Terrorism, Shariah Law, Terrorism, Violence/by Jihad Watch

Robert Spencer has already alerted us to what will be left out of the ceremonies on September 11 marking the 25th anniversary of the attacks in New York on the Twin Towers, in Washington at the Pentagon, and inside a plane in the sky over Shanksville, Pennsylvania. What should be at the very center of the observances on that day — that is, the ideology of Islam, the fons et origo of the terrorist attacks in which more than 3,000 people were murdered — will almost everywhere be passed over in silence.

Other voices have been added to the chorus of critics anticipating what will not be said that day. Among them is Todd Bensman, who has gone through the 576-page report of the 9/11 Commission, and helpfully selected key paragraphs that explain just what motivated the Muslim terrorists who attacked the World Trade Center. Let us hope that before remarking on that attack as part of the ceremonies marking its 25th anniversary, the Great and Good among our politicians, and members of the media, will read those paragraphs, and consider carefully where the source of those murderous attacks is to be found.

More on those paragraphs from the 9/11 Commission’s report can be found here: “On 25th Anniversary of the 9/11 Attacks, Many Will Excise the Most Relevant Truth From National Memory: Islamist Ideology Still Motivates Mass Murder,” by Todd Bensman, Daily Signal, September 2, 2026:

As America prepares to memorialize the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks, expect a bright, glaring omission in the upcoming speeches, editorials, and televised survivor retrospectives about this history, important to tell for its warning that national vigilance remains necessary even now.

Left on the cutting room floors will be the all-important, basic “why,” exactly, al-Qaeda hijackers carried out these attacks. The too-offensive-for-public-discourse “why” part of 9/11 can be readily found in, for instance, the recovered United Airlines Flight 93 cockpit recordings, which reveal one hijacker’s motivation at an authentic moment of truth. Nine times over that nosediving flight’s final six seconds before it disintegrated with all 40 victims into a Shanksville, Pennsylvania, field, the hijacker repeatedly chanted: “Allahu Akbar! Allahu Akbar … !” Allah is great.

Expect schoolteachers, media pundits, and elected leaders speechifying at the New York memorial (think New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani) to pretzel-twist themselves around ever saying aloud that a religious motive rooted in Islamist ideology drove the 9/11 hijackers to that mass murder—and still does. Removing even passing references to Islamism as 9/11’s guiding motivation from the coming national discourse short-circuits civic duty to remind Americans that this problem lives on 25 years later as a national security threat.

Muslims are far more numerous, politically powerful, and dangerous today than they were twenty-five years ago in America. They have managed to convince large numbers of Americans that any criticism of Islam or of Muslims should be anathematized as “Islamophobia.” They have managed as well to capture the college campuses, where pro-Hamas and anti-Israel protests have been so sickeningly popular. Who would have thought, on September 12, 2001, that 25 years later, Muslims would be celebrated and their critics reviled?

Todd Bensman has compiled a florilegium of paragraphs excerpted from the 9/11 Commission’s report. Send his most useful compilation to those whom you believe will be memorializing, orally or in writing, the 25th anniversary of the attack, in the hope that some of them will learn enough to properly describe what motivated it. As everyone who frequents this website knows, that attack by 19 Muslims was prompted by only one thing — the ideology of Islam.

AUTHOR

Hugh Fitzgerald

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NABJ Is A Cancer On the Black Community

September 8, 2026/in Commentary, Culture War, Hot Topics, Marxism, Policy, Propaganda, Socialist Class Warfare, The Truth/by Raynard Jackson

The National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ), better known as The National Association of Whack Journalists continues to be a cancer on the Black community, both literally and figuratively.

They represent everything that is wrong with the Black community and by extension other radical Black liberal organizations that have been sanctioned and blessed by the white radical liberal elite power structure.

They are not a symptom of what is wrong with the Black community; they are what is wrong with the Black community.

They do more harm to the Black community than anything Donald Trump, Republicans, or institutional racism could ever do.

They do for white radical liberal Democrats that which white folks could never ever get away with in their wildest dreams.

They tear down their own community so white folks do not have to.

Even though I am focusing on the NABJ, you can just as easily substitute the names of similar radical Black liberal groups who have been sanctioned and blessed by the white radical liberal elite power structure.

Like all cancers they must be removed from the body by any means necessary!

You know who they are: The Black Economic Alliance, The NAACP, The National Urban League, The Congressional Black Caucus, The National Action Network, 100 Black Liberal Men, the National Bar Association, the National Black MBAs, the National Association of Black Accountants, the National Bankers Association, etc.

Like the NABJ, all these other groups have also made a conscious decision to become a part of the Democrat Party versus being a legitimate professional organization.

Therein lies the rub.

The NABJ does not have one Republican on their board and rarely if ever have conservative journalists participate in any of their events.

I should know, I have been a dues paying member for years!

They are bought and paid for by white liberal elites who are all tied to the Democrat Party.

Do not believe me?

Simply pull up the program booklet from any of their conferences and look at their speakers and panels. It is the who’s who of radical liberalism!

They accuse Trump of being a racist, without evidence, and accuse him of singling out Black women journalists for criticism, which is factually untrue.

Trump criticizes every journalist he disagrees with, but part of being a radical Black liberal Democrat is to find racism in everything.

What I find amazingly hypocritical about the NABJ is that they rarely if ever criticize radical white liberals when they are racists.

Do not believe me?

During a recent broadcast of a supposed professional basketball game played by a group of nonbinary assigned female at birth players, an announcer referred to the Washington Mystics’ players as “young hoes.”

The play-by-play announcer, Kara Scott said, “…These young hoes from Washington, as they like to be called…”

Scott is a radical white liberal homosexual, thus she thinks she gets a pass on all things racial!

Sarah Kustok was the color analyst. She is another radical white liberal who is an extreme supporter of DEI only for people who self-identify as women.

The sideline reporter was Paris Lawson, a Black radical liberal female who said absolutely nothing when her fellow women were attacked by her coworker.

There was no press release issued by the NABJ, The NAACP (The National Association for the Advancement of Certain People), or the Congressional Black Caucus to condemn this racial and misogynistic attack on women, especially Black women.

Roland Martin, Joy Reid, Cari Champion, Jemele Hill, Al Sharpton, Maxine Waters, Don Lemon, Abby Phillip, Laura Coates have all come down with a severe case of laryngitis!

I am old enough to remember when the original shock jock, Don Imus, was fired from his radio job for calling the Rutgers University women’s basketball team a “bunch of nappy-headed hoes.”

These radical liberal groups have an opinion on everything except when it involves one of their own.

This is why no one takes these groups and individuals seriously.

Donald Trump has absolutely nothing to do with the negative state of affairs in the Black community.

The Black community is their own worst enemy.

The NABJ, et al. demand diversity from white corporate media, but refuse to hold itself to the same standard.

Why is there no diversity of thought in NABJ’s leadership? Why is there no role for conservative journalists and columnists at their local, state, and national conferences?

Just look at what NABJ did to Stephen A. Smith.

They basically called him a sellout because he dared to criticize people like Kamala Harris and Jasmine Crockett.

NABJ gave him one of their childish “Thumbs Down Awards,” which goes to anyone who does not support the group’s radical liberal agenda.

Regardless of what you think about Smith’s views, he is one of the top Black journalists in the country and does have some amount of influence within the media. And he has been a dues paying member of the NABJ for many, many decades.

As I often say, “Weak people (and organizations) take strong positions on weak issues.

NABJ is the embodiment of this cognitive dissonance!

Beyond the Siege: Why Persian Identity Outlasts Imperial Might

September 7, 2026/in Commentary, Freedom, Hot Topics, News, Policy, Social Issues, The Truth/by Amil Imani

History is littered with the ghosts of empires that fell and vanished entirely. Babylon is a set of quiet ruins; the Western Roman Empire exists only in textbooks; the ancient Hittites and Assyrians were ultimately swallowed by time. Yet, sitting on the vast high plateau between the Caspian Sea and the Persian Gulf is a civilizational anomaly: Iran.

For more than five millennia, this land has been invaded, sacked, partitioned, and subjected to geopolitical pressures that would have fractured lesser societies. From Alexander the Great and the early Arab armies to the apocalyptic devastations of Genghis Khan and Timur, invaders arrived with the intent to crush. Yet, time and again, a strange historical alchemy took place. The conquerors did not erase Iran – Iran absorbed them.

To understand why Iran endures where other ancient powers dissolved, one must look beyond classical military history and examine the concept of cultural gravity. When a foreign force breaks through a nation’s physical defenses, it usually imposes its own language, law, and worldview. In the Iranian context, the exact opposite consistently occurred.

When Alexander the Great marched into Persepolis in 330 BCE and torched the ceremonial capital of the Achaemenid Empire, he achieved a decisive military victory. Yet within years, Alexander had adopted Persian court dress, integrated Persian administrative practices into his government, married into Persian nobility, and mandated that his generals do the same. His imperial vision quickly morphed into a hybrid Persian-Hellenistic state.

Centuries later, when the Mongol hordes under Genghis Khan and Hulagu Khan swept across Central Asia in the 13th century – burning cities, destroying irrigation systems, and slaughtering entire urban centers – their descendants ended up rebuilding those very cities, commissioning Persian poetry, and adopting the local language. This process, known to historians as Persianization, served as Iran’s ultimate counter-defensive strategy. When the military front collapses, civilizational depth takes over.

The Cultural Absorption Cycle:

Invader arrives with military force & overthrows political structures.
Realizes governance requires Persian scribes, administrators, and systems.
Adopts court customs, architectural styles, and poetic traditions.
Conqueror becomes culturally Persian within two generations.

The invasion of the 7th century brought fundamental upheavals to the political landscape of the plateau, marking the fall of the Sassanian state. Across much of North Africa and the Fertile Crescent, indigenous tongues eventually yielded to foreign speech over centuries of occupation. Iran, however, held an unyielding line.

While external governance shifted, the primary engine of national soul – the Persian language (Farsi) – maintained its core grammar, vocabulary, and ancient cadences. This preservation was not an accident of geography; it was an active act of cultural preservation by guardians who understood that language is the sacred vault of collective memory.

Key Chronological Milestones

Achaemenid Empire Founded — c. 550 BCE

Cyrus the Great establishes one of history’s largest empires, pioneering advanced governance, royal road networks, and policies of cultural tolerance.

Fall of Persepolis — 330 BCE

Alexander the Great overthrows the Achaemenid state, but Greek rulers gradually adopt Persian administrative systems and court customs.

The Sassanian Defense — 651 CE

The formal imperial apparatus falls, yet the core philosophical, literary, and social traditions retreat into the fires of household and community preservation.

Completion of the Shahnameh — c. 1010 CE

The poet Ferdowsi finishes his epic “Book of Kings,” preserving pure Farsi vocabulary and safeguarding pre-Islamic historical memory.

Political Reconfiguration — 1501 CE

Later dynasties re-establish regional independence, drawing distinct geographic and cultural boundaries around the Iranian plateau.

Chief among these literary custodians was the poet Ferdowsi, who spent three decades writing the Shahnameh (The Book of Kings). By deliberately minimizing Arabic loanwords in his 50,000-couplet epic, Ferdowsi preserved the ancient heroic myths and linguistic roots of the nation.

Through every era of external rule, Iranian polymaths remained the true intellectual stewards of the region. Thinkers, scientists, and writers adopted necessary political frameworks while ensuring that the core of science, philosophy, mathematics, and poetry remained deeply anchored in Iranian methodology. They maintained the voice of the ancestors regardless of who sat on the throne.

Throughout every century of occupation, the spirit of the plateau has been defined by an unwavering moral framework: the quiet, unyielding commitment to Truth (Asha) over Lie (Duj), and Light over darkness. Civilizational continuity did not depend on who held military power, but on who held the moral and intellectual high ground.

This psychological posture converted outward hardship into an internal fortress. External pressures, heavy taxation, and social marginalization were never viewed as final defeats, but as temporary tests. The belief in eventual renewal (Frashokereti) — the ultimate restoration of a harmonious and just world — provided an inexhaustible reservoir of patience.

Rather than assimilating into foreign ideologies, the culture maintained its distinct identity by keeping its ancient traditions alive. The seasonal rhythms of the earth remained unchanged: the spring equinox (Nowruz) continued to mark the true civilizational New Year, Yalda honored the victory of light over the longest night, and Sadeh kept the sacred memory of fire and civilization burning bright.

Today, the global Iranian community — spanning the historic homeland, Yezd, Kerman, and the vast diaspora across India and the West – stands as a living testament to this endurance. Though demographic shifts and political tides have altered the surface of the plateau, the underlying cultural matrix remains distinctly Persian.

Dimension	Civilizational Expression
Linguistic Legacy	Farsi remains the primary linguistic anchor, carrying ancient poetic rhythms into modern discourse.
Cultural Calendar	Pre-Islamic solar festivals (Nowruz, Mehregan, Yalda) continue to define the true national identity.
Philosophical Memory	Ethical principles centered on Good Thoughts, Good Words, and Good Deeds (Humata, Hukhta, Hvarshta) remain the cultural gold standard.
Intellectual Heritage	High valuation of education, literature, science, and trade across all diaspora communities.

Despite centuries of displacement, foreign pressures, and ideological shifts, the Iranian self-perception operates on a multi-millennial timeline. Modern political regimes and current crises are not viewed as permanent states, but as temporary blips in a 5,000-year-old epic.

Empires built exclusively on sword and siege are inherently fragile. When their armies falter, their language dies, their administration collapses, and their memory vanishes into the dust of forgotten battlefields.

Civilizations built on light, high ethical philosophy, administrative wisdom, poetic tradition, and unyielding ancestral memory operate on a far different clock. Iran’s central achievement over fifty centuries is not merely that it survived its conquerors, but that its true identity was never conquered at all. Dynasties, caliphates, and foreign doctrines arrive and inevitably fade, but the eternal flame of the Persian spirit remains quietly, stubbornly alight.

Piker & El-Sayed: Comedy Gold

September 5, 2026/in Anti-Semitism, Commentary, Communism, Culture War, Democrat Socialists, Elections, Hot Topics, Islamo-Nazi, Marxism, Marxist, News, Policy, Politics, Propaganda, Radical Islamic Terrorism, Shariah Law, Socialism, The Truth/by The Daily Signal

Hasan Piker & Abdul El-Sayed have become the greatest comedy duo since Abbott & Costello.

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello thrived from 1935 to 1957 in burlesque, radio, motion pictures, and TV—from their beloved “Who’s on First?” routine to their “7 x 13 = 28” sketch. Abbott & Costello intended to be funny. They worked hard at it and became legends.

Piker and El-Sayed are comedy naturals. They effortlessly earn laughs, especially when they are unintentionally hilarious.

Their latest schtick is called “Hasan who?” While running as the Islamo-Socialist Democrat nominee for U.S. Senate in Michigan, El-Sayed pretends not to know Piker and forgets the über-divisive, hard-left podcaster’s initial, affectionate, and touching words:

“Abdul El-Sayed is my guy, right? He’s a Rhodes Scholar. He’s a doctor. He’s a stud, too,” Piker swooned on “The Breakfast Club” on June 16. “He can do three plates on the bench press. And, I mean, that’s beside the point, but, you know, I like that personally.”

As for wooing voters with El-Sayed, Piker gushed, “He reached out to me. He said, ‘Oh, let’s go. Let’s do a campaign rally together.’ And I had already done stuff with him. I traveled to Dearborn. We worked out, played basketball—all this stuff.”

Piker and El-Sayed did even more stuff. Seemingly inseparable, they appeared jointly at campaign events, lifted weights together, and chuckled about men’s fashion at a pool party the day before the Aug. 4 Democrat primary.

Piker cheered at El-Sayed’s election night celebration.

But, ironically, El-Sayed’s victory intensified scrutiny of his relationship with Piker. Americans learned that Piker outrageously said, “America deserved 9/11,” “I would vote for Hamas over Israel every single time,” and much more.

Suddenly, El-Sayed was not that into Piker. El-Sayed told NBC’s Kristen Welker on the August 9 “Meet the Press”: “I’m less concerned now with who I’m campaigning with and a lot more concerned about who I’m campaigning to.”

Signaling that he and Piker had grown apart, El-Sayed told Semafor’s Nicholas Wu on Aug. 26 that he had “no plans” to campaign again with Piker and ridiculed their defunct partnership: “The effort to make this race about a streamer in LA is actually kind of laughable.”

Since then, Piker has scored big laughs as a jilted-boyfriend type who ignores El-Sayed’s ghosting, listens to the silence of his non-phone calls, and yet dreams that the two never have been closer.

“He asked me to stump for him,” Piker recalled Aug. 28, also via Semafor. “I’ve already had the guy on, like, a hundred times on the broadcast. You know, I’ve fundraised for him. I like him a lot.”

El-Sayed dissed Piker anew on Aug. 29.

“I don’t want to have a conversation about a Twitch streamer in California,” El-Sayed told journalists in Lansing, Michigan. “That’s just not a serious conversation.”

The towering Piker soon chased down the fire-plug-like El-Sayed, and threw his long, loving arms around him. Piker then rebuked critics who, he claims, have mischaracterized his and El-Sayed’s previous comments. “ … At the same time they were doing it to me, and they did it to Abdul,” Piker told Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti on their Sept. 1 “Breaking Points” podcast.

Piker also applauded El-Sayed’s apologies for some of his earlier, provocative remarks: “I hope that people see that as humility and grace and understand that he’s not this like scary Islamist, jihadist guy that he’s being presented as.”

Audiences are roaring, from Denver to Detroit and from Manhattan Island to Mackinac Island. (As it happens, El-Sayed slammed the Northern Michigan vacation spot in a hot-mic knee-slapper: “I hate Mackinac SO much,” he said in 2020. “Every time I’ve ever come here, I’ve hated it. Why am I here?”)

Piker & El-Sayed are expected to dominate the airwaves through Tuesday, Nov. 3. After that, they either will be picked up for six years or canceled and soon forgotten.

Now that’s comedy.

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Deroy Murdock

Deroy Murdock is a Manhattan-based Fox News contributor and a contributing editor with The American Spectator.

My breach with Islam started as far back as I could understand things. More to the point, I never embraced Islam in the first place and I speak for many Iranians.

September 5, 2026/in Commentary, Faith, Hot Topics, Islam, Shariah Law, Social Issues, The Truth/by Amil Imani

My Early Life

While I was born into a non-practicing Shiite Muslim family in Iran, as children, no one within the family forced Islam down our throats. In other words, in my younger days in Iran, I had never been exposed to Islam at all, except by observation. I think I speak for many Iranians as well.

Most Iranians truly did not know what ‘real’ Islam was until after the invasion of 1979, the Islamic Revolution. To be exact, until Ayatollah Khomeini set foot in Iran and took the genie out of the bottle for everyone to see the ‘true’ Islam.

The type of Islam Iranians practiced during the time of the Shah did not even exist at all. It was only a fiction or a fantasy manufactured out of whole cloth. Some people in Iran, however, are still in disbelief and refuse to accept that true Islam is not what Ayatollah Khomeini introduced in 1979.

As humans, we know religion casts a huge shadow on everything in life. Like other humans, I, too, had to deal with this enigma and couldn’t simply just set it aside. And Islam, the Shiite Islam was the most pervasive religion around. I wanted to know more about this ‘religion,’ beyond the textbooks. In our schools, we were forced to memorize a few non-violent Surah (verses) from the Meccan period when prophet Muhammad’s beliefs and sayings were relatively innocuous.

Short Reminder

To polish Islam’s image, Muslim apologists usually quote verses from the Quran that were written in the early days of the Islamic movement while Muhammad lived in Mecca. Those passages make Islam appear loving and harmless because they call for love, peace and patience. This is a deception. The apologists fail to tell the gullible masses that such verses, though still in the Quran, were nullified, abrogated and rendered void by later passages that incite killing, decapitations, maiming, terrorism and religious intolerance. The latter verses were penned while Muhammad’s headquarters were based in Medina.

I still recall what my high school history teacher told us in our class. He explicitly said that the Islamic creed was imposed on an enlightened, tolerant and free Iranian people at the point of the sword. For me, that was the defining moment to start to find out for myself.

Findings

I came to the realization that the root cause of Iranian peoples’ degradation and suffering was Islam. I found out that it was an ideology imposed on a sophisticated, tolerant and free people at the point of the sword by savages hailing from the Arabian Peninsula during the seventh century, with promises of booty and women in this world and glorious eternal sensual rewards in the promised paradise of Allah in the next.

Even at this very young age, things Islamic did not resonate with me, and often clashed head-on with what I valued and loved in life. I realized Iranian Muslims were victims of the Islamic invasion of centuries ago that was imposed on their ancestors through Jihad.

Ironically, Iran was never Islamized. Why? I have come to understand it is the Iranian ancient fundamental belief in the validity and value of diversity that is enshrined in the Cyrus the Great Cylinder, the unconditional respect for complete rights of all people of the world (anathema to the Islamists’ credo) that has held the nation together over the millennia. Without that, Iran, though not Arab, would become like another Arab nation, like Egypt, Syria or Iraq.

Although Islam was imposed on Iran some 1,400 years ago, most Iranians still deeply value their own ancient non-Arab identity and have never fully surrendered to the Arab culture, even after 47 years of the non-stop Islamic cultural revolution, Islamic propaganda and indoctrination by the current regime.

Interesting Story

An Iranian journalist once asked Mohamed Hassanein Heikal (b. 1923), a famed Egyptian journalist, commentator, and a former editor of Al-Ahram, that “we Iranians were once invaded by the Arabs, just as you were, but we managed to keep our culture and the Persian language. So, why is that your language today is Arabic? You are not Arabs. What happened to your authentic culture?” Heikal answered, “Because we didn’t have a poet like your Ferdowsi.”

That would be the tenth-century Persian poet, the author of the epic book of Shahnameh (Book of Kings), who revived not only the Persian language, but also the Persian identity. Ferdowsi is known for his efforts to save the Persian language and its history from oblivion. It has been suggested that Ferdowsi is Iran’s Homer:

“Twice as long as Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, taken together, the Shahnameh blends Iran’s ancient myths and legends with accounts of major events in its past. Its 55,000 rhyming couplets chart the history of the Iranian world from its creation to the fall of the Persian Empire in the seventh century.”

Egypt, one of the crown jewels of the ancient world, rich in culture and filled with illustrious antiquities, has no memory of its glorious past. Unlike the Persians, the Egyptians became completely Arabized, and have little or no nostalgia for their ancient past. Islam has dominated the Egyptians’ lives.

Interestingly, the new generation in Iran is eager to distance itself from the Islamic credo and embrace the ancient creed of Zoroastrianism or even other religions. In fact, Christianity has become the fastest growing religion in Iran.

How did Islam Form?

From the primeval land of the Arabian Peninsula of over 14 centuries, ago rose a man by the name of Muhammad. An illiterate hired hand of a rich widow, Khadija, he claimed that he was the bearer of a perfect life prescription from Allah — the Quran. He claimed humanity could do no better than to follow its precepts, as well as to emulate Muhammad’s own life example for a guarantee of bliss and salvation. In exchange for this, people must embrace Islam — surrender — by surrendering their liberty to Muhammad.

“Christianity has become the fastest growing religion in Iran.”

To this day, in places where Islam rules, many books are banned, newspapers and magazines are systematically either censored or shut down, and other non-print media are methodically blocked. Liberty, deeply cherished by free people, is replaced by submission — unquestioning obedience and adherence to the dictates and precepts of the all-knowing and all-wise Allah.

In no time at all, the savages of Arabia, won over by the allure of the win-win promise of Muhammad — you kill and you get the booty from your victims in this world; you get killed and your abode will be the unimaginably glorious sensuous paradise of Allah — sword-in-hand, sallied forth to lands near and far.

Present Time

Perhaps few people would deny any longer that Islam and its variants mean, in practice, bloody terrorism, deadly purges, lethal actions, forced hijabs, show trials and genocide. It is a widespread plague upon humanity. It is disguised as a religion and has penetrated the Western system of government with the aim of replacing civility and liberty with the barbarism of Sharia Law.

It is Muslims, Muslim organizations and the radical left who are guilty of dissimulation and fraud. Muslims act meekly when they lack sufficient power. Once in power, ‘Real Islam’ emerges from its shell of dissimulation and puts free people and their way of life to the sword.

Conclusion

I have never practiced nor embraced Islam at any time in my life. In fact, I looked at it as an invader and found it to be my solemn duty to expose this fraud of a religion, help other Muslims to free themselves from it, and warn the good-hearted and gullible non-Muslims against falling prey to it.

Islamdom is at a crossroad. Millions in Iran, a hugely important force of sustaining and fanning the Islamic fire, have already turned and are turning against the Islamic credo. They and the rest of the world need to hear the voices of secular decent people who are in league with them and can help to put Islam, the very spawning swamp of the deadly virus that makes for jihadists, out of business.

Europe Signs On!

September 4, 2026/in America 250, Commentary, Courts & Law, Elections, Hot Topics, Islam, Islamo-Nazi, News, Policy, Politics, Shariah Law, Social Issues, The Truth/by Kenneth R. Timmerman

Regular readers of this column know that I have become a big fan of Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.

For many months I have been saying that Treasury’s efforts, under his direction, to undermine the Iranian regime’s ability to access international financial markets are a critical complement to our overall campaign against Tehran.

For sure, if our military had not totally disabled Iran’s air defenses and taken out huge numbers of missile launchers and production plants, our allies in the Gulf would be in a world of hurt. But if Treasury can pull off its plan to isolate Iran from international financial markets, the regime is likely to collapse.

This week, Bessent got a big assist from the European Union, which formally signed on to Operational Economic Outcast during talks at the G20 summit of finance ministers in Asheville, NC.

Europe has long had sanctions aimed at cutting off supplies to Iran’s ballistic missile and nuclear programs, but frankly that was mere lip service given that Germany, France, the UK, and Italy are largely responsible for having built the dual-use industrial base in Iran that allowed the regime to grow its military capabilities so dramatically over the past decade.

Bessent was effusive in his praise of the Euros this week. “We appreciate their strong and early stance,” he posted to social media on Thursday. “The world is sending a clear message to the Iranian regime: We will not stop until every remaining financial lifeline has been severed.”

But I would like to see the Euros take real action, starting by closing down all branches of Iran’s national bank — Bank Melli — which Bessent ticked off as an action item when he unveiled Operation Economic Outcast on August 24.

I’d like to see the Euros actually seize those “hundred million dollar mansions” owned by top Iranian regime leaders that Bessent said Treasury has located around the world. I’d like to see them shut down companies and banks owned by Iranian operatives or through Iranian shell companies, instead of allowing them to operate as domestic entities, as happens often in Germany and France.

Example: on August 31, Treasury had to black list a French cooking-oil refinery, La Nivernaise de Raffinage SA, beneficially owned by Iran, after the French government refused to do so.

The North Carolina confab gave Bessent the opportunity to have one-on-one meetings with his G20 counterparts, so he could lay out chapter and verse on the Iranian assets in each of their countries.

And remember: Economic Outcast is sweeping. In addition to all the earlier sanctions against Iranian banks, oil, construction, mining, and manufacturing companies, Treasury is now targeting five additional sectors of the Iranian economy: aviation, digital assets, gold, shipping, and technology.

Example; Iran is the world’s fifth largest gold consumer in the world. In 2022, it cut import tariffs on gold to zero “to facilitate the return of funds held abroad due to US sanctions,” according to a report from the Italian Trade & Investment Agency. It was believed to have imported around 200 million tons of gold between March 2024 to March 2025 (the Iranian year begins on March 21).

Iran’s main gold suppliers have been China, Turkey, and the United Arab Emirates. But that’s just for semi-open gold purchases. Iran also operates a sophisticated oil-for-gold barter system to get around the international banking system where Treasury closely monitors its operations.

Already in April, Treasury exposed and sanctioned an IRGC-Quds Force network that smuggled Iranian oil to the Maduro regime in Venezuela in exchange for gold they shipped back to Iran or sold through intermediaries in Turkey.

Much of the illicit oil was moved through dozens of companies controlled by Iranian shipping magnate Mohammad Hossein Shamkhani, the son of the now-deceased secretary of Iran’s Supreme Council on National Defense.

Since Shamkhani’s demise, his replacement, Mohsen Rezai, appears to have transferred the oil smuggling networks to his surviving son, Ali Rezai.

The younger Rezai was identified in an Iran International investigation earlier this year as one of nine “trustees” who managed the regime’s illicit oil sales, and who now stand accused of having pocketed $11 billion of the proceeds instead of returning them to the Iranian state treasury.

“Oh what a tangled web we weave, when we first practice to deceive.” — Sir Walter Scott.

Many Republicans facing tough re-election bids in November are sweating bricks over the continuation of the Iran war.

That may be why Vice President JD Vance told the White House press corps on Thursday that we are no longer “at war” with Iran. I guess we are just mowing the grass, as the Israelis used to say of periodic air strikes against Hamas.

But those Republicans are going to have to grow a spine and explain to their voters why we are in this fight, and why it is absolutely critical to the future of their families and this country. They are going to have to learn, and explain, why the Iranian nuclear weapons program is a threat to America, and to applaud President Trump for being the only American leader to take decisive action to destroy it once and for all.

When Iranian regime leaders chant “Death to America,” they are not just exercising their vocal cords. They mean it. And nuclear weapons were the means they had chosen to carry out that threat.

I discuss these subjects, as well as Putin’s meeting in Kyrgyzstan this week with Iranian president Massoud Pezeshkian, and Europe’s energy woes, on this week’s Prophecy Today Weekend.

As always, you can listen live at 1 PM on Saturday in the Jacksonville, Florida, area on 104.9 FM or 550 AM, or by using the Jacksonville Way Radio app. Later, you can listen to the podcast here.

Yours in freedom.

PS: And for those of you in the Jacksonville area, I hope to see you at the Sept 19 gala where I will be speaking. Ticket sales end on Sept. 6.

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How Bibi “ruined” Israel?

September 4, 2026/in Capitalism, Commentary, Elections, Hot Topics, News, Policy, Politics, Social Issues, The Truth/by Dr. Martin Sherman

The impressive post-October 7th achievements of the current government are often overlooked and undervalued.

One of the most recurring refrains that resonates in the Bibiphobic echo chamber that overhangs much of the political debate in Israel is the allegation that “Bibi has ruined the country.”

Indeed, the incessant repetition of the charge has given it almost axiomatic status — as if it were a self-evident truth requiring little substantiation on the part of its purveyors to establish its veracity.

Indeed, a wideranging array of achievements runs starkly counter to this grave accusation.

Impressive, if incomplete, security accomplishments

In the realm of security, many of the facts are largely well established in the public domain, so I will not dwell on them in any great detail.

Virtually all of the pre-October enemy leadership, devoted openly to the destruction of the Jewish state, has been “dispatched into the hereafter”, sending a clear message that following in their footsteps could be a risky path to tread. The array of those no longer with us includes the bloodthirsty Sinwar brothers, the once elusive Mohamed Deif, the hedonistic plutocrat Ismail Haniya, the boastful Hasan Nasrallah, and the brutal theocrat Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, along with a long entourage of cronies and henchmen.

On the battlefield, sustained IDF action has brought Syria to the brink of disintegration, but most importantly, has decoupled it from Hezbollah and Iran, effectively disrupting the longstanding Shi’a arc linking Iran to Lebanon. In Lebanon itself, Hezbollah, although still a formidable force, is no longer viewed as the protector of Lebanon, but by many as the enemy of Lebanon. In Gaza, much of the enclave lies in ruins, with 60-70% of it under the control of the IDF, and with the prospect of large-scale emigration of the inhabitants gaining momentum — albeit sluggishly. In Iran, much of the infrastructure—physical and human—on which its nuclear program was based, has been eliminated and, at the very least, set back for years.

Emphasis on Economics

But a word of caution is called for here.

Initial operational successes can turn out to be fleeting and ephemeral. Perhaps the starkest example of that is the case of Nasrallah’s predecessor, Abbas al-Musrawi, who was eliminated by the IDF in Lebanon in 1992, a measure that brought the arguably even more murderous Nasrallah to power, as well as resulting in a series of lethal terror attacks on Israeli personnel and installations – particularly in Buenos Aires.

However, for the remainder of the analysis, the focus will be on the economic performance of the country under the Netanyahu government —particularly in the post-October War period—which has received far less media attention than that allotted the security sphere.

Significantly, Israel’s overall economic performance has outstripped virtually all other leading Western economies across a wide range of major indicators.

GDP per capita:

Indeed, while traditional Western European economies have faced prolonged stagnation, Israel maintained a top-tier global position, with its GDP per capita rising to almost $70,000—surpassing major Western economies such as Germany, France, Japan, Canada and the UK — and even the petro-rich UAE.

The exchange rate:

The country’s economic robustness is reflected in the strength of its currency. Indeed, the demand for the shekel has propelled it to be one of the world’s strongest currencies in recent years. Moreover, despite the war and gloomy prospects that abounded in its immediate wake, the shekel has risen dramatically against the US dollar (around 36%) — from a low of just over 4 to under 3 to the dollar! Likewise. It has appreciated substantially against the Euro (over 18%) and Sterling (over 17%)

Direct foreign investment (FDI)

Direct foreign investment in the country has soared since the post-October War. Indeed, Israel has led the world in attracting foreign investments relative to GDP (which of course also contributed to the demand for the shekel and its high rate of exchange)

Moreover, cross-country comparison of FDI as a percentage of gross fixed capital formation shows that international investors see Israel as a distinctly profitable place in which to invest: Thus, in Israel, the rate of FDI in gross fixed capital formation is 13,7% over twice the overall World rate of 5,3% and three times that of the developed economies (4,7%) and of the US (4.4%).

The growth rate of GDP per capita:

In terms of the growth of GDP per capita (as distinct from the absolute levels discussed above), over the last three decades—for most of which Netanyahu was Prime Minister—in Israel this has been +275%, easily surpassing the US (215%) and almost doubling that of the UK and the EU (147% and 147% respectively)

Flawed but successful

Of course, none of this is to suggest that Netanyahu is above all reproach. Indeed, for all his manifest merits, he is a leader with profound faults, who has not done many things that he should have, and done many things that he shouldn’t have.

However, whatever his undeniable shortcomings are, they are apparently far fewer than any of his even remotely relevant rivals.

Accordingly, when coming to decide on how to cast one’s ballot in the upcoming elections, it would seem prudent to heed the well-known dictum: If it works, don’t fix it.

Iran Must Bury The Two-Headed Viper Of Mullahs And The MEK

September 4, 2026/in Commentary, Culture War, Iranian influence, Islam, Islamo-Nazi, Jihad, Radical Islamic Terrorism, Shariah Law, Terrorism, The Truth/by Amil Imani

In the streets of Tehran, the smell of cordite and the roar of a nation in revolt have rendered the “calculated” language of Washington and Brussels obsolete. But as the Islamic Republic’s house of cards teeters on the edge of a terminal collapse, a second, equally parasitic threat is circling the carcass: the Mujahedin-e-Khalq (MEK).

Make no mistake: Iran is currently fighting a war on two fronts. One is against a decrepit theocracy that hangs its youth from construction cranes; the other is against a cult-like mercenary outfit that has spent decades buying the souls of Western politicians to bypass its own bloody history. To save Iran, both must be purged.

The world watched in horror on January 11, 2026, as the theoretical threat of MEK violence on U.S. soil became a bloody reality. In the heart of Los Angeles’s Westwood neighbourhood, a U-Haul truck – acting as a literal battering ram – tore through a crowd of thousands supporting the Iranian people’s right to self-determination. This was not a random act of road rage; the truck was adorned with a banner declaring: “NO SHAH, NO MULAH. USA: DON’T REPEAT 1953. NO MULLAH.”

This specific slogan is the precise ideological brand of the MEK and its political wing, the NCRI. This incident follows a chilling pattern established by the June 2025 “U-Haul Massacre” in Los Angeles and the October 2025 “Alameda Charge,” where a vehicle was driven toward federal personnel during civil unrest. The strategy is classic MEK: operate in the shadows, leverage chaos, and use “activism” as a front for paramilitary tactics. You cannot “delist” the nature of a scorpion. Hillary Clinton’s 2012 decision to scrub them from the Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) list wasn’t an act of justice; it was a surrender to the most expensive lobbying campaign in Washington history.

The spectacle of Maryam Rajavi’s “Free Iran” conventions in 2025 was a masterclass in political prostitution. It is a sickening open secret: high-profile GOP hawks and a handful of Democrats are being paid “handsomely” – ranging from $25,000 to $50,000 per speech – to shill for a woman who runs her organization like a high-security cult. When Mike Pompeo or Rudy Giuliani stand on a stage and claim Rajavi represents the “will of the Iranian people,” they aren’t speaking for the protesters in Isfahan. They are reading a script purchased by an organization that mandates forced divorces, sleep deprivation, and absolute ideological submission among its members in Albania’s “Ashraf-3” camp. These politicians have sold the sovereignty of 85 million Iranians for the price of a luxury SUV.

The financial rot runs deeper than mere guest appearances; it is a systemic buy-out of American foreign policy. In 2025 alone, the MEK’s front organizations poured millions into “honorariums” and “travel expenses” for a roster of DC power players, effectively turning the tragedy of the Iranian people into a lucrative revenue stream for the Western elite. While the Iranian Rial collapses and families in Tehran starve under the weight of the regime’s corruption, Mike Pence – who reportedly pocketed $430,000 from the group – and a cadre of House and Senate “caucus” members continue to shill for Rajavi’s 10-point plan as if it were a holy text. These “freedom fighters” for hire aren’t just ignoring the MEK’s history of slaughtering Kurds and siding with Saddam; they are actively silencing the 2026 grassroots movement by crowning an unelected, cult-leading “President-elect” in a DC ballroom. This isn’t diplomacy – it’s a paid hit on the future of Iranian democracy.

The Islamic Republic and the MEK are not enemies; they are symmetrical opposites that feed off each other’s extremism to justify their own parasitic existence. This duality is anchored in a shared obsession with the cult of personality, where Khamenei demands absolute worship as the “Representative of God” while Rajavi commands fealty as the self-appointed “President-elect” of a non-existent government. Neither entity tolerates dissent, as both rely on the total erasure of the individual in favor of blind ideological submission.

Furthermore, both are drowning in a blood debt that the Iranian people will never forgive: while the Mullahs spent 2024 and 2025 executing thousands to maintain their grip on a shattered economy, the MEK remains stained by the ultimate betrayal of fighting alongside Saddam Hussein during the Iran-Iraq War. For the average Iranian, siding with the butcher who gassed their soldiers is a sin that no amount of Washington lobbying can wash away. This is why the 2026 uprising is leaderless by design; the youth in the Grand Bazaar and the students in Shiraz are not shouting for Rajavi, but for a secular, decentralized democracy. They recognize that the MEK is simply the “B-team” of the current regime – a mirror image of the same authoritarian rot that must be shoved off the stage of history alongside the theocracy it claims to oppose.

The MEK belongs back on the Terrorist List. Their involvement in domestic U.S. unrest and their continued use of “troll farms” and psychological warfare prove they have never abandoned the gun; they’ve just learned to hide it behind a suit. To the “Strike Force” of the Iranian resistance currently facing down IRGC bullets: do not let your revolution be hijacked by the ghosts of the 1970s. The path to a free Iran does not go through the MEK’s compound in Albania or the pockets of paid-off U.S. Senators. It ends with the total dismantling of the clerical system and the permanent exile of the Rajavi cult,

Iran does not need a “transitional government” designed in a DC boardroom. It needs the world to stop funding its oppressors – whether they wear robes in Tehran or tailored suits in Paris. The two-headed viper is dying; it is time for the Iranian people to cut off both heads once and for all.

This article originally appeard in Grok World.

When Confronted with Progressive Anti–Semitism, Jewish Liberals Blame Trump

September 2, 2026/in America 250, Commentary, Culture War, Democrat Socialists, Elections, Hot Topics, Islam, Islamo-Nazi, Marxism, Marxist, Policy, Religion, Social Issues, Socialism, The Truth/by Matthew Hausman, J.D.

Many Jewish democrat liberals would probably only feel rain if spat upon by antisemitic progressives.

The undeniable rise of vulgar antisemitism on the left and in the Democratic Party is a reality that has caused many liberal American Jews to finally take notice, though some go to great lengths to rationalize it as a reaction to President Trump and ignore the foundational influence of Jew-hatred in progressive ideology. Self-delusion is a powerful tool for maintaining political dogmas.

Unlike Jewish members of the British Labour Party who staged a protest exodus when antisemitism roiled their ranks under leader Jeremy Corbyn, Jewish Democrats cannot seem to muster the same resolve to chastise their own establishment, despite its embrace of radicals and socialists whose ideologies are steeped in hatred of Jews and Israel. Indeed, some even justify supporting radical candidates for the sake of party unity, as did those national Democratic leaders who endorsed Abdul El-Sayed — an anti-Israel Senatorial candidate — after he won the Michigan primary.

Only Alan Dershowitz seemed to get it right when he resigned his membership and described the Democrats as “the most anti-Israel, most anti-Semitic, most pro-terrorist, most anti-American party in modern American history.” He was so alienated over the Democrats’ embrace of radicalism that he registered Republican for the first time in his life.

In contrast, many Jewish liberals would probably only feel rain if spat upon by antisemitic progressives.

This point was underscored in a recent discussion with a friend who was outraged at the increase in Jew-hatred across the American political, cultural, and academic landscape, but felt compelled to blame Trump. While she conceded that neither Trump nor conservatives hold any sway over the academic establishment, Democratic party, or legacy media, she theorized that they are emboldened in their Jew-hatred because of Trump’s supposed antisemitism.

I pointed out the logical disconnect between statement and fact by challenging her to provide specific examples. She could not. And when I mentioned the Trump family’s decades-long charitable relationships with assorted Jewish institutions, she argued they were politically motivated – although these associations long predated Trump’s entry into politics.

Trump’s father, Fred, for example, donated land and funds for construction of the orthodox Beach Haven Jewish Center. He also contributed to Long Island Jewish Medical Center and numerous Jewish charities and was a longtime booster for Israel Bonds. Given the father’s longstanding support for Jewish causes and the State of Israel, it should not be surprising that the son would continue the family tradition, supporting among other institutions Beit El Yeshiva in Israel, the Museum of Jewish Heritage, Jewish National Fund, and some Chabad centers in the United States.

I then subtly goaded my friend by asking whether, despite these connections, prejudice could be inferred from earlier associations with bigoted organizations and personalities, to which she replied “of course.” Thinking I had thrown her a lifeline, she asserted that relationships with antisemitic churches or anti-Israel zealots could clearly indicate Jew-hatred. I then informed her that Trump had no such associations, but Barack Obama did – for example, his twenty-year membership in the church of Jeremiah Wright (a well-known radical pastor criticized for antisemitic rhetoric and falsely accusing Israel of ethnic cleansing) and his validation of Israel-haters like Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib, in whom he expressed personal pride.

If those criteria are suggestive of antisemitism, I asked, how could she justify voting for Obama twice, especially given his tendency to downplay hostility against Jews or falsely equate it with “Islamophobia,” and his failure to acknowledge the Jew-hatred that permeated his progressive base (and perhaps correlated with the more than seven-thousand antisemitic incidents and hate-crimes reported during his presidency)?

My friend had no comeback, so she declared our debate a stalemate — though such can only occur when neither side has a winning argument. Our colloquy ended, however, simply because she was confounded by facts she did not like but could not refute. That’s not a stalemate. I told her she is free to dislike Donald Trump for any reason or none at all – he certainly can be polarizing and is given to dramatic hyperbole. But faced with overwhelming evidence to the contrary, she could not justify her dislike based on nonexistent antisemitism. Neither could she prove her thesis that liberal antisemitism is stimulated by Trump’s supposed hatred of Jews, considering his multigenerational history of philosemitism and support for the Jewish state.

Part of her problem — and in fact the problem of many on both left and right — is the inability to define Jew-hatred or recognize its uniqueness. Antisemitism is referred to as the “world’s oldest hatred” because of its breadth, scope, and antiquity; and though not exclusive to right or left, religious or secular, its meaning is shaped by multifarious ideological orientations.

Indeed, doctrinal antisemitism can be found in the scriptures of other so-called Abrahamic religions because of their foundational need to delegitimize the people and faith they claim to supersede. Jews are demonized throughout Christian scripture, for example, which depicts them as deceitful spawn of the devil (e.g., John 8:44-47), bloodthirsty murderers of Jesus and the Prophets (e.g., Matthew 23:31-33; 1 Thessalonians 2), bearers of hereditary blood guilt (e.g., Matthew 27:25), and denizens of “the synagogue of Satan.” (Revelation, 2:9; 3:9.)

And despite liberal claims of Muslim tolerance, Jews are likewise villainized in the Quran, which accuses the Jews of perverting their own scripture (e.g., Sura 3:71; 4:46), and Hadith, which contains eschatological passages foretelling the Jews’ end-times annihilation (Sahih al-Bukhari, Vol. 4, Book 56, No. 791). Muslim scripture also contains multiple references concerning the use of hudnas (false treaties) to facilitate belligerent conquest over non-Muslims.

Though progressives may be familiar with anti-Jewish themes throughout Christian literature, they tend to describe Islam as “a religion of peace.” However, they do so not because they understand the Quran (most have not read it) or the lengthy history of anti-Jewish persecution under Islam. Rather, progressives feel political kinship, particularly with Islamists who share their rejection of western values — even though their endorsement of feminism, gay rights, and trans advocacy would subject them to discrimination or death under Sharia law.

Jewish conservatives often downplay Christian hatred or ambivalence regarding Jews to avoid scuttling political alliances, particularly “friendship evangelism,” which uses affinity for Jews and Israel as subterfuge to proselytize. While evangelicals claim they do so out of love, they are guided by the belief that Jews are spiritually doomed unless “saved” by Christian doctrines that, in truth, are pagan in origin and opposed by Torah law. Moreover, their actions reflect profound ignorance of Tanakh and disrespect for the Jewish spirit. Yet, some conservatives turn a blind eye to preserve Gentile support for Israel, which may be an important policy, but should be judged with open eyes.

This can lead to uncomfortable situations, however, like one that occurred during a recent Christian Zionist conference featuring multiple speakers, including a “messianic Jewish” influencer whose presence offended Jewish guests and prompted some to walk out. When a rabbi explained to the organizers that “messianic Judaism” is not Judaism at all, but rather a deceptive Christian movement created by missionaries to evangelize Jews through the dissimulative use of misappropriated cultural symbols and customs, they could not satisfactorily explain the motivation for inviting this presenter in the first place.

Clearly, anti-Judaism is not always physically violent; sometimes it presents surreptitiously as goodwill to seduce Jews away from the faith of their ancestors.

Whereas doctrinal Jew-hatred can be expressed both physically and spiritually, the root cause is not always religion. It can arise from ethnic and economic stereotypes and tensions, folk myth, racial presumptions, or xenophobia, as well as secular intellectualism. Quite famously, Voltaire attacked the Jews’ religion and culture, Immanuel Kant depicted them as a “nation of cheaters,” Schopenhauer derided their moral values, and Houston Stewart Chamberlain demonized them as racial parasites (well before Hitler).

Hatred of Jews is so widespread and disparate that it would seem to be supernatural. And in fact, this is what Biblical prophecy suggests, as stated in the Torah: “The Lord will scatter you among all the nations, from one end of the earth to the other…and among those nations, you will not be calm, nor will your foot find rest. There, the Lord will give you a trembling heart, dashed hopes, and a depressed soul.” (Sefer Devarim, 28:64-65.) However, the Tanakh in Nevi’im also prophesies the Jews’ collective redemption and integral role as a “light to the nations” during the messianic era. (Sefer Yeshayahu, 49:6.)

Perhaps what Jewish liberals fail to understand is the paradigmatic diffuseness of antisemitism and that no ideology or culture is singularly responsible for it or immune to it. Before they blame their political opponents for spewing hatred, they should hold a mirror to their own worldview and acknowledge that moral impurity knows no partisan bounds; and then they should rediscover the beauty and relevance of Tanakh.

Woodrow Wilson’s Vision of ‘Progress’ Was at Odds With Human Nature

September 1, 2026/in America 250, Capitalism, Commentary, Democrat Socialists, Hot Topics, Policy, Social Issues, Socialism, Socialist Class Warfare, The Truth/by The Daily Signal

Welcome to the seventh in our series “Landmark Speeches in American History.” We are celebrating America’s 250th anniversary with articles by prominent authors about how some of the greatest speeches in our history—by celebrated orators like Ronald Reagan, Abraham Lincoln, and Martin Luther King Jr.—honored the vision of our founding document, the Declaration of Independence.

Today’s federal government employs over 2 million people. It is composed of over 400 agencies that often combine legislative, executive, and judicial powers. These agencies regulate nearly all areas of life from cradle to grave. We may take this arrangement for granted, but it is far from what the Founders envisioned. For them, the federal government was meant to have a limited range of power. And these powers were to be assiduously separated, checked, and balanced by the constitutional system they crafted.

How did we go so far astray? The progressive era marks a key turning point. Woodrow Wilson, foremost among progressives, offered a candid vision of a new form of government in his 1912 presidential campaign speech.

In this speech, which would later be published under the title “What Is Progress?”, Wilson argued that government should be adapted to the latest theory of Darwinian evolution. “Living political constitutions must be Darwinian in structure and in practice,” Wilson explained. “Society is a living organism and must obey the laws of life, not of mechanics; it must develop.”

According to Wilson, the Founders’ political theory was modeled upon the prevailing scientific theory of their day: Newtonian physics.

“They were scientists in their way … those fathers of the nation. [Thomas] Jefferson wrote of ‘the laws of Nature’—and then by way of afterthought—’and of Nature’s God,’” he states. “Politics in their thought was a variety of mechanics. The Constitution was founded on the law of gravitation.”

If the Founders’ system of government was based upon outdated scientific models, then we should update it according to new scientific breakthroughs if government is to remain effective.

Hence Wilson’s request:

“All that progressives ask or desire is permission— in an era when ‘development,’ ‘evolution,’ is the scientific word—to interpret the Constitution according to the Darwinian principle; all they ask is recognition of the fact that a nation is a living thing and not a machine.”

If society is a living organism, then government should not be constrained by mechanisms like checks, balances, and so forth. “No living thing can have its organs offset against each other, as checks, and live,” said Wilson. It should be able to grow, adapt, and act as a coordinated whole.

Darwin’s theory, strictly speaking, didn’t have much to say about social and political life—though many apply natural selection to cultures with various degrees of plausibility. Wilson and other progressives adapted Darwin’s theory of natural selection to “artificial selection,” which suited their own ends. This was the idea that humans can control their environments such that they shape society and human nature. And human nature is seen as plastic, so there are no built-in limits to what we can do or become.

The Founders would’ve seen this proposal as naïve and reckless. Aside from some passing mentions, they were not relying on Newtonian physics in crafting the U.S. Constitution. They were relying on millennia of tradition and experience, reflections on human nature, and more recent historical memory of Britain and Colonial America.

When Jefferson and the Founders appealed to the “laws of nature”, they were not speaking simply of physical laws like gravity as Wilson suggests. They were appealing to a moral order—a standard of justice that can be known by reason and that tells us crucial facts about what humans are.

For all their differences, the Founders generally agreed humans are “rational animals” endowed with intellect and will. But as revelation and observation show, we are also fallen. Passions often override our reason. Too much power can corrupt even the noblest of men.

This is why the Founders crafted the form of government they did. The seemingly “mechanical” Constitution arose from a sober view of human nature. “Ambition must be made to counteract ambition,” as James Madison observed.

Wilson dismisses this understanding of human nature and with that the need for constraints upon government. As the Declaration of Independence states, governments exist to secure certain unalienable rights. These rights derive from certain unchanging features about man and from our status as created beings.

But just as he rejects fixed constitutional limits, Wilson also reinterprets the declaration as an ever-evolving program of action.

The declaration, he argues, is of no use “unless we can translate its general terms into examples of the present day….” It is “not a thesis for philosophers, but a whip for tyrants; not a theory of government, but a program of action.”

For Wilson, the only enduring principle in the declaration appears to be the contest between freedom and tyranny. And that is historically contingent. The relevant questions, then, are:

“What is the special form of tyranny we now fight? How does it endanger the rights of the people, and what do we mean to do in order to make our contest against it effectual? What are to be the items of our new declaration of independence?”

In other words, the declaration is a permission slip for government to address present-day injustices and pursue new ideals and aspirations. While the Founders believed government exists to secure certain preexisting rights, Wilson’s government exists to create new rights and expand its scope to secure them.

Taken together, Wilson’s reinterpretation of the declaration and his dismissal of the Constitution’s checks and balances points toward a much more expansive national government. If rights are evolving, and government must evolve to secure them, then limits placed on government begin to look more like obstacles than safeguards.

Beneath the appeals to Darwinism vs. Newtonian theories is a deeper conflict over human nature and the purpose of government. Wilson saw the purpose of government as administration by experts who could keep up with social progress. The Founders, by contrast, recognized the need for constraints within government, stemming from certain unchanging features in human nature.

For them, just government was not so much a matter of scientific or technical expertise as it was of prudence—the highest virtue of the statesman.

Wilson notes that some will insist on clinging to old political forms and ways of life. These “stand-patters,” as he calls them, don’t know a “procession is under way.” “The world has a habit of leaving those behind who won’t go with it,” he states. “The world has always neglected stand-patters.”

The world does go on, but looking back on this procession should show that some things remain the same. Humans remain fallible creatures, capable of virtue but prone toward vice. Too much power in the hands of one or a few is always bound to corrupt.

Wilson may have justified expanding the government to combat tyranny. But the form it produced—effectively a “fourth branch” of government in which offices combine legislative, executive, and judicial powers—is what Madison described as “the very definition of tyranny.”

Contrary to his intentions, Wilson’s speech should prompt us to cling even more steadfastly to the perennial truths that lay at the heart of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. As we celebrate the 250^th anniversary of this nation, we should take pride in being the “stand-patters” Wilson bemoans.

AUTHOR

Gillian Richards

Gillian Richards is a research associate in The Heritage Foundation’s B. Kenneth Simon Center for American Studies. Follow on X gn_richards.

The Trojan Horse, Or, Millions of Muslims in Our Midst

September 1, 2026/in Anit-Western Civilization, Anti-America, anti-Christian, Anti-Semitism, Commentary, Culture War, Hot Topics, Immigration, Islam, Islamo-Nazi, Radical Islamic Terrorism, Shariah Law, Terrorism, The Truth/by Jihad Watch

James Zumwalt sees the 4.45 million Muslims now in the U.S., or most of them, as collectively a Trojan Horse working to ensure that in our country, in Muhammad’s words, “Islam is to dominate and not to be dominated.” More on his cassandra cry can be found here: “A Greek Mythical Trojan Horse May Portend An Islamic Reality For America,” by James Zumwalt, American Thinker, August 29, 2026:

A product of Greek mythology, the Trojan War tale includes a great deception that ended it. After a ten-year siege of Troy, residents awoke to find a massive statue of a horse outside their city gates with the Greek army nowhere in sight. Assuming the horse was a gift offering to end the fighting, the Trojans brought it within their city walls, and later that night, Greek soldiers exited the statue via a trap door and opened the city gates to the rest of the waiting army.

In warfare, deception is the mother of invention—and the greatest opportunity for deception occurs when its target fails to even realize a war is in progress….

Muhammad declared in a famous hadith that “war is deception.”

Yet another harbinger of America’s Islamic future comes from Yasir Qadhi—a strong supporter of the CAIR gameplan.

Qadhi is an American Muslim scholar and theologian. But, more importantly, he is a radical Muslim who brazenly defended Iran while verbally attacking the U.S. and Israel. Calling for Islamic unity against non-Muslims, he has used a taxpayer-funded mosque in Texas—now linked to federal and state investigations—as a bloody pulpit for promoting sectarian incitement and foreign-aligned subversion. He recognizes that the Islamization of America is a long-term strategy mandating the use of demographics, mosques, and institutional infiltration (including into the FBI and CIA) to drive a national transition.

Yet, despite this, the results of a special election in California for the seat vacated by Democrat Eric Swalwell brought into Congress the first Afghan-American ever elected to the House—Muslim State Senator Aisha Wahab. While born in the U.S., her election again demonstrates tolerance for ethnic differences. But it also shows us the sword’s weak edge as Wahab is a political radical.

The victory in a special election, designed to fill the seat vacated by Eric Stallwell, of Aisha Wahab, a devout Muslim who celebrated her voters “seeing through the lies spread by AIPAC,” detests the Infidel West, and wants talks with the Taliban, is a result of ignorance on the part of the electorate, that simply fails to comprehend the full malignity of Islam.

Up and down the land, Muslims are making inroads, convincing many that any criticism of them, no matter how warranted, is merely that impermissible thing, “Islamophobia.” They have been fielding more than 600 candidates for political office at every level — local, state, and federal. The number of Muslims in the House is likely to triple after November’s election. Abdul el-Sayed may become the first Muslim Senator.

Muslims are also suddenly much more visible in the media, especially as journalists working for National Public Radio, who include reporters covering the Middle East, Hadeel Al-Shalchi, and Aya Batrawy, while Leila Fadel hosts Morning Edition. A single Jewish reporter, Daniel Estrin, reports from Israel for NPR; his view is distinctly left-wing and critical of Israel (and especially of “the settlers in the Occupied West Bank”). In addition, NPR has as a correspondent Ayman Mohyeldin, and as a digital presenter Dena Takruri.

Among other Muslim television and print journalists are Fareed Zakaria, who has his own show on CNN, Fareed Zakaria GPS, political commentator and defender of Islam Mehdi Hasan who, after being fired by NBC, in 2024 founded and launched Zeteo, an independent digital media company and Substack publication, where he serves as CEO and editor-in-chief. He also currently writes as a regular political columnist for the Guardian US. And there are dozens more of these Muslim journalists spreading their poison. Qatar-owned Al Jazeera has become a major media presence in America, as it has everywhere in the world. It is specially powerful on the internet, where its stories about the Middle East always come up first in internet searches.

The Muslim Trojan Horse in America turns out, on close inspection, to be “many steeds of war” — as called for in Qur’an 8:60. A whole stable-full, in fact.

AUTHOR

Hugh Fitzgerald

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Islam Expansionism in America

September 1, 2026/in Anti-America, anti-Christian, Anti-Semitism, Commentary, Culture War, Islam, Islamo-Nazi, Radical Islamic Terrorism, Shariah Law, The Truth/by Amil Imani

Time and again I have warned that Islam and the West cannot co-exist. Time and again, it was as though, I was talking to a wall. It appears it has become useless to speak of this issue. No one seems to care.

Fellow travelers, there is no “coexistence” in Islam, there is only subjugation or elimination of infidels. Islam believes in the rule of Islam, Caliphate to the Sunnis and Imamate to the Shiites. Hence, to Muslims, all other forms of government represent the handiwork of Satan and infidels. Therefore, one and all non-Islamic systems of government must be purified by Islamic fire. This is a fact.

Muslim jihadists live among us. It is only going to get worse. Jihadists consider themselves the army of Allah. They use violence as an instrument of policy. This continues to be central to Islam. Muslims war under the firmly-believed and widely-cherished set of ideas that are rabidly militaristic. No matter which side is killed, Islam is the victor, “You kill them, you go to paradise; you get killed, you go to paradise,” are two examples of exhortations to jihadism and war.

For the past twenty years or so, I have been warning to free men and women: remain a spectator at your own peril. It is imperative that you take a stand, denounce the fraud of Islam and do all you can to prevent Islamic fire from devouring our civilized democratic system. Tomorrow will be too late.

I repeat, there is absolutely no chance of co-existence with Islamic doctrine. A simple understanding is to see what is happening in Islamic countries.

Also, don’t bank on politicians, they are master practitioners of the art of the politically correct, to protect liberty. Politicians must be urged by citizens to safeguard liberty, scrutinized closely that they do the work, and are held accountable if they fail to do so. You, as a citizen, also have a job to do. Take a few minutes a day and do what you can to protect freedom. “Freedom is not free,” may be a cliché. Yet, it is the most profound four-word sentence in the lexicon of the free.

Islam was made for men. Women are playthings of men. Islam is 100% misogynist. Men are superior to women. Women are to obey men and are to be beaten when they disobey or misbehave. Islam is racist. The Quran stipulates that Arabs are superior to all others and it clearly condones slavery. It explicitly stipulates discriminatory laws for slaves. Islam denounces other belief systems and marginally recognizes the validity of only two religions, Judaism and Christianity.

The nature of Islam is based on violence. It not only condones jihad, it recommends it and promises great reward for the jihadist.

Islam is already splintered in a number of major sects and innumerable numbers of secondary sects that harbor huge disagreement and animosity toward one another as well as toward all infidels.

Those who claim that they want to reform Islam, want to transform it by stripping it of a great many provisions that are anathema to civilized humanity. These people are, in fact, trying to make a new religion out of the old with no divine authority that was, supposedly, bestowed upon Muhammad to launch his religion.

Muslims and their frequently well paid leftist apologists use the multiculturalism umbrella only in non-Islamic lands to shield themselves from the torrent of legitimate criticisms that those who know Islam better shower on this cult of violence peddled as the religion of peace. You don’t need to listen to me, and don’t listen to these conniving dissimulators. Please search it for yourself. See if the euphemism of multiculturalism is ever even mentioned by any Islamic leader, is ever printed in the Islamic press, or ever appears in any form anywhere in Muslim countries.

This multiculturalism gambit in is Islam’s manufactured wool to pull over the eyes of non-Muslims while Muslims carry on with their unrelenting campaign of eradicating anything and anyone non-Islamic anywhere and everywhere in the world.

After twenty years of preaching the urgency of this threat, people have become numb. It is past the stage of being urgent that we confront Islamic ideology and its expansionism. Close down all of its chapters across America, and declare the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization. Now, it is a matter of survival. All of us must pressure our government, at all levels, to abandon the practice of “political correctness” and protect the American people and act to safeguard liberty against the truly deadly assault that is representative of Islamic ideology.

Conclusion

A constitutional amendment must be passed quickly defining Islam as a hostile political force with a global totalitarian agenda, and as such is totally inimical to our constitution and our national security, and that further to this definition, all practicing Muslims must either renounce this cult or be deported to their countries of origin, and all mosques must be closed down, since their goal is to propagate political propaganda, which has nothing whatsoever to do with ‘religion’ — let alone one of ‘peace’. That’s going to be the final ‘solution’ for Islam in America or face endless war.

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August 31, 2026/in Anti-America, anti-Christian, Anti-Semitism, Commentary, Communism, Culture War, Hot Topics, Islam, Islamo-Nazi, Marxism, Marxist, Radical Islamic Terrorism, Social Issues, Socialism, Terrorism, The Truth, Violence, Waste, Fraud and Abuse/by Jihad Watch

Even today, few take seriously the idea that anyone would even be trying to bring Islamic law to the United States. Inconceivable!

Sheikh Raed Salah, leader of the Islamic Movement in Israel, preached on Feb. 2, 2024 that America was on its way out, and that the world had to prepare accordingly: “America has grown old. It is old. It is on the verge of retirement. It is about to be admitted into a nursing home.” The solution for America as well as for the rest of the world, said Salah, was the religion of Muhammad. He even claimed that Muhammad himself had prophesied an Islamic America: “The Prophet Muhammad has said: ‘A small army of Muslims will conquer the white house, the house of Kisar [the Persian ruler].’” In case any of his listeners missed his point, he continued, “Ever since the days of Adam and to day—this is 2024—we have never known of any house that was built and named ‘the White House,’ except for the ‘White House’ in Washington.” He didn’t bother to disclose to his audience why a Persian ruler was occupying America’s Executive Mansion. Instead, Salah drove home the point that Islam was in America’s future: “Perhaps this hadith is clear evidence that the future caliphate [that will follow] the ways of the prophets will lead to the spreading of Islam, and Islam will enter every home in every continent without exception, including every home in America.”

This is a more common view than most non-Muslims realize. a Muslim speaker told a large crowd in New York City at a rally in Feb. 2026: “Oh, don’t scare them, brothers! Relax! They’re over here on purpose to be like, ‘Oh my God!’ Who’s seen those videos where they’re like, ‘Oh my God, the Muslims are taking over New York City!’ Seen those? You seen those? Let them know that we are taking over New York City! Takbir!” The crowd responded with enthusiastic screams of “Allahu akbar.”

This also recalled a video that surfaced back in Dec. 2025, in which a young Somali Muslim in the U.S. holds a large photo of President Donald Trump and says: “My biggest fear in life is that this man may never witness our full takeover. Yes, he may never wi— witness that. He already witnessed our partial takeover, our little success, in America…. So. He’s old and sick, I know, he may not witness our full takeover. But I promise you that his sons will witness.”

On May 27, 2026 at the Dar Al-Hijrah Islamic Center in Falls Church, Virginia, the imam Esam Omeish said: “The best thing we can do to America is help guide it with the guidance of Islam, and help guide it with the ability to rid itself of these illnesses that our Prophet Muhammad has described and has given us the prescription for.”

“American Medinas: Turning US Cities Into ‘Beachheads’ for Islam,” by Paul Sperry, RealClearInvestigations, August 25, 2026:

Founded by Alexander Hamilton as the first industrial city in America, Paterson, N.J.,  is now home to America’s largest Palestinian community and largest proportion of Muslim residents. Today, New Jersey’s third-largest city is effectively run by its 30,000 Muslims, some of whom say they don’t need to learn English because it’s like living “back home” in an Arab city.

Paterson holds an annual Palestinian flag-raising ceremony, during which residents chant, “Free Free Palestine!” And in 2022, it renamed a five-block stretch of Main Street “Palestine Way.”

In June 2023, Paterson Mayor Andre Sayegh signed a sister city agreement with the mayor of Ramallah, a city in the West Bank and the seat of power of the Palestinian Authority, which officially celebrates the killing of Israelis. And last year during a ceremony kicking off Ramadan, he declared his city the “capital of Palestine in the United States of America” and the “fourth-holiest city” in Islam. “We are 100% halal!” Sayegh gushed, meaning pure and lawful under Islam. The mayor even agreed to hang a sign at the city entrance that reads: “Welcome to Little Palestine.”

Paterson is just one of several American cities – which also includes Hamtramck and Dearborn in Michigan – now controlled by Muslims; followers of Islam also exert outsized influence in some larger cities such as Minneapolis and New York.

To varying degrees, the actions of Muslims in these communities echo those of immigrant groups who came before them – creating thriving communities that can feel more foreign than American, supporting one another to gain office and influence, renaming streets after their own heroes, giving recognition to their own holidays. But critics warn that communities such as Paterson also reflect the different challenges posed by Islam, which is now the nation’s fastest-growing religion.

As is also the case in Western Europe, assimilation is demonstrably rare in U.S. municipalities with heavy concentrations of Muslim migrants. In these areas, large influxes of Muslims from abroad have changed not only the complexion, culture, values and traditions of cities, but also the demographic makeup of city councils, school boards, police departments and courts. Muslim officials, in turn, have changed laws or how existing laws are enforced to conform to the tenets of Islam – an unwelcome trend for many non-Muslims and particularly Jews threatened by their militantly anti-Israel rhetoric and positions.

“Our number one and top priority is to protect and defend our community, it is not to assimilate,” asserted Linda Sarsour, a renowned Palestinian activist who lives in the Paterson area and has helped transform the city.

RCI’s reporting on this phenomenon has found that Muslims often break with U.S. norms on a wide range of fundamental issues – from the separation of church and state and attitudes toward people of different faiths to what constitutes women’s rights and terrorism. As Muslims remake communities in their own images, they are dramatically changing the ever-evolving idea of what it means to be an American….

AUTHOR

Robert Spencer

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What Happened to Safety First?

August 31, 2026/in America 250, Capitalism, Commentary, Courts & Law, Culture War, Deep State, Elections, Hot Topics, Marxism, News, Policy, Politics, Shariah Law, Socialism, The Truth/by Joan Swirsky

When I was studying to become a nurse in the late 1960s, I learned that the most important value in patient care, for both nurses and doctors, was safety. Not curing, which is hoped for but often impossible, and not even empathy, although a high priority. That is because the patient who falls out of bed or is given the wrong dose of medicine or whose grievance is ignored or–– Yikes! this just happened in Nashville––may pay with nothing less than his or her life.

As a mother of three, I already knew this––that all the love and support and education in the world meant nothing in comparison to keeping my young children safe…away from unprotected electrical outlets, sharp table corners, a hot stove, automobile traffic, people with contagious diseases, and of course bad values.

I never forgot this lesson: safety first, a value that applies as well––first and foremost and above all others––to our country.

Among the most blatant of unsafe conditions is a home without locks on the doors and windows or, today, that lacks some kind of alarm or alert system. Does even one person you know or have ever known in your entire life live in a home, apartment, condo, or co-op with no locks on its doors or windows? An honest answer would be a thundering “no!”

That is because we live in a world where there are people who are seriously mentally disturbed and criminals too numerous to mention whose sole raison-d’être ––reason for being––is to rob you of your possessions and often rape you or torture you or kill you in the process.

Don’t believe me? According to OpenCrime.us, over a million violent crimes were committed in America in 2025 alone!

WE ALL SAW THIS WITH OUR OWN EYES

Everyone in America, in fact everyone in the world, witnessed this in living color under the faux Biden regime, when 11 million unvetted illegal aliens––during the faux Covid pandemic, no less––were welcomed with open arms into our country. While the powers-that-be, meaning the so-called medical experts, were keeping us six feet apart and masked and shutting down schools and businesses and even military units, they were opening their arms not only to sex traffickers, drug traffickers, communists, jihadists, and career criminals, et al, but also to the de facto implementation of the Cloward-Piven strategy from the 1960s, the leftist goal of which was and is “to facilitate a political crisis by overloading the system with crushing welfare costs, forcing the creation of a system of a guaranteed minimum income, and “redistributing income through the federal government.”

In other words, to actualize their longtime goal and ongoing fetish with Communism by bringing about the collapse––actually the destruction––of the capitalist system by bankrupting it from overwhelming welfare expenditures. And that is what we witnessed as massive numbers of illegal aliens were put up in posh digs like the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City (and other fancy venues), and promptly provided with monthly cash stipends, cell phones, free medical care and food, and top-flight education for their children.

It is also relevant to mention that our porous borders accounted for a reported case of bubonic plague in Oregon (attributed to a cat…yeah, right!), the resurgence of tuberculosis in New York City, and an epidemic of measles in 14 states.

All because of the Biden regime’s abject neglect of––indeed contempt for––the most important thing our elected officials are charged with protecting… our safety! Not our happiness, not our well-being, not our employment status, not our relationships, not our mental or physical health, not our entertainment, but our safety!

NOT EVERYONE AGREES

There are quite a few people who have a soft spot for illegal immigrants and a collective blind spot for the huge spike in crime, including murders and child abduction, that has been reported across the country. In fact, as reported by Julio Rosas, at the recent Democratic National Committee’s meeting, Democrats uniformly pledged their allegiance to open borders, and of course the complete the abolition of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and all the mean people who work for ICE.

Really, says Tom Homan, the White House border tsar. “So, you want to abolish an agency that found 151,000 children… that seized enough fentanyl to kill every American three times over… that is attacking sex trafficking?”

We know that Biden lost track of hundreds of thousands of kids. Trump’s ICE is finding them, and some were being trafficked or forced into labor.

Additionally, writes Rosas, “the resolution calls for restricting the Department of Homeland Security’s funding until workplace raids, mass roundups, arrests at courthouses and check-ins, enforcement actions near schools and houses of worship are no longer carried out.”

Did you ever notice that when Democrats––i.e., liberals, leftists, progressives––speak about the tsunami of foreigners who have flooded into our country, they always––100 percent of the time––omit the word “illegal”?

Makes sense when you think about it. These are the people who embraced and applauded and supported and sent millions of dollars to Black Lives Matter and Antifa when those seditious, anarchic groups were rampaging across the nation, committing widespread arson, hurling (pre-planted) bricks through businesses, sending dozens of people to Intensive Care Units, and causing a significant number of deaths in their leftwing anti-capitalism, anti-American path.

Make no mistake about it, destroying ICE and its agents is among the major issues Democrats will run on in the midterms and will implement immediately if gaining the majority.

THEY HAVE ALLIES

In keeping with the oh-so-compassionate bleeding hearts in the Democrat Party, we have State Assemblywoman Emily Gallagher (D-NY), a card-carrying member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) who has gone public with her belief––not a theory, but a belief––that it is perfectly fine for a person to shoplift––i.e., steal––if they have a “biological need”––like for toothpaste and soap. She even suggested that shoplifting should be legalized!

And surprise, surprise! In keeping with her Party’s passionate embrace of Jew- and Israel hatred, in 2024, Gallagher “attended an anti-Israel phone bank sponsored by the New Jersey chapter of American Muslims for Palestine, whose leaders have espoused vile antisemitic rhetoric and are under investigation by Virginia’s attorney general for potentially funding terrorists.”

With allies like this, who needs enemies!

WHAT DOES SAFETY LOOK LIKE?

That is why in President Trump’s first acts when taking office in his second term, he immediately moved to close our wide-open southern border and to deport the multi-millions of illegal aliens who the liberals/leftists/progressives among us welcomed in with open arms.

“We’re a nation of immigrants,” they opine. “Immigrants built our country,” they scold any critics. “Deporting our immigrants is not who we are!” they bleated endlessly.

Again, the word they always omitted when pleading their bleeding-heart case is “illegal”!

But President Trump, ever the empiricist, knew the exorbitant costs in dollars and in crime that this tsunami of illegal immigrants brought with them.

According to writer Jasmine Baehr, the Trump border crackdown against drug cartels and arrests of convicted fentanyl traffickers has led to a drop in synthetic opioid deaths from 48,913 to 38,084, while, according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), total drug overdose deaths fell 14 percent, and fentanyl deaths plunged 22 percent. And total drug overdose deaths also fell 14 percent during the same period, from 81,313 to 69,973.

In addition, the president signed legislation that strengthens criminal penalties for fentanyl––which he calls “a weapon of mass destruction”––and his administration has arrested more than 10,000 suspected gang members and foreign nationals who the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said had prior fentanyl-related convictions.

Ask the thousands upon thousands of parents who have lost their children to this vicious drug how grateful they are for the president’s enhanced border security and for saving other parents the lifetime grief they themselves are experiencing.

This is not to omit, as journalist and TV correspondent Sharyl Attkisson documents, that President Trump has delivered the largest drop in violent crime in American history! This includes:

Violent crime plunged 9.3% in 2025 — the largest annual decline on record.
Murder dropped 18.1% –– tying the lowest rate in recorded history.
Robbery fell 18.5% –– resulting in nearly 38,500 fewer robberies.
Rape declined 7.6% — resulting in more than 10,000 fewer victims.
Aggravated assault fell 7.2% — resulting in over 62,700 fewer attacks.
Property crime dropped 12.4% –– the second-largest decline in history, with nearly 750,000 fewer offenses.

These numbers, Atkisson cites — are in line with the Council on Criminal Justice, Major Cities Chiefs Association, and many other sources — mark the decisive reversal of the crime crisis Democrats left behind.

NOT EVERYONE AGREES

In stark contrast, the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) think it’s a much smarter and much better to fuggedabout safety and implement their notion of an ideal America which includes––this is the short list;

Ø Replacing the president and the Supreme Court with people chosen by Congress,

Ø Abolishing the US Senate,

Ø Implementing amnesty for all immigrants,

Ø Defunding the Department of War (and, of course, the police),

Ø Terminating ICE,

Ø Extending full voting rights to people with criminal convictions and noncitizens,

Ø Medicare for all,

Ø Free public college,

Ø Expanded government ownership of key industries.

Needless to say, Vladmir Putin would approve!

WHAT’S THE CATCH?

We’ve all seen this scenario before, for decades. The radical leftists among us are very good at pretending––and convincing naïve voters––that they will implement socialism/communism significantly more successfully than all the crashingly failed regimes that have collapsed so catastrophically throughout history, as well as those pitiful communist regimes that exist today.

These radicals, who see the world comprised exclusively of victims and victimizers, may promise to change things for the better, but one thing they will never change is the privilege and private security and financial stability they will claim for themselves.

When it comes to the all-important issue of safety, you can be sure that they will never put their constituents or our country first!

Election Integrity Remains a Fault Line Between RINOs and the Grassroots

August 31, 2026/in Commentary, Election Fraud, Election Integrity, Elections, Hot Topics, News, Policy, Politics, SAVE America Act, Social Issues, Voter REAL ID/by The Daily Skirmish - Liberato.US

Sen. Murkowski says she opposes the SAVE America Act which would require voter ID. Murkowski said: a person living on a small Alaska island would not be able to vote if the SAVE America Act was passed because they would have to travel all the way to Anchorage to get an ID. An Unalaska (island) resident confirmed voting takes place at City Hall and said residents “Don’t have to go to Anchorage [to register to vote or obtain ID].”

GOP strategist Matt Locke says, the real problem is that President Trump’s agenda hasn’t advanced because of RINO Republicans. “The John Thune’s of the party, they like the old ways, they like being in charge, they like telling the President what to do” Locke said, “Now you have these Republicans who are used to the old ways, who want to run everything who can’t, so they’re going to step in and try to do as much damage as they can do, to outlast Trump and get the power back.”

WYOMING

Republican Mark Gordon kvetches about federal election monitors instead of welcoming their assistance in improving election integrity

Wyoming voters reject Freedom Caucus incumbents across the board, perhaps because of focus on spending cuts. “Establishment Republicans annihilated Freedom Caucus. ”WY’s results crushed the conservative narrative that establishment Republicans are out-of-touch “RINOs.”

Fellow RINO hunters, we’re not doing our job well enough.

August 23, 2026

If You Don’t Like My Principles, I Have Others

What Is a RINO?

Our working definition of a RINO is a Republican who meets one or more of these criteria:

Votes with Democrats against a Republican majority
Endorses Democrats
Takes money from Democrat-aligned sources
Doesn’t care about immigration, election integrity, limited government under the Constitution, free markets, or fiscal responsibility
Votes for more Democrat social spending
Wants open primaries
Is a former Democrat who ran as a Republican as the only way to get elected in a red state
Doesn’t stand for anything except reelection and personal enrichment

Please send us your definition of RINO – tips@liberato.us

FLORIDA

Belinda Keiser is suddenly claiming she’s MAGA? She ran as a Democrat. She donated to Hillary Clinton. She donated to Debbie Wasserman Schultz. Now she wants a seat in Congress from Florida. FL – 22, do not get played. A leopard does not change its spots

TEXAS

James Talarico poached Sen. John Corny’s deputy legislative director, Jacob Smith.
What was a man who could so easily abandon the conservative movement for a dishonest, radical leftist like Talarico ever doing on any GOP congressional staff?

As Groucho Marx said: “Those are my principles, and if you don’t like them… well, I have others.”

August 16, 2026

Swampmeister John Thune Blocks Trump Recess Appointments

National Scene

BETRAYAL IN THE SWAMP: Turncoat John Thune Sends Senate Home for 37 Days — But Schedules 11 Pro Forma Sessions to BLOCK Trump from Making Recess Appointments

ARIZONA

Good riddance — Gov. Katie Hobbs confirms former Mesa Mayor John Giles will be her running mate. “I was a lifelong Republican before becoming an Independent because extremists shouldn’t stand in the way of getting things done,” Giles said.

TENNESSEE

Is this why our feckless establishment Republican Supermajority in TN has KILLED every bill in the last 3-4 years to close the primaries in TN? They want to leave it for Marsha [Blackburn] so she can claim it as some kind of “conservative victory”?

TEXAS

Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) added his voice to local politicians and Democrat State Representative James Talarico (D-Austin), nominee in the 2026 U.S. Senate election in Texas, in opposing border security enhancements in the Big Bend National Park.