The Biden Iran File – ‘The Iran House’ Now Available!

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My new book, The Iran House: Tales of Revolution, Persecution, War, and Intrigue, is now available from Amazon. This link below will take you there directly. Plus, anything you buy on Amazon in the 30 minutes after you click on the link will earn me a commission. (That helps pay the rent….)

If you don’t like clicking on links, just go to Amazon and search for The Iran House and you’ll find it. My publisher, Bombadier Books, has recently published books by Miranda Devine, Dan Bongino, and others.

The Iran House reveals how an investigative reporter came to assist several U.S. intelligence agencies in their efforts to thwart Iranian regime terrorism against the United States.

It is unusual – to say the least – for a reporter to work with intelligence services. Even less so, to break cover and talk about it openly.

In my case, it usually began with a knock on the door, the showing of creds, and the question: are you willing to help your country in the war against international terrorism? Well, duh!

The first of these contacts happened shortly after the 9/11 attacks, when the FBI approached me for information about an Iranian they believed was in contact with al Qaeda operatives living in Iran before the attacks.

That soon morphed into an effort to recruit the former commander of the Revolutionary Guards, Mohsen Rezai. (Rezai’s son defected to the U.S. in 1998 and learned English in my basement in Maryland watching Jackie Chan movies).

Rezai became an Iranian regime vice president in 2021. The FBI recruitment effort, which ultimately failed, has never been made public.

A second series of contacts was initiated by NCIS, following the publication of an article of mine in Newsmax about an Iranian regime naval contingency plan. NCIS agents wanted to meet my Iranian defector source – and ultimately did. But they were rank amateurs and the two chapters I devote to them  are called “The Boobs at NCIS.”

A third series of contacts began in 2017, when FBI agents from the Iran squad at the Washington Field Office showed up on my doorstep in Maryland, seeking my cooperation in terrorism and money-laundering cases. This effort was far more successful for the U.S. government, and led to several thwarted terrorist attacks.

The FBI used me to run a network of Iranian sub-agents, and eventually brought me to a secure location in the United States for a dedicated three-day training session to enhance my survival skills.

This collaboration ultimately led to the killing of Quds Force commander Qassem Suleymani on January 3, 2020, in which I played a minor supporting role. 

The book gives a blow-by-blow account of the information I was receiving over the 2019-2020 New Year’s holiday from a subagent who had direct access to Iranian regime communications about the assault on the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad then underway.

That information was relayed “all the way to the top,” according to my FBI handler, and ultimately helped President Trump and the White House team make the decision to take out Iran’s top terrorist.

Later, I learned from a different Iranian source that the Baghdad embassy attack was not just an Iranian operation. It had been motivated – indeed, solicited – in large part by a senior advisor to former vice-president Joe Biden, who was seeking ways of destroying Trump’s chances of re-election in 2020.

This is one of the big scandals of the 2024 election campaign. The Biden advisor eventually asked the Iranians to “do the same thing in Baghdad that you did with our embassy in Tehran” in 1979. 

Democrats have been obsessed with the 1979 Tehran hostage crisis ever since that time, and to this day many believe that Ronald Reagan and his campaign made a deal with advisors to Ayatollah Khomeini to hold onto the hostages until after the 1980 election. This is the origin of the well-worn phrase, “October surprise.”

The Biden campaign was hoping the Iranians could help them pull off an “October surprise” against Donald Trump, except that they would start their assault on his credibility as commander-in-chief in January 2020, giving Democrat operatives and their allies in the media ten full months to hound Trump, just as Ted Koppel hounded Jimmy Carter throughout the 444 days of the Tehran hostage crisis in 1979 .

The book describes in detail how my source gained access to the classified file containing the Biden-Iran communications in the Supreme Leader’s Office in Tehran, and how he communicated elements from that file to me. It also contains a damning chronology of the Biden-Iran back channel provided directly to me by the Iranian intelligence official who photographed the documents in Tehran.

Make sure you order an extra copy of The Iran House for your Member of Congress. I can tell you this: the FBI and the NSA well aware of the Biden advisor’s communications with Tehran, and have kept them quiet. Congress should subpoena these records and make them public.

When I was a younger man we had a word for this, and it starts with T….

Get your copy now before Amazon runs out of copies!

Yours in freedom.

©2024. All rights reserved.

Reading the Bible and Human Flourishing

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During trying times like these, with many storms upon us (literally and figuratively), no book provides greater comfort than the Bible.

Yet how many actually read it? Although there are studies noting a drop of Bible-reading among Americans in recent times, nonetheless, 47 million are reported to be “Scripture engaged.” No other book would come close to that kind of readership.

As of this writing, the education department of the state of Oklahoma is planning to purchase 55,000 Bibles for the public schools. I’m sure the left is gnashing their teeth over such a plan.

But historically the Bible was the reason that education for the masses was developed in America in the first place. The Puritan forefathers created schools for the masses (a forerunner to the public schools), so that children could learn to read, so they could read the Bible for themselves.

Someone might argue, “Well, that was the Puritans. But surely the founding fathers didn’t agree with that.”

But, actually, they did argue for that in 1787 and in 1789 when the founders adopted the Northwest Ordinance. As new territories became states in the newly formed United States, they were to follow the same basic template.

Here’s what Article III of the Northwest Ordinance had to say about schools, which were voluntary at that time and often run by churches: “Religion, morality, and knowledge, being necessary for good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged.”

The Bible was the chief textbook in one way or another for the first 200-300 years of America—and that’s when the children could read, because of it. It was the Bible that gave birth to Harvard, William and Mary, Yale, Princeton, Dartmouth, Brown, and so on.

It was only when the schools explicitly went against the Scriptures that American education went off the rails. Now there are major portions of society who can’t read, despite years of schooling.

Meanwhile, is there a correlation between reading the Scriptures and human flourishing?

Many social science studies have shown that church is good for society, that attending church on a regular basis lengthens your life (on average), and that attending church often improves the quality of your life as well. Dr. Byron Johnson of Baylor’s Institute for Studies of Religion has spent years assessing studies on the impact of applied religion (generally, Christianity) leading to positive personal and societal improvement. Dr. Johnson even wrote a book showing how Christian belief and practice helps lower criminal behavior. The book is appropriately titled, More God, Less Crime.

But what about Bible-reading? A recent study that Dr. Johnson wrote, along with M. Bradshaw and S. J. Jang, is entitled, “Assessing the Link Between Bible Reading and Flourishing among Military Families.”

Before exploring their results (which were positive), the study mentions earlier related findings: “Previous research shows salutary associations between multiple dimensions of religiosity (including reading sacred texts) and different aspects of flourishing (e.g., physical health, psychological well-being, character and virtue, social connections and support).”

The abstract of the study noted: “Bible reading may promote overall mental, physical, and social well-being.”

They list at three of their findings on how the Bible fosters human flourishing: “First, Bible reading is likely to promote psychological well-being by helping individuals develop a close relationship with a loving and caring God who engages in the lives of individuals.”

They continue: “Second, Bible reading may facilitate feelings of divine control that help cope with stress. Third, positive and encouraging messages in the Bible may also promote purpose in life and guidance seeking, which may also enhance flourishing.”

I have found personally that when I started reading the Bible for myself as a young man that it was such a great source for knowledge, for wisdom, for direction, for personal relations, etc.

The Bible was important to great Americans like George Washington, whose writings and speeches are filled with Biblical phrases, such as “And everyman shall rest under his own vine and fig tree, and there shall be none to make them afraid.” This was Washington’s vision for America.

Even Jefferson collected many of the teachings of Jesus (including a few miracles) in a document for Native-Americans, so they could benefit from them, just as we have. People mistakenly call this unpublished work “The Jefferson Bible.” But as Jefferson noted once, the morality of Jesus is the most sublime and greatest moral teaching of all time.

President Lincoln called the Scriptures “the best gift God has ever given men,” through which we learn about the Savior. Millions of Americans have revered the Bible.

As Ronald Reagan once said of the holy book, “Inside its pages lie all the answers to all the problems that man has ever known.”

To promote human flourishing, spread the message of the Scriptures.

©2024. Jerry Newcombe, D. Min. All rights reserved.

Bradenton, Florida: Capital of Anti-Semitism, Murder Capital 2024, Hurricane Capital

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On this eve of Judaism’s most sacred day, Yom Kippur — the Day of Atonement — many may still believe that sins and crimes against Jews will remain unpunished, as they have for decades in Bradenton, Florida, which has now earned three well-deserved titles:

  1. Florida’s Capital of Antisemitism
  2. Florida’s Murder Capital 2024
  3. Florida’s Hurricane Capital

Who would believe that it is just an inconvenient coincidence that Bradenton has been struck by two devastating hurricanes in two weeks, the second of which is happening during the Holy Days of Awe between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, when we must atone for our sins, individual and collective?

In Bradenton, Florida lawyer, Jorge Martinez, mocked the decades of antisemitic persecution against our Holocaust Survivor family as “religious-based nonsense,” with no judicial repercussions.

In Bradenton, there are no known indictments or prosecutions of decades of crimes against Jews.

In Bradenton, Jews can be robbed of thousands of Jewish property items without any law officer, official, judge, legislator, governor, or administrator raising a single objection … Ever.

The sounds of silence opposing Jew-hatred are everywhere in Bradenton.

Perhaps, it is The Almighty Who has raised quite an objection to relentless sins and crimes against Jews in Bradenton with His force and fury. Perhaps this was the last resort “for such a time as this” in an unrepentant society during the Ten Days of Awe and Penitence.

©2024. Beverly Newman, Ed. D. All rights reserved.

To the 41 Million Christians ‘Unlikely’ to Vote This November: ‘You Need to Repent’

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While Kamala Harris’s numbers are starting to come back to earth after a disastrous vice presidential debate, things have never looked better for the Californian’s campaign. As much as people have come to rely on the ebbs and flows of public opinion, longtime strategists know that there’s a better predictor of how Democrats will do — and that’s the evangelical vote. Or, as the 2024 numbers warn, the lack thereof.

According to some truly shocking statistics from George Barna at Arizona Christian University (ACU), as many as 41 million Christians plan to sit this election out — more than enough to hand the country’s keys to the eager and radical Left. For Donald Trump’s opponent, the news that one of the Dems’ biggest obstacles to victory is voluntarily shirking their civic duty is cause for premature celebration.

Incredibly, the research, conducted between August and September, suggests that 41 million self-described born-again Christians are “unlikely” to vote in the November election. To Len Munsil, president of ACU, that spells disaster. “I see two huge takeaways from this blockbuster report,” he explained. “First, that Christians could be the deciding factor in a bunch of federal and state races — and are choosing not to be. And second,” he continued, “that they are longing for their local church to instruct them on how to think biblically about policy and politics. They don’t want to be told how to vote,” Munsil added, “but they do want to know why they should vote and how to view political issues from a biblical framework.”

When Christians were asked to explain their complacency, 68% replied that they aren’t interested in politics, followed by 57% who dislike both presidential candidates, and another 52% who believe their vote won’t make a difference. In a sad sign of where we are as a country, 48% also worry that the election results will be manipulated.

Of course, one of the most problematic aspects of this passivity is that November 5 involves a lot more than the White House. In fact, Family Research Council President Tony Perkins argues, many would contend that there are “much more important decisions than the presidency on the state and local ballot. Control of the House and Senate hangs in the balance. Governors, state attorneys general, local school boards, even comptrollers are amassing major victories in protecting children from radical gender ideology, pushing back on corporate America’s woke agenda, fighting the Biden administration’s lawless overreach, and passing sweeping pro-life and pro-parent laws. While we might not have the ideal situation at the top of the ballot,” he wrote in Decision magazine, “Americans have several other issues to be mindful of as we head to the polls.” In our hands rest “the hopes of soldiers on foreign battlefields, the persecuted church in faraway lands and the peace of God’s chosen nation Israel (Numbers 24:9),” Perkins warned.

And yet, this church-wide short-sightedness threatens to leave everyone from our global neighbors to our next-door neighbors without help or hope. “Think about what has happened here in America in just the last 35 years,” Cornerstone Chapel Senior Pastor Gary Hamrick told the Pray Vote Stand Summit on Saturday. “Think about some of these things. There’s been gender confusion. There’s been marriage redefinition. There’s been a disregard for life. There’s become environmental worship, the stripping of parental authority, the deterioration of religious liberties, and the list goes on and on.”

How “absurd,” he went on, that in a matter of a generation, “people are now trying to figure out what bathroom to use. Businesses are being sued for not baking cakes or doing graphic designs for same-sex weddings. The nanny state has approved pornographic reading material in many public school systems. … It’s illegal to disturb sea turtles in South Florida, but not illegal to abort babies from a womb. This is complete insanity.”

And frankly, Hamrick declared, “We have no one to blame but ourselves.” “There are 90 million self-identified evangelical Christians eligible to vote in the United States of America,” and according to George Barna a healthy slice of them will refuse to.

“Let me tell you what happens when we are not involved in the political process,” he said somberly. “We open the door for every evil ideology to fill the vacuum. When we decide we’re going to check out, we’re not going to be involved, we’re not going to be politically engaged, all we do is open the door for more of the same evil agenda and ideology. Why is it that so many Christians are sitting out on the sidelines? Why [is there] such political apathy in our world? Because a lot of Christians think that politics is a dirty word that they don’t want to be involved in. ‘We will leave the world of politics up to the rest of the world,’ they would say, and then wonder why every evil has filled the vacuum.” If you thought the last 35 years was disturbing, imagine the next 35. “…We are one generation away from losing what is valuable and precious and sacred,” Hamrick warned.

This trend of political indifference and disgust is in spite of the Scripture’s clear teaching that government — like the family and the church — is an institution created and established by God. “Why is it that when it comes to the family, people are protective of the family, Christians in particular? Why is it when it comes to the church, Christians in particular want to care for the church and defend the church? But then when it comes to this third institution, the second one that God ordained, [and] all of a sudden people say, ‘Well, that one doesn’t need my involvement, that one doesn’t need my participation, that one doesn’t need for me to be engaged.’”

Look, church, Hamrick urged, “God has called us in 2 Corinthians 5:20 to be his ambassadors. An ambassador is one who represents another official or dignitary. Our dignitary that we are representing is the Lord Jesus Christ Himself, and He calls us to represent him in every facet and aspect of life. That means we represent him in the job. That means we represent Him in the family. That means we represent Him in the church. That means we represent Him in our neighborhood, where we go to school, where we interact on every level with every person. God calls us to be his ambassadors. We don’t stop being ambassadors because we think, ‘Well, government is a dirty word. Politics is a dirty word. We don’t want to be engaged in all that. We’ll just leave that to other people’ — other people who will continue to take it down the progressive path it’s on right now and destroy this nation.”

It’s a point that Calvary Chapel Chino Hills Senior Pastor Jack Hibbs reiterated in his own remarks. “We are citizens of heaven. We are to act like heaven. We are to represent heaven. We are to speak about the things that concern heaven.” Does that mean we have to be excited about the choices before us? Absolutely not. But as God’s people, we should all want a president “that will save more babies’ lives than Kamala Harris,” he argued.

That doesn’t mean Donald Trump can save this country. As Hibbs acknowledged, “There’s no politician, including Trump, that can affect the soul of this nation. You’re the only one. The answer is not in the statehouse. And it’s not going to be in the White House. It’s got to be in your own house. It’s got to be in the [house] of God.” If your response is, “Well, I don’t vote,” then “you need to repent,” Hibbs insisted. “Every opportunity God gives us, we are to use it to the advancement of His kingdom. And voting is the easiest. We fire no bullets,” he pointed out. “We don’t pull out any swords. There [aren’t] tanks in the street. We just get up and go vote.”

And get over trying to find the perfect candidate, Hamrick admonished. “There is no candidate who is the full package because Jesus is not on the ballot. There is no perfect person running,” he pointed out, “and God has used both righteous leaders and unrighteous leaders all through the Bible to accomplish his good purposes.”

But, the Cornerstone leader cautioned, “If we see the rising tide of evil in our land and we decide to do nothing, we are ceding ground to the enemy, and we are being unfaithful to our calling as ambassadors for Christ.”

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Suzanne Bowdey

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Saudi Journalist: Hamas And Hizbullah Spread A Culture Of Suicide, They Are Not Resistance Organizations

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In an October 6, 2024 article in the London-based Saudi daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, Saudi journalist and researcher Fahad Suleiman Shoqiran criticized the Hamas and Hizbullah terrorist organizations for appropriating the concept of “resistance.” He wrote that resistance means self-defense or waging war against an attacker, but the so-called resistance movements have charged it with a fundamentalist ideology that promotes a culture of suicide – a  culture that is not just manifest in sending suicide bombers to blow themselves up in cafes in Jerusalem or Tel Aviv, but in entrapping and endangering entire cities and societies. This culture, he added, maintained in the name of resistance or of Palestine, constitutes a crime against humanity, for which these organizations should stand trial.

The following are translated excerpts from Shoqiran’s article:[1]

“It is only natural that the situation in the region is tense, especially after these large [Israeli] attacks, which are broadcast live, and following the assassination of the leader of the Hizbullah militia, along with others who were killed or will be killed in the future. Israel is carrying out powerful operations. Countries are not charitable associations; they have their own interests, objectives and operations, and on this basis a well-founded and well-considered strategy must be formulated…

“The effort of the resistance axis and its militias to put Israel to the test and plumb [the depths] of its fury every couple of years is regrettable. After the 2006 war, which caused the deaths of more than two thousand Lebanese, as well as severe economic damage in the amount of two billion dollars, Nasrallah made his famous statement: ‘If I had known, I wouldn’t have kidnapped the two Israeli soldiers.’ In 2009 Hamas tested the Israelis again and caused huge massacres, and the same thing happened in 2012 and in 2014. Now [Hamas] is trying out a war with the Israelis while Lebanon is being pulverized…

“The problem today lies in the fact that the meaning of ‘resistance’ has expanded since the establishment of Hizbullah, the Palestinian brigades and the Hamas movement, [and this expansion] did not end [even] with the Houthis. The concept of resistance has been loaded and charged with fundamentalist ideology and does not mean self-defense or war waged against an attacker  [anymore]. It has its own religious, ideological and political partisan context.

“The concept of resistance has become associated with escalating suicide attacks and with pressuring the enemy not through military action but rather through a culture of suicide. I am not referring here only to the jihad fighter from [Hamas’ military wing], the ‘Izz Ad-​Din Al-Qassam Brigades, who blows himself up in a café in Jerusalem or Tel Aviv. Hamas has trapped the entire Palestinian people and Gaza inside the explosive belt of its recklessness, leaving them at the mercy of [its] irresponsible decision to test the response of the Israelis, who are known for their violence and destructiveness. As we know, the Israeli force is merciless, and the Arabs have become accustomed to it over their history, which is rife with defeats and nakbas. The Lebanese, Syrian, Palestinian and Yemeni people have lost enormous sums, economies have crashed and peoples have lost their stability and are at a loss [what to do] under the rule of foolish and reckless regimes.

“For decades, the Palestinian cause has served the [Arab] statesmen as a moral snare, [used to] justify their crimes to the peoples. Countries and capital cities have been pulverized, entire states have been occupied and millions have been expelled [from their homes] in the name of resistance and in the name of Palestine. If the nations are determined to evolve, they must establish courts where the leaders of the resistance will be brought to justice. When a culture of suicide develops—ranging from the entrapment of an individual to the entrapment of entire capitals and societies—it constitutes a crime against humanity. That is why there is widespread sympathy for [these] heavy disasters, whose victims have been taken hostage by dark forces subordinate to states that have abandoned true Islam.

“Ultimately, history always draws its conclusions, and we must take note of the fact that this period is the most difficult of all and that failing to return to the roots, to the law and to [state] institutions will jeopardize global security, for times have changed… Some of the norms and moral [principles] that are part of the discourse about Palestine were formulated by the Muslim Brotherhood [MB], and a group of intellectuals and academics now parrot them. Today the [resistance] axis is trying to revive the MB discourse with all its might and to establish the MB lexicon on Palestine as the permanent [lexicon used] in political commentary and in media coverage of the war Israel is waging. This is an act of injustice and of ignoring the development that has occurred among some of the Arab peoples, especially those that have opted for peace and sighed agreements of tolerance and reconciliation among the [Abrahamic] religions. This attack and escapade of Hamas’ was just meant to delay any peace agreement that was supposed to be [signed]…”

Fahad Suleiman Shoqiran

Fahad Shoqiran is a Saudi writer and researcher who also founded the Riyadh philosophers group. His writings have appeared in pan-Arab newspaper Asharq al-Awsat, Alarabiya.net, among others. He also blogs on philosophies, cultures and arts. He tweets @shoqiran.

SOURCE:

[1] Al-Sharq Al-Awsat (London), October 6, 2024.

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Heads up, liberal Jews—Don’t be Jews with trembling knees!

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“Don’t threaten us with cutting off your aid. It will not work. I am not a Jew with trembling knees. I am a proud Jew with 3,700 years of civilized history. Nobody came to our aid when we were dying in the gas chambers and ovens. Nobody came to our aid when we were striving to create our country. We paid for it. We fought for it. We died for it. We will stand by our principles. We will defend them. And, when necessary, we will die for them again, with or without your aid.”

Those words were spoken by Menachem Begin in June of 1982, directly to the Democrat senator from Delaware, Joe Biden, who had confronted the Israeli Prime Minister during his Senate Foreign Relations Committee testimony by threatening to cut off aid to Israel.

That’s right, only 32 years after the establishment of the tiny Jewish state, which was surrounded by 22 warmongering, Israel-loathing Arab states, and only 35 years after the Holocaust savagely murdered—tortured and gassed-to-death—six-million Jewish men, women, children, and infants, Senator Biden was once again terrorizing the Jews of the world with his menacing ultimatum.

Not a fluke, not a misstatement, not an error in judgement, but vintage Joe Biden, whose longtime antagonism and belligerence toward Israel has been exhaustively documented by, among others, Shmuel Klatzkin (Biden’s Hostility to Israel—read the whole article) and Janet Levy in AmericanThinker.com (Is a Vote for Joe Biden in the Interest of American Jews?).

EXAMPLES ABOUND

Levy reports a number of the Obama-Biden regime’s consistent anti-Israel policies:

  • They interfered with the 2015 Israeli elections with the goal of defeating the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
  • Their State Department granted $350,000 to OneVoice, a radical anti-Israel organization that supports the terrorist group Hamas.
  • They fully supported the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement to destroy Israel economically.
  • In 2016, Biden pressured Ukraine, an abstainer, to vote for UN Security Council measure 2334, which claimed that ancient and historic Jewish sites were “illegally occupied.”
  • They approved the same UN measure, which condemned Israelis building settlements—emboldening the Palestinian Authority to call for the ethnic cleansing of Jews from Judea, Samaria, and the Jewish Quarter, reversing decades of U.S. vetoes against such moves.

Today, President Biden heartily endorses the Iran nuclear deal—which President Trump canceled—and has let Israel know that he adamantly opposes Israel attacking Iran’s nuclear sites. That is the same Iran whose stated mission for decades is to eradicate “The Big Satan” (America) and to exterminate from the face of the earth “The Little Satan” (Israel).

And we all know how thunderously silent Mr. Biden was back when his violently racist fellow Democrats—Reps. Ilhan Omar (MN), Rashida Tlaib (MI), Ayanna Pressley (MA), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY)—and a long list of simpatico Jew-hating, Israel-loathing activists—spewed their undisguised anti-Semitic bile for all the world to hear.

“Biden said he could never be silent on anti-Semitism,” Levy writes, “but raised no objections, as vice-president, to more than 60 White House visits by Al Sharpton, who [had] incited anti-Jewish riots in New York City in the 1990s.

LESSONS OF HISTORY

I was a very little girl—younger than six—when I first asked my parents why they were running frantically to meeting after meeting every evening, opening their checkbooks, delivering impassioned speeches, wringing their hands, and shedding copious tears.

They told me what few American-Jewish parents ever told their children, so numb were they from disbelief and so eager to protect them from the ghastly truth, which was that adults and children just like them, just like us—six million of them—had been savagely murdered by Adolph Hitler and his “willing executioners” in Germany, Poland, all over Eastern Europe, and even in “civilized” countries like France, simply because they were Jewish.

Jews who managed to flee Europe and come to America before the Holocaust—like my own and my late husband Steve’s grandparents––and those who survived the killing camps and landed on our shores by sheer good fortune, thought they died and went to heaven on earth. For the first time in their lives—in fact, in Jewish history—they were free to breathe, to create, to pursue their dreams, to worship, and to raise their children without fear.

Yes, there were quotas in colleges and graduate schools, Holocaust denial, and today an upsurge in Jew hatred, but nothing stopped Jews from succeeding and excelling and contributing disproportionately to American society and to the world, just as the Jews in the state of Israel—only 76 years old—do today.

THE LEGACY OF PERSECUTION

But over 3,500 years of persecution exacts a heavy price. To understand, just think about the long-lasting toll the following events take:

  • A one-minute gunshot,
  • A two-hour bout of chemotherapy,
  • A three-week recovery from open-heart surgery,
  • A four-month lay-off,
  • An almost three-year pandemic lockdown
  • A five-year recession.

All of the above are life-changing, diminishing, often devastating, sometimes annihilating.

Yet Jews continued on, their survival instinct stronger than the most crushing circumstances of their long and besieged history of being haunted, hunted, and often destroyed in, among other cataclysmic events:

  • The Crusades.
  • The Inquisition.
  • The expulsion from Spain.
  • The Holocaust.
  • And always, the diaspora.
  • And now, October 7, 2023.

After the Holocaust, American Jews who followed politics—most did and still do today—were forced to ask themselves, and taught their children to ask: Is it good for the Jews? Meaning, will this or that candidate or statement or policy or law lead to another Holocaust?

After all, the Jews of Europe in the 1930s and ‘40s enjoyed tremendous success—in business, academia, the arts and sciences, society in general. Unlike the United States today, every college and university did not feature violent anti-Jewish protests or professors who taught anti-Jewish propaganda. Until the rise of Hitler, there were no elected officials—as there are in the U.S. today––spewing Jew hatred, not only with no disapproval from the powers-that-be, but with total impunity.

Now, American Jews have to ask themselves: Is the presidential candidacy of Biden’s choice for VP, Kamala Harris, good for the Jews?

Writer Kenin M. Spivak, among dozens who affirm his thinking, cites numerous damning reasons why Harris is a terrible––and dangerous—choice, among them that she “has remained largely silent about the outbreak of anti-Semitism. She selected far-left advisors who oppose Israel’s Gaza operations, and she boycotted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to Congress.”

Not to omit that she was “open to” an arms embargo against Israel and, as Robert Spencer, a middle east expert, predicts: “If Kamala is elected president, the American gravy train to Tehran will likely continue running, enabling the mullahs to continue their jihad against Israel…”

But nothing covers the true horrors of a Harris presidency more comprehensively than this opus, whose author wishes to remain anonymous.

“Biden-Harris-Walz are and will be a disaster for Israel and for American Jews,” he writes. “As a lifelong Democrat it hurts me even more to admit that, this time around, given the prominence of the currently major issue for me, I believe I have to vote for the Orange Man.”

In short, a vote for Kalamity Harris and the truly regressive, Obama-clone platform she’s running on––including high taxes, a weakened military, an anti-fracking return-to-energy-dependence, open borders, confiscation of your guns, and a viciously contentious relationship with Israel––would be terrible for America and disastrous for the Jewish state.

If you’re a liberal American Jew determined to pull the lever or mail a write-in ballot for Kamala Harris—don’t!

Don’t be a Jew with trembling knees. Your very survival and that of your family are at stake!

©2024. Joan Swirsky. All rights reserved.

Donald Trump Visits Ohel Of Lubavitcher Rebbe On October 7th Amid Tight Security

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G-d bless President Trump, righteous among the Nations.

Former President Trump Visits the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s Ohel in Queens, NY

Donald Trump to Visit Ohel Of Lubavitcher Rebbe On Monday Amid Tight Security

By: Yeshiva World, October 6, 2024

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is scheduled to visit the Ohel of the Lubavitcher Rebbe in Queens, New York, on Monday, sources have confirmed to YWN. The visit, expected to be conducted under tight security, is being facilitated by David Friedman, former U.S. Ambassador to Israel, who has maintained close ties with Trump since leaving his post following Trump’s departure from the White House in 2021.

Sources tell YWN that the Secret Service were at the Ohel on Rosh Hashanah checking the entire area.

Trump’s visit to the Ohel on Oct. 7 is seen as a gesture of solidarity with Jewish communities on the one-year anniversary of the murderous Hamas attack on southern Israel. It also follows a canceled visit to Gottlieb’s restaurant in Williamsburg due to the sudden passing of the restaurant’s proprietor.

Security at the Ohel will be extremely tight, as Trump has been under presidential-level protection following a second assassination attempt at his golf course in Miami Beach, Florida, last month.

Trump’s visit to the Ohel will be followed by a flight back to Florida, where he is scheduled to attend a memorial event for the victims of the October 7 Hamas attack.

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Pamela Geller

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ISRAEL’S 9/11 — A Movie Tribute to Israel, as they battle evil enemies of Western Civilization featuring Rabbi Aryeh Lightstone

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Tom Trento – On Friday Oct 6, 2023, at 11:30pm, eastern time, I went to bed.

As soon as I laid my head down, my “Red Alert” alarm went off and I said to myself, “stupid HAMAS, shooting some Katyusha rockets into Israel,” so I shut my Red Alert off, as I had done many times through the years. I went to sleep thinking, “when will they ever learn?”

Today is October 6, 2024, one year later and I’m more convinced now, then ever, that orthodox Islam, what Winston Churchill called, Mohammadism, cannot be reformed, only contained because there is a systemic, evil element in Islamic doctrine.

When I turned on the TV at 5am on Saturday October 7, 2023, I quickly realized that the world was about to change, as would my life and the lives of most of the people I know, who do the work we do.

For many years, The United West has been leading National Security expeditions to Israel to expose American leaders to the effective methods of Israel’s fight with Muslim jihadis.

In the summer of 2023, our mission brought Tom Homan, former ICE Director under President Trump and Sara Carter, Fox News contributor, on a border security briefing, traveling all over the hot spots of Israel, including walking 150 feet below the surface of the earth, in a Hezbollah terror tunnel. From there we traveled to the GAZA and Egyptian borders, then by the killing fields of the Nova Music festival, just a few months before the October 7, 2023, HAMAS massacre.

During this past year, The United West has worked every day on educating the world as to Israel’s right to not only defend herself, but to dramatically and forcefully engage in battle with HAMAS, Hezbollah, the others and primarily Iran, to completely destroy the military operational capability of all Israel’s enemies.

We believe that the United States should be leading a coalition of Western and Muslim countries, who themselves are targets of Iran, to destroy Iran’s nuclear capabilities and other strategic infrastructure, all with the objective of stopping the world’s foremost producer of Islamic terrorism.

It is against the apocalyptic context of the past year, that The United West’s team produced and presents our Tribute to the men and women of Israel, ISRAEL’S 9/11.

THE UNITED WEST PRESENTS ISRAEL’S 9/11 A MEMORIAL TRIBUTE

A Movie Tribute to Israel, as they battle evil enemies of Western Civilization featuring Rabbi Aryeh Lightstone

©2024. All rights reserved.

VIDEO: The most unequivocal and lucid support of Israel and Zionism by a politician in Canadian history: Shuvaloy Majumdar

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This was really a surprise. Normally, even politicians who support Israel equivocate a little bit. But this Conservative MP, Shuvaloy Majumdar, could not have been clearer in his support. And that took bravery. By juxtaposition, the Liberal MP for Ottawa Vanier, Mona Fortier, a ‘progressive’ to use the bearded language of the left for communist, made some obviously fumbled statements of support but wanted balance. Claimed that the Trudeau government would do everything in its power to get the hostages back or some such pablum only to be greeted with jeers and calls of “Well do something!” by the crowd. This all took place on Parliament Hill yesterday, Oct. 6 2024.

As an afterthought, it is interesting that as the year has passed, the communist Muslim protests appear to have wound down a lot and today in Montreal and Ottawa, the protests against Israel couldn’t seem to break 200 people. Dunno about Toronto yet. But Ottawa was just a few dialectical Jews, a lot of LARPing leftists with terror scarfs on, and lots of bona-fide Muslims who took the opportunity to take over the street in front of the Israeli Embassy well after everyone had left, and do some little league chanting and some dedicated arse-lifting.

WATCH: Conservative MP Shuvaloy Majumdar Oct 6 2024 P Hill Ottawa

Predictably, Global News does not show her speech because it makes her look bad, and doesn’t show the Conservative MP’s because it makes him look good. I am having no luck whatsoever on X or elsewhere finding her speech. I was about ready to leave at that point and wasn’t filming, but I saw the crowd react and it was not good, and she richly deserved it. It is almost like the crowd was actually awake to the language the left uses.

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Critically Thinking about the Upcoming 2024 Election: The American Experiment is at Stake

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In a democratic country’s elections, most of the emphasis should be on comparing the policies of Candidate A, to the policies of Candidate B. In the US, that idea has apparently gone the way of the buggy whip.

We are now immersed in so much subterfuge (some quite sophisticated) that we need to periodically step back to appreciate the magnitude (and origins) of it — and then apply Critical Thinking. Here is my outline of just some of the current lowlights:

1. Zero Progress on Post-Election Audits —

Despite an extraordinary amount of well-documented evidence (e.g., here), plus the indisputable logic of doing it, there is not any US precinct, county, or State where a meaningful post-election audit is mandated! This is a testament to the power of the anti-Americans claiming that such audits: “are not necessary,” “will suppress the vote,” etc., etc. This is unmitigated baloney whose sole purpose is to hide election fraud.

2. Government Invasion of the Private Residence of a Candidate —

In an unprecedented attack on civil rights, the US Government invaded the home of a Presidential candidate. The explanation given was without merit, as the other Presidential candidate was equally (if not more) guilty of the same “offense” (having confidential papers in their residence) — and he experienced no such violation of his rights. Clearly, the main reason for this intrusion was politics: to damage the image of a particular Presidential candidate (e.g., see here).

3. Lawsuits Against a Candidate —

In an audacious assault on civil rights, Democrat prosecutors brought charges against one Presidential candidate. The nature of such charges (and how the deck was rigged at every turn), makes Russian politics look amateurish. As of today, there has not been a final adjudication that he is guilty of anything — but that was never the objective. Once again, the main purpose was to sling mud at a Presidential candidate, knowing that the media would amplify it, and hoping that there were a sufficient number of non-critical-thinking voters that the election would be swayed. (It’s good that you noticed the political temerity here, as the root claim was that the prosecuted candidate was “trying to influence the elections” — exactly what they were doing!! )

4. Assassination Attempts Against a Candidate —

In an extraordinarily disturbing development, a Presidential candidate is subjected to two assassination attempts. The Dems claim no responsibility although: a) their incessant and inflamed rhetoric is specifically designed to generate hate and fear of this candidate, and b) the Dem-controlled government agency charged with protecting all Presidential candidates, acted in a woefully incompetent manner.

5. Flooding the Country with Foreign Nationals —

In another beyond-the-pale development, the Dems purposely allowed ten to twenty million undocumented foreign nationals into the country. (See here for a further discussion of this extraordinary, Dem-created catastrophe.) The number of these people who vote in the 2024 election will never be known! (See #1, Audits, above.)

6. Falsely Enflaming the Issue of Women’s Rights —

As they believe that it is a favorable election issue, the Dems have presented themselves as a “champion of women’s rights.” (See a further discussion here.) Once again they hope that voters are not critical thinkers, and will not notice the total hypocrisy of their position. For example, the Dems are also the champions against women’s rights when it comes to biological males competing in women’s sports.

7. Greasing the Skids for President Joe Biden —

The Dem’s process for selecting their Presidential candidate was not some democratic choice by registered Democrats! It was carefully choreographed so that one — and only one — candidate would be victorious: Joe Biden. Other legitimate Democrat contenders (e.g., Robert F. Kennedy, jr) were blocked. So the puppet masters got exactly what they wanted: Joe Biden as the official Dem Presidential candidate.

8. A Last-Minute Presidential Candidate that No One Voted For —

Oops, it soon became apparent that the puppet master’s candidate had no chance of winning — so back to the drawing board! In another unprecedented maneuver, the behind-the-scenes power brokers anointed Kamala Harris as the new “official” Dem Presidential candidate — even though she had not received a single primary vote from even one registered Democrat citizen. The Venezuelan dictator gives them a thumbs-up!

9. Mainstream Media’s Relentless Misinformation —

Journalism used to be a proud and worthy profession, where good people provided the public with objective, factual information that helped them make informed decisions on important democracy-related matters such as elections. Mainstream media abandoned this model decades ago and is now an unabashed promoter of undeclared agendas — mostly anti-American, Marxist agendas. Their survival depends on their being inattentive, non-Critical-Thinking citizens. Essentially every mainstream media story about the 2024 Presidential election, is a serious distortion.

10. Leveraging the Hurricane Disaster —

North Carolina is a pivotal state in the 2024 Presidential election. It is a red-leaning state, so is a target of Dems. The recent hurricane has put the ballots of some 1.3 million NC citizens at risk. Who are they? Per the NC State Board of Elections, there are approximately: 300k Democrats + 500k Republicans + 500k Independents. This appears to be one of the unadvertised reasons why the Federal and State governments are slow-walking NC recovery efforts. If citizens are consumed with day-to-day survival matters, voting will be a low priority, and that will hurt many GOP candidates. (See here.)

TAKEAWAY — 

When we stand back to see the Big Picture, this should be extraordinarily disturbing. This is NOT how America is supposed to work. Instead: 1) unelected deep state power-brokers are determining who is elected, by hook or by crook, and 2) our K-12 education system is now specifically designed to produce propagandized, non-Critical-Thinking graduates — who soon become voters. These are the people who the Left is counting on, to vote themselves into permanent servitude.

The remaining Critical Thinkers had better:

a. speak firmly and clearly to their misinformed fellow citizens,

b. support and vote for reform candidates like Michele Morrow,

c. and get meaningful post-election audits implemented in their State.

We ALL need to pray that we survive the imminent cataclysmic crisis…

©2024. John Droz, Jr. All rights reserved.

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OCTOBER 7TH, 2024: Reflecting on Six Traumatic Events That Happened During My Lifetime

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I will remember exactly where I was when six traumatic events  happened during my lifetime:

  1. The assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
  2. The attack on the Olympic Village by Black September in 1972.
  3. The attack on America by al Qaeda on September 11th, 2001
  4. The attack on Israel by Hamas terrorists on October 6, 2023, which signaled the beginning of a “new global intifada” and may end in a WW III.
  5. The attempted assassination in Pennsylvania of President Donald J. Trump.
  6. The attempted assassination, in my home state of Florida, of President Donald J. Trump.

Each event was traumatic and unforgettable.

I have been to Israel. I met with the people of Israel. I knew that they live under a constant threat of attack from their Islamist neighbors and the terrorist groups Hamas, Hezbollah and the Islamic State of Iran.

WATCH: October 7th: What’s Next?

My greatest and most profound mistake is not seeing the existential danger of the “Red-Green Alliance” to the national security of the United States of America and the world.

I was stationed in Germany, with my wife and soon to be born son, from 1971 till 1974. While there I, my family and my unit were exposed to two terrorist organizations. I, at that time, did not connect the dots between these two organizations and their clear and present danger to me, my family, our nation and the world.

The Baader–Meinhof Gang

The first terrorist organization was the Baader–Meinhof Group or Baader–Meinhof Gang also know as the Red Army Faction (RAF). This group was made up of hardcore Communists. They attacked U.S. assets, conducted assassinations, kidnappings, bombed a club frequented by American soldiers and robbed banks to fund their Marxist movement.

Because of the Baader–Meinhof Gang’s stated tactic to abduct the children of American military members stationed in Germany the housing complex, that I, my wife and our newly born son Rich, Jr., lived in, had barbed wire surrounding it and U.S. Army armed guards patrolling the grounds 24-7.

The Red Army Faction was a very real and direct threat to me and my wife and our son. Today, the Communist ideology has become an existential threat to the American way of life.

Black September 1972

The second group was known as “Black September.” Black September (Arabic: أيلول الأسود; Aylūl Al-Aswad), was named after the conflict between the Hashemite Kingdom of King of Jordan and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).

On September 4th, 1972 Black September attacked the Olympic Village in Munich, Germany. This Islamic terrorist attack was to become known as the “Munich massacre.” The attack was carried out by eight members of the Palestinian militant organization Black September, who infiltrated the Olympic Village, killed two members of the Israeli Olympic team, and took nine others hostage. Later, in a failed rescue attempt by the German police, nine Israeli athletes and one German police officer were killed. Total killed: 11 Israelis and 1 German.

After the Munich massacre my unit, the 1st Infantry Division (FWD), was called out to provide additional security at the Olympic Village.

What I did not know at that time was that both the Baader–Meinhof Gang (Red Army Faction) and Black September were both trained by the Palestine Liberation Organization in camps in Jordan.

This was the Red-Green Alliance that has now infiltrated the United States and is causing irreputable harm to our nation and its people. This alliance has grown in strength and power. There are even members of Congress who are followers of Marx and Mohammed.

The Red-Green Alliance is today a much greater threat to me, my family and a “clear and present danger” to our country.

What am I doing differently?

I now spend time speaking, writing and teaching others about the Red-Green Alliance, which has added a third new ultra-radical faction the LGBTQIA+ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, Asexuals + Allies) movement.

We now have an even more dangerous and deadly “Red-Green-Rainbow Alliance” bent on the destruction of our families, lives, lifestyles and livelihoods.

Each is working, in concert, to destroy our cultural norms, fundamentally transform our society, destroy the traditional family and marriage between one man and one woman, undermine our Judeo-Christian religious foundation and infiltrate all of our government agencies including the Department of Defense.

Each wants more and more power, absolute power over me, my family, my son and our grandchildren.

©2024. Dr. Richard M. Swier, LTC U.S. Army (Ret.). All rights reserved.

Kamala sends $157 million to Lebanon—but no money for U.S. hurricane victims

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This is after claiming no money for U.S. hurricane victims – those Hezbollah votes in Dearborn, Michigan don’t come cheap.

According to Joe Biden, there’s just no money for hurricane victims.

WATCH: C-SPAN Video

“Do you have any words to the victims of the hurricane?”

BIDEN: “We’ve given everything that we have.”

“Are there any more resources the federal government could be giving them?”

BIDEN: “No.”

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas claims that FEMA is running out of money. (And not because it blew through $1.4 billion on illegal aliens, that’s dangerous misinformation.)

While there’s not enough money for hurricane victims in America, Vice President Kamala Harris announced that after Israel took out Hezbollah Islamic terrorist leaders, “The people of Lebanon are facing an increasingly dire humanitarian situation. I am concerned about the security and well-being of civilians suffering in Lebanon and will continue working to help meet the needs of all civilians there.”

“To that end, the United States will provide nearly $157 million in additional assistance to the people of Lebanon… his additional support brings total U.S. assistance to Lebanon over the last year to over $385 million.”

$385 million for an Islamic terrorist state.

But there’s a bold press release out at FEMA declaring that the “Biden-Harris Administration Provides More Than $20 Million to Hurricane Helene Survivors, Ongoing Search and Rescue Operations Continue in North Carolina”.

$20 million to Hurricane Helene survivors. $157 million to Hezbollah. Those Hezbollah votes in Dearborn, Michigan don’t come cheap.

Originally Published By Daniel Greenfield, Frontpage Magazine

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Head of Republican Jewish Coalition on the DNC: ‘Democrats acted as if Israel didn’t exist’

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Even though not a single speaker passed the “Praise Israel Watch” challenge, the group still plans to donate 1,189 trees in Israel in memory of the 1,189 victims killed on Oct. 7.

The Republican Jewish Coalition said speakers at the Democratic National Convention, held this past week in Chicago, had failed to support and celebrate Israel.

CEO Matt Brooks described the RJC’s “Praise Israel Watch,” which had urged anyone addressing audiences to advocate for Israel in exchange for the planting of 1,800 trees in their name, in a statement on Friday, the day after the convention’s conclusion.

According to the group, no one succeeded.

“Unfortunately, the Democrats acted as if Israel didn’t exist, which is exactly what their pro-Palestinian base wanted,” Brooks said. “Of the 155 Democratic Convention speakers, not a single one, including Kamala Harris, praised Israel from the main stage as the Jewish state fights for its very survival.”

He called the brief mention of Israel and her pledge to uphold its security following the Hamas terrorist attacks on Oct. 7, which has led to 11 months of war in the Gaza Strip and with Iran’s other terror proxies, in her speech on Thursday night “the bare minimum.”

He noted that “she never praised Israel. Instead, she implicitly criticized Israel for the suffering Hamas has caused in Gaza.” He characterized calls by the current vice president and 2024 Democratic presidential candidate for a ceasefire in Gaza as meaning that Hamas would survive, saying “that’s unacceptable.”

Even though no DNC speaker passed the group’s challenge, Brooks announced that the RJC “will still donate to plant 1,189 trees in Israel in memory of the 1,189 victims killed on Oct. 7.”

WATCH: Kamala Harris: Weak on Iran – Israel paid the price.

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Taxpayers on the Hook for $500K+ After School Board’s Woke Crusade Against Free Speech

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Fired for Refusing to Use Trans Pronouns, Teacher Peter Vlaming Wins $575K Settlement as West Point Taxpayers Foot the Bill.

What an absolute disaster. West Point, Virginia, school board just flushed over half a million dollars of taxpayer money down the toilet to make a woke political statement.

This whole fiasco began when Peter Vlaming, a respected French teacher, had the audacity to actually exercise his First Amendment rights.

His crime?

Refusing to bow down to the progressive gods of gender identity by not using a transgender student’s preferred pronouns.

In return, the school board gave him the boot, throwing his constitutional rights out the window like yesterday’s news.

Now, the hard-working taxpayers of West Point are left to bear the heavy burden of $575,000 in damages and legal fees, all because a group of educators believed they could impose their ideological agenda on a teacher.

And make no mistake, the real victims here are the good citizens of West Point who now get to foot the bill for this unconstitutional social experiment.

That’s right, their hard-earned money is being gambled away in politically charged lawsuits by school boards that play fast and loose with public tax dollars.

And for what?

To make a progressive statement that ignores not just common sense but the very Bill of Rights?

These are the same individuals entrusted with teaching our children about the Constitution, yet they seem to lack a fundamental understanding of free speech.

They’re so terrified of anything that could remotely be seen as a church-state violation but have no qualms about torching your tax dollars on a legal dumpster fire, all in the name of enforcing their twisted ideology.

The board tried to make an example out of Vlaming, but in the end, they got burned.

Thanks to the legal team at ADF and Vlaming’s lawsuit, the board had to backtrack in the most humiliating way possible, paying hundreds of thousands of dollars and wiping his record clean.

If the citizens of West Point have any good old-fashioned patriotism left, they’ll fire this rogue school board and replace a superintendent who’s more concerned about making woke statements than respecting constitutional rights.

This isn’t just about one teacher; this is about the reckless, out-of-touch leadership that’s gambling with the money of moms and pops in the middle of economic disaster.

Enough is enough.

It’s time to put education back in the hands of people who defend and respect the First Amendment, not social engineers with deep pockets who worship at the steps of Dr. Frankenstein’s altar.

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