Rampant Muslim Gang Violence Rocks Minneapolis as Election Approaches

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Somali Gang Violence Could Turn Minnesota Red!

Star Tribune: There has been a series of alarming acts of violence that has to add a level of concern to average Minnesotans. Authorities are now watching a retaliation cycle. Among the shootings was a shootout at Eden Prairie’s homecoming game: Law enforcement authorities in Eden Prairie said Saturday that a shooting that injured two people during Friday’s homecoming football game was gang-related. In a statement posted on social media, the Eden Prairie Police Department said that though the investigation continues, police believe it involved gangs. Eden Prairie police said there was a large altercation west of the school’s Aerie Stadium before the shooting…. Police said earlier that the two people injured in the shooting were believed to have been targeted. On Saturday, officials did not release their names but said they are an 18-year-old male and a 17-year old male from St. Paul and are both of Somali descent. The 18-year old was discharged from Hennepin Healthcare on Saturday, and the 17-year-old remains hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries.

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Fox News: Violence tied to Somali-American gangs in the Twin Cities metro erupted in recent days, with law enforcement recovering nearly 100 casings after a gunfight captured on a resident’s surveillance camera — as officials warn they need help to contain the problem before it escalates. The warning follows a burst of violence across several Twin Cities suburbs — including a Bloomington shootout that left nearly 100 shell casings and another shooting in Eden Prairie — as law enforcement says the incidents have entered a retaliation cycle and officials race to disrupt the groups before the violence evolves into more entrenched drug- and money-driven crime. “We have the opportunity to fix it,” Ramsey County Sheriff Bob Fletcher said of a surge in Somali gang violence across the Twin Cities — but warned authorities could be facing a much more difficult problem if the groups escalate the resources they use.

Keith Ellison quiet on alleged Somali gang activity that ruined homecoming in suburban Minnesota

By Guy Benson

Minnesota’s Democratic attorney general, Keith Ellison, recently told a partisan audience that he’s worried about his reelection prospects. He explicitly framed his race against a Republican challenger as a battle between good people and bigots. As he described the composition of November’s electorate, he asked, “Is the base of people who believe in freedom and justice, compassion and mercy, the people, will the people who believe that in the equality of human beings, in the dignity of all human beings, will we show up and vote? Or will the bigots and the racists show up and vote?”

Perhaps Ellison has no choice but to engage in race-baiting smear tactics as a means of distracting from his party’s dismal record in the state. It’s probably easier to attack your opponents as racists than to explain things like a NewsNation report earlier this year in which the outlet revealed it had “obtained a 2021 audio recording in which Ellison pledges support to members of the Somali community — some later convicted in the Feeding Our Future fraud — while they discuss campaign donations to him and his family.”

Federal prosecutors estimated that the fraud that has infamously consumed so much Minnesota taxpayer money may have spiraled as high as $9 billion. That’s a staggering amount of thievery.

Officials said the abuse was so rampant and systemic that Minnesota had become an international destination for fraudsters. “Minnesota has become a magnet for fraud, so much so that we have developed a fraud tourism industry — people coming to our state purely to exploit and defraud its programs,” a lead investigator observed late last year. The revelations were so embarrassing that they effectively forced Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) out of his campaign for another term.

The violations continue to pile up. Ellison tries to take credit for some of the prosecutions his office has undertaken against the fraudsters, but whistleblowers have alleged that the Democrats who run the state ignored multiple clear warnings about what was happening for years. Fraudsters wielded racism claims, and the threat thereof, as a weapon against investigations, evidently to great effect.

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78 Former U.S. Military Leaders Release Public Statement Condemning Dishonest Use of Genocide Label for Gaza

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The blood libeling of the Jewish people follows the Nazi playbook.

78 former US Military leaders release a public statement Condemning the genocide lie in Gaza and the number of signatories will, no doubt, continue to grow. The challenge, of course, is that the lie has a head of steam. Nevertheless the statement is precise, including the warning it gives on the reckless use of genocide language: We reject claims that Israel committed genocide in Gaza…. The allegations that Israel committed this crime do not meet the established definition and standards of genocide, are unsupported by established facts, nor do they stand up to common sense scrutiny…. All the evidence, in fact, points to the contrary conclusion…. Israel has not committed genocide but rather set a high bar for how to conduct urban warfare against an enemy who will stop at nothing, including the death of its own civilians. We call on those concerned with this issue to carefully assess the facts related to the Gaza campaign, insist on faithful application of the Genocide Convention, and reject factually and legally dubious accusations against Israel. Failure to do so incentivizes future adversaries to deliberately endanger civilians and then exploit civilian suffering to portray lawful operations as genocide, weaken public support, and divide our alliances. The precedent established today regarding Israel will shape the conditions under which American forces fight tomorrow. Protecting civilians and preserving the ability of our nation to defend itself requires us to defend the truth when the laws of war are being distorted to make false charges of genocide.

Open Letter From 75+ Military Professionals Rejecting Genocide Allegation Against Israel

For Immediate Release
October 7, 2026

Washington, D.C. — As retired senior military leaders and legal experts, on this, the third anniversary of Hamas’s October 7, 2023 brutal attack on Israel, we reject claims that Israel committed genocide in Gaza.

Genocide is a grave and exceptional violation of international law, defined and prohibited by the Genocide Convention of 1948 and enumerated as a crime in the Statute of the International Criminal Court and in the U.S. federal criminal code. The allegations that Israel committed this crime do not meet the established definition and standards of genocide, are unsupported by established facts, nor do they stand up to common sense scrutiny.

A finding of genocide requires evidence of acts that are intended to destroy a protected national, ethnic, racial, or religious group, in whole or in part. Israel has neither intended to, nor destroyed, Palestinians as a group in Gaza. All the evidence, in fact, points to the contrary conclusion: that, after suffering a barbaric, indiscriminate massacre by Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), acting in justified self-defense, went to extreme lengths to protect civilians in Gaza, including from Hamas.

Israel’s accusers allege genocide mostly because of the supposed number of civilians killed in Gaza. Such claims are rife with flaws. Genocide is not a quantitative crime; there is no number of civilian casualties that constitutes genocide. Nor are the claimed casualty numbers from Gaza credible. Issued by Hamas themselves and, at the very least, not distinguishing between civilians and combatants, they cannot be relied upon.

Further, established legal precedent makes clear that civilian deaths occurring during combat, however tragic, are insufficient, by themselves, to support a finding of genocidal intent. That is because of the unfortunate realities of war and the laws that govern it, both of which Israel’s accusers appear woefully ignorant.

Many of the signatories to this letter have commanded United States armed forces in combat against enemies who regularly hide behind civilians and put those civilians intentionally in harm’s way. Fighting under those complexities is especially difficult. We understand that the loss of civilian life in Gaza is tragic. But we also know that such tragic outcomes do not necessarily violate the law of armed conflict. There is no perfect attack; there are only those in which commanders use all available information to make hard decisions and their best judgement to comply with legal obligations and protect civilians. And that is exactly what we have witnessed from the IDF in Gaza.

Assessments of Israeli combat operations, undertaken by some of the signatories to this letter, describe a military taking an unprecedented combination of precautions to avoid civilian casualties; not one following orders to destroy Palestinians as a group. The IDF has provided civilians with numerous advance warnings—leaflets, phone calls, text messages, radio and TV broadcasts, and social media notices—evacuation instructions, protected corridors, and tactical pauses to help move them out of harm’s way, even when those precautionary measures ceded tactical advantage to enemy forces. IDF soldiers have even put themselves in harm’s way to protect Palestinians seeking to flee the fighting from attack by Hamas. Stringent legal review of targets is a standard part of IDF procedures. Repeatedly, Israel has called off strikes because of the presence of civilians.

Israel has also gone out of its way to provide aid and assistance to civilians in Gaza. More than 3.5 million tons of food, 48,000 tons of medical supplies, 5,000 tons of baby food, and up to 15,000 cubic meters per day of water desalinated by Israel have been sent into Gaza. Over half a million Gazan children were vaccinated during the war and some 5,000 Gazans evacuated for medical treatment abroad. These are not the actions of a genocidal state but of a professional military ethically and legally committed to the protection of civilian life.

This pattern of law-abiding IDF conduct in Gaza also contradicts accusers’ claims that some statements from Israeli political officials, seemingly encouraging unlawful harm to civilians, are evidence of genocidal intent. Such inflammatory statements are disgraceful. Yet, while it deserves unequivocal condemnation, rhetoric from politicians uninvolved in military decision-making is in no way reflective of actual IDF operations.

Israel has not committed genocide but rather set a high bar for how to conduct urban warfare against an enemy who will stop at nothing, including the death of its own civilians.

We call on those concerned with this issue to carefully assess the facts related to the Gaza campaign, insist on faithful application of the Genocide Convention, and reject factually and legally dubious accusations against Israel. Failure to do so incentivizes future adversaries to deliberately endanger civilians and then exploit civilian suffering to portray lawful operations as genocide, weaken public support, and divide our alliances.

The precedent established today regarding Israel will shape the conditions under which American forces fight tomorrow. Protecting civilians and preserving the ability of our nation to defend itself requires us to defend the truth when the laws of war are being distorted to make false charges of genocide.

Letter Signees include:

Gen James F. Amos, USMC (ret.), 35th Commandant of the Marine Corps
GEN Frank J. Grass, USA (ret.), JINSA Generals and Admirals Program Participant
Gen W.L. ”Spider” Nyland, USMC (ret.), Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps
Gen Philip M. Breedlove, USAF (ret.), Supreme Allied Commander Europe, Commander US European Command
Gen Kevin P. Chilton, USAF (ret.), Commander, U.S. Strategic Command
Gen C.T. “Tony” Robertson, Jr., USAF (ret.), Commander, U.S. Transportation Command, and Commander, Air Mobility Command
GEN James D. Thurman, USA (ret.), Commander, United Nations Command, ROK-United States Combined Forces Command, and United States Forces Korea
Gen Charles Wald, USAF (ret.), Deputy Commander of United States European Command (EUCOM)
LTG John M. Bednarek, USA (ret.), Senior Defense Official, Iraq; Chief, Office of Security Cooperation, Baghdad
Gen William Begert, USAF (ret.), Commander, Pacific Air Forces, and Air Component Commander for the Commander, U.S. Pacific Command
ADM Bruce Clingan, USN (ret.), Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Europe; U.S. Naval Forces Africa; Allied Joint Force Command, Naples
Gen Donald G. Cook, USAF (ret.), Commander, Air Education and Training Command
ADM Mark Fitzgerald, USN (ret.), Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Europe; U.S. Naval Forces Africa; Allied Joint Force Command, Naples
Gen Mike Hostage, USAF (ret.), Commander, Air Combat Command
Lt Gen Steven L. Basham, USAF (ret.), Deputy Commander, U.S. European Command
VADM John Bird, USN (ret.), Commander, U.S. 7th Fleet
Lt Gen Rod Bishop, USAF (ret.), Commander, 3rd Air Force
LTG H. Steven Blum, USA (ret.), Deputy Commander, U.S. Northern Command
LtGen Thomas Conant, USMC (ret.), Deputy Commander, United States Pacific Command
VADM Michael J. Connor, USN (ret.), Commander, United States Submarine Forces
Lt Gen David Deptula, USAF (ret.), Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance, Headquarters Air Force Lt Gen Eric Fiel, USAF (ret.), Commander, Air Force Special Operations Command
VADM Jeffrey Fowler, USN (ret.), 60th Superintendent, U.S. Naval Academy
VADM Mark I. Fox, USN (ret.), Deputy Commander, United States Central Command
LTG David Fridovich, USA (ret.), Deputy Commander, U.S. Special Operations Command-USSOCOM
LtGen Kenneth Glueck, Jr., USMC (ret.), Deputy Commandant, Combat Development and Integration; Commanding General, Marine Corps Combat Development Command
Lt Gen Michael Gould, USAF (ret.), Superintendent, United States Air Force Academy
LtGen Mike Groen, USMC (ret.), Director, Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC)
Lt Gen Joseph Guastella, USAF (ret.), Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations, Headquarters U.S. Air Force
LtGen Earl Hailston, USMC (ret.), Commander, U.S. Marine Corps Forces Pacific/Commander, U.S. Marine Corps Forces Central Command
LtGen Karsten Heckl, USMC (ret.), Deputy Commandant, Combat Development and Integration; Commanding General, Marine Corps Combat Development Command
LtGen John Jansen, USMC (ret.), Deputy Commandant for Programs and Resources
LTG James Jarrard, USA (ret.), Deputy Commanding General of United States Army Pacific
VADM Dennis Jones, USN (ret.), Deputy Commander in Chief, US Strategic Command
LTG Raymond Mason, USA (ret.), Deputy Chief of Staff for Logistics, G4 Army Staff
Lt Gen Charles May, USAF (ret.), Assistant Vice Chief of Staff
LtGen Fred McCorkle, USMC (ret.), Deputy Commandant Marine Corps Aviation
Lt Gen Thomas G. McInerney, USAF (ret.), Assistant Vice Chief of Staff, Headquarters U.S. Air Force
VADM John Miller, USN (ret.), Commander, US Naval Forces, US Central Command
LtGen Rich Mills, USMC (ret.), Commander, Marine Forces Reserve and Commander Marine Forces North
Lt Gen Charles Moore, USAF (ret.), Deputy Commander, U.S. Cyber Command
Lt Gen C.D. Moore II, USAF (ret.), Commander, Air Force Life Cycle Management Center
VADM Ross A. Myers, USN (ret.), Commander, Tenth Fleet/Fleet Cyber/Navy Space, and former Deputy Commander, USCYBERCOM LTG Raymond Palumbo, USA (ret.), Director for Defense Intelligence
Lt Gen Chris Nowland, USAF (ret.), Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations, Headquarters U.S. Air Force
VADM Carol Pottenger, USN (ret.), NATO Allied Command Transformation DCOS Capability Development
VADM Joe Rixey, USN (ret.), Director of the Defense Security Cooperation Agency
VADM Herman A. Shelanski, USN (ret.), Naval Inspector General VADM Sandra Stosz, USCG (ret.), Deputy Commandant for Mission Support
LTG Guy Swan, USA (ret.), Commanding General, U.S. Army North/5th Army
Lt Gen Thomas J. Trask, USAF (ret.), Vice Commander, United States Special Operations Command
LtGen Mark Wise, USMC (ret.), Deputy Commandant for Aviation, USMC
RADM Fred L. Ames, USCG (ret.), Assistant Commandant for Human Resources
MajGen Joseph T. Anderson, USMC (ret.), CG 1st Marine Aircraft Wing
MG Joe Arbuckle, USA (ret.), Commander, Operations Support Command
RADM Paul Becker, USN (ret.), Director for Intelligence, Joint Staff (J2)
Maj Gen Jack J. Catton, Jr., USAF (ret.), Director of Requirements, Headquarters Air Combat Command
MajGen Mark Clark, USMC (ret.), Commanding General Marine Special Operations Command (MARSOC)
MajGen Jon Gallinetti, USMC (ret.), Deputy Commander, Marine Corps Forces Command
RADM Brett Heimbigner, USN (ret.), Director Joint ISR Operations Center
MajGen Bob Hollingsworth, USMC (ret.), Vice Commander, Marine Forces Pacific
Maj Gen James P. Hunt, USAF (ret.), Deputy Commanding General, Multi-National Corps, Iraq
Maj Gen Kenneth Israel, USAF (ret.), Assistant Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Airborne Reconnaissance and Director of the Defense Airborne Reconnaissance Office
RADM Steven Kantrowitz, USN (ret.), Deputy Commander, Naval Legal Service Command
RADM Edward Masso, USNR (ret.), Commander Navy Personnel Command/Deputy Chief of Naval Personnel
RADM William F. Merlin, USCG (ret.), Commander, Eighth Coast Guard District
MG William Moore, USA (ret.), Director for Operations, Headquarters
Maj Gen Bentley B. Rayburn, USAF (ret.), Commander, USAF Doctrine Center
MajGen Dave Richwine, USMC (ret.), Chief Information Officer and Director of Intelligence, Headquarters, US Marine Corps
Maj Gen Lawrence Stutzriem, USAF (ret.), Director, Plans, Policy, and Strategy, North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command
MajGen Larry Taylor, USMCR (ret.), Commanding General, 4th Marine Aircraft Wing
MG Paul Vallely, USA (ret.), Deputy Commanding General US Army Pacific
RDML Terry McKnight, USN (ret.), Commander Task Force 151 – Anti-Piracy Task Force/Commander Expeditionary Group Two
RDML Mark Milliken, USN (ret.), Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy International Programs Office
BGen Michael Mulqueen, USMC (ret.), The United States Military Entrance Processing Command
Brig Gen Christopher Walker, USAF (ret.), Assistant Adjutant General and Commander of the West Virginia Air National Guard
BG Mitchell M. Zais, Ph.D., USA (ret.), Former Acting U.S. Secretary of Education
COL Marc Warren, USA (ret.), Former Special Assistant for Military Law and Operations to The Judge Advocate General, U.S. Army
MAJ John Spencer, USA (ret.),  Executive Director, Urban Warfare Institute

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THE TRUTH: Comparing Slavery in Islam and Christianity

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“Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves” ― Abraham Lincoln, Complete Works – Volume XII

“Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.” ― Henry David Thoreau

“Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whatever he may be: a statesman, a businessman, an official, or a scholar.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche

“How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property – either as a child, a wife, or a concubine – must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the faith: all know how to die but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome.” ― Winston Churchill, The River War

Both Christianity and Islam developed in societies where slavery was deeply embedded in economic and social life, and neither tradition originally mandated its immediate, outright abolition. However, their theological foundations, legal frameworks, and historical manifestations evolved differently over time.

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Comparison Summary

Role of Slaves

Diverse roles including household labor, administrative/military roles (e.g., Mamluks, Janissaries), agricultural labor, and concubinage.

Ranged from domestic and skilled labor in antiquity to brutal, large-scale agrarian plantation labor in the early modern Americas.

Abolition Process

Abolished across the 18th and 19th centuries, largely driven by Christian abolitionist movements, civil wars, and parliamentary legislation.

Abolished primarily in the 19th and 20th centuries through international pressure, colonial policies, and internal legal reforms within Muslim-majority

Theological and Scripture Foundations

Islam: The Qur’an and Hadith recognize slavery as an existing social institution and outline guidelines to mitigate its harshness. Freeing slaves is repeatedly cited as a virtuous deed (kaffara) to expiate specific sins or gain spiritual reward. While the legal tradition codified rules for buying, selling, and owning individuals—including female concubinage—it established specific rights for slaves, such as the mukataba (a contract allowing a slave to purchase their freedom).

Christianity: The Old Testament outlines laws regarding servitude, distinguishing between Hebrew servants and foreign slaves. In the New Testament, early Christian writings instruct enslaved people to serve their masters faithfully and urge masters to treat enslaved people with fairness (e.g., Ephesians 6:5–9, Colossians 3:22), emphasizing spiritual equality before God (Galatians 3:28) rather than immediate legal emancipation.

Path to Abolition

Christian Abolition Movement: In the 18th and 19th centuries, Christian groups (such as Quakers, Methodists, and Evangelicals in Britain and the U.S.) used biblical arguments of human dignity to spearhead the abolitionist movement. Conversely, pro-slavery theologians in the American South used biblical texts to defend the institution, leading to major denominational schisms.

Abolition in the Muslim World: Systematic abolition in Muslim-majority regions occurred mainly during the 19th and 20th centuries. It was achieved through a combination of diplomatic pressure from Western powers, internal religious reinterpretation by modern Muslim scholars who argued that the trajectory of Islamic law favored universal freedom, and government decrees in nations like Tunisia (1846), the Ottoman Empire (1850s), and Saudi Arabia (1962)

Theological and Scripture Foundations

 Islam: The Qur’an and Hadith recognize slavery as an existing social institution and outline guidelines to mitigate its harshness. Freeing slaves is repeatedly cited as a virtuous deed (kaffara) to expiate specific sins or gain spiritual reward. While the legal tradition codified rules for buying, selling, and owning individuals—including female concubinage—it established specific rights for slaves, such as the mukataba (a contract allowing a slave to purchase their freedom).

 Christianity: The Old Testament outlines laws regarding servitude, distinguishing between Hebrew servants and foreign slaves. In the New Testament, early Christian writings instruct enslaved people to serve their masters faithfully and urge masters to treat enslaved people with fairness (e.g., Ephesians 6:5–9, Colossians 3:22), emphasizing spiritual equality before God (Galatians 3:28) rather than immediate legal emancipation.

Historical Practice & Economic Systems

Islamic World

Integration into Society: Enslaved individuals were often integrated into household units, state administration, or military structures. Elite military slavery, such as the Mamluks of Egypt or the Ottoman Janissaries, allowed enslaved men to attain significant political power.

Manumission & Social Mobility: Because freeing slaves was spiritually encouraged and children born to an enslaved woman and her free master were legally recognized as free, generational slavery was less fixed compared to chattel systems. However, agricultural plantation slavery did exist, such as during the Zanj rebellion in 9th-century Iraq.

Christian World

Medieval Serfdom to Transatlantic Trade: In Western Europe, ancient chattel slavery gradually transitioned into serfdom during the Middle Ages. However, beginning in the 15th century, Christian European powers established the Transatlantic slave trade, creating a vast racialized chattel slavery system in the Americas.

Racial Hereditary Slavery: Unlike early Christian or medieval practices, modern Atlantic slavery defined slaves as literal property with inherited slave status across generations, denying basic legal rights, family structure, or standard paths to manumission.

While legal chattel slavery has been officially abolished in every country worldwide, modern slavery—which includes forced labor, debt bondage, forced marriage, human trafficking, and remnants of hereditary slavery—continues to exist globally.

According to the Walk Free Foundation’s Global Slavery Index (GSI) and the International Labour Organization (ILO), modern slavery affects millions of people across all regions, including several Muslim-majority nations. The conditions in these countries typically fall into distinct categories of exploitation:

Hereditary (Descent-Based) Slavery:

  • Mauritania: Mauritania was the last country in the world to officially abolish slavery (in 1981) and criminalize it (in 2007). Despite this, descent-based chattel slavery persists in practice, where individuals from certain ethnic groups are born into servitude to dominant groups. The GSI estimates that approximately 32 out of every 1,000 people in Mauritania live in modern slavery.

Migrant Labor Exploitation (The Kafala System):

  • Gulf States (Saudi Arabia, UAE, Kuwait, Qatar): Modern slavery in the wealthy Gulf nations is heavily tied to the exploitation of foreign migrant workers in construction, domestic work, and service industries. The kafala (sponsorship) system binds workers to their employers, often resulting in confiscated passports, unpaid wages, and inability to leave the country, which human rights organizations classify as forced labor. Saudi Arabia and the UAE have some of the highest prevalence rates of modern slavery in the region.

High Absolute Numbers (Systemic Debt Bondage & Forced Labor):

  • Pakistan, Indonesia, and Bangladesh: Due to their massive populations, these countries have some of the highest absolute numbers of people living in modern slavery. In Pakistan (estimated 2.3 million victims), bonded labor in agriculture and brick kilns is particularly prevalent. Indonesia and Bangladesh also see high rates of forced labor within domestic work, manufacturing, and global supply chains.

Conflict and Instability:

  • Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, and Somalia: Countries suffering from severe conflict or state collapse see massive spikes in modern slavery. This includes forced child marriage, forced recruitment by armed groups, and widespread human trafficking of displaced refugees.

Global Context

It is important to note that modern slavery is not exclusive to Muslim-majority countries. The highest absolute numbers of people in modern slavery are found in India and China, while the highest prevalence rate by population is in North Korea (driven by state-imposed forced labor) and Eritrea.

Wealthy Western nations, including the United States and the United Kingdom, also grapple with hundreds of thousands of individuals trapped in human trafficking and forced labor.

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Europe Chose National Suicide—America’s Midterms Will Decide Whether We Follow

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Western Europe chose national suicide through bureaucratic paralysis and open borders. The American republic now stands on the exact precipice of that civilizational collapse.

Across Britain and France, central governments abandoned the most basic duty of the nation-state: the defense of sovereign borders. Decades of unchecked entry, lax law enforcement, and ideological cowardice fractured their historic urban centers. Public services buckle. Radical factions defy common law. Street violence surges while state bureaucrats police the speech of citizens rather than the crimes of perpetrators.

American voters face this identical crossroads. The midterm ballot contains one decisive question: Will the United States defend its heritage of constitutional law and borders, or will it follow Europe into irreversible decline?

Europe offers a real-time post-mortem of a civilization that surrendered its will to govern.

In London and Paris, politicians traded national identity for open borders and cultural balkanization. They dismantled border walls, weakened deportation mechanisms, and embraced globalist mandates over domestic stability. The results speak with brutal clarity:

  • Fractured societies where distinct enclaves reject common civic duties and domestic legal systems.
  •  Heavy administrative censorship that prosecutes citizens for online dissent while violent offenders walk free under weak sentencing laws.
  • Staggering tax burdens, where welfare states collapse under the weight of populations they refuse to assimilate or control.
  • Crippled energy sectors and sluggish economic markets that leave ordinary families destitute in cold winters.

Beyond economic strain, an even more fundamental transformation looms over Western Europe: the steady surrender of its civilizational identity. In historic cities across Britain and France, decades of unmanaged immigration combined with official appeasement have created rapidly expanding enclaves where national laws take a back seat to parallel religious courts and fundamentalist norms. Rather than demanding complete civic integration, European authorities systematically yield public spaces, legal traditions, and cultural heritage to aggressive demographic shifts and Islamist political pressure. What began as an unmonitored border crisis has evolved into a quiet abdication of Western sovereignty, serving as an urgent warning of what happens when a republic loses the nerve to defend its own civilization.

When a government forfeits control of its borders, it forfeits its sovereignty. Once sovereignty dies, the rule of law collapses with it.

The progressive leadership in Washington pursues the precise blueprint that hollowed out Europe.

Federal authorities systematically weakened border infrastructure, halted deportations, and tolerated chaotic processing at the southern frontier. Progressive city administrations dismantle bail laws, strip police departments of operational authority, and permit lawlessness in public squares. Federal agencies expand their reach into private speech, parental rights, and energy production.

This agenda produces weakness. It invites international cartels to dictate border crossings. It crushes American wages beneath an influx of unvetted labor. It weakens domestic manufacturing through punitive green mandates while foreign adversaries expand their industrial dominance.

Undecided voters must recognize the pattern. This crisis stems from deliberate policy decisions. Change the leadership, and you reverse the decay.

A Republican legislative majority provides the sole institutional fortress capable of halting this descent. The conservative platform restores the foundational mechanics of American strength.

First, real border enforcement. A conservative Congress mandates the physical closure of unauthorized transit corridors, fully funds the border wall, expands border patrol ranks, and restores strict deportation standards. It penalizes sanctuary jurisdictions that harbor criminal offenders and shields American workers from unvetted labor competition.

Second, the restoration of the rule of law. Conservative majorities restore judicial accountability, support law enforcement officers with federal resources, and eliminate ideological mandates inside federal agencies. When crime receives swift, decisive punishment, public order returns.

Third, aggressive economic liberation. America possesses abundant oil, natural gas, and industrial genius. Conservative governance slashes the regulatory mandates that paralyze domestic energy production. It defends low corporate and individual tax rates, drives energy independence, and restores competitive American industry.

Fourth, civic assimilation and constitutional freedom. True nations demand shared loyalty to the Constitution, mastery of civic fundamentals, and reverence for equal justice under law. Conservative leadership rejects ideological division in schools, restores classic civic education, and defends fundamental rights — chief among them free speech and gun ownership.

Doubt kills republics. Many voters hesitate, weary of partisan rhetoric and skeptical of promises.

Look past the personalities and focus on the cold reality of the alternative. The progressive path leads directly to the European outcome: permanent economic stagnation, shattered borders, civil friction, and a bloated state that strips citizens of their historic liberties. Europe lacks the constitutional safeguards to reverse its course. America still possesses them.

This midterm election offers no luxury for indifference. Abstention yields power to the architects of decline. A vote for Republican leadership establishes a decisive break against administrative overreach, protects American borders, and preserves national sovereignty for future generations.

Vote red. Guard the border. Defend the republic.

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84% of Gen Z Democrats Back Socialism: Poll

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A groundbreaking new poll conducted ahead of November’s midterm elections has uncovered that over 30% of Americans have a favorable view of socialism.

According to the OnMessage poll, which surveyed 800 American voters from July 12-16, 35% of respondents identified as Democrats.

“Embracing socialism is no longer a fringe talking point for Democratic voters. Our data shows that a majority of Democrats of all ages hold favorable views of socialism, including 84% of Gen Z Democrats,” Henry Parkhurst, the OnMessage pollster who carried out the survey, told the Daily Signal.

The findings confirm that the Democratic Party’s claim that socialism is a “fringe issue” is no longer true, and that socialism has spread into the party’s core.

“While the national Democratic Party may claim to be divided on how far they’re willing to lean into socialism, their voters clearly show they’re encouraging the party to move in that direction,” Parkhurst added.

The survey came months after the Democratic Socialists of America touted a historic increase in membership, coupled with the rise of DSA-affiliated candidates and officials across the country.

Now, in the next Congress, at least five new DSA members will be sworn into the House of Representatives, adding to the growing number of socialist officials like Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y.

Senate candidates Angie Nixon in Florida and Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan also have a fair shot at winning their races this November.

OnMessage revealed the findings after conducting text-to-web interviews and recording historic respondent turnout.

The survey also oversampled voters under 45, resulting in approximately 600 Gen Z and Millennial voters for in-depth analysis.

The margin of error for this survey is +/- 3.5%.

AUTHOR

Pedro Rodriguez 

Pedro Boccalato Rodriguez-Aparicio is a journalism fellow at the Daily Signal. Follow on X pedrobrodrigue7.

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Time To Turn All Blue States RED. Here’s Why!

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It’s time to turn all states controled by Democrats into RED states that will keeep America great and preserve our Constiutional Republican form of government from the White House to each State House.

We have witnessed blue states with massive fraud, ebrace sanctuary politics, gays, illegal aliens and criminals.

Time for a change!

States Controlled by the Democrat Party

As of 2026, 18 state legislatures are under full Democratic control. In these states, Democrats hold majorities in both the state senate (upper chamber) and state house/assembly (lower chamber):

  • California
  • Colorado
  • Connecticut
  • Delaware
  • Hawaii
  • Illinois
  • Maine
  • Maryland
  • Massachusetts
  • Nevada
  • New Jersey
  • New Mexico
  • New York
  • Oregon
  • Rhode Island
  • Vermont
  • Virginia
  • Washington

Note: Nebraska features a nonpartisan, unicameral legislature, while states such as Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Minnesota have split control across chambers or tied legislative divisions.

The Average Cost of Government Per Capita in Blue vs Red States

The total budget size and expenditure levels of state governments depend heavily on population size, regional cost of living, and public services.

Because states vary drastically in size—from California with over 38 million residents to Vermont with roughly 640,000—comparing absolute budget costs directly does not provide an accurate metric. Instead, economists evaluate state government costs based on per capita state government spending.

Average Per Capita Spending

  • Democratic-Controlled States: State government spending in Democratic trifecta or Democratic-controlled legislature states averages roughly $11,500 to $13,500 per resident annually.
  • Republican-Controlled States: State government spending in Republican-controlled states averages roughly $6,500 to $8,500 per resident annually.
  • National Average: Across all 50 states, average per capita state government spending sits at roughly $9,800.

Key Per Capita Spending Examples

According to general state budget data:

Higher Per Capita Spending Democratic States:

  • Vermont: ~$14,740 per resident
  • New York: ~$13,419 per resident
  • California: ~$13,206 per resident
  • Delaware: ~$13,114 per resident
  • Hawaii: ~$12,766 per resident
  • Massachusetts: ~$12,060 per resident

Lower Per Capita Spending Republican States:

  • Florida: ~$5,557 per resident
  • Georgia: ~$6,323 per resident
  • Texas: ~$6,746 per resident
  • Tennessee: ~$6,851 per resident

Note: Geographic anomalies exist; for instance, Alaska—a Republican-leaning state—routinely ranks #1 in per capita state spending due to high administrative costs across huge geographic distances and oil revenue disbursements.

Key Drivers of Higher State Costs in Blue States

  1. Expanded Social Programs & Safety Nets: States governed by Democrats generally allocate higher expenditures toward state-funded healthcare (Medicaid expansions and state subsidies), higher education, paid family leave, and public welfare.
  2. Cost of Living & Public Sector Wages: Higher prevailing wage rates, higher costs for infrastructure construction, and competitive public employee union contracts (teachers, public safety, state workers) raise overall administrative costs.
  3. Local vs. State Service Delivery: Blue states often fund public services (like mass transit systems and environmental oversight) directly through state budget appropriations, whereas red states more frequently decentralize services to county levels or private contractors.

The Bottom Line

It’s cheaper to live and work in states controlled by Republicans.

We are currently seeing a massive exodus of businesses, corporations and individuals leaving blue states and moving to red states like Florida, Texas, Georgia and Tennessee.

Remember that it costs $11,500 to $13,500 per resident annually in blue states and $6,500 to $8,500 per resident annually in red states.

“It’s the economy, stupid!” is a political catchphrase coined in 1992 by James Carville.

Red states listened, blue states did not.

Want more money in your pocket then vote RED.

©2026 . All rights reserved.

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Jihadi Mamdani’s Definition of “Socialism” Is Actually State-Controlled Totalitarianism

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There is no greater threat to America than these destroyers.

Mamdani’s definition of socialism sounds like state-controlled ‘totalitarianism’: critics

By Rich Calder, NY Post, Oct. 3, 2026:

Far-left New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani offered an impassioned definition of socialism this week — one critics say rivals state-controlled totalitarianism — claiming in a podcast interview that it’s the job of the government to ensure the masses have “whatever you need.”

“Socialism, to me, it means that you will have whatever you need to live a dignified life and that it is the government’s job to deliver on that,” Hizzoner told comedian podcaster Theo Von on Thursday when asked to define the political and economic system he’s pushing on the city.

Far-left NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani offered an impassioned definition this week of what socialism means to him, claiming in a podcast interview that it’s the government’s job to make sure the masses aren’t “priced out of dignity.”

“It’s a belief that you shouldn’t live in a place where all you can do is pick your own leaders,” added the card-carrying Democratic Socialists of America member.

“You should also be able to have that power in the rest of your life, right? People talk about it as the extension of democracy from the ballot box to the rest of your life.

“When people say dignity, I want to be very clear, we’re talking about the things that allow you to take a breath: housing, childcare, public transit,” the mayor said. “No one should be priced out of these things. These are non-negotiables; you need these to live.”

City Council Minority Leader David Carr (R-Staten Island) said Mamdani’s definition of socialism “sounds a lot like” state-controlled “totalitarianism.”

“I can’t imagine even his most ardent supporters would want to live in a state where the government determines everything you need to live a dignified life, whatever that is,” said Carr.

Other critics scoffed at Mamdani’s remarks, telling The Post Saturday that the mayor’s tax-the-rich, anti-capitalist agenda is pie-in-the-sky planning that is driving investors, residents and businesses out of the Big Apple.

“The Mayor says it’s government’s job to deliver ‘whatever you need.’ I have a different view of government’s job: keep us safe, educate our kids, pick up the garbage, maintain the roads and make New York affordable enough that people can build the lives they want for themselves,” said Councilman Frank Morono, a Staten Island Republican.

“Given how hard City Hall sometimes finds it to deliver the basics, I’m not quite ready to put it in charge of delivering ‘whatever you need.’”

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) also weighed in, saying on X that “socialism is an economic and political system where the … government owns and controls the major means of production.

“So, the same entity running the Post Office in the US, would be responsible for everything. Anyone who supports this does not have sound judgement,” said the senator.

The Israel-hating Mamdani also used his appearance on Von’s “This Past Weekend” podcast to state that, if he had it his way, the US would join the International Criminal Court and enforce an arrest warrant against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

AUTHOR

Pamela Geller

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‘I Have His Ashes’ Virginia Woman Claims Dem Governor Restored Voting Rights To Dead Felon

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Democratic Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger may have restored voting rights to a felon who has been dead for ten years.

Virginia resident Peggie Young claimed the governor’s office had sent her a letter restoring voting rights to a felon named Peter Alan Breton. In the Facebook post, Young described Breton as her “dear BFF,” who passed away in 2016.

“I don’t know what to say about this,” Young wrote in the post. “I received it yesterday, September 29, 2026. My dear BFF, Pete Breton, passed away in 2016. I have his ashes.”

“Is this perhaps how voter fraud begins? I’m so confused.”

The letter itself seemingly addressed Breton as the intended recipient, notifying him that Spanberger restored felons’ right to vote, ability to hold public office, to serve on a jury, and to be a notary. Notably, Spanberger restored virtually all rights to felons except for the “ability to ship, transport, possess or receive firearms.”

The Daily Caller reached out to Young and Spanberger for comment.

Spanberger announced in July that her office had restored voting rights to 66,085 Virginians “who were formerly incarcerated” since she took office in January.

“Virginia is one of three states with a constitution that permanently disenfranchises citizens with past felony convictions — leaving restoration of rights entirely to the Governor’s discretion,” the press release reads. “The civil rights restored by Governor Spanberger include the right to vote, serve on a jury, run for public office, and become a notary public.”

Virginians will also be able to vote in favor of or against a constitutional amendment that would allow convicted felons to automatically regain their ability to vote after they are released.

AUTHOR

Rebeka Zeljko

National Correspondent

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When Democrats Show Us Who They Really Are — Believe Them!

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John Quincy Adams: “Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.”

Abraham Lincoln: “The ballot is stronger than the bullet.”

John Lewis: “The right to vote has and always will remain the most powerful non-violent tool we have in a democratic society.”

John F. Kennedy: “The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.”

House Majority Leader Mike Johson pointed how Democrats voted in the current Congress:

  • 212 Democrats voted for the LARGEST TAX HIKE in history!
  • 212 OPPOSED No Tax on Tips, No Tax on Overtime, & No Tax on Social Security!
  • 211 voted to DEFUND BORDER SECURITY!
  • 208 Democrats OPPOSED VOTER ID!
  • 206 Democrats voted to ALLOW men in girls’ sports!
  • 205 Democrats voted to PACK THE COURT!
  • 198 Democrats voted to ALLOW shady stock trading by Members of Congress!
  • 192 Democrats SUPPORTED extreme, big government socialism!

And the list goes on and on.

Don’t believe us? Then watch this:

Minnesota Democrats vote UNANIMOUSLY to BLOCK a requirement to remove DEAD PEOPLE from the voter rolls

When Democrats Show Us Who They Are — Believe Them!

Author Janie Johnson — America is Exceptional noted:

14 states have NO Voter id:

  • Nevada cheated.
  • New Jersey cheated.
  • New Mexico cheated.
  • New York cheated.
  • Oregon cheated.
  • Pennsylvania cheated.
  • Vermont cheated.
  • California cheated.
  • Hawaii cheated.
  • Illinois cheated.
  • Maine cheated.
  • Maryland cheated.
  • Massachusetts cheated.
  • Minnesota cheated.

Democrats and Their Supporters in Their Own Words and Actions

Watch and learn about the Democrat Socialists and Islamo-Nazis:

Emma-Jo Morris on Mamdani’s Islamo-Communist NYC

Tim Walz Grants Driver’s Licenses For Illegals

This isn’t Iraq. This is Minnesota under Tim Walz as Governor!

This is what happened to Minnesota while Gov Tim Walz was in charge.

Tim Walz on George Floyd protests

Tim Walz on George Floyd protests #2

Palestinian Islamic scholar Mohammad Nusairat, “We did not come here to coexist.”

A mentally ill trans man desecrates the Christian cross while screaming ‘Free Palestine’

Illegal Alien Luis Bracamontes who killed cops laughs says, “I will break out soon and I will kill more!”

James Talarico votes to find parents who deny the gender mutilation of children guilty of child abuse

Clips from the Democrat Socialists of America National Convention

Proud Nazi Hasan Piker Is Now the Face of the Democratic Party

Democrat Socialists are now WAVING Communist Flags

The Bottom Line

The 2026 midterm elections are looking more and more like a battle royal to protect our Constitutional Republican form of Government.

Americans voters no longer have a choice between Democrats and Republicans.

Rather the choice is between American Patriots vs. Islamo-Communists.

Vice President JD Vance: The midterm elections present a very clear choice: crazy vs common sense!

Christian Man: The Crusades was a legitimate response to Muslims Jihadi violence and Shariah Law

In her book Atlas Shrugged, written in 1957, Ayn Rand, “When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing — When you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors, — When you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you — When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice — You may know that your society is doomed.”

Which party are you voting for? The Party of the Islamo-Communists or the Party of American Patriots?

WATCH: President Trump: “Our warriors did not fight communism on battlefields across the world only to have that menace rear it’s ugly head back here in America.”

Your vote will determine the future of our Constutional Republic. Our lives, liberties and pursuits of happiness depends on it.

Do we want a free America or a Chinese style Communist government? Or a New York City Islamo-Nazi dictator in the White House?

Choose wisely on November 3rd, 2026.

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Trump Invokes Rare Authority To Cancel Nearly $1,000,000,000 In Congressionally Approved Spending

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President Donald Trump has moved to cancel more than $800 million that Congress approved for refugee aid, migrant education and diversity programs.

The White House announced late Friday it would rescind $810 million in appropriated funds through a rare budgetary tool called a pocket rescission, according to CBS News. The largest cut, $567 million, hit Health and Human Services (HHS) accounts that funded nonprofits serving refugees and asylees, according to the administration.

Officials argued the money is no longer needed because illegal crossings have fallen sharply under Trump’s border policies. They labeled the spending wasteful and harmful to taxpayers.

The reductions also covered $70 million for programs the administration branded “Woke International Education,” $56 million in Housing and Urban Development (HUD) counseling grants and $25 million in migrant student education. The education money once paid for an LGBT youth summit and “Therapy for Latinx” workshops.

Among the groups losing support was Southwest Key Programs, which received $40 million and faced a Justice Department suit alleging its staff sexually harassed and abused unaccompanied minors, according to the White House. Another was Global Refuge, an immigration nonprofit led by a former policy director for Michelle Obama.

The cuts drew a rebuke from Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, who chairs the Senate Appropriations Committee, according to CBS News. She called the package an effort to “undermine Congress’s Constitutional power of the purse” and said lawmakers received no warning, according to her statement on X.

Collins cited the Government Accountability Office, which has found pocket rescissions violate the Impoundment Control Act, according to her statement. Rep. Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut, the top Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee, accused the administration of stealing money owed to communities, according to CBS News.

The White House filed its request days before the fiscal year closes Sept. 30, which lets the funds lapse before Congress can vote, CBS News reported. The House will remain out of session through the November election, leaving lawmakers little room to respond, according to Fox News.

Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought has maintained that the Impoundment Control Act does not bar a president from canceling funds late in the fiscal year, Fox News reported.

Trump deployed the same maneuver in 2025 to withhold $4.9 billion in foreign aid, the first pocket rescission in nearly five decades, according to CBS News. The Supreme Court let that cancellation stand while declining to rule on its legality, ABC News reported.

AUTHOR

Mark Tanos

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Mamdani Is Gradually Undermining Public Order in New York City

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New York City’s socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani has carefully plucked away another small but significant element of public order.

According to the New York Post, the mayor’s office issued a directive that the New York Police Department would no longer be responding to calls relating to homeless encampments. Instead, officers will now have to first dispatch social services to deal with such matters before they are allowed to act.

The move is just the latest by the Mamdani administration to peel away public order in the Big Apple in the name of social justice.

The administration had already put up roadblocks to prevent the NYPD from removing homeless encampments, but now it will be further handcuffed.

The New York Post noted that this move represents a radical change and will likely mean that problems at homeless encampments may never be addressed at all.

“This year, the NYPD responded to more than 26,000 of the 36,000 complaints to 311 about encampments,” the Post reported. “Now, [the Department of Homeless Services] will handle triple the calls they previously responded to, with fewer than 2,000 staffers across the entire agency.”

While Mamdani has been careful not to work too directly against the NYPD since he was elected, this is just further demonstration that he’s determined to, over time, entirely undo the kind of policing that made New York dramatically safer under former Mayor Rudy Giuliani. That crime-fighting revolution paid dramatic dividends for decades.

Even though many crimes have dropped to rates below their post-George Floyd riots peak, urban chaos remains a problem and, in some cases, is getting worse.

Subway and transit violence shot up dramatically after Mamdani was sworn into office. Many of those incidents were committed by unstable and mentally ill repeat offenders who had been living on the street.

And unsanitary homeless encampments filled with drug addicts and people with mental illnesses who belong in an institution are sprouting up all over town.

In fact, according to a report from the mayor’s office, the number of homeless people in the city has reached a five-year high.

And the growing numbers of homeless people are clustering in encampments that are transforming parts of the city, particularly the ones by the Intrepid Museum, Citi Field—where the New York Mets play—and under FDR Drive.

“Local residents and workers are decrying a homeless takeover under the FDR Drive, where mountains of trash, foul smells, and fights are regular occurrences,” amNewYork reported. “According to locals, the parking area under the highway from 17th Street to 23rd Street has become a massive homeless shelter.”

Mamdani did do something about one shantytown. The city swept away an encampment on Wednesday that had built up near the New York University dorms. Oh, it’s in an area likely filled with a high concentration of Mamdani superfans. A coincidence, I’m sure.

Apparently, the former denizens just moved a few blocks away and set up camp again. And why not? Mamdani has made it clear that he intends to let these kinds of encampments fester and is effectively neutering public complaints about them.

Don’t you worry about that filthy, mushrooming fentanyl den on your block, a social worker is on the case.

As a New York Post editorial explained, deploying overstretched social workers to alleviate the problem isn’t going to fix it.

“The vagrants who erect and inhabit these camps are hard-core homeless who’ve already rejected the option of living in a shelter,” the Post editorial noted. “ … Compassionate encouragement won’t dislodge people sleeping on cardboard sidewalk pallets. That’s why the city has always tasked police with handling encampments.”

Unfortunately, these sorts of anti-policing tactics by the Mamdani administration may “work” in a certain sense. The encampment problem will surely grow. But as the situation slowly gets out of hand, the administration can better defuse the blame without immediately infuriating the public.

They’ll say that the problem is “affordability,” that the budget is too small, and that systemic racism is causing an epidemic of homelessness.

All of that being nonsense, but by the time the issue is out of control the public may be more accustomed to thinking it’s endemic rather than a consequence of bad policy decisions.

Slow-growing encampments don’t drive headlines the way dramatic increases in murder rates do. Mamdani probably knows that. He may have even learned that lesson following the disaster of the “defund the police” years.

When leftist social goals were rapidly unlocked, the immediate consequences ignited an immediate backlash. He’s clearly trying to avoid that.

Methodically stripping away the enforcement of public order, eroding trust in the police, and making authorities unresponsive to those who want the situation fixed is a cynical but effective way to hide a malignant social revolution.

In that sense, Mamdani is succeeding where other leftist regimes failed, even if the eventual result will be the same miserable failure.

AUTHOR

Jarrett Stepman

Jarrett Stepman is a columnist for The Daily Signal. He is also the author of “The War on History: The Conspiracy to Rewrite America’s Past.” Send an email to Jarrett. Follow on X JarrettStepman.

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A Rare Move by a Virginia Bishop Ahead of Election Day

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Catholic Bishop Michael Burbidge says he has never before asked every priest in his diocese to do what he requested this weekend: read a letter at Mass urging Catholics to oppose two Virginia constitutional amendments on abortion and marriage.

Across 70 parishes serving more than 430,000 Catholics in Northern Virginia, worshippers heard Burbidge warn against what he called “two dangerous ballot initiatives”—proposed constitutional amendments that Virginians will decide Nov. 3. Early voting begins Friday.

CATHOLIC BISHOPS SOUND ALARM AHEAD OF NOVEMBER VOTE

The effort follows a joint statement Burbidge issued with Richmond Bishop Barry Knestout in August. In his latest letter, Burbidge urged parishioners to pledge to vote at CatholicsVoteNo.com, cast ballots early beginning Friday, and encourage their family, friends, and colleagues to oppose the amendments.

Celebrating Sunday Mass at St. Leo the Great Catholic Church in Fairfax, Burbidge devoted part of his homily to the measures.

“Ballot Question 1 fails to protect the life of the unborn, the health of women, and even fails to respect the rights of parents in the lives of their children. Ballot Question 2 fails to respect the sanctity of marriage as Jesus taught, the sacred union of one man and one woman,” Burbidge told parishioners. “We must vote no to those questions and say yes to truth.”

What the Amendments Would Do

Question 1 would amend Virginia’s constitution to expand access to abortion.

Burbidge argued the amendment would create a legal right to “unregulated abortions, performed by unlicensed abortion practitioners at any time during pregnancy” and would allow abortions “targeting healthy babies all the way up to birth.” In his letter, he said the amendment would extend abortion rights to minors and remove parents from decisions affecting their daughters.

“Unfortunately, abortion is already legal in Virginia,” Burbidge noted, arguing the measure “would expand abortion beyond what most citizens recognize as reasonable limits.”

Question 2 would remove the constitution’s 2006 definition of marriage as the union of one man and one woman and replace it with language guaranteeing the right of two adults to marry regardless of sex, gender, or race.

Burbidge wrote that the amendment “would also enshrine gender ideology by falsely separating the reality of one’s sex and gender.”

That argument mirrors the case made by the Family Foundation of Virginia. President Victoria Cobb championed the 2006 effort that added the current marriage language to the constitution.

The organization has argued the amendment would enshrine gender ideology in the state constitution and threaten girls’ sports, privacy rights, and religious liberty.

Supporters of the amendments, meanwhile, argue they would protect abortion access and preserve legal recognition of same-sex marriage in Virginia.

The ballot measures will appear before voters after receiving approval in two consecutive sessions of the Democrat-controlled General Assembly, as required for constitutional amendments in Virginia.

Catholic Church Mobilizes Opposition

Burbidge has consistently spoken out against the measures since launching the “Catholics Vote No” campaign earlier this year. On the latest episode of his podcast, “Walk Humbly,” he addressed both amendments directly, arguing they conflict with Catholic teaching on life and marriage.

“We’re not telling anyone which party to join,” he said. “As matters concerning faith and morals, though, the church speaks clearly, consistently, on human life and marriage, because these are gifts from God.”

Burbidge emphasized that the church’s opposition to the amendments is not tied to a political party, writing in his letter: “The church is not partisan. The church never advocates for or against specific candidates or parties.”

The Diocese of Arlington will hold a holy hour focused on the ballot measures Tuesday at 10 a.m. at the Cathedral of St. Thomas More. The event will be streamed online.

“You have to allow your voice to be heard and your vote to count,” Burbidge said on his podcast. “It’s a sacred duty to be not only a citizen, but a faithful citizen. And there is so much at stake here.

“Every vote matters. Please, people of God, please get out and vote no. We have to defeat these amendments.”

Virginia Bishop’s Letter

Burbidge released the following letter asking Virginia Catholics to vote against ballot questions 1 and 2. Priests throughout the diocese read the letter at Mass this weekend.

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

All of us in the Commonwealth of Virginia will soon face very serious legal threats to the sacredness of human life and the sanctity of marriage. During the upcoming election season, from September the 18th to November the 3rd, two dangerous ballot initiatives will be brought before all voters.

One amendment, which will appear as Ballot Question 1, proposes an extreme and vague change to the Virginia Constitution that would create a legal right to unregulated abortions, performed by unlicensed abortion practitioners at any time during pregnancy. This threatens the health and safety of mothers and would allow for abortions targeting healthy babies all the way up to birth. The amendment extends this so-called right even to minors. It would remove the role of parents concerning life-altering and irreversible decisions for their minor daughters. Unfortunately, abortion is already legal in Virginia. But what is on the ballot this fall would expand abortion beyond what most citizens recognize as reasonable limits. The proposed amendment is extreme. It is unnecessary. And it is wrong.

Another amendment, which will appear as Ballot Question 2, would remove from our state constitution the truth, as Jesus taught, that marriage is between one man and one woman. It would also enshrine gender ideology by falsely separating the reality of one’s sex and gender, obscuring the truth that we are created in the image and likeness of God.

Yet, with God’s grace, there is always hope! “We the people” can unite to defeat these dangerous amendments to our Commonwealth’s constitution.

The Church is not partisan. The Church never advocates for or against specific candidates or parties. At the same time, the Church, in fidelity to the Gospel and her mission, always speaks clearly, faithfully, and truthfully concerning matters of faith and morals in public life. An issue of fundamental moral justice confronts each one of us. The Church boldly proclaims its “Yes!” to the protection of the unborn and the sanctity of all human life. For us to speak this Yes, we must together proclaim “no! ” to these radically unjust ballot initiatives, in fidelity to God and for the good of all in our society. I ask you, then, to do three things.

First, I ask you to be a faithful disciple and pledge to vote by visiting

CatholicsVoteNo.com, where you can learn more and share the truth about these extreme ballot initiatives.

Second, I ask that you ensure you are registered to vote and make a plan to get to the polls, starting as early as this coming Friday, September the 18 , when early voting begins. I urge you to vote early to ensure nothing prevents you from casting your ballot in this critical election.

Third, I ask that you speak with family, friends, and colleagues, in truth and love, with a focus on activating and turning out those most likely to vote to protect life and the truth about marriage.

Our baptismal promises call us to fulfill our sacred duty to participate in public life with a prayerfully and factually informed conscience. CatholicsVoteNo.com equips you with the information and resources you will need as you cast your ballot.

Together, with God’s grace, we can protect life, liberty, and the future of our Virginia home. Through the intercession of Mary our Mother, may our Lord Jesus bless, inspire, and guide you always.

Sincerely in Christ,

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Most Reverend Michael F. Burbidge
Bishop of Arlington

AUTHOR

Robert B. Bluey

Rob Bluey is president and executive editor of the Daily Signal. Follow on X RobertBluey.

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870,000 Fraudsters Guilty of Stealing $50 Billion in Fraudulent Pandemic Loans

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If you felt the government was just shoveling out money—and the system was ripe for fraud, your intuition was right. It was worse than many of us thought.

WATCH: Vice President JD Vance Holds a Fraud Task Force Press Conference

Washington Times: Vice President J.D. Vance announced Monday that the government is barring 870,000 people from getting future federal loans because they are suspected of defrauding the government during the pandemic. They accounted for nearly $50 billion in bogus small business loans, officials said. Letters will be mailed out starting this week notifying them they’re banned. “If you screwed the American taxpayer, the federal government is now going to say you’re cut off,” Mr. Vance said at an appearance in Kansas City, flanked by Attorney General Todd Blanche, FBI Director Kash Patel and Small Business Administration Administrator Kelly Loeffler….  Mr. Vance, who was tapped to lead President Trump’s task force on combating fraud, also called upon Democrats to join the fraud fight. “Congressional Democrats have been so captured by far-left advocacy groups that they can’t even participate in something as common sense as protecting the American taxpayer’s money,” he said. “We can’t allow it to be normalized that the American people get stolen from by fraudsters.”.

The SBA announced suspensions for 870,000 PPP and COVID EIDL borrowers tied to $39 billion in suspected fraud, in our biggest fraud action to date.

In total, the Trump SBA has now suspended about 1 million borrowers associated with $49 billion in suspected pandemic fraud across all 50 states and U.S. territories.

Also today, the agency announced “Operation No Doze” in partnership with SBA Office of Inspector General – a campaign that will send demand letters to suspected fraudsters across the nation, starting in Kansas and Missouri.

The agency has already referred $22 billion to Treasury – and will continue to partner with its federal counterparts across the Administration to both claw back stolen dollars and prosecute criminals to the fullest extent of the law.

Todd Blanche reveals DOJ has charged 80 PEOPLE in a $245 MILLION COVID fraud crackdown

“The American people were ROBBED and they deserve to know.”

One man tried stealing $55 MILLION in taxpayer dollars by filing for pandemic loans for BOGUS businesses.

Others were filing on behalf of Cuban immigrants.

And the government PAID OUT.

AUTHOR

Pamela Geller

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Muslim Migrant Crime Gets Worse in Second Generation of Decendents

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Unlike most Western countries, Denmark tracks crimes committed by immigrants and tracks them by country of origin, and the news is just as bad as you expect. Migrants from MENAPT (Middle East, North Africa, Pakistan, and Turkey) are more than two times more likely to commit crimes, and their descendants are worse by a significant margin. Berlinske: Crime among male immigrants from predominantly Muslim countries has fallen slightly since 2016. Among their sons, however, it has risen to the highest level ever recorded. That leads Immigration Minister Morten Bødskov (Social Democrats) to describe one of the largest problems in immigration policy: values, social inheritance, and a “rejection of Denmark.” Caption: Immigration and Integration Minister Morten Bødskov does not hesitate to call the new figures one of the largest immigration-policy challenges at the moment. (Berlinske.)

Statistics Denmark: Country-level descendant indexes quoted in English, e.g. male descendants from Lebanon 386, Somalia 316, Syria 312, Iraq 268 (population average = 100). (Statistics Denmark.)

In Germany, for example,   “Non-German suspects continue to be significantly over-represented in violent crime” at 42.9%.

Data collected from various federal states across the country from the Welt am Sonntag newspaper found similar results, with around one in every two suspects of violent crimes in Bavaria, Berlin, and Baden-Württemberg being foreign nationals, which is significantly higher than their proportion of the population, with just 15% not having a German passport.

The data proves some groups are significantly more likely to be suspected of violent crime:

  • Afghans are 14 times more likely to be suspected than Germans.
  • Syrians being 16 times more likely.
  • The true disparity is likely to be even greater because migrants who obtained German citizenship or their children are now counted as Germans.

Rape cases in 2025 rose 9% from 2024.

Rape cases have risen 72% since 2018.

Migrants represented 38.5% of all rape suspects.

Member of the Bundestag parliament for the anti-mass migration Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, Sascha Lensing, said of the statistics: “The proportion of non-German suspects is not a marginal phenomenon, but a central factor — especially when it comes to violence in public spaces.” — Source.

With No Assimilation, Migrants Threaten Europe

Victor Davis Hanson, August 30, 2025: August 30, 2025

Almost weekly in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, France, and Germany, a sensational assault committed by an illegal migrant—often enjoying some sort of state support or with prior arrests for the same crime—surfaces.

Until recently, European politicians and the media sought to either ignore such news or accuse those who clamored for tighter borders, more police protection, and stiffer penalties of being “racists” or “xenophobes.”

Until recently, that is.

Mass protests are now common in Britain against the Labour Party’s open borders policies and generous welfare entitlements for immigrants who arrive illegally and without authentic “political refugee” status.
Greek officials, also swamped by illegal immigration, now cite President Donald Trump’s secure border policies as new models for their own.

The majority of European immigrants now come from majority-Muslim countries in the Middle East and North Africa. Yet many arrivals seem angrier at their newfound liberal hosts than at the dictatorships they fled back home.

Europe’s immigration policies will not work in a multi-ethnic democracy.

Too many immigrants are arriving too quickly, without sufficient diversity, language fluency, skills, or familiarity with the customs and culture of their host nations. They often enter with separatist religious and cultural values antithetical to the very place they seek refuge.

Yet, there is no European plan of civic education to assimilate immigrants and teach them the rules, laws, and culture of their hosts.

It is then no surprise that what follows is ghettoization, resentment, and loud attacks on the very nation in which they seek sanctuary, denouncing it as decadent and godless.

In the past, Europe’s anemic military budgets, reliance on borrowed money, socialism, and a once-strong economy papered over these existential challenges of illegal immigration.

Or, as left-wing former German chancellor Angela Merkel once inanely said of massive illegal influxes into Europe, “Wir schaffen das” (“We can do this”).

But, of course, Merkel could not.

She offered zero plans on how to integrate, assimilate, and acculturate millions of Europe’s illegal aliens. Now, some 15% of Germany’s population are foreign nationals.

Unfortunately, the statist economies of high-cost Europe are stagnating.

Massive welfare outlays, coupled with a shrinking and aging native population—with a birth rate sinking below 1.4—are finally slowing economic growth.

Current German Chancellor Friedrich Merz put the dilemma bluntly: “The welfare state as we have it today can no longer be financed with what we can economically afford.”

Yet the more socialism ossifies, the more popular culture still demands free benefits that a shrinking number of taxpayers can no longer provide.

The United States is finally taking the opposite approach of cracking down on illegal immigration, deregulating the economy, and unleashing high technology to fast-track new frontiers of artificial intelligence, robotics, cryptocurrency, and genetic engineering.

Often, Europe’s best and brightest—and frustrated—are migrating to greater opportunities and freedom in the U.S., further hampering European research and development.

Europe foolishly adopted a self-defeating energy policy to achieve net-zero emissions by subsidizing inefficient wind and solar power while ignoring or shutting down far cheaper natural gas, nuclear, and coal-powered electrical generation.

Meanwhile, China, grinning like a Cheshire cat and caring little about its carbon footprint, is eagerly exporting wind and solar systems to the suicidal West.

Yet China itself is busy building about two massive coal-fired plants a month, and the largest and most environmentally disruptive hydroelectric projects in the world.

No wonder average European electricity costs are even steeper than those in failing California. European consumers often cannot afford to turn their heaters and air conditioners on, while businesses cannot compete with industries abroad that enjoy far cheaper power.

Trump has declared that the 80-year postwar order is calcified and that the U.S. will no longer run huge trading deficits with European Union nations. Instead, it will demand symmetrical tariffs, further challenging past European mercantile profitability.

The days of Europe disarming and relying on the United States for defense are also over, given that Russian leader Vladimir Putin, for the third time in 15 years, invaded a neighboring country.

Yet Ukraine is not Chechnya or Georgia, but instead on the doorstep of Europe.

So in panic, a perennially delinquent NATO is not only promising to spend the required 2% of gross domestic product on defense but also increasing arms budgets to 5% of GDP, a higher rate even than that of the U.S.

No one knows how Europeans will afford such massive rearmament.

To do so would require opening up their economies, adopting far more flexible and traditional energy policies, securing their borders, ending illegal immigration, pruning the welfare state, increasing their fertility rates, and dropping the diversity, equity, and inclusion salad bowl while re-embracing the melting pot of integration and acculturation.

We will soon see whether Europeans can adopt such needed reforms, or find the necessary medicine worse than their current crippling continental disease.

AUTHOR

Pamela Geller

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Lindsay Clancy Et Al.: Are Women “Children of a Larger Growth”?

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“How do you write about women so well?” novelist Melvin Udall was asked in the 1997 film As Good as It Gets. “I think of a man,” he replied, “and I take away reason and accountability.” This comes to mind while pondering the Lindsay Clancy situation. 

Oh, I’m not currently editorializing on whether she had a psychotic break when brutally killing her three little ones. What I find more interesting, as I often do, is a bigger picture. It relates to a line from a letter Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, wrote to his son in 1748. To wit:

“Women … are only children of a larger growth…” 

I know, he was a “dead white male” opining when America was still a colony. But here’s the thing: 

This is precisely how many men and women treat females today: as “children of a larger growth.” 

The Clancy drama is illustrative. The default assumption when a man kills his kids is that he’s just evil. No “My hormones made me do it” defense need apply (even though we always hear about the testosterone-aggression link). Fry ’im. But a woman?

Well, she’d ne-e-e-ver do such a thing if in her right mind. Something just must have been wrong with her. In fact, she might’ve even crumbled under the stress a man, or this Patriarchal Society™, put on her! She needs help and compassion—not punishment. 

This is why, as research has shown, women get more lenient punishment than men do for the same crimes. 

In other words, we explicitly and understandably state, and codify in law, that children won’t criminally be held to an adult standard. What isn’t explicitly stated or codified in law, but is just as real, is that we don’t hold women to an adult male standard.

Perhaps there’s a congruence, though, since so many women today behave utterly childishly. Most recently there were multitudinous female groupies who, despite knowing little about Clancy’s case, nonetheless passionately took the killer’s side. They’re likely, too, the type of women we’ve seen before. 

Examples are:

  • the “Kavanope harpies” who hysterically misbehaved during Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings in 2018. They “set women back 100 years,” lamented commentator Megan Fox at the time (oh, if only);
  • the “Shout Your Abortion” movement, which mixes childishness with pure evil;
  • “purple-and-pink-haired”-type, body-pierced female teachers boasting online about indoctrinating children with “gender” ideology; 
  • the female-heavy, college-campus shout-downs of “keep men out of women’s sports” speakers;
  • the women who, distraught over President Trump’s 2024 victory, were screaming en masse at Lake Michigan. (In fairness, Michigan did give its electoral votes to Trump);
  • the pink pu***-hatted “Women’s March” movement; and
  • the heavily female post-Dobbs-leak protests (often at SCOTUS justices’ homes).

Perhaps such behavior isn’t surprising, though, since 2020 research found that 56 percent of young, liberal, white women have been diagnosed with some form of “mental health” problem. (I know—you’re shocked.)

Now, this frightful feminine female folderol is not entirely new. Winston Churchill was physically attacked by insufferable suffragettes in the early 1900s, and Roman statesman Cato the Elder complained about unreasonable women protesting in 195 B.C. Yet this phenomenon has in our time been put on (estrogenic) steroids. 

Thus did the aforementioned Megan Fox write that the anti-Kavanaugh “screeching gorgons’” behavior “has called into serious question their fitness to even participate in any serious matter of state.” Finally inspired to investigate the arguments against giving women the vote, Fox related a passage from a 1912 British parliamentary debate. Viscount Helmsley, she wrote, “nailed it” when saying:

The way in which certain types of women, easily recognised, have acted in the last year or two, especially in the last few weeks, lends a great deal of colour to the argument that the mental equilibrium of the female sex is not as stable as the mental equilibrium of the male sex… It seems to me that this House should remember that if the vote is given to women[,] those who will take the greatest part in politics will not be the quiet, retiring, constitutional women … but those very militant women who have brought so much disgrace and discredit upon their sex. It would introduce a disastrous element into our public life … it is little short of nauseating and disgusting to the whole sex…

Interestingly, this perfectly aligns with Duke’s First Rule of Women in Politics, which relates a sort of Catch-22. That is:

Insofar as women are in politics, they should be moral, traditional women. But traditional women aren’t found in politics. 

They’re at home raising children. 

This is as a general rule—with perhaps the occasional exception proving it—absolutely true. A cursory examination of our female legislators makes this abundantly clear, too. It’s generally abnormal women who enter characteristically masculine fields such as politics (and male politicians are abnormal enough without the gals spiking the abnormality quotient.)

Of course, I’ll be called a knuckle-dragging Neanderthal for writing the above. (Though I suspect those much-maligned Neanderthals knew, ahem, the difference between boys and girls.) But feminists and others thus disposed should check themselves: They don’t believe in “equality” any more than I do. How’s that? 

Commentator Katie El-Diwany noted the hypocrisy in 2018. “There is more than plenty of talk about the dearth of women in science, in engineering, in upper management positions, and as CEOs,” she wrote. “But there is no one asking: where are all the female garbage-collectors, the female elevator technicians, the female landscape laborers, the female oil rig workers?” 

“All of this reveals that feminist clamoring for ‘equal representation’ is not about equality at all,” El-Diwany concluded. “It is about power and prestige.” 

No question. Feminists (and their enablers) will complain about how there aren’t enough actresses playing leading-role heroines and fighting on film. Yet they never demand equal treatment in, oh, let’s say, what could lead to real combat: being subject to the draft. (And even once in the military, women’s roles aren’t as dangerous on average.)

In contrast, there was congruence in pre-suffrage days: Women weren’t required to go to war—but they also couldn’t vote for politicians who might plunge us into a war. They had less responsibility because they had less authority. 

Now they have equal (and perhaps greater?) authority, but still lesser responsibility—inclusive of not having to fight, bleed and die for the nation when situationally necessary. Can anyone honestly say he believes in equality while perpetuating this double standard? 

Then there are all those aghast at seeing “trans” males entering females’ sports. I take a back seat to no one on this. I was inveighing against the “trans” agenda back in 2009 (and was criticized for it at the time by conservatives). Still, it’s hard being enthusiastic because, well, feminists are just being hoist with their own petard. 

Anyone remember when they demanded access to males’ sports (e.g., boys’ wrestling teams) and other male spaces? In fact, even while shouts of “Girls spaces are for girls!” are registered, girls are still cheered when entering “boys’” spaces. This is all while touting “Equality!”—and people barely notice the contradiction. 

This reflects how so many tacitly align themselves with Lord Chesterfield’s belief. Women today are not only treated like children, but spoiled, coddled, pandered to children. Feminists want equal authority without the ultimate responsibility. They get it. They want girls’ sports for girls and, when convenient, “boys’” sports for girls, too. They get it. They want barriers they dislike ripped down and barriers benefiting them retained. They get it. 

I would say “Make up your mind”; I would say, “You can’t have it both ways.” Except there’s this:

I know they can. 

Feminists have had it both ways for at least a century and, in reality, it likely won’t end until and unless our civilization does—and then reboots. 

After all, let’s face it: In America today children are a most favored class. 

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