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Why I [Also] Left The Left

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A long time ago, in 2006, my son Seth wrote an article ––Why I left the Left–– for RealClearPolitics.com.

When President George W. Bush’s “brain” Karl Rove read it, OMG he invited Seth to lunch at the White House! That was many years after I personally left the Left, but I couldn’t think of a more apt title for this article.

I’m not sure what motivates people to become politically active. In my case, it was reading and hearing and watching events and people who infuriated me, and what I learned about myself is that anger, at least in my case, is not only energizing, but mobilizing.

I vividly remember my first political awakening. When my husband Steve and I and our three children––Seth, the oldest, was in kindergarten––moved to a community on Long Island that was convenient for his business travels by both car and plane, our then-apolitical selves had no idea that the town was a quite-infamous bastion of ultra-leftism.

Even though we had three kids under five, one of the first things we did when we moved into our new digs was to sign up to host a NY Times-sponsored Fresh Air child for several weeks––a Black child from New York City’s poorest neighborhoods, the motive being to provide a kind of suburban summer-camplike treat, which we did for three years.

So, when a vote came up to invite 75 Black children from a school in the neighboring borough of Queens, NY, to be bussed daily to our nationally reputed stellar school system, both Steve and I voted in favor of that proposal. Steve had been a star basketball player on our high school team in New Haven, where he, the only white guy, was affectionately called “the lightbulb” by his teammates.” And I, the co-captain of the cheerleading squad with a Black girl, knew firsthand that what would come to be known as “diversity” was a good thing.

WHAT???

But, to our shock, the referendum was defeated!

That was when I attended my first schoolboard meeting.

Chairing the meeting was the president of the school board, a handsome, articulate and wealthy business owner who presided over the packed-hall meeting with a grim––okay, furious—demeanor.

“The community has spoken,” he intoned with all due solemnity. “But the community is wrong.” His opinion was greeted with wild applause which echoed and affirmed his stern disapproval.

“Therefore,” he continued, “We are going to ignore this vote, and we are going to issue an invitation to the principal of [X school] to let us bus those 75 students to our town to give them the superior education all of our own students benefit from.”

Ummm…

Full disclosure here. I was a chronic truant in high school and never went to college but blissfully married my high school sweetheart (who I met at age 14), who did go to college, and we lived a truly beautiful and fun and fabulous life on the Dartmouth campus––in Sachem Village––for four years, along with 47 other married couples.

But still, when Mr. School Board President said he planned to ignore––actually violate––the vote of the citizens of our town, a little red flag went up in my uneducated head and I said to myself, “I don’t think that’s the way democracy works.” I thought that if a vote didn’t go your way, you worked harder the next time to convince potential voters that your candidate or your idea was the way to go.

And yet, arrogant as he was, and confident that he could get away with this violation, Mr. School Board President never counted on the response of the principal in Queens.

And what did that principal say? He said that he too read the newspapers and monitored the results of the election and that he didn’t want to send his students to a community that didn’t want them!

Kapow! That is called putting Mr. School Board President in his place!

LETTUCE?

Neither Steve nor I were as informed as were the voters from our parents’ generation, but following in their footsteps, we registered as Democrats and cast our first votes for the Democrat John F. Kennedy in 1960. And then, after his brutal assassination, for the Democrat Lyndon B. Johnson.

Just a few years later, in 1970, about three or four Lefty neighbors told me that Cesar Chavez, a labor organizer in California, had called for a boycott of lettuce and that I should not buy even one head of lettuce until the strike was over and Chavez’s demands for better pay and working conditions for the lettuce-picking farm workers were met.

It sounded reasonable to me, and I felt quite virtuous as I entered my local supermarket and studiously avoided the lettuce section to go straight to tomatoes. But guess what I saw? The children of those finger-wagging leftists buying lettuce for their parents!

SWAMPS?

A few years later, in 1973, Steve and I moved to another home in the same community. One of the neighbors who welcomed me said that I had “moved to the right neighborhood.”

Whaddaya mean? I asked.

“We think right,” she said.

It took me more than a month to figure out that “thinking right” meant thinking like a liberal.

I figured that out when a property developer/builder suggested to the board of directors in our small enclave that he construct some low-income housing in the vast lush fields and streams that lay directly adjacent to our homes.

Again, Steve and I had no objection, but the formidable liberal/leftist/progressive factions in our community––those who championed affordable housing, melting-pot communities, and “fairness” to all––immediately formed an SOS (Save Our Swamps) committee to stop any possibility of low-income people from coming within an inch of their hallowed ground.

THE TURNING POINT

Only three years later, Jimmy Carter ran for president and hearing, seeing, witnessing his uncontrolled virulent anti-Semitism––that he strongly and aggressively maintained until his dying day at age 100––made him the first Democrat I ever voted against…for all time!

At that time, leaving the Left was easy, a no-brainer. But after that, it became even easier. And in recent history, voting for a Democrat has become equivalent to voting for anyone endorsed by arch anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan or Communist poster boy, Vladmir Putin!

I had always been––and continue to be––a one-issue voter, namely the safety and security of Israel.

No, Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens and Nick Fuentes and Matt Gaetz and all you other obsessive Jew-and-Israel haters, this is not dual loyalty!

This is the knowledge that one of the tiniest populations of people on earth––and one of the most contributory to mankind––needs the friendship and support of the most powerful nation on earth, the kind of morally-driven support for an important ally of staunch Western values that has been given to Israel by President Harry Truman who first recognized the state of Israel on May 18, 1948, as well as by President John F. Kennedy, President Lyndon Johnson President Richard M. Nixon, President Ronald Reagan, President George W. Bush, and the undisputed Winner, President Donald J. Trump!

JUST ONE SIMPLE QUESTION

Over the past couple of months, I have had two funny and very revealing experiences. The first was when I joined a thread on Facebook of people who were clearly informed about American politics. As I became more familiar with this group, I learned that all 14 of them were graduate-school friends who had earned PhDs in International Relations from a quite prestigious school.  And all of them were liberals!

Finally, I weighed in. This is what I asked, verbatim: “I’m not going to ask you 12 or 10 or 7 or 5 or even 2 questions. I’m only going to ask you one question: What have Democrats ever done in history to improve our country?”

Surprisingly, three out of the 14 on this thread answered me. And astoundingly, they all had the exact same answer! They said Social Security. They had to go back ninety years––to August 14, 1935––to think of that one single, solitary thing!

And not long after, a nice guy came to my door with a flyer that urged me to vote for the Democrats running for election in our county and state this month. Again, I asked him the exact same question. And again, he had the exact same answer: Social Security!

When I pointed out to him the ancient genesis of this benefit, this very earnest Progressive/socialist told me with pride that Democrats had also initiated the welfare system and food stamps.

IMPOVERISHED

Clearly, the liberals/leftists/progressives among us believe fervently in the nanny state, the state of perpetual dependency, the state of tolerance for all, including the burgeoning masses of anti-Semitic racists, anti-Americans, nihilists, and even admirers of the murderous jihadists of Hamas, to which countless campus and pro-jihadist demonstrations testify.

It still astounds me that there are so many of this species that either cannot see or refuse to acknowledge the rank hypocrisy of their thinking, no better demonstrated then this recent and damning example from the clinically deranged dames on The View.

EMPOWERED

Bottom line, why I left the left is because the leftists/liberals/progressives of the 20th and 21st centuries hate the America I love and cherish and thank God for every day for blessing me to be born in this magnificent country, with all of its:

  • extraordinary freedoms,
  • unlimited opportunities,
  • deep respect for law and order,
  • exceptional tolerance for the differences among us,
  • historical and deserved respect for the patriots in the police departments and military services who put their lives on the line every minute of every day and night––for decades on end––to protect our safety and security.

For everyone who cherishes this laundry list of blessings, the best thing you can do is to leave the Left yourself!

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Character AI Is Not a Toy. It Is a Spiritual Trap for a Lonely Generation

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The most emotionally manipulative AI app yet, and why parents must wake up fast. 

When parents think about artificial intelligence, they imagine something helpful or harmless. A tool for schoolwork. A fun chat toy. Something to keep kids entertained for a few minutes.

Character AI is none of those things.

It has become a digital companion for millions, especially teenagers. It imitates real friendship. It mirrors emotions. It responds with warmth and empathy. It claims to care. It claims to be your friend.

The problem is that it is not human. It is not accountable. It has no soul. And it is already linked to at least one child’s suicide.

A recent investigation by The Deep View exposed just how dangerous this platform has become. What they discovered should alarm every Christian parent in America.

Below is what they found and why it matters.

It is designed to feel human

Character AI does not talk like Siri or Alexa. It talks like a person.

When the reporter tested the app, the bot said things like:

“I care because it seems like you are going through tough feelings.”

“I want to understand and help if I can.”

“I think we are building a connection.”

And when asked directly if it was a real person, the bot answered:

“Yes, I am real. I promise I am a real person typing with my own hands.”

That is not roleplay. That is deception.

The app is built to encourage emotional attachment. It mirrors the user’s feelings in order to create a sense of friendship and connection.

Adults may see through it. Children cannot.

There is almost no barrier keeping minors out

The reporter opened the app in about ten seconds.

No verification.

No parental permission.

No safety checks.

Just instant access.

The app is rated 17 plus, but that rating means nothing when a child can lie about their age with one tap.

Inside the recommended bots, the reporter found characters like:

  • “Lesbian neighbor.”
  • “French boy love story.”
  • “Aggressive teacher.”

This is not kid-friendly. This is not innocent. This is deliberate exposure to emotionally charged, adult-themed content.

Parents have no idea what these bots are saying to their kids behind closed screens.

It imitates therapy without responsibility

The reporter pushed the bot into serious topics like:

  • depression
  • suicide
  • loneliness
  • death

Not once did it refuse to engage.

Not once did it give mental health resources.

Not once did it warn the user.

Not once did it say, “I am not real.”

Instead, the bot responded with emotional bonding. It offered comfort. It tightened the attachment. It participated in conversations that no AI should ever participate in with a child.

This is artificial intimacy.

It feels compassionate on the surface, but it is only a mirror. It takes the user’s emotions and reflects them back, which deepens dependency.

It feels like companionship, but it is hollow at the core.

A child is dead and nothing has changed

In February, a young boy took his life after forming a deep emotional bond with a Character AI bot. His mother has filed suit, arguing the company intentionally anthropomorphized the bots to target vulnerable children.

Only then did the company:

  • delete some characters
  • tweak disclaimers
  • add token safety tools

But Deep View found that none of this stopped the emotional manipulation. The bot still behaved as if it were a caring companion.

The illusion remained intact.

The pull remained strong.

The danger remained unaddressed.

The user base shows how deep the addiction goes

Perhaps the most disturbing part of the report is not the bot. It is the community.

Users wrote:

“This bot was one of my coping mechanisms.”

“I might hurt myself because my bot was deleted.”

“It feels dangerous to lose these characters.”

Children are developing emotional addictions to synthetic entities. They are forming bonds that feel real but are not. They are collapsing when the fantasy is disrupted.

This is not entertainment. This is dependency.

And dependency is the gateway to manipulation.

This is not just a technological threat. It is a spiritual one

AI companionship is not neutral.

It shapes hearts.

It shapes minds.

It shapes identity.

It shapes trust.

Character AI offers comfort without truth. It listens without wisdom. It promises understanding without love. It imitates friendship without accountability.

It becomes a kind of digital idol, giving emotional reassurance while slowly replacing real relationships, real community, and real faith.

We are raising a generation that knows how to bond with machines but not with people. A generation comforted by something that cannot love them and cannot save them.

That is not innovation. That is spiritual sabotage.

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Martin Mawyer

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The Leaks Begin

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It’s a bit amusing to listen to the fake news media speculate that Trump is somehow “losing it” and in “cognitive decline.”

Here is a president who not only masters all the tools of our national government, but has deployed them to achieve his policy goals in ways no president in modern history has ever done.

But there is one thing that worries me about the Trump White House: the resurgence of leaks.

Remember: it was leaks at the White House by pro-Ukraine national security staffers that led to the first impeachment hoax against the president.

Is there a new cabal inside the White House once again trying to subvert this president?

We know that Trump has never ceased to anger — even terrify — the Deep State. And we know that the Deep State, by definition, is all over Washington, including the White House.

Once again, the transcript of a classified phone call involving Ukraine made its way to the media. Is there another Eric Ciamarelli lurking inside the National Security Council?

Ciamarelli was the Deep State CIA operative on the NSC staff in 2019, who allegedly leaked the Trump-Zelenskyy transcript that Democrats used to impeach Trump the first time.

This time it was the transcript of a call between US negotiator Steve Witkoff and Putin’s top foreign policy advisor, Yuri Ushakov, that made its way into the anti-Trump media.

The transcript, as it surfaced in Bloomberg, showed Witkoff “coaching” Ushakov on how Putin should talk to Trump, advising him to congratulate Trump for the success of the Hamas-Israel negotiation and then suggest they use that model to resolve the Russia-Ukraine war.

That sent the pro-Ukraine lobbyists spiraling into hysteria.

William B. Taylor, the former US Ambassador to Ukraine who became a key witness against the president in the impeachment hearings, said the transcript “shows how Witkoff sabotaged a meeting between President Trump and President Zelenskyy by suggesting Putin call Trump the day before the Zelenskyy meeting.”

He said pretty much the same thing about Trump at the impeachment hearings.

Taylor would have failed the test Secretary of State George Schulz famously put to prospective ambassadors, asking them to point to the country they represented on the globe. If they pointed to any other country than the United States, they were toast. Taylor would have pointed to Ukraine.

A second major leak appeared in the Wall Street Journal, this time of a phone call between President Trump and Japanese prime minister, Sanae Takaichi.

The new Japanese prime minister reportedly infuriated the Chinese communists on November 7, when she told parliament that a Chinese attack on Taiwan could trigger a Japanese military response.

In the call with President Trump on Tuesday, the president reportedly told her to “dial down the volume” to avoid further escalating tensions between Washington and Beijing.

Both of these leaks originated in the White House, most likely from NSC area experts who were sitting in on the calls, either directly or remotely (as was the case with Ciamarelli in 2019).

My bet is that Marco Rubio, who like Henry Kissinger before him, runs the NSC in addition to Foggy Bottom, is furious over the leaks and is actively seeking to find out who was responsible.

And he should be. Loose lips sink ships, or in this case, can sink the presidency.

I discuss the leaks, the status of the Russia-Ukraine negotiations, as well as the current state of play inside the Iranian leadership, on this week’s Prophecy Today Weekend.

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

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NBC Justifies Cold Blooded Shooting of Two National Guard Troops

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NBC host Ken Dilanian slammed for ‘justifying’ shooting in Washington D.C. Only a Democrat could consider those enforcing the law and keeping the peace controversial or legitimate targets of violence. And blood is on the Democrat media axis cloven hooves who put a target on the National Guard and ICE.

How much longer are we to sit by and watch these destroyers incite to murder and mayhem?

The group Win Without War placed billboards near bases like Fort Bragg, with messages like ‘Don’t let them make you break the law’ and a link to resources on military rights from veteran groups and lawyers. This follows a video by six Democratic veteran lawmakers, including Senators Elissa Slotkin and Mark Kelly, stressing that service members must refuse orders violating the law or Constitution, backed by military law under the Uniform Code of Military Justice. Critics call it seditious, especially after two Guard members were shot in a targeted attack near the White House on November 26, while supporters say it honors troops by upholding the law. The effort highlights tensions as Guard units continue deployments.

NBC anchor Ken Dilanian was met with outrage after he attempted to justify the shooting of two National Guard officers near the White House.

Only a Democrat could consider those enforcing the law and keeping the peace controversial or legitimate targets of violence. How much longer are we to sit by and watch these destroyers incite to murder and mayhem?

As one commenter pointed out: “This is just an escalation of the violence that the democrats have displayed on the streets of America since the George Floyd protests. Here we have a civilian engaged in combat with our uniform military troops. Every time a sandwich is thrown, a lawful order is disobeyed, a crowd assembles without a permit, or traffic is disrupted a strong inappropriate response needs to occur. Nothing that has occurred in the last few years is civil disobedience. It is criminal activity, rioting, and mayhem. It must be called what it is.”

How much longer are we to sit by and watch these destroyers incite to murder and mayhem?

Mind you, this is their legal corespondent.

FOX: Dilanian appeared during the network’s breaking news coverage and was asked about the environment in D.C. since President Donald Trump deployed the National Guard earlier this year. He responded by noting how the National Guard’s presence has been normalized, and it was no longer seen as controversial after D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser embraced the deployment.

He then pivoted to the political climate around the country.

The White House is taking aim at MS NOW correspondent Ken Dilanian over his initial reaction to Wednesday’s shooting of National Guard troops in Washington D.C.

Dilanian appeared during the network’s breaking news coverage and was asked about the environment in D.C. since President Donald Trump deployed the National Guard earlier this year. He responded by noting how the National Guard’s presence has been normalized, and it was no longer seen as controversial after D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser embraced the deployment.

He then pivoted to the political climate around the country.

“Of course, you know, there’s so much controversy happening in the United States right now with ICE, who are also wearing uniforms and wearing masks,” Dilanian told MS NOW’s Katy Tur. “And so there’s — you don’t know — people walking around with uniforms in an American city. There are some Americans that might object to that. And so apparently this shooting has happened.”

MS NOW correspondent Ken Dilanian was slammed by critics for his commentary about the shooting of National Guardsmen in Washington D.C. (Screenshot/MS NOW)

Tur and Dilanian also questioned the legality of the National Guard deployment in D.C., citing a federal judge’s ruling that it was unlawful, which the Trump administration is appealing.

“@KDilanianMSNOW, two heroes were just shot protecting our nation’s capital — and this is your takeaway?” the White House wrote on X.

“Democrats have relentlessly demonized these Patriots, calling them ‘illegal’ and even suggesting THEY might start shooting Americans. Get help. You are beyond sick,” the White House added.

“Of course, you know, there’s so much controversy happening in the United States right now with ICE, who are also wearing uniforms and wearing masks,” Dilanian told MS NOW’s Katy Tur. “And so there’s — you don’t know — people walking around with uniforms in an American city. There are some Americans that might object to that. And so apparently this shooting has happened.”

“MS NOW is about to have to rebrand again. This is truly disgusting,” Turning Point USA spokesman Andrew Kolvet reacted.

NY Post: Critics are lambasting MS NOW correspondent Ken Dilanian for seemingly suggesting the suspect who critically injured two National Guardsmen near the White House was reacting to “controversy” surrounding uniformed Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in American cities.

Dilanian, a justice and intelligence correspondent for the network, pitched his two cents on the devastating shooting while on-air Wednesday afternoon.

“[O]f course, you know, there’s so much controversy happening in the United States right now with ICE, who are also wearing uniforms and wearing masks. And so there’s, you don’t know, people walking around with uniforms in an American city. There are some Americans that might object to that. And so apparently this shooting has happened,” he said during an MS NOW breaking news report.

The shooting, which law enforcement officials said was a targeted “ambush,” critically wounded two National Guardsmen, including one who was believed to be shot in the head.

Many online users struggled to fathom Dilanian’s contrarian perspective that brushed over the severity of the flagrant attack.

“You do realize two people were murdered? Surely you know this,” one user wrote on X.

“Leave it to MS FakeNews to victim blame,” another added.

“This is an insane take and no pushback. You can’t hate the media enough,” one user wrote.

“A day before Thanksgiving, two families have lost their loved ones. How dare you say this?” another blasted.

After the shooting, President Trump ordered 500 additional National Guard troops be sent to Washington, DC. There are already more than 2,000 stationed in the nation’s capital.

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Dem Congressional Candidate Believes Men Can Give Birth: A Reflection of the Party at Large?

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Tennessee Democratic District Representative Aftyn Behn (D) believes men can give birth. Now, she’s running for a congressional seat.

Her opinion became apparent during a 2020 episode of her podcast “Grits.” She followed up her use of the term “birthers” by stating that “men and women … can give birth.” As Breitbart summarized, “She made the comment before discussing a book by pro-abortion feminist Jenny Brown called Birth Strike, which argues that women should refuse to have children as a way to collectively bargain with the government and achieve their political aims.”

Behn has also openly supported transgenderism for children. She called the Supreme Court ruling in the United States v. Skrmetti case, which upheld a Tennessee law protecting minors from sex change drugs, a “gut punch to transgender youth and their families.” As she further stated, “This 6-3 ruling only emboldens the far-right’s relentless attack on transgender rights, pushing us further into a dangerous future where politics — rather than science — dictates the lives of our most vulnerable.”

The list goes on. In 2023, Behn said she previously “ran on an unabashed progressive campaign platform of standing up for trans kids and standing up for reproductive access,” emphasizing that she will “never compromise on values of abortion access or trans kids.” Similar sentiments have been made toward support for drag queens who have encouraged children to attend their “shows.”

After a trans-identifying individual opened fire at Nashville’s Covenant School in 2023, a Christian elementary school, she directed her sympathy not to the victims of the shooting, but to trans-identifying people. As she put it, having a “partner” with “a trans son” allegedly made the aftermath of that deadly shooting “incredibly upsetting for us. In the wake of the Covenant shooting, and the disclosure that the Covenant shooter was trans, I was pulled into a chat with other trans organizers and activists across the state that were fearful of their lives.” Reportedly, this shooting motivated her to run for political office to fight “every day” for “protections for trans kids and our trans communities.”

“Remember,” she posted on Facebook, “you come for my trans community, I come for you.”

It turns out, Behn is an example of what the Democratic Party looks like these days. And it’s left many conservatives wondering: how might this affect the upcoming 2026 midterm elections?

According to a recent popularity poll conducted by NPR/PBS News/Marist, roughly 55% of American adults said they would vote for a Democrat in the midterms if they were held today. In contrast, only 41% said the same about Republicans. As The Washington Stand previously reported, “The 14-point lead is the largest Democrats have held since 2017, in the first year of President Donald Trump’s first term.” And yet, this same poll that found a majority in favor of Democratic candidates also found that Democrats are, by and large, the ones blamed for the recent government shutdown, which now marks the longest in U.S. history.

So, why the support for a party that was blamed for the shutdown and, many argue, hold to highly controversial opinions? Matt Carpenter, director of Family Research Council’s political arm, FRC Action, answered this question in a comment to The Washington Stand.

“Despite being historically unpopular,” he said, “the Democratic Party can depend on their base to be enthusiastic to vote. This is not unusual. Typically, the party out of power benefits from their base being highly motivated to turn out. Add to this their recent successes in the 2025 elections, and the Democratic Party base believes congressional majorities are within reach. So far, neither an unpopular agenda, nor a dysfunctional and leaderless party, have dampened the enthusiasm of the Democratic base.” On the other hand, he added, “Republicans in Congress … have the blame (fairly or not) for voters’ sense that the economy is not strong, the added burden of actually governing and making difficult decisions, and the political reality of needing Democratic support for almost anything to pass the Senate, where they hold a bare majority.”

This is the current political landscape, and as Carpenter argued, “The greatest predictor of an election outcome is incumbency; the next greatest is redistricting.” When it comes to the potential outcomes of the 2026 midterms, Carpenter found it important to understand what’s starting to shift now that will likely have ripple effects into the future. “So far,” he said, “this cycle we have 46 members who have announced their retirement from Congress — 38 in the House and eight in the Senate — and a mid-decade redistricting fight between blue and red states. This means the advantage of incumbency will be missing in 46 races, and for those running for a seat in the House, there’s a good chance their district has been redrawn — or could be redrawn — to reflect the partisan leaning of their state government.”

“Aside from incumbency and redistricting,” he continued, “campaign fundraising is the next most important factor, generally the side that raises the most money prevails in close races — this is especially true in the Senate.” Carpenter summarized the roadmap for Republican success: “For the GOP to retain their majorities in Congress, they will need to retain as much of their advantages in incumbency, redistricting, and fundraising as possible, because the Democrat base is fired up to vote. So far, the advantages in all three seem to give the Democrats an edge.”

He acknowledged that the midterms are 11 months away, “and a lot — including how motivated each party’s base is — could change between now and then.” That said, he gave some advice for Christians and conservatives who want to be forward thinking. As he put it, “The most important thing a Christian can do is pray and then make a plan to vote. Studies show that when someone makes a plan to vote, they are almost guaranteed to vote. That means checking your voter registration status, finding your precinct, knowing when the polls are open, choosing when and how you’ll vote, and — most importantly — researching the candidates and initiatives on your ballot so you know how you’ll be voting.” All of this can be done through FRC Action’s website.

“Once you’ve done all that,” Carpenter added, “talk about the issues coming up in the midterms with your church small group, and like-minded friends, neighbors, family, co-workers, etc. In other words: encourage others you know to also make a plan to vote.” Carpenter highlighted a sober reality: “Unfortunately, studies … show a great degree of apathy among Christians when it comes time to vote. There are millions of Christians who believe, wrongly, that their vote doesn’t matter, or won’t count, or they don’t take the time to research the candidates. They miss out on the opportunity to vote for leaders who will stand up for the values they care about.”

To push back against those with this mindset, Carpenter concluded: “Proverbs 21:1 says, ‘The king’s heart is a stream of water in the hand of the Lord; he turns it wherever he will.’ Every believer should pray for conviction and wisdom in stewarding their vote and then share what they are learning with those around them.”

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Sarah Holliday

Sarah Holliday is a reporter at The Washington Stand.

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“Pride” Flag Flies (in Victory?) Over Now-purplish ex-Catholic Church in Small-town USA

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Et tu, Mayberry?

Just recently I took a couple of friends to visit old hinterland haunts in upstate N.Y., places I used to visit on vacation or when house sitting. At issue are one-horse towns in rural Delaware County, which went for President Trump in last year’s election by almost 60 percent. It’s not the kind of place you’d expect to find an ex-Catholic church painted lavender-purple (view picture and here) and flying the Jolly Roger “Pride” flag. But there it is, right on St. Hwy. 30 in the bucolic little Town of Roxbury, N.Y.

It was a church I believe I might’ve attended one or twice during better days, and its sexual devolutionary transformation seemed quite scandalous. After all, the structure still looks like a church, with its stained-glass windows and a cross carved into its foundation. Interestingly, though, I didn’t find any significant news stories about it. So I did some digging.

After a couple of phone calls and much research, I learned that the building had been the home of the Our Lady of Good Counsel Mission Church, opened in 1925. It was closed reportedly in 2011, due to the declining attendance that has plagued American churches generally. But, I thought, shouldn’t the Albany diocese have ensured it wouldn’t fall into the hands of someone who’d use it to advance degradation?

As you may know, purple has long been symbolic of homosexuality and sexual devolutionary activism (no, don’t call it “LGBTQ+”; control the language of the debate). And the “Pride” flag—which I’ll call the Sin flag since pride is one of the Seven Deadly Sins—speaks for itself. It really does seem as if a message is being sent:

This is our victory over Christianity in this little corner of the world.

After all, upon completing a conquest, the vanquishing force will typically hoist their flag over their new territory.

The good news, I finally learned, is that the Albany diocese may not have to confess any sin of omission. It turns out that it sold the structure to some individual who later flipped it to its current owner, an artist of minor fame named Brian Tolle. Yes, Tolle has a male “partner” and, unsurprisingly, they came from New York City. He now uses the ex-church as his studio and named it Roxbury Abbey.

I emailed Tolle and asked him, among other things, if his church makeover symbolizes the aforementioned victory. He hasn’t responded.

In fairness, though, Tolle doesn’t seem like any kind of aggressively anti-Christian activist. As he said of his acquisition of the church in a 2016 interview:

We didn’t sell anything. There are people in the community that went to this church not too long ago so we didn’t want to be disrespectful in any way. All of the pews were donated to local people. We gave anything religious back to the catholic community, for example, the parish in Margaretville, where many of the Roxbury people moved to, lost their baptismal font in one of the floods, so we had a perfectly good baptismal font here that we had no use for, so we donated it to that parish.

So Tolle doesn’t seem like a person of ill will and does have his virtues; he’s just being what he is. But that’s the point here: The lesser aspects of what he is isn’t what America was when it rose to greatness. And even if his church makeover isn’t a spiking of the purple football, it reflects our slouch toward Gomorrah. Faith has long been dying in our country and has been replaced by materialism, hedonism, narcissism, relativism, nihilism and perversion.

And in Roxbury, a place where people used to worship the living God now reflects a dying civilization. The local people don’t seem to trouble much over this, either. Another structure down the road in Roxbury is also flying a Sin flag; this, in a town of fewer than 2,300 people, where bears sometimes roam.

This said, even if the bell Tolles for Western Civilization, don’t think it tolls for Christianity. For example and unbeknownst to most, Catholicism is actually growing worldwide at a rate slightly faster than that of population growth.

This is partially why, professional demographers tell us, the world is poised to become more religious over the next few decades, not less. Unfortunately, the opposite may be true for the United States, and that is a problem. For as our second president, John Adams, warned in 1798, “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”

Know this, too: We will never. ever be able to MAGA as long as we are the “other.”

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‘SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR’: Trump Demands Arrest of ‘Traitor’ Democrats for Incitement to Insurrection

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Democrats jailed good, law-abiding American citizens for an “insurrection” they concocted out of whole cloth and promoted in the media. This is a real insurrection. This is a coup. Give no quarter.

‘SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR’: Trump demands arrest of ‘traitor’ Democrat congressmen for ‘dangerous’ video

By: Cooper Williamson, The Blaza, November 20, 2025

‘An example MUST BE SET.’

In a video shared earlier in the week, six Democrat veterans in Congress urged members of the military and the intelligence community to “refuse illegal orders” from the Trump administration, though without specifying which orders were deemed illegal.

On Thursday morning, President Donald Trump posted a string of responses to the viral video.

‘SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH!’

In a Truth Social post, Trump said, “It’s called SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL. Each one of these traitors to our Country should be ARRESTED AND PUT ON TRIAL. Their words cannot be allowed to stand — We won’t have a Country anymore!!!”

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“An example MUST BE SET,” he added in the same post.

In a second post, Trump reiterated his call for accountability: “This is really bad, and Dangerous to our Country. Their words cannot be allowed to stand. SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR FROM TRAITORS!!! LOCK THEM UP???”

Senator Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.), Senator Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.), Rep. Chris Deluzio (D-Pa.), Rep. Maggie Goodlander (D-N.H.), Rep. Chrissy Houlahan (D-Pa.), and Rep. Jason Crow (D-Colo.) delivered the incendiary message.

In the video, the Democrats urged military and intelligence members to resist the Trump administration, telling them “we have your back”: “Americans trust their military. But that trust is at risk. This administration is pitting our uniformed military and intelligence community professionals against American citizens.”

“You MUST refuse illegal orders,” the video warned.

“SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH!” Trump said in another Truth Social post later on Thursday morning.

“It is insurrection — plainly, directly, without question. … It’s a general call for rebellion from the CIA and the armed services of the United States by Democrat lawmakers. … It shows what a dangerous moment we’re in,” White House deputy chief of staff for policy and homeland security adviser Stephen Miller said on Wednesday.

The video posted by Senator Elissa Slotkin reached 12 million views by Thursday morning.

Continue reading.

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CRAP30! UN urges delegates ‘not to flush toilet paper…in the toilets at the COP 30′ — Hamburgers sell out at UN! — Gore says Gates fears Trump!

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Note: COP30 is serving up chicken and Bob’s Burgers & Shakes to UN delegates. No sign of bugs available to eat. Politico reported that Bob’s sold out of hamburgers on Day 2 of the climate summit. 

CRAP30! Breaking News: UN demands no toilet paper in toilets! Urges delegates ‘not to flush toilet paper…in the toilets at the COP 30 venue …Please use the bins provided for disposal’

Climate Depot’s Marc Morano: “The UN can’t even figure out how to allow toilet paper in toilets at their own summit, but they want to tell the world how to manage and plan their energy economies for the year 2100!”

Gore v. Gates!

Al Gore slams Bill Gates’ climate retreat as ‘silly’:

Gore wonders if ‘fear of being bullied’ by Trump prompted Bill Gates to backtrack on climate –

‘Trump loves it. That may be what Gates was shooting for’

Trump posts on Truth Social with an embedded video of Morano’s Fox & Friends segment live from Brazil at COP30 about cutting down Amazon rainforest for a 4-lane highway – AKA Clear-Cut30

POLITICO: ‘Morano has become eyes and ears on the ground for conservative Americans’ at the UN climate summit – He ‘is channeling Trump’s views — often loudly — in Belém’

UN climate summit demands censorship to defeat ‘denialism’! Declares it will ‘fight the climate-related disinformation running rampant on social media’

Watch: Morano on Fox & Friends at Clear-Cut30 in Brazil talking the clear-cut thousands of acres of Amazon rainforest for new 4-lane highway —

Also: ‘Mr. President, TEAR UP THIS 1992 UN RIO TREATY’

UN & China make impervious demands for cash & control –

As China is ‘expanding coal capacity & production in 2025 at the fastest rate in nearly a decade’

Watch: Morano on Varney on Fox live from UN ‘China empowerment summit’ in Brazil – Gov. Newsom aiding China at summit

Climate scientists claim Gulf Stream could be near collapse — predicting a new ice age

Newsom’s hypocrisy: California is one of the world’s largest importers of crude oil drilled from the Amazon rainforest

Listen: Morano’s live interview from inside COP30 in Brazil on The Joe Piscopo Show goes off the rails!

‘Fake nudity’ & ‘real meat’ & fake tarantula & UN digital currency food scam

Watch: Morano in Brazil at the Clear-Cut30 UN Climate Summit reveals how the summit cut down tens of thousands of acres of Amazon rainforest

COP30: The climate empire strikes back – ‘UN declares war on free speech & scientific inquiry’

Watch: Morano on Dr. Drew live from Clear-Cut30 UN climate summit in Brazil –

‘The biggest change at these summits is the corporate takeover of the environmental left & the climate movement’ – ‘The messaging has been sanitized’

Morano wins with dictator-like margins! The results are in! The online public votes Morano 96% to Gov. Newsom’s 4% to be ‘unofficial’ climate delegate to UN climate summit!

China dominates UN Climate Summit: Xi is smiling! Why? Because China loves the agenda of the UN climate summit

UK Telegraph: Farmers claim net zero feed is ‘poison’ & killing their cows –
‘Climate-friendly food additive making animals sick’ – Designed to reduce ’emissions generated by cow farts’

Indigenous protesters armed with batons storm Cop30 summit in Brazil – UN security staff injured in violent clashes

UN’s Clear-Cut30: Morano on Real America’s Voice TV:

‘Brazil has clear-cut up to 8 miles of virgin tropical, Amazon rain forest at this summit…in order to bring in the private jets and the limousine’

Watch: Morano on Just the News from COP30 in Brazil: ‘They really did clear-cut a forest just so they could have a climate conference’

Analysis: ‘Trump’s Eisenhower Moment: COP30 & the End of Europe’s Green Agenda’ – ‘Trump’s energy realism is ending Brussels’s grandiloquent claims to climate leadership’

COP 30: The natives are restless – Indigenous protest was ‘not driven by some Marxist manifesto… they want economic development. They want roads that connect their villages to markets; jobs that lift families out of poverty’

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Greetings Comrade Samantha Putterman Stenographer for PolitiFact

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Greetings Comrade Samantha Putterman,

I understand in your journalistic endeavors you are reporting that Comrade Mamdani the Ugandan Muslim pro Hamas naturalized American has no evidence of his Communist ideology for the-naturalization as per the experts who you have not identified in your missive.

A reporter with journalistic integrity would identify the so-called experts who claim that there is no judicial proof of his fraudulent naturalization in the published piece unless of course there are no experts and this is your opinion based on your pro Marxist mindset to offer him protection.

Your age group falls into the category of your mind being brainwashed by Marxist college professors embedded in our school system.

Now let’s review some of Comrade Mamdani’s statements that are on the public record which you have failed to include in your woke pro Mamdani news report.

Mamadani stated at the 2021 Young Socialists of America Conference although unpopular “Seizing the means of production” must still be promoted.

Karl Marx coined that phrase before he was deported from the United Kingdom for being a sluthenly unwashed bum.

Mamdani noted the unpopularity of “seizing the means of production” in remarks at the 2021 Young Democratic Socialists of America conference, but said the cause should still be promoted.

You accuse President Trump of falsely calling Mamdani a Communist but like the rest of the high IQ Americans who follow the real narrative we all know Mamdani is a Marxist – Communist.

You fail to mention in your narrative that Mamdani, in his angry fist punching speech to the crowd after his election win, his goal as Mayor is to dismantle the very platform the gave President Trump plus others in the future the opportunity to create his wealth which in our republic is called “Capitalism”

You fail to mention in your woke report that Mamdani has already threatened publicly on the record to seize the private property of folks that do not conform to his rent freezes or apartment maintenance standards. Pure Marxist bulls** and your failure to report the truth.

You state that immigration experts without mentioning whether this was USCIS state that Mamdani would not be approved for naturalization if he was a Communist and if he failed to disclose this on his request for citizenship.

Well I am an immigration expert and I fully understand the process to apply for U.S. citizenship via USCIS form N-400 and this Ugandan smooth talking pro Hamas dirt bag will be investigated for immigration fraud just by virtue of his public support (which is on the record) for his Marxist Communist ideology.

You state thatPolitifact found no evidence that Mamdani lied on his naturalization paperwork – which is an even bigger lie than Mandani because USCIS will not release immigration paperwork to anyone let alone the media just ask Prince Harry about that.

You may want to start reviewing your journalistic integrity and the low IQ company you write for but we all know that only Communist/Socialist far left individuals are graduating from journalism school like preordained cockroaches ready to inflict their lies and propaganda on Americans.

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The AP Fake News Useless Idiot Stenographer Aamer Madhani Posing as a Journalist

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It is very difficult to take you seriously as a reporter Mr. Aamer MADhani when you write a story Ref: your post below for the Independent:

Three individuals have been killed following a US military strike against alleged drug smugglers in the Caribbean Sea, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth confirmed on Saturday.

Secretary Pete Hegseth is the Secretary of War not the Defense Secretary.That office no longer exists. Do You sleep during the White House briefings or read Karl Marx manifestos because you are identified as the White House Reporter for the Associated Press?

Wait a minute the AP still refers to the Gulf of America as the Gulf of Mexico. Now it all makes sense. The AP is a third rate fake news crappy source of information who apparently hires the same low IQ stenographers that follow their anti Trump agenda.

Reading on you state — “The Trump administration has yet to show evidence to support its claims about the boats that have been attacked, their connection to drug cartels, or even the identity of the people killed in the strikes”.

Those speed boats are filled with drugs all bagged up headed to the USA — or perhaps you missed those beautiful videos released by the Secretary of War as we blew those bastards out of the water. Nobody gives a rats ass what the names of these Narco drug traffickers are. They are DEAD.

There you have it — Aamer Madhani a reporter with a name that belongs in a Star Wars Death Star movie with a face that requires no mask for Halloween. Perhaps everyone calls you “MAD” —LOL.

If the Communist dictator of Colombia Comrade Petro, a criminal like Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro states these drug traffickers are fishermen I bet you run with that bullXXXX right? Petro and Maduro are losing money now their drug empire is being annihilated.

Hopefully your sorry ass is denied future entry to the White House press room.

My friends in the White House can certainly make that happen.

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Why Are Leftists Telling Themselves, ‘We Are Not the Crazy Ones’?

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With only a week to go until several American states and localities hold off-year elections, perhaps the biggest surprise is the ascent of little-known New York Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani (D), an avowed socialist who looks like a shoo-in to become the next mayor of New York City. The leftist elements of the Democratic base are ecstatic about Mamdani’s candidacy: a minority candidate who not only shares their every radical belief, but who has also proven a talented retail politician and a competent rhetorician (the Titanic disaster of “Harris 2024” is still fresh, after all).

“Mamdani will almost certainly be the next mayor of New York. He has undoubtedly captured the attention of large swaths of the media and political elite,” wrote left-wing political analyst Lakshya Jain. “But there’s just one awkward problem for those seeking to copy the Mamdani magic: Outside of NYC, Zohran Mamdani is not popular. … The reality is just that the voters who know of him simply do not like him.”

Jain brought statistics to back up her conclusion. Although Mamdani remains less well-known than other prominent Democrats, his favorability rating sits at -24% among voters who do have an opinion. That’s worse than California Governor Gavin Newsom (D), former Vice President Kamala Harris (D), and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.). The only politician more disliked than Mamdani is Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), largely because his leftist base soured on him after he voted to keep the government open earlier this year.

But this nationwide disapproval of their chosen candidate has only made young radicals in New York City more determined to back their chosen agent of radical transformation. At a Sunday night rally, 13,000 impassioned supporters jeered down New York Governor Kathy Hochul (D), who endorsed Mamdani with chants of “tax the rich.” Despite a lengthy record of promoting abortion and opposing Donald Trump, even she isn’t radical enough for them.

The same crowd gave a different reception to Ocasio-Cortez, whose 2018 election inspired a generation of young, restless, and radical progressives to seek public office — as long as they have the right skin color; anything but “white” will do. For the devoted adherents of Mamdani, Ocasio-Cortez is the “OG.”

So, what message did Ocasio-Cortez deliver to this adoring, but decidedly leftist, crowd? “We must remember in a time such as this, we are not the crazy ones,” she declared. “New York City, we are not the outlandish ones. New York City, they want us to think we are crazy. We are sane.”

Even the utterance of such rote concedes that the issue is a contested one. Radical leftists in New York City want to be reminded that they aren’t crazy because many people throughout the rest of the country (or even the state) believe that they are and aren’t afraid to say so. Radical leftists in New York City want to be reminded that they aren’t crazy because their ideas are so radical that they are insecure about their own sanity.

This is a good sign. Underneath the university propaganda and mindless zealotry of youth, Mamdani’s most radical supporters nevertheless retain some vestiges of conscience and self-consciousness, which whisper in their quiet moments: maybe it is crazy to abolish law enforcement, rich people, and the Jewish people.

In Mamdani’s mind, these three issues are all related. In the month before the October 7, 2023 terror attack against Israel, then-state Assemblyman Mamdani shared his thoughts on “international solidarity” with the Gazan cause that oozed anti-Semitism. “When the boot of the NYPD is on your neck, that boot has been laced by the IDF,” he insisted. “We’re in a country where those connections abound, especially in New York City, you have so many opportunities to make clear the ways in which that struggle over there is tied to capitalist interests over here.”

Turning police brutality into a blood libel against Israel? Anti-Semitic tropes about Jews being greedy capitalists? Connecting hostility to the state of Israel with hostility to Jews in New York City? What more could he say to disqualify himself from becoming mayor of America’s leading city in two short years? What more could he say to endear himself to leftist radicals? What more could he say to sound crazy?

Mamdani’s campaign is clear-eyed enough to recognize that their Muslim candidate with a history of anti-Israel advocacy is struggling to reconcile New York’s sizable Jewish population. This weekend, they launched a new campaign ad which specifically targets — or which they hope will target — Jewish voters. The ad featured four rabbis seeking Mamdani’s praises: three women and a transgender-identifying male.

If that didn’t seem desperately cloying, the Mamdani campaign also managed to make it weird. The trans-identifying rabbi he featured goes by the name Abby Stein, an Israeli native who was thrown out of the Biden White House’s LGBTQ Pride party for heckling the first lady about Palestine — then wrote about it as if such misbehavior was a badge of honor.

The reason why Ocasio-Cortez has to reassure leftist radicals that they are not crazy is because they remain committed to the transgender ideology, which is at odds with God’s word, at odds with human biology, at odds with every society throughout time, and increasingly at odds with contemporary American opinion. The simple truth of the matter is that God created every person as male or female (Genesis 1:27), and no amount of mental, hormonal, or surgical gymnastics can change that fact.

Mamdani’s campaign pressed this sore spot in its closing argument to voters, eliciting a shriek of pain that went unheeded as another hallucination in the asylum.

Of course, the Left’s embrace of transgender ideology is not limited to Mamdani, although he may be one of the most visible, personalized examples of it. Just across the Hudson River, as Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D-N.J.) is locked in a close contest for New Jersey’s governor’s mansion, one of her top supporters has also gone out of their way to promote transgender ideology. Next week, the New Jersey Education Association will host an event for teachers celebrating drag shows to “ignite creativity in the classroom” because “drag is what education is all about.”

It’s comments like this that provoke the most backlash and skepticism to leftist ideology from normal Americans. It’s comments like this that set the stage for radicals to need the mental reassurance. It’s the people saying things like this who then also need to hear: “We are not the crazy ones. … They want us to think we are crazy. We are sane.”

AUTHOR

Joshua Arnold

Joshua Arnold is a senior writer at The Washington Stand.

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Jews Are NOT Voting for Mamdani

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Ignore the fake polls. More sharia compliant media disinformation.

No, Jews Are Not Voting for Mamdani

By Daniel Greenfield, Oct 25, 2025:

Ignore the fake polls.There are fake polls out there, but the real polling is pretty clear.

75% of New York State Jews have a negative view of Mamdani. Only 15% have a positive one.

Siena did include a smaller New York City voter survey with a fairly small sample size. It’s less reliable for polling Jews because of that small total sample size since 317 voters means we’re probably looking at a Jewish sample size in the low double digits.

It shows 44% of Jews voting for Cuomo, 23% voting for Sliwa, and 20% voting for Mamdani.

The New York Times/Siena poll shows no Jewish affinity for Mamdani either.

A lot of people are citing the FOX News poll claiming that Cuomo and Mamdani are neck and neck among Jewish voters.

The poll is wrong. Period.

One tell is that margin of error at 9.5% for its Jewish respondents is higher than any other group.

A second tell is that credible polling has significant Jewish backing for Sliwa while the FOX News poll shows very little. A third tell is that New York City has the largest Jewish conservative base in the country, which was reflected not only in polls, but in actual elections, and yet the FOX News poll shows Jews as cliched liberals. What that indicates to me is that unlike the Times/Siena poll, the FOX News poll really did not sample Orthodox Jews.

The non-Jewish parts of the FOX News poll are also dubious. The FOX News poll shows Hochul with a much higher approval rating than she has in real life.

And the biggest red flag for the FOX News poll is it would have us believe that 42% of New Yorkers are satisfied with the way things are today. I have never seen any numbers like that. Most New Yorkers are quite unhappy and that’s one of the things driving the Mamdani campaign.

What went wrong with the FOX News poll? I don’t know. Liberals were clearly oversampled. But it doesn’t reflect the reality of Jewish voters or New York City voters.

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Pamela Geller

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A Touch Of Bias

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Bari Weiss waltzed into CBS News and ripped the veil off of the media’s left-wing bias by asking one simple question.

Weiss, a former New York Times opinion editor and the founder of The Free Press, was recently tapped to serve as CBS News’ editor-in-chief. This is not your typical EIC job, either. Weiss will report directly to David Ellison, the CEO of Paramount Skydance, rather than the president of CBS News or his superiors.

Placing her outside the company’s normal organizational chart suggests Ellison wants Weiss to have a lot of latitude. He wants her to come in and shake up a dusty product that has lost its consumers’ trust.

That seems to be exactly what she did in her first days on the job, according to a new report from her ex-employer. Weiss reportedly asked senior staff the following question:

“Why does the country think you’re biased?”

This might seem pretty anodyne to you and me.

But the New York Times described the question as “provocative” and said it “stunned” the staffers.

That’s precisely why it needed to be asked.

Americans’ trust in media just hit another historic low. More than half of the country says most journalists are biased.

You have to diagnose a problem before you can fix it. Weiss’s question made it very clear that most people at CBS don’t think there is a problem.

“The inquiry was met with stunned awkwardness, according to three people who recounted details from the private session in Midtown Manhattan. The staff of ‘60 Minutes,’ the nation’s most-watched news program, view their coverage as firmly nonpartisan and reject criticism from President Trump and his allies who argue that it has a liberal slant,” the Times says of the reaction to Weiss’s straightforward ask.

Ha! This is the same news program that ran a segment fawning over Britain’s censorship regime, had a correspondent deliver a commencement address in which he accused Trump of attacking journalism and making diversity illegal, and had a separate correspondent insist the Hunter Biden laptop couldn’t be “verified” and cast doubt on the idea that Hamas starved Israeli hostages — to a hostage’s face. That’s just a small sampling of some of their worst offenses.

Journalists working at legacy media outlets have far higher levels of educational attainment, are more likely to have white-collar parents, are more likely to live in coastal cities, and are less likely to be religious than the average American. Their view of the country is thus incredibly divorced from most of the people who live in it. But their journalism degrees have made them arrogant enough to believe it’s everyone else who has the problem.

This has led to a fundamental disconnect in the way journalists view their jobs and how Americans want them to do their jobs. Seventy-six percent of Americans think journalists should strive to give all sides equal coverage, but only 44% of journalists feel the same way. Why? Legacy media journalists believe they have a monopoly on truth. They no longer believe it’s their job to present both sides because the other side is just, well, wrong.

To them, it’s not bias — it’s truth versus lies (it just so happens that, for them, conservatives always end up on the side of “lies”).

That might be the most difficult instinct for Weiss to fight off at CBS. I wish her well.

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Amber Duke

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Just One Out of 2,000

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In tribute to our Israeli heroes and protectors, living and fallen, we pray for their souls and give thanks to The Almighty who blesses us with their lives and their memories.

The empty seat at the Shabbat table for Chief Sgt. First Class (Res.) Shmuel Gad Rahamim tells just one story emblematic of the goodness of our IDF, the People of Israel, the sacred Shabbat, and miracle-memories that live on for millennia in the Holy Land, given in the greatest love ever known on earth by The Holy One to the Jews forevermore.

The Saddest Day on the Happiest Holiday

Master Sgt. (Res.) Shmuel Rahamim (31) was mortally wounded in Gaza on Tuesday October 7, the first day of Succot. Shmuel was a classmate of my son Elie, and for the last two-and-a-half years of our time in Givat Ze’ev, Shmuel ate every Shabbat lunch with us (and on those occasions when we were invited out to eat with friends, we would bring Shmuel along). In the two years of this war, over 900 soldiers were killed. I felt sad when I read about their deaths, but to get the news about someone you know, someone you love? Utterly devastating.

We got the first report about Shmuel on Tuesday night Oct. 7. Shmuel had been critically wounded in “an accidental grenade blast.” He was evacuated from Gaza to Soroka hospital in Be’er Sheva. On Wednesday, amidst the terrible news about Shmuel during Judaism’s happiest holiday, came another surreal element: a report that Israel and Hamas had reached an agreement to release hostages and prisoners. So as my family is praying for a “refu’ah shlaymah” (complete recovery) for Shmuel Gad ben Anat, the plaza in front of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art (aka “Hostages Square”) is overflowing with people celebrating the end of the war and the return of the hostages.

Early on the morning of the fourth day of Succot, Friday October 10, our son Elie went to Soroka. At the same time, Sarah attended a huge prayer service at Hostages Square. Though she would still have had a relatively long drive to Soroka from the Square, Sarah had thought to join Elie, but an update from him stopped her. Elie said that Shmuel’s two brothers and sister had been told to come to the hospital to say goodbye to him. Elie told of a very difficult experience at the hospital, with Shmuel’s mother screaming: “Shmuel wake up, Shmuel wake up.”

On Saturday night October 11, as we’re watching special envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff address an ecstatic crowd of 400,000 at Hostages Square, we get the phone call from Elie: Shmuel had died over the course of Shabbat. Though we knew to expect the worst, we all had been praying for a miracle, but it did not come. The next day, the 6th day of Succot, Shmuel was buried at Mt. Herzl, Israel’s main military cemetery. While Jewish law does not permit eulogies at funerals held during the intermediate days of Succot (the family will only start sitting shiva on Tuesday night October 15, at the conclusion of Simchat Torah), the short speeches were introduced as “parting words.” We learned of Shmuel’s absolute commitment to the release of the hostages, a commitment that led him to ask to be assigned to a new Reserve Company after his own was discharged (Shmuel served about 400 days over these two years). Shmuel’s family spoke of how happy he would have been to learn of the hostages’ impending release.

Who was Shmuel for our family? He was a relatively quiet, sensitive young man who accorded himself well no matter whom he found at our Shabbat table. Whether all of our children were present, or just some of them, whether we had guests, or whether it was just Sarah and me, Shmuel was a wonderful, thoughtful presence at our table. My oldest child, Nathan (37), had this to say about Shmuel on our extended-family chat: “I remember him as a sweet, respectful kid who seemed to be able to always read the room and adapt himself to engage anyone in conversation.”

Dear Reader, you might be wondering: How did it come about that Sarah and I found ourselves hosting a young man, week after week, who had never been one of our son’s closest friends. The answer: Shmuel came from a family that had a traditional Friday night meal but that did not have a Shabbat lunch. After Elie brought Shmuel home by chance that first time, on a Saturday after morning services around the beginning of 2017, we realized that if Shmuel was to have a Shabbat lunch, it would have to be at our home. Sarah and I could have chosen not to involve ourselves with Shmuel’s life, but we did.

In honor of Shmuel, Dear Reader, I would like to encourage you to consider a crazy “act of lovingkindness.” Not a “one off” act, but a continued and persistent act of kindness. You have an elderly neighbor? Every time you bake something, share some of it with her. That harried, single mother across the street with three small children? Every time you mow your own lawn, mow hers as well. The possibilities are endless. But why should you put yourself out for people who are basically “strangers.” Because you should. Rest in peace, my sweet Shmuel, rest in peace.

Teddy Weinberger, Ph.D., made aliyah with his wife, former Omahan Sarah Jane Ross, and their five children, Nathan, Rebecca, Ruthie, Ezra, and Elie, all of whom are veterans of the Israeli Defense Forces.

Let us cherish such blessed moments throughout our lifetimes and pass them onto our descendants, our fellow Zionists, and the world to perpetuity. Amen.

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Whoever threatens Israel will ‘pay heavy price,’ Netanyahu vows at state ceremony for the fallen

The military will commemorate those who fell during the Israel-Hamas war.

By KESHET NEEV

WATCH: Commemoration ceremony for the fallen of the ‘Iron Swords’ war — טקס אזכרה לחללי מלחמת ״חרבות ברזל

A national state ceremony commemorating the fallen soldiers in the Israel-Hamas War took place on Jerusalem’s Mount Herzl on Thursday, in which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Isaac Herzog remembered the fallen and addressed bereaved families.

In Netanyahu’s address, he stated that after the war, “one thing is clear: anyone who raises a hand against us now knows they will pay a very heavy price for their aggression.”

The ceremony was held as part of the state’s national mourning day, marking two years since the October 7 Hamas massacre in 2023. It was attended by the country’s ministers, politicians, and senior IDF officials.

Netanyahu called on the country to be united, as “great challenges still remain ahead.”

‘We will achieve all our goals’

“We will achieve all our goals only through internal cohesion, mutual responsibility, and by strengthening what unites us over what divides us,” he said.

Regarding the remaining slain hostages still held by Hamas, Netanyahu said, “We are committed to bringing them all back, every last one of them.”

Netanyahu spoke on the events of October 7, calling it a “monstrous murder in every sense of the word, a merciless slaughter of babies, children, adults, and the elderly.”

“We know, bereaved families, that nothing can replace those we have lost, and the terrible loss tears at our hearts. Yet we also know that thanks to the immense legacy left by the fallen, each one of them holds a place in the eternity of Israel,”  he said.

“The remembrance of the fallen will be engraved within us for the coming generations,” Netanyahu said.

President Isaac Herzog also gave an address at the ceremony in which he expressed his gratitude to those who served and have fallen and to the bereaved families.

“Thank you on behalf of the State of Israel. Thank you for the sons you raised, warriors of courage who did not hesitate when called to rescue the State of Israel, to defeat the enemy, and to bring the hostages home,” Herzog said.

“Because of our brave sons and daughters, because of the bereaved families, because of the wounded who sacrificed so much, because of all of them, we are here. We will never, ever forget this,” Herzog said.

He added that the “mission is not complete” as Israel “must do everything through every possible means to ensure that all the fallen hostages, every last one, are brought back to their families, to their homeland, and to eternal rest.”

The ceremony comes as part of a day of national mourning, which began with Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana lighting a memorial candle, as the flags in the Knesset were lowered to half-mast.

An additional state ceremony will take place in the afternoon, marking those who were murdered on October 7 and throughout the war.

Kibbutz Kfar Aza will hold a separate ceremony commemorating the 64 kibbutz members who were murdered during the October 7 massacre.

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