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U.S. Fighter Jet Shoots Down Iranian Drone Headed for the USS Abraham Lincoln

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I don’t know what we are waiting for.

As for the drone, we have Obama to thank for that. He gifted our drone technology to the murdering mullahs.

U.S. Fighter Jet Shoots Down Iranian Drone Headed for Aircraft Carrier

By; Jeff Charles, Town Hall, February 03, 2026:

The U.S. military shot down an Iranian drone on Tuesday as tensions between the United States and Iran have intensified.

In late January, the Trump administration ordered the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln and a strike force into the Persian Gulf. The move raised speculation that the U.S. could carry out airstrikes against the Iranian regime.

Reuters reported that the drone “was flying towards the carrier and was shot down by a F-35 U.S. fighter jet.”

A U.S. Central Command spokesman told Fox News that the drone “aggressively approached a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier with unclear intent.”

He further explained that the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln was operating in the Arabian Sea, approximately 500 miles from Iran’s southern coast, when an Iranian Shahed-139 drone unnecessarily maneuvered toward the ship.”

This is the first military clash Washington has had with Tehran since the White House ordered airstrikes on the regime’s nuclear sites last year.

The Shahed-139 is an Iranian long-range surveillance and attack drone that can fly long distances while carrying various weapons, including precision-guided missiles and bombs. It is also used for reconnaissance missions and to attack targets on land and at sea.

President Donald Trump has repeatedly threatened military intervention against the regime if it refused to stop killing protesters.

Casualty estimates range from 3,000 to 20,000 people killed by the Iranian government.

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At last! ONE elected representative has the raw courage to speak the unmitigated truth about Islam as a threat doctrine – THIS IS EPIC

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More explanation to come. But this is a segment of today’s first ever Sharia-Free America Caucus Press Conference.

The Sharia-Free America Caucus was launched by Congressman Keith Self and Congressman Chip Roy to combat the rise of Sharia law in the United States.

The caucus aims to protect the U.S. Constitution and individual freedoms from Sharia’s influence, which is seen as a direct threat to American values.

The caucus has grown to include 26 members from 17 states, highlighting the importance of this issue to the American people and those they represent.

The caucus’s efforts include legal initiatives such as legislation that would deny immigration benefits to those advocating for Sharia and reinforcing America’s legal and immigration systems to prevent any infiltration of Sharia.

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21 Democrats Buck Hakeem Jeffries To End Four-Day Government Shutdown

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Nearly two dozen Democrats broke with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries to pass a sprawling funding package on Tuesday afternoon, ending the four-day partial government shutdown.

Lawmakers voted 217-214 to approve the Senate-passed deal that funds nearly 80% of the federal budget through Sept. 30, including the Departments of War, Treasury and State among other agencies. The House also signed off on a two-week extension of Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funding while Senate Democrats and the White House continue to negotiate reforms to immigration enforcement.

More than 190 Democrats — including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and his leadership team — voted “no” on the funding deal brokered between Senate Democrats and the White House. Top House Democrats insisted Tuesday that there is no antagonism toward their Democratic colleagues in the upper chamber despite opposing the spending framework negotiated in part by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.

Among the 21 Democratic lawmakers who voted for the funding deal is Connecticut Rep. Rosa DeLauro, the lead Democrat on the Appropriations Committee, who lauded the “bipartisan” negotiations that crafted the five appropriations bills.

“Did we get everything we wanted, hell no,” DeLauro said Monday. “Did the Republicans get everything they wanted, hell no.”

House Speaker Mike Johnson ripped Democrats for opposing the spending deal to end the partial shutdown.

“What they’ll be shutting down is FEMA operations as we’re cleaning up from the winter storms. They’ll be shutting down TSA, which is obviously necessary to keep the country moving through our airports, Coast Guard operations,” Johnson said Tuesday at a GOP leadership press conference. “So many important functions in the Department of Homeland Security is what will be adversely affected by these partisan games.”

Twenty-one Republicans voted against the funding package, citing concerns about hundreds of earmarks included in the appropriations bills and the failure to fund DHS for the entire fiscal year.

The funding package now heads to the White House for President Donald Trump’s signature. The president urged the House to quickly pass the spending agreement on Monday, arguing that Republicans must avoid “another long, pointless and destructive” shutdown.

Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie, a fiscal hawk, was the lone GOP lawmaker to oppose a rule teeing up the funding package for a vote on final passage. Given House Speaker Mike Johnson’s razor-thin majority, just two defecting GOP lawmakers could have defeated the procedural vote and prolonged the funding lapse.

Massie’s opposition to the spending agreement comes after Trump attacked Massie’s wife, Carolyn Moffa, in a Truth Social post on Monday, calling her a “Radical Left ‘flamethrower.’” Massie noted that Moffa has voted for Trump every time he has appeared on the ballot since 2016. Trump is backing a GOP primary challenger to Massie ahead of November’s midterm elections.

House GOP leadership also successfully flipped Tennessee Rep. John Rose’s vote to advance the funding package.

Rose, who is mounting a longshot bid against Trump-endorsed Republican Tennessee Sen. Marsha Blackburn in the state’s 2026 gubernatorial primary, initially said he could not vote to advance the funding package without the SAVE Act attached.

The election integrity legislation, which passed the House in April 2025, faces strong headwinds in the Senate due to the 60-vote threshold. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has vowed that Democrats will use the filibuster to prevent the SAVE Act from clearing the upper chamber.

The updated legislation would require proof of citizenship and voter ID to vote in federal elections.

Republican Reps. Troy Nehls of Texas, Byron Donalds of Florida, Andy Ogles of Tennessee and Victoria Spartz of Indiana also withheld their votes until they flipped to “yes.” The conservative cohort had similar concerns about the SAVE Act’s passage in the Senate.

The funding deal appeared to be on smooth sailing Monday after several GOP holdouts, who had demanded leadership attach an updated version of the SAVE Act, stood down following a meeting with the president at the White House on Monday.

Republican Rep. Anna Paulina Luna of Florida, a leading proponent of the SAVE Act, said she received commitments that the Senate would begin consideration of the legislation outside of the appropriations process.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune clarified Tuesday that he did not commit to put the SAVE Act on the floor and steer around the Senate’s 60-vote threshold by using the rarely-deployed “talking” filibuster.

Thune, who has publicly endorsed the SAVE Act and pledged a floor vote, said he would continue to have conversations with his conference about how to proceed.

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Putin’s Socialist Revolution in America

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“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within… The traitor is the carrier of the plague. You have unbarred the gates of Rome to him.” — Cicero

​Our country is divided as never before. Minnesota’s anti-ICE rhetoric is spreading nationwide. In the background of numerous protests in the country, Secretary of State Marco Rubio testified on Trump’s foreign policy at Senate Hearing January 28, 2026. It was an eloquent and detailed presentation. However, considering the environment in the country and the world, Venezuela, Iran, in my opinion, Marco Rubio should’ve revealed historical root causes of instability in the world to educate the public that will vote in the upcoming midterm election.

History is the mother of all sciences. Regrettably, not only America is divided as never before. The world was divided as never before by Socialist Revolution in 1917 Russia. The Soviet Dictator Stalin had given to the world his Doctrine: One World Socialist Government under Russia’s Rule. The war against Western civilization has begun in the 20th century. This Doctrine has been spread throughout the world to implement Stalin’s ideology and system of Soviet Socialism, which I called Soviet Fascism: North Korea, Cuba, China, Syria Venezuela and Iran. Unfortunately, the Doctrine reached America and the Dems party in the 21st century. It was close to being implemented by the Biden team, but the election of President Donald J. Trump has stopped the destruction of America from within.

The root causes of instability are Stalin’s Doctrine and aggressive forces that implement it. According to Stalin’s Doctrine the Soviet Intel office and Soviet Defense Council made the first formal Soviet decision to launch narcotics trafficking against the Bourgeoisie and especially against American capitalists in 1955. Here is the document:

“Soviet strategy for revolutionary war is a global strategy… narcotics strategy is a sub-component of this global strategy. …First was the increased training of leaders for the revolutionary movements—the civilian, military, and intelligence cadres.”  Russia has been drugging the world since 1955! Today, it’s quadrupled by the Chinese Communists and the entire new “Axes of Evil”. Read my column for detail. The Political Mafia and Soviet Fascism in America, October 27, 2016.

​It is critically important to know and understand this information to analyze instability in America and the world. Now, the events in Minneapolis can reveal a real face of the Democrat party. This is a complicated case of fraud by the thousand’s Somalia refugees. As a matter of fact, Somalia is a country run by Soviet Socialism with its Socialist Modus Operandi—fraud, which is ubiquitous in the system of Soviet Socialism. Look at representative Ilhan Omar, she was consulting Somali community. To investigate Somalian fraud, you have to know the system of Soviet Socialism that was implemented in Somalia in 1960-1970. Read my column: The Great Maneuver to Save Western Hemisphere.

All troubles in America are deliberately orchestrated by Russia’s Intelligence, which I was writing about for 44 years. There is only one way to stop Putin’s socialist revolution in America–to know that Russia is a terrorist State and Putin is Stalin’s devoted disciple—War Criminal; to know that the Soviet System still runs Russia; to know Putin’s the KGB’s Mafia/Army that is running the Middle East, to know its terrorist acts globally, other conniving capability and dirty tricks used in America destroying Western civilization from within. All of that has been described in my column. Please read it: Ideas of Stalinism — The Basis of New Radical Democrat Party May 12, 2025.

In August 2021, I published my sixth book: Socialist Revolution in America Xlibris, 2021. Actually, I have in mind Putin’s Socialist Revolution in America with the main topic the KGB’s Mafia/Army—the Evil Doer and degradation of the infiltrated Democrat party. It was five years ago, but five years later, I continue the same subject with the same bad actors, destroying the American republic from within. I am a former Soviet defense attorney, who loves America and exposing her enemies foreign and domestic for decades. The main topic of my reports is the war waged globally by the KGB’s Mafia/Army—the Soviet/Russian Counterintelligence Machine. Look at the Obama’s policy in July 2015…

“Reuters WASHINGTON, July 16, 2015  — President Barack Obama telephoned Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday to thank him for his part in the recent nuclear deal with Iran, the White House said, July 16, 2015. That cooperation didn’t start July 16, 2015, Putin has been dealing with Iran since the 1990s, implementing the Soviet System and Stalinist Security Apparatus in Iran. Read my book: Socialist Revolution in America. Don’t be surprised by the close relationship between Russia and Iran. Putin is Stalin’s devoted disciple and follows his legacy. Putin’s KGB’s Mafia/Army loves money and I suspect Putin has received part of the $1. 7 billion transferred by Obama to Iran.

We have been witnessing disastrous changes within the Dems Party under the influence of the Russian Intel: our culture is unrecognizable; 72% of Americans think we are on the wrong track. Yes, we are. Knowing Soviet Socialism, which I called Soviet Fascism, I saw it implemented by the Democrats in America. Writing about it for many years, I was showing the KGB’s role in transferring the Dems Party to a Party of Soviet Socialism. The KGB planned long and hard to use the Democrats and create a crisis, to shake the foundation of the country and finish with the American Constitutional Republic, left to us by our Founding Fathers. Those plans have been accelerated under Vladimir Putin’s supervision during the last thirty years…” Putin’s Socialist Revolution in America: The Stalinist Mexican Cartels October 6, 2023.

Under demented President Biden the environment in the country worsened: Biden’s open borders policy had an obvious connection with Russian Intel Force. 300 thousands unaccompanied children from 120-160 countries in different continents, had crossed our border. Putting together an unaccompanied was an Intel Operation, organized and managed by the KGB’s Mafia/Army. Logic and common sense confirm that and it was a part of Putin’s revolution. Migrant’s Invasion to our borders has been designed by the Dems party in cahoots with Russian Intel. Now I am talking about the Dems’ treason against the American republic ”Treason: The Major Issue of the 2020 Election” p.322 Socialist Revolution in America. To maintain power the Dems committed treason against the American republic—end justifies the means.

In my view, Minneapolis protests were unlawful assembly in the beginning; they were not peaceful. But the Dems Minnesota leadership Governor and mayor of Minneapolis acted as professional agitators, inflaming the crowd, weaponizing people by telling them to resist I.C.E. and take pictures of their atrocities’.  What “I.C.E.’’s atrocities” do they have in mind? The protests started with the protesters were throwing stones and ice to the Federal Agents, let alone dirty tricks against I.C.E.’s facilities. It was the time for the Minnesota’s leadership to stop all protesters, because now, protesters are building the barricades. The leadership did just the opposite and the shooting started…Instead of de-escalating the situation, the leadership accused Fed Agents of brutality and violence. The Minnesota police had a very strange political unity with the Governor and Mayor, refusing to help the government authority. Mayor Frey: “militarized force occupying our streets”. I don’t like that unlawful behavior of Minnesota’s Officials.

Today, after another shooting, protests intensify, Governor Walz was talking again about source of” horrific cruelty and violence” of Fed. Agents: “We will see this occupation end.” Extremist mob is holding Minneapolis a hostage and there are many Somalians in the angry crowed. Maybe Minnesota Officials and angry crowed are acting to disrupt and stop the investigation of fraud? Of course, even more—the stolen money has been sent to the terrorists of Somalia. Remember, Somalia is the country of Soviet Fascism. I deliberately gave you the story of 300 thousands of un accompanied children from 120-160 different countries crossed our borders. It was an obvious Dems’ collusion with Russian Intel—only an Intel Operation could put together 300 thousands of  an unaccounted children from 120-160 different countries of different continents! Think.

There is another sing of strange connection: all protests are funding by the American Socialists and Communists openly. But I suspect the other connection with the Russian Intel and help by the KGB’s Mafia/Army—the Evil Doer, I have been reporting for decades. There are thousands if not millions of sleeping cells of bad actors infiltrated America in the 20th century: some of them activated now to join protesters to destroy America from within. However, some of them are becoming the Officials in different states. The first time I heard AG Keith Ellison speaking at the time of George Floyd protest in 2020, he reminded me the Soviet Apparatchiks. From the firs glance I didn’t like him. Today, MN AG  Keith Ellison calls to end ”Unconstitutional occupation.” The Minnesota case is more complicated and Ellison is very suspicious person. It is the FBI’s duty to investigate the case, knowing that Stalin married his system of Soviet Socialism with Islam… Please, read my column: Soviet Socialism in America—Communist Mafia of the Democrat Party October 28, 2025.

I have several columns about the Dems’ Socialist Mafia, defrauding us. Lately I noticed the desire of bad actors to obtain positions in the top Officialdom of the Dems’ party: running for Mayors in different states. Zohran Mamdani announced himself a Democratic Socialist and now he is a Mayor of NYC by a dirty trick. He is a young Stalinist in America. Up to now it is 16 dead, just watch NYC and you’ll learn Stalin’s Soviet Socialism. Democratic Socialist is an Oxymoron: “a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction–oxymoron usually refers to a set of contradictory words “ Mamdani does just that connecting contradictory words, which is a fraud—Socialism is inconsistent with democracy:

Socialism is the system of State control. The State controls all property, its means of production, and controls the speech of its inhabitants. There is only one political party allowed. As you can see it is a fraudulent idea of comparison. As usual the Socialist Mafia and its media friends are using fraud to deceive you. Moreover, it is a double fraud, because the term Democratic Socialism is itself an oxymoron—a democrat can’t be a socialist, a socialist can’t be democratic. The term reveals a total absence of knowledge of socialist policy. Socialism means a dictatorship in a struggle to end individual liberty and private property, which is the opposite of democracy.

Don’t be surprised, Mamdani was brought up in Uganda, a country of Soviet Socialism, where fraud is ubiquitous. Other Dems’ Representative Amy Klobuchar: “we are focused on getting I.C.E. out of Minnesota.” Isn’t that reminding you about the Dems’ Socialist Mafia, acting together? Four officials of Minnesota should be investigated in case of fraud. It is an underground network of fraud in the country. The second example of the Democrat bad actors is the Mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass. The Palisades wildfire, in my opinion, was a well-coordinated sabotage by the Dems’ Socialist Mafia, Karen Bass was a part of it. Dems’ Rass, like Mamdani, is keeping connection with the Russian proxies, the countries of Soviet Socialism in Africa. She left burning Los Angeles to participate in the inauguration of Ghana’s President. Read my column: The Best Spies in The Global Arena —War against Western Civilization  August 24, 2025.

The entire country including California is suffering from an underground network of fraud; to investigate this network, you have to know the Russian Intel, particularly the KGB’s Mafia/Army—the Evil Doer, I have been reporting for decades. The Republicans have committed two-folded mistakes. First, they still don’t know the system of Soviet Socialism and its manager, the KB’s Mafia/Army—the Evil Doer. Second, they haven’t read my column a Global Spy Ring and don’t know that Vladimir Putin leads it. That combination of names and titles is the constellation-target of my writings. Due to the absence of that knowledge, the Republicans have been making mistakes fighting Marxism for decades.

Yes, Republicans are fighting the enemy that is not existing and ignoring the existing one. There is a theoretical problem from the past for Republicans. As you remember “Marxist Theory, a philosophy, was designed and established by Marx for “Industrial European countries”. But, none of “Industrial European” countries materialized Marxist Theory—Western civilization of Europe rejected it in the 19th century. Socialist Revolution in Russia was the first and the only country materializing the Theory in the 20th century. Dictator Stalin substituted a philosophy with a weaponized ideology, based on Marxism, he designed and invented his own model of Soviet Socialism; the Soviet people called it—Stalinism. Stalin practically used Marxist Theory, a philosophy, replacing it with his own weaponized model of Soviet Socialism. Moreover, Stalin married Islam with his model of Soviet Socialism. That ideology has been spread across the world including America by Stalin’s Law Enforcement agency—the KGB’s Mafia/Army—the Evil Doer.

My fellow Republicans!

It is not Marxism that is destroying the American Republic. It is the Democrats who hate American capitalism and the TDS is a convenient cover-up for them. It is the Democrat party infiltrated by the ideology of Soviet Fascism destroying our country! Educate yourselves by reading my columns. Don’t allow foreign thugs to implement Soviet Fascism in America!

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CFACT Report Takes Down UN Assault on Plastic

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Plastics are a great equalizer.

Thanks to plastic, never before in history have the necessities of life been so plentiful and affordable.

Plastics make an abundance of food, clothing, shelter, transportation, healthcare, and information technology available to all.

The Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s 2030 Plastics Agenda for Business, launched in November 2025 with UNEP backing, promotes a “circular economy” through mandates and bureaucratic control.

CFACT’s report, The Next Plastics Playbook: Inside the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s 2030 Business Agenda by Melanie Collette, reveals it as a push for one-size-fits-all global regulation that could undermine plastics’ immense benefits.

You are almost certainly reading this on a plastic device. You’re probably wearing plastic as well.

Lightweight, corrosion-resistant plastics cut transport costs and, crucially, make essentials affordable. Plastic packaging extends food shelf life, reduces waste, and delivers staples like rice, oil, and medicine to remote or low-income areas.

Plastic is essential to our entire economy, so naturally, the UN wants in.

Plastics drive the world economy, contribute trillions in value, employ millions globally, support jobs in manufacturing and healthcare, and are essential to human well-being.

The UN plastic agenda risks stifling these advantages by favoring big corporations over smaller ones and imposing rigid rules that ignore local needs, eroding sovereignty and consumer choice.

True progress requires voluntary innovation and evidence-based, localized solutions — not centralized UN mandates.

As the climate agenda crumbles, we dare not permit a UN bureaucratic comeback under the guise of saving us from plastic.

Read the full CFACT report.

For nature and people too.

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ENDGAME BEGINS: The Armada’s Shadow has Reached a Fever Pitch in the Middle East

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The waters of the North Arabian Sea are no longer just a transit corridor; they have become the center stage for what military analysts describe as the most significant American force-generation event in over a decade. As of this week, the USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) Carrier Strike Group has officially taken up station, marking the arrival of the “massive armada” promised by the Trump administration in response to escalating regional volatility.

This buildup is not merely a “show of flags.” It represents a multi-domain surge intended to signal both a defensive umbrella for regional allies and a “hammer-ready” posture for potential strikes against Iranian infrastructure.

The arrival of the Lincoln marks the end of a rare “carrier gap” in the region. The strike group brings with it a lethal array of assets, including Arleigh Burke-class destroyers equipped with the Aegis combat system, capable of simultaneously tracking hundreds of aerial threats while maintaining the capacity to launch Tomahawk cruise missiles at targets deep within the Iranian mainland.

This is more than a display of hardware. It is a tactical answer to the IRGC’s “finger on the trigger” rhetoric. These units bring advanced electronic warfare and stealth capabilities, such as the F-35C Lightning II, which can bypass the regime’s aging air defenses with ease.

Beyond the naval surge, the Pentagon has quietly executed a massive logistics bridge. Open-source flight tracking data reveals over 80 C-17 Globemaster III transport flights in the last week alone, funneling equipment to “lily pad” bases across the Gulf. This includes the deployment of additional THAAD (Terminal High Altitude Area Defense) batteries and Patriot missile systems to Jordan, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia – a move designed to preempt the “swarm” tactics of Iranian-aligned proxies.

The THAAD system operates on a “hit-to-kill” principle, meaning it carries no explosive warhead and instead relies on pure kinetic energy – colliding with the target at speeds exceeding Mach 8.2 (approximately 2,800 meters per second). Each battery is a complex mobile unit consisting of six truck-mounted launchers, 48 interceptor missiles, and the AN/TPY-2 X-band radar. This radar is one of the world’s most powerful mobile systems, capable of detecting and tracking threats at ranges between 870 km and 3,000 km. The interceptors themselves have an operational range of 200 km and can reach a flight ceiling of 150 km, effectively creating a high-altitude “shield” that protects entire metropolitan areas or large military hubs like Al Udeid Air Base.

The deployment comes on the heels of Operation Midnight Hammer, a series of strikes in 2025 that the administration claims “obliterated” Iran’s nuclear program. However, as noted by the Council on Foreign Relations, the current posture is a reaction to Tehran’s attempts to reconstitute its conventional forces and its brutal crackdown on domestic protesters in early 2026.

President Trump has been characteristically blunt, framing the deployment as a “big flotilla” that he hopes he “won’t have to use,” but is “ready, willing, and able” to deploy with “speed and violence.” This strategy of maximum pressure is further detailed in the newly released 2026 National Defense Strategy, which shifts the burden of regional defense toward Gulf partners while maintaining the US as the “strategic backstop” for high-end kinetic operations.

The military pressure from the outside is mirrored by a total collapse of authority from within. The January uprising – triggered by the collapse of the Rial and fueled by forty-seven years of mismanagement – has stripped the regime of its “aura of power.”

Furthermore, satellite imagery provided by Global Times highlights a significant increase in US tactical airpower at bases like Muwaffaq Salti in Jordan, where dozens of F-15E Strike Eagles are now “neatly parked” and ready for rapid sortie generation.

Independent estimates now place the death toll from the recent crackdown in the tens of thousands, a figure that the Council on Foreign Relations warns meets the “gravity test” for crimes against humanity. For those in the diaspora who have spent years advocating for international accountability, the massive U.S. deployment is seen not as a threat to the Iranian people but as a “rescue” force to prevent the regime from committing further atrocities in its final days.

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New Analysis Cites 4 Ways CBO’s Budget Baseline Always Favors Increased Federal Spending

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Four key assumptions in the Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) analytical tool for projecting federal spending and revenue trends heavily distort its results in favor of continually increasing outlays and expanding government regulation, according to a new Economic Policy Innovation Center (EPIC) analysis.

“The CBO baseline is important because it is used as the official benchmark against which legislative proposals are scored. The biases in the baseline allow the true costs of legislation to stay hidden from the public and members of Congress,” according to EPIC’s director of Budget Policy. Dickerson’s analysis was first delivered as part of the R Street Institute’s recent Virtual Federal Budget Reform Forum: Recommendations for Congress.

Dickerson points to four flaws in the baseline, three of which, in effect, make projected spending look much higher than it could otherwise be, and one of which makes tax revenues coming into the U.S. Treasury Department appear to be bigger than they actually are if Congress makes no changes in outlays or current law. The four flaws, according to Dickerson, include:

  • Discretionary appropriations are assumed to continue and grow with inflation each year. The result is a spending level authorized for one year for a specific program or agency which is assumed by CBO to continue throughout the 10-year period covered by the baseline.
  • Certain direct spending programs larger than $50 million are assumed to be extended beyond their statutory expiration. This means a program with an annual budget greater than $50 million is assumed by CBO to go on indefinitely until Congress acts to the contrary.
  • Entitlement programs are assumed to make all scheduled benefit payments, even if a program’s trust fundand financing are inadequate to do so. This means a program like Social Security and Medicare, which depend in great part upon trust funds — taxes paid into the system by employers, workers, and the self-employed — will continue paying full benefits using general revenues.
  • Excise taxes dedicated to a trust fund are assumed to be continued beyond their statutory expiration. Under current law, the federal government receives between $75 and $100 billion annually from excise levies on alcohol, gasoline, and tobacco products.

Together, the resulting bias “hides tens of trillions of dollars in spending in the baseline,” Dickerson contends. For example, of the $85 trillion in total spending the baseline projected for the 2025-2034 period, nearly 30%, or $25.5 trillion, is made up of spending not specifically authorized by Congress.

The EPIC analysis comes as Congress and Trump confront the reality that federal spending has increased more than 80% since 2015, zooming up from $5.01 trillion that year to $7.01 trillion in 2025. Entitlement spending on programs like Social Security and emergency spending related to the COVID-19 pandemic were the major drivers of the explosion in outlays.

The four flaws are included in CBO’s baseline budget tool due to requirements included in the 1985 Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control that was adopted in the first year of the second term of then-President Ronald Reagan. Legislation introduced in the 118th Congress by Rep. Ben Cline (R-Va.) — the No Bias in the Baseline Act — would eliminate all four of the flaws. The Virginia Republican is a member of the House Budget Committee.

Being in the center of controversy is a familiar position for CBO staffers. Most recently, House Republicans harshly criticized what they view as CBO’s chronically low projections of the positive economic impact of tax, regulation, and spending cuts at the federal level.

In its Concurrent Resolution on the 2025 Budget, for example, House Republicans noted one of the flaws pointed out by the EPIC analysis, noting that CBO “is obligated to produce an economic forecast that assumes an indefinite extension of current law, including the explosion of deficit and debt levels over the next decade. This is partly why CBO is forecasting average real Gross Domestic Policy (GDP) growth of just 2.0 percent over the next 10 years, well below the long-term trend of 3.1 percent in the United States.”

Similarly, in May 2025, when CBO released two analyses requested by House Democrats evaluating aspects of President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB), House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington (R-Texas) issued a sharply worded refutation.

“This is a smoke and mirrors tactic to try to deceive the American people into thinking that the One Big Beautiful Bill will benefit the top 10 percent at the expense of the bottom 10 percent. Ironically, the only thing Democrats are proving is that our policies are a massive success,” Arrington said.

“First, they’re not measuring economic benefits to low-income earners; they’re measuring federal resources distributed. For instance, there are fewer transfer payments to people on welfare if you prohibit illegal immigrants from accessing these programs and enact common sense work requirements to stop trapping people in dependence,” he continued.

“Second, when you allow Americans from every walk of life to keep more of their income, you lift millions out of poverty, just as we witnessed in President Trump’s first term. Democrats measure success by how many people are stuck on the welfare rolls; Republicans measure success by how many Americans are lifted off of them,” Arrington explained.

And Senate Finance Committee Chairman Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), who is also the number three ranking GOP member of the Senate Budget Committee, told the Senate in an April 2025 floor speech during debate on the OBBB that CBO’s baseline budget analysis incorrectly evaluates tax policies.

“There’s an inherent bias in Congress’s scoring process where tax policy is treated differently than spending policy. If tax rates are scheduled to increase, like they are right now if we don’t act, preventing that tax hike is counted as a ‘cost’ in uncollected future revenue. But many spending programs are assumed to be extended beyond their expiration, so the spending just continues and continues, unabated, which the budget rules say do not have any cost,” Crapo told colleagues on the Senate floor.

Spokesmen for Senate Budget Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Chairman Arrington (did not respond to The Washington Stand’s request for comment. Also not responding were spokesmen for Senator Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) and Rep. Brendan Boyle (D-Pa.), the top Democrats on the two congressional budget panels.

For all the controversy, Dickerson expressed optimism to TWS that needed changes are coming. “The CBO is an important resource for lawmakers. It can also be a source of frustration, particularly when CBO fails to be transparent about its scoring, assumptions, and biases. While Director Swagel has taken steps to improve CBO, more work remains to be done,” he said.

“There is significant interest on both sides of the aisle in addressing the shortcomings at CBO. The House Budget Committee has signaled that CBO oversight will be a major focus, including conducting regular oversight hearings and advancing the first-ever audit of CBO’s operations,” he added.

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ANTISEMITISM ADDICTION: “We Need to be Pro-Semitic, and we need to Educate, Educate, Educate!”

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As we all have seen, education can be the ultimate affirmation and inspiration of evil spewing from professors, administrators, counselors, journalists, publishers, celebrities, political leaders, and a vast cadre of Jew-haters at the helms of elite educational and political institutions and media sources.

We have witnessed the highest echelons of sophisticated societies give credence to genocide of the Jews; this is elitism antisemitism that rains down from the top to the bottom, from Harvard’s leadership for generations to the freshman class listening to proud bigotry from the administration: Presidents of Harvard, UPENN, and MIT Refuse To Condemn Calls for Genocide of Jews Calling for the genocide of Jews violates Harvard’s rules “depends on the context.”

WATCH: Presidents of Harvard, UPENN, & MIT Refuse to Condemn Calls for Genocide of Jews

 

Antisemitism is an addiction across generations, geography, history, and societies. It is all-consuming, infecting the mind and eroding the morality of man and mankind, justifying the most grotesque aberrations of inhumane behaviors and reviving itself from the depths of its own death to the fury of unrestrained industrial enslavement and en masse murders.

Like all addictions, it must be seen as diseased minds requiring cures. Instead, it is often and commonly greeted and welcomed into elitist venues as something exciting – banners, garb, slogans, chants, festivals, live-streamed videos, rallies, riots, encampments, violent mobs, vandalism, severe injuries, deaths, movies, celebrities, mockeries, selfies, memories of mob take-overs of facilities, spitting on and taunting law officers, the camaraderie of hate, urinating in public, intimidating Jews, passing resolutions against Israel, ostracizing Jews, screaming crude language, burning flags and effigies, hoisting foreign flags, idolizing terrorists, menacing surrounding of Jewish students, banning Jewish membership in organizations, …. craven chaos against Jews.

Rather than treating antisemitism as a craven incurable disease, we must recognize that it craves attention. It must be isolated and ostracized by society, castigated, and scorned like a pandemic scourge that can maim and kill those it infects. “Educate, educate, educate” the public on its deadly dangers – 60 million dead bodies just from World War II.

Tell the truth from birth to death to save humanity from its craven self.

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Are Smartphones Allowed in Your Schools?

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The answer regarding Alpha Schools. 

This is another one of my guest posts. This one is from MacKenzie Price, the founder of Alpha Schools. (See a prior commentary of mine for more info.)

She has a Substack (Future of Education) where she answers questions posed to her regarding Alpha Schools. I think this question has broad interest — and her answer is somewhat unique…

Phones in schools are tricky. Everyone thinks the answer is either “ban them completely” or “let kids figure it out.” Both are wrong.

The “ban-everything” crowd acts like we can pretend smartphones don’t exist. Good luck with that. These kids will have phones in their pockets for the rest of their lives. Shielding them completely just delays the problem.

The “hands-off crowd” is worse. “Kids are digital natives, they’ll adapt.” But they won’t. They’ll just get addicted faster. Being born around technology doesn’t mean you know how to use it well. Rather it means you’re more vulnerable to it.

Here’s what actually works: treating phones like what they are…

Powerful tools that require training.

Think about it this way. Phones are like giving a kid a chainsaw. Incredibly useful tool in the right situation. Also can absolutely wreck you if you don’t know what you’re doing.

So, at Alpha, here’s how we approach cell phone use with our students.

K through 5: No phones at school. Phones aren’t evil, but little kids have zero capacity to self-regulate with something designed by engineers to hijack attention. The average child gets their first smartphone at age 10. We’re not pretending that’s not happening. We’re just not letting it happen inside our walls during learning time.

Middle School: Where the training starts. Students check their phones in every morning. During academics, phones stay locked away. But (and this is the part people miss) students earn phone time in the afternoons. It’s supervised and low stakes. We’re not hiding the thing. We’re teaching them to use it without losing themselves to it.

Research shows that at least 50% of teens feel addicted to their phones. We’re trying to interrupt that pattern before it sets in.

High School: More freedom, more responsibility, and more consequences. At this age, students are older and more mature — so we treat them like it. We trust them more, allow them more agency. But if someone starts missing assignments, getting distracted during learning blocks, or struggling to stay focused, then boom. Phone jail. They’re back to checking phones at the front desk like they did in middle school. (And what high schooler wants to be treated like a middle schooler!?)

Alpha’s Guides are Key

Our guides play a huge role in this development. I think that’s the secret ingredient nobody talks about — not rules, but relationships. Instead of ruling over high schoolers (who are perfectly capable of making good choices, by the way) with an iron fist about phone usage, our guides engage with them directly:

  • How are you using your phone?
  • Does it help you or does it pull you away?
  • Is it a tool in your hands or is it running you?
  • How does scrolling on your phone make you feel, really?
  • Are you proud of that?

This is a level of technology-coaching that, unfortunately, not many people will have in their lifetime.

So we make sure that Alpha students do.

The average American “tween” (ages 8-12) spends 5 hours and 33 minutes on their phone daily, not including school or homework. For teens (13-18), it skyrockets to 8 hours and 39 minutes. These numbers are shocking. And we’ve all watched a kid disappear into a screen.

It’s scary. No one wants that to be their kid.

Our whole philosophy is pretty simple: phones are distracting (obviously), but they’re also not going away. So instead of pretending they don’t exist, we’re teaching kids how to actually use them well. Focus first, then learn to integrate technology in a healthy way.

Alpha has been doing this longer than most schools have even been talking about it: before all the studies and bans and congressional hearings and think pieces, before everyone suddenly discovered that maybe handing a 12-year-old unlimited internet access isn’t ideal.

But I think banning phones entirely is ridiculous. They exist! They’re useful!

It’s up to us to guide, coach, and teach our kids how to use powerful things without hurting themselves.

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CALIF-FRAUD: Almost 20% of ALL U.S. Home Health Activity Comes From Just One Place — Los Angeles

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California is facing mounting calls for a sweeping audit after MASSIVE fraud was exposed — a staggering 18% of all U.S. home health activity comes from just one place: Los Angeles County.

That single county now has more hospice agencies than 36 states combined.

One doctor alone was caught fraudulently billing taxpayers $120 MILLION.

Investigators uncovered a surreal scam hub: 287 hospice providers packed into a two-mile radius — operating out of strip malls, unmarked offices, even a wrecking yard and vacant lots. No patients. No care. Just paperwork.

As one whistleblower put it: “I could fill this out from Kazakhstan and have a hospice license waiting for me.”

This isn’t incompetence.

Gavin Newsom isn’t just allowing it — he’s complicit.

How can anyone vote Democrat??

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Here’s the Truth—and it’s Not Pretti

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In reality, the extreme focus on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti’s death is a distraction. It may sound terrible to say because, of course, human life is sacred. (Now, if only the Left accepted this on abortion.) But the real point here is not that Pretti is dead, but what got him that way. And, no, it wasn’t blood-lusting ICE agents salivating for their next victim.

It was this: a vast network of power-hungry demagogues, foreign financiers of intra-US destabilization, astroturfing communist/socialist activists, and expendable useful-idiot protesters.

On a simple level, notice that no one is talking about the up-to-$9 billion Somali fraud scandal anymore, the revelation of which caused Governor Tim “Knucklehead” Walz to scuttle his reelection campaign.

Oh, it threatened to do more such damage to the Democrat Party, too.

Convenient, huh?

Then there’s this: Have you heard of Neville Roy Singham? You should have.

He’s one of the guys who killed Pretti.

No, he doesn’t work for ICE, but likely for fascist China (it’s about as “communist” today as Mussolini). Singham, 71, is an American-born tech mogul who sold IT company Thoughtworks for $785 million in 2017 and then decamped to Shanghai.

He’s also a self-declared Marxist.

And he now devotes his vast fortune and ample free time to his favorite hobby: destabilizing the country that made him rich. Yes—the United States.

That is, Singham funnels millions, and perhaps tens of millions, through nonprofits and shell companies to far-left groups in the U.S. They then use this cash to organize protests and mayhem here in America. So, you know those demonstrations in Minneapolis and elsewhere?

They’re “Made in China”—at least in part.

They’re not organic at all.

Oh, something else: As with globalist Klaus Schwab, Singham also looks like a James Bond villain.

Despite this, and as commentator Bill O’Reilly has complained, we hear crickets on Singham. You see, if people learned about him, they’d know the true villains aren’t ICE and President Trump. Can’t have that.

Then there are the other villains. People such as Walz, Governor Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.), Senator Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), Sandy Cortez (D-Green, Leafy Westchester) and countless other Democrats have demonized ICE, propagandized, and helped catalyze a violent useful-idiot emotional response. Sure, individuals such as Rebecca Good and Alex Pretti are, consequently, now anything but good and pretty. But, hey, you’ve gotta’ break a few eggs to make an omelet, right?

There are also those left-wing/communist activist groups themselves, which join Singham in flying below the radar. They have names such as the Party for Socialism and Liberation and the ANSWER Coalition (trust me, it’s not your answer).

The bottom line is that demagogic Democrat politicians; and agitators, foreign and domestic, created this situation. They have blood on their hands—and may be guilty of insurrection.

As far as the useful idiots who often get themselves killed go, and ICE agents who may sometimes err, the great President Ronald Reagan once framed it well. “Once the dogs of war are unleashed, you must expect that things will happen,” he told demonstrator-enabling professors in 1969. “And people, being human, will make mistakes on both sides.”

Reagan also pointed out, however, that the blame lies largely with the authority figures who, wink-and-nod style, encourage the mayhem (video below).

So. for sure, mistakes will happen on both sides. But the real problem is caused by only one side—the one siding against America and with foreign interlopers and invaders.

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Amidst Fear and Despair, Iranians Wait for the Americans

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In the Islamic Republic of Iran, people are now full of fear, yet still hoping for the blow, the attacks, the war on their tormentors that President Donald Trump promised would happen if the killing of protesters didn’t stop. It didn’t; 36,500 protesters have been murdered so far, and 330,00 have been wounded. But Trump has yet to deliver on his promise. Iranians are despairing. They want an end to the regime that has provided only misery for the past 47 years, and wonder if the Americans will finally come through, kill their tormentors, and free them from this calvary. More on their mood can be found here: “Despair, ‘endless anger’ growing among Iranians as military action looms,” by Goldie Katz, Jerusalem Post, January 31, 2026:

Iranian citizens described living in great fear and constant anxiety as the threat of military action against the Iranian regime looms overhead in an interview with N12 News published on Friday. Dalara, from Karaj, a city west of Tehran, compared the anxiety surrounding the current threat of conflict to that of the 12-day war in June when “people understood that the attacks were targeted, specific, and that the risk of hitting civilian areas was low.””Today I feel that people no longer have anything to lose,” Dalara continued. “They are waiting at any moment for external help to come in the form of war. Some say: ‘I wish it would start already,’ because they know that the more the war is postponed, the number of deaths will only increase.”Dalara told N12 that the fear began after the first few days of anti-regime protests broke out, “when the phones didn’t work, the internet was down, and people didn’t know what was happening to others.””At night, you can hardly leave the house,” she added, stating that Iranian regime forces can stop civilians, search their phones, enter their houses, and arrest them. “People have no sense of security. The anxiety starts from the moment you leave the house and stays until you return. We feel that the street is no longer safe.”…

Donald Trump has repeatedly threatened the Islamic Republic of Iran over its killing of protesters, but the killing has gone on, albeit at a slower pace than on January 8 and 9, when the massacre in city streets across Iran was at its height. After the first two weeks of protests and the mass killing of protestors. Trump issued his call for the protests to continue and assured those protesters that “HELP IS ON THE WAY!”But the killings continued, albeit at a slower pace, and instead of acting as he had threatened to do, Trump decided to declare that he had been informed that the killing had stopped and so there was no longer any need for the U.S. to take action. He declared he was satisfied that he had stopped the killing of protesters, which, of course, he had not done. Trump waxes and wanes, he says one thing and then its opposite, this mercurial and unpredictable man, and he has done so especially in his statements about Iran. He utters menacing threats, pretends the threats have worked, and therefore he no longer feels any need to make his threats a reality. The killings of protesters, though the number of victims has decreased, are continuing.Now he has moved the USS Abraham Lincoln, an aircraft carrier, and several other ships in the carrier group as well, from the Indo-Pacific to the Middle East, where another carrier group headed by the USS Ford, is already stationed. Their mere presence is supposed to overawe the Iranian leaders and cause the regime to end its nuclear program, and hand over to the Americans the 400 kg. of uranium Tehran has enriched to a just-below-weapons-grade purity of 60%.

Trump now has so many ways to rattle the cages, to flutter the dovecotes, to scare the supreme leader into burrowing deeper in his underground hideout, while the protesters can return in force to Iranian cities, confident of American support should more bombing be deemed necessary to stop the killings in the streets, in order to pull down the already tottering pillars of the Islamic Republic without — please note — the need for a single American soldier to be on the ground in Iran.

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IRAN: The Mosques Are Burning—and So Is the Lie of the Islamic State

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For those of us who fled the Islamic Republic decades ago, watching the images of mosques burning across our homeland evokes a complex, visceral cocktail of emotions. To the outside observer, a mosque in flames is a tragedy of religious intolerance. But to the Iranian people – and specifically to those of us who have lived under the suffocating veil of theocratic absolute power – these fires are not acts of “terrorism.” They are acts of exorcism.

We are witnessing more than a political protest; we are seeing a definitive, civilizational uprising against the very concept of the Islamic state. As the smoke rises from Tehran to Mashhad, it signals the end of a forty-seven-year experiment in forced piety. The Iranian people are not just demanding a change in government; they are demanding the return of their soul – a soul that was systematically suppressed in 1979.

To understand why an ex-Muslim Iranian might cheer for the destruction of a “house of God,” one must understand what the mosque has become in the Islamic Republic. For decades, the regime has used the mosque not as a sanctuary, but as a command center.

As documented by human rights monitors like HRANA, mosques are the primary recruitment and staging grounds for the Basij, the paramilitary thugs used to beat, blind, and disappear young protesters. When a building houses the snipers who fire into crowds of students, it ceases to be a mosque in the eyes of the people; it becomes a fortress of the oppressor.

The burning of these structures is a rejection of the regime’s claim to divine legitimacy. It is a declaration that the “Allahu Akbar” used to justify the execution of teenagers is a phrase that no longer holds power over the Iranian heart. This is an uprising against the ideology of political Islam itself – a system that has, for nearly half a century, held a vibrant, ancient culture hostage.

For those of us in exile, we have always known that Iran is not its government. Beneath the black chadors and the grim sermons of the Friday prayers lies a civilization of profound depth and beauty. Before the 1979 revolution, Iran was a beacon of ancient wisdom, a culture defined by the humanitarianism of Cyrus the Great and the intoxicating beauty of its poets.

“The children of Adam are limbs of one body, who in creation are of one essence.”  –  Saadi Shirazi

The current movement seeks to replant the seeds of this “goodness” that were scorched by theocracy. We envision an Iran where the Soshians – the bringers of light – are not religious zealots, but the artists, musicians, and thinkers who have been silenced for too long.

The Islamic Republic’s war on beauty is well-documented. From the banning of Western music to the strict censorship of cinema and painting, the regime understood that Art is the natural enemy of Totalitarianism. When people are allowed to sing, they are harder to control.

In the New Iran, the “ancient wisdom” we speak of will flourish through:

  • Music: The return of the Tar and Setar to the public square, free from the “haram” labels of the mullahs.
  • Social Dynamics: A society where gender is not a hierarchy and where the “morality” of a person is judged by their character (Humata, Hukhta, Huvarshta – Good Thoughts, Good Words, Good Deeds), not by the length of their sleeves.
  • Poetry: Reclaiming Rumi and Hafez from the dry, religious interpretations of the state and returning them to the lovers and the seekers of truth.

The uprising we see today is the physical manifestation of a cultural thirst. The youth of Iran are thirsty for the “Zendeh” (living) culture that was replaced by a cult of death and martyrdom.

According to recent surveys, a staggering percentage of the Iranian population no longer identifies with the state-mandated religion and shows how a majority now view the regime as an entity entirely separate from the Iranian people. The fire we see today is the logical conclusion of a population that has been pushed too far.

This is not a “reform” movement. You cannot reform a system that believes it has the mandate of God to kill you. This is a displacement. The Iranian people are moving toward a secular, pluralistic society that honors its Zoroastrian roots, its Persian history, and its modern aspirations all at once.

As an exile, I look at the fires and I see a clearing of the brush. The old, rotted structures of the Islamic Republic must fall so that the soil can be prepared for something new. We are not just watching the end of a regime; we are watching the rebirth of a nation.

When the last mosque-fortress falls, it will not be replaced by a void. It will be replaced by the theater, the university, the garden, and the concert hall. The “ancient goodness” of Iran is like a desert flower; it has waited decades for a single drop of rain. That rain is now falling in the form of the courage of a generation that is no longer afraid of the fire.

The Iran of tomorrow will be a masterpiece of art, music, and poetry – a civilization that remembers its past to build a free future.

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Do These Democrats Really Want to Carry Water for Don Lemon and the Church Invaders?

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Last year, Democrats largely stood by Virginia Attorney General candidate Jay Jones, who wished death on the children of his political opponent. Now, they’re carrying water for anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement agitators who invaded a church service and traumatized children.

Make no mistake: When agitators invaded Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota, on Jan. 18, they weren’t engaged in peaceful protest. They were committing an atrocity.

Agitators stood up and burst in during the middle of service, chanting, “Who shut this down? We shut this down!”

According to the Justice Department’s charging document, the agitators blocked the walkways, so terrified parishioners could not escape. They blocked the staircase to Sunday School, so parents could not get to their children.

They screamed in the faces of crying children. One agitator allegedly told a child, “Do you know your parents are Nazis, they’re going to burn in hell?”

At least one father told investigators that his children were traumatized. One of them said to him, “Daddy, I thought you were going to die.”

Agitators targeted Cities Church because they claim one of its pastors also led ICE’s office in St. Paul, as if this connection justified terrorizing innocents and depriving their fellow Americans of their right to worship God in their own church building.

The Justice Department has charged some of the agitators with two major criminal violations: conspiracy against rights under the Ku Klux Klan Act and a violation of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, or FACE Act, which also protects access to churches. These agitators allegedly prevented their fellow Americans from exercising their rights to practice their religion, a federal crime.

Yet the agitators might have engaged in activity that could constitute state or local crimes, such as trespassing, false imprisonment, and even kidnapping.

While former CNN host and current independent journalist Don Lemon claimed to be there just to cover the agitation, he also faces charges for allegedly conspiring before the church invasion, boosting it during the attack, and then taunting churchgoers as they left.

Are these the people Democrats really want to be defending?

Democrats Carry Water for Church Invaders

While some Democrats—like Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz—issued halfhearted statements that they do not support the invasion of a church, others stood up for the church invaders, demanding their release.

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey called the arrests of three ringleaders a “gross abuse of power,” and called for the immediate release of Nekima Armstrong—who admitted to leading the church invasion.

The NAACP also demanded Armstrong’s release, claiming she had been peacefully protesting and that “the only reason the FBI and [the Department of Homeland Security] arrested them is that they didn’t like what they had to say.”

On Friday, Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., posted a photo of herself with Armstrong and others, claiming that they were “lawful protesters” and condemning the “brutal treatment of nonviolent protesters.”

Carrying Water for Don Lemon

More Democrats condemned the arrests of Lemon and independent journalist Georgia Fort, who had claimed they entered the church merely to cover the agitation as journalists.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said the Trump administration “is behaving no differently from the police states and authoritarian regimes across history—they’ve arrested a journalist for the crime of doing his job.”

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., condemned their arrests as “a disgraceful affront to the First Amendment and a corrupt weaponization of the criminal justice system.”

“There is zero basis to arrest Don Lemon, and he should be freed immediately,” Jeffries added. He said Lemon was a “law-abiding” journalist “reporting on DHS brutality in Minnesota.”

Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-Calif., suggested that this arrest echoes Russian President Vladimir Putin’s attacks on journalists.

“Don Lemon and Georgia Fort were taken into custody by federal agents for doing exactly what journalists are supposed to do: report the truth,” Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, a candidate for U.S. Senate, wrote in a Friday press release. “This is censorship by an authoritarian government.”

Reps. Dan Goldman, D-N.Y.; Katherine Clark, D-Mass.; Shontel Brown, D-Ohio; Ami Bera, D-Calif.; and others shared similar sentiments.

Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., condemned Trump for “arresting journalists doing their jobs.” Omar condemned Lemon’s arrest as a “clear violation of the Constitution.”

“Arresting a journalist is a blatant attempt to intimidate,” Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., wrote on X. “Don Lemon has been on the ground in Minnesota like hundreds of others doing the vital work of covering Trump’s lawlessness and chaos.”

Here’s the thing, Senator Booker: Don Lemon wasn’t “covering Trump’s lawlessness and chaos.” He was “covering” the horrific invasion of a church service, and it certainly seems to me that he was abetting it.

Renee Carlson, who represents Cities Church as general counsel for True North Counsel, said it well:

The First Amendment does not allow premeditated plots or coordinated actions to violate the sanctity of a sanctuary, disrupt worship, and intimidate small children. There is no “press pass” to invade a sanctuary or to conspire to interrupt religious services.

Lemon’s job as a journalist does not give him carte blanche to engage in trespassing.

At the very least, it could be argued that Lemon joined an orchestrated effort to invade a church service, disrupt the service, and prevent people from exercising their First Amendment right to the free exercise of religion. He is innocent until proven guilty, but it sure seems to me like he violated the FACE Act.

By downplaying the church invasion as a “protest,” and Lemon’s role as mere reporting, Democrats are minimizing an atrocity.

Shame on every Democrat for minimizing the horrific church invasion and carrying water for the invaders. Do you think they would ever let it rest if conservative agitators had invaded a mosque in the middle of prayers?

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Pro-Predator Judges and Corporations

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A New Mexico lawsuit accuses Meta of creating ‘breeding ground’ for child predators.

WATCH: New Mexico lawsuit accuses Meta of creating ‘breeding ground’ for child predators

ICE Atlanta arrested Porfirio Bernal-Fregoso, a 45-year-old illegal alien from Mexico, convicted of attempted rape of child and indecent liberties with a child in Durham County, North Carolina.

America’s childrene are deluged with and drowning from predators and pro-predtor corporations and officials who refuse to protect young Americans from devastating harm due to childhood sexualization, causing prolonged traumas, medical problems, academic delays and lifelong relationship issues.

ICE nabs illegal immigrant charged with sex crimes in Boston — after sanctuary city refused to keep him locked up

By Jennie Taer · Published Jan. 7, 2025

An illegal migrant allegedly committed a heinous sex crime in Boston after apparently cutting off his ICE tracking device — yet was still freed by a judge, even over US immigration officials’ protests.

The accused sicko was finally tracked down independently by ICE in the “sanctuary city” last month and is being held in custody based on his rogue immigration status.

“Today, another victim in Massachusetts no longer needs to fear their predator,” said ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations Boston Acting Chief Patricia Hyde in a statement.

The alleged pervert Dominican migrant, Emilio Jose Pena-Casilla, 46, had illegally entered the US at the Eagle Pass, Texas, border in January 2023, ICE said.

He was quickly nabbed but claimed asylum, prompting border agents to fit him with a tracking device and free him under Biden administration rules, while his case theoretically wound its way through the US court system.

But within a month, Casilla was deemed “terminated” from the migrant monitoring program, called “Alternatives to Detention.” The “terminated” term typically means the migrant removed their tracking device and is now illegally roaming around the US without any kind of monitoring.

Then more than a year later, in July, he was busted in Boston for the alleged rape, kidnapping and indecent assault and battery of a victim 14 years or older and intimidating a witness, juror, police or court official, ICE said in a recent statement.

He was arraigned on the serious raps, leading ICE to issue a detainer with the local jail to take him into federal custody, ICE said.

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