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Trump Economy Defies Doomsday Predictions

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Many so-called experts predicted that President Donald Trump’s economic agenda would usher in an inflationary Armageddon. This projection was so often repeated in the media that many Americans, especially Democrats, believed a depression was imminent. Yet the economy is thoroughly beating expectations and consumers’ expectations are becoming increasingly optimistic.

Upon taking office again, Trump reiterated the economic policy goals that he laid out during the campaign: reductions in excessive taxation, burdensome regulations, and government spending, coupled with increases in tariffs and energy production.

This was labeled as some kind of toxic mixture. Thus far, though, it’s been an elixir for the American economy, which was suffering from inflation and a general malaise.

Consider that when Trump took office in January, inflation (as measured by the consumer price index) was running at an annualized rate of 5.7%, at which pace prices double in less than 13 years. With Trump back at the helm, however, inflation has averaged an annualized rate of just 1.4%.

The lower inflation means people’s income isn’t being so quickly eroded by lost purchasing power. Under President Joe Biden, the average American’s weekly paycheck grew almost 20% but they bought 4% less because inflation so outpaced wage growth. Conversely, under Trump, the average weekly paycheck buys 1% more today than when he was inaugurated in January.

This is precisely the opposite of what many analysts and so-called experts predicted would happen. Of course, the same folks who said Trump’s tariffs would cause runaway inflation also said Biden’s profligate spending wouldn’t cause inflation. They’re perpetually wrong, but never in doubt.

Simultaneously, the labor market is quickly transitioning off its dependence on government and back to the productive private sector. During Biden’s tenure, job growth was disproportionately the result of increasing government payrolls and burgeoning bureaucracy—a completely unsustainable, and expensive, pattern.

But what a difference a president makes. Every month of 2025 has seen a reduction in the federal workforce as the Trump administration takes steps to make the government more efficient. Far from crashing the labor market, these public-sector layoffs have coincided with the private economy adding many more jobs than expected this year.

This good news probably comes as a shock to the average American consumer, and certainly to the average Democrat, who earlier this year thought Trump would usher in America’s Dark Ages. A variety of consumer surveys beginning in January showed many people souring on the economy, particularly their economic outlook for the year ahead.

For example, the University of Michigan’s consumer sentiment survey, which oversamples Democrats, showed the worst inflation expectations in the survey’s history, coupled with the economy falling off a cliff. On the other hand, Republicans largely ignored the so-called experts quoted in the press and expected inflation to be low.

The latter were clearly correct and were wise to ignore the hyperbolic predictions of politically motivated pundits. With each month that goes by, all Americans, regardless of party registration, are becoming increasingly optimistic about the economy. Survey data from the regional Federal Reserve Banks confirms this, as well as private sources like the Conference Board.

That’s not to say everything is sunshine and rainbows, however. Many American families are still hurting.

Having just experienced the fastest rise in both inflation and interest rates in over 40 years, many people are drowning in debt with punitively high interest payments on that debt.

American families are paying over $300 billion annually just in finance charges on their credit cards from the deadly combination of large outstanding balances and high interest rates.

The current cost-of-living crisis didn’t arise overnight, and it won’t disappear that quickly either. But the nation has course-corrected and is once more heading in the right direction. As Trump continues shrinking the government, leaving room for the private economy to grow, folks will work, spend, save, and invest more, and things will keep improving—including people’s expectations.

Originally published by The Washington Times

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EJ Antoni

EJ Antoni is a public finance economist and the Richard F. Aster research fellow in The Heritage Foundation’s Grover M. Hermann Center for the Federal Budget. EJ on X: .

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‘We Will Not Be Intimidated’: Federal Prosecutor Says Those Who Assault ICE Agents ‘Will Go To Federal Prison’

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Interim United States Attorney Bill Essayli of the Central District of California vowed Wednesday to prosecute anyone who assaulted United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.

Democratic Mayor Karen Bass of Los Angeles showed up at a location where ICE was carrying out an operation Monday, demanding that the agents leave the vicinity, echoing previous demands from some Democrats that the agency cease its operations in the Los Angeles area as a way to “restore order” in the city after riots broke out following an ICE operation in June. Essayli told “Fox and Friends” guest co-host Griff Jenkins that Bass should have “changed the law” while she was in Congress.

“Let me be very clear what’s going on here,” Essayli told Jenkins. “You have the politicians in California are being openly hostile to the federal government. We are doing our job. We are enforcing federal immigration laws as written by Congress. If Karen Bass didn’t like the law, she should have changed it when she was in Congress.”

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“But instead, what she’s doing is she’s signaling to the public that it’s okay to stand up stand up to federal agents to obstruct them, to impede them and some cases, to attack them,” Essayli continued. “This is why the military’s here. It is so critical we have the military protecting our agents. And to Ms. Bass, we will not be intimidated, we will not be deterred from accomplishing our mission.”

Since Friday, gunmen attacked a Border Patrol facility in McAllen, Texas, and an ICE office in Alvarado, Texas.

“When you look at the number of assaults just that my office here at the U.S. Attorney’s office has charged, it’s exploded,” Essayli said. “Almost every day, we are arresting people for assaulting our agents, damaging our vehicles, getting in our way. And then you saw over the weekend in Texas, you have ICE officers and federal agents get ambushed.”

“Officers were shot and you saw 10 people be arrested and indicted by the federal government there. They are escalating their tactics. What they are doing is not working,” Essayli continued. “And so my concern is things are going to escalate and people are going to get hurt. But I want to be very clear. If anybody gets in our way, if anybody touches our officers, you will be arrested, and you will be charged and you will go to federal prison. You can take that to the bank.”

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Harold Hutchison

Media Reporter

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The One Big Beautiful Bill’s Tax Cuts for Seniors Needs to be Made Permanent & Congress Needs to Repeal the Tax on Social Security

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Here are the key points about the One Big Beautiful Bill and its massive tax cut for Seniors:

Age: You must be 65 or older.

Income: The full deduction of $6,000 (or $12,000 for married couples) is available to individuals with modified adjusted gross income (MAGI) up to $75,000 (or $150,000 for couples filing jointly).

Phase-out: The deduction phases out for higher income levels. It reduces by 6% for every $1,000 earned above the threshold.

No deduction: You cannot claim any of the deduction if your income exceeds $175,000 (single) or $250,000 (married filing jointly).

Duration: This deduction is temporary and is in effect for tax years 2025 through 2028.

Not linked to Social Security: The deduction is not tied to Social Security payments themselves. It simply reduces taxable income for qualifying retirees.

Other deductions: You can claim this deduction whether you take the standard deduction or itemize your returns.

NOTE: The One Big Beautiful Bill doesn’t eliminate taxes on Social Security, but rather introduces a temporary deduction that beneficiaries can claim to lower their federal income tax. Notably, that deduction applies to all of a senior’s income — not just to Social Security benefits.

How did Social Security Benefits Get Taxed

Heres what happened to Social Security:

  1. Before 1984, Social Security benefits were not taxed. In 1983, legislation was passed that made up to 50% of benefits taxable for certain higher-income individuals. 
  2. Then the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (OBRA) of 1993, signed by President Clinton, increased the maximum taxable portion of Social Security benefits to 85%. 
  3. The higher 85% tax rate applied to those with combined incomes (including Social Security benefits) above $34,000 for single filers and $44,000 for joint filers, according to Kiplinger and the Social Security Administration. 
  4. This change meant that a greater portion of Social Security benefits became subject to federal income tax, effectively increasing the tax burden on higher-income retirees. 
  5. These income thresholds have not been adjusted for inflation since 1993, meaning that over time, more and more retirees have been affected by the taxation of their benefits, according to Kiplinger. 

The Bottom Line — Take Action Before the 2026 Primary Elections

Republicans, Independents and Democrats in Congress must come together and make this massive tax cut for Seniors permanent.

Additionlly, Congress must repeal the tax on social security benefits before the 2026 midterm election.

Seniors have been double taxed at a rate of 85% on their Social Security benefits signed into law in 1993 by former President Bill Clinton. Seniors have been paying more and more ever since.

TIME TO TAKE ACTION

It is time to call your Representative and your two Senators and ask them to:

  1. Make the One Big Beautiful Bill and its massive tax cuts for Seniors permanent and…
  2. Repeal the 85% tax on Social Security now!

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Dems’ ‘Project 2029’ May Not Actually Bode Well For Party’s Future

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Some Democrats’ latest attempt to develop a winning political agenda to help the party retake the White House in 2028 could be destined for failure.

Former Arizona Democratic Party chair Andrei Cherny is assembling a group of well-connected party members to craft a ready-made agenda, dubbed “Project 2029,” to help serve the 2028 Democratic presidential nominee, the New York Times first reported on Monday. Though, several analysts told the Daily Caller News Foundation that the effort is unlikely to succeed in helping the party win back voters they lost in 2024.

Cherny told the NYT that former Vice President Kamala Harris lost her 2024 White House bid because she leaned into attacking President Donald Trump’s agenda instead of touting her own policies, telling the outlet that “the oldest truism in politics is you can’t beat something with nothing.” Cherny’s project — which some people have already panned on social media — draws similarities to the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, a policy outline and personnel list created to help serve the next GOP president, which Democrats had repeatedly used to attack Trump during the 2024 election cycle.

Cherny could not be reached for comment.

Adolph Mongo, a Democratic political commentator and former journalist, told the DCNF he thinks that Project 2025 is a “fantastic” idea, but likely not attainable.

“Project 2029 is a fantastic idea but unrealistic,” Mongo told the DCNF. “The Democratic Party is fractured. The far left has destroyed the party. Look at New York [City], a socialist Democrat might become mayor. In Detroit, a long time Democratic mayor left the party. Democrats across the country are quitting the party and turning Republican. Their once loyal base is black and brown voters, [who] have abandoned the party.”

Moreover, when asked if he thinks the Democratic Party will be able to successfully persuade voters to embrace their ideas through efforts such as Project 2029, Mongo replied “no.”

“For the last 50 years Democrats have made promises and not were able to deliver them,” Mongo told the DCNF. “Democratic run cities have been left out in the cold. Look at the crime and unemployment in our urban area.”

“The Democrats’ problem is several-fold,” Tom Basile, a Daily Caller contributor and host of Newsmax’s “America Right Now,” told the DCNF. “They don’t have credible messengers to even attempt to convince Americans that the party is capable of governing for the vast majority of Americans. The highest profile members of the Democratic Party are [Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez] AOC, [Independent Vermont Sen.] Bernie Sanders, and now [Democratic New York Assemblyman] Zohran Mamdani – all socialists. Socialism is not compatible with American life and most Americans know that.”

Sanders, the runner-up for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016 and 2020, is not a registered Democrat, but still caucuses with the party in the Senate.

Mamdani on June 2024 notched a surprise win in the New York City Democratic mayoral primary election. Some analysts previously told the DCNF that the socialist’s mayoral primary victory may push the Democratic Party to lean into more far-left policies in future elections.

In the wake of the 2024 election cycle, the Democratic Party has been attempting to strengthen their messaging, amid some party leaders claiming the party brand has become too “woke.” Democrats are also facing various polls showing Americans are largely unimpressed with their leadership.

Additionally, the Democratic National Committee (DNC) is reportedly grappling with rampant intraparty tensions and a drop in major donations this year.

“Delivering a message doesn’t only require a credible messenger, but also money and the DNC is flat broke at this point,” Basile told the DCNF. “Additionally, because this flirtation with socialist policies is now a pattern over several election cycles, any claims on the part of Democrats that they are ready to moderate will be met with tremendous skepticism on the part of the public. This week, every Democrat in the U.S. Senate voted for the largest tax hike in American history.”

Some prominent Democratic leaders have recently been growing their national profiles amid speculation that they are sizing up runs for the White House in 2028. Though, some political strategists previously told the DCNF they are skeptical that several of the prospective 2028 Democratic presidential candidates will be able to reunify the party.

“For nearly a decade, Democrats have said loud and clear to the American people that they care far more about transgenderism, militant censorship, boys playing in girls sports and open borders than making Americans more financially secure,” Basile told the DCNF. “The party has become anti-Democratic and intolerant while doubling down on an extreme fidelity to government programing that has proven to be a failure. The Biden-Sanders Unity platform, from the 2020 campaign and the gaslighting over the border from last year are both prime examples of what looks like an entrenched, radical agenda. That’s clearly not where the nation is ideologically.”

“Donald Trump is the blue-collar billionaire who is speaking directly to the needs of the working men and women of this country and the middle class,” Basile added. “His program of reform and realignment of power away from government systems to the empowerment of people has stolen core issues from the Democrat [Democratic] Party who have fallen back on radical social agendas to motivate voters. In that fight, the Republicans win regardless of what some document concocted by the DNC says.”

Daisy Roser contributed to this report.

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Ireland Owens

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Here’s What The Senate Changed In The ‘Big, Beautiful’ Bill

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The Senate passed President Donald Trump’s “one big, beautiful bill” on Tuesday morning, but only after senators spent hours negotiating changes to the near-1,000 page sweeping budget legislation.

Senate GOP holdouts, such as Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, were pushing for amendments to Medicaid provisions and clean energy tax credits, and using their leverage to strike deals with Senate Majority Leader Thune throughout the night. Here are some of the last minute changes that were made to the budget reconciliation package.

Medicaid

Collins — who ultimately was one of three Republican senators to vote against the bill — has been a staunch advocate of procuring extra funding for rural hospitals affected by the Medicaid provider tax legislation and initially pushed for a $100 billion rural hospital fund. Senate Republicans instead placed a $25 billion safeguard fund into the bill.

Collins introduced an amendment to raise the fund to $50 billion by raising taxes on billionaires, but the vote failed 22-78 with 18 Republicans and four members of the Senate Democratic Caucus voting in favor. Despite her failed amendment, Collins’ increased rural hospital fund was added into the bill without the need for taxes to be increased.

Green Energy Tax Credits

Senate Republicans made last-minute alterations to green energy provisions, striking a controversial excise tax and giving tax credits to solar and wind projects that begin construction within a year of the bill’s enactment. The amendment still requires projects with later construction dates than summer 2026 to produce electricity by the end of 2027 to qualify for the credits.

Republican Sens. Joni Ernst of Iowa, Chuck Grassley of Iowa, John Curtis of Utah and Murkowski all played key roles in negotiations over the energy amendments.

Other Tax Credits 

A new tax credit for contributions to nonprofits granting scholarships to elementary and secondary schools has been added to the budget bill. Taxable contributions include those made to scholarship organizations that provide funds to eligible students within the state of the organization.

Democratic Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly’s bill aiming to change the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 also made it into the reconciliation bill. Kelly’s measure would restore the Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) subsidiary asset test by increasing the asset percentage threshold from 20% to 25%. It would provide REITs more flexibility in how they format their subsidiary holdings.

The added bill would take effect December 31, 2025.

The Bill’s Title 

The legislation’s former name, the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” is officially no more. Democrats used special Senate budget rules to delete the Trump-given title on Tuesday, much like Republicans revoked the Inflation Reduction Act title in 2022. Democrats also pulled a similar move in 2017, removing the name of the Republicans’ Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.

Artificial Intelligence

In a 99-1 vote, the Senate removed a ten-year moratorium on state and local artificial intelligence (AI) regulation. Republican Tennessee Sen. Marsha Blackburn introduced the amendment to revoke the proposed ban after dropping out of a deal with Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz to cut the moratorium from ten years to five.

Blackburn claimed she left the deal with Cruz due to the carveouts allowing states to regulate child sexual abuse content and children’s online safety, claiming the compromise could still “allow Big Tech to continue to exploit kids, creators, and conservatives.”

SNAP

Throughout hours of negotiation, Murkowski also secured changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) for Alaska, claiming they will allow for “greater flexibility” for her constituents. Democratic Senators such as Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota took issue with the special Alaska-specific provisions, arguing other states should get SNAP carve outs also.

Even with the changes in the bill, Murkowski has still called on the House to send the bill back to the Senate to continue making alterations to the text.

“Do I like this bill? No. But I tried to take care of Alaska’s interests,” Murkowski told NBC News after the final vote on the bill. “My hope is that the House is gonna look at this and recognize that we’re not there yet.”

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Andi Shae Napier

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FBI’s New HQ Is A Total Slap In The Face To Democrats

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The FBI will relocate its moth-eaten headquarters from the Hoover Building to the Ronald Reagan Building downtown after USAID vacated the complex, officials announced Tuesday.

The shuffle caps nearly 20 years of bureaucratic waffling over where to park the nation’s premier law enforcement agency. By opting for a ready-made federal property — freshly emptied when the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) officially shuttered operations Tuesday — the Trump administration says it will save taxpayers billions while giving agents a secure, modern workplace.

“We are ushering FBI Headquarters into a new era and providing our agents of justice a safer place to work,” FBI Director Kash Patel said in a press release. “Moving to the Ronald Reagan Building is the most cost effective and resource efficient way to carry out our mission to protect the American people and uphold the Constitution.”

General Services Administration (GSA) Acting Administrator Stephen Ehikian, whose agency manages the federal real estate portfolio, said the Hoover Building “has accumulated years of deferred maintenance, suffering from an aging water system to concrete following off the structure.”

USAID’s exit made the move possible. The development agency had been headquartered in the Reagan complex since 1998 but was stripped of its lease in February, according to multiple reports. Rubio confirmed the broader shutdown Tuesday, writing that USAID “will officially cease to implement foreign assistance” as its functions fold into the State Department.

The era of government-sanctioned inefficiency is OVER.

The Reagan Building already houses U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CPB) and several private tenants. GSA says it will “work with CBP and their agency partners to fulfill their mission while the transition of the FBI to the Reagan Building commences.”

Officials have not released a firm timetable for the relocation.

What happens to the hulking brutalist Hoover block remains unclear. GSA has yet to announce whether it will pursue demolition, redevelopment or sale. Neither the GSA nor the FBI immediately responded to requests for comment.

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Thomas English

DCNF Technology Reporter.

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Yeah…Let’s Talk about “Proportionality”

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Not long ago, I ran into a long-lost acquaintance who always assumed—always incorrectly—that I was simpatico with her leftist leanings. Maybe it was my long hair or dangling earrings or that I liked to listen to Joe Cocker.

I remembered that she always appeared distressed, not because of a cancer diagnosis or trouble with her two children or a problem in her marriage or with her job as private secretary to a malpractice lawyer, but because of one or another of the endless planet-killing problems that occupy the daily bad thoughts and nightly nightmares of liberals.

Her list was long, and always growing—saving the whales, redistributing income, ending poverty, air pollution, land pollution, the colossal hoax of climate change (as explained by the founder of the Weather Channel, John Coleman), human rights, animal rights, women’s rights, gun control, world hunger, universal (free) healthcare, big business and, of course capitalism! Oh, did I omit the U.S. Constitution?!

So, when we ran into each other, I wasn’t surprised that this woman—who probably should have been on antidepressants or antianxiety meds for decades—looked her ole glum self.

“How are you?” I asked, “your kids, your husband, your job, your life?”

“No problems in those departments,” she said. “But look at the world! The news!”

DIDN’T TAKE HER LONG…

“What are you referring to?”, I asked her.

“Oh, the news,” she opined, “I think Netanyahu has ruined Israel!”

“Well, a lot of people don’t like it when Jews fight back,” I said.

“But it’s so disproportionate,” she shot back.

It’s not often that you have a ready answer for people with whom you disagree. Usually, you think of the perfect comeback when you wake up at two in the morning.

But as it happened, I simply had the cold hard facts on my side, so it was almost shooting fish in a barrel to answer this Jew-hating, Israel-loathing liberal.

DO YOU REMEMBER?

My response to her came in a series of questions.

“Do you remember,” I asked her, “when we watched the entire Iraq War—from 2003 to 2011—on TV, for years? And the endless articles and commentaries and news coverage, all day and all night?”

“Of course,” she responded.

“Well, even before that,” I said, “going back to the sixties, do you remember the years-on end coverage of the Vietnam War—from 1964 to 1973—and the morning and afternoon and nightly news coverage and commentaries the impassioned anti-war demonstrations across the country protesting this war?”

“You know I do,” she said. “I was on the frontline of those protests. I was with the so-called traitor Jane Fonda all the way!’

STILL GOING DOWN MEMORY LANE

“How about the Korean War in the 1950s,” I asked her, “which wasn’t covered so extensively on TV—TV was relatively new in that decade––but which a million articles were written about, not to mention the extensive radio commentary?”

“Okay,” she said, “and your point?”

“One more question,” I begged her indulgence. “How about World War11 in the 1940s, when 140,000 died in Hiroshima and 74,000 died in Nagasaki after we bombed them?” And that is not to omit the massive, overwhelming loss of life from that war—70–85 million deaths.

“Stop with the statistics, already!” she blurted out. “What is your point?”

INDEED…THE POINT

What I told my long-lost acquaintance was that in every war I named, in the massive injuries and deaths that resulted from these wars, in the overwhelmingly panoramic and international coverage these wars received on TV and radio, in the literally trillions of words that had been written and spoken in covering all these wars, the word “proportionality” had never been expressed—not in verbal broadcasts, not in writing—NOT ONCE before Jewish warriors fought back against the savages that attacked them on October 7, 2023.

NEVER!

Look it up. Do your own research.

THE P WORD

“Why is that?” I asked her.

As her eyes widened and she searched for words, I volunteered my own theory.

“I’ll tell you why,” I said. “Because the people who chant ‘proportionality’ hate Jews and detest Israel, but they try to cloak their long-held hatred in a transparent attempt to sound virtuous and caring for…. whom?

“Is it for the Hamas Arab rapists who were so violent that they broke the pelvic bones of their victims and then took babies out of their arms and put them in ovens to bake to death? Who photographed their sadistic violence and then showed it to their proud families as they passed out candy to celebrate?”

“Let’s talk about proportionality,” I went on. “Let’s say that 250 Israeli women were raped.  Are you suggesting that the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) tell their troops that, yes, you have our full permission to rape 250 Arab women. But NOT 251!”

I stopped talking as I witnessed a rare case of muteness from Ms. Proportionality.

Of course, I knew that neither facts nor statistics would change her hermetically sealed mind, but there was pleasure in this brief moment anyway.

UNDERSTANDING WAR

“But war is always wrong,” she said. “There’s no reason we can’t learn to get along.”

Aha, the Rodney King mantra!

“Well, Israel has tried to get along for 46 years,” I said. “Are you suggesting that they go for 47?”

Before I gave up, I explained to this colossally clueless woman that war has nothing to do with proportionality. That war has everything to do with winning!

You attack me…I fight back. Not to deflect your attack. Not to intimidate you. Not to indulge in a body count to make sure it’s “fair” or “equal” or not “humiliating.”

It’s to destroy you and to make sure that you never ever ever come after me again with the intention of annihilating me and my family and my country.

“Capeesh?” I asked her.

“To be honest,” she responded, “I never understood why Jane Fonda was such a pariah. She was just following her conscience.”

That’s when I clearly understood why God coined the word “hopeless.”

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Two Polls Reveal Public Support Is Growing for Prayer, Chaplains in Schools

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As some states struggle to display the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms, recent surveys indicate that a majority of Americans support teachers leading students in prayer, specifically referencing Jesus Christ.

Conducted from July 17, 2023, to March 4, 2024, the Pew Research Center surveyed 36,908 American adults about these key issues. The findings, released on Monday, revealed that “just over half of U.S. adults (52%) say they favor allowing public school teachers to lead their classes in prayers that refer to Jesus,” with 27% expressing “strong” support. Conversely, 46% either oppose or “strongly” oppose the practice, with notable variations across states.

Support is particularly high in Southern states. Mississippi leads with 81% in favor, followed by Alabama and Arkansas at 75%, Louisiana at 74%, and South Carolina at 71%. Most Midwest states also back the practice, with approval rates ranging from 53% to 65%. However, Pew noted, “In 12 states and the District of Columbia, more adults say they oppose allowing teachers to lead their classes in prayers that refer to Jesus than say they favor it.” Sixteen states remain relatively neutral.

Beyond geographical differences, the data also showed political divides. As the Christian Post reported, “With the exception of North Carolina and Georgia, the states where support for explicitly Christian school prayer was the highest voted for Republican President Donald Trump by double digits in the 2024 presidential election.”

There was also a distinction between what the researchers dubbed “generic” prayer versus “Christian” prayer. “Nationwide,” Pew added, “a slightly larger share of Americans say they favor allowing teacher-led prayers referencing God (57%) than favor allowing teacher-led prayers specifically referencing Jesus (52%).”

In a similar vein is another survey, conducted by the Associated Press (AP) NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. Of 1,158 U.S. adults, they found 58% believe “religious chaplains providing support services in public schools should be allowed.” According to the poll, “Republicans are more likely than Democrats to think religious chaplains providing support services in public schools (70% v. 47%), teacher-led prayers (60% v. 29%), and mandatory school prayer periods (49% v. 27%) should be allowed.”

AP went on to note, in relation to its findings, that while “about 6 in 10 U.S. adults say that religious chaplains should be allowed to provide support services for students in public schools … most do not think teacher-led prayer or a mandatory period during school hours for private prayer should be allowed in public schools.”

These findings raise the questions: What role should prayer or chaplains play in public schools, and will these survey results make a difference in policy? Arielle Del Turco, director of the Center for Religious Liberty at Family Research Council, told The Washington Stand, “For too long, the Left has dictated a narrative that said prayer and recognition of God must be pushed out of the public square to secure the ‘separation of church and state.’ This is a false narrative, and it’s good that more Americans are rejecting it.”

In his own analysis, Joseph Backholm, FRC’s senior fellow for Biblical Worldview and Strategic Engagement, observed that the regional and political differences in Pew’s poll align with broader religious trends. “More religious parts of the country are more comfortable with the idea of prayer in schools,” he told The Washington Stand, while “Democrats, who are generally less religious, are less inclined to want prayer in schools.”

On the concept of chaplains in schools, Backholm noted their value, drawing parallels to their role in the military. “It’s helpful to be counseled by people who share your view of reality,” he said, suggesting that “children in school would benefit in the same way” by receiving guidance that reinforces common values.

Looking ahead, Backholm expressed skepticism about whether these poll results will lead to policy changes. “I’m not sure these poll results will make any difference in what happens in schools,” he said, “but it is further evidence of how awkward our current one-size-fits-all education system is.” For Backholm, “it’s further evidence that we do not generally share the belief that we are one nation, under God, or the idea that we are obligated to submit to His plan for humanity.”

Ultimately, he asserted, this is all “because we don’t agree on those things,” nor do we “agree about what the outcome of education should be.” What that means, Backholm explained, is that “putting everyone in the same system guarantees conflict, and we’re seeing plenty of that. But having chaplains does seem to be a way to recognize and honor those differences.”

As debates over religion in public schools continue, these surveys underscore a growing openness to faith-based practices in education. And as Del Turco concluded, “It’s encouraging to see that Americans are increasingly recognizing the need for God in the public square, including in education.”

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Obey … or be Punished

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“Science can be described as a process of discovering things. It’s a systematic and organized way of acquiring knowledge about the natural world through observation, experimentation, and analysis.”

Did you know there are multiple ways to reach the same conclusion, Just like there are multiple roads to get you to the same place? To say only one road exists and all other roads are wrong is the same consensus that says you must believe what the experts say without question. This is the way our children are taught. There is only one road and you must follow that road or you are considered an outcast.

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Experts can be proven wrong, but they must be challenged. That is the critical thinking component currently missing from our schools. We no longer teach our students to challenge, we teach them to accept. Claims are made and government subsidies are given to corporations to create the product that the government wants. This is the product that fits the Agenda.

Good or bad, right or wrong, the product is forced on people while ignoring the consequences. Profit (money and grants), mandates (control) and propaganda (power), used by the rulers, nudges the sheeple into the desired results. Often science has nothing to do with the processes or outcomes. These policies are forced on the public, without discussion of consequences. Any challenge is met with, “You can’t challenge the science.”

According to H. Sterling Burnett, “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.” Yet, very few will stand up and say, show me the proof! How is that possible? The Media in lock step with the Government, is masking the true results. The statistics are manipulated by computer modeling of a specified time frame so the results are created as desired. How often do we hear, “this is the hottest or coldest temperature in recorded history. ” Did you know that recorded history only goes back 150 years?

After reading an article about how man was destroying the planet, I decided to email the author. I asked him what the temperature was when Columbus discovered America in 1492. He said no one kept records then, so he didn’t know. I asked how far back the records go and he said 150 years. I said, “So your article should really say that this is the hottest day we have had in 150 years, not recorded history.” I asked him how old the planet was. I got no answer. I asked, “Isn’t 150 years out of 4.5 Billion years (the age of the earth) too small to make a comparison?” I got no answer. Yet, this kind of manipulation is what our students learn.

Another lie about climate change is that all-to-familiar image of the poor polar bear sitting on a tiny piece of ice floating in the ocean. Yes, the ice is melting, but only if you take photos in the summer or if the ice has been affected by a volcano. But that doesn’t mean the oceans will rise and the houses near the ocean will be washed away. Information like that is designed to scare the students enough so that they will go home and chastise their parents. Communists can use this to drive a wedge between the child and parents to break up the family.

Obey or be Punished

Not teaching science in school eliminates teaching the students to have the ability to reason and think. The part of the brain that regulates logic, reason and critical thinking never develops properly. The student grows up learning to accept, comply and become an obedient little follower. Students are not taught HOW to think. Rather, they are taught WHAT to think. Hitler was successful for this very reason. Hitler very effectively used indoctrination to force children to Obey or Be Punished. Hitler’s move to ban the Boy Scouts also allowed for indoctrination of impressionable children letting Nazis remove children from the influence of their parents, many of whom opposed the regime. Again, driving a wedge between children and parents and the family. Read about it here:

Issues that we think of as absurd become normalized. We see that example today. Grandmothers are jailed for praying and criminals committing murder are released! Students under 18 can’t vote or carry a gun but can change their gender without parental consent.

Pornography can be read in school but not at a school board meeting! Gays rally for Hamas without knowing that, in Palestine, Hamas beheads gays!

Our school system is not broken.

Things that are not taught are not taught for a reason.

Dumb people accept more from their government.

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MAJOR HURDLE CLEARED: Senate Advances Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful’ Bill

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“The One Big Beautiful Bill will secure our borders, turbocharge our economy, and bring back the American dream. This is the ultimate codification of our agenda to very simply Make America Great Again.” – President Donald J. Trump, White House.

As the 4th of July holiday approaches—a much talked about target day for passage of the bill. CNBC: President Donald Trump on Thursday afternoon hosted a group of working-class Americans at the White House, as he cranks up pressure on Senate Republicans to quickly pass his massive tax-and-spending agenda. The event in support of Trump’s “One Big, Beautiful Bill” featured a collection of what his administration described as “everyday Americans” poised to benefit from the legislation’s tax cuts and other provisions. They included truck drivers, firefighters, law enforcement, healthcare workers, ranchers, and workers who rely on tips (CNBC).

Full event on Truth Social:

Senate votes 51-49 to advance President Trump’s ‘big beautiful’ spending bill — despite opposition from 2 GOP lawmakers

By Anna Young, NY Post, June 28, 2025:

The Senate voted Saturday to launch into debate on President Trump’s “big beautiful” spending bill, after Republican leaders spent hours working to gain enough support to approve the 940-page document.

The multi-trillion dollar bill narrowly advanced in a 51-49 procedural vote, despite opposition from two Republican lawmakers who joined their Democratic colleagues in an attempt to block the measure from reaching the Senate floor.

Senators Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Rand Paul (R-KY) were the holdouts after they publicly declared that they wouldn’t be backing the bill in its current form.

The Senate voted 51-49 in a procedural vote to advance the One Big Beautiful Bill to a debate on June 28, 2025. 4

The Senate voted 51-49 in a procedural vote to advance the One Big Beautiful Bill to a debate on June 28, 2025. C-SPAN

Wisconsin GOP Sen. Ron Johnson initially voted against the procedural motion but flipped at the eleventh hour.

Vice President JD Vance had arrived at Capitol Hill earlier in the night and remained on standby ready to cast his tie-breaking vote as Republicans remained divided throughout the nearly four hour proceeding.

Debate will now begin on the spending bill – and that could take hours as New York Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer has promised to have the nearly 1,000-page measure read before a final vote on passing it can happen.

“Tonight we saw a GREAT VICTORY in the Senate with the “GREAT, BIG, BEAUTIFUL BILL,” but, it wouldn’t have happened without the Fantastic Work of Senator Rick Scott, Senator Mike Lee, Senator Ron Johnson, and Senator Cynthia Lummis,” Trump said on Truth Social early Sunday.

“They, along with all of the other Republican Patriots who voted for the Bill, are people who truly love our Country!”

Trump has lobbied for House and Senate Republicans to fast-track the legislation so it lands on his desk by his self-imposed July 4 deadline.

The measure would make Trump’s 2017 tax cuts permanent, end taxation on tips and overtime, boost border security funding and scrap green-energy tax credits passed during the Biden administration.

The legislation would also have to raise the debt ceiling by roughly $5 trillion in order to cram in all the provisions.

Trump warned potential dissenters earlier Saturday that refusal to support his bill would be an “ultimate betrayal” – later lashing out at Tillis on social media for making a “big mistake” and threatening to primary him for turning his back on the spending bill.

“Numerous people have come forward wanting to run in the Primary against ‘Senator Thom’ Tillis,” the commander in chief posted on Truth Social as the vote stalled late Saturday night.

“I will be meeting with them over the coming weeks, looking for someone who will properly represent the Great People of North Carolina and, so importantly, the United States of America. Thank you for your attention to this matter!”

After the vote passed, the president also hurled criticism at Sen. Paul, the other Republican holdout.

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Incompetence Kills Great Ideas Enabling Chaos and Wars

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“It’s time to lift the veil on incompetence “ — Financial Times

The discussion on “incompetence” has begun in the UK.  Simon Wren-Lewis has written an article: Why are we governed by incompetents? The New Statesman. “The ultimate check on incompetence should be democracy itself: incompetent politicians are thrown out.” I agree with the author. Incompetence has no specific race, religious or ethnicity—it is a unifying product of human illiteracy. Incompetence creates chaos and wars; and that exact condition Donald J. Trump inherited after the defeat of the Dems’ Biden administration on the 5 November 2025.

As a former Soviet defense attorney, I have been writing about the ideology and system of Soviet Socialism warning about the Russian Intel for years. Socialist Charlatans have been fighting the American political system for decades. Alas, people don’t know the Italian world Charlatans, which means Con men or women—criminals. They don’t like America and fight us in all aspects of our lives. The 12-day war drives the FBI to look for Iran’s nationalities sleeper cells, which is only part of the problem. The issue of Sleeper Cells is more complex and dangerous considering the history of infiltration policy by Russian Intel Apparatus during 80 years in the 20th century. The result we are confronting now—a radical anti-Semite, Soviet Socialist Mamdani can become the Mayor of New York City…

Today, the House committee investigates the Biden cover-up to find out who was running the country for four years. The investigation consists of two major tracks: Biden’s mental state and the people who used autopen usurping the President’ power. Only a Concilium of psychiatrists can answer the question on Biden’s state of mind during 2019-2024 by watching the sets of videos of his gaffs, the scenes of his confusions and incoherence in his speaking in four those years. I have already expressed my opinion on the second question in my three columns written in August 2021—the Putin KGB’s Mafia/Army infiltrated the WH. My other column written two years ago will confirm my opinion. Please, read it:

Who is Dr. Jill Biden?

September 12, 2023 by Simona Pipko

Trumpet Brief, published a column titled Who is Running the Show? on September 6, 2023. My preceding column What the Republicans don’t know they need for the 2024 Election, with the same idea of question, had been published September 2, 2023. The difference is that I put the question at the end of the column: What do you think, who is running Biden’s team of Socialist Mafia? In fact, I agree with all analyses in the Trumpet Brief, concerning Obamas. Nevertheless, based on my knowledge of Russian history, Intel, and especially the KGB’s Mafia/Army (my term), I am going to give you my personal version and the answer to the question.

So, what do you think, of who is running Biden’s team of the Evil Socialist Mafia? Socialist Mafia is a political term, it means the fix is in since 2015, the door to the White House is opened by Hunter’s shady dealings with the wife of the Mayor of Moscow. Remember, the overwhelming power of the KGB over all people in high positions in Russia and this Hunter’s linking in Russia means also a connection with Vladimir Putin. The KGB’s Mafia/Army and Vladimir Putin are inseparable and Putin is a devoted disciple of the Stalin/Andropov legacy. This historical line of connections plays an exclusively important role in world politics today—it will explain the Russian policy of “Disinformation”—covering up the TRUTH.

I have recognized the Stalin/Andropov legacy in 2021, insisting on my opinion that the Afghanistan surrender had been designed by Putin and executed by Biden’s White House. I am still sure of that, because I knew the strategy and tactics of the Stalin/Andropov legacy, and I recognized them immediately—I know the KGB’s Mafia/Army tactics and handwriting. Today I have additional evidence of my rightness. The 13 American marines had been killed by the ISIS-K suicide bomber. For your information the Stalin/Andropov legacy had recruited the leadership of Taliban in 1979 and using them today, second, Stalin married the Communist Ideology with Islam and the ISIS movement was created and supervised by the KGB’s Mafia/Army. Read my columns for free and learn about Russia’s never-ending attacks of Western civilization.

When you are familiar with the name Yuri Andropov the KGB Chairman 1967-1982, you also should know that he was the man who designed a simultaneous infiltration into the American Media and American Security Apparatus by the KGB’s Mafia/Aemy. I had this information from my Law School friends working with Andropov. I have served as a defense attorney for 25 years within the legal community of Russia. Only now we can move to America.

It is one thing to infiltrate America, but to infiltrate the White House is a very unthinkable task or agenda, but the KGB’s Mafia/Army had it and was working to find a woman able to do that. Forty-five years ago, Jill Stevenson divorced her husband. The KGB had confidence in her ability, and forty-three years ago a car accident killed Biden’s first wife. Knowing the KGB’s Mafia/Army tactics, I believe it wasn’t a car accident, but assassination to give Jill the opportunity to marry Joe Biden. Knowing that I will write a column about Jill Biden, I sent an email to Jim Jordan to request a police protocol of the mentioned car accident a year ago. We have already corresponded for many years. I don’t know whether he has the needed police protocol for a car accident or not.

Today is September 11, 2023 and our country commemorated 22 years since the tragedy. It is unthinkable, but the nation still doesn’t know that the crime of the 9/11 attacks had been designed and supervised by Russia. I have been writing and showing the ominous face of Russia for forty-two years, calling it the new “Axis of Evil”—North Korea, China, Iran, and Syria under the Russian umbrella. For several years I have been writing about Mexican Cartels, which are in fact, the Russian Cartels established by Stalin in the 20th century and destroying our country from within since. Those Cartels are working to bankrupt capitalism. There are Medical Russian Cartels as well to produce false Covid-19 results and much more…

However, I can’t break through the wall of mistrust and ignorance of reality pertaining to Russia. America doesn’t know Russia and all our troubles are derived from this ignorance: the Dems gun grab, raising crime, inflation, immigration, indoctrination of our children, overwhelming corruption of Biden’s team, and so on. Finally, I found the column, which might have convinced you of my truthfulness. The one page of the column is so craftily and skillfully designed and covers so many current issues that I can’t limit myself by taking only a few quotations from it. The masterpiece should be read as a whole. I am asking Unmuzzled News to forgive me. However, I have no alternative but to publish the entire column. Here it is:

Jill Biden’s ex-husband made one startling revelation about the Biden Crime Family allegations

Joe Biden is not out of the woods when it comes to corruption.

Hunter Biden’s botched plea deal opened up another can of worms.

And now Jill Biden’s ex-husband has just made one startling revelation about the Biden Crime Family allegations.

Five years after the tragic death of his wife and daughter in a car accident, Joe Biden married his current wife, Jill.

Bill Stevenson, Jill Biden’s ex-husband, claimed that Jill met Joe while they were still married, not on a blind date as the Bidens tell it.

Stevenson also claimed that he was targeted by the “Biden Crime Family” back in the day.

Stevenson, who was married to the First Lady from 1970 to 1975, claimed that Joe’s brother Frank strong-armed him into giving Jill their house in divorce proceedings.

Dr. Jill Biden’s divorce from her ex-husband sounds like it got really nasty

He told Newsmax, “Frankie Biden of the Biden Crime Family comes up to me and he goes, ‘Give her the house or you’re going to have serious problems… I looked at Frankie and I said, ‘Are you threatening me?’ And needless to say, about two months later, my brother and I were indicted for that tax charge for $8,200.”

Asked if he believed Joe Biden was behind the sudden tax charge, Stevenson said, “I not only think it, but I know it… I was on the wrong side of them and they have literally come after me for 35 years in a row.”

Stevenson, a Donald Trump supporter, believes that he was targeted the same way Trump has been by the DOJ and the media.

Jill Biden ex’s interview put jaws on the floor with startling allegations about the Biden family’s tactics during split

He continued, “It’s hard to believe what they’re doing to President Trump… I can’t let them do this to a president I love and respect… This is the only reason I’ve come forward. It’s like I said, nothing about the divorce, no bitterness, but Jimmy, Frankie, and President Biden are very dangerous, and it’s tragic. I can’t let them do what they did to me to President Trump. I can’t do it.”

Stevenson’s tax charge vis-à-vis Hunter Biden’s tax charge is a clear example of the two-tiered justice system that exists.

Friends of the D.C. Swamp are protected, and enemies are punished.

Stevenson was hit with felonies while Hunter Biden’s tax charge ran into the millions, and he was offered a misdemeanor plea deal.

The Biden Crime Family was hoping Hunter’s exploits would be swept under the rug, but that has not panned out.

Stay tuned to Unmuzzled News for any updates to this ongoing story.”

The conclusion is stunning and very gloomy: Russian Intel has been on American soil since 1970s and that fact is missing by the American FBI and CIA. Both still don’t know the KGB’s Mafia/Army and allow it to run the White House. I hope that with the help of Bill Stevenson I answered the question of who Dr. Jill Biden is. The same game has been used in Ukraine to cover up the Dem’s long-term collusion with the Russian Intel. Ukraine is the operation “Disinformation” used by the Putin/Biden conspiracy, to cover up the truth.

Read my columns and learn about Russia and its KGB’s Mafia/Army—the Evil Doer. Without this information we can lose the American Constitutional Republic designed and left to us by our Founding Fathers.

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Summary of the K-12 Education System: Part 2

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The Best Solution by a Long Shot. 

How bad do things need to get before we not only learn a lesson, but also make productive changes? Since this seems to be difficult for most people to do in their own lives, it’s not surprising that it’s hard for us as citizens to do.

600,000± Americans died unnecessarily…

Take COVID-19. Some 600,000 Americans died unnecessarily, a Trillion dollars was likely wasted, tens of thousands of businesses folded without justification, millions of K-12 school children experienced a severe and unwarranted loss in their education, etc., etc.

So what lessons did we really learn from that horrific state of affairs?

Astoundingly, so far, the indications are: very little! For example…

  1. Do we truly appreciate that most of this was avoidable? Not really. There’s a lot of bitching, but very little focus on the enormous departure from real Science that transpired on this technical matter. And who is being held accountable for all that horrific destruction?
  2. Are we aware that Science had good answers for the COVID-19 issue — but we were continually fed political science instead? For example, there have been 126± scientific studies about COVID-19 and Vitamin D. These studies concluded that early treatment of COVID-19 with Vitamin D is 60%± effective. [See my Report, esp. Appendix A.] [By comparison, there have been some 86 studies about COVID-19 and Paxlovid. These studies concluded that early treatment of COVID with Paxlovid is 18%± effective. Paxlovid, not Vitamin D, is approved by the FDA.] We were told about Vitamin D by credible sources, early on — e.g., here and here. This would benefit rich and poor, young and old, men and women, sick and healthy. A year’s supply of high-dose Vitamin D is about $10. The side effects from having too much Vitamin D appear to be minimal. However, the NIH, FDA, CDC, AMA, etc. did NOT publicly endorse this. Astoundingly, as of today, the FDA/NIH website still says: “Currently, data are insufficient to support a recommendation for or against the use of Vitamin D supplementation to prevent or treat COVID-19.” Stunning!
  3. Considering this example (and there are many others), where are the calls for the FDA and CDC to be eliminated, and turning all health matters over to the States? Clearly, that would be absurd — if for no other reason than almost every State’s Health Department was equally bad. It is obvious that we need national guidance on the issue of health — just as with K-12 education!
  4. The solution to this catastrophic health situation is for a competent group of pro-Science people (e.g., RFKjr and the like) to gut these incompetent agencies and get them back on the track of providing citizens and States genuinely Science-based health advice. The same solution applies to the federal Department of Education! We need K-12 competent people to gut DOEd and get it transformed so that it provides States genuine Science-based education services.
  5. Again, how bad does it need to get in K-12 education until we wake up and smell the roses???

The Guaranteed DOEd Solution —

Part 1 was about making it clear that of all the numerous K-12 education deficiencies, the corrupted curricula is (by far) the most important issue that needs to be fixed. Yesterday.

Once we are on the same page about that, we can proceed to the next step: what is the best practical way to quickly and effectively fix the curricula?

I have summarized the answer in these three PDFs:

  1. A Brief Overview of DOEd Today,
  2. Fifteen Claims about DOEd that are Off the Mark, and
  3. Fifteen Exceptional Benefits from Reforming DOEd.

An unparalleled advantage of taking this path is that not only will the top K-12 problem likely be solved, but also substantial improvements will be made on over a dozen other serious liabilities of the current system. Phenomenal!

The takeaway messages are:

  • There is not a single State whose K-12 education system is exemplary.
  • The States are the cause of at least 95% of the current K-12 problems, so giving them more power and/or more money makes zero sense.
  • The stars are in a once-in-a-century alignment as we have the right set of circumstances to make exceptional improvements on the US K-12 education system — but we have to play our cards correctly!
  • There is no other path forward that has the upsides of this strategy. None!
  • Taking this route will accomplish the President’s real objectives here: to meaningfully (and relatively quickly) fix our failing K-12 education system.
  • We can’t allow this extraordinary opportunity to be derailed by naysayers burdened with negative or small-minded thinking.
  • This is an opportune moment to exercise Critical Thinking! The success of the American Experiment depends on our doing that…

PS — Hiding the K-12 “Educational Ball” from Parents came out after my post was published, and it is spot on. Note that ALL of the many issues cited in that are the responsibility of the State boards of Education, not DOEd.

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Is Antisemitism Worse on the Right or Left?

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The radical-right has no influence on college campuses, where anti-Jewish violence is rampant; and it is Democrats who have failed to expel antisemitic, pro-Hamas elements from their party. 

During a recent speaking engagement, I opined that antisemitism is a far greater threat from the left than the right, but an audience member disagreed, arguing that hatred of Jews is primarily a right-wing phenomenon and that the alt-right and neo-Nazis pose a more significant threat. I could not fault him for holding this view because it reflects the preferred narrative of establishment leaders and non-Orthodox rabbis who equate liberal politics with Jewish values and, thus, tend to obfuscate the sins of the progressive left. Indeed, it took a year after October 7th for many to concede that the antisemitic violence that followed on college campuses and elsewhere has been perpetrated mainly by pro-Hamas progressives – possibly with funding from wealthy left-wing boosters. Though Jew-hatred always existed across the political spectrum, it is more dangerous on the left today precisely because of mainstream reluctance to acknowledge it or recognize that willful ignorance facilitates its spread.

Anyone familiar with eighteenth century political history should understand the ubiquity of progressive Jew-hatred now, considering that many luminaries of the Enlightenment, including Voltaire, Baron d’Holbach, and Diderot, greatly disliked the Jewish people. They may have preached a new political order, but they were nonetheless products of their environment; and just as antisemitism was baked into European culture through church doctrine, ancient ethnic frictions, and tribalistic xenophobia, so too, it instilled a primal hatred of Jews among the enlightened intellectual elite.

Though liberal critics routinely accuse President Trump of antisemitism, they always seem at a loss when asked to provide specific examples; and while there is no doubt that anti-Jewish incitement has skyrocketed in recent years, they are reluctant to blame the radicals, progressives, and Islamists most responsible. Moreover, the indignation of liberals regarding today’s antisemitism seems somewhat hypocritical given their relative silence when it surged during the Obama and Biden administrations (especially among woke and minority voting blocs) or when the “Squad” and other progressives spouted hateful rhetoric about Jews and Israel before and after October 7th.

Those who have finally acknowledged the existence of antisemitism on the left are extremely late to the party. And while many resisted admitting the existence of leftist Jew-hatred or used partisan rationalizations to shield progressive allies from culpability, it was permeating America and western society.

Even now, a common reflex when denouncing antisemitism is to allocate blame equally to “all sides” to imply parity of malevolence between right and left. The radical-right, however, has no influence on college campuses, where anti-Jewish violence is rampant; and it is Democrats who have failed to expel antisemitic, pro-Hamas elements from their party.

The proliferation of Jew-hatred on the left does not absolve the right of its past or present bigotry. But white supremacists are not responsible for the uptick in antisemitic violence today. Rather, most incidents have been perpetrated by progressive radicals or Islamists – including the killing of two Israeli embassy staffers outside a Jewish museum by a pro-Hamas assailant who shouted “Free Palestine” as he was taken into custody, and an incendiary weapon attack by an Egyptian national in Boulder, Colorado against Jews peacefully demonstrating for the release of the hostages.

While the killing of Israelis was promptly condemned by Congressional Democrats, their rebukes were somewhat hollow considering their party’s embrace of anti-Israel progressives, deprecation of Republican-led Congressional hearings into campus antisemitism, and calls for universities to resist Trump’s attempts to root out campus harassment, intimidation, and violence against Jewish students.

Did they honestly believe that coddling leftist hatemongers and characterizing pro-Hamas violence as “free speech” would have no consequences?

Condemnations by Congressional Democrats like Sen. Cory Booker and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez were too little, too late. Moreover, Ocasio-Cortez’s words were galling given her penchant for falsely accusing Israel of human rights abuses, her bogus assertions of genocide in Gaza, and her recent claim that “false accusations of antisemitism are wielded against people of color and women of color by bad-faith political actors, and weaponizing antisemitism is used to divide us.”

These accusations of antisemitism are not false, however; and while liberals typically deflect responsibility by blaming conservatives, the statistics tell another story.

In its recent report on antisemitism in 2024, the Antisemitism Research Center (“ARC”) of the Combat Antisemitism Movement (“CAM”) found global Jew-hatred increasing more on the left than the right over the previous year. As detailed on CAM’s website, the report found that, “[i]n 2024, the most prominent characteristic of antisemitic incidents was the overwhelming dominance of far-left ideology. This represented a decisive shift from 2023, when antisemitic incidents from far-left and far-right sources were roughly at parity.”

The report also found a 324.8% jump in far-left antisemitic incidents over 2023, noting that “[r]adicalized social movements, media disinformation campaigns, and efforts to target Jewish communities under the guise of anti-Israel activism have primarily fueled this increase.” Of all incidents reported in 2024, some 68.4% were associated with the far-left, while episodes linked to the far-right fell by 54.8% from the previous year. From these data, it was concluded that “while the extreme right remains a threat, it has been eclipsed by the radicalization of leftist movements.” Significantly, of 6,326 antisemitic incidents reported in 2024, only 7.3% reflected extreme-right ideology.

This is not to say that the far-right has become less antisemitic or the far-left was ever pro-Jewish. Neither premise is correct. However, the current wave of attacks on Jewish businesses and institutions, assaults against Jewish college students, and murder of Israelis, is primarily the work of progressive extremists or Islamists – not neo-Nazis or white supremacists.

In many ways, antisemitism is similar on both the right and left in its reliance on classical stereotypes and conspiracy theories, historical revisionism, and dehumanization. The difference, however, is that right-wing antisemitism always comes from the outside whereas left-wing hatred is sometimes rationalized from within. In fact, many on the Jewish left oppose Israel’s existence, elevate Palestinian mythology over Jewish history, and equate radical Islamic terrorism with Israel’s sovereign right of self-defense.

Still others invoke their Jewish identity while excusing the actions of progressive radicals, often from a skewed perspective that conflates Jewish values with progressive ideologies (which disparage traditional Judaism and the Jewish State).

How else to understand those liberal organizations, including Reform, Conservative, and Reconstructionist rabbinical groups, that have publicly opposed Trump’s imposition of sanctions against Harvard and other universities, where pro-Hamas violence occurs on campus and Jewish students have been targeted, harassed, and assaulted? These sanctions include the withholding of federal funds for research and education and the deportation of foreign students who commit or incite acts of violence against Jewish students and others.

Such organizations rationalize their opposition by claiming that penalties against offending institutions will subject foreign students to deportation without due process. They also claim the administration is politicizing antisemitism to undermine democracy, subvert the rule of law, and restrict speech and “peaceful” protests in violation of the First Amendment.

Considering the prevalence of antisemitic violence on campus, however, it is unclear what rule of law or peaceful protests are being undermined and, given the existence of university codes governing expulsions (which go largely unenforced) and federal laws dictating deportation procedures, whether adequate due process is truly being denied. Moreover, democratic principles do not include the right to incite or commit acts of criminal violence. The opposition of liberal clergy to administration policies is clearly meant to impose their vision of clerical morality, but the claim that antisemitism is being politicized would seem to discount legitimate government concerns over documented incidents of anti-Jewish violence on campuses across America.

It is legitimate to question what motivates liberal concern for the rights of campus radicals who attack Jewish students and call for “global intifada” and the destruction of Israel. And to the extent these same radicals embrace Hamas and its covenant calling for extermination of the Jewish people, it is likewise reasonable to ask whether defending their rights for any reason suggests moral complacency. These are fair questions, particularly in light of the undeniable history of progressive hostility against traditional Judaism and the State of Israel.

Is it acceptable to defend the rights of radicals who threaten Jews and hate Israel? Can one draw a distinction between odious conduct and the perceived need to protect the rights of bad actors for a higher societal good? Or do progressives engage in such apologetics because they identify with a political agenda more than traditional Jewish values?

It is impossible to know what truly lies in the hearts of others, but Jewishness should never be conflated with secular politics or imbued with relevance through value revisionism or moral equivalency. Indeed, the sanctification of political ideologies that disparage traditional values and promote hatred of Israel only increases the likelihood of existential malaise.

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Obama-Appointed Senate Parliamentarian Blocks Major Changes in Big Beautiful Bill

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So sick of these underminers. This bill should have been passed weeks ago. Congress is useless.

We know who is telling this maidservant what to do.

“Meet the Democrat singlehandedly blocking key provisions in President Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill. Elizabeth Macdonough, a close ally to Obama serves as the Senate Parliamentarian. There is a solution to her efforts to stop the president’s agenda – JD Vance – he could overrule her as President of the Senate.”

She’s trying to require Trump to obtain 60 votes in the Senate instead of 50+1.

Senate Parliamentarian Blocks Major Medicaid Changes in Big Beautiful Bill

The Senate parliamentarian on Thursday advised the Medicaid provider tax could not be included in the Big Beautiful Bill, which could upend how the bill could offset the Trump tax cuts.

By: Sean Moran, Breitbart, 26 Jun 26, 2025:

The Senate parliamentarian on Thursday advised the Medicaid provider tax could not be included in the Big Beautiful Bill, which could upend how the bill could offset the Trump tax cuts.

Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough ruled the Medicaid provider tax would require 60 votes in the Senate to be included in the Big Beautiful Bill. The Senate parliamentarian’s ruling complicates the offsets for enhancing and extending the Trump tax cuts.

The potential loss of the Medicaid provider tax would force Senate Republicans to find other potential spending cuts to pay for the Big Beautiful Bill. The parliamentarian also struck down provisions that would bar the use of Medicaid funds for transgender healthcare services and to prevent illegal aliens from receiving Medicaid or CHIP healthcare coverage.

However, it remains possible that Senate Republicans could change the language of the Medicaid provider tax to be eligible in the Big Beautiful Bill.

Senate Majority Leader Thune explained to Breitbart News Saturday host Matthew Boyle how the “Byrd Bath” process works: “We’re going through the Byrd bath, this Byrd test, which our bill has to run through that filter, and the parliamentarian is the sort of referee — determines what’s in, what’s out. But we kind of anticipated a lot of this stuff, and knew, in most cases at least what we were doing, what had a good chance of getting through, and what didn’t. And we worked closely with the House to coordinate when they were passing their bill over there, to minimize the number of things that would get knocked out under the Byrd rule. So we have been working from the very beginning on this, but that said, there are some things that are getting knocked out. What we’re intending, however, is when it’s done in the Senate, that it’ll be in a condition and a shape that can go back to the House, consistent with what the House passed, but hopefully improved upon by what we did in the Senate, and then be able to pass it on the floor there and send it to the president. So that’s the process.”

On the Wall Street Journal podcast All Things with Kim Strassel, Thune signaled that Republicans would work to find alternatives to things that may get struck down by the parliamentarian.

He said:

Well, in most of those cases, we have a plan B and a plan C… we’ve had contingency plans, we’re going back at her, and we think we’ll get a lot of that restored… And even the Democrats, when they were doing this, when they had unified control of the government, had things knocked out… But we’re still going to get a ton of what we wanted in this, and this is the president’s agenda, and so this will be the fulfillment and implementation of that. And we’re going to, we’re full speed ahead in trying to get it done.

“Democrats are continuing to make the case against every provision in this Big, Beautiful Betrayal of a bill that violates Senate rules and hurts families and workers,” Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR), the ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee, said in a statement.

“Democrats are fighting back against Republicans’ plans to gut Medicaid, dismantle the Affordable Care Act, and kick kids, veterans, seniors, and folks with disabilities off of their health insurance,” the Democrat added.

Republicans are using budgetary reconciliation to pass the Big Beautiful Bill through the Senate using only a simple majority, or 51 votes. While it can avoid the Senate’s 60-vote filibuster threshold, a reconciliation bill cannot make policy changes or things that are considered “extraneous” to spending.

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EXCLUSIVE: AIPAC Seeking Out Challengers To Unseat Rep. Thomas Massie

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The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) is looking to oust Republican Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie in the upcoming 2026 midterm election.

AIPAC has been actively recruiting candidates to run in a primary against Massie, a source familiar told the Daily Caller.

“I’m aware that foreign lobbyists have conducted a push poll and are trying to recruit another candidate to run against me, due to my opposition to foreign aid and forever wars,” Massie said in a statement sent to the Caller.

“Their previous efforts have failed completely, and I expect this race to be no different,” he added.

Massie has been a leading voice against U.S. involvement in Israel’s war with Iran.

He opposed the recent U.S. strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities, calling Trump’s actions unconstitutional, but stated on Monday that he does not support Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s effort to impeach Trump over the attack.

Trump wrote a long Truth Social post on Sunday saying that he will personally campaign against Massie, adding that a wonderful “American Patriot” would challenge the Kentucky congressman in the Republican primary.

The president followed up on Sunday with another Truth Social post targeting Massie, declaring, “GET THIS ‘BUM’ OUT OF OFFICE, ASAP!”

Trump’s political team has been fielding inquiries from Republicans interested in mounting a primary challenge against Massie, according to an Axios report from May.

Massie has rankled the president on several recent issues, including the Iran-Israel war.

Massie joined forces with Democratic California Rep. Ro Khanna to introduce a resolution aimed at stopping Trump from initiating “unauthorized hostilities” against Iran on June 17.

He was one of only two Republican members of Congress to vote ‘no’ on the “Big Beautiful Bill,” citing concerns over its impact on the national deficit and accusing lawmakers of relying on “fantasy math” instead of implementing real federal spending cuts.

Ahead of the vote, during a visit to Capitol Hill, Trump criticized the Kentucky congressman, telling reporters, “No, I don’t think Thomas Massie understands government,” and adding, “I think he’s a grandstander, frankly … I think he should be voted out of office.”

Massie appeared on Theo Von’s podcast “This Past Weekend” on Tuesday, where he shared his views on AIPAC’s political influence, stating, “I think they’re the best lobbying group in Washington D.C., and the reason they can do it is you can have dual citizens — people who are American and Israeli — who are allowed to give money into American politics because they’re American.”

He continued, “By virtue of that you are allowed to participate. But if you are a foreign national, you’re not allowed to.”

The Caller reached out to AIPAC for comment but did not receive a response prior to publication.

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